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Speaker 1 On today's part in my take, we have Houston Texans head coach D'Amiko Ryans. Great interview with Coach Ryans.
We've been big D'Amiko Ryans fans for a while, so it was awesome to have him on.

Speaker 1 We're going to talk some playoff baseball. It has begun.
We are going to talk some college football, college football Wednesdays. We talk who should be number one.
Big games coming up this weekend.

Speaker 1 We have Hot Seat, Cool Throne. There's some stuff to talk about there that's happened with this podcast the last couple days.
And then we are going to finish with Jimbo's.

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Speaker 1 Welcome to Pardon My Take. Today is Wednesday, October 4th, and the Minnesota Twins have won a playoff game.
I know we're going to talk about the Phillies.

Speaker 1 I know Max thought we were going to start doing the said and screaming at everyone and be like, said, said, said, no one goes in the bank, but we have to start with the Twins.

Speaker 1 The Twins have broken the streak of 18 postseason losses in a row. The last time they won a game was 2004 in the ALDS game one.
Johan Santana was on the bump, and then tonight they win.

Speaker 1 And their pitcher, I believe, Pablo Lopez, yes, showed up to the stadium in a Johan Santana jersey. Congrats, Twins fans.

Speaker 1 That is the longest streak in all of professional sports, and it's finally gone.

Speaker 7 Yeah, I mean, you took everything I was going to say. Like, 0-18 was, there's no streak that's been longer across any sport.
You can name it.

Speaker 7 The star of the night,

Speaker 7 you know who it was? It was my man Royce.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 7 Two dingers. Two dingers.
It's the third time that's been done in Major League Baseball history to lead off your postseason career with back-to-back home runs. So Royce Lewis had it, and

Speaker 7 one of the other guys that had it was Gary Gaetti, also for the Twins. The Rat.
You guys remember The Rat?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 1 I mean, yeah.

Speaker 7 The Rat did it. Royce, Royce did it.

Speaker 7 Good vibes. Good vibes for Minnesota.
They deserve this.

Speaker 1 They deserve this. It was like that 18 games is unfathomable.
2004 is a long ass time. And again, it wasn't just series losses.
It was literally game losses.

Speaker 1 They were in the postseason a ton of times and they lost every single time the games. So yeah, it's good that they got the monkey off their back.
Hopefully they win again, get to the next round.

Speaker 1 We do actually, though, so the streaks, it was 18 games for the Twins. The Blackhawks in the 70s had 16 losses in a row.
The Pistons actually have a record going right now. So they're on streak watch.

Speaker 1 They have 14 games and counting of playoff losses, and that is to present day. So hopefully the Pistons can win a game because that is like,

Speaker 1 I know that

Speaker 1 we have the debate: like, would you rather team be bad or make the playoffs? Like, I actually think that making the playoffs and losing every single game is the worst fate of any fan base.

Speaker 1 Like, I would rather be the worst team and just be like, I can just erase it from my memory, draft picks, whatever you want to sell yourself on.

Speaker 1 Getting, being good enough to get to the playoffs and then not winning a game for more than almost two decades. That is the worst.
So, congrats to Twins fans.

Speaker 1 I hope you guys win this next one and get to the ALDS and you keep going.

Speaker 7 Well, especially in baseball, it's the worst because in baseball, you play the longest season of all, and then you fight, you scratch, you claw, you put so much effort, so much like all your hopes and dreams go into the playoff push.

Speaker 7 You live and die with every at-bat and every game, and there's so many of them. And then you get to the playoffs, and like the next day, boom, you lose.
Day after that, boom, you lose.

Speaker 7 Day after that, boom, you lose. Now you're home again.

Speaker 7 Like in football, at least, you know, there's not as many games, and you get to the playoffs, and you can enjoy that one full week in between the end of the regular season and the start of the playoffs to read the articles, listen to every morning show, just feel like you accomplished something with the season.

Speaker 7 And baseball, if you make the wild card round, you get swept. It's like, yeah, it's like twisting the knife.

Speaker 1 And when it keeps going, when you lose and, you know, you celebrate clinching, because there is that celebration every year when you clinch in baseball and to lose. So, yeah, I'm happy for Twins fans.

Speaker 1 They deserve it. Minnesota fans deserve it.

Speaker 1 And yeah,

Speaker 1 I am rooting for the Orioles, but maybe I'll be like a, because I think they're in the different bracket, right? So they wouldn't have to play each other. Is that right, Jake? Look that up.

Speaker 1 Maybe I'll just be a Twins guy until Twins to win this series and then beat the Astros. That's what we should be a Twins over Astros podcast.

Speaker 7 Oh, I'm anti-Astros. Still anti-Astros.

Speaker 1 Twins over Astros. Let's get the Twins to the ALCS.
Let's root hard for the Twins in all ALCS.

Speaker 7 I became like a temporary Twins fan earlier tonight after they won, and I went down a little rabbit hole and I was listening to the home team radio calls of the the home runs that were hit.

Speaker 7 Nothing better than a home team baseball radio call. Nothing in the world.
And these guys were flipping out, just guys in the booth, nutting to the moon. It was incredible.

Speaker 7 Like they were so, so pumped up because

Speaker 7 it was like the

Speaker 7 very first home run that was hit was like a weight got lifted off the entire stadium because everyone that everyone before the game was like nervous.

Speaker 7 There was a lot of nervous energy going through there. But I don't think that the players on the field are nervous between Royce Lewis.
You mentioned the pitcher sporting the Johan Santana jersey.

Speaker 7 And who's the guy on the Twins that's like a hometown guy that grew up as like a die-hard fan of the Twins? Joe Mauer.

Speaker 1 I think he might have.

Speaker 7 No, no, no.

Speaker 1 But a different guy.

Speaker 7 The Twins always get those dudes.

Speaker 7 There's a guy on the Twins, I forget who it was, that was, I think he might have been at the game in 2004 that they won as like a kid.

Speaker 1 I don't know, but that's a cool story. That's a very cool story.
Very cool.

Speaker 7 I love that part of baseball.

Speaker 1 Not Joe Maurer. Who's the other guy? It was Joe Maurer and...

Speaker 8 Matt Walner is an outfielder from Forest Lake, Lake, Minnesota. Then they have two pitchers from Minnesota, Caleb Thielbar and Louis Varland.

Speaker 1 I think it was Thielbar all.

Speaker 7 I think Thielbar was the one that I was reading about earlier.

Speaker 1 Joe Maurer was sick at football, too. I remember that.
I remember they used to play his football highlights because he was from Minnesota.

Speaker 1 All right. So also, if the Twins can get to the ALCS,

Speaker 1 we get the bonus. Nothing better than like bitterly cold playoff baseball.
I love that.

Speaker 1 I know it's a sicko move, but when it's like 45 degrees and everyone's bundled up, that's just there's something about that that's just great. All right.

Speaker 7 Yeah, it's still an insane move on the part of the Twins to play games outdoors in just the case that something like this would happen.

Speaker 7 You're going to get pitchers wearing like two warm-up jackets if they ever get on base, which won't happen.

Speaker 1 Bring back the dome with the plexiglass. Kirby Puckett put the whole team on his back.

Speaker 1 So, Max, the bank, said Phillies, win. You need a new third base coach.
He stinks.

Speaker 9 Yeah, that was bad. He was over three tonight.

Speaker 10 Bryce.

Speaker 1 Bryce just being like at the end in whatever it was, the bottom of the eighth, being like, fuck this guy. He's so off.
I'm just running right through it. And he was so safe.

Speaker 9 Yeah, I mean, that was a no-brainer. Obviously, Bryce is going to go there.

Speaker 9 I do love the taking off your helmet midway through second and third, just because you think that it gets you more speed. No shot that it does, but it feels better and it looks cooler.

Speaker 11 And the hair.

Speaker 7 He does it because of the hair.

Speaker 1 He does it because of the hair. Well, I mean,

Speaker 10 he looks great regardless.

Speaker 7 Like whenever you would charge the mount, he always flips the hat off.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 9 He looks great regardless. The hair looks great coming out of the back of the helmet also.
So I don't want to say that one looks better than the other. But the bank was great.
I mean, that's

Speaker 12 right now, that's one of the best.

Speaker 9 That's one of the hardest environments in professional sports.

Speaker 1 Playoff baseball.

Speaker 9 At the bank is one of the hardest environments in professional sports.

Speaker 7 It's different. It's different than at any other stadium.

Speaker 1 500% increased.

Speaker 7 What happened last year in the playoffs at the bank? Don't worry about it. I'm just curious if anything.
No, we don't.

Speaker 13 We won a lot of games at the bank.

Speaker 9 We won a lot of games at the bank.

Speaker 1 Wait, how, how, well, keep going.

Speaker 11 How is it different?

Speaker 13 I mean, you just see it.

Speaker 7 The feel's different. It sounds different.

Speaker 1 The vibe. Do you think it has anything to do with the fact that your favorite team plays there?

Speaker 9 No, no. Other people are saying it too.

Speaker 7 I will give Philly some credit. Philly deserves an assist.
They showed this graphic on the broadcast a couple of times. They had the Trey Turner sat on there.

Speaker 7 Remember, we talked about when Philly gave him the standing ovation, just like a sarcastic ovation. Yeah.
So

Speaker 7 that was August 4th. And through August 3rd, he was hitting 235, 657 OPS, 10 home runs, and a strikeout rate of 24%.

Speaker 7 Since Philly did everything they could, they broke glass in case of emergency and said, you know what? We've tried being a dickhead to this guy. Maybe we should try to support our guy.

Speaker 7 They gave him a standing ovation. And since then, in the 48 games, he's hit 337 OPS of 1.057,

Speaker 7 16 home runs, 17% strikeout rate down from 24%. So it worked.
Good job, Philly.

Speaker 1 Good job, Philly. Yeah,

Speaker 9 I told you it was going to work.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 So why don't you do that with every player?

Speaker 9 Because, you know, baseball is a different sport.

Speaker 9 I already had this whole discussion. Baseball is a different sport.
It's about confidence. Booing doesn't do anything for a baseball player.
For a football player,

Speaker 9 getting getting booed gets a little drive in you, get a little angry, you'll maybe get a little push on the guy next to you. And baseball, it's a mental game.

Speaker 9 It's a game of confidence.

Speaker 1 So what about basketball?

Speaker 9 I didn't play basketball at a high level. Can't tell you.

Speaker 10 I can only tell you

Speaker 9 the sports that I have played in my life.

Speaker 12 Matt Sayers of the CAA.

Speaker 7 I feel like sarcastically cheering a made foul shot from a guy that sucks when a free throw line, I think that plays.

Speaker 7 I think the guy actually interprets that as, yeah, they're actually applauding for me.

Speaker 9 Oh, yeah, Ben Simmons used to get that ordeal all the time.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, and it worked out great for him. Yeah,

Speaker 1 he's doing awesome these days. So you feel good? Zach Wheeler was awesome.
His sweeper, which I, it's just a slider.

Speaker 1 It's a slider, but we call it a sweeper.

Speaker 7 Sweet sounds way better.

Speaker 10 Sweeper sounds way better than a slider.

Speaker 1 His sweeper did look like a wiffle ball a couple of times, which was sick.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he was nasty. So you feel good? Who's on the bump tomorrow? Ranger Nolaski.

Speaker 7 No, I wish it was.

Speaker 9 I mean,

Speaker 13 Nola is good.

Speaker 9 It's just either looks like the best pitcher in baseball or the worst every time he goes out. But, you know, playoff, you got to think that he's going to bring his head stuff to me.

Speaker 9 You got to cheer him.

Speaker 7 I like the move by Kimbrell in the ninth, the intentional balk. I don't know that I've ever seen that before.
Yeah, that was cool. He just dropped the ball.

Speaker 7 It was awesome. So what was the thinking behind that?

Speaker 7 Why would you just advance the runner from second to third?

Speaker 1 go ahead max you go ahead no no i was gonna i was gonna take a wild guess so i don't know if you're asking because max played baseball at a high level he played casa so um

Speaker 1 i i think that he was getting he he had a sense that the guy on second base was tipping off pitches that's what i was gonna say he had an eye at the yeah that's the only thing that would make sense that's the only thing that would make sense that he's if you're if the guy on second base is just giving a little tip to the is it like

Speaker 7 in football can you decline a balk oh that would be cool

Speaker 1 But then you basically are admitting that that's what you're doing. Yeah, true.
You're basically saying

Speaker 1 exactly what I'm doing.

Speaker 1 I guess you also could make the argument, Max, maybe if

Speaker 1 there's a grounder in the infield, like a runner trying to run like right in front of him, right before in his eye line to get the last out. But yeah, it's probably typical.

Speaker 9 I don't like that. Yeah.

Speaker 9 I also was thinking it might be more comfortable as like a pitcher pitching out of the stretch, just having the guy in your eye, eye,

Speaker 9 in your what's the word?

Speaker 1 You got this. Line of vision.

Speaker 9 Yeah, line of vision. Yeah, your line of vision rather than like having to turn.
Yep.

Speaker 1 Yep.

Speaker 7 All right, hear me out here.

Speaker 7 If you're going to be committing a balk, though, if that's the case, why wouldn't you just like not care about the runner trying to steal third and what kind of lead that he has and just act like he's not there?

Speaker 9 It could just be a comfort thing. I don't think he really cared, regardless.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Obviously, or else he wouldn't have balked. So the other games,

Speaker 1 I'm counting the Diamondbacks as that was a Dan Heron win. So it was a little curious why they started their guy.
I don't even know how to say his name. Can you get it for me, Jake? P-F-A-A-D-T.

Speaker 1 Poof. He might be Jerry O'Connell, how you say.

Speaker 7 I looked it up earlier, actually, and it was fought, like a British person saying fart.

Speaker 1 Fart, fought.

Speaker 1 Fought. I thought it was.
Farted.

Speaker 1 But either way, everyone's like, what the hell? This guy stinks. He pitched two and two-thirds, two-thirds, and then their bullpen completely shut down the Brewers.

Speaker 1 I'm just counting this as Dan Heron. I think this was Dan Heron probably made this entire plan.
He's like, let's start fart, and then we will throw in the bullpen and we'll shut them down.

Speaker 7 You could make the argument with Dan Heron because he's probably all about pitching depth, right? He probably does a lot with the guys coming out of the bullpen. So credit to Dan Heron.

Speaker 7 What I'm more concerned about with this is we have a stadium controversy, a stadium conflict schedule that's going to be rearing its ugly head in case the Diamondbacks advance.

Speaker 1 So if they advance, game three

Speaker 7 of the series that I think would be against the Dodgers would be at Chase Field on the same date that Guns N' Roses is scheduled to play there.

Speaker 7 So we've got a real Battle of the Titans, the Diamondbacks versus Guns and Reserves. I would actually, you could make the argument that Guns N' Roses concert in Phoenix would have

Speaker 7 a bigger economic impact.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'd agree.

Speaker 7 I agree than a Diamondbacks game because

Speaker 7 you get all the people taking Ubers, cabs there, plus the people that get DUIs on the way back from it that would contribute to the local economy.

Speaker 7 And I would imagine that like 90%

Speaker 7 of people in the Phoenix area plan on attending the Guns and Roses concert.

Speaker 1 Yeah. So we, in the Brewers, Corbin Burns wasn't good, and we had Marlin's man there, which

Speaker 1 he called me live during the game, inviting us to game three or game two and three.

Speaker 1 I don't know if we'll be able to make it. We're going to have to text him, but he did make that invite.
He is there. He's sitting there with front row Amy.

Speaker 7 I mean, the Marlins aren't in the playoffs, so he's going to show up somewhere.

Speaker 1 He's got to be there. He's got to be there.
We were talking about it before.

Speaker 1 People forget the Marlins

Speaker 1 forced Marlinsman hand when he offered them a blank check to do Marlinsman Day, where he gets to throw out the first pitch with all the mermaids surrounding him.

Speaker 1 And Derek Cheeter said, get out of my office. So this is, we stand with Marlinsman.
Like, if he doesn't want to root for the Marlins because of what they did to him, I'm on Marlins Man's side.

Speaker 7 I think he was only asking for like five season tickets for free. It was for him and like all of his cats.
And

Speaker 7 it was really a head scratcher when Jeter comes into town. Like, you think Jeter's bigger in Florida than Marlin's Man is? No, man.
You're a Yankee. Marlin's Man, he is the Marlins.

Speaker 1 He is the Marlins and the Mermaids. So he tweeted.

Speaker 8 Yeah. He tweeted that he thought it would be the Marlins playing in Milwaukee and his travel plans were already made.

Speaker 1 Ah,

Speaker 1 well, that's you can't see that coming. It did come down to like the last day of the season or second to last day of the season.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 So, okay, Justice for Marlins Band. And then in Tampa, we got a bad sports town watch.
19,000 people at the drop today.

Speaker 1 19,000 people. That's tough.

Speaker 1 There was also like a clip. of

Speaker 1 all the wives of the players trying to like pump up the crowd, and no one was doing anything.

Speaker 7 And it was just like shit. It's sad.

Speaker 1 I mean, I.

Speaker 7 It's like once Tom Brady leaves town, nobody cares about sports there anymore.

Speaker 1 I kind of, I was seeing people arguing about it online, and I do understand the idea that it was a two-day notice, and they always stick the raise with the like three o'clock, two o'clock in the afternoon game on a weekday, which, you know, people have jobs, and it's not easy to just be like, I'm getting off work for the raise, but 19,000 is tough.

Speaker 1 That's tough for a playoff.

Speaker 7 It is tough. Aren't they planning on putting like $1.2 billion into the new stadium there?

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's like light proof, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's great. I think I read that.
Either way, playoff baseball baseball base.

Speaker 7 I think it was pretty much the please don't move our team to Nashville Stadium.

Speaker 1 I think that's what it was. That's exactly right.
So playoff baseball's back. October's the best month.

Speaker 1 Boys, did you know? I don't know if anyone's pointed this out to you a million times, but starting tomorrow, 50 straight days of football.

Speaker 7 That's pretty pretty good. Because we got, yeah, we got what, Conference USA?

Speaker 1 The Sun Belt, I think, starts playing on Wednesdays, too.

Speaker 1 And yeah, I'm going to look real quick who else is playing because I don't think Maxion starts this early. Jacksonville State and Middle Tennessee State play tomorrow night.

Speaker 1 And then Middle Tennessee State plays on Tuesday. Yeah, so they're going to start doing Sun Belt on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

Speaker 1 The best, the best.

Speaker 1 Maxion doesn't start usually until November, but 50 straight days of football on tv you can find a football game for the next 50 straight days think about that isn't that beautiful it's pretty great it's very beautiful

Speaker 7 i also want people to remember as bad as monday night football was because it was it was

Speaker 7 yeah it was it was really bad the the official prognosis coming out of it is i think medically speaking daniel jones is ass yeah no he's super ass yeah he is ass

Speaker 7 and uh it's very funny to picture the giants fans that like booed Daniel Jones on draft night that then had to go back and be like, I was wrong about booing Daniel Jones on draft night last year.

Speaker 7 And now they have to be like, fuck, I already took back my boo of Daniel Jones on draft night. I can't be right about that anymore.

Speaker 1 It was an ugly game.

Speaker 7 The only good part of the game, I know, Big Cat, you saw this, Drew Locke getting in. Yes.

Speaker 7 I still believe in Drew Locke. I think I had a take that he would make five Pro Bowls on this show.
So you're never wrong about a take until you give up on it.

Speaker 7 Let that be a lesson to the Giants fans out there. I still think Drew Locke could possibly make five Pro Bowls.

Speaker 1 He should have, they should have kept him in the game just for the viewers because once Drew Locke comes in a game, the volatility of that game goes through the roof, whether it be great Drew Block plays or terrible Drew Locke plays.

Speaker 1 The Giants, though, it's always funny watching like

Speaker 1 we as football fans, when we're rooting for our team, we make all the excuses, we talk ourselves into everything, and then watching from afar another fan base and seeing them do the same thing.

Speaker 1 And you're like, you guys are fucking stupid. Like all the Giants fans saying it was the offensive line and all this.
Like Daniel Jones was ass last night.

Speaker 1 A lot of the sacks were his fault. The fumble, the interception on the goal line, like he sucked.

Speaker 1 I know the offensive line isn't good, but as someone who does the same thing where I'm like, no weapons, no offensive line.

Speaker 1 When you take a step back, it looks really dumb when your quarterback just isn't good right now. And I don't know if Daniel Jones, like last year,

Speaker 1 he was good, but you paid a lot of money to him. Saquon's got to just be so pissed watching him beat ass and be like, yeah, that's my money.
I should have had some of that money.

Speaker 1 But yeah, the Giants are in, like, they had a great season last year to win a playoff game. And now it feels like they're back in despair.
And even the boat picture is going back around.

Speaker 1 People are getting duped. There's one guy who just tweeted out the boat picture, and he's like, it's insane the Giants are 11 and 94 since this picture was taken.
And people were quote tweeting it.

Speaker 1 And then if you just went to his Twitter, the guy just wrote underneath, he's like, I love just putting out disinformation because they have been that bad.

Speaker 1 They have been that bad that, like, it's gotten so ridiculous. Whenever you see the boat picture, you just expect a terrible record next to it.

Speaker 1 And no one's really keeping track at this point because that was what? That was like 10 years. Was that like seven, eight years ago?

Speaker 1 That was seven years ago.

Speaker 7 Picture of Odell. Was that Odell's last full season?

Speaker 1 That was like 16. So seven years ago.

Speaker 8 That was 2015 or 16.

Speaker 1 So now, yeah, you could just make up any numbers and people will believe it. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 7 Speaking of misinformation, getting put online, did you see the Matt Canada news?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 7 So somebody, so I saw the Twitter account and apparently,

Speaker 7 allegedly, Matt Canada has a Twitter account. I took screenshots of it in case it gets deleted.
But somebody found the Twitter account and then other people started to like put the dots together.

Speaker 7 And this one guy said, I checked the email address that was associated with it and it looks like it could be like m dot like star star star star star at steelers.com or something like that um that guy made that up if you looked at his account it was just like i am a parody account in bio but i i looked at it's dan robbins danny football 77

Speaker 7 was the handle and all this guy does is just reply i think it might be we might have reached the point on the internet where people are now making fake burner accounts oh yeah for people so that people will be like oh shit that's got to be matt canada Canada because all he cares about is defending Matt Canada.

Speaker 1 Well, it's also

Speaker 7 exactly what this guy was doing.

Speaker 1 It's also a point where, like, anything, anyone who tweets anything positive about a public figure, they're like, nice burner. Like, how could that possibly be?

Speaker 1 How could you actually like this person?

Speaker 7 Because if I were making a Matt Canada burner account, I would do the exact same thing. Something like Danny Football 77.

Speaker 7 And then his profile pick is just a flat-brimmed Steelers new era hat, which is great.

Speaker 1 It's so great. Oh, man.
All right. Anything else before we kick it to ourselves for Hot C Cool Throne? Oh, we should mention

Speaker 1 the Trevor Bauer situation is crazy. And like that video was nuts that he released.
He got completely railroaded by,

Speaker 1 it seems like everyone, the media, especially,

Speaker 1 jumping to every conclusion. I hope he gets to be able to play in the MLB again because that was nuts.
Like the whole thing was scary and nuts.

Speaker 7 Yeah.

Speaker 7 And the woman that did it to him is like, that's, that really sucks, too, is that because she did that, now everybody that has like a legitimate complaint, they're going to be like, nope, making it up.

Speaker 1 Trevor Burrus, they're going to use that. Yeah.

Speaker 7 Exactly. They'll say it's a Trevor Bauer situation.
So, yeah, like we didn't discuss the Trevor Bauer story when it happened on the show because you don't know what's actually going on.

Speaker 7 And it takes a really fucking long time for the facts to come out about things sometimes. And yeah, I was watching the video and I was like, holy shit, like, this is as damning as it gets.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So, yeah, hopefully, he gets to play an MLB again. It was, that was nuts.
Um, and hopefully, people who took him down the way they did, like, retract. I don't know if you can at this point.

Speaker 1 There's really nothing you can't really put the toothpaste back in the tube here, but uh, I would hope that at least some of them would be like, hey, maybe I should change how I do things and report on things.

Speaker 7 I think what happened was a lot of people didn't like Trevor Bauer. Yeah.
And so they heard this story story and it was like, oh, yeah, that makes sense. That guy sucks.
I don't like him.

Speaker 7 And so they put out all kinds of reports using like very dubiously sourced material and reading into like the medical reports facts that weren't in the medical reports.

Speaker 7 And it was all based on the fact that they didn't like Trevor Bauer. And it's okay to not like Trevor Bauer.

Speaker 7 I think like when we interviewed him on the show, we came off being like, well, Trevor Bauer's a weird guy, but I think I kind of like him afterwards.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he's eccentric. Yeah.
And

Speaker 7 not everyone's going to like the guy.

Speaker 7 But just because you don't like somebody doesn't mean that whatever facts are being presented are actually the truth.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
So that deserved a mention for sure. All right.
Should we kick it to ourselves? Oh, Jake, Jake.

Speaker 8 Yeah, we have our selection for our full-page ad. It's going to be the Miami, Ohio student newspaper.
We just have to brainstorm the creative side for me to submit to their advertising teams. Okay.

Speaker 1 What are you guys thinking?

Speaker 7 I would like for it to be a full-page ad, but like have the font really, really big so we don't have to write that much.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and it should be, so it should be a picture of all of us.

Speaker 1 And it should be, the start should be thanking JJ Watt. So we need to thank JJ Watt for thanking everyone.

Speaker 7 Well, thank you, JJ Watt, for taking out a full-page ad in the Houston Chronicle.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 And other and other newspapers

Speaker 1 we don't read. So, all right, so ready, Jake?

Speaker 1 First of all, we would like to thank JJ Watt for taking out a full-page ad in the Houston Chronicle, amongst other newspapers that he might have taken a full-page ad out in.

Speaker 1 Full disclosure, we don't read.

Speaker 1 Secondly,

Speaker 7 this full-page ad is

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Speaker 1 a hurricane? Yeah, is there,

Speaker 1 has there ever been a hurricane?

Speaker 7 A hurricane in Ohio?

Speaker 1 Just,

Speaker 1 you know, we said hurricane tornado. We should double check just to make sure because imagine no, no, it's it's well

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Speaker 8 You guys are forgetting about Tropical Storm Bertha in 2013.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's a tropical storm. We didn't say tropical storms.
We said a hurricane.

Speaker 8 Hurricane Barry in 2019.

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Speaker 1 when it hit Ohio?

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Speaker 7 Miami of Ohio. It has to hit that place specifically.
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Speaker 8 the issues come out every other Friday, so they said if I get them the info by tomorrow,

Speaker 1 they can get it out. Okay, we need another full-page ad.
We need another full-page ad. We need another full-page ad that just says

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Speaker 1 Everyone, we're saying no Jinxes, no Juju, no bad Juju.

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Speaker 7 I think for the third one, we just say psych.

Speaker 1 No psych.

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Speaker 1 The third one just have the third one.

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Speaker 9 All right. Okay.

Speaker 8 So it's two-pager on October 13th.

Speaker 1 Do you think if you submitted the transcript for Monday's show, it would get put in print?

Speaker 7 Yeah, I think it would look better in print, actually.

Speaker 1 We'll see. Okay, let's kick it to ourselves.
We're going to do it.

Speaker 7 I keep thinking, wait till these people find the episode with Stavi, where we just talk about how coaches in the NFL would fuck for the entire episode, and then print out the lines of dialogue from that.

Speaker 7 And then that, let's judge us on that show, please. My head.

Speaker 1 We're going to talk about it more on Hot Sequel Throne, but my head also immediately went to

Speaker 1 our Sister Gene dialogue.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

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We have fun here. Okay, we're going to kick it to ourselves for college football talk back in the studio.

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Speaker 1 Okay, college football, PFT. I have a question for you to start.

Speaker 7 Yes, Michigan is winning the national championship.

Speaker 1 I think they might,

Speaker 1 and I'm hoping they do. So Jim Harbaugh will leave the college game.
He's proven everything he has to prove. My question for you is: as of right now, who should be the number one team in the country?

Speaker 7 I actually think it should be the Texas Longhorns.

Speaker 1 Okay, so I have it down to three.

Speaker 1 Texas Longhorns are one of them because right now it's Georgia, Michigan.

Speaker 1 Michigan actually got a bunch of votes to be number one, so they're trending towards getting the number one ranking, which would be the first time since 1997 when they won a split national title with Nebraska.

Speaker 1 The Texas Salonhorns are on my list.

Speaker 1 Also on my list are the Ohio State Buckeyes.

Speaker 1 If we're going off of best wins, the Buckeyes winning at Notre Dame might be more impressive than Texas winning at Alabama, depending on how Alabama season goes. Very close.

Speaker 1 And then the last one is Florida State should be considered, I believe. They have two very good wins.

Speaker 1 Obviously, those teams now have lost twice each, but they beat LSU, killed LSU on a neutral site, and they beat Clemson at Clemson. Those are the three teams.
I don't think it should be Georgia.

Speaker 1 I don't think it should be Michigan, even though Michigan is out of this world good. Fun fact about Michigan,

Speaker 1 they are making the opposing offense go three and out 45% of the time, and no team has run a play inside the 10-yard line of Michigan's side of the field.

Speaker 7 Yeah, that's pretty good. They're taking care of business.
They don't have any good wins, but that's just because they haven't played any good teams yet.

Speaker 11 They've just been

Speaker 7 spanking all the bad teams that they've been playing, which is exactly what you should do. Texas,

Speaker 7 I think the win at Alabama, I would put that over the Ohio State win at Notre Dame. Notre Dame looks good.

Speaker 1 Not

Speaker 7 off against a really good Duke team. Yeah, they're good.
Notre Dame's definitely very, very good. I would just give the edge to the Longhorns in that situation.

Speaker 7 I want to see Michigan and Texas in the national championship. They would rule.
I think that would be awesome to have a title game that doesn't have Alabama, Georgia, or Ohio State in it.

Speaker 7 It would be good to see that switch up a little bit.

Speaker 7 I also think that Georgia might lose one game or two games maybe this year.

Speaker 7 So they look very beatable.

Speaker 1 The problem is their schedule. Yeah.

Speaker 7 Their schedule is. Do they play Kentucky?

Speaker 1 They play basically no one. Kentucky, I think, is on there.
I think they have Tennessee at home. Or no, Tennessee at Tennessee.
So that will be a tough game. I think they play Kentucky at home.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they play Kentucky at home this weekend.

Speaker 1 At Vanderbilt, at Florida, home against Missouri. What game is neutral?

Speaker 8 Jacksonville. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Home against Mississippi and away against Tennessee.
Not, yeah, you could actually, I might agree with you. Like, they

Speaker 1 Georgia has, it's, it's now

Speaker 1 olemis could beat them.

Speaker 7 They could lose at Tennessee.

Speaker 1 Lolane Kiffen just winning those big games. That game, that LSU Ole Miss game.

Speaker 1 If you're not a college football fan, those are the games that you are so desperately missing out on because that was pure offense, craziness, insane plays. LSU's defense is an absolute dumpster fire.

Speaker 1 Brian Kelly, hot seat.

Speaker 1 It could go south on him. Hot seat.

Speaker 7 Well, he can't get any more south than he already is, but he's definitely.

Speaker 7 If you're an LSU fan, you would probably

Speaker 7 rather lose a game like that if at least your defense at LSU was awesome. Yeah.
Because they've had a great defense for so long down there.

Speaker 7 And then if you're losing games, just giving up a billion yards, then you're like, what the fuck is like, you're still getting the same recruits.

Speaker 7 Like, as long as you recruit the state of Louisiana, your defense should be elite and they stink. They're just really, really bad defensively.
I could say, I'm going through the list right now.

Speaker 7 I could see Georgia. I'm not saying they're going to lose.
I'm saying I could see them. Big difference.
It means I can't be held accountable if I'm wrong.

Speaker 7 I could see them losing to Kentucky. I could see them losing to Florida.
That's rivalry. I couldn't.

Speaker 1 I could see it. Billy Napier's.
Got a problem in Florida. I could see them.
They got smoked by Kentucky.

Speaker 7 But they're like up and down, up and down. I could see them losing to Mizzou.
I could see them losing to Ole Miss. And I could see them losing to Tennessee.
Ooh.

Speaker 1 Do you have them at four losses?

Speaker 7 I actually have them at one loss already because I give them a half a loss for Auburn. For Auburn, and I also give them a half a loss for South Carolina.

Speaker 1 The Brock Bowers, though, is so fucking good.

Speaker 1 I know he won't win the Heisman, but the fact that

Speaker 1 those are moments where those are Heisman-type moments when you're playing at Auburn and nothing's working, and you're like, let's just smash the Brock Bowers button. And they kept on smashing it.

Speaker 1 He had like eight catches for 147 yards and a touchdown. And he made one catch that was out of this world good.

Speaker 1 So he is there, like fail-safe. But yeah,

Speaker 1 Georgia, you might be right that Georgia, we all thought that their schedules would be easy, but there are a couple games in there. All right, I'll go.

Speaker 1 They're going to lose

Speaker 1 one game. Okay.

Speaker 1 Memes is a Georgia fan.

Speaker 1 Who's the one? Memes said, I'm going to say a combo of of Kentucky, Tennessee, Ole Miss.

Speaker 1 Because if they, let's say they lose the Ole Miss, they still have a shot to make the play. Oh, of course.
Yeah. Yeah, because they just got to win the SEC championship.

Speaker 1 Yeah, because if they lose them, Ole Miss is in the West. Right.
I actually think they're probably going to be able to do that.

Speaker 1 But if they lose Tennessee, because Tennessee might have two losses, Tennessee already lost to Florida. So if Tennessee catches another loss and they only lost to Tennessee, that would be fine.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I think that so I think they're based on Tennessee

Speaker 1 this upcoming weekend, but it's at home. Because Kentucky's just hot right now.
And then Tennessee at Tennessee. Yeah.

Speaker 7 I could see Brock Bowers winning the Heisman, or at least being like a close finalist in the Heisman.

Speaker 1 Invited to New York.

Speaker 7 Yeah, invited to New York.

Speaker 1 If they keep barely winning games,

Speaker 7 they don't have anybody else that's carrying the offense. And then in the second halves of all these games, they're just like, oh, yeah.

Speaker 7 Brock Bowers is the best player maybe in college football all around besides Caleb Williams. Yes.
Let's just put the ball in his hands and let him do his thing.

Speaker 1 And then we also have, so the Red River shootout rivalry. I think we said rivalry.

Speaker 1 Yeah, the Red River rivalry, which is really easy to say, is this weekend, which would be perfect for Texas being looking very, very good.

Speaker 1 And also, Texas is like not under the radar, but it hasn't been all the time. You know, they obviously beat Alabama.
That was a big weekend for them. They handled Kansas, Baylor.

Speaker 1 They're going about their business. For them to lose to Oklahoma would be perfectly Texas.

Speaker 7 Yeah, at the Texas State Fair. Have you ever been to the Texas State Fair?

Speaker 1 I have not, I'd like to go.

Speaker 7 It's got everything fried there. It's awesome.
They fry butter. They deep fry butter at the state fair.
Love it. They deep fry Kool-Aid pickles at this.

Speaker 7 That one's actually not as good as the butter.

Speaker 7 But people just walking around with basically like an entire leg from a pig that's just covered in batter and just soaked in hot oil for about five minutes. And it's incredible.

Speaker 7 It's a great place to go.

Speaker 7 I think that this year, I mean, anything could happen in this game because it's just such like a unique environment.

Speaker 7 But I think that Texas is so good defensively that they should be able to get the job done.

Speaker 1 I still like Dylan Gabriel. I like him from when he was at UCF.
There's something about him. He's got some kind of swag.

Speaker 1 He's the perfect guy for this type of game where you can just have a game that's just like, what the fuck, Dylan Gabriel.

Speaker 1 Out west, the other thing. So Colorado kind of saved face with the way they played against USC, only losing by seven.

Speaker 1 And USC now, I think the discussion is: is is Lincoln Riley

Speaker 1 liable for malpractice for having one of the best college quarterbacks, maybe of all time, if he goes back-to-back Heisman and Caleb Williams and never having a defense behind him?

Speaker 1 Because that defense is so bad. And they are going to be in some games like going to Notre Dame is not going to be easy.

Speaker 1 Like there are some games that USC feels like, hey, we have a team, we have a quarterback that could be a national title type of quarterback, and I don't think they're going to survive their schedule because I just don't think their defense can stop anyone.

Speaker 7 I think USC is pumped to have a coach like that. That's what you need at USC.
It's the complete

Speaker 7 malpalm practice, though. It might be malpractice, but it's like the complete opposite of what LSU's done.

Speaker 7 So like LSU would be happy, like having closed games as long as their defense was awesome, keeping them in. They might not be happy, but they might not be as upset as they are right now.

Speaker 7 At USC, If you're lighting up the scoreboard, they don't really give a shit if you're giving up 30 points a game. Yeah.

Speaker 1 They don't care about that. And we have, I mean, the Pac-12 is going to be awesome.
Next weekend is Oregon, Washington, which will be a big deciding factor of how that all plays out.

Speaker 1 But yeah, Utah goes down. Oregon State, you know, bounces back.
Washington State's still really good. It's going to be, I'm very excited for October and November football.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 College football is buzzing right now.

Speaker 7 Pee Nix versus Knicks. That's going to be a great matchup.
Yes. It's going to be some great signs on game day.

Speaker 1 Did you guys see, we need to get this guy on

Speaker 1 PMT.

Speaker 1 he's an all-time football guy i think it was the charlotte head coach who wears a cutoff his name is biff pogey yeah he wears a cutoff shirt is hot out biff podgey and i think someone well go ahead memes that's uh harbaugh's he was like the harbaugh's number one guy in michigan he there was an hbo documentary about him too you got to get him on he coached a private school in Baltimore.

Speaker 1 He like helped build their facilities and they would just smoke teams.

Speaker 1 I want him on. He's just got a great look.
Not to get all Billy football, but someone replied when I posted a picture of him.

Speaker 1 He's like, the best part about him is he's like a multi-multi-millionaire who doesn't need to coach, but he just loves to coach. I don't know if that's true.

Speaker 7 Well, that's you, what you just described was every single head coach.

Speaker 1 Well, no, because he has never been a big-time head coach. So I don't know, he's never been like, he's a head coach of Charlotte and he was an assistant coach in a bunch of places.

Speaker 1 So he's never been like the big-time contract. He gets paid like half a million bucks a year.

Speaker 7 Which over the course, I would imagine he's been in football for

Speaker 1 a long time. But his stops are Citadel Assistant, Gilman School in Maryland, which Memes just said assistant, Gilman School head coach, Michigan analyst, St.

Speaker 1 Francis Academy, Michigan Associate Head Coach, Charlotte. That doesn't seem like a ton of money coaching.

Speaker 1 So someone tell me if he actually has.

Speaker 7 You're probably right because I'm looking at the first result for Biff Podgey contract, and it says Charlotte gives Podge a five-year deal, includes country club membership. Love it.

Speaker 7 So, I don't think that they would include that if he was getting paid a lot of money. He's also a hedge fund manager.

Speaker 1 That's what it was.

Speaker 1 So, he is rich on his own. Like, in the HBL documentary, they were like, they compared his salary to hardball, and he's like,

Speaker 1 it's made by a lot. Okay, so he is.
So, that was true. So, it is, he doesn't need to coach, and he just does it and does it in a cut-off shirt, and his name's Biff.

Speaker 7 Do you know how good you have to be as a hedge fund manager to to get billionaires to trust you with their money if your name is Biff? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Actually, it might be easy. I don't know.
If a guy calls you up and he's like, hey, it's Biff Podgey, I'm like, okay, done.

Speaker 7 Well, yeah, but you're not a billionaire. Yeah, I know.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 7 You got two strikes against you. One, Biff, second, Italian.
Probably some discrimination you have to deal with there.

Speaker 1 But then again, billionaires too want to just be like friends with regular guys. So if Biff calls you up, he's like, oh, I just got done practice.
We're going to kill everyone this weekend.

Speaker 1 You want to invest 20 million bucks in this new fund? I think you might be, because then the billionaire can walk around being like, oh, yeah, you know that head coach, Biff Podgey?

Speaker 1 He's actually my money guy.

Speaker 1 Makes him look normal.

Speaker 7 Hey, this Biff Podge

Speaker 7 might better give me some of that money. It'd be a real shame if something happened to it.
Yeah. You had it and then it all disappeared somehow.

Speaker 1 I'm ready for Biff Podge.

Speaker 7 I'll protect you. I'll protect your money now.

Speaker 1 Who else did we miss talking about? Fresno State continues to be undefeated.

Speaker 1 Nice season going for them.

Speaker 1 Who else, memes? You got someone? I'm going to look up.

Speaker 7 Air Force.

Speaker 1 Oh, Air Force. I bet on Air Force every week.
They are so fucking good. They're so good.
And they pass the ball when they need to, which is very unservice-like Academy.

Speaker 14 They're smoking teams, man.

Speaker 1 They are smoking teams. They beat

Speaker 1 San Diego State by like 30 the other night, and it was, they are fun to watch, too. They make triple option fun.

Speaker 1 It's not like a Navy Army where no disrespect to them because they play good, like fun football, but Air Force finds a way to put up points in the triple option.

Speaker 7 Do you remember there? I think there was a coach at Air Force. This is like 2000.
He was like an old school guy. He had been there forever.

Speaker 7 And they asked him, like, why can't you guys score any points? And his answer was literally, we need to get more black players because they're fast and they run very fast.

Speaker 7 And everybody was like, dude, you can't. You can't say that, man.

Speaker 1 You're really old. Yeah.

Speaker 7 Ridiculous time.

Speaker 7 Does everyone,

Speaker 1 everyone who goes to Air Force gets a a Porsche? Did I make that up? I think that's true. Is that true? I might have made that up.

Speaker 8 Potential participant in the Barcelona Arizona Bowl. Yes.

Speaker 1 Not unless. Can you find out if everyone gets a free Porsche?

Speaker 1 I might have made that up. I thought there was some like Porsche, there's some Porsche facility not too far from

Speaker 1 the Colorado where Air Force plays. I might have made that up, but that sounds cool.
Almost made me want to join the Air Force.

Speaker 7 Is that a new thing?

Speaker 1 No, I heard that a long time ago, and I was like, oh, Falls this fails, I'll join the air. But I don't think they take just anyone in the Air Force.

Speaker 13 They've got to be pretty smart.

Speaker 7 You have to know planes pretty well.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Which, yeah, that eliminates both of us.

Speaker 7 Yeah.

Speaker 7 Air Force coach Fisher DeBerry expressed frustration Tuesday with the Falcons' slumping performance and attributed the latest loss in part to number 20 TCUs having more black players who can run very, very well.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Say that out loud.

Speaker 7 Also, Max, how are we feeling about Penn State?

Speaker 1 Shout out James Franklin. Penn State.

Speaker 7 Shout out James Franklin.

Speaker 1 I don't know why

Speaker 7 James Franklin.

Speaker 1 Because he covered the spread against Northwestern with a fake kneel, which if you are a college coach, why wouldn't you always try to cover the spread knowing that all your alumni bet on you?

Speaker 7 He does. James Franklin knows that.
He's aware.

Speaker 1 It's every single game that would be,

Speaker 1 if I was a college coach, my first press conference would be like, look, we're going to get some big bodies in here, and we're going to cover spreads.

Speaker 7 The way that I saw that play develop, it was almost like halfway between a fake kneel and a fake quarterback draw.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 7 and it was like, What are you doing? What are you doing?

Speaker 9 Not to mention, the pick that was thrown to set that up was one of the, I mean, it was a Northwestern quarterback pick, but like

Speaker 9 everything that unfolded to get that cover was incredible.

Speaker 1 It really was because they were in trouble in the first. Oh, yeah, that's why I was asking 11 a.m.
11 a.m. in Evanston.
Are we worried a little bit?

Speaker 13 Yeah,

Speaker 9 James Franklin last week. Did we talk about that on the show?

Speaker 13 No, I don't think we did.

Speaker 1 It's such a funny move.

Speaker 9 Yeah, they didn't practice.

Speaker 9 They practiced with no music and no noise because they james franklin wanted to see if the atmosphere is what got the guys ready to go yeah he was like there's not gonna be any noise at ryan field on 11 o'clock kickoff so we gotta mimic the environment he ran a scout team crowd yeah for his boys in practice actually yeah but i mean who at this point it's like nothing really matters until oh state and then michigan so yeah it's like they're just gonna keep beating i think I think they may have like, I think they have a buy this week and then UMass next week.

Speaker 9 And then nothing matters until Ohio State Michigan.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Penn's, yeah, the Big Ten East doesn't really start getting decided until later in October. And that's when

Speaker 1 we're going to get it going. It's going to be on.
I'm very excited. And they'll all be at 11 o'clock, which is that true? Both.

Speaker 1 Well, yeah, definitely Michigan and Ohio State.

Speaker 9 And Penn State, Penn State, Ohio State and Penn State, Michigan are both at 11 o'clock.

Speaker 8 I think they need to get rid of divisions in college football.

Speaker 1 What do you mean?

Speaker 8 Like divisions within the conference. Well, they will.

Speaker 1 The Legends and League.

Speaker 7 Yeah.

Speaker 1 They did in the Pac-12. They probably will in the Big Ten soon.
Yeah. They probably will in the Black Teams.

Speaker 8 The best two teams should be playing in the Championship.

Speaker 1 Well, no, what they should do is now that every team, the Big Ten is going to be at 18. I think the SEC is going to be at 16.

Speaker 1 It should be pods of four or five.

Speaker 8 Then a four-team.

Speaker 14 And then a four-team thing.

Speaker 1 Conference player. That would be a lot of fun because then you can keep internal rivalries and all that stuff.
And it should be your record in the conference.

Speaker 1 And then everyone feels like they have a chance. Right.
Because that is going to suck.

Speaker 1 The only problem with what you're saying is when we get to the 18-team Big Ten or 16-team SEC,

Speaker 1 if you have no divisions, you really feel like you have no chance if you're a bottom team.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Like, there's no chance.
Like, even Wisconsin, I know, is going to be really tough to get to the Big Ten championship game when there's 18 teams, no division.

Speaker 8 Then maybe do no divisions. And like you said, like top six make the playoffs.

Speaker 1 Yeah, or something so that everyone. Big 10 playoffs.
Top two get a buy. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Either way, college football, I've said it before, but this season is going to be, because there really isn't a dominant team like we've seen in the past.

Speaker 1 Michigan might be that team, but there's so many good games coming up that are going to be fucking awesome that are going to decide all these conferences.

Speaker 7 I do love how there's not a dominant team.

Speaker 7 Like Georgia, we all thought at the start of the season, we were just going to be talking about Georgia, and then the rest of the college football world would be boring as shit.

Speaker 7 Turns out, I think we're going to be in for some chaos. Stetson Bennett.
I love chaos.

Speaker 1 You need Stetson Bennett.

Speaker 7 He was the guy.

Speaker 1 He was everything, memes. Stetson Bennett was everything.
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Speaker 1 Hank, hot seat cool throne.

Speaker 7 My hot seat is Jimmy Butler.

Speaker 1 Oh, why?

Speaker 11 And just heat culture as a whole.

Speaker 11 This is the second year Jimmy Butler has done this. Yesterday was, or Monday was NBA Media Day, which I like how all the teams do it on the same day.
It's always a fun day of headlines and pictures.

Speaker 1 And it's also a reminder to see how the different teams do stuff. It's a reminder that October's the best month in the world.
Yeah. Because it's just all the sports are here.

Speaker 7 I always like the behind the scenes videos while they're getting their official team picture taken.

Speaker 7 The ones that are taken on like, on like iPhones from the side showing them posing for it, it gives you something to think about later on in the season when you're looking at the team shot.

Speaker 7 You're like, oh, I remember when they did that picture. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Or like, yeah, the behind the scenes of them, like, you know, dribble the basketball through your legs. Yeah.
Here comes the wind in your face.

Speaker 7 I think that what Jay Butt has given us is a gift that's going to keep on giving throughout the season in the postseason when he goes off for like 55 in the playoffs and he's just dunking on people and cussing people out to their face.

Speaker 7 And then it shows his picture and he looks like Robert Smith from The Cure.

Speaker 1 Well, he did it.

Speaker 11 So he did it last year, too. He wore like the hair extensions or dreads or whatever, which wasn't his actual hair.

Speaker 11 And the reason was for that, so that when they show, you know, the lineup cards and stuff, that they have to show him with the long hair.

Speaker 11 I think during towards the end of the year, they just stopped doing that and like used like a picture from 2K or an old picture. Like, so I think you know, even though that's that was his goal,

Speaker 11 I don't know if it's going to work. Like, I don't know if they're going to emo Jimmy Buck.
Yeah, so this year, last year, he did the long hair. This year, he did

Speaker 11 he painted his nails, he did like an emo pull, like comb over, long hair bangs look.

Speaker 11 And then a reporter,

Speaker 11 Mike Wallace of Grind City Media, came out today and said 98.9% of the Miami Heat organization was totally uncomfortable with what Jimmy Butler was doing yesterday. What?

Speaker 11 This is so anti-Miami heat culture and what we stand for.

Speaker 1 It's fucking media dead.

Speaker 7 It's hilarious. It's funny.

Speaker 1 Good for Jimmy.

Speaker 11 It's heat, but heat culture.

Speaker 7 Wait, was it 98.9%? That's a very specific percentage.

Speaker 8 And I'm here to let you guys know that Grind City Media deleted the tweet where they posted audio of him saying 98.9%.

Speaker 8 Oh. So maybe they take that back.

Speaker 1 Grind City.

Speaker 7 I can no longer trust Grind City Media.

Speaker 1 Jake Marsh is coming in defensive heat culture.

Speaker 11 Well, just because they deleted the tweet, that's more like the heat didn't want that to be public. So they're trying to cover their

Speaker 7 heat culture or

Speaker 1 heat heat culture. He's trying to get clicks, which he is, because we're talking about them.
I can't imagine anyone cared.

Speaker 11 Oh, I can.

Speaker 1 Maybe the PR people?

Speaker 11 They don't even let their players eat.

Speaker 1 That's true. They weigh him all the time.
They pay him too much. He can do whatever he wants.

Speaker 8 He literally carried them to the NBA Finals out of nowhere.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he hasn't won anything, though.

Speaker 8 Carried them to the NBA Finals.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 7 I think heat culture is alive and well.

Speaker 7 Jimmy Butler, I love what Jimmy Butler did yesterday. It's funny.
It was just funny. And he was even like going out to the podium saying, don't talk to me, don't make me break character right now.

Speaker 7 So he had like, I want to know what his character was that he built up. He probably had a name for himself.
I want to know what the backstory was to this character.

Speaker 7 I want to know where this character came from. I want want to know their likes, their dislikes.

Speaker 7 A lot of people were saying he looked, it was like Garth Brooks when he switched over to being Chris Gaines for that one album, you remember? Yes.

Speaker 1 Which Garth should bring that back, by the way.

Speaker 7 Absolutely. What a weird, weird time in music that was.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he, I also like that he basically was like, yeah, I'm sad because we don't have Damian Lillard. Yeah.
Which sucks for Tyler Hero, but whatever.

Speaker 7 I've been looking so long at these pictures of you. That is so awful.

Speaker 1 He was looking at Tyler Hero that the whole Heat organization was like, let's get him out. Let's get Dame Lillard.
And now he's still there.

Speaker 7 Yeah, but Spin Zone, if your name's being floated as a straight-up trade for Dame Lillard, that's pretty good for your ego. True.

Speaker 11 True. Yeah, Heater on the hot seat.

Speaker 11 It's tough. Tough scene for Heat Culture, Heat Nation, Superbelt Layer.

Speaker 1 What's your cool tip? Did you like the look, Drake?

Speaker 7 He can do whatever he wants.

Speaker 1 Anything he wants? Did you like the look?

Speaker 1 Anything?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 8 He can sit in Coco Goff's box.

Speaker 1 Sit in all the way. I need to see videos.

Speaker 7 I need to see evidence of Jimmy Butler.

Speaker 1 Sounds like you're wanting to side of Coco Goff's box before I believe in Jimmy. Jake, are you demanding a Jimmy Butler sex tape? No.
Oh my God.

Speaker 1 This one is disgusting.

Speaker 7 I want to see him in the box, Jake.

Speaker 8 He can sit in her U.S. Open

Speaker 8 personal sky box for the next miles.

Speaker 1 However,

Speaker 1 nice. Yeah, I like what you're saying.

Speaker 16 Every U.S. Open that she plays in.
Okay.

Speaker 1 Yeah. So you're not demanding a sex tape?

Speaker 8 No. Okay.
Just so we're clear. All right.

Speaker 1 Would you watch one? No.

Speaker 8 I want nothing to do with that headline.

Speaker 1 So you don't defend me? I defend you. Okay, all right.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Hank, your cool throne?

Speaker 11 My cool throne is the sphere.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 11 They had their first concert this weekend. It looks like the coolest thing ever.
Ever. I feel like someone's going to

Speaker 11 take mushrooms and die.

Speaker 11 That was, when I was watching that, I was like, this would be overwhelming. It would be so sick, but also

Speaker 11 like someone's going to die.

Speaker 1 It would be honor.

Speaker 1 It was like taking hallucinogenics and like it being so sick i don't think you need to take hallucinogenics that's i know but someone's going to yeah and double it up so sick what if it cancels itself out and he's just at like a rand he's like sitting in like a random bar watching a concert it would be an absolute honor to experience ego death inside the sphere yeah it looks fucking awesome it looks it looks very who's going to be there's got to be some awesome concerts for super bowl week there right yeah probably wow i gotta go we gotta go to the sphere i gotta get inside that sphere we gotta get inside that sphere it looks it looks amazing.

Speaker 1 We have to assert ourselves in that sphere.

Speaker 7 Is it better from the outside or the inside?

Speaker 1 I think it's better.

Speaker 1 We're going to have to see ourselves.

Speaker 7 I think internals always.

Speaker 1 I'm not going to make a judgment until I see it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I'm a real facts-based guy. Oh, yeah.
Listen,

Speaker 7 I feel like it doesn't matter what concert they would put on there, it does suck that they got you two to do it first. Yeah.
Why does you two get to do anything? By the way.

Speaker 1 That's probably part of their Apple deal.

Speaker 7 Where was Bono during COVID? You literally had the opportunity to save the world, Bono.

Speaker 1 People don't even know. What were you doing? That's how we started it.
That's what you were built for.

Speaker 7 You've been talking your big game for the last like 20 years about saving the world. Where the fuck were you in the last three years?

Speaker 1 People don't even realize that U2, when we... Was it the phone or was the iPad? The iPhone.
The iPhone, they downloaded. Every iPhone came with a downloaded U2 album.
Yeah, without our consent.

Speaker 1 They made us do it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 What was the thing called that just played the music? iPod. iPod.
Yeah. Yeah.
You know what sucks about iPod?

Speaker 7 When you plug your phone into like a car, when it connects to CarPlay, it automatically starts playing a U2 song. Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's bullshit. Yeah.

Speaker 12 That's fraud.

Speaker 1 iPod, the best part about the iPod was when you would break, if you chucked it as hard as you could at the wall, it would fix itself.

Speaker 1 I don't know if that's just me.

Speaker 1 I used to that all the time. Yeah.
If it like froze, you just whip it at the wall and then it would like factory reset. Yeah.
No, I think that was actually a fact.

Speaker 1 I think Steve Jobs actually showed that in one of his presentations. Like the best part is you don't ever need to go to Geek Squad.
You could just throw your iPod at the wall.

Speaker 7 It's like when Elon threw a brick through the Cybertruck, Steve Jobs took the phone, threw it against the wall. He's like, boom, fixed.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 7 So the iPhone, when it first came out, I was like, well, this is going to be a flop. Yeah.

Speaker 1 What is this? It's an iPod, but you can make a call on it.

Speaker 1 I held strong on my BlackBerry for a while there.

Speaker 7 I love my iPod. I had the shuffle, the nano.

Speaker 1 I'm nano. I didn't like the nano.

Speaker 7 I am a nano.

Speaker 11 I think back on this being like, this is crazy because you know today's day and age everyone's gonna have an iphone i worked at parcel for like a year with a flip phone and an ipod touch i love it so like i would just have to get wi-fi and like use the apps and stuff but i couldn't afford like an actual iphone i love it that's grind set grind set that's heat culture i do miss i miss the sound of the click wheel though uh-huh it's so good

Speaker 7 they definitely when they program that stuff they do studies to see like what sound is most soot most soothing to your ears to hear yeah and that click wheel it it it sets me off off did you see this the new iphone they're going back to uh or they're the plug is different again usbc yeah it's gonna be crazy it's gonna be standardized at least this time yeah but it's nuts they keep flipping

Speaker 1 it is better but it also is annoying because now i have a bunch of chargers that i don't need yeah i think what they do is mine already is usbc no it's not it's not it's definitely not the one that the one that just came out last time let me see your phone

Speaker 1 mike babcock let me see it let me see your phone let's see the phone Yeah, no, you have the same iPhone as everyone.

Speaker 7 I just saw that.

Speaker 11 Look, I just saw the little slot.

Speaker 7 What they do is Apple waits until every hotel in America upgrades their charging system to the current one, and then Apple's like, psych, we're going to flip it again.

Speaker 7 And then every hotel has to throw out all their alarm clocks.

Speaker 1 Hank, why are you logged into a Twitter account saying Swifty Forever 420, and you're replying to me on Twitter?

Speaker 7 Not me. What the fuck is this?

Speaker 7 Hank, what does KYS mean?

Speaker 7 Why do you keep saying it?

Speaker 1 Why do you keep tweeting that at me? PFT, your hot seat cool throw.

Speaker 7 My hot seat is actually the Sixers organization. Oh, not the Heat organization.

Speaker 7 Because the Sixers. Yeah, Hank, really, everything's coming up Celtics, huh?

Speaker 7 The Sixers are kind of

Speaker 7 in deep shit because they're now concerned that James Harden is going to attend camp and is going to make things, quote, as painful as possible for the Sixers.

Speaker 7 Now, I started to think, what would that look like? How could James Harden. He's already pulled the I'm going to get fat card, right? So I don't think he would go back to that well.

Speaker 7 I think, I don't know what else he can do to make things as painful as possible besides just showing up and giving very problematic press conferences. But, Max,

Speaker 7 it doesn't look good to start your season off like this.

Speaker 7 Some of their fans want to trade Joelle and Bi. Harden's going to show up and make things as painful as possible.
It seems to be trending in the wrong direction.

Speaker 9 I think that James Harden will end up in jail by the end of this week.

Speaker 1 Okay?

Speaker 1 For what? For doing jail?

Speaker 9 Jail.

Speaker 1 This would be crazier than your 34-28 prediction I was thinking a few weeks ago. Do you think he

Speaker 1 jail? Do you think actual?

Speaker 7 Personally, he deserves to go to jail, or do you think he'll actually do something?

Speaker 9 I think he's going to do something. I think he's going to do something.

Speaker 7 He's going to choke him?

Speaker 9 Something's going to happen.

Speaker 1 I don't know what that means. It's an awesome prediction.

Speaker 7 If I was Harden, and I wanted to make things as painful, I would just show up and just fart all the time.

Speaker 9 I think he's going to do something so ridiculous that

Speaker 9 someone in the front office is going to call the cops on him.

Speaker 1 I don't know what that thing is.

Speaker 1 But like,

Speaker 12 what more can he do?

Speaker 9 What more can he do than he hasn't already done in the past? And it looks like he has his biggest grudge ever.

Speaker 1 Oh, so you're kind of actually in a weird way calling out James Harden as a pussy. Like, he hasn't done anything.
Like, you got to step it up, dude.

Speaker 9 Yeah. Like, I think he's going to do something so egregious.

Speaker 1 You're pushing him to jail.

Speaker 9 That, like, I think he may just show up on the court naked. Like, he may just go butt-ass naked onto the court.

Speaker 9 And then more may be like, you know, public, public indecency, bring in the the cops, arrest them. Maybe not jail, but like no, you said jail.

Speaker 1 Not at jail, jail.

Speaker 7 Yeah, he didn't say prison, he said jail.

Speaker 1 Jail, jail.

Speaker 7 He could, uh, he could SWAT the Sixers organization, like, call the SWAT team on them. Yeah, he could uh get the Oxcor to practice in the locker room, just play cars for kids on repeat.

Speaker 7 That would suck. I like that.
Just bring something.

Speaker 13 That's what I would do.

Speaker 1 What if you just annoy everybody? Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 9 A posse of strippers, and like they're on the court with him.

Speaker 7 I'm pretty sure the Sixers would be like, This is cool.

Speaker 1 Yeah, this rocks.

Speaker 7 Team building. I would love that.

Speaker 13 Yeah.

Speaker 1 If any of you guys want to do that to try to

Speaker 1 prove a point. Yeah.

Speaker 7 This is how badly I want out. Yeah.
I'm going to make all my boys have a great time.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 7 Your cool throne. My cool throne is Darius Rucker.
Yes.

Speaker 7 So on the podcast last week, I talked about how I woke up in the morning, I had like a targeted ad that hit me for a Darius Rucker NFL collab merch.

Speaker 7 And I ended up buying 500 bucks worth of it for the boys, doled them out on Sunday, and I came into the office.

Speaker 7 I've been in touch with one of of the people that works for Darius Rucker because they heard the segment last week. They're like, hey, we want to send you some commander stuff too.

Speaker 7 I came in the office on Sunday and I had 13 boxes with 20 pieces of merch in them.

Speaker 7 All Washington Commanders, all size medium. So very specific pieces of merch.
We did the math and it's like $20,000 worth of Darius Rucker merch that they sent. I hit the guy up.

Speaker 7 I was like, just so you know, like, you sent me a lot, like 20 of every type. A shitload.

Speaker 1 You were opening boxes for like 20 minutes. They sent an entire palette.

Speaker 7 It was 13 giant boxes. And so the guy was like, oh, shit.
Yeah, we actually didn't mean to send you all those. We were trying to send you one of each.
So I'm going to send most of them back.

Speaker 7 But spin zone, in a lucky turn for the listeners, a part of my take, I am going to be in Rao John, Maryland at FedEx Field on Thursday for Bears Commanders, Thursday night.

Speaker 7 And I'm going to bring, if you happen to be a size medium Commanders fan or know someone who is, I'm going to bring a bunch of that with me.

Speaker 7 We're doing a meet and greet at the part of my cheesesteak in FedEx Field. So we'll get the details of that later.

Speaker 7 But if you want any of this Darius Rucker Washington Commanders NFL merch, come meet me there. I'm going to give it a bunch of it.
It's actually a good merch, too.

Speaker 1 Yeah. The designs are pretty sick.

Speaker 7 So I'm going to be passing some of that out. But yeah,

Speaker 7 now I also have to figure out a way to ship back 13 giant boxes of Darius Rucker Washington Commanders merchandise. I love it.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I love it.
Well, win for the AWS. Yep.

Speaker 7 All right.

Speaker 1 My hot seat is me. I'm getting, I'm under siege.
For what? The Swifties are at my door, threatening my life, threatening my family's life.

Speaker 1 For a clip on Monday

Speaker 1 that I said that I wanted to see

Speaker 1 until I saw actual P and V,

Speaker 1 the relationship was not real to me.

Speaker 7 Yeah, so I think you didn't want to see a Taylor Swift sex tape. I want to see Travis Campbell.
You just as much wanted to see a Travis Connecticut.

Speaker 1 You wanted to see proof of wife.

Speaker 7 He wanted to be ironclad that they're actually together, and then it's not all for show.

Speaker 1 And let's just be clear: like, it's similar to dinosaurs. Dinosaurs aren't real because I never saw them.
Yeah. So if I don't see, if I don't see sex, I don't think anyone's relationship is real.

Speaker 1 Well, in the world.

Speaker 7 We could spin zone this and say that we would be just as happy if we had a constant video of Taylor Swift not having sex

Speaker 7 with anybody else. Correct.
But Travis Kelsey. Correct.
And just give us a live stream of that to determine that they're actually together.

Speaker 1 I also think that in a peace offering, I'm going to tell all the Swifties I will never procreate again. Okay, very big.
That's huge, right?

Speaker 7 Eliminating your genes further from the get a vasectomy, maybe?

Speaker 1 Yeah. What if I did? What if I got a vasectomy? Like, look at, please, Swifties, don't be mad at me.
Yeah, it's, I've been trending for like 24 hours. I've just been kind of giggling to myself.

Speaker 1 I didn't, we say some

Speaker 1 crazy shit on this podcast.

Speaker 1 Most people, all the AWLs, know, know this podcast. But yeah, when we get outside of our walls,

Speaker 1 yeah, it's fun has anyone unusual hit you up or like someone that you didn't expect like get involved in the situation no i saw snow white the snow white woman she's mad at me snow white is yeah snow white the new snow white yeah the new snow white is very mad at me

Speaker 7 yeah so yeah i mean this you know it's another day on the internet right yeah and and furthermore let's just take sex out of it i would also accept like videos of them doing things that only couples do together yeah like going to a pottery barn together on a saturday morning calling each other little pet names.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Like, you know, like, ooh, you're boopy, that kind of thing.

Speaker 7 Yeah, or maybe, like, them together on a couch during Monday night football, and he's watching football, and she's, like, on her iPad watching something else. Yeah, they're both football.

Speaker 7 They're both watching,

Speaker 1 let's be gender equal here. They're both watching a Netflix movie, but they're also both scrolling Instagram reels.
Yeah, like real couples. Real couples.

Speaker 7 I want to know real couples that they did.

Speaker 1 Right. Like, maybe even just a picture of them in a car together, just like looking a little upset.
Yeah, not talking.

Speaker 7 Yeah, not talking on the way home from a dinner that didn't go as well.

Speaker 1 The more I see him not talking, the more I know it's a real couple.

Speaker 7 Yeah, that's how I know it's real. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay, and then my cool throne is Paige Sporanek. Has Paige been on the show? She has, yeah.
She has.

Speaker 1 So, Paige Sporanek, this is the investigative work by Grant Bilsie, who hosts a Wisconsin radio radio show. He did a deep dive.

Speaker 7 So, credit to him.

Speaker 1 Very, very funny. The Paige Sporanek bobblehead completely turned around the Brewers season.

Speaker 1 So on June 16th, the Brewers hosted the Pirates. They were 34-34.

Speaker 1 They beat the Pirates that night 5-4, and then they wound up winning the NL Central with a record of 92 and 70, and they were 58-36 after the Paige Sporanic bobblehead night. Good for her.

Speaker 1 They got to get her in the stadium. Yeah, they do have to get her in the stadium.
Yeah. So

Speaker 1 he hosts the Wisco Sports Show, and he did an entire deep dive on his podcast about how one Paige Sporanic bobblehead night changed the entire Brewer's season. That's the type of journalism I love.

Speaker 1 So shout out Grant. Great work.
And shout out Paige. She turned the brewer's season around.
I don't think it was a strike.

Speaker 7 Numbers never lie.

Speaker 1 Numbers never lie. What do you say? If she was a strike?

Speaker 7 Or first pitch?

Speaker 1 It's a good bobblehead. She's swinging a club.
And, oh, yep. All right.
Yeah. See if it was a strike.

Speaker 11 Oh, she went from the big mound. Oh, no.
She had to step up.

Speaker 1 She stepped up.

Speaker 7 I think you're not allowed to, though. Yeah, they don't want you messing with the mound.
That's not true.

Speaker 1 Oh, not a sentence. A little curveball.

Speaker 11 You can't really see the catcher.

Speaker 1 That's not true. You can do the big mound because I did it

Speaker 1 when I raised a bunch of money for Anthony Rizzo's charity. And then I came.
He was like the winner who raised the most money got to throw out the first pitch.

Speaker 1 And I didn't realize that his charity is awesome. It's for kids battling cancer.
And it was me and a bunch of kids.

Speaker 1 and they were all throwing from in front of the mountain. I was like, I want to throw from the mountain.
It was kind of like Kramer doing karate with the kids. Yeah.
So I threw from the mountain.

Speaker 7 I would throw some absolute junk if I threw out a first pitch.

Speaker 1 I would throw like a nasty curve.

Speaker 9 The Phillies are hyping up their first pitch big time tonight.

Speaker 1 Oh, we got

Speaker 1 already have taped it.

Speaker 1 Make a prediction, Max.

Speaker 7 No, you aren't.

Speaker 1 You did the fucking Eagles Vikings. Perfect score.

Speaker 7 Oh, I have an idea.

Speaker 1 Make a prediction. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 9 No.

Speaker 1 Let me give you the context.

Speaker 10 I'll give you the context.

Speaker 1 It should be be Taylor.

Speaker 8 Oh, they said it's sports related.

Speaker 9 Yeah, the quote is the first pitch is going to be a spectacular one. You're going to be talking about it tomorrow.
Okay. And then

Speaker 9 this is from

Speaker 9 94 WIP

Speaker 9 from the world of sports or outside. And they say more the world of sports.

Speaker 1 Okay. Okay.

Speaker 11 Taylor Swords is the number one sports story in

Speaker 1 the world. Hank, what are you doing?

Speaker 7 I would say

Speaker 8 space off the replies.

Speaker 9 I think it's going to be Charlie Manuel.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 8 He just had a health scare, too, right?

Speaker 12 Yeah.

Speaker 9 He was like, people thought he was going to die, and then he made a recovery.

Speaker 1 Did you guys see also Aaron Rodgers called Travis Kelsey Mr. Pfizer? Pretty disgusting.
Wait. I think we should all just focus our energy on him.
Mr.

Speaker 7 Johnson and Johnson?

Speaker 1 Yeah, he called him Mr. Pfizer.

Speaker 7 He's literally,

Speaker 7 his entire salary is paid for by Johnson and Johnson.

Speaker 1 Kind of a best friend move by Aaron Rodgers to take the heat off me by saying that. Yeah.
I should thank him.

Speaker 7 That is insane, though, that

Speaker 7 he's the quarterback of the Jets. Yes, that's facts.

Speaker 1 And Zach Wilson is their quarterback.

Speaker 7 That's true. Moving forward, he is.

Speaker 1 Jake, finish us off.

Speaker 7 Billy one-upped his take, his previous Patrick Mahomes.

Speaker 1 Oh, Zach Wilson take. Tell me, tell me, tell me.

Speaker 7 He said that now Zach Wilson, because he played one good game, his ceiling is above Patrick Mahomes.

Speaker 1 Oh.

Speaker 7 So he will be better than Patrick Mahomes.

Speaker 1 He did output.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 7 Listen, recency bias, but one game. If you were to power rank quarterbacks based on week four and week four only, Zach Wilson is above Patrick Mahomes.
Fact or fiction. That's a fact.

Speaker 1 That's a fact. That's a fact.
Jake.

Speaker 8 My hot seat is milking your nipples on the sidelines. Whoa, okay.
The head coach for Oregon State football, Jonathan Smith.

Speaker 1 I saw this, yeah.

Speaker 8 He did the signal.

Speaker 1 They were trying to milk the clock at the end of the game against Utah. Yeah.
He started milking his, he started squeezing his doing this. No, he squeezed his

Speaker 7 going like this. Did they win? Yeah, they won.
Well, then that should be cool.

Speaker 8 But then he had to apologize because it apparently offended people.

Speaker 1 What? Yeah. What world am I living in?

Speaker 8 For anyone I offended, I apologize. I won't be using that signal again.

Speaker 1 He went like this.

Speaker 1 I like that. That's funny.
It was funny. Listen,

Speaker 7 God. To be a football coach, you have to do big.
Yeah. You have to have over-the-top motions on the side.
You can't do it. It's not like baseball where you tap your ear.
These guys are far away.

Speaker 7 You got to be able to do, like, grab the honkers.

Speaker 1 Let them know. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So.

Speaker 8 Yeah, I do apologize, and we won't be seeing that again.

Speaker 7 I hope he does it again.

Speaker 1 We'll see.

Speaker 7 I think every coach in solidarity should start to do the Milking Nipples thing.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 8 My cool throne is

Speaker 8 giving away Colts tickets. Yes.
Oh, yeah. That time of week again, they are home against the Titans.
We had the baby Ursae for the first home game.

Speaker 8 We had the tattoo for last week, and let's talk about this week.

Speaker 7 Hopefully, Mr. Ursay will do the right thing and open the roof.

Speaker 1 Why don't we do anyone who's named Jim?

Speaker 1 Any coach.

Speaker 1 Any Jim that wants to go to the game. We had so many emails.
Yes. Yeah, all right.

Speaker 8 So how do we pick a a winner?

Speaker 1 Just give us why you're the best.

Speaker 1 I mean, if anyone could prove their name is Jim Ursay, then we should definitely give it to them. Anyone named Ursa? We think we, there's.

Speaker 7 I don't know if there's any other. I would imagine that if you're an Ursae and you live in Indianapolis, you probably already have tickets.
Yeah.

Speaker 7 How about

Speaker 7 somebody that attended Jim Ursai's season kickoff concert that they had at Colts Field? I like that.

Speaker 1 They have to have proof.

Speaker 7 Yeah, if you have proof that you were in attendance watching Jim Ursay sing Lawyers, Guns, and Money, I will give you those tickets. We have four of them, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah, two sets of two. And sideline passes, too.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 8 PMT intern at barstoolsports.com.

Speaker 1 Okay, great. With proof.
All right.

Speaker 1 Let's get to our interview.

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Speaker 1 Okay, we now welcome on a very, very special guest. He is head coach of the Houston Texans.
It is Demiko Ryans.

Speaker 1 Coach, we're excited to have you on, not to toot our own horn, but we were big D'Amiko Ryans fans before you became a head coach, and we're like, he's going to be a great head coach.

Speaker 1 So let's start with this season, two and two,

Speaker 1 off a big win against the Steelers, looking good. What was the big thing,

Speaker 1 either culture or what you implemented when you showed up to Houston, knowing that you were inheriting a not great team and trying to change the direction of the franchise.

Speaker 17 The biggest thing I wanted to instill in our guys is just the mindset of you have to grind, you have to work. Like it's hard to win in this league and it takes a tough work ethic.

Speaker 17 It takes tough people, right? It takes people who are not worried about the end result.

Speaker 17 It takes people who are truly dedicated to improving themselves each and every day, focused on the day, getting better one day at a time. And if that, for me, instilling that, right?

Speaker 17 And everything else I talk about, about the process, the wins, and all that, those things, they take care of themselves.

Speaker 17 So that was the biggest thing, establishing just a get better mindset each and every day.

Speaker 7 Yeah. And you guys have been playing really well recently.
I'm curious to know from your perspective because a lot of times great players don't make for great coaches.

Speaker 7 I'm sure you've seen it a few times in football. It happens and it seems like every league.

Speaker 7 You were a great player in your own right. You were awesome.
You were a joy to watch. What do you think is different about

Speaker 7 you than other great players that have tried to transition to being coaches and might not have been able to instill like all the details in a guy that they had themselves ingrained?

Speaker 17 I think the first thing for me is when I got into coaching, I went into, I didn't go just straight into coaching a position, right?

Speaker 17 I went into a quality control role and truly learned, all right, what it takes to coach. As any player, right, you have this pride about yourself.
Like I thought, hey, man, I'm going to go in.

Speaker 17 I can coach the linebackers, right, right off the jump, right after playing. And I truly, I understood, like, man, coaching is way more involved.
There's way more to it than I thought it was. Right.

Speaker 17 And so for me, I think that really humbled me and really helped me learn what coaches go through on a day-to-day basis. And all of the things, the work that it goes in to just teach guys.

Speaker 17 How do you teach guys who learn different, guys come from different backgrounds?

Speaker 17 There's a science to that, and I had to learn that. And that's the biggest thing I think for me is, and any former player you want to come back and coach, you have to humble yourself.

Speaker 17 And you also have to understand, like, I'm not in the meetings, right, talking about how I used to do it or what I did.

Speaker 17 Like, it's truly about me helping these guys be successful in whatever they're doing, whatever position they're in, just instilling those,

Speaker 17 the, the traits that it takes to be great. I just want to instill that mindset in the guys, and I just truly want to help these guys as best I can.

Speaker 7 What does a quality control coach do? I always see that title, and I feel like if you're inside,

Speaker 7 it might vary from team to team. Like, is this like real menial stuff? Like, were you getting coffee for people?

Speaker 17 No, not getting coffee.

Speaker 17 But I, um, what it entails is truly like breaking down film.

Speaker 17 So, when you're going through and guys study film throughout the week, well, someone has to input all the data from from the previous team so what were the runs what are you calling those runs passes like truly breaking down all of those concepts actually you know myself and bobby slowick we were both qcs at the same time so you're working like at a computer yeah working at a computer in a a tight little office space.

Speaker 17 I actually shared an office with another QC. It was a tight space.
I wasn't making much money at all.

Speaker 17 I mean,

Speaker 17 I was actually paying the coach, especially living in California.

Speaker 1 it's expensive to live out there yeah yeah all right so i don't want to be a quality control coach because i always thought it would be a cool job because i was like oh yeah you just hang out you you know make sure that like the head coach doesn't trip over their headset wire and stuff like that sounds a lot more tedious than that yeah it is man and it's um It's really the quality control guys, these guys, you really love football.

Speaker 17 Like, if you're doing quality control work, man, you're in a dark office, just grinding away, not seeing your family much, a lot of long hours. Those are the guys that truly love football.

Speaker 17 But those are the guys who also

Speaker 17 understand the full process of being a coach. So you see a lot of guys grow from that role and become

Speaker 17 head coaches because they truly have hit every step of the coaching ladder.

Speaker 7 So you would say that you're proficient in Microsoft Excel.

Speaker 17 I'm doing better.

Speaker 13 Okay, that's a good answer because no one is.

Speaker 1 I'm convinced no one is except very few. No one is, right? But everyone puts it on their resume.
They're like, yeah, don't worry. I can do this.
I have it on my computer.

Speaker 7 I put it on my resume.

Speaker 1 Yeah, right, exactly.

Speaker 1 So C.J. Stroud has been fantastic through four games.
Obviously, it's his rookie year. Explain to me

Speaker 1 what the process is because he hasn't thrown an interception yet. Like, he's been phenomenal.

Speaker 1 What did you guys put in place to make it so that a lot of times we see in the NFL, rookie comes out, has a little bit of a bumpy road their first year.

Speaker 1 He hit the ground running.

Speaker 17 Was there anything specific, like simplifying the game or making him feel comfortable that you guys were able to do because you deserve a lot of credit the coaching staff well i think man when you're working with any player cj the the cool part about cj that nobody really knows or sees is how much he studies right he is truly a football junk he could probably be a qc he's always locked in he's always studying film he wants coaches to send as much film as possible his way because he truly loves football so when you have a guy who has that mindset and he loves it, like it's easy to coach guys like that.

Speaker 17 Like they see things before the coaches see it. And when you have a guy like that, you truly listen to his input and

Speaker 17 you want him, you want to do, right? You want to run the things that he feels most comfortable with, things he feels good about. Those are the things you're going to go out and excel at.

Speaker 17 I think Bobby and the offensive staff have done a good job of listening to CJ. and meshing the things that Bobby wants to do and CJ wants to do, right?

Speaker 17 Meshing those things together and work truly working together, right? That's how I think you see the success from CJ, right? There is not a play call that he does, he hasn't repped.

Speaker 17 There's not a play call that he doesn't like. So you truly, you like the play, you know the answers, right, to whatever pressure comes or whatever may happen.

Speaker 17 Like, that's how you go out and perform the way CJ performs. But it's all about his preparation, man.
It's, it's second to none.

Speaker 1 It's a great answer because a lot of times I feel like

Speaker 1 a

Speaker 1 quarterback gets drafted and whoever's the head coach or the organization says, all right, well, now we're just going to do what we do. You've got to find a way to fit in.

Speaker 1 But figuring out a way to make the quarterback, like, let's mold the offense for his strengths is such an underrated thing that a lot of teams somehow miss.

Speaker 17 Yeah, and that's one thing, man.

Speaker 17 I truly learned as coach, as a coach, like when I became a defensive coordinator, I always had this idea, like, yeah, I'm going to be running all these crazy blitzes and I'm going to do all these, you know, this crazy scheme stuff.

Speaker 17 And then I I truly got it too. It's like, wait a minute, it doesn't matter like what I want to do.
Like, who are the players I'm working with? What do they do well?

Speaker 17 And how can I allow them to play as fast as possible? And that's what coaching is: it's putting players in position, right, to accentuate their talents.

Speaker 17 And coaches, you get out of the way and let the players play fast.

Speaker 7 Yeah, we are Stroud Boys on this podcast. We've always said CJ is going to be a great player in this league.

Speaker 7 I'm curious to know going into draft night, though, I think I might have tweeted this out at the time. After you took Stroud, I said that the Texans should take another quarterback right afterwards.

Speaker 7 Was there any discussion at all about taking the top two remaining quarterbacks? Because you are like, the NFL is a league where they look, you need to show improvement pretty quickly.

Speaker 7 And the best way to do that, usually, I mean, there's other things certainly, but usually is by getting a great quarterback.

Speaker 7 Was there ever a conversation about taking two quarterbacks in the first round?

Speaker 17 Not two quarterbacks in the first round.

Speaker 17 We felt good about Davis, right, and his development, having him as a, as a guy who's started games and we saw that he can still improve and get better, which he did throughout our offseason program.

Speaker 17 So having Davis and then adding Case Keenum as well, we felt really good about those two guys who had experience, right?

Speaker 17 But then you add another rookie, add a rookie quarterback and CJ and let's see, you know, how how soon can he develop, right? How much can he grow?

Speaker 17 Also being in a room with experienced guys, expect it to, that growth process to happen sooner. And that's what it's done.

Speaker 17 And Case and Davis have been excellent in working with CJ, and we really love our quarterback room having all three of those guys.

Speaker 7 Can I tell you that's that right there tells me why you're going to be a great coach in this league is because that was such a polite way of being like, no, you're a dumbass.

Speaker 7 Why did you ask me that question?

Speaker 1 That was great because

Speaker 7 from a fan perspective, you're like, take two quarterbacks. Why not? And then in reality, yeah, take three.
Use all your draft picks on quarterbacks.

Speaker 7 But yeah, you obviously know the situation better than I do.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. No, you're smart.
You're a head coach.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 1 This is going to be a tough question. I don't want to bring up any bad memories.

Speaker 1 You did have an incredible college and pro career, but is there a part of you that's like, man, if I was just a couple years older, I would have been with Sabin winning national titles.

Speaker 1 And do fans ever confuse it being like, oh, yeah, D'Amico's got a couple rings, like confuse the years over time? Like, does that ever cross your mind?

Speaker 1 You're like, I was the what Alabama's been the last 15 years has been insane. And you were there right before that.

Speaker 17 Yeah, that crosses my mind a lot.

Speaker 1 All right, that's human. Yeah, that's human.

Speaker 17 Everybody, I mean, every, I end up saying that a lot, right? Uh, no, I was before Saban. I was before Saban.

Speaker 17 I kind of helped him get on track, right? And then Saban came and took off, right? For all the foundation that I laid,

Speaker 17 man. I, yeah, I do miss though.
I wish I was there with those guys for sure. But I had a couple teammates

Speaker 17 who were freshmen my last year who ended up actually being on a team with Coach Sabin. And those guys raved about Coach Saban.
And Coach Sabin has done an outstanding job, of course.

Speaker 17 And he's been very gracious to me anytime I go back to the University of Alabama, right? I'm always watching those guys, always rooting them on, right? Been an Alabama fan since I was a young kid.

Speaker 17 So that never changes.

Speaker 17 I'm all in on Alabama football and really proud of the success that they've had.

Speaker 1 Yeah. So we have a coworker who's a big Mississippi State fan, fanatical, crazy.
Was there, I know you were deciding between Mississippi State and Alabama.

Speaker 1 Was there ever a shot that you were going to go to Mississippi State? I want to really kind of dig it into them.

Speaker 1 Not really, though. Okay.
All right. We'll edit that out.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we'll make that look like you said yes.

Speaker 17 Once Alabama came on, it was like, that's a no-brainer.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's actually a good answer. Cause, yeah, it's like

Speaker 1 you would never go to Mississippi State over Alabama. Yeah, if you have the option.

Speaker 7 Yeah. Yeah.
But before Alabama came, yeah, I would entertain it. Yeah.
Did you ever go to a Mississippi State game? Did you take an official visit there?

Speaker 17 No, I messed up, man. I went to,

Speaker 17 I took the Alabama official visit.

Speaker 17 That was my second visit, actually.

Speaker 17 And once I went to Alabama, the defensive coordinator there, Carl Torbus, he was like, hey, you know,

Speaker 17 these schools, they pay a lot of money for these official visits. And so, hey, you're going to be all in Alabama.
You need to go ahead and cancel those other visits.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 17 I ended up canceling the visits. Now I look back, I was like, man, I should have took all five of my visits because Tor Bush, she kind of set me up there.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you get a lot of free dinners that way.

Speaker 7 So I would imagine if you took an official visit to Mississippi State, you'd probably be like, this is really annoying with the Cowbells. Like, this kind of sucks.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, I absolutely.

Speaker 17 No, it's, I mean, Mississippi State, man, they have their unique way of, you know, creating crowd noise there. And really, it was always a tough place to play with the cowbells.

Speaker 17 I mean, it was always a tough opponent.

Speaker 1 So, I mean, yeah, we don't have to be fun. It was fun playing Mississippi State.
Yeah, we don't have to be too nice to them.

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Speaker 1 So you, you're kind of a rare case where you had a chance to potentially be a head coach before you became a head coach, where teams were interested in interviewing you.

Speaker 1 You did a couple interviews, but you turned some of them down. Was that like that's very rare because you see a lot of times there's only 32 jobs.

Speaker 1 Guys, whether they're ready or not, will be like, I have to take my shot here. Were you saying to yourself, like, I can be patient? I know that I can be patient and I'll eventually get my job.

Speaker 17 Yeah, of course, man. I was when I had the opportunity, right, after my, I had one year as a defensive defensive coordinator.

Speaker 17 And so, and I'm going through that process, I'm just figuring out how to call games, how to make those adjustments. And I was just getting into the groove of being a defensive coordinator.

Speaker 17 And we're deep into the playoffs, get the opportunity to interview with another team.

Speaker 17 When it came, I was just like, man, this is just not the time. Like, I don't want to just jump at the first thing, right? Grateful for that opportunity.

Speaker 17 But I was always said, like, man, if I become a head coach, I want to,

Speaker 17 I want to be a successful head coach. I just don't want to, hey, I was a head coach in NFL.
And no, I want to do it the right way with the right people.

Speaker 17 And it couldn't have worked out better for me, right, coming here to an organization with the Texans that I played for, because now it just means more than just going to another team.

Speaker 17 Like, no, I've, I've played here. I played on this field, right? I've been in this building, know the, you know, know a lot of people around here.
So this felt, this is home, right?

Speaker 17 And that's what made this more special than just taking any other job.

Speaker 1 That's really smart.

Speaker 1 I would not have that intelligence. I'd be like, oh, they're going to pay me how much? I'm not ready, but I don't care.
And I would have jumped at the first job.

Speaker 7 You know, just say yes. Yes.
Before they change their mind,

Speaker 1 I don't think I know how to do this, but I don't care.

Speaker 7 Yeah, if you offered me to be a head coach right now, I would immediately say yes.

Speaker 7 I would have fans calling for my head after one quarter of football. I'd be like, I don't want to do this anymore.
I want to go home. I'm scared.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 7 I'm curious when you get ahead coaching gig. And you probably experienced this as a defense coordinator, too.
I know that Coach Sala in San Francisco.

Speaker 7 He had an all-time get-back guy on the sideline, a guy whose job it was to just hold him, hold him back from the field. Do you have a get-back guy?

Speaker 17 No, I just, I try to stay back.

Speaker 17 I had, when we were in San Fran, there were all the strength coaches on most. Most staffs, the strength coaches are the get-back guys.

Speaker 17 And, you know, they're the strong guys who are lifting all the weights. So they do their best to keep guys back.
But I try to stay out of the way as much as possible. So nobody's yanked me back yet.

Speaker 17 So I think I'm doing a pretty good job staying out of the way.

Speaker 7 Yeah, Salah would just go out to midfield sometimes. He just looked like he was going to make a tack left.

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 17 Yeah, Sala, Sala needs. He got our guy, Nicolini, holding him back.
So Nicolini gives a lot of FaceTime on TV.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 7 He brought him with him, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 7 He did. His personal get-back guy.

Speaker 1 You got to bring him everywhere you go.

Speaker 7 When you were coaching in San Francisco, what were the chess matches like in practice between you and Mike McDaniel?

Speaker 17 Oh, that was

Speaker 17 that was always fun right i love going against you know mcdaniels and kyle because you're going to get some crazy motions some crazy formations and as a defense like when we finish training like every day of training camp is like something new so when we go into the season we're like oh wow this is cool they're not motioning like this is this is easy like and it it made our job tougher right throughout training camp, but getting into the season, there was not a motion, a formation that we hadn't seen or hadn't practiced before.

Speaker 17 So, our guy, it allowed our guys to be even more confident and just fly around. So, I mean, really love what those guys do.

Speaker 17 And McDonald, you see it right with the Dolphins and what he's doing there, right? A lot of form, a lot of different formations, a lot of motion causes a lot of confusion to defense.

Speaker 17 He's doing an outstanding job there.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Would Kyle ever just like try to flex on you and just like fuck you up with the crazy play and practice? Then, like, you know, who this whose team this is.

Speaker 7 Yeah, he could try it, but he knows defense defense first man we we stuff all those plays yeah yeah i mean that that's actually a great skill set to have and great experience to have because as more coaches that that coach offense like that are going around the league like you know you're prepared for it because you saw it in practice every single day yeah and that's man that's the credit to those guys and the mind their mind they're always

Speaker 17 thinking next level with the game. They're not just cookie cutter, just going to run the same plays, rinse and repeat.

Speaker 17 hey how can we do this a different way how can we stress defenses in a different way hey what would you do right and we're all we're in you know communication like as kyle's talking hey what would you do if you got this formation or this motion so for me i'm already thinking about those things and our guys are just just confident because we know how to handle them and you know they are all the game is always evolving so i always say as a coach man you have to be able to evolve with the game or the game will pass you by.

Speaker 1 And we'll do both. So we'll start with the Niners, then the Texans.
But when you were at the Niners, who was the biggest freak, offense or defense?

Speaker 1 Where you're just like, when you watch them up close, because the Diners have a bunch of dudes, and you're just like, how is he doing this? Trent Williams. Okay.
Good answer. Good answer.

Speaker 1 Correct answer. Yes.

Speaker 17 Yeah.

Speaker 17 Unfortunately, I went against Trent a couple times. I was playing with the Eagles.
He was in Washington, and I was the,

Speaker 17 he threw me out the club a lot of times.

Speaker 17 I don't know if there's another offensive lineman who is fast as Trent, who gets on the second level and who's stronger than him. Like it's one of the strongest guys in the league.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And then what about the Texans? Who's your freak right now?

Speaker 17 The freak right now for the Texans. Who would that be?

Speaker 1 Could be Will Anderson.

Speaker 7 He's yeah, Will.

Speaker 17 Will is a beast for sure.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 17 Man, he wrecks. You have to slow him down.
He wrecks practice all the time.

Speaker 1 I'm always interested. He had to slow him down.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'm always interested interested because obviously you know you got a pro team it's all like insane athletes but there's always a couple guys who just pop off and you're like that's just different than everyone else Yeah, and that's, yeah, Will is definitely that guy.

Speaker 17 Last, like, even last week, we're trying to get these looks to get the linebackers and safeties, the proper fits on some run plays. And he just goes and destroys the place.

Speaker 17 I'm like, hey, man, take him out so we can actually get some work in.

Speaker 1 The guys can get better.

Speaker 17 Will has done a great job, man.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 7 One thing we've learned from talking to enough people around the league is that actually Trent Williams should be spoken about the way we talk about Aaron Donald on the defensive side of the ball.

Speaker 7 Like, he's that much of a game changer.

Speaker 17 No doubt about it. I mean, the plays that...
The plays that they can run with with Trent, the outside perimeter plays, and his ability to get to the second level. Like, it's Trent Williams.

Speaker 17 He's a cheat code for the Niners.

Speaker 17 He should be spoken of in the same manner as Aaron Donald.

Speaker 7 And he gets mean, too. He gets mean out there.
And that's not a man that you want to make angry. Yeah, at all.

Speaker 1 Who's the best teammate?

Speaker 1 Let's maybe say teammate in terms of friend, but also then you can pick a teammate like best player you played with with the Texans or Eagles.

Speaker 17 Best teammate for me,

Speaker 17 say Brian Cushing.

Speaker 1 Okay. Okay.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Also a freak.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 17 Yeah. Yeah, definitely a freak.
With the Eagles, best teammate there, Shady McCoy.

Speaker 1 Oh, I like that.

Speaker 7 He's funny.

Speaker 1 He's very funny. He was on the show.

Speaker 17 Yeah, he talked about a guy who he kept it light, man, kept everyone engaged in the locker room, like fun guy to be around and mean outstanding player.

Speaker 17 So Shady was definitely the life of that locker room.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 7 And

Speaker 7 who's the most talented player that you played with?

Speaker 17 Oh, most talented player I played with was J.J. Watt.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. Yeah, he was pretty good.

Speaker 1 Oh, he was at the game last week. He took out a full-page ad.

Speaker 7 Did you read the full-page ad that he took out?

Speaker 17 No, I did not, but I did have him come and talk to the team, so which was awesome.

Speaker 17 He did an awesome job of coming and speaking to the guys and just letting them know, like, how you become a success in the NFL, right? And it's about that daily work, that grind.

Speaker 17 So, JJ was awesome, man. Great friend, great teammate.
Love having him around. Another, another great player I played with, I can't, cannot not mention was Mike Vick, another great, great player,

Speaker 1 also a freak, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Um, all right, so we got some coaching tips for you, real real quick.
We've been talking about the tush push.

Speaker 1 If you want some ideas on how to stop it, we have some ideas.

Speaker 17 Bring them. Bring them all.
Okay.

Speaker 1 Have you thought about potentially getting your lightest guy, maybe a safety or cornerback, and throwing him over the line of scrimmage when they snap the ball at a Jalen Hurts or whoever's doing it?

Speaker 1 Have you thought about that?

Speaker 17 I have not thought about that one. Okay.

Speaker 1 Put that one on the list.

Speaker 7 Have you thought about giving one guy on defense a knife?

Speaker 7 But then nobody knows who has the knife. It's like a secret knife.
It could be anybody. No, that may work.

Speaker 17 Okay.

Speaker 1 All right. What about stacking your biggest defensive lineman on top of each other and then just pushing that mound back against the offense?

Speaker 17 That's the winner. Okay.

Speaker 1 That's the winner. All right.

Speaker 1 I think that would work. You just got to get everyone to buy into lying on top of each other.
Man,

Speaker 17 they've done a great job that play, but I think that man, that play, it all starts with Kelsey.

Speaker 1 Yes. Yes.

Speaker 17 And what he's able to do, he's another guy playing with who's a freak as well. But that's the key to that play, right? That's what worked.
I think other teams have tried it.

Speaker 17 It hasn't worked as well because you don't get that. You don't have guys who are explosive and get that push as Kelsey does.

Speaker 17 And of course, Jalen Hurts, he's a beast.

Speaker 1 He's a beast.

Speaker 7 I think it actually technically by, if we're talking about the clock, it starts with their left guard who jumps.

Speaker 1 ahead of the snap and he moves first. So it starts with him.

Speaker 7 And then actually, it's the Eagles' offensive line. I mean, obviously, Jalen Hurts is a beast and he can squat 600 pounds.

Speaker 7 But the way their offensive line runs that play, it's so much different from when any other team tries to copy it and emulate it. They don't get that same push up there.

Speaker 7 So, yeah, I would agree with you on that.

Speaker 7 When you were on the Eagles, you played for Chip Kelly, I think your last year, right? Coach Chip?

Speaker 7 Did you incorporate any of his urine testing strategy into your position right now as a head coach?

Speaker 1 No,

Speaker 17 none of those strategies.

Speaker 17 definitely you definitely have to be hydrated in houston if you're not you're not hydrated out here man you'll you won't make it through practice but chip was man uh i would say this i was very you know man i was very happy to be a part of like chip's uh first college coach not man the college ways to come into the nfl and all of the sports science things that he brought right i was on the latter end of my career but to be a part of that i think helped me a lot in understanding where the league is now.

Speaker 17 The things that Chip implemented, when you come to sports performance staff and all the things, right, nutrition stations,

Speaker 17 I mean, just getting shakes for the guys, all those things that Chip implemented, you're seeing every team around the NFL do that now.

Speaker 17 So I was happy to be, you know, with Chip and he's on the cutting edge of things in the NFL. And now.
That's the standard, right? If you don't have it, guys are looking like what's going on here.

Speaker 17 So, I mean, shout out to Coach Chip Kelly, man. He's one of the smartest coaches I've uh ever played for, yeah.

Speaker 1 And he loved you. I found this quote that he had, I think it might have been when you got injured, uh, one year with the Eagles.
He said, About you, he's our Mufasa.

Speaker 1 When a warrior goes down, you pick up his shield and go play in honor of him. That was kind of that was a little too serious, Chip.

Speaker 13 Like, yeah, hey, take it easy.

Speaker 1 Did you die?

Speaker 1 Yeah, like, I'm still alive,

Speaker 1 man. He's our Mufasa.

Speaker 17 Yeah, some people still throw that out, say, Mufasa.

Speaker 1 Oh, I like it.

Speaker 17 But uh, yeah, yeah, it was cool, man. And I guess the correlation also went into me and helping out Jordan Hicks, right, and a rookie linebacker who played under me there.

Speaker 17 And I just wanted to pour in all the knowledge that I had, pour into Jordan so he can become the leader, right, and take that team over.

Speaker 17 And I was, I mean, Jordan's still playing in the league, still playing at a high level, doing a great job, but I'm more pleased with Jordan and the man and the leader that he's become in the NFL,

Speaker 17 had a great career, a great family. So, man, shout out to Jordan Hicks as well over Minnesota still balling.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I had one last question because I know you got to run and this has been awesome. Thank you so much, Coach.

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Speaker 1 All right, so it's a two-part question. It's a little coach quiz to get you ready because we want you to succeed.

Speaker 1 First one, hypothetical, you're down 14 points with about three minutes left in the game. You score a touchdown.
Are you going for two or one?

Speaker 4 Uh-oh.

Speaker 17 Go for two. There we go.

Speaker 1 All right, you nailed that one. All right,

Speaker 1 here's the next one. You're down eight.
It's about two and a half minutes left. You have all three timeouts, and it's fourth in goal from the eight-yard line.
You're down eight.

Speaker 1 Do you kick a field goal and then kick off? Or do you go for it trying to score a touchdown and then go from there?

Speaker 17 No,

Speaker 17 I'm going to try to score the touchdowns. Okay, good hits.

Speaker 1 Good hits.

Speaker 7 Wait, there's another wrinkle to it. The opposing quarterback that you're going against, he is the best quarterback of all time.
Yes, I forgot about that.

Speaker 7 He's the greatest quarterback who's ever lived.

Speaker 1 I don't want to give him a touchdown.

Speaker 7 Hypothetically, what would you do in that situation?

Speaker 12 Still score the touchdown, right?

Speaker 7 Yeah, smart.

Speaker 17 Thank you, Sam. Try to score the test.

Speaker 1 Smart man. Yeah, yeah.
We'll let Matt LaFleur know.

Speaker 1 All right, well, coach, thank you so much. We really appreciate it.

Speaker 1 You know, good luck for the rest of the season. You guys have been so much fun to watch.
And yeah, we've been D'Amico Ryan's guys for a long time.

Speaker 1 So excited to get you on and excited for your career to keep going.

Speaker 17 Awesome, man. Thank you guys for having me on, man.
Have fun. All right.

Speaker 1 Thanks, coach.

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Speaker 1 now i it's like pavlov's dogs i want to go get one right now i ate one today i ate three on sunday memes can you go yeah can you go get us some i had three on sunday and i had uh two yesterday this will be my second today ice cream for the boys Ice cream for the boys.

Speaker 1 Ice cream for the boys. Ice cream for the boys.
Yeah, yeah. Hank, are you ready to eat some cream?

Speaker 13 Hank, are you ready to cream?

Speaker 7 I scream for ice cream.

Speaker 11 Ice cream for ice cream.

Speaker 1 Hank, go ahead, Jimbos.

Speaker 7 Missed my flight for family vacation.

Speaker 11 So I had to buy another. Wait, no, don't do this.

Speaker 1 Don't do this. Don't do this.
Don't do this.

Speaker 11 This is creamy. To LaGuardia.

Speaker 1 Then realized. Stop.
Do it again. Don't do this again.

Speaker 1 I thought you were saying your own flight.

Speaker 11 Missed my flight for a family vacation, so I had to buy another. Then I Ubered from JFK to LaGuardia.
Then, while going through security, I realized my new flight was for two weeks from then. Oh, no.

Speaker 11 So I had to Uber back to JFK, and then the only available flight was $1,300.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's embarrassing.

Speaker 7 I've experienced both sides of that.

Speaker 7 The taxi ride from one airport to another airport.

Speaker 7 I actually did that in Qatar and almost missed my international flight back.

Speaker 7 But that's so embarrassing to get into the cab and say, yeah, I actually need, I'm at the wrong one right now.

Speaker 7 And then the other one. And then getting to an airport and having the ticket be wrong, also very, very embarrassing.

Speaker 1 That's brutal.

Speaker 1 Just be like, hey, family, I screwed up.

Speaker 7 Not coming.

Speaker 1 Like,

Speaker 1 here's the good news about when you make a mistake with your family. You can be like, what are you going to do? Not be family with me anymore?

Speaker 7 You still love me. You can't.

Speaker 1 You can't do anything.

Speaker 1 It's like when you get around like

Speaker 7 your like mom and you start acting like a kid again because you're like you can't you can't give me back you love me no matter what yeah like i could be an asshole you sucker i could do anything right now you'd still love me yeah it's like a dog like if a dog chews up your carpet right and then gives you that one look with their ears forward they look like they're gonna cry you're like i can never stay mad at you snickers ice cream let me get some ice cream

Speaker 7 ice cream for the boys i love the ice cream It's very hot in this room, too, so it feels good.

Speaker 1 Jake, you're too good for it.

Speaker 8 I have a tennis match after this, so I can't.

Speaker 1 You don't want to play tennis on a little tummy in the ice cream? Ice cream tummy? I love Snickers.

Speaker 8 Love their ice cream bars, but that's not a good match.

Speaker 1 How's the tennis season going? This is what's good.

Speaker 7 Andre Agassi used to eat a Snickers ice cream bar before every single match. All right, fine.

Speaker 1 That's how Pete Sampers got all the hair on his chest.

Speaker 8 Yep, it's good. I'm 8-1.

Speaker 8 Final regular season match. 8-1.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Did you avenge your loss? Yeah, I did.
Nice. Yeah, I got.
So you're going to win the whole thing?

Speaker 8 Well, I got promoted. I was at one level, 3-2-5, and now after starting 5-0, I'm now at 3-5 level, 3.5, and I'm 3-1.

Speaker 1 Oh, so you were just beating up on bad people.

Speaker 13 Yeah.

Speaker 8 But now, but I'm still 3-1 at the new level.

Speaker 1 Could you have said no to the promotion? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Why didn't you?

Speaker 1 Because I want better competition.

Speaker 7 I would have stayed down.

Speaker 1 I would have stayed down and just dominated. Yeah.
All right, so when's the finals?

Speaker 8 The playoffs. Well, the regular season goes through October 15th, but we're going to be out of town.
So this is my last regular season match, and the playoffs will be when we get back from New York.

Speaker 1 If you're in the championship, I will come. That's a lie.
No, you won't. Yeah, I will, because I'll heckle Jake and I'll root for the other guy.

Speaker 7 It's on a Sunday at 2:30 p.m.

Speaker 7 No, okay, Jake, you should actually

Speaker 7 be during an NFL game.

Speaker 1 No, hold on to that. No, yeah, you should.

Speaker 8 I wouldn't do that to myself.

Speaker 1 Will you be mad if I heckle you? No,

Speaker 1 thanks. Thank you.
Yes, you would.

Speaker 8 It's good practice for my mental game.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Shot of a lifetime. 15-0.
Oh,

Speaker 1 this ice cream is so good. I dropped a little bit.
All right, well, cool.

Speaker 11 Has anyone outmoaned you?

Speaker 8 No, I'm.

Speaker 1 You're number one. One big moaner.

Speaker 1 What if we, would you think it would be fair if you, PFT Hank, and I came and you used us as like a weapon and we just like belittled the opponent? I would love that.

Speaker 1 That would be kind of mean, though. Like, if we bully, if we got really mean and the guy was like, what's your problem? It's like, Jake told us to do it.

Speaker 1 Think about it. You got a lot to think about.

Speaker 12 First, I got to get to the championship.

Speaker 1 Yeah, whichever, if we show up, we're going to make a ruckus no matter what. So you just decide which way you want the ruckus to go.

Speaker 7 You should tell the listeners when it is and have them show up.

Speaker 1 Oh, have them

Speaker 1 flash my opponent. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, but first I have to get there.

Speaker 8 Long way to go.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's actually messed up that you're talking about being the championship, or you're not.

Speaker 1 You're drinking champagne before the championship.

Speaker 7 If I was playing Jake in the first round, I would listen to this clip on repeat. I play this clip.

Speaker 1 We'll see.

Speaker 9 I didn't buy the champagne. It was given to me.
I didn't bring it up.

Speaker 7 You ordered the champagne.

Speaker 1 You took it off the off the tray.

Speaker 7 You had two glasses of champagne, Max.

Speaker 9 Jimbo's.

Speaker 1 Two.

Speaker 1 Two.

Speaker 1 You, fat, big.

Speaker 1 You, little small.

Speaker 11 I started a new job on October 2nd. So naturally, this was taking up most of my headspace.
And I forgot my mom's birthday was on October 1st.

Speaker 11 Not only did I forget, but I also called her early that morning to ask for the Disney Plus password.

Speaker 1 Oh, no.

Speaker 11 I texted a few times throughout the day before she made a comment about what she was doing for her birthday. At that point, it was too late.
Oh, that's bad.

Speaker 1 That's very bad.

Speaker 7 The fact that you asked her for a favor,

Speaker 7 obviously, you not thinking that it was her birthday. Brutal.
Thank you to this person for writing in because it's my mom's birthday, and so I need to buy her something. Yeah, that's huge.

Speaker 7 No, it's next week, but I'm going to see her on Friday.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that is

Speaker 1 you have to.

Speaker 14 Mom's birthday is very important.

Speaker 1 Very important.

Speaker 1 That's a brutal one because you can't, that also is one that for the rest of time, like remember when you clearly didn't know it was my birthday?

Speaker 14 That's tough.

Speaker 7 And you were taking money from her, too. You're like, hey, can you give me that Disney Plus password that I use that you pay for?

Speaker 1 And then all the follow-ups to be like, oh, yeah, sorry.

Speaker 14 I think you

Speaker 7 have to get your own Disney Plus account. Yeah.
That's the only way forward. Be like, mom, you realize how bad that was as my present to you.

Speaker 7 I've purchased myself a Disney Plus subscription in my own name.

Speaker 1 The only way to get out of that is that when you ask for the Disney Plus password and then you realize it's their birthday, you have to write back and be like, I actually was trying to get you the premium Disney Plus for your birthday.

Speaker 11 All right, this one, it says it's a warning for all AWLs to never apply toothpaste with too much force. Okay.

Speaker 11 I was trying to get out. I was trying to get the last of the toothpaste out of the tube.
Had it rolled up from the bottom, really squeezing and pushing when a big glob came out.

Speaker 11 I quickly swiped down the bristles, but pushed them down in doing so. They snap back up, shooting toothpaste into my left eye, which burns a thousand times worse than shampoo.

Speaker 11 If anyone's wondering, remember my stupidity and always be careful when applying toothpaste to your toothbrush.

Speaker 1 He just went hard. He just went like mega grip.

Speaker 11 Yeah, I mean, this sounds a little dramatic, Joey.

Speaker 1 I think this guy, I think, oh man, you first named him.

Speaker 7 A couple things. One, Joey, yeah, grow up.

Speaker 7 Yeah, it's not that bad of an injury.

Speaker 13 Maybe lose the Y on your name, Joey.

Speaker 7 Number two, Joey, get a better toothbrush. It sounds like you've got a cheap toothbrush on your hands here.

Speaker 1 Hanging on too long with the toothpaste that has no toothpaste in it, that's a battle that we all fight. That's just

Speaker 14 buy a new one.

Speaker 1 I do it with deodorant too. You know, when the deodorant pops off the top?

Speaker 1 And then you have to like palm it.

Speaker 7 That's what I'm currently doing right now.

Speaker 1 Yeah. It's brutal.
Brutal.

Speaker 7 That's my every morning. You get out of the shower.
I'm like, no, there's still some white stuff. You start to poke your finger through the grates of the holder to get more extra deodorants.

Speaker 1 You rub it with your hand, then rub it on your under

Speaker 1 armpits. Yeah.

Speaker 14 I was going to say underpits.

Speaker 1 Yeah, your underpits. But answer me this:

Speaker 7 How come when you use soap, soap doesn't work on your armpits?

Speaker 7 Isn't that an interesting question? Now, that's a good question. I think we should discuss it.

Speaker 14 Okay, maybe we'll do that on Friday.

Speaker 7 Yeah, Hank, what are your thoughts? Okay. PowerPoint presentation?

Speaker 14 Big soap. Tape soap.

Speaker 7 Take soap out of the equation. I would like to see one.

Speaker 11 I mean, it's still, it makes too much sense.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 1 man. Is that what I said? Yeah, it takes soap.
Take soap out of the equation.

Speaker 7 You're thinking about the soap. Take the soap out of the equation.

Speaker 1 That actually, I should reply to the Taylor Swift clip that I tweeted and just reply with that debate and be like, this is what you guys are, this is the podcast you guys are mad about.

Speaker 7 Soap doesn't work.

Speaker 1 Soap.

Speaker 1 How is it that soap doesn't work? What is it? On your armpits? Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 7 It doesn't make sense. Okay.

Speaker 1 Takes soap out of the equation. All right.
Numbers.

Speaker 7 Three, one, sixty-nine.

Speaker 1 Means you ever gotten this? 18. 20.
No. Two.

Speaker 1 Eight.

Speaker 1 Eight.

Speaker 11 I kind of hope nobody gets it.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no. Yeah, these are all just weird faces.

Speaker 7 I'm not putting my heart into this one. Two more weeks.

Speaker 7 Love you guys.

Speaker 7 I'm coming to your love up here.

Speaker 7 I'm coming to your love of you.

Speaker 7 Don't want me.

Speaker 7 Make me up.

Speaker 7 I'll be gone.

Speaker 7 Needless to say.

Speaker 7 I'm all set in my beast.

Speaker 7 Look at that. Life is okay.
Say after me.

Speaker 7 It's no better to be safe than sorry. It's for better to be safe than sorry.

Speaker 8 It's for better to be safe than sorry.

Speaker 1 Take on me.

Speaker 1 Take me up.

Speaker 1 I'll be gone.

Speaker 1 You better

Speaker 1 be

Speaker 1 saved.

Speaker 1 You know I'm just away by the way.

Speaker 1 Shy and away.

Speaker 1 I'll be coming for you anyway.

Speaker 1 Coming for you anyway.

Speaker 5 I'll be coming for you anyway.

Speaker 5 Take on me.

Speaker 5 Take

Speaker 5 me up.

Speaker 5 I think

Speaker 5 all

Speaker 5 your things.