Texans HC Demeco Ryans, Playoff Baseball Is Back, College Football Talk And More

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On today's Pardon My Take, we have Houston Texans head coach D'Amico Ryans. Great interview with Coach Ryans.
We've been big D'Amico Ryans fans for a while, so it was awesome to have him on. We're going to talk some play 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 we have hot seat cool throne there's some stuff to talk about there that's happened with this podcast last couple days and then we are going to finish with jimbos and before we get to all of that ever had one of those days when it's just too cold to keep working nah neither has ariot ariot work jackets and boots are packed with all the cold stopping waterproof protection you need to get the job done under any conditions so you can take any job out there and always deliver check out ariot in your local workwear retailer or visit ariot.com work to get 10% off your first order when you sign up for email.
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Welcome to part of 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. 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 into the bank, but we have to start with the twins. 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. And their pitcher, I believe Pablo Lopez, yes, showed up to the stadium in a Johan Santana jersey.
Congrats, Twins fans. That is the longest streak in all of professional sports and it's finally gone

yeah I mean you took everything I was going to say like 0 and 18 was there's no streak that's been longer across any sport you can name it the star of the night you know who it was it was my man Royce yeah two dingers two dingers is the third time that's been done in League Baseball history to lead off your postseason career with back-to-back home runs. So Royce Lewis had it, and one of the other guys that had it was Gary Gaiety, also for the Twins.
The Rat. You guys remember the Rat? Yeah.
Yes. The Rat did it.
Royce did it. Good vibes.
Good vibes from Minnesota. They deserve this.
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.
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 get to the next round uh the we do actually though so the streaks it was 18 games for the twins the black hawks in the seven 70s uh had 16 losses in a row the pistons actually have a record going right now so they're on streak watch they have 14 games and counting of playoff losses, and that is two present day.

So hopefully the Pistons can win a game because that is like,

I know that we make the,

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.

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 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 i hope you guys win this next one and get to the uh al ds and you keep going well especially in baseball it's the worst because in baseball you you played the longest season of all and then you you fight you scratch you claw you put so much effort so much like uh like all your hopes and dreams go into the playoff push you live and die with every at-bat in 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 day after that boom you lose now you're home again 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 boom, you lose. Day after that, boom, you lose.
Now you're home again. In football, at least, 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.

In baseball, if you make the wild card round and you get swept,

it's like twisting the knife.

And when it keeps going, when you lose and you celebrate clinchingching because there is that celebration every year when you clinch in baseball and to lose so yeah i'm happy for twins fans they deserve it minnesota fans deserve it um and yeah where i should we i 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 maybe I'll just be a, cause 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.

Maybe I'll just be a twins guy until twins to,

to win this series and then beat the Astros.

That's what we should be a twins over Astros podcast.

Oh,

I'm anti Astros.

Still anti Astros.

Twins over Astros.

Let's get the twins,

the LCS.

Let's root hard for the twins.

And also,

yes,

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 home runs that were hit 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 like they were so so pumped up because they it was like the the 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 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 and and uh who's the guy on the on the twins that's like a hometown guy that grew up as like a diehard fan of the Twins? Joe Maurer? I think he might have. No, no, no.
But a different guy. The Twins always get those dudes.
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. I don't know, but that's a cool story.
That's a very cool story. I love that part of baseball.
Not Joe Maurer. Who was the other guy? It was Joe Maurer and – Matt Walner is an outfielder from Forest Lake, Minnesota.
Then they have two pitchers from Minnesota, Caleb Thielbar and Louis Varland. I think it was Thielbar.
I think Thielbar was the one that I was reading about earlier. Joe Maurer was sick at football too.
I remember that. I remember they used to play his football highlights because he was from Minnesota.
All right. So also, if the Twins can get to the ALCS, we get the bonus.
Nothing better than bitterly cold playoff baseball. I love that.
I know it's a sicko move, but when it's like 45 degrees and everyone's bundled up, there's something about that that's just great. All uh all right yeah still an insane move on on the part of the twins to play games outdoors and just just the case that something like this would happen you have pitchers wearing like two warm-up jackets if they ever get on base which won't happen bring back the dome with the plexiglass kirby puckett put the whole team on his back uh so max the bank said phies win.
You need a new third base coach. He stinks.
Yeah, that was bad. He was over three tonight.
Bryce, just being like at the end in the whatever it was that 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.
Yeah, I mean, that was a-brainer obviously bryce is gonna go there i do 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 it feels better and it looks cooler and the hair um he does it because of the hair he does because well i mean that's why he looks great regardless like whenever he would charge the mount he always flips the hat off yeah he looks great regardless the hair looks great coming out of the hair. That's why he looks great regardless.
Whenever he would charge the mound, he always flips the hat off. Yeah.
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. Right now, that's one of the hardest environments in professional sports.
Playoff baseball at the bank is one of the hardest environments in professional sports. It's different.
It's different than any other stadium. 500% increase.
What happened last year in the playoffs at the bank? Don't worry about it. I'm just curious if anything.
We won a lot of games at the bank. We won a lot of games at the bank.
Wait, how? Keep going. How is it different? I mean, you just see it.
It feels different. It sounds different.
The vibes. Do you think it has anything to do with the fact that your favorite team plays there? No, no.
Other people are saying it too. I will give Philly some credit.
Philly deserves an assist. They showed this graphic on the broadcast a couple times.
They had the Trey Turner stat on there. Remember we talked about when Philly gave him the the standing ovation just like a sarcastic ovation yeah so uh that was August 4th and through August 3rd he was hitting 235 657 OPS 10 home runs and a strikeout rate of 24 percent since Philly did everything they could they they broke glass in case of emergency and said you know what we've tried being a dickhead to this guy maybe maybe we should try to support our guy they gave him a standing ovation and since then in the 48 games he's hit 337 ops of 1.057 home 16 home runs 17 strikeout rate down from 24 so it worked good job philly good job philly yeah i I told i told you it was gonna work yeah you so why don't you do that with every player because you know baseball is a different sport i thought 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 getting booed gets a little drive and 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 confidence it's a game of confidence so what about basketball uh i did i didn't play basketball at a high level can't tell you i can only tell i can only tell you the sport the sports that i that i have played in my life that's the caa i feel like sarcastically cheering a made foul shot from a guy that sucks from the free throw line, I think that plays.
I think the guy actually interprets that as, yeah, they're actually applauding for me. Oh, yeah.
Ben Simmons used to get that ordeal all the time. Yeah.
And it worked out great for him. Yeah.
He's doing awesome these days. So you feel good.
Zach Wheeler was awesome. His sweeper, which is just a slider.
It's a slider, but we call it a sweeper now. Sweeper sounds way better.
Sweeper sounds way better than a slider. His sweeper did look like a wiffle ball a couple times, which was sick.
Yeah, he was nasty. So you feel good? Who's on the bump tomorrow? Ranger? No.

I wish it was.

I mean, Noel is good.

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 A stuff tomorrow. You got to cheer him.

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.

It was awesome.

So what was the thinking behind that?

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

I think that he had a sense that the guy on second base was tipping off pitches. That's what I was going to say.

Yeah.

And I at 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 given a little tip to the batter.

Is it like in football?

Can you decline a bulk?

Oh, that would be cool.

But then you basically are admitting that that's what you're doing.

Yeah, true. Basically say prove it.
but come prove exactly what I'm doing. I guess you also could make the argument, max.
Maybe if there's a, if 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 tipping.
I don't hate that. Yeah.
I also, 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, in your, what's the word? You got this line of vision. Yeah.
Your line of vision rather than like having to turn. Yep.
Yeah. I'm just, all right, hear me out here.
If you're going to be committing a bulk 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? It could just be a comfort thing. I don't think he really cared regardless.
Yeah. Yeah.
Obviously, or else he wouldn't have balked. So the other games, I'm counting the diamondbacks as that was a dan heron win

so uh it was a little curious why they started their guy uh i don't even know how to say his name can you get it for me jake pf a a d t poof it might be jerry o'connell how you say i looked it up earlier actually and it was fought like a british person saying fart fart fart fart. I farted.
But either way, everyone's like, what the hell? This guy stinks. He pitched two and two-thirds, and then their bullpen completely shut down the Brewers.
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 you could make

the argument was dan harron because he's probably all about pitching depth right right probably does a lot with the the guys coming out of the bullpen so credit to dan harron what i'm more concerned about with this is we have a stadium controversy a stadium conflict schedule uh that's going to be rearing its ugly head in case the Diamondbacks advance.

So if they advance, game three of... that's going to be rearing its ugly head in case the Diamondbacks advance.

So if they advance game three of the,

the series that I think would be against the Dodgers would be at chase field

on the same date that guns and roses is scheduled to play there.

So we've got a real battle of the Titans,

the Diamondbacks versus guns.

I would actually,

you could make the argument that guns and roses concert in phoenix would have a uh a bigger economic impact yeah i'd agree i'd agree than a diamondbacks game because you get 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 and i would imagine that like 90 percent of uh people in in the phoenix area plan on attending the guns and roses concert yeah so we in the brewers corbin burns wasn't good and we had marlin's man there which um he called me live during the game inviting us to game three or game two and three uh i don't know if we'll be able to make it we're gonna text him but uh he did make that invite he. He's sitting there with front row Amy.
Yeah, because, I mean, the Marlins aren't in the playoffs, so he's going to show up somewhere. He's got to be there.
He's got to be there. We were talking about it before.
People forget the Marlins forced Marlins manned hand when he offered them a blank check to do Marlins man day where he gets to throw out the first pitch with all the mermaids surrounding him and Derek Jeter said get out of my office so this is we stand with Marlins man like if he doesn't want to root for the Marlins because of what they did to him I'm I'm on Marlins man's side I think he was only asking for like five season tickets for free it was one for him and like all of his cats and it was it was really a head scratcher when jeter comes into town like you think jeter's bigger in florida than marlins man is no man you're you're a yankee marlins man he he is the marlins he is the marlins and the mermaids so he tweeted yeah he tweeted that he thought it would be the marlins playing in milwaukee his travel plans were already made ah well that's can't see that coming. It did come down to the last day of the season or second to last day of the season.
Yeah. So, okay, justice for Marlins, man.
And then in Tampa, we got a bad Sports Town watch. 19,000 people at the Trop today.
19,000 people. That's tough was also like a clip of uh all the wives of the players trying to like pump up the crowd and no one was doing anything and it was just like shit sad I mean I it's like once Tom Brady leaves town nobody cares about sports there anymore 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 Rays with the 3 o'clock, 2 o'clock

in the afternoon game on a weekday, which people have jobs

and it's not easy to just be like, I'm getting off work for the Rays,

but $19,000 is tough.

That's tough for a playoff.

That is tough.

Aren't they planning on putting $1.2 billion into the new stadium there?

Yeah, it's like light proof, right?

Yeah, it's great.

I think I read that.

Either way, I think it was pretty much the please don't move our team to Nashville Stadium.

I think that's what it was.

That's exactly right.

So playoff baseball is back.

October is the best month.

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. That's pretty good.
Because we got, yeah, we got what, Conference USA? The Sun Belt, I think, starts playing on Wednesdays too. And yeah, I'm going to look real quick who else is playing.
Because I don't think Maction starts this early. Uh, Jacksonville state, middle Tennessee state play tomorrow night.
Uh, and then they, and then middle Tennessee state plays on Tuesday. Yeah.
So they're going to start doing sunbelt on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Ah, the best, the best Maction 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 pretty great.
Think about it. I also want people to remember as bad as Monday Night Football was because it was very bad.
Yeah, we can talk about it. Yeah.
It was really bad. The official prognosis coming out of it is, I think, medically speaking, Daniel Jones is ass.
Yeah, no no he's super ass yeah he is ass 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 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 yeah it was an ugly game The only good part of the game, I know, Big Cat, you saw this, Drew Locke getting in. Yes.
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. Let that be a lesson to the Giants fans out there.
I still think Drew Locke could possibly make five Pro Bowls. he should have uh 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 Locke plays or terrible Drew Locke plays the Giants though it's always funny watching like 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 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 asked last night he he a lot of the sacks were his fault the fumble the interception on the goal line like he sucked 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 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 he was he was good but you paid a lot of money to him Saquon's got to just be so pissed watching him be ass and be like, yeah, that's my money.
I should have had some of that money. 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. 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.

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.

They have been that bad that it's gotten so ridiculous.

Whenever you see the boat picture, you just expect a terrible record next to it it 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 that was seven years ago picture odell was that odell's last full season i was like 16 so seven years 2015 or 16 so now yeah you could just make up any numbers and people will believe it. Yeah.
Yeah. Speaking of misinformation getting put online, did you see the Matt Canada news? Yeah.
So somebody – so I saw the Twitter account and apparently – Was it football band? 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 put the dots together.

And this one guy said,

I checked the email address that was associated with it,

and it looks like it could be like m.starstarstarstarstar

at Steelers.com or something like that.

That guy made that up.

If you looked at his account, it was just like,

I'm a parody account in bio.

But I looked at, it's Dan Robbins, Danny football, 77 football 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 because all he cares about is defending Matt Canada.
Well, it's also exactly what this guy was doing.

It's also a point where like anything,

anyone who treats anything positive about a public figure,

they're like nice burner.

Like how could that possibly be?

How could you actually like this person?

Cause if I,

if I were making a Matt Canada burner account,

I would do the exact same thing.

Something like Danny football 77.

And then his profile pic is just a flat brim steelers new era hat which is great it's so great oh man um all right anything else before we kick it to ourselves for hot seat cool throne oh we should mention um the trevor bauer situation is crazy and yeah like that video was nuts that he released he got completely railroaded by uh it seems like everyone the media especially uh jumping to every conclusion i hope he gets to be able to play in the mb again because that was that was nuts like the whole thing was scary and nuts yeah 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, no, making it up.
Trevor Bauer. They're going to use that.
Yeah, 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 and it takes a really fucking long time for the facts to come out about things sometimes and yeah i was i was watching the video and i was like holy shit like this is as damning as it gets yeah yeah 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 if you can at this point. There's really nothing.
You can't really put the toothpaste back in the tube here. But 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.
I think what happened was a lot of people didn't like Trevor Bauer. Yeah.
And so they heard this story. And it was like, oh, yeah, that makes sense.
That guy sucks. I don't like him.
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. And it was all based on the fact that they didn't like Trevor Bauer.
And it's OK to not like Trevor Bauer. I think like when we interviewed him on the show, we came off being like, well, Trevor Bauer is guy but i think i kind of like him afterwards yeah yeah he's eccentric yeah and not ever not everyone's gonna like the guy uh but just because you don't like somebody doesn't mean that whatever facts are being presented are actually the truth yeah yeah so we that deserved a mention for sure um all right should we kick it to ourselves oh.
Jake. 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 team.
So what are you guys thinking? I would like for it to be a full-page ad but have the font really, really big so we don't have to write that much. Yeah, and it should be be so it should be a picture of all of us um and it should be the start should be thanking jj watt so we need to thank jj watt for thanking everyone well thank you jj watt for taking out a full page ad in the houston chronicle yeah and other and other newspapers we we don't read so all right so ready jake uh 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 full disclosure we don't read um secondly Secondly, this full page ad is good for one free subscription to Pardon My Take podcast.
Limit one per customer. Thirdly, we want to thank everyone who supported us and listened to the show.
and lastly you guys

you guys Everyone who supported us and listened to the show.

And lastly, you guys have made it so that we have the best job in the world. And last but not least, we would like to thank ourselves for supporting the press by taking out a full page ad.
P.S.

If a hurricane ever hits the Miami of Ohio campus, we are pledging right now to fully fund its rebuilding. Is that a problem? Does anyone know if there's ever been a hurricane? Has there ever been a hurricane? A hurricane in Ohio? Maybe tornado.
You know we said hurricane, but we should double check just to make sure because imagine No, no. The only problem is global warming and all that shit.
But the good news is we're going to be long dead by that time. So it'll be somebody else's problem.
You guys are forgetting about Tropical Storm Bertha in 2020. Yeah, that's Tropical Storm.
We didn't say tropical storm. We said hurricanes.
Hurricane Barry in 2019. Wait, Hurricane Barry was still a hurricane? When it hit Ohio? Hurricane Barry.
No, there's no chance. It was still a hurricane.
No chance. It needs water to live.
It has to hit Miami of Ohio. It has to hit that place specifically.
Yes. God forbid.
True. Oh, and end it, love and honor.
Pardon my take. That's what they say in Miami of Ohio.
The Red Hawks. Love and honor.
Sounds good. Okay.
I think I'm just going to tell them to listen to this part of the podcast, so straight from your mouth. Okay, yeah.
And maybe even put in just this, what I'm saying right now. And then can there also be a picture of big ben but like over our shoulders almost like he's dead like a dead spirit looking over us yeah i'll put in the request okay all right so look out for that friday october 13th okay cool cool wait we're putting out an ad on friday the 13th well the issues come out every other friday so So they said if I get them the info by tomorrow, they can get it out.
Okay, we need another full-page ad. We need another full-page ad that just said Friday the 13th, no jinxes, no bad juju.
You're going to win. Everyone's a winner.
So we're putting out two in the same issue? Yeah, they just have them because we need to acknowledge Friday the 13th. I think there needs to be a full page ad being like Friday the 13th.
That's a bad day. Everyone, we're saying no jinxes, no juju, no bad juju.
Okay. Do you think that? Sounds good.
Itself? I was going to say. We need a third one? Yeah.
I think for the third one, we just say psych. No, take it back.
The third one, the third one, just have the third one. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
The third one say pretend it's Friday, October 14th. We're going to we're going to full page add herself to death on the show.
Like this is going to be a this is a money pit for us if we keep this going can we just push it back two weeks that's the easiest way to do it yeah we could or i'm fine with the no i'm fine with the two full page ads one just saying no bad juju no jinxes everyone be good everyone be chill all right okay so two pager on october 13th do you think if you submitted the transcript from monday's show we would get put in print yeah i think we look better in print actually okay let's let's kick it to ourselves we're gonna do 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 and then that let judge us on that on that show please my head we're talking about it more on hot seat cool throne but my head also immediately went to uh our sister gene dialogue yeah yeah oh welcome to part of my any new listeners welcome to part of my We have fun here. Okay.
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Okay, college football, PFT, I have a question for you to start. Yes, Michigan is the national championship i i i think they might uh and i'm hoping they do so jim harbaugh will 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 i actually think it should be the texas longhorns okay so i i have it down to three okay tex Longhorns are one of them, because right now it's Georgia-Michigan.
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. The Texas Longhorns are on my list.
Also on my list are the Ohio State Buckeyes.

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. It's very close.
And then the last one is Florida State should be considered, I believe. They have two very good wins.
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. I don't think it should be Michigan, even though Michigan is out of this world good.
Fun fact about Michigan, 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.
Yeah, it'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. They've just been throttling people.
They've been spanking all the bad teams that they've been playing, which is exactly what you should do. Texas, they have, I think, the at Alabama, I would put that over the Ohio State win at Notre Dame.
Notre Dame looks good. Notre Dame played tough 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. I want to see Michigan and Texas in the national championship.
I think that would be awesome to have a title game that doesn't have Alabama, Georgia, or Ohio state in it. Yeah.
It'd be good to see that switch up a little bit. Yeah.
So I also think that Georgia might lose one game or two games maybe this year. They look very beatable.
The problem is their schedule. Yeah.
Their schedule is they play Kentucky. They, they, 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 yeah they play Kentucky at home this weekend Vanderbilt at Florida home against Mizzou what game is neutral Jacksonville oh yeah yeah home against Mississippi and away against Tennessee not yeah you could actually I could, actually, I might agree with you. Like they, Georgia has, it's now two games in a row.
Ole Miss could beat them. They could lose at Tennessee.
Although Lane Kiffin just winning those big games. That game, that LSU Ole Miss game.
It was awesome. 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. Brian Kelly? Hot seat.
It could go south on him. Hot seat.
Well, he can't get any more south than he already is, but he's definitely Miami's head coach. If you're an LSU fan, you would probably rather lose a game like that if at least your defense at LSU was awesome.
Because they've had a great defense for so long down there. And then if you're losing games just giving up a billion yards, then you're like, what the fuck? You're still getting the same recruits.
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.
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. I could see them losing to Kentucky.
I could see them losing to Florida. That's a rivalry game.
I couldn't. I could see it.
Billy Napier's got a problem in Florida. They got smoked by Kentucky.
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.
So you have them at four losses? 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. The Brock Bowers though is so fucking good.
I know he won't win the Heisman, but the fact that like those are, those are moments where I, 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.
He had like eight catches for 147 yards and a touchdown.

And he made one catch that was out of this world's good.

So he is there like fail safe.

But yeah, I 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.

They're going to lose one game.

Okay.

That's names as a Georgia fan. Who's the one name said, I'm going to lose one game.
Mames is a Georgia fan. Who's the one Mames said? I'm going to say a combo of Kentucky, Tennessee, Ole Miss.
Let's say they lose to Ole Miss, they still have a shot to make it to the playoffs. Oh, of course.
Yeah, because they just got to win the SEC championship. Yeah, because if they lose them, Ole Miss is in the West.
Right. Even if they lose to Tennessee, the west right i actually think that even if they lose tennessee because tennessee might have too long tennessee already lost to florida so if tennessee catches another lost and they only lost to tennessee that would be fine yeah i think that so i think their biggest tennessee are this upcoming weekend but it's at home because kentucky's just hot right now and then tennessee at tennessee yeah i could um i could see brock bowers winning the Heisman or at least being like a close finalist in the Heisman invited to New York yeah invited if if like they keep barely winning games and they don't have anybody else that that's carrying the offense and then in the second halves of all these games they're just like oh yeah 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 and then we also have so uh the Red River shootout rivalry I think we said S word out yeah the Red River rivalry which is really easy to say uh is this weekend which would be perfect for Texas being looking very very good and also Texas is like not under the radar but it it hasn't been all the time.
You know, they obviously beat Alabama. That was a big weekend for them.
They handled Kansas, Baylor. They're going about their business.
For them to lose to Oklahoma would be perfectly Texas. Yeah.
At the Texas State Fair. Have you ever been to the Texas State Fair? I have not.
I'd like to go. 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. That one's actually not as good as the butter.
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.
It's a great place to go. I think that this year, I mean, anything could happen in this game

because it's just such like a unique environment.

But I think that Texas is so good defensively

that they should be able to get the job done.

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.

He's the perfect guy for this type of game

where you could just have a game that's just like, what fuck dylan gabriel uh out west the other thing so colorado kind of saved face with the way they they played against usc only losing by seven and usc now i think the discussion is is lincoln riley uh 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? 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.
Like, there are some games that USC feels like, hey, we have a team 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 i think usc is pumped to have a coach like that that's what you need at usc it's like it's the complete practice it might be malpractice but it's like the complete opposite of what lsu's done yeah so like lsu would be happy, like having closed games, as long as their defense was awesome, keeping the men, they might not be happy, but they might not be as upset as they are right now 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.
They don't care about that. And we have, I mean, the PAC 12 is going to be awesome.
Next weekend is Oregon,hington, which will be a big deciding factor of how that all plays out. 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.
College football is buzzing right now. Phoenix versus Knicks.
That's going to be a great matchup. Yes.
It's going to be signs on game day. Did you guys see we need to get this guy on PMT? He's an all-time football guy.
I think it was the Charlotte head coach who wears a cut off. His name is Biff.
Biff Paji. Yeah.
He wears a cutoff shirt. It's hot out.
Biff Paji. And I think someone will go ahead memes.
That's a Harbaugh's he was like the harbaugh's number one guy in michigan he there was an hbo documentary about him too we got to get him on he coached a private school in baltimore he like helped build their facilities and they would just smoke teams i want him on he's just got a great look not to get all billy, but someone replied when I posted a picture of him. It'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.
Well, that's what you just described was every single head coach. Well, no, because he was he has never been a big time head coach.
So I don't know. He's never been like he's head coach of Charlotte and he was an assistant coach at a bunch of places.
So he was, he's never been like the big time contract. Right.
He gets paid like half a million bucks a year, which over the course of, I would imagine he's been in football for 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. Francis Academy, Michigan

associate head coach, Charlotte. That doesn't

seem like a ton of money

coaching. So someone

tell me if he actually has. You're probably right

because I'm looking at the first result for Biff

Paji contract and it says

Charlotte gives Paji five-year deal

includes country club membership. Love it.

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.
That's what it was. So he is rich on his own.
Like in the HBO documentary, they were like, they compared his salary to Harbaugh. And he's like, it's me 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 cutoff shirt. And his name's Biff.
Do you know how good you have to be as a hedge fund manager to get billionaires to trust you with their money if your name is Biff? Yeah. Actually, it might be easy.
I don't know. If a guy calls you up, he's like, hey, it's Biff Paggi.
I'm like, okay, done. Well, yeah, but you're not a billionaire.
Yeah, I know. But yeah, they would.
You got two strikes against you. One Biff, second Italian.
Probably some discrimination you have to deal with there. But then again, billionaires to want to just be like friends with regular guys.
So if Biff calls you up, he's like, I just got done practice. We're going to kill everyone this weekend.
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 biff podgy he's actually my money guy makes him look normal hey this biff podgy uh you might better give me some of that money be a real shame if something happened to it yeah you had it and then it all disappeared somehow i'm ready for biff i'll protect you i'll protect your money now um who else did we miss talking about fresno state continues to be undefeated. Nice season going for them.
Who else memes? You got someone? I'm gonna look up Air Force. 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.
They're smoking they are smoking teams they beat uh san diego

state by like 30 uh the other night and it was they are fun to watch too they make triple option

fun it's not like a navy army where no disrespect to them because they play good like good fun

football but air force finds a way to put up points in the triple option 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.
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. And everybody was like, dude, you can't say that, man.
You can't say that out loud. old yeah ridiculous time but um does everyone everyone who goes to air force gets a porsche did i make that up i think that's true is that true i might have made that up potential participant in the bar slay arizona bolt yes not in west can you find out if everyone gets a free porsche i might have made that up i thought there was some like pors's some Porsche facility not too far from from 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 is that a new thing? no I heard that a long time ago and I was like oh if all else fails I'll join the Air Force but I don't think they take just anyone in the Air Force they're're going to be pretty smart.
You have to know planes pretty well. Yeah.
Which yeah. That eliminates both of us.
Yeah. Air force coach Fisher to Barry express 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.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Say that out loud.
Also Max, how are we feeling about Penn State? Shout out James Franklin. Penn State.
Shout out James Franklin. I don't know why.
James Franklin. Because he covered the spread against Northwestern with a fake Neo, which if you're a college coach, why wouldn't you always try to cover the spread knowing that all your alumni bet on you? He does.
James Franklin knows that. He's aware.
It's every single game. That would be, 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.
The way that I saw that play develop, it was almost like halfway between a fake kneel and a fake quarterback draw. Yeah.
And it was awesome. What are you doing? 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 everything that unfolded to get that cover was incredible.
It really was. Cause they were in trouble in the first time.
Oh yeah. That's why I was asking.
11 a.m. 11 a.m.
In Evanston. Are we worried a little bit? Yeah.
They, they, James Franklin last week. Did we talk about that on the show? No, I don't think we did.
It's we did it's such a such a funny move yeah they didn't practice 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 yeah 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 at this point it's like nothing really matters until ohio state and then michigan so yeah it's like they're just going to keep beating i think i think they may have like i think they're they have a bye this week and then umass next week and that it nothing matters until ohio state michigan yeah pence yeah the the big 10 east doesn't really start getting decided until later in october And that's when 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.
Is that true? Well, yeah, definitely Michigan, Ohio State. Penn State, Ohio State, and Penn State Michigan are both at 11 o'clock.
I think they need to get rid of divisions in college football. What do you mean? Like divisions within the conference.
Well, they will. The legends and leaders.
They did in the Pac-12. They probably will in the Big Ten soon.
Yeah. They probably will in the SEC.
The best two teams should be playing in the championship. 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.
It should be pods of four or five. And then a four.
And then a 14 thing conference play. Yeah.
That would be a lot of fun because then you can keep like internal rivalries and all that stuff. And it should be your record in the conference.
And then everyone feels like they have a chance. Right.
Because that is going to suck. The only problem with what you're saying is when we get to the 18 team, big 10 or 16 team sec,

if you have no divisions,

you really feel like you have no chance.

If you're a bottom team.

Yeah.

Like there's no chance.

Like even Wisconsin,

I don't,

it's going to be really tough to get to the big 10 championship game.

When there's 18 teams,

no division.

Then maybe do no divisions.

And like you said, like top six, make the play or something so that everyone else big 10 playoff not to get a buy yeah yeah either way college football i've said it before but this season is going to be because there really isn't a dominant dominant team like we've seen in the past 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. I do love how there's not a dominant.
Like Georgia, we all thought at the start of the season, we're just going to be talking about Georgia and then the rest of the college football world would be boring as shit. Turns out I think we're going to be in for some chaos.
Stetson Bennett. I love chaos.
He needs Stetson Bennett. He was the guy.
He was everything, memes. Stetson Bennett was everything.
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My hot seat is Jimmy Butler. Oh, why? And just heat culture as a whole.
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. It's also a reminder.
You can see how the different teams do stuff. It's a reminder that October is the best month in the world.
Yeah. Because it's just all the sports are here sports are here i always like the behind the scenes videos while they're getting their official team picture taken the ones are taken on like uh 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 you're like oh i remember when they did that picture yeah 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 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 and then it shows his picture and he looks like robert smith from the cure well he did it so he did it last year too he wore like the hair extensions or dreads or whatever which wasn't his actual hair 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 i think during towards the end of the year they just stopped doing that and like use like a picture from 2k or an old picture like so i think you know even though that that was his goal i don't know if it's gonna work like i don't know if they're gonna emo jimmy butler yeah so this year, last year he did the long hair.
This year he did. He painted his nails.
He did like an emo comb over, long hair, bangs look. And then a reporter, 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?

This is so anti-Miami Heat culture and what we stand for.

It's fucking media day.

It's hilarious.

It's funny.

Good for Jimmy.

But Heat culture.

Wait, was it 98.9%?

That's a very specific percentage that he had.

To let you guys know that Grind City Media deleted the tweet where they

posted audio of him saying 98.9%.

Oh.

So maybe they take that back.

I can no longer trust

Grind City Media. Jake Marsh is coming in

defensive heat culture. 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... They're trying to heat culture.

Or it's bad journalism.

I'm just trying to get clicks, which he is, because we're talking about

them. I can't imagine anyone cared.

Oh, I can. Maybe the PR Thank you.
cover their they're trying to heat culture or it's bad journalism culture i'm trying to get clicks which he is because we're talking about them i can't imagine anyone cared oh i i can maybe the pr people they don't even let their players eat that's true they weigh him all the time too much he can do whatever he wants he literally carried them the nba finals out of nowhere yeah he hasn't won anything though carry them the nba finals okay i think he culture is alive and well yeah 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 don't make me break character right now 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 i want to know where this character came from i want to know their likes their dislikes 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 remember yes which garth should bring that back by the way absolutely what a weird weird time in music that was yeah he uh 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 i've been looking so long at these pictures of you. That is so awkward for 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.

Yeah, but Spin Zone, if your

name's being floated as a straight up trade for Dame

Lillard, that's pretty good for you. True.

True. Yeah, Hater on the hot seat.

It's tough. Tough scene for

Heat culture, Heat Nation, Jimmy Butler.

What's your cool throw? Did you like the look, Jake?

He can do whatever he wants. Anything he throw? Did you like the look, Jake? He can do whatever he wants.

Anything he wants?

Did you like the look?

Anything?

Yeah.

He can sit in Coco Gauff's box.

Sit in it?

All the way?

I need to see evidence of Jimmy Butler

inside of Coco Gauff's box

before I believe anything.

Jake, are you demanding a Jimmy Butler sex tape?

No. Oh, my God.
a Jimmy Butler sex tape? No.

Oh, my God.

This is disgusting.

I want to see him in the box, Jake.

You can sit in her US Open personal sky box for the next...

Mile high club.

Nice.

I like what you're saying, Jake.

For every US Open that she plays in.

Okay.

Yeah.

So you're not demanding a sex tape? No. Okay.
Just clear all right would you watch one no i want nothing to do with that headline so you don't defend me i defend you okay all right yeah uh hank your cool throne my cool throne is the sphere yeah they had their first concert this weekend it looks like the coolest thing ever ever i feel like someone's gonna like except it was you too take mushrooms and die that was when i was watching that i was like this this would be overwhelming it would be so sick but also like someone's gonna die it would be an honor taking hallucinogenics and like it being so sick i don't think you need to take hallucinogenics i know but someone's going to yeah and double it up so sick what if it cancels itself out he just said like a rant 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 does it looks very who's gonna be there's gotta be some awesome concerts for Super Bowl week there, right? Yeah. Probably.
Wow. We got to go to the sphere.
I got to get inside that sphere. We got to get inside that sphere.
It looks amazing. We got to insert ourselves in that sphere.
Is it better from the outside or the inside? I don't know. We're going to have to see.
We're going to have to see ourselves. I think internals.
I'm not going to make a judgment until I see it. Yeah.
I'm a real facts-based guy. Yeah.
Listen, I feel like it doesn't matter what concert they would put on there. It does suck that they got U2 to do it first.
Yeah. Why does U2 get to do anything? By the way.
That's probably part of their Apple deal. Where was Bono during COVID? You literally had the opportunity to save the world, Bono.
People don't even know. That's how we started it.
That's what you were built for. You've been talking a big game for the last 20 years about saving the world.
Where the fuck were you in the last three years? People don't even realize that U2, when we... Was it the phone or was it the iPad? The iPhone.
The iPhone. They downloaded...
Every iPhone came with a downloaded U2 album. Yeah.
Without our consent. It just made us do it.
Yeah. What was the thing called that just played the music? iPod.
iPod. Yeah.
Yeah. You know what sucks about the U2 thing? When you plug your phone into like a car, when it connects to the CarPlay, it automatically starts playing a U2 song.
Yeah. That's bullshit.
Yeah. That's fraud.
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. I don't know if that's just me.
I used that all the time. Yeah.
If it like froze, you just whip it at the wall and it would like factory reset. Yeah.
No, I think that was actually a fact. 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.
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. Yeah.
So the iPhone, when it first came out, I was like, well, this is going to be a flop. Yeah.
What is this? It's an iPod, but you can make a call on it. I held strong on my BlackBerry for a while there.
I love my iPod. I had the Shuffle, the Nano.
The Nano. I didn't like the Nano.
I am a Nano. I think back on this, being like, this is crazy because today's day and age, everyone's going to have an iPhone.
I worked at Parcel for like a year with a flip phone and an iPod Touch. I love it.
So I would just have to get Wi-Fi and 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 oh yeah they definitely when they program that stuff they do studies to see like what sound is most soothing to your ears to hear yeah and that click wheel it it sets me off did you see the new iphone they're're going back to or the plug is different again? USB-C. It's going to be standardized at least this time.
Yeah, but it's nuts. They keep flipping out.
It'll help with our laptops. 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 they...
Mine already is USB-C. No, it's not.
It's definitely not. The one that just came out last week.
Let me see your phone. Mike Babcock.
Let me see it. Let me see the phone.
Let's see the phone. Yeah.
No, you have the same iPhone as everybody else. I just saw the little slot.
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.
And then every hotel has to throw out all their alarm clocks hank why are you logged into a twitter account saying swifty forever 420 and you're replying to me on twitter how many the fuck is this dude hank what does ky s mean why do you keep saying it why do you keep tweeting that at me uh pifty your hot seat cool throat my hot seat is actually the sixers organization oh not the heat organization because the six yeah hank really everything's coming up celtics huh uh the sixers are kind of lennon and rogue journalists in media 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 now i started to think what would that look like how could's already pulled the, I'm going to get fat card, right? So I don't think he would go back to that well. 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, it doesn't look good to start your season off like this. Some of their fans want to trade Joel Embiid.
Harden's going to show up and make things as painful as possible. It seems to be trending in the wrong direction.
I think that James Harden will end up in jail by the end of this week. Okay.
For what? For doing jail? Jail. This would be crazier than your 34-28 prediction a few weeks ago.
Do you think he... Jail? Do you think...
Actual jail. Personally, he deserves to go to jail, or do you think he'll actually do something? Like, he's done something? I think he's going to do something.
He's going to choke him? Something's going to happen. I don't know what that means.
This is an awesome prediction. If I was Harden and I wanted to make things as painful, I would just show up and just fart all the time.
I think he's gonna do something so ridiculous that someone in the front office is gonna call the cops on him i don't know what that thing is but like what what more can he do what more can he do than he hasn't already done in the past and it looks like he has his biggest grudge ever 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 yeah like i think he's gonna do something so egregious you're pushing him to jail that like like i think he may just like show up on the court naked like he may just go butt ass naked onto the court and then more like public public indecency bringing the cops arrest him maybe not jail but like no Jail, jail. He didn't say prison.
He said jail. It's different.
Jail, jail. He could SWAT the Sixers organization, like call the SWAT team on him.
Yeah. He could get the aux court at practice in the locker room, just play cars for kids on repeat.
That would suck. I like that.
He'd just bring strippers. That's what I would do, I think.
What if he just comes in with, like, a posse of strippers,

and, like, they're on the court with him.

I'm pretty sure the Sixers would be like, this is cool.

Yeah.

This rocks.

Team building.

I would love that.

Yeah.

If any of you guys want to do that to try to prove a point.

Yeah.

This is how badly I want out.

Yeah.

I'm going to make all my boys have a great time.

All right.

Your cool throne.

My cool throne is Darius Rucker.

Yes.

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.
And I ended up buying 500 bucks worth of it for the boys. Doled them out on Sunday.
And I came in the office. I'd been in touch with one 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. I came in the office on Sunday and I had 13 boxes with 20 pieces of merch in them.
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 guy up i was like just so you know like you sent me a lot like 20 of every type shit load you're opening boxes for like 20 minutes they sent an entire pallet it was 13 giant boxes and so the guy was like oh shit yeah we uh we actually didn't mean to send you all those we're trying to send you one of each so i'm going to send most of them back but spin in a lucky turn for the listeners, a part of my take.
I am going to be in Raujohn, Maryland at FedEx Field on Thursday for Bears Commanders Thursday night. 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.
We're doing a meet and greet at the part of my cheesesteak in FedEx Field field so we'll get the details of that later uh 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's actually good merch too yeah the designs are pretty sick yeah um so i'm going to be passing some of that out but yeah um now i also have to figure out a way to ship back 13 giant boxes of darius rucker, Washington Commander's merchandise. I love it.

Yeah.

I love it.

Well, win for the AWLs.

Yep.

All right.

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 for a clip on Monday that I said that I wanted to see until I saw actual PNV, the relationship was not real to me. Yeah.
So I think you didn't want to see a Taylor Swift sex tape. I want to see Travis Kelsey.
You just as much wanted to see Travis. You want to see Proof of Wife.
He wanted to be ironclad that they're actually together and then it's not all for show. And let's just be clear.
It 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 well in the world we could spin zone this and say that we we will be just as happy if we had a constant video of taylor swift not having sex correct with anybody else correct But Travis Kelsey. Correct.
And just give us a

live stream of that to determine that they're

actually together. 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?

Eliminating your genes further from the

future of the planet. Get a vasectomy, baby?

What if I had to get a vasectomy?

I'd be like, look it, please, Swifties. Don't be mad at me.
Yeah, I've been trending for like 24 hours. I've just been kind of giggling to myself.
We say some crazy shit on this podcast. Most people, all the AWLs know this podcast.
But yeah, when we get outside of our walls, 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 bad at me that's bad yeah so yeah i mean this you know another day on the internet 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.
Yeah. Like, ooh, you're boopy, that kind of thing.
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 watching.
They're both watching. Let's, let's, let's be gender equal here.
They're both watching a Netflix movie, but they're also both scrolling Instagram reels. Yeah.
Like real couple. I want to know real couples.
Right. They do.
Right. Like maybe even just a picture of them in a car together, just like looking a little upset.
Yeah. Not talking.
Yeah. Not talking on the way home from a dinner that didn't go as well.
The more I see him not talking, the more I know it's a real couple. Yeah.
That's how I know it's. Yeah.
Yeah. Okay.
And then my cool throne is Paige Sporanik. Has Paige been on the show? She has.
Yeah. She has.
So Paige Sporanik, this is the investigative work by Grant Bilsey, who hosts a Wisconsin radio show. He did a deep dive.

So credit to him.

Very, very funny.

The Paige Sporanek bobblehead completely turned around the Brewers season.

Okay.

So on June 16th, the Brewers hosted the Pirates.

They were 34 and 34.

They beat the Pirates that night, 5 to 4. And then they wound up winning the NL Central with a record

of 92-70 and they were 58-36 after the Paige Sporanek bobblehead night.

Good for her.

They got to get her in the stadium.

Yeah, they do have to get her in the stadium.

Yeah, so he hosts the Wisco Sports Show and he did an entire deep dive on his podcast

about how one Paige Sporanek bobblehead night changed the entire brewer season. That's the type of journalism I love.
So shout out Grant. Great work.
And shout out page. She turned the brewer season around.
I don't think it was a strike. Numbers never lie.
Numbers never lie. What do you say? If she was a strike or first pitch, it's a good bobblehead.
She's swinging a club. And oh, yep.
All right. Yeah.
See if it was a strike or first pitch it's a good bobblehead she's swinging a club and oh yep all right yeah see if it was a strike oh she went from the the big mound i don't know she had to step up she stepped up i think you're not allowed to though yeah they don't want you messing with the mound that's not true oh not a little curveball you can't really see the catcher that's not true you can do the big mountain because i did it when when uh i raised a bunch of money for anthony rizzo's charity and then they i came he was like the winner who raised the most money got to throw out the first pitch uh and i didn't realize that his charity's awesome it's for kids battling cancer and it was me and a bunch of kids and uh and they were all throwing from in front of the mountain i was like i want to from the mound. It was kind of like Kramer doing karate with the kids.
Yeah. So I threw for the mound.
I would throw some absolute junk if I threw our first pitch. I would throw a nasty curve.
The Phillies are hyping up their first pitch big time tonight. Oh, we got Max.
We'll already have taped it. Make a prediction, Max.
No, you aren't. You did the fucking Eagles Vikings.
Perfect score. Oh, i have an idea make a prediction yeah yeah well no so let me give you the context i'll give you the context it should be oh they said it's sports related 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 and then this is from uh 94 wip uh from the world of sports or outside and they they say more of the world of sports.
Okay. Okay.
Taylor Swift is the number one sports story in the world. Hank, what are you doing? I would say I think did you guys space off the replies? I think it's going to be Charlie Manuel.
Yeah. Oh, that's huge.
Scare too, right? Yeah, he was like people thought he was going to die and then he made a recovery. 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.
Johnson and Johnson? Yeah, he called him Mr. Pfizer.
He's literally, his entire salary is paid for by Johnson and Johnson. Kind of a best friend move by Aaron Rodgers.
Take the heat off me by saying that. Yeah.
I should thank him. That is insane, though, that he's the quarterback of the Jets.
Yes, that's facts. Well, Zach Wilson is their quarterback.
That's true. Moving forward, he is.
Jake, finish us off. Billy one-upped his take, his previous Patrick Mahomes.
Oh, no. Zach Wilson take.
Tell me, tell me, tell me. He said that now Zach Wilson, because he played one good game, his ceiling is above Patrick Mahomes.
Oh. So he will be better than Patrick Mahomes.
He did outplay him. Yeah.
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.
Fact. That's a fact.
Jake. My hot seat is milking your nipples on the sidelines whoa okay uh the head coach for oregon state football uh jonathan smith i saw this yeah he did the signal they were trying to milk the clock at the end of the game against utah yeah he started milking his he started squeezing doing this no he's win? Yeah, they won.
Well, then that should be cool. But then he had to apologize because he apparently offended people.
What? Yeah. What world am I living in? For anyone I offended, I apologize.
I won't be using that signal again. He went like this.
I like that. That's funny.
It was funny. Listen, yeah.
Oh my God. To be a football coach, you have to do big.
Yeah. You have to have like over the top motions on the side.

You can't do it.

It's not like baseball where you like tap your ear.

These guys are far away.

You got to be able to do like grab the honkers.

Let them know.

Yeah.

So yeah, I do apologize and we won't be seeing that again.

I hope he does it again.

We'll see.

I think every coach in solidarity should start to do the milking nipples thing.

Yeah.

My cool throne is giving away Colts tickets. Yes.
That time of week again. They are home against the Titans.
We had the baby Ursae for the first home game. We had the tattoo for last week.
And let's talk about this week. Hopefully, Mr.
Ursae will do the right thing and open the roof. Okay.
Why don't we do anyone who's named Jim? Any Col named jim any jim that wants to go to the game so many emails yeah yeah all right so how do we pick a winner just give us why you're the best i mean if anyone could prove their name is jim ursay then we should definitely give it to them anyone named ursay we think we there's i don't know if there's any other i would imagine that if you're ansae and you live in Indianapolis, you probably already have tickets. Yeah.
How about somebody that attended Jim Ursae's season kickoff concert that they had at Colts Field? I like that. They have to have proof.
If you have proof that you were in attendance watching Jim Ursae sing Lawyers, Guns, and Money, I will give you those tickets. We have four of them, right? Yeah, two sets of two.
And sideline passes, too. Yeah.
All right, PMT intern at BarstoolSports.com. Okay, great.
With proof. All right, let's get to our interview.
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So let's start with this season two and two off a big win against the Steelers looking good. What was the big thing 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 and the biggest thing i wanted to instill in our guys just the mindset of you have to grind you have to work like it's it's hard to win in this league and it takes a tough work ethic it takes tough people right it takes people who are not worried about the end result 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 gotten for me instilling that, right. And everything else I talk about, about the process, the wins and all that, those things, they take care of themselves.
So that was the biggest thing establishing just a get better mindset each and every day. Yeah.
And you guys have been playing really well recently. I'm curious to know from your perspective, because a lot of a lot of times great players don't make for great coaches.
I'm sure you've seen it a few times in football. It happens and it seems like every league.
You were a great player in your own right. You were you were awesome.
You were a joy to watch. What do you think is different about about you than other great players that have tried to transition to being coaches and might not have been able to instill all the details in a guy that they had themselves ingrained? I think the first thing for me is when I got into coaching, I didn't go just straight into coaching a position.
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. 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? And so for me, I think that really humbled me and really helped me learn, right.
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, how do you teach guys who learn different guys come from different backgrounds? There's a, 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. 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.
Like, it's truly about me helping these guys be successful in whatever they're doing, whatever position they're in, just instilling those, 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.
What does a quality control coach do? I always see that title, and I feel like if you're inside, it might vary from team to team. Is this this like real menial stuff? Like, were you getting coffee for people? No, not getting coffee.
But what it entails is truly like breaking down film. So when you're going through and guys study film throughout the week, well, someone has to input all the data 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 Sloick, we were both QCs at the same time.
So you're working like at a computer. Yeah.
Working at a computer in a tight little office space. I actually shared office with another QC.
It was a tight space. I wasn't making much money at all.
I mean, I was actually paying the coach, especially living in California. 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 and make sure that 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 really the quality control guys. You really love football.
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.
But those are the guys who also you understand the full process of being a coach. So you see a lot of guys grow from that role and become head coaches because they truly have hit every step of the coaching ladder.
So you would say that you're proficient in Microsoft Excel? I'm doing better. Okay.
Yeah. That's a good answer because no one is.
I'm convinced no one is except very few people. No one is.
But everyone puts it on their resume. They're like, yeah, don't worry, I can do this.
I had it on my computer. I put it on my resume.
Yeah, right, exactly. So CJ Stroud has been fantastic through four games.
Obviously, it's his rookie year. Explain to me what the process is because he hasn't thrown an interception yet.
Like, been phenomenal. 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.
He hit the ground running. 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 cool part about CJ that nobody really knows or sees is how much he studies. 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. Like they see things before the coaches see it.
And when you have a guy like that, you truly listen to his input and you want to you want him. You want to do right.
You want to run the things that he feels most comfortable with, things he feels about those are the things he's going to go out and excel and 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 meshing those things together and we're 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 has a rep.
There's not a play call that he doesn't like. So you truly, you like to play, you know, the answers right to whatever pressure comes or whatever may happen.
Like that's how you go out and perform the way CJ performs, but it's all about his preparation, man. It's second to none.'s a great answer because a lot of times i feel like uh a quarterback quarterback gets drafted and whoever's the head coach or the organization says all right well now we're just gonna we're gonna do what we do you got to find a way to fit in 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 yeah and that's one thing, man.
I truly learned as a coach, 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 this crazy scheme stuff. And then I truly got it too.
It's like, wait a minute. It doesn't matter what I want to do.
Who are the players I'm working with? What do they do well? How can I allow them to play as fast as possible? And that's what coaching is. It's putting players in position to accentuate their talents.
And coaches, you get out of the way and let the players play fast. Yeah.
We are Strad boys on this podcast. We've always said CJ is going to be a a great player in this league i'm curious to know going into draft night though i 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 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 they you need to show improvement pretty quickly.
And the best way to do that usually, I mean, there's other things certainly, but usually is by getting a great quarterback. Was there ever a conversation about taking two quarterbacks in the first round? Not two quarterbacks in the first round.
We felt good about Davis, right, and his development, having him 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. So having Davis and then adding Case Keenum as well, we felt really good about those two guys who had experience, right? But then you add another rookie, add a rookie quarterback in CJ, and let's see, you know, how soon can he develop, right? How much can he grow? Also being in a room with experienced guys, expect it to that growth process to happen sooner.
And that's what it's done. I mean, Case and Davis have been excellent in working with CJ.
And we really love our quarterback room, having all three of those guys. Can I tell you that's that right there.
It 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 why did you ask me that question yeah that was great because like smart 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 but yeah you obviously know the situation better than i do yeah yeah no you're smart you're you're a head coach uh all right uh this is going to be a tough question uh I don't want to bring up any bad memories 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 Saban winning national titles and do do fans ever confuse it being like oh yeah D'Amico's got couple rings, like confuse the years over time? Does that ever cross your mind? You're like, what Alabama's been the last 15 years has been insane, and you were there right before that. Yeah, and it crosses my mind a lot.
All right, that's human. Yeah, that's human.
I mean, I end up saying that a lot, right? No, I was before Saban. I was before Saban.
I kind of helped him get on track, right? And then Saban came and took off, right, for all the foundation that I laid. But no, man, I do miss, though.
I wish I was there with those guys for sure. But I had a couple a couple teammates right who were freshmen my last year who ended up actually being on a team with coach Saban and those guys raved about coach Saban and coach Saban has done an outstanding job of course 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 so that never changes uh you know I mean I'm all I'm all in on Alabama football and really proud of the success that they've had yeah so we have a we have a co-worker who's a big Mississippi State fan fanatical crazy was there I know you were deciding between Mississippi State and Alabama Was there ever a shot that you were going to go to Mississippi State?

I want to really kind of dig it into them.

Not really, man. Okay.

We'll edit that out.

Yeah, yeah.

We'll make it look like you said yes.

Once Alabama came on, it was like that was a no-brainer.

Oh, that's actually a good answer because, yeah, it's like you would never go to Mississippi State over Alabama.

Yeah, if you have the option.

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? No, I messed up, man. I went to – I took the Alabama official visit.
That was my second visit, actually. And once I went to Alabama, the defensive coordinator there, Carl Torbus, he was like, hey, you know, 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.
So I ended up canceling the visits. Now I look back, I was like, man, I should have took all five of my visits.
Coach Torbush, she kind of set me up there. Yeah.
Get a lot of free dinners that way. I would imagine if you took an official visit to Mississippi State, you'd probably be like, this is really annoying with the Cowbells.
This kind of sucks. Yeah.
Yeah, no, I absolutely... I mean, Mississippi State, man, they have their unique way of creating crowd noise there.
Really, it was always a tough place to play with the Cowbells. I mean, it was always a tough opponent.
So, I mean, it was fun playing Mississippi State. Yeah, we don't have to be too nice to them.
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So 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.

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.

Guys, whether they're ready or not, would 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?

Yeah, of course, man.

When I had the opportunity, right after my –

I had one year as a defensive coordinator.

And so going through that process, I'm just figuring out how to call games, how to make those adjustments. And I was just getting into that groove of being a defensive coordinator.
And we're deep into the playoffs, get the opportunity to interview with another team. But when it counts, it's 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. But I was always saying, like, man, if I become a head coach, I want to be a successful head coach.
I just don't want to, hey, I was a head coach in the NFL. No, I want to do it the right way with the right people.

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.

And it's going to another team.

Like, no, I played here.

I played on this field, right?

I've been in this building, know a lot of people around here. So here so this felt this is home right and that's what made this more special than just taking any other job that's really smart i would not have that uh intelligence i'd be like oh they're gonna pay me how much i'm not ready but i don't care i would have jumped at the first job you had to say yes before they change their mind yeah i i don't i don't think i know how to do this don't care.
Yeah, if you offered me to be a head coach right now, I would immediately say yes. 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. I'm curious, when you get a head coaching gig, you probably experienced this as a defense coordinator too, Coach Sala in San Francisco.
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? No, I just try to stay back. I had, when we were in San Fran, all the strength coaches on most staff, the strength coaches are the get-back guys.
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, so I think I'm doing a pretty good job staying out of the way. Yeah, Salah would just go out to midfield sometimes.
He just looked like he was going to make a tackle out there. Yeah, Salah needs – he has our guy Nicolini holding him back, so Nicolini gives a lot of face time on TV.
Yeah. He brought him with him, right? Yeah.
He did. His personal get back guy.
You got to bring him everywhere you go. When you were coaching in San Francisco, what were the chess matches like in practice between you and Mike McDaniel? Oh, that was – that was always fun, right? I love going against McDaniels and Kyle because you're gonna 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 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 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 at 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 it causes a lot of confusion to defense that he's doing an outstanding job there.
Yeah. Would Kyle ever just, like, try to flex on you and just, like, fuck you up with the crazy play in practice? Being like, you know whose team this is.
Yeah, he could try it, but he knows defense. Defense first, man.
We stuff all those plays. Yeah.
Yeah. I mean, that's actually a 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 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 thinking next level with the game. They're not just cookie cutter, just going to run the same plays, rinse and repeat.
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 was 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 confident because we know how to handle them.

And, you know, 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.

And we'll do both.

So we'll start with the Niners and then the Texans.

But when you were at the Niners, who was the biggest freak, offense or defense, 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. Correct answer.
Yes. Yeah.
Unfortunately, I went against Trent a couple times. I was playing with the Eagles.
He was in Washington, and he threw me out the club a lot of times. I don't know if there's another offensive lineman who is fastest Trent who gets on the second level and who is stronger than him.
He's one of the strongest guys in the league. Yeah, and then what about the Texans? Who's your freak right now? The freak right now for the Texans, who would that be? Could be Will Anderson.
Yeah, Will is a beast for sure. Yeah.
Man, he wrecks. You have to slow him down.
He wrecks practice all the time. So we have to slow him down.
Yeah, I'm always interested because obviously you've 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 it's yeah.
Will is definitely that guy. Last like even last week, we're trying to get these looks to get the linebackers and safety is the proper fits on some run plays.
And he just goes and destroys the place. Like, hey, man, take him out so we can actually get work in.
Will has great job, man. Yeah.
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 like Aaron Donald on the defensive side of the ball. Like he's that much of a game changer.
No doubt about it. I mean, the plays that they can run with Trent, the outside perimeter plays, and his ability to get to the second level.
Like, it's Trent Williams. He's a cheat code for the Niners.
Yeah. He should be spoken of in the same manner as Aaron Donald.
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. Who's the best teammate? Let's maybe say teammate teammate in terms of friend but also then you can pick a teammate like best player you played with uh with the texans or eagles best teammate for me uh say brian cushion okay okay yeah also a freak yeah yeah yeah definitely a freak uh with the eagles uh best teammate there uh shady mccoy Oh, I like that.
He's funny. He's very funny.
He was on the show. 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, man, outstanding player.
So Shady was definitely the life of that locker room. Yeah, yeah.
And who's the most talented player that you played with? Most talented player I played with was J.J. Watt.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, he was pretty good.
He was at the game last week. He took out a full-page ad.
Did you read the full-page ad that he took out? No, I did not. But I did have him come and talk to the team, which was awesome.
He did an awesome job of coming and speaking to the guys just letting them know like how you become a success in the nfl right and it's about that daily work that grind 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 freak also a freak Yeah. Yeah.
All right, so we got some coaching tips for you real quick. We've been talking about the tush push.
If you want some ideas on how to stop it, we have some ideas. Bring them on.
Okay. Have you thought about potentially getting your lightest guy, maybe a safety or a cornerback, and throwing him over the line of scrimmage when they snap the ball at a Jalen Hurts or whoever's doing it? Have you thought about that? I have not thought about that one.
Okay, put that one on the list. Have you thought about giving one guy on defense a knife? But then nobody knows who has the knife.
It's like a secret knife. It could be anybody.
That may work. Okay.
All right, what about stacking your biggest defensive lineman on top of each other and then just pushing that mound back against the offense that's the winner okay all right yeah i think that would work you just got to get everyone to buy into lying on top of each other man they done a great job that play but i think that man it all starts with Kelsey. Yes.
Yes. And what he's able to do, he's another guy I play with who's a freak as well.
But that's the key to that play, right? That's what works. I think other teams have tried it.
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.
And, of course, Jalen Hurts, he's a beast as well. He is a beast.
I think it actually technically by – if we're talking about the clock, it starts with their left guard who jumps ahead of the snap and he moves first. So it starts with him and then – actually, it's the Eagles offensive line.
I mean, obviously Jalen Hurts is a beast and he can squat 600 pounds. 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 so yeah i would agree with you on that um when you were on the eagles you played for chip kelly i think your last year right coach chip yep um did you incorporate any of his urine testing strategy into your position right now as a head coach yeah no, no, none of the, none of those strategies.
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 tip was, man, I would say this, I was very, you know, man, I was very happy to be a part of like chips first college coach, not 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, right, where the league is now.
The things that Chip implemented when you come to sports performance staff and all those things, right, nutrition stations, just getting shakes for the guys, all those things that Chip implemented, you're seeing every team around the NFL do that now. 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 will look like, hey, what's going on here? So, I mean, shout mean shout out to coach chip kelly man he's one of the smartest coaches i've ever played for yeah 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 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 Yeah,.
Like, yeah. Hey, take it easy.
Cause you die. I'm still alive.
Mufasa. Yeah.
Some people still throw that out. Say Mufasa.
Oh, I like it. Yeah.
It was cool, man. And I guess there were a correlation also went into me and helping out Jordan Hicks, a rookie linebacker who played under me there.

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

he's become in the NFL had had this, had a great career.

Great. doing a great job, but I'm more pleased with Jordan and the man and the leader that he's become in the NFL, had a great career, great family.
So, man, shout out to Jordan Hicks as well over at Minnesota Steel Baller. Yeah, I had one last question because I know you got to run, and this has been awesome.
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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.

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?

Uh-oh. Go for two.
There we go. All right.
You nailed that one. All right.
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 and goal from the eight-yard line.
You're down eight. 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 oh i'm i'm gonna try to score the touchdown okay good answer good answer there's another wrinkle to it the opposing quarterback that you're going against he is the best quarterback of all time i forgot about that he's the greatest quarterback who's ever lived hypothetically what would you do in that situation still score the touchdown right go yeah yeah smart you should try to score a smart man yeah yeah we'll let matt lafleur know um all right well coach thank you so much we really appreciate it uh you know good luck for the rest of the season you guys have been so much fun to watch and uh yeah we've been to miko ryan's guys for a long time so excited to get you on and excited for your career to keep going awesome man thank you guys have me on man have fun all right thanks coach to Miko Ryan's was brought to you by our good friends over at Morgan and Morgan did you know that 35% of all fatal accidents occur between 6 p.m.
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I would like to file a lawsuit against Max for emotional distress, physical assault, or is that battery? When you actually touch somebody, is that battery? I feel battered. Yep, yep.
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Now 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 two yesterday.
This will be my second today. Ice cream for the boys.
Ice cream for the boys. Ice cream for the boys.
Ice cream for the boys. Yeah.
Yeah. Hank, are you ready to eat some cream? Hank, are you ready to cream? I scream for ice cream.
I scream for ice cream. Hank, go ahead Jimbo's.
Missed my flight for family occasion. So had to buy another.
Wait, no, don't do this. Don't do this.
Don't do this. This is to LaGuardia.
Then stop. Do it again.
Don't do this. I thought you were saying your own flight.
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, realized my new flight was for two weeks from then.
Oh, no. So I had to Uber back to JFK and then the only available flight was $1,300.
Oh, that's embarrassing. I've experienced both sides of that.
The taxi ride from one airport to another airport. I actually did that in Qatar and almost missed my international flight back.
But that's so embarrassing to get into the cab and say, yeah, I actually need, I'm at the wrong one right now. Send me to the other one.
And then getting to an airport and having the ticket be wrong, also very, very embarrassing. That's brutal.
Just be like, hey, family, I screwed up, not coming. 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 you still love me you can't you can't do anything you know it's like when you get around like you're like mom and you start acting like a kid again you're like you can't give me back you love me no matter what like I I could do anything right now.
You 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.
It looks like they're going to cry. Like I can never stay mad at you.
Stickers ice cream. Let me get some ice cream.
Ice cream for the boys. I love the ice cream.
It's very hot in this room too. So it feels good.
Jake, you're too good for it. I have a tennis match after this, so I can't.
You don't want to play tennis on a little tummy in the ice cream? Ice cream tummy? I love Snickers. Love their ice cream bars, but it's not a good match.
How's the tennis season going? This is what Andre Agassi used to eat a Snickers ice cream bar before every single match. All right, fine.
That's how Pete Sampras got all the hair on his chest. Yep.
It's good. I'm 8-1.
Final regular season match today.

8-1?

Yeah.

Did you avenge your loss?

Yeah, I did.

Nice.

Yeah, I got...

So you're going to win the whole thing?

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.

Oh, so you were just beaten up on bad people.

Yeah, but now...

But I'm still 3-1 at the new level. Could you have said no to the promotion? Yeah.
Why didn't you? Because I want better competition. I would have stayed down.
I would have stayed down and just dominated. Yeah.
All right. So when's the finals? 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.
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.
Spin zone, it's on a Sunday at 2.30 p.m. No.
Okay. Jake, you should actually schedule it to be during an NFL game.
No. I wouldn't do that to myself.
Would you you be mad if i heckle you no uh yeah thanks saying yes you will it's good practice for my mental game yeah yeah okay shot of a lifetime 15-0 oh this ice cream's so good i dropped a little bit all right well good luck moaned you no i'm you're number one big moaner what if what if we would you think it'd be'm... You're number one.
I'm a big moaner.

What if we...

Do you think it would be fair if you PFT Hank and I came

and you used us as a weapon

and we just belittled the opponent?

I would love that.

That would be kind of mean, though.

If we got really mean and the guy was like,

what's your problem?

It's like, Jake told us to do it.

Think about it.

You got a lot to think about.

First, I got to get to the championship. 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.
You should tell the listeners when it is and have them show up. Oh, like a flash mob opponent.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah, but first I have to get there a long way to go. Yeah, it's actually messed up that you're talking about being the championship.
You're not. You brought it champagne before.
If I was playing in the first round, I would listen to this clip on repeat. I play this club.
Yeah, we'll say I didn't buy the champagne. It was given to me.
I didn't bring it up. You order the champagne and not to check paint.
You had two glasses of champagne, Max Jimbo's to you fat big you little small. 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. Not only did I forget, but I also call there early that morning to ask for the Disney Plus password.

Oh, no.

We 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.

That's very bad. The fact that you asked her for a favor, 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.
No, it's next week, but I'm going to see her on Friday. Yeah, that is you have to mom's birthday is very important.
Very important. That's that's a brutal one because you can't that also is one that for the rest of time.
Remember when you clearly didn't know it's my birthday. That's tough.
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 all the follow-ups? You're like, Oh yeah, sorry.
I think you have to get your own Disney plus account. Yeah.
That's the only way for it. Be like, mom, no, I realized how bad that was as my present to you.
I've purchased myself a Disney plus subscription in my own name you gotta the only way to get out of that is 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 yeah all right this one it says it's a warning for all awls to never apply toothpaste with too much force okay 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 i quickly swiped down the bristles

but pushed them down in doing so they snapped back up shooting toothpaste into my left eye

which burns a thousand times worse than shampoo if If anyone's wondering, remember my stupidity and always be careful when applying toothpaste to your toothbrush. He just went hard.
He just went like mega grip. Yeah.
I mean, this sounds a little dramatic, Joey. I think this guy.
Oh, man. You first named him.
A couple of things. One, Joey.
Yeah. Grow up.
It's not that bad of an injury. Maybe lose the Y on your name, Joey.
Number two, Joey, get a better toothbrush. It sounds like you've got a cheap toothbrush on your hands here.
I hang on too long with the toothpaste. It has no toothpaste in it.
That's a battle that we all fight. That's just buy a new one.
I do it with deodorant, too. You know when the deodorant pops off top? I have.
And then you have to like palm it. That's what I'm currently doing right now.
Yeah. It's brutal.
Brutal. That's my every morning.
Yeah. I 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 deodorant out.
You rub it with your hand, then rub it on your armpits. Yeah.
I was going to under pits yeah you're under pits but answer me this how come when you use soap soap doesn't work on your armpits isn't that an interesting question now that's a good question i think we should discuss it okay maybe we'll do that on friday yeah hank what are your thoughts okay powerpoint presentation big big soap tape soap take soap out of the equation. I'd like to see one.
I mean, it's still it makes too much sense. Oh, man.
Is that what I said? Yeah, take soap out of the equation. You're thinking about the soap.
Take the soap out of the equation. 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.

Soap doesn't work.

How does it?

How is it that soap doesn't work?

What is it on your armpits?

Yeah.

Yeah.

It doesn't make sense.

Okay.

Takes soap out of the equation.

All right.

Numbers.

One.

69.

Memes, you ever gotten this?

18.

20.

No.

Two.

Thank you. All right, numbers.
Three, one, 69. Meems, you ever gotten this? 18, 20.

No, two.

Eight.

Eight.

I got to hope nobody gets it.

Yeah, no.

These are all just weird.

I'm not putting my heart into this one.

Two more weeks.

Love you guys. I'm coming toless to say I want to set hands But please don't win it away Learn and learn that life is okay Say after me It's better to be safe than sorry It's better to be safe than sorry It's better to be safe than sorry.
Take on me.

Take me on.

I'll be gone.

You're not too old to me.

Things that you say, you're not too old.

Just play my love.

You're always out there to remember.

You're shying away.

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