Julian Edelman In Studio, Conference Championship Preview + A Contentious Fyre Fest

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Today is Friday, January 27th, and we have Championship Sunday coming up. Oh, my God.
I'm so excited for these games. PFT, this is the closest spread.
So both games are under a field goal since 1998. I love it.
And spreads don't really matter in the playoffs. They don't.
That's what we've realized. If you're going to take an undog, take them straight up.
But it feels good to have two games that on paper feel like they should be close. Great game.
The Kansas City game i i couldn't help but notice the look on max's face when he saw that the price to get in was only what like 200 bucks or something like that in your mind you you thought like what a disgusting sports town because in philadelphia it's like a thousand dollars in philadelphia to get in the only the three richest kings of prussia are able to afford tickets to this game.

Yeah, I mean, that was a crazy number that I heard you say. All right, well, let's see.
No, it's $610 standing room. Oh.
I just know that. Just off the top of the head.
Just off the top. And why don't we start with that game? So we'll get to coach hirings and some rumors going around about quarterbacks after that.
the Eagles hosting the Niners, the Link, Brock Purdy,

the fifth rookie ever to start a championship game all five or all four before him oh and four yeah no rookie has ever started a super bowl no rookie has ever started a super bowl the uh i'm gonna pull up the list of the four before him it's mark sanchez in 2009 greats, one interception. Joe Flacco in 2008.
Elite quarterback. Zero touchdowns, three interceptions.
2004. I set you up for that one.
2004. He's great.
Ben Roethlisberger. Big Cat, fact or fiction, you learn more from making a mistake than you do from a success.
That's a fact. He became a genius after that game.
2004, Ben Roethlisberger in 1999, Sean King for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Zero touchdowns, two interceptions.
Brock Purdy is trying to be the first rookie starting quarterback to get to a Super Bowl. Yeah.
I'm Brock Hart. I think he can do it.
Yeah? Yeah. And it's going to happen in the Lincoln.
It's going to be loud. It's going to be rowdy.
Is it going to be cold? Because because that is you know we always forget san francisco kind of california boys can't even know it's california boys can they go out weather doesn't matter cloudy 52 high 39 low oh so not that not that cool it's 20 chance of precipitation as of thursday afternoon it's gonna be it's gonna be a very gray day in phil. That much is for certain.
A nice gray football day in January. That's perfect for an ass beat.
Someone's getting their ass beat. Someone's getting their ass beat.
I don't know who's going to get their ass beat. So you think the Niners are going to do the ass beating? I think somebody's going to get their ass kicked.
I don't know which side of the ass kicking. I want the 49ers to be doing the ass kicking.
I want it to be Philadelphia's ass that gets kicked. No disrespect to your future bet, Big Cat.
I do have a future on the Niners that I put in back in December. It's not what you're working with, but I can't root against my own...
I can't root against my own future unless I decide to hedge out, which I might yet do. But as of right now.
What if you got a free bet for me? As of right now, I still have the bet in there. I'm going to be riding it because, I mean, we got our good friends, Kyle Shanahan and George Kittle.
Listen, unlike Hank, I didn't go against my good friends. I put mine in in August.
So who would have thought that we'd get here in the Eagles and the Niners with Brock Purdy would be in the NFC Championship game. If the Niners end up winning, I will be sad in the moment but very happy for my dear friend, George Kittle.
Sorry, Max. I'm speaking facts right now.
I'm not an Eagles fan. No, no.
I will not be happy. I know.
I know. It's different for you.
You're a fan, so there's you know, I will be sad that I lost, very sad, crying, and be like, oh, boo-hoo me, I'm the worst. But then I will wake up in a week from then and be like, oh, we get to have Kittle on the show.
We could put PMT. So when Max roots for his team as a fan, it's okay, but when I do it, it's illegal.
The Cowboys? Yeah. Oh, yeah, that's true.
And by the way, I don't really ever look at the comments, but I was curious what Stephen A. Smith, like the people were saying, and I chuckled very hard in the YouTube comments when someone said, the reason why PMT is the best is they got Stephen A.
Smith on the show and they just found a roundabout way to make fun of Hank. And it was like, yep, we had a good 10 minutes there just having Stephen A.
Smith look in Hank's eyes and being like, the Cowboys are a joke. And I couldn't explain it.
It was way too long. I got the George hanging up.
It's like we could have the best, the biggest person in the world. I mean, Stephen A.
Smith's pretty high up there. Yeah, I don't know.
I don't know if we beat him. Yeah, we'd still find a way to just make it be like inside jokes at Hank's expense.
Yeah, and he delivered. And that's what really woke Stephen A.
Smith up when he got on the couch. We were just like, you know, that right there, that's your mark.
That's your target. We forgot, too, that all you have to do with Stephen A.
Smith is just congratulate him on a Cowboys defeat because you heard it. He took – By putting them number one, he it was a setup the whole time the whole time all right so I yeah I mean I I love this this game's gonna be so much fun to watch just because I really do think that like these are the most talented teams and every matchup like the Niners defense has been incredible the Eagles offensive line has been incredible uh' offense has been incredible.
The Eagles' defense has been historic. Like, there's every which way, it's strength on strength, and it's just going to be fucking awesome to watch.
It's going to be a good uniform matchup, too. I'm very excited to see that.
I think that what I'm most excited about in this game is the potential for the Niners to win. Brock Purdy goes to the Super Bowl.
Brock Purdy wins the Super Bowl.

He just becomes Mr. Relevant at that point.

The most relevant. You drop the IR from his name.

And then the discourse that will happen after that,

that we already, we kind of like danced around a little bit

with Kirk Herbstreet, which is there will be people that say,

it turns out you don't need to have a great quarterback

to win a Super Bowl.

So maybe the new market inefficiency is paying quarterbacks too much

or going out there to try to get a superstar quarterback.

Maybe teams should just focus on getting average quarterbacks in the future

because the Niners did it.

Of course, the Niners would be an outlier of all outliers to that situation.

But some people would actually have to take that, like,

the quarterback position is not important anymore in today's NFL.

I'm just looking forward to having that discussion. We did have that discussion a little bit.
Remember when the Seahawks won and it was like the key to winning in the NFL is draft a quarterback, not in the first round and then build around them. Yeah.
It's like, yeah, I mean, yeah, that, that if you can find the right quarterback, not in the front, I mean, Jalen hurts is also exactly max was just looking at me like, are you going to not mention Jalen hurtsalen Hurts? Well, I mean, he's a great quarterback. No, but he's not getting paid that much.
No, of course. Like, he's the exact same thing as Brock Purton.
He's exactly what he just said. He's exactly what he just said.
Of course, that's true. If you have a quarterback on their rookie deal that you're not breaking the bank for, then that's easier.
It's easier to build around. I'm saying that there will be the take of, like, you don't need a great quarterback to win a Super Bowl.
Jalen Hurts, if the Eagles win a Super Bowl, the narrative will be Jalen Hurts is a great quarterback that won a Super Bowl. It's actually the old narrative versus the new narrative because Jalen Hurts is the Russell Wilson model.
Don't draft a guy in the first round. Hope you hit big with him, which the Eagles have hit big with Jalen Hurts.
Build up the rest of the team before you have to give him the big payday versus the new model, just draft the last guy in the draft. Yeah.
Just take the last guy in the draft, the one that's overlooked by everybody else. Take literally the last guy in the draft.
Billy, I know what you're thinking. Sam Ellinger doesn't work in this model.
I know. I was thinking as well, I'm rooting for Brock and the Niners because Brock has a chance to totally erase Tom Brady's narrative and legacy.
If he wins a Super Bowl. If he wins a Super Bowl.
Just one? No, no, like a bunch. This is the beginning.
If he wins seven. If he wins seven.
Agreed. He would have a better.
It's going to be a long shot. But it would be possible.
Every quarterback this weekend has a chance to beat their legacy. No, he doesn't.
He was drafted Mr. Irrelevant.
He would totally erase Tom Brady's underdog story because it's an even bigger underdog story. But would you say Patrick Mahomes also has a chance to erase Tom Brady because if he wins more Super Bowls than Tom Brady, he'd be the best quarterback of all time? Right.
Would you say Joe Burrow also has a chance to beat Tom Brady? Big Cat, he would be the best football player

who happens to play quarterback of all time.

Joe Burrow also feels like he could be,

you know, if he wins seven.

But Mr. Irrelevant winning seven Super Bowls

is totally going to raise Tom Brady.

Listen, Billy, I would say you're getting ahead of yourself,

but to win seven, you got to win one.

Exactly.

So got to get that first one.

But it's the beginning.

No one's ever won seven Super Bowls without winning one. It's true.
It's hard to be an all-time great without first being good. Yes, exactly.
But he has a chance. He has a big, right? Also, they would have to win eight.
Yeah, what would he be? It would be like a marathon in Brock Purdy if he won a Super Bowl this year would have finished the first half mile. Yeah, but it was like Mr.
199, this guy's Mr. Relevant.
Mr. 199.
So you're just doing this out of Tom Brady's spite? Yes. Okay.
Got it. All right.
Listen, that's a fair take. As long as you admit where it's coming from, that's a totally fair take.
Completely erased Tom Brady's legacy. It's like he never was here.
Billy football is going to ruin it. Those Jets losses never counted if Brock Purdy can win eight Super Bowls.

Yeah, I mean, retroactively, how many more AFC championship games do the Jets get to?

A lot.

Well, no, because the two they went to, they didn't go against the Patriots.

But also, they actually beat the Patriots.

At the same time.

In that year, one of those years.

What's so funny about Jets fans that have this bite for Tom Brady is like,

Tom Brady would not exist if it weren't for the Jets.

True.

If it weren't for you guys. If it weren't for Mo Lewis.
Yeah. You brought this upon yourself.
I know, but let's go Brock Purdy. Okay, let's go Brock Purdy.
So, Max, how are you feeling? I want your honest thoughts on how... I'm not hedging, by the way.
Well, I'm not cashing out. I was never going to cash out.
I might do a little small hedge because that would be stupid not to. I have no problem with a hedge.
But it's going to still be like my predominant rooting interest is the Eagles. I get that.
And I am also happy that we're going first. Yes.
Because. Watching a game and getting ready for it, yeah.
And also for your sake because if we had, if the Bengals lost the first one, then I'd be in panic. It would be panic.
Hank's smiling, that little troll smile. He's so happy.
Hank has a lot of eggs in this basket as a troll because his season could have gone worse. I'm not a troll.
His team, his second team. Can we please isolate that sound clip? I'm not a troll.
I mean, he couldn't even say that. Yeah, right.
He's laughing. It's actually rare that anybody who is not a troll would ever say those words.
It's actually great. Creating false narratives left and right.
No, Hank is the epitome of, I mean, I've been in this spot a million times. PFT, you've been in this spot a million times.
When everything else falls apart, you just, you like resort, you shrink back down to the smallest, tiniest hater in the world because that's really what it is. Like the Patriots season fell apart.
His second favorite team, the Cowboys season fell apart. The Vikings.
The Vikings, Hungry Dog, all these things. He now is just I need maximum pain for Big Cat and Max and the Eagles to die.
That I'm not that person that you're describing. If I was that person you're describing, that situation would happen in the Super Bowl.
Oh, but wouldn't you? No, that's not true, Hank, because you would not want to tolerate a full week around Philly people. I do.
I'm fine with Philly people. I love Philly people.
You'll get beat up. You're going to get beat up.
There's going to be an ass kicking. I'm going to tell our security guys to look the other way.
It's been a while since we've seen an ass kicking around these parts. No, we'll sell a lot of t-shirts.
I said this two weeks ago. I'm a company man.
The Eagles getting in is beneficial for everyone. Company man.
I'm betting on the Eagles. The Eagles are going to win this game by three touchdowns.
What? Here we go. We're getting up again.
I love it. I love it.
No, no, no. Fuck it.

Come on on.

Come on the bandwagon.

Brock Purdy is going to have a Joe Flacco rookie quarterback stat line.

Stop the run.

Score early.

Make him throw.

Win.

I do think that the Eagles are going to see a lot of, let's just let Brock Purdy beat

us, not let Christian McCaffrey beat us.

That has to be it.

The Eagles had 70 sacks this year.

70 sacks.

Brock Purdy has to go into the link and go up against a defensive line

that had 70 sacks this year.

70?

70.

The next best team had 15 less sacks.

Wow.

I was looking this up because we were talking about the best defensive lines,

and we were talking about the Bengals had half

as many sacks as the Eagles did this year.

Yeah, I know that pissed you off. Half.

Like, the Niners

don't know what they're going into. Debo said

he was like, oh yeah, I know that

it's going to be a rowdy environment,

but it's nothing like what we have in

San Francisco. I'm like, that's just not true.
What do you want

him to say? I don't know, but I'm using

it as bulletin board material. I'm ready to go.
I'm ready to take down these Niners and go to the fucking Super Bowl. Okay.
I like that. Pump them up.
I agree. I mean, they're going to kill them.
Kill them. They are.
Stop. And I'm not trolling.
That's the thing. It's not a troll.
Hungry Dog could be 19 to 24 plus 1,200. That's a dog, technically.
Yeah. There you go, Hank.
Yeah. I do not think it's going to be a killing.
I think it's going to be a good game. It's going to be a really tight game.
If I had to actually put my prediction hat on, I think it's going to be Eagles in the first half are going to get to a nice lead. And when I say nice, like 10-point lead maybe.
And then it's going to be hold on to your butts. The 49ers run game starts to work.
Start to make some plays. Because we've seen it from the Eagles all year where they come out really fast.
And then they've looked like maybe it's because of inferior opponents. But there have been times where it's like, hey, why aren't you putting up more points in this third quarter? You know? There have been those moments, Matt.
100%. Best second quarter team of all time.
Yeah. I mean, especially at the first half of the season.
You guys were just lighting teams up, but then you'd kind of fade away. But then in the third quarter, you'd take your foot off.
Sirianni loves to just pound the rock in the second half. He's not big on pedal to the metal, let's blow him out in the second half.
Someone needs to give Nick Sirianni a pump-up speech at halftime like he does before the game for the teams. Rocky.
He needs a guy that just plays Rocky for him. Yeah.
Just the scenes of Sly running around like jogging in his gray sweatsuit. Sirianni needs to do something to get himself excited for the second half because I think he burns out all his energy in the first half.
I think he's too emotional in first halves. Agreed.
No, I like the emotion. In the first half.
I'm saying match it in the second half. No, agreed.
Maintain that level of excellence. If it's a shootout, we're going to win.
There's no way Brock Purdy's going to be able to keep up in a shootout. No way.
Sucks. The only way I see us losing is if the Niners can make the game ugly.
And if we make the game ugly, then... You visualize losing? I need you.
I'm not talking to you. How can you even think about losing? I'm playing all the scenarios.
No, no, no. This is good.
We need to confront our fears to overcome them. Correct.
Yeah so correct yeah so max just walk me through what

does a loss look like i don't like hank just looking at me don't worry about hank stop looking it's like what do you want me to do i can't look now i can't speak i can't look hank just can i can i listen should i take my headphones off yeah face the corner no a situation where i see the Eagles losing is that

the Niners control

the clock and control the ground

and it off? Yeah, face the corner. No.
A situation where I see the Eagles losing is that the Niners control the clock and control the ground, and we lose like 18 to 12. Like a gross, gross field goal number.
Shut up, British Army. Just destroy the clock, and that's what scares me.
But if we can get points up early, I don't think there's any way Brock Purdy can hold up.

Okay.

Yeah, make him throw.

Make him throw.

He has been good, though.

I'm a believer in Brock.

That's what's killing me.

He's been fine.

I'm a believer in Brock.

I'm just curious about the sack stat that you brought up.

If you took out the games against the Washington football team, sorry, the Commanders,

I feel like that brings it down at least 20, right? Did you sack Carson Wentz 10 times? I don't have those numbers. It was disgusting.
It was disgusting what you did to my boy. Look what you did to my boy.
I have some of those numbers, and I don't want to say them. Eagles have 70 sacks this season.
23 of them came in three games. Those are good games.
What, are we penalizing good games?

Yeah, I mean, I kind of agree with Max on that one.

Like, that's a hell of a three-game stretch.

It is.

It is.

But still, that does make me a little nervous that it was.

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You've experienced

a lot of losses, a lot of choke jobs, a lot of

playoff, you know, under expectations.

Where would this rank

all time for you in your

long list of playoff losses as a fan?

As far as

expectations and

what you see going forward,

I would probably put this as

the second worst loss. Behind the confetti? No.
The no-hitter in the World Series? No. I knew you were going to say confetti.
I don't like that you were interrupting me. The MLS, the end of that game? No, the Kawhi game, 7-3.
I forgot about that. Just because that was Jimmy Butler.
That was a bad one. That was Jimmy Butler's last game, and since he left, it's kind of...

Although the Sixers are back.

That's a different question, but it would be number two.

That wasn't a question.

No, that's a different statement.

That's a different statement.

That's a different conversation.

But yeah, that Kawhi shot, I'll see that ball bouncing 10 times for the rest of my life.

Yeah.

Okay, good question, Hank.

Thanks.

Roll that question.

Okay, so any other thoughts on this game?

It is going to be loud. It's going to be crazy.
I still also, and I like him because he is a friend of the show and he wears the sweatshirt, so I'm hoping that he doesn't have this happen, but Kyle Shanahan has had a few moments in the playoffs that have his brain is froze. Yeah.
Well, as long as they don't get up to a big lead. Right.
If they get to a big lead, then he will blow the big lead. Smash the Eagles live line.
So, yeah. But if it's an 18-12 type score.
Yeah. Then I could see him holding on.
I do think he's. Just randomly pick those numbers out.
As good of a coach as Nick Sirianni is in terms of just like game plan, Kyle Shannon is at the top of the list. He's probably the number one offensive guy.
Has he taken that mantle from Sean McVay? I think so. I think so, too.
Because he owns Sean McVay. Well, what about Matt Patricia? He's pretty good.
I mean, from a rugby standpoint, the work that he's done in the field of laterals is fantastic. But no, Kyle Shanahan, I think definitely he's the best.
If you were to pick one coach, if it were like, if every coach went into a big pool and you got to redraft coaches, first overall pick, I think you'd take Kyle Shanahan. Probably, maybe still Belichick.
I don't know. I don't know.
I think he brought back Bill O'Brien. But I'm saying right now.
Yeah. I'm not talking about in terms of the body of work.
Has anybody ever done that?

Drafted coaches? Ooh, I like it.

By the way, that's a good two hours of discussion in offseason. Yeah, let's do

that. Put a reminder in.
Let's draft

coaches. July

24th.

That's perfect. Yep.
July 24th.

July 24th. Is that a...
It's a Monday.

July 25th. July 25th.

July 25th. We'll do it for Wednesday's show.

We'll draft all the NFL head coaches.

I like that. This has nothing to do with NFL head coaches, but I did see this stat today.
I have to share it. So Bill O'Brien, back with the Patriots.
Congratulations, Hank. This now is the fifth straight season that Nick Saban lost his offensive coordinator and defensive coordinator.
That's fucking insane. It is.
It's crazy. And it's the perfect place for any disgraced college coach or just any disgraced person to go just hang out with Nick Saban for a couple months, and then all of a sudden, boom, top of the list again.
Little teaser for what's coming up, but Jules had me fired up. His take really got me going.
Billy O is a great coach. We forget about it because Billy O, the general manager, gets a lot of shit, and rightfully so.
This actually, Hank, started running your parade. This probably would nix any talk of Hopkins going.
Yeah, no, for sure. That's all right.
That's okay. I don't think that was ever going to happen.
We made that Photoshop for you. Yeah, but they don't get those big guys.
Yeah. Except for Randy Moss.

Okay, so, yeah, I'm taking the Eagles, but obviously I'm taking the Eagles.

I already have the Eagles, but I think this is going to be an agonizing game.

I think it's going to be a very tight back and forth, low scoring.

I don't like betting unders, but if I had to, I probably would, but I'm not.

If I had to.

I think that future is going to be doubled by halftime.

Shut up!

I don't like betting unders, but if I had to, I probably would, but I'm not. If I had to.
I think that future is going to be doubled by halftime. Shut up! I could definitely see this being a game where it's just straight up anxiety all around.
If you have a dog in this fight, you're not comfortable watching this game. Exactly.
People aren't going to enjoy watching this football game because it's just going to be dancing on the edge of a knife the entire time. First team to really fuck up badly going to lose this game and you know what i think this game is going to have and now we're just doing very uh minute predictions that will not be true like after we said all this hank's probably going to be right if one team's gonna win by three three touchdowns but i feel like this is one of those games that the team there's gonna the team that has the ball with like six minutes left is going to feel comfortable being like, we got this, and there'll be one more switch where it's like, uh-oh.
You know, like there'll be one team that will comfortably, like, all right, we get the ball back, we're up, we just drain the clock, we're good, and then that doesn't happen. And it's like, whoa, get back to holding onto the seat of your pants.
You want to get into some minute shit? Yeah. I've got a premonition.
I visualize this. There's going to be a fourth down in the first half, a fourth and one.
One of the coaches is going to go for it. Fourth and one early on in the game.
Feels like it's the right choice. If they don't get it, they're going to lose the game.
Oh. Because fourth downs in the second quarter count exactly the same as fourth downs in the fourth quarter that don't get converted just file that one away early fourth down conversion gets stopped the team that gets stopped they're losing this game i like it okay afc championship game now we're going to talk to jules about all these games or both these games um and we did get one thing wrong talking to him because we talked on Wednesday with him, and we were discussing Patrick Mahomes' ankle sprain, and we were saying he's probably not going to practice all week.
He is practicing, which shocked me to see him out there. Are we sure? You think it was a body double? Body double.
There's a bit of that going around. Only reason I don't think it's a body double, do you see him walk off at the press conference? Was he Olympic? No, no, no.
That's what I'm saying. It's a body double.
I don't. I think that was Jackson.
I think that was Jackson wearing one of those Mission Impossible masks that Tom Cruise wears in the movies. I also Andy Reid said that Patrick Holmes had this same injury in 2019 week one.
He went and played the next week. I think he had like 400 yards.
And Andy Reid said that it's better than it was then so that's scary if you're a Bengals fan because I did not expect to see him practicing no I in fact I was going to say like I would rather have my quarterback have two sprained ankles than just one yeah like remember Carson Wentz had that yeah on the colts double spray at least your your body is reacting the same way on both sides with one sprained ankle you might forget and try to push off on it. But I think what we failed to account for is the fact that Patrick Mahomes, he's the built-different guy.
He might just be built different. Yeah, and I've said it all week.
I've put the note that Chris Jones is going to be a problem. I'm going to take the Bengals, but this is not like going.
If you ask the Bengals fan on Monday morning, how are you feeling? Because we were right off Patrick or Sunday morning or Sunday after the bills game, right? So Patrick just got injured 24 hours ago. They'd be pretty confident.
I think seeing him practicing and knowing the type of guy he is, I think he's going to ball out and it's going to just be be a true old-fashioned, who's the better quarterback? And we get to just say whoever wins the game is the better quarterback. Yeah.
No, that's exactly what – this is a narrative game. It's back to a pick-em.
It's been shifting like crazy. Yeah.
This is for at least the next year, probably more than one year, of sports talk radio is going to be predicated on which team wins this game. And we're going to assign all the blame or all the glory to the quarterback of that team.
So those are the rules. Those are the rules.
You signed up for this listening to a sports podcast. One of these guys is going to be elite.
The other guy is going to be a choke artist that can't win the big one. I was a little disappointed.
I obviously want to see Patrick Rowan's healthy, but I wish there was a little more intrigue. Because seeing him do stretches and practicing is like, oh, he's good.
Like he's fine. He would be quite literally built different if he's able to just go out there and play like it doesn't matter.
Yeah. If he runs, maybe we take the rushing over for him.
I think, I think we might. I think we should.
If you actually believe Patrick Mahomes got that dog in him, which I do. Did they, was was he was he a full participant in practice no way right i just saw the clip of him uh doing like some hamstring stretches yeah and he looks completely fine full full participant he's gonna be fine this is gonna be an awesome game a shootout it's gonna be what like i'm happy that he's fine because i.
Yeah, look, he's jogging. He doesn't look like he has a limp at all.
He didn't wear a walking boot. How did this guy do this? I actually think if this injury had happened to Big Ben, he would have told him, cut it off.
Yeah. Just cut it off, Doc.
I'll play. I'll go out there.
Give me a stump. He would have come out of the tunnel in a wheelchair.
I think. And then been like, no, I got, like, there would have been a dramatic coin flip.
He's in a wheelchair. Everyone's like, no, Ben, don't walk.
And he's like, I can do this. He would have hired fake doctors, like actors, to play doctors next to him trying to grab him by the arms.
Yeah. And he would just break out of their grip and run out onto the field.
But Mahomes, he's not wearing a walking boot. He's practicing full go.
I think he's going to be fine. I think we got to go rushing prop over.

I'm looking at his rushing prop right now.

So right now, the Barstool Sportsbook doesn't have one posted.

I assume they're going to wait to see what the injury is that it gets closer.

Okay.

Just blindly take the over.

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm going to do it.

I'm going to do it.

I think he's going to be fine.

This is also like Eli Apple has just continued to talk more and more shit as the week has progressed.

Yeah. You thought he was going to cool down? No.
No, he ramped up. This is his like Eli Apple has just continued to talk more and more shit as the week has progressed.
Yeah. You thought he was going to cool down? No, he ramped up.
This is his Super Bowl. Days on which he's not actually playing a Super Bowl game.
Yes. That's when he feels like he's actually on the playing field.
Now, they're calling it Burrowhead. They're calling Arrowhead Burrowhead, which is, it feels like bulletin board material.
Well, Patrick Mahomes is 9- three straight up in the playoffs he's been to five straight afc championship games the only quarterbacks he's lost to in the playoffs is brady and burrow so and it would be two and two if burrow beats him again this time one of those guys isn't even that good if brock purdy wins the super bowl yeah that's true so then he's number one In that case, then it's like, oh, well, he lost to Brock Purdy, basically.

Yes.

So I like the Bengals, but with the caveat that I'm not believing

that Patrick Mahomes is as healthy as they're telling us.

I think there's shenanigans afoot.

All right, I'm going the opposite.

I like the Bengals.

I think Patrick Mahomes is 110% healthy.

I think there's shenanigans. I think you're getting're getting fooled he never was injured you're getting fooled by somebody i mean i just wanted to get chad henny his moment doing a fake injury in a game would be next level yeah i could see belichick pulling that one out yeah we've been doing the fake hamstring off the gritty yep this is also this is andy reed off a mini buy yeah because he played's true.
So, Reid loves his rest. Yeah, he does.
So, he's got a little extra rest. Yeah, I'm very excited for this game.
Do we want to do so? We almost hit our four to score last week. We didn't boost it.
We're going to do it this week. We're just going to tweet it out for the people.
I have one that I think you guys are going to be like, no, please don't. But I'm going to say it anyway.
I think Kadarius Tony's going to score in this game. Okay.
Yeah. I don't hate that because Reed's going to break out some weird trick play that we haven't seen before.
Yeah, right. It's going to be like, Kadarius Tony, the reason why we brought you here is you're a difference maker.
Yeah. Go do it.
Go make a difference. He's like that.
Yeah. Yeah.
Go make a difference. Okay.
I like that. So I was going to say, I got kind of a weird one for the 49ers.
That's not hitting, but I love it. I like juice.
I like juice. Oh, no.
I like them getting him involved. Can we put him? Can we put him? Can we just bet him separate? Yeah, I'll just bet him.
Yeah, because that. How many touchdowns does he have this year? Not many.
Yeah. But again, this is like Kyle Shanahan.
These are the moments when the offensive gurus get their plays out because they know that everyone's going to see them and talk about them. You know what? Let's put it in.
No, no. No, it's fine.
I'll go Christian McCaffrey. That's fine.
No, let's put it in. And everyone just really wants it.

Anyone that wants to be a real rider will hit me on the side

and take my juice boost.

No, we're going to put it in, and we're going to just say,

hey, listen, gamble responsibly.

Maybe put five bucks on this one because it's going to be a long shot.

What do you got, Hank?

I think in short goal situations with a good defense,

a lot of scrambling.

Give me Jalen Hurts.

Okay. Oh, man.
Kyle Jujczyk's 13-1 to score. There you go.
You need a guy to boost it up. We're taking all these square picks.
What's the last one? Billy. Hayden Hurst.
Hayden Hurst. Okay.
I like it. This is going to be our put $5 on this parlay.
Responsibly. Yeah, responsibly.
Don't get crazy because this is not going to hit, but if it did, that would be pretty cool. All right, so $5 on this parlay and responsibly yeah responsibly don't get crazy because this is not going to hit but if it did that would be pretty cool all right so five dollars on this parlay would win you let's two thousand six hundred ninety five dollars wow pretty good thank us later i mean this would make now i'm putting another verse but i shouldn't do that um just i i do that all the time i just fantasize like what if, what if I just put 200 on it? Well, if I put two grand on it, I win a million.
But, yeah. Can you imagine? No.
You know what I'm going to do again this weekend? I'm going to parlay both games to be tied at halftime. I love it.
I love it. That's like 22,000 to 1.
So we'll tweet out what we are for to score. If you do have a gambling problem, call 1-800-GAMBLER.
This is a long shot, so put a dollar on it. Put a dollar on it to win a little extra money.
And we'll also maybe do a more realistic one, too. Where I'll take Kadarius Tony out, you takeushek out.
We'll do our best effort. We'll give you two options.

Okay. My substitute for

Juice is going to be

Christian McCaffrey.

Okay.

My substitute for

Kadarius Tony will be

I think it's going to be

a big A.J. Brown game.

Okay.

He's got a little

there's been a little talk.

A little diva talk.

He's got a dude

a bad attitude in the locker room.

He's got

I just walked by the TV today

and I think it was the first First Things First. Is that the name of the show? Which one? The Nick Wright Show.
Yeah, First Things First. And it was just – it just said, A.J.
Brown diva question mark. I was like, well, this is a storyline.
They posted a video – excuse me, Max. They posted a video from the locker room after the game, and everyone was dapping each other up, and he had bad attitude, and he was getting cooked in the comments.
Eagles fans were like, this is not me. Yeah, he had a bad game, but he's got to have a better attitude, yada, yada, yada.
It was pretty shocking to see. Sounds troubling.
Best receivers of all time have always had a little bit of D.V. in them.
Is that true? Yeah. Jerry Rice? Terrell Owens?

Steve Largen?

Best Eagles receiver of all time.

You just went over my point.

Yeah, okay.

Well, listen, I think he's going to have a big game.

So the diva question mark will be answered.

Not because he has a big game.

He's a competitor.

Yeah.

Okay.

Other things.

Frank Reich has a job. Congratulations, Frank.
I don't hate to hire. With who? The Panthers.
The Panthers. Yeah.
He was the first quarterback to ever start a Panthers game. First quarterback to ever throw a touchdown for the Carolina Panthers.
Yeah, you love that, don't you? And I don't think it's bad hire. I do think Steve Wilks kind of got hosed on this because Steve Wilks has already proved he's a good coach of the Carolina Panthers.
We saw it. He took a dog shit team that was playing really poorly with zero urgency.
And as an interim coach, he already proved what he can do. The other shocking thing about this, if I were to tell you, everybody in this room is on their phones right now.
What's going on? I was looking up how much we could choose. It was just wild.
Choose this touchdown score? It was wild. I just looked around and everybody was like.
Well, I'm sorry, but if we added Samaj and Pirine, I'd win three and a half million. That's pretty good.
I was parlaying all the gingers on the Bengals. Anyways, this is fucking crazy, though.
Did you know that Frank Reich is the same age as Jim Ursa? Whoa. Yeah, that's wild.
Jim Ursa should not be that young. No, and Frank Reich, I didn't think he was 63.
Yeah, that is older than I thought. Our guy John Rich told me that just as a fun fact when I was walking past him.
That is blowing my mind right now. They look like different species.
They don't even look like they're both humans. I see Frank Reich is 61.
What? And Ersa is 63. Oh, you got fake news.
Fake news. They're basically the same age.
Yes, they're pretty much the same age. If one of their birthdays is early and the other one's late, they're the same age.
If one had just graduated from high school and the other was still in high school, they could have a consenting relationship with each other legally. Yes.
Jim Irsay and Frank Reich. Yeah.
In the back of a Honda Accord. But I think that Reich, he's a decent hire.
I just feel like Wilkes is, he already showed that he can do the job. Yeah.
I wouldn't even say Frank Reich's a decent hire. Like, what has he done in the end? The Colts underperformed every year.
Besides when he had Andrew Luck. Like, he, I don't know.
He's a QB whisperer, right? In theory. And they couldn't whisper their way out of any QBs.
I don't know. I did read that he does have a Charlotte connection, though.
Do you know what a Charlotte connection is? It's one of the funniest connections ever. It said Frank Reich.
Well, he played for the Panthers. Yeah, but besides that, in terms of growing up, he spent his first year in seminary in Charlotte.
So I didn't even know that he went to seminary school. That'll be a question in the press conference.
Yeah, I'm big on the Panthers next year, but this was an uninspiring hire, I will say. I'm not inspired.
I thought David Tepper was going to do something crazy. I think it's fine.
And then he just was like, let me just get this other guy who's safe. I think it's fine-ish.
Colts are one of those organizations – you can overlook a lot of things and be like, okay,

maybe it's just the organization around him.

Yeah.

And maybe it's not the coach.

I feel like they were always supposed to be the winners of the AFC South,

and he never could beat the Titans, and he always – I don't know.

So Frank Reich's years, he had Andrew Luck in 2018, I want to believe,

10-6, and he went 7-9.

Philip Rivers' year, he went 11- 5, 9 and 8, 3 and 5.

Not bad.

Didn't?

No, but not great.

That's not bad, though.

Not, okay, let me put it this way.

Not get a job immediately after getting fired.

Well, let's also make it clear that it's a job with the Panthers.

So if you're the Panthers, is your expectation that you're hiring a guy that's going to win you a Super Bowl? I think if you're the Panthers, you would kill for a record like that. Dream big.
Dream big. The other hiring was Nathaniel Hackett to Billy's Jets.
Great hire. We love Nathaniel Hackett.
Also, in the press conference, Robert Salah said,

you've got to be able to look past recency bias.

You've got to look past whatever you want to call Denver.

The nicest way to put his absolute horrific time.

Whatever you want to call Denver, that's like a really bad weekend in Vegas.

And we come back.

He's like, whatever you want to call that bachelor party, we've moved on.

It was out of character for Nathaniel Hackett to be that bad.

So we have to take the entire body and just kind of uh ignore the trend it's also just like whatever you want to call it what about an unmitigated disaster yeah can i call it that it's like the the day after black monday it's like well the stock market's good if you ignore where we're at yeah someone yes someone tweeted me that the the white star line said whatever you want to call the Titanic, we've moved past that. Yep, we have.
100% was altitude. So now he's at sea level.
Okay. I think definitely helps.
In a jet? Yeah, I think it definitely helps his decision making. And I think we're getting Aaron Rodgers.
And I would love that. That'd be sick.
It might have been a bird brain situation, Billy. Exactly.
Where he doesn't have enough oxygen going to his head. So I don't – I like Nathaniel Hackett.
He's a very nice guy. But it would also be very funny if they brought him in for the second year in a row as Aaron Rodgers bait.
And then Aaron Rodgers didn't go there. Yeah, because he's just like, I don't – whatever you want to call Denver, I don't want to do that in New York.
He might not even actually be friends with Aaron Rodgers. Yeah.
But for some reason, owners believe that he is. And so they keep hiring him to entice Aaron.
And Aaron's like, ew. Worked with Adam Gase.
His one year with Peyton Manning or two years with Peyton Manning. Got him a couple jobs.
That's true. So like, hey, if you have a friend who is a good quarterback, you can get some jobs.
It'd just be very funny if Aaron Rodgers just completely ignored it again. But they would trade him, I think, out of the conference, right? They would trade him to the AFC, and then Aaron Rodgers potentially would start to fulfill the Brett Favre passage, where he then goes to the Vikings, and then he goes to prison.
The most exciting thing about Aaron Rodgers, if he did come to New York, would be combating with the liberal media and maybe destroying the Jets media type thing that's been destroying quarterbacks. Or knowing Aaron Rodgers.
And you won't have to do the blog. Yeah, right.
Okay, this is where I was going to say. Or knowing Aaron Rodgers, he just won't answer questions and then everyone will be more mean to him.
I just would love to hear the conversations between Zach Wilson and Aaron Rodgers in a quarterback room about like, oh yeah, the New York media. Terrible.
I mean, just see where it goes. I think Aaron Rodgers hates all media.
Yeah. I know.
It would be a stunning turnaround, though, because Aaron Rodgers would actually love Zach Wilson's mom. They would hit it off big time together.
Yeah. That's what I want.
Maybe that would teach Zach Wilson. It would.
Sometimes it has to happen to you. Don't fall when the rabbit cut the gun.
Yeah, you gain empathy when you experience the pain. pain.
So I wouldn't mind Aaron Rodgers in New York. We'd be best friends.
Actually, no, we'd be gone. Yeah.
Get out of here. Town's not big enough for all of us.
See ya. Good luck, Billy.
That's like the most that you can hope for as a Jets fan. I mean, it can't get worse.
That's true. Oh, that's not true.
Offensively. Ah, that's not true either.
I think

Billy might be right. It can always get worse.

At the quarterback

position. Of course it can always get worse.

No, it can. Yeah, it can.
I think

this is as close to rock bottom as it can get.

I thought it couldn't get worse and

the Bears got Mike Glennon as their

starting quarterback. No, but when you take into

account what they spent on Zach Wilson

versus what they've gotten. Mike Glennon got a good contract.
It might be as bad as it can be. The other parts of the team, great.
Quarterback position can't get worse. Give Mike White the starting job.
Mike White's the future, and he's a fan of this show. I don't hate that.
That's not why I'm saying that. We have Mike White and Nathaniel Hackett, two great fans of this show the show let's go the only other thing I had not football related was basketball it is just funny that Steph Curry has been ejected three times in his entire career all three for throwing his mouth guard does he have an attitude problem he has been laxed a day he's been like an NFL defensive back with that mouth guard yeah where it's just like hanging out left and right all over the place.
It's dangerous. Why does he throw it? I don't know.
He just gets frustrated. You got to throw something, I guess.
Yeah. Mouth guard's there.
He's always got it half out of his mouth. That's probably the grossest thing to get hit with if you're a fan.
If you get hit with Steph Curry's mouth guard like on your face. Yeah.
You got to protect the fans in that situation. Oh, I would sue so hard.
Sue. Big time.
The Seahawks are pissed off about Pete Carroll not being a finalist for Coach of the Year. Yeah, so the finalists were Sirianni.
Dable. Dable.
And then Kyle Shanahan. Kyle Shanahan.
So Kevin O'Connell kind of got screwed too. He got screwed for sure.
I thought he should have been on the list. But with Pete Carroll, I disagree.
I think that Pete Carroll, you can now now look back and make the argument Pete Carroll did a bad job coaching this year because they got more talented at the quarterback position this year yeah and they failed to achieve the ultimate goals of winning playoff games that's true so I I actually in a weird sick way I think they got exactly right and it also just shows you that Pete Carroll should have moved on from Russell Wilson sooner. Yes.
Maybe John Schneider should be GM of the year. Yeah.
It's like showing up and doing a really good job when you're not a very good worker and then all of a sudden everyone's like, wait, why don't you just do this all the time? Yep. So take away his coach of the year if he has one.
He doesn't. I don't think he's ever even been a finalist.
Has he ever gotten a vote? It's like, no, it's him and Russell Wilson together have that tied. Okay, well, we're going to talk more ball with Jules coming up in studio.
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Because he had like 20 catches last game. Yeah.
14 for like 98 or something. Yeah, he got you.
So you're now third all-time. Also, thanks for showing up because, you know, you've just been canceling on us, just disappeared.
I think the old Belichick thing is like you start playing real football after thanksgiving and edelman is now uh two years out of the league so after thanksgiving he just disappears no i mean i moved back to la look i'm wearing my daughter's preschool hat i'm a father of one you can't pull that commute no back and forth to new york now come here on mondays leave tuesdays you guys do the the show Wednesdays or Thursdays. We could have you on Monday or Tuesday.
It's fine. You know what? We had Kyle Long on.
He's been watching games with us. You ever hear of Wally Pipp? You know who Wally Pipp is? No.
Who's that? Way to compete, Jules. Yeah, way to compete.
Who's that? Now it's the Jimmy Garoppolo. Some people were saying it's because you picked the Raiders to win the AFC West.
Yeah, that one shot me. Other people are saying it's because Tom Brady looks old.
I think he looks young. Okay.
I think he looks. Have you seen him lately? Well, what you've missed since you've been gone, and we did miss you, is Hank went against Tom Brady.
I heard. Yeah.
I heard that. What do you, what do you say to that? I mean, he was, he was basically reveling the fact that Tom Brady looked bad on that Monday Night Football game.
It's a team game. It's a team game.
And I go against Tom Brady. I went against the Buccaneers.
Who's the quarterback on the Buccaneers? It's a team game. Who, who, who, who'd they build that entire roster for? Leonard Fournette.
Okay. So what do you think, Jules? It was tough because I actually had a six-game parlay.
I was five for five going into it, and I picked Brady. Because you wouldn't go against your guy.
Yeah, it was tough. I agree with Hank.
I mean, you are what you are during the regular season. I mean, we all had this epiphany in our head that Tom was going to come out, flag carrier, the whole team was going to follow him, and it didn't fucking work.
But would you have even felt right if you had won that parlay knowing that you were betting against Tom Brady? No, I bet with Tom Brady. I lost the parlay.
Right, but if you had gone the other way and bet on the Cowboys, that probably wouldn't even kill me. That's terrible.
Yeah, you couldn't do that. You can't.
You can't. You can't do it.
Defend the wall. You got to defend the wall.
Right. Some people have gotten off the wall and gone to other places.
Tom Brady, one of them will F the Patriots. No, you fell off Tom's wall.
You're Humpty Dumpty. I'm on Tom's wall forever.
You guys can try as much as you want, but you can't take away 20 years. You can't take away 20 years.
You're not on his wall forever because we saw him on the air. I can't believe you took against him.
The Cowboys, too. It was a future.
I thought they were going to win the whole Super Bowl, and it just happened that they ended up playing the Bucs. But that was like.
Your future was the Cowboys? Yeah. But everybody knew everybody knew that was going to happen Hank everyone knew that they were going to end up playing the Bucs because they weren't going to get the one seed right yeah yeah I was wrong about the Cowboys I was right about them beating the Bucs the Bucs yeah well I hope relevant of who their quarterback I hope you're happy about it is there such a thing as flipping the switch in the playoffs because you're right we were we're like well it's Tom Brady in the playoffs don't bet against Tom in the playoffs he's never lost the Cowboys I set a reminder to myself to happy about it.
Is there such a thing as flipping the switch in the playoffs? Because you're right. We were like, well, it's Tom Brady in the playoffs.
Don't bet against Tom in the playoffs. He's never lost to the Cowboys.
I set a reminder to myself to not do it. Can there be such a thing as just like a team that is mediocre going into playoffs and being like, okay, it's playoff time.
Let's turn it on. Not really, no.
And a lot of it has to do with health, health of the team. I remember some of the teams that I played on, like in 15 and 7 or 15.
And 15 was probably the best team I played on. And like we just, you know, the end of the year, we lose Nate Solder.
Week like 11, we started 11-0. And then we lose Deion Lewis.
And then I broke my foot. And then, you know, you go into the playoffs, and you have this crazy run, and you think that guys are just going to flip the switch, and it never happens like that.
You are what you are, you know, and that's the honest truth with football. You know, and Belichick used to say, you can't just take a fucking Gatorade before practice and turn it on.
You ain't doing it. He would say that shit all the time.
And it's true. I mean, there's a few guys that could probably just turn it on.
Teams cannot turn it on. So if you are what you are, wouldn't you say Dak is what he is? And we knew exactly that, too.
I mean, yeah.

He threw a lot of turnovers this year.

He threw a lot of picks this year.

And it haunted him in the game.

I mean, the moment looked a little too big for Dak.

He was slow in his progressions.

I mean, that first pick, that was like he hitched like three or four times before he went to a comeback.

And in your quarterback clock, like when you're hitching that long, you automatically got to go to a comeback. And in your quarterback clock, like, when you're hitching that long,

you automatically got to go to a check down.

It just – and he had, like, a brain fart and threw it into a comeback,

which you can't do that.

I mean, it looked bad because that defense, Cowboys defense,

played really well.

Balled out.

Really well.

Balled out, yeah.

And Brock, I mean –

Yeah, tell us about Brock because we're Brock supporters.

Hank is not.

Brock straps.

We're going to be like a rookie Mr. Irrelevant because he can't win a Super Bowl this year, can he? I'm waiting for the same thing, but I'm rolling with him.
I'm rolling with him. It's tough because you look at last game.
I mean, he didn't light up the box score, but he didn't make mistakes. He tried a couple times.
Yeah, but even like that one double back where he rolled out and then he doubled back and he threw it in the back of the end zone, I swear you have that same – you see that play with a lot of rookie or young quarterbacks and it turns into an interception. He still got it out, so that's a win.
Like that's a win play. It was a great incompletion.
It was a great incompletion because it's in the red area. He doesn't turn the ball over.
And he's been doing his job. I mean, when you have playmakers like the 49ers, you don't have to go out and be Superman.
And that's a lot of what Jimmy G was, except he would have a couple brain farts here or there. What can the receivers do? Because they've got so many players that play different positions in San Francisco.
It's like the running backs can be receivers the receivers can be running back fullback fullbacks their left tackle can be a fullback and running back if they need them to what can you do as a wide receiver if you have a rookie quarterback is there anything that you can do to like make his life a little bit easier knowing that he's entering into like you know going under the big bright lights of the nfc championship game how can you how can you some of that pressure off him? I mean, everyone just has to do their job. You know, and if everyone does their job individually, as a collective unit, you're going to execute.
And it's going to put him in the best situation to succeed. And, you know, it's so crazy to me that he's going on this run.
even if he does have one of the, you know, probably the top two most talented teams in the league right now, them and Philly. But there's a lot to be said to playing disciplined football.
Sometimes when you don't make a mistake and you play a boring game, that's going to win. Yeah, I think the Niners can win a boring game that's the formula in this one keep it boring as Max was saying earlier keep it close Max was like this is the real Super Bowl is this weekend the NFC championship game do you buy that no because Joe Burrow and Cincinnati you know they're doing it again they're doing it again like I I was off him early in the season when you know but then you had he had the appendix early in camp didn't have a good camp so the team started slow but those guys the cincinnati bangles defensively offensively three three linemen down and joey b and the Bengals only get sacked one time.
Teddy Karras leading the way at center, former Patriot, former Dolphin. Love him.
Shout out to him. To get an offensive line that has three backup players playing well on the road, in a snow game, in the divisional round, against the Buffalo Bills, three-time Super Bowl champs that never won Super Bowl.
Like. That was mean.
It's not mean. A little bit mean.
It's not mean. That was mean.
Tamar Hamlin almost passed away, Jules. That was mean.
That was unnecessary. That was really mean.
You know what? I'll tell you right enough. You're grieving.
No. Sometimes when you're flirting with too much emotion, it takes you out of your game.
Yeah. And it brings me back to a game.
Like, when I would get so fired up, we played Indianapolis in 2015 after the whole deflate gate, and I was, like, super fired up. We were in Indy, and I was throwing the ball at the logo, pissed off.
Like I didn't have a good game. Like sometimes when you're riding so emotional, it takes you out of that focus factor.
And I think that was partially part of that. And not having Von Miller, they didn't have a pass rush.
So like it's a tough year. It's a tough game.
But you got to win a championship to be a champion. You can't act like a champion without winning a championship.
Put that on a quote card. That's a great.
That's a Dion quote card. That's a good one, right? That is a good one.
The Bills, though, and I want to talk about the games we have on Sunday, but one more thing on the Bills. What drove me crazy, and I don't know if you saw the same thing, it felt they just never found an intermediate passing game like they would it would be boom or bust and going back to your Patriots teams the one thing that Brady and you and Gronk would always do is if the team if the the defense gave you seven yards you take it every time like even going back to the AFC championship game against the Chiefs like you know and nine plays that you kept on making those catches over the middle, all those little, like, okay, give us 14 plays to go down the field.
That's fine. We'll do it.
We'll dice you up. It felt like they never had that.
A lot of that comes from not having a run game. Yeah.
And the teams that I was on that succeeded and had Super Bowl runs, we always got our running game firing at the end of the year, like LeGarrette Blount, Deion Lewis, our line would get going, sets up the play action in the cold weather, people don't want to tackle as much late in the season, like those little things add up, and that was, I feel, the deciding factor of that game, I mean, look at Cincinnati Bengals. They went out and ran the ball for 172 yards with three backup linemen, and they won the game, and it sets up everything, and it helps with those little intermediate throws because you can hit a play action, hit someone over the middle for 15 yards, turns into a 20-yard chunk play.
It just kind of unraveled for the Bills. I honestly think that they need another playmaker on the outside, and they need to beef up that run game.
Signing Cole Beasley I feel like was a panic move. It's the right move if it was like three years ago because he was the guy that was the intermediate passing game guy, and they knew.
They were like, well, our run game is just basically Josh Allen taking off when he wants to.

Which is scary.

Which is, yeah.

Terrifying every time I watch it.

They had the best running game statistically in the NFL this year.

But if you know ball, if you were watching the games, you're like, they can't run the football.

Yeah.

I mean, they look like a finesse team out there.

Yeah.

What's a finesse team? A team that can't run the ball and can't stop the run. Yeah.
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We love that. We're talking about a lot of Twitter analysts now are like, just throw it every down.
It's like, no, you've got to be able to run the ball. You've got to be able to run the ball.
RG3 taught us if you run the ball more often, you tend to win those games. Sometimes it's, what is it, quantity over quality? Yeah.
you do have to soften them up a little bit but the thing about like the bills being three-time defending super bowl champions that haven't won anything i feel like there's nothing that the bills have done to kind of go out there and and act like they're entitled to a super bowl it's just us we've just been talking about celebrated like the media has been like the bills are great they They're fun to watch. 100%.
So I don't really blame the Bills organization or anybody on that team. This is just what we do in the media.
We're like, they're next. And it turns out we were wrong about the Bills being next.
So now we're mad at the Bills for not living up to our expectations. No, I'm not mad at the Bills.
It's just, you know, I got a lot of friends that are Bills fans. And like at my inside the NFL job, my homegirl Jules.
Wait, the girl's name is Jules? Yeah, her name is Jules. We both are Jules.
That's confusing. That's awesome.
Yeah, it is very confusing when people say, hey, Jules, and I like turn my head and they're like looking at her and I'm like, is it me or is it her? But yeah. Damn.
But like, where was I going with this? Have you guys ever hung out? No, she's like married with... I'm just wondering.
That'd be weird to date somebody's co-workers. Put it on the bonk list.
Co-workers. It'd be weird to date...
If I met a chick named PFT and then we started making out, I'd be like, wow, this is weird. Yeah.
Put it on the list. It's on the bonk list.
It's just a fact. The bonk list.
The PFT

went straight to having sex.

The last thing on the list is PFT called

the neck concussion thing a cock ring for your neck.

Yeah. What is that thing?

It's a cock ring for your head. PFT's a cock ring

guy. We found out on Sunday.

Alright. Trust Tree? Trust Tree.

I wore a cock ring one time. Of course you did.

I did it one time. We knew.

I did it one time. We knew.

I mean, who hasn't? It was obvious. i want to see what all the buzz was about but back to back to jewels um you know like i feel bad for because i have a lot of buffalo friends and you know they were all kicking our teeth in as patriots you know patriot people for this last three years and i straight up told her i go at least when we were the older like the big brother like slapping our little brother when we played because i think i may have lost a buffalo once in my career at least we were going out winning super bowls like it sucks when your older brother's beating your ass and they they go out in the divisional round every year.
Yeah, there's a kid on the block who just beats your brother's ass. Yeah.
Yeah. It's not a cool feeling.
It's very humbling. So it hurts for us, too, as the Patriots who are – I like that spin zone.
That's division pride. It's division pride.
It's division pride. You've got to root for the division.
You've got to. Yeah, you know, I feel bad for Buffalo, but I don't.
Yeah, it sounds like you don't because you did the three-time Super Bowl thing. Yeah.
I mean, they're also your big brother at the moment. At the moment.
They're our big brother. You can't love them too much.
You have to keep them in check sometimes. Well, yeah.
Is there a part of you, like deep down, that you obviously want the Patriots to do well because you have a lot of guys that you still know on the team, but ever since you left, Brady left, it's not been great? No, because... Maybe you were the straw that stirred the drink? No, there's generations.
So, like my generation of Pats is done. There was the generation before us that had their run.
Now you look at it like, hey, we want our guys to do well too. And it's terrible because I remember being in that situation in 2009, 10, 11, having to hear about the Patriots of the past, Teddy Bruschi, Troy Brown, Richard Seymour, and Coach over here bringing them in team meetings and talking them up.
Well, Bruschi would do this. It would piss me off about that.
So I'm just hoping that these young guys that are in this organization that's had so much success have that same feeling right now. And if they don't, they need to get out.
What did you think about the the raiders game because that we said afterwards like belichick and i'm sure he's said this millions of times that if you're not coaching it you're allowing it and that's i don't know if he ever said that to you but that is a quote of his if you're not coaching it you're allowing it and having that happen in the raiders game we watched it live i did i was there. Yeah, that's right.
I had a future. I had the over on eight and a half wins, and that could have been my ninth win right there.
Damn. But, yeah, I think because of the whole situation with the offense this last year, I think that Bill was probably more involved with the offense more than he usually is when you have like a Josh McDaniels or a Billy-O, someone that you could say, all right, he's got the offense.
Yes, I'll overlook the offense, but I can really think about the details of the actual macro of the team. I think that got taken away with his thoughts going into the offense a little.

And then, you know, you lose these little dumb details that you've been preaching for years and years.

And now you're not saying it as much.

And now we're having brain farts and dumb plays on special teams.

And it just, it didn't look good.

That's it.

I mean, that's a good answer.

Like that is, that probably is exactly what happened. You know, I don't know if that's exactly what happened.
Different ways and then losing that big picture. You lose a big picture.
Because that is the sign of a Belichick coach team. They do the small things well.
Usually you got to do the little things right, and they turn into big things. Did he ever tell you at the end of the game, like, hey, don't lateral the ball if we're tied? Not.
Yeah yeah I feel bad for Jacoby on that one but it was a nice pass he was trying to make a spiral trying to make a play yeah I I don't it was not a nice pass it wasn't even close it was a spiral though I like the first throw it the first offload he can sling that thing Ramondre's offload was great and then Jacoby was like I got I got this. Go deep.
Watch me. Go deep.
It was the Reggie Bush play. And they were playing man defense against Mack.
Yeah. Yeah.
That was a tough one. I didn't realize you were there in person.
I was there. Yeah.
I was there. Did you talk to the team before? Were you the one who allowed it? No, I didn't talk to the team before, but I saw them after and they looked real bad.
Are you pumped about Billy O coming back?

Super pumped.

I've heard, so I do the other podcast with Arian Foster and Bill O'Brien was his coach for years.

And he always says like Bill O'Brien, great head coach, players coach.

He gets a bad rap because at the end, Bill O'Brien, the GM, did some things that Bill O'Brien, the head coach, kind of had to deal with on the backside of it. I mean, we all talk about— As a coach, X's nose, he's a great guy, right? Dude, he brought the Houston Texans, who are like the most irrelevant organization right now since he left, to the playoffs four years in a row.
I mean, for like any other organization, that's really cool. That's good.
And then they kick him out the door, and then now look at him these last few years. It's been terrible.
He's single-handedly developed Deshaun Watson. He made Deshaun Watson a $250 million quarterback.
So I think it's a great move for the Patriots because he understands the standard. he's been in the situation of being a coach

in the organization of New England Patriots, and he's also been a head coach, so now he's got a different level. He's not the same Billy O when he came from Duke, and then he's working his way up.
He's got head coaching experience, and I guarantee Bill's going to use that. gonna he's gonna bounce ideas off of him because he was decently successful yeah you know as a head coach uh all right so talking about this sunday's games i would assume you were injured a lot or you you you played through a lot of injuries tough guy patrick holmes high ankle sprain did you have you had the high ankle sprain had a high ankle okay so four to six weeks yeah so from everything I've you know read about it understand about it you know if you're an offensive lineman or a quarterback maybe you can come back a little earlier but like a wide receiver a guy who has to cut it's pretty much impossible what I mean what is the like the timeline of you get the high ankle sprain what does the next week look like what is he going through right now that we don't realize? Because we're just idiots.
They're like, oh, yeah, I sprained my ankle playing basketball. I was able to stay in the game.
Like, it doesn't, you know. It almost feels worse that next week because that's when the swelling settles.
You're not on the adrenaline of when you first did it. He probably went and shot it up in the game to try to come back and play.
And he had a – I mean, watching him go out there

and play the way he did with that ankle, I mean, it was impressive.

It was.

That's a dog.

Yeah.

You know, he's a bad man for that, as in a good man.

Yeah, right.

I got it.

But, yeah, but how – he's not practicing this week.

No chance.

I don't think he's going to – physically, I don't think he's going to have – he's going to be able to practice. I mean, they're going to try to get that swelling out the whole week.
No chance. Physically, I don't think he's going to be able to practice.
They're going to try to get that swelling out the whole week. He's probably going to be in meetings.
He's going to be out there watching it and trying to get his mental reps, but the whole week is going to be predicated in trying to get all that swelling out and trying to get that thing as best as you can make it feel. That's a tough tough injury, especially with how he plays the game.
Patrick Mahomes is different when he has to stay in the pocket and then when he gets to do his improv stuff. And he uses that ankle a lot when he double backs out.
He hits like a juke move, and and then he throws and then he's planting off of it

and it's his back right so that's his plant foot so it's tough to like get that drop and you're planting off of it and then you got to let the ball out I mean if he goes out there and he performs well I mean he's he's like superman yeah what uh how often can you get it shot up Well, usually they'll probably put cortisone in it to help with the swelling and the healing. That's what cortisone does.
It'll help settle it down. And then they can local it before the game.
You're only going to give the cortisone once every five months because that's really terrible putting in your joints because it can eat up like the cartilage and the ligaments so you don't like doing that uh but they they probably did that to to settle it down and then pre-game they'll probably give them a local of like marcaine and or lidocaine which is like an actual numbing agent where you don't feel anything so you know it's to be a tough one. Because even when you, I remember when I sprained my ankle and it wasn't even a real high, bad high ankle.
And I was out for like four weeks and then I came back and I was getting like these little baby sprains. Like when you come back and you cut, you're like, oh, shit.

You know, like, you get these little nagging pains all the time.

It's a tough injury.

And, you know, it's going to be tough.

Yeah.

When they talk about, like, he's getting in early for treatment this week.

He's doing a lot of treatment at the team facility.

Is that just coming in, like, putting your foot in an ice tub early in the morning to soak your foot? There's different ways of approaching that. I was very big with, you know, soft tissue, like Alex Guerrero, Tom's guy, what he would do is when you have a spray and he'd go something like totally different than what any like regular medicine person would do.
He would be like rubbing your ankle and trying to get the swelling out and then hitting all the other muscles that are connected to that area, like your calf, your hammy and all that, because your body makes a natural cast when you have like an injury. So then everything else tightens up.
So if you're only working on the ankle, you know, your calf has a natural tightness that's going to happen. So then leaves you vulnerable, hurting other things when you're getting out there.
So that's what I would be doing. I'd be getting probably soft tissue on it, trying to work that swelling out, hitting all my other muscles around it and trying to keep those things in flow.
yeah i mean it's it's going to be interesting that's going to be i mean and that's that's ultimately to me that's the that's a deciding factor for that game like if he was healthy it's a completely different game yeah yeah but yeah i mean my the other deciding factor in this game um to me is there was a lot of talk about the bengals offensive line they played great against the bills theills. The Bills don't really have any special players on the defensive line.
They have guys, but they don't have anyone special. So I was saying, like, all that talk leading up to the Bills game, Frank Clark and Chris Jones, like, that will happen this week where you'll see, oh, now they're going up against all-pro, pro-bowl type guys.
That's where having a backup offensive line is a difference maker. 100%.
That's going to be a problem. I already, I actually already said it on, on Wednesday's show.
I marked Chris Jones problem. Problem.
Yeah. Problem.
That was it. That was my entire scouting report.
Problem. Problem.
And you know, you, you're hoping as a Cincinnati Bengalsals fan that that last week and that confidence and that, you know, only giving up one sack and running the ball great gives that line, that line that's going to be playing this next week a little confidence because it's going to be completely different when you're lining up against those guys. Those guys are monsters.
I mean, Chris Jones is one of them. Yeah, he's elite.
He's completely like he can wreck a game just by himself. Especially when you're in the middle of that thing with a guy like Burrow who likes to sit in that spot seven yards behind the center.
I mean, that's how you ruin a game. Yeah.
Where do we stand on the Joe Burrow versus Patrick Mahomes? Because you have to have a take on it now. Yeah.
Everyone has to – you have to pick sides. You can't say both quarterbacks are good.
You can't get nuanced. You just have to give us your opinion.
Who's better, Joe Burrow or Patrick Mahomes? Right now, it's still Pat Mahomes. What if Burrow beats him? What is he, 4-0? He'd be 4-0.
So then it's just like... Has his number.
Forget the analytics. He beat him.
He's got to win a bowl before he's better than him. That's what we're saying.
It's like Joe Burrow is Brady without a Super Bowl. Patrick Mahomes is Peyton Manning with a Super Bowl.
I mean, that's a really good one. Wait, wait.
It's not even close to the right analogy, but it is if Joe Burrow beats him here and goes on to win a Super Bowl. Who's Josh Allen in this whole thing? Josh Allen might be Breeze? Dan Marino right now? Phillip Rivers? Breeze? No, not Phillip Rivers.
Not Phillip Rivers. Phillip Rivers was very good.
He was. Listen, I'm not here to slander Phillip Rivers.
I think actually Patrick Mahomes is Dan Marino with a Super Bowl. Who's Joe Flacco? Jalen Hurts? Brock Purdy? God.
Brock Purdy probably. Yeah Yeah.
That's that. He's elite.
Yes, he is. He won a Super Bowl.
What do you think about that game? Because you are a Niners fan. You're probably going to go back to the Bay with Tom next year.
I heard that report. From who? I just heard it.
No, you're thinking Miami. Oh, you're going to Miami.
Yeah, you're going to Miami. It's not Oakland? No.
No, no. Oakland doesn't have a football team anymore.
Oh. Are you a package deal with Brady now? Because you've had two years off.
You feel good, right? Feel good. Yeah.
Feel good. No, I'm done, boys.
Are you really? You can't be two years out of the game coming in 37 with knee braces, taped ankles, thinking you're going to go out here and compete against these young bucks. Yeah, but you got one game in you, right? I mean, I definitely got like seven, eight plays a game.
Do you have that dog in you still? Always. It doesn't leave.
What happens if you don't give your dog a chance to exercise, run around the yard a little bit? He gets a little fat. Yeah.
You a little chubby? No. You still got the abs, right? I haven't seen a thirst trap in a while.
Berrios has completely taken your mantle. He has.
Yeah, he's just posted. He really has.
He's been posting hot body pics left and right. Hot body McDotty.
He's completely stolen it from you. Is he the new

Jules? Did you pass the torch to him?

Yeah, we gotta see some playoff production

before you become that. Yep, that's a fact.

Are you a little upset that Kelsey passed you?

Definitely. Because it was you and Jerry

for a while there. 1-2.
That was a

cool stat. Yeah.
I'm not gonna lie.

But, you know, you gotta

tip your hat and you gotta

congratulate him. He's a stud.
Travis Kelsey, man's Kelsey, man. Oh, you want to do the Kelsey-Gronk debate? Because that's the other one that's coming out.
It's different. I know.
It's different. It is different.
But we still got to debate it. Yeah, but Kelsey, he's like, he's such a sad.
They play the game differently. Like, Gronk was like, I remember Gronk breaking Vannebosch's neck, blocking him.
Jesus. Remember Vannebosch? Yeah.
Remember how big – he was a stud on Detroit. Gronk went in and cracked him and broke his neck.
Oh, my God. And Vannebosch was a huge man.
How many necks has Travis Kelsey broken? I don't know. Right.
But maybe at the top of a route when he breaks someone off, he could break a neck, you know. This is a good stat whenever someone's like Kelsey or Gronk.
It's like, Gronk, he broke someone's neck. He broke a deal.
No, but he's got out of the club. I've been always, when that debate comes up, I've always said in terms of the pure tight end position, I think it's Gronk because of his blocking.
Like, I think Kelsey's, you know, the best,

maybe you want to say the best pass-catching tight end of all time,

but Gronk's, what he did in the blocking game was, you know,

there's very few guys who can do both the way he did it.

Travis Kelsey still has a few more.

Dude, he still looks good.

Yeah, he looks great.

He still looks like he's got three in him, like three good ones.

Here's the real debate.

Which Kelsey brother is better?

Ooh.

They both have one? Super Bowl? Yeah, they both have one. I like this.
We're just doing Super Bowls. Whoever wins this one.
We're getting so dumb with it that we're assigning like center wins. Center Super Bowl wins.
He's got one. I mean, I kind of like it, though.
I personally, I'm a Jason Kelsey guy. That Christmas song was pretty cool.
I think he's been the best player at his position unquestionably for, what, seven, eight years? Alex Mack was really athletic up there at center when he was playing. Yeah, he was very good.
He was very good. But Travis, I mean, they're both.
I mean, I want to meet the parents because they're both studs. Yeah, they are.
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He's trying very hard to embody the spirit of Philadelphia, but in very overt, kind of lame ways. You know, I was never in that world with my head coach.
But I tell you right now, with his antics and his rah-rah-ness and his excitement on the sideline, I think it works because how Jalen Hurts is. I mean, if you watch him, he's calm, cool, collect.
So maybe whatever they're doing together, it's working. But, like, yeah, I'm not in that cornball thing.
Did Belichick ever give you guys a pump-up speech before a big game, or was it just the entire week? He would give us, like, highlight clip. He would give us, like, a – Of the other team beating your ass? No, he would give us, like, a cut-up of, like, old situations of that same situation or like old games of that game like I'm talking like back in old tape before like not even Patriot shit like he would show us like New York Giants this is how you do it watch LT like he'd bring in all these clips and he'd give a breakdown and then he'd have like a a speech on like you know he would point guys out like matthew slater no one ever wanted you you weren't even supposed to be drafted you know and then he'd go down the line and he said this is why you're brought here for this game you know like and he would i he was good yeah he was just different with it it wasn't like like a rah-rah guy but like he would give you like facts and teach you on something and then you would get like oh shit yeah that fires you up and there's no right answer like i mean look at pete carroll pete carroll's the ultimate rah-rah guy like everyone thought oh pete carroll you know the way he coached at us USC is not going to work in the NFL, and it clearly has worked.
Guys can motivate in different ways. 100%.
I mean, there's different ways of doing things, but I was only around one, so I don't know what that is about. I think that's a good way to do it, is to single everybody out and make them buy in make them feel involved like this this is why people doubted you but this is why we appreciate you and this is what you were born to do like i could see myself getting amped i remember he gets on hey ninkovich you were a fucking long snapper like because ninko was like they had him as a long snapper in new or.
He goes, you couldn't even play the position.

No one wanted you.

That's what he would do.

And he would be like, oh, fuck.

And Niko would be over there drawing a picture, getting all mad.

Have you been watching him on TV?

Yeah, he's pretty good.

Yeah, you like him?

He's all right.

Steals some of my takes.

What's the take that you've been most proud of this year? I don't i don't know no i mean you had a couple that went viral which one uh you you you did the one with mac jones that you were like he's he's like crying too much and like bitching too much yeah that one went a little viral yeah i mean i still hold to that i mean he's he's a good kid but you know like you see you see people who they really are when when shit's hitting the fan and you can't do that as a quarterback he's a young guy and and his situation that he was in I'm not saying it was an easy situation especially having like Matty P calling plays but you know everyone's watching you when you're the quarterback. And there's something to be said about that.
And you can't, like, there's a standard. There's rules.
And don't come at me saying, you know, oh, well, Brady had like three Super Bowls when he fucking showed up a coach, like, for one, you know, like the first time. Or not showed up a coach, but when he got in an argument with someone and showed emotion like you can't there's you can't do that yeah you know especially when you're trying that you're still trying to learn who you are and and and then you know you other guys are watching that and then if they think that's okay then then it's gonna like the starting quarterback's doing it then you're gonna have you know the guy who's you know holding or or the the 53rd guy on the team he's gonna think it's all right so it's just not a good it's not a good look and and he learned from me he got better as the year went on and uh I'm excited to see what he does with Billy O because you know they have that built-in relationship back in Alabama.
And, you know, now we're going to really see. You also had $2,500 on TCU Moneyline.
Yeah, that one went wrong. That's one of those ones, though.
Like, I'm a big believer. As someone's been gambling for a very long time, if you're going to be wrong, be very wrong.
I was very wrong. Like the Rams-Patriots Super Bowl, I had the over in that game.
That's not even in the same category of how long I was. I was like 40 points off.
The Broncos-Seahawks Super Bowl? Yep. I had the Broncos in that, too.
That first snap. Remember that? It was over the head of Peyton.
I hosted a Super Bowl party, and I was just in the worst mood ever. I was like, everyone just leave.
This is terrible. Yeah.
You can't call them all, I guess. Yeah.
Can't win them all. Were you pumped when it was, what, 21-7 or 17-7? You're like, oh, here it comes.
I was like, yeah, I was a little bit. And then I think they would have was, yeah, College isn't my thing.
Yeah.

I went to Kent State.

I went to Kent State.

I don't know college ball.

I'm a pro ball guy.

Yeah.

Yeah, you lost your coach to Dion.

I know.

My guy, Sean Lewis.

I know.

That's tough.

Do you still low-key hate Peyton Manning?

No, I like Peyton.

I think he's entertaining. He's good on TV.
I think he's great on TV. But when he has you on the Manning cast, do you dip back into your memories and you're like, I was trained to hate this person for like 10 years? No.
I mean, there's banter, but the way he is, after I did that, immediately after he got my number like and usually you're setting up through booking aid you know the booking hey will you do this like I get a number I get a text from Peyton and like just he's just like a gentleman you could tell he's a great leader like he's like yo I just want to say thank you for coming on and then he returned the favor and came on to games with names and the crazy thing is he sent me like because we told we told him what game we're gonna do the seven touchdown game he sent me like a whole like preview of what he was going to talk about it was literally like probably like a 500 word text on like all right this is what i'm gonna go over this this this this he was like explaining the whole game and what happened and on this one play to decker this happened and then we hit welker i'm like yo dude what the hell it's like a tuesday text you get like going into a game plan like is this what game plan would have been like you with you i mean it was he gave me the whole scouting report the defense and shit i'm like what the fuck is this guy doing that's awesome but you know when you get when you see those other sides of people you know you you're i have nothing but respect and he's killing it yeah him and eli i'm an eli guy though i i tell him that to his face yeah superbowls yeah he lies my favorite meeting Eli, I'm more of a Cooper guy Yeah, Cooper's pretty good I'm actually It was the best it ever was

I'm arch yeah i'm a believer and i already think arch is going to be the goat the best of all time he's been better than tom brady we should be olivia guys is that her name yeah olivia doesn't get enough respect like enough credit she gets she has half those genes that go into it because like look at what Archie did when he was in the NFL. Never even sniffed a Super Bowl.

He was, like, slightly above average quarterback.

Olivia, that's where the talent is.

Probably, but did you see what Peyton brought his son?

He was wearing a Jalen Hurts jersey or something in that game.

I didn't know Peyton had a son that old.

Huh?

Oh, he was wearing Josh Allen. Was it Josh? I thought it was a Jalen Hurts.
Maybe it was way off. They went to Philadelphia, wore the Jalen Hurts, then flew out to Buffalo the next day.
Damn. Wore Josh Allen.
That's pretty fun. That'd be so cool to have that rich dad like that.
Yeah, I know. Like connected rich dad when you were a kid.
You just get to go to every game and meet all the players. I remember going to Candlestick.
And you get like a Coke and you can get in for like $14. And this is when like Candlestick was also the Giants used to play there.
And so they had these bleachers. And where we used to sit, you couldn't even see like the other side of the field.
It was like these terrible seats. But you could like look into the chain link fence and like behind where all the players were i remember seeing like one of the kids of one of the players go there and i was just like man i've been so tight if you could just i wanted to go behind the scenes in the in the stadium and then you look back at your dad and you're like what the fuck i'm like dad you fix cars yeah what the hell why couldn't you play in the league? Dude, it sucks.
Oh, I wanted to ask you, you remember that catch Kittle had last week where he bobbled it like three times and then moved it out of the way at Diggs? That was Jules-esque. That reminded me of your catch in the Super Bowl against the Falcons.
When you watched that, were you like, that's me, the Leonardo DiCaprio meme? No, a little different. Honestly honestly i don't understand how digs didn't blow him up i know and how kittle didn't have any like that's why kittle's just the ultimate dog that's like no fear like he most guys like once it pops you know like they're like oh shit i'm about to get hit changes there he was just like i'm going for this ball i'm getting this ball he I mean kittle's a goofy like he's funny he's he just like has fun and he looks like he's having fun anytime he's playing he's got that gronky kind of you know mentality where like he's kind of goofy competes his tail off does a lot of things that you know that doesn't get noticed you know you see him in the run game.
You see how he blocks. You see him on the sidelines.
Great teammate. Has he ever broke a guy's neck? I don't.
Gronk has. Gronk has.
Gronk has. That's actually, that's the ultimate trump card that you have right now.
Gronk, best tight end ever. He's broke a guy's neck.
Vandenbosch. It's tough to argue.
Not any guy. I mean, Vandenbosch had a neck that I remember walking by this guy because he broke my arm.
Vnebosch broke my arm in 2009. And when we were playing him in that snow game in Tennessee, remember in October, there was a fucking snow game.
Six touchdowns in the first half. Yeah, six touchdowns in the first half.
I didn't have one. You broke your arm.
Yeah, I broke my arm. Yeah, you broke your arm.
But, I mean, I still couldn't believe it. That's when I first – that was when – it was nuts.
Yeah. We do this segment on the show with everybody.
It's called The Game That You Remember The Most that has a fun nickname that goes along with it. What is your favorite game that you've ever played in? If there's, like, a name that you could put to that game, what would it be? Probably the Buffalo Dildo game.
Yeah. I mean, we were in Buffalo, and I kid you not, I saw a pink dildo that said Brady.
It was pink, right? And it had Brady's name on it, and I remember watching. And I'm a real focused guy when it comes to playing in the game.
Like, you know, I'm in it. But it was the first time I, like, looked at it.
I was watching the referees. No one wanted to pick it up, and they were kicking it.

What's going on?

I mean, that just popped up in my head.

I don't know why.

Yeah, the dildo game.

That's good.

Yeah.

It was a goofy name.

Yeah.

Game with a name.

Yeah.

Game with a name.

All right.

Last question for me.

Give us your picks.

And don't do the Homer Niner thing.

I'm going with the Niners.

No, but tell us the. I'll give you the Niners.
You think they're they're gonna win i think they're gonna win money line uh it's me you see i'm 22 to 1 kid yeah i i like the niners against philadelphia uh niners defense i mean philly's offensive line is pretty damn good yeah but, but the defensive line of the Niner, I mean, Armistead, Bosa. Lane Johnson, Kelsey.
Lane Johnson got a little groin. Yeah.
He's a gamer. He's a gamer.
He is. He's a stud.
Zero pressure's allowed last week. Secondary.
You know, you got Hufanga. The linebackers for the Niners are insane.
I mean, it's going to be a bloodbath. It's going to be a battle.
I'm taking the Niners. I'm rolling with Brock.
I'm going to roll Brock out with my cock out. And, you know, I like Kyle Shanahan against Sirianni.
That's really what it is. Because I think these teams are the two most talented teams in the league.
Roster. But I'm taking Kyle Shanahan over Sirianni.
That's why I'm taking the Niners. The question for me becomes, does Kyle Shanahan above Sirianni outweigh Jalen Hurts above Brock Purdy? You know Brock Purdy and Jalen Hurts played in college, Oklahoma versus Iowa State.
And Iowa State not being a big school, going into Oklahoma,

throwing five touchdowns, 500 yards, had a chance to win on a two-point play.

I mean, now he has a roster that's going to be able to compete with that.

But who won?

So we're going to see.

Who won that game?

Oklahoma did.

Oh, Jalen Hurts.

Jalen Hurts. I'm just saying, he's got some talent.
Who's got more national titles? Jalen Hurts or Brock Purdy. But they won that game by one point.
One point. Meaning Brock covered the spread.
You shouldn't take the spread. You should take the spread, not the money line.
I'm going money line. And then what about the AFC championship game? I'm going with Bengals.
And it has to do with the ankle of Patrick Mahomes. I mean, that's going to be a tough task.
They're going to be thinking about that. The whole team's looking at how he's going to perform.
Yeah, Chad Haney came in, had the 98-yard drive, which was insane to see from your backup who has been in the league for 15 years, who runs the offense completely different. But, you know, that Bengals team, they got a swagger.
They got a confidence. You know, they don't have excuses.
Three linemen out, let's go to Buffalo and just knock their heads in. Let's go score in the first two drives in a snowstorm.
Let's be a tough football team. You got Burrow doing the fucking spin throw before game.
Really cool. That was really cool.
Like, is that hard to do? I couldn't do it. It looked awesome.
It looked insane. It is swag how he did it at, like, he was like, was it a gritty at the end? Yeah.
He was doing, like, a little. I saw a clip of Justin Fields doing it this season before Bears game, and I was like, let's wait here.
Let's not do this. The snow, though.
I mean, the whole – I mean, this is a divisional game in Buffalo. No, I agree.
That's what I'm saying. I'm like, let's not tweet this.
Like, there's a lot of things I'll defend. Like, let's not – let's let Joe Burrow – Joe Burrow has earned being this cool.
I think the coolest part about that was I don't even think that Joe knew that there was a camera on him. I think he was just doing that because he's just naturally cool.
Yeah. Same.
Yeah. Same.
I believe that. Yeah.
But I'm taking the Bengals. I like Mixon.
I like Pirine. I like – I mean, they have insane receivers.
I think it's going to be a really good game. You can never count the Chiefs out.
But when I heard that the Cincinnati Bengals, in their whole – I was talking to someone over there, and in their locker room, there's signs saying, have you tackled Kelsey? Do you know where Kelsey – If you're going to take Kelsey out, which I still don't understand how he had 14 catches against the Jaguars. Why are they not doubling and tripling this guy? The Jaguars can't cover tight ends.
They really can't. They didn't even try, though.
I almost respect how they were like, you know what, there's one thing we'll admit that we suck at that's covering tight ends, so... 14 catches.
14. It's a break Jules' record.
He broke it. Damn.
That's brutal. Thanks, Jags.
I think you're just bitter about Kelsey passing you. That's why you're picking the Bengals.
Nah. I think they got more.
I mean, Patrick Mahomes got a high ankle, like a bad high ankle. That's nuts.
I'm taking the Bengals. Okay.
All right. Well, Jules, it's always great to see you.'s always great to see you uh you guys thanks for actually showing up this time hey you know do you not remember the time you canceled on us last minute yeah we i just wrapped up games with names i had to bring out my people and yeah it was a bad i mean i feel terrible but you know you guys you guys are pod guys you know you got to do to get team.
I mean, sometimes you got to take old. Didn't you send him out somewhere? Yeah, Billy got to go to Kansas City.
Yeah, as what, the super fan? Yeah. Oh, yeah, do you think that makes a difference at all? Like if Kansas City wins the Super Bowl, the guy that robbed a bank, he gets a $200,000 future that he put in.
Then he's going to be able to get out of bail. Did he put a future in there? Yeah.
If they win the Super Bowl, Chiefs of Hollings gets 200K. His bail is probably like 100K.
So it's a matter of him getting out of prison. Yeah, Billy? The funniest thing about the bank robber super fan is that he was at all the charity events with the players, so they all know him.
Win one for Chiefs of Hollings. Travis Kelsey was like was like I know that guy I didn't know I was with a legend yeah yeah we yeah it's like if you had like been hanging out with Hank all these years and then found out that he was a bank robber which wouldn't surprise me be cool that would be cool that would be actually free so actually crazy thing is story, my dad's a mechanic, right? And I don't even know if I should be telling this story, but we always had this, like, cool mechanic, this guy, James.
And he was working for my dad for, like, six, seven years. And all of a sudden, my dad comes home and he says, yeah, James got arrested.
I'm like, what do you mean? He goes, he robbed a bank 10 years ago and his girlfriend ratted him out. What? And that's how he got caught.
Damn. He robbed a bank.
Got away with it. Scott free.
Girl got mad. It was probably so easy.
Can't tell girls about that. Dropping a bank is a guy's trip.
Yeah, that's bro code. You can't say that shit.
No matter what. Even when you're like, like oh i love you so much i robbed the bank i trust you so much no no you just keep the rob the bank out there's some things you just better left unsaid yeah damn chicks ruin everything all right jules hopefully we see you sooner than later super bowl week we'll see you yeah you guys gonna be out there yeah we'll be out there yeah we'll guys going to be out there? Yeah, we'll be out there.
Hang out. We'll have to come out.
Yeah, I'm going to be out there for some stuff. Oh, okay, nice.
Pitching product? Yeah. Huh? Pitching product? Something like that.
Yeah, yeah. Nice little check.
What do you get paid? Like $400,000 just to go on Radio Row and talk about Skittles for 15 minutes? It's a nice gig. Usually like an airline or something.
Yeah, it's a nice gig. It's not bad.
Yeah. It's not bad.
I like it. All right.
All right, guys. Thanks, man.
Thanks, Jules. All day.
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Fire Fest of the week, by the way.

Monday, we actually will have a guest.

So we have Eli Manning on Monday.

Oh, Hank.

Hank actually removed himself from the room when we interviewed him. He's like, do you guys need me here? We're like, no.
He's like, good. No, Hank got triggered.
Yeah. You tried to silence him.
You tried to cancel Eli. You're a troll.
No, you guys are literally trolling. That's a troll gaslight combination punch right there.
No, listen, Hank. You took trolling, gaslighting me, put it in between two pieces of bread, and of bread and then serve it to me troll light you gaslight me and then you call me a troll which is whatever no i think you're misunderstanding when we say that you're being a troll you just lie you just made no hank listen you're it's great for the show i'm glad that you're doing it you're really good at it but you're trolling everybody again no hank you're so good at it.
I love it when you do it.

It's so good for the show.

So this is all a compliment.

All right, well.

Piece of shit.

My fire best of the week.

You're a fucking troll.

I'm not.

I'm going to conclude.

That's what a troll would say.

Hank, do we have to answer a riddle

before you tell us you're a fire fest?

He's a verbal meme,

the laughing face with the crying face

being like, I'm not a troll.

He's trolling himself right now. In that scenario, it would be the crying face and laughing face behind it.
True. So that was actually a test.
You know exactly what a troll would look like. Thank you.
No, but in there. No, I'm just, your analogy just make bad analogies.
I'm the teacher grading your test being like, F, you're dead wrong. Actually, in this case, it's the crying face mask over the happy face.
But that's also a mask with the real crying face underneath it.

Right.

That's the level you're at.

Yeah, you're hurt.

And then behind the other crying face is just Hank's face.

Yeah.

And he's also crying.

Yeah.

But with a smile.

Because he loves it.

He loves troll.

Okay.

Firefest.

Uh-oh.

I got to come clean.

I'm going to fix it today.

It's been since the Arizona Bowl.

I haven't had a phone charger in my house.

Apartment.

So you've been scavenging?

What?

You've been scavenging for charges?

What are you doing at night? So we went torizona bowl and i went home for christmas before that so i i usually am like you know don't bring your charger like that the good the good iphone cubes the the power fast ones yeah had one of those i was like i'll bring it with me i'll remember it obviously lost it got home from the arizona bowl i had a couple of chargers that aren't iphone chargers that i was like oh i have chargers in my house they just don't work so i had a couple nights where i thought i plugged in woke up because i sleep with the fan app on woke up my phone was dead basically it was like fuck i do have this man by the way just sorry to interrupt this man is literally running this is the real life damn bitch you live like this i have you live like this? I have a computer. And it's just an apartment with no C-words in it.
I have the cord. I have the cord.
I have a fast-charging iPhone cord. I have my computer, and I have a mobile charger.
So I will charge my mobile charger or sometimes charge my phone and my computer. But too often and too many times lately, I have forgotten to charge my mobile charger.
So when I need to charge my phone, I have to be near my computer. How do you exist? All right.
This is why I had to come clean. Maybe it was too much.
Maybe I shouldn't have admitted this. This might be the most shocking thing.
You've been just like a homeless person, basically. Yeah.
It's Hank, the NFL playoffs, handshake, missing chargers in January. I have phone chargers, but they're the shitty cord ones that don't work.

Let me ask you a question.

When you go to your big meetings.

What the hell was that, BFD?

That's my watch.

It's going off.

Siri heard the chargers.

My watch just said it's reminding me that the chargers did not play this week

because they were narrowly defeated by the Jaguars in the AFC playoff. What the fuck? Hard R.
You got to turn off Siri. Those are some hard R's.
Hank, when you have your big meeting, your corporate retreat, where you go and you get your helicopter and you go to your mansion and you guys all sit around and you do your Q1 earnings, will you have to come clean and be like, we might be down a little

because I haven't had my phone charged for all of January?

No, I mean, I've survived.

Wait, man.

It's just been, I've had to deal with adversity

and I just kind of had a come to Jesus moment

where I was like, you know what?

You got to buy some chargers, man.

And so what was the date that you lost your C word? Arizona Bowl? No, it's not. It's at my house, Hank.
It's been next to my bed. What the fuck, Billy? No, no, it's at my house.
I actually, a random one just popped out of nowhere. And I just was like, whose is this? And I thought it was somebody else.
Are you guys not living with, like, I have chargers in, like, every outlet of my house. Yeah, I got it.
Like, there's one next to my couch. There's one in my kitchen.
That's going to be me. I've realized again, like kind of like you said, it's like you got to get it.
You're almost 30. You're corporate Hank.
Like you should probably have some chargers. I guess I can just walk to Billy's.
Why would you hold that in? I come to your house every week. I didn't know that was yours.
That makes sense. It's been right next to my bed.
It's a good one a good one right yeah it's a really nice one i'm like oh my god i'm like wow i could have had now this actually continues because now hank actually has to go get it from him which will take a while well he might be there tomorrow yeah on farm friday but the um yeah i don't think there's a seat in my house that you can't charge your phone in i i'd like to just do a spin zone on this. But ever since...
Remember when we went to play basketball and I was holding around my mobile charger and you're like, why do you have that? Yeah, that's why. I kind of just roll around.
Jesus. But the mobile charger's never charged.
Ever since Hank lost his charger, Penn's stock price is up 20%. Oh, wow.
The less work that Hank's doing, the better for the company. It's a secret to the sauce.
Okay. I mean, this is shocking.
I actually have a shocking one, too, so don't worry. I'll help you out.
So, yeah. PFT.
Mine's not really shocking because I think I've talked about it on the show before, but I'm dealing with my hair issue, which is I've got about two more years of coverage before i'm noticeably thinning out back there and it's going to be bad it's gonna be bad image so i've yeah probably 18 months so i've made the executive decision if it doesn't improve by the summer we're taking it off we're taking we're going short bald not bald but we're going short we're going short then wouldn't that be worse no. What do you mean? No, there's no worse look in the world than a guy with long hair going bald.
But you'll just have a bald spot on your head. No, I mean like really short.
Right, and you'll have a bald spot. Keeping it tight.
Right, but you'll have a bald spot. Yes, that's what I would go for over having long hair with a bald spot.
Okay, wait, so wait, what is the plan, though? So the plan is I got my own blood injected into my head earlier today. Okay.
So they did the platelet plasma. Yeah.
They shot my scalp up with that. It's Sperling Dermatology.
Joey's people. Okay.
They hooked me up. So now my head just hurts.
Like the top of my head is in a lot of pain right now because they shot me up with like 30 or 40 different shots it wasn't that bad but i mean like it's unusual to have head pain yeah and so now i've i've started the clock where it's official that if if it doesn't turn around between now let's just say when we go to chicago that's a nice clean date yeah if it if i haven't turned it around by then, gotta come home. That would be crazy.
Scott Van Pelt taught us like... Crazier than taking off the sunglasses.
You gotta know when to come home. And it's just a bad...
I've seen a lot of guys with long hair that are going bald. That's not gonna be me.
Why don't you go like Rat Tail or Mullet and keep the locks, but then like deal with what's up here? A bald mullet? A balding... A skull never seen that before.
Come on, you've got to bring it. I might just at least see what the balding mullet looks like because I've never seen it in the wild before.
But it would be so disgusting that I would probably just – I would avoid mirrors. It detects.
Coach Dana, he's flirted with the bald mullet. He has a little bit.
He definitely has. So we got a clock.
There's an official clock on the hair right now. Okay.
So I'm not going to be the guy that lives in denial. It's like I'm not.
It's just going to happen. It's just going to happen.
So right now I got a very tender head, so no head pats. Okay.
Okay. All right.
My Fyre Fest is my own doing. It's disgusting.
Actually, it'll be interesting to see who's disgusted here. I think PFDU might be a little bit.
I think Billy probably be like, what's the problem? I've been going back to the gym, got a gym membership, been lifting almost every day. Feel good.
I have told myself I would get flip-flops for two weeks now, and I haven't. So I've been going in the gym shower and the steam room with no flip-flops, and I'm disgusted by myself.
It is. You guys aren't disgusted? I do that.
But do you? I just pee on my feet. It's so gross.
Yeah, bro, pee on the feet. Big cat, just pee on your feet.
Oh, so I know it's gross when I do it. I'm fine with the shower.
The steam room is like, I don't know. You don't...
I feel weird doing it. I go in the steam room.
You guys are cool with it? I'm fine. I'm fine.
Then I'll keep doing it. Fuck it.
I'm never getting flip flops. It's probably a nice gym, too.
It's not like you're at Planet Fitness. Yeah, that's true.
It is a nice gym. Thank you.
I was going to say, it does make a difference That's the truth. It's not like talking.
I'm about to hit a $2,000 parlayer with $35 million. When we worked at the old office, there was a plan of fitness that was super close by.
And so I would sometimes go there during the day. I bought special sandals for that lock.
It matters what level of gym you're at. Yeah, no, it's a nice gym.
But it also is like a pretty big gym. So it's very high traffic.
So that's the part where I'm like, I don't know. It's just I know that I'm kind of tempting.
You know, like it's a nice gym, but you'll walk in the showers and there'll be some hairs and weird shit. I'm fine with it.
I do the same thing. You just got to get into a nice pissing on your feet regimen.
And just walk fast. You piss on your feet and it washes everything away.
And I've been doing that for four years now, not wearing any sort of flip-flop shoes in the steam room, in the shower. I piss on my feet every time I'm at the gym shower.
I have not gotten a case of athletes for you. All right.
It was more I was just feeling gross. I'm the only one who doesn't have flip-flops.
No, it's good. I'm glad that you said something, because you were suffering in pain, and now you brought it to light, and now you've got a i have like for whatever reason like 12 players of spitting chick i was just about to say i have 12 pairs of sandals in my desk okay i'm not gonna give you no go fuck yourself please can i have some please no but i please i'll give you a charger no i have extra chargers don't care you don't need it actually like it's better for your body if you get exposed to all these different funguses.
Yeah. Because'll give you a charger.
No. I have extra chargers.
Don't care. You don't need it.
Actually, it's better for your body if you get exposed to all these different funguses because that way your body can reject it later. Hank's immune system is probably compromised through all of sandal wearing.
What's the worst foot fungus you've ever gotten? I don't get it because I put the fire hose on it. Oh, I've definitely had athlete's foot.
I use tough actin' to actin'. Shout out to John Madden.
R.A.P. I've skated by, but I've once gotten really bad planters.
Yeah. Planters.
That's the worst. Yeah.
I just learned today what shoe bite was because I have it. What is that? Shoe bite's the thing with new shoes where it becomes red and you get blisters on your heels.
Oh. You have a knee for that? Yeah, it's called shoe bite.
I Googled, like, heel from new shoes, and it's called shoe bite. Jake, you Googled a heel injury? You put on a new pair of shoes and you went to WebMD? Heel injury.
Oh, my God. That's happened to you guys, right? Yeah.
That's actually happened to me recently. It's just walked through it.
I was like, I just hope these shoes, if this happens consistently, I'm not wearing shoes. Apparently, you're supposed to put ice cubes.
Ice cubes. Duct tape.
You're supposed to put duct tape. Jake, it's called just wearing shoes.
Heel injury. Yeah.
What's this heel injury I have? Hank, can I please have? No. I'm sorry.
I apologize. You're actually not a gross human.
Yeah, no. You are not.
Thank you. You're not.
Okay. You don't have a charger.
I do. We're going to Billy's tomorrow.
On Farm Friday. What are you going to do tonight? What if I give you two balls today? For what? Sandals.
One sandal per two ball. One sandal per ball? No, per two ball.
All right, no deal. Hey, walk me through, though.
What are you going to do when you get home tonight? Where does your phone go? I have a mobile charger right now, but the mobile charger, the problem is chasing the mobile charge. So, like, earlier today, I was, like, doing meetings on my computer.
You don't have a car, though, for a mobile charger. No, the mobile charger the problem is chasing the mobile charge so like earlier today i was like doing meetings on my you don't have a car though for a mobile charger no it's a mobile charger for like a oh mophie okay yeah hank lately when i'm walking the dog i'll walk you to charge it's time yeah so but like you know i was on on my computer doing stuff like two hours so it's got like two hours worth of charge so i'll get home probably able to charge my iphone up but like overnight nothing worse than chasing a charge yeah it's the scariest thing in the world it's been a month yeah that's the anxiety I could never get out like I've given this speech like the first Saturday in the fall when you have to remind yourself that you're going to need to stay in front of the charge because you just gas it looking at scores and it's like when I'm on my couch when I want to watch TV and have my phone charged.
I'm just like, fuck. The crazy thing.
My phone's not charged. My mobile charger's not charged.
Every corner store you go to. I'm going to have to go turn my computer on.
But I have two. I had two.
You don't live in like Idaho. Every corner store you go to.
I know. I know.
It's Fyre Fest. I came clean.
They basically ask you. They're like, do you want a charger with your order? Well, this is like, this is up there with like murdering someone.
Living without a charger. How do you do it? All right, Billy.
Just without a cube, really. By the time you're listening to this, PMTV is out.
Yes. My ass is in the jackpot, so please go watch PMTV.
There's been a lot of work going into it. Evan's been slaving over it memes came out with me and shot it uh you know how involved have you been in the edit i've written i wrote a script and sort of been you know trying to help out as much as i can possibly so it's done a good job billy's done a good job so this is so by tuesday you have five days yes and so if people watch on wednesday those views will not count right so you want to watch it and you want to watch wednesday instead of tuesday you can do that but that would hurt billy just want to get on the record for everyone out there if you want to hurt billy you watch it wednesday not tuesday don't do it but if you were trying to if you're gonna watch it don't do a watch party watch it individually.
Everyone go take a shit and watch it. This is all leading to Billy just having to pay a Chinese troll farm to just watch it.
No, he's going to get it. Minus $2.50.
You got it. I'm excited to watch on Wednesday.
Please, honestly, I will fire myself if it doesn't hit. Oh, no.
So really don't watch it. Okay, no.
Alright. This is bullshit.
People don't watch it. This is bullshit.
This is bullshit. Don't believe Billy.
Billy said this yesterday on macro dosing and then he was immediately proved wrong. So he already fired himself yesterday.
This is just his new thing that he's doing where he puts that out that he'll fire himself, but he has no intention on falling off. No, I will fire myself.
Because if I can't do solo standing content that means I'm not going to make it in this industry. Great point.
So Wednesday on your own channel. You already fired yourself.
No, no, no. I proved that I was right.
So are you rehiring yourself and then firing yourself again? No, wait. Just really quick.
You guys don't know, like, memes at a cheesecake factory is expensive. That's how we spend their time.
All right. So, right.
So, again, if you're one of those people who's wrongly so been saying, fire Billy, he should be off the podcast, don't watch on Wednesday. Watch on Thursday.
But please, please watch. I think it's very entertaining.
No, do watch it, do watch I think I delivered everything I said I was going to do will be the judge of that I did not do math so now you're talking against yourself right no one asked if you know okay I did advertise I'm just saying that you were in fat false you literally just said I I'm gonna do meth and then you follow that up with I I did not do meth. Okay.
But I delivered on everything I said I was going to say.

Yeah, except for the meth part.

But yeah, please watch.

Yeah.

Beg.

I want you to beg.

I'm begging, please.

It's very entertaining.

Okay.

I've watched it several times.

I will watch.

He's got a mouth to feed at home.

His dog.

Yes.

Whitey's going to die if you do not watch this.

Exactly.

Okay.

Kill Whitey.

Jake.

Thank you. He's got a mouth to feed at home.
His dog. Whitey's going to die if you do not watch this.
Exactly. Okay.
Kill Whitey. Jake.
I got duped. Oh, you did bad.
I think a lot of people did. No.
A lot of people did last night. No.
Are you talking about the Uber Eats thing? No. Yeah, Jake, come on.
The Today Show apparently aired a segment. The Today Show is our standard for dupage.
They're in on it. Yeah.
There's no excuses. I got duped.
And sell the whole story. Okay.
So. No.
Tell who told you that you got duped. Wait.
What set it up first? What did you get duped by? Yeah. Did you see his clip? Yeah.
Okay. So there was a college basketball game at Duquesne in Pittsburgh.
And they stopped the game mid-game, like live action, not a timeout or anything, because a guy would look to be delivering food, walked on the court with McDonald's in his hand, walking towards the scorer's table. Then it came out that apparently someone at the scorer's table ordered Uber Eats.
I was like, how'd this person get in?

How'd they walk on the court?

So this is Jake's exact tweet.

He said, I have so many.

So the guy literally walks on the court and it stopped the play.

Oh my God, how's the delivery guy on the court?

And Jake says, I have so many questions on this.

Who ordered food to a basketball game?

How did the delivery person get in the arena? And how did he just walk on the court in the middle of the game?

Chaos.

To which Dave Portnoy, his boss, said, here's a hint, Jake. It was a bit.
You got duped. I got duped.
It was either like a fake viral ad that they wanted to do or it was a prank. Yeah.
It's a classic prank. Yeah.
My first clue was the guy was- A lot of people got duped. My first clue was it was obviously a prank.
Well, and also my first clue was you can't order Uber Eats to a singular person. Yeah.
Well, you could. A chair.
Yeah. Like, come to the arena.
I'm sitting front row. All right.
The internet was going crazy. There's a lot of people in my boat, but I'll be the leader of that boat who got dupe.
Also, there were just a lot of people that were taking videos of him at the time. Yeah, student section.
It was a tough dupe. No stepping around it, but unlike other sports business reporters, I will admit when I get dupe.
A good rule of thumb is anytime something happens at any point, there's a brand that's getting off on it. So, it hit the sweet spots.
Yeah, so that's tough. And your ankles.
Yeah, my ankles. I'm calling a college basketball game this Sunday.
Oh, hell yes. Rick Pitino, Iona.
I'll be at Iona. Sunday at 1.
I won't make any jokes. I will not make any jokes.
You don't have to worry. TikTok.
He's a TikTok prank guy. Sunday at 1, so no conflict with football.
He's more of a Vine guy. ESPN 3 at 1 and then football at 3.
They're playing Quinnipiac, so your system. Yeah, I'll bet the over for the first 15.
Have you got a chance to talk to Rick? I have not, not yet. No, I've got to reach out.
Last year when I did their game, they gave me the assistance. That might be the case.
Oh, come on. What if they do give me him? Tell him to say what's up.
Yeah. All right.
Great show, everyone. Hank, lottery ball numbers.
Have you ever gotten this? No, I have not. Damn.
For real? For real. 69.
Numbers. Ah, fuck.
Come on. All right, 69.
69. You already said lottery ball numbers.
Yeah, but he still beat you when I said numbers.

96.

20.

17.

6.

6.

Just 6.

Huh.

Remember, 97's been two of the last three shows.

If 69 hits, I'll be...

Dan?

You don't want to go 97?

Change it right now.

76. Change it right now 76 One out of two

One out of two

That's what we're going with now

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