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Speaker 1 NFL Divisional Round, we have our final four set for championship Sunday. We're going to recap all four games.
Maybe not the most exciting games, but they meant a lot. We have a lot to get to.

Speaker 1 We have certain people in this room who are very upset and angry and might lash out, not naming names. It's going to be a great show, though.

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Speaker 1 NFL

Speaker 1 Divisional Round.

Speaker 1 We start in Kansas City, where the Jaguars' ardent keys to the game was to fall on Patrick Mahomes' ankle and hope the Chiefs' offense got drunk on Chad Henney.

Speaker 1 Even after the injury, Andy Creed had his receiver's arms wide open as the Jaguars were begging the Chiefs to stack.

Speaker 1 Billie Eilish Football went down to Kansas City to try and find the bad guy, only to realize the bad guy is him. Who's the bad guy?

Speaker 1 Who's the bad guy? Chris Indiana Jones had Trevor Lawrence running for his life, trying to escape his giant balls, and the Chiefs, even with their injured quarterback, proved to be too much.

Speaker 1 Speaking of, we have him here on the line. Let's go down to Patrick Mahomes post-game post-game with a head full of Iconin.
Yeah, your boy is Tomahawk chopped and screwed. Man, I'm thrown.

Speaker 1 I got my leg all lit up just sculpting. I had a high ankle sprain, or as my former teammate Kyle Long calls it, an ankle sprain.
I was like, put me in.

Speaker 1 I'm him. I'm here.
I'm him. Put me in.
I got that thing marinating in ketchup right now. We're good to go.
That's a fact, Jack. I'll be ready next point, King.
Come on, buddy. See you next week.

Speaker 1 The Chiefs, 27, Jaguars, 20.

Speaker 1 Over to Philadelphia, where before the game, the showers don't work, as the Giants Hotel as Philadelphia was all out of hot water.

Speaker 1 Jalen didn't look like it hurts with sharp early, forcing Giants fans to sing, Big Blue, Daba Dee, Daba, Die, the green team made me die, the green tea made me die.

Speaker 1 To add insult to injury, Nick Siriani continued his relentless trolling by handing the ball off to ship it up to Boston Scott as he dropkicked the Giants yet again. Hey, Giants fans, Knock, knock.

Speaker 1 Who's there? Philly Sad Trombone.

Speaker 5 Philly Sad Trombone, who?

Speaker 1 Wah, wah.

Speaker 1 Eagles, 38. Giants, seven.

Speaker 1 That was a good one, Max, right?

Speaker 1 You love it, Max. You love it.
Tell me, you love it. Love it.

Speaker 1 Up to Western New York, where Snowburrow felt comfortable from the opening whistle, driving down the field in his hearse. Hayden, that is, for the Buffalo funeral.

Speaker 1 The Bengals also flashed their baby got running back with Joe Sir Mixinlott, who loves playing in buff and he cannot lie.

Speaker 1 Sean McKermit the Frog will get a win somewhere over the rainbow, but that day isn't today and no one circles the disappointing playoff losses that make you question why you're a fan and what you ever did to deserve this like the Buffalo Bills.

Speaker 1 Bengals 27, Bills 10.

Speaker 4 We finished in San Francisco where whacked Prescott threw pick after pick, leaving Cowboys Nation and future betters screaming at their TVs in disgust like when Alan Ray's eye popped out in that Villanova game back in the day.

Speaker 4 Greg Littlehouse on the prairie was singing and dancing on the sidelines with Big Cock Purdy after leading the scoring drive to give the 49ers a lead.

Speaker 5 Dalton Andrew Schultz canceled the lawn completion because he's a big, dumb idiot and decided he didn't have to have both feeding pounds after a catch.

Speaker 4 Speaking of big, fat, dumb idiots, Mike FatCarthy called one of the worst plays in NFL history, and the game came to an end as the Cowboys followed the 49ers 1912.

Speaker 1 That is NFL divisional round.

Speaker 1 It was incredible.

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Speaker 1 Okay,

Speaker 1 divisional round in the books. Final four is set.
Bengals at Chiefs. Niners at Eagles.

Speaker 1 Maybe not the most exciting weekend of football, but goddamn it, the games games mean something. And,

Speaker 1 you know,

Speaker 1 listen, any weekend spent watching 12 hours of football is a good weekend, in my opinion.

Speaker 5 It was football, though. We did get football this weekend, and we also got more football to look forward to next weekend.

Speaker 5 And the matchups that we have coming in next weekend and the storylines are going to be awesome.

Speaker 1 They're going to be awesome.

Speaker 5 So, this was a setup weekend. You ever watch a show that you get really invested in, and then they have one episode where it's just kind of like a dud where they set up all the action for next week?

Speaker 1 Was it the fly episode?

Speaker 5 That's what this one was. This was the fly episode of the NFL, and next weekend, we got Ozzy Mandius, and everybody's going to die.

Speaker 1 Yeah, exactly. So it's, you know, I think we do have to be honest that it probably wasn't,

Speaker 1 you know, as awesome as the football we saw in Super Wild Card Weekend, but we do have some great championship games set up. We got a lot to get through.

Speaker 1 We're going to do it chronological order, so you're going to have to wait to hear Hank and his pitiful cowboys in a Dak Prescott jersey. Everyone go watch on YouTube if you don't.

Speaker 1 We get those episodes up right away. Shout out memes, Evan, Shane, and Max.

Speaker 5 But yeah, I will say that

Speaker 5 if you don't even watch the entire episode, just go there and look at the thumbnail that they have for this weekend because I think it really captures the emotions of Hank.

Speaker 5 Hank, did you, there was a picture of you. It looked like you were in the crowd at the game.
Did you see that? With your arm around a girl, and she was crying, and it looked like you were crying.

Speaker 4 Did you see that picture? I didn't.

Speaker 1 All right, we'll get to that game. We'll put a pin in that.
Let's start chronological order. The Chiefs 27.

Speaker 1 We might not have time. You're right.
The Chiefs, 27, Jaguars, 20.

Speaker 1 The big story coming out of this is Patrick Mahomes' ankle. He gets a high ankle sprain in what was like the second drive, third drive?

Speaker 5 It was really early on, yeah.

Speaker 1 It was very early on.

Speaker 1 Chiefs were able to hold off the Jaguars. We had a Chad Henney, 98-yard drive, which was fucking awesome to see him.

Speaker 1 I mean, we're backup quarterback guys.

Speaker 1 We know all the backup quarterbacks. We root for them.

Speaker 1 Chad Henney comes in in a divisional round playoff game and backed up in his own end zone, 98 yards, which proved to be pretty important in a game that finished a one-score game.

Speaker 5 Yeah, no, Chad Henney is an all-time game. This is a revenge game for him, too, because he was on the Jaguars for a long time.
This was the Henney Thing Is Possible game.

Speaker 5 We saw one a couple of years ago. Remember when they were playing against the Browns? Yes.
And Mahomes got injured and they put Henney in.

Speaker 5 The thing is, they actually, like, Hinney is a great backup quarterback because you can trust him to do some fuck shit if you need it.

Speaker 5 So at the end of that game, they had that fourth and one where they hit Tyreek Hill in the flat to get that first down, and they put Henney's balls out on the line.

Speaker 5 And in this one, they're like, okay, well,

Speaker 5 we're going to run the same playbook that we ran with Patrick Mahomes. We're just going to plug and play Henney in there.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he almost threw an interception, but that's fine.

Speaker 5 Hey, you know, who else almost throws a lot of interceptions?

Speaker 1 Patrick Mahomes. Yeah.
And Brock Purdy. And Brock Purdy.

Speaker 5 No, but Patrick Mahomes, like, he takes chances. Patrick Mahomes might be a system quarterback in the sense that we're all just system human beings in life when you think about it.

Speaker 5 But Henney came in. He fulfilled his role.
He did everything they needed him to do. And Trevor Lawrence lost for the first time in his life on Saturday.

Speaker 1 And it was so the game was weird because Patrick Mahomes obviously getting injured was like the big storyline because you saw it. He gets injured.
He gets rolled up on. His ankles fucked up.

Speaker 1 I think the next play they did a handoff and he could barely get back. He could barely get to the handoff.
You're like, oh, this is going to be a very big problem. Show him on the sideline.

Speaker 1 The reports were that Andy Reid basically was like, I'm not putting you back in until you get an x-ray.

Speaker 1 Like, you have to get an x-ray, which credit to Andy Reid, because you're in a playoff game and your star quarterback's demanding to get back in.

Speaker 1 And he's like, you know, kind of looking out for his long-term, like, you're not going to play on a broken ankle.

Speaker 1 Goes gets the x-ray.

Speaker 1 Chad Henry drives him 98 yards. He doesn't come back in until the second half.
But it was like the game,

Speaker 1 we're sitting there watching the game. And Doug Peterson, I don't know what it was, but like the second half, he was pretty conservative with offensive play calling.

Speaker 1 And they didn't blitz Mahomes, who really couldn't move much. Like, they didn't really bring that much pressure after it was clear he couldn't move.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And it felt like the Jaguars, they had, like, could have seized the moment and they just weren't able to do it.

Speaker 5 It shows the insane amount of respect that teams have for Patrick Mahomes. Yeah.
Because I actually think Mahomes, when he was playing, he was doing this a lot.

Speaker 5 He would take like two steps on his left foot and then one on his right as he was hobbling around, trying to reduce how much he would be putting pressure on that leg.

Speaker 5 I think Patrick Mahomes, with a leg, one leg that doesn't work, is still a top 15 quarterback in the NFL. Yeah, legitimately.

Speaker 1 But with all that said, his ability to run, and it's not even running for yards, which he does a lot more in the playoffs.

Speaker 1 So if you look at Patrick Mahomes in the regular season, he averages about 20 yards a game. In the playoffs, he's averaging 30 yards a game.

Speaker 1 If you remember that Bills, that incredible Bills game last year, he had like 65 yards.

Speaker 1 He was a difference maker with his feet.

Speaker 1 But it's more that he just keeps plays alive in the pocket so much, and how he's able to float and get to different spots not having him be able to do that is a big big concern for the chiefs and i don't tony romo was saying you know we have uh we have thoughts of on tony romo which i think a lot of people have started to agree with us but he played quarterback in the nfl he had this injury and he was like i it's not a guarantee that patrick mahomes is going to play next week because he's probably not he's not going to be able he's going to be in crutches this week he's not going to be able to practice at all and then he's going to try to just get out there and play He will because he's Patrick Mahomes and he's a tough motherfucker.

Speaker 1 But that injury is not like, oh, it's okay. He's got an ankle sprain.
Like, he's, it's going to hurt them a lot.

Speaker 5 He definitely woke up today and was like, oh, shit, I didn't realize it was going to be this bad. Yeah, right.
With a high ankle sprain, when you have it, adrenaline takes you for a while.

Speaker 5 The swelling hasn't set in yet because you got your socks on, your compression on. You got those shoes on

Speaker 5 your shoes tied really tight. Yep.
And then they tape the fuck out of it. They put like three layers of tape on that thing.

Speaker 5 And then you go home, you take your your shoes off, you lay down, you go to sleep. You wake up in the morning, you're like, oh, it looks like a giant frog is eating my leg right now.

Speaker 5 Billy'd probably love it. But that's what he's going through today.
And then he's, you're right, he's not going to be able to play on it, not going to be able to put pressure on it this week.

Speaker 5 He'll probably play this weekend.

Speaker 1 But I would say he's going to play, but it's going to make, yeah, you're not going to get full Mahomes.

Speaker 1 And I, again, I don't even think it's like running the football, which he does do very well in the playoffs. It's more just being as mobile as he is in the, in the,

Speaker 1 you know, behind the line of scrimmage and keeping plays alive. And how many times have you seen Mahomes

Speaker 1 spin out of the pocket or float backwards and keep a play going and then hit someone deep downfield?

Speaker 1 It's different now that they can game plan for it.

Speaker 1 We'll get to the Bengals game, how like what Stink said on Friday was exactly what happened where if you know what your limitations are, you can at least game plan for it.

Speaker 1 It was clear during the second half of that game. It was like he can't, he basically can't move at all.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 But shout out to the Jaguars defense for keeping it

Speaker 5 relatively consistent with what they were doing all year long. I think they were the last-placed team in the entire NFL at guarding tight ends.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 And so Travis Kelsey goes out there and catches 14 balls. So he's now.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so Travis Kelsey, we're getting the debate again.

Speaker 1 Who's the best tight end of all time? Baby Gronk. Yeah,

Speaker 1 Kelsey or Gronk, and then also just forgetting Tony Gonzalez existed. But that's

Speaker 1 probably Kelsey or Gronk now. Kelsey, though, is now second all-time in playoff receptions.
Jerry Rice, number one at 151, Kelsey at 120, and our guy, Jules, at 118. Wow.
All-time,

Speaker 5 Julian Edim.

Speaker 1 Future Hall of Famer, Julian Edmund. But Kelsey is just,

Speaker 1 he's just always open.

Speaker 1 And he's just better than everyone. Yeah.

Speaker 1 The little things that he does and the pockets of space, and it is a testament to how Mahomes, they had one play. Mahomes missed him.

Speaker 1 by like a yard. He basically sat down in the wrong place.

Speaker 1 It was so weird to see because you're like these guys are always they they basically have their minds are one in the same where he knows exactly where he's gonna be and Mahomes will hit him like the minute he comes out of a route like it's crazy watching them play and how in sync they are.

Speaker 5 Yeah, so this is going to be

Speaker 5 in terms of the AFC championship game since 2011. This is going to be I believe the sixth one played in Kansas City.

Speaker 1 No, there's five straight.

Speaker 5 Five straight. Five straight.
So it's been held in three places since 2011. It's been held in Kansas City.
It's been held in Pittsburgh. And it's been held in New England.

Speaker 1 So, yeah, so the Patriots went to eight straight AFC championship games. I don't think those weren't eight straight home games in a row.

Speaker 1 The Chiefs are now in their fifth straight AFC championship game at Arrowhead. We were obviously waiting to see if the Bills possibly won it would be in Atlanta.
But it's crazy. It's crazy to like.

Speaker 1 And you know what, though?

Speaker 1 The conversation will, it sucks because he got injured because it just changes what the Chiefs are able to do. But the Chiefs do have to win their second.

Speaker 1 Are we ready to be like the Chiefs got to win their second one soon? Because you go to five straight AFC championship games.

Speaker 5 So, yeah.

Speaker 1 And you also, Mahomes, his greatness is insane. I think everyone acknowledges it now that he's the best quarterback in the NFL.

Speaker 1 You got to win another one.

Speaker 5 I think if they go to another one, or if. If the Bengals beat them this weekend, then we got a whole other problem,

Speaker 5 which is just that Joe Burrow owns your franchise.

Speaker 5 But yeah, you kind of look at his contract and the crazy amount of money that you paid him, and every Chiefs fan out there would be like, we expect to win at least three Super Bowls over the course of this contract.

Speaker 5 And if you don't, I don't even, like, can you even, it feels dumb to be like, is Patrick Mahomes a disappointment?

Speaker 5 Because he's so much better than anything that we'd seen previous to Patrick Mahomes in certain ways. Like,

Speaker 5 as a quarterback, in terms of the throws that he can make and the way that he plays, he's like a unicorn. He's a one-of-a-kind guy, but you, on the other hand, you do expect more from a guy like that.

Speaker 1 Well, it's also, if you asked me to put my life on the line, will Patrick Mahomes win another Super Bowl?

Speaker 1 I'd say yes, but it's more like what the Chiefs as a team, their dominance has been incredible the last five years and going to five straight AFC championship games.

Speaker 1 And the NFL is kind of written in like, you know, there's decades of dominance by, you know, teams.

Speaker 1 Like as you go through, like the Cowboys are in the 90s and then the Patriots had it for the last 20. Like, they have to win another one to have this decade stretch.

Speaker 1 You know, like, otherwise, it's like, oh, they won one. Like, a lot of guys have won one.
Aaron Rodgers. Trent Tilfer.
Yeah. Joe Flacco.
Joe Flacco. Speaking of Joe Flacco, throw those guys out there.

Speaker 5 I read a stat earlier.

Speaker 5 If you were to put together the first five years of Joe Flacco's career side by side with the first five years of Patrick Mahomes' career in terms of postseason, I think they had the exact same number of postseason wins and Super Bowls

Speaker 1 as each other. Yeah.

Speaker 5 Doesn't that feel weird?

Speaker 1 I feel like that's we got to fact check. Is that true? Fact check it.

Speaker 6 PFC. Speaking of fact checks, also Denver.

Speaker 1 Denver

Speaker 6 was the AFC title game twice.

Speaker 1 Okay, there we go.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, that's true. Good call.
That's true. Good call.

Speaker 1 There's no way Flacco won that many in his.

Speaker 5 Maybe I was mistaken Denver for Pittsburgh.

Speaker 6 Maybe Pittsburgh was 2011.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Okay. When did Flacco come in the league?

Speaker 5 He came in the league 2000,

Speaker 5 I want to say say 2009, 2008.

Speaker 1 All right, so all right, so 2009, he had three wins, two, five, seven. Yeah.
Yeah, you might be right. Eleven, yeah.

Speaker 5 Yeah. Flacco was kind of a beast in his first play.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Flacco, Flacco, and Mahomes.

Speaker 5 Just something about Joe Flacco.

Speaker 1 They're the same picture. Yeah.
The meme. Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, they're the exact same picture.

Speaker 5 Also, shout out to the Kansas City Potato Girl. Did you see the potato girl in the stands?

Speaker 1 Owned her. Yes.

Speaker 5 Owned the Jaguars fan.

Speaker 5 She was eating a hot baked potato, just like raw dogging a baked potato that she had in your pocket.

Speaker 5 And a Jaguars fan tried to snipe her in the stands and take a picture and be like, look at this freak eating a baked potato. Like, that's not perfectly normal Midwestern behavior.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 And she got him on the reverse picture of him taking the picture of her, shamed his ass.

Speaker 5 I'm in favor of eating a baked potato at a football game, especially if it's cold. It's a hand warmer.
And it's a delicious treat. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Why wouldn't you eat it? So, yeah, Billy, I mean,

Speaker 1 we have to talk to you about how the trip went. And you were in the stands with memes.
You made the video.

Speaker 1 Give us everything that's in your brain right now.

Speaker 7 Kansas City and the actions and stuff that takes place around Arrowhead on game day is a totally different world.

Speaker 7 And I don't think you'll ever understand it unless you are in it or you watch the video coming out next week. Nice, nice.

Speaker 5 But it is a different world. It's your only two options.

Speaker 5 It's crazy.

Speaker 1 Really, I don't know. No, wait, Billy, when you say the video coming out next week, when do we think this video is going to be out?

Speaker 5 Thursday. Okay, good.

Speaker 1 Because I was going to say it would be bad if you put it out after the Chiefs. I mean, this is this week.

Speaker 1 This week. This week.

Speaker 7 But basically,

Speaker 7 I don't mean this is a knock on Kansas City, but almost everything is centered around Arrowhead Stadium.

Speaker 7 The only thing that's there is the Kansas City Chiefs. barbecue, jazz, and nothing else.

Speaker 5 Shout out jazz.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you can tell jazz.

Speaker 7 They're known for their jazz.

Speaker 5 Kansas City jazz, yeah. Yeah.
It is. They got a good bridge there, too.

Speaker 1 I remember.

Speaker 5 Oh, and a good zoo. Low-key, a good zoo.
Airport sucks, though.

Speaker 7 Airport, but kind of nice because no lines.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, it's like a buster. And the Royals.
And the Royals. Yeah, the Royals do exist.

Speaker 5 George Brett's there.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and the MLS.

Speaker 1 And the MLS team. So did you get to the bottom of it? Can you tell us a little bit about this video?

Speaker 1 You did a bunch of interviews, right? Yep.

Speaker 7 I interviewed a bunch of super fans, met a lot of really awesome people who were involved in the tailgate scene. Shout out Vandi Reid and that gang around there.
Throw an awesome tailgate.

Speaker 7 Met Weird Wolf,

Speaker 7 fake Andy Reid. Okay.
And we got an exclusive interview with the man formerly known as Red Extreme, who you may remember

Speaker 7 was the guy who knocked out X Factor.

Speaker 5 You hear his side of the story. Because didn't he,

Speaker 5 words were said that he was sleeping with X Factor's girl. And that gets to the bottom of it.

Speaker 7 Yes, but

Speaker 7 we got some truth and some answers.

Speaker 1 We're gonna deal with some stuff.

Speaker 1 Also, all right, so a couple other questions. One is: so, you're still wearing your Kansas City Chiefs stuff.
Billy did say I was taking the elevator up with him.

Speaker 1 He's like, I think I'm gonna go full heel and just be a Chiefs fan for the rest of the playoffs. I was like, I don't think that's really heel.
Yeah, what's heel? It's just so fun. We like Chiefs.

Speaker 1 Yeah, like, I don't, I like Chiefs fans. Pat from Holmes is incredible.

Speaker 4 That's fucking lame.

Speaker 7 It's so fun rooting for an actually good team.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 7 I mean, like, the stand, by the way, Arrowhead is the craziest game day environment I've ever been in, especially the crowd in the stadium.

Speaker 7 When Patrick Mahomes came back on the field, it was like the second coming of Christ.

Speaker 1 Were people worried?

Speaker 7 Yeah, in the stands, because you couldn't, being in a game, you don't really get updates on the injuries. We saw him limping, but we didn't know how bad it was.

Speaker 7 Then he went out, and just like everyone was worried about Patrick Mahomes. It was like they worshiped Patrick Mahomes.

Speaker 7 We were walking into the stadium and there was rock, like it sounded like Christian rock music, but the hook was them singing about Patrick Mahomes, and they were blasting this.

Speaker 7 Like, you know, like, like, you hear the, like, those Christian rock musics, like Jesus is our savior.

Speaker 1 This was like, Patrick Mahomes, like,

Speaker 7 it was the craziest, like, I don't want to say it was cultish, but like, their obsession and love for the team was something that was just so amazing.

Speaker 7 It was really awesome.

Speaker 5 Did you get a chance to meet Jackson Mahomes?

Speaker 7 So, Jackson might not,

Speaker 7 Jackson's been playing it low-key,

Speaker 5 you know, for various reasons. I was thinking they just harvest his leg and they give it to Patrick.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Same DNA.

Speaker 7 Exactly. You could chop off his match.
Do transplant.

Speaker 5 Yeah.

Speaker 5 He's a dancer.

Speaker 5 He's got quick twitch muscles.

Speaker 1 Breaking moves. Breaking moves.

Speaker 1 I just got a text message.

Speaker 1 Hank doesn't like when we name drop, so I won't say who sent me this text message. They may or may not have been playing in a game this weekend.
He's texted saying,

Speaker 1 next time I'm on the pod, I'm going for Hank's throat.

Speaker 1 Oh, wow.

Speaker 1 It could have been anyone, but it also could have been someone who just got back to the locker room and got their phone. Oh, wow.
So we don't know. Trent Maher.
Could have been anyone.

Speaker 5 It was a long-time stack.

Speaker 1 Stack Pretty Maher. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Could have been anyone. Hank?

Speaker 5 Who do you think it was?

Speaker 1 Trent Williams? Yeah, probably. Probably.
Probably pissed him off. With boys.

Speaker 5 Pretty good, yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 So you worried? No. Okay.
So

Speaker 1 back to the Chiefs.

Speaker 5 So, Billy, you loved it in Kansas City. Take the move back.

Speaker 7 Also, I really don't recommend ever putting on any sort of mask in a bank parking lot, no matter even if you go in the building. All right, that's a good.
Especially in a big concealed carry state.

Speaker 1 Yep.

Speaker 5 That's a great tease for the video. Yeah,

Speaker 1 that's a great tease for the video. So overall, great, great time.

Speaker 7 It was awesome.

Speaker 1 You did injure Patrick Mahomes. People were saying that it's Billy's fault.
Yes. I mean,

Speaker 5 sure.

Speaker 1 But, you know, okay, so everyone can direct their hate to Billy on that one.

Speaker 7 Yeah, but it was the birth of

Speaker 7 Willie Wolf.

Speaker 1 Willie Wolf. Okay.
The new

Speaker 7 Kansas City super fan.

Speaker 1 Willie Wolf.

Speaker 5 So, but the good news is for Chiefs of Holic, if the Chiefs win the Super Bowl, he's going to have enough money for bail.

Speaker 5 Because he cashes, what, a $200,000 bet? Yeah, he's a future. Yeah, they're doing this for Chiefs of Holic.

Speaker 5 Was that a rallying cry where people like free Chiefs of Holic?

Speaker 7 Well, everybody loved, so I mean, I was carrying around a bag that looked like I robbed a bank, and everyone's loving it.

Speaker 5 Man, it would have been a real shame if you gotten shot.

Speaker 7 I mean, being a super fan, being a super fan is, I can see how it gets so addicting.

Speaker 1 I mean, they make the NFL go around. Yeah,

Speaker 1 they are the lifeblood of the league.

Speaker 7 Walking around the tailgate dressed as a super fan, people were going nuts, and it was a different kind of thing. It can easily go to your head.

Speaker 1 The NFL really should lean into it, too like it when when like the browns signed deshaun watson they should just have the press conference be a super fan and just be like look listen that drunk guy yeah he's yeah listen the good quarterback yeah like to talk

Speaker 1 yeah i'm not here to talk about anything else this guy can throw fucking pigskin all right

Speaker 7 this is just how it works uh billy if is it did you get the sense that there was like a pecking order like a hierarchy of super fans in kansas city oh there was not only a hierarchy there was different factions there was separations it was even more interesting than I thought going into it.

Speaker 5 Who's at the top? Who's the GOAT super fan in Kansas City?

Speaker 7 Well, there's a power vacuum.

Speaker 1 Oh, no.

Speaker 7 There's a power vacuum.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 5 The lots. It's like when El Chapo got arrested,

Speaker 7 I mean, it's like Iraq after Saddam gets capped. Like, there's all these different guys trying to get power.

Speaker 7 Like, there was literally new super fans popping up that no one even heard of who are trying to vie to be the next guy. Like, the lot was a very interesting anthropogenic Anthropology.

Speaker 1 You got it. Okay.
We know what you're saying. Yeah.

Speaker 1 We got it. Yeah, yeah, no, no.
That's like when you read, when someone does the test where you can read the words and the letters are all mumbled, but you can actually still read it. We got that.

Speaker 7 Anthropology.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 And it was sick.

Speaker 1 It was awesome. Anthropology.

Speaker 5 Yeah. I'm glad that you went, Billy.
I am. And I'm looking forward to the vice-style video content.
Yes. Yeah.

Speaker 7 Now, this is where the hard because we got all the footage, but now I'm really going to try to cut this up to like.

Speaker 1 Wait, you are? Not memes?

Speaker 7 Well, memes is busy.

Speaker 7 Evan and I are really going to learn.

Speaker 1 Remember, Billy learned how to edit. Yeah, that's the new learning.

Speaker 7 I need my hand held a little, but I really want it to be really cool.

Speaker 1 Listen, I'm not.

Speaker 1 I'm rooting for the video to come out great, but it would also be very funny if it was just a silent video, like no sound ever. You forgot to plug in something.
Well, no,

Speaker 7 at one point we were at the tailgate and we had all the releases. And at one point, it was like, do you have the releases?

Speaker 5 so if we don't have the releases we can't release any of this footage no you don't need releases no i mean they're wearing masks no one cares yeah yeah you won't get sued probably um we ended up driving an hour north after the game to locate a lot a super fan who no longer goes to the games it was we we we got the connects down on the ground and then we branched out love it and billy i do somewhat owe you an apology for the centuries debate that we had last week so uh i i still think for the most part i was right but there's a way that you could be right also about it.

Speaker 5 So you're back, reinvited to my birthday party.

Speaker 4 Oh, thanks.

Speaker 1 There we go. Oh,

Speaker 1 love it. All right.
So last things on this game, Jaguars next up. It did feel like it was an unbelievable season.
Doug Peterson was, you know, is going to be running for coach of the year.

Speaker 1 Trevor Lawrence is definitely the real deal. And they just fell short because they were not.

Speaker 1 Like, even with Patrick Mahomes injured, I think if Patrick Mahomes doesn't get injured, I think that's like a blowout. The way it felt like it was going in the first you know, half of a quarter.

Speaker 5 The Jags could have won the game. Agnew, that fumble that we had down in the red zone, that really ended the game for the Jaguars, but they were going in.
They could have.

Speaker 5 There's a world where the Jaguars win that game and they beat the Chiefs. It was like the perfect storm of everything that they needed to happen in that game.
And it almost happened.

Speaker 5 But yeah, it does feel like the season before the season for the Jaguars. Yeah, right.
Where like Trevor Lawrence is waiting in the tunnels for everybody after the game was over, dapping everybody up.

Speaker 5 The league is in good hands with

Speaker 5 all the young head coaches that we have out out there. You can build on this.
Like Doug Peterson.

Speaker 1 Yes, you can build on this.

Speaker 1 Also, Harrison Bucker nailed like two, I think, 50-plus-yard field goals, which is good for the Chiefs because the Chiefs, we've said it all along, like their special teams has been a little bit scary

Speaker 1 all season long. I think they gave up a long run back, too, in this game.
And then the last thing I had was: did you know that Frank Clark is fourth all-time in sacks in the postseason?

Speaker 1 That's kind of crazy.

Speaker 5 I know, I did not know that.

Speaker 1 Big-time player. Makes big time plays.
So it's Willie McGinnis has 16. Yeah.
Bruce Smith has 14 and a half. Terrell Suggs has 12 and a half.
Frank Clark has 12.

Speaker 1 So if he goes to the Super Bowl this year, he could be number one all time.

Speaker 5 That's crazy. Goes double double.
This is such a good defense for him to play in, too, where he's got... They're protecting leads all the time.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we were watching the game with our friend Kyle Long, which was awesome because he'll just like he played on the Chiefs last year, but he'll also just throw in a couple random things that make you feel really stupid about football.

Speaker 1 And he's like, Frank Clark is the best defensive end that he's ever seen in terms of guessing the snap count. Yeah.
He's like, he always

Speaker 1 is trying to get that extra edge, and he gets it like a lot of times.

Speaker 5 I don't know who the right tackle is for the Jaguars, but shout out that guy because he's offside or he false starts on every single play. And this goes back to the Chargers game.

Speaker 5 He's like two steps into the back. They don't call it.
Because he does it every time. So he's like consistent.
So the refs always thinking, like, this guy really knows his own snap count.

Speaker 5 He's got an incredible first step, but he just cheats on every play and gets away with it. So

Speaker 1 injured do we think Patrick Mahomes is going to look on Sunday?

Speaker 4 Four.

Speaker 5 Four out of ten. Out of six.

Speaker 1 I was going to say he's going to be a six and a half out of eight.

Speaker 5 That's about the same. Yeah, about four out of six, six.
And you think he's going to be more injured than I do? A little bit more. Just a touch bit more.
Okay, I think

Speaker 5 I don't. I don't see him wearing a walking boot during the week this week.

Speaker 1 He was wearing one leaving the locker room. Oh, he was? He was.
He was.

Speaker 5 That changes it. Yeah.
All right, then I'm going with

Speaker 5 5.15 out of 7.

Speaker 1 They always say an ankle sprain is worse than a break. It is, yeah.
Yeah. A high ankle sprain, too, just sucks.

Speaker 5 I think that the term ankle sprain does that injury actually like quite a disservice. Yeah.
Because it looks like it hurts like shit.

Speaker 1 It's like stretched ligaments

Speaker 1 would be more appropriate. Like all your ligaments got jacked up.

Speaker 5 Or torn even. Some of them probably got torn.
But you think ankle sprain and you're like, oh, my math teacher sprained her ankle. Yeah.
And she just kept going to work.

Speaker 5 Like it's it doesn't sound as bad.

Speaker 1 Yeah, like I sprained my ankle walking off a curb, funny.

Speaker 5 Yeah, there are a few things, like I would say the uh the bends.

Speaker 5 If you say somebody has the bends, that doesn't sound as bad as it actually is, where you could die from it, but the bend sounds like it's a cramp. Yes.

Speaker 5 But a high ankle sprain, it's going to be tough for him to be explosive on.

Speaker 1 Yes, and it's, yeah, maybe he,

Speaker 1 I mean, he's a gamer, so he'll obviously I would put anything on the fact that he's going to play. It's just how limited he will be.

Speaker 1 i still think like if i i watching that play and arden key fall on his ankle that way like if i were in the nfl uh i would just be like shoot me like a horse get the get the curtain out the shower curtain out just you know have everyone no one needs to see me get shot like a horse it's the tarp but just shoot me like a horse right on the field i don't want to deal with this pain he has the tarp and he he just straight up got up and ran to the sidelines and then he got mad at his own body he was like pissed at his ankle for failing him and then he was pissed off at andy reed for not putting him back in the game Even though he was injured.

Speaker 1 Even though he's clearly injured. Yeah.
Shout out to Andy Reid.

Speaker 5 Turf Toe is another one that hurts like shit, but it sounds like a little baby injury.

Speaker 1 Oh, turf toe is the weakest injury you could possibly get. It's basically a stubbed toe.
Yeah. Not even.

Speaker 5 Except Deion had to cut his foot off, basically. That's true.

Speaker 1 Turf Toe could do that. Yeah.

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Speaker 1 Okay, Saturday night,

Speaker 1 Philadelphia Eagles 38, New York Giants 7.

Speaker 5 This game was over at 7 a.m. in city center, Philadelphia, when some enterprising Birds fan blew up the water main, and the Giants couldn't get any water in their hotel.
So shout out Philadelphia.

Speaker 5 Great sports town.

Speaker 1 It also was doubly over when the Giants won the coin flip and elected to kick off. And the Eagles went right down the field, and it was as easy as easy gets.

Speaker 1 And holy shit, did they demolish the Giants?

Speaker 5 Yeah, it's tough. Like, if you're a Giants fan, you're probably pumped that you won a playoff game this year.
Brian Dable looks like he's an awesome coach.

Speaker 5 Daniel Jones had glimpses where he looked like he was, without a doubt, the future. And then this game happened.

Speaker 5 And now you're going into the offseason a little bummed out.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 5 as pumped as you are for Brian Dable, and you're like, this guy's got balls. He had one of the saddest punts of the year in the fourth quarter.

Speaker 1 So it was 28-7.

Speaker 1 The Eagles were absolutely pacing the Giants, and it was fourth and six at the New York Giants 42, so midfield-ish.

Speaker 5 It was a short six, too.

Speaker 1 Short and six.

Speaker 5 Pretty much five and a half.

Speaker 1 Now, it was actually the double whammy because it was second down,

Speaker 1 second and one. Daniel Jones did the dumbest thing ever, and he just ran out of bounds when he couldn't find anyone to throw to and took a five-yard loss.

Speaker 9 Inexcusable.

Speaker 1 Then you get to fourth and six, 13-21 left in the game. You're down 21 points on your own 42.

Speaker 1 And Brian Dable elected to punt, and they didn't get the ball back

Speaker 1 until there was five minutes left in the game. The Eagles just ran the ball down their throats, ran their ball down their throats, and they got the ball back with five minutes left in the game.

Speaker 1 It was, for all the goodwill, like, I think Brian Dable is an incredible coach. I think he's got a long future with the New York Giants.
But then you have one of those things.

Speaker 1 It's like the, you know, like a guy you meet and it's like, oh, oh, this guy I'm hitting off with, like, you know, it's fun, like a new friend.

Speaker 1 And then just one thing, and you're like, wait, is he kind of a psycho? That was my one thing where I was like, wait, is he kind of like a pussy or what's going on? Is he a coward?

Speaker 1 Like, what is, what is happening here? Because everything he's done this year has been the right, he's pulled the right strings for the entirety of the season.

Speaker 1 And then he did that one thing, and you're like,

Speaker 1 whoa, this is kind of fucked up.

Speaker 5 Yeah, it was bad. It was, it was very bad at the end.
But he, I mean, there's been so much good that you have coming out of Brian Devil.

Speaker 5 And the offense just looked entirely different from what it's been in the past with Joe Judge. And you have a lot to look forward to if you're a Giants fan.

Speaker 5 Now, with Daniel Jones, he seems to have played himself into a situation where he's the most valuable to the Giants, I think, and the Giants can get the most for their money out of Daniel Jones.

Speaker 5 So they're in a weird situation where he's not going to command like top, top-tier money, but he might command... I don't know, $30 million a year.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 And do you want to pay Daniel Jones $30 million a year? Are you sure this is a guy that you want to commit to long-term?

Speaker 5 Because this game, ironically, this game, the fact that he got there made you want to pay him that money.

Speaker 5 And then the way that he played definitely makes you think like, I don't know how he's going to be able to do that.

Speaker 1 And he was a member-time guy. Yeah, because it was...
And listen, I'm a terrible gambler.

Speaker 1 I'm wrong with a lot of my opinions, but every now and then I am right. We talked, and I'm saying this not as hindsight.
I'm saying this because we talked about this exact thing on Friday.

Speaker 1 The New York Giants had a fantastic year. The New York Giants also, their last three wins heading into the playoffs were the Texans, the commanders who got screwed by the refs, and the Colts.

Speaker 1 They stumbled into the playoffs, and then they beat the team that everyone agreed was the most fraudulent 13-3 team, 14-3 team, whatever the Vikings ended up with.

Speaker 1 We all agreed the Vikings were frauds. They diced him up because the Vikings' defense was absolutely abysmal, and he did play spectacular.
Like, Daniel Jones was spectacular last weekend.

Speaker 1 And then people went into this weekend being like, watch out for the Giants. don't.

Speaker 1 And credit to Eagles, they flexed exactly how they should have as the one seed, as the best team in the NFC all year, and they absolutely demolished them.

Speaker 5 If you're a Giants fan in a sick, sick, perverted way, you're probably rooting a little bit for the Eagles to go out and dominate the 49ers because then you can be like, All right, we're not that bad.

Speaker 10 The Eagles are just that

Speaker 1 far away.

Speaker 5 We're pretty close. Like, look what they did to the Niners.
We're on that same level.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 it was one of those games that I think we all, again, it was, you know, the Giants fans, fans I do not begrudge them whatsoever when you win the Super Bowl as a nine and seven team and a ten and six team and you have those incredible miraculous runs Anytime you win a playoff game You probably tell yourself like oh, this is happening again like we're gonna do it again and it was it was like every single Every single position felt like the Eagles were better.

Speaker 1 Yeah, every single position there wasn't one thing that the Giants did all night where I was like, ooh, they got an edge here. It was just whatever the Eagles wanted, whenever they wanted it.

Speaker 5 They abused them.

Speaker 5 I'm trying to think of everything that we saw in that game, and if there's anybody on the Eagles that you would take over their counter position on the Giants, and I don't know that there is.

Speaker 1 I mean, you could maybe make the argument for Saquon.

Speaker 5 Over Boston Scott? Yeah, Boston Scott. Boston Scott, the fucking, he's the giant killer.

Speaker 5 It's a troll. They're trolling.
Siriati knows exactly. Yeah, yeah, no, no.

Speaker 1 The Eagles are trolling the Giants at this point. What is it? It's like he's played 50 games and scored, I think it's like something like

Speaker 1 eight touchdowns. And then he's played nine games against the Giants and scored like 11 touchdowns.
Yeah. It's something ridiculous.

Speaker 5 He scored more touchdowns against the Giants than he has any other game. Against not the Giants.
And Siri definitely knows exactly what he's doing on that.

Speaker 9 He has 18 career touchdowns,

Speaker 9 11 of them again.

Speaker 1 They are trolling. They basically, whenever they play the Giants, they're like,

Speaker 1 if we get down, I bet you they even tell Miles Sanders, they're like, listen,

Speaker 1 you're our number one back, but when we play the Giants, we have to keep trolling them.

Speaker 5 Like, you understand that this is hilarious.

Speaker 1 This is becoming a very funny joke.

Speaker 5 Miles is like, listen, I know that I have escalators in my contract where I make $200,000 per touchdown in the playoffs, but this is just too funny.

Speaker 1 For the lols. This is just too funny.

Speaker 5 Put this guy in. So, Max, I imagine that you're probably very, very excited, very confident.
You did the thing on the first touchdown where you got up.

Speaker 1 No, it wasn't even the first touchdown. It was the deep ball to Devontae Smith.
Yeah, that's all I needed.

Speaker 5 It was a sick pass and a sick catch.

Speaker 5 Max did the thing where he stands up and he gets mad at everybody around him him because he's so pumped up about the Eagles and you just see everybody like they're the enemy.

Speaker 9 Yeah, no, that's fact.

Speaker 9 Marty said some dumb shit to me when I walked into the room when I was getting in the zone and I basically knew that he was going to be my guy that I had to go after when I needed some excitement because there needs to be an enemy in my sight at all times.

Speaker 5 Are you a little upset that the Giants didn't make it more of a close contest? Like, you were kind of on cruise control for most of the game. Yeah, no, I like that.

Speaker 1 I probably was. He was taking naps.
Yeah. Like he was during commercials, he was closing his eyes, being like, I just got to rest up, keep my energy.

Speaker 9 I mean, it was

Speaker 9 the quarters in there was tough.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 It was tight.

Speaker 9 We were tight.

Speaker 9 It gets hot in that Hoboken room. I was sweating.
My sweatshirt was probably a little too small.

Speaker 1 It was.

Speaker 1 It was difficult in there.

Speaker 5 Jason Kelsey had such a sick block. Like one of those

Speaker 5 one-handed choke slams.

Speaker 1 Shout out, memes. That guy is

Speaker 5 going to retire, and he's going to be retiring at the top of his game. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Memes tweeted Travis Kelsey by accident, and everyone's like, you guys don't know ball. So that sucked.
But here's Max.

Speaker 1 Oh, right.

Speaker 1 We're going early and often. Right here all in that

Speaker 1 early and off and you put it right in your face.

Speaker 1 Come on, come on, come on.

Speaker 1 Right in your fucking face. We're going early and often.
Right in your fucking face.

Speaker 9 It was early and off. It was like

Speaker 1 anything wrong. It was like two minutes into the game.
The Eagles ran for 45 times for 268 yards. And

Speaker 1 the best thing that happened in this game was Jalen Hurts looks awesome.

Speaker 1 Looked fine. He looked fine.

Speaker 1 I still think he's probably, I would say he's 95% because there were still a couple runs that peak Jalen Hurts would probably run over the linebacker, not slide, but that's okay.

Speaker 9 I also noticed that those came earlier. Like in the first couple drives, he was taking the slides.

Speaker 9 And then as he started to feel a little bit more comfortable, he did start to take a couple of those hits.

Speaker 5 Yeah, I think the coaching point before the game was like, hey, Jalen, please take care of your bodies. The Giants were probably going to beat him anyways.

Speaker 5 And so in the first quarter, he remembered that. And then as the game went on, he was just like, fuck it.
Yeah. I'm playing football now.
Right.

Speaker 1 And Lane Johnson also looked okay. Yes.

Speaker 9 I mean, he did what Lane Johnson does. And Hurts had all day to throw the entire night.

Speaker 5 If you were to say what your biggest area of concern is with the Eagles, what would that be?

Speaker 9 I guess Rundy, just because that's the only thing all year that we've shown any sort of weakness. Yeah.

Speaker 5 It's a good thing the 49ers aren't great at running the football team.

Speaker 9 Yeah, I know, I know.

Speaker 1 We'll get to that later.

Speaker 9 We'll get to that. But, I mean, the Niners,

Speaker 9 Niners can win the game ugly.

Speaker 9 If there was the one team left right now with Mahomes' situation and the Bengals O-line, like the Niners are probably the last team that I would like to see left on both sides.

Speaker 1 Right, right.

Speaker 5 So, what you're saying is this weekend is for the Super Bowl.

Speaker 9 Oh, well, I'm not going to say that.

Speaker 5 That's what you just said right now. I'm saying this.
You said this is the real Super Bowl.

Speaker 9 But I don't know what the Bengals O line is going to look like or how Mahomes is going to look on the Super Bowl, so I'm not saying that. I know you're trying to put words in my mouth.

Speaker 5 I mean, you basically said, Hank, factor fiction, it sounded like Max was saying that this is the Super Bowl.

Speaker 4 He was just talking, well, he was just talking pre-gaming the Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Well, no, he just said the Niners are scary.

Speaker 4 But he's talking about the Bengals.

Speaker 1 Who are not scared?

Speaker 4 The Eagles are. What does the Bengals Bengals and Cheats have to do with the 49ers, Max?

Speaker 9 I was just saying, I was just talking about.

Speaker 1 Don't let him do this to you. Lane Johnson.
Lane Johnson.

Speaker 8 I was just saying that they're a respectable foe.

Speaker 1 Lane Johnson pass-blocked on 26 snaps on Saturday night. Zero sacks, zero pressures, zero QB hits, 0.0 pressure rate, and that's up against Kayvon Thibodeau.

Speaker 9 That looks pretty fine to me.

Speaker 1 Pretty good.

Speaker 9 So, yeah, the Eagles look healthy.

Speaker 1 That's the one thing I would say, too, is like the Niners' defense is very scary, but the Eagles' offensive line

Speaker 1 one of the best units left in.

Speaker 1 If you did a ranking, maybe we'll do that Wednesday or Friday, like a ranking of all the units left, the Eagles' offensive line is up there. I'd say, yeah, they're a top

Speaker 5 top two units.

Speaker 1 Yeah, right. Like, it's, it's, they're fucking really, really good.

Speaker 5 And like, we'll have to do a unit off as opposed to a guy off. Yeah.

Speaker 1 A room off. Yeah.
Like, who's wide receiver room? Who's, I mean, there's a lot of, there's some fucking good.

Speaker 5 There's some good rooms. There's a shitload of good rooms out there in the NFL.

Speaker 4 I think I'd go Bengals.

Speaker 1 Niners, Eagles are both kind of the same rooms in terms of wide receivers.

Speaker 5 Bengals' wide receiver room is really good.

Speaker 1 No, I said Bengals won. Yeah.
And then it's Niners, Eagles. I don't know.

Speaker 1 Those are some good rooms. Really good rooms.
Those are really good rooms.

Speaker 5 Who has the best running back room in the NFL?

Speaker 1 I mean, right now, if you probably went the Niners because you get Debo.

Speaker 5 Yeah, you get Debo in there.

Speaker 1 And Christian McCaffrey. And Juish Mitchell.
And Juish, too. All right, we'll do a room off later on this week.
But yeah, I mean, this was, it was a fun game to watch because it was just

Speaker 1 a nice little appetizer. Yeah.
Nice little appetizer. Just activate.
Just not even a sweat. It was boring.

Speaker 1 It was relaxing. It was boring.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 It was actually boring how dominant the Eagles were.

Speaker 9 I was ready to fucking get in every single one of their faces all night, and I just didn't have to. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Nick Siriani gave it all up.

Speaker 1 Nick Siriani is such a good coach, but also at the same time, he he just he irritates me to no end i mean he's the corniest guy alive he's so corny he's the corniest guy alive thank god he's a good coach because if he was a bad coach we would be having a feel like you can't you can't really like if it works

Speaker 1 you know he he showed them uh eight mile he played eight mile for them you know on friday night he was with the chains in the locker room after he does so much corny it's basically uh Fred Hoiberg, when he was like circling the drain with the bulls, he was like, he showed them like anchorman clips, being like, look, you guys got to have fun.

Speaker 1 And it was like, he's a bad coach and he's corny. This sucks.
If you're a good coach and you're corny, you can get away with it. Yeah, oh, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 The results are there. Yeah, he's got such good players, and he is a very good coach, a very good coach.

Speaker 1 But just never, yeah.

Speaker 5 But I just know. Yeah,

Speaker 5 I don't want to gas him up too much because the second that there's a crack in the armor, I'm going to have way too much fun.

Speaker 5 It's being like, hey, you're basically like Nathaniel Hackett if he did stand-up comedy.

Speaker 1 Yeah, right. Like Nick Siriani, this is not a threat.
It could be seen as a threat. Don't ever lose eight to ten games in a regular season because we're coming.
Yeah,

Speaker 1 I'm going to love it. Yeah, we're going to go.
I'm waiting.

Speaker 1 But he's a very good coach, so he gets a pass.

Speaker 1 Great coach.

Speaker 5 Great coach.

Speaker 5 He's probably one of the top three or four coaches left in the NFL right now.

Speaker 1 Last year, what he did, I mean, the growth of Jalen Hurts and how he's built this entire offense around a guy who, you know, a lot of people questioned, you know, is he like a actual starter in the NFL?

Speaker 1 And now he's an MVP candidate. And like everything they do,

Speaker 1 it's crazy. The Eagles are stacked.
They're loaded. Brock Purdy's got to come in the link.

Speaker 9 They don't know the link. They don't know the link.

Speaker 1 They don't know the link. They don't know the link.
The Links don't know the link.

Speaker 5 The Link's going to be ready.

Speaker 9 They can ask the Vikings in 2017 about what the Commons Championship looks like.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 They don't know the link. I fucking love it.

Speaker 6 Also, the chains are broke.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, yeah. That was crazy.
And we had our ref call of the weekend. Yeah.
You got that, Chick.

Speaker 6 Yeah, so we can officially.

Speaker 1 I was going to do it on Wednesdays, but I can do it right now. Yeah.
Congratulations to Walt Coleman IV, the line judge.

Speaker 1 It was a really good play, a really good call.

Speaker 5 Wait, is that Walt Coleman's son? Yeah. Like the referee, Walt Coleman.

Speaker 1 Walt Coleman's

Speaker 1 grandson, too. There's so many

Speaker 1 grandsons.

Speaker 5 Yeah, great-grandson. There's so many sons that end up in refereeing.
It's like a family trade. Yeah.

Speaker 6 So there was third down and four in the second quarter. It looked like the receiver caught it past the line to gain.

Speaker 6 We all thought it was a bad spot, and then they replay it, and the line judge was all over the correct spot because he bobbled it.

Speaker 1 Bobbled it was two yards fast. He didn't even hesitate.

Speaker 6 No hesitation. That's a helmet.

Speaker 1 Shout out to Walt Coleman the fourth.

Speaker 6 Congratulations on the inaugural part of my take officiating call of the week presented by Ryan Rosillo. All right.

Speaker 1 Love it.

Speaker 1 Love it. That's great.

Speaker 5 Stripes Lives Matter. Yes.

Speaker 1 So we'll do that every week. Yeah.

Speaker 1 It was a great spot. I saw your tweet right away.
I was like, Jake was on top of it.

Speaker 5 The chain gang, when the chain broke,

Speaker 5 that was such an unexpectedly long delay in the game to repair a chain. Yeah.
Because you would think that they probably just got another chain right behind them that they just swap right in.

Speaker 5 No, no, no, no, no. They had to import the chain.
The chain was kept under lock and key. Yeah.
I guess in the locker room.

Speaker 5 And a lot of people were saying, why don't we just go full-time electronics, use the chip in the football?

Speaker 5 I'm going to say I'm pro-chain. Yeah.
I like the chain. It's fun to move the chain.
The chain's fun.

Speaker 5 You get the measurements where they come out on the field and you you get to see the referee look at the chain, look at the ball. It's just an old-school way to do it.
It's simple.

Speaker 5 Not everything has to be done with a computer. I agree.
Sometimes just a chain and two sticks works. It's fun.

Speaker 1 It's fun. Move the chains.

Speaker 1 You can't be like, move the electronic.

Speaker 5 Move the sensor range.

Speaker 1 No, no. You move the chains.
You got to move the chains. Move the chains.
Yeah, you got to keep moving the chains. All right.
Anything else on this game? Hank, what did you think about the Eagles?

Speaker 4 They're a good team. Super Bowl favorites.
They don't win the Super Bowl. It's a huge lesson.

Speaker 1 Okay, that's, I mean, this is, yeah.

Speaker 4 That's the takeaway from the weekend now. Okay.

Speaker 1 No, it's definitely.

Speaker 5 They're the class of the beast.

Speaker 1 They're literally not Super Bowl favorites. Yeah, they actually are not.

Speaker 5 I think they're third, right?

Speaker 5 Yeah.

Speaker 4 Wait, did you ask me what I thought about the Eagles?

Speaker 1 No, no. No, you should say you said they're favorite or not.
And they're not. The Barcelona.
They're my Super Bowl favorites. Yeah, what do we got? Which is what you asked.

Speaker 6 England Chiefs tied at plus 250. The Eagles plus 275.
Niners plus 300.

Speaker 5 So they're not Super Bowl favorites. They are the one seed, though.
Yeah. Still.

Speaker 1 Oh, you're so close to getting the one seed.

Speaker 5 The one seed.

Speaker 1 Again, you were just two games away. Two games go differently.
You get the one seat. Two games.
Sad.

Speaker 5 Hank, say something nice about the City of Philadelphia challenge.

Speaker 1 Did your mic cut out?

Speaker 5 Called the Barstill Sansoms. Jake, that's so.

Speaker 1 No, you can't give it to me.

Speaker 1 Say something else. Anything nice.
Just one nice thing.

Speaker 4 Nothing. They almost won the MLS championship this year.

Speaker 1 They did.

Speaker 5 And they almost won the World Series.

Speaker 5 The no-hitter that they had in the World Series, technically wasn't a perfect no-hitter because there's multiple pitchers.

Speaker 1 It was funny when we were watching the stream and we had, you know, I don't know, seven Giants fans, seven Eagles fans. And because the game got so bad, it just became shit talking about baseball.

Speaker 1 And at one point,

Speaker 1 the Eagles fans were making fun of... Aaron Judge, and they're like, Bryce Harper's a loser.
And then I think Smitty said, how many World Series has Aaron Judge played in? And I was like, guys,

Speaker 1 we got to get back to the football here.

Speaker 1 This is not a good argument. Hank, no one's winning this one.

Speaker 5 You know what you should be rooting for is just for Philadelphia to lose as many

Speaker 5 sports championships as possible. Like, they lost MLS, they lost Hank, or Max, a couple of years, they lost baseball.
What if they lost football and they lost NBA all in the same year?

Speaker 4 I will say this,

Speaker 4 as much as I do disdain the Eagles and Sixers and

Speaker 4 fans of those franchises,

Speaker 4 I am a company man, and if the Eagles win, that's good for everyone.

Speaker 4 Me too. And it's good for Big Cat.
Yeah. And I like it.
22 and one kid. So yeah, I mean,

Speaker 4 if I had to root for a team, I guess it would be the Eagles.

Speaker 1 Wow. Okay.
But I'm not going to root for anyone. Okay.
So you're going to stick back as you say that in your Dak Prescott jersey and your acid wash jean shorts.

Speaker 4 Yeah, it's been a tough day.

Speaker 1 I've been in morning yeah the troll blew up in your face in spectacular fashion your bridge your bridge crumbled down oh my god you're under you right now you're buried underneath a pile of stones and suspension cables every because you had it too where you're like i just want to believe in something i know before saturday night started you're like giants like the eagles have looked kind of sketchy the last few weeks like giants look good you you were talking yourself into the giants and then when the eagles demolished the giants you're like all right cowboys cowboys will fix this.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 every lily pad you jumped to just fell into the bottom of the ocean.

Speaker 4 Yeah, pretty much.

Speaker 5 So you're jumping to Philly now.

Speaker 1 You just said that. No, you said that if you had to pick one team.

Speaker 4 Then I said, but I'm not.

Speaker 5 Hank at your lily pad. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I don't want. No,

Speaker 5 it sounds like Hank's on your lily pad.

Speaker 9 I will not be begging this guy to join on this bandwagon.

Speaker 1 Hank, are you going to do it? No.

Speaker 1 Like I said, it's good for BitCat, it's good for business. Your next move is

Speaker 1 handicapping the kickoff. Okay.

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 4 That's what I'm going to dive in. Yeah, I'm going to start looking at that.

Speaker 5 I mean, that was a great call last year.

Speaker 1 I know.

Speaker 4 Yeah. So I got to follow it up.
Okay. I'm going to spend, I'm going to really lock in for the Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 Okay. All right.
All right. Let's go to Sunday.
Bengals 27, Bills 10.

Speaker 1 The Bengals showed up in Buffalo.

Speaker 1 snow game and absolutely took it to the bills. Like,

Speaker 1 this score was closer than the Eagles Giants game, but it wasn't much different in terms of the domination. Like, the Bengals dominated the Bills from the get-go.

Speaker 1 Like, they went down the field easy, were up 14-0.

Speaker 1 It was insanely impressive. Like, the Bengals, not only with their offensive line, they dominated the line of scrimmage with a banged-up offensive line.
They ran the ball down their throats.

Speaker 1 They ran for 172 yards. Joe Burrow got sacked one time.

Speaker 1 They had eight different guys catch passes. They had two penalties all game.
They played like a perfect game.

Speaker 1 They completely dominated the Bills, and Joe Burrow remains the coolest motherfucker alive.

Speaker 1 And he had the send the refunds

Speaker 1 quote after the game when they asked him about all the people who bought tickets and got hotels for the Atlanta AFC Championship game between the Bills and Chiefs.

Speaker 1 He's like, yeah, better get those refunds.

Speaker 1 So the Bengals just dominated.

Speaker 5 I mean, Cincinnati has a very, very valuable tool in their toolbox, which is they've got the chip on the shoulder. Yeah, nobody believes they're so they're so mad at the NFL.

Speaker 5 They're so mad at everybody. It really is like them against the world at this point.

Speaker 5 In their mind, nobody has respected them enough. No one's respected Joe Burrow enough.

Speaker 1 I mean, the line.

Speaker 5 No one's respected their coach enough. No one's respected their line, which like to their credit, their offensive line was awesome today.
Awesome. They played really in the running game.

Speaker 5 They were just shoving people backwards.

Speaker 5 It was actually a very, very good game plan that they had. And nobody's respected their defense enough, which is incredible.
And they might have the,

Speaker 5 we should do a part-by-by-take coordinator of the year award. Yeah.
Because Lou, is it Anarumo? Yeah. Good fancy fuckboy's name, Lou Amaruno.

Speaker 1 Lou.

Speaker 5 He is sweet Lou is probably in our top. He's on our short list, our finalist for Coordinator of the Year.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, their defense was exceptional today.

Speaker 1 Basically had the Bills flustered all day long.

Speaker 1 And Zach Taylor deserves a ton of credit because, like, it wasn't even just how they, like, it was that they ran the ball, but the runs that they designed and the quick passes stink alluded to it on friday he basically told us the game plan like how you can basically get it so that there's only eight to ten times that the offensive line truly has to pass block a five-step drop and they did it like they everything worked for them they had the perfect game plan uh and what i was saying like we said on friday but the fact they were six-point underdogs it I woke up this morning, I was still baffled.

Speaker 1 I stayed away from the game because I have that Bengals feature, but I was like, I think the Bengals are just as good as the Bills. Why is this game six-point line? Like, it makes no sense.

Speaker 1 And so, I went into it expecting, like, because it never feels that easy. I was like, oh, the Bills will probably kill him because there's never free money just being handed out like that.

Speaker 1 And it was the exact opposite. The Bengals just completely demolished them.
And now, with Patrick Mahomes hurt, and on top of that, not even Patrick Mahomes, like the Bengals own the Chiefs.

Speaker 1 3-0 is ownership. Yeah.
And they got to be feeling pretty fucking good.

Speaker 5 It's tough to beat a team. Not scared of Arrowhead.
Tough to beat a team four times in a row. It's crazy, Cat.

Speaker 1 They are so good.

Speaker 5 They're awesome. Joe Burrow has won five playoff games with the Bengals, which equals the entire history of the Bengals prior to Joe Burrow joining the team.
That's nuts. It's crazy.

Speaker 5 And I was thinking back to 2019, there was a game.

Speaker 1 I remember it well.

Speaker 5 It was the Washington R-Words at the time against the Miami Dolphins. R-Words were 0-5.

Speaker 5 Dolphins were 0-5-2, I believe.

Speaker 5 And Dolphins score a touchdown. No time left on the clock.
They decide to go for two to win the game. They don't get the two.

Speaker 1 The R-words win.

Speaker 5 If the R Words lost that game, they would have had the number one pick, and then I would have Joe Burrow for the rest of my life.

Speaker 5 And I would be happy, and my entire life would be so much better in all facets. God damn.
So it's a sliding doors mode. Congratulations, Cincinnati.

Speaker 5 You won the Joe Burrow sweepstakes, and he's that good. He's that good where I fully expect, like, you don't need homefield advantage.
No.

Speaker 5 Because I know that you're upset about it because of what happened with Bills' game, but this is actually better for you guys that you went into Buffalo, and the word of the day is roughshod.

Speaker 5 I just always hear Stephen A. Smith say it.
You ran roughshod on the Buffalo Bills.

Speaker 1 It was a roughshodding game. It was a demolition.
Like, there wasn't anything fluky about it. There wasn't any weird things that happened in the game.

Speaker 1 I think even, you know, when it was 14-7, we're like, oh, here come the Bills. And it just never never happened.
Like,

Speaker 1 the only thing that actually the Bengals, like, it could have been worse because Jamar Chase, Joe Burrow threw a perfect ball to Jamar Chase in the back of the end zone, and he bobbled it right at the end, and they had to kick a field goal instead, you know, instead of being 17-7, it was, or sorry, instead of being 21-7, it was 17-7.

Speaker 1 But yeah, there was nothing. Like, it was just absolute demolish of the Bills.

Speaker 5 There was another crazy stat that came out of this game. Every team that Kirk Cousins beat in the regular season is now out of the playoffs.
Oof.

Speaker 5 Oof. With the Bills losing.
Another L for Hank. So Kirk Cousins.

Speaker 1 Another L. This guy is

Speaker 1 catching L's. Sorry.
He's like the reverse of the Matrix meme when he's dodging bullets. It's just Hank getting just shot up with L's.

Speaker 4 I'm like Jim in the end of the town.

Speaker 1 Jim.

Speaker 4 Speaking of the Vikings, you guys do trash on the Vikings a lot. And the Chargers.

Speaker 5 We don't say that word.

Speaker 4 C-words, Bills, Vikings.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 5 What's the difference?

Speaker 1 Oh, okay. So here we go.
Hank is now trying to put us on the spot because

Speaker 1 he doesn't. Yeah, no, he's trying to put us on the spot.

Speaker 5 He's putting on the Josh Allen spot.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he's put us on the Josh Allen spot. Let's have the Josh Allen conversation.
No, I know.

Speaker 1 I know what you're doing. It's fine.

Speaker 1 We were going to get to it.

Speaker 1 We were trying to give the Bengals their love because they were incredible and they deserve all that love. But let's talk about Josh Allen.

Speaker 5 Let's talk about the Bills. So you wanted me to compare the Bills to the Seawards.
The Bills occasionally win playoff games.

Speaker 5 The Bills have been. The Stewards don't make it to the playoffs, and when they do, they collapse in historic fashion.

Speaker 1 And Josh Allen is better than Kirk Cousins.

Speaker 1 I'm talking about franchise.

Speaker 4 I didn't bring up Josh Allen.

Speaker 1 Oh, franchise is sadness. No, no, it's abject failure for the Bills.

Speaker 1 The Vikings and the Bills are, I think, the only two teams to. No, the Vikings didn't lose four in a row, but they lost four Super Bowls in whatever it was, the 70s.

Speaker 1 No, the Bills. So this is bad.
This is bad for the Bills.

Speaker 1 Everyone knows that we are best friends of Josh Allen. So when people are like, oh,

Speaker 1 you're biased, yes, we are biased. I would say that it's fair if he didn't play well today.
He played bad today. And now you have three years in a row where it felt like the Bills were a step away.

Speaker 1 It started with the AFC Championship game against the Chiefs three years ago. Then they lose the Chiefs in that incredible game last year.
And then they lose this one. And it's like

Speaker 1 when people start saying Josh Allen can't win the big game, you can't really say anything against it until he wins the big game.

Speaker 5 I thought it was unfair when they did it after the Chiefs game because that was not on him.

Speaker 1 No, that one was not on him.

Speaker 5 He played incredible. This one, he didn't play good.
Unfortunately for Josh, this one was, he could have played a lot better at it.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 5 Or we can do the thing where we'll just be like, he was hurt.

Speaker 1 He did have a torn UCL.

Speaker 5 His UCL. His arm, his forearm.
It's basically impot. He was a warrior for even going out there.
Like most people would have said they would have done what Big Cat said earlier and bring the tarp out.

Speaker 5 So

Speaker 1 and really, like, you know, when people try to say like oh you guys are yes we are biased we're very biased on a lot of the things we say uh and i will defend josh allen and i will say that he's still in the upper echelon of quarterbacks but i also will say anyone who wants to shit on him right now it's fair game Like they didn't perform.

Speaker 1 They were Super Bowl favorites to start the year.

Speaker 1 They had all the pieces. It was ready to go.
They had a home playoff game against the Bengals.

Speaker 1 They're six-point favorites. If you want to to shit on them, that is absolute fair game because they deserve it right now.
Like, that was a very pitiful performance by the Bills.

Speaker 5 They were a Super Bowler bust, so now you got to deal with the bust.

Speaker 1 But I still love Josh Allen. I'll still defend him because

Speaker 5 we're best friends with him. Yeah, but to answer the question, Hank, I think the Bills are in a better position than the Seawards or the Vikings.

Speaker 1 But as a franchise, yes, it's sadness. Like, this is that.

Speaker 1 I feel for the city of Buffalo watching that game because it's one thing to lose. I don't know.
Like,

Speaker 1 I honestly, I know that the 13 seconds thing with the Chiefs is like the ultimate tragedy. But in a weird way, like that loss,

Speaker 1 you can be like, all right, well, we were right there. We were right there.
Like, next year, we're right there. This loss, you weren't right there.
You got your fucking doors blown off at home.

Speaker 1 So that feels like it hurts even more because it's just like you guys were supposed to be the team and you just weren't.

Speaker 5 I was going to say a couple things on the coaching side. It seems like maybe they do miss Brian Dable a little bit.
It seems like he was a pretty big part of that offense.

Speaker 1 I've been critical of Ken Dorsey. I don't understand a lot of the things he does.

Speaker 5 And on the defensive side, I'm thinking about using the S-word when it comes to that defense because they got pushed around big time. Yeah.

Speaker 5 You got to be, if you're going to play defense in Buffalo in cold weather games, you've got to be able to stop the, you got to be like hard-nosed, tough guys. And Milano was just basically like,

Speaker 5 I don't know, he's like the Kiko Alonso reimagined there, but he's not. He didn't play like he was a tough guy.

Speaker 1 And their defensive line, they've invested a lot of draft picks in. Like, you should be at a spot where you can rely on them.

Speaker 5 I like Ed Oliver, but is he worthy paid for him?

Speaker 1 Yeah, where is he?

Speaker 7 We're going to say Billy. And it was against backups.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Too on the Bengals line.

Speaker 5 This was a pride check.

Speaker 1 It was. For the defensive line.
So is that a fair answer, do you think? Do you think people will say that that's not a fair answer? Like,

Speaker 1 it comes down to, like, I will always love Josh Allen. I will never shit on him because we have a relationship with him.
But if anyone else wants to shit on him, I'm not going to stop you.

Speaker 1 I'm not going to, like, go out of my way and argue with people and be like, no, you're wrong. The Bills have been failures in the last three years.

Speaker 1 They were supposed to be the team this year, and they weren't.

Speaker 4 I will say, too, as someone who has been a fan of a team that was Super Bowl favorites and then they lose, especially in the divisional round, I think mentally, if you're a fan of the Bills, like you didn't think there was ever a chance you were losing until the AFC championship game.

Speaker 4 Right. Like, this is tomorrow is going to be worse.

Speaker 4 This is worse than an AFC championship loss in my mind. Because you just weren't.
I was expecting it, and you were just like, all right, we're going to make a deep postseason run, and it's just over.

Speaker 1 And when you get to the final four, it's like the ball can bounce away, and you just, you know, you miss out on it. It's like, oh, well, you know, this is how football works.
This is like,

Speaker 1 you guys weren't close. Like, the Bengals were the better team.
They were up 7-3 when they were playing earlier in the year, and they just demolished you in this game. Yeah.

Speaker 1 They beat you one and a half times.

Speaker 5 There were so many things about this game that pointed to the Bills, too.

Speaker 5 It was a snow game.

Speaker 5 That's your ultimate 12th man that you had on your side for Buffalo. You lost a home snow game in the playoffs to a team that had

Speaker 5 one-fifth of their offensive line was a starter at the beginning of the year. Yeah.
That's tough.

Speaker 5 That's a tough pill to swallow.

Speaker 1 By the way, so I know that they would rather have all their starters, but it is kind of funny that the Bengals are just back.

Speaker 1 If you're going to lose your starting offensive line, any team that loses their starting offensive line, you'd be like, it's over for them.

Speaker 1 But to have Joe Burrow and also have done it last year, it's almost like they're right back to where they were.

Speaker 1 It's like, all right, well, Joe Burrow's just going to have to stand in there and we're going to have to just, you know, gameplay. We got to the Super Bowl last year with a terrible offensive line.

Speaker 1 We can do it again.

Speaker 1 Like,

Speaker 1 they're ready for it. This is kind of done it before that they have.
Right.

Speaker 1 If there's any team that you lose three-fifths of your offensive line and can survive, it's the Cincinnati Bengals.

Speaker 5 That's kind of like what the Seahawks did for years. Yeah.

Speaker 5 They just had dog shit offensive line where Tom Cable would end up taking a tight end and then just making him get fat over the course of the season because he's like, we'll probably need another tackle by the end of the year.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Billy. Yeah, it sucks for the Bills, though.
I do feel bad for Buffalo. Like, that's a.
You're right, Hank. Like,

Speaker 1 if you're in Buffalo, you're listening to this right now. You probably aren't even listening to it because it's so sad.

Speaker 1 You're waking up on Monday morning and you're looking out and it's cold and it's winter and you're like, oh, fuck. Now what? Like, what the fuck? And then also,

Speaker 1 the Stefan Diggs thing is not great. Like, he was yelling at Josh Allen on the sidelines.

Speaker 1 He reportedly got dressed and got out of the locker room before the Bills had fully gotten their team in the locker room. And then he was dragged back in the locker room and still left right away.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 5 I understand that he's probably pissed off and probably disappointed after the end of the season. I would not be a good loser.
No. And if you've worked this entire season to get to this.

Speaker 1 I'd also understand if the Bills were like, hey, this is unacceptable. Like, we got to trade you for a third-round pick to the Bears.
Right.

Speaker 7 Yeah, Billy? I think Josh Allen is on a little bit of an island there with the offense.

Speaker 7 And I think that especially got magnified when Dable left because now he's sort of the biggest cornerstone of the offense and continuing on what they did last year.

Speaker 1 No, there's this Superman aspect where he feels like he has to do everything.

Speaker 1 I also, I don't understand, like, I feel like every single year we're told the Bills have a running game, like, oh, don't worry, they have a running game. They have a running game.

Speaker 1 Oh, even this year, like, oh, they have a running game. There was no running game today.

Speaker 5 No, so the Bills were actually the best running team in football over the course of the year.

Speaker 1 But it's not real.

Speaker 5 But it's not real. It's Josh Allen scrambling with the ball when he feels like he has to put the team on his back.
Right.

Speaker 5 They don't have like a consistent running game to speak of, which they're going to have to work on. They're going to have to do something.
They tried to this year.

Speaker 5 They were in the market for Christian McCaffrey.

Speaker 1 And they just got blown up on both sides of the line. Like, they were.
That's like that. This was a game where they just were physically dominated at every position.

Speaker 5 Yeah, it's tough. This is definitely one of those mornings in Buffalo where you wake up and you're like,

Speaker 5 what do I do for the next nine months of my life?

Speaker 1 Wait, let me see.

Speaker 5 Hold on. How are the Sabres? I was about to look at it.

Speaker 5 I think the Sabres are like better than usual.

Speaker 1 They can order wing nuts. They cannot.
They can't get wingnuts. Good point.
The Buffalo Sabres are better than usual, so that's not so bad.

Speaker 1 They are right now, if the playoffs started today, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven.

Speaker 5 They might get into the playoffs.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but they're not many points behind.

Speaker 1 So watch out. The Blue Jays are fun and and points out of a wild card spot.

Speaker 5 There you go. The Blue Jays are a good young team.

Speaker 1 Yeah, the Sabres have won two in a row. Hell yeah.

Speaker 1 Tamar Hamlin, that was, you know, it was cool to see him there today. A lot of money donated.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 A lot of toys will be purchased in Buffalo.

Speaker 1 We love Buffalo.

Speaker 4 CBS producers are probably furious at the snow. They just kept trying to cut to him.

Speaker 1 Oh, I couldn't see him at all. I couldn't see him at all.
They kept being like, there he is. Yeah.
Where? And Tony Romo.

Speaker 4 Oh, man, we're so right about Tony Romo.

Speaker 1 It's been fucking awesome. I get every time we watch one of these playoff games, I get like a hundred tweets being like, I'm joining your guy's side.
Yeah. And it's just like, yep.

Speaker 1 And we were, by some people in this room, called haters.

Speaker 1 Jake?

Speaker 1 Once I call you haters. You were like, you guys just don't like the thing that everyone else likes.
And I'm like, no, I think we're right on this one. Yeah, I don't know, Jake.

Speaker 1 I think we're right on this one.

Speaker 10 You guys, Zach.

Speaker 6 I don't Zach at all.

Speaker 5 I don't know, Jake.

Speaker 5 What do you think about Tony Ronan? Honestly, would you be able to work with a guy like that?

Speaker 1 Yeah. Well, yeah, he works with me and Dave, so yes.

Speaker 1 We're Tony Romo to the worst extent.

Speaker 1 I don't know, Jim. I don't know, Jim.
I don't know, Jim. All right, so, yeah, Bengals,

Speaker 1 I think they're going to go to the Super Bowl again.

Speaker 5 I do a possibility. I do.

Speaker 1 I don't. Like, this team is just, and Joe Burrow, it's just,

Speaker 1 they just fucking have swag, and they're just so fucking good. And they have, like, T.
Higgins is a number one wide receiver. They have two of them.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 It's crazy. It might have been a good idea for them to guard Jamar Chase a little bit this game.
They just so should have a bad thing. They just let him hang out.

Speaker 5 They didn't really throw the ball deep that much, but there were several times where Jamar Chase was just standing in the middle of the field. Nobody around him.

Speaker 1 The thing that is crazy about Jamar Chase, and he makes incredible catches, he's super fast, but it's when he gets the ball and he just has guys bouncing off him.

Speaker 1 And he's like, this is not a prototypical number one receiver.

Speaker 5 He's just smooth.

Speaker 1 But he's just so strong. He's strong and smooth, yeah.
Yeah, his strength is just insane, and he does it all.

Speaker 5 So, yeah. I also just love when college teammates play together in the NFL.
Yeah. It's just cool.

Speaker 1 It is very cool.

Speaker 5 It is very cool. And then you get to see that clip of them running the exact same plays and throws.
Yeah. Nothing changes, man.
It's wild.

Speaker 1 Man, I feel bad for the Bills.

Speaker 5 Oh, yeah, there's DeMar on TV. Are we sure that's really DeMar?

Speaker 1 I was just thinking.

Speaker 1 He's doing the heart thing. He's doing the heart thing.

Speaker 5 That's half the conversation. Is that DeMar or is that a body double? That's him.

Speaker 1 He's doing the heart thing.

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Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Last game of the weekend.

Speaker 1 49ers 19, Cowboys 12.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 5 This was also a rough shotting.

Speaker 1 This was.

Speaker 5 Hank, you got to run rough shot on it.

Speaker 1 I wish we had a Cowboys fan who could defend what we saw.

Speaker 1 Oh, wait, Hank, what's that jersey you got on?

Speaker 4 It's a Dakota Prescott jersey, Dan.

Speaker 4 How do you play? It's getting thrown in the trailer.

Speaker 5 Immediately after this recording, is that the same Dak Prescott that hasn't gone two games in a row without a turnover since 2019?

Speaker 4 Is that true?

Speaker 5 Yeah, and didn't he not have a turnover last week against the Bucs? That is true. And then how many interceptions did he basically throw today? I counted four basically interceptions.

Speaker 5 Yeah, two.

Speaker 4 He had two, probably should have had five.

Speaker 1 So, and then also, is that the Dak Prescott who plays for the Cowboys, who just broke their own record of 13 straight postseason appearances without getting to the conference championship game? 13?

Speaker 1 13 straight times they've gone to the playoffs. They had the record.
They were 12 straight times they went to the playoffs.

Speaker 1 Not obviously consecutive years, but the last 12 times they went to the playoffs, they were not able to advance to the conference championship game. They broke that record today, and it's 13 now.

Speaker 1 Is that the same Cowboys?

Speaker 4 That is the same team. That's embarrassing.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 5 Is that the same Dak Prescott, whose favorite color is gray?

Speaker 5 It is. And got beat up in Panama City?

Speaker 1 Correct. Oh, wow.
And is that?

Speaker 5 You bet on that, Dak Prescott?

Speaker 1 Yeah, you wanted to troll us by

Speaker 1 you wanted to troll us by doing a Cowboys future and going all in on the Cowboys and they

Speaker 1 quote-unquote great value didn't even get to the conference championship?

Speaker 4 It was great value last week. I took a lot of time.
Well, no, it wasn't a cash off for plus money, but I chose not to because I'm a true Cowboys fan and I ride or die with this team.

Speaker 4 That was a mistake, but I don't regret my decision once.

Speaker 1 Did you bet the Cowboys as well?

Speaker 1 Yes. Oh, no.

Speaker 4 Basically, as much as the future, which was a mistake.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 5 Was that the same Cowboys whose owner walked down onto the field this morning when Brett Maher was getting warmed up, missed two field goals in a row, and then pulled him aside and yelled in his face, like, hey, you son of a bitch, you missed one of these in a game.

Speaker 5 I'm going to slit your server.

Speaker 4 The 49ers were

Speaker 4 pushing some disgusting tactics pre-game. No respect.
They were just not letting him kick.

Speaker 1 Oh, that was very funny.

Speaker 4 No respect.

Speaker 1 That was very funny. By the way,

Speaker 1 we should say, we'll take the heat off Hank for a second. And we should say that Max won the Ray Allen bet.
So I had the over in this game. Terrible, terrible bet.

Speaker 1 Hank had the Cowboys in this game and a Cowboys Future, even worse bet. Actually, like

Speaker 1 four times as bad of a bet.

Speaker 1 Max had the Eagles. He was the only one who won his bet this weekend.
Max, would you like to tweet it out right now?

Speaker 1 Sure. Let's just

Speaker 1 get it live on the air.

Speaker 9 I tweeted one thing. I said that the Cowboys are cowards.
I was just thinking about it, and I just wanted to.

Speaker 5 They are. Yeah.

Speaker 1 The cowards. They won't get to that.
Because they are.

Speaker 1 I mean, just that

Speaker 9 NFC Conference championship game would have been so

Speaker 1 biblical.

Speaker 9 It would have been unit's disgusting that they're too cowardly to come into the link for the conference championship.

Speaker 1 That's true. They are.
They are cowards.

Speaker 5 So, Max, what are you tweeting right now?

Speaker 1 Hold on. Why don't you say it as you do?

Speaker 5 And your grandma follows you on Twitter. Or do you want to read it to you?

Speaker 1 I'll read it to you, and then you can.

Speaker 9 No, I already have it. I already have it copied and pasted.
What is it?

Speaker 1 So go ahead. I forgot.

Speaker 9 Wait, maybe I don't. Okay, wait.
No, I don't.

Speaker 1 No, I don't. Okay, so I'll get it for you.

Speaker 1 All right, so pull up your Twitter.

Speaker 1 And you're going to start with I'm getting there.

Speaker 9 I'm getting there.

Speaker 1 And then

Speaker 1 the next part is going to be... No, yeah, I'm getting there, period.
Yep. When you masturbate, think about my tongue or your clit.

Speaker 1 You got all that?

Speaker 9 When you masturbate. Oh, did not spell that right.

Speaker 1 Oh, wow.

Speaker 5 How do you spell masturbate?

Speaker 9 When you masturbate.

Speaker 1 Think about my tongue.

Speaker 1 About

Speaker 1 my tongue

Speaker 1 or your clit.

Speaker 1 Hold on a second. Oh,

Speaker 9 my hands are sweating.

Speaker 1 Are you getting horned up? Max is saying his grandmother does follow him on Twitter.

Speaker 5 I think Max is getting horny.

Speaker 9 When you masturbate, think about my tongue.

Speaker 1 Or your clit. Or

Speaker 1 your clit.

Speaker 1 And switching back and forth. And

Speaker 6 switching

Speaker 4 back and forth

Speaker 1 from my dick to my tongue. From

Speaker 9 my dick

Speaker 9 to your no, my tongue.

Speaker 1 Ah, fuck. You're switching back and forth from my dick to my tongue.

Speaker 1 He's eating her out and then also having sex.

Speaker 5 He's going AB, AB.

Speaker 1 Yeah. He's pressing all the buttons.

Speaker 9 Got it.

Speaker 1 Okay, send tweet. I also think maybe tomorrow morning when you wake up, you can do the follow-up.

Speaker 1 I hope that it was amusing to people, but I'm either going to change my password or stop tweeting altogether. I forgot that he wrote that afterwards.
Oh, because he got hacked? Yeah, he got hacked.

Speaker 5 Him and Jay Williams.

Speaker 1 He totally got hacked.

Speaker 7 Do you think Max's grandma's got tweet notifications on? She just gets woken up in the middle of the night to that.

Speaker 1 Oh, I hope so. That would be.
I'm going to, real quick, I'm going to retweet.

Speaker 5 Let's everybody retweet it just to make sure that it gets. I don't see it.

Speaker 1 I haven't.

Speaker 9 I don't know if I'm spelling tongue correctly.

Speaker 1 T-O-N-G-U-E. Yep, okay.
All right.

Speaker 9 Think about my tongue or your clit.

Speaker 4 And switching back and forth from my dick to my tongue.

Speaker 5 Let's do a part of my take challenge. Text that to somebody that you love and care about, and then send us a screenshot of what the reply is to you.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 7 Oh, send it to 10 people.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 9 Okay.

Speaker 1 All right. Okay.
It's out. All right.
It's great. Oh, I see it.
I'm going to retweet it. Thank you.

Speaker 1 Okay, back to the cowboys being absolute cowards and Hank being a troll and having everything blow up in his face.

Speaker 1 It blew up in your face.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I don't know what. Listen, I'm a plus sign hunter.
Patriots were out. I needed a rooting interest.

Speaker 4 Like, I wasn't going to pick the Bengals or the fucking Eagles or the Chiefs or the Bills to win the Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 It's not great value. Right.
No, it's not. It's not just value.

Speaker 4 But this wasn't great value either. In theory, it was.
In theory, you have a Super Bowl-winning coach. You have a quarterback who is a high-paid quarterback with a lot of experience in the league.

Speaker 4 You have a great rushing attack. If Pauler doesn't get injured, who knows how this game ends.

Speaker 1 That's true. That's true.

Speaker 4 But watching the game,

Speaker 4 it was a torturous experience.

Speaker 4 I regret ever cheering for a team that's not the Patriots because it was brutal.

Speaker 5 Do you think that Dak Prescott actually likes throwing interceptions? Because I think he enjoys it to a certain extent.

Speaker 4 I mean, he was trying so hard.

Speaker 1 He was trying so hard.

Speaker 5 So hard.

Speaker 5 Like, the two that were dropped, including one that should have been a pick six at the very end of the game, it looked like he was doing it because he loved it, not because he was getting pressured and he was messing up.

Speaker 4 And the first one was not, I mean, there wasn't even a Cowboys player in vicinity.

Speaker 5 Yeah, it was bad.

Speaker 4 He was dynamic, though. I will say that.
He did run.

Speaker 4 He was running around the field.

Speaker 5 He ran the ball pretty well.

Speaker 5 The last play of the game, maybe my favorite play of the weekend. They send Ezekiel Elliott out there as a center.

Speaker 1 Wait, wait, wait, wait.

Speaker 5 As a center,

Speaker 5 Ezekiel Elliott was sent into the game. They put Dak in shotgun, and then Ezekiel Elliott snaps the ball, proceeds to to get driven into hell immediately, just like body slammed.

Speaker 5 They were trying to run a lateral play, so I guess the theory was if we have Ezekiel Elliott on the field, that's one more guy that can run with the ball instead of a slow fat guy.

Speaker 5 So let's put him in.

Speaker 4 So they had those guys on the field, too.

Speaker 5 Again, they put Ezekiel Elliott in at center to snap the ball. He gets fucking demolished.

Speaker 5 He gets run over like he, I don't know, like there was a bulldozer, a front end loader that just backed up on him. Dak throws like a six-yard slant, and then that dude gets jacked up.

Speaker 1 It was awesome. It was so awesome.

Speaker 5 It was such a good play.

Speaker 1 It was so bad. The Cowboys, I'll give them credit, they just know how to go out in the fucking funniest fashion.

Speaker 5 They do. And you know that Mike McCarthy, like when he installed that in the course of the week, he's like, they're never going to see this coming.
Yeah. Ezekiel, you're going to play center.

Speaker 1 Yeah, just in case of emergency, guys.

Speaker 5 To his credit, it was a good snap. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And then he just got blown off. And then he got blown off.

Speaker 1 And the Cowboys, like, the Brett Maher thing just got even funnier because he got the first extra point blocked, but it was going to miss by, it was actually going to be his worst of his misses. Yeah.

Speaker 1 It was going to miss so bad. And then he comes out.
He nails two field goals. And I don't think he would do this because he probably doesn't have a job with the Cowboys.

Speaker 1 Actually, this is why he should do it. He should just go up to Dak Prescott and be like, dude, you blew the game for us.
Like, you blew this game for us. There's no two ways about it.

Speaker 1 Dak Prescott is who we thought he was. And the Bucs are even worse than we thought they were because they made Dak Prescott look like an incredible quarterback, and he's not.
He's a good quarterback.

Speaker 1 He is Kirk Cutsons.

Speaker 5 You know what's crazy is that

Speaker 5 Dak Prescott actually had a worse game than Brett Maher had. Yeah.
Like we laughed a lot at Brett Maher. Yeah.

Speaker 5 And we did laugh a little bit at Dak Prescott, but Dak Prescott definitely played worse than Brett Maher did today.

Speaker 1 Yes, and for the Niners, they're just awesome. Like, it was a kind of an ugly game.

Speaker 1 Brock Purdy, I don't, I do feel like he's just trying to throw interceptions and they just won't, like the world is just working in his favor.

Speaker 1 That he had a couple balls that like should have been intercepted and they weren't.

Speaker 1 But it doesn't really matter when they're as talented as they are because their defense was flying everywhere. And George Kittle is the best, like the best.

Speaker 1 He was, the amount of fun he has playing football is just so it's it's fun to watch him have fun.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Everything he does.
Agreed. It's rare.
Oh, really?

Speaker 5 It's rare that you see a tight end take over a drive, but that's what Kittle did. Yeah.
On that one long drive that they needed.

Speaker 5 The one where he bobbled it.

Speaker 5 And the craziest part of that play was after he bobbled it three times and he grabbed it, he moved it out of the way of Diggs in like a split second because Diggs was about to come in and just wreck his shit.

Speaker 5 Right. And he moves the ball like half a foot to the left, rolls forward, and then he gets up and does his like Joker laugh, stares at the sky cam.
He's like, yeah, I'm

Speaker 1 the guy. And it broke the fourth wall.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that play, though, like, most guys would probably give up on the ball because he was about to get absolutely demolished over the middle and uh yeah he's just the best he that that that drive was the george kittle drive he was like their legacy drive yeah their offense couldn't find a lot like they were able to run the ball late uh when they had to which is kind of why they're such a good team is like they can even when you're expecting a run they can still run it down your throat but that drive sealed the win and it was kittle and he's the man he really is no it was awesome to awesome to see hank what do you think about brock purdy going into the link

Speaker 1 i mean you know what I think about Brock Purdy going in the link. Oh, so you're going to stay consistent? I thought you were going to reverse it and be like, Brock Purdy's the man.

Speaker 4 No, no. I mean, he played decent.
Like, he made some throws.

Speaker 4 As a Cowboys fan, I was just dying, and they did it in the beginning of the game. They stopped the run, and it was like, let's make Brock Purdy beat us with his arm.

Speaker 4 He kind of did all the third-down conversions were still just like those cheap little slants and Christian McCaffrey making plays.

Speaker 4 If the Eagles and the Cowboys were doing them no favors by not scoring, I think if the Cowboys, if Dak Dak Prescott could do anything and their offense could have done anything, they would have won the game by putting the pressure on.

Speaker 4 They didn't put any pressure on him. If the Eagles can put pressure on him and make him throw, he's throwing three picks.

Speaker 1 Yeah, because it does feel like.

Speaker 1 I could feel it. Brock Purdy's elite in play action and like second in five.
And then when he gets into those long, obvious passing downs, it does.

Speaker 1 It doesn't feel like it's the best.

Speaker 5 There are a lot of plays where he just has one read and go, but it turns out that one read is always open.

Speaker 1 And it's always, it's Brandon Ayuk or Christian McCaffrey

Speaker 1 sitting down in his zone.

Speaker 5 His one read is always correct. Like, more offenses should do a one read offense if that person is always open in the one read offense.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 4 If the Eagles fans are as crazy as Max pretends like they are and they can't get in a rookie quarterback's head, like, that's a problem.

Speaker 1 Because that's the other thing.

Speaker 4 Obviously, they play in Tampa Bay, but that's not

Speaker 4 the craziest atmosphere. And they had a home game.
The link for the NFC Championship game is going to be allegedly, possibly, kind of crazy. Allegedly.
So he should be pretty rattled.

Speaker 1 You know what's fun? This is actually the second time that Brock Purdy and Jalen Hurts will play each other. And the first time was an awesome 42-41 game, Oklahoma versus Iowa State.

Speaker 1 Brock Purdy had five touchdown passes. Jalen Hurts had three and ran for two as well.
So they both had five touchdowns when they played in 2019. So we get to see.
Maybe we'll get to see them.

Speaker 5 This is like Baker Mahomes all over again.

Speaker 1 Yeah, kind of a fun game.

Speaker 4 Also, I forgot to mention it, but little, you think it's, you think Jalen Hurts is like little Jalen Hurts Revenge? Dable was the coordinator that benched him for Tua.

Speaker 1 Oh, wow.

Speaker 1 Wow. That's fun.
And you still bet the Giants.

Speaker 4 I was a Dable believer. I was like, Dable's

Speaker 4 got his number. He knows him.
Yeah. He knows him well.
He did not.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 5 But wait, wasn't Dable also the guy that went back to Jalen and they were on great terms?

Speaker 4 But he transferred shortly after, no?

Speaker 1 Well, no, they went. He went.

Speaker 5 Jalen Hurts came in for Tua when Tua got injured. Got injured, yeah.
Remember, he hurt his hip in college?

Speaker 4 But then he transferred.

Speaker 1 Then he transferred later, yeah.

Speaker 1 Fred Warner also is incredible. A linebacker shouldn't be able to do what he does in coverage.

Speaker 5 Oh, yeah. Yeah, when he turned around and ran down the field with Dalton Schultz.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and then he did it again with CeeDee Lamb. Yeah, like he's just.

Speaker 1 The Niners just have so many guys. They just win dude off.

Speaker 5 So now the question question becomes, what do you do if you're Jerry Jones and Mike McCarthy is cleaning out his office on Monday? Oh. Let's just say you're Jerry Jones.
You sit down.

Speaker 5 You have your third McGriddle with extra salt. And you've had a couple cups of coffee with Johnny Walker Blue in it.
So you've got your nice morning buzz going.

Speaker 5 Mike McCarthy comes in and he's like, hey, boss,

Speaker 5 I guess I'll see you for a combine prep that we're doing in three weeks. What are you thinking if you're Jerry Jones?

Speaker 5 Are you calling Sean Payton before he leaves the office? Are you waiting for Mike to get into his car and drive away before you interview Sean?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I think you got to. I think you got to call him up right away and just be like, hey, what do we got to give up?

Speaker 5 I think Jerry Jones would take, he would fire Mike McCarthy if he knew that he could get Sean Payton. Absolutely.

Speaker 5 But I don't think that he would fire Mike McCarthy and then go through a big interview process where he has to sit down and do the entire song and dance. Yeah.

Speaker 5 He wants his guy, but his guy's in high demand.

Speaker 1 High demand.

Speaker 1 High demand.

Speaker 5 I think my gut tells me that Mike McCarthy actually survives this, and he'll stick around.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'd probably agree. It is kind of funny, like, Jerry Jones.

Speaker 4 I don't know. You got to get rid of him.

Speaker 5 I don't think he's going to fire him. So I think that he definitely would have been fired if Brett Maher had done something today that had cost them the game entirely.

Speaker 5 And then the question is, why didn't you get a new kicker? And everybody knew that this was painfully obvious. The guy missed five extra points in a row.

Speaker 5 But since he didn't actually cost the game, and Dak Prescott cost them the game, and Dak Prescott is the guy that Jerry Jones decided to pay $40 million a year to, I don't know that Jerry is going to want to fire Mike

Speaker 5 Jerry unless unless he gets on the phone with Sean Payton and secretly works out an arrangement with Sean first.

Speaker 4 The season, literally, I would agree with you if the season didn't end in quite literally the most embarrassing fashion that a season could end in.

Speaker 5 You're right. That play at the end being the very last play, that's going to stick in Jerry's head.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 5 It was one of the funniest plays in NFL history.

Speaker 4 I mean, yeah, McAfee and the Colts are off the hook.

Speaker 5 McAfee, the Jim Zorn swinging gate. You can always tell when a coach runs a real turkey ship play because the trending topics on Twitter,

Speaker 5 McAfee will be trending, and then Jim Zorn will be trending.

Speaker 1 Yes, it was just so, so funny. Also, Hank, I got some good news for you as a Cowboys fan.

Speaker 4 I'm not a Cowboys fan, by the way.

Speaker 4 I'm off the train.

Speaker 1 I got some good news for you as a Cowboys fan. I misspoke.
They've actually only had 12 times in a row that they haven't been able to get to the conference chamber. So it's not 13, 12.

Speaker 1 So they beat the record of 11.

Speaker 1 So Jerry Jones, if you talk to Jerry Jones in 1996 and you're like, hey, Jerry,

Speaker 1 they just had beaten the Packers in the conference championship game. And he was like, hey, Jerry, you're never going to be back in the conference championship game.

Speaker 1 It's going to be 2023 and you won't be back here. Yeah.
And that's hilarious. 12 straight times.

Speaker 1 12 straight times they made the playoffs that they have not been able to get to the conference championship game.

Speaker 5 It's nuts because I feel like Jerry's waiting for that last Super Bowl and then he's going to let go and just fade off. Yeah.

Speaker 5 Like die like a cowboy with your eyes open, standing up, holding the trophy.

Speaker 5 But now

Speaker 5 he's got to come back.

Speaker 5 To a certain extent, I think that Jerry doesn't want another Super Bowl because it keeps him alive. The hunt, you know? The dog that chases a car.
You got to have something to live for.

Speaker 5 And if Jerry gets another title, then it's like, well, I'm out. My fuck-up son-in-law that cleans my glasses is going to take over the job for me.

Speaker 1 Yep. So, Niners, Eagles.
I'm a little worried, Max. I'll just say it.
I think the Niners are a very good football team.

Speaker 1 Not really stating anything crazy right now. It also, PFT, next year, we should do our dude-off

Speaker 1 before week one, because I feel like if you did the dude-offs, we could name the most dudes on these four remaining teams. Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, like, they're loaded with dudes.

Speaker 5 So, the only team that I think might compete against these teams in the Dude Off

Speaker 5 is the Sewards.

Speaker 1 Yeah, probably.

Speaker 5 Like, that's the one team that might

Speaker 1 have an equal amount of dudes in their curse.

Speaker 6 Also, three of the same Final Four as last year. Oh, that's wild.
Defending champions, not the only ones returning.

Speaker 1 So, the Eagles, the only one, the newcomer, the newcomer to the show.

Speaker 5 Steal the show.

Speaker 1 There also is that one guy's tweet.

Speaker 1 I don't know how real it is. You know, like whenever someone tries to predict

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 6 Next 10. I've seen different dates.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Alby's Hall of Fame guy. There was a tweet going around from 2015 where he's like, my prediction for the next 10 Super Bowl champions.
Broncos, Patriots, Eagles, Patriots, Chiefs, Bucs, Rams.

Speaker 6 I got to find if that's real or not.

Speaker 1 In 2023, he said Eagles. So that would be cool.

Speaker 4 I feel like those are never real. Never.

Speaker 5 It's somebody that's also very cool.

Speaker 1 But if he did it in 2015 and he predicted the next 10, I don't know how that works. Maybe it's just Photoshop.
I don't know. Either way, I always look at at them.
I'm like,

Speaker 5 NFL rigged. Is there a coin? Is there a coin that's predicted this season?

Speaker 1 He's a coin on our side.

Speaker 4 What do you think would be the most fun Super Bowl matchup?

Speaker 4 Fandom aside.

Speaker 5 Most fun?

Speaker 1 I mean, Eagles.

Speaker 5 What do you mean, fun?

Speaker 1 Oh, fun for the game or fun for Super Bowl week? Both. Super Bowl week, it's Eagles.
Eagles, Bengals.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Eagles Chiefs would be pretty fun.

Speaker 5 Cincinnati is really kind of the Philadelphia of Ohio.

Speaker 6 For the pod, I think Sam Fran would be better in terms of

Speaker 1 Shanahan, Kittle.

Speaker 4 How can you not root for those guys?

Speaker 1 You didn't. Just ask yourself that.
Look in the mirror and ask yourself. Selfishly for the pod relationship.

Speaker 4 That's one of the hardest things I've ever had to do. Right? I wouldn't wish that on anyone.

Speaker 5 Pod relationships, San Francisco, Cincinnati.

Speaker 1 Yeah. The difference between me and you, Hank, is if the Niners win on Sunday, I'll be so happy for Kittle.
You just sit there. I'm there.

Speaker 1 No,

Speaker 4 I'm liking all those pictures.

Speaker 1 No, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
That's not true.

Speaker 4 I'm coming at his butt to give him a nice pat in the booty.

Speaker 1 You're patting him to work. You're patting him in the booty.

Speaker 5 Coming at his butt.

Speaker 1 We could get some Eagles on. We know Kelsey.
We hung out. He's a competitor now.
Ooh. Lane.
Yeah, we've had Lane. I'm on his fucking good friend.

Speaker 6 What if it's a Kelsey Super Bowl and we have both mom at the same time?

Speaker 1 That'd be wild.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that'd be wild.

Speaker 5 Who would the mom root for?

Speaker 1 Listen, if the Bengals and Eagles get there, I'm doing a split sweatshirt on both future tickets and just riding that. Damn, that'd be fun.
Worst gambler ever finds luck.

Speaker 5 I think it'd be great.

Speaker 5 My official rooting interest is for the Cincinnati Bengals to win the Super Bowl because Joe Burrows said that he would give us a drunk interview the day after he wins the Super Bowl to match up with his collegiate championship drunk interview.

Speaker 1 I'm rooting for the four year olds and kiddo.

Speaker 4 He's just, I just love him.

Speaker 5 Stop it, Nate. Cut your own money.

Speaker 1 Kyle Shanahan.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 9 You said you were rooting for the Eagles.

Speaker 1 Do you realize what you did? Where did you get that hoodie though?

Speaker 1 Let's end this here. Do you realize what you did? You sold your soul to the most detestable friends.

Speaker 1 I sell myself. You sold yourself.
You sold your soul to the most detestable franchise on earth.

Speaker 4 No, listen, I do want to give a special shout out to all of the Cowboys fans. It was one of the warmest embraces I've ever felt as a community.
I really felt like myself with you guys.

Speaker 4 So I appreciate the two-week run we've had.

Speaker 4 But

Speaker 1 yeah, it's over. Did you, did did you?

Speaker 1 Dak Prescott is going in the trash.

Speaker 5 Be honest, what percentage of you selecting the Cowboys had to do with the fact that it would just make Philadelphia HE more?

Speaker 1 100%.

Speaker 1 Oh, 100%. That's the troll.
It's the biggest.

Speaker 5 Just when I think that Hank could not get any more despised by Philadelphia, he's like, well, you know what? 100%.

Speaker 4 It would have been bad. I was not looking forward to this week when I was predicting the Cowboys to win.
It would have been a long week.

Speaker 1 What?

Speaker 4 Of if it was Cowboys Eagles.

Speaker 1 Oh, man. It would have been awesome.

Speaker 4 It would have been.

Speaker 1 And.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you would have gone through hell.

Speaker 4 If the Cowboys had won, I would have probably felt bad because you guys all would have been crying. For real.
And I would have just kind of been like, haha.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but that never was.

Speaker 5 Yeah, Hank, you totally would have been.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you would have felt that. You would have been so bad if we were crying.

Speaker 1 You tried to troll and you trolled yourself into wearing a Dak Prescott jersey on pardon my tape. No, it looks good.
And you have to get a cat. I do not have to get a cat.
Yeah, you did.

Speaker 1 You heard me say if they don't get to the conference championship game, you have to get a cat. No way.
That was part of the deal. If they win the Super Bowl, we get three cats total.

Speaker 1 If they don't get to the conference championship, you get a cat.

Speaker 4 I mean,

Speaker 4 Dak the cat. We'll listen to the records, but there's no way I said that.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I don't know. I think you did.

Speaker 1 I don't think so. All right.
You think we're gaslighting you?

Speaker 4 I mean, you always permanently are. That's not even a thing.

Speaker 4 Are Big Cat and PFT gaslighting? It's like, are they speaking?

Speaker 1 Are they gaslighting? Yes. All right, so any regrets to having this all blow up in your face?

Speaker 4 No, I mean, again, I just search for value, and when I see good value, I take it, and I'll do it again. You're the worst.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you really are.

Speaker 5 I love you, but

Speaker 5 you also don't tell the full story. Yeah, right.

Speaker 1 You gaslighting.

Speaker 4 No, I mean, you guys, I guess that's what it's different for me. You guys never, your teams never make the playoffs are always a joke.

Speaker 4 So you're used to going through this time of the year with just kind of like rooting as fans and doing it for work.

Speaker 4 Whereas I, a Patriots fan, I'm used to always being in it, always being going for the championship. So I didn't really know what to do this year.
So I was like, I'm going to pick a team and go for it.

Speaker 4 Like, go for a team with good value. And again, coach that's won the Super Bowl.
You guys always shit on Mike McCarthy. He has won a Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 Dak Prescott,

Speaker 4 perennial all-star, always has great stats, great, great, great defense. I was like, this is a team that can do it.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 4 they easily could have won that game.

Speaker 4 And Dach Brescott was terrible.

Speaker 5 Then they had that funny play at the end of the game. You remember that play at the very end of the game where they lined up his?

Speaker 1 The Dalton Schultz play was worse. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 They had a wide open.

Speaker 4 They basically gave the Cowboys 30 yards because they were playing just don't let them score a touchdown.

Speaker 4 And he was completely uncovered and he just stepped out of bounds without getting a second foot in.

Speaker 5 And he had another play where he cut a ball on the sideline and then got tackled backwards out of bounds, kept the clock running.

Speaker 5 But none of this would have mattered at all if the 49ers running back had gone down inbounds after getting that first down at the end of the game, as opposed to going out of bounds, stop the clock.

Speaker 5 But thank God that he did because that way we got to see the Cowboys run the play where Ezekiel Elliott played center and then he got just absolutely fucking destroyed at the line of scrimmage.

Speaker 4 I regret getting too far ahead of myself.

Speaker 4 I was thinking about like Super Bowl stuff.

Speaker 1 What were you going to, oh, give us some of the stuff?

Speaker 4 Just like just how, you know, the week, what I was going to be wearing.

Speaker 1 Oh, you're going to have a Cowboys.

Speaker 4 How I was going to deal with the Cowboys beating the Eagles or Giants.

Speaker 1 It was never the Giants.

Speaker 5 You're still trying to piss off Philadelphia.

Speaker 4 No, I just, I got on the Dable train. I was like, dude,

Speaker 4 Dable's got Jalen Hurts' number. He was his coordinator.
Like, they're going to win. Yeah.
Cowboys will get the one seed. Then we're going to be in the Super Bowl.

Speaker 4 And I, again, if I, in hindsight, I regret thinking too far ahead.

Speaker 5 Which is crazy if you're the Cowboys. This might be the last year that you have Dan Quinn as your defense coordinator because he might get another job.
I mean, they're never.

Speaker 1 They're not going.

Speaker 4 They have spent all their money on terrible players.

Speaker 1 Hank,

Speaker 1 remember, I put a future on the Cowboys last year, and Michael Gallup got hurt right away after. And

Speaker 1 it was the dumbest future I ever put on because I was like,

Speaker 1 they just don't win playoff games. They don't.
They just don't win playoff games. And I wasn't doing it as a troll because you were.
Neither was I. Yeah, you were.
You were definitely doing it.

Speaker 4 Well, I don't don't know what, like, this is where it's like, again, this is where it's like, you guys just gaslight the shit out of me.

Speaker 4 And basically, everything that I do in my life, you guys are like, oh, you're doing it as a troll. It's like, I'm just living.

Speaker 1 You're just living. Let Hank live.
Like, I'm just like,

Speaker 4 I speak, and you guys are like, oh, you're trolling. It's like, no, I'm just asking questions.

Speaker 1 It had nothing to do with Max. I was sitting across from you and you're just staying for the seed.

Speaker 5 It was before the playoffs started.

Speaker 1 Right. When you were like,

Speaker 1 I was going to get the one seed of the Eagles.

Speaker 1 But that had nothing to do with the Eagles in Philly. Yeah, you got it.

Speaker 1 The Philly wincher.

Speaker 1 You could actually see the timeline.

Speaker 1 The Eagles slipped up a little bit, and you're like, ooh, Cowboys are going to beat the Eagles and get the one seed, and they're going to stick it to the city of Philly.

Speaker 1 They didn't have to beat the Eagles.

Speaker 4 The path was there.

Speaker 1 Five things had to happen. I think there's.

Speaker 1 A couple of them did.

Speaker 1 Actually, none of them. No, none of them happened.
No, the Cowboys did not happen. No, none of them happened.

Speaker 5 They did beat the Eagles, right? No, no, no.

Speaker 1 The Eagles lost.

Speaker 5 They beat Clar Dimension. No, no, no.

Speaker 1 But in week 18, he needed three things to happen. Right.
Zero of them happened.

Speaker 5 In week 17.

Speaker 5 In week 17, you got one thing.

Speaker 4 They were showing the graphic on games.

Speaker 5 In the hunt for the one seed?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 All right. But again, nothing to do with the game.
I love the content. It was great watching you play the heel.

Speaker 5 I think one thing we just need to learn as American football fans is that just because the Dallas Cowboys spend a lot of money on a player doesn't make them a good player. Right.

Speaker 5 Because that's the trap that we fall into every single year.

Speaker 1 And they have some good players. Oh, shit.

Speaker 5 Jerry Jones gave Dak Prescott $160 million. Yeah.
$40 million a year. He must be pretty good.
He's a quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys.

Speaker 5 Just because you play quarterback on the Dallas Cowboys doesn't mean that you're great. If Tony Romo played his entire career as

Speaker 1 a Cleveland. A Panther.
A Cleveland Bridge.

Speaker 5 Yeah, that's a good one. As a Panther, we would remember him as Jake Delome.

Speaker 1 Right, right.

Speaker 5 Actually, Jake Delone got to a Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Jake Dalone did get to the Super Bowl.

Speaker 5 Not even Jake Delone. He would be Heath Schuler.
Ooh.

Speaker 5 That's too bad.

Speaker 5 He would be.

Speaker 1 It's a tough one.

Speaker 4 Geno Smith? Who would he be, Hank?

Speaker 1 Mark Scrossman? He went to the Super Bowl. Yeah.

Speaker 5 He'd be Kyle Orchard.

Speaker 1 He just picked the guy who went to the Super Bowl.

Speaker 4 Matt Linert.

Speaker 1 That's a decent one. Yeah.

Speaker 5 Although he had great success at USC.

Speaker 1 Legend. Either way, Hank, I love that you

Speaker 1 did enjoy that you did this. It was a great storyline.

Speaker 1 I can't wait to see your next move. I know it's going to be great.
You're going to come marching in here on Tuesday when we taped and being like, guys, I just did it.

Speaker 1 I got the Niners or I got the Chiefs.

Speaker 4 I'll tell you one thing. There's going to be value there.

Speaker 1 I don't do things for trolls.

Speaker 4 I don't think it's new. Do things for storylines.
Value. I'm numbers going on.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you're a value hunter. Yes.

Speaker 5 Better NFL career. Tony Romo or Andy Dalton.
I'd say Andy Dalton.

Speaker 1 Andy Dalton, probably. Also couldn't win a playoff game.
Also couldn't win a playoff game.

Speaker 5 Yeah. But I would still, I would put his career above Tony's.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay.

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Speaker 1 Wrapping up, who's back of the week?

Speaker 4 My who's back of the week, Skeep. Speaking of Skip,

Speaker 4 it is his co-host, Shannon Sharp. LaShannon.

Speaker 4 This was an unbelievable, yeah, LaShannon, LeBron, an unbelievable, unbelievable storyline. The Grizzlies were playing the Lakers, and the Grizzlies are like,

Speaker 4 they're just the shit talkers. They're just starting shit all the time.
Starting shit with the Warriors, starting shit with the Lakers, talking shit to LeBron.

Speaker 4 LeBron was getting heated, going back and forth. Shannon was courtside, and he started talking shit to the Grizzlies, and then the Grizzlies started talking shit back.
He was basically on the court.

Speaker 4 Stephen Adams came over and was like, got in the confrontation. It got out of control, and the Grizzlies were mad because they're like, oh, it's a fan.

Speaker 4 Essentially, a fan shouldn't be able to get that level of access and be basically like a player in an on-court disagreement. Yeah.

Speaker 5 The funniest part of that was when Stephen Adams made his appearance because it's all fun in games when you're talking shit to like John Morant.

Speaker 5 And then Stephen Adams shows up and he just moves everybody out of the way.

Speaker 5 So Shannon Sharp, I actually think could beat up a lot of NBA players right now.

Speaker 5 He's fucking jacked up. What's that look?

Speaker 1 No, okay.

Speaker 5 Yeah, he's not Steven Adams. He's massive.
Stephen Adams, I'd put in like the top 0.01% of people currently in the United States to not get into it in a fight.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Wait, I have a question for you, Hank, because this is also my Who's Back, but we can maybe tag team it.

Speaker 1 So afterwards, was LeBron, I know LeBron has talked about fans getting into it with players and how unacceptable it is.

Speaker 1 If you remember, he had those that couple from Indiana kicked out of a Pacers Lakers game. So LeBron probably was like, that's unacceptable.
What Shannon did, he should have been kicked out.

Speaker 1 You can't have fans yelling at players.

Speaker 4 Yeah, over the course of his career, it's a good point you brought up. He's had multiple fans kicked out.

Speaker 4 Basically, if you say anything bad towards him, he turns around, looks at the ref, and says, hey, get this guy out of here.

Speaker 4 He probably paid millions of dollars to get these tickets, and he's just, you know, yelling as anyone would.

Speaker 4 He's rooting against me, so get him out.

Speaker 4 He's basically a dictator.

Speaker 5 What about that girl after that game that was like, LeBron, how does it feel to be a pussy ass bitch? LeBron was probably like, this is good for the game.

Speaker 4 I think she's still in the gulag.

Speaker 4 So LeBron was asked about it, and I actually thought this is interesting just because of the,

Speaker 1 I'll get to it.

Speaker 4 He was asked about it afterwards. He said, I ride with Shane 365 days.
366 on a leap year, 24-7. So that's my guy.
I always got his back, and he's got mine. He can talk with the best of them for sure.

Speaker 1 Okay, so wait,

Speaker 1 he's condoning this base.

Speaker 4 He was condoning him. He was appreciated because he was the one that was getting into it with the Grizzlies players.
So he was happy that Shannon had his back, despite the fact that he was just a fan.

Speaker 5 What did Skip have to say about this whole interaction?

Speaker 4 Well, this is where I didn't realize before this that him and Shannon were this close. Like, I didn't realize it was.

Speaker 5 Well, LeBron probably loves LaShannon because LaShannon stands up to him against Skip.

Speaker 4 But that means, because I know LeBron goes out of his way. He never mentions Skip.
He never interacts throughout his whole career. But that to me just means that

Speaker 1 they

Speaker 4 are probably just drinking some wine together and just talk about Skip for hours.

Speaker 4 I didn't realize

Speaker 4 how much

Speaker 4 Shannon having his back to Skip meant to LeBron. I thought LeBron was like, you know, I just don't.

Speaker 4 But him being this close to Shannon and supporting him this much means he pays very close attention and is very round.

Speaker 1 So he's totally fine, though, with fans doing this.

Speaker 1 Because I'm looking at LeBron's Instagram right now, and actually afterwards he wrote with a caption with Shannon wearing a preposterous sweater, by the way, during this whole thing, which was very funny.

Speaker 1 He wrote caption, if I wish a motherfucker would was a person,

Speaker 1 mood the snorty face, snorty face emojis, unknown vibes.

Speaker 1 So he really condones this.

Speaker 5 It sounds like he's really set himself up for the next time somebody talks shit to him.

Speaker 1 So yeah, so fans should know, NBA fans, if you're sitting courtside, LeBron is cool to be the mood I wish a motherfucker would.

Speaker 5 Yeah, you give off unkn vibes to LeBron, and that's fine.

Speaker 1 Snort. It should be fine.
Next time a fan says anything, he should be okay with it, right? Yeah.

Speaker 5 If we're being consistent here, which I think that LeBron is nothing but

Speaker 1 consistent.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 That was an all-time. I went to sleep early on Friday and I woke up and I was like, what the fuck happened? You know what?

Speaker 4 Linkers are in the 12th seed, by the way.

Speaker 1 I bet you

Speaker 1 the Pat Bev podcast, though, with Ron.

Speaker 5 I bet you LeBron decided to stop being a Cowboys fan because Skip is a Cowboys fan. Yeah.
And they couldn't have that commonality. Yeah.

Speaker 4 I'm such a company man. I'll say this too quickly.
Pat Bev podcast with Ron is great.

Speaker 1 I listened.

Speaker 4 They were talking about LeBron, and he said that LeBron likes the show and listens to the show, and that almost made me like LeBron.

Speaker 1 He listens to the show

Speaker 4 almost.

Speaker 5 He listens to what show?

Speaker 4 The Pat Bev show with Ron. Throne.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. Nice.
Yeah. Okay.
If he goes on maybe confirmed fan. Or if he comes on PMT.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 PFT. Yeah, my Who's Back of the Week is U.S.
Rugby. U.S.
Rugby's back.

Speaker 1 Oh, shit, you stole my second one. Damn it.

Speaker 5 They had a Sevens tournament in Hamilton. The boys finished in third place.
Oh, hell yeah. We're back.
We got the bronze medal. We beat France in the bronze medal game.

Speaker 5 That means on the global standings in this year's Sevens World Series, which, as you guys know, travels from location to location. They're mini fixtures.

Speaker 5 USA's in second place. Wow.
We're back. Hell yeah.
We're officially back. Our team's good.
One of the yoffs. Fun to watch.
It's all y'alls.

Speaker 5 So it's like a big every weekend that they have an event, it's a big tournament with yachts in that tournament. And then it's a point system.

Speaker 5 So this weekend, I think we ended up, I want to say, 17 points for second place. And so we carry that on and you get a cumulative score.

Speaker 5 Right now, we're two points behind New Zealand for first place overall. We still got a lot, a lot of time left.
We can make up those two points easily. So, USA rugby's back, man.

Speaker 1 Wow. It's back.
Official. Oh, awesome.
Yeah. Fuck yes.
So excited.

Speaker 5 I know you guys are.

Speaker 4 First handball, now this.

Speaker 5 You guys love USA rugby. Love it.

Speaker 4 I'm more of a nines guy, but sevens is cool.

Speaker 5 We don't play nines. We play sevens.

Speaker 1 I'm an eights.

Speaker 5 We don't play eights. We play sevens.

Speaker 1 What else do they play? I'm a 14s guy.

Speaker 5 15s. 15s.
I was close.

Speaker 1 Sometimes 10s. Sometimes 10s.
Never eights?

Speaker 5 Never. I don't think there's anything.

Speaker 1 What if two guys get injured on the 10s?

Speaker 5 I don't think that there's eights.

Speaker 1 What if one? What if there's too many?

Speaker 5 I don't think they're nines either.

Speaker 1 Are there too many men on the field on a sevens? Would that be eights?

Speaker 5 Sevens. If there's too many men, then you can get an eight.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay, so that's eights. I'm eighth man.
You're the eighth sky.

Speaker 5 You're the eighth man

Speaker 5 for the U.S. team.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 All right. My who's back was also major onk vibes.

Speaker 1 LeBron is such a hypocrite. That was, that's, we should probably get courtside tickets to a game and just test that theory.
I mean, he's he's down for it. Yeah.
Yeah. He's in.
He's in.

Speaker 1 Billy.

Speaker 7 My who's back is weird science. If you guys saw Dalton Schultz today was wearing a weird thing around his neck, which is a Q-collar.
Oh, yeah. Which is supposedly supposed to be.

Speaker 7 Probably Pollard, too.

Speaker 7 Yeah, supposed to help protect the brain from injury during head impacts, but as we kind of saw later in the game, kind of was making bad decisions, lacksadaisical footwork, didn't put his foot in bounds, took a hit, didn't get out of bounds.

Speaker 7 I have a theory. This technology was based off of

Speaker 7 woodpeckers and how it protects their brains. And basically, it's supposed to constrict certain blood vessels going to your brain so there's more blood in your brain.

Speaker 5 It's like a cockring for your head.

Speaker 7 Yeah, I think these guys are just lightheaded.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 7 And it's just, he had a bird brain.

Speaker 5 Max, it literally is. Yeah.

Speaker 5 That's the same principle. I'm not a cockring guy, but I know

Speaker 1 the physiology sounds like a box.

Speaker 1 I know the physiology for how it works.

Speaker 5 So that means that the blood can. can.

Speaker 1 You know, you're coming across a screen. That means that the blood can get in, screaming, but it can't get out.
You are.

Speaker 1 I know how it works.

Speaker 1 Why do you use it?

Speaker 5 I don't know. But why would you? Because woodpeckers have rock hardships.

Speaker 1 When do you use it? I don't know. When do you use it?

Speaker 5 Like special occasions and shit?

Speaker 1 The cockring? Yeah. I don't know.

Speaker 1 What is a cockring guy? What is it for?

Speaker 1 The cockring? The cockring?

Speaker 5 Cockring guy. It's to prevent damage to your head.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 5 But I mean, it makes sense. So what you're saying, Billy, is that they're cutting off oxygen to their own brain, and that makes them make dumb decisions at the time.

Speaker 7 Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 5 I like it.

Speaker 4 So I like where your head's at.

Speaker 1 Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 Okay. Good job, Billy.
Jake, finish us off.

Speaker 1 Never worn a bracelet. I'm new every day.
Never worn a cockring. Cockring guy.

Speaker 1 But what is the point of a cockering? He's a huge cockring guy. The cockring

Speaker 5 makes it look awesome. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I don't know.

Speaker 5 Just like jewelry. Why do you wear a bracelet?

Speaker 1 He'll tell you the real reason.

Speaker 5 Why do pitchers wear fighting necklaces in the playoffs?

Speaker 1 You've always said you'd love to wear a fighting necklace, too. On my dick.
Right. Yeah.

Speaker 1 They should do a copper fit for your cock.

Speaker 1 All right. Jake.

Speaker 6 My who's back is Mike Francesa. He's joining first take next week, February 1st.
Him, Stephen A, and Mad Dog all on the same desk.

Speaker 1 Is he going to be able to get him?

Speaker 1 Hopefully.

Speaker 6 I'm very excited for that.

Speaker 1 That will be great.

Speaker 1 He'll have all the takes.

Speaker 5 They need to take calls on that show. They need to open up the phone lines and let the people call in and get them started on some shit.
I want to hear the old school Francastic callers.

Speaker 4 I forgot how I didn't mention this, speaking of rugby, but Tommy Paul, our guy, speaking of the 1990s. He's around to 16 of Australian Open.
It's been open.

Speaker 6 It's playing right now. Novak's still in.

Speaker 1 Who is it? Tommy Paul. Yeah, he's our guy.

Speaker 4 came to the office once and played ping pong?

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 4 And then we said if he ever, like, we're like, we'll interview a tennis player.

Speaker 4 He's the man. Shout out to Tommy Paul.
But he's our guy? He's my guy.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Is he American? Yes.
Yeah. Yeah.
He's Tommy Paul. Yeah.

Speaker 5 I remember we played against, we played ping pong against him. Yeah.
Because Hank made it seem like he was a professional table tennis player.

Speaker 5 But then he came in and we're like, this guy's not that great at table tennis. And Hank's like, well, yeah, he's actually just a professional tennis player.

Speaker 1 Who's he playing?

Speaker 6 Jokovich. Roberto Batista.

Speaker 1 By the way, I did see Jokovich tried to get someone kicked out, and I always have been consistent with this. There's no booing or heckling in any sports.
This is

Speaker 1 disgusting behavior. Don't have that happen.
It's gross. And those people should be banished forever.
Always been consistent.

Speaker 6 Anyways, Mike and the Mad Dog with Stephen A.

Speaker 1 That will be fun. I'm very excited for that.
And shout out to Tommy Paul. Yes.
Our guy.

Speaker 4 Hopefully he went one.

Speaker 4 I'm going to go home and watch.

Speaker 5 Credit to the Mad Dog because the Mad Dog's one guy that's not afraid of Stephen A and will get into his face.

Speaker 5 So, Stephen A last week was late for a segment, and Mad Dog was like, You've been out here selling your book.

Speaker 5 You can't be late for this show because you're calling it to Howard Stern, promoting your stupid book. It's great.
It's great to see somebody like on Stephen A's level. I can't wait to see Mike.

Speaker 5 I hope he falls asleep during the segment.

Speaker 1 It'd be very funny. The whole two hours of the day.
He never did that.

Speaker 1 He never did that.

Speaker 5 That never happened. It would also be very funny if somebody famous died and then he got to bring back the who Kiss.

Speaker 6 Who Kiss? Stanley. Who kissed?

Speaker 1 All right. The gorilla.

Speaker 1 I'm going to say something that I've never said before.

Speaker 6 Follow back after this if you want to go down a rabbit hole. It's unreal content.

Speaker 1 Okay, nice. Yeah, no, he's a great fall.
Great fall.

Speaker 1 I'm going to say something I never said. Well, first, have you ever gotten this one?

Speaker 1 I think I'm rooting for Hank in this one. Just this time because he's so

Speaker 1 down. So look at him.
Hank is

Speaker 1 acid-washed jorts, a Dak Prescott jersey, and he bought Cowboys Nikes. He can't be down worse.

Speaker 5 You got to take number four, Hank.

Speaker 1 For your guy. Your guy.
For Dak. How many years?

Speaker 4 14?

Speaker 5 Nah, 12 straight times.

Speaker 1 12 times.

Speaker 4 12.

Speaker 7 Hank, you did get

Speaker 7 the European Tourist Jorts.

Speaker 1 What if we gave Hank 12 numbers? As opposed to what, William? Like, hey, you don't have a bag tonight. You want 12 numbers? As a true Cowboys fan, you want 12 numbers tonight? Yeah.
Okay. Go ahead.

Speaker 1 12 numbers.

Speaker 5 I'm going to take 21 for Zeke.

Speaker 1 All right, 12. All right, you want 12?

Speaker 5 69.

Speaker 4 11.

Speaker 1 11.

Speaker 4 10. 10.

Speaker 4 9. 9.

Speaker 1 8.

Speaker 4 8. 17.

Speaker 1 17.

Speaker 1 6. 6.

Speaker 4 34.

Speaker 1 34.

Speaker 4 96.

Speaker 1 How many is that? 96. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
You have three more. 88.

Speaker 1 Okay. Four.
Four.

Speaker 1 13. 13.
Okay. I have them written all here.

Speaker 7 Discounts towards the money? Yeah.

Speaker 1 He's a loser. He's not going to get it.
Fuck.

Speaker 1 He's not going to get it. I have to.

Speaker 5 Oh, shit.

Speaker 1 We all get this. You have a 12% chance of it.
$12. He's not going to get it, Billy.
This is going to be incredible. No,

Speaker 1 we all owe $20. But those 99 numbers are 12.1%.
Billy, do you not understand what's going to happen right now?

Speaker 7 I know, but if he wins, I'm going to be so pissed.

Speaker 1 Okay, well, then you should win.

Speaker 1 Max, this is going to be great. Max.
20. 18.
All right. I don't even know what he's doing.
21 does.

Speaker 1 You know what I mean? I have them all written down right here. I'll take.

Speaker 1 What would be your 13th number if you had?

Speaker 4 I don't know. I was going down.

Speaker 1 Just give me another.

Speaker 7 I was going to just do 12, and then I just audibled halfway through

Speaker 4 before I stopped.

Speaker 1 Yeah, give me another number, though.

Speaker 4 Five.

Speaker 1 All right, I'll take five.

Speaker 1 Five is my number. Given to me by Hank.
All right, you ready?

Speaker 7 Did you really want to win like this?

Speaker 4 Yes.

Speaker 1 I don't set the rules.

Speaker 1 It's like $1,500.

Speaker 4 I'm down.

Speaker 1 Come on.

Speaker 1 Okay, so the number is 54. I'm going to read Hank's numbers real quick back to everyone.
12, 11, 10, 9, 8,

Speaker 1 17, 6, 34, 96, 88, 413.

Speaker 1 Hank, you did not get it. You had 12 shots.

Speaker 1 Billy, did you not realize what I just did? No. He will never get it.
He had 12 shots and he still didn't get it.

Speaker 6 Give him one extra number each show.

Speaker 1 No, that's it. He's a loser.
Can we do it? That guy's a loser. Look at him.
He had 12 shots.

Speaker 1 You weren't even that close. You actually were pretty much the farthest you could have been from all the numbers.

Speaker 5 Your closest one was 20 away, I think.

Speaker 7 21. Can we do another one?

Speaker 5 No.

Speaker 1 No. No, we just can't.
I mean, I'll hit one just for fun. It doesn't count.
It doesn't count. It does not count.
It does not count.

Speaker 1 93. Oh, he did have 96, so he was close there.
Billy, you got to just remember,

Speaker 1 you got to trust the content. I know, but never going to get it.
That was a great moment. The stats,

Speaker 1 Billy, he the stats don't matter when it comes to Hank. We've proven this before.
It's more likely that lightning strikes than you not be able to get the ball right two years in a row.

Speaker 1 He's just had 12 picks and he didn't even come close.

Speaker 1 He's a loser.

Speaker 1 That's crazy.

Speaker 1 Love you guys.

Speaker 7 Mammoths might be cloned as early as 2024.

Speaker 1 Still didn't get it.

Speaker 1 I don't know what

Speaker 1 to say and say it anyway.

Speaker 1 Today isn't my day to find you shy.

Speaker 1 Oh, I've been coming for your love, okay.

Speaker 1 Needless to say,

Speaker 1 I won't say it's about me, stumble it away.

Speaker 1 Slowly learning the life is okay.

Speaker 1 Say you're meeting to be safe and sorry. Say I'm me

Speaker 1 still better to be safe and sorry.

Speaker 1 Dream of me.

Speaker 1 of the eye.

Speaker 1 Please let me say

Speaker 1 the lighthouse. Just to play my words away.

Speaker 1 You are the things I've got to remember.

Speaker 1 And you're shy and away.

Speaker 1 I'll be coming for you anyway.

Speaker 1 When you're shy and away,

Speaker 1 I'll be coming for you anyway.

Speaker 1 Take on me.

Speaker 1 Take on the heart of every

Speaker 1 song.