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On today's Pardon My Take, super wildcard weekend, we're going to recap every game, five games. It was an incredible weekend of football.
We're going to talk about all of them. We're going to maybe talk a little bit about being dead-ass right about vikings i'm i'm not gonna take a victory lap i'm not either hank being dead ass wrong uh we have a lot to get to it's gonna be a great great show nothing better than talking football with the boys we're gonna start with fastest two minutes do a little who's back at the end it's all brought to you by our friends at coors light when you're juggling work life in general, things can feel chaotic.
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Today is Monday, January 16th. Super wild card weekend.? What? What? What? Football What? The game we love We start in San Francisco Brock Brock Who's there? Purdy Purdy who? Purdy pretty good As the Niners took on the Seahawks with Mr.
Irrelevant at the helm. Everyone thought it would be a blowout until DK, have a good day.
That's two. Showed up scoring twice and giving Seattle a first half lead.
In the second half, San Fran said, fuck it. Let's rock out with our Brock out.
Letting Purdy throw throw it around the yard Debo Samuel Cook said these D-backs can't stay with me because I'm running for TD and the route was on but don't feel bad Seahawks fans this season was a success as Wilson king of interceptions had the internet lay their hate on him. And you're still having fun, Seattle.
Niners 41, Seahawks 23. Down to Duval, where Trevor Lawrence spent the first half in the depths of Asante's Inferno, throwing four interceptions and almost going full Peterman.
The crane rose to the top as Austin Creampie Eckler exploded twice inside the end zone. Unfortunately for the Chargers, the game is 60 minutes long, and Let's Go Brandon Staley picked a terrible time to be conservative, as he'll have plenty of time to watch games from his basement in the future.
The Chargers Chargering is a tale as old as time, and on Saturday night, they Lorenced and repeat the same tragic tale as the Jaguars took a big chug of their trevorage full of Michael's secret stuff at halftime and came back for the shocking win. The Jaguars are jagging off.
31. Chargers, 30.
I always say, it was always the jaguars it was always in western new york the bills were playing with an extra pep in their step as hamlin continues his demarkable recovery the scoring started with dawson i am the one who knocks as he exploited the dolphins defense with too much speed and skyler Skyler White Thompson hung around with way too much screen time,

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Both teams took their shots back and forth,

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Beasley, who disobeyed the Dolphins' mandate to stay out of their end zone.

What ultimately did the Dolphins in was an inability to understand

Mike Tyson McDaniels as he called plays in late all afternoon and their season faded into Bolivian. No one circles the wagons like the Buffalo Bills.
Bills 34, Dolphins 31. Over to Minnesota where Tesla owner Daniel Jones was trying to quit school as he was on auto drive all afternoon.
The Giants offense had their aha moment as Saquonmi, Saquonmi ran through the television for two touchdowns. TJ Clockinson used his two hands to make every second count saying, Watch this as the Vikings tried to build a win brick by brick, a very affordable, stylish watch brought to you by Dave Portnoy.
Brian, ready, willing, and dayball was up for anything as offense gashed Minnesota all day, leaving Kirk with one last drive. I'm getting to fourth and eight.
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Giants 31. The G-Men beat the Vikings 24.
We finish in Cincinnati where the Ravens were up to the task as J.K. Rowling Dobbins took the Hogwarts Express to the end zone and Baltimore was winning for the first nine and three quarters of the game until tragedy struck as Sam L.
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All right. Well, can part of my take.
Super wild card weekend. Almost in the books.
We still have Monday Night Football. And I just want to start the show by saying, holy shit, that was so much fun.
That was a great two days of football. Five awesome games.
Like, think about it. Going into this weekend, I think there was a little bit of a vibe like, oh, you know, a lot of young quarterbacks, first-time quarterbacks, you know, maybe not the sexiest matchups.
Besides the second half of Seahawks 49ers, every game delivered. And that game delivered just because there were Debo Samuel making awesome plays.
Like, that was an incredible weekend of football. I love football.
We should just be blessed that we got that. I think no matter who you are, even if you hate football like Max, this was a weekend where you had to just sit down and appreciate the gift that is the beautiful game.
It was so much fun. It was so much fun.
So we have so much to get to, but we wanted to just respect football first and say thank you football because like you i think you need to have those moments where you take a step back you'd be like you know what whether your your team lost your team won your bets lost your best bets won like i lost a lot of bets whatever who cares the football was awesome sometimes it takes having football taken away from you for a brief period of time to really realize how much you truly care for right those three quarters on monday yeah we missed out on like yeah about two and a half hours yeah potential football yeah and guess what it's funny how the universe works because we're gonna get those back and an extra quarter yes yes next weekend great divisional round that's very very exciting all right so let's get into every game because we have five games to get to. We watched all of them.
That's the other part about wildcard weekend. I mean, all the playoffs.
Super wildcard weekend. Yeah, super wildcard weekend.
Being able to sit down and just focus on one game is so awesome. So I was thinking about this today when we were watching.
We had three games back-to-back-to-back, which was incredible. What if the NFL scheduled a weekend that was like that, but the game started at nine and

then we just had games going pretty much nonstop?

Yeah.

Why not do it Sunday?

Do Saturday, Sunday.

So right after college football ends, do Saturday, Sunday, Monday.

Yeah.

Start every game at nine.

Yeah.

But then we have a Europe game.

You could have a Europe game in the morning.

You can even do a Friday night game.

Yeah.

The problem with that is that we say that because these are the best 14 teams remaining. So then we would have to watch like the Bears play the Texans and everyone would be like, what the fuck is this? I think I just say it because I, the NFL has me by my balls and I will watch whatever they put on my screen.
It is like being able to just soak in every single game and be able to watch it and like see the ebbs and flows and where the games change. It's the best.
You know what? We're giving each team each game its proper credit. Right.
And the attention it deserves. Exactly.
So let's start. We'll do chronological order.
Niners 41 Seahawks 23. I want to start with our guy Brock Purdy because I was fighting off the Internet.
I actually wasn't fighting off the internet because I just didn't care. But I thought Brock Purdy, I was actually very impressed with his performance because that first half he looked bad.
He looked pretty bad, especially like the first quarter and a half when they fell down 10-0. He missed a lot of easy throws.
Well, no, they didn't fall down 10-0. They were up first.
To defend Brock Purdy a little bit, it was wet. Yeah, no, it was wet.
But he looked jittery. He looked like a guy who was Mr.
Relevant, who got put on a loaded team and got in the playoffs. It's like, hey, go, wing it.
He was missing guys wide open. It felt like one of those games that if the Niners had that Brock Purdy to start a game against maybe a better defense, that could have been a disaster.
That could have been turnovers. That could have been interceptions.
So in that moment, I was like, he's back to looking like Mr. Irrelevant.
Everyone then dunked on me on his second half. He did look bad in the first half, but where I'm giving him credit, I thought the fact that he looked like that in the first quarter and a half and then came back and was lights out.
Like you just, if you're a Niners fan, you watch that game. Your one worry is Brock Purdy.
How's he going to respond to his first playoff game? Not well to start and then incredible to finish. And now he's got one under his belt.
He started nine for 19, 147 yards and one TD. That's a stat line that if you were just looking at the stat line, you're like, oh, it wasn't that bad.
He missed wide open guys. He didn't see Debo Samuel on one route that was an easy touchdown.
But then he finished 9 for 11, 185 yards, two touchdowns. He couldn't miss in the second half.
Yeah, I mean, the best thing that I can say about Brock Purdy is I think he would be a perfectly average quarterback in a system that wasn't Kyle Shanahan's system yeah I think he's got like his DNA his makeup is such that I think he can exist and be a starting quarterback somewhere else maybe not like super successful right now who knows what he's going to grow into but right now he is like the perfect quarterback for that team I don't know like we can look down the line a little bit and say I don't know how Trey Lance is going to come back and take that job from Brock Purdy oh the way that Brock Purdy's playing he's playing as good as you can possibly hope I think Brock Purdy's the future for the 49ers so the only thing is what if they got Tom Brady go there next year if they got Tom Brady I think that Brock Purdy would probably take a year back and probably gladly study underneath Tom Brady and then it's his team he's like quarterback and waiting at that point take over because remember the trey lance pick uh after like the smoke cleared and everything came out it it kind of came out that it wasn't kyle shanahan's pick and he got overruled he actually wanted to take mac jones so like i wouldn't be shocked if kyle shanahan's like hey brock purdy winning games. He just won us a playoff game.
He is playing very, very well. Like I said, in the moment, at the start of the game, he didn't look great.
Anyone who would disagree, I would be like, what game are you watching those first? It was like one of the first two drives where he just – it was actually the benefit was he was so off they were not interceptable because he, like, receiver by like five yards, so it wasn't even close to interceptable. But the way he finished, I was watching.
I was like, maybe he is Kurt Warner. He had one where he missed his receiver and the cornerback high by like seven feet.
Yeah, right. And so it landed harmlessly, and the camera zoomed in on Pretty's face, and he just didn't even really blink.
He was just like, hey, that's on me. And he didn't get down on himself.
He's fun to watch. I officially like Brock Purdy.
I think we need to stop talking about him as just being perfect for that system. I think that Brock Purdy is officially now, he's been upgraded to not a bad NFL quarterback.
And I mean that in the global sense of the starting 32 quarterbacks yes and he well he's not a bad starting quarterback in terms of the totality of the league while admitting that he is on the best system because uh you know when you get to the playoffs you're big-time players making big-time plays Christian McCaffrey going 136 total yards and a touchdown and Debo going 165 total yards and a touchdown it is so much fun watching the Niners where they're like oh let's just get it to these two guys and Brandon Ayuk and George Kittle and let them just be better than everyone like that Debo when he ran for that touchdown and that Christian McCaffrey like 60 yard run whenever it was the early in the second quarter I want to say I think it was his first run of the game yeah you just you're just reminded like, holy shit, the Niners are as loaded as loaded as can be. But yeah, I'm a Brock Purdy believer, especially with how he responded to the start of that game.
I think he's going to be the quarterback for the Niners next year, barring like Tom Brady or some other type of catastrophe. I actually went and looked at Brock Purdy's draft pros and cons.
So his pros were like plus accuracy, quick release. His cons are kind of funny because a couple of them are actually like strengths in Kyle Shanahan's system.
One of his cons was written as field vision narrows too often, which like, okay, you have the best players in the world on your team. It's okay if you narrow in on Christian McCaffrey or Debo Samuel.
And a lot of times the plays that they call for you in San Francisco are like, you're going to do a pump fake to the left, pump fake to the right, and then here's the option that you're throwing to. And then the slant right over the middle.
And then the other one was plays tight, few calculated wrists. That also is kind of a pro in Kyle Shanahan's offense, where it's like, if you play in system it will like and you don't make the mistakes if you don't try to be a hero the system will work for itself yeah if I was a scout what I would do for like every quarterback that was projected to fall to the fifth sixth round I would just say like upside could have a Tom Brady type career in the right environment yeah and then once every like 30 years somebody will dig up that scouting report and you're right yeah one of the guys like that turns out to be the best yeah and you look like a genius yeah just talk out of both sides of your mouth yeah um it also i was reading some of the quotes after the game like the way the niners players are talking about brock purdy they've 100 believe in him and why wouldn't you they've won 11 in a row yeah um and i mean so this game let's talk a little about the seahawks like it was crazy because i think we all expected the niners to kill them and the game was close the seahawks were winning at halftime the game basically switched on that one penalty that the seahawks took in the red zone where it was 23 17 with like three minutes left in the fourth in the third quarter which is like if you're the Seahawks you're driving down six points in the third quarter against the Niners when you're uh whatever it was 10 point underdogs and they get that illegal man downfield on like a seven yard gain that would have made it third and two from like the 10 they back up Niners get the strip sack and then it was over and then it was just like okay now the now the route is the strip sack was the one mistake that they could not afford right and it seemed almost like too easy that they got to geno on that one and i i feel a little bit bad for geno because he uh he had a season that he needed like geno as a person he's as a person he needed that so they're probably going to bring him back i don't see why they wouldn't bring bring him back.
I don't think Pete Carroll wants to try to develop somebody else new after what he's been through this season. But Geno Smith is worth more to the Seahawks than he'd be worth for any other franchise out there.
So if you look at the teams that need a quarterback right now, the only one that I would like to see Geno Smith go back to more, I would like to see him go back to the Jets. That would be cool.
Like unfinished business. That'd be fun.
That would be very fun, and I actually think that he'd be a good fit on the Jets. No, I didn't think – Gino – it kind of sucks because it's like Gino made two big mistakes.
He had the interception and the fumble, and it sucks because you're like, oh, Gino, he like – you know, the game ended on that play because then the Niners went 70 yards and they went again and it was just over. But Gino played pretty it's just that the Seahawks the Niners are so much better than the Seahawks he had

to play perfect he didn't play perfect you know what I mean like it's it's kind of unfair to be

like he they had their margin for error was so small that they like they had to play a perfect

game to be able to beat the Niners and they did for a half and then that fumble happened and the

Niners defense kind of figured something out where they didn't let DK Metcalf just run I mean he was incredible all day yeah but I I like I I wouldn't I wouldn't walk away from that game being like Geno Smith oh old Geno's back it was more the Niners are just better than the Seahawks like offense defense I think Geno Smith just got good randomly yeah this late in his in his career. Takes people time.
I don't think that he's going to turn back into old Geno. I think he might fade away back into old Geno eventually just out of sheer age.
Yeah. He might age out of being a quarterback, but I think that he's just good now.
That's just who he is. As for DK, here's a fun stat.
DK Metcalf, this is a stat from Mike Florio. Not our Mike Florio, but another guy who's named Michael Florio, which is fucking bizarre.
That's very weird, yeah. In the three wildcard round games that DK's played in, seven catches, 160 yards for a touchdown, five catches, 96 yards for two touchdowns, and then 10 catches, 136 yards, two touchdowns.
DK is a beast in the playoffs. He's officially a beast.
Yeah, and there was actually kind of a little bit of questions because that second Niners-Seahawks game, he got a little bit bottled up. So it was like, can he, like, are they, you know, is the Niners' defense too good? Are they too physical? But no, he was awesome.
He was, Kenneth Walker was good too, but he was their offense. I'm going to see your turning point of the game, and I'm going to raise you with the dumbass of the game.
That was the real turning point of the game. The dumbass of the game was whoever it was on the Seahawks that grabbed Debo Samuel's leg after they tackled him and then tried to twist it.
Because, first of all, you don't tug on Superman's cape, spin in the wind. You don't fucking twist a man named Debo's leg when he's on the ground.
And then his entire team got up and like had his back right after that.

That was a turning point.

That's when the Niners were like,

okay,

we're done playing with the Seahawks.

Let's just fucking fuck them up.

Okay.

So counterpoint to that.

When I talked about the Seahawks having to play a perfect game,

I think part of their perfect game was injuring Debo.

Okay.

But they had to injure Debo for part of their perfect game to happen.

Then you got to go full injury.

Yeah.

You don't like,

you don't hurt Debo. I wouldn't be shocked if that wasn't part of the defensive meeting.
Like, okay, guys, we've got to keep Debo in front of us. George Kittle is going to be good over the middle.
Christian McCaffrey a weapon. And also, if we can figure out a way to get one of them out, then we could win.
Well, if there's a way that we can figure out to injure Debo, Kittle, and Christian McCaffrey all in the same. And then Brandon Ayuk.
And Fred Warner probably. Somebody needs to have a knife.
Yeah. Which one of you guys wants to have the knife on the field today? I love Brandon Ayuk, by the way.
He's so underrated because he plays in such – because everyone thinks Debo, Christian, McCaffrey, Kittle, Brandon Ayuk is awesome. He had a nice block on that dime that Brock Purdy threw to De uh debo where debo had like i don't know 65 yards after the catch yeah he just hit the burners yeah like okay no one's gonna catch him it was awesome but yeah whoever jake can you figure out who that dumbass of the week was that twisted debo's leg he has very stupid super moron uh also weather's not real hank shout out you you were right i don't know if you said for this game but you're right yeah i I bet they over.
I smashed it. It was sunny.
It was like sunny in the second quarter. That was the most false news of all time.
I think they just did that. I think here's my tinfoil hat, maybe a little too woke.
There was perfect weather everywhere else, and they're like, we need to pay our weather people. We need something to fill a little bit of time on the pregame shows, So let's just make up a huge rainstorm in San Francisco.
Well, at the start of the game, it was wet. Pete Carroll was wet.
And that's – when I saw that, I was like – He's always a little de-voiced. The 49ers are in trouble because we got a damp Pete Carroll on our hands.
And he's a better coach when he's wet. Everybody knows that.
The gum smacks louder. The hair sticks together.
He gets to wear one of those slick little raincoats that he likes. His skin looks better when it rains.
It glistens. And then he just dried out.
He just dried out over the course of the game because I think it stopped raining entirely in the first quarter. Yeah, a little peek behind the curtain here.
I mean, I'm not a meteorologist, but one thing I use to kind of handicap whether or not weather is real is if the tweets and videos that people are using come out like five hours before,'s usually not going to be that weather in five hours weather changes yeah if you that's yeah that's like that's kind of you know that's the little insider tip for the people out there it's too early for weather doesn't stay the same for five hours yeah any forecast that you make before like an hour before kickoff is irrelevant there was a big j that was the video that was going around that i saw it was a big j it was literally six hours before tip-off. Dude, what are we talking about? Tip-off, kick-off.
And it was pouring rain. It's like, yeah.
Game's in six hours. Does weather affect basketball at all? Yeah.
Yeah, wind could. Humidity.
Outside through shooting? Wind, yeah. What were you going to say, Jake? It was actually Hard Knocks legend Jonathan Abram.
Oh, from the Raiders. That's right.
Salmon. Gruden had to be like, hey, can you please not hit Derek Carr during walkthroughs? Yeah.
He was like, haha, okay, coach, whatever. And Gruden was like, no, I'm serious.
Please don't injure our starting quarterback. And he kept on asking people what Salmon is.
Yeah, what's Salmon? What do you mean Salmon? Yeah. Okay, so Seahawks, like, I know that losing a playoff game sucks,

but you can't judge this season other than an A+.

Yeah.

They have the fifth pick.

And they got rid of Russell Wilson, and they were leading the Niners,

who kind of everyone thinks is the best team in the NFL right now.

They were leading them at half.

Yeah.

And they might have found their guy in Geno who won't be that expensive,

and now you can do the same thing that you did with Russ, where it's like build everything up around Geno. Yeah, I'd say solid A.
Yeah. If you won a game, I would have said A+.
Won a playoff game that's an A+, but you're very happy with where you are right now, especially considering that most people picked you to win three games. Yes, yes.
Last question. So Niners, Max, let's have an honest conversation.
The Niners are scary. Sure.
Yeah. Yeah.
No, they are. No, they are.
They're a scary, scary team. Yeah, but there were things that I saw yesterday that were like, we can be this.
Max, can I just tell you? Break down the film. It's okay to be scared.
Wait, no, no. I want to hear Max break down.
Where were the weaknesses? You already said it. Brock Purdy in the first half, like, against a good defense, he got away with so many things in that first half.
And also, credit to the Niners' defense, we already talked about it, but the Seahawks may have won that game if that strip sack doesn't happen. I mean, it was a six-point game with them going in.
It was a ball game. The Seahawks were in that game through and through and then obviously the strip sack happened and everything changed.
But if the Seahawks score on that drive, take the lead in the third quarter, then you have to see Brock Purdy in a situation that you haven't really seen him in and he got bailed out with the sack, but I don't know. He was very good in the second half.
He was very, very good in the second half. Yes.
But I didn't look at that. I was like, oh, this is a team that has no flaws.
You know what Brock Purdy's really good at? He's very good at managing the pocket. So, like, knowing when to step up.
He's got that sixth sense where he can feel somebody coming behind him. Yes.
And a lot of rookie quarterbacks, they, bail after a second and they get happy feet and they're like, let me get out of here. Purdy knows like how to step up, where to step up, and how to manipulate people in the pocket.
And you know what? I actually think that part of his little struggles at the beginning of the game, and again, I'm sure there'll be people like, dude, he was fine. He wasn't.
If game he was he he if he does that against a really good defense it's a problem but it didn't last so it's not a problem as of right now he was doing a spin he kept on spinning and it was such a wide spin and he would end up and then he finally was like doing going back to like you said he has a nice little pocket presence where he's it's's almost like he makes himself small and then big. He's like a blobfish.
He makes himself small and then he makes himself big again. He fits through little areas and has a presence of mind of where everything is.
And yeah, I think I'm back. I started the game being like, Brock Purdy's a problem.
And I ended the game, Brock Purdy's back to being Kurt Warner. I think Brock Purdy is just a very, he's a very, very not bad quarterback.
Yeah. But it is true.
Max is right. Like, if he does, if he has a bad start like that and they get in a hole, it could be, could look differently.
I just think the Niners are so good. Can we compare him to Kurt Warner, though? Well.
Because Kurt, he didn't spend any time in a grocery store no find me a picture of brock purdy stocking shelves but iowa they got the iowa isn't that where he was the iowa barnstormers and brock purdy was in was in ames yeah that's where kurt warner played uh uh arena league and he that's where he was doing is there a movie about brock purdy yet starring an actor that doesn't look like Brock Purdy? I'm pretty sure it was Grocery Store in Iowa when he was on the Barnstormers. And then you have Brock Purdy at Ames.
Yeah, he was on the Packers, then the Iowa Barnstormers. Right.
So there's a connection. I think there's a connection there.
I think Brock is his own story, though, because he's, as Mr. Irrelevant, that's a storyline That is yet to be fulfilled yet in the NFL Oh absolutely Somebody going for Mr.
Irrelevant There are a lot of guys that are out there that are undrafted And Cinderella stories But nobody has had, like the disrespect that gets put on your name For being the very last person selected To be a professional football player Has always, it's never made sense to me Because it's still a team being like you're so good that we want you on it we want to keep you off of every other team right and bring you in here for a workout it's essentially what it is is it's when everyone leaves the fantasy draft in the last round because you just auto draft kickers and you like and if you have the last pick everyone's out of the draft so you're just sitting in there by yourself yeah that's what it what it feels like when you draft Mr. Irrelevant.
But he is, I'll say this, and I have no idea who else is on this list. I'm going to say right now, Brock Purdy, best Mr.
Irrelevant of all time. Oh, without a doubt.
He hasn't won any championships. And we have another Mr.
Irrelevant who's won a championship. What position? Quarterback.
Who? Who? Chad Kelly. Great cup winner.
All right. So I'm going to say it again.
Brock Purdy is the best Mr. Irrelevant of all time yeah that's what I'm saying like that's the story he is one of one Brock Purdy one of one the best Mr.
Irrelevant I should have known it was Chad Kelly I was like yeah I thought for a second there Billy was gonna drop like a 1975 Mr. like come on it was it was Chad I was gonna say the Mr.
Irrelevant thing is like it's like at the end of the night at a bar and you've all had a bunch of drinks. The selection is not what it should be.
And then you're like, okay, that person. And then you end up going home.
And then you're like, you know what? I got to get up for work early tomorrow. Yeah, but that's what Mr.
Relevant usually is. This Mr.
Relevant just turned into a spouse. Yeah, that same thing played out.
And then it's like, oh, it was actually Brad Pitt that i went home with yeah congratulations you're brad pitt and he was like brad pitt dressed up in like elderly makeup like when kyrie irving goes to rucker park and pretends to be an old guy we're doing the thing where we're talking ourselves so into brock purdy that's gonna it's gonna end in disaster but i'm i i went through it getting just i just have to have a side note the and I know this is just how Twitter works, so there's nothing you can fix to it, but the people who show up, like, five hours later, after a tweet, I, I wish I could edit it, uh, and just be like, anyone who quote tweets this is a fucking, has a small dick and is a loser, because they were, like, when I tweeted it, he looked like Mr. Irrelevant, and then he played well, and then I was getting quote tweets like eight hours later being like, bad take, bro.
It's like, well, we watched the game. You just got to give Brock Purdy time to settle in in a playoff game.
It was his first playoff game. Yeah, no, it was.
So it was expected for him to take some time to become the Brock Purdy that we've seen over the last month. Yeah.
Brock Purdy's just, I think, end of story, Brock Purdy is officially not bad. Yeah, agreed.
We actually have an actual Mr. Irrelevant who's won a Super Bowl.
Who? Ryan Suckup, the kicker for the Bucs. Oh, okay.
Kickers don't count. All kickers are Mr.
Irrelevant. Yeah.
So, all right, so I learned my lesson, because it will segue into the next game with the tweet.

I did the same thing in this next game with someone playing very poorly in the first half,

but I made sure to clarify the exact time and place in the game,

and it was Trevor Lawrence after throwing four interceptions to start the game.

The Jaguars won 31-30 against the Chargers.

Trevor Lawrence started the game four for 16 for 30 yards and four interceptions, and it was as bad as bad looks. And on top of that, I forgot I said that I don't think Asante Samuel Jr.
is that good. He had three interceptions in the first quarter.
That couldn't have gone worse for me. All right, so as far as the Jaguars and the Chargers go, I'd like to make a motion To ban the word chargers

From couldn't have gone worse for me. All right, so as far as the Jaguars and the Chargers go, I'd like to make a motion to ban the word Chargers from the studio.
Well, you're hurt because you put a future on it. We all saw the same thing.
Yeah. I don't think that we should disrespect this podcast by using that type of language in these walls.
Okay. It's like saying Macbeth in a theater.
The whole place is probably going to burn down. We should not say Chargers in the walls is part of my take until they win a playoff game because the Chargers, they're dead to me.
They're officially dead to me. I think that Brandon Staley should be tried for war crimes as a war criminal.
I think that it's a disgusting act, what I saw in the entire second half of that game, and the fact that everybody saw it coming at the end of the first half. Shut up, Max.
The second, well, I mean, Max said it. Billy said it.
I tweeted it. Everybody knew it was happening.
Yeah. The second that they did not score a touchdown to capitalize on that muff punt in the second quarter, everybody was like, this is going to happen.
Oh, oh, yes. Okay.
It will happen. So it's it's so much worse than that let so yeah we'll talk about the chargers first we'll get to the jags jags are like that was an awesome night we'll we'll give them their uh their flowers but so the chargers i was reading an article uh by daniel popper shout out that's a great name on the athletic uh he broke play.
So the turning point, if we want to talk about turning points in the game. The Chargers getting the ball back, or getting the ball with three minutes left, and they're up 27-0.
And if they get a first down, if they get three points on this drive, if they just go into halftime up 27-0, they probably game uh if you remember obviously they punted they went three and out and then the the jaguars came down scored and it was it felt like the momentum had shifted right there because it was like oh trevor lawrence has found something like he was as bad as bad gets and then he found something so this play is the most chargers thing that could ever happen so if you remember there's. It's third and one, right? They're getting to the line of scrimmage to run the play.
They're Joe Lombardi, who is a fucking moron and everyone agrees. He needs to be buried underneath the hag.
Okay, so here's how it sets. So Joe Lombardi, they get to the line of scrimmage.
Justin Herbert has an audible. He has a kill.
It's called for an inside run. If it's looking like the Jaguars are ready for the inside run, there's a kill for a jet sweep to DeAndre Carter.
Joe Lombardi's run four jet sweeps this year to DeAndre Carter for negative 21 yards. So let's just start there.
Terrible play call. Hasn't worked all year.
DeAndre Carter is negative 21 yards so let's just start there terrible play call hasn't worked all year DeAndre Carter is Mike Williams backup DeAndre Carter who got hurt in week 18 because Brandon Staley's a moron DeAndre Carter got banged up so now they have a guy Michael Bandian who has not practiced this play and they run the play and he's not even looking for the jet sweep they fumble they punt the jaguars score and it's 27 7 that's the most chargers things ever to have not only a bad play call but it's a play call for a guy who is uh filling in for the guy who got hurt in week 18 and then that guy gets injured so you're on your backup's backup and he doesn't know the play The Chargers deserve all of it themselves. They make their own fate.
The fact that we're sitting here and they have a bad play for a backup of a backup because Brandon Staley's so fucking stupid he started his starters in a meaningless Week 18 game. You deserve this.
And I'm not talking about Chargers fans. We'll get to them.
I'm talking about the Chargers. You deserve this.
Brandon St 18 game you deserve this and i'm not talking about chargers fans we'll get to them i'm talking about the chargers you deserve this brandon saley you deserve this nice guy we had him on once yeah it's like the the butterfly effect except everybody involved is criminally stupid yeah it's tough it's tough and i i have sympathy for chargers fans i can't imagine what it's like to be you i can't imagine why you're still a fan of the team, even if they like... The team that has made your life living hell gets up and moves out of your city, and you still support the team, and it still does this to you? Like, I'm sorry.
I'm sorry that you're going through this right now. The Chargers are just bad.
I don't want to say their name anymore. I think I can easily be talked right back into putting a future on them for next year

if they hire Sean Payton.

I won't let you do it.

If they hire Sean.

So this is all bad.

And I said all this stuff about how bad it must be for your Chargers fan.

But I also kind of get it because you list all the guys that they have on their team,

which we did.

They win.

They beat almost any team in a guy.

Also, Asaddeus Samuel did get burned on a touchdown and the fourth down play that the jaguars ran uh that was actually designed just to pick off asante samuel okay so so what i'm saying is they've got the guys right and i'm as mad at a team that i don't root for as i've ever been in my life and within about 15 minutes after the game I found myself logging back back onto the sports book and seeing if I could get a look ahead for 2024 Super Bowl Chargers thinking that Sean Payton might coach the Chargers at that point so I understand that it's like it's a disease being a Chargers fan and I've got a touch of it it's it's also an incurable disease like we always joked about yeah we always joked about it's terminal pft we always joked about Phil Rivers and like this tragic you know late in the late in the afternoon you're watching Phil Rivers try to take the Chargers back it wasn't Phil Rivers it was like if Phil Rivers got went to the Giants he would have won two Super Bowls it's the Chargers it's the chargers and it's so much so that so in this article i still can't believe that like this brandon saley had to say this he actually has he like said out loud that the chargering is a thing and that he's trying to break it if you have to admit that this thing exists that the chargers are the most tragic team in like all of professional football i think you just don't take the job so here's the quote the history this brain is silly the history of this team when i got here it was like someone's going to get hurt they're going to blow a lead something catastrophic is going to happen there's this chargering and there's all these external factors that i know in my life they're just all excuses they. They're just all excuses.
And so, all right, well, how do you change that? Well, you have to do things different. You have to have a different approach.
And then Brandon Staley started coaching the Chargers, and he did nothing different, and he did no different approach. Well, okay, so he did do something different.
He did for a little bit, yeah. This is another reason why I fucking hate this team.
I never want to talk about him again. It's because Brandon Staley got hired by the Chargers, and he comes in, and he's a defensive coach.
So they're like, okay, this guy's going to be conservative. And their defense played well.
He's going to be pretty much standard coach offensively. And then, no, he starts acting like a big fucking drunk weirdo and starts going forward on, like, 4th and 13 from his own 20-yard line.
That's fine. Like, yeah, go out there and be crazy.
You can't game plan against crazy. They don't know what to expect.
And now this year, what did we say on Thursday? We're like, we get the vibe that Brandon Staley is going to be normal. And he's going to be very conservative.
And guess what? There was normal charging. Here's another very funny stat.
But you're right, PFT. The way to beat the Chargers curse is to be the crazy dude that everyone's yelling at on Twitter because he never will kick a field goal.
He actually was doing the thing to break the curse that somehow the Chargers have, and then he spent enough time there that he just reverted back into a plain old boring coach that makes stupid decisions. You got to get so crazy that you out-crazy yourself.
Right. You got to outsmart yourself at times.
My buddy Spilly tweeted this out. It's the Chargers' win probability.
It matches up exactly with the lightning bolt. Oh, that's sick.
That's actually sick. It's an overlay.
That's sick. That's wild.
And also, those win probabilities make no sense because the Chargers are the Chargers. It should be waiting.
When the Jaguars scored and made it 27-7 going into half, it was a 50-50 game. It was a coin flip.
So even when it was 27-0, when they didn't get a touchdown off the muff punt, I think a lot of Chargers fans out there were like, well, this can go really bad if Trevor takes the ball down the field and if they score a touchdown right now. And that's exactly what happened.
It could have been way worse at halftime for the Jaguars. As bad as it was and as bad as they played, they could have very easily been down 35-38-0 at halftime and they weren't.
And yeah, like the ball dropping off the head. The team Statholt texted me.
Teams in the playoffs that had a plus 5 turnover differential were 26-0 going into this game game yeah and then the chargers and then the chargers they had plus five turnover differential the chargers and the falcons should have their own probability chart which is heavily weighted it's like the american dollar versus the canadian dollar yeah we should just like subtract 30 from whatever the win probability says it is for those and i i do like that they have their distinct ways like the fact that the chargers uh finally got everyone healthy and then Brandon Staley was like, let's play everyone week 18 and then lose Mike Williams, who, if you've seen any of the stats, like the Chargers are awesome when Mike Williams is on the field and they're average when he's not. And then you get plays, like I mentioned before, where you have the backup of the backup trying to run a jet sweep that he didn't practice, which was a play that fails anyway.
But Brandon Staley, his, I feel like we're talking a mile a minute. I like it because we're fired up.
This is just passion that people are getting in their ears right now. Brandon Staley, the analytical king, the prince that was promised, everyone talking about him last year or the year before, whatever it was when he came on the scene.
This guy does it different guy's new age he's like he realizes that seven

points are more than three finally someone brandon staley on fourth and three from the jacksonville jaguars 22 yard line decided to try to make the game from a two possession game to a two possession game they were up 10 and he said let me go up 13 what the fuck dude like if you get a first down and score a touchdown if you go up 17 late in the fourth quarter the game is over and i know the chargers are still there but the game is over when you're up 17 with i think it was uh how much time was left uh it was like i it was like maybe like four or five minutes left if you go up 17 17 there, the game is officially over. That means you have to score.
They have to score three times. That means they have to get an onside kick.
No one gets onside kicks. All that stuff.
He was like, no, let me try to kick a field goal. And guess what? The kicker missed it.
And on the flip side, you have Doug Big Balls Peterson, who like genius when Bosa lost his mind for the 17th time in the game was like you know what let's go for fucking two trevor lawrence is 6-6 he can just he can just stretch over like he could dunk from the foul line 47 at the missed field 847 so a little lot later but if you go up 17 with 847 i actually believe the uh win probability like if you score a touchdown to go up 17 with seven and a change left you you're going to win the game most likely because that is, again. Because you're probably going to need two onside kicks.
Yeah, they need to score. They need to play perfect football throughout.
You either need a turnover that you return for a touchdown or get close to returning for a touchdown or you need to have two onside kick recovers. Instead, it's just score, get a punt, score.
And if Brandon Staley, if he truly knew the depths of how bad Chargering got, he probably would have shied away from kicking a field goal. Oh, yeah.
That was bad. I mean, Dicker had a great season, and he was one of the reasons why people were like, this Chargers team, myself included, is different because they don't have a shitty kicker.
They've got a good kicker now, a good young kicker it looks uh he just he choked on that one it was it was bad and somebody on that chargers team i know his fourth down or whatever somebody on that chargers team should have told them let them score a touchdown yeah instead of trying to tackle was it etn yeah instead of trying to tackle him inside the 10 yard line just let him score at the end of the game, get the ball back. And that play, Doug Peterson had run that almost exact same play against the Chargers earlier in the season.
And Benjamin Solick did a good breakdown on Twitter where it's essentially they crash everyone in the middle and they run wide and essentially say, Etienne versus Asante Samuel in space. Asante Samuel can't tackle this we will win this every time and they literally got that exact same matchup again and he ran and like that the the jaguars i just still can't believe brandon staley tried to kick that field goal i just it's crazy he was he was the guy who was supposed to change everything and he just turtled and i feel bad for him because he is a really nice guy, and he is a defensive guy.
So, like, a lot of the blame should be on Joe Lombardi. And we should say Justin Herbert wasn't great.
Like, there was the fact that the Chargers, it was actually a big win for meatball football, like guys like us who still hold on to some meatball takes because uh the chargers were up 27 nothing they ran 25 passes seven designed runs and the seven design runs went for seven yards it's great to like every now and then be reminded like if you can't run the football you can't win these games because if they could run the football if they get first downs with with with running the ball no one comes back from 27 nothing guess what rg3 was vindicated you have to be able to have more rushing attempts than your opponent if you want to win in the playoffs yeah and i'm not with with the chargers the way that they use their running backs it's a little bit different like eckler of course he catches passes but that's part of their running game but he wasn't and he's great and justin herbert i still think justin her, I would take him probably over almost all the league except for like six or seven quarterbacks. If I were to like start right now with a new team, I still think Justin Herbert's an awesome quarterback.
You have to be able to get a first down. You have to.
In the fourth quarter of that game. That is on him.
You should not be able to like just seal this game because there's a lot of blame to go around. Most of it, I think, should go on Lombardi.
I put like 50% on Lombardi. I put like 40% on Staley, 9% on Herbert, and then 1% on God.
Asante Samuel, too. I was going to say God for creating the Chargers.
Yeah. He knew what he was doing.
Asante Samuel, Jr. might be good.
I was wrong. Okay.
It was actually very funny that he had three interceptions because that was such a throwaway comment on Friday. He's not even that good.
He's not even that good. I forgot I had said it, and then he got his first interception.
I got a few tweets. Then he got his second, and I was just bombarded.
Then he got his third, and everyone was like, you're the dumbest person alive. I was like, guess what? I am the dumbest person alive.
That was a throwaway comment. I'm stupid.
The Asante Samuel Jr. thing when he first got to the NFL, That was the first time I was like, guess what? I am the dumbest person alive.
Like, that was a throwaway comment. I'm stupid.
The Asante Samuel Jr. thing when he first got to the NFL, that was the first time I was like, what the fuck is time doing right now? Also, Ken Jack, who actually was one of the original interns for this show, who's a diehard Chargers fan, I asked him.
I was like, why do I think Asante Samuel Jr. is not that good? He's like, you probably watched him against Devontae Adams, which isnams which isn't fair because davante adams that great but he's like any really good route runner torches him well he's had some bad games yeah and it's not just davante adams like he's not he's not awesome but it's also i mean my dumb brain if i watch one thing happen once i make a decision on that person and that's cemented forever so i hand up that was stupid he played great uh i just i still can't believe like i can but i just they're so the chargers so i i wrote down i did a quick like because you know we've talked about it before you know uh minnesota when they've had heartbreak we'll get to you guys minnesota but uh the chargers is a franchise i think just because their fan base isn't that vocal uh and they've been nomads they don't get the credit for being such a tragic tragic franchise but going through it uh starting in 2006 when uh you remember the game they played in the playoffs against the patriots, and the Chargers were up eight with eight minutes left,

and Tom Brady threw an interception,

and then Troy Brown stripped Marlon McCree,

and literally intercepted it, game over, essentially,

running down, Troy Brown strips him,

ends with Nate Kading missing a field goal to go to overtime.

2007, Phil Rivers tears his ACL.

I think he missed three field goals. He did, yeah.
Soating that year so many that year he had missed three field goals the entire season and he missed three field goals in that game and there's more nate kating coming up 2007 phil rivers tears his acl in the divisional round they go to foxborough they actually play the patriots pretty tight i think they lost by like nine or something something, but he plays with a torn ACL. 2009 was the divisional round.
It's 2009-2010 season where they lost 17-14 to the Jets. Nate Kading missed a 40-yarder and a 36-yarder.
2010 was the year that they had the number one offense, number one defense, didn't make the playoffs. They moved out of San Diegogo they should have been in san diego they're they don't even they're they're literally uh subleasing their their home stadium they don't have a home they get cucked every weekend they had phil rivers and ladenian tomlinson and they got nothing to show for like i feel bad for chargers fans i do i chargers as a franchise i don't I don't feel bad.
You make your own luck. Chargers fans, you don't deserve this.
You dragged your most diehard superfan Boltman in front of a town council meeting and pried away the one thing that he loved and cared about in this world. So sad.
Very sad. The Chargers are a very sad franchise.
You know what else is sad? The fact that we've got an entire department of statistics and people that just do nothing but look up fun stats, not just here at Barstool, but also all across all the football-watching channels, and nobody thought to tell us that Trevor Lawrence had never lost a football game on a Saturday. Yeah.
What the fuck? Ever. Why? College.
How did we miss that? High school. NFL.
NFL. If he's ever he's ever played you know he did last week he's never last week he won on a saturday because in in college he lost the championship games yeah those were played on mondays mondays he has never lost a football game on a on a saturday it's crazy yeah and so let's let's talk about because we've we've buried the chargers uh one last thing this one was kind of just depressing.
Brandon Staley, this week, I guess, he tried to motivate the guys, tried to get the Charger out of them. He showed them a picture of the late 90s Bulls all wearing the same sneakers, and he told everyone they had to wear black cleats on Saturday night, so they were one as one, a team as one.
And they really went out, like, went out there. That did it.
So, yeah, I don't, like, that's the depths of the Charger hell that you're like, 90s Bulls. Like, we got to do what they do, and maybe we'll get out of, like, whatever this hell we live in.
Okay, so I've got an idea for the Chargers. If you really want to fix the issue of being the Chargers, it's going to take something more than just the shoes.
You have to let them wear a completely different uniform underneath their Chargers uniform. Like Mighty Ducks? Yeah, you have to let them get, well, I'm sure Goodell would have a word about, like, you know, you only get a certain number of color combinations you can wear.
But, like, let them put on, I don't know, like Patriots or Rams clothes underneath their Chargers uniform. We don't have to see it on TV just so that they know it's under there.
So it's like, listen, this uniform isn't who you are. It's just a piece of clothing that's on the outside.
You can be whoever you want on that field. They need a witch doctor.
They need a witch doctor to show up to their facility to start training camp next year and do a seance and do the smoke and heal all of them. Because I don't think there's anything that's going to change.
I think Justin Herbert's a franchise quarterback. I do think that he deserves some blame for Saturday night.
And shout out Emmanuel Acho for being the weirdest dude on Twitter, for just hammering him. It's like, the guy's very good.
He could have played better, but they need everything to change because they have they had Phil Rivers and now they have what seems like another guy who should be there for 15 years and win them a lot of football games. But as it currently states, they're never winning anything of consequence.
They seem like the most talented team that's always got like aiff. It's a combination of being cursed, truly, truly cursed by God.
And also they've got a whiff of candy assness about them. What they need is an interim coach.
They need Coach O. They need Coach O to come in for a season.
Just whoop the shit out of them. Bury all the old Chargers uniforms underneath the soil.
Like, let them wear LSU

shit underneath the Chargers. Whatever it takes.

They need just the complete opposite

of Brandon Saley for a season. Yes.

It's old school, I'm gonna chew your ass out.

We're gonna be tough. We'll probably

lose a bunch of games because

I'm such a tough coach and I don't give a

shit about analytics, but guess what? By

playoff time, you might be ready to win one. Yeah.

Yeah. And also, for the love of God, do not ever play againstvor lawrence on a saturday do you think brandon is gonna get fired i would personally would i personally fire him yeah you better believe i would arrest him well it it's funny because he was kind of weirdly on the hot seat and then they went on that run in uh december where they got into the playoffs and then he immediately had maybe the worst back-to-back weeks you could ever have as a head coach.
He played all the starters in Week 18 and lost one of his best players to injury, and then in the playoffs he lost a 27-0 lead and a plus-five turnover. Who has had a worse back-to-back weeks? You can't have a worse coaching back-to-back weeks than what Brandon Staley just did.
Yeah, so I don't know what they're going to do because the Spanos are very strange owners. They fired Marty Schottenheimer after he went 15-1 and replaced him with Norv Turner.
They don't like to spend a lot of money. They're very clear about that.
Yeah, they don't have a stadium. I would personally fire Brandon Staley if you thought that you had a shot at getting Sean Payton.
Because I feel like Sean Payton could fix what's wrong with the team. He's got a little bit of that old school.
If you can't, though. Like, he's going to come in and put mousetraps and shit in your lockers.
Yeah, no. He's going to make you watch videos of rats getting electrocuted before games to toughen you up, you need a little bit of that stupid meathead old school football coach.
If you can't, I think you've got to just fire Joe Lombardi and hope something changes, which it won't. Or just go without a coach.
Yeah. Just be like cream to rise to the top.
So whoever feels like they want to coach the team, it's going to be like Lord of the Flies next year.

Yeah, let Bosa coach.

Oh, yeah.

That was actually an all-time moment.

When Bosa threw his helmet down,

and then Lombardi, or sorry, Staley,

picked his helmet up and handed it back to Bosa.

And Bosa was like, oh, thanks, coach, and just threw it again.

Yeah.

It was like, who's the head coach here? Yeah, I officially now am a Nick Bosa was like, oh, thanks, coach. He just threw it again.
Yeah. It was like, who's the head coach here?

Yeah.

I officially now am a Nick Bosa guy.

Yeah.

I'm done.

I'm done with that entire franchise.

I'm serious about it.

I'm going to try to not say the word Chargers.

Yeah.

The C words.

They're the C words.

All right.

So I'm going to put $20 in the free parking lottery ball thing every time I say it.

You guys are all welcome to join me if you want. All right.
So let's talk about the winning team here because they deserve a lot of credit. Trevor Lawrence could not have been worse to start the game.
Like I said, 4 for 16, 30 yards, 4 interceptions. He then from that point forward went 24 for 31, 258, 4 touchdowns.
It was insane how well he played after that start because I think we all were sitting there being like is he gonna go full peterman like he they were bad interceptions i don't think nathan peterman ever threw four and a quarter did he was the fourth in the second quarter because i was just looking at the five and first half five and first half that's all i know that's what i was thinking but that was it you kept thinking oh, it's not going to get any worse. And it just kept getting worse and worse.

And Doug Peterson is just a really fucking good head coach.

And he did get a little too – we said it in Friday's show.

Like the one thing about Doug Peterson is he gets like an itchy trigger finger

where he's like, I got to do something crazy.

He did it at the beginning of the game when he went for it on that –

what was it, a fourth down?

He did that weird play, and it was like, what are you doing?

Oh, he could have gotten a field goal.

They could have gotten a field goal, I think it was.

And you're like, Doug, what are you doing?

But then he made up for it with the two-point conversion

and also, like, sometimes football feels simple

and the Jaguars coming out of half and just being like,

hey, the Chargers are just killing Trevor Lawrence. Why don't we run tempo and why don't we just go hurry up? And they did that.
And Trevor Lawrence was awesome. And Doug Peterson deserves all the credit in the world for, we should have like, we should have known going into this game.
Like Doug Peterson's going to out coach Brandon Staley. Of course he is.
Also shout out the entire city of Jacksonville. I don't think that they left the stadium.
No. I think they stuck around.
Other cities, other bad sports towns would have jetted out of there. But it looked like the stadium was full in the second half.
They stuck by their team. I think there's something to be said for a team that's been so bad for so long.
They just wanted to take in a playoff experience because you never know when you're going to get to see it again And they got rewarded big time sticking around That pool, oh my god Imagine the body fluids that were floating around that pool By the end of the game And it was 40 degrees We had the guy in the gimp mask That was the saddest thing And they had a pre-game part of my cheese stick tailgate So we loved you Paul That pool went from being filled Halfway with tears and blood in the first half to blood and cum at the end of the second half. And I'm not ruling out the Jaguars versus the Chiefs.
I know that they're going to have to – if Trevor Lawrence throws four interceptions to start the game, the Chiefs will win the game. The Chiefs will not give up a 27-0 lead.
Wait. It's on a Saturday.
It is on a Saturday. Trevor Lawrence never lost a game on a Saturday.
They played, I think the Jaguars lost by maybe 13 or something, whatever. They played right before the Jaguars had turned the corner.
And the Chiefs are way better. So, like, if you play the game 100 times, the Chiefs probably win 80 times.
But Doug Peterson, Trevor Lawrence, if he's clicking, something about, like, one of those young teams, like, we don't know what we shouldn't know, and maybe we'll just go into Kansas City and win this. And the Jaguars, wouldn't it be perfect Jaguars history where it feels like the Jaguars are the opposite of the Chargers? They just go from stretches of being the worst franchise in NFL to then having mini bumps where their teams just go far far exceed expectations and it's fun this is right when Blake Bortles went up to Pittsburgh and beat Big Ben it goes all the way back to Mark Brunel beating John Elway in Mile High oh yeah remember that like that I'm very yep that was supposed to be John Elway's first Super Bowl so that's the Jaguars have like if you know Jaguars history don't be surprised if they find a way to beat the Chiefs on Saturday.

And it's on Saturday. That's the most important stat.

Yeah. Josh Allen is awesome.

Yeah. The other one.
The other one.

If your name is Josh Allen you're very good

at football. Yeah.
The Jaguars defense like came

alive. Like hey.
Hank what were you about to

say about were you going to call him a good sports town?

Yeah. I mean I thought

you know sticking out in the cold weather was impressive. I was also wrong about trevor lawrence so i'll just get in front of that yeah you were right though i was right in the first i was the end of the titans game i saw what i saw he didn't look good i was proven right in the first half but now that he's done it never again he's proved himself in the playoffs in my eyes that's similar to the brock purdy he's good to throw four interceptions and be able to come back from that is insane.
Mentally, I would just crumble. I'd just be a puddle crying on the sidelines.
I do think that it was helpful that it was interception, interception, interception, and it wasn't like interception, drive, interception. He just got them all out of the way quick.
That's basically equivalent to one interception. Yeah, it's true.
It's one big interception yeah it's all one song yeah it was just one big jam of like jam band jam of interceptions yeah take those three drives out of the mix i like that yeah it's not that bad of a game because not that bad of a half i actually can't know like we talked about at the beginning how we all you know took in every moment of every game i actually can't remember the actual like interceptions. They all just blended together.
And it's also just such a concentrated period of time where it's like, okay, that was a bad 30 minutes, as opposed to if you spread all those out throughout a game, then you're like, oh, man, that's a bad three hours. I did think they were fucked when the punt went off the Jaguars player's helmet.
That was the most unlucky. Until they didn't score a touchdown.
Yeah, until they didn't score. Yeah, because the Chargers had the shortest fields possible, it felt like, the entire first half.
And they should have put them away. And the Jaguars deserve all the credit for coming back.
If you're the Jaguars, you know that no matter how bad things get in Kansas City, you've come back from worse, probably. I don't know if they're going to get out to a 27-0 start.
That's pretty bad. You can't get off to a worse start against the Chiefs than you did against the Chargers.
So it's like you've seen all that the world has to throw at you before. Now, you might not win the game, but going into it, you don't know that you're going to lose it.
Right. The only difference being that the Chargers, there had to be someone in the locker room at halftime who was like,

guys, this is the Chargers.

Like, they're destined to blow this game.

I don't know if you can say it for the Chiefs.

Probably not.

The Dougie P, Max, you were saying Dougie P will get him coached up.

You love that guy.

Of course.

Everyone in Philly loves Dougie.

Shouldn't have driven him out of town. Yeah.
You could make that argument for sure. But, you know, he's doing well.
Eagles are doing well. It's kind of a mutual respect, I believe.
Both sides have moved on? Yeah. Who would you say won the divorce? Jacksonville or the Eagles? There's no winner.
Sometimes there's two winners. There's always a winner.
No, no. You split ways, and you both are very happy, and you live the rest of your life happy.
Who is thinking about the other party more? Who's looking at the other person's Instagram more? Him looking at us, probably. Oh, okay.
I'm going to say it right now. Doug Peterson has not coached his last game for the Philadelphia Eagles.
You're going to bring him back? I think they can bring him back. Yeah.
Wouldn't that be perfect? I feel like Doug has fully embraced his Florida-ness. That's true.
I feel like you get an old person down in Florida for like four days in the middle of winter time. Somebody from the Northeast.
And they're like, well, I'm just not going to move back. You guys can come visit me down here now.
I'll be playing Canasta and shuffleboard. It always freaks me out when he takes off his visor.
For like the National Anthem, they show him like, whoa, what is that? Very, very gray now. It looks like the mop.
It looks like the visor that has the fake hair. Yeah, right.
Exactly yep so jaguars shout out duval shout out chaps dougs that was an all-time night uh they deserved it trevor lawrence you've gained hank's eternal respect that's a big that's a big time thing it is he doesn't give that easily i still think he's still trying to get it he's got to cut his Super Bowl, but besides that... Got to win the playoffs.
When they start playing the Super Bowl on a Saturday like they should, then I will start betting on the Jaguars to win a Super Bowl. Yeah.
Also, one last time, fuck you. Yeah.
Don't say the word. Fuck you, C-Words.
Yeah, C-Words. Also, he went to Waffle House after.
Even more respect. Oh, that is more respect.
Waffle House is maybe, as far as per dollar goes, Waffle House is the finest dining experience that you can have in the world. And also, Trevor Lawrence, someday hopefully he's on this show.
I just have a million questions about his brother. That is still one of the most fascinating things.
If you haven't seen his brother, it looks exactly like him, and he's kind of a very successful artist. Yeah, he's...
It's complete different brain left brain right yeah yeah like it seems like a very chill guy but it's crazy to think one guy's an nfl stud and the other guy's a very successful artist how how the other guy's one family have that much success the brother seems like he would absolutely hate dabo swinney oh yeah hate him oh yeah but loves doug pet loves Doug Peterson. They get along.
They get along. Shout out Urban Meyer too.
Urban Meyer laid the roots. He established a lot of the nucleus that we see down there in Jacksonville right now.
We should give him credit. They should have him come out and do something.
What do you do in Jacksonville before the game starts? You get a guitar. You just get a guitar.
He'd come out and just strum that g-string yes yes and uh also shout out tony con because if the jaguars somehow get to the super bowl you're gonna let us go and be on the sideline sweet yeah sweet in the second half yep yep can't believe what vince is doing with the saudis you would never tony nope we always were aw guys yep uh okay before we get to sunday's, Instacart. I love Instacart.
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Disaster. That was crazy.
Yeah, for a little bit, it looked like Skylar Thompson was going to go into Buffalo and beat the Bills. They let him hang around too long.
It was crazy because the game started. It was 17-0 before you blinked.
I think the Bills scored their first, I think they were up 14-0 in like the first seven minutes. and everyone had the same thought everywhere in america this game's a snoozer this is the one game we can all just like all right let's just get let's get to vikings giants and then weird shit started happening and the bill started turning the ball over and the dolphins hung around and hung around and hung around and then next thing you know it's it's 34 31 and the dolphins have the ball and a chance to tie or win the game and you're like how the hell did we get here i don't i can't really i don't know what to explain i don't know if it's a don't over waddle coming back maybe yeah or like don't overreact because the bills might have overlooked him a little bit even though you shouldn't do that in the playoffs or panic or panic time bills because Skyler Thompson looked pretty good and the thing that has kind of plagued them all year is turnovers.
Did you know that the Texans and Colts are the only two teams that have more turnovers and they played an extra game? I mean, right from the very beginning, when Josh Allen had that first scramble and then at the end, he mashed all the buttons at the end of the play like he does, and both his hands flailed out, and the ball trickled forward like six yards. You knew that it was going to be that kind of a day for Josh, which is fine.
You get good Josh and bad Josh, and usually good Josh wins that fight in straight sets, but he will turn the ball over sometimes. You have to be ready for that.
I think what we're looking at in this is like we're saying, yeah, Skylar Thompson almost beat the Bills. And we're looking down our noses at Skylar Thompson because his name is Skylar.
Yeah. And so it's like, wait, he's not supposed to.
You can't get beat by a Skylar in the playoffs. Kansas State, too.
And in reality, if you watched how Skylar Thompson played today, I actually think he looked really good, not because of anything that the Bills were doing defensively. I think that Skylar Thompson just might be a lot better than we thought that he was going to be.
Yeah, and the fact that he's a third-string quarterback makes people be like, oh, his name's Skylar. He went to Kansas State where they let anybody in with a hole in a heartbeat.
And he's a third-stringer. He's a third-stringer.
Their acceptance rate is like 99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 stringer uh their acceptance rate is like 99.9999999999 every man a wildcat shout out bill

snyder but um he's just he's not as bad as a third stringer named skyler would lead you to believe

yeah i mean he's actually not bad and he wasn't great he just we expected so little and he was

better than the little we expected and i I do, so this is, the Bengals game and the Bills game, like, you can look at it. I think they're a little bit different, and when we get to the Bengals game, I'll explain why I think the Bengals, you know, win was a little bit different than the Bills.
The Bills did dominate this game. They had bad turnovers.
Like, the fumble for a touchdown obviously was huge to start the second half and they also got stuck in a lot of spots where it's like it felt like they were just trying to take shot plays and it just like first down shot play like second down like try to run a little bit and they they just i don't know the bills offense never felt like it was clicking after the first two drives where they did score touchdowns and they just let them hang around hang around like the bills dominated the game in terms of yardage and moving the ball it's just those that's why you love the nfl playoffs because it's a single elimination and a team can have a bad day and i don't know if we just say okay survive in advance bills are okay survive're like, hey, Bills, if you play like that against the Bengals or the Chiefs or the Jaguars, you're done. Like, you're done.
So offensively, I think this is what you were talking about in the second half. Their offense became like, okay, let's put Josh in shotgun.
We'll run an occasional design run for him, but our passing game is going to be, Josh, you take like, I don't know, five step drop, and then you need to spin out of the pocket. Then you need to direct somebody downfield to run further downfield and then just throw it as far as you can.
And that, I mean, sometimes you get some awesome, like 70 yard touchdown passes from Josh Allen, but that was the entirety of their offense for the second half. And it feels like, and Bills fans can tell us we're way wrong.

We obviously love Josh Allen and we root for the Bills, and we're biased. But it does feel at times like the Bills don't have many five to six yard plays.
Do you know what I mean? They don't have, it never feels like... It's Cole Beasley.
Yeah. That's why they got him back.
Yeah. But it doesn't feel like they can just methodically move down the field

and sustain drives.

It feels like they're either going to hit a home run

or they're going to be in third and long

and Josh has to do something incredible.

Yeah.

So I don't know what that is.

I don't know.

Cole's their move the chains guy.

I think they're working him back into the offense

and so they're going to have him do those little like Wes Welker-like stick, and that's how he scored a touchdown today was on one of those. I think he's a big addition for the team.
People will laugh and make jokes about Cole Beasley, but I actually think that he makes this offense. He should, once he starts practicing more and becomes more of a part of the team, he does serve a very valuable role which is make turn the offense into like a possession offense right because it does it does you know what i'm saying like it doesn't and it should be that they should be able to get stuff underneath a little bit easier because teams you would think would would would given josh's arm and also their receivers would try to keep stuff in front of them and not like you know play play a lot of too high safety and be like hey we're gonna let you go down the field and beat us underneath because we don't want to get burned but it just seems like they they can either go down with a huge home run play or it's a punt and i don't know i mean their run game has gotten better so i i'm saying all this you won game.
So it really is nitpicking. Like the playoffs, I am a big believer.
Like the playoffs, you shouldn't worry about how you win the game. You should just win the game.
You know what I mean? Like a three-point game, winning a game by three points, even though you're a two-touchdown favorite, does not matter. You just survive in advance, and next week is a completely different game.
I'm just worried. worried i'm just a little worried you just can't turn the ball over like i think i i wouldn't say that this is like an example of a reason to believe that the sky is falling no no no i think i think the bills can still like beat any team in the absolutely so but you can't get off you you can't like fall asleep at the wheel like you did today.
Yes, it's basically the Bills, and I think they would probably admit this. They played, like, a B-minus game.
Yeah. And to beat the Chiefs and the Bengals, you have to be B+, A-, or better.
Also, don't wear the all-blue uniforms anymore. Yeah.
Those are bad. Yeah.
I think we can all agree on that, too. Most Bills fans probably agree with me.
The blueberry look, not great. In fact, I'd like to see the Bills bring back the red helmets, like the old helmets like the old school yeah like 80s 90s style helmets i i do you think that there's any overlooking scott not i don't you don't overlook a playoff game but it did feel like at times it was also on the we were harping on the bills offense and i i have ultimate trust in josh allen so i'm not like that worried the bills defense there were some times where it was like, wait, what's going on here? Why are the Dolphins? Maybe because they have such great receivers.
Dolphins had some bad drops today. Yeah, they had some really bad drops.
The Bills, actually, looking back on it, knowing that it was a 34-31 win and all the drops that they had, the Dolphins could have easily won this game. I do think that we're looking at Skylar Thompson being being like how could you let skylar thompson beat you almost right he wasn't that bad no and because we saw him against the jets and it looked hard right like i'm talking about like today's yeah yeah right skylar thompson today probably played at maybe the peak of his abilities yeah but he was good he was good definitely good enough to win also nice they always throw in the story when it it's like you're not only rooting for a team, like we're rooting for the Bills because we love Josh, but I also bet on the Bills.
And then they just fucking slip in that quick. Skylar Thompson has been through a lot.
His mom died from cancer when he was a kid. His dad drove like 20 hours to get to this game.
He's like, well, fuck. Now I feel like an him a bum yeah now i feel like a fucking dickhead his dad they always do that yeah i will by the way i want one quarterback to go out there for his first start and the announcer's like nobody gives a fuck about this piece of shit yeah right like this guy's a bum fuck this guy we we totally fucked up because we got so ramped up talking about the c words al mich Michaels, it's done.
Okay, I'm going to stand up for Al Michaels. It's done, dude.
Wait, wait, wait. Tony Dungy, vibe killer? Tony Dungy.
He's a vibe killer. Al Michaels, I still think is fine.
He's good with Herbie in the booth. Either he had a giant meal at halftime and he had the itis for the second half.
But I think the more more likely culprit is that tony dungy is the biggest energy vampire in the world as well as probably being an actual vampire but such such a mood killer it yep it was i hate hard to listen to a thrilling game and i know that people like why you care about the broadcaster as well they're part of the game and they do like Mike Tirico on Sunday night was awesome.

That, that that that that sam hubbard uh fumble recovery he hit the perfect note of excitement of like what the fuck is going on al michaels is calling an unbelievable comeback and it was just i was falling asleep listening to it it was the trevor lawrence two-point conversion conversion is where it really came to a head where it was like and they score. Yeah and he gets the two and Dungey was like that's a solid play.
Yeah. You can see him reach over here.
Jake thoughts on that and then we'll get back to this game because we did miss that. We should have talked about that.
Yeah, there was a lot of criticism worldwide on that.

Yeah.

I hate it because I love Al Michaels.

He's a fucking legend.

Yeah.

But it was tough.

What do you think, Jake?

Not worldwide.

I want to know what Jake thinks.

And I want you to be as critical as you can be knowing that's not at all.

That's a tough spot.

Yeah.

I mean, like.

Come on.

Just say it.

Just say it.

It was boring.

I don't think in a playoff game there's such thing as being too over the top. So, I think there was no ceiling here.
And he didn't even. He was crawling on the ground.
Right. He was Leo in Wolf of Wall Street getting out of his car.
That was some of the feedback I got on the bowl game. Like, since it's a bowl game, you kind of have a little more of a leash to get excited.
Yeah. Because it's a big game.
Yeah. Yeah yeah tony it was bad just just jake wants to say it was bad i say it was bad whenever i hear a game like that and really whenever i just hear tony jake was watching that game pissed off i always this was me i always wonder like why rock hard right now a good coach yeah how could anybody want to run through a brick wall for t Dungy? It just – Scheme.
He doesn't have any – He wasn't. He couldn't win in the playoffs.
Scheme. He has zero – Also, I will say, Tony Dungy doesn't usually call games.
He's usually in the studio. Yes.
Oh, he also had Peyton Manning. That's probably why.
Yeah, it's true. But, like, whenever I see Tony Dungy, I'm like, why – How is this guy a successful NFL coach? Anything.
He seems like Joe Philbin without a pulse. Yeah.
He's the guy that if you have to go on a double date and Tony Dungy's there, you're like, we can't hang out with that couple anymore. No.
It's painful to go to dinner with them. That's who Tony Dungy is.
He seems like he actually strikes me as a ghost. Yeah.
I think he might be a ghost. He's a ghost-like.
Yeah, I mean, his Wikipedia is is alarming is it the vampire one yeah yeah yeah he's a he's either a vampire or a ghost he's it was so bad maybe both it was so bad i have a note uh segue to bring us back to the dolphins game if you want okay that would be great thank you hank mike mcdaniel on the sideline uh obviously nicotine and sports go hand in hand yes like baseball players packing dips jim leland smokings in the dugout you know old coaches used to smoke cigs on the sidelines I understand that nicotine and sports go hand in hand coaches players it's part of the game yeah LeBron he puts everything Mike McDaniel was vaping on the sideline you can't vape't vape. Well, no.
You can. No, you can't.
Hold on. That's the part where I said this online and people were like, dude, everyone takes nicotine.
You just can't have a fucking... I'm fine with the act of participating with nicotine during a game.
It just can't be a vape. Jules is different than vape.

Hold on.

Hey, he's called Don Jules.

Hold on.

Hold on.

I think you can.

You can't if you spent the entire day struggling to get to play in on time.

Then you can't.

Sometimes you've got to hit the vape.

The Dolphins, I've never seen a team flirt with delay of games more than the Dolphins. I think they had four pre-snap offside penalties and then two delay of games.
Like, it was every single play. And when it happens that often, because sometimes it would be like, oh, well, they're the underdog.
They're trying to bleed the clock. No, no, no.
The plays weren't getting in on time. It was very clear.
Not only did they have so many delay of game penalties but they had what i i have to believe is the single worst postseason delay of game penalty in terms of logistics yeah of all time on that fourth down he said they didn't break the huddle until there were what four seconds left and they had extra time they got bonus time because of an injury right so they so they were they were huddling up and staying standing in the huddle because I think that this is something that he had planned out and timed out, okay, if the play clock's at a certain amount of time, we can huddle up and then sprint to the line and still be able to get the snap off. But they didn't break the huddle until four seconds left.
Of course they're going to get a delay of game on it every time. I think Mike McDaniel, I don't think that was nicotine.
I think he's vaping hashish. So maybe I'm just naive because I don't really know what these things look like.
Are we sure he's not just blowing in to make it warmer? No, look, you can see it right here. Jake, I think we need to have you vape just so that you can be knowledgeable about these things.
That fourth and what he said afterwards that someone had told him he got a first down. That've just been, he was so high that he was just like thinking he got a first down.
Cause I don't, I don't remember being like, that was a first down. No, it was the most important play of the game.
Right. And he was like, well, we, we had a play.
We put in our personnel thing. It was a first down.
And then they said it was fourth down. It's like, okay.
I, it was all game zero yards on third and one. It was all game, all game.
They had trouble getting play in. And I don't know.
Mike McDaniel was a success as a first-year head coach. I respect Mike McDaniel.
Yeah, yeah. He got them to the playoffs.
Don't vape, dude. He dealt with a lot of injuries, a lot of weird adversity.
But that's something. You have a rookie quarterback who's starting his second game, and you can't get the play in time to him? Yeah, it's tough.
That was very tough. I disagree with Hank.
I think he should... Just for aesthetic reasons.
No, no, no. Not for like, don't vape.
Don't hit the jewel. If you're going to vape, vape hard.
Like, go all out. Have a rig.
Have something attached to your chest like Bruce Arians did with his communication thing.

Have like a big rig of just nothing but vape strapped on your person and then blow amazing clouds.

Or have someone holding the vape for you and then you go and pretend to tell them something and they're holding it and you just hit the vape.

Or have a guy behind you holding a hookah and you're just smoking a hookah on the sidelines.

That'd be chill. Yeah.

So, Dolphins, you have to say this is a successful season right jake like overall yeah i mean given where we were at eight and three it's disappointing but at the beginning of the season this was do or die for two and company obviously the injuries have some asterisks but yeah i mean a playoff one would have been nice i don't i've never seen I've been alive, but I don't remember seeing one. So, yeah, it's tough because it felt so much.
You could have won that game. Yeah, yeah, that's the thing.
Going into today, I had no hope. But the fact that I was like, damn, they actually had a shot to win this game.
It's crazy. Right, and I think that if you took out the fact that we all are so used to the Bills making incredible plays, big touchdowns and that they were two touchdown favorites if you just watch that game just totally neutral, didn't know anything about them, you come away being like the Dolphins could have easily won that game they could have easily won that game and the Bills survived and that's all that matters to play better, and we get our Bills-Bengals matchup,

which I think is great.

America's finally ready to see that game.

And now you bring DeMar Hamlin pregame.

Yes, this is exactly right.

This is when you do it.

There was some speculation before the game that this was going to be a DeMar game

where he would be on the field announcing them, saying what's up to the fans.

DeMar said he was going to stay at home and focus on his recovery first.

I think that was very smart by DeMar. Yes, and the Bills.
You need to take care. Well, DeMar, it's very smart of you to the fans.
DeMar said he was going to stay at home and focus on his recovery first. I think that was very smart by DeMar.
Yes, and the Bills. Well, DeMar, it's very smart of you to stay home, take care of your health, make sure that you're feeling fine so that you can get out there and just scream your fucking head off next week.
Yes. As the team's storming onto the field.
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Giants 31, Vikings 24. I don't want to say we told you so.
I don't either. But we told you so.
I don't feel like taking a victory lap on this. I don't feel like pointing out that the Minnesota Vikings finished their season with a point differential that puts them in negative point territory.
We've talked about all this stuff before. I don't think that we need to rehash the fact that we've said over the course of the entire season that Kirk Cousins is a perfectly fine, brilliantly nice human being and when it comes down to it in crunch time sometimes is afraid to make a dicey throw and will take a safer option that might result in a completion, but it's ultimately not going to win you an important game.
I don't think that we need to rehash any of that. Wait, are you talking about fourth and eight with the season on the line and you need a first down and you go with a four-yard check down? It was actually the perfect Kirk Cousins ending to a game ever because on the stat sheet, it's going to show.
Yeah, and on the stat sheet, that one play is going to show successful completed pass for what, like a three-yard game, something like that. And in reality, it's like, hey, dude, you have Justin Jefferson.
He might be double teamed, but fuck it, he's down there somewhere. Hey, just throw it past the first down line.

Just throw anywhere past the first down line.

If it's incomplete, at least you tried to get a first down

instead of checking it down thinking you have five downs.

That was better, and we were more right than him throwing an interception

on that last drive.

Him throwing a check down that was four yards short.

And Kirk Cousins was not the problem today, besides the check down. The Vikings defense, as we've said all along, they were going to kill their season, and they killed their season.
The Giants did anything they wanted. Daniel Jones was sensational.
He was the best quarterback this weekend. He was the best quarterback this weekend because you have to count Brock Purdy's start to his game.
Trevor Lawrence threw four interceptions. Justin Herbert struggled a little.
Josh Allen was good, but he had a couple turnovers. Drew Burrow wasn't spectacular.
Tyler Huntley wasn't. Daniel Jones was the best quarterback this weekend.
I don't think it's actually close. He was so fucking good.
He moved the ball whenever they had to. He made big plays whenever they had to.
He made big runs when they had to. He was like patient with his runs, letting his blocks get set up.
Daniel Jones, I'm sitting here right now. We're sitting here with wild card weekend.
Five of the six games have been played. Daniel Jones was by far and away the best quarterback in terms of play on the field this weekend that's crazy but it's true and I'm very happy for Giants fans I think that what you've seen with the Giants this season if you're a fan of a loser team you can look at these Giants and be like there's hope for me get the right coach there's hope for me if we if we hit a home run hiring a head coach then we can go from being and and let's be very clear about what the Giants were last year.
They were infuriating and boring to watch. Correct.
They were a dumb, boring team coached by a dumb, boring guy. Remember when they did the QB sneak from the two-yard line on third and nine because they didn't want to get a safety? It wasn't even just a QB sneak.
It was like they were running some sort of single wing offense.

Yeah. But just like fell forward for a yard and a half.
It goes to show, and the NFL is such, we love it. It's such a fascinating league.
But for every bust, you can point to many people around them that probably failed them. Because Daniel Jones was not the guy.
and was had two different head coaches different offenses not a lot of weapons and then in comes Brian Dable playing to his strengths and he has been playing out of his mind good and he now should be the quarterback of the future for the Giants I don't even think it's up for debate anymore it's just whether like what the actual monetary like deal with his contract's going to be he is their quarterback of the future he was so good and i don't know when he got a jaw and like gained like 15 pounds of muscle but he's fucking hot there was put it on the bonk list i don't care daniel jones is hot there was like he's not a boy anymore he's a man there was one shot of him on the sideline where he did look like he looked like a superman he's He looks like Superman a little bit. Yeah.
I think what's happened, a couple things with Daniel Jones. One, he just kind of found a point in his career that he has a coach who actually cares about him and seems to be aligned with him, and now they're running an offense that actually suits what he's very good at doing.
But most importantly, I think he's had enough time to wash the Duke off of his skin and

off of his body.

And he doesn't have the stink of Duke.

Smarminess.

Yeah, he doesn't have that, like, the Duke vibe to him necessarily.

And the Giants also survived.

I mean, this game was so much fun to watch.

It was just back and forth, back and forth.

Both quarterbacks played a clean game.

Both teams played a clean game because we were sitting there being like, makes a mistake whoever fumbles whoever throws interception it will change the game that's how it felt uh the giants that would have been an all-time loss to have darius slayton over the middle just dropping an absolute perfect pass where he would have run easily for first down game over thankfully Thankfully you had Kirk cousins checking down and they even tried to give it to the Vikings with that roughing the passer. Like that was a bad call.
The Vikings were driving a little bit, but man, I, again, I don't want to say we told you so, but we told you so. And you know what? I think Vikings fans, it's been a long season, a part of my take, and us versus Vikings fans.
I want to bury the hatchet mostly because we ended up being right like we thought we would be. But I want to bury the hatchet because you guys knew deep down that what we knew, you also knew.
So we all were kind of on this. And I've said it before, but I have a few friends that are diehard Vikings fans, and and i talked to them after and they were like look we knew that was going to happen but it was still such a fun season and it was like they won some classic games they won the nfc north easily biggest comeback in nfl history come back the bills game like they that was a hell of a ride it just was always going to end like it ended and we saw it coming from away.
And I think they did too. So I'm not, I'm not, we're not going to do a victory dance like is expected.
What I will do though, I will do a little victory dance on someone in this room. Hank, you tried to troll us being like we were being mean to the Vikings.
And you're like, I'm on the Vikings. I like the Vikings.
The Vikings are really good. They're 13-4.
You bet on them today. What do you say about that? You know, this is a podcast.
Yeah, I mean, there was really no excuses. They played like shit.

Their defense.

Yeah, their offense wasn't.

Yeah, they probably should have gotten the ball to Justin Jefferson a little bit more,

but credit to the Giants defense.

You know, the Giants defense were like, we're not going to let Justin Jefferson beat us.

We'll just let TJ Hawkinson beat us.

And he did for a while.

The Bills game, Kirk Cousins was making those throws.

He had, I think they had two or three crazy fourth down conversions.

You get that roughing the passer call, you should have all the momentum.

That, I thought they were at least going to have a couple shots at the end zone or something

when he just checked down to a tight end and it just kind of all came to fruition of like, wow.

You were wrong.

This team is a joke.

This guy is a joke.

That's who he is.

He's got 11-0 in close games.

And you trolled your way into siding with the joke.

But that's not trolling.

I love it. It was a real fact-based...
That's exactly why you decided to... It was a fact-based thought.
Hank, fact or fiction, you decided to have this fact-based thought because it would do the most damage to us if we lost it. Not damage.
I just... You know, I thought...
You know, I was trying to, like, protect you guys from yourselves oh no we were fine we never were in doubt we never were worried ever yeah it turns out never turns out this is maybe the most right we've ever been on this podcast yeah for all the asante samuels not that good and then three interceptions in like five minutes this one we were right like we were painfully right about this one i don't i legitimately don't think that i've ever been as right about a take as I have about Kirk Cousins and how this season ended up.

The entire season.

I'm not going to take a victory lap for you.

No, we're not taking victory laps.

We're not going to do victory laps.

I was so right that it fucking hurts.

Yeah, I actually said that.

I was like, I don't take pleasure in being this right

because it's almost weird to be this right

because you don't want to be the guy that's this right. But we were this right.
Yeah, Billy. What teams have you ever been positive on, either of you? Great question.
What are you talking about? When you talk about Chargers, I was positive about the Chargers. Sorry, the C-words.
That was also the hard idea. Did you hear us talk about how good the Niners are? Chargers? I called Brock Purdy Kurt Warner.
I'm just saying. It's $20 for the C-Water.
I don't know if you've been listening. It takes a real man to back a team.
It takes a lot of people to care about. Such a good point.
Oh, shit. I actually forgot.
Shut the fuck up. I forgot a stat.
Thank you for talking. All right.
The Detroit Lions. We support the Detroit Lions.
The Bills. The 49ers.
We had nothing but good things to say about the Niners. Patrick Mahomes.
Bandwagon Bills, boys. By far the best.
Oh, okay. Do you listen to the show, Billy? Now you're back on your troll shit.
Do you listen to the show? I actually have a stat for you. I completely forgot to bring it up because we were so worked up about the C words.
And I'd really hate to derail this off of the Vikings and us being so right. Do you know that in 2020, the 2020 season, the Jets were 0-13?

Yeah.

And then they went and they won as 17-point underdogs against the Rams,

and then they beat the Browns,

and then they got the second pick and drafted Zach Wilson

and not Trevor Lawrence.

Yes.

Oh.

Yes.

They won two meaningless games in December. Yep.
So that's what i i forgot to tell you that that was a good one there was actually a fourth down conversion yeah the games that just was like the whole history yeah like trevor lawrence could be a jet sliding doors moment yeah and they'd be in the playoffs right but do you think trevor lawrence could handle the new york media how's that project coming How's that project coming? Were you guys going after Dable?

Was he in contention for the Jets job?

No, not at the time.

No, because they hired him this year.

Oh, wait, but they might have interviewed him.

Yeah.

I don't know.

It might have been Black Brian.

That's true.

Yeah.

We get those confused.

So, yeah, Billy, I forgot to bring that up. That is the difference between the first and second pick.
Back to Hank being wrong and us being right. Hank.
I also would say, I would also say, like, you know, the Vikings, that was kind of a regular season thing for me. I've kind of moved on.
Oh, okay. No, no, theboys now.
I have put one future in for one team in the playoffs,

and it was not the Vikings.

Serious question, Hank.

If it's the Cowboys, I might have to just mute myself for the rest of the season.

No, if the Bucs win tomorrow night, you've been wrong about everything.

Right, I'll just go mute.

I'll be muted.

Which part of the Vikings were you wrongest about?

Was it Kirk Cousins or was it their defense?

Not that we're dancing on your grave or taking a victory lap or was it us being right and you thinking we were wrong it was Kirk Cousins and it was you guys being right and thinking you're wrong yeah do you think maybe they kind of just like bet yeah it's like fade the public you guys were you know we're not the we're a couple public squares looking at me right in the face it was like no you were actually the public square yeah bet on the Hank, do you think that maybe they should have gotten Kirk Cousins more involved in their downfield passing attack and maybe look for him on, I don't know, some out routes or some deep corners as opposed to just hitting him in the flat for a negative one-yard completion? Yeah. Yeah.
That was the funniest play of the entire game. Billy, I think we were positive about a lot of teams.
I just don't think you've been listening to the podcast today. I've been listening to the Vikings.
Yeah, the Vikings we were negative about. But you know what? Next season, if they find a new quarterback, it's totally different.
They have so much talent. They're a really good – their offense is so fucking loaded.
But here's the thing. Derek Carr.
Lamar Jackson liked to tweet. They're not going to find another quarterback.
No, Lamar Jackson liked to tweet saying, talking about Lamar Jackson going to the Jets, but then he unliked to tweet. But the screenshot shows that he did like that tweet at one point tonight when he wasn't at the game tonight.
Oh, okay. Nice.
That's nice. How's that? What does that have to do with the Vikings? Well, you're talking about the quarterbacks.
Oh, okay. Yeah, I mean, I think we're positive about a lot of teams.

But the Vikings, we were right about.

You think Daniel –

Actually, we were positive about the Vikings because we were right,

so that's in the positive.

But the point differential on all those Vikings games wasn't as bad as, like, the Dolphins.

They were 13-4.

That's the difference is that there were expectations on the Vikings.

Right, right.

I know, I know.

They were 13-4.

Also, shout-out to Minnesota. You won that division.
Easily. Sanders fly forever.
Also, you've got Carlos Correa. So, congratulations.
Yeah. I hate being this right, PFT.
It's uncomfortable. Let's go back to being wrong.
Let's go back to being wrong. Bucks tonight.
Bucks? Oh, we're going to be wrong about the Bucks. This has become like a reputation game for you.
No, I mean... It was like the Vikings was like an appetizer.
And we sent it back. I've had two...
Yeah, I've ordered two meals. Yeah.
One of them was... One of them was poo-poo.
Yeah, I've got Jake Marsh in my stomach. And now I have the Cowboys for the main course.
Did it all just start based on us saying that the Cowboys stunk until you're like, hmm. Yeah, no, that's how it all stunk.
I know what I can say that will shock everybody. Yeah.
I think the Cowboys are good. Is that how it all started, or was there some? No, you just went from.
Walk me back to the start of the Cowboys fandom. The Cowboys one is probably more to that point.
The Vikings, the Bills game was an eye-opener. In what way? It was an eye-opening, fantastic win.
It was. Kirk Cousins was throwing dimes.
They beat the best team in the NFL, basically. You know what it was? In my mind.
It just went from the white Kirk Cousins to the black Kirk Cousins. It was just hopping around.
Yeah, so... What does that mean? No, it's the white...
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's the white Kirk Cousins and the wait, the black Kirk Cousins and the white Dak Prescott.
Yeah. You're rooting for the same quarterback.
Against Tom Brady. I will see.
But yeah, I mean, if the Cowboys lose tonight, you're not going to hear much from me. No, we'll be here.
You'll move on. We'll be interviewing you so fast.
I'll be take less in Seattle. No, you'll move on.
You lot We'll be interviewing you Extensively on Wednesday show

No, you'll move on

You'll probably hate the Bills next

Yes, you will

Yeah, you will

Yeah, you're going to hate the Bills next

You just laid the seed being like bandwagon Bills

Yeah, you're going to hate the Bills

You already hate the Bills

Yeah, you do

You hate Josh Allen

You've never liked the Bills

He dragged you kicking and screaming

Again, this is gaslighting PFT

Literally putting words in my mouth

No, Hank, fact or fiction

The Patriots play in the AFC East Thank you. You like the Bills.
He dragged you kicking and screaming into Buffalo. This is gaslighting PFT, literally putting words in my mouth.

No, Hank, fact or fiction, the Patriots play in the AFC East.

Fact.

Okay, fact or fiction, the Bills are your rival.

Fiction.

Okay, because you don't think they're good enough to be your rival.

That is also part of the Vikings, the perfect storm.

PFT has his own history, Kirk Cousins.

I don't like the Vikings because they play in the same division.

I like the Lions right now, but the Lions next year when they're good i'm not gonna like them and i've always said josh allen since josh allen you guys kind of like poking fun of him and him coming to the podcast doing the interview was will always have utmost respect in my eyes before he could have been the worst quarterback in the league and i would have been like i like josh out a lot great dude so i'm happy that he's successful and i hope i hope they do well um i wrote down a couple nice things about minnesota okay in minnesota you have the most lakes i actually state in the united states i've spent some time we love lakes yeah i've spent some time in the minnesota lakes uh it is beautiful the summer in minnesota is actually a delight. You have a wonderful state fair that we've been to.
Been to. With butter sculptures.
Yep. They make butter sculptures.
Yep. You have not as many mosquitoes as in some parts of Brazil.
Yep. For the most part, you guys are not that infested with malaria.
The Edmund Fitzgerald probably had it coming. Mm-hmm.
And you have Carlos Correalos correa that's really the thing i keep going back to and i've always said that minneapolis is a very nice city every time i've spent i don't know probably like five or six different times i've been there and i've enjoyed it every single time it's a very very nice city a lot of fun times memories there yes st paul as well pa, I love the Juicy Lucy. Yeah.
Those are delicious. The wings we got, you were in Thailand.
No, I was doing MDMA in Hong Kong. In Hong Kong.
Sanford Steve and I went to a great wings place that was awesome. Yeah, the Final Four was great there.
Put on a great event. Minnesota's very affordable.
Yep. It's an affordable state.
You also have a very good head coach. Yes.
Although I don't know what was that third and one play in the first half. The pass to Kirk Cousins.
Let's make Kirk Cousins make someone miss. That one didn't really register.
They should have just sent him downfield. They should have just aired it out to him.
That made no sense. But other than that, Vikings.
I think he probably hates Kirk Cousins just as much as we do. Yeah, he's like, let's get him injured.
Yeah, he's like, listen, let's have Justin Jefferson play quarterback and then get Kirk Cousins lit up. But so to put a bow on the Vikings season, incredible regular season, we were right.
I think everyone else, I think most Vikings fans also knew that we were right deep down. I won't carry this hate.
Well, I will because it's divisional, but they have a shitload of talent if they can figure out their defense. It wasn't their offense.
Their defense was really, really bad, and we saw it all day against the Giants. And yeah, to be continued.
We'll see what the next chapter holds. I actually think that next year's Vikings team is going to be way better than this year's because their offense is fine.
Yeah just have to fix their defense which they'll take some steps towards doing and then I'll think they're fine I'll also go to bat for Kirk Cousins because I might be wrong about being so right I know we just said that this is the rightest we've ever been as a podcast I might be wrong about how right I am because there is a chance that Kirk Cousins thought it was third down.

Yeah.

Or there were five downs. One of the two.
It's like a 10% possibility that he got confused and thought it was third down and he checked down on it. Yeah.
That would make way more sense and I would be inclined to be like, yeah, Kirk Cousins, I kind of believe you if you were to say that. Yeah.
That's how dumb of a decision it was. So I'm either right about being wrong about Kirk Cousins or I'm right about being right about Kirk Cousins.
I'll leave that much up to you. And Kirk Cousins will forever be a top 10-15 quarterback in the NFL, which is you can win a lot of games with that.
That's not bad. He's not a bad quarterback.
He never has been a bad quarterback. If there was a hall of very good, he would be second ballot.
Yeah, he's in easy, easy. We'd vote for him ourselves and the Giants.
We'll see the Giants Saturday night. Yep.
They feel a little team of destiny. I'm a little nervous.
They're I mean, they are buying in. Yeah, they're they're fully but they're the most bought in team.
And we should also say this was the matchup to see who gets our official Coach of the Year of the Year vote. Brian Dable.

So Brian Dable, Coach of the Year of the Year.

Well-deserved.

And Greg Olson's very good.

That was the only thing.

Can you actually clip this?

We can tweet it at him.

Greg Olson is next up.

He's a very, very good, in a very short time,

he's very good at calling a game, at finding the right levels of when to get excited, when to get in, and he teaches us something. Greg Olson, not because we're friends with him.
I'm saying this. If I didn't even know, if I'd never met him in my life, I'd be like, Greg Olson, next up.
He is very, very good at broadcasting games. And also, when Tom Brady comes and takes his job next year, I'm going to be a little bit sad about that.
Maybe not. Hank, don't include that part in this clip.
Maybe not. All right.
Last up. Bengals 24.
Ravens 17. We just finished watching this game.
The Bengals. Now, I have a different perspective now because I did put a future on them a few months ago.

Last year, it was like, how are they getting away with this?

This year, it's like, maybe this is what the Bengals just do in the playoffs.

They win games with a couple lucky plays.

And it happened tonight with the Sam Hubbard 99-yard touchdown, which swung the entire game.

What a beast. The Ravens, I mean, he is a beast.
He's an absolute beast. Cincinnati kid, played lacrosse.
No big deal. Roback.
We have a story on barstlesports.com from last year. Yeah, exactly.
He did all these things. The Bengals, it was a 17-17 game.
The Ravens were playing just as you expected, like staying in it, playing great defense, not giving up any big plays uh doing just enough offensively running the ball well they're going in it's 17 17 it's the fourth quarter they're on the one yard line tyler huntley reaches out for a touchdown it gets knocked out of his hands which i mean you can say luck but it was a great play by the bangles defense falls into sam hubbard's arms and he runs 99 yards for a touchdown. And stat hole actually said that that was the I think the first time in the playoffs a player scored.
It's the highest numbered player. Yeah.
To score a touchdown with higher number of yards yards than his number. Yes.
So in the past, Greg Ellis and Mike Patterson, they're both numbered 98. They scored on a 98 yardyard touchdown.
Yeah, so he beat that record. He beat his own number.
But, yeah, that game, like, and similar to the Bills-Dolphins game, survive in advance, so who cares? Doesn't matter how you win, just win. But the Bengals got outplayed for a lot of that game like the the the Ravens here if you had told if we had said to you if I said before this game that the Ravens would have over 100 yards more total they'd have more uh rushing yards by like three times they'd have more passing yards they had more passing yards than than the Cincinnati Bengals all their weapons.
And the Bengals still won the game. You're like, yeah, that's the Bengals playoffs.
Like that, the Ravens played that game exactly how they needed to play the game to win that game. And the Bengals just keep doing it.
And they got a knack for it. And again, I'm on the other side now, so I'm rooting for them.
So I'm like happy. I like hey look horseshoe up your ass don't explain it just win the ravens had such a weird offense that they had they put together pretty much the best game plan possible to beat the bangles today which was let's run lamar's offense with huntley who's going to take us forward maybe get like two first downs and then we'll have two like back breaking penalties penalties.
And then maybe an interception thrown in, yeah. Like after the back-breaking penalties, then we'll have to regain all that ground that we lost from those penalties.
So our offense is going to have the ball for forever, which is how the Ravens beat you is they just – they possess the shit out of the ball. They go on these huge clock-killing drives.
I think that one early on in the game on that touchdown drive wasn't't it like a 730 drive, something like that? It was the field goal drive, I think, at the end of the half. They went, oh, no.
No, they did a touchdown drive 10 minutes. 10 minutes, yeah.
75 yards, 17 plays. Yeah, which is crazy.
Crazy. It's so hard to do.
They figured, okay, Jamar Chase can't be scoring touchdowns against us if we have the ball in our hands. So they played the most boring style of football pretty much.
Huntley is always tripping over himself in the backfield and barely regaining his composure, doing a spin move, and then hitting Mark Andrews for an 11-yard gain. That's kind of what their offense is predicated on today.
It almost worked. It actually probably should have worked.
It should have worked. With the exception of Huntley thinking that he had Trevor Lawrence arms.

Yeah, right.

Because it's similar to the Bengals game last year against the Titans

where they sacked Joe Burrow nine times

and then Ryan Tannehill just threw the game away.

Don't apologize for the win.

And the good news for the Bengals is the Bills defense is not the Ravens defense.

So everything should look that should be a shootout.

Everything should look a lot easier.

The Bengals just find a way to win.

And that Sam Humber touchdown was so fucking electric.

Like that was that was everyone stood up and was like, holy shit, what is happening?

Because the game, I mean, I don't know what win percentage they do.

They are bullshit, but it had to have swung it so severely because the Ravens were about to take the lead and their defense was playing so well that it felt like the Bengals couldn't get anything going. And then it just flipped on its head and the Ravens had to play from behind and they can't do that.
I have an ESPN. Before the play, it was 59.1 Ravens.
Yeah. Then 85.8 Bengals.

I mean, crazy.

That's crazy.

One thing that I loved in this game was Eli Apple getting cooked

and then Eli Apple getting cooked again on the internet right after

because I don't know what it is about the guy.

I think it's because he's played for so many different teams

that there are so many fan bases that have a genuine, glowing,

white-hot hatred of him that any time he gets cooked, it just becomes a big dog pile online. And it's so fun.
All the memes are so fun. I think Eli Apple is one person that, for whatever reason, we can just all come together and laugh about.
Yes, absolutely. Because he's had a successful career by any given stretch.
You can use any measurement that you want. He's an NFL veteran.
He's made a shitload of money. But when he screws up, he really screws up bad.
Yeah. And it's awesome.
And I don't know what the Ravens do going forward. I mean, Lamar, it feels like, and Billy said it, he's liking tweets about going to the Jets.
Doesn't feel great. I heard he's going to be a commander.
And Lamar, I would treat you so good good yeah oh i would i give you your own bathroom everywhere we went we'd be like kim jong-un you have a train just of your bathroom that would follow you wherever you wanted to go that's a huge deal it is for him and uh the bengals i just the good news for the bengals it's it is hank did point out the other way to look that stat. I'll give you credit, Hank.
It is harder to beat a team three times because, you know, you beat them twice. And then it is 20-14, I think we said on Friday.
So, you know, the team that loses the first two times does win a fair share. That was just an old school divisional.
These two teams know each other so fucking well. Of course it's going to be this tight.
The Bengals survive. And now you have in your way two teams, maybe the Jaguars too, so throw them in there.
But you beat the Chiefs already. You beat the Bills 7-3 already.
So you have teams you know you can beat. Yeah.
Right there, right in front of you. The Bengals feel like they're just going to what? So you beat the Bills 7-3 already? Yeah, they beat the Bills 7-3.
The game never happened? Yeah, no, no, but Bengals fans, the game was over. They had the ball.
If you talk to any Bengals fans. They're driving.
Yeah, the Bengals had the ball going in. 7-3 was over.
Joe Burrow was dealing. Anyone who thinks the Bengals weren't going to win that game is crazy.
7-3. Got it.
We've never seen crazy comebacks in football games like a team coming back from 27-0. I got a question.
Or the Bengals coming back from 21-3 against the Chiefs in the AFC Championship game. 7-3 over.
What's up with the Bengals' field? Why is it so dirty? For being a synthetic turf field, they've just got black pellets everywhere. Not in the right place.
Billy? It's also cursed. It's true.
It is cursed. Harambe? Well, just a ton of worse things happen.
Really bad injuries. Okay.
Well, whatever it is, it needs to be somebody's job to sweep up those black pellets because I've never seen a field as messy in my life. Well, they're ready to go.
And it is so funny. I mentioned it when we were watching the game, but the Bengals helmet when Andy Dalton wore it was like, okay, this is kind of a joke.
When Joe Burrow wears it, it's like, these guys are for real. I thought Andy looked good in it.
Yeah, I know. But you like, you knew like, ah, we're just playing around.
It's Andy. Like, that's fun.
Joe Burrow wears. It's like, these are ferocious.
Right. I mean, he makes everything look cool.
Yes. An entire montage of Joe Burrow wearing clothes that would actually get us locked up in insane asylum if we put him on.
But when he does, it's like, damn. They also went a little too far when they showed him walking in today and he was just wearing regular clothes.
Yeah. And they're like, so cool.
Look out. When do you think the backlash is going to start for Joe Burrow? And what do you think it's going to look like so I hope it never comes because we love Joe but knowing how the sports media works if the Bengals go deep in the playoffs like let's say the next two to three seasons and they don't win a Super Bowl I was mentioning before like people won't remember some people won't remember but like there was a long stretch where we were living in the greatest hot take culture of all time and peyton manning and a rod were the biggest chokers of all time they were losers they're like they they stink they can't win anything they're terrible players like two guys who were the best players in their respective leagues were bums peyton was well he's a rod kind of was i mean yeah right so the great guy you a time portal uh to seeing it but so i unfortunately i think that's how media works that will then even though joe burrow is awesome dude and 2003 2008 yeah like that's a compliment though yeah no because we're not we're not sitting here having conversation about like kirk cousins can't win the big one yeah you know like he hasn't reached that level yet right jo Joe Burrow is good enough where now he's going to have expectations put behind him of winning the big one.
It's going to be like, yeah, he hasn't won anything. It's going to be, don't you know cigars are bad for you? What kind of role are you setting for the kids? And then it's going to be, why is he friends with those part of my take losers? Yeah.
Yeah. Those are the big three that they're going to attack him about.
Yeah. And am all in on uh because here's the other thing like you don't think you need luck to win a super bowl you could go through any super bowl run and be like there was luck here there was luck there the ball bounced their way the bangles just have the ball bouncing their way right now that's just what is what it is so you can't like like there is something to have it having a knack for you know get you know having the ball bounce your way and making those big plays, and the Bengals keep doing it.
I cannot wait for that Bills-Bengals game. What time is it? 3 o'clock? 3 o'clock Sunday.
Shout out Jake. He nailed all his predictions.
Thank you. Yeah.
That game is going to fucking rule. I agree.
I agree. Listen, I love these games coming up.
Divisional round round might be my favorite weekend this is going to be maybe the most anticipatory week of of just waiting I love it I love it so much every single matchup my pants are getting tight I'm pumped especially for this one yeah we've been waiting two weeks to see this game and you know it would make it perfect because we have every storyline right now we have we have uh Patrick Mahomes versus the new young gun Trevor Lawrence. We have Giants, Eagles, divisional rivals, hated teams.
We have Josh Allen versus Joe Burrow. What would be perfect is if we have Mr.
Irrelevant versus Tom Brady going home. Tom Brady going back to Candlestick.
And if you think NFL is rigged, Hank, you can still have time to switch your pen Because that would be. Although, you know what? Let me be nice to you.
Cowboys 49ers is also a very classic 90s matchup. So you have that.
The fact that the worst game in terms of storylines involves Patrick Mahomes, we're so lucky. Yeah, we're so lucky.
We're blessed. We're blessed.
We're blessed. Shout out, football.
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See if you can beat us. Henry, who's back? I don't know how this didn't start the show, but my who's back of the week is handball.
Oh, yeah. How did this start the show? Specifically U.S.
handball. The boys in red, white, and blue won their first international match in 21 years.
Yes. They beat Morocco.
Good sports town, USA. We're back.
Shout out to our guy Ty Reed. Ty Reed.
Yep. Love that guy.
Ty Reed, love it. I mean, some might say it's because we started talking about handball on this podcast and said any athlete could step out there and compete some people hurt us and we got new blood on the team yep facts alright US handball back how did that start the show? I don't know they did lose to Croatia but I think we're still in the tournament yeah Croatia is probably one of those really those really good countries.
They're good at everything they try in Croatia. Name one thing Croatia's bad at.
Winning wars, I would assume? I think they won a war. Did they? Yeah, they seem to be pretty peaceful in Croatia.
Okay. No? No, they haven't.
Okay. PFT, who's your who's back? My first who's back of the week is Colin Coward stealing her stuff.
Yeah. Colin Coward, he did like a headline show, which is a topic or a segment that he stole from Scott Van Pelt, like tomorrow's headlines today.
And so on last Friday's show, the herd fucking fake soup guy Colin Coward hooks up on his bottom line i want to brock and roll all night and purdy every day what the fuck right after we talked to booger about that so he's he's he's a thief he stole soup from me and overwrought analogies he steals uh what else did he steal joe burrow he stole joe burrow from us he did steal steal Joe Burrow from us. He stole dying his hair.
4K. He stole dying his hair.
He stole being divorced from Dave. Yeah, I'm not dying my hair anymore.
People are saying that I'm very gray. They were mentioning many times on the stream how gray I look.
So even I don't dye my hair. Facts.
I just say, fuck you, coward. I blocked him.
Nice. He's not getting these takes for free.
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All right, what's your other who's back?

Oh, yeah, my other who's back of the week. You know what? That can be my only who's back of the week except for Cliff Kingsbury.
He's back for being a genius. Turns out Cliff Kingsbury we talked a lot of shit about him.
All of it was deserved but the stuff that we said about him being dumb not true because he did what I think any of us would do if we got fired with with like $30 million guaranteed, he got a one-way ticket to Thailand. Yeah.
And so he's just going to hang out in Thailand for like, I don't know, years. Also, who's back? Sean McVay.
Sean McVay is actually back. And also, who's back? Aaron Donald.
Aaron Donald, who retired for like five minutes. And now it's back.
All right, my who's back. I have to have to round down unfortunately but i'll just do it anyway so i have to round down or sorry my who's back yeah i'm gonna actually it's a hot seat but it's who's back my who's back uh deandre jordan andre drummond and ben wallace i have to round down here but those three guys what do they have in common pft pistons nope well yeah but nope wait what no what do they have in common though say it again deandre jordan yeah ben wallace andre drummond centers if you round down they all shoot 40 from the free throw okay so they would be equal to henry lockwood who said that he could shoot eight for ten from the free throw line.
Ben Wallace won an NBA title. Yeah, he did.
That's a fact. So there you go.
So I'd have to round down, though, because DeAndre Jordan's actually 47.5%. Andre Drummond's 47.4%.
Ben Wallace is 41.4%, so that's pretty close. But yeah, Hank decided, what was it, Friday night? You just said I can hit over 7.5.
Well, we have the free throw Friday bets available exclusively in the Barstool Sportsbook on Fridays. You pick a player in the early game, I pick a player in the late game.
I tweeted it out promoting it and someone said, how many free throws would you make out of ten? Didn't really think about it. I was like, in back of my day, I was a prolific free throw shooter.
Wasn't a huge fan of like, you you think prolific means just really good unbelievably good uh was never a huge fan of like really working out and like getting sweaty and like you know practicing basketball in that way i would just go out in the driveway and shoot free throws so i was like i've i'm a good free throw shooter i can easily hit eight out of ten might have been a little ambitious didn 4 out of 10. The first time.
Well, you said, that's the one that counted. It was windy as fuck, though.
And no one was rebounding. No free throw shooters ever had to get their own rebound.
That sounds exhausting. Yeah, it was sad, too, because I gave him a chance for redemption.
I was like, you get 10 more. Because we could have sat there forever, and if we did a million free throws at some point there would be a stretch of 10 that hank hits 8 out of 10 unfortunately we didn't have enough time so i said go shoot 10 more you know what would be the the worst punishment ever for our next year pick thing is just you have to keep shooting free throws until you make 20 in a row no that wouldn't be that 100 in a row would be bad i don't think yeah christ wait you could you think you can make 20 free throws in a row Yes., that wouldn't be that bad.
It'd take me 20 minutes. 100 in a row would be bad.
I don't think. Yeah.
Jesus Christ. Wait, you think you can make 20 free throws in a row? Yes.
I mean, it would take a while, but yes. Yeah, it would take a while.
That's what I'm saying. Yeah, no, but I think I could do it within the first two hours.
I guess there's another challenge. But then you get tired by the end of it.
That's true. If it's two hours, you're going to be...
As long as someone's rebounding. Yeah, that's...
I mean, I would never do it without anyone rebounding. Massive, massive, massive, massive, massive distinction.
Wait, wait, Hank. You literally shot 20 shots, and you're saying...
Not only if you're being tied, but for rhythm, too. Yes.
Yeah. But anyway, so Hank went four for ten.
I said, hey, go ahead. Take ten more.
Let's see if we can get this eight. He got all the way to the end.
He was seven for nine. There was actually a little kid who walked by and was like, Daddy, look at this NBA player.
And then Hank clanked the last one and the kid started crying. Just crying.
Did you promise him? Was he sick? Was he on the way to the hospital? Like, don't worry about it, kid. Also, shout out that one AWL Stooley who literally, as Hank is going for one of his free throws, this was during his four out of ten, drove by and just screamed out of his car, Hank, you fucking suck at free throws, as he was shooting it, and he fucking missed it.
Yeah, I was one for two at that point, missed that one, and then it was over. I was not able to recover from that.
But I know I can still go to sleep at night knowing I'm the best free throw shooter in this room. I mean, by far.
You could probably... Okay, well, it sounds like a challenge for the Chicago office.
Yeah, cool. Sounds like we'll do it.
I will not fight you on that, Hank. I will.
Good luck. I'll see you there.
Yeah, no, definitely. Just all-around athlete.
Also, just to be clear, do not throw any shade on Ben Wallace. Ben Wallace is technically a better free throw shooter than Hank because he's 41.4%.
Hank could probably beat him up though. Hank was 40%.
The first time. Probably grew cooler there.
Well, you were 11 for 20 total. So not much better.
Four degrees out. Well, I said we could get an inside gym.
You're like, no, no, no. I want to do it outside.
It's no difference. It wasn't a regulation height either.
It was a nine foot rim. Oh, where was this? I gotta get a video of me trying to touch it.
How bad is that? Nine foot rim. I still couldn't do it.
I bet it wasn't a regulation height either. It was a nine-foot rim.
Oh, where was this? I've got to get a video of me trying to touch it. How bad is that? Nine-foot rim.
I still couldn't do it. And it wasn't far enough away.
It's closer. I've actually made a mental list.
Every time I see I drive by a hoop that looks like it's about nine and a half feet tall, I just drop a mental pin in it so I can go back and touch it later and be like, look, still got it. Yeah.
Billy. Really quick before my who's back,

the winner of the last football guy of the week for this season was Damar Hamlin.

He won.

Oh, so not Peyton Hillis.

Peyton Hillis.

It was a very close race.

It was actually much closer than I thought.

But, yeah, Damar Hamlin, squeeze it out.

Good for Damar.

All right.

Good.

I never thought he'd win that.

And my real who's back is bad statues. So So over the years, we've had some bad statues.
Think about Cristiano Ronaldo's statue, his bust before. It's been going viral on Twitter.
That also, if we're talking about the Vikings, it's been a tough year for takes for me. Sorry to interrupt.
What was your take? Oh, that Cristiano Ronaldo was the greatest soccer player of all time. Oh, damn, Hank.
I forgot you said that. And then he signed with Saudi Arabia.
Yeah. And Messi won the World Cup.
And Messi won the World Cup. Yeah, no, he couldn't have been worse.
Couldn't have been worse on that one, Hank. Cowboys.
Yeah. It is a reputation game for you.
And, again, I want to just repeat, if the Bucs win this game, we might not have a guess on Wednesday. It might just be a full exclusive with Henry Lockwood.
I will say nothing. I'll be muted.
Okay. No, you won't.
So it's been going pretty viral, but in the Boston Commons, they unveiled a new statue for MLK, and most of Twitter thinks that it looks like either penises or poop. You can say that

about basically anything though.

Like Twitter got dirty minds.

What do you think, Billy? How do you think the art of the statue is?

I'm not really sure what it is

but it does look like poop.

So that's my who's back.

Alright. By the way, happy MLK

Day. Yes.

To all those who celebrate.

Which should be everyone. Except for Arizona.
They don't? No, it took them until like 1995. Yikes.
To acknowledge it as a holiday. Yikes.
Yeah. That was like a Chris Rock routine.
I think he said do you know how racist you have to be to not take a day off work? Yeah. Seriously.
Notifications on for Ravel today. Oh yeah.
Happy anniversary. This is the date when Ravel said that he had upwards of nine or more pieces of MLK memorabilia.
And his best friends are black. Some of them.
Some of them. He has some.
Sorry for appreciating history. I think he said.
I'm sorry. I think he said, I just find it cute that I'm accused of being racist when I have nine or more autographed Rosa Parks rookie NAACP cards.
Actually, I'm going to find that. All right, go ahead, Jake.
My who's back is Novak Djokovic in Australia. The Australian Open started.
I heard there's a show for this, by the way. Yes.
I need to watch it. I need to I need to watch it, too.
A Netflix show. Apparently, it's really good.
It's F1 for tennis. Yeah, pretty much.
It highlights Kyrgios, the guy we talked about over the summer. He actually just had to retire from the tournament due to injury.
That guy's always quitting something. Yeah, so last year, Djokovic got deported from Australia.
Couldn't participate. This year.
He's going to win it all. If you get booed, you get kicked out.
Allegedly. Love it.
Wait, if you boo. If you boo him.
Okay. You're kicked out.
They deport you. Like that.
From the tournament. There's no amnesty? No fun when the rabbit got the gun.
Yeah, there's conflicting reports on of his actual booing. This is anti-Philly discrimination.
To ban booing? What if you throw a battery at somebody? Yeah, you do that yeah max they're coming after your culture this is gross so the quote is if they disrupt the enjoyment of anyone else boom they are out we don't want them on site they can stay away or we will kick them out yeah but what if you're cheering against someone and the other person's cheering for the other person that would disrupt my enjoyment of it true also no booing australia It's a bit rich for a country that's founded on a penal colony to start policing people's manners now. Yeah.
So there's reports about the actual booing rule, but if you're disrupting the enjoyment, you're out. Crazy.
I found it. Everybody can get on the same page.
Sure. I have over nine MLK signed items.
i am a humongous fan of what he's done this big fan and over the last seven years i've collected a lot of things uh it's not only mlk it's a lot of black history i own a rosa parks uh signed n double a c that's not what that So it was pretty shocking today how I was called racist when I am a student and lover of black history and I never expected the reaction that I got today this is the best one I'm sorry if people think that a white man can't enjoy a whack history. I'm sorry.
I'm sorry. I really am.
I'm sorry if people think that a white man can't love Martin Luther King. But to me, that seems pretty counterintuitive.

Wait.

If I can't be a fan of his and appreciate

everything he's done, how come I own all his stuff?

I own his entire life.

I'm sorry.

Sorry.

I just find it cute

that I have over nine pieces of

MLK game-worn

merch.

I'm sorry. Okay.
Great show, everyone. Oh, another thing you've been wrong about.
Lottery ball. Have you ever gotten it right? Nope.
Oh. That sucks.
I'm going with 71. I haven't seen numbers yet.
What was he about to say? I'm going to take. He hasn't say numbers yet.
Yeah. All right.
Numbers. 71.

You're such a dickhead.

17.

Okay.

69. Oh, wait.

Got to throw in money.

I have money in my pocket.

18.

I sold.

All right.

I'm not really a carry cash.

I owe 20, 2020.

All right.

Jake.

18.

Oh, shit.

20.

71.

Do we have a jar?

Yeah, we need a jar.

Memes has a safe.

No, he doesn't.

What's your other number?

He said he's bringing in tomorrow.

I'd pick 17.

I was going to pick 71 because of Michael Parsons' kid.

7.1 ounces.

Oh, yeah.

Reminder.

Sack bet, right?

Yep.

Michael Parsons, congrats on the sacks.

He's getting a sack tomorrow.

Tonight.

I'm going to go with Dak Prescott's number, number four.

How much money for us who don't have cash?

60. We're at?

Numbers. You've never gotten this?

71. Nope.

Easy. Easy money.

Easy money.

Hank, you said 17?

Oh.

There's a right door.

60. 60 So close 60 Love you guys A clouded leopard Escaped from the Dallas Zoo And they think Someone was trying To help the animals Escape What if I don't Get it this year This entire year Ah You have to get a tattoo.
Of our faces. Of our faces.
Yes, our faces. And it's actually Mount Rushmore.
It's me, PFT, Billy, and Kirk Cousins. So just the same picture twice? Yeah.
Yeah. And Daniel Jones.
Yeah? Sure. Okay, all right, great.
I was thinking it was going to be I should get something good, but whatever. Or throw Kyle Trask in there, too.
Yeah. Why not? His big booty.
Why don't you just get it like all of Billy lookalikes, like old school Dan Campbell. Buzz Lightyear.
Billy football, the young Buzz Lightyear, and Kirk Cousinsins On your chest I wouldn't wish that on anyone

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