Booger McFarland, Super Wild Card Weekend Preview And Another Cat Bet Has Been Made

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On today's Pardon My Take, Super Wild Card Weekend. We're going to preview every single game, six games for us, a weekend full of football, playoff football.
We're going to do our new betting competition to see if jake has to dress up as a felon a bank robbing felon uh and go to a chiefs game and uh we have booger mcfarland on the show talk a little football with him and we have fire fest of the week nothing better than the start of nfl playoffs we're ready to go ever had one of those days when it's just too cold to keep working? Nah, neither has Ariat. Ariat work jackets and boots are packed with all the cold stopping waterproof protection you need to get the job done under any conditions so you can take any job out there and always deliver.
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Is anybody in Barstool Sports? Welcome to Pardon My Take. Today is Friday, January 13th.
Friday the 13th. Happy birthday, Billy Football.
Thanks, guys. Wow.
Friday the 13th is always a scary day, especially when Billy football turns 24. Yep.
24. So your brain is almost fully developed.
I know. That's kind of scary.
Well, yeah, that is because you got like one year to make up a lot of ground. Yeah.
Yeah. No, seriously.
Yeah. And also bad news for Billy.
This is the last year that his body is going to grow because your body stops growing as well. So the mass that you're at right now is going to be at peak velocity.
Yeah, you're at peak velocity. So Billy has become an adult, 24, almost to be able to rent a car.
The craziest part is I'm the same age that Hank was when I first met him. Whoa.
That's what compared it to me. That's wild.
If we're having this conversation, I was thinking about Super Bowl, Phoenix Super Bowl. Actually, the first time I ever met PFT was Big Cat's 30th birthday, and I'm about to be 30.
That was fucking my mind up. That was a fun night.
I know. That was before PFT.
Yeah, it was a year before PFT worked at Barstow. We all went out, and it was a very fun night.
That was a great time. When a Gronkowski tells you to put something in your mouth, you do it.
Yeah, it also was the night where I took my shirt off in the club, and so did Dave, and the bouncer came over and was like, you guys got to put your shirts back on because people are getting very uncomfortable. So I think if we had six packs, probably would let us keep our shirts off but uh yeah they were not because i saw other dudes with shirts off but it was it was they picked us out and they're like you guys are a problem for like the vibe in this club when you take your shirt off that's discrimination it was it was discrimination um okay so happy birthday billy super wild card weekend That's what you get for your birthday.
The best birthday present for Billy is Jake losing this best. Yeah.
Yes. Yeah.
It's a little behind the scenes. We started our group chat to talk about picks, and I said, what do you guys like? Billy says, Dolphins Moneyline.
Oh, nice. All right.
You can make that pick. You can make that pick.
You got to. Jerker.
Jake, we also need to start planning your costume in case you lose for anyone who missed Wednesday's show. We're giving Jake a little redemption.
It's PFT and I versus the rest of the room, and we're going to do a draft of the picks, so there's no double up. So we'll pick a game, then you guys pick a game, and so forth until we each have seven picks.
And then if we win, Jake and Billy are going to the Chiefs divisional round, and Jake is dressing up as a felon, a bank-robbing felon, Chiefsaholic. And if the rest of the room beats me and PFT, PFT and I will eat six hot dogs at our own pace for the bowling competition.
So that's 60 pins that will take off for Jake. If we lose and he has to go and I'm X-Factor, he's Chiefsaholic, we got to do method acting.
so that's 60 pins that will take off for jake if if we lose and he has to go and i'm x factor he's chiefsaholic we gotta do method acting so that's that's meth and banks i i also okay i like that i like that it's gonna be sick yes i'm so excited i like uh i also have a bet that i wanted to throw out there uh because pft i think you'll probably match hopefully there's been a long standing yeah this well you don't want to been a longstanding. Yeah, well, you don't want to double.
Wait until I talk about it, and then you don't want to double. So we've done some fun bets.
That's kind of what we do here. We do stupid things, make you look bad, whatever it may be.
There's been one that someone in this room has complained about ever since we did the bet because he thought it was unfair that there wasn't another side to it uh and what i'm talking about is hank uh in the duke year when he had to get a cat if what was the actual if duke if duke didn't make it to the final four sweet 16 and they almost lost yeah so he has always thought that there should be an asterisk he's always always thought it's unfair. I am here right now on Friday the 13th, ready to declare that if the Dallas Cowboys win the Super Bowl, I will get a cat.
Great. Tell you what.
I'll double it. I'll get two cats.
Okay. Black cats.
So there you go, Hank. Now you can't complain anymore.
Would you like to get anything? If the Vikings win the Super Bowl, I'll get a cat. Okay, all right, great.
See, that was a little trickery there, PFT, because he didn't have to get anything because Wiss was our repaying of the other bet, but he just walked right into that and was just like, yeah, I'll get a cat too. We just leveled the playing field, and Hank said, no, I'm going to choose to make it unfair for myself again.
Yeah, exactly. Man of honor.
Yeah. So yeah, Hank is going to put a future.
Did you put the future on the Dallas Cowboys? No, I've honestly spent the last, that was going to be my fire fest, just basically how much vitriol and negative a response I've got talking about it. And the fact that they're playing Tom Brady and the Bucs is really what's been stopping me.

But at this point now, I have to. You have to.

I have to.

You have to nut up and bet the Cowboys to win the Super Bowl.

Because imagine.

I'm never going to bet them to win the Super Bowl.

I'm going to put an even bigger bet on them to win the NFC.

Okay, so imagine if you win that 14-1

and then PFT and I both have to get cats.

PFT has to get two cats.

Like, that would suck for us.

Can I name them all?

You can name one of the three.

Okay.

Yeah.

It's a good name. Or Dak Prescott.
Zeke would be pretty cool, too. Zeke would be pretty cool.
Okay, so you'll think about it more. Jerry.
Romo. Romo.
Oh, I actually wanted to bring that up. It's been a while since we brought up Tony Romo, and now that we're back in the playoffs and we have standalone games that everyone tunes in for and everyone listens to every second, I'd like to say that our bet or our take is going to repay us so much.
These playoffs, Tony Romo has gotten so much more annoying in his noises and is stepping on Jim Nance. I actually think Jim Nance doesn't really like him anymore.
And I think it's going to prove true in these playoffs. I guarantee you that people are going to start shifting to our side in these 2022-2023 playoffs.
I'm ready to cash in, PFT. There was an article that came out not too long ago about how he's not focused and how he needs to spend more time preparing for stuff because he got paid and he got lazy.
I think you're right. What game is he announcing this weekend? Dolphins-Bills.
So we'll get that one. I think divisional round when he starts doing it.
No one's going to care about this one because it's going to be a blowout. The Bills are going to win.
But if it's like a close game in the fourth quarter and he's making his circus noises, then it's going to be an issue. Yeah.
The AFC Championship game is what I've got circled of, like, everyone's going to tweet us and say, you guys were right. Sorry.
You know, we thought you were haters, but you actually saw the future better than any of us. I'm ready for that.
Yeah. I'm ready for that.
We have an update on that potential Bill's Chiefs location, by the way. Oh, where is it? Atlanta.
Oh, I like that. Fast track.
He loves Atlanta. Yeah.
Yeah. Fast track.
That will be fun. I actually don't like it because we're grass guys.

That's true.

We are grass guys.

We support the players.

But that will be a very fun game. It's also – the one thing I was nervous about is if they picked a place that was easier for one of the fan bases to get to.

Both fan bases got to take a flight.

So that's perfect.

Game on in Atlanta if it happens.

It should be outside.

I thought it should have been in New York, but obviously that would have been weird. Or New Jersey.
That would have been weird to do for the Bills. But Atlanta's a pretty good.
But it's two outside teams. It's bullshit.
Okay. But they're both built as indoor teams.
But for the over. Yeah.
They're both built as fast teams. I agree with Hank.
It's better when the championship games are played outside. That weekend feels like a cold weekend.
Yeah. Well, it's like if the game would be played outside if there was no game cancellation.
So why is it playing inside? Oh, that's the stadium that's got the butthole roof. They should open the roof.
Yeah. Yeah, they should have the roof open for that game.
So we're ready for Super Wild Card weekend. Should we just start doing the draft of picks and then we can talk about each game? Does that sound like a good way to do it? That sounds fine to me.
I just thought of another name for the cat, though. It should be Jason Kitten.
Ooh, that's good, too. You can name your other cat that.
Where is Jason Witten these days? Probably in the shop. Is he still on the Raiders roster somehow? I wouldn't be surprised.
He's probably getting a software update somewhere. Yeah, Derek Carr, by the way, did say...
Think him and Booger are still chit-chatting? I don't think so. I would say no.
I would say no. We're a Booger team.
We've always been Booger's side on that. We should mention Derek Carr did say goodbye to Raiders Nation today with the Notes app.
Classiest way it can go. So it feels like what everyone thought was going to happen did happen.
He's going to be released. And then every, what, Jets, Titans.
There's a lot of teams out there that want Derek Carr. Maybe he should go to the Texans.
Just following his brother's footsteps. Family tradition.
Yeah. Again, he feels like a Colts quarterback.
Feels like he's just destined to be

on the Indianapolis Colts at some point.

People have talked about the Commanders.

I didn't even get to see the Notes app because Derek Carr

blocks me on Twitter for some reason. Oh, damn.

He must have said something weird.

I don't know. I'm definitely missing out on some

heat on the timeline from old D.C.

I guarantee he keeps it real.

I don't know why he blocked me.

I don't think I've ever said anything mean about him online. I'm sure you have.
What? I'm sure you said something mean. Yeah.
I don't think so. His brother doesn't block me.
His brother blocks everybody. That's true.
Maybe he's in Big Bend. Does he block you guys? No, he doesn't block me.
I saw it. I saw his notes app live in the flesh.
And we'll see. Yeah, I mean, the Colts.
Imagine if Jim harbaugh and the colts and derrick carr just coaching them really really hard i i i heard that jim harbaugh interviewed uh via zoom for the broncos job that's got to be the most awkward like three hours ever i think talking to jim harbaugh on zoom that's this was easy uh derrick carr-7-17 posted a quote.

It looks like some type of scripture of some sort.

And in the quote, it says,

Those who control their tongue will have a long life.

Opening your mouth can ruin everything.

Lazy people.

Oh, that's it.

That was the highlighted part.

PFT commenter replied,

Are you talking about herpes?

Oh, okay.

So, yeah, he's a man of God.

That probably wasn't.

Okay.

Yeah. Yeah.
That's okay. Admittedly, that, I understand why he blocked me, but I'd like to be able to see the notes after.
So if you unblock me, I promise to not insinuate that you have any STDs for at least a calendar year. That's huge of you.
That's big. I don't make that promise for anybody.
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Okay, so should we get to some picks? So we'll start.

We'll do our first pick.

PFT and I, PFT, remember the strategy I texted you?

So why don't you say the first pick we want?

Yeah, so for the first pick in this draft,

I think me and Big Cat decided that we're going to go with bills.

Bills, bills, bills.

Yeah.

As Hank called them, Destiny's Child.

Yes. The children of Destiny.

Yes.

So bills, bills, bills.

Can you pay my bills?

I was like... decided that we're going to go with bills bills bills bills yeah as hank called them destiny's child yes the children of destiny yeah so bills bills bills can you pay my bills i like destiny's child i like it uh i would take the bills even if they were like minus 17 at this point it's so skylar thompson is playing or most likely playing teddy bridgewater i guess is is waiting in the wings to possibly maybe start this game but uh two is officially officially out.
Skylar Thompson on the Bills. I mean, I don't know how they score more than, I don't know, let's say 13 points.
It doesn't feel like it's going to go well for the Dolphins. And so we have Bills minus 13.
It's going to be an ass-kicking. It's going to be a whomping.
The Bills are going to go up and down the field. Skylar Thompson, I just, yeah, that's all you've got to say.
It's like this pick is just Skylar Thompson. Yeah, imagine what we saw last year, right, with the Patriots against the Bills in the playoffs, except now imagine that Mac Jones, who was good at the time, has been replaced by Mac Jones except, like, immediately after doing a dizzy bat race.
Yeah. And that's what you've got with Skylar Thompson.
and he's hobbled a little too so it's not even a full health Skylar Thompson which I don't think really matters but that actually might be better that he's not fully healthy so he's not gonna go out there and try to spin it they might just they might just say fuck it and hand the ball off the entire time yeah I feel like this is going to be a frustrated Tyreek Hill game we saw a little bit bubbling up against the Jets where, you know, throw a helmet or something because he's like, what the fuck? I can't even get the ball. The Bills, or sorry, the Dolphins with Tua scored 25 and a half points a game.
Without, they've scored 16.3 points a game. So doing that math, the Bills get to 30.
We cover the spread. Yep.
Easy. Easy money.
money. Yeah, feel good about that one.
All right, Jake. Yeah, you and the boys.
Our team's first pick, we were all in agreement on this one. With no hesitation, we're going to take Bengals, Ravens, under 40 and a half.
Ooh, okay. We had that on our list, too.
Yeah, we think, obviously, the Ravens without Lamar are going to struggle, but they do have a really good defense and uh yeah okay i also i was saying to jake i think you know he's saying we he's a team guy but this is his bet it's his team i said i'm going to give you my best advice but you can take it and do whatever you want with it yeah so these are these are it's it's the team he's he's had the team's insight but he's the coach he's the one making the final decisions yeah that's true okay so nice Hank yeah no I passed the buck no I don't like if I was in Jake's spot I would be doing the same thing like I would be like give me your best insight but at the end of the day I'm the one risking everything so I'm going to make the final choice yeah I mean just you just want to clarify that that in case Jake's picks lose it was not your pick no it, I don't care. It doesn't matter to me.
I'm trying to win money. This game, I like this pick, the under.
I feel like this game is going to be close just because they know each other. The Ravens sat everyone last week.
I don't think the Ravens can score, and I think the Ravens defense, especially now that the Bengals offensive line is missing Kappa and Lael Collins. I'm worried about the Bengals.
I'm worried about the Bengals. I think they win this game, but I'm still worried about them because I think we said it on Monday.
It feels like they're going to just go bet. They did all the right things to build up an offensive line for Joe Burrow.
And now they're sitting here going into the playoffs basically in the same spot where Joe Burrow's going to just have to be a hero, which he can be, and he is most of the time, but that also doesn't mean that he's going to be able to light up the scoreboard against a really good defense. If you want to point fingers at the NFL being rigged against Cincinnati, this is probably their most legitimate complaint that they could have, was they were kind of forced to to play their starters last week to a certain extent so that they could guarantee themselves that home playoff game which they're getting the fact that they played their starters they got some of them hurt last week that's kind of fucked up that feel bad for Bengals fans for that yeah that part I always agreed with having to play for the coin flip was stupid um, I mean, Alex Kappa getting hurt.
He is officially definitely out, right? I heard that he was, yeah. He got carted off.
I know that his football guys are tough, but it feels like getting carted. I heard that he was.
It might be like hockey where they're just being very vague about it, saying lower body injury. And I know the rules are different in terms of what you have to disclose, but I think that the Bengals are going to go out of their way to not give any details that would give away any sort of the game plan.
And doesn't this feel... I think Zach Taylor's a good coach.
Is that a fair statement to make? I know John Harbaugh's a good coach. I think if you're coming off a Super Bowl, you're a good coach.
I don't know. I mean, remember the beginning of the season when they sucked and they started 4-4, and then Joe Burrow said that they had a meeting and they were like, hey, let's let Joe Burrow just do his thing, and then they became good again? That feels like it was bad coaching to not do that from the start.
Yeah, Zach Taylor should have been like, okay, I'm not going to make Joe go under center after he's coming off an injury in the Super Bowl. Let's just let him stand back and shotgun and deal the ball.
Yeah. That's kind of – it did take eight games for them to figure that out, but they figured it out eventually.
Harbaugh's a great coach. Lamar Jackson, we don't know if he's going to play, right? Last I saw, he's still very much a maybe.
Yeah, I don't think he's going to play. I thought he was out.
I don't know if he's officially been ruled out, but it feels like he's not going to play, and I don't know if it's – I mean, I assume it's still injury because Lamar Jackson feels like a competitive guy. I do – It is weird that Roquan Smith got $100 million and they still haven't paid Lamar Jackson.
I don't know how this is all going to play out, but it definitely feels like it sucks for him. He's still counting the days of how long it's been since Lamar's practice so right now it's up to 38 days which if you have a bad PCL injury again that's kind of still in line it's not crazy to think that you would miss 38 days of practice with a bad PCL but again it all just goes back to how weird this whole relationship between Lamar and the Ravens has become and it's you know what it is already it's Lamar Photoshop season.
We are knee deep in Lamar Jackson Photoshop season, just putting them on any team out there that might need a quarterback. Yeah.
And they all look good. Lamar Jackson looks good in every uniform.
Every team that says, ooh, what if we added Lamar? I'm just like instant playoffs. Yeah.
Yeah. So, yeah, Lamar Jackson is going to be either – and Tyler Huntley's hurt too.

So it might be Anthony Brown.

I got to believe that Lamar is going to play.

I would be surprised.

Really? I think he's going to do it.

Yeah, I think he's going to do it.

And if he does play, what was the amount of days?

30 days.

40 days.

40 days.

That's a lot of time not practicing.

Got to be a little rust, right?

Yeah.

I mean, the same as Lent. People give up drinking for that long every single year yeah but his body could be fresh his body could be fresh you're right or it could be a knee injury that he struggled to get back from or he's just got the healthiest PCL in the world at that point might be a chestnut checkers play that would be bad for your under yeah it'd be very bad if he played for jake's under yeah or would his pcl be be too healthy then there's the flip side of that coin yeah by the way you guys are minus 13 is the number yes yeah we know that's what i said yeah i said it yeah i just like saying it's oh okay that's what i've been all season yeah uh uh a bit uh pft what do we want to do for our next pick?

We got some good ones we like.

We got some good ones.

I don't.

Let's go with the second one in the last text that I sent you.

Do you like that?

Yeah.

Say it.

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The Giants plus three.

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beast baby it's the beast weekend yeah i i mean we've talked at length about the vikings i just i don't know i don't think their defense is good i think kirk cousins is is had a very good year i'm just i think their defense is going to fail them and brian dable and we're going to talk about it with with booger the wink martin martingale you know playing you know his defensive scheme is going to fluster Kirk Cousins. If this game was at noon, I'd say the Vikings win by two scores.
With a 4.30, 3.30, give me the Giants plus three. And you know how those winners in Minnesota get, Big Cat.
Sun goes down early up there in the wintertime. So it's going to feel like a 7.30 game.
It is. It's going to feel like a night game.
He's going to be like, fuck, what's going on? The second half starts, and it's a primetime game all of a sudden. I do think that we gave out a bunch of different Coach of the Year votes.
I think we had like 12 or 13 coaches receiving our vote for Coach of the Year this year. Yep.
I think that the winner of this game should be the Coach of the Year of the Year. Ooh.
Okay down to i'm down to put that out there these are probably two of the of the favorites to win the award this year right yeah connell and and brian dable and i know that a couple weeks ago wink martindale said uh kevin o'connell's like the harry styles of coaching and i'm more of the blue collar guy out there uh i didn't like that quote from wink because one one, a true blue collar guy would not know who Harry Styles is to make that reference. And then two blue collar guys don't call themselves blue collar guys.
That's true. Blue collar guys just are, they just exist as blue collar guys.
I have a stat too, to back this up a wild card hosts that missed the playoffs last year are 12 and 28 against the spread so it's essentially the the thought behind it is if you are miss the playoffs you're a bad team and then all of a sudden you're hosting a playoff game maybe you're not that good maybe you just had you know a season that the ball bounced your way and uh it's not sustainable yeah yeah i mean that's i think that's a pretty telling stat, actually. Like the fact that we're betting so heavily on the Giants this weekend, I think we are, to a certain extent, rooting for our own take.
Yeah. This will be complete validation, right? Like if the Giants win this game, then the victory lap that we will take will last for the entire Monday episode of part of my take.
I think we have two opportunities to do a victory lap on the Vikings. This would be the ultimate victory lap if the Giants beat them.
And then if they lose by double digits the following week, then we can take the victory lap. And if they get to the NFC Championship game, we're officially on, oh, fuck, we were wrong.
We might have to get a tattoo. Yes.
Yeah. And if they get to the Super Bowl, what's our tattoo again? It's just saying we were wrong.
And then if they win it, we get Kirk Cousins.

I think if they win it, we have to get –

I think we said Kirk Cousins' face tattooed on our ass.

Yeah.

And if they just make it, just we were wrong about Kirk Cousins tattooed on our ass.

Yeah.

Okay.

All right.

I'm in for both.

All right.

Your guys pick.

I slash we slash us.

We're going to go with Giants-Vikings over 48.

Struggling defense.

Last time they played, there was 52 points.

I'm just looking at all these final scores from the Vikings games,

and there's a lot of shootouts.

There are a lot of shootouts.

And it is indoors.

It is indoors.

No factor there.

Daniel Jones lighting it up.

Saquon Barkley, fresh legs.

Yeah.

Ooh.

You like it? Playoff speed. You feel good about this, Hank? I do.
Yeah? I do. You feel really good about it? I also love the Vikings.
Yeah, I know you do. You're a Vikings fan.
It's cool. It's cool.
Is there any, there's no, I'm trying to check it out right now. Is there a world where it's a Vikings-Cowboys-NFC championship? They would, yes.
Yeah, three versus four. Yeah, easily.
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I actually think I'm low-key. You're just rooting against everything that we have.
That's why you're a troll. No.
Perfect scenario, because I, again, I've said it many times. I enjoy the pageantry.
I enjoy passionate sports fans. Best case scenario for Phoenix is Bills-Eagles.
Oh, that would be incredible. Actually, but imagine the storylines if it was Bills-Cowboys.
Cowboys being the Eagles would be unbelievable. Yeah, Bill's Eagles.
Oh, that would be incredible. Actually, but imagine the storylines if it was Cowboys being the Eagles would be unbelievable.
Bill's Cowboys or Bill's Niners in Arizona. But like the fans.
Like revenge for the Bills. Are Ed and Alicia still coming? Or is that just last? Yeah, we can figure out a way to get them there.
Bill's Niners would be the Schwam pick that he picked every year. That's true.
Yeah. That would be fun as well.

I'll tell you what.

If it's Cowboys against Vikings in the NFC Championship game, we should actually build a small little bridge that Hank has to do,

part of my take from underneath, because this troll game will have accomplished so much.

Hank actually might be the biggest Dallas Cowboys fan in the media, like the most out of the closet openly dallas cowboys fan that there is yeah because all the other ones have like gone back into their little caves and everyone's like embarrassed about being a cowboys fan now hank you're really carrying the torch for him i i put out a tweet just saying i think i'm gonna put a future on the cowboys i don't think i've ever gotten more hate and like you're an idiot a lot. I get that a lot.
And this was overwhelming. So you got to do it? And now, yes, which then just inspires me to do it more.
Okay. Okay, well, let's go to our third pick.
Let's go to our third pick. I still can't.
Yeah. My inner troll can't get over my love and appreciation for everything Tom Brady's done for me.
Well, you had a chance to do it, but we'll do it. Our third pick will be Bucs plus two and a half.
So Bucs plus two and a half. I'm going to give this stat to Booger, but I'll say it right now.
The Cowboys are one and four this season on natural grass. The one win coming against the Titans when they weren't playing anyone.
I just, I'm just, it's like a don't overthink it. It's Tom Brady versus Dak Prescott.
It's Tom Brady versus Dak Prescott. I've said this before, but when you have moments like this, there's, you can make a bet, and if you're wrong, you can live with it because you're like, all right, I trusted Tom Brady, the greatest quarterback of all time, to beat Dak Prescott.
But if you're wrong the other way, if you bet the Cowboys, like Hank is going to do, he's going to unload on it, and you're wrong then, and you say, I bet Dak Prescott versus Tom Brady in a playoff game, you feel like the biggest idiot of all time. Correct.
For the record, I'm going to unload on the future. No, no, no.
And just hope for them. I'm going to bet a little bit on them to beat the Bucs, but then once they beat the Bucs, then your back on tom brady no that's fine yeah that's not true i probably read that fan fiction from florio this morning that said he was going to be a dolphin next year yeah and hank's like he's dead to me that's fine i still love tom brady my my support for tom brady has never waved and here's a little fun stat um he's won seven superbowls hank dac prescott has won zero Super Bowls and you're betting on Dak Prescott.
I just think the Bucs have been so bad all year. Oh, I have a fun fact for that.
Okay. Okay.
Teams 500 or below are 8-1 against the spread in the playoffs. The Bucs are 8-9.
They are below .500. You remember, obviously, the famous one, the Beast Quake with Marshawn Lynch.
That team was under .500. The Panthers in 2014, they were under .500.
They won in the first round. So, yeah, I feel good about the Bucs maybe getting a little healthy and beating the Cowboys.
He covered the spread against Tom Brady when the Washington football team at the time was under .500. Hank, Sam Howell just lit up the Dallas Cowboys defense.
What do you think Tom Brady's going to do? I think they were just getting ready for the playoffs. I don't think that was their full A-game effort.
But they were playing for the one seed. Yeah, but they had scoreboards.
They were watching. They were watching the scoreboards.
The Eagles game was never in doubt. The 49ers game was never in doubt.
Oh, because I actually brought that point up on Friday. I was like, do you think if they look at the scoreboard, they're not going to try as hard? And you're like, no.
Yeah, but then I thought no, and then you kind of accepted that into my brain. I was like, yeah, Big Cat's always right, and once again, you were.
But also, they came out shitty before the Eagles and the Niners game really had kicked off. Listen, I don't know what you want me to say.
All you're trying to do is pick logic, and I'm just a cowboy. I'm cowboys.
Let's go, boys. Let's go, boys.
You know what? You're being a cowboy. Yeah.
That's what you're doing. You're being a maverick.
You're just going. Hank is the living embodiment of that drill tweet, like, keep screaming at me.
It just makes my opinions worse. Yeah.
The more we attack him, the more he's going to keep doubling and tripling down on Dallas. Yeah.
On a steel horse you ride. The only issue is that the only other time I did this issue was with the Vikings, and things fell apart very quickly after that.
Yeah. That's my only concern.
Yeah. Okay.
Well, Cowboys fans, I'm sure Hank will lead you to the promised land. What were you going to say, memes? Tom Brady's won the Super Bowl every other year since 2013.
Holy shit. That's a crazy stat.
That's insane. Wow.
Wait. Are you sure? No, that can't be right.
They won in 2014? No, because the Eagles and Chiefs won back-to-back. It was Eagles-Chiefs.
No, it was the Eagles-Patriots. They lost to the Eagles, and then they beat the Rams.
Oh, yeah, that's right. That's right.
They beat the Rams. Then it was Chiefs.
Then it was... Crazy stat, memes.
It was like the Giants with their even-year bullshit that they were doing except his is stretched out for an entire decade. That's crazy.
Yeah. I mean, I'll read the fun stat that I sent to the group text the other day, which I think is more important.
This is where it's like, it's not troll, it's just facts. The Cowboys win-loss pattern.
They've lost a game, won four in a row. Lost a game, won two in a row.
Lost a game, won four in a row. Lost a game, won two in a row.
They just lost to the Commanders, which if you follow patterns, if you're a math guy, if you believe in analytics, that would imply that they're going to win four in a row, which would make them Super Bowl champions and you guys owners of cats. Yes.
I like memes is pattern better. Win a Super Bowl, not win.
Win a Super Bowl, not win. There's a bigger body of evidence out there for that than there is for your little.
I also think that the not even trolling the like stat of them losing to Brady. I don't you guys kind of brought it up with, you up with the 49ers losing to the Colts or the Chiefs losing to the Colts, like the weird beginning of the season stuff.
The first game of the year doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.
It's not relevant to this game. No, I didn't say it mattered.
No, I know. But other people are bringing that up like, oh, Tom Brady's never lost to the Cowboys.
It's like those were different teams. That's his whole career.
I know, but he was on the greatest franchise, greatest teams of all time, and then the Bucs were really good for a couple years, and then the beginning of this year. The first game of the year is not relevant to the playoffs.
Okay. That's my point.
I'd agree with that. People will say that.
They'll show it on the broadcast and stuff. Irrelevant.
Yeah. But you have to admit, fact or fiction is a fun stat that he's never lost to the Cowboys.
Yeah. That's a fun fact.
I love Tom. Okay.
Yeah, so much so that you're betting against him and then putting a future on the team that he's playing. Coincidentally, I have a reminder on my phone today.
What is it? Don't let Big Cat bet on the Bucs in the playoffs. Too late.
I'll defend myself here. I feel like I've actually been pretty good.
I handed Hank the Bucs disease. The first half of the season, I lost basically every bet on the Bucs, and then I kind of figured them out a little bit.
I was on them. I was against them.
I won both ways. Hank has been the one that has taken my disease and lost a lot betting for or against the bucks factor fiction fact fact uh also to be fair big cat was only betting on the bucks so that he could yell at steven chay yeah for having them be a bad team oh and i will use they've gotten good he doesn't bet on them anymore because it's not any fun to tell steven chay that he's got a good team and it does make me a little worried that the bucks have only beaten two teams above 500 but let's but let's just pretend that doesn't exist.
Also, I have two reminders to not let you bet on Ryan Tannehill in the playoffs. We don't have to worry about that.
Also, last reminder, I have PFT. Don't believe in Kirk Cousins.
Don't believe his lies. All right, so we're good.
Those are all the wildcard weekend reminders. All right, so we're one for one on those, on following our past self.
All right, Jake. One for two.
Well, no, we're not betting on Ryan Tannehill. And we're betting against Kirk Cousins.
And you are betting on Tom Brady. So we followed two of them.
One for two. Oh, one for three.
Two for three. Two for three.
It's that guy. Yeah.
Okay. Jake, your pick.
This next one I'm going to keep with the total trend. I'm going to slash we are going to go with Seahawks Niners under 42.5.
These divisional games, I feel like they know each other so well, like you mentioned. Yeah, both times they've played this year, it's been low-scoring games, 21-13, 27-7.
I think the Niners just used McCaffrey. Seahawks, obviously not a lot of people wanted them in um so yeah i think it's going to be like a 26 13 kind of game oh okay little rain too we'll see brock purdy in the playoffs i i am ready uh so i mentioned it with booger it's coming up but brock purdy has started his career five games, five wins, and multiple touchdowns in each win.
And the only other one who did that was Kurt Warner did four games, four wins, multiple touchdowns. I think I might just be like Brock Purdy is the next Kurt Warner.
I might just roll with that. Oh, I love Brock Purdy.
I don't know what happened with him in college, but it might be like he can't fly a spaceship on the highway. You know? Like Brock Purdy might just be built for the NFL.
That's true. That's a fact.
Also, Kurt Warner's first playoff game, so this would be obviously Brock Purdy's, he was 27 for 33, five touchdowns and one interception. So I'm expecting the exact same stat line for Brock Purdy this weekend.
So the concern I would have with the Niners, and I do fully believe in the Niners. I've got a big future on them.
I've got them in the NFC, and then I put a big future on the Chargers and the AFC, which is dumb as shit. But I believe in the 49ers.
I'm a little bit concerned with this game, because Pete Carroll has, like, all the motivation that a coach could ever have going to this game. The fact that, like Jake said, nobody wants them there.
Everybody was rooting against them in Week 18. And he gave an interview a couple days ago with ESPN Radio and basically just spent the entire time talking about how great the 49ers were and how unstoppable they were and how well coached they are.
He's 10 and four against Kyle Shanahan all time though. Yeah.
Yeah. So now they did lose twice them this year, but in terms of just like the longevity of their careers, Pete Carroll is not going to be afraid of the 49ers.
He's going to have a decent game plan. Gino Smith might pull out one last thing of bullshit.
I think it's unlikely, but I would be more inclined to bet the Seahawks against the spread. Yeah, and it's hard to beat a team three times.
That's just not true. I know we always say it, but teams going for the sweep are 20 and 14.
So it happens more often than not that the team does win three times and doesn't have the third time go the other way. But it is a fun thing to say.
Yeah, it's a fun thing to say. It's a fun thing to say.
All right, PFT, should we go with our other under? Yes. Okay, so we'll take Bucs-Cowboys under 45 and a half.
So 46. Like it even more.
I think this game is going to be tight. I think the Bucs, you know, their offense hasn't been fantastic.
Their defense is good. I like this under.
I do. The emergence of playoff Lenny.
Yeah. Playoff Lenny ready to go.
I saw a clip the other day that was very funny. Lenny tried to bet Tom Brady $10,000 in a 100-yard sprint, and Tom Brady got to start at the 50-yard line, and Tom Brady didn't take it because he was like, I'll lose.
So that would just be a very funny race to watch. I think Tom could do it.
I do too. 50 yards is a lot.
That's a huge head start. And playoff Lenny, he's putting on a few pounds.
Remember that. For the playoffs.
I'm still thinking this entire season, even though Vernette has been very much in shape, I just can't get those first couple pictures out of training camp out of my mind. And it happens every year when one running back shows up fat.
My prediction for next year, I think Ezekiel Elliott is going to be the fat running back next year. Ooh.
Yeah, I mean, he's definitely been flirting with it for a while now. He's got the fat face.
Yeah, he does. So even when he's not fat, you assume that he's chunky.
But then he does his shirt, then he's got six-pack. I just think he's going to get fat fat next year.
Jake, your next pick. So we're at four.
We're on four now. Yes, this is bottom of the fourth.
Bottom of the fourth. Bottom of the fourth inning.
Game's almost official. That was a really stupid joke.
That's all right. Dolphins Bills over 43 and a half.
Skylar Thompson. I don't want to say it, but I'm going to say it.
The Bills might score that on their own. So if the Dolphins can just put together two touchdowns, I'm feeling really good about this one.

I don't hate this.

And if they don't score two touchdowns, the Bills could score 35, 40 points.

My initial reaction on this game was to take the over,

and then as I was working out of my head, I was only taking the over because I thought that the Bills might score 45.

So then I was like, why don't I just bet on the Bills then?

Yeah, I went through the same exact process. We're still very dumb.
We doing this for 7 years and we're still that dumb alright our next pick do you want to do Saturday night PFT you want to go there I'll let you make the call on this one alright let's do it the San Diego Superchargers minus 2.5 Saturday night against don't really have any. You've been all over the place with this game.
Yeah, no. Well, I've been consistent in that Jerry is upset at the Jaguars because they've stolen his it-was-always moniker.
But I actually just don't even know in this game. We're at the fifth pick.
It flip i do i i i'm kind of falling back in love with the chargers so i really can't explain it other than that i'm i'm fully back in love with the chargers and i think that this is going to be uh the playoff game where staley does not pull any of his bullshit who i feel like staley is going to get he's it's going to be weird for Staley because he's going to get so normal with this game. It's going to be like a bizarrely normal game plan for the Chargers.
That's just a gut feeling that I have that I'm sure he'll prove me wrong about when he goes forward on like fourth and 20 from his own 15-yard line in the second quarter. But I just get the feeling like the Chargers are way more talented right now than the Jaguars are, and I think if you just make a basic game plan out of it, they should be able to win.
Yeah, yeah, I'd agree. I'm just excited to watch this game in Jacksonville.
I hope they bring out even someone cooler than the American flag guitar guy. Just go full Duval on our ass.
Happy for the Jags to get a home playoff game. This would go again to the uh wild card hosts that missed the playoff the year before our 12 and 28 against the spread that would be the jaguars as well miss the playoffs and they're playing here we also have some some first time starters all across you know i mean like there's a lot of quarterbacks making their first playoff start and we have it head-to- here with Herbert and Lawrence.
So it's going to be a fun game. I'm going to say it right now.
This might be the most fun game of the weekend. Yeah, it's definitely going to be refreshing on the eyes to watch.
Yeah. Those two uniforms and that really moist green field in Jacksonville and the whole thing they've got going on in that stadium, it's just going to be pleasant to watch.
Yeah, I'd agree. Okay, Jake, we're going to stay in Jacksonville and go with charges.
Jags under 47 and a half. I think the Jags defense has been solid, but I also think big playoff game.
They might come out a little tight offensively. Trevor Warren's Mrs.
Throes like it's his job.. That Titans-Jaguars game is going to be sticking in your head forever.
He missed three wide-open touchdowns. They got bailed out by the defense.
The reason they won that game had nothing to do with Trevor Lawrence. Is it because you took the Titans' money line? No.
Oh. I had him plus six and a half.
Oh, you didn't take the money line? No. Oh, okay.
So, yeah. You won because of Trevor Lawrence.
I know. But I just...
That was a playoff game. That was a playoff game.
There was two. There was two wide-open touchdowns that he missed in a playoff game, playoff atmosphere, home game.
It's the same exact thing. So, I mean, maybe he'll correct his errors, but, yeah, that was alarming.
And let's not forget the national championship that we were at. Yeah, which we were too drunk to even realize how bad he was.
But he was really bad. He did the same things.
I remember after leaving that Clemson LSU game the next day, everyone was just talking about how Trevor Lawrence was so bad. And in my head, I was like, I just remember LSU being so good.
I don't even remember Trevor Lawrence on the field because I was that drunk. Yeah, I just remember the Joe Burrow throws.
Yeah, right. I had no idea that Trevor Lawrence was that bad because we were fucking wasted in the Superdome.

Well, because the next day we tried to talk to Joe Burrow about the game and we were just like, you were awesome.

Yeah.

I was so sick when you threw those.

Talk about how awesome it was being awesome.

Those touchdown passes were fucking, those ruled.

So Max just sent the group chat stat about Mike Williams, how much better the Chargers are when Mike Williams is playing versus when he's not. The stat is that with Mike Williams, the Chargers are 8-2.
Without Mike Williams, they are 2-4. But I think Mike Williams is playing.
I think so too. It was a back spasm, which those suck, as I think me, you, Big Cat, Hank, we've all had back spasms.
They're bad, but if you get outside of them like a few days afterwards, it's not like a lingering thing necessarily unless you re-injure it. So he should be able to play, right? Is he playing? This is going to suck so bad if we look it up and it's like, nope, he's not playing.
We need to find that. We need to find that.
I'm pretty sure he's playing. Keenan Allen said Mike Williamss is getting better every day and i think his mindset is to play okay all right so that means he's not playing but we're gonna have to wait till right before kickoff to learn that he's not playing the best that you can hope for with the chargers is that he's gonna be healthy for three quarters and they'll build a big enough lead that they'll be able to win this game and then they'll have some debilitating injury that will sink them next week.

Yeah, that's true.

That's a good point.

Okay, our next pick.

So sixth pick, PFT.

What are we thinking?

I'm looking at this list right here.

What are we thinking?

We've taken a lot of the things we like.

Yes, they have. Do you want to just go head-to-head with them on this game? Sure.
All right. I said it was going to maybe be the most fun game.
We're taking the over in this game. I like it.
47 and a half. Mike Williams is playing.
Yep. We just made a double bet on a guy who's just always injured playing.
But he's going to be fine, Big Cat, at the start of the game. Here's all you have to do.
Here's all you have to do with the Chargers. Herbert.
You just say names. Herbert.
Yeah. Bosa.
Bosa. Boom.
Khalil Mack. Yeah.
Keenan Allen. Austin Eckler.
Austin Eckler. Yeah.
Boom. Derwin James.
Boom. Asante Samuel Jr., who I don't think is that good, but I said his name.
J.C. Jackson, who I think is injured.
Yeah. And wasn't good before he got injured.
Rashawn Slater, who is injured, but he's back in practice, but he's not going to play. Joe Gaziano.
Joe Gaziano. There we go.
Dicker the kicker. Dicker the kicker.
Brandon Staley. Everett.
I think that's the name of their tight end. Everett.
Bolt man. Boom.
This is easy. Yeah.
We just fucked you guys up. If you did a guy off of the week like we used to do when we were just comparing teams, whoever had the most guys wins, this would be the most lopsided guy off of the week for sure yes i'd agree and it's also uh yeah this is gonna be like a record scratch moment if we just go fast forward into us eating hot dogs while jake is bowling like how do you think we got here well we thought mike williams is gonna play when he definitely wasn't yeah yeah so line in the sand all right sixth we'll counter your head-to-head with a head-to-head of our own and go with Duval.
Oh, so it's... Damn.
Loaded up on this game. Two and a half.
This game could decide everything. Fuck.
Or we could split and it could be nothing. Oh, yeah, Jake.
I'll just do it. God damn it.
Yeah. Yes, that's true.
It could split. This game will be very fun now.
I'm very excited. Chaps, I think, is coming in town.
Yep. Yeah.
I heard we'll actually have a stream. This is credit to Barstool Sports.
People are like, you guys don't like sports. I thought it was Barstool Sports.
We're going to not only have two Jaguars fans, but also a Chargers fan in attendance. What other stream has that? I don't think any other company in America can find two Jaguars fans and a Chargers fan in the same company.
It's very rare. It's like the most elite Pokemon of the sports world.
That's Fanagami. Yeah.
No one's ever done that. Yeah, you won't find a house-divided license plate saying Chargers and Jaguars.
Right, exactly got that we got that okay our last pick pft i'll let you i'll let you go with anything on our list and i'll ride anything on the list anything you want on the list um what about the last one that i sent you let's see we can go with anything on the list okay i don't love it but let's fucking ride it's divisional opponents that makes me love it even more the fact that you don't love Okay. I don't love it, but let's fucking ride.
It's divisional opponents. That makes me love it even more, the fact that you don't love it, because I don't love it either.
Yeah. All right.
So we're doing Seahawks plus 9.5. Seahawks plus 9.5.
These two teams know each other very well. Yeah, it's tough to beat a team three times in a season.
Everyone says that, and there's no stats contrary. Well, Pete Carroll's been here before.
Yeah. And, you know, ball control, Kenneth Walker.
The 49ers notoriously have maybe the best run defense in the NFL, but ball control, Kenneth Walker. Ball control.
Well, that just means that he'll be averaging exactly 3.3 yards per carry. Yep.
So eat up the clock. Yeah, get first downs.
Move the chains. That's the game plan for the Seahawks.
And Brock Purdy. He's not that good.
No, he's never. You remember how bad he was in college, Big Cat? Yeah.
People are comparing him to Kurt Warner like, dude, give me a break. He's played like five games.
That's crazy. I love this pick.
I love this pick. All right, Jake, your last one.
All right.

The Giants are the sexiest upset picks,

so we're going to go with the Vikings.

There we go.

Yep.

Minus three.

I don't hate your picks.

Everyone loves the Giants.

Yeah.

I don't hate your picks, Jake.

We have five totals and two spreads.

You guys have five spreads and two totals.

And what do we have, two head-to-heads?

Yeah, let's ride.

Yeah.

Let's fucking do this. So should we think of a tiebreaker scenario um should we do like no we'll flip a coin okay i was like a hansen thing total points in the no no we'll flip a coin all right let's let's go with the ravens bangles we'll flip a coin live on air and that will decide it uh billy is you're you're going to be rooting with us very hard.
I am rooting so hard against Jake.

Billy tried to tell the woman who books our travel,

he's like, you need to look into the Chiefs weekend already.

She's like, is this true?

I was like, no.

We're ordering the costumes already.

I also want Jake to wear a name plate that says,

I am Chiefsaholic.

Oh, yeah. Just so if there's any belief that this guy isn't a felon bank robber, we get it very clear.
I am Chiefsaholic. I will say one thing.
I'm going to have to put my glasses on over it. I might give it away.
That'll be such a funny look. I won't be able to see.
You're going to be like, Arthur. Yeah.
That's the only thing. I might give it away.
Yeah. Because I won't be able to see the game.
Okay. Well, let's do our interview with Booger and talk some more football.
Just fucking excited about football. Ready to go with football.
What do you got, Billy? He's going to look like Little Red Riding Hood, the wolf that dresses up. Yes.
Yes. Yes.
And you're wearing it on the plane, too. My jig.
What big glasses you have? Yeah. It's going to be great.
Imagine getting to go to a Chiefs playoff game. Can we just do it anyway? No.
No. No.
Well, yeah, but then we have to change the bet on our side because if Jake's going to just do it anyway, that's not a punishment. If Jake wins, can memes go in the wolf costume? Well, think about it.
Okay. Philly just really wants to go.
Yeah. He wants to go and drink some Coors Light and hang out at Arrowhead.
It's funny to think that of any given punishment that we could give to either Billy or Jake, they would never agree that one thing was a punishment and one thing was a reward. It would always be the complete flip side.
Yeah, and next week, by the way, for anyone who wants to participate, PFT and I will be participating. We're going to do a pick-off to see who gets to tweet the Ray Allen tweet.
So anyone who wants to be part of that, Hank, we'd be part of that? Okay. Billy, would you like to be part of that? Yeah.
Okay, so we'll be doing that. That will be – it's the right to get to tweet that.
Yes. What if like uh group chats across america also got involved in that bet and then so many people tweeted out the ray allen tweet that uh switching back and forth dick to my tongue started to trend on twitter it became the bo nicks this is his year yeah yeah he's a dark horse for the heisman we can only hope that would be incredible uh okay let's do let's do Booger.
Let's do a quick add-in. Then we'll get to Booger, and then we'll finish up with Firefest.
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Okay, we now welcome on one of our favorite recurring guests, the man, the myth, the legend. It is Booger McFarland.
He's been working hard, just finished college football season, been doing NFL. Boog, great to talk to you.
I wanted to at least mention, because we haven't talked to you in a few, maybe in a month or so, everyone was talking about Damar Hamlin, you being on the desk with Susie Colbert and Adam Schefter, praising you and how you handled it. I thought you handled it terribly.
I thought you were awful that night. So, no, but seriously, it was crazy to watch it.
And obviously, we know you personally and see what you were going through. We haven't talked since then, so I want to say you navigated us through a very bad time.
Were a lot of people reaching out after that, I would assume? Yeah, a lot of people reached out, man, and it's kind of weird. I didn't expect praise and adoration for just being a human and trying to show empathy and tell how I feel.

I think people ask me, like, how did you get through that?

Like, you know, if you look at some of the instances that I've been in while I've been on air, I was actually on air during the Pro Bowl when Kobe, you know, the Kobe helicopter crash got announced.

I was on the air with Mike Greenberg on Mike and Mike when Aaron Hernandez hung itself that morning. So I've been on the air in a couple of really bad situations where I've had to react.
And oftentimes for me, man, what's worked best is just a don't speculate, be honest and just try to show a little bit of human empathy toward whatever situation there is, man. Like, it feels kind of weird when people say, hey, man, great job, because I feel like we all have the capability of just being a human.
Like, show some decency, show some respect. You know, try not to be a butthole in that situation, which is what I tried to do.
Yeah, I think that's just good advice in general. Try not to be a butthole.
There was a tweet that was going around the night of, as this was happening, where it was a guy talking about watching football with his wife that night, and his wife was like, who's that man on the television that's being so thoughtful and kind of like navigating us through this really hard time? And the guy was like, that man's name is Booger it's perfect but yeah you yeah i mean yeah you were you were great that night i know what you're saying like you were just doing being yourself but uh i i at least need to say it so let's let's talk some let's talk some playoff football uh kind of a weird wild card weekend because there's three games that are big time spreads and uh some newcomers in the quarterback situation. Let's start with this.
What's the game that you're most excited to watch? What's the matchup you're most like, hey, I can't wait to sit down and watch this game? It's right here in my hometown, man. It's the Cowboys at the Buccaneers because there's so many storylines.
Obviously, Tom Brady and the Bucs, two years removed from winning a Super Bowl championship. Jerry Jones is about 30 years removed from winning one, and he wants one desperately.
You got Dak Prescott. Can Dak live up to the $40 million contract? Can he get improved in the playoffs? You got the Mike McCarthy situation.
Can he be a coach that wins 12 games two years in a row and then get fired? There's that out there, especially with Sean Payton starting to take interviews

and he's looming and all that.

So many storylines with this game, man,

because I honestly don't know which team is going to win.

Both teams are playing terrible right now.

I guess if you were to look at the holistic approach and say,

okay, who's played the best, the longest, it would be the Cowboys. But, I mean, Dak Prescott's throwing the ball to the other team like they're his friends.
And so, like, you really don't know what to expect in this game. And so I can't wait to watch the NFL gave my bosses and us at ESPN a phenomenal game, and I think it's going to be must-see TV all day Monday.
First take is traveling to Tampa.

They're going to do not one show but two shows here from Tampa.

So Monday, Tampa is going to be the epicenter of the NFL world.

Mons Venus? Are they doing it for Mons Venus?

Stephen A. Smith is probably going to have a nice time in Tampa.

Well, there's a new one called Penthouse where you eat free

and you can also get a little entertained.

I love that. I love the buffets.
Booger, you've been in some situations where it's been the ultimate rest versus rust debate. Seems like we talk about it every year.
We didn't really talk about it that much this year, although a lot of teams going into week 18, it did seem like a lot of teams pulled some of their starters, take advantage of it. Where do you stand? Because you were on the Bucs when they were pretty good.
You were on the Colts when they were a very good team. So in terms of rest versus rust going into the playoffs, are you more of a rest your starters guy? Are you more of a keep the momentum going guy? Yeah, momentum is only as good as your last play.
So I'm about rest. Because here's the deal.
If I'm rested, at least I know I'm out there playing. If I'm worried about rust and I get hurt the week before, there's a chance I may not be playing.
So I'm always going to be rest, man. I think we're professionals.
Like these dudes are not 12 years old where, you know, you got to get them motivated. Like we're growing men.
Like we've been getting paid millions of dollars. So taking a week off when I've been playing football and practicing football from mid-July until January, taking a week off is not really going to do anything to hurt me, I don't feel.
People that come up with this rest versus rust debate obviously have never played because when you've played football for six and a half months, taking seven days off is probably not going to make you less impactful in the game or anything like like that so if you've been playing football for

like you know professionally for eight years you're saying taking a week off you don't forget

everything that you've learned before that not at all not only do you not forget you actually

might be a little better because there'll be a little bit of anticipation there'll be a little

bit of uh eagerness to get back out there uh as the as the old saying goes i don't know who came

up with this phrase they'll be chomping at the bit. Yes.
Okay, so fresh legs. So I have – Booger, I love when you come on because you can set us straight.
You're very honest with us. And I have a stat that I want to throw at you, and you tell me this is absolutely stupid, it's just complete luck or happenstance, there's nothing there, or ooh, there might be something there.
The Dallas Cowboys are 1-4 when they're playing on natural grass this year. Their one win was against the Tennessee Titans, who were playing absolutely no one on that Thursday night game.
Is there anything behind the fact that the Dallas Cowboys defense needs that fast track to rush the passer,

and when they get on a little bit of a slower turf,

it neutralizes their speed a little bit, Micah Parsons in particular.

Is that there's something there, or Big Cat, you're a fucking idiot?

Well, first of all, you're an idiot. That's number one.

Second of all, stats are like bikinis.

They show some things, but they don't show you everything you need to see. So let's move on from that.
Now, thirdly, understand this. When I'm on turf, we all know turf is a faster surface, all right? As a defensive guy, especially if you're a smaller defense, yeah, you're going to be faster on turf.
But guess what? It's not like you're playing on turf and the offense is playing on grass. Like, both of you are playing on the same surface.
So their reaction time is going to be a little bit quicker also. I do think from a confidence standpoint, from a just emotional standpoint, just from a eagerness and aggressiveness standpoint, defensively when you're a fast defense and you're on turf, you play faster.
And that gives you a little bit more confidence. Whereas when you're on a surface, a la, I don't know, the Arizonainals or the las vegas raiders that really have domes that have terrible grass fields like you don't really get good traction so i don't necessarily believe that that stat is the end all be all but i do know that when i was on grass i feel like i was a tick faster excuse me on turf i feel like i was a tick faster right okay all right one other stat that you could tell me I'm an idiot or there's something there how when what how old were you when you retired uh 29 to get ready to turn 30.
Okay so you retired a little bit younger uh the stat is Tom Brady with the Bucs on in night games uh is 2 and 13 against the spread we've had this theory for a few years now he's 45 45 years old. It's past his bedtime.
Is that so crazy? Is that so crazy that it might be past his bedtime? Because everyone knows, whether it be your parents or an older relative or someone, if you try to call them past 8 o'clock at night, they're sleeping. Yeah.
The thing about this, we're all creatures of habit, right? Like you wake up every morning and if you don't get your coffee, namely your stellar blue coffee, you're going to be kind of cranky. Okay.
I mean, big cat's going to be cranky. You're going to start firing off a bunch of tweets.
You're going to call PFT and wake him up because he doesn't get up till 10. So we're creatures of habit.
So understand that. So Tom Brady going to bed at 830 after he's had some avocado ice cream and a couple of bowls of Brussels sprouts.
We don't kick off Monday night football until like 817, 819. By the time we get to the fourth quarter, it's almost like 1015, 1030.
So yeah, I guarantee you, your body is not used to functioning at optimal level when you're used to going to bed for 300 and I don't know, 59 days a year at 830 and all of a sudden there's a few nights a year where you got to be up. And not only do you have to be up, you got to be performing at a high level in front of millions of people.
I would, even though I'm not a stats guy, there may be something to that, Big Cat. Okay, okay, I like that.
All right, so we had one stat that worked and one stat that was debunked. Yeah, what about this stat? You said they're like bikinis.
This one might more be like a one-piece that covers up like everything. Your colleague, our friend, RG3, was pointing to the fact that in the playoffs, teams that run the ball more frequently tend to win.
Just kind of disregarding the fact that if you're winning during the game, you're probably going to run the ball more in the second half. Can you just remind him of that stat that, like, hey, yeah, if you're up by 20 points in the second half, you're probably going to hand the ball off a little bit more.
Yeah, I would definitely remind R.G. of that.
He'll be sitting to my right on Monday night. And as far as him being a running quarterback, I'll also remind him that half of the runs that were on his stat sheet uh when he played with the washington redskins at the time were probably runs by him so i'll definitely remind him of that yeah that's true yeah that's a good point uh has he had his baby yet uh you know i don't think so although there were a couple of false alarms i'm not sure kind of how to interpret those i think the internet interpreted them a couple of different ways.
I did find it kind of entertaining when he was alive on the air at the Fiesta Bowl and caught a Southwest flight at the last minute to get back to Orlando. Number one, Southwest always sells out.
So the fact that there was a last minute flight, I find that hard to believe. Two, the fact that he made it all the way back from Arizona to Orlando and the baby wasn't born, but there was a party going on.
You also can interpret that how you want to. But I do wish him and his wife, whenever the baby come, I think it's going to be another girl.
Here's the one thing I can tell you. Whenever the baby comes, the whole world will know.
There will be a nice Instagram post. There's probably going to be a video released.
Might even be a Netflix special done. Yeah, and you're just on threat level midnight, so he's just ready for it at any time.
I remember when my second child came, I was literally walking in the office to start a playoff hockey stream, had my dinner in my hand, and I got the text, and I was like, all right, well, we're not watching playoff hockey tonight. That's that.
By the way, speaking of dinner, you know, PFT and I have been discussing, like Bons of Anarchy has gotten fired back up so he's starting to you know work out lose the beer belly um i noticed that you said you didn't meet your goal of losing 30 pounds in a week so you skipped the donuts last saturday so i'm i'm i'm a little concerned yeah so talk to me about where we are how's our cholesterol how how's our how's our health has the doctor given us any advice as far as we need to lose a few, maintain?

Talk to me.

All right.

So, doctor, that's funny that you think I see a doctor.

I don't remember the last time I've been in a doctor's office.

I am.

I knew this was going to happen because I knew you were coming on.

And I'm trying to get back in shape.

I am down.

Now, there's a lot of water weight. I'll admit it.
There's a lot of water weight. On January 1st this year, I weighed 251 pounds.
I weighed myself this morning. I was 238.8.
So a lot of water weight. Whenever I'm about to diet, I do kind of like just go crazy.
Like I think I ate a whole pint of ice cream on December 31st. So a lot of water weight, but I'm starting to slim down.
I'm going in the right direction, Book. Wow.
That's impressive, number one. Let me give you just a little tip, all right, because you and I both kind of have the same regimen, I think.
I wake up in the morning, and I try to intake all my liquid before noon. This sounds kind of weird, but, like, I drink, like, a 24-ounce coffee in the morning.
I'll do my Peloton in the morning or lift weights, and then I'm, like, I'm banging out, like, five, six, seven, eight bottles of water. Yep.
All right, I'm doing all of that, and then I try to wait as long as I can to eat. So'm eating lunch around two or three and then i'll eat dinner like around seven seven thirty and then after that i'll bang a little water but that's kind of when i eat my meals and that's kind of work for me so if you don't want to be the guy that when you sit down like your belly lays over into your lap if you don't want to be the guy that sleeps with the ac on 65 and you're still sweating maybe you should start following some of these tips okay yeah and i like that i also like just the just saying bang bang a few waters it makes drinking water sound cool because like no one no one no one sounds cool when they go to a bar it's like i'll have a water but yo hey bartender let me bang a water real quick that's pretty cool as a matter, I'm going to show you the waters I just banged out.
So here's the water. Look at that.
Look at that. Damn.
He's banging the waters left and right. And there's another bottle of water.
I just got off the Peloton, as you can see. That's a graveyard.
Damn. That's not a graveyard.
It's just me. I just got off the Peloton, so I'm sitting outside cooling off,

just banged four bottles of water, and I'm talking to you guys.

Would hate to be a water in Booger McFarlane's house just any day of the week.

You just get banged out before fucking noon.

Yeah.

Gone.

No question.

No question, baby. So I got another football question.

This one I don't know how to actually kind of break down,

but I want to hear your thoughts. Brockdy I think he's good and the only one that we the only person that we have that has kind of had a similar start to their career is Kurt Warner Kurt Warner had four games in a row where he had multiple touchdowns a team won to start his career Brock Purdy is now five games in a row, multiple touchdowns, 5-0.
You guys played Kurt Warner when he was his first full year as a starter in the playoffs. You absolutely beat the shit out of him.
Three interceptions. The Rams won 11-6.
That's what the game was going. What was it when you were playing him? You saw his season.

You're like, this guy's really good, but he's still a kind of a very novice quarterback.

He hasn't been in the bright lights yet.

Did you know that there's like an edge there going up against a guy like that?

Like are the Seahawks or whoever's in the second round against the Niners knowing, hey, Brock Purdy's played great.

No knock on him.

But he hasn't really been in the shit, and we can get him in the shit, and it will fall apart? So first of all, when you're young or you haven't started a lot of football, you don't know what you don't know. And here's the thing that you try to do to a rookie quarterback or a young player.
You try to get them in a situation where they're flustered, they're nervous. Things are not normal.
Okay? Think about this. Think about if you, your father of two, you walk in your house and your wife doesn't greet you the same way.
As a matter of fact, she's actually looking the other way. Like, it's going to make you feel uncomfortable.
You're going to be like, what the hell did I do? Okay? Kids don't say hello. You're going to be like, man, is there something going on? So you're you're gonna start to feel uncomfortable mentally and then the more things do not turn to normal it's gonna bother you even more and more so take that to the football field if you can make that young quarterback feel uncomfortable where things he saw during the practice that week he's not seeing on game day where uh maybe you know maybe you hit him in the balls a couple times he hadn't been hit there? Maybe you do things just to – seriously.
I'm being as serious as I all have to. I know.
Wait, is this back to my house? Because my son is in a phase where he just rocks me in the balls like every other day. Yeah, first of all, here's what you do with your son.
Hit him back in the same area. He'll stop it, I promise you.
I'm serious. Seriously, that's what I did to my son.
He was like, ow, now you see how I feel. Yeah, that's what that's for.
Exactly. Make that young quarterback feel very uncomfortable.
And the more you do it, I don't care if it's Tom Brady, I don't care who it is, all quarterbacks don't like to get hit. And so if you hit him, and when you hit him, you twist the face mask, you pinch him on the neck, you grab him in the balls, you do something to make him think about anything except football because we're only out there three hours.
And the more you can do that, the less effective he's going to be. And I think that's what you've got to do to young players.
Now, as you get older and older, those little tricks of the trade don't work with the older players because we've been there and done that. But Brock Purdy doesn't know what he doesn't know.
Think about this. A year ago, he was in Ames, Iowa at Iowa State digging himself off from under snow, probably trying to find a co-ed that would go get some ice cream or a Shake Shack with him.
Now he's on the biggest stage, quarterbacking a team that some people think is the most talented team and has a chance to go to the Super Bowl with him in charge. I guarantee he's not sleeping good at night.
And if he says he is, I guarantee he's lying because there's a lot of pressure when you got 52 other dudes looking at you like, hey, man, you're the guy that we think can get us to where we want to go. So yeah, there's something to making that person feel uncomfortable.
Okay. I love that for three reasons.
One, because like, I appreciate the insight of you talking about hitting a quarterback and his balls. I don't think that you'd ever say that to Greeny.
I would actually love to see Greeny's face if you brought that, that insight to get up. And then secondly, the fact that you implied that like, as a quarterback gets older, he's been used to getting hit in the ball, so it won't affect him as much.
And then thirdly, there's definitely some truth to that because in the NFL, you can't hit a quarterback in his head. You can't hit him below his knees, but there's nothing that says that you can't hit him right on his dick.
And fourthly, you guys must have hit Kurt Warner in the balls like a million times in that game. Well, Kurt Warner was Kurt's a Hall of Famer.
Kurt is one of the greatest people I've ever met. But that game there, the first or second play of the game, Derrick Brooks broke Torrey Holt's rib.
He was spitting up blood. All right? So everybody in the Rams huddle knew exactly what they were in for.
And Kirk was not holding the ball. Because the one thing about Kirk, Kirk's got like 12 kids.
He wanted to go home to his kids in one piece. So Kirk was going to throw that ball really quick.
All right? So he was going to make sure he didn't hold the ball. Like, I was a rookie.
But Sap was coming. Derrick Brooks was coming.
Like, we had Hall of Famers. John Lynch hit him a couple times.
Like, it was a massacre. And guess what? The old TD Jones dome or whatever, it was turf.
So our team, we were fast. We were on turf.
Like, the heaviest guy on our team was, like, 280, 285. So we were flying around on that turf.
And really, they were known as the greatest turf but I thought that day we were the greatest show on turf and if it were not for Ricky Pro Hail Mary, Ricky Pro Hail Mary, Boog may have three Super Bowl rings instead of two. Oh, damn.
Man. Be a legend.
Yeah. By the way, you have been slamming those.
I saw you tore off a bottle cap with your teeth on one of those waters while Big Cat was asking the question. That's some hardcore shit.
Well, because I'm trying to hold the phone and at least be professional, and I was kind of getting thirsty because just to also show you. So as I'm working out, you know, most people put on like a T-shirt, some shorts or whatever.
I got this thing called a hot suit, all right? And so here's the hot suit right here. Oh, jeez.
It's basically like a garbage bag. And so you put it on.
It's a hot suit. And so, I mean, I keep it on a half hour.
So I got a pound of fluid also because as soon as I take the hot suit off, water just runs out. So be careful.
There's another key. If you want to drop a few, go on Amazon, all right? Type in hot suit.
My buddy Spice Adams sent me the hot suit because Spice was fat just like I was, and both of us were trying to lose weight. So he sent me the hot suit.
I don't use the pants because my balls don't need to sweat. I use the top, and it's only about $40, and it'll help you sweat, and's actually good for your health.
Because if you think about back in the olden days, when there was no medicine, how did people get rid of all the viruses and stuff in their body? They sweated them out. So it actually, it's pretty cool.
Yeah. Okay.
I'm going to buy a hot suit. I'm going to buy a hot suit.
But also Booger, there's a lot of people out there that are making claims, throwing aspersions at you, saying that you cheat on the Peloton and that you're actually your bike is malfunctioning because you just put up consistently ridiculous scores that make everybody else not want to ever work out again. Would you care to comment about those allegations? Well, first of all, that's not true.
I've actually had the people from Peloton come and they recalibrated my bike. And the guy said it was up to industry standards.
So I would invite anyone, including you, when you're in Tampa. As a matter of fact, why don't we do like a little competition? Because I'll be in Arizona.
Hopefully you don't have COVID anymore. And by the time we get to Arizona, let's do a little show or competition from a Peloton studio somewhere in

Arizona and we can just show the people how we do it. Oh, on a neutral playing field.
I like that

on a bike that you haven't gotten your hands on yet. Well, my hands are, you know, as long as

they have, as long as they have some cycling shorts, because I need the pad in the growing

area because like my butt hurts a couple of times while I'm sitting there. So I need the pad, Like the pad is short.
I got to have those too. Okay, we'll get Hank involved too.
Hank will come out. He's been hitting.
But no, look at these abs. Look at that.
Damn. Look at that.
That's coming at you. Awesome.
That's coming at you, bud. What's the red lines for on your stomach? That's where my stomach folds over on itself when I sit down.
It's a pretty common athlete thing. Bug, what about Vikings-Giants? I think this is actually the game that might be the most interesting game because it feels like we saw them play to a three-point game, what, two, three weeks ago, 61-yarder to by Greg Joseph.
Are you buying the Vikings? And I'm a big believer that Kirk Cousins has been great this year, but it's their defense that's going to do them in and their defenses is like, if you don't have any defense in the playoffs, it's not a matter of when it's just, or not a matter of if, it's just when. Like it's going to fail and it's going to fail bad in the playoffs yeah I think that's a good point and although defenses can't dominate like when we played or when the Ravens had a great defense like you still got to be able to stop in somebody sometimes and they can't stop anybody anytime and it's kind of weird because like Eddie Donatel who's the coordinator is a good coordinator but I don't know if the game is passed by or not.
Like, their offense is spectacular. Their defense is terrible.
And I think in the end, that's why you give the Giants a puncher's chance. Yeah.
Because if Daniel Jones plays mistake-free football, they can get the football down the field of Slayton. Saquon Barkley can have that 25 to 30 touch day where he can amass 150 to 170 yards rushing and receiving.
And we know that the wild card is Wink Martindale. Oh, Wink.
Oh, Wink Martindale that's going to come out with the tank top with the long sleeves underneath the tank top. He's still one of the best coordinators in football.
So it would not surprise me at all if the Giants beat the Vikings because I think a lot of people, even though the Vikings have a lot of resiliency and they played really well in one-score games, I think they're 11-0 or 10-0 or whatever the number is, they just don't feel like a team that with their record should be feeling because of their defense. And there's always a question, hey, which Kirk Cousins is going to show up? Is it going to be 1 o'clock Kirk or is it going to be primetime Kirk? Because 1 o'clock Kirk might be an all-pro.
Primetime Kirk, man, he will sell the farm at a diamond acre, buddy. Yeah.
We always say that the formula that the Giants used to have for beating Tom Brady was get to the quarterback with four. That was like a big football revelation, which is, yeah, if you can drop guys in the coverage and still be able to sack a quarterback, you can beat them pretty easily.
So in the playoffs, it's like, okay, which teams are going to be able to pin their ears back? Which teams rely on dialing something up to get to the quarterback? Out of all the teams out there right now, which one do you think has the best front four in terms of dudes that can just get to the quarterback? Wow. Best front four.
I like what they do in Kansas City. Chris Jones has been the best defensive tackle in football.
Frank Clark, if he's healthy. The Chargers, you know, when they can, if Bosa and Khalil Mack can roll, I like them.
I mean, the Eagles set the record, I think, this year, where they were like two sacks off. They had 70 sacks.
And they got a bunch of dudes that's got like double-digit sacks. It just depends on which Michael Parsons shows up.
Is it the Michael Parsons from the first 11 games or is it the Michael Parsons in the last four or five? Because he and Demarcus Lawrence can be a terror. Like, those would be the top ones just off the top of my head.
Jacksonville really doesn't have a bunch of dudes. Buffalo, not if Von Miller's hurt, not really.
San Francisco, yeah, I love Nick Bosa, who should be the defensive player of the year. Him and Eric Armstead.
Like if you force me to pick, I'll give you one from each conference. In the AFC, I like Kansas City, what they do.
And in the NFC, it's hard to go against the Eagles, man,

because, again, they had 70 sacks this year.

Although my favorite defensive lineman in football right now is Nick Bosa

because I think he has the best combination of size, speed, athleticism, power,

and he's about to get a boatload of money.

For the Bills, so we talked about jamar hamlin at the top uh we're you know we're not analytics guys we we usually make bets on emotions uh you didn't have to tell the audience first of all you didn't have to tell the audience that you're not an analytical guy like we all know that we're not geeks yeah you don't yeah you don't have to say that yeah we're not nerds we're not geeks uh do you we all know that. We're not geeks.
Yeah, you don't have to say that. Yeah, we're not nerds.
We're not geeks.

Do you think that there is something to be said about playing with, I don't know, an extra pep in your step, some extra vigor, like this feeling of, okay,

we went through this traumatic thing.

We're closer now.

Does that mean anything for the Bills in these playoffs?

Because we are probably going to bet the Bills every single time because we're like, well, they're winning for DeMar Hamlin. Does that continue in the locker room? So emotion will last about the first five to eight minutes of every game.
And emotion can get you to a point where when you're in a tough situation, it gives you purpose. So the Bills will have purpose.
The Bills will have emotion to start every game. Is that going to be the reason they win? No.
They're going to have to out-execute. And guys, think about this.
Remember when the Bills beat the Rams open tonight and we're like, man, nobody's beating this team. And for about like a six-week stretch, like they looked unbeatable.
Yeah. They got a lot of injuries right now.
Secondary's banged up. Von Miller's banged up.
The offensive line is not as good as we thought they were going to be. So in order for Buffalo to win and win it all, because we know that's their only goal, like Josh Allen has got to put the S on his chest.
He's got to be Superman. He's got to be unfrefreaking-believable, and their defense is good.
They

don't have to score 40 points, but they're going to have to play really flawless football offensively. But to your point, Big Cat, they have purpose, okay? It's kind of like when you get up to go to work every day.
Think about this. You know, you got two little crumb snatchers, and regardless of how bad you feel, you have purpose, okay? You have purpose that drives you in moments where there is nothing to drive you.

And so DeMar Hamlin will be good uh for the bills especially i could envision this at some point he's going to show up at the stadium on game day and that place is going to go berserk yep it's going to go it's going to go absolutely eight shit crazy now is it going to happen this week? Probably not. Save it.
You got to save it. Yeah.
If he says, no, if DeMar Hamlin says, hey, because he was cleared from the hospital, and he's like, hey, should I be there on Sunday? No. I say, if I'm Sean McDermott, I'm like, no, no, no, no.
Bengals next week. Yeah, we got Skylar Thompson this week.
I think we can handle Skylar without you.

And then next week, the Bengals go up there

and guess what? Pre-game, they have

the trainers that saved his life

and they throw him through a

table at the 50-yard line

before the game starts.

They're probably not going to do that, but

it would be really cool.

It would be really cool. To your point, they don't need

DeMar and the Emotion to beat the Bengals. I think you and Big Cat could beat Scarlett Thompson.
But next week, I can see a situation where he's got the flag, the American flag. He's in the tunnel.
He runs out, and the seams absolutely bust loose on that place. Yes.
The problem is, like, everybody would cry. That would be an issue.
Like, they might not be able to return that opening kickoff for a touchdown because the emotions would be almost too high. You'd go back the other way.
Yeah, and Bengals fans would probably say that's an unfair advantage. They'd be like, that's not right.
They were kind of ticked off at that. They are.
It's funny. Seeing a player almost pass away was it was very hard on everybody um and everybody that was watching i think had a moment of humanity where we realized kind of what the stakes are sometimes it put us in a great perspective of you know there are things out there that are bigger than sports and that lasted about 26 hours and then everybody got back to the old like the nfl's rigged against the bangles roger goodell hates us yeah yeah exactly for it's amazing and this is why i love sports because for about a 24-hour stretch nobody cared about politics nobody cared about race nobody cared about the stock market all everybody was concerned about was the our favorite sport were we going have somebody down the field and I think everybody was afraid of that because of the ramifications obviously with him and his family and then the all the ancillary uh things that would come from that I think we all were afraid and we all were like praying and everybody was you know calling each other and then as soon as we found out he was going to be OK, everybody was back to normal, complaining about everything they could on Twitter.

Yeah. Yeah.
It's very true.

Booger, every time we have you on, we talk a little bit about Boomer and your work with Boomer.

I think he's out in Hawaii right now. Is he doing any recaps for the playoff games?

So Boomer actually, he's back now. He went to Hawaii to play in the Pro-Am last week.
He took a flight Monday morning, flew to Hawaii, played in the Pro-Am, flew back to L.A. and then back to Connecticut to do the show with me last Sunday night.
And he played with Tony Finau. And all he would say is, I gave Tony a couple of tips.
And he just kind of left it at that. So Tony Finau didn't win, but Boomer gave him a couple of tips.
Okay, I'm going to bet on Tony Finau next tournament then. But I was wondering if you could put this in his ear.
If he's doing the playoff recaps, the Niners go out there, they light it up, tell Boomer, hey, say, I want to rock and roll all night and purdy every day. It's right there.
Rock and roll all night and purdy every day. Yeah, like the Kiss song.
Yes, I love that one. Brock and roll all night and purdy every day.
Yeah, just tell, when he dropped a Jalen Hurts so good a couple years ago and that honestly made our year. Or, yeah, and if you want to get really spicy, just be like, hey, Boomer, if the Niners really put it on the Seahawks, be like, hey, the Niners rocked out with a Brock out.
That's a little... That one's not as good as the first one.
Yeah, yeah. No, I know.
It's riskier. But, you know, see, you just feel it out.
Feel it out. It's good.
It's good. No, I've already filled it out.
It's like I learned a long time ago, go with your first inclination. And as soon as I heard it, I was like, no.
So I'm not even going to tell him that one. Okay.
All right. All right.
I'll tell him that one next time I see him. All right.
We didn't talk about Jaguars Chargers, so let's finish with that one. Okay, alright, I'll tell him that one next time I see him.
We didn't talk about Jaguars Chargers, so let's

finish with that one.

The question I have,

the Chargers.

I know the old Bill Parcells, you are what

your record says you are. They were a good

team, not a great team this year,

but is there something to be said for

the, it feels like they've gotten

a lot of guys back, the receivers.

I saw Rashawn Slater's back in practicing. Can you have that, like, everyone's back at the right time and whatever happened in the regular season doesn't really matter because you're a completely different team now starting in the playoffs? Yeah, there's a reset button you can hit.
But, like, the regular season matters. Like, the Jaguars went out to L.A.
and beat the Chargers by 28 points. Now, that was the game after Justin Herbert had hurt his ribs.
So, I give him a pass for that one. But the other 52 guys that lined up and played that day, they got their butts kicked.
So, there is confidence that you'll get from that. That's an intriguing game because the Jaguars didn't look good against Josh Dobbs last weekend.
Trevor Lawrence seems to be ascending. Their defense is young.
Their defense is athletic. But who do you trust most, Justin Herbert or Trevor Lawrence? Right now, Justin Herbert.
Right, exactly. So I trust Justin Herbert more, even though the Jaguars are at home.

So I think you're going to see this game,

regardless of what people think about the 30-18 beatdown the Jaguars

put on them in September, I don't know what the line is,

but I'd be surprised if the Jaguars are favored in this game

and my pick would be the Chargers.

Okay.

Yeah, Chargers I think are favored by two, two and a half right now. Yep i i like the chargers i've they say like justin herbert is a social media quarterback that narrative was going around well i'm very active on social media so i guess i love justin herbert i fully bought back into the chargers bullshit this year i love it let's do it baby yeah we're charging up uh okay bug well thank you as always we will see you Super Bowl week.
Good luck on Monday night. It's a, you know, it's a, oh, oh, does Dak stink? No, Dak doesn't stink.
Dak's just going through a stretch. You know how sometimes you wake up a couple of days a week and you're like, man, I just don't feel it.
Like the coffee, even though you're drinking the same coffee out of the same cup, it doesn't taste the same.

I think Dak has had a couple of days like that.

Dak will be fine.

I'm not concerned about Dak.

I'm more concerned about the red lines on PFT's stomach than I am about Dak.

Okay.

That's fine.

The red lines are completely normal.

They're totally regular abs.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah. Okay.

It's just what you wouldn't know what an ab looks like.

Yeah.

See that?

Yeah. See, that's what I'm concerned about.

That's a six-pack, Booger.

That line is a six-pack.

And there's like a little bruise below it.

I don't know what's going on down there.

I have COVID.

Okay.

Well, that doesn't explain the bruising, but okay.

We've all got different symptoms.

Yeah.

All right.

Well, Booger, thank you as always.

We love having you on, and we will see you at Super Bowl. We've got to catch up.
Keep slamming Booger, thank you as always. We love having you on and we will see you

at Super Bowl. We gotta catch up.

Keep slamming those waters, Boog.

Anytime, man. Thanks for having me, fellas.

Okay, let's

wrap up FireFest of the Week.

By the way, just a show announcement.

There's been some people who have

been in my mentions asking for this.

We're usually a little late.

We will have our NBA preview with Ryan Russillo next week. Just in time for the All-Star.
So, NBA preview. Find another show that does their NBA preview in mid-January.
We're getting out ahead of it. Yeah.
Usually, I think we wait until after the All-Star break, usually. Yeah, and then we'll do a college basketball preview with Titus sometime in the next couple weeks as well.
We're just doing all the previews. So if you are a football fan, a football guy like us, I've been watching the Bulls, haven't been consuming much else.
Rosillo will get you ready to go so that when football starts to dwindle, we're ready for some basketball. It's ready to go.
All right, Hank. Speaking, I mean, I have multiple NBA-related Fyre related firefests oh no uh the first one is that for whatever reason my cable company in the new year just decided to turn off my league pass and i was trying to watch the celtics game last night you stopped paying for it no so this is i called i'm like hey my league pass isn't working what's going on they're like oh well you know you paid for it it should be good i'm like well i'm looking at the screen it's not good they're like you know turn off your box reset it should be good was not good haven't solved that yet still don't know what's going on talk to the people like yeah you're fine we see it on your account you should be seeing it right i'm like no so i don't tbd on that one okay second one, a week ago, I watched the Nuggets absolutely smoke the Clippers in Thursday night TNT game.

Did the classic, damn, the Nuggets are good.

The Western Conference isn't that great this year.

I'm going to bet them.

And I thought I was betting them to, at first I was going to bet them to win the championship.

And then right before I put it in, I stopped myself. I was like, eh know they might be going to sell this i don't want to do this i'm just gonna bet them to win the western conference and i accidentally and i put a big bet on that the championship bet was still in my bet slip so i actually have both now and it's like a lot of money so you have the clippers to win i had the nuggets to win the western conference and the nba championship for a lot like to the point where i was like whoa like on sunday i was like fuck i like i will i didn't mean to i didn't mean to leverage myself this much with both of these bets so now i'm just i'm i'm a nug head you're a nugget i love it i love it we're we're an official nuggets the western conference is trash the eastern conference is stacked stacked well i mean we'll get to that with Rusillo.
What are you trying to do, dude? You stepping on Rusillo here? But that was... So yeah, I'm stuck being a Nughead.
I hope they can win the Western Conference and I can just hedge out, but yeah. That's not so bad.
Who cares? It was more like I didn't have as much ammo as I wanted for real regular day-to-day bets. Yeah, for the Cowboys.
Don't worry about it. That's an investment, Hank.
You'll probably be able to take out a loan against that bet in just a couple months once the Nugs go on a little run here. Are they the one seed right now? Yeah, I think so.
We shouldn't step on Verso. We'll just say, yeah, sure.
I think they are. I'm like 70% sure that they're the one seed right now.
I'd agree with that. I feel like they...
I I think it's going to be Luca's year. Again, we're probably doing too much right now because we're going to do our NBA preview.
They are. They are the one seed.
They're tied with the Grizzlies for the one seed. Okay.
PFT, your fire fest. My fire fest is that I got COVID again.
And so I'm pretty much over it right now. I'm kicking its ass.
I'm a back-to-back two-time COVID survivor. I'm about to make it a dynasty.
This would be my third COVID survival in two years, which I believe puts my body in a dynasty against the coronavirus. So I'm feeling pretty good right now.
But I do think that COVID brain is real because two days ago, I couldn't remember who Sean McVay was. I spent about five minutes in my head because i you know you're a football guy just start thinking of different football scenarios for this offseason i was wondering what the rams were going to do for their head coach next year if their head coach doesn't return and i just sat there and i was like wait what's the name of the rams head coach and for about two two and half minutes, I just sat and then I started to sweat and panic because I'm like, holy shit.
Like we talk about this guy all the time. He's like one of the probably top 200 people whose names I say in the world, I would imagine.
And I just couldn't remember Sean McVay's name for about like two and a half minutes. I had to Google coach of the Rams.
Oh, no. This is like when I forget my password.
Yeah, I'm like, I don't know if I'm panicking about it. And that's what made me like forget it even more.
If I just calm down, I probably would have been able to remember it. But if I get anything wrong, if I said anything on today's show that I was just explicitly incorrect about, like if Brandonaley doesn't coach like a normal coach this weekend just chalk it up to COVID brain because I actually think it's I think it's a real thing I think I'm starting to forget stuff yeah okay so if we get our picks wrong then Jake still has to go to Kansas City yeah yeah only Jake only Jake we're gonna say Billy could you see his face yeah oh yeah Oh, yeah.
So I was trying to think of what his name was. So I closed my eyes and I was like, he's got the gel and the stupid beard.
Who's the short coach with the stupid beard? Always shirtless. And no, you know what I said? I was like, I think his name's Colin.
He seems like a Colin. That happens to me all the time.
He does kind of have a Colin vibe. He's got Colin vibes to him for sure, but you can understand that that would send you into a certain level of panic.
Yeah. That I'm losing part of my brain.
That happens to you, Billy? Well, I can literally remember everything about a person, what they look like, recite their stats if they're a player, but just forget their name. And just to be clear, you did get vaccinated, right? Yeah.

Oh, no.

That might be why.

Yeah.

Shit.

Ask me to name any coach in the NFL.

Just name a team.

Houston Texans.

Nobody.

They don't have anybody.

Nice.

You nailed it.

Yeah, got it.

Chicago Bears.

Eberflus.

Yep.

Wait, is it Matt Eberflus?

Yeah, you're crushing this.

Vikings. Kevin O'Connell.
KOC. Yeah.
Jets. Salah.
Salah. Robert Salah.
Okay, I'm good. No, you're good.
If anything, if I have like a brain fart like that, just know that it's COVID and be nice to me. Okay, that's fair.
My Fyre Fest is, I just keep getting owned by my son i i usually my fire fester about my kids because that's the majority of my time is spent outside of work uh is just you know being a dad and i do get a lot of people like hitting me up after i talk about my kids so i appreciate that because i feel like they're going through the same things i told you guys the story i have two one is is I was walking on Friday night with him and Stella and we saw Francis, our co-worker who lives in my neighborhood on the street and, you know, did a little hello. And after we left, my son asked me, he's like, who is that dad? And I was like, oh, that's my friend Francis.
And he just deadpan was like, you don't have friends. So that hurt pretty bad.
And then the other one was we walked out of the bodega the other day. It was probably a week or two ago.
And there's a guy, I don't know if he's homeless, but he always, I see him all the time. Like we have a rapport.
Sometimes I give him a few bucks. He's sitting outside asking for money.
And he goes to my son, what's up, little man? And my son, pretty funny to him,

he's like, I'm not a little man.

Or sorry, he said, what's up, little boy?

He said, I'm not a little boy, I'm a big boy.

And then he pointed to me,

he's like, he's a big man.

And I was like, God fucking damn it.

Like, that's a fat joke.

So I don't have a response to any of these things.

He's just like at that age now,

three and a half, a little older than that,

where he's just like, the worst part is, I don't think three and a half year olds know humor they just speak facts so when he speaks facts they hurt so much more because he's just he's just speaking factual statements and they're always true and they hurt my feelings because there's no like oh i was just busting your balls like balls. Like, no, no, you don't have any friends.
So, yeah, just been getting owned. Kids are very funny that way.
I was actually having this conversation the other day walking through the airport. At what point when you see, like, when you talk to a kid, do you switch from calling him little man to big man? Because I feel like if you call, if there's like a six or seven year old, I'll be like, what's up big man.
If you're like a friend's son, because at that point they don't want to be called little anymore. But you're saying that your son who's like three.
Yeah. Three and a half at that three and a half at that age.
He's no longer like he sees little as being an insult. Yeah.
He's a, he's not a big, he's not a man yet. He's a little, he doesn't like little boy.
He's a big boy. Yeah.
Okay, a big boy at three and a half. And then I would say you switch over to big man at six or seven.
Isn't it little man and big boy interchangeable? What do you mean? Because man versus boy. Great point.
What do you mean? Isn't it big boy? What's up, big boy? And then it's little man and big boy. Oh, yeah, yeah.
man oh yeah you're right yeah yeah that's the transition phase yeah yeah and i've just been big man i just said it to my face then i should rebrand to big boy yeah yeah you are a big boy i'm a very big boy you're great eater you're big boy uh okay billy you're fire fast i got triggered on twitter oh no oh oh pitbulls yeah yeah so you you're okay with that seven-year-old dying no oh no just there was a bunch of people saying let's ban pitbulls and the it's just it's just uh it's a logic that they apply to other things this certain group of people on twitter that they don't apply to pit bulls and it pissed me off because it just doesn't make sense. Yeah.
That was, I saw you treating about it. I was like, this is one that you can't win.
Yeah. You like, cause I getting serious on Twitter in general is pretty much never.
Yeah. It sucks.
It really does. Smart.
Yeah. Yeah.
It sucks. Also just both sides of that, of that argument are just the most annoying people to deal with.

And the people that are huge Pitbull fans on Twitter are – actually, I think they're more ridiculous to deal with.

They call themselves – like they're trying to rebrand Pitbulls to being Pibbles.

Yeah.

They spell it P-I-B-B-L-E-S now because it's a cuter way of saying Pitbulls.

Or bullies. Yeah, bully dogs.
Yeah. My pit bull would never bite anybody.
And then I actually agree with Billy's take, though, that for the most part, pit bulls are solid dogs. Yeah.
There's no such thing as bad pit bulls, just bad pit bull owners. It's just there is, and I agree with all there is if you've ever seen a pit bull attack in

any way it's very very crazy i've seen one i saw a pit bull versus a golden retriever once and it was like the owner of the pit bull was like trying to punch his own dog in the face to let go yeah of the other dog so that that is scary but i yeah it's it's not they're not bad dogs or bad dog owners.

Yeah.

One of the nicest dogs I ever met was a pit bull named, his name was Biscuits, I believe. And he was a dog that had like scars all over his face, had cropped ears.
He was like a fighting dog. And I got that dog.
I sold that used dog to a couple outside of a PetSmart down in Austin when I was an adoption counselor. That was my proudest moment of getting biscuits a nice home.
That's huge. Even the scary-looking ones can be good dogs.
But, Billy, my advice to you would just be not to weigh in on dog safety issues online because you can't win those. Especially after a 7-year-old dies.
No, no. It was more these certain group of people were a part of a certain part of Twitter that just is very against bans on certain items of other kinds.
Right. That were just applying that same logic and it was just annoying.
Yeah. Okay.
Can guns shoot themselves? I'm just kidding. They can.
That's that. If you have bad gun safety, you can ask.
And people are like, my gun doesn't have a brain. A dog does.
No, but. It just was a no win.
All in all. All at all.
It was just more the logic. It's just annoying.
Yeah. A gun with a brain would kick ass, though.
Yeah. Yeah.
The only thing that's a bad person with a dog is a good person with a dog. Yeah.
Okay. Jake, finish this off.
I had a pretty stress-free week. Oh, really? You want to do the Ray Allen tweet? Yeah.
Nothing to lose sleep over this whole week. It was all smooth, all good.
Great start to this year. No, I apologize for pushing back on the thing the other day.
No, you don't have to apologize. Billy tried to put me in shape, and I'm still sore from squatmageddon a week ago today.
Oh, no. Yeah.
Give me use those muscles ever. Ever.
Round two today. I don't know okay the craziest part about jake's squat mcgeddon is it was mostly just making him getting up from a seated position several times yeah they gotta start somewhere gotta start somewhere i mean that happens i i've been trying to get back in the gym and i squatted for the first time in like five years and I was sore for like three or four days sucks sucks but first day is always the worst I actually like though the that there's nothing better than a good squat sore oh like that's that feels the best and Max and I were saying the same thing it hurt more walking downstairs than up yeah oh yeah that's never happened before yeah yeah yes those quads you got those muscles there.
But it is a good feeling when you start squatting after a long time because you can actually feel your body starting to repair itself. Yeah, and get stronger.
Hank, how's squatting going for you? It's good. Day two today.
I'm excited. Six-pack coming in? It is.
It is. Let me see.
Let's see the progress. No.
Why? I can't see the progress report? I don't know. I'll show you off camera.
Okay. Show me off camera right now.
Do you have a red line? I mean, the bike is really what is kicking into action. Yeah.
Hell yeah. Oh, Hank, ride on Saturday.
We're going to do a Buns of Anarchy ride on Saturday. King Tool pop punk ride.
Yes. Love it.
Goat. Love it.
All right, let's finish off.

Numbers.

Hank, have you ever gotten this?

No.

You have?

Oh, okay.

Have you ever gotten it in this seat?

No.

Good point.

Oh, shit.

Oh, fuck.

I thought maybe in this seat you had gotten it.

This dude literally just DMed me, 1247 Matthew Patton,

saw this while listening to the pod, and it's a license plate in front of him,

and it says Hank 7, so I'm going with 7.

Okay.

Hank's got 7.

I'll go 17.

6-9.

I'm going to go with...

20.

8.

92.

Okay.

Oh, Memes getting a rare pick.

Memes.

Memes, what's your pick again?

8, because 3 is missing.

That's true.

So Hank has an even better, easier chance. it PFT 92 92 Max you were what 20 Always I'm 17 62 I hear so bad I wasn't fucking Matthew Patton, idiot.
Were you thinking 62?

Were you thinking 62? Yeah. Yeah, shit.
That's too bad. All right.
We'll see everyone on Monday for a full recap of Super Wildcard Weekend. Love you guys.
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