Week 18, Fastest 2 Minutes, The Packers Are Dead, Jags Win The South, Who's Back And Billy Went To The Bottom Of The East River

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On today's Pardon My Take, week 18 of the NFL, we start the show, we do the 1 o'clock games,

and then we took a break so we could watch Sunday Night Football.

So Aaron Rodgers is dead, the Packers are dead.

We'll get to that halfway through the show, but we're going to recap every game. Fastest two minutes.
Billy went down to the East River. Great Monday show for you.
Week 18. It's the finale and the Packers are dead.
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Today is Monday, January 9th, week 18. They're not gonna get them.
we start in Duval for the AFC South Super Bowl, where your best ability is variability as coach turned to the pastronaut Josh Dobbs to try to launch the Titans into the playoffs. Tractor Cito, exposing your D like you're wearing Speedos,ing people in the face like he's Chocolito.

Tractor Cito. The game flipped late when Rashawn Williams' Scott Jenkins said,

Dude, where's the ball?

As Josh Allen scooped his strip sack and took it for six.

The Jags are officially jagging off as Jacksonville is hosting a playoff game.

Most likely 4.30 on Saturday afternoon. Jags 20, Titans 16.
Up to Buffalo, where, with a heavy heart, the NFL world came together for DeMar. And the opening kickoff is returned by Wynum, Dynum, Nain Hynum to give the Bills an early lead.
The game went back and forth, switching back and forth, back and forth, as Devontae Peter Parker's hands were sticking to the balls for two scores. But Stefan Siggs looked really fucking cool smoking the Patriots' secondary.
Speaking of smoking, Bill Clinton Belichick tried his best to score, but the Buffalo Bills will be saving their blue dress uniforms for a home playoff game as the Patriots were close, but no cigar. And no one circles the wagons like the Buffalo Bills.
Bills, 35. The Patriots, 23.
Down to Miami where if you combine Jovertrow Flacco and Skyler Underthrow Thompson, you'd get a perfect pass. The game was tight and terrible until the final drive.
When all I do is Quinn, Quinn, Quinn, no matter what. Williams was called for a horse collar on Jalen.
What'll it be, boys? A first down for the Dolphins. As Jason Bernie Sanders was too far to the left earlier in the game, but moved back to the center to send the Miami Dolphins to the playoffs.
Dolphins 11, Jets 6. Huh? Huh? Huh? 11, 6? 11.
Must have been a safety baseball score. To the Iron City, where Deshaun Watson was blending in in Pittsburgh, as he's known for bringing his terrible towels as well.
Deshaun Watson then threw an interception to Levi Wallace, leaving more traces of his genes behind. The Steelers fought hard for a playoff berth, as Derek, my name is what, my name is who, my name is Chicka Chicka Fat Shady, scored a touchdown, cashing Hank's bet from last year.
But it was all for naught, as the Steelers won, but were eliminated. The Pittsburgh Steelers 28, the Cleveland Browns 14.
In Chicago, where the Bears were going for the first pick, pick, pick, pick, pick, pick, pick, pick. Nathan Skeeterman and Nick Mullen went to Comptown putting up a surprising amount of points.
Tim Susan Boyle came in briefly, and I regret to report he still hasn't scored. Khalil Herbert Hoover played just well enough to save Chicagoans

from having a Great Depression and cementing the first pick

in the 2023 NFL Draft.

The Chicago Bears are officially on the clock.

Vikings 29, Bears 13.

Down the road to Indy, and what does it, Mills,

who makes you stronger as the Texans closed out a terrible season

with a bright spot.

Thank you. Down the road to Indy And what does it mills you makes you stronger As the Texans closed out a terrible season With a bright spot Zach Liv Moss was open late for a fourth meal in the end zone The game came down to fourth and twenty As Davis Grills hit Jordan Applewood Smoked Aiken For a touchdown Forcing Sabado Gigante to choke another one away.
Hey, Billy, hold this Ellinger. Texas 32, Colts 31.
Got him! In Seattle, where the Rams were trying to crash the Seahawks' chance at the dance as they put on their 2-2 Atwells and pranced their way into the end zone for a first-half lead. Kenneth Brandon Walker was a weak man, trying to score six late, and the game went to the overtime with all the playoff implications in hand.
Baker Mayfield, in overtime, cooked up a turnover, and Kenneth Brandon Walker ran violently as if the Rams' defense had called him a Mississippi moron. Heartbreak for the Lions as the Seahawks bounced them from the playoffs.
Seahawks 19, Rams 16, Geno wrote back. What? Back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back, back.
Down the coast to California where Brock and Robert tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet, Brock and Robert tweet, tweet, tweet, had the Niners in a playoff warmup against the Cardinals. Purdy got by with a kiddle help from his friends, finding George twice in the end zone, and the whopping was on.
Hey, JJ, look over your shoulder because Ravella's creeping on you. But in all seriousness, a great career for JJ.
What's up? What's up? What's up? What's up? What's up? What's up? What's up? Niners 38, the Cardinals 13. Standing on the corner, Jameis Winston down in Nola, such a fine sight to see.
It's the end, my dear, of a stupid year. Put us out of our misery.
Come on, Panero. You're so dinero.
You're a po' boy, but in New Orleans, you're a hero. The Saints don't Go marching.
Panthers 13. Saints 10.
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We are going to start taping right now. We're going to watch the second half of Lions-Packers, so we will talk about that later on in the show but congratulations to the detroit lions for eliminating the green bay packers from the playoffs let's pray this could be old takes exposed make the bad man go away week eight whoa billy week 18 was uh it's okay the body rejects the fact that football's almost over i i can understand we all get sick at this this time.
Week 18, that was a pretty fun week 18. It was great.
There was some crazy drama. We'll do a chronological order, so we might as well start with the AFC South Super Bowl.
Real quick, we should address the fact that this might have been the last day that we got to see Andrew Siciliano on television. Yeah, that's true.
Very sad. Because the direct TV is going away, and so it's going to be carried on, what, YouTube next year? Yes.
That's going to be a nightmare for dads out there. So it's going to be Siciliano.
He's on the DirecTV broadcast. Our guy Scott Hanson does the NFL broadcast.
He won the war. He won the war.
He won the war. Is it confirmed that Hanson's doing the YouTube TV? No, we're speculating.
Yeah, we're speculating. He's the better of the two.
I'm literally talking out of my ass right now. Would you like to throw your hat in the ring? I mean, that'd be awesome.
Yeah. Jake Marsh marsh is open for it jake you're talking about another man's job right now jake well no because youtube tv is a new job jake jake it is jake let me just say something real quick yeah if you did that job i would hate your fucking guts i know okay all right i mean i'll take like i'll i'll like death threats i'll write death threats to you via text how did you go to that game, and I thought it was going to be a touchdown, and it wasn't.
That's not his call. That's someone in his ear.
No, it'll be your call. I put it all in line.
That's fine. I'm rooting for you.
That out, like, having that job would outweigh dealing with you. It actually would be.
Yeah, that's true. That's true.
Yeah. Not dealing with my death threats.

Not right now.

It would actually be good publicity.

You could be like, I'm the most dangerous job in the world.

I get death threats every day.

Yeah.

And I would make sure you got them.

Otherwise, the Cillian is still going to have a job.

He works at NFL Network.

True.

True. And by the way, we should say that the voice you hear right now, Jake Marsh, he is officially

the loser.

He's going to be bowling.

Max, would you like to talk? Because you're also the loser. Max? I just think you're the worst.
Max is too good at gambling. He ended up going 3-1.
I went 2-2. He beat me out.
Jake finished last. We can talk about that later, but just to set the table, those two will be bowling.
I'm excited for the challenge. I view it as a challenge or an opportunity, not a punishment.
I don't see what I need. Wait, wait, wait.
Jake, I don't think you're excited for this, actually. No, obviously I'm not.
He's pumping himself up. I like it.
It's good attitude. You're doing to yourself like what I did to myself with Carson Wentz for an entire summer.
Just say how great it's going to beling is fun. And then it will eventually break your heart and your body.
What if you just do it in the first game? That'd be sick. Just talk to our friend Stephen Che, because when we explained it to him, he was like, bowling's fun, eating hot dogs fun.
This sounds awesome. I was like, okay, never mind, dude.
Yeah, so I DM Joey Chestnut, so he's in my corner. He's going to give me some eating strategies.
Okay. A bunch of AWLs who are big bowlers have DMed me with some certain strategies as well.
So got some time to try to figure out the strategy. What if you just bowl like a 250? That'd be great.
Yeah. And Max is stuck there for like three days.
If I finished before Max, that'd be crazy. So that's the thing is like Jake really doesn't have anything to lose in this because the expectation for Jake is going to be way too low.
Two to three days, Tommy John,

complaints. If you don't beat Jake, then people

are going to be pointing a lot of fingers at you.

I mean, we're not competing against each other.

Why are you trying to be against each other?

What the fuck is this?

Max, don't listen.

Hank, more details to come

on time, place, all that info?

Yeah, so stay tuned.

Okay, alright, so let's talk some football.

Let's talk some football. Let's talk about the AFC

South Super Bowl on Saturday night.

The Jacksonville Jaguars

are in the playoffs.

They're hosting a playoff game.

They beat the Titans 20-16.

Doug Peterson

takes a team from the worst

team in the league last year with Urban Meyer

at the helm to in the playoffs.

Fixes Trevor Lawrence.

His team was 2-6.

They were 4-8.

They won their final five games.

Just as an aside, I think we need to use that for our preview on Friday.

That the Jaguars have actually been in the playoffs for the last month and a half.

They're the hottest team.

Every game's a playoff game.

They've got five playoff wins right now.

Yes, exactly.

But it was quite the scene in Jacksonville.

I love something about Jacksonville.

It felt like a retro game.

They brought out their best.

They brought out an older version of PFT with an American flag guitar

to do the national anthem.

That's my dad, actually.

I think Jacksonville leads the league in unironic leather jackets in the stands. Just the whole scene was incredible.
I'm very happy for Duval. I'm very happy for the Jaguars fans.
It was awesome. Yeah, no, listen, Jacksonville, when they're good at football, the stadium experience there looks like it's a completely different sport from the rest of the NFL stadiums that we see.
It's like it's its own unique Florida-ness down there. So they've got probably like 4,000 to 6,000 people that probably ride up on a motorcycle already hammered before the game.
I love Jacksonville. We've been friendly to the city of Jacksonville for a long time on this podcast.
It's good to see them winning, good to see them in the playoffs. And you never know.
That's what I'm going to say. You never know.
They're going to play the Chargers, who they've beaten already. Yeah, they kicked the shit out of them.
Just don't – if you're a Jaguars fan and you're telling yourself this, just completely gloss over the fact that they had everybody hurt in the game and that Justin Herbert had like seven fractured ribs while they were playing. Yes.
Forget about that. You've beaten them already.
You're in the playoffs. Nobody thought that you were going to go to the playoffs this year.
No. Until like a month and a half ago, nobody thought you were going to go to the playoffs.

So, in a way, this season is definitely very much a win for you guys. Oh, big time.
And Doug Peterson is going to get my Coach of the Year vote. Yeah.
I mean, Doug Peterson, what he did, Trevor Lawrence looks like he is the next guy. when they were listing all the playoff quarterbacks for the AFC,

Mahomes, Allen, Burrow, Trevor Lawrence, Justin Herbert. It's like, holy shit.
There's a lot of young, great – Huntley maybe. I don't know who's going to play for the Ravens.
We'll get to that. But it's a huge success for the Jaguars.
I love the scene. It sucks.
I kind of wish there was a night game again. I think they'll probably get the 430 Saturday slot.
That sounds right to me. It feels destined for them, but the whole scene was awesome.
Yeah, I'm just happy for Jacksonville, and I think this does cement Urban Meyer as maybe the worst NFL coach of all time. How soon, though, until Urban Meyer starts to take, like, he'll dip his toes in the victory lap water.
He'll go on some weird radio show, like a local one, and be like, you know, I really did put a lot of those pieces together in Jacksonville. Yeah, they're running a lot of my stuff.
Yeah, there's a lot of similarities in the offense that I ran last year and what they're doing now, some of the concepts I introduced. And he's going to be like, man, when I got there, that franchise was a mess.
Yeah. It was a complete mess.
He's going to start to feel it out, which he's very good at doing. He's going to start thinking like, okay, maybe I can kind of talk my way into this conversation, and it will be a tidal wave of shit that he will get for it.
Yes, big time. The other thing about Doug Peterson, great coach, should get way more credit, Super Bowl winning coach, got the Jaguars to playoffs this year.
The one thing about Doug Peterson, he did the Philly special and it worked so well. And every game he thinks he's got to do a Philly special.
Because that turnover when the Jaguars were driving and they did the flip play. And it's like, what are you doing? Why are you doing this? Why are you doing this right now? He just, I think he just is like, yeah, I got to, I mean, that's play the hits.
I got to run run the cool play he gets upset if he goes like longer than a week without somebody tweeting the Randy Marsh big balls gift yeah right right but it was it was an awesome game I also had the thought for the Titans um they were the most injured team again it feels like turning the page they have to like kind of start fresh with a lot of stuff yeah I mean tell him Luan's in a wheelchair yeah he is he. Yeah, he is.
He's in a wheelchair, and he might never walk again. It's sad.
I had the thought, though, that popped in my head while I was watching the game. Could you imagine if Mike Vrabel had a quarterback? Does he really want a quarterback, though? But he's such a good coach.
That game was so up until the strip sack that changed the game because it wasn't the Jaguars' offense that really won that game. The defense won that game.
They held them to three points in the second half. Up until that point, the Titans were playing the perfect Mike Vrabel, kitchen sink, long drives, going for it on fourth down, just sucking the life out of the game, getting into a fist fight, like Derrick Henry just shoving people and running the ball.
And I'm just sitting there like, imagine if he had a – he's doing it with a guy who he picked up two weeks ago in Josh Dobbs. And it's like, man, I wish that he had a real quarterback because he's such a good coach.
And how bad is Malik Willis to not be getting this start? He's got to be so bad that there's a good chance that they cut him next year. Yeah.
That he's not even on the roster. Because if you have a rookie that you spent a draft pick, was he a third or fourth rounder this year? Yeah, somewhere around maybe second.
He might have even been second. I can't remember.
He might have been third. Yeah.
So you spent a decent draft pick on the quarterback. He was supposed to be the guy, the project.
And he's so bad that you won't let him even see the field in a playoff game. Third round.
Third round. Okay.
This was seriously like a playoff game for the Titans Saturday night. And he can't even see the field.
He's probably going to get cut. Yeah.
And I will Derek Carr maybe. We should start putting Derek Carr on random teams.
Derek Carr, he feels like a Colt. He feels like he is.
I agree. He was born to be an Indianapolis Colt.
But the Colts might draft a quarterback. I just wish that Mike Vrabel had a quarterback because he is such a good coach.
And the fact that the Titans were even in this game with all the injuries and everything that's happened this season. I know that they lost, I think, whatever it was, six or seven games in a row down the stretch.
It all fell apart. But watching that and it was that drive they had in i think the second quarter when they went they went for it on fourth down like two or three times and took like 10 minutes off the clock and it was a field goal drive but it's still you you just do it's like all right the titans are playing they're making the jaguars play their game and that's what they do to everyone they just make everyone play nasty, ugly style of football and try to beat you over the head with it.
I get the vibe from Rabel that his perfect game plan is just clock control. Yeah.
So what he loves to do more than anything isn't even necessarily go on a 99-yard run to the end zone. It's just straight up like, let's eat seven minutes of game clock.
It's time erasure. Yeah, and I'm going to steal all the time from you yeah and then i'm gonna get down inside the five yard line if we uh score touchdown that's great if i have to send my stupid kicker out there to attempt a field goal that's good that's fine either because you know i still took seven minutes away from you yeah that's time that you're never gonna get back yeah fat randy played well he made some kicks yeah he's always the bugaboo with titans kickers i'm just i'm just pumped for jackson I am too.
We're jagging off in the playoffs big time. It's going to be fun.
It was an awesome scene. And, yeah, I mean, Chaps, I'm excited for Chaps.
He's going to get to watch his Jags, and he's going to come up for the stream on Saturday at 430. We don't know that officially.
We're going to have the schedule. Actually, Jake, do you want to predict the schedule? You said you're going to predict it, so we'll probably know it by the end of this show.
Yeah, by the time you're listening, you'll definitely know it. I'll say, yes, definitely Chargers, Jaguars is probably the easiest pick.
That's right. I would say maybe Bengals, Ravens, but that's like two years ago they would put Bengals, Ravens.
Bengals, Ravens feels like Sunday 1 o'clock. Bengals were always penciled in for the early Saturday game when Andy Dalton was there.
Now that they have Joe Burrow, they're a little bit cooler, they get moved to the night, I think. Didn't you have that stat last week? The AFC South has played in the Saturday game like 10 years in a row or something.
I think you might have had that stat. It was something crazy.
Like every single year they just play in that game. So if the Packers win this game, I think they're going to get a prime – or like not the 1 o'clock treatment.
Yeah, yeah. At the Vikings.
Okay. Saturday night – No, they would be playing the 49ers.
Oh, okay. Then one of the reading is wrong.
One of the reading is wrong. And they're not going to make the Niners play at 1 o'clock.
We're already in trouble. Okay.
So Packers, Niners, I see – it was Saturday night last year. I remember that.
So let's run that back. Packers, Niners.
Sunday, 1 o'clock. I like Ravens, Bengals.
That feels right. Sunday, 4.30.
I think Vikings are going to host. Brady and the Cowboys has to be primetime.
That's going to be primetime. I think that's a 430 game.
They love that Sunday afternoon game. They love that Sunday afternoon game.
However, he's got his finger up close. I'm seeing on FBSchedules.com that the 430 Sunday game is CBS.
Okay. All right.
So there you go. So it still could.
Who knows? All right. So keep going.
Sunday night, that. So that would put Dolphins-Bills Monday night.

That sounds right to me.

I think Dolphins-Bills, I'm just envisioning in my mind,

it's definitely a night game, and it feels like having a full day,

especially what's happened in the last week and a half,

I feel like they're going to want to feature that on ESPN.

All right, so tweet out your prediction.

Okay.

Tweet it out so it's on the record.

And if you get all of them wrong, you have to tweet out the Ray Allen tweet.

No, no, no, no.

That's if you get all of them.

No, no, no, no.

I don't know. Alright, so tweet out your prediction Tweet it out so it's on the record And if you get all of them wrong, you have to tweet out the Ray Allen tweet No, no, no You get all of them No, no, no I was so much more worried about that than the bowling I swear to God This is all fun content There is zero upside to be doing that tweet Next year's challenge is just going to be the Ray Allen tweet What's in it for you guys? Engagement at the wazoo.
Yeah. And crazy.
Maybe even DM. It's a whole new audience you'd be reaching.
Just tweet a dick pic. No.
It doesn't have to be yours. Yeah, it can be any.
It's just a hard one. When the Texans covered, I considered myself a winner today.
Yeah. I did too.
The game of life. So, yeah.
I did not. Congrats to the Jags.
This is going to be awesome. Very awesome very happy for them all right next up chiefs 31 raiders 13 kind of a snoozer except for the fact that the chiefs uh were so bored that they did this it was called the snow globe huddle play it was basically ring around the rosie it was insane that the chiefs like we always joke about the chiefs getting bored yeah this is the most bored play ever it didn't count because of a hold i think it was on the outside but it was uh if you missed the game the entire huddle was just doing a big spinner they were spinning around and then they they broke the huddle patrick holmes was uh in the backfield snap lateral to him then he threw it back on a hold.
They were just so bored. They do.
They're the only professional sports team that gets bored playing their professional sport because they're too good at it. Right.
And so they have to come up with interesting ways to keep themselves focused. Andy Reid is like, hey, guys, I know it kind of sucks having to go out there and kick somebody's ass again, and you guys are probably tired, so let's make it a little bit new, and new and we're gonna play a child's game before the play this is what we mean also when we just say that they're candy ass sometimes right sometimes the chiefs are candy ass and i guess it's kind of a knock against them but it's also like the highest compliment that i can pay their offense to the point where like you become candy ass because your team is so good that you need something new to stimulate you.
Yes. Like mentally.
Yes. The Chiefs are awesome.
The Raiders stink. I was thinking about this, and it's not going to happen because it's a poverty franchise, literally.
But Josh McDaniels, he's 11 and 28 as a head coach. Yeah.
Started 6-0. If you take away the 6-0 games.
Okay. were cheating.
Yeah he said we were cheating that was that Channing Crowder was saying that yeah. Yeah.
They were taping their opponent. Josh McDaniels.
I I would fire him but you can't because you get that poor Mark Davis is a broke boy but like this. I just feel bad for Raiders fans.
Yeah. Derek Carr is OK, I think he's a fine young man.

I think he's a good quarterback, not great.

And he's going to be gone.

He's out the door.

And now you're going to trust Josh McDaniels,

the guy that got rid of Jake Cutler to bring in Tim Tebow to build forward with a brand new quarterback.

Okay, counterpoint, feeling bad for Raiders fans.

I never feel bad for Raiders fans because they objectively,

without a shadow of the doubt,

have the coolest gear to wear.

That's true.

And the best stadium.

Your team sucks,

but when you put on a Raiders hat,

it just always goes hard.

It just looks cool,

and you just wear that,

and you can play like the Autumn Wind is a Pirate

and feel good about that.

I know that's not a great consolation prize, but at least it's something. Yeah.
If you're like an Oakland Raiders fan, are you pumped that they suck now? Is this like sweet justice for you? I think you probably keep rooting for them. I know a lot of people that said that they would not watch another game.
So then, yeah, you are. Then you are.
But think about it. The Texans stink.
If you're wearing a Texan shirt, people are like, what's wrong with that guy? Yeah, it always looks kind of like a football team from a Superman comic book. Right, exactly.
Whereas you're wearing a Raiders hat and people are like, I respect. Yeah.
Like, respect. There's a certain level of intimidation that comes with that territory.
Right, and just general respect. You just, like, point them to Ice Cube.
Yeah. Like, this guy.
Raiders. Raiders.
Raiders, exactly so um the the chiefs one seed uh patrick mahomes i know that sometimes we get comments like you guys all you guys do is suck off patrick mahomes national media does the same i don't really know what else how else you can like handle how great he is uh he just he broke the record for most total yards in nfl passing and rushing, so 5,614. So I know it's an extra game, but he did break that record.
He also is now 16-0 on the road against the AFC West. That's insane.
He's 27-3 overall against the AFC West. As a starter, he's 64 and 16, 80 games, regular season, 192 touchdowns.
And he's going to, he should win the MVP. He had a 41 touchdowns this year.
I know that Josh Allen and Joe Burrow played one less game, but they both finished with 35. He's just so fucking good.
And every year, like we said a few weeks ago, we do the preseason where we're like, who's going to win the AFC West? Who's going to do it? It's the Chiefs, and it's Patrick Mahomes. He's the best player in the NFL.
I don't know what else to say. He's that good.
I mean, 64 and 16 is a starter. That's fucking stupid.
He's 16 and 0 in his division on the road. Yeah.
That's crazy. People are like, part of my take rigged because we're like, the best football player in football is good at playing football.
And that's like, yeah, we nitpick him too. Yeah.
We do. We point out the dumb stuff that he does.
But he's just so good. He's kind of annoying because the only legitimate criticism that you can have of Patrick Mahomes right now is that the media is annoying with how much they love him.
So your complaint becomes directed at somebody else that has nothing to do with actually what Mahomes does. It's how other people talk about him.
So sometimes when the world's lamest people really like something, even if that thing is good, then it will make you start to hate that thing. Right.
And I don't hate them at all. I love watching them play football.
It's just also in sports when there's someone who's truly great and just above everyone else, we try to find – it's lame to just say, oh, yeah, Patrick Mahomes is the best. The Chiefs are going to win the AFC West.
So you try to find a cool zag or like, oh, this is the answer to the question. No, the answer to the question is Patrick Mahomes.
Yeah. And we'll see how the Chiefs do in the playoffs.
I do think that, like, this game, not letting the Raiders hang around at all because, you know, they were playing with some teams there where it was a little too close. I don't know.
Would you be – no one would be shocked if they go to the Super Bowl again. No.
Of course not. Well, he mom doesn't have to go on the road this playoff again again at the very if he makes it to the afc championship game then that's going to be at a neutral site a neutral site yeah which we don't know where that would be yet but i guess there's people that speculate it could be acrish or excuse me heinzfield and pittsburgh or uh indianapolis what if uh Indy said no.
Shut it down. yeah.
Jim Ersay said no in Detroit has they're redoing something. So that one's out.
What about Can't know how the turf. What if they did it at the Hall of Fame? That'd be cool.
David Baker would make it happen. Why don't they do it at MetLife? We can go.
Yeah, they should do that. Vegas or Vegas.
Yeah, and we go and we could go or Jacksonville and we could go. Yeah, they should do that.
Or Vegas. Or Vegas.
Yeah, and we can go. And we can go.
Or Jacksonville. And we can go.
Yeah. But yeah, the Chiefs are really, really fucking good.
Patrick Mahomes is the best player in football. They're the one seed.
And there's not much else to say about that. No, it was just an ass-kicking.
They're a team that kind of halfway through the season, they weren't kicking people's asses like we thought that they should be. And that really was the knock against them at the time.
It's like, well, they're not playing up to their abilities right now, but it looks like they are. And, I mean, it's not like they don't miss Tyreek Hill because I think he added a crazy element to that offense that is not there anymore.
But they're certainly not missing him that much. No, right.
And Patrick Mahomes, you know, the Chiefs are smart in the way they've built their roster and the fact that they're like hey Tyreek Hill is incredible but Patrick Mahomes is the guy yeah I know he can make other people you know 80 percent of Tyreek Hill right I know another fast guy that we can sign right and and and also we should shout out Chris Jones who is just a monster in this game and it does feel like the steve spagnola get get pressure with four will be the will be the recipe for uh the chiefs going into the postseason because their back half of the defense isn't great uh and they'll just hopefully get pressure with four with chris jones just he's a monster just an absolute monster and he like watching some of those sacks like if he wasn't't getting the sack, he was basically forcing the sack by collapsing the pocket or getting, you know,

double teamed.

He's just everywhere.

He was still getting pressure when they had two guys on him.

Right.

He was like very easily going through the Raiders offensive line.

And he went to the oxygen mask, which I always love.

That's a good look.

It's always a good look.

All right.

Next up, Dolphins 11, Jets 6.

Congratulations to Jake. The Dolphins are, Jets 6.
Congratulations to Jake.

The Dolphins are in the playoffs.

You got the finger revenge.

Finger revenge.

Finger revenge.

Not a gommie, by the way.

Second time.

Ugly, ugly game.

Yeah.

Just terrible game.

Joe Flacco versus Skylar Thompson for the playoffs.

But the Dolphins survive.

Maybe a questionable horse collar penalty on Quinton Williams going down for the Dolphins to get into field goal range at the end. You missed that.
I'll be honest. I did not see the game.
I was caught broadcasting a basketball game. It was kind of a grab of the nameplate, not really in the horse collar.
Yeah, he grabbed the back of his jersey. He was holding the back of his jersey.
He got a handful of where the name was and pulled him down. So they went from the collapse was avoided.
They had lost five straight. They win this one.
I have no idea if Tua's going to play. And that's the biggest storyline here because they had Buffalo on the ropes on that Saturday night game with Tua healthy.
If he's not healthy, I don't – never's a never. And as Hank astutely pointed out in the Bills Patriots game the Bills secondary is missing some pieces you did say that you're like Matt Jones is torching them I was like yeah they're they're missing their safety dude okay fair enough so yeah you admit that you said it no I mean you you alluded to it no I just said Matt Jones is balling out um I'm going to see if there's a lineup, but I could see them waiting a little

bit to see the Tua status

because that's what this game hinges on, right?

Yeah. It does,

but also I think back in

September, late September when the Dolphins were like the

hottest team in football, we did

a mental exercise where we pictured

the Miami Dolphins going

on the road in January. Yes.

Two Buffaloes in a snow

game with Tua as their quarterback

wearing the teal jerseys, and we're like, they're going to lose by 30. But they hung around in December.
Listen, I know that you want the Dolphins in the playoffs. If Tua doesn't play, they're the biggest bummer of a playoff team.
I would have much rather seen the Steelers make the playoffs. Yeah, so right now the Barstool Sportsbook has it as 10.5.
I wonder if that's factoring in him being in or out. That's two-a-less.
Yeah, that's two-a-less. It feels like it'd be around 7.5 maybe.
Because that was the line when they played. It was 7 when they played a month ago.
It was right around there, yeah. Yeah.
So, yeah, we'll see. I mean, they made the playoffs, yay.
Yay. They were Super Bowl contenders six weeks ago.
I think everyone agreed. And then downhill.
I have a question. Should the Dolphins fire Mike McDaniel? I saw some rumors of that.
Well, I have a reason for it other than the actual, I think it's a stupid argument, but I have an even dumber reason for why they should fire him. The Dolphins have made the playoffs three times in the last 20 years.

And they've had their backup quarterback.

No.

It was Matt Moore 2016.

No, no.

So three times in the last 20 years, all of them with first-year head coaches.

Tony Sperano, first year 2008.

Adam Gase, first year 2016.

Mike McDaniel, first year 2022.

Why not just fire him?

Fire him.

Get somebody new in there.

Get some new blood.

I like that. Wait.
Get back to the playoffs. But wait, is it every time they switch coaches? No, but it's only been.
Only been. Only been new.
First year head coaches. Got it, yeah.
Because they're just like Joe Philbin, I don't think. No, do not.
And neither did Brian Flores. Yeah.
But you have a better chance. I don't hate the logic.
Yeah. I really don't like.
These are the advanced analytics most shows won't talk about. The Dolphins, I don't know.
I also get the feeling like if you press the Tua button and get them back in, that offense that we saw at the start of the year, I don't think that was a gimmick. I think it was just they were good.
They were a legitimately good football team. Yeah, and as much of a bummer.
Hank, what's that face you just made? I thought it was the gimmick thing. As much of a bummer it kind of feels like to have the Dolphins,

especially Tua-less in the playoffs,

it is good for the Dolphins to not have that collapse

because that would have been quite to go 8-3 to 8-9.

That really sucks to be a team.

Let's just say you start 7-4 and then finish 7-10. If you're a fan of one of those teams, like the Jets, that's what they did.
It sucks. It does suck.
You know what else sucked today about the Dolphins is we almost got Mike Lennon in the game. We did.
With Mike Lennon, you can't tell me that Mike Lennon is warming up and then not have him get in the game. I was so excited about it.
I know. We had Davis Mills on a TV in one corner, and Mike Glennon was about to be on TV in the other.
It was going to be the longest next combined ever on an NFL Sunday. It was going to be incredible.
And then, no, you can't say Mike Glennon and then say, actually, is Skylar Thompson okay instead? No, it's not okay. Yeah.
It was never okay. There were some veteran guys who got some time today with josh johnson we had chase daniel get in the game a few times yeah yeah so like yeah it was nice to see those guys week 18 is like a weird mix of pre-season and yeah regular yeah yeah skylar thompson got like ken shamrocked ankle locked by the jets defense and we thought we were gonna have a chance and joe flacco he should probably retire yeah I was gonna say like if he went out there and threw four touchdowns today 300 yards some team would sign him next year as a backup but now it's like he's he looks very uncomfortable playing playing football like he doesn't like to be doing it yeah but he just knows that they're paying him a lot of money to do it like when he's standing in the pocket he is so sackable he has no escapability he still has a cannon he wants to unleash it, but he just doesn't look like he's having fun playing football.
No. So I hope he goes off to his, what, six kids? Seven, eight, nine.
Have a good rest of your life. Thank you, Joe.
Thank you for everything. If you want a Super Bowl.
Maybe get a reality show where the Flacos and the Rivers live in the same house. Yeah, they're like 15 combined kids.
Their backyards adjoin, and it's just like their kids play all the sports against each other, and you can bet on them. Yeah, and Flacco and Rivers just throw back.
Joe Flacco throws over Phillip Rivers' head. Phillip Rivers throws at Joe Flacco's feet back and forth.
I like that. It's beautiful.
Billy, Jets. So they did start seven and four.
They went seven and 10.

I thought they were tough for anyone who had jets plus three and a half.

We should at least mention that the safety at the end. Uh, just every,

we've seen it enough now that everyone has in the back of their heads at the end of these games, like,

please just be at a spot in the field that you can't have the fumble backwards

and the laterals until they just keep going backwards and backwards and backwards into the end zone. So that sucked.
But Billy, over big picture Jets season. Give it a grade.
B minus. Okay.
There was surprises, but it was not a C in that it wasn't a total failure. Yeah, I'd agree.
But this is the one stat that I think sells the whole season, 33 straight drives without a touchdown. Yeah, so when was the last time you guys scored a touchdown? Detroit.
And how long ago was that? That was when I filmed the Reptile Expo video. So that was like a month ago.
Yeah. You guys haven't scored a touchdown in over a month.
Yeah. Damn.
That sucks. And I want to make fun of you for giving them a B grade this year, but I'm not going to.
B minus. I get it.
I think that's probably an accurate grade because you had a playoff game, kind of, like two weeks ago. And you also have a team where it's like we know what the problem is.
It's quarterback. Yeah.
So figure that out. Yeah, you're a quarterback away.
Easier said than done, but at least there's other pieces to it. Still, now I got a little distracted with a project recently, but I'm now going back to figuring out why quarterbacks on the Jets can't succeed.
Found some breakthroughs. There's a couple papers on CEOs not succeeding in certain companies.
It's similar type of pressure. So we'll look into it.
I do want to hear about that other project on who's back if you can put that out there this is uh classic billy his project got distracted by another new project yeah diving in the east river hey billy i just want to say for the record i'm glad that you're alive yeah me too i was i was a little bit worried yesterday that you were going to die and that i would get blamed for it in some way shape or form so i'm So I'm just glad that you did not die. I was also worried I was going to die.
Yeah. It was legit.
Like I had, there was a thought that I was like, are we going to do part of my take of Billy's dead? No, I knew you were good. You're strong.
I blame the police for why I almost died. Okay.
We'll talk about it. All right.
Yeah. We'll talk about who's back.
So Dol Dolphins in the playoffs, facing the Bills.

Sure.

Yeah.

Sure.

I don't know.

The seventh seed in the AFC was always going to be kind of gross. So, the other game that affected this, so the reason why the Dolphins are in,

Bills 35, Patriots 23.

There are certain moments in sports where you just have to pinch yourself and be like, how the fuck is this real Naheem Hines running back the opening kickoff after everything that's gone on with the Bills this past week was insanity like to be if you were if you were one of the lucky people that was in that crowd that's a moment you will remember for the rest of your life it was crazy when it happened and I think everybody had like the same this real? Yeah. Is this actually what's happening? This was one of the moments where you're like, Hollywood, if you brought this story to Hollywood, they would shoot you in the mouth with a pellet gun and let your feet on fire.
It was not... I think they needed that, too.
I think the sideline needed it. There was almost like an expression of relief after they ran it back, just them being like, okay, we're playing again.
We are allowed to feel good emotions about football again. Right.
Right off the bat. There was no like feeling out period in the game where everyone's like on edge getting out there.
Right. Special team touchdown took all that right away, brought the crowd into it big time.
And then he did it again. And then he did it again.
And he did it again. And I love all the updates that we're getting from DeMar from the hospital.
Like every time I see see when i just have to retweet because it makes you feel so good to know that this is what we're waiting for you know like him to start giving us updates he was tweeting stuff out today yep they had his uh his surgeons or his doctors like giving updates and they were just like smiling from ear to ear pretty soon they're gonna do like a hype video what if they did a hype video for uh for playoff game, and it's the surgeon, and he throws DeMar through a table? Oh, that would be good. That would get the people going.
I think you've got to save that for divisional rounds. Yeah, probably.
Dolphins. Dolphins.
Who cares? Come on, you take them out. I also chuckled a little how mad people got at Schefter when he had to report the news that DeMar Hamlin was placed on the IR.
Yeah. That was just – people were so angry about it.
It's like, well, he was, and the Bills did the right thing of – I think there was something with his contract where they made sure it was all guaranteed. Arian Foster pointed it out, which I thought was a great point where he was like it took someone basically had to die

on the field for the nfl to do the right thing like why don't they do this for more players that get seriously oh and and also big time like the nfl tries to do the right thing and they just expose themselves for kind of being scumbag yeah not normally doing the right right and and also the nfl no the nfl is does a master class in taking something that should be the worst pr ever a guy guy almost dying on the field, and then flipping it and being like the best PR ever, where it was threes everywhere. It was great to see the love for him, but it was, you know, Goodell in the back of his head was like, look at this, like we got him.
Like everyone's wearing the shirts and everyone's getting behind it. It probably cost them, you know, 20 grand to print off a bunch of shirts and everyone's gonna only think of the positives not the negatives they had uh yeah there were threes everywhere they had like officially licensed hats and stuff there's a lot of a lot of stuff that people were wearing to support them it was just awesome it was good to see there was almost it was there was a sense of relief this weekend that he's okay yeah and and that we can kind of go on like normal as opposed to you know that, because the NFL was going to play this week no matter what had happened to the boss.
Yes. And it's like, okay, we're going to move on.
But I don't know. You know what I'm saying? It's just like it's good to know that he's okay.
I don't know if they would have. You don't think so? Things have gone south.
Yeah. If things have gone south.
I hope he plays again. I think who knows? I mean, we've seen Chris Pronger had something similar similar happen well he that is i can't wait we should get when whitney comes on again we should we should try to box him into the corner to basically yeah call demar hamlin a pussy because chris pronger played in the next game um he didn't need cpr like that but we could still get whitney into saying that for sure one of the uh the funnier tweets i saw this morning was uh there was an update on him in the hospital.
It said, I've been told that University of Cincinnati Medical Center and the Bills have been working on ways for DeMar Hamlin to watch today's Bills Patriots game. At the moment, it's quite likely he will get to watch his teammates play from the hospital.
These are the smartest people in the world that work in this hospital. Like real life geniuses.
They probably don't have DirecTV. They probably just use the reddit stream yeah so i was saying like that these are geniuses that can do open

heart surgery but they don't know how to click on the tiny little x's that move around the screen

the entire time for you to be able to watch an illegal like stream east platform yes uh just

get through the russian ads and you're good to go or just like buy a television it's it's pretty

simple stuff i but he was able to watch today which was good they figured that one out good

So, yeah, buy a television. It's pretty simple stuff.

But he was able to watch today, which is, like, they figured that one out.

Good.

So, yeah, it is great to see all the updates and him smiling and, you know,

sitting up in bed.

As for the Patriots, season over.

Mac Jones looked good today, as you astutely pointed out.

Yeah, he was playing really well.

The Patriots were in the game a lot more than I was expecting. I mean, obviously, if you remove the two kick returns, they would have won the game.
Tough not making the playoffs. Really sad.
The team fought harder than I wanted. I think for all the stuff where this couch over here, Jake and Billy, they were so high on the Dolphins and the Jets.
I guess the Dolphins made it in. But I feel like the Patriots, they competed.
They played well. Hopefully they get rid of Patricia next year, and we can start over.
Yeah. A lot of good things to build on.
Max listened to every word that you said, Hank, and he was just fuming. I saw there was little steam coming out of his ears.
That seemed very gracious to me, what Hank just did. He just kind of laid it out there like it was.
And it's like, again, you're going up against a team of destiny. True.
Like, there has never been a team of destiny that destiny has declared the team of her ever before. Like this.
Yeah. That was worded amazingly.
So, wait, wait. Destiny made the Bills her own team.
The Bills didn't become a Destiny team.

No, Destiny straight up pulled the Bills out of her stomach and was like, here you go, world.

This is my team.

This is my team.

I'm curious.

What does Destiny look like?

Hot.

Yeah.

And Josh Allen did the...

She's like the chick from Game of Thrones.

She's like a million years old, but hot.

Really?

Wait, before she turns into the old one. Red hair.
Maleficent. Melisandre.
Yeah. That's destiny.
Yeah. She just handed a baby, a fresh destiny baby to the city of Buffalo.
What kind of guys is she into? Healthy. How many pounds is a baby? Six pounds, nine ounces.
Okay. Okay.
Nice. A little on the light side? Put it on the punk list.
Well, it's the Bills, you know? Yeah, that's true. Those Mafia.
Yeah, yeah, that's true. So, you know, I personally am rooting for the Bills.
That's nice. They're going to be the team I root for in the playoffs.
Okay. And Josh Allen had those.
There's just nothing better when he does the rollout and just throw it deep, and it just drops perfectly in the hands. He did it twice.
Yeah. to Diggs and then I can't remember.
Brown, I think.

Yeah.

Those are the most electric plays.

Every time Josh Allen throws a pass, I assume it's going to be a touchdown.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So, big relief for the Bills to get through that game, win that game, get the second seed.

I got to feel like they have a huge weight off their shoulders for everything.

And the Chiefs winning, I think, eases a lot of the drama around that game being canceled. People got pre-mad.
Well, okay. I was going to do it when we get to the Bengals, but I have a take.
But, yeah. I mean, the Bills could have – if the Bills had beaten the Bengals, they would have been the one seed because they beat the Chiefs.
Oh. Yeah.
So they did beat – yeah, so that makes it – because the Bills and the Chiefs have the same amount of losses. So the Bills weirdly – we can do it right now.
I think the Bills weirdly have a pretty big gripe with the same amount of losses in beating the Chiefs. Bengals fans are very upset because they were worried.
Let's just do the Bengals game. Yeah,als fans got pre-mad about the coin.
They thought that it was going to come down to a coin toss after the game, which would not have been televised. That's bullshit.
If you're going to do a coin toss that means something, I want that live. Yeah.
So let's talk about Bengals 27, Ravens 16. Ravens just didn't really even try.
They started Anthony Brown, J.K. Dobbins sat.
Bengals looked great. I'm a little worried that Alex Kappa went out.
It feels like the Bengals did everything right in the offseason to try to give an offensive line to Joe Burrow, and now we're getting ready for the postseason, and it's like, Joe Burrow, you've got to do it all on yourself again. Yeah, they've got two guys out.
They said that, was it Kappa? Yeah. That he was questionable to return with an ankle injury.
But when I saw that replay, it was gross. That looks like his knee that just got mangled, and there's no way that he's coming back.
But then they showed a picture of him getting carted off the field, and he was pointing at somebody in the stands, and he was like, I'm okay. It's not bad.
It's crazy. Offensive linemen are built different.
I don't know what happened to him. I hope he's okay because that would suck to come all this way, and then he's not available to play until next season.
But it felt like the Ravens basically said, we're going to play you next week anyway. Yeah.
So we're not going to show you much. We're going to be back here.
But the coin flip. So everyone was mad about the coin flip.

I do actually agree with Bengals fans that if they had ended up with less losses than the Ravens and having to coin flip. Because they technically won the AFC North before today.
But if they had to do a coin flip to see who hosted the playoff game, that would have sucked. but as it stands right now

I don't think the Bengals have much of a gripe

because you couldn't have gotten the one seat yeah so you couldn't have gotten the one seat there was no way for you to get the one seat the chiefs had three losses to end the season there's no way you could have had the one seat i know you beat the chiefs three losses if you get to the afc championship game you don't have to play it at Arrowhead that's an advantage now yeah so you could make it and I think what happens is with every fan base the Bengals fans rightfully so are like we were going to beat the Bills well what if you had lost to the Bills what if you had lost the Bills and then and then it's a total then then the Ravens could have beaten you for the AFC North so I weirdly like if you had lost the Bills you would have had have had to go to Arrowhead. Now you don't have to go to Arrowhead if you get to the AFC Championship game.
You get to play in a random stadium. It's 50-50.
I don't think that they have anything to complain about right now, but they were getting pre-mad about the coin flip situation. Coin flip, which I get.
I got that part. And Zach Taylor was saying that we're playing a game for the opportunity to have a coin flip that can only hurt us right now.
We can't get anything. I totally understood that.
And to be honest with you, I still don't really understand how the Bengals were named division winner. But then also they might have had to play a road game.
Because of winning percentage. So what I'm looking at now says only Chiefs and Bills would be a neutral site.
I thought it was Chiefs and Bengals. I thought it was Bengals too.
Oh. Oh, because they couldn't have gotten the one seed.
Okay. All right.
All right. So, but that's still.
So, yeah. Only Bills, Chiefs.
All right. That makes sense.
But that still makes sense, though. The Chiefs were always going to get the one seed.
So, I don't really know. I guess if you're saying you would have beaten the Bills, then you would have had the two seed, but that is, again, throwing it up to chance.
You can't say because you're up 7-3 in the first quarter that you would have beaten the Bills. They did look pretty good.
Yeah, the coin flip was bullshit. I'm totally on the Bengals' side for the coin flip, so I didn't realize that.
This whole thing has given me so much, like having to read all these things. Yeah, the bottom line was the NFL said to themselves, well, we have to fuck somebody over.
Yeah. Someone's going to get the short end of the stick.
Let's try to make the least impactful screwing possible. And also, I think that there's an element with the NFL of anticipating the bigger markets and trying not to piss off certain fan bases.
Right, right. So I think that the NFL probably said, fuck Cincinnati.
Right. Like, if we got to screw somebody over, we're probably going to try to screw over Cincinnati.
But I still think if you're looking at it, so the Bengals, knowing they might have to go to Arrowhead now, thank you, Jake, for the correction, it's still, if I were a Bills fan, I'd be like, well, if you play the game that you would have maybe won that game, you would have had the one seed in the pie. So Bills fans can play the exact same game as Bengals fans.
It's a shitty situation all around. I'm happy the coin flip didn't happen because I do agree that Bengals would have been screwed if there was a coin flip.
But at the end of the day, just go win your games, right? Yeah. Just go win your games and it actually helped that the chiefs one got the one seed outright and like you don't have to because if the chiefs had lost then the bangles would have had even bigger of a complaint being like well we beat the chiefs and we have the same record as them yeah actually this this worked out as good as it possibly could have i think for the nfl yeah it wasn't going to be perfect no matter what but at least there's not like you don't have fans that are up in arms about things.
And like if everyone holds serve, you get to go play the Bills in the second round. Yeah.
In Buffalo, and we'll see how that goes. Right back.
Like we'll see how that, you know, maybe you were right. Maybe you would have beaten the Bills.
I mean, I'm still high on the Bengals. They're my AFC Super Bowl future, but I am worried about that offensive line.

It feels like they're just going to –

it's going to be Joe Burrow getting sacked a million times

and still making incredible plays and finding a way to win.

Yeah, and he can do it.

Yeah, of course he can do it.

Also, some contract news from this game, some incentives.

Justin Houston on the Ravens,

he was one sack away from earning a $1.5 million incentive. He got a sack.
He celebrated his sack. Everybody thought that he had a sack.
They went back and they re-scored it, and they credited him with half of a sack. And so he didn't end up getting that million-dollar, million-and-a-half-dollar bonus.
Ravens should pay it. Because his teammate was too quick.
His teammate was so good that they shared the sack. If I were him, I would be like, dude, do not take my sack.
Do not steal my sack. You should not be anywhere near me.
I'll pay you $100,000. Just do not hit the quarterback before I do.
I agree with Big Cat. I think the Baltimore Ravens should pay him $1.5 million.
Well, they should pay him with all the money they're not going to pay Lamar. Yeah, I agree.
You got money laying around. Pay the man.
I really hope Lam't know it's weird now I think he's gonna play I I hope he's gonna play I my if I were to guess I would say that he's gonna play he was just trying to rest up before the end of the season and things are weird he doesn't want to get injured in a regular season game yeah that's fair but he'll get injured in a playoff game if he has to okay so Bengals going they're going to host the playoff game playoff game against the Ravens. Bengals got screwed on paper, but now we're kind of all even.
I think so. I think that's the best way to say it.
I think that's where we're at. I think most Bengals fans would agree because the coin flip was complete and utter bullshit.
And shout out Joe Mixon for doing the coin flip dance where he actually pulled a coin out of his gloves, flipped it, and then kicked it. That was cool.
It was very cool. That was awesome.
Jay, can you look up what the spread of that game is going to be? Oh, whose line is it anyway? Let's guess. Because that's going to tell us if Lamar is playing.
I'm going to say Lamar is playing. I'd say the line right now for a hint is a Lamar playing.
Yeah, I'm going to say Lamar is playing. I'm going to say Bengals minus four and a half.
Five and a half. I was going to say three and a half.
Five and a half. Wow.
I would say that's a more fine. There we go.
It would be like eight or nine if he was out. You've got to hammer the Ravens down, Hank.
Yeah, definitely. Five and a half is, yeah, the dead zone.
I would guess that will end up at four and a half when he's announced officially in because they're putting it essentially at a spot where it can go up to 6, 7, and it come down to 4.5, 4. That's definitely not an Anthony Brown line.
Yeah. Vegas is smart.
They know what they're doing, putting it at 5.5. Okay.
Sticking with the AFC North, Steelers, Browns. I feel bad for the Steelers.
They won, and they were ready to go, and then the end of the Jets-Dolphins game happened. At least Kenny Pickett is a guy.
Mike Tomlin also never gone under .500. It's just incredible that he just does that every year.
Like, if you're a Steelers fan, you probably weren't going anywhere in the playoffs, but I think you got to this point, and you're like, let's get Kennyny in the playoffs let's see this defense starting to play well tj watt's fully healthy like the steelers are a playoff team if tj watt doesn't get injured week one oh 100 he's as impactful as most quarterbacks right most good quarterbacks on that defense um yeah i feel i feel bad for steelers fans but uh this season showed signs of improvement like kenny pickett looks way better now than he did at the start of the year. And George Pickens is awesome.
George Pickens is awesome. As long as Kenny Pickett can continue to throw the ball to George Pickens for the next six years, you'll be very happy with that offense.
Because I think Pickett's going to get better. His passes started to get more zip on him as the game went on and as the season went on, too.
He looks more legit like a professional quarterback than he did at the start of the year. So I'd be very happy.
I'd be happy with the progression. Yeah.
Because there were a couple games in the middle where it's like, I don't know. I don't know how many years are we going to give this guy.
How long do we have to see if Kenny's going to be the guy? I think he is. Yes, I agree.
I agree. I mean, they played tough down the stretch.
He had big games against the Raiders and Ravens. Answered today, too, when they were down early.

Deontay Johnson, by the way, just a fun little fact.

Stat Hole Sports gave it to me that he now leads.

He has the record.

86 catches this year, no touchdowns.

I think I bet him to score a touchdown in like five or six games.

He got in the end zone today, though.

He did.

He got a two-point conversion.

He did.

He got in the end zone. He also got tripped up at the one.

Yeah.

And, yeah, that sucks. It does suck.
The whole season. 86 catches, a lot of catches.
It's a ton. How many yards did he have? I'm not sure how many yards on the season.
A decent amount. Another big loser from today in this game, Bernie Kosar.
Yeah. Did you see the story about old Burn, the Burn Dog? No.
So he got fired before the game started. So he does, like, stuff for the cleveland browns okay and uh he said on sunday that he just put a 19 000 bet on the browns to beat the steelers so that's tough it's tough that the bet lost like the bet was never really in danger of uh of cashing and he also got fired from his job how do you how do you fire him after seeing that bet why don't you at least give him a heads up being like, dude, don't make that bet.
My guess is they probably wanted to fire him anyways. And then they saw that and they're like, okay, Bernie just gave us the perfect excuse for this.
Yeah. Shit.
Deontay Johnson had 800, like 860 yards, 870 yards and zero touchdowns. That's crazy.
That's nuts. Nuts.
Yeah. I feel good about the Steelers going for it.
Mike Tomlin, he's just a really fucking good coach. Every time I see a clip of Mike Tomlin on the sidelines, I get why everyone wants to play for him.
Yeah. And why players just love him.
He's just a guy. He's just a dude.
He's a big Frank. He just knows how to fire up the guys.
Yep. And the Browns, I don't...
would we be shocked if Kevin Stefanski gets fired tomorrow? I wouldn't be shocked at all. No, I wouldn't.
We erroneously credited Kevin Stefanski with that playoff win at Pittsburgh from back in 2020 when we were saying the Cleveland Browns should be lucky to have a coach that's taking them to a playoff win that doesn't happen in Cleveland. Right.
He wasn't the coach for that game. Yeah, he wasn't.
He had COVID. He had COVID, so somebody else coached that game.
Yeah. So I wouldn't be shy.
I think he's a – I don't know. He started out hot, but then sometimes you watch him and you're like, how dumb can you be to not hand the ball off to Chubb and Hunt all the time? And then Watson, have we seen any signs of improvement from Watson? Because he kind of – Deshaun Watson doesn't look good okay he's moving well physically yeah like he's fast yeah he's fast yeah yeah he had a couple nice throws that one he made to Amari Cooper uh like when Amari Cooper was streaking down the sideline that was a seed but yeah I I mean I think he'll be back to being Desha Watson, but who knows? Yeah.
Hopefully not all the way. No, not, yeah.
Right. Maybe 80% of Deshaun.
Yeah. Hopefully Deshaun just being a good football player, nothing else.
Yeah. So you don't want 100.
What if that was his missing piece? It was like Samson's hair. Yeah, that's his secret power.
He's going to just be too horny. Yeah.
Too horny to play football. He's going to have a lot of time on his hands this offseason.
Yeah. Yeah.
So yeah, that's the secret power he's gonna just be too horny yeah too horny to play football he's

gonna have a lot of time on his hands this offseason yeah yeah um so yeah that's the closing the book on the Steelers and Browns uh all right let's do some tank stuff because we had crazy tank drama Texans 32 Colts 31 I fucking love Davis Mills I was motherfucking them all game what an insane He converts a fourth and 12, a fourth and 20 for a touchdown. Max is just shaking his head.
He's so angry. This was the game that not only gave the Bears the number one pick, but also made Max the bowling champion.
It was so dumb, that touchdown pass that he threw. I think that was the fourth and 20 that went right through the receiver or the defender's hand.
Yeah. And then the receiver almost dropped it because he wasn't expecting to get the ball to him.
He was like, well, there are three people that are going to intercept this ball. I don't even have to be ready to catch it.
It just kind of landed in his lap. And the two-point conversion was equally as dumb.
It was just basically that last drive for the Texans was just how many weird things are they really trying like because it felt like the texans came out to an early lead and then it did feel like for a moment that they were they love he said to them hey guys we're trying to lose i think love he's probably gonna get fired like you said a couple weeks ago so maybe he's like fuck this i'm winning that's what i thought i think this was like a giant middle middle finger to the Texans organization on his way out the door because there were so many things he could have done to not win this game. He had ample opportunity.
If Lovie Smith wanted to lose this game, he would have made damn sure to lose this game. And he was just saying like, fuck you.
You're going to fire me? Okay. Well, I'm going to cost you a draft slot.
And Davis Mills is playing for his future because he's probably not a starting quarterback, but at least he's a backup. So this, you know, showing up in the fourth quarter when it mattered the most.
Max, what are your thoughts? Number 25, I just looked up. I think his name's Rodney Thomas.
He should be evaluated by the NFL for rigging that game. Okay.
Because that's the only explanation of how he let. It was like put his hands down when it was coming towards him.
He had no interest of knocking that football down. Yeah, he's not a wide receiver.
That's why he plays defense. He's just got to touch it.
He doesn't even have to catch it. It was crazy.
It was an insane, insane ending. I'm very happy it ended that way.
ellinger unfortunately billy does suck i mean if he was in a if he was in a shanahan offense i think he'd have a lot of success that's true that's a really good point billy that's a good spin that's a really good point yeah he he had some questionable throws he had a red zone interception um but fuck man the texans to go. There's no reason they should have won this game.
Absolutely none. None! I mean, they have two picks.
They have the 12th pick and the second pick. But holy shit, there's no reason they should have won this game.
No, no. But congrats to Lovey.
I hope that they keep around. I don't think that they're going to.
I think they're probably going to try to hire what's's his name? Josh McCown. Josh McCown this offseason.

And Jeff Saturday, see ya.

Yeah, so we learned from the last few weeks here, Jeff Saturday said that there's a chance

that this could be the hardest thing he's ever done and that it might all blow up in

his face.

Yep.

He was right.

Correct.

He was right.

He was right about being wrong.

Yeah.

So congratulations, Jeff Saturday.

What a weird year this was for him, huh? The whole thing. The Saturday Christmas card that he sent out this holiday season.
Never would have expected this to happen in his life. Yeah.
So the question now becomes, like, does ESPN hire Jeff Saturday back? Because I don't know if I can trust his analysis anymore. It's true.
On TV. I saw you coach, Jeff.
You can't do it. I don't think you know what you're talking about.
You better not criticize any of these guys. No, no.
I read an article. It was really good reporting on The Athletic about Jim Irsay and the Colts in this last year and a half.
And it was so funny because it was essentially like Jim Irsay tries to be a hands-off owner and not medal. And then it all led up to their loss against the Jaguars in week 18 last year.

And the story goes that Jim Irsay decided literally as the game was going on

that they had to get rid of Carson Wentz.

And Frank Reich was the one who was like, I can fix him.

And then he also decided, like, I got to get rid of Frank Reich.

So he's been meddling as much as possible.

Hopefully he meddles all the way to clean all the house. But, yeah, it's a mess in Indy.
Yeah, he's a meddler. It's foolish for Jim Merced to deny that he's a meddler.
That's what he does. It's what he's always done.
He's hands-on, and he just gets vibes. He owns based off vibes sometimes.
And sometimes those vibes are right. Like, he got bad vibes from Carson Wentz in that playoff game last year.
Or, sorry, in the Week 18 game last year. He just got bad vibes from him.
And he was like, don't like this guy. Don't think he's going to be a good quarterback for my team.
See ya. He was right about that.
He was dead right. So, sometimes the vibes are right.
Sometimes the vibes are very wrong. Yes.
It depends on what kind of drug you're doing that day. Yes, yes.
So, the Colts have a lot of things to fix. They have the fourth pick, which leads us to Vikings 29, Bears 13.
So the Bears, for the first time since 1947, have the first pick in the NFL draft. Pretty much a perfect ending to the season for me.
I was ecstatic. I know that people are like, well, you had the second pick.
First pick does, with the quarterbacks at the top of the draft, it will make a big difference having the first pick versus the second pick if you're going to trade it. Yeah.
Because someone's going to want to jump in, especially with the Texans being number two and wanting a quarterback. So it couldn't have worked out better.
I'm ready for smokescreen season. I want to say something, and I want everyone to know that what I'm about to say is smokescreen.
Justin Fields might not be the guy. The Bears might draft a quarterback.
Listen, there's some really talented players in this draft, Big Cat. Listen, if the Colts want to jump up to one, if, I don't know, the Texans want to trade 2-12 to get their guy, the Bears might draft a quarterback.
I'm just throwing that out there. This is just what I'm saying right now.
So you better not wait and hope that they don't. You better trade and trade a lot for that number one pick.
Here's what you can also say is just that when you finish a season like you did when you're 3-14 in the NFL, nobody's job's safe. Yeah.
All positions are up for evaluation. So if we see a plus guy that's available with the first overall pick at the quarterback position, well, you'd be a fool to not evaluate that person.
I'm just saying it. I'm just saying it.
In all seriousness, Ryan Poles is definitely going to say shit like this where he hints it. He's actually started already where he's like, Justin Fields, incredible fields incredible runner we got to see if the passing comes along yeah i'm all for everything he says that might be seen as a slight to justin fields right now if it means that we can get more for the first pick because you have to basically make the implication that you could potentially take a quarterback knowing they won't yeah i mean all you have to do is just be like well we also have

nathan peterman so we have to we have to look to upgrade all the quarterback positions dude

peterman was good today he was not bad they literally had to put in tim boyle because peterman

was doing too well well at the time i think peterman was like four for nine for 40 yards but

but no interceptions yet they threw in tim boyley threw two picks immediately yeah which was great

but you would think that by starting nathan peterman you're guaranteeing yourself of at

least three interceptions yes and we didn't get any of that today. So, yeah, you're right.
They had to call in the big guns. Be like, we need somebody that's going to turn the ball over for us.
Right, right, exactly. So, yeah, this season, as bad as it was at times and frustrating, the Bears have their guy in Justin Fields.
They have the number one pick.

Shut up, Ravens fans who are like, thanks for the 33rd pick.

Or, sorry, Steelers fans for the 33rd pick.

I get it.

I know.

They were 1-7 in one-score games.

And they have a shitload of cap. But I think they have the most cap space in the NFL.

So, there's optimism.

There's a lot of moves that have to go right for the optimism to turn into reality, but there's optimism. I also want to share a quick tweet with you.
This is from Greg Gabriel, who is a former scout for the Bears, and he does some reporting now. He tweeted on September 25th this year, the quote unquote experts said the Bears would only win three games all year.
They've won two of their first three. Do these same quote-unquote experts feel the Bears will go 1-14 the rest of the way? Just an all-time tweet.
An all-time tweet. That's awesome.
You can't have it go worse than that. That's awesome.
I mean, this ended up being a great season for you in the most fucked up way possible. If you're going to lose, you want the number one pick.
Yes. Go for the entire thing.
And I really do think that trading with, I mean, I'm looking at you, Colts. Colts, you want a quarterback? If they somehow were able to swap picks with the Colts, the Colts have the number four pick you still get Jalen Carter or Will Anderson and you get more picks out of it yeah like they should this should on paper be able to be like a huge haul for the for the Bears to to get better on across the team because that's the thing the Bears have 18 holes I don't know like 20 hole like 20 positions they need to upgrade yeah so it's it's going to be a lot of work but having the first pick is a great start you'd much rather have the first pick than have like the fourth pick yeah situation yeah yeah the colts should be yeah everyone's there's two quarterbacks they should be eyeing you down hard come get it come get it we'll fucking take bry.
Come get it. Yeah, I mean, Bryce Young, I think there's a lot of stuff out there about him not looking so tall.
I heard Kirk Herbstreet talking about that last week. Oh, he's very short.
I've heard other people talking about it. I think there might actually be some truth to that because he's listed at six feet.
Yeah, no, he's like 5'9", 5'10". He's like 5'9".
Yeah. Like 5'9 1⁄2".
Yeah. Yikes.
Yeah. Yeah, man.
That's like really short. But here's what people are going to say about him.
If you become – if your team drafts Bryce Young, what you need to say is his first love was actually basketball and he plays quarterback position like a point guard. Okay, I like that, yeah.
So you just do it that way. Yeah, it's smart.
Where the sport

that also you need to be

tall. He couldn't play.
So he went to

another sport where you should also be tall

and he can't. You know who else is short? Messi.

True. Greatest soccer player of

all time. Pete Prisco is going to fucking have a

field day. Yeah.
With Bryce Young.

Not being able to see over the big uglies.

Pete Prisco is also a self-hating short man.

Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
He's 5'2".

Big time.

But, yeah, Bears season, mission accomplished, and Vikings, 13-4.

Yep.

What a season.

Congratulations.

They did actually, like, it was smart that they played their starters in the first half

to just get the stink out of that Packers game out of their mouth.

But we'll see.

Vikings versus Giants.

Whose line is it anyway?

I think it's going to be Vikings minus six. Oh, I was going to say it's going to be the same thing it was three weeks ago.
I think it was three. Three? Four.
Yeah, because it was three weeks ago. Okay.
I don't think anything's changed. I think they're just going to go run it back three.
I think I'm going to take the Giants. They had them too, right? Right, that game? Yeah, the Vikings kind of let them back in, and then the Giants scored and got a two-point conversion.
So, yeah, that will be a fun game to watch. Is that four field goals in this game already? Yes, yes.
In the second quarter? Yes, yes. All right, games that didn't mean anything, and then we will do an ad and go to the afternoon games.
Panthers 10, yeah, Panthers 10, Saints 7. Did someone tell Sam Darnold that he had the job no matter what before the game? That's the only explanation I can think of because with one drive left in the game, it was like two minutes in the fourth quarter, and he had 20 passing pft he finished five for 15 43 yards two interceptions yeah and of those 43 yards or whatever half of them came on one pass on the final drive of the game crazy it was nuts i think someone definitely was like sam darnold you've done enough don't worry about today or maybe the owner was like hey we are tanking this game yeah yeah i mean and the saints defense started playing great towards the end and uh they were there they might be my team that no one would have wanted to play the saints yeah andy dalton yeah why not i would not want to play against the saints no they would they would just be for real it would be boring that's that's the problem the uh the saints i don't know what they're going to do at the end of the season.
They might fire their guy, Dennis Allen. I would fire him.
Bring back Sean Payton. I would fire him.
They should request an interview with Sean Payton. Yeah, I mean.
He never wanted to leave, I don't think. I think he was just trying to go to Miami.
Right. And then that whole situation blew up in his face.
He would probably go back if, well, he probably wants a quarterback back there. He probably doesn't want to come back to Coach Andy Dalton.
Jameis is there. If I'm Jameis, I'm getting the hell out of New Orleans.
Yeah. You probably could have gotten way more money these last couple years somewhere else.
Yes. Somewhere that would love you and use you the way that you want to be used.
No, not abuse you. I want to see him be happy.
Yes, I'd agree. He's not happy right now.
I'd agree.

Yeah, this game meant nothing except the only thing that was relevant was Max and I going head-to-head.

Max, you won this one.

Who cares?

You're really bummed out, aren't you?

Yeah, hard body's over.

Hard body's dead.

What?

So many hot dogs.

It's January 9th.

Yeah, I got to eat 12 hot dogs.

But that's one day.

All 12 hot dogs for you. All right.
Actually, can I got to eat 12 hot dogs. But that's one day.
All 12 hot dogs for you.

All right.

Actually, can I just say.

Wait, so you're going to bowl 180?

Wait.

To back up, Max.

Max, if I had lost, it absolutely would have been over for me, too.

I would have been like, diet's over.

In like three weeks, I got to eat a shitload of hot dogs.

What's the point?

That's exactly what is going through my head right now. What's the point of being healthy if I got to eat a shitload of hot dogs what's the point? That's exactly what is going through my head right now what's the point of being healthy if I got to eat 15 hot dogs? What if you bowl 179? That's where the drama will be.
Drink a beer. Yeah, drink a couple beers.
We did throw out the idea to make it maybe a little more interesting to have Billy drink all of Jake's beers for him. Yeah, I'm not drinking beer.
Yeah, and let Billy just get drunk. Billy just do a case race next to Jake.
Let's do it, Billy. Sneaky, I'm down.
No way. Sneaky.
Yeah, yeah. What a guy.
Low key. No one expected that.
Billy's always will fucking step up for the boys. I actually think that what Billy should do is he should be able to drink Jake's beers,

but he can't talk at all.

Just get Billy in a room, totally quiet, and you get to drink all the beer you want,

but you can't say a word.

That sounds pretty chill, too.

Can I listen to a podcast?

Yeah.

What?

Get drunk and listen to a podcast?

Yeah.

Yeah, sure.

Yeah.

That sounds pretty good. Okay.
Falcons, Bucs. Who cares? Falcons, 30, Bucs, 17.
I mean, the Bucs tried for a little bit, and they were winning for a little bit. And that's it.
I don't really have anything else to say about that. Falcons have – I mean, are the Falcons going to draft a quarterback? The Bucs are smart.
Yeah, I think they will.

Dude, you might want to come up to the first pick, Falcons.

We got that text thread.

Yeah. Go after Smith, hit him up, and be like,

hey, we're thinking about taking a quarterback.

Yeah, we're thinking about Bryce Young, so what are you going to do about it?

Make me an offer.

Yeah.

Yeah, this game was really inconsequential.

The Bucs did the right thing, I think.

You put your guys out there.

You had them get warmed up, go through the motions again. So they stayed in like a pattern of playing football every week.
And then you got them out of the game before anybody got hurt. Smart.
I think their center did get hurt. Oh, really? I think one of their offensive linemen did get hurt.
And Russell Gage. Oh, well, never mind.
Yeah. Yeah.
Play flicker PFT. Oh, Lions.
Good call, Jake. Let's go, Lions.
Lions. We'll talk about – oh, there's a flag.
We'll talk about this game. You know what? Let's take a break, and when we come back, we'll watch the entire game so we can talk about the game right after.
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We watched Sunday Night Football, and Aaron Rodgers is dead.

I think he's retired.

I think he's done.

He didn't talk much after the game.

They asked him for a jersey swap.

He said, no, I was going to hang on to this one.

And then he walked into the hallway with Randall Cobb, arm and arm, arm and arm. His old buddy.
There was a cameraman. He pushed the cameraman out of the way.
There's a bit of that going around in Green Bay this week. And it looks like, I don't know, as a body language expert, I think that Aaron Rodgers has retired from football as first reported by Part of My Take.
All right, we have breaking moves. We're going to get right back to it.
Jake. I went one for six.
Jake could not over. Breaking moves, breaking moves.
Not over. Jake could not have been more wrong.
False. I could have been more wrong because I got Giants Viking.
Oh, my gosh. One for six.
Fake news. Okay, you botched this.
No, I did not. Saturday to start off the playoffs is the Seahawks at the 49ers.
Saturday night, Chargers at the Jaguars. I can't believe the Chargers-Jackers.
Sunday afternoon, 1 o'clock, Dolphins-Bills, then followed by Giants-Vikings, Ravens-Bengals for Sunday night football. That's surprising to me that they put the Ravens and the Bengals Sunday night football.
Yeah. They must have Lamar's playing.
And then Bucs. They would not do that if he wasn't playing.
The Cowboys to finish it off on Monday night. Jake, you were wrong.
Could have been worse. Barely.
Yeah. You guys want me to be negative so bad.
It's not going to work. Welp.
I mean, you were wrong. You were very wrong.
I got one for six on something I'm not an expert in.

I can't believe the Jaguars is not 430 Saturday.

Yeah, we all thought it.

We all thought it.

All right, so back to Aaron Rodgers being dead.

The Packers lost to a Lions team that didn't have anything to play for.

Oh, my God, was that good.

And the lasting image is Aaron Rodgers interception they're dead all that talk all that comeback dead this has been truly a great day for me and shout out to Detroit because this is like I'm going to count this as a playoff victory for the Detroit Lions this is as good is as good as a playoff victory. And, like, looking back, how did they lose to the Panthers? Yeah.
That's probably got to be pretty frustrating. But this is as good as a playoff victory.
You eliminated a division rival. You won in Lambeau.
Not that hard to do for a lot of teams if they're a playoff game. Last game of the year.
You killed Aaron Rodgers. Yeah.
Skip Bayless, who everyone loves his tweets, always spot on. He had a great point.
There's actually three straight playoff losses for Aaron Rodgers at Lambeau Field. Yeah.
So three straight years, three straight playoff losses. Because this was a playoff game, and the Packers are dead.
I'm upset that I can't listen to ESPN Milwaukee right now and listen to people being like, you know, blow the whole franchise up and play in the dome. This, I mean, the Lions were awesome.
And Dan Campbell's building something. And guess what? I think Jared Goff is the quarterback.
I think they're going to keep him around. So next year, I think he gets like $25 million.
Good for Jared. Yeah.
He is fucking good. Yeah.
The offense has been electric in Detroit this year. And the last thing, I mean, Ben Johnson, their offensive coordinator, hope he doesn't get poached.
The one thing, and I can say this because Jared's a good friend of mine, is playing in the cold, and he proved it tonight. He can play in the cold.
Yep. Easy.
Cali Boy can do it. No problem.
Last mission accomplished, the Packers are dead. And they died in such a beautiful fashion.
Quay Walker pushing a trainer. Stupid penalties.
Interceptions. Man, that felt so good.
And I had a poll. I just put out a poll just to see.
I asked everyone to be unbiased. And the poll was simple.
Would you rather barely miss the playoffs or have the number one pick? And 80.8% voted number one pick, 65,000 votes. I'd actually argue that the number one pick, if you can't win the Super Bowl,

that's the second best spot to be in.

Number one pick.

Yeah.

You're the number one pick.

Otherwise, you just get really tired

and you have to go through the playoffs.

Yeah, you're just a loser.

Number one pick.

When the calendar turns,

who's in the driver's seat?

The number one pick.

Actually, I would rather end the season

with maybe a late-round drafted quarterback

that plays like he would be the number one pick

In the next video. Who's in the driver's seat, the number one pick? Actually, I would rather end the season with maybe a late-round drafted quarterback that plays like he would be the number one pick.

So then you have two number one picks.

That's true.

That's a good point.

That's a good point.

All right, so yeah, the schedule's out.

Jake completely botched it.

Mostly botched it.

He's our – what's his name?

Steve Kornacki?

Kornacki, yeah.

Jake Kornacki. He hates that guy, so I hope I'm not in this category.
I don't hate that guy. You're like Nate Silver in 2016.
I don't hate him. He's just a nerd with freak stats.
Yeah. You don't even have the freak stats.
You're just wrong. You got them all wrong.
No, I didn't. They bring that guy out.
I mean, yeah, you did. Yeah.
Anyone could have gotten one right.

They bring that guy out.

Except you.

I didn't even make a prediction.

Exactly.

You get one right.

I mean, I would have gotten at least four.

He's got you there.

I would have gotten four or five at least.

You got them all wrong.

We might have to reassess the flex job.

I'm 1-0 on my last one.

Which one?

Flex of the year. I feel like we're going to get a bill a shot for the divisional round.
What? Assisted by? You. Thank you.
Yeah. I mean, I thought you had the schedule nailed.
What do you know about schedules, Billy? There's 17 weeks in a season. I feel like Billy's got the bends, by the way, because he's a little subdued today.
I'm going to be honest. I'm pretty tired.
Yeah, do you have the bends? I think Billy just got a lot of perspective going down under the water. I'm low energy today, guys.
I'm trying to bring it, but working on it. It's tough when you go to the bottom of the world and then have to come back up where the mortals live.
He's being low-key, low-key right now. Yeah, real low-key.
All right, so yeah, the Packers are dead. I don't know.
Do you think this is Aaron Rodgers' last game? Yeah. No, I just said I think that he's actually done.
If you look at what happened after the game, this looks like he's done. Wow.
I think he's finished. Wouldn't that be sweet? I think he's finished he's finished finished finished we put out a stat a second ago that he has the exact same number of playoff victory since 2017 as Blake Bortles which I think is a little bit insulting Wow that you said that and compared him to Aaron Rodgers but it just it just numbers never lie I mean Jake you know me I love my numbers mm-hmm they They have the exact same amount of playoff victories.
Same exact amount of NFC championships as Rex Grossman. And Super Bowl since 2017, too.
That's true. Man, this was good.
This was a great day. I feel great.
Packers fans, I'm sorry. I will put my hand up.
I didn't realize while we were watching the game that the Lions had already been eliminated and I'm an NFC North guy through and through so I always want as many NFC North teams in the playoffs so I fucked up I would I would have been rooting for the Packers if if I had known that but uh so I made a mistake I actually do feel bad for for Packers fans I I'm on Packers fans side in this because I don't what we saw tonight was an embarrassment for Packers fans. It's sad Packers fans' side in this because what we saw tonight was an embarrassment for Packers fans.

It's sad that they have to deal with that type of product being put on the field,

and it's sad that they have to watch their not just one first-round pick,

but both of their first-round picks on defense assault training staff members tonight,

especially given what we've seen this week

and how important the training staff is.

I feel bad for Packers fans that they have to deal with that.

You guys don't deserve that.

I don't.

You guys don't deserve it.

I don't feel bad for them.

You deserve better than that.

I don't feel bad for them all.

Okay.

So Packers are eliminated.

Seahawks are in the playoffs.

Kind of weird.

We like expected all day that the Packers would be the ones that would get there. and now it's like, oh, shit.
We might as well start with them. The Seahawks are in the fucking playoffs.
Flip the page. They just couldn't have enacted a better revenge on Russell Wilson than what happened this season.
Pete Carroll takes the Seahawks to the playoffs. Everyone thought they were going to be one of the worst teams in the NFL going into this season Geno Smith is starting a playoff game it's crazy and that game today was was nuts because they tried to give it away uh Baker Mayfield like he had he had a couple moments and then he had the pick in in overtime but man the Seahawks tried to tried to lose it like six different times but they made the playoffs they're playing the 49ers they'll probably get shit pumped by the 49ers but they made the playoffs and they also have the fifth pick in the draft yeah it's pretty damn good and you've got uh you don't have russell wilson yes that's another bonus thing that you have working and you're in the playoffs and you're in the're in the playoffs.
Geno Smith is a free agent that's here. Someone's going to pay him.
Geno's going to get a shitload of money. I hope it's not my team, but somebody's going to pay Geno Smith.
Maybe the Jets, Billy? He's coming home, baby. Yeah? Wow, what a redemption.
He would stink right away. Yeah.
He'd get off the plane and roll his ankle. Get that Jets back in him.
Yeah. Turn into old Gino.
Yeah. But yeah, it's a great season if you're a Seahawks fan.
Great. You actually made the playoffs.
That's good. You even, I mean, you're not going to beat the 49ers, but like you can lie to yourself and just go back.
Here's what you should do if you're a Seahawks fan this week. Go back and watch like old playoff games and watch like old NFC West rivalry games when it was, you know, the Legion of Boom, because those were some awesome games.
It was like Kaepernick against those Seahawks. You would beat them up.
Just go watch some of those and be like, it's the same uniforms that are going to be playing this weekend. You never know.
It doesn't even matter if they were like, they're not going to win this game, but it doesn't matter. matter they they broke up with their girlfriend they lost a lot of weight their girlfriend lost lost his job like got you know the boss fired too on the way out everything has gone wrong in her life and you're living your best life yeah you're good like you you know you got the dream job you're looking great yeah you're a new girlfriend she's hot she's back on plenty of fish you're on raya yeah now yeah You're cruising those new girlfriend.
She's hot. She's back on Plenty of Fish.
You're on

Raya right now. You're cruising

those internet streets. It's like you couldn't have won

a breakup better than what the Seahawks did this

year and you have the fifth

pick. It's insane.
So

congrats to the Seahawks. As for the Rams,

everything points towards Sean

McVay possibly taking a

I've heard it be

deemed a hiatus. So he's going to take at least a year off.
What are you going to say, Hank? Am I wrong in thinking that Sean McVay is very smart for being the Rams coach, but if this were any other franchise, they would hate him and be furious at it? For being like one foot out the door? And just basically like tanking the team's future to win the Super Bowl last year, but then abandoning them. It's like doesn't matter, win a ring.
Well, he also isn't the GM. I think so.
Hank, we all can't be lucky enough to have 17-year dynasties. I didn't say it as a fact.
I raised a question and asked a question. So I get what you're saying.
I've also heard it through sources and not really just really reading articles That he might take a year off And the Rams are like When you want to come back You're our coach I don't know how that would work Yeah I don't know how that would work He's taking a sabbatical I have no idea how that would work But that also is Les Snead Like he's the GM He's the one who mortgaged the future for a ring. So, I don't know.
You can't be that mad. He gave you a lot of good years.
He took you to two Super Bowls, won one of them. We're going to say Billy.
I think he's going to be this generation's John Gruden. Oh.
Bad emails? Yeah. No, no.
Just like every time there's a vacancy and if he goes into media, he's going to be a name. Well, yeah.
That's 100% what's going to happen. I mean, if he's in media, he can just name his spot to go back.
I think he actually probably is a little mad at himself for not doing this last year right after the Super Bowl. He fucked it up.
He fucked it up big time. If he had known that this season was going to turn out the way that it did, he definitely would not have come back.
But's the nice thing is if you get into media all of a sudden you're working around all other media people so if you want your name to be leaked just like go next door and whisper in Peter King's head and be like hey um so I'm being considered right now as the next coach the Miami Dolphins and the next thing you know that's report then people will talk about you. Yeah.
So he's going to be able to have anything.

The world is his oyster.

He should have retired after last year.

Yeah.

Go make a shitload of money on TV.

You work like 10 hours a week,

and then whenever you feel like you want to get back in coaching again,

you can pick a spot that's set up for the future,

a team that has multiple draft picks.

It's going to pay you a shitload of money.

That's probably what he'll do. Yeah, exactly.
Also, breaking moves. We should have mentioned this as well.
Breaking moves. Lovie Smith has been fired.
So we alluded to it at the first part of the show when we were taping before. He did actually get fired.
Goes out a king. Goes out with pride.
I love him forever. He got fired because he won a game yeah that's what it came down to i think that he i think he would have kept his job if he had lost uh because they probably asked him and i do want to know what those conversations are like between an ownership and uh and a head coach they were probably just like dude what were you thinking what we there was no reason for us to

win this game max now has to bowl i want to know that the conversations that happened like before the games though how they're able to tell them to lose without because they want to be very careful yeah in the way that they say things like the dolphins the whole uh what was he trying to pay him like a hundred thousand dollars per loss yeah a couple seasons ago i want to know how how like delicate they are and what kind of

code words they use. I think that

going for two is kind of him trying to lose it oh love it i mean it was kind of a bad play yeah in trying to because he could have just tied it up right yeah they could have tied it up and then gone to overtime so that's that's kind of what you would do if you were playing to win yeah i think the way they probably do it, the ownership would probably be like, we want to see what our young guys have for us. We want to see how much depth we have for next year, which is essentially code for just start the backups.
And again, I mean, Davis Mills is playing for his job, so it's hard to tell a guy who is literally playing for his livelihood going forward in the NFL, like, hey, dude, try to throw this game or really suck. Right.
Yeah. And a lot of guys.
That goes for a lot of guys who are playing. All right.
So, yeah, Seahawks in the playoffs, number seven seed, playing at 430 on Saturday, which is the game that Jake predicted was going to be the Jaguars' Chargers. He was wrong about that one.
He's just looking at me right now. I think we're all wrong about that one.
No, we were. We were all wrong about that.
We were all dead wrong about that one. I even said it in Boomers.
I absolutely thought that was – we all thought it. I guess the Jaguars, that's like a big come-up.
Yeah. They got the promotion to Saturday night.
They're a night team now. I love that.
The vibes in Jacksonville at night are awesome. Is there is going to be so drunk.
It's going to be incredible. It's going to be sick.
Alright, so back to the other games. Broncos 31, Chargers 28.
Brandon Staley is the biggest idiot in the world. I don't know why he was playing all his starters for the entire game.
Mike Williams got carted off with a back injury. So the Chargers, when they started this game, when this game kicked off, they knew that they were playing for absolutely nothing, literally nothing.
I think he said afterwards it was for momentum or whatever. But you had Mike Williams get hurt.
You had Bosa. I think he left the game possibly injured, didn't come back, but that also could be like a plan.
But holy shit, what an idiot. Like a really dumb thing for him to do, to be playing.
Be the coach of probably the most snake-bitten franchise of all time, playing in a game that means absolutely nothing six days before your playoff game, and be like, yeah, let's play everyone. Yeah, so he was asked about it after the game.
He said, these aren these aren't easy decisions they're not easy decisions and hindsight is perfect for everybody on the outside but these games are not easy to manage they're not because you don't have that many players we did it to the best of our ability and to be fair to brandon staley there's no you can't possibly predict that if you've got like keenan allen and mike williams on your team or joey bosa that maybe one of those guys could get injured and have like a soft tissue injury. That'd be crazy.
He's not some sort of psychic. He doesn't see the future.
No, no. Yeah.
There's no way you could fit. He could tell that.
So, uh, yeah. And the Broncos, I feel like Russ was basically said, I need to play well enough that, uh, Sean Payton wants to come and coach me because he actually did play well today.
He had three touchdowns. He was moving around in the pocket, throwing deep balls.
He basically said to himself, looked at himself in the mirror, was like, Mr. Unlimited, you got to do this so that you get a decent coach next year, not like the fifth or sixth choice that doesn't want to coach me.
Their offense is twice as good as it was before they fired Hackett, like in terms of points per games. So the question that you have to ask yourself is, one, should you sign Russ Wilson to an extension right now? I think you've got to lock that guy up.
The last two games he's been playing has been incredible. The second thing is they asked Russ after the game what the explanation was, like why is the offense so much better now? And he's like, well, we're relying more on the running game and then building off of that using play action.
Just remind me a second, Biket. When Russell Wilson, when he left Seattle, the main reason why was because he didn't want to keep playing in a rush-first play action predicated offense.
He wanted to cook. He wanted to cook.
He wanted to cook. And so now that's what they're doing.
I think Nathaniel Hackett, if he could go back in time, he would be like, well, first of all, probably not take that job. Yeah.
Secondly, maybe stick to the surgery. Definitely still do the interview with us because we waited until like week 12 to start making fun of him.
That was definitely a good PR move on his part. That was probably his best coaching decision all year.
Yeah, so he probably would go back and say, I'm going to run the offense that I want to run and not just like be complacent to all of Russell Wilson's thoughts. Yes, yes.
And also I'm taking away Russell Wilson's office and parking space. Yes, all of that, all of that.
But yeah, Russ Wilson maybe did enough that someone's be like, oh, not bad you show it he did show you enough these last couple weeks like watching him play he looked a little bit like the old russ yeah um all right next up eagles 22 giants 16 eagles get the one seed hank cowboys were gonna get the one seed daniel jones plays this game it's a a different story. What about the Cowboys losing? They kind of got their ass kicked today.
That part also. Yeah, it wasn't, you know, Sam Howell, absolute wagon.
Yeah. I just, like, this game for me, I had the can't lose parlay.
Yeah, it hurt. It was six and a half.
It hurt. It just was a soul-crushing loss.
Especially after the Hungry Dog loss in the first leg. Yeah.
The Hungry Dog went, oh, no, the Lions. Yeah, the Lions.
The Lions won. And the Rams, I took them because you said I think the Rams were going to win.
Because McVay, yeah. Yeah.
I said that on Friday. So that was just, can you admit, that was just troll shit? No, I mean, I believed it.
I just didn't realize Daniel Jones wasn't going to play. I didn't realize that the Cowboys weren't going to try against the Commanders and that Sam Howell's a beast.
The Eagles almost lost to the fucking JV squad Giants, so I'm not thrilled if I'm Max. Max, are you thrilled? I want to answer that without.
Yes, I'm not thrilled, but it's not because you said that I'm not thrilled. Got it.
You're not owned. I'm not owned.
Not mad right now. No.
I'm worried about Hurts' health. Why? He didn't look good today? But I thought it was confirmed that he was totally fine.
Well, it was confirmed that he was going to play. Also that he was fine.
Did he not play well? He didn't play great, and the more concerning thing is after the game

of just everyone talking about how much pain he's in.

Oh, that's not good.

What?

Pain everywhere?

Hurts is in pain?

Hurts is hurt.

You got the bye week.

Yeah, you got some time to get healthy.

The bye week is nice.

Lane Johnson's coming back. Lane will be back.
He probably will also be in some pain. It would be nice if you could just have Boston Scott play against the Giants every single game.
Boston Scott's the best. He really is the best.
It was great. Did you know that 60% of his career touchdowns have come against the Giants? Yeah, it's like the meme that goes through Philly Twitter every single time we play the Giants is Boston Scott,

any time touchdown score, and it hits every time.

It's the only team he scores against.

So, yeah, he said he was in pain afterwards throwing.

That doesn't feel good.

The quarterback?

Yeah.

You should just shoot it up.

Fuck you, Hank.

I'm just making sure that the guy that throws the ball professionally,

being in hurt when he throws.

He's got a week.

Going into the playoffs.

But he's a warrior.

That's true.

He's going to grind it out.

He's got a week.

We got to really root for the Giants here, Max.

We got to root for the Giants.

Who do you want to play, Max?

The Giants.

I mean, I'm not really scared of anybody in the divisional round. Totally not.
Totally not. Who am I supposed to be scared of? Left hand up.
The Bucs? Fuck the Bucs. The Cowboys? I'll take the Bucs.
Fuck the Cowboys. The Cowboys looked horrible today.
Yeah, they did. We need the Cowboys.
Yeah, give me the Cowboys. Give me the Cowboys.
We need that. Hank's number one seed.
Yeah. You'll see why in a couple weeks.
Oh, man. Okay.
It is good that you've got two weeks, though. Yeah.
Get healthy. Just get healthy.
Got to come to the link. Got to come to the link.
Got to come to the link. Maybe get batteries thrown at you.
Got to come to the link. No matter what, who wins that game, Cowboys.
No, if the Giants or Seahawks win, they would go. You don't know ball.
If the Seahawks win, you don't know ball. The way you said it, I was confused.
No, I mean, the best case scenario is Seahawks shock the world. Yeah.
That would be best case scenario. Give me the fucking Cowboys.
Oh, he's calling them out. I want the Cowboys.
That's a call out. That's a call out.
I actually should say right now, because we're just out in the open, I'm going to bet the Buccaneers, I think. Yeah, well, yeah, of course.
Tom Brady's never lost to the Cowboys. Whose line is it anyway? I'm going to say Cowboys minus.
It's at Tampa Bay. I know you're struggling with the fact that the Cowboys are not the ones.
I think it's a pick them. Cowboys minus.
It's at Tampa Bay. I think it's.
I know you're struggling with the fact that the Cowboys are not the one.

I think it's a pick them.

I'm going to say Cowboys minus.

What did you say?

Two.

I go one and a half or two and a half.

Two and a half.

Cowboys minus three.

Got him.

I love the Bucs.

I love the Bucs.

I love the Bucs in this.

Please. Cowboys fans.
Bet that. Bet that.
Bet that line. I mean, I love the Bucs.
I love the Bucs. I love the Bucs in this.
Please. Cowboys fans, bet that.
Bet that line. I mean, did you see the Cowboys today? Dog shit.
Dog shit team. Brady's never lost to them, right? Dog shit organization.
Yeah, Brady's never lost to them. Yeah, let's talk about that game.
Wait, wait, real quick. Let's not bury the lead here in the Giants-Eagles game.
Galladay caught a touchdown pass. Yes, he did.
Yes, he did. His first touchdown pass for the New York Giants they've paid him uh 36 million dollars for one touchdown at this point so he's what two years into the four-year 72 million dollar contract it's never a good thing when you google somebody and the first thing that pops up after their name is contract yeah because then you know it's a bad contract yeah that's never happened to anybody that's on a good contract where everyone's Googling how much money they make because they're so poor.
So yeah, Galladay, one touchdown. I hope he only gets one for the Giants.
They hate him so much. Well, maybe he's just warming up.
Maybe he's just warming up for the playoffs. Maybe.
Yeah. Maybe he's just a primetime guy.
Yeah. He makes big plays and big games.
Yeah. And what did he end up, 72 catches away from getting his incentive? Yeah, something like that.
Yeah. Memes loved that one.
He did. Yeah, he was sharing it everywhere.
Okay, yeah. Commanders, Cowboys, you guys whooped him.
Yeah, it was a whopping. Fucking killed him.
Sam Howell is the future, baby. He looked good enough for me to lie to myself for an offseason to get excited about a year of Sam Howell.
That's really all I needed out of him, and he was able to do that. Also, when a player's first pass that they ever throw in the NFL goes for a touchdown, to me, that just tells me that they're going to be a Hall of Famer.
Yeah. That's an amazing start.
It's a perfect start to their career. I'd agree.
So, yeah, Sam Howell got Major Tutty, saw his first win in person today. Love it.
That was big of us. And Taylor Heineke was the first guy clapping him up, rooting him on on the sidelines.
I'm just excited. Taylor Heineke is now the next member of a long list of former Washington commanders that go to a new team, and I just root like hell for him.
So that's where I'm at. Why can't he be the backup? You think he wants to stick around after what happened this year? I don't know.
Well, Ron Rivera might not. No, but that's the thing about the organization right now is Snyder's trying to sell the team.
Right. You can't fire a coach right now.
True. Because then one who would want to come be the coach knowing that once they sell the team you're probably going to get fired again yeah and if you can get somebody that wants that job that person probably sucks yeah that's stupid that's a good point um yeah so the dak prescott seven straight games with an interception he stinks he's bad i don't believe.
I'm sorry. I just don't.
I know that he's like good-ish. I don't.
He's like good in theory. Right.
He's good in theory, and God damn it, Max is still upset about all the comparisons to Carson Wentz. Yeah, he is.
You can see him fuming. But yeah, if you're a Cowboys fan, I've noticed that we talk a lot of shit about a lot of different fan bases or a lot of teams on the show.
Cowboys fans are pretty silent when we talk shit about their organization. I think enough years have just gone by that it's tough for them.
I think it's embarrassing to be a Cowboys fan. Yeah.
Yeah. And we went through that conversation about what was the point in every season that essentially the Cowboys' hype reached a fevered pitch.
And that guy actually went through the last 20 years for me and points to every single game. And it feels like we've passed that moment.
I feel like the Colts, when they kick the shit out of the Colts, that was it. And the Cowboys are going to be out.
I don't know. Maybe they'll win a game.
But they got to play Tom Brady. Yeah.
This all points to a collapse. Now, has there ever been a coach that was fired after winning a playoff game? After going to two straight playoffs.
After going to two straight playoffs. I'm sure.
I mean, Mike McCarthy, he had that dumb fat face on today. Jerry Jones probably wanted to fire Mike McCarthy after this game.
Even though they have a playoff game. They're still very much alive.
It was bad. They just weren't ready to play today.
It's also one of those games where you could have easily just played your backups and been like, we're not trying. Instead, they were just not trying with all their starters.
Makes it look way worse. Yeah, that was starting defense.
Yeah. And Sam Howell, he didn't set the world on fire.
I think he had 180 yards passing, one touchdown, one interception. For the most part, besides that bad pick, he took care of the ball.
And he's a decent runner. I'm starting to soften my take that I can't trust him because he doesn't eat red meat.
Yeah. And shout out Max, by the way.
He had this game nailed.

He had the under.

He picked it.

Fucking nailed it.

Like, I mean, that was never even close.

Yeah, you got that one, Max.

Anything, Max?

I mean, that was a great pick.

Yeah, great pick.

You nailed that one, dude.

As a fan of a joke of a franchise, because I don't want to just lash out at Cowboys fans without realizing I'm in a glass house here, because my franchise is a massive joke, I do feel compelled to point out sometimes when they do something right, I unironically like Major Tutty. Yeah.
I like the hog. People are giving him a lot of shit because I think it's everyone's reflex, knee-jerk reaction the commanders do anything, make fun of them, and 99% of the time, that's the correct reaction to have to whatever they do.
I like Major Tutty, but he needs a bigger ass. If he's supposed to be an offensive lineman, he's got to have big legs and he's got to have a big ass.
I agree. He doesn't have a big ass.
They gave him padding around his waistline so he's got a, but no ass. Give the hog an ass.
Yeah. What do you say, Billy? I think he looks too much like a farm pig.
Okay. Too edible.
He looks like porky pig. I'm like, that's bacon.
It's not very intimidating. It's what you eat.
You need a wild hog. A wild hog.
Yeah. Yeah, you need something that will fuck some shit up.
That's's too domestic You need to get in a helicopter To gun him down

Animal farm

Yeah

Here's what we do

We give him a bigger ass

And then we give him some stubble

I think if he had like stubble

Like a beard

Like a feral hog

Yeah like maybe he's working

A nine to five he hates

Yeah maybe

Which he probably is

He's got a tattoo

Oh yeah

He literally is

We definitely don't pay him

Yeah yeah

Does he have tusks?

No he's got tusks

Yeah he needs tusks

Yeah

Now we're getting to boar territory

Yeah but I think Billy's right a tattoo. Oh, yeah, because we definitely don't pay him.
Does he have tusks? No, he's got tusks. Now we're getting into boar territory.
Yeah, but I think Billy's right. When you see that, it's too much.
You want to eat it. Porky pig.
Yeah. But that said, it could be a lot worse.
They didn't fuck it up too bad. Yeah, no, I like it.
I like it. All right, last game, 49ers, Cardinals.
49ers kicked the shit out of the Cardinals. The biggest story of this game was Darren Revell cutting line of a bunch of special needs children to say hello to J.J.
Watt. So the craziest part of this video is that Darren Revell, he goes out and he's waiting for J.J.
Watt, who's doing his pregame, like playing catch with fans darren's got a front row seat to it and he's just standing there like a creep wait did he just end up there no he was camped out there for like 20 minutes trying to get trying to get a good spot to say nice career to jj watt and then jj turns around and then darren just goes up to him puts his hand on his shoulder like a weirdo and gives him a hug. Meanwhile, you've got like four kids that have special needs behind him crying because J.J.
Watt's not high-fiving them before the game. He was standing there and he basically in his mind was like, I'm going to plan to stand in a spot where J.J.
sees me, comes up to me, hugs me. J.J.
was not paying attention to him and walked past him. And in the video, you the panic in revel's eyes being like oh my god jj didn't notice me so then he like does the thing where you speed walk and you're kind of running like you know olympics uh olympic speed walking essentially yep he sped walk behind him and right before jj gets to the group of special needs children who are like waiting with him with open arms he grabs his shoulder and like forces the interaction with jj it i mean it's revel so it's like he's got a laundry list of of of moments like this but this one's up there maybe the one shining moment it really is dash maybe the the worst part of it gatorade picture and this this tells you everything you need to know about Darren Is he posted this video himself Yes He was proud So he has no idea how weird this makes him look Yeah I mean well he did He also posted his you know Martin Luther King memorabilia And the girl that he definitely liked girls When he was three years old And then he wants to track her down Leslie Hello Leslie from the Leslie from the pool? Yeah.
Yeah. No, Darren was never afraid of girls.
Quite the opposite. He always knew he liked girls, even when he was three.
Shout him out, though. I wouldn't have a job here without him.
That's true. I'd say all the time.
Well, I was saying we're going to have to probably do like a TikTok or something recreating this video. Just the walk, the walk that he does to follow JJ.
And I think he cut off the sound, but you can see his mouth moving. And I think he was like, JJ, JJ, JJ, like trying to get his attention.
Yeah. JJ's probably retiring just to get away from Darren Ravel.
Yeah. The fact that he, like, it's not even, we're not even, he posted it on his own story.
Right. No, it's not like a, it's not like a candid video.
Like look at Ravel being a weirdo. It's like he posted this video himself.
He thought it made him look cool because it was showing how hard he was working and how close of friends he was with J.J. Watt.
Yeah. Crazy.
Absolutely insane. J.J., if you want us to take care of anything for you, let us know.
Yeah. If you want anybody handled, we'll take care of him.
Happy to do that. By the way, I just pulled up Matt LaFleur's press conference and everyone everyone's just spamming the chat with tomatoes.
It's pretty awesome. That's good.
He's throwing tomatoes out. The Niners are awesome.
The Niners are a scary, scary fucking team. Shout out to George Kittle's grandmother, 100 years old.
She was at the game. They sung Happy Birthday to her in the stands.
Damn, and they scored two touchdowns. His is the best.
His grandmother grandmother for being 100, she looks crazy young for being 100.

Careful.

Careful, PFT.

Hank, don't.

Anyone that watches this.

Take out that phone.

This is not a bonk.

She looks like she's, I don't know, 80 years old and she's 100.

That's awesome.

And she was so happy to be there for her grandson.

It was cool.

It was a good moment.

I'm not being horny.

Would you take her out on a date? No. So is this on the list? I mean, like.
It was cool. It was a good moment.
I'm not being horny. Would you take her out on a date?

No. So is this on the list?

I mean, like...

She seemed like a nice woman.

George Kittle's great.

I got another one. I mean, Major

Tutty, she's needing a bigger ass.

It's obviously on there, too.

She's not...

We'll set weekly meetings on, like, Friday.

You guys are so horny right now that, like, I can't even say that an older person looks great for their age without you thinking I want to be on towards her. Actually, this is a very current piece.
I just wrote a blog. Turns out hornier people live longer.
Oh, okay. Yeah.
There was a study done. Good for them.
So what are you saying, Billy? You're saying that his grandmother's horny? No. You're saying his grandmother would accept the date offer from PFT.
You're going to live a long time. 100 years is so long.
Yeah, I don't want to be 100, I don't think. That's so crazy.
I only want to live to be 100 years old if one of my grandchildren is in the NFL. That's the only reason, so I can go to their games and get good seats.
Yeah, Virginia McCaskey just turned 102. Oh, wow, Hank.
What was that, Hank? Doom and gloom. Little Mike Greenberg there.
He said, think the NFL is going to be around that long? We're going to play flag football? Yeah. All right, Greta.
Yeah. You probably think the NBA is next up, huh? No, NBA is.
They got China on their side. Pickleball.
Pickleball. Pickleball.
Yeah, the J.J the JJ Watts last game did you see the wild stat Jake oh you missed it oh you did every stadium so he had played in every single stadium except the Mercedes Benz dome which he played in last week and then Levi's stadium which he played in this week so every active stadium he has played in in his NFL career that's pretty cool that's great yeah wild good for JJ you think he's ever going to want to come back well we're going to have him on Super Bowl week so we'll ask him we'll put I could see him being a broadcaster uh yeah yeah probably yeah probably he could probably name. Yeah, I think he just wants to be a dad.
Yeah. I think he brought his...
So he'll be broadcasting in a year. Yeah, that's true.
That's a good point, Hank. Yep.
Good point. He's going to try being a dad, and then he's going to be like, I wish I had something else that I could do.
Yeah. My wife told me, get out of the house.
Yeah. Every ex-NFL player ever.
I just want to be with my my family then i was around in the morning and my wife told me what the hell are you doing you gotta do something with your life uh okay so that's week 18 that was a great week and we have our playoff set and i'm very very excited for playoff football uh billy do we have football guy of the week let's do yes let's do an ad and then we'll do football guy of the we'll wrap up with Who's Back. Yeah, before we get to Football Guy and Who's Back, it's brought to you by my great friends over at C4.
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Okay, Billy. Football Guys Week.
I'm just happy

for Lions fans.

I really am. That was awesome.

You know

the offseason. They're going to be the sexiest

Thank you. Okay, Billy, Football Guys Week.
I'm just happy for Lions fans. I really am.
That was awesome. You know the offseason.
They're going to be the sexiest pick. Oh, yeah.
They should have made the playoffs. They should.
I wish we could just, like, the seventh seed should just be a fan vote. Well, so.
They kind of, like, the Thanksgiving game, too, obviously it was the Bills, but, like, they, weren't they winning? They were winning, and then Josh Allen had that long throw. Yeah, he Josh Allened them with, like, 13 seconds left.
I don't want to do this to the Lions fans, but I'm going to look up their schedule right now. I mean, they lost the Seahawks in that crazy shootout in Detroit that they probably very well could have won.
I think the Vikings was another one. Yeah, they blew that game.
Oh, man, that sucks. The Panthers, like two weeks ago, they got smoked.
But the Bills game, they were winning in the fourth quarter. The Seahawks game, they were winning in the fourth quarter.
They lost to the Dolphins by four. That hurt.
Yeah, the Panthers game, though, does stick out because that was after they had flipped the switch and gotten good. Yeah, I think if you had to ask them to take back one game, it's probably that one, right? Yeah.
I feel like you would take back a game that you were closer in, though. Well, they were beating the Dolphins 27-17 in half.
We shouldn't do this, the Lions fans. No.
I'm happy, Lions fans. That was a fun night.
We're not going to do this. All right, Football Guy of the Week.
Congratulations to Blaine Gabbert, who won last week for saving helicopter crash victims in a jet ski from drowning. And now he won the majority of the vote with exactly 69% of the vote.
Nice. Our first nominee is Rex Ryan.
if you guys didn't see, Rex Ryan was crying regarding Damar Hamlin waking up at the hospital and asking whether his team won. And the doctor replied, no, Damar, you actually won the game of life.
And he had a very emotional cry on TV. This week is basically several figures around the Damar Hamlin stuff.
It's people reacting to Damar? Well, there's got to be one other one, right? Right. Peyton Hillis.
Yeah. Second nominee, Peyton Hillis.
Peyton Hillis rescued both of his children from drowning in another water-related incident. Not sure the exact specifics, but he was put on a ventilator in the hospital, and his kidneys are not so sending some prayers his way.
But he's still in critical condition. But he saved both his children and sacrificed himself.
Huge football guy move. Yeah, that's a crazy story.
Hope he gets better. Third nominee is actually Damar Hamlin for asking whether his team won.
Wait, so Billy, we're in a tough situation here because you're going to have Damar Hamlin going up against Peyton Hillis. Well, I could have just been like Damar Hamlin wins this week, but in the spirit of football guys, there still needs to be a competition.
Football guys love to compete. That's a great point.
They're going to compete. That's a checkmate right there.
He wouldn't want to win it straight up. None of these guys would.
They would want to compete. They want to compete and they want to win.
They're not pulling their starters. The fourth nominee is the Bills training staff, who got a full standing ovation from the crowd.
I was hoping he was like a high school player. Bills stadium.
All right, so it's Jared Lisonko, and he's a right guard. He eats pancakes.
At St. Mary's Prep Academy, and he makes pancakes for his whole team before every practice, and then he puts syrup on them.
Yeah, so who's's the bigger football guy? Bill's medical training staff? I feel guilty voting on this one. Yeah, I mean, like Peyton Hillis and DeMar.
I don't deserve it. It's the pancake guy.
Easy winner. It's actually pretty sweet, and he also cuts her into a mullet and shaved a pancake into the side of his head.
A lot of football guys this week. All right, Go vote.
The blog is up. Let's finish up.
Who's back of the week? My who's back was going to be Revell, but we just talked about that. So I will just give an update for my Fire Fest Friday.
I'm back. My back is back.
Hell yeah, Hank. Slat situation was resolved.
A lot of people reached out. There's a lot of – I thought about making an OnlyFans for my slats everyone everyone wanted to see what my slats were looking like people were people were fiending the slats um but there were some good suggestions one stoolie awl reached out with a very specific he's like i had an ikea look for this this happened to me and i did that and realize the issue basically the middle bracket uh holding up the slats was lower than the side ones so that was what was creating the sink and then i had to you know take out the screws screw them back in so they're level you put the middle the middle beam into the wrong holes on this yes and.
And not a football guy move. I had,

there was not me that assembled the bed. So I will take only partial blame,

but it was assembled incorrectly.

I slept on it for probably a little bit too long.

So Hank,

there were actually a lot of people that were saying that you just

fucked too hard and that's why your bed keeps breaking.

Yeah,

not true,

but your fire fest last week was that you, you have too much sex yeah that you can't keep a bed around definitely definitely not but that's all right yeah let it let us just take that yeah that rumor be out for sure yeah all right pft who's your who's back um my who's back of the week is pretty much dry january so we're doing it again this year so we're doing super Super Bowl labs. We're getting hard bodies, but I have a method.
Not Max. He's out.
Not Max because he has to eat hot dogs in three weeks. He has to eat 12 hot dogs in three weeks' time.
I've got a method that might – I'm not a nutritionist, but I do this every January. People always do, like, sober October or dry January.
I do pretty much dry January every year, which it helps you lose some pounds. The rules are you're allowed no drinking, except you can drink on the weekends and on Thursdays.
And if there's Monday night football, you can have a few beers during Monday night football. But besides that, it's a good chance to reset your body, get the kidneys and the liver back to normal functioning.
Or if you have to do a bowling challenge bowling challenge then you can drink beer too actually just if you're at a bowling alley you can drink doesn't matter the night of the week yeah what if it's your birthday yes yes good point so there's birthday week and billy's birthday is also in january so yeah you can drink on your birthday um the day or your friend's birthdays yeah your friend's birthdays or if you have like a party that's celebrating your birthday that's not on your birthday you can drink that night too what about the national championship yeah no so if there's a football game on okay all right football what if you're going to a concert yeah um where new york okay like at a big a big venue sure sure yes intimate yes yeah both yeah no the answer is yes to either one what do you have to do a case race um yeah you're allowed to do that too okay if it's for work yeah it's for work okay all right yeah so those are the rules but the bottom line is like you uh you it's a great way to shed some calories and drop some pounds i know like this time of year we're all starting to get back in the in the healthy kick of things so except max except for max so jump start your year with pretty much basically dry january i love it max i really did have the same exact thought i was like if i lose this i'm done i'm done dieting it's stupid i don't like it i'll just live fat oh also if you're on a plane yeah you can drink on a plane or an airport yeah or a train yes yes train sir yeah if you're traveling including the path train No, no, you can't drink in Or a train. Yes, yes, train, sir.
Yeah. If you're traveling.
Including the path train? No, no, you can't train on the path train. Subway, yes.
Yeah. Subway, yes? Yeah, you have to wait until you get to New York.
Yes. All right, my who's back is Aaron Rod.
Oh, wait, no, shit, they lost. Fuck.
I thought they were going to be in the playoffs. That's my bad.
No, my who's back is, god damn it. I can't wait until we finish this show.
I'm going to fire up Milwaukee radio and just listen to it all the way home. Probably sit in my car until like 3 a.m.
It's going to be so good. It's going to be so fucking good.
Oh, my God. I can't believe they lost a home game with a Lions team that didn't have to play for anything.
Aaron Rodgers just said that he is not going to hold the team hostage.

He just needs some time to get the emotion out of it

and figure out what's best.

Got it.

So he's not taking them hostage.

He's just going to retire, straight up kill them.

Retire, retire.

He's going to do it quickly.

All right.

Who's back is overreacting to things.

So I like to do this week 18. Just look back real quick.
I'm just going to read off a couple games for you from the NFL season early on, weeks one through four. Chicago Bears 19, San Francisco 49ers 10.
That makes no sense. That makes no sense.
Does it not? That was the shit game. That was the flip and slide.
The rain game. But that makes no sense.
Colts Texans 2020 actually makes perfect sense. Yes.
The Seattle Seahawks. Oh, no.
That actually makes sense. That one.
And then also we had the Indianapolis Colts 20. The Kansas City Chiefs 17.
That makes no sense. That makes absolutely no sense.
That was the Sun game. Could you imagine if they played right now? No chance.
Yep. And one last one, Texans, 13, Jaguars, 6.
That makes no sense. Whoa.
I just love looking back and being like, what the fuck? How did that happen? That is crazy. Yeah, so some games that were just, you know, we

overreacted in the moment. I'm sure that if you listen

to the episodes after, we probably declared

every loser of those teams dead.

And those three teams

that I just listed are in the playoffs.

So, whoops. Hand

up. Yep.
We were wrong. We have

many times. I think we've learned our lesson about

overreacting to stuff this year. Yeah, we won't do

that ever again. Aaron Rodgers

is dead. The Packers are dead.
They'll never be good again.

We didn't want to check that poll

I don, 80.8% was people picking the first round, the first pick. 80%.
80%. Seems like the poll's done.
Feels good. Number one pick.
Billy, who's your who's back?

My who's back is adventure.

Yes.

So around this time of year, this past weekend,

get a little antsy.

I'm trying to quit seditious acts.

So I decided to go look for some adventure.

Did you go to Brazil this weekend?

No, no.

Other who's back, shamans.

There was a shaman down there. But there was, on the Joe Rogan show, a guy came on and talked about how the American National History Museum dumped 50 tons of mammoth bones into the East River.
Dave was talking about that? No. Oh.
Other guy. Dumped them in the river.
So, heard about this, said, hey.

Wait, the mammoth bones were dumped in the river? They were dumped in the river. They weren't, the mammoths didn't die in the river? Nope, they were just dumped.
They were in the museum, and they didn't have anywhere to store them. And so back in the 1800s, if you didn't have a place to put your stuff, you just went to the river.
Yeah, that makes sense. It was in the 1930s, 40s-ish.
Okay. So, I talked to the first person I thought of who would be down

for some sort of excursion to maybe look for

these bones. The mammoth

tusks are worth a lot of money. Yeah.

So, if we found one, it would be able to

finance the trip.

So, I called up Donnie from Donnie

Does. Yeah.
Great YouTube channel. Check it

out. And I was like, yo, Donnie, do you want to go

look for mammoth bones in the bottom of the East River? And he was like, yes. So then we, uh, linked up with these guys, uh, shout out dirty water, Don, uh, he's got a show on discovery channel.
Check it out. Uh, it's, uh, sewer diving.
And he said, we can totally go look for bones. So on Saturday morning, 5am woke up, uh, for bones and, uh, headed out on the water.
And we ended up in the East River looking for bones. And Donnie and I actually ended up being able to dive in the East River, something that I wasn't exactly.
So when I first thought we were going to go looking for bones, I was like, OK, you know, let's like get some wetsuits and put some goggles on and like free dive your basic bone trip yeah yeah and you know but

these guys like no we're we're going full tilt we're going uh dive mask which if you like you know those old scuba diving equipments where you're still attached to the boat yeah in like the cyclops type thing yeah we we used a much more modern equivalent of that uh and basically I thought we were going to go about 20 feet deep right by the side of the shore. But basically, NYPD pulled up on us and said that we weren't allowed to tie up to the side of Manhattan.
Like right on the dock there. But because it was only for first responders and commercial vessels.
Did you tell them you were a troop? No. Okay.
Because I'm not. Oh.
But so they said we had to anchor out. So the difference between tying up right on the side and where we actually had to anchor was 20 feet, which I thought was very reasonable, never dove before, putting on one of these masks.
Like if something went wrong 20 feet deep, I knew that i'd probably be able to get out of there yeah figure it out so the place we ended up diving was 74 feet holy shit yeah yeah pretty scary billy it was one of those situations where probably looking back wasn't the smartest thing to go 70 feet under the water in dive gear for the first time. Wait, did you touch the bottom? Yeah.
So how long were you at the bottom? I went to the bottom, looked around, realized no one's finding shit in this. The visibility was like less than 12 inches in front of me.
I was like, I went down there. Okay, Greta.
It was dirt. The East River is actually the cleanest it's been since pre-Civil Warvil war nice so uh you couldn't see anything i because it's a murky it's a actually not a river it's a a tidal estuary yeah which means that the bottom is constantly getting torn up and the and the craziest thing was the current's insane yeah the current it wasn't slight it was just coming out slack tide so the thing about current is it's not a steady stream.
You're getting hit with gusts. So basically to put this stuff on, I base, I didn't swim.
I wore a metal vest. I wore a literally, I went to the bottom of the East river with like a lead vest on.
Holy fuck. Yeah.
It was, I saw the videos. They looked extremely dangerous.
So when Billy sent me one of these, like, Saturday morning, and for the first time ever, I was, like, feeling very, very scared about Billy possibly killing himself on the job. You should do this again.
I know. This was...
Actually, it was very fun. Like, you...
Between fighting Jose Canseco and this, this is way more dangerous. Yeah.
Than Jose. Like, in retrospect, looking back at the Jose.
Both took a dive. Yeah.
It's true, bro. Looking back, in retrospect, like, the Jose situation, I was like, oh, yeah, I was, that wasn't as dangerous as I thought it was going to be going in.
And, like, looking back, you know, it wasn't dangerous at all. This, looking back, this could have gone really wrong.
So you go down there and you just like, did you feel the bottom? Yeah. So basically, you're on a ladder.
And all the guys are saying, most guys don't leave the ladder. Because it's like jumping out of an airplane.
Because once you let go of the ladder, you grab the line. You just drop straight down to the bottom.
Did you have air coming in through the line that was attached to the boat? Or was there a tank? It was attached to the boat that had my emergency tank. Were you afraid? Were you breathing regularly? Yeah.
So basically, I put it on. I was trying to breathe.
I was like, okay. I could do this.
A lot of claustrophobic people freak out when they put the mask on. Yeah.
And the thing is, especially when you get in the water and you can't see anything. But how fast did you go down? Pretty fast.
And then when you were down there, it was like a thunderstorm. Because at one point, if I let go of this line, I would have ended up 100 yards down the river.
And it would have been really tricky with this umbilical cord attached to my helmet, climbing back up without being able to use my hands on that rope. So basically I got down to the bottom.
I was at the bottom for about realistically two minutes, but it was basically, they were telling me, yo dude, you got to the bottom, you're not seeing anything. Might as well come back up because it's getting pretty crazy with the, the situation, even for the divers who do it professionally.
Like in these guys were dock builders. So even the guys who do it professionally and go down for hours at a time, they're like, yeah, it's pretty rough down there.
Holy shit. Come up.
So how do you get back up? You just pull it? You climb the rope. And were you scared at any point? Like, am I really going back up? Yeah, because the current makes you feel like you're being pulled.
And one point I knew I was at the bottom but halfway back up I was like am I going the right way yeah because that's how like a lot of like the free divers and stuff they get disoriented and go the wrong way they said you're supposed to like some people carry ping pong balls in their swimsuit and they just release them and they see which way it floats up. The bubbles.
Yeah. But it was super cool.

But going down, you have to decompress your ears.

So I had at one point air coming out of the corners of my eyes.

Because you don't breathe well.

Yeah.

Well, the decompression.

Yeah.

It was actually easy to decompress.

He doesn't.

He does not breathe well.

If you've heard Billy eat, never.

You know about his septum.

You know he doesn't breathe well.

He's got septum issues. I breathe well through my mouth, but the nose is a little tricky.
But that actually made it easier to decompress because my nose is already like 50% blocked most of the time. So you had to decompress so your ears wouldn't go out.
And it was the wildest thing being out there. Because when the current wasn't gushing with big rushes, it was super peaceful.
Yeah. And it was like eerie.
Was it totally dark? Did Donnie go down for a while? Donnie went down right after me. How long did he go down for? He got down.
He was like, fuck, there's nothing here. And just went back up.
All right. So my last question is, how many people do you think online actually thought the bone you took a picture with was real? Because I feel like there at least do 20 percent duke's we're like because i had i could always say i could always tell too that's a 20 there was a few people demanding that i apologize which i don't think i think i had your back when you said you're gonna sell it to russians like that makes sense like apologize to billy found a bone i was like okay i mean like you played it all well but i knew yeah i mean it was a fake bone so clearly not uh feidelberg uh built a 12-foot skeleton for halloween with uh nick and kb and donnie so we were like we went over to feitz's house and we just grabbed some of those bones like because if we didn't find anything might might as well get a fun pick.
We weren't really actually trying to trick anyone. No, of course not.
It was funny. It was a fake bone.
We hoped it was obvious enough. Yeah, I mean, it was like white.
It was a pristine bone. Yeah.
So, did it occur to you that maybe when they dumped all these mammoth bones into the bottom of the river that maybe they they kept the tusks yeah if i mean if you're a warehouse guy and you're moving tons of stuff and like even back then ivory was valuable you're not just going to throw out the ivory you're going to put some to the side to like sell yourself yeah but if we had found anything it would have been cool and like you know it's still very cool i actually think that like did you just grab any like soil from the bottom? We have a couple bottles and a rock. Yeah.
That's something. But I would have done that.
I honestly didn't want to let my hands leave the rope when I was down there. Yeah.
I would understand why. If I dropped the rope, I was fucked.
Normally, how long does it take somebody to get certified to do what you did? A while. I would imagine there's some sort of process for that.
At least a couple just strapped that helmet on and you said okay put the weighted vest on i'm gonna jump into this river now i'm pretty comfortable in water i know we make the joke that like you're part frog i used to try to be like i used to like when i was younger like try to do the navy seal stuff like his summer activity. Yeah.
And it paid off.

Yeah.

I also want to just one point uh when you're like the one guy that i that i thought i should go with donnie i actually think donnie's the worst person to go with because donnie is down for anything and the peer pressure was probably immense yeah like donnie's not scared of anything yeah ever donnie got a bloody nose going down to the bottom oh shit it was like the pressure like messed up that sounds terrible yeah the whole thing and he was his nose was bleeding in the suit oh my god yeah like donnie's just he'll do anything yeah it was pretty it was pretty awesome um yeah you should do it again for real yeah i'm forgetting i think I'm forgetting I think he has the Benz Shout out patron of the sciences PFT commenter for sponsoring the trip It wasn't me it was my Instagram account I think the flag is still flying on the boat Follow PFT on Instagram At PFT commenter Patronron of the science. Trying to get those numbers out.

Modern day Cosmo de' Medici.

But yeah, it was awesome.

Didn't find any bones though.

Oh, you got that one.

It was literally like being on another planet, being down there.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's cool.

I think it's a cool story even though you didn't find anything.

Yeah, definitely.

That's one of those things that you're going to look back in 15 years

and you're going to look back in 15 years,

and you're going to get scared 15 years from now because of what past you did.

And Donnie's kind of like the king of the East River.

He swam across it, too.

I mean, we were talking about the amount of people who've been to the bottom of the East River are like people who've been killed by the mob.

Yeah.

There are bodies thrown in there.

Yep.

And just commercial divers.

I bet you that.

Really football.

I bet you that fewer people have been to the bottom of the East River

and come back up than have been to space.

Yeah.

I think about the people who had to build and build the bridges.

There's a lot of commercial divers.

Yeah, a lot of them died.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I feel like a lot of people haven't recreationally gone down

to the bottom of the East River.

Right.

Yeah.

Okay.

That was awesome. That was great.
Who's back? back yeah uh jake yeah i can't really match that happy to hear billy uh my who's well no jake you got one of six i got one of six you're right so i'm back uh my who's back is wanting your coach fired oh that's what's happening in big blue nation oh yeah they lost by 26 to alabama they're going. You guys need to do a special winter edition of Kentucky Sports Radio.
I think we were first to it. But we were also first to extend Coach Cal.
Yeah, that's true. He needs more time to build up the program.
He needs to get his recruits on campus. It is great because I threw out a little feeler like, hey, how we feeling? And there was a lot of people were very upset.
And there's the the coach cal sycophants who are like well he can't get fired because of next year's recruiting class it's like he's it's genius he just he can never the guys who are coming in next year are going to change everything alabama's pretty good though right they're really good yeah but losing by 20 by 26 yeah right bad very bad yeah is brad on staff no that's the problem anymore he's got Welcome back. He lose by 26.
Yeah. Right.
Bad. Very bad.
Is Brad on staff?

No.

That's the problem.

Not anymore.

He went somewhere else.

He's got to get Brad.

Yeah.

I think he's at Fairleigh Dickinson or something like that.

But yeah.

So they're not happy with him.

No, they're not.

I have a question for Hank.

Yeah.

A real question.

Hank, I was just on a plane today and going through the airport.

I saw a lot of people, a lot of youngsters.

By youngsters, I was just on a plane today and going through the airport. I saw a lot of people, a lot of youngsters.
By youngsters, I mean like teenagers, maybe like, I don't know, preteens, that are carrying stuffed animals with them. What's going on? Can you explain that to me? The squish pillows? Yeah, yeah.
Oh, yeah, my son has one. Why do preteens have stuffed squish pillows that they're bringing around around i think it's just the pussification of america yeah it's pickleball the pickleballification of america i'd agree uh no i don't know that's that's a thing though i mean i know adult adult women that have them yeah and then it's kind of weird they also like carry around stuffed animals but you know i saw a bunch of pillows a bunch of stuffed animals I didn't know what was going on.
Emotional support animals. Why'd you ask Hank? Because he's young.
Wait, are you talking about squishmallows? Yeah. Yeah.
You have the Benz, dude. This is like the episode when Dwight gets concussed and everyone's looking at him like, what's wrong with the fucking moon face guy? I'm going to be honest.
I haven't felt the same since going down there. Yeah, no, I can tell.
I think you missed the bottom of the river. Stranger things.
Yeah, yeah. You went to the upside down, and now you're just not the same.
Yeah. All right, well, let's do numbers.
Hank, have you ever gotten these? No. I'm going to guess 53.
Are we starting the pot? Chris Rogers is an MVP as a fraud. He was created by one of the greatest receivers ever.
I love this. This is what I'm going guest 53.
Are we starting the pot? I love this.

This is what I'm going to be listening all the way home.

I'm going to go with 17.

I'll go 26.

I'm splashing $2,000 in the pot.

Oh, yeah, I have money.

Yeah, I have money.

I don't have it right now.

Oh, it's in my backpack.

Are we doing 40?

Yeah, 40.

I pulled out cash. No big deal.
My wallet's in my backpack. I don't have it right now.
Oh, it's in my backpack. Are we doing 40? Yeah, 40.
I pulled out cash. No big deal.
My wallet's in my backpack. I don't have cash.
I'll grab it. I can spot people some cash for some Venmo.
You got two grand for me. Wait.
Let's listen to this guy real quick. I wanted to do his stuff in LaFleur.
That worked. This year, it was all LaFleur's offense.
Okay? And you got a Hall of Fame quarterback, and you're not using him.

And then, yeah, go to Kingston, give enough, you know, Arsenal.

You know what?

This is going to be great.

This is going to be a great night.

All right.

What's your number, Hank?

53.

18.

I thought you said 17.

Yeah, you said 17.

17.

18.

26.

16. Max? 20.
You need to win Max Eagles won Sure One seed Two grand What is it Hank? What number? 53 You're splashing two grand? Two grand Well that was a quick one What was was that? Third, 91. 91.
91. Playoff football, boys.
Playoff football. 100%.
Can't wait. He'll take time.
Love you guys. But he'll be back, and he'll be better next year.
No way. This guy's wrong.
Certain deep water fish explode when you bring them to the service. I'm talking today.

I don't know.

I'm saying I'm saying anyway.

Today is our day to find you.

Shine.

I'm coming for your love of pain.

Shine.

I'm coming for your love of pain. Take it.
Thank you. Needless to say, the old city is about me.