Kirk Herbstreit, Week 18 Picks & Preview And The Bet Comes Down To It + Fyre Fest Of The Week

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Speaker 16 On today's part of my take, we have our good friend Kirk Herb Street getting ready for the national championship game on Monday night.

Speaker 17 We also have week 18 of the NFL. Picks and preview.
It's coming down to it.

Speaker 2 The bowling challenge is coming down to last week.

Speaker 5 We are all very close, or some of us are very close.

Speaker 7 Who will lose this?

Speaker 17 We will find out.

Speaker 2 Update on DeMar Hamlin, which has been awesome.

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Speaker 33 Welcome to Part of My Take.

Speaker 4 Today is Friday, January 6th, and we have some awesome news with the DeMar Hamlin situation.

Speaker 25 He has woken up.

Speaker 24 He also, it was reported that when he woke up, he's communicating via pen and paper.

Speaker 36 And he asked the first question, who won the game?

Speaker 37 Football guy of the millennium.

Speaker 13 It's crazy.

Speaker 13 I'm very glad to hear this. I think this is the update that we were all hoping to hear.
And it took a while, but fortunately, it sounds like he's making progress in the right direction.

Speaker 13 Anytime you're in critical condition,

Speaker 13 you don't want to say that he's in the clear totally, but it sounds like things are going definitely in the right direction.

Speaker 13 The doctor's response to it was a little cheesy.

Speaker 20 Yeah. He said,

Speaker 13 he said, yeah, it's okay. Yes, Damar, you have won.
And he was probably like, sick. Fuck the Bengals.
Yeah. You have won the game of life.
And he's like, oh, okay. What about the real game?

Speaker 12 Yeah, it was great.

Speaker 13 It was awesome. It's great.
So the Bills are, they were told that last night, and so they were finally able to take like a deep breath.

Speaker 13 It sounds like they're doing practice today, and then they're going back to the normal media availability as best that they can.

Speaker 24 It's the best possible outcome we could have all hoped for in terms of where we were at on Monday night and what transpired the couple days after.

Speaker 18 Like, you just, I'm just so happy that it happened this way.

Speaker 13 I would like to see, I hope that they have selfishly I hope that they have a camera on them when they tell him that his charity got six million dollars worth of donations in the last two days and he's like that's too many toys and he's like wait Thank you to Carpet Man Flooring

Speaker 13 for giving me five dollars more than the Washington Commanders organization yes fart box 69 25 bucks I appreciate it

Speaker 36 shout out, but so now by the way, you have a sticker under your hat.

Speaker 44 It's gonna drive me crazy for the rest of the day.

Speaker 41 That's how the kids are wearing it.

Speaker 48 No, no, no, that one is not on the on the bill on the the bottom yeah on the yeah no that's how you do it that's what they wear it on top they wear it on top i do mine on bottom can you at least press it in it's i'm trying to nuts if you're watching on youtube

Speaker 10 i'm trying i'm honoring buster from davin busters he passed away a couple days ago recurring guests on the show so i'm wearing my my davin busters hat let me see now how about that all right you look better you look better all right so um now not to get all skipped bills we can talk about what's going to happen with uh the bills and bengals so the game is canceled uh and there's a bunch of things.

Speaker 31 They said that things are trending towards a no-contest.

Speaker 13 They're not going to play it this week. We know that.

Speaker 55 Right.

Speaker 42 And I, but I think there, it seems like they're not going to play it at all. I think there's a couple things that were thrown out that are interesting.

Speaker 3 There's an idea that potentially the first and second seed, so it would be the Bills and the Chiefs.

Speaker 10 They get to decide.

Speaker 21 So I think they would let the Bills decide first because they beat the Chiefs whether they want home field advantage throughout the playoffs or a buy, and then the other team gets

Speaker 40 whichever one they didn't pick.

Speaker 13 And the other team gets to host the AFC Championship game if you choose

Speaker 13 to get the buy.

Speaker 44 Crazy thing, because who wouldn't pick the less games?

Speaker 13 Yeah, you'd take the buy.

Speaker 60 You'd take the buy all the time.

Speaker 10 There's no chance you wouldn't take the buy.

Speaker 13 I think you'd take the buy. There was another suggestion that it might come down to a ping-pong ball to determine who gets in.

Speaker 13 And that would, wouldn't that just be the ultimate big cat if our buddy Hank lost out on the playoffs with the Patriots due to a ping-pong ball machine?

Speaker 64 All right, so odds are Chiefs get the one seed, evens are Bills get the one seed.

Speaker 65 Hank, you can guess the number.

Speaker 54 And it counts? Yeah. 17.

Speaker 33 Odds are Chiefs.

Speaker 59 Even is Bills.

Speaker 18 51. Chiefs have the one seed.

Speaker 21 Okay. Unfortunately.

Speaker 28 That's the part of my. We just...

Speaker 66 NFL, if you'd like to use this footage and have this be the deciding factor.

Speaker 13 As reported first, and part of my take.

Speaker 54 Although it would be very appropriate if they did the ping-pong ball machine.

Speaker 13 It turns out Hank was wrong.

Speaker 47 Yeah. And the Bills get homefield.

Speaker 15 It is crazy that there's so much at stake with these three teams and the AFC playoffs being so loaded.

Speaker 18 Yeah. And also the second seed having to play the Bengals, which I think

Speaker 14 the way they've kind of shook it all out, it feels like the Bengals might just have the third seed.

Speaker 69 I will get woke for a second because

Speaker 71 wouldn't it be perfect if the NFL didn't even have to deal with this situation and the Las Vegas Raiders beat the Chiefs and the Ravens beat the Bengals?

Speaker 13 That would be interesting.

Speaker 19 That would be interesting, wouldn't it?

Speaker 57 Because that would mean that the Bills, even if they forfeited the game against the Bengals,

Speaker 10 and the Bills beat the Patriots. So

Speaker 36 the Bills would have three losses, Chiefs would have four, Bengals would have five.

Speaker 18 There's no way that the Bills, even if they lost the game to the Bengals, could lose the tiebreaker to the Chiefs.

Speaker 23 Problem solved.

Speaker 13 I just, I just, that does make a lot of sense. Uh, counterpoint Jared Stiddam versus Patrick Mahomes.

Speaker 5 Counter-counterpoint, Jared Stiddam, might be next up.

Speaker 13 He might be, yeah.

Speaker 72 Jared Studham.

Speaker 13 There's another report.

Speaker 13 So there's a bunch of different ways

Speaker 13 that you can look at this.

Speaker 54 What did you say, Hank?

Speaker 5 You said Jared Studham. I said Jared Stid him.

Speaker 72 Well, that was

Speaker 35 before him was really in the vernacular. Yeah.
Okay.

Speaker 13 Yeah. So you were just early to it.
Yeah.

Speaker 35 Well, you was, yeah, used to be the Pats backup.

Speaker 13 Okay, so there's another possible outcome that we can have here. This is the one that I think they should do.
This seems to be the most fair one. They are considering giving eight seeds

Speaker 13 in the AFC as well as the NFC.

Speaker 74 Oh, because

Speaker 75 that would be more fair.

Speaker 13 You can't just have

Speaker 13 the number one seed in the NFC get a leg up and get that bye week if the AFC doesn't get it. Right.
So I think that that's the fairest way to go about it.

Speaker 54 More football. Oh, this is crazy.

Speaker 13 The Washington Commanders are now back in the hunt for the playoffs.

Speaker 13 And wouldn't that be wild?

Speaker 76 The Jets would be in the hunt, too.

Speaker 13 If week one, excuse me, wild card weekend, Commanders versus Eagles rematch

Speaker 13 and the Commanders have a chance to take them out, Max. I think that's fair.

Speaker 13 Like, listen, some things are bigger than sports, and we've gone through an unprecedented week in the NFL, and we're just glad that, you know, for the health and safety of the players, that they're doing, Hamlin's doing well.

Speaker 13 That's great news. So let's not make this like a big bickering, squabbling thing about

Speaker 13 how we can make sure that the Eagles are favored by the league.

Speaker 78 I'm happy DeMar Hamlin's okay.

Speaker 69 And

Speaker 35 I'm happy that DeMar Hamlin is okay.

Speaker 13 That seems to be fair, though, right? Because the AFC would need eight seeds potentially, then the NFC would need to also have their eight seeds.

Speaker 80 Makes perfect sense. Yeah, perfect sense.

Speaker 13 Yeah,

Speaker 81 I wouldn't.

Speaker 23 But it's for Jamar Hamlin.

Speaker 82 You know that.

Speaker 79 That would be correct.

Speaker 5 It's like the opposite of Orlovsky praying on air.

Speaker 24 You're like actually saying

Speaker 24 you want DeMar Hamlin to go back into a coma.

Speaker 72 That's what you're saying.

Speaker 78 I'm happy that he's okay.

Speaker 13 Okay. You don't sound happy right now.

Speaker 2 You don't sound happy. That's not how I usually explain it.

Speaker 13 Max, put the camera on yourself so people can see how not happy you are.

Speaker 78 I'm happy he's okay.

Speaker 12 I don't know. I don't know what else you want me to say.

Speaker 13 I mean, I just think that that's the most fair way to do it, eight seeds from each. It's going to be funny, though, because

Speaker 13 if it was eight seeds, I personally would probably start Carson Wentz again and not touch the NFC.

Speaker 83 Yeah,

Speaker 28 the other one that I actually like, I think that actually probably makes the most sense.

Speaker 42 If the Chiefs, Bengals, or Bills, if any three of those teams are involved

Speaker 10 with each other in the AFC Championship game, they play at a neutral site, which kind of rules.

Speaker 16 And maybe do it in New York. We get to go to the game.

Speaker 30 That would really rule.

Speaker 13 What would the neutral site be?

Speaker 43 I don't know. I think they would have to do outdoor because all

Speaker 41 of these Miami as a possibility.

Speaker 84 No, come on.

Speaker 10 Don't be selfish. January?

Speaker 69 Don't be selfish. I think they outdoors.

Speaker 47 They got to have elements, baby.

Speaker 13 I think the league would schedule indoors. You know the league.

Speaker 6 Yeah, but elements. All three teams are outdoor camps.

Speaker 54 I don't think that Goodell would care about that. The answer is...

Speaker 13 Goodell would care about them being able to sell the game and sell tickets to a warm city.

Speaker 5 Let's be honest. The answer is Detroit, because it's always Detroit for these games.

Speaker 85 And then we'd also have the joke of like this team has won more games in Detroit, playoff games in Detroit than Detroit in the last 30 years.

Speaker 5 Yeah, you just got to always fall back to what is the trivia answer that would hurt Detroit the most.

Speaker 2 It's like, yeah, the Chiefs have won more games in Detroit.

Speaker 44 So, yeah.

Speaker 15 Whatever they do, people will be pissed.

Speaker 13 Yeah, there's no good way to do it.

Speaker 13 Like, there is no excellent solution to it.

Speaker 41 Well, there is.

Speaker 13 Except for the eight seeds in each conference.

Speaker 44 Well, no, there is an excellent solution.

Speaker 23 Tinfoil cap back on.

Speaker 44 Raiders win, Ravens win, Bills win.

Speaker 3 That is the easiest way to do it.

Speaker 56 And then they don't have to worry about anything.

Speaker 67 Hmm. Hmm.

Speaker 87 Just throwing it out there.

Speaker 76 Wouldn't that be interesting?

Speaker 54 Wouldn't that be interesting?

Speaker 13 So

Speaker 74 who's on?

Speaker 54 The Raiders win.

Speaker 5 Yeah, Hank, put it in a parlay.

Speaker 64 The Raiders win, the Ravens win,

Speaker 89 and the Bills win.

Speaker 13 I'm looking up who the Raiders Chiefs referees are going to be this weekend. Who's the hatchet man?

Speaker 87 Interesting.

Speaker 13 Who's the hatchet man for the NFL? Like they've got in the NBA, they've got Scott Foster that gets the call.

Speaker 18 It would be interesting.

Speaker 8 That's all I'm going to say.

Speaker 2 It would be interesting.

Speaker 3 It would be very interesting. 1926.

Speaker 82 Very interesting.

Speaker 35 Plus 1926.

Speaker 8 Plus 1926? Hmm.

Speaker 67 Hmm.

Speaker 76 Hmm.

Speaker 17 I actually think you might not even need

Speaker 40 the Bills and Bengals part of that because, or you might not need the Bengals part of that because I think the Bills would win tiebreaker.

Speaker 44 I don't know how all these tiebreakers work because it'd be a three-way tie

Speaker 79 at

Speaker 68 12-4 or whatever it is, 13-4.

Speaker 14 Either way, they will probably have a decision.

Speaker 2 What do you think?

Speaker 34 In the next 24 hours?

Speaker 36 Probably.

Speaker 18 So we'll see what happens with the playoffs.

Speaker 13 Because there are implications about how these teams are going to be playing this weekend based on what the playoffs are going to be. So, like, you can't sit certain guys

Speaker 13 if it does impact your seating. Right.

Speaker 2 Like, if the Bills have to win this game to have a chance at the one seed, they've got to win this game.

Speaker 76 Exactly.

Speaker 40 I mean, the Bengals are going to try to win the AFC North anyway because the Bengals are playing.

Speaker 64 If the Bengals lose to the Ravens,

Speaker 48 I don't know.

Speaker 5 Yeah, all this stuff confuses me. It's all winning percentage and numbers that don't make sense to me, but I've got the referee.

Speaker 13 It's going to be Scott Novak, Chiefs Raiders.

Speaker 13 If the Raiders are going to win this game, he is the key, Scott Novak. Let's look and see what he's in best for.

Speaker 34 He's from Las Vegas, right?

Speaker 13 Yeah, he's a yeah. No, the picture that they have on footballzebras.com, he's actually the guy that wears the gorilla mask.

Speaker 80 Yeah, he's in the black hole.

Speaker 43 He's at a craps table with the gorilla mask.

Speaker 13 Yeah, he's on. He's got the gorilla mask on.
He's got spiked shoulder pads. I'm just saying, oh, here's a surveillance photo at P.F.
Chang's with Mark Davis.

Speaker 34 Yeah, so the Dominoes could start falling as early as Saturday if that happens.

Speaker 76 I'm just throwing it out there.

Speaker 13 Buster Olney's in the background doing the chop.

Speaker 6 Very dancing. Very interesting.

Speaker 17 All right, so week 18, we got a bunch of games that mean absolutely nothing.

Speaker 3 We have a few games that mean absolutely everything.

Speaker 19 For anyone who hasn't been, I assume most people have just been looking at the playoff simulators constantly.

Speaker 14 So let's throw the Bills, Bengals, and what they decide aside.

Speaker 51 It pretty much comes down in the AFC.

Speaker 17 If the Patriots win in, they're in.

Speaker 64 If the Patriots lose and the Dolphins win, they're in.

Speaker 10 If the Patriots and Dolphins both lose and the Steelers win, they're in.

Speaker 64 And then the only other thing that we have to decide in the AFC is if the Ravens lose, the Chargers could climb up to the fifth seed with a win.

Speaker 21 And then in the NFC, the Eagles are going for the one seed.

Speaker 20 What are you going to say, Hank?

Speaker 94 What were you going to say?

Speaker 35 The Ravens game is before the Chargers game, too, so they're

Speaker 41 actually rest starters.

Speaker 73 Yeah, that's what.

Speaker 53 Yes, exactly.

Speaker 17 In the NFC, the Eagles are going for the one seed.

Speaker 61 The 49ers, if the 49ers win and the Eagles lose, they will get the one seed.

Speaker 2 If the Eagles and 49ers both lose and the Cowboys win, they get the one seed.

Speaker 51 And then it's pretty simple at the bottom of the playoffs.

Speaker 2 Packers are winning in.

Speaker 17 And then if the Packers lose and the Seahawks win, they're in.

Speaker 18 And then the Texans and Bears are fighting for the number one pick overall.

Speaker 64 The Bears lose Nathan Peterman, and the Texans win, the Bears would get the number one pick.

Speaker 13 I'm just so glad that we're getting a Nathan Peterman game. We were promised this game earlier this season.
Yep. Didn't get it.
I'm pumped to see the

Speaker 19 so mad at him who wins this game.

Speaker 13 I will be mad if he doesn't throw a single interception. That would be disappointing.

Speaker 68 That too.

Speaker 83 Packers lose, Seahawks lose, Lions are in.

Speaker 72 Yes.

Speaker 12 Yeah. Yes.

Speaker 79 Yes. Yes.

Speaker 12 If the Seahawks lose to the Lions.

Speaker 51 Yeah, if the Seahawks lose, then the Packers-Lions game on Sunday night football becomes a win-and-in situation.

Speaker 13 Tinfoil hat, that's what the NFL is going to do. Also, they want people to watch Sunday Night Football.
A lot of tinfoil hats.

Speaker 46 Can you imagine? I'm just trying to figure it out.

Speaker 21 Yeah, no,

Speaker 13 my tinfoil hat is on Snug. Snug is a bug there.
It has to be.

Speaker 96 Yep. Because there's a lot at stake.

Speaker 74 I got the documents right here.

Speaker 90 All right.

Speaker 10 And then, as for our competition, it comes down to the end, week 18.

Speaker 33 Jake, give us the tally.

Speaker 31 Yes, so PFT, first place with 37.5 points.

Speaker 23 Okay. Thank you.

Speaker 31 He's most likely locked up first place, but not official. Max with 34, currently on the hot seat.
Big Cat, a half game, half point behind at 33.5. Looks like one or two of you are battling it out.

Speaker 31 Billy, most likely safe as well at 29.5. And then Hank at 27 and me at 25.
So most likely Max versus Big Cat and me versus Hank.

Speaker 39 Okay, so it seems like a four-man race for second place.

Speaker 31 Billy, which we should address, you're making him pick an extra over due to the postponed game. Yep.
So if Billy can go 5-0 and Max can go 0-4,

Speaker 31 depending on what you do, Billy could jump to second.

Speaker 12 That's the only way.

Speaker 97 Well, Big Cat would also have to go 0-4.

Speaker 55 Yes, we'd both have to go 0-4.

Speaker 13 If I go 0-4 and Max goes 4-0, then I fall to second...

Speaker 13 If Big Cat goes 4-0 and I go 0-4, I end up tied with Big Cat.

Speaker 19 I think if anyone goes 0-4 in week 18, they should just have to tweet out the Ray Allen tweet and not address it for 24 hours.

Speaker 94 Yeah.

Speaker 36 Everyone cool with that? No.

Speaker 10 Why not, Jake?

Speaker 22 We're all cool with it.

Speaker 36 No? Dude,

Speaker 13 you're having sex in the tweet now.

Speaker 87 Come on, Jake.

Speaker 84 Can I add asterisks?

Speaker 70 What do you mean?

Speaker 98 O-C-O-Asterisks.

Speaker 23 Oh, yeah, yes, yes, yes, yes.

Speaker 40 You could do that, but no one else can.

Speaker 21 Okay, that's fine.

Speaker 4 All right, anyone who goes 0-4 has to tweet that out.

Speaker 25 Only Jake would add a bit of a 30-year-old.

Speaker 29 And you can't address it for 24 hours. Wait, wait, wait.

Speaker 13 I'm just trying to actually sex somebody and bleep out the word dick.

Speaker 97 But I'm trying to go 0-5.

Speaker 35 All right, so if you go 5-0 then. Yeah.

Speaker 26 If you go 5-0, then you have to tweet it out.

Speaker 31 So you guys have to tweet it regular, and I have to do that.

Speaker 43 Yep, and you can't say why.

Speaker 14 I mean, AWLs will know why, but for anyone else, you can't.

Speaker 5 You just have to leave it out there for 24 hours.

Speaker 47 Yep, that's fine.

Speaker 24 It'll be funny if it's multiple, if it's a few of us that have to do this.

Speaker 31 So all of us winless and Billy undefeated. Undefeated, yes.

Speaker 94 Yes.

Speaker 87 Okay.

Speaker 13 So getting there, when you masturbate, think about my tongue or your clit and switching back and forth from my dick to my tongue.

Speaker 31 Oh, there's only like three or four inappropriate times.

Speaker 13 Well, you got clit, masturbate.

Speaker 21 I don't think masturbate's inappropriate.

Speaker 13 There's just inappropriate times for it.

Speaker 47 For my type of timeline,

Speaker 7 which letter would you asterisk out?

Speaker 41 And masturbate, you got to go with the U.S. R or the B?

Speaker 46 I don't know.

Speaker 47 Master 8?

Speaker 100 Yeah.

Speaker 31 Yeah, I don't know. We'll cross that bridge when we get it.

Speaker 101 I I think the U is the worst.

Speaker 13 Yeah, you got to take the U out. Hank, did you say there's never an appropriate time to masturbate?

Speaker 35 No, you're like, it's an inappropriate time to talk about masturbating.

Speaker 35 When is the appropriate time? Bonk.

Speaker 72 You were going to be. Oh, you're saying when is? Yeah.

Speaker 16 I mean, what if you're talking like a doctor?

Speaker 79 Yeah, I'm about to go jerk off.

Speaker 12 Okay.

Speaker 13 The doctor? Or if you're like at a sperm bank?

Speaker 31 Yeah.

Speaker 101 Or if you're on a Zoom call.

Speaker 80 Good point.

Speaker 69 Yeah, or if you're the CNN leader analyst.

Speaker 74 Yeah. Or if you're on a

Speaker 103 FaceTime and the girl's like, hey, will you jerk off for for me?

Speaker 13 Pull a tube in?

Speaker 44 Yeah.

Speaker 31 I just realized this is so much worse than the bowling for me. Really? Yeah, I would feel so much worse about this.

Speaker 35 Yeah, but Jake, think about the long-term injury.

Speaker 12 Yeah, both activities canceled.

Speaker 13 Get your elbows torn up.

Speaker 100 You're not going to get canceled.

Speaker 73 You can't get canceled.

Speaker 32 Whatever.

Speaker 13 You're uncancelable, Jake.

Speaker 46 You are.

Speaker 54 If you still have a job, you can't get canceled.

Speaker 22 It's true. That's true.
Yeah.

Speaker 10 Just win one game, Jake. I know, right? Just win one game.

Speaker 104 Yeah.

Speaker 53 Okay.

Speaker 51 So, and to refresh everyone,

Speaker 4 so the second place and loser will have to go to a bowling alley.

Speaker 37 They will have to bowl a perfect game, 300.

Speaker 51 Every hot dog they eat is 10 pins off of that score.

Speaker 4 Every beer they drink, or sorry, 10 pins off that score for the second place, five pins off the score for the last place.

Speaker 24 Every beer they drink is one pin off the score, and they have to stay in the bowling alley for 10 hours.

Speaker 51 Next day, come back 10 hours, next day, come back 10 hours until they bowl a cumulative, perfect game, either via hot dogs and bowling.

Speaker 52 What if one of us just bowls a perfect game?

Speaker 46 That'd be sick. Yeah.

Speaker 84 It'd be legendary. Legendary.

Speaker 13 Legendary. Imagine that.
Imagine the stage that you'd be on.

Speaker 28 And we'll live stream all of it.

Speaker 15 You have to bowl at least three

Speaker 70 games in an hour, so you have to keep bowling.

Speaker 24 You can't just be like, I'm not going to bowl.

Speaker 40 Billy was like, oh, my plan was to just drink a shitload of beer and then bowl later.

Speaker 10 So Billy was just going to do a case race.

Speaker 13 Well, the thing is, you can drink beer whilst bowling. It's actually an activity that many of us do on a regular basis.
Yes.

Speaker 13 So I think the move would be to make it a little bit fun, get kind of drunk as you start to bowl, and then just kind of write the first day off entirely.

Speaker 5 We should say, though, too, there should be a rule that going into, when you roll the first ball of the first frame,

Speaker 5 you're locked into your beer hot dog total.

Speaker 36 So you can't, like,

Speaker 5 when you're in the 10th frame, be like, oh, I'm going to be five off.

Speaker 40 Let me let me eat a hot dog really.

Speaker 13 The hot dogs count towards the next.

Speaker 37 yes exactly exactly should you be allowed to be on your phone

Speaker 13 yeah I feel like you should not be allowed to be on your phone I like that I like that what do you say Billy yeah because you would just wait you would just stand there

Speaker 97 and get close safe I know but you can never be too sure

Speaker 13 the rule I said is what stands that that makes it more fun it makes it more fun so it's not like just trying to chug beer right because you would you would definitely figure out a way that would game that system that would be easier for you but less fun for everybody watching correct correct And that's who we're focusing on.

Speaker 86 I played one game.

Speaker 37 You would be able to eat that many hot dogs?

Speaker 53 Yeah. Okay.

Speaker 53 All right.

Speaker 25 Let's get to the picks.

Speaker 7 Let's do the picks.

Speaker 31 So if Hank and I have three of the same, it's over.

Speaker 22 Okay. You guys won't.

Speaker 45 You won't.

Speaker 31 If we have two of the same, Hank is guaranteed at least a tiebreaker.

Speaker 13 I almost want to make sure that you guys don't have to.

Speaker 5 Tiebreaker is wild card weekend. You have to pick every single game.

Speaker 61 You can pick over under underdog favorite, but you have to make a pick on every single game and an additional pick.

Speaker 2 So seven total picks.

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Speaker 30 You ready, Hank?

Speaker 39 All these have been texted to memes beforehand, so there will not be any colluding.

Speaker 13 No funny business. Funny business.

Speaker 13 No funny business.

Speaker 57 Let's get to week 18 preview.

Speaker 35 My favorite favorite is the Cowboys minus seven.

Speaker 30 Oh,

Speaker 35 playing for a one seed, going up against a joke of a quarterback, joke of a franchise.

Speaker 12 What? Taylor Heinke's playing?

Speaker 13 No, no, he's actually the fact-check false. Sam Howell's playing.

Speaker 47 Oh, he's not a joke. Sam Howell, not a joke.

Speaker 13 In fact, some people had him as the number one draft pick overall coming into this last college.

Speaker 35 If he's not a joke, why has he not played?

Speaker 13 Because

Speaker 13 we're in win-now mode, which is why we started Carson Wentz last week.

Speaker 101 He had the fastest throw at the combine.

Speaker 13 Yeah, also, so here's one thing that concerns me about Sam Howell. I like him.
He looks like he could be a good quarterback. He played well in the preseason.

Speaker 75 He doesn't eat red meat.

Speaker 13 He's anti-red meat.

Speaker 44 Neither does my quarterback.

Speaker 13 Oh, yeah. But your quarterback doesn't eat meat at all.

Speaker 46 Yeah, that's true. I'd rather have that than a quarterback.

Speaker 9 He's not a fence sitter.

Speaker 13 Nervous bird. He eats the chicken.
He eats the pork. He does not eat red meat.
That's a problem to me.

Speaker 4 Now, this is what I love about week 18.

Speaker 10 All the things going on at the same time.

Speaker 37 Hank, are you a little nervous about the Cowboys playing their game?

Speaker 36 And they look up at the scoreboard and the Eagles are up 28-0.

Speaker 67 No.

Speaker 107 Okay.

Speaker 3 Because they would definitely sit their starters.

Speaker 16 Yeah.

Speaker 16 Without a doubt.

Speaker 35 Yeah, but it's Sam Howell.

Speaker 77 Okay.

Speaker 13 It's Sam Howell, who's, again, did you not hear me when I said that he was ranked as the number one draft pick in the entire NFL by Stephen Shea going into last college football season?

Speaker 18 Also, not a lot of tape on him.

Speaker 13 Do you remember how good he was? Really?

Speaker 74 He's nodding like, yeah.

Speaker 54 Two years ago? You were making good points. You remember two years ago how good he was?

Speaker 5 I think the Cowboys defense is really good.

Speaker 35 They have a lot to play for. Okay.
Going up against

Speaker 35 essentially a rookie quarterback that hasn't played.

Speaker 12 Literally.

Speaker 13 Nope, but he's also essentially a rookie. Yeah.
Both.

Speaker 35 So a rookie quarterback that hasn't played going up against one of the better defenses. I like my chances.

Speaker 46 Okay. Okay.

Speaker 87 All right.

Speaker 5 So that is your favorite Max.

Speaker 78 My strategy was

Speaker 78 I picked all these games blindly because I was playing. What does that mean?

Speaker 35 Like you shut your eyes.

Speaker 78 So I shut my eyes and was just going like this. And I picked, it would be like, okay, this is my over, and I would, or this is my favorite, this is my blah, blah, blah.

Speaker 12 Okay.

Speaker 5 Because he doesn't want me to have any of the same graphs.

Speaker 13 But you still probably picked the Eagles.

Speaker 47 Yeah.

Speaker 78 I did not pick the Eagles.

Speaker 81 Okay. But

Speaker 78 this was by coincidence, I swear.

Speaker 83 This does help the Eagles.

Speaker 78 I picked Saints minus three and a half, and I would like the Saints not to cover that.

Speaker 22 Wow. Against the Panthers.

Speaker 84 Correct.

Speaker 81 Against the Panthers.

Speaker 21 Well, Max, I got some news for you.

Speaker 40 No way. No.

Speaker 21 I don't have that as my favorite.

Speaker 23 Oh, you have the Panthers.

Speaker 40 But I have my Panthers as the other.

Speaker 91 That game will be very important.

Speaker 46 And what's the line on that one? Three and a half.

Speaker 13 Okay, so it can't be a push.

Speaker 97 It's a push. I can't lose.
Why? I can't get second.

Speaker 41 He's right. Yep.

Speaker 12 Boom. Woo.

Speaker 65 Okay, there you go, Billy.

Speaker 43 I'm happy you almost tried to change the rules of the punishment.

Speaker 12 Boom. All right.

Speaker 57 PFT.

Speaker 13 Okay, so for my favorite, I'm taking the Bengals.

Speaker 13 Taking the Bengals as a favorite. Minus seven.
Minus seven.

Speaker 72 Also, Billy, you still can because if you go five and oh, then Max goes oh and four oh jake called cap you got no but no because then he'd be up billy go put on the giant cap yep ignore jake you put on the giant cap

Speaker 13 uh yeah i like the bangles i like the bengals a lot so the reality of the situation is the bangles are they're rested going into this game um and i think that the ravens are they are in a very weird position with lamar jackson harbaugh gave a press conference yesterday where he was like visibly frustrated with questions about lamar he was like i don't know i don't know anything that's going on with Lamar.

Speaker 13 You're going to have to ask him if you want to get any answers to this. So

Speaker 13 I feel like Baltimore stock going down, Bengals, they're kind of an unknown right now, but I think that they're a much better team. And

Speaker 13 they just seem like they're more focused to go and run this postseason.

Speaker 10 By the way, one of the dumbest arguments online right now going is this is unfair.

Speaker 21 The Bills got an extra week off.

Speaker 5 I think the Bills would have traded not having one of their teammates.

Speaker 88 Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 72 Probably Jeff.

Speaker 63 The Bills only had to play 17 weeks, and the Chiefs had to play 18.

Speaker 12 Oh, my God.

Speaker 46 Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 13 Probably the Jets fans that were doing the Two of Fingers.

Speaker 49 Oh, yeah. But

Speaker 13 I think it does, like,

Speaker 13 it's good that the Bengals didn't play a game in terms of how rested they are. That's just a fact.
So I'm taking them. Yeah.

Speaker 90 Okay.

Speaker 70 My favorite.

Speaker 25 And this hurts me personally, but I have to do it because I do think that there's history here.

Speaker 37 I'm taking the Colts minus three, and I'm doing it because against the Texans.

Speaker 78 Oh, my God, I have the Texans. You do?

Speaker 12 Oh,

Speaker 71 no.

Speaker 91 Oh,

Speaker 12 God.

Speaker 41 Wow. Okay.

Speaker 42 Billy, you're out of it. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 10 Billy's going to, after every pick, Billy's going to be like, wait.

Speaker 54 I was just seeing that canceled out the thing before.

Speaker 87 So. How did that cancel?

Speaker 13 So the precedent is,

Speaker 64 if you remember,

Speaker 52 well, first of all, I think the Colts are going to still play hard because I think Jeff Saturday doesn't really know anything else.

Speaker 21 Like,

Speaker 5 he's going to try to get him to play hard.

Speaker 70 Lovey Smith, there's precedent for him tanking at the end of a season. If you remember, in 2014, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, this is the Jameis draft coming up.

Speaker 8 The Tampa Bay Buccaneers were 2-14.

Speaker 64 They had to lose the game.

Speaker 43 They went up on the Saints 20-7 in the first half.

Speaker 39 He pulled his entire offensive line.

Speaker 43 Josh McCallan

Speaker 43 got safetied,

Speaker 23 basically tanked in real life There was a big story after like oh did they tank and obviously they all said no no no they were trying to give guys a different look he tanked right as we were watching it He tanked that game.

Speaker 2 I think he will do the same in this game even if they get a lead He will make sure that they find a way to lose they ended up losing that game 23-20 so Lovey Smith knows he knows that tanking is good for them.

Speaker 22 What are you looking at me max?

Speaker 78 You're trying to lose these games, correct?

Speaker 45 No, I'm trying to win.

Speaker 8 I think

Speaker 8 I'm just picking my game.

Speaker 13 He took the Colts because he thinks I love you, Smith, that the Texans are.

Speaker 78 But for the competition, it's better for you to lose, no?

Speaker 60 Well, no, it doesn't matter. It's all going to shake out.

Speaker 80 You guys

Speaker 75 can do that.

Speaker 69 I think you just got to pick your picks.

Speaker 47 Yeah, that's just a good thing.

Speaker 5 Like, if you try to pick losing picks, they'll probably win.

Speaker 97 Because

Speaker 13 look at the record over the course of the entire season, it's pretty much 500. I get that.

Speaker 78 But I'm saying on Sunday, you and I

Speaker 78 are picks. We're going to be rooting against each other.
Right.

Speaker 102 Right.

Speaker 13 That's all I'm saying. You don't want to finish in second.
Right. So you want to do better with these picks.

Speaker 108 No. Wait, wait, you got to wait.
No, wait, I might have to do it.

Speaker 69 Wait, you want to do worse?

Speaker 13 Oh, shit.

Speaker 65 I fucked it up. I fucked it up.

Speaker 95 I'm stuck now.

Speaker 62 All right.

Speaker 3 Well, this is actually good, though, because I picked games that I thought would win, and that will lose.

Speaker 17 You know what?

Speaker 12 So this is really good.

Speaker 13 This is as pure of a fade-yourself moment as you can.

Speaker 86 Yeah, possibly great.

Speaker 75 I'm actually even happier with myself.

Speaker 18 I pick games like I want to win because that's all I know how to do, and all I know how to do is lose.

Speaker 13 This is like the idea of of having a gambling app that changes your bet without you even knowing.

Speaker 49 And

Speaker 33 I am going to be rooting for the Texans all game

Speaker 59 because I want the Bears to get the number one pick.

Speaker 20 This is quite a dynamic here.

Speaker 12 Yeah, you got to be able to get it.

Speaker 78 This is hard.

Speaker 81 This is

Speaker 12 confusing. Oh, yeah.
No, I think I.

Speaker 88 I'm a big believer.

Speaker 75 Like, you can't.

Speaker 65 Well, we'll see. We'll see how it all goes.

Speaker 71 We'll see how it all goes.

Speaker 101 I actually have the same pick as my loser, Colts minus three.

Speaker 46 Okay.

Speaker 101 So I thought they were going to lose.

Speaker 24 Okay, so that means they're probably going to win and cover.

Speaker 13 I mean, I just don't know how the Colts are able to do anything that resembles a functional football team right now. When you look at what's happened, I might have fucked this up.

Speaker 23 It's been bad.

Speaker 13 Who's going to start at quarterback for him? Is it going to be Siddham?

Speaker 77 Or not Siddham

Speaker 71 Ellinger?

Speaker 46 Yeah.

Speaker 13 All right, so there you go, Billy.

Speaker 101 I know, but I'm taking him as a loser.

Speaker 33 I know only one way to gamble.

Speaker 104 It's to try my hardest.

Speaker 21 So I might have fucked this up. Responsible.

Speaker 23 Wait, responsibly, I might have fucked this up.

Speaker 13 Billy, are you completely out on Sam Ellinger now?

Speaker 101 No, I just don't have confidence in the Colts organization right now.

Speaker 22 Okay.

Speaker 40 It's not his fault.

Speaker 19 Max just put me in a torture chamber.

Speaker 38 I fucked this up.

Speaker 69 I really fucked this up.

Speaker 40 I really only know how to win.

Speaker 78 But we would have had the exact same two picks if you did it.

Speaker 30 We're going to split these.

Speaker 41 It doesn't matter.

Speaker 16 We're going to split these. You know we will.

Speaker 21 That's how it always works.

Speaker 13 If you're thinking PMT rigged, we want this contest to go for another week into wild card weekend.

Speaker 35 Yeah.

Speaker 96 For ratings, for clicks.

Speaker 22 Right, Hank?

Speaker 5 Although it's going to be tough because Max had a half.

Speaker 12 All right, Jake.

Speaker 31 In the biggest game since the Blake Borals era, I am taking the Jacksonville Jaguars minus six and a half against the Tennessee Titans.

Speaker 12 That's an L. And you can use

Speaker 31 the game time map for $170.

Speaker 20 Hank knows he's safe now.

Speaker 46 Yep.

Speaker 31 Keep it coming on.

Speaker 79 I have the Titans.

Speaker 71 Oh,

Speaker 46 yes. Wow.

Speaker 31 That's good for me.

Speaker 86 It is. Less things that need to happen.

Speaker 6 The Jaguars feels like the squarest pick on the board right now.

Speaker 13 But, I mean, look at it.

Speaker 13 Josh Tubbs

Speaker 13 for playing for the Titans right now. Like,

Speaker 77 are you going to actually forget

Speaker 87 Josh Dobbs?

Speaker 13 This is actually incredible because now on Sundays as the starting quarterback for his, what is it, second career start?

Speaker 80 I love that.

Speaker 13 Like, that's, I, Jake, I know it's a square pick, but sometimes

Speaker 13 sometimes it's hip to be square.

Speaker 5 And also, this makes it if the Jaguars somehow cover, now we go into Sunday and they're only one game apart.

Speaker 31 And if the Titans cover, Hank goes into Sunday guaranteed a tie break. Yeah.

Speaker 10 So there you go. Saturday night will be incredible.

Speaker 75 Oh, maybe.

Speaker 84 That's good for me.

Speaker 31 That's less things that need to happen for me to gain a game.

Speaker 48 That's true. All right.

Speaker 62 Your favorite underdog, Hank, is the Titans.

Speaker 99 Titans plus

Speaker 35 Vrabel, Patriot, football guy, recurring guest, gamer. He's going to get the boys up.
He's going to get the boys ready. This is a game they win.

Speaker 13 We have breaking news.

Speaker 69 Breaking news.

Speaker 13 Sorry, Billy. Texas has fired Chris Beard.
Ooh.

Speaker 60 I know you're a big fan of Hanks.

Speaker 64 No, Jake was the one who was a big fan of Hanks.

Speaker 12 Absolutely not. Jake was a big fan of his.

Speaker 95 No, this is

Speaker 69 a huge Chris Beard guy.

Speaker 31 No, thank you.

Speaker 79 Goodbye.

Speaker 39 You said most magical run to the Final Four ever, Texas Tech.

Speaker 46 Never.

Speaker 12 You never said that.

Speaker 31 I believe that would be loyal Chicago.

Speaker 88 Okay.

Speaker 10 Did you compliment his coaching at any point?

Speaker 13 I'll look up Jake's Twitter. His defense?

Speaker 71 Let's see.

Speaker 47 This isn't the.

Speaker 13 Jake, strictly what took place on the basketball court,

Speaker 54 how would you rank him as a coach?

Speaker 13 Between the lines,

Speaker 31 I'm looking to see if I had a good Chris Beard tweet.

Speaker 94 And I'm going to retweet it if you do.

Speaker 31 In February, when Texas beat Kansas, I said major win for the long cords. Chris Beard went through HE double hockey sticks last week.

Speaker 67 Oh,

Speaker 21 okay. I'm going to find someone with that.

Speaker 47 I'm going to find some. Oh, wow, in this clip, you call him Hitler.

Speaker 32 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

Speaker 24 no, no, no, no, no, okay, where are we?

Speaker 7 Who's up? Oh, you, Max.

Speaker 83 So you have Texas.

Speaker 35 Plus three.

Speaker 12 Okay.

Speaker 76 PFT.

Speaker 13 My underdog, my favorite dog of the week. This dog,

Speaker 54 this is also a square pick.

Speaker 13 The Chargers? Are the Chargers a dog this week?

Speaker 17 Yeah, they are.

Speaker 86 I mean, we'll find out.

Speaker 31 The Broncos.

Speaker 13 Yeah, so what I saw this and I was like, that's a mistake. Like, do we think Russell Wilson got Jerry Rosberg cured Russ Wilson last week?

Speaker 5 It's a question of the Ravens game.

Speaker 9 So if the Ravens lose this game, the Chargers will try really hard.

Speaker 28 If the Ravens win this game, or is it reverse?

Speaker 14 I think it might be reverse.

Speaker 13 No, because they want to pass the Ravens. Right now, they're behind the Ravens.
Correct.

Speaker 13 They want to pass them so that they could possibly play at the Jaguars or the Titans in the first round of the playoffs.

Speaker 24 They actually are ahead of the Ravens right now, but if the Ravens won, I think they would then win.

Speaker 14 All the fucking shit is so confusing now with the Bengals and Bills stuff.

Speaker 4 But yeah, that's why that line is that way.

Speaker 13 I love the Chargers. I can't believe how much I love the Chargers this weekend.
And this, again, it might be me continuing to buy into the Chargers bullshit, but I think that the Chargers win this.

Speaker 13 I'm going to adjust the line on this. Now, I'm going to keep plus three in this, but I'm just going to give out like a bonus.
I'm going to adjust the line and go Chargers minus six and a half.

Speaker 22 Okay. Yeah.

Speaker 44 My favorite underdog is the Panthers plus three and a half.

Speaker 41 I really fucked this up.

Speaker 40 I picked picks that I thought would win.

Speaker 21 I hope that my terrible, terrible gambling record through two decades comes through for me in the clutch.

Speaker 13 You've been training for this moment.

Speaker 12 I have. I have.

Speaker 43 So, actually, I shouldn't be upset because

Speaker 14 if I did what Billy's trying to do, where it's like, oh, I'm picking the ones that are going to lose.

Speaker 54 You're the Bears right now.

Speaker 13 Pick has the Chicago Bears trying to get the number one pick.

Speaker 77 Like,

Speaker 13 this is what you've been preparing for since 1985. Yeah.
That's literally what you're doing right now.

Speaker 94 Yes, it is. It is.
Okay.

Speaker 101 Commanders plus seven.

Speaker 10 Good pick, Billy. Commanders plus seven.

Speaker 13 Good pick. That's right.
We didn't get outbid by

Speaker 13 Carpet Man flooring by $5 for this.

Speaker 54 How crazy would they have? How much did they donate?

Speaker 13 $5,000.

Speaker 47 Wow.

Speaker 13 I thought about going $5,001 just so I would appear above. But there's no...

Speaker 13 Think about it this way.

Speaker 13 And I'll kind of reset what we're talking about here. In the DeMar Hamlin charity in the GoFundMe, it gives a list of the top donors.

Speaker 13 And in the top donors, you see a bunch of quarterbacks like Andy Dalton was on that list, a bunch of people, famous people. A lot of organizations have donated money to his toy drive.

Speaker 13 The Washington Commanders, one of those teams, they donated $5,000 and $5,005 right above them was Carpet Man Flooring that outbid the Commanders.

Speaker 13 Now, to be fair to the Commanders, their charity organization, they did bounce a $40,000 check for the 50-50 raffle earlier this season.

Speaker 13 So they just might want to make sure that they had that in their account.

Speaker 99 Yes.

Speaker 13 It's also kind of crazy, like, why wouldn't you think a team would just be able to donate privately, like contact them and be like hey we're gonna give a bunch of money but we don't have to actually sign up and put our credit card in to go fund me yeah but if you're the commanders you try to take every good pr yeah that you can get sure and you know what i actually turned out to be a bad one i bet carpet man flooring did that and wrote in commanders five thousand dollars just so they could have done donate five thousand five dollars and be like look i gave more money than the commanders 69 cents commanders yep

Speaker 5 uh 15 rick patino

Speaker 13 i've got a trivia question for you here, Big Cat. And also, if you're looking again in this game, I do have the Game Time app pulled up right now.
Only $82. Only $82 today in the command.

Speaker 54 Rivalry game. Rivalry game.
It's Dallas week, man. We want Dallas.

Speaker 25 GameTime has the best

Speaker 13 price. This might be the first start of a future Hall of Famer in Sam Howell.
Where were you? Go say I was there. Yeah.

Speaker 49 Trivia question.

Speaker 70 Darren Revelle will most likely be buying your ticket stub.

Speaker 33 Yeah. Your digital ticket stub.

Speaker 41 I like that point. I like that.

Speaker 13 How many winning seasons do you think Ron Rivera has as a head coach? So he's been in the NFL, I think, 12 years. Okay.

Speaker 13 And, you know, obviously made the NFC championship game.

Speaker 33 I want to say

Speaker 72 six.

Speaker 59 He's got three winning seasons

Speaker 13 and he's got a career winning percentage of 519, which is above average, but only three of his 12 seasons have been winning seasons.

Speaker 70 Yeah, he had a 15 and one year.

Speaker 13 He had a 15 and one year. So

Speaker 54 I like Ron Rivera as a human being.

Speaker 13 Ron Rivera, the man, he's a good man. If I could just hire a good man to fill that role,

Speaker 13 that would be Ron Rivera. Not a great head coach, as far as record goes.
And the whole Carson Wentz thing, I'm still very upset about that and how that was handled.

Speaker 14 Speaking of Ron Rivera and those Panthers teams, they did the Hall of Fame finalists, and Steve Smith didn't make it.

Speaker 10 Steve Smith, I saw a stat that blew my mind.

Speaker 14 So Steve Smith should be a Hall of Famer.

Speaker 19 He should make it.

Speaker 5 He's like eighth all-time in receiving yards.

Speaker 8 I think he's top 15 in touchdowns.

Speaker 70 But here's the stat that really should put him in guaranteed no matter what.

Speaker 36 In 2005, Steve Smith led the league in receiving yards and his team was

Speaker 92 bottom five in pass attempts.

Speaker 10 That's only been done by someone by Isaac Bruce in 1996.

Speaker 5 And then three years later, he led the league in receiving yards and his team was dead last in pass attempts.

Speaker 28 Yeah. That's insane.
Like he's playing, basically everyone was like, Jerry Rice had Joe Montana,

Speaker 14 you know, who they were listing like all these other receivers and being like, and Steve Smith had Jake Delone.

Speaker 13 Yeah. No, Steve Smith, he's the all-time,

Speaker 13 got that dog in him guy.

Speaker 10 Yeah.

Speaker 13 I think when a dog gets an x-ray, they've got that Steve Smith inside their rib cage. Yeah, no, that's how much of a dog he was.

Speaker 59 Here it is.

Speaker 39 There's only three guys have won the triple crown.

Speaker 51 I guess four now because Cooper Cup won it last year.

Speaker 24 Four guys have won the triple crown.

Speaker 8 So first and receptions, yards and touchdowns.

Speaker 51 Sterling Sharp with Brett Favre in 1990, Jerry Rice with Joe, or sorry, Sterling Sharp with Brett Favre in 1992, Jerry Rice with Joe Montana in 1990, and then Steve Smith with Jake Delone.

Speaker 10 Yeah. So that tells you how good he is.

Speaker 13 Yeah, Steve Smith, awesome, like hilarious guy, too. Very funny.

Speaker 13 Still, maybe like a top five NFL player that I would not want to fuck with.

Speaker 14 And he's also just what I feel like it's been a while since we've gotten behind a Hall of Fame vote.

Speaker 5 We're still working on Dan Heron.

Speaker 33 Steve Smith.

Speaker 18 This podcast is a Steve Smith podcast.

Speaker 19 Yeah, agreed.

Speaker 14 He should be in the Hall of Fame.

Speaker 83 Okay, where are we at?

Speaker 12 Jake.

Speaker 31 I'm taking the Houston Texans plus three against the Indianapolis Colts. Okay.
We talked about last week that crazy stat about 97 to 16 or whatever with the Colts.

Speaker 31 I think the crazier stat is that Jeff Saturday won a game with no experience.

Speaker 46 Yes, that's true.

Speaker 31 So I think this ends

Speaker 79 up.

Speaker 31 Oh, really?

Speaker 4 Now I couldn't be rooting for the Texans anymore because I want Max to get a lead on me and I want the Bears Bears to get the number one pick.

Speaker 106 Let's do it.

Speaker 12 I'm all in on the Texans.

Speaker 46 All in on the Texans.

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Speaker 48 Hank, favorite over.

Speaker 35 Hate this a lot. I regretted sending it, but I sent it already, so I can't change it.
Over Eagles, Giants 43. Thought Jalen Hurts was going to be playing.

Speaker 35 I think he is, but his shoulder's not 100%, so they're probably going to, you know, game plan that way.

Speaker 13 Why would they play him?

Speaker 35 Yeah, why would they play him? They need to get the one seed.

Speaker 13 Yeah, but I mean, the Giants aren't going to be playing anybody.

Speaker 35 Yeah, I hate this pick.

Speaker 71 I hate it. Okay.

Speaker 86 Yeah.

Speaker 22 Okay.

Speaker 12 Well, bad pick. It's a bad pick.

Speaker 23 It's a bad pick. Bad pick.
Max. Bad pick.

Speaker 13 Max is just looking angry for some reason over there.

Speaker 102 No, not.

Speaker 78 It's whatever.

Speaker 13 Put in the paper that Max didn't get mad.

Speaker 78 I don't care about what Hank has to say about the Eagles anymore.

Speaker 18 Max, when we do live streams for the playoffs and the Eagles stream, I'm not going to wear Eagles gear.

Speaker 40 I think I'm just going to make a shirt with my ticket on it.

Speaker 12 Okay, that's fine. Just sit in the front row.
You're an ally.

Speaker 98 Yeah. That's fine.

Speaker 35 Same.

Speaker 79 No, you're not. No, you aren't.

Speaker 88 No, you aren't.

Speaker 14 I actually went up to Hank the other day and I was like, I get why Philly wants you dead.

Speaker 24 I was like, because even a very loose affiliation just from a gambling pick, Hank bothers me.

Speaker 80 He just,

Speaker 75 I like Hank.

Speaker 13 I think he's very good at his job, but he also sometimes treats the studio with a cavalier attitude that I don't think any of us would. He's got his feet up on the desk right now.

Speaker 10 He's just hanging out.

Speaker 22 Yeah.

Speaker 101 Gets turkey everywhere.

Speaker 95 Yeah, he gets turkey everywhere.

Speaker 13 Hank leaves food in the studio, which is

Speaker 13 disgusting.

Speaker 69 He just comes and hangs out and then goes back up to the C-suite where everything's clean.

Speaker 70 They clean everything perfectly.

Speaker 13 I think he looks at this studio as a trash can.

Speaker 12 He walks past it.

Speaker 20 I was in a mute picket over there.

Speaker 69 Wait, wait, Hank, shut up, Hank.

Speaker 95 I had to.

Speaker 12 I was

Speaker 12 comfortable.

Speaker 71 Shut up, Hank. Mute yourself, Hank.

Speaker 13 I've seen Hank walk past this studio, open up the door, and throw his trash into it, and then close the door and leave.

Speaker 98 Yeah.

Speaker 3 And he yells at some underling being like, go clean it up, bitch.

Speaker 12 Okay.

Speaker 51 Your favorite over

Speaker 78 Cardinals Niners over 40 and a half.

Speaker 18 So you're trying to lose this.

Speaker 20 Yes. You don't like this pick.

Speaker 78 Correct.

Speaker 81 They're also random.

Speaker 13 Are we getting Blau or are we getting Trace McSorley?

Speaker 66 I think we're getting a combo?

Speaker 46 I think it's Blau.

Speaker 18 Who knows?

Speaker 74 Week 18, really, like, almost all these games just suck.

Speaker 78 I swear, I was just throwing shit at the wall. I have no idea about any of these picks.

Speaker 100 I was just picking games.

Speaker 18 So you weren't trying to lose.

Speaker 78 No, because I didn't want to make any opinion on anything because

Speaker 78 I went with just picks.

Speaker 13 Did you guys see Kyler Murray's picture when he got out of surgery? No. He is so gone off the anesthesia and pain pills.

Speaker 10 He's sitting up in bed.

Speaker 13 He's giving like a big thumbs up. He looks like he's actually playing PlayStation with his thumbs, but he's just like so pumped to be out of surgery.

Speaker 13 It's so funny looking at his face.

Speaker 13 If you've ever had surgery, it sucks. The rehab process is not fun, but you feel awesome right when you get done with it.

Speaker 41 Yeah.

Speaker 23 So Cardinals versus 49ers.

Speaker 61 49ers are playing for something.

Speaker 24 Cardinals, yeah.

Speaker 19 David Blau.

Speaker 85 Season from hell for the Cardinals.

Speaker 44 J.J.

Speaker 18 Watts last game.

Speaker 13 I feel like he'll get a sack. He'll get a sack for sure.

Speaker 22 Yep.

Speaker 26 Bet that.

Speaker 13 Did you see his badger that he got?

Speaker 18 Yeah, I want it.

Speaker 13 Somebody mailed J.J. Watt a badger, which is that's kind of weird, but it plays.

Speaker 12 Yeah, I want it.

Speaker 13 I want it.

Speaker 4 It definitely plays.

Speaker 14 I was like from Napoleon Dynamite.

Speaker 90 I was like, I want that.

Speaker 79 You should call it honey.

Speaker 13 It should be the honey badger.

Speaker 14 Okay. Your favorite over?

Speaker 13 My over is Ram Seahawks.

Speaker 77 I love this over. Same.
I love this over. I I love it as well.

Speaker 74 What's to say?

Speaker 47 41 and a half?

Speaker 13 That's so low. Geno is going to cook.

Speaker 13 He's going to be a free agent after this. Baker, right? Yeah.

Speaker 13 So I'm pretty sure that this is Geno's last chance to go out there and just let everybody know that what happened earlier in the year wasn't a fluke. Go throw some dimes, find DK.

Speaker 13 And then Baker's been playing pretty decently, I think.

Speaker 64 And we really, really want the Rams to win this game so that the Lions can have a chance at getting into the playoffs.

Speaker 44 Yes.

Speaker 13 And also, I mean, it doesn't look good when you put it like this for the Rams, but in the great cycle of the NFC West, Pete Carroll owned Sean McVay.

Speaker 56 It is true.

Speaker 66 They are going to play spoiler, though.

Speaker 36 I think that there's a couple spots where it's like ripe for this team.

Speaker 12 Why not?

Speaker 20 Just spoil the Seahawks.

Speaker 69 Might as well.

Speaker 56 All right, your favorite over. You have two, Billy.

Speaker 101 First one, Chiefs, Raiders, 52.5.

Speaker 44 Okay.

Speaker 101 Second over, Lions Packers, 49.

Speaker 46 Okay.

Speaker 101 And you're trying to lose all these. Trying to lose them.

Speaker 105 Yeah.

Speaker 53 All right.

Speaker 71 Jason.

Speaker 31 I have Chiefs Raiders as well.

Speaker 22 A little dilemma.

Speaker 31 We texted me as a 52 and a half. Now I'm seeing 52.

Speaker 10 Let's go 52.

Speaker 41 Yeah, it's whatever it is. That's right now.

Speaker 91 That's what I'm saying. I want to be transparent.

Speaker 23 52.

Speaker 31 We've always done all season long what it is when we say it.

Speaker 47 That is true.

Speaker 13 Yeah. Jake has always corrected us and said the line moved.
Hank, that's just a fact. Go back and listen to the show.

Speaker 10 So there's actually now a chance that we could go into Sunday and Hank and Jake are tied.

Speaker 31 No, I'd be a half out because I'm two. So if I win that.

Speaker 31 And you win the other, then I'd be a half.

Speaker 19 You'd be tied. You're down two.

Speaker 46 Right, but.

Speaker 41 What don't we have to do?

Speaker 31 And then in the lost column, yes.

Speaker 50 Right,

Speaker 50 you would be tied.

Speaker 12 Correct.

Speaker 84 Yes. By that.
Yes, yes. Yes.

Speaker 74 How do you feel, Jake?

Speaker 54 Do you feel like you've got a pretty good opportunity to beat Hank here?

Speaker 31 Lions, Packers, over 49.

Speaker 81 You feel good?

Speaker 31 I mean, it's all going to come down to Saturday night.

Speaker 87 Well, no, it's going to come down to Saturday.

Speaker 30 All of Saturday. Yeah.

Speaker 31 Saturday. That was kind of my idea here, try to set the stage.

Speaker 13 Are you going to feel like a little bad, though, if you beat Hank?

Speaker 46 No.

Speaker 31 Not at all. Not for this long.

Speaker 41 I won't feel bad either.

Speaker 13 Ice cold blood, Jake.

Speaker 10 I think the world wants to see Hank suffer.

Speaker 2 Generally.

Speaker 7 Under Hank.

Speaker 98 It's fine.

Speaker 13 Bills, Patriots, 42.5.

Speaker 41 Ooh.

Speaker 12 Okay. Okay.

Speaker 35 Patriots offense. I mean, I bet the under for them all year.
They're a disaster. Worst offense to watch in the league.

Speaker 35 And,

Speaker 35 you know, Elephant in the Room, the Bills have a lot going on. I don't know how, you know, in sync they're going to be.

Speaker 23 You don't think they're going to play for him?

Speaker 77 It could go both ways. It could.

Speaker 41 It could.

Speaker 79 Okay, so. But, like, realistic.

Speaker 35 Yeah, I don't know. I don't know.

Speaker 12 It's 42.

Speaker 79 It's

Speaker 13 what I said. I've worked around Billy

Speaker 13 long enough to know when he gets this shit-eating grin on his face, he's got something that he's thinking about saying that, I don't know, might be.

Speaker 13 He's been laughing at his own joke for the last like 10 seconds.

Speaker 20 What if Hank loses?

Speaker 101 What if we made hank do the challenge in a bowling alley in philly with philly fans yelling at him the whole time whoa that's

Speaker 13 okay that's also not what you were just thinking of i swear to god you just didn't you just didn't want to say whatever joke no that was what i was thinking that's fine that's fine i get like that's that's good discipline batteries at hank no bowling this is a great lie it would be hilarious

Speaker 33 i love philly we don't we battery well you'd say you have

Speaker 83 You have thrown batteries.

Speaker 81 Yeah, but we wouldn't do it now.

Speaker 12 Okay.

Speaker 79 Philly people hate me.

Speaker 35 I don't hate people.

Speaker 13 I don't think anyone would waste batteries on hank okay uh that would be hilarious under max

Speaker 31 uh cowboys commanders 41.

Speaker 86 good pick

Speaker 13 so i'm rooting for the over there nice i think big believer in how oh yeah yeah you love it that's why how cool would it be though if we were named the red wolves and our quarterback was named hal oh that would be sick right so sick i could go back in time so sick uh pft yeah i'm doing the same thing i'm doing the i'm doing the under on that game so all the stuff i was just saying about believing in Hal, he's still a rookie quarterback.

Speaker 13 Essentially, they're probably going to, yeah, essentially.

Speaker 12 That means you're officially clear.

Speaker 30 Oh, that's right. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 54 Crazy.

Speaker 21 Okay.

Speaker 10 No bowling for PFT.

Speaker 13 Thanks, guys. First season, first place.
First time doing that. Very happy with myself, even though I think I'm going to end up the season barely above 500.
Yeah.

Speaker 35 It's really good.

Speaker 31 Yeah. Oh, you're 37, 31, and one.
Oh, nice.

Speaker 12 Oh, okay.

Speaker 35 Me and you are the two official ball knowers.

Speaker 12 Yeah, the hungry dogs.

Speaker 46 Yeah, hungry dogs.

Speaker 90 Lighten it up.

Speaker 90 Okay.

Speaker 83 The under.

Speaker 2 Oh, the lip is when he puts the tongue out.

Speaker 40 I know that he's mad.

Speaker 42 The under in the Jaguars Titans is my game.

Speaker 41 Under 40. I like that.

Speaker 20 I don't see how they're going to score.

Speaker 107 I think this is. You know how we've all been.

Speaker 35 So if you win that, then you could be winning going into Spanish.

Speaker 79 Yes, yes.

Speaker 66 We've all been waiting for the Vraibel game.

Speaker 36 I think this is the Vraibel game.

Speaker 23 It's got to be.

Speaker 13 I think it has to be. The cover against the Cowboys is the Vrabel game.

Speaker 26 I don't know.

Speaker 8 I think they've just been, this is, because they rested a bunch of guys.

Speaker 4 They're going to be, their defense is going to be as well rested as it's been in a long time.

Speaker 64 This is the Vrabel game.

Speaker 83 And he wins these games.

Speaker 35 He wins big games.

Speaker 5 He does.

Speaker 70 And, like, Trevor Lawrence wouldn't be kind of fitting to everything.

Speaker 37 Trevor Lawrence had a bad first year because of Urban Meyer, ascended this year, fell just short next year.

Speaker 24 Yeah, this is here to dominate the AFC South.

Speaker 35 I think if you're a Jags fan, you can be happy.

Speaker 31 Feel-good story. Jaguars stomp their way to the division title.
Not a lot of people.

Speaker 12 Stomp it.

Speaker 105 No.

Speaker 13 Jaguars don't stomp anywhere, Jake.

Speaker 13 They're stealthy.

Speaker 54 They move through the jungle in silence.

Speaker 92 They stomp it.

Speaker 24 Okay, Billy, you're under.

Speaker 3 So if Jake loses those two, though.

Speaker 3 He's done.

Speaker 44 Correct. He's cooked.
Come on.

Speaker 96 He's cooked.

Speaker 13 So, wait, what is Hank rooting for now?

Speaker 35 I'm rooting for the under in game one and the Titans in game two.

Speaker 86 Okay. All right.
Parlay.

Speaker 91 Wow.

Speaker 101 Last pick of the year, under Jets Dolphins, 38.5.

Speaker 44 I like that.

Speaker 24 Last pick of the year, Mr. Irrelevant.

Speaker 71 Yeah. That's a lot of fun.

Speaker 12 That's really for real.

Speaker 12 That put a bow on the season for me.

Speaker 101 Yeah, my last pick of the year.

Speaker 12 Yeah. What a year it was.

Speaker 71 Yeah.

Speaker 18 His last pick of the year. My last.

Speaker 76 Yeah, it's his last pick.

Speaker 13 So, Dolphins, Jets, under is your pick. Yep.
Okay.

Speaker 53 Okay.

Speaker 12 Jake.

Speaker 84 Picture this.

Speaker 86 Oh!

Speaker 95 Everyone close your eyes.

Speaker 59 Look how I'm driving.

Speaker 35 Jake just did narratives. I respect it.

Speaker 35 Jake won straightening. It's going to be.

Speaker 31 it's gonna be we are tied yeah entering sunday night football recording the podcast and jake marsh has the detroit green bay under 49 because we care about the awful wow

Speaker 31 provide the best content for the fans yeah good point jake hank that's why we're doing this hank is punching literally punching air right now he got outflanked i was sure you're gonna take the overs though in that because the overs seems like an easier pick.

Speaker 12 Wow.

Speaker 93 You're right. You're right.
You're right.

Speaker 35 Actually, that's.

Speaker 93 So that's better for me. Yeah.
I don't know.

Speaker 84 So I'm taking the under because because

Speaker 31 hopefully we have a situation where we're recording the podcast and then get the results live on the air.

Speaker 41 Yep. That's what I'm saying.

Speaker 84 Well, that's the only reason I'm taking it.

Speaker 47 Thank you, Jake.

Speaker 25 Yep. That's great.

Speaker 35 So he can blame you guys now if you like.

Speaker 31 I am driving two on Saturday and one on Sunday night.

Speaker 13 I'm just hoping so hard that the Lions beat the Packers to make the playoffs.

Speaker 13 And because I feel like I am that much invested in it, I feel like there's no chance that it happens because I want it to happen so much.

Speaker 47 There's no chance.

Speaker 61 We're ending the season with Aaron Rodgers grinning and being like, told you guys.

Speaker 34 It's happening. It's going to be so cool.
It's happening.

Speaker 92 All right, anything else?

Speaker 13 Aaron Rodgers is probably going to be exhausted from Friday.

Speaker 41 Oh, yeah, true.

Speaker 47 Billion and Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 106 Big day coming up.

Speaker 90 Anything else?

Speaker 70 I mean, these games,

Speaker 73 like, there's just

Speaker 5 the Steelers game's going to be fun.

Speaker 41 Bucks, Falcons, who skips.

Speaker 13 Vikings.

Speaker 31 Vikings Bays. Vikings Bears.

Speaker 47 Nathan Peters. Brown Steelers.

Speaker 22 PF Teaser.

Speaker 72 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 35 Let's hear your gut reaction to to this one, big cat.

Speaker 13 My PF teaser.

Speaker 13 Hank gave me the stinkiest stink eye of all time.

Speaker 38 Is it Vikings Browns?

Speaker 13 No, it's not.

Speaker 13 I'm going, it's the same game.

Speaker 13 I'm doing the Bucs plus nine, and then over 35.5 in that game. I don't hate it.
You tease it, it's plus 108 when you take both of them.

Speaker 64 I don't hate it because the Bucks.

Speaker 73 Oh, yeah, but he prefaced it. You know, obviously you're hit.

Speaker 54 No, you gave me a big stink eye.

Speaker 49 And then Hank was like, would you want me to be honest or be a yes man?

Speaker 13 I was like, yes, man. I want a yes, man.

Speaker 28 I think the Bucs are going to actually.

Speaker 21 Tom Bray's going to play at least the first half, and they're going to try to work on stuff.

Speaker 70 Yeah. I don't like, I don't hate the Bucs just straight up.

Speaker 13 The Falcons don't really have anything.

Speaker 13 They might not even show up for the game. They might forget that they have to play.

Speaker 79 So they won't score. The Bucs can't score.

Speaker 13 I think that they could score 36 points and be able to score when they're not trying, just like this competition.

Speaker 13 Just don't try. Whatever.
The PFTs is 1-0.

Speaker 79 I'm betting it. There you go.

Speaker 73 I just don't love it.

Speaker 14 All right. What else? Anything else before we get to

Speaker 94 Rushmore?

Speaker 104 Rushmore. Rushmore?

Speaker 24 Oh, man.

Speaker 19 Mount Rushmore in a week 18. This is no chances is going to win.

Speaker 13 I don't know how we should all be for Sunday games.

Speaker 47 Yep. Yeah.

Speaker 36 Okay. All right.

Speaker 12 I'll do Aaron Jones.

Speaker 35 I'm going to mix it up and take Saquon Barkley.

Speaker 79 Oh, no. He's on the back of the ball.

Speaker 91 Oh, come on, Hank.

Speaker 12 Get your head in the game.

Speaker 34 Jesus Christ.

Speaker 102 All right. Give me.

Speaker 35 Oh, I guess he might not play.

Speaker 79 Give me.

Speaker 35 Who's Michigan State on

Speaker 95 Kenneth Walker?

Speaker 12 Okay.

Speaker 5 Joe Mixon would be out there for a game that matters.

Speaker 78 Miles Sanders.

Speaker 43 Miles Sanders is out there for a game that matters.

Speaker 13 What about Cook? Dalvin Cook.

Speaker 4 Dalvin Cook dead. Does that game really matter?

Speaker 13 Yeah, for the Vikings, right?

Speaker 58 Kind of.

Speaker 13 Because they're not going to know what they can't get.

Speaker 19 Yeah, they can't get the one seed, yeah.

Speaker 13 Ah, shit. Well, I don't know.

Speaker 31 Josh Allen?

Speaker 36 You do whatever you want. Josh Allen.

Speaker 41 All right.

Speaker 13 Should I do Dalvin Cook or should I do Christian McCaffrey?

Speaker 64 I feel like they might not play him either. It's hard.

Speaker 87 Week 18's got land

Speaker 69 everywhere.

Speaker 108 Joe Mixon.

Speaker 10 Oh, no, the Ravens defense is pretty good.

Speaker 13 I think I'm going to do Dalvin Cook. Okay.

Speaker 14 All right.

Speaker 92 So, Dalvin Cook, Aaron Jones, Josh Allen, and Hank Kenneth Walker.

Speaker 12 Okay.

Speaker 22 All right.

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Speaker 54 Now here is Kirk Herbstreet.

Speaker 75 Okay, we now welcome on our one of our favorite guests.

Speaker 62 It's recurring guest, Kirk Herbstreet.

Speaker 8 You're going to see him Monday night, the national championship live from L.A.

Speaker 6 It is TCU versus Georgia.

Speaker 39 Herbie, thank you for joining us.

Speaker 33 Let's start here. Are you tired yet?

Speaker 5 Because you had the craziest schedule, football schedule of anyone in America this year, doing Thursday night, doing game day, doing Saturday nights.

Speaker 37 Are you like, all right, I'm at the finish line.

Speaker 51 Let's get through Monday night and then I can actually sleep for a little bit because I still don't know how you've done it.

Speaker 112 Dude, I

Speaker 112 am no one's more excited about Monday night than me at midnight. Like I am, I've been on a treadmill here for a pretty good run since late August, and I'm fired up.

Speaker 112 But

Speaker 112 it was definitely a unique opportunity and challenge to do the NFL on Thursday and the travel that goes with that and the prep that goes with that. But,

Speaker 112 you know, I

Speaker 112 had a blast. It was cool to do the NFL games.
It was cool to, you know, the studio guys that traveled around with us got a chance to get to know a lot of those guys. And,

Speaker 112 you know, it was,

Speaker 112 and I'll be honest with you, you guys know Pat pretty well. You know, the timing for me personally could not have come at a better time than having Pat join the show this year.

Speaker 112 McAfee, of course, I'm talking about.

Speaker 112 His energy for me personally on the show and even more importantly off the show was huge for me this year as far as kind of keeping my juice going when you're sleeping two hours a night or flying wherever you're flying.

Speaker 112 And, you know, you know how he has that infectious personality and energy. So, that was a big win for me this year personally.

Speaker 30 For sure, for sure.

Speaker 13 And on Thursday Night Football, I mean, that must have been

Speaker 13 so cool working with Al Michaels in the booth. Does he tell you before the game which side he's on, or do you kind of have to figure it out as the game progresses as you're moving for the ramps?

Speaker 112 No, dude, I kind of got got that from Brent.

Speaker 112 You know, I worked with Mike Tarico, and then I worked with Brent, and then Fowler, and now Al.

Speaker 112 And I got that vibe from Brent before you were allowed to actually talk about it.

Speaker 112 Oh, my, you guys got that vibe when you watched it. Oh, stay tuned here.
You know, like.

Speaker 112 Like, I would know right away if he was like excited to make a call for a touchdown or just like touchdown, you know, whoever.

Speaker 112 But with Al, I don't really, Al kind of talks about near the end of the game pretty openly about the over-under or things like that, but nothing like Brent is

Speaker 112 dialed in at a next level.

Speaker 59 With Al, we heard a rumor.

Speaker 13 I'm not sure if it's true or not, maybe you shed some light on it, that he eats a full meal during games sometimes. Is that true?

Speaker 112 Who'd you hear that from? I forget.

Speaker 107 We might have made it up.

Speaker 13 And maybe we just repeated it.

Speaker 30 Yeah.

Speaker 39 Like, I always just envision when he's calling a game on Thursday night, he's got like a nice steak

Speaker 40 on sides.

Speaker 5 He's just like calling it and then he's just taking a bite and then he's back to the game.

Speaker 112 Two things there. Number one, he will not, if a vegetable gets near him, he'll put a fork through your hand.
Like he doesn't want, it's not like cute.

Speaker 91 Like he doesn't eat vegetables of any kind.

Speaker 112 That's number one. Number two, I thought that was just something you read about.
No, that's 100% true. Number two,

Speaker 112 I work on a Saturday night show that when halftime comes, they might throw you a bag of Cheez-Its or, you know, like, you know, maybe a sandwich from a local place downstairs.

Speaker 112 So that's what I'm used to.

Speaker 112 This dude, we get to halftime.

Speaker 112 He's, I don't know if I assume it's him.

Speaker 112 He's got like steak.

Speaker 112 Oh, like

Speaker 32 shrimp.

Speaker 112 He's got, he doesn't touch tobacco potatoes, but, and he's, and, and they've got like real

Speaker 112 silverware silverware and they got a plate.

Speaker 112 And you know, you only have eight minutes at halftime in the NFL, but you know, as soon as halftime's over, headphones are off back behind that screen, and they got a table set, and it's like fine dining for eight minutes.

Speaker 112 And it's just, you know, he's eating and talking. And

Speaker 112 yeah, it blew me away. I was not expecting that.
I had never heard that the way you guys have.

Speaker 32 I'm so happy to hear that.

Speaker 12 Yeah, this made my day.

Speaker 49 Yeah. This made my day that this is how this happened.

Speaker 13 I envision he has like a nice tablecloth with like a candle.

Speaker 91 Yeah, just lit on it.

Speaker 30 he opens the sheet.

Speaker 28 It's the Titanic behind him.

Speaker 30 Yeah.

Speaker 112 Dude, the only thing missing is a candle.

Speaker 112 I'm going to bring that next year. Everything else, tablecloth.
It's just like...

Speaker 112 I'm like, I guess we're going to a dinner back there.

Speaker 91 Yeah. Back back here.

Speaker 91 That's perfect.

Speaker 75 That's perfect.

Speaker 51 So calling the NFL game, and we'll talk about Monday night, but the one thing that shocked me is I always forget, because I love football so much.

Speaker 65 I love college football. I love NFL.

Speaker 28 There's so many people who don't watch both.

Speaker 63 So, like, when you got introduced to the NFL audience, there would be people being like, who is this guy?

Speaker 99 It's like, dude, he's the fucking best college football broadcaster. What are you talking about?

Speaker 18 Who is this dude?

Speaker 39 Did you notice like there was a, not, not like a rough start, but like a start where you like had to find your bearings a little bit and get into a flow in the NFL game?

Speaker 112 For me, no, maybe for the audience, but for me, no. I mean, we started with Mahomes and Herbert, you know, the opening game with Kansas City and the Chargers.
And And I

Speaker 112 felt like Al and I hit the ground running. I mean, probably the craziest thing when we were done with that game was

Speaker 112 I think people that

Speaker 112 communicated with me were like, man, you guys sound like you've worked together for 10 or 15 years just because there was just a, it was a good game, number one, and there was comfort, you know, there.

Speaker 112 So I didn't really feel like there was growing pains for me personally.

Speaker 112 Maybe the audience had growing pains.

Speaker 99 I didn't either.

Speaker 112 Yeah, i but i know you you know what i mean like it just it was so funny that there were actually people being like who is this guy it's like what do you mean who is this guy like yeah and i and i do think that you know that that's very apparent to me because you know you get into new york and a lot of the bigger cities where there's just nfl and nhl and nba and mlb and they look at college football like you know you we might look at middle school football you know not even high school football like they just don't just not until the draft comes around around, they don't know anything about it.

Speaker 112 Yeah. And so I don't ever,

Speaker 112 I don't know how people live not watching both personally.

Speaker 112 I don't know how my life would exist if I didn't watch both. I can't imagine like having a black hole towards the NFL.
Like, no, I have no idea what, you know, who's on the Raiders.

Speaker 112 Like, I don't know anything. Like, I can't imagine that.

Speaker 32 There are people.

Speaker 91 Yeah. There are people that do that.

Speaker 100 People, like, I always think of like, imagine, like, in, like you said, bigger cities like New York.

Speaker 75 I think this happens a decent amount where there will just be people who, on a Saturday in the fall, they're like going about their life.

Speaker 5 They're like going to the grocery store and stuff.

Speaker 34 It's like, what do you mean you're doing that?

Speaker 91 I can't imagine. College football.

Speaker 82 Yeah, it's a Saturday in the fall.

Speaker 112 I will tell you guys this. And I've always been a college football junkie.

Speaker 112 And I've talked with a lot of NFL coaches and players, you know, as I was going through this experience. They're all like interested on the field before games warm up.

Speaker 112 They're like, man, what's going on?

Speaker 112 That's That's probably the coolest thing is to see guys that I covered in college on the field pre-game and just to kind of see them and dap them up, be like, man, what's going on?

Speaker 112 And they wanted to know what it felt like.

Speaker 112 And I was like, the biggest difference is the energy when you go to Knoxville or you go to Baton Rouge or you go to state college on a Saturday night is very different from an NFL atmosphere until probably you get to the postseason.

Speaker 112 So I'm incredibly spoiled by what you experience in a college atmosphere. And then to go into,

Speaker 112 it was almost like the energy, some of the games we did was like calling a Wisconsin spring game, you know, as far as like the crowd noise. It was just like there was no juice.
And the crowd was full.

Speaker 112 I mean, the stadium was full. It was just, it's just very, very different.

Speaker 112 And I feed off of that energy when I do a Saturday night game. I love the crowd.
I love the passion. And the NFL, I think it maybe gets that way when you get to the postseason.

Speaker 13 There are a few cities I would say in the NFL.

Speaker 72 I think you're absolutely right.

Speaker 54 Like Kansas City,

Speaker 13 Seattle, Buffalo, Pittsburgh,

Speaker 13 maybe one or two others. But yeah, you're right.
For the most part, it's not like

Speaker 13 you can't compete with Baton Rouge Saturday night under the lights.

Speaker 13 It really does like, it means more to those people. And they just, that's what they look for.

Speaker 112 But when the marching bands and all the other.

Speaker 112 stuff the juice it's just it's just a different energy totally it's almost like two different sports really yeah when you talk about that kind of energy that's around these two stadiums in two different leagues.

Speaker 13 So, wait, you're saying that the Thursday Night Colts-Broncos matchup that you called this year, that didn't compare to the energy of Knoxville, Tennessee?

Speaker 112 No, not quite. Unfortunately, we were watching.

Speaker 32 I didn't realize.

Speaker 112 You guys, kind of like Pat, you guys fill me in. I didn't realize the venom for Russ Wilson.

Speaker 91 It's too bad.

Speaker 95 Well, this is what we do.

Speaker 59 This is what we do.

Speaker 13 We root against people sometimes and we love to pile on.

Speaker 13 And then last week, you saw his teammates stand up for him, and he started, he cried talking about how much that meant for his teammates to have his back at his lowest point and how bad he felt about his coach getting fired.

Speaker 13 And all of a sudden, it's like, wow, Russ is human. Now we're rooting.
Now we're going to build him back up again. That's kind of like, that's what we do.
It's a weird, bizarre thing.

Speaker 13 But at the same time,

Speaker 112 when did he go into the world?

Speaker 91 When did he go into the week?

Speaker 89 The last year and a half i would say it's really comes down to fans can smell when someone's not being authentic and a lot of the things he's done he it might be authentic to him but a lot of it comes across as inauthentic and planned and like when when you can tell like a player might have like all these aspirations for uh this bigger thing and like you know canned answers and stuff i think that's when fans can can turn a little bit and then it didn't help that he he played very poorly this year i think that yeah that doesn't help when you're getting paid as much as he is.

Speaker 59 But yeah, it is, like PFT said, I mean, it's we're fans are terrible.

Speaker 30 We're terrible people.

Speaker 25 We build you up and then tear you down, and then we build you back up.

Speaker 13 At the same point, I think Big Cat's right when it comes to Russ Wilson.

Speaker 13 Like, there were things that were very clearly inauthentic that he was doing, you know, to try to further his brand off the field, like the concussion water stuff, when he was trying to just put his name on all sorts of just stuff that doesn't work.

Speaker 13 And

Speaker 13 fans can definitely tell when you're bullshitting them when it comes to stuff like that.

Speaker 13 And I mean, the reality of the situation is if he was still winning football games, if the Broncos were in the playoffs, I don't think he would be getting this much crap at all.

Speaker 74 But

Speaker 13 it's a combination kind of of the two. But that game specifically, that game was funny because we were watching it in our gambling cave.
And

Speaker 13 it was so bad in the first half that we turned on all the, we went on YouTube and found like old awesome games, like the Oklahoma Texas Tech game with Baker,

Speaker 13 and we had all these classic games that we put on the other TVs that we were watching while we still had this one on. But then your game got so good in the second half because it got so bad.
Yeah.

Speaker 13 It finally reached a point where it was good again. As you're calling that game, can you, like, were you completely like bored to tears by it?

Speaker 13 And then at the end, the craziness just kind of amps up the energy, or what do you do as a broadcaster to maintain your focus on that game?

Speaker 112 Yeah, well, again, I was new enough to the NFL. That was like our second or third game that I was, I was still seeing Matt Ryan, you know, and Russell Wilson going against each other.

Speaker 112 But it was, I think, I think Al said at one point, this is like a game that you would see on CBS or Fox, like the third or fourth game, you know, or something.

Speaker 112 And it was a first down was a big thing that night. You know, that's, that, that was the kind of game we had, you know, and

Speaker 112 You know, you honestly, as a broadcaster, you try to stay into the game. You try to stay respectful of the game.
You try to be honest with what you're seeing. But you're right.

Speaker 112 It did come down to the last couple plays, you know, that Wilson had a couple shots at the end zone. But I think that was the beginning of where it just fell.

Speaker 112 That was like where it's like, oh my God, this is really bad.

Speaker 32 Yeah.

Speaker 112 And then I was with Sherm all year, you know, because he did the studio show. And if you think back to that post-game that night, he went off.

Speaker 112 And I, and I I was like, because he had talked with me about Russ before that.

Speaker 112 He's not shy on telling you how he thinks about

Speaker 112 him. And then that just kind of started, I think, a lot of

Speaker 112 back and forth. I don't think back and forth, but a lot of sherm all over Russell.
That's when I started to realize it was a thing.

Speaker 112 I didn't really realize it was a thing until that game and then what came on after that game. And

Speaker 112 God,

Speaker 112 it got nasty.

Speaker 103 Yeah, it was a tough year for him. It was a tough year for him.

Speaker 59 All right, so switching to college football Monday night. So excited.

Speaker 33 Let's start with TCU.

Speaker 12 They are an outlier.

Speaker 39 Like, if we're just going to say, you know, recruiting, if you look at all the numbers, a team that recruiting profile has had this lack of talent has never made it to this point.

Speaker 28 Their season has been incredible.

Speaker 61 That's not a knock on them, but it's just a fact.

Speaker 58 Their season has been incredible.

Speaker 44 Their games have all been like instant classics.

Speaker 3 What, like, if you could could define what it is about this team or what piece that, you know, if it's Max Duggan or Sonny Dykes or their defense turning a corner, like,

Speaker 104 why is TCU sitting here on Monday night playing for 60 minutes for the national championship?

Speaker 112 Well, first of all, what was Dave doing when Michigan was coming back and Ostey came? I can't even imagine what he was dealing with.

Speaker 4 He said

Speaker 3 when that first run busted for like 60 yards, Michigan,

Speaker 63 he He was like, pack it up.

Speaker 4 It's over.

Speaker 30 Big boy football.

Speaker 39 But that game, so going off of that, I was shocked that TCU was able to control the line of scrimmage they were able to do.

Speaker 9 Like the way they did against Michigan.

Speaker 5 I mean, George is a different beast on its own.

Speaker 91 But

Speaker 1 they went toe-to-toe with Michigan, beat them.

Speaker 39 Like, this is not,

Speaker 99 you can't say it's a fluke anymore.

Speaker 30 They're a really good team.

Speaker 112 Yeah, and I think to answer your question, I think the thing that has been unique about them, and you guys know from probably playing and gambling on some of their games, games, they come back. Yeah.

Speaker 112 Like

Speaker 112 they're written off, game's over, and they come back and win the game, you know, when they're down big in the second half. And I think what happened was we do that once or twice.
It's lucky.

Speaker 112 You do it a third and a fourth and a fifth time. It becomes, it creates a belief.
And I think that's where they are.

Speaker 112 So even in the Michigan game, even though they're outmanned, they didn't think they were outmanned.

Speaker 112 you know and to your point about all the buildup for 30 days was they won't be able to handle the line of scrimmage defensively and they they they were flying down to just if nothing else they were not going to let michigan run and of course the first play but other than that they didn't run for a ton of yards and i think it'd be because of the determination of them stopping the run now here comes georgia it's going to be the same thing georgia has a behemoth offensive line they love to run the ball they get those two tight ends i don't know if darnell washington is going to be all right but brock bowers a freak he's an nfl guy playing college so they're going to run this it's going to be the same deal it's almost like michigan take two Yeah.

Speaker 112 Gonna

Speaker 112 try to blast them at the line of scrimmage. I think it'll really open up some opportunities for Georgia in their past game.
They throw the ball so much better than people realize.

Speaker 112 Almost 300 yards a game through the air. Even though nobody talks about their past game,

Speaker 112 they can throw it. So I think that would be my biggest concern for TCU.
Guys, I think it's a...

Speaker 112 Somebody told me the over-under is like in the 60s. I think this is another game over that.
I think it's another game early, kind of feel each other.

Speaker 112 And then after that, it's going to be back and forth. You know, I think it's in the high 30s, low 40s, kind of like the two semifinal games.
I'd be surprised if it's not a shootout.

Speaker 30 Yeah. Awesome.

Speaker 13 That's what I like to hear.

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Speaker 13 As far as the TCU defense goes, so I've been reading a lot about the 335 defense.

Speaker 13 So I'm pretty much an expert on it right now, but there might be some people that are listening that don't know as much about it as we do because we're film guys. We watch the L22.

Speaker 13 We read the scouting breakdowns.

Speaker 13 So can you explain to us what the, or sorry, not us, the listeners that don't know as much about it as we do, what that 335 defense is and what it does well that might be in their favor against Georgia?

Speaker 112 So in the Big 12, if you go back about 10 years ago, everybody started to run some form of a spread offense, you know, where you're playing way out in space.

Speaker 112 And so Iowa State was one of the first defenses to come up with an idea of playing just three down linemen and three linebackers and then five defensive backs.

Speaker 112 And it's a whole premise is we need more speed on the field. We need smaller guys that can run.
So Iowa State kind of created and it worked for them.

Speaker 112 You know, they were Oklahoma, Texas, all these teams want to spread you out. Baylor, they had ability to kind of be out on the outside.

Speaker 112 And they didn't really worry about if you want to run the ball on us who cares we don't really don't really you're going to beat us by throwing for 400 yards so that that became a thing not only at iowa state but as we all know it becomes a copycat thing so the whole big 12 most of it started to run some form of the three three five with the idea of getting more and more speed on the field well now is it like it often does in football it becomes cyclical.

Speaker 112 So now people are saying, well, if they're going to play a 3-3-5,

Speaker 112 let's beat them up at the line of scrimmage. And while they're trying to play smaller and faster, let's go with big tight ends and try to wear them out.

Speaker 112 So that became the big question of the 335 is even though it's built for the pass game and speed, could it hold up schematically against teams that want to run the football?

Speaker 112 And that's kind of where, that's why you hear,

Speaker 112 can TCU handle the line of scrimmage? Part of it's the size of their players. The other part of it is the scheme that they play.

Speaker 112 And I personally think if you, if you're not that, we don't have film to look at to show you, but I think you have three down linemen.

Speaker 112 Those three guys are trying to just do the best they can to eat up offensive linemen. And then those three backers and two of the five safeties are flying down.

Speaker 112 So it's almost like an eight-man front, if you think about it. And that's what they'll try to employ.

Speaker 112 against Georgia. The only problem is you leave your corners on islands and now it's man-to-man and you better better hold up or you're going to give up some massive big plays in the past game.

Speaker 13 Yeah, I guess it helps when you return two interceptions for a touchdown too.

Speaker 38 That's really

Speaker 13 they played well against Michigan, but they also capitalized when they had to. And again, you know, the fumble or the down at the one-yard line.

Speaker 112 Yeah. Wouldn't you say, though, I mean, if Michigan, Edwards hits that big run and you're thinking, like Dave said, okay, here we go.
Big boy football.

Speaker 112 If they finish that drive-off the way you'd expect them to do, bang, bang they're seven points probably a different game if they don't throw the pick six you know early in that game if they take advantage of every time they're inside the five-yard line at one point was it three or four times inside the five yard line like three points yeah i mean so i don't want to make it sound like tcu just you know played great defense no problem you know they played great down in the red area when they needed to but michigan i'm sure would love to have that game back from a play calling standpoint oh big time um the other matchup i'm very excited about uh and maybe you can tell me what's going on because you obviously called the Georgia Ohio State game.

Speaker 28 Keely Ringo versus Quentin Johnson.

Speaker 68 Quentin Johnson's unbelievable wide receiver for TCU.

Speaker 24 He's going to be an awesome pro.

Speaker 66 Keely Ringo, he struggled against Marvin Harrison Jr.

Speaker 81 I actually think

Speaker 14 he's going to be a great safety in the NFL.

Speaker 23 I don't know if he's a cornerback.

Speaker 43 Exactly. But so,

Speaker 75 yeah, so where, like, what does he have to do to adjust?

Speaker 5 Because

Speaker 63 that was Ohio State's ability to put up points and move the ball was Marvin Harrison was making big plays down the field against what a lot of people thought going into this season was going to be one of the best cornerbacks.

Speaker 8 You know, he had the pick six to seal the national championship last year.

Speaker 37 So what's going on with Keely Ringo?

Speaker 8 And do you think he's going to be able to, Georgia's going to adjust for Quentin Johnson after seeing what Marvin Harrison did?

Speaker 112 So I think Keely Ringo's a good player, but I think, as you said, he's a nickel or a safety in the NFL. He's 6'2 ⁇ , like 210.
It's tough to live on an island at that size.

Speaker 112 I think Ohio State looked at the corners from Georgia and said, if we hold up in protection,

Speaker 112 we're going to pitch and catch against the secondary players that Georgia has.

Speaker 112 And I think if you go back to the LSU game, and I know they were down big, but if you really watch that film, they really struggled to not just cover, but to tackle after catches. So,

Speaker 112 you know, I think that they're talented, but I don't think they're great cover guys.

Speaker 112 And now here comes a very different offense with Max Duggan from what they just faced with.

Speaker 112 CJ Stroud was more gun, get it, maybe a little play action, half roll, but it wasn't a whole lot of smoke and mirrors. TCU is a lot of smoke and mirrors.

Speaker 112 Every snap, you're going to probably see some kind of jet sweep motion trying to affect the eyes of the linebackers. So they'll fake it.

Speaker 112 And the linebackers are trying to figure out, did they give it to the jet? Did they fake it? Did they hand it off?

Speaker 112 And then you got an athletic quarterback that can run the ball so it's just it's it's a lot of a lot going on that affect the rhythm of a defense and what they're trying to do and what they're trying to see so at the end of the day johnston on one side saveon williams on the other they got tay barber and and darius davis and the slot they got a lot of weapons and i guarantee you they're thinking about they're going to run enough to make georgia have to respect it but they're going to do what lsu and oio state did and they're going to attack the secondary They're going to try to hit some big plays and one-on-one coverage.

Speaker 112 And by having Max Duggan as a runner,

Speaker 112 now you got to get a safety down, and now you're going to put some one-on-one opportunities because if you bring that safety down, you're one-on-one on the outside.

Speaker 112 And that's where Duggan will start to try to really hit some home runs against those two corners.

Speaker 63 And I think Max Duggan, like, I don't think he gets enough credit.

Speaker 51 There's something about him.

Speaker 70 He's not the fastest guy, he's not the biggest guy, but his instincts with whether it be you know handing it off or running or the angles he takes are so incredible it always feels like he has the right angle the right decision and that's where he makes up for everything else like he he burns teams with his decision making uh with running the football which i i mean after what cj stroud did i i would imagine that georgia's got to be pretty worried about that as well Yeah, and again, you go back to Stroud.

Speaker 112 He's never really shown that, right? I mean, he's never shown that ability to create. This guy has.
So what does that mean to Georgia?

Speaker 112 Well, if you play man-to-man, which means defensive backs have their backs turned to the quarterback, you obviously have to spy him with somebody.

Speaker 112 Because if you don't, this guy on third and six, you play man-to-man and you're covered, guaranteed he's taking off and getting a first down. There's that.

Speaker 112 Then there's the zone read element where they keep you honest, making you have to get a count for the quarterback. They do RPO game.

Speaker 112 It's just, it's just a very, very different scheme that I think Georgia is going to have to prepare for. And they're kind of,

Speaker 112 did you watch the game closely? Like Jalen Carter, we hyped him up to be, you know, top two pick in the draft. He had his hands on his hips.
Yeah.

Speaker 32 He was tired.

Speaker 112 You know, he's running off the field, kind of checking himself out.

Speaker 112 So if they thought Ohio State was going fast, you know, they're going to find an offense that's going to try to wear down that defensive front by doing a lot of tempo and just trying to kind of neutralize the maybe the advantage Georgia has at the line of scrimmage by trying to wear down that front led by Jalen Carter.

Speaker 13 Yeah, so what happened over the course of the year? Because they started off so strong defensively, Georgia did.

Speaker 13 And then recently they've been like, I think they gave up, it was like, what, 500 or 600 yards to LSU?

Speaker 112 Through the air. LSU, 500 yards through the air.

Speaker 13 Yeah. So what happened to Georgia over the course of the year?

Speaker 112 And especially with Kirby, he's known as a defensive guy, right? He's one of the best defensive minds in the game.

Speaker 112 Let's go back a year ago. I think when you guys, you and I were talking, George's defense last year was one of those defenses that you say as a broadcaster.

Speaker 112 I don't know if I've ever recovered a defense that's been this talented, not to mention to Kobe Dean, who's with the Eagles now, was kind of the ringleader in the middle. They lost.

Speaker 112 everybody other than Keely Ringo and Christopher Smith and Jalen Carter, who was kind of a backup last year. everybody else is gone.
Nolan Smith returned, but he's hurt.

Speaker 112 He went out, I can't remember like week seven or eight. Everybody else is a new face.
So I'm not saying that things changed, but other than Oregon early, I don't know if they really played a dynamic.

Speaker 112 Tennessee's good, but they just beat them up at the line of scrimmage, right? That was the, that's the equalizer against Tennessee's system, that old Art Bryle system is.

Speaker 112 If you can beat them at the line of scrimmage, you don't have to commit numbers, then

Speaker 112 you can beat Tennessee.

Speaker 112 And Georgia was able to do that especially at home in athletes so i don't know out outside of of that tennessee team who did they play that was wow that offense is great i don't know if who they play you know so i think lsu got down 35 seven and started spinning it oh state has really good receivers and a great quarterback and i i think now it's more of

Speaker 112 younger players that that maybe aren't quite what they had a year ago, especially on the back end.

Speaker 12 And they are undefeated, we should say.

Speaker 43 Because

Speaker 21 we are talking about them like they're not an undefeated team. They're incredible.

Speaker 13 They're a great team. And when you're talking about Tennessee, that's what sprung to my mind as being like a similar type of matchup as we have against TCU because of the tempo.

Speaker 13 Because Hypo just likes to wear you out. His whole focus is like run as many plays as possible, get you tired.

Speaker 13 And they were able to handle Tennessee like they beat the shit out of Tennessee. Yeah.

Speaker 112 And they also, Tennessee puts the receivers, you you know, they put them, not just spread you, but they go to the sideline

Speaker 112 with their receivers.

Speaker 112 And what they do is they make you have to account for, okay, we're going to take away the pass and then you're a man short against the run, or we're going to load up against the run and now you're playing man to man.

Speaker 112 And Tennessee made everybody pay for that. Well, Georgia could play against the pass and still hold up at the line of scrimmage against the run.

Speaker 112 And that was the difference with what Georgia was able to do. Again, especially in Athens, they're so tough.

Speaker 51 Yeah. so calling that game in Atlanta on New Year's Eve, the Kirby Smart timeout.

Speaker 5 Was that the best timeout you've ever seen?

Speaker 51 I mean, that was, in the moment, it was shocking that he was able to see it.

Speaker 56 And I heard or I read a story after that

Speaker 58 it wasn't even from the booth.

Speaker 59 It was his eyes because he wasn't even on the special.

Speaker 5 I heard that he wasn't on the special teams. He hadn't flipped over from defense to special teams headset yet.
So the special teams guys were screaming, but he hadn't flipped over and he saw it.

Speaker 39 I mean,

Speaker 51 when you're watching that live, are you just like, this game just changed on a coach's timeout?

Speaker 112 So, there's a couple things. Number one, if you look at the way the alignment of the

Speaker 112 where they were, Ohio State, where they had a man short on the left side of their line of scrimmage, that was away from George's sideline.

Speaker 112 So, like, if it would have been facing Kirby, then it would be really easy to see, wow, what's going on? Because I thought Ohio State maybe was a man. I was looking at it like, what's wrong?

Speaker 112 They had the guy, the long snapper, one guy next to him, and and then nobody on the left side. Yeah.
One.

Speaker 112 But

Speaker 112 the way Kirby reacted on the sideline, I thought I made a comment on the broadcast. The guys upstairs must have seen something and quickly called down to him.

Speaker 112 But for him to see it from the opposite side of where the weird alignment was, I didn't realize that. I just, until you told me that, I thought it was the guys upstairs that maybe saw it.

Speaker 112 But that was a great time out. And the timing of it, Bill Lamonier, who helps us upstairs, I said, boy, I don't know if he called a timeout before the ball was snapped.
Are you sure he did?

Speaker 112 And he goes,

Speaker 112 if you hear timeout,

Speaker 112 it's up to the ref subjectively to say, I heard timeout before the ball was snapped. So he doesn't necessarily have to like do this

Speaker 32 to like play.

Speaker 112 If he sees it and hears timeout, even before he can do this. Bill was saying it counts as a timeout.

Speaker 112 So if you watch that frame by frame, you can tell the ref was like looking at the field and then he looks to his right and starts to kind of put his whistle in his mouth and then the ball uh just about starts to snap so i he got it in yeah that that play and then the play by bowers that was initially called short of the first down and then the the the replay of that dude where he stayed in bounds somehow I mean, that's got to be also just as from a technology standpoint.

Speaker 33 Are you ever amazed at like the angles that, because that, I don't even know if they have that camera on a regular Saturday like that was one of the greatest replays I think I've ever seen I know that sounds crazy to say but they had it so perfectly where the ball was where his hand was when he went out of bounds like you gotta do you think back sometimes of like 15 years ago and like what we get to see so much more now

Speaker 112 oh my god it's so true we even have a camera on the crossbar you know so

Speaker 112 we'll try to pull that one out this it's a cool look from the red zone you know when you're looking through the eyes of the free safety that's that kind of a cool look.

Speaker 112 Yeah, but there, there are cameras everywhere that pick up some of these things. But I, I, at first, it just looked like he went out of bounds.
And we went to break and we started to look at it.

Speaker 112 It was under review. I was like, holy shit, his right foot somehow stayed in, like it went up.

Speaker 30 Yeah.

Speaker 112 It was about to go out of bounds. It went up.
And then he had his hand down.

Speaker 112 And then by the way, he had presence of mind to kind of extend. If he didn't extend it, he just went out of bounds.
He's short, but he extends it.

Speaker 112 And then, like, two plays later, they score. It It really changed the complexion of the game.

Speaker 112 If that's a stop verse, that one, and I think the hit on Harrison, which I still, how does a guy get knocked unconscious and it not be targeting? That was a little bit surprising to me.

Speaker 112 But

Speaker 112 the play by the punt

Speaker 112 by Kirby getting the call, Bowers' effort to get the first, and then the hit on Harrison. Those three plays really seem to stand out to me in the outcome of the game.

Speaker 32 And then the safety fallen.

Speaker 30 It was a safety when he

Speaker 112 and fell. That was another big play.

Speaker 13 On the Bowers play, I still don't understand how it was physically possible for him to be like sliding on his foot and then lift his foot up as it was still like he had pressure on that foot as he was sliding at the sideline.

Speaker 13 It doesn't seem like it's like the Matrix.

Speaker 112 Exactly. How is that even possible? All his weight was on his hand and on that foot, and then somehow that foot goes into the air and for him not to just collapse.
Yeah. you know, just incredible.

Speaker 112 Yeah.

Speaker 13 So we should talk about the dogs and respect the dogs, calling the dogs. Have you heard, has anybody barked at you yet?

Speaker 112 Well, Pat does all the time. You know,

Speaker 112 Pat does with Pollack

Speaker 112 all the time.

Speaker 112 Yeah, you hear from their fans nonstop.

Speaker 112 And by the way, you guys said, you know, we're talking about them like they're not a great team, obviously. The last time we saw back-to-back was like, what was it, 11 and 12 with Alabama? Yeah.

Speaker 112 I mean, just in college football, you just don't see it.

Speaker 112 You know, I think guys, they win a championship, they come back the next season, they don't quite have the same edge, they lose so many great players.

Speaker 112 I mean, they lost their heart and soul off this team. And for them to be backed in this position, you know, everywhere game day goes, we always hear, we want Bama, you know, all that kind of stuff.

Speaker 112 The new chance should be, we want Georgia. Georgia has become the new standard.
And if they win Monday night without question, even if they don't win, I feel like they've arrived to that point.

Speaker 112 They win Monday night. There's a new sheriff in town, you know, and it's Kirby Spartan and the Georgia Bulldogs.

Speaker 8 Yeah, can you talk? The program is insane.

Speaker 13 Can you talk real quick about the end of that game and how crazy that must have been watching that field go?

Speaker 54 So you're an Ohio State guy, right?

Speaker 13 So you're trying, yeah, you're very biased.

Speaker 52 We should just admit that.

Speaker 43 You're completely biased.

Speaker 13 So you're like, you were blowing onto the field, trying to add a little gust of wind to get it back into the uprights.

Speaker 13 But like, the kick is happening as the clock is striking midnight for New Year's Eve, right?

Speaker 72 Crazy, crazy timing.

Speaker 13 The kick was actually, I saw one clip where they lined it up and they synced it up with a ball dropping. And the kick was kicked in 2022 and it was ruled by the kids.

Speaker 32 By ending 23.

Speaker 13 In 2023. So all that's going on.
You're rooting like hell for your Buckeyes, but you can't say it out loud. And then to see the kick end up the way that it happened,

Speaker 13 I'm curious to know what your emotions were like because I felt like just watching it from home with no rooting interest in terms of an alma mater, I was, my body didn't know what to do.

Speaker 112 All right. So now I haven't talked about this other than with my wife.
So here's the deal.

Speaker 112 When I do Ohio State games, I have zero problem being honest and just talking about the game, breaking the game down. In this case, it was interesting.

Speaker 112 Ohio State was MF'd for 35 days after the Michigan game about how, you know, Ryan Day. is this and Ryan Day is that and CJ Stroud's this and CJ Stroud's that.

Speaker 112 I felt it was not deserving of where the program was. And I could see the anguish.
I don't know if you guys could.

Speaker 112 I could see the anguish on Ryan Day's face for literally a month if you watched him do interviews. And so for them to go out, put a plan together and actually execute it to the level, which they did.

Speaker 112 And I think they earned a lot of respect back in the way they played.

Speaker 112 And they played well enough and coached well enough to win the game. And a lot of people feel that they outplayed Georgia and just didn't win the game.

Speaker 112 And so for it to come down to a last second field goal like that, meanwhile, me, like, you're right, I'm an Ohio State fan, but for four hours, I was completely down the middle, fair, call it exactly whatever I saw.

Speaker 112 But in a situation like that, I don't get usually emotionally invested in Ohio State,

Speaker 112 except for Clemson in 19,

Speaker 112 Alabama in 14.

Speaker 112 And Ohio State against Georgia the other night, only because I felt bad for what they endured for a month after the Michigan game. And then how well they they played.

Speaker 112 But when that field goal missed, there was a moment of just like, you know, hands on my knees, like, damn, you know, like they deserve to win that game. Like, I felt bad for them.

Speaker 112 But I don't think it ever impacts me on what I'm doing on the air, but it definitely impacts me in my heart and in my stomach.

Speaker 112 But what are the odds of that, right? I mean, it's like, The New Year, because, you know,

Speaker 112 we're not even thinking about New Year's Eve. Like, we showed a few parties, you know, we went out to Times Square, but you're so engaged in the game.
And we kept promoting that that was coming up.

Speaker 112 And then here we go.

Speaker 112 The producer goes, we're within a minute of New Year's. And then we're about to set up for a field goal.
And he's like 10, nine,

Speaker 88 line up.

Speaker 112 And I'm like, what the hell is happening right now? Snap the ball at like five or four. kick it at two in the air.
I'm thinking everyone's yelling happy new year around that's not watching this game.

Speaker 112 And this guy, poor, poor, this poor kicker, you know, he misses this kick, and George is celebrating, and Ohio State's dejected. And that's how 2023 starts.

Speaker 112 Yeah, that was, yeah, I mean, the timing of that was absurd.

Speaker 26 It was an all-time moment. And I will say that I do find that you are unbiased.

Speaker 5 People on Twitter will obviously disagree. I think they just hear whatever they want to hear, and they'll be like, yeah,

Speaker 68 this is bullshit. He's doing this.

Speaker 112 Yeah, if CJ Stroud throws a touchdown, you have to compliment him. Right.

Speaker 105 You can't say, oh, he sucks.

Speaker 32 Oh, he got lucky.

Speaker 26 Yes. But, all right, well, Herbie, thank you so much.

Speaker 33 We appreciate it.

Speaker 75 You have a well-deserved rest after Monday night.

Speaker 33 I hope they got you in a suite.

Speaker 26 Your room doesn't look that nice.

Speaker 91 What's going on?

Speaker 112 It's just a standard room here.

Speaker 105 Did that's your whole room?

Speaker 112 That's it, yeah.

Speaker 88 What are they doing?

Speaker 33 We got to get you in a suite.

Speaker 112 No, well, if you can pull some strings, man, I'd love a suite.

Speaker 13 Well, you get the private jet, right? Yeah, the private jet takes you around everywhere, so they had to cut back in the hotel.

Speaker 112 Well, I pay for that, but yeah,

Speaker 30 I have to do that.

Speaker 91 Yeah, well,

Speaker 91 no,

Speaker 13 Trent Tilford told me otherwise.

Speaker 4 Listen, and I'll say this.

Speaker 24 You know, I love Bear.

Speaker 26 You love Bear.

Speaker 63 He's probably going to be a little upset.

Speaker 39 He's not going to be on the private jet anymore.

Speaker 112 I think you might be right.

Speaker 91 I think you might be right. It's going to be.

Speaker 112 Now, just for the record, when I move from game day to a game on a Saturday, ESPN moves me for that. Because how else am I going to get

Speaker 112 from Tallahassee to Wisconsin? But anytime if I fly anywhere other than that,

Speaker 112 it's either commercial or I pay for it.

Speaker 13 It's just funny how the whole Kirk Herbstreet has his own private jet narrative got started. And it was like, well, he has to get from the show

Speaker 13 to a small airport that's usually in a small town. So yeah, that's kind of how ESPN has to handle it.
Yeah.

Speaker 32 Yeah.

Speaker 13 But yeah, enjoy your vacation, get some rest. Where are you going to go after this?

Speaker 112 I don't know, man. I'd love me to come watch some.
I want to come watch you guys when you guys gamble, though. I want to definitely do that.

Speaker 13 We got to get you in the cave with Frank the Tank.

Speaker 105 Yeah.

Speaker 91 I would love that.

Speaker 112 I would love to make some college oops. Wisconsin got a squad this year or no?

Speaker 28 Yeah, they're 14th in the country.

Speaker 5 And, I mean, we can talk about it next year when you come back on.

Speaker 26 But Luke Fickle, I mean, your guy.

Speaker 91 Oh,

Speaker 4 listen, Wisconsin will be back soon.

Speaker 30 We're at QBU.

Speaker 112 That's a big W for you. And

Speaker 112 didn't you get a quarterback to transfer there?

Speaker 62 Two.

Speaker 65 We got Nick Evers from Oklahoma and Mordecai from SMU.

Speaker 5 So we're QBU now.

Speaker 112 Yeah. And Mordecai started at Oklahoma before he went to SMU.

Speaker 112 That's a good spot.

Speaker 112 They look, by the way, they look like Wisconsin, didn't they? And they're both like that's

Speaker 112 right there. Yes.
Don't worry about like, just win 24 to 13. Yes.

Speaker 112 that's that's how wisconsin plays yeah just don't make mistakes and just run the ball that's there's no better football than that um well herbie yeah appreciate it so much man and uh we're looking forward to monday night thanks fellas and uh give me 49ers chiefs

Speaker 112 in the super bowl and i'm going 49ers okay gonna win it all brock purdy brock purdy i love that I mean, that's got to shock you a little bit because you called Brock Purdy games like.

Speaker 91 And I think he wasn't that good.

Speaker 112 It's going to change the eval and quarterbacks moving forward like with Zach Wilson who was doing the spin move and the throw at his

Speaker 112 workout and Brock Purdy Mr.

Speaker 112 Irrelevant who was a four-year starter I think it's going to change guys like Stetson Bennett or Max Duggan or who knows who like those guys are a little bit off the radar but played a ton of football they're all the same to be looked at.

Speaker 13 I do like that take. It's like how we looked at running backs, you know, 15, 20 years ago.
You're the first person that I've heard say like the quarterback position can be replaceable.

Speaker 13 Yeah, I like it.

Speaker 6 For your starters.

Speaker 13 If you have Kyle Shanahan as your head coach.

Speaker 74 Yeah.

Speaker 91 That helps. That helps.

Speaker 12 Bro, yes.

Speaker 79 All right. Thanks, Herbie.

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Speaker 24 Okay,

Speaker 51 let's wrap up the show.

Speaker 62 Great show with Fire Fest of the week.

Speaker 22 Henry?

Speaker 41 What happens up, boys? Yeah, what?

Speaker 95 My Fire Fest, we're not doing fuck, boys.

Speaker 94 That's all right.

Speaker 68 We can do it. I forgot it.

Speaker 22 Do you want to do it?

Speaker 67 I don't care.

Speaker 44 I don't care either.

Speaker 44 Fantasy fuck.

Speaker 13 Fantasy fuck.

Speaker 35 Let's do fantasy fire fests.

Speaker 13 All right, fancy firefest.

Speaker 22 All right.

Speaker 39 We'll wrap up the show with Fantasy Fire Fest.

Speaker 12 What's up?

Speaker 12 What's up, boys?

Speaker 75 What happened this week?

Speaker 28 Do it and then we can talk about it after.

Speaker 10 Just introduce it.

Speaker 35 I'll just do my sit-im then. All right.
My fucking bed frame, dude.

Speaker 21 Oh, no, what happened? Fuck.

Speaker 88 It's absolutely fucked.

Speaker 13 You fucked too hot on it.

Speaker 46 Yeah.

Speaker 35 No, I got a king-size mat. I guess we'll just do fire fest.

Speaker 93 We'll just do fire fest.

Speaker 39 Well, no, you can introduce it as your fuck boy, and then we'll do fire fest.

Speaker 87 So yeah, what happened?

Speaker 35 My sleepa is not me sleeping well on my fucking mattress.

Speaker 87 But justada. Let's do your fire fest.

Speaker 35 My fire fest is my bed frame is fucked up.

Speaker 33 I know, you said it.

Speaker 62 So then I'm asking you, what happened?

Speaker 41 Okay, so

Speaker 35 a couple months ago, I upgraded big boy moves, corporate life. I got a king-size mattress, not a big deal.

Speaker 35 And then like a month later, I was like, damn, like, this thing's kind of fucked up. It felt like I was like, you know, sliding in the middle.
And then I, you know.

Speaker 10 How many nights sleep did you have before you

Speaker 69 weeks?

Speaker 28 So you were just slowly sliding in the middle.

Speaker 35 Yep. And then I took the, you know, I investigated.
Turns out it was true. I sent them pictures.
They're like, oh, this is a malfunction. This is normal.
We'll send you a new one.

Speaker 35 Got a new one this week. And it's happening again.
And I'm coming to the realization that it's my actual bed frame and not the mattress. So now I have to fucking

Speaker 35 go through that whole process of getting a new bed frame and then coming in the mattress.

Speaker 3 Ikea.

Speaker 2 So you probably are just missing a piece of wood.

Speaker 35 I don't think so.

Speaker 43 Did you install it? Did you build it?

Speaker 35 No, I did not.

Speaker 13 Hank, I've gone through this before, before, actually, with an IKEA mattress. It's probably the slats.
Yeah.

Speaker 13 Sometimes when you buy the slats, there's a few of them that aren't cut in the exact same dimensions. So they slide down in the middle across the middle beam and they sink down.

Speaker 13 So you just need wider slats.

Speaker 19 Or that might be fine.

Speaker 13 Did you crack a slat?

Speaker 12 That happens a lot.

Speaker 13 Have you lifted the mattress off to investigate? Yes.

Speaker 95 You can also

Speaker 35 bent towards the middle.

Speaker 73 It's too, you know.

Speaker 72 Yeah.

Speaker 75 Yeah. Okay.
So

Speaker 13 IKEA does some good shit. Their meatballs have like 50% less horse than they used to.
They do some good products, but the slats are by far the weak link of these beds.

Speaker 54 You know what an easy fit?

Speaker 13 So just get new slats and you'll be good. Or an easy fix.

Speaker 7 Where do you acquire slats?

Speaker 72 IKEA.

Speaker 18 Here, Hank, go to Ikea.

Speaker 54 I did this.

Speaker 6 Here's an easy fix.

Speaker 28 This has happened to me before.

Speaker 65 The slats broke on an old bed I had for mykea way, way back in the day.

Speaker 70 I just went to Home Depot and I bought just a huge piece of wood and just put that down.

Speaker 25 So you can do that.

Speaker 13 You can cut out plywood. Yeah.
You measure from side to side. Yeah.

Speaker 69 So measuring is going to be where he gets tripped.

Speaker 35 Yeah, I mean, it's just like dealing with this is.

Speaker 100 But if you measure it correctly.

Speaker 35 That's like I fucking, it's kind of important.

Speaker 5 If you measure it correctly, you go to Home Depot, you just tell the guy I need these measurements, he'll cut it for you.

Speaker 76 All right, yeah. Another option.

Speaker 13 Yeah, you probably don't want to go back in life, but if you just went, get rid of the bed frame, put the box spring and the mattress down on the ground. Yeah, I'm not doing that.
Bachelor pad.

Speaker 8 So you've just been sinking into the middle of your bed and been like totally normal?

Speaker 35 No, I'm like, something is afoot here.

Speaker 95 No, at one point you just kept it.

Speaker 35 No, no, no. So then I obviously told my mom about it.
I was like, mom, my shit's fucked up. She was like, take the mattress off and like,

Speaker 102 like,

Speaker 35 the first time I realized, I took the mattress off, flipped it upside down, put some stuff on top of it, thinking that was going to even it out.

Speaker 76 Yeah.

Speaker 35 That didn't work. You tried to fill it in? Sent it to IKEA.
IKEA just didn't respond to me for two weeks. I had to call him and be like, hey,

Speaker 35 what the fuck? Is anyone seeing this? Like, yeah, you know, you know, it'll get back to you eventually. I was like, I'm sleeping on this bed every night.

Speaker 35 Like, I need, like, if you don't send me a replacement, I'm going to get a new one. Like, kind of, kind of being a Karen.
The next day, they're like, all right, you know, here's the replacement.

Speaker 35 The replacement came after the break.

Speaker 34 But yeah, it's

Speaker 34 a problem.

Speaker 13 You have the replacement.

Speaker 35 I do have the replacement. I've slept on it for two nights, and I...
Again, like, I woke up. I was like, I feel like I'm sinking in the middle.

Speaker 19 It's the same problem again.

Speaker 23 Yeah, the slat. I had a water bed.

Speaker 13 I love IKEA, but their slats are no good. Yeah.

Speaker 80 You get a real slat problem.

Speaker 13 I'm sorry for slat shaming them, but they actually, they're dog shit.

Speaker 35 I'll send you, I'll take the mattress off this weekend and show you, and maybe there's something I'm fucking up even worse than I imagine. And you guys are going to be like, holy shit.

Speaker 13 There's like a family of possums.

Speaker 23 Well,

Speaker 98 they're bent slats.

Speaker 35 Like, are slats supposed to be straight and water?

Speaker 13 Wait, when you're talking about the slats, are you talking about wood?

Speaker 41 Yes.

Speaker 74 And they're bent?

Speaker 13 How are they bent? They're wood.

Speaker 102 They're like... Are they broken? No.

Speaker 41 I'll send you a picture.

Speaker 43 Are they right side up?

Speaker 13 Did you like spill?

Speaker 12 Are they warped?

Speaker 97 Would you piss your bed?

Speaker 107 Yeah. Oh, you pissed your bed.

Speaker 6 Or was there a squirter?

Speaker 67 This is like what you're talking about.

Speaker 13 That's how wood gets warped.

Speaker 77 Yeah. No, Billy's right.

Speaker 13 How'd you warp your wood?

Speaker 35 No, they came warped.

Speaker 28 I mean, knowing everything about you, you puke on blackjack tables, you piss your bed.

Speaker 35 I didn't do either of those things. I have pissed my bed drunk.
There you go.

Speaker 35 But not this bed.

Speaker 13 This was years ago.

Speaker 71 After pup punk.

Speaker 35 Last time I pissed my bed was after the first pub punk show.

Speaker 13 That's the most ringing endorsement that I can ever get. Fun fact.
After a live concert. Had so much fun, I pissed myself.
Yeah.

Speaker 41 That was fun.

Speaker 13 It's a tough Fire Fest. I believe in you.
Yeah. I think you got a slat problem.
You got to either put the plywood down or just get new slats.

Speaker 12 I'm Googling IKEA slats.

Speaker 66 Okay. Okay.
All right, PFT.

Speaker 13 My Fire Fest of the week, it's actually like a similar fire fest, I think, to what a lot of people have been going through this week.

Speaker 13 And it's been a very funny situation that's been going left unsaid in a lot of fantasy football group chats, which is obviously football is not the most important thing in the world

Speaker 13 after what we saw on Monday night. But also, last weekend was the finals in most fantasy leagues.

Speaker 13 And so you've had what's been like a silent standoff, I think, in a lot of fantasy group chats, waiting for somebody to text the group and be like, so,

Speaker 13 you know, obviously, obviously prayers for tomorrow, but what are we going to do about this fantasy football matchup?

Speaker 10 I will say in one of my fantasy group chats, I jumped right into it on Tuesday morning.

Speaker 19 I said my team had been eliminated for a very long time.

Speaker 7 I just said, if I were in contention to win this, I would donate all the money.

Speaker 35 Yeah. I like that.
Big cat. I stole that and been running.

Speaker 74 Yeah, because it's great.

Speaker 37 It's just like, hey, just so you know, I'm not trying to pressure anyone, but the type of guy I am, if I were in the championship, I would donate all the money.

Speaker 13 Yeah, so our good friend Jerry O'Connell is managing our fantasy team. We were in the finals for what would be like a $25,000 pot that we would take Jerry out on a spending spree on.

Speaker 13 So he called me yesterday and he was asking what we should do and how funny this whole standoff is.

Speaker 13 So we've made an offer to CJ because he is the commissioner of that league to split it 50-50 and then we'll take the $12,500 and take Jerry on a fantasy like a shopping spree with that.

Speaker 13 But it's very funny because until today when we got a little bit of good news, you know that everybody in the league had thought about it, but nobody was willing to go out and make that first move.

Speaker 39 I would say not nobody.

Speaker 13 I guarantee that every fantasy league had one guy who was like, obviously, like prayers up before DeMar Hamlin got to the hospital, was like, what the fuck does this mean?

Speaker 41 Yeah, like, what, we're just not going to finish this?

Speaker 14 Yeah.

Speaker 10 Like, there definitely was that guy.

Speaker 13 And you're going to have negotiations going back and forth with people that had either like Joe Burrow on their team or Josh Allen. Be like, dude, Josh Allen was going to go off.

Speaker 13 I was going to get 40 points.

Speaker 14 Oh, I love reading those tweets right now where people are like, the Bengals were up 7-3 and they were going to dominate that game.

Speaker 24 Josh Allen already injured his ankle a little bit.

Speaker 44 Yeah.

Speaker 50 Like, okay, sure.

Speaker 54 So we were down, I want to say, like, I don't know, four points, I think, and we had Joe Burrow.

Speaker 13 Jerry had started Joe Burrow in our league, and Jerry was just like, you fucking know Joe Burrow was going to go off.

Speaker 86 Oh, he was.

Speaker 100 He already started, right?

Speaker 97 He had a touchdown.

Speaker 13 Yeah, so in our estimation, according to Jerry thinks that 50-50 is a more than reasonable offer because we were definitely going to win that matchup. So we'll see what happens.

Speaker 13 We'll keep you guys posted on it.

Speaker 71 But I just think it's like a hilarious, almost like a curb your enthusiasm type situation where people are like stuck in a very awkward position and they don't want to look like an asshole yeah but guess what sometimes you gotta be an asshole yeah some i mean someone had to break the ice yep and just say it um all right my fire fest is simple uh i've been shut down many times when i brought this up in the past uh sunday night after packers and lions play there are 14 games of football left yeah i don't i don't i don't want to think about that right now no oh i did piss in the sink like at 1202 It was awesome.

Speaker 44 First piss in the sink of the year

Speaker 69 on the office?

Speaker 21 No, on New Year's. Oh, okay.

Speaker 37 Yeah, 14 games left.

Speaker 70 I don't like the college football national championship.

Speaker 77 Are you counting the Pro Bowl? No.

Speaker 13 You always forget about the Pro Bowl.

Speaker 24 The Pro Bowl has lost.

Speaker 44 Are they playing a real game this year? No. No.

Speaker 45 They never play real games anymore.

Speaker 13 But then spring football starts February 18th.

Speaker 33 I'm just saying,

Speaker 33 it happens every year.

Speaker 1 It gets here faster than we think.

Speaker 8 Knowing that it's 14 is really tough.

Speaker 24 And knowing that after wild card weekend, there's going to be less than 10, that's really, really tough.

Speaker 13 I choose not to participate in this.

Speaker 10 This is why I say take those mental snapshots whenever you can.

Speaker 13 Put my head in the ground.

Speaker 39 I also just want to throw out something that I don't know when they stopped doing this.

Speaker 6 There used to always be a couple bowl games after New Year's.

Speaker 18 Why did they stop doing that? That was fun.

Speaker 15 And there would be like a Wednesday night would be the Sugar Bowl.

Speaker 17 And then I think GoDaddy had a bowl game that they would play on like Thursday.

Speaker 54 Give us stragglers.

Speaker 13 Well, there should be a third-place match in college football. Imagine you should take it, but it should go based on like the Sagarin ratings right now.
So it would be like Alabama against Tennessee.

Speaker 74 Yeah, that would be fun.

Speaker 43 I would watch that watch.

Speaker 22 Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 37 Billy, your Firefest.

Speaker 101 My flight got canceled New Year's Eve, and I was trapped in the airport for New Year's Eve.

Speaker 103 How many hours?

Speaker 101 So I got to the airport early Saturday morning, and then I had to go get a hotel late Saturday night and get a flight from another airport two hours away Sunday morning. Damn.

Speaker 13 So did you find people to party with on New Year's Eve in the airport?

Speaker 42 Kind of. That's like your favorite night of partying, right?

Speaker 97 No, not really.

Speaker 41 That is not your number one.

Speaker 13 Well, that's not at night. That's a month.

Speaker 71 Yeah, right.

Speaker 44 Come on. We're getting close to St.
Patrick's Day.

Speaker 101 But it was actually pretty cool because you could just actually watch the games in full. I didn't have that problem with the parties and stuff.

Speaker 8 Oh, you're saying, yeah, yeah, just being able to actually consume the full game.

Speaker 72 That's fair.

Speaker 13 Yeah.

Speaker 101 It was actually like, I mean, the beers were pretty expensive, but just like chill and watch the...

Speaker 40 Yeah, you just lived my life.

Speaker 67 Oh.

Speaker 92 Just sitting on the couch and watching the game in full.

Speaker 43 Yeah. Did you make friends at the airport?

Speaker 43 It's not terrible.

Speaker 101 No, because no one was really there.

Speaker 13 Oh, that's tough.

Speaker 58 Empty airports are kind of cool, though.

Speaker 12 Yeah. I feel like you're the only one.

Speaker 101 I made friends with a bartender. Really, really chill.
She was like southern, and she was like calling me honey.

Speaker 64 Oh, she was older.

Speaker 13 Bounk. How much?

Speaker 101 It was more of a mother-son relationship type thing.

Speaker 43 Oh, so Milt.

Speaker 91 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 87 Zach Wilson.

Speaker 35 I think that's the first submission.

Speaker 12 Yeah.

Speaker 12 Billy took Milton Pierce.

Speaker 6 All right, Jake, yours.

Speaker 31 Hold on. I'm biblioteching this entry.

Speaker 13 Oh, shit.

Speaker 20 Jake, Jake, he just destroyed you.

Speaker 13 Hank, he just destroyed you. Did you hear that? Yeah, I did.

Speaker 101 I did not have intercourse with Milt at the airport.

Speaker 103 Oh, so it's just mouth and

Speaker 13 stuff? Yeah, he just ate her out.

Speaker 53 Yeah.

Speaker 31 After this recording, I'm working out with you guys for the first time in like forever.

Speaker 30 Squat Mageddon.

Speaker 31 I'm going to be sore. I'm not in any shape to do this, but I'm holding it to myself for a little bit.

Speaker 100 You're in fine shape.

Speaker 6 What do you care?

Speaker 86 What do you mean?

Speaker 80 You're in good shape.

Speaker 31 I could put on some muscle.

Speaker 13 I knew that shit got real real when Jake said that he was going to do squats. Like, that's going from zero to a one.

Speaker 31 Yeah, it might last like 10 minutes, but I'm looking forward to the journey. Okay.
Also, a little teaser, another Sunday basketball broadcast, ESPN. ESPN 3, 2 p.m.
Sunday.

Speaker 31 So right in the middle of football, pull up on your computer. Manhattan, Niagara.
Greg Paul is coming to town.

Speaker 13 Let's go, Jake.

Speaker 20 All right, I'll take the over.

Speaker 47 Very cool.

Speaker 31 Now it's your 1-0 this year.

Speaker 46 Yep.

Speaker 13 That'd be funny if you tweeted out the Ray Allen tweet while you were still on the air.

Speaker 31 Oh, I can't go on four until.

Speaker 54 Oh, you took the night game.

Speaker 69 Smart. Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 19 That was really smart because we would have made you do that. Yeah.

Speaker 23 That would have been a gross.

Speaker 13 You'd have to apologize for your tweet.

Speaker 84 I just realized

Speaker 31 you could hedge the tweet.

Speaker 31 Pick opposite of your four picks.

Speaker 41 Ah, but all of us could do that.

Speaker 76 I brought it out up too early.

Speaker 20 So you can't.

Speaker 36 What are you saying?

Speaker 21 Actually, like, bet it in real life?

Speaker 31 Yeah, you just take the four opposites in a parlay.

Speaker 75 Yeah, you could.

Speaker 4 I mean, I'm not worried about the tweet.

Speaker 40 The tweet would be very funny.

Speaker 31 For you guys. Right.

Speaker 83 Correct. For you, it would be hilarious.

Speaker 41 It wouldn't just be funny it'd be hilarious plus i would have to do the bowling yes that's true double whammy double whammy uh okay numbers

Speaker 28 hank have you ever gotten this nope 26 66

Speaker 31 18.

Speaker 34 wait is 26 6 26 29.

Speaker 101 so we got to get more on that quick question quick question if we're loading up the pot every sunday what happens if we have a back-to-back win during the week it just restarts like you who

Speaker 35 one person wins a huge amount the next person wins 20 Yeah, if the pot gets cleaned out, you have to load it back up.

Speaker 13 It's like free parking and monopoly. Right.

Speaker 47 So if someone wins on a Wednesday, the pot gets cleaned out, then everyone puts another $20 in

Speaker 18 on Friday. And then on Sunday, we put in another.

Speaker 13 An $20.

Speaker 12 Yep, cool. Yep.

Speaker 23 No one's had thought about the pot more than Billy has had to think about.

Speaker 35 Well, he might have to spend $40 in a week.

Speaker 71 $64.

Speaker 6 He thought it was $20 a day.

Speaker 31 Also, I tweeted out an updated pyramid to the frequency numbers.

Speaker 53 Okay, love it.

Speaker 86 Hank, wait.

Speaker 22 Have you ever gotten this? Nope.

Speaker 8 Okay, and what's your number?

Speaker 23 Six. Okay.

Speaker 13 64.

Speaker 10 Billy, 69. 69.

Speaker 12 Max,

Speaker 13 20.

Speaker 94 18.

Speaker 18 You're never going to get it.

Speaker 93 Shut up.

Speaker 100 You are never going to get it.

Speaker 39 You're so bad.

Speaker 105 Oh.

Speaker 67 Uh.

Speaker 100 48.

Speaker 95 Not even close.

Speaker 101 Love you guys. No one has actually trained a gorilla in powerlifting, so we don't really know how strong they actually possibly could be.

Speaker 13 Also,

Speaker 101 I know with their enclosures and zoos, we don't actually know if they just choose to stay in there and can actually break out of anything we design.

Speaker 32 It's really insane. Love you guys.
That's what we get.

Speaker 32 Today's a love day to find you shy away.

Speaker 32 I'm coming for you. I love games.
I love games. I love it.

Speaker 32 safe on

Speaker 32 the case.

Speaker 32 want

Speaker 32 to

Speaker 32 go?

Speaker 32 Don't want no.

Speaker 91 It's not better to say, it's not better to say, it's all better to say, sorry to say, sorry to say, sorry to say, sorry to say, sorry,

Speaker 91 sorry.