NFL Week 15, Fastest 2 Minutes, Vikings Insane Comeback, Patriots Shocking Loss, World Cup And Who's Back Of The Week

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On today's Pardon My Take, week 15 of the NFL. It was an incredible, incredible weekend of football.
Also, we had the World Cup. We'll talk about that as well.
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Today is Monday, December 19th, week 15. We start in Minnesota where Jeff, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Jeff Saturday's not all right, all right.
As Jeff's Saturday Night Live used to be fun, but now it's just gotten sad as his team blew a record-breaking 33-point lead. On the other side, Kirk Cousins had the biggest comeback since Ray J as he hooked up time and time again with every kiss begins with kj osborne clinching the nfc north and shutting up the haters of which there are many vikings 39 colts 36 to snowy western new york where there was no need for dildos as the forecast predicted nine inches, but both teams' offense provided more than enough to pleasure the masses.
Josh Alventar and the tall blue creatures learned the way of water and turned into ice against the fish. No spoilers, Boom.
And in an ironic twist, the only fish that survived the winter snowstorm was Tyler Bass as he nailed the game winner as time expired. Hey, Teej.
Yeah, Boom? No one circles the wagons like the Buffalo Bills. The Bills, 32.
The Dolphins, 49. Down to New Jersey on Sunday where Zach Milfson was playing with a heavy heart as the world lost its most famous Cougar this week.
R.I.P. P-22.
CJ saved the drama for Zama.

Scored twice, but the game came down to the fourth quarter

where Brock, right now, caught a magic moment like there's no tomorrow.

Scampering in the end zone for the go-ahead score.

Don't look back in anger, Jets fans, because so Sala can wait.

He knows it's too late to use his last time out. Lions 20, Jets 17.
Down to Carolina where Sam Donald Schwarzenegger said, I'm back to losing football games. And hey, you're crazy Mitch, but you fuck so good on top of it.
Uses Deontay Johnson to get deep inside the kiddies' defense all afternoon.

Steve John Wilkes Booth really ruined a lot of plays

as George Pickens' charge was the turning point in this battle.

Steelers 24, the Panthers 16.

In Duval, where Quack Prescott threw up some wounded ducks

as the Jaguars made a furious second-half comeback.

Ooh, what you say? you only meant well? Ooh, what you say that you're going to score three times as the wide receiver hit pay dirt thrice on Sunday, Jason Derulo. The game went into overtime when a voice came in from overhead saying, All right, chums, let's do this.
As Rashawn Leroy Jenkins ran it home alone for the win. Jaguars 40, Cowboys 34.
Over to Houston, where we're back to Civil War references as the Texans were led by Jeff Davis. Or if you're reading your program, the law firm of Driscoll & Mills.
Marquez Valtrek Scantling broke out in the red zone with a touchdown. The game went to overtime where Jarrett Clapton McKinnon saw a tiny f***ing f*** and ran to daylight.
Chiefs, 30. Texans, 20 vote.
We head down to Tampa Bay where the Bucs came out hot with a first half touchdown from Russell Crowe Gage as Tom Brady asked the people,

are you not entertained?

But in the words of my dear friend Lee Corso,

not so fast, my friends.

The second half saw the Bucs Joe burrowed into a hole only to have its corpse sprout into a Bengals colored tray flower

as the cornerback started the onslaught of turnovers.

It may be time to count out touchdown Tom as the Bucs are looking like a turd in the Todd Punchbowls. Bengals 34, Bucs 24.
And over to the Middle East and other football news. As my guitar gently weeps, the world says goodbye to the World Cup.
Many were saying he's washed, but I can report he's still very messy, slotting a penalty in the first half. Argentina was getting very emo.
Hey, I got your kicker. I'm coming with you.
Di Maria tap one in. And as is tradition, it took a very long time for the French to fight back, as Killian Sonoma Mbappe had a couple gifts ready for the Argentines.

Oliver Giroud.

Giroud.

Giroud is on fire.

Got taken out.

And the game went to extra time.

And Piquet's Mbappe.

Dipping up and up.

He's only 19.

He's a youth.

Messi has taken the freebasing torch

from Maradona. And we are all better for it.
French. Three goals.
Two penalties. ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRameis Winston down in Nola Such a fine sight to see Mariota's out, so he started to pout and left to go get surgery.

Come on, winner.

Will Compton's a quitter.

Could win the division of the NFC.

South is a shitter.

The Saints go marching 21-18. Week 15.
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Week 15 in the books. That weekend ruled.
Saturday was one of the best football days that I can remember. A lot of people would be like, hey, that Browns-Ravens game stunk.
We needed a break. I needed to take a deep breath after that Vikings-Colts game.
It was one of the best sports days I can remember just in general let's hear for sports guys it's here for sports because it was nfl it was bowl games it was like there was like four or five top 25 college basketball matchups that came down to the wire the whole day ruled it reminded you why you love sports i feel bad for anyone who had to spend their entire day shopping i actually at like 11 a.m i went to target to try to do something i walked in the line to check out was 150 people long i just walked right back out and i was like i'll just go on amazon that's smart i'm like fuck this i'm not doing this i did that and except it was at the post office to mail out some packages and i got in the door and i was like i could just like go down the street and pay five times as much at fedex yeah and get it out yeah but i had to i i was committed i was pocket committed at that point so yeah you have to do your errands early lesson learned on saturdays yeah and it was just a great day of football great weekend of football we had great games on sunday as well so let's recap it all let's do it all we're going to do it in chronological order. By the way, we're breaking.

We're doing history right now on Pardon My Take.

Because we wanted to watch the Sunday Night Football game on stream,

we're actually taping this game while a couple of the 4 o'clock games are still going on.

It feels weird.

It's almost like it's in the daytime right now.

It's like when you go on your first date with somebody when it's not at night and you're sober.

That's kind of what we're doing right now. Right.
You guys look hot. We're having sober sex right now.
That's like when you go on your first date with somebody when it's not at night and you're sober, that's kind of what we're doing right now. Yeah, right.
So we're- You guys look hot. We're having sober sex right now.
Yeah. That's what we're doing.
Hank's pouty. We'll get to that later.
But we- Hank's pouty. No? Oh, he's not pouty.
Okay. It's a tie game.
We got a tie Patriots game. That's true.
All right. So that sets the stage.
Oh, my God. He just- A little lateral lateral.
He just threw pouters. Rugby.
Do they know it's a tie game a tie game? This is dangerous. Oh, my God.
Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
Oh, my God. Raiders.
Oh, my God. That was the craziest.
Oh, my God. Jets can still.
The fact that we're taping. This is the first time we've ever taped this early.
They don't do that in tie games. Why do they do that? Oh, flag.
Flag. Flag.
Oh, my God. Hey, there's a flag.
Rugby might not be back after all. This is going to be the most confusing thing ever.
Wait. They took the flag off? And it was Chandler Jones.
Oh, my God. Oh, Jesus.
The graphics person. Wow.
Oh, yeah. They're really pissed.
Oh, my God. Why did they do that? It's a tie game.
Oh, my God. This is the first time we've ever taped, pardon my take, before the Sunday Night Football game, and we just got rewarded with one of the craziest plays ever, live on air.
Hank, we'll talk about the Patriots Raiders later, but let's get instant reaction, instant Henry Lockwood. What were they doing? What were they doing? They didn't realize it was a tie game.
I don't – that's just – I can't believe that just happened. That was like the fucking Dolphins game times a billion.
That's a Belichick call right there. That's crazy.
I had a – and they blew the game at the end of the fourth quarter. And it was Chandler.
And it was Josh McDaniels. Oh, no.
And we recorded for the first time early in the seven years we've been doing this show. I'm going to be – I mean, now I'm going to be pouty.
I had a huge bet on the Patriots money line. Oh, no.
I did, too. That was – I don't know what they were thinking.
They thought they were down? I don't know. They should have just There's no Like this lateral was insane He threw it 20 yards back for no reason With one person in front of him Was that Mac Jones? Mac Jones just got Mac Jones just got stiff arm Absolutely smoked He just sat down Mac Jones last line of defense Oh my god He just sat him down Bill Belichick is going to fucking lose it.
That is the most un-Patriot. Watch this.
Oh, no. Oh, man.
Mac Jones. If you're Mac Jones, you got to face mask him.
You got to do anything that you can to take him down. That was the most un-Patriots play I've ever seen in my life.
Well, one person's Patriot is another person's terrorist. That's like a butt fumble.
That was... Billy, you're not that too far off.
I mean, it wasn't as bad as a butt fumble. It was pretty much...
That's pretty bad. That's pretty bad, and the fact that it won the game...
Hank, we need you to rally for some thoughts. Billy, don't try to get rid of the butt fumble.
Hank, I hate that we're going to have to milk you for

some content right now, but

I'm underneath

your belly right now, and I'm

squeezing your udders. Let's go.

Thoughts.

Give it to us. Raw.

As raw as it could get.

Jets lose. Dolphins lose.

Patriots come back and win this

game. A lot of momentum going into the playoffs.
That's how I was feeling not but seven minutes ago. And now I just think I'm – I could not watch football for the rest of the year.
I have no interest in watching this football team. Who threw that pass that got picked off there? I don't know.
Jacoby Myers. Jacoby Myers.
I blame him. Oh, yeah.
Because the offload that the running back hit him with downfield, that was like a desperation thing. It didn't feel like it was part of a design play for him to try to pitch that ball back.
But then Jacoby Myers got the ball, and he was like, oh, I guess we're just throwing laterals now until the play's over. It was his fault.
He did not realize that it was a tie game, I don't think. Yeah.
I take that back. I don't think it was Belichick's call to have them do this at the end of this game.

Also, he was out.

I forgot about the touchdown.

Yeah.

Well, I still haven't processed it.

Breaking moose.

And they, the, the, the, no.

No, no, breaking moose.

Breaking moose.

The touchdown that they scored, they reviewed it, and there was clear, indisputable evidence

that he stepped out of bounds, and they just didn't reverse it.

That's a fact.

Breaking moose. Oh.
Come on. Give us.
I'm sucking these utters dry. Give me the Moose.
Is it really Breaking Moose? Yes, it's Breaking Moose. It's big time Breaking Moose.
Breaking Moose. 7.28 p.m.
December 18th, 2022. Henny's tweeted, broken.
Yeah. Your comment? Comment.
That's how I... On this freaking move.
Hank, talk about your tweet. I was in...
I was... Shut that up.
I've been working on this for seven years and you just tweeted it out. Yeah, Hank, PFT comments are part of my take podcast.
Can you talk about your broken tweet? If you're watching this on the PFT YouTube, you're going to see my reaction. I was in legitimate shock that I forgot about the touchdown that they scored to tie the game, which was just not a touchdown.
I cannot believe our luck. That's the most Falcons play that I've ever seen in my life.
PMT rigged. Never.
Seven years we've been doing this podcast. We do the same thing every time.
We start taping it. This halftime is Sunday Night Football.
Pft was like hey i wanted i want to stream a pretty big game between the commanders and giants we're like all right we'll start recording early and we'll do half the show early we sit down in the chairs and that play happens they keep showing mac jones getting set jones got absolutely berger chandler jones legend, too. That's the worst part.

That's got to be a coffee tweet. Dude, that might be a play that he might, like, I don't know if you can come back from that.

Oh, spin zone, spin zone, spin zone.

He sat him down.

Mac Jones cry face DUI picture no longer the thing that people will bring up.

Spin zone.

He just saw it for another time. Call me crazy.
I think Bailey Zappi makes that tackle. You can tell that he hits.
Lower center of gravity for sure. He's more used to tackling people on interceptions than Mac Jones is.
He just got sat down. What was Jacoby Myers doing? What the fuck was Chandler Jones doing back there? That's the real question.
Okay, now I have two more questions. One, what was Chandler Jones doing in the backfield? That's number one.
Question number two, why was Jacoby Myers trying to throw the ball to Mac Jones? Like Mac Jones was going to break it open and run 70 yards and score a touchdown and win the game?

I actually think Belichick might have been in on this.

All right.

I think they're like, no one would expect us to do laterals.

No, I think he just lost his mind.

It was the Reggie Bush play.

Remember when Reggie Bush was like, I'm Reggie Bush.

I'm just going to fucking lateral it here and hope it works.

So the running back hit a pretty sick lateral downfield, and then Jacoby Myers got a case of lateral flu. And he was like, oh, that's what we're doing.
Okay, you did it. I'm going to do it too.
Man, what a start to the show. Yeah, I mean, people are going to think this is fake, and maybe it is.
Maybe Big Cat said, hey, guys, I've got a good idea. Hank, this is a new level.
This is a new level. This is so low.
This is so low. That was a good take.
Let's do it again.

Let's try it again.

Hank is artificially undermining the credibility of this podcast just to try to get a little bit of his shame,

the stench of shame off his body.

But the Miami Miracle, that was the end of that season,

and that just felt like the end of this season.

So this needs a nickname if that's the Miami Miracle.

Las Vegas, L-O-S-S. Yeah, jonesed.
You just got jonesed. That was so bad.
Wow. Okay.
Well... All right, welcome to part of my take.
Welcome to part of my take. It is 7.32.
You sure you want to try it again? Yeah, actually, yeah. Let's try it again.
Someone show their uh max put your phone up do you what's your lock screen is probably eagles probably some fucking fat eagles fan or something right there you go perfect put it right in the camera so everyone can see 732 on sunday night for all the hank truthers out there boom look at that max you have you you're a sound mind mind and body. This is like casting couch right now.
Show us your ID. Yep.
I feel great. Okay.
Well, we'll talk about Raiders Patriots later when we try to process everything. What we were saying is incredible weekend of football.
And we had that. We had comebacks.
We had insane plays. We had an awesome snow game.
Let's hop right into it. Let's start in chronological order.
Vikings 39, Colts 36. The Indianapolis Colts blew a 33-0 lead at halftime.
So the Vikings could clinch the NFC North. It was an insane, insane game.
It was the largest, and basically the ultimate twist of the knife into Frank Reich's side. It was the largest comeback in NFL history, which supplanted Frank Reich's comeback with the Bills over the Oilers in the 1992 wildcard game.
So the team that fired him then went to go on and give up the largest comeback, him off the record books yeah i mean no one's giving jeff saturday credit for building a 33 point lead at halftime that's true so we should acknowledge that and then to be on ultimately it's a good thing uh for the colts that they get a better draft pick out of it yeah i think they would have gone from like 6 to 12 but not in this way you don't want this to ever happen jeff saturday i like jeff saturday seems like a good guy he should probably be fired as interim head coach what did he say at halftime was he like great job guys we got it i think he's got to run the ball even though we'd have jonathan taylor because he got hurt right away and uh pack it up you know extra day off we're good to go he's like we got this in the bag he probably i don't probably like poisoned them at halftime because jim ursay wants that better draft pick we think that jeff saturday is like jim ursay's mole on the inside of the organization so he's like okay we proved our point now everybody lets tank and there will be a new pair of uggs in your locker after the game courtesy of mr ursay and i do matt ryan poor matt ryan poor matt ryan it's it wasn't it wasn't his fault yeah in a way it was because but he was just being matt ryan right like he was basically everything went right for the colts in the first half would they have a pick six i think they had a block punt and then a fumble fumble they had everything go their way and then matt Ryan, he's not fully capable anymore and for him to have to just

have like you know we talked we've talked to him we had him on the show a couple times being like you know how many times 28 to 3 come up it's like every week this is just so cruel that it now is like everyone just spent the entire saturday being like hey 28 to 3 hold my beer 33 nothing yeah i I finally got rid the 28 to 3 memes but at what cost yeah everything it cost me everything and then after the game jeff saturday said there's plenty of blame to go around uh i guess that's technically true but he probably just should have been like hey i fucked this one up i fucked it really badly and the irony of all this is the colts have no shortage of position coaches on that team. That would be the perfect coach to implement a second-half game plan to just, like, don't do shit and not lose a giant lead.
Right. So, like, you think John Fox would ever blow a 33-point lead? Gus Bradley? He probably would never have one.
No. But, like, those guys would just run the shit out of the ball.
I'm pretty sure if they just ran the ball every single down in the second half, they could have choked

the clock out and just anaconded

the Vikings in the second half.

John Fox would have started going down to zero

on the play clock

the minute the second half started.

Yeah, even when the clock was already

stopped, he would just take it down all the way.

So you probably could have won the game if you had done that.

Now, on the other side, a lot of credit

to the Vikings. They were awesome in the second half.

They had some fluke stuff that happened in the first half

that really put them behind the eight ball.

But I – could have won the game if you had done that now on the other side a lot of credit to the Vikings they were awesome in the second half they had some fluke stuff that happened in the first half that really put them behind the eight ball but I I think we're so we joke about them and their point differential and how they're not necessarily all there they're a little bit fraudulent but also we should give them credit for being fun so they're a very very fun team so I I had this same thought uh independently I was talking to some friends of mine who were close friends of mine who were Vikings fans. And it dawned on me that I've been a little bit hypocritical.
And I want to fess up to Vikings fans. Because I think at the end of the day, we will be right.
But we don't have to keep talking about how we will be right. Because we know we'll be right.
They know we'll be right. It's a separate conversation.
Right. I'm a big believer in sports.
You have to enjoy the ride. You have to enjoy the ride.
You have to enjoy the season, the ups and downs, watching with your team, dying with your team. Like, there's only one winner at the end.
If you were in it just to win championships, none of us would be watching sports because none of our teams win. So I had that thought, and I was like, you know what? I'm going to tell Vikings fans that I am sorry in the fact that I need to just let you guys enjoy the ride.
They are a fun team. They've had some iconic moments within this season.
Kirk Cousins is playing great. Everything that we've talked about, we can just leave aside and bring back up in the playoffs you clinch the NFC North in week 15 you should enjoy the ride and enjoy the fact that when you sit down on Sunday or Saturday yesterday you know that like whatever's going to happen they're going to entertain you because they've just like outside maybe the Cowboys blow out like every one of their Cow blowout and the Eagles blowout.
Every other one of their games has been objectively fun and weird and like compelling football. Yeah, they're pure chaos sometimes.
And they're very fun to watch. And they are – they're very well coached too, which is why they win so many of these close games that they're in.
They've got crazy shit that happens to them all the time. If it was any other team, we would be talking about how much we love watching this team play football.
So I think it's time to just like start to admit, I really enjoy watching the Vikings play football. As painful as that is for me to admit right now.
They are chaos. They're fun.
In the last five seasons, teams are 0-99 when they're trailing by 20 or more points in the first half. The Vikings have two wins now this season where they've been able to come back from that.
They're built to come from behind somehow. And Kirk Cousins, the biggest comeback that has happened since this one was 2015 when they were down 23-plus.
Or I guess maybe not including playoffs because of 28-3. matt ryan yeah but regular season kirk cousins came back from 23 so like he's just doing the bills game like you can just name all these games where it's like yeah the vikings play fun games i also halfway through maybe it was like at the end of the third quarter i just got this vibe that the vikings were going to win that game yeah it felt like everything we everything was in their momentum.
Betting live lines. We were betting live.
It was insane. And I just have to admit, I like the Vikings, and that gave big-time start of the championship DVD vibes.
Oh, yeah. Where they come back, the historic comeback, in a standalone game.
And I wasn't sure if it was like a Saturday 1 p.m. game, if that counts as as the new nightmare for kirk cousins and his stats because it is like a standalone position where everybody's watching him i'm going to count that as a primetime game yeah saturday 1 p.m i'm counting as a primetime game it was a clutch performance it is it does feel like this i'm a little bit scared that it could be the start of a championship dvd moment for the minnesota vikings but it's – I'm not.
And, again, I'm not going to bring that conversation up because we can have that in January and I won't – enjoy the ride. Because, again, if you are only in watching sports, it's like it's a failure of a season if you don't win a championship.
You're just watching failure all the time. The moments that you have with your friends and family.
If you were a Vikings fan who was at that game or maybe at a bar or with family or friends on Saturday, that's a game you'll talk about for the rest of your life. So that's something you can't.
I would never take that away from them, and I don't want to because that's the whole joy of sports. So Vikings fans, have have fun have fun we can we'll table the conversation till january i'm done i'm done having the same conversation have fun enjoy it and who knows you like you said start of the dvd this team makes no sense no so at this point kind of all bets are off with making sense like i i don't think that they could beat some of the nfc teams but i also think that maybe if they're down 20 points, they'll fucking find a way to come back and win, and we'll all be shocked again.
Yep, and as for Jeff Saturday, I think he said when he got hired, I think he said, like, you know, we're going to find out. It's going to be one of the hardest things I've ever done.
I'm going to give it my all, and we'll find out. You know, it might not work out for me.
It might be very apparent that I'm not cut out to do this sort of thing. Yep.
I think that's probably what we're looking at right now jeff i wish we could get a live stream of the conversation that jim ursay and jeff saturday have when uh jim ursay has to tell him he's going in a different direction because there will be so many tears a lot of it well it's probably man hugs tears they're probably gonna hug and then sit like they're gonna hug goodbye and then sit back down and do another like hour and a half of crying i i hope it's gonna be jim mercy pulling up on a golf cart ripping a heater and just being like jeff hop in going a little cruise around a golf course fire him around the ninth green and then uh and then they'll have enough time to cry make up and get back together by the time they get back to the first tee yes yes so uh yeah colts be embarrassed i mean that's it's like the reverse of everything we said about the fun of the Vikings. The Colts season has been pure, unadulterated torture.
Yeah. They're the opposite.
Not only are they on the wrong side of 33-0, but their games are objectively not fun and terrible to watch and painful. Good news for them, they probably get Ryan Tannehill as their quarterback next year.
Yeah. That seems like I've been keeping like a list in my mind of the most Colts like quarterbacks coming up for the next season.
I feel like Ryan Tannehill has got to be the guy. Yeah.
Just by vibes. Derek Carr would be the dream scenario for them.
Derek Carr. Ryan Tannehill is what they're going to end up with.
Derek Carr needs like two more years of heartbreaking losses to really make sure that all the joy is sucked out of him first and then he can move over to indy yes um all right next up so we did have this sandwich on saturday where it was great football game compelling football game uh and then a night game that was compelling football game great football game and then browns and ravens in between which was a nice breather because I was able to keep my eye on it halfway.

I was doing all family stuff, and I was like, yeah, this game sucks.

The only thing I have coming out of this game, so Browns win 13-3.

Why did we think Tyler Huntley was good?

He had a nice stretch last year.

Or maybe it was two seasons ago. No, he beat the Bears.

Yeah.

And I look back.

He's 2-5 as a starter, and he has three touchdowns and six interceptions. But even going into this game on Saturday, I was like, Tyler Huntley, watch out.
Why did we do that to ourselves? Because Greg Roman runs the same offense with him as he does with Lamar Jackson. And he's just way shittier than Lamar.
And he's way, way worse than Lamar. Well, probably better bowels, so in a way less shitty than Lamar.
Yes. But in terms of his speed, his change of direction, his knack of just knowing where to be at all times and when to make those cuts, he seems like he's panicking every time he runs the ball.
And Lamar, when he's doing these design runs, almost feels like he's in slow-mo a little bit, knowing where the holes are going to be, and then just kind of gliding through them. He goes super fast, but he looks like he's going slow.
Huntley just gets the ball, panics, and sprints. Yeah, and it was that interception when they were like, the Ravens flirted with being in this game a few times.
That interception to start the third quarter was just all-time bad. The best part about about this game was just being able to see Cleveland is a quintessential Christmas football city where it's just they're not good, but the stands are packed.
Everyone's drunk out of their mind, wearing some type of Christmas, maybe a Santa hat, maybe no shirt. I just like the crowd shots in Cleveland just never disappoint.
They're great. And shout out that dude that was just swearing back and forth a couple weeks ago.
Yeah. The dude that was like straight up TKO'd on his feet just from light beer.
That guy. That's what I think of when I think of like a person that is a mainstay commenter on like the Browns Reddit.
Yeah. That's that dude.
No, not Reddit. You don't think Reddit.
He's been kicked off Reddit. No.
No, he writes. No, he got into a fight with a moderator of Reddit.

I was going to say, he just, I don't think he even goes online.

I think he's just a call-in, maybe write-in to the newspaper guy.

Yeah, letters to the editor.

Yeah.

Fire everybody.

You saw the follow-up of that guy where they tracked him through the years. Yeah.

He's just been a, like, he should be the Browns mascot.

It was a hell of a time lapse.

He should be at midfield instead of that elf that they have there. Agreed back and forth It was a grapple game The term that we learned a couple years ago Where it's like ice, snow, sleet Basically just gray stuff falling from the sky Which is perfect Cleveland And watching this game I noticed a little bit of this last week with the Ravens too J.K.
Dobbins Is very much hurt. He's very injured.
Have you seen his knee? I haven't seen his knee, but Big Cat, when you watch him run, I've never seen a person limp and sprint at the same time. And he's still pretty fast, but you can tell he's limping as he's running down the field.
It's like, you should not be in the game right now, but he's still running past. I think he had like 13 carries for 120 yards, which is insane because like the dude was limping with the football for the entire game.
He had that one where he broke free and just had no getaway speed. He realized that 20 yards down the line, he's like, nope, this isn't going to work.
I just get tackled right here. So his knee...
He used to be fast as, too. Look at his knee.
Look at this. I mean, it must be something.
Maybe we'll have to have bro football doc over here explain it to us. But he's got like two little aliens protruding from his knee.
No, that's what that is. Oh, I actually do know what those are.
Yeah. When you get a meniscus surgery, you get two holes.
My God. And those look pretty inflamed.
It's scar tissue. It's gross.
I actually

you're supposed to like massage it out.

He's in the right city for that.

Yeah. He was trying to

like he had a couple times the last

few weeks where he broke free

and pretty much any running back

in the NFL scores. Easily.

And it almost looks like he's

a car that he gets to like third gear

and he tries to go up to fourth and fifth and it's just not that's when, like, the smoke starts coming out of the tailpipe. Yeah, just watching him run with – it's, like, painful.
Yeah. But still, I think he's probably running, like, a 4.840 on one leg, which is crazy.
Also, is Justin Tucker washed? Oh, yeah, he's washed big time. Well, his first time since 2013 that he went under .500 with kicks, more than two attempts.
So he was one for three. One was blocked.
Yeah, the one that he missed to the left, though, that was pretty bad. People are asking if he's washed.
I think he might be washed. It's so funny watching him when he misses a kick because he looks down at the ball, then up at the uprights.
Reality has deceived him. He cannot believe that this has happened.
He's also a perfect example of advice. We've always given out that you never, ever want to be like exceptional at anything because then people expect that from you.
And then when you're average, everyone's like, what's wrong with you? Are you washed? Like he missed, he missed the kick and got a kick blocked. That happens to every kicker in the NFL.
But when it happens to Justin Tucker, you're like, is it over for him?

Because he's been that good.

So never raise the bar for yourself because then people will just be like, are you done when you have one bad performance?

Being the second best at anything is actually the best advice that you can have.

I like to be like the fourth or fifth.

Fourth, just fly under the radar a little bit.

Someone's best, but not everyone's best.

Yeah.

Speaking of just watching people go through painful situations, I want to check in with Hank because I'm worried about him. You looked like you were crying, Hank.
Are you okay? Yeah. No.
Do you want to take back the fact that you tried to claim that this was scripted? What? PMT rigged, you said. That's what it feels like.
Yeah. It feels like a big

giant setup. You rigged it on you? Yeah.

Hank thinks that we made this whole thing up and we have

like a very hyper-realistic

video simulation playing

that showed the end of that game. Alright, perfect.

No one else gets to guess. This

counts. Go ahead.
I'll show you that we're

in the real life. Guess, guess, guess,

guess. 55.

This shows you that we're in real life.

This is not rigged. This is your

inception totem that

Thank you. in the real life.
Guess, guess, guess, guess. 55.
This shows you that we're in real life. This is not rigged.
This is your inception totem that you know that we're still here. 49.
Not even close. You still suck at this.
So there you go. Are you back to reality? Is that count for the official? Yeah, that counts for the official.
We don't guess, but I want to, I mean, Hank had to prove that like, that's so fucked up. It's your inception totem.
Like, every time you think that this is all a dream, just guess it and be wrong and be like, nope, this is my life. I think Bill Belichick might quit.
He might murder several players. Like, I don't know that he can – that's going to be one that I don't know that he can live with.
That play happens for the Patriots. It never happens against the Patriots.
That's a poverty franchise. I guess the Dolphins run back when Gronk was like, that was a bad one.
But, like, for the most part, the other teams make the mistakes. This is mostly, this is such an unforced error, though.
Like, the Dolphins play that they had, the miracle in Miami, that was just a matter of... That was overthinking it.

That was overthinking it a little bit,

and also sometimes teams find angles in those weird plays,

and they can beat you to the outside.

It happens occasionally.

This was completely self-inflicted.

Belichick's going to go to the press conference.

Like, what's that guy?

Bud Dwyer.

He's going to have a manila envelope.

Be like, step back.

Everyone step back. No, no, no.
You don't want anyone to get hurt here shoot himself yeah that i mean it's gonna be it's gonna be a long off season yeah yeah oh this season's not over you still got a chance yeah it's over you're still sniffing around hang don't do that to yourself yeah no season over. Okay.
All right. Let's go to the AFC East.

Bills, 32. Dolphins, 29.
This game was so much fun. Yeah.
This was the quintessential, like, I'm going to sit on the couch. I'm going to turn up the volume.
I'm going to soak myself in one game. The snow coming in the second half.
The fact that, like, the snow arrived arrived and josh allen was like fuck everyone i'm just winning this game the lake woke up yeah and everything just kind of happened that that like i think it was like a 40 44 yard run yeah that he had uh when they were down 29 21 he's like fuck everyone i'll just do this shit myself uh was it was just an awesome awesome game we had the snowballs we had the refs telling the the great people of buffalo new york to please stop which made me laugh so hard like the saying please stop it's not gonna work yeah it's not gonna work i just want to say i people were like scumbag bill i defend buffalo in this fact oh dude it's snowing you got you have snow. It was funny.
They were showing a camera angle around the stadium and

there were fans that just had piles

of snowballs in reserve sitting

in front of them ready to go and it says

please stop throwing snowballs.

They're not going to do that. They're not going to do that shit.

They're Buffalo. Someone

replied to one of my tweets. It was the

perfect analogy. It'd be like putting a

full beer under everyone's

seat before the game and being like, please don't drink it. Because you just had snow sitting underneath you you're like don't do anything with this you're giving everybody toys yeah i'm saying please don't play with these awesome toys mike mcdaniel's kind of a snitch to be like isn't this a penalty yeah although i would have done the same so just because you're just trying to get any edge it's one thing to do it when the dolphins are in the red Throwing it at the players.
You hated it. It was bad sportsmanship.
Well, here's the thing. Buffalo, we love Bill's Mafia on the show.
If it was any other fan base, people would have been ripping those fans. But because it's Buffalo, oh, they're so fun and exciting.
They get away with it. So you were upset.
Yeah, you're very mad. You sound like this is the most upset I've ever heard.
Wait, Jake. I thought.
Good sports sound move or bad sports sound move? It's Buffalo, so they have a longer leash. This is the most upset I've ever heard.
I thought going into this game, Miami was saying, like, we wish it was colder. Yeah.
Be very careful. I'll listen to the fingers.
I'll listen to the two fingers to you. Oh, by the way, I had.
Never mind. What? No, say it.
Say it. Speak your mind.
Yeah. Go ahead.
Let it out. Go off.
Let's just say I have January 8th circled. Okay.
All right. Wow.
Watch out. Billy has January 6th circled.
Yeah, we knew that. Jake, you said that you were going to eliminate them.
Yes. Yeah.
Yeah. Okay.
It's shaping out to be that flex Sunday night game. Okay, so I actually think the Dolphins.
Do you want to call it? No, not yet. The Dolphins, off of the terrible West Coast trip they had, they looked pretty good.
Like, they were in this game. The offense was good.
Two was better. Better.
Yeah. They definitely don't look like they're broken.
Yeah, the defense looked good. A couple weeks ago, you could ask the question, like, after the Chargers game, after the Niners game, like, are they broken? Is this a team that needs to change things drastically? I think they're fine.
They'll be okay. You just can't go to Buffalo and ask people to not throw snowballs at you in the middle of nine inches of pain.
You're lucky that they weren't dildos. You're lucky it was just straight up precipitation.
I was wondering, this might be a dumb question. Maybe we can get Mike Pereira on the case.
If If you are a defensive player Are you allowed to throw snowballs at people In the middle of a play? Ooh, that would be cool Could you throw it at the quarterback If two would drop back in the pocket And you know that you're not going to reach two And be able to sack him Could you get a snowball together And just fucking whip one at him from seven yards away And hit him in the face Stop him like that They said they were they were going to assess the Bills a 15-yard penalty if Snowballs kept falling, which they didn't, and they ignored that. But what if it was a Dolphins fan who threw it? True.
Oh, it was a false flag. Oh, because there were some in the front row I saw.
You're right, Jake. If the Dolphins fans threw, I think the Bills would have gotten penalized.
Yeah, right. Defaults to the home team crowd.
Yeah, it is literally Antifa. Yeah, George Soros was paying Dolphins fans to put on Zubaz and get into the stands and jump through tables before the game.
It's deeper than you could ever imagine. It's a good point.
It's a great point. Do you think before a play, because defensive players can move before this ball's snapped, you could throw a snowball at the quarterback's face? That's what I'm saying.
I don't know what the rules are about precipitation. If a pass is in the air, could you huck one at a wide receiver before they catch it? I guess they couldn't use props.
It's like the last Boy Scouts. Yeah, it's a gun.
Did you see also the rulebook says you can't have a gun. Yeah, the cameraman just getting pelted because they're all like on that little cherry picker right in front.
And they just were getting smoked by them. But true or false, if this was in Philly and they were throwing, everyone would not be like, ha ha, oh, that's so cute.
Oh, Philly's gotten brought in. So I was going to say, I was at the Snow Bowl, like the Eagles-Lions-Snow Bowl back in whenever that was.
When you guys pelted Santa? No, not that. That was a different time.
That was the Shady McCoy game when they were playing in a foot of snow. Yeah, when was the battery? You guys threw batteries, right? Whatever.
Did you throw batteries at Santa Claus? This isn't the game that Michael Irvin almost got paralyzed in the shoot. I'm trying to give a nice little the game.
Oh, no, no, no. Shit lupus.
This is the game where that 17-year-old kid puked on that 11-year-old girl. Yeah.
Yeah. Okay, go ahead.
Sorry. So, there were snowballs during that game for sure.
Like, there were fans and players of the other team throwing snowballs at each other like the players were throwing snowballs at the fans oh in between like in between plays but i don't know i it just wasn't talked about yeah i think because i the refs just didn't say anything i don't think i think it's well the mike mcdaniel complained and then the ref eventually Yeah, because it may have affected that red zone drive.

That's good home field advantage, though.

It is.

Like, you got to make the refs call it, you know?

It's just like how the Patriots used to do against the Colts in the playoffs.

Just interfere with them.

Hold on every play and make the refs call it on you.

That's what the fans did.

So shout out Buffalo.

Yeah.

That's what I'm saying, though.

Any other fan base does that, shout out.

No, no, no, Jake. No, your bias is showing.
I think. Do you think Jacoby Myers and Chandler Jones are friends? Not anymore.
Do you think that had anything to do with it? Not anymore. Did you see? Hey, dude, I want to make sure you got one last thing.
No, or maybe he just was like flashback. Do you think Chandler Jones did that? He recognized him from the locker room.
He was like, oh, there's Chandler. I'm going to look into it.
Do you think Chandler Jones did that thing that you could do in pick up hoops when you're playing with random people? And you just stand off the side and you're like, pass it here. And then you just throw it to the wrong guy.
Yeah. Like, yo.
Yeah, like, oh, here, open. So Jacoby Myers said that the plan was to run the ball and go into overtime.
Said he was trying to be a hero. I thought I saw Mac Jones open.
Yeah, exactly. Mac Jones would have run that in? That's what I was saying.
Number one, what is Chandler doing back there defending Mac Jones? Number two, why is the ball going to Mac Jones? Yeah. Makes no sense.
I think when that first dump-off happened, it just, like, the first guy doing a lateral. Yeah, Madre just went down.
That was crazy. Once there's a lateral, then I think everyone's like.

They never played together.

Oh, we're doing laterals.

I actually do think that if it was any other fan base,

it would be fine with the snowballs, except if it was the Patriots.

If it was Patriots fans, people would flip the fuck out on it.

Well, no, now I think they're allowed to.

Cowboys fans.

Yeah, but I mean, like, when is it going to snow? Packers fans, they would have put it in jail. If it was Packers fans, people would have been like, this is how whimsical.
This is such a fun thing. No, Patriots have done it.
They're respectful. I would have called the National Guard.
Beat the Dolphins in the 2004 season. It was like late in the season.
They won a snow game, and everyone was just throwing the snow in the air. Yeah, you can throw it in the air.
No, I know. We have respect.
That's right. I'm saying, Hank.
Only Buffalo gets away with it because it's Buffalo. I'm kind of on your side in this.
I'm saying if it was you as a Patriots fan that was throwing snowballs onto the field. We would never do that, though.
I'm saying if you did, though. But we wouldn't do it.
Hank, you lose a heartbreaking loss, and now you're super spicy, and you're pissing me off. You're super spicy.
So I'm trying to tiptoe around it because I love Bill's Mafia. Wingnuts is the best.
No, you haven't tiptoed around it. Again, you mad.
I did not say one thing bad about the Bill's fans. This is as close to a freakout as you've ever had.
Yeah, you're freaking out. You mad.
Big mad. It's okay.
No, no, it's okay. Jake, this is what's beautiful about sports.
You always bury your mad deep down inside and then it comes down different ways like stepping over your co-workers. Feel free to just let that hate flow a little bit.
I don't hate anyone. Oh, you hate the Jets fans and you hate the Bills fans.
No, you do. No, I love Bills fans.
No, you don't. It's okay.
Listen, it's great because your most mad is like the most respectful mad of all time. But yeah, this game was awesome.
Josh Allen, that sequence, when they're down 29-21 and he goes the long run, and then he does the Air Jordan, almost like it's from Space Jam. You know what that was? That was his big hands.
Yeah. We tried to tell you, draftjoshallen.com, big hands.
Also, terrible job by the NFL Network going to commercial without giving us a replay. Yeah.
And then they just came back with, like, the two-point conversion's good. You broke the plane.
Yeah, but the Bills clinched the playoffs or the AFC East? They clinched the AFC East, right? I think they've clinched the AFC East now. It was just one of those beautiful, beautiful games.
The perfect amount of snow. Now they're going to be playing for home field, which is going to make a big difference because you do have fans that will throw snowballs.
Yeah, and you saw what it's like to play in Buffalo in late December. It's not fun.
No division yet. No division yet.
Three up on the Dolphins, three less. I guess if the Dolphins went out because that would get two more division wins, Dolphins and the Patriots and Jets.
It is crazy. I think this is the Billsills is it the fourth year they're going to the playoffs yeah uh remember a time not too long ago what was it 2016 maybe that they were the last team to get into the playoffs in the 21st century yeah when Andy Dalton yes came back and beat the Ravens and then Bills Mafia donated a shitload of money to the Andy Dalton Foundation it's crazy to think of of how far they have come with Josh Allen and the franchise, like to be back in the playoffs for four straight years, Super Bowl favorites, all this stuff.
And also Sean McDermott. Sean McDermott turned the culture around.
He was the original ping pong table out of the locker room guy. Yep.
And then he put it back in. He also got into that skirmish.
Do you see him jump in right away? There was a late hit on Josh Allen, and then everyone was jarring at each other, and Sean McDermott was, like, right in the middle of everyone instantly. That's the type of coach you want.
He's ride or die. I've long said that he's one of the coaches that could probably take any other coach in a battle royale.
That's a fact. So, Josh Allen, last stat from this game, he's the second QB only behind Patrick Mahomes

to have 50-plus wins and 130 pass touchdowns in his first five seasons.

Pretty good company.

Yep, that's really good.

Yeah, so in some of his throws, he's just so much fun to watch.

I know that people get upset that we, like, gush over Josh Allen,

and I know people get upset that, like, we ride for the Bills.

I'll be honest, like, I love the city of Buffalo. If Josh Allen wasn Allen wasn't on the bills I probably wouldn't have the same feelings about the bills he's our best friend so I'm gonna ride for him I might because he's that fun to watch no I'm saying if he wasn't on the bills yeah yeah no I wouldn't right no I'm saying I would ride just as equally as hard for Josh Allen if he wasn't on the bills correct no I'm saying if he wasn't on the Bills, I wouldn't ride as hard for the Bills.
Gotcha, yes. Like, part of my riding for the Bills, the majority of my riding for the Bills is riding for Josh Allen.
I'd say the majority of mine is like, I just, I respect the city of Buffalo. Yeah.
I like them, but with Josh Allen, it's like pouring diesel gas onto a fire. Also, crazy.
I don't really respect the city of Buffalo, but I like Josh Allen so much that it really makes it like a neutral. It's hard for you.
I respect Buffalo. I don't let that.
You don't respect them. No, you don't, Jake.
Jake hates New York, and he hates Buffalo. Jake wants to drop a nuclear weapon on Buffalo.
No. Just what he said to me out there.
A dirty bomb. Yeah.
Just gas them out. That's what you want to do.
All right, let's go to the next. I can't wait for Jake to develop a rivalry against patriots fans too you're going one by one through the division it's when you have a good team when you're playing we're fighting for the playoffs yeah everyone starts to like even even my uh affinity towards the lions right now like that wouldn't happen if the if the bears were even competent you know what i mean it's just when you have a terrible team and there's another

terrible franchise in your division and they're having a good season it's like oh yeah that's

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SiriusXM.com slash pardonmytakeoffer to sign up. Okay, Jags 40, Cowboys 34.
I want to talk about the Jags, but I first want to say you did it again, Cowboys. You fucking did it again.
You've been saying it. I've been thinking it.
They did it again for, I don't know, the 30th year in a row. The Cowboys had everyone thinking, watch out for these Cowboys.
Watch out for this team. And they just like set up 17 to the Jaguars.
We thinking they're a Super Bowl contender. They still probably are, but the flaws are starting, the cracks are starting to show.
Stephen A. Smith is starting to do his maniacal laugh on Twitter at Cowboys fans.
Dak has thrown nine picks in the last six games. It's all showing.
Dak Prescott has the highest interception percentage in the NFL right now. And he might.
Does he lead the league in picks?

I don't think.

I think that might be Josh Allen.

Okay, let's just ignore that stat.

Yep.

Dak Prescott sucks.

Wipe it from the record.

He sucks.

He sucks.

And he's just going to continue to be a quarterback, I think,

that's like turbo Kirk Cousins.

Yeah.

Where it's like he's got buzz, more buzz about him than Kirk does.

Like his ceiling, I think, is like a superstar when he's playing really, really well. But then that glosses over all the stuff that he does that just like will actually beat your team.
Now, the interception that he had in overtime was not his fault. That was off his receiver's hands.
It was. And then caught in return for a touchdown.
But I felt myself getting drawn back in to Dak in the last, like, two, three weeks. I just need to tear the Band-Aid off and just remind myself, like, do not trust in him.
It was a good reminder because remember last year when I put a Super Bowl future on them, I was thinking this year, like, they're kind of scary. No, you know what? They're fine's it's fine they are going to they're going to do something now fuck themselves over if they get odell i might be back in i mean if he's healthy yeah odell and ty hilton yeah but it's just they they had a spot they had a chance to be being up 17 and then you have a chance to to play the eagles and if you beat the eagles on christmas you have a chance for the one seed, and it just all falls apart for them.
They're probably going to basically guarantee to be the fifth seed now unless all hell breaks loose, and that's just the Cowboys. And they're going to have to go on the road in the first game, probably play Tom Brady, and we'll have another year where there was a stretch in the season where we're

like, watch out for the Cowboys.

They're back.

And they weren't.

Doug Peterson, shout out, helping out his old Eagles.

Yeah.

This is a big game for Eagles fans.

Eagles really won this game.

The Jaguars played outstanding at times on defense.

Rayshon Jenkins, he had 18 tackles, two interceptions, two passes defended, and the walk-off pick six. That's about as good a game as you can have for a defensive player.
Yeah. Things are looking up in Jacksonville.
If you're a Jaguars fan, if you're jagging off big time, you're happy with Trevor Lawrence. He looked great again today.
Four touchdown touchdowns first Jags quarterback to throw for four touchdowns

since

Blake Bortles

he's ascending

he's exactly what you want out of a second year guy

where it looks like the last

I don't know

they did get kind of clowned by the Lions

when he got maimed

and looked like he was out for a lifetime

and then he came back like two plays later

but they've been beating good teams

they beat the Ravens

Thank you. when he got maimed and looked like he was out for a lifetime and then he came back like two plays later.
But they've been beating good teams. They beat the Ravens.
They beat the Titans. I don't know if the Titans are still considered a good team.
And they beat the Cowboys. They're playing against good teams.
He's playing well. He's taking the steps forward.
And I think that if you look at the, what is it, 2021 draft? 2020 draft? 2021. 2020.
Whatever draft that was. 2020.
He was the first pick. Zach Wilson was the second.
2021. Yeah.
2021. Yep.
Yeah. You're right.
Lawrence, Zach Wilson, Trey Lance. Fields.
Fields, Mac Jones. Trevor Lawrence is the best quarterback in the hole right now.

And he was the first pick.

I would take Fields.

I mean, I would too.

I honestly would.

But I'm just being honest that Trevor Lawrence's throwing has been leaps and bounds ahead of where Justin Fields is right now.

Yeah.

But I think Justin Fields would get better. But he was the, you can't miss prospect, Andrew Luck type of guy, Peyton Manning, and now you're starting to actually see it.
You're actually starting to be like, okay, now I get it. He is that guy.
And the Jaguars, all of a sudden, are very much live for the AFC South because the Titans lost. So the Titans are now 7-7.
Jaguars were six and eight. The Titans still have to play the Cowboys.
They both have a game against the Texans and then they play week 18. If the Jaguars run the table, they're going to be in the playoffs.
Yeah. So week 18, that's going to be an awesome one.
Yes. It could, that might be for all the marbles.
Yeah. I love that.
That's where your brain goes immediately. Jake.
It's like, let's think of the networks. You just need the Titans to lose one more, and the Jags have to either win out or they can only lose one more, and you, in Week 18, becomes all the marbles.
How soon are we going to get Urban Meyer going on TV or some sort of press thing where he tries to take some credit for building this Jaguars game? He gets credit. For being such a dickhead that they were so glad when he got fired that they rallied together.

It's basically like adopting a dog.

Yeah.

And the dog just loves you because you're not hitting it in the snout with a newspaper every day like Urban Meyer was.

Yeah, so Peterson is the rescue.

Yes.

The rescue family.

Yes.

The dog actually probably, you could actually look at it in the first month of the Jaguar season where they were kind of up and down.

That was the portion of the rescue dog where, I know when I rescued Stella, there was like a month where she's like am i really staying like is this real and then gets comfortable and be like okay cool like now we have a bond so then they they were like hey wait you aren't gonna kick people and and finger buttholes yeah your dog like it has to unlearn some of those habits yeah for and you can tell sometimes like their behaviors, what their last owner was like. So when they come over and they're not smelling Doug Peterson's hands, that's just because they've been scarred before.
It's through no fault of their own. Still to this day, I've had Stella for 11 years now.
If I drop my keys, she jumps. I don't know what happened in her past life, but yeah, that's a trigger.
And so when Doug Peterson goes over to talk to the kicker and maybe holds his foot back for a second, everyone on the team is like, uh-oh, is he going to kick him again? Yeah. No, it's okay.
But now they're safe and they're playing good football. And I think at some point Urban Meyer will be like, you know, I had a lot to do with building this team.
The fingerprints are on it a little bit. He could just say, do as I say or no, it's do as I say, not as I do.

Yeah.

Yeah.

No, that's exactly what he did.

Urban Meyer should have that tattooed on his arm.

Yeah, do as I say, not as I do.

Honestly, like, if you just did what Urban Meyer said and threw out the entire basis

of his character, yes, you would probably be a great football team all the time.

Yes.

So, yeah, the Jaguars are playing good, and now they play the Jets on Thursday Night

Football.

Who would have thought this was the ultimate throwaway. Every team has to have a standalone game.
And now we actually have a game where both teams are fighting for their playoff spot. It's a loser leaves town.
Because if either team loses, they're going to be really big trouble trying to get into the playoffs. Yep.
Yeah, the Cowboys' defense went from being one of the best,

one of the most dynamic in the league,

to being one of the shittiest.

They're dealing with a lot of injuries.

They have a lot of injuries.

A ton of injuries, but the Cowboys are the only team that gets hurt.

Yep.

That's just a fact.

If anybody tries to talk to you about the Cowboys maybe getting lucky

earlier in the season or whatever, just tell them

the Cowboys are the only team that suffers from injuries.

They're the only ones that can make that excuse.

They are so shitty right now. They've given up 63 points back-to-back weeks against the Texans and the Jaguars.
Yikes. The Texans and Jaguars.
So to compare that, the 49ers have allowed 63 points in their last six games combined. Whoa.
So they're pretty bad. Things are pretty bad in Dallasallas right now they're not on the same they're not yeah they're not on the same tier when we're talking about super bowl contenders i actually would like to do i think i'm gonna maybe go back maybe a cowboys fan a diehard cowboys fan who's a listener to the show can maybe go back and and and like pick each each week for the last 20 seasons where uh like your quote-unquote super bowl where you peaked like the Colts this season, that Sunday night game, that was the peak of the Cowboys.
That's where Jerry Jones is like, finally, my team's going to win another Super Bowl because it happens almost every year. Like there's been a couple of years where they've had a ton of injuries and they've been absolute dog shit.
But for the most part, there's one or two weeks a season where everyone buys back into the Cowboys only to have them.

They're no different than like notre dame football or texas football where everyone wants kind of it's interesting if the cowboys get back in the mix and then something like this happens i mean they've got so dak when he plays well is awesome they've got great wide receivers they've got two good running backs in theory, they should have a good offensive line too. So I don't really see – it's tough to see what the weakness is.
They just have bad vibes together sometimes. Big time bad vibes.
They're an all-time bad vibes team. I don't know what it is about the organization, but just in general, even when they're good, they're hyper-competitive with each other.
And I almost get the sense like there is some jealousy behind the scenes sometimes between their star players, depending on whose time it is to get that big contract from Jerry and who Jerry likes the most at any given moment. I get bad vibes like they're not a team team.
Yeah, I agree. I agree.
It's a perfect way to put it together where it's like maybe Tony Pollard's pissed because he's about to get paid. Yeah exactly and zeke's like well i still want to get paid yeah uh all right next up lions 20 jets 17 the lions are good the lions are good the jets zach wilson uh we found out i think it was thursday night friday morning that he was back in uh reports were that mike white went to like 10 doctors to try to get cleared.
Ultimate football guy. Yeah.
Didn't get cleared. I think the Jets might have won this game with Mike White, but the Lions still come up big.
That fourth and inches play where they get the tight end open. He runs 50 yards for a touchdown, and then we got to watch Robert Salah.
One of the worst clock managements I've ever seen. The Jets got the ball back.
They're down three with a minute and like 50 seconds left. All three timeouts.
He didn't use his first timeout until there was 19 seconds left. Yeah, it was so bad.
That was a moment where everybody was just screaming at the TV. What are you doing? What are you doing? What are you doing? Timeout, timeout, timeout.
He went in. He's going into next game with four timeouts in the first half.
He ended up with one timeout in his pocket. I do think that you should be able to carry him over.
That would be awesome if you could actually collect him. So here's a fun stat, Big Cat.
You ready for this? Yes. Okay, fewest games needed to reach 25,000 passing yards in NFL history.
Ooh. Number one, Matt Stafford.
Okay. That's pretty impressive.
I did not realize that. Yep.
Number two, Dan Marino with 92 games. Ooh.
Then tied for third, it's Peyton Manning, Kurt Warner, and Hoomst. Jared Goff.
And Jared Goff at 97, 97 games. So Jared has had a great season.
Bounce back. A great season.
Comeback player of the year, Jared Goff. Yeah.
I also think – I saw the stat. I think it's – Jerry Goff is something like 49 and like 34 when his coach is not Jeff Fisher or John Fossil.
So basically like if he has a somewhat kind – we love Jeff Fisher, but at the end it wasn't great. He's been a great – he's been a very good quarterback.
Yeah. I know that he got cast aside in L.A.
They don't regret that they won a Super Bowl, but I'm just happy that Jared Goff has found a place in Detroit where he's playing awesome football, and they're 7-7. And they're fun.
They're 7-7. They've covered six straight games for the first time since the Super Bowl was invented.
They are a fun team. They're winning games all types of ways.
They beat a good defense on the road today. They beat a very good defense.
They also, smartly, Jared Goff, probably the best thing he did all day, he threw at Sauce Gardner exactly zero times. Zero targets to Sauce Gardner today.
And, yeah, now the Lions have at the Panthers versus the Bears and at the packers i mean if they run the table they're in and they might even be able to get catch one more loss it's crazy to think that they were one in six yeah things things could break their way and they could even get in if they did lose one of the last three games but i'm i'm rooting for the lions to get in uh they're they're fun. Jared's playing as good as he's played in years.

Their offensive line is humming right now.

Taylor Decker didn't have any false start penalties today.

Shout out our guy.

That I saw.

They're fun, man.

And Dan Campbell is doing a great job.

He does get one of our Coach of the Year votes,

which has been split like nine different ways.

Absolutely.

But Coach Dan Campbell is definitely on that list.

Doug Peterson should get one too.

He'll get one too, yeah.

So we throw him in there.

Billy, what were your thoughts on the game?

Oh, one last thing about Zach Wilson,

and you can take it away from there.

Zach Wilson, if they just called his pro day play

every single play, he would be a great quarterback.

Because he did have his identical pro day play for a 50-yard touchdown to Uzama. But when Zach Wilson has to stand in the pocket and be an actual quarterback, it did not look good.
He actually threw. There was one pass he had.
He had a really bad interception. There was also a pass where it was so bad on a slant.
It was so bad that the cornerback couldn't intercept it because it was behind the cornerback as well. Like every time he's just standing in the pocket, it just looks terrible.
I mean, as you saw, he does make some good off-platform throws, but I think that is his huge strength in anything else. That's his only strength.
That's all he's got. Roll out, guys open downfield, sling it.
Mike White, he was quoted as saying, do I even need the doctor's permission to play? No. According to me, no.
Yeah, he was like, why do I need your permission? I kind of think that Mike White and the Jets doctors, I think someone from up top may have called that in and been like. Oh, to give him.
Because that really was the only way that Zach Wilson would get another start was Mike White getting hurt. Right.
So I think it was the Jets doctors – I think he could have played. And they're like, let's give Zach Wilson one more spin.
He did – so Mike White on the sidelines did appear to be rooting his ass off for Zach Wilson for the Jets. He's a great dude.
When that's reversed, Zach Wilson, is he rooting probably like 25% as hard as Mike White? He's also a much worse cheerleader than Mike White is what I'm getting at. Yeah.
Mike White was getting hyped. but yeah I mean Zach Wilson, is he rooting probably like 25% as hard as Mike White? He's also a much worse cheerleader than Mike White is what I'm getting at.
Mike White was getting hyped. But yeah, Zach Wilson didn't do enough to show that he might be the guy.
No, it just looks bad when he has to just play regular quarterback. Exactly.
It just doesn't look great. Yeah.
I mean, the thing is, is Mike White going to be healthy for Thursday night? I don't know's because the call stays in because the thing is if they're like hey your ribs cracked ribs don't heal in a week and he's still out what exactly is going to happen so I mean 317 yards two touchdowns one pick I think Mike White is still QB Uno you guys have to win you have to win like it. It's kind of now or never because now you're, I think, ninth in the playoff picture, the Patriots being eighth.
Speaking of the Patriots, Big Cat, I've got some breaking news here on the Patriots front. Breaking news.
Breaking news. So they asked Bill Belichick.
Breaking news. He doesn't have to do it.
Breaking news. Come on, Hank.
Come on, Hank. We all suck it up.
You lost your privilege. We all suck it up.
You lost your privilege. We all suck it up.
That wasn't breaking moves before. Yeah, it was.
This is breaking moves. I can't trust you.
Your partner. Blame your partner.
Well, no. Me and Big Cat are separate people.
Mm-mm. Yes, we actually are.
We all suck up bad losses. The call came from the same house.
We get ourselves up. This house has been flagged.
And we fight on. This house has been flagged.
Okay. All right.
So Hank, here's the breaking moves. Go, do it.
There it is. There's my guy.
They asked Bill Belichick, why didn't Mac Jones throw a Hail Mary on the final play? Do you know what Bill Belichick said? Oh, you do? Yeah. You want to enlighten him? You want to share the class? He said we can't throw it that far.
Yeah, so I looked it up. It's 55 yards.
I could have thrown that. Yes.
Yes. You probably couldn't throw it 55 yards.
Billy could throw it 55 yards. Back in the day.
Oh, yeah. Back in the day.
Over these mountains? You see them over there? Hell yeah, bro. Fuck yeah.
So that's tough. That's tough.
You can tell that it's eating at Belichick because he's being honest with the media. Yeah, no, that was a brutally honest, like, yeah, my guy doesn't have a strong arm.
Yeah, normally Belichick's just like we take into account certain things. I also think that's just wrong.
I think Mac Jones definitely can throw 55 yards. He absolutely can.
Probably not now after his shoulder got put through the crust of the earth by Chandler Jones. Well, if it was 55 yards, the end zone is 10 yards, and you have to get it into the end zone, so that's like an extra 5 to 10 yards.
That's true. So that's more like a 60-yard bombing.
That's true. I still think he probably could do it.

All right, so anything else with the Jets?

Yeah, I mean, Robert Salah, tough.

Tough.

Tough look with the timeouts.

I mean, honestly, there was a point I thought.

Well, they lost to the defensive breakdown.

The defensive breakdown was very bad.

They weren't playing with Quinton Williams, who was probably their best defender. But that wasn't like, Quinton Williams't make that play off of a tight end who basically gets lost in space.
That was a sick play, though. Second week in a row with a big dick fourth and one.
Yeah, I know. It's a great play call, too.
It seemed like the play had broken down in the middle of it. It's like, wait, I love plays like that where there's a second half to the play where you think it's over.
It's like there's a false credit scene that happens after two seconds and then it's like, oh, wait, there's outtakes afterwards. Right.
And then they leak the tight end, hit him, and then no one could possibly tackle him. Yes.
Yes. But, I mean, one return punt, like, without that, they wouldn't be in that situation.
It was kind of fluky. Just got to say.
There was a point where I thought. The return punt was because Dan Campbell went for it on fourth and inches from the one-yard line.
They stopped them, so they were pinned deep. It was actually perfect field position play.
I know, but the thing is, there was a second where I thought they were going to win, the Jets were going to win the game, and I was like, how is Zach Wilson, who's playing terrible football, getting more wins than a guy like Mike White percentage-wise? For a second, I was like, I literally think that Zach Wilson's play style may be easier for their defense to win in some weird way in my mind, where the long periods of the offensive extension of the drives that end up being bad kept the defense off the field for longer whereas mike white scores too quickly that was my point i was like how's he gonna land this plane yeah mike white scores yeah i mean i it is i've told you this before billy you guys are the 2018 bears maybe not now because you're now seven and seven the bears did win their division but like that feeling of well we're 5-2 with this guy but in the back of your head you're like but it's really not working and it's not he's not what we think he is alright next up Eagles 25 Bears 20 all I have from this game is the Bears got an intercept were lively in this game fr game. Frisky.
They intercepted Jalen Hurts at the 25-yard line, the Eagles 25-yard line, and it ended in a punt from the 31. That was very sad.
Hard to do. Why do you punt ever from the 31-yard line? I mean, it was cold.
I didn't know that was possible. It was.
So quick top of my head, that's a 48 yard field goal yeah and you guys

were like no thanks we'd rather here you take it yeah and i think we actually they we had to delay a game and then the eagles declined it because they're like we don't want you to have more room to punt this you had even more time to think about maybe we should kick a field goal yeah um it's We're in that very weird spot where, like, the tank is on.

Big time.

But you also get like confused in your brain is like is Iberfluss a bad coach or is he actually a great coach because he's doing the job of tanking I actually think he's a great coach that's tanking masterfully right but these things make you question your sanity I know I know they do but like they've got enough talent where I think that could be winning these games, a lot of the close ones that they're losing. Not to say that they were going to beat the Eagles today, even though it was not, as you said, 0.0% chance of winning.
I mean, Max was, I was yelling at Max all game, like, the Bears were in this game. Yeah, they were in it.
They could have won that game. The Eagles looked sloppy for a large portion of this game.
They could have won it. The Bears aren't a bad football team, and every week it's crazy.
Every week Justin Fields does something that makes me wish that Madden was still good so I could go play as Justin Fields and Madden. He's the third quarterback ever to surpass 1,000 yards rushing, Lamar and Michael Vick being the other two.
Yeah, it's crazy. He does belong in the conversation as those guys in terms of his running ability.
And it's also crazy considering the fact that they didn't run this offense for the first month of the season and they finally have let him go. And every game he has one wow run.
There was one where it was like a 50-yard run where it almost looked like he scored a touchdown. Yeah.
And he got ripped down almost by his helmet and was able to stay up so strong. But yeah, I don't uh i don't know losses are good now i was afraid that the bears were going to win this game and me over with the eagles future but the eagles now essentially barring disaster are going to have the one seat because they have the tiebreaker and some vikings cowboys have four losses niners have four losses so pretty much all they have to do is win one of their last three, and they have the one seed locked up.
Max, anything from this game? I mean, it was sloppy from the Eagles. Like Jalen Hurts had two interceptions in the first half.
I think that if the – like Tevin Jenkins going out made Justin Fields' life – his life was at stake. That's how bad the offensive line looked.
Yeah, the Eagles D-line was the only aspect that was like, okay, I have no problems with this at all from start to finish. Right.
They were eating. They're three separate guys that had multiple sacks.
He was sacked six times on 27 dropbacks. That's not good.
No. No.
But yeah, and that's one thing that's just like the Eagles Eagles D-line is probably our biggest strength right now. Hurts looked sloppy in the beginning, but then he made some really nice plays.
So it was nice to see him have a sloppy start and then come back and then look like a really good quarterback again. Yeah.
Because he did in the second half make some really nice deep balls. The Eagles have actually figured out perfectly how to execute the quarterback sneak.
And I'm not sure why other teams don't do it the same way. It's unstoppable.
You get two guys behind Jalen Hurts who already squats like 600 pounds to begin with. You give him the ball, and then immediately you've got two guys just grabbing his ass and hitting him forward.
Pushing him as hard as they can. Yeah, it's just a perfect—everything works so well with their quarterback sneak because they have the strongest quarterback, the best center in the league, and then they have developed this kind of pushing system that – I don't know if it's totally legal, but until they call it, it is, right? Well, yeah, there was the USC – it's the USC play where they – The bush push? Yeah, yeah.
I was just happy the – I mean, the Bears didn't look horrendous. They were in this game.
They were game.

It was... I knew this game was going to be tight.

That's why Hank was doing his bullshit little 0.0.

It was the best the Bears defenses looked in a while.

Yeah.

I was right.

You weren't right.

It was not...

If you watched the whole game, it was not a 0.0% chance.

It just felt that way to me.

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get ten dollars off your first order okay back at it saints 21 falcons 18 game that shouldn't mean anything but it kind of does because the nfc south is such a clusterfuck uh desmond ritter yeah yeah yeah well yeah that's kind of maybe better than mariotta maybe we sure. I got into the Desmond Ritter hype train.
He looked good in the preseason. And I told you that I am rooting for him because I want Luke Fickle, my now college coach, to be like, look, I'm a quarterback factory.
So I was like, hey, Desmond Ritter, 160 yards over passing. You can, like, two big plays.
No, no, no, no, no. He was stuck at, like, 49 yards for, it felt like, three and a half hours.
And I think the Falcons actually win this game with Marcus Mariota, who seems like a nice guy, but all-time, like, bad teammate move to go get knee surgery right after you got demoted? Well, I mean, apparently he needed knee surgery. But he was never on the injury report.
He didn't put himself on the injury report, but he gets demoted, and then he's like, well, I should probably take care of all the things in my body that I need to take care of. I actually don't blame Mariota at all for that.
I respect the fuck about that. Yeah, I like the move.
It just shows he's been putting off knee surgery for a long time. Why are you going to continue to play on a hurt leg? It shows he is a team guy.
If you're the back. Yeah, exactly.
I don't know about that. Well, no, he's been playing.
He's been keeping his mouth shut about a knee injury for the last four months. I don't know.
I'd say he's a team guy. Keep showing up for your team.
Well, they're not going to absurd him. Even with a fucked up knee? No, I know, right? I mean, there's a lot of guys who get benched that go go get knee surgery.
For the record, if I needed knee surgery and I got demoted, I would immediately go get my surgery. Go get knee surgery.
I also saw in the article I was reading, it was like, he also had a kid recently. So I was like, oh, okay.
Yeah. Knee surgery slash kid.
Yeah, he wants some recuperation. What if his surgery was, he was just like getting a vasectomy? Yeah.
He's like, just need to chill out for a couple weeks. Listen, from our perspective, go ahead and do it.
I would imagine the locker room's like, what the fuck, dude? I think that for a vet like Mariota, they probably get it. I think they get it.
He's had bad injury luck before. They're still kind of in the playoff push.
But remember, Arthur Smith said that he was going to keep playing Mariota until they were out of playoff contention. So the white flag.
Maybe Arthur Smith just doesn't understand math. Yeah.
And doesn't realize. Yeah, because if they had won this game, they would have been tied with the Bucs in first place.
This division is such a clusterfuck. The only thing I had, I mean, we had because we had all six games on because there's only six one o'clock games so we had this on my eyes really never went there because it just wasn't like the spread was in in jeopardy for a little bit and then the falcons end up scoring juan johnson is awesome which is such a saints move to have an undrafted tight end who's just a fucking beast yeah um but i'm like kind of still protesting saints games as long as they play andy dalton well it's funny they put in tasem hill whenever they need to take a deep shot right and either if you need somebody to to run into a linebacker or to throw the ball more than like 30 yards down the field that's why tasem's on there tasem also today um including playoffs he now has in his career 10 passing touchdowns 21 rushing touchdowns 11 receiving touchdowns that's pretty cool yeah that should just be like i would just get that stat framed and put it in my basement the ultimate anyone comes in like look at that the swiss army knife yeah look how sick i am uh the uh the falcons defense coordinator dean pease got jacked up in the pregame and hospital.
Oh, no way. And then they brought him back.
I guess they just gave him one of those famous precautionary ambulance rides that Mike White took last week. Got it.
Dean Pease saw that. He was like, I want one of those.
So they took him to the hospital. They checked him out.
And then they brought him back. I would have thought that that would have given a spark to the team, getting your elderly coordinator back in the second half and him one for Dean.
I'm fine. Or maybe it actually would have been better if he had pulled the old, why is his name escaping me, Liberty head coach.
Hugh Freeze. Hugh Freeze.
Yeah. And coached remotely from a hospital bed.
Yeah. And told the defense what to do in the game.
Call in the plays. Just call it in.
But I guess it was a scary moment because people thought that he actually might be seriously hurt right i don't know how it happened i haven't seen any video of it i'm gonna look uh we also had arthur blank there was just coming back from commercial at one point they had arthur blank uh reading like a children's story to i assume his granddaughter on the sideline it was uh he was reading madeline yeah so to the girl and it was why well it was very it's so funny because like when they came back from commercial there's a camera just like right in front of them completely focused on them yeah and he's trying to act like natural like oh well that's kind of crazy that there's a camera on me when i'm pretending to be a grandfather right now oh dean p's got jacked up dude he was not looking and he just got smoked and And I'm going to say it right now. I'm not going to point fingers.
I'm not going to blame people. But it looks like he was maybe being interviewed by a female reporter who just didn't give him a heads up.
Like, you got to be like, you know, ball. So he flinches beforehand.
Yeah. She just stepped out of the way and he just took the brunt of it so uh yeah dean pease he thank god he's okay but yeah he got that's actually very funny knowing he's okay it's very funny oh i'm watching it right now yeah it's very okay so it looks like somebody was practicing returning punts yeah back pedals see the woman just not do anything yeah that one's tough she.
You know what that is? That's a lot like the clip of Michael Scott and Jim. Yeah, Jim.
When Jim steps out of the way at the koi pond and lets Michael fall in. That's what I see happening here.
That woman is Marcus Mariota, and then Dean Pease is the rest of the Falcons season. There you guys go.
He's getting smoked, and she was just like, I'm out. I'm out of here.
See ya. Yeah, he got jacked up.
But yeah, that was the highlight of these games. I don't even know Saints.
I would love to hear from Saints fans. Where are you at? Do you want to win this division? I think maybe.
I think you'd rather go to the playoffs. Yeah, because they don't have a first-round pick, so yeah, why not? Honestly, if you're a Saints fan, I would imagine that things are pretty depressing right now.
Oh, yeah. Because you know deep down that Dennis Allen, you don't want him around for a couple years.
If you make the playoffs with Dennis Allen, then I think you have to keep him around for a little bit. Yep.
But you don't want that. No.
You don't want to make the playoffs as a 7-11 team or whatever that would be, 611, 7-10 team and then have to just acknowledge

the fact that Dennis Allen got you to the playoffs

at one point.

You want this era of Saints football

to move on. As fast as possible.

Because it's been a long season. It's not been

a fun season. I'd agree with that.

It's also

funny that

the Saints, that game

that Monday night game where they give up that lead to Tom Brady, that's going to be the Saints, that game, that Monday night game

where they give up that lead to Tom Brady,

that's going to be the difference in their season.

Yeah.

Because right now, if they had won that game

and been able to hold on to that lead,

they would be in sole possession of first place in the NFC South.

Yep.

Sole possession.

And they would also have split with the Bucs

so the Bucs wouldn't have gotten the tiebreaker.

It feels like the Bucs, as bad as they've been, and they been really bad and we're going to get to them in a minute it feels like they are officially like I'm going to declare them NFC South winners because they're playing at the Cardinals and then Panthers and Falcons I think they should be able to win two out of those three. You would think so but this division is so weird.
True. You don't know.
really hope that whoever wins i guess ends up going 6-11 if they lose to the panthers that could that could be the tiebreaker yeah that would be double losses to the panthers yeah i mean i think now officially we have to root for the panthers to to win that division that would be the funniest possible absolutely steve wilkes in a playoff game like his eight nine team yeah yeah uh toasting a playoff game all like his 8-9 team. Yeah.
Yeah. Hosting a playoff game.
All right, next up, Chiefs 30, Texans 14. This game was weird because – Wait, 24.
24. It went to overtime, right? 30-24, yeah, 24.
I wrote it down wrong. 30-24.
This game was weird because the Chiefs feel like they're flirting with fire, but then I looked at the actual numbers and they completely dominated the Texans. Because watching that game, the Texans were in it for the whole game.
Guess the yardage. Chiefs, Texans.
All right. Chiefs, I'm going to guess, had 400 yards of offense.
Okay. Texans had 250.
The Chiefs had 502 yards. The Texans had 219.
Yeah. And it went to overtime.
Yeah.

And it's because, obviously, the Chiefs fumbled on their own 22. The Texans scored.
They also fumbled the midfield. The Texans scored.
I don't know. And also, Mahomes had one of the craziest days because he had an 87% completion percentage with 41 passes, which is insane.
I think that's the highest completion percentage for a quarterback over 40 passes attempted in a game in nfl history it is because lamar jackson was the previous uh highest uh completion percentage he went 37 for 43 last year i believe so that one beats it it's by it by a percentage it's like 36 or 41 is insane it's also astounding that that Patrick Mahomes keeps finding new records to break. Yeah.
You would think that he'd have them all already. Like every single game record at this point should belong to Patrick Mahomes.
Right. But no, it's still Norm Van Brocklin from 1953 or whatever.
Right, right. And it's also the Chiefs' seventh straight division title, which is they don't get enough credit for just owning that division.
Yeah. You know what I mean? Like we always talk, you know, when the Patriots were in their run and they were just ripping off AFC East titles.
I can't believe it's been seven years, but seven straight division titles is quite something. Yeah.
You remember before the season started where we were like, man, who's going to win this division? It's going to be close. It's going to come down to it.cos look good man we were wrong raiders dude edelman came on every year he's been he's been fucking just completely dodging us since he uh predicted the raiders to win the afc west if i start at any point ever doubting patrick mahomes again about anything just like i give you guys full permission just slap me in my face you know what it is though it's just it's just that you Hank we always in like sports media we don't like to do the obvious answers we don't like to do the thing that happens over and over because it's boring to be like oh yeah Patrick Mahomes is Patrick Mahomes he's going to dominate the AFC West so everyone's trying to like find this new angle when really next year just remind us Jake please next year year uh late august when we do our nfl preview just afc west patrick mahomes done don't overthink that's the that's the preview for the division there you know what let me be the first to congratulate the kansas city chiefs on their eighth straight division title next year all right yeah okay no don'tting Patrick.
You want me to slap you? Big catch, just hear me out. Hear me out.
Hear me out. The Chargers on offense have all the weapons.
Come slap him, Hank. Come slap him.
This is the annual offseason thing. The Chargers, like, they got.
Watch out for the Chargers. The Chargers are healthy.
And if Bosa can stay, like, in the game and he can get after the passer as good as anybody.

Do you know who's really underrated?

Derek Carr.

Yeah, well, yeah.

I mean, he's got a great wide receiver now.

They went out, they got him Devontae Adams.

This is our AMC West preview.

I mean, it's his old college teammate.

They've got a good rhythm.

Russell Wilson has to bounce back, right?

Well, the thing about Josh McDaniels is he went back to New England,

and he said, I want to learn everything you have to show me me he's come back a much more humbled head coach this time that's our preview yeah there it is uh yeah so I don't know if the Texans are scrappy now they went from worst team in the world to suddenly all the like the Cowboys game last week the Chiefs game this week they're scrappy and they're doing maybe the best job of tanking ever. Yeah, I was going to say the Texans and the Bears have a little bit in common that they play competitive football and they're not entirely unfun to watch.
Yeah, they don't get embarrassed, but they lose. But they lose and they do a great job of losing.
Yeah, I mean, losing is the goal here. It's in their blood.
Yeah, and so do you think the text the Chiefs are playing with fire at all yeah I mean they get too cute all the time that's what they've always done they get they get super cute they start running like NBA style offenses inside the five yard line and they're going to continue to do that but I also think that's kind of what makes them them because I want to throw something out there and this one is probably not going to happen because the chiefs finished with the seahawks broncos and raiders the cincinnati bengals have a game against the bills yeah if they win that game they could be the one seat the bengals could if the chiefs slip up once the bengals win beat beat the bills they would then have the tiebreaker against both of the other teams. And it's a team that, like, it's been Chiefs-Bills, Chiefs-Bills.
The Bengals could potentially, like, there's a path for them to get the one seed, which is crazy to say. Well, I don't think that there's that big of a separation between...
No, I don't either. ...those three teams at all.
Well, I think the Bengals are better than the Chiefs. I think those three teams are, probably overall as a team, yeah, I'd say that those three teams, though, like any one of them can beat the other.
Yeah. It's just a matter of like where some stupid bounces go, maybe a couple blown calls here or there.
Any one of those three teams can win, so that's why home field is going to be so important. And that's why I was saying like the Chiefs are fantastic.
The Chiefs have been playing good, winning football, but they've also been flirting a little bit with fire. The Broncos last week where they only beat them by six.
This week where they beat the Texans by six. I think they'll win out.
If I had to put like my life on the line, I'd say they went out. But I'm also like, I don't know.
They've been kind of in that weird range where they're keeping teams that they're way better than around in games.

Which one of those three teams would you say it's most important to have home field advantage in the playoffs?

I would probably say the Bills.

I would say Kansas City.

Not the Bengals because the Bengals obviously did that last year

where they went on the road and won two playoffs.

And also their owners so cheap that they probably don't really stay in nice places anyways.

Yeah.

I think the bill is just because of the weather and like, I don't know.

Yeah, I mean, it's going to be a great AFC playoffs.

All right.

Yeah.

So the Chiefs beat the Texans in overtime, which, yeah, the Texans are like the best tank team of all time.

They might. Should we start the conversation? Are thexans the best one win loss team of all time oh i think the texans without question are the best one 12 and one team that's of all time that's a fact never never never been a better team to do it that's a fact also just a shout out uh we should make sure that we have derrick henry in our mount rushmore next week and maybe make his yardage 100 because he's playing against the texans and he gets he gets 200 yards rushing every time he plays against he owns them um okay next up steelers panthers uh this the the story of this game is the pittsburgh steelers went on a service academy drive yeah Yeah, 12 minutes.
So they started the second half, 21 plays, 91 yards, 11 minutes and 43 seconds, seven first downs, and that was basically the game. The entire third quarter was just them driving and scoring a touchdown, and the game was over.
It's so hard to get seven first downs on a drive seven you got to be like really good at getting 11 yards yeah yeah just getting right past the chains um they also converted 12 of uh 15 third downs that's pretty good pretty damn good mitch no touchdowns but who cares he played well you know he ran for one today he ran for a he ran for a touchdown uh naji harris looked okay today he like Najee's so confusing to me yeah because some games he looks like the most powerful man on earth and then other games he does almost approach the line of scrimmage like uh like Le'Veon Bell used to yeah but he just never hits the hole and he just averages like one yard per carry yeah I also today was good Najee I also um i'm not gonna give as much as i i want the panthers to win the nfc uh south i'm gonna say steve wilks you're kind of in my dog house bro because last week the panthers had a formula they ran the ball down the seahawks throats like 40 times for 230 yards, whatever it was. This week, they ran the ball 16 times for 21 yards.
Well, they tried to, and Foreman couldn't get anything going. It was, but like, keep leaning on them.
That's what you do best. Like, keep leaning on them and hope that you can start to break through.
Instead, it was, let's hope Sam Darnold can make some plays. He can't.

And yeah, the Panthers are now... They gotta win.
Is P.J. Walker healthy or is he injured?

I think he's

healthy in Sam Darnold's future.

Is the answer to that?

P.J. Walker...
I'd say it's about that time

in the life cycle of Panthers quarterbacks

where you start P.J. Walker.
Yeah. Wait, I got

a question for you. Fun hypothetical.

Billy, you can chime in.

How many wins would the Jets have with Sam Darnold this year?

Healthy.

All year.

Nine?

I think it would be the same.

You do?

Yeah.

Because what?

They're going to beat the Patriots twice?

Once? What wins would they pick up?

Today, maybe?

Yeah, one of the Patriots wins. Vikings.
Vikings, maybe? One of the patriots with yeah vikings vikings maybe but my one of those games when zach wilson was truly terrible yeah i would say mike white and sam donald are on the same sort of echelon okay okay so would you i actually like mike white better than i do too yeah i really do i think it goes mike white sam donald then a big drop off that yeah how many different doctors did Sam Darnold. I do, too.
I do, too. I really do.
I think it goes Mike White, Sam Darnold, then a big drop-off. Yeah.
How many different doctors did Sam Darnold go to when he had mono begging them to let him play? True. Probably just one.
True. Facts.
It was probably his girlfriend dressed up as a nurse. Yeah.
Which, respect. Fix me, yeah.
Yeah. Oh, last thing I had in this game.
TJ Watt is the third fastest to 75 career sacks. And it's not a TJ Watt stat.
It's actually a Reggie White stat. Because TJ Watt got there in 84 games.
JJ Watt also had 75 sacks. He was second all-time.
Reggie White got to 75 sacks in 65 games. That's ridiculous.
That is crazy. That's a stupid stat.
But one thing that we always forget is that we didn't start keeping track of sacks until like 82. 82.
So, like, was it like Deacon Jones, those old guys? Yeah, yeah. They could have been, like, who knows? Lawrence Taylor's, like, I think Lawrence Taylor's first couple years, they didn't have sacks as an official stat.
Which is crazy. Like, that's be kept track of we should just invent like an old football player be like this guy actually what is the true sack king if they kept track of of that particular statistic going back to like 1950 yeah oh it looks like the first year they i mean it says he had nine and a half sacks in 1981 but i thought it was 1982 so um but yeah it is crazy to think that sacks pretty important stat pretty important yeah gotta get after the quarterback yeah gotta heat him up in the sleeve you gotta pin your ears back sometimes yeah uh okay next up chargers 17 titans 14 uh-oh are the chargers back uh-oh the chargers are back the chargers are now uh they had like the perfect weekend for the for the the los angeles chargers because miami losing the patriots losing jets losing the chargers are now the sixth seed and are the chargers back the chargers are back man they might be back they are right now so the chargers are the sixth seed they would play at the bangles in the first round right now.
Don't let me do it. No.
Don't let me do it.

No. Don't let me do it.
No. I'm begging you.
No. Don't let me do it.
I give you permission. If I even start talking like I'm going to do it, just strap me to a chair.
No. And don't let me leave.
But I'm not going to do it. No, don't do it.
I'm not going to do it. But, yeah, the Char are there in the playoffs, which is, it's crazy.
Cause it feels like they've been, they've had some really, really shitty games this year. How are they going to charge this up? You remember when the Jaguars just beat the shit out of them? Yeah.
It's like whipped them with a rubber hose. Yeah.
Because Justin Herbert was playing with like no rips. Yeah.
And they're like, yeah, let's play him. And then let's keep them in when we're down 30.
right so the chargers oh yeah the oh this is gonna be the chargers play the colts the rams the broncos that's three easy wins yeah they're gonna lose two of those games no no no chargers chargers going 11 they're gonna go 11 wait no no no the chargers are gonna lose on monday football at the colts nine yeah 10 11 they're gonna go 11 and six the colts the colts against It. The Chargers are going to lose on Monday Night Football at the Colts.
9, 10, 11.

They're going to go 11-6.

The Colts against the Chargers Monday Night Football might be a hammer play on the Colts.

Just solely based on the Chargers always doing something to fuck themselves over.

But I feel like Jeff Saturday has all that Chargers energy that he's bringing to the Colts.

That's true.

The Justin Herbert. I know that there's been a weird

Justin Herbert's not good thing that's been going on.

Not by us, because we know ball.

We do know ball.

What's that look, Billy?

Are you talking about the social media quarterback?

Yeah, and there's been other people just being like,

oh, he's not that great.

You remember when Emmanuel Acho, the guy that said

the social media quarterback thing, said that it's dangerous to let Olympic athletes smoke marijuana because what if they're throwing a javelin and it might accidentally go off course and hit somebody running on the track? That was a real take. Real take he had.
That was awesome. That was so awesome.
If you are, I don't think there's a lot of people in this camp, but if you are one of these people who is like, Justin Herbert might not be that great. They haven't made it to the playoffs, which I actually agree, like not getting to the playoffs, like eventually you've got to get to the playoffs.
Just go and look at the throw he made to Mike Williams to get them into field goal range with 30 seconds left. That thing was fucking awesome.
He has some wow throws. Have you looked at it? Go look it up.
I want to hear your reaction saw it. I saw it.
I saw it. The thing I like the most.
Billy, you look it up. The thing I like the most about Justin Herbert is when Justin Herbert, like when they do the breakdowns after games, Staley's always like, okay, victory Monday, no lifting.
And Justin Herbert's like, boo. Yeah.
Come on, let us lift. I want to lift.
I want to lift. And he's like, no, I'm serious.
You're not working out on Monday, Justin. Yeah.
And then all his teammates go nuts. He's like, no, you guys should be booing, not clapping.
Yeah. But he's not saying it because he knows there's a camera on him.
He's saying it because he actually loves to lift weights. Yes.
Which is weird for a quarterback to do that. He's like, no, I don't have any friends.
I just want to come in and be with the guy. Which I love.
It's actually great if your quarterback has no life whatsoever outside of football. Have you ever seen the clips of Justin Herbert avoiding the camera? No.
There's a mashup of him when the social media team tries to get them coming out from the locker room for practice,

whether it be preseason, OTAs or whatever it is.

He'll duck.

Sometimes he'll have someone else wear his helmet or jersey

and then go out as someone else because he doesn't like being on the camera.

To get away from him?

Yeah, it's actually very funny.

That was the craziest thing about the Emmanuel Acho thing

was that he literally avoids social media. Yeah, he gets off the camera when he's on the jumbotron.
Billy, did you see that throw? Yes. That throw was sick.
What did you think? It was dime. It was missile.
Missile down the sideline, running out of the pocket. He's sick.
His ball that he throws, it's like a lot of quarterbacks, their spirals sort of jet off in different directions. His is just straight.
Yeah, it's a missile. Yeah.
Yeah. He throws like when you press the X button really hard, Madden.
Yeah. It just fucking darts it in there.
Just a laser beam. Yeah.
And who knows? The Chargers might charge her this down the stretch. I don't think it's because of Justin Herbert.
But yeah. And then as for the Titans, it's a little comforting actually not having to do like watch out for the Titans.
Yeah. Because they're just not good.
And they've had a ton of injuries. We talked about their injuries on Friday.
Tannehill was clearly hurt today. He came back in the game.
He went off on the cart and then came back in the game. Well, the first thing he did was he went to the blue injury tent.
Yeah. And they put him in the injury tent, and he started peeking through the window.
He looked like Kim Kardashian looking through the plants, trying to figure out what was going on in the field. I didn't know that the blue injury tent had windows.
I didn't either. Like the real-life Squidward meme.
Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
Down watching everyone else play. Why does it have windows in the injury? Isn't the whole point of the injury tent to be like absolutely no distractions from the outside world? Yeah.
I don't know. So he was in there, and then they took him off on a cart.
Usually when you leave on a cart, you don't come back into the game. Right.
Unless you're Big Ben when you just kind of wander your way into the sidelines. Yeah, and all of a sudden I'm playing.
Who knows? Next thing you know, I'm throwing a touchdown. But, yeah, he came back in.
He's a tough guy. Willis didn't look great.
I'm starting to see why maybe this particular draft class of quarterbacks didn't get picked in, like, the first couple rounds. Right, right.
It's starting to make a little bit more sense. Yeah, it's starting to click.
Yeah, it just – Titans, it feels like they just need to, like, change everything. Yeah.
Like, change everything except a few pieces and Mike Vrabel and start fresh. Because doesn't it feel a bummer? Like it's almost like a bump.
It's we got called out for this. Remember the end of the Clippers, Blake Griffin and Chris Paul era.
Yeah. Like when we were just like, dude, this is just a bummer.
Like they've tried so hard for so many years and they've been to the playoffs so many times. It hasn't worked.
That's what I feel about these Titans.

Like, I don't know what you changed.

Probably just the quarterback.

But you need to change something because it's just a bummer.

Maybe you're a general manager.

Yeah.

It might be time to change that person.

Yeah, but it's just, I don't know.

Like, Derrick Henry has to do everything.

They had a drive today, a touchdown drive,

a 63-yard touchdown drive where every yard was Derrick Henry's.

Yeah.

Like, they just, I don't know. It's just a bummer.
Like, the Titans are a bummer at this point. They've lost four in a row.
It just feels like the wheels. I need a locker room guy to just come in and get the boys going.
They do, because I feel like they don't have any of that glue. They've got, like, they've got some fine players, but they need somebody that's, like, bringing everybody together, maybe, like, creating content with some of them, bringing them out of their shells a little bit, getting them on a bus.
I had never seen him before, but Will Confin posted the video of him impersonating Vrabel with the team. It's one of the best videos of all time.
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
Here's what I'll say. And I think Titans fans probably agree that they're just a bummer at this point.
But the Titans, I'll give them the benefit of the doubt if they beat the Cowboys on Sunday Night Football in two weeks because that would be such a Titans win. That would be the win where it's like, wow, the Titans, and no one believes in them.
The Cowboys are, I don't know, six-point favorites in Tennessee, and the Titans win. That would be like, all right, maybe they still got some fight in them them but at this point they haven't done that like Titans game since that Packers game uh on whatever it was Thursday night football and we know the Packers aren't good so it just it's just a bummer at this point it's just a bummer it is I'm just I'm sad yeah but they never really got good enough to have like like real big Super Bowl They were the one seed.
At their best, but still remember last year going to the playoffs, they were the one seed, but still everybody was like, this thing is not like you're not equipped. You're not powerful enough to deal with the Bills, the Chiefs at that point.
But they were the one seed, and they beat the one seed the year they beat the Ravens. And they ended the Brady Patriots.
So there's been moments where you're like, oh, whoa, Titans, watch out. But it all gets tied back to Ryan Tannehill.
And there was a moment in time, I think it was 2020, maybe 2019, where people were like, line up to apologize to Ryan Tannehill because he is going to be an all-pro quarterback for the next five years. And so many people were on that side of things.
And I was just like, wait, just wait. Because I refused to admit that I had been so wrong about Ryan Tannehill.
And so I camped out on my take a little bit too long to the point where it actually ended up becoming true again, where he's not the guy that's ever going to take that next step.

And he does seem like a nice quarterback.

He seems like maybe slightly above average quarterback when he's healthy.

Right.

But I think the ending was last year when they were the one seed.

I don't know if we'll ever see a game again where a team sacks the opposing quarterback nine times and loses. Yeah.
Like, Joe Burrow got sacked nine times. So, I mean, it's still possible that the Titans could win all three of those games, taking them into the playoffs, and then we'll forget about this conversation that we had.
Maybe, so here's what's going to happen, okay? Derek Henry's going to get like 200 yards next week against the Texans. Then against the Cowboys, he'll probably gash them up again.
And then the Jaguars. Yeah, we might be looking at three tractor-sito games, leading us into the playoffs with the narrative of, well, everybody zigs, the Titans are zagging, and they're just playing old-school smash-mouth football.
Can anybody stop Derrick Henry this time of year? And then, yes, they will stop him quite easily in the first round of the playoffs. All right, if the Titans make the playoffs, Jake, make sure I don't bet on the Titans.
Although the Titans-Ravens first-round playoff game, that's a Saturday afternoon game. Oh, yeah.
If the playoffs started today, Saturday afternoon Titans-Ravens, right? No question about it. That feels right to me.
That would absolutely be the first game. The day i was setting this reminder i already have one from last year's titans bengals playoff game don't let big cat bet on ryan tannahill in the playoff okay there we go okay there we go that's crazy so it's perfect wait did you tell me last year because i bet on the titan no this was this coming season this was after the titans bengengals game.
Alright, so I'm double telling myself.

Yeah.

You reminded me the day their season ended.

Okay, so which means I should probably bet on the Titans.

I mean, someone's got to.

The day their season ended, you told me.

I mean, if the number gets too high, I'm going to have to.

The Titans have got to.

My numbers, my deep numbers say I have to.

They've definitely taken over the vibe of the Bengals that they used to have,

which was just like put them on the Saturday afternoon game. Yeah.
And now the Bengals are good enough where it's like, you better put them on at night. Oh, Bengals Chargers is probably the Monday night game.
Yeah, I want the Bengals to be playing at night in these playoffs. And the Titans, they are big time Saturday 1 p.m.
Yeah, still sunny out. Let's watch this game.
Probably like gray. Yeah.
Technically the sun's out, but it's a very gray day. Oh, my God.
The Titans, Ravens. I mean, if Lamar's not back, whose line is it anyway? Over under 36 and a half? I mean, if Lamar's not back, I would probably, I'd bet on the Titans.
Yeah, I would too. If it's Tyler Huntley.
Don't let me, Jake. Don't let me.
I'll do it. All right.
Jake, if it's Ravens, Titans, you can remind me to bet on it. I'll do it that too.
But don't, yeah. Man, the crowd there is going to be just like kind of damp, angry, cold people wearing like six layers of windbreaker.
Yeah. It's going to be nasty.
Yeah. All right.
Next up. And we're at the point in the season where we can kind of skip some games pretty quickly.
And this one is definitely one of them. Broncos 24, Cardinals 15.
My only, I have two notes from this game. One is Latavius Murray is still playing.
Oh yeah. He had 130 yards.
He's a, he's a fine young man. It's like, I looked at it.
I was like, wait, Latavius Murray. He's just going to bounce around the league until he's 36.

How old is Latavius?

I think he's probably like 20.

He scored for the Broncos too.

Yeah.

He's actually the first,

he's a second player ever to score for the Broncos and the Colts behind

Peyton Manning.

That's kind of cool.

Latavius Murray is,

guess the age?

29.

32.

Okay.

So that's actually appropriate.

Yeah.

I was worried that he was going to running back ages, you can never get right because they just like... It's like dogs.
Yeah. You could tell...
In my mind, Saquon Barkley is like 23 years old. Derrick Henry...
Yeah. Derrick Henry is 28.
That's crazy. I mean, that's...
Derrick Henry is 35 years old. Yeah, he's been in the league forever.
There's no fucking way Derrick Henry's 28. I don't even remember when he played at Alabama.
Derrick Henry's 28. That's crazy.
The notes I had for this game, the Broncos have a gross field. Take some pride in your field, Denver.
Well, I think they've just given up. It's just nasty looking.
Yeah. It's patchy.
It looks like it's got mange. Just just a bad bad field uh and then the cardinals have been having a hell of a week this week uh with the gm thing yeah so their general manager steve kime he's on a leave of absence they said it was maybe health related when he went on there but they also fired their uh their offensive line coach so they fired their offensive line coach right as they were getting back

from their trip to Mexico City.

Their offensive line coach looks exactly like Steve Kime,

their general manager, and he got fired for cause.

So this is Sean Coogler, and if you look up pictures of Sean Coogler

and Steve Kime, they're both bald dudes with goatees yeah goatees they look like Pete Carroll assistant coaches and defensive coordinators for the Seahawks and um so their offensive line coach is now alleging that it was a case of mistaken identity that he got caught doing something fucked up maybe down in Mexico but he's saying that it was not him and the speculation is that it was Steve Keim, their GM. The Cardinals responded to him and said, no, this is not a case of mistaken identity.
We know exactly who we're firing. So now they're going to court, and the offensive line coach is making a big deal about it, trying to clear his name.
I don't know what's going to happen with this, but it seems like I can't wait to watch it at Hard Knocks. If they take this out of Hard Knocks, I will not

watch a second. I did not

plan on watching any Hard Knocks

for the Arizona Cardinals this year.

But I am intrigued and I want to see what the fuck's

going on with this. Dude, imagine

being Steve Keim and thinking you got away with it

for like a month. Yeah.

Being like, yeah, we fired this guy. That's probably why

you hired this guy. Their initials are the

same. They're both built similarly.

Sounds like they both like to go out

and

Thank you. Being like, yeah, we fired this guy.
That's probably why you hired this guy. Yeah.
Their initials are the same. They're both built similarly.
Sounds like they both like to go out and get deep into it. Do weird shit.
Yeah. But yeah, what a wild twist that Steve Keim leaving the team might be because he did some fucked up shit and then had his body double take the fall.
We don't know. Honestly, I respect him if he did hire this guy to be like his body someday i'll need this yeah just to like throw the scent off you know how like saddam hussein had seven guys that looked like him yeah that were going around the country all the time like when you go on the road when probably hired him just knowing that they were gonna have a game in mexico city and steve khan's like well we're gonna party down there a little bit so i need someone to take the fall I need this guy Sean Coogler I need Gus Bradley on the team I need Dan Quinn Bill Goldberg we're just going to swarm Mexico City just partying I'm going to get away with it with bald headed dudes meatheads with goatees last thing I had on this game is I shout out our guy JJ Watt he had like a throwback game he had three sacks a forced fumble i think a few tackles for a loss it's got to feel good as bad as this season has gone and his time in arizona has not been great just because the team's not been great it's got to feel good for a guy like that to be like oh yeah i can still just manhandle people every now and then i'm actually shocked that he hasn't we haven't heard more about him wanting to go play for the steel Yeah.
Because I could see him wanting to end his career like all the brothers on a team together. Oh, that would be so sick.
I would get so fucking annoyed. I would get so annoyed by that by like week three.
Tank would have a hell of a time trying to make bets on that. Yeah.
Yeah, for sure. God damn.
But you know that he wants to. You know, like that would be the waddest thing of all time.
Yeah. The only thing I'm worried about is he might want to finish on the Packers, and then I will have to turn my back on him again and start, oh, hey, JJ-ing him again.
Absolutely will have to. I'm not trying to make a threat.
JJ, if you're listening to this right now, and you go to the Packers, I'll be on your ass. I don't think he's going to do that.
Night and day. Night and day.

I think he wants to. Night and day.

Can you imagine that?

Like, every single game, they would have a feature on the Watt brothers growing up.

Their parents would be in the stands for every game.

It just feels too perfect that they would end in, like, a football city like Pittsburgh,

the three of them playing together.

By the way, Hank's smile there was a sicko smile.

He's just like, I want you guys going back to being bullies. No, no.
No, you do think that we've gotten soft. You say it all the time.
Yeah, no, you do. I don't.
Listen, that was one of the funniest segments of all time. It was, but it also, like, there will be sometimes people criticize us and be like, you guys don't know when a bitch should die.
You just fucking run them in the ground. I feel like that was one of the perfect arcs that you can't do that forever if we were still doing that we would be lame as fuck yeah yeah but you want us to no you brought it back up just made me smile no that's why it wasn't like evil it was just like it really was once you did oh hey JJ I just you know smile and reminisce I feel like we changed his life for the better because he has gotten way less cringeworthy.
Yeah. Great guy.
I love JJ. Mental health is a real issue.
Yes, I do. I do.
I actually do. I like you.
So do I. No, you don't like him because you want us to bully him.
Yeah. No, I don't.
Yes, you do. You want us to be bullies.
You're encouraging his baby. You guys are fucking gaslight central.
I like JJ Watt. No, now you're bullying.
You're gaslighting me by telling me that I'm gaslighting you. Yeah.
J.J. Watt's my friend.
He's not your friend. Sick.
Mike Wilbon. Name drop.
No. Bring back that segment.
We're talking about him. We're talking about him.
You want us to be mean to him. No, I don't.
I just... Listen.
That segment used to make me laugh very hard. One of the funniest...
I won't tell it because it's mean. No, say it say it say it say it say it say it say it hank this is way obviously way way way back in the day pre jake billy max the group text was just us three and the day that we like i think i don't even think we were interviewing him you guys started uh brainstorming ideas of how to shame him into interviewing him yeah yeah and it was probably the hardest i was probably the hardest I've ever laughed in my entire life.
Oh, yeah, we said we were going to, like, kill a puppy? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was NSFW.
Like, there was so many, like, it was just, you know, just group text guy humor, but it was so fucking funny. I started a GoFundMe to raise money for us to go join ISIS if JJ didn't agree to the interview.
And then GoFundMe flagged our account and took it down. And it reported us to Homeland Security because it thought that we were actually fundraising for ISIS.
We said we were going to start donating to dog fighting rings. Like the reverse of rescuing puppies.
Yeah. I remember i remember the moment though when we went to his house and when he when we were like dude so like how bad did it get he's like my grandmother was like why are these guys being so mean to you and i was like fuck dude that's fine like that's probably too far his family was reading like all the social media comments all the time because they would check his tweets and they would be like oh here's a great picture of jj doing community service it was like 300 replies of people trolling him yeah i just remember he was like yeah we try not to read it but my grandmother saw it and like and told me about it i was like i don't know what to say yeah all right you know what dude that's fucking good call by you there's probably too far there was one where he was like having a a youth football camp for free or something and then underneath i remember the very first comment said like uh hey jj you know who else had a youth development program and and i thought to myself that's very funny but at the same time like yeah he does have yeah, he does have, like, he's a real person.
Yeah. He's a good person.
That's the thing that, like, he might be, he was corny at the time, but he is, like, a very good person. Yes.
So that was the part that, like, kind of, once we met him and I was like, yeah, he's a really good person. You know what, though? Maybe we stopped him from going down a very dangerous path in life.
Without us and J.J. Watt's life, he might have turned into Russell Wilson.
Yeah, true. That's the path that you have to decide.
And he might have actually gotten addicted to charity. Yeah.
He might have given all his money away to charity. And then where would he be? He would be nowhere.
Yeah. Yeah.
When he tried to save Houston, he would have been addicted to charity. I think we saved his life.
He we. Oh, my God.
Like during COVID, he put. Oh, my God.
He would have quit the NFL and just like gone city to city like a nurse. Yeah.
Distributing water. Yeah.
He would have been a COVID nurse. Yes.
We saved your life. JJ Watt.
But yeah, he had a throwback game. So shout out to him.
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this Jets late at night show

comes on while we're recording and I just

have to re-watch the Jets lose

over and over throughout the show.

It's not great. It's not great.

Because they're just throwing their helmets.

I mean this guy.

I follow him on Twitter. He's a good writer.

Antoine Staley, but yeah.

Describe his outfit.

He's just wearing like a

Thank you. helmets.
I mean, this guy. I follow him on Twitter.
He's a good writer. Antoine Staley, but yeah, he...
Describe his outfit. He's just wearing like a...
He's wearing a windbreaker. He's wearing blue jeans and a polo.
Just take the windbreaker off. Like him straight from the press box.
Right, but that's like a take off your coat, stay a while kind of move. I don't mind it.
It looks like he just walked in and he has to go somewhere quickly. He's a very good writer's a very good writer i do follow i don't mind it because like a guy like that you look at him and you think oh that guy doesn't need to dress up to impress you he knows he's actually so plugged in that everything else is just frilled yep so but yeah he's a very good writer go follow him antoine staley uh i know he he follows...
I think he's covered a bunch of teams.

So I've followed him through his travel.

Very good writer.

All right.

Raiders 30, Patriots 24.

We talked about this game already?

No, we have not talked about this game.

But yeah, we have.

Enough time has passed.

First of all, would you like to apologize for trying to deceive the part of my take listeners, the AWLs?

No, I'll let them make up their own lines. Okay.
gaslighting them again do your own research okay uh want to hear something fucked you want to hear something fucked up you guys are streaming i was watching the game in here you left your laptop open and i don't know if you did this on purpose i i think you did i did not the sound was on and you had a tweet up with the replay of the game. I did not.
So it went off. Like, every five minutes, it would just start playing again.
I did not. And I just had to mute your computer.
Yeah, I did not. Interesting.
That was the last thing we were looking at. Yeah, no, interesting.
Interesting. Okay, so.
So that was how I spent the Washington Commanders game, which is every, like, five minutes, I'd be like, oh, my God, he passed it back. Yeah, I, he passed it back.
I'm going to say something, Hank, to defend you, though. The touchdown before, he was so out of bounds.
Insane. It's crazy that they didn't fucking overturn that.
I don't understand it. I don't understand how you can have replay and look at it and not be like, that guy's foot went out of bounds.
Couldn't be more clear. Conclusivelusive on multiple angles and that's all you need to say what did they say was there an explanation as to why there wasn't enough to overturn the ruling on the field everybody that watched it saw that his foot was out of bounds right it's insane it's truly insane i so usually hank is actually um like a paranoid psychopath when it comes to his Patriots stuff.
Rude. I'm with him on this.
I am too. I think this opened my eyes.
I got red-pilled. I think that the NFL is actually out to get the Patriots now.
There's no other explanation. That Vikings-Hunter Henry callback? Yeah.
No. It's all adding up.
If you go back and you look throughout history, the NFL has gone out of their way to try to fuck the Patriots up their ass. Always.
Always. That was a crazy, crazy play that they didn't overturn.
I still don't understand how that was like his foot stepped out of bounds. And they were down seven.
It's not like they needed a field goal because, you know, if you need a field goal, they probably would have got that. But getting a touchdown that late in the game is not easy to do.
Now, for the next play. Yep.
So we did talk about it a little bit. I have a couple thoughts I'd like to throw out there.
Okay. One, all the players now are saying that that was not scripted, trying to basically be like, we fucked up, wasn't Belichick, which I think we all knew.
The famous Belichick quote, which is a great quote about football, is you're either coaching it or you're allowing it. So this would mean he's probably allowing it.
So he's probably as mad as he could ever be. I also would like to say that I'm going to put 25% blame on Ramondre Stevenson.
Yep. Because him throwing it to Jacoby Myers, I think Jacoby Myers is like, wait, we're doing this? And then all hell broke loose.
Chekhov's gun. Yeah, like, it was just, yeah, Chekhov's gun.
He threw it back, and I don't think, like, I think he was just supposed to go out of bounds, play for overtime, the draw worked a little too well, but the minute he did that, Jacoby Myers, like, lost his mind and was like, oh, fuck. We're down, we gotta score, like, let's just go crazy.
That's exactly what I was saying when we were watching earlier he he was not ever jacoby marge was never going to throw a lateral pass if he had not himself accepted a ladder before right and in his mind a switch flipped where he's like we're running the lateral play to end the game yeah at that point as opposed to just taking the first offload from stevenson and trying to get downfield with it he just he his mind reverted back to a time and a place where they had practiced that end-of-game scenario without realizing that it was a tie game and what he was doing was stupid as fuck. And then he saw Mac Jones, like blanket coverage by Chandler Jones, really well covered.
And then he was like, Mac Jones is going to run 60 yards for a touchdown. He can't pass at 55 yards, but maybe Mac will be able to sprint 55 yards.
And then proceeded to throw a horrific pass. Horrific pass.
Like, he was, what, seven yards away from Mac Jones, the ball was? Conveniently, right at Chandler Jones? And poor Mac Jones. I don't think you can have a worse year than him.

Like, you can't. He got benched for Billy Zappi.
He had that Monday night. He was hurt.
He was hurt, but then he got the Monday night game where he got benched and everyone booed him. He has Matt Patricia as OC.
And then this game, no one's been stiff-armed and, like, made look worse than Mac Jones. and he side defense on a perfect pass in the paint for a dunk.
He got dunked on, but it wasn't his fault. It was like Jason Terry and LeBron.
Yeah, he wasn't supposed to be there getting dunked on. He just ended up standing right there getting dunked on and like smoked.
I mean, it was bad. I actually feel really bad for Mac Jones because I actually think, and I think we alluded to this a couple weeks ago, in a wild twist of fate, last year was all about Mac Jones being in the perfect setting and being like Belichick and Josh McDaniels.
I don't think there's been a quarterback who's been screwed over more than Mac Jones this year. He's been fucked.
Yeah, I mean, there's the butt fumble. There's the Colts punt, fake punt against the Patriots.
And I think this play might be worse than both of them. It's not good.
Because it ended the game. Did you notice how Mac Jones basically got his entire head dribbled off the ground by Chandler Jones? Jones like palmed his helmet and just gave it like a quick power dribble.
It was like an uncle playing football with little cousins. It looked like the fucking mascot yesterday in Minnesota.
Blooper. Fuck Blooper.
It was Blooper. He's a fucking.
He should. Blooper's a fucking.
Someone should call child service protection. So he's fucked up.
He's a hoss. He's fucked up.
He's got a nose for the end zone. That's all.
I actually went to one of those. Like I went to a Vikings Bears game.
I think it was. Were you with me? We did a video.
I edited the video. Yeah.
And it was the day that they were doing the mask. They always do that every year.
The mascots play against kids. It's fucking awesome.
Like in person. Because they just fucking kill those kids they kill those kids dude if i was so awesome if i was one of those kids i would just go at the mascot's knees yeah i would be like i'm i'm not leaving this field without two acls yeah i would team up with one of my friends yeah you go right leg i'll go left yeah we're gonna fucking shatter yeah the philly fanatic and take his head off yeah you do that to a mascot're dead.
They actually die right there. Which mascot do you think would be the most satisfying to just light up? Gritty.
Ooh. Ooh, Gritty would be...
Yeah, he'd be sweet. I was going to say, do the Nuggets have a cougar? Like a mountain lion type mascot? He seems like he'd be very soft to bounce off.
Or the sun? The Colts. The Colts mascot.
The Colts one that, like, he does stuff. He jiggles.
Yeah, he jiggles his hips around. Or the Pelicans.
The Chuck E. Cheese rat from Kansas City would be fun.
Yeah. Light up.
Yeah. I always wanted to play on the youth team side.
We should get you signed up next year for the Vikings. How great would that be? I would want to jack up a mascot.
He's got Billy football. He's like, yeah, he's 12 years old.
Yeah. I just got him out there.
We know some people in the Vikings organization. Maybe we can get it done.
You had you out as a ringer and you started fucking lighting up Bloopy. You have to go for Bloopy.
I will take his head off. All right, yeah.
I want you to murder him. I will.
No, literally murder Bloopy. Like, he's like, oh, I'm going to run over some kids.
Boom. Yeah, no, I want you to bring a knife and when you tackle him just fucking stick one right in his side so he bleeds out his stupid mascot.
I would go for Steely McBeam too. That dude's asking for it.
I better wash your head Bloopy. We're coming for your ass.
What game are we on? Oh, Raiders Patriots. No, I think we're on to the Commanders.
No, but Raiders Patriots. So at the end, Hank, like now that you've had some time to process it, would you say this is the worst loss that you've ever suffered? No.
Most embarrassing loss? Yeah. It was shocking.
Worst play of your career as a Patriots fan? I think the Miami one was still, like, that was the end of the season, and I just feel like because it was a better championship contending team,

it felt worse, if that makes sense.

Yeah.

This is just like I was kind of fake getting my hopes up.

We've talked about it all year where it's like I don't think they're going to

make a run in the playoffs.

But, you know, the Jets lose, the Dolphins lose.

You kind of start to gear yourself up.

Like, we win this game. We win out.
We get some momentum in the playoffs but that just died and now the season's just over PFT, quick question the offense is also so bad the only reason they won is because they got the defensive touchdown and that's basically the recipe that's the only way they can win these games the only reason they beat the jets like you knew watching the game that they were not going to offensively score enough points to win the game they needed something else to happen and it did but it's just that's it's not fun to watch pft how far back do you think this is set downfield laterals pretty far pretty far this is that's what i like i thought immediately when this happened very bad day for rugby. Bad day for rugby overall.
Now, it should be a good day because the initial offload from Stevenson to Myers was good. That's exactly what you should be doing.
And he probably could have gotten... Well, I mean, he still could have gotten another seven yards off it or whatever.
But then you just get tackled. But part of my game plan that I'm trying to implement, and I will be vindicated for one day, does not include Myers taking the ball and then throwing it all the way across the field to your quarterback.
That's not part of the game plan whatsoever. And not even close.
I don't think people are giving Jacoby Myers enough flack for how far away he was from actually getting the ball to Mac

Jones.

It was a perfect pass to Chandler Jones.

He wasn't even close.

Mac Jones isn't even in the shot when Chandler Jones catches it.

Also, maybe Bill Belichick is the nicest person ever because I was thinking about it.

We were talking about it earlier how he said that they can't throw it that far.

It would have been the laughingstock of the league if they had done a Hail Mary and Mac Jones hadnones hadn't reached the end zone if it came up straight he might oh my god might have been protecting him oh my god that would have been remember when philip rivers used to come out of the game and jacoby brissett would go in yeah for those exact hail mary plays yeah yeah uh that would have been very embarrassing if he had like come up at the 10 yard line yeah and bounce it in or what you do in that case is you just do you do the short Hail Mary with the toss-back play. A lot of teams do that sometimes.
All right. We can move on from that game.
Got a crazy ending, though. Maybe the most wild ending of the year.
Well, here's another wild game. Bengals, $34.23.
Why are you rolling your eyes, Hank? No reason. Torch pass.
Well, I thought we would maybe bring up, you said the 0.0 for the Bears, and you were right, I guess. The Bucs were up 17-0, and I happened to be sitting near Hank.
And it was old school because I had the Can't Lose Parlay, needed the Bengals. He had the hungry dog, needed the Bucs.

So it was old school tension.

Hank was, when the Bucs were up 17-0, Hank, I think,

Max, you were there too.

He was saying, this team has turned a corner.

This team's going to win some playoff games.

They might go all the way to the Super Bowl.

The Bucs are so good.

Like, this is a totally different team than everyone thought. Comment.
I said it on the show on Friday. I said Tom Brady's going to take that loss.
He's going to use it as bulletin board material. He's going to fire the boys up, get ready for a playoff run.
First half. That was it.
I've never felt more vindicated. Super Bowl runners up.

They dominated them 17-0.

Tom was looking good.

They were driving the ball well.

And then, I mean, I think that was like a world record for turnovers in a quarter.

It was so.

The second half started.

They didn't get the ball.

Like every single possession, they just turned it over on the 30.

It was 17-3.

The second half started.

The Bucs got the ball first.

They went four plays fake punt that got stopped.

Then the Bengals scored a field goal.

They went five plays interception, three plays fumble, three plays fumble,

three plays interception.

That was their five first possessions to start the second half.

And then the Bengals had like a 19-minute drive to end the game.

Yeah, and so it went from 17-3 to 27-17 in the third quarter. The second half Bengals showed up.
They are the most dominant. That defense in the second half is unreal.
I think they've given up like five touchdowns in the second half all year long. It's crazy.
I was a little worried because Hank was just walking around peacocking. Also just want to note, when the Bengals did make that comeback, Hank just scurried over into the Pardon My Take studio and didn't watch the rest of the game.
That's what he does. I was making sure that we were set up.
Sorry. Yeah, but I was like, you know what? Second half Bengals, trust the process.
Second half Bengals, and they did it. They are so fucked.
And also, the Bengals were so bad in the first half, they had 14 plays. 14 plays an entire half.
But that end of the half field goal drive they had where they started clicking, they just rolled that. And once Joe Burrow finds a little bit of rhythm, it's just a totally different game.
I think the Bucs had 13 first downs in the first half, and the Bengals ran 14 plays. 14 plays.
I think that's what the stat was. Another fun stat, teams after they play the 49ers are now 1-12.
Whoa. So if you play the 49ers, you get the shit kicked out of you the next week because the Bucs played them last week.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So the Bengals kept this streak alive.

Also, fun stat, Brady, he is now 89-1 when leading by 17 points in his career.

Yeah.

This would be the one.

Another fun stat, he's 0-1 after following you on Twitter. Well, you told him to do that.
Do you feel guilty about that, Hank? That's true. Yeah.
You're responsible for that. Hank.
Yeah, I was trying to help you. Do you feel a little like I handed you the Bucs disease? Because remember, I had that disease to start the season, and then I hammered them on the Seahawks game and the Rams game and got out.
They're not a good team. I know they'll make the playoffs because they'll probably win the NFC South.
They are not a good football team. Yeah, and I was really trying to talk you off the ledge, and I think I might have got exposed to some secondhand residuals, and then it's kind of seeped into me, and I'm just in a bad place.
Because you know what it is? In so many different ways. They have a bunch of names.
They have a bunch of names that you know because a lot of them are from the Super Bowl. Their defense is not bad, but as a collection, as a football team, they're just not a good team.
Like that first half, the fact the Bengals ran 14 total plays and the Bucs were only leading 17-3 was the biggest red flag ever. Like, a really good football team buries the Bengals in the first half.
And they still, like, you know, even the same thing happens in every Bucs game. They get to, like, the red zone and they can't get touchdowns.
My thinking, and honestly, like, speaking, you know, from the addict's state of mind, because I'm probably going to, I don't know that I'm quitting yet. Oh, no.
The Bucs leaves. No, it's smart.
The Bucs, as bad as they've been playing, that's true, as bad as they've been playing, they have the greatest quarterback of all time and they're in a position to be in the playoffs. And it's like the ultimate – they have players, they have coaching, they have experience.
They have the quarterback. All you got to do is get in the dance and things can happen.
And I know I can just I'm admitting it now that I'm going to fall into that trap again in the playoffs. They make no bad.
Well, they're a bad football. Hank, if they play against the Cowboys, then yes, bet on the box.
They're they're bad. They're going to beat the Cowboys in the playoffs.
What about the Vikings? Well, that would be like probably second round. So, see, he's doing it again.
He literally is just doubling down on his 17-0 Bucs speech that he was saying to everyone in the office, like they're going to the NFC Championship. I think you said Eagles earlier.
You said going into the lane to beat the Eagles. You did? Hank.
I could could see it happening they're a very bad football team they're not a good football team hank max put the camera on yourself when you're talking they're six and eight they play in the nfc south they should have run away with this division they're bad they're very they're very bad in a lot of different ways and they're they're a prime example of a team that just kind of got old. They've got a lot of the core same players.
They obviously lost some guys on the offensive line. Their offensive line is a disaster.
Offensive line is decimated. But they just kind of aged.
They aged poorly. Yeah.
These takes have aged poorly. Hank, they're a bad football team.
Just say it. Say it with me.
They're a bad football team. Okay, thank you.
But they're probably going to beat the Cowboys in the first round of the playoffs. But they're a bad football team.
Just think about it. They're a really bad football team.
Think about it. That would be perfect because Brady's never lost to the Cowboys, and it would be the perfect Mike McCarthy giant collapse.
Yeah. Probably going to be hot in Tampa Bay, muggy.
He's going to be sweating up a storm. He's just going to be like a big, moist thumb coaching on the sidelines and his brain melting out of his ear like candle wax.
And as for the Bengals, I think that speech that we talked about when they were sitting after the Browns loss, when it was like they were 4-4, 5-4 after the Panthers win and were like, look what's coming up their exact same spot as they were last year they got the Chiefs they started oh and two this season and they're 10 and four now they're playing awesome football and like guys are getting healthy I know they've had a couple injuries on the defensive line uh but they're off like T Higgins was playing today I they're a very very good for T Higgins might have let himself into the game for an extended period of time this week they're just a really good football team and their defense is nasty in their second half like they also have and it's probably a lot because of joe burrow but also the second half defense they like having a team that feels like they are never out of it no matter what is is a like a superpower you know what i mean like down 17-3 i guarantee you that locker room was not panicked whatsoever they're like all right let's get a stop and then we'll score a touchdown then we'll be back in this game because what what joe burrow does is he says i'm convinced he gets in the huddle and he goes hey jamar you know that play that we ran at lsu that they made that stitch up of where we ran it again in the nfl and it looks crazy and wild let's do that exact same play again yeah hey Jamar just run run down the sideline and I'll throw the ball and then when you turn around it'll be right on your back shoulder yeah it'll be on your back shoulder and then you're stronger than the guy who's guarding you so just shrug him off and then it'll be a 50 yard touch and then and then I'll come meet you in the end zone and we'll do the same dance that we did in Baton Rouge when we beat Mississippi State oh Oh, and then our defense because it's now the second half and for some reason

they're just a different team in the second half.

They'll just stop them every time. And also

again, huge credit to

whoever's running strength and conditioning on the

Bengals because they're just in better shape

sometimes than their opponents in the second half.

Yes. Hank, the Bucs are a bad

team.

Yeah, they're a bad team. You're like Stephen Chay.

Stephen Chay was like, yeah, they're a bad team right now. Right now is the rest of this season.
You think they're going to the NFC Championship game. Wouldn't shock me.
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Commanders 12. PFT? The NFL is rigged.
I'm boycotting the NFL. I'm in solidarity with Hank because Hank, I saw what you went through.
Left hand up. I saw what you went through today.
Clear as day. The NFL is a rigged league.
That's why they classify it as entertainment and not as a sport, so they can fake all of it. There's a script.
If you don't know that there's a script to all these games and that the NFL is out to screw over owners that he doesn't like, like the Patriots, like Mr. Kraft, like Mr.
Snyder in D.C., who has allegedly leaked many pictures and emails and embarrassing things and had several alleged private investigators follow the commission around as if that's even a crime. It's rigged.
The last two plays of the game, Terry McLaurin got called for illegal formation. He was asking the fucking line judge.
He's like, I'm on the line, right? His job as that wide receiver was to be lined up on the line of scrimmage. The ref told him, move up a little bit.
So he moved up, gave him a thumbs up. The ref gives him a thumbs up and then throws the fucking flag in his face.
It's entrapment. It's exactly entrapment.

They take the touchdown off the board, very next play,

or two plays later, excuse me,

they throw to Jahan Dots in the end zone,

and he's got a defender that's draped on him,

actively not letting him put his left hand up to catch the ball,

pulling him back by his left arm.

Facts. No flag.
The NFL's riggedged i'm boycotting the nfl until monday night until the monday night football game fair and i i'm sorry i've just come to this point i love football and i've never thought that i was going to be a guy that's like oh well i'm i'm out i'm out on the nfl i'm out on the nfl for the next 17 hours.

Fair.

Done.

I'm done with this league.

The best part about this game, the Giants are now in a great spot to make the playoffs.

It was crazy looking at the playoff percentage off of this game.

It was insane.

But Brian Dable, at halftime, the reporter on the sideline was like, talk to Coach Dable. He said it was a great first half, up 14-3.
Going to have to hold on and have a few breaks go our way. And he literally just said the game plan.
The Giants game plan every game is just hope that a couple balls bounce our way. And it did.
Taylor Heineke fumbled on the five-yard line. Everything you just referenced happened for them.
They just held on and breaks went their way. Credit to Thibodeau.
He played out of his mind today. He got that sack fumble, which was a great play.
That was incredible, watching the replay of that. It's amazing.
He hits Heineke, spins around in midair, lands, and in one seamless motion gets the football, palms it, and runs in the end zone. He zone he's a freak the dude is an awesome football player he might be the best player that doesn't love football yeah yeah and here's a dirty secret you don't have to love football i know that was such a that was character season yeah that that knocked him down to like oh man does he not he doesn't like football he's got other interests no not want to draft him.
Well, that might have been the red flag. Well, either that or if he takes his contract in crypto, then he's probably going to play way harder for the second contract because he'll be broke.
True. Facts.
Facts. But, yeah, that game sucked for you.
It did suck for me. And the Giants, listen, that drive that they had at the end of the game where Saquon just would hand the ball to him, and he'd break off 11-yard run after 11-yard run.
There was nothing that we could do to stop it. That was impressive.
It was. So the Giants are good at what they do.
I still think that it was bullshit. It was rigged.
Taylor Heineke said after the game that the referee gave the thumbs up to Terry. What the fuck is that? And then Terry confirms that the ref okayed his alignment before the snap.
That's insane. I pride myself on paying attention to details.
So I tend to believe Terry McLaurin in all this. That's insane.
It's stupid. It's dumb.
But you know what? We're still in the playoffs right now. Yeah, you're 17.
We're still in the playoffs. And I was looking at next week.
So next week we have to play against the 49ers.

That smells like a shit-kicking to me.

Oh, yeah, that's going to be bad. It smells like we might – let's just start Carson Wentz next week.

Yeah, at 49ers.

Let's roll Carson Wentz out there and just let him get destroyed.

Let him get thrown around like a ragdoll in a hurricane.

And then after that, then we bring Taylor back in.

We beat the Browns, and we should be in the playoffs as long as we take care of business against the Cowboys. Oh, I have a question.
Yeah. Yeah, that's not good.
That's not good. I don't understand how math works.
This pissed me off. I don't know how numbers work because going in this game, we were at like 80% to make the playoffs.
The Giants were at 76% or whatever to make the playoffs. Now they won.
They're at 85% and we're down at like 36%. How does that happen? You know the machine's back.
Yeah. Oh, I know.
Yeah. Jake.
Yeah. Come on.
Come on, Jake. I know.
You checked like two weeks ago. It wasn't back.
Yeah. I've been on the machine.
I've been on the machine. Yeah.
No, I don't understand it either because you guys, you beat, well, no, you haven't played played the seahawks right so but you're a game ahead of them in the loss column and the lions as well so how does that make sense i don't know you lost the lions that's gonna hurt you they're a good team that's gonna hurt you know what that's what it is that's what it is the lions if the lions this is all shaping up schedule as you or same record as you they get in and. And I will fall on my sword for the Lions.
I will do that out of love. It's like the end of Tale of Two Cities.
I'm willing to send myself to the guillotine if it means that the Lions can advance. I'm not going to like doing it, but just make sure that the ages know my name.
The worst part about this game was the Taylor Heineke had his, like, I'm going to die for the moment he wasn't able to do it oh when he started scrambling i stood up and i yelled pylon here comes pylon heineke and then dotson just decided to make a business decision and not block cave on thibodeau yeah that was a prime time heineke pylon moment oh it was gonna be great it was gonna be great i have a question yeah why do n officials not have to do a press conference postgame? Because it's rigged. They talk to the pool reporters.
One pool reporter. Yeah, it's rigged.
There should be just as much openness between the media and the officials, like the players and coaches have. Actually, Belichick was asked about the touchdown, and he just responded.
He's like, is there a pool reporter here? And he's like, he just

pointed at him.

It's like, ask them.

Ask them.

I don't understand why

they don't have to,

especially in a game

like this.

I agree.

Where does one go to

find the pool report

for these games, Jake?

I want to hear their

explanation.

This feels like NFL is

going to release a

statement being like,

we fucked up.

Yeah, they're going to

say like, sorry,

sorry, Coach Rivera, that we should have called pass interference on the last play they're not going to say anything about the terry mclaurin penalty because they're going to say in the line judges in his opinion mclaurin was a half yard off the line right that's why i threw the flag even though mclaurin checked in with him confusing but terry mccauley the rules analyst yeah listening to him earlier he's like it's ticky-tack. It's the Irish.
We don't really call that, but. Yeah, it's a big Irish conspiracy.
It's fucked up. It's fucked up.
I feel bad. It's fucked up.
It's okay. It's all right.
Listen, I'm a realist when it comes to the Washington Commanders. I don't think that we're a good football team.
I think we're an above-average football team that can be feisty and fun at times, and I think that Taylor Heineke is fun to root for. And I think he's a good quarterback.
He's the best quarterback that we've had, winning percentage-wise, since Brad Johnson in 1999. Here's a spin zone for you, too.
Right now you're in the seventh seed. The Giants are in the sixth seed.
If the playoffs started today, I'd so much rather play the Vikings and the Niners. The Giants will get fucking, they'll get the shit pushed in by the 49ers.
They'll get pumped by the 49ers. So I said right at the start of the Vikings game on Saturday, I said, I really want the commanders against the Vikings in the playoffs.
But again, that would, I would almost rather just get the shit kicked out of me by the 49ers in the playoffs than to have Kirk Cousins do some magical Vikings bullshit and come back and beat me. Because people would be very, very, very mean to you.
Very mean to me. Don't be mean to me.
The NFL's been mean enough to me today already as it stands. That's a fact.
Okay. Should we do football guys? Let's do football guys.
The Mike Leach football guy of the Year Award. This one's the weekly.
I think we're saving the renamed award for the end of the year. The end of the year.
So this week's winner was Baker Mayfield for headbutting again. Even though we had our speculations about whether there was padding underneath his headband, he ended up winning by a very astounding margin.
He had 70% of the boat. Usually this is much closer.
I thought Cody Mosh would definitely pick up some steam, and he only got 17%. So now for this week's nominees.
So before the Jets game, there was a Lions fan in a Penny Sewell jersey doing pass protection sets with his wife in the parking lot. Awesome.
That guy rocked. He had pretty good technique too.
It's actually really funny. You always see ex-offensive linemen either in the gym or somewhere and they're just doing their pass sets.
It's like a cool martial art that only they know. That's my favorite part.
They do the little shuffle. Yeah, they shuffle backwards like no no no disrespect to his wife she could have used uh some better technique when it comes to her set yeah like she she was not being aggressive enough and he kind of was giving the inside move yeah no it was why she should have swam back up she didn't have active hands right and she was just kind of like going away from contact trying to get around him.
His base was too wide. You've got to cut inside.
You've got to swim. You've got to swat the hands to the outside.
Our second nominee is Mike White. Mike White, tons of questions about whether he was going to be able to play this week.
He was talking about last game. He said that in his mind he was never not going back in the game.
Said they would have had to him off the turf he also said that he was even asking if he needs the jets doctors opinions to play like why do you why do you tell me if i can play or not yeah just warrior absolute warrior mentality and then our third nominee is mark ivy the louisville d-line coach who was getting into fights with the whole defensive line group before the game uh they were carrying him around and carrying him away to the locker room and he was just going out with this guy's very funny video because at one point it's like uh i think it's in uh is it wizard of oz where all the little munchkins just grab the person like yeah yeah it was very just getting after it with his guys, getting hyped for the game. And our last Football Guy of the Week nominee is the Browns fan that's gone viral for just hanging in there.
Turns out this guy, he's a season ticket holder of sorts. What happened? He's been up to these shenanigans for a long time.
He's the guy who turned around earlier. He's the wobbly guy.
In the Peyton Hillis jersey. Yeah.
Total football guy. He totally, he has a, there's videos of him from past years where he took his shirt off and he has a know my pain tattoo just huge over his stomach.
This guy is wild. I love him.
I love him. He is the Browns.
This is how he ended up at the end of the game. He ended up outside the stadium.
What a beast. What a fan.
Through thick and thin. Just always going after it.
I had a bonus football guy of the week. It was from after the World Cup.
There was an Argentinian announcer.

I think Hank liked this, but he just this is the radio call. Oh, yeah.
This is the best. Yeah, let me this is Argentina winning the World Cup in a very here we go.
Manon Kiel!

Manon Kiel! Oh, I love this.

Starts tearing up.

This guy rules.

Yeah. Oh, this guy rules.
That's Andres Cantor, right? Yeah. He's like the legendary announcer.
There was also another guy, the first call, the Di Maria goal. I'm trying to pull it up right now because that call was, oh, I think they deleted it.

I tweeted it out, but Big FIFA took it down.

Oh, damn.

But he's, like, going fast.

He's, like, rapping it as he does.

Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go.

All right.

Good job, Billy.

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Okay, who's back

of the week? Wrapping it up. Hank.
My who's back of the week wrapping it up hank uh my who's back of the week is the sings okay vj and quos sing this past weekend was the pnc championship for the pj tour it was a father-son event yeah i i hate quos that's that's rudy's the champion um You had the Dailies playing

It came out Charlie Woods and Tiger were playing

That's what I'm saying Charlie's my guy

I think Charlie's going to be better than Tiger

So it came

There was a picture on Friday of Charlie Woods

And on his bag he had the

Part of my take

Three wood head cover

We've always been Charlie Woods guys

Yeah that's what I'm saying

I didn't even know that

I've been a Charlie Woods supporter

Had no idea that he was a part of my take fans

Thank you. Wood head cover.
We've always been Charlie Woods guys. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
I didn't even know that. I've been a Charlie Woods supporter.
Had no idea that he was a part of my Take fans. So you can imagine my surprise.
Dan Rappaport, who works for 4.0, used to cover Golf for Golf. He's a real big J.
He said he had inside info that said Charlie and his friends were big fans, which is obviously pretty crazy and just a funny fact. it's funny because we've always said charlie woods will probably be better than tiger it's ironic yeah like it's weird that he would it's just a big coincidence is all and i wanted we're just huge charlie woods guys like we're when we think about like the best golfers charlie woods next up charlie woods is great and i think that even tiger would like, he's got...
Charlie's got more natural ability than Tiger ever had in his life. Also, shout out that loser who replied being like, matches up with, like, 13-year-olds love this show.
Shut up, dude. Our dads listen.
Yeah, it's funny, like... That's why I don't curse.
Oh, for the 13-year-olds? Yeah. For the little...
Hey, Charlie. All the little fuckers out there? Say fuck all the time.
Dude, just be a fucking badass like us. Well, my point was going to be more like...
Charlie, next time you go out to eat with your dad, be like, hey, dad, how much tip do you like to leave the waitresses? Yeah. Charlie, we got your back, bro.
We got your back. You're the fucking man.
And don't fucking forget it. You fucking G.
I actually... for for charlie i would yeah if he has any enemies if it was blooper i'd murder if he's got any enemies out there like let us know we will go to war for charlie anyone talk shit about you charlie you let us know we'll fuck him up you know what those weirdos that replied to like all the all the pictures and videos of charlie playing golf and they have like the still uh shots-by-year Charlie's backswing, and they're analyzing it, those guys should be looked at by the FBI and sent to jail.
Because you know what? They're putting too much pressure on a kid who most likely is going to win, I don't know, 15 to 20 championships. Yeah.
Majors. We don't want to like...
We're talking majors and that that doesn't just have to be in golf.

It could probably be any sport.

He could do any sport he wants.

Tennis. He could go to NASA if he wanted to.

He's that smart.

Shout out Charlie.

I love Charlie Woods.

That was pretty cool to see that.

Well, I was going to say it was great.

We love Charlie Woods.

No, he's like he's my man.

Yeah, he's my he's my boy.

My homie.

He's my boy. He's a big homie.
When'm like, the boys are coming over To drink some Nope To drink some iced tea Yeah Charlie Woods always invited Like playing some video games Yep We should squad up Get on Call of Duty Oh, we should definitely play some Call of Duty with Charlie Woods Let's link up Charlie, hit us up Yeah, hit us up We'll hop on Twitch, whatever Keep it cool Brownie James, younie James, you're not invited. Go ahead, Hank.
But anyways, you were talking about like Quas Sing or whatever? Yeah, we that was just random that that came up. I was just going to say that you guys are going way too fast.
We're going to record an episode. A part of my take is going to be me, Big Cat, and Charlie down in the basement.
Like, is the Fortnite overrated me? Hit us up. Hit us up, Charlie.
Hit us up. Hit us up on the DL.
Listen, go see a movie or something. We can go check out Avatar, whatevs.
Just hit the mall. Yeah.
Yeah, we can go to the mall. Hot topic.
Play some video games. Do our homework.
We'd help you with your homework. Yeah.
Imagine how hard a 13-year-old's homework would be for us. I don't understand how dads are expected to help their kids with, like, algebra 2.
Dude, the day that my kids ask me a fucking math problem past, like, age 8, I'm going to be like, not me. I'm not that guy.
I'm not that guy, pal that said i don't i got shit for brains charlie if you have you got any problems just let us know we'll take care of it yeah just like yeah you know what's cool about charlie woods he's got three dads tiger pft big cat two big cats looking over him that's wild at all times what are you saying that's it, that's it? Are you a Charlie Woods guy to anchor?

Do you hate him?

I was trying to say something, but I couldn't really get anything out there.

What were you going to say?

What were you going to say?

Go off.

I was just going to say that.

Are you okay?

No, I just, yeah.

He's trying to catch us.

He's trying to induce us to jump off sides.

We're not going to do anything.

I was just going to say.

Charlie, I like candy, too.

We can eat any candy you want.

I'm done.

Twizzlers.

Snickers.

Reese's Pieces I've been on recently.

Yeah, for like 20 years.

That's it.

Oh!

Charlie, how did the hungry dog do today?

It lost.

I should actually start taking the hungry dog, because then I'd lose weight because I'd be starving. You like that, Billy? Okay, what were you going to say, Hanks? We're done.
I'm done. I'm done.
I'm done. That was my who's back.
That was your who's back? Who? Oh, my other who's back was the World Cup. No, shut up, you fucker.
Yeah. It's my who's back.
No, the World Cup's back. That's my who's back.
Hank's right. Don't take that.
All right, Pifty. I got a couple who's back.
I was going to say the World Cup is back. It is.
But my other who's back is Avatar. Avatar's back.
Me and Hank went to go see Avatar on Thursday. Nothing like a good debut.
I think it was like the first time the movie was being shown in New York City. It's a little bit extra.
It was a little bit, but Jeff D. Lowe.
Corporate Hank might have moved a meeting. He was like, hey, can we move this meeting? I was like, yeah, no problem.
What do you got? He's like, I'm going to see Avatar. Yeah, Jeff D.
Lowe got these tickets. And Jeff, when he goes to the movies, he stuffs all the corners of the cushions of the seats with napkins.kins i don't know why he's got his like little weird things that he's into but this movie kicks ass he has a pre-ordered snacks which i've never seen before it was it was it was it was a experience i would highly recommend seeing this movie while high i did not see it while high because i had to come back to work but i could imagine hank did hank saw it very high we got out of the movie and i thought hank was crying because it was so good no i mean thursday here's how red his eyes were we got back to we got back to the office and he goes uh i'm actually gonna run into duane reed and get some eye drops yeah i went i went in the bathroom and looked at the mirror i was like oh my god thursday it's thursday at four o'clock the whole entire internet was shitting down my throat and hank just strolled back in high after seeing Avatar.
He's like, what's up? He's like, okay, cool. It was a good movie, though.
If you like water, I highly recommend this one. It's for the water boys.
Yeah, if you're a water boy like me, you're going to love it. I'm ready for the spoilers to come out so I can kind of roast it.
What were you going to say, Billy? You were high when we were lifting? I didn't want to. I was chilling, and then Billy was like, you want to lift? And I was like, you got to say yes.
Yeah, you're like Kevin Spacey in American Beauty. If you're trying to lift, you got to fucking...
You can't say no to a lift sesh with the bros. No, you can't.
But I really wanted to. Billy tried to kiss him like the military guy from American Beauty.
Yeah. What? It's a good movie you should see.
There's also edibles. When I take edibles, my eyes just get like blooded.
They get cut. They're very cut.
Yeah. It's a great movie, though.
Blooded. It's like if you liked Avatar 1 but wished it was like 70% more like Titanic, then you like Avatar 2.
Nice. I'm not going to give it the cosign.
Okay. Yeah.
It's fine. Okay.
It's fine. Hank was being a major buzzkill about the whole operation.
All right. My who's back.
I had another who's back. Okay.
Go ahead. The World Cup.
All right. My real other who's back is Bo Nix.
Yeah. Bo Nix is back, returning to college football.
This is the year. For another season.
Heisman campaign back on for Bo Nix. He's a dark horse.
Keep coming back, Bo. Year after year after year.
You are a college football player. I saw a guy on Oregon who has...
He just got granted two more years of eligibility. And he has...
So he's going to be in college football for nine years. Yeah, that rocks.
So awesome. He's the Van Wilder.
So awesome. He's the...
Yeah, the Burt Kreischer of college football. Max Duggan declared for the draft.
Yeah, he did. He did.
So shout out Max. He gets drafted somewhere nice.
He's not going to the transfer portal. That's first reported on part of my take.
Nope. All right, my who's back is the World Cup.
That game was awesome. Messi is the GOAT.
Hank looks like a fool. I mean, Ronaldo, I mean, there's nothing left.
Messi has literally won it all. Yeah.
What? No, you're right. That game was fucking incredible.
Like, I don't know. You can't ask for a better Sunday where we just had, like, the most compelling soccer game ever to lead us into NFL Sunday.
The fact that it was, that France came back from down 2-0, then Argentina scored an extra time, then France scored peak. I know people don't like PKs.
I think it's awesome. It's electrifying.
It's so compelling. It's not necessarily the most fair way.
It doesn't mean that that team's better necessarily at soccer, but you've got to end it somehow, and it's awesome to watch. It's like the most high stakes ever.
I'm always in the mindset that the goalie, there's not that much pressure on the goalie. There's more pressure on the person shooting because if a goalie saves it, that's bonus.
yeah but you you have to make your pks if you're the guy that's stepping up to take him france goalie got absolutely like completely embarrassed that messy pk mentally dominated where he just slowly rolled it in but i was disrespectful it was it was awesome i'm happy for messi i he's always been my goat uh and this was literally the last thing he had to win. He's won everything that he could win, and it's cool that he was able to.
It's cool to watch a game and know you're watching an all-time, all-time great cement his legacy forever. Maybe the best World Cup final of all time.
It was that good of a game. And Messi, if you just look at what happened this World Cup, Messi dominant, scored what, seven goals? He scored a goal in every knockout stage.
Ronaldo got so pissy that he got fired from his club team and then benched on his national team and then pissed his pants and went home. And now he's playing for Saudi Arabia.
So I'd say it's been a pretty clear vindication of the Messi over Ronaldo people. It's been incredible.
In the last month. Like as bad as it could get maybe for Ronaldo, Stan.
And as good as it could get for Messi. Yeah, and Messi was obviously awesome today.
Di Maria was really good. Argentina, great color scheme.
Shout out the country of Argentina and Buenos Aires. Because they doing the drone flyovers.
I think it's the Philadelphia of South America because there are people climbing up light poles and Buenos Aires celebrating next to that obelisk that they have there. It just looked like the best place to be.
I love watching giant group celebrations and group viewings of important soccer games. It's the best.
It is, yeah. I'm going to miss the World Cup.
Yeah. This game was so good that when the NFL game started today, it was like a little bit of a letdown.
Yeah, it was. I was like, the stakes don't feel as high right now.
It also was, there was a moment that was a little bit of a bummer because it oftentimes happens when I'm watching the Bears play football. And then I like watch like the Chiefs play football like, could you ever imagine the U.S.
in this game? Nope. Yeah.
Like, they're so good. They're so much better than the U.S.
Mbappe is so fucking good. Like, the fact that he brought France back basically single-handedly, like, he's insane.
And yeah, I'm just happy for Messi. Yeah.
He deserved it. He's won everything.
He won a Copa. He's won, what, four Champions Leagues.
He's won everything. World Cup.
It's all over. He's the GOAT.
Also, no argument left. There can be no debate.
No debate. Great refereeing job today.
Yeah. We got to give credit to the boys in blue.
I don't know what color the refs wear. What did that guy wear today? The bald guy that was jacked up? I think he was wearing orange.
Orange, yeah. He was wearing orange.
He was actually a Steve Kahn body double as well. He was.
There were like a million things that you could try to complain about during that game, but I think the refs got most of the stuff right. Yeah.
There's some borderline calls here and there. I don't like – my take is I'm starting to think that penalties are...

It's like a cheat code.

If you can just get to, like, the corner of the box and fall down.

Yeah, and have someone just kick you a little bit.

Yeah, they should be worth half a goal.

And that penalty with the handball?

Yeah.

Oh, my God.

Penalties should be worth half a goal.

Yeah.

Or if the goalie stops it, they should get a goal.

Yeah, I like that.

That would be cool.

All right, Billy. My who's back is Harambe.
Oh. Not a good way.
What? A zombie? But a zoo in Sweden had a bunch of chimpanzees escape, and they shot all of them. Oh.
I don't know if I'm really kidding. I don't know what I'm what foreign soil versus u.s soil that's different

different different different circumstances i can't cry the same way were there were there

any children around them no they just escaped but that's so fucked because like not their fault

and you know what the their excuse was they didn't have any tranquilizer yeah oh fuck you and the

worst thing is uh one of the chimps was an artist that's paintings was actually uh their

Thank you. tranquilizer yeah oh fuck you and the worst thing is uh one of the chimps was an artist that's paintings was actually uh their favorite like they they have a royal family in sweden

and the crown princess dude has paintings from one of these chimps on the walls that's fucked up

yeah i take the side of the animal what no if you had started that sense off with like uh

the beloved chimpanzees you didn't seem like they had, like, were these famous chimpanzees? You need names. Yeah.
Give me a name. Give me a name so I can grieve.
If they were nationally famous chimpanzees, then that's a tragedy. I think they're famous there.
Okay. One of the guys was Ryan.
Ryan the Chimp. He got shot.
Probably Lars.

Yeah, Lars.

Santano.

Santano.

Santano.

Is the artist.

Yeah.

Who else was an artist?

Yeah.

Might have done the world a favor.

That's true.

All right, Jake.

Finish us off.

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Yep. Also needed on the record, my flex of the year for week 17 will be Dolphins Patriots.
Jake

how many flexes of the years have you had so far?

You think that's going to be Pronton?

I mean right now

it's Rams Chargers.

I would have to look at the

schedule. Week 17 was pretty weak.

I'm going to take a look at week 17 right now Jake because that

does sound like a week schedule.

I could see it being Steelers Ravens

just for the

Vikings Packers if the Packers win a couple games. That looks like a CBS locked game for 25.
Yeah, no, this is a bad week. We got Bills-Bengals Monday night that week.
But this is a terrible week of football. What do you guys think of the pick now? Yeah, I don't hate it.
I don't hate it. I do not hate it.
Maybe Panthers-Bucks if it breaks that way. Will will they actually do that? I don't know.
Maybe they put Mahomes in there. They can't keep Rams-Targers, right? No.
Probably not. They could just smash the Cowboys button.
Yeah. No, they can't.
They play Thursday night. Okay.
So they can't. No Cowboys button to be smashed.
So, yeah, this is a tough picking, but that's my pick.

The offense Patriots.

Yeah, 17 just dropped.

Shut up.

Are you serious?

Yeah.

We lost 17.

Hank's going to think that was rigged.

Rigged.

Wow.

It literally just fell out.

Rigged.

It fell out.

Everyone wants to fall out.

Billy confirmed that it fell out as I was opening it.

Can confirm it fell out.

Oh, man.

Now Hank's going to be like, oh, this is all rigged.

Let's finish up.

Oh, no.

They just sent us the thumbnail that we're using for tomorrow's show.

Yeah.

And it's Hank, and he's crying.

Oh, no.

And he's crying.

Well, you know what?

I'm going to say something I've never said.

I'm rooting for Hank to get the ping pong ball right now.

He's gone through enough today.

Patriots lost.

The Hungry Dog lost.

But that's kind of just every Sunday.

He went on his Bucs speech when they were up 17-0.

I'm rooting for Henry Lockwood to get the ping pong ball today.

Right now. He'll get it.
Have you ever gotten it, Hank? Nope. Oh, shit.
I didn't realize that. Okay.
Numbers. 29.
29 for me. Sebastian has 82.
Shout out to Maggie. Hey.
What's up? PFT? I'm going to go 17. 20.
Hank, can you give me a number, please?

No.

Please.

No.

Please.

No.

Hank, are you using your ball picks to flirt with listeners?

What was the... No, I just...

You just said sup and you're like butta.

No, no, no.

Was I the only one that heard that?

Maggie is her name.

Another person whose name is like butta.

Also, that's a 29.

What was the hungry dog have paid out today?

540.

All right.

So I'll go 54.

Yin and the Yang, 69.

Nice, Billy.

Real nice.

Hank, rooting for you, 29.

Let's do it.

Thanks.

Come on.

Come on, Hank. But one time I'm rooting for you.
29. Let's do it.
Thanks. Come on.
Come on, Hank.

The one time I'm rooting for you.

Oh, I just saw 29.

100. 100?

Oh, shit. I always forget that 100's even in there.

I know. Three digits.
I don't think any of us have

ever picked 100. I might start.

You really do suck at this thing.

You weren't even close. I was rooting for you.
Did you pick 100? No, he picked 29. So far away.
Is zero in there? No. One through 100, but it doesn't matter, Hank.
I mean, I was rooting for you, dude. Interesting that that happened immediately after, you know, that suspicious activity right before, almost like you were making up for something.
You can watch 17 fall out.

I'll be reviewing the tape.

Okay, you review those tapes.

I'm thinking that we should bring it.

Let's get cash.

I want to have cash on the table.

For the last couple shows?

It feels like the stakes are higher when you can see the dollar bills.

You bring cash, too.

I mean, this is the penultimate week.

Yeah.

It is.

Yep.

You're never getting it.

Billy's going to be terrified to come to the studio.

Can we not get the cash? Because then it's like, is someone going to take the cash? And they're like, is cash okay? Well, you know who's not going to take the cash? Hank, because he's not going to get it right. I know, but then it's...
Then everyone knows... Then everyone knows...
Hank, guess what? I wasn't rooting for you. I love you guys.
I wasn't rooting for you. Then everyone knows there's cash in the room.
Love you guys.

Bucks diseases are usually spread by ticks

caused by large predators

being pushed out of environments

causing the deer population to explode. I want to say I'm saying anyway Today is on my plate to find you

Shine away

I've been coming for your lover

I've been coming for your lover

Day on me

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Thank you.