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Speaker 1 On today's part of my take, we have Brian Baldinger Baldy. I don't know how it took us this long in this podcast history to have Baldy on the show, but we finally righted that wrong.

Speaker 3 Great interview with him talking about his career and also the NFL week 15, what he sees coming up, who's jumping off the film we also have week 15 picks and preview it's getting close in the race for bowling and hot dogs fire fest of the week and a great friday show sending you into the weekend all protein bars generally taste the same but not one bars one made protein bars are actually delicious with reese's and hershey's only one reese's peanut butter lover's protein bar is made with reese's peanut butter and only one hershey's cookies and cream protein bars is is made with Hershey's cookie bits while delivering 18 grams of protein and 3 grams of sugar.

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Speaker 1 Welcome to part of my take presented by Chevy go check out the new Silverado right now chevy.com today is Friday December 16th and the San Francisco 49ers are really fucking good

Speaker 4 Purdy Brock is in the house tonight.

Speaker 4 We observe and have a good time Brock Purdy looked awesome tonight, and it's impossible to tell because

Speaker 1 I've been falling in love with Brock Purdy the last time. Oh, how can you not?

Speaker 4 But it's impossible to tell how much is Brock Purdy being really good and how much is just Kyle Shanahan's system being maybe the most quarterback-friendly system of all time.

Speaker 1 We were saying when we were watching the game, I don't think there's a better situation that a Mr.

Speaker 1 Irrelevant, low-drafted quarterback could ever walk into than not only Kyle Shanahan, but this specific specific 49ers team that just has so much talent everywhere. Like, their defense is great.

Speaker 1 Their running game is great.

Speaker 4 He's not really getting hit that much.

Speaker 1 Not getting hit. George Kittle.
Oh, yeah. Remember him? Two touchdowns.
He's a fucking monster. Like, everything seems to be clicking for them.

Speaker 1 They don't even have Debo right now who will be back for the playoffs. Like, they're just a really good team.
They just clinched the NFC West. They're in the playoffs.
I don't.

Speaker 1 They're like, I mean, we'll see what happens with the Cowboys and Eagles and Vikings, but they could get all the way up to probably the two-seed.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I mean, if you're a Seahawks fan and you're watching this, you're probably upset because you got your doors kicked in tonight, but also be happy because you could always just remember whenever you're feeling blue, you don't have Russell Wilson.

Speaker 4 You don't have Russell Wilson. He won that trade.

Speaker 1 And this is,

Speaker 1 I know that

Speaker 1 I very much know that the Seahawks do have the tiebreaker over the Lions because I fucked that up the other day and I was corrected very many times, which I need to know ball better.

Speaker 1 But the Seahawks have a tough road ahead because seven and seven now,

Speaker 1 they're now two games back in the loss column to the Commanders and the Giants. It feels like

Speaker 1 they've lost four out of five and the one win was that Geno comeback win against the Rams to score late. It feels like the air's coming out of the balloon a little bit.

Speaker 1 They're one of those teams that...

Speaker 1 We had them circled where it's like, yeah, is this real?

Speaker 1 I don't know. I want it to be real.
I want them to go to the playoffs, but it feels like they're just running out of gas in terms of talent. Their defense getting gashed.

Speaker 1 Last week, the Panthers had 240 yards. Tonight, the Niners ran for five yards of carry.

Speaker 1 It feels like it's getting to the end here

Speaker 1 where the fact they don't have a ton of top-end talent is hurting them.

Speaker 4 Gino is slowly writing back to us. Yeah.

Speaker 4 He's addressed the envelope. It hasn't been put in the mail officially yet.
He's got some talent. DK looked good at times tonight.
He looks like he's good.

Speaker 4 Every time he catches the ball, he looks like he's about to square up with the cornerback after he gets tackled. He looks like he's ready to fight.
I like the chippiness out of him.

Speaker 4 Walker didn't play that well. The offensive line had some real issues.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and the defensive line get injuries.

Speaker 4 So with those jerseys, people are like, those are candy ass. Now, I like those jerseys on the Seahawks.

Speaker 1 I hope you're saying what I'm going to think, thinking.

Speaker 4 But you cannot stop the run if you're wearing those jerseys.

Speaker 1 Well, and you also have to go full lime green. Yeah, okay, yeah.

Speaker 1 Yes, you got to. Like, I don't like the, like, commit to one color.
That's Thursday night football, baby.

Speaker 4 And even if you do commit to it, I still think that you're going to get gashed on the ground if you're wearing those jerseys.

Speaker 4 You might, like, if you go full lime green, you're going to be able to pin your ears back and get a few sacks on the board.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 4 Maybe ball hawk a few interceptions. But it does, it seems like those are jerseys that'll just get run on.
And the Seahawks,

Speaker 1 unfortunately, their next game is at Kansas City.

Speaker 4 It's tough. It's tough.
I mean, this is a big game. It's a big game for my Lions.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 It's good for them that.

Speaker 4 They don't have the tiebreaker, though.

Speaker 1 They don't have the tiebreaker, but that's fine.

Speaker 4 That's fine in this case. Here's a couple of Brock Purdy stats.
You ready? Brock Purdy is the second quarterback in NFL history with 115-plus passer rating in each of his first two career starts.

Speaker 4 You know who the other is?

Speaker 1 First two career starts? Yep.

Speaker 1 115 passer rating?

Speaker 1 Oof. No, Hank.
Taylor Heineke. No.

Speaker 4 Patrick Mahomes? Nope.

Speaker 1 Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 4 Oh, we got another, we got a little Aaron Rodgers on our hands.

Speaker 1 Wow,

Speaker 1 scurrying around right there.

Speaker 4 Yeah, people are saying, like, his ceiling is actually higher than Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 1 And he's playing as long as he's oblique.

Speaker 4 Yeah, as long as he stays away from the drugs. So this is another fun stat.
This is more of just a press release from Adam Schefter.

Speaker 4 What makes Brock Purdy's performance that much more impressive is that he was far from 100% with his rib and oblique injuries. One team official wondered if Purdy would make it through tonight's game.

Speaker 4 That's a little dramatic. Does he mean like alive?

Speaker 1 That's interesting interesting because I would imagine that Schefter doesn't have Brock Purdy's agents' number. No, but he definitely like see this.

Speaker 4 Schefter's not a high-powered agent. He's got to feed like both sides of the fence.

Speaker 4 He's got to feed the agents, and he's also got to feed the John Lynches of the world to give him those scoops on that other side. Another source in the front office texted, he's in pain.
Ooh. Pain.

Speaker 4 Just pain everywhere. Pain everywhere.

Speaker 1 Should the Niners build around Brock Purdy?

Speaker 4 I think that they are building around Brock Purdy, and they should.

Speaker 1 Listen,

Speaker 1 we've talked about this. We know that the correction will come, but let us just enjoy the Brock Purdy experience for as long as we can because right now he's playing well.

Speaker 1 And this was a game, like oblique injury on the first road game.

Speaker 1 First road start in Seattle. True road start.
True road start in Seattle. Everyone's like, oh, no, this is not going to be.
No, no, no, no. Brock Purdy, baby.
He started the game like 10 for 10.

Speaker 4 Was the moment too big for Brock? Absolutely not.

Speaker 1 Brock's too big for the moment. Okay, so if you're thinking about building around Brock Purdy, his salary for the next three years, $870,000,

Speaker 1 $985,000, $1.1 million.

Speaker 4 Cap goes up 30 years.

Speaker 1 Like, hey, you can build around Brock Purdy. I think you can...

Speaker 4 To me, Brock Purdy, you can't watch what he's done these last two games and say that he can't take this team to a Super Bowl. Yeah.
What a story that would be, huh?

Speaker 4 I mean, if Brock Purdy got the 49ers about the Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 It's a lot about the fact that the Niners are just so fucking good. Of course.
But yeah, why not?

Speaker 4 That defense is legit. Really, the only thing that the 49ers have to worry about is the refs fucking them over.
Yes.

Speaker 4 Their defense being so good that the refs feel bad for the quarterbacks and start calling ticky-tack fouls on them.

Speaker 1 Yes, yes. So Seahawks dead.

Speaker 4 Do you see what happened the second time Joey Bosa sacked him?

Speaker 1 Yeah, that was.

Speaker 4 And he, like, he, the second time he hit him after he got that penalty, he, like, hits him, and then in midair, he actually did the thing that we always say is physically impossible.

Speaker 4 He like took his weight off of Geno Smith in the air on their way down and landed on his hands right in front of the ref to show him, like, hey, I'm not actually hitting this guy.

Speaker 1 Yes, yes. The roughing the passer, I mean, we gotta, I think there actually was, I think Florio wrote an article about how the league is gonna review it, like start.

Speaker 1 Figuring out how they can fix this because they had one, the Dolphins Chargers game had one that the league then came back and said that actually wasn't roughing the passer. We fucked up.
So

Speaker 1 I'm never in favor of adding more reviews to the game, but it does feel like maybe we should for this.

Speaker 4 Especially a subjective review. It's going to, it's going to make things worse.
Yeah. My four-year-old son Chris walked in.

Speaker 4 He said, he said, Daddy, why don't we just put dresses on these quarterbacks? We're going to get home like that. He's a problematic little person.

Speaker 1 He said, you can't even tackle anymore. Yeah.
Not my fucking fucking league. Not my anymore.
You can't tackle anymore. What are you going to say, Jake?

Speaker 5 Let's see how quickly people tweet at you for calling him Joey Bosa.

Speaker 1 Nick Bosa.

Speaker 1 Don't know ball.

Speaker 1 We really put ourselves in a bad spot.

Speaker 1 What started as a joke to Max now means that we have to... This show was built on being incorrect all the time.
And now we have to, like,

Speaker 1 I'm not joking. Like, when I said the Lions beat the Seahawks, I had like 100 tweets being like, you don't know ball, bro.
So

Speaker 1 we have boxed ourselves into a bad place.

Speaker 4 I was getting snitch tagged in those.

Speaker 1 People are like, people are like, big cat.

Speaker 4 Why do you keep saying that the Lions beat the Seahawks? You don't get it. And then at the end, they just

Speaker 1 in my defense wasn't, yeah, wasn't it like a 48-45? Like 48-45? When the scores get up to 40, you don't know who won it. Yes.

Speaker 5 Also, a big part of knowing ball is accountability, right? PFT was accountable when we were doing the two-point math during the last touchdown of this game. Down 15.

Speaker 1 Yeah. They go for two.

Speaker 5 I said no, because you want to extend the game.

Speaker 1 Right, you were right.

Speaker 5 But your accountability of knowing you were wrong is knowing ball in a sense.

Speaker 1 Oh, you were wrong. Jake's just so back one.

Speaker 1 That was the

Speaker 1 most Jake Marshall. And again,

Speaker 1 I missed the accountability, as you said.

Speaker 4 Yeah, so in the last two minutes, Jake has been like, just so you know, other people are going to really roast you and point out that you called him the wrong bosa PFT. Not me.

Speaker 1 I wouldn't do that. What's this? But also, remember when you're talking about

Speaker 1 the ball during the game? Yeah, I wouldn't know. What happened?

Speaker 4 That was double alpha by Jake.

Speaker 5 He admitted to not knowing ball, but

Speaker 1 I put my hand up and I said. How abilities knowing balls are.

Speaker 1 I embarrassed.

Speaker 4 I embarrassed our podcast because they went.

Speaker 4 So the 49ers were winning 21 to 13. It was right after the Seahawks scored.
And I said, why didn't they go for two there? I just said it out loud to myself.

Speaker 4 And then I looked at the score and I was like, oh, shit. Yeah, they weren't down by 14 points there.
Damn.

Speaker 4 I looked at it hypothetically from the point of view of a team that had just gone for two and not gotten it. And now they're down by eight points.

Speaker 1 The real winner in all of this is Max. Because he had to take the initial shit, but now he has to watch us.

Speaker 4 Now we all don't know.

Speaker 1 Try to be so...

Speaker 1 You know what?

Speaker 1 let's just say we don't know ball go back to being incorrect all the time billy's over there can we get the camera on billy real quick he's uncomfortable while we while we were having that conversation billy was literally taking a knife and cutting the crotch of his pants open needs air he said that it's very tight if you're watching this on youtube you're gonna know ball soon

Speaker 1 yeah

Speaker 1 free the ball

Speaker 6 uh in this amazing pardon my cheesesteak racing where

Speaker 4 why are you just putting taking a pocket knife to your penis it's to the to the open up the seat. Oh, okay.
It's normal. Need some air there?

Speaker 1 Again, it's Billy's personal brisks. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Billy's the strangest person in the world.

Speaker 1 You really are, but that's why we love you.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 All right. Last thing before we get to ourselves, week 15, pick and preview.
World Cup final. Should we even make a prediction?

Speaker 1 I want Messi to win so bad so that idiots who don't know ball, speaking of not knowing ball, like Hank, have to fucking eat it.

Speaker 4 I'm predicting Argentina, but it's really, it's a double win for Qatar because they own Paris Saint-Germain, which is the team that both Mbappe and Messi play for. FIFA rigged, Amir rigged.

Speaker 1 Mbappe has seen this come in the same team. Yeah, PSG.

Speaker 4 And they've won a ton of UAV Champions Leagues because they're so good.

Speaker 4 No, they don't because they play in a Farmers League. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I don't know. They're dominated every year.

Speaker 1 There's just PSG is the only team.

Speaker 1 What's the other team in

Speaker 4 Racing? There's a racing team.

Speaker 4 They call themselves racing, but they're a soccer team. I don't get it.

Speaker 1 Either way. It's going to be Mbappe.

Speaker 1 It's his game.

Speaker 4 It's his game?

Speaker 4 They're doing it for Maradona. This is Maradona dead mascot tournament for Argentina.
God rest his soul.

Speaker 1 Oh, man. I really want him to win it.
But Zlatland still play for PSG? No. Zlatland? No, Zlatland does not.
He came over to America, played for the Galaxy. I think he went back to

Speaker 1 his home country.

Speaker 4 I don't know what he's up to.

Speaker 1 Sweden. Sweden.
I think he plays in a Swedish league now.

Speaker 4 Zlatland is God, though.

Speaker 4 He's the one guy that.

Speaker 1 Once you get over those mountains, you're going to hit some Zlatland. It's going to be a nice, easy drive.

Speaker 4 I respect that Billy asked about him because

Speaker 6 he's the only PSG player I ever knew.

Speaker 4 He's a fun guy to watch because he's just like, he actually does think that he's Jesus. Yeah.

Speaker 1 No, PSG had Neymar as well for a while.

Speaker 1 It was sick. Stacked.

Speaker 4 Well, it's because it's owned by the government of Qatar. So they can just pay everybody infinity dollars.

Speaker 1 All I'm going to say is if it goes poorly for Messi on Sunday, I think we can just pivot to Messi's the goat because he took two garbage Argentina teams to the World Cup finals.

Speaker 1 He becomes LeBron on the cab before

Speaker 4 he got his title in Miami.

Speaker 1 Yeah. But if he wins it, it's over for losers like you, Hank.
Yeah, that's probably true. I mean,

Speaker 1 I hitched, you know, I took a shot. shot you took a shot literally like two weeks ago yeah but it was like ronaldo messi let's get in let's hop in this debate

Speaker 4 yeah you chose poorly who's very very that's like that's like when i hopped in the uh when i became a joke jokovich guy right before wimbledon and he won it was like the greatest thing i've like i've i've never had a more instant reward the problem is as a maradona guy if if his spirit is channeled by Messi to win this World Cup, then I actually do think the only thing that Maradona has over Messi in this GOAT debate is he's got World Cup titles.

Speaker 4 Yeah. And Messi doesn't.
But if Messi wins, even on the shoulders of Maradona, then it's like, okay, well,

Speaker 4 I have to lay down my sword and pivot to Messi.

Speaker 6 Who's the Kobe of the soccer GOAT debate? So like LeBron, MJ, and then we have like Ronaldo Messi, who's like the third.

Speaker 1 Probably Ronaldo. Pele.

Speaker 1 Probably the other Ronaldo.

Speaker 1 Or Ronaldinho. Or Ronaldinho.

Speaker 1 Pape is going to be, if he like plays like he's been playing, because remember, remember, he was only 19 when he won the World Cup last time. He's going to be an incredible all-time guy.

Speaker 1 He's fucking sick. He's so fast.

Speaker 1 And his name's awesome.

Speaker 4 Killian? Yeah, his name is pretty sick. And he is the guy that when you see him on the pitch playing footy, he's so much faster than everybody else.
So much faster.

Speaker 4 And it's like shocking because these are other world-class fast guys.

Speaker 1 Yes, yes.

Speaker 4 Although that run that Messi had was pretty sick. It was.

Speaker 1 All-time. Yeah.
Class. Pure class.
Okay.

Speaker 1 Argentina two, France 1.

Speaker 4 Dos Acero. I'm going Dos Acero, 2-0.

Speaker 1 4-4, penalty kicks. Oh, 4-4.
France, 1-0. Alternate over, 7.5.

Speaker 5 Somehow, in soccer, they don't award the score to the winning team in penalty kicks. What do you mean? Like, it's a final score of 1-1, but.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, yeah, then it doesn't become 2-1. Yeah, you mean for like the overs? Yeah.
Yeah, that being correct. Well, soccer with the extra time and not getting that for the over-two.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Wait, just to clarify, Hank, your prediction is 4-4.

Speaker 1 Yep.

Speaker 4 And then it goes to penalty kicks.

Speaker 1 1-0.

Speaker 4 And then

Speaker 4 France wins one goal to nothing in penalty kicks. Were there any...

Speaker 1 Were there any

Speaker 1 extra time scores or was it 4-4 in the 90 minutes? I think we'll go one each in extra time. Okay, so 3-3-1-1, 1-0.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 6 I'm going 0-0, France, and PKs.

Speaker 1 Oh, that sucks, Barbara. That's usually what happens.

Speaker 1 That's usually World Cup soccer.

Speaker 4 Usually the third-place game is a sick game. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I'm pumped for that. The last one? When is it?

Speaker 4 That's on Saturday. What time?

Speaker 1 10? 10 a.m. Oh, nice.

Speaker 1 I was going to say, if it's at 2 o'clock, I'm not going to watch it. No, I'm pretty.
It's going to be Vikings Colts.

Speaker 4 Usually that's a game where they're just like, fuck it.

Speaker 4 Third place doesn't really matter. Yeah.
We don't have to worry about taxes.

Speaker 1 They used to do third-place games in the NFL.

Speaker 4 Oh, 100%.

Speaker 6 Didn't they used to do that instead of the Pro Bowl?

Speaker 4 That's what it should be. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Yeah. They should.
They should be able to do that.

Speaker 1 I don't know if they

Speaker 4 should do that.

Speaker 6 I think they did on the.

Speaker 1 I don't want to answer it one way or the other because I don't want to be accused of not doing the ball. I know.

Speaker 1 absolutely not

Speaker 1 I'm going to go with that sounds like the most incorrect statement you've ever made

Speaker 1 Billy knows ball

Speaker 1 they did it they would do it the weekend before the Super Bowl dude you just talked on Hank I still know ball I don't know if this is a guess because it happened between 1960 and 1969 no Billy knows ball

Speaker 1 Billy knows ball he remembers balls originally known as the runner-up bull that That's a bad look for me. Yeah, no,

Speaker 1 Billy knows more.

Speaker 4 You want to take accountability, Hank?

Speaker 1 I took accountability. I did not know ball in that moment.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I think uh no, Billy's about Nidas.

Speaker 1 No, no, you won. You won.
You won. You won.
You won, Billy. Stop.
Billy, stop talking. I'm begging you.
I'm begging you.

Speaker 4 You won. If you keep talking, you're going to get yourself in trouble.

Speaker 1 You're up two scores and you're not kneeling. You're just still throwing the ball.
Stop.

Speaker 6 Can we hurry up?

Speaker 1 Because this thing's killing me. All right.
Okay, let's kick it to ourselves

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Speaker 1 week 15

Speaker 1 picks and preview boys i'm gonna call this moving day it is the nfl this is moving day this weekend we got two moving days saturday and sunday it it it feels like there are a few very specific gates like the dolphins if they lose they're in trouble the jets lions feels like a loser leaves town game in terms of the playoff picture uh the jaguars season could be like holy shit the jaguars might make a run for the playoffs This is going to be, I think, the biggest giant thermometer weekend that we've had so far.

Speaker 4 There's a lot of weather games. Even the weather games that are like kind of borderline,

Speaker 4 like in Cleveland, we're going to have a thermometer being like, can Deshaun Watson win in the cold? Yep.

Speaker 1 Big time. Big wind.

Speaker 4 Yeah, big wind.

Speaker 4 I mean, the giant thermometer game of the week is going to be in Buffalo. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 Saturday night.

Speaker 1 I love Saturday football.

Speaker 1 It's so great.

Speaker 4 Tua did say it snows in Alabama, too, which technically true. We'll have to get our weather guy on that to verify.

Speaker 1 It does. But I'm pretty sure, like,

Speaker 1 it barely snows in Alabama. Yeah, I think it snows.
It kind of snows everywhere. Like, there's a lot of places that it has snowed before.

Speaker 4 Yeah, Alabama is one of those states where the people that live there will be like, you know what's great about Alabama? You actually get a little bit of every season. Yeah.
Which is cool. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Has it snowed in L.A.? Has it ever snowed? It has to have.

Speaker 4 I think it's probably snowed once or twice.

Speaker 6 Did you do it like two years ago?

Speaker 1 yeah i feel like it has has there ever been snow in los angeles yeah when robert downey jr's in town since 2000 it snowed three times in los angeles three times and people freak out i bet you

Speaker 4 it probably hasn't snowed since twitter has become a real thing yeah because if you think that like earthquake twitter in la is obnoxious if they get a dusting of snow oh my gosh just panic

Speaker 1 pandemonia

Speaker 1 growing up in florida people would wear jackets and gloves and it was in the 50s yeah i mean the heaters on the sideline

Speaker 1 yeah when it snowed like an inch in atlanta a couple years ago and the highway shut down, Chimper Jones was like rescuing people on ATV. Yeah, we were there for that.

Speaker 1 It didn't even, it was like a, uh, it was basically like a slushy ice rain. It was gross.
And they closed the schools the day before.

Speaker 1 They didn't even get like the watching the school, you know, the TV and seeing if your school is closed. No, no, they were like, all schools closed.

Speaker 4 So when I was living in Texas, one time they...

Speaker 1 It's also a boomer thing because there's no way they do that anymore, unfortunately. Yeah, that's like watching.
No, I know, like, I'm with, I was like that too.

Speaker 1 It's a, it's one of the best feelings of excitement you could have but yeah, what yeah, how do kids find out about snow days now?

Speaker 4 They get like automatic texts.

Speaker 1 It's probably like an amber alert to their phone. That sucks.
It was so cool watching

Speaker 4 like waiting for the for the like five minutes to see if your school district was up there.

Speaker 1 If it actually was an amber alert

Speaker 1 if your phone, yeah, if your phone actually buzzed and it was like you woke up and your phone, that would actually be electric.

Speaker 4 It'd be kind of fun.

Speaker 4 There would be times when you would watch it on the news, and it would say your school district is shut down tomorrow, and then you'd watch it repeat and get re-excited again because it felt so cool seeing that.

Speaker 1 Or the worst was like when it was like two-hour delay. It's like maybe they'll change it.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but yeah, actually now that I'm thinking about it, I bet you it's just the parents look online and then tell their kids.

Speaker 4 That sucks. Yeah, Billy?

Speaker 6 For me, it was on TV in middle school, then they switched it come high school.

Speaker 4 TV is so much better. It's so much better.

Speaker 4 I was going to say, one time when I was in Texas, they canceled schools across the entire, I think it was Travis County, because it was going to be 32 degrees. Yeah, that's cold.

Speaker 4 There was no snow, no precipitation. It was just going to be 32 degrees.
And they were like, we can't

Speaker 1 expect us to get

Speaker 1 to go outside and

Speaker 1 yeah, this is going to be a fun week 15. And I do, the Saturday games are the best because,

Speaker 1 you know, the standalone games, when you can really just immerse yourself in a football game,

Speaker 1 we have

Speaker 1 six of those this week. Yes, six.
Six standalone games. So we have Thursday, three on Saturday, Sunday night, Monday night.
Like,

Speaker 1 you just watch all the football and you just get to really be in the game, get the sound up.

Speaker 5 It's a good team for Super Wildcard weekend.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's true. Super Wildcard weekend, which I'm excited for.
All right, so Jake, what are our standings at?

Speaker 1 Reminder, the second place and the last place have to do the bowling challenge. So it's coming down to it.
Yeah, it is.

Speaker 5 I am awful. I'm 1-11.
I got to win.

Speaker 1 Get the Swami John now, buddy.

Speaker 5 Saw one go through the hoop, as you would say. But I'm 1-11.
Swami dead last. One behind Hank.

Speaker 5 And then there's a little bit of a gap. Billy and Max are in an awesome spot right now because they're both.
Billy's at 25, wins Max at 27. And BitCat and PFT are also within a game up top.

Speaker 1 So right now, it's like a two-way race between both.

Speaker 5 Obviously, things can change with

Speaker 5 16 picks left, but Billy and Max are sitting pretty. But right now, it's me versus Hank

Speaker 1 and you versus BF. So Mix.
I'm not going to get worried until the last week.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
Okay. So let's hop into it.
We're red hot. Yeah, he's red hot.
I am red hot.

Speaker 4 Yeah. That's a fact.

Speaker 4 I've been red hot my entire life. I'm glad people are recognizing it finally.

Speaker 4 Am I top dog right now?

Speaker 1 Yeah, but one game. You're half a game off.
Half a game.

Speaker 1 What's the record?

Speaker 5 30 and 27.

Speaker 1 That's respectable.

Speaker 5 And I'm in last one, 21 and 36.

Speaker 1 Wow. That's tough.

Speaker 5 Hank, 22 and 35, 25 and 32. Billy, Max, 27, 29, and 1.
You're 29, 27.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 4 You know what I might do this time?

Speaker 1 Oh, so Max and I are only two apart. So if I fall and Max goes up,

Speaker 1 that's not really a two-man.

Speaker 1 It's wide open. It's wide open.
It's wide open, but

Speaker 1 I still might win.

Speaker 5 Billy's within four games.

Speaker 4 I think Hank's mathematically eliminated from that.

Speaker 1 And I think next week we will start the submitting of picks beforehand. Okay.
So that way

Speaker 1 there cannot be any like,

Speaker 1 you know, so Billy, you're going to have to say the Jets before we even sit down.

Speaker 4 Hank would need to go perfect every week, and I would need to go imperfect every week. Hank's done.

Speaker 1 Hank's done. Do you have a hungry dog this week that you like him? His heart's not.
I'm going.

Speaker 1 Shut the fuck up. You shut the fuck up.
No, you shut the fuck up. No, fuck the hell.
My heart is always. There's one thing my heart is in.
It is deep, deep, deep inside the hungry dog.

Speaker 1 And this week, it's going to hit. Also, Hank's tweeting out the gift.
No, no, no. No.
Yeller.

Speaker 5 No.

Speaker 1 Hank tweeting out the gift of a techie matsui when the technology got away.

Speaker 1 Suey season.

Speaker 4 It's the Mike Vick Hungry Dog of the week. That's what this should be.

Speaker 1 It's bad.

Speaker 4 It's really bad.

Speaker 1 You need to, yeah, your dogs need foster homes.

Speaker 4 Can you start, like, take my advice.

Speaker 1 How about you guys?

Speaker 4 Start teasing, start teasing favorites in the future.

Speaker 1 No, just do two. I'm going to do two.
Two. Last week there was a clerical

Speaker 1 shame.

Speaker 5 Also, are we doing something similar to Thanksgiving or is everything on the board?

Speaker 1 No, everything.

Speaker 1 Saturday and Sundays are both. Yeah, they both count because the game's coming out on Friday.
Or the show's coming out Friday. You're going to do Hungry Dog on Saturday, too?

Speaker 1 Yeah, when you say two, like, what if I did one on Saturday, one on Sunday?

Speaker 4 Games? But that means that you would just have every underdog win on Saturday.

Speaker 1 And that also means you're going to just lose. No, no, he's saying pick a game on Saturday too late with Sunday.
Oh, I'm saying, dude, Hungry Dog parlay Saturday.

Speaker 1 Oh, so you're going to go 0 for 2 this time. Hungry Dog Parlay Sunday.
Got it. No, with that at, dude.
I'm going to go 2 for 2 and be back. Got it.
All right. All right.

Speaker 1 Let's do ⁇ let's start with our favorites. Favorite favorites, we'll talk about every game.

Speaker 1 Hank, go ahead.

Speaker 1 My favorite favorite is the Philadelphia Eagles. Ooh, against the Bears.
Yeah, this is going to be a whomping. I think it's going to be a whomping.
They're minus nine.

Speaker 1 But, you know,

Speaker 1 they have proven themselves, in my opinion, them and the bills to be the two best teams in the league. The Bears don't play defense, the Eagles' offense is prolific, they're on a run,

Speaker 1 big word, nice, and the Bears, one of them 10. The Bears are, and rightfully so, as they should be, like, they're tanking, they don't want to win, they don't want to fight.

Speaker 1 So, I have a win is bad. I have one thing that should make you nervous about this pick because I agree.
Like, the Eagles should kill the Bears.

Speaker 1 I'm a terrible gambler, lifelong loser, historic loser, one of the best losers of all time. I have my Eagles' future.

Speaker 1 My team is the Bears. I want them to lose.

Speaker 1 If the Eagles don't get the one seed, my future is going to be in a lot more of a precarious spot because then they'd have to play three road games instead of playing two home games.

Speaker 1 Wouldn't me being a loser, lifelong loser, mean that the outcome that I don't want to happen, I don't want the Bears to win the game and I want the Eagles to win the game, wouldn't it flip?

Speaker 1 No, that's the only thing that would be

Speaker 1 nervous. But

Speaker 1 that would would be more nerve-wracking if we're talking about covering. But like, there's no chance the Bears win.
Exactly, except for the fact that I'm a lifelong loser. There's no analysis.

Speaker 1 I would be more concerned about that. 0.0% chance.

Speaker 4 I'd be more concerned about the fact that the Eagles have to play the Cowboys next week. Next week, and this is a big-time look-ahead spot.

Speaker 4 It's a double-look-ahead spot for the Cowboys and for the Eagles.

Speaker 1 Yes. And Hank, just think about it.
Like, I've been saying, oh, I'd really like the Bears to win one. This is the one I really, really don't want them to win.

Speaker 1 And I am now in full. Like, I know that I said like a month ago I'd like them to win one.
I'm now in full.

Speaker 1 I don't want them to win one because the difference between the second pick in the draft and the ninth pick in the draft is going to be huge in terms of trade value.

Speaker 1 Like if they have the second pick, they will most likely be able to get a couple picks out of that.

Speaker 1 And if they have the ninth pick, I think they're just going to have to use it. So that's the only thing I would just throw out there.
I'm a loser. Look at this face.
This is a loser face. I know.

Speaker 1 So just visualize on Sunday night when we're recapping the games, and I'm like, why did the Bears win this game? No. Okay.
All right. It would double hurt me.
Bang, bang.

Speaker 1 I would double hurt on the line. Okay.

Speaker 1 Max.

Speaker 1 Broncos minus three. Recently

Speaker 1 against the Cardinals. What if Russ is back? What if Russ is back?

Speaker 4 He's probably not going to play this week. He did have the best quarter of his year so far.

Speaker 4 That was an electric quarter that he played last week. I don't think he's playing.
he's not practicing with a helmet on. I'm pretty sure he's in the protocol.

Speaker 1 There's one guy who thinks that he can beat a concussion.

Speaker 4 I need to know how much of the nano-bubbles he's drank this week before I touch this game. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so it could be Colt McCoy versus Brett Rippen. Exactly what everyone wants to watch.
I also have a fun stat for everyone out there.

Speaker 1 Weeks one through seven in the NFL and weeks one through four in college football. Cliff Kingsbury is 36 and 15, 70% as a coach.
Weeks 5 plus in college football and 8 plus in the NFL.

Speaker 1 He's 27 and 59, 31%.

Speaker 1 He's bad. That is quite something.

Speaker 4 He's a bad coach. Their GM is taking a leave of absence right now.
Yep.

Speaker 1 Can't fire a guy with a leave of absence.

Speaker 4 Fire guy with a leave of absence. Brilliant move on his part.
So smart. I can't wait to see what's going to happen.

Speaker 1 Cliff's like, fuck, I should have done that.

Speaker 4 I can't wait to not watch hard knocks and figure out exactly why he's taking this leave of absence.

Speaker 4 Listen, if I gave Kyler Murray a huge contract like that and then gave Cliff Kingsbury a giant contract like that, I'd probably take a leave of absence too. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Can't get fired if you're not at work.

Speaker 1 Yeah, facts. By the way, Russell Wilson, so I just looked.
It doesn't, it's not set whether he's going to play or not, but he did tweet on Monday night or maybe Tuesday night, Jesus, I am grateful.

Speaker 1 Yeah. So he might be back.

Speaker 4 If I was Jesus, I would be at this point like, hey, Russ, keep my name out your mouth.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's bad co-branding.

Speaker 4 It's bad branding for me.

Speaker 4 I don't want to be lumped in with Russell Wilson.

Speaker 1 Russell Wilson on Instagram keeps trying to do

Speaker 1 the co-post where he's like, I'm going to share this with Jesus, and Jesus reviews it and denies it every time.

Speaker 4 Yeah, Jesus is my homie. Jesus is like, well,

Speaker 4 I think we should see other people. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Why can't Mahomes be a Jesus guy? Yeah. Like,

Speaker 1 why can't I get credit for that? Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 4 Really, honestly, like, great job, God. Yeah.
With Patrick Mahomes.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 But, I mean, just chill out, Russ.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 Russ is honestly like a little clingy towards Jesus.

Speaker 1 He is. All right.
PFT, your favorite, favorite?

Speaker 4 I love

Speaker 4 the Minnesota Vikings this weekend. Ooh.
Minus four and a half. I think it's a perfect spot for the Vikings.
Against the Colts. Against the Colts.

Speaker 4 The offensive line is healthier this week for the Vikings. The Colts, I don't know if they're just going to keep putting Matt Ryan out there until he dies on the field.

Speaker 1 They will.

Speaker 4 You know who his backup is?

Speaker 1 Nick Foles. Yeah.

Speaker 4 It might be Nick Foles' time in Indianapolis.

Speaker 1 It could be Nick Foles.

Speaker 4 It's sad. It's sad to see Matt Ryan go out there every week and just get his soul taken from his body.

Speaker 4 But this does feel like, I mean, like we said last week, the Vikings' offense is very, very, very good. Yes.
And so I am confident that they'll be able to beat the Colts.

Speaker 4 Now, it is, here's the thing that makes me nervous about this, and it's completely stupid. It's Saturday

Speaker 4 coaching on Saturday.

Speaker 1 Yeah. So I, yeah.
Oh, it's Jake. That's wild.
That's wild.

Speaker 4 Jake's mind just got blown by that one.

Speaker 1 I threw that out there earlier today because

Speaker 1 Jeff Saturday is a great test, and like first impressions mean the most because he beat the Raiders that first week he was coach. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Frank Reich was 3-5-1. Jeff Saturday is 1-3.

Speaker 1 And if you look at the games, I know they were competitive in the Cowboys game till the end, but it was a blowout.

Speaker 1 But Frank Reich's last three games was a nine-point loss to the Titans, a 17-16 loss, and a blowout to the Patriots.

Speaker 1 The last three games for Jeff Saturday was a 24-17 loss to the Steelers, exact score, 17-16 loss to the Eagles, and a blowout to the Cowboys.

Speaker 1 First impressions.

Speaker 4 He beat the Raiders. You beat the Raiders.

Speaker 1 I also got.

Speaker 4 It's also Saturday coaching on Saturday.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I also got some intel from indie fans, which when I mean that, I mean it was just one guy replied to my tweet about Jeff Saturday, and it made all the sense in the world.

Speaker 1 He said that Jeff Saturday is basically just a mole for Jim Ursay, where he knew that he could trust Jeff Saturday, and he was like, I want to hire someone, bring someone in who I can trust will give me the honest truth and figure out

Speaker 1 if it's a Chris Ballard problem or if it's something that he can fix himself.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I think that Jeff Saturday was actually more of just a flame to draw Peyton Manning in close for next year.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 Because they're trying to get him involved, whether as a coach or as a general manager, and getting Jeff Saturday in the door. That's the easy.
Just bring his buddy in. Yeah.
And then that'll be fine.

Speaker 4 That's the only thing that I have a problem with. I don't like betting against Saturday on a Saturday.

Speaker 4 It is kind of mind-blowing to think that that's going to happen.

Speaker 4 But I still,

Speaker 4 again, we talk a lot of shit about the Vikings, but they're a good offensive team. And the Colts are not a good team right now.

Speaker 1 Yes, facts. Okay, I'm going to go with Bengals minus three and a half, which scares me a little bit because the Bengals have won and covered five straight games.

Speaker 1 So you'd think like they're at the peak of their market and the Bucs are probably the lowest they've been. But I think the Bucs are just that bad.
I really do. I think they're that bad.

Speaker 1 You have this pick as well?

Speaker 6 I have this pick as well. I think Brady is skewing the lines just because he's Brady.

Speaker 1 It's crazy how bad the Bucs look when you watch them.

Speaker 1 I know the Bengals have a couple banged up guys, but they also are still playing very much for the AFC North, and especially if the Ravens somehow lose on Saturday, they could win and be now jump and get a home game, which would be significant.

Speaker 1 Joe Burrow also is the most profitable quarterback to bet on in the last 20 starts. He's 17 and 3 against the spread.
That's insane. That's pretty good.
That's insane.

Speaker 1 Brady's been terrible against the spread.

Speaker 4 Atrocious. He's been atrocious this year.
I actually disagree. We're going to talk to Baldinger in a little bit, and he obviously has forgotten more about football than I'll ever know.

Speaker 4 I think Brady has reached the point where he should hang it up.

Speaker 4 It's sad watching him play.

Speaker 1 He's going to keep playing.

Speaker 6 I think this is a past-the-torch game.

Speaker 1 Oh, because there are a lot of people who are like, Joe Burrow kind of

Speaker 1 reminds him of Brady of like, you know, standing in there, just slinging, just being an ice-cold killer.

Speaker 4 Okay, I like that. Past the torch.
Past the torch.

Speaker 6 Means more. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay. I have Bengals minus three and a half.
So does Billy. Jake.

Speaker 1 The Bucs just stink. They're bad.

Speaker 1 I'm happy that

Speaker 1 I got a little bit of my money back when they beat the Rams and beat the Seahawks, and then I was able to just quit them out of my life.

Speaker 1 And I actually think I passed them to Hank because he's been betting on them. So that's too bad because you always made fun of me.
That I didn't quite have to do. Nasty case.

Speaker 4 Nasty case of TB going around.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they're going to be in the Hungry Dog, aren't they?

Speaker 1 I had the Saints on Monday night. They covered.
I had the Niners.

Speaker 1 You got a problem. I denied the Niners last week.
That was my pick in this.

Speaker 1 You have a problem. Levin Bucks' problem.
No, I had the Niners last week.

Speaker 1 I see value, and there's a lot of value with them this week. Okay, all right.

Speaker 4 In order to get value, you typically have to win those bets, though.

Speaker 1 Oh, as the game happens. It's kind of how value wins.
When is the game happening? No, but you've seen a lot of value. Oh, I lost a bet.
Oh, wait.

Speaker 4 You've lost a lot of bets.

Speaker 1 You've lost like a fuckload of bets this year. Wait, hold on.

Speaker 1 I didn't realize the Bills went to seven. I'm taking the Bills.
Fuck that. I didn't realize the Bills went to seven.
They were seven and a half.

Speaker 5 Yeah, it's seven.

Speaker 1 All right, so there you go. You can take the Bucs, and I won't be.
You can put them in the Hungry Dog. You're sticking with the Bengals, Billy?

Speaker 6 I'm easily swayed.

Speaker 1 You don't have to switch with me. I'm just saying, I had no idea the Bills went to seven.
That's an auto-bet.

Speaker 4 I'm staying on the Bengals.

Speaker 1 The Bills, so talking about the Bills-Dolphins game real quick, I apologize. I had no idea they went to seven.

Speaker 1 Tua has played 63 games in college and pro and never started a game that's been under 36 degrees. Yep.
Well, yeah,

Speaker 4 he's not a cold weather guy. He acts like he's not phased by the snow whatsoever.
Like, this is going to be a big-time fish-out-water space.

Speaker 1 Yes, and he also...

Speaker 1 He started three games with the temperatures under 50 degrees. He's 0-3 straight up and against the spread.

Speaker 1 And Mike McDaniel was wearing a shirt in practice yesterday that just said, I wish it were colder.

Speaker 1 Kind of feels like trying too hard.

Speaker 4 It's not true. Yeah,

Speaker 1 there's no way like you needed heaters in LA.

Speaker 4 If you wish that it was colder, you wouldn't be wearing a shirt at all.

Speaker 1 Right, right. So checkmate might be on you.
All right, so my Bills minus seven is my pick. I do like the Bengals as well, but Bills minus seven is my favorite.

Speaker 4 I also like Cole Beasley's back. Yep.
He might not light up the stat sheet this weekend, but he does feel like

Speaker 4 Josh Allen's version of Julian Edelman.

Speaker 1 Well, it does feel if you had to say like the one thing the Bills, it feels like they rely a lot on Josh Allen for those like third and eights where they need someone who can get open over the middle, and he is that guy.

Speaker 4 He's, yeah, he's like a tight end for them in that offense sometimes. Yeah, all right.

Speaker 1 So, Bills minus seven is my pick. Billy, are you sticking with Bengals?

Speaker 4 Yeah, I'm going to stick with Bengals. Okay, all right.

Speaker 1 Go ahead, Jake. Apologies for that.
I didn't realize it was seven and a half, like, all week, and I was like, if it goes to seven, I'm betting it. And now I'm going to bet it.

Speaker 1 Lahoo.

Speaker 4 Let's go.

Speaker 5 Janders haven't lost a game in more than a month. Giants haven't won a game in more than a month.
They had the bye week to sit on the tie.

Speaker 4 It's funny how back-to-back weeks.

Speaker 5 Back-to-back games for them.

Speaker 4 It's funny how in that stat, the Commanders get credit for a tie, but the Giants get dinged. Yeah, exactly.
For their side of the tie.

Speaker 1 We won that tie. It's true.
Do you know Daniel Jones has yet to win in primetime? He's 0-9.

Speaker 5 Yeah, so 4.5 points.

Speaker 1 He could still cover, but he's 0-9 in primetime.

Speaker 5 The Giants are just trending in the wrong direction.

Speaker 4 This is playoff atmosphere.

Speaker 4 This game is 100% going going to be a playoff atmosphere game, which is shocking to have that game in Ral John, Maryland. But

Speaker 4 I think Jake's right. I think, like, we're, if you look at how the teams are trending right now, Washington trending up, they're rested.
Bye-week came at a good time.

Speaker 4 I like it, Jake. I really do like it.

Speaker 4 One fun fact: we can file this directly under the Do You Know Ball category. Do you know why the NFL football says the Duke on it?

Speaker 4 Anyone?

Speaker 1 I feel like I know this.

Speaker 4 Does anyone know ball?

Speaker 1 I know. France Fernandez.

Speaker 6 I know it has nothing to do with a Juke move.

Speaker 1 Correct.

Speaker 1 Philly got it right.

Speaker 1 It also has nothing. No, it's like not a juke.
It has nothing to do with nuclear weapons, nukes. That's true.

Speaker 5 Does it have anything to do with your alma mater?

Speaker 1 It looks like a giant shit. Does it have anything to do with puke?

Speaker 1 No, it doesn't have anything to do. Nope, nothing to do with fluke.
I knew that as well.

Speaker 1 Nothing to do with fluke. Like, if you took a shit that's not a football, you'd be like, that's the Duke.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 No, okay, so the real reason is the founder of the New York Giants, Tim Mara, he named his son Wellington after the Duke of Wellington.

Speaker 4 And then Tim Mara got the contract with Wilson Footballs to produce the football. The Duke.
And then George Hollis told Wilson,

Speaker 4 you should give a kickback to Mara

Speaker 4 by naming the football after his son.

Speaker 4 And so it's named after the owner's son.

Speaker 1 I like that.

Speaker 4 That was named after the Duke of Wellington.

Speaker 1 That's back when the NFL was like just

Speaker 1 like

Speaker 1 NFL league meetings was just like eight really old white dudes and they're like, we can name everything.

Speaker 4 Let's name the football after your son. We can do whatever we want.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that sounds good. Our league.

Speaker 4 So they had that from 1941 to 1970. It was on the ball.
And then they took it away after the merger. And then when Wellington Mara passed away in 2005, they put it back on the ball.
That's beautiful.

Speaker 4 That's why it's called the Duke. That's beautiful.
So fun fact. You can regale your friends and family with that tale.
Yes.

Speaker 4 It's named after a rich white guy's son who is named after another rich white guy. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So there it is: the football. The Duke.
Left hand up. Okay.

Speaker 1 So you have commanders. Four and a half.
Four and a half. Yep.
That makes me nervous. I really just,

Speaker 1 I would give almost anything to see a tie again.

Speaker 1 It would just be so funny.

Speaker 1 It would just be so fun. You know what?

Speaker 4 I'm offering the Giants a tie right now before we even play the game.

Speaker 1 Just having both of them just be like, yeah, they just, like, it just would be perfect.

Speaker 5 They'll both be 7-5 and 2.

Speaker 1 Oh, both 7-5-2. Oh, I want it so bad.

Speaker 5 Someone pointed out it could be schedule Gami or Record Gami. Like, 7-5-1 teams facing offs probably never happened.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's true. That's true.

Speaker 1 Flexigami. Fuck.
This is fuckigami. This is Flexigami.
All right, Hank, your favorite underdog. A lot of underdogs.
A lot of underdogs. You like a lot of them.
I do like a lot of them.

Speaker 1 The one I like the most, I know my guy, Tom Brady, better than everyone in this room. This is a spot where he wins.

Speaker 1 He wins. His back is against the wall like it's never been before.
Against Against the wall. But not like this.
Three and a half. They were favorites, you know, or not favorites, but still.

Speaker 1 The back is against the wall this week. Everyone thinks it's going to be a Joe Burrow domination.
Torch passing. Torch passing, yeah.
The torch is going to get passed after the game.

Speaker 1 Tom Brady is going to beat Joe Burrow and be like, here you go, son.

Speaker 1 I still got it, but you can have it. I just think the Bengals are going to be.
I don't think that's how a torch passing works. Maybe it's like more like, yeah, it's like a joint passing.

Speaker 1 Like, we can share it. I just don't know.

Speaker 4 Like, it's double torch. Yeah.
Let me ask you this. Torch up together.

Speaker 1 If the Bengals get up 10-0, do you think you have a chance? Yes. I don't.
It's Tom Brady. Right.
But the Bengals' defense is very good. They're banged up.
They're a little bit banged up.

Speaker 1 Was it Trey House? How is it? He broke his wrist?

Speaker 1 I believe. Did he? I think so.

Speaker 1 But I think he's going to play, which is a football guy. I'm going to look that up.

Speaker 1 I'm pretty sure he broke his wrist, and he's like, I'm still going to play.

Speaker 4 I mean, it's going to tell us a lot about the Buccaneers, how they come out this week, after getting just the shit kicked out of them. That was embarrassing.

Speaker 4 You know what this is? This is a a do you have any pride game for the Buccaneers? But they do have pride.

Speaker 1 They're still, everyone's shitting on the Buccaneers like the season's over. They're in playoff mode.
They're in the locker room. They're in film trading.

Speaker 1 They're like, guys, we got to gear up for a playoff run. Fact or fiction.
Fact. So, like, they're not looking at, we just got our shit stomped.
It's like, all right, let's break down.

Speaker 1 And it's Tom Brady. He's going to be, let's break down the film.
Let's come out. Let's win this game.
And let's make a run for the playoffs.

Speaker 1 Who knows how to do that better than anyone else in the league?

Speaker 1 So Trey Henkinson is going to probably be out for a few weeks, but he did play the entire fourth quarter against the Browns with a broken wrist.

Speaker 4 That's badass.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 6 we should be rooting for tampa bay to lose this game to to try to hit the um the record gami of having everybody in the nfc south finish the year six and eleven yes so i saw a story that turns out tom brady does adjustments with the skill players in a separate meeting and the coaches don't know what adjustments he makes till they see it on game day and i actually think this has been having a huge effect on their protections Oh, and that's why Brady's had no time.

Speaker 1 Oh. And he's been getting hit so much.
It does does have anything to do with the fact that their offensive line also sucks. Right.

Speaker 6 Well, but the thing is, like, positioning of skilled players has a lot to do with the protection stuff.

Speaker 6 So I feel like that misalignment of not having the whole offense on the same page and coaches not knowing what the hell Tom Brady's going to show up with on Sunday.

Speaker 1 You call him a bad teammate?

Speaker 6 I just, like, there's protection breakdowns.

Speaker 1 Careful, he might be a jet next year.

Speaker 1 That'd be weird. It would be so weird.
That would be fucking weird. It would be so fucking weird.
All right, Max, your favorite underdog?

Speaker 1 Raiders plus a half. Ooh.
At home against the Pats. Josh McDaniels

Speaker 1 versus Bill Belichick.

Speaker 4 He's the student and the teacher.

Speaker 1 He said, I wouldn't be here today if it weren't for Bill Belichick. He's his dad.
It's a nice thing to say. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Now, Josh McDaniels, didn't he beat Bill Belichick when he was on the Broncos?

Speaker 1 It was when they went to 6-0. They won with Kyle Orton in an overtime game, and that was like Josh McDaniels.
What an awesome coach. He's got Bill Belichick's number.

Speaker 1 And then he's lost pretty much every game since.

Speaker 4 Basically, every game at that point. Yeah, the 6-0.
I still remember that because it was like Josh McDaniels is the next era of head coach in the NFL.

Speaker 4 He was the young hotshot guy that everybody thought he was what Sean McVay ended up being. Right.

Speaker 1 Darren Waller and Hunter Renfro, I think, are going to be back for the Raiders.

Speaker 4 Oh, this is the game to see who the best bad team in the NFL is. Yes.

Speaker 1 Yes. Yes.
It's the king of the bad teams.

Speaker 4 What does that look, Hank?

Speaker 1 Well, Hank, we never got your take on Monday Night Football because you were sick. Anything you'd like to say? Are you back? So bad.
You're in the playoffs as of right now. We're so back.

Speaker 1 Patriots games have been so fun to watch this year.

Speaker 4 I actually think that...

Speaker 1 Super Bowl 7 on the way.

Speaker 4 I think that whichever team wins this game would actually be the worst good team, and the team that loses might be the best bad team. Does that make sense?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I don't know. It depends on how they win.
If it's like a close game and they're both kind of sucking it out there, I think they both stay bad teams, but one of them is the best.

Speaker 4 But like if if the Patriots blow them out, the Patriots win like 30 to 10.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I think that you elevate them to a worse than good team. Yeah, we've talked about it all year, but like watching Patriots games sucks.
And

Speaker 1 at this point in the year, it's like they're not winning the Super Bowl. Oh, like, yeah, we can make that be really good.
We can make the playoffs. That'd be cool.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Hey, like, welcome to our world, man.

Speaker 1 Welcome to hell. Making the playoffs is fun.

Speaker 4 Water's great.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Okay.

Speaker 1 PFT, underdog.

Speaker 4 My underdog this week week is going to be the Tennessee Titans.

Speaker 1 Oh!

Speaker 1 Plus three.

Speaker 4 This feels like a Tractor Cito game. I know it's going to be indoors.
Or I guess

Speaker 4 technically not indoors because they had a lightning delay there one time.

Speaker 4 So it's kind of indoors, but I still feel like this is a big-time Derrick Henry game. The Chargers run defense sucks dick.
Derrick Henry is just going to run it down their throats.

Speaker 1 Remember last year when we talked about the Titans, they played 91 players. They're close to reaching that again this year.
They are the most injured team. They've played 80 players this year.

Speaker 1 I think Danico Autry is coming back, though.

Speaker 1 They've had a lot of defensive injuries this year, but they Titans, I don't, this is like, if you're a Titans fan, you should be saying every day, like, we got to fix something with the training staff.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Like, next year, if we're going to make any changes, training staff and off-season

Speaker 1 conditioning, because something's not working.

Speaker 4 Yeah, this to me feels like

Speaker 4 it's a big-time moment between Staley and Mike Vrabel. And Staley's like the, you know, he knows, he knows football.
He's a smart guy.

Speaker 4 But when it comes to like getting dudes ready for a playoff stretch right now, that's Vrabel talent.

Speaker 1 Yes, that is. Okay, my underdog, I am going to,

Speaker 1 this is probably going to backfire. I'm going to take the Jacksonville Jaguars plus four and a half.
Cowboys in a look ahead. Big time look ahead with the Eagles.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's just, I feel like it's one of those games I'll know right away.

Speaker 1 Like if the Jaguars, because, you know, the Jaguars are a team that, like, they'll take a step forward and then they'll take two steps back.

Speaker 1 So, if I get caught in a two steps back situation, it's going to get ugly. But the Cowboys have some injuries.
I don't know. We can never visualize this matchup going to Jacksonville.

Speaker 1 Also, the Jaguars, it feels like they're a house of horrors for like Super Bowl contending teams late in the season. You go there, you lose a game.
Everyone's like, what the fuck just happened?

Speaker 1 Jaguars plus four and a half. Trevor Lawrence.
I don't hate it. He's riding.

Speaker 4 Big time look-ahead game.

Speaker 4 The Texans should have beat the Cowboys last week.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Like they until they realized, wait, we want to lose this game and then lost.

Speaker 4 Yeah, when they didn't get the ball in from the two-yard line. Then at that point, they were like, we might as well lose it since we didn't get in.

Speaker 6 Yeah,

Speaker 1 take advantage of this. Yeah.
We got to fucking lose.

Speaker 4 But yeah, the Cowboys, they haven't looked great. Yeah, they kicked a shit out of the Colts a couple weeks ago.

Speaker 1 But it was close.

Speaker 1 No, it was 21-19 in the fourth quarter. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 Like in the fourth quarter, it was a very close game until they absolutely nuked him. Right.
But the Cowboys, they feel like

Speaker 4 I'm going to be. I'll put it this way.
If they take care of business, this is a big-time take-care of business game.

Speaker 4 If they go to Jacksonville and they win impressively, then I'm going to be all in with the Dallas Cowboys, unfortunately.

Speaker 1 Billy, favorite underdog?

Speaker 6 I'm taking a New York team. I don't know if it's going to be the Giants or the Jets.
The Jets is a pick'em, so I don't like that line.

Speaker 4 They make everything so weird.

Speaker 6 No, but I actually like the Giants.

Speaker 1 So what is the tie?

Speaker 6 I've been choosing between two. I think I'm going to go with the Giants by four and a half.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Because they're going to be. But you wanted to shout out the Jets.

Speaker 6 The The thing is, I just don't like the line.

Speaker 1 What do you mean? It's a pick'em.

Speaker 6 There's more space. There's more room for hitting it with more points.
Yeah. Whereas the pick'em is, it's not even under.
You got to win the game.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
So

Speaker 6 I do think Mike White's going to get the win, though.

Speaker 1 Big time with Zach Wilson being QB2 now.

Speaker 4 I know.

Speaker 6 So there's a little fire underneath him.

Speaker 1 Yeah. He might be back.
He might be back. Like,

Speaker 1 we're one, and Mike White loves to get injured. I can't wait for that to happen.
And then they win, and Billy's football is like, Zach Wilson, future. Yeah, Mahomes.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 Where we're at with that relationship right now, it's like Zach's been, he's been begging to get let back in the house. The thing.

Speaker 6 Begging.

Speaker 4 And they finally, they cracked the door. They're like, I know you're homeless.
You can come inside, but you're sleeping on the couch. Yeah.

Speaker 6 But it's like the thing is record-wise, he was 5-2.

Speaker 1 Right. So you're already talking yourself back in time.
Okay, yeah, you're fully back in. Taylor Hines.

Speaker 4 Already. He hasn't done shit.
He just, he stopped getting

Speaker 4 asked to not come to the games. And Billy's like, I think he's back.

Speaker 6 He's been working on his fundamentals. Fundamentals.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 Okay, that's good.

Speaker 1 He's a grinder. Fucking Jets pick him.
Oh, there it is. And this history repeats itself.
Okay, Jake.

Speaker 1 Underdog. So Jets? Jets pick him.
Okay.

Speaker 5 I am with you on the Jaguars. Plus four and a half.

Speaker 1 Let's go together, baby.

Speaker 5 Baby team.

Speaker 6 Look at all these.

Speaker 5 Usually bad teams getting hot late.

Speaker 1 Lions, Jaguars, Commanders. And the Jaguars are playing for something.
There is a world where if they go 3-1 and the Titans go 1-3,

Speaker 1 or sorry, to say it better, if the Jaguars go 2-1 and the Titans go 1-2, that week 18 game between the two of them will decide the division, which would be funny because that would probably be the Sunday night game.

Speaker 1 Imagine the Jaguars Sunday night, week 18 to get to the playoffs. It'd be amazing.
Oh, man. Pops game.
Dolphins Jets. Yeah, in Duval.

Speaker 1 The pool would be filled with people.

Speaker 4 So filled. Can you imagine that?

Speaker 1 So filled. What are you saying? What are you saying, Jake?

Speaker 5 I'm eyeing a Flex of the Year Dolphins Jets revenge game. Personal revenge game.

Speaker 1 Personal revenge game.

Speaker 5 That could be a winner goes to the playoffs, loser goes home, and I'm ready for the Jet fans.

Speaker 5 Billy's pointing his fingers at me.

Speaker 1 Yep.

Speaker 5 I didn't do it. It's on camera.

Speaker 4 What does that mean that you're ready? I didn't do it.

Speaker 5 After what they did to me in week five.

Speaker 4 Yeah, but what are you ready to do?

Speaker 1 Was being ready.

Speaker 1 Eliminate them. Yeah.
Or get eliminated. That was fucking cold-blooded, Jake.
Yeah. Damn.
He's ready to do it. In them.
They will be buying that game. Yeah.

Speaker 4 I almost got mad at Jake for a second there when he was like, you know, you see all these usually loser teams getting good at the end of the season, like the Lions, the Jaguars, and the Commanders.

Speaker 1 And then I thought for a second. I thought that was a loser team, too.

Speaker 4 I know, but I thought for a second, I got mad initially, and then I thought about it, and I was like,

Speaker 1 yeah, he's right.

Speaker 4 He's right.

Speaker 5 So, we'll see.

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Speaker 1 Hank, your favorite over. There's, I actually love all the unders this week.
It's a problem. I have, yeah, I hope you guys can help me figure this one out first before I make a pick.
Okay.

Speaker 1 Tua, Tyree Kill, Jalen Waddell, Mike McDaniel, best offensive minds in the league, one of the best offensive teams, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah. Well, Josh Allen,

Speaker 1 Stefan Diggs, the Bills have been running it up all year.

Speaker 1 Our weather report on, too. Why? What reason could this possibly be

Speaker 1 that it's only 44?

Speaker 4 Have you ever looked at a giant thermometer, Hank?

Speaker 1 Weather isn't

Speaker 1 over 44. You guys, it's 44.
Also, the Dolphins have only scored 17.

Speaker 5 It was the 9-3 game when weather was an issue when you went.

Speaker 1 Whatever it was. Was it real? No.
No, it wasn't. I'd still do it.
We were there. I was in a t-shirt.

Speaker 1 They've only scored 17 points in the last two weeks. 17 points, 17 points.
So it's like their offense has definitely hit a snack. Yeah, but if they score 17, the Bills score 40.
Don't let Tyree

Speaker 1 cover a fumble.

Speaker 4 Don't let him get the ball in the open field.

Speaker 5 Then he can't return it.

Speaker 1 What if the Bills score 28 and the Dolphins score 17? That's a winner. That's a winner.

Speaker 4 Is Tyreek okay?

Speaker 1 His ankle. Yeah.

Speaker 4 I think he's fine.

Speaker 6 I mean, that gets aggravated in the super cold with that atmosphere.

Speaker 1 It's going to be the actual true, true, true. Billy's right.
Weather is not real.

Speaker 1 This game is going way over. I'm a big believer in

Speaker 6 the hospital pressure because that does make you hurt.

Speaker 4 You're a huge believer in atmospheric pressure.

Speaker 4 I always say that Billy is the biggest atmospheric pressure guy that I know.

Speaker 6 No, but when they talk about the sky being a cloudy day, you hurt more.

Speaker 1 Like you're older. You're trees.
Yeah.

Speaker 6 Like your back.

Speaker 4 I do believe in that. Well, so I kind of see where you're coming from because Tyreek Hill, like, he does, he's got so much muscle in his body that it just cramps up naturally all the time.

Speaker 4 In the cold weather, that probably exacerbates it a little bit.

Speaker 1 He's going to, Tyreek Hill also is going to, like, he's a primo, like, wearing a full hooded sweatshirt underneath his uniform. Yeah.
He's not going to like the cold. Although he played in Kids' City.

Speaker 4 Even Bills players are playing, like, practicing in parkas, like, full-ass coats. Yeah, you practice, but then you go on the field just sleeveless.

Speaker 1 The Dolphins are going to be bothered by the cold. I can guarantee you that.

Speaker 4 Their name is the Dolphins. Yeah.

Speaker 1 They're wearing shirts that say, I wish it were colder. that's a that's a guaranteed sign that you don't

Speaker 1 yeah you should be you should be you don't completely nude if you actually wish that it was colder yeah but ac blasting you

Speaker 1 when you wear positive vibes only shirts right i'm trying to will positive vibes when it's the vibes are not good they're trying to will cold weather right but did you hear the part about the vibes not being good no it does saturday night great game weather doesn't matter this is going way over okay uh max your favorite over trust um Jags, Cowboys.

Speaker 1 I just think this is going to be a fun game. So, over.
I like it.

Speaker 5 Okay. 47.
I like it.

Speaker 1 I like it.

Speaker 1 PFT. I'm Ryan with Hank.
Let's go. Weather's not real.
Weather's not real.

Speaker 4 Weather's not real. I'm with you, Hank.
I saw this matchup, and I thought the exact same thing.

Speaker 4 I thought Jalen Waddell, Tyreek Hill, Alec Ingold, the three, the big three for the Dolphins right there, they're going to put it down the Bills' throat. Bills are going to respond.

Speaker 4 It's going to be a shootout. Weather's not real.
In fact, it's a holiday season.

Speaker 4 If this over hits, I'm going to give free subscriptions to part of my take to everybody.

Speaker 1 I'll match.

Speaker 1 I'll match too, honestly. I don't think that's a good idea.

Speaker 1 I don't usually match you guys, but it's the holiday season. Yeah, it's quadrupled.
All right, thank you.

Speaker 1 You know,

Speaker 1 I'm going to probably bet this over, so I'll ride with you guys in that. My official pick will be the Lions, Jets over 44.5, but

Speaker 1 I'm going to ride it with you guys. Come on.
Yeah, you got to. Yeah.
Yeah. It snowed one time in a Patriots game they scored 59 points.
That's true. That did happen one time.
That type of snap.

Speaker 4 I think that game, this is how down bad Hank's gotten this year between his

Speaker 4 Hungry Dogs and the Patriots not looking so great, is he just keeps replaying that one game in his head like seven times this season.

Speaker 1 No, I mean, I follow a couple

Speaker 1 accounts on Twitter that are literally just like one of them's Pat's throwback clips and one of them is just Tom Brady random drives where they just post like a drive from like the Pittsburgh Steelers game 2013 and it's like two completions to Edelman and then a long completion to Gronk and then a touchdown.

Speaker 1 But yeah, that definitely is in my head. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I mean, it's my favorite accounts, but it's like I'm living in the past for sure. All right.
I'm taking the, yeah, the Jets, the Lions over 44 and a half.

Speaker 1 It's based a lot on Quinn and Williams potentially not playing. We're going to talk about him with Baldy, but he means so much to that Jets defense.
Lions offense is humming right now.

Speaker 1 Mike White not afraid to push it down the field. I think we're going to get some points in this game.

Speaker 6 I also took this. This was seriously, I haven't written down.

Speaker 1 I know. I know.
Yeah, you double up on the Jets game every week.

Speaker 4 There was a lot of unders.

Speaker 6 I actually don't do this as a bit. This is real.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 1 We know. Oh, oh, dude, you had me fooled.
We know your brain is not a bit. What do you do as a bit? Yeah, it depends on the day.

Speaker 4 You don't want to know the bits. It depends on the day.

Speaker 1 But Patrick's talking about

Speaker 1 it.

Speaker 6 When we talk about, like, there was a bunch of great unders this week, but this was like just the best over. The best.
The Lions have been an over team. The Jets are going to click.

Speaker 6 And I think there are a couple injuries on the Lions defense, too.

Speaker 4 Yeah. So

Speaker 1 it happens. So let's ride, Billy.
Yours, Jake.

Speaker 5 I am going with the battle of Big Cat versus Max. The Eagles and the Bears over 48 and a half.
Yes, the Bears haven't won, but they score. They do.

Speaker 5 Justin Fields is dealing with an illness right now, but the Eagles can obviously score too.

Speaker 4 Man, I'll tell you what.

Speaker 9 When you're hungry out there, you start acting like a rookie quarterback in his first game, making bad decisions, messing up the basics, being all out of sorts. That's where Snickers comes in, man.

Speaker 9 That thing is packed. Roasted peanuts, nugget, caramel, milk chocolate.
It's like the MVP of candy bars.

Speaker 9 And when you bite into it, boom, it sorts you out, gets your head back in the game of life, satisfying your hunger. Remember this: Snickers handles your hunger so you can handle everything else.

Speaker 9 Snickers satisfies, man. That's a winning play.

Speaker 1 Max thinking I would mush possibly have in a bowl and eat 20 hot dogs just for the Eagles to lose is crazy. Well, no, that's not crazy.
No, 0.0 is

Speaker 1 that was the line that really the Bears play the Bears Eagles play 100 times. The Bears win zero of them.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Okay.

Speaker 1 This is just the quarterback matchup. I want to do the Browns.
I'm 2-0. That's probably the best streak I've been on this year is the Browns.

Speaker 1 But the logic being that Deshaun Watson's not warmed up, you assume he's kind of warmed up now. So I don't think it plays as much.

Speaker 1 So I'm going to take the Cardinals, Broncos under 36 and a half. Okay,

Speaker 1 I like that just because just because of the quarterback matchups, but then you think that,

Speaker 1 and then it's like that, and there's like two defensive touchdowns.

Speaker 4 It just does feel like the game that's going to bum you out the most to watch.

Speaker 1 No, Lions Jets under 44 and a half. Oh, okay, this is huge for the competition.
The Jets and Hank are against each other twice.

Speaker 1 The Jets' defense is legit, Quentin Williams, Quentin Williams doesn't matter. He'll probably play.
Quentin doesn't matter. This could either even things up or create a huge gap.

Speaker 1 So this is a pivotal week. Wow.

Speaker 6 I want to go to the review table right now. I think there might be some fading right now.

Speaker 1 You just want to put it off.

Speaker 1 You guys both equally suck. I also pick first, so you could be fading.
No.

Speaker 6 No, you're fading my. I already gave those picks, and you're taking the opposite.

Speaker 1 You took the opposite of his over.

Speaker 1 Is that the only one? I mean, next week we'll start writing him down. Yeah.
Stick to it.

Speaker 5 We will. Also, Billy, this could benefit you.

Speaker 1 If you win both, you're up four games. Have confidence in your picks, Billy.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Max.

Speaker 1 I'm with Hank. I think Jets win this game ugly.
Ooh, okay.

Speaker 1 I think Lions win ugly, but. PFT.
Doesn't matter.

Speaker 4 I'm struggling right now because I feel like Deshaun Watson, I feel like I've read something about him that he never plays in cold weather. And he didn't want to play in cold weather, right?

Speaker 4 He was talking about his teams that he was trying to go to this offseason. I think staying in a place that was warm was important to him.
It's going to be windy. It's going to be cold.

Speaker 4 I want to bet against him, but I'm going to take Falcon Saints. I'm going to do the under the Falcon Saints instead.
We've got Desmond Ritter. Desmond Ritter time, Desmond Ritter, Andy Dalton.
43.

Speaker 4 You tell me, is that an overgame?

Speaker 1 No. No.
No. Definitely.

Speaker 4 Will Compton's not going to be playing on the Falcons, so that defense is pretty good. Yep.

Speaker 4 Under 43.

Speaker 1 Also, Andy Dalton, fun fact, has the second most losses on extended rest in the last 10 years. 18 losses straight up on extended rest.
That's Stafford being the only one worse.

Speaker 4 That's pretty impressive.

Speaker 1 Yeah, just more time is bad.

Speaker 4 I'm also just on a personal vendetta for the rest of the season against the Saints.

Speaker 4 Just fuck it. Yeah, fuck them.

Speaker 1 Just fuck them. Fuck them.
Fuck them. The extended rest, by the way, the one thing that's in Hank's favor is the Bears in the last 20 years are 5-17 on extended rest.
They just can't.

Speaker 1 If you give them more time, they'll find a way to be worse.

Speaker 4 They start to hibernate. Yeah, it's bad.

Speaker 1 It's bad. All right.
I'm going to go with this. One's gross because I think you're going to have to survive the pace of the over being at like 60 at some point.

Speaker 1 But I'm going to take Chiefs, Texans under 49.5 because I think that the Chiefs are going to wamp them.

Speaker 1 And also, the Texans, Lovey, going to play some cover two, gonna keep everything in front of him. Chiefs are going to have to go down the field.

Speaker 1 It is going to be, though, like first quarter, it's going to be like

Speaker 1 21-3. And you're going to be like, oh, fuck.

Speaker 1 But it's it's going to slow down. Okay.
It's going to slow down. Trust the process.

Speaker 1 Also, if you want to,

Speaker 1 the MVP market, Mahomes is now plus 200 to win, and Jalen Hurts is minus 150. Just throwing this out there.

Speaker 1 I think Jalen Hurts probably will win, but Jalen Hurts does have a primetime game against the Cowboys. If that goes poorly, Mahomes is playing like the worst teams down the stretch.

Speaker 1 He's playing the Texans, Seahawks, Broncos, and Raiders. So he might put up some numbers.
Yeah. Just throwing it out there.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 I mean, Mahomes could get the MVP every single year. Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's just more of a, like, if you think maybe Jalen Hurts has a bad game on primetime, Christmas Eve, everyone in the, literally everyone in the world watching, that would be the only case.

Speaker 1 I'm not going to do it, but I'm just throwing that out there for the people. You're under.

Speaker 6 They're not Beluga Whales. They're Dolphins.
Bills, Dolphins, under 43.5.

Speaker 1 So you're fading Hank.

Speaker 6 No, I had it written down.

Speaker 1 Oh, okay. Wait, so you did that whole thing knowing you were going to end up being opposite him?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 wow so they're opposite three this is huge as the last place person i love to see this yeah yeah love to see it yeah love to see it all right are beluga whales are they cold weather they are okay they're a special boy it's not a bit it's not a bit not a bit not a bit all right jace um i'm taking a new game we haven't talked about yet steelers panthers under 37 and a half okay

Speaker 1 okay so maybe mason rudolph yeah that's what they're saying he's he's he's taking qb2 reps might be mason rudolph i feel like panthers out

Speaker 1 I don't know.

Speaker 5 I just can't envision a high-scoring game.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they're going to run the ball.

Speaker 4 I'm rooting for Mason Rudolph. I want Mason Rudolph to come in and throw three interceptions.
That way, we'll have games this year with three interceptions for Mitch, from Kenny, and for Mason.

Speaker 1 That's got to be a report. That would be special.
That would be a very special thing to watch.

Speaker 1 Any games we missed? I think we hit them all.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Good job, everyone.

Speaker 1 Ravens, Browns, we talked about. Yeah.
Tyler Huntley, possibly, most likely, maybe not concussed. Said afterwards that he wasn't actually concussed.

Speaker 1 So hopefully that will stave off having to watch Anthony Brown play quarterback. I think that's all the game.

Speaker 5 Oh, we never had any. We talked about Baltimore versus Cleveland.
No one officially had a pick.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 Yeah. I would take

Speaker 4 the Ravens in this one. I would, too.
Just the Deshaun thing and also the Deshaun thing, which for the record may or may not be real or may or may not exist only in my head.

Speaker 4 But to me, it's just a matchup of Kevin Stefanski and Harbaugh.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And a good defense against

Speaker 5 Rams Packers, which looks like Baker.

Speaker 1 Yes, Baker. Yeah.
Baker. Okay.

Speaker 1 Let's do.

Speaker 1 We do need our Mount Rushmore. We haven't won it in forever.

Speaker 4 Derrick Henry, Tractor Cito season.

Speaker 1 Justin Fields.

Speaker 1 Ramondre. No, no, he's injured.

Speaker 1 Come on, Hank.

Speaker 4 I mean, the one last week should have hit with Ezekiel and

Speaker 1 Pollard, yeah. Pollard? Yeah.

Speaker 4 That was juicy, too.

Speaker 1 Chubb? We'll do Chub. I'll go Ezekiel.
No, I think you gotta do a Sunday. Gotta go Sunday.
Ezekiel Elliot.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Sunday. Do a Sunday game.

Speaker 6 Josh Jacobs.

Speaker 1 Okay. I like it.
Those are our Mount Rushmore. Okay, let's do

Speaker 1 Fantasy Frenchman.

Speaker 1 Oh, Milier. Oh, Louis.
Sacroux. Hello.

Speaker 1 Hello. My name is Henri.
Bon Son. Henri.
Ming Seum Lières.

Speaker 1 What was that? That's my last name. Misleblier.
Mislepsière.

Speaker 1 It's French. Is it French? Le Grandui.
Mister.

Speaker 1 It's Jam apples. Jamapples.
Jammapples.

Speaker 1 I love green apples, red apples, and gem apples.

Speaker 1 My sitem is croissants. Croissants.

Speaker 1 No plain bagel, no cinnamon raisin bagel. No onion bagel, no everything bagel.

Speaker 1 Quesque Jamaican.

Speaker 1 I mean bagel.

Speaker 1 And my C10

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Speaker 1 What else can they do? They're announcing French fries at Taco Bell. I smell an Englishman.

Speaker 4 Trebon, Trébar,

Speaker 1 Trébon.

Speaker 1 Je mepelle.

Speaker 1 JPP.

Speaker 1 JPP.

Speaker 4 Je son Pier Paul.

Speaker 4 My start is I'm starting to smoke again.

Speaker 1 I'm starting to smoke again the cigarette.

Speaker 1 Passique

Speaker 1 ami Henri

Speaker 1 he tells me, he say, he say GPP you start bad habit, so you quit bad habit a new year resolution. Is he a lover or a friend?

Speaker 1 We are friends.

Speaker 4 We are French here. We are French.

Speaker 1 I am sitting showering.

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Speaker 1 showering, considering the order it's.

Speaker 4 My sleep air is taking naps after noon after my lunch break.

Speaker 1 Some vine, my wine, my children and I drink a bottle of wine at lunch, some champagne, and I uh Zabal Mouvement and then

Speaker 1 and then just sweet d'Omir.

Speaker 1 Okay,

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Speaker 1 Le Grand Chau.

Speaker 1 Pierre.

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Speaker 1 Le Grand Chev. Pierre.
My stardom is character conceales.

Speaker 1 It's that time of season. Time to check.

Speaker 1 Character consonants.

Speaker 1 This guy doesn't go to class.

Speaker 1 Pepe le Pieu. Drop him in the draft.
He was spending two months' vacation with his family. This guy likes to fucky vagina too much.

Speaker 1 I need to pick up romance.

Speaker 1 Oh, sex problems. No, too much.

Speaker 1 My sit-up is Tylou. Tylou.
He got hit on this balls. Oh, no.
With a pass. It was funny for more.

Speaker 1 Tylou.

Speaker 1 And my sleeper is Bulls season. Bowles.
Bulls. Give me all the balls.

Speaker 1 Toot les bows. Bulls.
The bulls here. Bulls there.
Bulls there. Le Bulls.

Speaker 1 Très orange.

Speaker 1 Les pompel mousse. Yeah, the pompe le mous.

Speaker 1 Les pompeles mouss. Trèper flut.
Oui-wee. Oui.
Trèoron.

Speaker 1 Then. Clemson.
Yeah. Hey, Tennessee.

Speaker 1 Le Volu Hiers.

Speaker 1 We, Thailoos, Wii Wii and Des Ball.

Speaker 1 Salou, Miami. Oh, for sure.
Pierre Bason.

Speaker 1 Oh, hey, Pierre. Two Piers.
We're lucky Pierre.

Speaker 1 Basau de Grandui? Weir.

Speaker 1 It's best. Suss.

Speaker 1 It's a bust. My stantum is um pappe.
Right?

Speaker 1 Um paper.

Speaker 1 The best. He kicked the ball.
And my situm is us, the French, when we pee.

Speaker 1 We pee, we, we, we say,

Speaker 1 it's a nice treat for us.

Speaker 1 My sweeper, the Germans.

Speaker 1 Julius Caesar, Julius Caesar came back from the dead, he'd say, why aren't there still Germans? Yeah. Way, way, wait, wait.
Gen Sepa. Wait, wait, wait.
Gen Sepa, you look a little German.

Speaker 1 No, no, no, no, no, no, you look a little German.

Speaker 1 Let's see your fault. Counter three, count to three.
Don't you see three?

Speaker 1 No. Oh, no.
You have given yourself away. No, no.

Speaker 1 Oh, man. That was.

Speaker 1 That was a good time. That's your best accent I've ever heard, PFT.

Speaker 1 I've heard you duelists. I do that, PFT.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I mean, that's pretty low-blood.

Speaker 1 I was the only one with the greeny camera.

Speaker 1 I was about to say,

Speaker 1 when they do this accent, you can get the 1-800 flowers.

Speaker 1 My wife.

Speaker 1 Didn't hear Skip. Didn't hear my homes.

Speaker 1 Stayed out of all of them. All right.
I'm going to pass out.

Speaker 1 Billy, yeah, you can take that off. Let's kick it to Brian Baldniger.
Great interview. Great football guy.
Baldy, part of the show now.

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Speaker 4 And now here he is, Brian Baldinger.

Speaker 1 Okay, we now welcome on a very special guest. I would actually say a guest that I don't know how we haven't had him on in the seven years we've been doing this.

Speaker 1 He's a football guy through and through. It is Baldy, Brian Baldinger.
You can find him on NFL Network. You can find him on Compass Media.
You can find him on Twitter at Baldy, at Baldy NFL.

Speaker 1 He's got breakdowns. He does everything.
He's a football guy through and through. So, Baldy, let's start there.
I apologize on my behalf

Speaker 1 that we have not had you on yet. Because would you say you're up there with people in the world who love football the most?

Speaker 11 I don't think anybody loves it more than me. I think I'm at the very top of the food chain.
So nobody loves it more because nobody works harder at it because it's never work.

Speaker 11 It's just I sit in a film room, a dark room, like what a mushroom would grow in. Like just a dark room, give me a cup of coffee and I can grind tape for 15 hours a day and have so much fun doing it.

Speaker 4 Yeah, that's the thing I've always loved about your breakdowns. You get them out fast, too.
I feel like you get the all-22 before anybody else gets it, right?

Speaker 4 Do you have like a direct line?

Speaker 11 Pretty much. The NFL doesn't like it when I put it out there right away because like teams haven't even had a chance to watch their own games.
And I'm already evaluating their.

Speaker 11 So they're like, can you just like hold off till Monday morning, 5 a.m. ball? So they, they, you know, they get mad at me, but, you know,

Speaker 11 I'm just trying to feed the fans.

Speaker 1 The fans want to see it. You know, I was the first person I got.

Speaker 11 I was announcing the Chargers Tennessee game. So it's a late game.
So I'll be getting, you know, interest from fans like Detroit and the Jets.

Speaker 11 Like, what the heck is, you know, what is Jared Goff doing on that throw? Like, Saussure, like, I'm already getting people telling me what they want to see. So, like, I'm just trying to feed them.

Speaker 1 That's, that's awesome. So, what, what, like, in a, in a general week, we know you're traveling on the weekend for the games, but uh, do you watch every game on film? Do you watch back?

Speaker 1 Are you like, how does the process work? I'm very curious. All right.

Speaker 11 So, listen to this. You'll love this, guys.
So, I'm doing San Francisco and Tampa last Sunday. So, I'm at at Levi Stadium.

Speaker 11 You know, I'm down the field before the game, talking to all the guys, just getting, you know, Debos tell me about Brock Purdy, whatever it is. So

Speaker 11 the game ends. It's blowout.
49ers win. While the game was going on, I had my computer that I'm on right now

Speaker 11 uploading all the one o'clock games. So the game ends, and I just immediately kind of turn around.
I start watching the one o'clock games. Start watching, you know, the Jets and Buffalo.

Speaker 11 And so I started breaking it down. Eagles, you know,

Speaker 11 out, you know, whoever, the Giants, whatever it is. So I was there in the stadium.
Literally, every single person that cleans the stadium was gone.

Speaker 11 In fact, security came in at, I had 11.30 red eye back to Philadelphia. So at like 10 o'clock, security came in and goes, hey, you can't stay here any longer.

Speaker 11 Like literally, I was the last one to leave the stadium before they locked it up. So, I mean, I got five hours in them.
And then I watched, I don't sleep on planes.

Speaker 11 So I just watched five more hours on a plane home. So I kind of got a jump.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's incredible. You're ready to go.
So, all right, so that game, because we want to talk about this weekend in the NFL. So that game, you saw it, Bucs, 49ers.

Speaker 1 The Bucs, to me, and I want your take on it, they just look slow. They look slow at all times.
Like, you know, their plays look slow. Guys aren't winning.

Speaker 1 Is it, would you say it's Tom Brady or would you say it's the offensive line in front of him and his playmakers, like him not trusting the guys around him?

Speaker 11 Because I still think he has a live arm, but it's looked so bad this this year well i mean you could look it up i mean he threw the ball 55 times each of the last two games and you know they're not scoring any points i mean they they had the you know two fourth quarter touchdowns against new orleans but they were dreadful for three and a half quarters in that game and they were dreadful against cleveland the week before when he threw it 48 times when the ball when tom brady is throwing the ball to the sidelines this offense is doing nothing Like they're not scoring points.

Speaker 11 They're not converting third downs. And that's what he's doing because he doesn't trust his protection.
And so Tom Brady, not trusting his protection.

Speaker 11 He's not getting, you could talk about Julio Jones or Godwin or Evans. The ball is not going down the field to those guys.

Speaker 11 And if it's not going down the field to those guys and he's not getting chunk plays, the offense is stuck in the mud. And that's where they're at right now.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 4 I love it when you break down the trenches. That's when you get real fired up when you talk about especially like the baddest defensive lines in the league.

Speaker 4 I remember a couple years ago, you were real high on the Commanders when they had Chase Young and they had montez sweat cooking and jonathan allen all those guys yeah uh chase young's coming back he should be back this weekend i've been on the mindset that the washington defensive line it looks better at times without chase young in it than it did when he was playing his uh not his rookie year but his second year before heard it's like a cohesive unit am i like am i a real big dumbass for thinking that no you're actually seen exactly right because i i mean i was on chase young last year before the injury going, hey, like, I mean, I respect Defensive Player of the Year and how hard he played his rookie year.

Speaker 11 But I mean, he had to get better. Like, he was just using his raw talent just to run and chase.
And he had elite athletic movement.

Speaker 11 You know, like, you saw that, but you didn't see like an adroit pass rusher. You didn't see a plan.
And so last year, before he got hurt, he just didn't play hard enough. Like, I pointed it out.

Speaker 11 Like, when I see offensive linemen down the field at the ball ball before Chase Young is there, that's a problem.

Speaker 11 And so what you're seeing right now, Jonathan Allen, Deron Payne, Montez Sweat, they're playing really hard. Smith Williams, they're playing real hard.

Speaker 11 If Chase, you know, comes on and he plays as hard as the guys around him are playing, then the defense will get better.

Speaker 11 But if he doesn't, if he just like sort of stands there and patty cakes with the offensive tackle, then they're not going to get better. So it's really up to Chase's motor.
It's inside of him.

Speaker 11 He's got to unleash it. And he has to know.

Speaker 11 And I've talked to, I'm good friends with Ron Rivera. I've talked to Ron about it.
They fired their defense line coach during training camp this year.

Speaker 11 You know, and he knew, because, you know, he comes from Chicago, where they probably have the best defense any of us have seen in our lifetime.

Speaker 11 You know, and like he knows how hard you got to play and how physical you got to play. And they're right there.
They're on the cusp of playing just the way Ron wants them to play.

Speaker 11 And if Chase comes in and plays like that, then this defense could take another step.

Speaker 1 So speaking of defensive lines, give us your top three right now going into the stretch run and playoffs of defensive lines because we see it every year in the playoffs.

Speaker 1 The teams that can find a way to win with four

Speaker 1 will have the best chance when it comes to a playoff football game and be able to get pressure with four on the quarterback.

Speaker 1 So who are the three teams right now that you're like their front four will be able to stand the test of time of playoff football?

Speaker 11 Without giving it really any thought right now, just knee-jerk. I'd go Eagles, 49ers, Cowboys, and they're probably

Speaker 11 the three favorites right now in the NFC for sure.

Speaker 11 But I would have to put like Cincinnati with DJ Reeder back in there at defensive tackle. And

Speaker 11 you get Hendrickson and you get Hubbard,

Speaker 11 Joseph Asai is a young player. That's a pretty good group.
And they're very under, you know, you can very underestimate them.

Speaker 11 But

Speaker 11 they've got what it takes to be a really good defense like what we saw in the postseason a year ago.

Speaker 1 So actually, this just popped my head because we're going to talk about week 15 games. The Jets Lions, if Quinnen Williams doesn't play, that to me feels like the most important player.

Speaker 1 Sauce Gardner's been great this year. They've had a lot of guys who have been great on defense, but it feels like everything starts with him.

Speaker 1 Is that a fair assessment that if he's not playing, that is the most important player on their defense?

Speaker 11 Yes. Yes.

Speaker 11 Completely. In fact, I just got right before I I came on with you guys, I was on with the Jets doing something, you know, for Robert Sala and, you know, their TV thing.

Speaker 11 And I was just asking, like, what's Quinn? Like, I don't think he's going to play. He's got a path.
He went out of the game last week, you know, and they play Thursday night.

Speaker 11 So they play Jacksonville on Thursday night. So I don't think they're going to rush him.
I think they're going to get him ready for Jacksonville, but it's a huge loss because

Speaker 11 There's very few defensive tackles in this league right now, Chris Jones. I mean, there's a couple that are affecting the game from the interior the way Quinn Williams is and has been all year.

Speaker 11 He's, you know, he's, he, he's a, he's a candidate for the defensive player of the year. Now, if he misses a game, that kind of knocks him down a little bit, but he's just been that good.

Speaker 11 And they don't have anybody else like him. Josh Brinkle-Myers, you know, you can put some guys in there, but not the way Quinnen's playing.
He makes, you know, Bryce Huff and Carl Austin.

Speaker 11 He makes these guys on the edge that much better.

Speaker 4 Yeah. Who would you say is the baddest dude in the NFL on defense? Ooh.

Speaker 1 Might not be the best guy, but the baddest, nastiest guy.

Speaker 1 Bad dude.

Speaker 11 Max Crosby is the best defensive player in this league. Now, I talked to Nick Boza last week, and Nick heard me say that.
And he was like, oh, so you think Nick is the best.

Speaker 11 You think Max is the, you know, the best pass rush, the best defensive player? I go, he plays every single play, Nick. He goes, yeah, but I'm getting ready for the postseason.

Speaker 11 Like, I don't need to play every single play. So it's a good comeback, and it's a fair argument on Nick's, you know, like from Nick's standpoint.

Speaker 11 But nobody plays a game like max crosby right now he plays every snap nobody can block him the run game nobody makes more tackles from the defensive end position than max um but nick is right there nick is right there right now matt judon is right there um he's getting help from josh ushe on the other side they're a really good tandem um the eagles they lead the league in sacks right now they they play with these tremendous leads so they don't have to blitz at all their front four is just everybody whether it's fletcher cox or brandon graham ahsan reddick josh switz underrated, very underrated.

Speaker 11 Like that's a good group.

Speaker 11 I would say Max Crosby and

Speaker 11 Nick Bosa right now are the two guys.

Speaker 1 I like the Max Crosby answer. I feel like he doesn't get enough love.
The Dolphins.

Speaker 1 So what's the fix here? It feels like they have now...

Speaker 1 I don't want to say it's as simple as teams have figured it out, but it does feel like the way the Chargers defended them on Sunday night, where they're basically saying we're taking away the middle of the field.

Speaker 1 We're going to make sure that all the receivers, our cornerbacks have inside leverage and you're not going to be able to run these crossers that open everything up.

Speaker 1 What is the counter move that Mike McDaniel can do? Because it feels like their season might be slipping away here.

Speaker 11 Where's your guy's film room that you're getting all these observations from? Like this fire.

Speaker 1 We know they're on two. You know, we know that.

Speaker 11 Because like Michael Davis, number 43 for the Chargers. Like I saw him de up Jalen Waddle last week.
Trent Shurfield, Mike Gosicki. He deat them all up.

Speaker 11 You know, he's a six foot three corner and he doesn't have the the greatest foot speed, but he's beating him up at the line of scrimmage.

Speaker 11 And Jalen Waddle, there's no doing the waddle when you do that. San Francisco did something similar to him the week before.
And so now I feel like the counter move to your point is on Mike McDaniel.

Speaker 11 It's like for, you know, for 12 weeks or 11 weeks, Waddle and Hill were just like destroying teams down the field.

Speaker 11 You know, and Tuo was the number one rated quarterback in the league and everything was like rosy. Well, all right.

Speaker 11 You know, they're having problems right now and they're having problems getting those guys loose and free. And the running game isn't great.
And so it's up to Mike McDaniel.

Speaker 11 There's things you can do now. There's band beaters.
There's bunch formations. There's things you can do to get those guys loose.
And I feel like maybe that's what they got to do right now.

Speaker 4 Is it fair to say like Tua has shown that he has some limitations to what he can do in terms of

Speaker 4 making throws to the outside of the field?

Speaker 11 I think he,

Speaker 11 I mean, look, he made two bad throws against San Francisco and he got picked. All right.
And, you know, there's a couple where he sailed the ball.

Speaker 11 Look, he's challenged in the pocket. You know, so, you know, you saw, you know, San Francisco was blitzing him right up the middle.
You saw him last week,

Speaker 11 you know, and he had trouble getting the ball when there's pressure right in his face.

Speaker 11 That's always going to be a problem for guys at that height.

Speaker 11 But I think mechanically, he's really good. Like he's really sound.

Speaker 11 And so they got to get back to you know, plays right now where he can set his feet and throw. Like maybe it's the RPO game.

Speaker 11 Like they've got, they've got some things in the offense and in their arsenal that they can pick up. Like Buffalo, though, like,

Speaker 11 you know, Tredavius White is back. I mean, you're playing a lot more man coverage than I've seen Buffalo play in the past.
And it allows him to blitz, you know, play man covers behind it.

Speaker 11 And that might be a problem for the Dolphins this week.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 less about film and more about the feel for the game. You've been to, you know, you played in the NFL.
You've been to a million games. That game on Saturday night, Dolphins going up to Buffalo.

Speaker 1 When you're on the sideline talking to guys in a cold weather game, can you tell right away which team wants to be there and which team doesn't?

Speaker 1 Like, is that something that, because we put a lot of weight on that as a fan perspective, like Dolphins going up to the cold, they don't want to be there.

Speaker 1 Can you sense it when guys are not locked in or the cold is bothering them and it just, it feels like they're off?

Speaker 11 I actually can.

Speaker 11 Like, there's some team, like, you know, there's a lot of teams, you know, that love to be out on the field before the game you know like if you watch the eagles they're a big pregame you know warm-up team you know jordan milada you know he's a polynesian he's out there barefoot doesn't matter what the you know he's got six toes like he's a freak he's out there just running around and lane johnson like they're they're a big pregame team but there's teams that like you're like are they going to come out and warm up today you know like okay it's a little cold okay it's raining like cats and dogs out here like they're not out there on the field like patrick mahomes is warming up every game regardless what it is like he's just having fun, throwing the ball behind the back, throwing the route tree to Travis Kelsey.

Speaker 11 Like he's just having fun. Like he comes out every game.
But there are some teams when the weather is bad or inclement, like you can't find them. They're in the locker room.

Speaker 11 And I do think there's something to that.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Absolutely.

Speaker 4 Did you just say that Jordan Bulata has six toes? Yeah.

Speaker 1 He's got... Wait, do you do that? I know that, yeah.

Speaker 11 The webbed. The web.
Like he's like he's an amphibian that's just kind of making the way through evolution to the land right now.

Speaker 4 Yeah, that's he's a freak. That's incredible.
I wish I had known that a long time ago.

Speaker 1 I definitely would have.

Speaker 11 You could get Jordan on the show and he could play his ukulele and show you his six toes.

Speaker 1 Yeah, incredible. I mean, like,

Speaker 4 we should probably talk about your hands at this point. The famous baldy finger that you got there.
Yeah, look at that thing.

Speaker 1 Oh, man.

Speaker 4 That is, that's gnarly. That's at least a 90-degree angle we got going out there.

Speaker 11 I was at a Cowboys reunion last Tuesday night. I was with Roger Stahlbach.
Roger's got the same finger. So we were comparing fingers, me and Roger, last week.

Speaker 11 You know, so it was like, and I've known me and Roger used to play basketball all the time. He tried to get his fix.

Speaker 11 And, you know, next week, they're like, you can't do anything for six weeks now, Roger. You know, like, just let it set.
And next week, he's playing basketball. The ball hits it.

Speaker 1 The splint flies off and the finger goes right back to where it was.

Speaker 4 Yeah, Torrey Holtz got a pretty gnarly one, too.

Speaker 1 Have you compared him?

Speaker 11 He's got a bunch of his fingers crossed in the middle.

Speaker 1 Like his, his are like that.

Speaker 1 Does it hurt at at all? Or is it just, it's just, it is what it is?

Speaker 11 It doesn't hurt, but like, if I have to get change out of my pocket, the change is like falling right through the fingers, you know?

Speaker 1 Like,

Speaker 1 those kinds of things.

Speaker 4 I mean, honestly, I think it gives a little air of expertise to your opinions, though.

Speaker 4 Like, if I see a guy talking about offensive line play, especially, and he's got a pinky that goes out to the side, I'm going to be like, this dude knows what he's talking about. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 11 Well, I mean, it's my signature. Like, it does make it a little more authentic.

Speaker 11 Like you've been out there, you know, just grabbing somebody and holding on for dear life, you know, to win a little battle one day.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we're facts.

Speaker 4 Were you a guy that when it came to the cold weather, would you put any stock into like the team that doesn't wear sleeves, has a mental ledge?

Speaker 11 I never, I remember playing a game one time. I mean, a couple of games, but I remember one game in Philadelphia against Buffalo.
I was playing with the Eagles. It was 25 below.

Speaker 11 And in the vet back then. 25 below felt like 40 below because the wind was blowing.

Speaker 11 It was just, and I remember like, there's no way I would ever put sleeves on in any situation, like, it was just a mental thing. Like, I'm not, I don't, you know, I'm a meathead.

Speaker 11 I, I, I, you know, I, I grab people for a living. Um, you know, I run into people for a living, like, I'm not putting sleeves on.
Like, there's no way anybody's gonna think that I'm cold.

Speaker 4 And you wouldn't, you wouldn't put the Vaseline on your arms, would you?

Speaker 11 No, but I put Vaseline on my jersey, which was illegal, so that when they grabbed it, their hands just slipped off it.

Speaker 1 Like, I would do that for sure. I mean, that's just gamesmanship.
So, uh, we made the comment last week. We put our life on the line for this.

Speaker 1 So we said that the Super Bowl winner is going to come out of six teams. The Chiefs, the Bills, the Bengals, the Cowboys,

Speaker 1 the Niners, or the Eagles.

Speaker 1 Is there a seventh team that you could see through your tape and watching everything where you're like, watch out for this team? Because we got to be ready.

Speaker 1 to possibly end our lives if that doesn't happen.

Speaker 11 I don't think there's a team, like if the raven the way the ravens ran the ball last week with jk dobbins and gus edwards they ran it now tyler huntley was quarterback lamar wasn't in there but they ran it just from pure runners they ran it better than they have in two years and you go okay if they can run the ball like that and then you add lamar to the mix and you get ronnie stanley back at left tackle and you get big country at right guard like the way they move the line of scrimmage you could say they could compete now they play Cleveland this week.

Speaker 11 We'll see what happens. But like, if they run the ball like that, they could be a problem.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 11 They might be a team. And

Speaker 11 I caution myself from saying this because I don't want to fall into a silly trap. But Detroit is dangerous.

Speaker 11 Yeah.

Speaker 11 They just are. Jared Goff has been to a Super Bowl.
He knows what it's like. Like he's playing the best football of his life.
This Jameson Williams is a comet. Like he's just a speeding comet.

Speaker 11 Like if you add him, like their defense got a lot of good young players. They're not

Speaker 11 really any championship level defense, but I feel like they could outscore teams because their offensive line is really good. Goff is playing great.

Speaker 11 They got a great offensive coordinator in Ben Johnson. Like, could they come from the outside, you know, like in a horse race from way back?

Speaker 11 You kind of like want to see him against the Jets in New York this week. And if they take care of business, you go, yeah, that team could be dangerous.

Speaker 4 Yeah, it's so crazy that we're having that conversation about the Detroit Lions. But it's legit.
Their offense is that good.

Speaker 11 But if you look at, like, I'm not comparing like to Cincinnati and, you know, because Joe Burrow is an assassin and Jamar Chase, but, you know, they were 10-7 last year.

Speaker 11 You know, they went on the road to Tennessee. They went on to Kansas City.
And there they were within one drive of winning a Super Bowl. Like, nobody thought,

Speaker 11 especially preseason or even halfway through the season, that Cincinnati was a Super Bowl team.

Speaker 11 And they finished 10 and 7, you know, and there they were, you know, Super Bowl 56 at SoFi, like within one drive of winning it all.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's a good point. It's a good point.
There always are one of those teams that just gets hot right around now and plays their best football down the stretch.

Speaker 1 Is there a team that's fading in your eyes that's like

Speaker 1 something's off, you know, they got to get it together, but it feels like it's slipping through the crowd.

Speaker 11 Well, I mean, you can say that about Miami. Yeah.
Like

Speaker 11 they're fading fast. And so the things that were magical, like I was there week two, when they scored, you know, they scored those three touchdowns against Baltimore in the fourth quarter.

Speaker 11 You know, long bombs and, you know, maybe that's who the Ravens are. Maybe they can't, you know, hold a lead.
And, you know, that's been an issue for them. But, you know, you saw the firepower.

Speaker 11 And you go, okay. And then you saw it for now the last two weeks, you go, they look like they're leaking oil real bad right now.
Now, can they get it back? I don't know.

Speaker 11 But like the thing that's disappointing to me about that team is, you know, they, they, they traded, you know, they made a trade for Bradley Chubb.

Speaker 11 And if you combine him and Jalen Phillips and Christian Wilkins, they get all these number one picks on the defensive line, yet they don't look like, you know, they're unstoppable defensive.

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Speaker 4 I've found myself starting to fall into the Cowboys trap this year, which happens almost every year. There's a lot of hype around the Cowboys.

Speaker 4 Naturally, Jerry Jones, he's always going on the radio saying something inflammatory. They've got a lot of talent.
They've had a lot of talent for it feels like the last 10 years.

Speaker 4 They've had all the pieces there.

Speaker 4 But this year, I'm starting to think it could be possible they look like a good team but the last two weeks you know they've they struggled against the Texans and that I think was the Colts before that right well Packers

Speaker 4 oh the Packers yeah yeah so they they've had they've had some

Speaker 4 a couple like stumbling blocks they've they've managed to get over for the most part but is this the year that you think the Cowboys could put it all together

Speaker 11 Well, they lost the right tackle last week, and you know, right tackles are right tackles. Terrence Steele is a really solid player, though.
They, they put Josh Ball in there.

Speaker 11 Like he gave up two quarterback hits to Dak and they pulled him out of there. And they put Jason Peter in there at, you know, age 41.
Like, I don't, Jason, I mean, he, he can finish a game for you.

Speaker 11 You can't expect Jason Peters to go and right through the postseason playing right tackle. Like he's never really played right tackle, but he looked good in there in the one drive.

Speaker 11 But they needed a 98-yard drive to beat the Texans. You know, and I just feel like, you know, Micah Parsons, and I love Micah.
We all do.

Speaker 11 But like, he's about jalen hurts an mvp and i'm like micah like go to jackson and take care of business against trevor lawrence this week because last week laramie tunsel shut him out like he didn't get off the line of scrimmage against laramie now laramie's a really good player but like go beat a good player like do your job you know and so they need micah to be micah to be special i think you know the offense can be good you saw him against the cults it's it's a you know it's 21 19 all of a sudden they finished with 56 points like they you know just exploded.

Speaker 11 And they show signs that they can be that explosive team at times. But, you know, their performance in the postseason was dreadful last year.
Let's face it. Like San Francisco whipped them.

Speaker 11 They had way too many penalties and they fell into that trap that you talked about. Like, aren't they? And they had a home field and you saw the long faces on all the fans.

Speaker 11 Like they were just literally melting. watching their team just, you know, just get whipped, you know? Yeah.
So I don't know yet. I'm not sure.
Like they play the Eagles, obviously, on Christmas Eve.

Speaker 11 It'll probably be the most watched game all year.

Speaker 11 You know, it's a perfect primetime game, Christmas Eve. Like, I feel like that's the season right there for them.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's going to be a huge, huge game.

Speaker 1 Speaking of the Eagles, there's been a lot of people who've been like, they don't play anyone. Their schedule has been soft.
But from your watching the film, I'm a big believer.

Speaker 1 Like, hey, if your schedule is soft, but you're beating the breaks off teams, like, then you're doing your job. So what are you going to say?

Speaker 11 well you know we just watched them in three straight weeks in a row against the packers against the tennessee titans and last week against the giants and they the games weren't even close like they were blowouts like i don't care who you are in this league nobody just blows teams out every week it's just nobody does that and they're doing that you know like they ran the ball for 363 yards against packers the packers terrible but they did it they threw for 380 yards against tennessee all right and then last week they did whatever they wanted to do against the giants So you can say, okay, they're the bottom feeders right now in this business, but yet they're doing it.

Speaker 11 They're jumping on these teams early. It was 21-0

Speaker 11 with 10 minutes to go in the second quarter last week. Like, that's hard to do in this league.
You know, and so

Speaker 11 Jalen Hurts is the MVP. He's a runaway MVP from me.
Like, he doesn't, you can't get the guy to make a mistake. And the guy's decision-making has been flawless.

Speaker 11 Now, it might change against the 49ers or Christmas Eve against the Cowboys. Maybe teams can do that.

Speaker 11 But

Speaker 11 man, they're so solid everywhere.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 11 Secondary is as good as anybody in football. And the pass rush is lethal.
And the offense line is the best. And blah, blah, blah.
Like, they're good. They're really good.

Speaker 4 I'm a believer that offensive line play travels in the playoffs. Like, you can take that on the road.
I'm not exactly sure what it means, but it makes me sound like I know ball when I say it.

Speaker 11 But in your opinion, it's a good tape.

Speaker 4 Is that fair? Okay, so offensive line play does travel in the playoffs playoffs and the weather. So in your opinion,

Speaker 4 what team

Speaker 4 has the best unit right now that's playing the best as an offensive line?

Speaker 11 I think the Eagles are. I think the Eagles are playing great.
You can't find a weakness. JC Kelsey is an amazing person.
Like, I don't know how he does it.

Speaker 11 I know he has a hard time getting out of bed in the morning. I know he has a hard time walking from, you know, from his bed to the bathroom in the morning.
Like, I know that.

Speaker 11 But yet game day, I don't know. The adrenaline kicks in.
He love of the game, whatever. I saw him put Dexter Lawrence on his back last week.

Speaker 11 You only, you know, he's only outweighed by 70 pounds in that matchup, and he put him on his back. Like the guy could still run like the wind.
Lane Johnson is unbeatable.

Speaker 11 I mean, they're just, you know, like you want Landon Dickerson on your team. He's just nasty.
He's country. Like he just loves it.
His body's all beat up. I don't know.
Fingers are broken.

Speaker 11 Elbows are crooked. Like it doesn't care.
Like he goes out there and battles. Like they're a really good group.

Speaker 1 All right. So, got a couple more questions, Baldi.
This has been awesome. Like I said, you're now a recurring guest, so we have to have you on more often.
I don't know why it took us so long.

Speaker 1 Of your years watching film, and it's been a lot of years, can you give me the one guy, maybe two guys, maybe offense, defense, that are just complete freaks that jumped off the film every time you watched them?

Speaker 1 Like, just absolute, wow, this guy moves different than everyone else. He's just a different cat altogether.

Speaker 11 Well, when Quentin Nelson first came into the league, like I fell in love. I mean, I did a breakdown of Quentin Nelson every single week.
Like that guy, like he was literally gatoring people.

Speaker 11 Like he was putting them down the ground and sitting on top of him like he was like just, you know, a hungry lion in the Serengeti, just eating his prey.

Speaker 11 Like he was like, and then the injury started taking its toll. And he's not the same guy right now.
But there was a three-year run where he was the most dominant offensive player in his business.

Speaker 11 There's days now now when I watch Trent Williams play, and there's just nobody else that can do what he does.

Speaker 1 Nobody.

Speaker 11 Like the way he'll just take somebody by the scruff of the neck and just make them eat grassy, you know, just put them face down on the turf. Like he's, he's a lot of fun to watch.

Speaker 11 I'm just thinking like Von Miller in his prime

Speaker 11 was a freak. And then just what Patrick Mahomes has done in this league, we've never seen anything like it.
Like,

Speaker 11 you know, just the throw last week, you know, to Jeff McKinnon. Like, he could have put a dish rag in his hand.
He would have completed the dish rag, you know, to Jeff McKinnon.

Speaker 11 Like, he's just, you have to watch him.

Speaker 11 And I know there's a little bit of fatigue about Patrick Mahomes and the arm angles and the delivery and the no-look passes, but the guy just sees the field like nobody else.

Speaker 11 And we've never really seen a player just dominate this business.

Speaker 11 You know, you could say,

Speaker 11 take any quarterback, Peyton or Aaron Rodgers or Brady. Nobody's dominated the league the way Patrick Mahomes has for the last five years.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, he's a joy to watch. Can you tell when a quarterback, when it clicks in their brain and the game starts moving slow for them?

Speaker 1 Because that's my favorite thing, is when a quarterback reaches that level where you're watching them and you're like, oh, everything's moving super slow for them.

Speaker 1 Like they see everything better than anyone seeing the field right now.

Speaker 11 Well, Joe Burrow's there. Yeah.

Speaker 11 Like I call him an assassin. He's an assassin.
Like he just wants nothing more than to just rip your juggler right out of your throat. Like, that's how he, that's how he thinks.
That's how he plays.

Speaker 11 And it doesn't matter what you do to him. The guy is as mentally tough as anybody.
We saw it in the playoffs against Tennessee when they sacked him nine times. They hit him 14 times.
It didn't matter.

Speaker 11 Like, he was coming out of the corner and he was going to keep, you know, just keep throwing darts. Like, he's that guy.

Speaker 11 But yes, you can see when these guys, like Jalen Hurts, I feel like Jalen's there. Now, he's got to do it in the postseason.

Speaker 11 You know, like that's the that's just the standard you know they they said peyton manny couldn't do it till he did it you know they're traveling from ten from tennessee but you got to do it the postseason so i don't want to put jalen there yet the way mahomes has done it or brady or rogers you got to do it in the postseason so that's left for jalen to do right now but like he he has that mentality as well like yeah you know like he you he's you can't you can't get him fatigued you can't rough him up you can't intimidate him you can't do any of that stuff to him Yeah.

Speaker 4 Yeah. When it comes to Mahomes, he just makes it look so easy.

Speaker 4 When you're watching him play, it almost feels like I'm playing Madden and it's on rookie mode and I can do whatever I want with a quarterback and spin around five times.

Speaker 1 And have fun doing it.

Speaker 11 Like, exactly. As a fan, we want the players to enjoy.
We want to see those guys having fun celebrating. And like, nobody's having more fun warming up, playing the game, practicing.

Speaker 11 talking about the game. He's just so authentic.
I feel like you could put anything in his hands, like any, like you see a basketball

Speaker 11 like anything in his hands like he'd be adroit at doing it yeah yeah paper airplane i think he could throw for 400 yards with a paper airplane that's true uh how much how much film would you say that you've watched or how much football have you watched in your entire life how many days worth well i you know like monday or starting on sunday nights monday and tuesday i'm putting in anywhere from 12 to 16 hours a day, you know, watching it to get through all the games and then do all the breakdowns for all the platforms that i do um you know and then there's certain players that are basically demanding me to watch their games and then give them the feedback i don't have to mention their names but like you know i i enjoy doing it but it's time consuming to do it so i don't mind it i learn more like i just broke down the 49ers in a way that i haven't really broken them down and now i really understand the separation of powers between Fred Warner and Dre Greenlaw.

Speaker 11 Like, unlike anybody else that would study study that team. Like, you know, whoever, like, the 49ers play Seattle tonight, this Thursday.
So

Speaker 11 I'd take what I watched this week about the 49ers defense up against Pete Carroll and his staff.

Speaker 4 Yeah. So would you say like maybe 60 hours a week of football?

Speaker 11 Yeah, yeah, 60 hours for sure.

Speaker 4 And you've been doing that for how many years now?

Speaker 11 Well, we started doing, like, me and Sterling Sharp started doing playbook for the NFL network back in like 2007. So the last 15 years.

Speaker 4 That's crazy. Okay, so I'm going to do the math real quick.

Speaker 1 You're the ultimate football guy.

Speaker 4 So I'm counting just since 2007, you've watched about 50,000 hours worth of football.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 11 I mean,

Speaker 11 was it Stevie Jobs that said it's 10,000 hours

Speaker 11 to master a craft? Yeah, like I put my 10,000 hours in for sure.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you've mastered it five times.

Speaker 4 You've clocked in since 2007. You've watched

Speaker 4 5.3 years of football. Oh, that's awesome.

Speaker 11 No, but like my girlfriend gets mad at me because I can't remember some of the conversations we have, but I can tell you who the backup left guard is, you know, for the Green Bay Packers.

Speaker 1 The important thing,

Speaker 11 like, my brain is just so full of football, like, I can't squeeze a lot more stuff in there.

Speaker 1 That's all.

Speaker 4 Yeah, you're thinking about Fred Warner's tight end responsibilities.

Speaker 1 I get it.

Speaker 1 And there's so much football inside that brain.

Speaker 4 I can tell that you think football is beautiful, which is, I think that's beautiful that you think that football is beautiful.

Speaker 1 I also do, yeah.

Speaker 4 uh on the offensive side of the ball for the 49ers we always talk about how the run game that they have that kyle shanahan's put together that to me is beautiful football watching that run game when everything's clicking can you explain to us maybe why why we love it so much why do i think that it's beautiful the way that they do it well i remember when luke keekly was you know as premier middle linebackers was in football and carolina went to play san francisco ron rivera's the head coach is like four years ago maybe five.

Speaker 11 And literally, they ran for like 250 yards against Carolina. And I did this breakdown where literally there was like four or five plays where Luke Keekly wasn't even blocked.

Speaker 11 But the motions, the pre-snap movement, like took his eyes off the ball. And, you know, there goes, you know, whoever, Raheem Most or whoever it was, right by him.

Speaker 11 And to the point where Ron Rivera's wife was saying to Ron, you got to watch Baldi's breakdown. The next thing I know, I get this text from Ron going, Baldy, can you

Speaker 11 make the trip down to Washington and show us what you saw? Because Luke was a computer. Like he couldn't figure it out.
And so some days it's just like that. It's just like, how do they think of this?

Speaker 11 And it's, you know, it's very integral. It's, it's hard to explain.
You have to kind of show it, slow it down and freeze it. And I run it back and forth to see what that motion.

Speaker 11 motion movement, the quarterbacks move or handoff, what it did to the defense. And so it's a little bit like this.
Mike McDaniel has this in his brain.

Speaker 11 It's like, think about this, like offense, think about offense as a pattern. You run this pattern, you run this pattern, the defense is trained to like react to the pattern.
And then you, bam,

Speaker 11 you go against the pattern. And that's play action, that's counter, like all those things that bothers defenses.
Like they've studied this play, this movement, this formation.

Speaker 11 Because as a linebacker, you go, okay, you know the formation, you know the play, you know the formation, you know the play. So you get this pattern, pattern, pattern, break the pattern.

Speaker 11 And that's how, like, these next level thinkers are looking at the games.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, it's a great answer. Um, all right, so Baldi, this has been awesome.
I have one last question. Give it up for Chicago.

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Speaker 1 Non-football question to end. You're a huge diner guy.
Yeah. You love diners.

Speaker 1 What do you look for in a diner? What is what makes a diner an elite diner when you walk in for the first time?

Speaker 11 Well, I live in Jersey. So if you live in Jersey, you go to Jersey Diners.
They're like literally on every street corner. They're open.
First of all, they're open 24 hours.

Speaker 11 So back in the partying days, when you get out of the club at two or three, whatever, you need a diner. You know, you got to like, you got to, you need some grease, right? So that's it, 24.

Speaker 11 A counter service, you know, you walk in, you know, you got your, you got your newspaper, whatever. All right.
You sit down, you got your notes. All right.
You're at the, you're at the counter.

Speaker 11 That helps.

Speaker 11 You could get eggs any time of the day, all right, any way that you want it. That's good.
And the menu is just any, you want lamb chops? There's lamb chops.

Speaker 1 You know, you want pickles?

Speaker 11 You got pickles. Like, whatever it is that you can think of.
Because, you know, let's face it, sometimes we're like, I don't know what I want. You know, like, what do I want? But you want something.

Speaker 11 And you look at that menu, you know, and it's like, it's like looking at Kyle Shanahan's playbook, you know, like you got everything on the menu.

Speaker 11 So whatever your body needs, it's that you need barbecue ribs, like barbecue ribs.

Speaker 1 Diner.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I respect that because I've long questioned why do we only eat eggs at breakfast?

Speaker 1 Who came up with that rule?

Speaker 4 Why is that a rule? It makes no sense to me. Eggs, that's an anytime meal.

Speaker 11 I love it.

Speaker 11 Just now. Like, I'm getting ready to eat egg salad right now.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
But yeah, pancakes, why not? Have them at dinner. French toast.

Speaker 11 I used to make French toast when I was 10 years old. Like,

Speaker 11 I learned how to make it out of the Charlie Brown cookbook. So, like, if you get hungry at night, why not French toast?

Speaker 11 With butter and syrup. Like, you can't go wrong.

Speaker 4 Why not soup for breakfast? It's fat. They've got everything you need for it.

Speaker 1 Goulash. It doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 you go to prague you know a check breakfast is goulash and a beer like you can't go wrong yo yeah um well baldy this has been awesome man we really really appreciate it uh we'd love to have you back on your recurring guests it took us way too long but you are a true football guy good luck this weekend you can hear him on you're doing the radio call for titans doing the last radio call chargers chargers on sunday Yeah, okay, so we're excited.

Speaker 1 And check him out on Twitter at Baldy NFL for all his breakdowns.

Speaker 1 If you're a football football fan, you're not following him, and you're not like, you don't know who Baldy is, then you're not a football fan.

Speaker 4 Yeah, we got to get you in the studio, too. Yes.

Speaker 1 We'd love to have you in the business. We'll go to a diner.

Speaker 1 We'll go to a diner.

Speaker 11 Where's the location?

Speaker 1 We're in New York right now, but we'll go to a diner.

Speaker 11 Well, it'd be just good up at the diner.

Speaker 11 Nothing like food and football.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 All right. Now you're talking about language.
Maybe do a Super Bowl preview. I love it.
I love it. All right.

Speaker 1 Thanks so much, Baldy. Thanks, man.

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Speaker 1 Okay, let's wrap up Fire Fest of the week. Fire Fest of the Week.

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Speaker 6 Yeah. All right, Hank, what's your firefest?

Speaker 1 So last week, August.

Speaker 1 Nope.

Speaker 1 I told the tragedy of my coat. A lot of people reached out, showed their support.
I appreciate it.

Speaker 1 On top of that, I went out in Providence on Friday and left a different coat in the bar. So I'm already on QB2.

Speaker 1 QB2 got hurt.

Speaker 1 Now I'm really like, I'm scraping at the bottom of the barrel. You got a coat problem.
I got a coat problem. And I got some good suggestions.

Speaker 1 Again, people have really been helpful in helping me get a new coat. But

Speaker 1 it's a serious problem.

Speaker 4 Yeah. Are you going to get the trench coat?

Speaker 1 Probably not now.

Speaker 4 I mean, Hank, that'd be such a good look.

Speaker 1 We'll get

Speaker 1 goose. Yeah.

Speaker 4 No, get the trench coat. I don't care about the

Speaker 1 animals.

Speaker 1 Hank and the goose. No, fuck Canadian geese.
They're the worst animals ever. Yeah, they swear.
Literally. Like, if there's one animal I could just wipe off the face of the earth, it's Canadian geese.

Speaker 4 If you got a problem with Canada geese, you got a problem with me. I suggest you let that one marinate.

Speaker 1 The Migratory Bird Act is pretty mid. Yeah.
They fucking suck.

Speaker 6 You should be able to shoot birds on the ground.

Speaker 4 Geese will definitely straight up swarm you.

Speaker 1 Oh. Bite you.

Speaker 4 They got teeth in the back of their beaks.

Speaker 1 In my neighborhood last spring, there was a family. So

Speaker 1 goose had a bunch of babies and they just had like a spot on a main walkway that people just couldn't walk on because you'd go near them and they'd just hiss and go crazy.

Speaker 4 Geese love having nests on golf courses more than anything in the world.

Speaker 4 They love just popping out eggs on the 13th T.

Speaker 6 You know what's worse than geese?

Speaker 1 Swans.

Speaker 4 Yeah, swans are

Speaker 6 so territorial.

Speaker 4 Yes. And they'll break your arm.
Like a swan will actually hit you and light you up pretty good. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And right for the arm.

Speaker 4 Now they don't have the queen to protect them anymore. So it's open season.
That's true.

Speaker 1 All right. Yeah, tough week, but you know, I appreciate the support system.
You need to get a coat.

Speaker 4 Get a trench coat and a brief coat.

Speaker 1 Get a trench coat.

Speaker 1 I'm wearing a starter jacket today. Can't be rolling up to corporate meetings like that.
I mean, I've seen you wear way worse.

Speaker 4 Wait, you can't be rolling up to corporate meetings wearing a trench coat.

Speaker 1 I think starter jacket.

Speaker 4 Just get a trench coat, man.

Speaker 1 I've seen how you dress in corporate meetings. I don't think anyone's like,

Speaker 1 oh, man.

Speaker 1 Coming from you. Well, yeah, I'm not corporate.
So why would I dress nice for a corporate meeting?

Speaker 6 Hank, you need to get the respect of the C-suite.

Speaker 1 Rock a Montclair. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 And a monocle. The sweatpants? Do you think that was

Speaker 1 the starter jacket's the problem? Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 We're going to see Avatar.

Speaker 1 All right, PFT, you're going to be comfortable. Your Fire Fest.

Speaker 4 My Fire Fest of the week is my entire debit card got leaked off

Speaker 4 Saturday morning.

Speaker 1 Well, you leaked it.

Speaker 4 I did not leak it.

Speaker 4 We put out the secondary video of myself and Donnie in Qatar and got a lot of great feedback on that. So go check it out on Donnie's YouTube page.

Speaker 4 Part of that second video that we put out involved us going to McDonald's on Thanksgiving.

Speaker 4 in Qatar and then buying fries with Perry Perry seasoning, which is a very spicy seasoning, which I then proceeded to chop up into a line using my debit card and snort as is custom on Qatari.

Speaker 4 No, it's not. It's not a drug.
It's Perry Perry seasoning, and it's a Qatari,

Speaker 4 it's a Thanksgiving custom over there. I didn't want to be rude.
So I whacked a massive line of Perry Perry seasoning, and my debit card was on camera in full display.

Speaker 4 Every number from the debit card, the date of expiration, and the three-digit security number. So several people sent that to me right when the video came out within a couple minutes.

Speaker 4 I went, I locked down my card, and then I started to get all these text message notifications from Bank of America saying,

Speaker 4 Yeah, this person just tried to buy $100 worth of jewelry at K-Jeweler using your debit card. So fuck you to the broke boy that did that.

Speaker 4 If you're going to use my debit card, it's actually insulting to me that you would only try to spend

Speaker 4 $100 on it. Like, go big on that.
Yeah. So I had to deal with getting that locked down, which anytime I lose my debit card, which I tend to do once every, I don't know, year or two,

Speaker 4 I get a bunch of people that shame me for

Speaker 4 having a debit card. They're like, yo, you should have

Speaker 4 a credit card, get points. I like to spend my own money.
I rock a debit card. But the nice part about it is, it's like, you know how a forest fire coals the forest and it's like good for nature?

Speaker 4 Yeah, yeah. Every time I lose my debit card, I get all these bounce back notifications for subscriptions I don't use.
Yeah, that you don't use. So it's a great way to weed out the stuff.
That's smart.

Speaker 4 I'm actually saving money by having my debit card leak out online.

Speaker 1 You're good for one of those like, and like accidentally doxing some private information like once a year.

Speaker 4 Yeah, once a year.

Speaker 1 I really happens.

Speaker 4 I think I can check off all the boxes between Billy putting my phone number, my penis, and my debit card online. I think I've had it all.

Speaker 1 Max told me.

Speaker 1 Oh, and my balls.

Speaker 4 Yeah, that's right. And my butthole.

Speaker 1 Max told me, Max and I were together in Philly. He told me what had happened.
I was like, yeah, that makes sense. Yeah.
I was like, it's about time.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I was chopping up a fat line of Perry Perry seasoning. And then credit to Billy, because later on in the day,

Speaker 4 well, the video came out at like 9, and then I get a text from Billy at like, I don't know, 8.30 at night, probably being like, Yo, dude, your debit card's online.

Speaker 4 You might want to get that taken care of because somebody came up to him at Santa Con

Speaker 4 and let him know that my debit card was online and just assumed that Billy had something to do with it. But it's fine.
It's whatever. Didn't lose any money, fortunately.

Speaker 4 And listen, that's just the cost of doing business when you're chopping up lines in Qatar. It is.

Speaker 1 It is. All right, my Fire Fest.
I talked about it on Wednesday, but I have a new wrinkle. So

Speaker 1 for any parents out there, my son is now at the age where he's just decided when to get up and he's, I think we're like four days in a row that he's just been first three days.

Speaker 1 He was just staring at my face, like six inches from my face, waking me up from a dead sleep. So I had to talk with him.
You know, it's tough to get through to a three and a half year old.

Speaker 1 I was like, don't do that. Stay in your bed until I come get you.
Like, don't come into my room and say, like, dad, let's get up.

Speaker 1 So this morning, he respected my wishes by, instead of saying, dad, let's get up, he just stood outside my door at 5.30 in the morning and just lightly knocked. So, like, I woke up with, like,

Speaker 1 just that. And I was like, what the fuck is happening? And then I opened the door.
He's just standing there. He's like, you told me not to say anything.
So

Speaker 1 I've been up at like 5 in the morning every single morning.

Speaker 4 That's way better than

Speaker 1 learning.

Speaker 4 He's standing next to you. That's like a paranormal activity.

Speaker 1 It's so scary, dude. I seriously was dead asleep.
And he was just six inches from my face. He's like, dad, can we get up? I'm like, what the fuck, dude?

Speaker 6 I have an idea. Yeah.
Totally uninformed.

Speaker 1 Cage? You're going to say a cage. No, no.
No.

Speaker 1 I'm not putting my son in a cage.

Speaker 4 What about just like a leash that's attached to a cable in the living room?

Speaker 6 Maybe an e-caller? No. What if you told him he has to do like 100 push-ups before he can wake you up? Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 What's a push-up? Yeah. Good idea about it.
It's jacked.

Speaker 6 Can they not do push-ups yet?

Speaker 1 Three and a half, no. Three years old.
Three and a half.

Speaker 4 That sounds like an an excuse, honestly. I'm with Billy on this.
If he can walk, he can do a push-up. Yeah, get him into CrossFit.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Start doing some burpees.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Now, I mean, listen,

Speaker 1 we've been doing an MM system that if he doesn't wake me up, he gets to take some five blue MMs to school every morning. Today was tough.
I had to break it to him.

Speaker 1 I was like, dude, you don't get the MMs. Like, you woke me up again.
He's just like, maybe tomorrow? I was like, yeah, sure, but no chance you're going to actually stay in your fucking bed.

Speaker 4 Are the blue ones his favorite?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 That's cool.

Speaker 1 Smart kid. Well, it's also great because I just buy a pack of MMs and I take out all the blue ones and eat the rest.
Yeah, yeah. The blue ones,

Speaker 4 yeah, kind of, but the blue ones are definitely the best.

Speaker 1 No, I know, but I'm like, I'm happy to buy you MMs so that you can have the 10 blue ones in a bag and I'll have the rest of them.

Speaker 4 Ever since they nerfed the green one, I'm blue.

Speaker 1 Oh, the green one's made you horny.

Speaker 1 No, they nerfed it. Yeah, I know.
They nerfed it. I know.
Yeah, they used to make you horny. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay, Billy.

Speaker 6 First Firefest. Just got this amazing part of my cheesesteak.

Speaker 6 Not track suit, but racing suit. And I'm too thick for it.
So I got to air out the seat. Hopefully I'll fit into it.

Speaker 6 It's really sick. I'm definitely going to start rocking it way more.

Speaker 1 So is your Fire Fest? You're too muscular.

Speaker 6 Yes.

Speaker 4 You're doing too many squats.

Speaker 1 Yep. That's true.

Speaker 6 And then my other Fire Fest is my longtime neighbor, Ben Mintz, has moved out. Yes.
And now someone else is going to move in.

Speaker 6 I don't know this person, and I'm going to have to share very like close proximity with them and the backyard.

Speaker 1 So, hopefully, that's a bummer. Dude, actually, did he find someone?

Speaker 6 He found some, he someone's moving in there. No one really knows.

Speaker 6 I don't know. Okay.
I don't know. But the thing is, Mincy, when he was leaving, you could just hear him scream through the walls at 5 a.m.
when he was catching his flight.

Speaker 1 New York era over.

Speaker 1 New York era.

Speaker 1 New Orleans now.

Speaker 6 Like, this is not a joke. This guy's like making like

Speaker 1 ad-libs for himself as he's leaving the apartment. So, Mincy and my son, both waking people up at five in the morning.
Yes. Yeah.
Okay.

Speaker 6 Hopefully, this new person's chill with dogs. And

Speaker 1 they don't have a choice. Yeah.
And a squat rat and hedgehog.

Speaker 6 And like banging, like the banging.

Speaker 1 Yeah, a lot of banging of the squat rat. Yeah, no, like, that's what I tell my whenever my neighbor,

Speaker 1 I'm like

Speaker 6 with a lot of banging. Yeah, the punching bag does make a lot of noise.
Hopefully, they don't complain and they, like, I don't know.

Speaker 1 know. I hope, like, it's the most low-T incel dude who's just like, This is gross.
Yeah,

Speaker 6 I hope they just stick to themselves, yeah, and don't go outside in the yard.

Speaker 4 You got the yard, you got to claim the yard, yeah.

Speaker 1 Yards, the yard's all mine.

Speaker 4 You got to do some stuff, like, before they move in to let them know that that's your yard.

Speaker 6 Yeah, yeah, I might even tell them, no, that's not on your lease, yeah, this is my lease.

Speaker 4 Do that, just pee, you know what you should do, just start peeing outside.

Speaker 6 Mark your territory, my dog just uses the whole backyard. If it starts getting like, oh, he can only go on one side of the backyard.

Speaker 4 I'm like, no. Not your yard.
You tell him that. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, not your yard.

Speaker 1 Okay, Jake, wrap us up.

Speaker 5 Yeah, I guess it's like a group fire fest, but Mother Nature flipped the switch this week.

Speaker 4 It is officially really, really cold in New York City.

Speaker 5 It got cold.

Speaker 4 It's really bad. You know what happened to me the other day? I had that moment where I

Speaker 1 walked around a corner and

Speaker 4 the wind hit me between the buildings. Yeah.
And tears just started. like trickling down my face.

Speaker 5 My hands start to dry up and bleed like mother and gloves.

Speaker 1 Bills, bills, bills. Yeah.
I mean, take the bills.

Speaker 5 Look, there's no getting used to it. I spent six straight winters in Syracuse and Burlington, Vermont, but like you can't just.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, it sucks for like a couple months. It's just like

Speaker 1 sour through through February.

Speaker 5 Once we hit March Madness, it should be fine.

Speaker 1 We did have a nice run though there where it was like, is winter never showing up? Right, yeah, we did.

Speaker 5 This week, it just changed.

Speaker 4 It's big time soup season right now.

Speaker 1 Yeah, huge.

Speaker 1 It's chili every night.

Speaker 5 Wait, did you announce chili season? I didn't.

Speaker 1 I forgot, but I've been eating it every night.

Speaker 4 I was at the grocery store the other day. There was actually an AWL right next to me.
He's like, like, yo, PFT, what's up?

Speaker 4 I was at the soup station, and I was getting two 30-ounce things of soup for myself to bring home. I'm like, yeah, it's not really a bitch.

Speaker 1 This is a big season, baby.

Speaker 4 This is how I roll.

Speaker 1 Three-month comic powder combined with your fucking fake broth head, you little bitch. Keep your heads down.
We got to play off football in January. Get us through it.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Numbers. Hank.

Speaker 1 Have you ever gotten this? Nope.

Speaker 1 You've never? Never. Never, ever, ever.
Never, ever, ever. I feel like at some point you have had to have gotten it.

Speaker 6 Hank, do you want 69 because it's due.

Speaker 1 No, thanks, Billy. Okay, I'll take 69.
Oh, that was nice of you, Billy. I'm going to take 58.

Speaker 4 58? I'm going to do 17.

Speaker 1 I got to find. I told some guy I was going to feels like a good time for 17.

Speaker 4 Feels like 17. It's 25.

Speaker 1 I was 16. 28, but.

Speaker 1 Oh, really? Yeah. 25.
Okay.

Speaker 4 We got breaking news.

Speaker 1 Shout out Kevin Weintraub.

Speaker 4 No, you don't need to really do it much.

Speaker 1 It's like, what the fuck?

Speaker 4 Drew Breeze has been hired as an interim assistant coach at Purdue, the school announced. Congrats, Drew.
Hope you don't get struck by lightning.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 5 So Sebastian's gone MIA again, so we're going to keep his 45.

Speaker 1 25. Bunny number.
What's your number, Hank? 50 fucking eight. And you've never gotten it.
No. Okay.

Speaker 5 By the way, it's two weeks from today, the finale. Yeah.
The final show of 2020.

Speaker 4 50 was yours? I did 17, big cat.

Speaker 1 17 max?

Speaker 1 I did 20. 80.

Speaker 5 Me, 45, Sebastian.

Speaker 1 Oh, this is going to be so awesome when you get the number.

Speaker 4 But you're not going to get it today because you've never gotten eight.

Speaker 1 Eight.

Speaker 1 Eight. You are so bad at this.

Speaker 1 I got one number. Dude, this is the number you won on.
Yeah. Yeah, it's my lucky number.
You're so bad at this.

Speaker 1 Speaking of eight, just pick the right number once, dude.

Speaker 1 Octopuses have a brain in each of their eight tentacles.

Speaker 4 Wow, that's crazy. Love you guys.

Speaker 4 to find you, shine

Speaker 4 you.

Speaker 4 I'll be coming for your love of faith. Love of me.

Speaker 4 Needless to say,

Speaker 4 I'm all set.

Speaker 4 So far, we stumble in a plate.

Speaker 4 Shall I learn life is okay.

Speaker 4 Say unto me.

Speaker 4 It's no better to say it's all.

Speaker 4 Drink on me.

Speaker 4 It's no better to say it's on me, say it's on me, say the topic.