Brian Baldinger, Week 15 Picks And Preview, Fantasy Frenchmen And Fyre Fest Of The Week

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On today's Pardon 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.
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.
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Today is Friday, December 16th, and the San Francisco 49ers are really fucking good. Purdy Brock is in the house tonight.
We go to Braden, have a good time. Brock Purdy looked awesome tonight, and it's impossible to tell, because I've been falling in love with Brock Purdy the last two weeks.
Oh, how can you not? 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.

We were saying when we were watching the game,

I don't think there's a better situation that a Mr. Irrelevant, low-drafted quarterback

could ever walk into than not only Kyle Shanahan, but this specific 49ers team that just has so much talent everywhere. Like, their defense is great.
Their running game is great. He's not really getting hit that much.
Not getting hit. George Kittle.
Oh, yeah, remember him? Two touchdowns. He's a fucking monster.
Like, everything seems to be clicking for them. 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. 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.
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 can always just remember whenever you're feeling blue, you don't have Russell Wilson.
You don't have Russell Wilson. You won that trade.
And this is, I know that the, 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. But the Seahawks have a tough road ahead because 7-7 now, they're now two games back in the loss column to the Commanders and the Giants.
It feels like, you know, what, 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 is coming out of the balloon a little bit they're one of those teams that I we had them circled where it's like yeah is this is this real I I don't know like 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 on the like last week the Panthers had 240 yards that tonight the Niners ran for for five yards of carry.
It feels like it's getting to the end here where the fact they don't have a ton of top-end talent is hurting them. Gino is slowly writing back to us.
Yeah. 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 going to—every time he catches the ball, he looks like he's about to square up with the cornerback.
Yeah. After he gets tackled.
He looks like he's ready to fight. I like the chippiness out of him.
Walker didn't play that well. The offensive line had some real issues.
Yeah. And the defensive line got injuries.
So with those jerseys, people are like, those are candy ass. Now, I like those jerseys on the Seahawks.
I hope you're saying what I'm thinking. But you cannot stop the run if you're wearing those jerseys.
Well, and you also have to go full lime green. Yeah.
Okay. Yes.
Yes. Yes.
Yes. Yes.
I don't like the, like, commit to one color. It's Thursday night football, baby.
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. You might, like, if you go full full lime green you're going to be able to pin your ears back and get a few sacks on the board yes maybe ball hawk a few interceptions but um it does it seems like that those are jerseys that'll just get run on and the seahawks uh unfortunately their next game is at kansas city it's tough it's tough i mean this is a big game for my Lions.
Yeah.

It's good for them.

They don't have the tiebreaker, though.

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

That's fine in this case.

Here's a couple 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.

You know who the other is?

First two career starts? Yeah. 115 passer rating? No, Hank? Taylor Heineke.
No. Patrick Mahomes? No.
Aaron Rodgers. Oh.
We got a little Aaron Rodgers on our hands right now. Many Aaron Rodgers.
Yeah. People are saying his ceiling is actually higher than Aaron Rodgers.
And he was playing with an oblique. 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.
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.
That's a little dramatic. Does he mean like a live? That's interesting because I would imagine that Schefter doesn't have Brock Purdy's agent's number.
No, but he definitely. He's not a high-powered agent.
He's got to feed both sides of the fence. 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. Just pain everywhere.
Pain everywhere. Should the Niners build around Brock Purdy? I think that they are building around Brock Purdy, and they should.
Listen, we've talked about this. Like, 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.
And this was a game like oblique injury on the first road game. 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.
Brock Purdy, baby. He started the game like 10 for 10.
Was the moment too big for Brock? Absolutely not. 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, $985,000, $1.1 million.
Cap goes up 30 years. Like, hey, you can build around Brock Purdy.
I think you can. 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? I mean.
If Brock Purdy got the 49ers to a Super Bowl. It's a lot about the fact that the Niners are just so fucking good.
Of course. But, yeah, why not? That defense is legit.
Really, the only thing that the 49ers have to worry about is the refs fucking them over. Yes.
Their defense being so good that the refs feel bad for the quarterbacks and start calling ticky tack fouls on them yes yes so Seahawks dead do you see what happened uh the second time Joey Bosa sacked him yeah that was 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 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 i'm not actually hitting this yes yes the roughing the passer i mean we gotta i i think there actually was i think florio wrote an article about how the the league is gonna review it like start 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 I'm not I'm never

in favor of adding more reviews to the game

but it does feel like maybe we should for this

especially subjective review it's gonna

it's gonna make things worse

yeah my four-year-old son Chris

walked in he said he said daddy

why don't we just put dresses on these quarterbacks? We're going to call them like that. He's a problematic little creep.
He said, you can't even tackle anymore. Yeah.
Not my football. Not my NFL.
You can't tackle anymore. What were you going to say, Jake? Let's see how quickly people tweet at you for calling him Joey Bosa.
Nick Bosa. Oh, don't know ball.
We really put ourselves in a bad spot. 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... I'm not joking.
When I said the Lions beat the Seahawks, I had like a hundred tweets being like, you don't know ball, bro. So we have boxed ourselves into a bad place.
I was getting snitch tagged. And those people were like, big cat, why do you keep saying that the Lions beat the Seahawks? You don't get it.
And then at the end, they just tagged. In my defense, wasn't it like a 48-45? When the scores get up to 40, you don't know who won or lost.
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, they go for two.
I said no because you want to extend the game. You're right.
But your accountability of knowing you were wrong is knowing ball in a sense. Oh, you were wrong? Jake, just some backwards.
That was the most Jake Marsh anecdote I think I've ever heard of. This is accountability as you said.
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.
I wouldn't do that. But also remember when you didn't know Ball during the game? Yeah, I want to hear what happened.
That was double alpha by Jake. He admitted to not knowing Ball, but.
I did. I put my hand up and I said...
Accountability is knowing ball. He said they're going to go for two? I embarrassed our podcast because they went...
How could you? The 49ers were winning 21-13. 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. And then I looked at the score and I was like, oh shit, yeah.
They weren't down by 14 points there damn i just 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 the real winner in all of this is max because he he had to take the initial shit but now he has to watch us like now we all don't know try to be so yeah um you know what let's just say we don't know. 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 were having that conversation, Billy was literally taking a knife and cutting the crotch of his pants open. He needs air.
He said that it's very tight. If you're watching this on YouTube, you're going to know ball soon.
Yeah.

Free the ball.

In this amazing part of my cheesesteak racing wear.

Why are you just taking a pocket

knife to your penis?

To open up the seat.

Oh, okay.

Need some air there?

It's Billy's personal bris.

Billy's the strangest person in the world.

You really are, but

that's why we love you.

Alright, last thing before we get

Thank you. Yeah.
All right. Last thing before we get to ourselves, week 15 pick and preview, World Cup final.
Should we even make a prediction? 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. I'm predicting Argentina, but 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. Mbappe and Messi play on the same team? Yeah, PSG.
And they've won a ton of UEFA Champions Leagues because they're so good. No, they don't because they play in a Farmers League.

Yeah.

I don't know what that means. They just dominate it every year.

It's just PSG is the only team.

What's the other team?

Racing.

There's a racing team.

They call themselves racing, but they're a soccer team.

I don't get it.

Either way.

It's going to be Mbappe.

It's his game.

It's his game?

They're doing it for Maradona. This is Maradona dead mascot tournament for Argentina.
God rest his soul. Oh, man.
I really want him to win it. Does Zlatlan still play for PSG? No.
Does Zlatlan? No. Zlatlan does not.
He came over to America, played for the Galaxy. I think he went back to his home country.
I don't know what he's up to these days. Sweden.
Sweden. I think he plays in a Swedish league now.
Zlatland is God, though. He's the one guy that...
Once you get over those mountains, you're going to hit some Zlatland. It's going to be a nice, easy drive.
I respect that Billy asked about him because... That's the only PSG player I ever knew.
He's a fun guy to watch because he actually does think that he's Jesus. Yeah.
No, PSG had Neymar as well for a while. It was sick.
Stacked. Well, it's because it's owned by the government of Qatar, so they can just pay everybody infinity dollars.
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 final he becomes lebron yeah on the calves before he got his title in miami yeah but if he wins it it's over for for for losers like you hank yeah that's that's probably true i mean i i i hitched i you know i i took a shot you took a shot literally like two weeks ago yeah but it was like ronaldo or messi let's get Let's probably true. I mean, I hitched.
I took a shot. You took a shot literally like two weeks ago? Yeah, but it was like Ronaldo or Messi.
Let's hop in this debate. Yeah, you chose poorly.
Very, very poorly. That's like when I became a Djokovic guy right before Wimbledon and he won.
It was like the greatest thing. 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 yeah and Messi doesn't but if Messi wins even on the shoulders of Maradona then it's like okay well I have to I have to lay down my sword and pivot to Messi. 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? Probably Ronaldo.
Pele. Probably the other Ronaldo.
Or Ronaldinho. Or Ronaldinho.
Mbappe is going to be, if he, like, plays like he's been playing, because remember, he was only 19 when he won the World Cup last time. He's going to be an incredible like all time guy.
He's fucking sick. He's so fast.
He's eight. And his name's awesome.
Killian. Yeah.
His name is pretty sick. And he is the guy that like when you see him on the pitch playing footy, he's so much faster than everybody.
So much fast. And it's like shocking because these are other world-class fast guys yes yes although that run that mess he had was pretty sick it was all time yeah class pure class okay uh argentina to france one uh dos a zero i'm going dos a zero two nil four four penalty kicks oh four four it's one nil alternate over seven and a half in soccer they don't award the score to winning team in penalty kicks.
What do you mean? Like it's a final score of 1-1, but. Oh, yeah, yeah.
Then they, yeah, it doesn't become 2-1. Yeah.
Are you mean for like the overs? Yeah. Yeah.
That'd be incredible. Well, soccer with the extra time and not getting that for the over too.
Yeah. Wait, just to clarify, Hank, your prediction is 4-4.
Yep. And then it goes to penalty kicks.
1-0. And then France wins one goal to nothing in penalty kicks.
Were there any 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.
I'm going 0-0 France in PKs. Oh, that sucks, Bart.
That's usually what happens. That's usually World Cup soccer.
Usually the third place game is a sick game. Yeah.
I'm pumped for that. When is it? That's on Saturday.
What time? I don't know. 10? 10 a.m.
Oh, okay. Nice.
I was going to say, if it's at 2 o'clock, I'm not going to watch it. No, I'm pretty, yeah.
It's going to be Vikings-Colts. Usually that's a game where they're just like, fuck it.

Third place doesn't really matter.

Yeah.

We don't have to worry about tactics.

We should do third place games in the NFL.

Oh, 100%.

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

That's what it should be.

Yeah.

Yeah.

They should absolutely play third place games.

I don't know if they used to do that.

I think they did on the Sunday.

I don't want to answer one way or the other because I don't want to be accused of not

knowing the ball.

I know.

Absolutely not. I'm going to go with that sounds like the most incorrect statement you've ever made.
Billy knows ball. Yeah! They would do it the weekend before the Super Bowl.
Dude, you just tossed on Hank. I stayed out of that.
I don't know if this is a guess because it happened between 1960 and 1969. No, Billy knows ball.
Billy knows ball. He remembers those years.
Hank, that's a bad look for you, bro. Originally known as the runner-up ball.
That's a bad look for you. Yeah, no, that's – Billy knows more ball.
You want to take accountability, Hank? I took accountability. I did not know ball in that moment.
Yeah, I think – No, Billy's about to – Unitas. Yeah, don't – 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, Billy.
Dude, you won. If you keep talking, you're going to get yourself in trouble.
You're up two scores and you're not kneeling. You're just still throwing the ball.
Stop. Can we hurry up because this thing's killing me? All right, okay.
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Picks and preview, boys. I'm going to call this moving day in the NFL.
This is moving day this weekend. We got two moving days, Saturday and Sunday.
It feels like there are a few very specific 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.
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.
I like that. Because there's a lot of weather games.
Even the weather games that are kind of borderline, like in Cleveland, we're going to have a thermometer being like, can Deshaun Watson win in the cold? Yep. Big time.
Yeah, big win. I mean, the giant thermometer game of the week is going to be in Buffalo.
Oh, yeah, Saturday night. I love Saturday football.
It's so great. Tua did say it snows in Alabama, too, which is technically true.
We'll have to get our weather guy on that to verify. It does.
But I'm pretty sure it barely snows in Alabama. Yeah, I think it kind of snows everywhere.
There's a lot of places that it has snowed before. 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, which is cool.
Yeah. Has it snowed in LA? Has it ever snowed? It has to have.
I think it's probably snowed once or twice. Didn't it do it like two years ago? Yeah, I feel like it has.
Has there ever been snow in Los Angeles? Yeah, when Robert Downey Jr. is in town.
Since 2000, it's snowed three times in Los Angeles. Three times.
And people freak out. Freak.
It probably hasn't snowed since Twitter has become a real thing. Yeah.
Because if you think that earthquake Twitter in LA is obnoxious, if they get a dusting of snow, Oh my God. Just panic.
Pandemonium. Growing up in Florida, people would wear jackets and gloves when it was in the 50s.
Heaters on the sideline. When it snowed like an inch in Atlanta a couple years ago and the highway shut down, Chipper Jones was rescuing people on ATV.
Yeah, we were there for that. It was basically like a slushy ice rain and they closed the schools the day before.
They didn't even get watching the TV and seeing if your school is closed. No, no.
They were like, all schools closed. So when I was living in Texas, one time- That's also a boomer thing because there's no way they do that anymore, unfortunately.
Yeah. Sad.
No, I know. I was like that, too.
It's one of the best feelings of excitement you could have. Yeah, how do kids find out about snow days now? They get automatic texts? It's probably like an amber alert to their phone.
That sucks. It was so cool watching TV and waiting for the five minutes to see if your school district was up there.
If it actually was an amber alert. And then waiting again.
Yeah, if your phone actually buzzed and you woke up on your phone, that would actually be electric. It would be kind of fun.
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.
Or the worst is when it was like two-hour delay. It's like maybe we'll change it.
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. That sucks.
Yeah, Billy? For me, it was on TV in middle school. Then they switched it come high school.
TV is so much better. It's so much better.
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.
There was no snow, no precipitation. It was just going to be 32 degrees.
And they were like we can't yeah you can't expect people can't live outside in this uh but yeah this this is going to be a fun week uh 15 and i do the saturday games are the best because you know the standalone games when you can really just immerse yourself in a football game we have six of those this week yes six six stand-alone thursday three on saturday sunday night monday night like there you just you just watch all the football and you just get to really be in the game get the sound up there's a good team for super wild card weekend yeah super wild card weekend which i'm excited for all right so jake what are our standings at uh reminder the second place and the last place have to do the bowling challenge. So it's coming down to it.
Yeah, it is. I am awful.
I'm 1-11. I got a win.
Get the Tommy John now, buddy. Saw one go through the hoop, as you would say.
But I'm 1-11, so I'm a dead last. One behind Hank.
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 Big Cat and PFT are also within a game up top.

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

Obviously, things can change with 16 picks left,

but Billy and Max are sitting pretty.

Right now, it's me versus Tank and you versus PFT.

I'm not going to get worried until the last week.

Okay, so let's hop into it. PFT's red hot.
Yeah, he's red hot. I am red hot.
That's a fact. I've been red hot my entire life.
I'm glad people are recognizing it finally. Am I top dog right now? Yeah, but one game.
You're half a game off on. Half a game.
Okay. What's the record? 30 and 27.
That's respectable. And I'm in last at 21-36.
Ooh. Wow.
That's tough. Hank, 22-35.
25-32. Billy.
Max, 27-29-1. You're 29-27.
Okay. You know what? I might do this.
Oh, so Max and I are only two apart. So if I fall and Max goes up, he's in second.
It's not really a two-man. No.
It's wide open. It's wide open.
It's wide open. I still might win.

Billy's within four games.

I think Hank's mathematically eliminated from him. And I think next week we will start the submitting of picks beforehand.

Okay.

So that way there cannot be any like, you know.

So, Billy, you're going to have to say the Jets before we even sit down.

Hank would need to go perfect every week,

and I would need to go imperfect every week.

Hank's done.

Do we have a hungry dog this week that you're liking?

His heart's not.

I'm going.

Shut the fuck up.

You shut the fuck up.

No, you shut the fuck up.

My heart is always.

There's one thing my heart is in.

It is deep, deep, deep inside the hungry dog,

and this week it's kind of hit.

Also, Hank's dying.

No, no, no, no.

Yeller, no.

Hank tweeting out the gift of a tecum Sui When the Texas organization Out of what Sui season The Mike Vick hungry dog of the week That's what this should be Because they're It's bad It's really bad You need to Yeah Your dogs need to be foster homed Can you start like Take my advice How about you guys Start teasing Start teasing favorites No Just do two I'm gonna do two Two Last week there was a Clerical change Material change Yeah, Hank. How about you guys start teasing favorites into being underdogs? No, just do two.
I'm going to do two. Two.
Last week there was a clerical change. Material change.
Yeah, material change. Also, are we doing something similar Thanksgiving, or is everything on the board? No, Saturday and Sundays are both.
Yeah, they both count because the game's coming out on Friday. The show's coming out Friday.
You're going to do a hungry dog on Saturday, too? Yeah, when you say two, what if I did one on Saturday, one on Sunday?

Games?

But that means that you would just have every underdog win on Saturday.

And that also means you're going to just lose.

No, no, he's saying pick a game on Saturday, parlay it with Sunday.

No, I'm saying do Hungry Dog, parlay Saturday.

Oh, so you're going to go 0 for 2 this weekend on Hungry Dog. Okay, got it.

Not with that attitude.

I'm going to go 2 for 2 and be back.

Got it.

All right.

All right.

Let's start with our favorites. Favorite favorites.
We'll talk about every game. Hank, go ahead.
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. But, you know, they've 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. It's a big word.
Nice. And the Bears are and rightfully show as they should be like they're tanking.
They don't want to win. They don't want to fight.
So I win is bad. I have one thing that should make you nervous about this pick because I agree the Eagles should kill the Bears I'm a terrible gambler lifelong loser historic loser, one of the best losers of all time I have my Eagles future my team is the Bears, I want them to lose 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.

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?

That's the only thing that would make me nervous.

But that would be more nerve-wracking if we're talking about covering, but there's no chance the Bears win. Exactly, except for the fact that I'm a lifelong loser.
There's 0.0% chance of losing. I'd be more concerned about the fact that the Eagles have to play the Cowboys next week, and this is a big-time look-ahead spot.
It's a double look-ahead spot for the Cowboys and for the Eagles. Yes, and Hank, just think about it.
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.
And I am now in full. I know that I said a month ago I'd like them to win one.
I'm now in full 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. Like if they have the second pick, they will most likely be able to get a couple picks out of that.
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.
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.
It would double hurt me. Bang, bang.
I have a double hurt on the line. Okay.
Max. Broncos minus three.
Recency bias. Against the Cardinals.
What if Russ is back? What if Russ is back? He's probably not going to play this week. He did have the best quarter of his year so far.
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.
There's one guy who thinks that he can beat a concussion. I need to know how much of the nano bubbles he's drank this week before I touch this game.
Yeah. So it could be Colt McCoy versus Brett Rippon.
Exactly what everyone wants to watch. I also have a fun stat for everyone out there.
Weeks 1 through 7 in the NFL and weeks 1 through 4 in college football, Cliff Kingsbury is 36-15, 70% as a coach. Weeks 5-plus college football and eight plus in the NFL.
He's 27 and 59, 31%. He's bad.
That is quite something. He's a bad coach.
Their GM is taking a leave of absence right now. Yep.
Can't fire a guy with a leave of absence. Brilliant move on his part.
So smart. I can't wait to see what's going to happen.
I was like, fuck, I should have done that. I can't wait to not watch Hard Knocks and figure out exactly why he's taking this leave of absence.
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. Can't get fired if you're not at work.
Yeah, facts. By the way, Russell Wilson, so I just looked'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 yeah so he might be back if i was jesus i would be at this point like hey russ keep my name out your mouth yeah it's bad co-branding it's bad branding for me i don't i don't want to be lumped in with russell wilson Wilson on Instagram keeps trying to do the share, the co-post, where he's like, I'm going to share this with Jesus, and Jesus reviews it and denies it every time.
Yeah, Jesus is my homie. Jesus is like, well, I think we should see other people.
Yeah. Why can't Mahomes be a Jesus guy? Yeah.
Like, why can't I get credit for that? Yeah, that's great. Really really honestly like great job god yeah with patrick mahomes yeah but i mean just chill out russ yeah russ is honestly like a little clingy towards jesus he is all right uh pft your favorite favorite i love the minnesota vikings this weekend oh minus four and a half i think it's perfect spot for the vikings against the colts Against the Colts.
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.
I believe they will. You know who his backup is? Nick Foles.
Yeah. It might be Nick Foles time in Indianapolis.
It could be Nick Foles. It's sad to see Matt Ryan go out there every week and just get his soul taken from his body.
But this, this does feel like, I mean, like we said last week, the Vikings offense is very, very, very good. Yes.
And so I, I am confident that they'll be able to beat the Colts. Now it is, here's the thing that makes me nervous about this.
And it's completely stupid. It's Saturday on a coaching on Saturday.
Yeah. Yeah.
So I, yeah. Wild.
It's it's mine just got blown by that one i threw that out there earlier today because um jeff saturday is a great uh test in like first impressions mean the most because he beat the raiders that week that first week he was coach yeah he frank reich was three five and one jeff saturday is one and three and if you look at the games i know they were competitive in the cowboys game till the end but it was a blowout, but Frank Reich was 3-5-1. Jeff Saturday is 1-3.
And if you look at the games, I know they were competitive in the Cowboys game until the end, but it was a blowout. 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.
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. First impressions.
He beat the Raiders. He beat the Raiders.
I also got... It's also Saturday coaching on Saturday.
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. He said that Jeff Saturday is basically just a mole for Jim Irsay,

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 if it's a Chris Ballard problem

or if it's something that he can fix himself.

Yeah, I think that Jeff Saturday was actually more of just a flame

to draw Peyton Manning in closer next year

because they're trying to get him involved, whether as a coach or as a general manager, in getting Jeff Saturday in the door. That's the easy—just bring his buddy in, and then that'll be fine.
That's the only thing that I have a problem with. I don't like betting against Saturday on a Saturday.
On a Saturday. It is kind of mind-blowing to think that that's going to happen.
But I still—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. Yes, facts.
Okay, I'm going to go with Bengals minus 3.5, which scares me a little bit because the Bengals have won and covered five straight games, so you'd think they're at the peak of their market, and the Bucs are they've been but I think the bucks are just that bad I really do I think they're that bad

you have this pick as well I have this pick as well I think Brady's skewing the lines just because

he's Brady it's it's it's crazy how bad the bucks look when you watch them um 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 like that could win and now jump and get a home game, which would be significant. Joe Burrow also is the most profitable quarterback to bet on in the last 20 starts.
He's 17-3 against the spread. That's insane.
That's pretty good. That's insane.
Brady's been terrible against the spread this year. 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.
I think Brady has reached the point where he should hang it up. It's sad watching him play.
He's going to keep playing. I think he's a pass-the-torch game.
Oh, because there are a lot of people who are like, Joe Burrow kind of reminds him of Brady of like, you know, standing in there just slinging, just being an ice cold killer. Okay, I like pass the torch.
Pass the torch. Means more.
Yeah. Okay.
I have Bengals minus three and a half. So does Billy.
Jake. The Bucs just stink.
They're bad. I'm happy that 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 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 couldn't quit a nasty case nasty case of tb going around yeah you they're gonna be in the hungry dog aren't they I had the saints on Monday night.

They covered at the nine.

Like you're,

you're you're you got a problem i denied the niners last week that was my pick in this you had a problem you have a problem you have a bucks problem no i had the niners last week i just i see value and there's a lot of value with them this week okay all right uh in order to get value, you typically have to win those bets, though.

Oh, as the game happens?

That's kind of how value works. Wait, as the game happens?

No, but you've seen a lot of value in the past.

Oh, wait.

Oh, wait.

You've lost a lot of bets.

You've lost, like, a fuckload of bets this year.

Wait.

Wait.

Hold on.

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.

Yeah, it's seven.

All right. So there you go.
You can take the Bucs, and I won't be – you can put them in the Hunger Dog. You sticking with the Bengals, Billy? I'm easily swayed.
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. I'm staying on the Bengals.
The Bills. So talking about the Bills-Dolphins game real quick.
I apologize.

I had no idea they went to seven.

Tua has played 63 games in college and pro

and never started a game that's been under 36 degrees.

Yep.

Yeah.

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-of-water scenario.

Yes, and he also started three games with the temperatures under 50 degrees, 0-3 straight

up and against the spread, and Mike McDaniel was wearing a shirt in practice yesterday

that just said, I wish it were colder.

Kind of feels like trying too hard.

It's not true.

Yeah, there's no way.

You needed heaters in L.A.

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

Right, right.

So, checkmate Mike McDaniel. All right.
So Bills minus seven is my pick. I do like the Bengals as well, but Bills minus seven is my official pick.
I also like Cole Beasley's back. Yep.
He might not light up the stat sheet this weekend, but he does feel like Josh Allen's version of Julian Edelman. Well, it does feel, if you had to say the one thing the Bills 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 he's yeah he's he's like a tight end for them yeah often sometimes yeah all right so bills my says my pick billy are you sticking with bengals yeah i'm gonna stick with okay all right go ahead jake apologies for that i didn't realize it was seven all week, and I was like, if it goes to seven, I'm betting it, and now I'm going to bet it.
La who? Let's go, Jake. The commanders 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.
They're playing back-to-back weeks, back-to-back games for them. 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.
We won that tie. It's true.
Do you know Daniel Jones has yet to win in primetime? He's 0-9. Yeah, so four and a half points.
He could still cover, but he's 0-9 in primetime. The Giants are just trending in the wrong direction.
This is playoff atmosphere. This game is 100% going to be a playoff atmosphere game, which is shocking to have that game in Ralph John, Maryland.
But I think Jake's right. If you look at how the teams are trending right now, Washington trending up, they're rested.
Bi-week came at a good time. I like it, Jake.
I really do like it. 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? Anyone? I feel like I know this. Does anyone know ball? I know it has nothing to do with a Duke move.
Correct. Philly got it right.
That's exactly right. it also has nothing to do.
Rodgeringale was like not Duke. It has nothing to do with a juke move.
That's correct. Philly got it right.
That's exactly right. It also has nothing to do with nuclear weapons, nukes.
That's true. It doesn't have anything to do with your alma mater.
It looks like a giant shit. Does it have anything to do with puke? The dukey.
No, it doesn't have anything to do with puke. Nope, nothing to do with puke.
I knew that as well. Nothing to do with fluke? Like if you took a shit that's out of a football, you'd be like, that's the Duke.
Yeah. 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.
And then Tim Mara got the contract with Wilson Football to produce the football. The Duke.
And thenson barry up you should you should give a kick back tomorrow by uh naming the football after his son and so it's named after the owner's son i like that that was named after the duke of wellington that's back when the nfl was like just uh like like nfl league meetings was just like eight really old white dudes and they're like let's we can name Let's name the football after your son. We can do whatever we want.
Yeah that sounds good. It's our league.
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. That's beautiful.
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.
It's named after a rich white guy's son who was named after another rich white guy. Yeah.
So there it is. The football.
The Duke. Left hand up.
Okay. So you have commanders.
Four and a half. Four and a half.
Yep. That makes me nervous.
I really just, I would give almost anything to see a tie again. It would be awesome.
It would just be so funny. It would just be so fucking funny.
I'm offering the Giants a tie right now before we even play the game. Just having both of them just be like, yeah, it just would be perfect.
They'll both be 7-5 and 2. Both 7-5 and 1.
I want it so bad. Someone pointed out it could be schedule Gami or record Gami.
Like 7-5 and 1 teams facing off has probably never happened. Yeah, that's true.
That's true. Flexigami.
It 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.
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.
Everyone wins. His back is against the wall like it's never been before.
It's been against the wall. But not like this.
Three and a half. They were favorites, you know, or not favorites, but still.
The back is against the wall. Like, it's never been before.
It's been against the wall. But not like this.

Three and a half.

They were favorites, you know, or not favorites, but still.

The back is against the wall this week.

Everyone thinks it's going to be a Joe Burrow domination, torch passing.

The torch is going to get passed after the game.

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

I still got it, but you can have it.

I just think the Bengals do that. I don't think that's how a torch passing works.

Maybe it's like more like, yeah, it's like a joint passing. Like, we can share it.
I just think the Bengals defense is so good. I don't think that's how a torch passing works.
Maybe it's more like, yeah, it's like a joint passing. We can share it.
I just don't know. Like a double torch? Yeah.
Let me ask you this. Torch up together.
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.
Was it Trey? I also think that broke his wrist, I believe. Did he? I think so.
But I think he's going to play, which is football guy. I'm going to look that up.
I'm pretty sure he broke his wrist, and he's like, I'm still going to play. 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. You know what this is? This is a do you have any pride game for the Buccaneers.
But they do have pride. 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. They're like, guys, we gotta gear up for a playoff run.
Fact or fiction? Fact. So they're not looking at, we just got our shit stomped.
It's like, alright, let's break down, and it's Tom Brady. He's like, let's break down the film, let's come out, let's win this game, and let's make a run for the playoffs.
Who knows how to do that better than anyone else in the league? So Trey Hedrickson 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. That's badass.
Yeah. We should be rooting for Tampa Bay to lose this game to try to hit the record gami of having everybody in the NFC South finish the year 6-11.
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 until they see it on game day.
And I actually think this has been having a huge effect on their protections. Oh, okay.
And that's why Brady's had no time. Oh.
And he's been getting hit so much. Does it have anything to do with the fact that their offensive line also sucks? Right.
As well. But the thing is, like, positioning of skill players has a lot to do with the protection stuff.
So I feel like that misalignment of not having the whole offense on the same page and coaches not knowing what the hell Tom Braves is going to show up with on Sunday. You call him a bad teammate? I just, like, there's protection breakdowns.
Careful, he might be a jet next year. That'd be weird.
It would be so weird. That would be so fucking weird.
Alright, Max, your favorite underdog? Raiders plus a half at home against the Pats. Josh McDaniels versus Bill Belichick.
The student and the teacher. 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.
Now, Josh McDaniels, didn't he beat Bill Belichick when he was on the Broncos? 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. That he's lost pretty much every game since.
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. He was the young hotshot guy that everybody thought.
He was what Sean McVay ended up being. Right.
Darren Waller and Hunter Renfro, I think, are going to be back for the Raiders. Oh, this is the game to see who the best bad team in the NFL is.
Yes. Yes.
Yes. It's the king of the bad teams.
What does that look, Hank? 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 back.
You're in the playoffs as of right now. We're so back.
Patriots games have been so fun to watch this year. I actually think that...
Super Bowl VII on the way. 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? 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's the best. But if the Patriots blow them out, the Patriots win like 30 to 10.
Yeah, I think that you elevate them to worse than good team. We've talked about it all year, but like watching Patriots games sucks.
And at this point in the year, it's like they're not winning the Super Bowl. Like, yeah, we can make the playoffs.
That'd be cool. Yeah.
Hey, welcome to our world, man. Welcome to hell.
Making the playoffs is fun water's great yeah okay uh pft underdog uh my underdog this week is going to be the tennessee titans oh plus three this feels like this feels like a tractor cito game i know it's going to indoors. Or I guess technically not indoors because they had a lightning delay there one time.

Yeah, yeah.

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.

Remember last year when we talked about the Titans, they played 91 players.

They're close to reaching that again this year. They're're the most injured team they've played 80 players this year uh i think daniko autry is coming back though 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 gotta we gotta fix something with the training staff yeah like next year if we're gonna make any any changes, training staff and off-season conditioning because something's not working.
Yeah, this to me feels like it's a big-time moment between Staley and Mike Vrabel. And Staley's like the – he knows football.
He's a smart guy. But when it comes to getting dudes ready for a playoff stretch right now, that's Vrabelt for abletown yes that is um okay my underdog i am going to 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 uh yeah it's just i feel like it's one of those games i'll know right away 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 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 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 Jaguars plus four and a half. Trevor Lawrence.
I don't hate it. I'm riding.
Big time look ahead game. The Texans should have beat the Cowboys last week.
Yeah. Until they realized, wait, we want to lose this game and then lost.
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. Yeah.
Lovey looked up and was like, shit. Let's take advantage of this.
Yeah. We got to fucking lose.
Yeah, the Cowboys, they haven't looked great. Yeah, they kicked the shit out of the Colts a couple weeks ago.
But it was close. No.
It was 21-19 in the fourth quarter. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
In the fourth quarter, it was a very close game until they absolutely nuked them. Right.
But the Cowboys, they feel like – 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.
If they go to Jacksonville and they win impressively, then I'm going to be all-in on the Dallas Cowboys, unfortunately. Billy, favorite underdog? 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.
Why do you make everything so weird? No, but I actually like the Giants because they can't tie.

I've been choosing between two.

I think I'm going to go with the Giants by four and a half.

Okay.

Because they can't even tie.

But you wanted to shout out the Jets.

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

What do you mean?

It's a pick-em.

There's more space.

There's more room for hitting it with more points,

whereas the pick-em is not even an underdog.

You've got to win the game.

Yeah. So I do think Mike White's going to.
it with more points, whereas the pick-em is not even an underdog. You've got to win the game.

Yeah.

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

Big time with Zach Wilson being QB2 now.

I know.

So there's a little fire underneath him.

Yeah.

He might be back. He might be back.

Like, 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. Patrick Mahomes.
Yeah. Where we're at with that relationship right now, it's like Zach's been begging to get let back in the house.
The thing is. Begging, and finally they crack the door.
They're like, I know you're homeless. You can come inside, but you're sleeping on the couch.
Yeah. But it's like the thing is record-wise, he was 5-2.
Right. So you're already talking yourself back into him.
Okay, yeah, you're fully back into him. Taylor Heineken.
Already. He hasn't done shit.
He stopped getting asked to not come to the games, and Billy's like, I think he's back. He's been working on his fundamentals.
Fundamentals. Yeah, okay, that's good.
He's a grinder. Fucking Jets pick him.
Oh, there it is. And it repeats itself.
Okay. Jake.
Underdog. Jets.
Jets pick him. Okay.
I am with you on the Jaguars plus four and a half. Let's go together, baby.
Feisty team. Look at all these usually bad teams getting hot late.
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, or sorry to say 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. Imagine the Jaguars Sunday night, Week 18, to get to the playoffs.
It would be amazing. Oh, man.
Would that be in Duval? I'm eyeing a revenge game. Dolphins-Jets, by the way.
The pool would be filled with people. So filled.
Can you imagine that? So filled. What are you saying, Jake? I'm eyeing a flex of the year.
Dolphins-Jets revenge game. Personal revenge game.
Personal revenge game. That could be a winner goes to the playoffs, loser goes home.
And I'm ready for the Jet fans. Billy's pointing his fingers at me.
I didn't do it. It's on camera.
What does that mean that you're ready? After what they did to me in week five. Yeah, but what are you ready to do? What does being ready look like? Eliminate them.
Or get eliminated. That was fucking cold-blooded, Jake.
Yeah, damn. He's ready to do it.
And they will be the more. Behind that game.
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, the Commanders. And then I thought for a second.
I was a loser team, too. I know, but I got mad initially, and then I thought about it, and I was like, yeah, he's right.
Yeah. He's right.
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Hank, your favorite

over. I actually love all the unders this week.

It's a problem. I hope you guys can help me

figure this one out first before I make a pick.

Tua, Tyree Kill,

Jalen Waddle, Mike McDaniel, best offensive minds in the league. One of the best offensive teams, right? Yeah.
Josh Allen, Stefan Diggs. The Bills have been running it up all year.
Do you hear our weather report on Tuesday? Why? What reason could this possibly be that it's only 44? Have you ever looked at a giant thermometer, Hank? Weather isn't real. Over 44.
You guys, it's 43 and a half. Also, the Dolphins have only scored 17 points.
It was the 9-3 game when weather was an issue when you went. 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. They've only scored 17 points 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, they'll score 40. Don't let Tyreek recover a fumble.
Don't let him get the ball in the open field. Then he can't return it.
What if the Bills score 28 and the Dolphins score 17? That's a winner. That's a winner.
Is Tyreek okay? His ankle. I think he's fine.
That gets aggravated in the super cold with that atmospheric pressure. True, true, true.
Billy's right. Weather is not real.
This game is going way over. I'm a big believer in atmospheric pressure because that does make you hurt.
You're a huge believer in atmospheric pressure. I always say that Billy is the biggest atmospheric pressure guy that I know.
No, but when they talk about the sky being a cloudy day, you hurt more. Like your old injuries.
Injuries, yeah. Your back.
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 in the cold weather that probably exacerbates it a little bit he's gonna be tyreek hill also is gonna like he's a primo like wearing a full hooded sweatshirt underneath his uniform yeah he.
He's not going to like the cold. Although he played in Kansas City.
Even Bill's players are playing like practicing in parkas, like full ass coats. Yeah, you practice, but then you go on the field just sleeveless.
The Dolphins are going to be bothered by the cold. I can guarantee you that.
Their name is the Dolphins. Yeah.
They're wearing shirts that say, I wish it were colder. That's a guaranteed sign that you don't.

Yeah.

You should be completely nude if you actually wish that it was colder.

Yeah.

But AC blasting you.

It's like when you wear positive vibes only shirts.

Right.

I'm trying to will positive vibes when the vibes are not good.

So they're trying to will cold weather.

Right.

But did you hear the part about the vibes not being good?

No.

Saturday night, great game. Weather doesn't matter.
This is going way over. Okay.
Max, your favorite over. Trust.
Jags, Cowboys. I just think this is going to be a fun game.
So, over. I like it.
47. I like it.
I like it. PFT.
I'm riding with Hank. Let's go.
Weather's not real. Weather's not real.
Weather's not real. I'm with you, Hank.
I saw this matchup and I thought the exact same thing. 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.
It's going to be a shootout. Weather's not real.
In fact, it's the holiday season. If this overheats, I'm going to give free subscriptions as part of my take to everybody.
I match. I'll match too, honestly.
I don't usually match you guys, but it's the holiday season. Yeah, it's quadrupled.
All right, thank you. I'm going to probably bet this over, so I'll ride with you guys.
My official pick will be the Lions-Jets over 44.5, but I'm going to ride it with you guys. Come on.
Yeah, you got to. Yeah.
It snowed one time in a Patriots game they scored 59 points. That's true.
That did happen one time. Different type of snow.
I think that game, this is how down bad Hank's gotten this year between his 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. No, I mean, I follow a couple accounts on Twitter that are literally just like

one of them is 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.

But, yeah, that definitely is in my head. Yeah.
I mean, it's my favorite accounts, but it's like I'm living in the past for sure. All right.
I'm taking that Jets line is over 44.5. It's based a lot on Quinton 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.
Mike White not afraid to push it down the field. I think we're going to get some points in this game.
I also took this. Seriously, I have it written down.
I know. You double up on the Jets game every week.
There was a lot of unders. I actually don't do this as a bit.
This is real. Right.
We know. Dude, you had me fooled.
We know your brain is not a bit. What do you do as a bit? It depends on the day.
You don't want to know the bits. It depends on the day.
But when we were talking about – It's the things that don't work out. That was a bit.
When we talk about – There was a bunch of great unders this week, but this was just the best over. The best.
The Lions have been an over team. The Jets are going to click.
And I think there are a couple injuries on the lions defense too yeah so okay happens so let's ride billy uh yours jake i'm 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 justin fields is dealing with an illness right now but the eagles can obviously score two and you want to watch this battle, you can use the GameTime app for $102 between Philadelphia and Chicago. Ooh, I like it.
GameTime app. I like this one as well because this also falls under the, like, it could be 41 to...
41.10 or like 33. 0.0.
Is this making you nervous, Max? I know what he's doing. Hank has the Bears winning at 0.0, like no reason to even play the game.
I hate this game. I hate this game.
I think you should. Whatever.
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What was it, Jake? 102. So there you go.
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Max thinking I would mush possibly having a bowl and eat 20 hot dogs just for the Eagles to lose. It's crazy.
Well, no. That's not crazy.
No. Sounds like you're mad, 0.0 is...
That was the line that really... The Bears-Eagles play 100 times.
The Bears win zero of them? Yeah. Okay.
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.
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.
So I'm going to take the Cardinals-Broncos under 36 and a half. Okay.
I like that just because that's the quarterback matchups, but then you think that, and then it's like that, and there's like two defensive touchdowns. It does feel like the game that's going to bum you out the most to watch.
No, Lions-Jets under 44.5. Oh.
Okay. This is huge for the competition.
The Jets defense is legit. Quentin Williams? Quentin Williams doesn't matter.
He'll probably play. This could either even things up or create a huge gap.
This is a pivotal week. Wow.
I want to go to the review table right now. I think there might be some fading right now.
You? Just want to put it on. But why would...
I mean, you guys both equally suck right now. I also pick first.
So you could be fading... No.
No, you're fading my... I already gave those picks, and you're taking the opposite.
You took the opposite if it's over. Whatever.
Is that the only one? I mean, next week we'll start writing them down. Yeah.
Stick to it. Also, Billy, this could benefit you.
If you win both, you're up four games on Hank. Have confidence in your picks, Billy.
Okay. Max.
I'm with Hank. I think Jets win this game ugly.
Ooh. Okay.
I think Lions win ugly. PFT.
Doesn't matter. 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? When 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. 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.

You tell me, is that an over game?

No.

No. No.
Definitely.

Will Compton's not going to be playing on the Falcons,

so that defense is pretty good. Yep.

Under 43. 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.
Stafford being the only one worse. That's pretty impressive.
Yeah, just more time is bad. I'm also just on a personal vendetta for the rest of the season against the Saints.
Just fuck you. Yeah, fuck them.
Just fuck you. 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. If you give them more time, they'll find a way to be worse.
They start to hibernate. Yeah, it's bad.
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 60 at some point, but I'm going to go with this one's gross because I think you're going to have to survive like the pace of the over being at like 60 at some point. But I'm going to take Chiefs Texans under 49 and a half because I think that the Chiefs are going to want them.
And also the Texans lovey going to play some cover to going to keep everything in front of them. Chiefs can have to go down the field.
It is going to be though like first quarter. It's going to be like 21-3 And you're going to be like, oh, fuck.
But it's going to slow down. Okay.
It's going to slow down. Trust the process.
Also, if you want the MVP market, Mahomes is now plus 200 to win, and Jalen Hurts is minus 150. Just throwing this out there, 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. He's playing the Texans, Seahawks, Broncos, and Raiders.
So he might put up some numbers. Just throwing it out there.
Yeah, I mean, Mahomes could get the MVP every single year. Yeah, it's just more of a, like, if you think maybe Jalen Hurts has a bad game on primetime,

Christmas Eve, literally everyone in the world watching, that would be the only case.

I'm not going to do it, but I'm just throwing that out there for the people.

You're under.

They're not Beluga whales.

They're dolphins.

Bill's dolphins under 43 and a half.

Boo.

So you're fading Hank.

No, I had it written down.

Oh, okay.

Wait, so you did that whole thing knowing you were going to end up

being opposite of them?

Yeah.

Wow, so they're opposite three.

This is huge. As a last place person,

I love to see this. Yeah, that's good.

Love to see it. Are beluga whales,

are they cold weather? They are.

Okay. You're a special boy.

It's not a bit. It's not a bit.
Not a bit.

Not a bit. Alright, Jake.
I'm taking a new game we haven't talked about yet. Steelers-Panthers under 37 and a half.
Okay. Okay.
So maybe Mason Rudolph. Yeah.
That's what they're saying. He's taking QB two reps.
Might be Mason Rudolph. I feel like he's out.
I don't know. I just can't envision a high-scoring game.
Yeah, they're going to run the ball. I'm rooting for Mason Rudolph.
I wantason 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 that's got to be a record special that would be a very special thing to watch uh any games we miss i think we hit them all yeah good job everyone ravens brown. Yeah.
Tyler Huntley, possibly, most likely. Maybe not concussed.
Said afterwards that he wasn't actually concussed. So hopefully that will stave off having to watch Anthony Brown play quarterback.
I think that's all the games. Oh, we never had any.
We talked about Baltimore's Cleveland. No one officially had to pick.
Yeah. Yeah.
I would take 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.

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

Yeah.

And a good defense against Sean Watson.

And Monday night is Rams-Packers, which looks like Baker.

Yes, Baker.

Okay.

Let's do – we do need our Mount Rushmore.

We haven't won it in forever.

Derek Henry, Tractor Cito season.

Justin Fields.

Ramondre.

No, no, he's injured.

Come on, Hank.

I mean, the one last week should have hit with Ezekiel and Pollard.

Pollard, yeah. That was juicy, too.
Chubb. I'm going to do Chubb.
I'll go Ezekiel. No, I think you've got to do a Sunday.
Got to go Sunday. Ezekiel Elliott.
Okay. Sunday.
Do a Sunday game. Josh Jacobs.
Okay. I like it.
Those are our Mount Rushmore. Okay.
Let's do Fantasy Frenchman. Ha-ha.
Hon-hon. Oui, oui.
Oui, oui. Sacre bleu.
Hello. Garçon.
Hello. My name is Henri.
Bonsoir. Henri.
M'in-a-mi-a. Oui, oui.
What was that? That's my last name. M'in-a-mi-a.
M'in-a-mi-a. M'in-a-mi-a.
It's French. Is it French? Le Granduit.
Mr. Ham.
Is it j'apples. J'apples.
J'apples. Qu'est-ce que c'est apples? I love green apples, red apples, and j'apples.
My citim is croissant. Poisson.
No plain bagel, no cinnamon raisin bagel, no onion bagel, no everything bagel. Qu's that? What's that? What's that?

What's that?

What's that?

What's that?

A croissant.

Island bagel.

Put the ham in that. And my c-tem is french fries at Taco Bell.
Oh, man. This bleeds.
What else can't they do? They're announcing french fries at Taco Bell. I smell an Englishman.
Très bon, très bon. Oh, oh, oh.

Just a little.

Je m'appelle...

J... Englishman.
Très bon, très bon. Zut alors, je m'appelle J.P.P.
J.P.P. J.P.P.
Et my start is I'm starting to smoke again. I'm starting to smoke again the cigarette.
Because my friend, Henri, he told me, he said, JPP, you start a bad habit, so you quit bad habit. A New Year resolution.
Is he a lover or a friend? A little bit of both. We are French.
We are French here. We are French.
I'm sitting, showering. Sitting, showering.
Showering. Come still.
Wait, wait, wait. My sleeper is taking naps after noon, after my lunch break.
Some wine. Some wine.
My wine. My children and I drink a bottle of wine at lunch.
Yeah, some champagne. And I have the bout of movement.
And then, je suis dormi. Okay.
How do you say hello? Bonjour. Bonjour.
Salut. Bonjour.
Le grand chat. Pierre.
Pierre. Le grand chat.
Pierre. My stardom is character Consoles Oui oui It's that time of season Todd McShane Character Consoles Qu'est-ce que c'est Character This guy didn't go to class Pepe Le Pew Drop him in the draft He was spending Two months vacation With his family This guy likes to fuck Penis and vagina too much.
A little bit of romance. Oh, sex problem.
Not too much. My sit-up is Ty Lue.
Ty Lue, he got hit on this balls. Oh, no.
With a pass. It was funny.
Hello, dear. And my sleeper is ball season.
Balls. Bowls.
Give me all the bowls.

Yes.

Toutes les bowls.

Bowls.

Bowls here.

Bowls there.

Bowls everywhere.

The bowl orange.

Très orange.

Les pampels mousses.

Yeah, les pampels mousses.

Oui, oui, oui.

Les pampels mousses.

Grape à fruit.

Oui, oui.

Oui.

Très orange.

Clemson.

Yeah.

Et Tennessee.

Oui, oui, oui.

Les voles here. Oui.
Tylus, oui, oui, en baseball. Oui, oui.
Salut, mon ami. Oh, bonjour.
Pierre Basso de Grandouille. Ah, Pierre.
It was Pierre. Oh, Pierre.
Two Pierre's. We're lucky Pierre.
Basso de Grandouille. Oui, oui.
It's the best. Sus.
No, no. It's a bust.
My stout is Mbappé. Right, aussi.
Oui, oui, Mbappé. C'est bon.
The best. He kicked the ball.
My sit-on is us, the French, when we pee. Oui, oui, oui.
Oui, oui. It's a nice treat for me.
Yes, civilized. It's dribble.
Yeah, you see it. Am I sweeping? The Germans.
Yeah. We're Germans.
Julius Caesar came back from the dead. He'd say, why are there still Germans? Yeah.
Oui, oui, oui. Je ne sais pas.
Oui, oui, oui. Je ne sais pas.
You look a little German. No, no.
No, no. You look a little know.
I don't know. I don't know.
I don't know. I don't know.
I don't know. I don't know.
I don't know. I don't know.
I don't know. I don't know.
I don't know. I don't know.
I don't know. I don't know.
I don't know. I don't know.
I don't know. I don't know.
I don't know. I mean, that's a pretty low bar.
I was about to say,

when they do this accent,

you can get the 1-800 flowers.

My wife.

Didn't hear Skip, didn't hear Mahomes.

Stayed out of all of them.

I'm going to pass out.

Billy, yeah, you can take that off.

Let's kick it to Brian Baldniger.

Great interview.

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You'll love it. And now here he is, Brian Baldinger.
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.
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 BaldyNFL. 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 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? 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.
It's just I sit in a 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 yeah that's that's the thing i've always loved about your breakdowns you get them out fast too i feel like you you get the all 22 before anybody else gets right do you have do you have like a direct line to NFL fans? Pretty much. The NFL doesn't like it when I put it out there right away because teams haven't even had a chance to watch their own games, and I'm already evaluating them.
So they're like, can you just hold off until Monday morning, 5 a.m. ball? So they get mad at me, but I'm just trying to feed the fans.
The fans want to see it know i'm 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 like what what the heck is you know what is jared goff doing on that throw like sausage like i'm already getting people telling me what they want to see So, like, I'm just trying to feed them. That's awesome.
So, like, in a general week, we know you're traveling on the weekend for the games, but do you watch every game on film? Do you watch back? Or are you – like, how does the process work? I'm very curious. All right.
So, listen to this. You'll love this, guys.
So, I'm doing San Francisco and Tampa last Sunday. So, I'm at Levi's at Levi's Stadium.
I'm down the field before the game talking to all the guys. Debo's telling me about Brock Purdy, whatever it is.
The game ends. It's a blowout.
49ers win. While the game was going on, I had my computer that I'm on right now uploading all the 1 o'clock games.
The 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.
And so I started breaking it down. Eagles, you know, blown 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.
In fact 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 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 so i just watched five more hours on a plane home so i kind of got a to jump. Yeah, that's incredible.
You're ready to go. All right, so that game – because we want to talk about this weekend in the NFL.
So that game, you saw it, Bucs 49ers. The Bucs to me, and I want your take on it, they just look slow.
They look slow at all times. Their plays look slow.
Guys aren't winning. 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? Because I still think he has a live arm, but it's looked so bad this year.
Well, I mean, you could look it up. I mean, he threw the ball 55 times in each of the last two games.
And, you know, they're not scoring any points. I mean, 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. 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.

He's not getting – you can talk about Julio Jones or Godwin or Evans.

The ball's not going down the field to those guys.

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.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I love it when you break down the trenches.

That's when you get real fired up when you talk about about, especially like the baddest defensive lines in the league. 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.
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 he I heard it's like a cohesive unit am I like am I a real big dumbass for thinking that no you're actually seeing it 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 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 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 like when I see offense lineman down the field at the ball before Chase Young is there that's a problem yeah 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.
If Chase comes on,

and he plays as hard as the guys around him are playing, then the defense will get better. 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.
He's got to unleash it. He has to know.
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. You know, and he knew – because, you know, he comes from Chicago, where they probably had the best defense any of us have seen in our lifetime.
You know, and, like, he knows how 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 and if Chase comes in and plays like that then this defense could take another step 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. The teams that can find a way to win with four will have the best chance when it comes to a playoff football game and be able to get pressure with four on the quarterback.
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? Without giving it really any thought right now, just knee jerk. I'd go Eagles, 49ers, Cowboys.
And they're probably the three favorites right now in the NFC for sure. But I would have to put Cincinnati with DJ Reader back in there at defensive tackle.
And you get Hendrickson and you get Hubbard, Joseph Asai is a young player. That's a pretty good group, and you can very underestimate them.
They've got what it takes to be a really good defense like what we saw in the postseason a year ago. So actually, this just popped in my head because we're going to talk about Week 15 games.
The Jets-Lions, if Quinton Williams doesn't play, that to me feels like the most important player. You know, Sauce Gardner's been great this year.
They've had a lot of guys have been great on defense. But it feels like everything starts with him.
Is that a fair assessment that if he's not playing, that is the most important player on their defense? Yes. Yes.
Completely. In fact, I just got right right before I came on with you guys, I was on with the Jets doing something for Robert Sala and their TV thing.
And I was just asking, like, what's the point of – I don't think he's going to play. He's got a path.
He went out of the game last week. And they play Thursday night.
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 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 Quinton Williams is and has been all year. 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, and they don't have anybody else like him.
John Franklin Myers, you know, you can put some guys in there, but not the way Quinton's playing. He makes, you know, Bryce Huff and Carl Lawson, he makes these guys on the edge that much better.
Yeah. Who would you say is the baddest dude in the NFL on defense? Ooh.
Might not be guy, but the baddest dude. Gaste is gaste.
Bad dude. Max Crosby is the best defensive player in this league.
Now, I talked to Nick Bosa last week, and Nick heard me say that. And he was like, oh, so you think Max is 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. 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, from Nick's standpoint. 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. But Nick is right there.
Nick is right there right now. Matt Judon is right there.
He's getting help from Josh Uche on the other side. They're a really good tandem.
The Eagles, they lead the league in sacks right now. 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, Hassan Reddick, Josh Sweat's underrated, very underrated. That's a good group.
I would say Max Crosby and Nick Bosa right now are the two guys. I like the Max Crosby answer.
I feel like he doesn't get enough love. The Dolphins.
What's the fix here? It feels like they have now, 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, 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. What is the counter move that Mike McDaniel can do? Because it feels like their season might be slipping away here.
Where's your guys' film room that you're getting all these observations from? We know a figure two. We know a figure two.
We know ball. Because Michael Davis, number 43 for the Chargers, I saw him deal with Jalen Waddle last week, Trent Shurfield, Mike Kosicki.
He did them all up. He's a six-foot-three corner, and he doesn't have the greatest foot speed, but he's beating them up at the line of scrimmage.
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. It's like, you know, for 12 weeks or 11 weeks, Waddle and Hill were just, like, destroying the field.
You know, and Tua was number one rated quarterback in the league and everything was like rosy. Well, all right.
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.
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've got to do right now.
Is it fair to say Tua has shown that he has some limitations to what he can do in terms of making throws to the outside of the field? I think he – look, he made two bad throws against San Francisco and he got picked. There's a couple where he sailed the ball.
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, you know, and he had trouble getting the ball when there's pressure right in his face. That's always going to be a problem for guys at that height.
But I think mechanically he's really good like he's really sound he's 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 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 you know trinavious white is back i mean they're playing a lot more man coverage than i've seen buffalo play in the past it allows them to blitz you know play man covers behind it and that might be a problem for the dolphins this week so uh 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 game on Saturday night, Dolphins going up to Buffalo.

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?

Is that something?

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.

Can you sense it when guys are not locked in

or the cold is bothering them and it feels like they're off? I actually can. Like, there's some teams – 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 Malata, 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.

Lane Johnson, like, they're a big pregame team.

But there's teams that, 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 having fun throwing the ball behind the back throwing the route tree to Travis Kelsey like he's just having fun like he comes out every day but there are some teams when the weather's bad or inclement like you can't find them they're in the locker room and I do think there's something to that yeah yeah absolutely did you say that Jordan Mulata has six toes? Yeah.
Wait, you knew that? I knew that, yeah. The web.
The web. Yeah.
Like he's an amphibian that's just kind of making the way through evolution to the land right now. He's a freak.
That's incredible. I wish I had known that a long time ago.
I definitely would have jumped on that eagle. Maybe you could get Jordan on the show and he could play his ukulele and show you his six toes.
Yeah, incredible. I mean, we should probably talk about your hands at this point, the famous baldy finger that you got there.
Yeah, look at that thing. Oh, man.
That's gnarly. That's at least a 90-degree angle you got going out there.
I was at a Cowboys reunion last Tuesday night. I was with Roger Staubach.

Roger's got the same finger.

So we were comparing fingers, me and Roger, last week.

You know, so it was like – and I've known me and Roger

who's played basketball all the time.

He tried to get his fixed.

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.

The splint flies off and the finger goes right back to where it was. Yeah, Torrey Holt's got a pretty gnarly one, too.
Have you compared with him? He's got a bunch of them. His finger's crossed in the middle.
Like, his are like that. Does it hurt at all, or is it just – it is what it is? 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? Those kind of fingers you know i mean honestly i think it it gives a little air of uh expertise to your opinions though 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 gonna be like this dude knows what he's talking about yeah yeah well i mean it's my

signature like it does make it a little more authentic but you've been out there you know

just grabbing somebody and holding on for dear life you know to to win a little battle one day

Thank you. It's my signature.
It does make it a little more authentic. You've been out there just grabbing somebody and holding on for dear life to win a little battle one day.
Were you a guy that when it came to the cold weather, would you put any stock into the team that doesn't wear sleeves, has a mental edge? 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.
And in the vet back then, 25 below felt like 40 below because the wind was blowing. It was just and I remember like there's no way I would ever put sleeves on in any situation.
It was just a mental thing. Like, I'm not, you know, I'm a meathead.
I, you know, I grab people for a living. You know, I run into people for a living like I'm not putting sleeves on.
There's no way anybody's going to think that I'm cold. And you wouldn't put the Vaseline on your arms, would you? No, but I'd put Vaseline on my jersey, which was illegal, so that when they grabbed it, their hands just slipped off it.
Like I would do that for sure. That's just gamesmanship.
So we made the comment last week. We put our life on the line for this.
So we said that the Super Bowl winner is going to come out of six teams, the Chiefs, the Bills, the Bengals, the Cowboys, the Niners, or the Eagles. 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've got to be ready to possibly end our lives if that doesn't happen? I don't think there's a team.
Like, the way the Ravens ran the ball last week with J.K. 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, Cleveland this week. We'll see what happens.
If they run the ball like that, they could be a problem. I caution myself from saying this because I don't want to fall into a silly trap, but Detroit is dangerous.
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.
Like if you add him, like their defense got a lot of good young players. They're not really any championship level defense, but I feel like they could outscore teams Because their offense is really good.
Goff is playing great. They've 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? You kind of like want to see them against the Jets in New York this week, and if they take care of business, you go, yeah, that team could be dangerous. Yeah.
It's so crazy that we're having that conversation about the Detroit Lions. I know.
But it's legit. Their offense is that good, I think.
But if you look at, like, I'm not comparing, like, to Cincinnati and, you know, because Joe Burrow's an assassin and Jamar Chase. But, you know, they were 10-7 last year.
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, especially preseason or even halfway through the season, that Cincinnati was a Super Bowl team.
And they finished 10-7. And there they were, Super Bowl 56 at SoFi, like within one drive of winning it all.
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. Is there a team that's fading in your eyes? That's like something's off, you know, they got to get it together, but it feels like it's slipping through the crowd.
Well, I mean, you can say that about Miami. Yeah.
Like 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, 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 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.
But the thing that's disappointing to me about that team is they traded. They made a trade for Bradley Chubb.
And if you combine him and Jalen Phillips and Christian Wilkins, they got all these number one picks on the defensive line, yet they don't look like they're unstoppable defensive. Baldy is being brought to you by Skrill.
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the Cowboys. 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.

They've had all the pieces there. But this year, I'm starting to think it could be possible.
They

look like a good team. But the last two weeks, they've struggled against the Texans.
And then I think it was the Colts before that, right? Well, Packers. Oh, the Packers.
Yeah. So they've had a couple of stumbling blocks.
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? 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 put Josh Ball in there. 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 can finish a game for you. You can't expect Jason Peters to go in 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. 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. But like, he's talking about Jalen Hurts and MVP, and I'm like, Micah, like, go to Jacksonville and take care of business against Trevor Lawrence this week.
Because last week, Laramie Thompson 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 beat Micah to be special, I think.
You know, the offense can be good.

You saw them against the Colts.

It's a, you know, it's 21-19.

All of a sudden, they finished with 56 points.

Like, they, you know, just exploded.

And they show signs that they can be that explosive team at times.

But, you know, their performance in postseason was dreadful last year.

Let's face it.

Like, San Francisco whipped them.

They had way too many penalties, and they fell into that trap that you talk about. Like, are they? And they had home field, and you saw the long faces on all the fans.
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. It'll probably be the most watched game all year.
You know, it's a perfect primetime game, Christmas Eve. Like, I feel like that's the season right there for them.
Yeah, it's going to be a huge, huge game. Speaking of the Eagles, there's been a lot of people who have been like, they don't play anyone.
Their schedule has been soft. But from your watching the film, I'm a big believer like, hey, if your schedule is soft but you're beating the brakes off teams, then you're doing your job.
So what are you going to say? 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 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 are 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 this business but yet they're doing it they're jumping on these teams early it was 21 nothing with 10 minutes to go in the second quarter last week like that's hard to do in this league you know and so Jalen Hurts is the MVP he's a runaway MVP for me like he doesn't you can't get the guy to make a mistake and the guy's decisionmaking has been flawless. It might change against the 49ers or Christmas Eve against the Cowboys.
Maybe teams can do that. They're so solid.
Secondary is as good as anybody in football. The pass rush is lethal.
The offensive, blah, blah. They're good.
They're really good.

I'm a believer that offensive line play travels in the playoffs. 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. But in your opinion...
It's a good take. Is that fair? Okay, so offensive line play does travel in the playoffs in the weather.
So in your opinion, what team has the best unit right now that's playing the best as an offensive line? I think the Eagles are. I think the Eagles are playing great.
You can't find a weakness. Jason Kelsey is an amazing person.
Like, I don't know how he does it. 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.
But yet, game day, I don't know, the adrenaline kicks in. He loves the game, whatever.
I saw him put Dexter Lawrence on his back last week. You know, he's only outweighed by 70 pounds in that matchup, and he put him on his back.
Like, the guy can still run like the wind. Lane Johnson is unbeatable.
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 fingers are broken elbows are crooked like he doesn't care like he goes out there and battles like they're a really good group all right so got a couple more questions baldy this has been Like I said, you now are a recurring guest, so we have to have you on more often. I don't know why it took us so long.
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? Like just absolute, wow, this guy moves different than everyone else. He's just a different cat altogether.
Well, when Quentin Nelson first came into the league, I fell in love. I mean, I did a breakdown of Quentin Nelson every single week.
That guy, he was literally Gatoring people. He was putting them down the ground and sitting on top of them like he was like just you know a hungry line in the serengeti just eating his prey 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 there's game there's days now when i watch trent williams play and there's just nobody else that do what he does.
Nobody. Like the way he'll just take somebody by the scruff of the neck and just make them be grassy, you know, just put them face down on the turf.
Like he's a lot of fun to watch. I'm just thinking like Von Miller in his prime was a freak.
And then just what Patrick Mahomes has done in this league, we've never seen anything like it. Like, you know, just the throw last week, you know, to Jet McKinnon.
Like, he couldn't put a dishrag in his hand. He would have completed the dishrag, you know, to Jet McKinnon.
Like, he's just – you have to watch him. 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 seems to feel like nobody else.
And we've never really seen a player just dominate this business. You could say, take any quarterback, Payton or Aaron Rodgers or Brady, nobody's dominated the league the way Patrick Mahomes has for the last five years.

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?

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.

Like they see everything better than anyone seeing the field right now.

Well, Joe Burrow's there. Yeah.
Like I called him an assassin. He's an assassin.
Like he, 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. 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.

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.

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.

You know, like that's just the standard.

You know, they said Peyton Manning couldn't do it until he did it. You know, they're travelers from Tennessee.
But you've 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 Rodgers.
You've got to do it in the postseason. So that's left for Jalen to do right now.
But, like, he has that mentality as well. Yeah.
Like, you know, you can't get him fatigued. You can't rough.
Yeah. 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, when it comes to Mahomes, he just makes it look so easy.

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.

And have fun doing it.

Exactly.

As a fan, we want the players to enjoy them enjoy we want to see those guys having fun celebrating and like nobody's having more fun warming up playing the game practicing 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 like anything in his hands like he'd be a droid at doing it yeah 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 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. 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 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. Like unlike

anybody else that would

study that team. Like, you know,

whoever like the 49ers play Seattle

tonight, it's Thursday. So

I take what I've watched

Thank you. like anybody else that would study that team.
Like, you know, whoever, like the 49ers play Seattle tonight, it's Thursday. So I'd take what I've watched this week about the 49ers defense up against Pete Carroll and his stuff.
So would you say like maybe 60 hours a week of football? Yeah, 60 hours for sure. And you've been doing that for how many years now? Well, we started doing,, me and Sterling started doing playbook for the NFL network back in like 2007.
So the last 15 years. That's crazy.
Okay, so I'm going to do the math real quick. You're the ultimate football guy.
So I'm counting just since 2007, you've watched about 50,000 hours worth of football. Yeah.
I mean, was it, was it like, was it Stevie Jobs that said it's 10,000 hours? Like to master a craft? Yeah. Like I put my 10,000 hours in for sure.
Yeah, you've mastered it five times. You've clocked in since 2007.
You've watched 5.3 years of football. Oh, that's awesome.
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.
You know, like that stuff. The importance though.
My brain is just so full of football. Like I can't squeeze a lot more stuff in there.
That's all. Yeah, you're thinking about Fred Warner's tight end responsibilities.
Like I get it. There's so much football inside that brain.
I can tell that you think football is beautiful, which I think that's beautiful that you think that football is beautiful. I also do, yeah.
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 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 linebacker was in football, and Carolina went to play San Francisco. Ron Rivera's the head coach.
He's like four years ago, maybe five. 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, but the motions, the pre-snap movement like took his eyes off the ball. And you know, there goes, you know, whoever he most or whoever it was right by.
And to the point where Ron Rivera's wife was saying to Ron, you've got to watch Bal breakdown the next thing I know I get this text from Ron going Baldy can you can you you know 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 and it you know, it's very integral. It's hard to explain.
You have to kind of show it, slow it down and freeze it and run it back and forth to see what that 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. 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 react to the pattern. And then you bam, 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, because as a linebacker, you go formation you know the play know the formation you know the play so you get this pattern pattern pattern break the pattern and that's how like these next level thinkers are looking at the games yeah yeah it's a great answer um all right so ball this has been awesome i have one last question it is a roback question use promo code take you get 20% off. Q-Zips, Polos everything roback.com r-h-o-b-a-c-k.com promo code take for 20 off your first purchase non-football question to end you're a huge diner guy yeah you love diners what is 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? Well, I live in Jersey.
So if you live in Jersey, you go to Jersey Diners. They're like literally on every street corner.
First of all, they're open 24 hours. So back in the partying days, when you get out of the club at 2 or 3, whatever, you need a diner.
You need some grease, right? So that's it, 24. A counter service, you walk in.
you know you gotta like you gotta you need some grease right so that's it 24 uh a counter service you know you walk in you know you got your you got your newspaper or whatever all right you sit down you got your notes all right you're at the you're at the counter that helps um you can 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 you. You know, you want pickles.
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.
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.
So whatever your body needs, you need barbecue ribs? Like barbecue ribs. Diner.
Yeah, I respect that because I've long questioned why do we only eat eggs at breakfast? Who came up with that rule? Why is that a rule? It makes no sense to me. Eggs, that's an anytime meal.
I just made egg salad just now. Yeah.
I'm getting ready to eat egg salad right now. Yeah.
Yeah. But yeah, pancakes, dinner french toast i used to make french toast when i was 10 years old like i learned it i learned how to make it out of the charlie brown cookbook so like you get hungry at night why not french toast yeah cake with butter and syrup like you can't go wrong why not soup for breakfast it's fast they've got everything you need goulash doesn't matter like you go to prague uh you Prague, a Czech breakfast is goulash and a beer.
You can't go wrong. Well, Baldy, this has been awesome, man.
We really, really appreciate it. We'd love to have you back on.
You're a current guest. 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. You're doing radio call for Titans Chargers on Sunday.
Yeah. Okay, so we're excited.
And check him out on Twitter at Baldi NFL for all his breakdowns. If you're a football fan and you're not following him and you don't know who Baldi is, then you're not a football fan.
Yeah, we've got to get you in the studio too. Yes.
We'd love to have you in the office. Or go to a diner.
Where's the location? We're in New York right now, but we'll go to a diner. Oh, it'd be great set up at the diner.
Yeah. Nothing like food and football.
Yeah. Let's go together.
All right, now you're talking my language. We maybe do a Super Bowl preview.
I love it. I love it.
All right, guys. Thanks so much, Baldi.
Pleasure. Thanks, man.
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Okay, let's wrap up Fire Fest of the Week. Fire Fest of the Week.
Also, Pardon My Cheese Steak. Go check it out all weekend long.
I've been on a cheese steak kick. I've been ordering Pardon My Cheese Steak, Chipotle, classic, buffalo chicken.
Go to pardonmy cheesesteak.com learn more now on doordash uber eats postmates or grub hub i love cheesesteaks we'll have a truck out there for the arizona bowl hell yeah i might get in there hell yes hell yes you will you'll be whipping them up yeah yeah all right hank what's your fire fest uh so last week obviously obviously. Hungry Dog never hits? Nope.
I told the tragic tale of my coat. A lot of people reached out, showed their support.
I appreciate it. 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. QB2 got hurt.
Now I'm really like I'm scraping for the bottom of the barrel. You got a coat problem.
I got a coat problem. And, you know, I got some good suggestions.
Again, people have really been helpful in helping me get a new coat. But it's a serious problem.
Yeah. Are you going to get the trench coat? Probably not, no.
I mean, Hank, that'd be such a good look. We'll get your trench coat.
No, get the trench coat. I care about the, you know, animals and shit.
Hank and the goose. No, fuck Canadian geese.
They're the worst animals ever. Yeah, they suck.
Literally. Like, if there's one animal I could just wipe off the face of the earth, it's Canadian geese.
If you got a problem with Canada geese, you got a problem with me. I suggest you let that one marinate.
The Migratory Bird Act is pretty mid. Yeah.
They fucking suck. You should be able to shoot birds on the ground.
Geese will definitely straight up swarm you and bite you. They got teeth in the back of their beaks.
In my neighborhood last spring, there was a family. So the goose had a bunch of babies, and they just had a spot on a main walkway that people just just couldn't walk on because you'd go near them and they just hiss and go crazy geese love having nests on golf courses more than anything in the world they love they love just popping out eggs on the 13th tee you know what's worse than geese swans yeah swans are swans are so territorial yes and they'll break your arm.
Like a swan will actually hit you and let you up pretty good. Yeah.
They go right for the arm. Now they don't have the queen to protect them anymore, so it's open season.
That's true. All right, yeah, tough week, but I appreciate the support system.
You need to get a coat. Get a trench coat and a briefcase.
Get a trench coat. I'm wearing a starter jacket today.
I can't be rolling up to corporate meetings like that. I've seen you wear way worse.
Wait, you can't be rolling up to corporate meetings wearing a trench coat? No, starter jacket. Just get a trench coat, man.
I've seen how you dress in corporate meetings. I don't think anyone's like, oh, man.
Coming from you. Well, yeah, I'm not corporate.
So why would I dress nice for a corporate meeting? Hey, can you get the respect of the C-suite? Yeah. Rock a Montclair.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Okay.
And a monocle. The sweatpants? Do you think that was? Top hat.
The starter jacket's the problem. Oh, yeah.
We're going to see Avatar. All right.
All right, PFT. I want to be comfortable.
You're FireFest. My FireFest of the week is my entire debit card got leaked online on Saturday morning.
Well, you leaked it. I did not leak it.
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.
Part of that second video that we put out involved us going to McDonald's on Thanksgiving in Qatar and then buying fries with peri-peri 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. Of course.
Not a drug guy. No, it's not.
It's not a drug. It's peri-peri seasoning, and 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.
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.
I locked down my card, and then I started to get all these text message notifications from Bank of America saying, yeah, this person just tried to buy $100 worth of jewelry at KJeweler using your debit card. So fuck you to the broke boy that did that.
If you're going to use my debit card, it's actually insulting to me that you would only try to spend $100 on it.

Go big on that.

So I had to deal with getting that locked down,

which anytime I lose my debit card,

which I tend to do once every year or two,

I get a bunch of people that shame me

for having a debit card.

They're like, yo, you should have a credit card,

get points.

I like to spend my own money.

I rock a debit card.

But the nice part about it is

Thank you. for having a debit card.
They're like, yo, you should have 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 how a forest fire culls the forest, and it's good for nature.
Every time I lose my debit card, I get all these bounce-back notifications for subscriptions I don't use anymore. So it's a great way to weed out the stuff.
That's smart. I'm actually saving money by having my debit card leak out online.
You're good for one of those like accidentally doxing some private information like once a year. Yeah, once a year.
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.
Max told me. Balls.
Oh, and my balls. That's right.
And my butthole. Max told me.
Max and I were together in Philly. He told me when it happened.
I was like, yeah, that makes sense. Yeah.
I was like, it's about time. Yeah, I was chopping up a fat line of Perry Perry seasoning.
And then credit to Billy, because later on in the day, well, the video came out at like nine. And then I get a text from Billy at like, I don't know, 830 at night, probably being like, Yo, dude, your debit card's online.
You might want to get that taken care of because somebody came up to him at SantaCon 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.
And listen, that's just the cost of doing business when you're chopping up lines in Qatar. It is.
It is. All right.
My fire fest, I talked about it on Wednesday, but I have a new wrinkle. So 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, 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.
It's tough to get through to a three and a half year old. I was like, don't do that.
Stay in your bed until I come get you. Don't come into my room and say, Dad, let's get up.
So this morning, he respected my wishes by instead of saying, Dad, let's get up. He just stood outside my door at 530 in the morning and just lightly knocked so like i woke up with like yeah 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 i'm just i've been up at like five in the morning every single morning that's way better than like the standing learning yeah standing next to you that's like a paranormal activity 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 what the fuck dude i have i have an idea yeah totally uninformed cage you're gonna say a cage no no oh i'm not putting my son in a cage what about just like a leash that's attached to a cable in the living room? Maybe an e-collar? No.
What if you told him he has to do like 100 push-ups before he can wake you up? Oh, yeah. Yeah.
That's a good idea. What's a push-up? Yeah.
Good idea, Billy. Then it gets jacked.
Yeah. Can they not do push-ups yet? Three and a half? No.
Three years old. Three and a half.
That sounds like an excuse, honestly. I'm with Billy on this one.
If he can walk. He can do a push-up.
Yeah, get him into CrossFit. Yeah.
Start doing some burpees, yeah.

No, I mean, listen, we've been doing an M&M system that if he doesn't wake me up,

he gets to take some five blue M&Ms to his school every morning.

Today was tough.

I had to break it to him.

I was like, dude, you don't get the M&Ms.

Like, you woke me up again.

It's just like, maybe tomorrow.

I was like, yeah, sure, but no chance you're going to actually stay in your fucking bed are the blue ones his favorite yeah that's cool smart kid well it's also great because I just buy a pack of M&M's and I take out all the blue ones and eat the rest yeah yeah the blue ones yeah I yeah kind of but the blue ones are definitely the best no I know but I'm like I'm happy to buy you M&M's so that you can have the 10 blue ones in a bag and I'll have the rest of them.

Ever since they nerfed the green one,

I'm blue all the way.

Oh, green one's made you horny.

No, they nerfed it.

Yeah, I know, they nerfed it.

I know, yeah,

they used to make you horny.

Yeah.

Okay, Billy.

First, Firefest,

just got this amazing part

of my cheesesteak,

not track suit,

but racing suit,

and I'm too thick for it.

Oh.

So I gotta air out the seat.

Hopefully I'll fit into it.

It's really sick.

I'm too thick for it. So I got to air out the seat.
Hopefully I'll fit into it. It's really sick.
I'm definitely going to start rocking it way more. So is your Fyre Fest, is you're too muscular? Yes.
I'm doing too many squats. And then my other Fyre Fest is my longtime neighbor, Ben Mintz, has moved out.
Yes. And now someone else is going to move in.
I don't know this person. And I'm going to have to share very close proximity with them and a backyard.
So hopefully. That's a bummer.
Actually, did he find someone? He found some. Someone's moving in there.
No one really knows if he. 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.
New York era over. Oh.
New York era. New Orleans now.
This is not a joke. This guy's making ad libs for himself as he's leaving the apartment.
So Mincy and my son both waking people up at 5 in the morning. Yes.
Yeah. Okay.
Hopefully this new person's chill with dogs. They don't have a choice.
Yeah. And a squat rack.
And hedgehog. And like banging, like the banging.
Yeah, a lot of banging. Of the squat rack.
Yeah, no, like that's what I tell my, whenever I get a new neighbor, I'm like, I hope they're cool 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.
I hope, like, it's the most low-T incel dude who's just like, this is gross. Yeah.
I hope they just stick to themselves. Yeah.
And don't go outside in the yard. The shared yard.
You got to claim the yard. The yard's all mine.
You got to do some stuff, like they move in to let them know that that's your yard. Yeah.
I might even tell them, no, that's not on your lease. Yeah.
This is my lease. Do that.
You know what you should do? Just start peeing outside. My dog does.
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, I'm like, no. Not your yard.
You tell them that. Yeah.
Not your yard. Okay, Jake, wrap us up.
us up yeah i guess like a group fire fest but mother nature flipped the switch this week it is officially really really cold in new york it got cold you know really bad you know what happened to me the other day i had that moment where i this is why i walked around a corner and uh the wind hit me between the buildings yeah and tears just started like trickling down my hands like start to dry up and bleed like from wearing gloves bills bills bills yeah i mean take the bill look there's no getting used to i spent six straight winters in syracuse and burlington vermont but like you can't just yeah no it sucks for like a couple months it's just like yeah it's gonna power through through february once we hit march madness it should be fine we did have a nice run though there where was like, is winter never showing up? Yeah, we did. This week, it just changed.
It's big-time soup season right now. Yeah.
Huge. Chili every night.
Wait, did you announce chili season officially? I didn't. I forgot, but I've been eating it every night.
I was at the grocery store the other day. There was actually an AWL right next to me.
He was like, yo, PFT, what's up? I was at the soup station, and I was getting two 30-ounce things of soup for myself to bring home. I like yeah it's not really a bit season baby i just this is how i roll three months keep your heads down we got playoff football in january get us through it um okay numbers hank have you ever gotten this nope you've never never Never, ever, ever.
I feel like at some point you have had to have gotten it.

Hank, do you want 69 because it's due?

No, thanks, Billy.

Okay, I'll take 69. Oh, that was nice of you, Billy.

I'm going to take 58.

58?

I'm going to do 17.

I got to find.

I told some guy I was going to.

Feels like a good time for 17.

Pick his number.

Feels like 17 is.

It was 25.

I almost took it.

Oh, really? Yeah. 25.
Okay. We got breaking news.
Shout out Kevin Weintraub. No, you don't need to really do it that much.
What the fuck? Drew Brees has been hired as an interim assistant coach at Purdue. The school announced.
Congrats, Drew. I hope you don't get struck by that.
Wow. Okay.
So, Sebastian's gone MIA again, so we're going his 45 pick. Okay, 25 is my number.
What's your number, Hank? 50 fucking eight. And you've never gotten it? No.
Okay. By the way, two weeks from today, the finale.
Yeah. Final show of 2022.
PFC, what was yours? I did 17, Big Cat. 17, Max? I did 20.
18. For me, 45, Sebastian.
Oh, this is going to be so awesome when you get the number. But you're not going to get it today because you've never gotten eight.
Eight. You are so bad at this.
I got one number. Dude, you're so bad at this.
The number you want on? Yeah. Yeah, it's my lucky number.
You're so bad at this. Speaking of eight.
Just pick the right number once, dude. Octopuses have a brain in each of their eight tentacles wow that's crazy love you guys i don't know what i'm about to say i'd say it anyway today is a hot day to find you Shining away.
I'll be coming for your love of me. Love of me.
Take on me. Take on me.
Take me up. Take on me.
I'll be gone With a genuine change

Needless to say

I'm on the sentence

But I'll be the stumbling away

Suddenly the life is okay

Say after me

It's for better to be saved

It's for better to be saved