NFL Week 13 Recap, Fastest 2 Minutes, Admitting The Vikings Are Good, Joe Burrow Owns The Chiefs And More

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Today is Monday, December 5th, week 13.

I gotta be careful of my voice there, Teej.

We start in Minneapolis, where Mike Vanna White turned over a few INTs,

one of which went to noted Kanye West-hater Harrison Ford Smith. The Jets had a chance late when Braxton Barrios was in the neighborhood of a game-winning catch, but just couldn't bring it in.
And the words of Jesse Pinkman, The Vikings can't keep getting away with this! The Vikings 27, Jets 22, the Minnesota Vikings are 10-2. Sticking in the NFC North, where DeAndre Taylor Swift remembered it jam all too well.
Williams, as both running backs scored, and the Lions are partying like it's 1989. Trevor Florence and the Machine saw Aiden Hutchinson's family in the box and started coming fast for your mother, fast for your father.
Dandelion Coach has turned this team from a weed into a flower and detroit didn't hear no campbell on this season the lions 40 the jaguars 14 in chicago justin yields didn't see a stop sign on his first quarter touchdown as the bears were off and running until they weren't christian deshaun watson saw a pair of TDs and couldn't help himself doing some very despicable, reprehensible things resulting in a Packers happy ending. I regret to inform the viewing public that Aaron Rodgers still owns me and is my daddy.
Sui season is here. Packers 28, Bears 19.
Oh, easy there, Terry Bradshaw. I want to jump off a cliff.
In Atlanta, where Najee better call Becky with the good Harris. Ran through the Atlanta defense, making lemonade out of lemons for Pittsburgh this season.
Connor, carry on my Hayward son. Scored and told Steelers fans, don't you cry.
Don't you cry. Don't you cry.
Don't you cry. Don't you cry no more.
as they've now won consecutive games for the first time this season.

The lone highlight for the Falcons was like a lump of my coal in their stocking

as Pruitt scored, but Atlanta slipped a 5-8.

Steelers, 19.

The Falcons, 16.

In Philadelphia, A.J. Brown Bear.

Brown Bear, what do you see? I see two touchdowns looking at me. U.S.
Virgin Miles Sanders had a touchdown carry. Ibn, and the Eagles were high-flying all afternoon.
The Hennessy Titans took another shot, but if anyone's thinking they're not going to win this division, go home. You're drunk.
The Eagles absolutely obliterate the Titans. 35-10.
In New York, the Meadowlands, Tyler Tyneke and Brian Robinson clashed off against stalemate Aquan Barkley. Much like Curtis Samuel's hair, this game was dreadlocked, and 60 minutes wasn't enough to find the winner.

As we head to overtime, it was a punt bad,

but the Giants had a chance until Graham Ganoe 1's winning this game missed the kick,

and much to the confusion of Donovan McNabb, this game ended in a tie.

Commanders, 20. Giants, 20.

Huh? Huh? Huh?

You say 60 minutes?

That's ridiculous.

In Baltimore, where Cecil Wilson struggled against Man-to-Man D as the Broncos laid another offensive egg,

Lamar Jackson went out with an injury,

leaving the Ravens with an odd future

as Tyler, the creator, Huntley, took over a quarterback

and immediately said,

this buddy Russell trying to get grown,

you could fit 57 bitches all in his bathroom. As he led the Ravens to a late victory.
Ravens, 10. Broncos, 9.
Out west, where Jimmy G went down for the season, leading to Here I Am. Brock, you like a purdy cane.
As Mr. Olvin came in relief to save the day, the Dolphins broke up with their losing ways.
Here's their winning coach's number. Psych McDaniel.
He may be a loser, too. Christian McAfeteria had a full plate of offensive touchdowns, and Jerry Thornton might be blogging about this one because the teacher Kyle Shanahan fucked the student Mike McDaniel in a whopping.
The 49ers, 33. The Miami Dolphins, 17.
We finish in Cincinnati where Samaji P. Ryan Glossling looked really good out there, totaling 150 yards from scrimmage.
The Chiefs thought they were stepping into the jungle, but it turned out to be Jurassic World as Jermaine Chris Pratt punched out a Travis Kelsey fumble and T-Rex Higgins scored a huge touchdown. Cincinnati has ascended to the seventh level of Scientology as Sam L.
Ron Hubbard and the Bengals' defense locked up the Chiefs'

offense, stashing them away like

they were Shelly Miscavige. The Bengals

27, the Chiefs

24.

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We're watching the Cowboys actually kind of struggle a little bit with the Colts. Yeah, I mean, it's my cause, my cleats for Jeff Saturday.
Yeah. Cleats on the grass or on the turf.
Cleats on the grass. The Cowboys wearing their awful helmets with the French flag.
Let me stop you real quick here. That's actually honoring Medal of Honor recipients this week.
I mean, we all had the same reaction. I was going to roast it.
We roasted it in this room. Oh, I can roast it.
And then I was like, wait a second. Let me look this up.
This sounds like they're honoring somebody the honor stands maybe honor them with better yeah right don't look make make the star red white and blue I kind of agree that there's no worse way to honor somebody from the United States military than by putting a French flag right helmet it was it's a bad honoring you could do a lot better job honoring the Medal of Honor recipients with the Cowboys helmet. The star is right there.
Maybe do 50 little stars. That would be cool.
50 stars would be great. Yeah, like the Buckeyes helmet.
That would be cool. Or just have the medal itself be on the side of the helmet.
Because the main feature of it is a star, right? So there you go. There's way better ways.
How pissed off do you think that Kyler Murray is, that he's not being honored during Medal of Honor night? He's very confused. He's like, oh, these are for me? Oh.
Sweet badge. So we'll update as that game goes final.
Let's get into the games. Week 13, stretch run, starting to figure out some things.
Yeah, when you say week 13, that's the first time the season that just saying the week makes it seem real to me when i realized that we had five games left oh yeah yeah and fuck that our team's pft the commanders and bears i think we have a bye next week so we have four games left yeah this but it's kind of crazy it's coming out of weird time i felt like the bias should should by now. When the bye's are this late, I just forget there's a bye.
Yeah. It's too late for a bye.
But either way, we are down the home stretch. Let's get into the games.
Jonathan Taylor just fumbled. Vikings 27, Jets 22.
We have to start here. The Minnesota Vikings are 10-2.
They they just keep doing this they keep doing this and there's nothing we can say other than they are what their record says they are they're 10 and 2 team they got out gained by 200 yards by the jets but i'm not saying that they didn't deserve to win because their defense did stand up big time in like some big time red zone situations down the stretch. Harrison Smith was incredible.
It's just the Vikings like this might just be their season. So we talked about the point differential and I'm still waiting to get an update on that.
How that how that compares to all the 10 and 2 teams of all time because there haven't been that many 10 and 2 teams. The Vikings are very good.
Don't get me wrong. But this game proved to me something about the Vikings.
And maybe I'm being the bigger man in this situation. I think it's actually good that the Vikings are winning all these super close games and not blowing anybody out.
I actually think learning how to win in weird ways when you get to the fourth quarter and you have all these plays that could go either way constantly, all that high-pressure practice that they're getting in during the regular season, it's going to be very good for them in the playoffs. And sometimes you see it with teams that are just blowing the doors off everybody.
They get to the playoffs, and all of a sudden, they just forget. They don't know how to close in a tight pressure-packed situation.
Yeah, the Vikings are 9-0 in one-score games. It's insane.
I am also at the point now, we've said our piece, but at some point, the amount of wins that they've racked up, the way they've won these games, maybe it's just their year. I don't want to go that far, but it's now become every single week they find a way to win a game Like Kirk Cousins didn't have a great game today.

He had a great game last week against the Patriots. Like the defense stood up.
It's little things that they just find a way to win games. They sweep the AFC West, which a lot of people would say is the best division in football right now.
They sweep the AFC West. Kevin O'Connell also is now 5-0 in all revenge games.
So he was part of Detroit, Miami, Washington, New York, the Jets and the Patriots. He's 5-0 against those teams.
I just don't, at this point, I don't want to concede, but I'm going to do a half concession and just be like Vikings fans. Your team is obviously good and doing something right.
There's nothing I can say. Like, you can't.
I'm not going to blindly just. I would.
I still think a lot of their wins are fluky. But at some point when you have 10 wins, you have 10 wins.
So it's like you can't. If you have 10 fluky wins, there's still 10 fucking wins.
And you found a way to win 10 games. No, the Vikings are good.
And I'm sure that they're the fact that their kicker has missed more extra points this season than anybody else in the NFL, that's probably not going to come back to haunt them at any point. No, definitely.
No, I think the Vikings are a very good team. They are actually the AFC East champions.
They've beaten every team in the AFC East right now, which many would consider to be the strongest division in football. That's a great point.
Almost every team on this podcast. That's a great point.
Yeah. Yeah.
No, I'm saying they could be considered to be playing in maybe the worst division in football. I don't know if you're fucking with me.
What are you talking about? I just said that. Oh, sorry.
I was looking up. I didn't know if you were fucking with me.
No, no. You said the West.
No, I said the AFC East. They've won the best division in football.
Oh, when... The whole AFC East.
When you were listing those teams, I was like, wait a second. That's also the Kevin O'Connell sweep as well.
But they have beaten the whole AFC East. Okay, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, 4-0. Best division in football.
Incredible. I mean, they're...
At some point, I'm... Half hand up.
Half hand up. For...
Being like half wrong that the Vikings at some point, I have to concede something. I have to give a little ground.
I do think the fact that they're winning all these close games is going to be huge. They're going to win probably their first round playoff game.
They're going to do something big in the playoffs because they're used to being in these close situations. You know what? Here's what I'll say about the Vikings.
They're battle-tested. They are very battle-tested.
Kevin O'Connell is a very good coach. Like I said, Kirk Cousins wasn't great.
I think they had three good drives today. The other nine drives they had like 65 total yards.
And the Jets totally outgained them. I thought the Jets' defense played well, but it was one of those games that Mike White, he made more plays than I think Zach Wilson would have made, but there was a couple times where he just, like, a couple costly turnovers, Braxton Berrios catches that ball.
It's a different game. I think that Mike White, he didn't play bad enough to lose his job.
Yeah. And that's kind of all that you're hoping.
Well, and also the entire team wearing Mike White shirts means that, like, I don't think you can go back. It's a pretty, it's a significant statement that they were making because I don't recall.
I think CJ Uzama at one point wore a, like, I like Zach Wilson because he's fucking Milf's shirt. Yes.
Or somewhere along those lines. Like, that's the closest that the locker room has come to, like, uniting behind Zach Wilson is when there was a rumor that he was having sex with an old woman.
Right. And they're like, that's kind of cool.
But they've never gone out there and like stuck their necks out to be like, we like Zach in the same way that they're kind of getting into Mike White mania. It was Mike White mania going on the plane.
White sanity. I don't know how Zach Wilson, I mean, would you agree? I think maybe next year, maybe this year, no chance.
I think they're going to end up trading him. I wouldn't be surprised.
Because the way the teams unite behind Mike White, I mean, Garrett Wilson, I think tweeted or said in postgame, I'll get to work. Something special about that boy, talking about Mike White.
He played a decent game. He didn't have the total collapse that a lot of people are saying, oh, Mike White's good one game, then he's going to be bad the next game.
Which we saw last year, yeah. Two picks.
I kind of hope that this type of game was more just facing a better opponent and trying to get the offense in rhythm, and then maybe something special is going to happen up in Buffalo next week. So, I mean, I wasn't able to watch the game live, but I took and looked over all of it.
I think it's a little more of just getting everything in motion. I love Billy because he doesn't get upset for long about any loss.
He's already just like the most optimistic person next week. Something magical is going to happen.
Also, credit to you for being honest that you didn't watch the game. I didn't watch it live.
I was keeping up with it. But, you know, once I got – I was doing a video, PMT TV coming out this Friday.
We were actually joking, PFT and I, during the stream. I think next year we're going to pick one Monday night game and not watch it and not look at the box score and not do anything and then do a show and people have to decide which one that was.
Just to give hot takes based on a group of numbers. It also will just be so telling because our takes are usually so bad that people will just be like, that's the game you't watch that's the game oh yeah yeah like no we haven't done it yet there'll be several candidates for the not watched game of the year so so billy first of all congratulations on not lying about that that's growth right there you didn't watch the game that's all thank you for admitting that i just i want to acknowledge that though because billy could have very easily lied about that and it off? Yes.
No, I mean, I watched enough of the drives and stuff. Okay, sorry, now you're starting to...
Yeah. Okay, okay.
No, you did, you did. But I...
Billy, the Jets' defense is still very good. Like I said, there was three drives, three touchdown drives, I think, for the Vikings, and the other nine drives, they basically shut them down.
I don't know. I mean, the Vikings are fucking good.
So the Vikings are decent, but their defense is suspect. Very suspect.
Very suspect. Like, Elijah Moore was running wild back there for a little bit.
Mike White did look halfway decent against you, but on the other hand, you won the game. You figured out a way to win.
You won without Kirk Cousins best performance he was shaky but like not awful I the thing about like over eight I think the thing about Kirk Cousins though is rebounded they've uh they've raised his floor yeah a little bit like Kirk Cousins he's not he'll never be as bad as he was in the past when you got bad Kirk yeah now it's just like you've got uh you've got average Kirk Cousins and then pretty good Kirk Cousins. Actually, this game was a perfect encapsulation of the floor being raised for Kirk Cousins because he started the game one for eight for four yards, and then he ripped off a 13 for 16 streak.
Yeah. So it's like you saw it, and that usually was a game that Kirk just all unravelss and it all becomes bad and it's just like all right the vikings have no chance today he rebounded played well vikings are fucking good i don't i can't really say much more the only gripe that i have with kirk cousins that he's a bad influence on our youth before the game they had a little child that was emulating kirk and his chains that was just shirtless on the sideline, wearing all these gold chains being interviewed.
And then he was in the stands also. It's disgusting.
It's disgusting what Kirk's doing. Sneak peek to Football Guy of the Week.
That kid has been a huge mascot for the Vikings ever since that video came out and is one of the reasons why U.S. Bank Stadium is one of the hardest places to play.
That child is? In the NFL. Because they've got a lot of shirtless children wearing chains.
It's like a Balenciaga commercial. Putting that shit on in the stadium gets everyone so hyped up.
Like, U.S. Bank.
He's the 12th boy. Yeah.
But last thing on the Jets' offense, I'm a little concerned with how many times Mike White's throwing the ball. We saw this early.
57. Yeah.
57. We saw that early in the season.
At some point if you're Zach Wilson, aren't you like, why don't they ever ask me to throw the ball an insane amount of times? If the shirts didn't tell you, this does. Yeah.
I just think that something's going on with the run game. We've got to establish the run game.
Missing why am I blanking out on his name, who went earlier this season Breezall Breezall has had a serious impact on our offense so we'll see what's going on Billy I think you actually just stumbled along the exact correct thing that you just have to say is we have to establish the run if you say we have to establish the run then guess what happens after that play action opens. And then that's how you talk about football without actually knowing about football.
It's so awesome to just say that. Stop the run and run the ball.
But seriously, we need to run the ball. No, you're right.
No, you're right. You're absolutely right.
You know what? Run the damn ball. Yeah.
Just run the damn ball. Maybe we convert in the red zone if we have a better run game.
Yep. Yeah, I mean, I think they started with five straight field goals.
They just kept kept on getting the red zone and kicking field goals uh last thing i had on this game alexander madison took the uh fake injury touchdown celebration to the next level he went he he went down on all fours and started humping i am just so excited for the time that someone actually is injured and people like everyone like piles on him he's like no i'm actually injured because it's gone we know it because we've seen it now every single week the fake injury the gritty to the fake you know hamstring but someone's actually gonna get hurt it's gonna be awesome i don't root for injuries but i root for that one uh i think that's that seems like a falcons injury to have happen and then they get like an unsmanlike conduct penalty, which then affects the following kickoff,

which then affects the return,

and then they end up losing the game

because the person had a serious injury

that everybody thought was fake.

Yes, yes.

It's happening.

It's coming.

Okay.

The Vikings are good.

Flip it.

Put it out.

They're a good team.

They're a good team.

They're 10 wins.

They almost clinched the NFC North today.

The Lions won, so they're going to have to wait a week.

I think if they beat the Lions next week,

I think... They're a good team.
They're 10 wins. They almost clinched the NFC North today.

The Lions won, so they're going to have to wait a week.

I think if they beat the Lions next week, they officially clinched the NFC North. The Vikings, if the Lions lose any more games, then they play next week.

Yeah, but any more for the rest of the season, then the Vikings will clinch the division.

Yes.

So, all right.

Sticking with the NFC North, Packers 28, Bears 19.

That sucked.

I don't really – that sucked.

Yeah, it's not the result that you want.

Justin Fields keeps – every week, Justin Fields figures out a way

to make a play that you're like, holy shit,

that's better than any quarterback I've ever seen not named Mike Vick.

Yeah.

A couple bombs, too, like just drops in a bucket. Then he had the two interceptions in the fourth.
Not great. Aaron Rodgers howled Hitler.
We all saw it with our own two eyes. Did you see it, Billy? He did it.
He howled Hitler in front of the entire stadium. Jesus.
Yeah, it was shocking. It was very shocking.
He saluted. It's definitely not just a screenshot.
He saluted. He did hold it very long.
He did. It was.
Yeah. He held it for a very long time.
It was a long hold for sure. Yeah.
I mean, he did. He did.
He did. I held it for a very long time.
I saw the screenshot. He held it for a very long time.
I just think that it's good that you guys keep losing, though. It's good.
Okay. So I wanted to win this game, obviously, but there's also, like, the Bears are in a real, like, quandary where if they even win one more game, they could drop, like, four spots in the draft.
Yeah. And so having the second pick, especially if the idea is to trade it for more picks, like, I wanted to win the game.
I'm not going to pretend I didn't want to win the game. I'm not going to let myself off the hook and be like, ha-ha, I want the draft pick.
Now that we're five, six hours after it, I'm like, okay. The draft pick is still nice.
Let's get the second pick. Let's trade.
We got a million holes. That's the only way.
But it did suck in the moment to watch Aaron Rodgers do the same thing. He was clean-shaven.
He was missing guys. He looked like shit.
And then Christian Watson is like the fastest guy ever. Ever.
Christian Watson is incredible. I just think that you get to at least enjoy, if you're not in the hunt graphic, you are in the bizarro version of that, which is the mock top 10 of the NFL draft.
And as you're getting close to the end of the year, yes, each time you lose a game, that does wonders for you. You can move up and down so quickly based on the records of everybody else.
So I think just accept the fact that a top three pick is much, much better than getting two meaningless wins over the next few games. I think it's actually, I'm looking at it right now, if the Bears had won this game today, they would have gone from the second pick in the draft to the ninth pick.
That's a pretty significant drop. Yeah.
So that's what I got to just, I got to print it out, put it under my pillow, just go to sleep with the mock draft and just be like, oh, this is nice. I just have, I can just cry myself to bed that way.
And Justin Fields, I would like for us to maybe win one game if it didn't hurt the draft bit because these fourth quarters where it's like, let's do it. And then it just always ends in not doing it.
It sucks to watch. That's what I was going to ask.
Obviously, you've established Justin Bears. The guy Justin Bears.
I like Justin Bears. Charlie Charlie factory.
Justin Fields is the guy. You're you're riding with him no matter what.
He's had three or four fourth quarters where it's like they're down within a score. All he has to do is drive them even to get a field goal, and they can win the game, and he hasn't done it once.
Is that concerning? He needs to put teams away like he did on Monday Night Football against the Patriots because then you don't have to get in that situation. Good point.
That's a fair point. That's a totally fair point.
If you put him away early, you don't have to get him late. That right there was the perfect example of two most passive-aggressive people in the world talking sports to each other.
What? If you put him away early, you don't have to win late. That's a fact.
But every game, like playoff games are close. Yes.
And you don't want a guy that's going to throw seven interceptions every single time. Okay, here's the thing.
I am – there's a little tiny bit of concern here and there every now and then, but then I just have to remind myself he's throwing to no one. Darnell Mooney, his best receiver, is hurt.
He got hurt last game. He didn't play today.
Like, there's just not – and the offense, Luke Getze, the offensive coordinator, I think he's actually trying to tank because some of his play calling makes absolutely no sense they had a first and goal from the 20 because there was penalties and he went pitch left pitch left for one yard one yard yeah so then you had third and goal from the 20 he also had Justin Fields threw a dime down the sideline 40 50 yard gain they're in the red zone or right outside the red zone and uh oh dac just threw a bad pick receiver might have gone down fallen down anyway they he throws it he throws a dime they're in the they're in like the 30-ish range and it's third and five and instead of throwing the ball they run it up the middle with david montgomery for no gain and then the field goal blocked. So I don't really know.
I think maybe the offensive coordinator, Luke Getze, is saying, let's just keep losing for the tank-a-thon, because some of these play calls make no sense. The tosses on the goal line are the most frustrating play call in the entire world.
Plays that take forever to develop. It's like a short side.
Yeah, if they're on a goal on set and they run a toss play, that almost pisses me off more than like a fourth and one around midfield where they run like a toss play that takes forever to develop. I hate those.
You're so close. Just like – I bet you Justin Fields could gain an average of three and a half yards per carry on a quarterback sneak.
Yeah. Every time he's so tall.
You know what's starting to piss me off a little bit about Justin Fields? Nothing to do with his play. The visor that he wears.
Yeah. It's like a light purple visor.
It's like a misted. It's got a tint, yeah.
It's a misted. It's not like fully tinted.
It's like a purple mist to it. You'll have to get rid of it.
It seems strange. To win a Super Bowl.
Do you feel that in the play calling that they're taking care of Justin Fields better in a sustainable play calling?

No, I think they know the limitations of the roster, so they're very scared to do a lot of things. I think that's really what it comes out to.
But do you think they're going to run him to the ground? No, no, no. The designed runs aren't – like his touchdown run wasn't a designed run today.
That was just, oh, fuck, I got a hole. Let's go think they're like they aren't they they actually might be trying to help him by not putting him in like the you know third and longs or second and longs being like hey let's pass it pass pass pass instead trying to run and maybe get a few yards i don't know it's it makes no sense i think they're trying to lose this game was frustrating aaron rogers is my daddy i don't i can't say anything about it but guess what dude you have a clean shaven face and i saw you do highlight well except for the mustache part he left just a tiny bit of my just a tiny bit a little bit it was kind of that tends to happen sometimes and i will be the bigger man for content and i will reach out to aaron rogers and see if he will do one question with the quarterback this week.
That's huge.

So, yeah, what's the one question going to be?

I mean, we've said a lot.

What's your favorite Kanye West song? Yeah, you've said a lot of things about him so far.

Oh, well, I've said a lot of things about him.

This is just nothing.

You know what?

Big Cat's going to go Death Con 3 on Aaron Rodgers.

I didn't say anything that I didn't see with my own two eyes.

He held a salute for a while.

He did.

It was a stiff arm. And he just relishes in beating the Bears.
Eight in a row. He relishes it.
You know he does. He personally loves it.
Good news for you is that they were – it looked to me like Justin Fields is pretty healthy today. Yeah.
And there was a lot of questions about how his shoulder was going to be. Everything about him looked – you could not point to Justin Fields' performance today and be like, that guy's injured yeah at all yeah which i i trusted they would do because the one nice thing about uh having a new front office and a new coach is they won't play justin fields to try to save their jobs you know what i mean like if we were at the if this was the end of the nagy era like he would probably play a hurt justin fields trying to get five or six wins to save his job i trust that they're gonna play him only when he's healthy yeah and that game sucks and that's all i got um and i hope packers fans you fucking sickos and perverts you just love this so much you got what you wish for there's nothing i can say another year this is like i said eight in a row and also the packers passed the bears for all-time wins in nfl history oh, that's a tough one.
Yeah. Although that stat is so stupid.
It's just whoever's been around the longest. Yeah, but also guess what? You guys had the record for like 100 years.
Yeah, I know. I know, Hank.
But guess what? It's a long time. Aaron Rodgers is about to retire.
Yeah, that's true. I'm aware, Hank.
Just think of how much sweeter it would be when the Bears surpass them. True.
Fact. Probably next year.

Good point.

Probably next year, yeah.

They would actually hold the record, the all-time record,

for the shortest amount of time holding the record for most wins in NFL history.

Yes, thank you, P.T.

You got it.

Hank's just salty because he holds the record for never getting the lottery ball correct.

Commanders, 20.

Some say it'll never be broken.

Never be broken.

It will never.

You know what we decided?

I think you were eating dinner in the bathroom, but I told Hank. Wait, wait, wait, wait.
What was that? You were eating dinner in the bathroom. I was eating dinner in the bathroom.
In the bathroom. Or in the bathroom.
I heard the or. Or.
I heard the or. Okay, yeah.
I said the or. I think Peru's got you a little fucked up.
Is there a camera in there? Yeah. It's Panama, actually.
Panama, yeah. Panama's got you a little fucked up.
I told Hank if he doesn't get the lottery ball by January 1st. Which I will.
I think we should both. We'll double it both.
So $10,000, $20,000, and he gets to go in the entire lottery ball. We'll do every single ball.
And if the last ball remaining is $17,000, he gets $20,000. Oh, hell yeah.
Yeah. Easily.
It's a great live stream. No chance he's going to.
Yeah. 17 will be the first ball.
It'll be great. It'll be fun.
I'm down for that. Okay.
Commanders 20. Giants 20.
Yep. Tie.
Big tie. We tied the shit out of the Giants today.
They didn't tie us. This is like USA.
It's a big week for your team's tie. It's like USA England all over again.
This was a statement tie by the Washington Commanders today. We did it without Chase Young, who's being held out, which, by the way, I think that we should become a Team Grass podcast, because you're starting to see that catch on, put players on safer fields.
Cooper Coppin, Matthew Stafford. It's moving.
Offensive linemen are getting really into it now. I'm not exactly sure why it's safer to play on grass, but I just know that a lot of players are starting to say it, and we should get on their side.
I agree. So we can be like, we're on the right side of history.
Yes. So no more synthetic fields.
None. Play the games the way God invented football to be played, which is on grass.
Yes. I wrote a blog about this.
Turf might also cause cancer. Ooh.
So I have seen that. Pretty much anything cool causes cancer.
I realize that not turf turf's not cool

so

The the black pellets is what you're talking about. There was a study that was done for like youth goalies in soccer gets in the cuts and

Yeah, the it's like rubber from tires that can get in your cuts and it's a jury still out though on that one

But we're keeping an eye on it. I saw the evidence

We're keeping an eye on you so you guys tie in a it was so perfect that you tied because we've said this going into this

This is... on that one.
But we're keeping an eye on it. I saw the evidence.
We're keeping an eye on it. So you guys tie in a it was so perfect that you tied because we've said this going into this home stretch for the Giants and the Commanders whoever can find a way to win both of these games will be in the playoffs.
And then you're like, yeah that's the plan. Let's tie.
Yep. So in this game it was going to be very much like whoever wins this game probably going to make the playoffs.
We didn't even think about the possibility of what would happen for a tie. Everybody was doing the outcomes of wins or losses for the next two games.
And I think, I mean, it's kind of like soccer to a certain extent where we got a result on the road. Now we get to go home.
But ties is going to win on the road. I just hate ties because they just break my brain when I'm trying to figure out playoff seeding.

So I would care about it a little bit more if it was the first tie of the season.

Yeah.

The first tie of the season is always magical.

The second one is just like very unsatisfying.

You get some players that are confused after the game.

You don't know because in football, if you win, it's like the best feeling ever.

Yeah.

If you lose, it's the worst feeling ever. People in the locker room are just very confused as to what emotion they should be processing.
I think if you're on a good team and you tie, it probably sucks. You'd probably rather lose than tie if you're on a great team just for that.
Because at least you feel something after the game. The Giants were up 20-13 in the fourth quarter with like five minutes left.
So they got tied. tied.
Yeah, so we tied them. Yeah, right.
I give us the nod on this one, on that tie. John Dotson is such a beast.
That touchdown at the end of the game was incredible. Brian McLaurin's awesome.
Brian Robinson had another great game. Also, Daniel Jones feels like they went back to like, hey, let's run this guy.
Yep. Because maybe he's not the best passer ever, but he had a great game overall.

Like he was actually – it was the first time Daniel Jones looked like the Daniel Jones we saw at the beginning of this season in what,

like three or four weeks?

We were like, oh, this Giants team is frisky because Daniel Jones is playing well.

I'm going to say one nice thing about Brian Dable

and then one not-so-nice thing about him.

Nice thing, I really think that he's going to make the best Santa Claus ever when he gets dressed up for like the the team party he's going to pull that off incredibly can't wait for that content the not so nice thing is he really pussied out in overtime yeah with a punt that he called yeah and we've been very nice to brian dayball on the show we've given a lot of credit for like end of game scenarios current guests he seemed like he is uh really really practiced a lot of the logistics and tactics that go into like closing out a game if you have a team that's not gonna blow anybody out he's great at that it was fourth and three on the Washington 45 yard line minute 42 seconds remaining in overtime a tie game 20 to 20 and he decided to punt the ball away he basically like my my team sucks that's pretty much what he's saying but earlier in the season when it came time to go for it especially like two-point conversions that sort of thing he was like fuck it let's do this let's go for it in this situation he doesn't have that same energy as he had like earlier in the season i feel like brian dable had uh the expectations were lower than they are right now right so he was coaching actually in a much more aggressive i in a style that i like better than he has been coaching recently where now he's got the expectation so it's like trying to preserve the good thing that he's built right instead of trying to go out there and get the good thing right he's like hey we have seven wins uh if we tie this game like we still we're just one win away from being 500 yeah like that's a yeah he's trying to hold on to like what they had at the beginning of the season exactly so i i think that's really what i mean that's not what cost the team of the game but at that point as a commanders fan i was like this is awesome well i'm glad he's doing this i get it in just the fact that if you don't get it, it's now a loss. But yeah, you're basically saying, I don't want to win.
Yeah, so I don't know. Hank, as a new member of the command wagon, left hand up? I think that was a left hand up.
I think that was an impressive comeback. You should be happy with that tie, if that makes sense.
If you're a Giants fan, that's a disappointing tie. Commanders as we are.
Yep. That's a good tie.
Yeah. So in overtime, I made the offer.
I was like. Both teams can't win a tie.
I said, Giants fans, I'm hereby accepting this tie. You know, like in chess, sometimes you offer your opponent a draw.
That's what I was doing at that point because I was happy with the tie. Like suckers, they took it.
Yeah. They were going to kick my ass.
Idiots. They were going to beat the shit out of me if they didn't take that tie.
The Giants, their clock management at the end of the game was horrible. And we also learned Brian Dable was a safety in college, which I didn't realize.
That's fucking hilarious. Just thinking about him as a safety is so funny.
There's a bowling ball coming down in the box. He was definitely a box guy.
I feel like he was just going head first at guys' heads. He was just diving at people, yeah.
And, yeah, I mean, it was a perfect tie. It was also a brutal loss for anyone who bet the over, although we told you PFC and I both had the under.
We told you this is a sunny day, New York Giants under, but to have 26 points in the first half for an over-under of 40.5 and then have it go into overtime, and all you need is a score. That's it.
That sucked. That's it.
That sucked. Taylor Heineke will not be getting the Jordans this week.
That would be bullshit if he got them after a tie, even though we did tie them. He should get like Steph Curry's.
Yeah, well, I said he should get like a red and blue pair of Under Armour. Yeah, yeah, right.
Just real trash shoes. Yeah.
But yeah, I'll take this tie. I'll take this tie.
Both teams very firmly still in the playoff picture right now, and I guess we're going to find out more in two weeks. Yeah, yeah.
You get a bye, and then you're right back at it. Chase Young returning.
Thank God. They should really play it like a skins game in golf.
What do you mean? The winner of the next game gets both. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Why not? It carries over. If they both agree to it, they're like, hey, the winner of this next game gets both.
Yeah, I agree to that. That absolutely should be the rule.
If you tie someone in your own division in the first game, the second game decides the tie. Yep, I agree.
I'll be so electric. Either that.
This is a two-game game.

Or if it's like in soccer where road points count for extras.

Yeah.

Either way, that would be.

Imagine just like tuning in and being like,

whoever wins this game gets two wins.

That would fucking rule.

It would be the game with the most implications of all time.

It would be.

In NFL history.

Jake might actually get a flex correct.

I would.

Oh, by the way, we have mega flex week coming up.

Mega flex week?

Because there's going to be three.

You're 0-1, by the way.

Oh, no, 0-1-1.

He got a tie.

I'll take the loss.

He got to actually tell you what, Jake.

If you win this next one, then your tie flex counts as a win.

Yeah.

Okay.

Well, I can make the announcement later, but week 15, the deadline is Tuesday.

There's three Saturday games.

None of them have been placed yet. What do you mean? So they're going.
There's three Saturday games. None of them have been placed yet.

What do you mean?

So they're going to be moving three Saturday games.

Wait.

There's five games on the schedule with TBD.

Three of them are going to move to Saturday.

What?

Wait.

So the teams don't know yet?

Saturday, December 17th.

Correct.

That's crazy.

Yeah.

That's kind of fucked.

So you could go on a run here.

Yeah.

We've got a potential regular flex plus three movables. What are you like so far? Are you looking at? I think the Giants commanders are the heavy favorite to be the Saturday night game.
Yeah. That's a big market.
New York. And I think Dolphins bills could take out Patriots Raiders for Sunday night.
I would definitely say that. But the only hesitance is that would be double flex for the Dolphins back-to-back.

Well, they did that with the Chargers.

Yeah, so that's going to be my best flex.

Okay.

Best flex.

Best flex.

Be Fody.

I like it.

Be Fody?

Yeah, you're Be Fody.

Best flex of the year.

Okay.

Best flex of the year.

Okay.

Anything else?

Oh, what did you say?

Cowboys are low-key clowning.

Yeah.

They're clowning on the Colts.

The Colts gave a spirited effort.

Turns out they're still bad.

It was nice when we were like, oh, Jeff Saturday.

They got competently less bad, but they still are bad.

They're hanging in there.

I think that no matter what happens from here on out,

we can all agree that it's been more fun having Jeff Saturday thanurday correct than it would be having gus bradley or john fox yes yes absolutely uh all right next up talking about clowning eagles 35 titans 10 aj brown revenge game just absolutely clown the titans i this is the titans are one of those teams that like you If they go down by, what was it, 21-10? That's game over. They cannot come back.
They've got to make it ugly. They've got to get you in a rock fight, bloody you up a little bit, and then hope to just wear you down by the end of the game.
And if you get down, if you're the Titans and you start falling behind early in the game, then it completely negates your strategy that you'd like to do, which is just run Derrick Henry 35 times. Yeah, and I don't know if this is a Derrick Henry thing.
Maybe Tractor Cito's season is just not going to get going this year. We had a little blip of it.
There's two games in a row. Maybe it's credit to the Eagles' run defense, which has looked stout.
Jordan Davis is back sparingly. But they added some guys, Linval Joseph and Nizit Nenarman Desu.
And they look, I don't know, to shut down Derrick Henry. I know the game script got away from the Titans.
But this was the glaring weakness besides special teams for the Eagles. And it feels like they kind of answered it.
And that was a whomping. And you should probably give the Eagles credit for it.
I know there's been a lot of Eagles haven't won any, haven't beaten anyone really good besides Cooper Rush. The good news is if you're the Titans, you can pretty much lose every game for the rest of the season, and you're still going to win that division.
I actually think that the tennessee titans could go would that be uh seven and eleven they get that right no seven and ten seven and ten panama brain seven and ten they could go they go seven and ten win that division pretty handily and they might even fuck somebody up in the first round of playoffs too yeah and and trellon burks that sucked he caught his first career touchdown and got knocked out hard. I can't believe he held on to it.
But, yeah, this was a game that was out of control so fast. And A.J.
Brown is so goddamn good. And, like, his catches, I feel like it happens every other week where he catches one of those moonshots at the front end of the end zone on the goal line, and he'll just catch it through the defender.
And his hands are so fucking strong. And I don't know if, Max, you have anything else to add, but that was a resounding win for the Eagles.
Yeah, the only other thing I really would like to add is that Jalen Hurts is the MVP. He was unbelievable today.
He was very good. He was unbelievable today.
And I know there's been a lot of Tua. Tua looked like shit today.
Mahomes couldn't get a win. Jalen Hurts is the MVP right now.
Mahomes actually might get it if he turns it up these last few weeks because he has become the Michael Jordan or the LeBron where it's like you give the MVP this guy every single year If they stumble a little bit and he like wills his team to getting the number two seed, then I feel like it might go to Mahomes. But Jalen Hurts has been awesome.
Jalen Hurts is doing things that no Eagles quarterback has ever. Like he does remind me more and more of McNabb, except I think that at his best, he's better than McNabb.
And he also like something about something about the way he runs, it's crazy to watch, but he's running in, like, almost slow motion. It's almost like Paul Pierce or Luka when you watch them play basketball and they're not fast.
I mean, Jalen Hurts is fast, but, like, they don't have blinding speed, but they have deliberate speed where it's like they know exactly where they want to go, no wasted steps. Doesn't it feel like that with Jalen Hurts sometimes where it's like he's not killing them with speed.
He just he knows exactly where to go and he beats you with angles. And yeah, I mean, he didn't even have to run today.
He only ran for 12. That's what I think has been the most impressive is that he can win games in so many different ways.
Like if the game's getting ugly and you need to just pound the rock and run the football, run the football, he obviously can do that. But, I mean, he threw for 380 yards and three touchdowns.
Yeah. And against a good Titans defense.
Yes. There's like nothing you can say about his throwing anymore because he's shown it time and time again.
Yeah, no, if you took away his legs entirely as far as like being able to run for yards i'm not talking about his elusiveness in the pocket but if you told jalen hurts you're not allowed to run the football just be a just be a passer i actually think that he would still be like a top 10 quarterback in the nfl also this is a hindsight is 2020 but 80 of the bets i think were on the titans as underdogs that's just just the Titans the way the Titans win a game is when no one expects them to win the game they got everyone thought they were game they were like live in this game that's when they get blown out they got to make it ugly yeah yeah and you got to not expect it yeah you got to expect it to be like oh man Titans have no shot like that Chiefs game that they almost won oh the Titans shot. They're 13-point underdogs.
Oh, that's when the Titans show up and do, you know, fuck shit on them. Okay.
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Lions-Jaguars. The Lions are good.
They're a good football team. They have a bad record, but they're a good football team.
Officially, officially good. They are.
They've played several good games in a row. That Bills game on Thanksgiving, that to me was as good and as productive a loss as I've seen any team have in a long time.
They played five good games in a row. It's incredible because they won three games in a row for the first time since, I don't know, like 1885.
And then they had a statement loss. And then this game, I'm a believer.
I'm officially ready to say it. I'm a believer in what Dan Campbell is doing.

I agree.

Yeah, he's kind of a turkey sometimes,

and he'll completely mess up easily fixable situations.

But as far as being a coach goes,

like being able to turn around a franchise like that

is way harder than I think a lot of people think that it is.

And I think that he's actually making steps towards doing it. And in the season, like it wasn't.
So there's turning around the lines, the macro level where it's like, yeah, this is a franchise that hasn't won a playoff game in what, 30 years, maybe even more. I guess 30 retroactively.
I do count that, that Matt Stafford game against the Cowboys. Yeah, that should be won that loss.
Yes, yes. So that in itself is a big task.
But in the actual season, remember, they were 1-6. They got blown out by the Patriots.
They lost that game to the Cowboys. 91.
It was their last battle. 91, yeah.
It's a long time. They lost to the Dolphins in that game.
And then so they so they're one in six season's over and they've now rattled off five straight good games uh going four and one in that stretch that's hard to do like at to be in the middle of october one in six and have the team buy in like dan campbell deserves a ton of credit for that well i think there's if there's one coach in the nfl that will never be of losing the locker room, it's probably Dan Campbell. Right.
He does not lose that. He's got that locker room on a leash.
Yeah, on lock. He's got it microchipped.
That locker room isn't going anywhere. And the team loves them.
That's obvious. They're getting healthy.
You probably saw a little bit of the swoon that they had earlier in the season. They were banged up a little bit.
But, yeah, I think the bottom line is just that the Lions are good at football. They can build off of this for next year.
Yeah. And so here's a fun little stat for Jaguars fans.
This is courtesy of Uncle Chaps. Who are not good at football.
That's 20 consecutive losses to NFC teams for the Jaguars, dating back to a victory at the Giants to open the 2018 season. 20 consecutive NFC losses.
Yeah. Remember we had the stat.
Blake Bortles is like the NFC goat for the Jaguars. I think he's like four and three or something.
So yeah, like he's the only one who could beat NFC teams. But yeah, the Jaguars, you nailed it on Friday when it was like, you can't see the Jaguars doing this two games in a row.
No, absolutely not. After beating the Ravens.
Absolutely not. Everybody was shocked.
Everybody was shocked when that happened. And Trevor Lawrence, they get a win in this game because Trevor Lawrence legitimately looked like he died, and then he was just totally fine.
So as far as a sliding scale of expectations goes, I think that the Detroit Lions being featured on the In the Hunt graphic in December is as good as winning a playoff game. Yes, absolutely.
You're in the second round. This is better than you would have ever thought even as recently as like six weeks ago.
And they're, I mean, they'd have to probably win out. They'd probably have to win out.
The fact that we're having the conversation though, Big Cat. It's crazy.
They're five and seven. They'd have to win out most likely uh but if like the commanders giants or seahawks one of those teams falls off they could be the one to pick it up if they if they if they rattle off a few wins here they have the vikings the jets that's gonna be a tough one panthers bears packers that's not they could win four out of these last five if they win though if they beat I think they'll win four out of the last five.
They could. They very easily could.
And then what's almost going to be just as good as making the playoffs for Lions fans, you can at least play the game where you're like, man, that Thanksgiving game against the Bills. If we left Josh Allen seven fewer seconds on the clock, we'd be in the playoffs at this point.
And on top of all of that, you have the fourth pick in the draft yeah pretty good the rams pick pretty good the rams and that stafford's getting shut down yeah you could you could have it work out better that the super bowl champs have though it's actually the worst super bowl championship uh defense of a team ever you have their pick like think about how fortuitous that is. The Super Bowl champ, you know that you're like, all right, these guys will be back in the playoffs.
No, no, no. They're in the fourth pick right now.
They might not win another game. That might get all the way up to 2-3.
It's crazy. You know what's going to be really strange this offseason? It's going to be weird having the media talk about the Lions as like a dark horse for the playoffs next year.
They are. That's another step that you're going to have to deal with is now I think going into next season, there will be some expectation.
Yeah. And in this specific game, they didn't punt.
First eight drives, they scored on their first eight drives. First time they've ever done that since 1993.
Jared was awesome. They were hitting all the right notes.
The Jaguars are the Jaguars. Fumbling, just making mistakes.
Trevor Lawrence almost dying. By the way, this Cowboys game is a complete clowning at this point.
Colts guys just giving up on tackles. Tony Pollard scored again.
It's a joke. This is a joke.
Yikes. 40 to 19.
Oh! No more points. Block kick.
Oh, we got scored. 40 to 19.
That's a big block. we got 40 19 that's a big block okay all right huge block keep your eyes out wow jake a live score gami i only had one in 13 weeks it's pretty bad man you know what's what's crazy though is like score gamis are going to become by their very nature more and more rare yeah we talked about talked about this a few weeks ago.
It's not great.

No.

It's an endangered species.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Every time you have one, I said that to you when that last one happened.

You go home and you're like, that's one less that we can have.

It's like Dragon Balls.

It's brutal.

They're infinite.

That's not true.

That's just how real numbers work.

Actually, Billy is technically correct, as noted educated person Hank agrees with. World-renowned.
World-renowned educated person Hank. Okay, world-renowned educated person.
Jake, I'm rooting for you. This would be incredible.
That was big. This would be a huge moment.
Where were you? All right, next up, Browns 27, Texans 14. Deshaun Watson is back.
Deshaun Watson is rehabilitated per Adam Schefter. Adam Schefter said before the game, it was basically a text message that he just put into his Twitter and was like, here you go.
Deshaun Watson has made what NFL and NFLPA experts have described as signs of progress during his mandatory treatment program per sources. Also, we should note that his program is completely confidential.
So I don't know how they would find that. It means that Deshaun Watson has not masturbated onto or in the presence of a massage therapist in the last calendar year.
Yes. In which case, congratulations.
That is progress. Huge.
It seems like he is a pretty big part of his routine before that. Yep.
So he has made a definite change. You can also tell just a lot about Adam Schefter's tweets and his PR releases based on what time he schedules them for.
So this one was scheduled to be tweeted out at 4 o'clock a.m. Yes.
That's exactly when I would schedule a tweet to go out if I've got bad news about anything that I don't want anyone responding to. Bad news for Schefter is it hit the quote tweet lottery on that one.
It had, I think, like 1,500 quote tweets on it. So word got around, even though he tried to bury it late at night.
But yeah, Deshaun Watson came back. He played today.
He wasn't good. No, he was not good.
We didn't think that he would be good because he hasn't played football in two years. Yeah, the Browns scored a fumble touchdown, a punt return touchdown, and a pick six.
Yeah. So the 27-14 score is not Deshaun Watson.
You know what? Also, Schefter, if you're talking about what great progress Deshaun Watson has made in the last year, anybody cannot get massages when they're not playing football. Let's see what happens after he's taking hits and actually getting sore.
That's when it's going to be very tough for Deshaun Watson to stay out of the massage therapist office. Yes, yes.
It's good that he's rehabbed. Yeah.
Good job, dude. Completely has been solved uh yeah he did kind of stink today the texans didn't play particularly well either we didn't really watch much of this game uh yeah we did not watch pretty much any of this game the texans are are very very sad kyle allen it's just the whole thing's a bummer at this point 110 and one it's just the whole thing is a bummer yeah this point.
1-10-1. It's just the whole thing is a bummer.
Yeah. And you thought, like, maybe this was the game.
They get, like, you know, a crowd there. Everyone's thinking revenge.
Fuck this guy. He's a piece of shit.
He's a scumbag. Oh, no, wait.
Schefter said that he's rehabilitated. But, no, they couldn't even do that.
Yeah, the fans, they didn't really boo him that much. I thought there would be more boos today.
Yeah. But it was like a smattering is how I would describe it most people were like okay that's been our guy for a long time so we like him welcome back it actually turned out everyone was like oh my god this league Roger Goodell schedules uh Deshaun Watson to go against the Texans his first game back that was actually like the nicest thing he could yeah it was perfect that was a treat this is the first time that that we've really seen him wearing orange.
He looks okay in orange, not in like a prison jumpsuit type of way, but he fills the uniform out nicely. Yeah, yeah.
Orange and brown. Good job, Deshaun Watson, but we don't like you.
No. No.
Actually, if he had gotten injured today, I think most of America would have been like, that's awesome. Yeah.
Oh, absolutely. That's the one guy that think most people would like throw aside there we don't root for injuries on yeah if he what if he just got hit in the what if he pulisic himself and had to go to the hospital lose it that would i mean jesus that'd be a great day on twitter yeah it would i he it's also oh no jake looks like the uh score yeah but it's touchdown or bust so oh okay like they're down 21 also describes Sean Watson's last year.
Yes it's touchdown or bust. Oh, okay.

Like, they're down 21. Also described to Sean Watson's last year.

Yes.

Touchdown or bust.

No one's rooting for Sean Watson except Browns fans.

I won't begrudge Browns fans.

I understand how sports work.

Yeah, you're rooting for your team at that point.

We're going to make fun of him.

And, yeah, we're going to mock him, just so you know.

I think everyone expects it. What if he just sucked down? That would be something, huh? Hasn't played in a long time.
It's going to take him a few weeks to knock the rust off for sure. Might just take him the rest of the year, yeah.
All right, Steelers-Falcons. Steelers 19, Falcons 16.
I think this might be it for the Falcons, even though they're still kind of alive. Feels like this is the we've got to probably start playing Desmond Ritter moment.
Yeah, I think so. I mean, the good news for them is you've got the Bucs and the Saints playing each other this week.
So maybe I guess you're probably rooting for the Saints if you're the Falcons. But you've also said that you're not going to start Desmond Ritter until you're out of playoff contention.
So what would you rather do if you're a Falcons fan, what's going on, Jake? He just got a fumble. Big pick.
Huge pitch. What would you rather have your Falcons fan like stay in the hunt for another three weeks, not make the playoffs and get Mariota until like the very end or just like right now, pull the bandaid off, go to Ritter? Yes.
Because I'd rather go to Ritter at this point. The small amount that I saw Ritter in the preseason, he looked really good.
You have to go to Ritter. Yeah.
I mean, he had some weird moments where he's a rookie and he's obviously going to go through growing pains, but just based on his arm talent that I saw, I think they should play him right now. You have to go to Ritter.
He has to be good. Then I can just be like Luke Fickles, a quarterback whisperer, come to Wisconsin.
There you go. I am rooting for Desmond Ritter.
Yeah, the quarterback. The defensive coach quarterback whisperer.
Yeah. He's definitely going to be – I'm going to be rooting hard for Desmond Ritter.
But, yeah, the Steelers, like, the Steelers are another team. It feels like today we have a couple teams that showed up and, like, hey, maybe if they reel off a few wins here, like, it was the last gas week for a few teams where the Steelers, the Lions, I'm trying to think if there's anyone else.
Like they win, and now if they win out, they're in the playoffs. It's crazy to say they're 5-7.
I don't know. They're playing Lamar next week, or the Ravens with no Lamar.
Yeah, it's actually going to be funny because this might be Mike Tomlin's like piece de resistance.

Right.

If he can get this team to above 500, then you can keep the stack going

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It might have been during halftime.

No.

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He's a psycho. I'm trying to win this fucking game.
The big takeaway I had from this game was the Falcons are 0-2 while Will Compton is an escrow while the boy is waiting to be signed. So let's get to work on that.
NFL, NFLPA. Because I can't take much more of Will on Twitter.
So just get him on a team. Get him on a team.
This game also, weirdly enough, tied the record for most 45 plus yard field goals made. Five.
Oh wow. Yeah, it's weird, it's pretty strange.
And George Pickens is the definition of a ticking time bomb. He's so awesome.
He's awesome, but he gets so mad when he doesn't get the ball. He's so good, but so weird.
So weird. He's a weird – you know, we've got a lot of weird players, weird new players in the NFL.
And guess what? Like, greatness usually is kind of weird, so he might be – it might work out that, like that he's wired weird, but he threw his helmet, then they passed to him right away. He was yelling at people like, I guess you kind of want a fiery guy, but he does feel like he lives on the edge at all times.
Yeah. It was the same at Georgia.
We were sitting next to Jersey Jerry during this game, and he was reading a report. He was like, oh, no, oh no uh george pickens just threw his helmet and kicked it like the the icing on the cake was he also booted his helmet down the sidelines and now uh they're turning that into like a big it's a big cause for a concern in pittsburgh but i don't know he's i think he's definitely good enough he's got enough talent to be able to overlook all the other stuff that he does.
Yeah. Just, like, make him happy.
Yeah, exactly. Make him happy.
Anything else on this game? We're at the point of the season where there's some games where it's like, okay, that was a game. They're going to look back.
Falcons are going to look back on this stretch and be like, what the hell did we do? Yeah. You know how, like, it's like I look back and I wasted my 20s is what they're going to say because they had the Chargers, the Panthers, the Bears, the Commanders and the Steelers all lined up in a row and they booted it.
Well, they might not be that good. Yeah, but they booted.
It's like you look at it and you're like, look at all these teams they have. Turns out the Falcons are not better than those teams.
Well, now we know that. Yeah, right.
But in the moment, we were set to go on a run. Some of us put futures on them.
Yeah, it's like, looking back, yeah, they're probably right around where they should be. They wasted their 20s.
Five and 18. Okay, last one from the 1PMs.
Ravens 10, Broncos 9. Lamar goes out.
Tyler Huntley in. The Ravens spent the entire game trying to score trying to trying to take the lead they're down nine three for what felt like an eternity Tyler Huntley in his heroics scores with like 25 seconds left and we're left with the Broncos having yet again another just terrible disappointing loss this team is a disaster yeah Nathaniel Hackett broke out all the tricks this week.
He grew a goatee. He did.
That's how you know it's getting bad. When you just spontaneously grow a goatee out of nowhere.
He's trying to change up anything. Yeah.
Anything and everything that can be done differently in Denver. He's giving it a shot.
And I would just resign if I were him.

When was the last time we had a coach just resign before he can be fired?

You'd probably end up losing a lot of money, actually, if you do that.

Yeah, you can't do that.

I would imagine.

But I would say if I were him, I would strongly consider resigning.

Yeah.

Because it's not going to get any better.

I have some sad stats for you.

So there's a guy on Twitter named Kent We uh wayruck i probably butchered his name w-e-y-r-a-u-c-h he has uh the russell wilson uh toilet watch where can he get as many passing touchdowns as toilets in his bathroom so today was a big setback for him he now has to to, Russell Wilson has to average one passing touchdown a game for the last five games to surpass the amount of bathrooms he has in his house. He has 12 bathrooms.
He has eight touchdown passes this year. Yeah.
That's pretty tough. He's probably not going to get there.
Yeah. And it's like it was one of those things that someone probably started it.
This guy started it week one being like, this would be funny for the first few weeks. We're in week 13, and he's fighting for his life to get more touchdown passes than he has bathrooms in his house.
He has an insane amount of bathrooms. He really set himself up for that one.
Yes. The other thing I have is the Broncos are averaging right now 13.8 points per game.
It will be the first team to average under 14 points in the last 10 seasons. If they had just been the, I think I looked it up, if they had just been the 20th ranked offense, the Saints offense, which is averaging 20.8 points per game, if they scored 20.8 points in regulation this year, they'd be 10-2.
If they were just the Steelers, who were like the 28th ranked offense, like really bad uh they'd be 10 and 2 if they were just the Steelers who are like the 28th ranked offense like really bad uh they would be uh eight and four so it's like all they needed to do was be not the absolute worst offense that's how good their defense has been they would be a playoff team really really bad it's crazy yeah and that wasn't going to be the expectation coming into the season. It was like, okay, you fixed your entire offense.

And now there's some very funny old trade grades that are getting passed around.

I saw one from ESPN when they made the initial Drew Locke for Russell Wilson trade.

They gave the Broncos an A, and they gave the Seahawks a D-plus for the trade.

I grade that trade grade an F-plus. Yeah.
F-minus F plus. I admire the fact that they made the grade.
That takes balls to grade a trade immediately. But everything besides that was dog shit.
The real winner from this game was Rick Riley who took the opportunity to come out and just remind everybody do you think Rick Riley still got the flamethrower? You think Rick Riley can still bring it? Does he only tweet bangers? The answer is yes, because an hour and 45 minutes after the game was over, Rick took to Twitter and said, Russell Wilson sucks like the Dyson factory. Damn.
Hashtag Broncos. Damn.
Just absolutely cooked him. As bad as the stat about the touchdown passes compared to toilet paper is,

this is way worse.

Rick Riley's in his bag.

He has the Dyson factory, dude.

Bro, that's where they make the vacuum.

That sucks.

He sucks worse than that.

Damn.

Riley.

Rick Riley nailed it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

The Broncos are just.

I don't know where the Ravens.

Like the Ravens are going to probably struggle because Lamar Jackson.

Tyler Huntley is fun.

And then I reminded myself that he was one and four last year.

Yeah, but he's a fun one.

He's fun.

I was like, oh, no, they'll be fine.

Tyler Huntley's like, oh, no, there's a steep drop off between Lamar Jackson and Tyler Huntley.

Yeah.

And the good news for the Ravens fans is Harbaugh said after the game, Lamar's injury could be between days and weeks.

I take that.

So now...

Take that.

Yeah, it's not months.

No, take that.

So that's good.

I guess he's just got like a bruised knee.

I felt guilty because when they took him to the locker room

and they showed him walking through the hallway,

I thought he was shitting again.

He's always be shitting.

If I watch the replay enough times,

I could convince myself that it's just a bruise

and he'll be okay. Yeah, he did diagnose it as just a bruise.
So I appreciated that. The only other thing I had just is more sad Broncos stuff.
I mentioned that they would be the first team in a decade to average less than 14 points. The last team to do it was the 2012 Chiefs with Matt castle and brady quinn the year before that it was the rams with uh bradford uh feely and clemens yeah count clemens yeah wow that was he was remember he had like a little thing with the jets he did yeah he was he had like one good game on the jets yeah and then the one before, and then the one before that, 2010 Panthers, was Jimmy Clawson and Matt Moore.
So when you – Those quarterbacks – Those are bangers only. Those quarterbacks, Russell Wilson, same sentence now.
If you had asked me to name like the most mid-starting quarterbacks of the last 10 years – And that's Russell Wilson's team. And Russ Wilson.
And we said last week that we didn't recall Russ being this bad on the Seahawks at the end. Post finger injury, he actually was this bad.
Yeah. So the finger fucked him up.
Well, he came back from the came back too early. He came back from the five week finger injury in like three weeks.
And he sucked for like three more weeks and then he was okay. Yeah.
But even right when he was supposed to be healed. But even for the rest of the year, like dipped again it's he's not the same guy after that finger no it's a pretty big finger something something's fucked up um okay uh let's do a couple ads and then we'll do the afternoon slate which is a great slate these recaps are being brought to you by our great friends over at 3chi now introducing the next evolution and ultra pure cannabis products delta 9- by 3G.
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They just got to let Matt Ryan retire. This has become very sad.
Very, very sad. The Cowboys just sacked him, stripped sack, touched on that might not stand.
Let him retire. We knew this was going to happen.
We knew this was going to happen.

It's old yeller.

It's just, okay, the good boy, he's got rabies now.

Yeah.

Take him behind the biggest, tallest shed you can find.

Do what you have to do.

It's an absolute clowning, an absolute smoking.

The Cowboys are going to win by like a billion.

I don't think that one stands. Is Matt Ryan okay? now he's he's curled up in the fetal position yeah five turnovers the Gami's dead no we're okay right now the only thing that kills us is 50 to 19 okay it's like gets reversed and the Dallas Cowboys like go to field goal range I don't think they'll kick a field they probably won't won't.
Okay, Matt Ryan's okay. He's walking around.
Okay, so yeah, that game doesn't even need recapping. The Cowboys just absolutely dismantled the Colts.
Credit the Colts for staying in it for a quarter. As Steve Austin would say, they stomped a Texas mud hole in the Colts today.
Yeah, that was bad. Okay, afternoon slate.
Seahawks 27, Rams 23. Sean McVay is now to the point of the season where he's just using old inspirational quotes to try to pump himself up.
He said after the loss, calm seas don't make good sailors. So that's nice.
He's just, they were actually like in this game. They were winning this game with three minutes left.
They were fighting hard, but Geno was able to do it. He tried to throw three interceptions on the last drive, but was able to take them down the field, win the game.
And, yeah, the Rams are just over. Pack up the season.
It's done. Everyone's out, and they're going to sit everyone.
Don't even play out the string. It's got to be awful being Sean McVay with the photographic memory because it's a great thing if your teams are good and you're filling up all the space in your head with perfect, beautiful memories of great, successful football.
But once you start losing, it must become such a burden to have to remember all these shitty plays. He's going gonna have to go out there and remember like Bryce Perkins playing for an entire weekend that's that is a Wolford John Wolford those are two giant wastes of brain space so um credit to Gino though Gino Smith this was his first fourth quarter comeback victory since week 17 of 2014 also career high in passing in a game and career high passing first season.

He surpassed today.

Incredible.

So good for him.

And DK just went man mode on Jalen Ramsey on that last touchdown catch.

Insane.

Every now and again, he just remembers I'm bigger and stronger than everybody else,

even if I can't turn.

So I'm just going to go man mode on you and box you out.

Yes. It was a nice drive by Geno.
Seahawks stay alive because it felt like they were fading a little, especially the fact that the Rams were maybe going to win this game. Their defense is weird.
Their defense goes stretches where it looks great and then it looks so, so bad. Yeah.
I actually think the defense is one of those, more so than offense, if you even start to check out a little bit on a season, defense seems like the easier one to go because so much of it is predicated on just effort on every single play. Yeah, and Bobby Wagner was awesome because it was a personal revenge game.
So credit to him. Yeah.
Doesn't Pete Carroll kind of own Sean McVay, or am I completely making that set up? I know all those NFC West coaches just own each other repeatedly. I think Pete Carroll is above Sean in that cycle.
Did that help you, that touchdown? Yeah, because if they tackled him, they would have kicked a field goal. They were on, like, the 20-yard line.
Wait, so 54-19 is not a gami? 53 and 54 are good. 50 would have been bad.
Wow, so we could still get the gami. Yeah, but if they didn't get this first down, we were toast.
were toast wow yeah big blowouts like this i feel like are more yeah it's fine more flexible um yeah i do think i there is something like that where no i don't know we got to look into it there is like carol owns somebody yeah from the nfc west i don't know jake can you look that up i know you're after the gami after the g. Or Billy, look it up.
What the record is. Pete Carroll versus other NFC West coaches.
All right. Moving on.
Raiders 27, Chargers 20. Justin Herbert is just Phillip Rivers.
Okay. Go on.
And I say this not because it's not an anti-Justin Herbert thing. It's more of an anti-Chargers thing.
Watching him play behind an offensive line that has injuries but just didn't do anything for him. He'd have to check down.
Basically, the only time that Justin Herbert's able to really be Justin Herbert is when they're in fourth and 18. He made that touchdown throw that was out of this world good.
And now we get to the Chargers. It feels like every week back in these games where they're down late and Justin Herbert's got to do something.
And it's like, it's the Chargers. It's not Phillip Rivers.
It's not Justin Herbert. It's the Chargers.
The Chargers are going to fail two really, really good quarterbacks back to back. You know what? I would almost say we should start the free Justin movement.
Yes. Like, let Justin go.
Yes. If you love him, if you truly care about him, Chargers,

let him play for a different team.

Yes.

Because much like we do the thing of like,

imagine this,

this running back,

like with,

with the Kyle Shanahan system,

like imagine Justin Herbert just playing for a competent franchise with a

good offensive line.

Because no matter what happens to the Chargers,

they're always going to have bad injury luck.

Right.

It's just going to be the story of their franchise.

Right.

So like,

just if I'm Justin Herbert,

I would think about doing a power play and just,

Thank you. offensive line.
It'd be insane. Because no matter what happens to the Chargers, they're always going to have bad injury luck.
Right. It's just going to be the story of their franchise.
Right. So, like, just, if I'm Justin Herbert, I would think about doing a power play and just not signing a long-term deal there.
Yeah, he's got all the talent in the world. He makes throws that are like, holy fuck.
And then he just ends up in these games where it's like the Chargers should win this game. The Raiders have nothing to play for.
Oh, Chargers are going to lose this game. They're out 6-6, and they're fighting for their playoff life.
I'm going to sprinkle a little take out there. You ready for this? Yeah.
Chargers don't make the playoffs this year. Brandon Staley gets fired.
Sean Payton coaches the Chargers. Ooh, I like that.
Comes back to coach the Chargers. I like that.
I think he would want to. That might be too much arm strength for him.
I think he would want to do that. That's precisely why he would want to do it.
He's like, my entire career, I've wanted to see what I could do with a quarterback with an arm that didn't get struck by lightning.

I know where I'll go, to the Chargers.

Yes.

Okay.

I'm in.

Okay, cool, cool.

I like that.

And then as far as the Raiders, they are the fun bad team this year

where it's like they can just be – they started the game looking terrible.

They went 18 minutes without throwing it to Devontae Adams, and then they're like, oh, shit, Devontae Adams is really fucking good. Let's throw it to him.
And then he went off. And the Raiders – like the Raiders, if you turn it into a Raiders game, you could either have – like just watch the most boring, pathetic game, or you could watch an absolute awesome shootout.
And the Raiders have that like switch they flip. They're not a very good team, but they at least can be fun.
I was going to say that it's actually a stunning turn for the Raiders to go into a team that's fun and bad. Right.
Compared to where they were earlier this season. Yes, yes.
And Mark Davis also was macking on some fucking timepiece. Mark Davis pulls.
Oh, absolutely. He wasn't macking on her.
She was macking on him. That's a fact.
He's the

Nadeau of owners. Yeah.
Shout out

Nadeau. Hashtag Nadeau.
Nadeau

crew. Alright.

Niners 33. Dolphins

17. Dolphins

got absolutely crushed.

It was close. It was a close game in the

fourth quarter. But

oh, actually the first story is the

Jimmy G's out for the year. That sucks.
Yeah.

Sucks so bad. His foot's broken.

They did sign Josh

just fourth quarter but oh actually the first story is the Jimmy G's out for the year that sucks yeah sucks so bad his foot's broken um they did sign Josh Johnson off the practice squad of the Broncos I actually love that like Josh Johnson is a good quarterback that's been around he's played on like every team in the NFL I am very excited to see if because I guess they're going to try to start Purdy for the rest of the. But if he stumbles at all, having Josh Johnson there, that's a pretty good luxury that they're going to have.
Purdy did look pretty good today. Overall, not bad for a rookie quarterback.
The first Mr. Irrelevant to throw a touchdown pass.
And I knew in the preseason that Kyle liked him because he just said he's got the it factor. He's Brocktober.
He's Brocktober. He's got it.
He's got moxie. You heard Jason Garrett say like 12 times tonight on Sunday Night Football, he's got moxie.
I like Brock Purdy. It sucks for Jimmy G, though.
Yeah. Because this team was loaded.
It felt like he could take them on a deep run. Some people disagree.
But it sucks for him. I feel bad for Jimmy G.
I do too, but at the same time, he played good enough this year where he's going to get a good contract. Maybe.
Some team will pay for him. Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, he does feel like he's at the point of his career where he's like, okay, let's give it a try for competent football. He might be a great Colt.
Yeah, oh, he'd be a great Colt at this point in his career for sure.

Great Colt.

You know what should really happen?

If the Saints have any dignity whatsoever,

they would cut Russell Wilson and let the 49ers sign him.

For the good of the game.

Excuse me, not Russell Wilson.

The Saints should cut Jameis Winston and let the 49ers sign him for the good of the game. Yes.
For the good of football. Roger Dell needs to implement the good of football.
Agreed. Jameis on that team would be so fun.
Probably drive Kyle Shanahan absolutely nuts. But I would love it.
Yeah. Also, the Niners defense is fucking awesome.
They wrecked this game. Victory formation.
Let's go, Jake. I've never seen a losing team do that.

Wow.

You're right.

Wow.

I've never seen that.

That's a Jeff Saturday special.

Colts kneeling it out.

Let's all go home for dinner.

Classy by Jeff Saturday.

It was hanging here.

Oh, here it is.

Score a gami.

The picture. Yeah, get in front of the TV.

Right when it hits zero.

Wow.

What a nice move by Jeff Saturday.

Oh, and the rich get richer. Odell Beckham will be making his visit to the Dallas Cowboys tomorrow.
Yeah, a score of Gami. Way to go, Jake.
Wait for zero. Wait for zero, PFT.
Very important. I know how to do this.
Jake is very – Wait for zero. One, zero.
You're listening to it live on air. You're doing great, sweetie.

Got it.

Got it.

Great job, Jake.

Now, also, Jake likes it when it gets big.

Hold on.

Jake likes it when they go final big.

When the big final happens?

Yeah, yeah.

Oh, here it is.

Wait, is there it?

Oh, no. No, they're not going to do it.

No, they're about to do it.

Watch it.

I'm waiting for the big final.

This is electric for everyone at home.

Where were you when Jake got to take his Scorigami picture?

And another one bites the dust, Jake.

Nope, they didn't do a big one.

They didn't do a big one.

It's okay.

Go home tonight and one more that you can't have.

Hope you're happy.

Tired?

Losing your flex to the year.

Wired?

Look what we got instead.

Scorigami.

Scorigami.

I mean, that's a tradeoff I'm willing to take any day of the week.

By the way, we are talking about your Dolphins. They got wrecked.
Oh, yeah. They were terrible.
Also, like, after the first play of the game, 75-yard touchdown, I quoted Billy's tweet from Friday's show. I'm not sold on Tua.
That backfired. But at the time, it was right.
At the time, one for one 75-yard touchdown. Tua might need his tackles, especially against the 49ers defense because Nick B Bosa was all over the place they had the Dolphins had 19 minutes of possession in a 60 minute game they were over seven on third down and they had 300 total yards of offense this is Mike McDaniels offense that has all the weapons and everyone's talking about how great they are the Niners just completely dominated them after that first touchdown that we didn't even see yeah McCaffrey played awesome again.
Waddle was hurt for a little bit, but he came back. I don't think he was 100% when he got back.
So the offense was slightly limited. This is to his first loss where he played the entire game this season for the Dolphins.
So I think the Dolphins are still going to be okay. You got to win the Chargers game.
This was more about the fact of like, okay, the 49ers are, they're a wagon

at this point. And I, honestly,

I don't really think it matters that much

who's playing quarterback for the

49ers. I think it's

exactly, you know what it is?

It's the, it's kind of like the reverse

of the running back situation

where you'd say it doesn't matter who plays running

back for the Denver Broncos or

for, you know, when it's Mike Shanahan's system

or for Kyle Shanahan, it doesn't

matter really who the quarterback is. They will be able to

Thank you. where you'd say it doesn't matter who plays running back for the Denver Broncos or for when it was Mike Shanahan's system or for Kyle Shanahan.
It doesn't matter really who the quarterback is. They will be able to scheme a guy who's at least competent into being like an above-average game manager.
I would say their margin of error has changed. It's very thin, but yeah, they're good enough.
Their team is good enough that they'll be okay. I still think they'll be okay this year.

But, yeah, losing Jimmy G is kind of a – it's bad because at least he's proven that he can get you to a Super Bowl

in the past.

Right, right.

So, yeah, I'm still rooting for him.

I still think that they're one of the more fun teams to root for.

Absolutely.

They just fucking run the ball 50 times a game.

Cut Jameis Winston.

Let him sign for the Niners, please.

Do it.

Do it. Yeah, the Dolphins dolphins jake how are you feeling overall like give us you have a tough stretch coming up yeah so remember in like september we saw how soft their schedule was in the middle of the season and uh they took advantage of that while healthy but then at the end you saw uh niners you have chargers i assume they'll stay out west this week i'm not sure and then at the bills which is my flex of the year next week um so and then you have the divisional game so i'm circling that week 18 game against the jets the two hands revenge game that could that could be a major game for playoff uh we need to make sure that two finds out that they did that really put an.
Yeah, we got to tweet him every day. I'm not going to be annoying.
Come on, do it. Yeah.
No, tweet him every day. It was disgusting what they did, Jake.
It was. Maybe the week of the game.
Okay. All right.
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Bengals 27, Chiefs 24, Joe Burrow owns Patrick Mahomes. Yeah, I mean, we have a narrative.
It's officially a narrative right now, which is kind of cool. Like, Patrick Mahomes has a nemesis.
He has a nemesis where he is decidedly the underdog in any matchup. Yeah.
We've reached a point where we can say Joe Burrow has Patrick Mahomes number. He's so Joe Burrow's three, you know, head to head.
The only other person who has three wins against Patrick Mahomes is Tom Brady, who's three and three. So Joe Burrow has full ownership of Patrick Mahomes.
And it was like, it actually was weird because it was one of those games that I thought it, it almost like reverse storylines because the chiefs are sorry, the Bengals got cute at the end of the first half going into the end zone with that fourth down call where they tried to, you know, they had someone in motion and they got absolutely blown up. It was Trent Tyler.

Yeah, it was our guy.

Trent Taylor.

I don't think he had any chance.

He didn't have targets this week,

but he didn't have one rushing attempt for negative three yards,

which is a single double.

Yeah.

What are you going to say, Hank?

That was a rushing attempt.

Yeah.

That was a rushing attempt.

So actually, he gets my game MVP because going into the locker room,

they're like, oh, fuck, we screwed this up.

Now we got to really focus.

And, I mean, the Chiefs looked like they were going to win it for a while there.

But the Bengals' defense, we talked about it ad nauseum,

their second-half defense especially.

They shut down teams when they need to.

Big, big fumble, forced fumble of Kelsey.

Like Joe Burrow, just anytime there's a third and long,

it's like he's just going to make a throw.

He's going to stand in there.

Thank you. Big, big fumble Force fumble of Kelsey Like, Joe Burrow Just, anytime there's a third and long He's just gonna make a throw He's gonna stand in there, he's gonna make a throw That third and 11, he was just like completely He was so calm in the pocket Just standing like straight up, not worrying Let the play develop, easy first down, game over He's so fucking good And he's so just calm, cool Collected, and I you know, we've said it.
This was the script. The Bengals were at the same exact spot they were last year, and they had a big win against the Chiefs, and they win the AFC North.
Now they have it all in front of them to do the exact same thing. I've got a take.
I think this Bengals team is better than last year's Bengals team. They might be.
I think they are. I think they've somehow managed to improve on where they were last year.
Well, you have – I mean, T. Higgins has become, like, next level.
Jamar Chase is just – he's – the crazy part about Jamar Chase is he's so fast, but he's also so fucking strong, and it feels like the first guy never gets him down. Yeah.
You know what I mean? Like, guys, he's just – he's so strong, and he has so much speed. And, yeah, yeah, I would agree with you.
I think this team is destined to be right up there come the end of January with either the Bills or the Chiefs. Who's going to face off in the AFC Championship game? The Bengals can absolutely win the Super Bowl this year.
It's crazy. I think that their pass defense is very underrated.
Yeah. I think that – so obviously the Chiefs and their passing attack right now, like Patrick Mahomes is not putting up stats in terms of yardage like he has been in the past.
A big part of that is not having Tyreek Hill, who is usually good for like one 100-yard run per game. But when it comes to their pass defense, I was looking at this – I was trying to figure out the last time that they allowed a 300-yard passer in a game.
I think it's like week one or two of last year. That's crazy.
Their pass defense is insanely good right now. And, yeah, they had only two.
The Chiefs wanted to take a couple shots. The MVS, they tried to get open.
He had a couple, but they had two plays that were explosive plays over 20 yards like they kept them in front of him and patrick homes did make his his jump in the end zone was very cool but you can't really compliment patrick homes when joe burrow has his number patrick my homes yeah i mean he's still awesome he's still of course so in this specific game the thing joe burrow gets the he's better he played way better better than him, yeah. People always accuse us of forgetting about Patrick Mahomes and how good he is.
I don't think that we've ever forgotten. You just gave a shrug, though.
You are the person that they say we are. No, I just think I also remember a few years ago when they won one championship, and it was like, this is the new dynasty.
They're the new power of the AFC. Okay, that's where it comes back to.
Got it. but you got josh allen who i think is the best quarterback in the nfl and joe burrow has his number so you know what i think the bills actually won this game by having the chiefs take a loss makes the bills more likely to get home field advantage the bills won the bangles chiefs matchup yes yes so josh allen new dynasty or Joe Burrow.
Joe Burrow is him. I know.
So is Josh.

So is Josh.

I know. So is Josh.
So is Josh. I just everyone crowned Patrick a little bit early.
I didn't like it. Premature.
Hank, you know that I love Josh Allen, but you know that he hasn't won a Super Bowl yet. No, I know.
But Mahomes did. But he didn't have a dynasty.
That's my point. That's true.

Dynasty.

Dynasties are not easy to get, as you guys know.

Dynasty loading in Buffalo.

Very hard to get.

Yeah, but the Bengals, fuck.

And something about, I don't know, everything feels like it's in slow motion for Joe Burrow.

He just moves.

He sees the whole field in slow motion, that calmness where it's like the rush is coming, no problem, fit into a tight window, win the game. He's just got the ice.
He's got the ice. He really does.
He wants the ball at the end of the game. He's got that ice.
It's not a stat. Right.
It's crazy to watch in real life and be like, oh, okay, he's got this. You can't coach ice.
No. Okay.
That was all of week 13.

Billy, you want to do football guys of the week?

Yep.

And we'll finish with who's back of the week.

So last week's winner for football guy of the week was Thaddeus Longmire.

Yeah. He was the armless middle school football player who was a tight end.

Total legend.

No holding calls.

And he won. So shout out Thaddeus.
Better hands than Eric Ebron. Yeah.
Our first nominee for this week is Sam. Wait, Eric Ebron's stand over there? He's a UNC guy.
Yeah, in front of the program. Is Sam Hartman, quarterback for Wake Forest.
This is a very weird story. Sam Hartman, I think he some sort of infection uh where he had to have a rib taken out uh like a bone rib marilyn manson yeah so he had a rib removed and he currently has the rib in his refrigerator and he's going to plan to make a necklace out of it pretty soon okay um i'm not a doctor but speaking as somebody that has had several procedures, I don't think that they let you keep parts of your body.
I think that's a biohazard. Maybe you knew the doctor.
I don't know. They let you keep teeth.
True. They do.
That's a good point. Yep.
But usually I don't think that a doctor that would take a rib out would be like, hey, here's this thing that we just removed from you. I don't know.

I could be wrong.

I could be wrong.

I don't want to call him a liar.

I think you can keep bullets.

You get shot.

Okay.

I met a guy who got shot and he had a necklace with a bullet.

That's sick.

Yeah.

Pretty cool.

He definitely deserves to be Football Guy of the Week nominee.

Yeah.

Our second nominee is Lincoln Gustafsson, who is the kid who gets on the jumbotron at US Bank Stadium and puts that shit on Antonio Brown. Yeah.
The vibe in that stadium I was allowed to go there recently. It is something.
It is up there with like Neyland Tennessee. Really?? Yeah, it is a So the only two stadiums

you've been to.

Now you went to MetLife?

What are you talking about?

MetLife.

Not the only two.

Name all the stadiums.

Maybe it was recently.

It was also

what was funny

is the way that

I don't know what Billy's

Name all the stadiums.

Name all the stadiums

you've been to.

You said I recently

went to Minnesota

which is up there

with the other stadium

I recently went to.

Over under five stadiums

that you've been to

for football games.

I've been over.

College and Division I college and NFL. Yes, I've been to five.
Name them. Foxborough, Army.
West Point? Yeah, West Point. Neyland.
Of course, you have Troop. Rutgers.
Rutgers, yeah. Do Ivy Leagues count? No.
Okay. I went to –Life.
You were going to say Columbia, weren't you? Well, I went on a couple visits. And Minnesota.
Colorado. Yeah.
No, Colorado. We didn't go to a game.
We didn't go to a game. Yeah.
So it's two out of the six. You've been to six.
Yeah. Top two.
It's in the top third. Yeah.
Also, the way that that you phrase it, I don't know what lie you're trying to cover up there, but when you said, like, I was recently allowed to go to a game at Minnesota Stadium, it's like, what was that? What did that mean? It was confusing phrasing. Yeah.
Anyway, third nominee. This one.
It's like you got taken off a no-fly list. It's like the allowed entry, not given leave.
Yeah. Work release.
That makes me think that you weren't allowed to go that much. Yeah, no, you definitely weren't.
Yeah, what happened, Billy? Why were you at that game? Look, it was Thanksgiving. We had off on Thanksgiving.
Something is amiss about why Billy was in that stadium, and I'm going to find out what it is. Okay.
I threw this guy on here because he really embodied football guy. Max Duggan, quarterback for TCU.
The guy, you know, usually I don't give nominations for on-the-field stuff, but this was a guy who just gave it his all. I don't know.
I don't know. Just like usually like football guy stuff is like football guy stuff outside of the sport of football that just shows that you're a football guy.
And he was balling his eyes out in front of the media after the game. He gave it his all.
I like crying. Yeah.
You can be a football guy you can get an award or nominated for football guy of the week for crying if it's during the national anthem or after a game because you're sad because you let your guys down. Or about one of your guys.
Yeah, about one of your guys. Yeah, about your guys.
At one point in the game, they were like, Max Duggan has over 30 scratches on his arms. Okay.
Yeah, sure. Is he going to be in New York City this week? Yes.
Hopefully he'll stop by. He's in AWL.
Yeah, dude. He was a tank.
And our last nominee is the University of Houston tea guy. Oh.
What? Continue. I have a nominee I was going to request to nominate.
Also from University of Houston. This is the guy who just runs out and gets the tea after the kickoff, and he's a fat guy, a larger guy.
But he hustles out there, and he does some acrobatics when picking up the tea, and just like the hustle. like that.
What do you got, Hank? Maybe it's just because, I don't know, it's a woman, but the University of Houston volleyball player, Kate George, I don't know if you guys saw this highlight. I'm going to send it to you.
One of the greatest plays I've ever seen in my life. She was on the back of the line, and she went barreling over a table to save the point,

and then it turned into a volley that went back and forth like 10 more times.

She came back, was part of the play, and their team won the point.

Hell, yeah.

Great volleyball plays are fantastic, but the football guy, she literally just ran headfirst,

dove over a table, smashed into a bunch of chairs, made the play.

Football guy.

I like it.

Okay.

I like it.

Nominator.

Sweet.

Oh, that was awesome.

She looked like a Bills fan.

Yeah.

Thank you. smashed into a bunch of chairs, made the play.
Football guy. I like it.
Okay. I like it.
Nominator.

Sweet.

Oh, that was awesome.

She looked like a Bills fan.

Yeah.

Good for her.

But she gets back.

And then she's back in the play now, yeah.

Why does somebody wear a different color shirt?

It's called the Libero.

Oh, wow.

That was the first televised broadcast that it was Circus Women's Volleyball.

The Libero.

Oh, damn.

Yeah.

Oh, that was awesome.

That sounds Italian.

Yeah.

That was sick. Okay, yeah.
Okay, so she's nominated too yeah yeah all right good job billy billy no nominating of the the jamie football team for having the best pizza party ever that's fine that's pretty solid i mean it's not a it's not a rib what was the final what would you what was the final like number'd you get? 60 pizzas.

I think 20 cheesy breads.

A bunch of two liters.

Extra sauce.

Nice.

$1,200 worth of pizza.

Nice.

What?

It looked like an awesome time.

Yeah, Ben DiNucci owes me $400.

$400.

Yeah.

I know you're listening right now, Ben.

Yeah.

Pay up.

Pay up.

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Who's back of the week? Hank. My who's back of the week is football in the deep south.
Coach Prime. Going to Colorado.
Made the announcement yesterday. It's going to be the new coach of the Buffs.
Very exciting. Our Buffs.
Our Buffs. That was kind of, yeah, a little recruitment trip.
We were kind of doing some deep diving for Coach Pran. If we weren't there to curse that entire campus, really, and football program, are they bad enough this year where they fire their coach and then hire Prime? Maybe not.
Fair question. But it's very exciting.
He obviously was nasty at JSU. They won the championship, I think, Or they have one more game.
How's the Deep South back with football? Colorado's in the Deep South. Oh, yeah.
That's true. Good point.
I was going to say, Alabama didn't make the playoff, even though Alabama fans spent an entire weekend saying they should be in because they're Alabama. No, for Paul Biznett, Colorado's in the South.
That's a fact. And now they're back.
And the Pac-12, it's kind of wide open now. USC and UCLA are leaving.
He's going to be able to get all the recruits with the NIL. He talked to his team, and he basically told everyone, which is, you know, people are pretty, like, out of pocket with Coach Prime saying he shouldn't have left and that, like, it made no sense where he left, where he got a humongous raise and gets to – it's a better job, obviously, Power 5 Conference.
Gets to bring all the assistants with him, get them paid a lot more. And he was talking to his players like, you guys either get with it or get in the portal because I'm bringing guys here.
It's going to be fun. And they suck, so it's like, yeah, no one on the team should expect to play.
They were terrible. Yeah Facts.
The ability that Dion has to talk like extemporaneously and to sound like he's written out an entire speech is incredible to me. It's awesome.
He's just, he's got that gift. And I think it's going to be fun to see what he does out there because he doesn't have the head coaching experience that most coaches have when they get a job like that.
He's only been a coach for, what, two seasons? And so there might be a learning curve a little bit for him. But in terms of recruiting, Deion, he's the best living room guy in America.
Absolutely. But you know who else was an amazing living room guy that also didn't have a lot of coaching experience and had a team with a lot of talent? Coach O.
The coach of the greatest college football team of all time. Coach O.
Coach O.

Yeah, fact.

How much does that really matter?

Colorado's going to win a national championship is what you're saying.

Yes.

Okay.

I mean, the air's thinner up there.

And they have a path of the playoff.

And they've got great mountains nearby.

That's true.

Expanded teams.

Expanded playoff.

You don't want to go to Boulder in December.

No.

It's a fact.

I can't wait to see Coach Prime meet Ralphie for the first time.

That's going to be great content.

Yes.

Yes.

As someone who's suited up in a Colorado uniform before, I can sense the turnaround coming.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You can feel it.

Yeah.

He's going to be awesome.

He's going to be incredible.

I felt good in that uniform.

Yeah.

I think I've got some eligibility left, Coach.

Let me know.

No.

Coach Prime is going to fucking... I mean, it's our second team now.
Everyone's second team has got to be Colorado. PFT.
Yep. Get the buffs.
My who's back of the week is the Dr. Pepper tuition giveaway.
Yeah. I was mad about this.
Jake, big mad. Big mad.
There was scandals. There was a legitimate scandal in the halftime competition.
First of all, they got to just eliminate the chess pass. I hate the chess pass.
They should be throwing it like a quarterback. It's a football game, not a basketball skills challenge.
So it's the competition for tuition, which is always, it feels weird to me watching that, where it's like, hey, do you want to be able to afford your college? Yes. Or do you want to be insanely broke for the rest of your life yes well then you better throw this football into this giant can of dr pepper in the next 30 seconds or else you're fucked that's kind of beautiful though in its own right it's very american yeah no it is it's like yeah it's like look at if you take a step back what pt's saying i agree with it's like hey we're just making these kids just you know thrown into a big dr pepper to.
Pepper to try to further their lives. It's like dance.
Objectively hilarious. Dance for our sugar water, or else you're going to have to live in squalor for at least 10 years after college.
I just got a really good idea. What? American Gladiator for free tuition.
Like a Royal Rumble. Yeah, you're basically designing Squid Game.
Yeah. Yeah, I like this.
They'd go hard, though Squid Game did go hard. They could just go full gladiator.
Like, you have to fight a lion or else you die. Or how about this? I like where Billy's at, but you get them all together, like a bigger group of them, and then you put them out in the wilderness, and they have to kill each other until one's left.
I like that. And they can represent different parts of the country as they're competing

against each other.

Huh.

I think that's a genius idea.

They put a cornucopia in the middle.

It's perfect.

Yeah, I love it.

But yeah, the Dr. Pepper tuition challenge is back.

And Jake, maybe you can illuminate us as to what the controversy was.

Because my understanding was there was a tie at the end of the first round.

And then they tied.

Yeah, this is at the SEC championship. I believe they do it at all the power conferences right it went to double overtime what no no no no it was a tie at the end of regulations they did a 15 second tiebreaker yeah they tied that and instead of going to double OT they're like all right this girl won the uh predetermined tiebreaker yesterday she wins no so we didn't do double OT we don't know We don't know what the predetermined tiebreaker was.
I don't know. But then I guess later on the broadcast, they said Dr.
Pepper is awarding book. Oh, that was someone came to and was like, this is a nightmare.
Yeah, so I don't know what. There was no double OT.
I love how Hank has become just a stand for Dr. Pepper.
I do love Dr. Pepper.
But no, I mean, it was soft. Just go to double OT.
Yeah, go to double OT. But if it's a predetermined tiebreaker, it's a predetermined tiebreaker.
Yeah, no, there's the rules. The second place still gets 20K.
Rules are rules, but it didn't matter. Like, why don't they just give every, you know, it's participation trophy culture.
Just give every participant 100K. Fact.
I just don't know what's the point of having a competition. Disgusting.
You know where this controversy wouldn't have happened if it was Mountain Dew. Yeah.
That's a good point. Yeah, with the brand new flavor.
Facts. Which is fantastic.
Fruitquake. Fruitquake.
Yeah. Frank saw that earlier today, and I think he came himself.
Yeah. He basically was like.
Fruitquake? Fruitquake. Yeah.
Where'd you get the Fruitquake? Yeah. Very excited.
I smelled it. Yeah.
All right. My Who's Back is Bowl season.
Specifically our bowl.

Ohio versus Wyoming.

The Barstool Sports Arizona Bowl.

December 30th.

Barstool.tv.

430 Eastern.

Going to be awesome.

Jake's going to be on the call.

Me and Dave.

PFT's going to be there.

Hank's going to be there.

Maybe.

Hank?

Are you going to be there?

If I make it out there, yeah.

Hank's going to be there.

It's going to be incredible. I'm driving.
Also, bowl season. Are you really? Yeah.
You're driving to Arizona? No, you're not. I swear to God.
From where? Massachusetts. I actually want to drive.
Yeah, we said no to that. Why? Don't worry about it.
It's not unconfirmed, probably.

One of my friends is moving out there.

So you're going to drive with him?

Possibly.

Legendary friend move.

Mm-hmm.

It's a long... Yeah.

You owe him something.

Either way, bowl season.

Do you owe him something, or do you owe her something?

It's a him.

Okay.

No, I was just like, I kind of want to do something, you know, not like usually my friends go skiing or whatever after Christmas.

I kind of want to do something, like not skiing this time. He's like, want to come to Arizona? I was like, I kind of want to do something, you know, not like usually my friends go like skiing or whatever after crypto.
I kind of want to do something like not not skiing this time. I want to come to Arizona.
I was like, fuck, kind of. And then we have to be out there.
Perfect. So I was like, yeah, let's do it.
Let's drive to Arizona. I love it.
I love it. But yeah, bowl season's back.
I love all the bowls. It's the best.
Just watching games like on a Tuesday afternoon, two teams. You don't know who's playing for what uh and then we also have the college football playoff which I think they they got it right yeah yeah they did you can't because you can't say that you're not going to penalize teams for playing a championship game and then fuck TCU on this one and you have to at least like try to live up to your word and they set the precedent in 2016 when Penn State Max shout, shout out Max, got screwed.
They beat Ohio State head-to-head. They went and beat Wisconsin at the Big Ten Championship game.
We were there. And they put in Ohio State over Penn State because Ohio State had one loss.
Penn State had two. But Penn State had beaten them head-to-head.
That was right there, like, the key. If they're going to do it this year, they're going to do it every year, where if you have two losses, you're not going in over a one loss.
Yeah. Power five team.
Yeah. So I think they got it right.
I think they definitely got it right. And Ohio State, like, I mean, it will be fun to watch Ohio State, like, have another crack at it.
So, I mean, I understand why they kept the teams in the positions that they did, but just for fun, I did want to see a rematch of Michigan and Ohio State. Yeah, but now it could be the final.
Which would be that would be an insane game, but... It's literally all the bragging rights forever.
Yeah. It would be so fucking awesome.
Yeah, the stakes are definitely higher at that point. What? It would? Yeah, no, you're right.
You don't think so? No, I thought you were going to... Yeah, you're right.
What? You're right. Oh, you thought I was going to bring up Duke? No.
I mean, having that in the same... I guess it would be 2023, but having it in the same within 12 months would be unbelievable.
It's good to know that I'm so far inside your head, Hank. That's all you can think about.
When Duke lost to UNC. I mean, it's comparable, isn't it? No, it's very comparable.
And then in the final four. Biggest rivalry in each sport.
They've never played each other in the postseason. Title.
So it's not really comparable. True.
Yeah. Okay.
Billy. My shoes back is the holidays.
I've got other ones, but I'm getting that vibe again It's 20 days That's scary It's 20 days till Christmas I think 13 days You're getting that magic feeling The gift giving season Good question, Hank When is that, really? Kwanzaa starts in...

Is that part of the year where you don't even have to, like...

21 days.

You can just, like, stop doing stuff.

No, no, that's...

Come on.

It's just, like, isn't it fun to get into the holiday spirit?

Right, yeah.

Yeah, mail the fuck in.

See you next year.

Well, the best part about the holidays is if you have an office job,

you basically don't have to do shit in between November 25th

and then, like, January 3rd.

It's just, it's absolutely... If you have an office job, you basically don't have to do shit in between November 25th and then January 3rd.

It's out of office season is what it is.

Deal with it next year.

You know what?

Mule-tied cheer.

I'm going to loop back with them actually after the holidays.

Let's touch base after the holidays.

Things are hectic right now.

Things are crazy.

Everything's crazy. You know how it goes.

Holiday season.

You do the fake like, oh, can we? How about Decembercember like 16th in the afternoon oh that doesn't work for you oh okay well then let's just do it after the holidays yes you throw out a fake date in the middle of december and if that doesn't work it's immediately all right january 10th no business has ever gotten done in between thanksgiving and new year's day no that's one of the first things that the irs looks for in the audit if If you report income from sales or commissions between those time periods, they're like, nah, that's a cap. Yeah, you're lying.
They call you a cap. Holiday season.
Yeah. I like it.
I'm going to pretend like I'm in a Hallmark movie or something. Yeah, yeah.
Try to find the true meaning. You're really talking a big game about your Christmas cheer this year.
I know. I'm feeling it.
You got to bring it. You can't say this and then just not have any sort of season's greetings.
I bought everybody gifts. Wow.
Yeah, this is awesome. We'll give it to you on air.
You'll give it to us. Okay.
We're in the chances that Billy has actually purchased presents. He will eventually.
I have them. I've actually made plans for them.
Bunch of Lucy. You made plans for the gifts? Yep.
And my other who's back is downfield laterals in the Minnesota AAA State Championship. We saw this.
Awesome. Very awesome.
New London Spicer won the game on a downfield lateral. PFT, I think you'd be proud.
The atmosphere in there was unbelievable. Yeah, it was really great.
It was in US Bank. Yeah, it was a really great stadium.
It was like, can you imagine, though, if they had played that game at Dillon in Tennessee, though? No. That probably would have been, like, a little bit better.
I've actually been to way more stadiums than I thought about it. Maybe more.
Six. We sat with six.
I said Division I. Not games that you've played in.
Yeah. Okay.
Come on. Come on.
It was a great downfield lateral. It was.
It was sick. Jake, wrap us up.
My who's back. The Texas Rangers.
Yeah. We had some late breaking news in the MLB front on Friday night.
One of, if not the best pitchers in baseball, Jacob DeGrom has left the New York Mets. One hell never plays five year, one hundred and $185 million contract with the Texas Rangers.

That's a lot of money.

And the winter meetings start this week.

Aaron Judge can make his decision any second.

I'm definitely not freaking out about it.

But anyways.

Oh, I saw this crazy picture earlier.

It was Aaron Judge.

He actually went to the 49ers game, and he was wearing a 49ers uniform.

It is his hometown.

Yeah.

And the picture might have also been from like six years ago.

But it was still him going to a Niners game wearing a Niners uniform. Yeah.
So it's scary. Also, my official Flex of the Year picks for week 15.
Yeah. Because the deadline will be after the next show.
So there's five TBD games for week 15. Apparently, if I read it correctly, there's going to be three Saturday games, a 1, 4, 30, and 8, 15, kind of like Thanksgiving.
So the five TBD games are Dolphins, Bills, Ravens, Browns, Colts, Vikings, Falcons, Saints, Giants, Commanders. So I'm saying the Saturday early game is going to be – I have it in my draft.
Ravens, Browns. Ravens at Browns.
Oh, I disagree. Here's the thing.
They want a standalone Deshaun Watson game? It's either that or you think they're going to take Saints-Falcons? Why wouldn't they take Commanders-Giants? Because that's the Saturday night game. Okay, what's the Saturday afternoon game? Colts-Vikings.
And then they're going to flex. What's the Saturday night game? Giants-Commanders.
And wasn't there another game in there? Yeah, Saints-Falcons.

I'm saying they're going to do Sunday early.

Is there a Bills?

Yeah, Bills-Dolphins is one of those TBD games,

but I'm saying they're going to flex that.

That would be Saturday night.

But I'm saying they're going to flex that to Sunday night.

No, I think that's Saturday night.

Yeah?

No, I don't know.

I think Bills-Dolphins.

Yeah, but Sunday Night Football already has such a big audience.

You might get more of an audience if you do them on Saturday night.

In the regular schedule?

Yeah.

Like Giants Commanders would still get a good draw Sunday night.

Yeah.

There's Eagles, Bears, Lions, Jets, Steelers, Panthers, Cowboys, Jags, Chiefs, Texas.

Oh, Bengals, Bucs.

I feel like that could be the protected.

I'm tweeting it out in the morning. Yeah.
All right. Or tweet it out right now.
Or in the morning. Yeah, in the morning.
All right. Yeah, we'll see.
I just wanted it on the record on the show. Just explain to me, like, using confidence points.
How confident are you in these games? I'd be stunned if Giants, Commanders, or Dolphins, Bills weren't flexing the Sunday Night Football instead of Patriots. We also need to hold you accountable for these.
Yeah, I stink at this. Don't nod.
You're doing a great job. Yeah.
You got your scoregami today. I know.
Have you ever got one? What? A flexed. A lottery ball? Correct.
No. Have you ever gotten a lottery ball? I'm 0 for 2.
You're 0 for... Have you ever gotten a lottery ball, Hank? Yeah.
Right now. You have? Three.
Right now? Three. No, you aren't.
Three. No, you aren't.
I'm going to take 17. I'll take 71.
73 because of total points in tonight's comp. 69.
Love that. Max? 20.
You've ever gotten it? Shout out to Alex, Andy, and Jim. Wait.
Let me check Sebastian. He emailed me.
I'm rooting for Sebastian. Take your money.
By the way, I was looking up the Pete Carroll record against other coaches. No one's really been there long enough to have anything substantial except Jim Harbaugh, and they actually have a huge rivalry going back to college football.
Yeah, Stanford, USC. Sebastian at 63.
No one picked that. All right, I have 71.
Okay, I have 73. Three.
You have three? Oh, you're taking means number? Wow. Wow.
What does that even mean? 47. Oh, bummer.
Not even close. Not even close to close.
You're a fucking loser. 47's a hot number.
We now have a three-way tie for first place. 47 joins 52 and 64 for nine times.
This doesn't count. This doesn't count.
You're a sick fuck. This doesn't count.
McVay owns owns Pete Carroll McVay's like 7-1

Against Pete Carroll

So who does Pete Carroll own?

He doesn't know anything

I guess Jim Barba

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