TCU HC Sonny Dykes, NFL Week 9 Picks And Preview + Dan Snyder is Done!

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Speaker 1 On today's part of my take, we have TCU head coach Sonny Dykes, the undefeated TCU Hornfrogs.

Speaker 1 Great talk with him. Ton of connections with him.
And we talked about his old days with under Mike Leach, hanging out with Dana Holgerson, creating fake plays for the other team,

Speaker 1 talking offensive football. We're going to do NFL picks and preview.
We have to record early because we're going to Chicago for an ad up front.

Speaker 1 So we're going to give some choose your own adventure on the big Houston versus Philly night.

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Speaker 1 Today is Friday, November 4th, and the Philadelphia Phillies have gotten a hit.

Speaker 1 We hope. We hope.

Speaker 1 We hope. Okay, so let's just set the stage.

Speaker 1 We are recording early. Every now and then we have to do this.
We're recording early. We have to fly to Chicago for the ad up fronts.
I'm heading to Keeneland after. Hank, I think, is going to Boston.

Speaker 1 PFT is going around Chicago. So we're recording early.
It's one of the only times that we're recording early. So we figured it's not a clinching game.

Speaker 1 We're going to record late if it was a clinching game. But we're recording early.
So we're choosing our own adventure. I am going to choose to say the Phillies finally got a hit.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's a clinching game if you're talking about Phillies fans' buttholes right now because

Speaker 1 they got owned last night but they got it was the second no-hitter in the history of the World Series they got face fucked they got face was it a face fucking or was it a skull fucking it was they got shoved I think it got I think it's the eye hole I think you got it in your eye hole last night but the good don't mess with mattress max but the good thing about Philadelphia is if they get if they get skull fucked like they're gonna come out and most likely do the skull fucking the next they'll skull fuck you back Max looks like he's about to cry Max legitimately looks like he's about to cry no that's just the cum coming out of of his eye from the skullfucker.

Speaker 1 Dude,

Speaker 1 I'm rooting for Philly, but that was bad, Max. That was bad.
And again,

Speaker 1 it was bad for them the night before. Okay, so let's.
So it happens. So it does.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 To answer your question, I do think that the Phillies come out and they win tonight.

Speaker 1 I think they mash again. All right, so let's go around to predictions,

Speaker 1 and you can add a little editorial to what you think happens in the game. Who's pitching tonight? Synlander's going to shove.
Oh, Verlander. Oh, Verlander never wins.

Speaker 1 Thanks. Wait, Synagard, the guy who used to be on the Mets? Yeah, yeah, he was good for the Mets.
Thor. Yeah, right? He was good for the Mets.
The daddy of Caller Daddy.

Speaker 1 Okay, yeah, he is. He's the daddy.
He's the original daddy.

Speaker 1 I'm going to say Phillies,

Speaker 1 five.

Speaker 1 Astros,

Speaker 1 zero. They get no hit.
Oh, damn. Yeah, I just, I reversed it.
I reversed the no-hitter on their ass. I think it's going to be a one-hitter, big cat.

Speaker 1 I think it's going to be a one-hitter, and I think that it's going to be. He hit you, you hit the floor, though.
That's a two-hitter. That's a two-hitter.
No, it's a four-hitter. You hit them.

Speaker 1 They hit nine. They hit one.
They hit one again. Yeah.
Call the ambulance for Mattress Mac. I think it's going to be...
No, I think it's going to be Phillies 7.

Speaker 1 I think it's going to be a bit of a shootout. Philly's 7 Astros.
As baseball games are called. Yeah, they're going to light up the scoreboard.

Speaker 1 Crooked numbers, as John Smoltz loved to say, all the time. Like, anytime there's more than one run scored, it's going to be up and down.
He smashes the the crooked number button.

Speaker 1 I'm going with Philly 7, Astros 4. Okay, this is, by the way, we are setting ourselves up to be meme to death by Astros fans because they are.
I'm going to say something nice about Astros fans.

Speaker 1 Well, their team is really fucking good, but I feel like they're a very strong online army. Nah.
You don't think so? Not compared to Philadelphia. No, no, no, no.
Philly's a real-life army.

Speaker 1 And online. Yeah, but they're more real-life.
Like, Astros fans, I feel like, would shake your hand in real life.

Speaker 1 Like, if you say the word cheat online, yeah there are people yeah no Astros fans are searching for the word cheat yeah so you almost have to do like the asterisk on the E if you want to talk about it to me online wow

Speaker 1 are people being mean to you Max oh people are very mean no no

Speaker 1 my god not online the the uh the Phillies fans in real life, it's like Joseph Coney's army because you get them started early. They're like mean nine-year-olds out there that will attack you.

Speaker 1 Yeah, those are my guys. Those are my guys.
Those are my

Speaker 1 one together. Do we want Coney to R.I.P? Callback.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Rest in peace. Yeah, no, that's right.
I forgot Hank's a big Cony snake.

Speaker 1 You also were just saying, happy birthday to Darren Sharper, right?

Speaker 1 Oh, Billy, your prediction.

Speaker 1 You should be in the Hall of Fame. Okay, Peter King.

Speaker 1 Give me like $20, Peter King. When the Phillies were going off two games ago and they're like 7-0, I was like, they're going to run out of hits for next game.

Speaker 1 I swear to God, I was thinking it was a game. But they didn't get that many hits.
LeBron football. But they were like...
They ran out of home runs.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they're getting a ton of home runs, but in my brain, I'm like, statistically, that's got to correct. That's LeBron calling the Kobe's 81-point game post-mostly.

Speaker 1 I know, but I didn't want to say it because we're all high on the Phillies, but I didn't want to be negative. So what's your prediction? So my prediction is Philly is going to get hits.

Speaker 1 Astros, how many hits do they have?

Speaker 1 Who? Astros. How many did they have it last? No, no.
Enough.

Speaker 1 More than enough. Well, one is more than enough when you're getting no hitters.
I'm going to guess seven hits.

Speaker 1 Probably more. It's going to be four, five.

Speaker 1 Are you doing hits right now? No, no.

Speaker 1 It's going to be five, four, but I don't know who's going to win. Okay, good prediction, Billy.
Thank you. Jake, someone's got to take the Astros, but I think my guy

Speaker 1 in the suit over there. Pitcher's duel.
2-1, Philly. Oh, come on.
Take the Astros. Someone's got to take the Astros.
5-4, Astros. All right, thank you, Billy.
Thank you, Billy.

Speaker 1 So I like what Jake's going to be.

Speaker 1 We don't want to get memed to death. Because Jake is implying that Verlander goes out there and throws objectively an awesome game, but the narrative continues that he still loses.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And we get to keep calling him a chokeball. Not a shootout.
Verlander's going to stand on his head. I mean, it's not a narrative after the game one.
Like, that was abysmal.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he's

Speaker 1 his teams are one and eight in World Series games. He pitches.
No, he's objectively bad. He's never won a World Series game.
His ERA is not good in the World Series.

Speaker 1 It's not like a narrative out of control. He is bad, but it would be funny if he threw a one-hitter and they lost 1-0 to the Dinger.

Speaker 1 If we really want to laugh at future me, I have the Sports Equinox parlay. It's the last one of the year.
Last sports equinox. Nice.
Sad.

Speaker 1 Sunday, game seven. They pushed it back.
Potentially. Oh, yeah, you're right.
That's a good, that's a good call, Jake. Damn, Jake got you.
Fucking Jake.

Speaker 1 Bruins, Eagles, Phillies, Nuggets, money line. So I got the Phillies.
Yeah, my Nuggets. I think it's going to be...

Speaker 1 I think it's going to be

Speaker 1 Eagles and Phillies, though. I'm riding high with Philly, I believe.
I think it's going to be.

Speaker 1 I think Verland is going to get smoked. I think it's going to be like another shitty game, like 6-2.
Okay.

Speaker 1 And then, Max, are you taking the Astros? You should. I don't like that everyone on this.

Speaker 1 Billy took the Astros. Yeah, that's bad.

Speaker 1 I would have taken the Astros, but I don't have a choice.

Speaker 1 Billy took maybe the Astros. Maybe the Astros.

Speaker 1 5-4 in somebody's Astros. 3-2 in game, something like that.
I want to say this. Anyone calling this a no-hitter, it's not a no-hitter.
Well, they did get a no-hitter. How many hits did you hit?

Speaker 1 But you can't count it as a no-hitter. No hitter.
No, no, no, Max. No, no, no.
I have a simple question. How many hits did the Phillies have last night?

Speaker 1 It's a one-word.

Speaker 1 We can move on after you answer this question. Yes or no?

Speaker 1 It was a hits

Speaker 1 every word that's

Speaker 1 contact with the ball. No hitters is one pitcher.
Let me help you. Their dads hit the ball.
Max. What you're trying to say is, and I agree with this take, a combined no-hitter means less to me.
Yes.

Speaker 1 It means a lot less. But it still is a no-hitter.
But if you're looking at your team's performance,

Speaker 1 they did not any hits. I'm looking at the box clip, and the number that they use under the hit column is, in fact, zero.
All right, we're going to win 18 to three.

Speaker 1 Schwerberg's going to have three. I mean, Schwerber doesn't give a shit.
I don't give a shit. The boys are fine.
We're going to roll it over. It doesn't matter.
New day. New day, 18 to 3, Phillips.

Speaker 1 Okay, so when everyone's listening to this on Friday morning, it's going to be bad. We're going to either be the biggest idiots or the smartest people in the world.

Speaker 1 And then the Eagles are going to roll. We agree.
Yeah, we agree on that one. That was actually the original plan because that we thought this was supposed to be the off day.

Speaker 1 Monday fucked us because we're like, oh, we can, you know, tape early on a Thursday. We were obviously going to tape if it was a clinching game, but you got how many hits did you get last night?

Speaker 1 Uh,

Speaker 1 well, last night we got 27 hits because we scored 18. Oh, yeah, that's right.
This is Friday's show. Yeah, good point.
Good point. 27 hits, 18 runs.

Speaker 1 That would be nice.

Speaker 1 I want to take three walks. Yeah, three walks.
That's true. That's true.
He's got on base. Yeah.
You probably would have gotten hits if they hadn't walked.

Speaker 1 The pitchers just, they were like, you know what? Let's just get them on base. Schwerber also hit a ball down the line, and I want to say like the fourth inning that I thought was a fair ball.

Speaker 1 And if that's a fair ball, Brandon Marsh is on first. He scores.
It's an accident. We win the game.
It was a foul ball. Schwerberg may have been a foul ball, but he's like bats.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Schwerber had great at bats. Great at bats.

Speaker 1 It's a game of inches.

Speaker 1 That ball is a little bit to the left. It's a foul ball, Max.
I know, but like that, you can't.

Speaker 1 He lose loser talk right now. I know, I know.
I got a big jam in the second inning. It's all right.

Speaker 1 They won game five. They won game five.
So we're good. Sure, they won five.
All right, so Eagles are going to win easy. Most of us have the Phillies.

Speaker 1 Before we start talking about the NFL week nine preview, PFT, obviously big news for you. Dan Snyder is going to finally

Speaker 1 maybe sell the team. It's not official, official, but it feels very official.

Speaker 1 I've talked to enough people behind the scenes to know that Dan Snyder is, in fact, going to sell the Washington Commanders.

Speaker 1 Yesterday was no joke, the second best sports day of my entire life. I thought about it.
As a DC sports fan, number one, Capitol Stanley Cup.

Speaker 1 This is number two. Snyder selling the team is number two.
The World Series was awesome and it was fun.

Speaker 1 The Nationals had been a team since 2004, so it's not like I grew up going to the games every day.

Speaker 1 I still love the team. The World Series is three.
And then this is without a doubt number two.

Speaker 1 I've been smiling all day. I popped champagne yesterday.

Speaker 1 I'm thinking about the possibilities. It just feels like I can finally, I'm free now.

Speaker 1 Genie, you're free to be able to root for a team with my whole heart. And fuck Dan Snyder.

Speaker 1 I hope he goes to prison, which it looks like he might actually go to prison. That would be sad.
So what happened was the announcement came that he was talking to Bank of America.

Speaker 1 And then about eight hours later, the announcement came out that the federal government was investigating him. I'm sure that had nothing to do with each other.
No, that's just a coincidence.

Speaker 1 It was a coincidence. But Snyder, he said he was never going to sell.
He is, in fact, selling the team. I don't care who buys a team.
It could be literally anyone.

Speaker 1 They're probably better than Dan Snyder as an owner. So

Speaker 1 I'm finally super excited. You know, I've been waiting for this moment.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 I've talked about it incessantly, probably to the point where people are like, it's never going to happen. You're Charlie Brown with the football again.

Speaker 1 But this time, it's actually going to happen, and I could not be happier. I'm so fucking pumped.
It's crazy

Speaker 1 that

Speaker 1 it's crazy that it happened that way where it's like I thought he would go to jail first and then like in even in jail like a mafia boss still be running the team.

Speaker 1 I would say never he it felt like he was never going to lose grip of this fucking team and then to just see it just tweeted out like he's hired Bank of America. They're going to sell the team.

Speaker 1 It's like, wait, really? For a while, I was thinking that he was trying to bofo us because like that's every every report was like he's he's talking to Bofo.

Speaker 1 He's talking to to bofa and if snyder had actually done a press conference be like i have yes it the rumors are true i am talking with bofa bofa these nuts i'm never selling the team fuck you i would have respected that

Speaker 1 yeah i would have respected that and i would have been like touche dan and the the thing is i always thought that i would die after or i would die before dan snyder yeah because he's a billionaire he's probably got that good money that'll get him the 10x stuff and have his blood researched and all that and he would die at like 120 i would die at like 80 80.

Speaker 1 Dan Snyder would still own the team. And I honestly thought I would never live to see a day where he was not the owner of the team.
And now it looks like it's going to happen. I am making an offer.

Speaker 1 I'm about to call my relationship banker at Bank of America. I'm a preferred customer.
Yep. I'm going to offer my life savings.
I'll match it. You want to match it? Yeah, I'll match it.

Speaker 1 Okay, so we'll get the ball rolling. Hank, you want to double?

Speaker 1 Who the fuck do you think I am? Yeah, okay. All right, so it's official.

Speaker 1 Part of my take has made the first official offer to purchase the Washington Commanders for my life savings, matched by Big Cat, doubled by Hank. Can I throw my 401k in there? Yes.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yes, you can. I have a 401k from like three jobs ago that I forgot about.
I do, too. I think there's like 15 grand in there.
Yep. I'll throw that in as well.

Speaker 1 I'll put all the money I put towards top shots. Okay.
Oh, you'll have everything.

Speaker 1 I'll just

Speaker 1 relocate my account. I'll sell my Xbox.

Speaker 1 You will? Yep. I'll sell my Xbox One.
That's huge.

Speaker 1 I will sell

Speaker 1 my ownership in the Green Bay Packers as well. Okay.
So looks conflict of interest. This is a lot we're offering.
Wait, wait, why don't we just take it? They can have my water dog steak.

Speaker 1 Mine, too.

Speaker 1 Why don't we just borrow those assets? Yeah, we can. We can borrow everything.
Can we trade? Yeah, we trade the water dogs. I'll give you 3% of the water dogs.
I'll throw my Swansea.

Speaker 1 I'll throw in the Water Dogs.

Speaker 1 I'll throw it all in. I'll throw it all in.
Yeah, we own a lot of stuff. I'm basically giving Dan Snyder three other teams to ruin.
That's a three-for-one trade.

Speaker 1 I actually, if we pick the one guy in fantasy who's like, give me Patrick Mahomes and I'll give you like four, I'll give you like Kadarius, Tony, and a backup running back.

Speaker 1 The meanest thing that you could ever do is to trade the New Zealand Breakers to Dan Snyder, and then he goes and ruins their entire team. Yeah, well, that's listen, different time zone.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's true. So basically, I'm on Cloud 9 right now.
I could not be happier than I am, and I'm just super pumped.

Speaker 1 And then I started to think about what the possible owners would be in the future. People are talking about Bezos.
Get Bezos in there. I want Bezos.

Speaker 1 Bezos would be an electric owner to have like one of the richest people in the world running a team. And

Speaker 1 you probably could only use the bathroom once a game if you went to it. And he'd have like a supervisor making sure that you weren't taking extra breaks.
Yep.

Speaker 1 The only thing I'm a little bit nervous about that I don't think I can do mental gymnastics to get around is what if like, what if MBS and the Live Tour, the Saudi money comes in like Newcastle and buys the team.

Speaker 1 You just got to do it.

Speaker 1 They might be better than Dan Snyder. Listen, Dan Snyder, to be fair, Dan Snyder hates the Washington Post exactly as much as MBS does.
Right. But he just doesn't have the balls to pull it off.
Right.

Speaker 1 So I mean, I'm very, very happy for you. It's incredible that it's finally happening.

Speaker 1 There is like a...001% of my brain that's still nervous that he's just going to be like, we've done the due diligence. Like there's a stalling tactic.

Speaker 1 It's very small percent, but I don't want to see you get hurt again where he's like, yeah,

Speaker 1 we did the paperwork. We went out to bid and nah.
You know what? $5 billion isn't enough.

Speaker 1 That's what I was thinking when this. This is such an evil fucking piece of shit.

Speaker 1 When they were talking about selling the, or when they were talking about renaming the team a couple years ago, he put together a commission to study whether or not the name was offensive.

Speaker 1 It would have been very funny if he had come back and be like, yeah, our commission found out the name's not offensive. Right.
So we're going to stick with Redskins. Yes.

Speaker 1 There's a possibility that whoever buys a team next could rebrand the name again, which is kind of funny. Go back to football team.
Go back to football team. The football team was.

Speaker 1 the red hogs. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So it's just, I'm excited for what the future has to offer. And Dan Snyder has always been a piece of shit.
I don't, it's not a recent thing for anybody that's paid attention.

Speaker 1 He got his money by scamming people that didn't speak English and forcing them to switch their long distance service. He's just a bad, bad human being.

Speaker 1 And I hope nothing but the worst things happen to him and his future.

Speaker 1 Jail bitch.

Speaker 1 I hope he dies in prison. Yeah.
After a jail bitch. I hope he lives a long life in prison, getting to watch how happy I am.
And yeah, we're going to do a parade in D.C. when he sells the team.

Speaker 1 We're going to take a lap around the beltway. I love it.
It's going to be... This is my Super Bowl.
I love it.

Speaker 1 I'm very... Yeah, man,

Speaker 1 I haven't stopped smiling since yesterday morning. It's awesome.
It's awesome. Freedom.
Freedom.

Speaker 1 You are William Wallace. You have freedom.

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Speaker 1 Okay. Week nine, boys, halfway point.
We're week nine. Don't say that.

Speaker 1 This slate sucks,

Speaker 1 but it doesn't because it's still football. But if we're going to judge it, like there's,

Speaker 1 it was very clear before the season

Speaker 1 when you look at the, I think how it works is basically CBS and Fox get a couple dates every year where they can have like only one other game in their time slot, a premier afternoon game.

Speaker 1 And before the season, they're like Rams Bucks week nine, not realizing that both teams suck. But we're going to do it week nine.

Speaker 1 Jake, what are the standings? We have a lot of movements. We're bad.
We're really bad. We have a lot of movement.
Big cat, you're still in first place at 16 and 16. Nice.

Speaker 1 And then we have a three-way tie for second, third, and fourth. Hank is riding an 0-8 stretch rider.
Oh, no.

Speaker 1 Are you riding it? Oh, no.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Hank, you just turned your mic on like you were going to say something. No? Okay.
So, 0-8. 16-16, Big Cat.
Me,

Speaker 1 PFT are a little hot. So, we're at 13 and 19 with Hank at 13 and 19, Billy at 12 and 20, and Max at 11 and 21.

Speaker 1 Max went 0-4 as well. We've had an 0-4 every week.
We are bad, bad. You're 0-8 in your last eight.

Speaker 1 I've been there. Yeah, so you can check out Hank's Sports Equinox parlay that he has.

Speaker 1 Okay. I can't wait till that fucking hits.
Well, my nuggets are going to bring it home. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay, so let's do some picks. Let's talk about some games.
Let's preview the week.

Speaker 1 We'll start with favorites. And Hank, you want to get us going and we'll talk about every game and what we got going on? Yeah, I'm going to take the Green Bay Packers as my favorite.
Ooh. Wow.

Speaker 1 The Lions,

Speaker 1 I bet they're three and a half point favorites. They are 0-5 in their last five games in Detroit, which is kind of a surprising stat against the spread.
Against the spread.

Speaker 1 The Lions are in every game. I bet them every game.
They seem to be covering every game, and then they lose. Like, that has pretty much been the Lions.
I feel like the last two years have been,

Speaker 1 you bet them, underdogs, I usually do. They're winning the game, and you're like, oh, and usually by like 10 points, you're like, oh, you know, they got this locked up.

Speaker 1 And then in the fourth quarter, they just collapse and lose by 10. Right.
And I've been thinking about it because it does feel like Dan Campbell,

Speaker 1 you know, the Lions season started with a little bit of optimism, playing fun games. They are 0-4 in their last four against the spread.

Speaker 1 It feels like, you know, like Dan Campbell could have at least hung his hat on being like, yeah, we covered the spread. We're very close every game.
They have not been very close every game recently.

Speaker 1 This game is basically, if the Packers have any chance of being a playoff team, making a run, they have to wamp them. Like, their offense has to look great against the Lions on Sunday.

Speaker 1 I think the Lions have been, they've been competitive against the spread. Like, they might

Speaker 1 0-4.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but they're competitive against the spreadsheets. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, they're close to it.
Like, they are probably covering spreads in the fourth quarter. Yes.

Speaker 1 Like, if there was a win probability, but it was covering probability, like, in the fourth quarter, it's probably high, and then it just falls off a cliff. Extremely high.
That's the problem.

Speaker 1 With the exception of that Patriots game.

Speaker 1 The one against the Cowboys, where it was 24-6,

Speaker 1 they should have covered that. It was 10-6 going into the

Speaker 1 four going in. Their cover probability was like Atlanta Falcons.
That was like 28 to 3 collapse that they had. And against the Dolphins, they should have covered that game, too.

Speaker 1 I love them against the Packers. I think Aaron Rodgers, he's got COVID thumb.
Have you seen, like, he's very upset about his thumb right now. He's like, my thumb's not getting any better.

Speaker 1 It's getting worse, in fact. I think that this is, like, it's not a fluke that Aaron Rodgers sucks right now.

Speaker 1 If he wants to, this is a perfect excuse for him. Just be like, yeah, my thumb is extremely.
The doctor said that he's never seen a worse thumb than mine in my life.

Speaker 1 And the fact that the Packers, too, like,

Speaker 1 it's hard for me to criticize because they've won for so long and they've been competitive for so long. But I know the Packers fans are so mad that they did nothing on the trading deadline.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 Like that.

Speaker 1 And the Bears did take Chase Claypool from them. Like, that was the story that came out that basically the Packers were offering their second-round pick, and the Bears are like, all right,

Speaker 1 we'll give you ours instead of the Ravens. It's smart.
Like, that's what the 49ers did with Christian McCaffrey, McCaffrey, too. If you find out that your division rival is going for a person,

Speaker 1 you can offer a little bit more because not only are you getting that player, but your opponent isn't getting that player. Right.

Speaker 1 Packers also worst start since 2006.

Speaker 1 And the last six times the Packers have gone three and five or worse since 1990, they've missed the playoffs.

Speaker 1 So this is the, like, if they win this game and they win it easily, I think that we'll be sitting here on Monday being like, okay, watch out for the Packers. They can make a little run.

Speaker 1 If they struggle here here offensively against a really bad defense,

Speaker 1 it's official that their offense is completely, completely broken.

Speaker 1 Because it's been broken, but it's like, this is the get-right spot. I like the Lions straight up.
Okay.

Speaker 1 That's your favorite. Max, your favorite?

Speaker 1 Bucs minus three.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 1 Yes. Stop it.
That's not my pick, but that is going to be one of my picks.

Speaker 1 I was making fun of you about the Bucs last week.

Speaker 1 They have to. They have to win this game and the Rams tank.

Speaker 1 Don't you think that McVay still has it in the back of his head every time he plays against Brady, like, I want to beat the fuck out of this guy? Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 1 But I so I think the reports of McVay just running away once once this current team goes away. The last dance.

Speaker 1 That's bad, bad sports coach. That's some bad juju going into this game.
Yeah. That's fucked up.
It's crazy because

Speaker 1 they both suck in almost the exact same way. Their offensive lines are just both terrible.
I think the Bucs' offensive line is slightly less terrible.

Speaker 1 Do you know the Rams are on their fifth right guard? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Fifth.

Speaker 1 Fifth right guard. They're on their third center and their fifth right guard.
And their left tackle is, is it still the backup or is it the third stream?

Speaker 1 I was looking at it last night. I don't know if it's a tweet from maybe a week ago.

Speaker 1 So it was their second left tackle, their second left guard, their third center, their fifth right guard, and still the same right tackle. Yeah.
I mean, that's insane. Their fifth, like,

Speaker 1 are there five dudes that you can find? I know that they've been switching around too, so some guys have been like back up somewhere else.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you start to take like backup centers and move them to the guards. It's just insane.
The other stat I had, this is, we, Jake, can you please remind me this? Because we always forget it.

Speaker 1 The Tom Brady day versus night thing is very real, and he is old. And so, since he's gone to the Bucs, he's 22 and 12 against the spread at daytime, and he's 2-11 against the spread at nighttime.

Speaker 1 So we got to just make sure we never bet on Tom Brady at night again. So that means next week when we set the clocks back,

Speaker 1 that means that it's going to fuck him up real bad. Yeah, it's going to fuck him up real quick.
So this is the last week that you can bet on him before the clocks get set up. Yes.

Speaker 1 What about morning? Because that's what they're going. Oh, yeah.
Oh, Germany? He's going to be all fucked up. Oh, by the way, a lot of people came up with a good idea.
Oktoberfest. Oh, that's good.

Speaker 1 Oktoberfest. I like that.

Speaker 1 This is not my pick, but Max, I will be betting on the Bucs. I can't.
I am so pot committed now that,

Speaker 1 and

Speaker 1 I was looking at it last night. It's like, hey, you know that the old drill tweet? Like, someone helped me with my finances, and it's like $10,000 for candles every month.

Speaker 1 It's like, why am I so bad at gambling? Oh, the Bucs are 0-6 in their last six against the spread. There you go.
Yeah. So that's why.

Speaker 1 Because I keep fucking thinking I'm buying at the lowest and it keeps getting lower. They can't lose everyone.

Speaker 1 But they could. Nah.
But they could because they have.

Speaker 1 They stink now.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 Okay. PFT, your favorite? My favorite is the Rams.
No. Oh, sorry.
The underdog is the Rams. My favorite is going to be.

Speaker 1 I'm going to go with the Dolphins. Ooh.
Okay.

Speaker 1 No disrespect. No, I mean, the Bears' defense is very, very bad.
I don't know how they're going to guard all those guys.

Speaker 1 Two guys on two guys in this game. What? It's going to be a guy-off.
Tua and Tuan and Justin Fields. Yeah.
Listen, I'm very clear about what I do not care about wins and losses right now.

Speaker 1 As long as Justin Fields keeps looking. I read a long article about how they finally, I think I alluded to this, but they admitted that they stole plays from the Ravens, like what took you so long.

Speaker 1 And everything they're doing with Justin Fields now has opened up how he sees the field because he's a weapon running and they're actually using him as a weapon running. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Are you allowed to double down on games or do they have to be all four different ones?

Speaker 1 People have doubled up on the game. Okay, so I'll just say this is also going to be my over.
Yes, my over and Dolphins. I think the Dolphins are probably going to get the over by themselves.

Speaker 1 45 and a half.

Speaker 1 There is supposed to be a little weather, but who the fuck cares? I don't think the Bears could stop it. No, I think that the Bears' offense will continue to improve.

Speaker 1 I think that Big Cat's going to get enough out of this game to be encouraged. That's all I want.
And I think the defense is just going to get gashed.

Speaker 1 The only stat against the Dolphins, and this one makes sense, and also like this is why we suck at gambling.

Speaker 1 Teams off a 20-point loss are 66 and 48 against the spread, which makes sense because you see a team suck and you're like, well, they suck forever. But usually they don't.
The Raiders

Speaker 1 are in the same boat this week where they lost by more than 20 points and you're like, they're dead. They stink.
And then, of course, they'll probably come back.

Speaker 1 I just think this game is going to look a lot like, think about what happened last week with the Cowboys and the Bears. This is going to be the same game, except worse, I think.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 It definitely has that possibility. As long as he plays well, though, I don't.
Everything else. Chase Claypool wearing Mitch's number kind of fucked up.
I thought we'd retire it, but that's okay.

Speaker 1 You know what you need? You need somebody find a connection between Chase Claypool and Justin Fields. Well, there's.
And let me know, like, what happened? Did they ever cross paths at the same

Speaker 1 elite camp or something like that?

Speaker 1 There is the connection, Cole Komet and Chase Claypool, both Notre Dame guys, and there's a clip that's been in Bears' Twitter where after the Bears and Steelers played Monday Night Football last year, they're like, we've got to find a way to link up.

Speaker 1 Okay, that's good. Yeah, pretty much.
That's a start. I would like to see something like, I don't know, maybe Justin Fields and Chase Claypool met each other when they were getting recruited.

Speaker 1 There's a picture of them on the sidelines of the game. Show me that there's some connection.
They might have played,

Speaker 1 I think Notre Dame lost to Clemson that year.

Speaker 1 I don't think they played in a big playoff game against each other.

Speaker 1 But my memory is shit. Okay, my favorite.
I'm going to go with the Chargers minus three.

Speaker 1 And I have an insane stat for you guys. Against Atlanta.

Speaker 1 Against Atlanta. Do you know that teams that play the Panthers the next week, they're 0-7?

Speaker 1 I did not. The Panthers beat the shit out of teams.
I did not.

Speaker 1 Every team that's played the Panthers the following week, they lose their next game, including so much so the Rams played the Panthers in week six.

Speaker 1 They had a bye week, and they still lost their next game week eight. What is it about the Panthers?

Speaker 1 So the teams that beat the Panthers, are they covering the spread against the Panthers before they lose?

Speaker 1 Some are, yeah.

Speaker 1 I don't think they've been horrendous against the spread, but

Speaker 1 even the Browns, week one, beat the Panthers, and then week two, the Crazy Jets game, the comeback.

Speaker 1 So no matter what, when you play the Panthers the following week, you lose.

Speaker 1 Either you get beaten up by them and you're still sore going to the next game, or they're just so bad that you think that this is what NFL football is like. And so then you lose that extra high gear.

Speaker 1 It's a weird stat. I'm just going to run.
That's one of my favorite weird stats that clearly has no actual correlation. It's just a random thing, but

Speaker 1 riding random stats is fun. You beat Matt Rule and you're like, wow, the NFL is really easy.
Every coach is like this. And then, nope.

Speaker 1 Also, Justin Herbert is incredible in Eastern and Central time zone. I don't know what that's about, but I just like time zone, especially because we're changing the clocks next week.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he's traveling, though. He's traveling.
You can always just say that somebody's traveling east, and that's the reason that you're not betting on them.

Speaker 1 It's helpful to know when they are, in fact, good at traveling east. Yeah, he's good at traveling east.
So, and this game is going to be,

Speaker 1 it's a, this was my second over that I was thinking about taking because the Chargers suck against the run and the Falcons suck against the pass.

Speaker 1 So both teams should be able to score all day, which means they'll probably go under. Yeah, I have the under in this one.
Yeah, okay, all right. Billy, your favorite.

Speaker 1 I'm going Vikings by three and a half over Washington. Come on, Billy.
Boo. Look.
Boo. This is ultimately.
I'm high on the Vikings. I'm high on the Vikings.
This is the ultimate revenge game. I know.

Speaker 1 We got Kirk Cousins coming back. He's going to ask him about it.
Kevin O'Connell coming back. Yeah, we got Hawkinson coming in.
Kirk Cousins never played for a team with a five-game winning streak.

Speaker 1 Well, it doesn't matter.

Speaker 1 They're on a five-game winning streak. I know.
Doesn't matter. So he's never had a six-game winning streak.

Speaker 1 Right. But guess what? They got tape on Heineke now.
They're going to be able to dictate his movements. There's no more surprises.

Speaker 1 That's the thing about Heineke is: no, it's all surprises. Yeah, it is.
The entire playbook. He surprises himself.
The entire playbook is a surprise. Right.

Speaker 1 I do have a stat that will back you up, Billy, if you're ready for this.

Speaker 1 Kirk Cousins at FedEx Field in his career is 14 and 15 against the spread. So

Speaker 1 he's clearly going to cover. Because he has to go 15 and 15 against the spread.
That's the most Kirk Cousins thing ever. It would be.
He's 14 and 15 going into this game.

Speaker 1 The most Kirk Cousins thing ever would be exactly 500 against the spread. Yeah.
At FedEx Field. Counterpoint, we're wearing our black uniforms to remind him of

Speaker 1 the counterpoint.

Speaker 1 And also, we're wearing the black uniforms. And for the first time, I think, in the history of the team, we're doing a blackout where they're asking all the fans to wear black to a 1 p.m.

Speaker 1 game, which is that's usually a nighttime thing, isn't it? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we're doing it, I think, in the middle of the afternoon to remind Kirk Cousins of a primetime game, I think. So it's psychological warfare.

Speaker 1 This is serious stuff.

Speaker 1 Counterpoint. New ownership means the coaching staff's probably all going to get fired.
Guys are working on their resumes, not watching tape. But he's not going to sell the team for like three years.

Speaker 1 Right, but still. This shit takes a while.
Well, our offer is in cash. Yeah, that is true.
So it's a clean transaction. In stock and teams.
Yes.

Speaker 1 But it's still, it's relatively clean. We don't need to like borrow debt or anything.
We got to rob the IRA.

Speaker 1 I'm unfortunately in the camp that I think the Vikings are just going to keep winning games so that people just keep getting mad at us.

Speaker 1 And knowing that we'll eventually, it will pay off for us, but we're going to have to deal with Vikings fans coming for our neck for a while. That's fine.
Yeah. That's fine.
Let the band play neck.

Speaker 1 I'm fine with that.

Speaker 1 I actually think that if you just go off of what will make part of my take look like the biggest idiots, which has generally been a good bet in the history of this podcast, the Vikings are probably going to smash the command.

Speaker 1 Smash it. And Kirk's going to have like the game of his life, and then I'm going to miss him because I do secretly miss having Kirk Cousins when you look at the other stuff I put up with.

Speaker 1 It's going to be... I think it's not a bad bet to bet on the Vikings this weekend, I'll be honest with you.
Vikings fan, let it be known that I am pro-Vikings. Oh, yeah, we've been born.

Speaker 1 Well, that's because Kirk Cousins, you look like him. No, Billy just digs Norse mythology.
I just like Culver's. Oh, okay.
Yeah,

Speaker 1 cool. You could be a Packer fan then, too.

Speaker 1 Yeah, same thing. A Bears fan? Well, Culver's is like...

Speaker 1 It's

Speaker 1 only a lot of places. Yeah, it's not the only one.
Okay.

Speaker 1 Billy does, in fact, listen to Viking chants in the car when he's driving places. Yeah.
It's kind of cool. Okay, Jake, your favorite? I'm taking the New England Patriots.

Speaker 1 Minus five and a half of home against the Indianapolis Colts, Sam Ellinger's. First road start.
Belichick is just going to.

Speaker 1 This is going to be one of those games where it's like Belichick still has his fastball. The flickgate revenge game.
Yeah, that's it.

Speaker 1 The rivalry is back on.

Speaker 1 He is 14-0 straight up against rookie QBs at home. Yeah, I think it...
I don't know if Pay Kits will be able to score, but I could see like a 20-6 game.

Speaker 1 I agree with that stat. I am counting Ellinger as a rookie QB.
He is a first-year quarterback. Yeah.
He is. This is his first.
He didn't start last year.

Speaker 1 So this is, yeah, I mean, Billy just keeps getting into these one-on-one put my reputation on the line type games. Now you're going up against Hank.
It's big.

Speaker 1 Billy, if you're two weeks in a row.

Speaker 1 They're not going to, but if the Colts did somehow miraculously win this game, you've got to write a blog redrafting that draft class and just put Sam Ellinger first. Oh, yeah.
I can't believe

Speaker 1 so many people didn't put Ellinger even in any of those conversations. It's weird.
I saw one of them, David Carr. A lot of them are just, they just redraft the first round.
That's why.

Speaker 1 David Carr had him higher than Mac Jones. Really? And I got mad.
You got mad. Yeah.
Yeah. But I'm saying if the Colts win, you got to put him first.

Speaker 1 Yeah, this is.

Speaker 1 I think if the Colts win, you got to count this as the Jets win over the Patriots. Oh, 100%.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I mean, but on the other hand, Hank could go on a little two-game winning streak of defeating all your favorite quarterbacks. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Honestly, I actually watched a tape from Sam Ellinger play-by-play every snap he took, and he looked amazing. Really? He was amazing? No, the way he was.
He was amazing.

Speaker 1 The way he was able to scramble and hit guys in in stride, right? Amazing is a big word, though.

Speaker 1 I think the word you're looking for is he looked better than the Jets. No, but if you, I mean, the final drive, he hit two guys in stride and

Speaker 1 one of them dropped them and could have won the game if it wasn't for a drop. Like, he's a gamer, bro.
A gamer. He's like what you think Heineke is.
Oh, no, don't even say that. He's like, wow.

Speaker 1 He is what you think Heineke is. Who won? Remind me, because I think those two quarterbacks have played recently.
Who won? Right. But, you know.
Oh, yeah, that's right. It was six days ago.

Speaker 1 It was a point difference, and there was different variables. Yeah, listen, I'm just saying, like, don't, don't besmirch Taylor Heine.
He didn't do anything to you.

Speaker 1 I know, I actually think he's chill as fuck. Yeah, he is chill as fuck.
All right, your favorite

Speaker 1 underdog, Hank. Left hand up.
Yeah, commanders.

Speaker 1 I almost did the commanders, but that Kirk Cousins stat scared me off because he is the most 500 quarterback of all time. Yeah,

Speaker 1 he's just going to come in and beat me. I just know that.
No, but the Kirk Cousins stat that he's never had a five-game winning streak. He's just going to revert.
Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 1 And it's like, you know, there's the

Speaker 1 interim coach effect in football, more college football, but

Speaker 1 interim owner. How many times does that happen? You keep saying interim.
Interim. Interim.
Interim. Interim.
Wait, Hank, do you know

Speaker 1 interim?

Speaker 1 Interim. What do you mean? Internally.
You said interim? Intermally? Interim. Yeah.

Speaker 1 We do have to hire an interim this summer.

Speaker 1 I like interim better, actually. Imterm Billy.

Speaker 1 Tom Brady never had an 18-winning streak, and he then, you know, he never got a 19. So I understand.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's a good point.

Speaker 1 Got him.

Speaker 1 Also, didn't he.

Speaker 1 Wasn't there a stretch that they won like

Speaker 1 23, actually, I think. I think they won 22.
I think they won a Super Bowl and then

Speaker 1 2003 to 2004. I think they won like 23 games in a row.
Not the same season.

Speaker 1 If I had to in-season streaks. In-season streaks.
Okay. No one's ever had a 24-game

Speaker 1 winning streak. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Think about that. But no, wait.
If you're talking about in-season, then you can't count the post-season. You have to roll over to the next regular season.
Yeah, 23 in a row.

Speaker 1 And once they got 21 in a row. And once 18 in a row.
Oh, Jesus. Must be nice.

Speaker 1 Okay, so you have the command. Got him, though.
Piccad, imagine that if

Speaker 1 over the last 10 years

Speaker 1 of life. No, but twice

Speaker 1 three winning streaks, separate winning streaks of over 16 games. 23 23 games in a row, 23 happy Sundays in a row.
That's stupid. That's insane.
That is insane. Max, your favorite underdog.

Speaker 1 Seahawks plus two against Cardinals. I'm on that with you.
One and a half. I hate the Cardinals.

Speaker 1 The Seahawks might actually just be good.

Speaker 1 Geno Smith, offensive player of the month for the NFC. They are.
Oh, wait, the Colts have the longest with 23. Oh, the Patriots have 21.

Speaker 1 So it's Patriots. Yeah, all right.
Revenge game. The 21 was 2003, 2004.

Speaker 1 The Seahawks. My bad.
You know, we don't do nerd stats on this show, but DVOA, which I never understand, but I know it means something.

Speaker 1 The Seahawks and the Bills are the only two teams with top 11 offense, defense, and special teams DVOA. They might actually just be good.

Speaker 1 DVOA is one of those stats that I also don't know what goes into it, but I know that... only smart people use it and know what they're talking about.

Speaker 1 And I completely throw it out there and don't pay attention to it unless it's like they're number one or number two. Right.
And so I agree. I think the Seahawks are actually just a good football team.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 I think that the Cardinals are just an extremely stupid football team. They suck.
I think they're stupid. It's so clear that Cliff Kingsbury is getting fired.

Speaker 1 I mean, the minute that Kyler Murray yelled at him on the sideline, like, I don't know. I know they'll say, like, oh, that's just football.
We're just angry. We both want to win.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Doesn't feel that way.

Speaker 1 Okay, PFT, your favorite underdog? The Lions?

Speaker 1 I do like the Lions. I'm taking them straight up, but I didn't have them.
I have the Jets, actually. Ooh.
I have the Jets in this one. I like this.
It's a lot of points. They're at home.

Speaker 1 Billy endorses it. Yeah, they're at home.
Yeah, they're at home. Yeah, they're at home.
12 and a half.

Speaker 1 Secondaries, shot. Yeah, what are we at, Jake? Who?

Speaker 1 Bills? 12.5 against the Bills. Do you think Zach Wilson will be taking advantage of that?

Speaker 1 So, Zach Wilson, I mean,

Speaker 1 Josh Allen commented that in his second second year he threw three picks against the Patriots, and that's when he really got it together. I think this might be that next step.
And total trap game.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's a trap game. Total trap game.
I agree with that.

Speaker 1 I love how most of Billy's stats about Zach Wilson for the last two years have been like, well, he just threw four interceptions last week, so he probably won't do that again.

Speaker 1 Well, basically, his problem was he was getting bored of throwing the ball away. Yeah.
That's why he threw all those picks. Yes, true.

Speaker 1 No, but seriously, I don't think he'll get to throw the check downs. He's not going to be as bored this week.

Speaker 1 When you're getting rushed like that, he just basically needs to work on being a game manager because he can be a playmaker, as he showed in the last game. Here's why I think the Jets played.

Speaker 1 He showed that in the Patriots game? Yeah, did you see? That one touchdown. He threw two touchdowns.
He threw more touchdowns than

Speaker 1 Mac Jones. Right.
The Jets scored more touchdowns than the Patriots.

Speaker 1 Where are you at, though, with him overall? Because I do think the Jets are a good football team, and it does feel like Zach Wilson's the one holding them back.

Speaker 1 He just, it's a basically, bro, like, I know it's boring.

Speaker 1 wait this is it wait wait hold on this is bro to bro yeah dude this is a bro to bro speech billy football bro to bro all right go bro you know 23 year old in the workforce no one like you me billy you're talking to zach look

Speaker 1 okay 23 year old in the workforce sometimes not everything's going to come fast you got to be patient and we are making mistakes together and you know 23 year olds in the workforce sometimes bro to bro to bro gotta be patient Sometimes you still got to eat the hot sauce.

Speaker 1 You know, one day maybe you won't have to eat the hot sauce, but right now, you got to eat the hot sauce and throw the ball away. It sucks.
I just want to bet. That was a very good speech.

Speaker 1 We'll call it in the workforce. I don't know workforce.

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Speaker 1 I was going to say something mean, but I'm not going to. What were you going to say? I was going to say, Max is going tonight.
It's going to be great. Oh, that was fucked.

Speaker 1 I said I wasn't going to say it. Yeah, that's true.
Why'd you have to catch? He caught a stray. Come on.
Yeah, I didn't say it. He didn't say it.
He said he was going to say.

Speaker 1 You did say it, though. Oh, he didn't.
He did say it. He said he was going to say it.
Wait, Hank said it? No, he said he was going to. He didn't say it.
Yeah, Hank was going to say. He didn't say it.

Speaker 1 Hank was going to say it. No, but the words came out of his mouth.
Oh, so it's like a difference between a no-hitter and just not getting any hits.

Speaker 1 Doesn't count. Yeah.

Speaker 1 No hitters. All right, so yeah, so then Hank's saying it doesn't count, right? Okay, so what does Zach Wilson have to do this game for you to...

Speaker 1 You're not even out on him. No, no.
Well, you kind of are because you're in on Sam. No, I'm not actually.
You said you'd rather have Sam. I think he could actually take big steps this game.

Speaker 1 You said you'd rather have Sam. Just a big step game? Well, because he kind of made big steps last game by making big throws and creating plays.

Speaker 1 Now he just needs to figure out the balance of trying to make big plays and also trying to be a game manager. And reading the highlights.
Like, he's the complete opposite.

Speaker 1 So which one is he supposed to do? He's supposed to fit the balance. Billy, you're...

Speaker 1 Listen, I've been through the guy thing a long time, but when you have to bash other guys to prop up your guy, it's never

Speaker 1 like...

Speaker 1 It doesn't really help your argument. Like, well, Mac Jones stinks.
No, no, but that doesn't make Zach Ross. The thing is good.

Speaker 1 I wrote about this in my blog.

Speaker 1 The thing is, quarterbacks with great arms and who are able to make great plays it's hard for them to be game managers but that is a way better problem than a game manager who can't make plays like the guy is so capable of throwing absolute bombs and dimes that when he can't and has to make the start decision and not make a gigantic play you can't cage a song

Speaker 1 yeah you can't you know you gotta let but he needs to figure out it's like training a dog instead of putting a dog in a cage like he's got to know when to come back okay so there's a lot of stuff said about Zach Wilson there that I don't all I'm gonna say is

Speaker 1 knowing how you need to be managed at work and how you just tried to manage Zach Wilson, he's going to be pissed at you because you're telling him to do two different things right now.

Speaker 1 No, I'm telling him to do, like, go make the big plays, but

Speaker 1 just also don't make the bad plays. Well, which one do you want, Billy? Billy, this actually is a good strategy.

Speaker 1 I sent a message to Ryan Poles,

Speaker 1 the Bears GM. I said, in the upcoming draft, it's very important, do not draft any of the bad players.
Just like when you have to throw the ball away. Right.

Speaker 1 You know, in the middle of the bad players. In the second half, like, I know it's going to get boring.
Like, you know, jobs are boring sometimes. Just do the easy thing.
Run to work.

Speaker 1 What do you do when you get bored at work?

Speaker 1 I stand up and I walk around. And he says, big cat, can you do this TikTok real quick? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Maybe that's actually

Speaker 1 my job. So maybe Zach needs to

Speaker 1 just pace the sidelines more frequently. Just throw the ball away.
Just lift it by another day. Need some George Washington tactics.
Right. It's simple.
Tactically retreat. No bad plays, Zach.

Speaker 1 Let the punter punt the ball. Like you have a great defense.
Good call. That's right.
This isn't BYU. This isn't the Pac-12.
It's not like. Stop BYU.
I don't even know.

Speaker 1 Like when you're playing Pac-12 teams and they're just putting up tons of points. Not every drive is going to be five plays, 80 yards punts.
A punt is a good result

Speaker 1 to a drive.

Speaker 1 But the real reason why I like the Jets is that I think that the Jets defense is really, really talented.

Speaker 1 It's talented, especially I think they can get their front four, can get to Josh Allen a little bit, heat him up just a little, because if you sit back and you play, like, you know, if you blitz people, Josh Allen is going to just like carve you up.

Speaker 1 Also, last point, the Bills did lose to the Jaguars last year. Yeah, that's true.
So it did happen. Nine to six.

Speaker 1 So one team lost. So wait,

Speaker 1 now your coping strategy is like they lost to a really historically shitty team last year, so we might have a chance. Right.

Speaker 1 And also, Zach Wilson is better than Mac Jones. and Trevor Lawrence, and Trevor Lawrence.
And you want to say Justin Fields? Go ahead. I think he has a better arm than Justin Fields.
Okay, all right.

Speaker 1 So, the real answer is: I think that the Jets defense is going to be good enough to limit Josh Allen to not blowing them out as badly as some people think that they're going to get blown out.

Speaker 1 Does having a good arm is that a good thing when you just throw it to the other team?

Speaker 1 Well, it's a bad thing because you know you can do certain things, and it makes you so it's really Zach Wilson's, it's not his fault, he's just better than the job, he's just so

Speaker 1 overqualified, yeah. He's so overqualified for his job.
Seriously,

Speaker 1 it's like he's so talented.

Speaker 1 He's so talented that he doesn't like it. I got it.
Like people with less talented arms work on being game managers. Yeah, no, he's because they can't do what he does.

Speaker 1 He's so, he's almost, they need to create a new football league, a better football league that he could play in because he's too good for the NFL. The Jets need more like entry-level quarterbacks.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 That can grow with a position. Yeah.
They don't need to go out there headhunting. Okay, so you guys both have the Jets.
I have the Cardinals. Jake, that was a great analysis.

Speaker 1 Oh, Seahawks. Sorry, sorry.

Speaker 1 I'm with Hank, so we're all paired up. I have the Commanders plus three and a half.

Speaker 1 The Vikings. Could be pain together.
This is the cherry on top for a great week for PFT. Give me a

Speaker 1 riding that momentum.

Speaker 1 I am a little bit concerned because the last two days have been so incredible that something bad is about it. Cherry on top.

Speaker 1 But right now, it's like, you know, I've never had a three-day winning streak in my life. Yeah.
And, but maybe I could get four. Yeah.
So we're all.

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Speaker 1 Okay, overs. Hank,

Speaker 1 give it to us.

Speaker 1 He's finding it right now. No, I just.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, yes. I have one last Jets Bills.
Okay, great. I think Josh Allen's going to get beat up by the Jets D.
I don't think he's going to be able to make it.

Speaker 1 I think the Jets defense might be able to heat him up. That's just a little bit.
That's a good point. Thank you.

Speaker 1 That's first.

Speaker 1 sometimes when you try to blitz Josh Allen, have you noticed he'll carve up a blitz?

Speaker 1 But if you can get to him with your front four, I think that's the key. And I think the Jets' defense is good enough they can heat him up.
Yep, I agree. Billy, do you agree?

Speaker 1 I think they're going to beat him up. No, they're going to heat him up like a microwave.
And then they're going to eat him up. Okay.
Heat. And eat.
And beat. And beat.

Speaker 1 All right. 0-8

Speaker 1 the last eight. Fading myself.
Wait, you haven't hit an over? I mean, the overs have just not

Speaker 1 been in the NFL. I'm 0-8 my last eight picks total.
Wait, are you talking about your lottery machine picks? Are you talking about

Speaker 1 the subject we're talking about?

Speaker 1 Oh, it's both. It's both.
Okay.

Speaker 1 Over 42.5 Rams bucks. It's disgusting.
It's gross.

Speaker 1 I don't think it's going to be good. Cooper Carter.
Brady's not good. Big Cat is.

Speaker 1 I just want to have a rooting interest during this game when I'm watching it with Big Cat.

Speaker 1 Usually, I know sometimes we go on different sides and that just just happens naturally, but usually I try to stay away from

Speaker 1 deliberately picking against them. Sometimes it just happens.

Speaker 1 I have no remorse with the Bucs. No, I

Speaker 1 don't deserve any remorse. At rock bottom,

Speaker 1 you are in a place.

Speaker 1 It's bad.

Speaker 1 You need help. You need to talk to someone

Speaker 1 because you just can't

Speaker 1 see. You're blinded by the ball.
No, I know. I know.
I know.

Speaker 1 You know what it is? It's not even Brady. It's their defense.
Like, I think that their defense is really good and they're just not. And yeah, no, I deserve no remorse, no pity.
It's all my own doing.

Speaker 1 It's a completely self-inflicted wound. I think you bet on the Bucs just so that you can yell at Steven.
That shit is.

Speaker 1 It's basically

Speaker 1 you're buying yourself a ticket to the show of just screaming at Steven. Well, and also, everyone knows this.

Speaker 1 Anyone who's gambled once in their life knows that once you get committed to something, I know that if I took the Rams in this game, the Bucs will win. That is just a stone-cold lock.
Oh, hang on.

Speaker 1 Wait, Hank, Oh, we got sneeze. I was sneezing into a piece of paper.
You guys okay over there? You heard it? What paper was that that you just sneezed into?

Speaker 1 Even paper. I've never.
I haven't.

Speaker 1 I wasn't going to fucking sneeze on this nice ass track. You sneezed onto your picks?

Speaker 1 No, this is

Speaker 1 week eight, week seven. Oh, this is from Planet Football.
Yeah, which is out now. What did the Booger touch?

Speaker 1 Burrow and Bengals are going to need PJ after he suffers a burned sack. Nice.
I don't know. Oh, that was KB talking about petroleum jelly.

Speaker 1 And I was like, I don't think we're going to know what the initials PJ stand for, KB.

Speaker 1 Deep cut. Playing football out now.
Max, go ahead with your over.

Speaker 1 Lions Packers.

Speaker 1 Lions

Speaker 1 are over team. Lions are the over team.
20 and 8 in their last 49 and a half. 20 and 8 to the over since 2019 at home.
So that backs it up. PFT.
My over is put the house on the Dolphins Bears.

Speaker 1 Yep, I got that as well.

Speaker 1 Billy. Chiefs, Titans, 46.5.
Oh, we haven't talked about this game. Chiefs, Titans.
I do.

Speaker 1 Can't stop Patrick Mahomes in the past game, but also can't stop Derrick Henry. Andy Reid is Andy Reid off a bye.
So everyone knows

Speaker 1 it's probably the most talked about stat. He's 27 and 6 straight up off a bye.
I think it's like 13 weeks or more, or 13 days more rest because that also counts playoffs. 16 and 8 against the spread.

Speaker 1 I think it's tighter than that. I think he's up to 18-9.
He might be. So the Titans are kind of, they kind of own the Chiefs, though, in the regular season.

Speaker 1 Do you remember last year they beat him 27-3? Yeah, Vrabel as an underdog, 19-7 against the spread. He's crying with his guys.

Speaker 1 Yeah. All right, over.
But points. Points.
Points. Points, points, points.
Are you a little worried if Malik Willis, knowing that he can't throw,

Speaker 1 or they won't let him throw? throw. What? They'll give the ball to Derrick Henry, and he'll run.
The Chiefs have a very good run defense. I'm just asking

Speaker 1 this Tractor Cito season. But it is.
So let's say Malik Willis is running the ball a lot.

Speaker 1 Okay, Malik Willis is running the ball a lot. If there's a lot of runs, that's clock.

Speaker 1 Right. So

Speaker 1 less time for points. Yes, but the Chiefs might just run it up then.
That's true.

Speaker 1 And we hit that over. Yeah, then we hit that over that way.
I like it.

Speaker 1 But also, Derrick Henry will have fresh legs and Malik Willis is running a lot. If Kadarius Tony ends up being really, really good for the Chiefs, it's going to piss me off.

Speaker 1 There's no chance, though, right? Because we've seen a little bit of Tony, but he's just. He's so fast.
He's so fast. He breaks people off.
But

Speaker 1 he just doesn't play ball. But he breaks people off.
He'll get behind you. He will.
And he'll break you off. He also takes the top off.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I'm just saying. That will piss me off.
Okay, Jake. I'm with Billy.
46 and a half, Sunday night football.

Speaker 1 Okay, let's do some unders, which are hitting it like an insane, insane clip. And I'm so fucking sick of them.
And the best one of us is in unders is four and four.

Speaker 1 Shit.

Speaker 1 Who's that?

Speaker 1 Big Cot, Hank, and PFT. All four and four.
Okay, good. All right, nice.
And they're some hotter. Unders have been free this year, and we are four and four.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but I'm hot on unders compared to like everything else. If you look at the rest of my stats, okay, Hank.

Speaker 1 Under, Bears, Dolphins. Oh,

Speaker 1 he doesn't try to bet against us. Definitely.
45.

Speaker 1 And I know that you just decided that right now because you're fucking blowing bloody snot onto all your other picks. You had no idea.

Speaker 1 You just heard what we said for over, and you put it in your little piling cabinet. No.
You locked it away, and you said, I'm going to piss them off.

Speaker 1 Come on. Don't think about you.

Speaker 1 Okay, you're under max. Coincidence.
Such a dick. We can say Monday night.
Monday night football, right? Yes. Monday night.
Raven Saints under.

Speaker 1 Ooh. Andy Dalton, baby.
Yeah. 48.
Prime time Andy in the dome. You're under PFT.
My under is Chargers, Falcons under 49. I don't think Mariota is going to be throwing too much like he was.

Speaker 1 He threw more than you would expect last week against the Panthers. Agreed.

Speaker 1 I think that they're going to get back to their just, we're going to run the ball, run the ball, run the ball, run the ball, run the ball some more.

Speaker 1 And they're just going to run out of seconds to score. Was it 49? Yeah, I'm with you on that.
It's 49.5. 49 and a half.

Speaker 1 There aren't going to be enough seconds in this game. They're going to run out of seconds.
Okay,

Speaker 1 I'm going to take the patriots colts under 39 and a half i just think this game's going to be gross first to 17 wins first to 17 wins that's what i'm feeling who you got hank you got mac jones again

Speaker 1 yes sir yeah how how quickly do the booze start for mac jones if he throws an interception at home

Speaker 1 i don't know i think they start immediately I don't know. Bailey's Apple did look bad.

Speaker 1 I still think that they're, once the home crowd gets a taste once they get like a little bit of blood in the water of booing their their starting quarterback the roman coliseum it's tough to switch that back you need you need belich to go out there and do the joke and phoenix and give like a thumbs up thumbs down yeah maybe they maybe they listen to me maybe i told them to stop yeah you did tell them to stop so yeah we should listen to hank we should be good stop and stop saying that hank puked on the blash jack table Because he didn't.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, obviously. Right.
Actually. Right.
Actually, you did not.

Speaker 1 Actually, obviously obviously i know right that's why i said it what did the dealer do when he didn't know he didn't do it yeah hanker did not do it hank what did the dealer do when you didn't puke listen if you don't have over the pitballs right if you don't have cash you can't be at the table i did not have cash did you tip did you tip heavily with that after when you don't i think you missed the part where i said i didn't have any cash

Speaker 1 therefore but would you have tipped if you had cash right but you have a player's after you puked i don't have a player's card.

Speaker 1 Would you have tipped

Speaker 1 if you had cash, after you puked, would you have tipped?

Speaker 1 Yeah, but I would never puke at a table.

Speaker 1 Did anyone else puke at the table?

Speaker 1 I wasn't at a table. Was there no table in somebody who? No table.
Wait, now you're saying that the table doesn't exist? Not one iota. There was never a table.

Speaker 1 I went to the casino, tried to get cash out. There was a long line, saw Druski, talked to him, didn't want to wait in the line, disappeared.

Speaker 1 He threw threw up on Kruski. No, false.
Was anyone on a hot streak who wanted to stay on the table after? Oh, yeah, that would have sucked if you were in a hot streak when he puked on the table.

Speaker 1 And then, like, fuck the puke. Let's keep playing.
All right, do we, Billy? Did you do your under? My under is Seahawks Cardinals 49 and a half. Okay.
I like that. All right.
And

Speaker 1 Jake, you had your under? Yeah, I'm with PFT. All right, you were with PFT.
All right. Other games we missed.
Raiders, Jaguars. That game.
Oh.

Speaker 1 Oh.

Speaker 1 God.

Speaker 1 Who. They should pay you to to watch this.
I mean, that is going to be. I guess whoever wins, we're going to be like, maybe.
No, no. No, I don't think so.

Speaker 1 But, I mean, the Raiders, they did have their signature loss last week. Yeah.
They're probably not going to lose that badly. They might even, hell, they might win this game.

Speaker 1 They might win this week. They might win this game this week, but nothing's going to change.
I think the Raiders are still, they're still pieces of shit. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 I don't think in my whole lifetime I've seen Raiders, Jaguars, and it's been good.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, no.

Speaker 1 that's not a good matchup. The Panthers, Bengals, I just love PJ Walker.

Speaker 1 And then the only stat I had was Joe Burrow is 4-0 against the spread after losing to the Browns because he always loses to the Browns.

Speaker 1 So he bounces back. He's overall 12-3 straight up after loss.
Yeah, so go with Joe Burrow there. Trust in Joe.
I think that's everything. I think we hit it all.
Two 4 o'clock games is crazy.

Speaker 1 Two 4 o'clock games sucks. Hopefully.

Speaker 1 No, hopefully the Phillies have already won the World Series. I was going to say, it'd be nice if we had a World Series game on Sunday night as well.
It'd be a nice little duel.

Speaker 1 If the game gets shitty, we have something else to watch. Just for the record, though, Max is not worried.
He's not worried at all. That's very clear.
Don't say that he's worried.

Speaker 1 It was basically not even a no-hitter. Right.
I didn't say that I'm not worried. I said that.
I'm confident.

Speaker 1 I don't know what I said. Verbal meme.
Max not worried. Hank puking on the table.
Neither thinger is real.

Speaker 1 Shaking. I was a no-hitter.
Wasn't real. What color was the puke?

Speaker 1 I like this because Billy's going with a joke. I like it.
He's really just. Yeah, the joke.
Keep it kidding. Keep it joke.
We're all joke. We're all kidding here.
Okay.

Speaker 1 Hank, have you stopped puking on tables?

Speaker 1 Will you retire from puking on tables? Listen, I'm an honest guy. If I puked on a table, I'd come clean.
Okay. You know how I do.
When was the last time you puked on a table?

Speaker 1 I don't know, probably in a bar somewhere. Yeah.

Speaker 1 With a casino attached? No.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Let's do. You can see in the video, you can see when he says it.
I had a reaction where I was like, oh my God. Like, I believed him for a second.

Speaker 1 And then I, and then I checked my sources and I talked to people. I was like, I didn't do that.
Did I? So he just made that up. Yeah.

Speaker 1 He is, yes, he is a comedian and he is very quick-witted. Yeah.
He just such a funny joke. Invented it.
Yeah. Just like that's totally normal.
When I meet somebody for the first time,

Speaker 1 like you puked on the table. There was a camera roller.
As a bit. 50.
As a bit.

Speaker 1 You know how it is when the camera's rolling. You sure?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 What do you mean? That's when you get your acting on. Yeah.
No, I'm acting right now by making fun of Hank for puking on the table because it's obvious that he didn't puke on the table.

Speaker 1 I mean, it's not obvious, but I'm not sure.

Speaker 1 No, it's not obvious. I can understand why people would think that did happen, but thankfully we have this platform and I'm able to clear my name.

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Speaker 1 All right, Fantasy Fuck Boys. Real quick, before we do Fantasy Fuck Boys, Mount Rushmore.
You know what? I said we were going to do it after. Yeah.
Oh, after this? Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 I said we're going to do both. Yeah, yeah.
All right, ready? Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 What's up, boys? How we doing?

Speaker 1 What's up, you fuckface? My stardom. What's your name? That puky depukason.
My name's Almond Almondinger.

Speaker 1 I'm AJ's brother.

Speaker 1 Hey, what's up? What's up, AA? Hey. My stardom is smashing your car into a wall and hitting the gas as hard as you can.
Oh, fuck, that's mad. I saw this last weekend.

Speaker 1 Like a very hysterical thing to do. If you're on the highway this weekend, just just fucking rip it into the wall and smash the gas

Speaker 1 get ahead of the crowd hell yeah my sitem

Speaker 1 zach wilson not boo short piece of shit yeah fucking sucks over in and can't throw the ball past 10 yards he just gives the he gives layups to the defense free interceptions listen our community we

Speaker 1 we love focus we love our mothers very very deeply but we don't love other people's mothers and my sleeper is breweries breweries breweries Interim breweries.

Speaker 1 I'm going to Portsmouth, New Hampshire for the first time this weekend. I feel like that's

Speaker 1 a big brewery. You wearing a flannel? You wearing a brewery? There it is.
Brewery's brewing in brewery. Portsmouth.
They like to sip on the syrup up there. Brewery.

Speaker 1 You wearing a flannel to the brewery? Fuck yeah. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 Actually, I'm probably just going to keep the suit on all weekend. Hell yeah.
Mr. Lumberjack.
All right.

Speaker 1 What's up? What's up, dickheads?

Speaker 1 What up? What up, you fuck stick? This is Rick Petino.

Speaker 1 Ricky. Recently

Speaker 1 acquitted Rick Petino of all charges at Louisville. That's right.
Nothing sticks to me unless it's my leg.

Speaker 1 I'm starting

Speaker 1 Chicago-style hot dogs. I'm going to eat some Chicago-style hot dogs this weekend.
Extra ketchup. That's what I'm talking about.
I love it. Bathing in ketchup, boiling in ketchup.

Speaker 1 I'm sitting Cooper Cup. Why was he even in the game last week? That made no sense whatsoever.

Speaker 1 Now the season's fucked. Capisch? Capische.
Hosh.

Speaker 1 i'm asleep my sleep is eggnog eggnog has hit the shelves officially yet again it is eggnog season i love eggnog it's a delicious holiday treat just just don't spill any in your lap you know what i'm saying yeah think that you would just had an olive gun i like it i like him what's up what's up fuckers it's tony baloney here tv

Speaker 1 my stardom is mitch trubiski i read an article on cbs sports saying mitch trubiski is excelling as being a leader he's back maybe that's his role in in the NFL. Fuck yes.
Let's go. Mitch.

Speaker 1 He could be the next Chase Daniel. Yeah, my sit him is Mattress Mac.
You can't let Philly get to you, Mattress Mac. Angry guy.
You can't let Philly get to you.

Speaker 1 Now they know that there's blood in the water. They're going after you.
Although, I'll shout out Mattress Mac because that was just a guy trying to win a bet. Got a lot of charity.

Speaker 1 I respect Mattress Mack. I respect him a little bit more when he uses the Boston Sportsbook.
Yes, absolutely. My sleeper is Zach Wilson.

Speaker 1 I recently learned that zach wilson is just too good for his job very good so he's gonna do great that's a good point also this weekend he's matched up against josh allen yeah and i think that the jets defense could do a good job eating him up eating him up and i also heard josh allen say that he actually threw three interceptions against the patriots his second year and then now he's an mvp candidate so do the math everything's coming up zacky boy heard it from a guy what's up fox it's salvatore tesavici oh what up

Speaker 1 how we doing my starter dimitri bavol he's fighting this weekend, Saturday, 5 o'clock. Boy.
That's my boy. That's my boy.
He's my guy. He's fighting Abu Dhabi against Gilberto Ramirez.

Speaker 1 I think he's going to take it the distance, win by points. It's in the Boston Sportsbook.
Minus 150 right now. I heard that.
Take it. Free money.

Speaker 1 No, free money. No, that's free money.
Free money. Free money.
I heard that. I heard that.

Speaker 1 Baval, he likes to. He eats a lot of snake.
No, he's a big, he's a big fan of quesadillas. Quesoque.
Killers. Quesado's.
You went out to a table with him, right?

Speaker 1 Did you puke at that table? No, no, I'm not a puke. Okay.

Speaker 1 Y'all know a guy who's puke. Not me, though.
Not me, though.

Speaker 1 I know a guy. Not the puke guy yet.

Speaker 1 I know a poop guy, too. Yo, my sit him.
You're in Boston on St. Patrick's Day.
Not a puke guy. Not a puke guy, just a bystander.
Walk the other way, guys. Just a bystander.
Just a walk.

Speaker 1 Hey, I didn't see nothing. I didn't see nothing.

Speaker 1 It's going the other way. No, keep your back to the wall.
No sucker punches. Just shimmy around.

Speaker 1 Anyway, there's video. No video.
Sit him.

Speaker 1 There's not a video of me avoiding a fight on St. Patrick's Day.
For the record, statue of limitations.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Six months. All right, Sally.
My sit-em, Bill's secondary. We talked about this.
Zach Wilson, light him up. I think they're going to heat him up.
Don't heat him up. Sleep him up.

Speaker 1 No, no, Bill's secondary.

Speaker 1 Sleep with them others?

Speaker 1 Sleep. Okay, okay and then my sleeper

Speaker 1 my sleeper is snuggie snuggie nice to get a snuggie y'all end of the day

Speaker 1 hey hey hey what are you gonna do by sleeping what are you doing baby babies next yeah no but you in your snuggie on the couch watching football it's cold you know the landlord doesn't turn the heat on yeah maybe you're snuggie maybe play some pogs later yeah yeah yeah pogs yeah you don't know what that is yeah fat ass

Speaker 1 yeah that's true that's why we go to our car yeah and then you use a slam on the fat asses pogg is pogs What are you guys talking?

Speaker 1 Yeah, dude. Yeah, see you guys.
There's little

Speaker 1 things we used to play with.

Speaker 1 Like, what were they?

Speaker 1 Bottle caps. They're a little bigger.
They called them milk caps. What they were, they were just these like round POGs pieces of cardboard, and then they were all the rage for like two years.

Speaker 1 You hit them, and then you have a slammer. You'd bounce a slammer off them, and if you flipped them over, then you got to keep the other person's pogs.
It's a pretty cool game.

Speaker 1 I thought you were talking about

Speaker 1 PA. Yeah, it's a ponk.
Put it on the ponk list. That's what

Speaker 1 I'm saying.

Speaker 1 I'm being horny horny. Yeah, no, we were talking about that.

Speaker 1 When I say thoughts and prayers, do you think that hoe over there?

Speaker 1 No, Salvatore Tesavici was horny. Yeah, that was true.
Okay, good point.

Speaker 1 Are you actually using a snuggie again?

Speaker 1 I have like snuggies are my favorite things. Wow.
Okay. I like snuggies.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that is true. My landlord also hasn't turned on the heat.

Speaker 1 I kind of like that. I like when it's cold.
I do. That's why I get snuggy.
Yeah, it reminds you of going to a hotel and cranking down. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That was my take. Take that take.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Take my take. Just pretend like you're in a hotel.
Yeah. All right.

Speaker 1 I'm sorry for taking your take. Here's my take.

Speaker 1 You got enough takes. He also said Josh Allen might get heat up.
Well, yeah, I did take that take.

Speaker 1 You took it from me. I took it from him.
Okay, yeah. You got enough takes.

Speaker 1 All right, Mount Rushmore.

Speaker 1 We lost last week.

Speaker 1 We got maybe a little ahead of ourselves.

Speaker 1 We lost a couple ways, though. That Josh Jacobs, the Raiders, just couldn't do shit.
So let's win. Let's win.
I'm guaranteeing guaranteeing that my guy is going to cover.

Speaker 1 I also am guaranteeing my guy. Hank? Yep.
Guaranteed? Guaranteed. Billy Jake?

Speaker 1 We guarantee. That didn't sound like a very.
I guarantee Jake, you can. Okay.
Does Jake guarantee? Yeah, it's tough. We don't have the same guys.

Speaker 1 I'm taking Aaron Jones. Okay.
Packers, Lions.

Speaker 1 They got to start running him more.

Speaker 1 Aaron Jones. I'm going back to Josh Jacobs.
I think it can't happen again. It was a weird sequence of events that made the Raiders get down so much so early.
Yep.

Speaker 1 That's not going to happen against the Jaguars. Josh Jacobs is a top-five running back in the NFL.
They're going to feed him. It's going to be glorious.

Speaker 1 He's going to put some high-like tapes out there. Okay.
I'm taking this in the Barcelona Sportsbook where everyone else can bet it if they want to. Exclusive section.
That's where all this will be.

Speaker 1 I'm going with Ramon Jerry Stevenson. Oh, against the Colts.
I think it's going to be a slow game. You know, get up to a lead.
I think someone said 20 to 7 earlier. Just get a lead, run the ball.

Speaker 1 He's been really good this year. Shit on the rock.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Billy and Jake.

Speaker 1 We're going to go with Dalvin Cook. He's gotten 50 yards in all of their wins.
His only time getting under is the Philly game in week two. Okay.
All right. So that will be in the Barcelon Sports book.

Speaker 1 Let's get back on the winning side under the exclusive sections.

Speaker 1 Okay. Let's get to Sonny Dykes.
Great interview with Sonny Dykes. TCU love.
Everyone's been saying we don't give any love to TCU. We got Sonny Dykes on the show.

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Speaker 1 Okay, we now welcome on a very special guest. It is head coach of TCU, Sonny Dykes, the undefeated Texas Christian horn frogs.
Coach Dykes, thank you for joining us. I actually want to start.

Speaker 1 Your fan base has gotten upset at us because we talk college football. We're a lot more NFL, but we talk a lot of college football.

Speaker 1 They say we haven't been giving you guys enough credit, haven't been bringing you up enough. So we said, hey, let's get the coach on and let's talk some TCU football.

Speaker 6 Yeah,

Speaker 6 we've got a good fan base. I mean, those guys,

Speaker 6 they get their feelings hurt pretty easily. So that's always good when you have fans that are passionate about that stuff.
And

Speaker 6 yeah, you know how it is. They're going to let you know when you, when, when, when they think you're slighting the horn frogs.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, absolutely. So right off the top, let's just talk about how the season's gone.

Speaker 1 If you could flash back like two and a half months ago and in your wildest dreams, would you think that you were undefeated? Was that ever kind of a goal for you at this point in the season?

Speaker 6 You know, what's funny is coming out of fall camp about week three, you know, we sat down as a coach staff and we said, wow, you know, we think we actually have a chance to have a good football team.

Speaker 6 You know, what does that mean? I don't really know. You know what I mean? I think that

Speaker 6 it's my first year in the Big 12.

Speaker 6 I didn't really know that much about the league. You know, I'd watched it from afar and paid attention a little bit, but I just didn't know how we stacked up with the teams in the league.

Speaker 6 But we felt like we had a chance. I mean, we really did.
We felt like we, you know, we felt like we could score enough points to be in ball games. We,

Speaker 6 you know, we had to replace a lot of our D-linemen.

Speaker 6 You know, we had a lot of guys that went in the transfer portal, some guys that graduated early, some guys that moved on. And so we were a little bit decimated on the defensive front.
And,

Speaker 6 you know, we needed some guys to come in and to step in and play well, and they have.

Speaker 6 You know, and Dylan Horton's a senior who's played really well, and George Cooper's played well.

Speaker 6 Or George Ellis rather and Terrell Cooper's played well. And so we've had guys that have, that are older guys that have really come on.
And we've had some freshmen that have played well too.

Speaker 6 And so it's been a,

Speaker 6 that's been a big, I think, surprise for us, just really how well that defensive line has come together.

Speaker 6 And, you know, you're not going to win many football games if you're not good on either side of the line of scrimmage. And, you know, we're, we're good up front on the offensive line.

Speaker 6 We've really played well on the defensive front. And so it's given us a chance.
And then our quarterback play has been outstanding. You know, Max Duggan.

Speaker 6 has done a really great job of managing our football team and making plays. And we've got a a lot of speed and a lot of skill on this team.
So we felt like we could score, you know, and

Speaker 6 anytime you can score points, that gives you a chance.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I got a couple bones to pick with you, but one of them was the Max Duggan. You know, I college, I follow college football pretty closely.

Speaker 1 And I remember in August when you said you're going to go with three quarterbacks, and I took you for your word.

Speaker 1 Would you like to apologize to me? Because that was clearly a lie because Max is phenomenal and he's been great this year.

Speaker 6 Yeah. Well, you know, it's funny.
We did play all three quarterbacks in the first game. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 6 And that's kind of what we thought. You know, look, we came out of fall camp and

Speaker 6 Chandler Morris really had won the job. And Max had played a lot of football for TCU.
And, you know, Chandler just had such a great fall camp. We got into the first game against Colorado.

Speaker 6 Struggled a little bit in the first half. Second half starts.
Chandler gets injured. We put Max in the game and Max just picks up where he left off, you know, the year before and,

Speaker 6 you know, has continued to develop every single week as a quarterback. And that's been really fun to watch him because he, you know, he was a good quarterback early on,

Speaker 6 and then I think he became a pretty good quarterback, and then he became a really good quarterback. And I think now he's really developed into a great quarterback.

Speaker 6 And I think one of the guys that's probably playing as well as anybody in college football right now. And so

Speaker 6 he's done a fantastic job of learning the offense. He's very confident in the guys

Speaker 6 that are the supporting cast and the guys around him. He hasn't

Speaker 6 tried to force things. He's taken what defenses have given him.

Speaker 6 He's a hell of a runner. He runs the ball well, plays tough, plays physical, and our guys have kind of fed off of that.
And so he's just been a real.

Speaker 6 A real pleasure to coach. I mean, he's just, he's a warrior, man.
He's got that warrior mentality, and it's permeated our entire program.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he's a listener of this show, too. So it's good that you said nice things about him there.
Do you have any coaching points you want to?

Speaker 1 Maybe he'll pay more attention to you if you're on this show. If you want to speak to him right now and give him any advice for the upcoming games right now, he'll listen.

Speaker 6 Hey, Max, keep doing what you're doing, man.

Speaker 1 Keep working hard. Keep doing what you're doing.

Speaker 6 Don't listen to all the good stuff. You ignored the bad stuff.
Now ignore the good stuff, too.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah. Just be like, yeah, you suck, Max.
Stop listening to part of my take. Go back in your playbook.
Do you want us to tell him that he stinks and build a chip on or something?

Speaker 6 No, no, no, don't tell him that.

Speaker 1 Okay, tell him that.

Speaker 6 Yeah, because he's going to know it's not the truth.

Speaker 1 Okay, all right, that's fair. So you mentioned there a point about how you guys came out slow against Colorado.

Speaker 1 You've had a few games where you've come out a little slow, and it feels like there's something about your team this year. You're never out of it.

Speaker 1 What, as a coach, though, like, where's the line where you're playing with fire versus you love that your guys never quit and can always come back?

Speaker 1 Because, I mean, if you just keep starting slow, like that Oklahoma State game was incredible. You've had a couple of those games where it's like, oh, TCU's in real trouble here.

Speaker 1 And then, you know, you flip the entire game on its head.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I mean, look, at some point, we got to quit doing that. I mean, it's going to bite us in the rear end if we don't stop.

Speaker 6 You know, two weeks in a row, we got down 17. I think the Oklahoma State got down 18 to Kansas State.
I mean, that's two good football teams. And we were able to rally the second half.

Speaker 6 We held Oklahoma State to six points in regulation in the second half. That's a high-powered offense.
And then we shut Kansas State out in the second half.

Speaker 6 And so our defense has really really played well in the second half of football games. And I think it's a,

Speaker 6 you know, it's a tribute to our players, man. They get stronger as the game goes along.
And,

Speaker 6 you know, Joe Gillespie, our defensive coordinator, has done a great job of making adjustments at halftime, figuring out what people are doing to us.

Speaker 6 And our players have done a nice job of making those adjustments. And, you know, and we just keep swinging.
I think that's been the thing that we've done is, you know, we just keep our head down.

Speaker 6 We haven't panicked. We just keep swinging.
And that, you know, that comes from being confident.

Speaker 6 and it comes from the hard work you put in and a belief in each other and i think our offense believes in our defense our defense believes in our offense they believe in special teams the players i think believe in each other they believe in the coaches i know as coaches we certainly believe in them and and so it's been man it's been fun uh now as you said we got to stop it i mean there's going to be a time that that you know we're going to we're not going to be able to do that in the second half.

Speaker 6 And so we're certainly going to have to get off to better starts than we have.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 At the end of the last game that was uh that caused a lot of controversy in this office i don't know if you paid that much attention to it i know big cat was oh yeah that's the second bone to pick i had with you i we can't you can't talk gambling spreads but i would like to just maybe go back to that spot against west virginia and uh you know that you could have like on a free play the game's over you don't you don't have to throw a touchdown with 20 seconds left i would have preferred if you didn't um the guy was off sides too yeah well yeah it was free play, yeah.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I certainly understand it. So here is our thinking going into the play.
Okay, so it's fourth and one.

Speaker 6 We're trying to, you know, as you said, run the clock out.

Speaker 1 A field goal would have been fine, by the way. Again, we're not going to talk numbers, but I would have

Speaker 1 been smarter.

Speaker 6 You don't want to kick a field goal in that situation.

Speaker 6 Yeah, a lot of stuff can go wrong there. Okay.
So we're fourth and one. We're on about their 30.

Speaker 6 I think 31, actually. And so

Speaker 6 a couple of things were going on. Number one, we had all three timeouts.
So we got in a formation. We wanted to see, okay, how are they going to defend this formation?

Speaker 6 And then the second thing was we were going to try to draw them off sides. Well, when you try to draw somebody off sides and they're off sides, the center snaps the ball.

Speaker 6 All the receivers run four verticals and the quarterback throws it up because it's a free play.

Speaker 6 And so I don't think any of us anticipated any of that happening.

Speaker 6 Well, they did jump, which we honestly, I didn't expect them to. I didn't think they would.
We were going to call a timeout.

Speaker 6 And now we were going to call a play, run the ball, and then hopefully get the first down, take a knee, and be out of there. But when they jumped, they snapped it, and you got to give Max credit.

Speaker 6 He made a heck of a throw to save Jean Williams. You made a heck of a catch, and there we go.

Speaker 1 But do we have to give Max credit? Because he should just fall down in that situation and not risk an injury.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'm smart.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I made me.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 6 Yeah, you guys can pick that bone with Max.

Speaker 1 Okay, all right.

Speaker 6 That's exactly what I told him to do. Yeah,

Speaker 1 that that play hurt. I'm going to tell you right now, that play hurt.
Again, we won't talk spreads, but that play hurt. A lot of people.
Yeah, it hurt a lot of people. A lot of people.

Speaker 1 Do you want to apologize to anyone?

Speaker 6 I'm sorry about that.

Speaker 1 Yeah, because you would have won the game anyway.

Speaker 1 So the other weird quirk that's happening in your season, I know you guys, this isn't by design, but you've had a string where the starting quarterback has gone out for the opposing team like four or five games in a row.

Speaker 1 Is this something that do you put it up on the whiteboard before being like, look, we're not going to game plan it for it, but it keeps happening. So we might as well take a look at the backup.

Speaker 6 Yeah, you know, it was weird. So we had that against

Speaker 6 against Oklahoma, and, you know, Dylan Gabriel not got knocked out of the game. We had a late hit on Dylan Gabriel, which we got penalized for, and we should have.
I mean, it was a late hit.

Speaker 6 So he missed the second part of that game. Now, I think.
I think it was 34 to 10 when he went out of the game, and he felt like we were in control. Then I think after that,

Speaker 6 I know we went into the Oklahoma State game. We felt like their quarterback was a little bit banged up.
Oh, we played Kansas.

Speaker 1 Kansas quarterbacks. We played Kansas.

Speaker 6 And then, same thing. Jalen Daniels, a heck of a player.

Speaker 6 He got hurt in that game. So we had to face a backup quarterback who actually came in and played really well.

Speaker 1 He did.

Speaker 6 And then we played Spencer Sanders against Oklahoma State. I think he was a little banged up coming into the game, but he played the whole game.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 6 Well, then we go into the Kansas State game, and Adrian Martinez is playing lights out.

Speaker 6 And, you know, he goes in the game and we tackle Adrian. There's no, nobody hit him hard, anything.

Speaker 6 We came to the conclusion, and again, we don't know this, but we thought he was probably hurt the week before

Speaker 6 and might have re-injured himself in our game because there was really not much of a hit that took place. And then they put the backup in, and he played lights out, and he's the guy that led him to.

Speaker 6 to a victory against Oklahoma State last week. So, you know, the one thing that we know we can say for sure is that there's a lot of good backup quarterbacks in the Big 12.

Speaker 6 These guys have come in and they played well. But we've also kind of had a weird set of circumstances that have occurred kind of leading up to that.

Speaker 1 It's genius, just to run the play where the other quarterback has to get out of the game.

Speaker 1 More teams should think of not, again, you guys have not done anything besides the Dylan Gabriel one, which you, again, you got, you got penalized for, but it's like, okay, the ball's just bouncing our way right now.

Speaker 1 Ride it out. That's kind of fun.

Speaker 6 Yeah. Yeah.
look, I mean, when you pick seventh in your league and you're eight-no and ranked seventh in the country, you got to catch some breaks. Yeah.
And I think we certainly have. I mean, look,

Speaker 6 let's don't kid ourselves.

Speaker 6 Now, we've played really good football, and I think we have a good football team, but, you know, to get on the kind of run that we're on right now, you do have to catch a couple of breaks, and we certainly have so far this year.

Speaker 1 Hey, I'm not taking anything away from you guys because you have had a phenomenal season. It's just interesting.
Yeah. It's just like an interesting.

Speaker 1 Yeah. So I get it.

Speaker 1 as a football coach in Texas, one of the things that you have to deal with a lot is the recruiting process and dealing with the high school football coaches down there.

Speaker 1 And there are some legendary high school football coaches, and having those relationships with them is... probably the biggest factor in being able to sustain a college program in the state.

Speaker 1 So how do you deal with

Speaker 1 some of the coaches who are legends in their own rights, being able to build those relationships with them in order to make sure that you can get some of the good players that are grown in state there.

Speaker 6 Yeah, you know, as you said earlier, Texas is unique that way. I think that,

Speaker 6 you know, the coaching profession in the high schools here is

Speaker 6 taken very seriously. I mean, these guys are very, very, very good coaches.
And a lot of them have moved on and become really successful, you know, college coaches. And,

Speaker 6 you know, I started out as a high school coach in Texas myself, spent basically two years, one year at Monahan's High School, a little small town in West Texas, and another year at Pierce High School in Richardson in the Dallas area.

Speaker 6 And so I've been in DFW for a long time, been recruiting here, recruited here when I was coaching at Nevero Junior College, when I coached at the University of Kentucky, when I was at Texas Tech, when I was at Arizona, kind of working my way up.

Speaker 6 I've always recruited Dallas. I think the high school coaches in Texas are, it's a strong group.
I mean, it really is.

Speaker 6 There's not many organizations more powerful than the Texas High School Coaches Association. I mean, those guys are

Speaker 6 united.

Speaker 6 They take the profession very seriously. They do a great job coaching these young men, and they put

Speaker 6 a lot of guys in college football and provide a lot of young people with opportunities to get a scholarship and continue playing football. And

Speaker 6 it's a great place to recruit. I mean, I really believe DFW

Speaker 6 has as good high school facilities as any place in the country. I mean, you drive around, you see these stadiums.
I mean, they're unbelievable. They take it very seriously.

Speaker 6 There's a huge commitment from communities. There's an emphasis on it in youth football.
So it's just a great place to have a chance to recruit.

Speaker 6 And as you said, I mean, it's all about the relationships.

Speaker 6 It's all about those guys being able to trust you and that you're going to take care of the young men that you're recruiting from their schools.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'm a firm believer that

Speaker 1 innovations in football start at the high school level and then they trickle their way up through college and then from there to the NFL after they've been proven to be successful in college.

Speaker 1 So what in your mind is the next, the next big wrinkle that's coming in terms of football innovation from the high school level?

Speaker 6 Yeah, that's a good question. I mean, I think you're exactly right.
I think most people think it goes down. It kind of starts at the top and it works its way down, which is not the case at all.

Speaker 6 I mean, as you said,

Speaker 6 I worked for some really innovative guys, Hal Mummy at Kentucky, and I was Mike Leach's GA at Kentucky. And those guys were outside the box thinkers.

Speaker 6 And Hal had been a high school coach in Texas and started running the air raid, really, when he was in high school. And then I worked on the staff at Texas Tech with Art Browse.

Speaker 6 Art Browse was our running back coach. And he kind of, when he became the head coach at Houston and Baylor, he took what he was running at Stephenville High School and started running it.

Speaker 6 And, you know, really, in a lot of ways, those two offenses have changed football.

Speaker 6 If you watch Tennessee and what they're doing right now and the success that they're having, a lot of that stuff they're doing is stuff that Art Browse did. you know, at Stephenville High School.
And

Speaker 6 so it's been a, as you said, it's kind of worked its way up.

Speaker 6 I think, I think Mike Leach and Hal Mummy have had a huge impact on what's happening now in the NFL and a lot of offenses that are being run at that level. You know, I don't know what's next.

Speaker 6 To me, I think that football is a little cyclical. I think that you're going to start maybe seeing some teams start to run a little bit more triple option.
You know, I think that's

Speaker 6 something that you're going to see is maybe a little bit of triple option get integrated in some of the spread things.

Speaker 6 you know, a little bit of Veer concept as a run game into a spread type of offense and a spread system. And, you know, that's, you talk about a pain in the rear end.

Speaker 6 Defensively, that would be a tough thing to defend.

Speaker 1 Yeah. We love the triple option here.
I'm a big triple option fan. So

Speaker 1 you have been around some incredible football minds, some friends of ours too, but I did want to reference Hal Mummy. I mean, legendary coach, the towel, everything.
When you got with him,

Speaker 1 like...

Speaker 1 Like those meetings where he's like, yeah, we're just going to throw it.

Speaker 1 We're just going to throw it and we're going to throw it and we're going to throw it and they're not going to be able to stop it.

Speaker 1 Like, is that, could you feel the the the change because obviously now a lot of teams do the air raid but how mummy was one of the founders of it was it was it eye-opening to be like wow we can play football this way yeah yeah you know it's funny i was a young coach at the time i hadn't been exposed to a whole lot i'd been two years at navarro junior college where we were kind of one back almost a little run and shoot style So we were pretty innovative.

Speaker 6 And then I go to Kentucky and I sit in these meetings and I hear Hal talk and i'm like this dude has lost his mind you know there's no way

Speaker 6 there's no way we're going to do this stuff in the sec and not get just pounded every week and and you know we had a very small menu of plays it was all about execution you know and the one thing howl used to say all the time and it was really pretty funny i remember at the time thinking man this is crazy but it's really smart he would say look we're going to throw the ball as many times as possible

Speaker 6 to people who can score and we're going to spread the field and not only spread it vertically but horizontally.

Speaker 6 We're going to try to make a defense cover the entire length and width of a football field.

Speaker 6 And so, when you sat down and you started looking at his concepts, you kind of started going, wow, this in a weird sort of way, this is triple option football.

Speaker 6 But instead of handing the ball off and reading a down lineman, you're throwing the ball and you're reading a second-level player, whether it's a linebacker or a safety.

Speaker 6 And if this guy does that, then you do this. And so it was kind of came out of the same principles as triple option, but it was really,

Speaker 6 it was really throwing the ball. And it was instead of reading guys on the line of scrimmage, it was reading second and third level players.

Speaker 6 So it made a lot of sense. It worked incredibly well.

Speaker 6 You know, Hal had a ton of success at Kentucky and it was fun to be part of, you know, changing college football and really changing football in general.

Speaker 6 And I was fortunate enough to go with Mike Leach to Texas Tech in 2000. And we took that offense and even made it a little bit more extreme.
You know, Mike was,

Speaker 6 hal played with two backs a lot hal played with the tight end some and mike just said hey look let's spread everybody out four wides and and one back and and and and roll and so it was a fun thing to be a part of really innovative had a lot of really bright coaches on our staff i mean you look at the guys you know cliff kingsbury was the quarterback graham harrell was a quarterback sunny cumbie was a quarterback Lincoln Riley was a was a walk-on quarterback that became a student coach.

Speaker 6 You know, Art Browse was on the staff. Dana Hulgerson was on the staff.
I I was on the staff. Dave Rando was GA on the staff.

Speaker 6 Ruffin McNeil went on to become the head coach, a bunch of different places, was on that staff. And so we had these guys that were, you know, pretty smart guys that were innovative.

Speaker 6 And we got to learn a lot of it from Mike. And we got to also learn the thing that Mike did better than anybody was to,

Speaker 6 hey, don't be scared, man. Let's just, let's just play.
Let's do what we do. Let's have a philosophy.

Speaker 6 Let's jump in completely with it. We're burned the boats.
This is what we're going to do. And let's make it work.
It's we did.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 6 That's awesome. I got to give those guys credit.

Speaker 1 Yeah. It's

Speaker 1 great staff, crazy names. We are

Speaker 1 good friends with Coach Dana. We actually stayed at his house, not a brag, just a fact.

Speaker 1 Would

Speaker 1 how many times during those years would Dana be like, come on, Sonny, one more. Like, we got to stay out till it's only two o'clock.

Speaker 1 Like, we've got to stay out because we've, we've had a couple of those late nights with Dana. He's the best.

Speaker 6 Yeah, no, I've had my share of late nights with Dana for sure and with Mike Leach and that group. I mean, I'll tell you this, we worked hard, but we also played hard.
We had fun.

Speaker 6 It was, it was a blast to be around those guys. I mean, just really special guys.
And

Speaker 6 we had a great time. Those days at Texas Tech, people would come visit us all the time and they would leave after two or three days and they'd be like, man, I don't see how you guys do this.

Speaker 1 Yeah, because

Speaker 6 we ran pretty hard and we had a good time and it was a lot of fun.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we've heard some of the stories about some of the sneaky stuff that you guys would try to pull at Texas Tech in terms of i don't know leaving out like a fake script to your first 10 plays of the game things like that so the other team would find it conveniently were you ever put in charge of any of these uh covert operations yeah yeah actually i was i was the fake script guy for a number of years and and dana and i conspired together on that stuff and and i was the

Speaker 6 I was the only one that could type. So I was the typist in the group, so I was always responsible for typing up the scripts and the wristbands and all that.

Speaker 6 So, yeah, Dana and I would go have a soda pop on thursday night and sometimes come up with the fake script that we left for the opposing team on saturday where would you leave it would you just leave it in the locker room or no so so what we did and this was leech's idea um we would put it so you know when when your team goes down your your field goal kickers kick on the opposing side's field so they're kicking field goals on that side and so they have a big ball bag and we would put the script under the ball bag so that when those guys were done kicking, they'd pick up the ball bag and that script would just be sitting there and then we would stand back and watch and you know and somebody would walk over and pick the script up and they would look at it you know and and we got to just sit back and watch and most people were smart enough to know that hey look these guys are just screwing with us we're not going to pay attention to this but there were a couple of times we walked in the locker room after the game and they had all this script written up and they were trying to figure out what in the world this stuff meant oh that's incredible would you guys ever like like name certain plays on there certain like would you include little like hidden messages in your fake plays that you were drawing yeah i remember one year one year we were playing texas a m and dennis francioni was the head coach and i remember it was like you know one of the deals was out of this formation it was okay double reverse coach fran special

Speaker 1 that's so awesome we left we left that special for the ags that's cool then you just you pay attention the first couple plays and and see like okay i think that they're following the fake script that they think that we're running yeah yeah yeah two or three plays in it was they knew it was a waste of time that's that's incredible The other one I wanted to, there's two other guys that you've come across, coached.

Speaker 1 The first is Gronk in Arizona.

Speaker 1 Like, when you first saw him, were you just like, holy shit, this guy, because he is a freak, and we've had, you know, we've been friends with him for a while and had him on.

Speaker 1 And even when he walks in the room, you're like, how does anyone cover this guy? Like, his hands are so big. He's a monster.
He's fast. Did you have that same wow?

Speaker 6 Yeah, I'll tell you a funny story. So I get hired in Arizona the day I got hired, and I I flew from Lubbock to Tucson.
I signed my contract.

Speaker 6 And then me and Mike Stoops get on a plane and we fly to Pittsburgh. And, you know, Rob's originally from

Speaker 6 Buffalo, but before his senior year, he and his dad, Gordy, moved to Pittsburgh. So we fly to Pittsburgh.
We go to, you know, Stoops is telling me this tight end, how good he is.

Speaker 6 you know, all this stuff about him. I watched a little high school film, thought he looked really good.
So they're in this high-rise apartment.

Speaker 6 So we go to this apartment, we get to the floor, we get off the elevator, we go in the house, you know, Gordy answers the door. His dad's awesome, just super guy.

Speaker 6 And so, and really cool and fun and great guy to hang out with. And so we go, Gordy's there.
And then, you know, Rob walks in the door and you're just like, holy cow, this guy's in high school.

Speaker 6 So they invite us in. Well, they got a TV there sitting on the wall.
And then over to the left is a bench press. And then over there next to that, the squat rack.

Speaker 6 And then there's a leg press machine and then there's you know and so literally their entire living room is like weightlifting equipment with a tv and so me and stoops are doing this home visit you know i'm i'm on this i'm on the leg press machine you know sitting there mike is laying on the bench press rob's on the ground and gordy's you know sitting on the squat rack you know and we're doing this home visit in their house and that's when i thought you know what this kid's pretty special and i turned out to be a hell of a football player obviously yeah yeah i imagine that as as a coach for him, you just figure out a way to get the ball in his hands any way possible, because if he has it, he's just impossible to tackle.

Speaker 6 Yeah, yeah. He was, I mean, he was, he's just a unique guy.
I mean, a couple of things about him. Number one, you know, he actually is as much fun as his persona.

Speaker 6 I mean, the guy just is the like most fun person in the world to be around, huge personality.

Speaker 6 You know, partied hard, but one thing he did now, when he showed up for practice, man, it was, it was blood and guts every day.

Speaker 6 I mean, he loved to play football he was very serious about his approach to the game um you know unbelievably uniquely talented was athletic enough to play we used to split him out you know we'd go three by one and put him out there by himself and and basically we had a whole offense really it was you know if if they had two people on him then we we ran the ball or did something else if they only had one person on him that we signaled these routes and you know he was just the most dominant college football player i'd ever been around he only played in 18 college football games.

Speaker 6 You know, he had a couple of injuries, got mono one year, and then didn't get to play his junior year at all because he blew his back out in the weight room. And so, you know, it was crazy.

Speaker 6 I remember thinking, you know, he's going to go some to some NFL team. If he can stay healthy, he's going to have a

Speaker 6 hell of a career. And he even surpassed my expectations.

Speaker 1 It's actually smart.

Speaker 1 It's smart that Grunt got mono in college before he made it to the NFL. It's again chickenpox early on.

Speaker 1 How did did he break that news to you was he like was he laughing he's like coach i kissed a girl

Speaker 6 yeah yeah i think there were a couple of girls on the arizona campus that rob might have kissed her in there

Speaker 1 and then the other one was uh we're good friends with jared goff and you coached him at cal like we're with the connections we have with you are insane um

Speaker 1 when was it when did you realize like oh jared's like this is This is an NFL player. This is a first-round pick here.

Speaker 6 Yeah, you know, I think, so Jared, I mean, we were, look, we were terrible. When I got to Cal, we recruited Jared.
We played him as a true freshman. And man, we threw him to the wolves.

Speaker 6 I mean, we, we were not very good.

Speaker 6 He was going to kind of be the future of our program. And

Speaker 6 I remember we played Ohio State, I believe, game three, and he got hit about 25 times in that game.

Speaker 6 And I remember him standing in the pocket and throwing a bunch of strikes and just getting destroyed.

Speaker 6 by a bunch of really good football players. Joey Bosa, I think, was a young player at the time in Ohio State.
And

Speaker 6 they got well acquainted, those two did, that Saturday. And I remember walking off the field that day, and we got our tail kicked pretty good.

Speaker 6 But I just remember thinking, man, this kid's special. This kid never blinked.
This is a tough guy. I mean, he was skinny.
He didn't look like a college football player.

Speaker 6 But I just remember how tough he was, how mentally tough he was, how physically tough he was. and just how resilient he was.
And I think that's why he's had so much success.

Speaker 6 He's bounced around a little bit. Now he's in Detroit, but the guy's just incredibly resilient, incredibly smart.
He's just one of those people, man. He makes people around him better.

Speaker 6 And I love Jared. Got a great family.

Speaker 6 Usually see him in the offseason a little bit in Cabo from time to time and really enjoy him. I just think he's a great guy and

Speaker 6 a healthy football player.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he really is. And that, yeah, I'm looking at that game right now, and he did take some hits.
And he still threw for like 350.

Speaker 6 He did, Yeah. Yeah.
And like I said, we weren't very good. And man, he hung in there and

Speaker 6 was dealing balls to guys. And that's when I remember walking off that field going, man, I think this guy's going to be special.
And he just got better literally every single day.

Speaker 6 You know, just kept getting better and better and better. And, you know, ended up being the first pick, came out after his junior year.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I want to just clear something up.
You do not have a degree in nuclear engineering, correct?

Speaker 6 No, no, no. Somebody, you know, my guess is my wife put that on my Wikipedia.

Speaker 6 It's close to nuclear engineering. It's history.

Speaker 1 Okay. Okay.
Yeah. Yeah.
That's, yeah, there's some overlap there, I guess. Yeah, definitely.
Yeah. But, yeah,

Speaker 6 you can do that.

Speaker 6 We studied some nuclear submarines, maybe, when I was taking a history class, but that's

Speaker 6 about as close to nuclear as anything as I've ever been.

Speaker 1 The funny thing is I could see Mike Leach hiring a guy that was a nuclear engineer. Because he would think that that type of mind would work in a football environment.

Speaker 6 Yeah, but it wasn't me. I definitely wasn't the guy.
Maybe Dana.

Speaker 1 Dana, oh, man. God help us.

Speaker 1 Dana with some nuclear codes. Yeah, okay.
So let's pretend that me and Big Cat were a

Speaker 1 couple stud-wide receivers growing up in, let's say, Dripping Springs, Texas. And Dana, you know that Dana just got out of our living room earlier today to recruit us down to Houston.
You come in.

Speaker 1 How do you recruit us away from Dana? Because we had a great time with Dana.

Speaker 6 Yeah.

Speaker 6 You're probably not going to have as much fun with me as you had with Dana, but we might actually talk football.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 I think you're going to get one of us. Yeah, you probably get one of us.
The other one will go to Dana.

Speaker 6 Yeah, exactly. Exactly.
Yeah. Yeah, Dana, man, I love Dana.
Dana's

Speaker 6 Dana's one of a kind. You know, it's like I said, when you go back, you look at that coaching staff.

Speaker 6 We had some great coaches and some fun guys and had some good times together.

Speaker 1 Yeah. So, coach, this has been fantastic.
I had one last question.

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Speaker 1 I want to talk my last question about your dad, who has passed away a few years ago, but he was a coach. First of all, legendary name, Spike Dykes.
I mean, that alone is just Hall of Fame.

Speaker 1 I know it's a nickname. That's Hall of Fame.

Speaker 1 But I read the story that you knew that you weren't going to be a college football player, so you decided to play baseball so that he wasn't put in a tough situation. Is that true?

Speaker 6 Yeah, yeah. I mean, look, I was going to have to be a walk-on player.

Speaker 6 I was a lousy player.

Speaker 6 And so I was going to have to like walk on. And I really kind of wanted to stay close to home.
My dad at that time was not in great health.

Speaker 6 And so I thought, you know, I'd like to try to spend as much time with him as I could and be around.

Speaker 6 And so walked on to the baseball team. Larry Hayes had a really good baseball program at Texas Tech at the time and got to hang around the baseball program and learn some stuff.
But, but it was great.

Speaker 6 You know, but the last thing in the world I wanted to do was go walk on and, you know, cause all those issues with my dad. You know, I'm saying it's, it's bad enough.
It's hard enough to be a coach.

Speaker 6 I have a six-year-old son. I can assure you, there's not a chance in hell that I'm coaching, no matter what.

Speaker 1 But it's, it's rare. It's rare because a lot of guys, you know, we make jokes about the coach's son and it's like, hey, why is that guy out there? It's like, well, he's the coach's son.

Speaker 1 That's a rare moment to be like,

Speaker 1 I'm going to take myself out of this situation for my dad.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I mean, look, it's hard enough. It's a hard enough job as it is to not have your son, who, by the way, stinks as a player, you know?

Speaker 1 So,

Speaker 6 yeah,

Speaker 6 plus, my dad and I are a lot alike. And, and, you know, we.

Speaker 6 We were like oil together. I mean, it wasn't good, you know, oil and water.
And we just didn't mix particularly well in that situation. So, it was uh, it was it was good for both of us.

Speaker 1 That's a commendable thing. And uh, I mean, the name Sonny Dykes is Sonny is a great football guy name.
Yeah, how do you get the nickname Sonny?

Speaker 1 I feel like there aren't too many of those around anymore.

Speaker 6 Yeah, you know, it's it's it's actually uh one of my dad's best friends, a guy named Sonny Everett, uh, that they knew each other forever, and so um, named me after one of his good friends.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I love it. Oh, one last, last question.
You, um, you made your entrance to TCU in a helicopter. Do you think that was a little much?

Speaker 1 I mean, it was badass, badass, but when they, yeah, who was that was that your idea there?

Speaker 6 It certainly wasn't my idea.

Speaker 6 Yeah, you know, they just thought it would kind of be cool. I guess, I guess, because I was coming from Dallas.
Yeah.

Speaker 6 If I was coming from someplace else, they couldn't use a helicopter really. And so I guess that was the thing.
Look, my kids loved it. You know, it was really cool for my kids.

Speaker 6 It's the only time they've been in a helicopter, and it was kind of a cool way to do things. But yeah,

Speaker 6 it wouldn't have been my first choice, I can assure you.

Speaker 1 It was a flashy way to come, and

Speaker 1 it was announcing your entrance in a big, big way. So, and it's been an incredible season, and best of luck going forward.

Speaker 1 Just one last, last, last thing. When you got into your office, were there still a bunch of vests hanging around from the guy that was there before?

Speaker 1 You had to make a decision. You can't be a vest guy, right? Because the old vest guy just left.

Speaker 6 Yeah, yeah. No visors, no vests.
You know, you got to be your own man. You know how it is.

Speaker 1 Yeah. No visors, no vests.

Speaker 6 Plus, I'm going bald anyway, so if I'm going to wear a hat, I might as well cover that up.

Speaker 1 You got some good hair.

Speaker 1 That actually,

Speaker 1 if Dana listens to this, that will probably be the one thing he gets mad about, is that you just said you're going bald when his hair is hanging on.

Speaker 6 Yeah, no, I mean, Dana's hair, you can do a whole podcast on Dana's hair alone. I mean, that's like an hour conversation.

Speaker 1 All right. Well, Coach, thank you so much.
We appreciate it, and best of luck the rest of the season.

Speaker 6 Hey, when you guys get to DFW, man, y'all hit me up. If you don't stay at my house, it's going to hurt hurt my feelings.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 All right. Done.
Deal.

Speaker 6 All right. Y'all take care of me.
Appreciate you. Take care, George.

Speaker 1 Thanks.

Speaker 1 Okay, let's wrap up the show. Thank you to Sonny Dykes.

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Speaker 1 Hank, Firefest.

Speaker 1 I got a couple. I mean, one of them is Big Cat just guaranteeing the trampoline thing.
That's still getting figured out, but I think it'll happen. Oh, no, I guarantee that.
Yeah,

Speaker 1 that was a bit of a Fire Fest. That's kind of what I can guarantee it.
You guys figure it out. Yeah.

Speaker 1 right

Speaker 1 so figure it out what's your other fire fest that you that you didn't puke on a table

Speaker 1 you guys you and pilly are just just smashing these jokes in the ground today uh

Speaker 1 well i

Speaker 1 i have one from earlier i just i just miss my alarm i sleep with the fan app uh me and big cat are big fan app proponents yep and there's an alarm on that and usually i set my alarm so the fan app so the fan turns off and i set that so it turns off like 20 or 30 minutes before my actual alarm goes off because sometimes I'll wake up and I'll be like, once I don't hear the fan, I'm like, oh, you know, my alarm's about to go off in 20 minutes.

Speaker 1 I woke up on

Speaker 1 wait, I'm confused. So the fan app stays on all night long? Yeah.
And then, but it turns off 20 minutes before your alarm wakes you up. Yes.
And what's the reason for that?

Speaker 1 Just because sometimes I'll wake up once the fan app turning off will wake me up. Yeah.
And then I'll wake up. Yeah, then I'm like, oh.
And then I'm like, oh, it's whatever time.

Speaker 1 My alarm's about to go off. I woke up on Tuesday well refreshed.
Like, I went to sleep late. You know, I was probably looking at like seven hours of sleep.
Woke up, you know, feeling great.

Speaker 1 Opened my eyes. I'm like, oh, my fan, you know, the fan's off, so it must be time to get up.
And then I checked my phone and it was like 10.30.

Speaker 1 And I was supposed to be in meetings and stuff. And so that was bad.
I had to just, you know, do the thing where I just sprinted to the train without even putting anything on.

Speaker 1 That was not fun.

Speaker 1 I just forgot, I set my alarm for 83. The worst, it ruins like multiple days because you just spend the rest of the day just being stressed that you were late.

Speaker 1 And then setting, you know, obviously, like, when you're living alone, like, setting the alarm the next night, it's like, well,

Speaker 1 this didn't work last night. Like, fuck.

Speaker 1 How can I guarantee that I'm going to actually wake up tomorrow? So that was a bit of a fire fest. And then I'm wearing this part of my cheesesteak fire suit.

Speaker 1 Wanted to get your, you know, cringe/slash ratio opinions. Like, what if I just wore this for the rest of the day? I like it.
To the airport. I like it to the event.
I like it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I like it. Yes.
I like it. Do it.
I think it looks great on you, Hank. Yeah.
People will be like, good luck in the race. Big kid, I heard a little rumor about Hank.

Speaker 1 Hank, don't listen to this because I'm not sure if the rumor is true yet.

Speaker 1 I was walking past our boss, Erica's office the other day, and I just poked my head in to say hi. Our friend Gaz was in there.
Okay,

Speaker 1 Paul. Baldhead Paul.
And he was working on some sort of document. He was like, hey, PFT, do you have any million-dollar ideas? Because...

Speaker 1 We're about to do a company off-site with the executive committee of Barstool Sports, and I'm wondering if you have anything you can contribute I was like well yeah and I gave him an idea right off the top of my head I won't tell it because someone will steal it and I was like it's kind of weird that that I must have missed the invite on this off-site big planning committee and he said well you can just tell Hank if you have any ideas because he's coming so Hank Hank is apparently a member of the executive team

Speaker 1 of C-Stream company and he's he's getting invited to all the off-sites How's that off-site going to go? Okay, Hank, you can start listening again. I'm done talking.

Speaker 1 You guys knew this.

Speaker 1 I didn't know it. I think I knew it.
Well, I think that

Speaker 1 what do you think when I turn into corporate Hank?

Speaker 1 It is a great storyline. You'd be in corporate Hank.
I mean, it's all the C-levels. Corporate Kane all over again.

Speaker 1 Just walking around. Gaz isn't C-level.
He isn't? You're his boss, too? No, I'm not C-level either. He lives in Miami.

Speaker 1 Wait, so what are the... Are you going to crush it at this meeting? I mean, when it comes to ideas,

Speaker 1 I can rattle off ideas till the night till the lights come off.

Speaker 1 What metrics do

Speaker 1 KPIs we have to hit for you? What do you mean? What KPIs are going to be discussed? I honestly don't even know. Yeah, I don't either.
For youthful listeners, what's an off-site?

Speaker 1 It's where they just literally just spend money to go stay somewhere.

Speaker 1 They go down the street and they just get breakfast delivered. Yeah, it's like a brainstorming meeting just at a different location.
Slightly different location. For all the really important people.

Speaker 1 It really was just right down the street. It was a hotel lobby.

Speaker 1 They just do it so then they can get all the croissants and the fucking for fresh fruit delivered and be like, wow, we're really crushing it, guys.

Speaker 1 That's an off-site. Is this a sleepaway off-site that you're going to be going to? Trust Falls? No.
Are you going to be doing ziplining? I'll be here Tuesday. It's Tuesday morning.

Speaker 1 I can report Tuesday night. And escape ring? Great.
Keep the table clean.

Speaker 1 PFT, your Fire Fest.

Speaker 1 Good one, Billy.

Speaker 1 My Fire Fest is, I had forgotten about this until last week when I was reminded.

Speaker 1 I unretired myself from playing rugby, and

Speaker 1 next Saturday, I have a rugby game that I'm going to be playing in down at JMU

Speaker 1 against whatever, I think we play against the JV team.

Speaker 1 And I said that I had retired after last year because I was able to play like 30 minutes with no injuries. And

Speaker 1 at some point, I decided to unretire that I don't remember. I might have been under the influence of something and was talked into doing it.

Speaker 1 So I committed to doing this. So I will be hopefully coming back in one piece next Sunday after the alumni game.
Hopefully, no bumps, no bruises, no, no broken bones.

Speaker 1 Um, I feel like talking you into one of these is the easiest thing in the world.

Speaker 1 I said no the first time, and then they kept at it, and they're like, yo, all these other guys are going back, and I was like, fine, fuck it, I'll do it. Um, so yeah, it should be fun.

Speaker 1 You're playing the JV team, yeah, well, it's it's like a combination of their B side and a couple guys from their A side.

Speaker 1 They always play against the alumni because it's always on a weekend where our A side has a game scheduled. Like last year, I think we beat Delaware that weekend.

Speaker 1 So we play our game, and then afterwards, is the main game. So, yeah.

Speaker 1 I haven't been running, I haven't been doing any exercise, I've been lifting weights, so I'm going into this like completely unprepared. You got this.

Speaker 1 You're a fucking, you're a beast, dude. I'm a beast.
You're a beast. You're a beast.
I have a reverse fire fest for us. I thought I'd share this story.

Speaker 1 Buffalo Joe's.

Speaker 1 It's in Evanston, uh just north of chicago great wing place awesome wing place you guys are gonna love it uh they hit me up the guy hit me up because uh one of his good friends was in the icu in a uh medically induced paralysis which i that sounds very serious but he said this awl matt is his name shout out matt i think he's doing better but when he woke up He asked to listen to part of my take.

Speaker 1 So I thought that was something we should just, I wanted to share with you guys. One of those stories that's like, fuck, it's awesome.

Speaker 1 It's awesome that people, you know we mean a lot to people and we kind of forget that sometimes so shout out matt um shout out buff joes and yeah that's i mean you could have probably asked for some water first yeah but i'm cool with you just asking to listen to part of my tape yeah that rocks yeah i would have asked for like thunderstruck yeah right as i wake up and then have that maybe lead into a podcast um very cool so yeah reverse firefest also uh my other real firefest is i'm trying to bring wear flannels again and pft said are you doing a kirk cousins costume on monday and it hurt my feelings i I actually, yeah, I walked into the office.

Speaker 1 If you look at the video from

Speaker 1 the show that we just put out, it hurt a lot.

Speaker 1 I actually thought that Big Cat was wearing Kirk Cousins.

Speaker 1 He was like, Oh, I thought it was a bit because it was Halloween, and that, yeah, it hurt. But that's okay.

Speaker 1 I don't know why I went away from flannels for so long because they are so comfortable. I'm back on flannels all the way.
Yeah, I was like, wait, is that Kirk Cousins? You're like, no, I'm just

Speaker 1 trying to get back into flannels.

Speaker 1 I am. I'm getting back.
I'm heavily invested in flannels again. It was a big time like Kohl's cash-ask flannel cousin style that you wore on Monday.
Listen, it looks good.

Speaker 1 It's going to be a transition to being back to wearing buttons. You guys wearing collars always throws me.
Yeah, no, I understand. Like, I understand that I...

Speaker 1 I used to say it about PFT, but then I just became a mirror image of him where it's like, just never put on a collar, always wear sweatshirts and free t-shirts we were given.

Speaker 1 So I just, flannels are so comfortable. Why don't I wear them more? That's what my, it has has nothing to do with look, they're just comfortable.
So I was like, fuck it.

Speaker 1 I'm gonna go out, buy a few flannels, I'm gonna go back into flannels. Billy, you like it? I love flannels.
I try to rock as much part of my take gear as I can when I'm company man. Yeah, just so like

Speaker 1 these blue mountains that are coming out soon, maybe Black Friday. I'm just gonna hint them.
Those are

Speaker 1 pretty awesome. Yeah, you like rock flannels on weekends.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And my Fire Fest

Speaker 1 is

Speaker 1 try not to complain about too many things these days. You're doing awesome.
Yeah. Wait, so that's your Firefest?

Speaker 1 It's Firefest as he doesn't want to be negative. Right.
But

Speaker 1 but

Speaker 1 you don't have a Firefest. My favorite, my favorite.
We lost our basketball game and Billy. No, I didn't lose.
I didn't. Okay.
So we. Whoa, whoa, whoa, all right.
Okay. Now we got top.

Speaker 1 I didn't want to.

Speaker 1 I didn't want to make it two basketball games in a row on Firefest.

Speaker 1 But really, there's an alleyway that goes between a city block from the train station to the office that cuts down the walk from the train station to the office.

Speaker 1 That's got to be a great, great excuse coming up.

Speaker 1 It makes it like literally two minutes, but then you have to go around the city block if you don't use it.

Speaker 1 And it's just, it's a gauntlet. Total war zone.
Oh, yeah. What happened in the basketball game?

Speaker 1 I fouled with a minute left.

Speaker 1 Got free throws. Was it a bad foul? No.

Speaker 1 Were you reaching? This is what happened. We were down.

Speaker 1 We were pressing to tie the game back. You guys guys run a press? Yeah, and it was actually successful.
It was successful. We came back.
Play zone too.

Speaker 1 But this was kind of classic, like rec league basketball. We came back, tied the game, and then kept the pressure on and fouled.
Like, double.

Speaker 1 So did you foul at the end of the shot clock? And then Billy got an offensive foul.

Speaker 1 How much? Which was bullshit. I was going up trying to draw the foul.
How much? And they called the foul on me. Billy, how many times think they got the call right?

Speaker 1 Because you just admitted you were going up for the sole purpose of drawing a foul? Billy,

Speaker 1 so you pressed successfully, then how much time was left in the shot clock when you fouled? There's no shot clock. Okay.
There's none? Why don't you guys play four corners

Speaker 1 when you're up? Well, we were tied. We're not really capable of doing that.
Okay, we tied the game up. We should have just gone, you know, laid off the press.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Just got to stop. We tied the ball back.
We just figured out our zone offense. Nice.
Nice. Yeah.
What? You just put someone at you put a big guy at the foul line? Yeah, and then I run the baseline.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 it's fine yeah

Speaker 1 yeah that's pretty easy zone beater yeah i know but we we reached the point where it was like people we gotta do something yeah yeah we gotta we actually have to pass to the guy standing at the foul line to to to get some people open in the zone i like it um all right jake

Speaker 1 yeah so last night i was at 7-eleven getting powerball tickets at 1.5 billion yeah whoa and the guy asked if i was 18.

Speaker 1 oh really that's good yeah but like no it's good you look i feel like for 21 it's good but 18 is different.

Speaker 1 There's a point in your 20s that you reach where it becomes cool

Speaker 1 to get like, so right now, if you get carded for anything, it's kind of inconvenient. Carded for 21, though, is

Speaker 1 at some point in your 20s.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's true. Did you win? No.
If you win, what are you going to do? Will you give us some? Yeah. Okay, thank you.
Buy the commanders? Yeah, by the commanders. Yeah.
Okay. Oh.

Speaker 1 Well, is that even enough? Yeah. What is it? 1.5 bill? Yeah.
No attacks. Not yet.

Speaker 1 So when when Snyder bought the team, I think he only had like 350 mil of the 700 that he needed, and he financed the rest. You can just borrow the rest.
Yeah, we can borrow the rest. Yeah, it's fair.

Speaker 1 IOU. Yeah.
We'll just, we'll just, you know what? We'll just give an IOU, be like,

Speaker 1 we'll win this again. We'll win the power ball.
We have a system. Don't worry, yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, right. Exactly.
You match the 700 mil

Speaker 1 post-tax. Okay, numbers.

Speaker 1 69.

Speaker 1 I'm so in his head. I wasn't wasn't even planning on saying it.
I'm going to put that back. I wasn't even planning on saying it.

Speaker 1 I'm going to take

Speaker 1 18.

Speaker 1 Everyone have a great weekend. 92.

Speaker 1 Good luck to the Phils, the Fightins.

Speaker 1 What was your number, Hank? 17. I'll go 16.

Speaker 1 What's you? 92. 92, max, 20.

Speaker 1 18 and 69. Oh.

Speaker 1 Hank, have you ever gotten this?

Speaker 1 Have you, though? Nope. You've never even...

Speaker 1 Like, have you ever come in off air and just tested it? No.

Speaker 1 Did you see someone actually gave you the key to the next number and you didn't listen to them?

Speaker 1 70.

Speaker 1 10.

Speaker 1 He got a digit. He got a digit.
Did you see someone told you that? A guy on Hank's stream said, Hank, whatever Roquan Smith picks as his number for the Ravens will be the next number. He picked 18.

Speaker 1 And Hank read it out loud, so he internalized it. So someone gave you the answer, and you still can't count it.
I didn't even know that. Fifth time.
I do remember reading it now, though. Yeah.

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