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Speaker 1 championship Sunday, the Super Bowl has been booked bengals versus rams just like everyone expected at the beginning of the season we're going to recap both games we're going to start with fastest two minutes we have who's back of the week also tom brady retired but maybe not we'll get thoughts from our good friend handsome hank on this emotional emotional time a little talking soccer thrown in there pack show for you on monday football monday only one more of these left after today when cool creamy creamy ranch meets tangy, bold buffalo.

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Speaker 1 Championship Sunday.

Speaker 1 Sunday, Sunday, Sunday.

Speaker 1 We start with the AFC Championship game where Casey and JoJo linked up as Bengal fans have been waiting all their life for someone like Burrow and Mixon.

Speaker 1 Kansas City came out fast as Michael Jackson Mahomes brother said, wannabe starting something, wannabe starting something, and the Chiefs looked like they would beat it, going up 21-3 in the first half.

Speaker 1 But these Tigers stole the show in a manner similar to a Las Vegas residency with Siegfried and Roy. Too soon, boom.

Speaker 1 Jamar Shmello Chase wants more points for the Bengals when he scored in the third quarter, kicking off the incredible comeback.

Speaker 1 And Lindsey Von Bell got his hands all over the ball from a guy who wears red on Sunday in overtime. and Evan McClearson proved he was TSA pre-check on steroids.

Speaker 1 It spreads when he hit his fourth and final field goal to send the Bengals, the Cincinnati Bengals, to the Super Bowl. Huh? Huh? Huh? The Bengals? The Bengals are going to the Super Bowl 27-24.

Speaker 1 Whoop! Whoop!

Speaker 1 In the NFC Championship game in Tinseltown, the stars were on display as Debo Samuel Jackson and Bradley Cooper Cup opened up the scoring.

Speaker 1 Downtown to start the fourth quarter, Sean Gary McVaynerchuck told his whole team, imagine your entire family just died in a car crash. Now go out and win the game.

Speaker 1 And it almost didn't happen, but Jaquiske Tart oops, oops, oops, oops, oops, dropped an easy interception to keep the Rams' hopes alive.

Speaker 1 San Francisco won't be feeling gay tomorrow as Matt kicked the game winner to send the Niners home. This might be the last time I'm putting on this headset, Teach.

Speaker 1 And there's an errant interception by Jimmy Garoppolo to end the game. Rams 20! Niners, 17.

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Speaker 1 We are taping this during my birthday, but you're listening to this during PFT's birthday. Whoa, whoa.
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We do. That's our tradition.

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Actually, subscribe to the YouTube. Yeah, we'll see.

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Speaker 1 I said I always put a lit candle in my mouth and then PFT puts it out with his mouth.

Speaker 3 With my butthole. And then we kiss.

Speaker 1 And it's beautiful.

Speaker 1 That's just what you do when your birthdays are back-to-back. All right.
Birthdays.

Speaker 3 Great. Let's just do a full show about it being our birthday.

Speaker 1 I'm so depressed.

Speaker 1 Birthdays suck. You had good presents?

Speaker 1 Yeah, the dab from George Kittle was sick. We'll get to that.
But I mean, yeah, it was whatever.

Speaker 1 Like, you're going to be.

Speaker 1 What's the old saying? You only get 20 birthdays

Speaker 1 in your life. Isn't that Patton Oswald said that? You get like 20 birthdays.

Speaker 3 Yeah, you celebrate.

Speaker 3 I've never heard that before, but it makes sense that you would start celebrating around 6 would be the right time to start. And then probably, you probably even don't get 20 birthdays.

Speaker 3 Maybe after you get old, when you turn 100, you get a birthday then.

Speaker 1 Yeah, when you're like 3 to, I don't know, 15, and then you get your 21st, your 25th, 30, 40, those birthdays. 37 is

Speaker 1 in terms of the birthday scale, it ranks at the very bottom.

Speaker 3 Way down. It's the saddest birthday.

Speaker 1 It's a really nothing bird.

Speaker 3 I would actually say that when

Speaker 3 we should be able to subtract two years from our age. These last two years should not have two years.

Speaker 1 On top of the 10 you've already subtracted.

Speaker 3 Yeah, yeah. So I'm 25 now.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I'm 25. I'm comfortable in 37.
I'm old. I'm washed.

Speaker 3 Who cares? I've actually just been thinking about being 37 ever since I turned 36. So this will be, it's like I get two years.
Yeah. The age of 37.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Billy did ask.

Speaker 3 Billy did ask if we were seriously turning 37 or if that was just a bit that we were doing.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he's been eyeing us up for a long time. He's just been looking at us like, all right, these guys carry the two.
Big Cat will be dead by 42. BFT will probably, it's like twins dying.

Speaker 1 He'll die like four days after.

Speaker 3 My heart will just give out.

Speaker 1 I will say, though,

Speaker 3 in my 37 years on Earth, I never expected to see the Cincinnati Bengals in the Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 But here they are. Incredible, yes.
Even though they've been there. Yeah.

Speaker 1 What a fucking game. Let's start with the AFC Championship game.
The Cincinnati Bengals are going to the Super Bowl. Joe Burrow.

Speaker 3 Let's clap it up for the city of Cincinnati.

Speaker 1 Unbelievable. What a run.

Speaker 1 Incredible, incredible performance.

Speaker 1 They come back second half. It was basically identical to the week 17 game where it looked like the Chiefs were going to run them out of the building.
It's 21-3.

Speaker 1 They get a touchdown to end the first half, and then the Chiefs go all the way down.

Speaker 1 And I, the only thing I can think of is they just like the Chiefs get greedy.

Speaker 1 They get times where they get greedy, and they got greedy with five seconds left running a play that ran out the clock instead of running a play to the end zone and then kicking a field goal.

Speaker 1 Like a minor victory for the Bengals going into half that we all thought, like, oh, okay, maybe we'll keep it close. No, no, no.
The Bengals basically use that to catapult.

Speaker 1 Their defense was insane in the second half.

Speaker 1 So the first half, the Chiefs go on drives: 84 yards, 75 yards, 72 yards, all touchdown drives, 80 yards for that last drive that they then get stopped at the one.

Speaker 1 In the second half, they had five drives, 34 total yards, two first downs. They got completely bottled up.
It was an incredible performance by the Bengals defense. And then you add in Joey B.

Speaker 1 Joe Cool.

Speaker 1 Like what he did, I think the game was actually decided with his running on those two third downs in the fourth quarter there was third and six and a third and seven where there was no one open and he ran and he got like escaped sacks and made big plays and the bengals are going to the super bowl so going back to the first half when you were talking about that drive at the very end of it where there was actually

Speaker 3 there was too much time on the clock for patrick mahomes yes to the point where they did the thing that the chiefs do from time to time and they got cute with it at the end.

Speaker 3 They got the Chiefs, as much as we've joked about the Chiefs like to get cute with it and and they're too cute to play football sometimes. It actually happened today.

Speaker 3 The Chiefs officially got too cute with it. This is what being too cute looks like.
They like to play with their food before they eat it sometimes. Yes.

Speaker 3 And they got caught by a mouse that wasn't quite dead.

Speaker 1 Well, so it's crazy. This is going to sound crazy because you obviously don't want, if you're playing defense, you don't want the other team to score.

Speaker 1 But if you look, yes, this is a Trent Doe for a moment. But if you look at what the Chiefs did,

Speaker 1 the first half, they

Speaker 1 tried to rush more, tried to blitz a little bit. They let up some big plays.

Speaker 1 The Chiefs were rolling. In the second half, the Bengals just dropped eight pretty much the entire second half, covered everyone, did an insane job in coverage.

Speaker 1 And it felt like Patrick Mahomes actually admitted it after the game that he was not taking some of the easier stuff and trying to hit it deep and trying to hit those big plays.

Speaker 3 He's heard all the talk about him being a check down artist. Yes,

Speaker 1 and it got right in his head.

Speaker 1 but there's something to be said they they basically gave them one look in the first half and a completely different one in the second half where they almost lulled them into a false sense of security where it's like they can they can beat the bengals deep and then the bengals did the reverse in the second half and you saw the chiefs offense completely fall apart well they they dropped a lot of guys deep and then sam hubbard turned it up a little bit in the second half their pass rush kind of came alive and they got to them there was like multiple times where they just everyone was covered it was crazy to see because you don't usually see the chiefs getting like with all their weapons, but the Bengals were incredible defensively in the second half.

Speaker 3 And there's something about Mahomes in the pocket on plays like that where you have a team that drops everybody into coverage.

Speaker 3 Mahomes, when he does like the three consecutive spin moves, every time he does that, I'm like, well, this is going to go for six. It's about to be a bomb after he gets out of it.

Speaker 3 But they did such a good job covering him on the back end.

Speaker 3 They were able to limit some of the bigger plays that they had in the first half when it was like the Chiefs were doing the paint by numbers thing where Andy Reid was like, all right, just throw 17 yards to Kelsey real quick.

Speaker 3 And then they go out and execute that. All right, throw 30 yards to Hill real quick.
Okay, I'll do that.

Speaker 3 And Eli Apple looked like dog shit in the first half, but it kind of changed, it turned around when Eli Apple got that tackle from Tyreek Hill.

Speaker 1 That play

Speaker 3 changed the entire outcome of the game. And we got some drama going on, some this league drama

Speaker 3 between Eli Apple and Tyreek Hill after the fact.

Speaker 3 So Eli Apple quote tweeted his one good play of the game where he tackled Tyreek Hill and called him a baby, which is very funny funny when you're as small as Tyreek Hill.

Speaker 3 Like, if somebody calls me a baby, that plays. Yes.
That's just a good insult. And then Tyreek Hill has said, hit my line.
No beef on Twitter. Let's talk this out in real life.
I like that.

Speaker 3 So Eli Apple is going to hit up the baby monitor that Tyreek Hill accused

Speaker 1 next to his crib.

Speaker 3 Yes. And talk this out.
But in the second half, Joe Burrow, like he's, we'd say how cool he is a lot. And I...
I wanted to figure out different ways to say that Joe Burrow was cool.

Speaker 3 But really, you just have to say how cool he is.

Speaker 1 That's it.

Speaker 3 He's so cool that I'm not cool enough to describe how cool he is because I would just sound like a nerd if I tried.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and I'm not a big fan of the Joe Burrrr.

Speaker 1 I don't fuck people or Joe Burr.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I don't. Sounds like you can't roll your R's.
Joe Burr.

Speaker 1 I think he got hijacked.

Speaker 1 Joe Burr.

Speaker 1 It's like a machine gun.

Speaker 1 I just think he's Joe cool. I love a nickname that,

Speaker 1 like, it was obviously Joe Montana's nickname, and he he deserved it, but Joe Burrow deserves it as well.

Speaker 1 Joe Burrow just went and fucking had two back-to-back road playoff games where he drove his team down late in the fourth quarter.

Speaker 1 He's, and it was, like, those two scrambles, they, they, that changed the game.

Speaker 3 He was able to keep them a lot. Jersey Jerry was next to us when we were watching it, and he said he looks like young Big Ben a little bit there.

Speaker 3 Yeah, take that with a gray of salt because anytime a quarterback does something good, Jerry's going to be like, that reminds me of Big Ben.

Speaker 3 But he actually does look like young Big Ben when he was a little bit more mobile and was able to get around.

Speaker 3 And the way that he's not afraid to just like run at somebody, fall forward after he gets hit.

Speaker 1 And like there was a couple times where it like Chris Jones, that one time where Chris Jones is basically hanging on Joe Burrow and he was able to keep the play alive.

Speaker 1 And on top of all that, like you lose your tight end, Uzama, like in the first quarter,

Speaker 1 you knew the Chiefs were going to do what they did to Stefan Diggs with Jamar Chase.

Speaker 1 Like they were going to try to put everyone on him because they weren't going to let him get 250 yards or whatever he had in week 17. But then Joe Burrow found T.

Speaker 1 Higgins a bunch of times for big plays.

Speaker 3 He's basically a tight end.

Speaker 1 It's crazy.

Speaker 1 It was such a gutsy, like, I'm not afraid moment. Why would he be afraid? He's been in these big games before, but it was like, you just, and it's got to be so deflating.

Speaker 1 Like that Chris Jones play when you think that you have them stopped. And Joe Burrow, who's not known for his like legs, but he makes two huge, it was third and six.
He had a seven-yard run.

Speaker 1 Third and seven, he had an 11-yard run.

Speaker 1 Both of those plays in Kansas City Territory, where if that gets stopped, like the game completely changes because then you have to punt and the Chiefs maybe find a way to get some offense going.

Speaker 1 That drive ends up being their field goal. And yeah, I mean,

Speaker 1 like, people were saying that the Chiefs choked, and we can get to that, but I think it was more the Bengals defense was just stepped up in such an incredible way and played lights out in the the second half.

Speaker 1 You could say, like, you could be like, oh, yeah, Mahomes choked. I just think, I think the defense was that good.

Speaker 3 I actually think the Chiefs just had, they had a letdown half in the second half. It happened in the second half.
It happened in the second half because in the first half, everything was working.

Speaker 3 They could have screwed up every play call that they brought in the first half, and it was going to work out. That's just kind of how it felt.

Speaker 3 Where somebody was going to be open, Mahomes was hitting people in stride. But then once Mahomes kind of gets like that, when he has a little bit of doubt, he misses a lot of easy throws.

Speaker 3 He gets off schedule, and he's no longer Patrick Mahomes.

Speaker 1 And I said in the overtime, I was like, Mahomes gonna throw an interception.

Speaker 1 The next play was the one that Eli Apple dropped, and then the next play was an interception because you could just feel it. You could feel that something wasn't right, that he wasn't seeing it.

Speaker 1 And he tried to do that. I'm Patrick Mahomes, I'm gonna throw it deep to Tyreek Hill.
In what ended up being the interception, and the Bengals winning the game. I

Speaker 1 all right. So I have a take.
I want to hear what you guys think.

Speaker 1 I think that this loss for the Chiefs is more heartbreaking than the Bills loss.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Because here's why. I disagree.
The Bills went shot for shot. They gave it their all.
They played like a perfect game. They almost beat the Chiefs.
The Chiefs were up at halftime.

Speaker 1 Before halftime, they're on the fucking five-yard line, 21 to 10.

Speaker 1 They're about to put the Bengals away, go to the Super Bowl,

Speaker 1 and that all falls apart. Like that, to me,

Speaker 1 is a game that you just keep replaying in your head. And then, not only that, we didn't even talk about this.
The fact that the Chiefs at the end of the game were down.

Speaker 1 Romo had them basically in the end zone, was talking about how the Bengals should let him score. They'll win this thing.

Speaker 3 When the Bengals had the ball with like 11 minutes left, Tony Romo was like, the Bengals are going to take it down and probably kick a field goal here.

Speaker 3 And then the Chiefs are just going to go down and score with the last possession. So you got to think this game might actually be over at this point.

Speaker 1 But think about it. They have that first down at Travis Kelsey that was basically the perfect play where they get the first down.
The Bengals have to use both their timeouts. So now the clock is gone.

Speaker 1 Like

Speaker 1 the Chiefs are either going to kick a field goal or win the game in regulation.

Speaker 1 If you're a Chiefs fan, like, again, the Bills game is heartbreaking, but you know, like, all right, we went shot for shot. It didn't work out because Patrick Mahomes was ridiculous.

Speaker 1 If you're a Chiefs fan, you're now sitting there being like, we had first and goal from the five to go to the Super Bowl and we didn't score a touchdown twice because they had it at the end of the first half.

Speaker 1 At the end of both halves, they had first and goal from the five-yard line and they didn't score any points or they scored a field goal in the second half, but they didn't go to the Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 Like, that will haunt you forever. I know this is going to be mean to Chiefs fans.
I think that would haunt me way worse.

Speaker 3 I don't think it's worse just because

Speaker 3 of the two words, 13 seconds.

Speaker 3 There were 13, if you're a Bills fan, there were 13 seconds left in the game.

Speaker 1 You're on the 13. You're on the step to the, you're, you're right there to the Super Bowl.

Speaker 3 If you've never been there, if the Chiefs have it, Tom has never been there, then I could say that it's probably worse.

Speaker 1 But you got to start, like, this is now four straight AFC championship games at home, and Patrick Mahomes had a chance to win a second Super Bowl as fast as Tom Brady did.

Speaker 1 And like, that's where, if you want to do perspective, that's fine. But the reality is Chiefs fans know this.
You have Patrick Mahomes, who is the best quarterback in the NFL.

Speaker 1 You're playing for different stakes now. It's not like, oh, I'm happy we won one Super Bowl.
You got to win multiple Super Bowls. Like, this is, this is mean again to Chiefs fans? At least get there.

Speaker 1 This is reality. Like, this is what you're living with now.
And you were at home on the five-yard line, first and goal, and you didn't score a touchdown with your offense.

Speaker 1 And again, I'm not taking anything away from the Bengals. The Bengals deserve to win.

Speaker 1 I'm saying that would haunt me so much worse than what the Bills had to go with because the Bills were like, it was just, the Bills got got beat by Patrick Mahomes in an incredible fashion.

Speaker 1 If you're a Chiefs fan, you're sitting there like, How did we not score? We fucked that up. How did that happen?

Speaker 3 I think it's going to be one of those things where in 10 years, you'll look back at this run that you had and you'll just chalk this one up, like, oh, yeah, the Bengals.

Speaker 3 We should have made it to that Super Bowl because it was the Bengals that we were playing at home.

Speaker 1 If they don't win a couple more Super Bowls,

Speaker 3 you're going to look back at that as being like one of the ones that you definitely should have had. I don't think it's bad.
It's not as bad as the Bills one.

Speaker 3 It's just not. 13 seconds left at the end of regulation.
You like first goal on the five. You had them beat if you're the Bills.
21-3.

Speaker 1 You've 21-3 and half. Listen, Donald.
First and goal on the five.

Speaker 3 It's bad.

Speaker 3 I'm not arguing that.

Speaker 1 It's a great Monday.

Speaker 1 And it's also like, now you're thinking about it this way. The AFC,

Speaker 1 like, if you look, and I know everyone's been tweeting it, but it deserves to be repeated. Like, you have Burrow, you have Allen, you have Mahomes, you have Herbert, you have Lamar Jackson, Mac Jones.

Speaker 1 Like, you have some, maybe Aaron Rodgers going to the Broncos. Like, you have some insane quarterbacks that look like they're going to be franchise guys for the next 10 to 15 years.

Speaker 1 It ain't going to be easy every year. And you were up 21-3 and you had first and goal from the five.
Again, Chiefs fans, I'm sorry, because

Speaker 1 this is just what I thought coming out of this game. I was like, if you're a Chiefs fan, that loss will haunt you.

Speaker 3 I actually don't think that this is as bad as the offsides. against the Patriots, where you actually won the game.

Speaker 1 Everyone was a lot younger.

Speaker 3 But you were lined up

Speaker 1 a lot younger. Right.
That's what I was like.

Speaker 1 You You literally won. They were the contenders going against the greatest of all time.

Speaker 1 They're the powerhouse going against a second-year QB at home. You should win that, especially if you're up 21 to 30.
Also,

Speaker 3 if you beat Tom Brady on the way to a Super Bowl, and then you win a Super Bowl.

Speaker 3 And you can always look back on that and be like, well, our guy just lined up offsides. I think that one's even worse.

Speaker 1 But, PFT, Travis Kelsey's 32.

Speaker 1 Patrick Mahomes' huge monster contract is about to start hitting in.

Speaker 1 They're not going to have to be.

Speaker 3 I'm just talking about the losses compared to the losses. Not putting in the perspective of, well, how many more years do we have in this window?

Speaker 1 I just think like the next day after the Patriots was probably worse.

Speaker 1 But I'm doing this one. You won the game.

Speaker 3 You literally won that game.

Speaker 1 I think this one they're going to like that

Speaker 1 in overtime. You don't know how many years.
Yeah, they did.

Speaker 3 Patrick Mahomes didn't get to touch the ball, right?

Speaker 1 This core, like all these guys, it's

Speaker 1 brutal. They were also really cocky when they won the coin flip.
You got it. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Yeah, well, we dodged a bullet because I believe the bengals sent their kicker out there to call the coin flip that's that's up number one was it oh was it allen i think so i think it was brandon allen okay so they they sent they sent brandon allen out there

Speaker 3 the whole world knew that that call was going to we knew the coin was going to land tails it landed heads last week anyone with a remedial understanding of probability knew that tails was the play this week it was statistically due they called heads it was tails and like we said last week i can live with losing a coin toss if I call tails and it's heads.

Speaker 3 I can't live with calling heads and it winds up being tails.

Speaker 3 So it looked for a little bit like it was going to be another situation where the opposing quarterback doesn't touch the ball and the Chiefs win in overtime.

Speaker 3 And then everybody spends an entire week, actually two weeks now, debating the rules of overtime.

Speaker 3 But instead, you know, ball don't lie a little bit.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Billy?

Speaker 4 I think that the Kansas City loss is way worse than the Bills loss.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Being with Big Hat because a collapse is way worse.

Speaker 1 It's

Speaker 1 yeah, to me, losses, like when losses really, really sting is when you can just sit there and just be like, wait, first and goal from the five and we're the Chiefs and we didn't score and like Romo was like there was actually a realistic possibility when we're sitting there watching the game where we thought maybe the Bengals would try to let them score.

Speaker 1 Like that was actually a real conversation that probably the Bengals were having where they were just like, you know, let's figure out the clock here.

Speaker 1 It's right after that Travis Kelsey first down where he basically got like an inch over the first down line, then erased the clock. I just,

Speaker 1 that would fucking

Speaker 3 kill me.

Speaker 3 If you look at the history of the NFL and say, what's the win probability difference between having a lead and going up against a team with first and five going into the end zone versus having a lead and going up against a team with 13 seconds left and you're kicking off?

Speaker 3 Probably way less likely that the 13 seconds one is more dangerous.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that probability for sure. But you also have another game.

Speaker 1 You're going to the Super Bowl. You're home.
You're going to the Super Bowl. Like everyone's rocking.

Speaker 1 Again, maybe Chiefs fans who are brave enough to listen to this podcast today can let us know which one

Speaker 1 would hurt more. But this one, if I were a Chiefs fan, would destroy me.

Speaker 1 And you were popping champagne after the divisional round. Yeah, and you're popping champagne after the divisional.

Speaker 3 You're pouring champagne on the round.

Speaker 1 And you also had three plays. Like the fact in that last play where Patrick Mahomes has to scramble and you're thinking to yourself, oh, maybe we'll get it.

Speaker 1 And then he fumbles, like the whole thing would just haunt you.

Speaker 1 And then you can, that's not even bringing into the fact that if you had kicked a field goal at the end of the first half, everything could have been different there, too.

Speaker 3 It would have been very funny if Coacho was in the suite directly above Brittany Mahomes and he's just like sort of pouring hand grenades out on her. Yeah.
Just trying to celebrate there.

Speaker 3 What do you say, Jake?

Speaker 1 One thing you guys are forgetting about the Chiefs is against all odds, they're never supposed to be here. They were never supposed supposed to make it this far, but against all odds, they did.

Speaker 1 What a season. Thank you for the incredible Rye.
We will always be Chiefs' Kingdom. Nobody tweeted that? At KMBC, their local news station.

Speaker 3 No one believed in us.

Speaker 1 No one thought we could be here.

Speaker 3 Even when you sucked, everybody knew that the Chiefs were probably the best team when they played house money to play. It is kind of house money for them.

Speaker 1 What a terrible hangover that would be, too, because you probably got so drunk in the first half

Speaker 1 when you're just rolling down the Bengals and it looked like it was going to be easy all day.

Speaker 3 You You think Andy Reid gives himself some

Speaker 3 consolation chocolate pie? Maybe just like a small slice.

Speaker 1 Wow, man. People are definitely planning out trips to the

Speaker 1 techs for flying.

Speaker 3 They probably had the tickets. Lucky flights.

Speaker 1 A year ago, yeah. Yes.
No, at all. And then the Bengals, again, the Bengals deserve to win this game.
I'm just talking from like a Chiefs fan perspective of how awful is this loss.

Speaker 1 I think it's got to be really, really, really high up there.

Speaker 3 I think it's also fair to ask, does this happen if the Chiefs don't ban X Factor from the stadium

Speaker 3 in the middle of the year? That's a good question. I don't know.

Speaker 3 Where has he been? Is he sneaking in?

Speaker 1 It's a good question. Yeah, he's undercover as a real person.

Speaker 3 Who's going in? Shout out to X Factor.

Speaker 4 He's four months sober.

Speaker 3 Oh, nice. Oh, which four months are those? Not sure.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 We're fans of X Factor's work towards sobriety because

Speaker 1 I think that's probably a good thing for him.

Speaker 3 I got a question for you about Zach Taylor, because I think now officially America is going to learn what Zach Taylor looks like.

Speaker 1 Correct.

Speaker 3 Even though he's been an NFL head coach for, what, this is his third year?

Speaker 1 He does not get as much camera time as the other coaches.

Speaker 3 Well, I think that the cameraman can't find him on the sidelines.

Speaker 3 If he walked into this office right now and sat down in the lobby, not wearing any Bengals gear,

Speaker 3 would you recognize him?

Speaker 1 I think I would. At this point, yes.
I think I'd. A month ago, no.

Speaker 3 I think I'd be like, wow, Patrick Reed lost a lot of weight. He looks fantastic.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 he's now will have his shot. He absolutely will.

Speaker 1 The quarterbacks to beat Patrick Mahomes in the playoffs now. Tom Brady, Tom Brady, Joe Burrow.

Speaker 3 That's the list. Pretty good list.

Speaker 1 Pretty good list. I mean, Joe Burrow.
And then afterwards, Joe Burrow, when they asked him about his chains, if there was real jewelry, real diamonds.

Speaker 1 And he's like, I make too much money for these not to be real. He's just, everything about him is cool.
Everything about him is like...

Speaker 1 It's just, it's got to be such an incredible feeling if you're a Bengals fan to know even when you're down.

Speaker 1 And I know you probably were freaking out because no one in their right mind was like, 21-3, this is going well. But Joe Burrow.

Speaker 1 What was he saying?

Speaker 3 Oh, yeah, Florio cursed him big time.

Speaker 1 What did he say? I did give, listen, Bengals fans, I have, we're in a peace treaty now. I did give out the thanks for coming out, Bengals, which was,

Speaker 1 everything turned on the Chiefs from that point on. So the real Bengals fans know that I helped them out in this game to

Speaker 1 my own detriment with the teas of the year.

Speaker 3 Some are saying the Cincinnati chili birthday cake had something to do with it as well. Also,

Speaker 1 a lot of stuff.

Speaker 3 We pulled our weight on part of my take for the city of Cincinnati. I did.
I'm very, very, very happy for all the Bengals fans out there. You haven't had anything to cheer about.

Speaker 1 It's crazy. Ever.

Speaker 3 Like, congratulations.

Speaker 3 If you're my age or younger, you've never seen the Bengals be good. The peak of your Bengals fandom was Andy Dalton.

Speaker 1 Yeah, on a Saturday afternoon.

Speaker 3 On a Saturday afternoon.

Speaker 1 That's about it. Floro said, game's not over, obviously, but it would be almost impossible for anyone to beat Mahomes and the Chiefs today from any era.

Speaker 3 Oh, he crowned him.

Speaker 1 From any era.

Speaker 3 He said the GOAT team. Damn.

Speaker 1 Turns out the 85 Bears defense showed up in the second half. I can't get over that defensive performance, though, because, like,

Speaker 1 again, I don't think it's

Speaker 1 like...

Speaker 1 Their offense was bad, but it was a large part because the Bengals' defense, what they changed up and how they changed it up, they were incredible against the Chiefs.

Speaker 1 And you know, like, when the Chiefs' offense starts to look broken, it gets like ugly fast. We're like, ooh, this is not looking good.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 3 it looks like a toddler riding a speed bike. Yeah.
Because you think that things should be able to happen and happen quickly, and where it doesn't, you're just like puzzled.

Speaker 1 Yeah, where's the touchdown play? Why aren't they doing the touchdown? Yeah, this is off. Wait, Patrick also has this to throw.

Speaker 3 Do you think that there's a small part of Mike Brown, the owner of the Bengals, that's a little bit pissed off that he has to pay for all this travel to the Super School.

Speaker 1 Definitely the guy who's still, for people who don't know, the Bengals and Bengals fans will be nodding along for this part. Cheapest owner

Speaker 1 in the NFL. The Bengals practice facility.
When we went to Cincinnati to interview Andy Dalton, their practice facility is, they don't have an indoor practice facility. Maybe that's changed.

Speaker 1 I don't think it has. I don't think so.
You have to walk across a street. to go to their practice facility from their locker room.

Speaker 1 So it's like, it's a hilarious sight because it's literally their team is walking across, like it's almost like high school.

Speaker 1 It's recess in elementary school where everyone's like holding on to a rope and they're walking across the street and that's where they practice. And if there's lightning, they don't practice.

Speaker 1 It's crazy.

Speaker 3 He absolutely is considering selling the team just in this week.

Speaker 1 Like sell high.

Speaker 3 This is the time to sell. You don't have to buy that all those blocks of hotel rooms for the Super Bowl for, you know, for staffers.

Speaker 3 You know how you always hear about certain owners being like, well, guess what they did?

Speaker 3 They're paying for every every staffer, the guy that washes the cars, the guy that sits behind the receptionist desk. We're paying for everybody plus one to go to the Super Bowl.

Speaker 3 Brown is like, hey, if you're not on the team, like, I know a good bar that you can go to.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you know what? We'll get a, we'll get a jumbotron out at the park.

Speaker 3 Yeah, we'll, yeah, we'll set up a big screen out in the field. Yeah.
Bring your own folding chairs, though.

Speaker 1 Yeah, exactly. Maybe, maybe, maybe like hot dogs.

Speaker 3 $7 for beers. Royal hot dogs.

Speaker 1 $7 for beers. We'll give away free hot dogs.
What do you say, Jake? Luckily, American Airlines is creating flight number nine in honor of Joe Burrow to take fans non-stop from Cincinnati to L.A.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 1 Super Bowl. Okay, yeah.

Speaker 3 That's good sports business reporting there, Jake. Thank you.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that is huge. And it's crazy.
The Bengals, we said it on Friday's show. When they get to the championship game, they win it.
They're 3-0 in championship games.

Speaker 1 Bengals fans have to feel a little bit of a relief that the Niners lost because that would have been a little eerie that you have three times in your franchise history that you get to the AFC championship game, win it to go to the Super Bowl, and all three times you face the Niners over like many, many years.

Speaker 1 That would be crazy.

Speaker 1 But they aren't. They're going against the Rams.

Speaker 3 Terrible, terrible uniform matchup game. If it was the Bengals against the Niners, that would be an 11 out of 10.
But Bengals against the Rams.

Speaker 1 The Rams wear white. It could be good.
Yeah, the Rams,

Speaker 1 the Bengals wear orange or black. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Oh, black versus. Yeah.
The Bengals going black and the Rams going white would be good. Although the Rams going gray would be terrible.

Speaker 3 Those are the

Speaker 3 gray. They're going to do that weird color.

Speaker 1 In honor of Dak Prescott, he finally made the Super Bowl.

Speaker 3 I have some Cincinnati facts. People sent me a lot of Cincinnati facts.
We've been trying to keep up with the city of Cincinnati on this podcast in the playoffs.

Speaker 3 And they have the most average facts that I've ever heard. This is what I love about Cincinnati.

Speaker 1 Some fan, Bengals fan, offered me the pig. Or was it a pig? A wolf.
The Stalin wolf. Oh, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 No, not Stalin. It was gifted to them

Speaker 3 by Benito Mussolini, and I've learned that the wolf is allowing Romulus and Remus to suckle on its teeth the two twins that founded Rome.

Speaker 1 So some Bengal fan said that I get that because of the things coming out Bengal's tweet. So I'm going to take that up.
I'm sure he has the power to give it to me. Are they allowed to?

Speaker 1 I think they are.

Speaker 3 I'll pick it up on the way. I want it.
So here's some Cincinnati facts. One.
The magic eight ball was invented in Cincinnati.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's cool.

Speaker 3 That's a fun fact. Cincinnati fact number two.

Speaker 3 That's where they invented sliced bread. That one might be fake.
Somebody might be pulling my chain. Yeah.
Cincinnati fact number three.

Speaker 3 Cincinnati is home to the world's only ventriloquist museum.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's cool. That's creepy.
That's cool. I guess that's cool.
No, that's cool.

Speaker 1 I think that's cool. So that concludes.
There's only one.

Speaker 3 Yeah, it's the only one. That concludes Cincinnati Facts.

Speaker 1 I mean, Bengals fans, this is two weeks of basically your winter got eliminated because you now have no winter. You just have Bengals like buy all the shirts, buy all the gear.

Speaker 3 Charles Manson was born there, too.

Speaker 1 That's fun. Okay, that is fun.
Go out to L.A.

Speaker 1 Charles Manson loved L.A.

Speaker 3 on flight nine.

Speaker 1 Yeah, this is it. This is just enjoy every second of this.
This is fucking insane. And Chris Collinsworth is calling the Super Bowl, so you might, maybe he'll be like a homer for you guys.

Speaker 1 Good storylines, yeah. Yeah, this will, and we also.
And they'll probably have, they'll have the crowd. They'll have the crowd advantage.

Speaker 1 Oh, they better, yeah, yes, because I, yes, that absolutely is true. I think anyone would have had it over L.A.
I mean, there were so many Niner fans.

Speaker 3 What if it was the Dolphins and the Rams?

Speaker 1 I'd say they'd probably be equal.

Speaker 3 Just people wearing neutral.

Speaker 1 Oh, there'd be Miami. Miami got money.
The people out there,

Speaker 1 they would get out there. Tuanon would be out there buying up all the seats.
One last thing I had for this game. And the Bengals, again, like,

Speaker 1 I still am in a little bit of shock that they were able to do that in the second half. Incredible.

Speaker 1 And it's good. I'm going to root my dick off for the Bengals against the Rams.
The Niners would have been a difficult one because I love Kittle.

Speaker 1 But who's not rooting for the Bengals in this Super Bowl?

Speaker 3 We are officially Bengals.

Speaker 1 The world is rooting for the Bengals in this Super Bowl. You think Lions fans are? Lions fans? Yeah, the city of Detroit and

Speaker 1 whatever part of L.A.

Speaker 1 has Rams fans, they're rooting for the Rams. Also, Cleveland Browns fans had the worst day of non-participating teams.

Speaker 3 That's true.

Speaker 1 They were catching ricochets left and right. Odell the Bengals.

Speaker 3 Who's LeBron rooting for? We need to figure that out. Oh.

Speaker 4 He storied Joe Burrow's picture of him in the LeBron jersey.

Speaker 1 Oh, he's probably a young, he reminds me of a young LeBron.

Speaker 3 But he's the biggest Odell Beckham fan there is. Yeah.

Speaker 1 He's a big fan. That's going to be tough.
I think Odell Beckham is actually a fan of

Speaker 1 the split jersey.

Speaker 4 It's hard when you have a lot of friends in both sides of the suit.

Speaker 1 That's true. We were dealing with that when Kittle was

Speaker 1 the miners.

Speaker 3 Not so dissimilar after all. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Jared. Yeah, and Jared.
So, the last thing I had to say about this game, and I'm not looking for anyone to pat us on the back.

Speaker 1 I'm not looking for anyone to be like, oh, pardon my take, you guys are always right, because we're not always right. We're wrong a lot of times.

Speaker 1 We've never been more right about anything in the history of this podcast than we are about Tony Romo.

Speaker 1 Yeah. America has finally come around to what we were getting made fun of four or five years ago.
Like,

Speaker 3 like he was singing on a fourth down.

Speaker 1 He was like Frank the Tank. Dude,

Speaker 1 he had the Chiefs in the end zone. They're like, oh, the Chiefs are going to score here.

Speaker 1 I wish we could have bought stock

Speaker 1 in that Romo's overrated. And again, he's not like the worst.
It's not like it's the worst thing to listen to. I just think he's wildly overrated.

Speaker 1 And I think Aikman and Collinsworth are better than him. And we have never been more right than we are about this.

Speaker 1 I think what you were saying about Aaron Rodgers and Brett Farvo where it's like they you know make him the king of the organization like they gave Tony Romos so much money like you're so good.

Speaker 1 So he thinks everyone wants to hear what he has to say every single time.

Speaker 1 And it's like no matter what it just gives some analysis but he goes on these long rants and predictions of things that just don't happen.

Speaker 1 And like sometimes we just want to hear the crowd and Jim Nance's voice. Like that's that's it.
Sometimes that's really fun to just hear the crowd.

Speaker 3 You know what I really like when the camera starts to zoom in from a very wide angle onto a play as it's about as the ball is about to be snapped and then you all you hear is just Jim Mance going here we go yeah but then Tony Robo goes oh here we go Jim

Speaker 3 he called at one point I think the exact quote was Joe Burrow's brain is soft and quiet Okay.

Speaker 1 It's like, what?

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 What are we talking about, Tony?

Speaker 1 Don't need credit, but just I think people will listen to this.

Speaker 1 You know what? I'm not even asking for people who hated on us for this take to come forward.

Speaker 1 Just silently nod to yourself and be like you know what those guys they might have been right when they when they said this four years ago when everyone we got we got roasted for that remember well we got accused of hating something that people liked only to hate it it's like no no no we're calling it like we see it the guy is too much on a broadcast he doesn't let it breathe he never lets it breathe you gotta let it breathe a little bit tony and if he wants to come on this podcast we i don't i'll say he won't say it to his face i'll say it to his face actually i'd say it to his face i would just try to get him to go i don't know, I don't know.

Speaker 3 He did make a good joke about snapping the ball on third down when you're trying for a field goal at the end of a game. Yeah.
That way, you can spike it if it's a bad snap or a bad hold.

Speaker 3 That was funny.

Speaker 1 Because he knows about it from the game. He knows about it from the game in the Seahawks.

Speaker 3 Cowboys.

Speaker 1 That was a wet ball.

Speaker 3 That was a very wet ball.

Speaker 3 He was also slow running to the end. He got caught from behind.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he was.

Speaker 1 I mean, we have one last hurdle to jump in. our vindication of the Tony Romo take.
And you guys know what it is.

Speaker 1 Jake, would you like to say anything about about Tony Romo?

Speaker 1 Do you have any words? Do you like him? Can you say anything negative? I'm more of a play-by-play guy myself.

Speaker 1 Could you envision

Speaker 1 if Jake ever says anything bad about Tony Romo, then we absolutely are right.

Speaker 3 Could you envision yourself working with somebody that spoke as much as Tony Romo?

Speaker 1 As a play-by-play broadcaster, you're supposed to tee things up for your analysts and let them take over. You're not supposed to take the spotlight.

Speaker 3 What about sometimes when it's going to commercial and then Tony says, let's kick it to commercial, Jim. Yeah.
And he tells Jim how to do it.

Speaker 1 Stay in his lane.

Speaker 1 Okay, you're lane.

Speaker 1 Stay in your lane. Stay in your lane.

Speaker 1 Jake's take. That is meanest your role.
I'll ever be.

Speaker 1 Know your role. Stay in your lane.

Speaker 3 Stay in your lane, bitch.

Speaker 1 All right. Well,

Speaker 1 before we get to Rams Niners, though, do we have anything else about the Bengals?

Speaker 1 The Bengals, if they could figure out a way to get a little bit better offensive line before the Super Bowl, that would be great.

Speaker 1 That would make me feel a lot more confident in me rooting for the Bengals. I'm going to bet on that.

Speaker 3 Here's a dumb thought that I had when I was watching this game.

Speaker 3 Could having a bad offensive line sometimes be a little bit of an advantage where you just know, you know, if you're Joe Burrow on those plays like that, third and six, third and seven, that

Speaker 3 those guys are going to be, yeah, either get the ball quick or those guys are going to be in the backfield so quickly that you can almost run a design draw without even calling a draw. Right.

Speaker 3 Because they're going to be there already. That's true.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, it's, yeah, knowing your person. I think he probably

Speaker 1 would

Speaker 1 prefer a better offensive line.

Speaker 3 Probably.

Speaker 1 but he wouldn't

Speaker 1 have been bad about his offensive line then he wouldn't have jamar chase i actually have a buddy who uh

Speaker 1 who's a friend of a friend who told me that his friend uh was a bengals fan diehard bengals fan and

Speaker 1 like disavowed the bengals because they didn't draft pine soul that's tough brutal that's brutal brutal year to have that guy that guy should get a second chance that's an all-time fuck up the one year that you can't do it because this was we were joking like uh the game against the titans it's like, oh, well, Jamar Chase was the easy choice.

Speaker 1 He fucking, he made every big play for them. This game in the first half, you're like, you know, it'd be nice if

Speaker 1 they had a really good offensive line.

Speaker 3 Oh,

Speaker 3 I think that interception that B.J. Hill had, I'm pretty sure he just had a baby because he did the baby rocking show.
So nice.

Speaker 3 I wish that there was a way that you could, I could have known about that and bet on it before. We'll monitor the

Speaker 3 baby situation going into the Super Bowl because that'll be a big one.

Speaker 1 Oh, I did have one last thing. Hank, do you have anything you want to say about the Dynasty of One Super Bowl? This has got to be, you got to be very happy about this.
Extremely happy.

Speaker 1 I mean, Andy Reid, so I pointed out, I was like, going to four AFC championships and only getting one ring is tough, tough, tough look.

Speaker 1 Someone pointed out that Mahomes now has as many home losses and AFC championships more than Tom Brady ever had. He's only 25, so that's bad.

Speaker 1 And Andy Reid also with the Eagles went to four straight NFC championships and didn't get any Super Bowls.

Speaker 1 So that, I mean, that's just, that's horrifying.

Speaker 1 I mean, Andy Reid definitely, he won the one, and we all love him. But yeah, there's been moments in big games where you're like, what's going on here?

Speaker 1 And kind of what PFT was saying earlier, where it's like, time time, I feel like it definitely hits a point where when you start to lose a lot or you don't win what you're expected to win,

Speaker 1 like what you were saying, they're not going to be the same dominant Chiefs for over and over and over and over and over again. They have to change.

Speaker 1 They're missing their window. Their window is missed.
The Patriots had to basically, you know, like they had two windows.

Speaker 3 Yeah, they had two windows.

Speaker 1 But you don't know. Like, once the quarterback gets paid, things change and they change fast.
And I think I would still bet on Patrick Mahomes being there late in January.

Speaker 3 Do we know how much money Brittany Mahomes makes? Does she make more than Patrick? Because then they can kind of play the same Patriots thing.

Speaker 1 We're not going to get into family, but she does remind me of the why does this keep happening to the Eric Andre. How could you do this? It's like, you're posting the things.
You could just not post.

Speaker 3 Hank, I want to crack open your Patriots brain a little little bit.

Speaker 3 I love the way that it works. It's so fun to see.
Who are you rooting for in the Super Bowl? Just like, forget that. Legacy, yeah.
Forget that we know anybody that's playing in this game.

Speaker 3 Would you root for the Rams? Because if the Rams won, that would somehow make the Patriots Super Bowl over the Rams look more impressive?

Speaker 1 No, I'm still rooting for the Bengals.

Speaker 3 You still root for them?

Speaker 1 There's no rivalry with the Bengals, and they're just a fun. It's the fan base.

Speaker 1 It's one of those things where it's like the Bills are similar, but obviously they're division rivals, so it's like kind of a little bit different.

Speaker 1 But I love a good sports story, and the Bengals fan, Cincinnati, it'd be awesome. It would.
It would be a great, yeah.

Speaker 3 There's no connection between either of these teams winning a Super Bowl and you feeling better about being a Patriots.

Speaker 1 No, but that's why I was actively rooting against the Chiefs because, again, that just makes the Patriots run look so much better. Right.

Speaker 1 Once a team gets one, then they get a little bit on your radar where you're like, you don't want them to start double dipping.

Speaker 1 They get one. They do are great in the regular season, and they act like they're the greatest team of all time, popping champagne after divisional rounds.

Speaker 1 I think some fans might have left after the coin toss.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no,

Speaker 1 they did say that they would have been. Would have beat on traffic.
They're like, we got this CNLA. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 3 There probably are.

Speaker 1 Billy, one last thing.

Speaker 4 I want the Bengals to win the whole thing. You know why?

Speaker 1 Why?

Speaker 4 Jets beat the Bengals.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so do the Bears. Exactly.
So

Speaker 1 love it.

Speaker 1 I still can't. I can't explain the three interceptions Burrow Burrow had in three consecutive plays against the Bears.

Speaker 3 I love it, though. I love that he kept throwing it.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 that will definitely be, yeah, that's actually a good point, Billy. We want the Bengals because in the championship DVD, they'll have to be like, they'll have to acknowledge it.

Speaker 1 Like, oh, we had hardship.

Speaker 3 The Chiefs' Twitter.

Speaker 1 Jake just showed me the Chiefs' Twitter account. All caps.
We won the coin toss with like a million maximum shit. And then right after it was final.

Speaker 3 Do you think that the start of the championship DVD is actually going to be Joe Burrow hurting his knee?

Speaker 1 I think it will probably be that kid crawling into the cave at the Cincinnati Zoo. Or the guy getting, yeah, that.
Or the guy saying that he's never going to get down from his basement. Or his roof.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Or the guy who painted his. We got to read up that guy who painted his fucking house after he got a divorce.
What a legend. I do.

Speaker 1 If we can find that guy, he should come on the podcast. That'd be hilarious.
Some people do they should go there when they go to Cincinnati Zoo.

Speaker 3 So they're two different guys.

Speaker 3 So the first guy is the guy that lived on top of his house until the Bengals won a game, and he was up there for like months. I think it was a bar.
Yeah, and so the bar burned down. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And then the second guy was a guy who got divorced. He was the first guy ever.

Speaker 1 And he was like, first thing I'm doing since I got divorced is I'm painting my house Bengal stripes, which definitely probably got some

Speaker 3 grade A, P Tang. Yeah.

Speaker 1 The box. Primo box.
Primo box. In our words of our good friend Kevin Love, Primo Box is getting delivered every door to his, every day to his door.

Speaker 3 I just really hope that if Joe Burrow wins a Super Bowl, I hope that he goes full deli and rocks the Hawaiian pull over over

Speaker 3 weeks, double coronas in his hand.

Speaker 1 That was sick seeing

Speaker 1 the picture of Burrow and Chase and Jamar Chase's dad smoking cigars in the parking lot. That was wild.

Speaker 1 Wild. Like both those guys and then both the players, both smoking cigars.
Speaking of Deli, we'll get to the kittle thing, but PFT got his idol, wished him happy birthday.

Speaker 1 That was funny that he wished you happy birthday on Australian time.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, it's January 31st. It's like 6 o'clock today.

Speaker 3 There's no better way to start off an ultimately inconsequential birthday than having Matthew Delovedova give me a shout-out. Thank you, Deli.

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Speaker 1 Okay, NFC championship game.

Speaker 1 Rams beat the Niners 20 to 17.

Speaker 1 Let's start with the Rams. Matthew Stafford, incredible.
You know, the fact that he's going to a Super Bowl, I'm happy for him. I am actually very happy for Matthew Stafford.

Speaker 1 They look like they were going to lose this game. They're down 10 going in the fourth quarter.

Speaker 1 Matthew Stafford also almost throws a pick that would have changed the game, but he was good when he needed to be good. Cooper Cup is the best wide receiver in the NFL right now.

Speaker 1 I mean, I know that

Speaker 1 there's guys that you can throw in there, but his ability to make every catch, every single way. and like all the big catches, he was incredible.

Speaker 1 Odell was very, very good, too.

Speaker 3 The thing about Cooper Cup is when everybody knows that he's going to get the ball, he still gets the ball.

Speaker 1 He still gets the ball.

Speaker 1 He was so, so good.

Speaker 1 And then the Rams, like defense, they made Aaron Donald in their defensive line. They didn't sack Jimmy G.
They were playing well.

Speaker 1 It was clear they were just going to load the box and try to get Jimmy G to win the game.

Speaker 1 And then they get it at the end of the game where the Rams just like the last two possessions they had were just so, so abysmal. And it's the Rams went all in.

Speaker 1 They went all, all in, which they've done like many, many times. But this was the true all-in with the Stafford trade, Odell, everyone.
And it paid off because you're going to a Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 You're 60 minutes away from a flag fly forever moment. So like

Speaker 1 you can't say that this was the wrong strategy.

Speaker 1 I love when teams go all in. I really do.
I love when teams are like, fuck this. Winning a championship means...
everything.

Speaker 1 It doesn't, you know, like if we're giving up draft picks, if we're doing Vaughn Miller, all these things.

Speaker 1 And they did it, and it's paid off because now they're four quarters away from a Super Bowl victory.

Speaker 3 So we learned a couple things today. One, Jimmy G,

Speaker 3 I don't think he's a dog.

Speaker 3 I think we can conclusively say that Jimmy G,

Speaker 3 not a dog, he had a chance at the end of the game on those last two drives when Kyle Shanahan was like.

Speaker 3 We're going to see what this offense can do when it's not entirely predicated around either running the ball or getting the ball in Debo Samuels' hands as much as possible.

Speaker 3 And they had two just terrible, terrible drives at the end. Even that, well, I let me back up a little bit because I think that the game was lost by the Niners when they punted from midfield

Speaker 3 at fourth and two.

Speaker 1 So they punted fourth and two at the 45. Kyle Shanahan did.

Speaker 1 Now, if Tart catches a ball that was literally a punt by Stafford, we don't remember the fourth and two because Kyle Shanahan afterwards said it felt like the flow of the game, we were doing well, and we were going to pin them deep.

Speaker 1 That was the play that happened like two plays later. So

Speaker 1 that that if that happens, if he picks that ball off, we don't think about the fourth and two. But I agree with you.

Speaker 1 That fourth and two punt is like when you run the ball like the Niners run the ball. And also it was fourth and two, but remember it was second and one.
And

Speaker 1 they ran two plays like basically right up the middle where the Rams are doing everything to stop the

Speaker 1 run. They didn't do anything outside.
And then they punt fourth and two. It's crazy.

Speaker 3 Okay, so I agree with the game flow that Kyle Shanahan said, where it didn't feel like it was the right time to go for it in fourth and two. But

Speaker 3 Sean McVay also challenged that call, which everybody in the stadium knew he was not going to win this challenge. He had a couple of those today where he was doing the old Vic Fangio.
He was so,

Speaker 3 I just really hope that the result of that play isn't what I already saw. So I'm going to challenge it.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they had no timeouts with like nine minutes left. Sean McVay.
Malpractice. Have someone else do the challenges in the Super Bowl.

Speaker 3 I love nothing more than when people are like, that's coaching malpractice. Yeah.
It's malpractice, Sean McVay.

Speaker 3 But I agree that it wasn't the right time to uh to go for it on fourth down didn't feel right until mcvay did the dumb challenge right and then lost the dumb challenge right as you were already in punt formation at that point i say you just stick it to him yeah like this idiot gave me too much time to think about my fourth down play call so i'm going to go for it and make him feel stupid as shit if we convert this fourth down i think that was the right opportunity to emasculate him right there yeah no and it's just i don't know what, like, you're fourth and two on the 45, on the opponent's 45, you run the ball better than anyone in the NFL.

Speaker 1 And one, you didn't give the ball to Debo Samuel at all in the fourth quarter, which is crazy. That is crazy to me.
Debo Samuel

Speaker 1 is your fucking everything. He is your everything.

Speaker 1 Like, it was the Niners' offense works because Debo Samuel, like, every time they ran the ball with anyone else, and I like Elijah Mitchell, but Debo Samuel is just a difference maker every single time he touches the ball.

Speaker 1 And it just was like, what are you doing? So Kyle Shanahan now, and I like Kyle Shanahan, but there's enough evidence out there to say something is up with Kyle Shanahan late in game. So

Speaker 1 the last four times,

Speaker 1 and there's been a Super Bowl or championship game where a team has blown a double-digit lead in the fourth quarter, Kyle Shanahan's been part of three out of four of those.

Speaker 1 The Falcons were up 28-9 against the Patriots going into the the fourth quarter. Now, he was the offensive coordinator, so you can't.

Speaker 1 It's not all him. The Niners were up 20-10 in the Super Bowl against the Chiefs going into the fourth quarter, and the Niners were up 17-7 against the Rams today going into the fourth quarter.

Speaker 1 So four times it's happened.

Speaker 1 The last four times, three of them have been Kyle Shanahan. Something happens.
And I even think, like,

Speaker 1 with the last drive, you have a minute and a half. Did they have one timeout or no timeouts?

Speaker 3 I think they had one timeout. I think they had a timeout.

Speaker 1 Why not run the ball in first down when finally the Rams are probably in a light box because they think you're going to throw? Like, you have a minute and a half.

Speaker 1 You need a field goal to go to overtime. You need a touchdown to win.
Like they just,

Speaker 1 it made no sense. It panicked.
Like, let's try to get it all in one play. That's not what Jimmy G does.
Run the ball a couple times.

Speaker 1 And I know you have to get fast and you have to do it quickly, but at least you get yourself going in the right direction because their last, what, like five or six offensive snaps, they didn't get any yards.

Speaker 3 It was crazy. I think it was even more than that.
And I think they got a sack too. Yeah.
So it was like they got negative yards. At least they completed

Speaker 3 a pass that was behind the line of screens. So they got negative yards.

Speaker 3 I think it's not unrealistic to think that Kyle Shanahan was letting Jimmy G

Speaker 3 decide his own future in the fourth quarter.

Speaker 1 I don't know about that.

Speaker 3 Where it's like, we're going to see what he can do. And we'll see if he's the guy or not.

Speaker 3 And if he's able to go out there and win the game and prove, because listen, I like Jimmy G.

Speaker 3 I think he's like a perfectly fine average quarterback, but they're paying him, I think his contract was like $125 million, and he's due another $27 million or something like that next year.

Speaker 3 But they got a big decision to make on the Niners this offseason, which is you can cut Jimmy G or trade him and save almost all that money.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no,

Speaker 1 I know what you're saying.

Speaker 3 Give him a chance to prove if he's going to be the guy for the long term. And,

Speaker 3 you know, there were a lot of factors that went into the last couple drives.

Speaker 1 Wait, so are you saying they didn't give it to Debo Samuel for that reason?

Speaker 3 No, I'm just saying they probably trusted him to go out and make a bunch of throws instead of using more of the running game for his last couple drives.

Speaker 1 I think he's got an issue with fourth-quarter tight games. Like, we've seen it.

Speaker 1 Something happens. He calls the game one way, and then it gets to the fourth quarter, and it's like, what happens here? And it's happened multiple times to him that didn't have to do with changes.

Speaker 3 Not going to Debo at all is is very very puzzling yeah I think they just like I something

Speaker 1 something doesn't click for Kyle Shanahan late in the game I agree I think that the Niners should fire him and that the Washington football team should sign him to be their head coach immediately as punishment it's just bet so six plays 36 yards and a punt three plays minus five yards and a punt and then the last drive was was three plays and an interception so like which i don't the interception at the end i had to do something he had to do something with the ball but it was the niners had this game and they, I mean, the tart drop will just haunt them because that was

Speaker 1 as easy of interception as you could ever get. I'm not a math guy, but they had no timeouts when that happened.
Like, could they have not even given the Rams the ball back?

Speaker 1 Yeah, they could have just run the ball if they got first downs. Yes.
Yes, they absolutely.

Speaker 3 And the Rams didn't have any timeouts because they lost two challenges. And then McVay called a timeout on first down to prevent a delay of game.
I say just eat the five yards. It's five yards, bro.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Come on, five yards.

Speaker 3 I keep five yards underneath. I can find

Speaker 3 five yards in the cushions of my couch. Five yards doesn't matter.
That timeout is going to be worth way more.

Speaker 3 Actually, I'd be interested to see somebody do like some sort of conversion to timeouts to yards.

Speaker 3 How many yards on average?

Speaker 1 I'm sure someone's figuring it out.

Speaker 3 Someone's figured it out.

Speaker 1 Someone absolutely has.

Speaker 3 Hit me up if you've gone to the links to figure out some equation of timeouts per yard.

Speaker 1 It was, but they probably couldn't have. It was like 9.55 left or so when 10 minutes left when Matt Stafford almost threw that pick.

Speaker 1 And it was, I mean, he closed his hands before the ball even got to him. It was crazy.
Crazy. I, it was, it was nuts at the end of the game.

Speaker 1 Like, McVay and Kyle Shanahan both were just trying to lose the game.

Speaker 1 Like, they, between McVay's crazy challenges and Kyle Shanahan doing God knows what, it was like, who the hell is going to win this game? You have no idea.

Speaker 1 And, like, the Rams kept on trying to run it on first down and they wouldn't get anything. And, man, it was...

Speaker 1 And,

Speaker 1 yeah, that was a tough, tough loss for the Niners.

Speaker 3 Matt Stafford's hands looked pretty cool when they were all bloody.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he's a warrior.

Speaker 3 He bloodied up his right hand.

Speaker 3 I think his left elbow was all cut up. Probably going to get stitches on there.

Speaker 3 I'm very happy for him. I'm happy for Matt Stafford.
I'm happy for his family. I'm happy for

Speaker 3 any Lions fan that has stuck through Matt Stafford for thick and thin. Happy for a lot of guys on the Rams.
Do we still get a suite at the Super Bowl? Does McVay ow? Oh, yeah, he does.

Speaker 3 Because he never paid us that suite last time. That's true.
He said, and I quote, I'll get you guys a suite with a dessert cart and open bar if I make a Super Bowl. Yeah.
That's a direct quote.

Speaker 3 And he remembers it because he remembers everything. He does.

Speaker 1 The man forgets nothing. I'm looking at it again.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 it's baffling what, like, the fact they didn't try to get Debo Samuel the ball even in a screen because

Speaker 1 the Rams did run the the ball I mean they did stop the run pretty well like the the Niners rushed 20 20 rushes whoa 20 rushes for 50 yards so it was very clear they were gonna they were just basically gonna sell out on the run but yeah that was a that Kyle Shanahan's got something something's up in his head when it gets when it gets the fourth quarter and he's got a lead you almost rather him not have a lead because he just blows it do you think that there's like a specialty position on an offensive play calling staff for a guy that just takes the fourth quarter.

Speaker 1 Kyle Shanahan needs that.

Speaker 3 He needs that. He needs a clutch.

Speaker 1 Or he needs someone to come and just be like, hey, it's a new rule. We're actually going to play the first quarter again.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's going to go first quarter, second quarter, third quarter, first quarter.

Speaker 3 In the back of my head, I'm always like, can I really trust a guy's judgment who has Chris Sims's initials tattooed on his?

Speaker 3 No. Probably not.

Speaker 1 The answer is no. And the Rams, I mean, they just like.

Speaker 1 They're a really good football team. They're a really good football team.
Their defenses did enough.

Speaker 1 Cooper Cup, I can't get over how good he fucking is. It's crazy.
And they also had two.

Speaker 1 Odell and Cooper Cup had over 100 yards. So they were like, they moved the ball pretty well.
They just didn't get touchdowns when they

Speaker 1 needed to at certain points in the game. But they're a really, really good football team.

Speaker 1 I don't know how the Bengals are going to block them because I felt like Aaron Donald was neutralized a little bit today. But even then,

Speaker 1 he had that play at the end of the game that basically was the interception.

Speaker 3 And you still have Von Miller. You still have a lot of of other good guys.
If we were to try to do our saber metrics thing that we did last week

Speaker 3 with the guy off, I think it's a bloodbath in favor of the Rams. You want to try?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'll do Bengals. Okay.
All right. Joe Burrow.

Speaker 3 Matt Stafford. Jamar Chase.
Cooper Cup.

Speaker 1 Hendrickson. Odell Beckham.
Eli Apple.

Speaker 3 Jalen Ramsey.

Speaker 1 Joe Mixon.

Speaker 1 Aaron Donald. T.
Higgins.

Speaker 3 Von Miller.

Speaker 1 I don't know what amount of guys. There's some defensive guys on the Bengals have.
Sam Hubbard. Paul Reeder was good.
Was he? Yeah, he's been good. Some Hubbard was really good.
Sam Hubbard also.

Speaker 3 He's a fullback.

Speaker 1 Eric Weddell. Do you even say Von Miller? He's a dude.

Speaker 3 No, I'm saving him. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's bad. Oh, Evan McPherson's definitely a guy.

Speaker 3 Matt Gaye.

Speaker 1 Not a guy. Mr.
Kicker. They got Gay.

Speaker 3 That's very closed-minded of you.

Speaker 1 They got the kicker. I kissed Stu Feiner.
Love is love.

Speaker 1 Oh. Shortly.
It's almost midnight. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Happy birthday to Stu Feiner.

Speaker 1 We're about to say.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
Happy birthday to Stu Finer. You want to talk about your pregame conversation with Greg and how that all unfolded? Yeah.
So,

Speaker 1 well, it actually started, I think Greg got duped by memes because he sent me. So Memes tweeted an Adam Schafter tweet during the Brady hysteria.

Speaker 3 Adam Shafter. Shafter.

Speaker 1 That was his Cassianos. He's been.

Speaker 1 100K favorites. He's been sitting there waiting it out, and he did it.
100K. So

Speaker 1 Greg, George,

Speaker 1 DM'd it to me, and I laughed. I was like, let's have a fucking day.
And he hit me back. He's like, if I get the opportunity, I'm going to dab in the end zone for your birthday.

Speaker 1 And then he scored, and then he dabbed, and it was incredible. And then they didn't score after that.
But I love him forever for it.

Speaker 1 Not that I didn't love him before that, but I felt like the little sick kid that Babe Ruth hit two home runs for.

Speaker 3 You should have asked him for two dabs.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 it was a good dab.

Speaker 3 It was a great dab. It was an aggressive dab.

Speaker 1 I wish he was in the Super Bowl.

Speaker 3 It was actually just a sick catch, too.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it was a sick catch. We knew we could see

Speaker 1 the whole kettle's open.

Speaker 3 That's one of the throws that Jimmy G is elite at. Yeah.
Jimmy G

Speaker 3 he can make some plays. I just, I don't know.

Speaker 3 I think this actually makes me think,

Speaker 3 how bad does Trey Lance look in practice? Yeah.

Speaker 3 That they haven't even tried to bring him in on certain packages.

Speaker 1 And Jimmy G wasn't playing that bad all game.

Speaker 3 He wasn't. The problem was Jimmy G threw a couple touchdowns.

Speaker 3 They only win playoff games when Jimmy G doesn't throw touchdowns.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that kiddo touchdown. The fact that he dabbed for my birthday in the NFC Championship game, I'll always have that.
Best birthday gift I got by far. That's including my son scribbling on a card.

Speaker 1 Nonsense. So thank you.
Thank you. And I mean, I love George Kill.
I hope he wins the Super Bowl. I fucking love him.

Speaker 1 He's like A1 AWL. Wouldn't you say? Definitely.
He's got to be all the way up there. The first time we met him, it was like he interviewed, was it Joe Staley? Klinchi and Joe Staley, yeah.

Speaker 1 And they're like, oh, this guy can can you come take a picture with

Speaker 1 these guys on our team yeah that was unreal that was almost like our babe ruth sick kid moment like can you come say hi to this young kid that really likes you and then he's paying it back to me with birthday dabs i mean what's better than a birthday dab it was great too there was like some other people being like did george kittle just dab it's like he did it for a young 37 year old boy well kittle smiling kittle's jersey was up in our radio studio too and nobody knew who kittle was at that point yeah they're like oh we just have a random niners jersey i just wish you had one because that's...

Speaker 1 But I'll have it forever. I'll have the dab forever.
I'll be like, you know, that guy who's going to be a Hall of Famer, he dabbed for me after

Speaker 1 a touchdown in the NFC championship.

Speaker 3 I hope he doesn't get fined for that.

Speaker 1 The dab? Yeah.

Speaker 1 No, it's actually showing how to cover your nose when you sneeze.

Speaker 3 He saved lives. You saved lives.
He did.

Speaker 3 I did not realize going to this game that Sean McVay's dad was named Timothy.

Speaker 1 Who?

Speaker 3 That was...

Speaker 1 They didn't put it. Different spelling.

Speaker 3 They didn't put that on the screen. Yeah.
For a good reason, I think.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they definitely didn't.

Speaker 3 That would have been a good screen shot.

Speaker 1 We're going to say

Speaker 1 another random PMT connection, I once went on vacation with Sam Hubbard. Really? When I was like very young.
Yeah,

Speaker 1 my best friend, Tim, I like went with his family, and I guess their family friends were like,

Speaker 1 have the house next to them. So I met the kid when I was like eight years old, but didn't know what to do.
So

Speaker 1 we got to try to find him Super Bowl week. Yeah, we should.

Speaker 1 I'll try to get him on.

Speaker 1 I only knew when he went to Ohio State. I was like, oh, shit.
That's really funny. He's an AWL.
Like a very long time ago. All right.
Shout out Sam Hubbard. Yeah.
Shout out Sam. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Tell us about that vacation. Also, Rob Lowe, no longer neutral.

Speaker 3 Whoa. He was rooting for the Rams.
Rams. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Sad. I do feel bad.
There's a few Rams fans that are like, why don't you guys give us credit? You guys are a fucking really good team. Just

Speaker 1 America is going to root for the Bengals.

Speaker 3 Just know the fact that you're getting used to it.

Speaker 1 You live in LA. You're getting out-cheered at your home.
Yeah, you live in LA. Your life is pretty sick.

Speaker 3 You have like an infinity number of free agents that you sign every year. You're very talented.
Probably the most talented team in the NFL on paper.

Speaker 3 I think they win a guy off against any other team, actually. Very good team.
But guess what?

Speaker 3 When you're a very good team with elite talent, we're probably going to root against you when you're going up against the scrappy guys from the Midwest, featuring a quarterback that we love and adore.

Speaker 3 Yes.

Speaker 1 I mean, this is what I was explaining to the Chiefs fans before the weekend started.

Speaker 1 It's like, hey, guess what, Chiefs fans like America's not rooting for you guys anymore like this is what we do also a winner you get you get most people rooting against you also you won't find a bigger st.

Speaker 3 Louis podcast than us right here we're standing up for the city of St. Louis

Speaker 3 yeah yeah no we love st. Louis all of us

Speaker 1 truly

Speaker 1 do you think

Speaker 1 Stafford has to win for it to affect his hall of fame no he's a hall of famer I actually the this the the stafford hall of fame take is aging beautifully for me because I got last.

Speaker 1 I just went back and looked. People were fucking roasting me for it.

Speaker 1 And I always said, if he has insane, like he's amassed an insane amount of numbers because he's so durable and he threw so many yards and touchdowns. All he needed was a deep run.
I think this is it.

Speaker 1 If he wins one, it's an absolute no-doubter. But I think if he gets, you know, he's gotten to this Super Bowl, he'll probably have, I don't know, four or five more years.

Speaker 1 He's going to probably win a few more playoff games. It's, yeah, he's, if you look at it, his resume's up there.
I agree.

Speaker 1 He will definitely, I mean, it will be a, it's a sign of, obviously, the times and the way the league works now with passing, but Matt Safford has had a very, very good career that, like, when you look at it, you're like, whoa, he's got that.

Speaker 1 I'm going to look at it right now.

Speaker 3 I actually think that anybody that plays for 11 years in Detroit should make the Hall of Fame. Yeah.

Speaker 3 As a general rule of thumb, if you're able to survive, kind of like Joe Thomas in Cleveland, if you you play through that much shit for that long and you keep coming back and you keep playing at a pretty decent level, I feel like that cements you as a Hall of Fame right now.

Speaker 1 So Stafford has,

Speaker 1 let's see,

Speaker 1 yards. He's got 45,000 yards and he's got 282 touchdowns.
I mean, he's going to end up like, I don't know, 60,000, probably more. And he's getting up like north of 350 touchdowns.

Speaker 1 That's going to be, that's going to be up there. He's going to be like top 10 for both, which is crazy.

Speaker 3 Ooh, we've got two first overall picks playing against each other in the Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 Yes. Also, the SEC conference

Speaker 1 tweeted out to SEC quarterbacks.

Speaker 3 I love it. SEC.
I love it.

Speaker 1 Just keep winning.

Speaker 3 Matt Stafford, George Stewart.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I mean, I'm excited. It's a fun, something different.
A different Super Bowl. Yeah, it's great for LSU people because they love OBJ, too.
Yep.

Speaker 3 Oh, yeah. New colors in the Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 Happy birthday, PFT. There we go.
Fish. Oh, OBJ.
Happy birthday, PFT. Now we piss.

Speaker 1 I want to look up top 10 passing. I think Matt Safford might already be there.
And I guess you'll just have to judge. Like, if he wins the Super Bowl, it's over, right? Yeah.

Speaker 1 No, I agree with you.

Speaker 3 I think that he is.

Speaker 1 I got last. I think he's a Hall of Famer.
Yeah, right now he's 12 overall passing. So passing yards.
Yeah, no, he's going to be a Hall of Famer. I'm going to dig up those tweets.
Fine.

Speaker 1 Because it's rare I get a win.

Speaker 1 Got to celebrate the wins. Speaking of Hall of Fame,

Speaker 1 let's do another

Speaker 1 ad, and then we will talk about Tom Brady.

Speaker 3 I just got a text, the first text. Guess who sent me the first happy birthday text?

Speaker 1 Mincy.

Speaker 1 Nate. Oh.
Stu.

Speaker 3 Stephen Che. Oh, there we go.
And he says, happy 37th, buddy. The Bucs won the Super Bowl in 37, and hopefully this year is super for you.
Oh, my God.

Speaker 3 Thanks, Stephen. I appreciate it.

Speaker 3 He had that one 100%. Like, can you draft a text to send at a certain time?

Speaker 1 I think he had that one. Anyone could.
It's him.

Speaker 3 Definitely him.

Speaker 3 He's probably asleep.

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Speaker 1 Henry. Yes.
Tom Brady.

Speaker 1 Retired, we think,

Speaker 1 but maybe not. Not according to, you know, hasn't come from his mouth yet.
So I'm saying he's not retired yet. So the news broke on Saturday like a bombshell.

Speaker 1 You know, everyone, that's all anyone was talking about all day.

Speaker 1 It was Adam Schefter and Jeff Darlington. I choose to ignore the Jeff Darlington part if he's wrong because I like Jeff.

Speaker 1 And I like Adam too, but I also like to stick it to Adam, who doesn't.

Speaker 1 They announce it. They report it.
Then we get a report that Tom Brady's not retired, or at least he hasn't made a decision yet. He called the Bucs, said, I have not made a decision.

Speaker 1 Bruce Aaron's like, I talked to him. He's not made a decision.

Speaker 1 Then Schefter goes on halftime of Kentucky, Kansas, basically says, I'm sticking with it. He's retired.
He's going to retire. This is the story.

Speaker 1 I don't know what I'm hoping that Tom Brady comes back another year just to stick it to Schefter. That would be so incredible.

Speaker 3 I just thought when I read that that

Speaker 3 he jumped the gun a little bit. I think that Schefter and Jeff Darlington have some sort of information because I saw Seth Wickersham wrote that article for ESPN.com alluding to

Speaker 3 Tom Brady and his team putting the finishing touches on a retirement video that apparently wasn't done yet.

Speaker 3 But apparently they know that there is a video that's being produced and it wasn't ready to drop. And so when Schefter reported it, Brady's pissed off because he's like, hey, my video is not done yet.

Speaker 3 We're not able to publish this.

Speaker 1 Well, he's also on vacation with his family. And I'm sure when the news came out, he got a bajillion text that was like, probably chaos.

Speaker 1 I'm sure he was like, I'm going to go on vacation with my family and then, you know, announce it when I get back. Right.

Speaker 1 And I mean, Brady on his FaceTime with Edelman on Friday, he did say that he was going to try to punk Schefter. So we did know that part.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I know. He literally said, like, he's like, watch this, guys.
Wait until Saturday.

Speaker 1 That's why we had, couldn't put it in there.

Speaker 3 I've got something up my sleeve for piss boy.

Speaker 1 But so what do we believe now? I mean, I do hope he comes back just to spite them.

Speaker 3 I believe that Schefter might be on drugs to deal with his torn meniscus. Yeah, that's true.
Or maybe he's feeling the heat on his neck because his daughter is a better reporter than he is.

Speaker 1 That's also true. Yeah.

Speaker 1 There's a lot of things.

Speaker 3 I've seen her interviews for the MVP.

Speaker 1 She's pretty good.

Speaker 1 Are you thinking he's retired?

Speaker 1 I do. I mean, that was my initial reaction to it.

Speaker 1 And I feel like kind of what you said, that it probably came out because they had put forward the motion of, like, let's get all our stuff together for the retirement, which is probably how it got leaked because it wasn't the inside, inside, inside anymore.

Speaker 1 Yep. So I do feel like he is retiring.

Speaker 1 It isn't. It's obviously emotional when you go back through the memories and stuff.
But the fact that he is not retiring from the Patriots

Speaker 1 doesn't make it as bad. Or it's not like you have to worry about the Patriots how they're going to rebuild it because they already kind of moved on from that.

Speaker 1 So you just kind of go go through the memories, think about how young you were when he started. Now now he's still in the league, still winning Super Bowls.

Speaker 1 Greatest to ever do it.

Speaker 3 You think he should sign a one-day contract for the Patriots?

Speaker 1 I heard that's what he's going to do. Okay.
I would imagine he would do that. It's

Speaker 1 insane if he does retire. Like,

Speaker 1 it would be so fitting that, you know, because everyone expected him to just keep playing forever because he kept saying he was going to play forever.

Speaker 1 But the fact that he outlasted the Max Kellermans of the world and he never went, he threw for the most passing yards he has in his career, I think, this year.

Speaker 1 like he he is arguably he's probably second in mvp voting he never declined he never declined he literally outlasted the cliff and people are going to be like well he could have played like wait wait did did he beat time he beat time first time i think no he did i think time took a rare l it's crazy to think about that a guy is retiring at 44 from quarterback in the NFL and you can reasonably make the argument that he left two or three years on the table.

Speaker 1 Like that's actually something you can say that, like, oh, he probably could have played for two or three more years.

Speaker 3 The only thing, like, if he had won a Super Bowl in his last year, that would have been the ultimate, like, fuck you to time. Yeah.
I'm going out on my own terms. I'm better than I've ever been.

Speaker 3 I think he's done. I think he's actually done.

Speaker 3 The Bucs cap situation is not good, especially looking at what they have to deal with next year, the different holes that they're going to have to fill.

Speaker 3 That would be a good time for him to walk through.

Speaker 1 They do have the ability to go one more all-in. Like, this could be their one last all-in.

Speaker 1 Like, if you look at it, they, they, they have enough flexibility, they basically would be fucking themselves for the future. Um, but they could do it one more time.

Speaker 1 And I, yeah, I mean, I, it seems like he's going to retire. It does kind of suck that Chepter ruined it for him.

Speaker 3 I hope, I hope Tom Brady's people, if you're making the video right now, please, please put Tom Brady's head on top of Antonio Brown's body, flipping off the team and running away out of the end zone.

Speaker 3 That would be a great ending to this video.

Speaker 1 And if you're a Bucs fan, you have to assume Gronk's gone too. Oh, yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 I think that Gronk just, he literally just follows.

Speaker 1 Whatever, yeah. People were saying the bills for Gronk, which would be fun for him.

Speaker 3 That would be very fun.

Speaker 1 We should probably, so like when we

Speaker 1 after the Super Bowl, we're going to take a little bit of time off. We'll still have episodes, but we're going to have one canned.

Speaker 1 We should probably prepare for this in case he does retire in that off time, right? Because it feels like that's probably when it's going to be announced, right after the Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that makes sense. So I was looking at it too, and we could do all this later.

Speaker 3 I think it might even be this week.

Speaker 1 It might be. Isn't there like a bonus he's getting paid?

Speaker 3 So there's no chance that they would have structured that in a way that he gets paid a massive check right after the season's over. Right.

Speaker 3 That to me says that he was telling the Bucs, like, I will have made my decision whether or not I'm coming back before this payday even occurs.

Speaker 3 Because otherwise, why would you, if you're signing like a 43-year-old quarterback, why would you say, hey, a week after the season's over, we can give you a $12 million bonus then expect that that would be something that he would not just like retire right after getting.

Speaker 3 Right.

Speaker 1 Let's see. I'm looking it up.
The Tom Brady $15 million bonus payment due on February 4th means nothing. Oh, from our friend Mike Florio.
All right. Yeah.

Speaker 1 He said that Brady signed a new contract and this means,

Speaker 1 yeah, it means nothing. Florio always gets to the bottom of it.

Speaker 3 He's such a leader.

Speaker 1 It means nothing. I did, it is crazy to like, all his numbers are just just so insane.

Speaker 1 When I tweeted about the Big Ben, because Big Ben's going to get cucked, Steelers fans, this is like war for them because there was a lot of Steelers fans like Canton's our backyard.

Speaker 1 It will be Steelers, Steelers, Steelers for that ceremony. A lot of fights probably going to go.
Yeah, like I was, when I tweeted that, I had so many replies. And I know Steelers fans.

Speaker 1 I do not, when they say shit like that, I'm like, you're probably right. They're like, it's an hour drive for us.
That, that fucking city will be black and gold all week.

Speaker 3 Yeah, i was at the induction ceremony for jerome bettis and it was like yeah just everybody that was inside that stadium had a terrible towel right so that's going to be the biggest draw for that one yeah yeah it's so so close but i bet you that they'll take it as a personal challenge yes tom brady this will be like the last

Speaker 1 this will be the last time that that the steelers can face off against tom brady and this is the last time hank can like possibly go to jail for tom brady yeah i'll be there

Speaker 3 i'll be there with bells on well especially if it's gronk and tom brady

Speaker 3 that's gonna to be a big showdown and Big Ben.

Speaker 1 So, the one thing I wanted to do real quick, because it is crazy to look at. So, if you break up Tom Brady's career,

Speaker 1 he's got three Hall of Fame careers, which is so stupid to just say out loud. If you did just from 2001 to 2006, he's got 26,000 yards, 197 touchdowns, and three rings.

Speaker 1 If you do 2007 to 2014, he's got 26,000 yards, 195 touchdowns, and one ring. And then 2015 to now, he's got 31,000 yards, 232 touchdowns, and three rings.

Speaker 1 It's literally like he's got basically like three careers of like Steve Young or Troy Aikman or like name the name. Mahomes.

Speaker 1 Mahomes. It's crazy, though.
Like the numbers are just.

Speaker 1 Who knows where the league is going? But like some of the, I mean, I don't think anyone's ever going to be a quarterback for seven Super Bowls again. He's the reason why like people get so mad.

Speaker 1 You're like you're so cocky, New England people, but it's like he literally made an entire region think they were gonna win every single weekend and he they did no he made you into winners yeah like just really did just in life he really i'm not that is not i like i think there's science behind that yes no like quality of life quality of life was enormous for people in new england because of this one guy and belichek obviously but no he had balance you think belichek will maybe do the speech before probably belich loves that shit yeah that's true he is a hist uh student of the game did you see the goats tweet that they had out there that was I don't know if it was ESPN.

Speaker 1 Oh, no, it was

Speaker 1 Pro Football Focus, where

Speaker 1 it was like Brady,

Speaker 1 Serena, MJ, LeBron, Messi, which I appreciate that.

Speaker 3 Secretariat.

Speaker 1 They did not have Secretariat. Rafa.
They had Kobe, which

Speaker 1 is Kobe two?

Speaker 1 It's Kobe three, they're saying Kobe's three.

Speaker 3 Of the all-time GOATs? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Kobe's on there. Jerry Rice, I guess he's.
Randy Moss

Speaker 1 over Jerry Rice. Randy Moss

Speaker 3 was in his rings. Randy Moss was better.

Speaker 1 Jerry Rice

Speaker 1 was greater. That's the crazy thing with the Tom Brady stuff, too, is going back and watching all the highlights.
It's like the years he was the best, they didn't win.

Speaker 1 Right, that's what I'm saying. Like when you break down his career, it's like

Speaker 3 he had the

Speaker 1 50 touchdowns and stuff like that.

Speaker 1 So when I tweeted,

Speaker 1 I had Chiefs fans trying to dunk on me because I was like, you know, four, four in a row, and not winning as bad. And they're like, you had a similar run run in, I think it was 2006 to 2011.

Speaker 1 And it's like, yeah, well, that was after three Super Bowls and before three more. So it doesn't really sting that much.
Yeah, there's like all these facts are crazy.

Speaker 1 Tom Brady, after his 38th birthday, won more Super Bowls than Peyton Manning won in 18 years and had more passing TDs than Trey Aikman's entire career. It's fucking stupid.
It's pretty good.

Speaker 1 It's stupid.

Speaker 3 There's also, like, I'm just going to assume that Tom Brady could come back at any point in the next like five years. It would not shock me.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 If at his like induction ceremony in the Hall of Fame, Tom Brady announces that he's coming back to the NFL as he's getting inducted just to fuck them over for one more year.

Speaker 1 Do you think he'll do any type of like

Speaker 1 broadcasting or like Peyton's place type thing?

Speaker 3 I don't think so.

Speaker 1 I feel like he's going to be like...

Speaker 3 He's going to be a family guy and a crypto guy.

Speaker 1 Oh, I think he's going to be like a politician or something. Like he's got like world domination, like world celebrity type of shit.

Speaker 3 He's going to be selling, he's going to start up the Brady brand activewear. Maybe buy it.
He's going to be everywhere with that thing. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Oh, if Tom Brady buys a football team, I might just become a fan of that football team. And he just sings with that.
Yeah, absorbs some secondhand greatness.

Speaker 1 You know, you should do is you should buy the Browns, see if he can take them to the Super Bowl. The Lions.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Yeah. Imagine that.
The Lions would be great.

Speaker 1 He goes back and coaches Michigan. Shout out to Rico Bosco.
He had that first. True.

Speaker 1 One of my favorite Rico Bosco, the guy who's like a billionaire.

Speaker 1 He and his wife are

Speaker 1 multi-billionaires, has seven rings, Hall of Famer. He's going to want to spend his waking hours chasing around 16-year-olds in like

Speaker 3 Ann Arbor.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and like and go try to pitch 16-year-olds

Speaker 1 to come to his school.

Speaker 3 What if he just purchased the Colts?

Speaker 1 And he literally just so that he can say, I own the Colts. Or like the Jets?

Speaker 3 Yeah, I own the Jets.

Speaker 1 It's crazy. All All right, so we will pre-tape that.
Maybe it'll just be you just doing a solo.

Speaker 1 I'll write a poem. Yeah, you write a poem, write a

Speaker 1 heartfelt letter, like a Tom Verducci kind of thing. We'll do the music and everything.
We put it in there.

Speaker 3 What's your favorite Tom Brady memory?

Speaker 1 The Seahawks. I mean, the Seahawks and the Falcons Super Bowls are, like we were saying, two of the top nights of my life.

Speaker 1 I mean,

Speaker 1 but the 2008 season with Randy Moss was like the greatest, the greatest, most enjoyable thing watching every single single Sunday.

Speaker 1 You just watch it and you just throw 50-yard bombs over and over and over and over and over again.

Speaker 1 They obviously didn't win, but that watching that season was like the most fun I think I've had watching football.

Speaker 3 The point spreads on those games were just ridiculous. Week in, week out, they were favored by 18, 18 and a half points.

Speaker 1 Insane.

Speaker 1 I do think it would be so funny if he spited everyone. It'd be fucking hilarious.
Like, could you imagine him saying that to Giselle?

Speaker 1 He's being like, listen, I know we said I was going to retire, but this little fucking dork with a sprained MCL is tweeting, it has cucked my retirement.

Speaker 3 Well,

Speaker 3 imagine being Adam Schefter and spending all year long sucking off Jimmy G so that Don Yee would be happy for you. Yeah.

Speaker 3 You're just trying to get this scoop. Yes.
And then you fuck this scoop up.

Speaker 1 And he's going to say he's right, but it's like, dude, you can't. What's the expiration date?

Speaker 3 I actually think that what probably happened was...

Speaker 3 I think Schefter got good information that he was going to retire that was communicated to him probably either by Donyi or somebody close to Danyi.

Speaker 3 And then Schefter put it out. There was some miscommunication.
It wasn't supposed to come out just yet.

Speaker 3 And then Donyi had to text him via like Brady's thoughts, being like, we're still making our entire decision-making process right now. We'll have an update as soon as possible.

Speaker 3 So I think that if the... timetable was going to be late February, it probably got pushed up to next week.

Speaker 1 Okay, so do you think Schefter gets credit if it's a week?

Speaker 3 No, no. I think whoever.

Speaker 1 I'm being hypocritical right now because I did give Barstool Carl credit when he predicted Ew Darvish. He reported Eugh Darvish to the Cubs in December and he didn't sign until February.

Speaker 1 And I said that that counts.

Speaker 3 I did give Leroy credit when he reported Gronkowski was coming back. Yeah, it was

Speaker 1 a month or two in advance.

Speaker 3 That's, yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so all right, but you know what, P-Boy? We're going to do it for you. P-Man, sorry.
We did lose that bet.

Speaker 1 All right, talking soccer real quick. We lost.

Speaker 3 Well, we won. We beat El Salvador on Thursday.
But we lost to Canada. And then we lost to Canada today.

Speaker 3 But good news, Greg,

Speaker 3 I don't know how many Gs are on his name, but there's a ton. Burhalzer, the manager of the United States team, said we actually outplayed them.
Oh, dice.

Speaker 3 That's a moral victory. That we lost.
Great.

Speaker 3 How do you say two to nothing in Canadian? 2-0.

Speaker 1 Never going to crack the top 10. Who said? People were telling me, like, oh, we didn't have to win.
That should never be your attitude. Going into games, soccer, people.

Speaker 3 You always have to win.

Speaker 1 Every game is a must-win. Every game is a must-win.
And then

Speaker 1 Nadal won the fucking Mickey Mouse trophy because they kept Jokovich out of Australia. You got anything about that? He's a goat now.
There was. Yeah, I mean, it's a Mickey Mouse.

Speaker 1 Jokovich wasn't there. He was there.
Jokovich wasn't allowed to be there. He didn't fight hard.

Speaker 1 He didn't fight hard. I mean, some writer wrote DNP, parentheses, deportation.

Speaker 1 That was kind of funny. I don't think that's funny.
It's like Sam Darnold out, modern news.

Speaker 3 People are not illegal.

Speaker 1 That's not funny. Right.

Speaker 3 I just thought the content. Did you watch it?

Speaker 1 No. What? It was 3.30 in the morning.
No, it finished when I woke up.

Speaker 1 It was ending right when I woke up.

Speaker 3 It's a bubble tournament.

Speaker 3 His title is no different, I think, than LeBron's bubble tournament in Disney World.

Speaker 1 Who cares? Jokovich would have won. He would have kicked the shit out of everyone.
Because he doesn't have the vax. Right.
Right.

Speaker 3 Yeah, his cardio strength is much higher.

Speaker 1 It would have been a real big win. All right.
Let's get to who's back Back of the Week. Before we do that, we go one last episode.

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Speaker 1 Okay, who's back of the week? My Who's Back of the Week is our sweet Prince Harambe.

Speaker 1 We obviously were very early on it in 2016. We kind of helped bring it into the mainstream.
We always talked about when was it going to come back? You know, it's too soon.

Speaker 1 We shouldn't bring the jokes back, yada, yada, yada. But with the Bengals making this run, them being from Cincinnati, it's kind of naturally happened.

Speaker 1 And, you know, all the Harambe jokes, all the Harambe like things we put out, they do better than everything else. We're selling shirts again.
It's back. He's back.
Let's go.

Speaker 3 I think

Speaker 3 now, yeah, now if you're a Cincinnati Bengals fan, now is the time to wear the Harambe 69 custom jersey that you made and you have not been able to even look at for the last three years because it's just like the most cringy thing ever.

Speaker 3 It's cool again for the next two weeks.

Speaker 1 Let's get Harambe into the stadium. We have

Speaker 1 a part in my take Facebook page that, you know, it's basically like posting a lot of the stuff to Instagram posts. And I was looking at the analytics and, you know, everything's...

Speaker 1 usually in the same range of numbers or whatever and we posted a Harambe meme that got like it went Facebook super nuclear viral, like three million likes, a million shares. Like,

Speaker 1 it's just he's back.

Speaker 3 The people that find out about part of my take from those Facebook memes that eventually start listening to the show have got to be the most confused people. I love it.
I love it.

Speaker 3 Let us know if you found us through Facebook, actually.

Speaker 1 We should do a Harambee.

Speaker 3 Love to understand your brain.

Speaker 1 Should talk to someone about Harambe. Death.

Speaker 3 Death. Death, Death.
Is it Death?

Speaker 1 I could hit up death.

Speaker 3 Not a bad idea.

Speaker 1 PFT, your who's back?

Speaker 3 My who's back is vaping.

Speaker 1 Vaping's back.

Speaker 3 Oh. Accidentally.
So I haven't vaped for about three years.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 3 Three and a half years.

Speaker 3 Quit the hard stuff, transitioned over to real cigarettes for a little bit, and then dropped off that.

Speaker 3 And then Jerry was sitting next to me during the stream today, and I was like, let me just get a little puff because his clouds look pretty good. I tried it and I was like, wow, that's really tasty.

Speaker 3 Jerry goes, hey, well, I've got two others right here if you want your own. So he gave me my own vape.
I've been hitting it for the last like six hours. Oh, no.
I'm full-on addicted.

Speaker 1 37th birthday. You're going back in town.

Speaker 3 I'm full-on addicted. And picking up vaping before a road trip is a terrible, terrible time because that's what I'm going to be doing the entire time

Speaker 3 that I'm on this trip. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 Sick clouds. Yeah.

Speaker 1 You'll probably over vape yourself, though, and then you'll be back by the time the Super Bowl's by the time we're in LA, you're going to be like, I'm going to go to the bathroom. I'm going to OD.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you're going to be vaped out.

Speaker 3 OD on clouds? I hope so. I need to get this out of my system because

Speaker 3 it's not good. What, Billy?

Speaker 4 It's going to kill all your vascularity gains.

Speaker 1 Wait, vaping

Speaker 3 for vascularity. I didn't know that.

Speaker 1 It's terrible for your

Speaker 1 gains. Thank you, Billy.

Speaker 4 You've just been sitting here benching for the past month, getting actual gains.

Speaker 1 I like how Billy is the adult in this conversation with you, PFT, but it's only for the gains. That's perfect.
It has nothing to do with my health.

Speaker 3 The chemicals just

Speaker 1 keep muscles to pop. He's vaping his back.

Speaker 3 Look at the sick cloud, though.

Speaker 1 Okay, he's vaping, and he's doing a cloud. That's not...

Speaker 2 That was mid. French inhale.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that was mid.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you know what?

Speaker 3 That's because I French inhale.

Speaker 1 That was a weak cloud. He's going again.
He's trying again. Oh, that was a better cloud.
Doing O. That was a sick cloud.

Speaker 1 All right, Mai who's back is Peyton Manning. He's funny again.
Everyone loves him. He did SNL and everyone's like, oh my God, Peyton Manning is the funniest guy ever.

Speaker 3 Yeah, that's all you have to do. Peyton Manning is like effortlessly funny.
I think he's better on TV than he was as a quarterback.

Speaker 1 He is funny yeah emily and paris is the worst show ever by the way never watched it uh i've had to watch a few episodes and it is mind-numbingly bad but it's one of those shows that's so bad it sucks you in because that's how bad it is i'm sure there's guys listening right now that are nodding along to me oh yeah they know exactly what i'm talking about it's laughably bad but it's again so bad that like it's the perfect netflix algorithm where they're like let's make a show that has enough like romance and scenes that everyone will be like this is fun to watch but you don't ever have to pay attention you can just scroll your phone the entire time and you won't miss a goddamn thing it's actually a genius idea to design a show that's uh for women but also the guys that are watching it with their gals to be able to zone out and then have semi-intelligent conversations about the episode later yeah like don't make don't have too much stuff happen well it's i mean it's the whole show is a fucking hack it's it's it's a life hack they're like

Speaker 1 a single girl goes to Paris and finds love. Doesn't she work like for social media? Yeah.
Like, oh, God. It was basically, it was built, the show premise.

Speaker 1 Like the devil wears product, but for like Instagram. Yeah, algorithm.
Yeah. Phil Collins' daughter is the main is Emily.

Speaker 3 It's like a reverse version of that Vince McMahon meme where he keeps getting further and further excited. Yeah.
If he started super excited and then they started listing the words in the show.

Speaker 3 Yeah, no. Emily in Paris.
And by the end of it, he's just completely normal faced.

Speaker 1 Like, it's a genius show. It's a genius show, and it's terrible, but it's genius.

Speaker 1 Billy.

Speaker 4 My who's back of the week is the Irish. So Russia was about to do a bunch of war games near the Irish Sea, which was like right in their backyard.

Speaker 4 So a bunch of Irish fishermen were like, no, you can't do that. We're just going to sail our boats while you try to do war games.
And the Russians were like, okay. We'll just go home and cancel them.

Speaker 3 That's all it took for Russia.

Speaker 3 I keep hearing how badass Russia is, but it was just like 30 drunken Irish guys that just like got on a sailboat and they're like lobster. I guess we can't do our nuclear submarine tests anymore.

Speaker 3 Damn. Charlie over here is puking Guinness.

Speaker 1 Way to hold it down for the Irish Sea.

Speaker 3 Exactly. That's huge.

Speaker 1 Way to go, Ireland. All right, good who's back, Billy.
What is what

Speaker 1 what

Speaker 1 entails in war games?

Speaker 4 I think it's just a bunch of boats moving around. Yeah.

Speaker 3 You just fire fake missiles, get radar locks on people. Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's probably really fun. Yeah, no, it's probably really fun until a bunch of Irish dudes show up.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And they're like, we're not doing this. All right, Jake, you're who's back.
My who's back of the week is three-on-three basketball. Oh.

Speaker 1 So registration goes live today for the first ever Barcelon bench mob three on three invitational Tuesday March 15th in New York City. Would love if everyone can join.

Speaker 1 There's going to be a Barcelon team, too.

Speaker 3 So

Speaker 3 who's on it?

Speaker 1 Still in the works. Whoever wants to be on it, basically.
I know big cats itching to get back in the... No, I'm not.
I've already said I'm not. I'm going to get injured.
I would get injured so fast.

Speaker 3 Is there going to be any sort of like three-point contest?

Speaker 1 Yeah, there's going to be a skills challenge.

Speaker 3 Can there be a, like, instead of a slam-dunk competition, just a rim-touching competition?

Speaker 1 We can. So you can get rim? You also get that, like, whoever the barstool team is, that's, they have the big fucking bullseye on their back.
Oh, of course.

Speaker 1 Like, whoever plays them wants to kick the shit out of them. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I do not need that. All you have to do is go to barstoolsports.com slash events.
Noon Eastern Monday is when it goes on. I'll ref if you want me to.
Okay, we would love that.

Speaker 1 I would actually love to ref and just completely make it about myself. Who's going to do the clock? I'll do the clock.
Yeah. Yeah.
Who is going to do the clock? Yeah, I'll volunteer.

Speaker 3 I don't think anyone else can do it. I don't know if you can suspend it first.

Speaker 1 I think that's the first step. Okay.
All right. But

Speaker 1 I'm willing to ref. Okay.
Thank you. So, yeah, everyone, please.
Tease for the pen, New York City, Tuesday the 15th. And watch party afterwards for the first four.
Take off the tournament.

Speaker 1 I'm going to call Solway Travels. Carries.
Yeah. Oh, it'll be great.
It'll be fun. All right.
I'm excited. My Kentucky future looking good.
Yes. 25 to one that was

Speaker 1 ass kicking wire to wire holy

Speaker 1 cow might have his guys and i just love saying tie tie washington yeah great great name what do you say billy uh guy quick recap quick recap oh nice so the joe i like your goatee by the way thank you you do look like cal trash yeah well i'm gonna i'm about to shave it and just make it a foo man chew for the road trip okay sickass that you should have saved that

Speaker 1 you should have you should have fucking just done that so then pft was surprised yeah that would have been a nice surprise yeah i get some plants okay anyway it's not joe burr it's like joe burr like yeah and i don't like chill joe burr no no it's like burr you know what it was it was when they were old when they were doing the intro

Speaker 1 no no it's yeah yeah nate burlesen did it and i like i could hear him like fist bump like like i fucking nailed that it's like this is what are we doing i think you just can't roll your arms and you're jawless

Speaker 1 no no no no it's not the roll it's like joe burr it's like joe burr hyperthermia joe cool is a cool nickname it's joe montana's nickname. Yeah, but that's the thing.

Speaker 3 Like, it's Joe Montana's nickname.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but he deserves it. Like, you could do that.
I don't think it's powerful.

Speaker 3 You can't take Joe Montana's nickname until you win a Super Pool.

Speaker 4 But he didn't take his nickname.

Speaker 3 He's just Burr, the sound, cold.

Speaker 1 Joe Burr. I just think Joe Burrow.

Speaker 3 I get it.

Speaker 1 He's cold.

Speaker 3 I get it. Anyway, also, I like Joe Churro.

Speaker 4 Cincinnati is named after Cincinnatus, which is actually a Roman dictator who fought for the people and won. Hell yeah.
I thought Cincinnati was like a Native American name. It turns out it's Roman.

Speaker 3 Oh, crazy. There you go.
That's why the Ronaldo.

Speaker 1 You're fact-checking yourself. I like that.

Speaker 4 Crazy.

Speaker 1 Very good. All right.
Good recap. Numbers?

Speaker 4 6-9.

Speaker 1 8. 17.

Speaker 1 Bengals. What number of Super Bowl is this?

Speaker 3 54. I can't keep track.

Speaker 1 5, 54?

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 3 Super Bowl 50.

Speaker 1 50 was

Speaker 1 52. 56.
56. All right, so I'll just guess 56.

Speaker 1 50 was the Broncos Panthers.

Speaker 1 You think we'll be alive for Super Bowl 100? One other thing we forgot to mention was the halftime show. Yes.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, it was. Birthday ball.

Speaker 1 Eight. Wait, you guessed eight? Yeah.
Oh, nice.

Speaker 1 Way to go.

Speaker 1 We're so bad at like remembering what everyone guessed. That's sick.
That is sick. Here we go.
Birthday ball. Have you gotten it before? Yeah.

Speaker 3 Not a first time. Just me.

Speaker 1 Oh, it's just you? That's damn. Too bad.
Way to go. PFT.
Thank you. Liam got you.
Huge. Do you think how many of us in this room will be alive for Super Bowl 100?

Speaker 3 How many years is that? 44 years? It's too dark.

Speaker 1 Probably going to say just Jake. Jake, for sure.

Speaker 1 I'll get there. Yeah, Jake.
Not you, Bill. You take too many weird shits and not weird shits, weird, like, stuff in your body.

Speaker 3 Yeah, it depends on

Speaker 3 how long I keep vaping for.

Speaker 1 I'm going to say over, under...

Speaker 1 Three and a half people.

Speaker 3 Way up. It's pretty dark.
Under?

Speaker 1 Yes. Over.
Over. We can make it.
We got to do a bet. We can just revisit.
Super Bowl 100. We'll all go.

Speaker 1 Here,

Speaker 1 if there's more than four of us still alive, the four or more will all go to Super Bowl 100 together.

Speaker 3 If there's less. And Tom Brady will be playing it.

Speaker 1 If there's less than four of us alive,

Speaker 1 the remaining three, two, or one have to kill themselves. Deal.
Okay. Beautiful.
Love you guys.

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