The Best Football Weekend Ever Recap, Fastest 2 Minutes And More

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Speaker 4 On today's part in my take, holy fuck, football. What a weekend of football.
I'm going to be buzzing forever. I think this whole room is going to be buzzing forever.

Speaker 4 Incredible, incredible weekend of football. We had one of the greatest games I've ever watched with the Chiefs, Bills.
We had an insane comeback fall short with the Bucs. Aaron Rodgers choked again.

Speaker 4 Joe Burrow and the Bengals are going to the AFC championship game. We're going to recap it all.
It is an incredible weekend to just soak in the football.

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Speaker 4 We start in Nashville where the king has returned to his kingdom as Derek John Henry was a steel driving man running with a plate in his foot.

Speaker 4 Jamarke Mark Chase put in all the dirt after the catch as the Bengals tried to prove they're not just new kids on the block.

Speaker 4 The Bengals collected Hilton honors rewards points as a defensive back made an incredible red zone interception and it wasn't the only one as Ryan Tannehill was throwing a lot of pick, pick, pick, pick, pick, pick, pick, and in the words of our good friend Frank the Tank, more like Ryan Trashahill.

Speaker 4 The game came down to the kicker as Evan Easy McPherson cooked up an AFC championship game appearance in less than a minute.

Speaker 4 The Hennessy Titans are left drinking their sorrows away wondering what could have been. Bengals 19, Titans 16.
Hoody

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Speaker 4 Frozen tundra where Aaron Rodgers looked more like Deshaun Pfizer as the quarterback avoided the end zone as if it were a CDC guideline.

Speaker 4 Big Daddy Trent Williams played bumper pool with Packers defenders and the game plan was easy.

Speaker 4 In order for the Niners to win this game, they were going to have to keep Aaron Rodgers from scoring, get a touchdown on special teams, and have Jimmy Garoppolo commit zero turnovers.

Speaker 4 But in the good words of my dear, dear friend Meatloaf, two out of three ain't bad. Ellie Robbie Golden kicked a game winner as Packers fans looked on wishing for Lambo to burn, burn, burn,

Speaker 4 burn, burn, burn. Former Washington football team coach Kyle Shanahan beats former Washington football team coach Matt LaFleur.
30-cent.

Speaker 4 In Tampa Bay, where Kendall Roy Blanton started the scoring and had Twitter off the hook. Tom Brady will have trouble kissing his kids after suffering a bloody lip in the first half.

Speaker 4 But as the saying goes, never count out, touchdown Tom.

Speaker 4 It was a wild second half as the Bucs needed a prayer and went to knock, knock, knocking on Evans' door time and time again to bring them within a score.

Speaker 4 Cam Akers Mark was running drunk and engaged in some whiskey business as he fumbled late to give the Bucs a shot.

Speaker 4 The game came down to the wire, and as my good friend Mick Jagger once said, give me a little drink from your Lovin' Cooper Cup. Just one drink, and we're in the NFC Championship game.

Speaker 4 I think that's how it went. The Rams shocked the Super Bowl champs 30-27.

Speaker 4 And we finish in Kansas City, where Peter Gabriel Davis was a sledgehammer, scoring four touchdowns. Josh Allen brought his Viagra again, but the Chiefs had a hard man of their own.

Speaker 4 Hey, Boom, I'm hearing right now. We have Patrick Mahomes down on the sideline.
Patrick?

Speaker 4 Holy cats. God dang, I'm tickle pink.
Now, that's what I call some football. Andy Reid pulled me aside.
He said, when times get grim, go be the Grim Reaper. You know, don't be the KC Chiefs.

Speaker 4 Be the KC Anthonys. And we're all pulling like the dickens to get coach another slice of chocolate cake.
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Speaker 4 Okay,

Speaker 4 holy shit. That was an awesome, awesome weekend of football.
I love football.

Speaker 4 I love football, big cat. And

Speaker 4 I'm going to do the verbal tweet, which is: if you don't love me at my super wild card weekend,

Speaker 4 you don't deserve me at my super divisional round round Sunday. I mean, it applies here because

Speaker 4 this, I went basic as well when I was like, there is literally nothing better than sports. And I truly believe that because what we watched, like,

Speaker 4 you just cannot replicate,

Speaker 4 you know,

Speaker 4 the three games leading up to the Sunday night game were all great, very dramatic, awesome games, huge implications.

Speaker 4 But Sunday night's game with the Bills and the Chiefs, and we'll start there and then we'll go backwards to the Bengals Titans. That game was simply incredible.

Speaker 4 And I know people will come away from it having, we actually predicted it.

Speaker 4 As it went to overtime, we're like, well, now this is going to be great because people are just going to talk about the overtime rules. How about let's talk about that game was

Speaker 4 incredible and those two quarterbacks were playing on a different level. Like Josh Allen played a perfect game and he lost.
There's no justice for that.

Speaker 4 I feel absolutely heartbroken for the city of Buffalo. Like that is on a scale of one to 10 bad losses losses and heartbreaking losses.
It's, it's an 11.

Speaker 4 I think tonight's loss probably equals two Super Bowl losses for the Buffalo Faithful that has lived that have lived through it all because this team, I think, was probably, they were definitely going to be favored next week.

Speaker 4 Yep, probably would have been favored in the Super Bowl against either one of those teams. It felt like we were watching the two best teams in the NFL.

Speaker 4 And I know we're going to get to everyone else, and that's, you know, that could

Speaker 4 still be decided. But when you're watching that game, you're like, these two teams don't really have flaws.
You know, they were playing at such a high level.

Speaker 4 Every single offensive possession felt like it was, the stakes were so high. It's crazy to think we actually were joking.
Like, it was a joke. And anyone who says it wasn't a joke, you're lying.

Speaker 4 It was a joke when we said...

Speaker 4 They left too much time for Patrick Mahomes at 13 seconds. It happened three times in a row.

Speaker 4 It was like the end of that Tennessee bowl game where it was going back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.

Speaker 4 There was too much time on the clock left for Patrick Mahomes. Then there was too much time on the clock clock left for Josh Allen.

Speaker 4 Then there was too much time on the clock left again for Patrick Mahomes with 13 seconds, which is, as we know, the perfect amount of time to run a quarterback draw.

Speaker 4 Maybe not the perfect amount of time to go, what, 60 yards and keep the field going? Mike McCarthy was like, what are they doing? You're allowed to pass in this situation? That was insane.

Speaker 4 You can look for your tight end up the seam. It was.

Speaker 4 You said that neither one of these teams have flaws. I think they do have flaws

Speaker 4 on the defensive side.

Speaker 4 But as far as from an entertainment standpoint, these are the two best offenses in the NFL. And Josh Allen, you're right.
He played an absolutely perfect game.

Speaker 4 And Patrick Mahomes had 177 yards passing after the two-minute warning. Yeah, it was insane.
And obviously, the defenses weren't. They're not the two best defenses in the league.

Speaker 4 But, you know, I discount the end of the game chaos. Like, that was...

Speaker 4 Sometimes games get like that where it's like, well, the defense doesn't really matter.

Speaker 4 There's nothing either team can do. It's just wide open shootout.

Speaker 4 Both defenses actually played okay up into that point, like making the other offense go long drives for scores. Not like, you know, they did an okay job given how good these quarterbacks are.

Speaker 4 But yeah, it's crazy that we were sitting there watching the game, and it's like insane the sliding doors. It's fourth and 13 with a minute and 54 left in the game, and the Bills are down 26 to 21.

Speaker 4 And if Josh Allen doesn't hit Gabriel Davis on that fourth and 13 play for a touchdown, we have already finished recording this show because Mahomes gets the ball back and they just get a couple first downs, games over.

Speaker 4 Instead, he hits Gabriel Davis. They go up 27-26.

Speaker 4 And the final score, this is with a minute and 54 left. And the final score was 42 to 36.
It's insane. It was just...
Touchdown, touchdown, then the field goal.

Speaker 4 Like an absolutely insane game where both guys are playing at it, like all-time level. I'll tell you this, BFT, another basic tweet we got to throw out.
Say it: the league's in good hands. Yes.

Speaker 4 Yeah, no. These are in good hands.
No, these guys, the future of the NFL is bright with these youngsters. I can't wait to watch

Speaker 4 the next decade. There are so many good young players out there, especially in the AFC.
Damn.

Speaker 4 Today was like, it was one of those Sundays where it's life-affirming watching football because you're like, I'm not the one that's wasting my life caring this much about sports.

Speaker 4 You guys are the ones.

Speaker 4 It's know the classic saying this game is drunk this game was on the high quality meth the stuff that they give to billionaires the limitless pill yeah that us peasants don't have or aren't able to get our hands on because we don't have the pure pseudo-fed that they have it's the greenies in the mets dugout in the 1980s that's what we were taking it was the best i was i was snorting pure lines of football and i'm and i'm probably gonna have a football hangover oh i mean without a doubt will tomorrow morning we're gonna wake up we're gonna have a headache and we're gonna be like what's the matter I drank plenty of water yesterday.

Speaker 4 Oh, it's all the awesome football that I watched. Watching these four games this weekend, I'm pretty sure that just based on heart rate data, you probably got like 10 hours of cardio in this weekend.

Speaker 4 My Apple Watch said during the Bills Chiefs games, there's a note that like pops up and it says, please remember to breathe. It's like breathing helps with creativity.

Speaker 4 It's like, no, I'm not breathing. I don't have time to breathe.

Speaker 4 Like, I just keep going back, and we could talk about the Bills, but like Patrick Mahomes, I mean, Andy Reid, total baller to tell him when it's Grim, be the Grim Reaper with 13 seconds left.

Speaker 4 13 seconds left. I do think the Bills made a complete bonehead strategic error not squibbing that kick.
That,

Speaker 4 even if they down it, even if he falls on it, that's at least three seconds that you take off the clock, and now it's 10 seconds, not 13. You gave them free seconds there when

Speaker 4 I guess now we know 13 seconds is too many seconds for Patrick Mahomes. It is.
And when Tyler. Almost made a Rick Petino joke.
Yep, we didn't do it. We didn't do it.

Speaker 4 When Tyreek Hill was scoring that touchdown, I noticed he threw up the deuces on him. He did.
He put the deuces on while he was running in the end zone.

Speaker 4 I'm pretty sure that's a taunting penalty, right? Yeah. So that penalty should have probably added, he probably would have scored in the very next play, anyways.
Right.

Speaker 4 Well, people were saying if he had gone down, the game wouldn't have even gotten to that point where Josh Allen then, because Tyreek Hill scores a touchdown with a minute left, and then Josh Allen goes and scores a touchdown with 13 seconds left.

Speaker 4 It was crazy. No, I'm doing the math on that one.

Speaker 4 I think that would have eaten up enough seconds where Patrick Mahomes, after Josh Allen had already scored, would have only had like nine seconds left. Probably too much.
Probably too much too much.

Speaker 4 Probably still too much time on the clock.

Speaker 4 You can't stop. Patrick Mahomes.
You just can't. There's nothing you can do.
The only thing you can do to stop Patrick Mahomes is install Cliff Kingsbury as his head coach. Yeah.

Speaker 4 He's the only person that's been able to bottle him up. It's crazy, too, because Patrick Mahomes, like the style that they won the game until the end, because the end just became a shootout crazy.

Speaker 4 Like, the Bills were just basically like, we're going to keep everything in front of us. Patrick Mahomes, you're going to have to beat us with 10-play drives.
And he did. You know what I mean?

Speaker 4 Like, he, and he used his feet. Like, the fact that the first half, the most explosive play that the Chiefs had was Patrick Mahomes running the ball, it just shows that

Speaker 4 he can do everything. And it's insane to watch.
And I know that we had like a little dip where the league figured him out and, oh, the Chiefs, the shines off the Chiefs. No, no, no.

Speaker 4 This guy is, he's, he's fucking incredible. Did I do the math right on this? That there were 25 points scored in the last two minutes of the game.
So

Speaker 4 that's also counting overtime, I think. So there was the touchdown to Davis, two-point conversion to Diggs.
That's eight. Yep.
Then there was Tyree Hill. That's 15.
Yep. Oh, yeah, so it was 25.

Speaker 4 Then Josh Allen came back down the field, threw another one to Davis. And then there were 25 fucking points scored in the last two minutes

Speaker 4 of regulation of this game. Yeah, no, it felt like there was a fight that was on.
I forget the guys that were fighting in UFC last night.

Speaker 4 I think it was a second to last one, but this game reminded me of that fight where they're like they're kind of checking each other, beating each other up pretty good for the first like 90% of the fight, and then the last 30 seconds, they just go ape shit on each other and they just start swinging and punching each other as hard as they can in the face.

Speaker 4 That's what this game was. Yeah, no, that was my point when I said that if you had freeze-framed it with a minute 55 seconds left, and the score is Chiefs 26 and Bills 21.

Speaker 4 That's a minute and 55 seconds left. That's when you freeze frame it.
And then the game ends 42, 36. It's crazy.

Speaker 4 We can talk a little bit about the overtime rules because I think the game obviously flipped on Josh Allen's coin flip. Yeah, which

Speaker 4 you're partially to blame. And I'm okay with tails.
I'm okay with dying by tails. Agreed.
Because tails doesn't fail. It rhymes.

Speaker 4 So I don't have a problem with it because I'd have a much bigger issue if you had called heads and then tails lands. Yeah, then you'd look like an idiot.
Then you look like an idiot.

Speaker 4 Oh, yeah, I forgot about the rhyme. So I'm okay with that.
I'm also okay. I would prefer the overtime rules to be different, but still

Speaker 4 Pete Prisco is right. Defense is a big part of football.
You have to get a stop.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I mean, I have no problem. The NFL came out tomorrow and they're like, hey,

Speaker 4 we're changing the way we do overtime. It's going to be like college overtime.

Speaker 4 I'm fine with that. And you know what you have to do? You know what the easy fix is? Which is so stupid the NFL just doesn't do it? Just make that the overtime rule for playoffs.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 No one gives a fuck if in week three the Steelers and like that the Tim Boyle didn't get the ball. You know what I mean? Like they care about these type of games when Josh Allen doesn't get the ball.

Speaker 4 So it's a totally my whole point though is it's a fair criticism.

Speaker 4 I'm just tired of having this debate because I'd rather talk about how incredible this game was because you know that's what's going to be like Colin Coward's going to lead his it's going to be like Josh Josh Allen never touched the ball.

Speaker 4 Overtime rules suck. No, no, no.
That game was incredible. It's unfortunate that the Bills lost.
I was rooting for the Bills. They got absolutely like their hearts ripped out of their chest.

Speaker 4 But let's talk about how great the game was. Mike Greenberg is going to be on an all-time tear tomorrow with the overtime rules.
He's going to have some dumb

Speaker 4 abstract rule change that nobody's even thought of and just put on a masterclass.

Speaker 4 But he's just do it for the playoffs. It's so easy.
Just do it for the playoffs. That's a good rule.
And right at the coin toss, the losing quarterback should touch the ball before they kick it off.

Speaker 4 Then you can be like, both quarterbacks touch the ball. They technically touch the ball.

Speaker 4 So the Chiefs go on.

Speaker 4 Incredible, incredible game.

Speaker 4 Tyree Kill, like,

Speaker 4 it's so crazy how he changes games. It's so slippery.
Because

Speaker 4 that touchdown that he scored late in the fourth quarter, we forget that that kick return, that punt return he had, was such a game-shifting play, too. He's just so goddamn good.

Speaker 4 But we should talk about the Bills. Josh Allen was incredible.
It was the full Josh Allen show. It was like, I mean, it was

Speaker 4 not to like compare him to someone else, but it felt like an even better version of 2015 Cam Newton, where like he will pass it over everyone. He will throw a bomb to Gabriel Davis.

Speaker 4 Oh, and then when he wants to run the ball, he literally hurt their defensive players. He ran over one of their defensive players.

Speaker 4 The quarterback put one of their defensive players out of the game because he's that much of a wrecking ball.

Speaker 4 And anytime he wants to run, you just know, like, it always looks bad because you're like, uh-oh, they don't have it blocked. And then he just emerges from

Speaker 4 like the madness of the line and he gets like 10 yards. He's so goddamn big.
This is a fun stat about Josh Allen. This was on the athletic earlier this week.

Speaker 4 It was talking about his season that he had this year and how efficient at running the ball he was.

Speaker 4 There are only three players in NFL history that have had more efficient seasons running the football than Josh Allen did. You know who they are? They're all three quarterbacks, actually.

Speaker 4 It's Cam Newton. Lamar.

Speaker 4 Nope, it's Cam Newton. Vick.
Robert Griffin in 2012. And then Michael Vick in his Madden year in 2004.
That's it. It's crazy.
So Josh Allen is, he's a fucking force.

Speaker 4 It always did seem tonight, though, that it was a little bit harder for the Bills for most of the night than it was for the Chiefs. Well, I think there was also play calling.

Speaker 4 Like that that last drive, the drive that started the flurry, the drive that they get fourth and 13 for a touchdown, it was baffling what they were doing.

Speaker 4 They were essentially trying to run the clock, but also not realizing they needed a touchdown. And some of those play calls made no sense.

Speaker 4 It wasn't just that, because even on that first drive, they were going forward on fourth down. They had to go for it a lot.
They had to put their nuts on the table for a good part of the night.

Speaker 4 So it just felt like it was just like slightly harder for the Bills on offense. Now, that's not saying much because obviously they were able to make it work even when it was difficult for him.

Speaker 4 On the last drive, on that fourth and 13, Davis put that dude on skates. That was an awesome route that he ran.

Speaker 4 He's going to make a lot of money. Yeah, I mean, he was crazy.
And put a little tickler in this or put a little pin in this comment, right, that I'm about to say.

Speaker 4 It shows how good Josh Allen is that he, like, Stephon Diggs is his guy. Stephon Diggs had, what, seven yards tonight? Stephon Diggs probably wasn't open as much as Gabriel Davis.

Speaker 4 That's the sign of a mature quarterback. It's like, I'm going to take what the defense gives me and burn them with other guys.

Speaker 4 Just because you took away my number one receiver doesn't mean I won't hit other guys. Aaron Rodgers throwing it only to Devontae Adams.
We'll get to that. But that's like Josh Allen.

Speaker 4 Like that's, you go into this game and if you said Gabriel Davis is going to have 200 yards and four touchdowns, you're like, well, did Stefan Diggs get hurt? I don't know.

Speaker 4 No, but that's Josh Allen will find the right guys. That bomb he threw was,

Speaker 4 it's just, oh my god, his fucking arm. You know what's.
I know this is like actually terrible. No, let's just gush.
Let's gush.

Speaker 4 Well, I don't also want to take away from the Chiefs because the Chiefs are the one, the team marching on. And I did gush over Patrick Mahomes, and they, you know, they deserve to win.

Speaker 4 It's not like a game where it's like, oh, the Chiefs, that's bullshit that they won. No, no, they were the better team tonight.
It was heartbreaking for the Bills.

Speaker 4 I just think if you're a Bills fan, you have to just go to sleep tonight, as terrible as this is, and as terrible as the winter is going to be, and waking up tomorrow morning,

Speaker 4 Josh Allen is 25 years old, and you have him for the next decade, and he's already locked up on his first long-term deals extension.

Speaker 4 He's going to be awesome for a long time, and you just got to go to sleep knowing that.

Speaker 4 Isn't it so cool how, like, one dude can make an entire city happy for 10 years? It's going to get to Joe Burrow. Yeah, we're going to talk about it.

Speaker 4 Like, though, our good friend Tom Fernelli texted me during the game, like, in the fourth quarter. He's like, I want this for us.
And I was like, the Bears Bears will never have this.

Speaker 4 This is a different sport. Like, we were watching quarterbacking at the highest, highest level.

Speaker 4 You know what the sickest pass was, I thought, was when he threw that one to Davis, the bomb that went about 50 yards in the air, but it never left the screen.

Speaker 4 You could see the ball on the screen the entire time because it was just a fucking missile.

Speaker 4 And I think Billy got our podcast into international trouble with that one, making some sort of like Ukrainian political statement out of that throat. Way to go, Billy.

Speaker 4 Now, like, now Russia's probably hacking memes as we speak. Yeah, and I got hacked on Saturday.

Speaker 4 I don't know if Memes is, I don't know if he tweeted this out today. No disrespect to him if he did.

Speaker 4 I just want to say that in the instance of a Gabriel Davis-type player having four touchdown catches for 200 yards, I don't think that people should be using the Randy Moss meme to describe a game that's better than that Randy Moss game where he had three catches, three touchdowns, 160 yards, or whatever.

Speaker 4 Gabriel Davis lit it up tonight. He was incredible.
Like every single time they needed a big play, he was there. I mean, Cole Beasley was awesome as well.

Speaker 4 I just, I love watching Josh Allen play football. He's so fun to watch.
I'm heartbroken for Buffalo. Like, that is

Speaker 4 13 seconds is going to just live in their minds, and it's going to haunt them. Because that's, and that tells you everything.
Like, everything that we said about Josh Allen and how much we love him.

Speaker 4 The fact that 13 seconds was too much time for Patrick Mahomes, like, that's the biggest takeaway in this game. Like, Patrick Mahomes, 13 seconds.

Speaker 4 You could say the the Bills' defense had a fatal flaw there, which they did, but it's still Patrick Mahomes making throws, having like clock awareness.

Speaker 4 Like, as much as we laughed about Dak and Mike McCarthy, that's what perfect quarterbacking looks like. Two all-pro safeties, too, I think, make it worse.

Speaker 4 Like, that was the problem with the Tyreek touchdown and the end of the game was the back end of the defense. And with those, guys are all-proof.

Speaker 4 Tyreek Tyreek, though, it's a little bit different because he's

Speaker 4 so fucking angle. Yeah, but he kills, he makes anyone look slow and makes anyone have bad angles.
Like, that's how different his speed is.

Speaker 4 As much as you yell at Tyreek Hill for catching a ball and then immediately he hops backwards like, I don't know, four yards right after he catches it.

Speaker 4 He'll have a couple of times where he loses like two or three yards after the catch because he's trying to make a play.

Speaker 4 But then he'll have another play like three downs later where he hops backwards, sprints sideways, and goes off for 55 yards. It's crazy.
And then I think he's got something on his uniform.

Speaker 4 I think he's got like, he sprays himself down with Pam before a game. We haven't even talked about Travis Kelsey with the touchdown catch to win the game.

Speaker 4 I mean, like, that's the Chiefs are just full-on Chiefs now. And I, like, that's the most reductive analysis possible, but there's nothing else you can say.
They're just back to being the holy fuck.

Speaker 4 They have dudes everywhere, Chiefs. Like, Jarek McKinnon being a game changer in passing and running.
Clyde Edwards, Hilaire was Hilaire. Ilaire.
Hilaire? Ilaire.

Speaker 4 Jake?

Speaker 4 Ilaire.

Speaker 4 Clyde Edwards, Hilaire.

Speaker 4 Like, he was running angry.

Speaker 4 He was making moves, making guys, like, just rolling over people. They just have everything.
It's crazy. And Tyron Matthew got hurt in like, what, second play of the game?

Speaker 4 Like, I Chiefs are a fucking really, really good team. And I, yeah, I mean, I feel really, really bad for the Bills.
I know I'm just repeating myself, but that's how bad I feel for the Bills.

Speaker 4 And I'm probably going to be muttering that when I wake up in the morning and be like, man, I feel bad for the Bills.

Speaker 4 Also, shout shout out to the guy in Kansas City that was dressed up as the wolf today. That guy came to play.
Like, imagine going to an NFL game.

Speaker 4 He's sitting on about the 50-yard line, best seats in the house. Every time the camera cut to him in the biggest moments of the game, he had the full wolf outfit on.

Speaker 4 You know, you can't see through that thing. You know what he also did? He's just pumping up the crowd.
He had the shirt on that said, Come at me in February with a Lombardi trophy.

Speaker 4 You know what he also had? This is why he can be the wolf and go to that game and just be the wolf because he had a GoPro on his head. So he's probably going to re-watch the tape later.
I love that.

Speaker 4 Yeah. Good for him.
Fucking get, it's basically like you went to the game twice. You get to go home and watch that game.
He's actually the smartest person in the world for getting to go home.

Speaker 4 I wish, you know what? I really wish there was. I wish I had the men in black memory eraser thing where you can just like erase the last four hours of your life.
Yes.

Speaker 4 So that I could go back and watch this game for the first time again. I mean, oh man.

Speaker 4 I guess I could get blackout drunk and hope that affects my memory. It's crazy too, that

Speaker 4 game of the year over, that was actually in doubt. That fourth and 13, I still can't get over the fact that Josh Allen converting that fourth and 13 led to the craziest ending in a string of events.

Speaker 4 Because if he doesn't get that,

Speaker 4 it's game over. Like, did the Chiefs get their first downs, little Tyreek running a route that no one can guard, and again, we're probably already home.

Speaker 4 Like, that's how nuts the game went from that moment on.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I think it all turned on the lack of the squib. Yeah.
You got to squib it. You got to squib it.

Speaker 4 Even three seconds makes it so that you have one, maybe two plays. I mean, what, they do it in two plays? The crazy part is you don't have this conversation about any other team except for the Chiefs.

Speaker 4 Right. It doesn't matter.
It's 13 seconds. You can do it.
You can on-side kick it probably and still be fine. With the Chiefs, it's like...

Speaker 4 You need to bleed two and a half seconds off the clock somehow. Like, that's forever going to just be like

Speaker 4 13 seconds too much time for Patrick Welves. That's a joke.
That is a joke. That's literally a joke that he made a reality.

Speaker 4 13 seconds. You guys want to hear Insane Stat? Yeah.
Insane stat, yes. Is it going to be right? Yes.
I love you, Billy. Chiefs' game-tying field goal drive took less time than Dak's quarterback sneak.

Speaker 4 Well, yeah, because Dak had 14 seconds left. Exactly.
That is an insane amount. That is insane.
That's crazy. It's this whole game.
You know what?

Speaker 4 You remember back right before that fourth and 13 call when the guy came onto the field? Yeah. There's a fan on the field that got lit up.

Speaker 4 If the Bills win that game,

Speaker 4 that guy's the biggest mush in the history of Kansas City. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 4 That guy almost cost them a playoff game single-handedly, but you had Patrick Mahomes. You had Patrick Mahomes.

Speaker 4 And then Patrick Mahomes' lovely wife spraying champagne on everyone, which is just like,

Speaker 4 you have to respect that move.

Speaker 4 What do you say to that? If you're just standing underneath, if you're a Bills fan and you're underneath and you just get sprayed with champagne as you get your heart ripped out, that's.

Speaker 4 I want, if there's a Bills fan that can prove that they were there, please tweet us. Also, this isn't baseball.
We're popping champagne for the divisional round. That's the point.

Speaker 4 It was a good game, though, Hank. It was.

Speaker 4 I would complain about that if I were you, too. I'm not complaining.
I'm just, I'm more like, if you're Patrick Mahomes, it's just bullet.

Speaker 4 Like, if the Chiefs lose next week, it's going to be such a bad look. Like, everyone's going to be be playing

Speaker 4 balls. Don't you open yourself up? It's not necessary.
I just think that this was probably the best game in the history of the NFL playoffs. And so to win it one of them, for sure.

Speaker 4 One of the craziest games. Yes, 28-3 was also a very crazy game.
But

Speaker 4 it was such a wild ending and just such an incredible thing to watch that I kind of excuse any bad behavior that took place right after this game. Yeah, no, it was.

Speaker 4 You have a lot of emotion you got to let out.

Speaker 4 I walked away from the gambling cave cave and I was like, I need 10 minutes to just sit down and just collect where I'm at. I mean, I was getting dizzy with what was happening.

Speaker 4 I'm going to give Jackson Mahomes also a pass on any TikToks that he creates and posts after this game. I feel like that's also a situation.

Speaker 4 There's a little bit of a halo period, yeah, where he gets like 12 hours here.

Speaker 4 As much as I would love, I mean...

Speaker 4 I'm not joking when I say this. We could probably just sit here for the next two hours and just talk about how sick this game was and just repeat ourselves like, what a game.

Speaker 4 We should probably move on but what a game it did one last time what a game that game was freaky nasty it was it was one you'll you'll remember forever not just because it was game of the year no big deal three and oh but it was one you will everyone except bills fans because that sucks will remember forever and i 25 points in the last two minutes incredible incredible so that sliding door moment like go just think about how we were feeling when we were watching that play being like it's over the game's over the bills lost the under hit like this sucks.

Speaker 4 And then from that point on, just chaos, absolute chaos. Josh Allen is going to be your quarterback for a long time, Bills fans.
Just keep saying that to yourself. Like, that's your mantra.

Speaker 4 You wake up, you say it over and over to yourself. We have Josh.
We have Josh, and Josh, we trust. We're going to be okay because Josh Allen is our quarterback.
Over and over.

Speaker 4 All right, let's move on. We'll go back in time.
We got Bengals Titans.

Speaker 4 I was very wrong about this game. I've been been getting beat up by Bengals fans.
I was very, I almost, so much so that I almost started a war with them.

Speaker 4 We came to an agreement to not put our guns down. But the Bengals go into Tennessee.

Speaker 4 The biggest takeaway from this game is,

Speaker 4 one, the Bengals' defense, like, they played their balls off. The Titans' defense was also incredible.
Ryan Tannehill, I will like do

Speaker 4 never ever let me bet on him again in a playoff game. You have to take my phone.
You have to put me in a mental ward. Never ever let me do that.

Speaker 4 I'm so happy that I never gave up on the Ryan Tannehill as a mediocre quarterback take. Yeah.
Because there were some times to Ryan's credit that he almost proved me wrong.

Speaker 4 He actually did prove me wrong probably, probably like a couple dozen times because he's been very good over the last couple years. But this is a lesson to all the kids out there.

Speaker 4 Never give up on a take. Your take is not wrong until you admit that it's wrong.
Because Tannehill did me the gift of showing me that he was still capable at times of being old Ryan Tannehill.

Speaker 4 It's and that's just it, it's who he is. He's never going to be a great, great quarterback.

Speaker 4 He can be a good quarterback, he can be a very good quarterback sometimes, but he's always going to show up at some point.

Speaker 4 Usually, when you need it the most for him to not be old Ryan Tannehill, is when he knocks at your door.

Speaker 4 He did it inside of the game.

Speaker 4 He started

Speaker 4 the game, first play of the game, interception. He had the Mike Hilton interception was an incredible play by him.

Speaker 4 I still think that that's just lack of awareness that, like, hey, dude, there's a dude just streaking in front of your face. Maybe don't throw this screen.

Speaker 4 And then he throws the insane dime to AJ Brown for that touchdown. That was like, it was so casual.
He put it in the absolute, he basically put it in his, like, underneath his arm.

Speaker 4 Because he didn't even use two hands for it. He fit in

Speaker 4 between his arm and his pads. And then,

Speaker 4 at the end of the game, when you are at worst going to go to overtime, at best, maybe win the game with with a fat randy revenge kick you do the one thing you're not you cannot do you throw into triple coverage to not aj brown to not julio jones to fucking nick westbrook akini and it gets tipped which was a great play by eli apple again the bengals defense was uh incredible but like you can't do that and he did it and he's a fucking moron and i'm done with him Also, Evan McPherson, I think we can say Evan McPherson already the second best kicker in the NFL because he had that one bad game against the Packers where it was just a bet there was bad kicking vibes all over the field for that game that's when Mason Crossbar I think missed three or four field goals yes and McPherson caught a little bit of the yips from Mason Crossbar missed a couple of his own but since then he's been you could even say like he's been as good as Justin Tucker for the rest of this year and people are like why would you ever draft a kicker you draft a kicker because it he's Evan McPherson and he's that like right now in retrospect if you were to say how what would you spend on Justin Tucker right now would you use a first-round pick on him?

Speaker 4 Yeah, you probably would. Evan McPherson's probably the only other guy in the league.
Carlson's pretty good too, that you could justify using a draft pick on a kicker.

Speaker 4 And Joe Burrow after the game said that he did a warm-up

Speaker 4 swing and then was like, all right, guess we're going to the AFC championship game. And that's how cocky and confident he was.
And yeah, he's a total game changer.

Speaker 4 If you have a kicker like that, it completely, like, even the Titans' defense was incredible. Nine sacks.

Speaker 4 Joe Burrow took a couple sacks where they basically, it felt like they were going out of field goal range. And then Evan McPherson was like, no, I got it.
We're good.

Speaker 4 Like, they would have lost points with any other kicker

Speaker 4 and they didn't do that. And, I mean, the Bengals,

Speaker 4 so I did have that war with the Bengals fans. I'm going to say something real quick.

Speaker 4 They're going to get upset about this. The Bengals also had a lot of luck in this game.
There was a few plays. Like, when you think about it,

Speaker 4 the penalty on the touchdown for the Titans, the extra point, and then the Titans decide to go for two. Yep.

Speaker 4 That was the right call. Yeah, but that literally changed the game.
Like, that was a lot. Like, you got a penalty and ended up basically deciding the game for you.

Speaker 4 Billy, can you go get me some water? Sorry. We don't have water in this office.
It's fucking terrible. Anytime you can give up nine sacks and win a game, you have to have some breaks go your way.

Speaker 4 They had that. They had right before the Ryan Tannehill interception, they were trying to call timeout.

Speaker 4 The refs just didn't see it. So it just didn't count.

Speaker 4 And guess what? It's better to be lucky than good sometimes. So don't apologize.
I'm not saying that. I'm just saying the Titans.

Speaker 4 I walked away from this game being like, the Bengals run is incredible. They deserve to be in the AFC Championship game.
They have every chance to beat the Chiefs who they beat a couple weeks ago.

Speaker 4 But if you're the Titans, you have to be just... killing yourself how you how you manage this game and how you threw this game away.

Speaker 4 Like, even the little things, like, I don't think Derrick Henry was hit 100%. Obviously, he's got a fucking plate in his foot.
Why they didn't run Deontay Foreman more?

Speaker 4 He was so much at the ball. He is so much faster.
He's so much work.

Speaker 4 That two-point conversion was actually a case study of Billy's point about how he's not a good short-yardage back because his legs are too long and he takes a while to gain ahead of steam.

Speaker 4 That's exactly what happened to him. He got the ball one step later.
The guy off the edge comes in, grabs him by his shoelaces, and takes him down.

Speaker 4 I think a stronger, lower-to-the-ground runner powers through that arm tackle. I think it's Henry's like, don't get me wrong, great, great running back.
He's not 100% probably the best in the NFL.

Speaker 4 You can make the argument that he is. It's like him and Jonathan Taylor, but

Speaker 4 he wasn't totally healthy. Your foot can't be totally healthy after eight weeks.
There was a play, I think it was in the fourth quarter, where it was very apparent, like he broke through the line.

Speaker 4 There's a fly in here. He broke through the line, and

Speaker 4 prime Derrick Henry would have just buried the linebacker, it might have been the safety, into the ground with a stiff arm. And it would have been like a 30-yard run, maybe even a touchdown.

Speaker 4 Instead, he was a slight step slower, and he gets tackled, you know, maybe an eight-yard gain. And it's like, oh, yeah, that's the difference right there.

Speaker 4 Yeah, that's the difference between 100% and whatever he was playing at, probably 75%. He wasn't totally ready to go.

Speaker 4 But if you can sack the opposing quarterback nine times, you should probably win that game. Yeah, no, that's a single rule of thumb.
So

Speaker 4 the Bengals had to have have a little bit of luck on their side but they also had to make some nasty plays which they ended up doing i was gonna say jamar chase was the complete game changer game record that he is he had 105 or 109 yards 95 of those yards came after the catch like he basically every time the bengals needed something explosive something to flip the field he was that guy and he that's how fucking good he is so i'm not i'm not taking away from the bengals i'm saying more like walking away from that game bengals incredible story

Speaker 4 They absolutely have a chance to beat the Chiefs next week. The Titans, as a franchise, have to be sitting there being like, what just happened? Because

Speaker 4 we very much could have won that game if Ryan Tanhill plays a little bit better, if the two-point conversion thing doesn't happen.

Speaker 4 Nine sacks is crazy. So we want the Bengals to win next week.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I think Joe I do. I think you probably do too.
I want Joe Burton to win. Hank also Joe Burton.
We're rooting for a friend, Joe.

Speaker 4 The issue I'm I'm running into is that Joe's pissed off now. He's sick of the whole we're underdog narratives.
So

Speaker 4 I want to keep reminding him that he's an underdog, so he'll continue to be pissed off. Bengals fans should actually thank me that I put the Titans in the CLP.

Speaker 4 I can't believe we keep doing this where it's like, you want me to doubt because I'm a fucking idiot and I get things wrong all the time.

Speaker 4 The Bengals fans really seem to have.

Speaker 4 You know what it was?

Speaker 4 I literally haven't seen any

Speaker 4 mad Bengals fans.

Speaker 4 Oh, my God. Well, yeah, because you bet on the Bengals.
Yeah. So why would you see them? Well, I would have to admit.

Speaker 4 I don't live in your mentions, but I'm pretty sure that whatever team you bet against

Speaker 4 is going to hate you.

Speaker 4 So it was a clip from, I said the Titans were going to kill the Bengals on the Pro Football Football Show. I think I might have said it on the Advisors 2.
And it's like,

Speaker 4 this is the job.

Speaker 4 What do you want me to get in front of a camera and be like, I think it could be a good game. I don't know who's going to win.
Right, that's what I'm saying.

Speaker 4 So, whoever you pick against is what I hate you. Right.
Well, Titans fans, they have always been disrespected.

Speaker 4 I actually had Titans fans mad at me because I picked them, which is another story, but I didn't, I put that aside. Bengals fans were like

Speaker 4 everyone's disrespect. I think they're the chip on the shoulder team.
Like, they, like you said, like Joe Burrow, like, the narrative is literally the Bengals shouldn't be here.

Speaker 4 So, they all, Bengals fans take what the team is doing and being like, what the fuck? Like, why aren't people respecting us?

Speaker 4 Which is a very fast thing to do after not winning a playoff game for 31 years. It happened overnight.
But at the end of the day, I say it again. It will never change.

Speaker 4 But if I bet against your team, that doesn't mean I hate your team.

Speaker 4 But that's just the reality of it. I'll take some of the heat off you real quick.
Listen,

Speaker 4 in the year 2022,

Speaker 4 I don't think that the Bengals have a chance in hell of beating the Chiefs. With these two teams, the Bengals are two years away from even being able to compete against the Chiefs.

Speaker 4 There's no chance that a team like the Bengals could go up against the Chiefs and outscore them. Clips 0%

Speaker 4 chance. And take it to the bank.

Speaker 4 There's a tunnel guy who I thought was my brother who really stabbed me in the back, who took the clip from Pro Football, Football Show, and I think he replied it to every account for like four hours straight.

Speaker 4 Every tweet I had, it was the first tweet. He was doing it to Old Takes Exposed.
He was going full on.

Speaker 4 I understand.

Speaker 4 I can't wait until I have 100 people reminding me that the Bengals did, in in fact, beat the Chiefs like a month ago. Right.
That's the best part. Oh, man.

Speaker 4 And now their offensive line is some bulletin board material. You've got to get them fired.
Yeah, the offensive line is the same.

Speaker 4 That's their only hope. You know what? Let's just spam the timeline with the meme about drafting Panay Sewell instead of Jamar Chase.
The crazy thing is, like, it works both ways.

Speaker 4 If you do have Jamar Chase, you can throw the ball to him. He's

Speaker 4 going to give him the ball and then let him rack up the yak, right? Right.

Speaker 4 Yeah, no, he changed the game. And I think at this point, the Bengals, like,

Speaker 4 if you, the Chiefs have more talent right now on their roster. So do the Rams.
So do the Niners. But the Bengals have Joe Burrow.

Speaker 4 And it's like this weird thing that you just feel like you always have a chance with Joe Burrow and Evan McPherson and Jamar Chase. And oh, yeah, their defensive line played really well, too.

Speaker 4 Like, that was part of Tannehill playing bad and the running game getting stuffed. So

Speaker 4 they have like that little mojo thing going that it might look on on paper like the Chiefs are going to kill them, but I wouldn't count out the Bengals at all.

Speaker 4 At all. Did you see the world's saddest mayor's bet that got put out last week? Yes.
That was the funniest shit of all time. It was the mayor of Nashville, whose name is Cooper, I think.

Speaker 4 And then the mayor of Cincinnati. I think his name's...
Purival. I don't know how to pronounce his last name.
I might have butchered that. But

Speaker 4 it was a picture of the two of them meeting, and they look like the two biggest nerds that have ever existed.

Speaker 4 And they're like shaking hands, and they're tweeting back and forth at each other saying, how about about a friendly wager if my titans win then you have to wear a tennessee jersey oh and if the bangles win i'll in good nature put on a cincinnati bengals jersey oh no they're like fair play gate the game is afoot are these are these people actual humans like i don't and the handshake they're both smirking all politicians are not humans they're they're fucking robots like if at least normal mayor's bets which we love to make fun of here on part of my take it's like it would be okay i'll i'll eat a giant inflatable pool filled with cincinnati chili and then if you win i'll just i'll i'll hammer down five nashville hot chicken sandwiches and sit on a toilet for eight hours that's that's like a normal thing is to just bet the food but just like to wear a jersey it's a total own total own wait till we see that picture yeah we need the picture tomorrow yes um this yeah i mean The Bengals are going to the FC Championship.

Speaker 4 It's crazy.

Speaker 4 It's crazy. You know what I would have bet would be just like the state of Kentucky.
Because I think Tennessee and Cincinnati both have rightful claims to the entire state of Kentucky.

Speaker 4 Who gets to own it? Am I wrong to say that the Bengals Stadium, isn't it like on a river that's basically inside of Kentucky? It's close. I'll have to pull up a map.
Yeah, it's right on the border.

Speaker 4 Yeah, but shout out to you. It's on that river that Chris Collins saved those people.
Or no, he got off first. Oh, yeah.
Remember that? He almost died. Yeah, he got off first.

Speaker 4 The floating restaurant that almost floated away.

Speaker 4 It was like on a barge, and it almost floated away. I think it was

Speaker 4 a the steakhouse. He pulled a George Costan

Speaker 4 jumped to the front of the line. Yeah, well, everyone's like, well, this might just go down the river.
Here's a guy that'll save his own ass.

Speaker 4 The Bengals, yeah, I mean, the Bengals are marching on. I don't know what the Titans are going to do going forward because it does feel like

Speaker 4 you probably, you can't win a Super Bowl with Ryan Tannehill. Can you? No.
See, I'm done with it.

Speaker 4 I'm already thinking like maybe you could. I'm totally.
If Derrick Henry was healthy, maybe you could.

Speaker 4 And if you had Will Compton, many people are saying the curse of Will Compton, all his teams keep losing.

Speaker 4 Well, it's crazy because the Titans remade their entire defense in a year, and it was really, really good. Like, they played awesome.
And Ryan Tannehill, like, if you could just do a

Speaker 4 Freaky Friday, you needed Ryan Tannehill from a couple years ago with this defense. And then you have a Super Bowl team.
But it'll never match up. Never.
It never will.

Speaker 4 If you're a fan of a team that has a fucking awesome defense, like one of those defenses where you're excited when they're on the field, you will never have a great offense at that same time.

Speaker 4 Talking to

Speaker 4 the Chicago Bears ranch off. Well, yeah, I know, I know, if you're too.
But yeah, the

Speaker 4 awesome defense.

Speaker 4 Wish we had a quarterback and get a quarterback. It's like, the awesome defense is gone.
I actually think we could name quarterbacks right now that I think the Titans would have won that game with.

Speaker 4 Kirk Cousins. Yes, Kirk Cousins, absolutely.
Jimmy G. Yeah, well, Jimmy G just wins.
Jimmy G's a winner. He's a fire.
Especially if he throws for no touchdowns. He's going to kick your ass.

Speaker 4 He's a winner. Baker Mayfield, I think they win.
Yeah, probably. A healthy Baker Mayfield.
Healthy Baker.

Speaker 4 Yeah, no, it's

Speaker 4 Ryan Tannehill, man. God.

Speaker 4 That first play, you're like, what the fuck is he doing? This game hasn't even started.

Speaker 4 I didn't even get in my seat. I didn't even get comfortable in my seat.
At least Big Ben is too slow to be able to get a pass like that off. He'll get sacked before he gets to the interception.
Yes.

Speaker 4 I also don't know how you like.

Speaker 4 I don't know. Whatever.
The Bengals deserve the win.

Speaker 4 Do you think they have, like, what is it, six and a half? Seven? I think right now it's seven. Seven? The Bengals have no chance of beating the Chiefs.
They could never beat the Chiefs.

Speaker 4 Look at these two crazy Chiefs. The Chiefs are better than the Bengals.
I think the play is to live bet the Bengals.

Speaker 4 Like, I could see the Chiefs being up like they were against the Bengals a couple weeks ago and just being like, guess what? Joe Burrow is going to bring him back because that's what he does.

Speaker 4 This might actually be the first ever trap game in an AFC championship game. Oh, that's Florio had that take that was

Speaker 4 a real tweet, which sometimes our guy Florio kind of loses his mind. It's kind of, especially after a game like this, this could be a trap game to go to the Super Bowl.
Okay, let me find

Speaker 4 he said it, and it was

Speaker 4 so ridiculous. This is the most important game in the history of the Bengals franchise, at least for the last 30 years.

Speaker 4 He said, letdown potential for winner of Bills' Chiefs tomorrow night is significant. Bengals and Joe Burrow could steal a berth in the Super Bowl.
Get ready. So

Speaker 4 this game means everything

Speaker 4 to the city of Cincinnati. I feel like you don't have a letdown in the AFC Championship.

Speaker 4 But the narrative afterwards, if it does happen. Yeah, no, if they come out slow, if the Chiefs come out slow, it's like, well, they won their Super Bowl last week.
The Chiefs can play the first

Speaker 4 57 and a half minutes of the game slow. Yeah.
And still be able to win.

Speaker 4 All right, so you think, yeah, so they have no chance?

Speaker 4 I think they have a chance. I was very wrong about the Titans-Bengals game.
Even though if they played it again 100 times,

Speaker 4 I do think the Titans probably win it 60. But that doesn't matter because the Bengals won.
If the Bengals play the Chiefs 100 times this season, the Chiefs win it 101 times. Probably.
Probably.

Speaker 4 But yeah, congrats to the Bengals. Congrats to Cincy.

Speaker 4 You know, they're going to Kansas City. And there was a lot of, I feel like there was a lot of Bengals fans in Nashville.
They traveled well.

Speaker 4 So that's, I mean, that's, it's a hell of a time to be alive in Cincinnati. So the only way that I really get a good cultural background on a lot of American cities is through their sports teams.

Speaker 4 Yeah. And, like, observing their sports fans.
I don't, it dawned on me this week. I don't know much about the city of Cincinnati at all.
Like, besides Skyline Chili,

Speaker 4 besides the Reds and Eric Davis, Chris Sabo, he had cool rec specs.

Speaker 4 Their high school soccer programs. They're kind of Kentucky, but not.
And also huge college basketball. Yeah, huge.

Speaker 4 Like, like we said, the fight that would occur every year between Cincinnati and Xavier.

Speaker 4 Besides that, I need to learn more about the city of Cincinnati because there was that Fox News thing that came out that they had a study saying the drunkest franchises and the Bengals were listed first overall.

Speaker 4 I could see that. I mean, Bills, I think, should, in my personal experience, Bills be first overall.
But people from Cincinnati hit me up and

Speaker 4 tell me what else I need to know about your city. Is that going to be on the stop? Should you make a trip? Through Cincy?

Speaker 4 Is that on the road? If they make the Super Bowl, we'll stop through Scincy. There you go.
Boom. Huge.
I just ruined Billy's plan to go see a roadside zoo in Tennessee. I did.
Damn. How could you?

Speaker 4 Why not both? Well, there's roads, and so some roads take you certain places and other roads take you to another place. So why don't you just take some roads to one place and then take points?

Speaker 4 Because if you go to Cincinnati, you can't, if you were to, if you were to make a left, which is south,

Speaker 4 and then go down to Tennessee, that's another like probably six hours of drive. That's not

Speaker 4 on the trip. Yeah, you're not more time on the road.
You're not saying like it's absolutely feasible. Like Hank is right.

Speaker 4 At the end of there are roads that can take you to Cincinnati and also to the zoo in Tennessee. I know.
At the end of Thursday's episode, we were talking about maybe making a trip to Vermont.

Speaker 4 And I was like, a four-hour car ride.

Speaker 4 I was like, nah, I don't want to do that. That's a long time in a car.
And Hank was like, wait, you know that you have to be in a car for 40 hours. No, but there's.

Speaker 4 And then it started to dawn on me a little bit, but I'll be fine. There's long trips on weekends.

Speaker 4 Like four hours is long for a weekend, but for like a road trip where you got a good amount of time, four hours is easy. Yeah, so why don't you go? Yeah.
You should do both.

Speaker 4 Well, you see, what else are you going to do? You guys are excited about it. You should do both.
You should do Cincinnati. Actually, you should maybe hit up Kansas City, too.

Speaker 4 It's not actually the place in Tennessee that we're going to miss. It's called Dinosaur Kingdom in Virginia, and it's a Civil War reenactment with dinosaurs.

Speaker 4 I have no idea if that's a real place or that. That's just something that Billy wants very much to ask.

Speaker 4 It's in Natural Bridge, Virginia. Oh, I know Natural Bridge.
It's like statues. Yeah, Natural Bridge.
So you're going to go there,

Speaker 4 Cincinnati, Kansas City, and Tennessee. Well, we might have to reroute now.
Yeah, I think you do. Back to the drawing.
Call in Audible.

Speaker 4 I think you've got to go to Kansas City if the Chiefs get to the Super Bowl.

Speaker 4 Why? Do some barbecue?

Speaker 4 We'll see. Billy also has his heart set on a 72 ounce,

Speaker 4 Texas. If you guys don't go to Kansas City or Cincinnati, that's a tragedy.
72 ounces of steak. I know, but

Speaker 4 this is a football trip. You've got to go see the city that's going to be in the Super Bowl.
But the Bass Pro Shop. No, we're going to the fucking Bass Pro Shop Pyramid.

Speaker 4 It sounds like you guys are being selfish. Maybe you just, you got to go.
Take one way and then come back. Yeah.
Good point. We're just going to get on the road.
What do you need an extra night?

Speaker 4 You can just get back on the road. Yeah, no, we'll probably stop at whatever AFC team wins.
Okay, that's a guarantee. That's a guarantee.
That's probably. That was nice.

Speaker 4 Guarantee. He's going to do it.
He's going to see it. Well, it's going to be Kansas City because Cincinnati doesn't have a chance.

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Speaker 4 49ers 13. Packers 10.

Speaker 4 Aaron Rodgers chokes again. I've got some fun stats.
I know that you have some fun stats too. Do you just just want to go back and forth a little bit? Sure.

Speaker 4 Okay. Aaron Rodgers is currently tied with Trent Dilfer, Neil O'Donnell, and Rex Grossman for conference championship wins.

Speaker 4 I did know that fact.

Speaker 4 It's also interesting that Jimmy G, so he could also be tied with Matt Stafford if he wins on Sunday.

Speaker 4 And if Jimmy G wins, Jimmy G would have won two NFC championship games, and he's been a full-time starter, non-injured for two seasons. Oh, that's interesting.
That's pretty crazy, crazy, right?

Speaker 4 I would say it's, yeah, it's fun. Yeah.
It's a fun stat.

Speaker 4 How about this one? Rodgers, once in his career, has had a top-five defense. Just happens to be the year that he won a Super Bowl when he had one of the best defenses in the league.

Speaker 4 How about this one? The Packers won 39 regular season games the last three years.

Speaker 4 So they went 13 and 3, 13 and 3. Wait, did they go 14 and 3 this year? No, they went 13 and 4.

Speaker 4 Either way, they won a lot of regular season games, and they got bounced from Lambeau Field, where it's tough to play, PFT. No, you can't.
You don't win in Lambeau in the playoffs, Pig Cat.

Speaker 4 Unless it's the last 20 years where they actually lead the league in home playoff losses with seven. That's crazy.
Seven times they've lost at Lambeau. At the Frozen Tundra? And at the Frozen Tundra.

Speaker 4 It's a scary place to go, unless it's Aaron Rodgers playing. Brett Favre rolling over his Crocs.

Speaker 4 I don't really know where to start. I love this game so much.

Speaker 4 Aaron Rodgers choked. And I know the special teams.
Let's just do the special teams to get it out of the way. The special teams we mentioned on Friday,

Speaker 4 they were the worst in the NFL.

Speaker 4 You knew, like, the playoffs, the old saying goes, like, your weaknesses are shown in bright lights in the playoffs. Like, that's what happens.

Speaker 4 Whatever you're bad at, it will get exposed when come playoff time. That happened.
Like, the block kick to end the first half, obviously, the punt block that changed the entire game.

Speaker 4 And then to add all of it together, Robbie Gold, who I love him so much, Galaxy Brain, the Bears cut him in 2016 for this moment.

Speaker 4 They had 10 guys on the field. The Packers did.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 To try to stop that kick. Their special team has been atrocious all year.
You knew it was going to rear its ugly head. It did.
With that said, Aaron Rodgers is your MVP.

Speaker 4 He's the best quarterback, quote unquote, quote unquote, in in the league.

Speaker 4 He should have won that game. You got to score more than 10 points.
Not only that, you have to score more than 10 points. You have to score more than 10 points.

Speaker 4 The block kick happened, like, stunned everyone. 10-10.

Speaker 4 Crazy. How did the special teams let us down again? Aaron Rodgers has the ball with four minutes left to win the game at home.

Speaker 4 It takes Patrick Mahomes 13 seconds. It takes Aaron Rodgers, well, infinity seconds because he wasn't going to score a touchdown for the rest of time on Saturday night.
He choked. And

Speaker 4 I actually think most Packer fans will agree that he was bad. And all he was doing all night, it's hero ball.
He was trying to force it to Devontae Adams.

Speaker 4 And if Devontae Adams wasn't open, he'd check it down to Aaron Jones. There was 21 targets to Aaron Jones and Devontae Adams, six to the rest of the team.
That's insane.

Speaker 4 Like, Brady would never do that. Josh Allen just showed you what he can do.
Like, he basically was like, I'm only going to throw it to Devontae Adams.

Speaker 4 Even on that last throw that he might have made as a Packer.

Speaker 4 Lazard is wide open in the middle of the field. And he's like, I'm predetermined going to throw it as deep as I can to Devontae Adams.
Aaron Rodgers has become what he replaced.

Speaker 4 And old Brett Favre was the same guy. He was that guy at the end of his career.
He'd only trust Donald Driver. He did that in the game against the Giants in the NFC Championship game in 2008.

Speaker 4 That was what we saw. We saw Brett Favre reincarnated in Aaron Rodgers.
It's crazy. And I loved every second.
Okay.

Speaker 4 I'm with you, and I love the fact that you're happy. I just want to say that I support you in that endeavor.
I don't think he's Brett Favre. I don't think Aaron Rodgers is Brett Favre.

Speaker 4 And I don't think he's Brett Favre because even late Brett Favre was still taking crazy chances and doing cool shit.

Speaker 4 Aaron Rodgers just gets very, very conservative sometimes with who he's passing the ball to. He only trusts a couple guys.
That's Brett Favre, though. That's what Brett Favre is doing.

Speaker 4 Like, he would only take Donald Driver. He doesn't take chances.
No, I think. The chance is fine.
But Donald Driver, like, Brett Favre did the same thing with Donald Driver.

Speaker 4 Brett Favre was bigger than the franchise. That's the thing, it's crazy.
And this is a bigger. Like, I'd have this conversation

Speaker 4 forever if anyone wants to have it with me, Packers fans. I do think there's something to be said about Green Bay being

Speaker 4 a small town.

Speaker 4 Ownership is the fans.

Speaker 4 quarterbacks become heroes bigger than the franchise like aaron rodgers thinks he is like god and he can do anything that was similar to brett favour at the end of his career that game just needed some intermediate passing from aaron rodgers and for him not to play like just terrible and they win that game like jimmy garoppolo is aaron rodgers is so much better than jimmy garoppolo they weren't that much different when it came down to like how the game went jimmy g i think is 2-0 against aaron rodgers in the playoffs it's true but that's the thing is like you're the re you're If you're the Packers going to that game, you're like, we have a decided advantage at quarterback, and it just didn't happen.

Speaker 4 All right, but also, when it comes to playing against the 49ers, this game was a lot about the matchup, too, because the 49ers just kicked the shit out of the Packers.

Speaker 4 I don't think any team in the NFC matches up well against the 49ers, actually. I think

Speaker 4 there are teams that you could make a strong argument for being the best team in the NFC. So you could say the Rams are the best team in the NFC.

Speaker 4 You could say the Packers are the best team in the NFC. And you could probably say the Bucs are the best team in the NFC.
And you could say that all three of those teams are better than the Niners.

Speaker 4 But somehow the Niners are actually the matchup that neither one of those teams wants to have to play against. But the Packers beat him this year.

Speaker 4 Like Aaron Rodgers played bad.

Speaker 4 I don't think it's a matchup. I think he played bad.
He was bad. He did not throw a touchdown pass.
He's the MVP. I mean, this is all built for him.

Speaker 4 They matched up pretty well against him on Saturday. Aaron Rodgers did choke.
He played poorly. He should have been able to, you've got to score more than 10 points.

Speaker 4 The crazy part is on that block kick, on the block punt, excuse me, that was returned for a touchdown, if they don't scoop that up and score it, I actually don't think that the 49ers win that game.

Speaker 4 I think if they had just fallen on the ball and it had been down on like the five-yard line or whatever, I think the Packers end up winning that game. Their special teams had to score a touchdown.

Speaker 4 Like, I didn't trust the Niners' offense to be able to do anything at all that game. Yeah, I mean, they needed that touchdown.
They did move the ball nicely at times.

Speaker 4 They just, Jimmy G threw that pick at the end of the first half that was like, what the fuck? And he tried to, Jimmy G tried to throw that game away a million times. I just go back to like,

Speaker 4 Aaron Rodgers is the MVP. Everyone says he's the best quarterback in the NFL.

Speaker 4 That guy, like what we watched on Sunday night with, what we watched with Matt Stafford making those big throws. Like Matt Stafford won that game, and we're going to get to it.

Speaker 4 But Matt Stafford won that game with a big-time throw to Cooper Cup and Aaron Rodgers just locked it on Devontae Adams all game and it wasn't like he just didn't make any of the throws that the MVP of the NFL at home one seed should make and I'm very happy about it you know what's crazy to think about is that if Big Ben hadn't worn a visor in that Super Bowl Aaron Rodgers would be Dan Marino yeah but he won it early yeah he won it early obviously an incredible quarterback I know the Packers fans would be like you're listening Packer fans will call me a loser I know I'm a loser my team's a loser franchise.

Speaker 4 Last night was like the best night of the Bears season. And I'm like, that's loser talk.
But when you admit that you're a loser, what else can you do?

Speaker 4 Like, you can't hurt me when I've already hurt myself. What do you think was going on with the vibes on the special teams? Because we said all season, it's not just Mason Crosby.
It's Bajorquez.

Speaker 4 It's the long staff. It's like the three of them.
No, they're bad. For whatever, they just don't vibe.
They don't vibe together. It's like they

Speaker 4 tried to just put three guys in a room. And sometimes there's just, you you know, people don't work well with each other for whatever reason.

Speaker 4 Bajorquez, I know that I'm butchering his name, but Jorquez.

Speaker 4 No, that was always gonna be their problem, but but they're that everybody was always just like a quarter second off with everybody else this entire season.

Speaker 4 And you could see it when Crosby would miss a field goal or get it blocked, his first look wouldn't be like either at the ground where he stepped, which a lot of kickers do when they miss, because they have to play, like Randy Bullock did that when he like slipped on that imaginary route last year.

Speaker 4 Usually kickers will do that. His glance of hatred would always be at his holder.
Yeah. And then the long snapper would sometimes look back at the two of them and he'd be pissed at them too.

Speaker 4 That was their Achilles heel all season long. All season.
And I think you said that it gets magnified, like the more attention gets put on in the playoffs.

Speaker 4 I think that whatever you're bad at in the regular season actually just gets worse in the playoffs with the pressure that's applied. Well, it gets exposed.
If

Speaker 4 teams are really good and they know that

Speaker 4 they can expose your weaknesses. And that's what they did.
And

Speaker 4 that's what the Niners did in terms of defense when they basically said, you know, the first drive,

Speaker 4 the Packers went right down the field. They were doing single coverage on Devontae Adams.
Then they're like, you know what? We're not going to let Devontae Adams beat us for the rest of the night.

Speaker 4 And guess what? Aaron Rodgers never went anywhere else. He just didn't.
Like that Lazard, did you watch that last throw that he had? No, I know for a fact that you've taken your time.

Speaker 4 Well, yeah,

Speaker 4 which I respect.

Speaker 4 You can't hate me for that. No, no, I'm not.
I'm not. I'm just saying.
You said I'm a loser. I enjoy this.
I haven't put the hours in reviewing. It's just one clip.
It's an eight-second clip.

Speaker 4 I haven't seen it yet. Yeah, Lazard was.
I showed Hank. Lazard was wide open.
Wide open.

Speaker 4 And it was very clear that Rodgers was just locked in on Devontae Adams. He was going to throw it that way.
I went back. Hank came in.
I was already taking notes. And I was playing at like noon.

Speaker 4 I was playing the 2000s. The cat had three sheets of notes for NFC championship game when yeah you were

Speaker 4 shit on Donald Driver you were so far gone past last night you had moved on to like Brett Farr

Speaker 4 playing hero ball you know the dots that all the serious analysts put out which is better than watching football when you just see dots move around on a screen I'm watching that number 13 doesn't look like there's anybody within 17 yards of him and it was a clean pocket and he was standing there it was hero ball he was like I'm gonna throw it only vante adams or aaron jones underneath there was nothing else a three-man rush looks like they added a late yeah he had all the tips they missed robert tonyon they actually that that would have been like because he needed someone that he trusted more but that's also on aaron rodgers like guys were open and he wasn't hitting other guys so it was hero ball he's done this before in the playoffs crazy hero ball crazy jimmy g stat is that he's nine and two in his career in games where he throws zero touchdowns.

Speaker 4 I love that stat.

Speaker 4 That's such a great Jimmy G stat. I still give that game a good time.
I still don't trust him, nor should you, nor should anybody. No one.

Speaker 4 But I kind of like him now. I like him because he's become the perfect quarterback for the whole quarterback win stat argument.
Yes. We're like, yeah, you know what? I think we said this on Fireball.

Speaker 4 Like Jimmy G, now after winning this game, the guy wins football games. What more do you want out of your quarterback? He's a winner.
He wins. Intangibles.

Speaker 4 He also said, fuck the Packers after the game. Which was great.
That was pretty cool. Yes.
And Robbie Gold, I fucking love you. Billy, can I get another water? Sorry.
I'm just chugging water.

Speaker 4 This guy's written.

Speaker 4 Taylor Pepper, did you see the video of the long snapper when it was like a social video from the field?

Speaker 4 And they kicked the field goal and the long snapper just was like sprinting, full sprinting down the field to get the game ball to give to Robbie Gold. Hell yeah.

Speaker 4 It was a very, very gritty, very, very good.

Speaker 4 That's a special teams unit that likes each other. Dude, it was great.
I mean, the 49ers are awesome. I love watching them.
I love Kittle, obviously.

Speaker 4 But Debo Samuel is in Trent Williams, that Trent Williams play where he just wrecked everyone. That was so sick.
They put Trent Williams in as a 300 and what, 40-pound fullback. It's crazy.
And then

Speaker 4 they sent him in motion, so he had about a five-yard head start. And his assignment was run directly into this linebacker.

Speaker 4 And he pushed him back so far that he got a second-level block on another guy.

Speaker 4 That's probably the scariest thing to happen to you in a football game. Yeah.
To see Trenton Williams with that head of speed.

Speaker 4 That's almost like in the CFL when they tell their wide receivers that you're allowed to have one guy running directly at the

Speaker 4 line of scrimmage before the ball is even snapped. That's what they're doing for a lead blocker.
I love everything that they do with their running game scheme. It's so fun to watch.
It's the best.

Speaker 4 It's the best. And I think the Niners have, I mean, they kind of own the Rams, so we'll see what happens.

Speaker 4 It's so much fun to watch them play. I love their uniforms.
I love everything about them.

Speaker 4 Where do you think? What happens with Rodgers? Because I do.

Speaker 4 So my

Speaker 4 comparison to late Brett Favre is it's obviously Aaron Rodgers doesn't make the mistakes that Brett Favre makes in terms of gunslinging.

Speaker 4 What my point, my bigger point, I maybe didn't make it well, is you have a guy who

Speaker 4 is really, really good in the regular season.

Speaker 4 That last season, Brett Favre like had a little resurgence, who in the playoffs thinks that he can kind of do it his way and not play within the structure of the team.

Speaker 4 And you get a result like last night when the defense, the Packers' defense was incredible. They played their balls off.
And remember, last year in the NFC Championship game, Packers' defense, what?

Speaker 4 They had three picks of Tom Brady.

Speaker 4 Same thing kind of happened where it was like Aaron Rodgers wasn't able to win a home playoff game where he should have been the guy, like he should have done the things.

Speaker 4 And he's done it in his career. There's been a lot of playoff losses that aren't on Aaron Rodgers.
I'm not saying that. He's had some really big playoff games.

Speaker 4 Yeah, no, he's, I'm not saying he's a choke artist in that like every playoff is the same.

Speaker 4 I'm saying at this point of his career, it's clear that like something happens when he gets to the playoffs where he's like, I only trust two guys. I'm going to keep throwing to them.

Speaker 4 And that's not like you're not going to win

Speaker 4 a big-time playoff game that way. Randall Cobb came back for this game, but he very obviously was not fully healthy.
And I think that's the guy that like Aaron Rodgers, I think he like, that's...

Speaker 4 The main reason why Aaron Rodgers kind of held out this offseason was because he basically wanted a guy that he trusted to come back. Right.
Or for them to go out and get somebody.

Speaker 4 So they got, they brought Randall Cobb back to the team, and he's essentially how a lot of young quarterbacks look at their tight end as being a security blanket. That's what Randall Cobb is.

Speaker 4 He's just like a warm cup of milk for Aaron Rodgers, where it's like, okay, I can always... Randall Cobb is going to be in the flat, wide open for seven yards whenever I want him.

Speaker 4 And he wasn't healthy. So I think

Speaker 4 him not being involved in the game made him lock in a little bit on Devontae Adams, who, to be fair, if you're going to pick a guy that you should lock in on, Devontae Adams is a strong choice for a lock-inable receiver.

Speaker 4 Yeah, but the Niners used that against him and was like,

Speaker 4 we know you're going to go to him. The Randall Cobb thing is interesting because obviously Rodgers wanted him back.
He wants his guys. That was part of his gripe with the offseason.

Speaker 4 I do think that if they had figured out a way to get Odell, they'd probably win that game. Yeah, but would Odell want to play in Green Bay? Well, I don't know because I don't know what to do.

Speaker 4 I snow that.

Speaker 4 I don't know what the conversation was. By the way, I still am winning that bet because it was 12 degrees.
I said under 10.

Speaker 4 People were treating me. I got hacked during the game.
But there was a lot of people who defended me with Too Cold to Snow. It was

Speaker 4 who knows? It could have been CGI that they added in. Sometimes they do that.

Speaker 4 You're making fun of me right now, but I still believe it's too cold to snow at Simeon. It absolutely is.
Science.

Speaker 4 There's meteorologists who were chiming in that maybe not technically, but kind of right, which is kind of cool.

Speaker 4 In very low-temperature situations, there are more occasions than not where it doesn't snow. It snows two inches in Antarctica every year.
How does that make sense? It's winter all the time.

Speaker 4 It's just global warming. It's literally winter winter all the time.

Speaker 4 Global warming. It's winter all the time.

Speaker 4 Hank Libwood. But Jorge? Yeah, and also the guy who scored the touchdown is Talanohu Fanga.
There we go. Thank you.
Thank you, Jake. I just don't know what you do.

Speaker 4 Like, Rogers probably wants to leave. I don't know.
I listened, by the way, for three hours to ESPN Milwaukee on Saturday. It was incredible.
He said that he's

Speaker 4 happier this year than he has been in the past with Gutenkoots. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Gunta Koontz. Yeah.
Anyways, their relationship took a step forward this year, but maybe that's just the LSD or the ayahuasca talking. But he seems to be happy with everybody now.

Speaker 4 But I don't think that Aaron Rodgers is going to want to come back to Green Bay.

Speaker 4 As I understand it, based on just my own gut, basically, I don't think I've read any actual quotes from Aaron Rodgers that lead me to this conclusion. But I think the deal was come back for this year,

Speaker 4 and then we'll find a place to trade you. Like almost a wink-wink agreement, we'll find a place to trade you in the offseason.
I think there's probably a lot of Packer fans.

Speaker 4 It's probably split, but there's definitely,

Speaker 4 it's not like a very small minority of Packer fans that are like, it might be better if we just trade him now and get a lot of draft picks and hit the reset. That's kind of my bigger point of like,

Speaker 4 he's a really good quarterback. He wins MVPs, but this is two years in a row where it felt like

Speaker 4 their defense did everything. Like

Speaker 4 they should have won that game. If you're the MVP, you should have won that game.
Where would you want to go if you were Aaron Rodgers? Denver is the one everybody says. Pittsburgh.
Pittsburgh.

Speaker 4 He's friends with Mike Tommy. Damn it, if he goes to New England.
Are you happy, Hank? Because it's like the Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady thing. It's like, I don't know why it was ever a thing.

Speaker 4 But it's definitely. I mean, now that Tom Brady has, or whatever, we'll get to that.
But

Speaker 4 just as many NFC playoff games

Speaker 4 as him. What would you rather have, Hank? Would you rather have Mac Jones for 14 years or Aaron Rodgers for two?

Speaker 4 Putting a bind there.

Speaker 4 I would probably take Aaron Rodgers, honestly. Is there really good formula?

Speaker 4 I love Mac Jones, but Aaron Rodgers is the MVP. You're asking if you would rather have the MVP on your team next year.

Speaker 4 I think he needs to go somewhere where he's not

Speaker 4 like holding the franchise hostage.

Speaker 4 It would be immediate disaster.

Speaker 4 I also, just one last point. I can't stand the fact that

Speaker 4 all these

Speaker 4 blue checkmark

Speaker 4 libs on Twitter are like owning Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 4 I've lived this life.

Speaker 4 Get off my corner. They were so happy he lost.
I'm like, dude, he's tortured me. You just showed up because he fucking didn't get a vaccine.
Get the fuck out of here.

Speaker 4 Let me have this moment, not you guys. You know what? It was like a bat signal for the world's lamest jokes to be repeated over and over.

Speaker 4 Like, if I have to hear one more person say, wow, it looks like Aaron's really boycotting the Super Bowl this year in California throw Rogan and it's it yeah it's the least funny people in the world making these jokes shut up I I have

Speaker 4 you just showed up you showed up like a month ago to hate Aaron Rodgers it's also for a very long time he's tortured me for a very long time leave me alone it's disrespectful to low-hanging fruit to call that low-hanging fruit yeah and it's also

Speaker 4 make a joke about his brother hating him this is a keep sports keep keep politics out of sports the other way i really i do believe it like don't don't hate hate a guy because of his politics in the sports universe.

Speaker 4 Let us hate for real hate because he's killed me, and now I get to do a little victory dance here. And again, I know I'm a loser, but then all these people just showing up.

Speaker 4 Like, you, these people showed up, and they're like, oh, Aaron Rodgers never wins any games.

Speaker 4 Listen, what the coronavirus has done to America is child's play compared to what Aaron Rodgers has done to Big Cat's brain. So just

Speaker 4 let Big Cat handle this shit.

Speaker 4 Listen,

Speaker 4 when you get tortured by one guy, I know there's Bills fans probably know. I mean, Jets fan, there's the history of the NFL.

Speaker 4 You pick a guy who's tortured you, and it sucks, and then you show up on Twitter, and everyone else gets to make the jokes. I did get hacked, though, so I was out for a little bit.

Speaker 4 It's a real shame that Aaron Rodgers got bounced.

Speaker 4 Every team would love to have Aaron Rodgers. Yes, every team.
He's a very good quarterback. He's also,

Speaker 4 he should have won that game on Saturday.

Speaker 4 I know that Packers fans will say special teams and special teams is atrocious. You scored 10 points.
You scored 10 points and you had the ball with four minutes left at home and you're Aaron Rodgers.

Speaker 4 Is there a should have won the game? It'd be very, if you really did hate the Packers, logically, he should go to the Bears, right? Yeah.

Speaker 4 Yeah, that would be cool. Yeah.
I would take him. Would you?

Speaker 4 Yeah, you would. Yeah, you would.
Yeah, I'd probably have to delete. I'd have to delete my entire account.
Your life.

Speaker 4 You have to see.

Speaker 4 You'd have to go into witness protection. I actually would see.
And root for him silently in the bar.

Speaker 4 Honestly, I hope he stays because I actually don't think he's going to win a Super Bowl with Green Bay after watching the last two years in the playoffs. I'm feeling a lot better about that.

Speaker 4 If the Bears just moved to San Diego and I didn't have to worry about the Bears

Speaker 4 and I could just

Speaker 4 revel in Aaron Rodgers. losing big playoff games, my life would be significantly easier.
I'd win the Super Bowl every year because Aaron Rodgers loses every year. It'd be incredible.

Speaker 4 I would would like that. Just go away, Bears.
Let me just hate the Packers instead. It's the only positive I have is watching them lose in heartbreaking fashion.

Speaker 4 Listen, you take what you get sometimes.

Speaker 4 That's actually a pretty normal feeling to have as a sports fan that just lives in misery the entire time. It's so much fun to root for people to fail.

Speaker 4 It's all you have sometimes. When you're a loser, you have to try to drag people down to be losers with you.
That's the reality of being a sports fan.

Speaker 4 And that's what I have to do because I have no other options. It's not like the Bears are ever going to be a competent organization.
That's just facts. So Aaron Rodgers, that was an awesome night.

Speaker 4 I was smiling ear to ear. What a fucking night.
What a night. He should have won that game.
He should have won that game. He had the ball.
Four minutes left. We saw it.

Speaker 4 Mahomes and Josh Allen with four minutes left in Lambeau Field would have scored like four touchdowns in that time. Did you know?

Speaker 4 I mentioned earlier that Aaron Rodgers had a top-five defense for one year. And that's that he won the Super Bowl.

Speaker 4 Eight times, Brady has had a top five ranked defense, and he won three Super Bowls. So just a little bit for comparison there.
Where are you getting your stats from? I don't know. Twitter.

Speaker 4 Before this, I googled Funstat, or I searched Funstat Rodgers, and that's what came back. Funstat Rodgers.
Funstat Rodgers. Yeah, no, there's been many years where he could blame his defense.

Speaker 4 This is not one of those years. They played awesome.
All right. Anything else on Aaron Rodgers? Hank, you're looking at me like anything else? Anyone else want to dance on his grave?

Speaker 4 I'll probably do some more later on this week. Also, Matt LaFleur, you're welcome to come back on the podcast anytime you want.

Speaker 4 I think he'll probably try to punch me in the face at the combine, but that's fine. I actually,

Speaker 4 I did text him.

Speaker 4 Well, this was two weeks ago. I wasn't going to text him last night.

Speaker 4 He did enjoy his time very much, but I'll say we're going to probably have to give that like six months. I'd love to have him on next week.
Yeah, I would too.

Speaker 4 I would love to have him on the next one. I think he was a nice guy.

Speaker 4 I would love to have him on next week. I did feel bad because he basically was like, he took all the blame.
It's like, well, maybe your quarterback shouldn't play hero.

Speaker 4 Well, he took the blame also for the 10 men on the field on the field goal, which is definitely not the fault of the head coach to be counting the men on the field. I think, you know what?

Speaker 4 This offseason, I get the feeling that

Speaker 4 everybody in the Packers organization is going to be like,

Speaker 4 all right, we're sick of this. Can we just just move on? Yes.
Like, I'm exhausted because you can put up with a lot of stuff when you're winning, but it's just, it's got to be so fucking exhausting.

Speaker 4 That's the far part. And he's so good.
Yes. But it's like, you know, high maintenance.

Speaker 4 The old hot versus crazy dating matrix of, okay, if you're ex hot, then you're allowed to be X crazy and we can put up with that. You get away with a lot more.
Yes.

Speaker 4 And at this point, after being in a long-term relationship with a hot, crazy quarterback, you're like, you know what? I'll just take a hard seven. That's that's the fav part.

Speaker 4 Like, fav at the end was driving Packers fans crazy because it's a retired, unretired, like, what's he going to do? That's they have become each other.

Speaker 4 They're just looking, they're Spider-Man memeing each other at the end of their Packer careers. And I love it.
All right. Uh, we'll get to our last game.
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Speaker 4 Okay, Rams box. I mean, we've talked about everything.
It's all been crazy. And then we had a game that was like,

Speaker 4 I likened it to, obviously the Rams ended up winning, but it was essentially like when you play Madden, and there's these certain games you're playing a season where it's basically like the computer's like, fuck you, no matter what happens, I'm winning this game.

Speaker 4 The computer's going to win the game. That's what it felt like for the Rams today, because

Speaker 4 it was insane how many times they had the game and they gave it, they seemingly gave it back to Tom Brady, who then would give it back to them.

Speaker 4 And then we get, obviously, the Matt Stafford, like incredible pass to win the game to Cooper Cup.

Speaker 4 I 27 to 3 was what the Bucs were down and they get all the way back to 27-27 only to lose with Matt Stafford making that pass. It was an insane game.
An insane game.

Speaker 4 There were so many times where it's like, holy shit. It wasn't like the Bills, Chiefs in that it was sloppy.
Like there were sloppy plays, fumbles, everything.

Speaker 4 But it had just as many, what the hell are we watching? This is incredible moments. The Rams did everything that they possibly could to let the Bucs win this game.

Speaker 4 And it wasn't like you can blame Sean McVay for the mistakes they were making, even though we definitely would have found a way to blame Sean McVay if they had ended up losing this game.

Speaker 4 But it was just weird shit happening on the field. The snap that went past Matt Stafford, that probably flew like 30 yards in the air.
I have no idea.

Speaker 4 At one point as a center, do you practice snapping a ball and shotgun and have it, is it all snaps that would go 30 yards if the quarterback didn't stand there 70 yards behind and catch it?

Speaker 4 Because that ball fucking sailed past. It was crazy.

Speaker 4 crazy and that like that was a crazy play the fact that it happened right after a Bucs fumble it was fumble fumble like like Brady fumbled and then the Rams this is what I'm saying with the Madden simulation where it's like oh shit this is awesome we got the fumble we had we had a good play and then the computer was like nope we're gonna snap the ball you're gonna hit a too fast and boom you fumble it back that happened cam Akers the fumble he had at the end of the half when he when he was on his head and he fumbled And then he fumbled again.

Speaker 4 He fumbled again. Like the game was over.
It was 27-20. The game was over.
Well, no, Cooper Cup fumbled when it was 27-13. The Bucs score.
Then the game's over. They go back and forth a couple times.

Speaker 4 Missed field goal by the Rams.

Speaker 4 And then Cam Akers fumbles and they score. It's like, holy fuck.
Like, how is Tom Brady going to... I kept on saying Tom Brady does it again, but it was really just the Rams fumbling the ball.

Speaker 4 This was one of those Tom Brady has to deal with the devil games. Yeah.
Or actually, more accurately, is Tom Brady is the devil.

Speaker 4 The way that he was getting all the shit bouncing his way, I was believing, I was seeing what Hank has seen for the last 20 years, which is just everything happens.

Speaker 4 Everything good happens to Tom Brady all the time, always.

Speaker 4 And there's no real explanation behind it, but everything was falling into place for this to be almost more improbable in a weird way than the 28-3 game was. Yeah, it really was.

Speaker 4 And you could, someone will write a book and be like, that's just what Tom Brady does. He makes everyone believe, and that's why you get those kind of plays.

Speaker 4 It made no sense. Hank, you left the room because you wanted the Bucs to win and Tom Brady to win.

Speaker 4 And they almost did. What were you thinking? Like, you left the room.
That's your old move. You left the room.
You left the stadium at 28-3, right? So that's what kind of started.

Speaker 4 We were talking about the 28-3 thing. And then I think they kicked a field goal.
And I was like, that's when I left when the Patriots kicked it when it was like 28-12.

Speaker 4 That's when I left to go to the concourse. I wasn't planning on doing it.
I just went to the bathroom naturally and then an interception happened. Everyone went crazy and it was like a sign.

Speaker 4 I was like, oh my God, like

Speaker 4 I have to stay out here. Now everyone was going crazy celebrating and I missed it all.
So I was like, I have to stay out here.

Speaker 4 So I just stayed in like one of the side rooms in the hallway and I could just hear you guys. And I knew what was happening based off your guys' reaction because your voice is so loud.

Speaker 4 So it's like when you were happy or upset, I knew which side was happening. You weren't watching the game.
And then I just would go. I had the ESPN Gamecast on and I would check the play after.

Speaker 4 So I would hear the reaction and then I would check the play to see what happened. How accurate were you with your game?

Speaker 4 It was like when you would hear a sound and then you'd be like, oh, that sounds like a fumble. Well, the craziest one was the fourth down

Speaker 4 unnecessary roughness that sounded like it was a good thing. I was like, oh my God, yes.
There was three different times where I was like, I'm going to come back out because the game is over.

Speaker 4 Like, I can come back out and go sit on the couch because the Rams. Are going to win.
Like, the Bucs choked. And that was one of them where I was like, oh, my God.

Speaker 4 They got a fourth down, like, Miracle Flag. And then I was confused because I didn't hear you guys freak out about it getting reversed.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 You guys celebrated, like, you know, the Bucs got a first down, but I didn't hear the reversal. So I thought the game was over when that happened.
That was crazy. And then it was the fumble reaction.

Speaker 4 It was like, it was, I couldn't believe it. I was like, there's no way.

Speaker 4 There's just no way. Right.
There was no way. It was no, that was, that was, that's exactly what it felt like watching the game.
Every time.

Speaker 4 I mean, the Bucs died 700 times, it felt like. Yeah.
It's just no way. No way.
This was also JPP's first playoff loss

Speaker 4 in his entire life. That's kind of crazy to think about.
Also, dirty play by Matt Stafford kicking our sweet innocent boy, Indomic and Sue on that hit.

Speaker 4 He very blatantly stuck his foot out and kicked Sue in the groin area. I think I speak for all of us when I say that Sue would never...

Speaker 4 do anything to provoke anything like that or be caught in a situation where he was doing something like that to somebody else. Dirty play.
It was very funny though that Sue got penalized for taunting.

Speaker 4 Yes. When he just was tattling.
It wasn't like taunting. He just went to the ref.
He was like, you kicked me. Yeah.
This guy kicked me. And he looked at Matt Safford and I was, I almost shit myself.

Speaker 4 Steve Hockley, absolute devo. Sean.
Sean. Yeah, he is.

Speaker 4 He's actually, he's the worst raff.

Speaker 4 He leads the league. I think his crew leads the league in penalties.
That's all. He just reminds everyone that he's Sean Hockley.
He hit us with the nastiest, however, and there on Stephen A. Smith.

Speaker 4 And therefore. Division.
Yeah. It was a however and therefore.
And therefore,

Speaker 4 on that late hit, which I didn't even know was a rule. It makes perfectly.

Speaker 4 It does make sense, but I've never seen it implemented where on fourth down, if a pass falls incomplete and in the course of the play, a player hits the receiver in the head, helmet to helmet, after the ball has bounced,

Speaker 4 that play is already over. Yes.
And it counts towards the first down for the other team that they're about to. It does make sense when you think about the game

Speaker 4 from a linear standpoint, but I've just never heard before. And then the explanation was incredible.
And Stephen Shea

Speaker 4 wanted a first and 25. He's like, this is bullshit.
He's just making up new rules. Can we put in the Stephen Che clip real quick?

Speaker 4 It sounds, you know, get your volume ready because it sounds like someone's getting strangled.

Speaker 4 It sounds like he's watching his family member get strangled. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Yeah, Billy. It sounds like a cougar's mating call.
Okay. I was going to say

Speaker 4 actual, like a cat fight. Like two cats that fight.

Speaker 4 Shit. Oh, no.
No. No.

Speaker 4 Oh, no.

Speaker 4 No, no, no, no.

Speaker 4 I'm not celebrating a fucking thing. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 4 Unbelievable. And that was, I mean, that passed.
Matt Stafford deserves so much credit. He was incredible.
Like, he was... He had a couple moments where you're like, uh-oh, is he getting nervous here?

Speaker 4 But he made big plays. I mean, even in the first half of that Cooper Cup touchdown that he threw.
He didn't really have any Matt Stafford moments. No, I mean,

Speaker 4 he's a good quarterback. He just, you know, he's every now and then makes a big, big mistake, but

Speaker 4 he deserves a ton of credit. I love that I have the take that I've been squatting on for like four years now, that he's a Hall of Famer.

Speaker 4 I remember, I got to go find that tweet because people thought I was crazy. But I said if he can get to an FC Championship gamer later,

Speaker 4 he will probably have enough. Like, this will be, if he gets to a Super Bowl, I think he'll have enough in terms of he's going to play for whatever, five more years.

Speaker 4 His numbers amassed is going to be pretty crazy. And this will be his deep playoff run.
Also, remember Von Miller? Oh, yeah, he's really, really good. He had nine pressures,

Speaker 4 a sack, and two of his pressures caused turnovers. He was a game changer.
Like,

Speaker 4 the Rams are just insanely good football team. And, yeah, you saw it.

Speaker 4 Like, the fact they have Odell, Von Miller, and like that was added on to Aaron Donald, Jalen Ramsey, Cooper Cup, Matt Matt Stafford. It's crazy.
And they didn't have Jalen Ramsey got torched, though.

Speaker 4 He did.

Speaker 4 Jalen Ramsey, you can't demand to be switched to covering the other players' best receiver and yell at your own teammate and be like, no, let me cover him because you can't, and then give up a 50-yard bomb to him.

Speaker 4 That just can't happen if you're Jalen Ramsey. I think the Rams are probably the second most talented team behind the Chiefs.
Niners have a

Speaker 4 ton of guys on their roster, though. They got guys, but

Speaker 4 the Rams have a lot of of dudes. No, I know.

Speaker 4 I think we,

Speaker 4 because

Speaker 4 maybe it's because of Jimmy G, we discount, but like their roster is so. All right, let's let's have a guy off.
You want to do a guy off? Sure. All right.
Aaron Donald is my first guy. Bosa.

Speaker 4 Vaughn Miller.

Speaker 4 Kittle.

Speaker 4 Cooper Cup. Trent Williams.

Speaker 4 Odell Beckham. Debo Samuel.

Speaker 4 It's a guy off. Guy off.
It's a guy off. I'm trying to think of who else was.

Speaker 4 Whitworth. Jalen Ramsey.

Speaker 4 You forgot Jalen Ramsey Ramsey. Okay, but I was saving it.
Jimmy Garoppolo.

Speaker 4 Matt Stafford. I counter your Jimmy Dale.
Brandon Ayuk. Robbie Gold.

Speaker 4 He's a guy. Gay.

Speaker 4 No, he's hurt.

Speaker 4 He missed a kick, a 47-yarder today. Yeah,

Speaker 4 that was a doidoy kick. That was a bad kick.
I don't know how it's possible for a professional kicker to miss a 47-yard field goal short. That's it.
Crazy. It's insane to me.
Was it tipped?

Speaker 4 I don't know. Did he just catch it thin? I think he just missed it.
Fred Warner.

Speaker 4 You can't look at the reviews. No, I'm not.
I'm looking. This is my Twitter.
I'm on my Twitter. Okay.
Jalen Ramsey.

Speaker 4 So we just had a guy off.

Speaker 4 Their punter's good, too. Mike McDaniel.

Speaker 4 He's a guy.

Speaker 4 Mike McDaniel's a guy. He's a guy.

Speaker 4 He's a bro. He's absolutely a guy.
This is going to be a good one. No, I just think the Niners' roster is super talented.
We just, because of Jimmy G, it doesn't feel

Speaker 4 whatever. All these teams are good.
This is going to be a great week of the narrative of Sean McVay and Kyle Shanahan. Oh, yeah.
Because Kyle Shanahan has just owned his ass.

Speaker 4 And that's what I'm kind of hoping that that continues. As much as I would like to see Matt Stafford get to a Super Bowl, that'd be a lot of fun.

Speaker 4 I just, I love the fact that Shanahan is just the one dude that McVay can never grooden his way into beating. Yeah.
Yeah. It's, he is, in and that the fact that they're friends, it's perfect.

Speaker 4 It would be crazy if we have the Niners and the Chiefs again.

Speaker 4 It would be crazy. I know Stephen Chey is obviously a diehard Bucs fan.
I know

Speaker 4 there was people obviously rooting for the Bucs and Brady.

Speaker 4 I think that the Niners Rams from an unbiased perspective is like a super, super exciting NFC championship game. Yeah, I love it.
I'm so pumped for this game. What? No, use Brady.

Speaker 4 No, I'm not. No, I'm just saying, you know, that the...
Well, I guess it depends.

Speaker 4 Like, the media, the general fans might agree with you, and I don't disagree with that, but the media having Jimmy G versus Brady. Yeah, you're right.
That would have been crazy. You're right.

Speaker 4 You're right. You're right.
That would have been nuts. A what, Hank? A come fiesta.
Yeah. If we get

Speaker 4 Chiefs Rams, they're just going to replay the Monday Night Football game. Yeah, the one where it was...
There's going to cut to that every.

Speaker 4 Imagine me the guy at the water cooler the next morning that took the under. That's that game.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 Yeah. That was a great game.
What was that final score? That was like 60, 56, 54.

Speaker 4 That was such a great football game. Yeah, it was.
I loved every second of that. 51-54.
Yeah, 51-54. Damn.
All right, any last thoughts about this game? The Rams are really good.

Speaker 4 I don't know if I've given them credit. Because I've always...

Speaker 4 I guess maybe it's because of the 49ers, like, beat them them every time. So it's like, someone's got the answer key on the Rams.
They got their number. Right.
I think. They're really, really good.

Speaker 4 I think, yeah, the Rams are good. We discounted because they still feel soft, especially compared to the 49ers.
Yeah, they're just so. They're probably not soft.
Yeah. They were all up in Brady's ass.

Speaker 4 Hank must have said 100 times, he's got no time.

Speaker 4 He's kept on saying it. Brady's throws were off.
He's like, well, he's got no time. Oh, I found one more fun stat here.
Vaughn Miller was like, like, up his ass. I've I've got another fun stat.

Speaker 4 Tom Brady, since he turned 37, has six more playoff wins than Aaron Rodgers has in his life. Yeah.
That's just kind of a fun stat. It's very interesting.

Speaker 4 I mean, if you do Tom Brady's stats, it's like not fair because you could actually,

Speaker 4 I think I heard someone say that if you cut his career into thirds, each one of them would be a Hall of Fame career. Yeah, probably.

Speaker 4 How is that possible? He's still one win short of 36 playoff wins, though. Yeah, Billy.
What if he retires?

Speaker 4 We were joking that if he retires, he is going to absolutely cuck Ben Rothelsberger and Canton. Like, Tom Brady's retirement, Canton is going to be.

Speaker 4 Ben can't retire if Tom retires. He has to come back.
Because

Speaker 4 it's going to be a Brady suck fest that entire weekend.

Speaker 4 Certainly so. You know what Ben's probably going to do? He'll probably show up

Speaker 4 on crutches to the Hall of Fame just to get a little bit of shine, make them install a special ramp for him. Ben to get up

Speaker 4 so that

Speaker 4 everybody remembers how tough ben is for that weekend too not just tom brady

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Speaker 4 okay uh who's back of the week? Let's finish it up. We got a good week coming.
I'm just

Speaker 4 going to wake up with a smile on my face. You know what's kind of Rogers.
It's also sports. Like looking forward to next weekend.
How can next weekend compete with this weekend?

Speaker 4 Have we peaked as a league? I think it will. I think we're going to get some good games.
We can't. I mean, this was the best

Speaker 4 football. Let's be optimistic.
Let's hope. Yeah.
Let's hope. I mean,

Speaker 4 the Niners, Rams, especially, with the way those two teams know each other. And the Bengals Chiefs just played a game two weeks ago that was the best game of that week.
Remember that?

Speaker 4 Yeah, Chiefs blew him out.

Speaker 4 In the first half. Thought you had him in the first half.
My who's back of the week is Duke Basketball and their alumni's. So Saturday, they played Syracuse, blew the doors off.

Speaker 4 Are we just going to have the same conversation again, Hank? And then Jason Tatum on Sunday went off for 50 points against the Wizards.

Speaker 4 Oh, against the Wizards. Okay, cool.

Speaker 4 You might as well be beating a team of six-year-old girls.

Speaker 4 PFT hasn't picked up what he's doing.

Speaker 4 Grayson Allen deserves to be in jail.

Speaker 4 What? And prison. He didn't come.
Yeah. Okay.
No. He's a fucking scumbag piece of shit.
I feel like they would have suspended him for longer if that was the case.

Speaker 4 It was actually really funny on Friday night because I was watching both the Bulls-Bucks game and the Badgers, Michigan State, and Grayson Allen assaulted Alex Caruso. Should be in jail.

Speaker 4 Should be in hell. And Brad Davidson was like kicking someone in the balls.
And they're like, how do do you fucking root for this guy? It's like, that's a sports fan. Brad Davidson's a nice guy.

Speaker 4 Grayson Allen, jail. It was a very dirty play.
Oh, it wasn't. On the other side.
Yes, sir. It was.
Yeah, he grabbed him with two hands. It was a game.
They don't suspend.

Speaker 4 They suspend people for a lot longer than one game if it was a dirty play. Yeah, yeah.
Factor fiction. You know why? Because the real suspension is releasing.
We're back. No.

Speaker 4 What's favorite game is back? No. Fact or fiction.
Fact or fiction. The real suspension on the Bucks is releasing Grayson Allen back to his teammates who they probably all hate him.

Speaker 4 And he probably does this cheap shit during the fucking practices.

Speaker 4 That's the real system.

Speaker 4 Making Grayson Allen should be applauded for trying.

Speaker 4 Making Grayson Allen play fast again in the NBA, get him back on the court, is bad for Grayson Allen because other teams are going to want to kick the shit out of him.

Speaker 4 Someone he needs to be in solitary confinement or

Speaker 4 in hell.

Speaker 4 I hate him.

Speaker 4 Kinsy points against the Wizards, though. He was smiling too when he was walking off as Alex Crusoe broke his wrist.

Speaker 4 Jake turned an unbiased

Speaker 4 Jake in the Duke game, too. I was disgusted.
What did he say? I saw a tweet. It was like,

Speaker 4 say it, Jake.

Speaker 4 You know what you were doing.

Speaker 4 You've just blurred the lines completely.

Speaker 4 The Duke threw the ball at Ted Valentine,

Speaker 4 TV Teddy's head, and they complained that he was in the way. A Duke player did? Yeah.
They were assaulting the officials. Yeah, that's an assault on the officials.
And then complaining about it? Yeah.

Speaker 4 That's an assault on the officials. Terrible.
What the fuck, Hank? Ah, that's what I said to Jake. I was like, Grayson Allen, who is this? What account am I following? How can you defend him?

Speaker 4 Because he was playing defense. Literally, I can defend him with the word defense.
You don't watch it. You didn't watch it.
He jumped straight up, he grabbed him

Speaker 4 in the air and tried to

Speaker 4 kill him. In the 90s, they wouldn't even call the foul.

Speaker 4 If he was stronger, he would have been able to kill him. Yep.

Speaker 4 That's true. He's a weak little B-word.

Speaker 4 In college, I did a radio piece on Grayson Allen being a huge villain.

Speaker 4 Oh, a radio piece?

Speaker 4 Yeah, find it. I can post it on YouTube, on Twitter.
I love it. It's a four-minute piece.
I want to hear it. Yeah.
Here's the first 10 seconds. Okay, nice.

Speaker 4 Get it ready to go.

Speaker 4 He is college basketball

Speaker 4 Grayson Allen.

Speaker 4 I love how close the film is. I need that.
I want a personal copy. Okay.
Please text it to me. You got it.
No, seriously. I want to listen to that on the way home.

Speaker 4 Great score.

Speaker 4 That was fucking great, Jake.

Speaker 4 All right, Patsy, your who's back? My who's back of the week is parents. Parents are back because

Speaker 4 this weekend, I feel like, was an all-time your parents text you their opinions on the NFL games, especially the night game, because it was an early start. Yes.

Speaker 4 So moms and dads were able to stay up and watch this game.

Speaker 4 There were so many people that I was seeing either on Twitter or people that I was hanging out with in a room that were getting texts from their parents, just like checking in on that game and wanting to talk to their kids about the sports that they just watched.

Speaker 4 So I want to go around the room real quick and check if your parents contacted you at some point tonight.

Speaker 4 I love dad takes, especially. Dad takes on sports are always the best.

Speaker 4 I got a transcription here from my dad on the voicemail that came in right before we just started taping the show. Here's the entire phone call.

Speaker 4 Here's the entire voicemail for my dad.

Speaker 4 It's Kansas City Buffalo Bills, greatest pro game of all time.

Speaker 4 That's the entirety of the message. That's short and sweet.
That my dad left me, and he's right. Yes.
He's right about it.

Speaker 4 My dad texted me: one of the all-time great games kind of lost it when they kicked it into the end zone with 13 seconds left. What a weekend.

Speaker 4 So he was, he had the astute analysis immediately after that. You got to squib that.
Yep. You got to squib that.
Dad's no. You have to squib that.
Billy?

Speaker 4 Mine just sent J-A, and then 20 minutes later HA as in Josh Allen went off but then it all didn't work out ha ha

Speaker 4 off the JA yeah he sent you hot he was just JA then ha that's probably him speaking as a Jets fan yeah exactly yeah yeah uh Jake you got one yeah my mom used some inappropriate language oh

Speaker 4 no

Speaker 4 I'll just reiterate it it's no say it say it Jake You're quoting it.

Speaker 4 Quote, holy fuck, these games.

Speaker 4 Jake, yeah. You kissed your mother with that mouth? Wow.
Quote. And then we were talking about it.
I don't know how. We met him in Buffalo this summer.
Josh Allen. She's like, he's 25.

Speaker 4 I said, yes, crazy. We met him in Buffalo this summer where he played before Wyoming.

Speaker 4 Was he cool? I said, very, he's awesome. She said, thank God.
I hate when they're assholes.

Speaker 4 I want to know who your mom thinks is an asshole. Yeah.
Like, which players she hates.

Speaker 4 Okay. I'll ask you ask you to tell her Dak Prescott.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 Yeah. That's Kirk Cousins.
That's amazing. I just got a text from my mom out of the blue during the Rams game, and it just said, dad just called me for dinner.
WTF.

Speaker 4 Question mark, question mark, question mark. I don't think my dad really watches, like, was probably watching the game.
So my mom was like, what is this guy doing?

Speaker 4 Your dad probably watched the Brady game, though, right? Oh, yeah.

Speaker 4 Honestly, probably not.

Speaker 4 Not my dad, like, he likes Patriots, but he's not like a general. He still listens to the podcast, but I think he gets all of his football information from this podcast.
I love that, though.

Speaker 4 I love people who are just one team, and that's it. Like, what, like, if my, like the day that your team is out of, you know, the playoffs, the season is over.
It's not nothing else.

Speaker 4 No playoff games, nothing. I respect the hell out of people like that.
Simple life. Yeah.
No, they're the

Speaker 4 burn your bus people. It's great.
Sports. It's great.
Bubba, you got anything?

Speaker 4 Yeah, I got a text from my dad. It said, perfect day today watching football and got an SNS grinder for dinner, which is a deli by me.
So just an Italian sub in football.

Speaker 4 I mean, that's pretty dude drop.

Speaker 4 There's nothing parents like more than watching a football. Knowing that somewhere out there, your son or daughter is watching the same sports that you're watching.
Yeah. Instant connection.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 It's a great weekend for dads and moms to text in. I mean, that's how good the games were.

Speaker 4 Football Football truly is family. Thanks, Roger.

Speaker 4 All right, My Who's Back. I'll actually, we will do it, Hank.
My Who's Back is calling radio shows because I

Speaker 4 drove back from Hoboken at like midnight on Saturday night, and I stayed in my car till 1 a.m. listening to ESPN Milwaukee and Packer fans call in.

Speaker 4 And I got to give a shout-out to this one guy who says that they should blow up Lambeau because they would have won in a dome. Here's the audio.

Speaker 4 The callers, I don't know how long you're going to be with us so you can decide that uh is it sean in sun prairie is that who we have next i lost track of the list

Speaker 8 hey homer how's it going hey to

Speaker 8 hey

Speaker 8 um i think uh it's time to put the tnt

Speaker 8 in lambeau field and blow it up just let aaron go

Speaker 8 Let all our high-priced guys go and let's let's start from scratch. This is

Speaker 8 the expectation is every year that we're going to do this, and it's not sustainable. And it's sad, but at some point, you know, let Aaron Rodgers go win another Super Bowl somewhere else.

Speaker 8 I'm sympathetic to that. And, you know, he's going to, he would save us a lot of money.
We'll get some draft picks out of him. You know, let, you know, Devontae Adams go.

Speaker 8 We can't afford the most, the, the best. wide receiver in the game.
And

Speaker 8 I think, you know, we've had 10, 15 years to win more than one Super Bowl. We got one.
We should be thankful. But

Speaker 8 I think it's just time to

Speaker 8 disassemble the team and rebuild. I disagree, Taus.
I think we should rebuild.

Speaker 8 And like what you said, Homer, it's not working. Something's not working.

Speaker 8 And, you know, Aaron Rodgers having a bad game tonight, a bad game against Tampa Bay.

Speaker 8 It's just something's not working here. And I hate to say it.
It's probably the weather, it's probably the cold.

Speaker 8 And, you know, Taus, you played here and with your shorts, your short sleeves and your arms showing. But I don't think anyone likes playing in the cold.
I think

Speaker 8 time to put a dome over Lambeau Field and get rid of the slows and tundra.

Speaker 4 You can't be serious.

Speaker 8 Well,

Speaker 8 we all joke, but I mean.

Speaker 8 True or false, if there's a dome over that

Speaker 8 game tonight, I think Aaron Rodgers has a better game. And when he ran the table in 2010, they were all dome away games that he won in.
Dallas, Atlanta.

Speaker 4 Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. They played in the cold, one of the coldest games in Chicago and a not great day in Philly.
So I get your point. Your point's fair.

Speaker 4 And I do think, ideally, with how accurate and precise old boy is with the football, he does love the elements to not be a factor, but that's not.

Speaker 4 So I get your point, but that's not, that was not accurate. Okay, fine.

Speaker 4 I know, again, I'll reiterate for the thousandth time I'm a loser, but there's just something great about when your nemesis loses.

Speaker 4 And just like, I read our friend Aaron Nagler, I read, I told him this, I read every single comment on his website on Saturday night. He's like, not even, I don't even do that.

Speaker 4 I was like, I read it all. I read every blog.
I read everything. It was fantastic.
I agree with the guy about blowing up Lambeau Field. Like, when you're right, you're right.
Well, he went on.

Speaker 4 I don't know how much of the clip we put in there, but he went on to say

Speaker 4 when the Packers won the Super Bowl, Aaron Rodgers did it all in domes. And then Mark Tauscher, who is a former Packer and badger, was like,

Speaker 4 the NFC championship game in Chicago was like five degrees. And he's like, oh, yeah, well, that's fair.

Speaker 4 You just blatantly were not right. But at this point, we're talking about the high maintenance factor of Aaron Rodgers as your quarterback.

Speaker 4 You're saying you're going to build the entire team a brand new house. Yes.
Because he doesn't like the house that you're in right now. Got to do it.
Got to do it. No, they were lost.

Speaker 4 That's one thing where I think I would actually stop watching Packers games if they played in a dome. Yeah, no, it sucks.
You can't have that. You can't do that.

Speaker 4 The only person that wants that is Kurt Warner and this guy. Yes.

Speaker 4 Kurt Warner's going to be mad about that. I know.

Speaker 4 Don't contact Kurt. He's still.

Speaker 4 He doesn't regret coming on on the show, but he does regret the fact that his very bad opinion was amplified. I don't think he does because he still argues it.

Speaker 4 I would say he probably regrets a little bit that his legacy is not Hall of Fame quarterback. It's guy who's too big of a pussy to play in the weather.

Speaker 4 Let's also

Speaker 4 not forget the movie, which was If Air Bud was a human.

Speaker 4 He's probably pumped, though. NFC Championship game.
Indoors, Super Bowl indoors. Yeah, he's super psyched about that.
Also,

Speaker 4 this could be. Here's a breaking news.
Hank, breaking moose. Breaking moose.

Speaker 4 You almost got Wally Pipp with Jake last week, Hank. I heard.
He's really good at the cow. Yeah.

Speaker 4 This could be the first Super Bowl ever played by a team in its own home stadium. Whoa.

Speaker 4 If the Rams make it to the Super Bowl, it's never been done before. Pretty crazy stuff.
Wow. Where'd you get that stat from?

Speaker 4 It's It's at, I want to make sure to give him proper attribution. I got that stat from

Speaker 4 sports business reporter at Darren Revelle on Twitter. So go check him out.
Give him a follow.

Speaker 4 Tell him that I'll beat the fuck out of him for his MLK memorabilia so I can donate it to a proper museum. His response when someone was like, you're an idiot.
He's like, I'm not an idiot.

Speaker 4 I just forgot.

Speaker 4 Which is not true because he schedules these tweets out before the game. Shout out to Schefter doing the sub-tweet where he just put a little asterisk.

Speaker 4 First time ever that a team can play in their home stadium in the NFC Championship game and the Super Bowl with the Rams. But yeah, Call-In Radio shows are back.
Fucking love it.

Speaker 4 Just, I'm probably going to, I'll be honest with you guys, I'm going to probably be listening to between four and six hours of Packer podcasts on Monday. Just going to throw that out there.

Speaker 4 I will be doing that. It's going to be great.
I might even call into a show. All right, Billy.

Speaker 4 My who's back, and you might have talked about this while I was out of the room, Derrick Henry's long legs and not being able to. We actually did.
You did? We gave you credit. Oh, thank you.
Yes.

Speaker 4 Because on that two-point conversion, I was like, we were out of the room for maybe 90 seconds, but we actually did.

Speaker 4 Yeah, that was my who's back. Yeah, you deserve credit.

Speaker 4 Every time there's short yardage, I'm like, I think of you. It's crazy.
But that happened too with the, there was two times it happened where he got stuffed.

Speaker 4 Fourth down and two-point conversion. Yeah.
The two-point conversion, I thought that that was a play in a nutshell of Billy's entire thesis built around Derrick Henry. The fourth down as well.

Speaker 4 Like fourth down, he just didn't have the runway. But the touchdown, right, was he was able to get outside.
Yep. So just in between the tackles.
Yep. Yep.
You're right, Billy. Jake.

Speaker 4 My news back of the week is robot umpires. They're getting promoted to AAA baseball closer and closer to the majors.
Are there now not every team, some teams?

Speaker 4 I think I would be in favor of robot umpires if there was an actual robot. Yeah.

Speaker 4 But it's not, right? It's just like a buzzer. It's the radar system or whatever they use.
It's like beeps, I think. And it beeps, and then it tells the scorekeeper what to do.

Speaker 4 But deciding this and not figuring out the season. Yeah, good point.
Good point, Hank. What? Like, shouldn't they, like, aren't there, aren't there more people? They're not a season.

Speaker 4 Are there more pressing issues in hand? That's true. That's a great point.
Robot players, too.

Speaker 4 Maybe they, yeah.

Speaker 4 Robots everywhere. Bring back battle bots.
I'd watch that.

Speaker 4 I would like it if there was an actual robotic umpire that was on the field so that you had something that you could argue with, kick it out, or yell at, or throw stuff at. Yeah.

Speaker 4 What was the thing that Philly beat the fuck out of? One of my favorite stories of all time that might have been fake out. Oh, the travel across the middle.
What was his name? Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 There was a robot. Oh, yeah, the hitchbot.
Hitchbot, yeah.

Speaker 4 He made it to Philly and they kicked the shit out of him. But the funniest part is it made it through all of Canada before and they tried it in the U.S.

Speaker 4 It's probably in better condition after it went through Canada. Yeah.
And then it gets to Philly and it ends up in a ditch. Fuck this robot.
You a Cowboys fan?

Speaker 4 Remember? Also, Jake's back because he had a great call for myself. Oh, thank you guys for watching.
We listen. Appreciate it.
Yes, and watch. I gave you your overshout out.
Over hit. Yeah.

Speaker 4 You guys remember Mr. Clanky from Backyard Sports? He was the robot who's like the ref, the batting pack practice pitcher.
I do everything. I believe you.

Speaker 4 Just give me something that I can yell at, verbal aid cost, throw something at, or, you know, shove if I'm angry enough. Spit on, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4 It doesn't even have to be the actual robot umpire, just put something out there that I can get mad at because otherwise I don't know what to do. I just don't.

Speaker 4 I agree. I like the human element.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I guess it's like, what if a manager has disagreement? Like, you know, that's a classic baseball thing. It's not even.
The guy turns their hat around, they're spitting in each other's face.

Speaker 4 I've made this argument a million times, but everyone needs to think about this before we go too far because it's the same thing with the Sky Cam when we did the pass interference.

Speaker 4 If we lose umpires, we lose like 50% of the things that we can blame and talk about as sports fans.

Speaker 4 You can't, if refs are robots and every call is perfect, like think about having to come to grips with the fact that your team actually lost and you can't be like, fuck the refs, they screwed us.

Speaker 4 I just think that'd be brutal.

Speaker 4 You want to have something to talk to people about. Right.

Speaker 4 If you're at the water cooler the next day, what are you going to have to talk about? If you can't be like, refs fucked us last night, huh?

Speaker 4 It's also like a very big part of going to a sporting event is having the guy next to you that's just screaming at the ref the whole time.

Speaker 4 I think there are probably ways that you can implement certain assets or certain facets of the robot. I want to get rid of the robot umpire.
I want to get rid of replay in sports.

Speaker 4 You just argue that the robots' machines are hacked.

Speaker 4 I actually, I'm not even, like, what I'm saying is, I know it sounds crazy, but I actually think it would solve a lot of things if they just decided everything on the field.

Speaker 4 Dude. No replay.
Replay has gone too far in certain, especially in baseball. It would be fun when it comes to sliding into a base.

Speaker 4 I hate that. It actually makes it actively makes the game worse.
And don't even show us the replay. Just tell us.
Just let us go. Just play the game.
I sound very old.

Speaker 4 There should actually just be one umpire. Yeah.
It should be Joe West, and he controls the entire game by himself. All right.

Speaker 4 17, 22, 8, 69,

Speaker 4 44. I got us some Taco Bell guys.
Just came.

Speaker 4 Great show.

Speaker 4 Just love sports. What's that, Hank? I ordered Taco Bell.
That was an amazing football weekend. It was.
54. No more doesn't.
Yeah. 54 counts.
Barely got up there.

Speaker 4 Moss Bears or Tardigrades could survive a nuclear disaster. Love you guys.
What kind of Taco Bell did you get?

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