NFL Week 18, Fastest 2 Minutes And A Wild Raiders/Chargers Ending

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Use code PardonMyTake right now and you get 5% off your purchase. Today is Monday, January 10th, week 18.
What? What Duval. I started early.
We start in Duval where the stands were filled with clowns, but the biggest bozo of the day was Frank Wright. Arson Wentz lit the Colts' season on fire and hung around long enough to watch the franchise burn.
Trevor Jennifer Lawrence is starting to look like an A-lister, but don't look up, Jags. No, seriously.
You literally can't look up. You clinched the number one pick as per Adam Schefter, Jacksonville is officially on the clock.
Please credit Schefter. he had it first.
The Jags stun the Colts. Keep them out of the playoffs.
26-11. Whip! Whip! In Baltimore, you can throw out the record books when these two teams face off.
Benjamin Button Rocklesberger looks like he's aging in reverse as he linked up with Chase Deadpool to revive their careers. Chris, the Wizard of Boswell, followed the yellow kick road to a Steelers playoff berth and a potential Super Bowl run.
B.J. Watt continues to be the king of the D as he swallowed up another sack, tying Brett Favre's record, and the Steelers are going to the Yafs? Huh? Huh? Huh? Huh? Huh? Huh? Steelers 16 Rivens, 13.
In Detroit, where Jared Goff told lazy boy Aaron Rodgers to take a seat, take a billion seats. Fam and Ross St.
Brown continued to play like a hungry dog as Instagram and Ross St. Brown added more memorable moments to his grid.
Tom John F. Kennedy took the top off the defense

and delivered a magic bullet for a touchdown.

Too soon, Boom.

Don't let the Lions get hot as they finish the season with a big win.

They just ran out of time.

The Lions, 37.

The limping into the playoffs Packers, 30.

In Los Angeles, where Tim Debo Samuel threw up a prayer for a touchdown

to get the Niners back in the playoffs, Juwan Greg Jennings put the whole team on his back, adding two scores. Tyler Eleanor Higby.
He just scored twice in a game against Kyle Shanahan. Choked job by the Rams.
Then there was Jim G. He really sucked in the first, but then his thumb magically healed.
Are the Niners for real? Niners, 27. The Rams, 24.
Down to the desert where Rashad, my cousin Penny, painted the Mona Lisa Vita with 109 yards rushing and a touchdown. And I think it's going to be a long, long time.
Two touchdowns bring me round to find. I'm not the man that they at all.
Oh no, no, no. I'm Tyler Lockett, man.
Lockett, man. Burning up his fuse up here alone.
And much like the challenger, the Cardinals crash and burn their way into the playoffs. 38-30.
In Tampa Bay, where Mike Evans Bacon got six degrees of separation for two touchdowns, Sam Haydarnold continues to dress up like Stinky Peterson when playing on Sundays as the Bucs locked up Chuba Indian in the Hubbard, making sure he never came to life. Kashawn Veronica Vaughn is so hot, want to touch the hiney.
What a fine piece of ace. As the Bucs roll into the playoffs with the two seed.
Bucs, 41. The Bankers, 17.
In the 3-0-5, Jalen Bottle Service started the party off the only way Miami knows how to. Dancing in the end zone.
Meanwhile, Tick-Mack-Toe put his X in the wrong spot when Jones threw a pick six in the first quarter. Three different running backs for the Patriots? That's a bold and strategy, Cotton.
Let's see if it pays off for them. Well, it did.
Brandon scored twice. And at least someone named Duke won this weekend as Johnson broke 100 yards and scored a touchdown.
Dolphins, 33. Patriots, 24.
Up in Orchard Park,

Devin, all the Singletarys, had two scores

as the team of Destiny's Child

loves Buffalo so much, they want to put

a Super Bowl ring on it.

Robert Salah, my name, was crazy in love

with Wilson in the first half, but in the end,

it was the Bills, Bills, Bills.

27, Jets, 10.

And no

one circles the wagons like the Buffalo Bills. Standing on a corner, Jameis Winston down in Nola.
Such a fine sight to see. Trevor sending me in, went out and got the win.
Cause Taysom had an injury. Come on Jameis.
Come back and save us. And Arthur Smith's beard is the greatest.
Saints go marching 30-19. Alright.
Week 18 in the books. We just watched the end of the Chargers Raiders game in overtime when it felt like all of America was rooting for a tie and also half of America thought the NFL was rigged like it was a WWE script from the late 90s but we got justice the Raiders win they get into the playoffs that was fucking incredible no big cat you can't script an ending like this Chris Collinsworth told me he would have walked out of the movie yeah if you had tried to pawn off an ending to the NFL season Hollywood wouldllywood would have thrown you in front of a train that was loaded with dynamite if you want to scooped like this that was a perfect ending though because we had rigged we had hashtag rigged trending we had everyone uh coming up with wild conspiracy theories and i think it was like the the last day of q anon when jfk jr didn't show up and they're all like well what do we What do you mean the last day? Oh, yeah, that's true.
QAnon's still going strong. QAnon's going strong.
QAnon's going strong. QAnon, just wait.
JFK Jr. is coming back.
But that was, you know, like you're all just standing there like, wait. So we were just complaining about this game being rigged for the last three hours, and then the Raiders ended up winning, and the Steelers are in the playoffs? It's basically impossible to rig a game for a tie in the NFL.

Without it being blatantly, blatantly obvious.

The closest that we came to was on that final drive by the Raiders

when if they hadn't have gotten that first time,

it probably would have ended in a tie.

But you can't.

It's the old Herm Edwards thing.

You play to win the game.

I was getting into a debate with Jake about whether or not

it was smart to play for a tie or not.

He was saying you play to win the Super Bowl, but I think you play to win the game. You got to win a game before you win a Super Bowl.
Well, on just a level for the Raiders, it was smart to go for the win. Once they're in that spot at the end of the game, they know that, like, obviously, if some crazy, crazy thing happens, they could lose the game, right? But if they're sitting there and they're like, should we kick a field goal or should we kneel and let the Chargers in? Well, if you let the Chargers in, you have to go play the Chiefs.
Right. Where now you get to go play the Bengals.
I mean, the Bengals are better than the Raiders, but they have a lot better of a chance against the Bengals than they have against the Chiefs, who has had their number and kicked their ass this year. So, you know, what a game.
There's nothing like the NFL. Week 18 did not disappoint.
It was insane from start to finish. I would like to actually quote our good friend Magic Johnson, who said, The NFC and AFC playoffs are going to be so exciting because anybody can win.
I can't wait until next weekend. Just a fact.
He speaks for all of us. He really does.
I mean, I can't say it better myself. I am very excited for NFL playoff football.
Anyone can win. You know what? A big fuck you to those dorks over at the New York Times.
Yeah. They were all doom and gloom being like 18 weeks sucks in the NFL.
No one's excited about these games. Guess what? That was, I'm just going to say, that was the best week 18 in the history of the NFL.
It came right down to the last game of the last week. Congratulations, Roger Goodell.
You've done it again, you magnificent bastard. Incredible.
I think, did Derek Carr grow an entire beard during that game? Yeah, no, he's got a lot of hair. Facial hair, regular hair.
He's got it all. He's like a Chia pet.
I think he was faceballed at the start of this game.

I think he just – Derek Carr just took that next step in front of her very eyes.

Incredible.

And then, you know, it feels like 10 games ago, but Brandon Staley living and dying by going for it on fourth down.

This game changed basically.

The Raiders were up three, and Brandon Staley went for it on fourth and won on his own 20. The Raiders then reeled off, like, whatever it was, 13 straight points.
Felt like they were going to run away with it.

We had the Chargers, every single drive they had the last fourth quarter in overtime was just nothing on first down, nothing on second down, maybe something on third down, but most likely you have to get a wild fourth and 10 conversion or penalty. And they went for that game tying drive at the end of the fourth quarter, which was, I think it was like 19 plays in 60 yards.
It made no sense. Everything was incomplete or just an insane, like how is this game still going on play? Crazy.
Did Brandon Staley, being a crazy motherfucker all season on fourth down, actually end up preparing the Chargers for that last and final drive? Yeah. Because they're used to it.
They're used to fourth downs. But I think in the first half, on that fourth down play call that he had from his own 19-yard line, I think Brandon Staley— That was the second half, but yeah.
I think he might have killed math. Yeah.
That was in the second half? Yeah, that was in the second half, correct? No, that was in the first half. I thought that was when it was maybe not.
I thought it was the first half as well. It was? Yeah.
I thought so. He killed math.
Oh, he was doing it early. Okay.
He absolutely destroyed math. No one should ever use math anywhere on a football field again.
The only thing that Brandon Staley accomplished when he did that was i think he made the raiders think like this guy's crazy he was crazy this guy's actually insane he's liable to do anything except then most of those those play calls at the end of the game on the fourth downs were just like run your receivers as far down the field as you can yes and throw the ball to them i've never seen i i've never seen an nfl game where the broadcasters are talking non-stop about how tired wide receivers are yeah that was that was in the second half by the way third quarter he's that crazy that's insane he was it was it was 17 14 they went for it on fourth and one at their own 18 with eight men 857 left in the third quarter That's how crazy he is. Guy's fucking crazy.
And then, like I said, they went directly. They were down 17-14, and then they blinked, and it was 29-14, and they had to crawl back in the last four minutes of the game.
But it was – yeah, he's a madman. He's a madman.
And I'm glad that it ended this way because for a second we thought that we were going to get gifted one last final last game for Big Ben, and you can't take that away from us. No.
I would have been apoplectic. It would have been so cruel for Steelers fans to have everything break their way all day and we'll get into all the games like the Jaguars losing and getting embarrassed by it or sorry the Colts losing getting embarrassed by a bad Jaguars team everything breaking their way they win in overtime against the Ravens then have that be a tie would have been brutal uh Billy as our number one you were rooting for a tie so much so I got a little creeped out like that maybe you were related to a tie um did you have money on the tie because you were geeking out over the tie it was just i was rooting for something that was so young so unique and probably would never ever happen again in the history of football the jets winning a super bowl might happen the browns winning a super bowl might happen a tie like that happening again probably would never happen i just i i got to the point where the day happened and I was like, Big Ben's going to be in the playoffs.
This is going to be awesome. So to have that ripped away from us would have sucked.
You can't take away the joy that we felt when we saw Big Ben at the end of that game. Mike Tomlin can't take away him dancing on an Instagram live post to celebrate the Steelers getting into the postseason.
That would have been,

it would have been the most disappointing ending for Big Ben's career imaginable.

He would probably have to come back next year.

I think we actually got something even better though, Billy.

Like we got so close to a tie there.

It was, we got to visualize a tie

and then we had the fairness of the game

actually ending with a winner.

If Brandon Staley didn't take that one time out,

he wouldn't have broken the trust and they would have tied. Oh, you think that was the prisoner's dilemma? Exactly.
That was Staley signaling that he wasn't willing to go through with it. Exactly.
He was trying to win, so then they both tried to win, and the Raiders won. That was also, I made, like, it felt like everyone in the world who watches football had realized, It was a fact they learned that if the Chargers and the Raiders tied tonight, that they would both go into the playoff.
And then they basically walked around and tried to tell everyone that maybe doesn't watch football the prisoner's dilemma and how this could work out. It was like that fun fact that everyone was talking about all day until we all knew it.
Everyone knew it. I think everybody, a lot of people were like the dog chasing the car.
Where it was cool to pursue the tie, but if you had actually gotten the tie, I think everybody would have been like, what have I done? You wouldn't have enjoyed it once you got it. Big Ben.
I think that we're also in a unique spot because we want to see Big Ben in the playoffs one last time because it's funny. Maybe get another Super Bowl.
Yeah, it's like a fun idea. So I think maybe it would have changed everything if it was like a different team and it wasn't the circumstances of Big Ben retiring.
We probably would have been more pro tie. But we really were.
We had that moment today. We're like, we get one more Big Ben.
Yeah, it's great. It's an awesome thing to look forward to all week long.
This is breaking news from Derek Carr.

He said in his post-game interview that the fact that Brandon Staley took that timeout

changed the Raiders' mindset.

There you go, Billy.

So Billy's right.

Billy's right.

As first reported by Billy.

Broke the trust.

Seriously?

He said that?

Derek Carr said that changed their mindset.

Yep.

Wow.

Broke the trust.

So we almost had the tie.

We almost had the tie.

It was the prisoner's dilemma.

Brandon Staley called the worst timeout in the history of sports. I still think they were going to kick a field goal no matter what because there was no real lose in it.
I guess you could have a block. I don't think that they would have kicked it unless they had gotten that first down because that would have been too far of a field goal and they wouldn't have gotten that first down if Brandon Staley didn't call the timeout.
Yeah, because he would have made them punt it, possibly. I guess it was a smart timeout for Brandon Staley.
Traditionally, yeah, if you're trying to win the game. No, if you're trying to tie the game, it was smart.
But he sent the wrong signal to them. Right, but no, he was smart because if they didn't get the first down, it would have been what you're saying.
I'm using what you're saying. The field goal would have been too far.
Right. Would have been a tie.
So it was actually his last play that he could have done. Okay.
Right? I'm just saying that they tried to get another first down after the timeout. Whereas the Raiders could have just run like a soft play up the middle.
Right. And he gets tackled.
The clock. You can take the clock basically down to zero.
You don't know if they're going to do that or not, but his timeout basically said if we stop them here they're gonna have to punt we're gonna tie yeah like he was basically saying this is the only way that i can envision us fully have holding our own destiny here they were getting a stop they were speaking two different languages when it came to signaling their willingness to tie with but it was rigged it was nfl rigged nfl riggedged. I honestly wonder if the two sidelines ever had any discussion

or communication about a mutual tie.

I bet you in the middle of the field,

Basickia and Brandon Staley had a chuckle about it before the game.

Wouldn't that be crazy?

I think it was like Brandon Staley went out there and he was like,

hey, you know they're saying that if we do,

are you going to do the Neil thing today?

Then slapped each other on the back.

Yeah, like it maybe stared an extra second into the other guy's eyes,

being like, where's he at mentally?

Whoever went out for the overtime coin toss, I feel like that would have been the perfect –

Chase Daniels.

Yeah, Chase Daniels.

Why didn't they broker a deal?

I feel like that would have been the perfect time.

In front of America.

With live microphones.

Yeah.

I mean, people – man, if they had rigged it, it would have been a total disaster.

I don't know. perfect negotiation yeah america with live microphones yeah i mean people people man if they had rigged it it would have been a total disaster i'm totally in favor of saying that the nfl is rigged all the time for any reason especially when it goes against what i want to happen to my team or my bet yeah uh but it would have been the dumbest rig job of all time if it had gotten the steelers out of the playoffs and now the the Chargers, America's darling, media's darling, is out with an incredible quarterback, a coach everyone likes who we like, and a team that should be a roster that should be a playoff team.
They fall in the last seconds of overtime in Week 18, and we get the Raiders. The Raiders, Rich Vesicchia should get the job.
He should get the job. Like, the fact that they're in the playoffs is insane when you just stack it all up and everything they've had go against them.
You could make a case for like 33% of the coaches in the NFL to be the coach of the year this year. Yeah.
You could make a case for Vesicchia. Absolutely.
Foxhole guy. Yes.
I still don't know how to pronounce his last name. Yeah, no, people get mad about that.
Maybe Jay can help us out. But John Gruden gets fired.
Henry Ruggs, 6-9. They end up 6-7.
They end up 10-7. They win every single game the last four games.
I think all the games they won were by two points or three points down the stretch. They beat the Browns that game.
I know they beat the Colts by a field goal. So everything was a razor thin margin and they did it.
What do you got? Basaccia. I like Basickia.
I'm going to stick with Basickia. It's kind of what we do.
Another little fun hot mic moment. I don't know who Eckler's talking to but he's talking to a Raiders player on the field after the game and you can read his lips and he says, were you going to kneel it? And the Raiders guy says, yeah.
Wow. Oh, man.
So, yeah, okay, so it was a miscommunication, because I actually understand what Brandon Staley was doing, because it was too far. He was fucking up is what he was doing.
Right, but because it was too far, he was basically saying, if we can get this one stop on third down, it will be a punt. Do you think he was making it too blatant?

And then Basitia sees that and he's like, fuck that, we're going to win the game.

I don't know.

Because it's a major, what would Madden do in this situation?

Madden.

Win the game.

He would win the game.

What would Gruden do?

He'd save someone's life.

Be an anti-football pussy move.

He didn't want to, in the 2001 Super Bowl, he said the Patriots would just kneel it and go to overtime.

Right, but once they're in overtime, you've got to win the game.

Thank you. Be an anti-football pussy move.
He didn't want to, in the 2001 Super Bowl, he said the patch would just kneel it and go to overtime. Right, but once they're in overtime, you've got to win the game.
I guess. But then he also said Tom Brady gave him goosebumps.
Yeah. Hank, are you retroactively mad at John Gruner for disrespecting Tom Gruner? I'm not.
I mean, did that not happen? Yeah, but it's not. Like, I love John Madden.
I respect the shit about him. You just said John Madden would go for it, and you're right giving you an example of a situation where i said you shouldn't go for it that's not hate right yeah sometimes you like to spin things i say no it just sounds like you're mad you're still mad at john madden i don't fucking remember that i was eight years old i'm just giving you an example of you know the opposite of what you said yeah no you're right he did want he did want to kneel and play for overtime in that situation um crazy though everything's crazy so we have it set uh it is so here's the schedule if you if you went to sleep early and you haven't checked the schedule on saturday afternoon we're going to have the uh raiders versus the bengals which is perfect because the texans having that sat that Saturday afternoon spot was always, even though it's different because it's not the one o'clock Saturday, was always a placeholder for the Bengals.
Yeah, it was either the Bengals or the Texans or sometimes a combination of the two. So back to the rightful owners.
Then on Saturday night, Hank, Patriots going to Buffalo. Are you ready? I'm so ready.

I've never been more ready for anything in my life.

Hank wants this.

Okay.

You do want this?

I do want it.

It's one of those things.

Why wait?

You know, the Bills are the better team.

They're favored.

All that shit.

They're at home.

But this is what you want. Why run?

Why not just face it head on?

What's the spread?

We talked about it before the game.

You got to go up against Big Brother?

You guys should guess.

I think it's five.

Is it out yet?

It is.

It is.

All right.

I'll say four.

Three and a half, four.

Well, you guys are right split in between.

It's plus four and a half right now.

There it is.

Okay.

And the weather's going to be bad.

It's going to be cold.

Breaking news, it's going to be cold in Buffalo, New York,

the second week of January.

Whoa.

Then Sunday, we have Eagles at Bucs, 49ers at Cowboys. That's the Nickelodeon game.
Yep. So we got to start circling our potential MVPs in this situation here.
I think it's got to be Kittle. We got to keep it in the family.
Kittle will be nice. We have to keep it in the family.
I think that's the only answer. It's Kittle.
It's Kittle no matter what. Well, Dak Prescott is the current guest as well.
They don't have to be the winning team. No, Dak Prescott.
Or the losing team. One of our great friends and part of my take.
I think this is a don't overthink it. Kittle.
Congratulations to Greg Kittle. If there is a fan vote, he has won MVP.
All right, Greg. Way to go.
Although winning or losing, you have won it. What if the Cowboys lose and we give it to Mike McCarthy so that he can get slimed? I don't think they do the coaches.
But if they do, yes, we should do that. He'd probably chug the slime.
But I don't think coaches are eligible for the MVP. And then we have Sunday night, the Steelers, Big Ben's last ride going into the Chiefs.
You might remember that game from the Mike Tomlin sad field goal. I think it was like 35 to 10 or something.
It was never even that close. The worst field goal.
Yeah. And then do you think that there's like 2% of Big Ben who's really regretting having to play another week? You already asked him to play a 17 game slate this year.
Now you're making him extend his last season? I do honestly think he might have gone to sleep, not realizing that a tie could have fucked everything up. And then he would have woken up and been like, wait, what do you mean I'm not in the playoff? I hope they just don't explain to him what happened, because that's just going to confuse him when he finds out that he almost didn't make the playoffs.
Yes, yes. So, yeah, he probably, there's probably a little, he might have booked a trip.
He might have booked a trip. All right.
And then Cardinals, Rams, Monday Night Football. So let me just read it back to you real quick.
The NFC and AFC playoffs are going to be so exciting because anybody can win. I can't wait until next weekend.
You said it, man. That's it.
I mean, that's. Cosign.
It couldn't be more. Everything's in front of us.
There's no, it's no better feeling. All right.
I wish there was a way to retweet somebody in real life. Because I would just go around...
Just saying it to people. Yeah, verbally retweeting Magic Johnson all the time.
He speaks for me. Yeah, did you hear about the AFC and NFC playoffs? It's going to be exciting.
Can't wait for next weekend. Like, just walking around and saying...
Anything can happen. Anything can happen.
I might have to turn that tweet into a song, actually. I feel like that's next up.
Okay, so should we hop into the games? Oh, and Billy and PFT are driving to the Super Bowl, LA. They are second place and last place in the competition.
So they'll be driving in a Chevy Silverado. New one? All-new Chevy Silverado.
No, electric one? I think so, yeah. Oh, wow.
No, no, no. Maybe not.
So it's going to be an all- new Chevy Silverado no electric one I think so yeah oh wow oh no maybe not so it's gonna be an all-new Chevy Silverado it's whatever Dana beers drove back from coach prime in Mississippi it's gonna smell like Dana yeah yep great uh I I was um I was excited no convertible that's a shame I was excited to come in second in this I went one in seven in my last two weeks somehow. But then it, I'll be honest, it took me about five minutes.
Nope, you can't do this.

No, shame i was excited to come in second in this i went one in seven in my last two weeks somehow uh but then it i'll be honest it took me about five minutes nope you can't do this no no listen you're not allowed to do this i'm gonna tell you a little story about a conversation that i had about five minutes after it was determined that billy and i would be making the trip um billy immediately started suggesting what sort of uh time timeframe we should spend on the road.

And the first thing he said was, all right, so I think I've got it figured out.

We should leave on the evening of that Thursday, I think.

And he said, we should drive until six o'clock in the morning and then sleep until 1 p.m.

and then continue our drive.

And I immediately realized that this is not going to be the bed of roses that I had envisioned for myself. No't.
No backsees. No backsees.
No backsees. The East Coast has more traffic.
So we go, we travel, we travel at night when there's the least amount of traffic. Right.
Then we'll hopefully hit the Midwest by the morning. With your car's lights.
Right. That's great.
I'll drive it. You can sleep.
I'll drive it for the first part. And it's also maybe the safest truck on the road.

Exactly.

What are we listening to, Billy?

What's on the playlist?

Oh, I got a great road trip classic rock playlist.

Life's Highway.

All sorts of stuff.

There we go.

Joe Rogan.

From Cars 1.

Cars 1 has a killer soundtrack.

It does, actually.

It's actually like a goat soundtrack.

I'm happy that we found something to bond over here.

The Trolls soundtrack is pretty good, too. Yeah, so you guys will be going to LA.
It'll be great content. Or Dallas.
Or Dallas. Or Vegas.
I think if it's Dallas, you guys have to go LA to Dallas. That would be awesome.
I agree. Everyone else agree? Should we fly to LA? No, you have to drive to LA and then drive to Dallas.
I saw a recommendation. We can't do the road to the 405 and not have to.
Great point. We got to touch the 405? Yeah, great point, Hank.
I'll accept that. I saw a recommendation from an AWL.
No GPS. You have to use physical maps.
I mean, you'll never get there. I'm actually pretty good with maps.
You forget, the map is what got me into this mess to begin with. I saw a map online, and it got me excited about this road trip.

So you guys are in.

So down.

No, we know.

You guys are very down.

It doesn't matter if you were.

Very down.

We're trying to figure out the big decision is do we hit Chicago

and then go Nebraska.

Well, the good news is you've got a month to figure it out.

Iowa, Nebraska, or do we go St. Louis,

Missouri, Oklahoma?

Those are the only

two options?

Which one has the Memphis Bass

Pro Shop pyramid on the way?

Every show, we'll just check in on

where the route is.

Because we have a month until you guys have to leave.

I'm going to put Billy in charge of the route.

So we'll just check in and be like, hey, where are we at with the route? That good? We'll be working on it. Yeah.
All right. Perfect.
Okay, should we hop into the games? Should we do the games? Let's do it. All right.
Jaguars-Colts was the start of the madness. The Jaguars upset the Colts 26-11.
Trevor Lawrence looked like a real quarterback for once. And the Colts, Carson Wentz is Carson Wentz.
My pinky is safe. I know that people wanted them to make the playoffs for my pinky.
I am happy because I was actually very nervous about the Colts. But yeah, that is an all-time how the fuck do you lose that game? You literally went to play a two-win team that had fired their coach a month and a half ago, had just lost by like 50, and the entire crowd were people dressed as clowns.
Yeah, I've got the data in front of me right now. That's the first time that a team that was hoping to go to the playoffs has gone on the road and lost in a clown out environment yes the clown outs were previous

no one had ever won a clown game before it was so sad i saw this one picture of these uh this couple

they had a picture they had a big poster and they're like 10 season ticket 10 years season

ticket holders clowns faced went to the game clown face 10 year season ticket holders record 43 and

120 at what point are you just like this is just just punishment? Also, at what point, being Jaguars fans, getting dressed up as clowns, going to the game, does that become a cell phone? A cell phone. That's kind of a major cell phone situation.
Yep. Pro Max 13.
Those could mean a lot. A lot of different things, wearing clown makeup to a game.
But usually you're just saying, like, I am a clown for attending this game. Right.
And you would be forgiven for thinking that, being a Jaguars fan over all these years, besides, obviously, the Blake Bortles years. But, yeah, you also got to keep wearing clown outfits, I think, if you're Jags fans, right? Yeah.
You're undefeated as the clowns. Yes, you are the clown.
Change the team name to the clowns I I don't know what Colts fans like this is one of those very very difficult to wake up on Monday morning moments because as recently as week 15 the Colts there was legitimate buzz that the Colts were playing the best football in the NFL I saw like Dan Orlovsky did a whole victory lap on ESPN because he called that they were going to be a playoff team. He also would run away and get married to Carson Wentz.
That's true. No, Matt Stafford first.
Matt Stafford, then Carson Wentz. But everyone was taking their victory lap.
The Colts were in the playoffs. The Colts were a really good team.
I was very nervous. They had just beaten the Patriots.
They had just beaten the Cardinals. They had won a shitload of games in a row.
And then they lose to the Raiders at home. And they lose to the Jaguars.
And now you wake up. Again, this is very mean to Colts fans.
I'm sorry, but you know this is the truth. You wake up on Monday morning.
Carson Wentz is your quarterback. He's got $15 million dead cap next year.
You gave up a first round pick for him and your team didn't make the playoffs. I don't think that if you're a Colts fan you're not consuming any media today.
You might as well be an Amish person for this week because you don't want to turn on a television. You don't want to open up a newspaper.
You don't want to listen to a podcast. If you are one of those perverted Colts fans that is listening to this on Monday morning, what's wrong? Sorry.
I give you permission to delete this episode of this podcast and to stop listening. You should not be...
Download it again, though. Yeah, download it again.
But you don't need to be subjecting yourself to this. I think you're just embracing the suck, embracing the pain.
Yes, Hank. There's also an insane amount of football buzz and excitement going on in downtown Indianapolis today.
Oh, yeah. That's true.
If you have to go to work in Indianapolis, you're trying to avoid football, and it's like everyone's just jazzed up, fired up, football, football, football, and you're like, I don't even want to look at a football. Yes, someone's going to win a national title in your backyard, and it's going to be the pinnacle of their year, and you lost the Jagars and again with the hbo crew documenting yeah that's the thing is like or whatever amazon prime whatever yeah and the and the fact you have carson wentz that so frank reich was asked afterwards about carson wentz and he responded uh he was like you know is your quarterback going going into next year? Like, talk about Carson Wentz.
He said he did a lot. And then he also said, I think he's our quarterback.
Yeah, I know. So that, yikes.
And that's a first rounder. Yeah.
I think he's our quarterback. Carson Wentz has had a stat line in every single game that he's been in, I think this year, where he's been at some point in the game, five for 12.
it's so painful too because Colts fans I know that you

diluted your every single game that he's been in, I think, this year, where he's been at some point in the game 5 for 12. It's so painful, too, because Colts fans, I know that you deluded yourself to thinking that he had changed.
There were times when I did the same thing. It was like, ooh, Carson Wentz.
He's made a few sick throws this year. They were always, you know, remember the game against the Titans when he did the smartest play in the world and he gave up that shovel pass interception pick six instead of taking a safety, there were a lot of people being like, that was the first time he was Carson Wentz all year.
He's actually not turned the ball over. And then when he had to play his best football, the Raiders game, he stunk.
And this game, he stunk. Carson Wentz is still the king of making bad plays worse.
Yep. And he'll always be that guy.

You know what?

I'm going to add the Colts to the list of teams that I think if Kirk Cousins was on,

they could win a Super Bowl.

Maybe.

I think that a team like the Browns or the Colts, having Kirk Cousins,

that's your ideal quarterback right now.

Yeah.

A guy who he won't make bad plays worse.

He'll just make bad plays kind of average. And then he'll also make good plays pretty average.
Yeah, he'll make great plays a check down. Yeah.
Right. Right.
So, Colts fans, whew. I'm just happy I have my pinky.
I'm happy I have my pinky. You did have that moment where you were rooting for the Colts to win so that we got one pinky game in the playoff.
Well, yeah. And I was like, that's very mean.
Hank and I were both doing that, but just in the name of content, it would have been good to have you sweat it out a little bit. I do agree that watching someone be miserable in a bet scenario is good content.
Correct. Right.
Correct. Right.
Exactly. Glad we're all on the same page.
Glad we're all on the same page. We all agree.
Yes, we all agree. Yeah, but I'm happy they're not in.
I'm happy they're not in. I mean, listen, I did think they had a change.
Like, as of week 15, I was like, I had the conversation with Mrs. Cat.
And I was like, listen, just so you know, the Colts are playing really good. And she's like, you made this bet again? You don't need your pinky.
You don't need the tip of your pinky. If anything, that's just a signal to everybody, like, this guy really doesn't do coke.
No, it was a bad conversation, though, because we were just walking with our two kids, and she was like, why are you still making these bets? I was like, because they're fun, and it's fun, and it's thrilling that the Colts are playing better, even though I wrote them off. And so there was a lot of disdain.
And she also pointed out, I stupidly was like, well, yeah, I'll just walk into into a hospital and they'll cut it off like that's not how it works they don't just they won't just dismember you you'd have to intentionally get the tip of it like infected yeah and have just get like a little bit of gangrene at the end of your pinky so that they have to do a medical procedure to cut it off but i just want to take it to a moil and get circumcised i want on the record i had that actual had that actual conversation. If people think that I'm not like, I wouldn't take it seriously.
I would. It would suck, but I was having those real life conversations of like, oh yeah, the Colts might make the playoffs and they're pretty damn good, and I gotta cut my pinky off.
It just would have been good to have one game, one playoff game, just so the dream stays alive for another week. Yeah, I mean we had it with the Texans.
We haven't had it since. I'm.
I did not think, I thought the Jags would give them a game. I did not think the Colts would lose this game the way they did.
I really didn't. It was crazy.
This was the ultimate the NFL makes no sense game. Yeah.
When you look at what's happened to both teams in the last even three weeks. Yes.
How did the Jags win this game? The only thing is like Trevor Lawrence, he looked really good in that first half. I think he started off 11 for 11.
Yeah. No, he looked really good.
He took a shit on Sam Ellinger. Yeah.
Yes. He looked really, really good.
So big time Trevor Lawrence. Positive momentum going into next year.
I think we're now diehard believers in Trevor Lawrence based on the first half of this one game. Alright, next game.
Steelers Ravens. We kind of touched on it.
Big Ben, he gets one more shot at it. Maybe they're a team of destiny.
Maybe they'll get blown out by 30 to the Chiefs and he'll cry on the sideline again. But either way, Big Ben, Sunday night football, his true send-off.
I'm excited. So I've seen this debate a couple places.
I think it's probably the dumbest use of the term, like, no one wants to see the Steelers in the playoffs. No, no one said that.
Who, Dave Damoshek? I think the Steelers are the team that you want, if you were to circle a team that you would really want to see. Without a doubt.
I really want to see the Steelers in the playoffs. Can be run on.
Can't run the ball. The quarterback doesn't have legs.
It's like they're the opposite of everything Julian Edelman has told us a tough team is. Yes.
Their quarterback, his face got so fat that he can't physically remove his helmet. Yes.
I think you really want to see the Steelers in the playoffs. No, the Chiefs are pumped.
But it is kind of Team of Destiny vibes. And I can talk myself into the Steelers winning this game.
I can do it. You want to hear me talk myself into doing it? TJ Watt, seven sacks.
TJ Watt. Yeah.
Best player in the NFL right now. TJ Watt.
And then maybe Chase Claypool goes off. Fitzpatrick can get an interception.
Yes. There we go.
Yes. Those two names go together.
Ray Ray McLeod. Fitzpatrick and interception.
Ray Ray McLeod is due due because he's never scored a touchdown ever. Statistically, he is.
Is it time that we say that TJ Watt is now officially the best Watt brother? He is Defensive Player of the Year easily. I think he'd have to win.
JJ did win back-to-back Defensive Player of the Year. Or was it three in a row? Might have been three.
I don't know, but he never got 22 sacks. He never got 22 sacks, but he did have a stretch there where...
Remember that stretch where he was like... He was unstoppable.
This is not human. 12, 14, and 15 for defensive player of the year.
So two in a row, three out of four. Three out of four.
He had a dynasty. Yeah, he did.
And the thing also with J.J. was he was probably like a top 10 tight end.
Right. Whenever he wanted to get in the game and catch a touchdown pass but yeah no he's tj watt has been insane this year he's defense player of the year 22 and a half sacks ties michael strahan i do i loved that some people were saying well there's an extra game he played realistically speaking he played like 14 games this year so he played less games than michael strahan and also didn't have Brett Favre fall down for the record tying sack.
That was the biggest asterisk move of all time. Brett Favre talking to Michael Strahan before the play.
Saying, I'm going to roll out this way and fall down and get you the sack. NFL rigged.
You know what? Watching Michael Strahan celebrate that sack, a little bit of me dies every time I see that celebration. I agree.
If you think it's bad when you watch cornerbacks celebrate an incomplete pass that missed by 15 yards nothing compared to what Strahan did after getting gifted that final sack. Agreed.
I think I think TJ Watt right now is, you know what, I was going to say something nice about it. We've said a lot of nice things about TJ Watt I just might become one just might become one of the Aaron Donald guys.
Be like, actually, Aaron Donald, based on his win rate, should get the defensive player of the year every year. He wrecks all the games.
Yeah. The craziest part, too, is T.J.
Watt got paid all that money and then had his best year ever, which is a cool thing in sports because obviously a lot of times guys get a lot of money. You're usually paying for past not future production but in this case he got that big paycheck it's because he got that back in the room he got that workout in right after he signed the deal that one workout probably made all the difference to get him the sack record propelled him um big ben also in in this game he took over second place alone for game winning drives so 57th

game winning drive In this game, he took over second place alone for game-winning drives. So 57th game-winning drive.
He passed. Peyton and Breeze, Tom Brady's still number one.
He had two game-winning drives in this game, though. We should count two separate drives.
He had two drives with the game really on the line, and he was able to pull it off. This looked like it also might tie at the end.
It was fun, though, because he was throwing a couple balls that were like there'd be ducks, but then he'd reach back and he'd laser one for like five yards. He tried to run the hurry-up offense at one point, and then his whole team looked at him like, Ben, no, don't do this, Ben.
Please. We need all your energy.
Yeah, so Steelers are in. Ravens, we've talked about it but like they went from eight and three to eight and nine they went from a team that looked like was going to be contending in the AFC to falling apart missing the playoffs injuries just like I think you could honestly if you're a Ravens fan be like that was just the year from hell there's nothing we can do about it I think I want to go ahead and say I would I might have gotten a little little bit too excited about tyler huntley but i'm gonna back you up as a friend and say i also did and that's just how we react he did look good for like a week and a half you know he looked great he looked really in losses that was i think that might have been the key is that we kept on being like this guy is awesome well they lost they lost the packers they lost but he was awesome he was the ultimate case of like seeing seeing a flash out of player and he's still probably going to be a really good backup wherever he ends up yep um but you you see how good he plays and then you're like how come everyone missed on this guy then you go back and you read the scouting reports come out of college and you start reading the like two guys that got their scouting report correct on him yeah and you And you're like, yep.
See, these two guys I've never heard of that just put PFF in their Twitter handle, even though they don't work for any company. Right.
These guys, they saw something. I knew there was something about this guy.
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Okay, let's move on. We're going to start buzzing through a few of these games.
Titans, Texans, Titans get the one seed. Crazy season.
The fact that they had the most resounding loss in week one when they got absolutely killed by the Cardinals. They lost to the Jets.
They lost to these same Texans. They had lost Derrick Henry, A.J.
Brown, Julio Jones. I gave you the stat last week.
They broke the record for most players played on a roster in a season. They also didn't have a 1,000-yard rusher or 1,000-yard receiver, and they have the one seed.
Crazy. Mike Vrabel, coach of the year.
Coach of the year. I actually do think that he's probably going to end up winning coach of the year, unless he's a bad guy and Hubb has something to hold against him.
I think he checks out. He's okay.
Vrabel, good guy. Great coach, even better human being.
Yes. How about that? Yes.
I realized watching this game that Danny Amendola is still in the league. Yes.
Yeah, a little breakout game. Dola.
Dola got two touchdowns, I think, and a two-point conversion. Yeah, because Davis Mills is the future.
He is. And I think David Cully is coming back next year.
Good. He deserves it.
He outperformed expectations, which is maybe saying how low the bar was for David Cully coming into this year. Yeah.
And you know what? He learned over the course of the season. You remember at the start of the year, he was the punt god? That's all he would do.
He would find new ways to punt. And I think he kind of like, he showed improvement over the course of the season.
And really, what else are you going to do if you're the Texans? If you're the Texans, you're in year one and a half of probably a four-year tank job. And it's actually kind of awesome, though, that you might have found your quarterback.
Because that was like, Deshaun Watson now becomes a realistic, hey, we could trade him and get a ton of picks and really restart the rebuild. So Davis Mills, the last four games of the season, he he was two and two eight touchdowns two interceptions 68 percent 927 yards not bad like he he looked better and progressed as the season went along and it's you know the fact that he came out early from stanford it's crazy to think but if he had stayed at stan, he probably would have been a top five pick.
So there you go. Just tell yourself that.
I know that's not how it works, but just tell yourself he's a top five pick and that's your franchise. Yeah, so we should also say something nice about Taylor Luan because remember after that first week when he gave up five sacks? put out in one game yeah i think it was one game

fuck yeah and he put out that statement he basically took out a full page ad being like hey

i'm sorry i sucked i'm gonna work harder i'm gonna improve but i deserve everybody telling

me how much i blow um he should be entitled to take out a full page ad in whatever newspaper

that he wants and just say suck my dick yeah taylor luon yeah because they're i mean they

were able to run the ball without derrick henry and derrick henry might be back it's um yeah

I'm sorry. newspaper that he wants and just say suck my dick yeah taylor luon yeah because they're i mean they were able to run the ball without derrick henry and derrick henry might be back it's um yeah it's wild that they're the one seed and it's wild they they don't have to play the chiefs until potentially the afc championship game so i don't know what like the best matchup for them would be but fuck it they gotta they gotta win two games to get to the Super Bowl, and they're the only team with the...
The bye becomes so much more significant now. I want to do a deeper dive into seeing what the makeup of most of these coaching staffs that are still in right now look like, but I'm pretty sure that Vrabel's defensive coaching staff, if he includes himself, are the most aggressive human beings.
Yes. Because he's got Jim Haz yep and he's got jim schwartz coaching defense wrong fight people he just wants to kick everyone's ass he probably has the largest coaching staff i'm talking about like mass mass wise i think there's something to be said to just being like listen at the end of the day if it ever gets down to like hey you want to take a step outside we got this yeah we'll step outside tiebreaker.
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaking of another coach, so that was Titans-Texans. Again, we're going to whip through some of these because some of them just don't matter.
Lions-Packers didn't matter except for the fact that I do think the Packers are now officially limping into the playoffs after losing to the Lions. And shout out Farmingdale own tom kennedy who we met he threw the 75 yard touchdown pass he's a wide receiver for the lions he threw a 75 yard touchdown pass on a trick play and we know him because we met him at stew finder's house and we watched frank the tank a topless frank the tank standing in stew finder's pool make fun of Tom Kennedy and the Lions so much so that Tom Kennedy left the party.
He eviscerated the Lions. Yeah.
We don't know he left because of Frank the Tank. I will say that.
Exactly. Frank ran him off.
Frank ran him off. You sound like he had a pissy fit and ran off.
No, he didn't have a pissy fit. There was no pissy fit because he just got mentally demolished by Frank the Tank.
So he sits down at the pool next to us, and Stu's like, oh, this guy's in training camp for the Lions right now. And Frank goes, the cowardly Lions.
Are they even a real NFL team? All they do is lose on Thanksgiving. He emptied the clip.
And I don't think Tom Kennedy left because it was a pissy fit. I think Tom Kennedy left because he's like, I don't think this guy has any limit to the amount of jokes he has written about the Lions.
And I mean, Frank could go on for a day. He was right.
Just roasting the Lions. Yeah.
He's like, I don't want to be subjected to this. I think it's safe to say that these Lions are the best 3-13-1 team of all time.
Fact. Fact.
I mean, they were fighting to the bitter end. Also, Jordan loves sucks.
That's awesome. Yep.
He does. He sucks.
Well, I mean, was this loss on Jordan Love or was it on Aaron Rodgers? Because Rodgers played... You know what? This might be Aaron Rodgers' last regular season game as a Packer.
Yeah. No one's talking about that.
Also, it might have been selfish of him to be in the game because he could have gotten hurt. Yeah, why were they playing their starters? I think Aaron Rodgers just wanted to get more stats.
He just wanted to be on TV again? Yeah, so selfish reasons, I'm sure. He probably wanted to get his per diem meal.
Yep. Some bullshit like that you got to play.
I do think that the Packers have a serious issue, though, and that's Crosby and Borges is holder. No, they're fine.

They need to duct tape themselves to each other. They need to walk around

holding each other's hands. They need to stay

in the other person's house. They need to be

by each other's side because I think

they just don't like each other.

They're totally fine. It's going to be fine.

It won't bite them in the ass. I would be very

worried if I was a Packers fan.

Last thing from this game, Amon Ross, St. Brown, our last update because we've been updating every week.
His last six games, he had 51 catches, 560 yards, and six touchdowns. That's a full season in his last six games.
He's a fucking stud. Dan Campbell said earlier this week they're in the Arctic Ocean now, but they're heading for the caribbean beautiful so on if i'm if i'm tracking his progress i i think the lions are somewhere off the coast of newfoundland yeah they're making their way south they're getting there it's still slowly still very cold also i saw jared goff say to davante adams after go win the whole thing so noted okay noted put that in my tickler file so noted so if the packers win the whole thing it's because of their pump up speech from jared goff who is playing as well as almost any quarterback in the nfl right now yeah he maybe gets a vote maybe hub arkish votes for him for mvp he did he was the last he was the last person to beat aaron rogers yeah you want to be the got to beat the man.
Right. He did that in the regular season.
And the Lions finished the year, most importantly, credit to Hank Lockwood for texting this to our group thread, 11-6 against the spread. Wow.
Spread gods. That's incredible.
And an outright win. Hungry Dog Parlay.
I think that these Lions are probably the best awful team that I've ever seen. I was surprised you guys didn't give me a couple minutes to accept and speech for being the best gambler on the show when you were talking about it.
But if I did have an acceptance speech... Well, PFT was trying to lose.
Yeah, I mean, I did a really good job. No, I mean, no.
If I did have an acceptance speech, I would dedicate to Lions. Oh, okay.
Nice. Thank you, Lions.
Thank you, Lions. Much of the reason why I was the number one gambler on this podcast is because of you.
And nothing else. And Dan Campbell.
I like the truthers that are suggesting that I threw it at the end just to make Hank happy like we did with that Mount Rushmore. Yeah, I mean, you were very clear with what you were doing.
I was very blatant with my reasons. In the reverse, as the worst gambler on the podcast, I'd like to dedicate my losing season to the Jets.
I don't usually give the last one. Yeah, we don't usually give that a speech.
If you're an award show, you're not just throwing out. Billy, did you end up going 500 on the year? No.
I was close. Very close.
But that's not 500. If the charge was covered, it would have been 36-36-1, but he's 35-37.
That's pretty impressive for Billy when we all treat him like a sack of shit when he was predicting like, okay, I'm trying to win this game and lose this game. If it had actually worked out where he was exactly 500 on the year, that would have been nice.
Well, no, but there were some weeks where he was trying to win them all. He switched his strategy midway through.
Yeah. Okay, so that's Lions-Packers.
We'll see the Packers in the playoffs in the divisional round. Next up, we got Washington football team Giants.
I just want to have a special shout-out to Joe Judge. I don't think I've ever seen someone be told that they're going to get to keep their job and done everything in their power to try to have them reverse that decision.
I looked it up. Joe Judge was told that he was going to keep his job on December 26th.
A little late Christmas gift. After that moment, he lost a combined 85-20 in the three games.
He had a game where he had minus six passing yards. He had a story where he said that ex-players were calling him and saying how bad they wished they were still playing for him, even though they were making more money.
And then he had two plays today where he did a QB sneak from the three-yard line and the four-yard line on second and ten and third and nine because he was too scared about getting the Bears getting a safety against him last week. That's what he said in the game afterwards, in the postgame.
Well, he called two quarterback sneaks back-to-back because you might see the first one coming, but you usually wouldn't see the second one coming. No, no, but he literally said that it was because it got i think it got one yard each time yeah they definitely saw it coming both times now you you conveniently left out the fact that i didn't see any players from the giants on the sidelines holding golf clubs getting ready to go on vacation big cat true they played they ran those quarterback sneaks with a high level of commitment and violence on the offensive line.
They played their hearts out on those two quarterback sneaks. Could you imagine? I think you're not hearing what I'm saying about the post-game press conference.
He said that we gave up a safety last week, and we were scared we were going to give up another one. How crazy is that? He's insane.
That's really, there's no good explanation for running a quarterback sneak on third and nine from like your own two yard line. Because one time we gave up a safety.
You're crazy. You're a crazy person for doing that.
And this is, again, I'm going to go back to the clown comment earlier this week. He said, we're not a clown franchise.
We don't have our players fighting each other. If you're denying that you're a clown, chances are about 100% that you're a clown.
You are a clown. You never want to be in a position where you're like, hey, just for the record, I know you might think I'm a clown, but I'm actually not.
Yes. And he also kind of did like an aha because he said, we were trying not to get a safety and we stopped him the next time after we punted it.
So like on your guy's face that was actually a tactical uh advantage for us we gained 11 yards of field position incredible incredible i just want to shout out joe judge i like he literally went from joe judge you're coming back and everyone's like no why is he coming back to saying fuck. Let me see if I can lose this job for real.

There's a possibility, though, that Gettleman has convinced the Maris that he's going to lie to Joe Judge and say that he's coming back, but then fire him. I still think he might be fired.
Joe Judge? Yeah. I mean, they should.
I think that there's a chance that they will. There's no excuse to keeping him.
There really is not a reason to do it. I can't think of a more depressing place to be on planet earth than 1 p.m at at the meadowlands it was like 35 degrees outside to watch the washington football team play against the new york giants there's there's no good excuse unless you work at the game or have a relative a blood relative on the field there's no reason to to put yourself through that tickets were going for seven dollars that's way too expensive yeah it was um it was it was a brutal one so joe joe judge shout out you man because here it is here's the replay second 11 right up the middle and be sneak the crazy thing is they saw this the second qb sneak Yes.
The defense lined up to stop a quarterback sneak. Yes.
Crazy. It's insanity.
Shout out to the Washington football team. Seven wins two years in a row.
Boom. That's a dynasty right there.
Huge. Consistency.
First, you got to learn how not to lose seven games in the NFL before you can win more than seven. They didn't go backwards.
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This game happened. Yep.
Okay. Sucked.
Yeah. Browns.
Good job. You got eight wins.
Bears Vikings. This game also happened.
I just had two quotes uh mike zimmer it was the the coaches getting fired bull mike zimmer afterwards was asked about his job and he responded to the reporter i haven't had heard about yours either yeah so that's a yes i'm fired i know that i'm fine did anybody ask about killing mon though jake no comment okay um I had by the way

I was in Michigan this week

And I had like 10 people

Come up to me and be like

Wow Jake

You screwed up this week

I love it

I love it

And then

Matt Nagy

It's weird whenever you get to the end

Of a coach that you've hated so much

Because there's a little part of you

That's like

Oh I feel kind of bad

But I don't

And you're almost like

We've just been waiting for the moment

That I don't

I won't even really react

On Monday

Because he's fired

He's been fired for a while

Thank you. I kind of like that.
Matt Nagy with quirky, cool sayings, right to the bitter end. You know what, though? Matt Nagy, I think he gets most of his motivational quotes from just random shit posters that he sees at Target.
They seem like something that you would get with your first apartment. The Live, Laugh, Love collection by Matt Nagy.
He gets them from the calendar, the peel every day. I don't think he even has one off.
It's not the calendar, it's just like shit that's on a wall in the most unoriginal person's house. He takes, you gotta find inspiration somewhere, I guess.
Well, that's being himself. He's being you.
He needs to be him, not be you. Or maybe his you is just not good enough.

Yeah, no, it's not.

Be someone else.

See you, Matt Nagy.

There was at one point he was a good coach,

and then the double doink broke his brain.

You know what?

I mean, he was a good coach with Mitch Trubisky.

He won NFL Coach of the Year.

Yeah.

Remember that.

Mitch Trubisky and Matt Nagy had something going. Remember that because that will be a great trivia question.
2018, who won NFL Coach of the Year? Matt Nagy. That will stump you.
I was looking at Kirk's stats this year because Cousins is, you know, he's the stat god. He was one of the top five quarterbacks in most things that you would keep track of besides wins and losses.
Things you'd collect. Things that you would look at and be like, oh, those numbers look big.

Right.

Kirk Cousins is, without a doubt, like a top 10,

maybe top five guy in some of those categories.

I think I figured out his problem, though,

because they lost a lot of games where he played well,

statistically played well.

I think he's just too good,

and I think that he scores too fast sometimes and then puts his defense in a position to lose. Kirk needs to get a little bit worse at playing if he wants to be truly good.
Okay. So I'm just saying, like, you could make the argument that the season that he had this year is statistically better than the season that Brett Favre had when he was lights out in Minnesota.
Got it. So it's got to be somebody else's fault but Kirk's.
He's got to be a little bit worse. He's got to be a little bit worse so you don't put your defense in a position to be much worse.
Yeah. Mike Zimmer's gone? Yeah, he's gone.
He's gone. I don't think he wants – he'll probably fire himself if they don't do it.
Yeah, it feels like that. I think they caught him taking a picture with the defensive coordinator on the sideline, and someone was like, why would you do that? He's like, oh, we've never taken a picture together.
It's like, what? Does Zimmer strike you as a guy that does it for the gram? Yeah, it's like going through your grandmother's heirlooms and stuff. Like, what are you doing? Oh, no, no, no.
She's just moving to an apartment where they have a nurse 24- right it's not a big deal he um he's definitely aged a lot while he's been in minnesota how long he's been there five years six years way longer than that i feel like it's it feels like longer he is um i would have guessed he aged he aged worse than presidents do yeah started in 2014 so seven years seven years this is his eighth i don't know how you count the years are always tough when you like do the seasons in this yeah playoffs yeah like you consider this the 2022 playoffs like shout out baseball the one thing they got right is the whole fucking thing the end of his eighth season okay all right eight years yes 15 16 19, 20, 21. There we go.
They should rearrange the entire calendar around football. So the new year should start in September.
September 1st. Or the new year should be Super Bowl.
Yeah. The next day.
I liked how you kind of patronized me a little bit there. No, I was doing it for myself, too.
No, I know. You got your swag back.
I like it. You needed your swag back.
It's good that it came into Mike Zimmer fact. Full circle.
Exactly. No, no.
You saw him. He kind of was like, you fucking idiot.
You don't know how to count years. No, never.
No, I like it. I liked it.
Okay. I want you to get your swag back.
All right. The Bears social media also tweeted 20 minutes ago, 10 minutes till kickoff.
I guess they scheduled for 1250 AM and not PM. Oh, that's great.
I i've been there they're getting ratioed right now shit that's awesome um okay 49ers rams an actually good game a great game we had in this game the kyle shanahan's biggest comeback as 49ers head coach and sean mcveigh's uh largest lead blown as rams coach. So it was a wild game and it all kind of spun out of control for the Rams when Sean McVay jumped into the end zone and celebrated with his team because he thought they were going to kick the shit out of the 49ers.
And the 49ers, like credit to them, they just kept running the ball. I think there was that drive.
They ran like 11 times in a row so i think it was like 10 10 times in a row and then they didn't even let jimmy g pass on their next passing down they let debo say that was yeah okay that's when so they got outscored 27 to 7 after sean mcveigh yes celebrating the end so probably should have gotten flagged if we're being honest for excessive celebration absolutely the ref kind of rigged yeah nfl rigged and then sean mcveigh made contact with the official nfl rigged nfl rigged they were they were trying to get you know what they want the rams to play in the super bowl because it's in their home stadium yeah which mr cronkey built using his own hard-earned money that's a fact i didn't pay taxes yes yes um niners though like that was they it because the Saints won. So they needed to win to get in.
They found a way. Incredible game.
I'm very nervous about the Niners because of my Cowboys future. Like the Niners are going to be a tough out.
It's pretty much if you're playing the Niners, you know, you're going to get the shit kicked out of you in terms of they're going to run the ball down your throats and they play physical on the defensive line. It's just a question of can you just wait until Jimmy G fucks up.
Jimmy G is actually a quarterback that he likes to start out really shitty. Yeah.
And then he likes to almost lose his job, and that's what really motivates him. He'll go out there and fuck around a little bit, but then when he's about to get benched is when Jimmy G is like, okay, I better figure it out.
And he started to play pretty – like he improved over the course of this game. He was looking like a competent quarterback, whereas in the first half, he looked just fucking awful.
I just can – can you visualize the Cowboys? Like close your eyes, visualize. The Niners have run the ball for 200 yards.
They've just had a drive where they ran the ball. They took an entire quarter.
They ran like 17 plays, 15 of them in the runs. And Mike McCarthy's drooling a little bit down his face, and he's like, I don't know what to do.
I'm a little fucked up when it comes to envisioning this game because I think with the uniform combination, it's such a classic combo. I can't see one team just getting manhandled.
I feel like it's going to be a good game. Also, I like the Cowboys' defense a lot.
I don't think that they can get pushed around like the Rams can. Yeah, but I feel like the Niners just do it to everyone.
I mean, the fact that the Niners were down 17, and obviously they got that field goal before halftime. But it's rare you see a team that's down 17 or down 14 at the time being like, no, we're going to keep running the ball and running the ball and running the ball.
And it doesn't matter. They didn't change who they were.
They can do it. I think they can run the ball on anybody with any running back.
That part doesn't really matter. They didn't have Trent Williams today either, and they were still able to impose their will.
Getting him back is going to be big. we talked about this week one or week two when we said that we should give an award this year for the x factor of the year yep remember that when we're talking about Corderell Patterson yep I feel like it's a two-person race right it's it's Corderell himself and then Debo Debo so you got we maybe we can give two awards one where it's like Debo wins the award for wide receiver.
Just give everyone a participation trophy. Wide receiver, running back, and quarterback combo.
And Corderell wins it for running back, wide receiver, kick returner. Debo Samuel wins the guy I like to watch play football the most.
He wins the award for a guy that can bail you the fuck out. Yes.
Yes. I'm just happy to that MVP Greg Kittle is in the playoffs.
So happy for him. Also, Cooper Cup won the Triple Crown, which is fucking crazy.
Deserves to be noted. He had led the league in receptions with 138.
Led the league in yards with 1,829. Led the league in touchdowns with 15.
So he should be offensive player of the year. I mean, that's insane.
To get the triple crown and he was so good and it just – he's scary, but you know who's really scary is Matt Stafford because that's – have fun, Rams fans. You are just constantly being like he's going to give up the big one.
Like, he is. What, he had three interceptions today? I think he had two.
And he had 40 touchdowns this year. And he had a really, really good year.
I think I saw a stat where he's like only the second or third guy who had. Oh, no, he was the fifth guy all time who's had 40 touchdown seasons in multiple seasons.

But he will always just give one up.

He's also the definition of he's a guy

that's constantly banged up this year.

Yep.

But he's just, you know what I mean?

Like that feeling of, well, this is like,

there'll be a moment and he will make sure

that he throws an interception in that moment,

that critical moment, and then your season's over. I'm also concerned about the Rams because they just can't run the ball.
Yeah. So if we're doing the Julian Edelman thing, special teams, probably okay.
Defense, not so much. Sometimes they can be good at defense.
Aaron Donald is a great player. Jalen Ramsey.
Vaughn Miller. Very good player.

Leonard Floyd.

You know what?

They got a lot of good players, Big Kappa.

Do they have a great team?

Nope.

Probably not.

Probably not.

And if you pause the game, like four minutes to go in the second quarter, you'd be like,

the Rams look like the Super Bowl champions.

Unfortunately, they play four quarters.

The good news for them is they're playing against the Arizona Fraudinals. Yes, let's go to them.
Although, look, they split the series this year, the Cardinals and the Rams. Right.
They're matching up again on Monday Night Football. The Cardinals lost to the Seahawks 38-30.
Do you want to talk about that game real quick? I was just going to say, my bad look, big yikes guy of the week goes to Rams fans at home because that was a 49ers home game for them. It was.
And I don't know if Cardinals fans travel to L.A. Cortez will be there.
Cortez will be on the road. Whose line is it anyway? Ooh.
I'm going to say pick them. I'm going to say Rams.
I'm going to go with the same as the Patriots line, minus four. I would say Rams minus two, but the actual line is Rams minus four and a half.
Oh, wow. Okay.
I might fuck around and take the Cardinals. Cardinals plus four and a half.
Cardinals defense. I mean, they got torched by the Seahawks.
And Kyler just goes from looking incredible one second to what's going on here the next. Yeah, the cards and the Rams are kind of two sides of the same coin because they've both regressed.
So it's like which team has regressed their regression the most? Well, yeah, which team started highest and then where did their regression lead them? Yeah, I feel like the Cardinals, they're the regressed kings of the NFL. Well, they regressed the most, but they also started higher than the Rams.
Are you talking about week one, or are you talking expectations going into this year? I'm talking about week one. From their high.
From their high, the Cardinals were the highest, and they regressed the most, but their regression might leave them a little higher than the Rams.

Right.

The Rams were never super, super high.

They won that one game.

They won the week three Super Bowl against the Bucs.

Yeah, against the Bucs.

So that was when they were the highest.

And I would say that they've regressed quite a bit,

but their regression has regressed.

They've looked more impressive in some of their losses recently than the Cardinals have in their losses. Right.
Although the Cardinals did beat the Cowboys. But yes, who knows with this game? I think take the points.
I think take the points. Yeah.
We'll discuss all the playoff games. Is this the last time we see Russ in a Seahawks jersey? I saw the quote.
It says he hopes to be back with the Seahawks. Depending on what Ciara says.
I just want to remind Russ that you get to decide that. You are the franchise quarterback.
It's your decision. Yeah.
100%. If you want to be back with the Seahawks, so when you say the Seahawks should actually go to him and be like, print out the ESPN bottom line where it says Russell Wilson says he hopes to be back with the Seahawks just put it on his desk and be like okay great so you're back.
You're under contract. You're back.
It's great because you hope to be back so you're back. I now think that both Pete Carroll and Russ Wilson will come back next year.
Why not? I think they're going to run it back. They can do the mental gymnastics of like, we just Russ was hurt for a month and a half.
You can do that, and you can also say, like getting a quarterback as good as Russell Wilson is very tough to do in this league. I would say it's very tough.
Getting a coach like Pete Carroll is tough to do in this league. Why don't we just try to give it another shot? The crazy part is they probably won't make any actual material changes to the rest of their team but they're just going to be like all right pete carroll and russ wilson coming back next year right good combination we feel excited about our direction yes they i'm looking at it right now their season they went one in six in the russ wilson injury weeks and i'm including i'm including when he came back and was still injured so i don't know they went one in six and then in the other weeks when he was healthy they went six and four so didn't we call the decent team didn't we also call this game like right when the seahawks were you know by the eyeball test eliminated i think we said the seahawks are going to spoil some team yeah in week seven or week 18 and they did spoil because the cardinals went from having a home game to a road game with the rams losing as well yeah and and good news if you're a cardinals fan because cliff kingsbury was asked are you concerned about the lack of urgency that your team has had recently he said well next week we're in the playoffs so i think we're going to see a higher degree of urgency beautiful so.
So there you go. And J.J.
Watt's back. J.J.
Watt is going to try to come back? No, he's back. Officially.
Oh, yes. Per J.J.
Watt. Per Ian Rappaport.
Per J.J. Watt.
He's back. I'm sure he'll be at 100%.
He will be back. Bills, Jets, anything? Josh Allen is really, really good.
Yeah. Feels like the Bills are quietly, like, getting their groove back a little bit.

Well, just, I was looking at the bracket, and I don't know.

Like, they could beat the Chiefs, right?

I'm telling you.

Didn't they beat the Chiefs this year?

Yeah, I'm telling you.

When are they playing the Chiefs?

No, yeah, they beat.

Oh, okay, sorry. Okay, yeah, you're right.
I'm just... They beat them in Sunday night, right? They could, yeah.
They could beat anyone. That's all I said, is they could.
I think that the Bills... I think they could too.
Week 5, 38, 20. The Chiefs, the Bills beat the Chiefs? Yep.
In Kansas City. Mm-hmm.
I think the Bills have quietly put together... Like, they put themselves back together to being one of those teams that's contending in the AFC.
For sure. They're in the playoffs.
I think the Bills went from being the team that everyone's talking about. Everyone in the playoffs is contending.
Now they're the team that nobody's talking about. Yeah.
Right. We've forgotten about the Bills.
That's my point. Is everyone contending in the AFC? Yeah.
Everyone that's still alive has a chance to win the Big Ben.

You think the Raiders are contending?

Are they still in the playoffs?

They are.

Then yes.

Are they the Patriots?

Yes.

Are you thinking soupy?

What are your expectations?

I'm thinking Saturday night, beat the Bills.

Worry about the game out there.

One game at a time.

Yeah.

It's going to be exciting.

Anyone can win.

It is.

Good point, Jake.

Thank you, Jake.

Good point, Jake.

Exactly. Thank you, Jake.
You want to talk about the Bills, Dolphins? I mean, the Patriots, Dolphins? I got a couple things to say about the Bills, though. Has it always been the camera angle all fucked up in Orchard Park? Yeah, I don't know.
Maybe it's too windy? No, it's like 20 feet lower than any other camera angle. Yeah, they do have a low camera.
A camera very low camera angle there and the other note that i had in this game was how how does josh allen not have a nickname yet looks good in shorts he does look good in shorts we need a nickname for josh i think i think i think his name is fun to just say josh and it's quick yeah yeah it's josh allen yeah i was i was coming up empty when i was trying to think of nicknames i to think of nicknames. You can't force it.
But when I saw him make that one throw where he was Matrix-style parallel to the ground, just basically wheeled the ball into the end zone, I was like, that's a magic man right there. Yeah, but how many quarterbacks actually have nicknames at this day and age? Not that many.
Not that many. We'll let it come to us.

Yeah, I don't think you can do Magic

Man. The Magic Man.

That was, what's his name?

Fucking former Packers

quarterback.

Right before Favre. Blake Portals.

Yeah, yeah.

Blake is the Magic Man.

Yeah, Blake Portals is who I was thinking of. The boat.
Yeah, like that one comes naturally. He's the boat.
Yeah. But like Lamar doesn't.
Don Magikowski? Yeah, yeah. Right before Favre.
How about Super Bowl champion Josh Allen? The Packers just, whatever. Yeah, Super Bowl champion Josh Allen.
Although, Hank, would you say that you're not allowed at the Super Bowl festivities if the Bills win? Or, you know, we're not going to go to Buffalo, but the festivities of being happy for Josh Allen? Yeah, that's fair. I think you've excluded yourself at this point.
I'm fine with that. Yeah.
I think that's fair, right? Yeah. Billy, where do you stand as a Jets super fan? If we didn't play in the playoffs, it'd be a little bit different.

But, you know, when you've got to take out – I have nothing against –

again, I'll say it again, nothing against the Bills,

nothing against Bills fans, but you're in our way

and you're going to get run over.

That's just how it goes.

It doesn't matter what team it was.

If Josh wins the Super Bowl and then he comes in and he does his –

you know, he probably goes on Fallon and then he comes here. I would expect you to be pouting the entire time.
Nah. Come on.
Eh. I think you got to.
In a wild card game. Can you give us that? No.
Half a pout? We'll see. You're pouting right now.
I'm not. Just extend this pout.
PFT telling me what my emotions are. He's not pouting.
Mansplaining my emotions back to me. I'm not pouting.
Listen, I'm not going to talk about the Super Bowl. I'm not going to talk about the divisional round.
I'm not going to talk about the championship round. Wild card round.
That's all the focus is. One game at a time.
How excited are you that it's Saturday night? Very excited. That's awesome.

Yeah.

Especially because if you lose, people forget about it.

Yep.

That's actually a very nice bonus.

I don't have time to sleep on it, get my takes ready.

Yes.

It's good.

It's good stuff.

You never want to be...

Although we played the Colts on Saturday night.

That sucked.

You also played...

Didn't you play the Titans on Saturday night when Mike Vrabel figured out how to delete

three minutes of time from the Colts?

Yeah, so maybe not.

Yeah, but you never want to be the last game on Sunday. No.
And now, obviously, it's different with the Monday Night Football. But the last game on Sunday is usually the leading game in terms of what people are talking about.
For sure. Billy, where do you stand on Zach Wilson and your Jets? The offseason will bring many truths.
And Zach Wilson has gone five weeks in a row without throwing an interception he um he also just absolutely loves to drift 30 yards directly backfield and then throw the ball out about yeah he also extending the play did he have like 90 yards today look he was balling he's got no one on interceptions no interceptions no interceptions wait there's one of those weeks Mike White? No. Remember Mike White? That was legendary.
That was so much fun. That little stretch.
That was weird. That was a fun Mike White stretch.
It was weird. Mike White played good for like a half, then Joe Flacco's name got thrown around a little bit.
7 for 20 for 87 yards. But no interceptions.
He was balling. He was balling.
He was. He had all-supporting cast.
What happened? Everyone was hurt. Got it.
I mean, yeah. I still don't think you can judge any rookie quarterback.
You got to give him year two. Year two, if he progresses, that will tell you everything.
Exactly. Putting Justin Fields in that camp.
Putting Zach Wilson. Putting Trevor Lawrence.
Look what happened to Tua this offseason. He didn't throw a pick six today.
Yeah, Tua was on fire. Tua.
So let's talk about that game. I have one thing that will make you happy.
Yeah. Talk about last game on Sunday, 2009.
That was the Rodgers strip sack game against the Cardinals. Oh, yes.
That was awesome. 51 to 45.
That was an awesome game. Ended the weekend.
Wow. Yeah.
2018 was the double doink. That was Saturday? No, that was Sunday, the last game of the weekend.
Yeah. Yeah.
Okay. Dolphins, Patriots.
The Dolphins finish the craziest stat of all time.

They go 9-0 against teams with starting quarterbacks

with an 0 in their last name and 0-8 against teams

with a starting quarterback without an 0 in their last name.

It makes no sense.

I wish we had gotten this NFL rigged beforehand

so we could have bet accordingly.

Symbolism will be their downfall.

They did it. Expect us to an on.
So they also finally beat a good team. Yes.
Well, they did beat them week one. They beat them week one.
What's up with Brian Flores being the only coach that can beat Bill Belichick consistently? Yeah, they kind of have your number right now. Just any Dolphins coach.
Yeah, but in particular, what is he, 4-2? He did coach there.

Yeah.

Season's sweet.

Jalen Waddle had the rookie record for receptions.

Any other thoughts from this game, Hank?

No, we're on to Buffalo.

Regular season's over.

The real season begins.

Did that reporter lady ask him what his New Year's resolution was? I'll tell you this much.

No one is like, no one's thinking the Pats are going to win this game based off the game against the Dolphins, which I like to be in that spot. Right.
It's a shame they lost to the Titans. Obviously, the whole game plan would have changed.
He lost to the Jags. That's the shame.
Yeah, the London game. Yeah.
The Dolphins, yet again, are the team that everyone's going to talk about next year being like, look how they finished the season. Get to some protection.
And I don't know if you – Look out. Yeah.
I don't really know if you answered a lot of the questions. Brian Flores came to the year? At the midway point this season was a disaster.
They had all those picks last year. Yeah.
Jalen Waddell's awesome. Yeah.
He is awesome. He's fun.
So he broke Anquan Bolden's record for – I feel like every rookie wide receiver is just breaking every record. Yeah, Jamar Chase.
I guess that's just what the NFL is now. Yeah.
But I always thought that that Anquan Bolden record would be, and I guess it did stand for a really long time. Yeah.
But that was like an incredible season that he had. Yep.
Especially considering how slow he was coming out of the draft. But yeah, Waddle also has the coolest new touchdown celebration.
By far. More people should be doing the Waddle and fewer people should be doing the Gritty.
Because you can get injured doing the Gritty. Adam Schefter.
Shout out Adam Schefter. All-time move getting injured doing that.
Wait, did he not? He did break the record, right? Looking right now, it says he's got 99. Maybe he didn't.
Maybe I have my facts wrong. Can you look that up for me jake that would be embarrassing saints falcons do you think drew breezes is a little bit happy oh of course of course he's really happy he he finally gets to be like hey you remember how bad i sucked with my fucked up shoulder and 19 broken ribs i'm still better yeah i'm still better turns out tays maybe, and Taysom Hill has been playing better recently, but maybe having a quarterback whose job it is to run into the most violent members of the defense repeatedly during a game isn't really the best possible game plan for his longevity.
Yes, I'd agree. So, yeah.
Oh, he did. He did.
He broke the record. 102 receptions.
I looked it up. Last time the Saints missed the playoffs was 2016.
They made it eight out of the last 12 years that Drew Brees was there. He's got to be so pumped.
I mean, the real question is, do the Saints get the one seed overall if Jameis Winston doesn't get injured? Yes. I think definitely.
I think they definitely do. Man, I hope Jameis gets the job.
I really do. I mean, who else could you possibly bring in to be better than Jameis? I might draft someone.
I don't know. I don't know.
Yeah. Give Jameis another shot at it.
Yes. Because they were a really good team at the start of the year.
Yeah. And until the end, they were the team.
I think if you had to list the teams that didn't make the playoffs, that teams wouldn't want to see in the playoffs, the Saints would be the top of the list. I kept looking up this year, and somehow the Saints were still in the playoff picture.
Yes. For the last six weeks, I just constantly expected that they would be completely out of the equation for making the playoffs, and they almost did it.
They needed Kyle Shanahan's greatest comeback and Sean McVay's greatest lead blown to make the playoffs, to miss out on the playoffs. So they were that close.
And then the Falcons, I mean, they were the best bad team in the world. The perfect.
They were the dividing line between good and bad. They were incredible.
The thin blue line of the NFL. An incredible team in terms of point differential.
I'm pretty sure that they finished almost dead last in point differential. And no, wait.
I'm sorting it real quick. I just want to look at this.
The Falcons finished fifth from last for point differential. They had seven wins.
Like the teams around them in the point differential won three games or four games. And.
And they've somehow managed to win seven. Yeah.
Because they love getting the shit kicked out of them by great teams. Yep.
Yep. All right.
Last game. Bucks.
I did see that Matt Ryan is going to stick around next year. Okay.
According to Arthur Smith. There we go.
He said, that was part of the deal when I took this job is I won at least two years of Matt Ryan. Yep.
I mean, if they get Calvin Ridley back and they draft well, I don't know. They could maybe make going from being, they could go from being the best worst team to the worst best team.
Well, you could make the argument that a team that has that bad of a point differential that still manages to win seven games, they're probably doing a lot of small things wrong, or small things right besides scoring points. Like beating the teams they should beat.
Beating every team that you should beat. And then if you just increase your, if you decrease your points differential by 50 next year off that, you're probably winning 10, 11 games.
Yep. Perfect.
It's that simple. Just score 50 more points.
You got it. Last game.
Before we get to this next game. Hey, what's going on

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Bucks, Panthers, Tom Brady is 44 years old, and he had the most passing yards of his career. Yep.
43 touchdowns. Second most touchdowns of his career.
It's insane. And some of the passes he was throwing today are not like washed passes.
No. Just incredible passes.
It's crazy. It is crazy what he's doing.
It's also crazy that the Panthers continue to wear black jerseys because they went 0-7 in their black uniforms this year. Here's a fun stat.
They're 3-21 since 2018 wearing their black jerseys. Wow.
Just stop wearing those jerseys. Someone's got to stop them.
Stop them. it matt rule uh everyone gets a smock all right

any i mean i'm very excited for the playoffs we'll obviously talk playoffs all week

yeah bob sagatide that sucked r.i.p. r.i.p.
one one that really did suck one other silence real

quick okay okay one other thought i had about tom brady going into this game was just that this

this game pretty much existed for tom to try to get all of his players paid off their various incentives. Yes.
There's no quarterback that knows exactly what has to happen, and he can go out there and still win a game and completely dominate another team while completing the exact correct amount of passes to Rob Gronkowski, Mike Evans, etc., etc. Antonio Brown really fucked up.
Well, I actually do think that there's a chance that he thought that the season was over last week. Yes, yes, absolutely.
Yeah, no, Gronk got his seven. He needed seven.
And I think he got his yards. I think you could tell Tom Brady going into any game like, all right, you're allowed to complete six.
You have to complete six passes to Mike Evans, seven to Rob Gronkowski,

and you have to attempt over 42 passes today.

But you have to hit those other numbers perfectly on the nose.

I think that Brady could still probably win a majority of his games

by double digits doing those things.

Yes, it'd probably be fun for him.

New challenge.

Any other playoff things before we go to Football Guy of the Week

and Who's back the week?

I'm just reading it again one last time.

Week 18 was awesome.

Week 18 was awesome.

We think about week 19 next year.

Week 19?

Add another game.

You want to fucking do it?

Let's get crazy with it.

We want to fucking do it?

All right, here we go.

Hold on one last time.

The NFC and AFC playoffs are going to be so exciting because anybody can win. I can't wait until next weekend.
It's beautiful. Verbal retweet.
It's beautiful. It's beautiful.
RIP Bob Saget. RIP Bob Saget.
I feel like I moved on too flippantly from that. That's okay.
He was a very funny guy. Yes.
I'm very sad about that. He's America's dad.
Yeah. Yeah, Danny Tanner.
Okay. Let's go to Football Guy of the Week and wrap up the show.
Billy, Football Guy of the Week. This is the last Football Guy of the Week.
I think that with the playoffs, you'll probably run out of material. Yeah.
So this will be it. This is the last Football Guy of the Week.
Did you see, by the way, Nick Saban's cool guy jacket? Yes. I liked it.
Did you like it? What's he wearing? He was wearing a cool leather jacket getting off the plane. And Nick Saban, it was like an Indiana Jones jacket.
He doesn't really dress up, but he did give us this quote, which I loved. Hold on.
I'll play it for everyone here. Okay.
I think the most important thing is you got to keep the main thing the main thing. Yep.
That's it. You got to keep the main thing the main thing yep that's it you gotta keep the main thing the main thing don't overthink it keep the main thing the main thing the most important thing is to keep the main thing the main thing so I said this privately to you guys but I feel like I should tell the AWL's this too just in case I had a premonition cause I had a dream I dreamt about the national championship game and it was a very clear vivid, vivid dream.
I never remember my dreams. The final score was 30-21 Alabama.
So I'm going to bet that exact same. I'm going to bet the spread at an alternate line at 11.
I feel good about it. I don't know if I can trust my own brain sometimes.
But I feel like when I turn my brain off, that's when I do my best thinking. You've got to also remember you're on Billy's Pills.
Iy's pills i'm on billy's pills that could have affected that's that's another fire fest that i've got going on yeah your sleep could have who knows what's happening like you're my body is literally under the influence at all times billy has destroyed my body my prostate is just out of control right now i'm peeing every 20 minutes and billy does billy told me that he might have given me cancer from his pills. Yeah.
I hope not. That's cool.
Fun little wrinkle one weekend. Yeah.
What's the worst could happen? Oh, prostate cancer. By far, one of the worst cancers.
My job was to raise his testosterone, and in large, it's a sign that your testosterone is pretty high right now. That I'm pissing more? No, because your prostate's gigantic.
My prostate's got gains, too. It's swole.
Everything's increasing. All right, Football Guys of the Week.
Congratulations to last week's penultimate 2021 season Football Guy of the Week, Joe Burrow. He just didn't have his name played.
Football Guy, playing for the name on the front. Our first nominee for this week is Robert Quinn, outside linebacker, Chicago Bears.
When asked about his courtesy towards the media, Robert Quinn quotes what he says is a familiar saying. A man's got two things, his word and his nuts, and you don't want to lose either.
That's three things, though. Unless you're Lance Armstrong.
Correct. Number two is John Brown, equinamious and Amon Ross, St.
Brown's father, who was just sporting his dope half-and-half jersey, which was actually sick because the... Yeah, it wasn't like a traditional half-and-half, where it's just split down the middle.
He had, like, the breastplate was Lions, and the sleeves were Packers. So credit to him for doing something new with an old...
Like we saw, you know, the first one I remember was obviously Brady Quinn's sister who was dating AJ Hawk, right? Did I have that right? Yep. And she had the half and half Notre Dame, Ohio State.
He did something cool with it. So I think that the way they had it set up was John was wearing one of the jerseys and then his wife was wearing a different one.
So they took two jerseys and and they cut out the middle part of it, and then they swapped, and then they stitched it together. Very cool.
Very cool. Wild, too, that he was watching both his sons.
He is like an all-time great namer of his children. Yes.
Equinemius and Amon Ra. Yes.
Our third nominee is Hunter Lupke. Lupke.
Lupke. Lupke, fullback, North Dakota State North Dakota State.
Basically, he had a wide open path to the end zone on a run, and instead of just running in the wide open path to get to the end zone and score a touchdown, he decided to avert his route to the end zone to run someone over to get to the end zone. That's the old Nelson Muntz from The Simpsons.
Making sure everybody this motherfucker hunter lepke i love him but i hate him he's the majestic beast that's what they call him which is an all-time fullback name and he he single-handedly destroyed jmu in the semi-finals after we didn't include him in the low man awards that was an oversight on our part in retrospect like yes he should have been on that list but yeah north dakota State, nobody was beating them. He also leg dabbed in the end zone.
Yeah. Oh, okay.
That's pretty cool. Flexibility.
Our fourth nominee is Jonathan Smith, the head coach at Oregon State. So after this season, he just cartoon-style dynamite box, like with the lever, blew up his stadium.
Very cool. Demolished it.
Very cool. They got a new stadium coming in Corvallis.
Was it actually him pushing the lever? Yes. Or was it like a fake one that they told him was going to blow it up? No, I think it was him.
It was the whole video. Straight up, I didn't even know that's how they do it anymore.
It was very cool. I think that's one of those things that they can't even...
Technology, it's sometimes nice to know that technology can't even fix the Bugs Bunny TNT box. It's just nice, you know what I mean? To know that that still happens.
And don't anyone ruin it for me if that's not how it works. And our old school football guy of the week is a story of the Patriots general manager Pat Sullivan in 1986.
Got hit in the face by Raiders linebacker Matt millin with his helmet and you know it's a better visual check it out on the blog but this general manager just ran on the field to talk shit and got absolutely pummeled by this raiders linebacker yeah matt millin continues to be the coolest guy ever yeah he's just sitting in keep him away from your front office he's sitting in a barn somewhere just chopping wood for no reason in a flannel at all times. Probably just wrestling a cow.
Yeah, thinking about wide receivers he wants to draft. Okay, good job, Billy.
Before we get to who's back of the week, PFT, you got one last ad? Yeah. Hockey is on.
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We got who's back of the week. Hank, who's back of the week? My who's back of the week is Clay Thompson.
Yes. Overshadowed by Sunday Night Football.
He was overshadowed by Sunday Night Football, although they did a pretty heavy ceremony. A lot of people were paying his respects.
Some people, there were some sabermetrics that came out about Bitcoin. I'm trying to pull them up real quick.
Okay. You can just filibuster for a second.
Yeah. Who's a better pure shooter, Clay or Steph? When you throw the word pure in there, you can literally make up anything that you want.
Yeah, you can. I'm going to still go with Steph.
It was crazy because it was Clay's first game in their new arena. That was kind of a fun thing.
Is it really? Yeah. Because they opened it, I think, last year.
He hasn't played in two years. He's been out.
Yeah. He's been on a little Michael Thomas type.
It's crazy. It sucks.
I love Klay. I really do.
It's crazy. We talked about Rosillo on Friday.
Let me know, Hank, whenever you're ready. But we talked about it with Rosillo on Friday.
Got it. The best free agent acquisition is the Warriors getting clay thompson back him up off off waivers impact this was just so yeah obviously a lot of people were excited clay's coming back one of the best pure shooters back in the game yeah maybe the best you know hard injury people are just happy for the game uh and one former uh esports contributor of this show uh brought to the point that if you bought 50 bitcoin the moment clay thompson got hurt in game six of the finals and sold it this morning at 9 30 a.m on the day he makes return you made a 1.67 million dollar profit damn so it's crazy how time works yeah and bitcoin has gone up you could just be like bitcoin's gone up no it's just fun you know it's always a fun thing to do it's like who's the former shoving in everyone's face like, ha-ha, you could have had all this money.
Who's the former esports contributor? Oh, we don't say his name. Yeah.
To this show? Well, you ducked him in a fight, so we don't say his name. Oh, that motherfucker.
Yeah, yes, yes. I didn't duck shit.
Okay, thank you, Hank. Good job.
Good who's back. Thank you.
Clay Thompson. Back.
PFT. My who's back of the week is Todd Haley.
Yes. Todd Haley.
He's been gone for too long. We finally got him verified on Twitter.
That was a major win for some of us out there. But he's coaching in the USFL.
They announced their coaches. Big names would be Kevin Sumlin.
Okay. He's going to coach for Houston.
And then Todd Haley. Obviously, he's coaching Tampa Bay.
He's already gone out and made an offer to Antonio Brown

to give him a roster spot on the Tampa Bay Bandits.

So when is this?

It's never going to happen, probably.

When are they supposed to be playing?

I think March or April.

I'm booked with March Madness.

The only way that this succeeds is give Trump a team again

and then do hard knocks on Donald Trump's team.

Yeah, and then it'll be like April 16th. April 16th? right after march day after tax day perfect okay uh masters masters that's also like right around when nba and nhl playoffs start all i want i think they have one week i think i think they have one week one that i'll that i'll pay attention yeah all i want from this league is to give me a very exciting week one and maybe have one sort of new technology that they debut that gets instantly swallowed up by the NFL next season.
Yes. That's what we're looking for.
I also like that. All right, my who's back of the week is game of the years.
I'm taking Georgia. Even though I dream? This is such a mistake.
I dream. Billy Pills, I don't believe it.

What about the first game of the year, Big Cat?

Billy's putting pills into your brain to give us false flags and lead us astray.

And ruin the podcast?

And bankrupt us, yeah.

I just got to say something, Big Cat.

I haven't said this to you off the record, but I've been thinking about it for a while.

Uh-oh.

I was with you on the first game of the year.

Well, no, you weren't.

Pit.

Okay.

All right. All I'm going to say is that after the Georgia game of the year, you've been chasing.
You have been chasing. No, I won my game of the year.
These are not real games of the year. No, they are.
You're addicted to calling things game of the year. I love Georgia.
No, you watch the game of the year. You're 1-1.
No. And you knew you had to get a game of the year in before the year ended.
So you came up with the game of the year. And now you're coming up with this game of the year because you're addicted to games of the year.
Hold on. This isn't actually a game of the year.
You just want to call out a game of the year. Time out.
You're right about it. And I believed you with Georgia and I won't do it again.
Hold on. Time out.
You're right about the Michigan game. That was the total, like, it's the last day of the year.
Utah, I loved all bowl season. It was my mortal lock when we did the Pick'em episode.
A mortal lock, which is different from a game of the year. Yes, it is.
It's on Pick'em. I made a mortal lock of Utah three weeks before the Rose Bowl.
I then upgraded it to my game of the year. Yeah, it's thrilling to have game of the year.
Wait, is this your second Georgia game of the year? No, that was last year. This is my second game of the year this year.
Okay, got it. It's thrilling.
Sorry. Sue me.
I love it. I love how Hank just explained the bit.
Big Cat, I'm a little worried because you see that more than one game of the years, even though it's supposed to be one game per year. I believe.
Sorry. It was real to me, and it no longer is.
Well, because you missed the first game of the year. I guess.
And you missed the first game of the year again this year. 2022 is going to be the year of game of the years.
I'm just saying it right now. What year is it in the lunar calendar coming up? Is it the pig this year? I don't know.
2022 is going to be the year of the game of the years. Georgia minus two and a half.
I've decided. This is breaking news.
Game of the year. I'm rolling with PFT in his dream.
There we go. Great.
I'm so excited for my game of the year. I have a dream, baby.
I have a stat for you. I have a stat.
Roll Tide. I have a stat.
Nick Saban. No one believed in us.
Ball sack lives on Kirby Smart's face. Alabama Georgia will be the fifth time teams have met twice in the same season with both meetings being AP top five matchups.
The loser of the first game won the rematch in all four previous instances. It's tough to beat Kirby Smart twice in a year.
I'm just going to bet the over. They always say that.
You're in my head. You're in my head.
There you go. That's fine.
I respect that. But let me have my game of the year.
Go for it. Could you imagine going 2-0 in game of the year? I don't want to sound like a hater.
I'm just worried about your own. I'm just trying to make sure you don't get in too deep.
Or Marty won an own game of the year. Yeah, you're stuck in a hole you can't get out of.
And yes, if I lose this Game of the Year, I will not have Game of the Year records in my Twitter button. That's that easy.
People will ask for it and I'll say it's not there anymore. But then you'll have a Game of the Year on, like, Friday just to go 2-1.
No, no. Wait, Saturday maybe because it's the playoffs.
Saturday, possibly. Undecided.
You also get to do a game of the year in any sport, too.

You can have your NBA game of the year, your college basketball game, your ACC game of

the year.

If I want to do 365 game of the years, I'll fucking do it.

Okay?

It's the year of the games.

It's the year of the game of the years.

Georgia minus two and a half, game of the year.

I'm so excited.

Billy.

Real quick, Chinese New Year, it's going to be the year of the tiger.

Oh, that's for a tiger just going out and getting the game of the years you know what a Tiger is it's a big cat yes it's my year it is literally my year wait it's also Tiger as in like Tiger Woods too right right and what did he win game of the years all the time Masters ever heard of it that's a game of the year round of the year boom just don't let me get behind a buick okay my who's back is the manning cast curse it is officially undefeated on the year did roger goodell die no fuck but uh aaron rogers went on week 17 and the packers lost the lions so yeah yeah week one travis kelsey yeah that's true no russell Wilson. They all lost the week after they appeared.
Okay. Are they doing a Manning cast this weekend? For the Monday night game? I doubt it.
It's the end of the year. They should have had one on Saturday.
No Manning cast. They're doing one of those mega casts where it's like every ESPN channel is like.
You'd be a psycho to watch the Manning cast during a playoff game. You've got to soak in a playoff game.
Definitely. Who are they getting for the megacast, though? You've got to bring Urban Meyer back.
No, I was talking about tomorrow's championship game. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Got it. It's one where Bill Wallen's on peyote.
Yeah, right. And they just roll everyone out.
I'll have to double- check on the playoffs. I actually like watching that one.

When they get all the coaches in the room.

When it's like eight people.

That's what they'll have tomorrow, I'm pretty sure.

And half of them are still hoping they get big-time jobs

so they're just not giving away their secrets.

Oh, Jimbo Fisher in the film room.

Oh, there we go.

Let's get Coach O in there, too.

Jimbo knows them both.

Okay, Jake, your who's back of the week.

Well, my who's back of the week, kind of on the same topic, is A-Rod.

Yes.

Baseball is doing the same thing with Sunday Night Baseball,

and A-Rod and Michael K.

I can't wait.

Will be on the ESPN2 cast.

It's going to be so good.

The one thing I always say about baseball is I wish there was a second broadcast

where I could hear people talk more.

Well, no.

Listen.

The sequel's always better than the original.

Especially when you have a personality like Alex Rodriguez. No, this is good.
I could listen to him read the phone book. This is going to be really good.
I wonder which guest they'll get on every week. Just Ben Affleck? Just have him and Ben? Watch it.
Watch it. Relax.
Just talking to chicks? A little alternative way to watch Sunday Night Baseball yeah I'm sure it'll be great it's gonna be awesome and that's all I'll say about that yeah good job Jake thanks Benchmob who's on this week Will Wade oh nice you guys are in LSU Big Cat's coming on Thursday okay all right nice nice good we'll Nice. Nice.
Good. We'll wait on today's episode Thursday.

Big Cat's talk Wisconsin.

Are you worried about that? I'm not worried. I've been transparent the whole time.
I was wrong in the beginning of the season. A lot of hate.
No, Jake, you were right at the time. Fair.
But he could have been a thought leader. He could have.
He could have dragged his nuts across Joe Linardi's face. That's not the point of bracketology.
Bracketology, you're a weatherman. You're saying what temperature it is outside right now, not what you think it's going to be in a week.
Right. Yeah, but the preseason one, you can kind of take some shots.
Yeah. Oh, well.
That's okay. Learn a lesson.
Yeah, you could have dunked on Joe Linardi. Could have.
That would have probably been your big break. It's all right.
Actually, you already had your big break when you came in with those clammy hands and you shook our hands with the suit.

Didn't hurt.

Yeah, that was great.

That was still power move.

Jake coming in with a suit.

All right, numbers.

You mean 8.

44. 22.

Everything's back in there.

Give me two 8s.

22.

As in 88.

You mean 8, 8, 8?

As in 88 degrees.

The pool.

The pool.

That's the pool where we hung out with Tom Kennedy.

Danny.

39.

I thought it too.

I thought it was.

39.

Love you guys.

Dinosaurs are sick.

Billy.

Come on, Billy Billy keep that in today's my day to find you Shining away I'll be coming for your lover, Kate Shining away I'll be the answer of you We'll see you next time. I'm free It's no better to be safe than sorry

Take on me

Make me alone

I'll be gone

Into your dream Thank you. The things that we say Is it life Just a pain

Memories

You're all the things

I've got to remember

Shine it away

I'll be coming for you

Anyway

Shine it away

I'll be coming for you

Anyway

Take on me Take anyway. Take on me.

Take me up.

I'll be gone.

You'll see. I am