NFL Week 7 Recap, Fastest 2 Minutes & The Bengals Are For Real

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We're going to recap every game, the big storylines. Maybe not the best week, but we're going to make the most of it.
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Welcome to part of my take presented by MeUndies. Today is Monday, October 25th, week seven.
In the meadowlands where son of Sam Darnold was seeing ghosts and talking to his dog and got locked up by a judge Daniel Jones and me catch me a football Mr. Jones believe in me help me believe in anything because I want to be someone who believes who believes that was our good friends the counting crows Jabril Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Giants are fighting through scar tissue to get in the win column as Sam Donald saw the football in his hands and said, Give it away, give it away, give it away now.
Giants 25, Panthers 3. Down south to Miami, where to Alura, to Alura, yay.
The Dolphins remain a one-hit wonder as, come on, Shaheen, and the Finns go down. Russell Gage against the machine said, fuck you, I won't do what you quarter-ail me.
And Dolphins fans want to light themselves on fire like a Buddhist monk after watching this game. The Falcons, 30.
The Dolphins, 28. Some spread.
in Foxborough where Mac Man Jones got into a fist fight and didn't need security to step

in around the Jets this time, Mike Whiteman can't jump, has his owner Woody Harrelson Johnson looking for the nearest ledge. Brandon, you gotta know when to hold him.
Know when to bold in. As he and Kendrick Rogers Bourne lit up the scoreboard all day.
Robert,-la-la, wait till I get my money right. Can't tell the Patriots nothing as the Jets continue to live in a beautiful, dark, twisted fantasy.
Donda is star the Jets offense. Patriots 54, Jets 13.
Bumble, rumblings, tumble, bumble. In the frozen tundra, the Washington football team sang, I was going to win the game, but then I got high.
I was going to reach out and break the plane, but then I got high. Now we're two and five, but I know why.
Why, boom? Yeah, because I got high, because I got high, because I got high, Nicky. Packers 24, the Washington football team 10.
To Baltimore, where Jamar Chasebook and the Bengals are rebranding into a positive for society as coach Mark Zuckerberg Taylor is looking thick on his surfboard riding the

wave to the top of the AFC North.

Save the drama for Izama as the Bengals tight end scored twice and said talk to the hands.

Papa John Harbaugh has to work the word bungles out of his vocabulary as he'll be eating sad

Urban Meyer pizzas after this one.

Bengals 41, Ravens 17.

Huh? Huh? Huh? Huh? The Bengals? The Bengals? Huh? In Nashville, where Mike that shit Vray, that shit Vray, that shit Vrayble has the Titans balling so hard motherfuckers want to find him. AJ Tiddy's Brown caught eight sets of balls, and this loss is tough to swallow for the Chiefs.
The Chiefs losing back 24 shows you that Chad Hiddy Given Sunday, anything can happen. The Titans 27.
The Chiefs 3. The Bengals in Tampa Bay, and let me be the first to congratulate a young Tom Brady on his 600th touchdown pass.
Congrats on the 6th. Leonardner Fournette broke the plane too soon, boom.
While an equipment manager went up to a fan and said give me back my bullets. As for Chicago, they call him Justin.
Why do the Bears even take the field? Because man, do these guys fucking suck. Bucks 38, Bears 3.
Huh? Huh? In Las In Las Vegas, where Jalen, I will let you down. I will make you hurt.
Fumbled the ball like he had nine-inch nails. The backfield produced for the Raiders as both Josh Jacob Jingleheimer-Schmidt and Kenyon Achy-Drake-Hart both found the end zone.
In the other backfield, shipping up to Boston Scott came in for the departed Miles Sanders who might be needing a wooden leg soon. A game of Italian or pervert broke out between Rich Pasekia and Nick Sirianni and its Eagles fans hoping to remove their coach from office for his perverted use of personnel week in and week out.
The Raider 33, the Eagles 22. We finish out West in Los Angeles where Steely Dan Campbell called for a fake punt then said do it again as the Lions showed up to do dirty work against Aaron Donald Fagan in the Rams defense.
But ultimately, we're only able to score, hey, 19 points. Anderson Cooper Cup and Van Jones Jefferson were CNN a lot of passes, and it's not fake news these Rams are good.
Sarah Jalen Ramsey proved that he did do the reading over the course of the 60 minutes, adding a crucial pick to seal the win. Rams 28, Lions 19.
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Okay, we're going to start, as always, with the Sunday night football game. Hank, weather, do you think it exists? Would you like to apologize to me from Thursday's podcast? The over did hit.
There was chaos with some of those plays. The Colts beat the 49ers.
The Colts seem to have realized that their best offense is to just get past interferences down the field. It's a very smart offense.
And wait for Jimmy. Joe Blacko offense.
Yeah, and then wait for Jimmy G to turn the ball over, and that worked out perfectly. So the Colts are kind of, I'm going to say it, they're rolling a little bit.
The Colts have

looked good for the last couple weeks. Carson Wentz

had an all-time doy-doy play

today. Awesome interception.

An interception that Jameis Winston

would have been proud to call his own in his prime.

It was vintage Jameis,

and he was going to get sacked

from behind. It was like a wounded duck that he threw

from a horizontal

body position. Went directly to a linebacker, I think.
and then he had another one that hit a cornerback in the face yeah no he he Carson Wentz thinks that there every play he can make something work and I actually I like that about him and and I know Colts fans would be like he's only thrown two picks this year uh and that's true he's only thrown two picks this year uh but he he does have that hilarious like i can get out of this i can make a play here i'm maybe being sacked i'm on the ground but i can still make a play but the colts win a sloppy gross terrible game in um santa clara which like it was some of those plays were just so funny like we had the fumble and then we had the the kick that somehow wasn't a safety that was a touchback just chaos everywhere with that fucking game yeah they kicked it backwards apparently if it's a punt you have to pick it up and have like it's like a reception you have to have possession and walk with it otherwise it's still considered the act of the punt when it trickles into the end zone um i don't like that. It felt like a reception.
You have to have possession and walk with it. Otherwise, it's still considered the act of the punt

when it trickles

into the end zone.

I don't like that.

It felt like a safety to me.

That's my big problem with it.

It felt like a safety

and it wasn't.

So,

I don't know if they're going

to change that rule.

Probably not

because they're stupid.

But Hank,

yeah,

Hank doesn't believe in weather.

Doesn't believe in wind.

I was proven completely right.

You're a weather truther.

The weather affected the game.

Wait,

so, let's just rewind. This all started from a conversation Thursday.
I said, I like the over. And you said, weather.
Think about the weather. Visualize this happening.
Carson Wentz, wet. That means under.
What happened? Well, there was one play at the end where Jimmy G threw a terrible pick that got you the over. So I was right.
I did kind of respect. But weather did affect the game.
Positively for the overtakers. Yeah, I respect what Hank's doing right now, which is basically saying that weather is for the mentally weak.
It's like astrology for beta males. 92% of people bet the under because they're sheep.
They're not thinking about weather the way I'm thinking about weather. But you weren't thinking about weather, period.
No, I was thinking about, yeah. You didn't think that weather...
Wind doesn't matter. Wind does not matter at all.
Rain matters a little bit. When it was like torrentially downpouring for like five minutes, that affected a couple plays.
The camper man couldn't see where the fucking ball was. I actually think that because it stopped rain, like you scored a lot of the points when it wasn't raining at the beginning of the game so that shows you that weather matters it was like 12 7 in a second and then it started raining and it stopped and like points stopped happening i just i don't understand how you're arguing this when the whole argument was about the over under the over hit and you're trying to tell me that you were still right you think that weather like we watched a ball get like careen off someone's foot and like go a million miles in the other direction.
You're like, that wasn't a weather-related play. It got to the point where you were just denying that weather exists.
Like there was fumbles. Like a receiver would just drop a ball that was perfectly placed in their hands and you'd be like, that was just a bad play.
It had nothing to do with the rain. Yeah, you were like, you get paid millions of dollars to catch that you got to catch that ball which is true like you were right i'm a process guy though you saying that weather just doesn't exist is crazy no you were trying to get me to factor weather into my over pick and i was like it doesn't really matter for the over under and i was right in this particular case yes but like the weather and the Browns Cardinals two weeks ago.
I'm two for two. But the weather never showed up.
Okay, yeah, exactly. But the weather affected the game.
For the over, which was my entire point. It did not affect it.
You didn't even know. It should not have.
The over was not the right play. You didn't make the over pick when you knew there was weather.
You weren't even looking at the weather. No, I listened to you, my trusted colleague.

You chalked me out of it, and I listened to you.

My mistake will not happen again.

Oh, okay.

I just like the idea that you think that rain and wind have no effect on a game.

Not on over-unders.

Ever?

No.

What about the grapple game?

In a tornado.

They have to play a game in a tornado.

No, he said tornadoes is real wind.

Yeah.

Okay.

Tonight's game, 81% chance of rain. Which one? Monday Night Football.
Monday Night Football. So that's Seahawks Saints.
What are you going to do? Over? In Seattle. I got to look into the numbers.
I'm saying, though, I'm saying the weather's not going to, like, that's not going to be, I obviously have a lot of numbers and a lot of data points that I'm checking. You got to check Chino check Chino Smith in the rain.
One of those data points is not weather. Got it.
I just was like, there was a couple plays that were just like, that's because they're soaking wet and the ball is so slippery. And you're like, that has nothing to do with it.
Yeah, you're a player apologist. These guys get paid millions of dollars.
Well, good win. And good win for the Colts.
I don't really know what the Niners are at this point. They're a very confusing team.
They're very confusing. They seem like they should be able to still out-physical their opponents.
Right. But, yeah, I don't know.
I don't think that Jimmy G is what would Ben Men say? Jimmy's not a G. Not a G.
Yeah, I just don't. They are a very confusing team because it feels like they're not.
They don't have the quarterback they want long term. Trey Lance also needs time.
I'm just going to say they need Kittle back. Kittle's a great player, great friend of the show.
We love everything that he does. Once Kittle gets back, I feel like all the pieces are in place for the Niners to make a run.
There you go. Okay, next up, the big story of Sunday.
So it was a bad Sunday. Let's just say it.
I feel like the NFL owes me for this Sunday. Do you know what this Sunday was? It's when you ask a parent, like, who's your favorite kid? And you're like, I love them all.
Listen, you got to say that. You have to say that.
But really, this Sunday sucked. Every Sunday isn't equal.
It was a bad Sunday. There were no real close games except for one or two at the beginning.
I'll put it this way. The big headline from this week is the Bengals are good.
They're actually a good team. No longer are they just good in terms of grading on the curve of being the Cincinnati Bengals.
Now they are actually just good as far as NFL teams go. So the first game, let's do it because that is the headline of the week.
The Bengals 41, Ravens 17. If the playoffs started today, and I think we're week seven, we can start doing that.
We're okay doing that. If the playoffs started today, your number one seed in the AFC is the Cincinnati Bengals.
I love it. That's incredible.
I love it. And you know what's even...
Clap it up. Clap it up for the Bengals.
Good job, Bengals. Good job, Bengals.
Clap it up for the Bengals. And somehow, Joe Burrow's hair, it looks better at the end of the game than it does at the start.
It was... So, I actually, like, we were locked in on this game.
In a weird way, like, the Bengals' second half, they absolutely torched the Ravens. They were big plays down the field.
We'll talk about Jamar Chase in a second. What was crazy was I thought Joe Burrow in the first half was like, he was playing at a level where I was watching it and every single play he was under pressure.
He was a second away from getting sacked. Everyone was covered and he was able to manufacture a few points and not turn the ball over not give up that huge sack, fumble whatever it may be.
In a weird way, his first half, even though the numbers weren't great in the first half, was super impressive to me because he just has insane poise in the pocket for a second-year guy. I think that if you were somehow able to run the numbers on plays where Joe Burrow gets hit, he probably has the best quarterback rating of any player in the league right now.
It's almost like he knows that it's coming, but he's still able to deliver a super, super hard pass. A tough motherfucker.
Very tough motherfucker in the face of pressure. They were awesome today.
They scored 21 unanswered points. Yes.
I want to know when the last time the Bengals scored 21 unanswered points against a division leader this late in the season, because I'm pretty sure it would be one of those stats where it's like, it was the Eisenhower administration. Yes, maybe with Boomer.
Yeah. It was a shit pumping, I think.
No, the second half definitely was. Yeah.
And so this is where I wouldn't freak out if I were a Ravens fan because, yeah, that's a bad loss because it's a rival in the AFC North. But the Ravens have been riding like a crazy, crazy emotional roller coaster, even starting with the Chiefs win.
And then you have last week where they absolutely kill the Chargers. They win the Monday night game against the Colts in dramatic fashion.
It felt like eventually it was going to slow down, and it did in the second half. That's not to take away from the Bengals, but I'm saying more, if you're a Ravens fan, I wouldn't freak out about this game.
This was what the team looked like when you thought at the start of the year after all those injuries where they were losing running backs like they were spinal tap drummers. You were like, this is going to be a tough season to get through until we get healthy.
Fortunately, they're getting the bye right now. Good time to have the bye.
Great time to have the bye. Back to the analogy that we had on Friday.
Yes. This is like...
It's not very... It's a little bit early still for a bye.
It's like a 12 o'clock lunch. For the Ravens.
This is like if you come into work hungover, you skip breakfast and you take lunch at 12 o'clock on the dot. So you guys can get healthy.
The Bengals also have a bye next week because they play the Jets. And so I've got news for you guys.
But look at this. Damn.
I took a look at the rest of the schedule. Greeny's going to be upset about that one.
He's probably going to make that same joke tomorrow morning. I'm going to get some nasty DMs from my man Greeny.
But if you look at the rest of the schedule for the Bengals, I have some breaking news for you. The Bengals are going to have at least 10 wins this year.
And they could have 11 wins very easily. They're the number one seat.
They are a very, very good team, and their defense is really fucking good. Like, they are, now I don't know advanced stats and all that stuff, but just the eyeball test, I'm going to say they're a top 10 defense.
They have 19 sacks so far. I think they sacked Lamar five times today.
Sam Hubbard got them twice. No, two and a half sacks for him today.
Yeah, they were all over the place. And then Jamar Chase, who Jamar Chase right now, he is on pace.
So he had eight catches for 201 yards and a touchdown. He's on pace right now, and obviously 17-game season, so everything changed, whatever.
He's on pace right now for 85 receptions, 1,831 yards, and 15 touchdowns. that would like crush That would crush what is universally known as the greatest rookie season of all time in Randy Moss.
Randy Moss had 69 catches, 1,300 yards, 17 TDs. The 17 TDs are insane.
But he is on pace to have what would be the best rookie wide receiver season of all time.

And that's something, obviously, the league has changed.

But Randy Moss is a rookie wide receiver.

It was one of those you-had-to-be-there moments where he was so fucking good and so different than everything else.

And Jamar Chase is on pace to surpass that, just to put it into context.

There are a lot of football guys right now that are looking at their tweets

from the draft being like, you should have taken Penny Sewell.

You should have taken the lineman because Joe Burrow is going to get killed and he won't be able to complete passes to Jamar Chase if he's getting hit on his back without realizing that Joe Burrow is a tough motherfucker. Yes.
And he's able, if he didn't have an offensive line, he could still throw it up to Chase and be like, that's cash all day. Yes.
I have a fun fact about Jamar Chase. I hate myself when I say that.
Yeah, you kind of like it. I'm going to keep going with it.
You want to have a fun fact about Jamar Chase I hate myself when I say that Yeah you kind of like it

That's a PFT pun

You like it

You want to have a fun fact about Jamar Chase

I will give everyone in this room a guess

And I guarantee no one will get it

Unless they actually already know it

Jamar Chase committed to this school

And then decommitted after 8 days

Kansas

Yes Billy Kansas

How wild is that

Jamar Chase was a commit to Kansas for 8 days

You know what he was doing? And then he woke up and was like, what the fuck am I doing? I think Jamar Chase is just a troll. I think he was just trolling people, much like he trolled us with the whole white stripes on the football thing.
Yeah. He loves fucking with people in the preseason.
But it's just so funny reading that headline, Jamar Chase decommits to Kansas. Who was the coach at Kansas when he committed there? Fuck.
I don't know. I don't know my Kansas.
Was that Les Miles at that point? No, it might have been Les Miles. Yeah, it might have been Les Miles.
Checked in clear. Yeah, yeah.
It probably was Les Miles. Kansas had quite a weekend because they were...
That was basically a win for Kansas. I'm counting that as a win for the program, yeah.
Also a hilarious move that they just invited everyone to come in. There's like tickets aren't real.
They're like, the doors are open. Please come try to get this win for us.
And just a heads up to Oklahoma. I know we talk college football on Wednesdays.
Don't ever, David Beattie, don't ever wear those uniforms again, Oklahoma. Those are upset uniforms.
They're bad uniforms. When they have those stupid, like, the sleeves are maroon and they're white.
It's such a bad uniform. Too cute.
Either way, Cincy is for real. For real, for real.
Like, it's officially for real. We said that going into this game.
If they win this game, they are considered... They were trending towards good.
Now they are for real. Now, expectations always are dangerous, but if you're a Bengals fan, like, if you're a Bengals fan right now, you are, we've talked about this many times on the show, but if you're a Bengals fan right now, you're, you're probably taking today off and consuming every piece of media that you can consume because this is the best you have felt in a very long time.
You can't even say that like in 2015, I think they went like 12 and four, but that was still Andy Dalton, Marvin Lewis.

They haven't won a playoff.

I feel like in those years, there was always the shoe was going to drop.

The Bengals were good, but you knew that it wasn't going to be anything real.

This is real.

This is as real as it gets. Probably as good as you felt since the Carson Palmer season,

where they was Akimo Van O'Hoffen rolled into his leg on that first touchdown pass that was real right that was real if you're asking is this bangles team smoking mirrors i love that phrase and they're like i don't know they're kind of smoking mirrors um no no they're for real they're real not smoking mirrors yeah so this is enjoy your moment because bangles fans like you should be reading everything you should be watching sports center non-stop like this is one of those days as sports fans you don't get them very often especially if you're a Bengals fans, you should be reading everything. You should be watching SportsCenter nonstop.
This is one of those days, as sports fans, you don't get them very often, especially if you're a Bengals fan, where you can just be like, I'm going to record SportsCenter and watch these highlights over and over and over again. I'm going to make sure that I don't leave my – I'm going to watch the pregame show on Monday Night Football because they're going to talk about the Bengals.
All this stuff is what makes being a sports fan great.

You know what this is? This is like wear

your Bengals jersey to school season.

On a Monday. Because you're happy and you're

celebrating. I'm happy for the Bengals fans

because it obviously has been bad and Joe Burrow

is such a likable guy and he's so fun

to root for. So congrats

Bengals fans. That's a huge win.

Obviously there's a lot of season left. But this

was the big story of the day. Because they

didn't just win. They kicked the shit out of the

Ravens. Again, 21 unanswered points in the second half against the Ravens.
Pretty good. Yeah.
Alright. And again, the Ravens, I wouldn't freak.
Although Marlon Humphrey, he got torched. He had never let up more than 143 yards to anyone, and then Jamar Chase came along and just torched him.
Also, Hollywood update. I think he's still Hollywood today.
Yeah. He had a nice touchdown catch in the back of the end zone.
Yes, he did. No bad drops.
Yes. He had a couple close.
And Lamar wasn't great. I mean, he made plays with his feet, but I don't know.
The Bengals defense did a pretty good job with that. I think the Ravens will be fine in the long term.
Yeah, like I said. This was the coming out game for the Bengals.
Yeah, for the Bengals. It's the NFL, like, hungry dog runs faster idea that a team like the Bengals that are on the upswing, and again, it's an emotional roller coaster the Ravens have been riding, so great time for the bye week.
All right, second biggest story from Sunday is the second game we'll discuss. Chiefs-Titans, Titans 27, Chiefs 3.
Yes, Chiefs scored three points. Patrick Mahomes left the game late with what seems like a concussion.
He was cleared. No concussion.
Okay, no concussion. Outside of the injury late, he's broken.
And I don't know. There's some things you can throw out there.
The offensive line was very bad. The Titans, and I'm not taking anything away from the Titans.
We'll talk about them in a second. The offensive line was bad.
Patrick Mahomes does kind of have to do it all with their defense. Like, you know that you have to be perfect, so I think there's that extra pressure.
But throw that aside, like, he does not look like Patrick Mahomes. He misses throws.
He's not seeing things the same way. He's throwing it behind guys.
He fumbles, interceptions. It's not good.
I don't know what it is. I'm not saying that he sucks, but it's definitely...
Bust? Is he a bust? We're in that weird spot where it's like, if you are saying that Patrick Mahomes sucks, you're an idiot. But if you're saying Patrick Mahomes is totally fine and there's nothing wrong, you're also an idiot.
This was the game where I was like, things will correct themselves. I thought it was going to be a letdown game for the Titans because they had that big win against the Bills.
Correct. And I felt like this was also a little bit because last week the Chiefs played against the Washington football team which is great if you need to get your offense back on the right track.
So I felt like this was going to be a game where the Chiefs would come out and look like the Chiefs, and they don't look like the Chiefs at all. There's something wrong.
I personally think I have a very easy problem that I've found with the Chiefs. I think they're weak.
Physically, I think that they need to hit the weight room. I don't think that there's a problem that the Chiefs have right now that can't be resolved by just lifting more weights.
Because I feel like they're not a strong football team. They get pushed around a lot.
Their linemen aren't great blockers right now. No, they've got like, this is the game that you're right.
Like it was coming into this game, it was like the Chiefs are going to win this game and then everyone's going to be like the Chiefs are fine. We're going out of this game being like the Chiefs are not fine they're broken they're three and four and oh yeah like next week they play Monday football against the Giants who you know who knows the Giants the Giants can do anything and they can also lose by a million but then they have a three-week stretch where they play the Packers at the Raiders and the Cowboys so we could be sitting here in, in a month's time, and be like, hey, the Chiefs are 5-6.
And what's going on? It would be crazy if we get a graphic for the playoff picture and the Chiefs aren't in the hunt. We could be looking at a world where the Bengals, they're getting a bye, and then the Chiefs aren't in the hunt.
It's crazy. And this was the first game because we've all watched it, and I think because the Chiefs are so explosive and they've been so incredible to watch the last few years, you just expect, we've talked about it before, the touchdown play.
You expect the touchdown play to happen. You expect them to figure it out.
You expect them to just start firing down the field and it's like, oh, they scored in 45 seconds. It's just not there right now.
I actually think that if the Chiefs and the Lions were to trade coaches, do wife swap for a week, and they'd bring in Dan Campbell just to put him through practice this week, the Chiefs would go out there and light it up. Yeah.
They need to get tougher. They need to get stronger.
So Patrick Reynolds had 67 yards and zero points in the first half. Like, that's crazy.
And when you look at the Chiefs, like who they have played, because I think we're getting fooled a little bit by these games because they beat the Eagles team, which is a mess. They beat the Washington football team, which is a mess.
And they beat the Browns week one who, remember, the Browns kind of bullied them and they were able to win that game. But whenever they have to play like a good team from the AFC, the Ravens, the Chargers, the Titans, the Bills, they've gotten exposed.
I think that, obviously give credit to the Titans, and Vrabel has done something. Oh yeah, the Titans were incredible.
He's a very low-key, dark arts coach guy. So he knows how to push the right buttons at the right time.
You can tell that his players know when to fake an injury at just the right exact time so that they can get a couple more seconds to review a play they might want to challenge, and then they're totally fine after they take a look at it. That happened today on an A.J.
Brown catch. Mike Vrabel does weird shit like that.
He's Belichick here. As good.
Yeah, it goes back to that playoff game where they just went back and forth finding a hole in time or they discovered 30 seconds out of thin air. Vrabel is a really smart guy.
He gets a rap as being a meathead head coach because he is. Or he said he would cut his dick off.
He's also a very smart meathead head coach. Yes.
No, and the Titans deserve a ton of credit. Their defense was great.
Their defensive line was awesome on Sunday. They weren't even blitzing.
They were just beating the Chiefs, and the Chiefs' offensive line is a problem. But the Titans deserve credit because every time we talk about the Titans, we're like, but their defense.
Well, their defense showed up. And also, they're like the scariest team in the world to have to come back against because that second half, they were just running Derrick Henry and getting first downs.
And then, oh, every now and then, oh, okay, we'll just run play action and hit A.J. Brown, who was awesome.
And there's nothing you can do when you're down against them. Derrick Henry with an all-time bad read at quarterback, though.
Oh, yeah, but it still works. Ryan Taylor was wide open.
They had another guy in the corner who was wide open. He went with his first read.
Got to get through the progressions a little bit faster, Derrick. When he throws a football, it looks like he's throwing a Twix.
That's how small it looks in his hand. It doesn't look natural.
It's like, well, that's just a giant throwing a football. Derek Henry, we keep waiting for Derek Henry to slow down.
I don't think he's going to slow down. He didn't have 100 yards today, but he was still effective.
And yeah, Derek Henry had more touchdown passes than Patrick Mahomes today. That's the dumbest thing in the world.
The Chiefs called a sad field goal. It, well, so...
It was kind of sad. No, it wasn't.
It was pretty sad. It wasn't sad because it was in the third quarter, and it was the start of the third quarter, and also the math actually makes sense.
I think a sad field goal has to be in the fourth quarter or down by like 40 plus. They were down what? 27-0.
So they kicked a field goal to be down three touchdowns in two-point conversion. It's kind of sad.
I rank it like a four out of ten. It was ten minutes left in the third quarter.
So it was just the start of the third quarter. So I don't think that's – that's not sad territory yet.
Like that was enough possessions where you could be like, oh, yeah, all right. The Chiefs, they could score some touchdowns, two-point conversions.
That could work. Travis Kelsey had a great rugby offload in this game.
He did. I've been telling you the last couple weeks, Travis Kelsey is looking to pitch the ball back all the time when he catches it about 7 to 12 yards off the line of scrimmage, and it was a sick pass.
It was. It was like a fucking laser beam out to the sideline.
He's also going to fumble doing it because he tried to do it later on in the game, and it was almost a fumble. So that's definitely going to happen.
Travis Kelsey definitely starts feeling himself a little bit. He is the guy that's like, remember, it's National Tight End Day.
Yes. Which, can I have permission to go there? Yeah.
I'm done with National Tight End Day. Whoa.
Wow, George Kittle's going to be very upset. I love Kittle.
No, you don't. I love it.
It's his project. Is it really? Yes.
I think he would be embarrassed by how much shine and spotlight the tight ends are getting today. I think that was the whole point.
Get back to the basics. I think that's why they did it.
Yeah. I'm just saying, you can't go around inventing holidays for yourself.
It is a little ridiculous that people... No, it's National Podcaster Day, because to be fair, I will make a giant deal out of that.
I walked in and Stephen Chair, a co-worker, was like, hey, just so you know, it's National Tight End Day. I was like, one, I did know, and two, are we supposed to say something? No, it's a classic Stephen Che.
He could get really into that. He'd probably order a commemorative shirt a month in advance so it would arrive by National Tight End Day and pick it out just to wear today.
Come on, let's go, Cam Brate. Yeah, so I'm not going to say anything because it's our friend Kittle's

creation, so I support

our friends. I'll be the bad guy.
I support our

friends, too. Yeah, sounds like it.
Do you?

I do. I love Kittle.

Go ahead. Do you really love him? At some point,

you've got to work

undercover of darkness, too.

They should just make it National

Blocking Tight End Day.

It's just blocking tight end. If you catch balls, that's, you know.
Yeah, Kelsey's basically a wide receiver. Yeah, exactly.
Billy will tell you, the special forces work in silence. They don't need credit, right, Billy? Yes, yes.
But, yeah, the Chiefs are broken. Officially, they're broken.
If you think otherwise, you're diluting yourself. Because, like I said, if you just go through their schedule and who they've played, they've played four of the outside of the Bengals, who are the best team in the AFC right now, let's say it again.
They've played the next four best teams in the AFC, you'd say, right? Like the Ravens, the Chargers, the Bills, and the Titans are those next four. They lost to all of them.
So it's a real problem. Go ahead.
Some people want the Chiefs to be your new pinky team. No, absolutely not.
That's a terrible idea. No, absolutely not.
That is an awful idea. I have a pinky team.
They're the Colts. I'm not.
That would be insanity. Patrick Mahomes.
He would personally just be the best player of all time. I do like that everyone's like, oh, Patrick Mahomes, he's a bust now.
He's a big-time bust. They're going to trade him.
A lot of Chiefs fans today were tweeting, trade Mahomes. At contract? Yeah, I mean, listen, that's going to hamstring you for a while.
That's a lot. Plus his brother does the TikTok dances and stuff.
You got to trade a guy like that. Yeah, but seriously, the next four games for the Chiefs, if they lose to the Giants, then I think I'm going to officially say that they're done.
I would do ridiculous things just to get Patrick Mahomes on my team. Let's be clear.
He's still awesome. I would personally film all of Jackson Mahomes' TikTok dances for the next five years just to have Patrick Mahomes on my team.
Hank, does this make you happy, all this? Yeah. Yeah.
Well, because people were anointing the Chiefs the next great dynasty in the AFC. Yeah, and it all comes back to Tom.
Tom is just the dynasty destroyer. He is.
Wouldn't that be Eli? Eli is one. Tom's broken like ten.
I have a feeling that he has broken like a few teams. The Falcons have never been the same.
There's so many teams that without Tom Brady, they think they would have had four championships. The Chiefs, without Tom Brady, should have three.
My theory is that Tom Brady is going to play until Arch Manning gets to the NFL just so he can beat him as payback against Eli. Walk off that game.
I've done it. All right, next up, Packers-Washington football team.
Taylor Heineke stinks. He's, uh, he had a couple doy-doys today.
No, he can't, Hank. That's the thing about Taylor Heineke is he throws the softest ball, maybe in the NFL.
No, no, he's saying he can lead a team. Oh, yeah, yes.
If the football field ended at the five-yard line, Taylor Heineke might be the best quarterback in the NFL. Unfortunately, it doesn't.
It goes all the way to the end zone. And he had some major doy-doy plays today.
The one where he dove. I mean, it's the ultimate doy-doy.
He dove for the end zone, didn't break the plane before he landed, and they changed the rule a couple years ago. Because I remember it fucked us on the football team, then the Redskins, when Robert Griffin dove one time forward.
and they just dove and landed on the football and fumbled it everywhere and then after the game he was like yeah it's a stupid rule but I guess it's the rule they changed it I guess a couple years ago so now they said Heineke gave himself up before the end zone but then he just he also had that interception he did the Lambeau leap he did the Lambeau leap on a touchdown that didn't count. He went into the crowd.
You can't do that. You can't unleap.
You can't unleap. That's the major doy-doy play.
You can't unleap. He Lambeau leaped a non-touchdown.
Listen, you have to at least be excited that celebrating a touchdown in a stupid way, at least he didn't give himself a concussion and get him knocked out for the game like Gus Farad did. Yeah.
By the way, breaking moves real quick. Breaking moves.

I just got this alert on my phone.

LeBron was...

So Desmond Bain from the Grizzlies fell on LeBron's leg and he was down real bad.

Is he okay?

No, he got up and he's fine.

Okay, good.

But that was the SportsCenter alert I got.

Okay.

That LeBron James got landed on? LeBron was able to get up and play after Desmond Bain fell onto his leg. Warrior.
Fucking warrior. You know what that's LeBron doing? My heart stopped for a second.
That's LeBron embracing the grit of National Tight End Day. Look at this.
Him just on the ground back up. Warrior.
I love it. What a beast.
I love it. But yeah, so the Washington football team.
So Taylor Heineke, they had 430 yards of offense. They had 25 first downs, and they had 10 points.
Yeah, we had the right formula to beat the Packers. That tells you everything.
It was the right formula. We had more yards than they did.
He's just too much of a gunslinger. He's too much slinger, not enough gun.
He's just all over the place. He doesn't.
I stand with the fact that once Ryan Fitzpatrick is healthy – and the Washington football team's defense wasn't terrible today. No, it was pretty good today.
Yeah. We got after the quarterback a little bit.
We did a Lambeau leap on a non-touchdown. I know we did a Lambeau leap.
You can't do that. You can't do that.
You can't do it. It's bad.
The Packers' defense, which stunk going into today, was pretty good. They were the only team without a red zone stop going into today.
Taylor Heineke. With an assist from Taylor Heineke, the drought ended for them, and they got multiple red zone stops.
Also, four times into the red zone, we got a field goal out of it. Fuck Taylor Heineke for the end of the game when he had a shot to just take a shot in the end zone and to maybe get a miracle cover, and he just ran the ball and went down.
The dumbest play ever. If you're going to run a play, run a play.
It's Joe Milton. He went from like 75 yards rushing to 85 yards rushing on the day.
Maddening. I don't know what he's doing.
I agree with you now. I think we've experienced the full Taylor Heineke.
Actually, you know what the most – like this actually was – Bring me Fitzmagic. Bring me the full Taylor Heineke experience because he had fumbles, he had picks, he had the Lambeau leap for a non-touchdown.
And actually the play of the day was when – I don't remember who fumbled, but Taylor Heineke was running down the field and blocking, and he was able to recover the fumble like 30 yards down the field. That was the Taylor Heineke play

of the day. It was

I think number one on your team. It was an

end around and

all of a sudden he's sprinting down the sideline

and then you look, I looked up

and then Taylor Heineke's

on the ball and I was like, what the fuck just

happened? I thought, I didn't think it was Taylor Heineke's

end around and it was just

that heads up that he was down there trying to

recover fumbles. Yeah, the announcers were saying

that he reminded them a lot of Brett Favre

and I didn't think it was Taylor Heineke's end around, and he was just that heads up that he was down there trying to recover fumbles. Yeah, the announcers were saying that he reminded them a lot of Brett Favre in this game, running around.
Minus the touchdown passes. I was getting myself talked into it.
I was like, yeah, that's right. He's wearing No.
4. He's in Green Bay.
He was playing like the painkiller Brett Favre. That's what Taylor Heineke is.
He's like, he can do everything but score touchdowns. Well, he loves diving for the end zone.
We've been saying this. You give him a pylon and he'll knock it over, but he found himself in the middle of the end zone and he didn't know how to reach out correctly and break the plan on that.
I really do think that... It's a different game if he scores that touchdown.
I've, like, not to pat myself on the back, but he is diet Ryan Fitzpatrick. He's Ryan Fitzpatrick.
Everything Ryan Fitzpatrick is, but without actually scoring touchdowns. It's just chaos whenever he's playing.
And it's fun chaos sometimes, but then he doesn't actually like – Ryan Fitzpatrick has that level where when you're drinking the true Ryan Fitzpatrick, the diesel Ryan Fitzpatrick, he's winning the game. Diet Ryan Fitzpatrick does everything that Ryan Fitzpatrick does, but he doesn't actually win the game.
Yeah, Taylor Heineke is a guy that will cover the spread in the most entertaining way possible. He gives you bang for your entertainment dollar.
Correct. That's what Taylor Heineke does.
You feel like you watch something. You don't know what, but you watch something.
Oh, yeah, I had an experience. It's like I got drunk and hungover all in the span of three and a half hours.
Yeah. I just – one thing real quick to the Packers.
I thought that the Green Bay Packers would have been above resorting to gimmicks like putting on their fake throwback uniforms just to sell jerseys. I hate them so much.
I thought they had tradition there. I don't know.
Aaron Rodgers is so good. It seems like a gimmick.
He is really good. And you know what the worst part is? The crossbody throws at him today.
Yeah, and the worst part is he's not even trying. Half the time he throws, he's barely trying.
He doesn't care. Right.
He's still better. He's the most emo quarterback, and he's just so good at it.
I fucking hate him. Derek Carr might be more emo.
He actually looks like he's in the career. Drives me nuts.
I just want to say also, why would we sign a kicker named Blewett? I remember Blewett's college career.

I remember him very well.

Kenny Pickett is now the quarterback for Pitt.

Exactly. They love these names.

They've got bad juju going on there.

Our kicker wasn't bad enough.

Dustin Hopkins wasn't bad enough to replace with a new guy who's never kicked in the NFL

whose name is also Blewett.

But here's the thing.

Can you really blow it?

If your team's not going anywhere, you can't really blow it. Yeah, but it just adds to the circus environment.
Which I think is fun. If you've got a guy whose last name is actually Clown and he's out there throwing pick sixes, that'd be pretty bad.
Well, I think the Washington football team, their season now is truly like, you're not going to go anywhere. Let's have some fucking fun.
You know what I mean? Like Ryan Fitzpatrick comes back. Let's have some fun.
Good. Let's have some fun with it.
There'll be some fun games the Washington football team will play. Even if Heineke is still the quarterback, it's going to be fun.
Yeah. We're just not going to win many of them.
Right. But yeah, I actually think that the reason that they brought Blewett in was just because Rivera wanted to send a message.
Like, we're all accountable here. I don't care what your name is.
If you're a starter, we're all evaluating you. It's like day one.
And he's like, I'm going to cut the kicker. It's like a really easy way to be like, hey, I did something.
I cut a starter this week. Shuffled the chairs on the Titanic.
Exactly. But, yeah, it's not looking good for the football team.
I'm okay with bringing back Fitzpatrick. Yeah, and we could have won this game.
It was winnable. Yeah, Hank knows.
Hank knows. Thank you, Hank.
Without Taylor Heineke. Without Taylor Heineke.
Yes. If we had Aaron Rodgers.
If we brought in a backup quarterback inside the 10-yard line, then I think it was a winnable game for us. I mean, we did severely outgain them.
Yes. They're just much, much better at every detail.
Yeah. All right.
Next game, Billy, Hank, Patriots 54, Jets 13.

I just want to say also for people who are wondering,

yeah, the Jets were actually off a bye.

Oh, okay.

Did they beat the bye last week?

The bye beat them.

Oh, okay.

I know Billy has his different terms for the games.

I'm curious what this one falls under.

A very Trestman-esque thing to have someone drop a 50-burger on you after a bye. Yeah, but tell us, was this a shit-pumping or a clowning? This was a clowning.
Oh. Yeah.
No. After that double-pass trickery in the first quarter.
Oh, no, they were clowning. They clowned them.
Damn. But is it really clowning if the starting quarterback gets hurt and they bring in a guy named Mike White, who just, by the way, happens to be the one-time winner of the Ponzi scheme wet-the-beak awareness bowl.
Correct. From Western Kentucky.
If I'm a Jets fan, I hope Zach Wilson stays out and he's our quarterback of the future. Well, I think he is going to stay out, right? He's got something with his PCL.
The MRI has not come back yet, but there is good news. Zach Wilson hasn't thrown an interception in the past two weekends.
Whoa, okay, nice. But you also got a politically correct ligament snapped in half.
Yeah, so he's nailing him. We're nailing all the bi-week humor this week, guys.
Bro Football Doc told me during the game, you thought it was just tweaked. It was merely a tweak.
I thought it was tweaked, but I think he's done so. He said his knee was loose.
Oh, no. So are you going to predict it? Is that like his knee is loose Or the Jets He's just on the Jets Yeah He's like my knee is loose Until we get a couple tackles By the way He was getting messed up that game There was zero You know Protecting the quarterback Yeah That tore his leg He got fucked up on the Like he went down Two plays after He got fucked up It was like a kill Bill thing Yeah I don't think he realized how fucked up he got.
Until his knee was loose. Yeah.
So, Billy, you predicted the Jets to beat the Patriots in the playoffs. I forgot about that.
With Zach Wilson at the Hound, things have changed. Got it.
Material change here. Yeah.
Yeah, the Patriots kicked the shit out of the Jets. Who in college, when you watch college football, who are you like, I hope the Jets get him? Sam Ellinger.
No, I'm saying they're going to get a high draft pick. Oh, again? Another pick? I think they need offensive linemen.
At this point, what else? If you're a Jets fan. I feel like they need a deep threat.
Spencer Rattler? They also have the Seahawks. Don't they have those Seahawks draft picks in the background? Oh, from Jamal Adams? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
From Blitz Boy? Yes, Blitz Boy. That's crazy to think.
Like, two years ago, Jamal Adams was like, I want to be traded. And the Jets are like, okay, give us three first-rounders.
Yeah, I was like, okay, no problem. And then there were multiple suitors.
Pete Carroll was like, this will fix our defense. Yeah.
Blitz Boy. I think the Jets should sign Cam Newton in the meantime.
Oh. Okay.
That's actually not a bad idea. Just get on the phone with it.
But wait, given what we know about the – oh, no, he right yeah i was gonna say kyrie irving who i guess had like a big protest on his behalf yeah there was a big protest in brooklyn stormed yeah they stormed the bar but yeah yeah i guess cam newton might not be a a terrible idea for the jets right now because fuck it why not right i mean can you what is the bondage scheme awareness bowl because i guess that happened a long time ago people so we created a bowl game uh it was in so there's a few bowl games every year that don't have a sponsor we decided to just sponsor it was the boca raton uh bowl game it was western kentucky verse uh memphis memp yeah yeah yeah and we did a whole show we did a halftime show uh Caleb was down and gave the trophy. He almost got kicked off the field.
He was live at the game. I think he might have given the trophy to Mike White.
Yeah. He might have.
The starting quarterback for the Jets. They brought it to their trophy case.
Yeah, they have it. Yeah, so it's the Bernie Madoff Wet the Beak Ponzi Awareness Boca Raton Bowl.
Presented by, pardon my take, was a whole thing One time only And he has it That's worth a lot He's in the record book $500,000 At least You think if we showed up and were like Hey can we get that back Now that we know that it's worth a lot of money We'll give you some signed signed jerseys. Didn't we? Wasn't it lost? Did we have the interns like wrestle at halftime? Yes.
Yep. We had to go to the hospital.
Yeah, he cut his hand up pretty badly for like a $25 Outback gift card. No, it was a $100 gift card that we had spent like $91 on because we went to dinner before.
We went to Outback. If you look back at that intern class, it was like Robbie Fox, Glenny Balls, Tommy Smokes.
Hubs. Hubs was there.
And they all had to wrestle. And they just wrestled in a box that we taped up on the floor.
Oh my god. That was a good time.
But yeah, shout out Mike White. Good to see some alumni of that prestigious game proving themselves.
Although, to be honest with you, completely forgot about Mike White. When he came in the game, it felt like when you sign up for a Facebook account, they give you that

black or gray

fake avatar of just a silhouette of a head.

Yes. It felt like that in a

video game. Here's third string quarterback

Mike White from

inter-school here. Yeah, I didn't know

it was the Mike White. We should say

that. The Mike White until Western Kentucky

football program DM'd me. And I was like,

oh, he is the Mike White? Wow, this is crazy. But yeah, the J White, until Western Kentucky football program DM'd me.
And I was like, oh, he is the Mike White?

Wow, this is crazy.

But yeah, the Jets stink, man.

They're bad. Their coach has

also become early frontrunner for the

look-in-the-mirror guy of the year.

He's said after a lot of life, he needs to get in a new line.

Next Sirianni might have him beat.

I think that Salah's going to be a good

coach in the long run. He's definitely

a great defensive coordinator, but

he needs to learn some more

lines. If you're going to be coaching on

See you next time. I think that Salah's going to be a good coach in the long run.
He's definitely a great defensive coordinator, but he needs to learn some more lines. If you're going to be coaching on a team like the Jets or the football team or the Bears, any of these bad teams, you have to learn how to say things after losses.
So you're saying the same things but different words each week. But he's become a big time, you know what, I've got to look in the mirror, it all starts with me guy.
Why doesn't any coach just get in front of the media and just be like i'm fucking depressed yeah like my team depresses me my you know what i'm depressed i'm doing a great job but my players blow yeah like this sucks i'm not okay yeah i'm not okay that's okay yeah it's it's totally okay to not be okay i need better players yeah i need better everything yeah everything um i don't want to be here right now. Patriots back.
The Patriots are, I don't understand the Patriots at this point because they play teams tough. They lost to the Dolphins.
They barely beat the Texans. They kicked the shit out of the Jets twice.
Should it beat the Cowboys? Yeah, should it beat the Cowboys? Should it beat the Bucs? I know what we said last week. You see the Patriots on on your schedule end of the season, you are not looking forward to that game one bit.
Yeah, they might be a team similar to what the Bengals were a couple weeks ago where it's like they're trending towards good. They have two games against the Bills in December.
If they go 2-0 in those two games, what are people going to be saying? Or even 1-1. Was today a little bittersweet, though, because you don't have any more Jets games? Yeah, of course.
I mean, that's just kind of like every year, every year. Until the playoffs.
Until the playoffs. True.
Good point. True.
I think it's six straight years they've swept the Jets. Yeah.
It's 11 straight. It honestly felt like it would be more than that.
The last time the Jets beat the Patriots in the regular season, Billy was like 16. Oh, man.
They had 559 yards against the Jets. With the Jets' defense, I think people were like, oh, they're not so bad.
Mack Jones was throwing bombs. It was like the perfect team.
It's like playing a varsity team, playing the JV team. You just get out there, run the plays.
You might be too scared to run in the game. Yep.
But you can get the reps in. So that way, when the real game comes next week, you're a little more comfortable.
The Jets haven't scored in the first quarter all year. Yep.
It's insane. Oh, yeah? How are you going to spend that? Salad defers every coin flip he wins, so they never get the ball.
How many times does that happen? He's won the last three. Okay.
So what about the other three games? So they never start with the ball. But you also get the ball back at some point.
What are they playing? Army? They don't get the ball in the first quarter? Extended drives.

But no, their defense is good. Their defense is hitting.

Pat scored like four plays in the first drive. Today was the first

day I was like, the defense is giving up.

14-0 before the Jets had a first down.

Yeah, it was bad. Also, rookie quarterbacks

are 0-13 against

Bill Belichick in Foxborough.

So remember that.

This podcast did not exist the last time the Jets beat the Patriots.

Oh, wow.

We're going to December 27th, 2015.

Damn.

What a depressing world that was.

I would have loved to listen to part of my take,

listen to us clowning Hank after they lost to the Jets in 2015.

That's a long time ago.

Fuck.

That was closer.

We were not.

No, we were in our 30s.

Fuck.

That was closer. Damn it.
Not PFC. We're old.
Not me. You know, PFC was 22.
I was closer. We were not.
No, we were in our 30s. Fuck.

That was closer.

Damn it.

Not PSU.

We're old.

Not me.

I was a little babe.

He had just got his driver's license. That was closer to the year 2010 than it is to today.

Yeah.

Whoa.

Time.

Whoa.

Fuck you up like that.

All right.

Next up.

The best game of the day, which is crazy to say, the Falcons and the Dolphins.

They played the most exciting game of the day.

It was that bad of a... We just have these Sundays sometimes where games are not close.
We look up and it's the witching hour. It's like, wait, there's only one game that's close? The Falcons beat the Dolphins 30-28.
Is that Debo Samuel touchdown? Yep, Debo Samuel touchdown, which we already talked about. But the Falcons, like, I think the Falcons might be frisky.
They're, like, Kyle Pitts is awesome. Kyle Pitts is really, really good.
Matt Ryan with an all-time doy-doy, like, you're not Michael Vick, dude. What are you doing running down the field with the fumble that almost cost him the game? Say something nice about Tua.
He had two very nice drives to get them back in the game. Why were they down? Because Tua threw one of the worst interceptions I've ever seen, where the Falcons threw a pick.
The Dolphins are down 20-14. They now have the ball at the Falcons 32.
First play. Tua just, like, I don't even know what he was doing.
He just threw it up in the middle of the field. Easy pick.
But he did have two nice drives to bring him back. So there it is, Dolphins fans.
I'm not being super mean to Tua, even though I still don't think he's the guy. Well, I thought this game was going to finally crown who is this season's Falcons.
Is it the Falcons again for the 50th consecutive season? Or is it going to be the Dolphins? And the Dolphins are more Falcons-like than the Falcons are at this point. The Dolphins are bad.
The Falcons always are... The Falcons to be the peak Falcons, they have to be a little bit good.
But the Dolphins Falcons this game away to the Falcons. Actually, the Falcons Falcon the game game to themselves because no they felt they falcons it to the dolphins who then and then they took it back to the falcons but that actually was like the ultimate falcon move because they have to win a couple to be the falcons so they falconed to the dolphins so they could falcon a good falcon back to the win so that they're saving the real falconing If you watch that game, the Falcons are still the Falcons.

They just... Falcon back to the win so that they're saving the real falconing there later they're the true if you watch that game the Falcons are still the Falcons they just were able to have one of the good Falcons like if we did the Billy like the games you're trying to win games you're trying to lose the Falcons have to win a few games and they still were the Falcons in their win because the way they gave up the game was very Falcon I even said I was I said a was like, they're Falconing this.
And then they ended up winning, which they have to do to keep pure form of Falcons because the pure form of Falcons is a team that's just good enough to make you believe. And then they fucking shit on themselves late in the game.
Right. But are they good enough to make you believe when they beat the Dolphins? They're frisky.
Yeah, they're a frisky team for sure. They're 3-3, and the losses, I know they got killed by the Bucs, but that game was close going into the fourth quarter, and then they started falconing.
They were going to beat the Washington football team, then they started falconing. So there have been the Eagles lost week one.
Who the fuck knows? I actually think that the Vikings are this year's Falcons. They might be.
If you tuned into this part of my take thinking that you were not going to get a shot as a Vikings fan, I'm sorry to just slip that in there on your bye week. This also last five minutes made no sense, but that's okay.
Someone transcribe all of it. I think it makes a lot of...
You cleared me up on that because I was like, no, the Falcons... The Dolphins Falcons into the Falcons, but I know what you're saying.
Yeah, the Dolphins are too bad to be the Falcons. Yeah, they're too bad to be the Falcons.
It's something that they aspire to become one day. Right.
It would be an upgrade if the Dolphins were the Falcons. Yes, absolutely.
Because the Falcons have to, if you're going to be the Falcons, you have to give just enough hope every once in a while to be like, oh, just like what I just said, like, are the Falcons frisky? That's just enough hope for them to be pure Falcons. Yeah, I think the Falcons are like an above-below-average team.
Right. They're the best of the worst.
Yes, yes, exactly. They're the king stinkers.
And the Dolphins, over the last week or so, I think that they've been leaking the Tua news about how many teams are interested in trading for Tua, because they're just hoping that somebody out there, had the thought occur to them, maybe we should trade for Tua. Right.
And they hear that Tua might be going somewhere else and they're like, oh shit, I got to act now. Tua supplies are limited.
Let me give you the call. I'll send you a second round pick.
Right. They're kind of hoping to beat out some of these offers that might be laying dormant now.
I don't think that anybody would want to trade anything significant for Tua right now. But I don't know.
Maybe some team will just hope for the change of scenery. I would be okay with the change of scenery.
Yeah. I don't hate Tua.
I just think that there's this weird Tua believers out there that every time he does something bad, it's like the coaching sucks. The playbook sucks.
This sucks. That second interception today was just what are you doing i think there are a couple things that go into the two of belief system right now like people that are still two of stands yeah i think one he's got a cool name absolutely looks cool in his uniform very cool in the uniform nice guy very nice so he's he's very easy to root for very easy and he's also a guy that you heard like four years ago on the message boards.
Some teams were like, yo, should we start tanking for Tua right now? He was looked at as being like a can't miss type Andrew Luck prospect when he first started starting on Alabama. And so people still have that in their heads.
And they're like, no, this is the can't miss guy. We're not going to miss on him.
We can't miss right so it's it's it's dragging you down to like a long defense thing which i get i understand no i totally understand i'm not and he also like you said he had some good touchdown passes i think he threw four touchdowns today he was he was good at the end of the game like he the falcon or the dolphins needed two touchdown drives and he provided that so i i there are there are moments where i'm like maybe i'm wrong i just i don't know then then that interception happens i'm like what is going on here so and then the dolphins are gonna probably get to sean watson soon yeah and then which again we're all gonna act like it's a normal thing for deshaun watson to be playing and then like whatever my prediction is that roger goodell is gonna go god mode oh right it's been a while since roger goodell has gone god mode on the league but he has that power to be like you know what you're not playing you're never playing he can be like i'm putting you on my secret list that i keep and it's safe behind my m&ms yes and he can just be like you're not playing this year and florio is going to lose his fucking mind looking for an explanation well i think that florio wants goodell to go god but he also wants an explanation Yeah, he wants an explanation. He will demand for them to explain why he went God mode.
You know what he's doing? So Florio's advocating for Goodell to go God mode. But then when Goodell takes Florio up on that offer, Florio will be like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
We have a CBA here. Right.
How does this jive with that? Right. This makes no sense.
This is going to be a fight with the union. Yeah, and then Florio gets to write 40 more articles about the legalese behind the fight.
I know what you're doing, Florio. Yep.
Getting those clicks up. We see you.
We see you. You're going to love this.
You're going to love this. But yeah, Goodell is absolutely itching to just be like, I am your lord.
Yep. Absolutely.
You are not allowed to play. Absolutely.
And to be honest with you, I probably wouldn't blame him in this circumstance. No, the minute he gets traded, Goodell's just going to press the button.
Yep. Like, not so fast.
All right. Next up, Giants-Panthers.
Sam Darnold was a three-point favorite on the road. This was my – I looked at it this morning.
I was tweeting about it last night because, like, late on a Saturday night is when I really start being like, all right, what am I going to bet on? And I still – it made no sense to me. The Panthers, Sam Darnold was a three-point favorite on the road.
And I know the Giants have no one right now. But the Panthers are not good.
And Sam Darnold – how bad do you think Sam Darnold wishes he could freeze time after week three? Oh, yeah. And be like, this is the real Sam Darnold.
Him and Teddy Bridgewater? Yeah. And the Broncos? Like, freeze time, be like, 3-0, we're good.
Sam Darnold's passer ratings, this is going to be Mike Francesa-esque, starting in week one, 102, 99.1, 95.7, 85.5, 44.5, 55.6, and 57.3. Just basically halved and fallen off a cliff, and he is Sam Darnold.
Yeah, I don't think that – people are actually like, yes, Sam Darnold is completely fixed after those first three weeks. Oh, I think we wanted to – I think it was the perfect combination of you want – I think at the end of the day, no one really – unless it's your rival, no one really roots against these guys, these kids, because they're kids when they get drafted to fail.
And so you have that, and then you also have the Jets combo where everyone wants to be like, it was the Jets, not Sam Darnold. Everyone wants to laugh at the Jets and be like, look what Adam Gase and the Jets organization did to Sam Darnold.
Just leaving town. You get your quarterback rating improves by 40 points once you step out of the state of New Jersey.
So I think that was why we all were like, hey, Sam Darnold's fixed. Yeah.
Also, the Panthers, the Saints, I was looking back at it, the Saints are the true chaos team this year because I was like, why did I ever think the Pan Panthers were good the Saints went week one they beat the Packers 38-3 like that that alone you're just gonna you're gonna look back and be like wait what happened in that game and then week two they lost 26-7 to the Panthers so they're the chaos team they they cemented in my stupid dog brain two beliefs that are not even close to true, that the Packers suck and the Panthers are good. And it's taken me all the way to week seven to shake that out of my system.
Yeah, I was watching the recap before Sunday Night Football of this game. And it's never a good sign when the very first thing that they show on the screen is a picture of Sam Darnold.
And then the highlighted word in the top corner is decision making. Right.
And then they proceed to show like four throws. And they never bring up that graphic when you're a really good decision maker.
Yeah. Like Derek Henry made better decisions with his passes today.
Sam Darnold decides to drive after four drinks. Right.
It's Mac Jones. Yeah.
Sam Darn Sam Donald decides to get pizza delivered at 4 a.m. Yeah.
No, it's never a positive when someone's like, we need to talk about this guy's decision making. Sam Donald books himself a 6 a.m.
flight at the end of a bachelor party. Yeah.
Sam Donald just didn't use condoms just one night because it feels way better. This is Sam Darnold's just base level.
I mean,

he did get mono, so he does have bad decision making. He is the same

guy. Right, it's decision making.
It's always

been an issue with him. It's just a tough thing.

And the bad part is he can't

even rebrand his name. He can't become

Sammy Darnold because Sammy Darnold

makes Sam Darnold look like he made

outstanding decisions. True.
He maybe

should just be Sam Darnold. Like our colleague Frank calls him.
Yeah. He's a little French to him.
Sam Darnold. But it's not great.
Not great for Sammy. Sam Darnold.
Slinging Sammy Darnold. He'll be fine.
If he wants to be a backup quarterback, I think he'll be okay. Yeah.
If he comes in, he's still got that like he was a first-round pick. He played those couple really sweet bowl games in college.
It'll give you that spark. Well, one wasn't so sweet.
Yeah, one wasn't. Yeah.
If he comes in, he's still got that like he was a first-round pick. He played those couple really sweet bowl games in college.
It'll give you that spark. Well, one wasn't so sweet.
He got his ass kicked by Ohio State. I remember that was a night where I realized that I don't think I can ever cut the cord because I was watching with a friend, and it was buffering, and I was losing all my money on USC.
That's tough. And I was very upset.
And shout-out Joe Judge. He gave an impassioned speech earlier this week.
He was like, the fish stinks from the head down. That's what Robert Salah needs to learn different ways to say, look in the mirror, saying the fish stinks from the head down.
You're saying the exact same thing. Correct.
But it's way cooler and way more of a football thing to do. The Giants, though, they are I'd put them in the frisky category because they're so injured.

And I don't know.

Maybe they could beat the Chiefs next week.

I think the Chiefs are that broken that maybe the Giants go in there

and just do something crazy.

I've got my eye on the Giants because I think they're going to finish

second place in the Beast this year.

I think they're going to end up with like seven wins.

That's my prediction.

Okay.

Seven wins?

I'm going to look real quick. Oh, it's probably not out yet.
Do you think it's out? Guess whose line is it anyway? The Chiefs versus the Giants? Chiefs versus Giants. And it's in Kansas City, right? See if you can find that.
Yeah. It's Monday Night Football in Kansas City.
Guess whose line is it anyway? Chiefs versus Giants. What are you going to say, Billy? I think that's a clowning game.
Oh, no. I think it's the Chiefs are going to bounce back and clown.
No, really? I don't know about that. I don't think that they're not hard enough to clown.
They're due. They're due to clowning.
The Chiefs will end up clowning themselves right now if they try to clown others. They're capable of clowning.
They are, but if you've been paying attention recently, they're putting the clown shoes on themselves. Well, Kelsey with that pass, if they were winning, that would be a clown show.
That wasn't clowning. That was just sabermetrically smart football.
That's clowning. Design downfield laterals.
Clowning. The future of the game.
The Giants have a tough schedule. Eight and a half points.
They might not get to seven. We have a line.
Oh, we do. All right.
I'm going to say seven and a half. Seven and a half.
Eight and a half. Eight and a half.
Nine and a half. Nine and a half.
Guess whose line is it anyway? I love the Giants in that game. They might not have set.
They have a tough schedule. But they're the...
I've actually had a good read on the Giants, when to bet on them, when not to. They're just like, just wait until they're playing not a good team.
I guess this would be the Chiefs. Not a good team.
And everyone's like, damn, do the Giants suck. Now, if the Giants beat the Chiefs in primetime, at that point, panic button smashed in Kansas

City.

Oh.

Smashed.

I think it's like, I think the panic button has already been touched.

People are asking, is this a curse of X Factor?

Yes, probably.

Since banning him from the stadium.

Probably.

Probably.

Daniel Jones, by the way, played very well.

I'm backing on Danny Dimes. I can't quit him.
He's having a nice season. Like, he is.
He is. He's alright.
He is. He's taking care of the ball for the most part.
And last game, what was it? Against the Rams, that was a bad one. But he ran the ball well.
He has no one to throw to. He caught an unbelievable pass.
One-handed. Yeah.
Danny Dimes. I'm backing on him.
I am. I am.
I can't quit this fucking guy. Also, Sam Darnot was 2 for 15 on third down.
I like Darnot. It's like French.
Yeah. That's a good way to suck.
All right. Let's take a quick break.
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All right.

Afternoon games.

Cardinals, Texans.

Yikes.

Yeah.

They were up 5-0.

Texans were up 5-0.

I was just shocked that J.J. Watt didn't get a touchdown pass.
Yeah. I thought that this was going to be one of those revenge game things.
All the revenge went to Nuke, to Hopkins, and J.J. Watt was just, he got left out of the offensive game plan pretty badly there.
You could have convinced yourself in a way that the Texans were in kind of a trap game because they have the Packers Thursday night, which should be great. That will be a great Thursday night football game.
And it started 5-0. And you're like, oh, maybe the Cardinals are in trouble.
And then you remember that the Texans are borderline not in a professional football team. And yeah, this was like a total snoozer.
The only big thing was like Zach Ertz. The Cardinals had a ton of weapons, and now they also have Zach Ertz, who looks like he wants to play now.
Is Terod Taylor coming back? Or are we just saying we're going to get a year of Davis Mills? No, he's supposed to be. I think he's returning to practice this week, actually, in fact.
Okay. Thank God.
Yes. Thank God.
And you know what that means? I'm going to bet on the Texans this weekend. Yep.

So I'm looking forward to that.

They're tough to watch.

Terod will probably get hurt again.

Unfortunately, that's just kind of how it seems to go with him.

But don't worry, Texans fans, because when Terod's in town, it means that the next guy is going to be your guy of the future.

Davis Mills.

Davis Mills.

Also, this had one of the stupidest roughing the passer penalties ever

Because Kyler Murray, his head is at shoulder height for everybody else

And there's no way to sack him when you're running upright at him

It's impossible to either hit him in that strike zone

Which is below his shoulders and above his waist

It basically doesn't exist

He's got the smallest thorax of any NFL quarterback

And so he also wears the towel that hangs out

Thank you. It basically doesn't exist.
He's got the smallest thorax of any NFL quarterback. And so he also wears the towel that hangs out, and it looks like it's flag football.
Kyler Murray, if you pull his towel out when he's in the pocket and throw it on the ground, that should count as a sack against Kyler Murray. Because otherwise, you're just going to hit him in his giant helmet or hit his knees.
Yes. Kyler Murray also, put this in the memory machine here, Jake.
Kyler Murray is Mr. September-October in his career.
He's 17-6 against the spread in October and September. When do you want that? Well, on Thursday, but also next year.
When September comes. Pre-week one? Yes, yes.
But Thursday we have our last chance. That's pretty crazy.
Yeah, that's great. I love those games between the Packers and the Cardinals.
They always remind me of that Aaron Rodgers-Curt Warner game. Remember that one? Yep, which was incredible.
Yeah. So I'm going to bet the over on that one Thursday night.
And you know what? The NFL owes us this. You owe us a good game.
After a bad weekend. Really two weeks.
Two weeks in a row of subpar Sundays. You owe us a Thursday night shootout.
That's a fact. Rivalry.
And Cardinals are also 7-0. Last undefeated team.
I think I saw a stat that was like there's like a 90% chance to go to the playoffs. So I don't know.
That's cool. Seems high.
Seems high but also like, like, I was looking at the list of last teams undefeated, and pretty much every single one of them goes to the playoffs. If they get past, like, week five.
Yeah, so let's look at their schedule. Let's predict their first loss.
I'm just going to say this Thursday. Okay.
I think Packers. I will say, so I hope they beat the Packers, and I'm sure, then I'll just say the whatever's after the Packers, letdown spot.

Yeah, at 49ers.

That's perfect.

Yeah, they're going to win a shitload of games.

I'm looking at their schedule right now. They still have to play the Bears, the Lions, the Panthers.

They're going to win a lot of games.

It's going to be – like if they beat the Packers on Thursday,

it's going to be tough for them. I guess the Bucs still have only one loss, right? So, yeah, the Cardinals are really fucking good.
I don't really know what else to say. This game sucked, and the Cardinals are really fucking good.
J.J. Watt was right.
How about us in the national media stop saying that they're soft and just say that they're really fucking good? They're really fucking good. You're really fucking good, JJ.
They're really fucking good. You're happy? You bully? Yes.
And I'm very sad about, like, I'm not sad about it, but I'm more sad that I have to be, have to watch the Texans. Yeah.
It's depressing. It is.
It's very sad. Very, very sad.
Are they even going to get fans to show up for these games? I don't know. There's got to be a million better things to do in Houston.

Absolutely.

Without a doubt.

On a Sunday?

The Rockets are...

Yeah, I would rather go drive on a highway.

I would definitely rather go watch a Rockets game.

The Astros!

Yeah, go hang out.

We forgot about the Astros.

Go fall asleep at Mattress Max's house for a while.

Go root for some cheaters.

What were you going to say?

Yeah.

They're cheaters?

They are.

We'll get to that. We can talk some playoff baseball.
That is a football show. That is a football show.
Speaking of depressing, what were you going to say, Jake? One more thing from that game. Yeah.
Oh, yes. Back to back.
Pop it up for our guy. Skorigami.
Jake gets his skorigami. I wish I could swap brains with you, Jake, because your Sunday is just so much more pleasant than mine.
No. Yeah, it is.
You're just positive. You have a big cap for every Gami that hits.
Think of all the ones that don't. Right.
True. We're two in like 84 this season.
I don't think that bothers Jake. No, it does.
He's just the next Gami's the great one. No, but he wouldn't like it if it was an every weekend thing.
Yeah. I don't know.
You wouldn't want every game to go Gami? No, no, no, no. Right.
It's the excitement. Right, exactly.
At that point, it's not even Scorigami anymore. Yeah, yeah.
The Scorigami would become a game that had a similar score as another one. But I just can't imagine a world where I walk out of my house on a Sunday, it's like, well, just hope there's a Gami.
And if I get one, damn, was that a great Sunday. And if I don't, it was also a great Sunday.
I love the picture that Jake took next to the TV that had the score gami on it. Like he was Wilt Chamberlain holding up his 100 points.
He was like, look what I did. Yeah, he was like a bowler bowling a perfect game at the local lanes.
Look at this. I root for you guys.
Yeah, I know. I do.
Yes. No, I know.
I'm very much aware. And I'm happy that you got a gami.
Thank you. It's a good thing what I'm saying right now.
Okay. You have a much better outlook on life in general than I do.
You're a healthier individual. You're mentally a lot healthier than I am on any given Sunday.
All right. I appreciate it.
When I'm in a torture chamber and you're just rooting for the Gammies. That's all.
All right, speaking of terrible football, Bucs 38, Bears 3. There's no, like, I'm not going to get mad.
That game actually gave me a headache. I got trolled by Jim Nance and Tony Romo for four hours.
The Bucs kicked the shit out of the Bears. Justin Fields does not look good.
There's nothing I can really say about it. He doesn't look good.
I could say maybe the fact that he didn't know his starting right tackle wasn't playing until he showed up to the stadium. That was probably not great.
Also, it just snowballed. Maybe if Cole Komet catches that ball on third and eight on the second drive of the game, it's a totally different game.
But that's just the way it goes. This one was a big-time Bruce Arians revenge game.
Oh, yeah. So he was pissed off still that he didn't get that job when he did the interview.
Was that when they hired Trestman? Yeah, so it was the mock interview, the mock press conference that he refused to do. And Trestman, by the way, you know it's a bad...
You always can tell the Bears are really getting the shit kicked out of him if the name Trestman starts to trend on Twitter. And it did.
So it was trending all afternoon. He definitely caught a stray on that one.
It was major Bruce Arians vibes where he holds grudges against everybody in the NFL. So he will find a reason why he's going to run up a score on you.
Shout out, by the way, to the guy in the front row that got the Mike Evans touchdown ball from Brady's 600th career touchdown pass. And then the equipment guy from the Bucs walks over and was like, hey, that's a pretty important ball.
You mind, just hand that back, buddy? And the guy just gave it up to him. Then we find out that that thing is worth six figgies.
Yep. Easy.
Easy. They bullied that man out of a huge payday.
Well, Mike Evans, what a fuck up. How do you not know that? Also, how many balls does Brady need? Does Brady actually hang on to every single one of these milestone balls? Because he's just going to throw 700 passes.
Easily. And then the 600th one isn't going to mean shit.
Correct. No, I agree.
Like, what happens to ball 500 after this? That's what this dude should demand. He should be like, if you throw 700, you need to send me this ball back.
Other quarterbacks have thrown 500, though. Yep.
There's one that's thrown 600. That's true.
That's true. Would you give it back to Brady? Yeah, personally.
What do you mean, personally? Like, I wouldn't hand it to the ball boy. I'd be like, Tom, here's my number.
You should hold out for a meet. I'll come give it to you.
We can go out to dinner. I can stay over for a few weeks, month, year, adoption, whatever.
Just become the new Antonio Brown. But yeah, I would give it up to him.
It was bullying. They bullied that guy or that ball.
Yeah. It was a painful game, though.
It was terrible that it was an addition to the replacement game ball. The Bucs gave fan Byron Kennedy a $1,000 gift card to their team store.
Not even cash? That was Barstool Sports Lawyer right there. They didn't even give him cash.
They gave him store credit for the ball? Wow. Dude, Brady, you have a lot of money.

Give him something.

But that's why once you give it to the equipment manager. I know.

But Mike Evans fucked up.

Mike Evans, you've got to know.

You've got to understand the moment and not give away that ball.

There may be legal precedent that even if he did keep the ball,

that he couldn't keep it because of a lawsuit.

This is a Billy just decided.

I like that.

What's the precedent?

No, I think that legal precedent means it's happened before.

I think there's What is the precedent?

Legal precedent means it's happened before.

I think there's legal precedent

that if you take equipment from an NFL...

You say precedent or precedent?

Precedent.

What's the precedent?

That if someone were to take equipment...

When did it happen?

I don't know, but I think there is.

What?

Billy's anticipating that it's happened before.

Like if that guy were to run out of the stadium...

I don't fully know what precedent means,

but I think that means that...

Precedent means it's happened before.

Billy's using it in's happened before at some point. I don't fully know what precedent means, but I think that means that precedent means it's happened before.
Billy's using it in the form of president. Hypothetically.
I feel like, what is so controversial about that? You're saying there's legal precedent, but you don't have any to show. I'm trying to find it.
But I think that's why you can just walk out of the stadium with the ball. I think you can.
I think once you take possession and you make a football move, that football becomes you. Because it's all stamped with property of whatever team.
All the balls. But if somebody hands it to you.
Like, the balls we have in the office are all stamped property of Buffalo Bills. No, there's a logo on it, but it doesn't say property of.
It does. Oh.
You sure? Wow. Yeah, well, look when we go back to the other office.
Yeah, I think you're just making that up. I'm not.
It's literally a stamp. Billy, I'm on your side.
Thank you. I'm on the right side of history.
I think if you take the ball and you hold it close to your body and you don't give it up. No.
Billy's right. They can't take it from you.
I'm on your side, Billy. That's assault if they took it from you.
That's a fucking ride, bro. Let's go.
Yeah. Either way, this game sucked.
Justin Fields does not look good. I don't know i'm i'm people are gonna tell me he's the worst i'm gonna wait till uh he has a real coaching staff and i know you're like hey didn't you say that about two oh yeah that's how fan fandom works um i'm gonna wait and see uh because i have no other option and if he is not good then everything's just terrible terrible terrible i think that this season you can't judge what Justin Fields is doing.
I have a stat that makes me feel better about him, though. He's been sacked 20 times.
The record is 31, David Carr. I still think David Carr could be good.
I have another stat for you. I have another stat for you.
The last rookie to have three. At football? You think David Clark would be good at football? Yes, yes.
He had sick arms. Okay.
The last rookie to have three interceptions and two fumbles was Josh Rosen. I still think Josh Rosen could be good.
Okay. So I'm not giving up on Justin Fields.
No. I'm fucking standing my ground.
You can't judge anything Justin Fields does this year. Because obviously the situation with the Bears could be a lot better right now, probably saying that as an understatement, but you can go into next year and be like, he's got an offensive coordinator that will take advantage of his skill set, and by skill set I mean running plays that work.
And it's a very bad combination of an offensive line that can't really block. Justin Fields processing not being that quick right now, waiting for receivers to get open, and it's a receiving core that never gets open.
So that's how you get a result like today, where the wheels fall off and it looks terrible. The only thing I can hope is that Matt Nagy gets fired soon.
Put us out of this misery. I think if it had gotten worse, he might have gotten fired this week.
If it had gotten real, real bad. If it had gotten real, real bad.
38-3 wasn't bad? Yeah, if he had one play that he ran towards the end of the game, that was an absolute clown show. Not in Billy's sense, but if he did it to himself.
Ran a fake field goal that got switched into a pass that got intercepted and returned for six. If there was some signaturely, comically bad play that he had ran, I feel like it could have been this week.
I mean, if the Bucs had wanted to, they could have won that game 60-3. 60 probably.
They put the Bears out of their misery by not really running a real offense in the second half. It was a very, very bad game.
The Bears

are not even close to

the real

teams. Oh, how about

Tracy Wolfson running a

five-minute mile? Yeah, crazy. So they

just dropped that on us out of nowhere that Tracy

Wolfson came in second place

in the Tampa 5K that they had

in the morning, and she runs a five-minute

mile over the course of 3.1 miles? What the fuck is that about? Crazy. Shout out Tracy.
At any point in this broadcast, did you say, Tony Romo, you're insufferable? No. Really? I have not.
I hate him, though. They were trolling everyone.
I know. That's what I'm saying.
I know. No, they're terrible.
I did say they were trolling us. They were trolling us.
So they've expanded their repertoire. It's no longer just about golf jokes between the two of them now if they ever want to get under the other guy's skin they just make a comment about how rich the other person is yeah like jim you've got houses in every state here's the thing though this game taxes this game you like the romo and jim nance trolling bears fans like i can't get mad because the bears were the reason for it because by halftime, they were like, well, we got to run all of our best material here because we don't have a game to talk about.
It was the entire second half. I had a headache watching it because it was like, this isn't even football.
The Bears can't do anything and the Bucs aren't even trying anymore. There should have been a running clock in the second half.
It was so bad. It was so bad.
I just

flush it out, worry about it next

week. I think the Bears are probably going to beat the 49ers

next week. So I'm already back.

Welcome back. There it is.
What, you don't think so?

What's the weather going to be like next week?

It's going to be in Chicago. Probably a nice

brisk day. Are they going to shut out the 49ers?

What? Are they going to shut out the 49ers? Maybe.

Then maybe.

Why are you saying?

Because the Bears can only score three points?

Yeah. They have gone, I think, like

Thank you. Are they going to shut out the 49ers? Maybe.
Then maybe. Why are you saying? Because the Bears can only score three points? Yeah.
They have gone, I think, like every game this year under 200 yards passing. So we're like going backwards in football history.
I mean, it would be great if we got a 3-0 game out of it. Yeah, I'd be fine with that.
Win's a win. 4-4.
I'd convince myself they're a playoff team. Yeah, they stink.
All right. Eagles, Raiders.
So Nick Sirianni, you're talking about look in the mirror, guys. He actually is – this is all he says now.
So after the game, he said, anytime you lose like that, everybody has to look themselves in the mirror. It just wasn't good enough.
It starts with me. It wasn't good enough.
That was like Nick Sirianni basically opened up a coach's cliche handbook and started reading from page one. It starts with me is a good one.
Yeah. It started.
I would have liked it better if he had said it starts and ends with me. Yes.
That's even better. But yeah, Sirianni, he is, he's the opposite in every way of Basiquia.
Yes. Are we pronouncing that correctly? Sirianni's not a foxhole guy.
No. Not a foxhole foxhole guy.
He's got his own foxhole. Yeah.
That's got weird toiletries and lotions and hair grooming products. He's got great eyes, by the way.
He does have good eyes. He's a good looking man.
Yeah, he is a good looking man, but he's not a good football coach. I wouldn't want my football coach to be good looking.
That just tells me you haven't played enough football. I'm trying to think who's the best looking football coach.
Steve Belichick. Sean McVay is a pretty good coach.
Cliff? Yeah, Cliff. Cliff's got that whole, like, I just wear sunglasses thing.
He's actually not that attractive. You think Vrabes? Vrabes is a hot man.
Actually, you know what? It kills me to say it, but Matt LaFleur's a good-looking dude. He is? Yeah.
I like Cully, David Cully. Yeah.
I like how he dresses. I like how he just keeps going out there.
I like how he's alive. Yeah, he just keeps doing it.
A lesser man would have died. Arthur Smith.
Arthur's a great looking guy. Really good looking guy.
Bruce Arians. Red's my favorite color.
Yeah, Bruce Arians. Mike Tomlin's a good looking guy.
Alright, so there's some good looking coaches. Sirianni is like next.
He's like the Jimmy Garoppolo of head coaches, where it's like you need to ug it up a little bit, bro. He also, that game was like, it was so, the Eagles basically, it was a 7-7 game.
The Raiders went on a 96-yard touchdown drive to make it 14-7. Then the Eagles fumbled the next play.
Raiders scored. Then they start the second half.
The Eagles do an onside kick that doesn't work. Raiders score.
So it was like 7-7, and then you blinked, and it was 24-7. Yeah, the onside kick that started the second half, that seems like a play that should work every time.
It should. Because the middle is always there.
But then you have to remember you're counting on your kicker to recover it and Alec Ingold, the fullback, special teams captain, is waiting on it. More than that, Rich Basicchia is a special teams coach who's now your head coach.
He can't let any of that happen ever. That's the one thing that he can't let happen as the new head coach to have his special teams fail.
Yeah, and so here's what Carr said after the game about Basicchia. He has the ear of the locker room.
He has the pulse. He has the heartbeat.
I think that's the same thing as the pulse. And he's our leader.
We would love for him to still be our head coach for the future. It's going to happen.
So they're at least going to give him that interview. Yeah, no.
We're fully on to phase two. I could see Mark Davis being charmed.
Yes. Absolutely.
Very easily charmed. Also, he probably doesn't have to pay him that much, which Mark Davis is more P.F.
Changs for me. Huge bonus.

Yeah.

Derek Carr, by the way. Derek

Carr, fun fact, is actually

on pace now. 17 games,

so it's all different. Derek Carr is on

pace right now to break Peyton Manning's passing

single season passing record, which would be

awesome. Yes, it would.
It would be so

awesome. He has to do...
So Peyton Manning had 5,477 yards in 2013 with the Broncos. Derek Carr is pretty close to 2,000 yards through seven games.
He has to average 353 yards per game to break it. I think we can all agree at that point that if Derek Carr does break Peyton Manning's record, which I'm rooting for right now.

Oh, I have to root for it. But it would also make every step meaningless in football for the future of the game.
But I want it to happen. I want it.
I want him to destroy the game of football. Yes, I want that.
And I also think, fun little narrative we can get going, is Darren Waller bad for Derek Carr? Oh, I like that. Because Darren Waller was out today.
Derek Carr was 31 for 34, and he had a stretch where he had 16 straight completions. I think Darren Waller— Makes you think.
I think John Gruden was bad for Darren Waller because it was just like, what are you going to call this play? Just more Darren Waller. Yeah, yeah.
We're going to feed Darren Waller every single time. I don't know.
I like the narrative. I think that we should at least— A fun thing we should throw out think that we should at least have the conversation.
I've also noticed that the Eagles are kind of the backdoor kings, not in terms of covering, but in terms of making blowouts feel like they were less blowouts than they really were because this happened with the Chiefs, it happened with the Bucs, and it happened again today where they got the shit kicked out of them. But if you were to look at the final score, you're like, that was a marginally entertaining, close game.
It was competitive. No, there was someone, I saw it when I was scrolling through Twitter before we did the show, someone had a, it was Nick Sirianni and Jalen Hurts in the fourth quarter of a blowout, and it was just a picture of Brady and Belichick.
Yeah, exactly. Like, that's what they are.
Yes, they'll do something like they'll score the last touchdown of the game and go for two for no real reason just to make the score appear a little bit closer than it was. Right.
They always have weird scores. Very weird scores, yeah.
So it makes you scratch your head and be like, oh, that must have been kind of competitive. They also have – the Eagles have so many plays that are just demoralizing.
Yes. Where right after it's over, the guy walks back towards the huddle and is like, well, we're going to lose today after that play.
Yeah. Where like, yeah, and even their last touchdown was Jalen Hurts just throwing a ball that should have been picked off like 100 times out of 100.
And yeah, I don't know. Eagles fans can't be very happy right now.
I think they have a shitload of draft picks, though. So just do that.
I think they have three first-round draft picks. Can you find that for me, Jake? I'm pretty sure they do.
Yeah, they have the Dolphins, the Colts on their own. So there you go.
Right now, I'll be three of the top nine. Wow.
So they're ready to build. You can suck if you have three first-round draft picks.
They're going to get three wide receivers that can't catch. You can tell yourself that the whole thing's going to change.
Yeah, they're going to get one wide receiver that also played lacrosse who's going to stink. One guy that works part-time as an EMT and he's going to quit after a year.
Garbage guy who can be their kicker. Yeah, then a garbage kicking field goal picker.
Alright, last up. Rams, Lions.
Let's clap for the Lions. They did everything they could to try to win this game.
I would say Dan Campbell went hard in the paint today. He went so hard in the paint.
He fucking left everything out on the field. Two fake punts, onside kick, going for it on fourth down, and they still ended up losing by nine points.
I think they're the best winless team in history, though, at this point in a season. Yeah.
I think that they're going to turn every game into a street fight, where they're just going to play like they have nothing left to lose because they don't, and Dan Campbell is just going to do crazy stuff, and eventually it's going to work out. So what he's doing is obviously being as aggressive as possible all the time.
And there's going to be one game where every single aggressive play that he makes is going to work. And then that'll be their one win on the season.
And everyone will be happy and will cry. And I'll cry.
They did everything they could to try to win this game. And I know that sounds very stupid to say because they're all pros.
They're out there trying to win. But if you watch this game, the Lions were – they were doing – the biting the kneecaps, that actually happened.
They were trying so hard to win this game. They were stealing possessions.
And it just turns out they're just way less talented than the Los Angeles Rams. They were getting into fights.
So Sewell went after Aaron Donald. They are taking on that mentality.
Right. Listen, I'm going to be dirty as fuck, and we're going to just try to shove each other.
And like I said, Dan Campbell, if he was the coach of the Chiefs, I think the Chiefs immediately rebound. Yeah.
And all their problems will be fixed. Yeah.
Just a hard note. Let's play a game called let's try to find the Lions a win because I would like them to win one sunday i think it's coming soon yeah oh really who are they playing the birds oh okay at home which bird they could win that eagles they could win that game bears bears on thanksgiving although they've already lost the bears but yes that absolutely is losable for the Bears.
At the Broncos? Maybe at the Browns, depending if Baker's back. Last game of the season, if the Packers are benching Rodgers.
Oh, okay. First ever week 18.
They're winning before that, Jake. Chill out.
I want them to win very badly. I want Dan Campbell to get on everyone's shoulders, walked off.
I think that the Lions are going to win two games. Okay.
I'm taking the over on 1.5 wins. That would be nice for them.
But yeah, they fought their asses off. I do have a very sad stat.
Actually, you know what? I'm not going to say it. I'm not going to say it because he's our friend.
Jared Goff's our friend. So I'm not going to say it.
And it looked like Dan Campbell turned the keys keys to the offense over to Jared. He did.
He did. The Rams have also never lost a game where they've been leading at halftime, which is crazy under McVay.
That's an insane thing. And then the only other stat I had was the only player in Super Bowl era to have eight-plus touchdowns and 800 yards in the first seven games of the season is Cooper Cup.
He's the only player to do that in the Super Bowl era. That's insane.
He's got two touchdowns today? 156 yards? He's on fire. It also is the same route every time.
It's him starting on the right side and running all the way across the field and Matt Stafford getting him while he goes up the field and then he scores a touchdown. It seems like cheating to be able to put a guy in motion before the play and then use his speed to just continue having him be open after the ball snapped.
I know it's totally legal, but it feels like they were laying it on pretty thick today. The Lions haven't won a game, Sean.
Yeah. I like how Stafford afterwards said he's relieved to have the Lions reunion over with, as if it was like, you know, Brady going back to Foxborough.
Like, did anyone really? Well, there were so many different revenge factors in this game. But was anyone like, man, this is a big story? No, it was like the verbal meme where everyone's like shaking hands in the middle, everybody of different stripes and races wearing different shirts.
Yes. And it was like all around the same revenge game but you also had obviously jared goff going back to the west coast sean mcveigh yeah laid it on pretty thick in the postgame hug with jared goff yeah jared goff didn't really seem like he was not in a hugging mood we don't buy that shit that's bullshit i just clicked on a random ad oh uh celebrities that you can't believe are still alive.
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Hank, how was your weekend?

Good.

Fun time.

Call Punk was awesome.

TFT killed it.

You had fun in Colorado?

I had fun in Colorado. I had fun in Indiana.
Fuck yeah. I'm not going to ask you anything about your weekend.
Okay, thanks. I won't ask you anything about yours either.
All I asked you was how was your weekend? Yeah, Jesus. I can't say how was your weekend.
You cannot. It was awesome.
Pop Punk was great. Lots of fun.
Pop Punk does rock. All right, let's get to our Football Guys of the Week.
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Billy, football guy of the week. This week we have a great crop of nominees.
Last week was a little scarce, but we had a big winner in- Scarce? Greg Long. We're losing all ability to pronounce words.
Scarce? Scarce. I said, what did I just say? Angelo? Angelo Lansbury.
Shout out Greg Long, Chugging Coors Light, Purdue. So he was last week's winner.
This week we have our first nominee, Malik Jackson, defensive tackle on the Browns, who said that football isn't a 9-to-5 job and that they have to think about it all day, all the time, even on a date with a girl. it is a 24-7 commitment in a state of mind.

That's a huge football guy

mentality and way of life.

Our second nominee is Max

Williams, tight end for the Arizona

Cardinals, who, even though he had

a season-ending knee injury, suited

up and watched the game

from his couch in full pads.

What are you doing right now?

All these guys in the NFL? Look, there was a bad crop last week. There's a great crop this week.
I can't just make up football. I don't like this.
I just can't make up football guys. I miss the high school football guys of the week.
All right, keep going. Our third nominee is Dawson Knox, Bill's tight end.
What are you doing? These are all NFL players. People were actually being football guys this weekend.
Is there anybody that doesn't get paid millions and millions of dollars to play a sport that just does it for the pure football? Just wait. Dawson Knox, what do you do? Dawson Knox, we all saw him throw the touchdown to Josh Allen on Monday night.
It turns out he broke his thumb or finger the drive before, and he threw that. You saw how it was kind of like shot-put, and it kind of wasn't like a good pass.
He barely got to him, so it turns out he did with a broken hand. So that's pretty cool.
Yeah, that's a football guy. So our last nominee is James Poulos from Calvary Christian Academy, offensive lineman.
Okay. Did you do something about a pancake? So James Poulos was coughing up blood before his homecoming game.
And in order to play, he bit his lip and convinced his trainer that the blood was from his bleeding lip. Oh, that's not insane.
That's good. Coughing up blood.
Is he okay? He's got a bowl? He didn't die. Did you do the bare amount of research to find out if he was dead? No, he did not die.
He was real. And so, yeah.
So those are our football guys of the week. What was wrong? Why was he coughing up blood? He had some sort of pneumonia.
I think the real word's pleurisy he had. He played through pleurisy through his homecoming game.
It's a huge football guy move. That's perfect.
The other team actually finally got him kicked out of the game because they were complaining about him coughing up blood

during the game. Oh my god.

Kind of in a pandemic. Yeah.
He was like, hey, no,

it's my lip. And he was like chomping

down his own lip. Did they win?

I didn't check that out, but the effort was there.

Okay. And that's football guy move.
I've also

actually added a little caveat

to football guy of the week and we're going to have

so for the weeks when there's a bad crop

of football guys, we're going to do bonus throwback Football Guy of the Week. Define bad crop.
I mean, last week there weren't. The football guys weren't.
What goes into finding these? How do you find these? Search it on Twitter for Football Guy. No, there's also other stuff you have to look through.
What other resources? What other documents? You have to just find the stories, too. How do you find those? Well, sometimes there's not that many submissions and there's not that many football guys.
If you look at last week, there wasn't that many football guys. The thing is though with Billy, I don't think he realizes when it's a bad crop until he says them out loud.
And then we leave him feedback. You can tell when I have to really dig into the bag into high school football stories.
So now we're old old school. I like the old school.
I'm just going going to add the old school because, you know, like. I would like one old school week.
That's what I'm doing. Okay, perfect.
So this week we had a fan once called Mike Ditka a baby on a call on a radio show, and Mike responded by giving the guy his office address and telling him, you tell me what time and when, I'll whip your ass. So just an old school football back story.
So we're going to be adding those in every week. Yes.
So they'll feel good. Nice.
Beautiful. Thank you, Billy.
That was pleasant. Perfect.
Yeah. All right.
Let's do it for the high school kid. I mean, the guy played through pleracy.
The old school one, it won't be on the voting card. Oh, fuck.
All right. So the Bears can't win anything.
Sorry. All right.
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Hank, Who's Back of the Week?

All right. My Who's Back of the Week.
My who's back of the week is people getting mad about lists the NBA released 75 greatest players of all time they added a bunch of current players to the old list that I think they put out in like the 90s and people are very mad about some of the selections some of the people who didn the list. Klay Thompson's publicly mad about it but kind of being cool about it.
Kyrie was on the list. I don't know if you guys saw this.
There was NBA on their website put out, they made highlight packages for all 75 players and they made one for Kyrie, but then he didn't make the final list and then on the website the link to the video's gone. So there's some shady shit going on there.
Dwight Howard didn't make it, even though he has a better resume than Anthony Davis, who did make it. Then they were fighting on the sidelines.
Coincidence? I think not. So wait, go back to the Kyrie thing.
People are thinking that he was going to be on the list at 75 best, and he was taken off at the last minute? IFT, I'm not even like... People are doing their own research on Kyrie? I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but you tell me, PFT.
If you're the NBA, why would you accidentally... If you're making a highlight package, the thing was like Kevin Durant, 75, highlight package.
James Harden, 75, highlight package. Kyrie Irving, 75, best player, highlight package.
Why would you make that? Honestly, I would do it. Unless you did it before the season, then all this shit came out.
It makes sense. And then they put in this fucking guy from the 70s that no one knows.
We can all agree that it's the funniest that it happened to Kyrie. Yeah.
If I were in charge of the NBA, I would do stuff like this all the time to Kyrie so that Kyrie would be like, they're all out to get me. Right.
And it'd be like, yeah, I actually am out to get Kyrie, but nobody will believe you. Bill Walton, unbelievable.
Probably one of the best college players of all time. Not that good of a...
Was NBA. Yeah.
Exactly. Did he get injured? That's what I'm saying.
He was on the list. No, he was on the list.
He was MVP, and he won a title. Yeah, this is pretty good.
They really just need to do it, because I saw some people getting mad about old school players. They just need to make it current only, because of course, if you put Klay Thompson in a gym in 1950, they'd be like, who's this alien? He's better than all of us.
So that's the argument. People will post highlights of guys from 1940 and be like, look at them.
You think this guy's better than Kyrie? Who are you dunking on? All sports evolve. Yeah, exactly.
You could be like, well, if this guy didn't exist, then Kyrie Irving wouldn't even know how to play basketball. No, he'd probably still be way, way better.
Max Scherzer would strike out Babe Ruth he would yeah so could babe ruth strike out max scherzer though probably not i think he could i don't know how fast did he throw we don't know we don't know we don't know they'd have radar guns but it is funny whenever they show like people are like this guy sucked like yeah of course it was a hundred years ago yeah but it's just really to spurn conversations with your dad. It's good to be mad about a list.

Yeah, look at the list and be like, hey, dad, sorry I haven't talked to you in a while.

Who the fuck was Bob McAdoo?

Yeah, you just need to, every now and then you've got to remember that the list exists

so that you can have maybe an hour and a half to pass your time in a work day.

It's like whenever I start a discussion about the college football playoff.

We're doing that because we're not going to solve anything.

Nothing is going to – no one's going to come to an agreement. But we get to basically waste an hour and a half of debating resumes online.
And that's fun. That is my, like, view of a good, well-spent morning is to get, like, in an argument with people about college football resumes online.
Is it me or does the NBA put out a different list every two months? Yeah. I feel like there are a million of these NBA.
Is this list, this is the officially sanctioned? Yeah, because it's 75th year anniversary. I just feel like we go through this conversation all the time.
Yeah, I mean, NBA probably is the league that likes to rank the most. They like to get the maddest.
They like to get the maddest. Because college football fans don't like to get mad.
They actually get angry and argue. NBA fans like to get mad about the race.
Right, right. All right, PFT, you're who's back? My who's back of the week is rugby.
Yeah, rugby's back because the USA lost, I think, 105-14 to New Zealand. So we finished in second place.
Okay. Which might mean that we're in first place next week.
It was bad. It was a bad game.
We barely avoided being the biggest margin of defeat ever in the history of international rugby. Oh, damn.
So, sport of the future. What, the second most? Sport of the future.
Yeah, second most. Second most.
Second most in everything. Yeah, so it was fun, though.
I got to go to FedEx Field, and I'm sure that the field won't be absolutely torn up for the next home football team game. But it was fun.
Got to see the Haka up front, close and personal. That is very intimidating, seeing those guys get out there and do the tribal dance and shit.
I think so. It was absolutely terrifying.
The game was over after that happened. So, yeah, rugby's back.
Congratulations, rugby. All right, my who's back is the Atlanta Braves.
Congratulations to the Atlanta Braves for making the World Series. I'm so happy this happened because I did actually start to feel bad that I said that on Friday.
As first reported by part of my take, the Braves didn't make the World Series. I think we're all rooting for the Braves against the Astros.
But it's fun to have the Braves back in the World Series. It's been a long time since they made it.
And, yeah, that's my Who's Back Week. And, Hank, would you like to say anything about – did the Red Sox lose because of Laz Diaz? No, they didn't.
They lost because they couldn't score runs. They wasted all their home runs on grand slams in the first couple games.
So, wait, did they win on aggregate? Probably. Maybe not.
I think they might have. Maybe so.
There's precedent that they could have. They might have, yeah.
That would be fun if it was just total runs over seven games. I like the Braves, though.
They're a fun team. I feel bad for the sport of the MLB because, let's be honest, Braves-Astros doesn't really get the needle moving for a national audience.
See, I'm not going to do that. You did that.
I'm not going to do that. I did that.
Yeah, I'm not going to do that. I'm going to start dumping ratings in your face.
No. You don't think that the Astros moved the needle? Nah.
Not even the cheating stuff? Yeah. Who wants to stay with the cheater? Everyone loves a villain.
It moves... You're going to watch when it's...
COVID ruined the fun of hating the Astros. They did.
They kind of did. You're right.
Because they didn't get their proper... You know, the hatred tour.
No. Not at all.
I'm very happy for Braves fans, though. It would be awesome.
It would be nice for the city of Atlanta to have a win.

What if the Braves just started beating the Astros in the World Series,

being like, this is for cheating for all those years? Like physically beating them up?

No, like beating them.

That would be sick.

Oh, beating them, yes.

This is your comeuppance.

We're going to take the biggest platform in the game.

We're going to lose every game.

Yeah, we're going to lose the World Series just to exact revenge on you guys.

That would be fun to watch.

I would love it.

Yeah.

And then the poor Dodgers. Oh, so bad.
So sad. SMH, as Magic Johnson said.
SMH. Tough that Magic Johnson...
He did not actually tweet that, right? Like, Magic Johnson's not an SMH person. Well, he texted someone, yeah.
But the person that he texted, I feel like they added the SMH on. Oh, you think they editorialized it? I think it was like a little flair that they put on there.
Okay.

Billy or Jake?

Then you wrap it up, Billy.

My Who's Back of the Week are Knicks fans.

Oh.

Holy SHIT.

This viral video from their opening night win over the Celtics.

You guys haven't seen it?

No. I did see it, yes.

I haven't seen it.

They were going cray-cray.

It's a podcast, Jake. We had Cuomo.
It was rough shit. But we had...
We had... We had...
We had... Ding-bong.
Tell me a little something, KD. Don't you regret not coming to the Knicks? Not coming to the Knicks? Not coming to the Knicks? It was great.
Yeah. I love it.
Mixed fans are crazy. I love it.
I hope they don't lose this stamina. I hope they can do this for every single win that they have at home.
I want all of 7th Avenue to be shut down. I want barrel fires.
I want this to be just like a constant season-long thing. I agree.
Hank, you were at that game. I was at that game.
It was an awesome game. Experience, atmosphere.
I've been to Knicks-Celtics games like three or four times since we've lived in New York. That was the first one where I felt like the Garden was alive.
Obviously, it was opening night, so that probably had something to do with it. A lot of scoring.
The overtime was crazy. Evan Fortney had four threes by himself.
The Celtics somehow matched him, and then Jalen Brown missed a wide-open dunk. Schroeder missed a layup, and the Celtics lost.
So, I mean, the Knicks, like, they were going crazy because they got lucky. Whatever.
They lost to the fucking Magic tonight. They lost to the Magic tonight.
They lost to the Magic tonight. All right, Billy, wrap us up.
My who's back is Mike Tyson. So over the weekend, it broke that Mike Tyson is going to fight Logan Paul sometime in February.
Not a fan. Yeah, this is kind of, I don't know.
Actually, I like Logan Paul because he works with us, right?

I like Logan Paul.

I just...

I mean, this is...

Come on.

You think Tyson's going to, like, push...

Dude, he's so...

Would you fight Mike Tyson?

No, because he's actually dangerous.

We actually were talking in Denver the potential of you versus Hank, Ruffinori.

We were also talking about you versus Big Cat.

No, we weren't. Yeah, we were.
I'm retired. So am I.
I mean, I'd be down if we didn't have to train. If you didn't have to train? Yeah.
Just show up and fight? Yeah, that's like... You're just talking about a fight.
You want to do it right now? You want to fight Hank? You want to do it right now? If we can get Ruff and Rowdy money, that'd be sick. Oh, okay.
Hank's a lover, not a fighter. A lot of money, Hank.
No, but anyway, I fought for pride, Billy. I don't know about you.
I fought, never mind. You fought for my pride.
Yeah, true. Yeah.
That's the thing, like you can't fight Big Cat because Big Cat would just have you fight yourself. Yeah, and you'd probably die.
You would get the shit You trying to fight yourself would be. I don't want to put you in that spot prince philip dead or alive dead dead dead dead bitch although he was a big awl yeah absolutely love the fancy fuck lads what what you got billy last thing pablo escar's hippos have been classified as humans under the court of law i actually saw that that's actually a cool Yeah, that is nice.
That's a big step forward towards recognizing frogs as being people, too.

Verbal meme.

Verbal meme.

Small domino.

People like cocaine.

Big domino.

Pablo Escobar's hippos get classified as humans.

Hippos are humans.

Get human rights.

Whoa.

Think about that.

All right, number?

8, 69. 97.
Cam about that. Alright, number? 8, 69.

97.

Cam?

11.

Hank?

What's wrong, Hank?

I don't know yet.

Lakers?

I'll tell you.

94!

Oh, my God.

Oh, 94.

Alright, we'll see everyone on Wednesday.

Love you guys.

Bye. Shining away I'll be coming for your lover Take on me Take me on Are we gone? I don't want to Needless to say I'm all to say it This is for me Thank you.
Say ask me It's no better to be safe than sorry Take on me Take me I'll be gone When I turn out of time All the things that you say

Isn't life all

Just to play my worries away

You're all the things I've got to remember

Are you shying away?

I'll be coming for you anyway

Are you shying away?

I'll be coming for you anyway

Take on me, take me home

I'll be your

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