Jerry O'Connell, We Had Field Yates Help Us Get Mike Florio Again + Bryson, Mets And Cut Day In The NFL

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Speaker 5 On today's part of my take, we have one of our favorite guests, Jerry O'Connell, back in

Speaker 5 Studio. It's our fantasy football preview.
So we do our fantasy football preview with Jerry O'Connell and bonus, we have Field Yates and Mike Florio.

Speaker 5 You're probably going to start listening to the Field Yates interview and be like, what's going on? Well, we got Florio again. So just tune in because it's fucking awesome.

Speaker 5 We are going to talk hard knocks, Cut Day, Bryson, Mets, fake high schools, guys on checks. A loaded show for you.

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Speaker 5 close to you. Today is Wednesday, September 1st.
Whoa. Oh boy.

Speaker 4 Hey, somebody wake up the guy from Green Day. Yep.

Speaker 5 Football is back. No, wait, when is that? Oh, it's when September ends.
Yeah. And then also, what's the Rod Stewart?

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We've done it again, boys. We have watched Hard Knocks, and it sucks.
And I don't know what we're doing.

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Speaker 5 That is our dedication to you, the listeners.

Speaker 4 It's 11-11 right now.

Speaker 5 It's 11-11. Make a wish.

Speaker 4 I wish that hard knocks was over.

Speaker 5 Yeah, and it is. And there's still another episode.
We're not going to. They did kind of screw us because they put all the cuts for next week.
Yep.

Speaker 4 Usually, traditionally, when there are four preseason games, we get to see a little bit of the cuts this week where they walk into the office. Hey, I love you.
You're the perfect football player.

Speaker 4 If there's anything we can do to you or do for you, please let me know. And don't let the door hit you on your ass on your way out.

Speaker 4 They teased us with the cuts. What was your mojo moment from this?

Speaker 5 My mojo moment was Mike McCarthy showing up in his party shirt, looking like a watermelon.

Speaker 4 Yeah, yeah, the Mike McCarthy party shirt, it looked like it was a hologram of an even bigger shirt.

Speaker 5 Yes.

Speaker 4 It was playing tricks on the eyes. That's a classic example.

Speaker 4 Like McCarthy's wife probably gets him a like $50 gift card to Cole's every year for Christmas, and he just goes and blacks out and goes on like a shopping rampage.

Speaker 4 That's the shirt that he bought this year at Kohl's with his new money.

Speaker 5 Yes. Also, the other notable moment was the stand-up comedy routine where they tried to do stand-up comedy with only inside jokes that the locker room would get.
Yep.

Speaker 4 There was also more. We were all wondering how the whole contact saga from last week with Kwan Hardy was going to finish up.
This week they had him in contacts. Yep.
Human body craves contacts. Yes.

Speaker 4 Quan Hardy was like, you know what? I'm going to lose the goggles. No more Eric Dickerson.
He saw how he looked. And he played without goggles this week.
So that was...

Speaker 4 Oh, also, Jerry Jones is able to wink. Yeah.
I didn't think that was possible given the Botox situation.

Speaker 4 But he's only able to wink when he's in the presence of Whataburger.

Speaker 5 Yes. All right.
Last

Speaker 5 thing before we go to all the NFL cuts.

Speaker 5 Just a little warning. When you listen to the Field Yates Mike Florio interview, the start of it, you're going to be very, very confused because we're not part of it.

Speaker 5 Just wait because we got Florio again. We've gotten deeper.
He's going to have major trust issues from what we've done to him this year, but definitely listen and follow along. Nailed him.
Yes.

Speaker 5 Nailed Florio. Last thing before we get to the other cuts in the NFL that we actually did get to talk about,

Speaker 5 Jerry Jerry Jones, that was so, that was like when they put the cliffhanger at the end of an episode and you're like, oh, I got to watch next week.

Speaker 5 They just showed Jerry Jones talking about Waterburger at the end, and you're like, wow, I really want some more Jerry Jones.

Speaker 4 There were probably like nine or ten different scenes in this hard knocks, though, where I watched it, and I was just like,

Speaker 4 this is the stuff they decided to keep in this week. Like, there was one time where a guy came up to his defensive line coach and was like, hey, good meeting earlier.

Speaker 5 They kept that in.

Speaker 4 That's the gold stuff that we're getting. So yeah, next week we're going to see Gucci Denucci.
They cut him today. No spoilers.
No spoilers, but Gucci Denucci gets cut.

Speaker 5 Tell me.

Speaker 4 Probably similar to the Cam Newton thing where they're like, you know what? You're going to get a starting job somewhere, so we want you to have the pick of the litter, Gucci.

Speaker 5 Okay, moving on from hard knocks.

Speaker 5 Cut day in the NFL. I would say that the Lions going with no kickers would lead the cut day stories, but Cam Newton got cut.
He did, yeah. So it's Mac Jones time in New England.
That's right.

Speaker 4 Hey, big cat, have you noticed? Mac is Cam backwards. Oh, that's the new saber metrics.
That's

Speaker 4 the hottest in the street. Mac Attack is going to be the starting quarterback for your New England Patriots.
People are saying, like, why did they cut Cam Newton?

Speaker 4 I think it's actually because Bill was probably like, hey, I think Cam could probably try to get a starting job somewhere.

Speaker 4 Maybe if somebody got hurt or if there's a team out there that's looking for a starting quarterback still.

Speaker 4 So that's probably why they cut him loose so that he didn't have to stick around as a backup.

Speaker 5 Shout out to Cam Newton for being ever so gracious in his Instagram message where he continued to use his font. I really want to see how far he would go with that font.

Speaker 5 Like if he was remembering like a tragedy, if he was

Speaker 5 his tombstone. His tombstone.

Speaker 4 His obituary hash should be written in that font.

Speaker 5 Because like getting caught and being like, hey, nothing but good things.

Speaker 5 I shouldn't have been shocked, but I was a little shocked when I saw the font.

Speaker 4 Do you think that if Cam, heaven forbid, if he had like one of the STDs that you have to hit up everybody that you've ever been with, you think he'd send a text be like, hey, I got the Herp.

Speaker 5 Yes.

Speaker 4 Might want to get that checked out.

Speaker 5 Yes. Yes.
I think it would be that way.

Speaker 4 I think you would too. And yeah, he was gracious.
He actually gave one of the all-time best high-fives that I've ever seen when Mac got he got pulled out of the game.

Speaker 4 Was that Sunday? And Cam just like stalked him on the sideline, made him give him a shot of the high five. I actually think Cam is a great teammate.
I think that he'll probably find a place.

Speaker 4 If he wants to keep playing, he'll definitely have a spot if he wants one later on the day.

Speaker 5 I don't think he's a starter.

Speaker 5 he wasn't a he wasn't good enough to be a starter i mean he was a starter last year but he didn't play like one for the majority of the year hank what are your thoughts before i give one last thought about it it reminded me of the malcolm butler super bowl thing again like it was one of those things where it seemed like it was uh

Speaker 8 he could play he could be on the team he could contribute belich just is i i guess his thing is just the team comes first mac jones was the starter uh for the last few weeks and proved he can be the starter and i don't know if it's because him, I think what PFT was saying where it's like him and Cam have a good relationship you saw heard behind the scenes.

Speaker 8 So it probably was Belichick helping Cam out, but it seemed like one of those things where it didn't make sense at all, really.

Speaker 5 The one storyline that was utterly ridiculous to me was people who were trying to shoehorn the vaccine into it.

Speaker 4 You don't think that played anything?

Speaker 5 No.

Speaker 5 None. No.
Here's why. Here's why.
Hold on. Here's why.

Speaker 5 First, obviously,

Speaker 5 we're a pro-vaccination podcast. We're all vaccined here.
So I'm not saying go get the vaccine.

Speaker 4 Billy forced us into Billy forced us to get the vaccine.

Speaker 5 I'm sure there'll be one or two.

Speaker 5 I think the Twitter handle was Simone Biles Quit, got mad at me, said I should shove the vaccine up my ass. Last time I said you should get the vaccine.
But let me just reiterate.

Speaker 4 That same guy was mad at Arian today.

Speaker 5 Yeah, Simone Biles quit.

Speaker 4 I respect a great username. Yeah, shout out.
Really bad opinions.

Speaker 5 I think Bill Belichick would sign someone who was like a super spreader of vaccine if he was really good at quarterback.

Speaker 5 Because all he cares about is winning football games, games and that's the number one thing.

Speaker 5 I really do think he got cut because he was not good enough to be the starter and he probably it's probably a little distracting to have Cam Newton, former MVP, as your backup when you're trying to get your new starter, Mac Jones, to get the confidence and go along and start winning football games.

Speaker 5 I know that like obviously the best abilities availability and Billy Belichick is telling people to get vaccinated.

Speaker 5 But if Cam Newton was MVP Cam Newton, he wouldn't have been cut today because he didn't get the vaccine.

Speaker 8 If Cam Newton was vaccinated, though, this whole thing never would have happened. What do you mean?

Speaker 8 He wouldn't have missed the practices that he had to miss, which then put Mac Jones into playing with the starters, which I think was going to be the starter anyway.

Speaker 4 But he wouldn't have gone.

Speaker 5 Big Cat's technology.

Speaker 8 He wouldn't have gotten the reps if Cam Newton wasn't out of practice.

Speaker 5 He was getting first-team running. Big Cat says, though, that like if he was the MVP, if he was MVP Cam Newton, he probably would not have been cut.

Speaker 4 But in this circumstance, it was probably like 50-50 or 60-40 who the better quarterback? Then you take into account.

Speaker 5 Oh, I don't think it was that close.

Speaker 4 Well, right now, right now, and then you take it. And then you take into account all the variables about it, which is one, okay, Max's the younger guy, so he's going to be around for a while.

Speaker 4 So, like, yes, there's more of an upside to playing Mac Jones right now.

Speaker 4 And then, also, like, if Cam Newton isn't vaccinated and he does come into those high-risk contact situations, then by nature, like, he's going to be much more likely to actually miss time.

Speaker 4 So, I think if it was even close to 50-50, that definitely would have made a difference.

Speaker 5 No, so if you want to say a percent of Bill Belichick, like it was, hey, if he was vaccinated, it would help.

Speaker 5 I don't think Cam Newton's good anymore. He objectively was bad for the majority of last season.
Like he was good in the Dolphins game. He was good in that Seahawks game.
He was really bad.

Speaker 5 Borderline unplayable for a majority of the season. I just don't, maybe it's injuries.
I don't know what it is. I think he is not a good quarterback anymore.

Speaker 5 And Bill Belichick is not going to keep a not a good quarterback on the roster.

Speaker 4 What percentage of him getting cut do you think was his playlist?

Speaker 4 I'd say probably Hank,

Speaker 5 like

Speaker 5 you're going to go Zoe on it?

Speaker 5 Never go full screen.

Speaker 4 I don't think it was Zolak saying like he's playing, it's because he's playing rap music on the playlist. I think Zoe was saying like he's not playing good rap music on the playlist.

Speaker 4 Zoe was like, let me play some Soldier Boy, not this Drake shit.

Speaker 5 I just really think that Cam Newton, again, he's a great quarterback in the past.

Speaker 5 Actually, I'd say it, probably the best college football quarterback I've ever seen play.

Speaker 5 His last season in Auburn, when he was playing with an entire offense of guys who didn't play in the NFL and took them to a national championship, is like Mount Rushmore of seasons in college football.

Speaker 5 He was the MVP. He went to the Super Bowl.
That guy is not, he's not that guy anymore. Oh, he just isn't.

Speaker 4 Oh, I'm not disagreeing with you at all. I just think that

Speaker 4 the quarterback competition was like, it wasn't like Mac Jones absolutely blew him out of the water.

Speaker 5 It was... Oh, see, I think.

Speaker 4 Mac Jones played pretty well. Cam Newton didn't do badly this preseason.
I think Cam Newton played very badly last season.

Speaker 5 I agree with you on that.

Speaker 4 But it definitely, like, he definitely thought of it.

Speaker 4 And also, Belichick is smart enough not to do what Urban Meyer did and publicly say that because now they're opening an investigation to Urban Meyer and how much the vaccine played a part in cut because it obviously goes against some of the NFL PA stuff.

Speaker 4 So That's the difference between Bill Belichick and someone who aspires to be Bill Belichick.

Speaker 5 I just think we always look into these things more. Obviously, the vaccine has changed

Speaker 5 everyone's perception of these things. At the end of the day, Bill Belichick,

Speaker 5 what he does better than anyone else, is a football coach that always wants the team to win.

Speaker 5 He doesn't think Cam Newton's good anymore. I truly think that.

Speaker 4 I also like how Hank's brain is wired to be like six degrees of Kevin Bacon, but it's just six degrees of that Malcolm Butler interception.

Speaker 8 No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no benching Malcolm Butler in the second half of the Super Bowl.

Speaker 5 Yeah, yeah, that's what he's referring to.

Speaker 4 Oh, okay, gotcha. Yeah.

Speaker 8 Because that didn't make sense. No, you would have thought that Malcolm Butler would have helped win the game.
Yeah.

Speaker 8 But he didn't play him for reasons that still are unknown.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I mean, what is Seth Williams? What's Kim doing if he hasn't gotten to the bottom of that yet? That's really all. I want that, and I want to know about the design.

Speaker 5 I'm going to look up

Speaker 5 Jonas Gray type stuff, too. Yep.

Speaker 4 Slept in through the alarm clock. But that was

Speaker 5 a slow of alarm clock.

Speaker 8 I think if Cam Newton was was vaccinated, he'd still be on the team.

Speaker 5 Oh, I don't. See, I think that we forget how truly awful he was at the end of last year.
Hank, that's a good idea.

Speaker 8 But he had a good preseason. All the reports were saying, like, it's a quarterback back.

Speaker 5 Everyone has a good preseason. Yeah, I guess.
I mean, everyone is a preseason hero.

Speaker 4 That's a great headline, though. It's like, if Cam Newton was still vaccinated, he would still be a New England Patriot.

Speaker 4 And that would get some major clicks.

Speaker 5 Cam Newton,

Speaker 5 he had one game in the last

Speaker 5 from week nine on, he had one game over 200 50 yards.

Speaker 8 What? He got COVID during that time.

Speaker 5 Right, but then he came back and he was playing for the rest of the season, and he had some like 12 for 19 for

Speaker 5 69 yards. Remember that game? That was the

Speaker 5 Chargers game. Remember how bad that was? It was really bad.
It was really, really bad.

Speaker 5 And again, he might be injured. I'm not saying he's not injured.
Like, he could be injured.

Speaker 5 He could maybe somehow find that guy, but I don't think that guy's there right now.

Speaker 4 He definitely somewhat remembered how to throw a football during the offseason because he looked different. I watched the entire football team Patriots preseason game.

Speaker 4 Cam Newton, he looked not like a great quarterback, but he looked a lot better in terms of his mechanics than he was at those points last year where it looked like he was throwing a hatchet.

Speaker 5 Yeah, and obviously having him there if you're trying to have Mac Jones a starter, you said it yourself where it's like if you start with Cam Newton, then you go to Mac Jones.

Speaker 5 If you start with Mac Jones, then you can't go to Cam Newton. So that eliminates the whole issue.

Speaker 5 All right, other cuts.

Speaker 5 Detroit Lions don't have a kicker. I actually think that Dan Campbell forgot.
No, no. Oh, no, I think he forgot.
Like, he didn't do the math right.

Speaker 5 And then maybe in a day or two, he will re-sign a kicker when no one's looking.

Speaker 4 Okay, so I could see that happening if it was like he didn't do the math right and he got done with all of his cuts and there was like one guy that he thought would still be on the team.

Speaker 4 They're like, hey, we're over the limit by one. He's like, oh, shit.
All right, just get rid of one of these kickers. We can always find somebody that can kick a football.

Speaker 4 But what I love about this, I absolutely love this about what Dan Campbell is doing. He's like accidentally proving, you know what horseshoe theory is in politics?

Speaker 4 That the far left and the far right are exactly the same? He's doing that with meatheads and analytics people. He's going to go for two every time without a kicker.

Speaker 4 He's going to go for on fourth downs a lot without a kicker, obviously. So he's actually.

Speaker 5 So you think he's actually going to start the season with a kicker?

Speaker 4 I hope that he does. I don't think he does.

Speaker 4 I would absolutely love it.

Speaker 4 I would love it if Dan Campbell went into the season with zero kickers on his rock.

Speaker 5 I think he forgot. I think he did the cut.

Speaker 5 Like, he probably cut Zane Gonzalez early in the morning, and he was just going down the list, and he meant to cut Fat Randy, and then he cut Fat Randy the afternoon, and then someone in his office was like, hey, Dan, we don't have any kickers.

Speaker 5 And then he was like, all right, that was a fuck up, my mistake.

Speaker 5 I'm not going to re-sign someone right now. I'm going to wait a couple days.
That way it looks like I did this on purpose.

Speaker 4 Or maybe it's just like you have to earn your kicker instead of earning that star on the side of your helmet.

Speaker 5 One of the guys having to be on the team.

Speaker 4 You guys haven't played good enough to justify me keeping a kicker on this roster.

Speaker 5 Dan Campbell is just breaking analytics. All right, and then the other,

Speaker 5 every team is, every rookie quarterback is starting except Justin Fields.

Speaker 4 Trey Lance isn't.

Speaker 5 Oh, that's right. Trey Lance.

Speaker 4 He's got a chip in his finger. That's right.

Speaker 4 Which I guess they're saying that it's just going to be like a week, which I don't think that's possible to come back from like a sheared-off bone in your finger. Yeah.
I'm not a doctor.

Speaker 4 We'll have to get pro football.

Speaker 5 It sounds like a fake injury to give Jimmy G one last chance.

Speaker 4 Yeah, exactly. Like, okay, Trey, just like pretend that you got a jammed finger.
So let's just say that you're going to sit out for a little bit on this one.

Speaker 5 But yeah, Justin feels Andy Dalton is going to start. It's basically the reverse of everything I said about Belichick.
Belichick is like, well, what's the best way to win games?

Speaker 5 Matt Nagy's like, well, I made a promise to Andy Dalton back in March, so I have to keep that promise.

Speaker 4 You know what would actually be the most Matt Nagy move? Is if he benched Andy Dalton at halftime for Nick Foles in week one.

Speaker 5 Yeah, I mean, Nick Foles, everyone, no one wants Nick Foles. They've been trying to trade Nick Foles.

Speaker 4 I mean, the Colts, it would be so

Speaker 4 funny if the Colts are like, you know what, Carson Wentz might not be ready for week one. Let's get Nick Foles in.
He knows the system. Carson and him probably get along really well together.

Speaker 5 I just, I keep going back to it because I know everyone's like, well, you don't want to get Justin Fields killed.

Speaker 5 I don't actually care that Andy Dalton is starting the season in the fact that I think the Bears probably aren't going to be good anyway.

Speaker 5 So it's not going to be the deciding factor between making the playoffs or not. The part that I hate is that Ryan Pace and Matt Nagy had Justin Fields fall into his lap.

Speaker 5 They actually were going to play this entire season with Andy Dalton. Like, that's the part that's crazy to me.
That is the evaluation they did at quarterback. They went out and got Andy Dalton.

Speaker 5 They were like, this is the answer. And then they got lucky.
So I don't want to let them off the hook that they got Justin Fields in the draft because he fell to them.

Speaker 5 I want to remind people that these two morons actually wanted to start Andy Dalton. Nice guy, really nice guy.

Speaker 5 They actually thought they were going to have Andy Dalton be the starter for an entire year.

Speaker 4 Big Cat remembers. Yeah.
And I think that,

Speaker 4 like, Andy Dalton, he is, like you said, a very nice guy.

Speaker 5 Super nice guy.

Speaker 4 But the gap between him and Justin Fields is like, it's so astronomical that

Speaker 4 we're going to start having this conversation pretty soon is the players on the team.

Speaker 4 In order for Matt Nagy to keep credibility with his locker room, because the player is on big cat, because the players know who the best position the best player at his position is.

Speaker 4 In order to keep credibility and to make it legit, like, yeah, this is a football team where if you're the best at your position, you're going to play.

Speaker 4 They're not going to be able to keep Andy out there, even though he is a very nice guy. Very nice guy.
I don't think that they're going to be able to keep him out there.

Speaker 5 He bought a house. He bought a house in Chicago.
Good for him. So clearly, he's been promised probably the next decade as the Bears quarterback.

Speaker 4 Andy Dalton is too trusting.

Speaker 5 No. Why wouldn't you trust Matt Nagy? He's going through with his.
he, he did a handshake deal. They are starting Andy Dalton.
They said QB1. He is QB1.
Like, you have to trust these guys.

Speaker 5 These guys come through on everything. They let Mike Glennon start.
Like, they will always,

Speaker 5 if the Chicago Bears, as currently states, signs you to a contract in March that says you're the number one quarterback, you are the number one quarterback, no matter what happens. Word is Bond.

Speaker 5 Patrick Mahomes could ask, demand a trade to the Bears, and they would still let Andy Dalton start week one.

Speaker 4 Word is Bond. It's fucking crazy.
The other quarterback news is Deshaun Watson officially appears on the Houston Texans depth chart

Speaker 4 as Other. Yeah.
So there's safety. There's the starting quarterback, which is Tarod Taylor.
There's the backup quarterback, which is blank.

Speaker 4 There's the third string quarterback, which is God knows who, I forget. And then there's Other, which is Deshaun Watson.
So he's not even technically listed as being like... on the depth chart.

Speaker 4 He's just like

Speaker 4 he's a human form of an asterisk is what he is. And then David Culley, that's a reminder, in case you forgot he's a coach of the Houston Texans.

Speaker 5 Bulldog.

Speaker 4 They asked him today,

Speaker 4 so what's your death chart going to look like at running back? And he said, I guess we're just going to kind of do running back by committee, which is something that...

Speaker 4 We would say about their running back position after like week four when they're splitting the carries.

Speaker 4 But you've never heard a coach go into the season and be like, I guess we're just going to throw them all out there. Fuck it.

Speaker 4 I guess we're going to play. So, yeah,

Speaker 4 I guess they're both starters in my book.

Speaker 5 I appreciate that.

Speaker 5 He's at at least letting us know he actually is causing Matthew Berry to have a little less stress.

Speaker 4 Yeah, so I also think that with David Cully and well, he's not really making personnel decisions. Casero, is that the guy's name?

Speaker 5 Yeah, Casario.

Speaker 4 Caserio, pervert, down in Houston. What he's doing is he's like, he's developed a farm system for the entire rest of the NFL.

Speaker 4 So he's got all these aging veterans on his team that you hear their names and you're like, oh, that guy used to be good, Rex Burkett. He's a Texan.
Don't forget that.

Speaker 4 And so like halfway through the season, a couple injuries happen on a real football team.

Speaker 4 And then they're going to be able to trade those guys away over the course of the year and get assets back for them. This year, they're just, they're the Texans' general store.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 So if your team needs something, go shop down in Houston, pick something up.

Speaker 5 It's also,

Speaker 5 I mean, I don't feel confident that the Dolphins aren't going to trade for him, Deshaun Watson, because it seems like there's a lot of smoke around that.

Speaker 5 And Brian Flores did a, like he, he did the thing that you never want your coach to do. And he came out and was like, Tua is our quarterback.

Speaker 4 He's like, Yeah, this is

Speaker 5 you feel confident.

Speaker 4 We knew that Tua was your quarterback.

Speaker 5 We feel so confident that we're telling you how confident we feel.

Speaker 4 Yeah, like Bruce Arians isn't like Tom Brady as our quarterback.

Speaker 5 Yeah, it's not a big deal. He's the quarterback, guys.
Stop asking.

Speaker 5 But Deshaun Watson, if you want to get traded to the Dolphins and then put a bunch of asterisks in case you go to jail, we'll do that trade.

Speaker 4 Where do you think that Cam Newton is going to wind up?

Speaker 4 Do you think he's going to hang out for a while until there's an injury?

Speaker 5 I honestly don't know because, like,

Speaker 5 don't know.

Speaker 4 So, the most likely landing spot a lot of people have said would be the Washington football team, but I don't think that's the case at all because they had a crack at him last year when Ron Rivera was being the new head coach, and they didn't pursue him.

Speaker 4 So, Ron would know more than anybody, right? Yeah. Plus,

Speaker 4 if you're looking at two guys like Cam Newton and Ryan Fitzpatrick,

Speaker 4 they're both probably, like, I'd say Fitzy has looked better recently than Cam Newton.

Speaker 5 Dude, but even

Speaker 4 if they were equals, like 50-50, you don't go through a preseason with a guy and then at the last second, you're like, we're going to bring somebody in who's exactly your level and then get them up to speed in a matter of like a week and a half, two weeks.

Speaker 4 Yeah. So I don't think that he's going to sign with any team immediately.
I don't think that's going to happen.

Speaker 5 No, Cam Newton's not good. I'm counting it right now.
Ready Francesa. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

Speaker 5 Ten games that Cam Newton played last year where he was under 200 yards passing in today's NFL.

Speaker 5 That's a backup. Yeah.
That's a backup.

Speaker 4 Now, to be fair, the Patriots had like dog shit at receiver last year.

Speaker 5 Sure, but it's still a backup.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I'm just saying, to be fair.

Speaker 5 Yeah. I mean, look at Nick Mullins.
He'll fucking light the place up. Yeah.
C.J. Beathard.

Speaker 4 In the second half.

Speaker 5 Yeah, in the second half. Yeah.
Give him anyone.

Speaker 4 Yeah, what about a quarterback by committee? Why don't a team should just go all in on the Mullins, C.J. Beathard?

Speaker 4 Because if you looked at how they played in San Francisco when they were on the same team, sometimes they stunk for for a half.

Speaker 4 But if you absolutely fucking nailed it and you had Nick Mullins in for his good half and then Benchman brought CJ in for his good half, you could probably go 11 and 6 with that combination.

Speaker 5 Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 4 You'd have to time it perfectly.

Speaker 5 All right, so those are cuts. Football is about to be back.
We do have Tom Ferneli on the show on Friday to talk a little college football. We're going to do some NFL stuff next week preview.

Speaker 4 Dude, I saw the schedule for this weekend in college football. Yeah, it's great.
Holy fuck.

Speaker 5 It's fucking great. Badgers are going to be good this year.
And that's me just probably

Speaker 5 ready for a fucking,

Speaker 5 you know, sword in my heart on Saturday afternoon, but I actually do think they're going to be very good.

Speaker 5 The Mets. We should talk about them really quickly.
So, Javi Baez, this happened on Sunday when I was heading to the Jake Paul fight, so we didn't record late that night.

Speaker 5 Javi Baez came out and said that the thumbs down thing that he and Francisco Lindor and other Mets are doing is actually

Speaker 5 in reply to the fans that boo them when they do something bad. So when Javi Baias and Francisco Lindor do something good, they give thumbs down to the fans.
Okay, weird.

Speaker 5 You don't usually see players openly saying we're booing the fans. Whatever.

Speaker 5 Then the Mets came out and made a comment, did an official statement from Sandy Alderson, essentially saying booing is every fan's right. That's what they said, which I respect.

Speaker 4 First Amendment.

Speaker 5 Yeah, which I respect because it is. And that they completely disavow Javi and Lindor and anyone else who are actively booing the fans with thumbs down celebrations.

Speaker 4 Okay, so a couple things to unpack here. Number one, I love a good boo.
Yeah. I don't think that we should be legislating booze in this society.

Speaker 4 Boo is a very productive thing to do, it's a fun thing to do. And at the end of the day, it's just somebody making a noise at you and then it may be giving you a thumbs down.
But I love a good boo.

Speaker 4 Boos are underrated. It's way better than if you go overseas and people start whistling at you.
Yeah. Hate the whistle.
Love the boo.

Speaker 5 The boo, when a crowd catches a good boo, there's nothing like it.

Speaker 5 When maybe an ump makes a mistake or, you know, a ref fucks something up or just something bad happens and then the whole crowd gets a real deep, guttural boo. It's a very great experience.

Speaker 5 Close to... a whole entire crowd chanting asshole to someone, which is also great.

Speaker 4 I love the bullshit chants.

Speaker 5 Yeah, bullshit.

Speaker 5 At the Jake Paul fight, there was a pussy chant, which happened during the female fight which is a little awkward but it was because two guys in the 300 level were standing squared up with each other for i'm not joking five minutes without throwing a punch don't like that yeah so everyone started chanting that but back to the mets this is just so it's such a ridiculous like everyone lost their mind at the same time and it just

Speaker 5 All of it together is the dumbest story ever.

Speaker 4 So it's funny because Sandy tried to come out and say like he thought that he was having the fans back

Speaker 4 by telling Javi Baez like, hey, this is not what we do.

Speaker 4 And then there was a backlash to that by the Mets fans who in their own sick, demented, twisted Mets' brains were like, fuck you, you should have your players back over us.

Speaker 5 Right.

Speaker 4 Even though we're the ones that were booing him. And now you're saying that we don't want you on our side if you were a good...

Speaker 4 What's his official title with the Mets?

Speaker 5 I think he's the president of operations, maybe.

Speaker 4 That's a cool name. Baseball ops.
That's a sick name. GM.
They want him to have the players back.

Speaker 4 They don't care if he has the fans back at all, which I actually kind of understand that line of thinking.

Speaker 5 You know what they could have done?

Speaker 4 It's our right to boo. You don't have to agree with it.
You can defend to the death our right to do it, but just let us have our say and you get the players back.

Speaker 5 They could have just said nothing and it wouldn't have been a big deal. Correct.
It really wouldn't have been a big deal.

Speaker 5 And the craziest part is Javi Baez is actually not the one that I don't think Mets fans are actually mad at Javi because Javi is

Speaker 5 a rental. You know what I mean? Like he's probably not going to be on the Mets next year.
This is all Francisco Lindor. He signed a 10-year, $300-plus million dollar contract.

Speaker 5 He's Javi Baez's best friend. He's been doing the thumbs down.
That's the guy that I think Mets fans are truly mad at.

Speaker 5 And I really do think, like, Buster Olney was

Speaker 5 apoplectic. Did I use that correctly? He was apoplectic being like, Javi Baez has cost himself a ton of money

Speaker 5 in free agency. You know what has cost Javi Baez a ton of money in free agency? That he's hitting like 220.

Speaker 4 Yeah, maybe swinging like a full hour ahead of a change. Yeah.
That might have done his.

Speaker 5 And if he wants to come back to the Cubs on a discount, I would love that because I love him forever. But I would say that if Javi Baez was hitting 350,

Speaker 5 he could face fuck a guy's wife and someone would sign him in free agency. Whoa.

Speaker 5 Like after, he could walk up to the stands, hit a home run, walk up to the stands, and then like DX thrust into the front row, like into someone's face and they would still probably, the Dodgers will probably sign him.

Speaker 4 They might, yeah, they might actually pay him more. Yeah, right.

Speaker 5 They've got that.

Speaker 4 They've got that cap room coming up pretty soon.

Speaker 5 I guess this is a theme today, but I do think that I always love when Big J journalists think that like outside actions, how many times have we seen teams, they just don't care about anything but production?

Speaker 5 Yes. So to pretend that

Speaker 5 putting your thumbs down or even getting vaccinated really matters, it probably doesn't. If they're good, they're going to play.
Right. No,

Speaker 5 you're absolutely right about that.

Speaker 4 Javi Baez has stunk recently. So that's why it's become a big thing.

Speaker 5 And then he actually got the game, he won the game with a Javi Baez play today.

Speaker 4 The fans should have just said Brooksy, Adam. That would be a much more appropriate way to talk about it.

Speaker 4 Your frustration. And before anyone says that, I know that baseball doesn't have a cap.
I know. I know that, but I was trying to make a reference to Trevor Bauer.

Speaker 5 And the cap going up. Cap goes up.

Speaker 5 No cap. No cap.
There we go. Jake, goddammit.

Speaker 4 Love it.

Speaker 4 He taught you that, Jake. Who have you been hanging out with?

Speaker 5 Should we talk about Brooksy?

Speaker 4 Yeah, let's talk about which Brooksy are we talking about? Here we talk about that. You can say that.

Speaker 5 Oh, you can't.

Speaker 5 So the PGA came out. They issued a statement that if you say Brooksy on a golf course, you're going to jail.

Speaker 5 And I'm getting thrown out. You're getting thrown out.
Maybe jail.

Speaker 4 No, so Bryson initially tried to go to the police with this issue.

Speaker 4 Somebody called him by the wrong name, and he dialed 911 and tried to have people arrested. And they're like, hey, Bryson, that's not how laws work.
Right.

Speaker 4 And so, although we do appreciate freedom of speech on this podcast, it is your right to say, Brooksy, the Constitution gives us that right. Correct.
Thank you to everyone who fought for that right.

Speaker 4 They're going to be kicking you out of golf tournaments this year.

Speaker 5 Yes. And so I maintain with my initial standing that I don't like Bryson DeChambeau.
There is 5% of me that feels bad for him because he clearly can't handle any type of ball busting whatsoever.

Speaker 5 Every interaction he has is very tough to watch at this point.

Speaker 4 But I did turn the corner a little bit on Bryson when he said that he would valiantly donate his vaccine to someone else who needs it badly.

Speaker 4 So he's saving countless lives by being out there unvaccinated. So thank you, Bryson, for that.
But I do, this is, it's become the no horns down ruling, but on golf.

Speaker 4 And by that, I mean it's singling out one person that gets preferential treatment.

Speaker 4 You can't refer to any, you can't call Tony Final Xander when he's out there on the course, but you, or you can, sorry, they won't throw you out for calling him by by the wrong name but you can't call Bryson the wrong name or else you'll get kicked that to me seems it's weird to make a rule like that specific to one player it's just the best way to keep this going which I we can discuss I mean I think that we all agree that maybe the joke has run its course that's that's my thing I I don't really feel bad for Bryson I just don't think that the Brooksy thing is as funny as it was when it first started because he can't and especially because he clearly like on the 50th time that he can't handle, it's like, oh, yeesh.

Speaker 5 Like, you know, you say when you're in an office setting and maybe you make a joke, and then someone flips out, you're like, oh, okay.

Speaker 5 Uh,

Speaker 5 sorry, went too far. I don't know, like,

Speaker 4 sorry for taking it the wrong way. I apologize to all those who were offended.
Right.

Speaker 4 You know what's just going to happen, though? People, if you can't say Brooksy, people are going to find other words to say, and then there'll just be an ever-expanding list.

Speaker 4 Like, after Bryson hits a T-shot, can you say, Way to go, steroid boy?

Speaker 5 Yeah, way to go, big guy.

Speaker 4 Yeah, or like, soon you won't be allowed to say that either.

Speaker 4 I don't know what the end game is here for Bryson, but I think the only way that he can overcome this is if he were to get on Dave's bag and caddy for Dave in the match

Speaker 4 against us and Brooks Kepka, which is next Tuesday.

Speaker 5 Next Tuesday.

Speaker 4 That's really the only way out because it's not going to stop.

Speaker 4 Bryson is a big enough douchebag that he will give people a never-ending list of reasons to make fun of him.

Speaker 4 This guy, the people that should be in his corner the most are like the people that manufacture his special science fiction clubs from the future that they spend like hours and hours every day in a wind tunnel trying to make a driver for him that breaks the laws of physics.

Speaker 4 And even those people get thrown under the bus by Bryson and they have to issue a statement and be like, hey, you know that guy that we sponsor? He's a dickhead.

Speaker 5 The only thing that Bryson does to help his case is when he interacts with other people and it comes across as so bad that I then have my 5%. I feel bad for this guy because you're right.

Speaker 5 If he were to have any type of sense, he would be part of the match on Tuesday. He'd have fun with it.
He can't do that.

Speaker 5 He just, there's something that is, the wires get crossed and he's not able to participate in any type of back and forth. We saw it on the match.

Speaker 5 He did a canned joke to start and then he ran out of material and it was so like my i was physically cringing watching him so that's where i start to feel bad it's like this guy can't handle any of this so I don't know I mean the PGA just fucked him even more though by issuing this statement it's insane Bryson very clearly went to the PGA and was like hey can you guys do something to put a stop to this yeah

Speaker 4 although I do think the joke like it's I don't think it's that funny anymore not because of how he's reacting I just feel like it's been what like four months three months yeah like I would not hate it if people moved on from the whole Brooksy thing big find something new steroid boy yeah I still think steroid boy is in play steroid boy works and if he gets mad about that it's like well let's take it to court.

Speaker 5 And you have to prove that you've never done it.

Speaker 4 Let's get discovery.

Speaker 5 Yeah, let's get

Speaker 5 discovery going.

Speaker 5 Okay, let's do some hot seat cool throne.

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Speaker 5 All right, hot seat cool throne. Go ahead, Hank.

Speaker 8 My hot seat is Judreu Smith-Schuster.

Speaker 8 Okay. He did the crate challenge

Speaker 8 and Steelers fans are freaking out.

Speaker 4 Did he win?

Speaker 5 Did he fall?

Speaker 8 He didn't fall, but people are just mad at him. I feel like Judreu Smith-Schuster and Pittsburgh.

Speaker 5 They're not a good relationship.

Speaker 8 They're not a good relationship.

Speaker 5 They were never meant for each other.

Speaker 4 They don't understand content. Judrey Smith is all about the content life.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 It doesn't feel like it's going well.

Speaker 5 Didn't he just re-sign?

Speaker 5 I don't know. I don't know.
I'm pretty sure he signed a new contract there, like for a year or something.

Speaker 11 One year, four million.

Speaker 5 There it is. So it's going well enough that he wanted to stay there.

Speaker 4 Wait, one year, four million?

Speaker 11 Sorry, four year, four million.

Speaker 5 What? What?

Speaker 11 No, that was his starting contract.

Speaker 5 Yeah, I was going to say, let's get back to it. Okay.
Better to be right than first.

Speaker 5 There it is. There it is.

Speaker 8 My other hot seed is Scott Frost.

Speaker 8 So it's a little bit follow-up from Monday's show, but he had a press conference after the fact, and he was talking about the offense at Illinois, and he said

Speaker 8 it. Just reading it out.
About half of our game plan was out the window when they lined up how they did.

Speaker 5 Okay.

Speaker 8 So, not, if you're a head coach and you're on the hot seat, probably not something you want to admit.

Speaker 4 He got outsmarted by Brett Bilamo.

Speaker 5 Yeah, well, in Scott Frost's defense, like, they didn't tell him that they were going to do it like that. Right.

Speaker 5 So, I mean, what is he supposed to do? Adjust? Yeah.

Speaker 4 Like, is he going to play, was it Uzbekistan? Yeah. I got Uzbekistan laying 14 and a half against Nebraska.

Speaker 5 You're going to make Scott Frost make an adjustment? That's not part of the deal. They're Nebraska.

Speaker 4 Do you think that Nebraska being so bad right now is actually hurting Will Compton's chances of getting signed to an NFL roster? I think it has a large part to do it.

Speaker 4 It's like, where'd you go to college?

Speaker 5 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 4 Yikes. Yeah, is there anyone from Fordham that's available?

Speaker 5 Yeah, that's tough.

Speaker 5 Actually, Nebraska has Fordham on their schedule. Oh, I'm aware.
So they're going to kill him. I'm aware.

Speaker 4 It's what they're 40 and a half point favorites. Yep.
I'm hammering Fordham.

Speaker 5 Yep. Let's go, Rams.
Although, this might be the only chance Scott Frost has to put up, because the point differential is important for the end of the season.

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 5 So he's got to put up 100.

Speaker 4 Style points matter in Nebraska versus Fordham.

Speaker 5 One-year, $8 million deal. Okay, there it is.
So he did resign.

Speaker 4 That's still really cheap.

Speaker 5 I would think he'd get more.

Speaker 4 Yeah, but it's, you know, if it's not one thing, it's another with Juju, right? Yeah.

Speaker 5 But he stopped dancing. He had 97 receptions.

Speaker 4 He stopped dancing on the shield.

Speaker 5 Yeah, he was good last year.

Speaker 5 All right. You're a cool throne?

Speaker 8 My cool throne is Coach Prime. Yeah.
Yeah. So,

Speaker 8 you know, Hard Knocks kind of sucks. Not the most enjoyable thing to watch.
Coach Prime. We're taping this before.

Speaker 5 What if someone gets hit by a bus? I highly doubt it.

Speaker 5 With the drone shot. Highly, highly, and they managed to keep it quiet until it debuted.

Speaker 5 With the drone shot. Yeah.

Speaker 8 That'd be nice. Usually there's some type of leagues like tonight's hard knocks to me must watch.

Speaker 5 Okay. I didn't see anything.
Okay.

Speaker 5 You're taking a risk. I like it.

Speaker 4 So what I haven't seen is what they've shown us in the past on this last episode of Hard Knocks when they're at the cuts and all that.

Speaker 4 They show the last edits being made and then the videotape being sprinted across town by some poor messenger and handed to the HBO executives at the very last second to be like, look at all this hard work we put in for telling you I haven't seen any of that, so I don't think that there's going to be any surprises.

Speaker 4 Okay, coach.

Speaker 8 For Coach Prime, it's like a barsool version of Hard Knox, Deion Sanders, Jackson State.

Speaker 5 Is it Jackson State? Jackson State chest. You got it.
Say it with your chest, big man.

Speaker 8 I had second guess myself after I said it. It's out now.
It started on Sunday. It's coming out every day this week.
I think there's six episodes. They're great.
It's an inside look.

Speaker 8 It's like Hard Knocks, Last Chance, You Combine, if you like that type of football

Speaker 5 series.

Speaker 8 It's on the Barcelon Sports YouTube. It's better than Hard Knocks, objectively, no bias.

Speaker 8 So check it out.

Speaker 4 Yeah. And it's edited and filmed by our guy, Dana Beers.

Speaker 5 Dana Beers. Zillion Beers.

Speaker 5 It's got a whole crew, a whole big crew. Everything is a good thing.
Dana Beers is spearheading.

Speaker 4 I guess it's because the cameraman was blowing like a 0.12 in perpetuity the entire time.

Speaker 8 Well, they have an actual like real production crew they're working with, and they're great.

Speaker 5 He doesn't drink when he's down in Mississippi. Oh, he does it? He's all clean living.
Totally does it. Clean living.

Speaker 4 You can also see Dana swell up over the course of the series due to all the good food that he's eating down there.

Speaker 5 Is that it, Hank?

Speaker 4 That's it. Good jobs.

Speaker 4 My hot seat, the Kennedys are on the hot seat. Oh.
Kennedys are on the hot seat. Tough break for them because it looks like Sirhan Sirhan,

Speaker 4 the guy that shot RFK, the assassin's so nice, they named him twice. He's getting out of prison on parole after like 50 years.

Speaker 4 And a lot of people are asking questions about, hey, was this guy actually guilty or not? This is one of my favorite conspiracies because people don't talk about the RFK assassination.

Speaker 4 They talk about the JFK, probably because Ravel always tweets that one out.

Speaker 4 But with the Sirhan Sirhan one, his gun held eight bullets, and there are like 13 shots that you can hear on the audio transcript. No one's ever really talked about that much.

Speaker 4 And so he's going to be getting out of prison. I guess I hope.

Speaker 5 Didn't they like tackle him, though, as he was shooting him? Yeah, so he.

Speaker 4 I'm not saying that he didn't do it. I'm saying.

Speaker 5 Did police officers fired?

Speaker 4 There probably was somebody else.

Speaker 5 No.

Speaker 4 Okay. No, no police officers fired.
And yeah, so I'm interested to hear like more. Maybe, you know what? We need to have him do, like, he should be a guest on podcasts.
Sir Han. Sir Han Sir Han.

Speaker 4 I would like to hear him on podcasts explain what happened because that's one theory that I think that we don't know the whole story about.

Speaker 5 There also was a story. I saw, I think the New York Post or someone was like, JFK, JFK, one of JFK's mistresses came out and was like, yeah,

Speaker 5 we were together and then he got married and he like basically left me high and dry. So I'm canceling him.

Speaker 4 JFK? Yeah. That's fucked up.
Because he got... Wait, it was a second.
He was already married.

Speaker 5 I'm going first count adultery, second count misogyny.

Speaker 4 Okay. Canceled.
Got it. All right, my cool throne is...

Speaker 4 I'm going to go with the NFC Beast. NFC Beast on the Cool Throne, namely the New York Giants, because Dave Gettelman and all his infinite wisdom, he's keeping two fullbacks.
Nice. Not one, but two.

Speaker 4 He's going to have fullback by committee this year. Nice.
Which is a very Dave Gettelman thing to do. You zig when everybody else zags.
What does he say about analytics?

Speaker 4 He's like, we got a bunch of computer guys.

Speaker 5 Yeah.

Speaker 4 Guys with computers that are working on this. Yeah.
So I don't know which one of them is. The Geek Squad.
The Geek Squad is working on it.

Speaker 5 He just went to Best Buy.

Speaker 4 They're keeping two. It's the with Saquon Barkley.
They've got the Thunder and the Thunder and the Lightning backfield.

Speaker 4 Is he back in week one? I think so.

Speaker 5 Dave Gettleman just went to Geek Squad one day and was like, You guys, Giants fans? They're like, Yep. They're like, Okay, great.

Speaker 4 You want to make some money? Part of my team. Yeah, they just installed his big screen TV

Speaker 4 that he just watches clear and present danger on on repeat.

Speaker 5 They just got him Yahoo Mail.

Speaker 4 Yes, I've got one more cool throne: the Irish. The Irish are they're kind of back.
Okay. The Irish population got over 5 million for the first time since the potato famine.
So shout out to the Irish.

Speaker 4 Shout out to Seamus Fleming, started the potato famine. It only took like 200 years of never using condoms for the Irish to get their population.
They're back. It's also very...

Speaker 4 It's weird to think that the entire population was almost wiped out just because potatoes had a tough year. Yeah.
And potatoes have like no nutritional value.

Speaker 4 Like their entire society was subsisting on like the least healthy thing until it got wiped out.

Speaker 4 Well, we're all out of ideas. Yeah, we kind of had our, I don't know what else we can eat.

Speaker 5 We kind of had our eggs in that past.

Speaker 4 Yeah, what's that? Billy looks like he's got a new egg. It was more the British.
It wasn't all the.

Speaker 9 It was the

Speaker 9 starving by the British and and stealing of food.

Speaker 5 Okay. Okay.
Nice. Nice.

Speaker 4 Good point, Billy.

Speaker 5 All right, my hot seat is Billy Football because

Speaker 5 Jake Paul fought on Sunday night. He won, and I was there.

Speaker 5 And I don't think you could beat Jake Paul in a fight.

Speaker 9 Yeah, you know what? At this point, the train may have left the station on that one.

Speaker 5 Do you know what, though, Billy? There was an article beforehand, which I'd like you to do a little research into.

Speaker 5 It came out that there was no drug testing for that fight.

Speaker 5 So Jake Paul probably royed it up to the guilt.

Speaker 9 Yeah, I didn't want to say anything, but in Caleb's interview, you can see acne right around his

Speaker 4 just really bad. Yeah.
What about his nipples?

Speaker 5 Very. I mean, everyone saw that.

Speaker 4 Did you give any? What's your nipple analysis of Jake Paul?

Speaker 9 I mean, anyone can see they were coned.

Speaker 5 Yeah, super constant. Absolutely cone nipples.

Speaker 4 You could fucking know, but I do love Jake Paul, the speech that he gave like right after he won the fight. In between telling people, like, I haven't been to the dentist in 18 months.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 Like, join the club, Jake Paul. I don't think anybody's been to the dentist since COVID.

Speaker 4 By the way, thoughts and prayers of dentists, it must have really been a tough year and a half for that.

Speaker 4 Might have sold the lake house by this point. But yeah, so with Jake Paul, he's already retiring, which is great.

Speaker 4 I love that move because then it's like a band that says that this is going to be their farewell tour. They sell a bunch of tickets for the last one.

Speaker 4 It's a classic boxing move to be like, yeah, I'm going to retire from fighting. And then that way you get a little bit more money.
in your next fight back.

Speaker 4 But then after the fight, he was also like going back and forth with the tattoo bet because the bet was already going to be like Woodley had to get his name tattooed. Tattooed, yeah.

Speaker 4 And then Woodley's like, I'll get your name tattooed if we can rematch. And Jake Paul was like, yeah, let's do it.

Speaker 5 Yeah, it was very bad negotiating on his phone.

Speaker 4 Did he get tricked into

Speaker 4 accepting a rematch?

Speaker 5 I think so. I think so.
I mean, it was an electric atmosphere. It was an awesome,

Speaker 5 it wasn't great boxing. Also, Tommy Fury is the most attractive man in the world and a terrible boxer.

Speaker 8 That's my I think he'd fuck Jake Paul up.

Speaker 5 I don't think so. He fought someone who was like eight inches smaller than him, and he wasn't able to knock him out.

Speaker 9 The thing is, he's going to fight Tommy Fury next.

Speaker 4 I don't think he will.

Speaker 5 No, he will. I think Tommy Fury was that.

Speaker 9 Oh, he fought someone his size, and he's a boxer. Like, he's a really good boxer.

Speaker 5 I was shocked with how good looking Tommy Fury is and how bad he is at a box.

Speaker 4 It's actually like they should trade spaces, and Jake Paul should be a professional boxer, and then Fury should just be a YouTuber. Yeah.

Speaker 8 That'd be perfect. If you like reality TV, Love Island Season 5, one of the best seasons of all time.

Speaker 9 Yeah. I think Bobby Lang could beat Jake Paul.

Speaker 5 If they use Rough and Rowdy refs, I agree.

Speaker 5 Like, if they just let you, you know, do everything you're allowed to do in Rough and Rowdy.

Speaker 4 Who's the guy from Rough and Rowdy? The guy that runs it that just gets on screaming at him?

Speaker 5 Go, go, go, go, go. Go, go, go.

Speaker 4 Let him do the playlist while it's going on, just plasting Lil John on repeat.

Speaker 5 Speaking of Rough and Rowdy, my cool throne is me because we had Pac-Man Jones on the show.

Speaker 5 Afterwards, I think you guys weren't as scared, but our great co-worker, Kelly, was like, he wants to kill you uh i don't know maybe he did but after the fight i went into his hotel suite i walked into there uh they were having a party and i got my thousand dollars i said mr pac-man i would like my thousand dollars

Speaker 5 good good for you that must have taken some balls it was um it was a fun move what'd you spend it on uh i have not spent it yet just put it in my pocket just every chance are you gonna do charity with it probably not gonna do charity okay probably just i said i'd give him double or nothing if he fought bobby lang again that's smart yeah i would like to to see that fight again.

Speaker 4 It wasn't a bad fight. Like, Pac-Man was really, really fucking quick,

Speaker 4 which was kind of to be expected given that he is a professional quarterback or quarterback. But

Speaker 4 he was a lot faster than I thought he would be.

Speaker 5 He doesn't know the rules of rough and rowdy where anything pretty much goes.

Speaker 4 Yeah. Bobby kind of ate his lunch when they got in close.
Right. Would do some of the dirty stuff on him.

Speaker 5 Right. Also, Pac-Man, they had a party all night

Speaker 5 after a loss even. And so I texted Pac-Man because we like linked up after, got the money.
I texted him. He was like, text me a picture

Speaker 5 that we took, me holding the money. I texted him a picture.
He hearted it. And then I woke up at like 7.30.
At 7.05, I don't think he had slept. He had just texted me, haha, fuck you.

Speaker 5 And I was like, okay, well, back in that, back in the blender. Love it.
So, yeah, shut up, Pac-Man.

Speaker 4 Guys talking shit to each other.

Speaker 5 What's not to like?

Speaker 4 Yeah. I told Billy this yesterday that if he still does harbor the dreams of one day fighting against Jake Paul, he has to take the upper hand in the relationship in some way, shape, or form.
Correct.

Speaker 4 I think that he should kidnap his robot.

Speaker 5 Ah, yeah, I met his robot.

Speaker 4 I think Cletus would knock out his robot. No, but if you kidnapped his robot and you're like, hey, bitch,

Speaker 4 I got your cyborg. Dude, I think that's the only way to get his attention.
Cletus in the second round.

Speaker 5 Can I just say real quick, I spent some time with his robot when he was un-robotted. The guy is a fucking mad scientist.

Speaker 5 He was like, yeah, my next thing is I'm going to make these mini cannons and have them fight each other and shoot each other.

Speaker 5 He's like, but we don't need them to shoot at a velocity to kill a person because that's bad for the insurance. And I was like,

Speaker 5 well, and also because it would kill someone. Yeah.
And like, he had all these ideas. And Dave and I were just sitting in this locker room before the fight.

Speaker 5 We're like, all right, robot, can you go back to being a robot?

Speaker 4 He just invented Battle Bots.

Speaker 5 Yeah.

Speaker 4 Yes. Which, by the way,

Speaker 5 I don't hate that. Battle bots kick ass.
Correct. Correct.
All right. Hot seat, cool throw on Jake.

Speaker 11 My hot seat is LeBron.

Speaker 5 Yes.

Speaker 11 LeBron is no longer the most influential player in Cleveland Cavaliers' history because they signed Taco Fall today.

Speaker 5 Oh.

Speaker 7 So he might steal the spotlight. Yeah.

Speaker 5 Give you a witness.

Speaker 11 That's Taco's billboard coming.

Speaker 4 Taco Town, baby. I love it.
Very likable guys.

Speaker 5 Very likable.

Speaker 11 Nothing wrong with that. And then my Cool Thrones Bill's Mafia.
So there's a proposal for a new stadium in 2027. They must put a Wingnuts concession standard.

Speaker 5 Yes. Yeah.
It's just like, it's a game.

Speaker 5 We will get an update on the shirts, by the way. I've been meaning to do that, but we will get that.

Speaker 4 PSA, if you're trying to order wingnuts, you got to call ahead now. Yes.
They're pretty much on a phone-ahead basis. If you come in after five minutes, if they've been open, they're sold out.

Speaker 4 So, yeah, take care of Ed and Alicia. Make sure it tips well.
Good people.

Speaker 5 All right, Billy, your hot seat, Cool Trone.

Speaker 9 Okay, this one is

Speaker 9 a big one. My hot seat is ESPN.
Yes.

Speaker 9 There is a very, very intense story. So, to start, on Sunday, IMG Academy played on ESPN against a school named Bishop Sycamore.

Speaker 9 Throughout the game, the ESPN crew started to express much worry about player safety as this school, Bishop Sycamore, was being blown out 58-0.

Speaker 9 It was looking like the Civil War out there. Guys were getting carried off the field.

Speaker 5 Whoa, just tons.

Speaker 4 Now you're stealing valor against the Civil War.

Speaker 4 It's a football game, Billy. And it was also about slavery, by the way.
So are you saying that this football game

Speaker 9 was an expression in Jerry's blowout?

Speaker 4 It's funny. Like the Civil War is

Speaker 5 heard all the time. Ken Burns.

Speaker 5 Ken Burns, shut up.

Speaker 9 Anyway,

Speaker 9 so then people started to look into this school, Bishop Sycamore.

Speaker 9 Now, Bishop Sycamore sounds like many Catholic powerhouses, Bishop Gorman, that tend to recruit players from out of state and be able to put together great teams that could compete with a team like IMG Academy that has multiple four to five star recruits.

Speaker 9 Because of this, no one really looked into whether Bishop Gorman actually had the recruits in high-class players that they said they did.

Speaker 9 If you go to their website, it's really just a blog that talks about recruiting on a higher level.

Speaker 9 So, what they realized is that their coach at the time, Roy Johnson, had a warrant out for his arrest on fraud charges, and that many of the players who were not listed on the roster given to ESVN had no names.

Speaker 9 So, they had no idea who's actually playing in the games.

Speaker 9 So what they found out is that this roster might have been put together of illegal players who are not registered, may have not been the right ages using fake IDs, older players, you know, double triple PGs, and not actually high school kids.

Speaker 9 Then it gets more. They looked into the registration of the school.
The school was a non-state-funded, religiously affiliated, non-charter school.

Speaker 4 At what point does it just not even become a school?

Speaker 4 If there are all those different options that you can click for your school, like at some point it should be like, well, it's not a school.

Speaker 5 This doesn't exist. Schools.
Also, it is.

Speaker 5 Their name is B.S.

Speaker 4 Good point.

Speaker 5 Like, that was the first sign.

Speaker 9 Oh, also, there's no one ever in the history named Bishop Sycamore.

Speaker 5 Another school. There's never been a bishop.
So the whole thing was faked. The kids, I feel bad for the kids.
I do, I am always fascinated with a guy who created this. What was going through his head?

Speaker 5 The fact that he got an ESPN is incredible. But yeah, it seems kind of shitty for the kids, right? Well, I'm going to be honest.

Speaker 9 I'm actually going to put this on IMG. Okay.
Because IMG is an independent school in the Florida Athletic High School League. So that means that they don't have a league schedule.

Speaker 9 So they have to set up their own games. The thing is with that, as IMG has all these powerhouse players who will injure your team and roll over your team and blow them out.

Speaker 9 It's very hard for them to find teams to play. Right.

Speaker 9 So if they find this team that's a bunch of scrounged up players, you know, recruited from already graduated high school kids who like they recruit at these recruiting camps, they're going to get them to play them because it's the only people they can get them to play.

Speaker 5 Right. Okay.

Speaker 9 So it's like an Alabama playing an FCS school. Right.

Speaker 4 Spy game. Yeah.

Speaker 9 Exactly. And they played them the year before and blew them out as well.
So it wasn't like they had no idea who this team was. Got it.

Speaker 9 So ESPN's blaming Paragon Sports, Paragon Marketing, who's supposed to schedule the games that go on the TV. So, you know, there's a lot of blames going around.

Speaker 5 The whole story's wild.

Speaker 5 So a fake team just made it onto ESPN.

Speaker 4 So what Billy's saying is that essentially, like, you can just create a school if you get enough players and then make money by selling their games against IMG Academy.

Speaker 4 It actually sounds a lot like Firefest. This whole school sounds like.
Is Billy McFarlane involved in this at all?

Speaker 9 So from the sounds of it, there was former players who came out back when the school was called Christian of Faith.

Speaker 5 Yeah, which that was

Speaker 5 Christian of Faith Academy. Then they rebranded.
As fake of a school name as you could come up with.

Speaker 9 Rebranded to Bishop Sycamore to sound more like a Bishop Gorman. Right.

Speaker 5 Like a powerhouse.

Speaker 9 Anyway, it falls under the same jurisdiction of school as like an Amish school. on like an Amish settlement.

Speaker 4 They don't use zippers.

Speaker 9 Not state affiliated.

Speaker 9 That's how they came into being. So technically, they are a school of sorts, but they're supposed to report their attendance to the state.

Speaker 4 Got it.

Speaker 4 One thing I'm absolutely certain of already is that Bishop Sycamore jokes are going to be made by the least funny people in America for the next 12 months.

Speaker 5 Correct.

Speaker 9 They also played two days before.

Speaker 5 Yeah, which that's the part where I feel bad for the kids.

Speaker 9 That's very dangerous. Turns out the kids said that

Speaker 8 they're all adults.

Speaker 5 Well, not some of them are kids. Yeah.

Speaker 9 It's like

Speaker 9 there are kids involved. So back in 2018, a player who...

Speaker 5 The roster's not all kids. Not all.
There's some guys who are like, I think graduated high school, right?

Speaker 9 Yeah, like double PGs.

Speaker 5 Right. Regular PGs.

Speaker 5 But there are kids too, right? There's 16, 17-year-olds.

Speaker 4 There was an interview with a guy in Complex today who played at Bishop Sycamore for, I think, the 2018 to 2019 season when he was 15.

Speaker 4 And they basically said, like, yeah, we've got the state-of-the-art facility. They brought the kids up there, said that they were going to be like on Netflix and everything, like a last chance

Speaker 4 type situation. Yeah.
And it turned into them just having to to live in a hotel for like five months.

Speaker 4 So it's definitely, it's definitely run by somebody who is like probably the coach who then fired, did he fire himself?

Speaker 9 No, the founder fired him, but he's claiming

Speaker 4 the founder definitely has his hands clean and all this.

Speaker 5 He's like, wait, this is a Mike Richards situation.

Speaker 4 This is not what Bishop Sycamore stands for.

Speaker 5 His name is Andre, the founder, something.

Speaker 9 So that's different than Roy Johnson. Right.
Who has an arrest warrant?

Speaker 4 Got it. And by the way, Mike Richards also got fired.
He did get fired from, I think, did he also fire himself for being an executive producer?

Speaker 5 I think so. So, yeah.

Speaker 5 Got another one. No one bites the dust, right? Yeah, tough.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 All right. Good hot seat.
Crazy story. Insane story.
Like, I don't know how they get up on ESPN, but.

Speaker 4 It was very funny to see the announcers in real time just start to turn against the broadcast.

Speaker 5 Yeah. Like, we should, because they didn't even give a real roster.

Speaker 5 They just handed them a piece of paper with like names on it. Nothing else.
No names. Yeah.

Speaker 5 All right. You're cool, Torn.

Speaker 9 Urban Wildlife. They found an 80-pound cougar in the Bronx

Speaker 9 yesterday. So

Speaker 9 reminiscent of the tiger story with the guy who had a tiger and a crocodile in his apartment.

Speaker 4 Remember Tiger King?

Speaker 5 Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Yeah. So the cougar, how big is a cougar?

Speaker 5 About the size of a puma. Okay.

Speaker 4 Oh, which is about the size of a mountain lion?

Speaker 5 Yeah, okay. Got it.
Got it. How many turtles stacked on top of each other?

Speaker 9 16. Okay.

Speaker 4 What would a cougar eat in like an urban environment?

Speaker 5 Rats?

Speaker 4 They should release more cougars onto the street. Who's being kept as a pet? That's what they call it.

Speaker 4 Got it.

Speaker 5 Got it.

Speaker 5 All right.

Speaker 5 Should we get to our interview? We have Jerry O'Connell. Awesome interview in person.
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Speaker 5 now here he is jerry o'connell

Speaker 5 okay we now welcome on one of our favorite guests recurring guests in studio. I think we're the only show that does their fantasy football preview like this.

Speaker 5 And it's, I think this is the third or fourth year in a row. It is Jerry O'Connell, our favorite.

Speaker 5 It is so exciting to be back here. I mean, I don't even know what to tell you guys.
I,

Speaker 5 you know, ever since I was on your show,

Speaker 5 those who might not recall, last year I talked about, it was around this time, exactly last year, and I was talking about draft strategies. And

Speaker 5 I said I have a lot of like ticks and OCDs when it comes to my teams, and I have to have have a few Browns on my teams because the last time I won, Braylon Edwards and Derek Anderson were on my team.

Speaker 5 I have to have a few Jags on my teams because the last time I won Maurice Jones Drew was my running back.

Speaker 5 And I have very weird ticks. But

Speaker 5 this year I made a very long list as to why I can or can't draft players from teams and positions.

Speaker 5 Oh, okay. Well,

Speaker 5 let's get to that.

Speaker 4 Wait, so you're trying to change yourself.

Speaker 5 Well, it's not that I'm trying to change myself. It's just that

Speaker 5 um

Speaker 5 commenter it's like when you're in a relationship okay and it's not working out you know and you just try and you keep trying and you keep trying to make the relationship work out yeah and it's not working out um

Speaker 5 enough is enough it's big that you're trying to demonstrate growth that you have that you're self-reflecting no it's not yourself it's not growth it's time to move on blow the whole thing up it's time to move on yeah sometimes relationships work out

Speaker 5 and sometimes they don't. You're like hiring a whole new GM in front office.
I love this. You know, I was making more of a relationship analogy.
Sometimes it's just time to call the lawyer and say,

Speaker 5 I want out. Yeah.

Speaker 5 How do I do this?

Speaker 5 Get me the house. So let's start with the Browns.
Yeah. Wait, wait, wait.
Before we do that, what are you doing these days? Let's plug something. I'm on a show called The Talk.

Speaker 5 It's a talk show on CBS. It's on

Speaker 5 weekdays at 2 p.m. on CBS.

Speaker 5 I'm the first male host on the panel.

Speaker 5 It's groundbreaking. Yeah, breaking berries.
Jackie Robinson. So finally, we have

Speaker 5 a not the glass ceiling. I'm breaking the...
Yeah. Finally, breaking the plexi floor.
My two-year-old son can look at the TV and be like, look, as a white man, I can someday make it to TV.

Speaker 5 That's what's happening there, you know.

Speaker 5 So it's really fun. I have a fun time doing it.

Speaker 5 It's a good show. I start officially.
Oh, you haven't even started? I I haven't even started. So you haven't even broken the ground.

Speaker 5 You're standing with the shovel and the hard hat.

Speaker 5 I filled in for a month.

Speaker 5 I was abjectly unemployed all through the pandemic. I'm sorry.
It got really quiet in here. Sorry, everybody.

Speaker 4 Wait, are you just making up a show to plug so that you don't seem like losing?

Speaker 4 No, I'm going to be on TV every day on CBS network.

Speaker 5 No, it's a real television show. It's just, it's not your demographic.
You know, it's a daytime. No, but you're a friend, so we will support it and we will get everyone to support it.
Milfs love us.

Speaker 5 Yes. yeah.
I mean,

Speaker 5 it would be great maybe to have you guys on.

Speaker 5 Great, done.

Speaker 5 I don't know, like a grit. We could do like a grit week thing.
By the way, thank you for closing out Grit Week with me. This is the end of the day.
This is the official end of Grit Week.

Speaker 5 Wait, so wait, are you moving to New York? No, it shoots in Los Angeles. Ah, I thought we were going to get a best friend moving into the neighborhood.
No, but I'm back often.

Speaker 5 They always say that. You always say that.

Speaker 4 So, Jerry, I think you might be pulling a double psych on yourself, or double cross, excuse me, double cross on yourself, because this is the year you've decided to blow everything up.

Speaker 4 You're deciding to change your draft strategy, and this is the year literally everybody is saying that the Browns have the most talented roster.

Speaker 5 I understand that, and listen, you're going to find out with a lot of my ticks, that's where I go wrong, is that I quit them right before they become.

Speaker 5 It's like breaking up with someone just before they're live. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, are you okay? Are you going through like a

Speaker 5 Is your bad doing okay? No, everything's fine with our marriage. We did it.
We made it through the pandemic. It was, I didn't think we were going to make it, but we did.

Speaker 5 Like, I have to be honest with you,

Speaker 5 and it's not just me, it's my wife and I looked at each other like week three when it was like, oh, this isn't going to be two weeks.

Speaker 5 Week three, and we had like blasted through Love Island or whatever. Tiger King.
Tiger King. And like we realized we weren't designed to be together all the time.

Speaker 5 And this is going to be really different. But we made it through.
I'm not going to say we made it through stronger. I know people say, we made it through stronger.
Weaker. You made it through weaker.

Speaker 5 We actually, we're a little, we're a touch weaker, not a lot weaker. Uh-huh.
We made it through a touch weaker, but we are still, we did it. Yeah, congratulations.
Congratulations.

Speaker 5 You sound really happy. We do have two 12-year-old daughters who just got phones.

Speaker 5 Oh, no. But that occupied them all the time.
So it was great. They did.
They were too for holding out that long. We did.
We held out that long.

Speaker 5 12 feels like it's, I feel like kids get phones at like seven now. You know what's funny? You have about a decade before you have to deal with this, Kat, but

Speaker 5 all of their friends, it's so funny. I grew up

Speaker 5 with, I went to a girl's house. I grew up actually in this neighborhood, believe it or not.
I went to junior high about five blocks from here, and I went to a girl's house at the Chelsea Hotel.

Speaker 5 You know, that hotel that they were doing on 23rd? And she was kind of an arty kid, and I recall walking through her apartment.

Speaker 5 And she didn't have a TV. And I said, where's your TV? And she went, oh, we don't have one.
And I was like, What?

Speaker 5 And my kids at 12 not having phones were like that kid without a TV. Right.
It was like, it's a part of their social life.

Speaker 5 But now they have the phone, so they were nose deep in the phone the entire pandemic. Like TikTok, if you're a parent and you don't want to deal with your children, TikTok, TikTok is like

Speaker 5 it's just so addictive. They just do it all the time.
It's so awesome. They're just gone.
Just

Speaker 5 scroll, scroll. We're on TikTok.

Speaker 5 Well, our strategy with TikTok is billy who's not here right now sure billy i do have a question about billy yeah go ahead um because i do i i really i'm not kidding like the thing i respect most

Speaker 5 are our veterans are people who

Speaker 5 hold on a second i'm i'm actually i want to be serious on your show for a second i really like going away from your family serving your country risking your life it's it's more than a job it's not a job i'm not joking i'm being serious here it's really it's putting not only your life it's putting everything on on the line for everything that we hold true and dear.

Speaker 5 So we can play fantasy football.

Speaker 5 So we can play fantasy football. I'm really grateful.
I'm really one of those people who

Speaker 5 I don't care how many times everyone said it. Thank you for your service.
Yes, thank you.

Speaker 5 If

Speaker 4 thank you is almost not enough.

Speaker 5 If by the grace of something I'm given a business class seat and I see anyone in close to anything that's camouflaged, green, anything, I'm saying, you know,

Speaker 5 this is yours.

Speaker 5 Smart, yeah. But

Speaker 5 he's a special guy. Is Billy a veteran?

Speaker 4 Of the war on Christmas. Yeah.

Speaker 5 Yes. So he is not a veteran.
No. I have a big problem with this guy.

Speaker 5 Hold on. He's not a veteran per se, but I think you could say, like, Billy would have made a great Navy SEAL.
No, is it really a... No.
It's kind of a technicality that he wasn't actually a Navy SEAL.

Speaker 4 He also said that he would trade it all to become a Navy SEAL.

Speaker 5 This is actually when he didn't even have a job here. He said he'd trade it all, which was trading nothing to be a a Navy SEAL.
So he's to mentor.

Speaker 5 You cannot tie Army-issue shoes to your backpack and walk through the streets like you just got off of a plane leaving Kabul. Oh, I know.
And you just served. It's not okay.

Speaker 5 It's like those freak shows that drive fake police cars down the streets. They are freaks, man.
They are a danger. They are a menace to society.
And they're actually dangerous because you slow down.

Speaker 5 Yes, the crown vics with the big mirror on the side. They make believe they are officers of the law to make people respect them.
It is really messed up. It's actually a mental problem.

Speaker 5 Yeah, I think so. Billy, no, I agree.

Speaker 4 The thing with Billy is he's not doing it intentionally. He's just over the years accumulated so many things that are military adjacent because I think subconsciously he wants to be in the military.

Speaker 4 Right.

Speaker 5 You play enough Call of Duty to end up in the military.

Speaker 4 Is that really stolen valor?

Speaker 5 Yeah.

Speaker 5 It's not stolen valor. It's actually a mental issue.
Yes, I agree.

Speaker 5 Stolen Valor is saying, I did this. This is my medal.
I did that. I accomplished that.
He's actually, he's got, I'm not joking. He needs, like, he needs to go to betterhealth.com/slash PMT

Speaker 5 and type some of this stuff in.

Speaker 4 He needs to talk to somebody for sure.

Speaker 5 Well, thank you.

Speaker 4 I wish that Billy was around to hear that. I think he needs to hear it from somebody face to face.

Speaker 5 Yeah, he's on a mission right now.

Speaker 5 Can I talk about why I've broken up with the Browns? Yeah, let's do it. So let's do your fantasy football rules or whatever you prepared for.

Speaker 5 So I used to always have at a minimum two Browns on my teams. And then last season against the Raiders, I know it was a hailstorm, but the Browns scored, I believe, three points in a game.
Yes.

Speaker 5 Grapple.

Speaker 4 It was a grapple storm.

Speaker 5 Yeah. A what else storm? Grapple.

Speaker 4 I learned that word last year. So grapple is a mixture of like hail, sleet, and snow and rain a little bit.
And they have a special word for it. It's like a German Midwestern word called grapple.

Speaker 5 I don't care. Like, you can't, I can't.
I've been with you for over a decade. You can't score three points in a game.
You can't do that to me.

Speaker 5 We watch that game here because we fire up. That's what you really need to do.
You need to come with us on a Sunday. Come here.
We have all the games on.

Speaker 5 We sit for seven hours and watch all the games. But I think we all had the over because it went down to like 33 or something.
Like, how could we not? And then they just never scored.

Speaker 5 It was very upsetting. So I actually

Speaker 5 broke up with the Browns. I'm will no longer be drafting Browns.
That was it. That was them stepping out on your marriage.
I may, in a defensive player, pick up Miles

Speaker 5 with defensive players? Yes, they're so. I'm in a league.

Speaker 4 It's a freak show.

Speaker 5 Actually, I got to tell you. You're the freak show.
I'm in a league with complete nerds who know nothing about football, nothing about football.

Speaker 5 And I entered this league thinking, I'm going to win this every year. This is easy.

Speaker 5 I mean, I guess we're allowed to talk about gambling on the show.

Speaker 5 That's all you talk about.

Speaker 5 You know, I thought this is easy money. Right.

Speaker 5 And

Speaker 5 last season, I came in last place. Oh, no.
And I had to pay the penalty for last place.

Speaker 8 What was that?

Speaker 5 It was $200. Wow.
It doesn't matter. I can afford the $200 because, you know, I mean, I'm on a business.
You got a real job and everything.

Speaker 5 And resell all this barstool stuff, the bag, the goodies bag that you give me.

Speaker 5 What are the residuals on Standby Me?

Speaker 5 I mean, they're not, they're not. I don't think you can make a living from it, but it's, I mean, they still come in.
You get a check every quarter? It used to be paper checks.

Speaker 5 Everything's gone pretty much wireless these days, you know, for the environment.

Speaker 4 That's got to be kind of a bummer, though, because I would imagine that walking to your mailbox, collecting a check for something that you did 40 years ago has got to feel pretty good.

Speaker 5 Yeah,

Speaker 5 I think the actual act of like going through them, like when I go to my mailbox, I'm like, wow, are we still doing this? Yeah. That's what I feel like.

Speaker 5 And when I go to the post office, you know, shout out to all USPS workers. Love them.
Working hard.

Speaker 5 Saw your dude coming up here

Speaker 5 and dropping off packages and everything.

Speaker 5 But it does seem like,

Speaker 5 wow, are we still doing that?

Speaker 5 Yeah.

Speaker 5 I agree. Like going into a post office is not, you know, there is a very nice post office here

Speaker 5 in

Speaker 5 midtown Manhattan. But the post office where I live, I love everyone who works there.
It's like, it keeps moving from like strip mall to strip mall. It's next to a massage parlor now.
It's like

Speaker 5 really, it gets shady.

Speaker 4 It's a lot of beer in post offices. Because you just put a bar in.

Speaker 5 Or deli meat.

Speaker 5 If you take a number, you might as well get some deli meat out of it. Yeah, I think financially they're having a lot of problems, the postal service, so I'm not sure they can.
It's not like an IKEA.

Speaker 5 They can't get away with giving away meatballs or something.

Speaker 4 You could get John Taffer involved and have it be a crossover event, a post office and a bar restaurant at the same time.

Speaker 5 Yeah, but he would only feed you late at night.

Speaker 4 Call it the mail room, M-A-L-E.

Speaker 5 I like that.

Speaker 4 And it's a gay bar.

Speaker 8 Yeah.

Speaker 5 I do want to say, as you know, I'm a huge listener of your show. I got to give a shout-out out to a restaurant in my area, the Six Chow House.

Speaker 5 When they serve wings, you can request only drumettes, which is what I'm a fan of.

Speaker 5 I'm a flats guy, huh? So

Speaker 5 you go like a dozen drumettes? I go straight drumettes.

Speaker 5 Straight. All drumettes.
I say all drumettes, please.

Speaker 5 What's the difference between a drum and a drumette? Is it a female male thing?

Speaker 4 Drum is the leg. A drumette is the wing.
It's the leg-looking part of the wing.

Speaker 5 Yeah, got it. Got it.
So

Speaker 5 I'm a huge drumette fan, but I did get very hungry for wings listening to your show the last couple of days. They were incredible.

Speaker 5 If you ever go to Buffalo, which is a man of your stature, I don't think, ever goes to Buffalo. No, I do.
I've been to Buffalo. Listen, I'm all about the Lehigh Valley up there.

Speaker 5 I was in Buffalo a couple days ago. How about that? What? Yeah.
Shocked, right? I swear to you. What were you doing? You're lying.

Speaker 4 You went out with Benny the Butcher?

Speaker 5 No.

Speaker 5 Benny the Butcher. With the Labradoodle?

Speaker 5 No, I was working in Toronto and I flew out of Buffalo. Ah.
So so you got to go to Wingnuts.

Speaker 5 I didn't. I went straight to the airport, but next time I will go to Wingnuts.
You got to go say to Ed.

Speaker 4 I've been thinking about it for the last week.

Speaker 5 I know. You guys really painted a picture.
Oh, I really did.

Speaker 4 I'm thinking about it right now.

Speaker 5 I want to move to Buffalo across the street. All right, so let's do some fantasy football.
Okay, I also, I told you I had to always have a Jag on my team ever since I won with Maurice Jones Drew.

Speaker 5 The Jags are also, I've broken up with them. They're dead to me.
Good. That's probably a smart move.
Until Trevor Lawrence gets, like, you know, settled in, I think you want to avoid them.

Speaker 5 Last season,

Speaker 5 you know, I don't know about you guys

Speaker 5 in varying degrees of relationships

Speaker 5 and such, but I can't watch Thursday NFL, Sunday morning NFL, Sunday afternoon NFL, and the morning, that's what we have in Los Angeles,

Speaker 5 and then Monday NFL. I have to pick.
I get two of those.

Speaker 5 No, yeah, that's not related. I get two of them.
So Thursday night's games are typically not the most exciting games. They're skippable for you?

Speaker 4 Color rush, though. The uniforms are slightly different.

Speaker 5 Oh, really? Yeah, on Thursday. You don't even know.

Speaker 5 Yeah, I know, but I need, like, I'm only given two slots a weekend. Right.
I can't waste it on

Speaker 5 these teams. I can't waste it on a Titans, Bengals imaginable.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's fair.
That's fair.

Speaker 5 So last season, I plugged in DJ Shark, who

Speaker 5 great, great receiver. I believe this is week two.
The Jags played played Thursday night, and I was feeling pretty confident. He's a wide receiver one-ish.
Yes, he's up there.

Speaker 5 And

Speaker 5 he was a game time scratch. I was not watching the game.

Speaker 5 I was at dinner with my wife. Oh.
And I came back, and there was a zero there when I checked my phone. I tried not to check my phone during dinner.

Speaker 5 And

Speaker 5 I really took it out on my children for the next four weeks. I mean, I was a different person.
It really changed me.

Speaker 5 And I remember looking at the television and seeing, you know, DJ Shark on the sidelines. He did suit up.
He just didn't go in the game. And

Speaker 5 I remember thinking, I was looking at the TV and I was like, that's it, Jags. Never again.
I'm done with you. Yeah, they do play.

Speaker 4 Yeah, they play a lot of Thursday games.

Speaker 4 You should just, you should make one of your daughters the general manager, like the acting general manager, so you can go out to dinners, you can do all that stuff.

Speaker 4 And meanwhile, she's making sure that you're not missing any open spots in your game.

Speaker 5 I should.

Speaker 5 I don't trust anyone. I don't like partners in my leagues.
I don't send that email or that link to be like, hey, let's be a co-manager. I don't do that.

Speaker 5 It's my thing.

Speaker 5 Right.

Speaker 5 Also, some of my

Speaker 5 team names at work are a little offensive, so I don't want that ever getting out.

Speaker 5 What are we going with this year?

Speaker 5 Ezekiel Elliott.

Speaker 4 How about that one?

Speaker 5 Ezekiel Elliott. I really like that.
It's mostly work jokes where I work. It's like

Speaker 5 I make fun of people who have

Speaker 5 been let go, gotten in trouble, and stuff like that. I don't want to mention it because I'm sure they'll listen to this and stuff.

Speaker 5 And then I'm typically asked by a superior to change my name, and it becomes like a funny thing because I blasted out on an email. Right.

Speaker 5 Okay, I like it. But nothing, like, highly offensive.
No, no, no. It's just more inside jokes.
Inside jokes. Yes, yes.
All right, so let's do your fantasy rules. Okay.

Speaker 5 I will not be.

Speaker 5 How many rules did you write? No, I wrote a lot. I have highlights and everything.

Speaker 5 This is like a Coach Staley. Yeah, yeah.
This is huge. Clipboard.
I'll put this in the Hall of Fame someday. I'm no longer drafting any Giants wide receivers.
I am from the New York area.

Speaker 5 I like to watch Giants games.

Speaker 5 I won't be after Darius Layton, who I started last season in week one, had two touchdowns in that first game, if you recall. And then for the rest of the season, he only had one touchdown.
Whoa.

Speaker 5 And the Giants' receivers are dead to me. Yeah.
Okay, that's fair. That's all it takes.

Speaker 4 That's fair. So you're not a believer in Daniel Jones.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 I'm just not touching their receivers, so I don't even care. Like, it's like, I gotta tell you, it's like relationships commenter.

Speaker 5 It's like you have to, if you break up with somebody, it's like, I don't care what you do. I'm not gonna show up to your Instagram.

Speaker 5 I'm fine. All right.
Yeah. I'm fine.
It's just, I get very like, this is an exciting time of year for me. I've done a number of mock drafts.

Speaker 5 I actually had to bite the bullet and join a fantasy guidance

Speaker 5 site

Speaker 5 where they've been doing hundreds of mock drafts a day you're like the biggest mark ever for a fantasy for like a person who makes their living coaching other people's fantasy teams you're like the white whale they're like I landed Jerry Oak I have joined a number of those fantasy sites you know when I came in last I'm really upset because I came in last place last year

Speaker 5 and it's people who know nothing about like nothing about football. And I'd say the embarrassing part, if I may, not to like really rub salt in this wound, but you came in last and you tried.

Speaker 5 Because usually the last place. I tried my hardest.
Yeah, right. The last place guy usually is like, oh, he just didn't pay attention.
Or he leaves slots open. Yeah, right.

Speaker 5 And it just, it really, it's, I got to tell you, it really,

Speaker 5 I'm actually, I made a betterhealth.com backslash PMT joke earlier, but like, I obsessed over it all year long. Yeah.
No, I can tell it's been stay with you. So we're going to do it this year.

Speaker 5 All right, so no Giants. No Giants receivers, everyone else.
These are specific.

Speaker 5 The Jets.

Speaker 5 I'm from the New York area. I like to watch Jets games.
I said on your podcast that

Speaker 5 I like to draft Jets.

Speaker 5 Last season, with my third-round pick, I picked Levian, who played.

Speaker 5 I counted.

Speaker 5 He played three quarters

Speaker 5 all season long. He played three quarters.
Honestly, I've totally forgotten.

Speaker 5 Yeah, for a second, I was like, wait, oh, yeah, he was on the Jets.

Speaker 4 He was really good for a long time.

Speaker 5 So then he went to the Chiefs, and I was like, oh, here we go.

Speaker 5 Now I got you guys. I'm going to be like the Yankees.

Speaker 5 I'm going to come in the home stretch. Here I come.
By the way, at this point, I'm not playing to win. I'm playing to not be in last.
Right. And I was getting excited about it.

Speaker 5 Last season really messed me up.

Speaker 5 So I will never be drafting Jets again, although I may draft Corey Davis and I may draft that guy Carter just. Okay, so no Jets except for two Jets.
No Jets, but they're going to be on my bench. Okay.

Speaker 5 This is just a personal thing. I don't draft any Steelers, I'm sorry to tell you guys.

Speaker 5 I didn't like when Rudolph, that quarterback, I thought he egged on Miles Garrett. He was Garrett.
Yeah, yeah. He had in common.
I thought that everyone was

Speaker 5 saying, oh, gosh, how could Miles Garrett do that? But no one talked about what Rudolph did. His face.
So we have a theory on this show. His face, he's got too big of a face.

Speaker 5 You see his face and you're like, I don't like it. I don't know what's wrong with it, but I don't like it.

Speaker 4 He's got like the Kool-Aid lips, too. It looks like he's got a red ring around his big ass head.
You just kind of want to punch him.

Speaker 5 Yeah, I don't want any smoke with anyone, but like you guys are obviously creating, but

Speaker 5 I just thought he

Speaker 5 can't go with Steelers. So no Steelers.

Speaker 4 Can I give you just a real quick piece of advice?

Speaker 4 I know this goes against your no Steelers rule, but if you're playing in a league with defenses, a good rule of thumb is just like draft a Steelers defender. Because they're usually not bad.
Right.

Speaker 4 They'll usually end up being worst case scenario, average.

Speaker 5 I do have, like, OC.

Speaker 5 I told you I suffer from obsessive compulsive disorder, especially with fantasy football.

Speaker 5 Betterhealth.com backslash PMT. But

Speaker 5 I have to have the Baltimore. I have to have the Ravens defense in the first games.

Speaker 5 And no matter where they are. I won't draft them first round if you have to.
No, I won't draft them first round.

Speaker 5 But when I see the Rams going or what are some other defenses out there, the Steelers, the Fawks,

Speaker 5 that's when

Speaker 5 I might not take Corey Davis

Speaker 5 Michael Carter. I might take a Ravens defense.

Speaker 4 Kind of the same way about the Seahawks. I just assume that the Seahawks defense is always going to be good because the Legion of Boom, remember that?

Speaker 5 Sure, of course. Sure, sure, sure.

Speaker 5 Suggs, Lewis, Ledarius. Come on.

Speaker 5 Ed Reid.

Speaker 5 The Bears. I got to get to the Bears.
I'm so sorry, Kat.

Speaker 5 Uh-oh.

Speaker 5 I think 2017, I drafted, maybe with my first-round pick, a running back named

Speaker 5 Jordan Howard. Yeah.

Speaker 5 Only to watch another running back, Tariq Cohen, get pretty much every red zone pass from

Speaker 5 6'7, Mike Lennon,

Speaker 5 Mitchell. Yeah, Mitch was there, the MVP.
That was a very bad Bears' offensive season, yeah.

Speaker 5 And it's just so painful when you waste a first-round pick and then

Speaker 5 Jordan Howard. I believe

Speaker 5 he was up there. He was up first or second.

Speaker 5 He's not on the team anymore, though. Hasn't been.
I understand he's not on the team, but I can't look at the Bears. Okay.
I can't look at their running game at all. You know what?

Speaker 5 I'm not going to fight you on that because I've watched too many Bears games where the offense is just putrid, so I agree with you.

Speaker 5 Another running game I can't look at, Vikings' running game, and I know that's like crazy because they have superstars on that team. I just.

Speaker 5 I don't believe in.

Speaker 5 I didn't know what switching your children was

Speaker 5 until I heard a running back from that team talk talk about

Speaker 5 children. Yes, yes.
So that's their off for that. And it just,

Speaker 5 it really, like, it really shook me. It shook me.
Right. And I can't look at any of the fans got a hand.

Speaker 5 What about the Chiefs?

Speaker 5 Chiefs are okay.

Speaker 5 I'm on a sliding scale of. Chiefs are okay.
You can draft any Chiefs. Got it.
But

Speaker 5 they got. Oh, you're talking about Tyreek Hill.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 5 You can draft any Chief that you want.

Speaker 5 Sliding scale. That's okay.

Speaker 5 I'm okay with all cowboys what about okay what about Panthers wide receivers I'm okay with all Panthers so all Panthers sliding scale yes I would never draft a Panthers quarterback because last season

Speaker 5 when I came in last place

Speaker 5 the opposing team I was the the the team I was up against for last place was playing against someone who did not play a quarterback because it's a it's a two QB league so you can only have two QBs he stashed Bridgewater oh and I was like you gotta,

Speaker 5 you gotta

Speaker 5 dump Bridgewater and pick up a quarterback. And he was like, this is collusion.
You can't talk to me. I'm not even playing you.
And I was like, I need you to win this game.

Speaker 5 And he wrote back, I'm stashing Bridgewater. So my name in that league is Stashing Bridgewater.

Speaker 5 So I will have nothing to do with any Panther

Speaker 5 quarterbacks or now any Broncos quarterbacks.

Speaker 4 What about Patriots tight ends?

Speaker 5 Patriots tight ends are fine. I will never touch Patriots' wide receivers.
No one knows who they're, who, I mean, who do you draft?

Speaker 5 I will say, Patriots' running backs, I am okay with, especially now that there's more of a clear leader, Jamine Harris.

Speaker 5 But last season,

Speaker 5 it was a bye week, and I was in desperate need for a running back. And this was not collusion.

Speaker 5 I talked to someone else in the league who was in desperate need for a wide receiver, and I, for a one-week swap, gave him Nelson Aguilar for

Speaker 5 Rex Burkhat. That's not collusion.
That is collusion. No, it's a one-week swap.

Speaker 5 It's a one-week swap. It was an even Steven swap.
He needed a wide receiver.

Speaker 5 I got Rex Burkhead, who had two touchdowns in that week.

Speaker 4 Was it a handshake deal?

Speaker 5 There was no paper check.

Speaker 4 Yeah, no, that's how I know it's collusion because you went out of your way to not leave a paper check. Did you feel a little dirty?

Speaker 5 You knew it was wrong. No, not in the slightest.
I looked and saw who needed a wide receiver, and I said, You have Rex Burkhead sitting on your bench. Hey, how about Nelson Aguilar for a a week?

Speaker 5 And I get Rex Burkhead. Ha ha.
It was a joke. And then next thing I know, I got a request and I hit confirm.
And then the week after, I sent him the request back and it was fine. We're the big deal.

Speaker 5 Guys, relax. Slow down.
Summer. Coors light, guys.
Come on. Take a chill pill.
Let me ask you this.

Speaker 4 How many leagues are you in right now?

Speaker 5 I'm in five leagues.

Speaker 5 Okay.

Speaker 4 God, are you looking for another? Because we have a fantasy football league that we're in. This is our second year in a row

Speaker 4 with C.J. McConnell.
Okay. Collum.

Speaker 4 Sorry, C.J. McCollum.
Okay.

Speaker 4 And

Speaker 5 Julius Randall. Yeah, you need to do it.
I'll do it. I'm in.
I'm in. I'm in.
You don't have to go through the whole thing. I'm just letting you know.

Speaker 4 There's Julius Randall, and there's Turtle from Entourage.

Speaker 5 Exciting, yeah, sure.

Speaker 5 Jerry Ferreira. Jerry Ferrero.

Speaker 4 Yeah, so we have a team. Would you like to manage our team for us?

Speaker 4 Maybe even draft.

Speaker 4 Now it's a high-roller buy-in. It's a $1,000 buy-in.
Holy shit.

Speaker 4 We've got that covered.

Speaker 5 We got it covered.

Speaker 4 So you just have to be our general manager.

Speaker 5 Do I have to do something for that money? Are you going to make me transport something or something? We'll count this. We'll count this.

Speaker 5 This is your

Speaker 5 payment by appearing on our show.

Speaker 4 Just don't lose.

Speaker 5 Yeah.

Speaker 5 I'm in. All right.
Perfect. Love it.
Done. Love it.

Speaker 5 Just know there'll be no fucking Browns or Jags on this team. Just understand what you're doing.
I want you to except for two

Speaker 5 or Bears or Steelers. No Cardinals running backs either because last season I lost to Kenyon Drake on an opposing team.
He had two touchdowns in a game.

Speaker 5 I just couldn't believe it.

Speaker 5 No Houston Texans, running backs, because in 2016 I drafted Lamar Miller and that didn't go too well. I believe I drafted him in the first or second round as well.

Speaker 5 And every season, like with the 15th round, Jerry takes Duke Johnson Jr. It's a nightmare.

Speaker 5 I can't wait till when this airs. We're going to air it next week, but when this airs and

Speaker 5 some AWL has the time to put this all together, that you basically are drafting from a pool of like 30 people.

Speaker 5 Yeah, I mean, yeah.

Speaker 5 It's a very, it's what I'm comfortable with.

Speaker 5 This has been years of fantasy.

Speaker 5 I'm coming out of, it's almost like, I feel like it's a rebuild, like I last year, now I'm in the rebuilding process, and I feel like I'm going to rise out of the ashes.

Speaker 5 By the way, just to say, when I quit those Browns, and like, and I said, like,

Speaker 5 unlike that famous movie, I can quit them.

Speaker 5 They lost to the Raiders, which

Speaker 5 had the worst defense. I mean, that was going to be what was going to put me over the top.

Speaker 5 Although last season, I did have my first 200-point game

Speaker 5 ever, which was a lot of ups and downs last season.

Speaker 5 But of course, it was with

Speaker 5 I had

Speaker 5 Will Fuller when he and

Speaker 5 Deshaun Watson? Yeah.

Speaker 5 Deshaun Watson when they had that, I think it was like a Thanksgiving Day game where they just literally

Speaker 5 was my first 200-point game. And then I was like, something bad's going to happen.
Something bad's going to happen.

Speaker 5 And then literally like a day later, Will Fuller was like, oh, I'm gone for the rest of the season. That's usually how we go.
That happens.

Speaker 5 And

Speaker 5 so

Speaker 5 I will not draft any

Speaker 5 running backs. No Texans at all.
No, no, no, no. I will draft Texans running back.
We'll draft Texan wide receivers and quarterbacks.

Speaker 5 They've done well for me.

Speaker 5 I have no idea what's going to happen there. Who's going to start there? Just to put a pin in it,

Speaker 4 no Vikings Vikings running backs. Right.
Texans, quarterbacks, okay.

Speaker 5 Texans, quarterbacks, okay. Vikings, quarterbacks, okay.
Vikings, wide receivers, okay. You have to look into this.
Giants running backs, okay.

Speaker 5 Cardinals, wide receivers. Cardinals, wide receivers,

Speaker 5 totally fine. So, I mean, it's just like a specific groups that I can't touch because they burned me.
Okay. And you know what? Afuma can't be fooled again.
Yes. That's right.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 So next Wednesday at, I think it's 8 p.m., that's when the the draft is.

Speaker 5 That's when we're going to run this. So it'll be today, as we said.
Today, tonight. A couple players that are a value, I think, they're out there.
Mike Davis, running backs in Atlanta.

Speaker 5 You can have that. Wait, don't give our entire strategy away.
Oh, okay. T.
Higgins. It's going to be a very valuable wide red.

Speaker 5 Very valuable wide receiver, T. Higgins.
Okay.

Speaker 5 Value. I love a good value.
Right. And I think

Speaker 5 players like Mike Davis, Corey Davis, T. Higgins, these are Jalen Hurts, I think you're going to be able to get in the sixth round.
I think these are...

Speaker 5 I love a value in fantasy.

Speaker 4 Give me the official Jerry O'Connell sleeper of the year.

Speaker 5 Joshua Holmes.

Speaker 5 I mean, I think with injuries down there now, I think

Speaker 5 it's not a sleeper, but no one talks about James. I can't believe I'm talking about a Jack.

Speaker 5 Oh, no, you can't do it. You can't do it.

Speaker 5 I might take James Robinson now that there's been injuries down there and everything.

Speaker 4 There's one injury to Travis ATN, and you're like, all right, fuck the no tracks.

Speaker 5 I'm back.

Speaker 4 Maurice Jones Drew, never forget.

Speaker 5 I'm back.

Speaker 5 I love it.

Speaker 5 Sleeper of the year.

Speaker 5 I don't know. You know, I normally would say like Damian Harris up in, like, it's,

Speaker 5 but I have no idea who J.J. Taylor is.
I know nothing about him undrafted. That other running back.

Speaker 5 Sleeper of the year,

Speaker 5 I'm not ready to say yet. I'm not ready to give it out.
I will say this. Never draft a Bears kicker ever as long as you you live, ever, ever, ever.

Speaker 5 Smart Cairo Santos is good, ever, but yes, ever, ever, never,

Speaker 5 ever, ever. It's the moosh, it's what will ruin a team, it will bring down, it will bring down family, it will bring down dynasties.

Speaker 4 It's like even a very, very good team that looks like it could go all the way.

Speaker 5 Never, never, the moosh.

Speaker 5 Um, what else? Oh, I

Speaker 5 love

Speaker 5 all dolphins. Oh, okay.
I love Gasicki. I think Gaskin's going to be a value running back.
Value. Okay.
Okay.

Speaker 5 Also, I want to defend Hard Knocks. You guys were kind of knocking it a little bit.
I'm really enjoying the season. And that drone shot I thought was one of the most awesome things I've ever seen.

Speaker 5 Yeah, it was.

Speaker 4 It's missing, like, I don't know, waiter bringing out a table for Jerry Jones at midfield.

Speaker 5 100%.

Speaker 5 That's really funny. That's a good fellow's reference for all you kids out there.
But

Speaker 5 I was, I mean, that's incredible what they do with those drones. And it was,

Speaker 5 it's so fun. Everything's so big in Dallas.
It's just, it's so big. Him coming in the helicopter.
It's just.

Speaker 5 They're so smart. They go to Mexico and get players.
All of Mexico is going to be instantaneously. Why don't the Jets, why don't the Bears have, like,

Speaker 5 go down to other countries and get players? I mean, I don't know, because they stink. They can't get players in America.
They've got to start that first.

Speaker 5 I think that...

Speaker 4 So you make a good point. There are parts of Hard Knocks that are good, that are entertaining.
I would actually be happy if they just made last week's episode just 30 minutes.

Speaker 5 No, I totally hear it.

Speaker 4 You can take out maybe all the contact lens drama that we're going to be doing.

Speaker 5 That was like

Speaker 5 Saw. That was so gross.

Speaker 4 I can't do it with people touching eyes.

Speaker 5 Oh, it's so gross. It was like Saw.

Speaker 5 It was the grossest thing I ever. Just do drone shots, the card doctor, Jerry Jones, and Trayvon Diggs' son.
Yeah, but that Rexpec stuff was really fun. It was really.

Speaker 5 You know, I will probably stay away from

Speaker 5 Cowboys. I was a little upset with the Cowboys last season.
I thought when Andy Dalton was going to come in, you know, to quote Michael Fabiano, he was giving the keys to a Ferrari.

Speaker 5 I thought for sure the Cowboys were going to make a run for it. But

Speaker 5 man, they got to do something about that backup position. That was really.

Speaker 5 And I mean,

Speaker 5 we're just talking about the last episode of Hard Knocks. Leave it to the Cowboys to throw an interception in the fourth quarter.

Speaker 5 It was like, oh, boy, it was just like, oh, yeah, you guys are making me laugh so hard, wasting prayers and preseason. Yeah, I mean, it was true, right? Pulling out the God card.

Speaker 5 That was a little too early.

Speaker 5 It was a little too early. Like, it it would be like you using God in your mock traps.
You don't want to do that. No, no.
Save it for the real season. Save it for the real draft.

Speaker 5 I told you I'm using guidance this season. I've narrowed it down to one site,

Speaker 5 and it seems they're in a, some of those,

Speaker 5 some of those fantasy

Speaker 5 assistance sites, some of them are really busted.

Speaker 5 No offense to like Eastern Europe or something, but I can tell like it's not, they're not fantasy. Yeah.

Speaker 5 It's like you can tell they're cutting and pasting stuff and it's like it's almost like a make-believe website and I can't believe I plugged my credit card in there.

Speaker 4 It's just like deep web shit.

Speaker 5 Yeah, and it's just like, yes, this player is very good. He runs fast.
You pick in second round.

Speaker 5 You'll take Thurman Thomas. He is very good running.

Speaker 4 You should just log into like Chat Roulette and just ask random people. Yeah.
That you catch like jacking off. Hey, hey, what do you think about Miles Garrett?

Speaker 5 This is you. You're basically like the famous drill tweet, which you might not know, but it's like, you know, someone please help me with my budget.

Speaker 5 And Jerry O'Connell's like, I have, you know, $20 on drummets,

Speaker 5 $15 on flights,

Speaker 5 $10,000 on fantasy football guidance. How am I poor? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 I agree with you. I'm not going to disagree with you.
It's good. I feel like I got a lot out.
I really wanted to come back and just tell people how I've moved on from certain relationships in fantasy.

Speaker 5 Yep.

Speaker 5 It's, I mean, we love having you here. So let's finish it with the Mount Rushmore draft, which is great.
We had the Mount Rushmore of fantasy draft

Speaker 5 order. Positions.
Position. No, order.
Order, yeah. Order.
Sure. Which was maybe the dumbest thing we've ever done.
Sure. So we're going to try to go even dumber.
Okay.

Speaker 5 We're going to do the Mount Rushmore of fantasy positions. Okay.
It can't be as bad as the buildings one you guys did. That wasn't like it.

Speaker 5 That was pretty painful. Yeah.
Yeah. People didn't like it.
All right. So

Speaker 5 you're our guest, so why don't you start?

Speaker 5 Okay, uh, I'm going to, uh, I think we talked about it

Speaker 5 earlier in the show. Uh, just a defensive player, an individual defensive player.
First pick, okay, that's my first pick. Yes, one, one.

Speaker 5 No, no, no, not defenses, right? Yeah, individual players, defensive players.

Speaker 5 You're picking a linebacker.

Speaker 5 Yeah, first.

Speaker 5 Yeah,

Speaker 5 I will probably be taking a Brown. I know I said I was breaking up with them, but it's just a defensive player, so it's just.
Totally different.

Speaker 5 But I am a huge Miles Garrett fan, and I will be taking a Brown. It's different than anybody else.
Because of what he did to Mason Rudolph.

Speaker 5 Not because of what he did to Mason Rudolph. Obviously, violence.
No one should choose violence. But I thought that he took the blame for something that was not entirely his fault.

Speaker 5 I think we only saw one side of the story.

Speaker 4 Many fine people on both sides.

Speaker 5 Right.

Speaker 5 I didn't say that, Commenter. I said

Speaker 5 I just don't think we heard his story. Right.
Okay. All right.
I'll go next. I'll go QB1.

Speaker 5 All right. That's a good pick.
Thank you.

Speaker 5 Appreciate it.

Speaker 4 But a lot of people would say, Matthew Berry would say, why are you taking a quarterback in the first round?

Speaker 5 I love taking quarterbacks.

Speaker 4 I mean, he fell on his face with that Mike Vick thing a few years ago. Never forget that, by the way.

Speaker 5 Yep.

Speaker 5 All right.

Speaker 4 My first pick is going to be.

Speaker 5 You have two picks. Or no, Hank's going to be.

Speaker 5 Yeah.

Speaker 4 My first pick,

Speaker 4 you know what? I'm going to go flex.

Speaker 5 Okay. Love flex.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 Love the flex because you got to always have it in the back of your mind all season long. And if you have a flex, then nothing is off limits.

Speaker 5 I always get this wrong, though.

Speaker 4 Your season is never truly over if you have that flex spot. Yeah.

Speaker 5 All right.

Speaker 8 You took that one from me. I'll audible here.

Speaker 5 I'll go kicker. Whoa.
You have two now. Guaranteed points.
Get a lot of points. Not from the Bears.
Not from the Bears.

Speaker 8 But if you get a team that's not a great team, they have a bad quarterback. Can't convert in the red zone.
You're going to get a lot of points. Minimum like 10, 12 points per game.

Speaker 5 That can win you some games.

Speaker 4 Counterpoint, though, sometimes if you're winning your matchup going into Monday night, you might preemptively bench your kicker so that they don't give you negative points.

Speaker 4 So could that really be a Mount Rushmore spot?

Speaker 5 This is Mount Rushmore.

Speaker 8 For sure. Definitely, just based off the numbers.
There's really only so many spots on the Mount Rushmore. I don't even think we're going to get 12.

Speaker 5 No, we go bench.

Speaker 8 But yeah, I'll go wide receiver two.

Speaker 5 Okay. Wide receiver two.

Speaker 5 I'm about to blow. Wait, no, no, Jerry falls back.
Now you're trying to. Oh, okay.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 Wait, now I got to figure out what Jerry was about to pick.

Speaker 5 You'll never guess what I was going to pick.

Speaker 5 I'm going to go

Speaker 4 running back

Speaker 5 two.

Speaker 5 Okay. Because my running back one always sucks.

Speaker 4 Yeah. My running back one, it's a Jordan Howard situation.
I draft somebody that all the magazines tell me to draft.

Speaker 5 Let me tell you who is the most exciting RB2 in all of football, maybe in all of history. And this is why we play fantasy football.
It's for the juice, okay?

Speaker 5 Naihaim Hines

Speaker 5 will score you, I mean, 0.5 points pretty much 15 out of 17 weeks.

Speaker 5 But for two of those weeks, he'll have a three-touchdown game, and that's why we keep coming back to that RB2.

Speaker 5 Naheem

Speaker 4 Hines. Yeah, and when you actually have that running back, too, in your starting off,

Speaker 4 you feel like a genius now. Oh, God.

Speaker 5 You just feel it's euphoric.

Speaker 5 the best feeling in the world. Yeah.

Speaker 5 All right, my pick.

Speaker 5 I'll go with tight end. I like having a good tight end, especially if you have a really top-level tight end.

Speaker 5 It does feel every year like there's like two or three tight ends and it just completely falls off a cliff and you're playing tight end roulette for the entire season. Kasicki, value, value.

Speaker 5 You're going to get that air airline value from Mike Kasicki. Okay, you have two picks then.
Oh, you guys ready for this? Yep.

Speaker 5 When you play in an ESPN league

Speaker 5 in the 2020 season

Speaker 5 and you hear rumors that a tight end on the Saints is possibly going to start a QB,

Speaker 5 and you lock him in at tight end,

Speaker 5 and then he's announced as a QB, but you locked him in and they can't kick him out.

Speaker 5 And the whole team is going apoplectic because you have a QB in your tight end slot, and they're saying it's not fair. It's not fair.
And you block them all from your email.

Speaker 5 And you play a QB in your tight end slot. So I'm going to say tight end,

Speaker 5 who is actually a QB. Thank you, Taysom Hill.
Oh, wow. Yeah,

Speaker 4 that's great. Yeah, I was not going to

Speaker 5 incredible.

Speaker 4 Like, on the other hand, you also can have a J.J. Watt who can play tight end from a defensive standpoint.

Speaker 5 Right.

Speaker 4 And if you have him in a defensive player league,

Speaker 5 money in the banks. Yeah.
So money. All right.
So your next pick. You have two.
Or you have one more.

Speaker 5 I'm going to go with if you're in a two 2QB league, QB2.

Speaker 5 Ooh, QB2. Nice.
Good pick. I can't believe it's still there, but I guess I'll scoop up RB1.

Speaker 5 Yeah.

Speaker 4 Yeah. I mean, you're kind of going chalk here.

Speaker 5 Well, I mean, yeah, it's still there. Yeah.
RB1. Good value.
Yeah, low RB1.

Speaker 4 All right. So I'm going to go with kind of a Swiss Army knife position.
I'm going to go with... The one that says like W slash R slash T.

Speaker 4 The other flex.

Speaker 5 That's a flex.

Speaker 4 No, but there are some leagues where flex is just

Speaker 4 wide receivers and running. This is a different flex.
It's a weird flex, but okay.

Speaker 5 We're running out of position. But isn't it a super flex? No, no, you can go bench.
There's still wide receiver one, defense.

Speaker 5 Don't tell them. Okay, sorry.

Speaker 4 No, I'm aware the defense is still on the board, but I feel like a super flex is a thing.

Speaker 5 Okay, and I'll get a super duper flex for my next pick. No, it's a, okay, let me look.

Speaker 4 Let me Google super flex.

Speaker 5 Well, we're talking about a standard league.

Speaker 5 Okay, all right, that's fine. All right, fine.
You have it. You can fix it.
If you're going to complain about it,

Speaker 4 I'm going to take defense.

Speaker 5 No, you're right. Super flex.

Speaker 4 Here's your boring fucking pick. It's defense.

Speaker 5 You can have super flex.

Speaker 4 I'm taking the Ravens' defense. Sorry, John.
No, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 5 Oh, shit.

Speaker 5 Oh, wow. I knew it.
I knew it was going to go.

Speaker 5 Okay.

Speaker 8 All right, I'm going to do a little handcuffing here. I'm going to go TE1 and TE2.

Speaker 5 Oh, wow. Wait, I have tight end one.
Yes, tight end.

Speaker 8 Oh, fuck. All right.
TE2.

Speaker 5 Well, he kind of has TE2. I thought he had QB2.
Oh, he has QB.

Speaker 5 No, I had tight end who is a quarterback, and you refuse to take him out of that slot, and the whole place goes crazy. And then when it's announced that he's not going to be starting,

Speaker 5 you write an email back like, oh, sorry.

Speaker 5 Just getting these. Okay.

Speaker 8 All right, so tight end two. I'll take another kicker just in case.

Speaker 5 Okay, perfect. Love it.
Love it. That's an auto-draft.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 You take two kicker. You have two places.
Well, it's an auto-draft. You know when you auto-draft and it just loads up all the spots?

Speaker 5 Who has to do with that? You can never have too many kickers. Yeah, that's a fact.
No,

Speaker 5 you can never have too much leg. You have one kicker on your team.
He's right. He's right.
You never have too much leg.

Speaker 5 Unless you have.

Speaker 5 Who was a stud last season? Gay,

Speaker 5 who was like the player

Speaker 5 who was the amazing kicker? Blankenship?

Speaker 5 You should never have more than one kicker on your team. I'm sorry.
You're right. I'm sorry.
I'm cross-talking. I apologize.

Speaker 4 Okay, sorry.

Speaker 8 I had a fantasy football podcast for a few years, Jerry.

Speaker 5 That's true.

Speaker 5 Are you still doing that, Hank?

Speaker 8 No, Stephen Shea and Ben Minsar. Nice.

Speaker 5 My last one. I'm EPing.

Speaker 4 I'm going to take another defense, but

Speaker 4 it's going to be whichever defense

Speaker 4 is playing against the Texans.

Speaker 5 Right. That's a good defense.
So,

Speaker 5 second defense is a great defense.

Speaker 4 So every week you have a variation of. I like it.
And that way you can free up an open roster

Speaker 5 somewhere else.

Speaker 4 You don't have to spend a high draft pick on a starting defense. And by the way, I looked up Super Flex.
Super Flex is becoming one of the most popular formats in fantasy football.

Speaker 5 Have you ever used it? I did, yeah. When? Last year.
What league? My old league. Oh, my buddies.

Speaker 4 We also do an auction draft in that one, which I don't care for.

Speaker 5 Oh, God, because it's nine hours of your life. Yeah.
I mean, it's nine hours. I don't have nine hours.

Speaker 4 I spend all my money in the first, like, three picks because I just don't want to do it anymore.

Speaker 5 All right, I'll go with bench.

Speaker 5 Okay.

Speaker 5 You want to add anything to that? No, I mean, I just, you know.

Speaker 5 Spy every position. Yeah.

Speaker 5 All right, so I'll go bench. Oh, you want to go specific? I'll go bench.
The guy, it would actually be kind of a Darius Slayton type.

Speaker 5 The guy that you pick up from, you look through like who has the most, you sort it, who has the most points, and he had all his points in the first few weeks.

Speaker 5 And you're like, oh, he's had 60 points this year. I'm going to pick him up.
And he averages like two points a week afterwards. Right.

Speaker 5 So that will be my bench guy who I pick up, think I got a steal, but I'm not. It's not even close to a steal.
All right. It's my turn.

Speaker 5 Jerry's on the clock.

Speaker 5 I was going to say defensive player two, but there's, I haven't seen a league with two defensive players yet.

Speaker 5 I'm going to go with bench player, but let's get into specifics. Bench player who is

Speaker 5 a player that is like really in his last days in the league, but was on one of your winning teams about 10 years ago.

Speaker 5 So you just recognize his name. This is the Andre Johnson spot.
Yeah, and you just want him,

Speaker 5 you just want him on your

Speaker 5 ring.

Speaker 4 Yeah, it's like the Lakers giving Kobe that contract towards the end of the run. Yeah.
Thank you for all that you've done. You keep a spot open for one-year-old.

Speaker 5 Jimmy Graham is another spot for that. Yeah, Jimmy Graham.
You're like, man, Jimmy Graham, this could be a receiver. Is he at the Seahawks now? No, he's still on the Bears.
He's still on the Bears.

Speaker 5 Right here. Right.

Speaker 5 Right.

Speaker 5 Yeah, I'm going to keep it.

Speaker 5 That's going to be

Speaker 5 my next pick. Okay.
Okay. All right.
So if Superfuck

Speaker 5 gives

Speaker 5 Superfund for me, that's Frank Gore. Yeah.

Speaker 5 Frank Gore. Frank Gore, he's still in the league, right?

Speaker 5 He's still in the league. No, he's an RB2.

Speaker 5 Yeah, well, we have to have Frank Gore. Frank Gore.

Speaker 5 That's our rule.

Speaker 5 Sujit,

Speaker 4 we're going to let you

Speaker 5 shop for the groceries. Okay.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 Because you're going to be cooking the dinner, but we have to have Frank Gore.

Speaker 5 Jake, let PFT have Super Flex. If it's something that's real now, then I'm out of date.
It's a real thing. Never had it.

Speaker 4 It's a very real thing.

Speaker 5 So it's QB. It's QB?

Speaker 4 It's the Super League of Flexes.

Speaker 5 It's QB. Any offensive player.

Speaker 5 Any offensive player. I think that's what a Super Flex is.
Okay. And also, the word super is in it.
It sounds cool. Yeah, that's really the only reason that I took it.

Speaker 4 Yeah, but Wednesday night, Jerry, you're free Wednesday night. Yes.
You're going to be doing our draft for us.

Speaker 8 Okay.

Speaker 4 Can we stream it?

Speaker 5 Sure. I have to go to a place where I get internet.
My kids are on TikTok all the time, so I can't do it at home. And it's just me just yelling like, get off TikTok, get off TikTok.

Speaker 5 And I don't want to do that if I'm streaming. So if you recall, last year I was at a park.
There's a park. There's a 5G tower at a park near my house that I do a lot of streaming and stuff.

Speaker 4 Sure will be out at night in the park by himself on a phone.

Speaker 5 It might be West Coast, so it'll be daytime. Okay, there you go.

Speaker 5 But there's a park right on,

Speaker 5 it's got great 5G. If you guys ever need, if you're in a pinch and you're in Calabasas, I know the perfect spot.
Okay, that's beautiful. It does, I mean,

Speaker 5 hopefully, I don't think so. Like, I believe in science, but if it has anything to do with COVID, that 5G stuff, I'm in trouble, you know?

Speaker 4 Yeah, deep shit. So, all right.

Speaker 4 You also need to come up with a name for the team, though.

Speaker 4 Not to put you on the spot, we can dialogue offline, as I say, in the business world.

Speaker 5 Yeah.

Speaker 5 Maybe something with Billy and Stolen Valor. Oh, yeah.
Billy's Boots.

Speaker 4 Thank you for your cervix.

Speaker 5 Yeah. We don't want it to be too offensive because it's going to be public.
Public.

Speaker 5 Yes. Agreed.
All right. Well, Jerry, it's always great to have you.
I love you guys so much. I feel like I really just let it all go.

Speaker 5 I was on the couch and I was a little, you could tell I was a little

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Speaker 4 So excited. And you're doing great in all your relationships.

Speaker 5 That's what you're doing. And you have the talk.

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Speaker 5 And now for something completely different.

Speaker 14 All right, great to be joined by a man. Anyone who follows football knows, he's Mike Florio.

Speaker 14 He founded the website Pro Football Talk, and you can hear him every morning, Monday through Friday, first from 7 to 9 a.m. on PFT Live on Peacock TV, and then 9 to 11 on NBC Sports Network.

Speaker 7 and mike also in just about six months or so your book playmakers uh will be released uh it's out on march 15th you can pre-order it right now how's everything going mike well you know i and and field it's great to be with you i just got the final version on pdf of the book so it's becoming more and more real every day and now i have to proofread it yet another time to make sure there isn't a typo in there.

Speaker 7 It is like looking for a needle in a haystack, but the search for the needle continues.

Speaker 14 Well, I've seen you break down contracts and legal situations in the NFL, so I know you'll find any last-minute edits there.

Speaker 14 So while the world is seemingly in a little bit further ahead state compared to where we were around this time last year with COVID, I don't know that we're out of the, sort of, out of the woods in the NFL.

Speaker 14 Do you think it's possible that COVID could play even a more impactful role this year on the league than it did last season?

Speaker 7 Well, I think it definitely will, Field.

Speaker 7 We've been talking about the unvaccinated players, the fact that there's still 7% or thereabouts who refuse to get the vaccine, and the reality that they are tested every single day, the fact that they have, if they have close contact with

Speaker 7 an infected person, they're automatically out five days. There is this possibility of key players being gone at any given moment.

Speaker 7 I don't think we're going to get to the point where we've got so many players who are out that a team can't play and we have to move games around. We could get that.

Speaker 7 I don't think we're going to to have a game that's wiped out. Well, I could see a day or two movement like we saw last year, but

Speaker 7 this notion that maybe a game will be completely scratched, I hope is not going to be an issue. Now, the league wants to test vaccinated players more frequently, going to a one-week testing protocol.

Speaker 7 The union has floated the idea of doing it every day.

Speaker 7 If they would ever test vaccinated players every single day, then that could get very interesting because if everybody's tested every day and the restrictions aren't in place for the vaccinated players to move wherever they want to move and they potentially can get infected and that could get to a point where a lot of guys would be out at any given time.

Speaker 7 So the more often they test the vaccinated players, the more guys I think will be out on a given game. But, you know, look, it's whatever the rules are.
People don't like the rules.

Speaker 5 The rules are what they are.

Speaker 7 But the more often they test the vaccinated players, the more disruptive it's automatically going to be.

Speaker 14 It feels like around this time every year, we're singing the same tune. The defending champion is in a good spot to succeed and repeat, and yet it hasn't happened in nearly 20 years.

Speaker 14 Could the Bucs be the exception? It hasn't happened since Tom Brady was quarterback in the Patriots all the way back from 2003 to 2004.

Speaker 5 It feels, I think what's so funny is that the

Speaker 7 fact that it has been 17 years

Speaker 7 makes us wired to say it can't happen. I can't happen.
It's been too long. It doesn't happen anymore.

Speaker 7 I remember when I was growing up, you just kind of accept the fact that the king of the hills stays on the hill for a couple of years. And it was the exception when somebody didn't repeat.

Speaker 7 And now we've gone 17 years. They've brought everyone back.
First time since the late 70s, that all starters are back on both sides of the ball. They addressed an area of kind of need.

Speaker 7 Gio Bernard there. Last year, it was a little Leshawn McCoy.
It was Leonard Fournette. It kind of ping-ponged around.
Now that they're very happy with him, everyone else is back.

Speaker 7 I picked the Buccaneers to win it last year. Just dumb luck.
Close your eyes, throw a dart. I thought they'd play the Patriots in the Super Bowl.

Speaker 7 So I was, you know, half right and half completely nuts.

Speaker 7 But I'm getting closer and closer to the moment of truth, Field.

Speaker 5 I'm probably going to pick them to win it again.

Speaker 7 I can't think of a reason not to. You definitely have to pick them to get there out of an NFC that isn't nearly as top heavy as the AFC.
The question is, can they win?

Speaker 7 against the best team that the AFC has to offer? And that should make for a great Super Bowl in Los Angeles.

Speaker 14 Yeah, a repeat Super Bowl would probably be very entertaining to most football fans. All right, Mike, I want to ask you about your last and favorite topic here, your fantasy team.

Speaker 7 How many fantasy teams have you played in this year, and how good is your team looking?

Speaker 5 Come on.

Speaker 7 I get the shakes. I get the shakes anytime this comes up because you know what the guys on Pardon My Take do.

Speaker 7 They find creative ways to get me to talk about my fantasy team so they can say nobody gives a damn about your fantasy team, although they use other language than that.

Speaker 7 I've got two leagues, if you care, and you probably don't, but the drafts are coming up. I like to do the drafts as late as possible because you never know when injuries are going to happen.
So,

Speaker 5 no one cares.

Speaker 5 I was set up. No one cares.
I was set up, you motherfuckers.

Speaker 5 You mothers fuckers.

Speaker 5 That's good.

Speaker 5 You let that boy. That's good.

Speaker 5 You've solicited help from the outside. Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah. You bastards.
Good answers.

Speaker 5 Everybody buy Playmakers. Order as penance for what you've done to me.
I want a big push for everyone, all of the award-winning listeners, to pre-order Playmakers right now.

Speaker 5 Well, no, but

Speaker 4 don't order Playmakers until you've read Quarterback of the Future, your first novel.

Speaker 5 My bad.

Speaker 7 You're not going to find that. That's gone.

Speaker 5 I think you have the only copy.

Speaker 4 I think so.

Speaker 7 Playmakers is going to be available to anyone who wants it and many who don't.

Speaker 5 I can't believe that you even said, hey, the guys on part of my take always fuck with me, but here's my fantasy league setup. I said, what are you doing? We should never answer the question.

Speaker 5 Who expects Field

Speaker 5 to allow himself

Speaker 5 to be used this way? Credit to Field. I thought about it for like a few weeks.
I was like, who is the perfect guy who is trustworthy that Florio will fall directly in the trap? And you did it again.

Speaker 5 You did it again.

Speaker 5 He sets me up for a fantasy show. Well, you've late said it's a fantasy show.

Speaker 5 Actually, since we have you both here, and Mike, we don't really care from you, but Field, can you actually give our listeners some fantasy sleepers and some advice? I hear a guy. Don't do it, Field.

Speaker 5 No, don't do it.

Speaker 5 No, we want to hear from Field. I want to hear from Field.
He's an expert.

Speaker 14 I will do this, by the way. And I...

Speaker 14 First time that I reached out to Mike, which was late last week, you responded immediately in a way that made me think you were on the scent a little bit because you were like, sure, I'll join, but what's it all about?

Speaker 14 And I was like, fuck, all right, now I gotta, I gotta think of something that's creative enough to make sure that you will maintain your obligation on Monday afternoon.

Speaker 14 So if we do want fantasy sleepers, I think I might just pander a little bit because I'm trying to go through it of names that people either know or names that people have no idea about.

Speaker 14 And because there's so much interest in the NFL, a lot of names are not necessarily sleepers. They're just undervalued names.
So

Speaker 14 Darnell Mooney with the Chicago Bears. Big Dad obviously knows all about him.
Fast.

Speaker 14 If Justin Fields takes the reins sooner rather than later, I think that offense is good enough to maybe have two relevant wide receivers.

Speaker 14 Jacoby Myers for the Patriots, if they get much better play, and Florio was just telling us about how Mac Jones, as we all have seen, has looked good this preseason, has a chance to lead the way as I can see him just.

Speaker 14 about to vomit on front of his computer.

Speaker 5 Dan Nardo for the Panthers, a tight end.

Speaker 14 And I'll give you two more. Names that you know already know.
A.J. Dillon from the Packers, second-round fake last year.
He's just too good to keep off the field. Aaron Jones is back.

Speaker 14 Maybe a couple of years from now, it's A.J. Dillon running the show by himself.
But I think A.J. Dillon's going to run through defenders all season this year.
And then Kenyon Drake for the Raiders.

Speaker 14 Everybody knows him already, obviously, but they're going to have to find some way to score points this year because their defense is not stopping anybody.

Speaker 14 And they paid Drake too much money to not utilize him. So those are my sleepers.
I got them off from Florio as well.

Speaker 5 I can blame him instead. Let's tie it.

Speaker 5 Great advice, Field.

Speaker 5 Appreciate that. I've been back to the business.
That is like

Speaker 5 a fight. I have to witness him

Speaker 7 talking about fantasy football. After you guys have burned me again, I got to sit through an actual legitimate fantasy fight.

Speaker 5 I fucking kid. Field's an expert.
I actually, Mike, I texted Field. My exact text was, after the reveal, we're going to ask you some real questions right in Florio's face.

Speaker 5 So that's this portion of the interview.

Speaker 4 I had a question.

Speaker 5 Like, I'm trying to struggle.

Speaker 4 I'm struggling with whether or not I can trust any Panthers wide receiver, given, like, is Sam Darnold going to have a year? Like,

Speaker 4 am I going to be able to trust that offense to score points? Or is it like stay away from DJ Moore at all costs?

Speaker 14 I think I would actually be more in than out this year on the Panthers wide receivers. I'm a little bit nervous about the overall volume coming down.

Speaker 14 Robbie Anderson had like the quietest 95 catch season in NFL history last year, but Christian McCaffrey played just three seasons.

Speaker 14 So McCaffrey, if you assume he's on the field, probably going to have like 120 or so targets, which you take away the volume a little bit from someone like Robbie Anderson, a little bit more from DJ Moore.

Speaker 14 But as much as Sam Darnold's a huge question mark after what he did during three seasons in New York, it's not like he's taking over a job from Tom Brady or something.

Speaker 14 He's replacing Teddy Bridgewater and PJ Walker from last season. So I think there's actually a lot of reasons this Carolina team could be sneaky.

Speaker 14 Like, I don't think they're good enough to compete with the Bucs or even make a playoff push at all, but they're going to score a lot of points this year.

Speaker 14 So I'm actually sort of generally speaking in on this offense.

Speaker 5 All right. So last question for you, Field.
So I assume you've done a couple fantasy drafts.

Speaker 5 Who did you take in your first round in one of your drafts?

Speaker 14 Yeah, so I've done too many. It's really kind of a pathetic excuse of a life I lead over here.
But

Speaker 14 depending on where you go, the first five picks are probably most drafts going to end up being Christian McCaffrey, Dalvin Cook, Alvin Kamara, Derrick Henry, and and Zeke Elliott, likely in that order.

Speaker 14 With Saquon Barkley not being the certainty for week one, there are some people that are concerned about using a high pick on him. And so I'd say usually those are the first five picks that I've seen.

Speaker 14 So those have been a couple of the guys that I've been targeting.

Speaker 5 But specifically, like you're, let's say you're the league you care about the most. Who'd you end up with your quarterback?

Speaker 14 So I've got, so we play in this Warring League. It's a 16-team league at ESPN, all the names that you know, people involved.

Speaker 14 It's most competitive league that I play in, and probably in part because of the pride more than anything else.

Speaker 14 I've got the 14th pick on Wednesday night, so I have not, I mean, I've got a lot of research to do.

Speaker 5 Yeah. Florio, if, if, if, if Florio will talk to you ever again after this, then I don't know.

Speaker 14 I'll look at a couple of thoughts there, but I need some help.

Speaker 7 But do you have any teams?

Speaker 5 Have you, have you any drafts that you've done? I'm specifically like, who do you have on your team right now?

Speaker 14 I'm interested.

Speaker 14 I have not done any drafts yet for leagues that are being played. Like I've done keeper leagues or dynasty leagues where you do them early.

Speaker 5 Who'd you keep? Who'd you keep? How can you ask these questions? What are you doing? Shut up, Mike. Shut up.
I want to know who we keep.

Speaker 5 Shut up.

Speaker 14 I've got one team where, you know, sort of every league has a different setup in terms of how many keepers you have. Dalvin Cook is my, there's a league where I get to keep one.

Speaker 14 Dalvin Cook was the keeper there.

Speaker 5 My choice.

Speaker 14 Effort went into that one.

Speaker 14 Joe Mixon and Kyler Murray were my two on another that I was able to keep. And then I've got a couple of dynasty leagues where you keep everybody, right?

Speaker 14 The only way that you lose a player is if you cut him and then he if you if someone else picks him up he's theirs forever um so you've got a league where it's like my team is like kittle and odell and

Speaker 5 detail montgomery and uh players like that that are mine in perpetuity if i keep them every year that's my right if not then uh they're on to somebody else's rough i could i don't know about everyone who's listening right now i i assume they all agree with me but like i could listen to field talk about his teams forever

Speaker 5 this is awesome i'm having fun listen you are never gonna get me me again. You're going to have to get Roger Goodell involved.
You're going to have like the ghost of Pete Roselle involved last time.

Speaker 5 Last year, I got your son involved. You don't think I can get you again?

Speaker 7 The only way it's going to happen is if you get Goodell, that's it.

Speaker 5 Okay. That's it.
Okay. Mike, you are underestimating us.

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 5 We have many tips. This is going to touch every part of it.
This is good.

Speaker 7 I didn't even feel that. I didn't feel, I would have never expected it of all the people in the business.
The field is the last one I would have expected it it from so

Speaker 4 about this is mike you're just gonna be walking around paranoid your entire life basically anybody that even mentions the word fantasy to you you're gonna be like those son where are they where are they

Speaker 5 your tweet from the other night if i was smart it would have given me the clue when you sent me your lineup and asked for me to give you input what'd you think about that what'd you think about my lineup mike well i don't know it's as bad as mine's gonna be all right but but i should have realized i should have realized that that this was happening i should have realized i need better spider sense you don't even you don't realize any of this because i know when field asked you to come on and i then texted you about something completely unrelated an hour later just to give you a little like oh in communication about something different so it's always a pleasure mike yeah great thanks thank you field you're a champion field we appreciate it we'll have you back on to talk fantasy

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Speaker 5 Also, I'd like to point out real quick

Speaker 4 before we get into it, the fantasy football thing with Jerry. So, change of pace.
We're not doing the draft tomorrow. I just found out the text thread in CJ McCollum's League has been going nuts.

Speaker 4 It got moved to Saturday, so

Speaker 4 it won't be today,

Speaker 4 which is what we discussed with Jerry. So, it's going to be on Saturday instead.
Also, breaking news from that text thread, Jerry Farrar, Turtle, when I told him that CJ or that

Speaker 4 Jerry was going to be drafting for us, he just replied, LMFAO, I've been in like 400 leagues with Jerry since 2004.

Speaker 4 And I was like, has he ever won? And he goes, no, I don't think so.

Speaker 5 Oh, no. No chance.
No chance. All right.
Guys on checks to finish this off. And sorry, Florio, but he's never going to trust anything we ever do ever again.

Speaker 5 He's like constantly going to be flinching around. Yes.
But we will get him next year.

Speaker 8 Hey, Cat, Commenter, Cake, Hank, Bill, and Bubba. I just started a new job and suffer from terrible anxiety, which caused me to not be able to swallow my food food when eating and start choking.
What?

Speaker 8 Any advice on how to consume food more effectively?

Speaker 5 Soup.

Speaker 4 Very easy answer. Soup.
Soup.

Speaker 4 You drink it. You don't have to chew it.

Speaker 5 Is this.

Speaker 8 I couldn't tell if this is like one of the movie ones.

Speaker 5 I want this anxiety. Like, give me that so I just can't eat.
I would say just embrace the fact that you're going to be skinny and hot for summer 2022.

Speaker 4 I also think that that could be kind of an advantage in certain business situations. If you go out to lunch with somebody and you're like, no, I'm not going to have anything, that throws somebody off.

Speaker 4 Sorry, it puts them off balance a little bit.

Speaker 5 Never order first when you're at a lunch for

Speaker 5 work.

Speaker 5 Always let the boss order first because then they set the tone.

Speaker 5 Whether you're going steak, beer, whatever it may be, you never want to be the guy who's like, yeah, I'll have the 40-ounce porter house and a beer at like one o'clock.

Speaker 4 Is this a real thing, though, that you lose the ability to produce, what is it, you can't swallow?

Speaker 5 Yeah.

Speaker 4 I've had a couple girlfriends that I think had bad anxiety.

Speaker 5 Yeah, tons.

Speaker 5 New work anxiety.

Speaker 8 I work for a very blue-collar company, but in a managerial role.

Speaker 5 Uh-oh.

Speaker 8 So, more white-collar day-to-day work. I have a mechanic who reports to me who smells like complete ass.
I have discussed the issues at length with him and don't know what else to try.

Speaker 8 I talk to him, he's better for a few weeks, then goes back to smelling like shit. He does good work, and solid diesel mechanics are hard to find these days.

Speaker 8 All of my other employees come to me with, hey, how much longer are you going to allow this to type to continue stuff?

Speaker 8 How much longer are you going to allow this to continue type stuff? What do I do? Side note, I know why he smells. He has a makeshift farm with 25-plus dogs and other animals living in his house.

Speaker 8 Billy? Side

Speaker 8 note: he drove to another state a few months ago to buy a miniature bull.

Speaker 5 Oh, Bill. Oh, yeah.
All right, so here's my tip: because this happened to us at Barstool Sports.

Speaker 5 I'm not going to talk about anyone who smells bad because everyone smells great, but did you guys get surprised by the new automatic air fresheners in the bathroom?

Speaker 5 Yes, I didn't even work.

Speaker 5 I went to take a piss and all of a sudden the back of my neck was wet and I was like, what the fuck?

Speaker 5 And I turned around and there's clearly, there's a big like industrial size air freshener that I think just automatically goes off every 15 minutes.

Speaker 5 Install one of those in that guy's house when he's sleeping with his 25 animals and maybe by like his workstation because that shit just scared me.

Speaker 4 Probably just in his workstation. I actually think that if you're a diesel mechanic,

Speaker 4 it's probably a good thing. That means that you're the best diesel mechanic if you don't smell good.

Speaker 5 I think it's the animals. Like, you know how Billy smells?

Speaker 4 Yeah, I know, I get that for sure. But I don't think I want my diesel mechanic to be smelling.

Speaker 4 It's like, I don't want to walk into a restaurant and there's a skinny chef. Right.
I want somebody that looks like they live and breathe that shit.

Speaker 5 That's true.

Speaker 8 My boss is a good friend of mine. He actually helped me get the job.
We golf almost every weekend when we ride in the same cart, he will constantly ask me about work shit.

Speaker 8 Usually he asked me if I had completed a task. Usually I hadn't.
So it caused me to make a call, text, email. Usually I try to just change the subject or act like I didn't hear him.

Speaker 8 But is there any other way I can get out of the work talk on the golf course? If you guys could tell him to fuck off, that would be great.

Speaker 8 Also, because he tells me what to do at work, he'll always ask me to help him find his ball or to pull the pin for him.

Speaker 4 That's got to stop.

Speaker 5 Whoa.

Speaker 8 That's just sportsmanship to an extent.

Speaker 5 Pulling a pin for someone.

Speaker 4 You got to be careful.

Speaker 5 Find his ball, though?

Speaker 8 If they're both like...

Speaker 5 Yeah, I guess. Yeah, but I guess how.

Speaker 8 Well, if you lost your ball, I would help you.

Speaker 5 But I wouldn't be like, Hank, go get my ball. No, no.
Right.

Speaker 5 If you weren't looking,

Speaker 8 you made me look, that would be different.

Speaker 5 I would say, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's got to be looking with you.

Speaker 5 I think you have to stop playing this game and you have to just fake an injury and then just golf on your free time because that sounds miserable.

Speaker 4 Or start betting him a lot of money per hole responsibly. And then that way you guys are just talking shit to each other.

Speaker 4 When you step on the course, it should be just like a locker room where it's, okay, it's shit talking time with the boss. We're not on the clock.

Speaker 4 You need to make a move that really sets it aside aside as being guys' time. Either like shotgun a beer on the first hole, get it started right off the bat.
You know, that's playtime. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Or just make a very large bet with him, get his mind focused on something else.

Speaker 5 Or just try to kiss him in the middle of your round and be like, I always get horny when I play golf. And then he'll never invite you back.

Speaker 4 Something about the holes.

Speaker 8 This October will be my 10th year working at my engineering firm. What percent raise should I be asking for?

Speaker 4 Ooh, I don't know what engineers. What do engineers engineers do?

Speaker 5 They

Speaker 4 train people.

Speaker 5 They solve all the world's problems, I think.

Speaker 4 They make bridges, right?

Speaker 8 Boston dynamics.

Speaker 5 They make bridges, but it's from making bridges to deciding where the toilet goes in a

Speaker 5 big building. Yeah, or a cruise ship.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 Engineers are very smart. I have nothing but respect for engineers because I know they're s way smarter than me.

Speaker 4 What about software engineers? I feel like that's stolen valor.

Speaker 5 That's also very smart.

Speaker 4 It's very smart, but I think that engineers to me implies that you're building something tangible.

Speaker 5 Have you guys ever met an architect in the wild? I've met architects before back when I was working in real estate, but like, have you met an architect in the wild?

Speaker 4 I don't think so, no.

Speaker 5 They are rare people. Like, you've met doctors.

Speaker 5 You haven't met architects.

Speaker 8 My neighbors growing up are architects.

Speaker 5 Okay, so that counts as one. What do you say, Billy? They're also like sometimes assholes.
Architects? Yeah, they think they're like artists. Oh, yeah, they are.

Speaker 4 They're God of their building.

Speaker 5 Correct. Yeah.
And they also like...

Speaker 4 Blueprints for days. Oh, you know what I really want to do? Like, I would just like to, at one point in my life, walk around with one of those giant tubes that has a blueprint inside of it.

Speaker 4 You look super fucking important if you're walking down the street with me.

Speaker 5 Yeah, rolling out a blueprint on a big conference table, that's the shit. That's what you go to architects for.

Speaker 4 I want to do that, roll out the blueprint, or be at a table that's got a map on the table and I'm moving things around, like strategy and logistics.

Speaker 5 All I remember from architects is they always wore sweaters, and they always got in fights with the general contractors who would be like, This building doesn't make sense.

Speaker 5 Like, you like, none of this is going to make sense. They'd be like, Well, this is my vision.

Speaker 5 So, what was the question? Oh, yeah.

Speaker 4 How much are you asking for? I don't know what's what is your 50%.

Speaker 5 Okay, love it.

Speaker 8 Is that like a 10-year thing?

Speaker 5 And if they don't give it to you, lean in for a kiss, and then if they kiss you, just say sexual harassment.

Speaker 4 Or 50% raise, ask for the kiss or be like you don't have to give me a raise but can the next building gets named after me oh I like that that way you're named after me that's how Trump started yep when do we get to see coach Dougs again this was just

Speaker 5 in the question

Speaker 5 well he's he's been on a barnstorming tour he's throwing up first pitches yeah did you see uh Madden out of college mode for 10 teams uh they had that oh not to pursue

Speaker 5 it was like

Speaker 5 it was yeah they've had that and you basically get to be like the quarterback for Oregon, and you get to play two playoff games and then get drafted.

Speaker 5 Got it. There's a chance.
I've had a couple conversations with people,

Speaker 5 people in power here who would like to see it come back. We'll see.
I'm never saying never.

Speaker 5 I'm not going to Urban Meier retire on you guys. I'm going to be honest and say there will probably be another season, the last dance.

Speaker 4 It feels to me, and I don't want to step on toes here, but it's something that you would bring back when it's not an actual football series.

Speaker 5 Correct. Oh, no, definitely not during football.
No, no, no. Absolutely not.

Speaker 8 Here's a guy's on chicks on chucks.

Speaker 8 Hey, PMT boys. Lady boss.
So I accidentally fucked my coworker's dad at a bar this weekend.

Speaker 5 Accidentally. And it also turns out.
How do you accidentally fuck him?

Speaker 4 So you can fall down at just the right angle.

Speaker 8 It also turns out he's my dad's cousin.

Speaker 5 Oh,

Speaker 5 wait, wait, wait. That means that he's your cousin's second cousin.

Speaker 4 That's a great example of just like complete, you're in complete denial, right? Yeah. He's related to my dad, so that's kind of fucked up.

Speaker 5 I barely know my dad.

Speaker 9 So your coworker is also your cousin.

Speaker 5 Coworker's dad. Yes.
Your co-worker. Yes.
No, your co-worker is your third cousin or second cousin once removed? Because you're...

Speaker 8 When did you get into parents' cousins is when you get so confused.

Speaker 5 No, but you fucked your cousin.

Speaker 8 You fucked your coworker's dad.

Speaker 5 Yeah, but that's your cousin. My dad.
Who's cousins with dad? That would make you

Speaker 5 also cousins. second cousins, I believe? So that's second cousins? Second cousins.
I can never get the cousins.

Speaker 8 I've been to family events where it's like, this is my dad's, like, this is my cousin, and they have kids, but they're never like, this is your cousins. I think that's true.
Did you fuck any of them?

Speaker 5 Third cousin, no. That's weird, big cat.
That's weird that you're taking such a career. That is true.
That is a weird cousin. Interesting sex life.

Speaker 9 Where does the once-removed takeaway?

Speaker 5 That's how I'm going to look right now. Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 4 I just think that's true.

Speaker 5 What is...

Speaker 5 Oh, is it a divorce? I don't know.

Speaker 4 No, I don't think divorce has anything to do with it. I just think, like, that means that you haven't fucked yet if you're once removed.

Speaker 5 Second cousins, it means that the closest ancestor that the two people have in common is a grandparent. If they were any more closely related, they would be.
Wait, second cousin means.

Speaker 5 Okay, so John. Wait, fuck.
This doesn't.

Speaker 9 I think that's first cousins.

Speaker 5 Yeah, what the hell?

Speaker 4 Yeah, first cousins share a grandparent with each other.

Speaker 5 First cousins share a grandparent with each other. Second cousins share a great-grandparent.

Speaker 5 That's right.

Speaker 4 This is first cousin once removed.

Speaker 4 This is your cousin once removed.

Speaker 5 You fucked your cousin. No, this is your second cousin.

Speaker 4 It's your dad's cousin.

Speaker 5 So that means they

Speaker 5 share grandparents. Yes.

Speaker 5 So that means, yeah, you share. You share great-grandparents.
Yes. Yes, that's second cousin.
Okay. Yeah.

Speaker 5 Once removed. No, I don't think there's a remove.

Speaker 4 Still better than FDR. We really give FDR a pass.

Speaker 5 What about Einstein?

Speaker 5 But more importantly, can you imagine? He's the smartest guy in the world and he fucked his, he married his cousin.

Speaker 4 Can you imagine if somebody running for president today

Speaker 4 they were married to their cousin yeah actually that would probably

Speaker 5 actually unfortunately i could that would probably nip the campaign in the bud um but einstein dude didn't he marry his cousin yeah he did he's the smartest guy in the world smartest guy in the world maybe he knows something we all right so there you go there's your answer einstein did it and look where he got smartest guy ever all right last one hey guys it's snacks code name snacks i'm the new guy at work and started using the refrigerator in the break room and And when lunch comes around, I go for my sandwich and it's gone.

Speaker 8 What do you guys think I should do? I'm the new guy, pretty quiet about it, but it's really starting to piss me off.

Speaker 5 Yeah, no.

Speaker 8 Any advice? Thanks, guys.

Speaker 5 We do this to Pete. It's all business to beat.

Speaker 4 You got to lightly poison it. Not to an extent where it'll cause serious permanent damage.
But like,

Speaker 4 put something a little gnarly in it.

Speaker 5 No, don't even... You don't even have to do poison, quote unquote.
It could just be some

Speaker 5 shit that causes diarrhea.

Speaker 4 Oh, it could be some flatliner sauce.

Speaker 5 Just spread that on the inside. That's good.

Speaker 4 Really hot. And that way you'd also be able to tell exactly who ate your lunch.

Speaker 5 Also, the person who's eating the lunch, be a respectable human, like what we do to all business Pete if we eat his sandwich. I think Roan does it a lot.
He just leaves a $5 bill in the fridge.

Speaker 4 That way it's not even like you're stealing it.

Speaker 5 Yeah, right.

Speaker 5 It's totally fair.

Speaker 4 Billy, you looked like you had something to say about the lunch. Lunch gate.
Lock all the doors.

Speaker 9 No one leaves till you find out.

Speaker 5 Ooh. Okay.
I like it. All right, Billy.
Give me like the top level recap because it was a long show.

Speaker 9 Did Dan Campbell keep a punter on his squad when he cut two kickers? I think so. So, is that who's going to be kicking the ball?

Speaker 5 Maybe that would be a good move.

Speaker 4 That would also be a big Dan Campbell move to be like, you kick a ball, they kick a ball, what's the difference, right?

Speaker 5 And also be like, this is actually efficiency because I'm saving a roster spot, and then the punter misses every extra point and, like, whoops.

Speaker 4 Dan Campbell probably also saw that highlight clip from the Texans preseason game where they had the safety kickoff. He's like, we're just going to do that.
We're going to do that.

Speaker 4 Have a real football player do it. Genius.

Speaker 9 Shout out Chef Donnie and Bobby Lang for big wins at Rough and Rowdy. No, sure.
Should have done that on Sunday. Yep.
She's at the Rizzo. Oh, did you get in trouble?

Speaker 9 No, I just meant to do it on Sunday, but I forgot. Anyway, Oscar Pistorius gets a little bit more.

Speaker 5 Shout out Billy, by the way, for he was

Speaker 5 drunker than Chef Donnie

Speaker 5 after winning the fight. Yeah, and after.

Speaker 4 Chef Donnie told me that you were like a great guy to have in the corner. Yeah.
You were in war mode by proximity. It was great.

Speaker 5 The story of your life, actually.

Speaker 5 It kind of means that you want to get back in the ring.

Speaker 4 Oh, Billy definitely wants to fight again.

Speaker 5 And we want, except he's looking a little small.

Speaker 9 Who says I'm not going to weight class?

Speaker 5 Oh,

Speaker 5 there are. There's no weight class.

Speaker 5 Jay versus Billy.

Speaker 4 Jake's dad came in to the office today, introduced himself to Billy. The first thing he said was...

Speaker 4 You look a lot smaller in person than I thought you were.

Speaker 5 You knew it for the last natural alpha.

Speaker 9 When you move out of your house and start paying your own grocery bills, it's very hard to maintain the cash.

Speaker 5 Mass. Yeah.

Speaker 4 You're blaming your parents.

Speaker 5 It used to be that no one could spot you in your kitchen squat rack. Now you have Ben Mintz, and now you're saying this.

Speaker 9 Well, I'm trying to get up there.

Speaker 4 Billy,

Speaker 5 I will fund your milk budget. Oh, perfect.
Will that help? Yeah, that will help. Okay.
So you

Speaker 5 get as much milk as you want. You tell me at the end of the month, I want an itemized actual receipt of how much milk you.

Speaker 5 If I expense, can I expand? No, no, no.

Speaker 5 I'm I'm saying you're expensing to me so at the end of every single month September 1st today at the end of September you come up to me and you have a list of every milk that you purchased and drank I will pay for it perfect that's gonna be a lot of milk I know I just want to see the list I want to see how much milk this guy fucking the only limiting factor is that we know that Billy knows that it's physically impossible to drink more than two glasses of milk in an hour it's correct it's you know that challenge it was it was from that um no hearts and wreck episode oh okay all right uh Jake's dad has 25.

Speaker 5 83. 99.

Speaker 4 8. 69.

Speaker 5 18.

Speaker 5 I can't wait to see how much milk you drink. What's the over-under? Camels can swim.
What's the over-under for gallons?

Speaker 4 I think Billy can go through 20.

Speaker 9 Any dairy products?

Speaker 5 No. Wow, this is really expensive.
I want ice cream. Yeah.
Okay. Why do I have ice cream?

Speaker 5 Pay for your milk.

Speaker 4 You're going to buy Jenny's ice cream.

Speaker 5 You're going to buy it with the milk.

Speaker 4 Like the most expensive goat cheese in France. Make your ice cream, okay?

Speaker 5 Burn it. Or just drink so much milk you don't want your little cum belly of milk

Speaker 5 doesn't want any ice cream.

Speaker 4 Or just go outside when it's cold and chug. Chug milk.
Same thing.

Speaker 5 Turn it on.

Speaker 4 So Blake Griffin was in the studio today. He might have sabotaged the lotto machine.

Speaker 5 Uh-oh.

Speaker 5 Oh, wait.

Speaker 5 All right, here we go. 99.8.
Jake Stad is 25.

Speaker 4 Jake Stad hits this.

Speaker 5 Billy, you have to drink skim milk for the entire month.

Speaker 5 Defeats the purpose. Yeah, I die.

Speaker 5 1664.

Speaker 5 64. So close.

Speaker 4 Jake, is that scoreigami?

Speaker 11 It's not, but he's going to be mad at himself because that's probably his second number. That was the year he was born.

Speaker 5 Oh,

Speaker 5 damn. We didn't dox your dad.

Speaker 4 Sorry, Mr. Marsh.
Wait, is his name? His name's not Randy, is it?

Speaker 5 No.

Speaker 5 No, he's so bored.

Speaker 4 That was Randy March.

Speaker 4 Love you guys.

Speaker 4 Talking away.

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Speaker 4 Today isn't my day to find you shining away.

Speaker 4 Oh, I'll be coming for your love, okay.

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