Championship Sunday, Super Bowl 55 Set, Conor McGregor Loses And Coach K Gets Snippy

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Championship Sunday is here. We recap the games.
We have our Super Bowl 55 matchup ready to go. The Tampa Bay Bucs are hosting the Kansas City Chiefs.
We're going to talk about that. We got Conor McGregor, big fight on Saturday night.
Little Coach K, you like it, Hank? Little Coach K, he's back. You know he's back we're gonna do it all though a football monday on part of my take also just a reminder it technically is the start of birthday week so yeah it is birthday week technically technically it's birthday week my birthday's saturday pft is sunday danny woodhead is somewhere in between it's uh maybe that friday Stu Feiner's on Sunday as well.
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we start in the frozen tundra of Lambeau Field with the Battle of the Bays as Bruce Springsteen's Arian's offense was porn in the USA.

Mike Bob Evans ordered a famous Super Bowl as he pulled his sausage out early and feasted.

Scotty Miller Lite couldn't be bottled up, and Aaron Rodgers had a hard time chugging it out with Devontae Sam Adams. Boston vlogger Tom Brady has another couple weeks of putting out weird videos, and thankfully, unlike 2017, his thumbnail is intact.
Math LaFleur confused his order of operations and made a subtraction by addition,

multiplying the division that has sprung up with his exponentially negative quarterback.

Aaron Rodgers is the world's foremost atheist, and today it proved that Chris Godd wins.

Buccaneers, 31.

The Green Bay Packers, 26.

Womp womp. Womp!

To Kansas City, where Darryl Will-I-Am's saw his defense and said,

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And tonight is going to be a good night. Working at the Josh, Josh Wash.
Working at the car, Josh. Yeah, Josh Allen played funky and was slapping that Tyler Bass after the missed extra point.
While baby it's coal outside, Beasley had to convince the Bills to stick around so they could score at the end of the night. And in a tribute to our shortest serving president, William Henry Harrison Bucker said hail to the Chiefs and ensured that they too will at least last until February before being buried.
Yankee doodle Andy Reid put another feather in his cap and will be calling his late-night dinner macaroni as Danica Patrick Mahomes is excited he doesn't have a date with Aaron Rodgers next week. Chiefs 38, the Bells 24.
All right. Championship Sunday in the books.
Super championship Sunday. Super championship Sunday.
Super Bowl set. We got the Bucs and the Chiefs.
Should we do what's that line real quick? Let's do that. Okay.
What's the line? I haven't looked. All right.
What's the line? What's the line? Favorite game. That is going to be the Chiefs.
Three and a half. Yep.
You nailed it. You nailed it.
Is it really? Yeah, you're really good. You're really good at this game.
I swear to God, I haven't looked. I know.
I believe you. It's crazy.
I believe you. What's the over-under? You would think I would be better at gambling.
What's the over-under? Over-under 56. Oh, 57.
Still pretty good. That was smart to show that you didn't cheat on the line.
Yeah. that's fucking galaxy brain yeah all right super bowl 55 why am i so fucking good at what's the line and when it comes time to place a bet i'm at like 37 you should be on the other side of the table you should be the odds that's right yeah um all right so we are set we're going to recap both games let's start with the nfc championship game.
The Buccaneers 31, the Packers 26. This game, I don't know where you want to start because there's so much to talk about.
I feel like we have to start at the big part of it. The most cowardice field goal of all time, Matt LaFleur.
I do not understand what you're doing. I actually, now this is my love of, like, the best day of the year is when the Packers lose in the playoffs, because I know the Bears aren't good enough to ever be in the playoffs, but they were this year, whatever.
But they weren't good enough to be there. You're right, not good enough to be there.
But I watched Matt LaFleur's press conference, and all he could pretty much say was it's a process. The process.
It's a process. Life is a process, man.
we'll go back and look at the process but uh the decision to kick a field goal with 210 215 left three timeouts down eight on the seven yard line fourth and goal so that you can seemingly go from down one score down one score to down one score or needing a touchdown to needing

a touchdown and then kick it back to the Bucs and hope you get a stop, which you would have

had to get anyway if you didn't get the fourth down.

And you still need a touchdown.

It was so beyond.

I actually, we were on a live stream in the Barstool Sportsbook in Detroit.

I made the joke, like, do you kick a field goal here?

And people were like, no.

And I was like,

Thank you. still need to touch was so beyond i actually we were on a live stream in the in the barcelona sportsbook in detroit i made the joke like do you kick a field goal here and people were like no and i was like dude i was joking like obviously you don't and then they did i'll tell you exactly what the process was for matt lafleur because i know what he was thinking in that situation he was thinking three points is better than zero points that's that's all that's as far as his brain went he should blame the chart i don't know if he's blamed the chart yet but as we've said on the show if you just have a chart to blame then you absolve yourself of responsibility you're like listen the software told me to do it not my fault not my call the process but the process did it was the process's call but it was it was really dumb it was i mean i still can't believe that it happened it would have been better if he had missed the fuel goal yeah because at least that would have been better fuel position yeah right I mean, I still can't believe that it happened.
It would have been better if he had missed the field goal. Yeah.
Because at least that would have been better field position for him. Yeah, right.
Maybe that's what he was thinking. Like, okay, this is just basically a punt that I can ensure will get down inside, what, the 10-yard line? So that's one way to think about it.
But it doesn't make any sense at all. None.
Zero sense. I've tried so hard to understand what he was thinking and i can't find a way to like wrap my head around it because again if you go for it and you don't get it you have to get a stop if you kick a field goal and then kick off you have to get a stop you have to get a stop either way there's only one way that you could potentially tie the game and that's going for it.
It just like, you know, let's play

a little game. How bad was Matt LaFleur's

field goal? I'll tell you how bad

it was. We got a classic Rick

Riley tweet from it. That's how bad

it was. I'm glad you're bringing this up.
That's how bad. So Rick

Riley tweeted, kicking a field

goal while you're down eight

helps you the way a ham

sandwich helps you when you're

drowning. Dumbest move

ever. Hashtag

Thank you. goal while you're down eight helps you the way a ham sandwich helps you when you're drowning.
Dumbest move ever. Hashtag LaFail.
That's how bad it was. When Rick Riley brings out his fucking...
That's A material too. Yeah, he just went into his garage and he opened up his toolbox and sitting at the top was a ham sandwich while drowning tweet.
Yeah. And he was like, we go.
Going to pull this out. It really deserves it in this situation.
That's when you know you've, when Rick Riley's doing his dumb jokes to tell you how dumb you are, you've reached it. That is universally the dumbest move.
Yeah, or if your mama casts the ham sandwich can accomplish both at the same time. Yeah, true.
But yeah, Rick Riley, not only that was the tweet incredible, but it was also a classic Rick Riley like two hours late.

Yeah.

It came at halftime of the second game.

He's in Italy.

He's in Italy, so he's up really late at night trying to figure that one out.

It was preposterous.

It was a preposterous call.

Just on the record, like if you are drowning,

I would rather have a ham sandwich than not.

You don't want to swim on an empty stomach. Right.
If you're dead, if you're dying, I would rather have one last bite of a ham sandwich than have one last bite of nothing. Right.
So it's like at the end of the town when Jeremy Renner takes that one last sip of the soda before he gets shot. Yeah, I got you.
That makes sense. If you said I could have nothing or a ham sandwich while drowning, give me the ham sandwich.
And bread floats. Everyone knows that.
You can maybe sit on the ham sandwich for a few seconds, maybe get yourself a few seconds more life. Yeah, but shout out to Rick Riley.
That was great. So not only did we have Rick Riley weigh in, we actually had America's two most big thinkers, big picture thinkers weigh in.
One, Rick Riley. Two, Billy football.
Because as we're struggling to figure out why they kicked this field goal, Billy says, I think I figured out the fourth down field goal situation. Buckle up, okay? Okay, here we go.
A touchdown on fourth down plus two-point conversion plus defensive stop for overtime was less likely to win than three points on fourth down and an onside kick or a defensive stop two minute warning three timeouts plus touchdown for a win so kicking the field goal is the best path to win that makes no sense first of all it makes it makes zero sense i'm glad billy's at home crunching the numbers because you still need to stop either so if billy was crunching the numbers like that wouldn't the best way to go about it is to actually score the touchdown not get the two-point conversion yes stop them and then kick a field goal for a win i was actually going to say in billy's mind it's it's right but it's wrong because like you could argue that there's like some sort of math percentage if they had scored the touchdown right there and then completely botched the extra point that almost would be better for yes that almost would be better because you need a stop yes either way either way so billy i i admire your passion billy thank you for your passion all right but it was it was so dumb and you brought up the dan quinn field goal so yeah that's actually a stat so i joke about it it's a joke that i've never let die but i think today is actually the day I have to let it die and call it now a Matt LaFleur. So if you're a longtime listener of this show, Dan Quinn in 2015 on fourth and goal from like the two down four, kicked a field goal and then kicked the ball back to the 49ers.
49ers so the Packers are the first team to attempt a field goal when trailing by four to eight points

in the final three minutes of a game since Dan Quinn did that on November 8th 2015 so I think today is the day it is officially the torch the torch has been passed torch update it is now a Matt LaFleur all right here's a wild stat big cat do you know who the quarterback's coachleur. There we go.
So he learned. Matt LaFleur was at his hands.
Yes. The coaching tree of Dan Quinn must be watered from time to time with the tears of sorrow.
He was like, wait, I've been in this situation before. Oh, yeah.
Kick a field goal. Yeah.
So you can blame Dan Quinn for how this happened. It is.
There's a direct parallel between the two saddest field goals of all time. We should probably talk a little bit about.
Well, let's talk about the let's get to the bucks in a minute because we're gonna do a lot of bucks they won but let's finish with let's talk a little more packers in that what about the third down well all right so right so the field goal decision was baffling stupid moronic but it wasn't really the reason why the packers lost the game now packers fans will obviously talk about the pass interference which there was a phantom pass interference call to end the game and there was also a pass interference call that probably should have gone their way on aaron rogers i don't i don't think you can say it was a phantom pass interference call to end the game he he grabbed his shirt he grabbed the shirt but it was also a flop it was a flop it was a flop but that's like that's one of those where I would like to agree with you, but I know that the screenshots will get me, because the screenshots are really bad on it, where he's like, he stretched his jersey out to like a triple X. I'm being totally unbiased.
I'm very, very happy the Packers lost. It was a joy to watch that game.
I bet on the Bucs. I loved the Bucs all week.
It was a joy, truly a joy. But I'm putting myself in the shoes of a Packers fan for this one second and I think that that is a reasonable call to be upset about.
It's not going to go your way. It's a 50-50 call.
You could have seen them not calling that. You know what I mean? If they didn't, then the Bucs are furious.
He did. He flopped.
But the Packers lost the game, in my mind, when Tom Brady throws back-to-back interceptions and the Packers go six passes, two punts. Yeah.
That's when, that one makes no sense to me. That's where Matt LaFleur may be trusting Aaron Rodgers a little too much, and that was where, like, when you get two back-to-back interceptions and you get nothing out of it besides punts, not even time-wasting, like nothing, not even a little bit of drive, that's where you point to and you're like, that's where you lost the game.
Yeah, I actually think that they lost the game before that. I think they lost the game at the end of the first half.
Yes. When on that, I think it was a third down, they did the Greg Williams defense.
No, so it was back-to-back big balls by Bruce Arians. So it was fourth down and like four or five, maybe even six, on plus field for them.
13 seconds left. They go for it, get it, and then the next play they throw deep.
That's right, yeah. And the Packers were in just terrible coverage.
Yeah, so they were in single high safety. They had press coverage.
It was like Greg Williams without the

all-out blitz. It was a little Dr.
Heat.

It was like, we're just going to put one guy back there in the middle

of the field. He's not going to be able to make

it over to Scott. It was Scottie time.
That's what we

kept saying. And then it dawned on me.
It was like,

it should be Miller time. But it's like a clown

Tony O'Brown, where now I remember Scottie

time more than the nickname that I should

have said. But it was a

terrible defensive call. Awful defensive call.

Awful. And at that point, it was like,

yeah, if you're going to have Scottie Miller running behind Thank you. time more than the nickname that I should have said.
But it was a terrible defensive call.

Awful defensive call.

Awful.

And at that point, it was like, yeah, if you're going to have Scottie Miller running behind

you, all he does is score touchdowns.

Scottie Miller is not going to catch like a three-yard slant in that situation.

Right.

He's going deep.

He's going to turn on the burners.

He's going to try to go deep.

And to give that up, it went into halftime.

I think it was 21-10.

Yeah.

That's when the game was over.

There was no timeout.

So they either score a touchdown or the half's over.'s over and Mike Patton definitely deserves a lot of blame like this is back to back NFC championship games where they got exposed and I still I don't understand for the life of me like Jair Alexander is one of the best cornerbacks in the league and half the time he wasn't guarding either Chris Crodwin or Mike Evans.

It was like, what are you doing?

You know what I mean?

When a team puts a cornerback on one side, like, let's lock down this side.

But Mike Evans and Chris Crodwin were really fucking good.

And, you know, I thought Brady wasn't, like, great.

Those interceptions weren't great.

But I felt like the Bucs had a great game plan offensively overall,

taking shots, playoff Lenny, playoff Lenny's run. That run was awesome.
He tried very hard to get tackled for negative one yard. And if you don't tackle playoff Lenny for negative one yard, he's going to get at least six or seven on you.
But the unit to me is the Bucs' defense deserves way more credit. Like they were, and this was, it was clear that the Packers missed Bakhtiari a lot because Shaq Barrett and JPP, like that was a revolving door.
I think JPP got three sacks. It was crazy.
He had an all-time game. As many fingers as he has sacks? All-time game.
Yeah. And then the dude on the Packers was playing with the O'Modish club to JPP.
Did you see that thing? Yeah. That was like the size, that was Mega Man's hand that he was playing with.
You shouldn't be allowed to play with that. But we talked about this last week in the Saints.
The Bucs just hit hard. Dude.
Like they're fucking. And Vita Bay.
How the fuck is Vita Bay out there? He broke his ankle. He like shattered his ankle two months ago.
We watched that game. It was a Thursday night game against the Bears week five.
And I thought he was going to be out there maybe for, I don't know,

a few snaps. I feel like he never came

off the field. All I know is I'm going up

to the attic right now. I'm opening up the old

wooden box that I've got up there.

I'm blowing dust off it, and I'm taking out my

take that I retired like three years ago.

Todd Bowles, great coach.

Todd Bowles, top eight coach in the NFL.

Yeah, it was a great defensive scheme.

He won ten games on the Jets.

People forget that. Ten of them.
In one year? I think in one year, yeah. Really? Todd Bowles is a very good defensive coach.
I think it was, was it two years? Well, his last two years, I think. Combined.
But then he also, I think he won 10 games at some point. Did he? Am I making that up entirely? I think you're entirely making that up.
I don't think I would retroactively fit a statistic to fit one of my harebrained takes, Big Cat. That doesn't seem...
I'm looking it up right now. Oh, he did win 10 games.
Look at you. Second in AFC East.
And then he won five games. Five, five, four.
That's tough. But 10 games.
Look at that. And then everything.
But that was not with his recruits. That wasn't with his recruits.
It wasn't, no. So he's got to go to a team that's loaded right now.
Yeah, he's got to go to Ohio State. Yeah.
And then he'll be fine. But yeah, Todd Bowles.
That was great. Todd Bowles absolutely.
He should get another shot. He outcoached him on defense.
The Bucs D was great. Tom Brady, this is a big time no one's going to talk about those three interceptions game.
Yes. Those are going to get swept under the under the rug we'll never discuss it again and they all started to happen once the sun started to go down and it's also true and it's also going to be um

for the uh reply guys you know the the spam reply guys that have either lafraud yeah uh stats or the

tom brady stats and they're like this year he like won this and they basically spin everything is

these two are the most overrated people so you will definitely get three interceptions in the

I'm going to go ahead. or the Tom Brady stats, and they're like, this year he won this.
And they basically spin everything as these two are the most overrated people. So you will definitely get three interceptions in the NFC Championship game on that list.
One last Packers note, Aaron Rodgers clearly wants out of Green Bay. Interesting.
Well, he said he's uncertain about his future, Big Cat. Again, I know how sad this is to tell on myself that the best day of the year is when the Packers lose in the playoffs because it's all I have to look forward to

as a football fan.

But watching the Packers' Twitter meltdown because Aaron Rodgers said,

like, thanks for a great season, and obviously blame Matt LaFleur for the field goal,

which he should have, I'm pretty sure Aaron Rodgers is going to be back on the Packers next year. I don't know.
You think he's gone? He's set uncertain. All I know is that I'm very much looking forward to an offseason speculation.
Yes. I'm looking forward to analyzing every single facial expression that Aaron Rodgers makes, everything that he says, to think that maybe he's going to leave town.
Because, I mean, if he wants to follow in Brett Favre's footsteps he should go to the Bears and then he would instantly suck he would go somewhere else and then like on a two year deal and then go back to the division to kick Packers ass no Brett Favre went to the Vikings first Jets I thought he went to the Vikings no he went to the Jets so Aaron Rodgers go to a Oh, yeah, because Corey Wooten ended Brett Favre's career with the Vikings. Go to a bad franchise.
It's because he was so bad with the Jets. Or the Jets were so bad with him.
Yeah, maybe go, I don't know, go to the Panthers maybe. And then send a few dick pics, get kicked out of town.
And then go to the Bears. Yeah.
Where you can beat. I could actually see him wanting to go back to the division just to beat the Packers if they don't treat him like that was what yeah that was what Brett Favre wanted to do I the if you've ever uh seen the video so he I forgot he played one year just one year for the Jets for some reason that like transition year it was a leap year for him um but he had a I watched a video so that game Corey Wooten ended his career on like it was the year it was the two years that the Vikings were playing outdoors and it was so cold Devin has to return an awesome kick it was so cold snowy Corey Wooten ended Brett Favre's career Brett Favre tells the story that he just woke up in the locker room and asked the trainer and was like what what happened? He's like, yeah, you got pretty dinged up there.
And he's like, all right. And he ate two chili dogs and had a hot cocoa and then just retired.
And then it was the Joe Webb era. Yeah.
That is definitely what Brett Favre thought cured a concussion too. Yeah, for sure.
A couple chili dogs. So even though Tom Brady had a pretty mediocre performance, he threw

a lot of real... He threw some head scratches.

There were some head scratches in there. Got picked off three times.

Even though that happened, at the end

of the game, and in situations like that, like at the

end of the first half,

when you have to execute

situationally and understand

where the ball needs to

go, if it needs to get out of bounds on this play,

how quickly to snap the ball, when to use your timeout, stuff like that. Tom Brady is a fucking genius when it comes to that.
He doesn't have the arm strength anymore. It's not bad, but it's not vintage Tom Brady.
He's just such a fucking genius when it comes to making those tiny decisions. I actually don't...
I don't know if it's the arm strength, by the I think his arm strength is almost still there it's weirdly like his quickness in the pocket Tom Brady's greatest asset has always been that he can move in the pocket and avoid the pass rush pretty much better he has a sixth sense and you know when an analyst is like oh he, he's not a mobile quarterback, but he's the most mobile quarterback?

Because he does actually do things in the pocket.

He's got functional mobility.

Yeah, that no one else can do.

I think that has lost a tiny little step that makes it a little harder for the throws.

What's going on, Bubba?

There's a commercial commercial.

Oh, there's a commercial on TV.

There's Big Cat Dave Stew Fire.

That is pretty cool. No, I just see you is pretty cool.
Is that only on here in Michigan? And Pennsylvania. But he has lost a little on his arm, but I still think he can make all the throws.
My point is, I think there's that little, you know what I mean? When he's moving around in the pocket, it's just a tiny little bit slower, but he's still incredible. There were a couple times he hit the eject button as he was making a pass.
There was a guy coming at him, and he just jumped away from him as he was throwing. He's like, I don't want to get hit anymore.
But my conspiracy theory is that I think that the TB12 thing might be completely bogus in that I don't know how much of the actual exercises he does, how much of the diet he does. He probably doesn't even eat a special diet i think tom bredy just spends all his time playing madden and he created tv12 to be like this is the reason that i'm so good and he just plays madden constantly to figure out these end of game situations yeah because he's he's perfect in them i can't remember the last time i mean well i can when he was playing the bears and he forgot what town it was yeah that, that was pretty bad.
But that's because of the Alzheimer's. That's not because of actually knowing the situation in the game.
So I'm going to go the opposite way. And maybe we should all be on the TV 12 method because it's fucking insane that he's still playing.
I mean, I've been drinking 400 ounces of water a day. It's insane.
And the stats now that come out of this are like this is it's a joke now. So Tom Brady has played or participated in 18 percent of all Super Bowls.
That's crazy. Ten Super.
This will be his tenth Super Bowl. There's been 55 total.
He has as many AFC championship wins or sorry NFC championship wins as Drew Brees and Aaron Rodgers and Rex grossman who is trending no big deal uh aaron rogers and drew brees by the way have been in the nfc for like 15 plus years yeah he has double the amount of playoff wins as the second best quarterback of all time that's insane it's 32 to joe montana's 16 how that's fucking stupid it's crazy you put it like that. You can pretty much take three of the best quarterbacks of all time and combine their playoff wins, and Brady has more than them.
It doesn't matter which three either. Tom Brady has been in the NFC for one season.
Tom Brady has as many wins over NFC teams in the playoffs as Drew Brees. He completely came in and he cucked the NFC.
He did. He cucked a whole of them.
He's a cuckeneer. It's fucking crazy.
Like, all these stats are insane. And, I mean, is he ever going to stop? I have no idea.
I honestly don't know. So, I mean, if he becomes the first quarterback to win a Super Bowl in his home stadium.
Which, by the way, is so perfectly COVID. I think I said a couple weeks ago that we've been wanting this forever to be like, what will it be like? Will there be fans? And then we get it the year that there are no fans.
At least Bruce can walk to the game and walk home after a few cocktails. But Brady in his home stadium winning the Super Bowl in the NFC East, you have to think, is he going to go into the Hall of Fame as a Buccaneer? That's a pretty big deal if he does that.
He was in the NFC East. Sorry, in the NFC South.
Sorry, but if he comes in and completely dominates the NFC, that's a big deal. Wouldn't you agree, Hank? Maybe like a Greg Maddox where he goes in as both? I don't think so.
Just has an NFL shield on his head? No. It's just crazy that he's still doing this.
I don't know. It's fucking insane.
The other people, it got clouded by the field goal decision, but the Buccaneers kick returner inexplicably getting the ball and just sliding and giving the Packers extra timeout. I was so mad.
That two play, it was field goal to that, was just just like what's going on right now it was actually a really really fun entertaining game yeah because it like think about all the touchdowns they were just big play touchdowns playoff lenny fucking doing crazy shit i if you're i don't know what like packers like this is now how many more shots does a Rodgers have? Maybe none. And Devontae Adams had not the best game.
They were trying to force Devontae Adams. They were trying to make Devontae Adams happen a lot, especially at that end of the game sequence.
I think they threw the ball to him like three times. I know going into the game, Matt LaFleur, he had the mindset of like, no one's talking about how great Devontae Adams is.
Right. Because, well, to be fair, I didn't realize that he had 18 touchdowns this year.
Which is crazy. I thought he had, like, 14, 13.
But he is, like, the best receiver in the NFL, at least this year. You can make that argument.
He had so many. I saw a chart.
I think it was, like, nine games where he scored first touchdown. So the TD prop, like, first to score was, was usually like plus 400, plus 500.
But it like ended up being like plus 250 for him by the end of the season. Yeah, it's crazy.
He's had such a good year. And LeFleur going into this game had a big mindset of like no one's talking enough about Devontae Adams.
And so he was trying to force the ball to him a lot. He was absolutely trying to like steer in this direction.
And the Buccaneers defense kind of recognized it.

And the Buccaneers defense keyed on him.

And, yeah, I think, I mean, obviously LeFleur got outcoached.

I thought, I made the statement that the Packers threw that game.

You could go back, watch it from start to end.

There were a lot of decisions that were made that made absolutely zero sense.

So one last note on their wide receiver court.

Marquez Valdez-Scantling, who I said was going to drop a big ball,

actually played the best game for any of their position players.

He was pretty good and had big plays and was open a lot.

The Packers, if you're a Packers fan, the worst part about this loss, and I hate to remind you of it, but this was truly the Packers beating the Packers. They beat themselves.
That was a very winnable game throughout, and they made those mistakes. Again, going back to the fact that they didn't score, they didn't get even a first down off two interceptions, back-to-back interceptions, and you don't get a first down.
You can't win like that. Their clock management was also weird, too.
Throughout the entire game, they would run the play clock down to one or to zero before they snapped the ball. There was, like, zero sense of urgency at all the whole time, even at the end on that last drive.
Yes, you can score here, but still, you need to be urgent.

This is the end of the game.

It was really bizarre what they were doing.

So I'd like to officially take back when I said that Sean McVay was no longer the top tier.

Yeah, Matt LaFleur got owned real quick.

Sean McVay would never get close enough to scoring a touchdown against a Tom Brady team to decide for a field goal.

Yes.

That was – I still cannot believe that.

I still cannot believe that.

Any other things on this game?

One last stat I had, the Brady stat, which is crazy, is that he's played in the NFL starting in the NFL for 20 seasons.

He's gone to 10 Super Bowls.

That's so stupid.

Literally half the time.

That's so stupid.

It's just half the time he goes to the Super Bowl.

Incredibly selfish. That's so fucking stupid.
Oh, we didn't bring this up when it came to rick riley's tweet uh the hashtag lafail no i said that yeah but the hashtag lafail i i looked it up he's the only person that used the hashtag oh why didn't more people do that people need to jump on it that's a hot hashtag that's that's a really hot the process the process betrayed Matt LaFleur today. Yep.
simple as that get a new chart bro yeah it's uh man that was i still i was looking for someone to explain it to me i still can't maybe someone someone explain it to me tomorrow morning tell me exactly in the dumbest terms possible why it made any sense whatsoever i think you have to find somebody that's just as dumb Or maybe... Maybe Matt LaFleur would just tell me.
I don't think he's going to. I think he knows he's screwed up.
Oh, man. I love when coaches make mistakes like that and they have to go and explain it.
And it ruled when he was just like, yeah, we got to process and we just got to follow the process. Okay.
Cool, dude. All right.
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I would describe Charlotte as self-reliant.

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and they would want to earn it instead of just having it given to them.

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All right, back to part of my take. Okay, AFC Championship game.
I wrote down whoops. Not whoop, whoops.
Whoops. I forgot how fucking good Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs are.
I'm going to put my hand up. I fucked up.
I took a Mecca Okafor and Karam Butler. Ryan Gomes was like 265 pounds out of high school.
Not bad. Not bad.
I fucked up. I got swept up in Bill's Mafia.
I got swept up in our friend Josh Allen, who we love dearly. I got swept up in the new guy on the block.
I got swept up in the fresh new thing that's fun, that's giving you joy all year. I forgot that Patrick Mahomes is the greatest quarterback on earth right now.
Andy Reid is pretty damn good. Travis Kelsey is the best tight end.
And Tyreek Hill is literally impossible to tackle or stop. And when you have Kelsey and Hill on all cylinders, then you run out of things to do when McCole Hardman's playing well.
So whoops. You need one guy to fuck up on that offense.
Whoops. Whoops.
They're good. We fucked up.
The Chiefs are great. We fucked up.
I don't know how they do this, but when they're on offense, the field looks like they're playing on, like it's twice as wide as a regular field because they're able to spread you out so much, and then you're guarding these really fast guys on the outside. Guess what? Kelsey's wide open down the middle for 16 yards every time.
Tyreek Hill, when he runs with the ball, he ruins football for me. Yeah, it's illegal.
He ruins. It's illegal.
You want to know why he ruins football? Because then when they hand the ball off to Darrell Williams, you're like, that dude's

running underwater.

He's so slow.

He's the slowest person I've ever seen.

Tyreek Hill, he jukes.

Flag it.

Every step.

Flag it.

I'm going back to the Packers when they do illegal shit.

Like, Tyreek Hill runs so fast.

If you're a ref, throw a flag.

Maybe take a review.

I don't know what you're reviewing, but it's too fast.

Yeah.

It's literally speeding. It's speeding, and you should pull him over and be like, you're reviewing, but it's too fast.
It's literally speeding.

It's speeding, and you should pull him over and be like,

hey, Tyreek, you can't.

It's not fair.

Dude, trying to guard Tyreek Hill in the open field,

trying to tackle him once he gets the ball,

it's more dangerous for defenders than a cut block,

than a block from behind.

You're more likely to get injured trying to keep up with that guy.

Well, and also he did his Tyreek Hill fake injury.

The human body cannot endure that many jukes per square foot he is the king of that because i as someone who bet on the bills i don't root for injuries but when he got he had like that 60 yard run and he came up a little gimpy i was like oh and then i forgot oh yeah it's tyree kill he does that every single time he has a long run but I whoops I fucked up like the cheats are so fucking good and yes guess what turns out they can flip the switch they can flip it whenever they want it doesn't really matter I you know I I went back to how they weren't playing well down the stretch it wasn't just the playoffs people were saying well didn't you see it last year yes I saw it last year last year they were still killing teams the regular season down the stretch this year they looked weird like that foul i watched that maybe it was a falcons game that got too much in my head where they should have lost no they had a couple like that though they had a couple weird games so i i was in the same mindset where like i always knew that the switch was there and they could flip of course but but i know i forgot that when they flip it it flips so hard right because they flipped the fuck out of the switch they they shorted the switch yeah they shorted the the breakers they broke the switch we had to go we had to go in the basement and be and feel like an electrician yeah and switch it and be like honey we got oh we fixed it that talk about like low-key things will make you feel super manly going to the the breakers and just flipping it back and forth that I just fixed all the lights in the house. Changing an air filter? Yep.
It should take you like two minutes to do. It'll probably take you like 15 or 20 if you're an idiot like me.
But when you're done, you're like, I'm basically a father of five right now. I'm Philip Rivers.
Every time I do it, I do a little... Tim Allen.
It's nice. Yeah, scratch the hair on my chest because I am a man.
What about when you just hammer one nail into the wall to hang a picture oh yeah and it's gotta be the kind of picture that has the wire across the back yep I can't like break the ruler out level it and make sure that the two holes are in the right spot but yeah pounding one nail flipping the switch I've been doing a lot of stuff replacing a light bulb is pretty good yeah light bulb I've been doing a lot of like baby proofing around my house so it's just it's the easiest thing baby proofing is actually like a baby could do it uh-huh installing these things and every time i do it i'm like another fucking job well done by me one day i hope to replace the uh the fridge light bulb that's been out for two years nah fuck it i'll get around to it yeah fuck it all right so yeah yeah so those chiefs are back These Chiefs right now are those Chiefs that we remember. Those Chiefs are back.

These Chiefs right now are those Chiefs that we remember.

The Chiefs that can score at will.

I don't know how you keep up with them.

I don't think that you can.

The Bills offense wasn't good tonight.

They were bad tonight.

Josh Allen was off.

They had to have the perfect game

to beat these Chiefs.

I don't think that game exists right now.

There was a couple things with the Bills offense. Josh Allen was off.
He was missing guys a little bit. The blitz fucked him up.
They called the Chiefs fucking, what's his name? Spagnuolo, who just rotates around the NFL. He's one of those guys.
He had a had a perfect game plan for them because it felt like, I mean, Josh Allen usually is good for one 30-yard sack. He had a few tonight.
He leads the league in dropping back, almost getting sacked, stiff-arming somebody, and then them twirling him around for a while as he looks for a receiver to throw the ball to 50 yards downfield and then eventually getting sacked or just like in the graphs graphs called because it happens like four or five times a game to him where he never hits the ground but he's sacked for like 30 yards yeah right and it's um it's just the bills were the chiefs were just really good they they played great defense they played incredible offense obviously uh i just oh man it. It just really wanted it to be, what, is there another one? What are you laughing at? What is it? We got TMZ Live instead of Ninja Warrior.
Katy Perry's tweeting about going vegan. She's 95% ready to go 100% vegan.
Oh. And they're disgusting.
I kind of like that commitment. 95% ready to go 100% vegan.
Sure, so am so am i yeah i'm right um you know what i'm 96 96 ready i probably won't ever reach all the way uh so i don't know how you stop the chiefs it it is impossible the fact that kelsey had 13 catches for 118 yards and tony ronald even said it he was like you to do something different. Like, maybe try to hit him.
But what do you do? I don't know. He basically was saying, Tony Romo was essentially saying, one of your D linemen needs to assault him.
Like, that's the only solution. I think that Patrick Mahomes is also the most flexible quarterback in terms of just like his body is able to like turn in weird angles as he's throwing the ball.
He's like Gumby back. That toe was totally fine.
The toe was not fine. He had that one design run for him and he looked a little slow on it.
I mean he was totally fine. Yeah, I'm sure they gave him the painkilling injection.
You can't have one like within the span of two weeks, right? You can't have two painkilling injections. I'm choosing the Russian jumpsuit, by the way.
Okay. Yeah.
So the bet was that PFT thought Patrick Williams wasn't going to play because of a concussion toe. Then it sort of became he wasn't going to be good-ish.
I was just grasping at straws at the end. And then I took some of that energy and threw it into my bills.
Basically, we could not have from start to finish trying to find reasons to justify my, my heart and direction wanting to bet on the Buffalo bill. From start to finish.
I don't think that PFT and I combined could have gotten a game worse than this one. Yeah.
Like we just totally, we were, we Kevin chili did it. We just spilled chili all over ourselves.
It was bad. And then we watched Patrick Romes just dunk us in chili over and over and over and over.
What are you going to say? If the Chiefs convert that fourth and one or third and one play where they just throw it to the guy on the out route for the fifth time in a row, I might become an NFL coach. I actually wrote it down.
They showed it. They're like, this happened the last two weeks, and they did the exact same play twice in a row.
It's the Tyreek Hill going out to the flat, doing a quick juke and going out to the flat, is the most guaranteed play in all of sports, I think. At this point, it does not feel like you can defend it.
I don't know. It hasn't looked like anyone's tried yet.
I know he's so quick, but he can run just so much faster. I think you have to put three guys on him? Unless he drops it.
That's the only defense. You just have to stay to the outside of him and then hope that he doesn't cut.
I don't know what you do because you can't run with him. So I guess you just line up two yards closer to the sideline than Tyreek Hill is and be like, okay, I'm going to be here.
And hopefully somebody will tip the ball if they try to throw it across the middle. I think they need to do last Boy Scout.
They just got to bring a handgun. Gun.
You got to just handgun it. One player gets a gun.
And they snap the ball. And I'm not saying you should shoot Tyreek Hill, but you should pull it out and be like, hands up.
And hopefully it slows him down a little bit because he's still going to get in his route and probably catch the ball. You filter him into double coverage with the gun.
It's impossible. It's just so good.
And when Mikkel Hardman gets the ball and he's running, when he has the ball, he's the fastest guy on the field. You should not be allowed to have two guys like that.
Alright, so we've got to talk about Sean McDermott and his field goal decisions, but before that I noticed something with

Patrick Mahomes and

so in the first half

it felt like the Bills

were a

like a hair away

from tackling him three or four

times. He's usually in third down.

They were so close.

And I was saying to myself, oh my god

if the Bills can just get home

once or twice, will like this could actually work for them and then it dawned on me no you fucking idiot it's not that the bills are that close it's that patrick mahomes is so good at knowing when to get rid of the ball yeah and how to move in the pocket that he gives the illusion that the defense is that close to getting him, but they're never that close to getting him. They are never close to actually getting consistent pressure on him where he can't get these throws off.
He's just making it seem like that because he lets his progressions go so far and his arm is so good and he can throw from any stance that it just just all works so a lot of times what Mahomes will do is he'll bait the defender to running at a spot right where they'll think that they're about to sack him so he'll like he'll pull the ole on him right put himself in harm's way it's incredible using himself as the bait and then at the last second he's like well I knew that you were going to take a step in this direction now I'm safe home here but you always think like oh my god we're so close we almost got him you never were close you need to be like they were never close because he he knows exactly what he's doing and he knows that he can make all the throws from all the angles no problem i think you get a gun for tyreek hill and you get a lasso for mahomes maybe a chainsaw for kelsey Yeah, you're going to need some heavy-duty shit there.

The only way to beat the Chiefs is to actually

assault them all with deadly weapons.

Someone needs to die.

Until that happens,

I don't see how the Bucs beat them.

Alright, so here's the only thing

I'll throw out. I'm going to probably bet the Chiefs.

Eric Fisher went out with

an injury. Looked like an Achilles.

We saw what happened

when the Packers didn't have

Thank you. I'm going to probably bet the Chiefs.
Eric Fisher went out with an injury. Yeah.
Looked like an Achilles. We saw what happened when the Packers didn't have their tackle with Bakhtiari.
I'm just saying, that would be the only thing that makes me a little nervous because the Bucs pass rush. I know we just did that whole speech, but they do have some fucking dudes who can get after the quarterback.
and with Vito Bay now taking up 17 blocks, he just takes up space.

That's the only thing I would throw out there.

I think you're looking at it right now.

No, I'm not.

I'm going to take the Chiefs.

I'm just saying if you're looking for a way to take the Bucs,

I do think missing Eric Fisher because they already are missing Mitchell Schwartz

is a little – that's important.

And Antoine Winfield coming back for the Bucs would be good. Youlooking the Chiefs dudes, because they've got some dudes on defense too.
Chris Jones and Frank Clark are both confirmed dudes. But the Bucs offensive line has done a pretty good job, and the Bucs...
Antoine Winfield Jr. being out today is significant.
He's been very, very good for them as a safety, and they'll hopefully get him back i again i'm not gonna make the same mistake that i just made i feel so stupid when when pat from homes does what he does so i'm not gonna make the same mistake i'm going to bet on the chiefs my bet is the chiefs i'm just giving people uh if you're looking for it if you're looking for something to be like oh maybe i think eric fisher's injury could be that yeah if you're looking for something to be like oh maybe just be like tom brady it's tom brady yeah he's he's won 10 superbowls patrick mahomes uh well he's been in the superbowl 10 times in 20 years right patrick mahomes so is so what happens what happens if tom brady beats mahomes let's get to some legacy talk yeah if Brady beats Mahomes, I feel like Mahomes has to win two more Super Bowls than Tom Brady to be considered as good as he was. Yes.
Wait, so Mahomes would have how many? So, like, if Tom Brady beats Mahomes in this Super Bowl, nine. It adds another one.
It adds two more. Yeah, it adds two more.
Yes, yes, yes. Because the head-to-head, the tiebreaker has to go to Brady.
Well, I don't know if it was nine. I don't know if it's a weird debate.
Well, whatever. We can do that debate.
We have two weeks to do that debate. If Brady does win, though, he will officially have more Super Bowl wins than any franchise in the NFL.
That's stupid. If Mahomes wins, if Mahomes wins, he'll be the first quarterback to win either MVP or Super Bowl in each of his first three seasons.
And he'll also be the youngest quarterback to win multiple Super Bowls. It's also Dynasty.
It's also Dynasty. It's officially a Dynasty if the Chiefs win this, right? No, no, three in five years.
No, if they won another one, if they went three in a row. Yeah.
I think Dynasty is always three of four or three and five years if they won another one if they went three in a row I think dynasty is always three of four or three in a row I would say three of five you're only saying that because of the Patriots they're both dynasties three of five is a dynasty it might depend if it went one and then you missed two, and the other team wins those two? Yeah, so it does depend on, because if there's an overlapping dynasty, then that's still their dynasty. So, if it goes two for the Chiefs, and then two for the Washington football team, one for the Chiefs, and then three more for the football team, then that's the football team's dynasty.
Right, right, right. That's their decade.
The Rockets and the Pistons were not dynasties. Like the Rockets won two.
Oh, I think the Rockets might. No, they were not.
But they were not a dynasty. No, they were not.
There were many dynasty. No, they weren't.
But they weren't. No.
There were many. No, you can't.
No, two back-to-back is not a dynasty. There were many dynasty.
No. Yeah.
You only say that because of Jordan. No, but you need to win more than two.
I think you have to win. I think three is the threshold for a dynasty.
Is it an era? It was the Pistons' era. Well, no, then you get a decade.
So you get a decade. Like if the Chiefs now have pretty much dibs on this upcoming decade.
So we'll look back and be like, that was the decade of the Chiefs. Right, but one of those wins was the 2019 season.
Right, but it's spillover. Okay.
Because obviously the Patriots were the two previous decades probably, although maybe a little, no, because no, that's the thing. See, that's a part that we just figured out just from that.
If any other team had won three Super Bowls during that stretch, they would have a little bit of claim, but no one had more than two. So three is the threshold for a dynasty.
You can't say the Giants have a claim for the last 20 years because they only won two. You know what you can say, though, about the Rockets or the Pistons? You can say they had a nice little run.
The Rockets had a nice little run. They had a nice little run in the mid-90s.
You need to win three titles to have official claim of a dynasty or decade. I think that's fair.
So, Sean McDermott's field goals. I'm okay with them.
Well, I'm not okay with the second one. The first one I understood, and I was debating with people online who thought it was very stupid.
So the situation is 21-9, going into the half, fourth down and goal. What were you going to say, Hank? Fourth down and goal at like the three, kick a field goal.
Everyone says you can't kick a field goal and beat Mahomes. Agreed.
That offense is is incredible I my only defense of it is the human element of if you don't get that fourth down you it is so deflating to go into the into the uh halftime locker room and on top of that analytics guys I got a little aha moment for the analytics boys out there and girls part of the analytics of going for it on fourth and goal is that you get to pin them deep yeah this is the end of the half so you don't get the you don't get to pin them deep right so you don't get the benefit of we're pinning them deep you if you miss it you just miss it and it's over yeah do you want three points or do you want zero points or do you want to try and try and maybe not get your seven points that want? And the Chiefs get the ball to start the second half. Let's just say you go for it.
You don't get it. Into the half.
Chiefs come out. They probably score a touchdown.
It's game over. At that point, there's nothing that you can do.
So, yeah, you want your three points while you can get them going into the half. I don't have a problem with it.
But I think the second time that they kicked the field goal, that was basically saying we need to put some points on the board here. That one I had a problem with.
And then what it was, it was like an elongated punt. Right.
It was like, let's kick this field goal, get three points, hope that we can hold the Chiefs to a field goal, and then it's like nothing happened at all. It's our ball again.
They were just trying to get to that next point in the game. Chiefs go score a touchdown.
Obviously, that's what the Chiefs do. It was like grasping at a little straw there.
Yeah, that one I had a problem with just because now it's the third quarter. You do get the consolation prize of pinning them because it's the middle of the quarter.
Time's running out fast. You have to start getting some serious points going.
if you think that the end of the quarter. Yep.
It's running out. The time's running out fast.
You have to start getting, you know, some serious points going. I, if you, if you think that the end of the first half was stupid, I'm not going to disagree with you.
Like I, I would have been fine with him going for it. I'm just saying from a human element, I do understand what Sean McDermott was thinking.
I don't think that makes it like, it's not right or wrong. I just get what he's thinking.
Matt LaFleur, I did not get what he's thinking. Like, Sean McDermott in the third quarter, I did not get what he's thinking.
So that's kind of my – when I can kind of understand what the coach is thinking, I'm at least a little bit more accepting of him. Also, I feel like if the Chiefs had not won that Super Bowl last year, we would not have overlooked the Chiefs this year.
Because we very much were rooting for Andy Reid and all that stuff. And so this year it was like we started to get to the point where if we're going to have the Bills be this close to getting to a Super Bowl, we're going all in with them.
Now, if Reid was still looking for his first title and the Holmes was, they're such a fun team that I think it would have been like 50 50 like i still would have been more open to acknowledging that the chiefs were really spectacular on offense right because i'll be pulling so hard for andy reed and he looked he looked extremely happy he looked extremely happy i just love andy reed in 4k it's different but it is different by the way why isn't anyone thrown thrown out there? I know the buzz is always Eric B.

Enemy deserves a job.

He does deserve a head coaching job.

But why isn't anyone thrown out there that maybe he's just waiting for Andy Reid to retire?

Because if Andy Reid, and just hear me out, he does deserve a job.

I'm not excusing him not having a job.

But if you're Eric B.

Enemy and Andy Reid says to you, I'm going three more years, four more years, you still get like 15 years of Patrick Mahomes. You get Mahomes, yeah.
And like that makes it, I don't know, I'd wait three or four years to have Patrick Mahomes. Oh, I would too.
So it's weird that no one's thrown out that could possibly be in play. Well, because he keeps saying that he wants to be head coach and that he does the interviews.
But maybe he's just sucking at him on purpose. In the interviews, he's like, don't hire me.
I don't want the job. Maybe he loves getting the frequent flyer miles.
So every single winner, he knows that he'll do three or four interviews, accumulate some points, come back. Maybe plant really bad advice into the minds of these front offices, and then come back and stick around.
I think that would make sense. If it were me, if I was Eric Biennium, I would absolutely stick around, knowing that this is a guaranteed thing here.
I've got maybe the greatest talent at quarterback to ever play, as opposed to going to, I don't know, Minnesota or going to Arizona in a couple years. I would be very funny if Eric Biennium was just going to all these interviews and just walking in and saying, hey, guys, good to meet you.
I actually don't want the job, but I just want to take the interview so that people think I want, so my name stays out there. That would be great.
You know, because maybe he gets an interview. Maybe he's just waiting, and maybe there'll be an interview

where it is a talent as good, or maybe a step down from Pat from Holmes.

Like, okay, I'll go take that.

So I've got to keep my name out there.

But I don't know.

I just thought of that.

If I were Eric Bien-Ami and Andy Reid over a couple cheeseburgers,

like, hey, I'm going to do this for two more years.

I'm going to win two more rings.

I'm going to finish with three, and then you can have this. Because you know Mahomes wants BNME stick around too.
Yeah. Yeah.
Oh, what were you going to say, Hank? We forgot to say this Super Bowl is really, it's not Mahomes versus Brady. It's the battle of the playoffs.
What? What do you mean? Playoff Damien versus Playoff Lenny. Oh, but Damien sat out.

Oh, he sat out for the whole year?

He sat out for the whole year.

But if Playoff Lenny... He's not in.

Yeah, but Playoff Lenny go buy a shirt.

We actually were working with Leonard Fournette.

A very funny...

He just slid in my DMs like,

Hey, you want to make a shirt?

I'm like, yeah.

It's very confusing, Hank, because it's...

Was it Daryl Williams?

Daryl Williams.

Playoff Daryl.

As opposed to Damien Williams.

Yeah.

So I can see they're both D. Williams.

Mm-hmm.

But I'll see they're both Dee Williams. Mm-hmm.
Playoff Darryl. One other thing I want to talk about is...
I just like saying playoff anyway. ...is Tom Brady against the team that took his ACL.
Yeah. A little revenge game.
True. And we're going to get a lot of stories about how Patrick Mahomes was in kindergarten when Tom Brady won his first Super Bowl.
Yep. So that will be fun.
I'm looking forward to it. We'll do our whole Super Bowl storylines next week.
I'm very excited about that. One last note, Bills fans.
It sucks to lose, but in a weird way, when you lose to such a good opponent and of it was never close I think you can look back and be like that was a really fun year and it's it's one of those losses that the future feels so bright right now and sports are fickle nothing's guaranteed you know you could go away with I mean I don't tell Bills fans this they fucking know But I do think this is one of those losses that's a little different than... It's different than the Saints' loss.
It's different than the Packers' loss. It's different from missing a field goal wide right at the end of a Super Bowl.
You know what you can't say about this? You can't say it was a heartbreaking playoff loss. You can say you got your asses kicked and the better team probably won.
But at the end of the day, you can look back at the season and say, what a trip that was. That was fucking fun.
The 2020 Bills were a really fun football team, so I think there's a little solace in that that you can say to yourself, that was really fun. Any loss sucks.
Any playoff loss sucks, but the future looks pretty fucking bright and brian dable's staying yeah that's so that that also is nice that's big it was the hose was excited tonight for for josh allen like early on in the game you could tell he was out there with like a little more adrenaline going yeah because he did the thing where he was like sailing throws by you know 720 yards over somebody but that's what you get when he's got a lively hose. You can't tell the hose.
When I say that, it sounds like I'm a pimp. And you look like one right now.
You've got to get your hose under control. But you make the steps.
When his hose is acting out of line. It's a step.
It's a process. You had the weird Texans playoff loss last year.
This year, you win two playoff games you go to the afc championship game it's climbing the mountain so it does you know if the bills had lost them in the first round this year it would have been very very disappointing but they've taken that next step next year it's you know the difference between the conference championship and the super bowl is pretty fucking big do you think that the chiefs would still win like 13 games a year if they were not allowed to run the ball because i do could they would the teams know that yeah that might change it i mean you can you can scramble for a first down right right but i i think they throw screen passes you can throw they didn't run at all but the team what like they had to expect at least a little bit of run i think they could you're allowed to run the ball uh five times a game yeah then they could win 13 games yeah i think so yeah um all right let's get to football guy of the week can i say one thing yeah i think the bills took advantage of the offsetting penalties rule at the end of that fight because yeah oh that was such a funny that was so many flags through the ball at the guy and then as long as you get one player involved it offsets right there was right there was a late hit on Josh Allen one penalty it cancels out yeah yes just feast on it yes might as well that's how you beat that's how you beat the Chiefs also what the hell was Bruce Arians doing not declining the penalty that the Packers did that was dumbest thing I've ever seen it was really dumb yeah thing I've ever seen. It was really dumb.
Like, I don't know. There were so many weird things that happened in that game that my only explanation was like either the Packers are throwing the game and the Bucs are trying to catch them by doing more boneheaded things to see if the Packers will take advantage of their mistakes to catch them in a blatant cheat.
That was really the only explanation I had. It was such a weirdly coached game.
I also think the Packers have the weather to blame because it was not cold enough. We were lied to about the weather.
They said it was 25 degrees. They said that there was snow on the ground.
I saw pictures, Big Cat, of snow covering Lambeau Field. They were using like 20 foot long it looked like just coke straws to blow the snow off the field.
It was awesome.

And it was a fucking snow globe

in there like an hour before kickoff. I tune

in. It's sunny.
It looks

like it's 55 degrees out there. It looked

beautiful. We were lied to by somebody.
It looked beautiful.

Yeah, they should blame the weather because I think they

win that game if they have colder weather.

They might. Or if there's

at least some snow on the field, they win that game. Yes.
They shouldn't be allowed to have a heated field. They do.
It's got heating coils on it. I know they shouldn't be allowed to have one.
They shouldn't be. That's what I'm saying.
What's the point? It's not even frozen tundra. It's the thawed tundra.
There was one point in the afternoon game, or in the late game, where Mahomes got tackled, got shoved over on the sideline, and he landed right next to one of those giant heaters. You know the big tubes that they have? They look like jet engines, and you have to stay back at least six feet, the ones that Ben Roethlisberger stands two feet from.
Yeah. He puts his cock in there.
Yeah, just a giant fleshlight. Mahomes fell down right next to it, and I was thinking for a second, what if somebody got pushed right there and got tackled right there would that just like melt their skin off yeah they should probably move that back a little bit i don't think it would melt their skin off but it'd be fun to think about it would be very fun not i don't want anyone's skin to get no we're saying it's fun to think about think about yeah right to be like ah and then they're out for the season yeah this is not gonna happen to the bears uh all.
Let's get to Football Guy of the Week. We're going to wrap up with Football Guy of the Week and Who's Back of the Week.
A little Conor McGregor talk. PFT, you had, ooh, Jack Pocket, right? Didn't someone just win a billy? Someone in Michigan just won a cool billion dollars.
I'm actually surprised it's not Hank because we got hot Hank this weekend. Hank has won every single bet that he's made it's infuriating yeah maybe not every single one we'll talk about that after pretty much on who's back he's won basically every single bet he's probably got a billion dollars in his pocket right now we're gonna get right back to the show let's listen in on a live unscripted second grade challenger school class they're studying char Charlotte's Web.
How would you describe Charlotte compared to Wilbur?

I would describe Charlotte as self-reliant.

I would rather have a self-reliant friend

because then they would want to work for things that they get

and they would want to earn it instead of just having it given to them.

Those students are seven.

Starting early and starting right makes a real difference. Learn more at challengerschool.com Alright, back to part of my take.
Okay, Football Guy of the Week. Starting off with Dan Campbell, his entire introduction.
Just Dan Terra. Dan Terra.
Did you guys see the t-shirt I designed? Yeah. I think we should do that.
It's got the Detroit D, Dan Terra, his face. We gotta get on the show yes dan it's crazy he actually he's probably a listener well he's not only a listener but i think i had 50 50 people requesting that he's on the show and then people saying when was that interview you did with dan campbell because they just assumed we had him on yeah which is a fair assumption i would i would love open invite you say the time and place and i will be there for dink also fine print these were billy's so if you don't like them okay billy uh that's the buck okay what if they leadership should we say it's you then he deserves the credit yeah okay vance vance mcdonald who's retiring he said i'll i'll miss holding a football running into a human being as hard as i possibly can he's Miller.
They got to get another human. Jim Harbaugh saw that quote and just came instantly.
And then created a child. And then Chris Conte just went back into his cabin in the woods for a while.
He's like, God damn it, I come out once every five years. South Carolina strength and conditioning coach Luke Day who in his introductory press conference said he's a cold brew

and not a Red Bull guy,

quoted a psychologist, Angela Duckworth.

Oh, grit.

I don't like the psychologist.

Angela Duckworth has made a little

grit industrial complex around the word

grit.

Psychologists should not be studying grit.

And then lastly, Victor Nielsen,

who is a Bills fan, a cancer survivor. After ringing the bell, he jumped through a table.
I saw that. That was awesome.
That was awesome. Feel a good story.
Happy that you're cancer-free, Victor. Some good nominees this week.
Good job, Jake. Good job, Jake.
No, I don't give any credit. Way to go, Jake.
Good job, Billy. All right, vote for it.
We're going to blog it. Before we do who who's back? We should talk about Conor McGregor.
So I personally think he should have dodged those punches. That's just me.
I don't know. You got to get hit once to let yourself know you're in a fight.
So he had a broken leg. It wasn't the punches.
That was the problem. It sucks because I love watching Conor McGregor.
He's electric. He's fun.
Shaved Conor McGregor, I don't know, that was a badass look, kind of like a Triple H look. No, it was great.
And when you get hit with a shaved head, the hair doesn't wave around. Yep.
So I feel like punches glance off your head more if it's shaved. But he got his ass kicked.
It was a beat down at the end, but he was picking his spots before that. He was like tagging the guy up on his chin, on his nose.
And Poirier is really good. I was well actually, no one gets more angry than diehard UFC fans when you get any fact wrong.
Like it almost makes me not want to watch it. I would imagine they drive more people off by just well actually everyone on Twitter.
Like, dude, I'm a fight fan. I like to like to watch boxing i like to watch ufc i always will that's not my number one sport yeah i like to watch they're like just chill out they're hockey fans with back tattoos yeah like i some guy told me today that conor mcgregor's in his prime like i i have eyes he's 32 he used to be champ champ yeah i mean he almost beat floyd mayweather yeah i'm sure he's got a he's got a couple paydays coming up on a trilogy with Poirier, a trilogy with Nate Diaz.
He's not going away. I asked the question, is he done being a threat for the belt consistently? It feels like that.
I don't know it well enough, but it feels like that just by the fact that he's fought three times

in the last four years, and one of them was an old dude

who he beat, and he's lost twice.

I don't feel like he's totally done.

They're talking about us on TMZ.

Part of my take is on TMZ.

Oh, yo, by the way, my bad.

What the fuck is going on with our life right now?

I want to say sorry to Jules.

We love Jules coming on.

He was like, dude, thanks so much. Now people are talking about retirement.
I was like, whoops, my bad. Oh, Jules, he wants to be considered for having Turf Toe named after him.
Okay, nice. So he was like, you're right about Turf Toe.
Turf Toe hurts like a bitch, and it's named like a bitch. Yeah.
He's like, you know how they have Tommy John surgery named after a player? Yep. He's like, you should name Turf Toe after a player So we can call it Squirrel Toe Squirrel Toe I like Squirrel Toe This is much better than Ninja Warrior Just seeing myself on television The fuck is going on It's just going after us were talking about UFC.
So my... Most people trying to watch the app on ESPN Plus apparently looked like the end of that fight with Conor McGregor getting tagged in the face repeatedly.
I heard it was bad. I guess the app's broken.
Yep. Big surprise.
It's broken every fucking time I try to watch it. You guys laughed at me when I said that it didn't work on an LG TV.
Guess what? It doesn't work on any TV now. And Dana White was crashing people's periscopes, reporting them to the FBI.
But I feel like at that point, there were just too many people. It was like they were storming Dana White's Capitol.
And they're like, if all of us stream it at once, you can't arrest us all. That's fine.
We're going to break on through. So I don't know what Dana White's going to do, but I'll put it this way.
ESPN Plus ain't it, Dana. Nope.
It ain't it. Hank, do you want to congratulate yourself on betting Poirier? We all were watching the fight together, and Hank was the only one who bet Poirier.
Smart. And, yeah, it was an all-time contrarian Hank bet.
I told you beforehand, though. There's been times where we come in and we're on the opposite side, but beforehand, I was like, big cat.
It was totally fine. I saw the stat.
I'm going to fade the public guy. It was like 86 or 90% of the money is on McGregor.
You were right. I was like, I'm just going to do it.
I'm going to send it. It was smart.
And I was, we were live streaming, so if you wanted to watch it, the whole time I was like, he's losing, he's losing, he's losing. He's not landing anything.
McGregor's landing everything. And then it just turned in two seconds.
He got that one punch to the side of his head. Yeah.
And then McGregor didn't know how to defend from that point on. But Hank, it wasn't only that.
It was also afterwards in the blackjack table. Well.
I was playing pretty well on blackjack. And then I sit down with Hank.
And Hank just immediately drains me of all my money. He, like, triples his money.

I mean.

I lose all mine.

I go back.

I re-up.

I get more money.

Sit down next to him again.

Hank again triples his money.

I lose all my money again.

I mean, at least you got, like, time and enjoyment.

Not enjoyment.

No.

Like, you got to do something.

Poirier wins.

I said, Hank, come with me.

We're going to the roulette table.

I gave him a $500 chip. I'm like, let's see if this hot streak is real.
You pick. And then right as he picks, I'm like, fuck it.
Double it. And I gave him another $500 chip and lost $1,000 in two seconds because apparently his hot streak's only for him.
He's the most selfish hot streak of all time. I actually think that that adds to his hot streak.
Yeah, he texted me feeling bad. It adds to his hot streak that we keep losing around him.
Yeah, but I needed to find out. I was basically a scientist.
I had to find out, is this man the hottest man on Earth? And if so, I would like some of this, I would like some residual hotness. I'd like to get near the heater and burn my skin.
Turns out, doesn't work for me. Just fucking, he picked black

and it was as red as red could be.

No, I picked red and it was as black as black could be.

Oh, it was? Fuck. I don't even, I just knew

that, I was like, fuck it up.

The craziest, I had a moment

and I was dead serious,

but let's go to the roulette table, and I had a number picked.

I thought you were going to give me 500.

What was the number? 23. I was like, let's go.

Was it? Yeah. No, did it hit? No, no.
Yeah, you said that. I hated him a 500 chip he's like for a number i was like what the fuck yeah that's how you know that was the mood i was in in that exact that was disgustingly arrogant of you i got this you probably thought that you were gonna hit it yeah i did um all right let's before we do who's back of the week we're gonna get right back to the show.
Let's listen in on a live, unscripted second grade Challenger School class. They're studying Charlotte's Web.
How would you describe Charlotte compared to Wilbur? I would describe Charlotte as self-reliant. I would rather have a self-reliant friend because then they would want to work for things that they get and they would want to earn it instead of just having it given to them.
Those students are seven. Starting early and starting right makes a real difference.
Learn more at challengerschool.com. All right, back to part of my take.
All right, who's back of the week? Hank. Our boy, Dickie V, Dick Vitale.
Oh my god.. Diehard Bucks fan, apparently.
He was tweeting. So the first tweet that started off, and this is an ad, I will eat my column.
If this all turns out to be some type of ad. Oh, shit.
No. If this is an ad, you have to chug a large size of Pepto-Bismol.
Deal. Okay.
Extra large. And not if it comes out.
He might get a Pepto-Bismol deal after the fact, but if it comes out that this was an ad the whole time, I will chug a full bottle because it was so funny and it was natural, I believe. He tweeted the first tweet that started off.
He said, Every time Rodgers and the Packers get the ball, I need some Pepto-Bismol with an old man selfie of him holding a bottle. And then that was just a theme that he went with like two minutes later.
He said, I can't take it. My stomach is rumbling.
Lorraine, get me that Pepto, baby. With another, a different, it's the same exact, he's in the same seat with the same bottle, but it's a slightly different angle.
And then, you know. He was taking sips.
JPP got a sip. He goes, Super D, JPP, baby.
Go Bucs. Pepto-Bismol.
My stomach cannot take it. Eight minutes to size the National Football Conference title.
Super Bowl. With him drinking the Pepto-Bismol.
Just an electric series of tweets from Dickie V. Did he finish the Pepto? How much damage did he do to that? He had to finish the whole thing.
What a time to be alive. I don't think it's see-through, but I was laughing my ass off.
It was primetime Dickie V. What a time to be alive for Dickie V right now.
One, you are still alive. Two, you're at Tampa Bay, and you're going for your second title this year.
You're going to your third title game. Huge.
Unreal. Also, just what a time to be alive for all of us.
I think it's overused to say this website is free, but when you've got Dickie B slamming Pepto, like drinking five fingers of Pepto in the course of two hours and posting pictures of it the entire time, like imagine going back and telling you when you were like 15, the guy that loses his fucking mind over LeBron James doing behind the back pass is going to be yugging in your face on Twitter.com. I would your point.
I think it's all been worth it. His shit's going to be so jet black tomorrow.
You said the fact that he's still alive. Remember at the beginning of the season, he kind of said he might be going soon.
Yeah, he was like, I might be out of here soon, guys. Like, what? Dickie V? And now he's got his three hometown teams in the championship.
Good for Dickie V. Also, Conor McGregor memes are just so hilarious.
Well, Bernie's on the cool throne. Well, no, because now they're combining them.
Everyone's like, oh, this is amazing. I can't believe...
Bernie's getting combined into every new meme that comes out. I'm sick of it.
I'm sick of it. Shout out Benny the Bullfrog dressing like Bernie on Saturday night.
That one was kind of funny. GFG, they're so funny.
Best mascot in the game. Get it? Because he was sitting there.
Yeah. I saw one today.
It was Star Wars.

You don't get it.

No, you don't.

No, wait, Hank.

I don't think you get it.

Hank doesn't get it.

It was Bernie.

No, I don't think you get it, though.

Bernie was a stormtrooper.

Wait, explain to us what is funny about Bernie sitting there.

So it's like he's sitting there.

No, he doesn't get it.

But he's in.

He's wearing.

He's like, if it's a TV show, like if it's Game of Thrones, but it's Bernie Sanders in

Game of Thrones.

He doesn't get it.

Wait, is he like.

With mittens on. Is he Bran? Dude, you don't get it.
With mittens on. It could be like...
Yeah, because Bran is in a wheelchair. Bring him inside.
Bran's in a wheelchair, and Bernie Sanders is sitting in a chair. No, you don't know.
No, you don't know. He's going back to the chair.
Confirmed does not get it. Yeah.
If Hank... If you see Hank tweeting any Bernie memes, just respond to him.
Don't get it. Hank's a casual.
You don't get it, dude. Don't pretend like you know.

Casual.

Who's back of the week?

PFT.

My who's back of the week is the Matt Stafford jackpot.

Oh, let's go. So Matt Stafford is, well, just Detroit's back in general.

They got Dan Campbell.

They got us right now.

They got us.

And they're rebuilding.

They're starting over.

I think this is the right move.

I actually think it's like people who are Detroit Lions fans are very pumped to see Matt Stafford

I'm not. things on the up and up.
They got us. And they're rebuilding.
They're starting over. I think this is the right move.
I actually think it's, like, people who are Detroit Lions fans are very pumped to see Matt Stafford maybe go somewhere good. Yeah, no, I was listening to Sports Talk Radio today and there was a lot of that.
There was a lot of people being like, you know, we want him to be good. We had a great time.
I just wanted him to be happy. Yeah, right.
With his life. And so now...
Big Cat live tweeted Dickie V. I just forgot how funny it was because I responded in real time when it happened.
Big Cat tweets during shows... I'll go back after a show because Big Cat will pop up onto my timeline and be like, Big Cat tweeted like five times during part of my save.
As soon as the ads hit, I'm tweeting... Rather during the show than when we're driving.
That's true. I haven't done that.
All point. He throws fucking side shots at me.
Jesus Christ.

It's not just Matt Stafford.

I would have liked to drive my car this morning, but you slept in and fucking hijacked

the keys. You jerk.

I shouldn't have brought that up.

But more than the Matt Stafford

is the quarterback photoshops.

They're still going. They're going stronger

than ever. So Matt Stafford,

it was a bonanza of photoshops of Matt Stafford as soon as the Lions announced that he's not going to be coming back. Yes.
And, I mean, they're all great. I can't choose a favorite one because they're all perfect.
I think, I mean, I hope he goes somewhere good and gets to, like, a championship game because then I could say he's a Hall of Famer. Yeah, I think you can still say it.
Yeah, I can still say whatever I want. I said the Bills were going to kill the Chiefs.
Say whatever the fuck I want. All right, my Who's Back of the Week is Coach K being an absolute asshole.
So if you missed it, Coach K was asked a question after another loss to Louisville on Saturday by a student reporter from the Duke Chronicle, Jake Piazza. Ooh oh what do you think about that jake uh asking coach k where do you guys go from here which is a very routine question respect to a very bad year uh and coach k essentially embarrassed and belittled this kid saying what is your major what do you have like if you have a bad econ test what if i asked you when you came out of the e-contest where do you go from here? And spun it into all about me, Coach K.
How could you ever ask about my team when we're in a pandemic? There are bigger things going on right now. Me, me, me, Coach K.
He turned into a life lesson for the kid. He really taught him something.
How about you use some empathy when you ask a question by the way he was coaching asking coach k like where do you go from here after loss that's as dumb as that question is that's probably a more relevant question than 90 of the shit that they get asked after yes to me it seems like perfectly normally you guys suck this year where do you go from here and and then he was like well i need to teach you about manners young man i wish i wish this kid and he's he's a big j we can get your take on it jake but like he's a big j so he probably has a career in front of him where he doesn't want to screw things up but i wish he had been like where do i go after an econ test i go back to my dorm room and watch you get fucking house by pit idiot i'm gonna have to take another year econ because I've lost so much money betting on you this year. It's like, Coach K is such how can you defend this, Hank? He's such a jerk.
He's just a jerk. He's a quintessential jerk.
Maybe to the outside, but you know. Yeah, he's a jerk.
He's a leader of men. He's a jerk.
If you're Chris Duhal or his wife, he's not that bad a guy? Well, I've seen Baron Davis chirped him on Twitter, and then a lot of the former Duke players are all like, whoa, whoa, whoa, man, chill out. Oh, you think the players that he pays are going to have his back? No shit.
He's a jerk to other people. Listen, maybe it's time for Coach K to think about stepping down.
Oh! Okay. It is.
I didn't want to say it, Hank, but this is like when you start to get a little older and a little short with your fuse. This isn't great.
He's getting snappy. Coach K is definitely in his snappy territory where it's going to get worse.
This isn't the last time he snaps on someone. No.
Remember, he did want every team in the tournament at the beginning of the season.

Did he not believe in his team this year?

Oh, I just saw this.

Jeff Capel defended him.

So probably not that good a guy.

Jeff Capel.

Where are you seeing this, PFT?

I'm looking at your screen.

I just made it up.

All right.

What are your thoughts on that, Jake?

And also who's back in the week?

Yeah, my thoughts are very respectable question. The student showed some poise.
Student journalist. Student journalist, yeah.
I think this is actually going to help the student journalist because now everybody knows his name. Jake Piazza is now a household name throughout the sports media industry.
Who would forget Jake? It's like Mitch Albion, Bob Costas, Jake Piazza. I like the name Jake Piazza.
Honestly, Jake, like your last name.

Oh, he follows me.

Maybe he's an AWL.

What's up, Jake?

Dude, that was a cool question you asked.

Don't let Coach K be a prick to you.

The Italian version of Jake Marsh would be a very hilarious report to have.

Just reporting on Italian sports business.

He has a story to tell the rest of his Big J life.

Yeah.

It's pretty cool.

That's true. We got your back, bro.
Yeah. My Who's Back, another college basketball coach and making bad headlines.
Sliding into the DMs is My Who's Back, Jerry Stackhouse, the head coach of Vanderbilt. He DMed a Vanderbilt fan, your life must be miserable.
Then the fan said, not sure if you noticed, but you need more passionate fans. he said that's bull s-h-i-t real fans real fans support uh fake ass fan so he's just in the middle of a uh people were saying that they were uh presented by the p-u-s-s-y you dropped yeah spelled it on uh friday's show spelled yeah i know i had somebody slide to the dms and said they would pay a thousand dollars to the barstool fund if jake would cuss on the air oh imagine if did a cameo that was shocking.
I had somebody slide out of the DMs and say that they would pay $1,000 to the Barstool Fund if Jake would cuss on the air.

Oh, imagine if you did a cameo that was just swears.

If they show proof, I will do it.

Oh, let's go.

What about $10,000 racial slur?

Homophobic slur.

Yeah, yeah.

No, no, no.

$20,000 any slur of your choice, but you have to do it in a Nazi uniform.

No. Okay, all right, fine.
We got to test it. We were just seeing how much you liked small business.
Blackface? No. Okay, good.
See, he's a good boy. He's a good boy.
He passed. Yeah.
That was a trick question. All those things are very bad.
People were not happy that I tweeted about David Duke of Providence the other day. Yeah, you got to stop using that full name.
Mr. Duke.

Duke of Providence.

Dave Duke.

What's his number?

Davey Duke.

I don't know.

I got to look it up. Yeah, Davey Duke.

That's not...

No, just roll with it.

It's like AOC with me.

Yeah.

Point guard Duke.

Yeah.

So if that AWL shows proof, I will curse.

Curse.

But none of the bad stuff we just said.

We were just testing them.

All that's bad.

It's got to be a curse that's not allowed on Stephen A's page.

Yep.

Damn hell and ass are all generic profanity.

Yep.

That's actually a fact.

I got a random number generator.

Oh.

Okay.

Yeah.

Ready?

I got to just refresh it.

You were going to say what?

23.

23.

23.

18.

8. 85.
85. All right.
Jake, you were going to say what? 23. 23.
23. 18.
8.

85.

85.

All right.

Jake, you can watch to confirm.

I'll say 98.

45.

45.

Hank's favorite number.

No, it's Billy's.

There you go.

After 69.

Devin White.

Big White fans.

All right. We'll see everyone on Wednesday.
Devin White. Big White fans.
All right.

We'll see everyone on Wednesday.

Love you guys.

Bye. Thank you.
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