NFL Divisional Round Recap, Fastest 2 Minutes, Mahomes Concussion, And Brees' Last Ride

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The Dukes of Lazard are speeding towards the NFC Championship as they've had a generally easy path to the Super Bowl.

Packers, 32. Rams, 18.

In Western New York, Mama take these folding tables from me. I feel like I'm Dawson knocks, knocks, knocks on heaven's door.
Bill Maher Jackson had a vulgar performance on late night television that left some people wondering if he was actually alright. Josh's personality gave the Ravens defense the Diggs-Meyers test, throwing extroverts to his wide receiver.
Tyrannosaurus Johnson used his tiny little hands to intercept a pass and outran Raph Goldblum and the entire Ravens offense for the win. And the Buffalo Bills are heading to the AFC Championship game as no one circles the wagons like the Buffalo Bills.
The Bills, 17. The Ravens, 3.
In Kansas City, where it was a tale of two quarterbacks with Virgin Mahomes and Chad Henney. Baker Mayfield had his receivers picking up all the cognac, and Rashard Higg, Gin, and Juice played great, but after Mahomes took a nasty shot, the Chiefs just laid back and sipped on Chad Hennessy, sealing a third straight AFC championship game at Arrowhead.
I'm gonna go off script here. We're gonna go down to the field to a woozy, concussed Patrick Mahomes.
Hey guys, I think I count back from, give me a number to count back from 7th. Alright, thank you, Patrick.
Chiefs 22, Brown 17. I love it.
We don't laugh about concussions. That wasn't a joke.
I feel good. Coach Reed, he'll be back.
He gave me a big bear hug after the game. He said, Patrick, you're the best good boy.
I said, thanks, Coach. Love it.
Standing on a corner, Jameis Winston down in NOLA. Such a fine sight to see.
There's a QB loose and a CD deuce and a guy they call Playoff Lenny.

Come on, Drew.

Don't look so blue.

By the time you're on TV, your ribs will feel like new.

Saints, don't go marching. Brady The ageless wonder God's the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 30-20 Alright, divisional round in the books We have our Championship Sunday set Unbelievable matchups We'll get to that It was, I think, the best two days of quarterbacks in the history of the NFL.
Yeah, and the games actually kind of stunk. Who cares? Doesn't matter.
Who cares? Doesn't matter. That wasn't a complaint.
Stanley, who cares? That was just... Yeah, it sounded like you were complaining.
No, no, that wasn't a complaint. I watched every second.
I loved every second, but wouldn't you agree that they weren't like... There was no instant classics, but it doesn't matter it does not matter it was playoff football and it was names it was just there's so many names that were out there if you look at the quarterbacks like the worst one has still won a super bowl and then the second worst one was an mvp last year and then you've got some all-time greats like chad henny yeah chad henny all right so we to get to every game.
We'll start with the game we just watched, the Bucs and the Saints. Tom Brady versus Drew Brees.
Both didn't look great, but Drew Brees clearly looked very washed. Now, I'm going to take the high road because I have been on the Drew Brees' wash train for two years now, and I've said that the Saints have a Super Bowl roster, and the only thing that's holding them back is Drew Brees oh hey James Winston came in for one pass touchdown not a coincidence obviously it was a trick play whatever Drew Brees is a legend he's a Hall of Famer what he's done for the city of New Orleans like I as as much as I want to be like oh I told everyone I'm I'm not because Drew Brees like it was sad there was a moment where it was kind of sad to see him go out because it was clear like he can't throw the ball over 15 yards.
His mind is still there, but he doesn't have any of the physical abilities, and that cost the Saints the game. Drew Brees, unfortunately, lost them the game.
Their defense was game. They kept them in it.
He could step in immediately and be a great offensive coordinator. Yeah.
As long as he doesn't have to do anything physical. He's like a Stephen Hawking type that you could just put out there.
And you're right. His brain is still like next level.
But it almost makes it that much more cruel. When you see his brain still being so sharp and his body is just like, I can't make, I'm going to still try to do what's natural to me.
But he almost didn't really recognize his limitations that much, at least over the course of the last, I don't know, 10, 12 weeks. You squatted on a take, which I appreciate, because you were like a year.
No, but last year was the same thing. You were like a year and a half early on the take.
No, I actually don't think so. I think I was actually right on time, because what I've said time and time again is Drew Brees, his mind is one of the best minds out there in terms of seeing defenses, reading defenses, doing all this stuff.
When you put him in a regular season game and he's playing against a middle of the pack to lesser defense, he will rip them up. It doesn't matter that he can't throw deep.
When it gets to playoff football and you have to make those throws that are 20 yards down the field, 25 yards down the field, when you have to be able to hit those few home run balls that can actually change a playoff football game. He hasn't had it for two years.
And that's just kind of been like what I've seen is the limitation for a really good roster and a really good team in the saints. And you even see like Sean Payton trying to, you know, the, the Jamis Winston play was very indicative.
It's like essentially, hey, we need to pull seven points out of our fucking ass. Here it is, Jameis Winston.
Like there's a reason why Drew Brees wasn't throwing those deep bombs. There's a reason why Drew Brees couldn't push the ball down the field.
And it sucks because he's a Hall of Famer. And again, I think that there's – it's a very short list of guys who mean as much to a city as drew breeze in new orleans like that connection is something that's on a different level and i totally understand it and everything post katrina so i'm not going to sit here and be like you know drew breeze so fucking like he had a hall of fame career it just it doesn't end this way for you know it's not everyone's not elway fucking damrino lost 70 to 7 in his last game or some crazy 63 to 7 like even peyton won a super bowl but we saw that with peyton like he wasn't the same right and tom brady like he wasn't extra sharp he can still throw deep i actually think he can still make i think that drew breeze in his last game is better than peyton manning in the super Bowl that they won.
Yeah, probably right. Drew Brees is still like, he can still function and throw passes.
Right. That Super Bowl was tough to watch with Peyton, but he just managed the game.
I actually think that Peyton Manning's head was so far ahead of the game that he was able to recognize the fact that his head was so far ahead of the game. And was able to tell his body, hey man, you can't do all the weird shit that you used to be able to do.
But, yeah, Drew Brees, I mean, he had a great run. It was sad when he was walking off the field.
He turned back, looked back at the field. You see how he took in the Superdome, checked for any extra ribs that he left there on the field and wanted to check and make sure he scooped everything up.
And, yeah, it was obvious that when Jameis was coming in the game, it's because Jameis can still fucking throw the air out of the football. And that ball, I think that one pass made Jameis Winston $25 million next year.
I don't know about that much, but it definitely... Whoever comes in second with a Deshaun Watson jackpot, they're going to have to pony up some cash for Big J-Dog.
Well, he should be on the Saints. And, like like i do actually think that if jamis winson plays that game starts that game like obviously we've seen bad jamis but he gives them something totally different that they just don't have like when every single pass is eight yards it's a lot easier to defend you and it actually like so drew breeze clearly doesn't have the physical ability anymore.
It was kind of sad to see. It also puts into perspective how absurd it is that Tom Brady is still doing it.
He's fucking 43 years old, and he didn't have his sharpest game, but he can still push the ball down. Like, that pass he made to Godwin that Godwin caught and then dropped, like, that was a dime down the field.
Yeah, it also had another one that Gronk usually hangs on to.

It's crazy that he's still doing this.

It's actually insane the fact that he is playing at this level.

And it's not prime.

It's not like he's in his prime. But the fact that he's still playing playoff winning level football is fucking crazy.

You know how we talk about how Kirk Cousins looks smaller now as he gets older?

I actually think Tom Brady looks taller. I don't know if he's lost weight and he's skinnier, if his neck grew.
By the way, all-time neck on Drew Brees. He's gotten emaciated recently.
Do you think there's someone who's sitting there, some draft guy who's like, told you Drew Brees short quarterbacks can't win after 20 years of Drew Brees breaking every record? He's like, see? I think it's probably... Because it it is it's nick saban being like see i was right to pass on drew breeze i knew that his shoulder wouldn't hold up in the long term that's why we took dante culpepper it's um so drew breeze had uh looking at his stats it's crazy everyone knows all the all the uh records that he's set but he led the league in passing seven years in his career he led the league in touchdowns

uh four years and he led the league in in completion percentage six years like he's he's a hall of famer first battle hall of famer that's not a hot take obviously it's it's crazy how good and long of a career was especially considering the fact that he was you know cast off after his shoulder injury. Do you think like what is the what's the the vibe for saints fan when states fans when they look back and they're like we had sean payton and drew breeze for 15 years and we won one super can we get a vibe check on on the state of new orleans i think they'll be happy i think today they're happy but in five years they're gonna look back and be like wait we won one super bowl's why.
Because the Saints can always fall back on being like, we got fucked out of at least two other Super Bowls.

They can claim the Super Bowl that the Rams went to on that pass interference call.

In their own head, they could be like, yeah, we should have made the Super Bowl.

And we would have scored more than 15 points against the...

It was three to...

Was it three to ten?

What was that Super Bowl?

Three to...

Yeah, I had the over.

Whatever it was.

13-3. Yeah, New Orleans could be like, Super Bowl? 3-whatever it was.
13-3.

Yeah, New Orleans could be like,

we would have scored 15 points in that game and won the Super Bowl.

So that's theirs.

And then they can always have the Minnesota miracle.

And be like, yeah, you know what?

The Eagles ended up winning the Super Bowl over the paint.

We would have won that too.

So that's technically like three titles for New Orleans.

Still doesn't count.

Plus, they had a lost year. Plus, they had a lost year.
Still doesn't count. I'm just telling you.
You can look back and you can talk away some of those years. No way, Big.
You're out of your mind if you think that New Orleans fans will look back and be like, man, that could have been a lot better. They are so pumped to get that one.
Oh, I think that's not crazy at all. That's being a sports fan.
To look back and be like, 15 years of Sean Payton and Drew Brees and we won one. Again, I'm not saying it's tomorrow.
I'm not saying like this will be a celebration of Drew Brees in New Orleans, I would assume. But I would absolutely if you ask the Saints fan like, hey, that was incredible.
Awesome memories. But there's definitely a small part of you that's saying to yourself, shit, how do we only win one? That absolutely exists.
That has to exist. I mean, otherwise you're not, like, that's a real sports fan.
If you look at, like, millions of people, there are going to be some people that have that. But I'm just saying, like, the ability to look back and be like, the league fucked us out of three other Super Bowls.
That's going to be a nice little salve. That's going to be a nice little ice bath to ease themselves into Drew Brees heading off for the hills.
But at any rate— Do you think his shoulder was hurt? I mean, I think that his shoulder is just permanently hurt now. Yeah.
His shoulder has definitely been hurt for a very long time. Yeah, since 2000...
Was it 2006? Well, no, but it's been very hurt the last couple years. Yeah.
Yeah. No, it's been bad.
He lost, like, all his arm strength in the last couple years. Yeah.
And wasn't able to throw downfield. But let's not bury the lead here.
Playoff Lenny. Playoff Lenny.
Came to play today. Fucking playoff Lenny.
I hate playoff Lenny. First of all, he stomped my football team last week when I was so...
I was ecstatic that they were feeding him the ball all the time. I'm like, this is how you beat the Buccaneers if they keep giving Leonard Fournette the ball.
And then this week, I put my biggest bet of the year in on the Bucs and then... I mean, on the Saints, and then playoff Lenny stomps my heart out.
Tough to beat a team three times, though. They matched up well.
They matched up better than I thought. How do you not complete a single pass to Michael Thomas? Because he can't fucking throw.
That's insane. Michael Thomas isn't exactly...
He's not exactly like a downfield threat. He's a guy...
If you can throw the ball 15 yards in the air, you should get the ball to Michael Thomas at least three times. I mean, Saints fans actually should be sitting here being like, hey, you know what would have been even worse is winning this game in a fluky like 20 to 17 and then having to watch Drew Brees in Lambeau in 20 degrees because that would have been a disaster.
Like you think that this was bad. That would have been an outright disaster because he like,

imagine getting his shoulder loose for that.

But yeah,

playoff Lenny.

So Joe Buck,

he,

he told me earlier this week,

he was like,

they actually are calling him playoff Lenny because we gave him so much

shit about playoff Damien last year.

The big game against Washington last week,

called him playoff Lenny.

And that's like last year with playoff damien of the champion kansas city chiefs there you go big cat first down tampa bay and it's the dumbest nickname ever playoff name is the dumbest nickname ever but now we're two for two and playoff p and then yeah right exactly now we're two for two though in football where playoff damien was truly playoff damien and then playoff lenny yeah so instead he's got six touchdowns in five games i fucking hate playoff lenny he's playoff lenny is good yes every other time of year playoff lenny is when he regresses to regular season lenny he stinks and i'm so sure that he's going to go to a bad team when he ends up going to a bad team he's going to average like 1.3 yards per carry. Yeah.
Also, the Bucs defense, they fucking hit hard. Like, there were a lot of—I mean, the Saints hit hard, too.
But the Bucs play a hard-hitting, like, swarm-to-the-ball style of defense where there were a few times where I was like, how the fuck did that guy get up? Because they attack, you know, whoever has the ball. Yeah.
And they make mistakes, but they go after people. Devin White is a thick boy.
That, that dude is big. If that guy hits you and he was wearing the LSU shoulder pads underneath, a lot of players were doing that actually.
I think like every player that went to LSU got together on their group chat and was like, Hey, we're going to wear the purple and gold underneath our jerseys. And then it's going show up on tv and people be impressed consider me impressed it always looks awesome in the dome um yeah he's he's a hitter devon way is a hitter the uh the defensive line and dominican sue jpp those guys are just big dudes that are fast they they don't even have it honestly should be illegal to be as as big as indominican sue and be able to run like that.
I also have a new most important player on the Bucs guy. Scotty Miller? Yes.
Yeah, Scotty Miller. He takes his top off.
There's something about Scotty Miller. They have unbelievable.
And Antonio Brown, so he hurt his knee. Did he ever come back in? I don't know.
He dropped one pass out of the backfield. And that's going to be something interesting to watch because I do.
Antonio Brown clearly has a great rapport with Tom Brady and like you need all the weapons you can have when you're going up to Lambeau and have to play against that Packers offense but Scotty Miller he is he he might be the most important player on the Bucks offense Tom Brady always throw it out you know the names but Scotty Miller Julian Edelman is watching the game verbal meme Leonardo DiCaprio pointing at TV, holding his beer. Yes, yes.
He made that fucking huge catch. But, yeah, it was a sloppy game.
It was obviously just all about the turnovers that decided the game. And Drew Brees out.
He's going to retire. He officially is retiring, right? Well, Jay Glazer said that he's retiring.
And Jay Glazer doesn't get shit wrong. Yeah.
I mean, I think even, like, they should just, everyone should just treat him like he's retiring without him even saying he's retiring so that he will retire. Yeah, because he might try, and that would be very painful.
Right. Do you think that his bust in the Hall of Fame is going to have his cool birthmark on it? Has to.
Yeah, unless Oprah does it. Has to.
Do you remember, have you seen that video? What? Where Drew Brees went on Oprah, and Oprah tried to wipe his birthmark off. He got some lipstick on your face there, Drew.
Unbelievable. First Ballot Hall of Famer.
And now we get to see Brady vs. Rogers in Lambeau.
So let's go back in time to Saturday. We'll talk Rams-Packers.
It's crazy that this is the first time that Aarongers is getting a home NFC championship game. It is.

That's wild.

There's a couple surprising ones. The other one was the fact that the Chiefs are the three home AFC championship games.

The first time that's happened in the AFC, which is like...

It's like surely the Patriots.

Right.

How did that not happen?

Out of Tom Brady's 14 championship games.

14 is crazy.

All right.

So Rams-Packers.

The Rams tried. They gave it their best effort.
Aaron Rodgers is just playing. Aaron Rodgers wasn't even that sharp.
He wasn't perfect Aaron Rodgers, and their offense still is really, really good. He was still really good Aaron Rodgers, and their offense had a few drops.
No, but he wasn't like – It could have been a lot worse. You know when Aaron Rodgers is on fire and he essentially is like, there's nothing you can do because he's just putting it in perfect place.
He wasn't that Aaron Rodgers and they still won this game pretty easily. You know what it was? It was the fact that they found a way to make amazing offense kind of boring in Green Bay because you watch the Packers and you're like, you can't stop them're going to be able to score points but it's still kind of boring to watch them while they're functioning yeah because like if you try to just play your safeties deep then Aaron Rodgers is like okay well I'm gonna I'm gonna get 12 yards every single time I pass the ball well and also Aaron Jones was running the ball he was running the ball really well so like everyone was calling Aaron Rodgers the surgeon because he was being very – that's what you say if – that's an upgraded dink and dunker.
That's like expert-level dink and dunking where you have Devontae Adams just being able to get separation on a slant and get 14 yards anytime he wants. Yeah.
So it was a boring offense to watch, but it was a great offense. So if you're coaching the team, if you're a fan of the team, like yeah we can't be stopped it well it's it's it's i think it's um indicative of like where we're at with football in 2021 is that you had the rams best defense coming in now aaron donnell was clearly hurt because he i think he only played half the snaps jalen ramsey wasn't playing his best but even still like at this point in time it used it used to be the saying, good defense trumps all, defense wins championships.
That's not the case anymore. Good offense beats good defense in the NFL today.
You know what it is now? It's like a great defense that wins a championship is one that can still give up 30 points, but if you get one touchdown on defense, if you're able to get that one interception, jump that one route, that's now what a great defense is. How about Sean McVay being such a genius that he somehow made Wildcat work again? It actually worked, and it was all runs, again, but he ran Cam Akers in the Wildcat, and of course it worked.
I don't know how he did it. It makes no sense.
The Wildcat has been dead since the second week of the Wildcat. And somehow Cam Akers running the Wildcat, they scored a touchdown off it.
They did it a few times, and it worked every time. And it was a run every time.
They also had the sickest play ever, the little hook and ladder. That was a two-point conversion, right? Yeah, that was an awesome play.
Again, if you want to win at the next level, if you want to be like the next great offense, start doing more of those laterals. They're awesome.
And it's a perfect time to do it when you're down at the five-yard line. Because they never see it coming.
Everyone's going to crash on that little screenplay. So yeah, Sean McVay, I think he did a good job considering what he had to work with.
Jared played better than he did the week before, and his thumb is obviously fucked up. What are you going to say, Hank? This is kind of an explainer to Hank, but is it hook and ladder or hook and lateral? Both.
Me and Caleb were having an argument on Saturday night. This is how people sometimes say shuffle pass when it's a shuffle pass.
Yeah, it depends on... I think it's just kind of...
It's a regional thing. It just ends up being like that.
Okay. Cocaine, yeah.
I don't know if there was a definitive answer or not. I think it's just whatever you want to say.
Because the announcer to say the announcer said lateral and i i was like whoa whoa i think nobody really cares what you say because when you say it it's right after super exciting play so no one ever stops to be like yo what'd you just call it they're too busy being like that was fucking sweet do you know what um so aaron rogers i hate the guy thanks for the five hundred thousand dollars the barstool fund that was really cool i think the thing that bothers me the most is that he's so goddamn good and he he like smiles during it he's just fucking hanging out he's hanging out just dominating people in playoff games he's actually so now it's um he's the second all-time for guys playoff performances 250 plus yards and two touchdowns. Brady has 17 of those games.
Rodgers has 12. Montana has 12.
So he just does it, and he looks like he's walking in the park on a Sunday afternoon. It's so fucking maddening.
I actually saw, I think Kevin Clark tweeted something about that Aaron Rodgers, he's talked to guys that essentially say it's demoralizing to play against him because he'll have like a chit chat conversation with you while he's beating your brains yeah the game is so slow for him he'll be on offense and he's like smiling looking around like cracking little sarcastic jokes before he snaps it's like it's like if he looks like he was playing poker and if if there were like 300 pound guys that were trying to hit you at the time, and he's just like sitting there just like with a dry smile on his face, not phased whatsoever. I hate him.
Yeah, nobody else operates at that same level. And he's like, I don't know, it does seem like it's in slow motion because Aaron Rodgers always has at least like one or two times a game where he'll catch the other team having like too many men on the field.
It's illegal. And then I don't know what he does.
Does he tell his receivers to hide between the linemen and the huddle so the other team can't see the personnel that they have on the field? Because he always catches them like that, and then there's always one straggler running off, everyone's confused, and then boom, he's able to throw for like a 40-yard touchdown. He almost juked out the all-22.
I saw someone show the all-22, because the all-22 shows the down and distance and then goes back to the field, and he had that quick pass where he juked out the all-22. It's illegal.
It's absolutely illegal. There was many times where I said the Packers, they were running plays that they might not have been illegal, but they felt illegal to me.
And you know what? At the end of the day, it's about sportsmanship.

And if something feels illegal, you should probably just throw a flag, refs.

Like that fucking Devontae Adams touchdown when he ran across the field in motion,

that felt illegal to me.

Just throw a flag and try to maybe just call something.

Let me ask you a question, Bicat.

Would you rather beat the other team by running your best plays

against their best plays or would you rather be a little weasel? Yeah, right. Heasel he's a weasel he's definitely he has weaselish qualities about him that davante adams touchdown that so that was illegal because davante adams took like a step towards the line of scrimmage as he was in motion but it is kind of like an interesting hack that some offenses have

figured out which is you can actually have your guy get a running start on a play like it's the

cfl if you just have them run directly across the field right and it's pretty much impossible

to guard them yeah um the uh so was kevin clark he said that uh opposing players once told me the

most frustrating thing about playing rogers is how much fun he has you're right in the you're in the

fight of your life trying to slow him and he's smiling like he's playing pickup hoops they said

it's incredibly demoralizing and makes everything slightly worse. Also, separately, Mason Foster told me once that Rodgers would talk Pac-12 football with him in between snaps.
It's fucking maddening, and I know he's incredible, blah, blah, blah. That's what you're going to get out of me, Packers fans.
He really is. Like, he's playing at an incredible level.
The fact that the Packers won this game in relative ease. Like, the Rams made it, you know, the seven-point game, but it was one of those situations where you just never really felt like the Packers were out of control.
And Aaron Rodgers, I don't know, that was probably like a B+. Like, it wasn't, he has an A-plus in him, and when he does an A-plus, it's literally impossible to stop him.
So it's demoralizing for the opponent and demoralizing for me watching on the couch. And it's illegal.
Yeah, and it feels illegal. And you know what? Him being this good, it takes away a lot of the credit from where the credit should be going, which is to that Packers offensive line.
Yeah.

Because those guys are the ones that enable Aaron to play as well as he does.

Yes.

So like, let's give some real, I would actually say that Aaron Rodgers played a C, C minus game.

Yeah.

But the offensive line played an A plus, plus, plus, plus.

And Aaron Donald being hurt.

And Leonard Floyd, like, that was Leonard Floyd I remember when he got just absolutely

juked out of his shoes by Aaron Rodgers.

Yeah.

I don't know why the Rams, it felt like every time they went up tempo, they had a ton of success and then they would kind of go back to not going up tempo. I guess that Rams, like the Rams season, and I don't know how many Rams fans that are out there, for you guys, for whoever I'm talking to, Jimmy, Robbie, Chad.
A couple guys from St. Louis that still are hanging on to it.
A couple guys from St. Louis, Toby, you guys, the four of you.
That's actually a season where it's kind of a lost season because of all the injuries racking up. You lost to the Jets.
Cooper Cup not playing. Cooper Cup being out, the minute he was out, I think we all said to ourselves, well, that's a really fucking big deal.
Yeah, right after I bet on the Rams. And Aaron Donald being at 50%.
I don't know. He was clearly hurt.
His only memorable play was actually that when he got an unsportsmanlike conduct. So you still have one of the best coaches in the league.
I think it's time to ask this question. Yeah.
if the packers make it to the super bowl if they win next week is matt lafleur a better coach than sean mcveigh matt lafleur now back-to-back nfc championship games yeah i don't know i think he might be because mcveigh got to that super bowl on the pass interference call laid an egg in the super bowl yeah i know i know sean you can remember every single play that you've ever been in in your entire life, so you probably would agree with me, Sean. But if LaFleur gets there, gets at two NFC Championship games in a row, beats his old master on the way there.
I feel like Matt LaFleur, permission to do another verbal meme? Yeah. Not only Matt LaFleur, but Kyle Shanahan.
So Splinter with the baby Ninja Turtles. Yes.
Splinter is Sean McVay. The baby Ninja Turtles are Kyle, Matt LaFleur.
And then old-ass Splinter, probably with his shirt off, is now Sean McVay with LaFleur and Kyle carrying him off into the distance. I like that verbal meme.
I agree with that verbal meme. I just mostly like that meme.
Yeah. No, it's a great one.
It's a great meme. It needs to be used more.
Regardless, it's criminally underused.

Yes.

Wait, that's Mandalorian.

Same thing.

This is the way.

This is the way.

This is the way is Mandalorian.

And guess what?

The Packers, I fucking hate this, man.

Like, yeah, we all laughed at them for not drafting a wide receiver

and drafting a backup quarterback that's not even going to play this year.

But it turns out they have a fucking enough talent on wide receiver, okay?

We'll be right back. Yeah, we all laughed at them for not drafting a wide receiver and drafting a backup quarterback that's not even going to play this year.
But it turns out they have a fucking enough talent on wide receiver. Okay, whatever.
Okay, Robert Tanyan just showed up and decided to be the best tight end not named Greg Kittle. And Marquez Valdez-Scantling, who will drop a big ball at some point, is faster than everyone on the field.
And Devontae Adams is incredible. I get it, okay? It all just sucks because the Packers are just a well-run organization through and through, and they just do this.

This is what they do.

And what do you think?

So, like, we have a ton of time to talk about it,

but knee-jerk reaction next Sunday, Tom Brady, Fox.

Packers are going to win.

Problem.

Packers are going to win.

Yeah, probably.

Packers are a wagon right now.

And they're going to win.

It's going to be boring. Nope.
They're still going to score 33 points. What, you're back on the Tom? Yep.
You're on that Tom? You want to play a game real quick? What's the line? Oh, what is the line? Barstool Sportsbook app. The line is up.
Six and a half. What is the line? What is the line? No, you're insane.
Come on. No, you're insane.
Come on. Hank, come on.
Come on. Take this seriously.
So much disrespect for your boy, Tom Brady. So much.
Three and a half. Four.
My book says three and a half. All right.
Your book is Barstool Sportsbook. I'm actually not looking.
By my book, I mean my brain. The Bucs.
I actually kind of like the Bucs at four. I do think the Packers are going to win.
I think it's going to be a good game, though. I still think.
It's going to be too cold for Tom. You can't trust your...
It's going to be too cold for Tom. You talk yourself up against every team playing the Packers, too.
Yeah. Noel, but I didn't with the Rams.
I knew deep down. Come on.
You're telling him that you're too biased against Aaron Rodgers, as you bet on Tom Brady? Yeah. I'm just saying, for the people out there, maybe take it with a grain of salt.
Four? Four? You don't think it's going to be a close game? I think the Bucs are going to win straight up. I think it's insulting, Hank, that you think that Big Cat can't put aside his personal biases to give a genuine evaluation of the Green Bay Packers.
You can't. You know who's going to end up in the can't-lose parlay, though, on Sunday? The Green Bay Packers.
They can't lose. They can't.
It's literally all I have left. It's the only thing I have know break glass in case of emergency it's it's hiding it's hiding under the bed pulling out the gun case and you open it up million locks eye scan fucking fingerprints and then i open it up and it just says put the packers in the can't lose parlay that's it that's all i got it's the best emotional heads that you can do i don't think that tom brady going to be able to play in the cold.
It's going to be 24 degrees. It's going to be snowing probably, football weather.
Tom is a California kid that plays in Florida. Yeah, what's his record in cold? I don't think he can win a big game in the cold.
There's going to be someone who makes that mistake being like, warm weather Tom Brady going to the cold. He said he doesn't like playing in the cold anymore.
He threw like six touchdowns against the Titans when it was like negative 25 degrees. I don we're talking about playoffs.
The rest of the team, though. Mike Evans.
All right. That's that game.
Whatever. Rams fans, don't feel too bad.
You got one of the best coaches in the league. And Packers, whatever.
Deal with you on Sunday. You can't lose part of it.
You just talked about Mike Evans being. But every time I see the Bucs take the field, I always expect Deshaun Jackson to run five routes.
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This one was one of those games that wasn't good, but boy, did it have dramatics. Yeah, it had a little bit of everything.
It had a little bit of everything the first half. Now, the wind was a factor.
Actually, someone reminded me of my take that the wind with no fans, with less than a full house, will be whipping more. I think we saw it, even though there were 7,000 Bills Mafia fans that sounded like 70,000.
Well, I was very woke on the NFL reporting the attendance at Lambeau Field to be like 9,000. I was like, no, there are 30,000 people there.
Easily. In Buffalo, when they said that there were, what, 7,000? 6,700.
There were 7,000. They were just, Buffalo fans are drunker.
And they're louder. So, yes, that was it was a home field advantage.
I do like to take that enough bodies will just stop the wind. But in Buffalo, as we discussed with the GI issues, the gastrointestinal stuff, they're all farting up there.
So it probably makes up for a little bit of that. But Bills Mafia going to an AFC championship game.
First time since 1994 when they played the Chiefs. So Jim Kelly beat Joe Montana.
You're going to have another Josh Allen versus another future Hall of Famer and Patrick Mahomes, both Hall of Famers. But this game, so the first half was like a total rock fight, missed field goals.
I'd never seen Justin Tucker. Like, it was weird.
It felt like we broke through the matrix when we see Justin Tucker miss two kicks. In a row.
In a row. Doink him.
Shout out to Buffalo Bills fans. Roan did a video.
Those guys are incredible. They basically go up to the screen and they push.
They can make the ball change direction. They swipe the screen.
They did it twice. Nobody has a bewildered face like Justin Tucker does after he misses.
Incredible. He just stares up at the sky and he's like he's talking to God.
He's like, Father, why have you forsaken me? Yeah. Like I'm nail me? You're nailing me to the crossbar now.
That's what you're doing. Yes.
And then, so the Bills' defensive plan was incredible. Leslie Frazier, like the blitzing of Lamar Jackson.
We'll get to Lamar, and we'll get to the offensive line. The center, I don't know what he was doing.
That was crazy. He just snaps all over the place.
I didn't understand at all what the Bills offense was doing in the first half they did one design run play two run plays total Brian Dable I think he forgot that he was trying to be a head coach and at halftime he figured out oh yeah I'm actually interviewing for head coaching jobs maybe I should try to well they had a new running back, which was part of the issue. But the rest was, you know what?

We're going to go out there. We're going to play our exotic smash-mouth football.

In the wind. And we're going to try to pass the ball every single time.

You saw it in the second half. They ran it.

Once they ran the ball, the offensive

lines started high-fiving each other afterwards.

Do you know how

bad that must suck to be an offensive lineman

and just do nothing but pass block?

It's actually my biggest

critique

on analytics Twitter

I don't know. bad that must suck to be an offensive lineman and just do nothing but pass block it's it's the it's actually my biggest like uh critique on analytics twitter and we love warren sharp but people who are pass pass pass it's more efficient you forget the human element like you just said if you can't like if you ask offensive lineman to just go backwards an entire game eventually it's gonna really suck and wear them wear them down.
They need to go forward. Kyle Long, you say it all the time, like going forward and punishing the guy who's been coming after me all game feels good, and it's important for the offensive line to have that feeling every few plays.
The human body was meant to move forward, not backward. If you look at how we walk, there's a reason we don't walk around backwards.
It's true. It's true.
So then the second half starts. The Bills' offense looks great with their drive.
The Ravens' offense looks great with their drive. And then you get the Lamar Jackson pick six, which the presence of mind to return that was incredible.
Most guys just down that. And the B Bills defense was insane.
So that 101-yard run back basically essentially ended the game. Lamar's concussion really ended the game.
But in a game that felt like it was a rock fight and whoever makes the big mistake, that was the big mistake, and it was over. That interception, you're right.
So when you usually catch that on the one-yard line or one yard deep into the end zone, most guys, they get out like or six yards because the first instinct is to run with the ball once they catch it, but then once they get out a little bit, they usually give one glance behind themselves to look back at the goal line and be like, ah, shit, I should have stayed in there because they're about to get tackled. Teron Johnson, he ran like Don Beebe was chasing him.
It was crazy. He was like, I'm going to take this motherfucker to the house.
It was the best play maybe in the history of the Buffalo Bills postseason. Yeah.
Well, yeah. I mean, there was that one pass to the fullback that Josh Allen threw last year.
Yes, that was. Frank Reich's comeback was pretty crazy.
That was awesome. It was awesome to see, though.
And the entire game switched on that. Although, I don't know why.
I never felt like the Bills were really in jeopardy and it's mostly because lamar was so limited in what he could do and he does need receivers he needs help no so all right lamar needs help here's my yeah i still think lamar jackson is like a top 10 quarterback to have on your team i would take him on my team unless i had actually probably like top seven or eight guys so here's where i'm landing on lamar and I've done a lot of thinking about it. And I wanted on the record, like, last year I said the Ravens were frauds.
They were frauds. This year I thought their defense was playing great.
Their defense did play very well against Josh Allen and the Bills on Saturday night. Like, they kept them in the game.
Their offense wasn't able to, you know, that one play essentially flipped the entire game. Lamar, to me, is, you're right, he needs receivers.
He probably needs some, you know, they had some offensive line injuries. I think the issue with Lamar is when he won the MVP and how good he was that year, everyone immediately jumped to, like, Lamar.
He is probably, if you want to say, like, one of the best, he's probably the second best playmaker is probably if you want to say like one of the he's probably the second best playmaker like if you want to say playmaker he's he's probably the second best behind Patrick Mahomes but all around quarterback he is still limited as a thrower and I think we all threw him in the camp of like he's the type of quarterback like a Patrick Mahomes Aaron Rodgersgers, Tom Brady in his prime, who can elevate his entire team.

I think he's more in the category of,

if you can put the right talent around him,

he can win a Super Bowl with the right talent.

He needs the help. He needs some receivers.

He needs some offensive line help.

He needs all that, whereas when he won the MVP and how great he was, we thought, oh, my God, this guy is incredible. He can kind of do it all.
Yeah, I also think he needs to be in a system that changes every single year. Like the offense, Greg Roman hasn't really changed his offense around that much from year to year.
And, yeah, he won the MVP in this offense last year, and he excelled at it. But if you give coaches an entire offseason to study that offense and learn exactly the weaknesses they were exploding, they're going to be able to stop it at least a little bit better the next year.
They're not going to be able to shut you down, but they're going to get incrementally better year after year. Greg needs to let go.
He needs to take an ayahuasca trip every single summer and just be like, okay, I need to start thinking. I need to start asking myself the question that the other defensive coordinators are asking themselves a year ahead of time so that I can address my offense for what they're going to be doing to me.
Yes. Lamar, like, you know what really it comes down to is Bill Pullian ruined it for everyone because when he did the he's a wide receiver, not a quarterback, it basically put everyone into their defined areas of like, this is what I think about Lamar.
When in reality, Lamar is one of the best playmakers and also a limited passer. Like, it's okay to say those two things, but for some reason it's not online.
You know what I mean? Because it became, it was like lamar's not a quarterback then he wins mvp and so everyone's like oh he's not a quarterback that's fucking crazy i can't believe you said he wasn't a quarterback well now he's back to somewhere in the middle where it's like he's a work in progress as a quarterback but he's an unbelievable playmaker i think anytime you talk about a black quarterback there's going to be race components to it and And Bill Polian planted like an entire flag. And then now...
He ruined it. He ruined it for everyone.
Anytime you want to critique Lamar, then it becomes a race issue. It devolves into being a race, which it shouldn't be.
In fact, what we're here to do, we're here to break all that down. Let's just break all that down.
Bill Polian... It's like Bill Polian tried to put everybody in a black and white category.
That's not a racial comment. A black and white category of if you think that Lamar is bad in any way at throwing the football, then that can be construed as racist.
It's crazy. And if you think the other way, it can go the opposite way.
You can overpraise Lamar for being a great quarterback when sometimes he's not a great quarterback throwing the ball. And once he won mvp then i think the conversation was like well if you don't think that he's a completely finished product as a passing quarterback then that's a race issue on you and i don't think that it's that cut and dry about anything no it never should be in fact never should it's like the uh what's what's the scale that they use uh for human sexuality the kinsey scale where it's likeian is like the, I'm going to tuck my t-shirt into my pleated khakis every day, and I'm over here saying I'm 100%.
Lawn door. I've never even looked at a dude.
That's how straight I am. Yep.
I can't be in a room with a woman one-on-one because I'll fuck her. Yeah.
Listen, I was never afraid of girls, even when I was three years old. Right.
And I met Leslie at the pool. That's Bill Polian.
But it's not like that. It's not like that at all.
Lamar is limited in some things. I think putting him up in Buffalo against that defense and the elements exploited his weaknesses, including his diarrhea, which I still think he had a little bit of the butt juice.
And what happened is when he wins the MVP, everyone who is on the other side of the spectrum with Lamar,

who's essentially like, Lamar's incredible,

Lamar is one of the best quarterbacks in the league. No, he's not.
He's one of the best playmakers. He's still got a long way to go as an actual passer.
Guess what, though? Josh Allen, a year ago, two years ago, he had a long way to go as a passer. It happened for him.
He got a deep threat. He's gotten worlds better.
He is a legitimate MVP candidate. It really is weird because Lamar won an MVP so early, and he did deserve it, and he was so fucking good that year that everyone was like, well, there it is.
Case closed. Lamar is the best.
But you watch it, and you're like, no. There are throws that he can't make or throws that he misses that you need to be able to make to win a Super Bowl.

And winning Super Bowl is really hard. I'm not saying like it's it's it also becomes this like, well, he's a bust because he's, you know, one in three in the playoff.
Playoff football is really fucking hard. but it's clear that he has work to do to get to the level of like,

this guy is now a real threat every year to win a Super Bowl just by what he does. Well said, Big Cat.
And you know what? The Ravens are going to be in an interesting spot because I think next year they have one last go at it and then they're going to be in salary cap hell. So it will be interesting to see.
I really thought their defense was playing phenomenal. Like, I did not think that they were.
I thought they found themselves a little bit. They weren't what they were last year in the fraudulent frontrunners.
So we'll see. It's got to suck to be a Ravens fan and watch that game too when you're right.
The Bills really did kind of have control but it really was a rock fight that came down to who was going to make a huge error, and the Ravens made the huge error. Say something nice about the Ravens.
Nobody wears a mask like John Harbaugh wears a mask. Yes.
He covers up his whole face. He can't see anything.
He's got the entire dome covered on that. Now, let's go ahead.
I was just going to say, I want to address what the Bills did for Lamar after he got knocked out of the game. Oh, yeah.ia.
I love Bills Mafia. We love you guys like none other.
They started donating to Lamar Jackson's charity, I think in increments of $8, which is great. But it's also a little bit emasculating.
It's the most patronizing move of all time. We just beat you.
Now we're going to donate a shitload of money to your charity so that not only will we send you home but in a couple days you're going to have to acknowledge us yeah and thank us for beating you yes and then paying money to your like i don't i don't know who's in charge of the chad hinney foundation but they've got to be forecasting an incredible fiscal year right now i would be so mad if i were a little more i mean i would be happy that i was getting donations yes foundation but'd be like, God damn it. Yeah, also shout out to Lake Erie for bringing a little bit of the snow.
Yes. Lake of the year.
Let's talk about the Bills real quick. The Bills are a complete team, and I say that like no duh, but their offense wasn't very – like it wasn't great on Saturday night.
It wasn't A-plus against the Colts. They're playing fucking awesome defense, and they're winning.
Whenever a team starts winning games in different ways, you just look at it and you're like, okay, they have everything. Maybe you wish they had a little bit more of a running game, but they have everything.
And it's crazy to me that the Bills... I never thought I'd be sitting here saying the Bills are in the AFC Championship game and they haven't even come close to playing their best playoff game.
Like they have not, they have not played their best playoff game. They have not played a complete game of football on both sides, these playoffs.
So if they do it and they have it in them, watch the fuck out. There's part of me that I don't know what's going to happen with Mahomes and the concussion.

I think he'll play.

I might be getting way ahead of myself, PFT.

There's part of me that thinks the Bills might fucking blow out the Chiefs.

If Patrick Mahomes doesn't play, I think that they will.

I'm saying the Bills have –

These Bills won't.

The Bills have – if they put together their full –

Right.

You're talking about those Bills. I'm saying if you're a Bills fan.
Week 12 through 16, those Bills can absolutely blow up the pitch. This is all awesome.
We did the speech last week, but if you're a Bills fan, I don't know if you've been sober in two weeks. You shouldn't be.
Enjoy the ride. This is why you watch shitty teams.
This is why you go through the lean years for this fucking run.

But if you're also a Bills fan, in the back of your mind,

you're saying, we haven't even begun to peak in the playoffs.

They haven't actually played a great, complete, full game of football,

and I know they have it in them.

Hank, you kind of looked at me like you're crazy.

Maybe I am.

Maybe I'm a little crazy.

And guess what?

They could come out and lay a dud.

But I'm saying, I and guess what they could come out and lay a dud but i'm saying i think they're i don't think a lot of people are telling themselves there's any possibility the bills could blow out the chiefs i'm saying there is that world does exist they have that in buffalo they have that in them that's it no no they have that in thank wrong. I'm sorry, they do.
The way that they played in the second half of the season,

those Bills can absolutely go out there and blow the Chiefs out.

They didn't.

Their offense looked lost in the first half. They won this game.

And those Chiefs, you saw those Chiefs this year

where they took their foot off the gas and got too cute with it.

If that's the Chiefs team that matches up against the Bills team

that we know exists somewhere inside there,

it can absolutely be a blow up.

They also, I mean, they beat, they just

played really good defense against two

polar opposites in the Colts

and the Ravens, and guess what?

The Ravens and the Colts are the

two best AFC defenses that

are not named the Bills right now. Like, those teams

play good defense, and they beat

them both. I'm just saying,

who knows? That's why they play the game, but if i i wouldn't be shocked that's all i'm saying i would not be shocked if the bills dominated the afc championship i wouldn't be like oh my god where'd this come from i really think they have that in them as a complete football team one thing i love about josh allen is that even in a down performance the the quarter second after he releases a throw you if they can synthesize a drug that makes me feel the way I feel when that happens, I will spend all my money on it. It's an incredible feeling because that ball can go literally anywhere on the field.
If there's a spray chart, Josh Allen could hit. If he's within 70 yards of the goal line, the ball could be going anywhere, and something awesome is very much liable to happen.
And I don't know what it is about his deep balls, but they seem to get faster as they travel through the air. He can, I mean, there was what hurricane, he threw a fucking hurricane last night.
Yeah. It was a hurricane.
Yeah, it was. It was a literal hurricane.
He was knifing balls through. Him against Mahomes is going to be like the strongest arm quarterback matchup ever.
So excited. Very excited.
What's the line? What is the line? What is the line? Two and a half. Two and a half is right.
Two and a half for the Chiefs. Now, if Patrick Mahomes doesn't play, I feel like the Bills should be favored.
Yes. They'll be favored by probably two and a half.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. I mean, Chad Henney, though, he was fucking awesome.
He was.

Chad Henney was awesome. I also want to give a special shout-out to Bill's Mafia because they reinvigorated my love of the signs that they show in the stands that have the network letters on them.
When people make, like, an acrostic poem out of NBC or CBS or ESPN, I love the creativity. Like, somebody had one that said something like, nothing like blue cheese and Cole Beasley.
It's going, watching a game in Buffalo is like going back in time to like 1998 Monday Night Raw. Yeah.
It's great. It's amazing.
I actually wouldn't be shocked if last night there was at least a handful of suck it to like suck it Lamar. Yes.
There are definitely some like Looney Tunes crossover cartoons with Bills like Bugs Bunny Rock and Zubaz Pants. Taz.
I bet you there's a shitload of Buffalo Bills Taz merchandise out there. I've talked myself into the Bills, man.
Yeah. Because they haven't played great.
They really haven't. Like they weren't the Ravens.
And they didn't dominate the Colts. And maybe this is short-sighted to me because maybe that's just they're not as complete of a team as I think.
But I think they have it in them. I think deep down, they look in the mirror.
It's in there. I think they're special.
I think it's in there. I really do.
I think it's in there. Stephon Diggs, hot mic awareness.
Yes, Jake. Great catch.
Great catch by you as well. All right, before we get to the last game, 2020 is finally behind us, and we're looking ahead to 2021.
What do you say? I was just going to say, Stephon Diggs might be the nicest person in the NFL. That relationship is the best.
He's the nicest guy. That's the best.
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Okay. The last game.
The Browns, the Chiefs. God damn it, was this depressing for the Browns because that's a winnable game.
They had it. That's a winnable game, and Kevin Stefanski, I do not understand why you punted.
Yeah, the punt wasn't awful. I actually think the timeout was worse than the punt.
Well, they come together. So if they had three timeouts, I can understand punting.
They had one time one timeout they burn the extra timeout they burn on a bad challenge and they burn their their first time on a bad challenge their second time out on that last drive so they have one timeout there's no worse loss in football than punting to the opponent and never getting the ball back it is the worst feeling to just sit there and be like,

okay, they need a first down, they got it, game over.

That's Chad Henney football.

You don't want to see the game in with Chad Henney holding the ball in victory formation.

That's got to be demoralized.

Here's what I don't understand.

This isn't a revisionist history.

I hated the punt right when it happened.

What I didn't understand was when they burned that second time out,

we were sitting there watching. I said, well, this has got to be four down territory for the rest of the game for them they then start the you know first down first and ten they go run for no gain pass pass punt i don't understand why they didn't just say hey this is four down territory we have information that the chiefs don't have because they don't know that we're going to go four downs we know we're going to go four downs let's fucking run the ball on second down catch them off guard like they they just ran it so regular and like it felt like it had no urgency they were doing a lot of wide runs so they were doing a lot of tosses and weird stuff like that yeah just get downhill run the damn ball and what's in in of two first downs beat you, so if you go for it and you don't get it, the worst that can happen is the game's over, which happened anyway.
Okay, they kick a field goal. Bucker already missed one.
Even if he hits it, you're only down eight, and you still have some time left. I hated that.
I hated that, especially because that was such an incredible year for them. Kevin Stefanski is Coach of the Year consideration, probably Coach of the Year, and it felt like he turdled a little bit in that situation.
Getting a Bills-Browns AFC Championship game would have been everything. It would have been so amazing to watch those two fan bases.
The Bills should have, in solidarity, opened up half their stadium like the Rose Bowl to Browns fans. Just to be like, hey, we get it.
You guys have been there for a long time. I just want to see both those fan bases get to move on.
But the Browns, you've got a lot to look forward to, I guess. Baker was good.
You've got Baker. Baker was awesome today.
He answered the critics. He was awesome today.
He answered the critics. He was throwing fucking dimes.
Yes, he totally answered the critics. They had some drops today, but he was really, really good.
Kareem Hunt with a revenge game. I saw that going around.
It's not a revenge game if you get cut from a team because you kicked a woman. He's like, hey, you know what? That's not what a revenge game is.
Fuck the Chiefs. They kicked me when I was down, so I'm coming back.
Wait, no, I probably shouldn't put it that way. Not a revenge game.
So the big story coming out of this game, obviously. Baker was great, though.
It was great to see Baker kind of have this season and then have that game where, you know, I think he had one interception, but he was throwing dimes around the field. He was making big plays.
He looked comfortable. That was the big question mark for the Browns going forward.
I didn't think it was a question mark, but obviously people did where last year he wasn't great. Is Baker our guy? Baker's your guy.
Baker is your guy. It's definitive as could be.
Baker is your guy. If you can get any type of defense around that offense, you guys are going to be really good next year.
And I think the Browns led the league in just... I feel like every single one of their offensive linemen got hurt.
Yeah, they were playing guys that I'm pretty sure were on the practice club. Yeah, Blake.
Two weeks ago that they were bringing. I saw one funny stat that was like, what's his name? Hans? Hans? Yeah, Blake Hans.
Was that the guy that was Blake Hans? Hans, they listed all of his career stats, which were basically like two games played or whatever, and then playoff wins, one, Joe Thomas, zero. That was tough.

Joe Thomas, you have to give some love to the offensive line

win stat. I don't feel like that

gets talked about enough because we do it with quarterbacks.

We should start doing

it with left guards. Yes, I

agree. So the big story, though, coming out of this game,

obviously, is Mahomes. He hurts his foot,

his toe, and then he gets

concussed. Now, our

doctor, who is actually

not here because he is

I'm going to go ahead and get this. Obviously, it's Mahomes.
He hurts his foot, his toe, and then he gets concussed. Now, our doctor, who is actually not here because he is sick.
He has the cocoa. Yeah.
So, Billy Football, who's not here, his tweet was, my not-a-doctor diagnosis. I like that he just clarified he wasn't a doctor.
People actually thought Billy might be a doctor. Well, I mean, his Twitter handle is like Billy Hot Takes.
And then his name is Berserker Billy. No, Billy No Way Jose.
Billy No Way Jose. And then he's got a cartoon of the guy that stormed the Capitol as his avatar.
And he's holding chickens in his avatar. So my not a doctor diagnosis, Mahomes fell on the ball knocking the wind out of him.
His brain is fine, just shook up, will return when wind is back. His brain is just shook up.
Not a concussion. Yeah, dude.
Important distinction. He got the wind knocked out of him.
I read that and I read it out loud to you guys. I was like, hey guys, don't worry.
I think Mahomes is coming back in the game. Yeah.
Billy was wrong about that. And don't worry about us.
Billy contracted it from his sparring partner on Friday night after he had been around us. We all tested negative today.
Although it would be very poetic if Billy killed us. If Billy was a dumbass.
Well, we all just had that moment. We all died.
Hank and I were talking this morning like, of course this is how it's going to happen. Billy's a fucking asshole.
Like, of course. Of course.
He's probably going to find the new strain. He probably is going to go search for the new strain and kill us all.
I think Mahomes will be fine. He's definitely going to keep his sample.
He's going to be like, I need to hold up. Yeah, he's going to spit into a fucking Petri dish.
He's going to breed COVID in his body just in case. He's keeping that in the grit fridge for sure.
Yeah, he's definitely going to start a new pandemic in like two years once we figure it all out. I can't believe you drank that body armor water.
That was actually my saliva for the last three weeks.

Oh, fuck, dude.

Did you just pet that chicken?

Oh, shit, that's my COVID chicken.

You shouldn't have done that.

He's got 17 different types of diseases.

I wanted to infect him with a billy strand of corona because it's built different.

Yeah.

The doctors were like super impressed

because it was bigger.

The virus is bigger.

I'm trying to make a bioweapon in case I ever need it. All right.
Hope you're better, Billy. Mahomes.
Who cares? Mahomes. I think Mahomes will be fine.
I don't think he's going to play. Okay.
Well, Andy Reid said that he's doing great. Okay.
Well, in that case, it looks like he's playing. It's Goodell.
But that's why he's going to play, though, PFT. What do you mean? Oh, I know that Goodell, like, yes.
He's going to play. They're going to put two charts in front of Goodell.
The doctors aren't stopping him from playing. Right, exactly.
And he's not going to stop him from playing. It'll be like, here's the future where you let Patrick Mahomes play in the AFC Championship game.
Just a picture, a Photoshop of Roger Goodell on a new Ski-Doo. Right.
Well, okay, yeah, I think I'll try to do that. But I don't know, man.
He looked really woozy getting up and getting walked off the field one week. I don't have the stats in front of me, but look up how often a player gets a concussion and plays the next week.
Again, it doesn't matter. He's going to play.
I'm not saying it's right. What I'm saying is he's going to play.
Andy Reid's already planting the seed. Andy Reid's like, hey, he's doing fine.
He's doing really great. The quote is actually, I just talked to him.
He's doing good. But right now, we'll see how he is tomorrow, but right now he's feeling good.
And Andy Reid said he's doing great right now, which is real positive. Passed all the deals that he needs to pass, so we'll see where it goes from here.
He could play tonight. The way the Chiefs are talking, he's going to play.
The NFL's concussion doctors have always said that they would have cleared JFK to reenter the parade. They would have been like, yeah, okay, yeah, you're good.
He's just nicked up. Yeah, the crowd wants to see him.
They're going nuts for him. Put him back out there.
So you take that back, right? I don't, I still think it's not as cut and dry as you think it is. He's going to play.
There's no way the Chiefs are not, like Patrick Mahomes is going to play unless Patrick Mahomes himself says I don't want to play, which he could, but if it's even 50-50 and Patrick Mahomes is like I want to play he's going to play. So Patrick Mahomes is probably going to want to play even if he shouldn't play.
Correct. The only thing that's making me think maybe not is the Chiefs have so much invested in terms of the amount of money that they have to pay him.
Nope. What are they paying him like half a billion dollars? Flags fly forever.
Nope. They don't want to end up being like Drew Brees.
And just have one championship. I think if they hadn't won last year I'd be more on your side in saying that they're going to put it.
Care to make it interesting? I would be shocked if he didn't play. I'd be shocked.
I will. Actually, I don't think.
Can we bet on this? I don't think so. Probably not.
I think that the gaming commissions tend to frown on concussions. So, Hank, we totally won't make a bet on this.
Again, I'm not saying that he should. I would like one of your historical jumpsuits.

Okay.

I'm not saying it's right.

I'm not saying, like, hey, be a man, go play.

I'm just saying he's going to play.

I get your dog.

All of it?

I get your dog for a week.

All of it?

I get to have Normie in my apartment for a week. All does not play deal I'm going to take so many hostage videos I'm going to set up like an ISIS flag and just hold him next to a newspaper we'll keep this between us don't do not tell Hank's girlfriend alright so yeah it was weird yeah, it was – I mean, Chad Henney, the run, the run 3.0 now.
That was incredible. Like, the fact that he had those wheels.
And then Andy Reid. Swag Henney, please.
Swag Henney. That's the difference right there between, like, winning football and losing football.
He knows that – why would I punt this back? Why would I do that when I have all these guys on the field that can get open and make one play? And I loved it. I loved it.
And they did the fake out. They did the fake out.
So they faked out Tony Romo too. Tony Romo was like, ah, Jim.
Jim, they got all the momentum, Jim. They're not going to run a play on this one, Jim.
No way. They're going to do a hard count, Jim.
I wish you hadn't brought up his name. He was so insufferable.

He was over the top.

Oh, my God.

I wish I loved anything as much as Tony Romo loves momentum in football.

Like Patrick Mahomes got concussed, and they walked him off the field,

and Tony Romo was like, I feel a little momentum swing here.

I think the momentum – yeah, the MVP, the best player in the NFL,

is now out of the game.

So that probably has something to do with it. Stop, stop just going crazy, Tony Romo.
That last play call that Andy Reid had where he let Chad Henney throw the ball, it's not like he was even trusting Chad Henney that much. He was just trusting the rest of the team to get open and then Chad Henney to make probably the easiest throw that he's ever made in his life.
That's part of going back, and I hate to go back to the punt. It did take nuts, though.
Yeah, no, it took nuts. Shout out to Andy Reid's nuts.
But when people were saying, oh, you know, you've got to punt it back to Chad Henney. It's not Chad Henney.
It's the Kansas City Chiefs who have Travis Kelsey and Tyreek Hill, and they have Andy Reid and Eric Biennemi calling plays. Like, it's not just Chad Henney.
You know what I mean? Like, it's not like, oh, we're just going to kick it back to Chad Henney. He's going to flounder back there.
And I know he threw that ridiculous. I loved it.
That was such a, like, fuck it. I'm just throwing this.
It was like a Rex Grossman interception. But I still, you know, the Chiefs have so many fucking weapons.
And that first drive by the Chiefs was like, oh, yeah, we forgot the Chiefs. Yeah, it's also just great to have a guy named Chad in the league.
Yes. Anytime there's a Chad around, anything could happen on any given play.
Chad is a guy that trusts himself a little bit too much, but it's fun to watch him fail sometimes. Yes.
And that's what that deep interception was. Yes.
We should talk a little bit about the best rule in football the fumble through the end zone touchback rule everyone says it's a bad rule everyone says actually i think 99.9 percent of people who discuss it say that it's the worst rule in sports i disagree i think that it's not a bad rule in fact i think it's a good rule i like the rule first of all let me just throw this one out there it's chaotic good rule. I like the rule.
First of all, let me just throw this one out there.

It's chaotic. It is.
I like chaos.

I like anything that creates chaos.

But besides that, it's the only

rule that favors the defense at all.

We talked about it with the NCAA

championship game. The way that the

game's going, every rule change is in favor

of the offense. Correct.
Within five years, you'll be

able to drive a car on the field if you play

wide receiver. This is the one rule that

on defense, it gives you

a little bit of, it's definitely an unfair rule,

but it's the only unfair rule that's

unfair in favor of the defense. And

also, when you get into the end zone,

weird shit happens in the end zone. If

you're on offense, the rules are different. When it comes

to what is a catch, when it comes to

extending the ball for a touchdown, rules

are different for an offensive player. For a defensive player, they should be different too.
If you fumble the ball through the end zone, why not have it favor... Now, I'm saying this even though I was betting and rooting on the Browns.
Oh, you were so happy that the Browns fumbled out of the end zone? I was absolutely not. PFT was like, fuck you, Browns.
This is a lie. I think it was on a live stream.
But I was disappointed that it affected the Browns, but characters who you are when no one's watching. Rico Bosco.
Even though... No, that was on my high school weightlifting...
No, Rico Bosco came up with it. That was on my wall.
Right. They stole it from Rico Bosco.
At my high school... And they stole it from Rico Bosco.
Weightlifting room. Right.
And they stole it from Rico Bosco. I don't know what you're talking about, but I'm going to assume that you're lying about this.
But I'm still in favor of it, even when an inconvenience is bad. I may disagree with what you say, sir, but I will defend to your death the right to say it.
That's why you think that Parler should be back up. The what? Parler.
No, I'm on Gab now. Okay, nice Gab.
You Gab in it? No, I love that it just makes everyone mad.'s so funny because like we know the rule exists and guess what when you you i mean i i've all i've proposed that there should be little nets that you can throw a ball into but until that happens and this one was was different than like the lunge where a guy takes a risk because this one it was clear targeting and that was what caused like the crown of the helmet was what caused the fumble yeah that was that was bullshit that should have been a penalty but i agree with you what i'm saying does not like yes that was absolutely a penalty it's funny how like if you're a browns player and you take a helmet and swing it at somebody they call that all the time but when somebody just hits you with theirs they won't i agree it just it's chaos and people get really really mad and uh it's almost it's the funniest part is like people get really really mad like it surprises them yeah we all know this is the rule yeah we all knew knew the minute it happened like oh fuck i do think it would be funny maybe there's the inner action in me but the offense should get to keep the ball but it should be third and 50 from the 50. Third and goal from the 50.
Okay. I don't know.
That would just be fun. That would be cool.
Yeah. Make it a real weird fucked up play.
Right, because most of the time it will end up being a punt and the defense would end up getting the ball anyway. But just seeing third and goal from the 50 would just be so much fun.
How about this? The defense gets the ball, but instead of a touchback, it's snapped from the goal line. No, it snapped by the defense.
It snapped five yards into the end zone is the line of scrimmage. And if you don't get out, then it's the offense's ball on a reverse touchback on the 20.
I like that too. Yeah.
I've never seen a ball snapped from the end zone. That'd be cool as shit.
To have the ball snapped on him. He would be a Hall of Famer.
Jay Glazer. So the seeds are being sown here.
Sown? Sowed? Sowed? Sowed. Jay Glazer on Patrick Mahomes.
The thought is he will be okay to play. It was almost like he got choked out.
Not so much a concussion, but still has to go through the protocol. He was trying to get himself back in the game.
There's a lot of confidence. He'll be ready to go next week.
They are laying the groundwork. Patrick Mahomes didn't even...
They are... Actually, you know what? What's going to end up happening is Roger Goodell's just going to hire Billy Football to administer the concussion test.
They'll be like, who was the first to say Patrick Mahomes didn't get concussed? He just got the wind knocked out of him. Oh, this guy, Berserker Billy? Yeah.
Get him to Kansas City ASAP. A little pro tip, Roger.
Just say, like, give a press conference. Be like, we've seen numerous reports.
I've read a lot of reports out there that there wasn't actually a concussion. They are splitting hairs.
He got choked out. It does sound like they're saying, like, the difference between a choke hold and, like, a choke slam.
Oh, my God. So they're saying he got guillotined, is what they're saying.
Yeah. And that's what the issue was.
This is so funny watching Jay be like, listen, guys, it wasn't a concussion. He just got...
It was like a... You ever eat a fucking tortilla chip and it goes down the wrong pipe? That's essentially what happened to Patrick Mahomes.
Yeah, I'm not... He's fine.
Needs a glass of water. He's good to go.
I don't know if I'm going to trust a guy who whose jaw goes into his shoulders to diagnose a neck injury. Jay, I love you, but I don't think you have a neck to injure.
And Patrick Mahomes is tweeting. So, oh, there you go.
I'm telling you, this is there's just the NFL would never allow an AFC championship game to be played with Chad fucking Henney. Come on.
What are the historical jumpsuits again? I want to make sure. Shut up, Hank.
I'm going to get your dog. I'm going to dress up in really embarrassing clothes.
Choked out is so funny to be like an obvious concussion we all watch. So when we saw it, his head hit the ground.
And then if there was a choke that was somehow applied to his neck in the middle of the rollover that the defender did, which, yeah, maybe you could say there was pressure put on the neck, but at the most it lasted for a half second. At the most.
Oh, God, the NFL is so fucking funny. I bet you Goodell had, like, an emergency conference call the minute it happened.
Like, all right, guys, what do we got? What do we got? And then some lackey piped in and was like, we can see he got choked out. Good.
Get it to Glazer. Let's fucking go.
Everyone get to work. He got choked out.
No league like it, baby. Love it.
Oh, man. He's going to play.
He's probably going to fucking torch the Bills. God damn it.
Not going to happen. No, the Bills have their best game in them.
They're going to win. I love the Buffalo Bills.
All right. Let's get to some coaching carousel talk.
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Okay, let's talk

a little coaching carousel.

Let's talk a little football guy of the week.

And then we'll do some who's back of the week.

So,

Urban Meyer was hired. Urban

Meyer. I'm ready for this.
This is

me growing as a man. I'm

I'm going for this. This is me growing as a man.
I'm going to say that Urban Meyer won't be an abject failure. Now, what does that mean? I think Urban Meyer will get the Jags to a AFC championship game.
Okay. Well, yeah, that's a strong.
That's a strong... Blake Bortles did that.
I think he... I don't know if he'll last more than five years.
That feels like a long time, doesn't it, for Urban Meyer? Oh, yeah. Five months would be...
I was thinking about it more. I still don't...
I don't really know how... If I were the Jags, I wouldn't have hired him, but now that that it's done they have a ton of draft capital they basically have a roster that he can mold himself they have trevor lawrence

he's got all the connections with the local police departments down there in northern florida that he

can get people out of trouble for yep he's making a bet on will trevor lawrence be a very good

professional football player and i am down on that bet like I think he will. So it would be foolish for me to say Urban Meyer is going to suck if I think Trevor Lawrence is going to be good.
That's a very hard walk to do, to be like, Trevor Lawrence is going to be awesome, Urban Meyer is going to suck. So I'm going to make fun of him when he decides to quit out of the blue.
Is he going to have a new contract with his family that he's going to put into place? I made fun of all the people who told me that he was never coaching again after he said that. You know, he was done coaching two years ago because the guy will just keep coming back for more.
But I do think he will have success because I believe in Trevor Lawrence. Really, it's more of a I believe in Trevor Lawrence.
Yeah, I'm very much looking forward to his first apology because nobody apologizes for things like Urban Meyer does because he's a big time, I'm sorry that you're asking me to apologize. That's like his statement that he'll release whenever he needs to say, I'm sorry for something.
I'm also very much looking forward to Urban Meyer trying to figure out how to navigate a system where he isn't Mr. Urban Meyer,-all be-all of everything.
Because he still doesn't have personnel, say. At the end of the day, that's going to come down to the Khans.
The Sean Khan, yeah. Who own the team.
They've got a bigger boat than he does probably. Fact.
Urban Meyer is going to have to learn how to be second banana. I don't think that's in his system.
Urban Meyer, I don't think he'll last longer than three years in the NFL. I think it's three and a half.
Three and a half is the over-under. Yeah, well, you've got to put like quarter year, like three years and five weeks.
Three years, and then after a prime time loss to the Falcons. Right.
And it's going to be great to watch Urban Meyer interact with other coaches. That will be funny.
Because he'll be hoping for the respect that he was getting as a college coach. Right.
Where he's like multiple championship winner, Urban Meyer. He is good friends with Bill Belichick, I think, but I don't think anyone else is going to be like, hey, Urban, you're the best.
Yeah. He's never coaching the pros.
It just makes football more interesting, though. Urban Meyer being in the pros definitely adds a little something interesting.
Brian Dable just got – or sorry, not Brian Dable. Brandon Staley got hired by the Chargers.
We thought it was going to be Brian Dable, but it was – I guess they're going the defense route. He doesn't have to move across the country.
I like that hire just because I just assume if you work for Sean McVay and Sean McVay plucked you out that you probably have the brains to do it. What are they going to do on the offensive side? Who cares? They're going to have to hire Brian Dable.
I was going to say Schottenheimer. Get Schottenheimer down there.
Yeah. I mean, it's funny because the Seahawks fired him because Pete Carroll was like, we need to reestablish the run.
And someone needs to take the blame. I'm going to be establishing the fuck out of the run now that I don't have an offensive coordinator who tries to tell me to let Russ cook all the time.
Right. So if you want to get Herbert throwing the ball more often, which I don't know if that's even going to be possible, he's the guy that you want down there.
So they might go that route. But yeah, I don't mind going with a defensive guy when everybody else goes off.
Yeah, a little zig and zag. Because eventually the guy that zags is going to be right.
Yes, I agree. And then Dan Campbell, maybe.
Dan Talica, maybe the Lions head coach, which will be hilarious because Dan Talica, greatest power stance of all time, kind of like we made fun of him as the interim head coach. By all everyone loves him and says he's like a phenomenal uh locker room guy coaching coach but there is something funny about the fact that dan talica will 100 do the oklahoma drill which is what matt patricia did his first day as the lions head coach yeah so so dan campbell he's the world's biggest metallica fan when he took over as interim head coach in Miami, it was Miami, right? Yeah.
He had all the players put on black jerseys because he fucking loves Metallica. And they blasted Metallica at practice.
He would get into shoving matches with his players during practice. They built the entire plane out of the interim head coach.
I'm excited to see what happens because they're going with the mindset of like, we tried hiring a rocket scientist.

Now we're going to hire the guy that kicked his ass in high school.

Yeah, the meathead.

And Dan Talica is a meathead, and I fucking love him for it.

And then the Texans.

Oh, I guess Robert Sala to the Jets.

I got nothing on that.

Seems like a good hire.

That might be the Zag hire.

That seems like a really good hire.

So that does seem like, and it's funny because he has to say that he, like,

Thank you. That might be the Zag hire that works.
That seems like a really good hire. So that does seem like...
And it's funny because he has to say that he likes Sam Darnold. We'll see how long that lasts.
He has to say it. He's your only quarterback.
Yes, you can't say otherwise. But he's probably going to try to trade for him immediately.
Robert Sala also has one of the greatest holdback guys in all of sports. So I hope he's bringing that dude with him because that guy had a radar lock on his belt.
He's the same thing with Brandon Staley. Like if you worked for Kyle Shanahan or Sean McVay, I just assume that you probably have some smarts to you.
Yes. Yeah.
That's just kind of... Put Robert Sala in the Ninja Turtle meme.
He's also another guy that surpassed McVay. And then the Houston Texans, who have had probably the worst week of any of the NFL teams.
That's including teams that lost in the playoffs. Deshaun Watson definitely wants out.
I read an article. They essentially got hijacked by a chaplain.
Jack Easterby, he went into the office and made mcnare cal mcnare pray with him they pray for for his own future to find a good head coach yes it's crazy it's i it made me feel a little bit better about how dysfunctional the bears are the fact that the texans are being they essentially like the the owner got got duped by a guy who's, like, reading palms and being like, hey, here's what our future tells us. This makes me feel.
Maybe I should coach. Yeah.
Me, Jack Easterby. It makes me feel awesome about rooting for a franchise whose owner is so clearly aligned with Satan that he would never bring a dude in to, like, pray to God.
It's crazy. It is nuts.
So Jack Easterby is essentially making the McNair family pray with him for his own success. It's crazy.
And then, guess what? If you fire Jack Easterby after that prayer, you're spitting on God. Yep.
You get whatever bad things. You fired God.
You fired God. You can't do that.
I'm Jack Easterby. You don't fire God.
Holy shit. I mean, what a shit show.
Credit to Jack Easterby. Yeah.
This dude sounds like he's a little Rasputin type guy. Mm-hmm.
He's got a little bit of a hammer cock. And then I read an article about the Eagles who are going to have to hire someone, and it all kind of made sense because Howie Roseman has a fathead of Carson Wentz in his office.
That's got to be an interesting interview. It essentially was like he essentially has just been like, yeah, Carson Wentz is the best quarterback of all time, even though he hasn't won a play.
He's played like six snaps in the playoffs. There was one line in it.
There was like, Howie Roseman treats Carson Wentz like he won that Super Bowl. Yeah.
It's like, well, that's a problem. Yeah.
So they chose him. I heard that Josh McDaniels was interviewing like all day today in Philly.
In Philly. That must be a strange thing to walk in, sit down.
There's a fathead of Carson Wentz. Carson Wentz.
And the owner goes, so what would your plans be for our offense next year? What do you think about the quarterback situation? Josh McDaniels is probably, if the interview lasts so long, he's probably put a chloroform rag in their face and then has been trying to laser off all the Carson Wentz tattoos off of Howie Roseman. He's like, hey, so Josh, you've worked a lot in offensive football.
How good do you think you can make Carson Wentz? Now, mind you, he is already incredible. But yeah, talk to me about that.
How many more Super Bowls do you think you can get Carson Wentz? Carson Wentz already has one Super Bowl, so you think he had three? He'd probably be elite if he – he pretty much won an MVP. So how many more do you think he could put in his trophy case? It was crazy.
Carson Wentz is probably in the interview. Yes.
He's probably sitting behind Josh McTagney. He's like, eh, wrong answer.
I don't want to run that play. God.
Oh, man. Dysfunction everywhere.
All right, let's do football guy of the week. Oh, what were you going to say? I was going to say, going back real quick to the Texans thing.
Yeah. Stay very well, because isn't like Nick Cassero, he's their new GM? Yes.
I feel like the Texans are just hiring as many people as they can. Well, that was part of it, too.
They hired so many people that just work in the front office. you can't blame me jack easterby well they they also hired a search firm for their gm and then nick casario wasn't like the search firm didn't interview nick casario jack easterby just went and hired him yeah it's crazy so i've been hijacked it's fucking crazy the casario thing seems like a big time belichick ernie adams operation where like we're going to send Casario down there, and then he's going to trade us to Sean Watson for like a fifth-round pick.
Right, right, right. And then he'll come back in two years when he fails.
Yep. Yes.
Okay, let's do Football Guy of the Week, and then we will wrap up with who's back of the week. Jake, Football Guy of the Week via Billy? Via Billy, yes.
Billy is doing a good job with this. First up, I guess former slash current Chiefs player Lauren DuVernay Tardif, who I believe is sitting out due to COVID.
Dr. Tardif.
Yes. He was lifting in the snow while on the front lines with first responders.
Oh, okay. Okay, staying in football guy shape.
Yes. Greg Roman from the Ravens, bringing the perfect buzz concoction up to the booth.
He had the dip up in the booth. NBC called it.
This is Billy's. Yeah, Billy just being like, oh, killing tobacco.
Billy just didn't do his job. Yeah, football guy.
Wow, he dips. I do like the bench pressing out on the front lines.
This is right when I figured. I figured Billy had a good first football guy of the week, and then it would just start to trail off.
Wade Phillips, who tweeted, I am ready to retire from retirement. I am ready and available.
Let's win. Okay.
Okay, so the guy asked me for a job. And for the record, I would hire him.
He has ruined football guy of the week. Okay.
And then lastly, Cole Beasley, who said, When I had to watch week 17, it tore me up. I told him there was no way I was watching another game.
The pain I felt watching that game mentally was worse than any pain I was going to feel physically. Yeah, okay.
That's not bad. Let's get halfway there.
All right. Good job, Billy.
It's just like if Billy wrote a book about himself, like a fantasy book of Billy succeeding at the highest levels of athletics that he wanted to, he would include all these little anecdotes as something that he does. He also just didn't have enough and then was watching football on Saturday night.
Is that guy dipping? He did ask me for a few. Yeah, of course.
Hashtag football guy and said I'm like four. Yeah.
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Okay, let's wrap up. We got who's back of the week.
Hank.

Got a couple.

First one, Max Holloway.

He won a fight on Saturday night.

On ABC, yeah.

On ABC, he was talking shit to Dana White mid-fight while throwing combinations.

It was like one of the cockiest fighter moves I've ever seen.

That's beautiful to see.

Somehow not as cocky as the other time that he fought when he was giving the guy instructions

during the fight while beating his ass. I mean, this was crazy.
He was literally like, he was no-look punching, essentially. He would go nuts if Patrick Mahomes did that.
Right, exactly. Now that he was back the week is James Harden.
Max Heffer does it and no one says anything. Yeah, and Max Hollywood never get choked out.
And McGregor's fighting this week, so just big week for the UFC. Choked out from the back of his neck.
Oh, my God. It was a glancing blow to his neck.
Unbelievable. It's actually his shoulder, not his neck.
And James Harnsback had a triple-double in his first game with the Nets. Looks skinny as shit.
Oh, my God. Now, I saw this, and people were roasting roasting it and I was shocked as well.
Roasting what? Well, so he was very fat like three days ago. New bod.
And then he was very skinny. I can understand it.
It happens. Water weight.
Not to that extent. He was just wearing, it was really just, the red is not a slimming color because anytime you see a guy in red, it's like, oh, that's a Kool-Aid man.
Yeah, if you wear a shirt that's too tight, things can look really, really bad. So it was so funny, though.
It was so fucking funny. The fact that he's on the Nets now, the Nets are going to be fun to watch.
It's great. I do have a couple of theories about him.
One was that he was wearing some sort of like vest. Some sort of weight bearing vest.
It's layers, dude. He had like nine wife beaters on underneath his jersey.
That's actually a possibility. Remember? That might have happened.
Remember the NLCS 2015 when I got fucking roasted? Layers. And I was like, dude, it's layers.
And people were like, dude, what are you talking about layers? Like, I was wearing 17 shirts. That can happen.
So I'm in on that. So the other theory I have is that he's got a twin brother.
I think he just might have a fat twin. And he was like, hey, I need to get out of Houston.
You mind stepping in my uniform and absolutely suck? Go out there and try your hardest. Yeah.
And it'll look like I really, really suck. It's also, he can deceptively change how people see him because he's got the beard like you can always tell when someone's had a rough weekend from their face you can't tell with james harden's face yeah so if he sticks his gut out a little bit like i bet you if he had shaved if he had a shaved beard i bet you we wouldn't be thinking like oh my god he lost all that weight he probably looks about the same he whatever happened like the black shirt between four weeks ago and today there's something like you might have just drank a shitload of that diarrhea tea he might also just like i as someone whose body uh reacts poorly to carbohydrates like if i if i go two days without eating carbs i do look five pounds lighter do you think that easy do you think that maybe if it is twin theory, that was his twin in the playoff game that came out there that one really weird time.
He also likes to do drugs. I think that he's got just like a fat slob of a twin brother that he just puts in for himself, like the copy of the copy from Multiplicity.
He's like, when I need to really fuck something up. Played like it, yeah.
Better call this guy. Yeah, such a funny – I mean, the whole – we win.
We win. Yes.

The viewers win.

All right, who's your who's back, PFT?

My who's back of the week is Deshaun Watson photoshops.

Every team has them.

Every team.

So I don't care who you are unless you're like –

Again, the Bears were the first.

Unless you're one of the top five quarterback-led teams in the NFL,

there's a Deshaun Watson photoshop.

And there probably is. Actually, those are the ones I haven't seen.
I haven't seen a Chiefs one yet. I haven't seen a Bills one yet.
I haven't seen a Packers one. I would like to see those franchises get involved in the sweepstakes because the Photoshop's, they make me feel alive.
It's great looking at a Photoshop of a player in a jersey that's not the current one that he's wearing because it's like, hey, this could be new. This is cool.
This could be changed. This is different.
But I fucking love the Deshaun Watson Photoshop. I hope that he chooses where he goes based strictly on which Photoshop is the best.
Yeah. Give him everything.
My other who's back of the week is horny Darren Revelle. Actually, no.
I'm going to put him as our podcast Baby Braun of the Week. Oh, my God.

Baby Ravel is our Baby Braun of the Week.

He put up this Instagram story on Friday, I believe.

It's a picture of him as a three-year-old with his arm around a three-year-old girl,

and he just looks like a pimp.

I'm just going to call it as I see it.

Darren is a boss.

He's a fucking pimp in this picture.

He says, older throwback, January 1982.

I was three.

I always loved girls.

Never thought they were disgusting.

This was my friend Leslie at the pool at Woodmont Country Club in Tarmac, Florida.

I need help finding her to catch up.

Guessing she's 45 now.

So, Leslie, if you're out there.

God damn it, man.

This could be a nice love connection, a nice sleepless in Seattle moment. Leslie, you remember that three-year-old that just rocked your world from the pool? Because he thought you didn't have cooties? Yeah, the guy who didn't even need to wear floaties in the shallow end.
That guy is on the prowl right now. And he is a sports business reporter, as if you needed another reason to get back with him.
Sports gambling reporter now. Oh, excuse me.
Yeah, really good at that. He's got a lot of cards.
He's just... This actually is...
I would throw this in the positive for Revell because he... So Revell does...
No, hear me out. Hear me out.
Revell does things that are so fucking stupid and annoying that you're like, this guy can't be real. And then he does something like this and you're like, oh, he really isn't real.
Because he thinks that was normal. And he's like, he doesn't think what he was doing was creepy.
Yeah. So it almost helps him in a backwards way because you're like, okay, his brain is broken.
You know what I mean? Like if he. Like it's not his fault.
Right. It's Right, it's not his fault.
He does this every now and then where it's like, you know what? Hand up. That was even for you, Darren.
That was so ridiculous and stupid and out of control, and you defended it, so now I can't even be mad at you because it's so crazy. It's crazy in a way that is, it makes it a legally sound setup for if he ever has to plead insanity he can point back to this i was talking and then they're like yeah he's like hey uh well your honor may i submit exhibit a and it's just a picture of darren revell trying to get with a girl that he thinks aged well from the age of three right he's like she was hot for your honor you have to admit yes for a three-year-old when i was a three-year-old mind you mind you i i liked girls even back then so not afraid of them yeah the it's just you know what i mean though when he does this and then he doubles down and he defends it when everyone's like hey man that's kind of weird it actually makes me like okay let's lay off ravelle because it's like it's such a lost cause you know you can't explain this to him.
You kind of sound like a beta, right? You sound like a guy that thought girls were disgusting. No, I honestly sound like a guy who's just given up on.
I'm so exhausted by him. His personality is exhausting.
I wouldn't be here without him. True.
It's true. He's just an exhausting.
For a guy I don't have any real interaction with, he's an exhausting personality. Imagine being Leslie right now.
If you see if you if you get a phone call from darren revell and he's like hey hey leslie you probably already know this from the sound of my voice but it's me darren from the kiddie pool remember me i was three wasn't afraid to talk to you oh my god what would they even talk about divorce her husband immediately and get taken on a wild ride by the d-man oh he's the worst uh my who's back of the week is um well i have a goatee so goatees are back officially i feel like i should be driving a miata and you're a braves relief pitcher from 1997 not paying child support yeah that's that's the vibe i feel right now you can make all those things happen. I could.
I could buy a Miata and be out of my son's life if I wanted to. Yeah.
I mean, the Hisco T sticks longer. The Van Dyke is your first step on that.
Feels good. All right, Jake, end us with the who's back.
Average Joes. Because Mike LaFleur was hired by the Jets.
Everyone's on Twitter is making the same joke about Mike LaFleur, Adam LaFleur, and Peter LaFleur from Dodgeball. Oh, got it.
Oh, we didn't even say Arthur Smith got hired by the Felt. Oh, yeah.
They got two Arthurs. Dude, he's got no neck.
No neck. They found the best picture of him, and it was the worst picture I've ever seen.
He looks like fat Nicolas Cage. It's great.
It's fucking great. It's a wonderful hire, I think.
No, no neck is definitely a good hire. Who knows? If your football coach has no neck, that's a good hire.
And his dad is richer than Arthur Blank, which is crazy. His dad can boss around his boss.
I meant Matt LaFleur, not Adam. No, that's okay.
We got it. It was a mistake.
A huge one. I corrected myself.
Well, but I mean, you know what? This is what happens. Billy doesn't show up one time, and then Jake just lets everything.
You got too comfortable, Jake. Kind of ruined the show.
It was a great show up until this point. That's why we had Billy around, was to make you feel like he could take your job at any second.
All right, 100. 18.
Eight. I hope we get it without four.
He has 21. What did you guys guess? Eight.
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47. God damn it.
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Did you know that squirrels actually, when they have nuts in their mouth... It would take a swarm of about 1.1 million mosquitoes sucking at the same time to drain all the blood from an adult human.
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