Coach O, The Falcons Won A Game, And NFL Week 8 Preview

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Today is Friday, October 30th, and the Falcons won a football game. How about that? It looked like they weren't going to.
Yeah, I mean, they tried their very best to give it away. Todd Gurley ran out of bounds when he should have stayed in bounds.
A little Marion Barber-esque on his part right there. Don't say that.
It looked like they were doing everything possible to give it away again, but their defense ended up making a play. And what was that guy's name? Is his name Bloody? Yeah, I don't know.
It was kind of a weird game, too, with the sideways rain. But the Falcons did it.
And P.J. Walker appearance and Teddy Bridgewater getting absolutely smoked.
I wouldn't say great game, but it was a game. We're actually time traveling right now.
So we are recording on Zoom for the first five minutes of the show. Then we're going to get to our NFL preview and everything.
But we knew that if the Falcons won this game, we were always going to watch the game and then record something after. But especially if the Falcons actually won the game.
And I have a theory, PFT. As soon as the internet catches on to something, that's when it's done.
And if you watch the timeline and everyone talking in the fourth quarter they're like how are the falcons gonna blow this right falcons aren't gonna blow any more games now falcons might even go on a run because as soon as everyone starts figuring it out and making the same joke it's like all right this is over like there's no chance that the falcons are gonna lose this game i don't think it was the internet I think it was a good like canary in a coal mine is figuring out once Troy Aikman starts getting in on the joke yes at that point it becomes like it's over like I was tweeting out some of the win probabilities just because I love the Falcons win probabilities to me those are still fair game when they get up into the like 94 95 96 percentile and then watching them come back to earth like they always do but once Troy starts making little comments like and if you're a Falcons fan I don't know if you're feeling comfortable right now no matter heck you could have a 10 15 point lead once Troy starts getting those like little jokes off his chest uh then you know that something has been running to the ground pretty far and then it didn't help that Arthur Blank went down to the sidelines again. Yes.
If you're a Falcons player, that has got to piss you off. Like you don't want, no one wants their boss standing next to them, watching them work or Arthur blank prowling around like, like a cat that walks into its owner's like bedroom when they're sexting somebody, just staring at him.
Like, what are you doing? What are you doing? It's gotta be annoying as be annoying as fuck yes it does like like staring at your computer screen where you're where you're always like on edge being like oh my god someone's gonna look at my computer screen i'm not doing work i'm more i'm on like a fake excel spreadsheet that's arthur blank but yeah the you're right the troy aikman getting in on it it just it just felt like that like it's that. Like, it can never last forever, right? Like, the Falcons have already defied all statistics and probability.
So, of course, they would have a game where, like, even they gave you the tickle where they missed the extra point, so it's an eight-point game. We were like, oh, it's only a one-possession game.
But still, I like – I mean, I bet on the Panthers and teddy bridgewriters going down the field i'm like i don't think they're gonna get it because the falcons like they can't keep losing like this every single week eventually has to stop and eventually it's gonna stop when everyone catches on to it right but let's not act like the falcons streak of losing games and heartbreakers is over for good like are you saying that the falcon maybe they are maybe the falcons are going to go undefeated from here on out it was just like it was too good to be true for it to happen in a prime time game and keep this streak going intact like don't get me wrong atlanta is going to get back to their own ways yes oh they will but i don't know if they'll ever get back to like the full-on full-on that the streak that they've had where it's like what was the stat we found the three the three games uh to start the season where they had 98 win percentage i or win probability they're gonna take a break a small break from that they're still the falcons you're absolutely right but they're gonna take a small break from that to give it a rest to like lull people back in because that's really what it comes down to is the reason why the Falcons were so exceptional in their heartbreak is that you didn't – you saw it coming, but you didn't fully see it coming. You know what I mean? Like even the Cowboys game, you're like, no, they can't actually blow this, right? Like the Todd Gurley game like last week, they can't actually blow this.
Now that everyone's like, oh, they can actually blow this, the heartbreak wouldn't be the same if they did in fact blow it. I would actually say that the reason that the Falcons didn't blow this game is because it would have been too normal of a game for a football team to blow.
Like the big headline in the heartbreak tomorrow morning would have been Falcons give up 95

yard drive with three minutes left to have the game tied and then lose in overtime.

That's a pretty normal headline for a Falcons loss.

That's too normal, actually.

In order for it to be like a real heartbreak, it would have been like the Cowboys game or

like the Lions game where they lose in some weird fucked up way that jigsaw himself could not have come up with yes yes and the same goes for which we have done on this show respecting teddy bridgewater i think maybe we've respected teddy bridgewater too much that we have to start disrespecting him again so that he can start playing well again and his offensive line was bad tonight and they actually made the falcons defense look like somewhat competent which is incredible in its own right but teddy bridgewater is the same thing where it's like he's got to fly a little more under the radar for him to actually outperform our expectations like we're starting to put some expectations on teddy bridgewater that's not where he wants to be well let's let's start doing that let's disrespect teddy bridgewater respectfully let's neg respectfully respectfully teddy you take a lot of sacks and when you take sacks your pads make a really loud crunchy sound and you right and uh let's see respectfully what else i mean he yeah he wasn't great tonight. He wasn't so, so bad, but he was definitely – he missed some open guys.

And, like, even Troy Aikman kept on saying, like,

why is DJ Moore just not getting past the ball ever?

And there was just some weird stuff.

I don't know.

It was a game.

I don't really know what else to say besides it was a game.

It was football.

It was football.

Respectfully, Teddy, your head bobbles around side to side when you run a lot. Yes.
Yes. That's true.
That, too. That, too.
Billy, do you have any thoughts on the game before we get to – oh, we didn't get Billy. We didn't get your berserker parlay.
You want to give it to us real quick? Well, you know who had the Falcons? Nostradamus the Hedgehog. Yeah, so what's his record now? It's 13-3 now.
Jesus Christ. Do you want to hear his picks for the rest of the weekend? He has Detroit plus three, Browns minus two and a half, Bills minus four, Steelers plus four, Seahawks minus three, Bengals plus five and a half half and then I'm calling this the Bill de Blasio you parlay the Giants and the Jets and it's got like an insane payout so I'm definitely throwing five bucks on that on the odd chance it's a lot of tickets we saw it's one dollar that pays out 69 so suck it de Blasio Yeah, actually.
Perfect. And I think Todd Gurley is a Russian agent.
He's sabotaging from the inside. Let's just take that one in there.
Yeah, yeah, just slip it right in there. Why is he Russian agent? Because he's just sabotaging the Falcons.
There you go. Just a spot.
I mean, also from Russia. Got it.
Yeah. We don't need anything more besides that.
That's good enough for me. All right.
Thank you, Billy. So is that it? And that's, that's pretty much everything we had from Thursday night football.
Trevor Lawrence got the cocoa. Oh yeah.
Trevor Lawrence did get the cocoa. He probably was hanging out with the Wisconsin team.
I'm not mad about everyone victim shaming cocoa, but yes, I blame you and Coach Chris. He didn't follow the guidelines, guys.
He didn't follow the guidelines. The guidelines could easily keep him from getting it.
I do think it's a little odd that much like Cam Newton was the only person on the Patriots that really came down with it. Nobody else on Clemson is coming down with it.
I you have to question his leadership. Yeah, Stephon Gilmore did have the Coco as well.
He got it later. And a couple other people had it.
You have to question the leadership if nobody else has it. But I did read that he lives by himself off campus.
Well, yeah. That's weird.
He's engaged, I think. So it's not that weird if you put that in there.
If that fact in there, he probably lives with his fiance. I would imagine.
Well, maybe not because I think he's a traditionalist, so he's probably waiting until marriage. But either way, I will never, ever blame any of these kids for getting coronavirus because the whole thing is just so stupid.
Like, I still can't. Of course it's's gonna happen if you send kids to a college campus and be like don't go outside wear a mask please be safe okay they're 20 years old all they want to do is drink and fuck right did they disinfect the rock every time somebody touched it that one rock that everybody touches on the town yeah which is no offense to clemson but a lot smaller than I thought.
Like, I thought that rock was a lot bigger. No, like I've said about Clemson, it's two gas stations and a rock.
That's all you get in South Carolina. Maybe one of the gas stations has, like, decent barbecue, but everyone thinks of it as, like, the good barbecue place because it's better than the other gas stations.
Yes. That's what you get in Clemson.
Also, I want to give a shout out just to college football fans in general for being very good at immediately jumping to the conclusion of how is playing a Trevor Lawrence-less Clemson team going to affect our strength of schedule when it comes down to the coaches' ranks. So, like, Notre Dame fans, Boston College fans, you name it.
They're all, like, they're sitting're sitting down being like wait how badly is this going to affect us if we beat them without him on the team without even taking into account that the backup at Clemson is a fucking monster he's a five star he hasn't really um his it hasn't been great when he's been in but he's playing with with backups as well so and they're probably not like running a full offense you know he went in against citadel i my favorite thing too is um in the in the age of coronavirus and like the crazy gambling world uh people just trying to chase the news i feel like it never works out if you if you immediately bet boston college for Saturday, Clemson's now going to win by like 55 instead of 45. And so like, it will just blow up in your face.
I just chasing it. It just never works for some reason.
You just can't like, whenever you think you got a beat on it, you just don't. I wish that we had, we had Jake on this call right now to teach us how to pronounce their backup quarterback's name.
I think, isn't it what, like, Travis Etienne is his name. He's going to run the ball like 45 times.
I think it's Wigalele. DJ Wigalele, which is an all-time name.
That's a great name. That's one that you know that the announcers are going to spend overtime, like learning how to pronounce before Saturday.
Yes, yes. All right, let's time travel to our NFL preview before we do that.
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So we have time traveled. We're back in studio.
We just watched Thursday Night Football. You heard the intro.
You heard us talk, discuss it. We're going to do our weekend preview week eight.
You can tell we're back in the studio because the ambulance sirens are still going on outside two and a half years later. Yep, exactly.
Thank you, Pete. So we're going to do a week eight NFL preview.
And bonus, bonus, Hank is going to try to seamlessly work in a real play bar stool ad. So he has to do it in conversation.
In a normal way. That's all he's got to do.

Yeah, just try to figure out a way.

It's going to be 8 for 8. It's only 8 games you have to

pick this week. So only 8 games you have to pick this

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and then you get Monday Night Football correct, you get

$25,000. This week only.

This week only, but... Did Hank

just incept you into working it in

to the natural conversation? No, I'm being a nice guy.

He's got to now work it in

naturally and people

will rate it afterwards. I think he just incepted you.
People will

Thank you. Hank just incepts you into working it into the natural conversation.
I'm being a nice guy. He's got to now work it in naturally, and people will rate it afterwards.

People will rate it afterwards whether it was natural or not, okay?

Hank, also, since we're handing out compliments because it's positive vibes only,

thank you for wearing appropriate pants today.

Thank you, and your glasses look great.

Well, my head hurts.

We'll get to it on the fire fest, but my head hurts a lot.

So, hey, Bill, you okay?

You set up.

Those are some nice glasses. Thank you.

My head hurts.

You look like if Clark Kent was a barista. I like the glasses.
This is, we're compliments.

Oh, yeah, this is compliments. Okay.
Alright, alright.

DFT tried to just roast me. No, it's

a turtle shell. Dude, Clark Kent,

Superman. Yeah, you would know.

Animal fucker. Whoa.

Compliments.

Whoa.

Animal lover.

Sorry, animal lover.

You look pretty academic.

Let's talk some football.

Let's talk some week eight.

A great slate.

Yeah, I'm going to say it.

It's a great slate.

We got some old school rivalries.

We got some new school rivalries.

We got a couple games where it's basically going to decide a team's season. What I really like about the afternoon slate is that, yes, it's only three games, but it's a good three games where you've got your two primary ones that you're going to be watching, and then your third that's just kind of humming in the background that maybe you bet the over on.
You don't really have to pay attention to the Chargers-Broncos matchup. Correct.
It's just kind of going to be there. And maybe you don't have to pay attention to Bear Saints, depending on how it goes.
All right. Let's do it.
Hank, let's start with your team. Patriots-Bills is the first game up.
This is the season for the Patriots. Would you not say? I would say that many people are already going to the spin zone of the Patriots are actively tanking right now.
Some are saying that. Julian Edelman, it just got announced today.
He's out. Oh.
So according to Adam Schefter. So they should just run Army's offense.
Yes, they should. They should do the straight up like we're going to pass the ball maybe three times this game.
In Adam Schefter's terminology, Edelman had standard precautionary knee surgery today, like we've all had. Just a little preemptive, just like go in there and clean it out for a little bit.

Yeah, I love the minor surgery.

There is no minor surgery.

It's like I had exploratory Jones fracture surgery on my foot.

Just cleaned up the knee.

Yeah, just got a little knee issue cleaned up.

So, yeah, Edelman's out.

They don't have anybody on offense whatsoever playing.

They can catch a ball.

I don't even know, like, who are the Patriots' tight ends?

Is that Izzo?

Is Lizzo their tight end? I actually think they might run the Army offense. Because, I mean, this is, you know.
And then we'll have some unbelievable story about how Bill Belichick learned all this by watching it on his parents' refrigerator with his dad. Because his dad coached at Navy.
I'm not sure if you knew that. So, I wouldn't be shocked if Ernie Adams has the triple option ready to go.
They should just try to run lacrosse plays. Yeah.
Just substitute for a football base. We can see if it works out.
So this is actually kind of a duel must win because the Patriots must win because their season's on the line. And the Bills, if the Bills lose to this version of the Patriots, the boogeyman is just, they're never going to beat the boogeyman.
But then it's like a double-edged sword. If Josh Allen does take the Bills and whomp the Patriots this weekend, it's still kind of an asterisk whomping.
It's like you haven't beaten the real Patriots. Right, right.
This is the Patriots at half-mast. So I don't know.
This game has me all type of confused, but I'm excited for it just because I feel like this is an answer game. You'll get some answers from this game.
You get some answers on what's going to happen for the rest of the season. The Patriots might legitimately suck.
Yeah. You'll get an answer.
The Bills might legitimately not be a contender. You'll get an answer.
I hope it's going to be cold. That's all I hope.
Yeah. I want to see some breath.
I want to see breath coming through the face masks. Not going to happen.
And I want to see the players take their helmets off and the heads start to steam. 52 and rainy.
Shit. All right, Titans, Bengals.
Titans are going to kill the Bengals, and then everyone's going to be like, why'd you dunk the Titans, bro? That's true. That's a fact.
As a noted Titans respecter, I'm going to say I called this last week already. It's going to be a Whomping.
Yeah. What's up with whomping? I don't know.
I said whomping a couple times. It felt good.
What is up with that? Just whomp them. Yeah, the Titans I don't...
I'm going to stay exactly where I'm at with the Titans. I think they're a good team not a great team.
Alright, Raiders, Browns I love the Raiders in this game. Love, love, love them.
Love them. So, we are right in the middle of the takes of are the Browns better without Odell Beckham.
I don't even know if it's a take anymore. I think that they kind of are.
I've heard it so much. I've convinced myself that it's true.
It's called forcing the ball. That Baker is a better quarterback without Odell Beckham.
Yes. Yes, they try to force the ball to Odell, and now Baker doesn't have to worry about that, and he can spread the ball around.

So this take, I feel like we get this take every now and then,

and it works for about a week, and then it will fall apart because then you realize, oh, it's probably easier to defend the Browns

when Odell Beckham's not on the field.

Oh, this all became a little bit easier to do,

so Baker's going to struggle after that.

But this week, maybe.

I like the Raiders in a bounce-back spot.

The only, yeah, I think I like the over.

I don't know who Baker's going to struggle after that. But this week, maybe.
I like the Raiders in a bounce-back spot. The only, yeah,

I think I like the over. I don't know who I'm

going to take if I'm betting on one team or another,

but John Gruden said,

as an organization, we are on the cutting edge of

beating the virus entirely.

So keep your eye on that.

They're going to get a vaccine? I think the Raiders

have gone full-on herd immunity

right now. They're probably just drinking Mark Davis'

blood. That's it, yeah.

Well, he is a bat. He's basically Thank you.
They're going to get a vaccine? I think the Raiders have gone full-on herd immunity right now. They're probably just drinking Mark Davis's blood.

That's it, yeah.

Yeah.

Well, he is a bat.

Yeah.

He's basically...

I bet you Mark Davis has like six forms of COVID circulating through his system right

now that haven't been discovered yet.

Hank, thoughts?

Want to work anything in?

No.

Okay.

Okay.

All right.

Next up, Colts-Lions.

Lions' itty-bitty little baby run could keep going here. I actually like them against the Colts.
I don't know. Something about the Lions.
They're just frisky every now and then. I think that this is going to be a points factor.
I think there's going to be a shitload of them left out on the field. Left out on them? No, on the score.
They're going to light up the scoreboard. Oh, I thought you meant you're going to walk away and be like, man, how do they not score more? No, left above the field on the scoreboard.
Got it. So, yeah, I think there's going to be a shitload of points.
A lot of offense in this game. I am starting to doubt the Colts.
Yeah, why wouldn't you? I feel like it because they've had a couple games where they've looked awesome and they've had a couple games where they look really, really stinky. And I keep, like in my brain, I keep assuming that the good version of the Colts will come out there every weekend.
But I've reached the point where now I'm not expecting the good version. So the teams they have looked awesome against, the Vikings, the Jets, and I don't even know if you want to consider them looking awesome against the Bears.
That game was terrible, but you could throw that in there. Those aren't exactly murderers.
That's not exactly the best teams out there. Well, the Lions aren't exactly Super Bowl.
No, but I would say the Lions are better than the Vikings and the Jets. So we'll see.
We will see. And the Lions are playing good ball.
You know what this is? Itty bitty baby run. This is are we sure they're bad? Yes.
Colts and the Lions. Whoever loses this.
Officially bad. Although I'll stick with my Lions baby run.
All right. Next up we have Vikings Packers.
Thank you everyone who tweeted us. The Packers have lost six times in a row on Daylight Savings Weekend, which I've heard is this weekend fall forward, set your clocks forward.
You said that every weekend, Big Cat. I was wrong.
It's this weekend fall forward, set your clocks forward. At 2 o'clock, you're setting your clock to 3? Yep, absolutely.
Is that how it works? Yeah, we're jumping forward. It's like you can think of it this way.
It's like Lombardi time or Coughlin time, except with a full hour. Okay.
If you're 15 minutes early, you're still 45 minutes late. Perfect.
So fall forward this weekend. Get ready for it.
No, I'm telling you. That's fine.
Don't set your clock and be late for work on Sunday. Yeah.
Go ahead and do that. Try me.
If you are every Sunday. I wish you would.
Yeah. Wait.
Now, are the Packers, are they 0-6 straight up or 0-6 against the spread? I think 0-6 straight up. I thought it was against the spread.
I don't know. What is it, Jake? Find it.
Find them last time fall forward happened. What happened in the game? Aaron Rodgers doesn't do well with clock shifting.
Something about the crystals that Danica would keep on the bedside table threw off his whole energy. So you've got to take the Vikings against the spread.
Speaking of this game, the Vikings are 1-5 in their last six games. Hold on, Hank.
That's probably not good for them. Playing football against the other team.
Okay. So you're probably going to want to take that stat into your Play Barstool app picks.
You would, yeah. Mike Zimmer? No.
I was just saying they're one in five. Mike Zimmer, do you think he's ever gotten hot sauce in his eye? You think that's the reason for one of his like 20 surgeries that he's had? I think he would just wheel the hot sauce.
His eye would just start to throb and slowly just squeeze the hot sauce out of itself. Cry it out real quick.
All right, Rams. Oh, no, sorry, Jets Chiefs.
So wait, are we going to trust the daylight savings thing? Yeah, I think we have to. Who am I to argue with the clock? Because I remember specifically we told a bunch of people to remind us this year, and I've had tweets all week being like, hey, this is your reminder.
So, yeah, I think you've got to take the Vikings' money line and plus seven. Well, so I'll put it to you this way.
We were so confident last year that it was going to happen again that we told people to remind us who we missed out on. Do we think that we got smarter over the course of last year? Because I think I got much dumber.
So I'm going to listen to what I had to say a year ago. Past us is way smarter than future us than we are right now.
We buried a time capsule for ourselves. Yes.
And the smarter version of ourselves has done that for us. We buried a time capsule in the internet.
Yeah. And it's awakening right now.
And it's slowly woken up and it's going to be right. I had a high thought like a week and a half ago about time capsules because I feel like we don't do time capsules anymore.
Maybe you do it back in elementary school where you like, I don't know, you bury your class gerbil or something like that along with your class picture. But has anybody ever thought of making a time capsule that's just completely bogus and incorrect? What do you mean? And like burying it way underground and hoping that like a thousand years from now somebody like retrieves this out of the ground.
I was like shit the buffalo bills won four straight super bowls between 1980 that's not what a time capsule is because like they would be able to look that up but no the time capsule is something that you can bury that someone will retrieve and that will be like their primary source of what happened back then right but that is something that could be proven wrong We never know. What if it's like 2,000 years from now? I think they'd still know the Bills didn't win a Super Bowl.
Do we know who the best? That's something that will forever be going on. Do we know who the best gladiators are from ancient Rome? Yeah.
I'm pretty sure we could look it up, right? Could we? Did they keep stats on that? Yeah, they recorded it. Yeah.
Maximus Aurelius. What I'm saying is like, why don't we we make a time capsule that's completely false? How, though? Just the fuck with...
I like the idea. I just don't know how we would make it false.
So we could have one that's like, yo, PFT was six foot four. Have some power rings.
No, they would know that. They would know that.
Yeah, that's going to go on. According to militaryhistory.org, Crixus.
Crixus? Number one. Flama number two.
Spartacus three.

Spartacus.

Coporus four. Spartacus was a fraud.
He was overrated. Total fraud.
He was a system gladiator. So, no, I like this idea.
We just got to figure out how to make it so that, like, it's not something people could look up. Or you just do a time capsule that's a short-term time capsule.
So, like, bury something right now for 10 years, but bury it all with stuff from, like, 1970s. We'll go rob Darren Revelle's basement, and we'll get all his fucking weird things that he's collected.
We'll bury that, and we'll be like, look at this. This is what life was like.
So then, since it's a high thought, we just get a really high guy to go unearth it, and he thinks he found something incredible. Okay.
It's just a prank on a high guy. Basically, we got to get somebody that's completely out of the loop on everything.
Correct. Like the most ignorant person in the world.
Okay, got it. Yeah.
Because otherwise, I think people would just be like, wait, none of this is right. Yeah, but if you target something like far enough in the future, you might be able to fool them on it.
Or the computers are going to get better. We could target an alien civilization.
That's true. We could just launch something into space.
All right. Jets Chiefs.
So we're taking the Vikings. Jets Chiefs.
Jets Chiefs, 21 was the opening spread for the Chiefs, minus 21. The last 13 times that this has happened, over 20-point spread, 3-10 is the favorite against the spread.
So you have to bet the Jets. So I wanted to bet the Chiefs when it was over 20 points.
That would be wrong. Now that it's under, I want to bet the Jets.
Does that make any sense to you? You went the wrong way. I know.

I absolutely did. But you know what I'm saying?

When you see 20, that's like a once-in-a-lifetime

opportunity. You want to

take that absurd number. Now that it's just a

normal 19.5 spread,

it doesn't have the same sex appeal to it.

It's such a big spread. Although,

Chris Jones did say that people forget the Jets

are a good football team.

They just haven't won a game yet.

Did he get that directly from Thank you. Such a big spread.
Although Chris Jones did say that people forget the Jets are a good football team.

They just haven't won a game yet.

Did he get that directly from Bill Belichick's mouth?

I think so, yeah.

I can't wait until Belichick plays the Jets and has to start complimenting them.

Oh, shit.

You know what I just realized?

This game is – if I'm Andy Reid, I'm pulling Patrick Mahomes at halftime

because Greg Williams will make his name off trying to injure a guy like Pat Mahomes. Does he have enough players to actually do that? I think Greg Williams could offer $10 million to his defense and be like, hey, don't let him score.
And guess what? They'll still score a million points. They can still score, but then they'll hit him after the fact.
But maybe this goes back to what you were talking about last week, which is defensive players don't really go at Patrick Mahomes the way they do at others. They don't.
I hope that Greg Williams has learned from his past mistakes. He absolutely has not, by the way.
No. But if I'm Andy Reid, I'm considering getting Patrick Mahomes.
Maybe after like the first quarter. Yes.
Don't even take him to New York. Just get him.
Oh, the game's in Kansas City. Do not take him to New York.
Don't take him to New York. Do not take Patrick Mahomes to New York.
Yes, because then he'll miss the game. Yes.
Well, maybe do take him to New York then. Keep him out of harm's way.
Yeah, just don't have him play. Or just like send his uniform.
You remember, was that last year that it took the Chiefs uniforms an extra half hour or 45 minutes before kickoff? Oh, yeah. To get up to the Meadowlands? Yeah.
Yeah. Just send Patrick Mahomes' jersey up to New York.
Rams-Dolphins. The Rams going to the East Coast.
Tua is officially starting. Very excited for Tua.
By the way, the Rams, you would think, we always love to do the West Coast to East Coast thing with the time change. But Sean McVay is 7-2 against the spread going to the East Coast.
Yeah. So he's a good coach.
He is. He can just beat body clocks.
I think I like Tua. I like Tua this weekend.
You don't? No, I just feel sad for Fitzpatrick still. I really do.
But he's going to be a great cheerleader on the sidelines.

I think also Aaron Donald's going to like.

The Dolphins' offensive line is not good.

They played better, but they're not good.

So then Tua's going to have to deal with that to start.

That sucks.

I don't know either.

The Rams are winning the Super Bowl.

The Rams are winning the Super Bowl? Yeah, I want it on the record. Really? Yeah.
Wow. But you don't like golf.
I love Jared Goff. No, you said you hated him.
Nope. One of my best friends in this world, one of my favorite athletes that's ever existed, ever played any sport ever.
You're just reading a script of what PFT and I have said. No, incorrect.
Okay. No, we like Jared.
You're the one who's always like, no, why do we have to have him back on the show? I watched Game of Thrones the last episode of his house. We're bonded for life after that.
That's true. Their defense is fucking nasty.
Jared has the experience. He's been there before.
This time he's going to get revenge. They're going to win the Super Bowl.
Who's their kicker, though? They don't even have a kicker right now. They have the best kicker in the league.
He does kick a ball. But they got rid of slow-mints.
I feel like they could if they needed him to. He definitely could kick field goals and be awesome at it.
They signed Kai Forbath last week. Alright, best 1 o'clock game.
Steelers, Ravens, these two teams. No love lost.
Throw out the record books when they get together. I love it.
I also... This is a big-time prove-it game.
Who's going to be the team that you think can go up against the Chiefs? Because the winner of this will definitely come away with some shine. You know what? If the Ravens beat the Steelers, you have to take the F-word off them.
No. You have to.
No. They're not losing the fraudulent tag if they beat your little pocket pussy, the Steelers, that you left the fuck? No.
No. No.
Why? That's kind of a fraud move on your part. No, I've said it.
They have to win a big game. They have to win a playoff game.
Lamar Jackson's 0-2 in the playoffs. This is a big game.
They have to win a playoff game. How does that not make any sense? This is also one of the two actual competitive games that the Steelers have left on their schedule.
I just want to say's a damn shame sorry that you don't like pittsburgh no that's very sad i do like no you can't like everyone you can't be like i like the ravens and the steel i can't say i think the steelers and the ravens are both good football no no no you tried to pin it on me that i'm i like the steelers which i do and then you were you're about to go against the steelers uh entire schedule which you So just say it. You want the Ravens to win.
You like the Ravens more than the Steelers. Pick a side.
Pick a side. I want this rivalry to be back on.
I put my fucking foot in the sand. I made a line.
I've told you who I think the frauds are. Pick a side.
You can't compliment every team. I will compliment the Steelers.
I will compliment the Ravens. That's sad.
I will compliment both of them at the same time.

I'm a fan of AFC North football.

Have an opinion. I'm a fan of AFC North

football. Have an opinion.
And I just say

I wish that this game was on at night.

This game should be taking place under

the lights where you get like one

new Raven that's got the reflective visor

that he's never worn before and Big Ben wearing

the long sleeves that he wears sometimes.

That's what I miss about this game. It's fine that it's on in the afternoon.
I'm just a fan of AFC North football. Have an opinion.
AFC North football. No.
Boom. That's bullshit.
Why is that bullshit? Because, just say, who do you think is the better team? Between these two, the Steelers. The Steelers are the better team.
All right. Okay.
Obviously, game to game, the Ravens can win and the Steelers can be the better team. No, I will say the Steelers, I think, are the better team.
I do too.

I absolutely think that.

But I also saw some Ravens fans being like,

how quickly can Marshall Yonda gain 60 pounds

so he can get back out there?

Because that's the biggest loss that they've had.

I'm excited.

This is going to be a great game.

You're right, though.

It should be a night game.

It absolutely should be a night game.

It feels different when it's in the mid-afternoon. And we have Eagles cowboys who the fuck cares about that game just flex that shit oh brutal yeah this should be at least an afternoon game at least all right afternoon games chargers broncos uh yeah yeah just this is my who cares game of the week yeah this is my background noise game of the Yeah, this is the game that you'll forget about in the afternoon.
They even started at the 405 spot, which is always the worst. This game never happened.
Yeah. Unless, I mean, it's two young guys that people get hyped about.
Just a couple young bros. Justin Herbert and Drew Locke.
Yeah, I will say that if Drew Locke has a great bounce back game, I'm going to care and I'm going to bring this up and I'm going to be like, I told you so. This guy had moxie.
All right. Saints-Bears.
You know what that is? What? That's a moxie off. Yes, it is.
Justin Herbert against Drew Locke. Absolutely.
Saints-Bears, I truly think the Bears are going to win, which is stupid. A little information for you.
Michael Thomas is back. He was reporting.
He's practicing today. Oh.
But in the Play Barstool app, it's because it's the Monday line, so it's two and a half. Or it was four and a half.
No, it's two and a half. Now it's four and a half Saints.
So if you think the Saints are going to win, you have even more chance in the Play Barstool app. Oh, look at that.
Good job, Hank. The line has moved so much.
Thank you. Oh, it moved so much since the Bears showing on Monday.
Michael Thomas has been announced.

They were two-and-a-half-point favorites in the Play Barstool app. Now they're four-and-a-half-point favorites.
So you have even more of an advantage to win. Value.
Value. We like to say value in the biz.
So does he hate his teammates or what? He hates one teammate. At least.
I think it's Sean Peay. Bare minimum one teammate.
He really strongly dislikes one person's jaw on the team. Correct.
Correct. So do you think – I feel like they're bringing him back and then they're going to try to trade him.
Maybe. Maybe.
That would be weird to bring him back for a game. Well, just to show that he's still okay.
He did have a legitimate injury. Yeah.
And then he punched someone in the face. He should just be on a live stream for 24 hours.
If he can make it an entire calendar day without attacking a teammate, then that's all we need to see. I believe that Kent Guard Mike is healthy.
I just think Drew Brees outside. First time the Saints are outside all year.
He seems like a guy that gets very cold. Very cold.
43 degrees. He's got iron deficiency.
Windy. Not good for arm strength.
It's Taysom Hill weather. Nick Foles.
The wind might even help Nick Foles bring those balls back where he overthrows everyone by 15 yards. You never know.
Maybe that's the key to the offense. Why not? Let me ask you this.
One really bad half from Nick Foles. Let's say he throws three interceptions in the first half.
Are we entertaining Mitch coming back? I would hope so, but I also know that Matt Nagy, I think, hates Mitch more than anyone in the world. I think that relationship is probably pretty much gone right now, right? Yeah, I'd say 100% gone.
And Matt Nagy and Nick Foles had, which is never a good sign, so everyone saw Brian Greasy's comments or heard Brian Greasy's comments on Monday Night Football basically saying Nick Foles doesn't even think some of these plays work when he gets them called in. Apparently the quote was afterwards that they had a conversation and they're in a really really good place right now and couldn't be happier with their relationship.
Yeah, this sounds... That sounds so bad.
I'm so happy for them. I just want them to be happy.
No, we're in a great place right now. All those divorce rumors, it's just noise.
No, I would say it's like they're already divorced. Yeah.
But it's like... We might renew our vows.
It's just like, you know what? I think that they're doing really well and they're successful. I'm just so happy for them.
Matt Nagy and Nick Foles might adopt a child to save their marriage at this point. That's how bad it's gotten.
Alright, 49ers Seahawks, so excited for this game. This game also should be a night game.
Agreed. Have they ever done that? Have they ever had two Sunday Night Football games at the same time? That would be incredible.
Now we're just talking out of our ass. But that would be wild.
I like the Niners in this. Yeah, I think so too.
These teams are so even. The Niners just like the way that they manhandled the Patriots last week.
How about the Niners? Credit to the Niners being dead. Remember the Niners losing to the Dolphins by a billion? They were dead.
I'm going to say that I think that the Seahawks defense, I'm going to use the S word, I think they're soft. I think they're soft.
Sus, sauce. They're sus, yeah.
Yeah. You know what? Cerebral.
You know what I'm doing right now? I'm giving side eye. I'm throwing shade.
Yeah. All the S words for Seattle's defense.
No, they're really bad. I think that the Niners come out and just absolutely take their soul from them.
I'm excited for that game. And then Cowboys-Eagles, this game sucks.
It does suck, but Gucci DiNucci. Gucci DiNucci.
Is that officially starting? Yeah, I guess so.

I said it one time.

Is Andy Dalton alive?

Yeah, no, he is starting.

No, Gucci DiNucci.

Who's starting?

Gucci DiNucci.

Andy Dalton.

Right, is Andy Dalton alive?

He's alive, confirmed alive.

Are we sure?

He's in the concussion protocol.

You've seen that.

According to Adam Schefter.

That's a HIPAA violation, actually, Schefter confirming that he's not dead.

Dude, by the way, how about Schefter doing, like, I'm a nerd, I'm fucking cool. He spelled out MRI the other day.
Did you see that on a tweet? No. What is it? Medical? What's the actual thing? Resistance image.
Mirror. R is for radiation.
Yeah. Radiation imaging or something.
He wrote it out like, cool, Schefter. You fucking know.
Yeah. MRI.
Resonance imaging. That was quick, Jake.
So not radiation, Billy. A little underrated storyline going into this game is the two quarterbacks, James Madison against North Dakota State University.
So DiNucci against Carson Wentz. These are the two teams that always get together in Frisco every year.
And North Dakota State always beats the shit out of James Madison. And the Cowboys are 0-7 against the spread.
So they would be tied for the record if they lose against the spread this week, 0-8. Two other teams have done it in history.
No team has gone 0-9 to start the season against the spread. As a football team football fan, which team should I be rooting for this weekend? I feel like I'm rooting for the Cowboys because the Cowboys pose less of a chance to go 6-10 as the Eagles do.
Yeah, let's talk this out because, yes, the Cowboys would keep the Washington football team alive. But if you're a Washington football team fan, there's like a small part of you that probably wants a quick and painless death.
No, no. I have suffered many quick and painless deaths.
Right. My entire life as a football fan has been a death that occurs immediately.
But there's like 0% chance that you're going to make the playoffs, so just let it happen. I don't think there's 0% chance.
I mean, of course there's more than a 0% chance, but you guys aren't making the playoffs. I think it's like 30% chance that Washington football team makes the playoffs.
30? 30%. I'd say it's like 60% the Eagles.
Carson Wentz gets it. See, even Jalen Hurst would probably.
Yeah, 60% the Eagles, and then 10% the Giants, and then 30% us, Cowboys 0%. Okay.
Yeah, maybe somewhere 20%. So I think I'm rooting for the Cowboys.
Yeah, so you're rooting for the Cowboys. Okay.
But then the Cowboys would be ahead of you. That's fine, but I have less confidence in them being able to keep it up over the course of an entire season.
Yeah, that's probably true. Plus Gucci DiNucci.
Yeah, plus Gucci DiNucci. All right.
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All right. Fantasy Daddies.
What's up, Daddies? Hey, guys. Hey.
Hey, Daddy. Oh, my God.
Your pants look so cute. It's Cindy Suckhole.
Okay. My stardom this week is spooky season.
It's spooky season, bitches. I've got goosebumps.
Throw in your skimpiest, most problematic, slutty outfit and go out and get spooky. Everyone knows you can't get COVID if you're dressed a little skimpy.
I'm going as a cat again this year. My stardom is Kim Kardashian's toes.
What? Her camel toes? What'd she do with them? She put out a pic of her feet and she has six toes. Wait, for real though? Literally six toes.
No, like literally six? She looks like a frog footed free. Billie's going to want to fuck her.
She should go on OnlyFans. Billie wants to gluck gluck those toes to death because it's a frog.
And my sleeper is LeVayon Bell. LeVayon Bell LeVayon Bell revenge game against the Jets he's gonna go up like when your boyfriend breaks up with you and you look super hot and go hook up with a guy just to get the other team jealous yeah LeVayon LeVayon's gonna do to the Jets this weekend LeVayon Bell cause he plays like a pussy I'm bad so bad hey what's up daddies this is Carmelo Moscato I'm starting this weekend Gucci Danucci get this wet ass Danucci all up on the screen my cousin went to college with him and said his mom got kicked out of B-dubs on parents weekend because she tried to stab the bartender because she brought in her Pekingese and they wouldn't serve the dog a cranberry juice.
Really fucked up stuff. Oh, man.
I'm sitting guys who wear leather jackets. Or guys who don't wear leather jackets.
Excuse me. Because you look through history.
You got the Fonz, Top Gun, and Richard Deitch. All the sexiest dudes.
Always wearing leather jackets all the time. What about Buzz Bissinger? Buzz Bissinger, leather daddy extraordinaire.
Oh, he's a big time daddy. More like daddies of anarchy.
Daddies of anarchy. I'll let you hop on my bike.
Shut up, daddy. My sleeper is guys that wear pinstripe pants.
Oh. I love guys.
Nothing makes a guy. Gluck, gluck him on site.
Nothing makes a guy with no ass look like he's packing a Larry Thick Gerald booty like a pair of pajamas that he bought from the 1915 Chicago White Sox finish camp. You're a stupid bitch.
You know that? I just love how pinstripe pants look on a guy. You're just like such a little bitch.
Make that ass really pop. Just drop it, pop it, and and lock it and you went and told everyone yeah true just love it uh all right what's up guys it's tiffany or tiff uh my stardom is tony la russa that is all-time zaddy dot vibes what is zaddy by the way why do they say zaddy it's like daddy but but the end of the alphabet.
Oh, zaddy. The boss daddy.
Yeah, he's the new manager for the White Sox. He's like a billion years old, but he's still a zaddy.
He's hot. He's hot.
And you know what? He had pink eye that one time, so he knows he eats ass. Yeah, and total daddy move to fall asleep when you're too drunk to drive your car.
Mm-hmm. Oh, daddy.
My cinema is razor blades. Usually using them to make sure that your puss-puss is nice and clean, but it's Halloween, so watch out for those razor blades in your candy.
Spooky season. Yeah, spooky season, but keep the puss-uss clean keep that puss puss clean

when you finish

shaving your puss puss

throw the razor blades in the trash

do not leave them out for creepers

to put them in candy

you know what's hot to do on Halloween

if you just put like six packs of smarties

into your puss puss

you just kind of squirt them out one at a time

go gobble that cooch

and eat your sugar honey

and then my sleeper

is

Thank you. So you just kind of squirt them out one at a time.
Go gobble that cooch and eat your sugar, honey. And then my sit-up, my sleeper is, we already talked about it, but Daylight Savings, fall forward an extra hour.
You lose an hour, so it's falling forward like when you've had a few too many martinis and you fall down drunk because you are a hot mess. You know what I like to do during Daylight Savings Time when you fall forward? Any guy that you sleep with in that hour doesn't count towards your toe.
Doesn't count towards your number. You can fuck anybody.
It could be a virgin wearing pinstripe pants. It will not count.
I hope Gucci like Gucci falls forward and splits his head open and dies you're such a bitch i love you go ahead go ahead do i have to yeah yeah what up it's minnie barbarino my stardom is your mother my sit-um is julian edelman his knee is fucked my sleeper is deli meat because everyone's saying there's listeria in it, but you gotta enjoy your gabagool even if it means the gabagool flew. And that's my sleeper.
Alright. Good job, Billy.
Love it, Billy. You're too fucking manly to do daddy's.
I just, I didn't prepare daddy's. I mean, we told you before.
I know, but we had... Yeah.
I also agree that... I honestly didn't want to.

Yeah.

It's fucked up that the US government is telling us not to eat lunch anymore.

Exactly.

What else am I supposed to eat for lunch besides cold cuts?

They said get rid of the dully meat.

Oh, yeah, because...

Oh, yes.

This area.

Just salami, right?

And prosciutto.

But not turkey.

Ham.

I think they just said lunch meats.

They said, like, cold cuts?

All lunch meats?

Yeah.

What the fuck, dude?

I will not.

I will not go...

First, they came for the soppressata,

and I'll see. That's bullshit.
A little follow-up from Wednesday's show. Did you have a good reaction online to the pants? I don't check my mentions.
You can't see. Overall, would you say it was positive or negative? Listen, if I live my life based off the reaction I get from the fans of the show, I wouldn't be here.
So I just try and block it out. But it was negative.
It was overly negative. Hank, can I be honest with you? I didn't think that the pants were that bad.
Well, that means nothing to me, PFT. The joy they brought to this podcast as a whole made it so worth it.
That was the best part about the whole thing is that we're used to what you wear, PFT, so when we took the picture, everyone was like, wait, are we talking about PFT or are we talking about Hank? Well, it's also fucked up I got set up by, hey, he bought me those pants. Yeah, sure, he did set you up.
It was part of a jumpsuit. You can't buy me the pants and then be like, holy shit, look at I got you a jumpsuit.
If you wore the top, it would be one thing. That was an ultimate setup.
It was a big time setup. Yeah.
If you buy me a pair of pinstripe cargo pants, which people didn't even mention the fact they were cargo pants, I will wear them. All right.
Honestly, and this is my own fault, I don't take a lot of time to get dressed. I usually literally pick up the first thing that's close to me, and I put it on.
Same. And those pants were on the top of my laundry thing.
I had just done laundry. And I put them on.
I was like, I would never wear these to work, but I was like, fuck it. No one's going to say anything because who really going to – Right.
Everyone's nice. It's fall, though.
You're getting your fit off. Yeah, that is a good question.
Where would I wear those? If I was like a summertime at a bar on a boat? You'd wear cargo pants on a boat? Yeah. You're the only person who would ever wear pants on a boat besides Odell Beckham.
Yeah. I thought that was like when you were painting a fence.
You'd wear those. Yeah.
That's how you got it. Like the Mentos commercials.
When was the last time you went out, Big Cat? Never. I'm a dad.
Exactly. So don't judge me on what I was wearing.
You can't shame me for that. I am shaming you.
No, you can't. You're trying to shame me for wearing going out pants.
You don't know what going out looks like. I know it doesn't look like that.
Well, you did because you haven't gone out. Yeah.
Well, actually, the last time I went out, those pants were probably cool. Yeah.
Yeah. In 1920.
Yeah. Big Cat copped him because he saw him in a Papa Roach music video.
He was like, yeah, this is going to be sick. Why are we still talking about this? Play Barclay.
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Download it now. One weekend only.
If we get 200,000 contests, I'll get a cat. Wait, what? Wait, huh? Record stop.
200,000? Contest entries, yeah. Overall.
Over the course of the entire season. Yeah, we're approaching 17,000.
We have over 100,000 people that have downloaded the app so far, though, so they're out there. No, so then it should be 100,000.
Nope. I said what I said.
All right. At any point this year? Sure.
This weekend, for sure. No.
No. No.
No. Hank was saying total over the course of the entire season.
At some point in this season, if we get 200,000 people to play on a single weekend.

This weekend, if there's 200,000 people in the contest, I will get a cat.

50K, can we burn the cat?

You want to kill the cat?

Yeah, burn the cat.

No, the pants.

100K, we can burn the pants.

No, I don't want Hank to burn the pants.

100K, I'll wear the pants for a week straight.

I would be so upset if the pants got burned. Yeah, I'd rather you not.
100K, we can frame the pants and hang them in the studio. Again, rather than not.
It's such a waste of those pants. Right.
100K, I'll sign the pants and give them to a listener. No, they're...
Yeah, a listener wants that. They're like 100 street-level meth dealers that would kill for those pants.
Is there $1,000 in the pants pocket when you give them away? So that's valuable. All right, let's get to Cocho before we do that.
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Okay, we now welcome on a very good friend,

recurring guest, national champion,

and now he's got a book.

It is Coach O.

His book is out.

It's called Flip the Script,

Lessons Learned on the Road to a Championship.

Let's start with the book.

We got a lot of things we want to get to, but part of my take is in this book, is it not?

Yeah.

Y'all were very influential against Joe Burrow.

Yeah.

His brother Dan would listen to you guys, and that was a big connection for us.

Yeah.

So Bruce Feldman, you work with Bruce Feldman on writing this book, and I was talking to

him a couple weeks ago, and he said that part of my take has a mention in this book that our, you know, Dan Burrow listening to part of my take helped influence Joe to be like, hey, those guys are cool. They went and met with Coach O.
And so, I mean, did we win a national championship? When are we getting our ring, I guess, is really the question. It's on the way.
Send me your address. Okay.
Done. Done.
I will wear that ring everywhere. We're going to send it to Derek right now.
Absolutely. Yeah.
Have you gone back and watched film of the national title game? You know what? During the COVID, when we were home, I watched way too much TV like everybody else. And all our games played.
And I was eager to watch them because I knew we'd win. Especially the championship game.
So I watched the film, obviously. But I watched the game several times on and off.
What a great game for out of school. Yeah, it was awesome.
And then, obviously, the morning after, Big Cat and I sat down with you. I'd like to apologize for our demeanor and our presence.
After you were doing that interview, were you like, these two idiots are the drunkest bunch of shitheads that I've ever sat down with? Well, you were in New Orleans, so that was kind of expected. Went in Rome, right? I would love it if we can get you on the New York Times bestseller list.
Yes. Wouldn't that be great? We got to get it.
Ed Ogeron, bestselling author. Yes.
Last I saw you, you were on 60 Minutes. They did like a profile on you.
I saw them talking to your mom, and your mom was like making gumbo for them. Did she tone that down and make like the less spicy version for the 60 Minutes author? No, she gave him the real deal.
That's all she knows how to make a great seafood gum. They loved her.
I think they stayed with her for about six hours. They said they could have stayed there for a day or two.
I love it. I love it.
Uh, all right. So the book flip the script.
What, uh, can we get a good coach O story that, uh, can entice people to go buy the buy the book like do we have any good new stories maybe from your youth or from your start as coaching days what's the what's the story that we can get everyone like hey you gotta have this book now because it's coach o the reason i did the book is because everybody has a dream man and my dream is different than yours i want everybody their dream. My dream was to be the head coach of the LSU Tigers at six years old.
I went through a lot of adversity. You know, I thought I was going to get the job at USC, but come to find out, it's the best thing that ever happened to me.
I came home, and I fought to get the job at LSU. And, you know, you look at the inside, especially the last three days going into me getting the job,

there's a lot of information there, I think,

that nobody ever knew before.

And we fought to the very end and got the job.

So everybody changed their dream, man.

Everybody's got a dream.

My dream was to be the head coach at LSU.

That's fantastic.

So at what point after you win the national title did it fully fully set in that you reached your entire dream like that's that's such a crazy thing most people they have dreams all their life they don't actually achieve them it was it immediately after was it a month after has it still not happened has it like fully set in like oh my god i won a national title one of the best college teams of all time with lsu you know it's crazy the next day i said we got to do it again so i didn't spend a lot of time enjoying it to be honest with you but on the way home the people on the side of the roads cheering us going to the white house uh having a parade on campus and the celebrations all that was great uh the way that our people treated us. But you know what? We really didn't get to celebrate it much because we went into COVID.
And we were all quarantined or inside for about three months. So it seemed like it passed by very fast.
Did you get to have a moment with Mike the Tiger after you came home from the national championship? Did you get to show him the trophy? Hey, you know, I always go see Mike. I run every day that i pass by his cage for a reason uh he's something i remember when they used to have him in the cage coming around the stadium when i was a young boy i couldn't wait to see him come out i remember when we came in from universe in miami they had him at the visitors dressing room and he was roaring our players were afraid to get out the dressing room yeah i can imagine so um big cap brings up a good point because you uh you know you accomplished your goal you became head coach of louisiana state you won a national championship from that point on how do you like how do you keep yourself motivated to keep moving forward and to keep going out there and like having that same fiery competition that you're known for as an underdog.
How do you keep that going once it's expected now for you to win all the time? Yeah. Well, you know, we just get started.
We didn't come here just to win one. We want to win several.
And at LSU, you can. We got to continue the recruiting.
You know, we had a disappointing start to the season. Our team played better on Saturday night.
We're going to take it one game at a time. There's

20 or 22 guys from that

championship team are going. These guys are

learning how to play. I've got to be patient with them.

We had four excellent freshmen

as you saw last Saturday night

play lights out football. So the future

is bright, fellas. Yeah,

I was shocked. Did you know

the stat that they flashed

across the TV screen

when the kick return went

back on Saturday night? That

I don't know. I was shocked.
Did you know the stat that they flashed across the TV screen when the kick return went back on Saturday night, that LSU had not returned a touchdown on a kickoff since 1981 at Tiger Stadium? I was shocked by that. That was an insane stat.
Did you know that stat? You will love this. In our coaches meeting, Derek Finansky, who knows all the history of LSU, knows every play ever ran here, told Coach Mack that.
He said, Coach, we ain't had a kickoff return since 1981. You think you can do it tonight? Really? That night? Yes.
So on Saturday night he said that? That's incredible. Yeah, before the game.
Yeah, before the game. So that's the only time I had heard that.
Wow. Damn.
Wow. That's like, I mean.
That's great timing. That gives me chills just thinking about.
That means that you got that Cajun juju coming back, you know. LSU's coming back right here.
After maybe a little bit of a slow start, we're ready to go. Yeah, has there been a difference in Tell the Truth Mondays? Because I know that around here we always say we took that from you.
Mondaysays are for telling the truth and there probably wasn't as much truth to be told last season when you're winning every game and blowing everybody out have things gotten like a little more a little more feisty you have to like take your shirt off and try to fight anybody again like old days no no i just tell you know what we got to get done you know really i'll put it on the coaches. Two things, man.
I ask the coaches, hey, we've got to coach this football team better. I ask the players to stay together, and they have.
And I'm proud of that. I think you can see improvement on our football team, and hopefully you can see more improvement this week.
Yeah. The other thing that Bruce asked me to ask you, why does Stephen Jones, Jerry Jones' son, call you hip sled Ed? You're going to love this story.
So on Thursday morning, I had to work out players that maybe were late for curfew or missed a class, whatever it may be. It was on the run list.
So instead of running them outside, we put them on the hip sled. I was a young coach.
And Steven was there a couple of times, like other players. And I was working him out.
Beads of sweat was coming and getting after him pretty good. And after he left, one of my coworkers, I just got to Arkansas, he said, man, you got some guts.
I said, why? He goes, you know who that is? I said, yeah, that's Steven. He plays outside linebacker.
He goes, no, that's Steven Jones, Jerry Jones' son. I went, who's Jerry? I didn't know, but you know what? Steven Jones, they tried to hire me.
The Cowboys ever since has respected me because I didn't treat him like Jerry Jones' son. I treated him like another football player, and he and I have a great relationship all throughout the years.
Wow. And the hip sledette is a great nickname.
I like that. Yeah, treat him no differently.
Did you get – were there any NFL teams that kind of like sniffed around the bushes this

offseason?

They were like, hey, maybe we'll give Coach O a call and see if he's interested and come

up to the pros.

Not that you ever would, but I'm curious if anybody asked.

No, they know I'm not leaving here.

No, I'm here, man.

I'm home.

My feet are planted here.

Is your goal to just coach there until you retire, until you're like 75, 75 80 years old or what's that look like i would love i would love that opportunity yeah i would love that how's uh how's the running in the sun going because i feel like ever since uh we talked about it ray baker a couple years ago i get tat we get pft and i and the part of my take twitter account we get tagged all the time in videos of you running around on campus underneath Ray Baker just getting friends with Ray Baker. Are you training for something? Are you going to run a marathon? What's going on? No, man.
Hey, you know what? Jordan Nikova had a lot of time off, and I'm single now, so I have a lot of time. So I decided to start running two hours a day on the weekends.
Whoa. Two hours on Friday, two hours on Saturday, two hours on Sunday.
In the sun at 12 o'clock. And I go run some stadiums.
I think I lost about 25 pounds. Feel better.
But I love to run. And now I have free time.
So I'm with Ray Baker as much as I can. So you're running.
I didn't notice any headphones in.

Are you running with no music?

I got enough noise in my head.

I don't need no music.

That's incredible.

Two hours on Friday, two hours Saturday, two hours Sunday, no music,

just sitting out there in the Louisiana sun just roasting.

That's a football guy.

Yeah, loving it.

What are you thinking about when you're running? Are you thinking about work, or do you just turn your head off? Everything. Everything passed my mind.
You know, I get clarity. I think I get ideas for work.
I get ideas for recruiting. I think about my family.
I think about other things. I enjoy it.
I really enjoy it. You know what? I met a lot of great people on my run.
People stop. I want to take pictures with Coach O and get to meet a lot of people.
So it's been fun. Plus, if you drop 20 pounds, you might as well flaunt it, right? Take the shirt off.
Yeah. Show off the six-pack that you're working on.
You're more than willing to take pictures. Yeah.
What's your mile time? It doesn't look like you're burning up the track, but it does look like you're leaping that same. You're not going to be stopped.
You're like a cannonball. No, no.
It's a slow old man's run. I've been ridiculed for that.
You know what I told him? Hey, when you're 59, you run like you want. Yeah.
Yeah. That's what I'm saying.
You're moving. You're not stopping.
You're keeping a pace that's going. If you can keep anything up for two hours, then that's more than I can do.
Yes. Have you run on the beach since that fall, since that viral fall? No, I haven't been back to that since.
That was enough. That's smart.
Yeah, just keep to the pavement now. No more chasing.
I think you were chasing a little kid on the beach and you fell. That was an all-time video that was not you, for anyone who doesn't understand the joke there.
But so how do you think, have you been able to watch Joe Burrow play in the pros yet? Have you been able to watch any football on Sundays? You know, not much, but I've seen some highlights. He's doing very well.
He's getting hit and sacked a lot. And Joe's a competitor.
And it was three 300 yards game. He the first uh rookie quarterback to do that very proud of him joe's gonna get a support class gonna be a championship quarterback no doubt yeah i would say the the one thing you know he has been uh hit a lot but his and we talked about this on the show his toughness will get him you know that locker room so quickly because he's just a tough guy who, you know, he's gotten hit so hard sometimes.
You're like, how did he just get up? And he gets up next play. And I feel like that's instant respect in an NFL locker room.
Yeah, you know, the harder you hit Joe, the tougher he gets. Yeah.
And, you know, he's taking some hits for us. And that Fiesta Bowl hit he took.
And I didn't know if he was going to get out. I was calling for Miles to come in.
He goes, one explicative word, no, I'm not getting out. And he just turned it on.
You know, that ignites him. Yes.
It's a good quality to have. Like, the harder they come at you, the harder you come at them over the top.
That's right. Because you're never going to win that battle if you keep going at them.
So there was that one story that came out last year about your recruiting of Joe. It might be in the book even of how you brought your own crawfish to – was it Mike Anderson's? Is that where you guys were at? Yeah.
Yeah, so now that that story is out, do you find that recruits are – they come and they meet with you and they sit down for dinner and they're expecting you to do something like just bring a 50-pound sack of crawfish over your shoulder like your Santa Claus? Hey, I'll do it for anyone that becomes a Heisman Trophy winner. I promise you that.
I'll give them 100 pounds if they want. You know, that was a funny story.
We got to Mike Anderson's. Joe wanted crawfish and there was none.
So we had to call around to some other restaurants and get it and bring it through the kitchen. And it worked out fine.
Right now, I know it's not crawfish season, but if we're in season right now, what is the ETA? How quickly could you get a bag of crawfish in your office door if you were to just make a phone call oh it takes 20 minutes to ball it we can have it here in 40 minutes perfect that's awesome just on speed dial crawfish on speed dial are you gonna are you gonna make uh your book required reading for all recruits to come in for everyone who comes and attends because that would be smart that'll get us on the bestseller everyone who puts on a uniform's got to read the book right yeah this will be optional i think people will like it it's gonna catch fire people will like it some good stories in there some good insights too i mean i think yeah at the very least it should be a textbook for like all incoming freshmen at lsu in the philosophy classes that should be like the very first thing that to read are you going to do the voiceover for the audio version of the book? You all may do that. People ask about that.
I hear about it, but when I get a chance, I can't do it now. Maybe at the end of the season, I may do it.
Yes, yes, yes. So this, like, you know, coronavirus and everything, when it felt like football was going to be taken away.

Tell me how, like, I mean, we love football.

Did it hurt?

What were you thinking when it was like, oh, man, we might not have a season?

Because we've heard from different football guys across the country,

like Scott Frost said he wanted to play in Uzbekistan.

I'd imagine you had the same mindset, like, we've got to play football.

Yeah, there was no doubt in my mind.

In my mind, I wasn't going to let my mind go anywhere else. We were playing football, and I was going to coach this team like we were playing football.
Now, the circumstance happened that they told us that we couldn't play. I don't know, and I did everything I could every day to prepare this football team, and we did that.
I asked the team to do that. So, we have a saying here, we don't blink.
We didn't blink. We put the safety of our young men first in COVID.
We gave them a lot of education, gave them the best care that we could and went about our business on a daily basis. Do you find that it's more difficult to yell out officials through a mask? Yeah, I had to get a mask where you could hear my voice better.
The first couple of games, I was quiet on the sideline because I couldn't yell through a mask.

So I got a mask that Derek and I practiced in the room.

I was yelling.

I wanted to make sure that they could hear me yell.

You really do have to enunciate more because they can't see your lips.

There's none of that lip reading that goes along where you can tell what somebody's saying if they're staying far away from you.

So, yeah, you really got to –

I'm glad that you're getting practice time in on that too. i'm sure derek's really enjoying just being screamed at yes yes a lot of reps yes um we gotta ask because i we always have to ask when you're on uh still three plates bench what's that can you still bench three plates you know what i gotta i I got to tell you guys, tell you guys.
I probably could. I got to admit it.
I have not admitted this. I've got a torn rotator cuff for the last two years.
And I can only close bit, dumbbell press. That's it.
I can't bench press no more. It's been about two years.
So maybe I can get it fixed. But once I get it fixed, I guarantee I'll do it again.
I'll give you my labrum. I'll give you my shoulder if you need one.
So that means right this second, I still think you'd get it up with a torn rotator cuff. But what you're saying is you haven't let anyone know, but if push came to shove and was like, hey, if you were in this studio right now, we're like, here, put this up, you would do it, but you'd be in a lot of pain.
But you'd do it, right? No question. I give it all I have.
All right. You guys are so close to me.
You're the only guys that have known this. I'll let you break the story of my torn rotator.
We won't tell anybody. Wait, don't say which one it is because we don't want to give the opponents any hints.
They'll start going after that arm. So we're not going to say which one.
It's just a torn way to rotator coffee. All right.
Did I read right that The Rock wrote the foreword to this book? Say that again? Did The Rock write the introduction to this book? Yes. Did I read that correctly? Yes, he did.
So did you reach out to him personally this offseason, or has he just – I have to assume that he was probably in touch

a little bit during your championship run last year.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You know, he and I has made contact throughout the years.

We were very close.

Congratulations on the championship.

And then when it came to the book, I knew that it would help the book

if Rock would write the forward.

And he and I had a great relationship, so I asked him to do it.

Derek reached out to his manager.

He responded to us right away.

I think he did it in a day.

His nickname is Dewey.

I used to call him Dewey.

And he's still the same humble guy that I knew when we coached him at Miami,

a great young man, great character person.

Did you help come up with the nickname, The Rock?

No, not at all. You can take credit for it.
You can take a little credit. Take credit for it, it's fine.
I don't know, I helped toughen them up, I'll tell you that. There you go, then you did.
Then you turned them into a rock. You absolutely had to take credit for it then.
You absolutely should do that. Alright, Coach O, this has been awesome.
I had one last question. The final question is brought to you by Cross Country Mortgage America's crazy good mortgage company.
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We interviewed you. PFT and I were very drunk.
We interviewed Joe Burrow as well. Did you walk away from that being like what the heck is those those guys problem like how do you show up to an interview district oh hey i i was a little about two hours of sleep uh still on cloud nine for winning the game and didn't notice none of it to be honest with you but you know what when you're in your all-ins that's what you do so i used to do that when i young too.
So I'm glad you had a good time. I thought the funniest part was right after we were done.
And you were just like walking up and down the hallway. And you were yelling at Joe.
You're like, get on the bus. You're going to be late for the bus.
Like even though he just won the national championship, it's like, we're not waiting for you, Joe. We'll leave your ass here in New Orleans if you're not on the bus back to Baton Rouge.
Yeah. That was great.
Yes. Well, Coach, thank you so much.
Congrats on the book. Everyone go get it.
Flip the script. We really appreciate it.
We appreciate your friendship, and we look forward to getting our national championship rings. That's going to be awesome.
Hey, call Derek. He's got it.
You guys are the best. Go Tigers.
All right. Go Tigers.
Thanks, Coach. Take care.
Thank you, guys.

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Look for a train. All right.
Let's finish up the show. We have, by the way, I just saw, we should have mentioned it.
Do we think that Gardner Minshew maybe smashed his own hand like he told us? Absolutely. So that he doesn't have played for the Jaguars anymore? Absolutely.
So Nathan Peterman, or not Nathan, excuse me, Mike Lennon. I interchange them as former Raiders backups.
Mike Lennon, I guess, is going to be starting. Yeah, yeah.
So, yeah, Gardner Minshew has a fractured sprain ligament in his thumb, a fracture and a sprain ligament in his thumb, and it just seems very interesting because he, on our show, told us a story about how he smashed his own hand with a hammer after getting really, really drunk so that he could, what was it, so he could redshirt or something? Yeah, he wanted to take a medical redshirt. So maybe he thinks he can redshirt this season.
Possibly. And he's just smashing it again.
I don't know, but I'm just, I'm upset because Gordon Minshew was what you tuned into when you wanted to watch the Jaguars. Yeah.
And going from Minshew to Glennon, it's like I mean, it's like going off cocaine and picking up kombucha. Mike Glennon will be interesting for a game just to see what's going on with him.
He'll be interesting to watch run off the bench onto the field with his head bobbing around. No, he'll do something funny.
Interesting. Don't confuse interesting for good.
I'm not saying Mike Glennon's good. I'm saying interesting in that it's like seeing a car accident on the highway.
You're like, oh, I just want to see, like, you know, rubbernecking. You're going to rubberneck Mike Glenn.
I even think a car accident is giving it too much credit. I think with Mike Glenn, it's like seeing an unusually large squash at a farmer's market.
Yeah. It's like, oh, look at that.
This is interesting. And then you just keep going.
All right. Fyre Fest of the week to wrap up.
I think we got some good ones this week.

Hank?

No, you're not you.

Yeah, I mean, I know.

You go first, but we have some good ones.

BFT died.

Everyone knows my Fire Fest, my real Fire Fest.

We've talked about it.

Ad Nauseam.

Ad Museum.

My other one is also Play Barstool related. Wait, what's your real fire fest? Well, I wore pants to work.
I forgot about the pants. Hank, you brought us so much joy, though.
Yeah, it really was great. Who bought the pants? I did.
They're nice pants. Were you drunk? Nope.
Okay. You guys don't understand fashion, Big Cat.
You don't have a social life so you don't understand pft literally is blind that's why he wears sunglasses he dresses blind every day what's wrong with this so i'm not and billy doesn't wear shoelaces like the people i'm talking to are not the people i'm worried about uh in regards to fashion so once again that was firefest part one firefest part two a kid won the 25 000 play barststool contest on Friday. I was pumped about it.
Then it turned out it was a kid that fucking worked here. That was a FireFest.
My third FireFest. Not insider trading.
Like when that one guy that worked for F*** used to win all the F***s. Sleep out those two words.
We have it in the rules and conditions of the app that employees are allowed to play. They're just not allowed to win.
This kid thought he won and thought he was winning the 25K, so he had to find out. He thought he won $25,000, and I had to be like, hey, man, congrats.
You don't win shit. Well, they should have given it to the second-place winner who also worked here.
Yeah. Nope, there was...
Spider-Man. Nope, nope.
Nope, you guys are misconfiguring. Anyway, I'm not talking about that one.
I'm not talking about that. No, 12 people split the second place contest.

My third firefest is I got off the train today thinking it was 28th Street.

It was 23rd Street.

It was pouring rain.

I had to walk from 23rd Street to here.

Oh, my God. Are you okay?

Yeah.

I was wearing a rain jacket.

I actually went to our old office, and I put in the Uber 17th Street.

It's 27th.

How does that happen?

I don't know.

Literally, he pulled up, and he's like, all right, we're here. I was like, no, we're not.
The worst is when you're telling Uber to... 17th street it's 27th how like that's how does that happen i don't know you know i literally he

pulled up and he's like all right we're here i was like no we're not the worst is when you tell an uber to like pick you up at your house but for whatever reason the location has you being like five blocks away or four blocks away yeah and then you feel embarrassed so you just get out of your front door and jog yeah days or walk days ruined no jog is that right just three of them yep okay My fire fest is I died.

You died.

I died on, would that be Wednesday?

Wednesday on Wednesday, on Wednesday morning, I died. Right after we got done recording part of my take on Tuesday night slash early Wednesday morning when the World Series was over, I let Leroy out, come back inside, go to sleep.
My Whoop app tells me I go to sleep at, I it was like 1 15 and then i just didn't wake up i guess i i forgot to set an alarm but usually my body is so finally in tune with the circadian rhythms of the of the world and the sun that i'll wake up at like nine o'clock 9 30 9 45 at the very latest if i go to bed at like two o'clock in the morning. In this case, I didn't wake up.
I just kept sleeping. Leroy didn't wake me up to go outside.
He was still snoring by my side. I roll over.
I look at my phone. I'm thinking, oh, I woke up before my alarm went off.
It must be 730 or eight o'clock in the morning. Nope.
My phone says that it's 1210 in the afternoon. I woke up at 10 i just had like a list of i don't know dozens of text messages from big cat uh from liz from everybody just being like are you dead are you alive because i missed radio from jeff low yes i met i slept all the way through radio looked at my phone there's no i was so rested because i had had 10 hours of sleep which I'd never get in my entire life.
I was so rested, but I look, I wake to that phone and I immediately feel like I had the worst night's sleep of all time because of all the anxiety. So all day on Wednesday, I felt like I had died and I was, it was just like, I was a ball of anxiety all day.
I still haven't recovered. Did you, yeah, I mean, I would be very anxious.
You, I legitimately was like, I didn't even think about it until, because we don't see each other in the morning on Wednesday, so I didn't think about it until Liz texted me. It was like, hey, have you talked to PFT? I was like, huh? And then I looked at your Twitter.
I was like, oh, he hasn't tweeted. Oh, this is weird.
I still can't believe you did it. I know.
I can't believe you slept that late. I would never be able to sleep all late all the way till 12 i've never slept that late i don't think in my entire life have i gone to bed and slept for a solid 10 hours jesus ever it was crazy so i don't know i blame the weather the sun never came out i'm basically blaming everybody but myself for not setting alarm uh but it did shock me it was like a wake-up call in a weird way that's kind of ironic but like, you know what? I need to have an alarm that is set for every single day of the week.
Because usually I just change my alarm time by what I have to do the next day. But then I realized, you know what, PFT? For the last, like, two years, you've had to get up by 9 o'clock, kind of at the very, very latest.
So why don't you just make that an everyday occurrence during the week? So now I have two alarms set, one for 9 o'clock, one for 9.15. I think you just turned 28.
I think I just did. I think you turned 28 years old.
That's a little sign of maturing. But seriously, I felt so bad.
It was awful waking up that late. Yeah, no, that's scary.
And people were like, are you okay? Is everything all right? You know what the worst was? I got like five or six texts or just people saying face-to-face, like, this is so unlike you. Yeah.
And I was like, fuck. That's like your parents telling you that they're disappointed.
Disappointed, yeah. Yeah.
It was scary. I know.
It was like, oh, he's dead. I guess I was just tired.
Yeah. It was very weird.
What, Billy? Here, Billy looks like. Are there any compounding factors to this? This is a very weird story.
This is what I've had to deal with it, which it makes me feel guilty, but I don't have anything to feel guilty about. It sounds like you need an alibi.
I didn't have anything to drink. I didn't take any medicine.
I didn't have any NyQuil. You're not a drug guy.
Actually, that's the other thing. You're not a drug guy.
I'm literally not a drug guy. Right.
Not a drug guy. I can show you no melatonin, no vitamins, no supplements.
Just not a drug guy. I can show you my Whoop app.
Your Whoop? My Whoop because it did track on Tuesday night. And then when it had me waking up, my heart rate immediately spikes to like 120 because that's when I look at my phone.
You know, a great alibi would be putting your whoop on a dog that sleeps all the time. Yeah.
And then kicking him awake and being like, hey, wake up, Leroy. You think my whoop would register on a dog? Yeah, why not? Why not? By the way, while you pull that up, I totally forgot.
Hank, you ready to grade my can't lose parlay? I totally forgot to give it. Can't lose parlay.
One last week, plus 350. Hank even said he's in on it this week, which I know is a lie.
Well, I'll tell you the honest right now. Okay, tell me the honest.
Chiefs money line. Yep.
Okay. Eagles money line.
Nope. Against the Cowboys? Maybe not.
Whoa. Packers.

Yeah.

Daily savings. Daily savings.
Yeah, that is true.

Titans money line.

Yeah. It's the Bengals.

And then the Steelers adjusted to

plus seven and a half.

Maybe not. Really?

So now I'm out. Wow.

It's plus 275. We're going to boost in the Barstool

Sportsbook app. I think it's can't lose.
Billy, show me where I put the whoop on Leroy. It's a banger of an can't lose.
All right, we're looking. My heart rate steadily declines over the course of the night.
Until you're legally dead. It's at 48 beats per minute because I'm in great shape.
Maybe you swap it real quick to Leroy before you let him out. Leroy's a big feature in this story.
It's probably true. I blame him because he was sleeping right next to me.
I agree. You know what? I agree.
It is suspicious. It's very sus.
You are very sus right now. All right.
My FireFest, two of them, Wisconsin's football season is over pretty much. That sucked.
And then the other one was i have a life insurance test this afternoon uh and i haven't been able to use uh weed nicotine or anything all week ever no change that up you haven't been able to use all my life 35 years i have not been able to use any of those things and it sucks man and you were going to this week it sucked more than ever you have, yeah, it sucked. You have to wait until after your test to use nicotine for the first time.
Yeah. And you were planning on using for the first time this week.
But I'll probably hate it. This week, yeah.
Do you need to lower your blood pressure for it? Yeah. I mean, I have literally like four hours, dude.
We'll take a ton of arginine right now. Right now? Yeah.
Right this second? Yeah. What is arginine? It's actually really good for vascularity and lowers your blood pressure.

I'm just going to drink a shitload of water and hope for the best.

Anyway.

Dr. Billy.

Yeah.

Billy is way too interested in my life insurance, by the way.

He definitely wants to kill me.

Well, I wonder what PFT was doing.

Oh.

During his sleep time.

What?

Try.

I don't know.

There's something weird going on.

No, no. You got a life insurance policy? Explain explain this.
He's got unaccounted hours. What do you think I was doing? Trying to die? Am I safe? Keep going.
You know, if Big Cat disappears and then you disappear, hey, it would be a really good life insurance scam if you two made away with the money. But what does that have to do with him? Billy, are you saying you're trying to kill both of us? No, maybe you guys.
Did you slip something into my Red Bull that you purchased for us? We're going to disappear and do a podcast together? Hmm. Hmm.
Huh. Huh.
Okay. Jake, what's your fire fest? I have two as well.
That you suck at announcing? My first. Today.
You suck today. My first is that I let the Sulu's down by saying the wrong score during Cornhole.

I felt really bad about him.

God damn it.

Jake has been really down today.

I feel terrible about it.

Yes.

Do you know what would bring them back on your side?

What?

A little swear word.

No.

What was going through your head when that happened?

How pissed were you?

What did you say to yourself?

I power through.

You can't let the viewers note that you're mad. What did you do? Did you screw something up? Did you fuck something up? Did you fudge it? What'd you fudge? Did you mess it up? I messed it up.
Yeah? Did you make a mess of yourself? Horse mess? Did you mess your pants? I was just like, it sucked. We got a messing problem? Yeah.
But you power through and now we have Jenga Monday. You guys are both participating.
Yeah, we'll be there. 10 grand.
Wait, no, I'm not. Well, overall.
Oh, yes. I'm participating.
Yes. My second Fyre Fest is I'm really starting to get worried about college basketball.
Eight preseason tournaments got canceled in Orlando. What? Why? Because they just axed the Disney bubble.
Fuck! If we don't march Madness this year, I'm going to be very upset. It's going to be weird because they have to play so many games.
If one team gets an outbreak, they basically have to forfeit for 10 or 12 weeks. That might be the next step.
I'm fine with that. John Rothstein is tweeting out the ACC Big Ten challenges right now, so hopefully...
John Rothstein, like, listen, John Rothstein, I love him. I really do, but he will just keep tweeting through this.
He'll tweet. Everything will be canceled, and he'll be like, Old Dominion just added Kansas on their schedule.
Yep. And he's like, John, it's not happening.
It's going to be like election night. Yeah.
Florida's election returns are going to be coming, and he going to be like big news Mercer just landed a grad transfer I actually dude this just came to me I when we were in West Virginia on Friday I was getting dude like we had like a runners who picked me up from the hotel and he was like yeah I drove once drove John Rothstein like three hours from like I can't remember where he went from too and he's like yeah I pitched him a bunch of them and he didn like, yeah, I drove once, drove John Rothstein like three hours from like, I can't even remember where he went from too. And he's like, yeah, I pitched him a bunch of them and he didn't like any of them.
And I was like, yeah, he's picky about it. He's got to come up with them on a show.
He was a great guy, but he was like, it was very funny. Like I just pitched him Rothstein.
I just can't believe that John Rothstein ever had to travel three hours anywhere, like outside of the Upper East Side. Maybe it was just Philly to New York.
So maybe it was like two hours, but it was very funny. It was definitely Philly to New York.
Kid was very nice, and he was just like, yeah, he was a really nice guy, but I tried to pitch him, and he was not having it. I was like, yeah, that's just Rothstein.
Here's a free idea for the NCAA. Why don't you just start the tournament now? Do it Coach K style where it's like every team.
You start it now, and then that builds in almost unlimited bye weeks until you get to the end of March. Or just start it right after Super Bowl.
So we'll do it like a two-and-a-half-month tournament. I don't know if that's going to be enough time.
There might not be enough time. All right.
That's it. Yeah.
You really fucked that up, though. I know.
I take full. Are you going to be able to sleep tonight? You're actually upset.
Yeah. I'll sleep on it and hopefully be okay tomorrow.
Jake's going to sleep 11 hours. I'm going to start tomorrow for Jenga.
You're like legitimately upset. Someone's going to even give him a wellness check.
It wasn't his fault either. It was really my fault and the control room's fault.
I didn't want to say that. But Jake is I don't care.
And Jake is like really upset about it. Were people upset in the comments? Oh, yeah.
All right, Billy. Go ahead.
I had school this week. No, my dog puked on me before I had to give a presentation.
You got to let him eat it. Yeah.
I know. Dogs will eat their own.
Billy, want to see this nature of my dog's boner? This is a good. Yes.
We've all said no. Billy's never wanted to see anything more in his life.
But Billy is now saying yes.

No, I'm not saying yes.

Billy, you don't want to see this?

You don't even have a dog.

Billy, my dog's dick is bigger than yours.

Oh, my God.

My dog's dick is bigger than yours.

Hank, that's way meaner than we've ever said.

You have a glorified ferret.

Oh, shit.

Hank.

That's disgusting. All right, fine.
Let me, shit. Hank.
Oh.

That's disgusting.

All right, fine.

Let me see it.

Yes.

Oh, my God.

Yes.

No, do not send it to me.

Do not send it to me.

That is not a dog.

I'm blocking you.

I'm blocking you.

Do not send it to me.

That is not a dog.

Just tweet it out, Hank.

This is what a dog.

Tweet it out.

Hank, tweet it out.

If it's good for us, it's good for everyone.

Tweet it out.

Do it.

I just texted you a group. Can you do open for a surprise? Dude, it's fucked up.
What the fuck? Oh, my God. Hank, what the hell? It's like a Slim Jim.
No, seriously. No, it's worse.
It looks like a giant tizzler. That's so disgusting.
Why? Dude, I don't know. Put that shit away.
I thought it was a shit, and I was like, what is happening? So, wait what are you going to do about that? Well, it's getting fixed. Did you jerk him off? No, no, no, dude.
It was. This is what.
By the way, this was all happening in the last, like, four fights of Ruff and Rowdy. Like, it was all these things.
He was just boned up? He was boned the fuck up, and I'm like trying to. The ring girls? I think it was right when the horse came out.
This is what a dog. Normie wants that horse hat.
This is what a dog with a boner is supposed to look like. No, Billy, stop sending dog boners! That's what it's supposed to look like.
What the fuck is that? Yeah, your dog's got a tiny dick. Normie looks like he's in pain.
Oh my god, dude. He looks like he's in pain.
It looks like there's a giant eel grabbing its crotch. Oh, God, Hank.

That might actually be worse.

That might be worse.

Seeing his boner might be worse than your pants.

Like how you finally have one thing that's worse.

Honestly, is that why they call them wiener dogs?

Boner dogs, yeah.

Does every wiener dog have a huge hog like that? This was, I mean, it was stunning.

It was stunning.

It was stunning.

Stunning. Shocking.
Stunning. Demoralizing.
Do you have envy? No. Are you, like, mad at it? No, I was just like, I mean, it was more just funny.
Like, Rhea had said that it happened to her. She was like, Norman's whole dick was on my leg.
And I laughed it off being like, oh, whatever. Like, you know, little dog, little dog bone are not a big deal.
Like, you're over, over being overdramatic. And then I saw it and was like, holy shit, that was on your leg.
Wait, so how did he, did you, like, have to pet him to get it down? He was, like, crying for a second. I was like, mm-mm.
And I, like, pet him. Yeah, dude.
And then it eventually went. You're giving him relief.
It's fucked up. Give him relief.
Or put, like, baseball on TV or something. Yeah.
What do you think about Billy just saying that Normie's not a dog? I mean, Billy's the worst. I mean, it's...
Billy, you had like a... I got eight in the lotto machine.
You would jerk off Normie. You had frogs, you had like a hundred chickens.
Can we stop with the whole fucking fucking animal shit? Well, yes. We would like you to stop that.
No, no. I don't do that.
Why'd you get the hedgehog, Billy? Dude, bet on stuff. Interesting.
I got 14. Interesting.
Go ahead, Billy. No, I got 74.
Seven motherfucking teens. 74.
Someone said I gave a bitch 17. 69.
Sorry, go. Hit it, Billy.
74. Frog fucking freak.
No, you can get the fuck out of there with that. We got stadium fuckers.
We got... Yeah, that's right.
How old's that stadium? The consented. How old was that stadium? In stadium years, it's 18.
39. Anyway.
Danny Woodhead, that sucks. Yeah.
That sucks that you didn't pick Danny's number. I always pick eight, though.
That's my explanation. No, you always pick Danny Woodhead.
He picked on August 30th. Chimpanzees commit cannibalism.
Also, Costco just banned monkey picked coconuts. No more monkey business.

That's what I was saying. No, fuck you,

dude. That was my lie.
Damn.

Alright, see you everyone on Monday.

Love you guys.

Bye. I'm to say I'd say it anyway.
Today's another day to fight you. Shine it away.
I'll be coming for your love of cake. Shine it away.
I'll be coming for your love of cake. Take on me.
Take me on. I'll be gone The day I'm up to Needless to say I'm on the sentence But I'll be stolen away To only learn that life is okay Say after me It's no better to be safe than sorry Say after me It's no better to be safe than sorry Take on me Take me on I'll be gone In a dark dream All the things that you say Is it a lot of hope Just to play my worries away You're all the things I've got to remember You're shying away I'll be coming for you anyway Take on me Take me on I'll be gone empty I'll be gone empty It's pardon My Take presented by Barstool Sports.