Mike Florio, Week 6 Preview And Nick Saban Has The CoCo

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And Nick Saban's got the cocoa.

He's got the cocoa.

He's got the cocoa.

He probably got it from one of his cream pies that he eats every morning.

Oh, okay.

While watching the weather.

That took a right turn from where my brain was. Am I freaking out a little bit to be like, Nick Saban can't get the cocoa?

Nick Saban is an impenetrable force of all diseases and fun. Well, it might just be him wanting to spend more time recruiting.
This gives him valuable time around his phone. He should just have Miss Terry coach on the sidelines for him.
Either that or maybe put the scissor lift like the high school coaches did. Have him down there.
Brian Kelly would do a scissor lift. Yeah.
You don't want to fall behind to Notre Dame. Don't bring that up.
So, yeah, that was kind of the big story. Nick Saban's got the cocoa.
I guarantee that there are at least six Alabama fans that have signed up for a waiting list to donate their lungs to Nick Saban if it comes to that. Easily.
Also, we get Steve Sarkeesian now coaching on Saturday night, which should be hilarious. If Alabama loses, does it count? Is it is this the Coach K thing? does Nick Saban not get this on his record do do when we when we do the playoff committee can we say well that one loss not Nick Saban doesn't count I unironically think yes I think Nick Saban will get in front of uh the press and say exactly that yeah be like hey guess what that wasn't my team that was Steveve sarkeesian's team and did you see him at washington usc exactly is there a possibility of a hugh freeze game like put a hospital install a hospital room in the stadium i would imagine i know nick saban technically i think can't have any contact with the team but i would imagine he's going to be coaching somehow some way somehow some way uh he's going to be coaching on saturday night he's probably got the greatest like in in the ultimate twist he's got the greatest technology ever in his a batman cave in his in his house i mean he sits there with all the tvs and he's ready to go so it says that you can't have any technological contact with the team but could he start like a big-ass bonfire outside the stadium and send smoke signals up into the air or maybe it may be a tornado siren yeah just goes off morse code tornado siren why not give a shot i i do kind of think that like nick saban is definitely like he's worth seven points in this game yeah so if they lose by fewer than seven points, then I would say this does not count as a loss.

Yeah, I'd agree.

So we have NFL Week 6.

We have no Thursday night football.

Kind of weird.

But I agree with what you said on, I think, Wednesday's show, PFT.

The way the schedule is working out, the surprise football,

like Monday night we have another double Monday night.

I'm kind of digging that we just have football in random places. It's like looking under the cushions of your couch and finding a football game.
Yeah, exactly. Like going into some sweatpants that you haven't worn since last fall.
I found $12 in a pair of sweatpants. Here's Bill's Chiefs.
Exactly. Weird.
It's kind of cool. I like the double Monday night games.
We do have Arch Manning playing tonight. Oh.
Yeah, Archie's grandson, which further fuels. Is he on TV? On ESPN2.
Fuck yes. It fuels our take that Archie Manning is the shadow commissioner, canceled Thursday night football.
His grandson now gets the spotlight all to himself in prime time. Yep.
Also in Manning news, Peyton Manning had a little picture come out. He's on the beach.
He had a six pack. Did you see that? No.
Peyton Manning has a six pack. Well, it's funny you say that because our very own Billy Football spotted that he's got the cone nipples, which means possible HGH.
It was his very own Omaha Beach down there. Huge week for nipples between Peyton Manning and Cardi B.
Yes. Are nipples having a moment? They are.
I mean, on aggregate, they make one perfectly sized nipple. Just the nipple week.
That's what we remember. Let's not shame Cardi B for her nipples.
No, who is? When I look at those nipples, I see. Well, I didn't look because I'm respectful.
I was forced to look. Somebody showed me a screen grab of it.
I could not look away. And then I looked again.
I see beauty. I see life coming from those nipples.
She's got a kid. She breastfeeds.
Cardi B, by the way,

we already knew that she was the coolest,

but the way she handled it being like, players fuck up. Yeah.
Like, whoops.

Didn't mean to do that. I mean, that was my fire fest.

If we can jump to it early, I'm just going to say

Cardi B being back with Offset, that's

tough for me. Yeah.
You need another one.

I do. I'm pressed on

Cardi B. I need to move on.
You're pressed on

Cardi B. Billy, can you give us your update on Peyton Manning's nipples?

Billy, you're just eating some Swedish fish during the show?

You mean his abs?

Did you just walk out?

Oh, you got Hank's food.

Got it.

Yeah, his abs.

You said that there was something about his nipples.

No.

Yeah, you said something about HGH.

Who knows Swedish fish in the mic?

I think his wife definitely...

Yeah, this is...

His fertility medicine. Oh, okay okay so he's ovulating always multiple nipples like a pig oh okay i like that well i mean you're our hgh specialist what else do we have i don't know he looks pretty low body fat yeah for a guy that old you think he's probably not eating a lot of carbs he's definitely ju.
Definitely juicing. I feel like a lot of retired guys just start juicing because they could never do it during their...
I would. For fun.
Yes. His arms got jacked after he retired.
Brett Favre looks very old, though, recently. Like, TRT.
Brett Favre fell off a cliff in terms of his age because there was that moment where he had a couple pictures out there, not the other picture, but a couple pictures out there where he was looking like a beast. Yeah, he was not looking like a beast in that one picture.
No. That I thought he was talking about.
Well, a tiny beast. Packs of punch.
It's also funny that Billy assumes that professional athletes treat HGH like most people treat smoking dope. Like they get to retire from their jobs.
Now I can finally smoke weed and not be drug tested. It's like Peyton Manning quits.
And he's like, now I can finally take HGH and reap all the benefits now that I'm no longer. I like that take.
Yes. All right.
So what else we got? Oh, the Falcons have the cocoa as well. No, they don't.
Schefter. Really? Fucked it up.
What happened? I have not been on the Internet today. Someone explain.
I'm going to say this. I'm not 100% confident in this.
That's okay. Let's just know.
Take. Hold on.
Time out. Redo this.
Go 100% confident. I will go 100% confident and then I will look and check.
Schefter reported three Falcons players had Coco. Turns out it was one.
It was actually only one non-player that had it. Jake's shaking his head yes so shepter is on the hot seat and he fucking lied about uh gilmore and cam newton what do you mean he said that they had gone out to dinner on like a rate on the eei radio show before it came out that they had corona like he was just on a show and he was talking about how cam newton and stefan gilmore are uh like getting along together they had dinner after it came out that both of them had corona people were like wait this must be from the dinner shepter was talkingon Gilmore are getting along together.
They had dinner. After it came out that both of them had corona, people were like, wait, this must be from the dinner Shepter was talking about.
Gilmore's girlfriend or wife, I forget, came out and was like, they never had dinner. That's not a thing that happened.
And so it might have been a throwaway story by Shepter, but now that they both had corona, he was forced to be like, where did you get your sources? He's like, well, I don't know. It might have been dinner.
They didn't go out to dinner. It might have been dinner in one of their houses like i'm not sure but they had dinner ah even though all the sources like no they didn't and he made a joke about the election that's probably the worst thing oh god and that canceled yep big time canceled i do like that we're now getting to the point where we're passing the canceled and being like no the they were canceling the cancel canceler we're finally finally getting to the final, the death rattles of cancel.
It's a smelted-delted situation. Yes, exactly.
Like, oh, you see something problematic here? You're problematic. Got it.
Nice work, everyone. Yeah.
So they don't have, so that game is on no matter what? Yes, good. Falcons, good to go like no plantings there we go Jake and it looks like we were both wrong on Wednesday's show no way yeah can you believe it when we we took predictions on who the first person to say that Andy Dalton is just as good as Dak Prescott I think we said Dan Orlovsky and maybe there was somebody else well we someone pointed out that it was crazy we didn't mention our friend Andrew Perloff-McLovin from the Dan Patrick show but he was completely ineligible because I'm assuming he said that the day that Andy Dalton signed with the Cowboys.
I think Perloff was probably writing that take five years ago out of nowhere just being like that guy Dak who you think is good actually Andy Dalton is better. Like you know when you're in middle school and you write the name of your crush, Perloff has been doing that all offseason being like, if Andy Dalton was on the Chiefs, 60 touchdowns, 6,000 yards, so each team would actually get better with Andy Dalton.
He's practicing signing his name. He's like, Andy Perloff.
That looks really good. But, yeah, it was Colin Coward.
Colin Coward said today. Easy.
God. I think he's kind of wading into it saying that you don't lose much at all.
That's so Skip did the same thing. He did a why the Cowboys aren't in as much trouble as people think.
So they're dancing around it. I'm going to give them both half credit.
I want to see someone go full-blown Andy Dalton should be signed to a long-term deal instead of Dak of Dak. Let's just take it one step further and say that Andy Dalton is a better quarterback than Dak Prescott because his leg's not broken.
Good point, Big Cat. And also, he's better because he's worse.
So the team has to play more cohesively. They have to scheme for Andy Dalton.
They can't just coast on Dak's talent anymore. Mike McCarthy has to sit down and use his pro football focus subscription to figure out how to make Andy Dalton efficient, which he didn't have to do with Dak.
So Trent Dilfer actually kind of did make that point with Rosillo on Monday or Tuesday. He said that the Cowboys are going to have to run the ball a little bit more and be more balanced.
Yeah. And balanced football is the key.
Now we're cooking. Yeah.
So we're getting there. We're roundabout getting there by, I'd say week 11, there will be people saying that Andy Dalton deserves a five-year $250 million contract.
I disagree week 11. I think probably this week.
This week. Well, Monday night.
Yeah. Yeah.
You could get a good game out Andy Dalton, and then the take start. Am I expecting Andy Dalton to light the league on fire for seven or eight consecutive weeks? Not expecting it, but it could happen.
But with the system, he could do it. Okay, let's do a weekend preview.
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And then Monday night has two good games that are at least compelling. So let's start.
Texans at Titans. The Texans, Romeo Cornell, is he going to be the interim wizard? He's three and one all time as interim head coach.
The Titans coming off the extra short week, which I love, which no team has ever played, what, one, two? Two games in five days. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, four days rest, except every single Thursday night game that's ever been played.
Yeah, I like. You know that's going to be a thing like super short rest, which I guess, yes, obviously the Texans didn't have to do it, so it's not totally the same.
But but every time we do this with the schedule being weird when we had that moment where it was like the chiefs might have to play three games in 11 days as opposed to three games in 12 days but it's also you know take into account the fact that they got a lot of time off before those games even started so um i like i like tennessee i'm not a believer yet in romeo the what'd you call the interim wizard? Interim wizard. Interim wizard is a good title, though.
Ever since you said that, I was thinking maybe he is an interim wizard. I'm leaning towards the Titans on this one.
Yeah. But you know what? This line makes no sense.
Tennessee's 4-0, and the Texans are 1-4 on their second coach and the line is 3.

Yeah.

It's because Vegas believes in me that they're the best worst team.

Yeah.

Wait.

I thought the Vikings were.

They're tied.

Remember they're tied with the Texans because they beat the Texans but then they got rid

of Bill O'Brien.

That's right.

Next up, Bengals, Colts.

I'm getting nervous for Joe Burrow because the talent around him sucks I'm now he can definitely he'll be fine but I'm also nervous for his like body for his health this year yeah for his health I agree with that I'm also nervous that people are talking about Philip Rivers maybe getting benched washed I've heard that washed I disagree sir who's behind him Jacoby Jacoby You were set. Yeahissett yeah so I mean Jacoby's proven that he can come in and play like two good games and then get another contract so I don't know might be time might be time I hope that it's not I hope that this is actually the perfect get well game for Phil Rivers absolutely so if he comes at home yes if he comes out we don't know we don't know yet but probably close actually Jim Ursae said last week he might get fucking nuts with it.
He said, you want to get nuts? We'll get nuts. I might open the roof halfway.
Like a moon roof. What if he just kept his finger on the open all game and then closed so it was just going back and forth, oscillating, like an oscillating fan? Like a kid that you let sit shotgun for the first time in your car and he's just going back and forth back and forth yeah he might do that I think that I would imagine then the like whoever maybe Jim Ursae owns the dome but maybe the city of Indianapolis they have to put a child proof lock on the dome on the dome button I can't fuck with it anymore yeah I think that I think Jim Ursae what he should do is open it for the first half if they're winning leave it open it open.
If they're losing, close the dome. That's the real 12th man.
I do think the Colts are going to win this game and get right. Falcons, Vikings.
I do think there is a, and we've talked about it with Deion, which is a good point that only really a player can totally vocalize. the feeling of your coach gets fired uh you get a bounce back because everyone in the locker room is like well i'm kind of fucked because whoever comes in next probably won't meet want me around so i gotta start playing for my job yeah you're not the next guy's guy right and it's all about being your guy's guy right and they don't even know who the next guy is going to be they don't know who the next guy who hires next guy who's going to determine who his guys are is going to be yet

so you got a guy problem yeah you got a guy problem and i i think there's definitely something

to that but i also think that there's something to losing in prime time if you're kirk cousins

everybody thinking that you stink and then coming back and playing a 1 p.m game against a shitty

team at home on fox that he's probably going to light it up. And with the Vikings, I'm at a crossroads of what I think about them because they do have – remember the Vikings had like 15 draft picks or whatever it was.
They started a bunch of rookies and they looked terrible the first few weeks. But now are their rookies good and they're getting experience and they're going to end up being a good team or are we just seeing like they they you know because the nfl is so weird you can have a team throw everything at throw everything at a game a primetime game and be like wow they're not as bad as we think but maybe they really are they just were really hard for a primetime game.
So I'm at a crossroads. I think the Falcons are going to win.
You're addicted to them. You can't quit them.
No, well, I did quit them. I did quit Dan Quinn's Falcons.
These are Raheem Morris' Falcons. That's true.
I think when it comes down to it, I'm with you because I think 70% of America is betting on the Vikings. Right.
This is a no-brainer like oh vikings the the falcons haven't won they got the cocoa according to schefter take the vikings uh-uh was that actually like a sneaky good leak by raheem morris being like hey we're gonna let some news get out there that we've all got the cocoa like how john gruden said that he had coronavirus to all his players to get them like galvanized around the team did uh did Raheem Morris just basically say hey everyone's got coronavirus and then the team like text each other being like hey are you okay are you okay oh it was a false alarm they still had that moment of togetherness where they were all worried together right like so Matt Ryan texted Todd Gurley and was like oh I actually haven't texted him in three months yeah it gives you an excuse right yeah wow we need to catch up when you hear about a friend who gets fired somewhere yeah you okay all right all right yeah um I also I just I laughed at the thought of if the Falcons did have coronavirus Dan Quinn wherever he tries to go next putting it on his resume like four weeks no coronavirus the minute I left coronavirus yeah I did that yes that's me you gotta take that I was able to to manage it all right Broncos Patriots I forgot the Broncos were in the league because we haven't seen them in what feels like forever this is the weird quirk schedule the Broncos played against the Jets on Thursday night football many people are calling it the Brett Rippon game and they haven't played since is. Is it still Brett Rippon? Yeah.
Okay. Drew Locke was four to six weeks, I think.
Okay. But it has been like three weeks.
We're going to assume. Time doesn't exist.
We're going to assume it's some combination of Brett Rippon and then who's the other guy? Just someone else that we know out there. What's his name? Drew Locke was a full participant in yesterday's practice.
We're talking about Blake Bortles. Yeah, I know.
Blake Bortles is ready to go. Blake Bortles is ready to go.
Blake Bortles is ready to go. There we go, Jake.
Thank you. Hank, thoughts? Pat's going to kill him.
They've had all this time to prepare. They've prepared for this game for two weeks.
It's basically like a playoff game. Is there an over-prepare, though? No.
Like Ernie Adams has started for the first time ever, Ernie Adams is second guessing his research because he's had so much time no I mean they're used to having bye weeks in the playoffs they do it all the time so having two weeks to prepare for opponent is is can only be a good thing yeah that's actually a good point yeah they're gonna kill him uh your Washington football team of the Giants this is gonna be a great game I think everyone's this is the battle for potentially first place in the NFC East. So both teams had this game.
They had it circled on their calendars a long time ago. Kyle Allen? Is Kyle Allen starting? Yeah, Kyle Allen.
I love the Washington football team in this game. Kyler Allen is back.
He knows the system that Ron Rivera likes to run where you don't use your timeouts. So, yeah.
I mean, at some point Daniel Jones is... there's going to be a leash on him.
There's going to be a leash on Daniel Jones this year. Joe judge is going to, it's going to be the Joe judge.
I got to save my job leash. Yes.
It'll be, it'll be a combination of that. And also Joe judge just hoping for a spark and the easiest way to get a spark is just like putting in a backup quarterback, hoping that you can get magic for like a half.
And honestly, if you're a head coach and you have a shitty backup come in and the shitty backup loses but doesn't play as poorly as you think that he was going to play, that becomes like a feather in your cap as a head coach. Like, look, he can get the most out of this guy's talent.
Yeah, that's true. That is absolutely true.
I do think that the Washington football team is going to win this game. I agree.
I really do. Oh, you know who the backup is? Who? Colt McCoy revenge game.
Oh. Colt McCoy is the backup for the Giants.
I would go with Colt McCoy in this game. I would probably go with Colt McCoy too.
Colt McCoy is a great one-term interim quarterback. Yes, I would probably go with Colt McCoy as well.
I like that. So, Coltt mccoy if you are listening to this try to get in the game and uh we'll watch you and be like oh good job colt mccoy um all right one of the games i'm very excited about the ravens and eagles i do think the eagles are getting a little bit better i don't think that they're good enough to beat the ravens but they are getting a little bit better and in the NFC East, you just have to win every month.
If you win one game a month, you're still alive. That's it, yeah.
So it's really, they already, do they get their win? They got their tie in September. They got their win in October.
So they're good for October. Yeah, I kind of like.
They don't need another win. I kind of like the Eagles.
I kind of like the Eagles. At seven and a half, I do, but I think the Ravens are going to win the game.
I kind Eagles in this one. I feel.
And this is, again, going back to the fact that we still think that the Eagles are what the Eagles were two years ago. Right.
But I don't know. They look frisky.
They've looked good the last couple of weeks. They've looked alive.
Yes. More alive than they have in the past.
I don't know if the Eagles get a lead in the first half, then they win. If they don't, then they lose.
Yeah. Or they tie.
or they tie they tie um browns stealers so the last time the cleveland browns beat the pittsburgh stealers in pittsburgh was 2003 16 years it's been 17 years 16 games that's remarkable that's really good and i you there comes a point in time where you want little brother to rise up and win,

but I just don't think it's going to happen.

The good news is I don't think Stefanski is getting fired after this game,

which has his tradition for Browns head coaches.

At 16 years?

It seems impossible to do.

Even the Patriots during their dynasty run, the Dolphins would go in there, the Bills, someone would shock them. 16 years? That's a lot of years.
There are kids in Cleveland that aren't old enough to get a DUI arrest yet that have never seen the Steelers lose at home to the Browns. Well, they're old enough to get a DUI.
They're not old enough to buy the beer themselves that gets them the DUI.

There are kids in Cleveland who are old enough to get arrested for their second DUI

that have never seen the Browns win on the road in Pittsburgh.

Drinking out of their dad's kegerator.

We are going to see a shitload of Miles Garrett, Mason Rudolph highlights in this game.

Oh, yeah.

Assault.

This is the assault revenge game. It is.
A lot of revenge games this weekend. Myles Garrett's been incredible, by the way.
Bears, Panthers, we don't respect Teddy Bridgewater enough, but I'm going to not respect him this week. I think the Bears offense is going to get going a little bit here because Nick Foles, if you've read any of the comments, Nick Foles is doing a public plea to have more control over the offense.
To basically say, let me cook. Let Nick cook.
So, I don't know if that's a good or bad thing. No, it's a bad thing.
No, but it's Matt Nagy, so it might be a good thing. Like, if Nick is like, hey, let me cook instead of Matt Nagy, I'll eat whatever Nick Foles cooks over Matt Nagy.
Matt Nagy's play card doesn't say be Nick.

It says be you.

It says be you.

And remember not to run.

Maybe it says be you as in like, because he's reading be you to somebody else.

Right.

You means somebody else.

Yeah, right.

If it said be me, then that means it should be Matt Nagy.

Maybe that's the entire thing.

His play card should say be me.

Right.

Instead, he's been like, I'm going to be Mitch. And maybe he forgets who he his play card should say be me right instead he's been

like i'm gonna be mitch and maybe he forgets who he is during the game that's a good point um i like the bears too is this the matchup of the two quarterbacks with the largest penises in the history of the nfl i would say so yeah wow absolutely say so where were you yeah where were you when this happened probably on your couch yep not even thinking about their penises This is also a mini, a mini like contender pretender game.

Not. you when this happened.
Probably on your couch. Yep.
Not even thinking about their penises. This is also a mini, a mini like contender, pretender game, not contender, Super Bowl

contender, but like playoff, like whoever wins this game, I would say we'll be in the

playoffs.

Wait, big cat, not a Super Bowl contender.

If the Bears win this game, they go to five and one, five and one.

Do you know what the percentages on teams that are five and one are to make the playoffs and this is in non you know seven team yeah playoffs it's got to be like 92 not apologizing super bowl the bears definitely are one of the teams in the one percent when they did that like eight years ago i think they started seven or eight and one and returned three interceptions for a touchdown pretty much every, and then they fell off the cliff. Yeah, you can count on the Bears to be one half of those really sad stats, but not the sad stats like the Browns' sad stats where it's like you haven't won in Pittsburgh since 2003, but like a sad stat like you thought it was going to be good, but actually the most heartbreaking team.
Right, it's not. Lions-Jaguars.
Let's actually do Lions- let's actually do lions jaguars jets dolphins in conjunction because if you put those two teams together or the the two games together i still don't think it would be compelling uh i i think the jags get off the schneid this week against the jets dolphins against the jets dolphins i like i like the i like guard the jacks have a win of Gardner-Minshew and Kerryon Johnson, I think, is going to be enough to overcome Greg Williams. Oh, see, I think it's more Matthew Stafford throwing it to...
DJ Shark. Yeah, I was going to name...
They don't... The Jets don't have any wide receivers.
Jameson Crowder. Jameson Crowder is what I was looking for.
It's always so sad that one team that no one has anyone on their fantasy team from. Okay, let's like yikes.
You wouldn't tell. There's always one team every single NFL season where it's like maybe when you have five of your players on a bye, you'll pick up their number one wide receiver otherwise no thank you let's go

back and forth and try to name as many players from these four teams a pool of four teams as possible ready yeah uh mike yosecki frank gore joe flacco sam darnold okay quarterbacks shouldn't count from here on out. Okay.
Chandler

Cox.

Braxton Berrios.

Kerryon Johnson.

Kerryon Johnson. That's good.
Fuck. Let's see.
Oh, what's his name? Miles Jack. He's still good.
He's still really good, actually. The guy, the running back.
Robinson. James.
Oh, Mike Florio's Robinson. Robinson.
Yeah, yeah, Mike Florio's Robinson. Oh, Kenny Galladay.
Shit, okay. Kenny Galladay.
Kenny Galladay. Jamal Adams isn't there anymore.
I'll do a Kenny Galladay adjacent Marvin Jones as well. Know that.
You know that. The Lions have a couple guys.
Golden Tate. Golden Tate.
He's not still. He's on the Giants.
Yeah, that's okay. All right, we'll end there.
Yeah. But that's good.
Oh, and TJ Hawkinsj hockinson the lions have a couple guys they've got some guys they've got some guys um that's but honestly when you think about it the fact that we took those four teams and off the top of our heads that's as as deep as we got yeah that's just it's just pretty much the lions um very depressing did you see adam gaze so adam gaze said uh that he is down for anyone else to call the plays. He's open.
If it's better for me to not do anything, I won't do anything. So there was a report.
Gase said he talked to his staff about the play calling question and the people who work under him and they agreed that Adam Gase is the best guy for the job. So they essentially were like, wait, you want us to steer the Titanic? No, thank you.
Well, it's a combination of Adam Gase thinking he's outsmarting his assistants by being like, I'm going to be Kim Jong-Gase, and hey, guys, I shot 19 strokes on this par 73 golf course, right? And them being like, no, he's trying to get us to take responsibility. Not going to happen.
It really is though the the captain of the titanic being like hey can you can you grab the wheel real quick i just gotta go take a piss yeah don't try to try not to make anything weird happen while i'm gone but it's also like i see that big white thing in front of us just you you hop in for a minute but like adam gaze asking his subordinates be like hey hey do you guys think i'm doing a good job? Yeah. Breaking news, Dave Portnoy has 100% approval rating from Tommy Smokes.
That's pretty much what it is. And then Loggins, your boy.
Dow Loggins. Dow Loggins.
He said, it's not a coaching problem. It's an execution problem.
Throwing his players on the bus. Well, I'll say something nice about the Jets.

They could always go back to hyperdrive.

But that's Joe Flacco.

You already used your hyperdrive.

Hyperdrive.

We need some hyperdrive.

All right.

This is another game we're excited for.

Packers, Bucs, the Battle of the Bays, the old...

Is it Mike Sherman and Warren Sapp?

I think so. To put a jersey on Cliff? Put a a jersey on after Warren Sapp fucked up Chad Clifton.
I want to say it was... That sounds right.
Yeah, put a jersey on. It's an all-time clip way back in the day.
Yeah, Mike Sherman and Warren Sapp yelling at each other in the middle of the field after the game, I don't know, 2000,

and Warren Sapp just kept on yelling to Mike Sherman,

put a jersey on, put a jersey on, which is an all-time, like,

you fucking suck, you nerd.

Yeah.

I'm excited for this game.

Yes, I'm very excited for this game. I think Tom Brady bounced back game.

Oh.

Yeah.

It's not that he played that poorly, but here's my prediction.

He just forgot what down it was.

Yeah, well, he forgot what quarter it was. I'm going to say Tom Brady throws three touchdowns but one pick six.
Ooh, he's good for one of those. I also am, in a real football sense, I'm very interested to see what happens to the Bucs defense without Vito Bay because he's probably their best player.
I love when we do this as analysts.

He's not their best player.

He's their most important player.

But don't they have Indomitian too?

Yes, but Vita Vank, he clogs the middle.

He takes everything.

Yeah, he doesn't rack up the stats.

He lets the linebackers free.

They're not going to be free anymore. Yeah, I agree with that.

I like the phrase most important player. Yeah, it's like for the Packers, Aaron Rodgers is the Packers' best player.
Jordan Love is their most important player because it's made Aaron Rodgers good again. For the Golden State Warriors, Draymond Green isn't their best player, but he's their most important player.
He makes it go. Yeah, it's essentially trying to subtly tell everyone that you think of the game on a higher level.
Like, you think that this guy, who is incredible, is their best player. But you would be wrong.
Because the guy who's most important is the 400-pound nose tackle that keeps everything going. Speaking of that, did you see that Pro Football Focus awarded their best big-time throw of the week to Patrick Mahomes on that 70-yard bomb that didn't count because of the holding penalty.
It was a big week for the big plays that ended up not really mattering because the Derrick Henry stiff arm, which rocked the internet, I went back and I looked. Derrick Henry had 57 yards, three yards per carry.
Great game. Everyone was like, Derrick Henry, how how can you stop him like well the Bills kind of did great game Billy had a take that I agree with at the start of that game when they started feeding Derrick Henry the ball he said Derrick Henry actually sneaky not a great short yardage running back oh Billy legs are too long yeah and I think he's great when he's going at people like Josh Norman or really just like linebackers or safeties once he gets to that second level.
Later in the season, later in the game. Early in the game when everyone's got fresh legs, maybe not the fastest to the hole.
But big guys just, they can swallow them up. Yeah.
Good point, Billy. A lot of leg to grab for D-linemen.
Billy, can you do a baldy breakdown on Derrick Henry?

Of course.

Do you think? Of course.

Like you've ever said, you're asking me to do a job.

Of course I'm going to get it done.

Billy, ten times we let Derrick Henry hit the hole.

You're the only guy on the other side of that hole.

How many times do you bring him down?

How many times can I dive his legs?

Every single time.

I take him down every time.

Oh, there we go, Billy.

Josh Norman's got nothing on Billy football. All right, last game of the week, and then we'll do some picks and fantasy fuckboys.
Rams Niners, this is my stinky, stinky game of the week because the line makes no sense. I do a thing.
On Sunday night, after we leave the office at 2 in the morning, I like to look up all the lines for the next week and do gut reaction because that's usually my dumbest moment and i saw it rams minus three and i was like oh my god that's the easiest bet of all time rams minus three i think the 49ers gonna win it's a rat line it i mean the 49ers couldn't have looked worse the rams are looking pretty damn good the 49ers barely have a quarterback at this point they're're like, it's all falling apart. So many injuries.
That's when you got to take the 49ers. These two coaches, too, have a lot of experience against each other.
Kyle Shanahan, Sean McVay. They grew up in the same systems.
Both boy wonders, both football geniuses. They might be thinking a bit too hard when they're putting this game plan together.
They're trying to outsmart each

other. Yes.
Well, really, if you

want to beat the other guy, at first you have to be able to

beat yourself. Yes.
And I think

Kyle Shanahan has a lot more experience in

beating himself than McVay does. That's very

true. So I'm going to take the 49ers.
Okay.

All right. Quick picks.

Do you want to do yours, Hank? Just

rattle them off over under favorite

underdog. Favorite Chiefs, underdog Bengals.

All right, so we're doing Monday night again.

Yep.

Over Packers, Bucks, under Titans, Texans.

I honestly don't look.

I just look at the board.

I just look at the board.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

No, it's okay.

You do what you got to do.

My favorite is going to be your favorite. Your favorite.
Billy football. I'm going to go with the Dolphins.
Okay. Dolphins minus nine and a half.
And bonus favorite, Kansas City Chiefs. We do have the Dolphins to make the playoffs plus 600 in the Barstool Sportsbook app right now.
Let's go. The Fitzmagic bet under the exclusives.
Let's cook. So, yeah, I got the Dolphins minus 9.5.
And then my over is going to be – I'm going to go with the football team against the Giants, 43. Ooh.
I like that. Okay.
And then, wait, you have an underdog? My under – My underdog is the Bears, 1.5 at the Panthers. Same.
And then my under is the Dolphins-Jets, 47.

Okay, I got Bears.

Steelers, my favorite, over in the Battle of the Bay

just because it's a fun afternoon game.

You got to root for.

And then my under will also be in the Bears, Carolina, under 44.

I have a can't-lose parlay.

I'm doing something special this week.

It's plus 325 in the Barstool Sportsbook app.

Who's ready for it? It didn't win last week whatever colts yep ravens who you might not like these are all money line yep steelers uh-oh and then i adjusted the total in the um packers bucks game to 48.5. So you get basically a whole touchdown.

And that's plus 325.

I don't like it.

So essentially you just got to win the first three games.

Then you get to sit back and watch the afternoon game with the over adjusted.

You should be able to bet against the money line parlay too.

You like it, Hank.

Yeah.

You can bet against it.

Also, you can responsible gamble if you have a problem. 1-800-G it also you can responsible gamble uh with if you have a problem 1-800 gambler do that right now if you have a problem but it should be fun it should be entertainment the can't lose parlay can in fact lose but let's be honest it can't it mustn't lose it will not i uh it shall not i'd like to take this opportunity to announce that my over 3.5 field goal bet in prime time is back on right now i took it off i took it off for a while i got burned a few times kicking sucked at the start of the year i didn't feel it now i'm starting to feel it the weather's getting a little bit colder i do think that that has something to do with the ball going farther yep at night um so i do like over three and a half field goals in the sunday night game and something i've been keeping to myself i've been making some money on the last few weeks and uh and I feel selfish keeping it to myself, so I'll share it with you.
I also like to bet rushing touchdowns, or just touchdowns for quarterbacks in primetime games. So Carson Wentz got me some money.
Drew Brees got me a big payout with his quarterback sneak. And then Ryan Tannehill got me some big money too.
And almost blew his knee out. And almost blew his knee out celebrating.
So betting on quarterbacks to score either rushing or receiving touchdowns has been a godsend for me. So just keep that in the back of your head.
Yeah, do that. And then also Barstool Sportsbook app.
We're going to be in other states soon, hopefully. But if you're in Pennsylvania, I threw in a couple new bets.
We have Mississippi State. I don't know if you heard, they scored two points.
Two points. Wow, I scored more points than that against Brandon Walker in the dozen last night.
Yep. Oh, damn, fighting words.
So there's actually a bet now. It's a max $100 bet, so it's $100 to win $10, but it's Mississippi State over under two points on Saturday.
I got to be honest with you. I might take the under.
So if you wanted to bet $100, you win $10 just for fun. But, yeah, I mean, all they got, you can win that bet if they hit a field goal in the first quarter.
Can I win that bet if they get shut out and I bet the under? Yeah, we can make that. Because I would love to see what the payout would be on that.
If I bet $10, then I win. And I don't want to take too much credit, but I'm going to take credit.
I think I have solved soccer in America. We are introducing the goal of Palooza.
So it's just the Hanson for the EPL. I like that.
Over 12 and a half goals on Saturday in the EPL. You don't have to bet a team.
You can just bet how many goals they're going to be. I mean, I've been saying that's the right way to do it.
Yes to just make everybody we're Americans we like scoring all they need to do I think we said this in like season one a part of my take they need to make goals worth like seven points each yeah I mean that's what football does make the goal a little bit wider a little bit taller just make each goal worth more points because then you have like a two to nothing game it's like oh they0. That sounds way cooler.
Yes. So all you have to do is wake up on Saturday morning.
You can do it right now. 12 and a half.
And if all the games, you can bet the under if you want, but you'd be a loser. But then you have action on all the APL.
Look at that. Solve soccer in America.
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What's up, boys? What up? What up? It's Carmine Chordadello. Yeah, Chordadello.
What's your name? Carmine Chordadello. Okay.
My stardom this week is David Attenborough. Yeah.
You guys how old this fucking guy is? How old? He's 94 years old. Jesus Christ.
Still sounds and looks fucking mint. Watch the doc on him.
It's crazy. He's that old.
Billy's like, hell yeah. It's a great doc.
It's a great doc. Dude loves the earth.
My cinema is Bronnie Jr. Uh-oh.
Smoking the reefer. FaZe Clan's newest member, Bronnie James, was reportedly grounded from a Warzone event by his dad following the incident of smoking weed on Instagram.
Wow, LeBron James is a cop. He don't talk to the feds.
Wow, he just got home and laid the hammer down. The hammer.
My sleeper is Henry Ruggs. It's a great name.
The name of Kings. Ruggs? And he's fast as fuck.
Damn. If you sleep on him, you're gonna get burned.
Fuck. I like that.
I like that, Hank. Henry Ruggs translates to Hank's passed out again.
What's up, fuckheads? This is Vinny Adovino. I'm starting Arch Manning.
That's right. This kid, no social media, no recruiting.
He's doing it the old school way. Pussy.
OS. For light.
Pussy. Just having.
He's having fun being a kid playing games on ESPN2 like every other year. By the way, LeBron, this is how you deal with a kid, okay? Keep him off social media.
Keep him off the junk. You hijack trunks like a real man.
The only junk he should be on is the one when he puts it on someone's face when they're not asking for it and then we sweep it under the rug that's what Peyton did. This guy stuff I'm sitting taxes the government wants to take your hard earned money we put in our time we put in for our extension guess what taxes are due.
Tax day the government wants Henry Ruggs the government thinks they can spend your money on highways and schools that you can't get into.

You hear that, Virginia Tech?

Fuck you, you pieces of shit.

Billy, make an app that tells us what the ratio is at colleges.

I didn't want to go to Tech anymore.

I want to go to Sarah Lawrence College.

I don't want to with Sausage Fest around here.

My sleeper?

I'm sleeping Tom Brady.

That's right.

He's going senile.

You want him to sleep?

He's going senile.

It just means that instead of kissing his relatives on the lips, he's going toile. He's going senile, but it just means that instead

of kissing his relatives on the lips,

he's going to get confused and shoot them when they come into

the house. R.I.P.
Junior Soprano.

Damn. Spoiler.
Alright,

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is Silvio Tortellini.

What's up, Torts?

Stardom. Chili.
I'm

officially announcing it's chili season again.

We've gotten there. Everyone get your beef.
Everyone get your beaten beans or no beans? I like some beans. I like some beans.
Makes you feel like a man. Make sure you get your me undies because chili season's here.
It's a magical fruit. Yeah.
Sit them. The entire Jets franchise.
That place stinks. Fuck them.
Le'Veon Bell. You got three.
The Jets suck. That's all I got.
They're nine and a half point underdogs for the Dolphins. New York City's a joke.
No, into Miami. Into Miami.
Into Miami. Into Miami.
But holy shit. And then my sleep is wool socks.
Wool socks. I love wool socks.
Too itchy for me. And guess what? You can't hear you coming.
I get sweaty. I get sweaty at night.
You get the sweaty ass feet? I get the sweat foot. Yeah.
How you doing? It's Salvershuto. Noooooooooooooooooooooooooed Indians By Tyler Childers That song bangs It's a really good song It's Feathered Columbus Day You listen to it with your buddies When you're late night My cinema is Brown Brown's defense.
They're going to suck against the Steelers, and my sleeper was sweaters. But that's a lot like wool socks.
But you know what else is cool? The socks for your nip-nips. Your nipple socks.
Toilies. What are nipple socks? What? I don't know.
Oh. Pasties.
Pasties. They don't let you show nipples in their clubs like they used to.
Cardi B needs them. Is that it? Baby one.
That's it. That's your sleeper? She's Coasters.
My sleeper. It's Daylight Savings Time.
What is it? Oh, it's this week. Make sure you change your clocks.
God damn it. We fucked it up.
Don't sleep in. Last week we said it was, but it's not.
It's this week. Daylight Savings Time.
If you fuck this up, here's a good good thing if you go to a bar you get an extra hour right no you have to go home no no no you get an extra fall forward yes so you have to go home early you have to go home early false what i meant false forward yeah so you get an extra hour of sleep though uh no yes no no fall back fall forward forward yes spring back yes fuck i always fuck that up all so set your clocks back an hour you know what just get rid of your clock no forward forward wake up wake up with the sun fall forward or buy a rooster back so yeah make sure no seriously though daylight savings this weekend if you fuck that up people will be very upset you don't want to be that loser because everyone's like oh my god how did you not know not know? All right, should we do Florio? Should we do Mike Florio? Should we do the cock? Should we do the cock with Florio? What? What are you going to say, Billy? Friends of the Program Parlay? Yeah. Go ahead.
Give it to us. Friends of the Program Parlay.
Wait, is it the same teams every time because our friends don't change? No, no. Well, no, whether they play does change.
Oh, yeah, true. So anyway, so we have Cincinnati to cover.
We have the Browns money line. We have the Titans to cover, the boys.
Then we got the Bills money line, Rams money line. And then there's also the psycho shit parlay.
What are the odds? The odds are plus 4,222. Okay, nice.
What's the psycho shit parlay? The psycho shit parlay is plus 35,688. Oh, okay.
And it is all money line Cowboys, Eagles, Bengals, Bills, Jets. It's basically a lottery ticket, but if it hits.

If you do it responsibly, that's okay.

Yes, yes.

I don't mind that.

I might get on board the psycho shit.

If you brand it as like, yo, DBAP.

We're going to do some psycho shit.

You bet on the Jets.

Then now I want to bet on the Jets.

Yeah, like fuck it.

Psycho shit.

Psycho shit.

Let's do it.

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And now Mike Florio. okay it's time We welcome on our very good friend, long-time recurring guest.
It's been a long time since we talked to him. It is Mike Florio from Pro Football Talk and the Peacock Network.
You're on the cock? Are you on the cock? Really? That's where we're starting? We're trying to help you plug. Do you want to plug the cock? Yeah.
Are you on the cock? Hey, first of all, I am a longtime recurring guest, and it has been a long time since you guys have had me on, and I was starting to get a complex. I was starting to wonder what I did, or is this just like the relative that you just forget about or you put out the pasture or you're embarrassed by him now, and we still think of him fondly, but we don't want anything to do with him anymore.
So I was relieved to get the invitation. I'm glad you said it.
Yeah. Well, you want to go there? You want to go there to start? You want to go there to start? I'd rather go there than where you guys were trying to go.
All right, well, let's go there. Mike Florio, are you rooting for the season to get canceled because of coronavirus? Because it sometimes feels like it.
Why would I be rooting for the season to get canceled? Do you understand the sometimes feels like it why would i be rooting for the season to get canceled you understand the name of my business right it's profootballtalk.com it's not rootforthevirus.com oh i thought it was coronabrofootballtalk.com yeah karenflorio.com and and i mean can i just say one thing about this please i'm going to anyway even don't give me permission. The fact that I have been, and I think others are in this same boat, vigilant about making sure that the league does everything that it has to do to allow for football to happen does not mean that we're trying to root against football or that we want to be able to say, I told you so.
The NFL had a hell of a head start here. It shouldn't be having the problems it's having now.
It shouldn't be learning on the fly when it had time to get its ducks in a row. Now, some of the stuff that it's learning, I guess, is news to the scientific community as well.
But I was always banging the drum of take it seriously, take it seriously, take it seriously, so we wouldn't get the season derailed, so we wouldn't have to have extra weeks, so we wouldn't lose games, so you wouldn't have a team make the playoffs with a nine and six record because it only played 15 games. That's what I've been trying to avoid, and I just at times feel like the NFL wasn't as determined to protect the game against the virus as it needed to be, and I'm glad that for the most part it seems to be, but that's why I was banging the drum.
I wanted there to be a season. Yeah, I mean, they only had five months to figure out what they were going to do with it.
And it was very funny, like over the summer, they waited until the very last weekend to figure out how they're going to. We said it was like us doing a summer project back in high school where you had one book that you had to read.
And the last three-day weekend, we're like, okay, we've got to cram in 250. Let's go to sparknotes.com and figure this thing out.
No, you're right, Mike. The one thing I do always respect and love about you is that you are trying to just kind of get answers and hold people accountable who should be held accountable, And that's the NFL not having a plan.
Now, do you though think there is a vibe sometimes where the doomsday of like a positive test? Everyone's like, well, hope you enjoyed football. It lasted football is going to keep like, is there anything that you could see happening now where they just stop playing the season? It feels like we're just going to keep powering through and we'll have delays and we'll have a Titans situation where they miss a week, but it's going to just keep going and going and going, maybe extend it a little.
But the season's happening. Yeah, the season's happening, and there will be a complete season.
At some point, the commissioner stopped using the term full season and began using complete season. And a complete season is one that ends with the Super Bowl being awarded.
Like 1982, before you guys were born, when there was only nine games due to the strike. And PFT's team pulled out the championship that year.
1987, when you guys were in diapers, the season was shortened because of the strike. PFT's team pulled off the championship that year.
So what you're saying is there's a history of the Washington football team winning during completed seasons that weren't full. Yeah, but here's the concern I have, that there will be at the end of the day, number one, we're getting very close to the point where you can't just move things around.
My understanding is the league has a computer model where if a game needs to be postponed, they hit the button and everything spits out the options for reshuffling the deck and getting all the games played. Once teams have had their bye weeks, you can't reshuffle games.
That's when week 18 becomes an issue. And then week 18 quickly becomes week 19.
And I think that's as far as they would go before they would start canceling games. But I don't think anybody wants a team that finished 9- six, getting into the playoffs over a team that was nine and seven, just because that team that was nine and six didn't play that one more game that it may have lost or a team that goes 12 and three being the one seed when there's a 13 and three team that maybe holds the tiebreaker, but the 12 or the 12, what the 13 and three team will get in the 12 and three team wouldn't get in.
I mean, it's just, it's, that's not acceptable. Having playoff spots and position determined by winning percentage isn't acceptable.
And I hope that that's not what it comes to. I hope that 256 games are played, whatever it takes, but the idea of pressing pause on the season, that's never made any sense to me because what do you, what do you do? How do you keep your guys in shape? Where do they go? They do what the Titans players did, and they go work out at some high school, and then the NFL gets mad about that.
I don't think you can press pause on the entire season. You just have to deal with these brush fires as they pop up and hope that they can extinguish them and let that team get back into the flow with everyone else.
What about the idea that Pro Bowl week, that's like another bye week. Could we push back everything yet another week and just say, okay, we're not going to have that gap between the championships and the Super Bowl? Well, they've already canceled the Pro Bowl, which is the only good thing to come out of the pandemic.
But yeah, now they have an extra week to play for. I mean, they've been planning for the possibility of bumping the Super Bowl back to President's Day weekend, something the NFL has wanted to do for years.
So you have flexibility. We've now got three weeks to play with.
You've got two weeks you can push the Super Bowl back, and then you've got the accordion where you can smash the Pro Bowl week out of the picture, move the championship games back. So they've got flexibility now.
The question is how much of it will they have to use, and it all comes down to how many more of these games have to be postponed. It can't just be nudged to a monday or tuesday but have to actually be moved deeper into the calendar once teams have had bye weeks that's when week 18 becomes in play and eventually week 19 is going to come in play as well so we go into football uh dan quinn got fired it was very early for a coach to get fired but it feels like this year even with coronavirus i think the nfl is the only league that's going to be like you know what we're just going to go through with all of our firings no one gets sympathy is uh they're going to be another one in the next couple weeks here that you can see coming well i mean look at the jets that's when everyone's paying attention to and they've had their schedule adjusted by the delay of the broncos patriots game where the bye week now is week 10 not week 11 and the next four opponents dolphins and it may not be in the exact order but bills patriots chiefs those are the four teams the jets play before their bye week it feels like that's that unless they they don't get embarrassed in at least one of those games or maybe find a way to win one of those games it feels feels like it's moving in the direction where it's not sustainable for the Jets to continue with Adam Gase,

even if ownership really wants to because they understand they're rebuilding.

I think the Lions are one to keep an eye on. You never know what's going to happen there.

I mean, look, in both Houston and Atlanta, no one saw those coming.

Now, the Atlanta one we kind of saw coming.

It was my understanding that the game against the Panthers was a big one for Dan Quinn.

I don't think people expected the general manager to get fired as well.

So, I mean, these owners are not afraid to take decisive action. And I think once some of them start doing it, it could be that others decide that they're going to do the same thing.
One kind of bright spot, if you're a Jets fan, is you get potentially head coach on an interim basis Greg Williams to step up and he's a guy that had what like 10 or 11 head coaching offers not but a year and a half ago so he's he is in high demand certainly do you think that Greg Williams had had anything to do with orchestrating the demise of Adam Gase I doubt well look I like when you I like when you go these places, but I, you know, the stuff Greg Williams did do during his career is probably worse than if it were true that he had anything to do with orchestrating the demise of Adam Gase. I just can't believe that the guy who was at the center of the Bounty Gate scandal, and at one point, and the thing that I thought would keep him from ever coaching again, at one point he submitted an affidavit that snitched on Jonathan Vilma for actually offering money to whoever took out Brett Favre in that NFC Championship game in 2009.
I thought once Greg Williams put his signature on that document, he would never be accepted in a locker room again. And maybe players just don't know that's what he did.
Maybe that's how he's gotten back in. He must be a hell of a coach though, because there's plenty of guys out there who can coach football.
For him to keep getting jobs after having that on his resume really is stunning to me. And, yeah, he could end up being the interim head coach of the Jets just like he was interim head coach of the Browns and went 5-3 a couple of years ago.
Yeah, that would be – I mean, Greg, interim head coach Greg Williams would be a sight to see. Speaking of Bounty Gate, you're very plugged into the saints sean payton you're the number one tasem hill fan in the world uh is there any vibe in new orleans that drew breeze is struggling a little bit maybe even though some of the numbers are there uh you know it seems like he's working tasem hill in more and that package is getting bigger and bigger as the season goes along? Well, what surprised me is the playoff game against Minnesota.
I thought Taysom Hill was the best player on the field for either team. And that's what really sparked this movement of what are they going to do with this guy? Is he the quarterback that will be taking over after Drew Brees retires? How much will they use him until now and then? And his usage on offense and special teams had plummeted early in the season.
And Chris Sims and I were arguing on PFT Live, which is on Peacock Network every day at 7 a.m. Eastern live and then on demand whenever you want it.
We've argued they've got to pick a lane here because I think there's a problem. Think about it in any job, in any industry, sports or non-sports.
If you're in this limbo where you don't get many opportunities, that puts a ton of pressure on you when your number does get called. And our argument was, use him all the time in this jack-of-all-trades role, or just make him the backup quarterback and never use him.
And I thought it was significant Monday night where there were a couple of key moments where Hill came in and Breeze went off the field. Usually they find a spot for Breeze somewhere on the offensive alignment when they bring Taysom Hill in to play quarterback.
And I don't think that there's going to be any type of a hard shift toward Taysom Hill to the point that it undermines Breeze. But I just think that if you're going to pay this guy $20 million over two years, and you see what he can do.
I mean, when he had that snap down near the goal line and he gets ahead of steam, you don't want to get in his way. He has special talents.
They just need to use him more. And I think the more he's in the flow of the game, the more he can do and the less likely he's going to freak out when he's only getting that cameo appearance here or there.
They just need to use him more. And I think he is highly talented and I think he can be very good.
And we'll find out next year if they make him the quarterback Breeze does retire I just think they've been caught in this in this mode where they're protecting him because he's the backup quarterback but they know that he's capable of doing some great things so they're using him just not as much as they did in the past this year is it different than it was last year when they had Teddy Bridgewater who was technically the backup quarterback but we saw a lot more Taysom Hill when it came like you know in a game that Drew Brees was starting Taysom would be the guy that switches in but Teddy if he had to start a game he would be the guy is it like that with Jameis right now like if Drew Brees

if his arm falls off during a game is it going to be like okay this is Jameis Winston's turn or is

it going to be a steady dose of Taysom Hill I've gotten the impression this year that if Brees

would get hurt it would be Taysom Hill playing quarterback and last year yeah it was Teddy

Bridgewater it required minimal change to the offense you know when you bring in a guy like

to Taysom Hill? I've gotten the impression this year that if Brees would get hurt, it would be Taysom Hill playing quarterback. And last year, yeah, it was Teddy Bridgewater.
It required minimal change to the offense. You know, when you bring in a guy like Taysom Hill, he has different skills than Drew Brees.
So you run different plays. And you got to think about the other 10 guys on the field.
They have a playbook they use. They have a game plan they use.
They're comfortable with what they're doing. Then all of a sudden, here comes this guy who does things completely differently than Brees does.
So I think Bridgewater was the guy last year because it was the easiest way to keep the offense going the way that they were accustomed to. This year, I think as they embrace the reality that Taysom Hill is going to be the guy, I think it would be Hill if Breeze would get injured.
And you know, today is today Thursday. He wasn't on the injury report yesterday.
Oh, they're on a bye week. So we don't have to see any injury news on on the Saints until next week he took a he took a a weird hit when he got knocked down by Joey Bosa on Monday night and he was limping for a little bit and if they were playing this weekend I'd be curious to see if he had some sort of an ankle thing and yeah if he gets injured my my gut feeling is it would be Taysom Hill over Jameis Winston who would play it would be hilarious if Taysom Hill got injured and Jameis Winston ran the Taysom Hill package

and just fumbled on every play.

Every time.

Give us a number, a contract number for Dak Prescott now.

Well, here's the thing we've got to keep in mind.

The Cowboys have exclusive rights to negotiate with Dak Prescott

from the time the season ends. And technically they can negotiate now.
They just can't do the deal until the regular season ends. And then when the franchise tag window closes, usually it's late February, that's the moment where they either sign him to a long-term deal, apply the franchise tag, or let him become a free agent, and the market will determine what his value is.
And it's important this year for two reasons. One, because of what he made this year, 31.4 million fully guaranteed, he gets it all.
Next year under the franchise tag, he'd be entitled to a 20% increase. That's 37.68 million to use the tag again.
The other complicating factor there, the franchise tag won't change for Dak even as the salary cap drops to as low as $175 million because of the pandemic. You're talking about 21.5% of your entire salary cap that you may have to commit to Dak Prescott without knowing that he's healthy or that he will be healthy.
That's going to be the challenge for the Cowboys. So unless Dak finally decides to do that aw shucks team friendly deal that the Cowboys

have been trying to get him to do, if he continues to hold firm, the Cowboys. So unless Dak finally decides to do that aw shucks team friendly deal that the Cowboys have been trying to get him to do, if he continues to hold firm, the Cowboys are going to have to pay him $37.68 million, a long term contract based on $37.68 million is your starting point, which makes the numbers go up quickly, or let him become a free agent and see what the market will bear.
And that's the most fascinating outcome because I think other teams would roll the dice. I think other teams in the division would roll the dice to try to get him away from the Cowboys.
And I think at the end of the day, if they can't work something out, it's going to be franchise tag. He's going to be guaranteed $37.68 million, even before they know whether or not his ankle's healed.
What about Dak? If Dak said to Jerry, hey, that last contract he offered me, let's do do the Cowboys do it I think they would do it I think they would absolutely huh absolutely they would do it I don't think Dak would do it because Dak still holds all the cards yeah even with the broken ankle he holds all the cards and when you look at the outpouring of support this is a point Peter King made earlier this week on PFT Live on Peacock every weekday morning seven to nine actually it was a separate video we did for yahoo sports so it

wasn't on peacock he'll be on peacock on friday but he made the point that the outpouring of

emotion and support for dak prescott actually makes it harder for the cowboys to not keep him

the question becomes does dak want to continue to be all business not paying attention to team

friendly deals or you know that effort that jerry jones and stephen jones make to get the guy to

Thank you. to be all business, not paying attention to team-friendly deals or, you know, that effort that Jerry Jones and Steven Jones make to get the guy to see it the team's way.
And it works with everyone else. It didn't work with Dak.
And I don't think Dak's going to change his approach. Dak's locked into his approach and Dak's confident he's going to be healthy.
So his attitude will be trust that I'm going to be healthy or use the franchise tag or let me hit the open market and we'll see what someone else will pay me. Okay.
What about the quarterback position in San Francisco? They're playing on Sunday night football on NBC. Is that on the cock too? It's Sunday night, right in the cock.
We're going to have San Francisco and the Los Angeles. It's on the big cock, not the small cock.
Yeah. It will be available on NBC.
It streams on NBCSports.com. It's not available on the excellent Peacock streaming service.
Okay. Did you have a moment when you guys were like, did you say to NBC, hey, if we call it the Peacock, part of my take guys are just going to say the cock for the rest of the time.
And also P's in too right you you assume that i've got a lot more sway than i do i don't get asked questions like that seems like something that would have been brought up but on sunday night you got the you got the 49ers their quarterback position just got a whole lot more interesting because jimmy g got benched at halftime last week um we're kind of of the mindset that there's not a huge gap between Jimmy G and Beathard or Nick Mullins. In fact, they're kind of all the same quarterback.
Jimmy G just looks a little bit better. Is there a real chance that he is going to be benched for a start? Is he in potential of losing that cemented starting gig? Well, I mean, think about it.
They chose to go with him last week when he clearly was still hampered by the ankle instead of a healthy C.J. Beathard or Nick Mullen.

So that tells me that Garoppolo,

among the choices on the roster, is still the guy.

And on Wednesday, he fully participated in practice.

On Thursday, he surely will do the same.

The question is, when it's time to go out and go full speed,

will he be hampered by that ankle?

That's a high ankle sprain.

It takes six weeks to heal, typically. So I think the bigger question here is after the season, what do they do? They can escape this contract with minimal salary cap consequences.
Will they look elsewhere for another quarterback? They thought about Tom Brady. Brady wanted to play for the 49ers.
They were very transparent about it. And I think that was the shot across the ballot, Jimmy G, that you better step up or we are going to be looking elsewhere for a quarterback.
You know, people say he took him to the Super Bowl. I mean, come on.
And in the third quarter of the game against the Vikings, he threw what could have been his third interception of the day. All of them went to Eric Kendricks.
Kendricks actually caught one of them. That freaked out Shanahan.
He started running the ball exclusively, turned Jimmy G into Bob Greasy in the early 70s. All he needed was the glasses like Greasy used to wear during games.
In the NFC Championship against the Packers, it was the same thing. Hardly throw the ball, run it all the time.
He had a chance to throw a championship touchdown in the Super Bowl after the Chiefs went ahead and he missed Emmanuel Sanders. I think that Kyle Shanahan is going to look for somebody else after the season.
And I don't know who it's going to be, but he's always like Kirk Cousins. And it wouldn't surprise me at all if the Vikings decide, you know what, we've had enough with this guy.
And Shanahan embraces Cousins. And Cousins may be better enough than Garoppolo to help get the 49ers where they're trying to go.
They should do a swap. I think they're pretty much the same quarterback in my eyes.
Jimmy G, Kirk Cousins. I think obviously Kyle likes him from his time in D.C.
where he got to work with him a little bit. So there's like some familiarity there.
But I also think that Mike Zimmer is just not a fan of paying a quarterback a lot of money. I think if it was up to him, he would just like never have a great quarterback on his team and just rely on that running game and defense.
Well, they paid him again. That was the thing.
This would have been the last year of his contract and they gave him a two-year extension and like $30 million to sign. And there would be cap issues that they move on from it.
Here's the thing about Cousins. Cousins is very good at running the play that's called if he has time to run the play that's called.
But when it all starts to fall apart, watch him. He crumbles or he doesn't know what to do.
He doesn't have athleticism to run away from the pass rush and it just it just ends the best quarterbacks are the ones who can improvise when the play that's called falls apart like the Patrick Mahomes and there you know is that a handful of guys maybe seven to ten guys that can do that Cousins clearly can't and when you don't have a great offensive line or if your running game is being stopped on a given day Cousins isn't going to be able to help you win a game and And I think that's the limitation on the Vikings, and that's why they may want to move on. But I think it would work for the 49ers because Kyle Shanahan wants a guy who will run the play that's called because he believes that if the quarterback just runs the play that's called the way that it's designed, it's always going to work.
Yeah. All right, so teams that haven't won yet, Falcons, Giants, Jets, Matt Ryan, Daniel Jones, Sam Darnold.
If any of those three teams get the number one pick, is it just a no-doubter Trevor Lawrence? Even Daniel Jones was drafted two years ago in the first round. Are all three of those teams saying we're moving on from our current guy and going with Trevor Lawrence? I think it depends on a lot of things.
Who's the coach? Who's the GM? What do they think about the guy? What's your evaluation of Trevor Lawrence? And there's still a lot to be determined about Trevor Lawrence. And there's also the possibility that someone's going to make you an offer you can't refuse.
You know, the Dolphins tried to trade up to get Joe Burrow and the Bengals were, oh, we're not accepting or considering any offer. Well, at some point, they're going to make you an offer that you have to take.
At some point, they're making you an offer you can't refuse. And at some point, one of these teams, if they get the number one overall pick, may get an offer they can't refuse and decide to keep the quarterback that they have and use all those extra picks on something else and make their team better in multiple different ways.
Now, I think Darnold is the most likely to be in danger. I think it's the easiest for the Jets to move on from him from a cap standpoint.
But yeah, I think any of those teams, if they get the first overall pick, job number one, make the decision, yes or no, up or down, do we want Trevor Lawrence? And parallel with that is, is there someone else out there who is just going to blow our socks off with what they want to offer to come up to get Trevor Lawrence. So it's going to be fascinating.
And, you know, people, it's funny how some people will say there's no tanking in football. Hell yes, there's tanking in football.
It's just subtle. The players on the field aren't trying to lose, but someone high up in the organization makes sure the worst players are on the field.
We want to evaluate the backup quarterback. We want to evaluate the third string corner.
We want to see how these young guys play. And if they play like crap, good.
Let's lose these games that don't matter. And case in point, last year when Washington and the Giants played, great game, week 16.
Washington came from behind. They went to overtime.
The Giants won. Great.
Washington lost, and they got Chase Young. Who cares about the loss from week 16? You got Chase Young for the next 10 years.
So one of these teams, I think, or maybe more than one is going to decide they're going to go try to get Trevor Lawrence and they're going to, they're going to tank and it, and it may get, it may get obvious and blatant by the time the season's over. Yeah.
I could see Gettleman not drafting Trevor Lawrence just based on his hair. Like this guy, no, he's, you gotta, you gotta trim that up, man.
That's not a football guy's hair. You're laughing, but you know that there's, like, a little bit of truth in that.
You know, it's funny. I was thinking yesterday when you guys invited me back on, I was thinking of the time that you visited and hung out down here in the barn.
My father-in-law was down here. He still asks whether or not you've gotten a haircut.
So, yeah, that mindset's out there. Yeah.
Is there any chance that Gettleman does not hang on to his job after this season? Yeah. You know, here's what all teams need to do when they're deciding what to do with the coach or a GM.
You either keep both or you fire both, especially when you have a new coach. If you're going to keep your coach, who you just hired, and fire your GM, the problem is the new GM has been carrying around for the last 15 years or more a short list of coaches he would hire.
And unless you get lucky and the name of the current coach is one of those guys, then the new GM is going to want to get rid of the coach. Whether it's what Bob Quinn did with Jim Caldwell.
I mean,'ve seen it before where there's a new gm who inherits a coach and and it's a couple of lost seasons while the gm builds enough evidence to go to ownership and say can i please hire my coach now so i i think the giants should only get rid of gettleman if they're also going to get rid of joe judge they're not going to get rid of joe judge so they should keep dave gettleman until they're ready to get rid of both of them, whenever that may be. What about Bill Parcells? I guarantee you Bill Parcells had Joe Judge on his list of coaches he would hire.
Why? Just because he seems like a Bill Parcells guy. You know he does.
I mean, you just described the Jets situation, too. Joe Douglas had to inherit Adam Gase and Le'Veon Bell, got rid of Le'Veon Bell, and now Adam Gase had to inherit Le'Veon Bell which is all a disaster well no here's what happened Mike McKagan was the GM when Gase became the coach McKagan signed Bell right over Gase's objection because McKagan got grifted someone presumably Bell's agent made McKagan think the Ravens were in play for roughly the same money that the Jets gave Bell, and they never were.
After that $13.5 million per year, $27 million over the first two years fully guaranteed, the next team was like the 49ers at $7.5 or $8 million. The Jets got conned.
Gase knew they were getting conned. He didn't want Bell at that number.
And then McKagan gets fired. And this is what's interesting about the J joe douglas was the guy handpicked by gase to be the gm right so now do they fire gase and keep douglas and then hovering over all of this is the possibility woody's coming back in march or so if his candidate loses on november 3rd and he's no longer the u.s ambassador to the uk woody may come back and tell everybody to get the hell out.
Jesus, what a disaster. All right, Mike, I want to do a little buy or sell.
We'll do some players, and then we'll do some teams. Buy or sell.
So anything you want to say about each guy, quick word. Kyler Murray, what, three and two? Yeah, buy.
You're buying Kyler Murray. You believe in everything with him.
Yeah, he's got the special skills that I was talking about earlier to make something happen if the play that's called doesn't work. His running ability is off the charts.
I'd like to see the Arizona offense be a little more diverse, a little less predictable, maybe line up under center once in a while, although he literally would be under center. That's the problem.
But I don't like the running plays out of shotgun all the time. I like the running back to get ahead of steam.
So I buy Kyler Murray. I just think they need to work on their offense.
What about my mortal enemy, DK Metcalf? Oh, DK Metcalf, buy. I mean, this guy's Calvin Johnson and Jerry Rice combined, and he's starting to become aware of it.
Mike, come on. Calvin Johnson, you just listed the two best wide receivers of all time.
He's becoming a hybrid. He is.
I would say he's like T.O., yeah. But it's fascinating to watch someone who is becoming fully aware of what he can do.
And you could sense that when he caught the game-winning touchdown pass on Sunday night. He's like, throw me the damn ball.
I'm going to catch it. There's no doubt about it.
I'm going to go win this game single-handedly. So he's developing more and more confidence.
And yeah, he's only going to get better and better. All right.
How about my guy, Jonathan Taylor on the Colts, Wisconsin Badger? Yeah. You know, he really got overused at Wisconsin.
And I wonder how that's going to affect his NFL career. He started off great, kind of like Clyde Edwards-Alaire.
Started off great. And so we get this narrative that, hey, these guys are great.

These guys are awesome.

But then you look at the numbers, and it's like, well, it's okay.

It's not awesome.

It's not horrible.

But it's just kind of steady.

And I think he's got potential to be really, really good.

He's got a great personality.

We interviewed him at the combine.

I thought he was just a fantastic kind of guy, great for the Colts.

I don't know about Phillip Rivers as the quarterback.

I think that may be the bigger problem there. But I think Taylor's got the potential.
I just worry about how much you only got so much tread on the tires and he used up a lot of it at Wisconsin. Odell Beckham.
He went home today. I don't know if it was Pink Eye or Toxic Shock or whatever it was.
I saw your tweet. He is.
Yeah. So he went home, but he's been playing well the last couple of weeks.
you buying or selling? Well, I'm buying as long as he's buying,

as long as he understands his role

and as long as he doesn't get frustrated or demonstrative

about not getting the ball.

Kevin Stefanski told me after they beat the Cowboys

that he challenges himself to get the ball to Odo Beckham Jr.

earlier in games.

Now, I think this past weekend against the Colts,

he ended up being a decoy, and it worked. This weekend against the Steelers, will he be a decoy? Will he get him the ball early? They've been getting him involved in the running game with Nick Chubb out.
He had that great run against the Cowboys. It helped that nobody on the Cowboys wanted to, you know, chase him and tackle him.
But I think that as long as it doesn't become a thing regarding how often he does or doesn't get the ball, because that kind of took over the team last year. They've gotten away from that.
I say buy as long as he's comfortable with his role and doesn't get frustrated by the fact that he's not getting the ball as much as he'd like to have it. So I was wrong with this guy.
I'm wondering what you think. We all kind of thought he was washed up.
Jimmy Graham, Chicago Bears. Are you buying or selling Jimmy Graham? Yeah, I mean, I'm buying in the role that he's made for, which is red zone.
And, you know, third down, you need a third and five conversion. He's a guy that can go get the ball.
He's not going to run down the field like he used to. He's not going to have gigantic numbers.
But, yeah, it always pissed me off when he was traded to Seattle. And we started hearing complaints from people with the Seahawks that he's not blocking.
Well, that's not what he does. He never was a blocker.
Why are you trying to make him into a blocker? Why are you trying to make him into a complete tight end? Accept what he is. He's a basketball player on a football field.
Put him out there in the red zone, throw the ball high. Either he's going to catch it or no one's going to catch it.
And use him in those moments where you need to benefit from a big body, a guy with good hands who can go get the football. So yeah, I'm buying Jimmy Graham, and it's great to see him kind of have this recovery after being on a couple of teams that didn't know how to quite use it.
That's what the Seahawks do, though. They take everybody who can't block and then put them in a position to turn them into, like with their offensive line.
That's basically what Tom Cable did for like six years years uh what about here's kind of a dark horse i think nobody nobody in our league owns but i think he's like owned in maybe 15 of fantasy football leagues uh james robinson the running back for the jaguars james robinson is awesome illinois state undrafted showed up for training camp only no offseason program. Fourth guy on the depth chart when he walked through the door.
And he immediately wowed Jay Gruden, the new offensive coordinator. They believed in him.
They've been validated every week. Now, I think his numbers weren't awesome this past weekend.
But yeah, this guy is like nobody knows who he is because the Jaguars aren't any good. And it's a shame what's happening with the Jaguars.
They beat the Colts week one. And then they, did you guys talk about the fact that they made history by being the first team ever to lose four straight games to previously winless teams, but they're the first team to ever do that, to lose four weeks in a row to previously winless teams.
Now this week they get the Lions who aren't winless, but I just feel like it's circling the drain in Jacksonville. And that's a shame because i think the reset button is going to get pressed there and i know how you guys feel about doug marone but if they don't turn it around quickly you got to worry about shot con you know uh twirling the the end of that mustache one day and saying hey doug hey dave caldwell hit the road not doug's fault though we want to be on the record not's fault.
All right, last one. Buy or sell in the wide receiver running back flex position, Justin Jefferson.
Don't give me this wide receiver running back flex position. I know where you're going.
Why? Listen, come on. What are you talking about? We actually haven't.
Even though you haven't had me on the show for a while, I still remember what you typically try to do.

I'm not commenting on anyone.

Wait, we try to get you to talk about your fantasy team?

Like we just went down your entire roster.

You didn't go down my entire roster.

Yeah, we did.

That's why.

Tyler Murray, Jonathan Taylor, James Robinson, Odell Beckham,

DK Metcalf, Jimmy Graham, Justin Jefferson, Bucker, Rams. On your bench you have herbert mcaffery mckinnon and mcclorn wait a minute how do you have that information we got sources mike five and oh mike you're buying your whole team i can't believe it was funny like every player that we said mike was a hard buy on and it's because it's because it's personally invested in you know what you smarter Mike I had to get smarter I didn't mention that I have Robinson on my fantasy team nobody cares about your fantasy team now I need to know who the call is coming from within the barn Mike yeah my kid really did you.
Yeah. Yeah.
Really? Did you get my kid working against me? Of course we did. Come on.
That's beautiful. You got it.
I mean, how else was I going to get you? How else are we going to get you? He's got a hell of a poker face, too, because I talked to him right before I came down here, and he let on nothing. We just got you to talk about every single player on your fantasy team without you realizing it.
Yeah. And you know what? You wasted 20 minutes of your podcast to do it.
No, that was the best 20 minutes spent. That was the best 20 minutes spent.
You're 5-0, though. Why didn't you say that? Because nobody cares.
I'm actually 9-1 if you factor in. Oh, no one cares.
No one cares. He said the quote was he's 5-0 and he's very proud of his team this year.
Yeah, because look, I'm in a no-win proposition with any fantasy league I do because I'm supposed to know what I'm doing. So if I lose, everybody thinks it's the greatest day of their life.
And if I win, I'm like, what the hell? The guy's supposed to win. So, yeah, I don't know why I even do it.
I do like how you gave every one of those players an A-plus grade.

What am I going to say?

I ain't so.

I'm Jimmy Graham.

He's coming to his prime.

A combination of Jerry Rice and Calvin Johnson.

When you went Jimmy Graham, I should have realized what was going on.

Oh, God.

I mean, yeah, Jimmy Graham's had some decent games,

but it's not like he's tearing up the league.

He's not Robert Tondon or anything.

James Robinson is the next Walter Payton in your mind. That's what you gave him a drop.
A combination of Walter Payton and Barry Sanders. Yeah.
Important to specify. What about Le'Veon Bell? Serious question.
Not on your team. Not on your team.
Serious question. No, no.
I tried. I tried.
He's already claimed. There was a report that it was like the Chiefs and then four mystery teams out there.
Well, Chiefs, Bills, and Dolphins were the report from ESPN.com. And, you know, people who do this for a living get upset when we speculate on sources.
But Jeremy Fowler, who reported it, covered the Steelers for years, and he's talked to Bell in the past. He's reported on things Bell said to him.
I think Bell told him those are the three teams. The question I have, are the Patriots lurking here?

Because the thing about the Patriots, they will tell you and your agent,

if they're interested, if it gets out that they're interested, they're done.

That's it.

We're out.

That's why when it came out, remember that Leonard Fournette had interest

from the Patriots right before he signed with the Buccaneers?

I never believed that because you never hear that a team is interested in the Patriots. They either sign him or they don't.
And if you ever do hear they're interested, it's either a lie or somebody just blew up their own opportunity by running their mouth. So it's possible that Bell also is walking around with the possibility of joining the Patriots.
We have a story at PFT, the real PFT, not you. Where we've got the- A PFF commenter.
Okay, that's good. Where they have quotes.
We got quotes from Bill Belichick gushing about Le'Veon Bell in the past. It would not shock me if the Patriots get in on this, especially if they're faced with the possibility of Bell signing with the Dolphins or the Bills.
So I'd say Chief, Bills, Dolphins, don't rule out the Patriots. And I have a feeling he's going to sign somewhere sooner rather than later.
All right, my last question, Mike, is we're a quarter of the way through the season, a little more than a quarter of the way through the season. Give us your championship game in Super Bowl.
We'll give you a second chance. Yeah, look, I don't like to change my first guess until the teams have either become mathematically eliminated when it

comes to making the playoffs or have lost in the playoffs. I picked Buccaneers Patriots because I

just think it would be an awesome story if Tom Brady and Bill Belichick went against each other

in Tampa for Super Bowl 55. They're both still alive, even though one's two and two and the

other's three and two. I'm not giving up on it yet, so I'm sticking with that until one or both

of them can't make it. Give us a backup, though.
Give us seahawks i think that's the obvious one isn't it although perfect you just gave us your afc nfc championship games and super bowl well but i mean here's the thing the chiefs are susceptible to crap in the bed if they're not fully focused on the team they're playing i mean look, look, they almost lost to the Chargers. The Patriots without Cam Newton, it was sluggish.
They lose to the Raiders. But then here come the Ravens, and what do they do? They go in there and they pulverize them.
I think they're going to destroy the Bills on Monday night. They are vulnerable when they're playing the teams that they're supposed to beat, and they need to figure out how to fix that and not lose to those teams because there's only one bye week available this year in either conference.
You want to get that one seed, and if they screw around, they're going to blow it. One last question for me on the coaching carousel.
Give us some names, maybe a couple of dark horse head coaches that might get picked up this offseason, whether it's the Texans or the Falcons or any other team that might be looking. Who's the name that we haven't really talked about that much that is going to be involved in the conversation later on? Are you trying to get me to say Jeff Fisher? No, Greg Sciano was the one I was hoping for, but Jeff Fisher will work.
Yeah, I mean, look, it's so premature at this point. They don't even know who they're going to be talking to.
I mean, Eric Biennemi's name is at the top of the list and in bright lights blaring. When you look at what he continues to do with that Chiefs offense, I think the Texans definitely should take a look at him because he could do with Deshaun Watson, what they've done in Kansas City with Patrick Mahomes.
With the Falcons, I just don't know what they're going to do. And Arthur Blank made it clear that, you know, there's no commitment to Matt Ryan, there's no commitment really to anyone on the roster.
They're going to do and Arthur Blank made it clear that uh you know there's no commitment to Matt Ryan there's no commitment really to anyone on the roster they're going to try to hold the roster together until they have the new GM and the new head coach and whoever it is is going to decide what's going to happen with those guys but there could be major change you know I almost feel like they're not going to get over 28 to 3 in Atlanta until everyone who was connected to it in any way is gone and it may be that that they need to move on from Ryan and Julio Jones and a few others who are still on the roster to finally exercise that demon from a few years ago. Or they bring in Josh McDaniels and have a constant reminder that on their own sidelines.
And let me say this. Let me say this.
I think that it's smart for these teams. And I know this is something that Coach Dungy would disagree with because he thinks defensive coaches should get equal consideration as offensive coaches.
But, you know, what happens is you hire a defensive coach. He hires an offensive coordinator.
The offensive coordinator ends up doing really well. And then he leaves and you've got to replace him.
and then you set back your program. So just hire the offensive coordinator ends up doing really well and then he leaves and you've got to replace him and then you set back your program so just hire the offensive coordinator now the Browns did that with Freddie Kitchens and it didn't work out but why not hire the offensive guy because the offense is what's making the game go look at all the points being scored now you need an offensive mastermind so I hope both of these teams uh think think very seriously about going on the offensive side of the ball, because if your team turns out being great, like, like the Falcons did, they lost Kyle Shanahan to the 49ers.
Yeah. Mike, this has been great.
Thank you so much. We missed you.
We're happy that you went through your team with us next, next time you come on, we'll go through your other team. It'll be great.
It's the fact that you haven invited me back in a year simply because you couldn't think of a better way to fool me? No, this took me like – I thought of this in like 20 minutes. So, no, that's not.
So, it's other reasons. Yeah, it's the coronavirus thing.
Yeah, yeah. I'm glad – it really is.
No, no, stop. The thing – I don't know.
I don't know. What did I do? Is there an odor I'm unaware of? We used to have you on on Sundays, and now Deion Sanders is on every Sunday night recapping because he works with us.
So that was your sweet spot. We have less guests now.
We don't do a traditional guest on Monday show anymore. So next season when Deion's coaching Jackson State, is that what it is? Yes.
Yeah, when he's coaching Jackson State, that's when I'll hear from you again. Yeah, exactly.
When prime time becomes too big time for us, then we go to Mike. You know Walter Payton went to Jackson State.
Yes, yes. Since we mentioned Walter Payton earlier because James Robinson is what I call him.
He's the next Walter Payton. Absolutely.
All right. All right.
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We got Firefest of the Week. Let's do it.
Oh, by the way, let's just say this. Wednesday, we have one of our best interviews of all time.

I'm very excited.

One of our best interviews of all time.

I'm pumped up thinking about it.

We did this interview a couple days ago.

Yep, and it was also one of those things where we went in.

We thought we had 30 minutes.

15 minutes in, we got the text message saying,

you guys are good to go for an hour because it's going so well.

Holy shit, this guy is awesome. The best storyteller that we've had.
Bill Walton. Second.
You forgot about Bill Walton. Well, I'll put it this way.
Probably equal amounts of peyote ingested. Yes.
Yes. Good point.
But get excited. The best interview we've done probably this year.
I'll say it'll say it all right hank it's october 15th uh when 16th today right now currently i i and i knew this in the back of my head i think like three weeks ago i had that like you know the quick like uh heart stopper like fuck did i miss tax extension and i looked it up it was like oh no you're good to october 15th i was like oh i have plenty of time then i saw a tweet from one of our co-workers being i filled out my taxes i was like oh no let me double check what day it was check this morning it was october 15th i as of right now i still haven't done them i'm no joke i think i'm gonna be submitting these taxes like 11 59 so coronavirus dude yeah and then pft well pft i came in and was like dude i'm stressing out like i i have shit to do today, and I'm like, I have to do this later tonight. And he dangled a little, like, leaf at me that I ate right up, and now I don't know what to believe.
Like a little rabbit. Yeah, so we got a three-month extension back in April when the coronavirus hit.
So that extended the initial time period to, what, July 15th? So then do we get another extension? No, but I like where you're going, and I'll say yes for Hank's sake.

Yes, Hank.

Everything PFT just said is correct.

I got to do taxes. You don't have to do your taxes until January 15th, which is also spring back.

Everyone set their clocks.

Wait.

So, Hank, you actually have an extra hour to do your taxes tonight.

No, I think that's Sunday. Because it's daylight savings time.
your taxes tonight no i think that's because daylight savings time i think that's sunday yeah okay okay um but it's a leap year true yeah i don't know i'm i'm i'm fucked yeah it was it was so you're good so we have a full day till tomorrow you have till tomorrow that's a fact um my fire fest was just gonna be cardi b uh and her n, and she says that she's back with Offset because she's crazy and wanted dick. That's great.
So I need to move on from Cardi B. I'd like to hear suggestions either from you guys or from the award-winning listeners.
I need a new Cardi B in my life because, you know what? She doesn't deserve me. Yeah.
All right. I got two.
I got two. Fire fire fest one is uh somehow some way i had a cricket stuck in my apartment under a floorboard and i thought it would just die it didn't die for like four days so a cricket just going off couldn't kill it because it was under the floorboard did you try stepping on the floorboard that it was under it was like it went under the crack behind it and it just cricketed for like...
It just chirped.

Chirped. the floorboard did you try stepping on the floorboard that it was under it was like it went under the crack it behind it and it just cricketed uh-huh for like chirped chirped for we tell a lot of four days oh damn that would have been good i should have done that's good into that fuck and then my other one is wait wait wait so the it's dead though the crickets i believe so so when crickets are chirping they're doing that because they're trying to find a mate right so you just had a horny cricket Sitting in the corner of my apartment Just simping in your apartment Yes Just being like Somebody please come have Insect sex with me And then my other one is I have a stalker But whatever What? You guys A stalker? Oh a stalker Stalker Stalker Stalker You guys know it I mean there's a A person who's been Threatening me via text message Every now and then Yep I'll leave it at that.
Someday we'll hopefully tell the story. Someday we'll hopefully have the person on.
Related to someone that has figured. Claims to be.
That claims to be related to somebody. Claims to be.
As a frequent target. Related to someone.
Yeah. So that's going on.
But whatever. I got Billy.
Billy's my security. We just had a trap.
Yeah. Well, we probably blew it by talking about it but um yeah well someday hopefully we'll we'll figure we'll get to the bottom i have so many jokes to make right now about what don't do it don't do it don't do it don't do it my life is on the line billy finish it off i i want to note that i'm not worried about the stalker clearly because cricket was number one yeah Yeah.
I blew a pitch. I don't know if I blew it.
Oh, no, you definitely blew it. You talking about the Cuban thing? Maybe.
Yeah, 100% blew it. You know what, though? In a way, you didn't blow it because more people talked about it.
Strike stand effect because it was so bad. It was so bad that people will always remember how bad it is.
No, I got a lot of positive feedback.

It's like your mom doesn't count.

It's like William Hung.

When he went on American Idol, he ended up selling millions of albums doing like She Bangs She Bangs.

You know what?

Something's going to work out in that vein.

And I'm going to be like a...

Is it?

Yeah.

You think so?

This isn't my peak.

Well, I don't think it's your peak, but I don't think anything's going to work out in that vein.

I think you're going to peak in other veins.

No, I think.

Whoa.

Yeah.

Pause.

Well, you are.

You have not peaked.

This is not my peak.

You've peaked in the app world.

No, I think there's some legs on it.

I still can't get over how bad of a name it was.

Gala?

Yeah.

Gala.

You're really dressing it up to me.

It's like opening a restaurant. Yeah.
Yeah. It's like, oh, what is it up to you it's like opening a restaurant yeah yeah it's like oh what is the app about hey not opening a restaurant restaurant is a place you go to eat food literally not opening a drunk guys trying to find good ratio yeah it's not about just the ratio it made it made it sound like it made it sound like a upper west side like app for uh how you can how you can get connected with charities yeah different galas you know what bill your issue was you sold the steak you you got to sell the sizzle not the steak yeah which you probably suck at too because you don't put seasoning on it yeah you literally should have just been like hey cubes you like to get your dick wet yeah exactly it's a that's a better pitch right you i think i anyway i outpitched you um h, should we talk about what might be going on tomorrow? Yeah, I mean, that's another kind of Fyre Fest, future us.
Yeah. Me and PFT are playing video games with big-time video game streamers.
What are you guys playing? It's called Among Us. It's like a murder mystery game, but these people play this game all the time, like hours and hours every day.
Me and PFT have never played before, and these people get lots of viewers and views, and we're going to be on with them. And I'm just worried we're going to sound like noobs being like, wait, how do you play? But you will.
Don't even be worried. Just shed that.
Shed the worry. We're going to do some simulated games tonight.
Yeah. We're going to try it out.
12 o'clock, part of my take Twitch. Love it.
Barstool Sports Twitch. It should be interesting.
It's like playing Clue. Yeah.
Right? But online? Yeah. Okay.
It's big. The game had 4 billion YouTube views in September.
Shout out to part of I take Twitch. Heard through the grapevine that someone might be going around saying that they're the ones that built it up.
Interesting. Yeah.
Certain hunter of milfs. Oh, my God.
All right. Let's pick a number, and then we'll head out for the weekend.

On that note, team 69.

No way.

Eight.

Twenty-eight.

My mind is blown right now.

Twenty-one.

Eight.

Give me an eight.

Fucking ten.

Twenty-one.

Just psycho shit.

That's your psycho shit parlay going around saying that.

All right, ten.

Ten.

Whoever had ten won. All right, we'll see everyone on Monday going around saying that.
Alright, 10. 10.
Whoever had 10 won.

Alright, we'll see everyone on Monday.

Enjoy week 6. Love you guys.

Talking away I don't know what

I want to say

I'm safe anyway