NFL Preview With Warren Sharp, Actor Blake Anderson, Peter King Did A Doobie

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Speaker 3 On today's part of my take, we have Warren Sharp preview. NFL football is back.
It is back this week. We are officially in week one, so we preview the 2020 NFL season.
Get excited.

Speaker 3 We'll do our picks and our preview and our predictions on Thursday's show. Fair? I think that's when we should do it.
We have Friday's show, Thursday's show. Thursday night

Speaker 3 before the actual kickoff, but we will do all of our picks and predictions that will undoubtedly be stupid and terrible and hilariously bad, except for like one each that we didn't stick to.

Speaker 3 We're going to do that for Friday's show. But we have Warren Sharp to break down the season coming up.
We also have Blake Anderson, hilarious comedian, actor. You know him from Workaholics.

Speaker 3 He's got a new show out. He also might be our newest toy when it comes to Blake of the Year.
We've got now a four-pack.

Speaker 3 I talked to one of the Blakes and he said, bring it on. So we'll see if they're up for the challenge.
That sounds like Blake Griffin said that. Nope.

Speaker 3 The chillest of the Blakes right now. Bortles.
No. Kepka.
I think Kepka just doesn't.

Speaker 3 Dude, he'll get challenged by anyone. I love it.
He'll just be like, fuck it. I don't care.

Speaker 3 All right. And then we have

Speaker 3 a little football, a little basketball. Who's back of the week? And my goat, Jokovich, and a little hot water.
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Speaker 3 Well, I once did a Doobie with the Doobie Brothers after a concert in Athens, Ohio. Peter King.
Peter King, known doobie user. Bad boy.

Speaker 3 I want to use a bad football back, but when Peter King admits to the internet that he once did a doobie,

Speaker 3 that leads the show. With the Doobie Brothers.
With the Doobie Brothers. That is the most Peter King

Speaker 3 ever. Yeah.
It's like if you meet Bruce Springsteen and he asks you to put on a leather vest, you do it. If you meet the Doobie Brothers and ask you to burn down a bone, you got to do it.

Speaker 3 You know what?

Speaker 3 Peter King, in solidarity with the NFL and their long stance on drug abuse, we're re-banning you from the show.

Speaker 3 You will not have a drug user on this show, Peter King. I'm sorry.
You're suspended.

Speaker 3 I want to give Peter King credit because if I had guessed how he would explain once doing drugs, I would have been like, oh, yeah, Peter King, I once smoked a J or smoked some grass.

Speaker 3 You outdid yourself, Peter King. Saying, I once did a doobie.

Speaker 3 Even I didn't think you had that level of lame in you.

Speaker 3 So I think that, yeah, if you're power ranking what you would imagine Peter King to like call weed, it would probably be either grass or maybe like wacky tobacco. Yeah.

Speaker 3 I could see him saying a jazz cigarette too. Yeah.
Like something real old and out of touch. Plus 6,000 for Kush.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 Like, imagine if Peter King was like, like, I had some white rhino back in my college days. So I ghost dog.
So some horny goat weed that I sucked out. I did read

Speaker 3 the purple Kush. I did read Peter's season preview today.
Okay. And it made me sick because Peter King, he is physically incapable of putting his neck on the line for a tape.
No.

Speaker 3 So like everything that he says is like, I think that this quasi-weirdish nugget could maybe happen. Right.
Be really weird, maybe. And his like big takes are, I think the Bucs are going to be good.

Speaker 3 Do you have a Peter King? That's his Peter King. That is Peter King.
You know, I just think the Bucs are going to be good this year.

Speaker 3 I love you too. That's a John Gruden.
I love you, too.

Speaker 3 That's a lame, that's the lame. That's the Gruden brother that's the doctor.
Well, no, that's what you just did. And that is Peter King.
I think that Peter King is from Ohio.

Speaker 3 I know that he went to college there. Yeah, that's the Gruden.
Yeah, you just did the Gruden Doctor brother. All right, so football is back, though.
It is week one.

Speaker 3 We're going to get to a preview with Warren Sharp. We'll have our predictions, like I said, on Friday's show.
We did have college football this weekend. We also had the

Speaker 3 real football is back was Army

Speaker 3 going 19 yards, or sorry, 19 plays, 99 yards, 12 minutes and 26 seconds off the clock. I love it.
They can't score if they're not. 99 yards, 19 plays.
That was like, oh man, this feels good.

Speaker 3 And I know everything is weird. It was definitely weird to have the first labor day where it's like I wasn't just sitting on my couch all Saturday watching football.

Speaker 3 But it's slowly but surely, it feels like we're going to get football all the way back. And I'm, I, how are you feeling? Like, status check, I'm, I feel like it's just a regular week.

Speaker 3 Thursday morning, I will wake up out of my mind excited. Right.
But right now, I'm like, okay, this, it's kind of happening. I think it's going to happen.
We're going to get there.

Speaker 3 It's because we didn't get a preview. We didn't get a preseason, which you would think that's like what warms you up.
That's what gets your football brain going.

Speaker 3 Right now, there are so many players that switch teams in the offseason that I totally forgot about, like ted gin being on the bears forgot about that until like last week but what we were talking about earlier was like we're just getting fucked like there's no foreplay like the the nf roder mcdell hasn't gone down on me yet i'm dry over here he did end races and he did he's i think if you saw over the weekend was that over the weekend that was like last week

Speaker 3 when he put that in the end i was so did coach i was wet last week yeah uh but right now it's like i'm all dried up but thursday morning i'm just gonna be legs over my head on my back, just getting straight up fucked by the NFL.

Speaker 3 I'm very, very excited about the NFL coming back. I just,

Speaker 3 it's kind of strange. And you touched on this, but

Speaker 3 with how Army played against whatever, like Kinnesaw Mountain State or whatever they were playing against. It was Middle Tennessee.
It was a combination of that.

Speaker 3 And then right before the game, you said, like, it's, you know, it's Navy running that. weird offense.
It's tough to prepare for. Yeah, no.
That's what made me bet on Navy. Right.

Speaker 3 And I was like, oh, the military academies are in really good shape right now. Nope.
There's a pattern there. Bet on that.
I was wrong, wrong, wrong. Can't bet against the Mormons.
No, they're older.

Speaker 3 They're older and bigger and stronger.

Speaker 3 All right, so we have

Speaker 3 NBA. A lot happened in the NBA.
Hank, you died and came back to life since we last were in studio.

Speaker 3 We had the 0.5 second shot for the Raptors that the buzzer beater that brought them back to life. And then the Celtics absolutely asserted their dominance tonight.
So you're back to life.

Speaker 5 Well, they shit the bed, though, in game four, which was even more concerning because it's like you have a heartbreaking loss that you shouldn't have won, and then you come back and shit the bed.

Speaker 5 I was basically tonight, it was a must-win. We were in must-win territory, whereas if they lost, the series probably would have been over.

Speaker 3 So, in the moment, you texted our group thread that it was a series of taco emojis, right?

Speaker 3 No, I did the taco. He did the sweep, I did the taco, the broom emojis.

Speaker 3 You did the broom emojis in the moment.

Speaker 5 You also tweeted taco Thursday, yeah, and that tweet ran out of relevancy in 10 seconds.

Speaker 3 Yeah, so in the moment, you were excited about Taco being on the court. Now, are you like, I was kind of gimmicky, we should have done that.

Speaker 5 Well, Coley, our co-worker, tweeted it in real time, but it was the perfect. It was the Patriots putting Gronk as the DB for whatever reason against Miami.

Speaker 5 It makes sense in theory, you know, you put your big guys out there,

Speaker 5 they're going to help out, but it's like, why wouldn't you just run your regular defense that's been out there all game? Right.

Speaker 5 So, Brad Stevens, but he's like, you know, he's

Speaker 5 tall. He's the out-of-timeout guy.
He's known.

Speaker 3 He's He's got a little too cute. Yeah.
Well, the players also just didn't. Jason Tatum was running his own.
Well, yeah, Taco. Yeah.

Speaker 5 Why play defense with Taco Sanders?

Speaker 3 He's so good. That's the Tatum rental.

Speaker 3 And he was a minus three in a half a second, which is unbelievable.

Speaker 3 All right, so, and then we had LeBron go from the Lakers are in big trouble to, oh, yeah, the Lakers have guys that are taller than everyone, and Anthony Davis and LeBron are better than everyone.

Speaker 3 And Russell Westbrook, your career might be over, dude. That was so sad.
That was so sad. I actually am sad when Russell Westbrook has bad games, like truly bad games, like he did.

Speaker 3 They're giving him the Ben Simmons treatment where no one's even near him when he shoots a three. But Russell Westbrook being bad is always especially sad because when you, like...

Speaker 3 Carmel, not to pick on Carmel, like he got a little out of shape, didn't really want like try on defense towards the end there. So you could tell yourself, like, okay, he isn't really buying in.

Speaker 3 He wants to be a starter. He's not buying in.
Russell Westbrook, whenever he has a bag, it's not not because he's not trying. He's trying harder than everyone.
All he does is try.

Speaker 3 It's just, he just can't shoot. He might be trying too hard.
He cannot shoot. He just keeps shooting.
You really think that he's on

Speaker 3 very much the downside of his career? But I mean, that was a,

Speaker 3 I'll pull up the stats, but it was, it was shocking how little respect he was getting from the Lakers. And the Lakers were essentially saying, do whatever you want.

Speaker 3 Every time Russell Westbrook shoots, that's a win for us. And I don't know.
It's just, I don't really know what you do with him. I mean,

Speaker 3 he'll be in the NBA for a long time because he's a freak of nature. But he was, yeah, one of seven from three and four for 15.

Speaker 3 And if you look at the picture, they literally were just saying, like, it is the loneliest feeling in the world to be on a basketball court and have everyone step away from you and be like, go ahead, take that.

Speaker 3 They were giving him the, like, Saturday morning, go ahead, just, I want to see you make one before I even

Speaker 3 think about respect. I'm very familiar with that.
LeBron James finally did his thing that I've always said he should do, which is just

Speaker 3 put your head down and just run directly at the basket, use your right hand, get a layup every day. Oh, I thought you were going to say LeBron James finally got the respect of Skip Bayless.

Speaker 3 Well, so there's that.

Speaker 3 That's a major story after the fact.

Speaker 3 But we kind of saw like the yin and the yang of Sports Take Twitter reverse on itself with Skip Bayless giving credit to LeBron James for saying LeBron clutch, and then Magic Johnson firing off essentially a nuclear missile for Magic Johnson's account saying the Milwaukee Bucks didn't play smart basketball and showed a lack of mental toughness in the fourth quarter.

Speaker 3 That's as mean as Magic Johnson will ever be. Well, the Bucks are a whole different story because they obviously, they're still alive technically.

Speaker 3 Are they better without Giannis?

Speaker 3 I tweeted that people got very mad about that. And then, of course, they had that conversation like 10 minutes later on air because you knew it was coming.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 3 The minute someone gets hurt, you know, like, I'm not tweeting because I think it. I'm tweeting it because I know what's going to happen.

Speaker 3 And they did win the game without him but the quotes that did you guys see the quotes that Budenholzer had after they lost game three I want to say they I actually I think he should be fired on the spot he was saying that Giannis

Speaker 3 and Middleton they're playing 33 to 36 minutes a game and that's about their ceiling In the playoffs, he's saying that about his MVP. Right.
36. And then he was also talking about the guy.

Speaker 3 I can't remember who he had on Jimmy Butler, who's doing a really good job. And he's like, yeah, we didn't really want him in the fourth quarter.

Speaker 3 Like, basically admitting his incompetence to the whole world after game three. And Bucs fans,

Speaker 3 I don't feel bad for Bucs fans because they're also Packer fans, but I will say watching, I think it was game three where they watched their team get absolutely, like, they watched their team die.

Speaker 3 And for about 20 minutes, they just talked about where Giannis is going next. Yeah, I think.
And that's just the whole conversation now.

Speaker 3 And I feel for them because that does, that's absolutely terrible to watch. Right.
You would rather have the conversation like, are the Bucs better without Giannis?

Speaker 3 And there's like a little part of you that's like, well, if he does go somewhere, maybe that, maybe this take will be right. Right.
That we are better.

Speaker 3 But there are hilarious stats that you can bring up that show that the Bucs are better in the fourth quarter without Giannis. So in clutch time.

Speaker 3 him and I guess Middleton, when it's Middleton on the court, no Giannis in the fourth quarter, the Bucs outscore their opponents by more than when Giannis is on the court with them.

Speaker 3 So you can make that argument if you want to. It's kind of cherry-picked.
I just feel bad.

Speaker 3 I think that Buttenholzer is like, he is always competing against the spectra of Nick Nurse because Nick Nurse is like a leveled up version of Bud, right? Yeah.

Speaker 3 He's like, they both have that like quasi-accountant look to them.

Speaker 3 They both coach teams in the East, in the northern part of the United States, and like they are giving all the credit to Nick Nurse for being the mastermind.

Speaker 3 So Buttonholzer is like, well, if I make these small adjustments in the fourth quarter, that will show that I'm actually a very good coach. Here was the quote that was, I actually think he was drunk.

Speaker 3 Uh, Mike Budenholzer just said, uh, this is Tim Tim

Speaker 3 Botemps said, Mike Budenholzer just said the Bucks had won six quarters in a row entering the fourth quarter tonight. This was after game three.

Speaker 3 That may be so, but they also lost the other two quarters in games two and three by a combined 36 points.

Speaker 3 So he was, they lost the fourth quarter in game three, 40 to 13, and he was talking about how they had won six quarters in a row. That's a fact.

Speaker 3 That's a lot of fun. Do the math on it.

Speaker 3 Do the math on it. That's some fucking crazy shit.
Listen, you've got to take an edge wherever you can get it. Holy fuck.
So, and then, yeah, we're watching the Clippers versus the Nugs.

Speaker 3 Nugs look good, man.

Speaker 3 We might just have to be. Weren't we a Nuggets podcast for a minute? Nuggets Jazz.
No, we were, though. Like, I feel like a while ago, we were like, where's going to be a Nuggets podcast?

Speaker 3 I think the Magic. We were a Magic podcast for a Nuggets.

Speaker 3 No, remember, people got mad that we never talked about the Nuggets, and then we dropped the word Nuggets into as many times as we could in like a five-minute segment. That's true.

Speaker 3 Yeah, they were like nuggets.

Speaker 3 We talked about the nuggets, assholes. So there we go.
We talked about the nuggets. The Clippers just came out flat in game one.

Speaker 3 I had no idea, like, what are they even doing to get ready for that team? Because the nuggets. No, no, no, no, game two.
No, I'm talking about game one.

Speaker 3 The Clippers,

Speaker 3 yeah, yeah,

Speaker 3 game two over the weekend. Right.
They're just like, it was a completely different team. Yeah.

Speaker 3 All these games have been weird where, like, they, they go back and forth so often, and then they're just, like, so uncompetitive for the most part.

Speaker 3 There's been some good games. I, I mean, the Rockets.

Speaker 5 The Celtic series has been good.

Speaker 3 The Celtic series was good. The Rockets, and even the Rockets, when they went fucking,

Speaker 3 what's Gronk's word when he tried to say bazooka? Did he say bazooka? Yeah, when he went bazookas. Yeah, when he went bazookas, they went bazookas on the Lakers in the third quarter.

Speaker 3 And that the Rockets, as frustrating and annoying as they are, I fucking love P.J. Tucker.

Speaker 3 I wish that he played for any other team so I could root for him because he's he's like he's the the guy who uh he's smaller than everyone or smaller than the guys usually matched up against but he has like perfect boxing out form and always hustling and he is the I think the Rockets said after game one they're like they don't like height doesn't matter it's about the dog in you that's PJ Tuck well he's also way older than I had ever known how old do you think he is I think he's like 30 32 35 yeah

Speaker 5 he played he played for like five years overseas before he came to the NBA yeah so it was one of those things where I just because he's been only around the last like five or so years. Right.

Speaker 5 I didn't realize how old he actually was.

Speaker 3 They also said sabermetrically, he's not that short because he's got the wingspan of a seven-footer.

Speaker 3 So like you play defense without tips. Wingspan matters.

Speaker 3 Yeah. Wingspan absolutely matters.
Rondo, by the way, was toast until he came. No, he had a good full.
Yeah. I know.
I know. He was toast.

Speaker 3 Like everyone counted him out because game one, he was very bad. And he actually, playoff Rondo might be coming into form.
I hate to see it. I love playoff.

Speaker 3 I love any guy who's like the playoff version of me, which just is implying I don't actually try during the regular season.

Speaker 3 Wait till playoff Rondo shows up, and I actually start giving a shit.

Speaker 5 I do think that

Speaker 5 teams shouldn't be allowed to wear alternate jerseys in the playoffs. I think you just got to stick to home in a way.

Speaker 3 Oh, wow. What do you have against Kobe?

Speaker 3 Nothing against the point. I mean, come on.

Speaker 3 It's more like

Speaker 3 this Nuggets

Speaker 5 Clippers game is like

Speaker 3 you don't even recognize the teams because it's like they're wearing alternate jerseys. I do like it better when there's distinctive colors.

Speaker 3 I get that selective color blindness that you get during some color rush games where it was like the Jets versus the Bills and it was red and green uniforms.

Speaker 5 Like the NFL would never do that in the playoffs.

Speaker 3 No, yeah. No.

Speaker 3 Then it'll be. All right, what else? We had the Kentucky Derby.

Speaker 3 I lost, but

Speaker 3 it was cool. Although it wasn't cool because the horses don't take away from

Speaker 3 them when there's no crowd. Well, Tis the Law not winning was kind of a bummer.
I felt bad for him. And it was was just, I don't know, the whole thing was kind of a bummer.

Speaker 3 And I saw the ratings after, which I'm not going to try to be a Clay Travis ratings guy, but it was like half the amount of people watched, which makes sense. What is like the one most social

Speaker 3 September? Like, it gets like so weird. The horses got woke.
Is that what you're saying? Yeah. I saw a horse kneeling before.
They haven't had a police horse in racing the Kentucky Derby in 100 years.

Speaker 3 The Kentucky Derby's done. Nothing to do with the fact it was in September.
All right, let's get to who's back of the week, and then we will have Warren Sharp on before we do who's back of the week.

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Speaker 3 Okay,

Speaker 3 Hank, who's back of the week?

Speaker 5 My hot seat is me, because I thought we were doing who's back.

Speaker 3 We said on the on the text that we have that we are doing who's back. Yeah, yeah, I know.
I was just reading this. I was reading this.
It's who's back.

Speaker 5 Okay, then cool throne is also me

Speaker 3 For having a who's back ready. Yeah.
Do you have a who's back? Do you have a who's back? Yeah, I have a few. Yeah, so go.
We're doing who's back. Fuck me up.

Speaker 3 The first line said Hot See, Cool Throne is brought to you by Bud Light Seltzer, but Who's Back is now brought to you by Bud Light Seltzer.

Speaker 5 All right, so my Cool Throne is Who's Back, one of which is Tom Cruise.

Speaker 5 Tom Cruise is filming another Mission Impossible movie, Mission Impossible 12, I think it is. And they basically set up the like,

Speaker 5 this is, we talked about it with Tony Hawk, although it hasn't come out yet. But it was like one of these mega, mega, mega ramps off in, like, the, in the, in the mountains of some, some country.

Speaker 5 Like, it's one of the craziest jumps I've ever seen. He did it by himself, didn't use a stuntman.

Speaker 3 Uh, so that's what he, he just jumped off a ramp?

Speaker 5 He jumped off a ramp on a motorcycle, but, like, it's like the ramp is falling off a cliff, so then he had to parachute. So he fell off the motorcycle, parachuted, did the whole thing.

Speaker 3 I feel like Tom Cruise just does that.

Speaker 3 Like, remember the clip of him and him hanging on the airplane?

Speaker 5 He like one-upped it, basically.

Speaker 3 Once you reach a point in life where you've been like the most attractive person in Hollywood for 35 years, the only rushes you can get is just coming as close to death as possible repeatedly.

Speaker 3 Or maybe Tom Cruise just wants to die because he has that

Speaker 3 billion-year contract with Scientology? Is that it? Yeah, he's locked up for like a billion years. He's got the Bobby Buniev religious contract.
So he's good.

Speaker 3 I think he's probably saying, what does it matter if I die? I got a billion-year contract. Right.
He's got like Thetans waiting for him on the other side. Totally fine.
L.

Speaker 3 Ron Hubbard's spaceship is going to come down to Earth and pick him up personally. It's perfect.

Speaker 3 I hope they show him. It's a good promo for the movie.
I hope he puts his fake ass in this movie again, like he did in, was it Valkyrie?

Speaker 3 Where he's got those two just Easter hams hanging out of the back?

Speaker 5 Yes. And then my other cool throne of who's back is hilarious breakup temporary special support.

Speaker 5 Do you guys see Dr. Dre and his wife are getting divorced?

Speaker 3 No.

Speaker 5 And his wife asked for $2 million a month in temporary spousal support. This is the breakdown.
Laundry and cleaning, $10,000 a month. Clothes, $135,000 a month.
Education, $60,000 a month.

Speaker 3 For who? Her? For her.

Speaker 5 Well, and I'm sure, I'm guessing the kids' education. Entertainment, $900,000 a month.
Charitable contributions, $125,000 a month.

Speaker 5 Mortgage, $100,000 a month. Telephone, cell phone, email, $20,000 a month.

Speaker 3 Email? $20,000 a month.

Speaker 3 Telephone, email.

Speaker 5 Telephone, comma, cell phone, comma, email.

Speaker 3 Did she know email's free?

Speaker 5 Apparently not.

Speaker 3 I mean, she's going for it all. What kind of content

Speaker 3 is she locked into for her cell phone as well?

Speaker 3 She just keeps up.

Speaker 5 She's probably on the, yeah, like the per text.

Speaker 3 Yeah, she keeps upgrading on Gmail. You know, when they're like, hey, you need to upgrade your gigabytes, and then you just go delete a bunch of emails.
She's like, no, I don't, bitch.

Speaker 3 She's probably buying just a shitload of ringtones. She's updating it.
She's buying half the ringtones. She bought Acon.
She has Acon making personal ringtones for her.

Speaker 3 I also like how it's $900,000 in entertainment and then $100,000 on mortgage. Yeah.

Speaker 3 You're living a sweet life if you're spending like almost 10 times as much on chilling as you are on the place that you chill in. That's an incredible, incredible budget.
Hopefully,

Speaker 3 well, it's also smart move.

Speaker 5 You know, you're the art of the deal guy, but like you start high and end up with Shimmy.

Speaker 3 She'll end up with a million one million. Yeah, right.
That's cake. Very smart.
Very smart. Okay, is that it?

Speaker 5 That's it for Hot Technology.

Speaker 3 Also, I mean, fellas, if you're single out there and looking for a sugar mama, you could do a lot worse than marrying into that budget.

Speaker 3 PFT, what's your

Speaker 3 who's back of the week is the Shield.

Speaker 3 The Shield is back in the NFL. For a while, we lost it.
It got removed from the 50-yard line down in Carolina when they put the Panthers logo there. Right now, it's only

Speaker 3 in the Meadowlands at MetLife where the Giants and Jets played. And now it's going to be...
the Washington football team's 50-yard line.

Speaker 3 So respecting the Shield.

Speaker 3 The skeptical people out there would say this is Dan Snyder trying to butter up Roger Goodell so that the outcome of any investigations that may or may not be taking place right now into Snyder's ownership would be more favorable.

Speaker 3 I'm not saying that at all. Isn't it just because they don't have a logo? They have a Washington.
They have a W that they could use. But yeah, it also has to do with the fact that

Speaker 3 they don't really have a logo. But the skeptic would say that you're buttering up the commission by saying nobody's bigger than the Shield.
But I do love the Shield at midfield.

Speaker 3 My other who's back of the week is Ryan Fitzpatrick. Ryan Fitzpatrick won the starting job down in Miami over Tua.

Speaker 3 And if you thought that Ryan Fitzpatrick was going away anytime soon, you don't know anything about football. No.
He's been going strong for, what, 16 years? Dude, Joshua Cowan.

Speaker 3 Like, Ryan Fitzpatrick saw Joshua Cowan getting $12,000 a week by sitting at home in Texas and going on Zooms and being the emergency backup quarterback.

Speaker 3 And he's like, yo, I got another 10 years to my deal here in the NFL. Yeah.
Like, easily. It's just, it's one of those things that will be nice to see on Sunday.
It'll be comforting. Yes.

Speaker 3 There are no people in the stands, but as long as we have Ryan Fitzpatrick and his bushy, humidified, frizzy beard poking through the holes in the face mask, I will know that it's football.

Speaker 3 And I will be happy. He'll have at least a couple games where he goes crazy and everyone's like, holy shit, Ryan Fitzpatrick.
Should we give him money? Sure. All right, Mai Who's back? I got two.

Speaker 3 Nick Cage is back. Did you guys see this clip? No.
Oh, my God. This clip.
All right, so I'll have you put this in, but I'm going to play it right here. Nick Cage is all the way back.

Speaker 8 Go to some really crazy places. Like, how do you amp yourself up for scenes scenes like that? Or is, you know, does the term over the top even register?

Speaker 10 You show me where the top is, and I'll let you know whether I'm over it or not, all right?

Speaker 10 I design where the top is.

Speaker 10 Brian could speak more to this than I can. He knows how spiritual acting is for me.

Speaker 3 I don't even like the word acting anymore.

Speaker 10 I don't, because it implies lying in some way. I don't act.

Speaker 10 I feel and I...

Speaker 10 Imagine and I channel.

Speaker 3 So Nick Cage is back. He doesn't act.
Hell yeah. He channels, he feels, he imagines.
It was... I don't know where this clip was from.
It seems like it was a new movie that they're doing publicity for.

Speaker 3 But yeah, Nick Cage just telling everyone that you don't tell him where the top is because he designs the top. And just, we don't, as like a country, appreciate Nick Cage enough.
Oh, I love Nick Cage.

Speaker 3 And in that clip, he sounds like Owen Wilson doing an impression of Nick Cage on Saturday Night Live. He's incredible.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 Or like if Nick Cage was, is Owen Wilson doing an impression of Nick Cage in a Wes Anderson movie? Nick Cage had to to give back a dinosaur skull to Mongolia because it was stolen illegally. And

Speaker 3 that's just a real headline that happened with Nick Cage.

Speaker 3 I think he's just becoming, he's realized that the character that he plays in National Treasure is like the coolest person in the history of the earth.

Speaker 3 So he's just trying to become more and more like that character that he plays. Right.
All right, my other who's back is Mitch Trubisky. QB1, Mitch Trubisky, I should say.
He is back. I'm ready.

Speaker 3 And I have a little perspective for you from Coach Matt Nagy. So he said, here's how I look at this thing.
We're in a really crazy world right now. There's a lot of bad stories out there.

Speaker 3 There's a lot of negativity out there. So here we are in a profession where there can be a lot of good stories.
And I just think to me, like you have an opportunity here to have a really cool story.

Speaker 3 Is it going to happen? I don't know. But you have somebody that has been through a lot in the sports world, had some highs and had a lot of lows.
That sucks that he said had a lot of lows.

Speaker 3 He has worked some highs and had a ton of lows. A lot of lefts, a lot of rights, a lot of overthrows.
He can't throw left.

Speaker 3 Not so many left.

Speaker 3 He has worked his tail off to win this job and have an opportunity to prove a lot of people right. If you struggle to see that and understanding that, then that's your own opinion.

Speaker 3 But here we are, and now he has an opportunity, and let's see where it goes. Now he has the ball, and he's able to do what he wants with it.

Speaker 3 We are going to all support and surround him and give him every opportunity to have a very happy ending.

Speaker 3 So, all you haters out there who make fun of Mitch Trubisky, send me all those mean tweets, just know that there's a lot of negativity in this world, and you should instead be rooting for a cool story.

Speaker 3 That's right. Rudy would have been such a terrible movie if he didn't suck as a football player.
Exactly.

Speaker 3 It's bullshit that anyone is sitting here and rooting against Mitch Trubisky.

Speaker 3 You know what's really easy to do, Big Cat? To watch Patrick Mahomes play, who incidentally was selected behind Mitch Trubisky, and say, that guy's good. I hope he wins.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 And then you end up being proven right inevitably. inevitably.
You know what's a lot harder to do is pick a guy that's terrible and be like, maybe

Speaker 3 he's had some highs and he's had some rights. A lot of lows.
Some lows, not any lefts, and say,

Speaker 3 I think that guy's good. And have a 1% chance of him being right hit.
It's crazy. It's crazy.
Look, the world sucks right now. 2020 sucks.
Root for something crazy. Mitch Trubisky, 2020.

Speaker 3 All right, Billy. Rooting for something even crazier.
My who's back of the week is Nathan Peterman.

Speaker 3 Yes, Billy. Marcus Mariota has been put on the IR.

Speaker 3 You sure that's the same Marcus Mariota? Yes. He's injured?

Speaker 3 Yes. Okay.
Anyway. No way.
In Las Vegas, the second-string quarterback is now Nathan Peterman. Hell yeah.
And we know Gruden loves him. Yeah, Peter Peter.
But there's a chance.

Speaker 3 There's a chance we see another Nathan Peterman. You want to get real fucking crazy with 2020? Yeah.
Get a Nathan Peterman tattoo. Nathan Peterman.

Speaker 3 Super Bowl DVP. You should do it.
I'm going to gamble that. Peter.
Get a Nathan Peterman tattoo. No.
Why? Come on. But just do it for fun.
I'll gamble on Nathan Peterman winning Super Bowl and VPP.

Speaker 3 Listen, Nathan Peterman walked so that Jameis Winson could run last year. You really changed the NFL.

Speaker 3 We need Nathan Peterman in a game. Just, that will be.

Speaker 3 They should actually.

Speaker 3 They should have a clause.

Speaker 3 All NBC and ESPN should have a, in case of Nathan Peterman starting a game, flex clause.

Speaker 3 Like, if, if,

Speaker 3 because seriously, think about it. Like, if Derek Carr gets hurt and you have,

Speaker 3 I don't know, so let's say it's the Monday night game where it's like Dolphins versus Texans, but you also have the chance of maybe now having Nathan Peterman start in front of the world.

Speaker 3 Come on, dude. You wouldn't take Nathan Peterman?

Speaker 3 If you're going to, would you rather lose like 21 to 17 and have Derek Carr back there throwing for like one touchdown, one interception, and 280 yards?

Speaker 3 Or would you rather have Nathan Peterman going out with his hair on fire, throwing five interceptions in the first half, and just having it seem like the apocalypse is occurring between the tackle boxes?

Speaker 3 Because that is,

Speaker 3 you know what that is? That's a game where you say five years from now, seven years from now, I remember where I was when Nathan Peterman imploded. Right.

Speaker 3 And that's all you can hope for out of a football game. Right.
Just remember, Nathan Peterman beat Clemson in Death Valley

Speaker 9 with Pitt.

Speaker 3 Just remember that. Fact.
That is a fact. Get a Peterman tattoo.
That is a fact. And then Clemson went and won the national title.
Also, Chad Kelly. Is that the year they won the national title?

Speaker 3 I think they did.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I think so. Yeah, I think so.
You said Chad Kelly. Chad Kelly signed with the practice squad for the Colts.

Speaker 3 He's back. Okay, so I think, I don't know.
I don't know if that's technically a he's back. I feel like Chad Kelly just never moved out of Indianapolis.
True. He just stayed living in an apartment

Speaker 3 downtown and was was like showing up at bars and they're like all right well yeah i guess we need we need an emergency guy let's have him scout team no they brought him i don't think chad killer would re-enter a building that he's not allowed to be in he wasn't

Speaker 1 um all right let's get to our interview so first we have warren sharp football preview and then we have blake anderson pfd you got our ad before we get to warren sharp what's up guys it's big cat here making my irish entrance with proper number 12 irish whiskey how do you make an irish entrance you ask it starts with a shot of proper number 12 Irish whiskey because real friends don't let friends Irish exit a party without a story to tell.

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Speaker 3 He's going to give us an awesome preview for the upcoming NFL season. It is week one.
We are finally here. If you don't know Warren Sharp, you can follow him on Twitter at Sharp Football.

Speaker 3 You can also buy his 2020 football preview book, which is his pin tweet. He actually was awesome.
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Speaker 3 So everyone who bought during that time, thank you, thank you, thank you. And thank you, Warren, for doing that.

Speaker 3 Great to see you. It means football's back when we see your mustache, mustache to mustache.

Speaker 3 Let's start here because we've got a lot we want to get to and get everyone smart and ready to go for Thursday night. Obviously, this is the weirdest year that we've had.

Speaker 3 No preseason. No, it seems like teams, you know, the teams are playing some contact reps, but not a ton.

Speaker 3 What do you think the biggest fallout is going to be in the month of September in terms of quality of play and who's at the bigger disadvantage, offense or defense, when we're talking about the start of the season?

Speaker 9 Well, first of all, guys, happy to be back. And I do want to tell you that nobody has to buy anything.
The book, I'm giving it away for free to your listeners.

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Speaker 9 I don't want anybody to have to pay for that right now. Uh, there's still great stuff in it, don't get me wrong, but you don't need to pay anything.

Speaker 3 Are you like a drug dealer thing where you're like, I'm gonna get you hooked on it?

Speaker 3 Well, no, because 2020 season's starting, so he's smart, he's smart what he's doing, he's getting you hooked on it after the fact, and then next year you're gonna be like, Damn, I really should have gotten that.

Speaker 3 Okay, but it's definitely worth it if you want to pay for it. It's still worth the price.
Yes,

Speaker 9 thank you, thank you. So

Speaker 9 this, the only thing that we have that's even close to the 2020 preseason and offseason, I went back and looked at what they did in 2011. I don't know if you guys remember, you probably do.

Speaker 9 That was the year of the lockout where there were disputes over the CBA and they had to come up with a new CBA. And the players from the Super Bowl onward were unable to even access the facilities.

Speaker 9 Okay. No access to the facilities.
And they made an agreement. They made their deal back at the very end of July.
They all came came back in. But there was two main differences.

Speaker 9 So that's similar timing to what we're dealing with here where guys were able to come back to the facilities in late July and do nothing. prior to that.

Speaker 9 But the two main differences, the first one was that that year we had all the preseason games except for the Hall of Fame game.

Speaker 9 So all of the hitting and all the contact and everything, live reps, live game action was taking place just like it was planned. We clearly did not have that this offseason.

Speaker 9 And then secondly, the lack of communication. That season, a lot of the teams still got together themselves.
You had different units getting together to work out with one another.

Speaker 9 Here with the pandemic, people were just at their homes doing some things with a couple guys from a random team, sometimes not even their own team. It was very different from that perspective.

Speaker 9 That season, the first two weeks out the gates of 2011, overs went 73%.

Speaker 9 Overs went 73%.

Speaker 3 I want to cut this part, but yeah, go ahead. I want to keep it.

Speaker 3 We're going to get our bets in before we put this out, and then we'll be fine. Got it.

Speaker 9 So the Oddsmakers still set the totals right around the same number that they did the year before in 2010. And even in 2009, they went up a couple of points.

Speaker 9 The totals still had about six points more. And it was actually no season on record has had more overs the first couple of weeks than that 2011 season.
Nobody else is really discussing this.

Speaker 9 I think there's a couple of things that will happen this year that teams need to take advantage of. Number one is tempo.
I think they can further wear out these defenses.

Speaker 9 If they get a lot of reps in, get to the line of scrimmage quickly.

Speaker 9 Does not necessarily mean you have to go fast, but if you get to the line of scrimmage quickly, you're preventing substitutions for the defense.

Speaker 9 And then I think by the third and fourth quarters, that's when we're going to see these defenses get worn down a little bit.

Speaker 9 I think that's one of the bigger things that is going to be evident from having the lack of the preseason games.

Speaker 9 Now, I know from some of the coaches that I've talked to that on the offensive side of the ball, they're worried about their reps and they're worried about their conditioning and the chemistry between the offensive linemen, for example.

Speaker 9 You are going to need to monitor, you know, which teams have a lot of turnover on their offense and which teams have a lot of new pieces, a new play caller, a new quarterback, et cetera.

Speaker 9 But I do think overall, defenses are having those same exact things on their side of the football.

Speaker 9 I know the offensive guys get get all hyper about it, but defenses are having those same sort of things. We are going to see some sloppiness.

Speaker 9 We are going to see some problems, but I think getting to the line of scrimmage quickly is going to be a big benefit.

Speaker 9 And then, of course, we've got this crowd noise and the 70-decibel limit and all this type of stuff. Coaches are really worried about that as well.

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 3 It's interesting that you say that because I feel like in my mind, it's always like you hear the defenses are a little bit ahead of the offenses early in the season where they can just blitz a lot and maybe take advantage of the fact that the offensives haven't practiced a lot of different protection packages and kind of confuse them and throw a bunch of stuff like that happen.

Speaker 3 But you're saying it's kind of the opposite that the defense is just going to get tired out because they're not in condition.

Speaker 3 So, like, the second half point total is even going to be bigger than the first half.

Speaker 9 I think so. Look, when, when, and this is just a suspicion.
We don't know anything. We've never had an offseason like this.

Speaker 9 So you have to, if you're betting on these games or if you're thinking about them, you have to do your research, think logically. Okay, what has happened? 2011 is the the only thing close to this.

Speaker 9 What could we see? This is where I'm falling out on this argument. Well, who's going to be ahead? We could very well see defenses have a little bit of an upper hand.

Speaker 9 I could be wrong here, but I do think there are times when I'm betting a total and I'll bet the first half under as opposed to the full game under. This is the perfect week to do something like that.

Speaker 9 If you like a game and you think there's going to be fewer points, I think betting it in the first half when the defenses are at their freshest is the smart thing to do.

Speaker 9 And if you like an over, betting it either at halftime or the full game is going to be smarter than trying to come in and bet the first half over.

Speaker 3 All right, so let's transition now to the different conferences. So let's start with the AFC.

Speaker 3 The AFC, obviously, we know, you know, the Chiefs, defending Super Bowl champs, Patrick Mahomes, incredible, blah, blah, blah. The Ravens, you know, MVP, Lamar Jackson.

Speaker 3 Give us, though, because it happens every year, and obviously there's a different playoff structure now with seven teams from each conference. Give us, though, the team that you thought last year

Speaker 3 was better than their record, and you think they have something they're going to be building on here and going to surprise some people.

Speaker 9 So if I were to ask you guys, you know the teams, you mentioned a few of them, including you didn't mention the Patriots, but throw the Patriots in the mix. Of the teams that...

Speaker 9 Week through week eight, halfway through last season, the number one seed in the AFC was the New England Patriots. They were undefeated at the time, 8-0.

Speaker 9 Who do you think was number two in the AFC halfway through the season?

Speaker 3 I think...

Speaker 3 Oh, was it the Buffalo Bills?

Speaker 9 No.

Speaker 3 No, because it couldn't be, because it couldn't be the two seed.

Speaker 3 Was it

Speaker 3 the Texans?

Speaker 9 No, it was actually the Indianapolis Colts, even though they were led by Jacoby Brissette. They were 6-2.

Speaker 9 They had beaten the Kansas City Chiefs in Kansas City, handed Patrick Mahomes his only second ever home loss.

Speaker 9 Went in and beat the Texans also and the Titans. earlier on in that season.
Then they go in the second half of the season. This is a team over their last nine games of the 2019 season.

Speaker 9 They led at halftime or entering the fourth quarter in seven of those nine games, but they only won two. They only won two of those nine games, despite all these big leads.

Speaker 9 And the odds say, and the history says when you have leads at halftime or entering the fourth quarter, you're

Speaker 9 80 plus percent chance that you're going to win this game. And they blew a ton of those games.
I personally think that Frank Reich is one of the most underrated play callers that we have in the NFL.

Speaker 9 Think about this. 2017, he wins the Super Bowl in Philadelphia as the OC for the Philadelphia Eagles.
Then they obviously didn't want him. Indy tried to get Josh McDaniels.

Speaker 9 They ended up getting Frank Reich to come in there. That offseason, he's working with Andrew Luck for the first time.

Speaker 9 Obviously, he's a brand new coach. Andrew Luck's throwing tennis balls that offseason.
Like, we don't know if Andrew Luck is going to be able to play.

Speaker 9 He's throwing a college-sized football a few weeks before the start of the season. We don't know what we're going to get out of him.

Speaker 9 Frank Reich dialed up an offense that played to Andrew Luck's strengths as he was recovering from his surgery, and they end up winning 10 games that first year.

Speaker 9 He gets there and they go to the playoffs. Last season, he has to deal with Andrew Luck retiring three weeks before the start of the season.

Speaker 9 All of a sudden, boom, he's got a call plays for Jacoby Brissette all year. And they just did what I said.
They were the number two seed halfway through the season. They have since gone out.

Speaker 9 They've got Phillip Rivers, who I've loved Phillip Rivers as a competitor, and I've always wanted him to be on a team.

Speaker 3 Wait, hold on, Warren. I got to stop you.

Speaker 3 That sounds to me like you don't think Phillip Rivers has much of an arm left because saying I love him as a competitor is a telltale sign you don't love him as a quarterback anymore.

Speaker 9 I love his moxie and his gusto,

Speaker 9 but you're right. There are some questions about his arm strength.
But that being said, I do wonder what he's going to look like behind a realistic offensive line.

Speaker 9 The Chargers went out year after year, tried to bring on offensive linemen, draft offensive linemen, and none of these guys seem to work out. He is playing behind.

Speaker 9 the best offensive line or one of the best in the entirety of the NFL right now. They also brought on new players at the skill position that are going to help him.

Speaker 9 I love their three wide receiver set. They get back Paris Campbell, who basically missed all of last season with injury.
He was a high draft pick for them, but couldn't play last year.

Speaker 9 They go out and draft another wide receiver high this season. They get Jonathan Taylor, your boy from Wisconsin, coming in there.

Speaker 9 And I think he, by the way, I like him over 700 yards in his rushing yards prop on the season, Big Cat.

Speaker 9 But I think Jonathan Taylor, with Marlon Mack in there as a one-two punch, are going to be absolutely phenomenal. I think this is a team that...
A lot of people kind of forgot about.

Speaker 9 Nobody's really that big on Phillip Rivers.

Speaker 9 I think the thing that we cannot underestimate here is just how good of a coach and a play caller Frank Reich is and why I think he's going to stamp his name on this football team.

Speaker 9 And they're going to be a lot better than people think.

Speaker 3 That's a great answer. It's also interesting.
Frank Reich went out and he solved the problem of blowing fourth quarter leads by getting a quarterback that always trails in the fourth quarter.

Speaker 3 So like kind of that's not going to happen again. That was an aberration last year.

Speaker 3 But you think that you think he has enough left in the tank with a good offensive line to like actually be a competent quarterback this year?

Speaker 9 I do. I think they've got enough underneath.
And look, what do we talk about? Andrew Luck in 2018? Andrew Luck's arm strength. What's going on with Andrew Luck?

Speaker 9 I think that Frank Reich is going to be able to dial up something that works to make the quarterback Philip Rivers look a lot better.

Speaker 9 And I just think that the offensive minds that were out in LA with the Chargers

Speaker 9 not even hold a candle to what Frank Reich is as a play caller. And so I think we're going to see some optimization of whatever it is Philip Rivers has left.

Speaker 9 I think we're going to see that this year in Indy.

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 3 I'm very curious to hear what your NFC dark horse team is, because there's one team that everyone's picking. I'm not going to tell you who it is, but if you were to kind of put that same Colts

Speaker 3 prognosis on a team from the NFC, who would it be?

Speaker 9 Okay, well, I don't know if the team you're talking about is the Arizona Cardinals.

Speaker 3 Yeah, it is the Cardinals. It's the Cardinals.

Speaker 9 I'm not going to talk about the Cardinals because you're right. That was too easy to guess.
A lot of people talked about the Cardinals.

Speaker 9 The team that I'm going to go with that actually missed the playoffs last year, they are favored this year. It seems like a slam dunk too.

Speaker 9 Probably second most talked about team apart from the Cardinals who didn't make it. It is the Dallas Cowboys.

Speaker 9 I think the Dallas Cowboys offense is going to be significantly better than a lot of people think. But here's the interesting thing, guys, that nobody's talking about yet.

Speaker 9 And I'm interested to see if we start to see it week one. Sunday night football.
I cannot wait for this game out in L.A. against the Rams.
But the prior coach obviously influenced a lot of things.

Speaker 9 He didn't call all the plays, but he influenced a lot of that offense. And Jason Garrett had the Dallas Cowboys.
Dak's been in the NFL for four years now. They were the number four most run-heavy

Speaker 9 teams on early downs in the first half of games. They ran the ball a ton.
We knew this a couple of years ago. They got a little bit better, but they were still top 10 in rush rate.

Speaker 9 the past couple of years, even with Dak Prescott there. I think that the new coach, Mike McCarthy, is going to instill a lot more aggressive nature and a lot more passing to this offense.

Speaker 9 Think back to what he did with Aaron Rodgers back in like the 2016 and the 2017 season. Aaron got hurt in 2017, didn't play the full slated games, got hurt against the Vikings.

Speaker 9 Then he played in 2018 until McCarthy got fired. Over that span in time, No football team passed the ball more on early downs than the Green Bay Packers.

Speaker 9 We are going from one of the most conservative run-heavy coaches of Jason Garrett to the most aggressive coach in terms of throwing the football down the field in Mike McCarthy.

Speaker 9 Passing is more efficient than running the football is. I think we're going to see a higher ceiling because they're going to be willing to pass the ball.
I love their weapons.

Speaker 9 First of all, getting rid of Jason Witten, that's addition by subtraction right there.

Speaker 9 I like Blake Jarwin anyways, but just not having to throw the ball to a guy who cannot move after he catches it is going to benefit the Dallas Cowboys.

Speaker 9 And then, of course, CeeDee Lamb, you can't say enough good things about him. Hopefully he catches on pretty quickly for the Cowboys' sake.
I think this is a team that has a very good outside shot.

Speaker 9 You can get him for plus 675 at winning the entire NFC. You can hedge some things late if you need to.
And I don't love some of the early stuff on their offensive line, but

Speaker 9 They've got the possibility of putting things together and making a run this season. They went, I think, one and six in one score games last year.

Speaker 9 One of the worst things about them was the red zone performance. And I think if McCarthy can improve that, this is a really dangerous team.

Speaker 3 They're also playing like like one of the lowest strength of schedules this year, right? They've got a bunch of cupcake games on there.

Speaker 3 If you look at the other teams that are supposed to be good going into this year, I think like head and shoulders, the Cowboys have the easiest road.

Speaker 9 Yeah, Dallas, when I look at, I do a lot of strength of schedule. I wrote about it in the book a lot.
And Dallas has the 10th easiest schedule of opposing teams in the NFL this year.

Speaker 9 So it's definitely more beneficial than, let's say, the Eagles' schedule.

Speaker 9 And those two teams, I think, go ahead.

Speaker 3 Well, I was saying, how much is that actually like, I like looking at strength strength schedule too, but we both, we all know that once the season starts, you kind of have to throw it out the window.

Speaker 3 Like, for instance, last year, the Packers played the Chiefs without Patrick Mahomes. You know what I mean?

Speaker 3 Like, there are different, you know, getting a team at the right time, getting a team when they're on the up, getting a team when they're on the down. Like,

Speaker 3 there's definitely a difference in playing teams, different parts of the schedule, where strength of schedule doesn't feel as important.

Speaker 9 No, 100%.

Speaker 9 The strength of schedule preseason is just our best guess as

Speaker 9 what we can expect this year. What a lot of people don't do, Big Cat, that I think is a big mistake, and it is something that I focus on a lot, is looking at strength of schedule in season.

Speaker 9 And a lot of people use it as a tool before the season starts. Then they just forget about it.
But they use it in college football. It's also very valuable.

Speaker 9 You know, it doesn't really matter as much in the NBA or baseball where there's such high sample sizes, lots of games being played.

Speaker 9 But in the NFL where you only play 16 opponents and a lot of them are inside of your division, who you're playing outside of those opponents and who you're playing compared to who somebody else is playing is massive in terms of being able to use that to help forecast and prognosticate efficiencies.

Speaker 9 And so it's something that I rely a lot on, whether I'm betting games or whether I'm helping teams anticipate calibers of opposing defenses. when we look at, oh, well, this defense is really good.

Speaker 9 Yeah, but they just played three of the bottom 10 passing offenses the last three weeks.

Speaker 9 We don't have to get conservative and say, let's run the ball a lot against them because they look like they've got a good pass defense.

Speaker 9 Let's still pass the ball because we think we might have an edge.

Speaker 3 Right. So, all right.
So let's do the reverse here.

Speaker 3 Two teams from each conference who made the playoffs or who were deemed good and maybe missed the playoffs by a game who you could see as falling off a little bit and maybe not.

Speaker 3 Maybe it was a maybe it was a little house of cards, so to speak.

Speaker 9 Well, I think in the NFC, I like this guy as a coach, Mike Zimmer, but I think the Minnesota Vikings are due for a little bit of regression.

Speaker 9 That entire division, you know, your division in the NFC North is really interesting because...

Speaker 9 Everybody, including the odds makers, have forecasted that the Green Bay Packers are going to regress. This was a team that won 13 games last year that only has a win total of nine games.

Speaker 9 You know, they're being forecast to win four fewer games this upcoming season, finish in second place in that division. And I don't think that that's unwarranted.

Speaker 9 This was a team that got lucky and had a lot of things go for it. They were not, in my opinion, a 13-win team last year.

Speaker 9 But we overlook the Minnesota Vikings in the same context, in the same conversation.

Speaker 9 Some of the things that we could say poorly about the Green Bay Packers in terms of opposing quarterbacks that they faced last year that made their defense look better than it was.

Speaker 9 We could say about the Minnesota Vikings, but nobody is doing that. Minnesota finished top 10 in like injury luck, fumble recovery luck, field goal luck.
Field goal luck is a thing.

Speaker 9 It's something that I track. It's like, it's your ability to make field goals.
And then also like, are the teams that you're going up against, are they making or missing their field goals?

Speaker 9 Because there's a certain rate that you're supposed to make on a 45-yard field goal.

Speaker 9 And if you face a bunch of teams that just happen to hit well above that rate, then you're just getting unlucky from the field goal luck perspective.

Speaker 9 So Minnesota just had a lot of good things going for it.

Speaker 9 And this is an offseason in particular that we noted ahead of the, you know, at the beginning, the first question you asked me has a lot of change, a lot of moving pieces on that defense, a lot of new players that are coming in there.

Speaker 9 And I think that's very difficult. Minnesota went out and spent a lot on draft capital this season.
I think they drafted 12 players, a ton of new rookies to come in the door.

Speaker 9 just a bad year to have to incorporate a lot of rookies and expect much out of them given the lack of an offseason. And then you lose Diggs, who's one of your biggest playmaking threats offensively.

Speaker 9 So I think this is a team that probably regresses a little bit on the NFC. And over in the AFC, look,

Speaker 9 I guess I'll just say this. I think the Denver Broncos, they're an exciting team.
A lot of people are big on Drew Locke.

Speaker 9 So this is not a team that I think is going to necessarily regress, but I think won't live up to expectations more so.

Speaker 9 Drew Locke, everybody talks about how he went four and one down the stretch and won all these games late in the year. And so those are good things going for him.

Speaker 9 But they played some of the worst pass defenses in the NFL during that stretch. Looking at some of the advanced analytics, he was not good at throwing the ball deeper down the field.

Speaker 9 Anything above 15 yards depth of target was very inaccurate on. And he's got a bunch of wide receivers.
Elway did a good job of bringing in some good stud wide receivers.

Speaker 9 He's got a lot of receiving threats there, but I just don't know if I have confidence in his new offensive coordinator and his ability to have a really good season all the way through.

Speaker 3 Counterpoint, he's got it. I think Drew Locke has it.
He's got Moxie. I love his competitiveness, Warren.
He now has the, he took the Moxie throne from Phil Phil Rivers in the AFC West.

Speaker 9 So are you guys Locke fans?

Speaker 3 I'm a big Locke believer. I believe in Locke, yes.
Mostly just because PFT is incept in my brain. I actually will,

Speaker 3 I don't want to reveal, but I think I might make my biggest bet of my life on the Broncos week one because I don't understand how with everything that's going on with COVID and the lack of training camp and the lack of conditioning, you can have a team go mile high and compete week one and not just be absolutely destroyed.

Speaker 3 And the Broncos are always good in September, week one, or

Speaker 3 in September in Broncos, in Denver.

Speaker 9 In Denver, yeah. So there's two things going for Denver that week that not a lot of people are aware of.
The first thing that's going for them is exactly what you mentioned.

Speaker 9 It's a, we know these defenses have not played a lot. They haven't tackled a lot.

Speaker 9 And when they go and play weeks one and weeks two out in Denver at that elevation that they have there, they really struggle to get oxygen. They get gassed.

Speaker 9 And so you couple that element with the fact that they didn't do much this preseason.

Speaker 9 I think that is an advantage for Denver to jump on this team and to have some success in the second half against that defense.

Speaker 9 The other thing that's really interesting, guys, take a look at what time this game is being played. Not only is it a Monday night game, but is it Monday night, 10-10 p.m.

Speaker 9 Eastern Time kickoff on the not on the West Coast, but Denver is a team that has the advantage of the body clock. The body clock is a bigger element than a lot of people realize.

Speaker 9 Usually in this game, we have a game like the Raiders versus the Chargers. It's a couple of West Coast teams.
An East Coast team playing at this time,

Speaker 9 their body clock is going to be significantly messed up as compared to Denver's body clock.

Speaker 9 And that typically does an element called the circadian rhythm, which makes the second half of games, these teams tend to wear out.

Speaker 9 They get fatigued because mentally they're less awake than Denver is who's playing at an earlier time locally that they're accustomed to. So something else to consider.

Speaker 3 I love that. Now, my brain is so dumb that when you said that it's at night, I thought you were going to say that there's less oxygen even at night because there's like less sky around.

Speaker 3 That's a theory.

Speaker 3 I'm going to keep that in the back of my head and maybe bring that up later. But I wanted to touch on what you said a second ago about field goal luck.
What teams...

Speaker 3 are like have the worst field goal luck when it comes to like their opponents making more kicks than they should against them. And

Speaker 3 isn't there an argument to be made that maybe there's something that's contributing to that field goal luck, whether it's

Speaker 3 not having a very good rush on the kick or finding themselves in the situations where they have very makeable field goals. They're playing the Ravens twice a year.
Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 9 Yeah, no, I don't have the numbers right in front of me, but there are teams, for example, like the L.A. Rams, whose opponents averaged like 80%

Speaker 9 make rate against them last season. It was definitely well above average.
I think it was 7% above average based upon the distance of those kicks. So they were a team.

Speaker 9 I wrote about it in the book on one of the pages towards the end of each chapter.

Speaker 9 I list out every single team's field goal luck, net field goal luck, their own make rate, and their opponent's make rate. And there's some calculations in there.

Speaker 9 But it does, it definitely does factor in. If you have to play a team like the Ravens or teams that have

Speaker 9 in a division where there's good kickers there, you're in luck.

Speaker 9 A team that got to play Adam Vinatieri, right, for the Indianapolis Colts last year, who just couldn't hit the broadside of a barn literally, like you're going to be in much better shape.

Speaker 9 There are teams that won games against the Colts last year that should have lost them for sure, but Vinatieri kept just crap in the bed every single time he got out the kick.

Speaker 3 I'm also curious about the effect of new stadiums or stadia, as Peter King pointed out earlier today, that the plural is actually stadia.

Speaker 3 On, you know, in Los Angeles, you've got two teams that are playing a brand new stadium, and then in in Las Vegas, you've got the Raiders opening that stadium up.

Speaker 3 Whether it's like from the kickers' perspective or from just an offensive perspective, is there anything in history that you can go back and look at statistically?

Speaker 3 Like, how do new stadiums perform each year?

Speaker 9 Well, in terms of just field goal kicking, I don't know in terms of field goal kicking.

Speaker 9 What I can say in terms of, let's parlay this into a little bit of crowd noise discussion, as well as just the stadium itself.

Speaker 9 So the surface from what I have read and seen, the surface of the Rams new stadium, extremely fast, extremely fast.

Speaker 3 You watch hard knocks too.

Speaker 9 I saw the hard knocks episode. I also did some research on the field, on the surface,

Speaker 9 analyzed the rubber pellets that are inserted onto the artificial surface there. And they have a significant bounce back rate, just keeping the players fresh and like a

Speaker 9 springy track for them. So I think that there's a good chance that we see some points in that Sunday night game, Dallas, and LA Rams.
But in general, just in terms of the stadium.

Speaker 9 So, let's look at the Minnesota Vikings, for example.

Speaker 9 They got a new stadium built in 2016, and those architects came in and built that stadium specifically to have a roof on it that would refract the crowd noise back onto the football field.

Speaker 9 And since they built that stadium, they have had the number one best ATS cover rate in the NFL since they built that new stadium to help with the crowd noise.

Speaker 9 They They aren't going to have that advantage this year. And it's one of the things that we didn't discuss.

Speaker 9 We talked about the Vikings, but they're not going to have that advantage of the crowd noise.

Speaker 9 I was doing some research when the NFL announced that they were going to have 70 decibels of crowd noise tailored to each team that's going to be played in the PA system throughout the course of the game.

Speaker 9 And they're not allowed to, talking to some coaches, they're not allowed to cycle that off or on. They're just, so it doesn't matter which team has the ball.

Speaker 9 That crowd noise is kind of always white noise in the background, playing some effects and some chants and things of that nature.

Speaker 9 70 decibels is not very loud. That's the equivalent of like classroom chatter.

Speaker 9 And I think some of the coaches were worried: well, are we able to get to line of scrimmage and hear the hear our signals? Will the quarterback have to scream?

Speaker 9 They were practicing in a lot of different ranges of decibels.

Speaker 9 70 is going to be okay for the quarterback to communicate with the other players, but it is going the stadiums that are more designed to reflect, reflect crowd noise,

Speaker 9 those teams that play in those stadiums are going to be hurt more than teams that are used to having no fans like the Chargers were.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 I'm just thinking now you say 70 decibels, the Seahawks are for sure going to find a way to make it like 120 and cheat their way through it.

Speaker 3 All right. So

Speaker 3 are you a believer in Mitch? The greatest comeback story of all time?

Speaker 9 I am a believer in what they're looking to do there with Mitch.

Speaker 3 I will tell you this. That's a roundabout yes.

Speaker 9 It's a roundabout yes, but I will tell you this.

Speaker 9 This offseason made it very difficult to hold a quarterback battle. Let's talk about Foles, for example.

Speaker 9 Coming in there, even though he had a little bit of familiarity with it, very difficult to perform well and to beat out a guy who's very comfortable and has been playing in this offense for several years.

Speaker 9 I think if there was a regular offseason, the result of the battle may have been a little bit different.

Speaker 3 But oh, see, I disagree. I think there was no chance Foles was ever going to win the starting job just because you can't give the starting job to Foles and then bring Mitch in.

Speaker 3 You can go the other way. Like, Mitch can now lose it and it'd be like, all right, it's over.
But if you give the job to Foles week one, Mitch is never coming back from that. Like it's over.

Speaker 3 So now you don't have a backup either.

Speaker 9 That is 100% correct from what we think from the outside. But I can tell you that.
From the inside, they really were hoping that it was going to be a situation where Foles would just look really good.

Speaker 9 I mean, you don't go out and pay a guy money and hope that he's just going to sit as your backup.

Speaker 9 They were expecting more than what they got out of him, but they're realizing we're not going to stress it too much.

Speaker 9 And I kind of was of the mindset, like, why announce it this early? Why not wait till the very end? Make Matt Patricia, they're playing the Detroit Lions week one.

Speaker 9 Why not make Matt Patricia prepare for both guys, not know who it is? But they wanted to announce it as an internal vote of confidence. And some of the players needed to know.

Speaker 9 And what the problem, the other problem with having a quarterback battle with this type of offseason with so few practices is that now you're splitting reps.

Speaker 9 And so even Mitch, who's going to be the starter, did not get as many reps as he would have if they just said, Foles, you're going to rest and watch Mitch. You might play later.

Speaker 9 Mitch is going to take all the first team reps. They weren't able to do that.
So he had much fewer reps than like Tom Brady down in Tampa this year or Drew Brees in New Orleans.

Speaker 9 So I think that's going to be a, I'm hoping that he comes out looking pretty good week one.

Speaker 9 I think that they're doing some things that are going to make this team a little bit less predictable and more exciting. I'll just say that.

Speaker 9 I think this is a team headed in the right direction with some of the things you're going to be doing from a play calling perspective. And I've got high hopes.
Mitch has had big hat, you know this.

Speaker 9 Mitch has done well against the Lions. So hopefully he gets the season started off really well week one.

Speaker 3 11 tight ends on the field at the same time.

Speaker 3 Is that what they're looking at doing? What formation would that be? Would that be like 0-0-1-1-1 personnel?

Speaker 9 Actually, it would be 0-0,

Speaker 9 and then you'd have to get rid of all the linemen, too. Well, you don't have quarterbacks either.
So, yeah, I don't know. I don't think anybody's ever tried that.

Speaker 3 Cole Komet's going to be fucking sick. I know it.
Jimmy Graham's washed up, or whatever.

Speaker 9 Yeah, that's the thing. I mean, you bring in a guy like Jimmy.
You haven't used him a lot this preseason. What is he going to look like?

Speaker 9 That's where I think there could be a little bit of miscommunications or things of that nature. A play or two here or there.

Speaker 9 But at the end of the day these guys are football players and i think that they're going to be able to do well enough offensively and i'm curious to see the lack of familiarity on the defensive side of the football i think the detroit lions are starting five new players on the defensive side of the ball including three new players in the secondary there is the potential to have a lot of miscommunication on these defenses especially if you stay at a high tempo and you're using a lot of misdirection, whether it's pre-snap or post-snap, like like play-action type motions involved, I think that there's a good chance that you're going to cause confusion on the defenses.

Speaker 3 What about in the AFC, the number one overall pick, our good friend Joe Burrow, so don't trash him.

Speaker 3 We don't really know what Zach Taylor's offense is going to look like with Joe Burrow, but I guess you could probably make an educated guess of what they're going to try to do with him.

Speaker 3 Are you optimistic for his rookie season? Or is this going to be one of those things where it's like he's on a bad team?

Speaker 3 He's going to do his best and he's going to have to get through it and don't expect too much.

Speaker 9 I think anything we get from him is going to be a positive. Like I do think there's low expectations of the Bengals in general just because of who they've been for several years.

Speaker 9 But I think it is a team that could come out and surprise a little bit. They did really poorly in one score games last year.

Speaker 9 The thing I'm most concerned with with the coaching staff there is their tendencies last season to just throw out 11 personnel out onto the field and not really make adjustments.

Speaker 9 Even if you're starting wide receivers, your number two wide receiver aren't healthy, aren't up, aren't active.

Speaker 9 They just continue to throw 11 personnel out on the football field instead of making adjustments. They're also way too predictable.

Speaker 9 When they had Tyler Eifert, who's now down in Jacksonville, so they don't have to worry about this.

Speaker 9 But when Tyler Eifert was out there, Zach Taylor was calling passes on over 80% of the plays just when he's standing out on the football field. Defenses can pick up on these tells.

Speaker 9 I mean, it's not, this is like defenses go wildly giddy when they're getting a tell that's like 65 to 70 percent odds.

Speaker 9 And when you get a, when you throw him out there on 80 percent of the time, you're passing the football, it's just way, way, way too predictable.

Speaker 9 So I hope Zach Taylor does some things that aren't just 11 personnel all the time and being predictable with his tight ends this season. But I have a lot of hopes.

Speaker 9 Long term, obviously, I think his career is going to be great for Joe Burrow. And that receiving core and that unit that they've got there is actually sneaky good.

Speaker 9 They play in a tough division, of course, right? So we can't expect too many great things, but this is a team that I think could

Speaker 9 go over their win total potentially.

Speaker 3 Okay, so Warren Sharp, everyone go follow him Sharp football. I had one last question.

Speaker 3 You're going to have to give us a prediction.

Speaker 3 I want to go more than just the Super Bowl. Can you give us your championship games and then Super Bowl and Super Bowl champion?

Speaker 3 And of course, if you get it wrong, we'll just make fun of you a little bit.

Speaker 9 Yeah, no doubt. Okay, so from

Speaker 9 the

Speaker 9 NFC, let's start there first. These aren't teams necessarily that I'm rooting for, but where I think we're going to go.

Speaker 9 I think Dallas is going to be there. And it's tough for me whether it's going to be the Saints, the Seahawks, or the Niners.

Speaker 9 So I'm throwing out three teams there, but I like all three of those teams relatively equally.

Speaker 9 No Bucs.

Speaker 3 I forgot to mention, like, we haven't even talked about that. You don't, are you not buying the Bucs super team, dream team?

Speaker 9 I, I really like Bruce Arings as a coach. I'm so, super interested to see how the depth of target thing is going to work for Brady and his top receivers.
And I do think that defense is phenomenal.

Speaker 9 One of the most underrated defenses, Todd Bulls did a phenomenal job with them last season. I just think that.
It's hard in this type of an offseason.

Speaker 9 And while I'm not betting against Brady, like I'm not betting that they don't make the playoffs, nor am I betting that they can't win that division.

Speaker 9 I just think that I'm not betting on him this season. I just think it's a tough season to do that.
And I think some of the things that the Saints did this offseason are getting overlooked as well.

Speaker 9 But some of the pieces that they added there, I think, are pretty good. You do have questions about Drew Brees' arm, et cetera.
Any quarterback who's that old, you're going to.

Speaker 9 In a perfect world, I would love to see

Speaker 9 Russell Wilson get a shot to go back there.

Speaker 9 But I'm worried about some of the things in their pass rush. But if you're twisting my arm, I guess I probably will go the Seahawks Seahawks against the Cowboys.
Wow. And then over in the AFC,

Speaker 9 it's tough, but I think I'm going to have to go with just the two best teams. These are the two teams that are head and shoulders above anybody else in the entire league.
The Bills.

Speaker 9 I like the Bills.

Speaker 9 I do like the Bills. I have high hopes for them.
I like Dayball. I like Josh Allen.
I think that they're going to be fine this season.

Speaker 9 But I'm going to go with the Ravens and I'm going to go with the Chiefs. And the key to who is going to ultimately win that matchup is, number one, how much has Daryl Thomas missed?

Speaker 9 But number two, can Lamar Jackson make those types of throws that Harbaugh wants him to when the defense stacks the box and they need to open things up a little bit down the field?

Speaker 9 He was making those on occasion last year. He had a phenomenal passing season last year.
I mean, I was on him before the season even started as being an MVP candidate.

Speaker 9 But I want him to be able to do those things when

Speaker 9 they need him to do it, as opposed to just, you know, bam, big play, bam, big play. We're up by 20, another huge play.
Like these are in must-have situations.

Speaker 9 I want him to be able to hit those passes. I think he's worked on it.
I think they've got some receivers there.

Speaker 3 I'll go.

Speaker 9 It's easy to just say the Chiefs, so I'm not going to go the Chiefs to win.

Speaker 9 I think the Ravens may have a better record than the Chiefs, and that is going to be a big difference, having that home field advantage.

Speaker 9 The other thing about the Ravens late in the season, they have a mini buy. So they play on a Thursday.

Speaker 9 I believe it's the Thursday either of Thanksgiving or right after Thanksgiving against the Cowboys, if I'm not mistaken. And then they don't play again until the following Monday night.

Speaker 9 And this is like week. 13.
So they have like a mini buy, like a nice little rest heading into that Monday night game.

Speaker 9 If they can win more games than the Chiefs, or at least hold the tiebreaker in order to be able to be that number one seed with only one team getting a buy this postseason, having that mini buy and then having a first-round buy is just such a massive edge.

Speaker 9 And I think that would give them the slight upper hand over the Chiefs this year. So I'm going to go Baltimore in the Super Bowl.
And

Speaker 9 I said that they had some value, so I'll stick with it.

Speaker 3 But well,

Speaker 9 I'll change my mind. I'm going to go Seattle.
I'm going to go Baltimore and Seattle, Russ versus Lamar Jackson for the Super Bowl. Wow.

Speaker 3 Oh, yeah, you are right. So it's Cowboys on,

Speaker 3 oh, no, 12-3.

Speaker 3 No, you're wrong. Wait,

Speaker 3 they have Cowboys on a Thursday after Thanksgiving, and then they have the Browns the Monday night after that. So they have 11 days off.

Speaker 3 By the way, you did just like fuck me up because I forgot about the seven, even though I mentioned it earlier, the fact there's only one buy this year.

Speaker 3 Because when you said home field advantage, I was like, what the fuck are you talking about? But that is monumental now for that team to not have to play an extra game.

Speaker 9 It is such an advantage this season because only one team in each conference gets that buy. It's going to be so big for whatever team.

Speaker 9 And this is why I think usually we get to like the last, although last Kevin Harlan was calling that week 17 game where the

Speaker 9 Dolphins upset the Patriots in New England and allowed the Chiefs to have home field advantage. He was calling the Chiefs game and calling the

Speaker 9 Patriots game at the same time. That was phenomenal, but we are going to see very competitive week 16, week 17 games because only one team gets that buy.

Speaker 3 Okay, and what about the Patriots, the other side of that whole Bucks equation? Do you have any idea what Belichick is going to do with Cam Newton this year?

Speaker 3 Because he's not going to use him the same way that he used Brady. And then there's also like the question mark about, like, is Cam healthy? Is his shoulder okay?

Speaker 9 Yeah, 100%. I think Cam is healthy.
I do, from what I've heard, what I've seen, and what I've read, Cam's shoulder is back to being totally normal.

Speaker 9 So that shouldn't be an issue. I think that they're going to be able to do a lot more things this year with him than they weren't able to do with Brady, obviously.

Speaker 9 But the thing that is going to be really interesting is the way that defenses have to play them. Because

Speaker 9 not enough people are discussing the fact, yeah, they don't have good weapons this year, and they didn't have good weapons last year. And Cam's not as good of a pure passer as Brady.

Speaker 9 So how could this offense be anything but good? It's going to be much worse than what it was last year.

Speaker 9 But on the other side of that, because you have Tom Brady out there and he never runs the football, defenses play him a little bit differently. And against 11 personnel, they tend to play dime.

Speaker 9 A lot of DBs out on the field. Let's just put it in layman's terms, a lot of DBs out on the field.
They tend to play dime like 17% of the time.

Speaker 9 But when you're playing against Cam Newton, they can't throw as many DBs out on the field. They only play dime 7% of the time.
They have extra linebackers out on the field.

Speaker 9 It gives more opportunities for Cam to find targets and mismatches pre-snap and hit these guys.

Speaker 9 And secondly, the one thing about the Patriots, when they had Tom Brady, he was so good at audible them into run plays against light boxes.

Speaker 9 By that, I mean the number of defenders that are close enough to the line of scrimmage to be involved in tackling a defender. They call that the box.
And typically it's seven men inside the box.

Speaker 9 You got four down linemen, three linebackers, or three down linemen and four linebackers.

Speaker 9 But he would run the ball very frequently against light boxes, six men in that box, and they did really well. They were like a top two offense running the football.

Speaker 9 But when you put seven men in the box or even eight men in the box, put an extra defender, they were just merely average.

Speaker 9 With Cam Newton, the way that he can run the ball, he can still have success, whether there's a seventh man in the box or an eighth man in the box.

Speaker 9 With the way that they're able to run the football, with the read options that he's able to do, they leave a defender at the edge just completely unblocked. Look at what the guy's going to do

Speaker 9 and hand the ball off or keep it based upon that you don't even have to block that guy it's just a big advantage that's why they're a top three run offense no matter how many men are inside of the box in 2018 when cam was actually playing the full season so i think they're going to be able to do a lot but here's my concern pft the issue is

Speaker 9 All the opt-outs from COVID, they hit this team like a landslide, and that defense was not as good as what they looked the first half of the season.

Speaker 9 If you remember back to last season, everybody's talking about, oh, this is the best team like statistically in

Speaker 9 history. Everybody was talking about that.
The fact was they were playing crappy offenses. They played the Dallas Cowboys in a monsoon.
They played some teams in windstorms.

Speaker 9 We saw once the weather turned, it wasn't quite as bad. And once they started playing good offenses, they were getting lit up.
I mean, the Ravens took them to the woodshed.

Speaker 9 The Chiefs had success against them. So this is a team I think that...

Speaker 9 They're going to be very competitive. Don't get me wrong.
I'm not suggesting that they're only going to win six or seven games here, but

Speaker 9 we just have to limit our expectations because of so many issues they're dealing with from the defensive side of the football and just a lack of talent offensively.

Speaker 3 Yeah. They lost Devlin last year and they lost Danny Vitale.
He was an opt-out. That was probably one of the ones that you were talking about, the offensive weapon fullback.

Speaker 9 The fullbacks, I'm telling you, if you look at the teams,

Speaker 9 I know you retweeted this, so I know you saw this, but we got to get it on this episode.

Speaker 9 Of the six teams that used the most fullbacks last season, five of those six made it to the playoffs. Like fullbacks are very, very valuable, especially when defenses are a little bit lighter.

Speaker 9 And think about this. We're talking about teams maybe not tackling quite as well, maybe being winded a little bit early.

Speaker 9 Think about the teams that have those fullbacks out there to start the year, wearing down those teams, beating on them into the second half. I think that could be an edge.

Speaker 3 This is the year of the fullback. Got it right now, 2020.
Putting stone. All right.
Well, Warren, thank you so much. I'm sure we'll talk to you again throughout the season.

Speaker 3 We appreciate you doing this with us. And everyone, if you're not following Warren already, Sharp Football on Twitter, do it right now because it is a must-have.

Speaker 3 And he has a website that has some great stuff if you want to pay throughout the year. He's always got updated stuff, great some betting tips, everything.
So go check it out at Sharp Football.

Speaker 3 Warren, thank you so much, man.

Speaker 9 Thanks for having me, guys. Grab your free book, too.

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The new movie's called Woke. It's out on September 9th, correct?

Speaker 12 Yes, it's a series.

Speaker 3 Series. Sorry, series.

Speaker 3 And I want to start there because I watched the trailer. When was this filmed? When was this

Speaker 3 created? I assume a year ago?

Speaker 12 I mean, we originally shot the pilot like almost two years ago, but um, we completed

Speaker 12 filming for this season uh right around the beginning of this year.

Speaker 3 So, have you watched everything not to get like too heavy, but everything that has gone on in this country and been like, whoa, this show is now becoming more and more like in with the times and what's going on by the second?

Speaker 12 Yeah, I mean, you know,

Speaker 12 part of that is pretty sad, you know, that it's

Speaker 12 so relevant now.

Speaker 12 But also, I mean, just the fact that this was a show that was in production and being made back then is just, I think, a testament to why, you know, these conversations that we're having have needed to be had for quite some time now.

Speaker 3 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 3 My questions are mostly based around your hair because you and I share, we share a look, kind of.

Speaker 3 I get, I get tagged in a lot of pictures of you online I can't grow the mustache that's one big fault that I have

Speaker 3 but I'm just curious about about the hair what kind of product do you use because you've got some volume that I struggle to get so the width is tough for me yeah sorry my hair's a little wet uh that's my bad uh I was swimming but um

Speaker 12 I think I I usually say that the secret to the volume of my hair is I have a Jeep with no top so

Speaker 12 the product I use is American American Wind.

Speaker 3 I love it. Yeah, it's like you're blow-drying your hair all the time whenever you run an errand.
There you go.

Speaker 3 How often do you get stopped going through airport security or checked for drugs or profiled because of the hair? Ooh.

Speaker 12 Not as much as you would think, but we filmed Woke in Vancouver, and I definitely felt like they put me through the immigration process, and I took a little longer than the rest of the people.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I find it, at least for me, like I have people who approach me, if they don't mistake me from a woman from behind, they'll approach me.

Speaker 3 Oh, does that happen to you too?

Speaker 12 Yes, I've been mistaken for a woman in over three different languages.

Speaker 3 Nice. What's the most polite sounding one to get mistaken for a woman in?

Speaker 12 In Spanish.

Speaker 3 Uh-huh. Yeah.
Okay. Yeah, for sure.

Speaker 12 And also, for some reason, it happens a lot at the Cheesecake Factory.

Speaker 3 I don't know why. Well, we had it.
PFT had it.

Speaker 3 We went to a Brazilian steakhouse, and that was an all-time one when our waitress came up and said uh miss are you are you done with this

Speaker 3 and we just that was basically he knew at that moment that the rest of the night was over for him uh because it became a roast but it's good to know that that happens to any guy with long hair yeah and that is a that's like a

Speaker 12 a major reason that i have this weird mustache on my face is just to help old people with my gender identity.

Speaker 3 It's very true. Like I intentionally keep a little bit of stubble going on at all times.
So there's never any real questions.

Speaker 3 Because if I'm a baby face, then it's the most embarrassing part is if somebody mistakes you for a woman from behind and you turn around, then they have that second of pause where they're not totally sure whether or not they should apologize yet.

Speaker 3 Like maybe he's just a really ugly woman. And so that's, I feel like this, it stops a lot of conflict before it starts.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I've had a, I had an old guy, I was like at a like a thrift store checking out, and he was and the cashier asked who was the next and the old guy was like uh he she I don't know what he is just said like point blank I was like whoa yeah that was awesome I'm gonna remember that forever I think maybe the worst part about the Brazilian steakhouse was they they give you cards that have a green side and a red side so there's really no need for them to come over and see if you're done eating or not because I'm telling them with a color-coded system but this person came over and was just like hey miss can are are you done with your mother?

Speaker 3 We've never seen a woman eat this much steak. Yeah.
What the hell is going on right now?

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 So, Blake, we want to obviously get into workaholics in your entire career, but I want to start at the beginning because we're fascinated by this all the time.

Speaker 3 When we have someone on who's similar age, I think you're 34. Are you 35?

Speaker 3 35.

Speaker 3 Okay, so we're also 35, and it's always fun to talk to someone in that age group where we're kind of the last generation of people who remember life without social media, but then get the benefit of social media when we're like 18, 19, 20 years old.

Speaker 3 Have you had that

Speaker 3 realization

Speaker 3 that if you were born 20 years earlier, you might not have had a break, you know, coming up on YouTube and being able to make comedy?

Speaker 3 Or if you were born 10 years later, you'd probably be like stuck making TikToks instead of, you know, comedy that's maybe thought out a little bit more.

Speaker 12 Yeah, I definitely think about that stuff all the time because, like, man, I feel for some of these like TikTokers to get in like the business now would be, I think, rough.

Speaker 3 Yeah. Because

Speaker 12 I know, like, a lot of the way we came up, yeah, but like executives at Comedy Central saw like sketches we were putting up on YouTube, but that was back when, you know, it was still a relatively like small pond to choose from.

Speaker 12 Like the cream rose to the top or whatever the fucking saying is. But like with like you or TikTok and Instagram and Twitter, like there's so much content being made.

Speaker 12 Like to be discovered, I imagine would be so tough.

Speaker 3 And not only that, but I find myself suffering from this, but like the attention spans of everyone has completely like been evaporated.

Speaker 3 So, you know, even thinking about, you know, like early 2000s, when you would go on YouTube and watch a 15-minute comedy sketch or a 10-minute comedy sketch. That doesn't happen anymore.

Speaker 12 No.

Speaker 12 I mean, to me, those were kind of like the glory days when

Speaker 12 there was actually like sketch groups like putting out like really hilarious stuff. Like that's, that's kind of how we saw, like, we saw like Lonely Island doing their thing.
I mean,

Speaker 12 they're pretty clear about being like, yeah, we were the guys that kind of like put YouTube on the map, but they really were.

Speaker 12 It was like, whoa, look at these guys putting up like original sketches and getting attention and then getting SNL. It was just like mind-blowing.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I remember like Human Giant was coming up around the same time.

Speaker 3 And the way that you would kind of, you would get introduced by a friend, and maybe they put something on their Facebook profile or their wall or whatever you call it at the time.

Speaker 3 And then you'd click through their other videos. And that's how you'd find out.
I don't think the algorithm back on in those days on YouTube was as strong as it is now.

Speaker 3 So like you had to be directly linked to one of these profiles.

Speaker 3 So how did you you go about like promoting your group's YouTube profile and all your videos when you didn't have like the ability to go mega viral on, you know, you post it to Twitter and it gets 10,000 retweets?

Speaker 12 Oh, dude, we were like notoriously terrible at promoting, like absolutely terrible. We got so fucking lucky with like being seen by the people we were seen by at Comedy Central.
Even like,

Speaker 12 The email that like the executive at Comedy Central sent us, we didn't find find till like three months later because we wouldn't even check our accounts' emails.

Speaker 3 And we're like, guys, come in here. Holy shit.
We have a meeting at Comedy Central three months ago. That's insane.
That's so good. That's so good.

Speaker 3 So Workaholics obviously had tremendous success and

Speaker 3 is, you know, a cult classic more than that because it was obviously on Comedy Central. When you guys decided to end it, though, was that a hard decision to make?

Speaker 3 Was there kind of a push and pull between the group of like some wanted to keep going and some didn't? How did that, how did you guys figure that out?

Speaker 3 Um, I mean, I

Speaker 12 we definitely decided as a group to stop. I mean, like,

Speaker 12 I really, we just want to start like getting into movies. We wanted to get into the next step, you know, it uh, even like Kyle Nuicek, our director, like we wanted to get him to that next level too.

Speaker 12 Like, when you start to get to the later seasons of a show, we were always just trying, it's It's just the nature of us to like go bigger and better and like bigger stunts, more

Speaker 12 better cameos. And in television, you can only blow up your, like, your budget so much before the network's like, yeah, you just can't, you can't do that stuff.

Speaker 3 So we just saw like movies as like the next step.

Speaker 12 So shortly after Workaholics, we did, we went to Netflix and did Game Over, man. And that was kind of like we were seen as like, oh, this is, this will be our next venue.

Speaker 3 Right. So follow-up to that, has there been

Speaker 3 anything said or is it kind of a silent understanding of like if any one of you needs a quick cash grab, like you can do like a Rolling Stones when you're 50 and be like, let's bring workaholics back.

Speaker 3 Like if Seinfeld came back tomorrow, it would make so much money.

Speaker 3 Do you have that in the back of your mind? Like if shit go, if shit hits the fan, I could always just like drag everyone and be like, let's do Workaholics again for one like reunion season.

Speaker 12 well we have always been very adamant in saying that workaholics gets like 12 times more fun year when we're all 50 and or like even older and still living together and i'm just bald on the top of my head there's just storylines for days okay so it's gonna happen it should happen workaholics is not done it's just on like a 25 year hiatus 25 to 30 to 40 year hiatus perfect whoever can do this whoever's career is going the worst at that point will lobby the others to reunite.

Speaker 3 It's like Praz one day is going to really ask Lauren Hill and Wyclef to like reunite the Fujis. Yeah, and you could, yeah.

Speaker 3 Or you could also, like, you know, if the other guys don't want to do it, you could just get close like fill-ins and have it. And bands do that all the time.

Speaker 3 Like, Grateful Dead's still touring, and Jerry Garcia's been dead for 25 years.

Speaker 12 Yeah, come on. You know, Alice and Chains, they never stopped.

Speaker 3 Yeah, right. Come on.
Or, yeah, or you can get like a

Speaker 3 a filipino kid that sings for journey right now right yeah you can just like mix and match yeah lynn skinnyard i think there's only or no who's uh i know the almond brothers there's like only one almond left you know or one person left yeah van halen keeps yeah they just they're like as long as we got one even if it's like a nephew of one you're good

Speaker 12 I like that band name too. Only one almond left.

Speaker 3 Yes, only one almond left. I think there might not be any almonds left.
You guys,

Speaker 3 shit,

Speaker 3 you did a great job of like nailing all the small stuff about the, you know, the sorrow or like the drear, the hopelessness sometimes that comes along with working an office job, like a dead-end telemarketing job in your early to mid-20s.

Speaker 3 And like, you did a great job making fun of all that stuff. I'm wondering which one of you guys had the shittiest job that gave you that insight to be able to write that stuff.

Speaker 3 Well,

Speaker 12 the largest reason that we were telemarketers in the show is because both Adam and Anders were telemarketers at one point in their life.

Speaker 12 So we're like, because we were like, man, we want these guys to have like a shitty job. And they're like, we know just the job.

Speaker 3 Yep.

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 3 I did that for a little bit too. It's terrible.
It's terrible. Oh, it's a soul suck, right? Yes.

Speaker 3 I left Island. It's the only job that I left in the middle of a shift because I made enough to cover my rent.
And I was like, I'm not coming back.

Speaker 12 Yeah. And

Speaker 12 it's like a large portion of the job is like deceit and lying and coming from old people.

Speaker 3 It's just, it's just, it's terrible. Calling people literally at dinner and being like, I know you're at dinner right now, but that's kind of my job.

Speaker 12 Yeah, just give me your credit card and this can all be over.

Speaker 3 And when you're not lying to them actively, you're calling them up and just getting hung up on instantly. You deal with rejection so much in the telemarketing.

Speaker 3 Did you consider doing like a method acting thing where you embedded yourself secretly in a telemarketing firm to learn the job?

Speaker 12 Absolutely not absolutely not i have no desire ever to do that wait where did anders uh telemarket he was i think he was like

Speaker 3 doing something for like i want to say like the democratic party back in the day phone bank yeah like he would he was like pounding the pavement for i don't know who the hell it was man i worked at a place one time and on like the second day one of my coworkers brought in his own phone and people were like what what the are you doing He's like, Yeah, you know, like a mercenary brings in their own rifle.

Speaker 3 I bring in my own phone to my job. And I'm like, This is not good.

Speaker 3 It's like bringing in your own pool stick. Yeah, exactly.
Or your own bowling ball. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Well, it worked because I was intimidated as fuck. I was like, I can't compete with this guy.
Yeah.

Speaker 12 Also, when your coworkers are talking about mercenaries bringing their own guns,

Speaker 12 I would be intimidated.

Speaker 3 Yeah, good reason to walk out the door. Yes.

Speaker 3 So, speaking of our collective age of 35, you got to voice Michelangelo. Was that

Speaker 3 like the coolest thing ever? Because even as a 35-year-old, I'm like, holy shit, dude. Now I was a Raphael guy, but still, you got to voice Michelangelo.

Speaker 12 Oh, for sure. I'll take it.
Yeah.

Speaker 12 Yeah, it was actually for this really

Speaker 12 like weird project.

Speaker 12 I feel like it was some kind of anniversary for the Ninja Turtles. And like Nickelodeon.

Speaker 12 was like getting all these different artists to do like a scene in the Ninja Turtle style. Like the person who did our animation was the person who did like Invader Zim.

Speaker 12 So it was like me, Durz, and Adam getting to voice the turtles for this one scene. And I was like, damn, dude, give us a series because we freaking killed it.

Speaker 3 Yeah. But that's got to be like if you're talking about a kid growing up and you're like, if you, like, when you grow up, I want to be Michelangelo.
I want to be the cool party dude who eats pizza.

Speaker 3 And then you got Cass is that.

Speaker 3 That has to be the greatest accomplishment of your life right i was ready to retire on top yeah i was like okay this is it i'm done here you got type cast as michelangelo like honestly everything i've ever trained for it all came to fruition that's got to be a pretty big mind fuck for your parents too if they if they grew up or you grew up and they were raising you watching you watch michelangelo on tv and then eventually you become michelangelo yeah they have to actually figure like we did an awesome job dude well and it's a lot of me just shoving it back in their face.

Speaker 12 Like, I told you to buy me the Michelangelo toys, and I was right.

Speaker 3 Oh, that pizza that you said you didn't want to feed me because I was getting chubby in your face. I did.
Yeah. Yes.

Speaker 12 I told you, jelly bean pizza checks out.

Speaker 3 Yes, yes.

Speaker 3 I was reading that you're a big Bay Area sports guy. Is that true?

Speaker 12 Yes, I grew up in the East Bay.

Speaker 3 So

Speaker 12 those are my squads. I'm kind of a

Speaker 12 Sharks, A's, Niners, Warriors fan.

Speaker 3 Do you think that Mark Jackson would have won like six more titles if he had just stayed on as the coach of the Warriors?

Speaker 12 I mean, anything is possible with the power of Christ, okay, guys? That's all I'm going to say.

Speaker 3 Does KD's title count? Absolutely. Are you kidding me? Two.
Yeah, all day. They count.

Speaker 3 But, I mean, you also realize, like, everyone hates you guys. Although now that Katie's gone and like Steph has to do it again,

Speaker 3 I think people will start getting back on the Warriors train.

Speaker 12 Everyone, I mean, first off, a lot of basketball fans, especially nowadays, are so petty.

Speaker 3 I'm whatever. Oh, yeah.
But, like,

Speaker 12 once all the smoke clears, people are going to look back and be like, God damn, those Warriors were some really cool champions. They were cool, man.
That was a great squad.

Speaker 3 Do you think it's kind of bullshit that Riley Curry, she'll come out after a win, but she won't be there to face questions from the media after a loss?

Speaker 12 I mean,

Speaker 12 you know, she's not on the payroll, so I don't blame her, dude.

Speaker 12 I wouldn't want to do that.

Speaker 12 Those shits got to be so hard to do, especially after a loss. Yeah.
Damn, can you imagine? Yeah.

Speaker 3 What about the Niners?

Speaker 3 You strike me as somebody that Greg Kittle, George Kittle, we call him Greg, would really appreciate you.

Speaker 12 I like to think so. Yeah, I kind of, when I was growing up, it was the Niners' glory days.
So I was pretty much a Niner fan through my dad.

Speaker 12 Like, I I have a bunch of baby pitchers, just head-to-toe Niners gear. So, I'm pretty hyped on that, especially that they're decent again.

Speaker 3 Yeah, absolutely. So,

Speaker 3 you had an all-time drunk injury, which I know wasn't probably funny at the time. You fractured your spine jumping off a roof onto a beer pong table.
So, it's a two-part question.

Speaker 3 One is, looking back on that, are you like, that was sick? And number two,

Speaker 3 did you invent Bill's mafia? Because you tried to jump jump through a table on a roof and that's kind of their whole deal.

Speaker 12 I mean, I like to, yeah, it's Blake's mafia, dude. Yeah.

Speaker 3 From now on, that's my team.

Speaker 12 That's my team over there.

Speaker 3 Did that take that? Did it suck right away? Because

Speaker 3 I always love stories of drunk injuries when everyone's kind of been through this where you get injured when you're drunk and you're like, I'm good. I think I'm good.
Like, this is not a big deal.

Speaker 3 And then you start to sober up. You're like, oh, fuck, this is a big deal.

Speaker 12 Oh, yeah. I definitely, I mean,

Speaker 12 I was definitely like cross-fated. I had things in my system.
It happened, hurt very, very, very, very bad.

Speaker 12 But I definitely stood up, walked up the stairs, tried to keep partying, tried to DJ another song because it was at my house party. And I just noticed that I was like slouching really bad.

Speaker 3 And

Speaker 12 I stood up straight. And that's when it was just like, you know, like in a movie, movie, the violinist thing that's like,

Speaker 12 that's my body felt like.

Speaker 9 And I was like, okay, guys, I'm going to bed.

Speaker 3 So that's what you have to do at that point. You fall asleep and you're like, maybe when I'm sober, all this pain will be completely gone.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 You don't think about going to the hospital in that moment.

Speaker 12 No, I had, you know, my whole thing was I'm going to try to sleep it off.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 12 And, you know, so

Speaker 12 I think I took some NyQuil and just tried to pass out.

Speaker 3 Was there any video footage of this incident?

Speaker 12 Oh, yeah, you can YouTube it. I don't do it too much because

Speaker 3 it hurt.

Speaker 12 It was definitely on TMZ.

Speaker 3 Yeah,

Speaker 3 I love the pass out because I've had that too, where then you also wake up in the middle of the night and you're like, I think I'm doing okay. And then you're like, oh, fuck, it still hurt.
Let me go.

Speaker 3 Let me get some more. Let me get four more hours of sleep and my spine will be better.
And then you wake up again and you're like, the first like few steps, you're like, I think I'm healed.

Speaker 3 And then the pain just starts rushing. You're like, no, this is fucked.

Speaker 12 Yeah, it was definitely a crazy night. I had to like, because I did wake up because I had to take a piss.
I'd been drinking all night and I had to like army crawl to the bathroom.

Speaker 12 I'm like, oh, maybe if I sleep a couple more hours, I'll be cool. And then when I woke up and it was like still really bad, that's when I'm like, all right, I got to call my dad.

Speaker 3 Call my dad. Not again, not go to the hospital.
Call my dad. Yeah.
What was your dad's advice?

Speaker 12 Well, he got there and he was just like, yeah, I think we got to call 911, dude.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 I like that you needed confirmation.

Speaker 12 Well, what was wild is like the party was at me and Adam's house. So like when my dad came in so early, there's still like people passed out in the house all around.

Speaker 3 Right. And they're like, oh, shit, like somebody's dad's here.

Speaker 3 That was the workaholics house, right?

Speaker 12 It was a house after like Adam and I, we did live together in the Workahogs house, but then we were like, like shooting there. And it was also infested with like rats and stuff.

Speaker 12 It was just like too much of a mind fuck to live there. And me and Adam weren't done being fun ass roommates yet.

Speaker 12 So we're like, yo, let's like kind of cash out on like a dope little like Hollywood Hills house. And that was the one where all the shit went down.

Speaker 3 That's very relatable too, being like those last couple years. We're like, yo, I think we should like just keep living together and being bros and partying all the time.

Speaker 3 Like we got a couple more years in this run.

Speaker 12 Yeah, we knew that this was probably our

Speaker 12 last stand and we're like, let's like drop some of this season one cash on a little crib.

Speaker 3 Now it makes sense that you got that injury. Like that's, you add it all up.
You, you drop the cash. It's your last stand.
You kind of have to jump off that roof.

Speaker 12 Not to mention that party was fucking sick. It was like Flying Lotus was like DJing.
Like all of Odd Future was there. I think like Mindy Kaling randomly showed up.
It was crazy.

Speaker 3 Yeah, that's a nice little analogy for what you were saying about Workaholics, which is like you, every season you had to build it up bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger.

Speaker 3 And so it's time to call it a watch. Probably jumping off the roof in that moment might have been the like, okay, maybe we should get our own places.

Speaker 12 Yeah, it almost took me getting paralyzed to realize it might be time to pump the brakes.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 So you guys, it always struck me in, especially like the early seasons, there was always like, there's always drinking involved, always partying involved in the Workaholics house.

Speaker 3 Would you ever write scenes being like, yo, we should have like a party scene in this one episode just so you didn't have to leave your house, just so you could like film while you were sitting in your house drinking a beer?

Speaker 12 Well, that was like a running joke in the first couple seasons when we were still living in the house. We would like, you know, we'd party once you rap shooting or over the weekends.

Speaker 12 We'd play beer pong all weekend or whatever. And we would just throw trash around the house and tell people you could throw trash anywhere.
We'd be like, yo, that's set deck.

Speaker 3 That's set decoration.

Speaker 12 Don't even worry about it.

Speaker 12 That's probably why we had rats.

Speaker 3 Yeah. And that's also living the dream where it all just becomes part of like the bit.

Speaker 6 Yeah, totally.

Speaker 3 That's that's incredible.

Speaker 3 So I know that people have always, you guys kind of embraced it, but people would say like, oh, Workaholics is always sunny ripoff.

Speaker 3 How did you, did you guys consciously like, listen, we're fans of always sunny. We're not ripping anyone off.
Like, it's not going to bother us when people say that.

Speaker 6 I mean, i think we've been pretty open with saying like always sunny is a large reason of why we even had the show like i know we would definitely watch always sunny and be like whoa these dudes are freaking killing it and even as like the seasons went on because

Speaker 6 people will be like dude you guys got a collab or whatever we like went over the sunny dudes and we because they were they're really good about like contracts and money and we're just like dumb as hell when it comes to that kind of stuff.

Speaker 6 So we kind of would go to them for guidance durst even wore like a patty's pub shirt shirt in one of our episodes so it was it was never any beef i mean there's they're super different shows we're just like

Speaker 3 a group of comedic white guys i suppose yeah no i i love that though because i feel like the um

Speaker 3 as the internet progresses people get very territorial and there's very much like a this guy had it first you can't do this and people are funny there's parallel thinking again you guys aren't even like you're not the same show at all.

Speaker 3 But I appreciate like embracing it and looking at the positive instead of like this negative cynical cycle that starts on the internet.

Speaker 6 Well, and you know, I think one of the your duties as a comedian or whatever is to be aware of the other people within your comedic circle, especially if it's people you respect.

Speaker 6 So there was definitely multiple times in the room where you'd be like, ah, they already did that on Sunny. Right.
Kind of like, you know, or shit, South Park already did that.

Speaker 6 Like, it just, it's part of it. You can't avoid it all because everything's been done.
But as long as you're, like, try to be aware and not rip people off, it's, it's all good.

Speaker 3 What's the difference between a sketch comedy group and a sketch comedy troop? I guess what I'm asking is what is a troop? I always hear that word. I never know what a real.

Speaker 6 A troop is like some Renaissance fair bullshit, man. I don't know who's running in troops anymore.

Speaker 3 Come on. Yeah, I know.
But every time I see like a comedy group online, it always refers to them as a troop. And it fucks in my head for a second because I'm like, what are you, madrigals?

Speaker 6 I don't blame you. Yeah, I think that just is some Shakespearean hoity-toity bullshit, man.
I don't know. Just

Speaker 6 be what you are. You're a damn group.
Get over yourself.

Speaker 3 Did when you were coming up with a name for your group, not your troop, did you ever have like any self-consciousness about it? Being like, we're a comedy group.

Speaker 3 We have to have a name that's like really, really fucking funny because that's their first impression of us.

Speaker 6 Would you say, like, are you talking about like mail order comedy, our internet collab?

Speaker 3 Oh, yeah, like anytime you come up with a name like that for a comedy group, I feel like that's a decision that you can very easily overthink because you have to try to be like super funny with it.

Speaker 6 Yeah.

Speaker 6 Like I said, we're terrible with marketing and all that stuff.

Speaker 6 That kind of that just kind of arose from like we initially made this weird, way too long, like 30-minute pilot for YouTube, where the whole thing behind it is like, oh, it's this sketch show where people send in their sketch ideas through the mail this is wasn't even email like through the mail and we take whatever letters we get and

Speaker 6 that is a sketch like it does it like it that's where the name came from and it just stuck we never rebranded

Speaker 3 so i had uh this is kind of a dumb question but i'm curious about in hollywood I assume you have an agent and you were in, you've been in a bunch of different movies, but when you're starting your career career as in movies, you were in Neighbors, which I actually have like a soft spot for the movie Neighbors because I did one of the worst advertising deals ever.

Speaker 3 I played beer pong with

Speaker 3 the other Franco brother and McLovin at the University of Illinois. But you played beer pong guy number two at Neighbors.
Yes.

Speaker 3 Does your agent call you up and like, yo, I got you a huge part, beer pong guy number two?

Speaker 6 Yeah, that is like a weird industry thing where, like,

Speaker 6 sometimes you'll get like calls when you're writing or creating a character for somebody, and they make you rename the person a name. Like, it'll be like, yeah, he doesn't want to be sexy guy seven.

Speaker 6 Can he have a name? And it's like, sure.

Speaker 6 Can he play the part of Jesse?

Speaker 3 It's still the same exact role. Right, right.
It feels better to have a name, though.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 6 you know what? That's something I'll bring to the table. You call me beer pong player number two, but I have my story as an actor.
I bring all of that to my character.

Speaker 3 When you're filming your scene, were you aware of who beer pong number one and three and four were?

Speaker 6 Adam made it very clear he was beer pong number one.

Speaker 3 Okay, all right, okay, yeah, because that's got to be like that. Definitely has to, there's got to be some like turf battles over who's beer pong guy number one versus two.
Oh, for sure.

Speaker 6 It's a it's a complete ego trip, and he still rubs it in to this day.

Speaker 3 Were you actually drinking real beer during that shot? Uh, I don't remember.

Speaker 6 Shit, I can't even recall. Probably not, if I had to guess, but if we only had to film like that one like flashback scene, so we probably should have been drinking real beer.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I would, yeah, just like bring your own, even if it's not provided to you on set. You know, really, really get into the method situation on that one.

Speaker 6 Just roll with a keg on every set.

Speaker 3 Yeah, why not?

Speaker 6 Yeah, yeah, ride the wave.

Speaker 3 Uh, I I also read that you are a big fan of Lil B, the base god. Have you met him?

Speaker 12 I have.

Speaker 6 I've had him in my home.

Speaker 3 Have you asked him to put a curse on anybody?

Speaker 6 You know, that's like, that would be like asking a deity to curse something.

Speaker 6 I don't mess with that, man.

Speaker 6 I let it figure itself out for sure.

Speaker 3 What's he like?

Speaker 6 He's an interesting guy. Definitely was like initially trying to like collab with him, but he has like really out there ideas.

Speaker 6 One of the cool things, though, is when he did come over to my house, he was kind of like into photography at the time, and he's actually the guy who took my IMDb photo that I used.

Speaker 3 Oh, wow. That's a fun fact.
Is that on his IMDB?

Speaker 6 That's on mine.

Speaker 3 No, but him taking the photo. Oh, yeah.
I don't know.

Speaker 6 I don't even know if Lil B has an IMDB.

Speaker 3 We got to make it and just have it be the only thing is he took Blake Anderson's IMDb photo.

Speaker 6 He did a great job. I'm super proud of him.

Speaker 3 You had a quote.

Speaker 3 I have to know the answer to this. So you had a quote talking about how you don't, you're not like a smoke weed and write a script guy.
You kind of turn it off.

Speaker 3 And you said, if you're smoking, you want your brain to sizzle and want to beat a game that you can, a video game you can beat with your eyes closed. What game is that?

Speaker 3 Contra.

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 6 That's just like, turn it on.

Speaker 6 I can get it done without the up, up, down, down code. I got that, bro.

Speaker 3 All right. What are any other games that you feel confident that you could beat, like, very, very easily?

Speaker 6 Um, like, full completion beat the game. It's,

Speaker 6 I mean, all those Marios are pretty easy for me as well. It's just like I'm, I've, I've, I've been with Nintendo my whole life, so I'm, I'm, I'm good on Nintendo games.

Speaker 3 Yeah, yeah. That's a simple thing.

Speaker 6 But for pure controls, Contra is my go-to. Like, I, I could knock that one out of the park.

Speaker 3 Just zone out and just dominate it and feel like a god.

Speaker 6 Yeah, just keep going.

Speaker 6 Like, the game just resets. Endless loop.

Speaker 3 All right, so I had one last question. It's the bark box question.
Go to barkbox.com/slash take to get a free extra toy in every box, $60 value when you sign up. So we're talking to Blake Anderson.

Speaker 3 He's got a new series out on Hulu, September 9th, called Woke. Everyone go watch it.
So we've actually spent this entire interview with an elephant in our room.

Speaker 3 You had no idea.

Speaker 3 We have a competition that we are now, I think we've done it three years in a row. So next year will be the fourth year.
And it's Blake of the Year is the competition.

Speaker 6 I've caught wind of this.

Speaker 3 Yes. So past last two years, Blake Griffin has won.
Blake Bortles won the first year. We also have Brooks Kepka, who we've made an honorary Blake because he's just a chill-ass dude.
So

Speaker 3 do you even, so you've heard of it, but I guess how do we figure out if he's like, I think he's officially a Blake anyway, just because he's chill.

Speaker 3 What was the last time that you got really upset, and what was that about?

Speaker 6 I don't know.

Speaker 3 It's been a minute since I

Speaker 6 flew off the handle on somebody. It's hard to, it's hard to ruffle my feathers.

Speaker 3 Okay. What about, like, do you play any sports?

Speaker 6 I, yeah, I love sports.

Speaker 6 It's been a while, you know, the whole broken back thing stopped me playing basketball for a while.

Speaker 3 That is,

Speaker 3 yeah, it's a pretty Blake movie. Kind of just take it or leave it.
Jumping off a roof onto a beer pong table. Yeah.
Um, what, what were your grades like?

Speaker 6 My grades, they got they got worse as time went on, but uh, I was, I was kissing a 3.0, I think.

Speaker 3 Okay, that's like right in a sweet spot. That also sounds like he's lying, which is like did you actually have like a five? Or I think he's lying the other way.
I think he was like a 3.5.

Speaker 3 oh no dude i'm not lying i failed math once blakes don't lie so that's good um do you care what other people think of you like in general hmm

Speaker 3 in my core being no not at all but you know as a public as a public figure there i do have my responsibilities okay all right so that is the the number like that is the biggest sign of a blake is just being like a oh i don't care uh that's that's a very it's i don't care but i have to pretend like i care for other people.

Speaker 3 Yeah, like it's, I know societal norms say that I have to be like, yeah, I care. You know?

Speaker 6 Hey, man, I care. I'm like, I've got a Tupac mentality.
I care.

Speaker 3 Okay, okay.

Speaker 6 I care about the well-being of people for sure.

Speaker 3 Now, would you?

Speaker 6 I don't care so much about what you think about me.

Speaker 3 Right, right, right. That's also a Blake thing.
So now, would you want to be part of the competition?

Speaker 6 I would be. I have felt a little slighted by not being included because I've been to parties with Blake Riffin and we have come together as Blakes and done a cool Blake cheer before.
Okay,

Speaker 3 wait, what's the Blake cheer?

Speaker 12 Uh, I was pretty hammered.

Speaker 3 I don't remember.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I actually think he kind of had a little too much to drink as well, which was really awesome to see an athlete in that kind of uh mind state.

Speaker 3 Well, he's kind of a pussy, he can't really drink that much. But that's actually the Blake cheer is that we were so fucked up that we don't really remember the Blake cheer.

Speaker 6 Yeah, so I think once we get together again, it will just bloom organically.

Speaker 3 Who would you say is your favorite Blake?

Speaker 6 I mean, Blake Riven was always a super cool guy to me. That's why I'm never too upset when he wins.

Speaker 6 He was like, anytime like a professional athlete takes you under their wing and isn't like giving you a wedgie, it's like, I'm hyped.

Speaker 3 Yes. Okay.
I think you're in. Now, the competition, we might change it next year, but as of right now, it's been, we just call each Blake and whoever picks up fastest wins.
Oh, okay.

Speaker 3 I don't think you'll pick up very quickly.

Speaker 6 I mean, I'm pretty linked to my phone.

Speaker 3 So, oh, okay.

Speaker 6 But if it, if it, if the number isn't in my phone, yeah, yeah, I'm not answering that.

Speaker 3 Okay, this has been an elaborate way for us to get your phone number. Yeah, this is entirely.
We're not recording it. Say it out loud and we'll cut it.
We'll totally cut it. For sure.

Speaker 3 Starts with a nine.

Speaker 3 911. No, I think you're in.
I think you're in. The Blake, our Blake contingency has grown stronger.
And we, we uh, they're pretty much if you have a Blake, they're like the chillest dudes ever.

Speaker 6 Hey, well, you know, at least let me in for like once and like see, let's just gauge and see where I even line up, right?

Speaker 3 Because if you lose, you don't really care, you're Blake, yeah, whatever.

Speaker 6 In the grand scheme of things, it means nothing right now.

Speaker 3 He's actually so Blake that we don't even ever have to talk to him again in our entire life, and it'll be like, Yeah, I'm in that competition.

Speaker 3 Yeah, he's like, Well, are you like a triple-A Blake right now, and you're looking for a shot? You're B-L-A-A-A-K-E, and you're like, just give me a shot or whatever. I'd like, I don't care.

Speaker 6 Hey, man, I'm all about the minor leagues, baby. Let's go.

Speaker 3 Yes.

Speaker 3 All right. Well, Blake, this has been awesome.
Can I get a picture next to you?

Speaker 6 Absolutely.

Speaker 3 All right. Thanks, man.
Appreciate it so much.

Speaker 6 Thanks, guys. I appreciate it as well.
Thanks for talking to me.

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Speaker 3 segments. Segments.
All right, segments. We have talking tennis.
My brain's a little bundled. I had a beer.
I had

Speaker 3 September beer number one on Friday night. There you go.
Still feeling the effects of it. Kiss me, boy.
All right. Talking tennis.

Speaker 3 Novak Djokovic

Speaker 3 has been kicked out of the U.S. Open.
Uh. Uh.

Speaker 3 Uh for throat punching a line judge with a tennis ball. Yeah, well, I mean, as the GOAT, you would probably think that he has the most accurate volley.
Easily.

Speaker 3 So he was sniping her in the neck, picked her off clean.

Speaker 3 She hit the ground. She looked like she was going to die for a second.
Yeah, that was an all-time sell job by her. I'm not saying that he should have hit her in the neck.

Speaker 3 He clearly wasn't meaning to do it. But holy shit.
Come on, lady. That was a sell job.

Speaker 3 I think she's probably a cousin of Roger Federer or something. I think that tennis players lead the world in making this gesture where they put their hands together like they're saying a prayer.

Speaker 3 Whenever they do something bad, they just start air praying for you real quick. Yes, even not even bad, like just miss a shot.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 Oh, man, the air pray.

Speaker 3 Either way, that was crazy. It's crazy.
I didn't even know that was a rule.

Speaker 3 Tennis has some really good rules, I guess, where you just can't. What's the rule? What's the rule, Jake?

Speaker 3 Did you know this was going to happen the minute he

Speaker 3 fucking dome-pieced her? I think they should just make a new sport where the ball is always live, and if you hit a lines judge, you get an extra point.

Speaker 3 Just like a dodgeball-tennis hybrid.

Speaker 11 There is debate about whether you should get like a point penalty, a game penalty, even a set.

Speaker 3 No, I'm saying you should get a point added on.

Speaker 3 You could get points. Yeah,

Speaker 3 like at any moment, you could just turn around and just start fucking

Speaker 3 ripping shots

Speaker 3 at the person who called it on my Twitter feed the human dogs that fetch balls.

Speaker 3 The ball boys.

Speaker 3 Yeah. Yeah, that's it.
Yeah, the human dogs that fetch balls. I mean, she's an authority figure.
I think she should be respected.

Speaker 3 I'm going to make a thin white line flag for respecting officials.

Speaker 11 I believe because of COVID, there's less line judges this year.

Speaker 11 So there'll be

Speaker 3 more targets.

Speaker 3 Do you think he did it on purpose?

Speaker 11 I think the frustration was on purpose. I think hitting her was an accident.

Speaker 3 How much do you blame her reflexes or lack thereof?

Speaker 11 I think if he hit it it and it was six inches to the right of her, they would have played on.

Speaker 3 What about a ricochet shot on the back of her neck? Not a bad thing. Would she have needed a brace like

Speaker 3 a wrestler coming out in a wheelchair? What about the knee though? Like what if it would have been bounced off her knee? She went down a rock.

Speaker 3 Was the throat the thing that did it in? Yeah, it was her cellar. She went into her leg and she just walks it off.

Speaker 11 It's like.

Speaker 3 Right, if it's the face, she could even have a bloody nose, but she'd go back to work. I was watching.
Just the throat. Anything could happen there.

Speaker 5 It's such a funny thing.

Speaker 11 Such disqualifications on YouTube. And some guy just

Speaker 11 made a line judge's leg like gushing blood and he got DQ'd.

Speaker 3 I love the video because it is one of those litmus tests of like how serious do you take your life that if you're like, oh my god, this is horrendous.

Speaker 3 This poor lady, of course, I like she's fine. If she wasn't fine, I'd have a different tone.
But knowing that she's fine, you can now after the fact say, that's fucking hilarious.

Speaker 3 Couldn't you also make the argument that she proved that she was actually the best line judge in the world? Because they're not supposed to move their head when they're watching the line, right? True.

Speaker 3 They're supposed to stay watching the ball, watching the play until it drops. It's not midpoint.
The ball he hits. But she's trained to just not move out of the way of a ball.

Speaker 3 Is it supposed to catch it, John? Isn't she supposed to catch it? Wasn't she supposed to catch it? Hands behind your back. With her mouth.
No, no, no, but they hit it back all the time.

Speaker 3 Yeah, but that's the ball boys.

Speaker 3 Oh, so she's not.

Speaker 11 The line judge and ball boys are different people.

Speaker 3 Do we not do

Speaker 3 a gender-neutral term for ball boys now? Ball person.

Speaker 11 It may be ball person. I hope I don't get canceled for that.

Speaker 3 You probably will. Billy was going to cancel you.
Billy's going to clap. That's interesting for Billy because that because

Speaker 3 Jokovic was being a bully, but isn't that a nerd sport? Oh, yeah.

Speaker 3 So where? Yeah. I've actually changed my tune on tennis.
Oh, yeah, because you don't have any friends and you want to play with PFT, Hank, and Jake. Yeah, I have no friends.
Right.

Speaker 3 So that's the only reason you changed your tune.

Speaker 5 Exactly. Imagine being the guy at the water cooler with the over and sets in that one.
Oh.

Speaker 3 Oh, my God. Wait, so Jokovic.

Speaker 3 actually

Speaker 3 it was an accident, right?

Speaker 3 Absolutely.

Speaker 11 Okay, I apologize for saying ball boy.

Speaker 3 Yes, thank you, Drake.

Speaker 3 And there's a long draft left by Castellanos, and that's going to be a two-dozen ball game. You fucked up.

Speaker 3 It's been fun having you on the podcast.

Speaker 3 Hank,

Speaker 3 that is what initially occurred to me. Did you actually have a bet on that game? Because if you

Speaker 5 don't, I can imagine. I mean, obviously, him being a heavy family.

Speaker 3 He's a dollar in this. Him being the heavy favorite.
I'm sure there's a lot of family. He's the only person minus money.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 If you had bet on his opponent in that game, like seeing that disqualification would be an all-time rush. Oh, this is a great quote.
I even see this from Billy's list.

Speaker 3 He's going to be the bad guy the rest of his career, says John McElro of Novak Djokovic. Mackerel's like, like fingers crossed.
Like, people are going to know him as the really bad guy in tennis.

Speaker 3 Like, that's clearly. Like, he's going to go around and start giving interviews.
Like, yeah, that's really something bad that a lot of people are saying he's a bad guy.

Speaker 3 Why didn't he just solve this like other tennis players, where if you do something bad, you just let people do butts up on you. He should have just done like five consecutive butts up.

Speaker 3 Just serve at me. Should have let her just crack her.
Yeah, crack a tennis racket over his head. That would have been fair.
She looks terrified of him in this picture. Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 3 Absolutely terrified. All right.
And then the other segment. Oh, that was talking tennis.
The other segment we had was

Speaker 3 Way to Stay Relevant Joe West. So Joe West.
kicked Mike Rizzo, GM of the Nats, out of, or tried to, out of the game on, I think it was Sunday.

Speaker 3 Now, the initial report was because Mike Grizzo wasn't wearing a mask. That's not true.
It was because Mike Grizzo was heckling Joe West, and Joe West said he wouldn't take that from players.

Speaker 3 He actually, I have a quote. It's a very Joe West quote.
He said, I wouldn't take it from players, managers, or even Donald Trump, but I'd still vote for him. That was his quote? That was his quote.

Speaker 3 I want to make sure I quote it correctly because Joe West, stickler for rules. I wouldn't take that from a player.
I wouldn't take that from a manager.

Speaker 3 If it was Donald Trump, I'd eject him too, but I'd still vote for him. That's his exact quote.
You know how people say, like, Joe West thinks that people go to baseball games to watch Joe West?

Speaker 3 They do. I think he's right.
And I'm in agreement. I absolutely watch baseball games for Joe West theatrics as an umpire.
This is another litmus test.

Speaker 3 We have these great litmus tests online where it's like, Joe West, does he bother you to the point where you're actually angry, or can you see the humor in a guy like Joe West thinking that he is literally bigger than the sport?

Speaker 3 Yes. Because if you can't find the humor in Joe West stopping the game, telephoning up and kicking the GM from the suite out of the game, you got a fucking dump in your pants.

Speaker 3 He went barbecue Becky on the Braves. He like called the authorities to have this person kicked out.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I'm in favor of Joe West doing whatever the fuck he wants. In fact, I think Joe West has gotten a little soft in his older age.

Speaker 3 I haven't seen him doing as many of the theatrics as he has in the past. It's been at least 18 months since he got hit in the throat with a throat of second base.

Speaker 3 I would like to see more Joe West involved in these games. Dude, imagine if Joe West was the line's judge.

Speaker 3 Joe West, that would not have stopped that tennis match because he can take a tennis ball to the neck. Natural patting.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 He would fucking take a barrage of balls to his neck and just sit there and try to toss you. Joe West does that after every baseball game.
He's like Happy Gilmore going into a batting cage.

Speaker 3 He just steps in.

Speaker 3 Just like, hit me in the throat. I'll get some practice in.
I just want to get my heart rate up.

Speaker 3 All right. Do we have anything else?

Speaker 3 Oh, Jadavian Clown is on the Titans. That was, by the way,

Speaker 3 I kind of wish the Saints had been able to pull off the move they were doing. Did you guys see that?

Speaker 3 They're trying to do a sign-in trade where a team would sign Jadavian Clowney for $15 million and then trade him to the Saints and eat $5 million of the contract and the Saints would trade him a draft pick.

Speaker 3 Why can't you do that?

Speaker 3 So a player goes to a team with the understanding that he's going to fuck over another team, but help the team that he's not going to no it helps everyone so it i it might have been the browns i might it might not have been but it would the browns would sign jade van clowny yeah knowing that they would then immediately trade him to the saints and the saints would trade the browns a second-round pick i love that so it's basically selling your pick because the browns would then uh pay five million dollars and the saints would pay ten so jadavian clowny would get his 15 but the saints would get under the cap so it's selling your pick somehow sam bradford is going going to be sold for a first-round pick.

Speaker 3 That's all. Sean McVay is going to figure this out, and he's going to fucking sell all of his picks.
Bill O'Brien is salivating. I need that.

Speaker 3 All right, so that is our show.

Speaker 3 You good, Billy? Oh, do another

Speaker 3 turn it on. Let's do another.
We got Billy's list, too. Everyone, pick a number.
Yeah, we got a bunch of it. All right, pick your number.
Pick your number. Pick your number.

Speaker 5 17.

Speaker 3 Oh, shit. 28.
35.

Speaker 3 75. 64.

Speaker 3 75.

Speaker 3 The winner, please tweet us. The winner, please tweet us.
75. 75 is the number.
75. Still alive.

Speaker 3 All right. We have Tony Hawk on Friday, but more importantly, we have fucking football.
Football's on Friday.

Speaker 3 I didn't know we'd do football. Who's back to be football? Because it's not back yet.
Yet

Speaker 3 it's about to be back. Also, football's back.
Love you guys. Billy, do you have a fun fact? Oh, fuck it.
I do. I do.

Speaker 3 Oh, shit.

Speaker 3 No, okay. Octopuses can open jars.

Speaker 3 Oh my gosh. I had a better fact.

Speaker 3 Oh my god. I had a better fact, but I forgot it.
Yeah, octopuses can open jars.

Speaker 3 That is a fun fact. I'll give it to you.
No, I have another one. I forgot it, though.

Speaker 3 Talking away.

Speaker 3 I don't know what I'm about to say and say it anyway.

Speaker 3 Today is not my day to find you.

Speaker 3 Shy,

Speaker 3 I've been coming for your love of king.

Speaker 3 Shy away.

Speaker 3 I've been coming for your love of king.

Speaker 3 Needless to see.

Speaker 3 I'm all the sinners.

Speaker 3 But be so relatively

Speaker 3 small.

Speaker 3 Things that I say

Speaker 3 easy to love.

Speaker 3 Just a pay but worrying way.

Speaker 3 You are things I've got to remember.

Speaker 3 You shine on.

Speaker 3 All you come for you anyway.

Speaker 3 Shine on

Speaker 3 the love and coming for you when you like

Speaker 3 hold me all

Speaker 3 day.

Speaker 3 to

Speaker 3 take it.