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

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On today's Pardon 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.

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.
Yeah, Friday's show. On Thursday.
On Thursday. Yep.
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? We're going to do that for Friday's show.
We have Warren Sharp to break down the season coming up. We also have Blake Anderson, hilarious comedian, actor.
You know him from Workaholics. 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.

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.

The chillest of the Blakes right now.

Bortles.

No.

Kepka.

I think Kepka just doesn't.

Dude, he'll get challenged by anyone.

I love it.

He'll just be like, fuck it.

I don't care.

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Today is Tuesday, September 8th. 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. I wonder if football is back, but when Peter King admits to the internet that he once did a doobie, that leads the show.
With the Doobie Brothers. With the Doobie Brothers.
That is the most Peter King stat ever. Yeah, it's like if you meet Bruce Springsteen and he asks 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 gotta you know what peter king in solidarity with the nfl and their long stance on drug abuse we're re-banning you from the show i actually do not have a drug user on this show peter king i'm sorry you're suspended i 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 or smoke some grass. You outdid yourself, Peter King, saying I once did a doobie.
Even I didn't think you had that level of lame in you. So I think that, yeah, if you're power ranking what you would imagine Peter King to call weed, it would probably be either grass or maybe wacky tobacco.
I could see him saying a jazz cigarette too. Like something real old and out of touch.
Plus 6,000 for Kush. Yeah.
Imagine if Peter King was like, I had some white rhino back in my college days. Some ghost dog.
Some horny goat weed that I sucked out. I did read Peter's season preview today.
And it made me sick because Peter King, he is physically incapable of putting his neck on the line for a take. So everything that he says is like, I think that this quasi-weirdish nugget could maybe happen.
It'd be really weird, maybe. And his big takes are, I think the Bucs are going to be good.
Do you have a Peter King? That is the Peter King. I just think the Bucs are going to be good this year.
I love you too. That's a John Gruden.
I love you too. That's the Gruden brother that's the doctor no that's what you just did that is peter king yeah i think that peter king is from ohio i know that he went to college there yeah that's the gruden yeah you just did the crude and doctor brother all right so football is back though it is week one 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 real football is back was Army 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 don't have the ball.

99 yards, 19 plays.

That was like, oh, man, this feels good.

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. 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 feel like status check? I feel like it's just a regular week.
Thursday morning, I wake up out of my mind excited. Right.
But I'm like, okay, it's kind of happening. I think it's going to happen.
We're going to get there. 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.
Right now there are so many players that switch teams in the offseason that I totally forgot about, like Ted Jen 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 NFL – Roger Goodell hasn't gone down on me yet. I'm dry over here.
He did end racism. And he did.
I think if you saw over the weekend – was that over the weekend? That was, like, last weekend. Oh, it's already ended.
When he put that in the end. So did Coach O.
I was wet last week. Yeah.
But right now, it's like I'm all dried up. But Thursday morning, I'm just going to be legs over my head, on my back, just getting straight up fucked by the NFL.
Ready to go. I'm very, very excited about the NFL coming back.
I just, it's kind of strange. And you touched on this, but with how Army played against whatever,

like Kennesaw Mountain State or whatever they were playing against.

They played Middle Tennessee.

It was a combination of that.

And then right before the game, you said, like, it's Navy running that weird offense.

It's tough to prepare for.

Yeah, no.

That's what made me bet on Navy.

Right.

And I was like, oh, the military academies are in really good shape right now.

There's a pattern there. Bet on that.
I was wrong. Wrong, wrong.
Can't bet against the Mormons. No, they're older.
They're older and bigger and stronger. All right, so we have NBA.
A lot happened in the NBA. Hank, you died and came back to life since we last were in studio.
We had the .5 second shot for the Raptors, the buzzer beater that brought them back to life and then the Celtics absolutely asserted their dominance tonight so you're back to life 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 should have won and then you come back and shit the bed I was basically tonight was a must win we're in must win uh territory whereas if they lost the the series probably would have been over. Right.
So in the moment, you texted our group thread that it was a series of taco emojis, right? No, I did the taco. He did the sweep.
I did the taco just because I saw taco coming on the floor. You did the broom emojis.
I also tweeted taco Thursday. Yeah.
And that tweet ran out of relevancy in 10 seconds. Yeah.
So in the moment, you were excited about Taco being on the court. Now, that was kind of gimmicky.
We should have done that. Well, Coley, our coworker, tweeted it in real time.
It was the perfect. It was the Patriots putting Gronk as the DB for whatever reason against Miami.
It makes sense in theory. You put your big guys out there.
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.
So Brad Stevens, but he's like, you know, he's tall. He's the out-of-timeout guy.
He's known. He's got a little too cute.
Yeah. Well, the players also just didn't.
Jason Tatum was running his own. Well, yeah, why play defense in Taco Sandwich? He's so good that you take your foot off the gas.
Yeah. And he was a minus three in a half a second, which is unbelievable.
All right, 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. 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 bad games like truly bad games like he did 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 carm carmelo not to pick on carmelo like he got a little out of shape didn't really want like try on defense towards the end there so you you could tell yourself, okay, he isn't really buying in. He wants to be a starter.
He's not buying in. Russell Westbrook, whenever he has a bag, it's not because he's not trying.
He's trying harder than everyone. All he does is try.
He just can't shoot. He might be trying too hard.
He cannot shoot, and he just keeps shooting. You really think that he's on very much the downside of his career? No, but I mean, that was a – I'll pull up the stats.
But it was shocking how little respect he was getting from the Lakers. And the Lakers were essentially saying, do whatever you want.
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.'ll pray he'll be in the nba for a long time because he's a freak of nature but he was uh yeah one of seven from three and four for 15 and it 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 uh they were giving were giving him the Saturday morning, go ahead, I want to see you make one before I even think about respect. Very familiar with that.
LeBron James finally did his thing that I've always said he should do, which is just put your head down and just run directly at the basket, use your right hand, get a layup every time. Oh, I thought you were going to say LeBron James finally got the respect to Skip Bayless.
Well, so there's that.

That's a major story after the fact.

But we kind of saw 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. That's as mean as Magic Johnson will ever get.
Well, the Bucks are a whole different story because they obviously they're still alive technically. Are they better without Giannis? 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 someone gets hurt you know like i'm not tweeting because i think it i'm tweeting because i know what's going to happen and uh they did win the game without him but the quotes that uh 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 the spot.
He was saying that Giannis 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, 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 on in the fourth quarter like basically admitting his incompetence to the whole world after game three and Bucs fans I 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 and for about 20 minutes they just talked about where Giannis is going next.
And that's just the whole conversation now, and I feel for them because that's absolutely terrible to watch. Right.
You would rather have a conversation like, are the Bucs better without Giannis? And there's a little part of you that's like, well, if he does go somewhere, maybe this take will be right, that we are better. 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, him and I guess Middleton, when it's Middleton on the court and no Giannis in the fourth quarter, the Bucs outscored their opponents by more than when Giannis is on the court with them. So you can make that argument if you want to.
It's kind of cherry-picked. I just feel bad.
I think that Bud and Holzer is always competing against the specter of Nick Nurse because Nick Nurse is like a leveled-up version of Bud, right? Yeah. They both have that quasi-accountant look to them.
They both coach teams in the East, in the northern part of the United States, and they are giving all the credit to Nick Nurse for being the mastermind so but holders like well if i 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 i actually think he was drunk uh mike budenholzer just uh this is tim tim uh uh 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.
That may be so, but they also lost the other two quarters in games two and three by a combined 36 points. 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. That's some Mark Dressman shit.
Do the math on it. That's some fucking crazy ass shit right there.
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. Nugs look good, man.
We might just have to be... Weren't we a Nuggets podcast for a minute? Nuggets jazz.
No, we were, though. I feel like a while ago, we were like, we're just going to be a Nuggets.
We were a Magic podcast for a hot minute. No, 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 a five-minute segment. That's true.
We said, like, what? We talked about the Nuggets, assholes. So there we go.
We talked about the Nuggets. The Clippers just came out flat in Game 1.
I had no idea. What were they even doing to get ready for that for that team because the no no game two no I'm talking about game one the Clippers are game two yeah yeah Nuggets game two over the weekend right they're just like it was a completely different team yeah all these games have been weird where like they go back and forth so often and then they're just like so uncompetitive for the most part.
There's been some good games. I mean, the Rockets...
Celtic Series has been good. Yeah, the Rockets was good.
The Rockets, and even the Rockets, when they went fucking... 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.
And the Rockets, as frustrating and annoying as they are, I fucking love P.J. Tucker.
I wish that he played for any other team so I could root for him because he's the guy who he's smaller than everyone or smaller than the guy he's usually matched up against, but he has perfect boxing out form and always hustling. And I think the Rockets said like, they don't, like, height doesn't matter.
It's about the dog in you. That's PJ Tucker.
Well, he's also way older than I had ever known. How old do you think he is? I think he's like 30.
35. Yeah.
Shit. 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, I didn't realize how old he actually was.
They also said sabermetrically he's not that short because he's got the wingspan of a seven-footer. So like you play defense with the tips of your finger.
No, so wingspan matters. With the tips of your finger.
Absolutely. Yeah.
Wingspan absolutely matters. Rondo, by the way, was toast until he came.
No, he's been cooking. No, he had a good, yeah.
I know. I know.
He was toast. 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.
I love any guy who's like, this playoff version of me which just is implying I don't actually try during the regular season. Wait till playoff Rondo shows up and I actually start giving a shit.
I do think that teams shouldn't be allowed to wear alternate jerseys in the playoffs. I think you just got to stick to home in a ways.
Oh, wow. What do you have against Kobe? Nothing.
I mean, it's more like this Nuggets Clippers game. It's like 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. 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.
The NFL would never do that in the playoffs. No.
Yeah. No.
We did with MLB. All right, what else? We had the Kentucky Derby.
I lost, but it was cool. Although it wasn't cool.
The horses don't try as hard when there's no crowd. Well, Tiz the Law not winning was kind of a bummer.
I felt bad for him. And it was just, I don't know, the whole thing was kind of a bummer.
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? September, like it's like's 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 the kentucky derby's done nothing to do with the fact it was in september um all right let's get to who's back of the week and then we will have warren sharp on uh before we do who's back the week oh this is actually hot see cool throne so but we'll do who's back of the week and then we will have Warren Sharp on before we do who's back of the week oh this is actually hot seat

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We said on the text that we have that we are doing who's back. Yeah, I was just reading this.
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You have a who's back. Do you have a who's back? Yeah, I have a few.
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All right, so my Cool Throne is Who's Back, one of which is Tom Cruise. Tom Cruise is filming another Mission Impossible movie, Mission Impossible 12, I think it is.
And they basically set up the, 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 like it's one of the craziest jumps i've ever seen he did it by himself didn't use a stuntman uh so that he just jumped off a ramp he jumped off a ramp on a like a motorcycle but like it's like the the ramp is is falling off a cliff so then he had to parachute so he fell off the motorcycle parachuted did the whole thing i feel like tom cruise just does that when you remember the clip of him hanging on the uh airplane he like one-upped it basically 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. Or maybe Tom Cruise just wants to die because he has that, is it billion-year contract with Scientology? Is that it? Yeah, he's locked up for like a billion years.
He's got the Bobby Bonilla of religious contracts right now. Oh, he's good.
I think he's probably saying, what does it matter if I die? I've got a billion-year contract. Right, he's got like Thetans waiting for him on the other side, right? It's totally fine.

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

I hope they show it. 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?

Where he's got those two just Easter hams

hanging out of the back? Yes, and then

my other cool throne of Who's Back is

a hilarious breakup

temporary special support.

Like, you guys see Dr. Dre

and his wife are getting divorced

Thank you. cool throne of who's back is a hilarious uh breakup temporary special support like you guys see dr dre and his wife are getting uh divorced no and his wife asked for two million dollars a month in temporary spousal support this is the breakdown laundry and cleaning ten thousand dollars a month clothes 135 000 a60,000 a month.
For who? Her?

For her.

Well, and I'm guessing the kids' education.

Entertainment, $900,000 a month.

Charitable contributions, $125,000 a month.

I like that.

Mortgage, $100,000 a month.

Telephone, cell phone, email, $20,000 a month.

Email.

$20,000.

What kind of email services? Telephone, email.

Telephone, comma, cell phone, comma,000. What kind of email services? Email.
Telephone, comma,

cell phone, comma, email. Does she know

email's free?

Apparently not. I mean, she's going for

it all. What kind of contract is she

locked into for her cell phone as well?

She just keeps... She's probably on, yeah, like

the per text. Yeah, she keeps upgrading on

Gmail, you know, when they're like, hey, you need to

upgrade your gigabytes, then you just go delete

a bunch of emails. She's like, no, I don't, bitch.
She's probably buying just a shitload of ringtones. She's buying half the ringtones.
She bought Akon. She has Akon making personal ringtones for her.
I also like how it's $900,000 in entertainment and then $100,000 on mortgage. Yeah.
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, I don't know. Well, it's also a smart move.
You're the art of the deal guy, but you start high. Right.
She'll end up with a million a year. She'll end up with a million a year.
Yeah, right. That's cake.
Very smart. Very smart.
Okay, is that it? That's it for hot tea. 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.
PFT, what's your who's back? My who's back of the week is the Shield. 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 in the Meadowlands. It's at MetLife where the Giants and Jets play.
And now it's going to be the Washington football team's 50-yard line. So respecting the shield.
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. 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 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.

My other who's back of the week is Ryan Fitzpatrick.

Ryan Fitzpatrick won the starting job down in Miami over Tua. And if you thought that Ryan Fitzpatrick was going away anytime soon, you don't know anything about football.
No. Because he's been going strong for, what, 16 years? Dude, Josh Rekown.
Ryan Fitzpatrick saw Josh Rekown getting $12,000 a week by sitting at home in Texas and going on Zooms and being the emergency backup quarterback. And he like, yo, I got another 10 years to my deal here in the NFL.
Easily. It's just one of those things that will be nice to see on Sunday.
It'll be comforting. 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 season 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, my who's back. I got two.
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.
I'm going to go to some really places, like how do you amp yourself up for scenes like

that? Or, you know, does the term

over the top even register?

You show me where the top is and I'll let you

know whether I'm over it or not, alright?

I design where the top is.

Brian could speak

more to this than I can. He knows how

spiritual acting is for me.

I don't even like the word acting anymore.

I don't. Because it implies

lying in some way. I don't act.

I feel and I imagine and I channel. 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. But yeah, Nick Cage is just telling everyone that you don't tell them 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.
In that clip, he sounds like Owen Wilson doing an impression of Nick Cage on Saturday Night Live. He's incredible.
Yeah, or like if Nick Cage was, is Owen Wilson doing an impression of Nick Cage in a Wes Anderson movie? Nick Cage had to give back like a dinosaur skull to Mongolia because it was stolen illegally. And like he, that's just a real headline that happened with Nick Cage.
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. So he's just trying to become more and more like that character.
Right, right. All right.
My other who's back is Mitch Trubisky. QB1 Mitch Trubisky, I should say.
He is back. I'm ready.
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.
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 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 but that sucks that he said had a lot of lows uh he has worked some highs and had a lot of lows a lot of lefts a lot of right overthrows throw left yeah not so many left he has 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 uh that and understanding that then that's your own opinion but here we are and now he has an opportunity and let's see goes.
Now he has the ball, and he's able to do what he wants with it. We are going to all support and surround him and give him every opportunity to have a very happy ending.
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.
That's right. Rudy would have been such a terrible movie if he didn't suck as a football player.
It's bullshit that anyone is sitting here and rooting against Mitch Trubisky. 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.
And then you end up being proven right.

And then you know, what's a lot harder to do is pick a guy that's terrible and be like,

maybe, well, he's had some highs and he's had some rights, a lot of lows, some lows,

not any lefts and say, I think that guy's good and have a 1% chance of right hit.

It's crazy.

It's crazy.

Look, the world sucks right now. 2020 sucks.
Root for something crazy. Mitch Trubisky, 2020.
All right, Billy. Rooting for something even crazier, my Who's Back of the Week is Nathan Peterman.
Yes, Billy. Marcus Mariota has been put on the IR.
Are you sure that's the same Marcus Mariota? Yes injured? Yes. Anyway, so in Las Vegas, the second string quarterback is now Nathan Peterman.
Hell yeah, and we know Gruden loves him. Yeah, so there's a chance we see another Nathan Peterman.
You want to get real fucking crazy with 2020, get a Nathan Peterman tattoo. Nathan.
Oh. Super Bowl MVP.
You should do it. I'm going to gamble that.
Get a Nathan Peterman tattoo. No.
Why? Come on. But just do it for fun.
I'll gamble on Nathan Peterman winning Super Bowl MVP. Listen, Nathan Peterman walked so that Jameis Winston could run last year.
He really changed the NFL. We need Nathan Peterman peterman in a game just that will be they should actually they should they should have a uh clause all the all nbc and uh espn should have a in case of nathan peterman starting a game flex clause like if if it because seriously think about it like if derrick carr gets hurt and you have I don't know, 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, come on.
You wouldn't take Nathan Peterman? 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 in 280 yards? No, but they've done that. 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 box? Because that is – 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. And that's all you can hope for out of a football game.
Right. Just remember, Nathan Peterman beat Clemson in Death Valley with Pitt.
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? I think they did.
Yeah, I think so. You said Chad Kelly? Chad Kelly signed with the practice squad for the Colts.
Again, okay. He's back.
Okay, so I think, 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 downtown and was showing up at bars, and they're like alright well yeah I guess we need we need an emergency guy let's fucking have him I don't think Chad Kelly would reenter a building that he's not allowed to be in alright let's get to our interview so first we have Warren Sharp football preview and then we have Blake Anderson PFT you got our ad before we get to Warren Sharpe.
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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.
No preseason. No, it seems like teams, you know, teams are playing some contact reps, but not a ton.
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? Well, first of all, guys, happy to be back. And I do want to tell you that nobody has to buy anything.
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Yes. Thank you.
Thank you. So 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. 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. No access to the facilities.
And they made an agreement. They made their deal back at the very end of July.
They all came back in, but there's two main differences. 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.
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. 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. 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.
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 that season the first two weeks out the gates of 2011 overs went 73 percent overs went 73 percent i want to cut this part but yeah go ahead i want to keep this we're going to Get get our bets in before we put this out and then we'll be fine. Got it.
So the odds makers 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, but the totals still had about six points more.
And it was actually no season on record has had more overs the first couple weeks than that 2011 season. Nobody else is really discussing this.
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 if they get a lot of reps in, get to the line of scrimmage quickly. 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.
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. I think that's one of the bigger things that is going to be evident from having the lack of the preseason games.
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. You are going to need to monitor 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, etc.
But I do think overall, defenses are having those same exact things on their side of the football. I know the offensive guys get all hyper about it, but defenses are having those same sort of things.
We are going to see some sloppiness. We are going to see some problems.
But I think getting to the line of scrimmage quickly is going to be a big benefit. And then of course, we've got this crowd noise in the 70 decibel limit and all this type of stuff.
Coaches are really worried about that as well. Okay.
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 the offenses haven't practiced a lot of different protection packages and kind of confuse them and throw a bunch of stuff like that happen 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 so like the second half point total is even going to be bigger than the first half I think so look when when and this is just a suspicion we don't know anything. We've never had an off season like this.
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 only thing close to this.
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.
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.
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. 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.
All right, so let's transition now to the different conferences. So let's start with the AFC.
The AFC, obviously we know the Chiefs defending Super Bowl champs, Patrick Mahomes, incredible, blah, blah, blah. The Ravens, MVP, Lamar Jackson.
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 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? 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 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 eight no who do you think was number two in the afc halfway through the season i think oh was it the buffalo bills no no because it couldn't be because it couldn't be the two seed uh was it oh was it the texans no it actually the Indianapolis Colts even though they were led by Jacoby Bursette they were six and two they had beaten the Kansas City Chiefs in Kansas City handed Patrick Mahomes his only second ever home loss yep 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. 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 in the odds say and the history says when you have leads at halftime or entering the fourth quarter,

you're 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.

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.
They ended up getting Frank Reich to come in there. That offseason, he's working with Andrew Luck for the first time in his – obviously, he's a brand-new coach.
Andrew Luck's throwing tennis balls that offseason. Like, we don't know if Andrew Luck's going to be able to play.
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.
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 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.
All of a sudden, boom, he's got to call plays for Jacoby Brissett all year. And they just did what I said.
They were the number two seed halfway through the season. They have since gone out.
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. Wait, hold on, Warren.
I've got to stop you. 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.
I love his moxie and his gusto, 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.
The Chargers went out year after year, tried to bring on offensive linemen, draft offensive linemen, and none of these guys seemed to work out. He is playing behind 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. 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.
They go out and draft another wide receiver high this season. They get Jonathan Taylor, your boy from Wisconsin, coming in there.
And I think he, by the way, I like him over 700 yards in his rushing yards prop on the season, Big Cat. 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 yeah nobody's really that big on philip rivers 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 and they're going to be a lot better than people think okay 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 so like kind of that's not going to happen again that was an aberration last year but you think that you think he has enough left in the tank with a good offensive line to like actually a competent quarterback this year? I do.
I think they've got enough underneath. And look, what did we talk about Andrew Luck in 2018? Andrew Luck's arm strength.
What's going on with Andrew Luck? I think that Frank Reich is going to be able to dial up something that works to make the quarterback Phillip Rivers look a lot better. And I just think that the offensive minds that were out in LA with the chargers were 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.
I think we're going to see that this year in Indy. Okay.
I'm very curious to hear what your NFC dark horse team, 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 prognosis on a team from the NFC, who would it be? Okay.
Well, I don't know if the team you're talking about is the Arizona Cardinals. Yeah, it's the Cardinals.
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, 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 to, probably second most talked about team apart from the Cardinals who didn't make it business to Dallas Cowboys. Yeah.
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, that nobody's talking about yet. 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 LA against the Rams. But the prior coach obviously influenced a lot of things.
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 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 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.
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 slate of games, got hurt against the Vikings.
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.
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. 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 ball. I love their weapons.
First of all, getting rid of Jason Witten, that's addition by subtraction right there. 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.
And then of course, CD land, 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. You can get them for plus six 75 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 they've got the possibility of, of putting things together and making a run this season.
They went, I think, one in six in one-score games last year. One of the worst things about them was their red zone performance, and I think if McCarthy can improve that, this is a really dangerous team.
They're also playing one of the lowest-strengthened schedules this year, right? They've got a bunch of cupcake games on there. If you look at the other teams that are supposed to be good going into this year, I think head and shoulders, the Cowboys have the easiest road.
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. So it's definitely more beneficial than, let's say, the Eagles' schedule.
And those two teams, I think – go ahead. Well, I was going to say, how much is that actually – I like looking at strength schedule too, but we all know that once the season starts, you kind of have to throw it out the window.
Like, for instance, last year, the Packers played the Chiefs without Patrick Mahomes. You know what I mean? Like, there are different – 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.
There's definitely a difference in playing teams, different parts of the schedule, where strength of schedule doesn't feel as important. No, 100%.
The strength of schedule preseason is just our best guess at what we can expect this year. What a lot of people don't do, Big Cat, that I think big mistake.
And it is something that I focus on a lot is looking at strength to schedule in season. 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.
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. 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.
And so it's something that I rely a lot on, whether I'm betting games or whether I'm helping teams anticipate, you know, calibers of opposing defenses. When we look at, oh, well, this defense is really good.
Yeah, but they just played three of the bottom 10 passing offenses the last three weeks. 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.
Let's still pass the ball because we think we have an edge right so all right so let's let's do the reverse here uh 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 is falling off a little bit and uh maybe not maybe it was maybe it was a little house of cards so to speak well i think in the nf, I like this guy as a coach, Mike Zimmer, but I think the Minnesota Vikings are due for a little bit of regression. That entire division, your division in the NFC North, is really interesting because 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. You know, they're, they're being forecast to win four fewer games this upcoming season finish in second place in that division.
And, and I don't think that that's unwarranted. This was a team that got lucky and had a lot of things go forward.
And they were not in my opinion, a 13-win team last year. But we overlook the Minnesota

Vikings in the same context, in the same conversation. 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, we could say about the Minnesota Vikings,

but nobody is doing that. Minnesota finished top 10 in injury luck, fumble recovery luck,

field goal luck. Field goal luck is a thing.
It's something that I track. It's your ability

I'll see you next time. nobody is doing that.
Minnesota finished top 10 in like injury luck, fumble recovery, luck field goal, luck field goal. Luck is a thing.
It's something that I track. It's like, it's, 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? Cause there's a certain rate that you're supposed to make on a 45 yard field goal. And if you face a bunch of teams that just happened to hit well above that rate, then you're just getting unlucky from the field goal luck perspective.
So Minnesota just had a lot of good things going for it. And this is an off season 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.
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. 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. So I think this is a team that probably regresses a little bit on the NFC.
And over in the AFC, look, 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. 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.
Drew Locke, everybody talks about how he went 4-1 down the stretch and won all these games late in the year. And so those are good things going for him.
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 throwing the ball deeper down the field.
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. 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. Counterpoint, he's got it.
I think Drew Locke has it. He's got Moxie.
I love his competitiveness, Warren. He took the Moxie throne from Phil Rivers in the AFC West.

So are you guys Locke fans?

I'm a big Locke believer. I believe in Locke, yes, mostly just because PFT is incept in my brain.

I actually will – 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. And the Broncos are always good in September week one or in September in Denver.
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. We know these defenses have not played a lot.
They haven't tackled a lot. 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. And so you couple that element with the fact that they didn't do much this preseason.
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. 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.m eastern time kickoff on the not on the west coast but denver is a team that has the advantage of the the body clock the body clock is a bigger element than a lot of people realize usually in this game we have a game like the uh the raiders versus the chargers right a couple of west coast teams an east coast team playing at this time, their body clock is going to be significantly messed up as compared to Denver's body clock. And that typically does an element called the circadian rhythm, which makes the second half of games, these teams tend to wear out.
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.
I love that. Now I was, 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.
That's a theory. I'm just going to, 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 are like have the worst field goal luck uh when it comes to like their opponents making more kicks than they should against them and isn't isn't it our argument to be made that like maybe there's something that's contributing to that field goal luck whether it's uh you know um not having a very good like, rush on the kick or finding themselves in the situations where they have very makeable field goals. Or playing the Ravens twice a year.
Yeah, there you go. Yeah, no, I don't have the numbers right in front of me, but there are teams, for example, like the LA Rams, whose opponents averaged like 80% 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, I wrote about it in the book on one of the pages that towards the end of each chapter, 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, but it definitely factor in.
If you have to play a team like the Ravens or teams that have – in a division where there's good kickers there, you're in luck. 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.
There are teams that won games against the colts last year that should have lost them for sure but vinit terry kept just crapping the bed every single time he got out the kick i'm also curious about the uh the effect of new stadiums or stadia as peter king pointed out earlier today that the plural is actually stadia uh on you know in los angeles you've got two teams that are playing a brand new stadium and then in las vegas you've got the raiders opening that stadium up 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 like what how do new stadiums perform each year um well in terms of just field goal kicking i don't know in terms of field, 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. So the surface from what I have read and seen the surface of the Rams new stadium, extremely fast, extremely fast.
Okay. You watch hard knocks too.
I saw the hard knocks episode. i also did some research on the field on the surface uh analyze the uh rubber pellets that are inserted onto the artificial surface there and they have a significant bounce back rate um just keeping the players fresh in like a springy springy track for them so i i think that there's a good that we see some points in that Sunday night game, Dallas and LA Rams.
But in general, just in terms of the stadium. So let's look at the Minnesota Vikings, for example.
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.
And since they built that stadium, they've had the number one best APS cover rate in the NFL since they built that new stadium to help with the crowd noise. They're going to have that advantage this year.
And this is one of the things that we didn't discuss when we talk about the Vikings, but they're not going to have that advantage of the crowd noise. 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.
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.
That crowd noise is kind of always white noise in the background, playing some effects and some chants and things of that nature. 70 decibels is not very loud.
That's the equivalent of like classroom chatter. And I think some of the coaches were worried, are we able to get to the line of scrimmage and hear our signals? Will the quarterback have to scream? They were practicing in a lot of different ranges of decibels.
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 there, 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. Yeah.
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. All right.
So are you a believer in Mitch, the greatest comeback story of all time? I am a believer in what they're looking to do there with Mitch. I will tell you this.
That's a roundabout yes. It's a roundabout Yes, but I will tell you this.
This offseason made it very difficult to hold a quarterback battle. Let's talk about Foles, for example, 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.
I think if there was a regular offseason, the result of the battle may have been a little bit different. 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. 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 so now you don't have a backup either that is a hundred percent 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 I mean you don't go out go out and pay a guy money and hope that he just going to sit as your backup.
They were expecting more than what they got out of him, but they're realizing we're not going to stress it too much. 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.
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 and and what 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 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.
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. So I think that's going to be, I'm hoping that he comes out looking pretty good week one.
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.
I think this is a team headed in the right direction with some of the things that 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. Mitch has done well against the Lions.

So, hopefully he gets the season started off really well week one.

11 tight ends on the field at the same time.

Is that what they're looking at doing?

What formation would that be?

Would that be like 0-1-1 personnel?

Actually, it would be 0-0,

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.
Well, if Cole Komet's going to be fucking sick, I know it. Jimmy Graham's washed up or whatever.
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? That's where I think there could be a little bit of miscommunications or things of that nature. A player too, here or there.
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 play-action type motions involved.

I think that there's a good chance that you're going to cause confusion on the defenses.

What about in the AFC, the number one overall pick, our good friend Joe Burrow, so don't trash him. 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.
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, he's going to do his best, and he's going to have to get through it, and don't expect too much? I think anything we get from him is going to be one of those things where it's like he's on a bad team, he's going to do his best, and he's going to have to get through it and don't expect too much? I think anything we get from him is going to be a positive. I do think there's low expectations of the Bengals in general just because of who they've been for several years.
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.
The thing I'm most concerned, 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. Even if you're starting wide receivers, your number two wide receiver aren't healthy, aren't up, aren't active.
They just continue to throw 11 personnel out on the football field instead of making adjustments. They were also way too predictable.
When they had Tyler Eifert, who's now down in Jacksonville, so they don't have to worry about this, 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.
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 and and when you get a when you throw them out there an 80 percent time you're passing the football it's just way way way too predictable so i hope zach taylor does some things that aren't just 11 personnel all the time and and being predictable with his tight ends this season but i have a a lot of hopes 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. They play in a tough division, of course, right? So you can't expect too many great things.
But this is a team that I think could go over their win total potentially. Okay okay so um Warren Sharp everyone go follow him Sharp Football I had one last question I you're gonna have to give us a prediction uh 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 and of course if you get it wrong we'll just make fun of you a little bit.
Yeah, no doubt. Okay, so from the 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. 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.
So I'm throwing out three teams there. But I like all three of those teams relatively equally.
No Bucs. I forgot to mention, like we haven't even talked about that.
Are you not buying the Bucs super team, dream team? I really like Bruce Arians 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. One of the most underrated defenses, Todd Bowles did a phenomenal job with them last season.
I just think that it's hard in this type of an off season. 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.
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. 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.
In a perfect world, see that see russell wilson get a shot to go back there um 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 against the cowboys and then over in the afc it's tough but i think i'm gonna 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.
And I like the Bills. I think the Bill, 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, but I'm going to go with the Ravens and I'm going to go with the chiefs.
Okay the key to who is going to ultimately win that matchup is, number one, how much has Earl Thomas missed? 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? 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, but I want him to be able to do those things when 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. 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.
I'll go, it's easy to just say the Chiefs, so I'm not going to go the Chiefs to win. 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.
The other thing about the Ravens late in the season, they have a mini buy. So they play on a Thursday, 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. And this is like week 13.
So they have like a mini buy, like a nice little rest heading into that monday night game 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 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 I said that they had some value, so I'll stick with it. But, well, 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. Oh, yeah, you are right.
So it's Cowboys on – oh on uh on oh no 12-3 no you're wrong wait they have they have cowboys on a thursday after thanksgiving and then they have the browns the monday night after that they have 11 days off by the way you you did just like fuck me up because i forgot about the the seven even though i mentioned it earlier the fact there's only one by this year. 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.
It is such an advantage this season because only one team in each conference gets that bye. It's going to be so big for whatever team.
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, the 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, the Patriots game at the same time.
That was phenomenal, but we, we are going to see very competitive week 16, week 17 games because only one team gets that by. Okay.
And what about the Patriots, the other side of that whole Bucs equation? Do you have any idea what Belichick is going to do with Cam Newton this year? Because he's not going to use them 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? Yeah, a hundred percent.
I think Cam is, 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.
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.
But the thing that is going to be really interesting is the way that defenses have to play them because 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.
So how could this offense be anything but good? It's going to be much worse than what it was last year. 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. 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. But when you're playing against Cam Newton, they can't throw as many DBs out on the field.
They only play dimes 7% of the time. They have extra linebackers out on the field.
It gives more opportunities for Cam to find targets and mismatches pre-snap and hit these guys. And secondly, the one thing about the Patriots when they had Tom Brady, he was so good at audibling them into run plays against light boxes.
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. You got four down linemen, three linebackers, or three down linemen and four linebackers.
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. 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.
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. With the way that'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 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 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.
If you remember back to last season, everybody's talking about, Oh, this is the best team statistically in NFL 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. 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.
The Chiefs had success against them. So this is a team I think that 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 we just have to limit our expectations because of so many issues they're dealing with from a defensive side of the football and just a lack of talent offensively.
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.
The fullbacks, I'm telling you, if you look at the teams, I know you retweeted this, so I know you saw this, but we got to get it on this episode. 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. And think about this.
We're talking about teams maybe not tackling quite as well, maybe being winded a little bit early. 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. This is the year of the fullback.
Calling now 2020 all right well warren thank you so much i'm sure we'll talk to you again throughout the season we appreciate you doing this with us and uh everyone if you're not following warren already sharp football on twitter do it right now because it's a must-have and he has a website that has some great stuff if you want to uh pay throughout the year he's always got updated stuff great some betting tips everything so go check it out at sharp football warren thank you so much man thanks for having me guys grab your free book too yes that interview with warren sharp was brought to you by our very good friends over at roman and the Roman Swipes. Most guys have tried different ways to last longer in bed.

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And now, our good friend and new, perhaps, Blake of the Year, Blake Anderson. Okay, we now welcome on a very special guest.
He is an actor, comedian, producer, fashion designer, and he's got a new movie out on Hulu. It is Blake Anderson.
The new movie's called Woke. It's out on September 9th, correct? Yes, it's a series.
Series, sorry, series. And I want to start there because I watched the trailer.
When was this filmed? When was this, like, created? I assume a year ago? I mean, we originally shot the pilot, like, almost two years ago. But we completed filming for this uh right around the beginning of this year so have you watched everything not to get like too heavy but everything that got has gone on in this country have been like whoa this show is now becoming more and more like in with the times and what's going on by the second yeah i mean you know uh part of that is is pretty sad you know that is so relevant now 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 uh you know these conversations that we're having have needed to be had for quite some time now yeah yeah um i my pro my questions are mostly based around your hair because you and i share we share a look kind of 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 um but i i'm just curious about about the hair what kind of product do you use? Cause you've got some volume that I struggled 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, I think I, I usually say that the secret to the volume of my hair is I have a Jeep with no top.
So, uh, the product I use is American wind. I love it.
Yeah. It's like you're blow drying your hair all the time whenever you run an errand.
There you go. How often do you get stopped like going through airport security or checked for drugs or profiled because of the hair? Oh, 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. 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.
Oh, does that happen to you too? Yes, I've been mistaken for a woman in over three different languages nice what's the most polite sounding one to get mistaken for a woman in um in spanish uh-huh yeah okay yeah for sure and also for some reason happens a lot at the cheesecake factory i don't know why well we had it uh pft had it it uh 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 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 a major reason that i have this weird mustache on my face it's just to help old people with my gender identity it's very true like i i intentionally keep a little bit of stubble going on at all times so there's never like any real questions 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. Like maybe he's just a really ugly woman.
And so I feel like this, it stops a lot of conflict before it starts. 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 next, and the old guy was like, he, she, I don't know what he is. He said point blank.
I was like, whoa. Yeah.
That was awesome. I'm going to remember that forever.
I think maybe the worst part about the Brazilian steakhouse was 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, are you done with your meat there? We've never seen a woman eat this much steak.
What the hell is going on right now? What is she? 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.
We have someone on who's similar age. I think you're 34.
Are you 35? 35. 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. Have you had that, uh, like realization, um, 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.
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. Yeah, I definitely think about that stuff all the time because, man, I feel for some of these like TikTokers to get in like the business now would be, I think, rough.
Yeah. Because 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 relatively like small pawns to choose from 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 it like to to be discovered i imagine would be so tough and not only that but i find myself suffering from this but like the attention spans of everyone has completely like been evaporated.
So, you know, even thinking about, you know, like early two thousands, when you would go on YouTube and watch a 15 minute comedy, you know, sketch or 10 minute comedy sketch, that doesn't happen anymore. No, I mean, to me, those were kind of like the glory days when they're used to when there was actually like sketch groups, like putting out like really hilarious stuff.
Like that's kind of how we saw like we saw like Lonely Island doing their thing. I mean, 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.
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 blown.
Yeah. I remember like human giant was coming up around the same time.
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. 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. So like you had to be directly linked to one of these profiles.
So how did 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.

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 the email that like the executive at Comedy Central sent us,

we didn't find till like three months later because we wouldn't even check our accounts emails. And we're like, guys, come in here.
Holy shit. We have a meeting at Comedy Central three months ago.
That's so good. That's so good.
So Workaholics obviously had tremendous success and 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? Was there kind of a push and pull between the group of like some wanted to keep going and some didn't? How did you guys figure that out? I mean, we definitely decided as a group to stop i mean like 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 knew a check our director like we wanted to get him to that next level too like when you start to get to the later seasons of a show we were always just trying it's just the nature of us to like go bigger and better and like bigger stunts more 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 so we just all like movies as like the next step.
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.
Right. So follow up to that.
Has there been a, uh, anything said, or is it kind of a silent understanding of like, if any one of 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. Like if Seinfeld came back tomorrow, it would make so much money.
Do you have that in the back of your mind? Like 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.

Well,

we have always been very adamant in saying that workaholics gets like 12

times more funnier 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 going to happen.

It should happen. Workaholics is not done.
It's just on a 25-year hiatus. 25-30-40-year hiatus.
Perfect. Whoever's career is going to worst at that point will lobby the others to reunite.
Praz one day is going to really ask Lauryn Hill and Wyclef to reunite the F 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 i'm bands do that all the time you're like grateful dead's still touring and jerry garcia's been dead for 25 years yeah come on you know uh alice and chains they never stopped or yeah or you can get like a what is a filip Filipino kid that sings for Journey right now. Yeah, you can just mix and match.
Yeah, Lynyrd Skynyrd. I know the Allman Brothers.
There's only one person left. Yeah, Van Halen keeps it.
They're like, as long as we got one, even if it's a nephew of one, you're good. I like that band name too.
Only one Allman left too only one almond left yes only one almond left i think there might not be any almonds left you guys uh shit i know you did a great job of like nailing all the small stuff about the you know the the sorrow or like the drear the hopelessness sometimes it comes along with working an office job like a dead-end telemarketing job in your early to mid-s. 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. Well, the largest reason that we were telemarketers in the show is because both Adam and Anders were telemarketers at one point in their life.
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 yeah okay did you i did that for a little bit too it's terrible it's oh it's a soul suck right yes it's all i left smile and dial it's the only job that i left uh in the middle of a shift because i made enough to cover my rent and i was like i'm not coming back yeah and i it's it's like a large portion of the job is like deceit and lying from old people 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.

Yeah. Just give me your credit card and this can all be over.

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.
Did you consider

doing like a method acting thing where you embedded yourself secretly in a telemarketing

firm to learn the job?

Absolutely not. Absolutely not.
I have no desire ever to do that. Wait, where did Anders telemarket? He was, I think he was like doing something for like, I want to say like the Democratic Party back in the day.
Phone banging? Yeah. Like he was, he was like pounding the pavement for, I don't know who the hell it was.
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 the fuck are you doing? He's like, yeah, you know, like a mercenary brings in their own rifle.
I bring in my own phone to my job. And I'm like, this is not good.
It's like bringing in your own pool stick. Yeah, exactly.
Are you on i would it worked because i was intimidated as fuck i was like i can't compete with this guy yeah also when your co-workers talking about mercenaries bringing their own guns i i would be intimidated yeah good way good reason to walk out the door yes yeah um so speaking of our uh collective age of 35 you got to voice michelelo. Was that 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. Oh, for sure.
I'll take it. Yeah.
Yeah, it was actually for this really weird project. I feel like it was some kind of anniversary for the Ninja Turtles.
And like Nickelodeon 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.
So it was like me, Dz 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 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 and then you got cast as that that

has to be the greatest accomplishment of your life right i was ready to retire on top yeah

Thank you. the cool party dude who eats pizza and then you got cast as that 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 typecast as michelangelo like honestly everything i've ever trained for it all came to fruition that's gotta be a pretty big mind fuck for your parents too if they they grew up or you grew up and they were raising you, watching you watch Michelangelo on TV and then eventually you become Michelangelo.
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. Like I told you to buy me the Michelangelo toys and I was right.
All that pizza that you said you didn't want to feed me because I was getting chubby in your face. I did.
I told you jelly bean pizza checks out. Yes.
I was reading that you're a big Bay area sports guy. Is that true? Yes.
I grew up in the East Bay. So those are my squads.
I'm kind of a Sharks, A's, Niners, Warriors fan.

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 i mean anything is possible with the power of christ okay guys that's all i'm gonna say does katie's does katie's title count absolutely are you kidding me two yeah all day they count But, I mean, you also realize, like, everyone hates you guys. Although now that KD's gone and, like, Steph has to do it again, I think people will start getting back on the Warriors train.
Everyone – I mean, first off, a lot of basketball fans, especially nowadays, are so petty. Whatever.

But, like, 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.

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?

I mean, you know, she's not on the payroll, so I don't blame her, dude. I wouldn't want to do that.
Those shit's got to be so hard to do, especially after a loss. Yeah.
Damn, can you imagine? Yeah. What about the Niners? You strike me as somebody that Greg Kittle, George Kittle, we call him Greg, would really appreciate you you I like to think so yeah I kind of when I was growing up it was quite the Niners glory days so I was pretty much a Niner fan through my dad like I have a bunch of baby pitchers just head to toe Niners gear so I'm pretty hyped on that especially that they're they're decent again yeah absolutely so um you had a 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 one is looking back on that are you like that was sick and number two uh did you invent bill's mafia because you you try to jump through a table on a roof, and that's kind of their whole deal.
I mean, I like to – yeah, it's Blake's Mafia, dude, from now on. That's my team.
That's my team over there. Did it suck right away? Because 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 and then you start to sober up you're like oh fuck this is a big deal oh yeah i i definitely i mean i was definitely like crossfaded i had things in my system it happened hurt hurt very, very, very, very bad, 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, uh, I just noticed that I was like slouching really bad. I stood up straight and that's when it was just like, you know, like in a movie, the violence thing.
That's like, yeah, that's my body felt like. And I was like, okay, guys, I'm going to bed.
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. You don't think about going to the hospital in that moment.
No, I had, you know, my whole thing was I'm going to try to sleep it off. Yeah.
And, you know, so I think I took some NyQuil and just tried to pass out. Was there any video footage of this incident? Oh, yeah.
You can YouTube it. I don't do it too much because it hurt.
It was definitely on TMZ. Yeah.
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.
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.
And then the pain just starts like no this is fucked 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 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 I'm like, all right, I got to call my dad. Call my dad.

Again, not go to the hospital.

Call my dad.

Yeah.

What was your dad's advice?

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

Yeah.

I like that you needed confirmation.

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. Right.
They're like, Oh shit. Like somebody's dad's here.
That was the workaholics house, right? It was a house after like Adam and I, we did live together in the workaholics house, but then we're like, like shooting there. And it was also infested with like rats and stuff.
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.
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.
That's very relatable to being being like those last couple years were like yo i think we should like just keep living together and being bros and partying all the time like we got a couple more years in this run yeah we knew that this was probably our our last stand and we're like let's like drop some of this season one cash on a little crib now it makes sense that you got that injury. Like that's you add it all up.
You drop the cash. It's your last stand.
You kind of have to jump off that roof. 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.
Yes. That's a nice little analogy for what you were saying about workaholics, which is like every season you had to build it up bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger.
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.
Yeah, it almost took me getting paralyzed to realize it might be time to pump the brakes. Yeah.
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.
Would you ever write scenes being like, yo, we should have like a party scene in this one episode just so 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 uh 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 we'd party once you'd wrap shooting or over the weekends 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 that's set decoration don't even worry about it that's probably why we had rats yeah and that's also living the dream where it all just becomes part of like the bit yeah totally that's that's incredible um so i i know that people have always you guys kind of embraced it but people would say like oh Workaholics is always sunny ripoff. 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. 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 like whoa these dudes are freaking killing it and even as like the seasons went on because 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 so we kind of would go to them for guidance there's even more like a patty's pub 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 a group of comedic white guys i suppose yeah no i i love that though because i feel like the um as the progresses, people get very territorial and there's very much like this guy had it first. You can't do this.
And people are funny. There's parallel thinking.
Again, you guys aren't even you're not the same show at all. But I appreciate like embracing it and looking at the positive instead of like this negative, cynical cycle that starts on the Internet.
Well, and 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 so it 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 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 uh what's the difference between a sketch comedy group and a sketch comedy troupe i guess what i'm asking is what is a troupe i always hear that word i never know what a group is like some re fair bullshit, man. I don't know who's running in troops anymore.
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 with my head for a second because I'm like, what are you madrigals? I don't blame you.
Yeah, I think that just is some Shakespearean hoity-toity bullshit, man. I don't know.
Just be what you are.

You're a damn group.

Get over yourself.

When you were coming up with a name for your group,

not your troupe,

did you ever have any self-consciousness about it?

Being like, we're a comedy group.

We have to have a name that's really, really fucking funny

because that's their first impression of us.

Would you say, are you talking about mail-order comedy?

Our internet collab? Yeah, anytime you come up like mail order comedy or our internet collab?

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.

Yeah, like I said, we're terrible with marketing and all that stuff.

That just kind of arose from like we initially made this weird way too long 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 a sketch like that like it that's where the name came from and it just stuck we never rebranded 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 in when you're starting your career is in 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.
I played beer pong with the other Franco brother and McLovin at University of Illinois. But you played beer pong guy number two at Neighbors.
yes does your your agent call you up and like, yo, I got you a huge part, beer pong guy number two? Yeah, that is like a weird industry thing where like 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 can he have a name it's like sure uh can he play the part of jesse it's still the same exact role right right it feels better to have a name though yeah okay 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 a actor i bring all of that to my character when when you're when you're filming your scene did were you aware of who beer pong number one and three and four were adam made it very clear he was beer pong number one 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 verse two oh for sure it's a it's a complete ego trip and he still rubs it into this day were you actually drinking real beer during that shot uh i don't really shit i can't even recall probably not if i had to guess but we only had to film like that one like flashback scene so we probably should have been drinking real beer 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 just just roll with a keg on every set yeah why not yes yeah ride the wave uh. I also read that you are a big fan of Lil B, the bass god.
Have you met him? For sure. I have.
I've had him in my home. Have you asked him to put a curse on anybody? You know, that would be like asking a deity to curse something.
I don't mess with that, man. I let it figure itself out for sure.

What's he like?

He's an interesting guy.

Definitely was initially trying to collab with him, but he has really out there ideas.

One of the cool things, though, is when he did come over to my house,

he was kind of into photography at the time,

and he's actually the guy who took my IMDB photo that I Used oh wow Is that on his IMDB That's on mine No but him taking the photo Oh yeah I don't know I don't even know if Lil B has an IMDB We gotta make it and just have it be the only thing is he took Blake Anderson's IMDB photo.

Yeah, he did.

He did a great job.

I'm super proud of him.

You had a quote.

I have to know the answer to this.

You had a quote talking about how you're not like a smoke weed and write a script guy.

You kind of turn it off.

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 contra okay okay that's just like turn it on i could i can get it done without the up up down down code i got that bro all right what any other games that you feel confident that you could beat very easily?

Like full completion beat the game?

I mean, all those Marios are pretty easy for me as well.

It's just like I've been with Nintendo my whole life,

so I'm good on Nintendo games.

Yeah, yeah.

That's a sick drag. But for sure, Contra's my go-to.

I could knock that one out of the park. Just zone out and just dominate it and feel like a god yeah just keep going never like the game just resets endless loop um 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 he's got a new um 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 you had no idea we have a competition that we are now I think in the we've done it three in a row.
So next year will be the fourth year. And it's Blake of the year is the competition.
I've caught wind of this. Yes.
So past last two years, Blake Griffin has won. Blake Bortles won the first year.
We also have Brooks Koepka who we've made an honorary Blake. Cause he's just a chillass dude.
So you've heard of it, but I guess how we figure out if he's like – I think he's officially a Blake anyway just because he's chill. What was the last time that you got really upset and what was that about? I don't know.
It's been a minute since I flew off the handle on somebody. It's hard to ruffle my feathers.
Okay. What about – do you play any sports? Yeah, I love sports.
It's been a while. The whole broken back thing stopped me playing basketball for a while.
That is a – It's a pretty Blake move. Kind of just take it or leave it too.
Jumping off a roof onto a beer pong beer pong table Yeah What were your grades like? My grades? Yeah They got worse as time went on But I was kissing a 3.0 I think Okay That's like right in a sweet spot there That also sounds like he's lying Which is like Did you actually have like a Or I think he's lying the other way I think he was like like a three five. Oh, no, dude, I'm not lying.
I failed math once. Blakes don't lie.
So that's good. Do you care what other people think of you? Like in general? Hmm.
In my core being? No, not at all. But, you know, as a public as a public figure there, I do have my responsibility.
OK. All right.
So that is the, the number, like that is the biggest sign of a Blake is just being like a, I don't care. That's a, that's a very, it's, I don't care, but I have to pretend like I care for other people.
Yeah. Like it's, I know societal norms say that I have to be like, yeah, I care.
You know? Hey man, I care. I'm like, I've got a Tupac mentality.
I care i care okay okay um i care about the well-being of people for sure now i don't care so much about what you think about me right right right that's that's also a big thing so now would you would you want to be part of the competition i would be i i have felt a little slighted by not being included because i've been to parties with blake and we have come together as blakes and done a cool blake cheer before okay what's the wait what's the blake cheer uh i was pretty hammered i don't remember 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 mind state well he's kind of a pussy he can't really drink that but that's actually the blake cheer is that we were so fucked up that we don't really remember the blake cheer yeah so i think once we get together again it will just bloom organically right who would you say is your favorite blake i mean blake riven was always a super cool guy to me that's why i'm never too upset when he wins 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 yes okay I think you're in now the the competition we might change it next year but as of right now it's been uh we just call each Blake and whoever picks up fastest wins oh okay I don think you'll pick up very quickly. I mean, I'm pretty linked to my phone.
If the number isn't in my phone, I'm not answering that. This has been an elaborate way for us to get your phone number.
Say it out loud and we'll cut it. We'll totally cut it.
cut it for sure starts with a nine nine one one i think you're in i think you're in the the blake our blake contingency has grown stronger and we uh they're pretty much if you have a blake they're like the chillest dudes ever hey well you know i at least let me in for like once and like see, let's just gauge and see where I even line up.

Right.

Because if you lose, you don't really care.

You're Blake.

Yeah, whatever.

In the grand scheme of things, it means nothing.

He's actually so Blake that we don't even ever have to talk to him again in our entire life.

It'll be like, yeah, I'm in that competition.

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 don't care. Hey, man, I'm all about the minor leagues, baby.
Let's go. Yes.
All right. Well, Blake, this has been awesome.
Can I get a picture next to you? Absolutely. All right.
Thanks, man. Appreciate it so much.
Thanks, guys. I appreciate it as well.
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We have Talking Tennis. My brain's a little bundled i

had a beer i had september beer number one on friday night there you go still feeling the effects of it crispy boy all right talking tennis no no no back jokovic has been kicked out of the US Open 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.
So he was sniping her in the neck, picked her off clean. 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 he clearly wasn't meaning to do it but holy shit come on lady that was a sell job she i think she's probably a cousin of roger federer or something i think that tennis players uh lead the world and making this gesture where they put their hands together like they're saying a prayer whenever they do something something bad, they just start air praying for you real quick. Yes, not even bad.
Like, just miss a shot. Yeah.
Oh, man, the air praying. Either way, that was crazy.
I didn't even know that was a rule. Tennis has some really good rules, I guess, where you just can't.
What's the rule, Jake? Did you know this was going to happen the minute he 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. Just like a dodgeball-tennis hybrid.
There is debate whether he should get a point penalty, a game penalty, even a set. No, I'm saying you should get a point added on.
It's good to hit long losses. At any moment, you can just turn around and just start fucking ripping shots at the person who called it on my Twitter feed, the human dogs who fetch balls.
The ball boys. Yeah, the human dogs that fetch balls.
I mean, she's an authority figure. I think she should be respected.
I'm going to make a thin white line flag for respecting officials. I believe because of COVID, there's less line judges this year.
So there'd be more targets in the normal year. What did you think? Did you think he did it on purpose? I think the frustration was on purpose.
I think hitting her was an accident. How much do you blame her reflexes or lack thereof? I think if he hit it and it was six inches to the right of her, they would have played on.
What about a ricochet shot on the back of her neck? Not as bad. Would she have needed a brace like a wrestler coming out in a wheelchair? What about the knee, though? It would have bounced off her knee.
Was the throat the thing that did it in? Yeah. It was her cell job.
She just walks it off. It's like, eh.
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.
It's such a funny video. It's such a funny video.
It's disqualifications on YouTube. And some guy just made a line judge's leg gushing blood.
And he got DQ'd. I love the video because it is one of those litmus tests of like how serious do you take your life that right if you're like oh my god this is horrendous 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 yeah you can now after the fact say that's fucking hilarious 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.
They're supposed to stay watching the ball, watching the play until it's over. It is not midpoint.
The ball he hit. But she's trained to just not move out of the way of a ball.
She did a great job. Wasn'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. Yeah, but that's the ball boys.
Oh, so she's not. The line judge of ball boys are different people.
Do we not do like a gender neutral term for ball boys now? Ball person. It may be ball person.
I hope I don't get canceled for that. You probably will.
Billy was going to cancel you. Billy's going to clip this.
This is interesting for Billy because Djokovic was being a bully, but isn't that a nerd sport? Oh, yeah. 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.
So that's the only reason you changed your tune. Imagine being the guy at the water cooler with the over and sets in that one.
Oh, my God. Wait, so Djovic, ultimately you think it was an accident, right? Absolutely.
Again, I apologize for saying ball boy. Yeah, thank you, Jay.
And there's a long draft left by Castellanos, and that's going to be a 2-0 ball game. You fucked up.
It's been fun having you on the podcast. Hank, that is what initially occurred to me.
Did you actually have a bet on that game? No, I didn't, but I can imagine him being a heavy favorite. I'm sure there's a lot of people that are like, what the fuck? Yeah, if you had bet on his opponent in that game, seeing that disqualification would be an all-time rush.
Oh, this is a great quote. I even see this from Billy's List.
He's going to be the bad guy the rest of his career, says John McEnroe of Novak Djokovic. McEnroe's, like, fingers crossed.
People are going to know him as the really bad guy in tennis. That's clear.
He's going to go around and start giving him views. Like, yeah, that's really something bad that a lot of people are saying.
He's a bad guy. 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, just serve at me.
Should have let her just crack a tennis racket over his head. That would have been fair.
She looks terrified of him in this picture. Oh, yeah.
Absolutely terrified. All right.
And then the other segment that was talking tennis. The other segment we had was 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. Now the initial report was because Mike Rizzo wasn't wearing a mask.
That's not true. It was because Mike Rizzo was heckling Joe West, and Joe West said he wouldn't take that from players.
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.
Thanks for tossing it in there, Joe West. He's just throwing some politics.
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. 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 Joe West thinks that people go to baseball games to watch Joe West? They do.
I think he's right. And I'm 100% in agreement.
I absolutely watch baseball games for Joe West the actress as an um an umpire this is another litmus test 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 yes because if you can't find the humor in joe west stopping game, telephoning up, and kicking the GM from the suite out of the game, you got a fucking dump in your pants. He went barbecue Becky on the Braves.
He called the authorities to have this person kicked out. 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. 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 throw to second base. I would like to see more Joe West involved in these games.
Dude, imagine if Joe West was the Lions judge. Joe West, that would not have stopped that tennis match.
Because he can take a tennis ball to the neck. Natural padding.
Yeah. 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 he just steps in just like hit me in the throat i'll get some practice in just want to get my heart rate up um all right do we have anything else there oh jadavian cloud he's on the titans that was by the way that i i kind of wish the the Saints had been able to pull off the move they were doing.
Did you guys see that? They're trying to do a sign-in trade where a team would sign Jadavion 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. Why can't you do that? 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 might have been the Browns.
It might not have been. But the Browns would sign Jadavion Clowney 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 pay $5 million and the Saints would pay $10 million.
So Jadavion Cloddy would get his 15, but the Saints would get under the cap. So it's selling your pick.
Somehow Sam Bradford is going to be sold for a first round pick. That's all I'm going to figure this out and he's going to fucking sell all of his picks.
Bill O'Brien is salivating. I need that.
All right. So that is our show.
You Turn it on. Let's do a number.
We got Billy's list, too. Everyone pick a number.
We got a bunch of it. Pick your number.
Pick your number. Pick your number.
17. Oh, shit.
28. 35.
74. 64.
75.

The winner, please tweet us.

The winner, please tweet us.

75.

75 is the number.

75.

Still alive.

All right.

We have Tony Hawk on Friday, but more importantly, we're fucking football.

Football's on Friday.

I didn't know we do football.

Who's back at the week? Football.

Because it's not back yet.

Yeah.

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 think that's a good one. I didn't know we do football Because it's not back yet It's about to be back Also football is back

I do

Octopuses can open jars

Octopuses can open jars

That is a fun fact I'll give it to you I have, but I forgot it. Yeah, Octopus is going to open jars.
That is a fun fact. I'll give it to you.
No, I don't know what I'm about to say I'll say it anyway.

Today is a matter of day to find you.

Shine it away.

I'll be coming for your love of grace.

Shine it away.

I'll be coming for your love of grace. We let's sing.

I'm sending.