Super Bowl 54, The Chiefs Are Champs + Gardner Minshew

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On today's Pardon My Take, the end of football. Super Bowl 54.
It was a fun one. The Kansas City Chiefs are Super Bowl champions.
Patrick Mahomes has finally reached his destination as Super Bowl MVP. And we recap the entire game.
We also have our good friend Gardner Minshew on the show who might be a Blake. We will decide.
Great interview with him. And we have who's back of the week before we do that.
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Today is Monday, February 3rd.

Super Bowl 54.

I'm going to lose my voice.

What?

More than it is. What? In the 305, the big dale.
Dale, dale. Where Andy Reid was looking to steal Jimmy Buffett Garoppolo's cheeseburger in paradise.
Kyle Shanahan didn't want to be accused of choking away the game with a big lead, so he went into halftime with a tie. The halftime show had little booms standing at attention, if you know what I mean, Teej.
And the game really kicked off in the fourth quarter when the Niners, up 20-10, ran the Kyle Shanahan up in a Super Bowl offense to full effect. The Chiefs defense stood up late with help from this land is your land, this land is Bashad Breeland, and the comeback was on.
Playoff Damien, as the kids call him, stumbled and bumbled in for the go-ahead score and then tacked on another as even an earthquake couldn't stop this snake from slithering into the end zone. Andy Creed can finally embrace the Lombardi trophy with arms wide open,, and his franchise quarterback wins his first of what should be many Super Bowl MVPs.
We finish with that MVP, Patrick Mahomes, down on the sideline. Patrick, thanks, Booth, for kicking it down to me.
Don't you worry, I'm going to Disney World with Goofy Mickey Donald and Daisy Duck. This was a rollercoaster season.
I want to thank my good buddy, Andy Reid. I'm sure I'm going to be seeing him early at the character breakfast every day.
Hey, Andy, I hope they make your gold jacket a matching Tommy Bahama apron. It says Hall of Flame for your legendary cookouts, coach.
I love the single wing play call out there. That's not so special.
I call that one the KC Masterpiece because I don't know if you saw our dance moves, but we all had the sauce. On a real note, I'd like to thank all our fans.
I love you guys. Hey, Big Cat, thanks for coming out.
You can take that however you may. Nah, Chiefs 31, 49ers 20.
And that's it. Those are your Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs hailing from Kansas, the state of Kansas.
Embrace debate. Is Kansas in Kansas or Missouri? Listen, there are Kansas City Chiefs fans in Kansas and in Missouri, but that is your Super Bowl, Super Bowl 54.
Andy Reid is finally a Super Bowl champion. Patrick Mahomes wins his first Super Bowl title of what should be many.
Super Bowl MVP. But the story, and we'll get to the Chiefs, but the story for right now.
Tom Brady will be a Raider. Yeah.
Holy shit. The 49ers kind of blew that one.
So they were up 20 to 10. And Kyle Verlander? Well, the game came down.
It really did come down to one play play I know that no game really comes down to one play but the Chiefs are third and 15 on their own 35 seven minutes left and down 10 and Patrick Mahomes makes an unreal play to Tyree Kill where he was under pressure all night bombed a Tyree Kill that basically decided game, and the 49ers are going to sit and be like, holy shit, we had it. Up 10 with seven minutes left.
Right. You know, in that situation where if you stop them there, they're probably going to have to punt, and if you can run the ball and get a few first downs, the game's all pretty much over.
And Kyle Shanahan now, I'm not going to call him a choke artist because he's an unbelievable coach. He's disrespectful to artists.
But his last two Super Bowls now, 28-3 and 20-10 with seven minutes left, that's got to be tough to live with. Yeah, it is.
But the Chiefs offense has done this all year long. Of course.
And they did it in the playoffs. This is his third double-digit comeback, or the Chiefs' third double-digit comeback that they've had since the playoffs started so like just because they're behind 10 that's not that big of a deficit when their offense can get down the field that quickly uh pat mahomes obviously had some struggles in this game i think he probably played the worst three quarters of his entire season under pressure in the first three quarters not only was he under pressure yeah that that's part of it, but he was also just making some ugly throws and missing guys.
Like the interception that he had, that wasn't really because of pressure. That was because he just didn't see a linebacker.
That was a straight frustration throw. Where he was like, I'm just going to throw it to this guy as hard as I can and hope it works, and it didn't work.
I mean, I think that the Niners lost it much earlier than you do. I think that they really lost the game at the end of the second quarter when it was 10-10.
Well, yeah. And Kyle Shanahan, that was the more puzzling thing for me than the end of the game.
I don't think that Kyle really choked away the fourth quarter. I think that he just didn't play aggressively enough at the end of the first half.
Oh, yeah. And that does two things.
So, one, it prevents you from getting points, potentially at the end the end of that half obviously if you're not going to try to run any plays but two i feel like it also sends a message to your team that you don't trust your guy you don't trust your quarterback to make big throws at the end of a half and he didn't at the end of the game and he didn't at the end of the game i think that like it takes a little bit of the wind out of it like you have to be thinking if you're in that Niners locker room or on that Niners sideline at the time, what are we doing? They even showed John Lynch up in the booth trying to call time. By the way, I think that owners and general managers should be able to call timeouts from the booth.
I think that would be great, a nice little addition to the game. Just get in the game.
But everyone knew that what he was doing didn't make any sense because the Chiefs are that good at scoring points. 10-10 is not a comfortable place to be at, even though Kyle Shanahan said, I feel good at 10-10.
So I agree with that. The only thing that we should also mention then is that the George Kittle pass interference was kind of a bullshit call.
And now he was deciding to play the way that he played well before that by not calling a timeout when the Chiefs were ready to punt. And you're right because the Chiefs come into that game in the first half, Andy Reid's going for it.
He went for it twice on fourth down. The 49ers are kicking field goals thinking they can beat the Chiefs with field goals, not pushing it at the end of the half, being content with a 10-10 tie when you have three timeouts.
And I guess if you wanted to play devil's advocate, you'd say, well, if we don't get a first down, the Chiefs who also have three timeouts are the more explosive offense of the two. But still, you play to win the game.
Hello? You play to win the game. And Kyle Shanahan didn't play to win the game in that moment.
But even with that, up 20-10, that's got to fucking kill. And I'm sure there's Niner fans who are...
Most Niner fans, I would hope, would just shut off all media for the next three weeks. But if you are listening to this podcast right now, let me just say it again.
20 to 10 with seven minutes left. Fuck.
Fuck. That's brutal.
If you're in a Niners fans position right now, do you actually go off the grid? Or do you say... No, you go off the grid.
Sometimes when I do this, I say that I'm not going to watch any TV on Monday. I'm not going to watch any of of the morning shows and it's tough for me to not

watch mike greenberg when i need to know what his opinions and takes are and like what his wife was saying to him in the fourth quarter when he was falling asleep i can't do it i no matter what a heartbreaking loss it is if it's a game seven where the penguins beat the capitals no i will still esp doesn't show hockey they don't show hockey but you're fine but i will still watch something because there's a sadistic part of being a sports fan.

No,

that has to go through the misery. I'm sure there are Niners fans right now that are listening.
I'm sure there are. But the majority, you have to just turn it off.
You have to shut it all off and just pretend that this game didn't happen. You literally just go through work.
You go through your week pretending that football didn't exist for the entire season because you're up 10 with seven minutes left and you don't come away Super Bowl champions and Andy Reid was aggressive the but at the end of the day I'm sure there's going to be like the nerd revolution which of course it's good for the sport and I'm I lean many times on the side of analytics we'll say well look at the Chiefs they pass more than any team in the NFL this year. This is the future of the NFL.
Well, guess what? It also is the future of the NFL when you have the best quarterback in the league. That is a good way to build a franchise.
I'll put it this way. Get the best quarterback and let him be the best quarterback.
And that's what Patrick Mahomes is. Right.
If you had taken this exact same game plan and aggressiveness except with, I don't know, Mitchell Trubisky at quarterback instead of Pat Mahomes, it probably wouldn't work out. You're the lowest common denominator troll on Twitter.
I'll put it this way. I'll put it this way, Big Cat.
What if you just switched quarterbacks and you ran the exact same offenses? I actually think that the Niners would win with Pat Mahomes at quarterback. What do you mean would? They would kill him.
What I'm saying is even if you only let Pat Mahomes throw the ball like eight times a game and still win that rushing offense. But I do love the take that this game was the battle for the future of the NFL because the offensive structure of both teams are so different in how they go about things.
Like one's the running game, the other's the passing game. But the 49ers passed.
But they passed today. They passed today but i i just like the fact that some people were framing it like this is pound you in the face football i don't niners and on the other side we've got the sudden offense and the chiefs no see i don't i disagree with that because both teams there's a good chance that both teams get back to the super bowl well yeah i don't see it as that way the afc championship game was that because it was more of a uh old school run style with the Titans.
The 49ers are not like that's not old school. That's not Kyle Shanahan being like, we're going to run the ball because passing is too risky.
He's running the ball because he schemes up great run plays. So I don't see that as an old school smash mouth football.
They're just exceptional at running the football. Jimmy G, though, had he the chance.
That pass to Emmanuel Sanders. Emmanuel Sanders was open with like a minute and 50 left.
They're down four, and they throw the deep bomb. He was there.
He hits that pass. We're talking about a completely different game.
We're talking about Jimmy Garoppolo probably being Super Bowl MVP. Instead, we're sitting here, Patrick Mahomes, rightfully so, best quarterback in the NFL, MVP, and we forgot to mention Playoff Damien.
Playoff Damien. As everyone calls him.
Everyone calls him Playoff Damien. Playoff Damien, he ended up with 104 yards, a touchdown, and he had 29 additional yards and touchdown in the passing game.
You cannot discount Playoff Damien. I was shocked that he didn't get the MVP just on reputation alone.
I love the Joe Bucks. As they call him, playoff Damien.
Who the hell calls him playoff Damien? That's such a terrible nickname. It should be either playoff D or big game Dame.
Right. But now I'm all in on playoff Damien.
It's so bad it's good. We should just make a shirt that says just playoff Damien, period, dash Joe Buck.
Playoff Damien. That's his legendary.
That's his sign-off call for this game. I'm so happy for Andy Reid.
I mean, he was already a Hall of Famer, but this really cements it. He's going in as a chief, I would imagine.
He's probably going in as a chief. And all the losses, all the jokes, which, again, that one play in the fourth quarter, Patrick Mahomes making that pass.
Before that play, there were definitely some shades of the Donovan McNabb drive where it was a little earlier in this game. You know, there's seven minutes left.
But they had no pace. They had no urgency.
And then that play changes everything. And Andy Reid is now considered, rightfully so, one of the best coaches in NFL history and has the championship to show for it.
And they'll probably be back in the discussion next year. I mean, this is a team that's built for a long time.
Both these teams. Well, we don't know because Sammy Watkins might just chill out for you.
That's true. And Patrick Mahomes has to get paid so much money.
He has to get so much money. Patrick Mahomes should get paid what Dak's agent was fakely putting out there as his offer.
So I think they can actually pay him this year. I think it's like March this year is when they can officially pay him, and it's going to be insane.
Was it $45 million? $40 million a year? I don't know. I have no idea.
I mean, Russ is number one right now at $32. So it's got to be at least $35.
I'd say probably around $40. I don't know how much more you can pay.
A shitload of ketchup. Yeah.
He deserves everything. Absolutely.
He's unbelievable to watch. As Max Kellerman said, he's the greatest quarterback to ever live.
No, he's the greatest football player to ever live. Period.
That's what Max Kellerman said. What is ron jaworski saying about it i know that because our boss dave portnoy was had that clip ready to go when he thought the niners were going to win this is why this is why espn has fallen off so far in the last like two and a quarter years just coincidentally in that time frame yeah uh no particular event happened two and a quarter years ago but it used to be that if ron jaworski said something like that They'd get a week's worth of content out of discussing it And then having people invite him on their other shows to debate him and all that Max Kellerman said it and it was like If a tree falls in the forest and makes a shithead take And no one's around to discuss it Did it ever even happen? Right, exactly So Patrick Mahomes mean, who knows? He could end up with six, seven rings by the end of his career

if he stays healthy.

Ten rings?

I think what we're seeing is...

We're going to get someone who says something like that.

Over under, eight rings for Patrick Mahomes.

Put this on a quote board right now because I truly believe this.

I truly believe that Patrick Mahomes is going to end up

being the first quarterback to have double-digit Super Bowl titles and MVPs. Whoa.
10. Now I want to get invited on every single other Barstool platform for the rest of the week to discuss it.
He's 24. Hey.
He's a young 24 too. He's as many Super Bowl rings as Aaron Rodgers.
Yeah. Interesting.
And he's better friends with his brother than Aaron Rodgers is. For right now.
that they're the ties that bind are closer he's a more loyal guy or fire fire tiktok's coming out what happens with Jimmy G so Jimmy G's gonna definitely get a lot of criticism after this game this playoff run he wasn't asked to pass a lot in their wins he was asked to pass a lot tonight a couple interceptions. He misses Emmanuel Sanders.
He misses George Kittle on an easy first down that kind of stalled that drive that would have put them up even more. I still think he is, especially with the structure of this team, I mean, you just got to a Super Bowl with him.
The haters will come out and say that when the game is on the line and you need the quarterback to make those big throws, he's not going to be there for you. So do you, if you're John Lynch, I think they can actually walk away from almost all his money after this year.
Do you – This offseason? Yes, this offseason. The way his deal is structured.
Do you bring Tom Brady home for two years, Hank?

I mean, if you could, that would probably be...

You thought I was going to go the Hulu ad.

You thought I was going to talk about the Hulu ad

and Tom Brady's picture.

Or like Tua or something.

Yeah, I did a Hezzy Hay on you.

Let's bring it up that way.

I mean, if he could, that'd be great.

Good grid for the 49ers.

I don't think it's going to happen, though.

Yeah.

So, yeah, it probably won't.

Do they try to make

a swap with Kirk Cousins and just say,

like, hey... That is who Kyle Shanahan wants.

It's who he wanted. Originally, make a swap.

Be like, hey, both these guys make a lot of money.

It's not working out as well as we had

hoped, maybe. I just want to say

for the record, I do like

Nick Mullins.

Which one's the guy on Cumetown and which one's

the guy that plays quarterback? Nick Mullins as the quarterback. But we saw him last year.
I thought he was pretty good. He was okay.
He was okay. Jimmy G's okay.
Yeah, yeah. Jimmy G was a little better than okay for most of the year.
So you're already going to the backup. No, I'm just saying I like Nick Mullins.
You're just going to throw him out, go to the backup. Here's my evaluation of Nick Mullins.
I went into a Thursday night football game being like, oh, this game might suck because it was Nick Mullins against another backup. And then Nick Mullins looked cool.
And then Brett Favre called him on the phone after the game. True.
And I was like, okay, I like this guy. He's a gunslinger.
I like him too. I just don't know if it would be like, hey, here's the keys to the whole franchise.
Blow it all up. Yeah.
Blow the entire thing. Take this thing and go, Nick.
I honestly think that both these teams could very well be back in the Super Bowl next year. Yeah, but Kyle Shanahan, like you said, he's an unbelievable coach.
And what he does with this team is fantastic, but this is how sports work.

You lose a Super Bowl, you lose two Super Bowls in a row,

and he wasn't the head coach.

But the Falcons' 28-3 panic was partially due to him.

He starts to get that.

This is just how it works.

Andy Reid has had this for 20 years.

Now it's the passing of the torch for the big-time choker. Do you think it's a little unfair that he was just a coordinator for the first game? A little, but— Because people are being like, this is combined.
He would have lost both of them, but only one of them he was the head coach. Yes, he was being too aggressive with the play calls in that Falcons one, and you knew that it wasn't Dan Quinn that was overriding.
Right. Dan Quinn would have kicked that field goal on first down instead of trying to get any more yards.
So I think he kind of gets that because he was very clearly the offensive guy there where Dan Quinn was in charge of the defense, and now he's obviously still calling offensive plays here. So they do have a – so his 20 – Jimmy Garoppolo's 2020 contract becomes fully guaranteed on April 1st, but they have an hour out before that.
That almost seems like it could be a psych date too, since it's April Fool's Day. Yeah.
No, this is crazy though, because if you look at his contract, the 2020 salary was guaranteed for injury. He's healthy right now.
So they essentially can, if they want to, which would be a wild, wild move, a guy who you just went to the Super Bowl with, but they can theoretically walk away from him before April 1st. I wouldn't say they should.
I don't think they should. No, I don't think so either.
But that is going to be a discussion for the next two months, so get ready for it. Let's continue to have it.
I'm not taking anything off the table, Joe. Maybe a trade straight up Jimmy G for playoff Damien.
I don't know about that. You've got to keep playoff Damien for those four games in January.
Playoff Damien, what a beast. Mr.
January right there is what it's called. What a beast.
The big Aquarius. So, real quick, it's time I think we should have a discussion about Kyle Shanahan.
Just the name Kyle, is that too chill of a name? Not a great name. Too chill of a name to have that real cutthroat mentality.
Maybe he needs to reach his natural destination of being a Kyle who just bangs monsters all the time. Yeah.
Or a Kyler. Kyler.
Yeah, he could be a Kyler. A Kyler would be better.
A little cooler. Yeah, if he got into riding BMX bikes and banging monsters.
Do it. Rail grinds.
Yeah, exactly. Kyler's way too chill out of a name.
And Andy, on the other side of the name coin, is just like your best friend. Yeah.
I've never met a shithead named Andy. Yeah, it's true.
It's very true. So other parts of the game, other things we can discuss.
Fox deciding to just go with an entirely new graphics package. At the Super Bowl.
I didn't mind it, actually. The cartoons were foolish and silly.
That is a Super Bowl. This is a man's game.
It is. No, you know that you'll look back.
If they replay that game in five years and they show those cartoons after each touch, they'll be like, what were they thinking? Right. It did look almost like a little bit of a...
Who's the guy that draws the boondocks that guy they may they might have used that guy yes but i didn't mind the graphics package overall besides the animation stuff uh the only thing i didn't like it was tough to find the timeouts the super bowl you can't do that timeouts were hard to find i don't like change that's probably why andy reed only burned two of them throughout the entire game is because he couldn't find them either. And then on the field, the yellow line.
We need to talk about the nightmare. It was an absolute disaster in the second half.
There were like five plays in a row where the yellow line was off by a yard, and it really threw me off. Comically off.
I didn't know what was going on. Was I watching a football game? There was no green zone to tell me where it should be.
Yeah, so otherwise it was a good broadcast. The halftime show was erotic.
I would say there was a lot of like seven and eight and nine-year-old kids who realized some things watching the Tookuses bounce around. That was quite a halftime show.
Very Miami, but quite a halftime show. I think butts are officially back no people no people disgraceful no people right now is putting together a hit list not of his not like a playlist of all his great songs but actually like a list of people that need to be killed for not inviting him to that half in his own city he's the uh he did the weird concert outside the stadium where a bunch of people who can't go to the game stand there and be like, why am I watching a Pitbull concert at 3 o'clock in the afternoon? He did that.
So who is the new Mr. 305? I don't know.
Who is the king of Miami? It's like the Imagine Dragons show, basically. Yeah, is it DJ Khaled? Because at least he was in a commercial.
Jay Butt? Jay Butt might be the new Mr. 305.
Marlins Man? Because that's the number of player in terms of rankings in the NBA that he is right now. Okay.
Marlins Man? No, Marlins Man didn't even go to the game. Well.
That's his city. Yeah, they weren't going to show him on TV.
He had to feed his cats. They don't.
He loves Kansas City. He'll be at the parade.
We also had for a halftime show, Horniest Guy, Michael Wilbon. Disagree.
What did Michael Wilbon say? He said, best halftime show ever by far, and I'm a Prince fanatic, but this is unequaled. Lordy.
The Lordy is, I got my pants out. I got my pants off, and I'm cranking it right now.
That Lordy means shit. Michael Wilbon was undressed when J-Lo started bouncing her booty around.
That is great. I can't wait for Michael Wilbon to describe the halftime show to Tony Kornheiser tomorrow, who definitely didn't stay up to see it.
No chance. But he's going to be like, Tony, their butts were all out there.
It was incredible. First one of them did a shake.
Then the other one did a shake. It was awesome.
Okay, so fair enough. Actually, Saquon, what you just heard, that was part of the interruption.
So you're listening to the right show. Jeb Bush, I guess he had a very horny halftime take too.
He said, best Super Bowl halftime show ever, period. And sometimes less is more when it comes to describing that.
Because, like, you know he can't be like... That was a left-handed typing.
Left-handed typing. He can't be like, look at, you know what I said to the booty cheeks, please clap.
You know, like, he has to play it cool. He's got a family that's watching this stuff.
He can't say Lordy. It's funny watching the guys because i'm not gonna say they don't know what porn is i'm gonna say they probably don't watch porn anymore because they like ruin too many computers and phones yeah like the james brown yeah james brown watched that i was gonna say like dean norris just accidentally tweeting sex gifts instead of tweet instead of doing a tweet search for it yeah james brown watched that and was like holy, I might have to get back on my bullshit.
What was the James? Okay, I got it. Sexy little brunette bitch sucking and fucking her personal trainer's big cock.
That was James Brown's tweet. Tweet Hall of Fame in 2017.
But that's my robot was watching that and just being like, Lordy, he probably rewound it. He told everyone to leave the room.
Lordy. The Lordy is excessive.
That's an excessive Lordy. The Lordy means things.
Can he name drop anything about that halftime show, though? He can't. It'd be great for him if he has at some point met J-Lo.
Yeah. So he'd be like, when I met J-Lo, she was good looking, but I didn't know she had all that.
Right all that right lordy he'd probably be like i haven't seen a booty like that since charles barkley grabbed 25 rebounds in 1995 some bullshit like that i haven't seen a booty like that since janet jackson came to my birthday party lordy lordy uh no you're right because what we are seeing is older guys getting slightly better at being horny online and not knowing when to say when. Right.
So this new generation, you're making it harder on us content creators to harvest your mistakes, your horny mistakes for jokes. So I appreciate that.
All right, Super Bowl commercials. We had Google try to make us feel better about the fact that they've uh remembered everything we've said for years and years and years yeah the uh was that alzheimer's the woman had alzheimer's they were basically doing the notebook but instead of uh her husband writing to her every day it was just like google remembers all the shit that you said right for your entire life and everyone was that isn't that romantic right everyone was like my God, that's so sad and crying.
But then probably because our brains have been ruined by the internet, we just sat there making jokes like, yeah. So they clearly have like all of her nudes too.
Oh, yeah. What was your name? Loretta? Yeah.
Yeah. I guess it's a real story.
So they really went over the top. So now I can't.
Oh, no. Now I can't.
No, no, no. I still don don't feel bad they've stolen everything from us they've

stolen our faces like i get the the thought process here and it actually is nice for uh

anyone who might have alzheimer's or dementia to have that but that doesn't really like helping

out some senior citizens remember have some memories in your machines doesn't erase the fact

that you also have everything we've ever purchased

and everything, every conversation we've ever had and our identities.

And you've sold it all to like tracking websites in China.

Right.

You know what else like memorizes every single thing about someone would be a pencil and a paper and just writing it down.

That would also do it.

OS.

For life.

It is funny that we're thinking about. I actually have the voice right now for it.
We're thinking- Old school. OS for life.
How sweet is it? We look at like a computer being nice, and it makes us feel nice and romantic inside. We're like, oh my God, the machines.
That artificial intelligence, that is a real panty dropper. The machines really did it.
University of Wisconsin saved dogs, no big deal. Yeah, I saw that.
But we did make it to the big time. And then the only other ones I remember is the Bill Murray, who you hate.
That came out earlier in the day. I don't hate Bill Murray.
No, you hate him. I actually thought that was- You hate him.
You hate Drake. Own it.
Own your hate. No, I don't hate Bill Murray at all.
I hate the Bill Murray industrial complex where every time Bill Murray does something, it's like, this is funny. Click on this article about Bill Murray stealing.
So you really hated this ad. Bill Murray stole an old lady's purse on the streets of Charleston, South Carolina.
Classic gag. Yep.
So you hated this ad. No, I didn't mind this one because the groundhog was pretty cute.
Right. That fat bitch.
We got early spring, baby. Yeah, early spring.
You think that was i love me to call him a fat little bitch yeah i would never look like a fat little bitch call anyone a fat bitch well he looked like a fat little bitch but he we got spring baby yeah spring's back go phil andy reed gets to put on his shorts six weeks early dude how much food is he going to eat like this is i'm so excited to watch excited to watch Andy Reid enjoy this. Does he even drink? I don't think he drinks.
He converted to Mormonism for the poontang. He did say after the game, he said he's going to celebrate by having a double cheeseburger.
Oh, shit. So that's...
It's great because this is a classic fat guy move where it's like, well, I'm not drinking so I can eat double. Like, I didn't have a beer.
He's been like that his whole life. Right.
But this is double, double. You know what? He's going to do a shitload of shots of milk.
Did you see that story about how much he loves milk? Oh, yeah. So Andy, throwback story.
Yeah. Throwback story to back of the day.
Packer coach likes his milk. It was the headline.
This is classic Wisconsin news showing his strength in farming contest green bay packer assistant coach andy reed won the milk drinking competition saturday at june dairy day after downing 29 double shots of milk uh second place was a wisconsin rapids radio announcer who had 27 um so yeah uh shout out andy reed legendary milk drinker he also they used to do um they used to do some sort of fundraiser for I think it was BYU back in the day where they would send their coaches out to sell hot dogs and whoever was the best hot dog salesman ended up getting like a little prize a little bonus it was a fundraiser for the university for the football team and Andy Reid would always dominate in the sales but nobody ever thought like hey ever thought, like, hey, maybe Andy's just, like, buying hot. Eating them all.
Buying hot. Yeah, just saving them all.
He's always like, oh, shit, time to pay the fiddler. Shout out to Aaron Boone, by the way.
He predicted the exact score before the game. That's kind of impressive.
He said at 6 o'clock, for what it's worth, I'm going with Chiefs 31-20. So that's a win for the Yankees.
Definitely. So he gets one pinstripe.
One pinstripe for correctly predicting this. Actually, should Andy Reid get pinstripes for that, for coming through for his manager? They'd be very slimming.
I like that. So who won the Super Bowl ads? I'm just going to Google that, and I'll tell you who won it.
It doesn't even feel – Superwads aren't real anymore.

Like, they're not – the commercials don't matter as much

because you watch them all beforehand.

The Tom Brady one, do you want to mention that one?

You called that, Hank? Congrats.

That was going to be my who's back of the week, but Tom Brady is back.

Not only, as we said on the show, was that picture an advertisement for Hulu.

He said he's not going anywhere in the advertisement, and then a report came out today that the patriots are willing to pay him 30 million dollars a year which would make him the second well besides patrick mahomes and patrick with the third highest quarterback and he basically just told he told them that he just wanted them to go get more receivers which i don't see why they won't do that so rather they spend the money on weapons i feel good about yeah he would i feel good about brady coming back instead of back. So instead of buying shady apartments for your players who already have weapons, he just wants them to go out and buy the weapons.
Got him. Cut out the middle.
That was like 2.75 breasts. That wasn't even a pun.
But it was a wordplay. It was just an indictment of the character of the front office.
Riley would tweet something along those lines. How dumb would Antonio Brown feel after getting himself cut from the Raiders and then Tom Brady goes and plays on the Raiders? Ooh, yeah, that would be pretty stupid.
Actually, I don't think he ever feels dumb. I think he's, he's pretty highly of himself.
Yeah, he's the best. He tweeted, did you see the Instagram post where it was just a, I think it was the holiday party for the Miami Dade police uh department and just said i'm sorry for offending any of you look so he's on the back i actually do hope that he's getting better because like as we've said for the last like year now he's he's been pretty fucked he's cray cray he's cray cray cray cray so uh okay i saw jeff darlington last week by the way yeah at the.
Sitting close to anyone? I wanted to sit at a table right next to him. I was like, hey, you want to have a seat? You want to have a seat and touch knees? I thought that was funny.
All right. Before we get to our who's back, anything else on the Super Bowl? Let's see.
Orange Gatorade. Orange Gatorade.
That was a big, big surprise. Plot twist at the end.
That might have just been sunkissed, though. Mm-hmm..
He probably had his own. For Andy, or just straight-up orange juice.
I could see him doing that. Or just liquefied Cheetos dust.
Yeah, so the purple smoke was, well, it was supposed to be the 49ers, but then there was the rumor that it was for Kobe as well. Didn't happen.
Any other? Oh, the Patrick Mahomes rushing bet. So that was the biggest loss.
If you had the over 35 and a half yards, at the end he was taking knees, but he was going further than just one yard back. Yeah, he was trying to milk the clock a little bit.
Right, so he ended up with, I think, 30 rushing yards. He lost 15 rushing yards.
Oh, my God. Only on nails, and the over-under was 35 and a half.
He finished with 29. Oh, my God.

So he could just take normal knees.

He would have been fine.

And normally I would say that doesn't really count as a bad beat

because it's such a random prop.

But the Super Bowl is just random props.

Everyone bets random props.

So that is a bad beat.

Other big news, Tails never fails.

Ever.

We told you that last week.

Ever.

Five years in a row.

Dynasty.

Yeah.

Should we start talking about a dynasty for Tails?

I think we do. I mean, that's significant.
They should put tails in the Hall of Fame. Heads has no defense for tails.
Huge night for tails, including Shakira and J-Lo. Ooh.
Lordy. Lordy.
Lordy. Lordy.
Lordy. Shaking it.
Hips don't lie. Lordy.
Lordy is the horniest way to say I'm so erect right now as a 50, 60-year-old man. When you say Lordy, you're definitely wiping sweat off your brow.
With a handkerchief out of your suit. Like a nice one that matches your tie.
It's your comrade that you're also wiping your handkerchief with. Lordy's pretty bad.
I'd say the number one way of just showing horniness is still like doing the howling like a wolf and scratching your foot on the ground thing. Grunting.
Yeah, it's going to be tough. Okay.
There was something else I was going to talk about in this game. There was Terry Bradshaw.
Forgot how to talk for a second. Well, that's normal.
Yeah, it's pretty normal. Should we have the debate whether or not Patrick Mahomes is the face of the NFL? He already said it's Lamar Jackson.
Yeah, but I mean, that's Mahomes. It is 100% Mahomes.
He's the voice of the NFL. He's everything of the NFL.
He is the guy. I mean, Max Kellerman already said, the greatest football player to ever live.
Honestly, if he ends his career with only one Super Bowl MVP, he'd be Aaron Rodgers. Fraud.
Fraud. I'm already putting him on a fraud watch right now.
So you mean Aaron Rodgers is a fraud. Right now, Patrick Mahomes is still a fraud.
He needs to get to at least seven until I take him off my F-word list. Yeah.
So, yeah, he's going to – he'll be back there many, many, many times. 24 – could you imagine being a Chiefs fan right now? Now this is me just hurting myself thinking about what the Bears could have.
Could you imagine being a Chiefs fan right now and saying we get this for the next 15 years? I don't know if you've noticed this, but anytime a quarterback is good as a rookie, you automatically hear the fan base and the media jump to the assumption that that player is going to be there for 10 to 15 years. He will be.
That's like the minimum that we're giving right now. And if you can show me like three quarterbacks in the NFL that have been great for between 10 and 15 years over the last like 20 years.
I mean, Tom Brady. Tom Brady.
Peyton Manning. Aaron Rodgers, Peyton Manning.
How long was Peyton Manning on the Colts for? Was it like 12? Yeah.

Okay.

Russell will get there.

Russell Wilson will get there. He'll probably get there.

I mean, he's year eight right now, so it'll be close.

I mean, that's still seven.

Yeah, I know.

Two to seven years left.

No, of course.

It's not everyone, but I would feel confident.

I mean, you already said double digits.

Double digits.

Minimum, yeah.

Maybe triple digits.

Minimum.

Minimum.

So the real question then becomes, how quickly does it take us to start hating Chiefs fans? It's got to be soon. I don't know.
I don't know. It happens in all sports, every single sport.
If you win a championship and your guy's awesome, we're going to hate you. Andy Reid is protecting them from being hateable.
I think that what's first going to happen, if I'm understanding the avenues of hatred correctly, is the first person you'll start to dislike is probably Travis Kelsey. Well, Tyreek Hill seems like a pretty normal spot to start there.
Tyreek, good call. Travis Kelsey will also say something hilarious that will rub some people the wrong way.
Besides that, they're a very likable team. Oh, of course.
But come on. That doesn't matter.
People like the Warriors. They did.
This happens in all sports. If you're good for a long period of time, everyone will hate you at the end.
I think if they win three consecutive Super Bowls. Everyone will hate them.
A lot of people will start to be sick of them. Although, if they win three consecutive Super Bowls, that would mean that they would beat the Patriots most likely in the playoffs for the next two years.
And I think that so many people are so sick of the Patriots that that would actually diffuse some of the hate towards the Chiefs. I'm just saying, get ready.
I don't know when it's going to happen, but it will eventually happen. And again, Hank, I'm not attacking the Patriots.
No, that's very true. I'm saying that's how great the Patriots have been.
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Ooh, yes, I love those. Oh, wait on me.
The Kyle Shanahan. Now he has the two worst ones, but they're putting them side by side.
Yeah, they look like WorldCom stock. I think the 49ers were 93% and then just dropped and the Falcons were like 97%.
Damn. I'm shocked that the Falcons were only 97%.
Well, it was in the third quarter. Yeah.
But damn, that sucks. Kyle Shanahan.
Damn. I want to be the first to say that I'm going to resist the Kyle Shanahan isn't clutch movement I'm going to be the first to say that I will embrace those two percentages is a choker movement is what a choker is a choker okay well we will have brought back chokers he might just not have the clutch Chokers are back.
Chokers different from... It's tough to choke as a head coach.
But he did it twice. 96.1%.
One and a half times. One and a half times, yeah.
One and a half times. He's still a great head coach, but you can't say...
If he gets to Super Bowl next year, you don't think that'll be the number one storyline? Because it will be... Will he choke again? Yes, absolutely.
That's how sports works. It's tough to choke twice.
It is. Epstein did it.
Ooh. He did.
Yeah, I know. Remember? Yes.
Kyle said he felt good that it was tied at 10-10. I think Epstein did too.
I think he died at 10-20. There it is.
There you go. All right, PFT, you're who's back.
My who's back is USA Rugby. Okay, cool.
That's right, guys. USA Rugby is back.
We finished in third place this weekend in the seventh tournament in Sydney. Almost made to the finals.
We had the ball at the final horn. It was tough.
Unfortunate knock-on call. But, yeah, it was good to see the boys get back onto the podium.
We came in third place because we beat the fuck out of England in the bronze medal game. Okay, nice.
So, yeah, we're back big time. I think this is going to actually be the start of something great.
You think this is the moment that it all— I think this is when we go on a run. Great.
I think so. We've been day one fans.
Day one USA rugby guys. Day one fans.
My other who's back of the week is the NFL rigging things. Okay.
Did you notice what happened on the coin flip today? Yes. Obviously, tails happened.
Yep. And then there was a defer call.
And then was it the Niners that said, okay, we'll kick the ball? Chiefs. Chiefs said, okay, we'll kick the ball.
And then the ref had to explain, wait, that means that you're going to kick off for both halves. And he was like, no, no, we don't want to do that.
We want to go ahead and we'll receive the ball then. So the NFL stepped in.
I don't know if Sky Judge got in the ear or Mike Pereira got in the ear of the official on the field and told them what to do. But if you were a Niners fan, you could say that maybe the game changed on that.
You got absolutely screwed. Maybe it's under protest.
Absolutely screwed. I agree with that.
Okay, my who's back of the week. I got two as well.
The first is animals making picks. I should have fucking followed Fiona the Hippo, who puked on the Chiefs logo.
I didn't know what it meant at the time. Clearly, it was take the Chiefs because of Kyle Shan Kyle Shanahan's a choker Right so I think the same person texted you that Has texted me And they said hey Well it was tweeted It was public knowledge The first I saw was when I got as a text My initial reaction was I think that means that a hippo picked the Chiefs No he did Yeah I think she did Fiona She threw up on the chiefs logo and i saw a bunch of people saying this obviously means the niners i was like no no no no no no no no so uh yeah a lot of animals throw up on things uh before they eat them again i fucked that up god damn it uh and then my other who's back is danny boy cane so during the halftime show danny boy cane who if you don't who he is, he has one of the most legendary press conferences, videos on the internet.
Obviously a huge Miami Hurricanes fan. Now, I heard that he might have the coronavirus.
Nope, not true. Not true.
That's actually probably why he went private, but not true. He does not have the coronavirus, never had the swine flu, never attacked by a bear.
At halftime, everyone else is looking at the booties going, Lordy, he says this halftime show is a perfect thing to show recruits what Miami is all about. So he's thinking about class of 2021 recruits while everyone else is enjoying the booties.
And that, my friends, is why Danny Boy Kane is the king and why every time there's a coaching search at Miami, his name gets rumored to possibly be a candidate. Well, this is also a big win for the U because technically this game was played at their stadium.
Miami football tweeted out, like, it's great to see the Super Bowl happening in our house that they run

out from the Dolphins. That's recruits though.
Yeah. That equals recruits.
Recruits see that night game at Hard Rock Cafe Stadium in Miami Gardens and they think the U might be back. And wait didn't you get who did they get recently? No idea.
Deion Sanders. or not

FSU

who was it

who was it

Hank who was it No idea. Deion Sanders.
No, not FSU.

Who was it?

Who was it?

Hank, who was it?

You got something that made him back.

And this really makes him back.

Ed Reed, sorry.

Ed Reed.

He's their chief of staff.

He'll go into the living room and show his Super Bowl ring.

Yeah.

He went to.

Yes, he went to.

No.

Yeah.

Flacco? Was he on the 2000? Wait, was he? No, I don't think so. It might have been too early for him.
Let's see. Damn.
Might have. No, he definitely won both.
Is he a rookie? This is the part of my take. Well, I mean, it's the end of the season.
Football season ends. It's the end of the season.
Our brains stop working. Yes.
He did. He got both.
He was a rookie? Super Bowl. No, one Super Bowl.
Damn. One Super Bowl.
I was right. That sucks for Ed Reed.
So he can go in with one Super Bowl. And a Miami National Championship ring.
Yep. So there you go.
That's what he does. Either way, the U's back.
Danny Boykian's got them covered. PFT, you want to do the ads real quick, and then we're going to finish the show with Gardner Minshew.
By the way, we did a bunch of interviews in Miami. We've got some great ones coming up.
We've got some ones that are non-football as well. So get excited.
Some big-name guests coming up to a show near you soon. I'm surprised you didn't say who's back XFL.
You seem really into the XFL. Well, we have all week to do that.
That's true. Yeah, I will give you my honest assessment of the XFL once I watch the game.
Just like the AAF. Tell you what, here's what we'll do on part of my take.
We'll do a little good cop, bad cop for the XFL. You're not biased.
You're going to be honest. Yes.
I'm going to be biased. Okay, that's fair.
Because I feel like the more I talk it up, the better likelihood I have to get that phone call from Oliver Luck. Okay, got it.
So they're doing exactly what they wanted to do. No, because you're not going to do that.
No, but if I'm honestly like it, I'll tell you I like it. Yeah, there you go.
But if you think it sucks, you can be the one. I think AAF was the same thing.
AAF last year. First week I was excited.
And then after that, it fucking sucked. And I didn't watch any of it because College Basketball basketball was on one great way to make you like the XFL is if Mark Trestman just gets the shit kicked out of him every week perfect absolutely I like that my first read is from a good company or good friends over at Peloton you've probably heard of Peloton it's a game changing cardio workout from the comfort of your own home and now there's a way to try it for yourself with a new 30-day home trial with free pickup and full refund it's a worry-free way to see what life is like with a peloton bike if you ever wonder what your life would look like with a peloton bike now you can try it yourself it's great i love my peloton it's set up in my living room despite all the haters that said that I didn't use Peloton, I actually do.
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Patrick Mahomes liked the tweet. All right, there we go.
So there it is. The run is complete.
Thanks for coming out. Thanks for coming out, Chiefs.
I tweeted every single time they were down in this playoff run, and every single time Patrick Mahomes shoved it down my face and then won the game and liked it in the locker room after. So congrats to Patrick Mahomes.
Recurring guest. Hopefully we'll get him back on.
But, yeah, unbelievable run for them. Thanks for coming out, Chiefs.
The $ 50 million dollar man i should make that a shirt thanks for coming out chiefs yeah or this ain't it chiefs thanks for coming out chiefs then all the scores and they were down by double digits two three times double digits that's crazy that's crazy do you think anyone would buy a shirt if it was just your three tweets yeah with the patrick mahomes two liked like of it right in the score though when I tweeted it would be good. Yeah.
This one I think I did like right after their punt. Right after their opening drive.
Yeah. Yeah.
All right. Okay.
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All right. We now welcome on recurring guests already been on.
That's right. Gard Gardner Minshew starting quarterback for the Jacksonville Jaguars and the hungriest man in the NFL Snickers award winner they have a new uh commercial coming out Super Bowl also you can find it on YouTube so my question is what's the bigger award fifth in the Heisman or Snickers Hungriest Man of the Year?

Well, for fifth in the Heisman, I didn't get a $75,000 chain,

which I did get for this.

You look nicely for that.

So I guess just by the prize alone,

you'd have to say the Hungriest Player is number one.

Do they give you a replica that you can then put,

because I think it's going to charity, right?

Yeah, so it's going to get auctioned off for Movember,

which is a cause that I chose.

It's just bringing awareness to men's health issues, mental um something i don't think it's talked about enough um so yeah it's for a good cause so we need to get a chain we need to get a replica chain that you can like have you can hang in your house yeah and it's like here's fifth and heisman here's knickers yeah i think it's only like it's only like 75 000 so it's like not a big deal deal. Wait, which is the most expensive piece of jewelry you have? I got like a rubber band on right now.
I got this from a ski boot that I was renting in Telluride. Right.
Okay. Wait, so you famously, though, are good with your money.
You drive an old Acura, a beat-up Acura. Not that old.
Not that beat-up. Okay, well, it's a beat-up Acura.
What are we talking about? 11. Okay.
11. Did you have a CD changer in there? Yeah.
Yeah. That's pretty boss.
Did Ryan Pace ever see that car? I don't think so. Okay, because you probably would have been a Chicago Bear if you got eyes on that car.
Probably so. Because he likes guys with bad cars.
That's kind of how his draft process works. Yeah, that's the thing.
Are you not going to buy a new car now that you've, you know, getting a little more? Like, I don't think I need to. Like, I mean, it works.
True. So I got an RV.
Does it? Oh, it works. Okay.
Get point A to point B. I had an RV for a month.
That was, you know. Yeah.
I rent that anytime I need it. You got the RV.
You drove it at what? You drove it like across I-10, across the country, basically? No. So we kind of took a crooked route.
We went from Mississippi, went duck in east texas to austin texas worked out at permian high school in odessa which was awesome where friday night lights was miles yeah tell you right colorado las vegas newport beach scottsdale grand canyon home that's pretty sweet so did you actually were you in charge of emptying out the gray water tank on your rv so that's what we had a rule uh the first person to use the bathroom has to clean out the bathroom so we just ended up not using it the whole time that's actually the best rule so we had our right yeah so we had a ton of like just trucker bombs and yeah you know wait so how many people did you go with uh so there's two of my buddies um one from washington state and then one was my roommate in junior college okay um so they had they were along for the ride that's pretty sick that's uh we've done some rv trips like long distances there's no better way to like travel around america it is it's so it's so nice we got to see so much in like two weeks right it's incredible that's smart though because when you do have to empty out that gray water tank that's a life-changing experience i don't want to do that you don't want to do that it will you'll be seeing things for a while afterwards absolutely um all right so you also found your first mustache yeah talk about that so that was um i grew that at east carolina had to shave it just because it wasn't didn't live up to the standard i wanted a mustache to be so i had to shave it but it's still sad it was it was two week of a week i thought you were gonna say like oh i you know i thought i was gonna drafted by the Yankees. No, it was two weeks I had to shave it, but I loved it.
There was obviously a connection there. Even then, I knew I was supposed to wear a mustache.
So I shaved it off into a little Ziploc baggie. And it's been on my bulletin board ever since.
And then I found the bulletin board the other day. And I was like, wow, this could really help somebody out.
Yeah, so what are you going to do with that? Because I was I can't grow facial hair it's a problem I'm face bald but like one of my heroes in life is Joe Buck and he spent a lot of time getting hair plugs I don't know if they can do like mustache plugs if I can use your hair and just like embed it and maybe it'll seed my own facial hair if they can do that you can have it if you get approval for that like can get that surgery done, then yes. That means you have to hold on to it until we have final...
It's at home in a safe. I have one key.
There's two other people with keys. It's like a nuclear submarine.
It's just like a nuclear code. It's protected.
Okay. We'll find a shitty doctor.
Stall him out. Yeah.
Never get an answer. Eventually, he's going to be like, we'll be 60 years old and be like, hey, can we just have it hey can we just have it and be like sure what are you all talking about over there nothing no no don't worry about it you can't hear through that hair you uh did coach marone ever say like hey man maybe get a haircut because coach marone he is a yankee fan we've had him on many times good friend of ours he's kind of a straight you know buzz cut type of guy has Has he ever taken a look at you and been like, come on, Gardner? Yeah, he usually has something to say.
Usually I'll wear my shades inside. He's like, oh, what are your cool guys? Yeah, we're actually meeting today, all the cool guys.
Right, right. You disgust him.
I can tell. He's like, oh, here we go again.
1969 in the summer. As a Yankee guy, he has to respect the mustache.
Yeah. Because that's, I think, that's the only face way that can grow.
Yeah. I think he has a soft spot for the mustache.
Okay. Yeah, you kind of got like Johnny Damon and a jam band vibes going on.
Yeah. I can see him like letting you pass.
What about Coughlin? Did Coughlin ever, did he look at you, walk past and be like, get a job? See, I thought Coughlin was going to hate me. But like, he just likes a guy that'll kind of like rib back and with him.
So we just kind of give each other crap, and it was fun. Was that a whole weird situation? Not to get serious, but Coughlin obviously getting fired with a couple weeks left in the season.
Was it weird in the locker room, or were you guys like, all right, let's just finish this season out? No, it was definitely different. He's the type of guy you feel when he's around.
He's such a presence. Yeah, like finding you and everything.
Yeah, you're kind of on your toes a little bit. Right, right.
And then the clocks. That was the first thing anybody said.
That's all the first day. We were just like, wow, the clocks are back.
Really? Seriously, that was the biggest thing. That was a huge deal in the building.
That's amazing. So you moved the clocks forward 15 minutes after he was gone, right? Just to normal time.
To normal time.

To iPhone time.

iPhone time.

Be real people again.

Yeah.

So that was interesting.

That probably fucks with your head, though, because then you start showing.

Like, I would definitely show up early.

Wait, no.

No, I would start showing up late.

Like, did you notice that you'd walk into a meeting like a minute late after the clocks?

Right.

Real time?

Oh, no.

I think, I mean, we're pretty much trained like, you know, Pavlovian dogs we were there early even earlier than early it worked it worked i like that uh i don't know if big cats shared this with you already but uh the first time we had you on the show you talked about how much you love football and uh how you took a hammer to your hand try to get a little medical red shirt going on didn't work uh you weren't able to execute that close that close uh i actually thought that you were a fake i thought that you were not the real gardner minshu after you told that story i was like we're being duped by somebody because this story is too perfect it embodies the the essence of what i think gardner minshu is like to a t so i thought someone was setting us up and then it was like no that's who he is. You know, I come on to your show.
I saved this story for y'all. I knew one day.
I appreciate it. I knew one day.
This is going to PMT. There's no better forum.
And then you spit on my story. Call me an imposter.
No, no, no. It's actually the highest compliment I can give you.
I was just like this. After it was over, I was just like, this is too perfect.
I don't know if we can run this okay and and in pft's defense the party's leaving out so this did for real happen to us one time which is a great connection to you we had mike leach on the show and for some reason it was back when we were our old office the radio lines got mixed up so someone calling into radio just was put through to our show and we interviewed a fake mike leach for like 15 minutes yeah until we're like wait this isn't mike leach yeah so we're always like since that moment yeah we've had like the like five minutes into an interview we're like wait is this really who we think it is so it's mike leach's fault yeah no it's a lot of things are his fault what's the craziest coach leach story you have actually do you have any stories that you've saved just for PMT this time around? Dude, I have one, but it involves a buddy, and he's not ready to come out with a story. Okay.
So one day. A code name? One day.
Just say I did it. Yeah, no.
So we can't do it. But I'm telling you, it's a great story.
Yeah, sounds awesome, dude. Yeah, no, I'm telling you.
I cannot oversell. It is an incredible story.
Awesome story. I want to see USA Today write a report about this interview.
Gardner Minshew tells part of my take. He has a great story, but not ready to share that.
I got a sick story, but it's not ready yet. It's not.
But just promise you save it for us. Yeah.
Okay. So the Coach Leach story.
What's your best Coach Leach story? See, the best one's like i can't tell like you know usually turn off the cameras yeah okay we're off we're dead nah um my thing like the best thing is just like day to day with leach like if he like locks you in like one-on-one he'll he'll start talking and he won't stop so like in our quarterback room we have a rule like he's sitting at the head of the table the screen's up there like if he starts telling a story everybody has to just turn and face the screen because if he locks in on somebody we're about to be 30 minutes late to practice you know so we just can't give him an audience just have to tune him out and then eventually he'll realize oh wait i'm not talking to anybody and we'll get back with film and we'll be good yeah so that's typically you know kind of pro leech handling right is it weird he's going now to mississippi state your home your home state and do you think he's gonna you know be successful there no i think he'll do well i always thought like at mississippi state on miss you have to do something different right because like you're not just gonna line up and beat alabama or lsu like you're just not gonna have the talent there um so i think it's a good fit i was actually just up there like last weekend hanging out with everybody so it's weird for me both my sisters go there which is awesome

volleyball So I think it's a good fit. I was actually just up there last weekend hanging out with everybody.
So it's weird for me. Both my sisters go there, which is awesome.
Volleyball, right? That's right. So I'll get to see them a good bit, which I'm pretty excited about.
Did he hit you up when he was taking the job to get advice about where to recruit down there or just any of the local flavor? Yeah. We had a good talk.
He's all about what are the guys like. Are they tough? Because he thinks he's from Wyoming, and he's a badass, so he wants other guys that are badasses like him.
Right. So, yeah, I told you he loves the guys down there, a little more blue-collar type people.
You've got to teach him how to ring a cowbell. It's not going to be good.
It's bad. It's not going to be good.
It's bad. I haven't seen him.
Did he try? Oh, when he did it off the plane? It was just plane it was just like super loose and then he did it in half half time in one of their basketball games that's not gonna be his thing that's not gonna be his thing that's the thing like with him and lane kiffin like all the people are so crazy about that rivalry but both those dudes are just living in their own world oh yeah they're not invested in it they're just gonna have it's gonna have a blast state of mississippi is back it's gonna be the best soap opera in opera in college football next year. You got Jay Gruden now.
Jay Gruden, friend of the program. Have you asked him if you can pinch his nipples yet? No, that's actually one of the first things.
You know, like, can I get a playbook? Can I pinch your nipples? Right, yeah. That's what he lets his favorite players do.
I don't know if you saw the clip of Deshaun Jackson in practice. Just reaching over.
I'll demonstrate. Just like that.
Give him one starts giggling like he's like yeah just a little tip just okay first day of practice yeah don't make it weird yeah no yeah it's just like just this cat it's casual yeah um i read somewhere that you're a fantasy football guru uh i ended up losing the league so that was on your team um i call her murray i know that uh That's tomorrow um gee i don't even remember really had the patriots defense that was always nice they were pretty good yeah i never got me i had to play against me one time that was just like it was too much too much so you lost you were in the final huh no that was uh it was the semifinals i had to play against you guys got ppr or just yeah yeah ppr, PPR. Was it like .10 per catch or half a point catch? I got no clue.
I mean, we love fantasy football. We try to rank which of our guests have the best teams.
I got my insider trading. Right.
We're trying to get better. That's what we have.
So we have a dynasty league. It carries over.
So I had to pick all leftover people that hadn't been drafted. So it was kind of an interesting...
So wait, who do you have dynasty-wise? So now I'll probably keep Kamara, Kyler Murray. I've got a bunch of rookies and stuff.
Okay. Building for the future.
You don't want to pick yourself? Yeah. Just too much pressure.
Why? I can't let myself down. You've got to bet on yourself though, right? Yeah.
No, I can't let myself down. Because that's the thing.
If I go out and suck and then I lose in fantasy 2, that's just too much to handle. Well, it keeps life simple, though, because wouldn't it suck if you were awesome and then you lost in fantasy? It's like your day kind of stinks.
It's okay. Oh, I think fantasy is more important than real life.
Yeah, that's one way to look at it. Yeah, absolutely.
Do you ever tweet at players that you have on your fantasy team and you're like, hey, man, you just cost me my game this weekend? No, I'd usually talk crap to Chark because I had to play against him a couple times. So he was always, you know, he kind of sucked to play against.
I try to kind of look other places. Can you still feel Blake Bortles' presence in the locker room? Yeah, absolutely.
I would imagine. Especially.
Especially in the quarterback room. Our quarterback coach is super tight with him.
So you still hear all the stories. Everybody loves him.
I mean, Blake's literally the greatest human being in the world. Everybody loves him.
No, like he actually is. Yeah.
Like literally is. He's like our best friend in the world.
Like the best human being that's ever been created. Yeah.
By God. That's what I've heard.
What's the best Blake Bortles story that still lingers in the locker room? You know, the big ones is with the kid coming up and giving him a beer at his house. That's such a good story.
Yeah, that was our fault. If you were to request a token and offering from a fan that would just come up to your doorbell and ring it and just hand you one of anything, what would it be? Great question, PFT.
Thanks. Thanks, both of you guys.
Thank you. Man, I'd probably be, you know, I don't know if a kid could carry this, but like a handle of probably a Tito's.
Okay. That'd be pretty cool.
Okay. I'm not saying any children in Jacksonville should do that.
No, no, like a 21-year-old child. You definitely shouldn't do that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Get your parents to bring the handle up to you.
You'll get an autograph. Like a reverse trick-or-treating.
Right. Yeah.
Exactly. I'd hate for that to happen.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Heaven forbid.
Is it true the story that your grandfather wanted to name you Beowulf? Mm-hmm. What was that? Yeah, he's a pretty eccentric dude.
Is your whole family just crazy people? Yeah. Okay.
I love that. You don't get this back

to you. Yeah, Flint.
And then he went

and Flint's your dad and then your grandfather

was like, hey, Beowulf's a great name on

the market. Yeah, he's big Beowulf.
And then my dad

wanted Tarzan for a little while. Holy shit.

Because like when I was a little kid, like he

wouldn't read me like kids

books. He read me Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

like the 1800s classic like

over and over because he didn't want to read freaking

kids books. Right, right.
So I think that has a lot

to do with where I am today. Yes.

I'm going to go back and rename yourself you like gardner or are there times where you're like man i wish i was tarzan that'd be sweet dude if i was tarzan that'd been pretty cool like like it'd have been you know maybe been tough in like elementary school but by then like i'm an expert at like climbing trees and just beating the crap out of people it'd be right so you'd have to like i lean into it yeah you have to adapt to the to the name honestly like i think being in elementary school near tarzan would kick ass yeah that'd probably be the best part about for sure that says beowulf though beowulf is awesome great story just epic i'm team grindle but that's just me what is that it's in beowulf okay i didn't story. Just epic.
I'm Team Grindle, but that's just me.

What is that?

It's in Beowulf.

Okay, I didn't read that book.

Nerd.

Your dad, speaking of your dad, he said recently that he knew you were going to be a QB the whole time.

Your whole life.

NFL QB.

Yeah.

That seems like he's lying. So, yeah.

He's kind of lying there because he was a defensive tackle.

And we show up to our first practice at flag football. And the coach was like, hey, your kid's going to play quarterback.
He's like, what? But then he got on the bandwagon after that. So he's kind of a bandwagon since about fifth grade.
He's been on the bandwagon. He's a pink hat Gardner Minshew fan.
That's perfect. When you got the opportunity to start in this league, were you nervous going to your first game, or did you just have that confidence, like, I got this, I can do it? I was probably more nervous.
I used to get more nervous, like, in high school, more than anything. And then it's just gotten, like, less and less.
I guess, you know, you feel like you're prepared more maybe. And then it's just like, man, this is just fun, you fun.
It doesn't really feel like anything to be nervous about. George Kittle tells us that he pukes before every single game because he's got just nervous butterflies or whatever stuff.
You don't have to deal with any of that? No, I used to puke. Every game, my first couple years of high school I did.
Then I got over it someday. I don't know.
I don't know how. All right, so my last question, Seeky question, put in promo code take.
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He won 2019 Snickers Hungriest Player of the Year. It actually is kind of, it's like Heisman, maybe the Masters Green Jacket, Snickers Hungriest Player of the Year.
That's just me. I'm a sports fan.
That's just me. That me that's my ranking so you want it has there been a moment since the whole minshu mania and everything's been going crazy where you're like like the the guy who put uh a mural of you wrestling a tiger on the hood of his car like all these things have you had a moment where you're like holy shit what's going on here uh i don't know i mean it's it's all pretty cool it's all something something I've said I've wanted to do my whole life.
So now it's just kind of living it out. And it's been surreal.
You're dangerously close to being a Blake. We might put you in Blake of the Year nominee.
Honestly, I wasn't going to bring it up, but that's what I was kind of hoping for. Well, then now you're not.
yeah you give off energy but you also give off like uh you've got like a fire that blake sometimes don't have it's like if we what yeah yeah played like a country western here's the thing if you were a true blake you wouldn't be upset that we're not making you a blake you'd be like yeah whatever well if you're a true blake you we would have been like blake of the air and we've been you you would have said what are you talking about what is that and like would have explained it. You'd be like, oh, that's kind of cool.
All right, let's go back to the top. You're close.
For my last question, I'm just going to give you an opportunity to sell us on you being a Blake. I mean, I really could care less.
It's not a big deal to me. Good points.
Good. So if y'all want get in one here i don't really understand the award yeah right but if y'all want to if y'all want to do that fine okay we'll call you we'll think yeah yeah i tell you what we'll think about it yeah right now i'm whatever right you're close that though but your answer about the minshu mania was the first time i was like wait like a guy made a mural of him wrestling a tiger and put it on his car yeah and you're like yeah i guess that's cool yeah cool.
Your Blake driver was going off. Yeah, it was going beep, beep, beep, beep, beep.
This guy, I know this guy. He's a Blake.
All right. Well, Gardner, thank you.
Appreciate it. You're always welcome.
Recurring guests for life. You literally have to come on every time we have.
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