Jeff Fisher, Drew Brees Breaks Another Record + Guys on Chicks

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We also have Drew Brees record night. Oh, yeah, that happens like every other day, it feels like.
Hot seat, cool throne, guys on chicks. And a little PR 101 for our friend John Rothstein, who's gotten himself into a little bit of a pickle.
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Oh, we gotta rock down to Elon Musk Part of My Take, presented by Barstool Sports Welcome to Part of My Take, presented by the Cash App Go download it right now, use code BARSTOOL You get $10 and $10 to ASPCA, help an animal, this Christmas time Thank you to the Cash App Today is Wednesday december 18th and the year is 2060 and a 70 year old drew breeze has just broken another record as his three adult sons look on and his adult daughter is nowhere to be found no his 45 year old adult daughter still has the giant earphones on that you wear when you're using a chainsaw he's broken tom brady's record for 167th time in a row because they keep going back and forth and both of them are going to play forever and oh yeah drew breeze another monday night another record i feel like we've seen this before and we're going to see it again because he's just going to keep playing and he and tom brady is going to go back and forth breaking each other's record. Well, if I may step in and do your pod form and say that Tom Brady actually has all the meaningful records when you take into account the postseason as well.
True, true. So really, this is just on paper.
In fact, I was upset at the NFL. I want to put one in Roger Goodell's ear hole.
For an occasion like this, you need to at least break out an 8x11 inch piece of paper in Comic Sans saying congrats on big record, Mr. Breeze.
Okay, so I have a couple questions for you, PFT, to start this show off. The first is, is passer rating the dumbest statistic of all time? Because Drew Breeze on Monday night, Drew Breeze loves the Dome Monday night, a record on the brink.
It's his ninth record that he set on Monday Night Football. He loves it.
I think Sean Payton purposely calls plays in games leading up to potential record-breaking scenarios. If he knows that he has a Monday night coming up next week, he'll take the ball out of Drew Brees' hands so that he can do it on national television in prime time.
And we also had the two-time celebration of it because there was a penalty on the first time he broke it. But Drew Brees was 29 for 30, 307 yards, four touchdowns, zero interceptions, and he was still 10 points shy of a perfect passer rating.
Not good enough for me. It's the dumbest statistic of all time.
Not only that because it's dumb, but it's also someone can explain to me why it's still graded out of 158.3. Somebody figured out.
It was probably Archie Manning that put it together. It's so shitty.
It's so shitty. Based on Peyton's exact stats being like, my boy has the record for most perfect passer ratings.
If you can't be perfect there. I imagine he's involved in that.
And it was like the highest completion percentage record. Yeah, he broke that record as well.
He broke that record. Phil Rivers had it.
Three touchdowns. Four touchdowns, zero interceptions.
And he didn't win us our fantasy team. That's why it wasn't a perfect game.
If he had won us our fantasy league, which we needed 60 points out of him, that son of a bitch came up about 25 short. Okay, so second question.
Do we underappreciate Drew Brees? Oh, yeah. So it's legacy talk time now.
I think that Drew Brees is perfectly appreciated legacy-wise. No matter if you think he's overrated or underrated, I think that everyone is correct in their opinion of Drew Brees.
Because you can look at his career through several different prisms. Say like, yeah, okay, he only won one Super Bowl in New Orleans, but if you know anything about the Saints organization before he got there, that is an incredible thing that he did.
Or you can be like, Drew Brees is the best quarterback because you can find some stats, completion percentage, and all this other stuff, and how many winning seasons in a row they've had out of the 11 or 12 years that he's been there. Was it like 13 years now that he's been in New Orleans? He's been there since 2006.
Yeah, so 13 years, and you can cherry-pick all sorts of stats and be like, he is the best player that's ever played the position. Drew Brees, though, is a classic case of a guy who just played in an era where there were one or two guys that were always just a little bit better than him.
He's never won an MVP. You could make the argument that he's been deserving of an MVP, but his best years, 2011, his best kind of stretch was like that 2011-2012, they weren't as good as a team in 2013.
Aaron Rodgers threw 45 touchdowns and six interceptions in 2011 when the Packers were 15-1. 2012, AP rushed for over 2,000 yards, which is still kind of a hallowed thing.
And then 2013, Peyton Manning threw 55 touchdowns for that Broncos team and so he Drew Brees gets lost in that like he's been incredible for his entire career he's probably he's definitely a top 10 quarterback all time but there was never a specific moment in time where you were like this guy was the best quarterback in the NFL because he also played against Tom Brady too who has won MVPs and Super Bowls and everything like that so it's it's so funny to watch him and realize that he's breaking all these records and think like what year was his year probably the Super Bowl year but what year was specifically his year and it was just taken by someone else who happens to be an all-time great in Peyton Manning, in Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers, or Adrian Peterson. I would say it's like Riley Reid coming up in the era of Tiana Trump, and she has to go up against Alexis Texas.
That's the second Tiana Trump mention in the last two weeks. Yeah, Alexis Texas.
Orny PFT. So you know what I'm saying.
Like, Alexis Texas is the GOAT. And unfortunately, just so happened that that two other would-be goats had to compete in the same in the live ball era yeah porn if you will it's one of those cool sports debates though where you're I know what you're saying is unbelievable but he never was you can make the argument you can make the argument that Drew Brees was the guy though for a couple of those years but he he was good but I but he wasn't though the problem with him with Drew Yeah, he was.
Peyton Manning threw 55 touchdown passes in one of his best years. Right, right.
And Rodgers went 45 and 6. But he was the guy for a couple of those years.
There were definitely a couple years where you're like, Drew Brees is the best quarterback in the NFL. I don't know if I agree with that.
It wasn't long-term. The problem with Drew Brees...
Nope, I don't agree with that. The problem with Drew Brees...
Nope, at all. Nope.
I know why Hank's saying no, but the problem is... There's three reasons.
Because you had Tom Brady and Peyton Manning. And Aaron Rodgers.
No, wait. It was always Brady versus Manning.
That's always been the debate. Brady versus Manning.
They were in the same conference. Then it was Rodgers.
Well, now Rodgers is the boat. I made that up right now as the best quarterback of all time.
As opposed to Tom Brady, that's the goat. Wait.
There boat already. Yeah, you're right.
Max Kellerman said that about Aaron Rodgers. Yes.
So no, but Aaron Rodgers is very good. But I definitely think that there were at least a couple years where Drew Brees was that guy.
And it's a debate that people are going to have. And legacy wise, I think we can all just agree that Drew Brees was an excellent quarterback for a long time.
His best. And he made a lot of people happy.
His best statistical year was that 2011 year where he threw 46 touchdowns and 14 interceptions. It just so happened that that was the year that Aaron Rodgers threw 45 touchdowns and 6 interceptions.
And they went 15-1. You know what the problem with Drew Brees was? Their defense has never been excellent.
So I don't know the exact stat offhand, but I'm pretty sure that the Saints have won. I'm pretty sure that the Saints have lost more games where they've scored 35 points than any other franchise in NFL history.
Like, in the 16-year span that he's been there. Okay.
Or 13-year span or whatever. Yeah, maybe.
Because their defense has been atrocious for a lot of times. Yeah, they've had times.
Yeah, I mean, you could say the same. Peyton had some bad defenses in Indianapolis as well.
He had that kind of curse with him. But it's just he's a fascinating guy to me because he is truly one of the best of all time, and I'm not taking that away from him.
It's just when you think of the greatest of all times, like the top 10 quarterbacks, you can think of one year where you're like, oh, that was his year. And, of course, the Super Bowl year where the Saints were the best story in sports, that was probably the year.
But in terms of individual accomplishments, not having that MVP, it feels like maybe we're not appreciating him enough. And that year's a hindsight year because going into the Super Bowl, no one thought they were going to win.
It was all Peyton. True.
And the onside kick, the famous onside kick. That was a great onside kick.
Also, I want to ask the NFL. We acknowledge all these individual records by players, by teams even.
We don't ever get to stop the game and award something to a referee for being like, you just broke the all-time record for holding calls. And who would get that? Probably Kleep Blakeman.
Yeah, probably Kleep Blakeman. Triplet would probably be the all-time lead leaguer in like in uh

consecutive pass interference calls that were overturned on replay by the way we didn't even

mention the fact that Drew Brees actually if you look at it last year might be his statistically

best year when he had uh he had an incredible year last year 32 touchdowns and five interceptions

oh yeah it went up against Patrick Mahomes so he basically just every year that he has a great year

it's like oh and here's another guy and here's another has he had the down year though

Thank you. oh, yeah, it went up against Patrick Mahomes.
So he basically just every year that he has a great year, it's like, oh, and here's another guy, and here's another guy. Has he had the down year, though? He's had a couple years where he's had more interception.
Like 2014, I'm looking at it right now, he had 33 touchdowns, 17 interceptions, the Saints went 7-9. I don't remember.
That's still pretty good. Oh, no, he's been phenomenal.
I mean, you don't get to 540 touchdown passes and have a really really bad year he has been the model of like consistency and great I'm just saying it's weird to look at a guy like that who's breaking all these records now and not have one specific year where it's like head and shoulders he was the best in the league I think he's just always been in that discussion for so long that like the longevity of it. He should get like a second place forever trophy.
I never felt like Drew Brees was was undervalued by anybody because everyone likes him. No, you're not going to find anybody out there that's like Drew Brees sucks.
Fuck him. I hate him.
He's awful. You can find somebody out there that'll say that about the best quarterbacks of all time.
But I've never heard somebody take like an anti Drew Brees stat. So I agree.
He's always been in the conversation of best passers during the time in football where we've had the best quarterbacks. Yeah, no, I'm not.
This isn't anti-Drew Brees. It's just interesting to look at a guy like that who has been so accomplished and is one of the best of all time but not have that one year where it's like, oh, he was so much better than everyone else.
And he got a shout-out from Tom Brady who congratulated Drew. He says, passing Peyton Manning on any list is impressive.
So that was Tom Brady giving himself a little pat on the back and Jameis Winston a pat on the back for passing Peyton Manning in all sorts of statistical categories this season in those graphics that we've seen. It's going to be interesting because I actually think besides Patrick Mahomes, if he plays for like 15 years, there's actually not a ton of guys who are like it's not one of those

540 is not one of those numbers especially

Drew Brees and Tom Brady still playing

that you can look and say well that's going to be

passed in like because remember when

when Brett Favre had it

it was like well Peyton's going to pass it and when Peyton

had it was like well Drew Brees or Tom Brady are going to pass

it and now it's essentially

let's not count out Ryan Fitzpatrick on any of these

Aaron Rodgers is almost

200 behind so yeah I think it's

Thank you. It was like, well, Drew Brees or Tom Brady are going to pass it.
And now it's essentially. Let's not count out Ryan Fitzpatrick on any of these.
Aaron Rodgers is almost 200 behind. So, yeah, I think it's going to probably be Jameis' award eventually, right? They should just name it after Jameis already.
Jameis being the all-time touchdown passing leader is going to be the greatest. That will be the greatest Thursday night football game against, I don't know who they're going to play.
Probably the Panthers. Yeah, they're going to play the Panthers and they're going to lose by 20.
But he's going to throw four touchdowns and six interceptions. Six interceptions.
All right, the other part of the game, Booger. Shout out Booger for finally doing a Telestrator penis that we hadn't had in a long time.
We called it, right? We said that we were overdue for Telestrator penises. And he delivered.
He gave us a chode. Yeah.
He gave us a real fat one. A real fat, like a real choker of a dick that he drew and he put the balls on there too yeah he did and booger and uh yeah i mean i feel like that was a good way of just keeping the conversation off of any mistakes he might have made last night it's like hey here's here's the the telestrator dong that buys me at least a few more months here yep um anything else from i mean the cults that we're not i don't think we're gonna talk it's the season that they did andrew luck retired yeah that's where we said that's the best the best thing you can say about the cults is they still played a season after andrew luck retired which feels like they were in the hunt for a little bit yeah for for a hot minute they were what were you gonna say i'm surprised you didn't start the show with this but you guys lost your fantasy uh matchup.
Despite Drew Brees' impressive. It was funny when PFT was like, hey, to show how great we are at fantasy, I didn't even have the login on anything but my computer.
My computer was at work. And I was like, well, we must be close.
And Hank was like, well, you're 30 points behind at the end of the game. So whatever.
Fantasy season's over. Who cares? You guys owe me $250.
We already paid you. No thank you.
Here's a fun little stat. This was sent to me from Xi Jin Pimp, so it's a good stat.
I actually double-checked it on the ESPN playoff simulator, so this is legit. Xi Jin Pimp? Yeah, Xi, like the president of China.
Oh, Xi Jin Pimp. It is a playoff scenario.
That is not unlikely. We could get into a situation where week 17 the Texans and the Titans could mutually agree to tie each other and both teams would make the playoffs.
But who would get the... What? Who would get the win the AFC South? Why wouldn't you do that? Because of what I just asked.
One of them has to win the AFC South and get a home playoff game. So one of the teams wouldn't do it.
So it would be if Tennessee beats New Orleans, Tampa Bay beats Houston, and Pittsburgh loses to either Baltimore or the Jets, it would set up a Week 17 playoff scenario where whoever won would eliminate the other team. But who would get AFC South champion if they tie? I don't have it pulled up right now.
Got it. So I can pull it up and let you know exactly what that would look like.
But could you – first of all, it's not going to happen because if you think Mike Vrabel is going to go into a game and, like, shake somebody's hand and say, hey, let's just tie. Right.
And also the playoff game. Yeah.
Mike Vrabel would probably say that he would tie you and then just run the ball down your throat derrick henry just a hundred times in the game um what so we also have by the way if you want to watch our interview coming up with coach fisher barstoolgold.com slash pmt we have news out of detroit the matt patricia bob quinn marriage is going on for another year. So congratulations to the Lions

after everything we said last week

or on Sunday

and how that franchise is just

the saddest franchise in the world.

Well, you get to keep being sad.

Yeah, they're calling her Marth Vader

from Martha Ford. I like that nickname a lot.

I saw a rumor that Jeff Bezos might have

been kicking the tires around about

Alliance about the Lions, but

buying the Lions. He like that nickname a lot.
I saw a rumor that Jeff Bezos might have been kicking the tires around about a Lions team. About the Lions? About buying the Lions.
I hope not. He's the guy now where he's mystery team, where he has so much money that he can just, every team, every fan base can just hope that Jeff Bezos will come in and buy their team.
With their values going up because there's such a rich guy out there that might be interested. Jeff Bezos is the new Las Vegas.
Yeah. Or the new Los Angeles for NFL teams.
As long as you have that open space out there, you can dangle it. I think Eminem should buy the lines.
All of D12 should team up. I don't know if he has enough money to do it, but that would be a great one.
Kid Rock and Eminem together? What about the other D11? You don't think that they can put together a...

Those chicks don't even know the name of that band.

Ooh, nice.

That's a deep cut right there.

That was a deep cut.

Kid Rock and Eminem together.

People forget, too, by the way, that Belichick was...

His three first seasons were losing seasons.

So Matt Patricia is the next Belichick.

Got it.

Marth Vader also said that...

I think the line coming from the ownership is they liked the progress before the injuries happened so that's a classic one where it's like hey we would have been good so and they got fucked by the refs and they got fucked by the refs yeah so they should have another win but you have to don't have and they've got the quarterback of the future with with sloater on the team being being fucked by the refs as the Lions, you have to write that in. In your statistical analysis of how the Lions are going to go, their season is going to go, you have to put at least one loss of we're going to get fucked by the refs.
Is Bob Seger still alive? Yes. It should just be all of get Ted Nugent involved to purchase the team.
Maybe Jalen Rose. Yeah.
Yeah. That would be good.
We get the whole the whole the whole gang together. All start.
Never. All these guys never met.
They don't know each other. Yeah.
But Gilbert, you can get in there. The guy that owns Little Caesars.
Yeah. That son of a bitch.
Whoever owns four. Wait, no.
No. OK.
It's already there. Marth Vader.
I like that. Marth Vader is good.
We should sell Marth Vader T-shirts. We should.
All all right let's do some hot seat cool thrown and we'll get to jeff fisher hank why don't you start uh my hot seat is anyone that doesn't like their job and uses taking a shit to get out of it so i don't know who this guy is dave seschio but it was a tweet so i'm gonna take it as true word fact new downward tilting toilets are designed to become unbearable to sit on after five minutes and the main benefit of them is to improve employee productivity so they're building toilets that if you sit on them and you're sitting on there you know 10 15 minutes you're like your legs don't fall asleep it just is a striking pain and you have to get up this It should be so illegal. Unless it's an NFL franchise because then you're doing wall sits while you take a shit so it builds up your quad strength, which I like.
If you really want your employees to not spend a long time shitting, you should just install cell phone jamming services into your stalls. That way you can't sit on their...
Why am I saying this out loud? Because I don't want to speak this into existence i feel like the art of going to the back like i even in even high school even in high school before i had a cell phone like i was still just like let me get out of class and like go take a shit it's a mental break yeah yeah so i don't even know that the cell phone thing would work as much like people back in the day before someone's existed we're still taking long shit breaks. Am I wrong? No, you're not wrong.
It's where, like, I mean, just think about anyone, your father growing up. Right.
That was like, hey, dad's in there. Right.
Let him be. Read the newspaper.
Yeah. I would play snake on my phone.
He's going in there for an hour. Yeah.
Yeah, taking a nice long bathroom break, it's one of the small things in life that everybody looks forward to over the course of the day. people right now are listening to us as they're shitting right now absolutely and you've probably been listening so long that if you were on one of these advanced downward facing toilets which sounds like a yoga move you would have cracked your face yeah yeah in the stall also this seems like it's it opens up lawsuit city for more toilet accidents yes it's like more people will fall off the toilet don't fuck with our toilets it's like all we got it's all we got is the workers of america unite we can't have this happen it might actually make me join a union solidarity if this is if this is how it's gonna go there is a lot better feelings but there's no better feeling than just standing up and like falling over because you've been sitting in the toilet for like yeah you get the like the creases in your legs yeah legs.
Yeah. Tingly bombs.
That's as close as I'll ever get to serving in the military. It's just the feeling that I get after taking a really long shit and feeling too tired to walk.
I get the mark on my face because I'm just like this the whole time. Oh, yeah.
You walk out of the toilet and you've got a big... It looks like your forehead's like Peyton Manning after he's been wearing his helmet all day because your head's just been resting in your hand.

I've seen that a few times.

Yeah.

So let us shit.

Yeah.

Just let me shit.

My cool throne is Boner Dogs.

Oh.

We didn't talk about this on the show on Monday, but we actually, Triggs, made a movie poster

for Boner Dogs, which you can buy.

Get it framed.

I feel like it's a must-have.

We're going to go in the studio.

It's just a must-have for the Christmas season if you're in college. Like, you know, no more Ninja Turtles, no more pizza poster.
No more Bob Marley. Boner Dodge.
No more teachers' dirty looks. No more Belushi.
Boner Dodge. No more The Kiss.
Actually, The Kiss is a must-have because if you bring two chicks back to your dorm room, you know they're going to make out. Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah. They see that.
They're like, oh, we can do that? That's legal? Get one of those Pink Floyd posters Where it's all the Naked chicks from behind With the albums on it Even though you've never Hasn't a Pink Floyd How many of those People do you think Are dead now The Pink Floyd ass Yeah There's at least Three Pink Floyd asses That are dead Think about that Next time you put that poster I think that That's fucked up If you're on a poster Like that That transcends generations You never really Floyd poster, that's for sure. You're looking at a dead person's ass.
There's like an oral history of the Pink Floyd ass poster. There's an old saying that you really die the last time somebody looks at your ass.
That's when you're really done. What if you've never had an ass your entire life? Same.
Theoretically. If you don't have an ass, you should get ass implants, Hank.
Well, we have the squat rack now. By the way, this...
So I'm going to go the all-natural route. Yeah, unassembled, but yeah.
This is from 1996. It's two-dimensional.
It's assembled. 1996 is when this poster came out.
So what do we got? 23 years? Am I doing my math right? They're probably in their, what, mid-20s, late-20s? There's six women there. I'm saying two Pink Floyd asses are dead.
Think about that. I don't want to think about that.
Yep. Think about it.
Okay, PFT, what do you got? Also, short sleeve. Our part of my take is short sleeve sweatshirts.
Okay. Nice.
Those are on the cool throne. Nice.
All right. My hot seat.
Well, Hank had one of them already with the shitting thing. I all fired up about that hot seat is going to be former Denver Bronco Clinton Portis and former San Francisco 49er Carlos Rogers who got busted for taking part in a medical fraud situation going on I think they were like in the DC area when it was happening whatever it's not important what team were around at the time.
But I guess that they were submitting claims on behalf of old NFL players to get medical devices that didn't actually exist and getting kickbacks for them. Yeah, they actually got like a horse X-ray.
I was reading it. They got a horse X-ray.
They got one of those. Is it sonar? It was like an electric stimulation thing.
The pregnant sonar thing? They essentially got... I should know this.
Is that what it is? They got an athlete's version of a Sibian. Basically, they just ordered a shitload of Sibians that don't exist, and they're getting taken.
I think they got arrested for it, and they're in a lot of hot water. So I hope that's not true, because a former Denver Bronco, Clinton Portis, was one of my favorite players growing up.
Yep. And former San Francisco 49er, Carlos Rogers was also very good too.
Also hot seat, Jacksonville Jaguars, 25% of NFL PA grievances over the last couple of years have been against the Jaguars out of 32 teams. So that's pretty high rate.
It's Tom Coughlin. I guess showing up 15 minutes early to everything isn't mandated by the current collective bargaining agreement.
Turns out Tom Coughlin's a real dick. Well, never really saw that one coming.
I'll say this. Trying to get Tom Coughlin to abide by a legal piece of paper is like trying to teach a horse algebra.
He's just never going to do it. He's just going to be like, no, this collective bargaining agreement makes my team weak, so I'm not going to do it.
Right. Where's the toughness clause? He's never going to change.
Yeah. 15 minutes early to all the illegal things that we're not supposed to be doing.
Yes. My cool throne is Janoris Jenkins because he got cut by the Giants for calling a fan the R word, not the redskin word,, but the other, the real R-word, during practice.
So he tweeted the R-word at a fan during practice. He got cut, and then he got signed by the Saints after explaining that calling somebody the R-word is a hood thing.
Cultural. So it's cultural.
It's like when Derrick Rose said, like, kill yourself. Kill yourself.
That's what we, it's slang from Chicago. Everyone says that, actually.
No, everyone actually does say kill yourself. You say it all the time around the office.
Yeah, people say it all the time. So, Genovesh Jenkins, the Jackrabbit, which is one of the best nicknames in sports, I think.
Yes. Jackrabbit Jenkins is on the Saints.
Okay. So, the Saints are ready to go and maybe need some, like, you know, maybe a couple classes to teach people how to not say these things.
I'm sure the Saints will react rationally when Roger Goodell is suspended. They got this.
Yes. Yeah, the whole Saints.
Sean Payton, you just got suspended. Actually, what Sean Payton should do is he should just get a bunch of players that he thinks might be suspended soon and that way they have more causes to rally.
Yes. Yes.
All right. My hot seat is guys with big dicks.
Ah, fuck. I had to say there you go, guys.
Wait, that was a setup. Jason Derulo.
They CGI'd his large penis out of Cats, the new movie. So I'm a Jason Derulo has a large dick truther.
But as guys who you can't have that happen to you. People need to know.
I'm a big truther on this because in that Instagram picture he put up, he definitely chubbed up. Oh, yeah.
He did some prep work before he put those pants on. There's porn playing behind the camera.
I just know that this probably explains why you can never see my penis in any pictures because it's been CGI'd out. The internet CGI's it all out.
It sucks. They're trying to take this out of it.
So that's totally why my small penis never shows up. There's no bigger thrill in my life than going through airport security while I'm wearing MeUndies and the alarm goes off on the other side and the stick figure has a box around the crotch.
I'm like, yeah, that's right. I got a dick.
I was going to say- Or when we take pictures and our phone's in our pocket, but it looks just far enough to like it looks like you have a hog. Oh, yeah.
I have a tin when the phone's got it. No, when, yeah, where the phone or I have a tin in, and everyone's like, oh, my God.
It's like, yeah, dude. You didn't think I was packing? And they're like, actually, that's my fucking huge Costanza wallet because I'd never throw anything out.
Or when Greeny gets a picture when he's got the Johnsonville brats just in his pocket ready to read and add at any given time. Yep, and a condom on them.
But he also has a big penis. He probably puts a condom on the Johnsonville brat before he puts it on the grill.
And then he puts the tinfoil down on the grill before he puts the condom sausage on it. To make sure it's all clean.
No germs anywhere. My cool throne is Jim Boylan because he's never going going to be fired and he coaches with faith he coaches by faith that's what he keeps saying the bulls lost they had a 26 point lead last night they lost and uh yeah he's he is the worst coach in the nba he might be the worst coach in the history of basketball what does coaching by faith mean uh it means that he's really stupid but if you say i coach by faith you throw out all the numbers, all logic means any players get crossed up.

Yeah.

Anything that makes perfect sense.

He can just be like,

no,

I don't do that.

I coach by faith.

Last night he called a timeout PFT with,

they were up 26.

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And then he had no timeouts. So yeah, that's not, that's not ideal.
They stopped. By the way, that's what Faith does.
For people who don't understand, who don't watch basketball, because I know the NBA ratings are down, they stopped the game in between quarters. So there is a timeout coming.
So there is a timeout that's naturally. A big one.
A long one. And how much time was left? 33 seconds.
33 seconds to stop the run. You know what? He's such a fucking idiot.

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He's actually a genius because he hired just a walking, talking moron

that we could all be mad at so that we're not mad at him. Yeah, that's it.
I mean, coaching with your gut is good. Coaching with faith is like coaching with somebody else's gut.
Like with God's gut. I actually, listen, as someone who does a lot of things with, you know, makes a lot of bets with faith, there is an element of like, hey, if I just, maybe it will be different this time.
But it's never different. You always just lose.
He just, but it may be, it'll be different. He coaches with delusion.
Yeah. It's going to be, it's going to work out this time.
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He's come to visit us first of all i don't want to go like all jewish grandmother on you here but you're too skinny you've lost too much weight you need to eat well you know i've been you tracked me down a couple times i was up in the mountains of montana all fall i hadn't seen the freaking mountains or Montana in a fall for 20 years. So I made the most of it.
I was up. It was really cool.
I spent some time in Wyoming with a buddy who's a fish and game guy. And I was with a wildlife biologist, believe it or not.
And we were stalking elk, you know, up at 11,000 feet. So I got a lot of cool stuff done.
Okay. So we haven't, I don't think we've had you on since this became a question on this podcast.
Hank, our producer, you know Hank. Yep.
He thinks that he can catch a fish with his bare hands like a bear. Okay.
What kind of fish? Like a salmon. A live fish? The inspiration.
I'm sure you can probably get one that's floating down the river. Yeah, not a dead fish.
I'm sure you've done this too, but I got in like a mode of a few weeks where I was just watching Planet Earth, any chance I got. And there was a segment about in Alaska during the salmon run or whatever you call it when the bears just go out.
And there's so many salmon that they're literally just going around just picking up with their bare hands. And I said in my head, if I was in the place where that bear is, I could definitely go in there, grab a fish, take it home.
You probably need to use your feet and then use your hands and just kind of scoop it up on shore. But you probably have a shot.
Well, no, I don't consider scooping it up on shore. I'm going to football act okay you gotta have some big ass hands if you grab all those fish they'll knock them down and then then you can then i'll tell you the last time i was up there which was last fall we were fly fishing up there and and i was just i was down river and my son brandon was up above me with a guide and i was walking back to the drift boat and i looked and down up down this current something's floating and i i'm looking trying to figure out what it is it's a it's a grizzly it's equivalent of a grizzly it's a brown bear and it's got his feet up in the on the surface and it's's floating like kids without a raft,

but just kind of rafting down the river.

Holy shit.

Like a lazy river for a bear.

Yeah, and I yelled at them, and then they look, and they yell,

and this thing hauls ass off, you know, takes off,

gets its feet in the ground and takes off, run the other way.

But you could do that.

Okay.

You could just float down the river.

Damn.

That would be easier than catching a fish with your hands.

You're kind of bearing the lead here, which is you scared a bear. Your presence.
Up there, it's so different. They're not crazy about people.
They will run from you up there. It's different in the Montana-Wyoming area where they actually are beginning to now become more aggressive and attack you.
Last time we had you on the show, I think it was right before the Super Bowl. It was the week before, and we talked about a bear encounter that you had.
And I asked Jared Goff about that at media night. I said, do you feel partially responsible? Like, coach is no longer your head coach, and instead he's out getting attacked, possibly killed by wildlife.
He said that he felt bad about that, but he knew that he was confident in your ability to escape a bear attack. So my question is, have you had any more dangerous encounters with bears? Not dangerous, but this was cool.
Back in Wyoming just a month or so ago, I cruised into a fishing game in Cody, Wyoming to meet up with some buddies to go out and head out in the wilderness. And I walked in there and was just talking to the people in the front office.
And one of the guys comes in, he goes, Hey, coach, what's going on? I go, nothing, man, what are you doing? He goes, come back here, check this out. So he takes me back through the, you know, into this big kind of garage-like area.
And they had a, they had a truck and then behind it, they had a trailer hooked up to it. And they had just trapped a male grizzly bear.
That's probably about four years old. So old so up there if they become a nuisance they'll either trap them or most of the time trap them but when they get them in the cage they dart them and then they'll tranquilize them and then they'll do you know a physical and then chip them and do that but anyway i got in there and this thing was probably like you guys you know sometimes remember the days you wake up in the and you're bouncing off the walls? Yeah, yeah.
Okay. Yeah, when I was like six.
Yeah. Okay.
Days a week. It's a long time.
Was it? Oh, but that's how this thing was still drugged. It wasn't quite together yet.
It was just kind of coming out of us, bouncing the back of this cage. And they said, yeah, yeah.
So I reached in. I grabbed his hind foot and felt its claws and stuff like that.
And it was pretty cool. Like knives.
Oh, yeah, yeah. It's an impressive animal.
But anyway, they'll bring it to you, and then they'll take it out, and they'll transport it and transplant it, actually, and then release it out someplace away where the people are. You are definitely an outdoorsman.
I get the feeling that if we just dropped you into Yellowstone with a knife, you could probably survive for a couple months. I just walked to my cabin.
That's how close we are to Yellowstone. And it's different.
You've got to have a tremendous sense of respect for the outdoors, especially some of the stuff. I mean, you talk about fishing in Alaska and the things that you see.
The Mother Nature. Nature is amazing.
It's an amazing force and unpredictable. And you've got to be careful and be with the right people.
But anyway, yeah, you can kick it up on the shore with your feet or your hands, and that counts. I think he's got a palm, but he's got to maintain possession of the fish for this to count.
All right, so the other side of your life, football. You miss it, I'm assuming.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, I've been watching it real close.
So have you been watching the NFL in college every single weekend? Yeah, just about, yeah. Who's your MVP? Is it Lamar? You know, had you asked me yesterday before the game, I'd say clearly Lamar.
But that is an amazing feat. And I know what he did last night, what Drew did last night, is an accumulation of some amazing things over the years.
But that is really hard to do what he did. And you're not going to give somebody an award just based on a single game performance.
Right, he was injured a little this year. But yeah, Lamar, what they got going, of course, what they got going.
It's just amazing to watch the dual-threat quarterback and watch them come in and then they disappear for a while and then they come back in, but there's never been one like Lamar. You can tell.
The defenses are outnumbered. That's the idea.
I remember when we were doing the RG3 trade with St. Louis and Washington with Mike Shanahan talking to Mike about it.
And that was quite a trade that we executed, particularly because we had a quarterback at Sam Bradford. But Mike kept saying, I've got to do this, I've got to do this, because it gives me a one-man advantage.
And it basically does. You're outnumbered on defense when you're playing such an athlete like that.
And now you can't even, with Lamar, you can't even spy the dude because there's no athlete on your defense that's equivalent to him. You just can't get him down.
And so, yeah, he's had a great year. It's been really fun to watch.
That's interesting because if there is an athlete that's good enough to spy Lamar Jackson, they're going to move him to either playing wide receiver or running back or quarterback, so he's not even going to be a defensive player. Yeah, he won't fit in the system.
And, you know, it's just everybody's trying different things. And it's interesting to watch, you know, watch the defensive minds and see what they try to do.
And, you know, week after week after week, you know, from Wade Phillips a few weeks ago, that was hard to watch. And then, you know, even Greg, you know, Greg Williams here, who has some players hurt, missing Mosley and things like that, about 42 or whatever.
And it's just hard to do. So they'll be hard to stop.
It worked in the playoffs last year. Whatever Anthony Lynn put together with putting seven defensive backs or however many it was on the field at any given time, that seemed to slow him down in the playoffs last year.
If it were up to you, if we're talking defensive coordinator Jeff Fisher, if you're game planning for Lamar Jackson, what would you do to stop him? Well, I'm not going to tip my hat, but, you know, you've got to do a lot of different things. Give him the flow.
You've got to make that ball go out to the boundary if he's going to throw it. And he doesn't.
They do such a great job. All his big completions are inside the numbers and down the field.
And, you know, you just got to give an ever-changing look and hope that you can, one, get him in third down and maybe get off the field. But it's definitely a situation where if you can hold him to three, field goals are wins against the Ravens right now.
Yeah. So what so actually it's interesting you bring up third down because the other thing the ravens are doing is basically just not punting they're going for it on fourth down all the time watching football now from your perspective outside of the game if you do get back in the game are there things that you would do differently like maybe being more aggressive on fourth down and saying hey we, the analytics have changed.
People have started to get the numbers into the game a little bit more and do things a little differently, go for two in different situations. Have you done that? Yeah, I mean, we've always done that.
Yeah, I mean, the analytic thing is obviously it's trending right now. We saw what it did for the Browns a few years ago.
It ruined the organization because that's what they stood behind. But everybody's interested in that.
And basically analytics are all based on past, based on past history. And everything's different.
Everything's subjective in the past. You don't know why the decision was made or who was hurt or who was not hurt or where the momentum was.
And it's objective based on objectivity, based on the past. But, you know, the game is so subjective right now.
I mean, we flip over to the officials and, you know, it's got to be clear and obvious and no one knows what clear and obvious is. It's different.
So there's a gut field that you have to rely on when you're either going for it on fourth down or you're faking a punt or, you know, and those type of things. And, you know, you can't take that away.
You can't rely on some guys down the hall sitting in a room, you know, punching on a computer, going back and finding information back from 15 years ago. It doesn't work.
I mean, I saw it firsthand in a game. I was familiar with, there was an individual helping a head coach, and his responsibility was to handle fourth down, and, you know, he was the analytic guy.
And ironically, in this game, there were two fourth down opportunities that came up and and he he didn't go for one and then went for the next and in my opinion they were both absolutely wrong but he was it was based on what the analytics recommendation is it's got to be it's got to be one of those things where whenever you see analytics it happens in baseball as well where i the numbers are good, and the numbers make everyone a lot smarter. But at the end of the day, there's an element.
I think that was actually happening in the Belichick and Saban documentary where Belichick was like, you can throw all the analytics out. We just didn't tackle.
Sometimes it's like, hey, if we don't want it more, if we don't tackle, or if we just don't play the assignment that we're supposed to play, the numbers can't help you. Well, yeah, but who's to say that the quarterback didn't give it up and Aaron Rodgers-like pulled the defense off sides on fourth down and it converted, so here's another notch in the conversion.
But see, that's the thing about it, and you just have to be real careful when you're relying on it. Now, what it is's a convenient excuse well analytics say go for it so i went for it and we didn't convert so it's okay get off my ass right you know hard data to sell the fans on why you made a certain decision it's like well don't be mad because the probability said that that was the right thing to it's true what you're saying like the i think the you know whatever the i can't remember what the exact percentage is for a two-point conversion.
It's like 51%, 52%, something like that. For the Bears, it's less.
I know that because their offense has struggled all year. So it's like you can't play exactly those numbers if your team – and for the Ravens, it's more.
Like the Ravens will get a two-point conversion. The Ravens will get three yards, two yards more than 51% of the time.
Well,, the Ravens are averaging I don't know what it is, but 38 points a game. It's crazy.
So why not go for it on flip down? Yeah, no, it's true. Where the Bears are trying to win 13-10, you know? And hope that you got a kicker that can kick a field goal.
So it's all different. You just have to watch.
That's a good point. No, it's okay.
The team that I, you know, I nashville right now and they're they're playing a kicker yeah you know it's hard actually funny enough their best kicker this year has been cody parkey go figure that's wild auburn university yeah i sat with his mom and dad for two years watching cody kick at auburn when my son played i mean i'm a cody fan Did anybody ever say that that ball was tipped? Yes, people tried to, but I don't care. He stunk all year.
Okay, well, that's okay. We don't have to go back in time.
It was tipped by the post. Okay, twice.
Let's do some story time because you told some great stories last time you were on the show. Let's go back to that Super Bowl run.
Okay. So the playoff, so we did the Music City Miracle last time you were on.
The playoff run that you had when you guys went to the Super Bowl, what's one of your favorite memories from that run? Well, the first game was Buffalo, and that was a Music City Miracle. So second game, now we've got to go on the road and we go up to Indy, and we're playing Peyton up there.
And that was the one thing that happened in that game besides from us winning was we had a punt way deep to my left, and the ball was returned about 70 yards. Indy returned a punt about 70 yards.
And I had both the kicker and the punter, Al DelGroco and Craig Hendrick, come running to me going, Jeff, he stepped out of bounds. He stepped out of bounds way back here.
I go, and you can't trust players to challenge plays. And I go, are you sure? And these are two guys I could trust.
And so anyway, back then, in instant replay, the head coach had to wear a pager and it had two buttons. It had a button on the top and a button on the side.
And if you got them both together, then that would page the referee and the referee would shut it down and that was how you notified him that you want to challenge the play. So I'm standing there, page and page and page and page, and nothing's happening and they're getting ready to run.
And I run on the field and I call timeout. So anyway uh i call timeout and they review the play sure enough he stepped out of bounds the fields flipped and anyway we end up winning the game so uh two days after the game in the mail i get this i get this um this piece of glass covered this like like a shelf and in case emergency break glass and they It had a shop towel in it for a for you know for your flag yeah i think so going all right this is really cool but hey you know what we got to go down play jacksonville again okay so we beat indy up there we go down to play jacksonville uh jacksonville's 14 and 2 their only two losses have come to whomever tennessee Right.
Okay, so, and they just smoked. Hard to beat a team three times.
Of course it is. And they just said smoke.
They smoked Miami in their first round. Tamarino's last game.
Yes. Yes.
Nice going. Real? Yeah.
That was a really bad, people forget, Tamarino, Jacksonville put up like 60. It was, 63, I think.
Nothing or seven. It's sad.
So anyway, keep this in mind.

There's only one week between championship game and Super Bowl.

Last time.

There's always been two weeks.

So could you imagine that happening now?

I would love it because Big Cat's birthday is on January 30th.

Mine's on the 31st.

Occasionally the Super Bowl would be on her birthday.

And you guys would be all an ass across the country in your van trying to get down for media week. Your Super Bowl was my birthday, January 30th.
I had a birthday party. Yeah, it was snowing outside.
You had a birthday party for my birthday? Yeah. Thank you.
We hadn't even met yet. It was a Super Bowl party.
It was great. Why don't they do that? Bring it back to January 30th.
What did you serve? Anything in particular? Domino's pizza and two liters of orange soda. Perfect.
Hot dogs and popcorn. Nice.
Your dad got you a popcorn machine. Yeah, and he pretended that we all got tickets to the game.
That's so cool. Yeah.
One week. Well, you guys can talk about this later.
I'm going to speak over them now. Yeah.
One week between Super Bowl or conference championship game

and Super Bowl. So the week

before we play Jacksonville down

there, we got to send our advance crew

to Atlanta and have them

come in there and check out the hotel and do all that stuff

because you don't know. If you win, you're going to

be there the day after. So you do all

this stuff in advance. So we send our crew down there.

Jacksonville sends their crew down

there. And their crew was a little

this is the feedback I got. They were like, no, no,

no, no, no, no. Coach Coughlin wants the rooms

I'm just... this stuff in advance.
So we send our crew down there. Jacksonville sends their crew down there.
And their crew was a little, this is the feedback I got. They were like, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Coach Coughlin wants the rooms to be like this. And this is how we're going to do the hotel.
And they were kind of like, you know, this, this game really doesn't even matter. We've already got it one type of thing.
Right. And so anyway, we, we win the game and, um, we go down.
It was a mess because we had to go from Nashville just to Atlanta, but Atlanta's frozen. So I had a meeting the night after the game, and the players come in.
You've got to do tickets and all that kind of stuff. You can imagine this.
The day after the championship game, they're going down for Super Bowl week, and Monday, media day is Tuesday. So I keep the coaches behind.
We game plan. I go down with the with the players we have this week and it's just a mess and and we can't practice outside all this stuff and so Friday press conference okay and it's the last question now this is where the press conference where both coaches dressed up so coach Vermeule and I are dressed up and you get to take your picture by the you know the lombardi trophy and so last question out of the back to me i said yeah and uh he goes uh steve what's it like to play in three different venues in three years or something like that and i said well my name's jeff and and i said it's actually for if you would include Altel Stadium in Jacksonville.
Because that was like another home for us. Because we had just won there twice that year.
And we've been winning there. You own that stadium.
And that didn't go over very well with the Jacksonville Jaguar fans. But, I mean, if they don't like it, then beat you.
Yeah. So what did I – I just saw the Jacksonville quarterback, coincidentally, in Oakland.
He said he saw more middle fingers. Oh, Minshew.
Minshew. Okay, then he had it in his lifetime.
Well, that's how it was every year after I went down to Jacksonville because I had told everybody, the world, that Jacksonville would just be another home place for us. Yeah.
All right. Yeah.
So, yeah, that was it was kind of some cool stuff to happen back then. Did Dick Vermeule cry during that media day? I don't know.
We were separate. Oh, have you ever seen him cry? And I never got to I never actually I didn't get to get to him when the game was over.
I couldn't get to him to shake his hand. And so, you know, obviously we talked after, but I got him well after the game.
Do you ever regret wearing that vest during the Super Bowl? Yeah, I did. I mean, it looked cool.
I paid for one of my kids' tuition with it. With the vest? Oh, hell yeah.
Let me see it. Look at, that's the vest.
Yeah, I remember the vest. It was a starter.
said hey we got this will you wear this and i said yeah well uh wait do i have to wear it it's indoors wait that was the first time you'd worn that vest yeah oh come on they came to me coach how could you do that well they paid me for that i actually don't mind the game right there that's it the game was decided. I still have it.
You got a new building here. You want it? We'll put it up.
Absolutely. We'd frame it.
Yes. Without a doubt.
Out of the two teams where there are openings right now, it's Washington, D.C. and Carolina.
Which of those two situations would be more attractive to somebody? Well, I think both of them are attractive. You have decent rosters on, this is just my opinion, not going to pick one or the other, but there's decent rosters in both places.
Both of them have somewhat of a quarterback situation. It's a little bit in flux, so they're comparable.
You don't know what's's going to happen with cam you got a young guy that showed he can do some things and that's also the case there i mean you got the the horrific injury and then you got kate haskins now you got haskins there so you know there's um there's a lack of stability at that position and you know and i'll bring that, you know, when I was out during the 2011 season, the year that I took off, when I did come back, I was really fortunate that I had an option to choose. And I narrowed that down to two.
It was Miami, St. Louis.
And I ultimately made the decision based on one reason and one reason alone, and that was St. Louis because of the quarterback situation.
Because at that point, Sam Bradford was coming into the second year. Sam was a franchise quarterback.
He had a great, great rookie season. He did.
So here I come in, and previously to my arrival there, no team had lost more games in a five-year span than the Rams. In NFL history is what I was told.
We call that the curse of Chris Long. Yeah, and so, of course it is.
So they're coming off 2-14. I come in, and it was a bad football team.
And we started building and building, and so we're all excited because we got Sam Bradford. And year one year one we were seven eight one four one and one of the division with sam i mean we're on our way guess what happened in year two got hurt and guess what happened year three got hurt okay and so you know you're you end up who knows what happened had sam not gotten hurt but you know that's just the business and so but if someone's going to choose they're going to want to go in and choose whichever situation is most stable at the quarterback position or who's got somebody earmarked in mind to go develop.
I'm curious about this because we're talking about the coaching position in the NFL, and there's always turnover, and it's always Black Monday when the season ends. You've been on side where you have you know had two times where it's kind of ended in tennessee and then in la i'm gonna go on the record here it was my choice in tennessee okay so in in a situation though even so both situations do you kind of know do you feel that maybe something's going on in the in the in the building like are these teams that are coming down the stretch here in the last two weeks and they kind of know, like, hey, this is it? Like, is it hard to get players to get up and to keep everyone kind of focused? It's not at all.
You don't want to say it's their job, but players aren't going to go out and go through pretty good warm-ups and step on the field for the opening kickoff, not prepared to play and not play hard. Now, I can watch games and say, okay, this team is playing hard, but they lack toughness.
Okay. I can see that, but everybody's going to play hard.
Now, I mean, a great example is just the stuff that you read today with respect to the Falcons, and they're playing for Dan Quinn's job. Matt Ryan wants him to sit down.
Yeah, he does. That's a cool thing.
So, you know, they're all going to go out and play, but at the end of the day, it's out of their control. And, you know, nobody wants to see anybody, well, at least no one in the profession wants to see anybody get relieved

of their duties i you know there's there's those i think there's those that are out there that kind of like it because it's stuff to talk about and i told you he was going to get in so-and-so and they're going to guess who's going to be it's a it's it's part of sports now i mean you're looking at us not us no you're not talking about i'm not talking sometimes we're on a fire everyone Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Never said that they should fire anyone.

And what the reality is is that these guys have given their heart and soul in every moment of their time to try to win football games for their team and for the owner, let alone themselves. And if they're doing it right, personally, you should be the third reason on the list that you're trying to win games.
You're doing it for your football team and your owner. It's not a self-serving thing.
But you've got to understand from a fan perspective, when your team stinks, the only recourse you have is to just say, fire everyone. That's right.
And it feels good. Oh, it does.
Fire everyone. It gives fans hope.
Yeah. It does.
But let me ask you the question. Why is it just happening every three years? Yeah, no, it's the revolving door, yeah.
So, you know, you get fans hope, and then they get their hope up for a year or two, and then everything's good, and now we cycle back again and give them more hope and more hope. And, you know, I mean, that's happened all around the league.
Look at Philadelphia right now. Like Philadelphia, as recently as a week and a half, during the game last week, they wanted to fire Doug Peterson.
This guy brought your city a super bright. Oh, yeah, but you guys didn't get the point.
He forgot how to coach. Yeah, that's right.
He woke up one morning and forgot how to coach. Right, right, yeah.
No, it's a compliment to a franchise like the Pittsburgh Steelers who just never fire coaches, and they stick through things. Yeah, but look around.
Look at Seattle and New Orleans and New England and up until a few weeks ago, you know, Carolina. But those teams that are building and planning and maintaining, that's hard to do.
Maintaining is, especially now. Well, I should say it's probably easier to maintain now than it was back when, particularly because we didn't have free agency as you know it now.
So you can go out. It's like Philly was a great example a couple years ago.
I had someone call me that was in the industry that said, the week before the trading deadline, he called me and said, I got Philly going to the Super Bowl. And I go, well, why is that? He goes, well, they just traded for JGI.
And that's the last missing piece that they needed. And I had them as a Final team but they're going to super bowl this was in october so you can build through free agency if you do it right you know but so i i think watching it now people aren't doing it right you know you all right we want to go get a free agent wide receiver that had balls last year, and hypothetically 60 of his balls were slants, and he was the pro bowl receiver, but you don't have a slant in your offense.
He's not going to fit into your offense. So don't go overspend for this guy if you don't have a place for him.
People have lost track on that, and I blame that partly on a lot of the analytic things because people are just, they're making decisions based on numbers, based on height, weight, speed, and these type of things rather than the old school guys who are sitting there watching these guys play. Okay, there's no substitute for putting tape or film or video, whatever you call it now, on and watching a guy play.
There's no substitute. And there's not enough good people in the league that are studying tape.
I would go on a limb and say, there's executives in this league that don't know how to watch tape or would rather not watch tape just get if you can go get eight opinions of player a and six of them like them and four of them don't then you like them yeah but if if it's split down the middle then you're going to go on to another player that's how it's done now and that and that's why i believe that the teams that are there year after year after year are doing the hard grunt work. It's, you know, you've got to shut the door.
You've got to sit down, and you've got to watch tape. And you've got to do that for pro free agency, for draft, for college free agency, and you've got to do it on a weekly basis.
I think there's probably room for both in the same equation. So you just described like a free agent, a wide receiver that you're thinking about bringing in.
He runs slants all the time, and your playbook doesn't feature those. I mean, what you're describing is, yeah, you can watch film and pick that up.
It's also helpful to have somebody quantify that and say, hey, 55% of his catches were on slant routes. And then, you know, okay, maybe we shouldn't give him a five-year, $35 million contract because he doesn't fit into what we do philosophically as our team

because we only run slam patterns with our outside wide receivers 5% of the time.

Right.

There's room for both.

There is, and I just brought up a hypothetical scenario to simplify it.

I mean, you've got to get the right guy.

You've got to plug the right guys into your systems.

Now, which guys are easier to plug in? Well, the further away from the ball they are, the probably easier they are to plug in your system. The wide receivers, the corners, you know, those kind of guys.
But it's – you know, people need to do the work, and I don't think the work's getting done. Have you seen – so Herm Edwards obviously went down to Arizona State, has had a lot of success.
You've seen some guys go from the pro game to the college game do you see you have any interest kind of in that or seeing maybe a program being like I'd like to even if you're not a head coach like going you know help out and be part of a college program going forward well I have I spent quite a bit of time I think since I was here last on the college game, not necessarily studying different teams, but just in general, you know, the recruiting and the compliance and all those things, the organizations and, you know, the personnel departments, who's got the bigger personnel departments, who's doing a better job, and who's getting these guys, and who's not getting the getting the guys and who's recruited and why and who's not recruited and why not. And so, yeah, there's some themes to it.
Coaching's coaching. I think there's a misconception out there, and I'm not saying this personally, but people say, well, you never recruited.
Well, someone that says something along those lines with respect to a directed towards an NFL guy that's looking at college, I think is pretty simple minded because as NFL guys, we're on college campuses all the time during the spring.

There is an element of recruiting that takes place through free agency,

but it's different.

But the point is that we get these kids four years after, three years,

or four years after they've entered the university.

And for all intents and purposes,

these guys have come into the university with clean slates looking forward to being student athletes and and leave the university with some issues you know they're that they're bringing to the nfl those are what we deal with all the time in the nfl whatever those issues are and uh you know the character background checks the character checks and all those things that you do prior to the draft. And so the attraction to me with respect to the college game is to be able to go get a young man as he enters the university before he makes some decisions that affect him later in life and help guide him with respect to those decisions.
yeah because did you see that i saw the commercial i thought it was jerry rice i got it just a clip of it but he was saying 45 000 or so many people going to universities but only whatever x the number was are going to end up in the nfl did you see that commercial recently i know that's that okay enterprise yeah oh is that. Oh, is that what it is? Okay, well, it's the truth.
Everybody steps on campus wherever to have an opportunity to get to the NFL. The fact of the matter is, in reality, is it's not going to happen.
So why not go in there and help turn these young men into mature adults? Right. That, to me to me is the attraction of college football and then competing and doing all those other things but I just think it's it's it's really been interesting for me just to stand outside and watch it my oldest son was a defensive coordinator the big sky conference this past season so I made five of his games and I was there during spring training there during camp and I got to see it all happen now granted it's a smaller conference um but it's good football and uh you know you just multiply that by 10 to the big stage the power fives and everything and and take it um so along those same lines you I saw an article that you were quoted in uh not too long ago about social media and how you're pro players using social media.
There was also the Saban Belichick clip that went around that was basically like you don't need social media. Have you seen that evolve as like, hey, look, the guys are going to do what they're going to do.
You've always kind of been like a player coach where you're going to let your guys be your guys and you don't see it as like an issue at all you know well here's a here's an example uh when uh back when when you stood up and talked about to just gen the general media relations to your football team and it's that presentation you do a training camp week day three or day four just talk about you know media relations one of the things that you say is uh how important it is to uh be positive and speak the truth and smile you know all those things on camera and you know but don't be one of those guys that is that that leak that you know that that source and things like that. Because this is what can happen.

You can tell somebody off the record something, and he tells someone who tells someone who now runs it, and now it's tracked back to you, and we've got a problem in the locker room. But the point is that that's a 30-minute conversation, maybe a reminder once or twice during the year.
That's back in the old days. Now, it's got to be a continual educational process

with respect to social media

because you've seen where social media can get you in trouble

with respect to what you say and what you don't say.

It's happened, unfortunately, this week.

A really good player in the National Football League was let go,

one that I drafted. Yeah, Jack Rappitt.
Yeah, because of something that he said or posted. And so, you know, you just have to spend more time in it.
And it's just things change. Times are changing.
You have to spend more time in it. But to get back to your question, I'm not opposed to it.
You know, I took it on my shoulders just in the last eight or ten months. And, I mean, it's important.
It's the way we operate now. But there are also a lot of other things that need to be discussed with respect to the players.
They're different. They don't – I mean, every player in the National Football League, I say every, but most of them have sleeping disorders.
And you go, oh, they got sleep apnea? No, no. They just don't go to sleep early because they're on their phone.
I have that, yes. You do? Yeah, I have that.
So how productive are you with 6 o'clock in the morning? What? Yeah. In slash A, not applicable.
Perfect. Okay.
Well, the players nowadays, they're up a little bit longer than they were in years past. So why start the day at 6 in the morning? Start it a little bit longer.
And, you know, then the other thing is that we did in St. Louis that I got a kick out of this.
Some other people picked up on. But, you know, we took their – in St.
Louis and L.A., you know, take their cell phones and put them in a basket in the hallway. You know, turn them off.
Okay? But studies have that that it's 25 minutes max in a classroom environment that's it because on minute 26 their mind is what's on my phone in the hallway and any other information is being fed to them has got no chance of sinking in yeah so give them a phone break let them go out check the phone he was kind of criticized that right people were like oh's giving – He stole that from Coach Fisher. Yeah.
Look at him. Yeah.
Yeah. When you saw that story come out, you were like, you son of a bitch.
No, I didn't. I didn't at all.
I had indirectly had some conversation. Regarding that, I want everybody to be successful, especially your alma mater, and he was there for a cup of coffee.
Very, very quick cup of coffee. Yeah.
But you want everybody to be successful there but it's just common sense things that's all it is and you know bill's i i love to sit in some of coach belichick's meetings when he's talking about that talking about it it's common sense stuff right you know don't hurt the football team put the team first and you are a member of this team and we don't need distractions. I mean, distractions will tear apart your locker room and they're debilitating and you can avoid most of them.
And it's your ability to deal with them really determines your success. And they come in all shapes and sizes and colors and everything, a distraction.
It can be a move in the franchise, It could be an arrest. It could be I want the ball more or whatever it is.
I didn't really say that. I didn't mean that, but now all of a sudden things come up, and it's how you go about dealing with them.
So one thing that I like about you is that you have very confident opinions in most things. You have a philosophy on most things.
And I want to know, like, what is your general philosophy on life? Because you seem to know exactly what you want, exactly what you don't like, about nearly every single topic that we've ever brought up to you. So, like, just from a broad background, are you a spiritual guy? Yes.
Yeah, I am. I was raised that way, I had spirituality in my life that increased over time.
Yeah. Is it a personal thing? Yeah, it's a personal thing.
Do I preach? No, I don't. But I'm family oriented.
I believe you have to take time off what you do. I was talking to somebody last night in a phone conversation that's very, very successful in his business.
And I said, have you taken some time for yourself? He goes, no, I'm too busy. I'm having fun.
But I will eventually. Well, you need to have that time.
And I always have been one that I didn't bring work home with me. Now, I may stay late at the office.
I stay until I got the work done, but I wouldn't bring it home with me. I didn't have a viewing station at my house.
I had kids in the house and stuff. So don't take it home with you.
When you leave, leave. And I always was, I wanted players and coaches, everybody to know how important family time was and off time was and be able to plan for it and take advantage of it and kind of family-oriented kind of a person because I think that's important.
It's grounding, you know. And, you know, you can be crazy and have fun.
And nobody likes it. You can ask some of the guys, Chris Long and some of the guys that I've had over time.
Nobody likes to joke around and prank and do things more than I do. I mean, I love guys having fun.
The bottom line is this. You know, anybody that comes to work has the right to park if you drive.
Or when you get out, to run in the building because you can't wait to get there because you're looking forward to coming to work. Okay, that's a good job.
And I think in time we have too many people in leadership positions that don't create that environment. Because people do their best when they're looking forward to coming to work and they're fired up.
And the thing that i learned real quickly about life in the national football league as a head coach is that you know you're all fired up you get in the office and you can't wait to get there and you're going to get all this stuff done and then for the next two hours you have that unanticipated stuff that comes up this problem or that issue or you know i said this many times, mom wants a different color escalade today, two days before a playoff game, and she wants it now. And your starting quarterback can't focus on the game plan because mom's wearing them out.
I mean, that's, so things come up and it's your ability to deal with them. And I was, and I said this, and I probably said this on this show, but when I took over as a head coach for the Houston Oilers in 1994 as interim, 95, my first year, 80% of my stuff was X's and O's, and 20% of my stuff was their stuff that happens, that comes up, they anticipated.
But you can make a case that when I left, it was flipped. Oh, yeah, with the move and everything.
Yeah. Everything.
Yeah, so what it comes down to is your job as a leader, as a head coach, is to make sure that they are emotionally, mentally, physically, spiritually, whatever, prepared for the day. Yeah, it's interesting.
That's it. Because if they are, then you're going to get the most out of them each day.
Because the coach speak is, well, we're just going to get better today. Right.
You know, well, that's easier said than done. You know, how do you go about that doing it? Well, create the environment where they can do that.
Right. You know, you look around the league.
Guys aren't being taught technique now. You look at college.
Some of the colleges that are struggling, the programs that are struggling,

they're not developing players, they're not

getting the technique that they need, they're

not emphasizing special teams or whatever it

is, there's reasons for

lack of success different places.

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SeekGeek. Okay, my last question.
I've always wondered this. The time when all the coaches get together in the league meetings, it's like sometime in April, March, you're out in Florida or Arizona, you guys all get a picture together.
Right. What is that picture like? Well, it's ever-changing, as you would imagine.
I took it for 20 years, and I have every single one of them. Okay.
Are they on your wall? I do, too. I don't.
They're not on my wall, no. I don't really have anything on my walls.
That's a perfect coach thing right there. You just have them like on the ground, leaning up against the wall.
No, I got some cool Masters flags that are signed by Masters winners on the ground ready to go up on the wall. But if there's anything I collect, it's that.
But it was really cool. I mean, you know, way back when, the head coaches that were in this league, I mean, Marty Schottenheimer and Dan Reeves, you know,

and then, you know, when I left, there were just a few left. Right.

But when you have that conversation, was there ever, like,

who gets to sit where, alpha, like, oh, I get this seat,

or I get to stand here?

No, it's usually, hey, guys, who are we missing?

You know, who's not here? Well, he's usually, hey, guys, who are we missing? You know, who's not here?

Well, he's not at the meeting, so we only have 31.

Okay, we've got 30.

Who's missing?

And then it was for years, it was, does anybody know where Gruden is?

You know?

Go check the closest Hooters.

Yeah, where's the mirror?

He's in front of a mirror making faces.

Yeah, and he'd put you in front of the sun every time, too,

so you guys look terrible.

Can't wear glasses.

Can't wear glasses, staring at the sun.

Maybe a long night, the night before a trade store.

And we're supposed to tee off in 20 minutes.

Let's go.

Because we never had anything to do with the meetings

because we always passed all the rules without the head coach.

You're just there for the picture.

Yeah, there for the picture.

Was there a gentleman's agreement that only Andy Reid would get to

wear a Hawaiian shirt?

Hawaiian shirt and shorts.

Yes. Just Andy.

Always. Always.

Alright, well coach. I got one last question.

Go ahead. So, hypothetically

if you were a former NFL coach

and you were maybe looking to

be gainfully employed in the

next football season,

would a person like that consider a general management position?

A person could, but this person wouldn't.

Oh, okay.

What about an owner?

Would they consider being an owner?

Just write that check.

Just give you a football team? Yeah.

That would be difficult. Okay.
You're turning down an ownership. You won't do that? A lot of my money has been spent on fishing.
Okay. All right.
That makes sense. Oh, I actually have one last, last question.
Your dog kisses the fish. Yes, you saw that.
Derky. Yeah, derky.
Oh, my God. His dog, when he catches a fish, he has his dog kiss the fish before catch and release.
Yeah. Yes.
How does your dog not go crazy and try to eat the fish? No, he's fine. I trained him.
I had him when he was six weeks, and I trained him. He goes wherever I go.
And he's in the drift boat. He's with me wherever.
And we catch a fish, and he gets excited. He's actually a bird dog, a retriever type, but he loves to go fishing and he just gets it.
And yeah, that actually was a picture of my fishing with my brother this fall. And I said, hey, let Dirkie kiss it.
And he called Dirk over and Dirkie kissed it. And I happened to take the picture just as this.
He's licking his sock. They're making it out.
But the point is, is that fish was back in the water in 20 seconds, man. Beautiful fish.
We released those fish. Does the fish ever get weirded out? They're like, hey, a dog's making out with me right now? I don't know.
There's probably some that I've caught a second time, but I haven't asked. Yeah, and they're like, oh, not again.
Dirk's bad breath. They go back down.
They're like, you'll never believe the afternoon I just said. You're not going to use a dog tongue as a fly.

That's for sure.

Right, right.

I just got to second base with some mammal.

Yeah, I keep trying to bite these worms and end up with my dog tongue down my throat.

Thanks for bringing Dirk up.

Yeah, that's my boy.

Dirk looks like a good dog.

Yeah.

All right.

Well, Coach, thank you so much.

Thank you, guys.

Always a pleasure.

Yeah, and good luck, and we'll keep in touch for sure.

Likewise.

Thank you.

Have a great holiday to you guys and the listeners. Thank you.
Yes. Oh, wow.
Say I love you guys. Dirk, he loves, guys.
Always a pleasure. Yeah, and good luck, and we'll keep in touch for sure.
Likewise. Thank you.
Have a great holiday, you guys and the listeners. Thank you.
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All right, let's do some segments, and then we'll get to guys on chicks.

First up, we have a This League.

So you have one and I have one.

Go ahead.

You start. So Dan Mullen.

These Leagues.

This Leagues.

Whom's Leagues.

In the SEC, Dan Mullen was talking about it.

What? This League. Whose League? Whom's Leagues.
Who's the leagues? In the SEC, Dan Mullen was talking about it. What? This league.
Whose league? Whom's the leagues? Whose league? Who's on league? First. Whose leagues is it? That's a classic Abbott and Costello routine right there.
Yeah. This is about the SEC.
Dan Mullen, head coach of Florida, the Gators, he was talking about how he likes to have fun. He doesn't get enough of a rep as being one of the fun SEC coaches.
Maybe go fuck a shark, Dan. Maybe get a picture of you fucking a shark, and then we'll start talking about you.
Well, he does have his wife kiss every player. That's true.
Well, his wife has fun. Yeah.
Fun family. Yeah, really fun family.
So he was saying he likes to have fun. Maybe not Joey Freshwater fun.
Right. But he likes to have fun.
And you'll recall Joey Freshwater was the name that lane kiffin was allegedly using for himself going to alabama bars hitting on various women allegedly and telling them that his name was joey freshwater which is such a great name it's that and ron mexico for greatest aliases of all time yeah who's this ron mexico again michael vick after he was trying to get std checks. And then the NFL denied anyone making a custom Ron Mexico jersey.
So Dan Mullen and Lane Kiffin now have a rivalry. Now they got beef going, yeah.
Thankfully the SEC has a terrible scheduling situation so they might not play for like 20 more years. Ever.
But I love this because this is why we wanted Lane Kiffin back. Yeah.
It's perfect. perfect it contributes to the soap opera maybe they'll run into each other coaching at a senior bowl or something yeah and they'll get into a bar fight no dan mullen will just like well dan mullen better not have his wife around let's just say that yeah because she's already gonna kiss him that's almost too easy for for lane though yeah a little bit.
That's true. He can kiss her anytime he wants.
All right. So my This League is the Warriors were named Team of the Decade.
We're doing End of the Decade list. We're going to do one for our mega episode.
But we have the Warriors as the Team of the Decade. They tweeted out a recap of the decade.
Every single year, it was like pictures, not one picture with Kevin Durant in it. This league.
Omitted from history. A little passive-aggressive.
A little ball hog aggressive there. It's insane.
Just forgot about the guy who won two finals MVPs. Yeah, so how many shots of Draymond were there? A lot? There was a few, yeah.
Actually, the more important, how many shots of JaVale were included in this? I don't know if there was. There was a couple of team pictures, so maybe.
I don't know how they got the team pictures without. They just airbrushed them out? Well, they used the team picture when he wasn't on the team.
Then they used the shots of the sideline when he was on the team. So this league, the Petty Wars.
They should have also given credit to Mark Jackson for putting that team together. And then those are basically his championships.
Don Nelson was in there. He'll remind you that Mark Jackson was really the architect of these Golden State Warriors.
He saw greatness in them. All right.
Next up, we have a PR 101 for our good friend, John Rothstein. So he is in a little.
The internet, I wouldn't even say he's a big deal. But it probably is because John Rothstein takes his job seriously, which isn't a bad thing.
But anyway. It's definitely not a big deal.
Not a big deal. There was a, someone foiled, the intercollegiate foiled John Rothstein's text messages to coaches.
Because there was a rumor, which I think is just something we've said. I think he said that he texts every coach saying good luck.
But he foyered the text message conversations John Rothstein has had with various coaches in college basketball, and John Rothstein texts good luck to the coach on the day of a game. And the foyer showed that there were many coaches that just never replied.
Fred Hoiberg, I'm looking at you. A lot of them did reply, though, and say, hey, thanks, John.
So now everyone's saying this is very un-journalist of him because he shouldn't be saying good luck to coaches. Why? But if he's wishing good luck to both sides.
Everyone. He just wants everyone to play well.
It's just so petty. People are coming after our guy.
It's sad that in this day and age, people get made fun of for using manners. Yeah.
And so texting a coach before a game, good luck, coach. And also, this doesn't even cover all the universities that you can't foil, like Duke University.
It's not like he's saying he's... I'm sure him and Coach K go back and forth multiple times a day.
He's not saying he's rooting for them. He's just saying good luck.
Yeah, good luck. Hope there's no injuries.
That's a nice thing to say. And so I don't know why people are, if anyone has a big deal with this, come fight us.
Come fight us. To our office, come fight us.
I will actually punch somebody. I will too.
You want to fight somebody? Yeah, I'll fight someone. If you have a problem with John Rothstein texting good luck and most of the time getting left just completely ignored by the coach.

Come fight us.

I will fight you.

Also, it's just me and Bubba were talking about this earlier.

I don't, you have to be a total psycho to have your read receipts on, right?

Yes.

But Bubba loves having his read receipts on.

He doesn't understand why anybody doesn't.

Damn. It's because you want to ghost people sometimes, Bubba.

You got to be mysterious.

Keep them on their toes.

Then they get the point.

They know exactly what you're doing if you leave them on read. If you do on purpose you just like being mean to be you're more mean than than i am i like being mean but them not knowing that i'm being mean savage bruv i mean yeah that's rough that's like petty wars by you yeah that that's the type of guy i am anybody text you you petty wars i petty wars him all the time also like i mentally sometimes will just like I read a text message and then I answer it in my brain.
But I forget to text the person back. And then like eight hours later, I'm like, oh, fuck.
But I wouldn't want them to be like, oh, he read this. What an asshole.
I actually, you know what? I will, in fairness to journalism, I will say I have one problem with John Rossi in doing this. If a coach doesn't reply like three or four times, he should tweet.

He should tell. to journalism i will say i have one problem with john rossian doing this if a coach doesn't reply like three or four times he should tweet he should text him being like worst of luck today and see what they say just kind of do a combo breaker yeah right exactly be like oh now i have your attention yeah you didn't like it when i when i uh you didn't appreciate the fact that i was just wishing you luck now you get bad luck yeah just the old just the old trick in college.
Like, right, Mary had a little lamb in the middle of one of your essays. And see if a professor even reads it.
No chance. Yeah.
No chance. So, we got your back, John Rothstein.
Open invite to anyone who is mad about this. Genuinely mad.
You know what? If you have to actually be mad, we will fight you. Well, Big Cat will fight you.
No, you said he'd punch someone, too. Well, if he beats you up, then I'll fight him.
No, come on, man. I'll be the boss.
Wish me good luck first. Yeah, I'll text you and say good luck against this nerd.
What's the guy's name that's going to fight us? We don't know. Hypothetically.
There can't be anyone who actually cares. Who's mad about this? There cannot be.
Dockage. No.
Dockage, no chance. Well, I'll tell you who's probably mad about it now, that they know that they're going to get some clout by fighting you, is their good friend Doug Gottlieb.
We'll just pretend to be mad about it. Yeah.
Okay. No, but they can't pretend to be mad.
They have to be genuinely mad. They have to look in your eyes and have you be like, yes, I'm offended by the fact that John Rothstein texts good luck to every single coach in America.
Doug's only mad because he's not a coach. Right.
And so he doesn't get the text messages from him. Maybe that would be the new way to announce hiring.
Is John Rossing text you? Good luck. Good luck, coach.
That's how you know you got the game. There you go.
Foya sounds like what Mike Portnoy would say if you gave him the word foyer. Foyer.
That doesn't sound like it's pronounced correctly. Freedom of information.
That's where you hang your hat up. Foya.
Alright. last up before we get to guys on ships.
I made an Italian for some reason.

I don't know. Way to stay relevant

baseball. So there's a new rule

and it is that every

pitcher has to face three

batters. Is that right?

You can't bring in a lefty specialist.

Is it a beneficially enacted?

Nobody knows when things get approved in baseball.

They just say a lot of shit in the offseason.

That makes no sense. It's the ultimate way to stay relevant.
What about the Mike Myers of the world? The submarine pitching industry? Yeah, the sub-industry. You know who else was concerned about the sub-industry? Who? The H-Man.
Ooh, H-Man. We don't talk about it.
Yeah, we don't talk about it. This is...
I like this rule. I don't like it.
I like it. It's designed to speed the game up.
Yeah. But I think baseball has become too too focused on like they're they think they're one issue with baseball is the fact that some people think it takes too long and that's not people's issue with baseball no it's not but i like this rule because i just like the idea i actually think they should go one further and and a pitcher it gets in the game they have to finish the inning because it would be so funny watching a pitcher just die out there and give up a million home runs and be like this guy doesn't have it i think they should just make one position player pitch one inning every game i i'm okay with that as well you get to select what inning it is i'm okay with that as well if so if you were if you were in charge of a team would you have your guy like lead off like first inning your pitches get out of the way yeah would you wait to the game developed? Probably.
Or would you just convert some of your pitchers to position players?

So then you can, like your bullpen, you basically make your bullpen your outfield.

But then they have to bat.

Yeah.

So you just only draft guy Shea Ohtani becomes the most powerful guy in all of baseball.

Like Brendan Fraser in that movie where he's on the Yankees.

Steve Nebraska.

Yeah.

Where they land.

Through the perfect game. Yeah.
Yeah. And hit the perfect game, too.
People don't forget. Guys on Chicks, Hank.
Hey, guys. So I recently bought my husband the short sleeve part of my Take sweatshirt, and he looks amazing in it.
He wears it all the time, and I can't get enough of it. Great purchase.
Just wanted to say thank you for creating such a great, interesting design. Where could they buy that? And I heard that you guys are close to hitting a bonus if you sell a few more so I just wanted to rate this and let you guys know that it's a great shirt she's really plugged into all the info you left out the second part of the email though when she was like we're having so much sex way more sex way better sex because of that yeah every day he wears it we have sex yeah every day yeah it's his lucky shirt when i see the sleeves get cut off i know i'm about to roll up his other sleeve it's all sex he jumps he stands up on the bed and he gets going uh-huh so yeah but uh if you want to get one you can on the barstle sports store oh wow they are really good that's crazy that was seamless i know i just love it's it's one of those things where it's like they almost read my mind.
Yeah.

Sup, boys.

It'll be my boyfriend and I's two-year anniversary on Friday.

He told me we're going out to a really nice restaurant, and then afterwards we were seeing Star Wars.

I really don't want to go see Star Wars, but I also think he might propose that night. So do I agree to see Star Wars and hope that he proposes?

Because if I say no to stars, he definitely won't propose that night.

Wait.

This has to be the lowest floor, highest ceiling night of all time. You can either, you actually think there's a chance you're getting proposed to, or it could literally be dressing up to go see Star Wars.
Is dressing up part of the equation? Yeah, is it dress up nice? But dress up, oh yeah, putting on like a nice dress we are going to a really nice restaurant do your hair like princess leah get dressed up as jar jar binks I'll be the guy with the lightsaber me so wear white dress this is gonna be we need a follow up I need a follow up you know what it sounds to me like sometimes, we've set such a low expectation for ourselves that we can kind of turn into sometimes. So it might be a situation where he's like, we're going to go out to a nice dinner.
We're going to go out to Star Wars because I know you love Star Wars. But he knows in your head that you don't love Star Wars.
And you think he's dumb enough to actually think that that's a great night. and then he's just going to surprise you with the engagement, and Star Wars isn't even on the plate.
Okay, alternatively, there's definitely a chance he really is just that dumb. Of course.
And this all becomes just Star Wars night, and you guys are going to break up. I love this.
I love the, like, I need an update. So please, please update us.
That's fantastic. This guy's totally going to fuck up and just be like, what? I wasn't proposed.
We've only been dating two years. Hi, PMT guys, especially all of you.
Sup? My husband and I are both big listeners, and I just want to say that even though it was kind of a gag on the show, you never know where motivation will come from because my husband was 230 pounds in january is is 180 today hell yeah as 2019 comes to a close hashtag year of the core very cool whoa he i love he actually had someone who did year of the core that's what he said i know it's kind of a gag in the show but you never know where motivation will come from yeah year of the core so if you said you said it so many times that it was ingrained in his head and he's like so many times year many times. You're the core.
2020, tune in. I will be unveiling what 2020 is.
I don't know yet. I already know what I'm doing for 2020.
Okay. I'm going to say I'm going to get a six pack and I'm not going to get one.
Okay. Well, I'm going to have a hashtag.
We'll do a hashtag. Again, I don't really know.
I might unveil it at the end of 2020. You know what? It's going to be the year of the quad for me.
There you go. I'm going to just get those Saquon quads.
Thighs are getting huge. You should probably hit the hole harder.
You'll be able to tackle me real easy. I don't understand.
Give it your best shot. Hey, Slim Cat, Deez Nats, and Cheating Beard Hank.
Cheating Beard Hank? I don't know what that means. You got a beard that makes you likely to cheat? Maybe my beard is cheating because it makes me so attractive.
Wait, did you cheat on something? Oh, cheating beard Hank, it covers your chin. Yeah, I think at one point you're like, oh, it's cheating that you have a beard.
I don't know. Okay.
My fiance has his bachelor party this weekend and won't tell me what he's doing after dinner Saturday night. I think he's going to a strip club.
Oh, you don't think? Which I am not okay with. Oh, with oh is it okay for me to creep on his is it okay for me is it okay for me to creep on his iphone location to see if he's going to a strip club yeah uh we're gonna boo you listen i'm not a strip club guy everyone knows everyone has a strip club has a strip club friend.
The guy who's, you'll have a random Friday night and it would be like 9 o'clock but strip club guys? Want to go to a strip club? I've never been that guy. I've probably been to like two strip clubs in the last five years.
Boo! No. You can't be location tracking him on his bachelor party.
That's insane. He really fucked us up, though.
I'm going to blame him for this situation. He should have said he's going to Star Wars.
Because what he should do is have an excuse ready. That's day one stuff.
You say we're going to an R.A. What do you say, though? You can say we're going to a club.
Boom. Going to a club.
People might strip at it. Done.
And then, oops, my phone ran out of battery, so my location off you gotta have you have to be ready to give an explanation before you ask that question i think it's not on you for asking location sharing comes up you should always try and get out of that yeah it should never be something that it's like cool to like that's just that's what setting yourself up for a disaster i've shared i've shared location but that's crazy having it on all the time what's the point that's crazy relationships are built on trust dude exactly exactly exactly exactly you don't need location service no no george w bush said that we found those fucking wmds this literally is a situation where i don't even know if you should get married if you can't trust them for one night yeah to go to a strip club i but i drunk. I do blame him, though, for putting himself in this situation.

Yeah, for getting location verified.

You should just say, like, I have a plan in place for my night when she asked me what I did on my own bachelor party.

Yes.

That's day one stuff.

So it's not your fault for being mad at him if he goes to a strip club when you told him not to.

Just let him go.

Yeah, you should let him go. Nothing really happens.
But if you're not okay with it just nothing you shouldn't go yeah hi big cat pft and hunky hank my husband and i just recently had our first kid it's chunky hank oh yeah every time i go to breastfeed our son my husband always says let daddy get a titty too guy humor i tell him to stop and that it's weird for him say that stuff, but he just makes jokes. I like that.
The worst one yet was when he said, I just want to pony up on a boob and drink with my little Eskimo bro. Yes.
They are Eskimo bro. Wait, wait.
So his son or I guess they both in and out of the vagina. So nobody's born a virgin.
Can you shame him so he'll stop this madness? No. I think that's guy humor.
Keeping it light. It's very stressful to have a newborn, so you've got to keep it light in the house.
So keep going. Or shut him up and give him a tit.
Have you had a taste? No. Hell no.
Really? I've drank breast milk before. Hank has too.
He drank his aunt's breast milk. Wait.
All right. Wait.
I'll say this story one quick time, and then we'll get out of the show. This is old school.
No, no. That's the end of the show.
I love you guys. This is old school.
I'll explain. We were at a cave house.
I was on a family trip. My whole family was there.
My cousin had just been born, my girl cousin. Thanks for clarifying.
Yeah, I guess it doesn't really matter. Only chicks drink breast milk.
I was going. So I was at a fucking cave house.
It wasn't my own personal refrigerator. I wasn't as familiar with it.
And I made a bowl of cereal. And I opened the fridge.
And there was like a container. It wasn't a milk.
It was just like a Tupperware type canteen container thing with milk in it. So I took it, poured it in my cereal.
And then I ate it. I was like, that was disgusting.
I think that milk is bad. And my dad was like, what milk? That milk in that container.
He was like, that was not milk milk. So, yes, I had a bowl of cereal from my aunt's breast milk.
That wasn't the milk. We've got a bowl outside.
We don't have a cow. You remember that from Kingpin? Yeah? You drank semen by mistake? That's another classic gag

We'll send it here

Hank drank his aunt's breast milk

It's full of nutrition though

In fact, now I'm just thinking out loud

Brotein should have traces of breast milk in it

Hank's aunt's breast milk

Hank's aunt's breast milk in it

And I guarantee if we just talk about how nutritious breast milk is,

it'll be the next thing.

Absolutely.

Love you guys. Thank you.
Talking away I don't know what I'm to say I'm sage anyway Today's another day To find me Shying away I'll be coming for your lover Take on me

Take me

One, two, three, let's go! Thank you. We'll see you next time.