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Speaker 1 On today's part of my take, we have football week 14 recap. College football playoffs announced.
A huge weekend of football, and we're going to recap all of it. Hank is in a bad mood.

Speaker 1 He had a bad week gambling, but that's okay.

Speaker 1 We're all been there. We're going to pump him up.
Well, I mean, I ran out of things to talk about. Oh, I had a bad week, too.
A banana duct tape to a wall, sold for $120,000. So that's what we'll do.

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Speaker 1 week 14.

Speaker 1 We start in Western New York where Lamar Michael Jackson said, You can't read my handoffs. It doesn't matter if my arm sleeves are black or white.

Speaker 1 Devin McAllister singletary made the rest of his family on offense disappear as he carried the load of bricks for almost half of the team's yards. They see me roll in.

Speaker 1 They hayden Hearst with a 61-yard touchdown as the Ravens riding dirty to the ninth straight win. Ravens 24, Bills 17.
Whoop! Whoop! Whoop!

Speaker 1 Come on! Cut him!

Speaker 1 In the battle for Ohio, Andy Dufray Dalton threw for 262 yards of shit-smelling foulness I can't even imagine, and had his pick six acts confiscated by the Denzel Wardens.

Speaker 1 In the first half, the Browns' offense was bogged down, but in the second, they opened up the playbook and told the Bengals, You're going to swallow what I give you to swallow.

Speaker 1 The Browns win, but not without turmoil, as Cleveland fans are left wondering, will the season end with a simple message? O'Dell was here. Brock 27, the Bangles, 19.

Speaker 1 In Lambeau, where Terry McLaurin Hill and Y Clef John Bostick saw the Redskins playoff chances get killed softly and circle the Dwayne. Haskins.

Speaker 1 Matt Liv Love LaFleur is trying to stay positive with his angsty quarterback, but the unit is Aaron Jonesing for more.

Speaker 1 Mason Dorulo Crosby is no stranger to having something 33 yards long come off off his leg. And the Packer season is pointing in the right direction.

Speaker 1 If you catch my drift, Tege gave him the shaft, boom. Packers 20, Redskins 15.
Whoop, whoop, whoop! The frozen tundra spread.

Speaker 1 In H-Town, where Drew Glock was deadly from the pistol possession, standing his ground against the Texans.

Speaker 1 The Texans linebacker thinningly dressed up in average Joe's uniforms because it looked like they were dodging every ball that Brock threw their way.

Speaker 1 Noah SpongeBob Square fan said, I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready to break out as the rookie tight end had a huge day.

Speaker 1 And the Texans fan says, all right, I'm gonna head out, as this one was over by halftime. Bad sports time boom.
Progress 38, Texas 24.

Speaker 1 Down on the bayou where Drew Scarface Breeze asked the Niners who's the bad guy, only to have San Francisco answer with, say hello to my kidle friend, as the Pro Bowl tight end sealed the victory, running like a cockaroach, refusing to die.

Speaker 1 Sean Payton spent all week preparing for Jimmy Eat World Garoppolo by telling his quarterback Drew Brees, it's just tastes of time.

Speaker 1 Everything will be just fine. But everything might not be so fine now that the Saints don't get the playoffs at Dome Sweet Dome.
49ers 48. Saints 46.
Whip! Whip!

Speaker 1 Some score. Up to Minnesota where David Blau Blau Blower Wheels looked like a cheap imitation of a Matthew Staff forward.

Speaker 1 Kirk Cousins thunderstruck quickly in the game with a touchdown to AC BC Johnson and the Vikings are back in flat with a division win.

Speaker 1 For the Lions, it's officially draft season and for those about to mock, we salute you. Vikings 20, Lions 7.

Speaker 1 Standing on the corner, Jamie Swiss in Tampa, Florida. Such a fine sight to see.

Speaker 1 Look at those X, my lord, lighting up the scoreboard. Four touchdowns, three INTs.

Speaker 1 Come on, Brissette how'd you miss

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Speaker 1 you mad brain breaking the word of Cameron from Dipset

Speaker 1 Box 38 Colts 35 you didn't see that one coming Hank

Speaker 1 the Kansas City equipment managers were shipping up the Boston oh

Speaker 1 to find their missing bags.

Speaker 1 Tom Wayne Brady improvised on a pass to Nikhil Harry but the refs looked at the out-of-pounds marker and said, whose line is this anyway, making a colon mockery out of the rulebook.

Speaker 1 McColl Kidman Hardman was trying to take a ring away from Tom Cruise Brady as the refs had their eyes wide shut all night long. The password's fidelio boom.

Speaker 1 After back-to-back losses, the Patriots are now on top of Saturday. On top of the chatty, on top of that.
Chiefs 23, the Patriots 17. Was that Steve Belichick? That's Steve.

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Speaker 1 Jets 22, Dolphins 21. We finish in Oakland, where AJ Soprano Brown was on fire like a Nissan X-Terra parked in the New Jersey suburban woods, and the Titans look like they're going to run the Brabel.

Speaker 1 It doesn't matter how much you tan your perennium in Oakland, because there's no sunlight entering this black hole, even though their head coach is a Grootist and is showing the world his ass.

Speaker 1 Derek Clapton Henry is bringing the boys back to the Music City with a dub. Titans 42, the

Speaker 1 Raiders 21.

Speaker 1 Week 14 in the books. Absolutely love it.
I love football. I love watching football.

Speaker 1 I hate losing, betting on football, but these are the days that we are going to really, we're going to look back on Leon. Look at us right now.

Speaker 1 Once late February comes. It's better than this.

Speaker 1 Yeah, nothing. Nothing.

Speaker 1 Week 14, we got to pump up the volume here.

Speaker 1 I do feel like it's Spider-Man meme. There's been some bad Sunday nights for me.
I'm looking in a mirror at Hank and PFT. Bad Sunday nights.
That's okay. We march on.

Speaker 6 Sunday night with you guys is a good start.

Speaker 1 Stereotype. That's right.
Look at all this positivity.

Speaker 1 The only way you lose gambling is if you stop. Right.
If you're watching on barstoolgold.com/slash PMT, you can see we're cheery now. We're happy.
It's the friendships you make along the way.

Speaker 1 We're going to start. We're going to recap every single game.
We're going to start with the night game as we always do and and then work back in time. The Rams.
Oh, boy. They're the Rams.

Speaker 1 Now, we talked about this on Friday. The Rams, for whatever reason,

Speaker 1 Sean McVay has figured out Pete Carroll's defense, and it looked exactly like that. Again, outside of, you know, obviously Jared Goff had a couple interceptions.
He had a great game otherwise.

Speaker 1 They were moving the ball very easily against the Seahawks.

Speaker 1 And I don't know if this is like a Mike Tomlin Patriots situation where Pete Carroll just refuses to change strategy against against the Rams. But that was a no-doubter.

Speaker 1 They looked, they made the Seahawks, who have been one of the hottest teams, look like kind of a joke in this game. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 And even Jared Goff's interceptions weren't that bad because he, well, there was one that was bad, but another, he pinned him deep, pinned him on the two-yard line.

Speaker 1 They've got a quarterback that can do a coffin corner, and they've got a punter that can throw touchdowns. It's a Swiss Army knife team.

Speaker 1 And yeah, so the Rams look like they're somewhat back here in the race. They are, Are they officially? Wait, now, are they the sixth seed if it started today? They're not.

Speaker 6 Doesn't their hunt hurt your hunt?

Speaker 1 Yes, it hurts a lot. It hurts a lot.
But the Bears are going to win out, and the Vikings are going to start losing out.

Speaker 1 So I'm not worried about the Rams as much as the Vikings just falling flat on their face.

Speaker 1 And even when it was like Jeff Fisher coaching the Rams, it always seemed like the Rams were good for at least one victory against the Seahawks.

Speaker 1 When the Seahawks were like winning Super Bowls, got their number. Yeah.
Yeah, so right now the Rams would be... No, wait, no, they wouldn't.
They're outside looking in. So they need some help, too.

Speaker 1 That was a big win for them tonight because right now it would be the Vikings and the Seahawks as the two wild card teams. So yeah, it does hurt me.
It does hurt me, Hank. You're right.

Speaker 1 But you know what? I'm happy my friend Jared played well and we'll just deal with it in the coming weeks. The Bears will start winning every single game and it will be no problem.

Speaker 1 But the Rams are back in the picture here. Their pass rush looked really, really good tonight.
Remember we talked about the Seahawks offensive line missing some guys.

Speaker 1 Aaron Donald getting that penetration up the middle. He was looking good and

Speaker 1 more than anything, it looks like the strategy to maybe not use Todd Gurley all the time at the beginning of the season is paying off because he looked pretty electric tonight.

Speaker 1 He looked like old, I think actually Al Michael said it at one point.

Speaker 1 That's an old school Todd Gurley run because he was doing the thing where, like, even if on first contact, you couldn't bring him down. He had, yeah, 79 yards.

Speaker 1 I think he had a bunch of yards receiving as well. And he gave that stiff arm to Trey Flowers, just buried him in the dirt.

Speaker 1 And I think Chris Collinsworth said delivers an absolute facial crushing to Trey Flowers, just squirted all over him. So let me ask you this, PFT.

Speaker 1 The Seahawks, we talked about their point differential and how it's kind of a weird anomaly.

Speaker 1 The fact that they haven't been able to blow any teams out, the fact that they've been winning games by the skin of their teeth.

Speaker 1 Are you, if you were sitting here right now and you're a Seahawks fan, are you watching this game tonight and being like, well, I might panic a little.

Speaker 1 Or, like Chris Collinsworth and Al Michaels were saying, which made no sense, a statement loss. It was a loss that was good.

Speaker 1 It was a loss that was actually a win in the NFL, which is tough to come by. Shout out to our good friend Trent Dilfer and his private Jets.

Speaker 1 I think that this was, I don't know, you can build off stuff. I think if you're a Seahawks fan, you probably have this penciled in as like, oh, it's a prime time game, divisional opponent.

Speaker 1 They need a win. They're hungry for it.

Speaker 1 It's not the end of the world to lose this game.

Speaker 1 Plus, it's just always nice, like just watching the grass in Los Angeles. It's a very comforting shade shade of green.

Speaker 1 I feel like, especially underneath the lights, any loss is a little bit easier to swallow because you feel like you've been meditating just looking at that beautiful, beautiful seed.

Speaker 1 Yes, you know, I mean, I think it's one of the last games at the Coliseum.

Speaker 1 There's not many left, but for the Rams, because you know, I don't know if you've seen this, but anytime any media member flies in and out of LA, they take a picture of where the new stadium is going to be.

Speaker 1 It's the $1.9 or like, maybe it's like $2 billion megaplex of football, the cathedral to football in Los Angeles, California, America's NFL town.

Speaker 1 But yeah, I can't wait to see a time-lapse of that because

Speaker 1 I've seen all the pictures that Andrew Ciciliano takes and

Speaker 1 Rich Eisen take of the scaffolding and stuff coming together, but I haven't seen any new time-lapses yet. New home coming up.
Imagine if the time-lapse guy just forgot to turn on the camera. Fire him.

Speaker 1 Like there is one time lapse.

Speaker 1 Actually kill him. Yes.

Speaker 1 That would be the ultimate. Oof, I fucked up.
If you just forgot to start the time-lapse camera when they broke ground.

Speaker 1 If you forget to press record on a camera, you should be fired from whatever job you have at that moment, right, Hank? The time-lapse camera. That's very speaking of time-lapses.

Speaker 1 Uh, Pete Carroll looks like he's getting younger on the sidelines.

Speaker 1 His face looks like the CGI they use in the Irishman to make Joe Pesci and Robert De Niro and all those guys look like 20 years younger.

Speaker 1 No, Pete Carroll is definitely one of those guys who's going to live to be 115 and just like walking briskly around his neighborhood, chomping on his gum and wearing his new shoes.

Speaker 1 He's going to to be one of those guys that everyone in his family will be like, Yeah, he's 98 and he's still driving. Not at night, but he's still driving.
He's not driving well.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he's only hit three cars in the last six months. It's pretty good.
He's still driving. He's remarkably lucid.
Remembers his twin's name?

Speaker 1 That's my favorite: is when someone's so old that the still driving is a feat in itself, though.

Speaker 1 Still driving. We're trying to kill him as best we can by giving him keys to the car, but that motherfucker just won't die.
He had six heart attacks in the last 10 years, but he's still driving.

Speaker 1 He blacks out. Everything's going well.
He blacks out, so we got him a giant SUV so he doesn't hurt himself when he crashes. He's still driving age.

Speaker 1 All right, so the Rams got to feel good coming off that.

Speaker 1 The Seahawks, like I said, I think the Seahawks, I'm putting the Seahawks, they're not frauds, but I'm putting them in the category of teams with enough question marks that I wouldn't feel confident that making it DPS.

Speaker 1 I don't trust them. Right.
I don't trust the Seahawks. Right.
I think that they'll show up when they need to, usually. They could win a playoff game.

Speaker 1 I'm not betting my pinky on the Seahawks. They're not going to win three playoff games.
If they can't get a buy, I don't feel good about that. So that's really what it comes down to.

Speaker 1 And tonight hurt their chance for a buy. Well, they could.
I think if they got to go into Dallas,

Speaker 1 which I think was what would happen right now. Yeah, if they got to go into Dallas, they would just stomp the ever-living shit out of that.
Yeah, they would definitely win that game.

Speaker 1 But I'm saying, like, without a home playoff game, I just don't.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 They're a question mark. There's a big question mark around the Seahawks.

Speaker 1 although they do have, they should be able to win out because they have at the Panthers, home against the Cardinals, and then week 17, home against the 49ers, which would be a great game.

Speaker 1 That'll be great, yeah. Yeah, all right.
Uh, let's go to the one o'clocks. Let's start with the big one o'clock game: the Ravens and Bills.

Speaker 1 The Ravens are now winners of nine straight, which is a franchise record.

Speaker 1 Since the bye week, they have beaten the Patriots, the Texans, the Rams, the 49ers, and the Bills. How you like me now? That's crazy.
That is

Speaker 1 pretty damn good. If you're a Ravens, if you're on the team, or if you're a fan of the team, you're walking around with your chest puffed out because you can seemingly not lose to anyone.

Speaker 1 And Lamar Jackson was doing his witchcraft thing that he's done probably every week since like week four, where he takes five steps in the span of like half of a second, a little crab dribble.

Speaker 1 It's like a James Harden step back three that he does. And he just, he has the ability to hypnotize players on defense where they just collapse.
Yes.

Speaker 1 They look at him moving his feet and they just they look like they're they've been snake charmed and they just completely pass out on the play and fall right on that.

Speaker 1 They just shake that you just can't it's it's it's an illegal move. It feels illegal because it's so damn good.

Speaker 1 The Ravens though, like their offense wasn't that good today. They had one big play to Hayden Hurst and then the rest of the game, it was their defense.
Their defense stepped up.

Speaker 1 So I think I said this last week, but the way the Ravens keep winning games, they've done it in every single fashion that you can't just, like, you have to walk away being like, holy shit, this is impressive.

Speaker 1 They win close games. They win games when their running backs aren't playing well, but Lamar is, vice versa.
Their defense, like, they'll just do anything they have to do to win the win.

Speaker 1 And I don't know.

Speaker 1 I mean, the only thing you can say at this point is, are they peaking too early? But if they keep peaking, then... It's not too early.
They've been peaking.

Speaker 1 They peak all the way through December and January. They've been having tantric football sex ever since like like late September.
It's insane. They're a sting.
Yeah, just sitting there.

Speaker 1 Like they're sitting there with their legs crossed, just coming over and over. Maybe they haven't even come yet.
Maybe they're just edging.

Speaker 1 Maybe they're just like at the point, at the point of orgasm for the last three months. Did you see before the game, they had a lot of Baltimore fans made the trip.

Speaker 1 It's become like making a journey to Mecca for football fans. Yes.
Making that trip out to Western New York and partying with the legends of the Bills Mafia.

Speaker 1 And the Ravens fans were just so happy to be there. They're like Ravens fans and Bills fans are kind of two sides of the same coin in a way.

Speaker 1 One wears Zubaz, one wears the purple and black camo. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Which is like

Speaker 1 if Zubaz joined the war on Christmas, then that becomes the camo that Ravens fans wear. But they were like jumping off the tables, a lot of handshakes.

Speaker 1 I'm starting to ask, are Bills fans becoming too friendly to visitors? They're soft. Yeah.
They're too welcoming. Okay.

Speaker 1 I mean, this was yet again the biggest game in Buffalo Bills' history in the last decade. And it felt like it.
It felt like they had it for a second there.

Speaker 1 But I think Josh Allen, who is up and down, and today was maybe not his best game, I think he needs to do, here's my idea. I think he needs to do like

Speaker 1 25 to 30 arm curls before the game. Take like three yards off that deep ball.
Okay. Because it feels like there are three or four

Speaker 1 throws in a game where he's just a little bit too far on the receiver.

Speaker 1 If you can just bring that back just a little bit and maybe it's something like that where you just weaken it just a little bit, he can hit those balls.

Speaker 1 Okay, I was thinking that you were saying his arm is so long that he needs to do the curls to get a nice pump going. No, he needs to, you know, you know, after you've done like 30, you know, 30 curls.

Speaker 1 I usually do like 40 or 50, but yeah. Your arm feels a little bit fatigued, so you don't have that 100% strength.
He needs like 97% strength to get some of these deep passes.

Speaker 1 Maybe just have some have Frank Gore just slam his nuts into his bicep right before the game. Just like give him a little Charlie horse, a mild contusion on his arm.

Speaker 1 The problem I think with the Bills is they don't have an offensive identity. And I don't know what that means, but it sounds cool to say.
Oh, I think they do.

Speaker 1 It sounds like you know what you're talking about when you say it. Well, they kind of do.
Yeah, they do. It's running the ball and intermediate passing.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but when they're really clicking is when he's throwing the deep ball. No, I think the deep ball is a special extra thing they put on top that they'll take their shots.
And if they hit it, great.

Speaker 1 But he also, there were some some drops their offense was just kind of a little sloppy all over the place today so and you have to play perfect to beat the ravens um the only other thing i had was the the marcus peters shotgunning a beer shotgunning a beer after victory uh that's what the twitter moments said twitter moments is run by a cop by the way like that what did he do i didn't see this he just he just had like a half of a beer can and just kind of poured it on his face.

Speaker 1 Okay. And Twitter moments said Marcus Peters shotgunned a beer in victory.
Yeah, that's definitely a cop. He's a cop.
That's cop work, right?

Speaker 1 Like, every time I see Twitter moments, it's always just a cop. Like, just keep an eye on that cop.

Speaker 1 In order to shotgun a beer, you have to be drinking it out of the hole that's not the real hole. You have to actually drink it.
It's the second hole. You got to suck it through the back hole.

Speaker 1 Right, correct. And then we also had Tredavious White pick up that sheet.
That was pretty funny. That was cool.
That was just a great classic. He blew across the field.

Speaker 1 I do respect the referee for being so quick to steal that away from me. He can't do that.
He's like, dude,

Speaker 1 this is the AFC East. We do not tolerate cheating in this division.
Also, Also, that wasn't like a playbook. It was just the printed out, you know, whatever the last play was.

Speaker 1 It's one of those weird black and white sticks. Yeah, they print it out.
That's printed on a dot matrix paper.

Speaker 1 It's a still shot taken from the Goodyear blimp at 20,000 feet. Yeah, and they do that throughout the entire game.
And he probably has that exact same thing on his sideline.

Speaker 1 I feel like technology has advanced to the point now where we don't need to be looking at these 1970s graphic novels-ass pieces of paper

Speaker 1 to figure out where the defense is lining up. Hey, the Microsoft thing.
What's it called? The iPads?

Speaker 1 The knockoff iPads. The surfaces.
Yeah, the surfaces. The surface.
The tablets. And then when they try to get the balls, shout out noses.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay. Bengals Browns, Battle of Ohio.

Speaker 1 Freddy Kitchens should be fired, even in a win. Is there a world where Freddie Kitchens doesn't get fired this offseason? Freddy Kitchens is passing, like, he can't even pass the simplest of tests.

Speaker 1 And the simple test that I am talking about is: the Bengals have the worst run defense in the entire league. And Freddie Kitchens ran the ball six times in the first half.
Six times he ran the ball.

Speaker 1 He has Kareem Hunt and Nick Chubb. He probably, like, in terms of tandems, he probably has the best.
He ran it six times. In the second half, he ran it 18 times.

Speaker 1 And they absolutely bodied them with the running game. Afterwards, after the game in his press conference, he said, I thought we had some plays in the past game in the first half.

Speaker 1 So that means that he, like, went in with that game plan. Like, we're going to pass to set set up the run, even though the Bengals can't stop the run for shit.

Speaker 1 And then, when asked why the running game worked better in the second half, he didn't say, well, oh, we, we, because we ran it more. He just said we blocked better.
So he really is stupid.

Speaker 1 He's a dumb dummy. You blocked better on the many, many more attempts that you had in the second half.
Yeah, he's a dumb.

Speaker 1 He is a dummy. He's reached the most dangerous level of dummy, I would say, which is where he's outsmarting himself, which is very easy to do if you're Freddie Kitchens.

Speaker 1 But he's doing the thing where he's going into a game saying, they're going to expect me to run the ball because they suck so bad at defense.

Speaker 1 Freddy Kitchens has wrapped himself so deeply in his own brain that he thinks that the Bengals have been playing Ropadope for the last 13 weeks to put out bad defense against the run on film so that he will then in turn try to run the ball on him.

Speaker 1 And they're like, oh, we've got you right where we want you, Freddy.

Speaker 1 No, Freddy, the Bengals, I think the simplest explanation is usually the right one and it's usually simpler to just say the bangles suck freddie kitchens is the guy who gets paralyzed trying to make the right move in rock paper scissors shoot he is sitting there saying oh my god are they gonna throw okay they threw paper last time so they are probably gonna go throw rock but they know i'm gonna throw paper against the rock so i gotta go throw scissors he's doing that in the lead up to every game and then he gets to the game and he just keeps throwing rock over and over.

Speaker 1 Actually, no, he probably throws paper over.

Speaker 1 They threw scissors the last 10 times. That's their tendency.
He's like, I got this. I got this guy.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he's at a blackjack table and he will die at a table trying to figure out whether or not to double down. So if you're wondering how could the Browns season become more Browns?

Speaker 1 Well, the answer is we have a training staff controversy. So after the game, Baker Mayfield said that Odell Beckham

Speaker 1 probably should have had surgery in training camp, probably would have only missed one or two weeks, isn't running like he should be.

Speaker 1 There's also been reports all week long that Odo Beckham wants out of Cleveland. I have no idea why.

Speaker 6 They say that he walks up to players and coaches like before game and stuff and say, get me out.

Speaker 1 He goes up to a coach. That's a ridiculous report, and I love it.
Just like he whispers to people,

Speaker 1 passes them a note. He picks up, like, hey, like, good luck.
Can I help? Yeah, he passes a note. He's like, please help, please help.
They're holding me hostage.

Speaker 1 And they won't let me get surgery. I don't...

Speaker 1 Was that Jay Glazer that reported that? I'll check her.

Speaker 1 I'm not a Florio or a Glazer. I read that he's been telling friends that he wants our, and I don't think Odell Beckham really has friends

Speaker 1 on the other side of the side. He's just got shit.
He's got a sideline. That's so perfect that he's doing that.
He is like one week away from writing it in his iBlack. Now, he also.

Speaker 1 Please get me someone trade for me. Put it in diamonds.
Glazer. Glazer, yeah.
That's not very glazer. Like in crested and diamonds on the strap of your wristwatch.
It says trade me.

Speaker 1 Glazer was right on when the Giants traded him. So Glazer, obviously, Glazer might be Odell Beckham's only friend.
Now, to be fair, he's also hurt. He's got a sports hernia.
Which is.

Speaker 1 And the training staff screwed it up. And I know Baker talked it back because it's like, you don't want to throw them under the bus, but it sounds like they probably...
Listen, I've...

Speaker 1 Stupid, like, dysfunctional franchises do dysfunctional things. These things happen to franchises that can't get out of their own way.

Speaker 1 They have training staff that will not fix simple injuries in the proper, you know, time manner.

Speaker 1 That's what happens. Like, this is the least, this is the most oh, you think story of of all time to have the Browns be like, oh, yeah, we kind of screwed up that timeline.

Speaker 1 In lighter note, though, Swagger Jr. is 4-0, so he's not a loser.
He did not lose that game against the Steelers because Swagger Jr. does not make road trips.
Well, but it's staying.

Speaker 1 He still watches the game. Does he? Yeah, I'm sure.
I don't know.

Speaker 1 He's like John Madden. He doesn't like to fly.
They just keep him in the field. I think that counts.
I think the road games still count under Swagger Jr.'s like that's he's the dog of record.

Speaker 1 For stat cherry picking. He's the dog of record.
Yeah, he's the home dog. For stat cherry-picking, I'm going to definitely say he's still undefeated.
Did you see how sad it was?

Speaker 1 And we're going to get to the college football playoffs. Ugga without his shirt on.
Yeah. Looked really depressing.

Speaker 1 Ugga, for people who missed it, LSU beat Georgia so bad, Ugga had to do the thing where he turned his jersey inside out so that people wouldn't heckle him on the way out of the stadium.

Speaker 1 So Ugga got naked. And you're probably thinking, well, you mean he just became a regular dog?

Speaker 1 Well, yeah, he became a regular dog because otherwise people would be like, hey, there goes Ugga, that fucking loser. Well, it's still better than getting gored to death by Bevo.
True.

Speaker 1 But, I mean, man, it's sad when a mascot dog has to take off his jersey. That's a sad state of affairs.

Speaker 1 It's like when you bring your parents or grandparents to a football game in Philadelphia wearing an opponent's jersey, and on the way out, you're like, hey, you got to hide. Something everyone's done.

Speaker 1 You got to hide that and make sure that they don't see you because they don't give a shit about your age. Yeah, please.

Speaker 1 They beat up their own players. I just want to say that

Speaker 1 I liked seeing Andy Dalton back in mid-season form, throwing a pick six and whiffing on a tackle. That was nice to see.
He was actually good today. Like he's, it's crazy that he got benched.

Speaker 1 I feel like the Bengals could have had a couple more wins. They don't have a lot of talent.

Speaker 1 Well, I know, but they kind of, they're like, they're one of those, I don't think anyone, I think it's impossible to tank in the NFL. I really do, because it's just a sport that's impossible to tank.

Speaker 1 Like, guys are playing for their next jobs. It's a violent game.
It's hard to tell people, hey, go out there and just don't try.

Speaker 6 Right, so that's why you put out a quarterback that's a rookie.

Speaker 1 No, I know. know.
I know.

Speaker 1 But Andy deserves better. I just, that's true.

Speaker 1 He wasn't, like, the pick six was funny. It was very Andy Dalton, but he was not bad.
And he actually can do the thing.

Speaker 1 Like, he's going to be on a team next year, and I will sell myself on him being decent again. What if it's the Bears? Well, that's what he's preparing himself for.
No, Mitch.

Speaker 1 That's exactly what that was. We're done.
That ship has sailed, boys. It is.
It's the new Mitch. It is.

Speaker 1 It's good to see Andy out there. And I think that the Bengals have done a good job of tanking just historically as a franchise.

Speaker 1 It's easier to tank in the NFL through just decades of sheer incompetence than it is in one season where you're actively trying to do it. Yeah,

Speaker 1 and credit to Zach Taylor because they are at least trying and they're competitive in games.

Speaker 1 So credit to the Bengals for trying. There it is.
I do think that with Odell, it's just, it sounds cool to say you've got a sports hernia. Just letting people know that you're an athlete.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you play sports. You've got a sports bad attitude.
Instead of being like, I got hemorrhoids. Yeah, I got sports herpes.
Yeah, it's not good.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 1 Redskins-Packers.

Speaker 1 PFC, these are your two teams. Okay, they are.
Well, one I own, and the other I aspire to own one day.

Speaker 1 The Packers

Speaker 1 put an end to the Redskins' playoff hopes. Okay.
They were very much alive. I put a future down on them a couple weeks ago.
So now I'm just rooting for the Cowboys to make the playoffs at 6-10.

Speaker 1 That's really all I have to look forward to right now.

Speaker 1 Haskins was out there with a leg injury, which is always good to see from a Washington quarterback. Haskins is the new heir parent to like self-sack quarterbacks.
He is so slow.

Speaker 1 I know he had an ankle injury, but he's also slow to begin with, and he just kind of falls into sacks. Yeah, I mean, he did have a bad ankle.
He wasn't putting any weight on his first.

Speaker 1 He was stupid that he was playing. Yeah, he looked like Barbaro out there after he broke his leg.
It was bad. It was painful to watch.

Speaker 1 How are you feeling about your Packers?

Speaker 1 I feel like the Packers are a little bit fraudulent. Oh, welcome to the right side of this.

Speaker 1 Well, listen, it took only beating the Redskins by five points for me to realize that, hey, maybe they're not that great of a football team this year.

Speaker 1 Aaron Jones is very confident, though. He's crediting astrology for the Packers still being in it.

Speaker 1 He says, he's a Sagittarius, so he's got a lot of juice left, and this is the time of year that Sagittarius is peak, I guess.

Speaker 1 I don't know anything about astrology or stars or moons or anything like that. So the Packers,

Speaker 1 their offense just goes quarters, halves, with just looking terrible. They have scripted plays that look good, and then they just fall apart.

Speaker 1 They did it again today where it felt like they were cruising, and then it just didn't, the cruise didn't happen.

Speaker 1 I went and looked. The Packers have played 52 quarters this year.
16 of those quarters, so 30% of the quarters, they've scored zero points. That seems like a lot for a 10-and-3 team.

Speaker 1 25 of the quarters, almost half of the quarters, they've scored three points or zero points. Half of the quarters.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 half of their games in those quarters, they've scored three points or zero.

Speaker 1 So they go stretches where they just stop scoring, and it feels like that's something that will specifically bite you in the ass when it comes to the playoffs.

Speaker 1 And on top of all of that, every single quarter gets worse. So they score seven and a half points in the first, 5.7 in the second, 5.5 in the third, 4.7 in the fourth.

Speaker 1 Okay, so they need to drink more water is what I'm hearing. I'm just saying, those are stats.
Stay hydrated. I know that we have a big game coming up.
It's Bears-Packers. I'm sure.

Speaker 1 Listen, people will throw this back in my face. Whether the Bears win or lose on Sunday, what I just said stays true.
So they stuck in the fourth quarter, is what I'm hearing.

Speaker 1 Why don't you just have the scoreboard operator in Chicago? It's in Chicago? No. Oh, it's in fuck.
It's in Lambeau. Yep.
That's hometown cooking.

Speaker 1 Yeah, well, okay, on the sideline, just have everybody hold up your fours before every quarter. I'm just saying.

Speaker 1 And I know there will be people who are mad, but I'm just saying

Speaker 1 facts. And I'm sure that they've seen this.
They know this. If you've watched every Packer game, if you're a Packer fan, you know exactly what I'm saying right now.
I'm not doing it to be mean.

Speaker 1 I'm doing it because we talk about every team, and I happen to think that a 10-3 team should not have half of their quarters where they score three points or zero points. That's weird.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's very strange. Their new motto, though, is Aaron Rodgers has a new thing that he's going to say.
You ready for it? Yeah. We need to win ugly.
And they won ugly.

Speaker 1 Well, that's what they do every single week. They're going to win very, very ugly.
Mike Lennon, he's made a career out of that. They're going to win very, very ugly because that was...

Speaker 1 Not to toot our own horn, but we actually kind of predicted exactly how that game was going to go because the Redskins kept the Redskins can stay in games by just running the football and shortening it and like punting it they have good special teams they punt it and then they flip the field and they just play that game until the clock hits zero and they've only lost by six and you're like wait right that happened right i do want to give a shout out to Callahan the interim head coach for making absolutely no effort whatsoever to even have a controversy about him keeping the job going at the same time.

Speaker 1 Oh, he doesn't.

Speaker 1 He's like, he's house sitting right now.

Speaker 1 He's He's like, my job is to just water the plants.

Speaker 1 I'll flush the pipes out every now and again. Maybe have one party where I break a few things with my quarterback's leg.

Speaker 1 But yeah, for the most part, he's just like, I'm going to keep the lights on, and that's all they're paying me to do.

Speaker 1 He's the beta guy who comes over for the Super Bowl party and tries to sit on the couch. Then you walk over, you're like, hey, man, can I get my seat back? He's like, yeah, yeah, no problem.

Speaker 1 Yeah, sorry. Can I catch you anything? Yeah.
Yeah, that's what he's doing right now.

Speaker 1 Okay. Bears, Packers, Sunday.
It's Packers hate week. We'll see.
We'll see.

Speaker 1 Like I said,

Speaker 1 I don't think the Packers, I think putting them in the same boat as the Seahawks. They're a step below the 49ers

Speaker 1 and the Saints in terms of teams that are like at that extra level where they have it all. Back on the Dwayne Haskins thing for a second.

Speaker 1 He continues to make the smallest incremental improvements in his stat lines and in his performances week after week after week.

Speaker 1 But we're never going to know this season if he's going to be the guy of the future or not.

Speaker 1 And this is the most Redskins thing ever because what's going to happen is the Redskins are going to finish with a very high draft pick.

Speaker 1 They're probably going to reassign Bruce Allen, which just means, I don't know, like just being a full-time drinking buddy of Dan Snyder.

Speaker 1 But he might not be the general manager next or he might not be the vice president or president of football operations. So they might be in a position to draft another quarterback.
And I have no,

Speaker 1 I have no doubt in my mind that they're going to pick the wrong quarterback. And just have just have two quarterbacks that aren't the answer at the same time back-to-back years.

Speaker 1 Well, just keep taking quarterbacks every single year. Just take a quarterback every draft pick.
Ryan Pace actually said that when he became the Bears GM, he wanted to take a quarterback every year.

Speaker 1 Didn't happen.

Speaker 1 It sounds a lot better, but teams should be smart and start taking a quarterback every single year. Whether it be in the sixth, seventh round, doesn't matter.
Just keep taking shots at it.

Speaker 1 Okay, Lions, Vikings. This game, we had a couple this game happened games today.

Speaker 1 The Panthers, Falcons is another one we'll get to, but Lions, Vikings, Vikings, this game happened.

Speaker 1 The one thing about this game is the Lions didn't lead, and they led in every single other game this year besides this one. The Vikings bounce back against the Lions.

Speaker 1 It's a little bit of medicine for Kirk Cousins. They had a pretty good game.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Here's one thing about the Vikings looking forward to next week, even. They're one and six in Pacific and mountain time games under Zimmer.
So they're going out to San Diego to play the Chargers.

Speaker 1 That's a big-time close-your-eyes uniform game. Kirk Cousins in San Diego.

Speaker 1 Doesn't look right. Nope.
Does not look right. Mike Zimmer sucks in California.
Mike Zimmer probably just hates being in California. He's going to have to wear sunglasses.

Speaker 1 Disdain at the entire state. Yeah, that's going to be.
And the Chargers, a little bit of a.

Speaker 1 The Chargers have a better point differential, and that would obviously help today because they blew out the Jaguars than the Seahawks. Yeah,

Speaker 1 the Chargers have like a plus 38 or something.

Speaker 1 They're having a classic Chargers season where they're just bad enough to miss the playoffs and just good enough to be like, man, they should have made the playoffs.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Phillip Rivers is doing an awesome job of making sure that the Chargers are just good enough where they won't be able to draft a good quarterback next year to replace him. All right.

Speaker 1 The best game in the one o'clocks, the best game of Sunday, and the biggest game with the biggest implications, the 49ers and the Saints. This game, this was a snowball game where they just decided

Speaker 1 everything's going to be thrown out the window here. You have a good defense.
We have a good defense. Let's pretend that neither defense is good and score a shitload of points.

Speaker 1 If you can be in the zone coaching, Kyle Shanahan was in the zone coaching because

Speaker 1 they had 500 yards, 500 plus yards in the dome. And shout out our guy, George Kittle.

Speaker 1 Big time players make big time plays.

Speaker 1 Him getting just ripped to shreds by his face mask and still running down the field.

Speaker 1 He was like an angry angry bull on like the PBR tour when they start, when they get it in that little confined space and he's just losing his mind. That's what he looked like

Speaker 1 when everyone was just grabbing and prodding at him and he got a 39-yard pass completion on fourth and two with 15 yards tacked on.

Speaker 1 He looks like he's in a fight every time he has the ball in his hand. He looks like he's in a 2.30 a.m.
drunken brawl at like a fast food restaurant where trays and shit are flying over the place.

Speaker 1 He's just, he knows where he has to end up, and he's just going to fight every guy to get there.

Speaker 1 It's fun watching him run. Yeah.
That was the play of the game, obviously.

Speaker 1 A beast.

Speaker 1 I feel like the Saints play three games a year where they score 43 points, 45 points, and lose.

Speaker 1 It was a snowball game, though. It just started, and there was a couple crazy plays to start, and then it was like, okay, things are just going to go this way.

Speaker 1 You see Big 12 games get like this, and you're like, all right, last team with the ball will win.

Speaker 6 We're going to say hey. It's going to score Gonny game as well.
Was it?

Speaker 1 48-46. Never happened, but we were witnessing.
This This is a history.

Speaker 1 So this also was your answer to can Jimmy G win a big game? Yeah.

Speaker 1 He had to throw the ball. He won a big game.
He threw it well. Is it me or does the Saints defense play better when Teddy Bridgewater is a quarterback? I don't know.

Speaker 1 Do they? I feel like they do. Maybe.
Because they know that they're not going to outscore anybody. They were.

Speaker 1 Like I said, I think it really comes down to it. I think the Saints defense is not bad.
In fact, they're good. Right.
Kyle Shanahan was just in the zone. Right.

Speaker 1 Like Kyle Shanahan was calling shit that just worked non-stop. I think both defenses are in the top 10 or top 7 in the NFL.
But for whatever reason, they were just like, yeah, you know what?

Speaker 1 We're just going to score points. Yeah,

Speaker 1 let's just have a good old-fashioned shootout.

Speaker 1 So what this game means, if you are the one or two seed, you're seven times more likely to go to the Super Bowl. And the Saints as a franchise are seven and four in the playoffs at home.

Speaker 1 and one and seven on the road. And this means now,

Speaker 1 crazy as it may seem, the Saints are the three seed. So they just bumped down from the one to the three, and the Packers are the two, and the 49ers are the one.
It's crazy. That is crazy.

Speaker 1 And now, is this another example of a hangover loss for the state of Louisiana where they're riding high off an SEC championship game? Most of those fans are probably out partying.

Speaker 1 They probably didn't go to sleep last night. They were loud.
Just stayed drunk, so maybe the first half. wasn't as loud as it needed to be.

Speaker 1 It was a great game. I hope that we have this game.

Speaker 1 Like a rematch of this in the playoffs would be fantastic um and i this the 49ers have gone through just a gauntlet schedule i mean they didn't they haven't been home they were played in baltimore last week they went and they went to florida they went to the panhandle for the entire week so they haven't even been home are they going home now i think they are going i think they are finally gonna go home i think their schedule uh lightens up at least a little it has to lighten up a little it can't get any worse yeah no because they just have gone off of like they i think they've played all the first-place teams so they have the falcons at home and the Rams at home, and then they finish against the Seahawks.

Speaker 1 So, yeah, I mean, this is a statement. This is the, you look for these wins when you're the one-seed or the two-seed and you're like, are we for real? These type of wins are the, are we for real wins?

Speaker 1 And this is the one. So I think if you ask any 49ers fan or anyone in that organization, you're going away for two weeks.
You're not going to come home inexplicably.

Speaker 1 You're going to stay in the panhandle. You've got to play the Ravens in Baltimore and the Saints in New Orleans.
You get a split. I think they take it.
Yeah, absolutely.

Speaker 1 Yeah, winning one of those two games.

Speaker 1 Then they have the Falcons next week. They only lost by three to the Ravens.
So they basically have gone toe-to-toe with everyone important in the NFL.

Speaker 1 Kyle Shanahan revenge game next week against the Falcons at home.

Speaker 1 I think the 49ers are going to put up like 50 points again. I agree.
I agree. That's going to be a fight.
And the Dan Quinn. And they're going to be staying at home

Speaker 1 at Rice and Roni. That's the field goal revenge game.
That's where the famous field goal happened. It was against the 49ers.
So it'll be 51-3.

Speaker 1 We'll have to see if that's a score, Gami. All right.
Next up, speaking of field goals,

Speaker 1 Dan Quinn,

Speaker 1 I would imagine Dan Quinn after the game tonight, like his honey was like, his wife was like, honey, do you want your favorite dish? And he's like, nope. I just want to see the Jets Dolphins tape.

Speaker 1 Because the Dolphins attempted the impossible. They attempted to beat a team by only kicking field goals.
They kicked seven field goals.

Speaker 1 The fact, the score of 21 and having it be seven field goals is so fucking funny.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 the Jets win on a last-second field goal, so there's 10 total in the game. My question is, do you think there's anyone out there, and we don't care about fantasy, but it is fantasy football playoffs.

Speaker 1 Do you think there's anyone out there who won their fantasy football playoffs because of Jason Sanders? Do you think anyone has Jason Sanders? Yes, I'm sure.

Speaker 1 I'm sure it happened because you saw that they were going up against the Jets. So that would be...
But there's not

Speaker 1 if you're in a 10 or 12 team league, you're not. Do you think the Dolphins kickers owned? Hank, find out how many percentage

Speaker 1 is owned. I think that you pick them.
It might be one of those leagues where you pick up whoever is playing against the Jets. Okay.
One of those type of things. I don't know.
I mean, yeah.

Speaker 1 But it'd be like 35 points. Could you imagine if you lost? Like, this is why fantasy football sucks because at the end of the season, you go to the playoffs and something like this can happen.

Speaker 1 And you're like, what the fuck? I really wish I had bet my over three and a half field goal bet in this game. That would have been really nice.
Carryover would have absolutely crushed it.

Speaker 1 Do we now, the weirdest thing with the NFL is rules that made no sense now make less sense because

Speaker 1 we are now overturning PI. It's a new fact.
Yeah. We're trying it.
I think it's going to over all season long.

Speaker 1 No pass interferences were ever overturned or called when it was challenged because it hadn't been called on the field.

Speaker 1 This game was decided essentially from an overturn, and Brian Floor has gotten big mad. Well,

Speaker 1 it's like having a really strict teacher. It's always easier to let the rules relax as the year goes on.

Speaker 1 So like, first day of school, Nicole Kidman marches and she like wraps you up, or Michelle Pfeiffer, right? Daniel Michael, she beats the shit out of all our students with rulers and stuff.

Speaker 1 And then by the end, hey, you can write, you can do your assignment on Bob Dylan,

Speaker 1 and all the kids are like, oh, yeah, Bob Dylan, that folk artist we all know.

Speaker 1 So it's one of these things where Roderick Dill at the start was like, we're not going to overturn shit. And then we'll see who starts to stop challenging.

Speaker 1 And then we're going to gradually relax and give you a little bit. What this is all leading to is the Saints to get absolutely boned by a pass interference that does not get overturned in 17.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and everyone to make the same joke online. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Oh, did you see the Saints, though? They hacked the or the 49ers hacked the rule book by committing pass interference on a punt. On a punt, you can do that.
Yeah. You can do anything.

Speaker 1 Nick Saban would have flipped his shit on. International water.
You can do whatever he wants. It's the purge.
It's incredible. You can murder a gunner.

Speaker 1 You can take out that knife that we talk about, the secret knife, and you can stab a gunner if they're in the punt for if the punter's on the field.

Speaker 1 it was also that play was so perfect because you get it very few times in the football season you get to basically flex on idiots online and if you didn't have the sound on for that game like i saw jason mcintyre instantly was like why wouldn't they challenge that and people were just responding like dude you don't know the rules you can't you you can do whatever you want on a punt formation which no one knew the rules we had just heard them say it dean blandino explained it to us but for those like two minutes, you were the master of all knowledge.

Speaker 1 Right. While everyone else tried to figure it out.
Right. When Kenny Albert explains it to you, and then you can explain it as somebody that doesn't know.

Speaker 1 Everyone in the house, you're like, hey, listen up. I got a new rule for you, idiots.
Yeah, it's great. What do you got, Hank? Do you have him? Jason Sanders, not even owned.

Speaker 1 Not even, can't even find him.

Speaker 6 I got distracted with my. I was looking at my fantasy team.

Speaker 1 Oh, how it did. Okay, cool.
How'd you do it?

Speaker 1 Perfect. Did you win? I had no hope for you.
No, we don't care. We don't care, Hank.
By the way, Brian Flores.

Speaker 6 Well, I realize it's a two-week playoff system. I was very confused.
What? It's a different league. Okay.

Speaker 1 Brian Flores, there's a difference between being

Speaker 1 mad when you're at the end of your coaching tenure for a team and being mad at the beginning. Like that mad was, I'm just defending my guys.
We're trying to win football games here.

Speaker 1 We're trying to build something.

Speaker 1 If it's flash forward like four years from now and he's mad and they still haven't won any games, it's like Brian Flores, that guy's got a temper and he's got to go.

Speaker 1 Well, this mad was Brian Flores being mad because a loss here means that maybe some of his guys, his assistants, might not come back next year.

Speaker 1 So he's like getting mad at the refs for ruining his guys who worked hard for him in the build-up and the prep for that week. And then they had to go out there and lose to the Jets.

Speaker 1 Did you see Robbie Anderson tried to do the hurdle today? Yeah. And he just got absolutely destroyed.
He got smoked because Robbie Anderson, I don't know how big he is.

Speaker 1 He's probably like, he's a little guy, right? No, he's tall. Is he? He's slender.
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. So

Speaker 1 nobody's nobody's afraid to go up high tackling robbie anderson yeah so i don't know why he thought he could teabag him and just like jump nuts first he's uh 0.5 percent honed there we go so i i'm gonna safely say that no one lost our league because of it that's no that's just incorrect i mean that 0.5ami tells me that someone show us send it to us but 0.5 is

Speaker 1 no one has it because they're like fuck it the dolphins kicker now people are going to try lightning in a bottle and pick him up we should pick him up in our league uh pft you got a couple ads for us Yes, I do.

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Speaker 1 the greatest performance we've ever seen by the one and only Jameis Winston. Oh my God.
This was,

Speaker 1 this was it. This was it.
This was his peak performance. This was like you can name whatever band you want to name their best year, their best album.

Speaker 1 If you want to talk about, you know, like a pitcher having a 21 season and a two ERA, whatever it may be, your best year in your life, I'm sure you can think of it like, that's the year I crushed it.

Speaker 1 That was this game for Jameis Winston. He did the full Jameis Winston.
It was beautiful. He had the literal Jameis Winston hat trick where he had over three touchdowns and three interceptions.

Speaker 1 And he started the game off by throwing an interception. And Jameis is the king of that.
First pass. He leads the league in my own personal stat book on game opening interceptions.

Speaker 1 You just, you undersold his performance, though, because

Speaker 1 he had 456 yards. He had four touchdowns passing.
He had one running where he did the awkward, like, Jameis Winson doesn't do dive-ins like the Tom Brady dive.

Speaker 1 He does a stand-up where he kind of just shoves. They have like a shoving match until he kind of falls in.
He had one of those. He had three interceptions.
He had a pretty much broken hand.

Speaker 1 They benched him for a drive. It was a small fracture, which is kind of a bitty bitty fracture.
Because

Speaker 1 no matter what type of fracture it is, when you have hands the size of a three-year-old, it's always going to be a small fracture.

Speaker 1 It's a cute one. He took himself out of the game with his small fracture

Speaker 1 and then put himself back in. He's like, you know what? It's broken, but I still think that my broken hand is really.

Speaker 1 You're not able to tell the difference between Jameis Winston with a hand that's been smashed by like a ball peen hammer or Jameis Winston with a fully healthy hand.

Speaker 1 Yeah, like, what's the worst that's going to happen? He's going to fumble in a hilarious fashion. I wouldn't want that to happen.

Speaker 1 He had a comeback of four. He was down 14 in the second half, comes back and wins the game.
They go,

Speaker 1 he had his best receiver go out with a hamstring. It was Jameis on steroids.
I loved every second of it.

Speaker 1 The fact that he had 456 yards, five touchdowns, and three interceptions, he just, you know how there'll be guys who

Speaker 1 like, you're like, yeah, it doesn't really show up. What he does doesn't really show up in the box score.
Everything Jameis does shows up in the box score.

Speaker 1 His box score, his stat line is a fucking party every single week. It's an adventure.
You look at that. It's a diary.
It's a perfect diary of how he spends his time on the field.

Speaker 1 I look at Jameis Winston's game log, and I always, I'll go and look at the game summary, and I'll see the initial line, and then I have to scroll down because you've got to see how many times he ran the ball, how many times, like he probably ran it six times for two yards, how many fumbles he had and fumbles for a lot.

Speaker 1 It's a roller coaster of emotions. I love Jameis Winston.
He also,

Speaker 1 I don't think he has ever seen a linebacker in his life. All of his interceptions are exactly the same.
It's a linebacker that he just never saw was there.

Speaker 1 You know how we joke about Jameis Squinston? Like, I don't think he,

Speaker 1 is there something like middle

Speaker 1 blindness? Mike, like short-sighted and long-sighted.

Speaker 1 He doesn't see the middle linebacker. He just can't see it.

Speaker 1 It's like he just doesn't see that level of the defense ever. Yeah, it's exactly in between.
It was the near-sighted Mr. Magoo or whatever.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 The guy that would go up and pet a cactus thinking was a cat. Yeah, Jameis.
You're right. He's got good launcher.
He can air the ball out. He can hit a guy 50 yards down.
I love him. I love him.

Speaker 1 He's not bad on a screen pass either. He is.
I'm going to say this. This is going to be very high praise.
And I don't mean everyone relax because I'm not meaning like he's as good as this person.

Speaker 1 But I think Jameis Winston is our Big Ben air apparent. Okay.
Okay. Well, they've got similar legal histories.
Yep. Yep.
They're just, you know, off sketchy off-field stuff.

Speaker 1 They have the classic, like, they're never fully down on the field. There's so many plays where Jameis Winston has six guys around him, and then he just kind of emerges from it.
A little chubby.

Speaker 1 A little chubby.

Speaker 1 Every single throw they throw has 100% confidence behind it. They've got very sweaty faces, too.
Yes.

Speaker 1 He is.

Speaker 1 We need someone that we can laugh with, laugh at, laugh with, have ups and downs. And Big Ben's getting to the end.

Speaker 1 I think Jameis, if God willing, he's in the league for another decade because he is, and I said this a million times, but he is the funniest quarterback I've ever watched.

Speaker 1 Yes, live, laugh, love Jameis. I want him on the Bears.
I don't think you do. I do.

Speaker 1 I think you get sick of it. You've already had Rex Grossman.
Yeah, but

Speaker 1 it's Rex Grossman times two. What you're getting with Jameis is like Rex Grossman on the world's shittiest steroids.
No, but Rex Grossman's fumbles weren't funny like Jameis's. They were pretty funny.

Speaker 1 He was a fumble six guy. Yeah, but Jameis.

Speaker 1 When his arms flail and everything, it's just, I just love him. Do you have an AFC team? I love them.

Speaker 1 If you were one of those guys that are like, well, I'm a Bears fan, but the Chargers are my AFC team, then that's the team that you would want to. Jameis on the Chargers.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you don't want him too close to your heart.

Speaker 1 You don't want to live and die with Jameis because you're just getting brought back to life and shot in the temple every single Sunday, multiple times. I love him.
And you know what?

Speaker 1 You'd regret that. You know what? What I'm saying is you would regret having Jameis as your main bitch.
You need Jameis as your guma. Okay, fine.
That's fine. So maybe I'll just be a Jameis guy.

Speaker 1 Like wherever he goes, I'll be there. Not actually, but in spirit.
What are you going to say?

Speaker 6 One of one-of-one Jameis guys?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Me and the one-of-one, who is...

Speaker 1 He was doing like weird.

Speaker 1 His emojis are a little out of hand. Wait, you're telling me that the guy that

Speaker 1 dedicated his entire life to

Speaker 1 how great Jameis Winston is might have a couple screws? I'm starting to think this guy might not have it all up there. Okay? I'm not fully there yet.

Speaker 1 I'm not going to say it all the way. I feel bad for Frank Reich.
Can I just say that? Because he's... Oh, I don't.
To me, he is losing his mojo.

Speaker 1 He looks like he's got the lowest T of any coach in the league right now. He looks like an upset hardware store manager

Speaker 1 when teens come in and don't know the difference between different types of reciprocating saws. He's just always just staring out on the field,

Speaker 1 looking longingly

Speaker 1 for something better. I got you.

Speaker 1 This Colts season, they've lost five of the last six. They've lost all their mojo.
But it's okay because they can throw it all back to this was the season Andrew Luck retired.

Speaker 1 No, you're right, but it's fine.

Speaker 1 In the big picture, it's all good. In the big picture, you're absolutely right because there were no expectations.
Right, and then there were.

Speaker 1 So they got to go back to none. But it's still sad looking at him on the sidelines, just like a wet cat just standing there looking disappointed.

Speaker 1 That also. It's a disappointed father.
There's certain, like, a loss in Tampa Bay in December when everyone's not used to like warm weather always looks different. Always looks different.

Speaker 1 He looks like a dad whose daughter brought home Ben Roethlisberger on a date. I was like, here, dad, meet your boyfriend.
Yeah, brought home Jameis.

Speaker 1 Yeah, the Colts are done. That was nice for a little bit, but I really wrote that down.
I was like, this was the season Andrew Luck retired.

Speaker 1 Anything bad that happened this season, yeah, it started off with some hope, but now you can just be like, yeah, guess what? That was a season Andrew Luck retired. It's not a big deal.

Speaker 1 Quentin Nelson is bodying punters and almost killed that guy. Yeah, Yeah, he looked like he wanted to snap it, which he probably could.
Yeah, oh, absolutely. So the Bucs.

Speaker 1 I think if you're allowed, if you're able to rip a man in half, you should be allowed to do that. On the field.
Yeah, it's just like if you've

Speaker 1 if your body has achieved that level of peak male performance, you should be able to exercise it as you see fit. I don't hate that.

Speaker 1 The Bucs are going to finish 9-7. I told you this last week.
They have the at the Lions.

Speaker 1 They have the Texans and the Falcons. Texans at home.
I mean, I don't trust the Texans. We're going to get to them next, but I don't trust the Texans at all.

Speaker 1 So if the Bucs finish 9-7, and that would mean that they have won six games in a row, you have to keep Jameis. Have to.
Even if they finish 8-8.

Speaker 1 Right? Yeah, no, I think you're right. So they're keeping him.
I think they're going to keep him. But they're in that weird spot.
And, you know, Stephen Shea, number one Bucs fan. Oh, was that.

Speaker 1 Was that just.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Johnny Banana.
What just happened?

Speaker 1 Hank's girlfriend's on

Speaker 1 American Ninja Warrior.

Speaker 6 It's the show before the show, but yeah. First look, Johnny Bonanas.
The pre-show.

Speaker 1 She's on the ANW pre-show. So if you're a Bucs fan, you're kind of screwed now because you probably don't.
Like, we love Jameis because he's not ours.

Speaker 1 Like you were saying, I don't want him on the Bears.

Speaker 1 If you're a Bucs fan.

Speaker 1 You have to keep Jameis if they finish off the season with six straight wins. Uh-huh.
Yeah, no, you absolutely do have to do that. So you're screwed.
You're just going to go back.

Speaker 1 Jameis is going to be around. You're going to go nine and seven again next year.
Love it. But you'll make memories that

Speaker 1 last a lifetime. Yes.
Because you don't forget Jameis Winston. No.
He does not fall to the ages. Again,

Speaker 1 he is a party in the

Speaker 1 stat book. You know what he's like?

Speaker 1 He's like a friend that has a really cute dog that you get to go over and play with sometimes, but is really poorly behaved and tears up the couch and shit at its own home. You just want to go over.

Speaker 1 Maybe you can leave behind.

Speaker 1 You want to follow him on Instagram and boop him occasionally.

Speaker 1 I want to do more. You don't want to pet somebody.
I don't want to

Speaker 1 sleep in your bed. You don't want to let him sleep in your bedroom unless he can go under the covers.
No, trust me. Don't let Jameis in your bed.
All right.

Speaker 1 So the Texans.

Speaker 1 Ultimate Texans game. Broncos, Texans.

Speaker 1 Just when you think that the Texans could be for real,

Speaker 1 let's have some tough talk with Texans fans right now.

Speaker 1 You guys, this is why no one ever takes you for real. This is a, you hear announcers say, this is the kind of game that you have to win if you want to be a contender in the National Football League.

Speaker 1 Like, you're coming off a big win, right? You're feeling pretty good about yourself. The great teams

Speaker 1 find a good way to beat the Broncos. Now, I will say this about the Broncos.

Speaker 1 I called Drew Locke being good, and he is good. Make no mistake about it.
He's not lucky. What did you call it? He's not lucky.
He is very good this offseason. Oh.
Before the draft, even. Oh.

Speaker 1 He is very good. He is lucky.
I take that back, actually. He's lucky, but he's consistently lucky in all the ways that you see.
Wait, who said he was lucky? He's occasionally lucky.

Speaker 1 Oh, I think he's good. I agree with you.
No, he's good, but he's also, you can tell when a quarterback is really good is when they're consistently lucky at everything that they do.

Speaker 1 He finds himself in the right place at the right time. He locates the balls really well, and he's got the M-word.
He's got Moxie. Yeah, he does have Moxie.

Speaker 1 He actually made history today. He was the first quarterback to score to throw for 300 yards, three touchdowns plus in his first road start.

Speaker 1 So, John Elway,

Speaker 1 listen, just keep taking shots at it, and eventually you're going to find a guy, and I think you might have found a guy. Well, Drew Lock is also doing something really, really smart right now.

Speaker 1 And for the last two games, he has been really good about finding players that his current GM has brought in and making them look good. Yeah, no fan.

Speaker 1 And that's going to give you a lifetime's worth of credibility with John Elway.

Speaker 1 If you make John Elway look like he's competent, he's like, I don't know what this guy's doing, but he makes me feel smart, so I'm going to keep him around. All my draft picks look good.

Speaker 1 So today, Noah Fan, he hit him for, what, like 130, 140 yards or something like that. Cortland Sutton had a big game last week.
So he's completing passes to the right guys to make his bosses happy.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 I guess he's the guy. I actually,

Speaker 1 if you're going to suck, you might as well have a quarterback that you feel good about going forward. And

Speaker 1 I think that is Drew Locke. And it's kind of crazy that

Speaker 1 they even are going to consider. I mean, knowing John L.
Way, he'll probably just be like, Joe Flacco, let's do it again. Yeah, you look healthy again.
Like,

Speaker 1 he'll do something to fuck this up because I can't just, in my heart of heart, think that John Elway has solved the quarterback situation. That makes no sense to me.
Well, let's think.

Speaker 1 What would the ultimate John Elway moves be this offseason? He would bring in Nick Foles, probably, right?

Speaker 1 He would bring in Tom Brady. He could talk himself into Phillip Rivers.
Yep. Easily.
Yep. He's probably already got a locker with Philip Rivers.

Speaker 1 He's been texting with him. Are the Broncos officially the team you don't want to play down the stretch? Yes.

Speaker 1 There's always one. If there's Drew Locke, because

Speaker 1 he's got the it factor. He passes the eyeball test.

Speaker 1 He does throw a nice ball. But back to the Texans real quick.
What do you do if you're the Texan? I mean, now they could lose the AFC South. Yeah.
You realize that.

Speaker 1 They played the Titans twice in the last three weeks, and the Titans are the hottest team in football. I don't like that.
I don't like that scheduling thing. That's crazy.
Like, they,

Speaker 1 this is, Hank, you always make this joke as a Patriots fan, but, like, there's at least a decent chance that the Texans could miss the playoffs and have it be like, well, they won the Super Bowl against the Patriots on that Sunday night game.

Speaker 1 As far as their fans are concerned, yeah. They, they are, I mean, it's crazy that they're playing the Bucs.
So they play the Titans. Titans next week.
Titans, Bucs, Titans. Those aren't easy.
Yeah.

Speaker 6 Their defense will be dressed up funny, though.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you can't show up for a game wearing average shows shirts and then play with the game. Those aren't easy games.

Speaker 1 So, yeah, I also, the Texans, if you're looking to bet on the Texans ever, just see if Will Fuller's playing because they're so much better when he's playing. He didn't play today.

Speaker 1 Their offense looked terrible. I mean, credit to the Broncos' defense for playing well.
But

Speaker 1 I feel like every time he plays, they're just a completely different offense than when he's out. And he's out.

Speaker 1 He's out a lot. All the time.
The announcer in the first half made an interesting comment. He said that Romeo Cornell, the defensive coordinator

Speaker 1 on the Texans, would be in the Hall of Fame if there was a Hall of Fame for assistant coaches, which is just an awesome idea that I think we should probably get around to making.

Speaker 1 Hall of Fame for everything. Just all the Ryans,

Speaker 1 the Buddies, the Rexes, the Robs.

Speaker 1 Todd Haley would probably be in there. Yep.
Todd Haley.

Speaker 1 Yeah, there's a bunch of Dave Taub, the special teams coordinator, who's with the Bears. Then I think he's with the Chiefs now.

Speaker 6 Mike Tomlins twin.

Speaker 1 Mike Tomlins twin. Just cuz.
Pete Carroll's twin. Pete Carroll's twin.
In.

Speaker 1 Yeah, there's a lot of them out there. There's a lot of twins that got to go in.

Speaker 1 Deuce.

Speaker 1 He's got some work to do.

Speaker 1 But for right now.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Todd Bowles.
Todd Bowles is a classic guy who's. Great head coach, too, though.
That's the thing about Todd Bowles.

Speaker 1 Underqualified

Speaker 1 coach.

Speaker 1 Underqualified

Speaker 1 head coach, overqualified GM, or assistant coach. Like, he's a great assistant coach and should be a head coach until he is a head coach.
And you're like, nope, that doesn't work.

Speaker 1 He's the Peter principal, which is you get promoted in life until you reach a level of incompetence and then you get sent back down to where you should be.

Speaker 1 Where you should be exactly there and be good at your job here.

Speaker 1 All right. Let's see.
Next up, let's actually, let me do a quick ad read, and then we will go to, we have the late games.

Speaker 1 We also have that Panthers-Falcons game, which, again, it happened. Do we need to discuss that one? No,

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Code PMT. Panthers, Falcons.
It's a game that happened. Falcons haven't quit on Dan Quinn.
That's all I'll say.

Speaker 1 Young Hui Ku is doing everything on that kickoff unit. He recovered.
I think he recovered a fumble, right? Boom. Boom.
That's awesome. Coup.
Wait, that's pretty cool. Yeah, it's pretty cool.

Speaker 1 So, yeah, it was 20 to 40. The other thing about this game, Cleep Blakeman fucked me over again.
He's on fire. Cleep Blakeman is on fire the last two weeks.
Did you ever see

Speaker 1 that? No. See, the dangerous thing about your DMs being open is that I feel like people send you stats and they know that you're not going to look it up, which I wouldn't either.

Speaker 1 So I'm not blaming you, but we got to. No, I'm not to blame for you.
People are not to blame for this. No, people are taking advantage of you.

Speaker 1 And then by proxy, taking advantage of me, because you tell me the stats, and then I do it too. Well, let's see.
Cleep Blakeman, NFL official statistics. I mean,

Speaker 1 it's a problem.

Speaker 1 I love that Pro Football Reference has stats that they keep for ref. That's great.
But yeah, I think that... Cleep Blakeman should be.
I think we're marks. Cleek Blackman.
Is what I'm saying.

Speaker 1 When we're talking about Todd Bowles and the Peter principal, Cleep Blakeman, his career should have capped out at being the referee for the Dr. Pepper halftime scholarship challenge.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Being one of those guys that just raises his hand up and counts every single bowl. I love those guys.
But it's, I think people are taking advantage of us.

Speaker 1 When they send you those stats that are completely random and we don't look them up, and then it's like, oh, the next two games, it goes exactly opposite. Well, I'll show them.

Speaker 1 I'm not going to bet on a single Cleep Blakeman game for the rest of the year. That's a lie.

Speaker 1 All right, Chargers, Jaguars.

Speaker 1 38th birthday for Phil Rivers. Happy birthday, Phil.
Love you, Phil. I love a good birthday game, right? And he was awesome.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's the opposite of Jake Delone when he threw like four interceptions and four.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he was awesome.

Speaker 1 The Jaguars have quit, fully 100% quit because you can tell when a team quits, when they just give up so many running, like big run plays and

Speaker 1 screens. Austin Eckler had 12 touches for 213 yards.
Yeah. So that's a team to quit.

Speaker 1 Well, what happened on one of those plays where he ran for like 70 yards and a touchdown, they got to Phillip Rivers and they hit him on a blitz, and then Eckler caught it and then just ran.

Speaker 1 Nobody came close to touching him.

Speaker 1 But the Jaguars kind of just stopped playing because they're like, that's awesome. We just hit Phillip Rivers.
Yeah, we got him.

Speaker 1 That counts as it's going to show up on that little under pressure stat thing that comes up on the broadcast. Yeah.
That's one knockdown on him. Birthday punches.
Birthday punches on Phil. Got him.

Speaker 1 And then Eckler's just sprinting 70 yards in the end zone unscathed. Yeah, so they're done.
They're done. Doug Marone's probably done.
Yeah. I hate to say it because I like Doug a lot.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and he's always welcome on the show, and he'll land on his feet because the coaching fraternity helps its own. He's from the Bronx, too.
Yeah, he's from the Bronx. He's a tough guys.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he went to high school with Diana Rossini's dad. That's right.
Yeah. Something like that.
Don't fight Jalen Ramsey. You can't fight.
Yeah, so he could kick anyone's ass.

Speaker 1 That's what we're saying. So the Jaguars, though, are a tragedy in championship windows.
Yes. When they were a quarter away.
What do you look at me like that for?

Speaker 1 When they're a quarter.

Speaker 6 For the record, I'm always looking at you.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I know, but you gave me... I know when you give me eyes.
You gave me eyes. Did you not give me eyes?

Speaker 6 Championship. Keep going.
I'll let you finish.

Speaker 1 They were very good for a while. When they won, when they that 2017 team, they were one quarter away from the Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 That defense was all young guys who you thought would be around around for a very long time, and they had the foundation built, and they had a future Hall of Fame quarterback and Blake Bortles, and you thought it was all going to work out, and here they are two years later, and it's a teardown.

Speaker 1 Not a rebuild, a teardown.

Speaker 1 So I do think that this is like, if you're a Jaguars fan, now obviously if you're a Jaguars fan, you know your history of your franchise and you're not actually thinking like we're going to be good for a sustained period of time.

Speaker 6 Yeah, that year was an anomaly more than anything. I don't think that was a good time.

Speaker 1 Their defense was special that that's year. But I don't think

Speaker 6 already the Jaguars will be. You can count them to be in the playoffs the next five years.

Speaker 1 I thought that their defense would keep them competitive in the next seasons going forward when you looked at their roster. They were one of the most talented rosters in the NFL.

Speaker 1 You know, like that brands. They're like the Pittsburgh Steelers, too.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's just,

Speaker 1 it happens so often in sports where you think that you have a young, good team built for like sustained

Speaker 1 playoff runs and then it can just all flip in two seconds. Do you not buy that? I don't buy it.

Speaker 1 You can't. Yeah, I mean,

Speaker 1 it's different.

Speaker 1 I understand what the Jaguars.

Speaker 1 I'm struggling with it right now.

Speaker 1 Right. I'm struggling with it right now because there could be a chance that the Bears with Khalil Mack and that whole defense could never be back in the playoffs.
So it happens. Right.

Speaker 1 I mean, the Jaguars, I agree with you, Big Cat. I think that they were a special team for a little bit.

Speaker 1 But when you have really, really good defenses like that, it's better if you don't have your starting quarterback that's taking paternity leave for six months and not showing up and arriving quarterback.

Speaker 1 I think they said quarterback. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Blake Borders would never take paternity leave. I was like, what? Never.
That's not in his bag of tricks.

Speaker 1 But like, they always felt like they were a little, they weren't as stable as the Bears defense. No, no.
And again, this franchises matter. Like, infrastructure matters.

Speaker 1 I'm not saying that Jaguars fans realistically thought that they were going to be awesome for the next five years, but in 2017, they had a defense that

Speaker 1 I would have said said was going to be good for the next three to four years at least. And if they could figure it out on offense, they would be good and they would be competing for playoff spots.

Speaker 1 It's falling apart very, very fast.

Speaker 1 And they've traded players, too. I want to put together a little study based on teams that are really good in warm weather towns.
So you start to enjoy a little bit of success.

Speaker 1 But Jacksonville is now Jacksonville. Jacksonville is also like, what can you enjoy? Well, it's North Florida.
It's the Canada of Florida. They don't want to go there.
Yeah, they got good beach bars.

Speaker 1 Correls is hanging out there a lot. Yeah.

Speaker 1 But if you have a nice, warm-weather town and you're like a dominant team for a season, I feel like that lends itself to teams fucking around. You know, getting a little careless in the offseason.

Speaker 1 Just being like having a few extra glasses of bubbly. Fuck it.
Let's do it.

Speaker 1 All right. Minshew Mania is over.
No, I don't think it's over. He just needs to surround himself with a competent running game.
I think that Leonard Fournette is just so goddamn frustrating. I mean,

Speaker 1 I feel like Minshew Mania, now he is a Moxie guy, but he's like, every single game, it's like four yards a pass. Well, when you say Minshew Mania, then of course it's not going to stick around.

Speaker 1 Nothing that's ever been a mania or a

Speaker 1 sanity was pretty cool for a while. But then they shot John Lennon.
Well,

Speaker 1 not the Beatles.

Speaker 1 And then Paul McCartney wrote that shitty Christmas song.

Speaker 1 So nothing good can stay if you call it a mania. A mania mania implies that you just go fucking nuts.
What about Hulka Mania? That's like the greatest mania of all time.

Speaker 1 That stayed around for a long time. Hulka Mania.
Well, then he started sleeping with his. Well, we don't have to get in that, but that was a long, that was a sustained mania.

Speaker 1 I think that was probably the longest mania. WrestleMania, still going? But that's only but once a year.
Yeah. And only lasts for three hours.
But it's mania.

Speaker 1 So Minshu mania could be great once a year. Beanie Baby Mania? Yeah, that's awesome.

Speaker 1 Someone's going to make a shitload of money off their beanie babies when that comes up.

Speaker 1 The bottom line is I like Minshew, but let's not call him a mania because that implies that it'll be a flash in the pan. I think that he'll stick around.
Okay, so, yeah, I mean, I don't.

Speaker 1 You think he's a starting quarterback? I do. I think Gardner Minshew is a starting quarterback.
I don't know. I think that'll stick around there.
I also like certain parts of their offense.

Speaker 1 I think he's actually exactly a mania. I think he's a perfect

Speaker 1 backup quarterback that will come in.

Speaker 1 We'll hear from him a few more times. He'll have a team for a year that's his team and maybe get to the playoffs.
But in terms of like, is he going to be a starting quarterback franchise guy? No.

Speaker 1 The problem with Minshew is he is he's very amaniable.

Speaker 1 So he, what? Anytime he plays really well, it becomes a mania. Yeah.
He's got like a mania aura about him where he's got the mustache, he's got the swagger. He gets you pumped.

Speaker 1 And so anytime he's playing well, it is amazing. So it's going to be a high and low.
It's going to be bipolar.

Speaker 1 His stat line today was very depressing, though. It was 24.

Speaker 1 24 pass completions for 162 yards. Yeah, it's not good.
Well, he also,

Speaker 1 he had a sweet touchdown pass to Nicole Leary, who people forget he doesn't wear gloves. Yeah.
So his skin. I love those guys.
His white skin blends in with the seams of the football.

Speaker 1 So it's tough to see where he's putting it. I would wear gloves just because if you dropped the ball without gloves, everyone would be like, you're an idiot.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Like, everyone's going to look at you and say, what kind of idiot wouldn't wear gloves? He's the gloveless guy. Right.
He's known as that. He's also Jack Nicholson's grandson or something like that.

Speaker 1 Really? Yeah. The golden bear? Yeah.
I think, yeah, no, the great white shark.

Speaker 1 Oh, we fuck that up every time. People get very upset.

Speaker 1 Okay, so Jaguars have quit. Just circle that because whatever the line is, just bet against the Jaguars.
They've quit. They've 100% quit.

Speaker 1 They actually, I think they play the Raiders next week. Go against them.
Quit. Because the Raiders did not quit on John Groot.
They're not going to quit on Groot. They can't.
They can't.

Speaker 1 They'll kill them. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 And Mark Davis will eat them.

Speaker 1 Titans Raiders.

Speaker 1 Derrick Henry season. Yep.
We're a Derrick Henry podcast.

Speaker 1 Tractor Cito. Tractor Cito.
People need to be just, every time they see a Titans game, just be like, Derrick Henry season.

Speaker 1 They're the hottest team in the NFL. It's crazy how good they have been the last month.

Speaker 1 Ryan Tannehill, 6-1 as a starter. Do you think Ryan Tannehill, Seat Geek Question, PFT, promo code take $10 off, SeatGeek question.

Speaker 1 Do you think Ryan Tannehill has started to buy some stuff with the money he's going to get from the Titans?

Speaker 1 I think they should franchise tag him, but as a safety after that hit that he laid on Hearst on the interception.

Speaker 1 That was quite a rundown that he had. But yeah,

Speaker 1 he's going to get very, very well paid. I wouldn't give him a long-term care.
He already was well paid because he's a first-round pick, but he's going to. But he's going to get a shitload of money.

Speaker 1 And he got the fifth-year option, right? Right. So he's made some money.
He's lived in Florida, no state income tax. Now he lives in Tennessee, no state income tax.
Oh, wow.

Speaker 1 He's making a shitload of money. Yeah, they're probably, if they're smart, they would franchise tag him.
Yeah. Because like with Ryan Tannehill, we wait for the next step.

Speaker 1 Now we're waiting for the other shoe. Right.
But he,

Speaker 1 I think, yeah, I think he goes out to dinner with his wife and he's like, yeah, you know what? Get two apps. Yeah, you know.
I'm 6-1 as a starter, bro. Lauren, tell you what.

Speaker 1 Why don't you go ahead, you buy a second AR-15 to leave in the trunk of a rental car? Fucking do it.

Speaker 1 You want another pair of super oversized brown boots for fall?

Speaker 1 My guess. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 Lauren Tannehill, that's her name, right? Yes. She strikes me as a big Christian girl audio.
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
She's just rolling around with

Speaker 1 pumpkin spice lattes in every cup holder in her giant SUV. Yeah, a lot of oversized sweaters in the Graham is popping in Nashville in the fall.
Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so Ryan Tannehill is now 6-1 as a starter. She probably has like nine pairs of cowboy boots that she buys for every day of the week.
Yep. Hats, jewelry all over the place.

Speaker 1 Just like 16 necklaces of varying lengths that she wears all at once. Yes, exactly.
Has a turtleneck of gold. Yeah,

Speaker 1 you can hear her coming. She's like a dog leash.

Speaker 1 No pigeons are going to get caught by Lauren Tannehill, that's for sure. Those squirrels will hear her coming.
So, yeah,

Speaker 1 the Titans might win the AFC South. This is crazy.

Speaker 1 Like we said, we will do the reverse, but they play the Texans twice down the stretch. And they also have the Saints, which would be a tough game, but it is in Nashville.

Speaker 1 You've got two Mike Vrabel revenge games. Two Mike Vrabel revenge games.

Speaker 1 Like, this is is crazy. Derrick Henry, he hurt his hamstring, didn't refuse to come out of the game, had 103 yards and a touchdown.
No one wants to tackle him in December.

Speaker 1 He doesn't even practice during the week now, which is that's good if you're the groundskeeper for the Titans practice facility.

Speaker 1 You don't have to worry about your turf getting chewed up by the tractor Cito. And he is, you're right.
It gets cold outside, and you don't want to put your helmet on him.

Speaker 1 You just, you want to run the other way. I think that this Texans game, this is a portal game for the Titans season.
I think if they beat the Texans on Sunday.

Speaker 1 I'm still not clear about the portal game. It means that basically if you win that game, everything else just happens after that.

Speaker 1 So if they win this game on Sunday against the Titans, the Texans, they're going to win the AFC South. Okay, if they win this game, they're going to win the AFC South.

Speaker 1 But that would mean that if they win this game, they're also going to win their last game. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Because

Speaker 1 the Titans have this... The Titans have...
the distinct feel of a team that fully believes they're not only good, but maybe even better than they are.

Speaker 1 Like, they believe that they are the best team in the league, which, if you can keep that rolling, is a dangerous thing. They're delusional.
Right.

Speaker 1 They're delusional, but if you're delusional enough in the NFL, then you're actually good. Correct.
You just have to be crazy enough to believe that you don't suck.

Speaker 1 Like, Ryan Tannehill right now thinks he's a franchise quarterback. Bottle that.
Keep it going. That's kind of like us.

Speaker 1 Like, we are so delusional in our own abilities that as long as we keep thinking that we don't suck as much as we do, we're actually good. Correct.
So we're doing that.

Speaker 1 We could all learn a lot about lying to ourselves.

Speaker 1 The

Speaker 1 NFL, oh, wow, Rhea is on TV right now. Oh, there's Fran.
Chris Fran. That's fan.
Shadow Chicks in the Office. Go listen to it right now.
Great podcast.

Speaker 1 Let me interrupt you real quick because we talked about this before when we were writing the Chris Berman stuff. The Titans' wide receivers have some great names.
Oh, yeah. So

Speaker 1 there's Kari Blazingame,

Speaker 1 Michael Pruitt,

Speaker 1 Anthony Firxer,

Speaker 1 Jonu Smith,

Speaker 1 Tajay Sharp, Khalif Raymond. And then

Speaker 1 their best receiver is A.J. Brown, which is very normal.
Yeah, everything else. He purposely didn't say

Speaker 1 his name. He had 150 yards.

Speaker 1 The NFL has done an injustice to us as fans. Do you know what I'm about to say?

Speaker 1 There's many.

Speaker 1 Hank has a lot of picture. Hank's taking a picture of the TV.
Hank's taking a picture of the TV. Oh, six girlfriend.
I got a girlfriend, but she's on TV.

Speaker 1 Relationship V.

Speaker 1 NFL has done us an injustice.

Speaker 1 When everyone's calling you, what did you say? Relationship Lockwood.

Speaker 1 Here's the injustice. The last game in the black hole is next Sunday.
Yeah, that sucks. It should have been flexed.
That sucks. It should have been flexed.
We should have had this on Saturday night.

Speaker 1 We should have had it where like everyone, a million crowd shots of Oakland. First 20,000 people get a gorilla suit.
Oh, we should have had beer bongs out of mannequins.

Speaker 1 We should have had people smoking weed.

Speaker 1 We should have had the time that, remember when Marshawn Lynch lit a blunt from Al Davis's Forever Flame or whatever you call the Eternal Flame? We need that again. We need them to be.

Speaker 1 Like, that happened. That was unbelievable.
That was unbelievable. They got to storm the field.
Yes. If they stormed the field in their last game, they're taking the goalpost with them.

Speaker 1 We need everything. We need people cheering.
We need a chant, like one more season. Or, you know, Mark Davis needs to get in his all-white suit and roll around and get grass stains.

Speaker 1 And John Gruden needs to hug everyone. And they need to take seats out.
Like, even though the A's still play there, just rip the place together. They would just burn it to the ground.
I need all that.

Speaker 1 And it's going to be a 405 game against the Jaguars that's just lost in history. But if they win, which they should win, then it'll be a nice celebration after.
I guarantee you,

Speaker 1 there will be multiple coffee cans worth of ashes from deceased Raiders fans' relatives that get spread all around the field. And still alive ones, too, because there's a lot of Raiders fans.

Speaker 1 I feel like the Raiders lead the league in amputees that they do beer bongs out of their false legs.

Speaker 1 And so they probably are like, oh, well, I actually cut my leg off so I could put my ashes onto the field. I'm still alive.
Yeah, they cut their leg off and then they burn it in Big Alice Flame.

Speaker 1 Right, right. And they're like, here we go.
So

Speaker 1 it's too late, but I just want to say it.

Speaker 1 I want my feelings to be said out loud that this is a travesty that we don't get one final night game in Oakland in primetime for the nation to watch and soak in.

Speaker 1 They should have made this the random Saturday game, Saturday night game in December, and let us just have it and let us fucking bask.

Speaker 1 Either that or give us a second Monday night football game, the late one. Yeah.
So the one that happens from like 11.30 until 1.30. Or have the Jaguars and Raiders.
Sergio dip out there for it.

Speaker 1 Have the Jaguars and Raiders play Monday Night Football Week 17 because you know they don't have Monday Night Football, but those two teams aren't going to playoffs. Right.

Speaker 1 That's the day where every coach gets fired. Right.
So who knows what's going to go down? Fuck. Why is Rhea running a train?

Speaker 1 Well, I didn't mean to say that. Yeah, wow.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's a nice change. Damn it.
You're going to say it's a nice change of pace? Damn. I saw the look in your eyes.
But she actually is like dr driving the train. That was.

Speaker 1 That's not what. That's what you meant.

Speaker 1 I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 Hank, I think she looks very. I'm sorry, Hank.

Speaker 1 You're watching what I'm watching.

Speaker 1 I said the wrong thing, but you know what I meant. Hank is staring down.
She was driving a train.

Speaker 1 Yep, she was.

Speaker 1 Hank, let's

Speaker 1 tell you what. Let's move on.
We'll cut that part. Get into something, make you feel better.
Let's talk about the Patriots.

Speaker 6 Hank? Let's talk about it.

Speaker 1 The refs?

Speaker 6 The refs fucked us.

Speaker 6 The Patriots still did not look good at all. I said it would depend how they lost, whether or not the Panic Button would be pulled out.
I think they fought hard in that game.

Speaker 6 They could have won if the refs didn't fuck them over like seven different times.

Speaker 1 They probably would have won.

Speaker 6 But the panic button has still, it's probably moved closer than it was a week ago.

Speaker 1 Okay, so it is now inside your house. It was sitting on the porch.
It's inside your house. It didn't really change anything for the standings.

Speaker 1 This is one of those weird games, too, where no one wants to hear Patriots fans complain about the refs, but objectively speaking, they were completely fucked over by the refs. Right.

Speaker 1 That Nikhil Harry touchdown. What was anyone looking at? Yeah, he was very clearly in balance.
And you're right.

Speaker 6 Three touchdowns in one drive that they took.

Speaker 1 Crazy. It doesn't slap the same when it's not like the Lions fans complaining about getting robbed by the officials again.
Right. But it was.

Speaker 1 Objectively speaking, very much. They got fucked.
And yes, it was bad. It's also a perfect example of how do we not have Sky Judge?

Speaker 1 Because Because the reason why they weren't able, they didn't have any challenges left. But

Speaker 1 the whole Saints thing in the NFC Championship game and the rule that has come out of it is that we don't ever want games decided by poor referee.

Speaker 1 And somehow we have not fixed that problem. It's actually become worse.
It's become worse.

Speaker 1 It's funny how when you try to write rules on top of rules, on top of rules, it's easy to actually have all those rules fuck everything up when just chaos is a little bit better.

Speaker 1 If there there were no rules that weren't getting screwed up, you'd at least understand and be like, this is, you know, this is the NFL. This is wild.
I love it. But yeah,

Speaker 1 so Sky Judge could easily have fixed that touchdown.

Speaker 1 The refs blew the whistle too soon on the Harry touchdown. Yeah.
And they blew the whistle too soon on the fumble recovery

Speaker 1 touchdown. Yes.
Just like if you're a ref, just never blow your whistle. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Nothing productive happens after you blow a whistle in an NFL game. And actually, a lot of things productive happen because we all get to just like cheer for plays and think they happen.

Speaker 1 And then, also, there's nothing more exhilarating than having that hope that maybe there's a review or a flag when a play goes bad for you. When you're like, oh no,

Speaker 1 wait, there's got to be a flag. There's got to be a flag.
There's got to be a review. Something's got to change.
And then to not have that is the worst feeling in the world. So, Hank,

Speaker 1 are you worried that your team runs a gimmick offense now?

Speaker 1 No. The only time you get big plays is if you do something totally like a flea flicker or some kind of gadget.
Scattered tree.

Speaker 1 Just gadget tree in general is a calling card of the Patriots' offense right now. Yeah.

Speaker 6 All I know is that it's hard to beat teams twice in the same season. And

Speaker 6 the Patriots have lost to the Chiefs, Ravens, Texans, pretty much anyone they would play in the playoffs.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I like that. If you lose to the Bills, you're basically set.
You're basically free and clear in the AFC playoff picture.

Speaker 1 That's a good question. I like that, Hank.
That is a really good spot. Really smart.

Speaker 1 Shout out to to the equipment managers on Kansas City for losing the bags. This is why you never check bags.

Speaker 1 This is why you always take your bags with you to the edge of the jetway and you make the flight attendant steal them out of your hand and say, sir, that giant 70-pound behemoth that you're carrying with you isn't going to fit on this 12-seater flight.

Speaker 1 And there's that moment where you have to give it up and you just lock eyes with the person. You're like, no, no, no, like this bag is going to be safe, right? It's going to be on this plane, correct?

Speaker 1 And they just didn't have anyone do that.

Speaker 1 So apparently they switched planes at some point, which I didn't know that NFL teams were like flying southwest, where they had to get to a city and then get on a new plane.

Speaker 1 But the bag, the equipment manager, I guess, didn't go down to make sure that the bags were offloaded and reloaded properly.

Speaker 1 So they ended up in New Jersey, and then they had to drive them to Foxborough. Is that what happened? Yeah.

Speaker 1 And it's crazy because they actually would have had to forfeit, which I didn't realize was a thing, but they would have had to forfeit.

Speaker 1 So if Patriots fans had banded together and blocked down I-95 today, the bags would have never gotten there, and the game wouldn't have been in the hands of the officials. Wow.

Speaker 1 Patriots fans could have won this game. Just steal all the bags?

Speaker 1 This happened to the Bulls in the 90s. Michael Jordan wore number 12 one game because they just didn't have jerseys.
Really? Yeah.

Speaker 1 So are we saying that everyone should be pro-stealing bags of your opponent's teams?

Speaker 1 Oh, if you see an equipment truck, if you see a shitload of bags with your opponent's logo on them and you you don't steal them, you're a bad fan. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yes, someone stole his jersey and he had to wear number 12. There's a picture of it.
It's pretty fucking funny. So someone stole just his jersey and he had to wear number 12.

Speaker 1 Someone's going to steal Eli Manning's jerseys and they're going to end up on sale on eBay in three weeks. His name's going to be Elizabeth.
So it's Archie Manning. He lives in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Speaker 1 That's a little fun trivia for you if you ever want to impress someone. What numbers has Michael Jordan worn? 45, 23.
Well, that's it.

Speaker 1 Oh, and 12. There you go.
You heard Kenny Albert say it. That's magic.

Speaker 1 I have a quick.

Speaker 1 Oh, shout out to the Chiefs.

Speaker 1 Actually, they did the anti-Tomlin where they were like, hey, remember when we played the Patriots in the AFC Championship game and we sat back and let them just cut us to death?

Speaker 1 As in the words of Trent Doper, death by a thousand cuts.

Speaker 1 They actually blitzed this time. So way to learn.
Good job. Also, they snapped the ball directly to Travis Kelsey on that goal on touchdown.
And you just know

Speaker 1 when you snap the ball directly to Kelsey, you see the little spark in his eye that he's ready to do some dumbass shit. Did you see?

Speaker 1 He's ready to just throw fundamentals out the window, but he got the touchdown this time.

Speaker 1 Did you see someone found, and it was the same formation that the Ravens and Texans have both run against the Patriots in the last month? No, I haven't seen it. Copycat League.
Copycat League.

Speaker 1 So this is where Belichick puts this on tape, lets everyone copy it and think that they've got the key, and then the playoffs, he just switches up entirely. I got a blind resume for you.

Speaker 1 You ready for it? Yeah. Okay.

Speaker 1 Tell me which quarterback. Georgia.
Georgia's the best. Tell me which quarterback you want.

Speaker 1 We're talking about because the Patriots have been struggling and offensively

Speaker 1 26 for 40,

Speaker 1 283 yards, one TD, one interception, 23 for 31, 244 yards, three touchdowns, one interception, 28 for 50, 292 yards, one touchdown, one interception. Who would you take?

Speaker 1 This is like one of those things where you're like, oh, this one leader during World War II drank $1,200. I'm just asking you, who would you take? Just answer it on.
The second one is special.

Speaker 1 Oh, okay. No.

Speaker 1 First one was Patrick Mahomes. Second one was Mitch Trubisky.
Third one was Deshaun Watson. That's your week 14 stats.
Okay. Make that.

Speaker 1 Luiam, make sure you make that on a blind resume for me so I can tweet it out. Get everyone upset.
Just saying, things are, as of, it's a, what have you done for me lately, League?

Speaker 1 In their last one games, Mitch Trubisky is clearly the superior quarterback. This is the bargaining part of denial that you're seeing.
All right, last game before we get to the rest of the show.

Speaker 1 Steelers, Cardinals.

Speaker 1 I love Duck. I fucking love Duck.
He's, what are we going to do? What do you mean? We're going to root for Duck. Against Josh Allen?

Speaker 1 No. I don't know.
I don't know. I didn't know you were talking about that.

Speaker 1 Yes,

Speaker 1 you know what?

Speaker 1 Let's get the dual jerseys. We're Fox.
Let's get the dual jerseys. Yeah,

Speaker 1 and we'll get the split jerseys where we'll get sherseys, actually. We love our children the same.
Is he more like sherseys to get? All right, we're going to get on that.

Speaker 1 So he was, Duck's stat line was fucking awesome. 16 for 19.
Yeah. 152 yards.

Speaker 1 That's official. That's how you get it done.
I fucking love Duck. And guess what? This is like this is old school Steelers.
Their defense is so goddamn good, and they just need Duck to do Duck.

Speaker 1 Looking at him sitting next to Rudolph on the bench, they were sitting right next to each other for most of the game when their defense was out of the field.

Speaker 1 It makes me wonder what Mike Tomlin ever saw in Mason Rudolph. I know,

Speaker 1 doesn't it? I know. Like just their body language.
Duck is having a good time. He's smiling.
His teammates are coming over saying hi to him. Mason Rudolph, his body language is basically braille.
Yep.

Speaker 1 He just sits there staring into the sky like the clouds are going to make a 3D magic eye puzzle appear for him. It's crazy.
It's weird. It's crazy.
Isn't it weird? Like

Speaker 1 how long of a leash Mason got? It's just because he went to a big school and

Speaker 1 he was a higher draft pick. Duck, fucks.
Duck is. You can win with Duck if your defense is elite.
He doesn't kill you. No, he does not kill you.

Speaker 1 In the words of Mike Tomlin, Duck has not killed us yet. So,

Speaker 1 Mike Tomlin almost got his punter killed. Yeah, he did.
Well, I don't know. There's no way he called that.
Yeah, so he did. He did.
He said.

Speaker 1 This is how

Speaker 1 we have to be very careful with how closely we take Mike Tomlin at his words now. Right.
Knowing everything that was probably going on with Antonio Brown and that whole situation that never got out

Speaker 1 while he was there. He's the ultimate players coach.
He is the ultimate player's coach.

Speaker 1 So he said after the game, he's like, that was a look that we had identified when they had six people lined up, and then they were double covering on the outside on the gunners, that that was a green light for a punter to go ahead and run with it.

Speaker 1 And then they switched formations at the last second, and they ended up sending their punter directly in, like it was the charge of the light brigade, just like running directly at somebody that Sean tailored him.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Laid him out like Brian Morgan.
I think that...

Speaker 1 See, I think he's just covering for him. Because it looked to me like the punter, it was a low snap, and he just freaked out and was like, I gotta run this.

Speaker 1 So that was baffling because the Steelers' defense was unbelievable all game. And Kyler Murray, all-time bad interception.
I also don't really understand like Cliff Kingsbury, it feels like

Speaker 1 keeps calling plays that would work in the Big 12 when Kyler Murray was faster than everyone on the field, but he's not faster than everyone on the field anymore.

Speaker 1 I have noticed that Cliff is starting to run a lot of plays that have three running backs in the backfield. And then Kyler, he's flirting with going to single wing.
That's what he's doing.

Speaker 1 He's like putting it out there on tape like eventually I'm just going to run a single wing offense every single play.

Speaker 1 And it's like Kyler Murray trying to get to the edge and like, oh, actually, the defensive lineman usually runs like a force 5-2.

Speaker 1 So it's like, who cares? He can get you. TJ Watt is almost as fast as Kyler Murray.
So I don't really get it. It's weird.

Speaker 1 I've seen flashes where I feel like Kyler Murray is better than what his coaching has done for him so far this year. I think, yeah,

Speaker 1 it couldn't be any worse. No.
And they had that frisky team for a while, and it feels like they've lost their frisk. Yeah, they stopped scoring points.

Speaker 1 That's when they really lost it, was when they stopped being good. Yeah, when they stopped being fun.

Speaker 1 One guy to circle, Deontay Johnson, out of Toledo, Maxion.

Speaker 1 He is a classic.

Speaker 1 How the hell do the Steelers just somehow get awesome wide receivers, like, not in the first round? He was a third-round pick. He returned to punt.
He also had that touchdown.

Speaker 1 He's going to be in like two years, you're going to be a Pro Bowler. You'll be like, wait, they have that again? How'd that happen?

Speaker 1 You know what's weird when he was returning that kick and he was running up that sideline? When you go back and you think of James Harrison returning that pick in the Super Bowl,

Speaker 1 they looked like they were running about the same speed. That's what a freak James Harrison was athletically.
He was.

Speaker 1 But you know what I mean about Steelers, wide receivers, they grow on treats. They always got another guy.
They always have another guy.

Speaker 1 There's only one guy that they've completely whiffed on, I think, and that's Lima Swede. And I swore he was going to be good at 100%.
Well, Martavis Bryant smoked a little too much weed. That's true.

Speaker 1 Just a little. But he was there.
You could see it there. His blood alcohol content was a squiggami.

Speaker 1 It was there. You could see it.
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Speaker 1 Okay, let's finish up the show. Let's do a little who's back, and then we'll talk some college football playoff, and we'll send you on your way.
Hank, let's pump it up, Hank. How you feeling?

Speaker 6 I'm feeling actually great because of my who's back. I have a few, but my first one is my boy Gordy.

Speaker 1 Gordy Hayward.

Speaker 6 Gordon Hayward.

Speaker 1 I saw that.

Speaker 6 Like after Christmas when it first came out there, or even later potentially. He's already back, fully healed.
They said he's going to be cleared to play tonight against the Magic. So quick recovery.

Speaker 6 Salt if we're doing fine without him, but it's just good to get him back this early.

Speaker 1 I don't want to put a bummer on good news.

Speaker 1 The Lakers are really good.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 6 We'll worry about that in the spring.

Speaker 1 Okay. All right.

Speaker 1 How would you be feeling right now? 100% peaking too early. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Way too early. But the nice thing about peaking too early is with the new format that the NBA is going to adapt, there's going to be like a mid-season tournament, right? Yeah, they'll win that.

Speaker 1 So it rewards you for peaking too early.

Speaker 6 I still don't really understand.

Speaker 1 No, I don't either.

Speaker 6 I don't think it's ever going to happen.

Speaker 1 It has more tournaments. It hasn't been serious enough for me to even look at it.
That's where I'm at with that tournament thing.

Speaker 1 Like, I couldn't tell you what the actual design is because I'm not ready to even take it seriously. I think it's going to happen.
Okay, great.

Speaker 1 When it happens, I will look into it. It's not a moment sooner.
It's bizarre. It's like Adam Silver spent a long night on Twitter and came up with this idea.

Speaker 6 Well, it's one of those things where the ratings are bad, and they're going to do it to make them better, but it's either going to make them better or way worse, and then they're going to be super fucked.

Speaker 6 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Do we miss the Warriors yet? No. Okay.
That's the rating. That's the.
Everyone keeps talking ratings, ratings, ratings. I mean, the Lakers.
We don't have a historically good team anymore.

Speaker 6 Well, in theory, as of right now, the Lakers are doing pretty well, but again.

Speaker 1 Fuck them.

Speaker 6 My other who's back is the lane train.

Speaker 1 Yes. Yeah.

Speaker 6 Lane Kiffen. Head coach Ole Miss.

Speaker 1 His face is so chubby. He's gotten bigger.

Speaker 6 He got off the private jet. He was off the private jet.
There was people there to greet him. He was like holding babies.
People were yelling at him to get a burner phone.

Speaker 1 Did you see his son? His son was so. Oh, my God.
Just exactly what I expect out of the Kiffin family.

Speaker 1 I don't know if it was his wife.

Speaker 1 I don't know. No, probably not.
Okay, so anyway, his... Someone was taking a video of Lane's son, probably like eight years old, and was like, guess what? He's like, what?

Speaker 1 Like, your dad is going to be the head football coach of Ole Miss. And he just goes, yes, and then gets in the car and just starts chanting, SCC, SCC, SCC, just like the cockiest little kid.

Speaker 1 I loved it. I loved it.
His kids are like the sports equivalent of military brats. Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's everywhere. Your dad is going to be the coach of Ole Mess.
He's like, well, for how long? Yeah. Two years? Now they

Speaker 1 really the difference is now they know that when they get to run around on the field and throw passes for an hour after the game, it's a full bowl, the stadium, and not just half. Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's the difference. It's amazing the career that Lane Kiffin has had so far.

Speaker 1 He's coached in every conference. He's coached in the NFL.
He was a head coach in the NFL. Got fired via PowerPoint by

Speaker 1 Al Davis. Got left on a tarmac.
Probably twice. He's probably been left on a couple tarmacs before.

Speaker 1 He's going to end up being the coach of Alabama. So this is this is, it feels like this is his second to last spot.

Speaker 1 You know, like this is obviously, very obviously another stepping stone school for Lane. He's not going to be at old miss.

Speaker 1 He likes being in young misses more than old misses.

Speaker 1 But he's very clearly. Thank you.
He's very clearly looking at something else, and I think that something else is Alabama. Well,

Speaker 1 he needs to have like a Pete Carroll.

Speaker 1 Now, he's not going to have a Pete Carroll USC run, but he needs to have the run where he has enough cheating that he wins, but not enough that it can stick to him, and then he can leave right before all the shit goes to, you know, hits the fan.

Speaker 1 Yeah. That's what he needs.

Speaker 1 Where it doesn't, it's always like, oh, yeah,

Speaker 1 there was a lot of cheating there, but he never has that big splash of Lane Kiffen, like, ole miss, suspended, Lane Kiffen missing half the year, that kind of cheating.

Speaker 1 He needs a good two-year run. Maybe they go to some nice bowl games, and then he jets for Alabama.
And then they never get to go to a bowl game again. And I'm sure that Alabama will not.

Speaker 1 He's going to screw up the Alabama bowl when he gets there. Big time.

Speaker 1 Just squatting on this stake, he is going to fuck up that program

Speaker 1 massively when he gets to Tuscaloosa. Big time.

Speaker 6 My third who's back was Mr. Bean.
I thought I saw a tweet earlier that he was making a comeback.

Speaker 6 But I just researched his Twitter, and I didn't see anything there.

Speaker 1 You can't do that to me, Hank. You can't tell me that Mr.
Audience back and then pull it away from you.

Speaker 6 Well, I'm telling you you that I saw it, but on my further research and my second guess, I'm not finding anything, but I have a feeling that I'm right.

Speaker 6 So be on the lookout. It was like, Mr.
Bean is back.

Speaker 6 Full announcement coming tomorrow. So Mr.

Speaker 1 Bean is...

Speaker 6 So if you see an announcement somewhere today, credit me.

Speaker 1 Mr. Bean is like Charlie Chaplin for the 21st century, except less funny.
And he gets his head stuck in turkeys instead of tiny lines. Very funny.

Speaker 1 Mr. Bean, for like a couple years there, that was like my entire relationship with my dad was living through Mr.
Bean and laughing at that. Just watching the turkeys.

Speaker 1 Yeah, watching it together, being like, that's fucking funny. So, Mr.
Bean, shout out, Mr. Bean.

Speaker 1 My Who's Back in the Week is Jesus. Jesus is back again.
This time in video game form. Oh.
So Christianity has been, I guess, having trouble recruiting kids to go to church with modern technology.

Speaker 1 They're making a Jesus Christ video game, like a life simulator.

Speaker 1 So it looks pretty sweet. I'm going to sign up for a Twitch account probably and get into some live streaming with this game because it feels like it's right up my alley.
Okay.

Speaker 6 Commercial is electric.

Speaker 1 The commercial is great. Have you seen a commercial? I have not.

Speaker 6 It's like a POV game.

Speaker 1 As Jesus? Yes. Where do you respawn if you die and you're Jesus in a video game?

Speaker 6 Well, at the end of it, the teaser at the end of the thing was like him, you know, for his POV of some famous, you know, times in Jesus' history. And then the very end, like...

Speaker 6 the teaser, like the, oh shit, it's like it goes dark and then it, his eyes open. He's in the cave and he opens up the cave.

Speaker 1 Yeah, press X to remove the rock. Oh, wow.
Yeah. That's crazy.

Speaker 1 So you're hanging out with prostitutes. You're avoiding the cops.
It's Grand Theft Auto Middle East. I'm going to play it.
I'm very excited. And I will stream it.

Speaker 1 I will sign up for a Twitch account, whatever Twitch is. I'll figure it out.
I'll make it happen. My other who's back of the week is Patrick Reed.

Speaker 1 Patrick Reed got disqualified from a tournament, or I think he was disqualified. Stealing someone's wallet?

Speaker 1 Pretty much. Yeah.
The viewers.

Speaker 1 Stealing all the soul out of the game of golf because he very clearly intentionally cheated. His ball was in a bunker, and he took two practice swings.

Speaker 1 And when he did it, you know, you're not allowed to crowd your club.

Speaker 1 When he did his practice swings, he pulled back at his back swing and brushed sand away from where his ball was to very, very obviously just get a much easier shot

Speaker 1 at his ball. So, Patrick Reed, the bad boy of golf, is back.
We're Patrick Reed, guys. Love it.

Speaker 1 By the way, speaking of stealing things, we've totally forgot to mention Gottlieb's new fire tweet: the New England with D capitalized Patriots and no O in Patriots.

Speaker 1 It had four likes when we got our hands on it. No O.
So you get it? I got it. You're like, no offense.
But this time D is bigger.

Speaker 1 Right. So it's like the D, they have D,

Speaker 1 but they don't. Oh, this is funny.
It's a close-up of Patrick Reid improving his lion as a dog digging in sand. That is pretty funny.

Speaker 1 So wait, go back to the Patriots tweet because I'm having trouble tracking that. So,

Speaker 1 yeah, there's the the D is capitalized because they have a D. They have a D.
No O

Speaker 1 because they don't have an O. So he's got a D and no O.
Yeah, sounds like Tugg's marriage. This is, this is,

Speaker 1 I'm watching this, Patrick Reed. This is funny.
I love this move. It's so plain.
Yeah, it's great, isn't it? He looks like... That's something that I would do on a golf course.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he's a shitty CEO who's like a hundred golfer who says he shoots an 86 and he goes out there and cheats and no one will say anything because he's their boss.

Speaker 1 He's that guy. Okay, My Who's back? Two of them.
Dr. Pepper Challenge is back.
Well, it's not anymore, but it was this weekend. It's so crazy to me.
It dawned on me this weekend.

Speaker 1 It's so crazy that that is like just part of American society. Like it's an Americana thing.
Like Dr. Pepper Challenge.
Every year,

Speaker 1 we get to the championship games and then kids...

Speaker 1 do chess passes and people get mad on Twitter. I've gotten mad before.

Speaker 6 Someone won this week doing regular passes.

Speaker 1 They just, all they need to do is make it higher. You can't trespass high.
Well, it's also kind of a shovel pass, isn't it? Yeah, or just make it farther away. So you have, like.

Speaker 1 But you don't want to see misses. You don't want to see, you want to see misses.
There was that one guy who missed. I'm actually going to tweet that tomorrow night when Eli starts going real bad.

Speaker 6 Jake from yesterday.

Speaker 1 Eli, look at Eli. Yeah.
So yeah, that will be good. You just hold on to that one for the future.
I was talking to my friends when we were watching that on Saturday, and it is crazy that.

Speaker 1 You weren't with you on Saturday. Yeah, you weren't with me.
I said friends. Oh, fuck.
Roasted.

Speaker 1 Yikes. So it is crazy that a soda company is

Speaker 1 paying for people to be able to go to school. Correct.
It's like

Speaker 1 we're going to take money that we've made off of people that probably drink a shitload of soda. Kids.
Kids that drink a lot of soda.

Speaker 1 And then we're going to give that money to kids to be able to go to school to be able to work in marketing for companies like ours in the future. It'll blow your mind.

Speaker 1 And then they'll use that money to give a scholarship. Not to get political.
Permission to go there. Granted.
If you are running

Speaker 1 against

Speaker 1 giving free tuition to all of America, you just need to be like, hey, we won't have the Dr. Pepper challenge anymore.
Yeah. You can't do that.
You can't do that. Don't take it away from me.

Speaker 1 You can't take that away from me. Or if you're running...
Imagine that world? If you're running, just say my college plan is everybody in America gets to compete in the Dr. Pepper Challenge.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you get free tuition if you can if you can chess pass into an oversized soda.

Speaker 1 I'm going to have nine referees standing surrounding you on a football field, and if you can make more than 60% of your chess passes,

Speaker 1 then guess what? You're going to go to Rutgers. I think we just solved it.
I think we just solved it. All right, my other who's back is bowl games.
The bowl game schedule is out. 40 bowls.
40 bowls.

Speaker 1 And I'm just going to throw this out there for everyone at the end.

Speaker 6 The jingle bells, ESPN, every single commercial.

Speaker 1 The best.

Speaker 1 You don't like it?

Speaker 6 It just gets repetitive.

Speaker 1 That's the best. That's when you know you're like deep in the shit of, you know,

Speaker 1 you're watching San Diego State play,

Speaker 1 you know, like Toledo on Christmas Eve. That's when you know you're in there.
I love the games that they cut to when there's like maybe 20 people in the stands. Yes.
It's like, how does this happen?

Speaker 1 Yes. So I looked at the bowl season schedule.
And we have some great. They've done.

Speaker 1 This is my favorite bowl season schedule we've ever had because we have Friday bowls to start it off, which usually never happens. It's usually that like five Saturdays.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 We have two Friday bowls, one in the middle of the day, bonus weekday bowl.

Speaker 1 And then when I've always preached that they need to give us something to wean off of bowl season, well, guess what? This year we have some wean-off bowls.

Speaker 1 So January 1st is like the big bowl game day.

Speaker 1 Shout out to the Badgers. They're in the Rose Bowl, no big deal.
January 2nd, there's a day game.

Speaker 1 Who's playing? Boston College in Cincinnati. And then at night, it's Indiana, Tennessee.
Weanoff bowl. That's pretty good, yeah.
And then Friday, there's another day game. Well, I like that.

Speaker 1 Another weanoff bowl. I like that there's a weanoff bowl that sounds like it could mean something because it's big schools.
Yes. It's a big conference.
Ohio, Nevada on Friday. And then PFT, hold on.

Speaker 1 We have even another weanoff bowl. Monday, January 6th, when the first Monday that doesn't have Monday night football,

Speaker 1 ULL versus Miami of Ohio. Oh, I love that.
Love an honor. Yeah, I love that.
So shout out to the Bowls selection, whoever scheduled this.

Speaker 1 We finally have a good amount of weanoff bowls where it's not going to be January 1st and then boom, cold turkey. We have some like shitty-ass bowls that we can slowly get, you know, get dry from.

Speaker 1 What's the most random sponsor that we have this year? Because I always like the ones that are like the

Speaker 1 United Pool Cleaning Associates presents the cactus bowl. The Monday, the January 6th Bowl is the Lending Tree Bowl.
Many of you know it. It's one of the best bowls out there.

Speaker 1 Oh, we have the VRBO Bowl. Okay, that sounds high-tech.
Yeah, VRBO. Oh, that's actually the Citrus Bowl.
Damn, Alabama and Michigan.

Speaker 1 I can't wait to see how Alabama is not going to have anyone playing that. Ooh, the satellite camp bowl.
Yeah, Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl. Okay.
So these are new sponsors here.

Speaker 1 So the Sun Bowl obviously has been around forever.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'm just excited for bowl season. I fucking love bull season.
Do we have like the sarsaparilla backhoe bull or whatever that one is?

Speaker 1 We have the Sophie Hawaii bull.

Speaker 1 So I don't know what that is. Yeah, we have the Bad Boy Mowers Gasparillo Bowl.
Yeah, I love that one. Yeah.
There's some great bulls out there. The Cherubundi, Boca Rattan.

Speaker 1 The Boca Raton finally got it. The Wet the Beak? Yeah, they finally got it.
They get to Yogurt sponsorship. That's what Cherubundi is, right? No, that's Chobani.
Oh. Close enough.

Speaker 1 I'll bet Cherubundi is also a yogurt company. That was.

Speaker 1 That was.

Speaker 1 I should get credit for that. Cherubundi.
What is Cherubundy? Cherubundi is

Speaker 1 a drink, private company which sells a functional brand of cherry juice beverages. That was a free ad.

Speaker 1 It's just cherry juice.

Speaker 1 That's like when that company charm came out. That's scattered.

Speaker 1 Yeah, where'd you get all these cherries from?

Speaker 1 Okay. All right.

Speaker 1 Let's wrap up the show. College football playoff.
They did the right thing. Feels like this is the least controversial

Speaker 1 Final Four that we've had. You want to talk about Wisconsin at all? Yeah, sure.
We're going to the Rose Bowl. Penn State fans are big mad online.
Ha ha. I'm laughing at you.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and Saturday night was a great first half. As you know, I'm a father, so I get very tired and have to go to bed early.

Speaker 1 So whatever happened in the second half, just... You guys are just like...
You can get your hopes up, though.

Speaker 6 So you said on Friday, you said all week, there's no way Wisconsin will win.

Speaker 1 You gave him that game before it even started. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And you guys like the Packers. I did.
I did. You like the Packers.
You just don't play well in the fourth quarter. I did a Periscope.

Speaker 1 Everyone watched Stella take a shit.

Speaker 1 I was on the street. I was outside.

Speaker 1 I gave my heart away. I thought that the Batters were going to win that game.
I thought it was going to be one of those games. But it wasn't.

Speaker 6 That score going into the half was like, all right.

Speaker 1 Thank you. It was.

Speaker 1 Boy, was I feeling it. And, by the way,

Speaker 1 I'm still in protest, so it's not a big deal. Like, there was a blatant false start that the Ohio State Buckeyes scored a touchdown on, and the Dr.

Speaker 1 Pepper challenge makes the halftime extra long, so it shouldn't even count. Like, it's a totally different game.

Speaker 1 It's 1-1. It's 1-1, the Big Ten championship.
So, I guess, I mean, you can just settle for being co-Big Ten West champions along with Minnesota.

Speaker 1 No, we're co-Big Ten champions with Ohio State, and we're co-Big Ten West champs with Minnesota. You're co-co.
Yeah, we have two co-s. All right, that's nice.
That's one.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but we're in the Rose Bowl. You ever heard of it? The granddaddy of them all? Maybe the most prestigious bowl.
Better than being in the house. How didn't Penn State get it?

Speaker 1 Well, they didn't Penn State State. Penn State fans are going to be very mad because they obviously keep mentioning the Illinois loss, the Badgers had, which makes sense.

Speaker 1 But if you look at common opponents, they lost to Ohio State. We lost to Ohio State.
We kicked the shit out of Minnesota. They lost to Minnesota.
I think that's fair. I don't think you should be.

Speaker 1 We were ranked higher than them before this weekend. I don't think you should be penalized for losing in a conference championship game.

Speaker 1 One of my favorite things about Rose Bowl season is all the Twitter avatars that get changed and your Twitter names that get changed. People add the Rose emoji in.

Speaker 1 So for like a month and a half, everyone's going to think that Wisconsin is filled with like democratic socialists. Communists, yeah.

Speaker 1 So I have a Big Ten versus the World shirt that I dropped on Saturday night. If you want to see Penn State fans, why don't you stop being mad at me and start getting together?

Speaker 1 Let's all come together and try to dominate bowl season so that we can dunk on people with lice.

Speaker 6 So, you think Ohio State's going to beat Clemson then?

Speaker 1 No, I don't.

Speaker 1 I actually think it's going to be LSU Clemson in the final. PFT.
I think it's going to be LSU also Clemson in the final. Yeah.
We agree.

Speaker 6 I might take a loan out.

Speaker 1 I have a future on Ohio State.

Speaker 1 I have a future. I have a heavy future on him.
I got a future on LSU. I want to feel pretty good about it.

Speaker 1 I think that Clemson, if you saw Dabbo, how he had the boys all loosened up when they were making the Final Four announcement today, he had them all eating pizza.

Speaker 6 They should let us watch the first drive of that game before by the way.

Speaker 1 Yeah, Bets Go Live. I loved, and we're obviously very biased, but I loved the way that Coach O dealt with the entire selection process.
We'll play anybody. Anybody, anywhere.
It's old Pat Hill,

Speaker 1 Fresno State.

Speaker 1 If you're a gambler, you know that was the best. They would always schedule just ridiculous opponents.
But

Speaker 1 everyone else, like Dabbo and when Saban's in the mix, and when Urban was in the mix, they do the thing where they pump up themselves, they pump up their opponents, like, oh man, playing George is the toughest thing in the world.

Speaker 1 Coacho was like, We'll play anyone anywhere. Just tell us where to go, we'll be there.
Give us a field. It was refreshing.
Just give me an address. That's all Cocho needs.

Speaker 1 And he needs a week to prepare. He needs a smothered pork chop and colored green dinner waiting for his boys the night before.
Yep. And an address.
That's all he needs.

Speaker 1 He'll show up and he will kick your ass. And Joe Burrow is

Speaker 1 forgetting all the on-field, like how good he is, and forget all the like measurables and how he's going to probably be the number one pick. His just body language makes me want to go to war for him.

Speaker 1 It's crazy.

Speaker 1 I have not seen someone who has like a natural leader just ability that just oozes off of him.

Speaker 6 He threw a touchdown, and on his follow-through, his follow-through took him to the sideline. He just kept running to the sideline.
It's crazy. It was like the cockiest thing I've ever seen.

Speaker 1 But it was so. He completely like within.

Speaker 6 It was just he was following his follow-through.

Speaker 1 Right, exactly. He has that look where you're like, I just like, tell me who to fight.
I got it. You know who he is? He's Deli.
He's Deli with more talent. I don't know.
That's it.

Speaker 1 No, I'm dead serious. That's his idol in life, is Matthew Delavidova.
But he's.

Speaker 1 I don't feel the same things I feel for Matthew Delavidova that I feel for Joe Burrow.

Speaker 1 If I look at Joe Burrow, I'm like, I want to go to war. Yeah, so for me, it's like if you took Deli's DNA.

Speaker 1 You know how in Jurassic Park, you had to fill in the gaps of the DNA. If you took

Speaker 1 Deli's DNA and filled in all the gaps with Gardner Minshew, then you get Joe Burrow. But like for the general public,

Speaker 1 it's probably different. Insert your own.
But I think Joe Burrow has that for everyone who watches Joe Burrow. They're like, holy shit, that guy has

Speaker 1 some kind of feel to him that's like he just has that look to him.

Speaker 1 The way he carries himself is something that everyone can see. Yeah.
You're describing how I feel about Gardner Minshew right now, about Joe Burrow.

Speaker 1 Right, but I think that what I'm saying is I think most people could see that in Joe Burrow, whereas I don't know if everyone sees it in Delhi.

Speaker 1 I think most of us do. He won a championship, dude.
He brought LeBron a championship. That's true.
He did bring LeBron a championship on his shoulders.

Speaker 1 Only other bold note that I had is

Speaker 1 whoever scheduled all the bulls, shout out having PJ Fleck play in Tampa Bay. So he's literally just a giant boat, right? Just he's going to look, he's going to keep looking at that thing.

Speaker 1 At the Raymond James Sale. He's going to take that boat down.
Like, he's going to be so distracted while looking at that. I bet you it was just going to be filled with Minnesota fans.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 They're going to bring their oars up there. Yes.
And he's going to try to walk that boat out of the stadium. He's going to try to cut the sails off of it and take them back to Minnesota.

Speaker 1 And those are my new oars. Sail the boat.

Speaker 1 I have one question for you: one random hypothetical, because it's just a thought that entered my brain. It probably won't happen.

Speaker 1 Over-under.5 NFL teams that tried to make a call to Coach O this offseason.

Speaker 1 None. Zero.
Yeah. And I think it's not because he's not a very good coach, and the turnaround has been incredible.
They just know. They just know.
They know better. This is the job that, like,

Speaker 1 him talking about in-state recruiting, and when you do quickly football guy of the week, you can vote for it. So Joe Burrow was one.
He

Speaker 1 lost his phone or smashed his phone, and his parents wanted to buy him a new one. And he said, nope,

Speaker 1 got a game to play. Don't need a phone.
Got a little Tom Brady in him. Yeah.
CeeDee Lamb had the Nobody Safe eyeball

Speaker 1 or sorry, eye black.

Speaker 1 He's awesome. He's electric.
And a great name, too.

Speaker 1 When he touches the ball, it's just insane. And if it weren't for Jalen Hurts being not a good quarterback, I would like to see, I can't wait to see CeeDee Lamb with a real quarterback.

Speaker 1 Ravens, Marcus Peters, crushing the beer. We talked about that.
And then finally, we'll finish with this. Coach O.

Speaker 1 He said that he has 18 to 20 in-state homes he's going to recruit this week. So that's 18 to 20 gumbos.

Speaker 1 And I can't imagine how awesome Coach O, like, he

Speaker 1 already would be awesome in recruiting, but recruiting off an SEC championship in a number one seed,

Speaker 1 fuck, that's electric. Yeah, it's incredible.

Speaker 1 So, you know how they say if you're president, you're not supposed to tell anybody what your favorite food is because for the rest of your life, that's all you'll ever be served when you show up to any sort of event or occasion.

Speaker 1 With Coach O, he's made it known that his favorite food is gumbo, and he does not care that that's all he's going to get fed. That's like fuel for him.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 It's like gumbo and a monster energy drink. He's probably going to run in between each recruits.
Like, hey, we're going to just, like, hey, I actually coach is 20 miles. Like, I don't care.

Speaker 1 I'm going to get my gumbo appetite back up. That's right.
Yeah. Let it go.

Speaker 1 I think he was even making some in-house stops for recruiting while he was in Atlanta. Yes.
No, he was.

Speaker 1 Yeah, no, that is the sick part of college football is that these guys, we've made the jokes before about saving, only getting to celebrate for for like 10 minutes, but it's the truth.

Speaker 1 They win a game, and when's the best time to go convince a recruit? It's right after winning a big game.

Speaker 1 Also, I'm pretty sure that that's what a celebration looks like for Coach O is just to sit with a football player and eat gumbo and take a picture with the Louisiana L.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's what he'd be doing, anyways. And tweeting, Hold That Tiger, huh? That is the best celebration you possibly have.
Are we ready to take credit for Joe Burrow at LSU? Sure.

Speaker 1 Because remember, we were there. When we were in Baton Rouge, when we interviewed Coach O for the the very first time,

Speaker 1 he told us afterwards, he had a picture taken with us, and they sent it to Burrow's brother, right? Right.

Speaker 1 Because he was like, I hear that this guy that we're having on campus is a big fan of yours, or his brother is a big fan of yours. And so they sent it.
Then he shows up on campus the next day.

Speaker 1 Coach O tweets out, hold that tiger. Hold that tiger.
I'm going to connect several dots and make several leaps of logic and say that we were instrumental in getting Joe Burrow together.

Speaker 1 Just want to say it. Just want to say, LSU fans, if you were looking for the guy behind the guy, behind the guy, behind the guy, to say thank you, it's us.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and we will hopefully be at the national title game, and you can say thank you with many, many drinks because it's not a show night.

Speaker 1 And I want to take a fan boat back from New Orleans up the Mississippi River to Baton Rouge after the game's over.

Speaker 1 This is San Diego to L.A. rollerblading park due.
Hey, I was game to do it. You guys were the only ones that didn't want to get the blades going.

Speaker 1 We would have died. We would have died.

Speaker 1 Rollerblading like 100. I don't even know how many miles.
If I got to die, just bury me off

Speaker 1 the I-10.

Speaker 1 No, the 4050-20 going up the Pacific Coast Highway, right off the palace, PCH. Yeah, not during rush hour.
No, not at all. I mean, that's why we're on the boardwalk with our blades.

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