Herm Edwards, Football Smart With Warren Sharp + Week 10 Preview

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We get football smart with Warren Sharp.

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Warren. Yeah, there you go.
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And Phil Rivers just threw another interception. Something tells me that John Gruden is not going to be gassing up Phil Rivers after this game.
So we're taping this in the middle of third quarter, and essentially Phil Rivers has thrown eight picks. Like six of them have been called back.
It's a neck-and-neck game. The black hole is buzzing, but more than anything, PFT, it's a fullback game.
It's a fullback off. We're all gritnesses tonight.
Not only is it a fullback off, but it's a Wisconsin fullback off. The cradle of grit.
We've got Alec Engold on the Raiders. Scored a touchdown on a beautiful Spider 2 wide banana.
We've got the Watt brother, our favorite Watt brother, Derek. DJ Watt.
DJ Watt's playing for the Chargers. It's fun to watch.
Also a great uniform game. Yes, it is.
The silver, all silver white versus the powder blues. The black hole is buzzing.
It's just great to have Phil River's stupid face and John Gruden's even stupider face and Mark Davis's extra stupid face all in one stadium. Watch it.
Watch it. They're just the sweetest faces ever.
You're saying that about Mark Davis just because he has such a high haircut that there's more face for you to judge. Would it be weird if I took maybe got a really nice high-res photo of all three of their faces and put it prominently in my house? I was going to say just make them into one.
If they were a thruple and had a baby, what would it come out looking like? We should do.

Okay.

Idea here.

Someone make sure we do this.

Maybe Triggs can do it for us.

We need to have a like Last Supper.

Jesus is Last Supper.

But with all the stupid faces.

Yeah.

There are a lot of so good.

And we could come up with so many stupid faces.

Jim Caldwell staring directly into the camera?

Yes.

Yes.

Uh-huh.

Please.

Idea, Triggs, you're probably listening to this.

It will take time.

We understand.

Take your time.

But we'll make a list for you of the all-time dumbest faces.

I don't want to say.

There's some friends that we probably shouldn't put on there.

Who are you going to say?

Just initials.

I'm not going to say it.

TC.

No, no, no, no, no. TC.
He has had faces that I've taken pictures Joe Buck's big head Tom Coughlin so we're going to have the face off and maybe we put Nick Cage and John Travolta in there too I like that that would be a great football painting the shittiest painting. We're going to have it prominently in our studio.
And instead of like loaves and fishes or whatever was on the table, it's just cans of paint that all these football guys are drinking. And footballs, yeah.
Yeah. Yeah, split in half.
Okay, speaking of fullbacks, PFT, we teased this on Wednesday. We have the Low Man Trophy coming up.
Yes. It's going to be the week before the Heisman.
We'll do a live show and everything. It is the nation's best fullback.
But you have gone out to the panel, and you have the initial finalists? The leadership council of the fullbacks. The lead blockership council of the fullbacks.
And on that list, it's an esteemed council. Not only do we have Hank on there, we've got John Kuhn.
We've got Danny Vitale. Yeah, Hank Furnelli.
We've got Anthony Sherman from the Chiefs. We've got Jacob Hester from LSU and from the NFL.
You. Me on there, Allstat and Lorenzo Neal, among others.
I'm going to leave some out for now, but here's the initial list for college football's top fullback, okay? Torrey Carter from LSU. John Chienel from Wisconsin.
Now, here's the thing about Wisconsin fullbacks. I'm probably mispronouncing Chienel, but John Chienel, whatever it is.
We've got three different Wisconsin fullbacks on the list because Mike Ostott also wrote in Alec Ingold. That's good.
So I'm including Alec Ingold. He's eligible.
Alec Ingold, John Chienel, Adam Prentice from Colorado State, A.G. Dillon from Boston College, Kagan Baldtree from Texas A&M, Darius Bradwell from Tulane, Connor Slomka from Army, Ben Mason, the returning champion.
The champion, even though he's a defensive tackle, he's gotten in at fullback. He fumbled.
We're not talking about that. He's a good blocker, too.
He's awesome. Richie Worship from Purdue, Brady Ross from Iowa, Mason Stoke, he's the other Wisconsin guy, Kyle Pollard from South Carolina, Jake Jackson from Utah, Sandin...
You're John Rothsteining us right now. Sandin McCoy from Army.
These are the finalists? No, this is the watch list. This is the watch list.
Hey, Hank, this is how we get Buzz going for the trophy. The watch list is 100 people.
Jeremiah Hall from OU is the last one on there, but the watch list is big, so hopefully they'll retweet it or they'll find out about it, give us some promotion, then we narrow it down to our final group. Whoever retweets it the most.
Whoever retweets it the most gets into that final group of five, and then we announce the winner the week before the Heisman Trophy. So, very proud of the Loman Trophy.
We need to make another actual trophy for it because I don't know what happened to our tire or the beer can or the nail that we used. It didn't make the move.
It did not. It did not make the move from the old office.
Okay, so that is our low man watch list. We have, by the way, we're on barstoolgold.com slash PMT barstoolgold.com slash PMT so we should do a week 9, week 10 preview it would actually be funny if we did like a week 9 preview and just got every game exactly right.
Just go back and it was like a litmus test to see how many listeners listen to this high on Fridays. And they're like what? I like that idea a lot.
I predict that there will be a black cat that runs across the field in at least one primetime game this week. That would be crazy wouldn't it? And then we can trap it and make Hank a find it.
It's Schrodinger's cat. It's both alive and dead at the same time.
We don't know where it is. That cat got a little too hot.
The statement that there's not 300 cats at Meadowlands, I don't buy it. Anytime you have to say there aren't 300 cats in our building, there's a shitload of cats in your building.
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Okay, week 10 preview starts now. Mr.
Biskey turned off all the TVs. Yep, no distractions.
No distractions in Halas Hall. I actually don't mind this.
No, it's

right out of the Soviet playbook.

It's what they used to do in Chernobyl,

which turned out really well. Cut out

all communications to the outside.

Focus on what's going on in-house.

Control the message. Listen.

It's Chernobyl.

5.6 yards per attempt. Not great.

Not terrible. Did you just throw

that stat in there? What was that stat? That's like 3.6 on the Geiger scale when they were measuring. Okay, okay.
I was going to say, 5.6 yards of attempt, Mitch is definitely not averaging that. I think that's about what you're thinking, yards per completion.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so Mitch Trubisky turning off TVs.
First of all, he got a little misquoted. It was a little...
what happens when a season goes to dumpster fire mode, every story becomes like, ooh, the season's a dumpster fire. How can we fit this into the dumpster? We're just throwing trash into the dumpster.
So I'm pretty sure he just was like, we're trying to keep outside distractions out of this building. It became Mitch Trubisky is walking around House Hall with a remote in his hand literally turning off every single tv you're i agree with you if you are a sports fan if you are a quarterback who is maybe not the guy in chicago you have a very relatable moment where bad news is happening on the tv you turn it off if your team loses the most relatable thing all sports fans can get behind, when your team loses a big game, you don't watch SportsCenter for the next week.
You don't consume media. When your team is losing or you have a bet that's losing, if you have an under and it's going over, you turn that fucker off and you pretend it never happened.
That might be the worst part about your team losing a game is the fact that you say that you're not going to watch any sports on TV all week. You're not going to watch any highlights or recaps.
It's like, I can't tune in to get up tomorrow morning and listen to my— I can't look at Mike Greenberg's face because he's going to say something bad about my team. You can't even watch whatever shitty college basketball game is on because you know that Scott Van Pelt will pop up at halftime and be like, hey hey more from the big win for you know the the eagles how they came over the double doink and i'll take shit i take that back i'll always look at greeny's face but most people wouldn't and yes i think you you touched upon something that's definitely true about like shitty sports teams and what happens once they start to become just a trash heap in the middle of the season is the reporters kind of lean into that that.
Yes. And they're like, what other bad stuff is happening? I think a good term for that is a dumpster hunt.
They go on a dumpster hunt to find the dumpster fires that are starting to percolate around the team. Khalil Mack's not giving out candy.
Yep. Mitch Trubisky's turning off TVs.
Matt Nagy's saying he's not an idiot and having them throw eggs around. It all just adds up and it all becomes this stupid thing where the Bears season is an utter disappointment and everyone should be fired.
But here's where it becomes really embarrassing. This is the zone that you don't ever want to be in.
I got an email today from Brett Hogan. Don't know who Brett Hogan is.
He said, hi, with news of Mitchell Trubisky wanting to turn off the television

in the Bears facility because of the negative criticism he's receiving,

Cam Soda has offered to provide him and the rest of the Chicago Bears

with a fun alternative.

The leading adult entertainment streaming platform is offering

to provide the Bears with VIP accounts to its site to chat with models

who will talk about anything but football. Maybe this will be the motivation they need to get a W on Sunday.
I have replied to Brett and asked for my own VIP so I can talk about something other than the Bears. I will let you know if that happens.
Just so that you can also make sure that it's something good that the Bears should look into. You want to make sure that the quality is high.
There is a certain level in sports like bad season, terrible season, dumpster fire, porn press release. That's the final level.
You know what? If the Can't Lose Parlay loses again, they should give us... Porn press release? Yeah, they should give us one of those.
So on Monday, we don't have to talk about the Can't Lose Parlay. We can just watch women strip on a small laptop.
Yeah. Hey, Big Cat, I heard you keep losing your can't lose parlay.
We would like to offer you $100,000 to have sex with three women for 15 seconds. You're probably not worried about a playoff seat anymore, but you can worry about shooting one all over your desk.
It's week 11. Time for a big comeback.
Big Cat, would you like to star in your own porn? Awesome. would consider doing that for the right offer yeah as you put it out there anyone can be bought yeah i mean i'm what is i'm just doing the same thing i would be doing anyways there happens to be 50 000 people watching i would do it if they if they promise to put in the price is right sad trombone at the end right as i nutted either way the porn press release is the final level that's the final boss of your season being shitty so that's where the bears are um the other thing i wanted to note if we wanted to just go to another shitty game uh well actually let's start with this pft do you have any that's really that's kind of a loser leaves town for detroit yeah if detroit loses they're done yes don chain will hang heavy around the neck of MVP Matt Stafford if they can't beat the Bears.
I don't see a real loser leaves town game. I think you could maybe throw in the Rams-Steelers just knowing that it would be tough for the Rams to make up the ground in the NFC West if they go to 5-4 and similar to the Steelers if they go to 4-5.
But I feel like both those teams will still have at least a shot at it. You were addicted to saying that the Steelers are going to make the playoffs.
Oh, I'm still. I put them in my can't-lose program.
I know. You were addicted to the Steelers.
I'm addicted to their defense. I think the Rams will make the playoffs.
That just might be me thinking back to last year when they were really good. So that's my dumb brain thinking it's 2018 again.
But I do think that they'll make the playoffs even if they lose this game this game okay so the other game that i wanted to touch on before we get to our picks uh the toilet bowl giants versus jets the litter box the litter box i have a quote from pat shirmer that i love you ready for it yes so dan duggan who i think is a reporter for the giants said uh he was they were at the press conference and Pat Shermer, when asked how the losing wears on him,

he replied, I'm built for this. A built loser.
That's tough, dude. I came out of the womb with an L-shaped birthmark on my chest.
I really only feel comfortable when I'm a disaster. Well, let's see.
He's coached for who? The Browns? Yeah. That checks out.
Who else did Pat Shurmur coach for? He was on the Vikings for a while. They were actually good when he was there.
But he was a quarterback's coach. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But here's where it gets worse, PFT. Dan Duggan also included this in his tweet.
Ben McAdoo, three weeks before he was fired from the New York Giants, talking about losing. I'm built for this.
Oh, God. A calm doesn't suit me.
A storm does. So there is precedent here when the Giants coach says they are built for losing.
Their days are numbered. That's a bad thing to say.
Just be like, I have the face of a loser. I am used.
If you want to hire me to coach your losing football team to be a big bunch of losers that don't win, I'm your guy. I don't understand how these guys can keep making these mistakes in PR.
Like when Matt Nagy says, I'm not an idiot. Yeah, dude, you probably are now.
When Pat Schumer says, losing, I'm built for this. When Freddie Kitchen says, I'm still learning on the job.
Don't say that phrase, Freddie.

Don't do that.

The one good thing about this game, it's great for those of us that live in New York

that are sick of having two games taken over by the Jets and the Giants each weekend.

At least we're combining them into one that we all are forced to watch.

Yeah, that we can just kind of ignore that whole screen.

All right, should we do some picks?

Yes.

Hank, why don't you start with your favorite? I'm going to go against you and your love for the Steelers because I've seen how this plays out. It's definitely I think there is a sense of like it's not just you being sharp.
I think there's something else where you're just addicted to loving the Steelers. So based off that fact alone, I'm going to take the Rams.
You're not wrong. There's something about, I think it's the colors.
I think it's when their defense plays well. I think it's the yinzers and my love for yinzers.
When the Steelers start getting frisky, I buy in so hard for them. So I'm fading Steelcat.
Okay. What's the weather going to be like in Pittsburgh? 44 and cloudy.
44, that might be cold for our buddy from SoCal, Jared Goff.

Oh, don't say that.

It might be cold.

That's all I'm saying. What the heck, PFT?

I'm just saying it might be cold.

That's our guy.

All right, PFT, what's your favorite?

My favorite is Green Bay by 5.5.

Even from what Warren Sharpe's about to tell us?

Well, yeah, because Cali bro Kyle Allen. I know he's not from Cali.
He's from Texas and Arizona. But this is another cold weather game.
Oh, that is what he told us. Yeah, it's snowing.
It's snowing in Lambeau right now. There's a 25% chance of snow for Sunday.
So we could have our first I love cocaine snow game. I'm really looking forward to that.
So I'm betting against the warm weather guy in that one. Sprinkle the money line on the favorite for that too.
Okay. I'm going to with my favorite.
This is a really stupid pick, but I'm doing it. I get addicted to teams that are on their last gasp and it's like they have to win.
I'm taking the Browns minus three. It's like you just...
I'll just keep going last gasp. I think I took them last week as my favorite.
So, yeah, I'll probably lose at least three more times with the Browns being like, they can't lose this one. Yeah, it was their last gasp last week, right? Right.
Like the fart getting rid of all the air that's still in their body, but the corpse is still warm. It's a big problem of mine.
I just think of the desperate team, and I'm like, well, they have to win eventually. Hank, you underdog.
Underdog is the Falcons. Really? Okay.
If I was going to do a little sprinkling this weekend on a money line. Speaking of last gas.
It would be on the Falcons. Falcons on the road.
Okay. Dome team, though.
So it's basically like a home game. It's true.
It's like a home game. Yes.
Yes. Okay.
PFT, your underdog. My underdog is Pittsburgh.
Plus 3.5. I'm not going on the line.
But I think they lose. Wait, that's mine too.
Get in on it. Really? So you're all in on the Steelers this week.
Yep. Everything.
Do it. I'll lose everything.
I'll lose everything on the Steelers this week. I don't care.
Look at my face. I don't care.
All right. Hank.
My is over? Yes. It's going to be Browns-Bills.
I feel like that's a defensive touchdown, wonky game. Some crazy shit happens.
Wonky, huh? Yeah. Okay.
So defensive touchdown. Defensive touchdown, special teams touchdown.
One of their quarterbacks is going to throw an ugly interception. That's 21.
Where's the other coming from? Touchdowns. Baker, OBJ, long, long connection.
Okay, that's four. Another defensive touchdown.
Five. And a Nick Chubb run.
Six. Okay, we got there.
We added it all up. Hank, that's kind of bullshit how you're saying that.
No, I'm just saying you just need one or two defensive touchdowns to mix it up. But there goes classic guest bashing Hank saying that one of our two favorite recurring guests will throw a pick six.

No, I just think the Bills defense is really good.

Baker's hand might be broken.

That's why he's not playing so well.

Is there?

That's a rumor that I said out loud as a total rumor and Hank was in the room.

So Hank's reporting that right now.

Are you reporting that?

From sources.

Are you reporting that Baker Mayfield might have a broken hand?

From sources.

Okay.

Wow.

Okay.

It would explain his bad play. It wasn't even good enough for my blind dog to report thanks all over we'll run with it you that's why we need the cat yeah get all the scoops that leroy as a journalist won't even run yeah the shittiest people really get mad because it's a cat it's not like there's the lovable like oh it's a dog so it's cute whatever right they would just be like fuck this cat damn uh my over is gonna be jets giants in in the litter box okay of met life um i was thinking what do you think the the combined spread on an all-star new york team against an all-star los angeles team would be i think la would be favored by by six and a half yeah i'd agree i'm trying to think quarterback in new york Wildcat.
run the wildcat no i'd say more because think about how fucking good yeah think about how good the defensive line for the la team would be yeah that'd be sick aaron donald ingram bosa yep dante fowler like that would be sam donald and daniel jones would both die yeah they'd be seeing a lot of ghosts yes um all right right, my over. I'm going to take Cards Bucks over 52.
Fuck it. Bruce Arian's revenge game.
He's going to run it up. Cliff Kingsbury revenge game.
He's going to run it up. Yeah.
They're just going to run it up. What's he revenge? I'm sure Cliff Kingsbury has dated a stripper in Tampa Bay and then had a bad breakup.
Yeah, a messy breakup between those two. Yes.
Yeah, I mean, two not great like it i like let's do it uh hank you're under payton's chiefs titans chiefs oh i have that as well same z's twinsies mahomes is starting probably maybe maybe not he could have started last week did you see how fast he ran out onto the field to celebrate yeah he was really a bounce in a step. Okay.
Nick Wright said today that the Chiefs have already lost their last game of the season. They're going to go on a run.
Well, I did see a tweet. I forget who put it out, but it was saying that Andy Reid always goes on runs.
Not jogging. Not exercising.
We know. So it was a mis...
It was a misleading tweet to begin with, but it listed the last, I think, five seasons that he had out in Kansas City, and there was a point during the year where he went on at least a 5-0 run. And this year, the run has not yet begun.
So they're ready for the run. So Andy Reid is at the starting line.
He's stretching. He's been just eating power bars this entire time and drinking a shitload of electrolytes.
Yes. Just sugars and getting his stamina up.
Okay, your under?

My under is Atlanta,

New Orleans. This is my platinum under.

This is my platinum. If you put platinum

in front of anything. How many stars? Falcon's going to be scoring

a lot. They're going to win the game.
Nope. This is my platinum

six-star under. Nice.
That's on a scale of

five, so you know it's good.

Only $100 to sign up.

What's the star to ball?

What's the star to ball conversion rate?

My star to ball? No, like what is a star

in equivalence to ball? A star equals one and a half balls. Ooh, okay.
So this is a lot of balls. We're talking like eight balls almost in this game.
I like it. I don't know how Atlanta is going to respond under their interim coach that is taking them over this week.
Oh, wait, no, it's still Dan Quinn. Yeah, it's still Dan Quinn.
Dan Quinn still hasn't been fired. How is that possible? I actually have it on my fancy phone.
If the Saints were smart, you know what they'd do? They'd let the Falcons beat them by 50 this week just to maybe have Dan Quinn stick around next year. Yes.
Maybe. That's what you should do.
You've got some room to play with if you're New Orleans. We have more NFL talk coming up with Warren Sharp.
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Okay, Fantasy Fuck Boys. Hank, go.
What's up, boys? It's Carmine Falcone. My stardom is your your engines Cause it's fantasy fuckboys season And I'm fucking ready to roll Wait your stardom is this? Your engines Get your engines started Cause it's fantasy fuckboys time My sitem is crimson tide I prefer my tides to be high or low Not fucking red Certainly not in relation to an elephant What about tide ponds? Gold fucking targets Look like some little raviolis And my sleeper is leaving beers outside to get naturally refrigerated Hell yeah It's as primal as it gets and it saves you a few bucks for beers Outside beer Outside beer is the best You ever drink a bush camo beer And pull out of the snow Talk to you bro Yeah you have to buy 30 packs just to get the orange one Fuck yes Okay.
Okay. Yo, what's up? This is, I'm Eli the Cat.
Oh, what's up, Eli? What's up, Ryan? Fucking pussy ass bitch. Fuck you.
I'm going to piss all over your house, Hank. I'm starting this week.
Balls of yarn. Yeah.
I'm not talking about what's swinging in between Vic Fangio's pussy little legs. I'm talking about playing with a fucking ball of yarn with your retractable little claws..
Refinish an old-fashioned toy. It's nobody's business.
I'm sitting Todd Gurley. That fraud motherfucker.
He's not a cat owner. He thinks he's a cat owner.
He's a cat agent is what he is. You ain't a cat fan until you have to pick my shit up with your bare hands and throw it out.
My sleeper's laser pointers. Laser pointers? Laser pointers.
Always a great time. Not just for snipers anymore.
I love fucking playing with a laser porn. I'll stalk that bitch like a pouncey brother you've never heard of before.
Oh, damn. Don't fuck up the pounceys.
Is that it? That's it. That's my sleeper.
Also, I'm going to take it. My sleeper is actually catnap.
All right, guys. What's up? It's Mac Aroni.
My stardom is CBS music. Dun, da-da-dun.

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I'm so excited for the big game.

Gonna watch that music.

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I miss you give a fuck. Kawhi's injured.
They try unplugging him and plugging him back in again. Not November.
My sleeper is Dan Quinn. He's on fire.
Weird. Weird.
That's fucked up. Really fucking weird.
Yeah. All right.
That's fizz and fuck, boys. We got to clean up a couple things.
One, I'm so sick of load management Twitter. Especially in November.
It makes sense in November. Yeah, but this is like the ultimate boomer debate.
Fucking Larry Bird and Michael Jordan and Magic Johnson wouldn't take a night off. They're playing against plumbers, though.
Who cares? And also, let's not degradate plumbers here on the show. Plumbers, I mean, they pull their pants down further than LeBron James in a pregame warm-up.
So I don't like people saying, oh, the guys back in the day, they were used car salesmen. They were construction.
No, they were actually professional basketball players, too, back then. They just weren't as good as Michael Jordan.
Did you see our boy Trey's tweet today? What? He posted one of those clips. It was like the classic boomer.
Like, if you think load management, look what these guys did back in the day. And it was a clip of like the 90s and 80s basketball and just people getting mauled.
Oh, it was the Rex Chapman. There was two shots that were made.
So it was like clearly a compilation of all the fouls. My problem is like.
It wasn't real basketball. Here's what I don't understand.
Like, we this, but don't we debate all that matters is rings? And if you don't have a ring, nothing else matters? That's basically every debate boils down to rings, right? We want our players to go through hell before they get there. Right.
So where I get confused is it feels like the people who are complaining about basketball getting soft and everyone sitting are also the people who are like rings matter the most and sitting guys and load management have shown to work in getting the ring I don't think that people like Colin Cowderder would be hypocrites I'm not you're saying that people on TV are saying one thing but also saying another thing that contradicts it it's crazy I know The whole argument is freaking crazy to watch this and be like, wait, but don't you care only about who wins in the end of the season? We're not really into load management season until an angry dad writes an open letter to a player saying, like, I bought seven tickets for my five sons to go to a game. We traveled from Omaha.
Yeah, to see LeBron James play once in this building. That's when we really get into the nuts and bolts of it.
But I agree with you. I think load management...
It's a load of crap. It is.
They should never come up with a term, load management. They should just say, like, rest day.
Yeah. It's a rest day for them.
Right. Injured reserve.
We know that already is a thing. When you try to make it sound way more technical than it really is, that's when you open a door for people to come at you.
I agree with that. Yeah, you're right.
Load management definitely when people talk. And also it just doesn't sound good.
It's like saying, oh, he's got a thigh contusion. Yeah.
Just say that he's got a bad bruise. Turf toe.
Yeah. Turf toe.
Turf toe is really serious. Yeah, turf toe is very serious.
Just cut it off if I ever get turfed. But no one thinks it's serious.
But it is serious. And the other thing, we've got to talk about LSU-Alabama.
I'm excited. I think LSU's going to, at bare minimum, score a touchdown for the first time in three years.
I agree with that. And then I think they're going to win.
I think they're going to win outright. Absolutely.
Yes, let's go. And it should be a fun game, too.
It's not going to be the 9-6 game that we saw in 2011. I was just field goals.
And I had the over. You had the over in that game.
But I swear to God they moved the ball. But you know what? That is a classic game.
I would rather have the over in that game because I still remember watching it and remembering how great those defenses are. So if you lose on an over, it might as well be a historically inept offensive game.
Yes. Yeah, no, no.
It's a good story super bowl i lost the super bowl over by 45 points right and that's the story right imagine you at the water cooler in 2011 the next day um the visualizing coach oh in the post game press in the post game like on the field if lsu wins i don't think i can smile harder no i don't think i can smile wider like that is the greatest visualization i've ever had it would be magical it would be beyond magical and and they told him like he should whisper to nick saban there was a caller on his radio show that said coach oh if you, you should whisper in Nick Saban's ear, there's a new sheriff in town during the post-game handshake. First of all, I don't think Coach O has ever whispered anything.
I don't think that he's like a back... He might slap on his back and say something.
But I agree with you. That would be a transcendental moment in college football.
I need it. It would be amazing.
The lights at night or the early dusk sparkling off Coach O's forehead. Everything.
It's just beautiful to just think about. So we need that so, so bad.
And, yeah, I'm excited. It's going to be a great game.
It should be one of the best games of the year. And whoever loses this game, there's still a path.
There's still a path, right? Big time. more of a path for lsu if they lose it than for alabama if they lose because alabama's played what little sister the poor who else did they play um northwest whatever school the water boy went to yeah they beat them by 20 yeah they've played no one so yeah this it's still live but well lsu actually that's not true if it's not a close game then it's dead.
If one of these teams gets blown out, it's curtains. It definitely is.
If one team loses by 20-plus, which I don't think is going to happen, they're not getting back in it. And if Alabama wins, I don't even think we're getting a smirk out of Nick Saban.
No, fuck that. If Alabama wins, I'm sick of that.
That was the third field goal of the night right there that just got hit. There you go.
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Okay, here he is, Coach Herm Edwards. Okay, we now welcome on a very special guest.
It is the head coach of your Arizona State Sun Devils, Herm Edwards. Coach, we're going to call you coach throughout this interview if that's okay.
That's the first question. You're fine.
Okay. You're good.
All right, first question. Have we come to terms with the fact that you are coaching the Sun Devils and you said as a religious man you've got to watch out for those Devils? Yeah, well, I think if you guys have known who I am and how I have fun with the media, that was more joking than anything else.
So I think some people actually said, does he even know that the Sun Devils are like the logo? Then I had to remind people that actually Frank Cush actually recruited me out of high school to come to Arizona. So we're good.
Okay, so that actually brings up a bigger point that I wanted to ask you. When you took the job, there was a lot of people being like, hey, why is he leaving this very nice gig at ESPN? He's great on TV.
He's going to go back and recruit and get in living rooms. So what did draw you back to coaching? And what made you want to go back to college, not NFL? Well, coaching the Under Armour All-American game for about eight years.

A lot of those high school athletes, five-star kids I coached.

And it had to be the right place for me to even consider coming back.

Ray was a good friend, the AD.

And Dr. Crowe was the president here.
And we all have the same vision of really trying to build student athletes in a way where when they leave this university, they're ready for the world. Most of these guys will not be professional football players, as you guys know.
But I wanted to give back to football. And this was my way of giving back.
You know, it's meant so much to me. I've been very fortunate my whole life.
I've been in football. I've never had a job, guys.
High school player high school player college player uh professional player then a coach and then put some makeup on like you guys do and don't look like you guys have a lot on today and no talk to folks as pretty as we get right now yeah about full that's okay it's good you guys are looking good man by the way so you know i just wanted to give back and it's been it's been a blessing and i'm enjoying it to be quite honest you do seem like a world champion recruiter like somebody that would come into a living room and kind of uh command you you command attention uh when you're when you're speaking with people when you're out on the recruiting trail who is the most important person to recruit on a visit is it the player is it the mom is it the dad is it grandma is it the little brother who is it it's mom grandma. There's no doubt about that now.
I mean, it's always mom and grandma because, remember, that's their baby. You know, they're about to allow him to leave home, and who's going to watch over him now? He becomes, you know, a little bit of your family when he comes to university, and they want to know the man in charge, is he going to make sure that he's in good hands? And that's critical, and it should be, because that's a big decision for a young college high school kid going to college regardless of where he goes.
Who is going to influence him for the next four or five years? Now, when you do go into the living room, are you a shoes-on, shoes-off guy? How does that work? According to the home, I always ask. I wipe my shoes off and say, you know, shoes on, shoes off, and they'll tell me.
Okay. I always have clean socks on, by the way.
Okay. Now, if you know that you might be taking your shoes off, have you thought about maybe doing, like, a little pitch on the socks? So, maybe, like, a message to the player, or to the player or like maybe a play that's like so you say you're recruiting this big wide receiver and you're like hey look here's our goal line package you're featured and it's written on my socks that's a good one i thought about yeah but you make sure the only way you can do that though is have white socks right right right or just a picture of the player.
The problem with me is, you know, I've got this socks collection now, so I don't have a lot of white socks. I own the gym socks.
That's true. When I'm at home, I generally don't wear white socks.
How many pairs of socks do you own? Oh, are you kidding me? All those socks I had on television, you got all those socks I used to have? Yeah. People send me socks.
They used to send me socks. I was like, where are you? You wear my socks? I don't wear socks with faces on them, though.
Faces in animals, I don't wear those type of socks. That's not me.
Okay. They get stretched out a little bit, and sometimes if you're trying to impress somebody, it's like, hey, my face doesn't look like that.
Yeah. You know what? You know what I learned, too, about getting stretched out? I mean, the same thing with those tattoos, you know? You start off here when you're young, and before you know it,

they're down on your forearm.

Yes, true.

Very good point.

Coach, you give excellent pep talks.

I used to watch you on ESPN, and they would just have you

just give a pep talk to the audience, the viewing audience at home.

But I want to know, who does Herm Edwards go to

when Herm Edwards needs a pep talk?

I go to my wife. She's really hard now.
She's hard. I mean, she's kind of sensitive just like it is, you know.
She says, what are you doing? She says, what are you doing? I mean, you know, my wife is, you know, she's a football fan. And I can give you guys this story.
So when I left Tampa to come up and take the Jets job, right, and we played Peyton Manning the first game of the season and Peyton Manning kind of has our way with us right he throws touchdowns and you know we can't can't really slow him down and so then we were in Long Island we were up at Hofstra so we used to catch the bus and you know and you had to go back after the game it was like a road game almost we'd stay down in the city so we get on to go back. And so she's sitting next to me, and she looks and she kind of hits me in the ribs.
She says, I thought you were a defensive coach. What are you talking about? She says, they don't tackle.
They miss tackles. She says, you better fix the defense.
I said, honey, it was paid, man. She said, it doesn't matter.
We're in Tampa. No one ever scored over 10 points.
She says, what is all this stuff? She said, you need to fix the defense so that's she's the one there you go one oh you're your toughest critic so uh speaking of that uh your time in Tampa your time in the NFL who is the most talented player you've coached and then maybe on top of that who is the guy who you feel like you got the most out of or maybe not the most talent, but played above his talent. Okay, probably the most talented player was my days actually in Kansas City.
We had a guy by the name of Dale Carter. Defensive back, first round pick out of Tennessee.
He's the most talented player I've ever coached. I mean, he was unbelievable.
Probably the guy that got the most out of his ability. He's a real good friend.
Actually, we're the godparents of his daughter. He's the godparents of our son, Marcus.
It's John Lynch. Oh, yeah.
Great player. He's a GM now in San Francisco.
He's doing a fabulous job at San Francisco 49ers. He is a guy that had talent but played above his talent.
All here, guys. Smart guy, tough guy.
Smart guys, tough guys. Generally can play football for a long time.
Yeah. Were you on that coaching staff when it was John Lynch and Mike Allstott was on there as well? Yep.
Allstott, Lynch. Tony was the head coach.
Lovie Smith was the linebacker coach. Rod Marinelli was the defensive line coach.
So we had quite a crew. Lorenzo Neal has another fullback on there.
Now, we're trying to sort something out because we've talked to John Lynch and we've also talked to Mike Allstott. We're trying to figure this out.
We heard that there was a rule that was put in place in practice that those two guys weren't allowed to hit each other anymore because the collisions were too violent. Is that true? Oh, Lynch and Allstott? Yeah.
Oh, yeah, you didn't want that to happen. No, that was not happening in our practices.
No, those are two powerful men. And, and, you know, that was the old, when we used to get in the red zone, they used to have the, that, that, that music about the train, you know, get on the train.
When every time we got in the red zone, All-Star, you know, got in the red zone, everybody wanted us to run the football with All-Star. Mm-hmm.
So, um, the, how many times a week do people come up to you and say you play to win the game?

During my travels, that happens a lot.

Kind of ironic because I said it one time.

New York.

And I've never said it since.

No, that's a lie.

Because I say it all the time, and I don't even mean to say it. It's just, you know, when you're watching a game and you're like, hello, you play to win the game.
You're one of the only ones that understood the jingle. You said the hello.
Yeah. Most people forget the jingle, right? They just go through the other part of it.
They forget the hello. The hello is the – that's what sets it apart.
Yes. But no, I've only said it one time.
And I've actually had people gone on shows say, will you say coach i said no i said it one time i don't need to say it will you say it for us because i remember the jingle no because you said it so good that it just hello what about just a hello good memories yeah that's right good i think it happened actually someone told me last week yes 17th anniversary right 17 how would man perfect that long yeah Perfect time for you to bring it back the second time here we go ready herm edwards coach i love you guys hello you'll get a recruit if you do it i'm guaranteeing it so many recruits do it listen the problem most of those recruits weren't born yeah so they need to know it The parents know But the recruits don't know Grandma knows it Mom knows it

Grandpa knows

And dad knows Does it ever make you laugh looking back at that That it's become this iconic catchphrase Like it's a big It's a big bastion of like NFL knowledge But in reality it's just you saying Something that everybody knows Which is you win when you play. Absolutely.
And I think between that and the fumble play that transpired in New York when I was able to pick up the ball, that's kind of two kind of things that I'm kind of – all of a sudden my face goes to those two things, right? Yeah, you changed football forever with that fumble play because at the end of games, coaches are forever scared to, you know, run the ball up the middle, kneel the ball. Like, everyone's got to be scared and tense at the end because they know Herm Edwards and that play that was incredible.
Can you walk us through the play? Actually, yeah, we're standing there, and Doug Kotar, who's passed away now, I shook his hand to play before that thinking they were going to take a knee and then they came out and, you know, there's some miscommunications about them taking a knee. Two plays prior to that, they actually took a knee and a skirmish broke out.
Bill Berge knocked Clack into the quarterback and so now they were talking about running the ball, not running the ball and lo and behold behold, it was a botched handoff. And here's the crazy part about this story.
So as I come around the side, because I'm up close to the line of scrimmage, the ball is falling and I see it hit the ground and I'm running at it. And I'm thinking in my brain, I said, I got to get it on the first hop.
If I get it on the first hop, I got a chance. And Joe was who's reaching back for the ball, I hear him say, oh no.
And I pick it

up, and I'm running the score. So

here's the funny part now. So Dick Vermeule's our coach.

Love him. Love Dick.

And imagine you're Dick Vermeule,

and the players are standing in front of you.

And he's talking to the players, and he's not

paying attention to the field. And so the

players are starting to run away from him.

They're leaving him. And he's going, where are you going?

And one of the players say, Coach, Herm just scored a touchdown. He never saw it.
Oh, man. That's great.
He never saw the play. He never saw the play.
He just turned around and said, what happens? He just scored a touchdown, Coach. He just picked the ball and ran with it.
It's wild to think that if it weren't for that play, the Chicago Bears probably would have tried to score a touchdown the other week instead of kicking that field goal and taking that knee. You're kind of indirectly to blame for that Chicago Bears.
Oh, don't blame me after Cincinnati. No, yeah, that's your fault.
I'm not to blame. Don't blame me.
That's your fault. No, Tino.
Guys get scared because of Herm Edwards. So they started calling it the Herm Edwards formation before they called it the victory formation because you were the one that kind of put the name on it.
Do you call it the Herm Edwards formation? I do not. We just call it victory, but I can remember when we first put it in,

when I was in New York,

a bunch of the rookies,

I would ask them,

I said,

why is this formation in football?

And they would kind of look,

well,

all these,

you know,

these,

well,

because you go to the end of the game,

coach,

and I said,

well,

so I always,

I put the tape on,

and they're looking,

and they're going,

coach,

that's you,

and I said, yeah, that's me. That's why this formation this formation's in here right i did the same thing when i got here my first year we put the victory formation and we're talking about we're going to put some formations you know the hail mary formation the victory formation i said let's look at this victory thing why is this in place right and all these now these guys come on guys these guys 1978 they weren't born these kids right yeah so they're looking at this thing and they're going and they're looking they're looking they're gonna coach is that you i said that's me i said you know we had you know big shoulder pads and i mean come on no high definition we were barely in color it was barely color television back in those days right so i made the kids watch it they crack up they start laughing so whenever i'm picking games in college uh yeah your your sayings always ring in my head and no more so than the leave it on the grass whenever I'm looking at you know the games the weekend and it's like yeah UCLA versus Arizona State I like UCLA but leave it on the grass so can you explain what leave it on on the grass means and how you use it to your team? Well, it's just a saying that I truly believe in anything you do.
For us as football players, whatever your energy is and you have in your body, you've got to leave it all out there. And don't ever end when you come to work.
Just leave your performance wherever you dwell. Just give it all you have, and then you can always live with the consequences of what happens.
That's life. For us, it's on the grass.
You play on the grass. Just leave it all on there for your teammates and for the game of football, and we can live with the consequences of what happens.
So leave it in the cubicle. If you're listening to this, leave it in the cubicle.
For right right there on your stage just leave it just leave it right there give it to your audience give them everything you can give them you feel good about yourself leave it all on the internet yeah leave it in leave it in the studio leave it in the cloud leave it on the cloud yeah that's oh yeah you want to talk about that so oh i don't i don't press in i don't mess around that's your that's another hermism don Don't hit send, right? It's your resume. Yeah.
I tell people all the time, that's your resume. Okay.
In today's world, I don't care if you're going into business, sports, whatever you want. You can't.
It doesn't go anywhere. It's your resume.
It's part of what people look at when they're interviewing you. They're going to find it.
It's out there. So when you press in, you better make sure.
Yeah. Press in.
Don't do it. Leave it alone.
Don't do it. Leave it on the grass.
Don't hit send. You also said, I remember when you took the job at Arizona State, you said that we don't huddle anymore in today's society.
We're running like an up-tempo thing, and that's part of the problem. Have you unpacked that a little bit more? Yeah, well, what I mean that, you know, when you get in a huddle in football, it's a great thing in the fact that players from all walks of life walk in that huddle.
And they really don't care where you're from, what color you are, are you religious, are you not religious, what albums you like, you're a country guy, you're a blues guy, you're a rap guy, it doesn't really matter. All 11 guys come in there for one common thing.
We need each other to be successful. And sometimes we don't huddle enough because when you huddle, there's this sense of, hey, we're together as a team now.
If we're going to do this, we got to do this together. And that's my problem a lot.
We don't huddle anymore. We just kind of all get into our little...
Think about this. You guys are sports fans.
Think about whatever team that you root for. You go into the stadium and just think of all the people that walk in that stadium from all different walks of life.
And they're all rooting for that team, right? And then all of a sudden, they leave the stadium and they go into the suburbs, wherever they live, and they have all these other different issues, right? It's like, why? Just huddle, talk. That's how conversation generally has a way of working things out.
Yeah, I'm a Nationals fan. We have oil lobbyists and we have defense lobbyists that all come together under one big tent in D.C.
and root for the same team. It's a beautiful thing to see.
I'm signing with Arizona State after that speech. Come on, baby.
Let's do it. We need all the help we get.
Let's do it. We're building a foundation.
We're building a young football team. What other hermisms do you throw out there in the living room? Give me a few hermisms.
I love them. They get me juiced up.
I feel like I'm going to run through a wall. You know, I tell people all the time that we are all a collection of our choices.
That's one thing we have, and that's what's great about America. You have a choice of what you do every day.
Our attitude is our best friend or our worst

enemy. It's just how you

choose to go through the day.

Everyone gets the same amount of time every day.

And you get to choose.

And when you don't choose

correctly, there's consequences. And you've got to be able

to live with the consequences when it's not correct.

You're like a preacher slash coach.

I don't really know. It's something about it.
I miss you on TV you're like a preacher slash coach I don't really know it's something about it where where it's like CEO I miss you on TV I really do do you miss TV at all well I miss the guys I miss I I call in every once in a while and I think you know anything we do um like for you guys what you guys do I've always learned this. We are knowledge providers.

There's no coach in the history of coaching any sport that's ever given the player talent.

God gave me a talent.

What you give them is knowledge.

You give them knowledge.

That's what you do.

You're a teacher.

And that's what I do.

I teach, whether it's teaching football, teaching how to be a man, a father, a husband. All those things are a part of the curriculum when you come here.

You know,

you know, and how to be a man, a father, a husband. All those things are a part of the curriculum when you come here.
Words and actions. That's my saying around it.
Words and actions. They match up every day.
Because eventually what we do in the dark comes to the light. It just does.
This is all the Hermesburgs right here. I want to mention real quick, you're such a football guy that usually when football guys leave the coaching or the playing and go to TV, they say the thing I missed most is the locker room.
You went from TV back to football, and you said the thing you missed most is the locker room. Exactly.
You missed the player. You missed the camaraderie.
About TV. About TV, though.
Yeah, you missed the camaraderie. You went from TV to football, and you're like, I miss the guys.
Yes. You've been in a huddle your whole life.
That's all you've ever done, right? You're addicted to huddles. You are addicted to huddles.
I'm addicted to the journey. When you start peacing off, there's always this journey.
You never know the twists and turns it's going to take. But you enjoy the journey with the guys.
It's just when you've always done that, you're used to that. It's a fun deal.
Now I understand why your games are so slow-paced. You just got to huddle.
You got to keep huddling. Play defense and huddle.
And it's more football. More time with the fellas.
That's exactly right. Put them in the huddle.
All right. I have question it's a seeking question promo code take go to an arizona state football game with promo code take you get ten dollars off i was going through the quarterbacks you coached in the nfl you coached the same guy with just seven different names so i'm gonna list them and you can tell me your favorite or a story from one of them.

So it's literally the same guy.

I'm putting Vinny Tessaverde off to the side

because he was the old hat in the room.

But these are all the same guy.

Chad Pennington, Brooks Bollinger, Jay Fiedler, Brody Coyle,

Trent Green, Damon Huard, Tyler Thigpen.

Those are all the exact same quarterback.

Oh. Uh-oh.
No. Oh.
Oh. green damon huard tyler thick pen those are all the exact same quarterback oh oh oh oh chad pennington okay i knew you're gonna say that special special guy now trend green special problem is both those guys that got hurt right chad i mean if you think about chad i and I don't know if this is correct, but you guys can look it up.
Out of the 16 times I want to say the New England Patriots have won the division, only one other quarterback has won it twice. It's Chad Pennington.
Oh, that's interesting. Think about that.
Yeah. Okay.
Trent Green, fabulous quarterback. Got knocked out my first year.
Was an older guy, but, you know, was a really good quarterback. The other guys were all young players.
You know, they were very young, and it was very difficult. But those two guys, Chad Pennington, and Damon Ewell was a veteran guy.
He came in and spelled Trent when he went down. He's a veteran guy.
He had a veteran presence and all that.

But the other guys were very young. They were rookies.

They weren't high-round picks by any stretch of the imagination.

But Chad Pennington's special now.

He's a pretty good quarterback.

You also coached Cliff Kingsbury.

So was he too pretty

to succeed in football?

No. When you're starting to name

these guys,

these were the dog days. This is when going through a season you play five quarterbacks.
Guess what? Your record's not very good, guys. You don't have a good record.
Hello? Five quarterbacks. That's not a lot of fun.
Coach, I got one last thing. I want to put your recruiting skills to the test here uh big cat and i we are we're a dynamic duo on the gridiron we have some eligibility left big cat is my holder i'm a solid he's a holder i'm a solid backup kicker and we're both glue guys yeah backup kicker uh we're locker.
We're guys that you want in your huddle. So with that knowledge, if you're stepping into our living room here on Part of My Take, and we'll just say that Hank, our producer, that's grandma, can you recruit us? Sure, I can.
And if you want a great college experience, if you want to be part of a team, we have a wonderful walk-on plan. It is a walk-on plan.
No scholarship available. You need to know that.
Hopefully, if you're an Arizona resident, you get a cut in tuition. Oh, okay.
Okay. So, you know, grandma, depending where grandma lives, if she's living somewhere in the north where it's cold, be a great retirement area for grandma.
Oh, yeah. Watch your grandkids play.
Be a wonderful thing. Okay.
Hank's been talking about moving out west. I like that.
We were immediately demoted to walk-ons, but I appreciate that. Well, at least you know the truth.
Yeah, that's true. You're not lying to us.
Don't beat around the bush. Just tell the truth.
All right. Coach, thank you for this.
Anytime you're in New York or if we're in Arizona, we'd love to visit with you. And as you always do with every interview, you want to take us out with the hello.
You play to win the game. I'm going to say hello.
And guess what? Look forward to seeing you guys in Arizona. Okay.
We're coming. We'll see you there.
We'll be there. We'll bring Grandma with us.
Yeah. Yes.
All right. Thank you, Coach.
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It is Warren Sharp. You can find him on Twitter.
You can find him at sharpfootballanalysis.com. You're giving away everything for free this week.
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You just go to the site and you can see. All right, so what's the pick? There's a few.
Give us the game. Don't tell us what it is.
Okay, there's a couple ones that I really like, one of which I haven't put out yet, but one that I did in Monday Night Football game. I have a strong take on the Monday Night game.
Okay, nice. We're going to figure it out.
And we have some other theories about what teams you work for now. I just keep a mental list.
Anytime you compliment or slightly degrade a team's play calling on Twitter, I'm like, okay, another clue. Yeah, has that gotten annoying? Because you get tagged in every single one.
It hasn't gotten annoying. I'm okay with people guessing.
But you know what's interesting that's going to throw everybody off, including you guys, is that I have actually been reached out to in the past by GMs who have seen me being critical of their team and want to talk to me about working with them. Oh, you're muddying the water.
Because they have actually said, like, I'm sitting up there watching the game, saying the exact damn things that you're saying on Twitter. And I wanted to talk to you about that.
And so there's definitely just because I'm critical of a team does not necessarily mean that i don't have any association with that means that you want to work for that team in the future so you're nagging them the good the good what i always try to do is i just state facts and truths based on the data and try to be as objective as possible and then if some a lot of the teams that it's funny like a lot of people like i love your stuff i love your stuff and then i'm negative about their team they're like what the hell's wrong with you you know so all right so we're through week nine weeks of the season coming up on week 10 i want to do something to start here we oftentimes throw around the f word fraud teams that are maybe uh better than what they you know what they actually are in reality.

Their record is better whether it be because they played bad teams

or they had some fluke wins.

You have the stats.

We usually just say it off the cuff.

You tell us.

Give us the one or two teams that you could see.

You don't have to say fraud.

We'll say fraud.

But maybe we'll regress a little bit in the last part of the season. Buffalo? Come on.
Don't say that one. I knew you were going to start with Buffalo.
I will tell you this. With regard to Buffalo, their second half of the schedule is actually not that hard.
So they played a pretty easy first half of the schedule. But they actually are fortunate to face an easy second half of the schedule too.
So I don't think they'll fall off from that perspective. But the problem is as much as I love Sean McDermott as a coach and just a motivator of his team, not just his X's and O's but what he does there, you can run on that defense.
So I'm going to be interested to see this weekend if the Cleveland Browns can help support Baker Mayfield by running the football a little bit on the Buffalo Bills defense so they're a team that I think um I don't know that I would say they're fraudulent but you know they can't they can't really throw the ball down the field and execute in that perspective all they can throw it far you can throw it further than down the field yeah true extra downfield true they can they can you're right they can throw it whether or not it's going to be a completion it's a team game it's a team game all right i throw the ball downfield they don't always catch it i think most bills fans know that they're not all the way there yet they have a good they're probably going to the playoffs but no one i think most bills fans know that they still work to do so what's another team that you could see regressing coming down the stretch uh a lot of the other teams in the nfc north so whether it's the packers or the vikings you know both those teams twice as many wins as losses at least and i they all have holes they all have you know pretty big problems we'll see a prime example here i love this game i don't know if you guys love winter football games. Oh, yeah.
But we got this Green Bay game. It's going to be the coldest game of the year so far.
The temperatures at kickoff are going to be around like 27, 28 degrees. And we got Kyle Allen, who's played at Texas A&M.
I think he's from like the Arizona. So he's like a warm weather guy going up into frozen Lambeau.
That's why Jim Kelly never won a Super Bowl. Miami? Yeah.
Yeah. That makes sense.
Yeah. He had a terrible career.
Also, Dan Marino never won a big one because he was a cold weather guy that went down to Miami. Yeah.
Does he go the other way? Did he like the strip clubs hanging out there? I mean, there could be a lot more distractions in the warm weather James Harden style so Packers Vikings you think not frauds but have holes have holes like Green Bay for example I think Christian McCaffrey is going to be able to run all over the that team um they rank as one of the worst run defenses it's amazing you know a lot of people are talking about Christian McCaffrey for the MVP conversation. And I think the good part about more analytics and, you know, statistical intelligence being proffered around the Internet and on Twitter is that most people now realize how hard it would be for running back to win MVP.
Like because quarterbacks are what dictate wins and losses right now. Passing is so much more important than rushing the football is.
So I think it's going to be hard for him to ever win that. However, that team, the Carolina Panthers, has played the number one most difficult schedule of run defenses on the season.
And yet McCaffrey's delivering the season that he is. This is the easiest run defense that he will have faced all year.
They rank well below average, bottom 10 in the NFL. And just watch the game.
He is he is so good running I mean there's a couple different types of runs power inside zone but if you're just like watching it from a viewer's perspective you don't know the this the terminology watch for when he runs up the middle or to his left the Green Bay Packers are actually also really bad defending runs up the middle or to the offense's left. So if you see McCaffrey tearing it up around the outside left side of that line, it's because they're really good at blocking it and Green Bay has their stronger run defenders playing on the offense's right side.
They're much weaker on the left. That's where the Eagles killed them.
A lot of different teams killed him, gashing him up that left side.

Interesting.

So what about Minnesota?

What's their hole?

Well, with the... Yeah, I know.

I wanted him to say it.

Yeah, I mean...

There's Kirk Cousins in primetime.

Kirk Cousins in primetime.

Not only that,

I think Kirk Cousins,

from some things that I looked at,

don't 100% quote me on this,

but I think he's something like 8-22

when he plays a 4-25 kick or later. So it's not just like the prime time, but he is such a creature of habit that the 1 o'clock starts, he's got this routine.
He must be super anal, has this great routine, really comfortable with a 1 o'clock start. But once you get into the later time frames, he's just not as comfortable.
We need to do, the think about it because there are so many kirk cousins stats out there i think he's like six and 28 against winning teams we need to start putting out the reverse because the reverse must be incredible when kirk cousins plays a bad team at one o'clock he's undefeated yeah right like we need to start doing that for kirk is kirk cousins a vampire that's another question so when the sun goes down kirk But you're right. If you look at it from the flip side, if he's playing the Lions at 1 o'clock, he's probably 16-0, something like that.
Here's the other thing, though. Kirk Cousins, bad in primetime.
Jason Garrett, also bad in primetime. True.
Unstoppable force versus movable object. Who wins? Yeah, and that's one.
I actually don't have a strong take on that game. I think that going to be you gotta bet every game you do yeah okay yeah i i typically try to lean only on the games that i see enough value but i respect you're one of those guys who likes to win money and choose yeah i respect the grind of the the the terror that you put yourself through by trying to pick a winner and then sweating that out because yeah it's not easy i mean itay football you have to bet sunday football you cannot not bet sunday football agreed so you are the only guest i think that brings their own laptop yes well i didn't know what we were going to cover so i was just trying to be prepared is there a spreadsheet up no i'm just this is my odd screen i'm just looking at oh nice okay all right so give us the flip side give us the team that you think because there always is a team in in November or December, and there's a lot in the AFC, there's a few in the NFC, who are like in that 4-5, 5-4, 4-4 range that you can see making a run, and they have gotten better, and they're going to make the playoffs.
Well, you know, this is a frustrating one to talk about because the Cleveland Browns face a much easier schedule over the second half of the season.

And I really don't know what exactly is going on there from a coaching perspective because all I'm hearing about is that people are clamoring for Todd Monken to take more ownership and control, play calling, etc.

Because Freddie is the one calling plays and Monken just comes out in an interview on Thursday and says, I'm not going to be able to call the plays. It's going to be Freddie, and that's the way we're going to stick with it.
But when Freddie took over from Hugh last season, they used a lot more of their heavy personnel groupings, which is two tight end sets, to help pass protect for Baker so that he had cleaner pockets to throw from, and he was in general a lot more comfortable in those scenarios. This year, they're using a lot more three wide receiver sets.
Now, I understand they brought in Odell Beckham, so they've got more wide receivers, but the numbers bear it out. It's not even close.
It's not like, well, they're 20% more efficient if they pass from... It is night and day how much better they are passing from 12 personnel, yet they continue to use the three wide receiver sets I think maybe Todd Monken's influence overall like they redid that offense he might not be calling plays but he comes from Tampa Bay with the Buccaneers they ran a lot of three wide sets they he's got the air raid background I know that marries well with what Baker Mayfield did in college, but this is the NFL and you've got 280,

300 pound giants on the other side of that line of scrimmage trying to rip

your head off and your offensive line stinks.

He's not executing well when he's not well protected.

So the numbers bear it out that this season,

they're really good passing out of 12.

I hope that they switch a little bit more to use some more 12 personnel. If they do, it could make the offense more efficient.
They need to get their ground game going a little bit more, but their defense is going to face a much easier schedule of opposing offenses down the stretch. I don't know if they can grind their way back into the playoff contention from where they are right now, but they are a team that's going to be playing much better over the second half, in my opinion.
Okay. And so when they're running three wide receiver sets, that's 11 personnel, right? Bam.
Got it. Okay.
Knowledge retention. Done.
Freddie Kitchen said the other day that he doesn't look at the stats. I know.
He doesn't pay attention to stats. Do you think that's, first of all, do you think that's true? I find it hard to believe.
I think in part he was taken out of context because he was talking about where Baker Mayfield ranks in terms of completion rate. A reporter asked him that question.
He said, I don't care where he ranks. I don't have that information.
I'm worried about other things. I don't look at those numbers.
I don't, I don't take into consideration stats or whatever the exact quote was. Part of me thinks he's, I hope to God that he was just talking about the element of the rankings, league-wide rankings.
But if he literally in some capacity was talking about real stats, then that's very hard to believe. Because even if you're just looking at your own team, I mean, I know you can look at a guy and say, well, I think he's doing better out on the field than this guy, but how do you not know that he's averaging six yards a carry and the other guy's only at three? You're just really going to use the eyeball test 24-7 and never look at any type of number? I find that very hard to believe.
You just described exactly what Hugh Jackson did last year with Carlos Hyde and Duke Johnson. Yes.
Six yards per carry for Duke or whatever it was. Chubb was crushing it, and he continued to ride with Carlos Hyde until the owner traded him out of the house.
We've got to find a way to get Nick Chubb the ball more in this offense. Well, Hugh, you can just hand the ball to him.
That's completely in your hands. I want to talk real quick about some of the backups that have come into the league this year.
Some are in still, some are out. Who do you think is the best backup quarterback that's taken over between like Minshew, Allen, Allen, Moore, Falk, Hoyer? It's definitely got to be Kyle Allen to me.
That team, they haven't, you know, I agree the performance against the 49ers is very frustrating. It kind of sets you back a little bit.
There's definitely parts of his game that he needs to work on, right? He needs to work on his pocket awareness and his ball control in the pocket. You know, turnovers kill you.
If you turn the ball over, you're going to lose 80% of times when you lose that turnover battle. So you've got to be more aware.
But from an ability to make the throws at this level, he's got that ability to make those throws more so than most of those other guys that you mentioned. Now, I loved Minshew Mania, and I was hoping that that would continue, but again, he ran into, you know, I don't think the talent is quite as good on that team.
I think the coaching married with his ability is really what Kyle Allen is, is what's setting Kyle Allen apart. I mean, what the job that the Turners are doing is great.
What about one that we forgot, Mason Rudolph? Oh, yeah. We think that his face is too big.
For his body? Yeah, just everything. And also Kool-Aid lips.
He's got that whole vibe. It's just not going to work.
I know what you mean. I judge my quarterback just like book by cover.
Nope, not a quarterback. Right.
Well, I'm shocked because I did not think that the Steelers would be, what, like 4-1 with him in there. And the funny part about him, do you remember when Ben got injured, he had to fill in, and his first game was on the road in San Francisco.
Now San Francisco was in the red zone so many different times, kept turning the ball over. They should have killed the Steelers.
They only won 24-20. But they then came home, and theers did after that game and their next opponent, I forget who it was, but it was like, I think it was like a primetime game, Monday night game.
It might've been Cleveland Monday night. I'm not, I'm not entirely sure.
They came home that game and I anticipated with that full week of prep to get Minshew ready, I'm sorry, to get Mason Rudolph ready, that they would help him with a short passing attack. They would show some confidence, let him throw the ball, stop putting him in these bad situations where we're just running on first down, running on second down, up.
Now we're in third and long and you're going to have to throw it. What did they come out with? They came out with the wildcat.
Like they spent all week working on the wildcat. To me, that speaks of, we don't have a lot of confidence in this guy.
Like we had a week to prepare for a home game. And instead of working with the Wildcat, to me that speaks of we don't have a lot of confidence in this guy.
We had a week to prepare for a home game, and instead of working with the receivers a lot, we spent our time teaching our running backs to throw the football in this Wildcat grouping. So I don't know the metrics on the big head or the Kool-Aid lips, but I definitely think that the team doesn't have a lot of confidence in him.
Now maybe that's growing over time, but they need to get him throwing the football a little bit more earlier in games. We should add that to your stat sheets and stuff.
It should just be a column eyeball test. We can take care of that.
Eyeball test? Yeah. No stats, nothing.
It's just look at him. Maybe show me, I don't know, five plays.
So it's a physical appearance eyeball test. Physical appearance, five plays, boom.
Oh, there is some playing. Yeah, but I don't need the All-22.
Just give me the TV, and I'll actually probably be looking at my Twitter while I'm doing it. So just what he looks like when he's standing in the huddle.
And when he's dropping back, a couple dropbacks. And I want to see him when he's jogging off to the sidelines.
I want to see his body language. And on the sidelineselines talking to his coach with a hat on.
Right. Okay, yeah.

So that really is like the physical – Yes. The look.
Yes. The look test.
Oh, yeah. Speaking of the eyeball test, do you think a Jameis Winston needs contacts? You know, I was okay with that game because I had six and a half.
I bought to seven on Monday. So I actually covered.
But Winston continues to have this problem where he's in situations where he just falls apart at the end of games. And it's really hard to explain at this point in time.
Two weeks ago, Bruce Arians came out, I think, a great job as a coach. He blamed all of the interceptions on the rest of the guys.
Remember that? He's like, none of these interceptions were Jameis' fault. They were all everybody else's fault.
But at a certain time, now he has all these other turnovers. You can't just keep blaming everybody else for all the mistakes when the one constant is Jameis Winston.
Do you think he's a Hall of Famer? No. Have you heard of Jameis1of1 Twitter account? No.
Okay, I'll send you the book. It's a book? Well, he wrote a he wrote a 400 page book, this Twitter account, James one of one.
Yeah, I did. You're part of the media bias against it.
You have James Winston derangement syndrome. It's a, yeah.
Oh, that's what his, this one-on-one guy. The name of the book is James Winston derangement syndrome.
How media bias causes us to overlook the start of a hall of fame, NFL career. So you are part of, well, look, he's, he's, if you want to just look at the pure numbers, like the counting stats, because some people look at that, like how many total touchdowns, how many passing yards.
He's good at those. But when you talk about turnover-worthy plays, everything else that it takes to win games, I mean, he's good at eating Ws.
But other than that, he struggles. I actually am kind of serious about the contacts thing.
He squints all the time. Okay.
Well, you picked up on that because your eyeball looked him. Correct.
Yes, exactly. If you saw him in the game last week against Seattle, he didn't know if the field goal win at the end of the game.
He was squinting to try to figure it out. When he was in college, he needed glasses.
He needed contacts, and he would only wear them for baseball. Okay.
But he doesn't wear them for football for some reason. Well, yeah, it is amazing.
I'm not going to say that that's only partially funny, but there's also an element of truth to that. It's amazing what certain teams don't factor in.
Don't take into consideration. Hand size.
Well, hand size, yes. They do factor, but not enough.
Kyle Allen we'll watch what kyle allen does up in green bay because he has about average to slightly below average hand size and it's going to be super cold good to know numbness in the hands um okay i would be having him spend most of the week in a meat locker getting ready trying on gloves testing it out you know bill belich, when there's a rain game, remember that rain game with the Cleveland Browns? They take footballs, they dunk them in, you know, trash cans full of water. They weight the ball so that the DBs can figure out how heavy they're going to be when they're trying to, you know, tip passes, interceptions, all these different types of things.
You've got to think about as many factors as possible because I guarantee you the best coach and the best team in the league are thinking about all that and things you have no idea that they're thinking about. That's a good point.
All right, I have one last question about the picture of the NFL in 2019. Can you give me top three teams in the AFC, top three teams in the NFCc just in terms of the best yes uh yeah let me look at my one of my metrics i look at early down success rate so i can already tell you so early not success rate i think we talked about this on the show last time not 100 positive but what it does is it looks at your ability to bypass third downs it's ultra important not as many people look at that they focus on what do you do on third downs.
But the reality is third downs are very responsive to what you've done on first and second down. So you might be in a third and long.
You might be a third and short. So your ability to convert those varies tremendously.
Your play calls vary tremendously based upon the distance to go. Just like your play calls in the second half.
Like if you're down, you're going to be more aggressive. If you're up, you're going to be more conservative.
So what you really need to do when you're analyzing football is look at early downs in the first half and that'll help determine. That's what I look at when I'm trying to see which teams are the most run heavy.
Like what is the coach's strategy here? What are they trying to do? Are they establishing the run? Are they passing the football? Those passing the football those types of things the 49ers obviously i mean they're the lone unbeaten team and they're the number one team in my early non-success rate metric so they're only about average on offense but they're the number one defense right now now i got a couple interesting things to tell you about the 49ers if you care to hear it yeah sure, sure. So the 49ers, the interesting thing about their defense in general is that they're great against the pass, but they're only about average against the run right now.
And one of the reasons that they're only average against the run is because of the wide nine technique and the defensive strategy that Robert Sala uses is the spreads out the defenders.

So they're great at rushing, especially getting pressure with only four.

But they create lanes for offenses to run the football through.

And in this particular matchup this weekend, I think it's going to be fascinating, the Monday night game, because we know that the Seattle Seahawks want to run the football.

At times, Brian Schottenheimer runs the football too much.

But they're decent at running the football.

And they should have a little bit of success running on the San Francisco 49ers defense. When Russ drops back to pass, obviously their offensive line is bad.
The interesting part about the matchup, though, is going to be if you go through the list of the teams that the 49ers have played and the quarterbacks they've faced, it's a lot of guys who are pocket quarterbacks that can't get out of the pocket,'t do anything it's like jamis uh mason rudolph it's a it's a number of baker it's a number of guys like that who are like deer in headlights if you pressure them russ is the best quarterback in the nfl right now from passer rating from yards per attempt uh from i think he's like second best in completion percentage above expectation when he's under pressure. He can get out of there and make passes.

So the 49ers haven't played a quarterback like that yet.

They're also without their stud, middle linebacker Quan Alexander,

who came from Tampa.

He got injured really good in coverage.

So that's going to be an interesting matchup.

But 49ers, best team, and my metrics agree with that.

Okay, and then give me a couple more.

Okay, so a couple more real quick.

Obviously the New England Patriots, I think that they're probably still the most elite in the AFC. The Chiefs, once Patrick Mahomes come back, he's definitely in there.
A third team on the AFC, I'd probably say the Baltimore Ravens. Their defense, the secondary, is getting much healthier.
They obviously got the trade for Marcus Peters. This is a team that is going to be able to run the ball, play efficiently, build a lead at halftime, force you to throw.
Guess what they're okay at stopping the run? Guess what they're great at? They're going to be great at stopping the pass. You're going to have to throw the ball into that secondary struggle.
In the NFC, I already mentioned the 49ers, the Saints definitely up there at the top. They're actually my number four team in this early down success rate metric.
It's tough. There's not a third.
Number third team, yeah, it is tough. You've obviously got the Dallas Cowboys are in the picture.
I think the Philadelphia Eagles are a team that's in the picture. Now, if you look at the NFC East, the Eagles actually have the easier schedule over that second half of the season.
They absolutely must beat the Cowboys when they do meet them.

And the Eagles have a bye this week.

They face the Patriots next week.

So that's going to be a tough game.

But they have an easier schedule for the NFC East than do the Dallas Cowboys the rest of

the way.

Okay.

Great.

I want you to explain to Hank real quick because we've been going back and forth about this

for a couple weeks now.

Hank doesn't believe that fumble luck is a thing.

Yeah, turnover luck. He thinks it's saying thatumble luck is a thing.
Yeah, turnover luck.

He thinks it's saying that turnover luck

is a slap in the face to the Patriots for being so lucky.

It's not true.

It's not what I said, but feel free to answer the question.

Pretty much exactly.

How much is turnover luck

and just the sustainability of getting four turnovers a game,

is that going to regress for the Patriots?

And touchdowns.

The defensive special teams is always getting these bounces. They score touchdowns.
How much is that not going to exist moving forward? Okay, so two points on that, and then I'll theorize a little bit. The first point is that being able to return those turnovers for touchdowns is so unbelievably important and gives you such an edge in winning games.
The difference between you getting an interception and being tackled at the opponent's 40-yard line versus running that thing all the way in for the touchdown and not having to put your offense out on the field to travel those 40 yards and actually score that touchdown is massive. And if I was involved, we would be practicing tons of returns where my defense is on the field and we're practicing blocking the offensive players.
And we're strategizing how we're going to try to return these things because housing those returns just gives you such a big boost. The second thing is when you are facing bad quarterbacks that are more prone to throwing interceptions, that is a little bit more sustainable.
The fumble element is less sustainable. You don't have bad quarterbacks anymore.
You had an easy schedule, Hank. The Patriots definitely did have by far the easiest schedule for their defense in the NFL year to date.
Now, they do play about an average schedule the rest of the way through, but the key is if you're playing those quarterbacks that tend to throw those interceptions, Luke Falk, then you're going to get more, and that's a little bit more sustainable when you're playing those types of quarterbacks. The fumbles, if the ball's actually out on the ground, some coaches maybe coach more about recovery and rallying to the ball and things like that than others do, but ultimately, it's an odd-shaped football that's sitting right on your couch there.
It bounces in different ways. You can't predict it.
And your guy might be there and can't get it. And a guy five yards away, he can get it from the other team.
You got three guys and it just went right through him. So that is what is unsustainable.
Okay. So are you okay, Hank? Yeah, I'm great.
That was very insightful. Thank you.
All right. Warren Sharp.
Thank you as always. SharpFootballAnalysis.com.
Free for the rest of the week? Free the rest of the week. And you have picks and you have fantasy advice.
And props too. And props.
It's all there. It's all free.
You can dive into the stats. How do you feel about the three and a half field goal? Oh, yeah.
Every primetime game, I bet over on three and a half field goals because I just feel like the ball goes further at night and there are more field goals in primetime games. Is that? I actually, you know what's hilarious? I saw your tweet on that.
I don't know if you've repeatedly tweeted it, but I did see one time that you did. I actually looked it up.
I went back and did some research on how many field goals on average are made in primetime games. It's not statistically significant.
It's not more. It's not more than average.
It's not more than average. But how much? But what's the number? Do you know? I could send it to you.
I don't have it off the top of my head. Is it more than three and a half? I don't know.
It could be. It could be more than three and a half.
It could be. It's probably between three and four, right? Okay.
All right. There you go.
Right on the money then money then so no statistical i don't have the support right now i will tell you that minnesota and dallas like if you're if you're looking at that prop for sunday night football that i i think you got a good kicker on the dallas cowboys there and minnesota got rid of their kicker a little while ago for being terrible you got kurt cousins inousins in there. Maybe you don't have Adam Thielen, so maybe you're able to move the ball a little bit but not quite far enough to score touchdowns.
That one actually could be a good game to look at. I think what Warren's telling us is that blindly betting the same thing over and over isn't going to win, which I actually would disagree with.
I'm on PFT's side. Sometimes you just say, hey, I'm going to fuck it, and I'm going to bet every over.
On the season, I'm up. That's all I know.
There it is. That's all that matters.
Yes. Your bank account at the end of the day.
Yep. All right, Warren Sharp, thank you so much.
Appreciate your time as always, man. Thanks, man.
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So also check out New Amsterdam Vodka, the official vodka of Barstool Sports, and get yourself a bottle of Pink Whitney. Okay, let's finish up.
We got a couple quick segments, and we're going to finish up with our FAQs and Matt Jones. Firefest.
Firefest. Firefest of the week.
go first my fire fest is pretty simple college basketball college basketball is back and gambling on 18 year olds to not fuck up at the end of games is everyone's fire fest and i don't know why i do i love november but i hate november because it's a bunch of teams you don't know about. They're playing in weird spots.
They're playing random teams, little teams. No one fucking knows.
And, man, does it suck. Even the good teams are bad.
That's what makes it tough. Like, Michigan State, they're ranked number one.
I think they had two guys that were playing in the first game of the season with face masks on. They had broken noses in the first game of the season.
Yeah, so Fyre Fest is

definitely the fact of college. I can't stop

loving it

and betting on it because I just

love it and I bet on it. But man, is it

stupid and man, is it like... You have those

moments where you're like,

why am I getting mad at this 18-year-old who can't

make a free throw at the end

of the game? Oh yeah, you're stupid. But then, you know

what? I love it, so who cares? I always say that this is the season that I get into watching college basketball from the start. No, you don't.
I think this is it. I think this is the season.
I've watched college basketball the last two nights. I think I'm in.
For real? Next time we have Titus on the show, you'll be amazed how knowledgeable I am about college basketball. Okay.
My Fyre Fest, I used to have this plug for shoes. He would send me sick off whites, Nikes.
He no longer exists, really. He has a different job, so I don't really have a plug anymore.
And the most recent pair of shoes he got me, I stepped outside on the way to work in a movie, basically. A car came, splashed, puddle, splashed on the shoes, ruined the shoes, and now I'm just shit out of luck.
All right, I'm a size 12 for anyone who's listening to Hank's Firefest because it was clearly a point to get free shoes. No, no, no.
I'm 10 and a half. That's a Firefest.
I'm 10 and a half. I had a great pair of shoes that got ruined.
Make sure you throw in those size 12s. Yeah, leave the tags on them.
That's what the kids are wearing, right? Hank, do you want to say your size now that you've done this plug? I'm a 10 and a half. That's not why I did it, though.
Wait, you guys are both 10 and a half? Yeah, that's weird. And you're like, what, six inches taller than five inches taller than me? Wait, six inches taller than me? How tall is Hank? He's 6'1".
Okay, yeah. No, you're like two inches taller than me.
Oh, no. I'm actually six feet, but...
Oh, no. I was trying to make a joke about proportionally my dick is bigger.
You walked into that one. Play along.
Oh, man. You have to be pretty low bar for me to do that.
All right, PFT, what's your fire fest? My fire fest of the week is I'm going to be watching the LSU-Bama game, but I have to go watch it in an Alabama bar. Why? Because it's some appearance thing that I'm doing through Barstool that's like, hey, you are going to this program.
What? Yeah. Huh? You want to plug it so people can come? Not really, because it's an Alabama bar.
Yeah, no, you got to do it. It's one of the Ainsworths.
All right, so are you going to wear LSU gear? Well, of course, yeah. So that's my fire fest is I'm going to be in there with a bunch of people that hate me because I'm wearing, yeah, a lot of Bama bangs, a lot of swoopy hair.
Usually, I'm used to watching games in bars where people hate me, but they usually have to talk to me to figure that out first. This time, they're just going to be able to look at me and say, oh, he's wearing all LSU gear.
I hate that guy. If they do that song, though, it's fucking awesome.
God damn it. What is that song? Suck that tiger dick, bitch.
No, the song Alabama does where they're like, and Tennessee too. I can't remember.
It sounds really good. It's Dixieland Delight.
Yep, there you go. That's the name of the song.
Rocky Top. No, it's Dixieland Delight delight remember they stopped it and then miss terry had to do a public service announcement where they're like don't say the f word during it and then they brought it back because miss terry told asked everyone to not say the f word and then in the stadium they had they blasted audio of everyone saying like like freak or something like something else like the whatever the replacement of the swear word.
something. Like something else.

Whatever the replacement of the swear word.

Gracious to Petrus.

It was a soft moment in Alabama history.

Well, Miss Terry, maybe if you wanted the people to listen to what you had to say,

you would kiss every single Alabama fan on the lips on their way out of the stadium.

How SEC is that, though? Miss Terry had to sit there in Nick Saban's huge office and be like,

please, respect your opponents. Why would any Alabama fan respect their opponents? They shit-pumped their opponents.
I'd never respect my opponents if I was an Alabama fan. That's a little reverse psychology.
I think that her saying that is her way of saying it even harder. Yeah, they're so bad.
Please be nice to them. Listen, we don't want to create a home field advantage here.
Yes, yes. We're going to stop doing the strobe lights when you guys are sneaking all your drinks from out of your sock if you keep saying the F word.
Alright. Last up, we have Sabermetrics for James Harden.
A person on Reddit did a deep dive, and I mean a deep dive on James Harden and came to the conclusion that if James Harden is in a city with a above average strip club he has a bad performance on the court now define above average so there's a ranking system which I don't really trust because it has it has Miami number one which I get is Chicago number two Chicago unless you go to Indiana the strip clubs aren't that good and then Salt Lake City's number three which really apparently they have very high because there's only one of them yeah okay so it's like that's the only place where people can go also shout out to the person who made it I think they're in AWL Ryan Sullivan okay so nice job wait thanks for sending it to us so that we could bet on it and not leak it to the world come on man come on I hope the reddit gold was worth it that's my worst part i would have fucking given you what is it reddit gold i would have given you some of that platinum from all my i would have given you i would have cash-apped you money to give me this tip so i could have bet the angle so now it's gonna get screwed did he do any statistical analysis on whether or not james harden or all those strip clubs happen to be in towns that also had playoff basketball teams?

No, because Chicago.

Yeah.

They haven't been good.

I need somebody to break down how Kirk Cousins plays.

We know that he plays bad in the afternoon and at night.

I want to know if he plays poorly in cities with giant megachurches.

Maybe he goes there early, gets a little too wild.

What's he done against Houston?

Yeah, Houston beat Joel Osteen. So at the bottom was Toronto and Cleveland and Charlotte.
Minneapolis actually, I don't know where. If he's in AWL, I'm going to respect his data.
But I'm going to also guess he hasn't personally gone to some of these strip clubs and is probably just doing it off a review. Minneapolis hasapolis has strip clubs like one block from the stadium now here they are right downtown there's a little bit of not that i know i just know right there's a little bit of a bias in this that might be skewing and that's the ratings that get put on a strip club put yourself in the shoes of somebody that logs on to al gore's internet and and gives a rating to a strip club.
Pornhub commenters.

Yes.

So the type of people that would be doing that

would not be like your average customer

at a strip club.

Also-

Probably the bigger weirdos

that take full advantage

of the breakfast buffet in the club.

Yeah, well, that's what I was going to say.

I'd like a follow-up.

How much of this rating

is based on the food options at the strip club?

Hank and I went to a strip club in Tampa Bay

where it was a steakhouse. Yeah.
Inside of a strip club. It was wild.
Five balls. A steakhouse and a strip club in Tampa.
That's a nice little Russian nesting doll for the South. Yeah.
I like that. So pretty much James Harden just parties and he loves adult cabarets, as you say.
Yes. Burlesque houses.
And then it just, he sucks on the court. I mean, it's all you think.
Yeah, pretty much. As well.
Credit to him for doing the research. And it shows a statistical correlation, like a direct correlation between all these.
Yes. Okay, let's finish up the show.
We're going to do FAQs, and we randomly had a friend of ours stop by the studio. Happened to be in town todayed friend of ours i've been saying that i've been i like just using that word canceled you can't you can't even be on this show so we we it's matt jones a friend of ours who's been a friend of ours for a long time um you've been canceled canceled culture so yeah we thought we would have you on to talk about kent and nothing else.
But also, why have you been canceled? You know, your good friend, I'm sure everybody listening here, is a big Mitch McConnell guy. I mean, he's just the kids.
Cocaine Mitch. Kids like him.
His people filed. I'm on the radio in Kentucky, and I'm contemplating running against him, and they filed a complaint with the FEC and said it was unfair for me to be on the air because otherwise who would even know who Mitch McConnell is.
And so they took me off, and there you go. I've got an idea.
Maybe something that can make both sides happy here. So it's a question of allowing equal time, right? Yeah, equal time.
You can't be broadcasting if you're actually running for a second. Well, that's not why this is, but that is an issue.
That's like the spirit of one of the worst. Why don't you just co-host a show with Mitch? I would love to.
Do that. Here's what I've said.
I'd like to do, like, you remember the old show Hannity and Combs? It could be like me and Mitch. I think it would be exciting.
I've offered it, but they haven't taken it up on for you. Okay, so essentially you no longer get to host your radio show for the time being.
So we figured because you are such a psycho Kentucky sports fan, you need an outlet to get it out. I think you're going on a lot of political shows, talk shows tomorrow.
This isn't a political talk show, but this is a place you can get your stupid sports takes out I need your stupid sports takes Listen, you've been deplatformed from your sports show So we're going to give you the sports place right here You can go do your politics on Where are you going to be, DeWine? Well, it's supposed to be on a couple shows On MSNBC and NPR and CNN Oh, wow Oh, you're competing with NPR? NPR? If you were a friend of ours, wouldn't go on NPR. Oh, you don't? Is that your rival? No, all their podcasts are beating ours.
That's right. Actually, what we'll do is we'll have Hank ask the questions in a very low tone voice.
Yeah, that's the point. You're not going to be able to beat them because they speak monotone.
Will you disavow? Disavow NPR. They're us.
I'm not doing it. Okay.
Weekend edition. More like.
Yeah. No way.
Did you finish that? Did you have a joke there? The problem was, I don't think you had a joke there. I didn't, and if it sucked, it was going to be really embarrassing.
That's what's always really good about this show, is since there's so many of us that talk on it, if you ever just run out of steam, eventually somebody will interrupt you. Well, the thing is, there's nothing that makes me cringe when I listen to this from you guys more than when people who aren't funny try to be funny.
I know that you two are both funnier than me, so I'm not given one unless I know it's good. Okay, straight to Asaph.
I have a question before we dive into it about Kentucky sports. Maxie.
Actually, you know what? Strike that. Too many people on Kentucky's basketball team have the exact same haircut.
Yeah. Yes, they do.
That's a good point. That's true.
Keon Brooks, Khalil Whitney, Tyrus Max, they all do have the same hair. There needs to be a little bit of variation.
Otherwise, I get bored. I will say that.
Before we do the Kentucky thing, can I just say, my best appearance here ever was, of course, when I told you the Rick Pitino engagement story and all of that stuff. Did you see that he's getting a little sassy because the governor that

helped bring him down lost tuesday and he retweeted with a jerry seinfeld meme and was like he's very timely and he was very yeah he was very patuitos i love it the patuitos are getting on him all right so we are going to get to our faqs about sports but i actually have an faq beforehand um matt Jones, diehard Kentucky fan, why

are you wearing

Florida Gator shoes?

Did you think I didn't notice that? I was actually going to say it when he walked in, but I said let's save it for the show. You know what? Take your shoe off.
Take your shoe off and put it up here. I wanted the people to see.
I have never, ever considered these to be. Those are Florida Gator shoes.
Blue and orange. I thought that they were actually.
And you are a Kentucky fan. How dare you, sir? You should be wearing alligator shoes.
You know, these shoes are like, they're called like Boerbacher or something. They're supposed to be pretty impressive, but you don't like them.
What are the cool shoes? I like them. I don't know.
It looks like something out of Tron. They're Air Max 95s, but this designer, it's like JB.
I can't remember the name of it. You wear in Florida Gator shoes.
They are Florida Gator shoes. I can see why you would say that.
Tim Tebow is on the inside of the tongue here. Crane.
Yeah, it's incredible. Size 12.
Okay, that's respectable. I mean, if you were a size 9, there's going to be no FAQs.
If you're 6'4", a size 9. How about your hands? I don't have Rondo hands, but they're pretty big.
Let me see.

Let's see.

No, you can't ever do the hands thing without just going like that. That's like nine and three quarters.

That's pretty good.

All right.

Kentucky Sports FAQs with Matt Jones because he's got to have an outlet.

Otherwise, you're going to go crazy if you don't get to talk about it.

I've been just standing at my girlfriend's apartment screaming at children.

Well, you've been doing your free Matt Jones tweets.

You've been retweeting politics stuff.

I know deep down inside of you, you're like, I need to talk about sports.

We just beat the number one team in the country Tuesday, and I'm not able to talk about it.

Are you not on your show on Wednesday?

I don't been on it since. You had your victory left.
What about just doing a podcast? How about you do a podcast underneath us where it's you getting out all your Kentucky sports takes, and we make all your money. And it all goes directly to you? Yeah, you're not getting paid, but you sell it out.
Sounds perfect to me.

Why don't I work for you and just not do our own?

Correct.

Perfect.

You nailed it.

You got the concept.

All right, Hank, FAQs.

Is there any way that former Arkansas quarterback Matt Jones is implicated on any of this?

How deep does this gag order go?

Matt Jones.

You know, there are a lot of Matt Joneses in sports.

So you've got the former Duke basketball player, the former Florida running back, the former Arkansas quarterback. There's a golfer, pro golfer, Matt Jones.
But the real cocaine Matt Jones is the one from Arkansas. Wide receiver Matt Jones.
Yeah, first round pick by the Jags, remember? Yes, he was. He got picked one pick before Aaron Rodgers.
Oh, that's tough. You can always spin on your Mitchell Trubisky thing.
Why do you have to bring that up? Well, I mean, because you always talk about how Mitch got picked before Patrick Mahomes. Did you know that? And Deshaun Watson.
You just say, at least it's not as bad as taking a quarterback to play wide receiver before Aaron Rodgers. You know, Big Cat, I'm a Bears fan, too.
Yeah, and it's bad. I didn't like Trubisky from the moment they picked him.
I watched him in North Carolina. He wasn't good.
You just don't like anybody named Mitch. You're doing a little...
Mitch, please. You're doing a little revisionist history here.
He was good as senior year. Did you like Matt Jones being the fucking draft guru? Well, no.
His senior year was actually his first year in John Fox's offense because he was a junior. And he was football young.
But then he became football older. So you believed in him? No.
I mean, I wanted to. My old radio co-host is the quarterback coach.
Dave Regone. Oh, yeah.
We used to host a morning show together. My whole take is it doesn't matter whether you believe in your pick or not, but if your team takes someone like that, you have to convince yourself until there's so much evidence that is mounted on the other side that you're like, okay, maybe this isn't going to work out.
So would you give josh rosen no i actually think josh rosen is one of those perfect cases where like getting where you get drafted matters so much the nfl that i wouldn't give up on him until he was on a real team and you could maybe see him i don't know on a real team which will probably never be so i think that josh rosen is always going to be like maybe he could take the next step guy. He could be a career backup.
Right. He's actually, I would say he would be a better career backup than, like, a Jameis Winston or somebody who we know stinks.
Right, because he doesn't like playing football anyway. The unknown is better than the known terrible players.
Well, when you draft somebody like Big Cat was with Mitch and you don't like him when you draft him. I didn't draft Mitch.
No, I'm saying, I have your back on this one. You said that you didn't like Mitch necessarily when you drafted,

but then you have to convince yourself.

You have to hope that you're wrong. But then the nice part about hoping that you're wrong and being right is

for revisionist history, you're like, I was right about that guy.

What was the name of the guy?

Brock Osweil.

That's a perfect example.

When you sign Brock Osweil, you know it's going to be terrible

because you've seen all there is to see about him. It'd be much better if you got Josh Rosen.
You'd go, well, possibly, you know, if it's just in the right system. John Elway signed Osweiler twice.
That's how much he loves tall quarterbacks. And in the ultimate spin zone, if you're a Bears fan, you have spent your life spin zoning or trying to convince yourself a quarterback is good.
So we got practice. This is not new.
Here's a fun one. Why is Matt Jones lying about keeping 30 young boys locked in the basement of his home? Why? Pizzagate.
Why? Because it's embarrassing. 30 seems a lot.
You don't tell the truth about things like that. If it's going to happen, you start with a lot.
It's actually 35. So you were lying about it.
What is your house like? Is it nice? You got how tvs uh that's how i judge homes i have two televisions but i still do i still live what in the whole house yeah but i just still live in a small like i i put my money oh humble match in bonds got it yeah okay got it got it wait do you have locks on your bathroom door what yes do you have locks on your bathroom i don't i do have a tracker do you know you are rich that how we determined. When we were out in L.A., all of our rich friends' houses, none of them had locks in the bathroom.
Do you know that I have a tracker? Do you know what that is? A tracker? So I have Mitch McConnell hired a person who has, for two and a half months, he follows me everywhere. Oh, so that's the guy who's sitting in the studio right now? No.
He didn't come to New York. But wherever I go, he follows me and just stands there.
That's actually awesome. That's a badass move.
That's just intimidation. He just thinks I'm going to do some bad shit.
But here's the thing. He never does anything.
Yeah, no, that's even better. I like that move.
I do. You do? You like it? He's just playing a little defense, but staying away.
But here's what's crazy. We've kind of become friends.
Yeah. This is a Judd Apatow move.
Well, just think about it. If somebody is with you, so I've been traveling around the state.
I've gone to every county in the state as part of this book I'm doing. And when someone is where you are everywhere, you can't not talk to them.
And he's listening to all the live shows and everything. And I'll be honest, when we come back from break, he claps.
Yeah, that's great. I like this.
This is a good movie. He's got Stockholm syndrome.
Yeah. I think that's the way i would look at it yeah and i think at some point like if i end up not running i wouldn't i'm gonna feel sorry for him his job is just gone yeah he should work for an nfl team that's like when they send a scout to go hang out in a bar and see how many times uh what's his name justin blackman comes in to drink that week that's like a great job for a young kid out of college you could do a lot worse than you guys have been we own ks bar and i'm there a lot and every time i'm there he's there what's his favorite thing on the menu he only eats the wings okay he doesn't get anything but here's also what's weird he always gets a table by himself he won't sit at the bar he so i'm always i actually went up that's actually a nice neg by him because he's basically taking up more spots that people could sit at so he's taking money out of your pocket exactly you didn't even think about that wait so he's listening to this interview right now probably transcribing what's up dude hey what's up this is matt jones how you're matt jones hey man i hate louisville i'm matt jones i hate louisville kentucky i i fucking hate that whole state yeah god damn it all right fuck mary kill kentucky mascots edition big, Dunker, Murray, which I don't know what that means, and the Louisville Cardinal.
Who's Dunker? Well, the best of those is the Big Red. Yes.
I mean, that's the best one. What was the second one? Dunker.
Who's Dunker? Murray. Murray State? Oh, actually, that's a pretty good one, too.
What does Dunker do? They talk about the Louisville mascot with teeth or without teeth? Yeah, we had that problem. Whatever the current iteration is.
So that's a teeth one. So that one's out.
Birds don't have teeth. Birds don't have teeth.
That was awesome. What is Dunker? Is it a bird? Well, it's a Murray State is the racers.
I think it's a horse, isn't it? Oh, that's cool. I think it's a dunking horse.
That is cool. Okay, yeah.
That's a good one. Number one.
All right, next. Big Red always just looked like a herpy to me.
He looks like Andy Reid. Big sore.
Question for someone who legally can't be on their own show. Would that person attribute their removal from their show more towards their inability to swim or their inability to hang pictures or their predominant nose whistle? Who? Okay, so- Did your girlfriend write this in? So here's the thing.
For people who listen, I was not able to swim until I was like 23. No, no, no.
No, no. Nose whistle.
No, the nose whistle. That's a big thing.
You don't know about the nose whistle? Yes. Well, no, I don't.
They say pretty much every question. I thought it was like a cocaine Mitch thing.
You got a nose whistle? People argue that when I'm doing the show and other people are talking, that I have a nose whistle that comes through the thing. I heard it.
No, no, that was you. I heard it.
Wait, do you have a nose whistle? I argue I don't, but many listeners do. It sounds like a lot of people think you do, and you actually do.
I do not have a nose whistle. I thought you'd be much more interested in the fact I couldn't swim until I was 20.
I'm interested in the fact that you can't hang a picture. What's that about? Well, it's not that I can't.
I've just never done it. So, I mean, in theory, I might be able to do it, but I've never attempted it.
No, I don't have people hanging them. I set them on the floor.
So, like, that Daily News right there. Yeah, Cal.
In saran wrap. Oh, weird.
My number one picks are all in front of me while I'm on TV. Oh, yeah, during the selection show.
That was so fucking shameless. Do you all like Cal? Yes.
I do. I do.
I love him. How can you not like him? It feels like a lot of people don't, and I don't understand why.
He's the best. We're a Calipari family, too.
Yeah, we've kind of been bullied into- We love their family. Not bullied, but we're afraid of the Calipari daughters.
Oh, yeah. The daughters, Aaron and Megan, are the best.
They're smarter than us. The best.
They're quick-witted. They're meaner than us.
Yeah. And they say everything Cal wants to say, but he's not allowed to.
We know. So they were big on the free Matt Jones hashtag today.
I like it. Nice.
Common ground. What's Brad up to these days? He's in Detroit.
Yeah, Brad went to Detroit. Earned, not given.
He's playing at Detroit Mercy. And next year, Kentucky's playing a road game at Detroit Mercy for Brad.
Oh, for Brad. Oh, it's for Brad.
That's awesome. I mean, Kentucky's not going to play a true road game at Detroit Mercy for just some other guy.
I love it. That's great.
So, yeah, so we're a Cal family. And, yeah, we like when he – Are you going to watch Brad play this year? Because I know you all were big fans.
Yeah, obviously, yeah. Do you know who the coach is at Detroit Mercy? Dickie V.
It's close. No, Mike Davis.
Oh! Former Indiana coach. Okay, okay.
Speaking of Cal, if Mitch were to run for Senate, which Cal's endorsement would mean more, John Cal or Jim Cal? Yeah. If Matt were to run for Senate, sorry.
John Cal or Jim Cal? Jim Cal's taking two titles away from us. Yeah, that's what he said.
He is the real J-Cal. Yeah.

So definitely John Calipari.

Jim Calhoun and Calipari, you know, those two despise each other.

Gone back like 30 years, hate each other.

Well, I think Jim Calhoun hates everyone.

That's like kind of his thing.

Was there any more baller move, though, that when he did that press conference and said, I'm not giving back one penny of the money?

The greatest – that and the – I fucked up.

But, yeah, not a dime back.

He's kept on saying, not a dime back.

Do you know how much – and then the best part of that press conference is when the reporter says, you make $3 million a year, and he just goes, I make a heck of a lot more than that. And he, didn't he come back, and he's coaching like a, yeah, like a college right now.
Just for the love of the game. But that's kind of sad sad that means like he has he loves the game but you don't think there's like you don't think he could find something more exciting to do ball's life i also think that he would rather just not deal with the press at all so he just goes to the small school he can find where there's no reporter all right we'll end with this one uh who is the bigger kentucky legend hunter s thompson or colonel sanders oh great question well if you go anywhere around the world, when I say I'm from Kentucky, the very first thing they say is Kentucky Fried Chick.
Like, I don't care where you are in the world. Hunter S.
Thompson, though, I would argue he was the first blogger. Because Hunter S.
Thompson wrote in a way that now we all write on the internet. He did guess that ass? He was a version of that.
There was a version of that. But he probably was.
So for me, I would say Hunter S. Thompson, but there's nobody bigger than Colonel Sanders.
Hunter S., he definitely would write in his underwear. He did that a lot.
He would write under the influence a lot. He wrote an article that Christian Laettner was the devil.
Really? He's a blogger. He wrote for ESPN Page 2 or something like that.
Yeah, he wrote for Page 2 for a while. Simmons had that Roger Clemens as the Antichrist, and so he did one about Leitner that was very similar.
Didn't get quite as popular. Yeah.
Now, that's a very blogger. You didn't know.
Did you know Hunter S. Thompson wrote for ESPN? Yeah, no, of course.
Yeah, it was Ralph Wiley as well. Yes, and Bomani Jones.
They were all there. He would do football picks.
He would actually hound the owners of the football. He would go knock on Al Davis' door at 2 o'clock in the morning at his hotel room just to get a tip for the next day.
He would take that straight to his book. Yeah, he was.
Yeah, I'll buy that argument. I think he was a blogger.
Can I ask you a question about the two of you? Because you've been to Kentucky a bunch. You've hosted the show.
What is your favorite part about Kentucky? The Burgoo. I always say it.
You really like the Burgoo? Keeneland Burgoo. Yeah.
I dream about it. Absolutely.
100%. I've never had the Burgoo, but it sounds awesome.
Have you been to Keeneland? I know you have. Yeah, I've been to Keeneland twice.
You know the Breeders' Cup's at Keeneland next year. It is again.
So I will probably go again. And yeah, no, I love Kentucky.
I think the – we were talking with Paul Duca before, but it is great when you get into Lexington and, like, the rolling hills, and it's very peaceful. I've got to take you two to the mountains with me, though.
Because you've never been in, like – No, thanks. You don't want to go to East Kentucky? I'm okay.
I want to go to the mountains. I'll stay.
I'll stay. I'll eat the bragoo.
You guys go to the mountains. There's a county called Breathitt County that their official nickname is Bloody Breathitt.
You're telling me you don't want to go there? No, actually. You don't want to go to Bloody Breath? Actually, I should say my favorite part of Kentucky is the fact that they painted the duck work in Kentucky.
They changed that now. They changed it back? Oh, it's blue.
It used to be red. I like that it's blue.
Oh, it is blue. Yeah, I know.
They just changed it. Well, because it used to be red.
Drew Franklin wrote a whole series about how they were painting the duck work, and I was like, this can't be more boring but more exciting. Like, that was the big off-season news.
Part of the reason that traffic for blogs is going down is we write more about duck work now than we used to. Yeah, you need to get Kentucky to repaint it every year, otherwise the blog's going downhill.
Come on, guys, throw us a bone. I got one last question.
I consider Memphis to be an honorary part of Kentucky. It's all like one state to me.
But the new court in Memphis, are you pro it? Really? First of all, Memphis basketball is kind of becoming a bad word in Kentucky because, you know, Memphis announced recruits. First of all, they're not taking any recruits.
We didn't watch. Number one recruit in the country.
Who wants James Wiseman anyway? When someone pays a little more, you get a little upset. That's true.
FedEx money. I agree.
Wiseman dunks too much. He's one-dimensional.
He did, what, 20 dunks last game? It's too much. But, you know, you remember Memphis was going to retire Cal, put Cal in the rafters.
Not literally, but they were going to put the thing up there. That would have been a true frame.
And the fans complained so much that they canceled it.

And so Cal, like, it's the only time I've known that Cal got his feelings hurt.

He genuinely, because he got excited, he was going to go have it retired,

and they canceled it.

What were they going to hang up?

Like his suit?

You can't retire a jersey.

Derrick Rose's ACT score.

Yeah, yeah, the front page where Cal signed Derrick Rose.

Well, he also had Chris Douglas Roberts. Okay.
There you go. There you go.
That's the two. Yeah, why not? Alright, Matt Jones, thank you.
Good luck on all the shows you're going to do. Politics.
I'm happy you got your sports takes out. Let me ask you a question.
If I end up running, will you all... I will make it.
No, I'm going to cancel you. Take your radio show from you? I'll cancel your ass.
I will commit. I would love to do, in the heat of the campaign, the big interview with you.
No, we'll cancel. Yeah, we will do it, and then we'll be like, why are you wearing Florida shoes? Canceled.
There it is. I'll embed myself with your campaign.
I'll follow the following guy. You are welcome to do that.
I would love to have you embed it. I'll be the Hunter S.
Thompson of your campaign. I'll be the most famous Kentuckian from New York.

Yeah, and you can pay me a salary to follow the follow guy.

Oh, you're going to follow the follower.

I would actually like to do that for you.

So you can just stand right behind him the whole time.

I like it.

I'll wear the boneless wings.

He can get the bone in.

Yeah.

All right, Matt Jones, thank you so much.

Thank you.

We're talking away.

I don't know why.

I just think I'm saying anyway.

Today's another day.

I'm out of here. We're talking away I don't know why I have to see you saying anyway Today is another day I have to find you shining away I'll be coming for your love, okay? Take on me Take me on me Take me on Take me off Take me off

Because

In a day you're at the same

So needless to say

I'm all done

But the mirror's turning away

Slowly learning life is okay

Say after me

It's no better to be safe than sorry

Take on me

Take on me

Take on me

Be gone

And it's here

Take on me And I'll tell you what I'm doing The thing that you say in life Or just to play my worries away

You're all the things I've got to remember

Shying away

I'll be gone for you anyway

To make all me

Make me all

I'll be gone in a day of June Take me on me. I'll be gone

Take me to your head

Take me to your head

Yeah, rag and roll