Rams Coach Sean McVay, Anna Kendrick Is An AWL? Grit Week 19

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Well, on today's part of my take, we got Scott – I just almost said Scott McVay. Scott McVay.
On today's part of my take – We're not high. Rams coach Sean McVay.
It's been a long day. Yes, so we start – we have a Grit Week 19 update.
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We have some NBA playoffs to talk about. I guess the Blues are going to the Stanley Cup final.
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Guys on chicks. Anna Kendrickson, AWL.
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Today is Wednesday, May 22nd.

And it's Grit Week 2019. Day 2 day three and a half three day three two and a half the weird thing about being on the west coast is at nighttime it's only 10 30 but i still feel like tomorrow morning i have to wake up on east coast time yes so i feel like i'm looking at the clock and i'm like you know what it's 1 30 right now right but it's also been one of those days it's been one of those days we've gone everywhere uh i think there was maybe some misconceptions about grit week 2019 because we're in southern california it's grit week because we're doing as many fucking interviews as we can for you guys and we did four today we got another five tomorrow five the next day it's non-stop we were up and down the Coast.
We interviewed Jay Gla tomorrow. Five the next day.
It's nonstop. We were up and down the coast.

We interviewed Jay Glazer.

Worked out with him.

Yep.

Coming Friday.

Kicked her ass.

We interviewed Sean McVay, which you're about to hear.

We interviewed Andrew Whitworth.

We interviewed Zac Efron.

And we did a YouTube video for Zac Efron's channel.

Who is actually a listener to this podcast, which is crazy in its own right. and we've known that for a few months now, so we finally met him, and he's fucking awesome.
Better looking in person. Cali vibes to the max.
Eyes. The eyes are nice.
The eyes are very nice. I lost myself in the eyes.
I feel like when we make the inevitable part of my take movie, which we should probably cast at some point, he's going to be my body double. Okay.
Because we're playing ourselves Right So you just have to pick a body double Okay My body double Jason Momoa My body double would be Kevin James That's pretty good He probably needs some work But yeah It was crazy It's been a wild day Grit week has been fun And yeah Zac Efron is awesome And he listens to the podcast What's up Zac Yeah Hey Zac What's up man yeah we just came from your house coming out on Wednesday and Zac Efron got Anna Kendrick to become an AWL that's pretty cool so he FaceTimed her and relentless well you'll listen we're going to run Zac Efron next week. He called, texted during the podcast.

And then when we went back into his house to hang out afterwards, he FaceTimed her again. And she picked up and was basically like, I don't remember following this big cat guy.
It was an accident. But then I won her over with some charm.
There are no mistakes in life. Correct.
So the Lord works in mysterious ways and he he made his presence felt through her thumb last thursday night tuesday night well tuesday night and then again on wednesday morning yes right with the unfollow yeah you know what this actually worked out for the best because if she had just followed you and muted you when she was like i'm sick of this guy tweeting out kevin white gifts um then we would not be in this place because you wouldn't know correct but the fact she unfollowed she hurt my soul it's better the person who said it's better to have loved and lost and never loved that's bullshit that's fucking bullshit if you've loved and lost that sucks she you know what she did followed and unfollowed that's fucking bullshit she let you go and she knew that it was destiny if you came back it was meant to be Mm-hmm. So Zac Efron pulled a solid, and I would say Anna Kendrick loves us now.

Yeah, she's a big fan. Yeah.
So she put the refollow. I'm probably muted already.
I don't really care because I'm followed again. I already slid in the DMs.
Probably aggressive again. I have not learned from my mistakes, but that's okay.
Everyone be cool. Don't tweet her, maybe you do and be like thanks come on the podcast that was a really cool chick moving you to do yeah hey that was really fucking cool uh yeah and zach efron maybe the weirdest wildest person to uh be in an awl but here we are we're in la and we're finding out new things every day.
He's like a younger, smaller version of Bill Walton.

Yes. And you'll have to find out Wednesday what I mean by that.

A wild, wild trip.

Shine on, dream on, ab on, intermittent fast on, Zac Efron.

Blue steel.

Ooh, that's good.

That's good.

You're throwing a blue steel on Zac Efron.

Do it again.

Shine on, dream on, carry on, intermittent fast on, blue steel on okay zach efron um again shine on dream on carry on intermittent fast on blue steel on zach efron zach f zach effort on on so yeah uh we also uh i want to throw out a little credit to us as a team this we have done many many trips together. There are always ups and downs.
I feel like we have gotten to a place of maturity. That's that we have never reached before.
Okay. I'm going to throw that out there.
It's only Tuesday. It's only Tuesday.
Yeah, that's true. Absolutely.
We'll probably have our part where we just all go silent on each other. But we hit ups and downs and we kind of move on through it.
We were in that fucking death wagon, our 1985 Westphalia for what felt like 10 hours today, driving everywhere. And guess what? I feel like everyone kept it pretty cool.
Yeah, it was good. It was a good day today.
We kind of went with the flow. We're figuring it out.
L.A., got that L.A. Cali weird vibes where you're just unconnected from the entire world.
You know what I think it is? I think when we're in the Westphalia and we're driving by everybody that's richer, better looking and more relaxed than us, it's like us against the world mentality. Yes.
It's like we the North from New York. Yes.
You know what? Like all we have is each other. We noted that today when we were driving that like in New York, they hide the rich people because the rich people are in places you can't get to.

Well, the rich people hide from hide from us.

They're at the Met Gala.

They're in fucking high rises.

You can't even get close to in L.A.

Everyone's rich and they're out in the open.

It's just like that's just what it is.

People are just rich everywhere.

You just look and it's like, oh, that's a rich guy.

Oh, that's a rich guy.

Oh, he's just wearing a hoodie walking on the beach.

He probably has a seven million dollar house. It's fucking weird.
It's weird. Yeah, it's like oh that's a rich guy oh that's a rich guy oh he's just wearing a hoodie walking on the beach he probably has a seven million dollar house it's fucking weird it's weird yeah it's very weird um all in all good day on the road yep let's make some more magic tomorrow we should probably talk about some sports yeah let's talk about some sports before we talk about sports if you want to watch sean mcveigh interview go to barstoolgold.com slash pmt do that because we get credit for it barstoolld.com slash PMT.
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Sports. Drake is the worst.
He is the star of the show up in Canada. So he was rubbing Nick Nurse's shoulders, giving him a little massage on the sidelines dude you know what drake you're from canada you should know better it's like the stanley cup you don't touch your coach's shoulders during a game until you win the title he was going up and he would like what happened to the coach's box what happened to anything like he was going up and down the sideline clapping in yannis's face doing all this shit he is like the most he's like spike lee was never this annoying and spike lee was annoying no spike lee was at least good at trash talk right if you have if you have drake mic'd up during a game i bet you he just says like his two go-to's are that's what's up yeah and uh that's whack that's whack man look at In your face.
It's big. Yeah.
Don't make me take out the lint roller. But yeah, Drake is the worst.
We've been on this for a while now, but it's just, listen, and we like the people of Canada, but between the square, the heartbreak square that you got, and now Drake, these aren't the things you want to be known for. Like, we want to know you for Kawhi.
How about Kyle Lowry? Very good night tonight. Where's that coming from? He's no longer a complete and utter bum.
And that Van Vliet fella. Oh, yeah.
Dude, shout out Van Vliet, Whitshaw State. He and Ron Baker, Ron Baker moneymaker.
They played there for about 15 years. Won, I don't know, 7,000 regular season games and went to a couple of sweet 16s.
And I still, if you told me that they were there, I'd be like, yeah, that makes sense. This to me feels like one of those home win, home win, home win, home win, home win, home win, home win game.
Never break serve. Never break serve.
The series hasn't started yet. We do know that American bucks are worth less in Canada.
So it's not surprising that they're not performing at a game one and two level, although they were pretty good game three. But yeah, Canada is holding serve as a nation.
Congrats. Yeah.
So that series, I mean, it's, I'm happy that we at least have a series. So we might even get a game six or game seven because I was going to have to dig pretty far into the well for some hockey takes.
If this series had just kind of fled out. Right.
Because the NBA does that stupid thing, too, that no matter what happens, they wait until the finals starts. So we would have had to wait an entire eight days for the finals to start, which is very weird.
But the series obviously is going at least six. And I would guess seven.
Like you said, the serve is being held. As I've said this entire playoffs, the Bucs, you know, who knows if they'll make the finals? Who knows? I've been saying it.
Who knows? And so we say that because on the other side, the Warriors have done what the Warriors always do. They swept the Blazers.
The Blazers, ready for this stat? I got two stats for you, PFT. Hit me.
The Warriors swept the Portland Trail Blazers despite trailing for more minutes in the series, 101 minutes, than they led, 83 minutes. That's insane.
They're sudden. That's insane.
The fact that the Blazers, I know, like, moral victories, blah, blah, blah. They had an unbelievable.
You know, the Dame shot was an all-time moment. They go to the Western Conference Final.
Them not being able to win one game when they have those types of leads was insane. And now we have the kernel, the little fucking seed that got planted a few weeks ago, has now become a full tree, a take tree.
Are the Warriors better without without kevin durant it is a full-blown take tree that is uh it's it's like it's the tree that's like dropping shit on your car now because you can't go anywhere without seeing this take and it's starting to look kind of true kind of true a little bit true i mean they they play a more entertaining style basketball you know what's so demoralizing is in the game last night, the Warriors were losing at halftime. I think the score was something like 70 to 60 or something like that.
And it's so demoralizing for the Blazers going into the locker room at halftime, having scored 70 points and knowing like, we're kind of fucked here because we we played the best half of basketball. Myers Leonard scored 25 points in the first half.
Yeah. Myers Leonard.
All-time bad tattoos. Myers Leonard, he's got the blessed inner bicep tattoo.
Yeah. Illinois legend.
That's your Brock Osweiler tattoo. No, his was – what is Brock? He has an apostrophe in the wrong place.
An apostrophe at its. Yeah.
At all costs, apostrophe S. Yes, yes.
So, yeah, Myers Leonard, all-time bad tattoos. But like you said, PFT, 25 points from him.
They play the perfect half. Everyone's hot.
Embrace the bait. What is the best lead that you can go into at halftime against the

warriors well i know what it is it's being down 31 points like the clippers were there you go that's the only way you can beat the warriors the playbook's out on how to beat the warriors is just play possum for the first two quarters yes and then hope that they just suck shit in the second half because they're not focused it felt like the war it's weird to say the warriors acted like they had the lead

after being down 60 to 70 at halftime.

And they didn't even have Iguodala either last night. So it's insane that the Warriors swept that series.
I did not think a sweep was going to happen. And what Steph Curry did, here's my second stat.
This is from Micah Adams. Steph Curry had as many or more 35-point games that series as the following players had in their entire playoffs career.
Ray Allen, Chris Mullen, Patrick Ewing, Adrian Dantley, Pete Maravich, James Worthy, David Robinson, Steve Nash, David Thompson, Kevin Garnett. He had more in that series.
He went 36 points, 37 points, 36 points, 37 points. Steph Curry you the Warriors are not better without Kevin Durant because a superstar gives you more flexibility and injuries and all that shit but Steph Curry is certainly better and can be more Steph Curry without Kevin Durant when the offense runs through him and basically they like he shoots the lights out he gets in these rhythms that you can't stop him we would be remiss if we didn't highlight the fact that steph curry is very he's exhausting to watch as a fan because off the ball he doesn't stop does not my eyeball is hurt trying to keep track of him on the screen yes he's the dude who in pickup you like, no one wants to guard him because you just know you're going to have to run.

It's like we're all out here trying to get a sweat.

Stop trying so hard.

You feel like there would be like a little honor amongst NBA players.

Like, hey, man, don't tire me out that much.

Just give one possession where you just stand like James Harden 45 feet from the basket.

You stand here.

I'm going to stand here.

It's an understanding.

We both need a blow.

Right.

So the Warriors, I think Kevin Durant probably will come back.

Also, Kevin Durant from when I say come back, come back this playoffs. Kevin Durant since Sunday, when we were talking about him being mad online, more mad online.
Went after Chris Broussard. Clearly, this is bothering him, which you know what? It's fucking human nature.
Like if one of us didn't do the show for a week and it all of a sudden doubled in ratings, we'd be like, wait, what? Yeah. Like, that sucks.
So, Kevin Durant, I understand that sucks. Maybe just try not to fight with every single person online because that's not going to make it better.
Yeah, and don't attack a journalist either. Yes.
Chris Broussard is a big-time jet. Broucou stand up.
We did not touch on –

We need an update from Magic Johnson, our senior tampering correspondent.

Wait, because we didn't get to watch the Raptors game tonight,

so surely PFT, he had a tweet summing up the game, right?

No, but he had one summing up his pregame routine for the game.

Getting my skinny pop popcorn ready for Milwaukee versus Toronto. Exclamationlamation i think i'm going to go with sea salt and pepper so huge news i actually would prefer butter yeah butter is the skinny pop butter salt and pepper is a wild move for popcorn yeah although if you get the white popcorn um that's salt and pepper do you know what i mean i thought you meant cheddar like smart food no no no i'm talking about the white kernel like that's salt and pepper.
Do you know what I mean? I thought you meant cheddar, like smart food. No, no, no.
I'm talking about the white kernel. It's the little kernels.
That's good salt and pepper. Also, popcorn is just a great metaphor for playoff basketball.
It's like this little tiny hard shell thing, and then you heat it up, and it explodes into a great flour. Again, we're not high, but is there anything more loved than popcorn, like in terms of universally, I mean, obviously bacon, but there's a lot of people don't eat bacon.
Who doesn't like popcorn? Or as the Native Americans call it, mys. Tweet me tomorrow if you don't like popcorn so I can shame you.
Yeah. Like who? Listen, I'm not a huge popcorn fan if there's no butter on it.
Right. If there's no butter in the game.
Okay, but of course to make it like like it's you have to make it to the right way and it's not all popcorn is created equal it's kind of like uh pizza in that respect but like pizza and popcorn yeah everyone likes them who who does not like popcorn hank you better fucking say you like popcorn i love popcorn okay good kettle corn popcorn see now when you start getting into kettle corn you're gonna get some feedback some feedback on that. That's okay, though, because I like kettle corn, too.
If you don't like kettle corn, that's fine. If you like regular popcorn, that's fine.
Popcorn plays everywhere. Yeah, and you know what's interesting is popcorn is, you know, we just eat it as a snack.
It's just like finger food while we're watching a movie or something like that. In some countries, it's part of a dish.
Yeah. So like in Ecuador, they make popcorn and then they put ceviche on it.
I've done that before. It's really good.
Popcorn is criminally underrated as an accompanying food for a dish. Yes, and you can do it.
Like you just said, you have kettle corn. You got the big pinwheel that we get in Christmas time.
You can do the hot sauce. You can do salt and pepper.
Popcorn is the greatest thing in in the world of what we can do with popcorn you know what we're going to be the george washington carvers of popcorn again not high not high but we just spent five minutes talking about popcorn and i think honestly it was five minutes too short yeah we could go longer summary popcorn i'm a fan so good you ever pop it in your own in your own popper I do, but that's kind of for weirdos. Just put the bag in the microwave.
Also, an idea that I had, this is actually... No, if you make it, it's better.
If you make it with a little oil, it's better than the bag. Disagree.
Give me Orville Redenbacher heavy butter. But a great idea that I had about popcorn, at your work office bathroom, people should just install microwaves in the bathroom and just pop popcorn and it'll cover up all the smells.
Yes. You don't have to eat the popcorn.
Just keep running it. It's better than any camera.
All the time. Yeah.
And then just dump it in the trash. Yep.
Yeah. That's not a bad idea.
All right. That was Poppin' Talkin'.
The Blues are in the Stanley Cup Finals. Yeah.
Well, spin zone, no one's going to remember the Blues because the capital of the Stanley Cup was so impressive last year, and that lady put her boobs on the glass when Ovechkin got the cup. True.
And other spin zones, St. Louis has never beat Boston in any championship ever.
Oh, okay. Okay, so here's the thing.
There's a lot of people saying that I wouldn't mention the Blues in the Stanley Cup final. Here's me mentioning the Blues in the Stanley Cup final.
Good job. Good job.
There you are. And you know what? Good job.
You did it. And my biggest concern last week was the Bruins getting too much rest.
It's going to be even Steven. This just sucks because this was the whole thing.
The St. Louis-Chicago rivalry.
St. Louis Cardinals fans have been pieces of shit forever with the way they treat Cubs.
No, this is true. Careful.
No, they in St. Louis, like anyone who's listening right now is Cardinals fan.
They'll admit this. Like they made all the jokes.
They, they said the Cubs would never win one. And then the Cubs won one.
And it's like, Oh yeah, the blues have never won a cup. And now that, that right now and so it's like you know what I'm good congrats Blues fans this this is me being as nice as I'm going to be to St.
Louis congratulations to all the Blues fans especially the Blues fans AWLs all right let's take a look at Hank that was so nice let's take a look at Hank's power rankings of uh what Boston fans have to be upset about now because now you can't be upset that you won too quickly and you have too much rest because that's even Stevens. So right now, what's your biggest concern? Is it that your all-world tight end probably won't be back until November when he comes out of retirement? Yeah, and also the Red Sox swept the Cardinals both times.
I think the Bruins, like, in the past when they played them, swept the Blues. So it's like if they lose even one of the games in the Stanley Cup, that will be kind of a letdown.
Okay, so you're setting yourself up for failure with the gentleman's sweep. Here's a take.
The Blues – Fuck, this sucks because I'm actually just being nice, but I actually like the fact that the Blues fought back from a total bullshit call in game three. Because we have had this new rash of everything goes wrong.
The Rockets send a fucking report about the calls. The Saints love Saints fans, but you complained a lot.
Not saying it's right or wrong, but you complained a lot. Blues, they just fucking picked up the pieces and went back to work.
And again, I want to fucking shoot myself right now.

There is a ball, don't lie.

Yeah.

But you know what I mean?

Puck, don't fuck.

There is an element of this has now become anything that goes bad.

It's like, well, the refs, the refs, the refs.

And then they feel bad for yourself.

And the Blues controlled their own destiny.

All right.

Congrats to the Blues.

Okay.

We talked about you.

Hot seat, cool throne. We talked about you way more than I thought.
Still less than popcorn, but way more than I thought. Hey, do you want to go ahead? Sure.
My hot seat is Artie Lang, recurring guest on the show. True.
He got arrested again, and his mugshot was, I mean, simply put, it was terrifying. Don't do drugs, kids.
Yeah, did you expect anything other from Artie Lang? Because he had the nose issue for the last couple years. Right, but it's like you see the front on, you're like, all right, I mean, it's Artie Lang.
What are you expecting? And then when you see the profile and it's just flat, that was scary. I don't even understand the physics behind how that happened.
The human body is amazing, the way that it adapts to things. If you do so much cocaine that you're about to kill yourself, it just collapses, so you can't do any more cocaine.
Beautiful thing. Craziest mugshot? I don't know if...
I think you probably still can. Really? Yeah.
I'm sure... There's butt stuff.
There's butt stuff. There's mouth stuff.
There's all kinds of stuff. Craziest mugshot I've seen since Dent Head oh Dent Head was an all time Dent Head is fucking Hall of Fame mugshot you looked like he was to Marty McSorley you've never seen Dent Head who is Dent Head Dent Dent Head oh yeah yeah yeah you know Dent Head he's the guy that had Dent Head you know Dent Head we all know dent head that was a person.
You know dent head. A wrestler or something.
We all know dent head. And then my cool throne is Snapchat.
Oh. They were on the cool throne last week for their filters that were turning boys into girls, girls into boys.
And now they've come back again with the baby filters. Oh.
Which are hilarious. People have been putting them like going back and putting like old Stephen A clips with him and his baby.
Like, pretty much all these videos that were already funny, if you just put a baby filter on it, it'll just go re-viral. Incredible.
Like the, the, it was, I think I saw Stephen A Smith doing the, your first move was getting Lamar Odom, who was on crack. Crack! Hilarious.
It's already funny, but with the baby filter, even funnier. Also Snapchat, because I heard there's a hit new show yes there is what's it called i chicks in the office the group chat the group chat i got that that wasn't even where i was going but that's a great point yes group go subscribe yeah you should what if you put the baby face on me it would just look like me we can find that out we will tweet tweet it out follow part of my take we'll tweet out big cat and baby pft okay okay and we'll probably do some i mean we'll just do like piss dogs with baby faces and oh that would actually call that would look more normal than grown men pissing themselves true yeah that is true uh my other cool throwing is uh grocery store meetups yes okay why hank are we meeting up there's a chance we will be doing a grocery store meetup tomorrow uh s Monica, AWL's.
We're going to think Ralph's in Santa Monica. Yep.
Not saying when. Not saying.
Well, we are saying where. But just be on the lookout.
Follow our social media tomorrow. Tomorrow evening.
Afternoon, evening. Come by.
Nick Van Exel. Yeah.
Meet and greet. You know.
Come hang out with us. We should specify not the basketball player, but our van.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Probably six to probably six he might be there too but our our schedule is very up in the air with some of these interviews but circle it yeah love to love to see some of you guys we'll also we'll try to do uh we're gonna try to do another one maybe on thursday night i don't know we we have like a million interviews we're trying to do as much as we can it's always funny going to different parts of the country and hearing their names for their large local retail grocery stores.
They're always funny because you don't hear them. Ralph's is great.
Ralph's is a great name for a grocery store. Oh, also, speaking of meetup, shout out the guy who left a note on our van saying if we needed mushrooms, hit him up.
Yeah. That was solid.
We should pay his ticket. Oh, yeah.
He had a ticket, too. He's like, can you pay my ticket? I'll get you guys mushrooms.
Not saying we're a morning offer, but that is a very strong hello. My hot seat, the nations of Australia, Spain, and Wales.
You mean Chile? Rugby? What? Chile. What about Chile? You mean Chile? Oh, yeah.
Chile. Chile.
Spain and Wales. Okay.
Because they are in the group of death. Is Wales a nation? No, it's a mammal.
Okay. They are in the group of death against the United States in the London Sevens this week.
Wow. As the boys look to retain first place on the table, it's going to be a big weekend.
We're in first place. We're in first place.
Retain. Retain.
If we get second, can we stay in first? As long as it's not Fiji that gets first. Okay.
If Fiji gets first, then they're in first no matter what. What if we get third and Fiji gets second? Then I believe it's a tie.
So then there's two first places? Yeah. and then it depends on who would get first place okay let's say so the bottom line is this is let's say chile gets first yeah no okay who cares uh it would be a first for them okay who give me another team that's good uh no one it's just basically us fiji gets second so new zealand gets first yeah he gets second usa gets third is seven first who's in first we are who's no who's no fiji gets second, USA gets third.
Who's in first? Who's in first?

We are.

No, Fiji gets second and USA gets third.

Who's in first?

Yeah.

Yeah, that's correct.

Who's in first?

Okay.

So USA.

No, USA, who's on first?

Right.

Yes.

But was the Matt Damon South Africa rugby movie?

Was that Sevens?

No, that was Fifteens.

Oh.

Invictus. What about the Thirteens? When's that one coming up? 13s is nobody plays 13s.
I heard a little rumor that you're very, very unfairly rooting for Sevens over Fifteens, and Fifteens is the real man's game. Fifteens is what I played.
Okay. So why do we talk about sevens i also played sevens right but everyone keeps saying like yo don't listen to pft 15s is real 15s is real fake life yeah well sevens is what we're really good at right now well we're in our best athletes are in it no we're in first best but the point is that this is the penultimate so it's the second to last tournament if we're in striking range going into Paris.
We already are. We're in first.
Which is the penultimate, so it's the second to last tournament. If we're in striking range going into Paris, which is the last leg, I might pull a Hong Kong and just fly over to Paris.
Wait, but we're in first right now. How can you say we're not going to be in striking zone? We probably will be.
You never know. You have a terrible attitude.
You know what they say about rugby. Anything can happen.
I'm going to say it right now. We'll be in fucking striking distance because I have faith have faith in our boys i do too and we're getting our two best players back danny barrett and perry baker coming back perry baker that was i was literally about to say that yeah perry baker's coming back so they are on the hot seat on the other money maker the other hot seat is death okay uh because mommy because we're it's the one year anniversary of PFT Cometor, passing away.
No. PFT Cometor's brother, Eric, passing away.
And then PFT Cometor being reborn on the same day. So Grit Week is a lot like Easter.
Right. In the way that things shake out.
So you're Jesus. Yes, I'm Jesus.
Jesus Christ. Yeah, well, I have the long hair and also the virginity.
So those are two out of three. But yeah, so back, I've only gotten stronger than ever in the last year.
Death could not crush me. I crushed death.
Just put that on my tombstone. It's pretty sweet.
That was pretty sweet. My cool throne is vaping.
so Sansa was vaping on the set in that in that little counselor she was vaping on the set of game of thrones making it look super super cool um but guess what you're not going to get to me sansa i mean we started the show talking about how you were vaping no i'm just saying you might have thought that you look cool on the set but you for someone for someone who's quit juuling, I've seen you juul so much this week. And talk about it.
And talk about it. No.
You're talking about it. This is Diet 2.0.
You're juuling all the time. Every time I look around, either you're juuling or dipping, and you're like, I quit.
No, I'm dipping to quit juul. But you still are juuling.
You know what I need to do? I need to just start smoking cigarettes to get off the Juul. Done.
I might do that. But you'll actually just do all of them.
No. Because you keep Juuling.
No, I don't. I Juul after dinner.
We haven't had dinner. Yeah, we did.
We ate burgers with Zac Efron. It's always after dinner.
I actually started to notice some hallucinations from the lack of Juul

as we were driving up the coast.

Yeah, I thought that every car was BMW.

That was how pretty the boo was.

Yeah, it was pretty nice.

BMW and As Martin or Lexus SUV.

How many you got?

Is talent evaluators.

Oh.

Because the NBA knows what they're doing.

All top five draft picks from last year were named to the nba all rookie team so all you blog boys out there is that what kevin durant calls them katie called the blog boys all you blog boys out there uh you better chill out and give respect where it's due and that's the top executives first time ever yeah, we were right. Blog boys were right forever until this year.
OK, so we're 75 and one. OK, not a pretty good record.
Yeah. All right.
My hot seat, the haters, because Stephen A. Smith is on your ass.
So he had an all time rant about the haters, of which there are many. And Magic Johnson, Rob Palenka, Robka rob palenka basically he went after rob palenka because magic johnson said that he was uh rob palenka was like undermining him stabbed him in the back stabbed him in the back can i just can we just for a big back magic johnson's got a giant back damn magic johnson's got a big fucking back uh can we just for a second note that Magic Johnson is a master of the media? I know he's been getting dragged for a lot of things.
And when he was a coach, he failed. When he was a late night talk show host, he failed.
When he was on ESPN, he just failed. When he was a GM or president, whatever, he failed.
But the guy can spin any spin zone. He went on first take.
He basically gets Stephen A. Smith on his side all like two hours before Rob Palenka has to announce Frank Vogel as the new head coach.
Basically bringing up the fact that Frank Vogel was their sixth option. So, Magic Johnson, hats off to you.

You fucking know how to spin something.

Yeah. No, it was great.
He's like

Hugh Jackson with a little more charisma.

Yeah. So, Hugh Jackson...

He's what Hugh Jackson looks in the mirror and thinks

he sees. Yes, absolutely.

Magic Johnson is to Hugh Jackson

as John Gruden is to Mark Davis.

Right. Right.
So,

credit to Magic for that and also... The haters have been put on notice.
Stephen A. Smith is on your case.
Cool throne. How about O.J.
Simpson? O.J. Simpson is on the cool throne.
Oh, good. Because the number 32 on the Bills has finally been taken.
The first time since O.J. Simpson played, the number 32 has been given out to sonoras perry special teamer sometime running back what's kind of ironic is the guy that got oj simpson's number is probably going to get cut oh yeah big time get it double cut get it yeah i get it we're don't make those jokes for in la oh yeah good point yeah um but yeah oj simpson now you can look at number 32 and think of someone else yeah he's on the cool throne no that's very good for the bills right you probably should have done this a while snorris perry wow that's what i think of when i think of 32 yeah on the bills yeah they they did the uh they never actually retired his number did you know that that that's kind of weird it's weird because they could have before the murders but they didn't and then i guess they just didn't give it out but it was like a kind of an unwritten rule don't you know like it's retired but we're not going to retire it yeah but now it's unretired now it's unretired from the fake retirement maybe just nobody had asked for it until now or maybe it was one of those things where you have to ask permission to the person to get their jersey oh no nobody wanted to be like hey oj hey oj um can i take something that's yours yeah uh you'll be cool with that hey oj want to meet me in a vegas hotel and i'm gonna ask you if i can take something hey oj i was wondering if i could wear a bunch of jerseys around that had your number on it like your old memorabilia day yeah is that probably not cool but i can't wait because this means our friends at bill's mafia there will be some 32s yep in the stands this year and they're like what snores perry it's cool man it's fucking cool so good job oj's on the cool throne way to go bills uh all right's get to our interview.
We have Coach Sean McVay on the show more time than last time. Talked about the football, the Super Bowl suites.
Talked about everything with him. The Super Bowl not going his way.
Cliff Kingsbury being hotter than him. He was a lot of fun.
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It is NFC champion, second most attractive coach in the NFC West. Now that Cliff Kingsbury has been hired, we can get to that in a minute.
You forget about Pete Carroll? Oh, Pete Carroll, yeah. He's like 70.

But it is Coach Sean McVay, and we have to start

because it's grit week. You have to explain

to us what grit means to you.

The standard is the standard.

The standard is the standard.

So grit is grit.

Grit is grit.

That's it. Just keep it simple.

Just know.

That's good. Grit is grit.

Right off the bat, I want to talk to you about

hiring Blake Bortles

Thank you. just keep it simple deep just know that's that's that's good grit is grit all right right off the bat i want to talk to you about hiring uh blake portals i'm acting like you're the hiring manager and he's a highly prized recruit but you you were hot on his trail he only interviewed with you guys he only took one visit what was it about blake when you looked in his eye that you're like this guy this is my guy just you know same reason that you feel the way you do asking that question I know in all seriousness though um he and Jared have a great relationship and anytime that you can get a guy like Blake where when you meet him and I had never met him before he's one of those guys he's got a great demeanor where you're like you know this guy feels like a quarterback a leader then you hear him a couple days out here just the way he commands a huddle you can see why his teammates believe in him and and i don't think you're going to find many guys with the kind of production and experience in big time games that you know god forbid if something were to happen to our guy uh has been in those types of games in those atmospheres where you know he's not going to flinch and and uh you know we're excited to get him here and get working with him are you worried that he's smarter than than you? He's a genius.
I don't know if you knew that. You know what? If he is, then I love it.
Anytime that you're around people smarter than you, these are always good things. That's a good answer.
How many Wikipedia entries have you read in the last year? Because he's read at least four confirmed. We have a Wikipedia club with him.
Anybody can edit that, though, right? Yeah, but that's what makes it so great. You get all the world's knowledge.
Yeah. Like, who's to say? That is a good perspective.
I can appreciate that. Okay, I got you.
You can learn something from everybody. So wait, so how many entries has he read? At least four in the last calendar year.
Six or seven, maybe? Yeah, confirmed. What's the last Wikipedia entry you read? Probably the one with...
Probably yours. Actually yours.
Mine? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't even remember what was on it.
Yeah. So, all right.
We got to talk about some stuff that's very important. Okay.
The Super Bowl obviously didn't go your way because you didn't give us tickets. I know.
And deservedly so. You've had some choice words for me on that.
I mean, that was a point you said to her face. No, I'm talking about the criticism of my coaching in the Super Bowl.
Yeah, I might have said some things. Yeah, I deserve it.
Well, I can appreciate the honesty. Hold on, but you have to understand, like, my job is to say that I can do your job better than you.
That is a good point. So I'm just doing my job very well.
I love it. What we actually said is that, you know, you had that quote a couple weeks ago where you said that if you had to do it again, you would watch less film because you might have overdone it.
And I said that Belichick is such a good coach that it's actually an advantage for him to coach against a good coach because he can put yourself in your head, whereas if he was coaching against an idiot, then he'd be like, I don't know what the hell to do with this guy. I can't predict an insane person's tendencies.
So you should have just hired some moron to drop the game plan for the Super Bowl. Us.
Totally fooled. Yeah, us.
You know, I really feel worthless right now. I mean, that is.
It's a high compliment. You know, I just finally got a good night's sleep, and now I'm going to be waking up just about this again.
No, it's. In all seriousness, though, when you look at those couple weeks, there's an element of when you work, you want to work hard, but you also want to work smart.
And you can have so many different things and not being mindful of the progression of the season. I mean, you think about just there's usually about a four to six game span that you're usually operating on while still being mindful of situations.
And then you've got two weeks and you don't want to short yourself. And I'd be lying if I said if things go a little off track, you probably have too many thoughts in your head.
You would have a different rhythm. I don't necessarily know if you're working any less hard for the preparation.
But Coach Belichick and the Patriots are the standard right now. They are the standard.
are the standard so so perspective wise obviously everyone's just leaving right now everyone's leaving practice so perspective wise obviously you never want to lose a Super Bowl right but was there a moment where you're like I'm 33 and I just went to the Super Bowl like in my second year as a head coach you know I don't with Jeff Fisher's team I don't think you ever really go that direction on it I think what you do want to make sure is that when it ends like that you don't take away from all the things that the team accomplished right because a lot of times you hear about how demoralizing it can be it's the last game there's so much said about it and and those things are real but i think we can choose how we respond and not being you know you want to appreciate the entirety of to get to that point while never being satisfied. You don't win it.

Right.

But I think the way that you handle it can be something that can be a positive response as opposed to letting it be demoralizing.

Right.

Like it can be if you allow it to be.

Did you do anything to just get your mind off it?

Yeah, a lot of drinking.

Yeah.

Ice cream.

That's Sean Payton's move.

Ice cream.

And then game planning.

You put him in an ice cream spiral. What? We saw him at the combine.
I didn't know that. I watched Netflix and ate ice cream for like three weeks.
Really? Yeah, after the NFC Championship game. You have to do a lot of CrossFit to make up for all that, too.
Yeah, there you go. Yeah, so you did that to him.
I didn't know that. A lot of drinking.
Do you feel bad at all about the Saints game? That's actually brilliant. No, I don't feel bad.
I feel bad that that call became such a big part of the conversation leading up to the game. I don't think anybody's going to argue that that call did work in our favor.
But there was a lot of plays that took place after that that you just never know. Agreed.
And, you know, that call certainly didn't hurt us. It did kind of suck because, like, Jared, I thought, played a great game.
And he came back after having a tough start. You coached a very good game, and it's like the narrative is just that call.
You know what? That's a great point. That was something that even Jason Garrett pointed out when we had the owners' meetings in Arizona is that what we want to avoid, which is why you want to get that rule change, is that when you've got a great competitive back-and-forth game that goes into overtime, that was a big part of the game, and unfortunately it was something that it didn't work out for the saints in their favor and it did for us but that became the narrative right as opposed to talking about a lot of good stuff that took place from both teams in that game which was crazy is in no small part due to that play they're kind of changing some of the rules adding in some replay elements to pass interference it seems like it's going to be called a lot more this season than it was in the past.
Are you going to coach offense any differently knowing that there's a greater chance of pass interference? Yeah, I mean, I think what you have to do is be mindful, and they've got some meetings coming up where there's been discussion about maybe rewording it and getting some tweaks to it, but that definitely is going to play into just the factor of, all right, when do you want to actually utilize that challenge, knowing that you can use them at the end of the game, but you have to have your timeouts available. So I think there is a strategic advantage or really, you know, a strategic approach, I should say, that we would take when you would actually put a flag on the field, knowing that you have two and then you get a third if you get them both right.
So you got to be smart about those plays and then having that at the end of the game in mind as well. Yeah.
You said that Bill Belichick texted you after every game this year. Are you gonna let him do that again? He played you, man.
He played you. You know what? He did a great job.
He, you know, I got a chance to meet him a year ago and he's been really good to me. It was more a couple games.
Right. And then you say something and it kind of gets wrong.
It gets a narrative. That's our fault again.
Well, thank you for that. You know, you've cost me a lot of stress lately.
Listen, I'll own up to when we love a good narrative. Well, here's the thing.
Hey, I can't fault you for that. If you just talk directly to us, then we're not able to take any of your words out of context.
Right. So really, every coach that's mad at us should just come on the pod.
Right. And do the press conferences to our in my face yeah well hey it's worked for you that's to be uh that's taken i'm gonna take that into account um so sean you had a uh a great off season of all your offensive coaches getting hired away and i had i was wondering if you could like walk us through because i still don't think i know the difference between uh zach taylor and matt lafleur can you just give me like of the napkin? How can I tell which one's which if I'm looking at one of them? Well, are you talking physically or are you talking about just their traits? One's got a birthmark.
I don't know. Just give me something to go on.
I don't know about it. One's going to be wearing Bengals gear.
One's going to be wearing Packers gear. That's the best way I can separate those guys.
Coach LaFleur, he's going to get a nice, tight haircut. He's going to look like a military guy

when he gets that nice, tight fade.

I'd be interested to see if, now that he's the

Packers coach, if he still really cuts

his own hair, which he used to do.

Interesting.

He's always been efficient.

His wife, Bree, has helped

him out with that, too.

It's always looked nice and

crisp, sharp.

It's going to be a tight haircut. Bears game so bears game thursday night he's going to be looking short ready to lead the way and then uh you know zach uh you know taller got a great demeanor about himself no they're both great coaches man and and i think um they've been really instrumental in what we've done over the last couple years matt's a guy that that I've known for a little bit longer.
You know, we're, I mean, he's one of my closest friends. So I can't, you know, do anything but wish him the best unless we're playing him.
And then Zach's a guy that I had heard about. You know, big-time player at Nebraska.
Big 12 player of the year. You know, kind of similar to Blake.
They're different. They have different personalities.
But you feel a presence about them when you talk to them Zach's the same way I think he'll do a great job leading with those guys in Cincinnati was it weird like having all the you know the joke like hey if you had a cup of coffee with Sean McVay you got a head coaching job yeah weird yeah I mean it but it's you gotta you know you gotta laugh at it it's flattering but right I mean but you're not pressure on you too a little, a little bit. I think really it's a reflection of this.
It's a reflection of the Rams and what we've been able to do. It is flattering, but I think you've got to take it in jest because that's what it is.
Just like anything else, this is a production-based business, and you jokingly say it, but, hey, there's a lot of things. You get humbled in that last game, and there's a lot of motivation and reasons why you want to make sure that you learn from your mistakes and do better for our guys as we move forward.
So how do you go about finding the next guys that are going to step into those assistant roles that will then, in turn, become head coaches? I think really is you ask around with people that you respect when you do some of the interview processes, what are the things you're looking for?

Are there similarities?

Because you're always looking for comps.

I mean, it's like when you evaluate players, the easiest way is, okay, who does this guy

remind you of, even though everybody has their own intricacies?

And, you know, we were able to get a guy on our staff and Zach Robinson, who he has some,

you know, traits that remind you of both Matt and Zach Taylor.

And I think this guy's going to be a star. He's a blogger, though, isn't he? I don't know.
Is he? Pro Football State, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah.
He was, well, that's what he did. And it was really, you know, you talk about a job where he's helped train guys for the combine.
Yeah. Played the position.
So I think there's a level of respect that comes with his ability to connect with Jared having been in his shoes right away. And then, you know, with what he was doing, he studied as much film as anybody.
film as anybody when you ask. He was putting in every coverage for all the pass plays in the league every single week and did a good job for them.
So I joked at the start about Cliff Kingsbury, but it's got to be a little like he is the hot new guy on town. You know what? He is the hot new guy.
But he's the hot new stuff. Last time I checked, I'm still not – I didn't cool off too bad.
Yeah, I know, but I'm talking about attractiveness. I'm not even talking about football coaching.
Everyone's like, Cliff Kingsbury, he's so hot. You know what? I agree.
He's a good-looking guy. You pranked him pretty good recently, right? I was pretty proud of that one.
Yeah, so tell the story because it's a hilarious prank by you i can't believe that i actually told this one it was we went to dinner we were over at catch you know he come he came in town with some friends and and you know he has obviously has a relationship with my homes and you know depending upon how you look at it you know uh if you don't fully know the tampering rules you can you can get somebody pretty good and have a good enough relationship with, with Cliff to, to make the joke and know that you can immediately say you're kidding. But I basically told him that the fact that we were at dinner with my homes, uh, faked, like I got a text from Mr.
Goodell from our mutual friend. And I showed him and I said, you know, he'd never text me.
And when you, it, it honestly was too good because i felt so bad his face went from you know because he even had a friend that had checked and done her due diligence right and i still made him convinced i know that he was gonna lose you didn't really do your due diligence yeah i said you better call steve cotton right away you're in trouble man looking at me i could feel the emotion when he actually read it and i know, the handsome tan guy went pale real quick. Yes, I love it.
I love it. So you got your swagger back.
You know what I've noticed? I feel like that was the moment. You're a psychological.
You're really into psychological warfare. No.
Yes, you are. Yes, right now you're trying to psychological warfare me.
That's nice. And you can't penetrate this brain.
I knew I couldn't see your eyes with those glasses on, so I couldn really get what i wanted exactly exactly but you are like you you do these little things like when you were saying earlier matt lafleur great guy very efficient cuts his own hair looks great like he's gonna hear that and he's gonna be like god damn it oh i just gotta stop cutting that's my guy though i love it yeah i'll be here you gotta get him on i know we will ask him is he still doing that well the first time that I met him You sent me over there as a pawn Of your own psychological warfare Do you remember that at the combine I don't know what the heck you're talking about You're like Matt Go tell him that you really like him as a head coach What did you do I did it like a fucking idiot No you didn't I did Here's what I did I went over and I said that to him I said you're a great coach man really, you didn't. That is not true.
I did. Did he tell you what he did? I did.
I went over. Here's what I did.
I went over and I said that to him. I said, you're a great coach, man.
Really like your play calling with the exception of the fourth quarter against the Colts. Okay.
And he looks at me and he looks like so upset and hurt. And I just go, Sean told me to do it.
And at this point, I just called you out because I realized I was being used as a pawn in your little chess match of all match of all 32 nfl coaches match that's one of my close friends yeah it was uh this guy's being dudes yeah but you know what i could appreciate you had an empathy when you realized man he might have taken me seriously yeah yeah and so it was a good little laugh that he didn't really follow through but i i'm glad that you told him that yeah i had to be i had to remain objective because i can't be influenced uh by the people that we're close to so it was a smart it was a smart play something that i probably would have done exactly the same thing yeah so i can't fall okay um so you everyone talks about your memory you got a great memory i really don't know somehow didn't remember that you owed a super bowl tickets whatever uh you can remember every every play. I did.
Was there any moment during Super Bowl week where you were like, do I have to actually give these guys some tickets? You know, if you actually, if you guys had really followed up and guilted me enough, I would have done it. We didn't want to go to the game.
We just wanted to make you feel bad for a minute. We did.
did. Yeah, we did.
All right, so your memory.

It obviously went viral.

You had the memory of every game, every play, whatever.

I have one for you.

I'm going to throw it out there. All right, week eight.

Okay.

Last year.

All right.

One minute and five seconds left in the fourth quarter.

All right, we're on week eight.

Let me even think about which game that – okay, no one.

Okay, third – nope.

No.

Oh, no.

Green Bay, I got you. Yep, third and ten at the Green Bay 21.
What's the play you call, and what happens? How much is left? Uh, 105. Third and 10? Yeah.
Oh, that was a bunch left-tossed 19 truck to Gurley. And what happened? Got the first down.
And what happened? And what happened after that? He went down. He did.
Did you tell him to do that? No. Because I lost a lot of money on him going down.

Hey, listen.

That was smart situational play right there.

God damn it.

Hey.

Did you tell him to do that? I can only imagine.

You know what?

Todd is a smart player.

He is a smart player.

But listen.

But I'm telling you what.

What was the final score of that game?

It was 29-27.

The final year of the game was the under.

Did we ever give the ball back to the quarterback that gives you nightmares if he's got it?

Listen, I'll let you off the hook.

Listen, no, I'm not.

No, no.

You cost both of us a lot of money.

You ended the Packers season, so I'm going to give you something.

There you go.

But, yes, that was – so did you tell him to go down?

Who told him to go down?

We always are communicating.

Jared echoed that probably in the huddle.

I bet you Todd would have done that.

Get me on the headset next time.

All right, hey, so he said we're going bunch left, 19 truck. All right.
Hey, let's make sure that we understand this is a Rolex situation where- What's Rolex? Time are more important than the points. So go down.
A Rolex situation. That is pretty badass.
First down and go down. That's awesome.
Mark it down there. Just go down, down.
The Rams go Rolex. rolex are you are you ever aware of the spread or the uh the over under total and when you're going into a game no no you think you don't you think that i don't have good buddies that crush me on stuff oh yeah of course of course i am not aware of that you gotta win the game yeah yeah i understand that but but you gotta understand from from our from my perspective i was very mad you.
We're the idiots sitting on the couch. That's better than when I went to Vegas a couple weeks after the Super Bowl just to have some fun.
First guy I run into says, hey, man, you lost me half a million on the over. I said, oh, man, I'm sorry.
Oh, man. That sucks.
I had that, too. Whatever.
Half a million. Yeah.
I have said a lot. I'm probably a wanted man for, you know.
Yes. But you've got to move on.
Yeah. I blame Todd Gurley, not you, so you're good No, you blame me My last question, CK question, promo code TAKE Put it in, get $10 off Go to a Rams game, promo code TAKE Do you want to say that you guys are going back to the Super Bowl? No If you go back to the Super Bowl, can we get tickets? In your box.
Hey, listen. I don't know if I can commit to that.
Private plane. You're asking for more now? $200.
Go to Anchor. Cash.
Art of the deal. $200 cash.
Deal. Okay.
Listen, we got a long way to go. All right.
$200. You drive a hard bargain.
What's funny is that the Art of the Deal anchoring actually worked right there. Yeah.
We went from a private plane to $200. No, but you do realize I didn't even understand what you were doing right there.
You mind-willed me. Yes, yes.
All right, back to the Super Bowl, $200 cash, done. All right, PFT, you got a last question? Yeah, I do have one last question.
So I heard that you got into it with Jaguars coach Doug Marone not too long ago because you found out that he didn't hire you at Syracuse. Is that true? No.
No. So we were having fun with a bunch of coaches, and there was a chance that I was going to go work with him in a quality control role when he was the head coach at Syracuse.
And, you know, he and Bill Bryan are great friends. We got a bunch of guys around there.
And I said, you know, you actually refused my resume. But in all actuality, I was very close to going and working with him if the United Football League opportunity didn't present itself.
But it was much – don't let the truth get in the way of a good story. Yeah, I'm going to going to go with the narrative that you wanted to kick Marone's ass.
No, you couldn't. We swam with him.
I agree with you. Coach Marone, I'm not messing with that.
No, definitely not. Is there any coach in the NFL whose ass you could kick? No.
I knew you were going to have to do that. Just say buddy That'd be like You know what I got nothing I think you could beat up Cliff I think Cliff is fake hot I think he's not as hot as advertised He's system hot He's tall He hides behind his sunglasses Like a real coward Show him P't say anything.
Show him, PFT, let's wrap up.

Show him the play.

Oh, yeah.

There's one last thing.

So we want to get a play in your playbook this year that has both Blake and Jared on the field at the same time.

These are our two best friends.

And so I called this one.

You know you like to do these swaggy little names.

Yeah, Rolex.

This one's called Horses in the Back.

Okay.

You know that.

Horses in the Back.

Shout out Lil Nas X. There you go.
So what it is, so you've got your lineup, your basic lineup, and then we're going to use Aaron Donald as a quarterback, right? So you snap directly to him. Then you've got Blake and you've got Jared, and they both run out and they do like a little mesh route here.
Yeah. And as they're doing that, Aaron Donald just has a full back on which just barrels forward.
So they're decoys. So Jared and Blake are decoys.
And if you notice, there's only 10 people on the field right here. So you can even get out there yourself.
You can be like a split end out to the side. What do you think? What do you think about that diagram? I think that, you know, the fact that you never put the square in the middle with the center, I think that's going to be the longest developing draw I've ever heard of in my life.
Right, right that. He'd get you a couple yards.
Have you ever thought about using him as a fullback? How long do you expect the boat and Jared to be able to run these crossing routes? Just like in perpetuity. It's like Game of Pong.
If there's anybody that's going to be able to hold off a rush and wait in the backfield for those two to develop on a match route, it's going to be AD.

Yes, I like that.

He can block for himself.

Okay, feel free to at least just use the name, Horses in the Back.

You probably already have a play called Horses in the Back, don't you?

I don't.

Okay.

You've got to get one.

All right, Coach McVay, thank you.

Always a pleasure.

Enjoy it.

Always fun.

Appreciate you giving us some more time this time.

People love it.

People love you.

It was fun, man.

They do.

Even though I might say something.

What did I say? I don't even know. I deserve it.
Yeah, I know. I can't listen.
Hey, you got to produce. Yeah, I'm a hot take guy.
In the moment, you were the worst coach I've ever seen coach a football game. Well, you know what? Hey, I agree with you.
I'm not going to deny it. All right.
Thanks, Coach. All right, guys.
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Okay, let's get to some segments. Thanks to Coach Sean McVay.
$200 coming our way if the Rams go to the Super Bowl. Dude, they say he's a genius.
We wrapped him around our finger with our negotiations. It was so fast.
I hope he's not their general manager because Gerald McCoy is going to be getting $25 million a year. Giving away contracts.
Okay, we have two of them, actually. The first is the Wall Street Journal.
Yes, that Wall Street Journal that is supposed to be the top of the food chain for journalism. Well, it is cool how they give you your little pencil engraved avatar.
Yes, yes. A profile picture.
Yeah, that little picture that they throw in there. So it said they wrote an article.

The Warriors could not be a dynasty without Steph Curry, Clay Thompson, Draymond Green, Andre Iguodala and Kevin Durant. You think? No, boy.
I don't. What was the I don't.
I think I'm behind a paywall. The Wall Street Journal is notoriously inaccurate at assessing how violent and potent weapons are.
All you have to do is go back to 2003. They did a pretty bad job then.
In this case, I think they might be correct because they do have good players. Right.
And I don't think that they would be as good if they didn't have as many good players. Right.
Okay, so I have the article in front of me. Michael Jordan's Chicago Bulls never did it.
Neither did the Showtime Lakers of the 1980s or Shaq and Kobe's Lakers of the 2000s. The only team ever to make five consecutive appearances in the NBA Finals was the Boston Celtics of the 1960s.
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So that was the article. Okay, that was a pretty intense article right there.
So we don't know if we got clickbaited or not, but the headline sure makes their general manager sound like a ring chaser for just assembling all these great players. Putting together all these guys who helped win a lot of games.
We also have an oh, you think, Nick Bosa pulled his hamstring. You think? More of a sad oh, you think.
Well, the Bosa family, they're kind of doofies. Doofasai? Doasai? Doofi.
Doofy. Doofi.
Doofies. If you did a 23andMe on the Bosa family genes, it's like 15% Anglo-Saxon and then 85% silk.
Yeah. Torn hamstrings.
Yeah, they're just made out of silk. Hamstring muscles that are just stretched as far as they could possibly be stretched.
They're Chinese because their hamstrings are Ming Vases. Yes.
So they, I mean, what do you, I don't even know what you do with the Bosa. I think you just keep them in a hyperbaric chamber until.
Never bring them out. Yeah.
If you make the playoffs. If you make the playoffs.
Fresh legs. Bring them out.
Otherwise, don't make them do anything. You know what you do? You just use them like Rudy.
And you just use them at the last play of the last game. Right.
And just hope they get a sack. We don't know if Rudy was injury prone or not.
Right. It could have been.
They just kept them on a shelf. Yeah.
Rudy was actually coddled. He didn't get injured in that one play, so from my sample size, he actually could play a full season.
He was the ultimate load management guy. Bad visual.
Eli and Daniel Jones look exactly alike. Exactly alike.
We've been saying that it's a good possibility that Daniel Jones is Archie Manning's illegitimate child. Yes.
And that picture that came out yesterday certainly, I think, lended a lot of credence. I think you could just put those side by side most people in America would be like yeah that guy is somehow related it's it's now all starting to make sense Dave Gettleman was like if I just figure out a way to get something that looks exactly like Eli Manning the fans will be like oh well he might even wear Eli Manning's jersey once Eli Manning like stops in 10 years or whatever Archie has in his contract.
The jokes about Eli Manning and Daniel Jones are only going to get better. And I'm just trying to convince myself, though, that Daniel Jones is going to be good at quarterback because I'm so sure that he's not.
No. And I'm dumb.
No, he's not. Don't worry.
He is not. The only thing he could work on a little bit more, I noticed his mouth isn't as wide open as Eli's.
It comes with a territory. It comes with practice.
When they say, because Gettleman did say they were going to have an open quarterback competition, maybe just meant the mouth. Right.
Who can open it larger? It'll be like Double Dare. You keep your mouth open in practice.
Whichever quarterback has the most bugs in their mouth they go to the sideline they spit it into a bucket until it reaches a red line first hit that red line is a starter just just pour as much water into their mouth see who can just suck up all the water all the air that's that's the manning slash jones yeah they need they need the oxygen tank over there because they're just gonna be sucking up all their teammates air people don't talk about how eli manning is an air hog big time that's why he's won those super bowls he hogs all the sucks up tom brady's all his air it's like playing in high altitude when you play against the giants good point because of eli manning's breathing habits that's a great point um all right last up before we get to you guys on chicks hurt or injured uh yohannes sespedes he broke his ankles in a ditch on his farm fact check he's getting paid 29 million dollars by the way two fact checks one ankle it was one ankle one ankle he broke a ankle broke a ankle fact check two it was on a ranch not a farm okay and i know this because i saw the initial report and i saw that there was a met that got hurt on a ranch and i was like that's probably has something to do with bartolo cologne eating pizza yeah although bartolo cologne's retired man he's met for life he's gone he's done i actually think of him as an indian really yeah that's where he came up yeah i just think i think since he hit that home run as a Met. Yeah, yeah.
I think of him as an Angel. Angel too? Mm-hmm.
Ranger? I didn't even when he first came out. I just think of him as a unit.
Yeah. I mean, he should, Bartol Cologne's one of those guys that like, we should make a special rule where he should get to start one game for every single team.
Like, for an entire season. Just call up, you get your Bartol Cologne game, and just pass him around, and he gets to play for every home stadium.
That would be fantastic. He didn't even get a retirement tour.
No. That's what upsets me, just every ballpark gives their seven-foot-long hot dog or whatever their novelty.
Yeah, just all the ribs that you can find. Your big plate of nachos.
Nacho Sombrero, give it a Bartol Cologne Cologne. He should be in the home run derby.
I mean, he should pitch and hit. Yeah.
Yeah. That would be actually fantastic.
So, man, he played for a lot of teams. I'm looking it up right now.
Yeah. The Indians were the longest team he played for, though.
So, yeah. Second longest.
You're right, Hank. Angels.
So, there you go. When he goes in the Hall of Fame, what jersey is he wearing? Or what hat is he wearing? He's not going to the Hall of Fame.
No, he's not. He should.
He definitely is not. He did win Cy Young, but he's definitely not going to the Hall of Fame.
I feel like a Boston market. He won 247 games.
But he has steroid shit, too. He does, big time.
Big time. Big time steroid shit.
247 wins.

2,500 strikeouts.

He has more families than home runs.

Four time All-Star

and a Cy Young

in 2005. That's pretty damn

good. Good job for you,

Bartokolo. Not a Hall of Famer,

but a very good, memorable pitcher.

Hank, guys on

checks? Yes. Sup, fellas.
Sup. Say hey.
I just graduated college, and I need to buy basic essentials for everyday life, but I'm $22,000 in debt. Like, seriously.
I can't afford a $6 pair of underwear from Target. Sell your feet.
Any life hacks for the post-grad life? This was the weekend where a lot of people graduated, so this is a very relatable question. Feet pictures is a moneymaker.
Yeah, because you have no face involved. There's a lot of people who love feet pictures.
You get a little cash. They get their whatever they do with them.
They're going to jerk off to it, but don't think about that. Feet pictures.
Yeah, that's good. Also, you could just try to lie and say that you went to...
What was the college where the guy said that he would pay off? Morehouse. Morehouse State.
You could lie and say that you went to Morehouse State and be like, hey, my student loan hasn't been paid off yet. Yeah.
Oh, that's probably unethical. Yeah.
Or do a GoFundMe. And I'm sure someone will pay for it with the feet pictures.
Do a GoFundMe. You'll release the feet pictures as soon as you get $23,000.
Yeah. My birthday was last week and my boyfriend of three years took me to a new bowling alley, then to a craft beer axe throwing place, followed by Topgolf.
At every single one of these places, he used a gift card to pay for it. Some of those gift cards had been given to him by my parents.
Should I be offended? No, this guy's fucking smart. P.S.
He also got me a Chicks in the Office hat as a present. Okay, listen, the guy, he's playing the hand that he's dealt, and it sounds like he, at least two of those locations, he had to make reservations.
That's as good as you're going to get. I love this because you know it's somebody's like what honey you love you love top golf you said it was your favorite like what what do you mean you love watching football for 10 hours on sunday you love that my parents got me this for us yeah right i want to i want to enjoy this for both of us good point also he's using what her parents gave him back to her like he's making her happy with his gifts yeah that's actually really really nice the gift that keeps giving i bet you this i love this fucking guy i bet you this guy just like beat her really bad in every competition yeah oh yeah he definitely also takes her out to buffets yeah he was like let's go to the axe throwing place oh no they're bullseye yeah oh you're not you're not very good you suck at this Why don't you use a driver all right next competition hey boys my current internship is about to be over and i recently found out that two potentially three guys that are planning to potentially three guys there are planning on asking me out after it ends i'm only interested in one but how do i shut down the other two without burning that bridge professionally or making it awkward okay this is very easy you just ask the other two if they think that the third guy likes you yeah or just accept the third guy right away go ask the third guy out that's actually what you should do sadie hawkins it yeah yeah ask the guy who you like out so that it just stops everything else or just just date all three and break their hearts.
Hey, dumb, thick cat, PFT, and Hank the hottie. Damn.
My ex and I broke up in January, and then he moved to Australia, but still watches my Insta story and said happy birthday to me. I truly believe the time difference is the only thing keeping us apart.
Is it crazy to buy a ticket to Melbourne to surprise him? Melbourne, I should say.

That's what the locals say.

Is there a rugby game going on?

Here's the thing.

Probably always, but not an important one.

No, it's Aussie rules football.

That's right.

So here's what's going on.

Since there is that time zone overlap,

you guys are always drunk when you...

Wait, you're drunk at opposite times of each other.

What is it?

24 hours?

No, it's...

No.

It's like 16.

I think it's like 12.

12 or 13 hours?

Are you just guessing?

Yeah.

It's winter over there.

Yeah, what's tricky is when you're drunk, he's waking up.

And when he's drunk, you're waking up.

So you send each other these messages and you're never on the same wavelength. You know what I'm saying? Is it crazy to buy a ticket to Melbourne to surprise him? That is the question.
A surprise visit across the Pacific is a little crazy. I'm trying to fucking figure this out.
It's hard. I say go for it.
But is that California 12 hours? No. Okay.
I say go for it. Just show up.
Just be like, hey. 14 hours.
Good news. I'm in Australia.
And if he doesn't reply immediately, then just fly right back. 14 hours final answer.
Okay. This question is all caps lock.
Just all right this question is quotes all caps specifically for pft i've been hooking up with a guy for a while now problem is i didn't know what i was getting into until he picked me up for our first date we're literally eye level he's pretty hot so i've been putting this off but i can't handle able to see over his head anymore. How do I end things with a short guy without telling him it's because he's short? I don't know why that was specifically for you.
Well, first of all, she said that you were the same height, and then your story changed. Literally eye level.
And now you can see over his head. So my first question would be, which one is it? Also, just say his dick's too too big that's really the easy way out of this yeah most short guys have big dicks yeah most of us do i've not all of us right but so you admit you're a short guy i'm in a group chat right we're all in a group chat and i know that there's some that don't so you admit your shortcut i admit that i'm an average size guy also i'm curious to know what she means by how short this guy is.
Because if he's like 5'5", he knows. He knows that's why.
Yeah. But just be like, hey, dick too big.
He's probably like 5'8". Pretty short.
I'm just going to hope this one is fake because otherwise my mind has been blown. Oh.
Hey, PMT guys. Dot, dot, dot.
Hey, big cat. They're like seven whys.
Okay. seven wise okay anyway everybody poops and with now comes the accompanying gas my question for y'all is one why when I toot does it sometimes come up the front verse out the butt that's queef two does this happen with guys no out of our dick hole no yeah no if oh all right yeah it's a queef she's talking about queefs a queef is when your butt cheeks when there's so much uh think about like a brick laying when you lay the brick right and you have the paste that's what your that's what your poop is doing in your butt cheeks so you're basically putting two bricks together your cheeks so the gas has nowhere to go so it comes out your pussy there's a fork in the road and that gas took the road less travel right exactly that makes all the difference it comes out the front it's the perfect seal and it needs to go somewhere or it could be a burp right yeah it could be it's really like it yeah so with guys it does come out the dick but that's only sometimes like if you jack off too many times in a day just a cloud of dust comes out right it's like your dick just anointed the new pope right alright we'll right.
We'll end with this one. Hey, thick cat, Reverend PFT and handsome Hank.
I'm in college and I've been dating my boyfriend for three months. Things have been going great.
We are staying in our college campus over the summer and living with one other roommate. Parentheses, a guy, comma, random.
Nice. While drunk on more than three separate occasions, my boyfriend has suggested that we have a threesome with our roommate oh i thought this was a joke but he got pretty mad when i started turning it down he says he isn't gay or bi no what do i do the lease isn't up until september 1st i think you just tell him wait until the end of august yeah i would don't do anything you don't want to do but you know what you do you have actually you should do the threesome and then and then be like hold on guys i got a queef and leave the room and then when you come back if they're hooking up well then there's your answer well no here's what you do you have the threesome and then you try to fart and whichever hole the fart comes out that's the guy you were meant to be with okay so if it's in the front it's your body telling you which one to be with also you could just say um like one night if if you're really drunk you wake up the next morning just tell him you had the threesome and see what his reaction is at that yeah or here's one last thing you could do you could be like hey i'd love to have a threesome but i want to make sure he's good at sex first.
So you're going to have to let me fuck him solo.

Got to try before you buy.

Yeah.

And see what he says about that.

And if he's not into that, it's like, well, don't make me do something you don't want to do or I don't want to do if I can't do it first.

Or when you start the threesome, do it like in wild things.

So you kiss the other guy and then you say, OK, now you two kiss.

Right.

And see if they kiss. Spin the bottle.
just play spin the bottle and see if they kiss and then you can figure it out from there and then just queef the moral of the story is just blow some hot air out of a hole yeah and see what happens if we ask questions later all right grit 19 continues Hopefully see some of you tomorrow

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