Booger McFarland Talking NFL And CFB, JMU Got Screwed In The Latest Rankings, Hot Seat/Cool Throne + Guys On Chicks

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Speaker 1 On today's part of my take, presented by DraftKings, we have our good friend Booger McFarlane on the show. He's eating donuts, and he's talking college and pro football with us.

Speaker 1 It was great to catch up with him. We're going to talk the college football rankings at the beginning of the show.
We're taping this after they came out. JMU has been screwed.

Speaker 1 We're going to go through that. We have

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Speaker 1 welcome to part of my take presented by draft kings the crown is yours today is wednesday november 19th and james madison university has been screwed by the committee it's It's a screw job.

Speaker 2 The fix is in. About to go January 6th on the CFP.
This is bad. It's bad, big cat, for a few reasons.

Speaker 1 Number one,

Speaker 1 it's a shamaker.

Speaker 2 It's a travesty. It's a shamocker.
It's a travesty mockery. It's disgusting.
It's not right. It's an infringement upon our Constitution, which James Madison wrote, by the way.

Speaker 2 They seem to really be hammering home the line that JMU doesn't have any high quality wins. We played one Power Four Conference conference game this year, which we lost to Louisville.

Speaker 2 Miami also lost to Louisville. It looks like they might have been dinged a little bit on that in terms of where they're sat.
But

Speaker 2 without just going full on nuclear, which I can do,

Speaker 2 I think that what is happening right now is they had their heart set on the American on that conference. Whoever wins that conference is going to get just pigeonholed in.

Speaker 2 Doesn't matter what else happens. Listen, Tulane lost by 22 points to UTSA.

Speaker 2 They lost by 22 points to UTSA.

Speaker 2 We don't have a common opponent with Tulane, so you can't play apples to apples, but I can do the transit of property, and I can say that Texas State beat UTSA 43 to 36.

Speaker 2 JMU beat Texas State 52 to 20.

Speaker 2 And what the committee has always done is, at least, you know, know, since the

Speaker 2 since the tournament expanded, they've taken into account the health of your team famously with

Speaker 2 Florida State a couple years ago. That matters to them if your star players are injured or if they're healthy.

Speaker 2 And in week two, when we played against Louisville, which by the way, we had a halftime lead against Louisville. Can't say the same thing about Miami.

Speaker 1 That's a fact.

Speaker 2 We had a starting quarterback, Alonzo Barnett, who is a great quarterback. He's playing awesome ball right now.

Speaker 2 He tore his ACL in the very last game of last year. So he's like eight months recovered from the ACL surgery in that game.
He can't run.

Speaker 2 They sub him out whenever we need to have a quarterback that can run.

Speaker 2 And then over the course of the season, he's gotten healthier. Now he's running in addition to passing.
He's a different quarterback. We're a different offense.
We're kicking the shit out of people.

Speaker 2 So, I mean, yeah, you can say that we've got a bad schedule. It's down here for the Sunbelt.
I agree with that. I'm not going to like try to gas up the Sunbelt.

Speaker 2 That's impossible to do. But we're kicking the shit out of every team that we play.
We're top 10 offense. We're top 10 defense.
All the graphs, we're top to the right on all of them.

Speaker 2 And yeah, Tulane beat Duke. You know who else beat Duke? Yukon.

Speaker 1 Everyone.

Speaker 1 Everyone. Duke has five losses.

Speaker 2 So if we're going to pin that and put that up on a pedestal, now I can get...

Speaker 2 I don't want to go there, but I will go there. There's a new head of the CFP committee.
Mac Rhodes from Baylor stepped down. We don't know what happened there.
Something weird.

Speaker 2 Sounds like there's some weird stuff going on, Baylor. So the new guy that they have?

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 2 Yeah, Baylor. Can you believe it?

Speaker 1 No, never.

Speaker 2 So the new guy is Hunter Urich,

Speaker 2 and he is the athletic director at Arkansas. I did just about 15 minutes of research on this guy.
Okay. His son is the tight ends coach for App State.

Speaker 2 App State, who we just emasculated on Saturday. Guess how many yards receiving App State tight ends had against J-Mu?

Speaker 1 Zero, negative?

Speaker 2 Zero. They had zero catches for zero yards.

Speaker 1 So,

Speaker 2 how bad of a coach does he think his son is that we just kicked the shit out of him?

Speaker 2 Right. That's got to start some conversation.
That's going to be an awkward Thanksgiving.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 that's facts. Like,

Speaker 1 he got his ass kicked by a team that's not even worthy of getting ranked. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Yikes. Can you believe that? Can you believe that?

Speaker 2 So, yeah, I've said my piece.

Speaker 2 I don't even have anything else really to add. I think that the record speaks for itself.

Speaker 2 I think JMU should be in it, but it seems pretty clear that they just want to put whoever wins the American as the group of five rep, and

Speaker 2 that's their prerogative. They can do that if they want.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
All right. So, so I agree with you.
I've been, I've been fighting the fight on the front lines with JMU.

Speaker 1 It's bullshit.

Speaker 1 They just want to find a way. We now are the biggest Rice Owl fans, I believe, is who Tulane is playing.

Speaker 1 Temple. No, wait, no, I think it's right.
Are they playing Temple this weekend? Temple. Yeah.
Okay. I think.
They're playing Temple?

Speaker 1 Okay, so we're the biggest Temple Owl fans. Temple's actually been a frisky team this year.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they're running the Owl gauntlet because they just played FAU.

Speaker 1 Can they go back-to-back Owls?

Speaker 1 Who can do that?

Speaker 1 Who can do that?

Speaker 1 Yeah, so they're playing Temple. Then they finish with Charlotte.
Charlotte is garbage.

Speaker 1 Temple's not bad.

Speaker 1 They're at least frisky. So we're rooting against Tulane.

Speaker 1 Listen, not personal, just business. If you're a Tulane fan and you're listening to this, not personal, just business.

Speaker 1 And then we also have to root against North Texas and ECU because that's what they're just going to keep doing. They're going to keep going down the line of American teams.
And

Speaker 1 the next one's up.

Speaker 2 They probably will. And this is going to be, yeah.
It's going to be a situation where we cross our fingers, root for Temple.

Speaker 2 And then at the same time, you just got to go out and you got to beat Washington State if you're JMU this weekend by 50 points.

Speaker 1 Also, I forgot Navy.

Speaker 1 They're going to jump to Navy. They probably would.
Absolutely jump to Navy.

Speaker 1 You know they would. Yeah, I'd have a hard time digging up dirt about Navy.
Yeah. Okay.
Other thoughts from the rankings. So you mentioned Miami.

Speaker 1 It's very funny because I do think that these rankings are

Speaker 1 as much as it still doesn't matter because things are going to get worked out.

Speaker 1 I love these rankings because I actually think it's like a group of people who don't really watch college football and they're kind of dumb. And they just...

Speaker 1 So Miami, if you look at Miami, they would be in the playoff right now because they'd be the highest ACC team. Miami went from 18 to, I think they're now ranked 13 in the last couple of weeks.

Speaker 1 They didn't really do anything. They played bad teams, but I think that the committee is just admitting, oh, we kind of fucked up on the first time we ranked Miami.
We shouldn't have done that.

Speaker 1 They beat Notre Dame. That's eight spots higher than them.
Let's just every week slip them in a little bit more. And now Miami would be in the playoffs.

Speaker 1 So right now, if the playoff were to start today, based on the rankings, it would be one seed Ohio State, two seed Indiana. They obviously have to play in the Big Ten championship game.

Speaker 1 Three seed Texas AM, four seed Georgia. Those are your four buys.
Then it would be five seed Texas Tech playing Tulane at the 12 seed. Notre Dame going to Norman, Oklahoma, 9-8.

Speaker 1 Miami going to Ole Miss. that's the 11-6.

Speaker 1 And then Alabama and Oregon is the 10-7.

Speaker 1 It's an awesome bracket to look at. I'd be very excited to watch this college football playoff.

Speaker 1 The big winners, though, out of this PFT, I don't know if you agree, but the winner number one is Georgia, because Georgia obviously beats Texas. They get to four.

Speaker 1 Georgia's in that perfect spot where they could potentially not go to the SEC championship game and have a buy, which that's got to be the greatest spot you could ever be in. Because

Speaker 1 Alabama beat Georgia. Yeah, if Alabama

Speaker 1 wins the rest of their, they just had to beat Auburn. I think they played no one this week.
They had to beat Auburn. Texas AM wins out.
Texas AM and Alabama in the SEC championship game.

Speaker 1 Georgia can sit at home and be like, but we still get a buy. That's perfect.

Speaker 2 It's a great situation for them. Alabama fans, they don't seem to be too happy with the way things shook out, but I mean, you can just blame yourselves.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 You lost. And you lost.
And

Speaker 2 that's what happens when you have a recent loss.

Speaker 1 And also the Florida State loss. I know that Florida State, you know, looked good at the beginning of the season, but that team has been garbage.
So that's a tough loss.

Speaker 1 And I know teams change, but that's just

Speaker 1 the case here.

Speaker 1 And then the other big winner to me is Texas Tech, because if Indiana and Ohio State, when they play in the Big Ten championship game, if Texas Tech can win the Big 12 championship game, I would imagine Indiana, the loser of the Indiana-Ohio State game, might drop out to the five seed, and Texas Tech, if they can win, would slip up into the buy.

Speaker 2 I actually don't think I think that it all depends on what the loss looks like, but if it's a close game at all, like within 10 points, I don't think that Indiana would drop out.

Speaker 1 If Texas only has one loss, so it would be a one-loss Big 12 champion versus a one-loss runner-up in the Big Ten.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I still probably

Speaker 2 I think they keep Indiana in there.

Speaker 2 The other thing I was looking at was Oregon. So, Oregon, what happens if Oregon loses this weekend?

Speaker 1 If Oregon loses this weekend,

Speaker 1 USC,

Speaker 1 they could be in trouble.

Speaker 2 They could be in trouble because the one win that they have on their schedule that's really doing a lot of work

Speaker 2 is the Penn State win, which

Speaker 2 Iowa recently, but the one that's doing, that's like keeping, that's like, they're dangling on if they lose this game.

Speaker 2 And the reason why is because that Penn State win, I think the committee is still valuing that Penn State win as being a quality win because it's back. Which I have no problem with.

Speaker 2 Penn State was good. It was a great game.
And when I was watching it, I definitely didn't think to myself, oh shit, Penn State sucks. It was before all the wheels fell off for him.

Speaker 2 But if you're looking for an argument against Oregon, if they lose this weekend, that's where you go.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 the counter-argument would be: what is USC? Obviously, if USC beats them head-to-head,

Speaker 1 they would take their spot. But USC

Speaker 1 doesn't have a signature.

Speaker 1 I mean, their signature wins are pretty similar. You know what I mean? They beat Michigan at home.
They beat Iowa at home. Oregon beat Iowa on the road.
They beat Penn State on the road.

Speaker 1 But yeah, the head-to-head will obviously determine that because I'm a big believer and you got to play it on the grass. So if they lose, tough luck.
But yeah, it will be,

Speaker 1 it's looking more and more like it's going to be a three-bid league for the Big Ten, four to five for the SEC, one for ACC. Notre Dame's going to obviously get in there.

Speaker 1 Notre Dame's just going to stay at the same spot.

Speaker 1 I think they've just been at nine. for a while now, which makes sense because I don't think they should go up much higher.

Speaker 1 They're not going to have a big data point to be like, oh, wow. But Notre Dame should be in the playoff.
I do think they're one of the playoff-worthy teams. But yeah, those are the big takeaways.

Speaker 2 The Yurchek guy said that he's not even thinking about Notre Dame and Miami.

Speaker 2 The comparison between the two schools is not happening inside of his own brain because they're not close enough to each other in the rankings for him to compare one to the other.

Speaker 1 Yeah, which is

Speaker 1 Miami.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. You should.
You should absolutely. They played on the field.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 They need Miami to lose again, is what they're saying.

Speaker 2 Yes.

Speaker 1 They need Miami.

Speaker 2 I think you're right about that. I think that when they made the first rankings, they didn't really think it all the way through.

Speaker 1 Right.

Speaker 2 And then many people point it out to them online, and they're like, oh, shit. They kind of have a point.
Let's see what we can do to just kind of tread water and hope that this takes care of itself.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And

Speaker 1 the thing that's going to get interesting, there's like definitely some chaos scenarios that are

Speaker 1 going to cause some problems for the committee. One being Michigan beating Ohio State and being two losses.
If that is in conjunction with USC beating Oregon, now what are you going to do there?

Speaker 1 Another being, you know, Vanderbilt beats Tennessee and wins out the season and only has two losses.

Speaker 1 If BYU somehow gets revenge on Texas Tech, like there could be a world where they have just a lot of spots and

Speaker 1 or a lot of teams and not a lot of spots and they'll be kind of fucked there. And that's where Notre Dame could get fucked.

Speaker 2 So there's another doomsday scenario. I love doomsday scenarios.
It's my favorite part of this time of year when we're like just thinking ahead to what the bracket might look like.

Speaker 2 The ACC has a major one that's just a ticking time bomb.

Speaker 1 We've moved on from Duke.

Speaker 1 We forgot Duke was just a shitty team because they got absolutely smashed by Virginia. I watched the majority of that game and it was, they they are just not a good team.
The ACC,

Speaker 2 they could have a six-way tie for first.

Speaker 1 I love it.

Speaker 2 That would be, that would be awesome. I think it's Miami, SMU,

Speaker 2 Virginia, Pitt,

Speaker 2 Georgia Tech, and Duke

Speaker 2 could all tie for first place in the ACC.

Speaker 2 Okay. And it's not that crazy.
It's not that crazy.

Speaker 1 Duke is not going to win out. I'm done with Duke.

Speaker 2 Well, Duke, you don't think Duke could beat North Carolina?

Speaker 1 No, they absolutely could beat North Carolina, but then they have to play Wake Forrest. Duke is bad.
I'm done with Duke. I'm done with Duke in any scenarios.

Speaker 2 Duke has a chance to beat Wake Forrest, though. It wouldn't be the craziest thing.

Speaker 1 No, of course they do, but I'm done with Duke. I'm telling you right now, I'm done with Duke's scenarios because I just can't.

Speaker 1 They're five and five. They're not a good team.
But yes, they lost.

Speaker 2 Miami, they just have to win out. They have to beat Virginia Tech.
They have Pitt. If SMU loses one of their next two games, they could very easily lose to Louisville.

Speaker 2 If Virginia, that's really the main one. If Virginia loses to Virginia Tech, now

Speaker 1 that one would be good.

Speaker 2 Virginia is much, much better than Virginia Tech, but it is like a true these two teams hate each other type game.

Speaker 2 I don't know. Maybe the program gets a shot in the arm from just having James Franklin's name put on the door.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 2 And then Pitt, if they split between Miami and Georgia Tech, and then if Georgia Tech, if they lose to Pitt, then all those schools will be 6-2.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 The ACC most likely will just fuck itself over. And

Speaker 1 the ACC just cannibalizes itself no matter what.

Speaker 1 Whatever the worst outcome for the ACC is, that's the one they'll find a way to have happen.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's basketball season.

Speaker 1 Yeah. It is basketball season.
We're watching the Boozer Twins.

Speaker 1 They are actually twins, right?

Speaker 2 Yeah, and Cameron was named after the stadium.

Speaker 1 No way. Yeah, it's a fact.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, we said it with last week with Joke Noah that it's definitely a I feel old because I remember like seeing Carlos Boozer's Instagram stories nine years ago when they were little kids like in his driveway taking shots.

Speaker 1 Oh, we have uh here they are.

Speaker 2 Yeah, we have some breaking moves.

Speaker 1 Oh, breaking moves.

Speaker 1 hank you gonna do it no

Speaker 1 what are you doing hank

Speaker 1 what's it about well hank you got a moo i don't we don't i know hank gets worried about it being something

Speaker 1 if we're talking about the accident breaking moves about the acc

Speaker 1 no it's just breaking moves about something else what is hank worried about he's worried that you're going to bring up belichek at jordan's adult cheerleading competition

Speaker 2 i actually haven't seen that yet uh but now okay double breaking news.

Speaker 1 Hank, you know, you know what's so funny? Do you know what's so funny is that I saw that picture like an hour ago and

Speaker 1 I don't know why it just went out of my brain because we were getting ready. And

Speaker 1 if Hank hadn't had that face, I would not have thought of it. But the minute Hank had that face, I was like, oh, fuck, I forgot that I saw a picture of Bill Belichick standing sadly for

Speaker 1 they did cheerleading competitions, like rec cheerleading competitions. That's crazy.

Speaker 2 It's serious stuff.

Speaker 1 Is it?

Speaker 1 It's not even, they're not cheering for a team. They're cheering just

Speaker 1 softball, dude. That's a difference.
That's a cheerleading. Whoa, it is.
Whoa. Cheerleading sport.

Speaker 1 Cheerleading sport. I don't do, I don't do sports where there's judges.
I guess boxing.

Speaker 2 Yeah. UFC.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that hurt my, my, my.

Speaker 1 So, Hank, why didn't you want us to bring it up?

Speaker 3 No, I just, I, I, that's not what I was talking about.

Speaker 1 Oh, okay.

Speaker 4 My mic was muted.

Speaker 1 Okay, PFT, what's your breaking loose?

Speaker 1 Are you looking at the pictures, PFT?

Speaker 2 I'm looking at them right now. They're very funny.

Speaker 1 Yeah, very funny. Look, he's

Speaker 2 supporting Code Black. Yeah, good idea.

Speaker 1 He's a walked-in.

Speaker 1 And we are Team Jordan on this podcast. And our queen, if she wants to go and play cheerleading on a Tuesday night at the local YMCA, she should.

Speaker 1 Can you gamble on it?

Speaker 1 I'd like to bet on it. Wait, wait.

Speaker 1 What if that's our punishment for the picks? What? Loser has to go join

Speaker 1 a wreck cheerleading squad.

Speaker 2 I don't think they'd have us.

Speaker 2 I think you got to be able to

Speaker 3 just no respect for the cheerleading community.

Speaker 1 That would be so funny. Oh my God.

Speaker 2 Bill's being a good guy here. He's a good.

Speaker 2 It's, I don't know why. Every time I call him a boyfriend, it's very funny.
It's so funny. He's being a great boyfriend.

Speaker 2 No, that was not my breaking mood. My breaking moves,

Speaker 2 it was

Speaker 2 Hank. Do you want to do the noise?

Speaker 2 Jamar Chase's appeal of his one-game suspension has been denied.

Speaker 1 Oh, I already denied it, so that's good.

Speaker 1 I was still feeling it from

Speaker 1 the internet invitation. I was just denying shit, but that's good that it was denied because I concur.

Speaker 2 I don't know what his appeal looked like. He was like, his appeal must have just been, please.

Speaker 1 He did the OJ.

Speaker 1 I feel like his appeal, I actually, I don't know what, yeah, what his appeal actually looked like.

Speaker 1 I do. What?

Speaker 2 He said if I wanted to spit on him, I would have spat on his face, not on his uniform.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 1 I would have done

Speaker 1 a simple, like, here are all the times Jalen Ramsey was a fucking dick.

Speaker 1 Like, you could have just gone that route and been like, hey, look, someone was going to spit on him eventually. It happened to be me.

Speaker 2 Yeah,

Speaker 2 I like that he said, if I really wanted to spit, I'm way better at spitting than that. And I would have drilled him in the the face if I wanted to.

Speaker 1 So, Hank, what does this do to the Patriots schedule?

Speaker 3 I hadn't thought about that.

Speaker 3 I just think it's more opportunity for Drake May. 300 plus.

Speaker 1 350 plus, probably.

Speaker 2 We'll get to it. We'll get to that.
Yeah. Don't spoil the stats, Hank.

Speaker 3 No, I'm just talking about what it means for the game.

Speaker 1 Just means we'll have more time. But the Bengals offering Jamar Chase is a big deal.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's a shame.

Speaker 3 It's a shame. You want to beat people at their best.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 I think that's everything we got. Let's kick it to ourselves and we'll do more of the show.
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Speaker 1 Okay, boys, Monday night football. We had to watch the Raiders play football.
I am sick of watching the Raiders play football. I have a question for you, PFT.
Is Pete Carroll having fun?

Speaker 2 No, he's not having fun. He's not having any fun.

Speaker 2 I can tell because the amount of gum that he chews during a game is way higher. Yeah.
Usually he's got like one thin stick of juicy fruit in his mouth.

Speaker 2 Now it's like he's got three bazooka joes in there just trying to distract him from it. He was surprised that the Raiders didn't play well.
Like at halftime, they asked him about it.

Speaker 2 He's like, I did not expect this to happen. I don't know what team Pete Carroll's expected to happen.

Speaker 1 I expected it to happen. Not only that, but I think I saw in this game something I haven't seen in a while where

Speaker 1 before halftime, the Monday Night Football camera crew was doing the sad Raiders on the sideline. Yeah.
Like they're showing Geno Smith looking sad. Max Crosby.
I feel bad for Max Crosby.

Speaker 1 Max Crosby is so fucking good.

Speaker 1 And Max Crosby, I feel like in this season, the two and eight Raiders, there's been at least a moment in every single game where you're like, is Max Crosby going to win this game by himself?

Speaker 1 And you had it at the beginning of the game when he forced that fumble.

Speaker 2 And then you realize, oh yeah the raiders just stink and uh they can't move the ball and ash and genti are we worried about him or were we right about him i think he had six carries for seven yards i think uh i think there's no way to tell i think i think ash and genti is good i think that he's in an impossible situation they keep showing that stat of he how he's the uh the the one player in the nfl that like he has the fewest yards before contact yeah of any player maybe in nfl history because he's always getting hit in the backfield he almost made it out when they got that safety called on him yep he got hit like six yards, five yards deep in the end zone.

Speaker 2 Almost made, I think he's good. I just think that right now, having a running back on that team, you don't really use him because you never are playing with a lead.

Speaker 2 You're never even playing with a tie.

Speaker 1 There was a fourth and one, I believe, in the third or fourth quarter where Ash and Genti got the ball and got the first down, but it was like the most miraculous first down ever because every single cowboy was in the backfield ready to go.

Speaker 1 And no, yeah, I agree with you. Like, I think he's going to be fine.
It's just an impossible spot for him on a team that cannot block, that cannot play with a lead, that can't do anything offensive.

Speaker 2 He might be the best player on that team.

Speaker 1 I think that's probably still Brock Bowers, but yeah. Yeah.
I mean, Max Ross, yeah.

Speaker 2 It's just crazy that

Speaker 2 he has literally no chance to run the football. We just don't know if he's good or not.
Yeah. But I'm pretty sure that he is.

Speaker 2 Now, with the Cowboys, it feels like last night was, obviously, for a number of reasons, like a super emotional win for them dealing with the loss of their teammate and all that.

Speaker 2 Like credit to Schottenheimer and Dak. That seemed like they were the ones that kind of took on the leadership roles.
They did a pretty, a really good job of that.

Speaker 2 And the team offensively, we know that the Cowboys are great. Yeah.
Like, and they looked really, really good last night. Like,

Speaker 2 Pickens is so good. When he's making those cuts, it's so infuriating if you're a coach and you're like watching him cut backwards all the time.

Speaker 2 But he's the guy that will get eventually to the outside and then, you know, go on a little run and make a few guys miss and get downfield once he feels like it. He's awesome.

Speaker 2 CeeDee Lamb should have had another touchdown, too. Dak played out of his mind.

Speaker 1 The whole offense is so good.

Speaker 2 The defense even looked good last night.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they've looked a little bit better. I was thinking.
I mean, it was the Raiders.

Speaker 2 Now, they have a really hard schedule coming up. They have to play the Eagles, the Chiefs.
I think the Lions are up in one of their few next games here, too. So it's not inconceivable.

Speaker 2 They're not eliminated from the playoffs, but I do think that they're playing like a playoff team would right now.

Speaker 1 They're,

Speaker 1 well, they did. Remember, the last time we saw them play was against the Cardinals, and they got killed by the Cardinals.
Right, playing like a playoff team would

Speaker 2 against the Raiders. Against the Raiders.

Speaker 1 Against the Raiders. I'd agree with that.

Speaker 1 It was total insult to injury for the Raiders that I don't remember the last time I've seen this where CeeDee Lamb and George Pickens got sussied for the first series, which is something you do if you are Alabama playing, you know.

Speaker 1 Bethune Cookman in week one, and you're like, oh, yeah, our guy missed a meeting. We're going to let him sit out for the first drive.

Speaker 1 The Cowboys are like, yeah, we're going to let our two best receivers sit out, and we know it won't matter because I don't even know why did they sit out? Was it just

Speaker 1 guys can't have fun in Vegas anymore? They won't say.

Speaker 2 And I actually think this is a, you can look at Schottenheimer and be like, this guy has the pulse of the team. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Because after the game, they asked Pickens about it, and he was like, you know, we just saw something on offense against that defense that we wanted to run the football a little bit more.

Speaker 2 So we started out with me and CD on the sideline. Like, he bought the line.

Speaker 2 George Pickens is towing the company line proactively, which is something I thought I'd never say. And then CeeDee kind of just like smirked and was like, I'm not going to get into that with you guys.

Speaker 2 But they're not saying what the reason was. My

Speaker 2 imagination took me to some places where it's like, this is the plot of the hangover. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Where like they woke up in the morning and they lost their friend, or they woke up in the morning, there was a tiger inside the hotel room. I don't know.

Speaker 2 Something happened in Vegas, and it was probably a great time.

Speaker 2 I want to know the whole backstory behind like what did CeeDee Lamb and George Pickens get into a night on the town in Las Vegas, where I'm guessing they missed a meeting. Right.

Speaker 1 And it was, it's so insulting for the Raiders. Like, the Cowboys are not going to, most likely not going to go to the playoffs unless they pull off a bunch of miracles coming down the stretch.

Speaker 1 But it is a team that is like, hey, we're not statistically out of it. We have to win every game.
Yeah. Our two best players on offense are going to sit out and we'll just deal with it.
Like

Speaker 1 it's crazy, but that's what the Raiders are. They didn't have to worry about it at all.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I agree. The Raiders, there should be be a blacklist of teams that at this point, I'd say after like 10 weeks in the NFL season,

Speaker 2 fans should be able to vote on which teams should no longer be considered for primetime.

Speaker 1 They don't have to play the game, yeah.

Speaker 2 It should be against the law to put the Raiders on primetime television.

Speaker 1 The Raiders, the Titans, the Saints,

Speaker 2 who else? The Browns. Get him out of here.

Speaker 1 The Jets are kind of exciting. Cardinals.

Speaker 2 Cardinals. Cardinals.
Commanders.

Speaker 1 Kobe Rissett, he kind of lights it up. 47.
Dude, he broke the record for completions.

Speaker 1 They're not good.

Speaker 3 He's not a draw.

Speaker 1 They don't win.

Speaker 3 You don't want to watch him in prime time.

Speaker 1 That's correct. Yeah, you're right.
I don't. Thursday.
I put

Speaker 1 it maybe? No.

Speaker 2 Okay. Commanders are on that list.
I would put the

Speaker 2 Dolphins on that list.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Falcons.
Yeah. Get off.

Speaker 1 Definitely. Yeah, so that was big news, too.
Michael Pennix is

Speaker 1 going to maybe miss the rest of the season. yep so kirk cousins is back gets to earn that paycheck he gets to earn that paycheck um

Speaker 1 yeah that yeah so to put a ball on monday night football i did i i'm done with the raiders i think we all agree

Speaker 1 that tough watch max you did not watch monday night football you watched the leo movie do we have a review uh

Speaker 1 didn't watch the leo movie what did you watch it was apparently last night was deep clean in my apartment night so the football

Speaker 1 night was on at what point? How many times have you deep cleaned your apartment? Yeah, at what point? I don't get to choose when I deep clean my apartment. So here's a question for you.

Speaker 1 You don't get it. This is very.

Speaker 1 You don't get it. Here's a question, though.

Speaker 1 No, I don't. This is because I host Thanksgiving.
This is going to, I'm going to, I'm staring at that. Yeah.
I was given a warning shot on Monday of like, hey, you got shit everywhere.

Speaker 1 You're going to have to clean it up. I was like, oh, yeah, yeah, I'll get to it.

Speaker 1 We had family visiting this weekend, and last night was the the only night where i don't have stuff going on at what point in the night were you told that that was going to take place

Speaker 1 during dinner like so

Speaker 1 that's that's not fair you needed at least a you needed like a text during lunch being like hey just a heads up we're gonna have to do some cleaning tonight well to to to be fair it was like uh oh we have to We have family coming over this weekend, and it was like, when are we going to be able to do this?

Speaker 1 And then I started going through the rest of my week, and she was like, so it has to be tonight. Oh, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 It sounds like this is something that might have even been discussed like last week. Yeah.

Speaker 1 We're going to have to clean the apartment. It also could have been discussed earlier that I, that I, you know, probably wasn't paying attention.
Yeah. Yeah.
That's, that's the most likely scenario.

Speaker 1 There's, it's always, you think that they don't, aren't going to bring it up, but they're always going to bring it up. Cause I have, I'm dealing with that right now, like where I just have, I have,

Speaker 1 I think, four piles that I could just count off the top of my head at various points in my house that I know are going to, they're on life support.

Speaker 1 They've been looked at. They've been stared at.
They've been like, what's going on here? I think I have even a suitcase that still has shit in it.

Speaker 1 Those piles, I have sentimental value with them, but I know that, hey, guys, I'm going to have to take you out back soon. And we're going to have to do this.
We're going to have to get rid of these.

Speaker 2 You got to have a room that has a little bit of space for the piles to just go into temporarily.

Speaker 1 We were searching for matching pillowcases because we have to get the guest room ready for family to stay in.

Speaker 1 And for some reason, we could not find the other the other the full set of all the matching pillowcases. And then at one point, I was like, oh, this is definitely just in my pile in my closet.

Speaker 1 And that's where that's exactly where they were. So I got yelled at for that.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I'm hosting too for Thanksgiving. And

Speaker 2 there's some chores that are on my list. I think I'm just going to try to use the power washer to do every chore that's still on the list.
Even inside. Even inside.

Speaker 1 Yeah, like bathroom floor. Yeah, I'll just power wash.
I chose to do the bathrooms because you can kind of just hide in the bathroom. Oh, yeah.
And like, look at your phone.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I'm complaining right now.

Speaker 1 That was my role because

Speaker 1 I'm not supervised in the bathroom. Yeah, we got dishes.

Speaker 2 I'm going to power wash those.

Speaker 2 Yes,

Speaker 1 bring them all outside. I'm going to power wash.
We're going to power wash the shit.

Speaker 2 The house is going to be spig and span.

Speaker 1 Any other cleanup from week 11? So Aaron Rodgers is going to try to start on

Speaker 1 Sunday. That's what you saw, memes, the report.
He's trying his hardest.

Speaker 6 Mike Tomlin has a press conference right now. He's dropping some quotes.

Speaker 1 Okay, which is going to give us some quotes because that does scare me because I know Aaron Rodgers wants to beat the Bears one last time.

Speaker 1 That does make me me a little nervous, even though I think Mason Rudolph is just about the same as Aaron Rodgers currently.

Speaker 2 I want to see exactly what Tomlin's saying here.

Speaker 2 He told reporters that... Oh, you close out of it.

Speaker 1 That was a nothing. He's a fracture in his wrist, and we'll find out he's trying to play on Sunday.

Speaker 2 The wrist is the elbow of the hand.

Speaker 1 Find us some Mike Tomlin quotes. We can talk about something else.

Speaker 2 Well, there was a report yesterday. I think it was about Mike Pennix.
and Rappaport and Schefter both tweeted the news out about Mike Pinnix. Pretty much identical news.
It was phrased differently.

Speaker 2 The report came out at the exact same second.

Speaker 2 How does that happen?

Speaker 1 They both get texted from the same person.

Speaker 2 Well, they do, and then they can copy and paste, but these words were different from each guy, and it happened at literally the exact same second.

Speaker 2 Are they two different guys? Are they in cahoots with each other? I don't know. Did they agree? Let's schedule these tweets for this one exact minute? Yeah, they're synced up.

Speaker 2 It was really bizarre. Something's going on, and I want to get to the bottom of it.
Schefter, tell us what's happening. How is that like mathematically? It's not possible.
But it happens.

Speaker 2 Something fishy is going on. It did happen.
We need to figure that out.

Speaker 1 Oh, I have a dumb rule for you guys that our good friend Nick Tarani threw out during Wake Up Barcelona, which I actually was thinking about it more, and I like it a lot. He was saying, dumb rule,

Speaker 1 teams should have to win four games to get their first pick.

Speaker 1 So at the end of the season, you have a Raiders' Monday Night Football game, has actual consequences where it's like they need to desperately win this game.

Speaker 2 To get a first-round pick?

Speaker 1 To get their allotted first-round pick, they have to win four games. Maybe it's three games, but whatever.

Speaker 1 It's kind of what we've always said, like relegation is never going to happen in American sports, but that is a little bit of a relegation where it's like you can't can't be that bad.

Speaker 1 It might work better in the NBA because the NBA, like, you know, teams truly tank and the NFL, they don't take the same way. Like, I don't know if the Titans are capable of winning four games.

Speaker 2 Yeah, that's what I'm saying. You have some teams that go out there and they put forth an honest effort and really, really suck.

Speaker 1 But at the end of the season, when you do get these games that are in prime time that have no consequences, they will now have consequences. I wouldn't hate...

Speaker 2 Three games? I wouldn't hate a sad playoff at the end of the year between every team that finishes with four losses or fewer and then the winner of that.

Speaker 2 Or just do the Pro Bowl thing where you have the two worst teams

Speaker 2 in the Pro Bowl and the winner gets the first-round pick. Yeah.

Speaker 2 I like that way.

Speaker 1 What, Max? That I like. That would be awesome.
Yeah, yeah. No, that would be the best.
We've said that many times.

Speaker 1 There could be a lot of teams that don't get four wins this year. Yeah, so maybe it's three.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 But like, memes, imagine the investment you'd have in the Jets coming down the stretch if you have two wins and you need to win a third game. This is a terrible rule.
Okay, listen, I know, I know,

Speaker 1 but it is, again, it might not be an NFL rule because it's hard to tank in the NFL. But for other sports,

Speaker 1 there's a floor on what you have to accomplish as a team to receive your first pick.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I think it's more for the fans. Just like,

Speaker 2 watch a game featuring your shitty team that actually means something. Yeah, that you have to win.
Yeah,

Speaker 2 it's not like the teams are going out there and they're not really committing the best effort because I feel like in the NFL, there is incentive in terms of the non-guaranteed contracts and you're trying to get a job for next season.

Speaker 2 It's really hard to actively tank in the NFL. I feel like most teams that are tanking are doing so because of incompetence, not because of effort.

Speaker 1 So three wins, I'm looking at it right now, three wins might be the number, which would be exciting because you have like, what, six teams, seven teams at the two-win mark right now? Yeah.

Speaker 1 They have to do it.

Speaker 2 I'm going to start getting on. I got to get deep into these mock drafts.
I started reading some last week, some yesterday.

Speaker 2 Being a mock draft guy is a tough existence. It really is.
It's like a whole new world that you have to step into. You had a tough go of it, Hank.
That was real tough.

Speaker 1 That was rough.

Speaker 2 I do. I'll save it for Friday, but I actually love the Patriots this weekend.

Speaker 1 Love them.

Speaker 1 I love them.

Speaker 1 I do.

Speaker 1 Against the Bengals? Against the Bengals, yeah.

Speaker 2 I think it's going to be. You want to save it Friday?

Speaker 1 I'll save it for Friday. It's going to be short.
Why?

Speaker 2 Because I think it's going to be a blowout. I think that Drake May is going to go off on him.
You look at what Drake May has done this season. He's just lighting defenses up.

Speaker 2 He's like the king of the deep ball. He's getting yards against everybody.
And it doesn't matter what defense he's going up against. He's going to get his yards.

Speaker 2 He's elite at throwing downfield, huge chunk plays. And I think that this week against the Bengals, he's finally going to get 300 yards.

Speaker 2 I think that this is the week that it's going to happen. And he's going to light them up for the first time in his career.

Speaker 1 He's looking it up right now to see if he's going to be able to get a game.

Speaker 2 He's going to have a 300-yard game, and it's going to be awesome.

Speaker 1 He's never had a 300-yard game?

Speaker 2 He has not had a 300-yard game.

Speaker 3 Who has the passing yards lead this year?

Speaker 1 Is this Drake May?

Speaker 3 I'm just, I don't actually know. Let's

Speaker 1 look that up. Yeah, we can look it up.

Speaker 2 But I'm saying I'm picking the Patriots this week. It's Drake May.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. I'm picking.
Yeah. I'm picking the Patriots this week.
I love it.

Speaker 2 Yeah. This is going to be the week where he goes for 300.

Speaker 1 Right. I mean, he's...

Speaker 2 What's that? Haven't had their buy.

Speaker 2 Oh, they haven't had their buy yet. Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's a good point.

Speaker 1 Oh, so per game yeah per game per game he is not first that would be daniel actually i don't know if that's true he still could be first no he's not i'm looking at right now okay per game daniel jones is one patch rooms is two brock purdy three dak prescott four drake may five that's great top five that's really good top five it's outstanding and again i'm saying like he has been incredible this year there's no arguing that Has he got no can I get I'll I'll take I'm gonna get that clip that was a great clip I liked what you just said everything you just said yeah he's gonna go for I'm I'm going to say 304 this week.

Speaker 1 So not blow by it.

Speaker 2 No, it's going to be a breakout performance.

Speaker 1 Okay. And put a pin in that, Hank.
I will. I'm with you.
I'm riding.

Speaker 3 I'm happy you've turned the corner.

Speaker 2 What's the over-under on his yards this weekend?

Speaker 1 I don't know if you got a hammer. I'm going to hammer it.
Hammer it. Prop of the year? 300 plus.
Prop of the year?

Speaker 2 I might adjust it up to 300.

Speaker 1 Might be prop of the year. Yep.
Matt, or memes, is Tyrod Taylor

Speaker 1 your starting quarterback now?

Speaker 6 He is a starting quarterback now.

Speaker 1 Because I saw Aaron Glenn. Aaron Glenn's doing this funny thing where people, the media, he does his press conference, and then they ask him a question.
He says, I don't know, ask this reporter.

Speaker 2 He said, ask Diana.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he did that last week, too, about somebody. He was like, ask this guy.
Did he say it today? Yeah, he said, ask Diana.

Speaker 1 I love Aaron Glenn versus Press.

Speaker 6 He just hates press.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Well, I mean, he was right.

Speaker 6 He was right. Apparently, he was going to,

Speaker 6 the week Woody Johnson slandered Justin Fields, that was the week he was going to start Tyrod, but he was hurt.

Speaker 1 Ah.

Speaker 6 So this was always the plan. And now you have to evaluate everybody on your team to see if they're going to be on the team next year.
So that's where you get Tyrod slinging the ball.

Speaker 2 This is always the plan.

Speaker 1 Always the plan. Always the plan.
This is the plan.

Speaker 2 Did you see on the Manning cast last night who the guest was?

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 2 Oh, George Bush? President George W. Bush was on the Manning cast.
They've had now three war criminals on that show.

Speaker 2 Revelle up next, I'm sure. Who are the other two?

Speaker 2 Condoleezza Rice. Okay.

Speaker 1 Barack Obama. Okay.

Speaker 2 So they're just loading it up.

Speaker 2 They're loading it up.

Speaker 1 It was.

Speaker 2 I saw that. I was like, this guy's going to pitch a Saudi Arabian team.

Speaker 2 Let's put the Texans in the NFC Middle East. The Manning Cast.

Speaker 1 They book some big-time guests.

Speaker 2 Huge guests. Actually,

Speaker 2 I can't fault them for it. I would take George W.
Bush on this show.

Speaker 1 I would not. But I don't want to take any politicians.
Oh, I would love to interview George W.

Speaker 2 Bush.

Speaker 1 Talk baseball with him. Talk baseball with him.

Speaker 2 Can you go back in time and become commissioner of baseball?

Speaker 3 Pity, how many times has Jane Daniels gone for over 300 yards?

Speaker 2 Oh, at least once.

Speaker 1 How many?

Speaker 2 I think, well, I know he had 299 yards against the Lions in the playoffs.

Speaker 1 Remember that? Not 300.

Speaker 2 I know, but it was his second round of the playoffs to reach the NFC Championship game, which is pretty crazy. And he had 299 yards.

Speaker 2 I know he's had it one time. I think it was against the Bears.

Speaker 1 That would be it. Yeah.
Okay.

Speaker 1 So he had, yeah,

Speaker 1 a solid one.

Speaker 2 And now Drake gets to join the fraternity.

Speaker 1 How many yards was it against the the Bears?

Speaker 2 300. 326.

Speaker 1 Okay, so a lot of it was the tipped

Speaker 1 Hail Merit.

Speaker 2 I mean, that counts too. It does.

Speaker 2 He had a lot of drops, too. We're not counting the drops as yards that would have counted.

Speaker 3 No, yeah. I mean, that's

Speaker 3 fantasy.

Speaker 1 Okay. It's really impressive.

Speaker 2 Well, yeah, Drake gets to join.

Speaker 1 Welcome to the club, Drake. Welcome to the club.

Speaker 2 We'll have a big party for him.

Speaker 1 Okay, let's do Hot Sea Cool Throne. This is fun.
This is fun.

Speaker 2 Hank is now looking up spreadsheets.

Speaker 1 No, I don't know.

Speaker 3 That's the thing. That's where it's like, all you do is think about Drake May and the Patriots.
I don't have to worry about you or Jane Daniels. You guys are just a sad existence.
It makes me laugh.

Speaker 3 You make me laugh. You're a funny guy.

Speaker 1 That's great.

Speaker 2 Listen, hey, I'm believing in Drake May. I'm not thinking about Drake May, but when I see this.
Prop of the year.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. On a Tuesday.
Yeah. Props of an entire Monday.
Who does that though?

Speaker 3 Worrying about Drake May and the Bengals game on Sunday.

Speaker 2 Hank, if you learn how to gamble, first of all, maybe the Hungry Dog would hit every now and again.

Speaker 3 Hungry Dog's up on the season.

Speaker 2 Second of all, is it? Second of all, you want to bet these games on a Tuesday before the lines move.

Speaker 1 How many times have you hit it?

Speaker 3 Once, 15 to 1.

Speaker 1 Oh, okay, so it is still up. But

Speaker 1 we're getting closer to not being up.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I mean, what's Monday nights up on the season?

Speaker 1 No. Okay.
I never said they were.

Speaker 3 I just, you wanted to say the Hungry Dog's not, but it is.

Speaker 1 No, I mean, I didn't know that it was up because I didn't hit. What?

Speaker 3 That was.

Speaker 3 That was rude.

Speaker 1 Yeah, because I know you only hit it once. I didn't know what the odds were on.
That's the beauty of the Hungry Dog.

Speaker 3 dog. It's got to hit twice.
Right.

Speaker 1 I'm going to hit it three times. Oh, you are? Yeah.
Okay.

Speaker 2 If I can hit it once, can I bet against it?

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 3 You're hitting three times? Yeah, bet against it every week.

Speaker 1 Well, I'd be up.

Speaker 1 False. Oh.
Have you gotten, how many times have you gotten swept?

Speaker 3 I don't know. I don't worry about that.
Okay. Wow.

Speaker 1 So it could be not false.

Speaker 1 I don't know. Who's to say?

Speaker 3 It's impossible. We'll never know.

Speaker 1 But you can just say no. We'll never fucking know.

Speaker 2 Listen, Hank, I just want you to have the same faith in Drake that I have. That's all I'm asking.

Speaker 3 I have the utmost faith in Drake, man.

Speaker 1 Okay.

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Speaker 1 Hank.

Speaker 3 Hosty does max. Oh.

Speaker 1 I don't know why.

Speaker 3 Italian pasta.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah. What happened?

Speaker 3 I know about this. Do you know about this? Yep, I do.
I do. Did you fall to your knees in a Walmart when you found out?

Speaker 1 In a Walmart?

Speaker 1 You got to pay a little extra.

Speaker 3 But there's 13 major Italian pasta brands that might stop shipping to the U.S. because of a tariff.

Speaker 1 Wait, which ones?

Speaker 3 Pasta Garifolo, La Mosal, Molisana, Rumo.

Speaker 3 It's like the Agritalia,

Speaker 3 Aldino, Antaichi, Antici Tradizioni,

Speaker 3 Barira Grupo Milo.

Speaker 3 Pastifico Argentino.

Speaker 1 So not the blue box.

Speaker 2 I think that's American.

Speaker 3 Pastifico. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I don't even know what brand that is. Yeah, but the blue box.

Speaker 2 The blue box or the red color. I don't know.

Speaker 1 I need the blue box.

Speaker 1 I love the blue box because it has the window. You can see the pasta.

Speaker 1 Oh, there's that pasta.

Speaker 2 Guarantee you, Jeff D. Lowe knows the exact one.

Speaker 1 They all got the window. Barillo.
All of the

Speaker 1 major ones.

Speaker 2 This is a time where it'd be a real shame if a few cartons of those fell off a truck. Like, there's a way to get around paying these high prices.
So, Max matters in your own hands.

Speaker 1 Did you drop to your knees at Walmart? I just bought some fresh pasta last night.

Speaker 3 Italiano?

Speaker 1 Did you say Italian? Yeah.

Speaker 1 You said Italiano. Yes, I did.

Speaker 2 Okay. So, if you buy fresh pasta, it's still going to be expensive, but the price isn't going to go.

Speaker 1 Like, places will make fresh pasta here. Do you make the imported, like, from

Speaker 1 Italy pasta, like dried pasta? Why are they stopping that? Tariffs. Ah.

Speaker 2 We're getting tariffs. A lot of tariffs.

Speaker 1 Shit.

Speaker 2 You should have to pay tariffs on Jordan Milata, too.

Speaker 1 That'd be funny.

Speaker 2 H-1B visa for him?

Speaker 1 I don't know. No, thank you.
Okay.

Speaker 1 Here's something I'm going to say. Don't know enough about tariffs to have any opinion.

Speaker 1 Still don't really understand them.

Speaker 2 It sounds fun like it would be a fun time to be like, I'm going to put a tariff on that.

Speaker 1 I took Econ 101, I I think.

Speaker 1 I should not have. So, yeah, I don't know.
It's okay sometimes to just say, don't know, and just walk away.

Speaker 3 Live my life. Yeah.
All I know is that the pasta.

Speaker 1 I took an international business class. Did you? I just remember it because it was like the one 8 a.m.
class I ever took, and it was terrible. Yeah, fuck that.
Fuck that.

Speaker 1 Econ.

Speaker 3 My cool throw is Lawrence Taylor.

Speaker 1 Oh.

Speaker 3 Remember in the beginning of the year when Abdul Carter got drafted, he wanted Lawrence Taylor's number, and Lawrence Taylor declined.

Speaker 3 Abdul Carter has just been missing meetings. He was asleep in the facility, missing walkthroughs.

Speaker 2 Lawrence Taylor was a very good player.

Speaker 3 He got benched for the start of games. So that was the right decision by Lawrence Taylor.

Speaker 1 I mean, but yeah, Hank, you have to.

Speaker 2 If you compare what Lawrence Taylor did when he was on that, they at one point. He produced, though.
Yeah, he produced.

Speaker 2 At one point, I remember reading a story that he wrote where they had to go wake him up in his hotel room and he had just cocaine everywhere.

Speaker 3 And then he like run out and probably had seven sacks.

Speaker 2 Yes, that was the end of that anecdote. Was like he went to the game, he had four sacks that day.

Speaker 2 But yeah, Abdul Carter, it more so tells you that I don't think Abdul Carter had ever met Lawrence Taylor before he got drafted because if he had, I think he would have been too afraid to ask Lawrence Taylor for the jersey number.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Didn't Lawrence Taylor, yeah, tell us a story that he was once partying so much that he drove by

Speaker 1 to Meadowlands and saw the lights on and was like, fuck, we have a game tonight. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So funny. Okay.

Speaker 1 So, yeah. It looked like a miscommunication.
It was a miscommunication.

Speaker 1 Carter C spoke to Kafka about it on FaceTime call that. So he took a little nap.

Speaker 1 No, he was getting treatment.

Speaker 1 Apparently, there was a change in practice time, and he didn't know that there was a change in practice time. And he was in the building getting treatment done.
Got it. And

Speaker 1 it looks like they cleared it up. Do they not have like a.
I'm defending the Giants?

Speaker 1 I'm Abdul Carter.

Speaker 3 Do they not have like a. Wait, so was he benched or not, though?

Speaker 3 Why would he be benched?

Speaker 2 Because Kafka didn't know that he was in the building. This is what I'm saying.
In our elementary schools growing up, they had

Speaker 1 an issue during the year.

Speaker 2 Where if they were trying to find somebody, they could just be like,

Speaker 2 Abdul Carter, please report to the practice field. And then he's in the training room and he's like, oh, shit, I'm late.
I'm late for practice. Better get out there.

Speaker 1 Abdul Carter, your mom has brought your lunch.

Speaker 2 Exactly, yeah.

Speaker 1 That kind of thing.

Speaker 1 Okay, PFT, your hot seat, cool throne. Okay, Hank, good hot seat, cool throne.
Yeah, good hot seat, cool throne, Hank.

Speaker 1 Thanks.

Speaker 2 You're welcome. My hot seat is Draymond Green.

Speaker 2 He got into it with a fan at the game the other night, and the fan was allegedly calling him Angel Reese because he was missing a bunch of layups, getting his own rebounds. That's funny.

Speaker 3 That's funny. Me bounds.

Speaker 2 And he was getting me bounds. And then Draymond got up into the fan's face.
The fan stood up, and it turns out that the fan was like six foot eight

Speaker 2 and much bigger than Draymond Green, like looking down on him.

Speaker 2 And so then they got into a nice calm conversation courtside where cooler heads prevailed. I'm not saying that Draymond was intimidated by how big this guy was once he stood up.

Speaker 2 It's like a shooter turning around and seeing

Speaker 2 Jaws at the golf tournament.

Speaker 2 But they had a nice little conversation. And then the guy afterwards,

Speaker 2 he was explaining his side of the story. And he was like, yeah, they kicked me out.

Speaker 2 But listen, I've been kicked out of many sporting events before, and what I said did not rise to the level of being kicked out.

Speaker 2 So at first I was like, I like this guy. Yeah.
And then he gave the interview and he was like, as a man who constantly gets kicked out of basketball games,

Speaker 2 they should not have asked me to leave this. Right.

Speaker 1 I know where the line is. Usually I'm way past this.

Speaker 2 I didn't even get close to it this time. I like that.
But it was a very funny visual seeing Draymond get up into his face and it's like, oh shit, this guy's huge. Yeah.

Speaker 2 Then my cool throne is Cam Scataboo. Cam Scataboo recovering from injury.

Speaker 2 I don't know if he's still on the scooter or not. It was unclear because I saw him at a wrestling event at MSG the other night taking part in the wrestling theatrics.

Speaker 2 Like, I think he shoved Roman Reigns.

Speaker 1 It was him and some of his offensive linemen and Andrew Schultz.

Speaker 2 And Andrew Schultz is there, which checks out. And then Scatterboo was like in the middle of it.
I think that this is a problem for the Giants because Scatteraboo is an awesome player.

Speaker 1 I love him.

Speaker 2 He is going to get him. Every time he's injured, he's going to get himself more injured.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 And you can't tell him to stop because he's like a hyperactive child. I'll put it this way.

Speaker 2 My dog Blake has had three major joint surgeries. He had double elbows at one point.
He had a knee. Every time he gets a surgery, I keep him in his crate and I keep him sedated for like a month.

Speaker 2 Because if he's up and he's walking around, he's going to try to run. He's going to try to jump on and off the furniture.
He's going to try to play.

Speaker 2 So for his own good, I keep him on the edge of being passed out for like three, four weeks at a time.

Speaker 2 Kafka needs to consider a similar treatment for keeping Scataboo. Put him in a crate for a little little bit.

Speaker 2 Put a cone on him.

Speaker 1 Just keep him.

Speaker 2 He'd probably just start funneling beers out of it, but keep him calm, stationary for a little bit. Because when I saw him, I was like not surprised at all.
No.

Speaker 2 That he was participating in the WWE match, essentially, from the sidelines.

Speaker 1 He probably wanted to be in the ring.

Speaker 2 And it looked like the best time ever.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they probably were like, hey, we can't actually legally put you in the ring because you're very injured. Yeah.
This guy had a bone going through his leg three weeks ago.

Speaker 2 He tried to walk it off.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 2 He was like, I got this.

Speaker 1 All credit to Big Dom for bringing those

Speaker 1 cheese teaks and the pizzas.

Speaker 2 Massive credit.

Speaker 5 Big Dom was also there.

Speaker 1 Big Dom was all. Wait, who's there? Or was he? He was also at Monday Night.
Oh, obviously.

Speaker 2 He was keeping an eye on. What do you mean, obviously?

Speaker 3 Of course he was there.

Speaker 1 Why? Cooper Jean wanted to go, so he brought security.

Speaker 1 Our guy's not allowed to have security anymore.

Speaker 2 I mean, we talked about this when you visited Cam in the hospital. He's like, it'd be a real shame if you said anything.
I think you know, keep your mouth shut.

Speaker 1 He was in the ring.

Speaker 2 Here's some cheesesteaks. And then all of a sudden, he's following Cam Scatterb around to make sure that he's not talking.

Speaker 1 Big Dom had nothing to do with the actual production. He was just watching.
You got a problem with him being there?

Speaker 3 No, I'm saying, like, obviously.

Speaker 1 Obviously, he's there. Yeah.

Speaker 3 I wouldn't expect anything less.

Speaker 1 Oh, Cam. That's crazy.

Speaker 2 Our paths keep crossing like this.

Speaker 2 Anyways, it's good to see you. I'll be around if you need anything.
You know where to find me. I'm never too far away, Cam.

Speaker 1 I'm always watching. Okay, my hot seat is Arkansas fans because James Franklin has taken the the job at Virginia Tech and they're very much in their feels.
Yeah. Called it.

Speaker 1 Listen, great call by James Franklin.

Speaker 2 Yeah. I would I think that that Virginia Tech is a much better fit right now than Arkansas is for.

Speaker 3 I also thought the people at Virginia Tech were fucking with, or someone was just like drunk saying that to me and I was like, oh, hell yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 They were on it.

Speaker 1 I have a take that I don't know how it would be received, but there was a lot of people being like, why is

Speaker 1 Why is James Franklin taking a job when he has $50 million buyout?

Speaker 1 Because now they negotiated negotiated the buyout's only $9 million because he got, you know, his salary, Virginia Tech is mitigating some of it.

Speaker 1 I feel like you don't get to a point where you are successful enough to get a

Speaker 1 $50 million buyout unless you have... that like killer instinct competitive drive.
So everyone's like, who basically says, if I had that $50 million buyout, I'd sit on my couch.

Speaker 1 That's just not how James Franklin is wired.

Speaker 2 Yeah, he wants to coach. Also, it shows that I guess he had a pretty good relationship with Penn State.
Right.

Speaker 2 Because what he could have done is he could have taken a much lower salary at Virginia Tech and then kept Penn State on the hook for most of his salary and kind of fucked them over that way if he was pissed off at him.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I just think that these type of guys are... What? That's wrong.
That's wrong. What?

Speaker 1 This is coming from Penn State fans.

Speaker 1 They think the relationship between Penn State and James Franklin is very bad because he hasn't done a thank you, Penn State, thank you fans post yet. Oh, that's soft by Penn State.
Yeah, that is.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 incredibly soft.

Speaker 2 The man willingly elected to take $9 million

Speaker 2 instead of $50.

Speaker 1 That's because

Speaker 1 that has nothing to do with Penn State.

Speaker 2 I think it has a little bit to do with Penn State. I think he could have, obviously, he wouldn't have coached at Virginia Tech for $0,

Speaker 2 but I'm saying that in the negotiation process, he probably could have gotten that buyout down to like 15 or 20 mil from Penn State and then told Virginia Tech, you can keep some of this money.

Speaker 2 I'm getting the money that you would have given me from Penn State. I'm saying business-wise.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he did them a solid.

Speaker 2 He did Penn State a favor.

Speaker 1 Why don't you follow Lane Johnson? What?

Speaker 1 Why don't you follow Lane Johnson on Twitter?

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 1 I can follow.

Speaker 2 That's crazy. That is nuts.

Speaker 1 Crazy work. But do you guys agree with me? Because there's a lot of, I mean, I just saw it in front of my face.

Speaker 1 There's a lot of people like, why would he ever go back to coaching his $50 million buyout? I'd go play golf and sit on my ass.

Speaker 1 You don't get to the point of James Franklin's success if money's the only thing.

Speaker 1 His competitive nature is why he got to the point.

Speaker 1 Like, if you are someone who's going after money, you're probably not going to get it the way that James Franklin did. James Franklin's going after being an awesome coach coaching.

Speaker 1 He needs football to live.

Speaker 2 I think it's one thing to say that about a guy that's as young as James Franklin. And it's another thing to say about a guy that's like towards the end of his career.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 He's like, I'm going to retire. I'm going to take the TV money.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 I'm going to keep getting paid from the college that makes sense yeah that makes sense but he's got so much like he wants to yeah he'd go crazy if he retired yeah he's not james franklin is not a man that was ever thinking about retiring yeah off this ever that was never a consideration for him it was always like oh is he gonna go to auburn is he gonna go to arkansas is he gonna florida people just love to spend other people's money online that is true general sense that is true uh but yeah i think i think it's a great hire for for virginia tech i think that this is probably as close to a perfect fit as it gets yeah Okay.

Speaker 1 My cool throne is I have two of them. One is Shador Sanders because it looks like he's going to start.
So that also means he's going to get first-team reps. Congratulations to him.

Speaker 2 Against all odds.

Speaker 1 That's going to be huge against all odds. The discourse on Shador Sanders is so fucking funny.

Speaker 1 Hank, you were right that we needed as a take show. We needed him to win against the Ravens.
Now we need him to win against the Raiders and look awesome.

Speaker 1 So it basically becomes, if they had ever given him first-team reps, he would have been incredible.

Speaker 1 Because if he's bad this week,

Speaker 1 then we're going to be in trouble. It does not look good for him, though, because the stat is

Speaker 1 this would be the 18th different QB to make his first career start in the regular season for the Browns since they returned to the NFL in 1999. Those QBs are 0-17.

Speaker 2 That is crazy. That is wild.
That is insane.

Speaker 1 Insane.

Speaker 1 I need him to win.

Speaker 2 Need him to win. Even if he looks bad winning this weekend.

Speaker 3 Oh, yeah, that's Hungry Dog all day.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Big time Hungry Dog. And then my other cool throne is meeting women because I don't know if you guys saw this trend going around with Bill Ackman.
I think he's a Wall Street guy. I don't know.

Speaker 2 This Bill Ackman guy,

Speaker 2 no one knew who he was until two years ago. Yeah.
And now we're all supposed to know who Bill Ackman is. He's like a billionaire.
He fancies himself to be a writer sometimes on Twitter.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I don't know. He's the most boring, weird guy that I've ever encountered online.
And now he, yeah, you can go ahead with it. Yeah.

Speaker 2 But everything I hear him say, I'm just like, this is a guy that I wouldn't have fun hanging out with.

Speaker 1 He's someone who you're he has billions of dollars, I assume. You don't have to also be famous.
Just enjoy your billions. That would, you know.

Speaker 2 He's a guy that put himself into that tennis tournament. Yeah.
And all the tennis players got upset. He's like, what the fuck?

Speaker 1 So he said, I hear from many young men that

Speaker 1 I hear from many young men that they find it difficult to meet young women in a public setting. In other words, the online culture has destroyed the ability to spontaneously meet strangers.

Speaker 1 As such, I thought I would share a few words that I used in my youth to meet someone that I found compelling. I would ask, may I meet you?

Speaker 1 Before engaging further in a conversation, I almost never got a no. I feel like you never got a no, dude, because that's really weird to walk up to someone and say, may I meet you?

Speaker 2 Yeah, you know what he got a shitload of?

Speaker 1 What? Okay. Or

Speaker 2 get away from me?

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Of course you didn't get a no. No, everyone's confused by that.
Zach, are you willing to maybe go and try that out this weekend?

Speaker 4 That sounds extremely uncomfortable, but I'll do anything.

Speaker 1 I think you could land the plane. Just give us one may I meet you.

Speaker 4 That's a tough plane to land, but I'll rip it. May I meet you if you need me to.

Speaker 1 I actually think, like, knowing you,

Speaker 1 you would say that.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you would say that, though, by accident. Whatever happened to

Speaker 1 saying hi.

Speaker 1 Hi. Hi, Wars.
Hi, I'm Bill.

Speaker 2 What's your name?

Speaker 1 Whatever happened to staring at a girl across the bar, locking eyes with her once, never talking to her, and then going home being like, yeah, I could have fucked her. Mm-hmm.

Speaker 2 She wanted her. Whatever happened to that?

Speaker 2 Yeah, whatever happened to seeing women in public and then getting scared and then going home and be like, man, I wish I had said something.

Speaker 1 Yeah, she definitely locked eyes with me.

Speaker 2 That's a much better way to handle it. May I meet you?

Speaker 1 Oh, this is the Nick O'Neill choose rich guy who's a troll. This has now become too much internet.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's the problem, too, is now that this has gone viral, he's like, yeah, it's very tough for people in the internet day and age to meet girls.

Speaker 1 Now he's setting it up that people walk up and say, may I meet you?

Speaker 1 The women are going to be like, oh, you're that online? Yeah. That Bill Ackman, you're taking it from Bill Ackman.

Speaker 2 It's kind of funny, though. You kind of mentioned it earlier that as rich as you can get, you can be one of the top 10 wealthiest dudes in the world and you can still long.
for acceptance online.

Speaker 2 Yeah. You can still be like, I wish that my social media profile was a little bit bigger.

Speaker 1 They want to be, yeah, you could have, you could have billions and billions of dollars, and you still are like, I wish people would recognize me and I could be famous.

Speaker 1 Again, I don't, how much does this guy have? Can we look it up?

Speaker 2 Can we look up how much Bill Ackman has? Billions.

Speaker 1 Because I'll just go back to it. I've said it a million times.
I think it's a very strong take that I've had for a long time. If you are

Speaker 1 a billionaire and you don't own a professional sports team, you're a loser. That's a fact.
That's what you should do. You have $9.4 billion.
Go buy a team, dude.

Speaker 1 That's the only reason you get that much money is to go buy a team. 1.4 billion.

Speaker 2 I think these guys, their sports teams are just political parties. Yeah.
So, Kia, you know, I kind of own the Democratic Party.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Watch them play every November.

Speaker 1 May I meet you.

Speaker 2 It's been a disappointing couple years. We're getting a great draft pick, though.

Speaker 1 He said, I think the combination of proper grammar and politeness was the key to its effectiveness. You might give it a try.

Speaker 1 And yes, I think it should also work for women-seeking men as well as same-sex interactions. Oh, thanks.
He's opening it up to the gays.

Speaker 1 Just two cents from an older, happy, happily married guy concerned about our next generation's happiness and population replacement rates.

Speaker 2 I love that he threw in the population replacement rates at the very end. Yeah.
You know what? I've got the key to repopulating the globe. It's may I meet you.

Speaker 1 May I meet you?

Speaker 2 No, you can't. Chicks are going to be dropping their panties left and right.

Speaker 1 With can I meet you? That's double consent. So good.
Oh, all right, Zach.

Speaker 4 My hot seat this week is going to be Nick Narasina.

Speaker 4 I may be pronouncing that name incorrectly, but I believe it's Narasina.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 He recently went out in Thailand with a big group of friends after a night out, and what I can assume is they were inspired by Hangover 2. They decided to get Black Henna face tattoos.

Speaker 4 But I think Black Henna is either illegal or banned in the United States for good reason because now it's like scabbing and burning into his face, and he may be left with a permanent Mike Tyson face tattoo.

Speaker 1 Do you watch his streams? He's a friend of Barcelona. Danny Lance grew up with him.

Speaker 4 Yeah, he's an entertaining guy for sure.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 So now that's going going to stay there for the rest of his life?

Speaker 4 I'm worried he may have the. There's a chance he has that on his face for a while.
Now it's like scabbed and like scarring up a little bit.

Speaker 1 Oof. Not a good spot to be.
He'll be okay. And if he's not, he'll look cool.
He's a good-looking guy. He'll be like, I got a good story to tell.

Speaker 4 Yeah, I guess he is like traditionally handsome enough to pull off the Mike Tyson face tattoo. Anybody's going to do it?

Speaker 1 And just be like, yeah, I got this in Thailand. It was a fucking crazy story.
I feel like that might be better than May I Meet You.

Speaker 2 Does that happen to every person that gets a black henna tattoo?

Speaker 4 I believe the place that he went to and got it from, there's a bunch of other reviews of other guys that have the same one burned on their face

Speaker 1 gotta go to yelp gotta go on yelp nick really should do a copy paste of the bill ackman tweet and instead of may i meet you be like get a black henna tattoo in thailand and have it scab up yeah it will open up all the all all women will be interested in what you have to say probably will do well for him they probably have a higher success rate than willing meet kind of may i meet you may i meet you may i meet you is tough i want to see one can you try one i'll try it for you yeah certainly but i just i can't promise results

Speaker 1 punk on friday oh zach's gonna do it to to the person at mcdonald's like giving him his food he's like may i meet you shoot or shoot

Speaker 1 that is

Speaker 2 okay zach are you roading this weekend uh yes sir we're gonna make sure you get all your uh gear i love it love it uh i think big cat and max are singing a song with us on friday i'm gonna try hank had to get myself up for it your thoughts

Speaker 3 do you want to sing yeah you asked me this i was like do you want want me to? Like, you don't have to.

Speaker 2 Yeah, but you didn't answer. You can if you want.
No pressure.

Speaker 3 I'm a bad singer. If you want me to, I would love to.

Speaker 1 You're not bad at anything. Oh, thanks.
You're great. We love you.
Yeah. You're a guy.
Your cool throne, Zach.

Speaker 4 My cool throne this week is Jake Paul. Oh.
Jake Paul found a replacement fight for the Tank Davis fight that got canceled. But it's Anthony Joshua this time.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 4 Not good. No.
Heavyweight, former heavyweight champion.

Speaker 1 He's going to get fucked up.

Speaker 4 But as far as pool goes, I think Andy Joshua's got a great

Speaker 1 pool. So I think it was a good swap.
I'm out.

Speaker 2 Well, no, I'm out on all the Jake Paul fights.

Speaker 1 But here's what he's doing, PFT. He's now getting to the point where he's maybe getting to a point where you could see him get knocked out.
And that's where people get back.

Speaker 2 That's what he's been trying to do.

Speaker 2 Every fight has been, oh, this guy could knock him out.

Speaker 1 No, but this one is apparently way different. This could be the one.

Speaker 2 If Jake Paul is agreeing to fight anybody. He never is.

Speaker 3 Yes.

Speaker 1 I think this could be the one. If

Speaker 2 agreeing to fight anybody, it's because he has an understanding that he's not going to get knocked out because the second he starts getting his ass kicked, that's when he stops making money off all these fights.

Speaker 4 I think even if there's an agreement in the ring, like at a certain point, like these guys are competitors, maybe egos get involved, Anthony Joshua could still just starch them.

Speaker 2 I think he could too, but I don't think that Jake Paul is taking fights with the understanding that he might lose.

Speaker 2 This could be the one. The faucet stops running the second he gets his ass kicked twice in a row.

Speaker 1 I went through a rabbit hole yesterday of going through this, and like real fight people are

Speaker 1 basically saying that this is like very dangerous. Yes.
Yes.

Speaker 1 He's

Speaker 1 way different than every other person. And that's all anyone wants to see.
So I'm going to buy it. Is it on Netflix? It's on Netflix.

Speaker 1 So I already bought it. I already bought it.
Yeah.

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Speaker 1 Okay, we now welcome on a very, very, very, very, very special guest. It is our good friend Booger McFarland talking college football, talking pro football.
Boog, good to see you. It's been a while.

Speaker 1 I don't think we've seen you since week one.

Speaker 1 Do you have any donuts you're going to eat?

Speaker 7 Yeah, of course I have donuts.

Speaker 1 Oh, I love it. I love it.

Speaker 2 Are we going with Krispie Kreme?

Speaker 7 Of course. Okay.

Speaker 1 All right, I'm going to let you off the hook for now.

Speaker 1 I actually think that just the fact that you had the donuts means that the bet is paid off because it will be tough for you to eat donuts and answer questions.

Speaker 1 That's cool. And I know you're a man of integrity, so you'll probably eat the rest of them after, and you're also fat, so you'll eat the rest of them after.

Speaker 1 Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Speaker 7 Hey,

Speaker 7 based on a picture I saw this weekend where you had your shirt off. Illegal.

Speaker 1 I said no screenshots.

Speaker 7 I didn't take a screenshot, but I did see the picture. And you were in a very vulnerable position.
You have no reason to call anybody fat.

Speaker 1 Okay. Yes,

Speaker 1 it was tough. I had to bend over in the cold tub, but I am back in the gym, so everything's good.

Speaker 1 We'll revisit. I'm doing a body reveal.
My next body reveal is April 27th. I'm going to do a body reveal.

Speaker 7 What's going to change?

Speaker 1 Everything. Literally everything.
I put on the big sweatshirt for the next six months. When I take this thing off on April 27th, you're going to be like, oh my God, how did he do it? Probably TRT.

Speaker 7 Are you doing the Serena with the Roast Farks or in the Barkley? Are you Ozimpic, Manjaro?

Speaker 1 What are you doing? No, I eat too much. I like eating too much.
I'm going to probably try to do TRT.

Speaker 7 What is that? I don't know what that is.

Speaker 1 Testosterone replacement therapy.

Speaker 1 Oh, okay.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 I've heard of that. Yeah, right, right.
All right, let's talk some ball, though.

Speaker 1 I want to actually start with the NFL, and then we'll do some college football. We were talking about this on Sunday's show, Monday's show.

Speaker 1 How many teams do you trust that you're like, I have no doubt about them that they can be there in late January? And what are those teams?

Speaker 7 Like, that's the thing about this year. I don't know if I really trust a whole, like, I don't know if I really trust anybody.
Like,

Speaker 7 if you think about the best teams in the league, let's look at the NFC.

Speaker 7 The Philadelphia Eagles,

Speaker 7 they got a lot of turmoil up there based on who's catching the ball, who's getting all the credit.

Speaker 7 Detroit,

Speaker 7 the Rams, Seattle.

Speaker 7 If you force me to pick one, I'd probably say the Rams.

Speaker 1 Matthew Stafford is playing

Speaker 7 at an MVP level. The defense is young.

Speaker 7 It's outstanding. I love how they run the football.
Sean McVay is one of the best play callers. So I guess if I had to choose one team on the NFC side, it would be the Rams.

Speaker 7 On the AFC side,

Speaker 7 I love Daniel Jones in the resurrection, but do we really trust him in a big game? I like Bo Knicks. I like the win they got against Kansas City, but are we really

Speaker 7 willing to risk our money on Bo Knicks? I'm not really sure who you trust. The Chiefs are the Chiefs.

Speaker 7 Right now, they're not a good football team, but I think we know more about them in crunch time, or at least we used to.

Speaker 7 The team I probably trust the most right now is the Rams.

Speaker 7 And that's on both sides of the ledger.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 I agree with that.

Speaker 2 And when you're talking about the Eagles, I think that the Eagles should be a dominant team. Their roster is as good as any team in footballs, I think.

Speaker 2 We've been talking a lot about their offense and how frustrating it gets. You mentioned the wide receiver position.
Booger, you played with some.

Speaker 2 We use this term

Speaker 2 not as a slam or an insult, but as something that we appreciate about the NFL at times, the Diva wide receiver.

Speaker 1 Absolutely.

Speaker 2 It feels like if you're a Diva wide receiver, that's a guy that can make a difference. I also just kind of like the antics.
I like what happens and all the stories that kind of come out of that.

Speaker 2 It seems like the Eagles are going through some of that with AJ Brown. You played with a few Diva wide receivers in your career.
You played with Keyshawn, right?

Speaker 7 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Dominant wide receiver. What is the key to keeping a Diva wide receiver happy besides throwing them the football? Because A.J.
Brown does get the football.

Speaker 2 He gets it thrown his way, but he doesn't really appreciate the ways that's thrown to him. So can you just say, like, how do you keep a D.Va happy?

Speaker 7 Okay, so it's very similar to how we keep our significant others happy. You make them feel good.

Speaker 7 You know,

Speaker 7 you tell them how good they are. You tell them how pretty they look.
You throw them a football. You take them out to eat.
You make them smile. You tell them jokes.
You make them laugh.

Speaker 7 Because to your point, A.J. Brown is getting the ball just as much as he did last year.
However, he seems to be unhappy. And I think there's an interesting dynamic that's happening in football.

Speaker 7 And you guys tell me if you agree.

Speaker 7 Jacksonville, Miami, Philadelphia, Arizona. You know what those four teams have in common?

Speaker 7 The quarterback is the highest paid player on the team, but he's not the best player.

Speaker 7 And so when you have that dynamic, the guys,

Speaker 7 I'm not going to use the word respect, but there's always something when the guy making the most money is not the best player. And I think if you look at Philadelphia, A.J.
Brown

Speaker 7 basically said it. He's like, cool, I'm cool with the championship.
That's great. I love the ring, but this is the new year.
And right now, our offense is not performing at a high enough level.

Speaker 7 And I think he's calling everybody out, including himself. And I think when you look at it, yeah, he's getting the targets, but the offense is not performing.

Speaker 7 So he's really not complaining about himself. He's complaining about the offense because he's getting the requisite targets.
So I just think it's one of those dynamics that happens in that situation.

Speaker 7 Now, look, Philly is so talented. They probably could still win the Super Bowl based on the talent with all the turmoil going on.
I think they're that good.

Speaker 7 But there's something to be said for that little caveat that I just added. Think about those situations around the league.

Speaker 7 Quarterback's the highest paid player on the team, but he's not the best player. In those situations, like it's always a little something going on in those situations.

Speaker 7 It may be a comment here, a comment there, somebody misspoke. Like it's always something on those teams with those dynamics.

Speaker 1 That's interesting.

Speaker 2 I hadn't considered that dynamic, but it does make a lot of sense. They should just have an option where, you know, how you go, you buy a cup of coffee and they flip the iPad around around on you.

Speaker 2 You can tip afterwards? Like after a game, Jalen Hurts should be allowed to tip A.J. Brown out.
He should just give him an iPad. Depending on how he plays.
Yeah, can I get 250,000? Thanks.

Speaker 2 Appreciate that.

Speaker 1 Hey, I mean,

Speaker 7 AJ Brown is paid handsomely now. It's not like he's, I think he's making 28 million a year or something like that, maybe 30.
So like these guys are ultra, ultra millionaires, ultra rich.

Speaker 7 They're making the top money at their position, but it's always something in Philadelphia, right? Like it's always something. I think after the season, this is my gut feeling.
I think this is A.J.

Speaker 7 Brown's last season in Philadelphia.

Speaker 7 I think regardless of whether they win the championship or not, I think they're going to move on from him and Howie Roseman will continue to do what he's done masterfully, which is rebuild this team through trades and drafts.

Speaker 2 In the NFC, besides Philly, and I do think that Philly is the best team in the NFC, besides the Rams,

Speaker 2 outside of the Rams, Philadelphia, who do you think would be a team that could give like the Eagles a run for their money? Because the Eagles have played a tough schedule.

Speaker 7 They've beaten almost every good opponent on their schedule it's not always pretty um but but outside those two is there one that's built in a way that you could you could see making a run absolutely i think seattle is built the right way um you know people ask me about the sam donald game is it is it a bump in the road or is it a cause for concern i'm gonna go bump in the road right now i think sam donnell has a ram problem if you remember when he was in when in uh in Minnesota last the Rams came in there and sacked him like nine times I just think Chris Schuler and that defense present problems to Sam Donald.

Speaker 7 So I don't know if it's a cause for concern yet. I'm just going to bump in the road.
I think Detroit, like Dan Campbell is the guy, like you know exactly what you're going to get.

Speaker 7 And I think in a situation where they don't go 0 for 5 on fourth down, they can beat anybody. I love how Detroit's built.
I would have said Tampa, but Tampa's too injured right now.

Speaker 7 And Tampa has a glaring weakness. They can't rush the passer outside of Blissing.
So I think there's a clear hierarchy

Speaker 7 in the NFC. And I'm leaving Green Bay out right now, specifically because I don't know if I trust Jordan Love.
Like, Jordan Love has really not shown us any form of consistency right now.

Speaker 7 And so I think the clear four, I guess that's four if you look at it, Philadelphia, the Rams, Seattle,

Speaker 7 Detroit. Like, I think those four,

Speaker 7 and then you probably follow them with Green Bay, are probably the top five. in the NFC, but I clearly trust the Rams more than anybody.

Speaker 7 I think they've been the most consistent team so far in the National Football League on the NFC side.

Speaker 1 All right, let me give you a little thought starter on the AFC. If I gave you,

Speaker 1 to get to the Super Bowl, if I gave you the Broncos, the Patriots, and the Colts on one side, or the Bills, Ravens, and Chiefs on the other, which one are you picking?

Speaker 1 Knowing that technically right now, the Ravens and Chiefs are not even in the playoffs.

Speaker 7 I'm going on the side of the Broncos. Okay.

Speaker 7 Like, the hardest thing for us to do is let go of the past. Like, that's the hardest thing for us to do.
Like, like, like we are, we are creatures that we love like nostalgia. Like, be careful.

Speaker 7 Like, like, it's, it was hard for you. I remember when you were like super fat.
Like, I remember back, like, seriously, like, I was like 20 pounds heavier.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Right.

Speaker 7 I remember when you were super fat. Like, those habits that got you super fat,

Speaker 7 hard to let go. PFT, I remember when you used to ride the bike religiously.
Yeah.

Speaker 7 That habit, it's gone. Like it's hard to let go.
So like old habits die really, really hard. And I think we think about the Ravens, the Chiefs, and the Bills.
Yes, the best teams. No, they're not.

Speaker 7 The Ravens' defense is flawed. The Chiefs are five and five.
And if you look at the Bills, the Bills, if Josh Allen's not Superman, they can't win. I think the teams, the Broncos, the Colts,

Speaker 7 more complete teams. Now, do we trust the quarterbacks? That's the question.
But I do think that those other teams are better teams if you follow me.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, it's a very good point because I think there's something to be said where everyone's kind of waiting around for the Chiefs and the Ravens to get their act together.

Speaker 1 And the Ravens have recently, ever since Lamar got back. But the Chiefs, to me,

Speaker 1 I thought they were going to win that game against the Broncos on Sunday. I thought that that was a perfect spot for the Chiefs off the bye.

Speaker 1 You see the Chiefs, they had the ball when they're up three in the fourth quarter. They can't get a first down.
They had the ball when they're tied in the fourth quarter. Can't get a first down.

Speaker 1 That's not what the Chiefs have been. Like the last seven years, that's a team that gets those big-time first downs, salts a game away.

Speaker 1 And the Broncos defense, all credit in the world to them, played lights out, and Bo Nicks made the big throw at the end.

Speaker 1 So do you think, like, there's a world, I'm starting to get on like board with it, that the Chiefs could miss the playoffs.

Speaker 1 They don't have a margin for error anymore with who's in front of them and who has tiebreakers.

Speaker 7 If the Chiefs lose to the Colts this Sunday, they're missing the playoffs. Wow.

Speaker 7 Period point blank.

Speaker 7 As a guy who loves election TV around election time, as our guy John King was saying, it's just math. It's simple math, guys.
They're five and five now. If they lose one more, that's five and six.

Speaker 7 That's 11. There's only six left.
Like it comes down to simple math. Like if they lose to the Colts, I'm telling you right now, you can book it.
They're not making the playoffs.

Speaker 7 This is the biggest game, I think, of the quote-unquote Chiefs dynasty or Chiefs' magical run.

Speaker 7 Because

Speaker 7 the biggest step or the hardest step is always the first step. This will be the first step into them, basically kind of the dynasty crumbling.

Speaker 7 Because if they lose to the Colts, they're not making the playoffs. That's year one.
What happens next year? Chris Jones is only a year older. Travis Kelsey is only a year older.

Speaker 7 Like those guys, like this, this iteration is coming to an end sooner than later, I think. And it all, to me,

Speaker 7 there is a pivotal point, and it happens this Sunday at Arrowhead against Daniel Jones.

Speaker 2 I like that take, and we were talking about how the Chiefs would basically be eliminated with another loss, although the math does technically exist.

Speaker 2 I think we should go with your route, though, like the election graphic.

Speaker 2 Booker McFarland now projects the Chiefs will not make the playoffs and put like a check mark on it with an outline of the state of Kansas and Missouri right there.

Speaker 2 I want to talk to you real quick about the rookie quarterbacks this year.

Speaker 2 So, Cam cam ward my take on cam ward is that we we don't know he might be good he might not be i think the position that he's been in in tennessee like the way that that team is organized right now it feels like we by the way have no idea by the way that is that is one straddle of the fence kind of take he may be good or he may not like pick a side like which one is it i'm saying it's impossible to know it's how do you evaluate that But pick one then.

Speaker 7 Don't just, well, he might be good. He might be not.
No shit. All right, I'll take it.

Speaker 1 He's not good. You take it.

Speaker 2 I think he's good. He makes.

Speaker 1 I think he's not good.

Speaker 2 He has one of those throws every week where you're like, God damn, that guy's awesome. I love that pass that he just threw.
He's got a cannon for an arm.

Speaker 2 And then he has that play where he just takes three steps back and he just drops the ball on the ground for no reason. So I don't know how to evaluate Cam Ward.
That's why you're the expert, Booger.

Speaker 2 We're bringing you on because we're fucking idiots over here. So help us out.

Speaker 2 If you're looking at Cam Ward, Jackson Dart, I was really impressed with Shador on third and 10 against all odds in that play that he had on Sunday, picking up that first down.

Speaker 2 But if we're looking at all the rookie QBs,

Speaker 2 is there one Jackson Dart obviously using his legs a lot, but how do we evaluate these guys at this stage in their process?

Speaker 7 Very young.

Speaker 7 Cam War, Jackson Dart,

Speaker 7 both of them are super talented. Cam Ward has zero weapons and he's not a runner, so he hasn't been able to make some of the plays that Jackson Dart has with his legs.

Speaker 7 Cam War can run, but he's more of a guy that's going to beat you from the pocket. He's made some wild throws.
I think the fact that right now he doesn't have the requisite weapons kind of limits him.

Speaker 7 Calvin really breaking his leg is going to hurt.

Speaker 7 I think if you're a Tennessee, you have to like your entire draft should be wide receiver, tight end, wide receiver, wide receiver, tight, like draft a bunch of dudes that can catch the football.

Speaker 7 I think the offensive line has been better than

Speaker 7 we would have thought. I love Cam Moore.
Jackson Dart has to realize, man, like.

Speaker 7 How many running quarterbacks live to be like 10-year running quarterbacks? Like when you're a running quarterback, the shelf life doesn't last long, a long time. He's got to modify his running style.

Speaker 7 He's been in concussion protocol four times. That's not good.
Now, I love what he's brought.

Speaker 7 I love everything about him, all the aura and the mystique he's brought to the Giants and given the Giants fans hope. And the future looks bright, but you can't have four concussions a year.

Speaker 7 Like, that's not like his brain will be jelly by the time he's in year three. He just can't do that.
And hopefully, he modifies his running style.

Speaker 7 Hopefully, the next coach will kind of limit the design runs um

Speaker 7 but i love jackson dart man he he is a um he he's definitely he's got a little swag like like he reminds me a little bit of like if you see him at his at his post-game press conference he's got the chain on i think i saw him with a grill on like he he's got a little bit of swag pft yeah no he's a he's a fun guy to root for but you just said the same thing about cam war that i said

Speaker 7 you said he doesn't have any weapons No, yeah, but I didn't say he might be good. He might not.
I just said he doesn't have any weapons. I think he's good.

Speaker 1 Okay, all right.

Speaker 1 So I agree.

Speaker 2 I agree. I think he's good, but they need to build around him.

Speaker 2 But I've seen a lot of people being like, yeah, the Titans should think about, you know, if they do get that first pick, they should honestly evaluate quarterbacks.

Speaker 1 And I disagree with that. Yeah, no, I disagree with that as well.
All right, so Booger, let's talk some college football. Let's start with James Franklin and Virginia Tech.

Speaker 1 I think it's a good move for, obviously, Virginia Tech, like he can recruit that area. What do you expect? And also,

Speaker 1 like, it feels like there was a lot of fan bases, especially Arkansas, who feels like they are like, what is the point of this? How did we lose out to Virginia Tech?

Speaker 1 I just think that James Franklin made a good move for his own personal life, for where he can recruit well.

Speaker 1 And I think it's a fit that's going to get Virginia Tech back to a little bit of relevancy, which they've been just missing for the last however long years.

Speaker 7 Yeah, it's an interesting thought. I want you guys to think about this.
Let's go back to when Scott Frost was at UCF.

Speaker 7 And Scott Frost, if you remember, he had a choice between Florida, I think Tennessee, or he could go back to Nebraska. And someone told me a quote.

Speaker 7 I don't know if it was true or not, but it sure made sense. Why would Scott Frost go to Nebraska over Florida? And it simply said this.

Speaker 7 If you go to Florida,

Speaker 7 you're basically the moment you sign on the dotted line, it's not if you get fired, it's when, because that fan base expects a national championship. every single year and it's hard to deliver.

Speaker 7 You can go back to your alma mater in Nebraska and you can basically be there as long as you want. Now, it turned out that wasn't true, but I think you get the premise of the point.

Speaker 7 I think if you're James Franklin, I think the only other job James Franklin was kind of looking at was Florida State.

Speaker 7 I think after Florida State won this past weekend, James Franklin got the inclination that Florida State wasn't going to open. So he takes Virginia Tech.
I love it. James has coached in that area.

Speaker 7 Penn State's not too far from Virginia. He's recruited in that area.
That's where his base is. That part of the country, if you think about it, he was at Vanderbilt in Nashville, Tennessee.

Speaker 7 He goes to Pennsylvania, and now he's at Virginia Tech. That area of the country, he understands very well.
He knows where the high school players are. He knows all about that area.

Speaker 7 So I think it's a perfect fit. And the SEC is not built for everybody.
And I think James has been in the SEC at Vanderbilt, and he won eight or nine games, so he can be successful.

Speaker 7 I just think he feels it's a better fit for he and his family. in Blacksburg.

Speaker 7 And quite frankly, I can't wait to see James Franklin in the tunnel when they play Inner Sandman and and he's trying to bob a little bit.

Speaker 7 I can't wait for that moment to happen next season.

Speaker 2 I think it's a great hire. I think that Virginia Tech, what they're looking for, is exactly what James Franklin has delivered in his past.

Speaker 2 If he does what he did at Vandi and what he did at Penn State and he does that in Blacksburg, they're going to love him and he's going to stay there forever. He's going to have a lifetime contract.

Speaker 2 I don't think Virginia Tech has, you know, they actually have like the perfect perspective. when it comes to a college football fan base.

Speaker 2 And a lot of fan bases don't get this, where you're in the conversation. You win 10 games a year.
That is an awesome year. You had a great season if you win 10 football games.
It's hard to win.

Speaker 2 And they're happy. They will be happy with that if Franklin can get them in the playoff conversation at Virginia Tech.
And I think that that's actually what he's suited for.

Speaker 2 And they've committed a lot of money to the athletic department now, I think, with the overall goal of either joining the Big Ten

Speaker 2 five, 10 years in the future, or the SEC. So even though he might not be built for the SEC, he might find himself in the SEC at the end of

Speaker 2 his tenure at Virginia Tech. But I agree.
I think it's an awesome hire for Virginia Tech. And then we've got some other dominoes that are going to fall now.
Penn State, obviously, is still open.

Speaker 2 And with Penn State, let's just say, what do you think? What do you think in terms of like the coaches that are out there floating around? Who do you think would be the best fit in Happy Valley?

Speaker 7 Pat Fitzgerald.

Speaker 1 Period. Point blank.
I agree.

Speaker 7 Yeah. Like,

Speaker 7 if the Penn State people can get past allegedly what happened at Northwestern, and I know he's been vindicated based on the lawsuit,

Speaker 7 if the Penn State people can get past that, doesn't it make a lot of sense? Yeah. Now, I know there's some rumors that Clark Lee also is a candidate there, but like Pat Fitzgerald makes so much sense.

Speaker 7 I listened to him talk for 30 minutes on a podcast, and I was ready to suit up. I'm literally, I was ready to go outside and, you know, Boog hates cold weather.

Speaker 7 I was ready to go outside and pack up and head to the northeast and just get cold and frozen and play for Pat Fitzgerald. Like, that's what I was ready to do.

Speaker 1 Who's going to coach your LSU Tigers? You guys feel, I mean, the Lane Kippen thing is very funny.

Speaker 1 I think he's staying at Ole Miss. He's going to pretend he's going to LSU.
He's going to pretend he's going to Florida and then they'll announce that he's staying at Ole Miss.

Speaker 1 But who are you guys going to get?

Speaker 7 Well, it's funny because, like, I've never been like a true fan.

Speaker 7 And so to be on social media and watch Florida's fan base, LSU's fan base, Ole Miss's fan base, like go crazy over every rumor, every flight, every this, every that.

Speaker 7 Like, it's kind of funny to me because I've been on the other side. I've never been like that, like wound up about anything like that.

Speaker 7 To answer your question, I'm not sure. I think LSU's the number one job in the country.
I think there are several people who are

Speaker 7 would do a lot to get that job. Whether it's Lane or not, I don't know.

Speaker 7 Whether it's somebody else, I honestly have no idea. I just know the next coach at LSU has to embrace the culture.
Like saying y'all and family can't be something that

Speaker 7 has to be talked to you on the way to the press conference. Like you have to be able to understand what it's like in the Southeastern Conference.

Speaker 7 uh our our athletic director virge osbury plays football at lsu he's been there 30 years he's the guy making the hire so i honestly have no doubt this hire is going to be a home run whether it's lane or whether it's somebody else how much golf is too much golf for a college football coach to play so number one you should not golf during the season whatsoever so i'll say at all

Speaker 7 100 no golfing during the season so from august to january no golf um

Speaker 7 once the season is over for the next month probably around a week okay that's it that's appropriate yes so let's so let's go four rounds there Then you got to start getting ready for spring practice.

Speaker 7 Spring practice usually starts in late March. So between January and February, four rounds.
Between February and March, I'll give you four more rounds.

Speaker 7 Once spring practice starts, so that's eight rounds so far. Spring practice is done about April the

Speaker 7 15th. So now,

Speaker 7 since there's only one transfer port appeared, you got a little time off between

Speaker 7 a little time off April, May, and June.

Speaker 7 I'm going to give you 10 rounds late April, May, June. So that's 18 rounds.
If he's playing, if your coach is playing playing more than 20 rounds a year, then you got the wrong coach.

Speaker 2 You shouldn't have like a current handicap, even.

Speaker 7 Well, yeah, somebody should tell Hugh Freeze that.

Speaker 1 Yeah, well, yeah.

Speaker 2 I mean, the transfer portal is now, what, January 2nd, now? 2nd through the 16th? So that's two weeks, right? So you got to take two weeks off that.

Speaker 2 So we're down to what, 16 rounds of golf per year now?

Speaker 7 16 to 18, no more than that.

Speaker 1 That sounds about right. It does.
Okay, so in terms of the actual playoffs, and we're taping this on Tuesday morning, so we don't know the actual rankings.

Speaker 1 I don't think there's going to be much change at the top.

Speaker 1 I'll start with this. Is Georgia back to being Georgia? Because I feel like they are, and their defense is obviously not what it used to be, but their offense

Speaker 1 is humming right now. What they did to Texas, what they did to Mississippi State.

Speaker 1 It feels like everyone kind of got off the scent early on because they were not only lost to Alabama, but they've also been down in games. They've struggled in some of these games.

Speaker 1 But it feels like in terms of the SEC,

Speaker 1 Texas A ⁇ M's been great. Alabama's been good.

Speaker 1 Oklahoma, all these teams, but Georgia, people are kind of forgetting that Georgia, hey, they're going to probably go there and they're going to be the team that might go the farthest in the SEC.

Speaker 7 Agree. Kirby Smart's the best coach in America.

Speaker 7 He gets it and he is the, like, he's got the most confidence and he can afford that because he's got a couple of national championships. They play a brand of football, big cat, that's physical.

Speaker 7 That means you can take it anywhere in any weather against anybody. And like if you watch the game against Texas, it's like, it's typical Georgia.

Speaker 7 Like at some point, they're going to impose their will and just basically,

Speaker 7 it's almost like when, when Rocky fought Drago, like no matter how good Rocky looked, you knew at some point Drago, you know, when old boys said slap and pop from the corner and Drago went crazy on Rocky, like the pure physicality was going to take over.

Speaker 7 And if it was not for Rocky's heart and great acting, Rocky would have got beat. Where's the same way against Georgia?

Speaker 7 Like at some point, Georgia's going to line up and they're going to beat the hell out of you. And if you can take it, you got a chance.
If you can't, it's good night. And most teams

Speaker 7 haven't been able to take it the way Rocky did.

Speaker 2 Yeah. Yeah.
What about Oklahoma? Now, they had a huge game on Saturday. Pretty impressive effort from that defense.
The Sooner defense looked amazing.

Speaker 2 They've got two winnable games, close out the season. It feels like they're going to make the playoff.
If I were to guess,

Speaker 2 I would say Oklahoma, I think, will make the college football playoff.

Speaker 2 I feel like they could be a sneaky team that could do some damage once the games start meaning something.

Speaker 7 Sneaky, yes. Will they actually do it? No, they can't run the football.

Speaker 7 And so now you're going to put everything on the quarterback who, although he finally looked like himself pre-thumb surgery in John Matir,

Speaker 7 like

Speaker 7 when you go against the best teams, your flaws show.

Speaker 7 And the defense was outstanding. They got turnovers.
They were able to beat Alabama. But if you look at the offense, Alabama outgained them two to one.

Speaker 7 So Alabama moved the ball up and down the field. They just got some timely turnovers.
So can you always count on turnovers? I don't think you can.

Speaker 7 Now, they may happen, they may not, but you can't always count on them. So

Speaker 7 I think I agree. They'll be favored against Missouri and LSU, whether they win those two games, we'll see.

Speaker 7 But if they're able to win those two games, they'll get into the playoff and then it becomes matchups. Then it becomes who you're going to play.

Speaker 7 I don't know who they would play where I would favor them because they're limited offensively and so much is put on the quarterback.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 the turnover thing

Speaker 1 was true for Oklahoma's big win in Tennessee as well. Tennessee was moving the ball and they were taking the ball away, but maybe that's just their defense very good.

Speaker 1 I'm a big believer in Jon Matier and

Speaker 1 you might just be able to get a running game from him.

Speaker 1 He's a tough, tough guy and he can rack up those yards and he has like they did draw up at Alabama some of those QB draws and designed runs where it's like, this is how we're going to have to figure out a way to get some type of running game going.

Speaker 7 Yeah, but you can't, but when you're running quarterback so much, that's how he got hurt last time. Yeah, of course.

Speaker 1 Of course.

Speaker 7 So, like, I don't know if you can do that, but if they get into the playoff, they're going to run the hell out of him.

Speaker 7 And he and Ben Arbuckle, who's the offensive coordinator, they've really been really, really good together. So I think there's a chance.
Like, it's 12 teams. All you want to do is get in.

Speaker 7 And then it becomes matchups. I think Ohio State is clearly the best team,

Speaker 7 even though they haven't been tested. Georgia looks like

Speaker 7 they may be the best team based on how they've been tested. So we'll see.
It's going to be fun. And this is coming from somebody who was kind of against the 12-team playoff.
Man, now I'm all for it.

Speaker 7 Like it's going to be super fun to see the matchups, the home games.

Speaker 7 Yeah, I can't wait, man.

Speaker 1 It's going to be great. So you didn't mention Indiana in that group.
I think Indiana

Speaker 1 is capable of winning it all. They are very, very good.

Speaker 1 Obviously, their win against Oregon, what they've done to some other teams. Are you thinking that Indiana, maybe give us do this?

Speaker 1 Give us your list of teams that you can win the national championship this year because it's a little easier than the NFL, where I think you can pretty much say here's four or five teams that I could see them winning it all.

Speaker 7 Ohio State. Yep.
Georgia. Yep.

Speaker 7 Indiana.

Speaker 7 Notre Dame. Yep.

Speaker 1 Alabama.

Speaker 7 Notre Dame, Alabama.

Speaker 1 I don't think Alabama should be on that list, but Notre Dame, I do think, should be on that list because, similar to what you said about the, you know, we struggle to get rid of like old, you know, perceptions of teams.

Speaker 1 Notre Dame had two big games in the first two weeks of the season where their defense looked like shit. Their defense, while not the best offenses they've been playing, has turned it around.

Speaker 1 And Jeremiah Love is a difference maker and C.J. Carr is a really good player.

Speaker 1 I think people kind of got off the scent of Notre Dame and don't realize they are that type of team that can win a couple playoff games.

Speaker 7 They understand who they are, they're going to win out, they're going to be 10 and two.

Speaker 7 And

Speaker 7 very similar to Georgia, they understand who they are. They can run the football.

Speaker 7 They got the two best, maybe the two best running backs in America, and they're happening to be on the same team in the same backfield. CJ Carr started to play better and better.

Speaker 7 I just love their coach, also, Marcus Freeman.

Speaker 7 Whatever game they're in, I hope it doesn't rain because you know the whole cap and the hairline thing. I hope that that doesn't come out.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 7 he's phenomenal. I love him.

Speaker 7 Notre Dame is going to be a tough out one because I think they're getting in. So I'm going to push back on the Alabama thing.
We think Georgia might be the best team, big cat. Alabama beat them.

Speaker 7 So how can you say

Speaker 7 or why are you not a believer in Alabama?

Speaker 1 Similar to the Oklahoma. I don't think they can run the ball effectively enough in big moments.

Speaker 1 And when you get one-dimensional like that, I think there will be a matchup problem where they find someone in the playoff who can just basically be like, hey, we know you're not going to be able to run the ball.

Speaker 1 We're going to be able to defend the pass and and and that type of inability to be flexible in the big moments whereas like you talk about a notre dame can run the ball and throw the ball ohio state can do both georgia can do both having the ability to do both at a high level uh just gives you you know depending like it doesn't matter who you're matched up against you can do what you want to do offensively Yeah, that makes sense.

Speaker 7 That's a good point. That's one of the better points you've made on this podcast.

Speaker 1 There we go. Appreciate that.

Speaker 2 What about Texas A ⁇ M? Because you look to last last week and you can look at that game one of two ways. You can say, how the fuck did they get out to a 30-3 hole against South Carolina?

Speaker 2 But then you can also look at it and say, that's an unreal comeback that Texas AM had to not give up on that game.

Speaker 2 And that's the kind of stuff where going into next week and the week after, moving forward, like they could be a very, very dangerous team because they believe that they can do anything now. So

Speaker 2 I've been like the biggest hater of A ⁇ M throughout the history of this show. I've called him a cult.
I've called him a bunch of weirdos.

Speaker 2 I might be getting indoctrinated into the cult right now because I do find myself going away from that win and saying, that's actually very impressive that they were able to come back.

Speaker 7 Very impressive.

Speaker 7 I don't think they can stop the run. So if Texas Adam played Georgia, I think Georgia would rush for 250 yards.

Speaker 7 Marcel Reed, man, like.

Speaker 7 It's the tail of two halves. Like, which guy do you believe? I think he's been really good.
Do you trust him?

Speaker 7 I don't know.

Speaker 7 Texas AM at might be the fastest team in the country, but like if you can't stop the run and the quarterback, like you put so much on the quarterback, I think eventually the quarterback will buckle a little bit.

Speaker 7 A la

Speaker 7 to your point, BKAT, Ty Simpson, even though Ty Simpson is one of the best passers.

Speaker 7 I think John Matier, Marcel Reed, like when you put so much on them, I just wonder at what point do they kind of buckle and fold a little bit.

Speaker 1 Okay, yeah, that makes sense. What about Texas Tech? I think Texas Tech is maybe in that group.

Speaker 1 Their defense is awesome.

Speaker 7 Yeah, I mean, I understand they put a lot of money on the defense. The defense is good, but

Speaker 7 I don't know. I got to see it from them.
Just, I don't know. Like, the defense is good.
They can rush the passer.

Speaker 7 Texas, I'm going to throw some matchups out. Off the top of your head, tell me who you favorite.
Texas Tech, Notre Dame.

Speaker 1 Where's the game being played? Hey, big guy.

Speaker 7 Top of your head.

Speaker 7 Where's the game being played?

Speaker 1 I asked, where's the game being played? Come on, Big Cat.

Speaker 7 On a football field? Texas Tech, Notre Dame.

Speaker 1 Probably Notre Dame.

Speaker 7 Texas Tech, Georgia.

Speaker 1 Probably Georgia.

Speaker 7 Texas Tech and Texas AM.

Speaker 1 That one, I might take Texas Tech.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I might take Texas Tech on that one. I think their defense could stop it.

Speaker 7 It's going to be a matchup type game for them. They're just not dominant against everybody.
I guess that's my point.

Speaker 1 Speaking of the Texas stuff, are you going to get in on the discourse of Texas, the Texas Longhorns, if they beat Texas AM, should be in the playoff, even though they have three losses?

Speaker 7 No, I don't think we reached the point where a three-loss team is getting in.

Speaker 1 Okay. Now, here's the only, here's the only, because I agree with you.
I do not think Texas should be in. I think the losses should matter.
Their loss to Florida is very bad.

Speaker 1 Here's the only counter-argument, and I hope we don't get to this point, but I don't want to have it be a situation where teams start saying, well, why the hell would we ever schedule anyone good at the beginning of the season?

Speaker 1 Because if Texas does beat Texas A ⁇ M,

Speaker 1 they could put their hands up and be like, hey, if we just didn't play Ohio State, we'd be in the playoff.

Speaker 7 True. However, they also can't lose to some of the teams that they lost to.
Also, so I think that's what I like. They've lost to Ohio State.
They've lost to Georgia.

Speaker 7 If they lose to,

Speaker 7 if they lose the A ⁇ M, then obviously it's over with. But

Speaker 7 they lost to Florida, like the team they've lost to are not

Speaker 7 some of them aren't good teams. So I get it, but you just can't lose to teams that aren't good.

Speaker 2 I'm also going to count going to overtime against Kentucky as a loss.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's fair.

Speaker 2 That's in the kind of state.

Speaker 1 And Mississippi State, too. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 But especially the Kentucky one.

Speaker 2 That should be enough to disqualify

Speaker 2 the argument against the Ohio State loss.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I don't want Texas in the playoff. I do not think they deserve to.

Speaker 1 I just also don't want teams to start going just cupcakes in September because they see, like, what did we gain from playing Ohio State? Absolutely nothing on the road to start the season.

Speaker 1 So, yeah, just as long as maybe the committee just has to say, hey, Texas, we're keeping you out because of the overtime to Mississippi State and Kentucky, not because you put lost to Ohio State.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they had the two worst wins. You have to just say that.
Yeah, you have to factor in

Speaker 2 their two worst wins were against those two teams in overtime.

Speaker 7 You know, now, if they were to go and play Texas and him and take Belt to ass and just be like, just where are they?

Speaker 1 See, you're doing it you're doing it

Speaker 1 like

Speaker 1 like you could like you could almost talk me into yeah you are you are

Speaker 7 man i hate to say that but it like if they beat a m by like 21 then maybe maybe we can talk about it but there are other things that have to happen like it just can't be that in a vacuum yeah you have to have other things happen you have to have other losses come down those down you uh you a group of five guy at all Who do you have in the playoff from the group of five?

Speaker 2 And why is it James Madison?

Speaker 7 Well, they're the best team right now. They got one loss.
And so like JMU's the best team. I thought it was going to be South Florida, but they couldn't stop Navy.

Speaker 7 I think James Madison is going to wind up getting in. I think their schedule with their, they got what, one game left.
I think it's pretty favorable. We'll see.

Speaker 7 Like, the group of five at some point, I think we're going to come up with a scenario where the group of five is not a part of this conversation.

Speaker 7 Because what you may wind up having is James Madison at Georgia. Yep.

Speaker 2 I don't like that look you just gave me. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Where are they going to play? Out of football field?

Speaker 7 You can pay that bitch in the parking lot.

Speaker 1 It didn't matter.

Speaker 1 I listen.

Speaker 2 My national championship would be if James Madison made the college football playoff. That would be my national championship game.

Speaker 2 And if we cover the spread, I would declare myself to be a national champion at that point because

Speaker 2 you're right. It is a mismatch.

Speaker 2 I like having the group of five in there because if you separate it out and you have the group of five playoff, then all you've just done is you've just made another Division I double-A FCS bracket that you have to go through.

Speaker 2 I like having them in there just because one year, there will be a year where it happens. We're out of nowhere that the group of five teams somehow lucks their way into a win.

Speaker 2 It might be five years from now, might be 10 years from now, might be 20 years, but that's going to be a hell of a moment. And I don't want to miss out on the opportunity for that moment.

Speaker 7 Yeah, it may happen, but it won't be this year because it's going to be JMU against. old miss, maybe Texas Tech, Georgia.
Like, that's who could be in that fifth spot. I don't,

Speaker 7 I don't, I don't like James Madison's chances in in that situation.

Speaker 2 That defense is really, really good, and their quarterback's playing as good as he's played. They got a running back, too.

Speaker 2 You're right.

Speaker 2 It's not going to happen, but I want to see the day where there is an upset that nobody sees coming.

Speaker 2 I mean, just imagine if somehow Indiana got the five seed, and then JMU got the 12-seed, and then they go play against Kurt Signetti. How cool would that be?

Speaker 7 That would be absolutely phenomenal. I don't think Indiana's falling.

Speaker 7 Like, Indiana is going to be undefeated. They're going to play Ohio State, I think, unless Michigan shots the world and beats Ohio State for the Big Ten Championships.

Speaker 7 So, even if they lose to Ohio State, I don't think they're falling to five.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you're probably right about that. Yeah, um, okay, Booger, I got one last question.

Speaker 1 You want to eat a donut while I do the last ad read, just as in good faith, and then we'll cut, we'll call it clean for Tommy Fleetwood. Let's do it.
Come on, okay, robot.

Speaker 2 That's what it was for. Yeah, Mr.

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Speaker 1 I got a health question for you, Booger. Are you ready for this? Talk to me.
What, as you stuffed your face with a donut,

Speaker 1 how, and we can go college or NFL here this time of year, right around Thanksgiving,

Speaker 1 how is the body feeling like in terms of football players and being able to get up there? Like, what percentage are they able to play at week to week?

Speaker 1 Because we always say it, you know, everyone's got something, but obviously we don't know what the they've got how how does it feel week to week like rehabbing and getting yourself back ready to play on saturdays or sunday so quarterbacks are probably about 85 90 percent most of them because they rarely ever get hit um offensive and defensive linemen are probably 75 percent

Speaker 7 uh it's just tough man because we hit every play like we're just banging each other over and over and over uh the the other spots the other positions are what they are like but like the two most physical spots are the o and d line

Speaker 7 and like the running backs, obviously, but the quarterbacks can get hit, and when they get hit, they take big hits. So,

Speaker 7 overall, man, like if you're out on the field, like something is nagging you, something is bothering you. Uh, but there's a rule of thumb, all right? If you step on the field,

Speaker 7 there's no excuses, you got to show up and be ready to play. And so, I think that's always been the mentality of players.
If, if, if, if you're, if you're hurt, we can play.

Speaker 7 If you're injured, you can't. Uh, a lot of players play hurt.
So

Speaker 7 it's just that type of game, man. Like, that's how it is.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 It is always, I always just think about it. Like, even college football, you know, we're two weeks away from it being over.

Speaker 1 NFL, there's a lot of football left, and there's a lot of wear and tear left. And it's like, you know, I know no one wants to be like, hey, credits to the guys, but credits to the guys is crazy.

Speaker 1 Like, we got two full months of NFL football left.

Speaker 7 And I can't wait to watch it all, man. It's going to be fun.
Like, this is the best time of year. Like, Thanksgiving is next week.

Speaker 7 You know, kids are out of school for a week. Then you got Christmas coming.
I got decorations being put up right now. Like,

Speaker 7 it's the best time of year, man. It really is.

Speaker 1 I love that.

Speaker 2 Booker, real quick before you go, I think B Cat was a little bit afraid to ask you about this because he was afraid of what you answered.

Speaker 2 That's what he called you earlier. Oh, BCAT.

Speaker 1 Yeah, B Cat. I like that.

Speaker 2 Are the Chicago Bears good?

Speaker 7 They are well coached.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 7 Are they good relative to the other teams we talked about in the NFC?

Speaker 7 Can they beat Seattle? Maybe. Can they beat the Rams? No.
Can they beat the Eagles? No. Can they beat?

Speaker 7 Who am I missing? Who did not name? Detroit? Can they beat Detroit? We're going to find out.

Speaker 7 They're a good team.

Speaker 7 I put them in

Speaker 7 tier two right now.

Speaker 1 Totally fair.

Speaker 1 They are a good team, but they have to prove it against some of the great teams. I think that's really where they're at.
Like, we've beaten all the bad teams.

Speaker 1 And so we're no longer a bad team. We're a good team.
But yeah, I think the one thing I'm very excited about is they have won seven games already this year.

Speaker 1 And they haven't really put together, outside of maybe the Cowboys game, like a great game on all three phases.

Speaker 1 And if that happens, especially if we get some of our secondary healthy, like this team could be better than we think.

Speaker 7 I would definitely agree with that. But congratulations to you on the Bears.
Looks like a home run hire in Ben Johnson. TFC.

Speaker 7 Not really sure what to say. A lot of regression in Washington.
Hopefully things come back to form next season.

Speaker 2 Congratulations on JMU. You can just say that.

Speaker 7 Well, first of all, I'm not going to congratulate them until they make the playoff. And then at that point,

Speaker 7 I'll send out a tweet congratulating you and JMU.

Speaker 2 I appreciate that. No, things have been bad in D.C., very bad.

Speaker 2 It's as bad as I could have ever imagined going in this season. But you know what? We're going to move forward.
We're going to hopefully get a good pick. And there's next year.

Speaker 1 And congratulations to you, Booger.

Speaker 1 It's a world where the Bucs, Colts, the Booger McFarland Super Bowl could conceivably happen.

Speaker 7 It's in play.

Speaker 7 And

Speaker 7 maybe Christmas will come early. It'll be Bucs Colts in the Super Bowl.
Maybe before then, we actually get a head coach that knows how to say family and y'all in Baton Rouge.

Speaker 7 And all of a sudden, everything in my world will be great.

Speaker 1 I love it. I love it.
Well, you're the best, Booger. We love having you on.
Thank you so much. And appreciate you being a man of honor with the donuts.
And you have paid your debt to Tommy Fleetwood.

Speaker 7 All good, man. Really, really appreciate it.
Thanks, buddy.

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Speaker 3 My boyfriend is always preaching about hotel bathrooms on road trips. He gets so fired up when people stop at gas stations, fast food places, etc., to go to the bathroom on road trips.

Speaker 3 He is adamant about hotel lobbies always being clean, nice music playing, and always accessible as receptionists never say anything.

Speaker 3 It has gotten to a point where we are backtracking 10 to 15 minutes to go to a hotel instead of pulling over at a gas station. We have been at Wits End with each other on road trips recently.

Speaker 3 What should I do? Suck it up and go out of our way to hotel bathrooms or give him an ultimatum?

Speaker 2 That's actually something I've never once considered in my life. What? Stopping at a hotel instead of a gas station.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 This guy, he might be a genius. I don't think I'm comfortable enough to do that to just walk in, take a shit.

Speaker 2 Is he talking about shitting or pissing? Got it.

Speaker 2 If he's talking about pissing, just suck it up and go into a

Speaker 2 fast food restaurant or a gas station.

Speaker 1 I suck it up no matter what. But you're also thinking of nice hotels.
The hotels on the side of the highway are not.

Speaker 2 Well, that's what he was talking about. He was saying hotel lobbies are pristine, they're clean, they've got nice music playing.

Speaker 1 I've been into some that are not on the side of the highway. Like, it's not the four seasons on the side of the highway.
You're going to La Quinta.

Speaker 3 Also, if you're on a road trip, like you can't, you can't be taking luxurious shits.

Speaker 2 No, you had this guy has to suck it up.

Speaker 4 Yeah, you have to suck it up.

Speaker 1 If you're on a road trip, the goal is to get from point A to point B.

Speaker 3 Correct. And you got to do whatever it takes to do it in as little time as possible.
Wear a diaper.

Speaker 2 It's inconsiderate for the person that's driving or anyone else in the car because if you have, if you must stop and take a shit, at least do them the favor of putting them in a gas station where they could buy combos, Mountain Dew.

Speaker 2 Restless.

Speaker 1 Like most usually fine, too.

Speaker 3 They have a lot of stalls.

Speaker 1 This would drive me insane. Any if you're on a road trip and you have to take a 15-minute detour that's not like for food, this would drive me nuts.

Speaker 2 Yeah, and he's definitely taking his time in these nice bathrooms.

Speaker 2 I would say, yeah, you need to.

Speaker 3 That should be your treat at the end of the road trip. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 Zach, what do you have?

Speaker 4 What if it's for a shit anticontinental breakfast? What if he's like, hey, you know, that's a good thing. Okay, now I'm in.

Speaker 1 Now I'm in. Now I'm in.

Speaker 2 Yeah, if we're talking early morning shit.

Speaker 1 Yeah, if you, but that's a tough one to pull off, just as not a guest and just show up.

Speaker 2 Get a bagel and like a small box of

Speaker 2 loops.

Speaker 4 Act like you've been there. Yeah.
They're not checking keys at the waffle station.

Speaker 1 No, probably not. Okay, next one, Hank.

Speaker 3 My boyfriend and I have an argument. I want him to save money so we can get an apartment together, but all he does is spend money on gambling and electric guitars.

Speaker 3 He uses the argument that he could be spending money on drugs instead, and that he uses the winnings to buy the guitars. I don't believe that he is profitable and do not know how to get him to stop.

Speaker 3 Thanks, guys. I am now a two-time AWL.

Speaker 1 He's not profitable.

Speaker 2 Not profitable. He's definitely not buying guitars with the gambling.
That's the money that could be going to an apartment. Budget.

Speaker 1 Got to set a budget.

Speaker 2 You got to say it might be time to do a strict one-in, one-out policy on the guitars.

Speaker 3 You can trade a guitar.

Speaker 3 Is he in a band? Like, you don't need... How many electric cars do you need? Two?

Speaker 2 If you don't play live music,

Speaker 2 I would say, yeah, two to three.

Speaker 1 Do play live music.

Speaker 2 I would say two electrics and an acoustic is not unreasonable.

Speaker 1 Either way, he's got to do a bunch of.

Speaker 3 But I'm saying, even if you'd like, how many do you need?

Speaker 2 No comment.

Speaker 3 Yeah, but you, it's for you, it's like, it's a hobby. You're not.

Speaker 2 He could always turn two of those guitars into one guitar and just get a double guitar. Yep.

Speaker 2 Some people thought that I bought Jimmy Page's double guitar from Jim Ursa.

Speaker 2 I think that's like a $2 million guitar. I did not buy that guitar.

Speaker 1 One day, though, it will be mine. You're going to buy it.
Oh, yes, it will be mine. I'll give real advice, though.

Speaker 1 You can't tell him to stop gambling because he's just, you know what I mean? You can't be like, hey, you're not allowed to gamble because then he's going to start resenting you. Just budget.

Speaker 1 Budget. Here's what you get a month.
Here's what we do in a month to gamble.

Speaker 1 And then save everything else.

Speaker 1 Sick apartment would be awesome.

Speaker 2 Maybe you guys do.

Speaker 3 Maybe he just doesn't want to move in with you. That also could be very much.

Speaker 2 It sounds like that's exactly what this is. Yeah.
Or you could try to suggest, like, let's do a couples apartment parlay. We hit this, we get the apartment.

Speaker 1 We did do that in college to try to get a new TV. But the Seahawks against the Steelers in the Super Bowl lost.

Speaker 3 Hi, PMT. I have a specific vision in mind for how I want to be proposed to.
No sports game, not in public. Family and friends party afterwards, but still a surprise.

Speaker 3 How do I tell my boyfriend this without ruining the surprise and still making him feel like he has any say in the proposal? Any advice from Maxie as recently engaged man? Thanks.

Speaker 2 I love her very strict rules. Yeah.
Which is like not on a jumbotron and not with a big crowd around me.

Speaker 2 Tell her.

Speaker 3 Sounds like she knows he wants to do it at a game. Yeah.

Speaker 1 You just got to tell your your best friend to tell him so simple

Speaker 1 I feel like that just happens with everyone like the down to the ring where it's like, oh, this is what she likes.

Speaker 2 She's given a pretty narrow example of things that are allowed to be done. If it can't be on a jumbotron and it can't have a screaming crowd around her, like what else is a guy going to do? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Like Golden Corral?

Speaker 2 You're taking away our options.

Speaker 1 Texas Roadhouse?

Speaker 2 Roadhouse, if you're feeling fancy.

Speaker 1 The surprise is already over. Because you're already planning it.
There's no surprise.

Speaker 1 Yeah, there's no surprise. There's no surprise of yes or no.
It's just like whether they know what's happening at that moment.

Speaker 1 Actually, you've now put yourself in a spot where the only way he could truly surprise you is doing it at a sports game.

Speaker 1 Because you've let him, I'm sure you told your friends to tell him, and he's following.

Speaker 1 So now he's got to, yeah, this guy, if you're listening, guy, and this sounds like your girlfriend, the only way you can surprise her is you got to do it center court at a sport maybe like a mid-tier college basketball game if you tell a man that he can't propose to you at a sports game action would be great oh maxion would be so sick his only option remaining is that he does a fake proposal to you at a sports game yeah and then he's like psychs you off just kidding yeah

Speaker 3 or he does it at like they do like a stadium tour so it's there's not a game going on at the time

Speaker 3 it's not so it's not in public it's not a sports game but it's still in a stadium on a astronomer.

Speaker 2 She said no crowds around, though.

Speaker 3 I'm saying, yeah, but that's private stadium. Yeah, private stadium tour, yeah.

Speaker 1 Private stadium store. All right, uh, last one: Hello, Hank, Big Cat, and PFT.

Speaker 3 Together, you form one functioning adult, so maybe you can help me with this one. Okay.

Speaker 3 After microwaving food, instead of touching the food, my husband leans in, smells it, and somehow decides if it's hot. Yeah.
Is this a superpower or a red flag? No, no, no.

Speaker 1 That's legit. It's the air that goes into your nose.

Speaker 2 You can feel the steam.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Like the closer you get, you can feel it.
Yep.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 He's good.

Speaker 1 He's smart. This guy's smart.

Speaker 1 Does he put his head in the microwave?

Speaker 1 I hope so. That'd be awesome.
Microwaves, there's something about microwaves that scare me. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Like, I feel like I'm going to get cancer if I'm just around a microwave

Speaker 1 too much.

Speaker 2 Everyone's parents tell them when they're kids, like, don't stand next to the TV. If you stand in front of the microwave, you're going to get cancer.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I got that punch.

Speaker 2 Don't stand next to the TV.

Speaker 1 I would sit right in front of that. Oh, yeah.
I'd stare at the microwave. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 2 Microwaves are apparently like one of the most dangerous things that we have in our houses.

Speaker 1 Really? Yeah.

Speaker 2 If you take, like, do never, do not ever take apart a microwave because you'll die. Oh.
You'll get electric. They've got like a bomb inside of them.
I wasn't planning on it.

Speaker 1 Yeah. But now I really.
It makes sense. It's a nuke.
Yeah. Like you nuke your food.

Speaker 1 It's a nuke. You have a nuclear weapon in your kitchen.
Have you ever heard that? People. Oh, yeah, nuke your food.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I like this guy.

Speaker 1 I think he's got to figure it out.

Speaker 2 Yeah, you can smell the heat.

Speaker 1 Do you guys save seconds for later? Oh, of course.

Speaker 2 Yeah, you take it out with like, it depends on what it is, but a lot of times if I'm reheating a coffee or something, I'm going to leave 15 seconds on it, and then I'll take it out.

Speaker 2 Oh, it's not quite done yet. Let's just finish the 15 seconds, and then if I don't think 15 is enough, I'll just do that at a minute.

Speaker 1 I just do 30 seconds every time. I just do popcorn every time.
Popcorn is crazy. Popcorn is insane.

Speaker 1 It's the top button. No, but there's like, if you just click start on most of them, it just does 30 seconds.
No, mine has, I just click popcorn. Doesn't matter what.
Popcorn is insane.

Speaker 1 And then I just watch it for 20 seconds, 30 seconds, whatever.

Speaker 2 Yeah, instead of punching in the time like a fool, I don't know.

Speaker 1 No, I never punch it. Yeah, you can't punch.
I go 30 seconds,

Speaker 1 and then you can add 30, add 30. No, I have a popcorn button.

Speaker 1 Popcorn is crazy. No, popcorn is insane.

Speaker 1 I don't know. Popcorn might be a different sort of setting all over the place.
I don't give a fuck.

Speaker 1 It heats it all the same. You don't know that.
Yeah, it does. I take it out and it's hot.

Speaker 1 Okay. Good show, boys.

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Speaker 6 I thought PFT said 15, and there was a lot of popcorn talk back here.

Speaker 1 Was that because you said numbers?

Speaker 6 Yeah, Big Gat said numbers.

Speaker 1 I said numbers during the ad. Okay.
Yeah. 33.
77. 82.

Speaker 2 10.

Speaker 1 99 Poke. 15.
44.

Speaker 1 86.

Speaker 3 Did you pick three?

Speaker 3 That's not a good thing.

Speaker 1 I think you're a big one.

Speaker 1 Nah. 39.

Speaker 1 Anyone? Anyone? Anyone? Anyone? Euler?

Speaker 1 Did he woodhead? Yep. Okay.
I think we should just do one today. Yeah, let's just do one.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Why not another? Nah, let's just do one. You're never going to do it anyway.
Why not another? Nah,

Speaker 1 we can't let you get used to it. Are you scared? No, not at all.
Sound afraid. No, not scared at all.
Terrified.

Speaker 1 Press it. I'll press it, but it doesn't count.
Yeah, press it. That's the way it works.
Yeah, press it. Let's press it.
It doesn't count. It just doesn't count.
Press it. Oh, my God.

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Speaker 6 The ball goes up, and number is mine correct.

Speaker 1 No,

Speaker 1 we do practices something.

Speaker 2 You need to know.

Speaker 1 No, press it. It doesn't count.
We We don't count.

Speaker 1 All the time.

Speaker 1 We do practices all the time. No.
Yes, we do.

Speaker 1 This is an unofficial practice round.

Speaker 1 What?

Speaker 1 Oh, my God.

Speaker 1 Wow, if that was three. If that was three, we all would be dead.
Yeah, the show would have been. I would have won.

Speaker 1 No, you wouldn't have. It would have been a good time.
You should not have won. I would have won.
You would have very chill max. I would have won.
No, you wouldn't. I would have won.

Speaker 1 You would have said every time,

Speaker 1 have you gotten this?

Speaker 2 You would say, yeah, I got it. And then we'd all be like, no, you got a practice round.

Speaker 1 And you would go and do it.

Speaker 1 You don't make the rules, bro.

Speaker 6 I would have had two wins, and PFD would only have a win. No, you would have zero.

Speaker 2 You have no wins. No wins.
And you're never going to.

Speaker 1 He also has one.

Speaker 2 I've got multiple wins.

Speaker 6 You have a win.

Speaker 1 No, I've got multiple wins. Multiple wins.

Speaker 6 He has a win by himself. No, I've got multiple wins.
He has one win by himself. It's pretty clear that I have multiple wins.

Speaker 2 Means you have one win.

Speaker 6 You have zero wins.

Speaker 2 And you're never going to get one win. You're never going to get it.
Ever, ever.

Speaker 1 I actually think you're never going to get it.

Speaker 6 One win. Yeah.
Acknowledge it.

Speaker 1 No, I've got multiple wins.

Speaker 2 wins that too it says right there winning numbers i won on two i won on five which one did you pick i got two winning numbers

Speaker 1 he picked two he picked five i got two and five i got two and five you picked two for him i got two and five i picked it thank you max i got him i got two and five and i picked it but no wins you were trying to get the one time that you got it correct was the only time you were trying to get it wrong

Speaker 1 You were actively trying to get it wrong. No, I was trying to get it right.

Speaker 6 You're always trying to get it.

Speaker 1 No,

Speaker 1 You're always trying to get it.

Speaker 1 You're always trying to get it. And I got it.
No. The goal at that point was like, let me pick the one number that it's not going to be.

Speaker 2 Memes, this is like if Sam Darnold won a Super Bowl and you're like, yeah, the Jets won a Super Bowl.

Speaker 6 It's not true, but I did win. I won that ball.
No, you didn't. No.

Speaker 1 I did. Wrong.
I can't believe.

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