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Speaker 1 Welcome to Pardon My Take presented by DraftKings. Today is Wednesday, December 10th,

Speaker 1 and the Philadelphia Eagles lose to the Los Angeles Chargers on Monday night football. So, so close to doing an emergency pod.

Speaker 1 But we are here the next day recording ready to break it all down we have not talked to max at all we made a rule we made a last rule last night he left the the part of my take group chat he also left the group chat with myself big cat and jerry and uh he has been off to where so we're we're just talking about what happens in part of my take group chats now we're just we're just we're just releasing screenshots now of you leaving that was funny i thought that was okay that you didn't think that was funny that's the that's the angle you're gonna come with that's not it's not just max left the group chat it didn't have any other words to it did you think we weren't gonna bring that up on this show

Speaker 1 i i i always thought screenshots of the of the group chat it wasn't it wasn't a screenshot of anything that was said it was just max has left the conversation

Speaker 1 this is a this is a wild sad this is a sad stretch max start with listen max was that your big move Was your big move here?

Speaker 1 I haven't even thought about it until you brought it up again, but I was mad about it last night.

Speaker 3 Let's talk about the game, Max.

Speaker 1 Let's talk about the game he also yeah

Speaker 1 i don't think people don't want to listen to us bully you about the eagles they want to hear our analysis of the game yeah so max real quick question because there was a moment when you left so you left the pardon my take group text then Jerry O'Connell left you we uh pft texted and said did we win fantasy and then you left that group text I was thinking about starting to text every group text we were in together.

Speaker 1 Would you have left them all? Like if I had texted in the Stella Blue group text, you would have left it? Yes. You just would have left everything.

Speaker 3 There's a button on your phone you can press, and it is do not disturb.

Speaker 1 I turned that into because you don't get any notifications. Jerry kept adding me back, so I did end up doing that to the Jerry O'Connell one.
Okay. You can do that for your whole phone, though.

Speaker 3 There's also a...

Speaker 3 There's a do not disturb option for life, which is just going to sleep. Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's impossible. Close your eyes.
Go to sleep. Okay, so yeah, let's talk about the game because it was the Chargers.
It was a crazy game. It was a ton of credit.

Speaker 1 Justin Herbert, he just gets his ass kicked every time he plays. He was sacked seven times.

Speaker 1 The Chargers' defense played phenomenal, and the Chargers winning was enormous because I was looking at it this morning.

Speaker 1 This is all under the presumption that the Colts nosedive, which we'll talk about Phil Rivers in a second, but the Colts are in some tough deep waters because they have a really tough schedule.

Speaker 1 And Daniel Jones has officially a torn Achilles.

Speaker 1 So the Chargers winning means that if they just win one single game, which would be week 18 against the Broncos, where the Broncos might be sitting everyone, they would get in over the Chiefs. So

Speaker 1 the Chiefs have a path now that is very, very precarious, and the Chargers feel like they have a stranglehold on getting into the playoffs. And

Speaker 1 Justin Herbert, just an absolute gamer. Cameron Dicker, who I didn't realize was

Speaker 1 the most accurate kicker. of all time.

Speaker 3 Well, that's changed like four times in the last five years. Yeah.
Because it was Justin Tucker Tucker for a while. I think then Young Wei Koo took it.
Yep.

Speaker 3 It might have gone back to Justin Tucker, and then now Dickers got it. It's just whoever the most recent good kicker is has that record.

Speaker 1 And then we had Jim Harbaugh with a great quote after he said, this just tells you how big this game was. He said he'd put

Speaker 1 it in the discussion of the birth of my seven children, my marriage, you know, in the conversation, just joyful, joyous. And the biblical definition of that is just overflowing with joy.

Speaker 1 That's a gape.

Speaker 1 That was what he needed.

Speaker 1 That's how he felt after this game. That's how much it meant for the Chargers to have a tough schedule coming up.
And winning this game was crucial for them to secure a playoff perfect.

Speaker 3 He was a gape, agape as fuck after the game when he saw Justin Herbert on the field after. He looked at him, and I think in Harbaugh's brain, Justin Herbert is no different from his sons.

Speaker 3 The look that he gave him after the game was like a proud father. You did it, son.
I'm so happy for you. And Justin Herbert is tough as as fuck playing with a broken hand.

Speaker 3 He did, I think everybody that watched him that first quarter could identify with him.

Speaker 3 He had like a cast on his hand.

Speaker 3 And if you ever have an injury, you just can't like stop touching it and just like noticing it with your other hand. And he was just doing that to his own hand, obviously in pain when he fell on it.

Speaker 3 But then in the fourth quarter, he was like, you know what? Fuck it. I'm just going to run with the football because he was having problems throwing it downfield with his accuracy.

Speaker 3 Underneath, he was great. I think he had like a perfect passer rating on throws that went under 10 yards.
Yep.

Speaker 3 Couldn't throw it downfield, but then at the end, he was like, I'm going to run with the football and I'm going to land on my healthy hand and we'll see if they can stop me.

Speaker 3 And they weren't able to do it. Now, the Chargers have a long history of chargering.
It's kind of adjacent to Falconing.

Speaker 3 And clemsoning. And clemsoning.
But now they've kind of twisted the narrative around because the Chargers have now won six straight games in prime time. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Which is the longest streak in the NFL, by far the longest streak in franchise history. The Chargers are

Speaker 3 just like a solid football team. They're a tough football team.
I don't think they were spectacular last night. No, they actually.
But their defense was.

Speaker 1 They actually weren't because Justin Herbert is the only NFL QB in the Super Bowl era to complete under 50% of his passes, throw for under 150 yards, get sacked seven-plus times, have multiple turnovers, and still win the game.

Speaker 3 Yeah, and we'll talk to Dan Orlovsky about this at some point, but he had a great take after the game.

Speaker 3 He said the Eagles are in the shotgun way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way too much.

Speaker 3 I think I said all the ways. I'll do it again.
The Eagles are in the shotgun way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way, way too much. Herbert is an animal champion warrior legend.

Speaker 3 Animal champion warrior legend.

Speaker 3 I think that's the first time that honor has been bestowed on a quarterback.

Speaker 3 But I don't disagree with Dan. I think he's right.
Justin Herbert is tough as fuck. He also, we had a,

Speaker 1 I don't want to say controversy because I ultimately do not give a fuck, but he did shake off Laura Rutledge after on a lot on a hot mic, being like, I'm trying to celebrate with my team.

Speaker 1 So there's obviously a lot of journalists, media members coming out of the woodworks being like, how could you do this? Laura's like doing her job.

Speaker 1 The media deals pay for this league. I thought it was just, he did the interview right after, and he was fine in the interview.
I had no problem with it.

Speaker 1 He just got beat to hell on Monday Night Football, won an improbable game where it looked like they were going to lose, and he had one comment where he was like, yeah, I'm just looking for my teammates.

Speaker 1 All right, fine, I'll do the interview.

Speaker 3 Yeah, he realized total nothing, Burger. That's right.
I have an obligation to do this interview.

Speaker 1 Like, I don't think

Speaker 3 90% of players, I think, would probably skip that interview if they had, if, if it was their option. But it's mandated.
So he was like, okay, yeah, I guess I'll do it. Thank you for reminding me.

Speaker 3 And then he did the interview, and she was like, how does it feel? And he was like, it feels great to win a football game. Yeah.
So we got that information from him, which is which is very positive.

Speaker 3 I thought that the Chargers, they're going to be the definition of a tough out. Yeah.
Is what they'll be.

Speaker 3 Because I think no matter what's going on with the injuries, if it's Herbert, if it's their offensive line or whatever. Harbaugh is just going to have them ready to play.

Speaker 1 And it is such a bummer. I mean, every team deals with injuries, but no Rashawn Slater, no Joe Alt.
Like, this does feel like a team that could be Super Bowl-worthy if they had both of their tackles.

Speaker 1 And because it is such a glaring issue to get sacked that many times, to be under pressure that many times.

Speaker 1 They're just playing with one hand behind their back and they're finding a way because Harbaugh is that kind of guy.

Speaker 3 And also, the defense is really good.

Speaker 1 The defense is playing well.

Speaker 3 The defensive backs were awesome last night. They were all over the Eagles' receivers.
They got no separation. They were getting hands on the ball.
Good job by the Chargers.

Speaker 1 So, the Eagles, Max.

Speaker 1 Talk us through this game. It was great.
It felt like there were 25 fumbles. We had the incredible Jalen Hurts interception and fumble in the same play.

Speaker 2 First time that's happened.

Speaker 1 First time that's happened?

Speaker 3 Yeah, it's the first time since at least 1978 that any player had committed two turnovers on the same play, but the stats don't go back past 1978.

Speaker 3 So it could be the first time in NFL history that's happened.

Speaker 1 Because Lamar did through a pick and then recovered a fumble. Yeah.
I think last year, but he didn't then fumble again, which is the crucial part of this. Yep.
So, Max, how are you feeling?

Speaker 1 Bad. I mean, two of your top three players just had the worst game of their career in the same night.

Speaker 1 Which were JJ Hurts and A.J. Brown both had the worst games of their career last night.

Speaker 1 And you still almost won the game because the defense was absolutely insane. And credit to Vic Vangio and that defense for

Speaker 1 somehow keeping the Eagles in that game, but just no one could make a play. No one could make a play.
Saquon, I guess,

Speaker 1 we scored a 50-yard touchdown on a gimmicky play,

Speaker 1 and he had 122 yards. But

Speaker 1 if you take away his top three carries, I think it was another very pedestrian game for Saquon.

Speaker 1 But I run it.

Speaker 3 I think the point of running the ball with Saquon is you commit to running it so that

Speaker 3 he does have those breakout carries.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 he had two breakout carries in the first quarter, and then they were trying to get him the ball, and he was getting stuffed at the line of scrimmage every single time.

Speaker 1 Like, I get that he had the long run, but that was essentially a trick play.

Speaker 1 That wasn't just like

Speaker 1 a run up the middle

Speaker 1 that was like great blocking,

Speaker 1 and it looked like the Eagles of old last year. It was a trick play.
It was crazy watching Jalen Hurts because he threw that ball to A.J. Brown that A.J.
Brown should have caught.

Speaker 1 If he catches that, none of this discussion is happening. He He threw three of them.
Yeah, he threw that one to Devontae Smith in overtime that was an absolute rocket, perfect throw in coverage.

Speaker 1 So he had moments where he looked good, but he had four interceptions in a fumble. And did it...

Speaker 1 You did call Justin Herbert the big stupid pick guy.

Speaker 1 Jalen Hurts just threw four interceptions and has half as many picks as Justin Herbert on the year. So I don't like, yes, Jalen Hurts threw a bunch of picks last night.

Speaker 1 He still has half as many as Justin Herbert on the year. So in this game,

Speaker 1 who was the more big, stupid pick guy?

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 what about in the playoffs last year? Justin Herbert threw for four picks. Yeah.
So like, yes,

Speaker 1 he had a big, stupid pick game. Do you think it was a Justin Herbert to the big stupid picks, though? Because you had a big, stupid pick guy and Justin Herbert.

Speaker 1 Justin Herbert also threw a stupid pick. I understand, but I was there.

Speaker 3 If you said stupid picks, he threw a stupid pick last night. I said,

Speaker 1 I never said stupid picks. You said Justin Herbert was a pig.
I said

Speaker 3 stupid picks guy.

Speaker 1 You are misquoting me.

Speaker 3 How am I misquoting?

Speaker 1 It was always big, stupid pick guy.

Speaker 3 It was never big, stupid picks guy? But do you think?

Speaker 1 How many times have you tweeted it? Who's right? Hold up. Do you think, though, there was a passing of the torch on the big stupid pick guy? It was a bad game.
I mean, that...

Speaker 1 See, this is why you guys are pieces of shit. Why? Because how many fucking times do you guys do this bit of, oh, Jalen Hurts needs to to throw more interceptions.

Speaker 1 He needs to go out there and like throw more interceptions. It'd actually be good for him.

Speaker 1 And then he goes and throws interceptions and it's like, oh, no, maybe Jalen Hurts has got to stop throwing so many interceptions. Max.

Speaker 1 Max, if you hadn't. That's what you guys fucking do every fucking time.

Speaker 1 If you waited for 15 minutes.

Speaker 1 Who is that?

Speaker 2 Is that just a combination?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 3 If you had waited for five minutes, I was about to say that this was probably a great game for Jalen Hurts because he was throwing picks. Yeah.
He was taking shots downfield, but you cut him off.

Speaker 1 I mean, Justin Herbert still has - Justin Herbert has 11 picks on the year. Jalen Hurts has six after he just threw four in a game.

Speaker 3 But head-to-head, head-to-head matters.

Speaker 1 I've been told that winning and losing does not matter

Speaker 1 for a quarterback. I've been told that for years.

Speaker 3 That doesn't.

Speaker 1 Are you being a bad person? I've been told that for years that winning and losing is not a quarterback stat. Are you down on Jalen Hurts? Of course, you have to be down on Jalen Hurts, but I'm not.

Speaker 1 Jalen Hurts, it's insane that the way that people talk about Eagles fans, it's like spoiled Eagles fans, spoiled Eagles fans. Oh, you're going to boo your Super Bowl champion team.

Speaker 1 Oh, what a ridiculous fan base you are. And then as soon as your quarterback, your Super Bowl MVP has won bad game, it's like, how can Eagles fans defend this guy? He's always fucking sucked.

Speaker 1 Well, are we the spoiled fans

Speaker 1 or are we the delusional fans? Because he can't have it both ways. Hold on.
I've never said you're spoiled fans. No, but

Speaker 1 you know that's an error. But I always back Philly in the fact that I like that they boo and they're smart football fans and they knew this offense was broken before it became a big storyline.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 you know that that's a storyline. And the offense is broken.
They have scored the only team that has scored less touchdowns than the Eagles over the past five weeks. I don't want to guess.

Speaker 1 The Commies?

Speaker 3 Nope.

Speaker 1 Raiders, and they played on Sunday. Raiders.

Speaker 3 I have a stat here from last night.

Speaker 1 Oh, no.

Speaker 3 Yeah, Jalen Hurts' quarterback rating was 31.3 last night.

Speaker 1 Oh, what? That he could have spiked it every time and

Speaker 1 had a higher quarterback rating?

Speaker 3 That's not what I was going to say. Next.
That's not what I was going to say.

Speaker 1 He next to you.

Speaker 3 It's not what I was going to say.

Speaker 1 He's next to you. But he can't next in the middle.

Speaker 2 All right, next.

Speaker 2 Let me go.

Speaker 3 No, I have to finish my stat.

Speaker 3 Okay, so he had a 31.3 quarterback rating against the Chargers.

Speaker 3 If they had snapped the ball to Jalen Hurts on every single play and he had puked all over himself and shit on the ball and ate the ball and then pooped the ball out onto the ground and then thrown the ball forward after he recovered his poop shit puke ball.

Speaker 3 So you're just saying that

Speaker 3 they would have had a 39.6. So you're just

Speaker 1 set out. So you're a different setting than the stat that I just set up.

Speaker 3 No, my stat was completely different.

Speaker 1 His son had puke and puke.

Speaker 1 All right, Hank, go. Blind resume.
Blind resume.

Speaker 2 QB1, 17 games, 2,700 passing yards, yards, 16 touchdowns, 13 interceptions, 78.2 passer rating.

Speaker 1 Okay. QB2,

Speaker 2 15 games, 2,200 yards, 17 touchdowns, 11 interceptions, 85.2 pass rating.

Speaker 1 Oh, I think I'd take QB2.

Speaker 3 QB2 sounds. But he's only played 15.
How many games?

Speaker 1 15, two less games.

Speaker 2 15 games, one more interception, two less interceptions.

Speaker 2 One more touchdown, two less interceptions.

Speaker 3 I think I take QB2.

Speaker 1 QB2.

Speaker 1 I wasn't listening. Continue.

Speaker 2 QB1 is Jalen Hurts without Lane Johnson. QB2 is Justin Fields in 2022.

Speaker 1 Oh, whoa.

Speaker 1 That's crazy. That is crazy.

Speaker 3 That's a wild stat.

Speaker 1 Cool. You want to do the Super Bowl stats?

Speaker 1 You got some?

Speaker 1 Max, I'm a blind resume. Max.
Blind resume and back.

Speaker 1 I don't come to this fucking program with bullshit, biased stats.

Speaker 3 I was told that wins don't matter, Max. Now you want to talk about the Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 By the one who's going to be the one that's the one

Speaker 1 that's going to be a resume, those are just stats. We don't have to go in the wins.
We just go in the stats. Wait, Hank is right, though.
Blind resume is not biased by definition.

Speaker 2 If it was.

Speaker 1 You also picked specifically without his best offensive lineman.

Speaker 3 Right. System quarterback.

Speaker 1 He needs Lane Johnson. He needs Lane Johnson merchant.

Speaker 3 He needs his Johnson merchant.

Speaker 1 Max, I have a question for you.

Speaker 1 I'm not looking up anything. This is Zach.

Speaker 3 I have a question for you, Max.

Speaker 3 Did the Eagles play with joy last night?

Speaker 1 That was a bullshit quote. Nick Siriani said, needs to.
Yeah, what do you mean by that? Nick Siriani said that, I guess it was at halftime. Yeah.

Speaker 1 He said that he liked that the team was playing with confidence and joy in the first half and that they need to continue that in the second half. Do you think they continued playing with joy?

Speaker 1 What was bullshit about that quote? Yeah.

Speaker 1 They were not playing with Joy.

Speaker 3 In the first half? No.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 What up, Max? Jake Elliott also fucking sucks. Every fucking week, he fucks us on.

Speaker 1 You have eight wins. He was hitting bombs.
It doesn't. This team is dead.
Nick Siriani should shave his head.

Speaker 1 Nothing will save this team.

Speaker 1 The only good thing about this team is that Kevin Mattula will get fired. We'll hire a new offensive coordinator and make the Super Bowl next year because it's just

Speaker 1 a cycle for the Eagles right now. Are you worried about missing the playoffs? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Why?

Speaker 1 Because you can't. You got to win football games to make the playoffs.
But you do play the Raiders, the Commanders twice. We played the Cardinals

Speaker 1 Cardinals in 2022. Four wins.
I did see that, and that's a fair point because that was a game that was shocking at the time and was like, holy fuck.

Speaker 1 Nothing would shock. So basically, if the Cowboys run the table, go 4-0, and the Eagles go 2-2, the Cowboys will win the NFC East.
The thing is... That's not that crazy.
Well, I know.

Speaker 1 It is a little because the Eagles play the Raiders.

Speaker 2 I'm 100% splitting with the Commanders. No.

Speaker 3 No.

Speaker 3 I'd be shocked if the Commanders won another football game. I think we're going to lose to the Giants this weekend.
I think the Eagles are going to beat us twice.

Speaker 3 Max, you're going to beat the Raiders. You're going to win three games.

Speaker 1 You control your own destiny, Max.

Speaker 1 I don't care. What do you mean? They're not going to do it.
Even if they make the playoffs, they're not. But what about the team? This is not a good football team.

Speaker 1 All right. All right.
All right. All right.
You're not going to win. Tank is talking too much.

Speaker 1 Next, next to Max. I'm about to fucking help you.
Next to Max. I'm about to try and give you a spin zone, Max.
I'm trying to give you a fresh perspective. I just want the season to be over.

Speaker 1 I want it to be over. I was so happy just watching football on Sunday and not worrying about this garbage fucking offense.

Speaker 1 You were in a very good mood.

Speaker 1 Yeah, life would be so much better if I just wasn't a fan of anything.

Speaker 1 anything okay i just all right max shut the fuck up it's true no no shut max i get max i've told you i'm gonna i'm gonna do the losing is way worse than i'm gonna do the thing that big cat said pain of losing reason way worse than the joy of losing that you can't you can't say that life would be so much better if you weren't you fucking won a super bowl i get it i've said this before on this program this calendar year you won a super bowl but he i i understand what he's saying in that if you just didn't have any rooting interests whatsoever you just enjoyed sport like you won it you won a fucking super bowl Max.

Speaker 1 You want to

Speaker 1 world champions

Speaker 1 in February.

Speaker 3 I get it. This year.

Speaker 1 You're allowed to be mad about your team. I understand.

Speaker 3 You cannot be this upset about sports in general. Yeah, you can.
Because you played like five bad games. No, you can.

Speaker 1 Yeah, you can.

Speaker 3 Five bad games, Max. You're a world fucking champion.

Speaker 1 And Max did say it before the game. He said, this will decide my happiness for the rest of the year.
Happiness gone. Whole year gone.
Diet

Speaker 1 gone. I went to the gym yesterday, had a really healthy day, and then I had like 16 drinks, twisted teas during the Eagles.
I was just anxious.

Speaker 1 It wasn't even drinking out of like, it was just anxious. I needed something to do.

Speaker 1 And I, ugh.

Speaker 3 We call that, that's putting out the fire.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 2 I'll try and keep this short. I don't want to limit my word count here.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 2 think about this, Max. Your season's over.
You walk into the show.

Speaker 2 The two hosts just troll you.

Speaker 1 Oh, you're a co-host.

Speaker 2 And it's not fair. And and it's

Speaker 1 trolled.

Speaker 2 It's not rude, and people in this office are mean and rude.

Speaker 2 Make the playoffs.

Speaker 1 Beat the Bears.

Speaker 1 Oh.

Speaker 1 No, because

Speaker 1 we're not going to beat the Bears.

Speaker 1 This team cannot beat the Bears. This team as it is right now cannot be fair.

Speaker 3 Why do you say that, Max?

Speaker 1 Because they suck. We're all watching it.
This is a bad football team.

Speaker 1 It's a bad football team.

Speaker 3 You think your defense is bad?

Speaker 1 They were bad against the Bears. You don't think you you could beat the Bears at the...

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 2 Actually, that wasn't even trolling.

Speaker 1 No. No, no.
You trolled, Hank. That was a troll.
Do we have...

Speaker 1 I haven't trolled yet on this show. Do we have anyone who was at the game last night, though, that we could talk to?

Speaker 1 He's not here.

Speaker 1 Are you sure? Oh, I thought you were talking about this. No, we have.

Speaker 1 Oh, we're doing this.

Speaker 1 This guy doesn't even know what football is.

Speaker 1 We're talking about Shane, dude. Shane was at the game last night.
He's on his way back. Is this Shane or is this? No, it's Jerry.

Speaker 1 It's Shane. It's Shane.
This is Jerry. It's Shane.

Speaker 3 Shane had been waiting to go to his first game. He went to his first Chargers game last night.
Chargers.

Speaker 1 Our guy, Shane, is ready to go.

Speaker 1 Zach doesn't know how to do this.

Speaker 1 I am putting together my own troll here, by the way.

Speaker 1 That's a hell of a producer right there. That's why we love you.
You're doing a great job.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I do think the Eagles are going to make the playoffs, and I think that if they can figure out the offense in any form, Lane Johnson coming back obviously would be huge.

Speaker 1 I thought that I'll tell you, Max, like when Saquon ran that touchdown, I was like, oh, the Eagles might be back. Like, this might be the Eagles being fully.

Speaker 1 But that did not, that was not like a, oh, this running game looks good again. That was a gimmicky play.
Yeah. But he had to get that one.
Yeah, he had a few good runs.

Speaker 1 Yeah, in the first quarter, he had like two good runs under center, and then they stopped.

Speaker 3 Why don't they go under center?

Speaker 1 I don't know.

Speaker 3 I don't know. Drastic change.
Put him under center.

Speaker 1 I don't know.

Speaker 3 Yeah, you're going to make the playoffs. And honestly, you weren't that far away from winning the game last night.
If A.J. Brown makes that catch in the end zone, ball game.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 All

Speaker 1 right. One of those three catches, you probably win the football.
All this doesn't matter. If A.J.

Speaker 1 Brown catches a ball that was a perfect pass, if Sully wasn't back there playing like prime Ronnie Lott,

Speaker 1 I was looking at someone on Twitter last night was like, Jalen Hurts is basically like

Speaker 1 a home run hitter who just goes through stretches where he's unstoppable and then goes through stretches where he's like the worst player. He's Adam Dunne.
Yeah, he's Adam Dunne. Yeah.

Speaker 1 By the way. Which is fair.
Congratulations, Kyle Schwarber, back to the Phillies. Yeah, that actually was.
That was nice of him. Yeah.
That was very nice of Kyle Schwarber.

Speaker 1 I appreciate him doing that for $150 million. No, but

Speaker 1 the city needed that this morning and he delivered.

Speaker 1 He could have waited a little bit more, you know, and then he was like, you know what, Philly needs this today. Let's get it.
Yeah. Yeah.
And he did it. All-time guy.

Speaker 3 All-time guy. Max, did you watch any of the Monsters Inc.
clips of it?

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 3 Did it make it worse? See

Speaker 3 the animated graphics picking you off?

Speaker 1 Also. And then fumbling.
That was bullshit. They got Sully.
That was bullshit.

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Speaker 3 He's not Sully. He ran with Joy.

Speaker 1 Think about

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You're taking Sully.

Speaker 3 You're taking Sully. I would like to see the Phillip Rivers game.
He'd be the guy from up.

Speaker 1 Talk about Phillip Rivers. Let's go.
No, no, no.

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Speaker 1 Okay, we have Shane.

Speaker 1 Shane, how was the game last night?

Speaker 1 We're talking to you, Jerry. Oh, sorry.
Oh, sorry.

Speaker 1 I thought you were talking to Shane. No.

Speaker 1 Oh, man.

Speaker 1 The game was crazy. First of all, I got to tell you, Max, Max, put your head up.
Come on, Max. Max, I can hear you.
I can hear you.

Speaker 1 Max, just put your head up. Stop sitting there and sulking and stuff.
First of all, I will say this. The birds travel so well.

Speaker 1 I mean, there is so much green in that stadium. It was basically an Eagles home game.
And I will say, Eagles fans are so fun.

Speaker 1 The atmosphere is just electric. That said, Max, chin up.
Come on, Max. Chin up.

Speaker 1 Max, chin up. I'm listening.
I am listening. Yeah, but why are you like all hunched over and like staring down and stuff?

Speaker 1 Okay, there we go.

Speaker 1 There he is.

Speaker 1 There he is. There's my Maxie.
Okay.

Speaker 1 That said,

Speaker 1 your team cannot run the ball at all. I watched with my eyes.
Shout out Game Time app. Thank you for the tickets.
12 days of Game Time. Go to the Barstool Sports Store.

Speaker 1 You can get all the Game Time credits and stuff. Great app.
The tickets are the cheapest on Game Time. You can sell your tickets.
I love it. That's how you do an ad, Hank.
You like that, right?

Speaker 1 Mm-hmm. That said,

Speaker 1 that said,

Speaker 1 Saquon, every time he runs into the interior, he just crumples, sort of like you are right now. Like there's like a crumpling of him.

Speaker 1 It's not even, I don't know what's going on if it's with Saquon, if it's with your line.

Speaker 3 When they bounce it outside, he rips off a 50-yard touchdown.

Speaker 1 Early in the first quarter, he ripped off three, like 30 yards, boom, boom, boom, on the outside, on the right side of

Speaker 1 the Chargers. But

Speaker 1 if you can't run the ball,

Speaker 1 if you can't hand the ball off to Saquon and get

Speaker 1 three, I'm talking three yards.

Speaker 1 Max, you're you're done.

Speaker 1 Stop watching. Move on.

Speaker 1 Yes, I agree. Oh, this is good.
I agree with everything that you're saying. Jerry, I have a question.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 3 You mentioned Saquon.

Speaker 3 Is Saquon on our fantasy team?

Speaker 1 Dude, Saquon is on our fantasy team.

Speaker 1 We needed just over 13 points from him last night to get into the playoffs.

Speaker 1 And I got to tell you, I actually didn't bet on the game last night

Speaker 1 because I was like, I have too much at stake. There's what more do I need? Do I need more at stake here? Right.

Speaker 1 And when he ripped that run off, it was

Speaker 1 honestly, I haven't felt like that since

Speaker 1 Hanky and I were watching game one

Speaker 1 Celtics Knicks. Yeah.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 2 I don't know if you saw anyone last night, too.

Speaker 1 The guy I was with, I was grabbing him and like whispering, like,

Speaker 1 oh, fucking Saquon. Yeah.
It was, he really showed up for us right when he needed to.

Speaker 1 I just got to say, like, getting back to Max and the Eagles, though. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Also, what was going on? Because I wasn't watching on TV, so I didn't get any commentary. Oh, by the way, Met Joe Buck in the booth.
Yeah. Dude, it's so funny.
I'm very respectful.

Speaker 1 He's doing live television. I'm sort of hanging off on the side, you know.

Speaker 1 He gets a break. He's there.
Joe Buck makes a B line for me and goes, Hey, you do your interview for the part of my take book yet? And I was like, Oh my gosh, I can't believe it.

Speaker 1 We were laughing so hard. It's so funny.
Like, all roads lead to

Speaker 1 you guys. Um, what a great guy.
Holy mackerel,

Speaker 1 he is the best. What a um,

Speaker 1 he didn't have to say anything. He's working live television.
Also, met Troy Aikman.

Speaker 1 Not joking.

Speaker 1 I really believe, just judging him physically, tomorrow he could play for the Colts.

Speaker 1 He is in such, he is in, I'm going to say it, he's in the best shape I've ever seen him in. Wow.
That's high. Wow.

Speaker 2 This is your first time meeting him.

Speaker 1 Was this your first time meeting him?

Speaker 1 First time meeting him. I met him in a bar.
So that checks out.

Speaker 1 But that checks out that's the best shape you've ever seen him in.

Speaker 1 I actually saw him, and I don't do this. I don't,

Speaker 1 you can ask Hank. I don't like touch people inappropriately.
That's like my thing. I respect people's boundaries, like their eardrums and stuff.

Speaker 1 When I saw him, I was like, I got to see if this is real or if it's like

Speaker 1 implants. So I went, oh, Mr.
Aikman, it's such a pleasure to meet you. Shook his hand and then with my left hand, like touched his like deltoid and stuff he is he could play honestly colts

Speaker 1 get give troy a call just yeah

Speaker 1 um but yeah you have a problem those picks that jalen threw oh what happened in the end zone did was that a pass to um

Speaker 1 who who was that a pass to A.J.

Speaker 3 Brown. Are you talking about the drop?

Speaker 1 I'm talking about the interception. The final player.
I think it's between between Jahan Dotson. Jahan Dotson.

Speaker 1 Did it hit Dotson's hands? What are we doing?

Speaker 1 He was at the game. He's recap.
We always do this. We recap guys from the game.

Speaker 1 Hey, dude, I just haven't seen it. I wasn't on TV.
I was there live, so I couldn't see. And also, shout out to GameTime.
GameTime app is awesome.

Speaker 1 But my seats were in one end zone, and they were in the other end zone.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 I didn't want to spend all the money and get in the middle of the field.

Speaker 1 But they were still great seats. Game time is incredible.
That's how you do an ad, Hank. Um, cheapest prices, easiest resale.
Um, any notes for me on that ad, on that read, Hank? No, you crushed it.

Speaker 1 It was fine.

Speaker 3 Yeah, yeah, you were prepared.

Speaker 1 That's the big thing. Jerry, do you have any last words of encouragement for Max?

Speaker 1 Uh, no, Max. Uh, on honestly, Max, let it go.
Start thinking about Phillies in spring training. It's over.
Chin up, though. Come on, Max.
Don't like hunch over like that. Yeah, there we go.
Chin up.

Speaker 1 There, there's that beautiful face. Yeah.
I love seeing you. Jerry, good.

Speaker 3 Did you get a chance to see Big Dom on the sideline interacting with the guys?

Speaker 1 It's so funny. I was looking for him and I was trying to get like a photo of him.

Speaker 1 I got to say, a lot of the coaching staff on the Eagles look like Big Dom. I mean, a lot of people, I didn't, and I didn't want to like,

Speaker 1 I know Hank almost got canceled on Monday show

Speaker 1 for,

Speaker 1 you know what, but

Speaker 1 I didn't want to film one person and then have the Italian-American community be like, that's not Big Dom. We don't all look alike.
How dare you? You're dead to us.

Speaker 3 Yeah, yeah. That's better safe than sorry.
All right.

Speaker 1 Well, Jerry, you're the best. Thank you.
I mean, we always do this recap from a game live.

Speaker 3 You're the best. Thanks for being our eyes and ears, Jerry.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Otherwise, we wouldn't have known. Shout out GameTime app, 12 days of game time.
Go to the Barstill Sports Store. They have just incredible feels right now.
What an app. I love it.

Speaker 1 Just seeing that green

Speaker 1 store.

Speaker 1 Let him go.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he's been doing the

Speaker 1 Barstool Sports Store. It's part of the 12 days of game time.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah. Hank doesn't know that.

Speaker 3 Yeah, because he doesn't read the ad copy.

Speaker 1 All right. Thank you, Jerry.
You're the best.

Speaker 1 Hank, you blew it. You blew it.
You blew the game time read. You blew it.

Speaker 3 Thank you, Jerry. All right.

Speaker 1 See you, Jerry.

Speaker 1 Bye-bye, Jerry. That was the best, Jerry.
Thank you, Jerry. Max, let's...

Speaker 1 You're obviously, you know, ready to move on.

Speaker 1 We have one last thing we have to ask because this is obviously the big elephant in the room. The bunny?

Speaker 1 I mean, we all knew what...

Speaker 1 We tried to convince ourselves about that.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God.

Speaker 3 We got you something, Max, to help cheer you up. Max, look at that.
It's a positivity rabbit. A positivity rabbit.

Speaker 3 It's actually the donkey from Shrek, but we drew a bunny nose and whiskers on it to make it. Isn't that awesome?

Speaker 1 Do you want it or no?

Speaker 3 Do you feel better? No. No positivity? Nope.
What?

Speaker 1 So, what are we gonna do with the bunny? We're gonna rip it up.

Speaker 3 I guess I have to destroy the rabbit.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yes. What are we gonna do with the bunny in the Eagles locker room? What's Hank doing over there?

Speaker 3 I also got-I think you should get another bunny. I got you a positivity

Speaker 1 bear. A positivity bear.

Speaker 1 Do you want this one?

Speaker 3 Let's get positive.

Speaker 3 Max, I got. We have another positivity reindeer.

Speaker 1 Max, look at this. The positivity bear.

Speaker 3 Does that help you feel better?

Speaker 1 What do you have, Hank?

Speaker 1 And a dog. What do you have? You have a dog? Oh, no, it's a bear.
It's a bear as well. This looks a good idea.

Speaker 1 Max, look at all this positivity we got for you. Do you not like it?

Speaker 3 I feel better.

Speaker 1 I feel way better. Max, can you at least talk to us? Because there's people listening to the show show right now he's destroying oh no he's destroying my bunny don't destroy the bunny max

Speaker 3 max don't destroy the bunny max put the bunny down

Speaker 1 oh no there's the positive there's no soulmate in front of the door he just walked into another positivity thing

Speaker 1 max

Speaker 1 max we're getting positive what's wrong this is that was up you had pug out there doing that pug's an eagles fan yeah max i feel so much better

Speaker 1 What's this? Oh, oh, look at this, Max. A positivity dog.

Speaker 1 Look at.

Speaker 2 Oh, my bear's dying.

Speaker 1 Oh, no.

Speaker 1 Max, do you want any of these or no? Can you put your headphones back on? We got to talk.

Speaker 3 He's hiding underneath a sweatshirt.

Speaker 3 He's disappearing himself.

Speaker 1 Max, this is...

Speaker 1 Look at it. Zach.

Speaker 1 Tell us. You feel positive, right? I see.
I know what's going on.

Speaker 7 It was pretty positive in this room. I mean, we just got...
We got bunnies everywhere. We got quite a few different animals.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 7 Pretty positive. You guys feel positive?

Speaker 1 I feel really. I feel great.

Speaker 3 I really do. I think that this is the best thing for Max right now.

Speaker 3 Just put a smile. Turn that frown upside down, Maxie.

Speaker 1 Max, look at all this positivity. Come on, man.
This is fucking... We're as positive as possible.
What are you going to do with the bunny, though? You think they got to get rid of it, right?

Speaker 8 What are your thoughts on the bunny?

Speaker 1 Max. They got to get rid of it.
Max, talk. Please talk for the people.

Speaker 9 Max is saying the bunny is gone.

Speaker 1 The bunny, has it officially been gone? Is it officially gone?

Speaker 1 Can we at least agree?

Speaker 1 Yeah, the bunny is good.

Speaker 1 We all knew what was going to happen with the bunny.

Speaker 1 But you got mad at me for mentioning. Oh, shit, if you just spilled the water all over your computer.
That's okay. Good.
Because I know that's

Speaker 3 a positive bunny.

Speaker 1 That's the best news I've heard in a long time.

Speaker 3 I can't be mad about anything with this positivity bunny.

Speaker 1 It's cold water on it. Dude, I hope that thing is fucking fried.
It's so

Speaker 1 good. It's much water.
It's so much water.

Speaker 3 I've got like three more.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God.

Speaker 3 Yeah, we'll be okay over here.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I think, Max, looking back at it, because you did get mad at me on Sunday night when I pointed out having to say,

Speaker 1 we're not sad. Make sure that everyone knows we're not sad.
This bunny is not about being sad was probably not a great sign.

Speaker 1 I knew it wasn't a good sign. But you fought me about it.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay, but now we have a good sign here. We have so much positivity in this room.

Speaker 3 Can we just get a smile, Max? You're so much prettier.

Speaker 1 Just look up. Just look at the positivity, and then we'll be in.

Speaker 1 We'll unplug them all. All right.

Speaker 1 Look at it. You see it? Yep, done.
No, do a full scan. I just fucking looked.
You said look up. Full scan.
Yes, I see it. Give them up.
Give them names. Give them names.
Give them names. No names.

Speaker 1 You said to look and we'll be named.

Speaker 1 You said look up and we'll be done. I said, I looked up and done.
Give him a couple names real quick. Rapid fire.
Come on, rapid fire names and we're done. Give him some names.

Speaker 1 I can't trust you. You're not going to be able to do that.
No, I'm not going to let you get away with this.

Speaker 1 You're alive. You're right.
You're right. You're right.
You're right. That was fucked up.
But now I want some names for these guys. No.
Please. No.
Please, pretty, please.

Speaker 1 We're not doing this.

Speaker 3 Just do one. Let's talk about Phillip Rivers.

Speaker 1 Phillip Rivers. Oh my God.
He's going back to the Playboy. Let's just do one, Max.
90-yard touchdown. Woo! Max,

Speaker 1 what is this guy's name?

Speaker 3 See this guy right here?

Speaker 1 Just name one of them. Hey, Max.
One of them. Hope you're doing okay, buddy.
I'm just here to help.

Speaker 1 Five names, and we're moving on. We will wait wait here all day.
I'm giving zero names. One name.
We're not doing it. We're not doing it.
Why not?

Speaker 1 I swear to fucking God, I will wait here all day.

Speaker 1 We got to show down, boys. We got to show down.
I got nothing to do.

Speaker 3 Big Domkey.

Speaker 1 Oh, that's good. I like that.

Speaker 3 I like Domkey.

Speaker 1 We got a bear? A.J. Brown bear?

Speaker 3 Max, I think we just have to wait each other out here.

Speaker 1 Jahan Dachshund. Oh, that's good.
I like that.

Speaker 1 All right.

Speaker 1 Let's do a hot seat quilt roll. Let's talk about Philip Rivers in a hot seat cool troll.
Should we is this bad audio, Max? Can you put on your headphones and let us know if this is bad audio?

Speaker 1 All this stuff. Oh, this is.
We got.

Speaker 3 Look, hey, Max, it's Nick Diriani.

Speaker 1 BFT almost smelled his water again, but I put a cap back on.

Speaker 1 We played with tremendous joy last night. It's me, Nick Diriani.
I'm so filled with joy. I'm happy as the dickens.

Speaker 1 Okay. All right.

Speaker 8 I'm unplugging my backs.

Speaker 1 Look. All right.
Stand down. You're standing down.
We're going to do hot seat cool throne.

Speaker 1 Look at it. See? Oh, I got to say, this is kind of sad now.
Oh, no. Look at all them now.

Speaker 1 This is really, really big-time bummer.

Speaker 1 Damn.

Speaker 3 I think we can keep the donkey on.

Speaker 1 I agree. I agree.
Okay, let's. Yeah,

Speaker 1 you keep donkey.

Speaker 1 Let's do hot seat cool terone.

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Speaker 1 If you've taken a bad loss, oh, wait, did Max leave again?

Speaker 3 Yeah, he walked out.

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He's navigating all the stuff there. Okay, Body Armor Flash IV.
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Speaker 1 The tropical punch, and then we're going to do hot seat cool throne. Where's Max?

Speaker 3 Max, to quote himself,

Speaker 3 he hit the mute button on himself. Where did he go? He just left.

Speaker 1 He's got to come back. Let me assume bathroom.

Speaker 3 Why would you assume that?

Speaker 3 He walked towards the bathroom.

Speaker 1 He walked towards the bathroom. The bathroom.
Okay.

Speaker 1 Okay, let's do hot seat cool thrones.

Speaker 1 We'll fill in Max when he gets back. Hot seat, cool throne.

Speaker 2 All right, well, I'll start with my cool throne then.

Speaker 1 Okay, yeah, that's a a good idea.

Speaker 2 My hot seat was Max-related. My cool throne is Mike Tyson.

Speaker 1 Ah. Yeah.

Speaker 2 I'm assuming, I think he fought one of the Paul Brothers already. I'm assuming he's probably going to fight the other one at some point.

Speaker 1 That's fair.

Speaker 2 But he got tips from Conor McGregor on how to box.

Speaker 1 I saw that.

Speaker 2 My cool throne is Mike Tyson in his next fight, next inevitable fight versus Paul Brother.

Speaker 3 It was also great camera work when that was being done because it was Conor McGregor showing off the striking, and then the camera pans over to who he's teaching, and it's Mike Tyson sitting there like, yeah, okay, I got you.

Speaker 1 I got you. Legally, I would not like to accuse anyone of doing anything illegal, right? So, we're not going to accuse anyone.
All I'll say is, I have seen people

Speaker 1 high on Josh Allen before, myself included. Every time I see a clip of Conor McGregor, he looks like he's just put another bet on Josh Allen to win MVP.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 When was the last time there was a positive headline about Conor McGregor?

Speaker 1 I don't know. It's been a while.

Speaker 3 I feel like it's been a decade.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay, your hot seat?

Speaker 2 My hot seat, national sports broadcast, moving on from football. It's the Philadelphia 76ers.

Speaker 1 Oh, what's up?

Speaker 2 10 games ago, they were top of the division.

Speaker 1 But in the past 10 years. Max, put your headphones on.

Speaker 2 Celtics have gone 8-2.

Speaker 2 They beat the Pistons. They beat the Lakers.
They beat the Raptors last night. They beat the Wizards.
They beat the Cavs. 8-2, no Jason Tatum.

Speaker 2 They're now second in division behind the Knicks, and the Sixers are in third place.

Speaker 2 They've gone 5-5 in their last 10.

Speaker 2 Spiral, some are saying.

Speaker 3 And LeBron had, I think, 10 straight in the fourth quarter against him.

Speaker 1 Oh, wow. New streak?

Speaker 3 New streak.

Speaker 1 Max, can I say one thing to you that

Speaker 1 you're going to like? Well, maybe you won't like, but can I just say it to you? Can you listen to me? Sure. I guess this is just the entire fucking show.
No, it's not.

Speaker 1 All I'm going to say is about the positivity. National Lowers podcast.
Okay.

Speaker 1 Can I just say that we love you so much and we think about you so much that PFT and I, independently of each other, plan to get these blow-ups in the next one? That's the most important thing.

Speaker 1 It's the obvious thing ever. Obviously.
You didn't expect the snowman in the hallway.

Speaker 1 Admit that. Admit.
When you opened the door and you ran into the snowman, you did not see that coming. I just took a knife to that snowman.

Speaker 1 We love you, Max. We do.
Okay.

Speaker 2 Also, hot seat, me, kind of, because of the tan, Coach Missoula reached out and just said, tough fucking look.

Speaker 1 Oh,

Speaker 1 yeah. Oh, and then hot seat me, the coach of the self.

Speaker 1 Good point, Max. And then

Speaker 2 I had to explain Mount Rushmore to him, which I felt like felt like the most loser text of all time.

Speaker 1 Well, we do this Mount Rushmore competition in the summer where we rank things and the loser has to do a punishment.

Speaker 3 I think a lot of his interactions with you come on the heels of losing some contest where you have to do a punishment.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 Okay. PFT, you're hungry.
We got to get, we can't see PFT in the fucking camera. All right, I'll move it back.
It was good producer. Every time he talked, it was just Nick Diriani.

Speaker 2 No, no, no.

Speaker 1 No, this is.

Speaker 3 That's Big Domkey.

Speaker 1 Big Domkey.

Speaker 3 Here, put him up here.

Speaker 3 Big Domkey.

Speaker 2 That's the funniest Big Domkey's ever been.

Speaker 1 There he is.

Speaker 3 My hot seat is the NFL

Speaker 3 because Philip Rivers is back. Oh, yeah.
He's so back. He's 44 years old.
I thought it was a joke. It sounded like something that we would have thrown out there on Sunday as part of my take.

Speaker 3 Just in terms of like wishing something that would never happen is going to happen. He worked out on Monday night for the Colts.
Apparently that arm still works.

Speaker 3 He's a grandfather and the Colts have signed him. Tough scene.
Tough scene for the Ben Denucci's of the world.

Speaker 3 For anyone that did not make a roster this year, maybe a young quarterback.

Speaker 3 They're just kicking the tires on Phillip Rivers and he's coming back and he is now officially signed to the Indianapolis Colts.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's crazy.

Speaker 3 I'm so excited.

Speaker 1 I had the same exact feeling as you. I looked at it.
I quote-tweeted it.

Speaker 1 I saw the check mark, but after I tweeted, I was like, there's no way that actually was true, right? Yeah. No way.
But he's going to try to do this. And

Speaker 1 it's exactly what we want. Instead of seeing, no offense to Riley Leonard or whoever they could pick up off the street, give us Phil Rivers.

Speaker 1 Now he does have to, if he got signed to the practice squad, he is now,

Speaker 1 if he plays on Sunday against the Seahawks, who have quite a good defense.

Speaker 1 I thought that he would, I'm actually already so excited because when we were texting about it, my initial reaction was, this is mean, because I thought the Colts would sign him or the Colts would bring him in for a workout.

Speaker 1 They would see him be like, all right, you're 44 years old, dude. Thanks for coming in, but no, no thanks.
And I would have got my hopes up for nothing. Now they've, now we're, it feels like we're in.

Speaker 1 It feels like it might happen.

Speaker 3 No, they signed him. This is, it reminds me a lot of the Jeff Saturday head coach thing.
Yeah. This is kind of what they're doing just at the quarterback position.
I hope he'll be okay.

Speaker 3 I am a little bit concerned about his safety because Phillip Rivers is a grandfather and he's playing against that Seahawks defensive line. That doesn't seem like it's a good combination.

Speaker 3 This doesn't seem like a fix that is necessarily set up to last for the rest of the season. Yes.
They might just be going on a week-to-week basis. Yes.

Speaker 3 I honestly think they should sign Taylor Haneke. He's a free agent right now.

Speaker 1 That's pretty well.

Speaker 3 And he would be fun. He would be a fun quarterback.
He's good. He can be, you know, he takes some chances, like Jalen Hurts.
It's not always a bad thing when you throw interceptions.

Speaker 3 But this doesn't...

Speaker 3 I'm not optimistic, but I am hopeful. I want Phillip Rivers to play for the rest of the season.
I want him out there making his Phillip Rivers faces.

Speaker 3 I want him out there pretending to cuss while not actually cussing. The only downside to this, really is that his Hall of Fame clock has now been set back.

Speaker 1 Which I was like, maybe he did this on purpose because he was going to be in a class with Drew Brees and Eli Manning. Yeah.

Speaker 1 So maybe he's just going to keep doing this until he finds a class that doesn't have a lot of Hall of Fame quarterbacks.

Speaker 3 Why not call up Eli Manning? Yeah.

Speaker 1 See if he'll do it. Has Florio said that Kaepernick is working out yet?

Speaker 3 No, I don't think that we've reached that stage.

Speaker 1 Because it is a slap in Kaepernick's face that he's not getting a tryout.

Speaker 3 I would say, yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 3 If we're doing the Phillip Rivers thing, there's a lot of guys. Why not Brett Favre? I love it so, so much.
Like, bring all these guys back.

Speaker 1 What's Thibault up to? My guy, Cuddy.

Speaker 3 Johnny Manzel.

Speaker 1 There's a lot of guys that go through the business.

Speaker 3 Johnny Manzel threw for 300 yards in the game.

Speaker 3 People act like he doesn't have an arm.

Speaker 1 He doesn't play football. That's a good point, Peter.
Thank you. Okay, your cool throne?

Speaker 3 Yeah, Hank, do you have anything about that?

Speaker 3 About Phillip Rivers?

Speaker 3 You were itching to talk about him.

Speaker 1 Was I? Yeah.

Speaker 3 Oh, my cool throne is winning the breakups.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 3 Because Notre Dame is now going scorched earth on the college football playoff, and more specifically the ACC.

Speaker 3 So

Speaker 3 the athletic director, Pavacqua, is that how you say his name? Pavaqua.

Speaker 1 I just think of Matthew Bevalakwa. Matthew Beva.
The guy from Sopranos? Bavacwa.

Speaker 3 Bavacwa has been doing a bunch of interviews. He's been talking

Speaker 3 the ACC and saying that the ACC absolutely fucked them over, that they did, I think this is direct, quote, irreparable harm to the relationship with Notre Dame.

Speaker 3 Now, Notre Dame is not in the ACC for football, but they have, in Bavakwa's terms, a business relationship together.

Speaker 3 That business relationship might be done because the ACC seemed to have been advocating for Miami to get in

Speaker 1 over Notre Dame.

Speaker 3 So this is like more Notre Dame, a lot of sour grapes coming out of South Bend right now. And I get it.
Like, they're a good football team. And are they one of the best 12 teams in the country? Yes.

Speaker 3 Without a doubt, they are one of the best 12 teams. Will you apologize? I'm not going to apologize for getting in.
Never.

Speaker 3 You will never hear me say, I'm sorry that JMU is in the college football playoff. And guess what? We probably broke it.

Speaker 3 They should be thanking us. Notre Dame should be kissing my ass because

Speaker 3 JMU getting into this playoff, they will rewrite the rules for the playoff so this never happens again. Yeah.
And you'll be fine. You've got your little memorandum of understanding.

Speaker 3 You'll be okay in the long run. But they're very upset that that the ACC did not advocate strongly for Notre Dame, despite the fact that they are not in the ACC for football.

Speaker 1 Got it. Yeah.
I mean, it's the super conferences. Super conferences have screwed.
This is how we've led all the way down here.

Speaker 1 And ESPN having a big hand in this and having a super conference where you have two teams that didn't play each other,

Speaker 1 they played two common opponents. Yeah.
The dumbest tiebreakers.

Speaker 1 And they also set this up because they never thought that an ACC, a Power 4 conference champion, would be ranked lower than a Group of 5 team.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I mean, they set this up when the Big 12 and the ACC, that was what everybody was looking at.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's so stupid.

Speaker 1 But yeah, you shouldn't apologize. Yeah, like, I would,

Speaker 1 as a neutral observer,

Speaker 1 I would rather see Notre Dame and Texas or Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt, by the way, like, they just got forgotten in all of this.
Yeah. But Notre Dame, Texas, Vanderbilt.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I would rather see those games.

Speaker 3 Respect to Vandy, though, for trying to schedule another game. Yes.

Speaker 1 But at the end of the day, I, one, because I'm happy for you. And two, it's like a reap what you sew situation.
I'm like, all right, yeah, you guys fucked this up. Deal with it now.

Speaker 3 Yeah, listen, there's a very good chance that I have a very bad time watching the JMU, Oregon game, and it becomes, see, I told you this is why we don't let JMU into the playoffs. Yeah.

Speaker 3 There's a very distinct possibility that happens.

Speaker 3 So I'm just on a mission to cover. That's all I'm looking at.
Let's cover the spread.

Speaker 1 Let's cover the spread.

Speaker 3 Physically, Oregon is a much bigger team.

Speaker 3 I'm not confident at all. I'm not saying Jamie is one of the best 12 teams in the country.
I think that that would be an insane take to have.

Speaker 3 I'm just pumped that we're in it. And I'm glad that the CFP

Speaker 3 was so short-sighted with everything that it put the entire sport in this situation. But football is going to be fine.

Speaker 1 College football will be fine.

Speaker 3 They're going to change the rules. Notre Dame, you're going to get in next time this happens to you.
We'll all forget this ever happened. And just, but what if Jamie won, though?

Speaker 1 But just what if we won? I'm eating duck every day

Speaker 3 for the next 12 days.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 3 We're doing it.

Speaker 1 Is that your cool throne? No, your cool throne. Yeah, it's my cool tone as winning the breakups.
Yes. Yeah.
You should eat duck every single day. I did.

Speaker 3 I had duck last night. I'm going to have duck gumbo for lunch today.

Speaker 3 We're going to do duck every day. It's healthy, right?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Duck is very healthy. I'm Carson Wentz.
I'm out here just fucking assassinating ducks.

Speaker 1 Duck has to be healthy. My hot seat is...
So the one thing we didn't talk about with the Phillip Rivers thing, and obviously it's the Colts. I want Phillip Rivers to play.

Speaker 1 My hot seat is Chris Ballard. I'm going to put him back on the hot seat.
The GM for the Colts, I have to remind everyone, has been the GM for the Colts since 2017, nine years.

Speaker 1 He has never won the AFC South. Yeah.

Speaker 1 He's never won the AFC South.

Speaker 3 They looked like they were in a good spot when Daniel Jones was healthy.

Speaker 1 But were they? Yeah. Yes, they were, but they also were also like, Daniel Jones getting hurt gives you a nice excuse.
I don't know if they were going to.

Speaker 1 They were already falling down a little bit before that.

Speaker 3 Well, he had a broken leg.

Speaker 1 But when did he break his leg?

Speaker 3 It was like three weeks before, two weeks before he reported it.

Speaker 1 Okay, so it was, but what game was it? Do we know what game it was?

Speaker 3 I don't know. Daniel Jones.

Speaker 2 Three weeks ago, I called him frauds, and it was before all the Fibula stuff. Yeah.
When did he break it? And I was ridiculed.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 I'm wrong. I apologize.

Speaker 3 In terms of being frauds, I wasn't saying like Super Bowl, I don't think, but they were a good team.

Speaker 3 They were by far the favorite to win that division at the time.

Speaker 1 But they also had a really, really hard schedule coming up. Yeah.
What week, do we know when he actually broke his

Speaker 1 or first hurt his leg? Was it the Chiefs game? I think it might have been the Chiefs.

Speaker 2 I went four weeks ago and it came out three.

Speaker 1 I think it might have been the Chiefs.

Speaker 2 Three weeks ago came out two weeks ago.

Speaker 1 Either way, Chris Ballard, hot seat, because not winning the AFC South 9 street times is pretty crazy.

Speaker 3 I also feel like if you're Chris Ballard, you have to call some other quarterback too, right? Yeah. You can't pin the rest of your season on Phillip Rivers.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Zach, are you looking it up for me? No. You are.
You're trying to find it. When did he first get hurt?

Speaker 1 I would like

Speaker 1 to find out when he... I think it was the Chiefs game, I believe.
Because

Speaker 1 if it was maybe the Steelers game, I don't know. They had lost to the Steelers.
That was obviously when

Speaker 1 Seth went Savage. Yep.
Either way, their schedule

Speaker 1 is very difficult going down the stretch. It was always going to be very difficult going down the stretch.
Not to say they weren't a good team before that, but they also were beating some bad teams.

Speaker 1 So this is a nice excuse that they were right there, but I don't know if you want to fool yourself and say you were right there.

Speaker 3 They were, but they were in good position to win that division. Yeah.
That's what I'm saying. Like the roster, as it was.
And also Anthony Richardson breaking his eye in a pregame warm-up with a band.

Speaker 3 Not saying that Anthony Richardson is necessarily like the future of that team, but it would be nice to put him out there. It would be nice to not

Speaker 3 have to pick up the phone and call Phillip Rivers.

Speaker 1 It would be. Hank, I would say

Speaker 3 I'm so glad that they did call Phillip Rivers. Don't get me wrong.

Speaker 3 I'm so excited to see Phillip Rivers play football.

Speaker 1 I guess I should reverse it and put Chris Ballard on our cool throne because he's doing something we really are in favor of and calling Phillip Rivers.

Speaker 3 Yeah, the first thing that I thought of, though, was how mad I got at Kyle Shanahan for telling us that if the 49ers had beaten the Eagles to make that Super Bowl, when they had Brock Purdy go out with the elbow thing, that he was going to call Phillip Rivers to be their quarterback on one week practice for the Super Bowl.

Speaker 3 Yeah. How incredible would that have been?

Speaker 1 It would have been insane. All right, my cool throne is Penn State and Max.
We didn't talk about this on Monday. Max, Mac Campbell's a good coach.
That was a good for

Speaker 1 a coaching search that couldn't have gone worse. It ended up in a decent place.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he had a good press conference, too. So are you, that's good?

Speaker 3 Whatever.

Speaker 1 Okay. We've lost him.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 What do you think about his hat game Max?

Speaker 1 Where's hats?

Speaker 1 Big bend in the bill?

Speaker 3 Big curve?

Speaker 1 Couldn't tell you that I've thought too much about it. Max, are you at least excited that big gay Max takes a week off because you're playing the Raiders this week? We're going to lose to the Raiders.

Speaker 1 No, he's got

Speaker 1 big game

Speaker 1 college basketball. Big game Max? 17.5-point dogs.

Speaker 1 No, the big game Max is when Wisconsin plays filling over next Friday. Yeah, I'm going to that game, too.
That's going to be.

Speaker 3 Big game.

Speaker 1 Big game Max.

Speaker 3 Little game Max this weekend.

Speaker 1 Zach, your hot seat cool throne. Do we ever get an answer for when he

Speaker 1 we can't find it? It's in pot. Everything you look up, it just talks about the Achilles.
When did he first fracture his fibula? I don't know. I can't remember what week we talked about it.

Speaker 1 I think it was after the Chiefs game.

Speaker 3 You know what it was? The news came out the week of Thanksgiving. So that was week after the Chiefs.
We recorded it earlier in the week.

Speaker 3 But the news was also that he had been dealing with it for the last several weeks.

Speaker 1 Got it.

Speaker 3 So I'd say two weeks before the Chiefs game sounds like it would be the right track for it, which would be ⁇ would that be the Steelers game?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, they probably would have made the playoffs if he stayed healthy. I just didn't know.

Speaker 1 It coincides with the stretch of their schedule. I would have liked to see a healthy Daniel Jones play this stretch and see how good they could have been.
Okay, before this past week,

Speaker 1 it was two weeks? It was two weeks that he was playing through. Yeah, so it was the Chiefs game.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Okay, Zach, your hot seat cool to run.

Speaker 7 My hot seat this week is going to be oversharing on Twitter.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 7 Did any of you guys see former NFL cornerback Quinn Jammer on Twitter last night? Yes.

Speaker 1 I did, yeah.

Speaker 7 I mean, all the time, just true story. In 2011, I played completely shit face drunk at least eight games.

Speaker 1 Did you guys see the replies? Yeah. I did, yeah.

Speaker 7 He's ripping in the replies. Yeah.

Speaker 1 He is open book. It's crazy.

Speaker 2 And the video clips are so funny.

Speaker 3 I haven't seen the video clip. I saw somebody pulled up his stats and they were like, yeah, you were like the fifth worst cornerback in the NFL that year.

Speaker 2 There's a couple videos of him just like

Speaker 2 running without a care in the world, just kind of like taking long, no angles and just like looping around. Almost looks like he's like trying to run and do like a hell of like a plane run.

Speaker 1 Is he sober now, I would assume? I feel like that's something you don't say unless you're sober now.

Speaker 3 Or

Speaker 3 it could also be something that you say if you're definitely not sober. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I hope he's sober because, yeah, that was

Speaker 1 quite something to say, just to outright admit.

Speaker 1 Yeah, he was replying to people being like, yeah, I just have a couple tequila bottles.

Speaker 3 Yeah, tequila bottles on the sidelines.

Speaker 7 Yeah, he said he's ripping drinks through the game and the way home. Yeah.
Just never stop drinking. Yeah.

Speaker 3 I mean, who was the coach of

Speaker 3 the Chargers at that point?

Speaker 1 Would that be, is that norv marty it might have been yeah how do you not notice that your starting cornerback is hammered during games yeah i don't know i mean he played a long time in the league he was yeah he's a good player yeah so maybe they're just like hey he's a vet he handles shit differently he's he's got we're not gonna we're not gonna get involved here that's just quent it was uh marty and norv marty and wait what year did he say 2011 2011 was that was norv yeah all right your cool throne

Speaker 7 uh my cool throne this week is is

Speaker 7 Dodgers because MLB might just be over.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 Edward Diaz to the Dodgers.

Speaker 7 Three years, $69 million.

Speaker 3 Memes, what do you think?

Speaker 1 It's over.

Speaker 3 Dodgers won the World Series again.

Speaker 9 Just like that.

Speaker 9 Don't even do the season.

Speaker 1 Start to lock out now. It was the one thing that it was their one weakness, and they just got the best

Speaker 1 closure in baseball. But even last year when it was their weakness, they're like, we just have a bunch of starters.
We'll just make relievers.

Speaker 9 It's bullshit. But now they got the guy.

Speaker 3 I went to two Mets games at Rigley last year, and he was just the best player. You could bring the Trumpets with him.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
It would be nice if

Speaker 1 I actually think I'm secretly hoping that the Dodgers doing this type of stuff will just lead us to a salary cap. And then it's all solved.
So the Dodgers could save baseball while breaking baseball.

Speaker 3 Well, the thing is, if they had won the World Series more decisively, we'd be having that conversation right right now. But salary cap means strike.

Speaker 3 Yeah, salary cap means strike, which means no baseball.

Speaker 3 Salary cap slash floor, high floor. Same, same floor.
Very high floor.

Speaker 3 Same thing. What if it's just like

Speaker 3 a very short building? So you've got like a six-foot ceiling. The floor is so high that the ceiling doesn't really feel like it's.
You know what I'm saying? That would just make it small room.

Speaker 3 A small ceiling, which players wouldn't like unless the floor is also it's like a skyscraper and the only floor that is lived in on the building is at the very very top what if what if it goes a really wide salary cap to kind of spread the money around like come to a compromise go super wide with the floor

Speaker 1 whatever max i'm watching you stab this snowman that was sad

Speaker 1 why did you stab him That's holiday cheer.

Speaker 1 You guys wanted that's what you guys wanted.

Speaker 1 No, I did not. I wanted you to cheer up.

Speaker 3 That's why we got it.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah. Okay, let's get to our interview.
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And now here's Houston Texans head coach D'Amico Ryans.

Speaker 1 Okay, we now welcome on a recurring guest, very, very, very, very special guest. It is Houston Texans head coach Damico Ryans, the hottest team in football right now.
I'm going to say that.

Speaker 1 Does that make you uncomfortable, though? Just let's start there, giving you guys the hottest team in football moniker, because I truly believe it the way you guys are playing ball right now.

Speaker 8 No, it doesn't make me uncomfortable. I think the guys deserve they're doing a really good job, but understanding that you know, it may be the hottest team, but it doesn't matter, right?

Speaker 8 You just got to keep going out, executing, doing what we have to do to continue to win games.

Speaker 3 Are you a believer in rat poison, though? Would you like us, would you like us to say some mean things about the Houston Texans so these guys don't get a fat head walking around?

Speaker 8 Please give it to me. What you got?

Speaker 1 Oh, let's see.

Speaker 3 What can we say, Megan?

Speaker 1 Your offense still hasn't been very good. There we go.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Are we recording this? Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 Congratulations on figuring out how to run an offense inside the five-yard line.

Speaker 1 Yep. We could be mean.
Yeah. Now, you guys are great.

Speaker 3 Like, we want, we've actually been saying very nice things about you guys, but if it helps, we're happy to give you guys all the bulletin board material that you need.

Speaker 8 Yeah, no, all the stuff you guys say is for me, man, as I watch film and as I go through it, always keep our guys,

Speaker 8 you know, I keep them even killed. Understand, there's still a lot of things we have to clean up, even though guys are doing a great job of doing the most important thing, and that's winning.

Speaker 8 But there's still a lot of lessons to be learned, even in the wins that we have. And I'm always seeking that improvement.
So I appreciate that. You guys are spot on.
We're working on getting better.

Speaker 1 Yeah. So this last game against the Chiefs, it was a great game, playoff atmosphere.

Speaker 1 You know, the defense was...

Speaker 1 Incredible what you guys did to the Chiefs in terms of Patrick Mahomes throwing three picks.

Speaker 1 The game, though, felt like it turned on that fourth and one call by the chiefs now you used to play for andy reed were you shocked on the sideline that they went for it on their own 30-yard line in that like with 10 minutes left or were you prepared for it and like hey they're gonna do this all the time Yeah, you know, going into the game, I was prepared for just seeing the comments and things that they said throughout the week of how this was a huge game for them, knowing like their season, everything was on the line.

Speaker 8 So anytime those four down, I was just throwing my hands up, making sure the defense stayed out there, stayed alert, making sure we were prepared. We had a call ready for the moment.

Speaker 8 So it didn't surprise me because a lot of times, you know, Patrick Mahomes has done a ton of his career of making guys pay in those moments. So I see why, you know, Andy would go for it.

Speaker 8 Just he's trusting his players, believing in his quarterback to make a play.

Speaker 1 How much fun are you having right now watching your defense play? Because there is something about... Defensive football where it's you guys are so violent, you're so aggressive that it's like

Speaker 1 it's you know, everyone wants points in this league, but there's something about playing defense at the level you guys are playing at that is it like it brings me joy to watch because it's just what you guys are doing and attacking.

Speaker 1 Do you feel that when you're watching your defense out on the field?

Speaker 8 Man, I definitely feel the joy. I feel the excitement.

Speaker 8 I wish I can get out there and play with these guys because they make it look like so much fun out there playing, but they're playing together, man. That's what I truly believe in.

Speaker 8 Like, it's about stopping people.

Speaker 8 Like, everybody gets caught up in the offenses and scoring points and everybody wants to see more points scored I get it from a fan perspective but for me how do you win games you win it by getting critical stops and that's what's fun about watching our defense on third down the way they go out they perform get off the field it's exciting it's exciting to see and excite it's exciting for me just to see it all come together right to see guys truly play for each other Yeah, what are those battles like in practice when you've got the ones on the ones and your defense going up against your offense and i i have to imagine that you know your defense can stop anybody uh so what's that dynamic like between the two two parts of your team yeah we do a we do a competitive period where we do a third down compete period every week and it's been pretty lopsided for most of the year our defense has been winning a lot of those but when cj came back for the past couple weeks he's he's gutted us on a lot of a lot of plays so it's balancing itself out now so it's very competitive when we do those periods And I love it when you go just good on good in season to make sure the competitive fire, the competitive spirits are still up with our team.

Speaker 8 Always enjoy watching that.

Speaker 1 I got a dumb question for you. And I hope you take this the right way.

Speaker 1 But well, it's a compliment, but I would assume that most of your beat reporters in Houston are not doing the same thing asking these questions. We have you ranked.

Speaker 1 top three most attractive head coaches in the NFL.

Speaker 1 Are you cool with that? Do you think that's a fair ranking?

Speaker 1 Oh, man.

Speaker 8 Hey, I'm in the top five. I'll take it.
Let's go.

Speaker 1 You're top three. You're top three.
You might be one. You honestly might be one.
And, like, I don't know if it's like, listen, guys should be able to compliment guys. Like, you're an attractive guy.

Speaker 1 Good looking dude. Yeah, it's Matt LaFleur, Andy Reed, D'Amico Ryan.
Yeah. Let's go.

Speaker 8 Let's go.

Speaker 1 Andy, Miko.

Speaker 8 Let's go, baby. Top three.
I love it.

Speaker 1 Do you, do you, like, prep your look when you're going out for a game or you're not even thinking about that because you're just so good looking, it doesn't matter?

Speaker 8 You know, I have to do a really nice nice job of cutting all this hair off my head and making sure i'm looking really nice and clean out there so it takes a lot to keep up this look okay yeah i told zach before we did this interview i wanted to i actually did want to ask you about the hair how often do you do you bick it oh man it's probably a couple couple times a week probably two three times a week Okay, because I've never seen you once with any sort of growth.

Speaker 3 I didn't know if it was an everyday thing, if you had done it twice in a day before. There's never been a five o'clock shadow there.

Speaker 8 I try to eliminate the five o'clock shadow. I tell my kids i'm gonna grow it out and my daughter she's like daddy don't do that

Speaker 1 wait if you did

Speaker 3 i'll keep it fresh and clean if you did grow it out do you have a full head of hair i do not man it won't probably look about the same so it's i mean that's you know we always hear coaches and sometimes podcasters saying if uh if your team wins a super bowl or a championship you'll shave the head.

Speaker 3 You should do the opposite. If the Texans win the Super Bowl, grow it out for six months.
Yeah.

Speaker 8 Yeah, I probably should. Just, man, be somewhere just relaxing, grow out the full beard, the full head of hair, see what I look like then.

Speaker 3 I do have another question about your defense.

Speaker 3 In terms, because it seems like you got a lot of leaders and a lot of guys that take, you know, responsibility and pride in playing hard and hitting hard.

Speaker 3 Is there one guy that you look at that sets the tone for the rest of the defense out there?

Speaker 8 Man, it's hard to really say. And that's a good thing.
It's a compliment to the entire defense. But, you know, I would say it's probably three guys guys who I can go to.

Speaker 8 Number one being Kamari Lassiter, like even from the corner spot, he can set the tone. You got Jalen Petrie at the nickel safety position.
He can set the tone. Then you got Aziz, Al-Shair.

Speaker 8 So those three guys,

Speaker 8 out of one of those guys, I know somebody is going to pop it off. Somebody's going to lay a physical hit.

Speaker 8 Somebody's going to make a big play that's going to spark our entire defense and make the energy just go through the roof.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's crazy watching you guys play. Like like even that Thursday night football game against the Bills.
You guys beat the fuck out of Josh Allen.

Speaker 1 It's like it's the physicality that's just it pops off because you don't see that as much in today's NFL.

Speaker 8 Yeah, it's really hard to do, right? So many rules protecting the offensive player, so you got to do it and do it in a legal way.

Speaker 8 But I love that our defense is showing people that you still can play a physical brand of football.

Speaker 8 You can do it clean, and people are still, or people can still be excited about defense, making big plays, making big hits. So, I love the way our guys are playing.

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Speaker 1 Okay, back to D'Amico Ryans. Are you, so I know you guys, you know, most coaches are, it's week to week.

Speaker 1 You're going, you know, you're focused on Arizona right now, but have you taken a little peek at the schedule and are you nervous about Philip Rivers?

Speaker 8 Philip Rivers, is he back?

Speaker 1 He signed signed with the practice squad for the Colts today.

Speaker 8 Man, congrats, Phillip. Man, I just, that's awesome.
Yeah.

Speaker 8 Phillip's older than me, man.

Speaker 8 I think he's going to do a great job there, though. You know, Shane, he's been with Shane before, so I can understand why Shane is getting.
He knows how to run the offense, right?

Speaker 8 He knows how to go out and make great decisions with the football. So, man, I'm excited to see Phillip.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 Did you guys have any battles back in the day?

Speaker 8 Yeah, he probably got the best of me every time.

Speaker 1 He's

Speaker 8 such a gutsy player, man. Such an elite performer.
You know, back in the day, you had Antonio Gates, Darren Sprolls, man, those guys were unstoppable.

Speaker 8 So, you know, it's, man, I'm excited to see a guy like that be able to get back into the league.

Speaker 3 You were saying earlier about how you're looking critically about your team, figuring out what you need to improve on every week, where you're lacking.

Speaker 3 What's the main key this week?

Speaker 8 The main key is, and watching the Cardinals and watching them play. I mean,

Speaker 8 it's a really good team, good offensive team, good defense. They've been in a lot of tight battles.
So it's not a game, I would say, for our team where you just sometimes you look at the record.

Speaker 8 I know I go home, my daughter's like, oh, yeah, they only won this amount of games. It's like, no, baby, it's not that easy.
Like, it's the NFL. And Jacoby Brissette is playing really great football.

Speaker 8 Really like the way he's playing the quarterback position. He's doing a great job.
So for us, a key for this team is we got to be on our details.

Speaker 8 I had a lot of things to clean up for us offensively from our last game, also defensively with some communications, coverage identifications and communications.

Speaker 8 So things that we definitely have to clean up and we have to be on it because if we're not, this is a really good football team despite their record. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. So the, I want to go back to the beginning of the season, 0-3 start.

Speaker 1 I know that, like, you know, coaching staffs have belief and they don't get deterred. And I understand that.

Speaker 1 We sit on the couch and watch the games. We're humans.
So when a team team starts 0-3, we're like, oh, they suck. They're done.
Was there any part of you that had a little doubt in your head?

Speaker 1 We're like, oh, shit, like, this is not going our way.

Speaker 8 I never had a doubt in my mind because if you really look at the games that we lost, like, we're right there in those games. And we lost those games in the fourth quarter.

Speaker 8 Like, all of them, like the last drive of the game is where we lost those games.

Speaker 8 So for me, it's like, no, man, all we have to do is just make a play here, make a play there, and we can be undefeated so that's how i was looking at the 0-3 start i wasn't looking at it as a a down year we suck i was looking at it man as coaches as players everybody find a way to make that one play if you find a way to make that one play our record could be flipped and the guys have just stayed the course no matter how it's looked throughout the season no matter how games have looked guys have stayed the course made the plays we needed to make and we finished games the right way which has allowed us to be in the position we're in right now all right so i was definitely in the doubters' camp.

Speaker 1 Every year for the last nine years

Speaker 1 on this show, a team that starts 0-2 with Super Bowl aspirations, I call, I say it's done. They're done.
They're not going to win the Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 And part of me saying that is that if they do win the Super Bowl, I'll cut off the tip of my pinky.

Speaker 1 You guys are my pinky team this year. It's, I'm very nervous.
So the only times that I think the 20, was it 2017 or 18 Texans?

Speaker 3 It was 20, yeah, maybe 2017.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, 2018. They were a pinky team.

Speaker 1 Last year's Rams team was the pinky team. So I've only, I think out of the nine years, only two of the teams have gone to the playoffs.
You guys look like you're going to go to the playoffs.

Speaker 1 Like, if you win the Super Bowl and I have to

Speaker 1 cut off the tip of my pinky, will you at least let me do like a make-a-wish, like come down to camp and like, you know, like put on the pads and run a play with the boys? Like, do something for me?

Speaker 8 we make that super bowl you can do whatever you want baby you're welcome here at any time okay

Speaker 1 i mean just think about it though like when you're if you're in the super bowl and you're like getting ready for the game you should be like there's there's a podcaster who's whose pinky's at stake here maybe think twice like i'm a father as well like just think twice about it i don't know we'll let you save that pinky you can still come down and run some plays for us or at least send him like a get well soon card while he's in the hospital oh maybe maybe we could maybe we could figure out a way like if I, if I pussy out of the pinky, maybe like Will Anderson gets to blindside sack me.

Speaker 1 Oh, you know,

Speaker 1 or maybe send him a ring.

Speaker 1 Yeah, send him a pinky ring. Yeah, send me a pinky ring.

Speaker 1 Pinky ring. That's a good one.
I'm officially nervous, though, because I thought you guys were cooked. I'm an idiot.
I'm a moron.

Speaker 1 And yeah, that's at stake right now. So you guys are my pinky team, and

Speaker 1 it's very scary with the way you guys are playing football.

Speaker 8 Yeah, man, it's the beautiful thing about sports, right? That's That's why we all love sports. Like, no one truly knows what's going to happen.

Speaker 8 Everybody has their opinions on how things are going to go, but that's the beauty of it, man. You don't know what's going to happen.

Speaker 8 Like, that's why you continue to stay locked in throughout a game, throughout a season. So many variables at plays, man.
That's what makes it so exciting.

Speaker 8 That's why I enjoy the competition of sports because it may look like you're down and out, but man, you keep punching. You keep swinging no matter what.
And things can flip for you at any given time.

Speaker 8 And that's where our team is right now. Yeah.

Speaker 3 After the uh sec title game were you like alabama's down and out

Speaker 8 man that was that was it hurt us i mean for me watching that game i thought i thought they were out but they found a way to get back into the playoffs and now hey they have new life you're in the playoffs 0-0 rec like let's go see if they can go and beat oklahoma be a great matchup know oklahoma is going to be a rowdy place let's see if it can can turn the tide and find a way to get a win you think alabama can win the championship this year take it one game at a time.

Speaker 8 And I think, you know, with this team, again, you never know what can happen.

Speaker 8 Can they win the championship? I think, yes, they can. Every team that's made the playoffs, they're deserving of it, and they have an opportunity to win it.
You just got to go out, you know, and

Speaker 8 make the plays you need to make the win it.

Speaker 3 I like that you do coach speak even for teams that you don't coach. Like,

Speaker 3 do you have an NBA team that you root for?

Speaker 8 We're rooting for the Rockets, man.

Speaker 3 So if I were to say, like, do you, do you think they can win the NBA championship this this year? You'd be like, we got to take it one game at a time.

Speaker 1 You can't overlook anybody.

Speaker 8 Yeah, no.

Speaker 8 Why would you overlook anybody, man? You got to go out. You got to take that approach every single time with me as sports because who are you overlooking?

Speaker 8 Like, that's, to me, to overlook somebody is disrespectful to your opponent. Like, we're all professionals.
All those guys. play hard.
They want to win the game. So you don't have anybody to overlook.

Speaker 8 You got to go out and play your best every single time.

Speaker 3 You overlook somebody. You might end up cutting your pinky off.

Speaker 1 It's a good life You don't want to do that. No, you do not want to do that.

Speaker 1 So it does feel like your season, you know, obviously the 0-3 start, but it really turned on that Jaguars game, when you guys were down 19 and Davis Mills brings you back.

Speaker 1 Was there anything shared in the huddle or, you know, before that comeback where it's like, oh, it's Davis Mills time?

Speaker 1 Because he was phenomenal and he did a great job as a backup in those three games that he started.

Speaker 8 Davis was outstanding. I mean, in that stretch of games, Davis were able to win three games for us.
I mean, that's why we are where we are right now.

Speaker 8 It's because of what Davis did for us, and especially in that Jacksonville game. It was nothing said.
It was just Davis going through his progression. He saw an open there.

Speaker 8 He took it, was able to run the football in, and it was the huge play that we needed to flip our season. So, I mean,

Speaker 8 this season can't be talked about.

Speaker 8 without talking about Davis and the job that he's done for our team, just being a backup quarterback, going in, handling your job, handling business the right way, and winning games for us.

Speaker 8 So, man, shout out to Davis. He's done an outstanding job and, you know, exciting to have your, excited to have a backup quarterback of his caliber.

Speaker 8 Quarterbacks are hard to come by and let alone to have a guy, you know, sitting in a ringer who can go out and win a couple games for you.

Speaker 8 Man, that's, we can't be, we couldn't be more happy with Davis.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Just how big is his neck?

Speaker 1 It's big, right? Like, we don't know. We've never met him, him, but we see it on TV.
Is it, are you ever like, whoa, that is a big neck, dude?

Speaker 8 You should meet him, man.

Speaker 3 No, we appreciate him.

Speaker 1 Yeah, we're Davis Mills fans.

Speaker 3 We're in Mills Mafia. Yeah.
And yeah, we. Mills Mafia.

Speaker 1 I like that. Yeah.

Speaker 3 When we start scouting quarterbacks, we measure up to the eyes. We don't measure above the eyes in terms of how tall they are.

Speaker 3 And by that metric, he's got a very efficient body in terms of maximizing his eyes height. So we appreciate him coming right out of the draft.

Speaker 8 Yeah. That's awesome, man.

Speaker 1 Wait, but you didn't answer the question: how big is his neck?

Speaker 8 Bigger than mine.

Speaker 1 It's a big neck.

Speaker 3 There was another moment this season that I thought

Speaker 3 may have been a pivotal point for you guys, too. Maybe you can share with us.
But when CJ Stroud said that we have to have hard conversations with each other, we're having hard conversations now.

Speaker 3 And we tried to kind of pick up that mantra. And we now have a lot of open, hard conversations amongst ourselves here at Barstool.

Speaker 3 What type of hard conversations were happening after that 0-3 start?

Speaker 8 Yeah, it's no hard conversations.

Speaker 8 It's a conversation about being a professional, right? Just as you guys are, you're expected to do a job and do it to the best of your ability. So it's nothing hard.

Speaker 8 I guess it's hard nowadays to hear the truth. And that's a lot of things, you know, that everybody has to.

Speaker 8 you know, be able to accept just in our society, like hearing somebody tell you the truth, hearing someone criticize what you're doing as a professional, like that's our role.

Speaker 8 And so for me, I always tell the guys the truth on it's either you did a good job or it's not good enough. We got to find a way to get better.
Some guys accept it well. Some guys don't.

Speaker 8 If you feel like that's, you know,

Speaker 8 that's a hard conversation, then maybe it is hard for you, but you have to get over it. Understand we're all men here.
We all have jobs to do.

Speaker 3 Some people can't, they don't like the truth sometimes.

Speaker 1 Tell the truth. No,

Speaker 8 everybody likes to be told how great they are, how great a job they're doing. And the criticism sometimes can come off as an attack, but it's not.
We're all here looking to improve.

Speaker 8 We're all looking to grow and get better.

Speaker 3 It's because we care about each other that we're able to tell the truth, right? Exactly.

Speaker 8 Do you guys have those conversations? Yeah, we do

Speaker 3 a lot. It happens all the time.

Speaker 1 Like, hard conversation. Let's do a hard conversation right now.
When you had, I can't remember what game it was, but you guys couldn't score from the one-yard line like 10 plays in a row.

Speaker 1 Were you like, this is hard conversation? I don't know if we can play football anymore.

Speaker 1 That's true.

Speaker 8 Yeah.

Speaker 8 it's a hard conversation it's a hard conversation when he can't get in from the one-yard line that's a tough one it's a tough one to take but it's true yeah

Speaker 3 different ways to figure it out like i'm sure nick chubb is probably really good at at listening to the hard conversations but is he capable of being a guy that has a hard conversation with somebody because i don't think i in all the mic dups that i've ever seen of nick chubb i don't think i've ever heard him actually say a word i think he's just like completely silent we love watching him play and he's a beast um but yeah i i guess really what i wanted you to do is just talk about nick chubb and and what he's like his presence on your team because he's one of our favorite running backs yeah one of my favorite guys too man really like you sat said on the mic'd up he's a quiet guy he doesn't he doesn't say much but he doesn't have to say much like you watch this guy work like man when guys are not even supposed to be in the weight room, they're done with.

Speaker 8 He's in there still working, still finding ways to improve his body, make sure he's ready to go. Like, he's just one of the hardest workers I've seen.
And he does talk to guys on the side.

Speaker 8 I see him chatting with guys during practice on the sideline, talking to everybody, rookies,

Speaker 8 O-line, receivers. He's talking to everybody on the side, but he's more of a one-on-one conversation type of guy.
He's not a me guy. It's never about him.

Speaker 8 It's truly a team guy who's one of the most competitive guys I've been around. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I saw a clip, I think it was yesterday. Will Anderson, who is an absolute game wrecker, unbelievable player.

Speaker 1 There was a clip from Sunday Night Football that after the game, Rodney Harrison was like, hey, why did you walk by me and not even like give me

Speaker 1 a head nod or like a hello? And Will Anderson explained that when he gets on the field before a game, he gets in such a zone that he'll even ignore his own family trying to say hello to him.

Speaker 1 Does he acknowledge you when he's in that zone or do you just leave him alone?

Speaker 8 Yeah, it depends on the game. Sometimes I have to leave him alone.
He's so locked in. He's going.
Sometimes I, but then if we are locked in, sometimes he shakes my hand so hard.

Speaker 8 I'm like, dang, I don't want to, I better not do that again. I better avoid this guy on game day because he is so locked in.
We're doing a team drill on game day, and he goes against our tight ends.

Speaker 8 And I'm like, oh, my goodness, this is the most violent play ever in warm-up. So he is completely locked in.
But when the, when the, that's what you want from a guy like him, man.

Speaker 8 He's always dialed in. You want your guys locked in like Will on game day because that's the most important thing that matters.

Speaker 1 Yeah, the way he described it was scary because it's like he goes to a different place. The fact that he's like, yeah, I ignore my family sometimes.
And then you watch it on the field.

Speaker 1 You're like, oh, that makes sense. He's just absolutely destroying quarterbacks, destroying games.

Speaker 1 He's just a weapon out there.

Speaker 8 He's the Terminator, man.

Speaker 8 That's why he has that nickname. He's the Terminator.
He goes, he's ready to destroy anybody. He's not worried about family.

Speaker 8 He's worried about destroying his opponent.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I thought that

Speaker 3 you guys might be a little intimidated going into last Sunday night's game after Andy Reid's comments that they were going to tickle your tonsils. When you heard him say that, what was your reaction?

Speaker 8 Right, what I'm doing now, just smiling.

Speaker 1 Like, okay, all right, Andy. All right, man.

Speaker 8 I guess they're throwing everything at us. So, if you guys are.

Speaker 3 Were your tonsils tickled at all on Sunday night?

Speaker 1 They were not. Okay.

Speaker 3 They're pretty cold. Good to know.

Speaker 3 After last year's loss, I was against the Chiefs.

Speaker 3 Was there any message that you took from that loss into this most recent Sunday night football game that you brought back up?

Speaker 8 You know, I didn't mention at all our game from last year, the playoff game. I thought it was something that was understood for most of our guys and it didn't need to be stated.

Speaker 8 Like we understood, you know, how our season ended there. But

Speaker 8 I didn't want to make it a big deal. Like, to me, I truly tried to make it like, as you guys said, a coach speak, like it was the next game.
And that's what I wanted our guys to focus on.

Speaker 8 I didn't want us to put Kansas City on this pedestal. I just wanted to go out and like, let's just play good football.
I don't care about the names on the jersey. I don't care who we're going against.

Speaker 8 Let's just go play. how the Texans play and let's just play relentless versus whatever happens.
Like just be relentless and let's just finish in the fourth quarter. That was my mindset.

Speaker 8 That was the approach. Had nothing to do with last year.
Yeah.

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Speaker 1 The Bills Thursday night game, I noticed something in that game. And we actually were doing a case race during the game, but I re-watched it after the next morning.

Speaker 1 That end of game, Deion Dawkins gets a false start. And I was like, I don't remember the Houston crowd having this much of an impact before.

Speaker 1 Have you noticed that this, like the crowd, and you guys have a true, do you notice that you have like a true home field advantage now?

Speaker 1 Maybe it's because of the way the defense is playing, but it's credit to the fans. Like it just feels different this year than it has in the past for the fans and the way the team's playing.

Speaker 8 Yeah, our fans have definitely improved. And that game right there was one of the best I've been a part of where our fans truly, they affected the opposing team.
And that's how it should be.

Speaker 8 You know, we're in a dome stadium. It can get pretty loud here when our fans are loud and into it.
And I think it does have a lot to do with, you know, it was an exciting game.

Speaker 8 Like our defense was playing really well and our fans felt that. And our guys actually felt the energy from our fans.
So anytime we can make it difficult, man, we need that all the time.

Speaker 8 And we need, you know, NRG to be a difficult place to play in. And they proved it the last time we were out.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it is. It's crazy.
Well,

Speaker 1 good luck the rest of the season. Not too much luck.
Just think about my pinky. Again, I'm a father of three.
I'll never do it again. So you can win a Super Bowl next year.

Speaker 1 But just think about it. Just have a little thought about it, okay?

Speaker 8 I got you, my man. Really appreciate you guys having me on.

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Speaker 1 Okay, let's wrap up the show with guys on chicks. Max, we taped the show in two different parts.
So we did the first part of the show earlier this morning, and now we're in the afternoon. Are we good?

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 3 You stabbed a snowman.

Speaker 1 That doesn't sound like it's good.

Speaker 1 We just did a hug. We just did a hug.
This doesn't need to be like an entire show. No,

Speaker 3 I'm just curious if you're feeling less stabby.

Speaker 1 I love you. Yeah.
I also think the Eagles are going to make the playoffs. I don't.
It doesn't matter. Okay.

Speaker 1 They're going to get blown out first round, win the Super Bowl next year, or at least make the Super Bowl next year. With the new OC.
With the new OC. Yeah, this is just how it goes.

Speaker 1 Get blown out in the first round, Super Bowl, blown out in the first round, Super Bowl. This year, you just have to get blown out in the first round.
Super Bowl. Next year, Super Bowl.

Speaker 3 Max, would you rather not make the playoffs and get a better draft pick?

Speaker 1 No,

Speaker 1 I want to first round blowout

Speaker 1 so that next year it could be Super Bowl. Would that be more embarrassing, though?

Speaker 3 What if they didn't make the playoffs? I feel like that would change.

Speaker 3 No, you're not understanding the play.

Speaker 1 I get it.

Speaker 1 I don't understand the pattern.

Speaker 1 Preferably by the Bucs, but I don't think it's possible to play the Bucs in the first round.

Speaker 3 Would you like to apologize for stabbing the snowman?

Speaker 1 Absolutely not. I wish I.

Speaker 1 If more were close to me, I would have stabbed them all. Yeah.
I just didn't like the one.

Speaker 1 I let you guys do your thing in your room over there.

Speaker 1 You think that good. I'm happy that you guys had your fun.
I didn't like it being so close. I just didn't like it close to me.

Speaker 3 Yeah. Max for stabbing.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 Max B stabbing. You are right.

Speaker 1 It would be a four-year trend. That'll work.
Four-year trend.

Speaker 1 Four-year trend. Go to the Super Bowl, get blown out in the first round, go to the Super Bowl, get blown out in the first round.

Speaker 1 It's a good trend. You'd sign up for that trend in the bread.
Anyone would sign up for that trend.

Speaker 1 I'd be signing up for that trend. Yeah.
All right. Guys on chicks.

Speaker 2 Why is my boyfriend so bad at keeping secrets? I know almost all of my Christmas presents, and I know he's proposing soon.

Speaker 3 Would you like him to keep secrets? That's the real question. Like, would you prefer that he just keeps stuff from you?

Speaker 1 Also, the proposing thing is bullshit. All girls know because they fucking tell their friends, and then their friends tell the guy

Speaker 1 what ring they want.

Speaker 3 A lot of people just go shopping for rings together now. Yeah, it's I feel like that takes a lot of

Speaker 3 the surprise out of it.

Speaker 1 So, this is not like you wanted him to know because the alternative is he surprises you in a setting you don't like with a ring you don't want. Think about that.
So, actually,

Speaker 3 yeah, I think it's just that women overall have such little trust in their guys to do a good job of picking a venue and a ring. Even present.

Speaker 2 You'd rather just get the Christmas present they want than. Correct.

Speaker 1 I also think there's something that, and this is just like our dog brains. If I buy something for someone, but I plan on giving it to them in like three weeks, I still want to tell them right away.

Speaker 1 Be like, oh, I bought you this. My engagement was a full surprise.
No idea. The ring wasn't.
The ring was not. Right, that's the thing.
But the time, the time. The time location.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 but the ring was time location but were there any parameters that were set for you zero she didn't say like not at a birds game no i just knew that that i didn't that would be a problem smart guy what uh did you you didn't even she didn't even know you were gonna be there right she didn't even know she i said i had had to work that thursday and then i went to her to her family's home in a different state.

Speaker 1 Wow. What a guy.
Yep. That's a forest.

Speaker 1 She was so surprised her sister asked her to get her nails done with her, and she was like, absolutely not. I don't feel like going to get my nails done.
Oh,

Speaker 1 she should have been, she should have known getting nails done.

Speaker 1 Stupid. Stupid by her.
Dom.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 2 Will I ever win the emotional sports battle with my fiancé?

Speaker 2 We were going to get married next fall, but after two years of watching his Saturdays be truly made or destroyed based on how the Tennessee ball is performing football, I've given up.

Speaker 2 We're getting married in May. When they lose, he's mad.
When they win but don't play great, he's mad.

Speaker 2 When they win and play great, he's happy, but now all he talks about is the next game or some player, and now I'm mad.

Speaker 2 I'm a Mississippi State fan, so I'm used to disappointment, but I don't let it ruin my days and weeks. Please advise.

Speaker 3 Well, fortunately, it's about to be Atlanta Braves season and Tennessee volunteers basketball season for Big T, so I think she should probably be able to cheer up soon.

Speaker 1 The real answer to this is also:

Speaker 1 when kids come, then yeah, you'll have,

Speaker 1 it will lessen a little bit because you can always drop on him something my wife hits me with that hurts every time. She'd be like, your bad mood, like the kids notice your bad mood.

Speaker 1 And then you're like, oh, fuck. All right.
You're right. Like, I can't be this upset about a game.
And then you, because you can't. That's crazy.

Speaker 1 Like, a little kid being like, why are you in a bad mood? Oh, the Bears lost. Like, you can't do that.
So that will be your, just hit him with that when you have kids.

Speaker 1 I think the kids should learn, though, that you you need to be in a bad mood yeah when your team loses but you can't have it yes but you can't have it like

Speaker 1 like instantly yes i don't get that comment but like if it's like a day after i get like hey it's monday we're having dinner and you're still in a bad mood that's why did daddy stab santa or stab the snowman well that was santa was it was a troll it's it but it is you're right like i'm allowed to still be in a bad mood right after a game it's when it carries over you can't be like you can't be

Speaker 1 this game has ruined my entire week. When it comes to

Speaker 3 kids, make you happier. When it comes to just being a guy, though, we bottle up our emotions so much.
I do think it's kind of healthy to be able to be angry after something, to be excited after.

Speaker 3 If you're mad, if you're sad, you can be like, I'm so fucking pissed off at my coach. I'm so mad about that call.
The refs, fuck the refs. I hate the refs.

Speaker 3 I feel like any emotional release for guys is a good thing overall.

Speaker 2 Why is it that I can make a joke to my coworkers and they look at me like I'm stupid? And then a week later, a dude can make the same one and it's the funniest ever?

Speaker 1 Say that again? Probably delivery.

Speaker 2 Why is it that I can make a joke to my coworkers and they look at me like I'm stupid? Yeah. Then a week later, a dude can make the same joke and it's the funniest ever.
You're not funny.

Speaker 1 Delivery.

Speaker 3 Yeah, it's all about the delivery. Also, maybe your male coworkers are heavier than you.
And when heavier people say things, it's funnier.

Speaker 3 It's actually a compliment that they don't think that you're funny. It means you're too skinny.

Speaker 1 I'd have to see a test case of how she's delivering this and if she's funny. But

Speaker 1 this reeks of like, why is no one laughing? I'm so funny. And everyone's like, oh, she keeps making these uncomfortable jokes.
Yeah. It's weird.

Speaker 3 So my recommendation would be put on like 50 pounds. Yep.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 And if it's a dick, it's probably like a dick joke. You got to.

Speaker 1 Yeah, if you're making a dick joke.

Speaker 3 Culture is not your costume.

Speaker 3 It also might be kind of hot.

Speaker 1 Or like a fart joke. Oh.
She talks about take a huge shit. No, you can't.
Oh. I just blew up the bathroom.
Oh.

Speaker 1 Oh.

Speaker 1 But if a dude says that. If a guy dude says that's fucking hilarious.
Like, fuck yeah, you did, bro. Let me go check.

Speaker 3 Wait, it sounds in this situation like there's a male coworker that's actually stealing your jokes.

Speaker 1 Yeah, doing the same jokes, but better.

Speaker 3 Like, yeah, aping your material. That's an issue right there.
I would go to HR. Mm-hmm.

Speaker 1 Absolutely.

Speaker 2 All right, this isn't a guys on check, but it's a good one to end on. In the nightmare scenario, that is the Texans and Packers make the Super Bowl.

Speaker 1 Oh, Jesus.

Speaker 2 Who will Big Cat and the rest of the crew be rooting for? A pinky being snipped or Packers get another one before the Bears?

Speaker 1 This won't even work.

Speaker 3 I think I would have to root for the Houston Texans. I won't even watch.
I think I would have to go for... I'm going to get...

Speaker 1 I think I have to start talking to a doctor or something again. Remember, I did that that year? I like talked to.
I think I'm going to have to talk to someone.

Speaker 3 I think if it's... What do you think about this, Big Cat?

Speaker 3 Texans, Patriots first round of the playoffs. How are you feeling going in that?

Speaker 1 I'm going to be nervous for every Texans game until they're eliminated. It's going to be the same as the Ramps.
They can win the Super Bowl. Yeah.
Like I'm fucked.

Speaker 1 I think they can absolutely win the Super Bowl. What's their percentage to make the playoffs? High.

Speaker 1 Very high now. And they have no one playing.
They're playing no one at the end of the season. I think they play the Raiders.

Speaker 1 I just have to hope their offense isn't good enough. That's really all it is.
I think I would have to root

Speaker 3 for the Texans because I would like to see the way that you would manage to get out, not get out of it in terms of abandoning it, but figuring out a way to have it done. I'm more curious about that.

Speaker 1 It's the tip of the pinky. It's like right.
I think I could just get it cut off right before the tip of the bone. Yeah.

Speaker 3 I might actually.

Speaker 3 What do the Packers trade for Micah Parsons?

Speaker 3 Two first-rounders. So those first-round picks are, they're both tied into Green Bay.
Yeah. So I'd probably root for the Packers then so that the Cowboys get a slightly worse pick.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that'd be nice of you. Yeah, I would just, yeah, I don't know.
I don't want to think about it, but I'm definitely thinking about it.

Speaker 1 I mean, I didn't tell, I didn't want to ask D'Amico Ryan's because he's probably can't talk about it, but I said this a couple weeks ago. I looked up, like, is Tank Dell going to come back?

Speaker 3 Because I'm nervous about that.

Speaker 1 But that's really it is.

Speaker 1 Their offense does, is not good.

Speaker 1 So you just hope that their offense stays not good.

Speaker 1 I think you're all right. I don't know.

Speaker 1 This is the most wide open. AFC is a gauntlet.
Is it? A gauntlet.

Speaker 1 You said you're not scared of any. The only teams you're scared of in the AFC are not in the playoffs.
It's still a gauntlet. It's not a gauntlet.
Your only scary teams are the Chiefs and the Ravens.

Speaker 1 So welcome, Matt.

Speaker 3 You've been trash-talking the entire conference.

Speaker 1 It's still a gauntlet. Someone's got to win it, though.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I need like a good old-fashioned,

Speaker 1 like, give me

Speaker 1 Rams Jags Super Bowl. That'd be fun.
That'd be great. Give me something like that.

Speaker 3 I'd definitely root for the Jags.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, America would probably root for the Jags.

Speaker 3 America's team. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Okay. Hey, you look good, by the way.
You look great.

Speaker 1 Yeah, the tan looks excellent.

Speaker 3 You look great.

Speaker 1 Shane is back. Shane.

Speaker 1 how are you doing?

Speaker 1 Tell us real quick. That was your first ever Chargers game.
You're a Chargers Super fan. How was it? It was unbelievable.
SoFi is insane. Yeah.
I have nothing really to compare it to, but

Speaker 1 it was crazy.

Speaker 1 Have you been in any other NFL stadiums? I went to

Speaker 1 ATT for WrestleMania, but it's like a different vibe. Yeah.

Speaker 3 What did you think about the way that the defense played?

Speaker 1 Defense was unbelievable. It was offense, super, super ugly game, but just

Speaker 1 unreal game. A lot of ups and downs.
Dude, that double fumble play was like the craziest up and down. Like, my heart was bumping through my chest.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I think that's the first time that's ever happened where you've had all that occur on the same play in NFL history.

Speaker 1 It was like, it was almost like... We already did this.

Speaker 3 Well, we're talking to Shane. He was at the game.

Speaker 1 Well, the listener has already heard this conversation.

Speaker 3 Don't speak for the listeners. Not with Shane.

Speaker 1 They have. Not with Shane.

Speaker 1 I just told you what the listener heard.

Speaker 3 Shane, from your perspective, how do you think the Eagles played?

Speaker 1 I think the Eagles, I thought, I mean, they were unbelievable on defense. Like,

Speaker 1 Herbert before overtime was pressured 72% or something like that. Yeah, yeah.
Which is just, I guess, like a record-breaking number.

Speaker 1 Defense was unbelievable. Offense was just, like, nobody was open for any team.
Did you say hello to any of the players?

Speaker 1 I did not. We were on the Eagles side.

Speaker 1 And so, yeah, so we saw Cooper DeGene and stuff like that, but didn't really say what's up.

Speaker 1 What's up to Coop?

Speaker 3 Did you get a chance to see Jerry O'Connell at all?

Speaker 1 I didn't know. Okay.
I was looking out for him, but I didn't catch him. It's a big stadium.

Speaker 3 Would you say that the defense played better or that the Eagles' offense blew a lot of chances? From your perspective at the game?

Speaker 1 I think the defense played better. There wasn't chances.

Speaker 1 Both scores, both touchdowns were from massive broken plays that just happened. What about when they got the the ball? It was first and goal from the two.
What about when they got the ball?

Speaker 3 It was first and goal from the two, Chaney.

Speaker 1 When was that?

Speaker 1 Yes, the Eagles got the ball first and goal from the two.

Speaker 1 They got stuffed on a run,

Speaker 1 and then Hurts threw a touchdown to A.J. Brown.
They got called back by a holding, and then it was a field goal. Yeah.
What about it?

Speaker 1 You said there was no chances. Well, yeah, but I mean, like.
He got you there. Dallas Goddard.
How about when? Dallas Goddard. How about when A.J.
Brown dropped the ball in the end zone?

Speaker 1 Was that a chance? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I mean, mean, well, you know what I mean. You said there were no chances.
I just gave you two chances. I don't know what.

Speaker 1 I've got no hostility towards you. I don't know what this is about.
I'm not. I'm not.
I'm not bringing it around. I'm not bringing it.
He's just standing fat.

Speaker 1 But those are, if in the grand scheme of things, the percentage of plays where there's chances, it's like 2%. There's nobody open at all.

Speaker 1 Either team. There was chances.

Speaker 3 And to Shane's point,

Speaker 3 what if 50% of Max's chances that he brought up were not touchdowns? Right. You're just getting stopped

Speaker 3 from first and goal from the two-yard line, and you got stopped, and then you committed a penalty, then you kicked a field goal. What about that chance, Shane?

Speaker 1 I didn't say that.

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Speaker 1 You want me to do it?

Speaker 1 I don't want to do it. Memes, I don't want to do it because you keep getting it and it like this.
Come on. Number three.
Three.

Speaker 3 I think that was Hank. I was Hank.

Speaker 1 I'm gonna cancel Hank. How did you

Speaker 1 get fall for that one? I'm gonna get I'm canceling Hank.

Speaker 1 You canceling him? I'm canceling him.

Speaker 3 Personally.

Speaker 1 No,

Speaker 1 just blasting that photo out.

Speaker 1 What number are you gonna pick now?

Speaker 1 I don't know. I'm just focused on canceling Hank.
Okay. This would be insane if it was.
100.

Speaker 1 I like that pick. Memes, you have a number or no?

Speaker 1 99 poke.

Speaker 1 Memes, you got a number? You're going to pick a number? 48.

Speaker 1 16. That's good.
Also, there's a big fear that

Speaker 1 memes gets it on the one time he doesn't pick three.

Speaker 1 That is going to be a very good thing. Yeah, I know.
That's a dangerous game of

Speaker 1 the three that we play. It is.
I'm going to go 57.

Speaker 3 I'll go 15.

Speaker 1 31. Like, 48 seems like such a better number than three.
It does. It does.
Like, I can see 48 popping up there, right?

Speaker 1 You want to swap, memes? You want to swap back?

Speaker 1 With what? With three? Hank?

Speaker 1 Is it on the table? Yeah.

Speaker 1 I don't want to get canceled.

Speaker 1 Go ahead, memes. You want to swap? Yeah.
Officially. Official.

Speaker 1 Official swap.

Speaker 1 This counts. No canceled.
Let's go. Oh, what if it's 48? Does he?

Speaker 2 No, no, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 1 No. All right, I'm going 57 for shout out to AWL Mike Davin.
He said, My girlfriend just watched the pod for the first time and guessed 13 for the lottery ball and said, Wow, that was so easy.

Speaker 1 Then I explained to her how important my memes has never gotten it, how he's never got it. She said, How has he never gotten it? She said, And then she guessed 57 for this one.

Speaker 3 That's a good guys on chicks question. Probably cheats on him.

Speaker 3 Oh,

Speaker 3 man.

Speaker 1 Does everyone else guess? Eight, 48, 48 coming up would be a problem. 57.

Speaker 1 Three coming up would also be a problem.

Speaker 1 34.

Speaker 1 You want to do one more? How many? He's 43 guesses away from beating Hamlet. No, now he's 42.
42. I can guess it.
So you guys.

Speaker 3 Same numbers?

Speaker 1 Yeah, same numbers.

Speaker 1 You didn't catch it. You didn't get it.
Did. Wait a minute.
Did. Nope.
Nope. Nope.
Nope.

Speaker 1 Nope.

Speaker 1 Nope. Nope.
So this is three.

Speaker 1 seventy-four.

Speaker 1 Seventy-four.

Speaker 3 Love you guys.