Almost Athletes with Dude Perfect - The Dudes Take The ULTIMATE Smell Test

Episode Date: September 23, 2026

Football is back, and the dudes are breaking down everything from college football’s biggest upsets to the worst performances of the week. Then, Good Morning Football (GMFB) host Jamie Erdahl joins Garrett and Sparky to recap NFL Week 2, including upsets, injuries and major storylines around the league. But the real challenge comes next… The ULTIMATE BLIND SMELL TEST is here! After years of issues with his sense of smell, can Cory finally smell again? He’ll go head-to-head with Garrett and Sparky to find out who really has the best nose. Can Cory smell? You’re about to find out! Chapters: 00:00 Intro 05:00 College Football Recap 15:24 NFL Week 2 Recap 50:41 Ultimate Smell Test  01:24:06 2-Minute Warning If you’ve got a question, hot take, or your own Almost Athlete moment, head to AlmostAthletes.com or call [phone]. Upload your own fan fails here: https://new.myharbourshare.com/agree/gSttAsmDbo6vYCfm3HBdjh?fbclid=PARlRTSARDo7VleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xMjQwMjQ1NzQyODc0MTQAAafRqYdnXc6xTmfPMNERbnp5yfF-BqLSY3NCu2GQZSehgOTgD69fSBeTqTcAQg_aem_RWLUmW87bcZIif3zTrWKBg Discover why millions trust GNC — shop athlete-tested, science-backed picks today. Learn More about the newly designed 2027 Chrysler Pacifica at https://www.chrysler.com Get 2 pounds of premium ground beef FREE with orders over $129 using code ATHLETES at checkout. Shop now at http://OmahaSteaks.com  Primal Kitchen Buffalo Sauce is available nationwide and can be found at your local grocery store or on http://primalkitchen.com. Head to https://SoFi.com/almost to explore your options and find funding that works for you. #almostathletes #dudeperfect #NFL ▶ Subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@almostathletes?sub_confirmation=1 🎧 Listen anywhere: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/almost-athletes-with-dude-perfect/id1834502483 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/55gaQm31JIbp6td7QtYsPU Almost Athletes with Dude Perfect is (almost) a sports podcast. Co-hosted by Garrett Hilbert and Sparky, with the rest of the Dudes, their wives, and the DP crew popping in throughout the weeksports takes, celebrity guests, athlete interviews, fan voicemails, and the kind of chaos you'd expect from the Dude Perfect family. New episodes drop every Wednesday. Go Big and God Bless Pound it 👊🏻 Noggin 🙇🏻‍♂️ - Dude Perfect Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Madden curse also strikes again. Oh, I need to think about that. Yeah, if they ask, I'm not going to be on the Madden cover, not that Madden's searching for me. Yeah, that's a torn Achilles for you right off the bat. I know, I know. What would your pose be sparky if you were asked to be on the Madden cover? What about, like, the new school, everybody, all the D.Bs are going thumbs down, possibly?

Look at me when I talk about the Vikings. I don't want to hear a single thing about rain. I don't want to hear a single thing about, oh, oh, 59 points the first week. The Bears weren't quite right. No, that was a defensive masterclass. The blitz rate was at 79%. Dallas Turner absolutely sunned Colston Loveland. Kyler Murray, don't screw it up.

We're being told from the studio, medium hard. Corey, if you get this one, you're back. We're going to Chuckie Cheeses. This one's tough. I don't know. I'm going to do some self. Yeah, I got to do some. I don't even know a direction to go with this.

I don't feel like I'm smelling your sham. Welcome to Almost Athletes with Dude Perfect, A Wave Original. This episode is sponsored by GNC. Follow the show on all social media at Almost Athletes. Like and subscribe to us on YouTube or listen and subscribe wherever you listen to your podcast. Where are your host as usual. I'm Garrett. I'm Spark.

Man, it's good to be back. Yeah, it's great to see you, Gene. That was business like, by the way. That was like an intro was a long drive down the field. Well, it's just, you know, I've realized that I have to stop. watching sports all together. Really? Yeah, it's just my teams are...

My teams are brutal, dude. My teams are brutal. I mean, the Aggies are miserable. Let's start there. Man United is miserable. The Cowboys. I mean, I guess they sneaked out a win.

They did. Hey, look at the bright sides, Gare. There's good... Did we have youth sports this weekend? You know what? I got to say, I am locked in on preseason hockey.

Cool. Stars look. Stars look great, dude. I'm... I just hoping. it's the year for something. I mean, it's just been a rough go, dude. Well, I hope your sports seasons get brighter. I don't think you will, dude. Poor guy. The Rangers got to, the Rangers have got to pull through this final week of the season for me. Come on, dude. We've

lost it the last, this is where we lose it. Six games, man. We've always lost it in the last week of the season, the last couple years. All comes down to this. Right here, right now. And I'll remind the people at home, enjoy this final week of baseball and the postseason, because we do not know when this thing's coming back. We don't know the ETA. You might never. We never see a baseball game again, other than the bananas.

Think about that for a second. The Rangers win a World Series, though, I'm completely fine with next season being canceled. The only baseball, we get nothing against banana ball. But if that's your only outlet, I remember COVID. I remember having to watch Korean baseball.

I enjoyed it. Go Dousan Bears. Huge Dusan Bears guy, but yeah. Bears versus Dragons. That was that was killing my social life. I just made that up. My social life.

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Yeah. Gosh, their reading level is through the roof. My boys love. Honestly, my whole family loves to read, including me.

It's healthy. I didn't grow up loving reading. I'm like a lot of kids out there, but I will say, just like I've said a lot, a lot I've learned at adulthood that get in the reading earlier because there'll come a time

when you get in the reading and you're going to be like, man, why didn't I read? It's like golf. The stories, yeah, it's like golf. Start it young.

The stories, the what you learn. It's just, uh, it's phenomenal. And just find a, find a category that you like. I kind of want to give Jackson a homework assignment to give us a book report.

Yeah. On this book. To see if he's a great though. He's going to ask a couple questions number one. What's a book report? Right off the bat. And he's going to say, how do you read?

Uh, and number two is probably how do you read and chat GPT can't do it for you. I love that idea. Uh, book report. Book report. Uh, it's a great novel.

Sparks. What do we? got coming up. Good question, Gare. Twin 2 has been attempting to recover his sense of taste and smell. So we're going to put his nose to the test in a smelling bee later in today's app. Plus, Jamie Erdahl's back to talk about the second week of a loaded NFL schedule. But first, there was a ton of great college football action this weekend. And by great, I mean, not so great. Let's talk about it. Texas A&M, they had the 10 point loss to Kentucky at home. So a couple things. Yeah. This is why, I mean, we've talked about this, dude. This is why we

despise. I mean, I don't know the word preseason rankings are a problem. You know, again, if the Aggies were just had nothing in front of their name On the week three. No, it's just, but it's also like

It's a everyone is like Oh, you know, and it's not just the Aggies. It's, you know, the Michigan game. It's the Oklahoma game versus New Mexico. There's a lot of teams out there that Are self-inflated. Or self-inflated. And it's like, hey, look, at the end of the day, Kentucky is a well-coached football team.

I really like this new coach. 36-year-old, by the way. What am I doing with my life? Three years younger than me. What are we doing? And I loved his post game about the act. Like, he just, he seems like just a, he's just pumped for his, he's pumped for his guys. He's not using a ton of vulgar language.

He's just out there. He's like, dude, like, let's go. Do my guys prep for this? They believed in it. Like the coach believes in them. They're playing for the coach. you can see it. It's a hard place to play. Kentucky came in, took care of business. Congrats to Kentucky. Made A&M look very average. And they might be, Kentucky might be average.

I don't know. It's week three in the season. And this is why we don't need the preseason rankings. No. We don't even know yet. These guys don't even know yet. Because Ohio State played Texas last weekend and Ohio State looked great for a half. Texas looked great for a half. And then the flip side of that is Texas looked really average for a half. Ohio State looked really average. We don't really know. And I just point back, I point back to Miami last year. Miami all year was an average football team. Yeah.

And they came in and they dominated. Found themselves and peaked. The playoffs. Yeah. And it's just like, it's a progress. The, just like NFL is how I said, college football is so much like NFL now where you weather the storm,

you go through adversity early. And that's what I think helped Texas last year. They had a, they had a bad loss. They had the strovers. and they had a bad loss at Florida and they recovered so good for that and they played some, they were probably the best team.

If they got into the playoff last year, Texas, they also could have made the final because they were playing really good football when it mattered. Yeah, and that's ultimately the goal. Yeah, so like A&M, is A&M season done? No. Now they have to play for their lives

the rest of the year and they very well could end up with seven losses. Sure. But at the end of the day, they also could end up with two losses. And they could feel them and they go to that direction. Really good, you know. So it's like, it's to be determined. And that's what I kind of love about it. And this matchup versus LSU is kind of awesome because we're both playing for kind of the season this Saturday, right off the back. Because if LSU would have won that game, they're 3 and O. They can slip up. Sure.

But now we're both, we both have a bunch of injuries. We both have one SEC loss. And boy, oh boy, does this game matter? And, uh, and Kiffin's going to get tested. That whole just scene down there in Oxford, Mississippi was really cool. Of course, they welcomed back Lane. It was a whole show. I found myself as a neutral kind of cheering for the Rebs there about halfway through. Oh, I'm a, I mean, I don't like LSU. Sure, that fair. Their fans don't like us, so there's no blood loss.

There's no love loss there. It's great. We don't like each other. Agreed that Ole Miss is absolutely legit national title contender. They were last year. They were last year. I agree. And they brought obviously the Q1 back and a lot of pieces back.

Man, Shambliss looks good. What a game. What a game. He's my He's my Heisman guy at this point. What a cool story. Oh, he's Heisman for sure. I'm interested to see how Golding does next year. Yeah, when he has to replace the quarterback.

Well, he came. And those are Lane guys. He had a great team last year. He kind of came into a great situation. Absolutely. Now let's see where he's at. So that was a good game. That was good.

We got to talk Vanderbilt that final play. We have to. If you didn't see it, go watch the Vanderbilt NC State final play again. I've seen this play. executed plenty of times. Just take a knee. Or just run out the back. But I don't even care. There's two seconds left. Punt the ball.

You won't get it blocked? What are we doing? I don't mind the strategy. I think it was just poor execution. No, but he was trying to run out the clock and I'm saying leave a second. I agree with you. Over, over like risking it. Shunk it into the thing. Take your intentional grounding. Take your safety and move on. The game's over. Yeah. Either way,

just don't take any contact whatsoever. Even if you run out of the back of the end zone with two seconds. I sympathize for that. Two teams will talk about that I think are, you know, really good, have a lot to play for Louisville. Yes. And Houston. I think Houston's a really good team. Yeah, they took a loss to Texas Tech.

Texas Tech's really good. I mean, they were what? Houston's really good. Man, Big 12 is actually quietly good. Quietly good this year. And Louisville is, man, that quarterback reminds me of Johnny Mansell. And it's just, he's. He's a game. He's electrifying. He's fun to watch, dude. Don't forget their week one loss was to Ole Miss,

neutral sight, and they only lost by three, hung 38 on the Rebs, lost 41, 38. They bounced back. The cards did with a 10-point win over SMU. I'm with you, though. They're my dark course in the ACC. So college football great. Anything you want to touch on last week of baseball before we had the NFL? Yeah, good point, Gare, caught up in the football fever. You still got to keep your eye on baseball. Could be the final week of baseball for a long time. In the AL, the Yankees are in, the race. they're approaching 100 wins. They have locked up home field advantage in the AL.

The Red Sox, keep your eye on them. They're going to be a wild card team. Hottest team since the All-Star break. Yeah, it's like 50-something and 20? Yeah, just a remarkable run in Beantown for the Bo Sox. They were 14 games under 500 at one point. Remember, I picked them to play the Mets. Now, the Mets aren't going to make it,

but they ain't one team good. My ALCS preview is Red Sox Rangers, which is still a chance because as I mentioned, Rangers one game lead on the Astros, as it stands on this recording. The White Sox, I think, one of the best stories in baseball. 25th in payroll. They've been a four-year playoff drought.

They have a big week. They've got to finish strong. They do. The Guardians lead them by a game. Orioles and Blue Jays, they're gone. So really just two spots left in the American League. As for the National League, which I think is as loaded as I've ever seen. Milwaukee Brewers, franchise record 98 wins in counting.

The road will go through Milwaukee. The Dodgers, of course, and all the money they spend, they're going to be a tough out. The Bravos, appreciate you, Atlanta. y'all helped us out big time with the sweep of the Astros. Third most home wins in baseball, they're going to be tough. But listen to these wildcard teams. These teams didn't even win their division.

The Cubs, Phillies, Padres. Whoever makes it out of the NL will be absolutely bad. And also just throw the Diamondbacks in because they would be like almost a home field advantage in the AL if they were. Meet them in the World Series again? Dude, it's like there's 10 games over 500 and they're not even in the playoff spot. It's a brutal place to be. I feel bad. I feel dirty. A little dirty about it. I feel dirty having the Rangers be one game over 500 right now and about to win a division, maybe.

I'm not going to apologize. You did, though, Gere. The Diamondbacks 5.9% chance of landing that last wild card spot. Well, enjoy baseball. You might not ever get it again in your life. Yeah, enjoy it, people. Baseball may be gone forever, but at least we still have one week left. All right, we'll be right back. It's time to talk more football. NFL with Jamie Erdall right after the break. Have you been looking to step up your workouts, G? What have you got for me? And please don't say pickleball. I don't need to get addicted to another sport.

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Jamie, let's get right into it. See the Minnesota Viking gear on. Congratulations, a little two and a start. We went from sunshine and scoring points, and we went. Week one to penalties, poor weather, and most of all, injuries in week two. First and foremost, did you get hurt at all Sunday? It feels like everybody got hurt. Any soft tissue injuries for you?

Dangerously close to being emotionally injured if the Vikings haven't beat the bears. But no, I'm okay, which means that I can sit here and talk football with you guys every week like I love to do. Where are we today, Jamie? I'm in a plane that has all of my Vikings gear. I'm at work. I'm in like a fancy, like, podcast closet. Oh, look at that. Well, let's start. Caleb Williams.

I thought it was a lot worse. I guess this is why we don't speculate as play-by-play in color commentators. Non-contact, he took a little peek back. Oh, it looked like he ripped his hamstring right off the bone. Oh, I thought it was Achilles at first. So did I. Oh, I definitely thought hamstring because the way he pulled up like a track star does. Sure.

And then, but the way he reacted, you felt like it was like, you could tell he was in major pain. Oh, no doubt about it. But you could also feel the windy city as a whole collectively hold their breath. Caleb Williams got off to a great start. I know. Jamie, where do we stand on the Bears now? Here's the thing about the Bears and Tyson Bejant, who is the backup. And that's actually a guy who's been in the building.

He predates Ben Johnson. The Bears love him as a quarterback and just as a representative. he's become really good buddies with Caleb Williams. He's the kid, if you remember, in the preseason, like, Hard Knocks clip, I think it was, maybe where when Caleb, when Caleb Williams went to say a signing bonus, Tyson Bejian, who's like an undrafted quarterback from a D2 school was like doing this in his chair because he like couldn't believe that somebody could make that kind of money at quarterback. But I think the ball is safely in Tyson Bejian's hands. If they have to go to him from a like big game marketing standpoint, I kind of hate it because Monday Night Football Eagles Bears, it only feels right. if it's Jalen Hurts, Caleb Williams on a field. But specifically because of what we love to see Caleb Williams do,

I'd rather see him take at least one to two weeks off because of the nature of the injury of being a hamstring. Sure. The Madden curse also strikes again. Oh, I didn't even think about that. Yeah, if they ask, I'm not going to be on the Madden cover. Not that Madden's searching for me. Yeah, that's a torn Achilles for you right off the bat.

I know. What would your pose be Sparky if you were asked to be on the Madden cover? What about like the new school, everybody, all the DBs are going thumbs down? possibly. Yeah. You wouldn't do like the scuba. Like, no, I think that's a little interny for me.

That's what Jackson Darden. True. True. Good point. I like that. That's good. Yeah, the double thumbs down. We were watching the game last night and my wife, you know, they showed Jackson on the sideline.

And man, I mean, very similar to the way you dress, dude. Got the turtle neck with the chain. Kristen was like, yeah, it looks like sparky there. Yeah, I think in trading camp, he actually, uh, cade. his attire around my skill set. Well, thank you, Jackson. Didn't know Sparky was a big turtleneck guy. Oh, yeah, Mock Turtle.

The Mock Turtle, yeah. Excuse me. Hey, we've actually got a comment that we wanted to show you guys that we saw online here. A comment for Jamie, okay? No, this is more for YouTube boys. You want to read that out?

Oh, yeah. You would notice Garrett and Sparky look like Carson wins and Kevin O'Connell. Wow. That's hilarious. That's actually kind of true. Yeah. Oh, my gosh.

And I'm guessing I'm not Carson and you're not O'Connell. Yeah. No, that's actually spot on. That is kind of nuts. You're the quarterback whisperer. Get them right. Wow, that's pretty good.

That is a good. Caleb wasn't the only one to get banged up. Jaden Daniels. Yeah, that one was hard to watch. I think that game also is completely different. The time and score at that time, of course, was up in here. They were about to score, though. Yeah, on the goal line going in, last play of the half.

We've seen this injury before. Jaden Daniels. Washington already didn't look too pretty on paper. What does this do to the commanders? Listen, I think we talk a lot about injuries. Like, for example, with Malik Neighbors as an ACL and how mental it is to come back. Like, how can you be Jaden Daniels and feel good about, I know everyone's like, but it's his non-throwing arm?

It's like he still needs it to operate. Like, no one expects a quarterback out there to play in a sling. And I feel like that's where we're at at this point with him to, like, keep this left arm close to his vest, close his chest and he's just out there trying to play quarterback for the commanders. I just don't know where he goes from here in. terms of like, I feel totally fine. I'm not going to think about this non-throwing elbow because they're going to get taken down. Like, they're not, they're not some like ironclad offensive line. He's going to get tackled. And it's similar to like a couple years back when Tua kept

getting hit and concussions. And like he had to go to Jiu-Jitsu or something like make sure he fell right. It's like, is this where we're at with Jaden. I just, I don't feel great about this, even if it is his non-throwing arm. Sure. You definitely sympathize. This is the same arm, right? Uh-huh, left arm. He's definitely not supposed to be in like that. Yeah, it wasn't even a hit that did it. He just planted and it just pumped out. Now, he could have been playing Twister at home, you know, left-hand red.

And the elbow's definitely not supposed to be in that way, though. This is a new thing in our house. It's a great game. It can get physical, though. Got to watch out. Yeah. I wouldn't advise Jade and Daniels to be playing that game anytime soon. Should be, like, so flexible.

Yeah. And then Jackson, Jackson, Dart. Also, just like when you thought we were in the clear, the Monday night came down. That's forked. starting quarterbacks with Sam Darnold hurt. Yeah. In two weeks. In the first two weeks.

Oh, and Kyler's. That's five. Five quarterback. And technically Tua, if we're going to qualify him as much. Fair. He hurt his hip. Yeah. It doesn't bode well.

That's epidemic. That is, that's high. I would stay ready. Let me ask you guys this. Let me ask you guys this. Did you see online, I'll try to put this as nice in neutral as I possibly get. Caleb Williams, people had an opinion about how he. left the field of play versus how Jackson Dart left the field of play.

Did the difference visually compared to what we know now of the injuries catch your eye at all? That's a good question. I related it last night in an Xbox party to my buddies as Caleb Williams was a little Paul Pierce-esque, if you remember the NBA finals. Yep, in a wheelchair. Whereas Jackson Dart had a little Kobe. Kobe Bryant walking off with a tourniquities. Yep.

Yeah. Yeah. I just need somebody to have a Michael Jordan flu game hugging on to Pippin and then we'll be good. Well, I mean, Josh Allen supposedly had the flu game this last week. Oh, really? Yeah, they said Josh Allen was under the weather just tearing up the lines. I would love the same strand of flu he had. Right.

That gave him superpowers. All this being said, Jamie, stay ready because you might get a call from an NFL team. Also, are we underrating the importance of a backup quarterback in the Lord's year 2026? Oh, man, what a question. I think we always, I feel like the backup quarterback is underappreciated, underrated, but not as much underpaid as they probably used to be. I actually think the chiefs changed that tune a couple of years back when they kept bringing Chad Henny back over and over and over again.

And then they really realize, like, I think Justin Fields might be there now. You just want them to align with what the game plan is. So Jackson Darts out there Monday Night Football. Then James comes in. And apparently the Giants were all perfluffled because it's like, we have this game plan for Jackson and it's not going to quite align with what James can do. And it's like, well, then what are we doing out here? Like, I feel like you want it to be, you know, at least in the same avenue.

So I think it's more about like philosophically who does your quarterback represent. Like Sam Darnold Drew Locke. Love that. That's like a perfect fit. So I definitely think some teams, they clearly emphasize it. And then the Giants, they have a Jake Hainer as like their practice squad guy, but they're going to have to sign a guy. Like, they do feel like they were behind the eight-ball. a little bit, whereas the Steelers, it feels like they have like six quarterbacks in from training

camp still. So again, philosophically, everyone's different. But I think most importantly, it needs to be like almost a carbon copy, I would think. Yeah. So you would prioritize like scheme fit over just overall talent. Makes makes sense. That makes sense. Two weeks are in, like what are the biggest surprises to you in the NFL? Oh, the Raiders. What is going on? What is this team? You tell us. What is going on in Vegas? So we have prediction week. Last time when I was in studio with you guys, I was emotionally preparing for prediction week. And the tricky part about working in, you know, national NFL media is like,

you want to be right, but you also want to be different. And you want to be right about the things that you're different about, specifically. So I feel shame now that I didn't really go out on a limb very much with my playoff teams that I picked. And every year I've had kind of a crazy one. Like last year, I picked the Giants. and I heard like crickets in the studio. People were really in on that. This year I just was like, I don't know if I'm emotionally prepared to kind of get berated

for picking a random team like the Raiders. So I just didn't do it. And now I feel shame because why not? Why not Kirk Cousins? Like they have a great, they have a great. That's an overstatement. They have a solid roster. Mass Crafty is excellent.

And I think he is going to have a chip on his shoulder because of whatever was said about his health and availability from the Ravens. Kirk Cousins, statistical king. from his time in Minnesota. I think he was just not quite right when he was the Falcons. Ash and Genti, a great yard running back. Like, I feel foolish at this point.

And then Clint Kubiak just coming off of being in a Super Bowl building. Like, what was I thinking? I feel, I feel shame because of this. There's some pieces there. It goes to show you. Go out on a limb, kiddos. Yes.

Say it confidently. And they play the Chiefs in two weeks. They could be three and O up until this weekend. And then they play the Chiefs out of the biggest game in that building, I think, since it was building.

Yeah. I do think the Chargers are really bad. Oh. Yeah, that one just mystifies me. It does, dude. That one mystifies me. I don't get it at all. What's up with the Chargers, Jamie?

You know, Jim Harbaugh, someone needs to remind him, I feel like, just like the importance of the backup quarterback, the importance of preseason. Like, training camp is one thing, but it's like the not playing your guys. I just, I don't, I don't get it. You barely have any time now. The NFL took it down to three games. So, like, Harbaugh, get some reps. And also, like, there's a lot.

quirky and then I feel like there's like, okay, now it just becomes kind of like a shtick. And I feel like Jim Harbaugh and Mike McDaniel in the same room were borderline schick. Now we are more quirky. And I just, I feel like going to work every day with the same people, hours and hours in the building. I just don't know if I'd be one of those players. I'd be like, yeah, I'm really bought into this, like on December 19th. You know, like I just, I don't feel good about this. Especially when the win-loss record gets sideways on you. It can snowball. ball quickly. I think the two biggest surprise me is the Chargers and then, man, I mean, I think y'all both called this and I was like, I don't know, I think he bounces back. But the Houston Texans

offense is so bad. It's malpractice. Six points. Like, in that, it's just, it's just Stroud. I thought he was going to have a bat. I thought he was going to have a bounce back year. Still could. Still could. Still could. But he's struggling. And yes, they put up a lot of points first to Bills, but the Bills' defense just gives up. 35 points a game. So they're just going to outscore you. So I don't think it's like, they played a good defense in bingles and they struggled.

Yeah, Texas. I really just want to still live in a society where we like flex more towards optimism than not. And I feel like everybody just wanting C.J. Stroud to go back to what we knew of him. Like, what would you rather have? C.J. Stroud, fantastic rookie season and just crumbles. Or Bryce Young, horrific rookie season, gets benched,

only plays again because Andy Dalton gets hurt. and then has built himself back into your like, hold up. Are you actually better than C.J. Stroud, which at the time, we never would have said that. Nobody would have. Well, I think, I think you're nail it. I just think they're playing a, you can't play a rookie quarterback. There's only very few that can just come right into an NFL and take, they need to sit. And I think what the Raiders are doing with Mendoza is the smart play.

I think Mendoza could be really good learning from Kirk Cousins for two years. Yeah. I mean, just let them learn. Totally. But to Jamie's point, Stroud, was on the scene and I expected a big bounce back for him and then they schemed against him just like yeah sure the sophomore slump which you kind of almost expect a little step back after a polarizing rookie year a la daq um but year three and it's still very early let's remind ourselves we're only two

weeks into this thing but um yeah i'll be honest with you it's it's shocking in many ways and like there was all this talk before they're like we're going to table contract conversations i'd be like oh let's see j stroud i'd be like oh let's not table let's go ahead and sign that thing What are we doing? Multi-year loft me up. Yeah. I get really, I get very perturbed when, especially with the quarterbacks, when contract conversations kind of take up the majority of the conversations.

To me, the Buccaneers is the most recent example. Like, we were so hopped up on Baker seems pissed and Baker is this and Baker's annoyed and Baker wants to get a deal. Okay, Baker, you got paid. You got your cash. But like, what are you? What are the Buccaneers doing? Like, they lost to the brands on Sunday.

Yeah. Oh, we're going to talk about that. I always seem to find my worst almost athlete moments or when I'm in contract negotiations as well. Oh, no. They affect me as a podcaster, too, as a co-host, yeah. You want to be in a contract negotiation and then, like, go out and, like, hit the trick shot with the ping pong ball.

Then you're like, that's why you got to sign me. Yeah, add me the player option for the six year. Yeah, right after hitting a trick shot, that's fun. Are you down to play a game, Jamie? Yeah, let's do it. Let's do this thing. We're going to play, believe it or not, we're two weeks into the season, and we've seen some unexpected things.

So we're going to talk about them and decide if we believe it will continue throughout the season or if it's just too small of a sample size and likely to change. First up, your Skull Vikings. The Vikings keep finding a way to win and might give Jamie a heart attack in the process. How are we feeling about the Vikings as a whole? I don't want to hear a single thing. Look at me when I talk about the Vikings. I don't want to hear a single thing about rain.

I don't want to hear a single thing about, oh, 59 points. the first week the Bears weren't quite right. No, that was a defensive masterclass by Brian Flores and the Vikings. That man is a maniac. The blitz rate was at 79%. Dallas Turner absolutely sunned Colston Loveland. Why is he the one blocking on that play to end the game? This defense will be the thing that carries us.

Kyler Murray, don't screw it up. You're coming back this weekend. You're going to go play the Buccaneers. Have them be on three. Have the Vikings be 3 and 0. It will be fantastic. And the more I look at the schedule, the more I like it for the Vikings. What was the question?

Just like, believe in the Vikings. I love how she shows her fandom in the us that she said. I'm going to add one just because you mentioned him. Do you think that Loveland was overrated going into the year? Or is he just on the slump and he will recover? I actually have an answer for this. I actually think the non-running version. I think Bejant will actually be a lot more friendly for Loveland.

I think that Caleb extending the play and using his legs so much is not as wide receiver-friendly. So you think he bounces back? I actually think he gets to hide more targets just based off the lack of agents, probably, you know, mobile game. Especially for a tight end, like specifically maybe like those shorter routes, like easier options on the outside. I can see that. That's a good point, Jamie. But the question with the first one to finish that off are the Vikings now the frontrunner in the NFC North? I'll leave it, baby.

I don't even want to just answer the question. Yeah, you did. Nobody else say something about the biking. I don't think anybody's going to beat them. Her glasses half full and it is purple, for sure. For sure. Okay, next one. We should still consider the Texans contenders.

We mentioned it, the 20 to 6, home lost to Sinci. They're 0 and 2. That division doesn't seem too daunting. Well, you got, do you have Indy? I mean, you don't want to play too far behind the eight ball. O and two, though. Indie looks good, though. They've played a couple.

I know their own two, but. The Ravens and the Chiefs, yeah. And the Jags. Sure. And the Jags, of course. course the Jacks. Yeah, I think that division is pretty tough. But it's been like kind of the doormat for the NFL, I want to say, for the better part of a decade. I think I saw something really depressing. Like the AFC South is like one in seven to start the season. Like I, I, I,

and while we're trying to pump them up, you know, so like I want to say the division is tough in like a mediocre way, like you're kind of like trying to weed out who is going to be the one that actually bubbles to the surface. But to specifically speak to the Texas, I am going to, I am going to buy stock in Domingo Rions. Okay, this is not the first time the Texans have been down and out halfway through September. He actually starts O and 2 as a head coach far more often than he starts any other way a season. And he oftentimes makes the playoff. So if you can just figure it out on defense, you almost don't need the offense.

You just get us, what do defensive coaches always say? Like, you just get us spot us 13 and we'll take care of the rest. Like, that's the kind of defense that I need to me go to get the defense right. Otherwise, I can't address the offense right now. Like, don't look at me at this moment. But I'm going to buy stock in Domingo right now. Okay. Love that.

Another tough start, but they've looked a lot better doing it. The Saints, are they a fringe playoff team? Arguably the hardest schedule yet at Detroit to start. And then it was at Baltimore week two. They found themselves one in one this close to be in two and O. Totally. The Saints are they a playoff team? They're good, man.

If not for a wonky ruling on the field on that pick six, they would have been a two and O team to take the long. lines down at home and then go to Baltimore? Fantastic. I'm pretty sure GMFB is going to Paris in a couple of weeks for St. Steelers. And at first I was kind of like, I'm not sure about this. Now I'm just not sure about the Steelers. Like I'm all in on the Florida Lee being in France, the Saints. Like Tyler Shuck, I would love for him to play a little different, like the whole game like that instead of having it to constantly be like the comeback situation. But you can't win them all. I like it. Kellyn Moore. Great coach. Second year. We go. We're in on the Saints.

That defense is good. Yes, defense is very good. And defense travels, as we know, in the National Football League. The Raiders, we talked about them. Las Vegas catching the eye of the NFL community, fresh off their 26 to 14 win in L.A. Are the Raiders a playoff team? Oof.

You're scared to say it a couple weeks ago. I think you just go for it, Jamie, at this point. Be like, you heard it here first. I just, I have to look at the division always. just thinking to go back to the Saints really quick. It's fun to call them fringe playoff teams, but it's like the Panthers have been playing really well. The Falcons will be out.

The Bucks, see, they seem like they'll be out of it. But it's like the Panthers Saints all of a sudden now is going to be a great game. And so, but am I really going to give two spots the Outf C South? Same conversation goes on for the AFC West. You know the Chiefs are going to be in at this point, the way they started. I don't see the Broncos falling apart. Granted, they had a weird first week. So then it's like, am I really going to give three AFCs?

I just don't see it for the Raiders this year, but that doesn't mean I can't be, like, proud of them and happy for the season goes, but I'm not going to call them a fringe playoff team. Fair, fair. But it's fun. It's fun. I think it's good for the NFL to see Vegas back in it. The Raiders.

Which I'm sure they love. Raiders fans are probably like, thanks for our moral victory. Thanks so much. Right, right. Well, at least for two weeks into the season, they're having fun. We'll see how long it lasts. Kenneth Walker, they say don't pay running backs. Well, the Chiefs went and did that.

Is he an MVP candidate 117 yards on 24 carries against that vaunted Colts defense? First week he was amazing too. Are we kind of like change? First of all, two-part question, is Kenz Walker the third an MVP candidate? And number two, are we about to reevaluate like paying the running back position? Well, Sequin started it, started the thought. And then he has panned out on that argument, I would say, with the Eagles. And then Kenneth Walker the third, I just fear the usage rate at this point.

I'm like, guys, can, like, it's a lot. It's a lot on him. It's a long season. And it's not just about the season. If you're going to pay him that much over years, you wanted to work for seasons to come. So I'm, first and foremost, I'm not going to call him an MVP candidate. Let's just call it what it is. The MVP always goes to a quarterback.

It's so cute that we put a running back or wide receiver out there in November. We're like, oh, but it might work. It's not going to. It's a popularity contest. It's going to a quarterback. That being said, the de facto MVP for a non-quarterback, sure, can Kenneth Walker the third be offensive player of the year? I'm sure he will put that trophy next to his Super Bowl MVP. Well, I'll tell you what, Casey and Mahomes scary enough when they don't have a really competent

running game. You add Kenneth Walker the 30. It gets really scary there in Kansas City who looks like they're right back on track. I love this guy. Parker Washington, is he a top 10 wide receiver? 12 catches on the year for 18 team high 18 targets. That's 11 more than any other Jags. He's really found a relationship there with Q1, Trevor Lawrence. I love how we've just like waited and waited for some wide receiver to unlock Trevor Lawrence's like star power potential in the NFL.

And that man comes in the form of Parker Washington. I never would have seen it coming. But if the Jags are going to have something, I'll give him that. I'll give him a top 10 wide receiver. I love Liam Cohen. I love that he totally. plays into the, we're a small market team. Don't, don't try to underestimate us. We'll come and beat you. Like, yeah, they're going to score point. So, like, I'm not going to try to come on here and be

like, the jugs defense, they'll are going to eat you up. Like, no, Trevor Lawrence is a fantastic quarterback. I love watching him play. I just never saw this come in. But sure, Parker Washington, top 10 wide receiver. Why not? They're my like little love affair team with the AFC. I don't know. Something about the Jags and the way they've built that thing up. And I think I'm attracted to the small market vibe. They give off as well. They have a really good chance. I think this year. Don't overlook them in the AFC. Drew Locke is a legit starter in the league. Fresh off 19 to 26, 2.35, three tuddies.

Granted, it was a blowout win over the Cardinals. But again, back to our point, a really good backup quarterback can go a long way. Drew Locke goes under center and the beat keeps going there. Listen, I like Drew Locke. I like him as a person. I covered his games in college. Do not be fooled by the backup quarterback coming in and keeping your team's train on the tracks. That is actually what they are paid to do is to have it just keep the guardrails up when you're

playing bowl when you're bowling with your kids. Like there's a reason why the lane asks you, do you want to put those things up on the sides? Like it's because your kids, they want to ping pong that thing back and forth. It's like Drew Locke, this is why they invest in you. So when Sam Donald returns, the team is just doing the exact same thing. But that be said, don't be fooled into thinking that like Drew Locke has the it factor that thirding one other teams couldn't unlock and he should be a starter somewhere else. Some guys, and I love these guys for it, like, stay healthy, make your money, be a fantastic backup quarterback. It can be one of the best jobs in the NFL, but that doesn't mean that you automatically should go to Pittsburgh and become the

starter. I just don't think that logic applies. Gotcha, gotcha. Well, don't be surprised if Drew Locke's agent is firing you an email because I think you might have just cost them some dollar bills. I like him. I do. I do. Sure. Sure. I get what you're saying. Totally. It's the job of the backup quarterback is just keeping a float until the start is back. I'm doing radio now. I'm doing radio on Monday nights with Doug Peterson, who was Brett Farb's long time backup. Like there's a reason why Doug Peterson was in the room with the Packers. It's probably because Farve like wanted him around. And Farve had like the longest streak of starts going as a quarterback at the time. And Doug just sat there and twiddled his thumbs. But look at him now. He became a Super Bowl and he

had coach. Like I think there's something to be said for it. Don't not being a backup. Isn't that the dream though? Like the Chase Daniel route where I think he had more millions of made as a backup than snaps in an actual regular season game. That's the dream. Believe it or not, the Atlanta Falcons have the worst quarterback situation in the NFL. I really wanted to zag on this and say not. And then I went through every other quarterback situation. I guess believe it.

And I don't like it. I don't want it to be this way for the Falcons. Like there are some teams that like I do kind of watch and I'm like, oh, I like, I like when they are challenged. Like I like when they face adversity. I think that's entertaining for me. I don't like this for the Falcons. I think we,

how did we not see this coming? You knew Michael Pennix Jr. wasn't going to be right before the start of the season. Did you really think Tua was the fix? You totally botched like Kirk Cousins being in the room with decisions that transpired 18 months ago, bringing Matt Ryan in from the NFL today.

Like, you understand he wasn't going to play for you guys. He's the business operation man now. Like you actually needed a quarterback to do. it. It is the definitively the worst and there's really nobody else close. I think one word would sum it up, dysfunctional. I just throwing pain at the wall. It feels like I got a trivia question though for you, Jamie, because I didn't, I had to look this one up during their drubbing, their 34 to three drubbing, the Falcons sat Cooper Rush and went with Jack Strand, University of. Do you have any idea? Yeah, Minnesota Moorhead, D2. Look at you. I feel like that was you being a little

Minnesota and the heads out there. They're the dragons. I think they're master of the dragons. That's cool. Is that Division three? Division two. Division two. Minnesota State Moorhead. I've heard of like whitewater. The other classic D2 Minnesota Blank product, which I think it's Minnesota State Mankato, would be Adam Thielen. So like we do take a lot of pride in our D2 Minnesota University products.

Okay, okay. Well, great. Well, great. Thank you, Jamie. Yes. Let's talk to cowboys. I want to talk cowboys because I love them to death. 3720 over Washington.

I don't think it was the prettiest thing. I still think there's... Their defenses. some holes defensively, obviously. They're down. They're already down, what, four dbs. I think the Cowboys really getting banged up, overshone. But they found a way to win, which was important. The last thing you want is to be O and two, especially in division O and two. Sitting at one and one, I thought the offense looked really good. 3720. How did you see things, Jamie? Dak is just wheel on the deal. Duck is like, he's playing on another planet right now.

I frankly, like, he needs to be a top two to three MVP consideration right now. And like the MVP is always great when there's a good story behind it. And right now he's knocking off Romo records. He's wearing the Staubach jersey in. He's showing up at training camp with the vintage 90s Super Bowl shirt. He's got the hat working. Like, I think the hat's going to get bigger every time they win. Like, it's all just coming up deaf. And, and, and my gosh, Jake Ferguson. Like, what, what a fantastic option. Like, just a classic Cowboys tight end is just, like, it just, it just makes sense in your brain visually when you're watching the Cowboys. I love this team. It's fun. I didn't love that video that came out on the sideline, that

Christian Parker interaction with one of the players. I don't know what that was. It was weird. That was weird. What do you think that dynamic was? I think Christian Parker, and this isn't just a Christian Parker issue. I think there's young coaches in the league who try to act like more of a like a father figure, a dad, and any time the time the time. phone can get like, and I'm not saying he's doing this, but the body language implied that are we getting like, are we overdoing it? Is it becoming condescending? Or, you know, sometimes like in marital disagreements, you know, your spouse is like, I know you said it the first time. I heard you the first time. Like, is it one of those. So, you know, Christian Parker is a young coach.

He's going to have to work on how he communicates to these guys. And I'm sure it'll be fine. It's just like, man, those cameras catch everything. They do. You never want your DC compared to marital marital disagreements I can even say it because it's so icky I heard you the first time

I heard you the first time you don't have to remind me any notes Garrett that you saw anything we missed there from the NFL I just was going to ask one last thing of like what are you looking forward to in week three any matchups here Cowboys Ravens in Rio

great although it seems like we're going to watch the field closely at Maracaania Stadium are they having like grass issues? Allegedly, but they're still going to play. And then Raider Saints. This is a truth telling game. Let's go. We never would have thought this week three that this is the one we're going to care about. But I think we'll find out a lot more about the Raiders team as a whole. It's being played back in New Orleans, home opener for the Saints. They're one and one,

Tyler Shuck. I think I'll be watching that one closely. Who would have thought all eyes on Nola in week three. Funny how the NFL works. I think the Rams Broncos would be a really interesting match up. Yeah, yeah, definitely. A good defense and then, you know, see if Puka comes back. I'm not sure he plays next week either. I think he's... I think early in the season you're seeing a lot of teams play the long game, you know? Wait, and there's one more I just saw that I'm interested in. Standby. Stand by. Probably Vikings. They're a good chance you're interested in Vikings bucks. Yes, Vikings bucks, because if the Vikings are 3 and O, just, I will never be quiet. You're going to be like, why did we invite her on every week? But also, um, Coles.

Texans. I think that's going to be a good one. And they do not like each other definitively these two teams. Like there's some heat there. So watch out for Colts Texans as well. Yeah, Desperate Houston team is what you're going to see there. They really, really need that one. And Indy has to win.

Yeah. Yeah, you're going to get two desperate teams going at it. Yeah. Conference game. That's awesome. And then we end it Monday night with Eagles. Yeah, and I'll be in Chicago. I'm going to do a road show in Chicago.

Oh, that's fun. If Tyson Bejan plays, I think we're going to try to get Tyson's dad, who is a world champion arm wrestler on the show. So look out for him. Are you going to arm wrestle them? I feel like that's an unfair fight. Yeah. That's he. Watch out for the AC joint there.

Just don't Jaden Daniels. Yeah, I don't know. I don't want to see your elbow next to your quad. Yeah. Let's keep that thing in your elbow. This is my new thing. Like when we interview players on the show, the last thing before we say go out of him, I'm always like, stay healthy, stay well. I'm just going to be like keep everything intact.

You know, like I just, all the joints and the ligaments, it's like, it's real dicey right now. Awesome, Jamie. Well, we greatly appreciate you. Thank you for joining us. And good news is we still have plenty of weeks left and plenty of visits with you. Let's do again next week. Yes, ma'am. We'll be celebrating a three-no Vikings team.

So, yeah, congrats. Go vikes, go cowboys. Everybody give it up. Jamie Erdall. Thank you. Thank you. Diggy, dig. We'll be right back to catch up with Corey, who is on a quest to regain his sense of smell.

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Almost. Almost. Almost. Welcome back to Almost athletes. This segment is brought to you by GNC. And welcome to the set, none other than twin two, but number one in our hearts. Corey Cotton. Thanks, Sparck.

Come on, baby. How we doing? How are we living? They were phenomenal. We actually just got back from a trip that this couch went on. Yeah, they've sent the A team over to Cali. Sure did. Tell the people what the trip was about,

some of the highlights along the way? We went to, it's called Created in LA is the first annual. It was actually pretty incredible. John Ushai put on an event teamed up with Disney, which is a good partner to team up with. Not bad, and boy did Disney bring out the big players. We had the new

CEO, the CMO, all the O's, all the CMOs, for sure. But they also had Olaf. Yeah, they did. And it was incredible. They had Daisy and Goofy. I mean, they brought everyone. Oh, for sure. No, they brought everyone. This guy's a little. I had never seen Oloff live talking to us, walking around in the same room as us.

Is that your highlight, Olaf? Either that or the Kardashians, which that is wild. You don't hear Olaf and the Kardashians in the same phrase very often, but that was crazy. That was quite the surprise. Yeah, surprise guests, and they ended up coming out with the banger of the Kardashians. Yeah, I wouldn't ready for that. I was like, who's this going to be, you know?

I thought somebody Disney related, you know, and then boom. Business savvy. Gary and I were sitting there. We were very impressed. They are Disney related. For sure, because they have a show on Hulu. On Hulu. There you go.

That makes them way more. more since now that I know that. There's a web of connection. Cool. To your point, though, it was the first event of its kind. And so we kind of didn't know what we were really getting into. And I thought, definitely for a, for a first timer, that thing was buttoned up. A lot of cool people. And when you're at like, you're right next to Walt Disney's office, you know, on, on studio grounds. Inspirational. It's tough not to be fired up. And the Caliwether. Shout out to the Calli Weather. Shout out to the Callie Weather. It was absolutely wonderful. It was. It was awesome. But it's a fun trip. And now we're back home and you, my friend, have been long at work,

trying to rejuvenate those senses. Give the people a general update on where we stand on our smell and taste. Thank you, Sparky. I know you guys at home have lost a lot of sleep over this, so I really wanted to give you guys an update. If you are a first-time viewer, let me give you a super quick context.

It's been a long time for me. About six, seven year journey of twin number two's been on of slowly losing my smell and taste. TBH, I still don't know exactly what has happened. The doctors and I think that It is sinus related for sure, but also maybe some COVID in there. We really don't know. And so I kind of just got used to it.

And like, that was my new normal. And then I looked myself in the mirror and I said, no, I refuse to accept defeat in this category. You know what? I miss milkshakes too much. I miss them. I mean, I continued to drink them over this time, which is crazy because I couldn't taste them. But I decided that I would like to taste them again. I've slowly tried everything.

Nothing really worked. I then went to a specialist, UCSD, flew all the way to California, did my research. A doctor friend recommended that doctor to me went out. Met with her. She's like one of the specialists in the world with this. And she recommended a certain medicine that I had not tried. It was kind of the last ditch effort. And it actually started to help.

And I thought, there's hope for me yet. With the weird caveat that no medicine, all these things, if I jump into the ocean, YouTube, if I jump into the ocean and I come out for like, the next hour or two, I can smell and taste perfectly. Weird. Very strange. And it has been that way for years now. Sounds like a sodium deficiency to me.

Is that what you had a Dr. Gare? Yeah. It could be. It could be that. I just assumed it was like a nasal rinse situation. So I tried to recreate the salt water effect at home, got chat GBT involved, tried to cook up some of my own stuff in the lab at home. None of that really worked to recreate the ocean effect.

It's a immersion in the ocean. Yep. So I tried that medicine. And then most recently had some different work done at a local doctor who, again, was convinced that he could help me smell and taste. So we are here today to worst case establish a baseline with my smell test. Best case, I smell amazing. And by smell amazing, I don't mean do I smell amazing. I mean, does my nose do a good job of smelling amazingly? I want to know how many doctors in an estimated US dollar amount that we have spent in an attempt to try to get this back. Oh no.

So, okay, if you want to know the number, which I don't want to say the number, are we, to clarify, though, because I'm willing to throw out a number, it is a guess, I'm willing to throw out a number, are we including what insurance has paid to try to help me? No. No, yeah, I just think a grand total. Okay, because the insurance number is way higher. Well, yeah, the insurance. I mean, even going to like a dentist under insurance is, they.

The new medicine that I have, it's like an injectable medicine is like $7,000 or $8,000 a pop. and that's monthly. So that's like a hundred grand a year, which I would not spend out of my own pocket. But thank you, medicine. Was not getting covered by medicine there by insurance there for a while, and I thought, I will definitely never taste again.

So that has been the most helpful thing so far. That's crazy just to give you a ballpark. Yeah, it's crazy. I've flown to California a couple times. I mean, yeah, we're probably, myself, we're probably looking, I don't know if it's way over 10 grand, 15 grand myself, but that's still a lot.

It's a lot of money. plus the well over 100 grand of insurance money. I thought today was going to be just a lot of poke fun at you, laugh, and then when you throw out numbers like that, you're like 100 grand deep. All for just, all you had to do is just convert your pool to salt water. That's it.

That's all you had to do. I'm just shocked. It doesn't even cross my mind yet. It's such a good idea. Are you telling me if I drained my pool and just poured salt water in there? I mean, they make salt water pools, dude.

And whenever you want your taste back, you just go hop in the pool for one little second. I will say. Hey, see you guys. Garrett is like, in terms of doctors, like 85% of the time, what he pulls out of his pocket, it's pretty good. If you don't have cell service and, like, WebMD available, Garrett's not a bad guy. I've learned quite a bit about the human body for sure. Just walk in, he's like, that's a sinus issue.

And you're like, wow, that you spot on. That was a sinus issue. Gere, Gare PT. Because I've used WebMD my whole life. I just memorized it. Really good point. Go ahead, brother. today we're going to find out

if you've turned a corner. We're going to find out if all the money was wasted. Yeah, is the 15K plus the insurance money working? And boy, will this tell us. I don't know if it is. I don't know if it is. We have a smell test set up. Okay, how's that going to work? Like candles? We're all going to smell an item with a distinct scent inside of a box. Jared is making sure we can't see what's in the box to cheat.

We'll guess what we smell, and if we get it right, we get a point. Yeah, I love this. But it really doesn't matter who wins. It just means. matters if Corey can finally smell and taste things. Okay. I love that. Which on the tour bus, you were probably, I was jealous of it because a Tyler dude, if that doesn't fix your smell, I don't know what will. There's times it's been beneficial.

Tour bus was one, and then I've got four kids, so I've had pretty much all of them during this time, and I change almost exclusively every diaper in the house because I'm built for it. But still doing milkshakes. I'm actually really excited about testing my own, you know, abilities. Do I need to jump in some salt water? I guess there's only one way to find out. Smell test time. Let's do it. Wow, look at this fancy box.

All noses are on Corey right now. Let me go first just to get a gauge. You're going to pump this and it's going to go through there. Okay, all right, I'm tracking. All right, Gary, you ready to pump it up? Just react without saying it. It's one of my favorite smells. Mostly listen with your ears, but today we're listening with our nostrils.

You got it? You got it? 100%. I mean. Sparks, you want to pump me? Yeah, I think. You're very high. You don't need to get closer.

Do you know it? Do you know it? Yeah. Yeah. That's obvious. Yeah. That's obvious. So obvious he needed 11 pumps.

Maybe he just loved it. I did. It was serenaded. It was scinty. It was. I'm trying to give you mega pumps, brother. Intake. I feel like I'm getting dizzy.

That's not good. This ain't good. What do we got, Cor? Very distinct smell here. Hit me one more time with it. Yeah. Just like you to take it in. One final little whiff.

Yeah, whiff on that. Corey, we're going to start every answer with you. Oh, no. I do feel like I was smelling something. That's good. As my first thing to smell here, I do feel like I was smelling something, but I'm not sure that I'm identifying it correctly.

Would you agree that it is a fresh smell? Yes. I would agree with that. Okay. That's like category is fresh. 100%. Like on the good smelly side. When you say fresh, what do you mean?

The smell feels pleasant and fresh. It's favorable. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It doesn't smell like trash or something rotten. Yeah, okay? It's not like a fresh piece of food. That's good, that's good. I'm going to walk you through it here.

I feel like we're in the vibes of like a, like a fabric softener or like a laundry detergent almost like in that realm. Are we, am I? Yes. Without changing my answers, I was going to say, dryer sheets. That was what I was going to say. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. Is that right? Dude. You can smell. Hang on, you can smell. Is it? That's good. Is it tied? I was literally going to say dryer sheets. I just knew the tide smell. I almost said dryers

dryer sheets, but I thought that was going to be too bougie and I thought I was going to get clipped for it. Dryer sheets, you can smell. Whoa! Let's see what else you can smell. This is insane. Next item. We're going to go pump, pump, pump, pump. For what it's worth, all of our noses on that one. Decent. We were all kind of there. I was really worried about a bad. Coorant Cerritos. Are you ready for your second item, Gere? The dry air sheet. Leftover dryersheet.

Left over dryers sheet. I don't give some rapid fire pumps here. Really invade those nostrils. Maybe close your eyes. You got some ginger for the nose. I mean, you need a pallet cleanser? I need a pout my nose is just tied it up right now. Get you some body armor.

Let me get some whiffs. Maybe you're just getting let us straight here. No, I think I. I think I have a guess. And we go. You also get dryers heated up. This one might be medium hard. We're being told from the studio, medium hard.

Corey, if you get this one, you're back. We're going to play this game. We're going to Chuckie Cheeses. This one's tough. I don't know. I'm going to do some self. I got to do some. I don't even know a direction to go with this.

I don't feel like I'm sorry. smelling your sham. I have a guess, but that might have been just gear. That was not helpful. The three people was not helpful. I think we're getting lightheaded also. There's a lot of breathing happening. Smells getting, smells getting worse. Like it smells worse? Yeah, it smells worse. Try it now. That does smell citrusy to me. It smells like dirty socks. That's what I said. Dirty socks. I'm sticking it with it. Car fresher. No, it's different. It's different. He's different. It's different. It's different. Yeah. I actually, you pumped the tide out. I'm with you on dirty.

It doesn't smell nearly as good as I once thought. Yeah, that's what I said. I actually am with you on dirty laundry. I think if you're getting specific, it is a dirty sock. Because it's not like actually B0. How do we open it up? It's like sock related. What is it? Oh, it's a shoe. Oh, dirty shoe. Shoe. So we were close. Me and Corey were close. Sweet citrusy. Yeah, you're really close there. No, we said so. We fixed it. Oh, yeah. I switched. For what it's worth,

the amount of times I've been dumpster diving with that shoe on. It's significant. But I'm telling you, the tide covered up a lot, like most of that smell and made it like a sweeter smell.

And then it went away and you were like, oh, that's not. Yeah, it changed. Whatever happened to you know when we were smelling it. Yeah, dirt a sock. I feel good about that. Now, I mean, you know,

in all fairness, I said it after Garrett said it. But I, when it got replaced there, I could smell it. All right, new item. All right, Sparks. We got the third. one coming down. That was

tough. I mean, we got tied in. We got tied in there on that one. And we made ourselves look a little crazy. I thought I was just sniffing to the shoe for about 40 minutes there. It was kind of almost like a wheel unfortunate. I thought this one's got to be. Are you ready? Let's smell item number three. Pump out. Get some fresh. Get some freshness. Some pre-pumping. You ready? Yep.

All right, remember guys, don't say anything. Don't say anything, right? I want to keep the integrity of the show. Don't say anything. Your nose, nose. That's good. You want to go, Corp? Yeah. Yeah.

I'm getting some. I'm getting some. I think I know what this is without a self-pump. I think. I have an answer. This is simple. Corey, tell us what it is. Can we say it on the count of three?

Let's do it. One, two, three. Pickles. Yes. Isn't that what you were going to say? You didn't say anything. I was actually going to say a pickled jalapeno. Okay.

Oh. That's very specific. Because I got a little spice, so I wasn't, I didn't just get dill pickles. I got like a pickled spice. And the answer? It's just a pickle. This comes back like a squash or something. If it's not, if it's not something pickled, it's crazy.

Somebody says, it's pickled. Pickles. Let's go. Let's go. Are you three for three? No spicy, though. That's great. I'm getting some spice.

My nose is so messed up from the tide, the, what was the first one? Was it tied? The dry sheets, yeah. My nose is so messed up. I need like a cleanser. A cleanser. Well, we need those booms. Yeah, where are my boomers?

Yeah, I technically didn't get that one. I was going to say pickle alipino. Guys, I'm feeling encouraged. Dude, I'm feeling like at some point we've got to bring it up. Were you faking it the whole time? Imagine how well I'm going to smell when I'm like 200K into this thing. If you were faking it, what would be like, is it for extra PTO? Surely you wouldn't just be taken as an attention grab, maybe?

Maybe just for attention. Whoa. I don't think so, but maybe. That'd be a lot of commitment financially and flight miles to be. I don't need attention that bad. No. Gary Bertier. I'm still getting tied it up in my nose. Garrett has such a good nose that all the previous flavors and scents are stuck in his nose.

Isn't that crazy? He has too good of a nose that it's working against him. You ready? Yeah. Look at that happy place. Sniff away. There's no chance we look cool in this segment. Keep going. Keep going. It's pumping out some of the other smells there. Still got some smells. Do you have a guess yet or now?

Gary's palate is just gone. So dryer sheeted, it's so hard. Well, this one, I'll be shocked if you get anything. Yeah, I do. Keep going, though. If you pump it, it might pump them smell. Yeah. I'll say we have no idea.

I have no idea. Is it like nice and connected? I feel like that. I mean, I've smelled it before, but I just can't put my, uh, it's mixed with tide. And so it's tough. It's tough. It smells like a mix between dryer sheets and pickles for some odd reason. Um, I got nothing.

Yeah, what is it? This is a freshly opened canister of tennis balls. No, I would never got that. That's the... She threw us off. Yeah, let us destroy with that. Oh, right outside the room, they hit us with a... And Sparky and I said, it's a beverage.

Yeah, it's carbonation. It's carbonated drink, and it wasn't. I didn't say... I smelled Tide, though. Tide, I'll tell you what, Tide. You've got something going. It outlasts, pickle juice and all types of things. Bring in the big ones here.

Next up, and we have the heavy hitters coming in. Don't know exactly what that. entails but we're going to sniff it out right here on almost athletes garrett time for your nose job all right let's try it you ready yeah come on gary oh it was a head snap like you got hit by a linebacker ooh that went straight to the brain whatever it is it's going straight to the brain he does not hold to yourself Corey get in there keep your thoughts yourself like if I don't get this then the face screamed like this is a very distinguishable smell this is Ooh, I hate you with a hard one there.

You ready for a slant route? Really? Garrett kind of knew by this time. Do you want two more? Yeah. Give you a bonus puff too. I think I have it. I'm kind of trying to make sure that the word is correct.

Ooh. Ooh. I'll have to go one more. I definitely know that smell. I mean, it's unique. Is it as hard as I'm... Maybe I'm making it too hard. I have an answer.

Corey? What? What do you want? I have an answer. What is it? Would you like to say at the same time? Sure. One, two, three. Garlic. I had garlic. Garlic it is. I had a single champion. Dude. Okay. Whoa! Was it all a facade? The people are wondering, was this just a facade? I think my nose is you tied, tied it up right now. Wow. Wow. Let's go. I mean, are you? How happy are you? Get some clapping. Maybe I need to go spend.

Do I need to go spend 15? I'll tell you my doctors. I'll line them up for you. Yeah. I'll take a lot of PTO, but I'll do it. We're going to Cali. We got to get all the wrong reasons. Whoa.

We got to get our nos. Whoa. I do have a deviated septum, which I think is. Oh, I do too. I have a deviated septum. I can barely breathe through my nose. But I also have tied in my other one. Yeah.

I don't know what y'all are putting in there, but I smell it from here. Lord have mercy. I love it. Tyler. Have we addressed? Sorry. Do you smell that? I don't know. I love Tyler. Have we addressed the fact that he doesn't use soap, but he does use cologne.

Yeah. Religiously. So he blames his good smelling as if his body just produces good sense, but he sprays collone on himself every day. Yeah. That is strong, bro. Like that guy who doesn't go to. So strong. No, hey, but I'm just saying. But still like, does, passes the bar. Also, it's like saying, dude, I'm tall, but you're like, I'm kind of like, I'm kind of like my wife in this regard. Like where fragrance has really got me stopped up. All right, Sue. You need to go on a cleanse, I think. She looks up to no good. If there's a live animal of some sort, then I'm going to be really mad.

Let's keep live animals out. What was it the right shoe last time? It's the left shoe this time. She's getting diabolical on us. I mean, guys, do you need an air pump for this? There's definitely a lot happening. I'm not catching anything yet. What?

I have an opinion, but I'm not catching. I don't know what it is, but I smell something. Who's first? Let me go first. Ooh, that was a... It might be almost too much of the smell. Mm-hmm. My right, I'm just got about three pumps left.

I need a break. I need a break. Yeah, let me do it. I have pumped myself. I think self-pump is probably the best way to go about it. It's a pleasant smell, I feel like. Yeah, it is pleasant.

I feel lightheaded. What is that? Crazy, you don't close your eyes. I can't lock in. Yeah, see, that helps me. Some sort of fragrance. I don't know what I got you guys. I don't know.

I think it's crazy that we're hesitating on any of these. I don't know. Many pumps? I don't know what I know what color it is I don't know what color it is I want to say it's like in the red tent

pink oh I disagreed I have a different What is yours? I was in the blue green category Blue green That's what I think I mean dude Your nose is killing mine dude

I just know it smells good I can't put Why could I smell it from out there Think general category General category Okay Soap This is a strong smell

It's a strong smell. I was, before the box came in, when you were like, well, I can smell it from here, I was picking up like a cloney perfume. Yeah, it's like a fragrance. Yes, I agree. I also picked up like a little like almost like pepperminty, mentholi vibe. Dude, if you nailed up. If you nail this, then you were living in life.

But then when you said what you said, you're pushing me back towards the like almost cotton candy, scented perfume. Yeah, it's a fragrance. It's something that has a fragrance. So that's like the soaps. Okay, hold on. Is it mouthwash? Is that crazy?

Mouthwash is your answer? I don't know, I don't know. I don't know. Mouthwash doesn't smell like that. I'll say what mine was. I was thinking like a lotion. Lotion. Like a body lotion of some sort.

It could definitely be a lotion. That guy has a fereira? No, it's not aloeira. It's scented. Gere, do you have an answer? I'm okay. I'm sticking with a cologne. A clone.

A clone perfume. Corey can smell it's a cologne Yeah I mean I said fragrance You said fragrance I said fragrance I said fragrance I mean you could smell it from out there You don't get that with like lotions No I agree The answer is cologne? Yes sir

You guys now now what What flavor yeah what's a cold What's the fragrance how do they just Yeah but I want you to look on Google right now I want you to look on Google and if there is menthol Menthol and this cologne I'm going to He's a frog

The student has become the teacher. If there's menthol, he's a fraud, and I don't want to hear any more days off from this liar. He's been going to Napa Valley. Yeah, dude. He has not been on nose tests. This guy's not been honest with us. I think you say that, though. My mouth is getting some menthol is not listed as me.

Menti, is there a mentee anything? Said pink. You did. I said. That's so on the paint. That's so on the pink side. Hey, my nose might be back. My nose might be back.

Is Ty setting up with the whole big soap thing? Is this just like a, he's playing the long game to release his own Cologne? It would be genius if he was. It would actually be great marketing by the young man, but no way, no chance. Surely not, right? I don't think it's how Tony Cologne would do well. What would it be called? Rage, Rahe.

Yeah, something rage. Yeah. Rage ragrants or something. Yeah. Rage by T. Rage by T actually, it's cool. Okay, here we go. Second to last item. Susie's got a little smirk on her face.

This is a live dog. I can read this on her face all day. This is a live animal all day. Sharpie, maybe? I could nail that. I would sit here all day and just, here we go, Gare. I hate to say this, Gary and Sparks, y'all need this. Okay, you'll need this to catch up. Dude, I'm catching some secondary smellage.

You ready? Don't say anything. Don't say anything. Don't say anything. Like very slow. Yeah, yeah. He doesn't love it. One more. One more slow? Yeah. I just thought it was better to go hard. No, no, no, no, no. One more.

Yeah, yeah, I know. If I don't get this. If I can't get this. Ew. Oh, dude. I'm scared to smell it one more time. I got to suck it up. Adoles made me gag. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I got it. I get easy. My gag reflex will go there and that was close. I'm not going to lie to these sparks I when it first came through I kind of got a bag of potato chips That's crazy because I didn't How many puffs you need core

This is concerning because this one This one's pretty strong I despise the scent But I'm not sure that I've identified it Okay So we are picking up something An unpleasant smell You know exactly what that is?

I would be shocked if I was wrong on this one Yeah What's your guess I have a guess What is it? And I try to avoid this at all costs. It's something rotten. Do we agree or disagree? Yeah, it's either rotten side. I was gonna say rotten. I was gonna say either rotten eggs or rotten or spoiled milk. Will you close your eyes real quick? I just wanna make sure me and Gere on the same page.

Yeah. That's what I thought. You all agree? We have the same answer. Do you think is it either of things that I just said? No. No. It's either rotten. It's either rotten in my head, that was either rotten eggs or spoiled milk. Y'all, it's neither of those. I had like a tuna. We didn't have those answers. I had like tuna. We have tuna. We have tuna. Tuna or fish. It's sardines. Sardine took a fish. That's a huge step backwards. Sardines will slap you in the I was just going to say fish in general, but

the guy who's self going back for more sardines is wild. I think maybe I've avoided sardines so, and people put that on their pizza. I think I've avoided them so successfully in my life, but I don't even know that are. And I will say this, the people who put it on their pizza, you have a problem.

Yeah, it's like the pineapple crew gets judged. That crew used to be. But dude, it was weird. The first one you did, it was like a, it was like a freshly open back of potato chips. It's kind of weird. One last item, right? One last item. Man, here's what I'm scared about,

court is like you're taking the ACT, you're killing the math portion, and we're getting to like the very last part, the essay, and you're just absolutely forgetting what to do. Yeah. This one's a big one. This one either determines whether we're in a really good spot

or we still have more work to do. Okay, I agree. That's unpleasant. Like how somebody proceeds to eat a smell like that? I think they're expensive too. That's kind of crazy. Right. That's like calamari.

Like I don't know why somebody would spend high dollar on like calamari. You don't like calamari? Fish eggs? Wait. Isn't that what that is? Sardines is like the little fish. Isn't calamari is good.

That's the fried calmery. He's talking about... I'm talking about caviar. Cabiar. I'm with you. I'm with you there. Caviar's crazy. Like by the ounce you just pay a year salary.

It is fish eggs and it's weird. And I hate when they put it on my sushi. I'm like, get this off my sushi. The texture thing. I'm a big texture. When it comes to food Textures. It's like

Tomatoes on a pizza I can't do oysters. I can't do oysters. I can't do it because the slimy tastes like Yeah. But that's why I can do

What's the other one? The octopus that we eat? Calamari. Yeah, that's all you eat. It's fried and it's not Yeah, it's not very slimy. My craziest thing's sour brown.

Oh no. See that Uchi? That uni, that I ate with him that was like slimy. Almost puked in my mat. That with that kid that guy next to me

but he's like, dude you got it. do it. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it was crazy. That's when I told him. C-in-your-mouthed-in-your-mouthed to it. It's when we went to the Super Bowl, and it is, uh, it's C-U-erch is when we saw Jim O'Connor. Yeah. It's C-U-U-Lam. Some of the things this man was ordering at this little Japanese restaurant was just like, why he's working at a dude crazy town? Like just exotic stuff. Like, why?

You couldn't pay me. Well, that's very California of him. It was. Hold on the wall. It felt like I'm going to get food poisoning, and I didn't even eat just out of being there inside the restaurant. Last item. Big finish. With a 5-44 lead in stunning fashion, can he finish the mission? Come on, Corey. Garrett? Keep your thoughts to yourself.

Do you want a full one? Yeah. Okay, we're going to go full. Ooh. That eyes even watered on that. Oh, and a cough. Did it again? You want another?

I hit you hard. Sorry. It's hard to... I'll give you half. Let me give you a half for. I need it slow. Okay. Okay, a slow burn?

Yeah. Do another one of the slow burn? I want to play. Core? Yeah. I like to control my own destiny. Does he know his nose? My nose is so jacked up right now.

Is that a gaggy? My nose is so jacked up. It's so jacked up. I don't even know what's going on right now. I'm getting some weird smells in my nose. I don't like it, sparks. I'm getting a really, good men's perfier or men's cologne is that you that's just you smells good well it's like a

it's like a it's like a it's like a it's like a i'm still getting it in my nose sparks tell me what it is dude yeah i know i really wanted to end with a super confident answer i'm not sure i have one you kind of have to get on your very first smell because your first width of it yeah okay okay i know exactly what this is you do yeah yeah but if you get this right then Gare will be in last place and we'll have to spend 100 grand to fix his nose. I think I know exactly what that is. You do? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, I got nothing, dude. But do you smell it right now in your nose? Yeah, um, I do. Why do I, why? Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, Corey, just say something, dude. Darn it. Okay, I'm going to put this in the freshish category.

Yeah. Do you agree or disagree? Absolutely. It's like a, it's a, what I was going to say, it's kind of change your, change your view. it's like an air freshener, but it's like pine. Yeah, I was thinking like, like pine needles or something.

It was getting back into a car that had just been freshly detailed is what I got. Like almost like a freshly detailed car. I just don't see how you fit a car in here. It smells like wood. Yeah, I don't think that's 100% right. Why is that? I'm with you.

It's like a, it's like a pine oil that you wipe down car seats. What is it? I was going to say like an after shave, but it's not as many. After shave? See a Corey guess. He went after shave. It is a car freshener. Is it okay? Oh yeah. What's up boy? What's up? Dude, you're back. We're not trying to get this kid in Diego. This kid stinks. Hey, all things consider. What flavor? What flavor? Yeah, that checks out.

That doesn't have any pine in it. Is that my mint? It is. It's my minty car fresher. All things considered, Core. We're tied. You putting up a five spot here has to be a sign of good news. Now, Is there residual shot going on here? Possibly. Possibly. Are we in our window? Possibly. I got to say, you're getting...

You didn't do yourself favors on future PTO. You're getting fleeced right now, dude, as the young kid say, you're getting fleeced. Because I'm fine. You're fine. I think there's taking... They've taken a lot of insurance. Do not let the insurance company see this. Yeah.

Well, no. I think that's the only reason that maybe I can smell. They might come after you, dude. This might need to be on your close friends. Yeah, they might come after. He's like, I can tell you right now, I could smell zero before this process, zero. Ty, thanks for joining us. This guy's living a lie, just FYI. I'm tied with them. I went five out of ten, and they went five out of ten on the smell test.

The guy can smell. He's been bibbing the whole time. Dude, he goes to San Diego. Don't even go to a doctor, dude. He surfs. I'm an expert surfer. You didn't even go to a doctor? No, dude. He just goes and jumps in the ocean. That's all he told me. That's their theory right now. Here's the good news.

It's that I'm living a lie. The nostrils, obviously, they might be battered and bruised, but they're working to some extent. So I want to get a taste test, and then we'll put these together. Before we all clear them. And if you score over 50% on the taste test, I can never speak of it again. You're done, your PTO days are done going to this thing. We're not approving anymore. That's so fair.

That's it. Good news, you have some semblance of smell. Bad news. You've allocated about 25 grand, which you had to be. Yeah. You maybe get that reimbursed through. We'll see. Gentlemen. Yeah, great job. Great job. Very nice. One last smell. I got a smell to get that out of my nose.

Pineapple. That's our two-minute warning. Corey, you got anything? Heavy on the heart. Rantworthy. I saw that. My previous tipping rant is very viral. You got to be careful what you say on the show. Wait, really? Oh, yeah. You went down that road. I knew as you were saying it. People fully agree with my take, though. I mean, there's like a two. How it's gotten out of hand? Oh, people think it's way out of hand. It is. Which I agree. It is out of hand, dude.

I'm trying to think of I've got another take as hot as that. What, you can't see? What's it like to smell again? Guys, I'm so encouraged. I think I'm back. Maybe I'm back. You heard it here first. You were getting like crazy stuff.

I mean, gar like, bro, you're back. All right. This is pineapple, though. Yep, nailed it. He's staring at the label. Hey, can we give it up to J.B. Brendan Suzy for the smell box? This is incredible.

Come back next time. If I can taste, I never speak of it again. I thought Tyler's rear end was going to be in that thing for one of these. So I'm thankful on that. Ty, we invented a clone for you because I was letting the audience know that, at least in my understanding, you don't use soap, but unless you've changed. You do use cologne every once in a while. So we think that you're playing.

No, I know. I'm saying that's why you smell good. But also I'm saying that I think you're playing the long game and eventually you're going to release your own clone based on this whole big soap thing. And I think it's going to be Raged by T. Dude, tell me there. It's not cool. It's a good name.

by tea but you're not like in like men's warehouse you're like Target you're like very affordable yeah yeah yeah 24 99 man exactly yeah it could be on the little thing if you check out the gas station yeah sure let's not go crazy here the quick fix on the road I feel it that could slap there that's something there that's yeah rage by tea well good hey it's a step in the right direct it's a smell in the right direction next week we're gonna test those taste buds but for now looks like our time is up if you like this video be sure to check out our NFL emoji game with Jamie Eradall right here

We'll be back next Wednesday as always with an all new app. Until then, pound it. Noggin. See ya. You smelly animals. Wave.