Anything Better? - The People of Kansas | Week 17 NFL Preview & Picks

Episode Date: December 26, 2025

Bill holds down the fort with Jake & Andrew while Paul enjoys his time in Caribbean. They talk about the Chiefs moving to Kansas and make picks for week 17. *First Bet Offer $1500* 1. Download the BetMGM Sportsbook app on iOS or Android, or visit betmgm.com.  Use the promo code BURR 2. Sign up and deposit at least ten dollars ($10.00) into your BetMGM Sportsbook account. 3. Place your first wager and receive up to $1,500 back in Bonus Bets if the bet loses. 4. If the bet does lose, your Bonus Bets will be available once your initial wager is settled. *First Touchdown* Place a pre-game, straight First Touchdown Scorer bet in any NFL game. If your player scores the first touchdown in the game, win your wager as normal. If your player scores the second touchdown in the game, you’ll get your stake back in cash. (Only straight bets apply to Second Chance. Any wager using a bonus bet, bonus or other reward token is ineligible for the campaign.) Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER (Available in the US). Call 877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY). Call 1-800-NEXT-STEP (AZ), 1-800-327-5050 (MA), 1-800-BETS-OFF (IA), 1-800-981-0023 (PR). First Bet Offer for new customers only. Subject to eligibility requirements. Rewards are non-withdrawable bonus bets that expire in 7 days. In partnership with Kansas Crossing Casino and Hotel. See BetMGM.com for Terms. 21+ only. US promotional offers not available in New York, Nevada, Ontario, or Puerto Rico.

Hey, what's going on, everybody? How you doing? I got to do the Paul Verzi. And welcome back to the best sports podcast out. Bet anything. The Anything Better podcast with me, Bill Burr, and your absentee host, Paul Verzi, who is, you know, he had a little problem with the family back east out there in Sicily. He had to go out there and go take care of some things.

So he's going to be chiming in later, I believe, with some of his pets. He's gone ahead and picked all the stuff. Guys, could you come out here and join me so I'm not lonely? We got Jake the Snake with the best injury report in the business. And I would say best social life, Jake. You know, I don't know. I don't want to know what you got for Christmas, but I'm sure it was every man's dream. How was your Christmas, Jake?

It was really nice. You know, I got, you know, hung out with family, watched a little basketball. So, yeah, it can ask for much more. You get anything good? You know, I'm tough to get presents for. It was mostly just cash, which is the most interesting man in the world. And, you know, the rest of us are just sort of regular. So we don't think of your Matrix.

How was your Christmas? It was good. I had a classic dad Christmas. I got a Red Sox green monster hat, the fitted one. I got some baseball cards. And I got a speaker from my office. Oh, that's actually really cool. No, it was.

It was kind of perfect. Yeah. I don't want a bunch of, like, a bunch of stuff. And I got to spend it with my lovely wife and kids. And my kids were hilarious. And my wife was gorgeous, as always. And, you know, hung out with her by the fire, drinking eggnog. Talking about another Christmas going by.

Yeah, yeah, it was really, it was cool. It was funny. Mike, my son got all these gifts. and there was just one dinosaur thing. It just won. It's the only thing he played with. He got so much stuff. He's got so many relatives and stuff.

The amount of gifts these kids get nowadays, you know? But there was just this one. It looks like a prehistoric platypus. And it came with a little dinosaur that runs along the water, you know, in the movie, and it jumps up and gets it. And he was just mesmerized by that the entire time. And then my daughter's a child.

Daughter's a total sports freak. So I got a bunch of soccer stuff and baseball stuff. Like she wanted to go to the, it wasn't raining today. She wanted to go to the batting cages. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah, it's pretty cool. So anyway, let's start with last week. How about my New England Patriots?

What a win. Yeah, incredible win. Huge win. Going into Baltimore, notoriously tough place to play. They always have a great defense and everything. We went down. We came back. I still don't quite get how we won that game.

That throw in the end, Drake May, forgive me. I don't know the guy's name, number 13, for the Patriots, incredible catch for as much as the ball was on the money, that, like, leaning back and catching it like that, I, uh, what pissed me off, too, is we force a fumble. And there's like a minute and 48 left. And the, we, I don't even get to celebrate the fumble. I'm like, still in the air jumping up.

and Collinsworth somebody just goes there's plenty of time left dude it's in their contract it's in their contract that if you know you're not a Ravens or a Patriots fan there's a fumble towards the end and the thing is close you just say there's

plenty of time left so right as the person goes to change the channel they don't I mean honestly with the way the season is gone you know it's just every it feels like every day there's plenty of time left like no but that's done on purpose Jake It's marketing.

It's marketing. The game's fucking over, Jake. We shut the game off and we don't watch those last 20 commercials. The ratings are down and they don't get their money. So all of these fucking guys in the booth every fucking week, there's plenty of time left. I saw him hit a 90-yard field goal in fucking practice. So you're not going to go take a shit right before the half.

You're sitting there holding it, watching it. That's a good point. Yeah, and if you watched Green Bay, Chicago, was a similar situation. Chicago was down seven with like, you know, a minute to go, but then they were covering the onset. I think all of a sudden there's plenty of time left,

you know, tied the game and ends up going overtime in Chicago won the game. So, I mean, it's just that kind of year. And it's definitely designed that way, of course, like you're saying. Yeah, no, I think the business gets in. But I don't even think they're like hooking up the mob. I just literally think it's just advertising dollars and trying to grow their audience

for people who don't give a fuck. But speaking of that, we've got to get Andrew Semmelis on here because he's been blowing up my phone talking about the Dukes of Hazard shit that's going on in Kansas City, Missouri, making these poor people pay for this goddamn stadium. These billionaires can't afford their own fucking – why don't we have to pay for a stadium? It's the biggest. And why they're taking money out of public school funding? Real quick before we get into just Kansas City, it's not even just – I mean, Kansas City is doing the things with the funds, which I want to hear Andrew talk about. but it's also like Chicago's moving to a new stadium. Denver is building a new stadium.

So all these teams are starting to do. Denver just built a stadium. What is wrong with the stadium? Yeah, they're building a dome on top of it because the people at Walmart have all this money that they can throw around. So it's just crazy the amount of grief that's going on in the NFL. So I definitely want to hear Andrew has the financial details. I'm curious. I never guess it's because if you're greedy, wouldn't you be holding onto your money rather than you'd say let the people freeze?

yeah i mean first of they washing money who's got a dog that's me i'm sorry my my you know there's somebody on the street she's got to protect us got to make sure we're good uh she thinks she's a little bigger than she is um yeah no it's it's absolutely insane the idea that the public is paying for it obviously if people haven't heard the kansas city chiefs of missouri are moving to kansas state right uh which is and it's only you know miles away i mean most of the fan base that, you know, season ticket holders, most people aren't really, like, too worried about getting there.

That's, like, not the issue. But the amount of things that the state of Kansas and the lawmakers had to do to get the team there, it's like the biggest giveaway. Joe Pompiliano, who writes about sports business, did a great breakdown immediately,

and then a lot of people have also broken it down as well. But essentially what they're doing is they're issuing bonds. And if anybody doesn't know what a bond is, a bond basically says, like, we're going to give you future monies and we'll be able to pay you back whatever that interest rate is in the future. That's how debt is created and that's how money is created out of thin air. And so where this money is coming from is essentially the same, we'll say the same pool that pays for, you know, schools and roads. And, you know, this is the public.

So originally they said it was going to cost Kansas, the great people of Kansas, who can't afford groceries, it's going to cost them $1.1.5 billion. And then if you kind of look at it over the course of, we'll say, 10 years, because bonds are usually measured in 10-year terms, these I'm not 100% sure how these star bonds are going to be issued. But it's going to be closer to $6.5 billion that it'll cost taxpayers. Now, the thing is, Why don't the owners have to pay? I don't understand all of these fucking owners. Because they just bribe the state doesn't build me. But they don't build me a fucking stadium. I'm moving. Yeah. Like,

I don't understand. It's like you got, they're billionaires. Yeah. Home Depot doesn't go, hey man, if you guys don't build us a new fucking lumber yard, we're moving Home Depot out of here.

Home Depot's got to build their shit. Yeah. And then, Andrew, don't, don't the chiefs get to keep 100% of the revenue or something like that? The state doesn't get like, like they technically own this it's one of those things well technically you own the stadium

but they're going to be paying like rent i have that correctly the chiefs are going to be paying rent to uh the city i'll find i'll find i'll find that people of kansas of Missouri are paying taxes for a stadium that's going to not even be in their state no no no no it's kansas state is paying oh kansas kane yeah yeah so the chiefs get kind of funny they don't have money for food but they're growing it all for us i can't afford what i'm growing for you uh i'm going to read off of joe pompliano's tweet is the chiefs get to keep 100% of the revenue from all stadium activities including ticket sales concession sponsorships naming rights deals personal seat licenses and more that applies to nfl games and all other events concerts basketball and everything

Oh, yeah, so this is what Kansas will own the stadium with the chiefs paying $7 million in rent annually. Now, $7 million is, I mean, it's nothing. It's nothing. And for a billionaire, that's they're paying $7 a month a year, sorry. This is what's wild. It goes, but the money doesn't go to the state. It goes into an account that the chiefs can use for. renovations, repair, and operational expenses.

I mean, is this a Halliburton deal? Is Dick, did Dick Cheney write this up? This is absolutely wild. This is wild on every level. So they're not even going to let one dime go out the fucking door. No. And the guy, is it the Hunt family that still owns it? Lamar, they still own it?

Yeah, 12th richest family in the country, they're billionaires. And somehow, somehow, the taxpayers. Now, here's the thing. And again, if you, like, if you're... Don't get that rich fucking paying rent, buddy. Yeah, no shit. It's so bad. And what's crazy, too, is, like, the people who made the deal, like, you figure if you're,

if you're a politician and, you know, obviously they can raise money and get money and everything in their life is paid for. But it's just, even if you said, like, okay, I'm going to just give human, I'm going to say, oh, it's, well, they're a human being. They're going to make a, you know, decision. here that might not be best for their constituents, the people that they represent, their elected officials, like, okay, that's fine. It's like, hey, like, did you hear this guy got a job, he's running a hospital, this guy,

no, no, no, all they're getting is, like, tickets. You know what I mean? Like, all they're getting is tickets. They got one suite, and it's just like, there's no, there's no net positive. But here's the thing, we're going to say this shit, that guy you're reading is saying the shit. People are going to write articles, and it just always ends up going through. And how come nobody's ever held accountable?

Honestly, here's my take. But unless you're a fucking immigrant making a legally made papooses, you get sent to a jail with alligators around it. What about these fucking guys? I know. It's wild. I bet half their fucking fan base is more upset about illegal immigration than the ownership of their own fucking football team.

They're the ones with their dick in your ass. Jesus Christ, look over your shoulder every once in a while. And I'll take it a step further. I bet all the chiefsans are fire. up about this move. I think they're like, oh, boy, a new stadium. I don't think they even care. Well, if I read the number correctly, it's actually going to have less seats. Did you read that, Jake? I didn't, I didn't see that. And then here's the other point I wanted to add. It's like, what's wrong with Arohan? It looks like a beautiful stadium.

What's wrong with soldiers people? What's wrong with the bills stadium? I don't understand. There's nothing wrong with any of them. It just increases the value of the fucking team. They couldn't be done all of those. Dude, what's wrong with the car from 1965? You get somebody knows how to restore it. Nothing. Right. And you put it to fucking Meekam and get six figures for it. They could totally do this with the thing. There's another thing, too. This is this shit when it comes to fucking

health care. All we do is vote against ourselves. Oh, I'm not paying for fucking health care. You would actually get something for your tax dollars. Yes. Now what are you going to do? You're going to fucking hook these billionaires up with a new fucking stadium. They're going to take all the

fucking money and you're going to pay for it and you're going to get mad at immigrants and not have any fucking health care. and have this painting your fucking side that you're going to ignore because you don't want to have a pre-existing condition. So one of the- fucking heartbreaking, dude, it's heartbreaking. It is, no, and it's just- Regular Joe's just, they just bet against themselves,

vote against themselves constantly. And all they got to do is, hey, look at those people over there don't look like you. They're the fucking race. They got fucking money spilling out of their goddamn sport coat there, Andrew. And one of the things, exactly, and one of the other things, too, is they look at it like, it's an asset, right?

So they look at the stadium and they're like, well, like, If we're not hosting a slew of things throughout the year, it's money on the table. But again, it's – and this is one of those things where it's like this wasn't like an election year proposition. It wasn't like something that the people voted on. These were the people that were voted in that made this decision on half of the people that voted for them, right, who had no idea where they stood on stadiums because that's not part of the campaign process. But if I'm, I say if I owned a local news station, every single day, every single day, I would just be, I would be naming names of the people who are elected, right?

Just to be, hey, just so you know. Just it wouldn't be running that station within six weeks? Hey, they put a bullet in my head. I always say if I was president. They wouldn't have some balloon-titted whore, walk up to you in a grocery store. That's what they do. Yeah, I mean, it's stuck over by the avocados, and then they get it, and it's done. Sure, an aggressive cancer, I like that MIT guy.

A little mist. What was that? Somebody just sneezed on me? Can't feel your fucking left side. Yeah, SV-40 right in the brain. Not a lot to another where the gas comes into the room. Spoiler, but, um. You drive an electric car, all of a sudden, the break doesn't work

because they fucking shut that off with the satellite. Speed it up. Did you see that fucking guy that happened to out of here in L.A.? Yeah, on Melrose. On Melrose. Is that the Colorado Beauty guy? Highland and Melrose. He was embedded.

He was embedded. There was a volcano. that went off in, like, it was a 2014, and he was, like, stuck with military guys, and he was embedded with everybody, Michael Hayden, and he wrote a bunch of stuff that they kind of just thought was off the record, and it's, like, almost famous.

You can't forget that the guy's a journalist. You know what I mean? And he wrote a bunch of stuff, and his car, if you watched the thing, his engine, like, caught on fire, just went flying, took out Mario, what's Battali's place over there, right next to Moza, right there on, yeah.

I mentioned that we killed a journalist. Oh my God, I can't believe I can. I'm waiting for the outrage, Andrew. Listen, the outrage is going to be whatever they name this thing, you know? Yeah, you know, what are you going to do? Anyway, so Paul, people get outraged. You know what it is at this point? Like, all of these people are going, oh, these people killed these, there's so many journalists, these people.

We fucking killed journalism in this country. There's no journalism left. All we do is we just fucking react to what the cunts that are fucking us tell us to get mad at. But we've been doing that forever. You know what? This isn't this podcast, Paul, I mean, Andrew, sorry. Let's get out. Let me do the read here that Paul user leaves does here. All right. Once again, this is the BetMGM. This is their contract with you. Okay, first bet offer, $1,500. How to get this offer in four easy steps. Number one, you download the BetMGM sportsbook app on iOS or Android. Is that right? or visit betmgm.com, use the promo code birth. Number two, sign up and deposit at least $10 into your bet MGM sports account. Number three, place your first wager and receive up to $1,500 back in bonus bets if the bet loses. If the bet does lose, your bonus bets will be

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there we go that's what's going on all right we don't have paul this week so let's get uh you know it's a holiday week i got to go do some stuff with the kids because it's raining out they're going to be driving us nothing yeah i'll drop paul's picks in uh right paul's got a little message for us so i'll drop that in right now what's up ab family i hope everybody had a merry christmas to bill to the snake to the greek uh i am here in the uh caribbean tropical island and I'm doing my picks from here. I think I went 2-1-1, which gained me a half-game last week. But here are my picks for this week.

This week, first I like the Cincinnati Bengals minus 7. Okay? Then I like the Steelers minus 3. Okay? Then I'm going to take my New York football giants plus one and a half against the worst team in football, which is the Raiders. So I'm going to take the Giants getting a point and a half, and hopefully saving some face, if that's even possible.

And then my fourth and final pick will be the 49ers minus three over the bears. I think the 49ers are at home. They're going to finish strong. So I'm going to take the San Francisco 49ers over the bears minus three. Hey, I'm still fighting this thing to the very end, all right? And there you go. I wish everybody, happy holidays. Have a happy new year, and I will see you next week.

All right. All right. There's Paul Verzi. don't you miss them yes Paul's going to disappear one day in a good way Paul's going to get a certain amount of money

we'll see him but the people aren't going to see him all right so I went one in three last week because every time I get to 500 you know it's like coming up for air and your big brother's there and he just pushes your fucking head back down in the pool because there's some pretty girl there he likes

but he doesn't know how to talk to her so the guy's solution i know i'll be mean to something smaller and weaker than me that'll make her like me um all right uh i'm literally looking at these for the first the broncos in the chiefs huh this is not christmas yeah how fucking ironic you know what's um i know the chief's already fucking played did they win or lose uh broncos won but um but i real quick because um We're reporting us after the Christmas games, but Detroit Lions are eliminated from the playoffs.

They lost, because golf had five turnovers. They had six turnovers in total. They lost a quarterback who threw for 57 yards on the Viking. It's pretty crazy. Tough way to go out. I know. There was so many teams this year that just did like a 180.

Yeah, it was sort of a slow slide back down. Like, I don't know what happens. I don't think all of a sudden, Dan Campbell doesn't know how to coach. It must have been injuries or, I don't. don't know they posted like the top six teams from last year and like pretty much like half of them are more like eliminated it was like the lions and the chiefs with the two one seats the commanders are done and there are a few others too like but i mean the commanders had like ridiculous injuries so i get that the eagles were just weird all year they're streaky they're still the playoffs but

i know yeah they clenched i just kept waiting being like all right super ball hangover is over so i think they're they're they got to still be a dangerous team i mean they're the defending super bowl If they get into the playoffs, I mean. Speaking of Denver, it should be said that the owners are not taking any state money and they're paying for their new stadium on their own. Oh, all right. Well, that would have been good before I threw them onto the bus. My apologies to Broncos ownership.

So they're going to make a Dome Stadium? Yeah. I mean, dude, can you think about the Broncos football without snow on the ground on a Monday night football? Games, come on. I know. I remember the Vikings used to play. I swear to God, in this fucking stadium where when you kick the field, though, you could see your car in the parking lot. It was ridiculous. Like it wasn't even enclosed. It was fucking. Well, people forget, they were an AFL team. They were an AFL team that never played an NFL game because the NFL, how they laughed at the NFL when they first came out and how they sabotaged it was the Hunt family had the most. they had the deepest pockets

and they were in Dallas with the Dallas Texans, still a red and white team with the red helmet with the white Texas logo and then what they did was they put the Dallas Cowboys. That's how they got the Cowboys.

That was to fuck the richest owner in the AFL and then they took one of the teams. They just called Minnesota and said, hey, do you want to join and they said yes. And they had no fucking money so they played in this

high school football stadium forever. And I remember once they went inside at the Homer Dome, it was just weird. It was like one of their major advantages as you went up there and you just it was like fucking minus 20 and you played like a 13 to nine game. All right. I'm done babbling. All right. I am going to take this week the first game that stands out of me that old Billy Freckles likes, I like the Houston Texans against your

San Diego Superchargers. I don't know. I just think they got a great defense. I really like their coach. I feel like the charges are sort of wishy-washy. I don't know what they're doing. I feel like the Texans are a solid team. They're getting points. I like it. I also didn't look at your injury report, Jake. So probably

half the team is out. Well, and I think that's a good pick as much as that. This will be the first time I, like, would pick against my team this year because Houston's really good. I think it's a bad matchup for us. Okay. Oh, dude. Here's a

game this this game here which way does this go buccaneers dolphins you just want to stay and I want to bet my Patriots but they're favored by 13 so real quick with bucks dolphins bucks have to win that game or else pretty much lose the division

so they have it's going to they're going to I know but all the dolphins you know it's the end of their fucking run they want to make sure they don't get cut or they've got to get a good offer from somebody no to for that game fucking Bill's scrutiny last week oh you got back door yeah yeah that was that's brutal um so now the stupid ass eagles are coming up there who the fuck knows what they are you want to know okay it's fucking week 17 and it's still

like this is like you ever been in a relationship like this like she loves me no she doesn't like yes she likes me i'm in trouble oh wasn't uh i thought i was cool last night at dinner you know This is what fucking betting. I complimented her outfit. Anyway, all right. Ravens. The heartbreaker there. They're getting three points.

What's going on at the Packers? They hurt? Yeah, there's a lot of injuries. A lot of injuries in that game. So Lamar is now being real doubtful. He got hurt in that Patriots game. so it sounds like he's going to be out. And then the Packers are...

Tyrod Taylor? This guy's Snoop Huntley. I'm not betting on that fucking game. I have no idea who Snoopuntley is, but I know he's in the NFL. Exactly. And that's the kind of game that can catch fire if he wins. I know.

It's echoed either one way. Sue Puntley is a good one. All right. I'm going to be an asshole here. I'm going to, take the Jaguars minus six and a half. I would rather have five and a half. Jaguars are playing amazing. This is the third week for Old Man Rivers coming back. I thought he like was amazing the first week. And they got absolutely smoked. He threw a pick six. He started to run and was literally

threw his arms up like, what am I doing? The ball hadn't even landed yet. He looked like the cat got out of the house. I ain't catching that fucking thing. So my money's on the Jaguars, but my heart is with the Colts. All right. I'm going to take the Panthers getting seven points at home against the Seahawks, even though the Seahawks are a great fucking team. The Panthers have just been doing this all year. Have you got seen that fucking, that guy when he was singing Sweet Caroline in that bar?

And the guy came up and just grabbed his ankles and upended him. I feel like the Panthers have been doing that. So I'm going to take them getting some points. Yeah, it's a huge game. I'm going to go ahead to have with Paul Verzi, just so we can watch this game together maybe and have a virtual cigar. I'm going to, which, by the way,

I only had one this month. I had one last month. I now smoke cigars, everybody. It's an event. I'm no longer angry. I'm working on my mental health. I have a yoga mat right over there. I am just close to buying man sand.

I'm just... I'm just... I'm just close to going back to my home state of Massachusetts being like, God, what is wrong with the energy out here? I'm going to stop shorter, though. What am I doing? I'm going to take the Raiders. Mine is a lot and a half going up against the Giants. Just because, you know what?

I like that game. It's the toilet pool, so the winner's probably going to get the most of the wrong thing. So I'm glad you're talking about that. a minute, is that for number one draft pick? Yeah, it's for the number one pick. So Paul took the Giants. Okay, does Pete Carroll have job security? Oh, my God.

What a great question. Maybe they give more... This is what I need to know. I don't need to know who's in the game. I need to know, does Pete Carroll have job security? He has a three-year contract with the Raiders signed in January of 2025 with a fourth-year team option reportedly worth $45 million in covering through 2028.

Fuck that game. Fuck that team. Can't. Should I say, Raiders Giants? I apologize to all my listeners. All right. You know what?

Everybody, I'm sick of everybody dumping on Florida. Okay? There's a lot more good down there than bad. Great weather. You know what I mean? People down there buying alcohol by the handle. You know, there's a lot. Alligators.

Fucking absolute smoke shows down there on Miami Beach. You know, arguably the purest cocaine in the country. let's go let's go buccaneers dolphins um I like the bucks to win and I like the dolphins to cover that's my

that's my thing so you're taking the dolphins there okay huh you said it strangely so you're taking the dolphins basically yeah the bucks are going to win

but the dolphins are going to cover this is a classic Vegas game okay I can see it there was a lot of Vegas activity a lot of mob activity a lot of Bay of activity. Jackie Glee's

down there. There's a lot of fucking Tom Fulery that goes. Everybody thinks it's all Trump hats, stock racing, stock car racing, and Tom Petty. Most of them didn't even know that in the election. It's not what it is. We've got Scientology.

Bert Kreischer. What are some of the other big staples? Mar-a-Lago. Okachovie. I like Florida. And I like no, I actually like Northern Florida. I had a good time. I've been to the Daytona 500. I went to a Gator's game.

I hate, I hate some alligators. I shot guns with silencers. I did what you do. How was the swamp, the stadium, I mean. Oh, it was amazing. Yeah. That was when they, the first game, they played the Tom Petty song and everybody sang along and then it became this tradition that they do it now. And it's fucking great. Oh, that's wonderful. Yeah. That's, that's what, that's what we need. All these don't like them because they're fucking Tim Tebow and his unabashed love for our Lord and

Savior, Jesus Christ. I'm just fucking babbling here so I can figure out what I'm going to do. I think that's four. No, it isn't because I walked away from the Raiders game. Oh, I went to the Dolphins. Yeah, yeah. Now I got to bring up. I got to bring up. Hey, Bill, you got to sing the song.

Okay. Oh, you're good. Ghost of Paul Versey. Let the Monday next bad show. We haven't won since the first two weeks. When some months for you, let the Monday night's bad show win some motherfucking money for you. Is there one

or two games? Just one game. Just the one, yeah, Rams Falcons. I hate this game and I hate this number. We don't need to take the number because there's so many people that could score that we're going to take a bunch of touchdowns. What about the money line? Just taking the ramps. We can do that too.

What did you win a nickel? What's that? What do you win like fucking 20 bucks? Yeah, it's minus. Minus 4.50, so, you know, not great odds. What does that mean? I got a bet $4 to $50 to make $100? Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I wasn't good at math, but that doesn't sound like a good deal. Yeah. I mean, there's a lot of people that's where touchdowns. Bejohn Robinson on Atlanta, Huka Nakua for the Rams. I feel like those two.

Jake, I feel like you know this better than I do. I'm just a man in a big five fucking zip up. who's about to go meditate and who gets it now i never just to get five right behind me too actually i love it all right what do you got um i think hmm mad matth matthew stafford to fucking throw one yeah yeah i agree with that he do you think uh he's MVP this year or is this um do you think it's either him or drake may is kind of the debate Well, I mean, L.A.'s the sexier city.

It's a bigger market. Oh, you want actual. You do you want actual? I would say Drake May. Matthew Stafford, we already fucking know what he can do. The guy's got a Super Bowl ring. I just think it's harder for Matt. I think you're going to build the future of the NFL.

If I'm looking at it from a marketing sense, I give it to Drake May. Yeah. Interesting. And then, yeah, I guess the last argument could be like it's Stafford's last time to win is only MVP. Because he's probably not going to win MVP again. whereas Drake May could win it again, hypothetically, would be a point some people. If Drake May loses to Matthew Stafford,

I'm not going to fucking bitch about that. Matthew Stafford is amazing. And he spent all those years with the Lions through good and mostly bad. And, you know, the guys are stud. The Patriot is a tough guy, played the game right. You know, how are you going to be against that guy? All right.

So he's going to throw one. Who's he? Jake, who do you think he's going to throw it to? It's got to be Pooka Nakua. He had 225 yards, two touchdowns last week. I think he's just going to keep rolling. All right. What else do we need? I say there's going to be a 73-yard field goal.

A fucking lock. Lock. Dude, I heard Chris Collinsworth saw him do it in practice. It's twice removed now. But Collins weren't without the homes in the playoffs now. he's bum for the record I love Chris Collinsworth

I did inside NFL anybody who doesn't like that guy has never met him he's fucking hilarious he's a stand-up guy too because there was a rumor about something and he was like

I don't know man I don't know and then somebody else confirmed it and then he just went like yeah those guys were pretty wild so he knew so he knew and he didn't say anything so I was like I like this guy I like

All right I think you got to take Bijan Robinson to the score too because he's just so good and I love watching him all right I just like hearing you say

those names Jake Jean Robinson what was the other guy Pooka yeah the names today I remember you were reading something I wrote

and then you're like wow this is like almond raw St. Brown is you reading that was like funny to me I was like wow

like you have me to adjust these names is like really funny I'm a man of a certain age and I understand that life has passed me by so I'm just enjoying you youngsters with your fancy names every once in a while

somebody says hello to me I'm happy Hey speaking of happy I got a I got a road gig coming up Oh Billy's getting out of the house Taking off the slippers Finally putting on some shoes I'm going to I'm up in Seattle I'm going to go to the Bruins Cracking game

Check that one off the list I got three more teams to see And then I've been to a home game of every professional team in all four sports. I don't know what that says about me. Don't worry. They're going to build a new stadium. Can I get the tattoo of the tear? You know, you're this different heart emojis?

Like, this is that I murdered somebody. Billy no mates. Yeah, I got to see that. I got to see the mammoth. And I got to see the Carolina hurricane. So I have stand updates are going to be coming up in all of those. Two of them are going to be Burwins games, and then the Mammoth game is, I don't know what it's going to be. But I'm going to knock those out and finally put that to bed.

And then you know where I'm going next, people. I'm going CFL. I think I can knock that out in the year. They got 16. Arena football. You got an arena football league. Well, I've been to all four tennis majors. Oh, that's awesome.

I've been to two F1 races. I've only been to one golfing major. But in my world, just because the U.S. U.S. Open and the PGA move around. I don't give a fuck about those. I do have to go to St. Andrews one of those years. Yeah. And I'm going to take a

sabbatical from my fucking seven years of not drinking. I mean, I got to go over to, I mean, I just have to get plastered when I'm there. If I don't get escorted out, man, that's saying something. Do you get escorted out of something for being too drunk in Scotland? I mean, that's, I think that beats

anything over here in the States. I mean, one drink will knock you on your ass. So, I mean, it's not like you got to, you know, it'll be the cheapest drunk you ever have. No, I'm not doing that anymore. Although I came close to the other night. I actually thought about it. Yeah.

One of my wife's friends who's now become, you know, we're just friends with the family. The dude was just going like, you know, I, you know, I love that, you don't drink, but would have been cool, you know, if we knew each other when you drank. And I love this guy, and I was kind of like going, I mean, I don't think one was,

I don't think one's going to kill us, right? One will kill you. Yeah, that's the end of Beverly Hills Cup. No, no, I'm not, I'm not, what would you drink? But even, I know, this is, by the way, this is like the worst question to ask somebody. He's like, but if you were going to, what were you do? If you were going to, what would you do?

Quote Duff McCagan on my podcast, what do you got? Remember that? A long time ago, he was promoting his album. I said, when you drank, what does your drink? He goes, oh, man, he goes, what do you got? What do you got? I was like, I hate how much I relate to that. If I had to have one drink, it's not just one dude.

It's scenarios. Okay? Is it a summer day? If I had one drink with my wife, we'd have some great moment together. I would tell her how much I love her. she was the best thing that happened to me and then on our back porch or maybe on a little stay vacation

because we love to stay in Cape vacations. You know, we live in a destination to city, Paul. I mean, Andrew, keep calling everybody Paul. So that's what we do. So we just stay in hotels out here and I would have at 5 o'clock in the afternoon I would have a fucking martini heavy on the vermouth.

I like a nice bite to it. Two olives. And then how do I not have the next? I've already just thought about the next one. If I was with you guys, Bursey Bartnick, I got the whole crew. I am going to go with Pappy Van Winkles, or I might go with the one I retired on,

which was Kentucky Owl. I can't remember the name of it, which was fucking incredible. I would go with one of those bourbons that is so good, like you pour this much, and it takes you an hour to drink it. You just, one of those. If I was going to have a beer, I would be in Europe. Yeah, that's the very good.

And I would probably be in Belgium. I was in Antwerp, and I'd already stopped drinking. And I went to this. town square and everybody is just out in public drinking beer and each beer every single fucking beer had its own specific glass and the scientific reason for it to bring out the ultimate flavor and i and i literally made a mental note in my head that said if i ever fucking drink beer again I'm doing it in Belgium

special shout out to when I was in Perth, Australia and I was at the Little Creatures brewery and I had some beer out there was the whole that whole thing just being on the west coast of Australia visiting Bond Scott's grave

going out there on Australia and watching those people cut and loose in their fucking El Camino's was pretty cool yeah if I was going to to have wine, obviously, France or Italy. Yeah, dude, I got it. I got it. Or if I was on a public course pretending I like golf, I'm going Miller High Life. High Life, yeah. I was going to say, standing on a golf course, even Rose Bowl, we used to go to the Rose Bowl.

I mean, just. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. But also, my liver finally cleared up from all those years ago into the Rose Bowl. I know, man. Remember that year that hot chick had the fucking. the tequila with the fucking pickle juice chase the pickle juice she came by where like you're like what what is that yeah yeah she had like uh it was wisconsin so they had striped suspenders yeah dude she had striped she was fucking absolutely adorable yeah she's cute the crazy feminine energy and she was the kind of go you can marry she had like a glow behind her and she was standing there with tequila

and pickle juice yeah we did a lot of those sustained a head injury i'm like i guess i made it to heaven I'm on my way. Is that what it is? Honorable mention. With my friends on a golf course, he's a beautiful woman. I mean, dude, it was like all of a sudden we were in VIP. Like, where did she come from? And then, you know what?

As quickly as she arrived, she left. Gone. All the Long Ranger vibes. It was fantastic. Yeah, that would be. Honorable mention, though, Bill, Mick Light. They don't even make it anymore. You can't.

I haven't seen a Mick Light in a liquor store in a long time. It's all Mick Ultram. time they had a michelope light i i drank a fucking rack of him with verzi out in death valley in baton ruse i bought him in downtown uh so good wallans because i i had done a movie there a couple years early called black or white great movie kevin costner movie um who was the greatest guy ever he took me bow fishing after after we shot after we shot the movie that's how cool he was he goes bill you have a hunter fish i got a couple times he goes there let's go let's go tomorrow we stopped in this convenience store. I walked in this convenience store

with Kevin Costner and he got a fishing license. Nice. And then we went out on the bayou. I never told this story. Yeah, I'm here. No, he's the fucking greatest. And we were out on this fucking boat and it was like pitch black and these guys had flashlights

and they were on the water and when they saw a fish, they go rot that, rot that, right, that, right, that, right? And I was actually did all right. And I didn't realize I shot Lefty. And because I remember the guy goes, lefty got another one. And, you know, I shot a few when I was just like, are we eating this shit?

You know what I mean? Because I don't want to fucking just be out here. It's mutilating fish. Yeah, so, but it was a great time. And, you know. So I got that story. And guess what? He didn't have to fucking do that.

I had like fucking 10 lines in the movie. He was just a cool guy. That whole set was Octavia Spencer. I worked with, the whole thing was just, that was a great time. Great time. But anyway, when I wasn't. shooting. There was a cigar bar down the way

and I would have a cigar and there was this little convenience store and I used to fucking, I used to buy Mickalove Light because that was the first beer I got drunk on and it was making me miss my friends from, you know, from Massachusetts. So when we went back there for the game, I go, before we

went to the Saints Eagles Monday night game. That's right. We landed in New Orleans. We got, we got, we did our gig at the casino. And then I bought the, I bought the, I bought the Mick Likes for the ride out to fucking Baton Rouge. That's what it was. And then we also had some sort of

hard liquor. And I got way, way, way too drunk. We parked in front of some woman's house, killed the fucking McLights. All right, I'm just babbling here. No, no, this is a great story, actually. All right. This is all to say I really miss doing this show

with Paul Verney. And I'm winding down. to an end, guys. Once again, dude, how fucking fun is this podcast? It's a good one. Yeah, it's been a blast. Ridiculous. Well, we want to thank all you guys for watching through yet another football season. I went one and three. So now I'm fucking down again, two games. So we'll see what I do. I got a shot. Jake, you got a shot. You're in there. Andrew, you're in there. Yeah, we both had undefeated weeks. Pretty crazy. Andrew was a legit four and oh. And I went

three, oh, I didn't know that. Yeah. Congratulations. Yeah. That's right. You went 3-0-1, so, yeah, you're... Wait, so you guys went 7-0-1 together? Yeah, that's right. What's your record, Andrew?

I'm 29, 33, and 2. Jake, you're 30, 30, and 4. Oh, I'm officially 500. Yeah, you're officially 500. Bill is 30, 32. Dude, you got to... Somebody's got to pick up the slack. Paul had to finally had a tough season.

Yeah. It's a tricky week, but I'm right there. So it's exciting. Yeah, I'm heating up towards the end, which is good. I hope. It's been up and down for sure. But, yeah, it's exciting. Jake, do you already know your picks? Usually, Jake and I just make our picks after the show to keep time. Yeah, can you, can you pull them up? I don't have the odds in front of me. Jake, that's why the ladies love you. You finish the wrong. Let me see if I can get them up here right now. It's, uh... That's good. All right. Is that it? Are we done? yeah we'll wrap it we'll wrap it you got a roll okay that is the podcast everybody thank you so much this is week 17 if you can believe it and uh week 18 is going to be the last and uh hopefully uh jake to snake well we do playoffs we do playoffs we do i mean as far as like trying to beat regular season we don't count the playoffs so hopefully jake snake's gonna be fucking carrying the flag of victory over the goal line this podcast has never last collectively has never lost

We can do it. We're not. We're at this. All right. I'm two back. So I need a big, well, we got two weeks to go. I need a big week. All right.

That's it, everybody. Thank you so much for watching. I hope you all had a great Christmas. Happy New Year. And that's it. We'll see you next week.