Bussin' With The Boys - NFL Conference Championship Picks: Can Rams Upset Seahawks? + Do Broncos Have A Shot vs. Patriots?

Episode Date: January 21, 2026

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What was up with the, what was up with the, you don't, don't. Oh, and four. Why are you saying we were oh and four? I mean, I would love if Jared could just go back into black and white and watch them agree, them being you two, agree to, Clay's making his picks. Will you jump on the picks? You can discuss why you did that publicly or not. And if you guys missed one, you miss all.

But I also had a different pick than Clay. So, okay, great. Then I also said I'll do the parlay. 1 in 3, 0 and 4. Is that what I'm hearing? But you also told me that I had to parlay him. And I'm like, you also say if we go black and white, it's Big Daddy. We get to pick the game.

Right. We get to pick our rules. The I win big daddy situation. I agree. So 3 and 1. I agree. But we're in a new show now. Like last week, you made the rules.

This week, if you want to change the rules, it seems like it's been a consistent thing all year. Three and one. So you're just 3 and 1. 2. Hey, I'm 4 and 0 this week. Thank you. I'm 110 and 0. Oh my God.

I mean, did I say anything incorrect there, Clay? Did I say to you, hey, if you're going to do all these lines, let's parlay them all together. You can say whatever you want to say, but I just want to let you know. Tell me. The viewers see through this thinly veiled, you know, what you got going on, all right? Thinly veiled what I got going on. Yeah, you know, there's a little, this animosity is all. There's a little animosity, okay?

That's all I'm saying. Oh and four, two and two. But it doesn't matter. I'm doing well. Did you see the parlay I hit over the weekend? The Moneyline Parlay? Buddy, you're on top of it. That was nice.

Did you get the boy up? I thought I did drop it. He dropped it. He dropped it in the chat. The Compton trash? Yeah. Hey. We're talking about this Finley-Villed animosity.

Buddy, we, you're in the bottom. Yeah. And I'm going to ask it towards one. It's okay. Okay. Hey, I'm a rookie. I hit the rookie wall. Okay.

I'm going to bounce back. All right. I can get on the way. I hit the rookie wall. I can buy into that. So we're going to get better. Next year, there's going to be some changes around here. Oh, so come back next year.

This off-season, if I'm invited. You're invited. You're invited. Do you want to verbally commit to doing the lock-home next year? I signed a one-year free agent deal, so we're going to have to talk this off season. You just say when you come back, there's going to be some rule changes. There is. There's going to be some big ones, okay?

You're more than welcome to come back next year. Because we're going to talk. Hey, Delaney. Yeah. We'll move units next year. All day. Well, you want to change the framework of the show. No, I love the show.

I love the show. I love the show is you want to do units instead of records. I'd love to. I'd love to do that. No, we can do records too. I like it. We can do records too. Because look, we can see our records here.

All of them kind of like, I don't know how the units would work, but let's just say both of you would be just like net positive, just a little over the line of zero. Yeah. People are following your bets all year. Now you're in the spot of the weekend. Like Clay and I are below the line. You got to come with some parlays to make a big crack in this championship weekend. With the units. You know what I mean?

Like to make money. Like if we've just done straight all year, hey, throw that aside, we got a couple parlays that are gonna get you hard. You know what I mean? Yeah. So that way you can recoup and win some money at the end of the year. Also if you do do units, it would be, I do think that would be, because that episode that went down with everybody arguing, people were bringing up some good ideas on whether it's units

based or there's a certain amount of money that gets spent throughout the year. So that way you're able to track the dollars and the units. Yeah. So it'll be profitable. If you're picking underdogs, too, those units go skyrocket. But if you're picking heavy favorites. You even. Right.

Yeah. So I think like if, yeah, next year, I actually really like that. Yeah, it's a new layer. A new layer to add towards the locker room. I'm a big fan of it. We can do records too though. You know, just like we should have, we should. But the unit would be the record.

Well, I agree. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, you're right. Units one versus units lost? Or does units in general? Just units, man. I think we kind of just like a kid cleaning up his

room let's put some stuff in the closet those losses and then let's just display these unit wins that's going to put us in a spot though because like you said if you pick it hairy like if you're doing money line favorites your unit percentage is going to be lower than well don't be scared then to pick the dog and capitalizing on the dog so even though you probably hitting more it's not going show in units you get what i'm saying but you would lose like if i pick a heavy favorite like i would lose whatever that unit is or part that would go toward my unit and if you're If you hit an underdog, let's say, money line, your unit would skyrocket. Yeah, plus four, 20.

I think that's how. Yeah, we got to display what a unit is. Like to all of us, let's say a unit is $10. We'll be like, hey, I'm putting five units on this. I'm putting one unit on it. And then you know, okay, if that hit, he's down 10 units or he's up 10 units. Yeah, that way the number just kind of goes nuts. Yeah.

Need a little bank with the graphic, yeah, letting us know. I like it. Units hit this weekend, 75. Pot, you know, yeah. Over the shoulder. Can we get some graphics next year? do we think about when we crown a champion next year we put a certain amount of money or certain something in the pot that we're all kind of fighting for a belt some sort of belt some sort of something

i think yeah belt you like the belt i like the belt i like the belt you like that belt yeah yeah wearing a lot of red today huh 49 or game we didn't do it but you know what time it is man what time is it's off-season time that's what i'm saying yeah can come It's time to party. Coming to Saffran for the Super Bowl. Hey, what? Are you a shirt? Oh, yeah, I'm making a lot of money at the show.

Yeah, there you go. You're going to be out there? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. You're going to be out there? Don't know. Don't know. What you come with?

Come back. Baby air. Oh, they're there. I try to run up to win them all the time without my schedules. Where are you at? Pull up. Delaney's like off in the desert somewhere making a music video so he can never –

Delaney's always got something going on. Do we want to talk about, you mentioned something before we started the show about Pro Bowls. What were you saying? Oh, we got to do it with that. I know. I'm just saying Clay Mason. And everyone yelled save it for the show. So I was like, okay, I guess we're in the show now.

Well, no, you had asked me how many Pro Bowls I made. Yeah, six, correct? Six. Okay. That's a lot of Pro Bowl. That's a lot, for sure. That is nice. Three for me.

That's for us. It should have been four. Yeah, it should have been four. Yeah. But hey, I was in attendance for one. I was in attendance for one. 2018. In all of our friendship, all the things we've done, how much fun was that 2018 Pro Bowl trip?

A lot of fun. 10 out of 10 fun. Wow, 4.5 fun. 4.5 fun. You know, they shut down the park for you. You get it. You get the little gift bags. I think Clay didn't, he didn't get to do that type of Pro Bowl. We don't get why you got to attend to the Pro Bowl.

Why? Taylor invited them. Yeah. Y'all all have the most promo to your family, though, right? Oh, there we go. So obviously. Dailin's Canadian. Wait.

My wife's Canadian. She's not eligible. She can't sniff a Pro Bowl. Yeah. She doesn't know what that kind of freedom looks like. I guess what we're getting at is. My wife has been to a Pro Bowl. My wife has made a Pro Bowl as a cheerleader.

She made a Pro Bowl over you? Yes. Oh, man. Over. Wait, what team? Wait, what team? You just tell what was fighting the fight. Was you there to?

Was you there? When she went? Yeah. And you was dating her at the time? Not at the time. She was at the Pro Bowl. Oh, okay. So you didn't know her.

Better than year after. Oh, the year after. Oh, you know, she made the Pro Bowl. I was like, oh, shit. Yeah. This is my. This is the opposite. The wheelchair.

He's been on a scholarship right there. Oh, shit. She made a moment. I was at their palm chasing. Oh, yeah. I see me. I see me. Yeah, she's got a Pro Bowl.

I have zero. What do you get as a cheer? You both attended one Pro Bowl. Do what? You know that. You have both attended one Pro Bowl. Yeah, and I cheered there. I yelled for you.

Yeah. Did she get anything? You know, like Tiffany coins and I'm not sure. I'm not sure. You have Tiffany coins? Yeah. They gave me like these medallions. These like big coins.

They just sitting in a box right now collecting dust, but they give you like a Tiffany. For the pro bowl? Well, this was before. He was a Hawaii guy. I went to Hawaii too. I went to Arizona. I went to Arizona. That was the one that was the one trial went to.

My first year, the first year was Hawaii and then my last two was. You had 15? Yeah, 15. Oh, that's right. The alternate. No, no, I missed the alternate deal. And then the next year I went there. We got a thousand different conversations going on.

That's what my wife made. You and my wife made that Pro Bowl together. Wait, so you only did. Probably. 2015? I'm assuming I don't know if they do NFC, AMC. 2015. So I missed that 2014 because that's the year I held out.

I wouldn't take it. And then the next year, 2015, that's what I went. Last year in Hawaii. So you did all Hawaii. Well, except my last year was in Arizona that I made it. The Pro Bowl? Yeah. That was 14, right?

14, yes. 14. Oh, okay. They moved it to Arizona? Yeah. Well, they started doing it the site of the Super Bowl. Hey, how great to Arizona? Compared to Hawaii?

Well, no, no, no. Yeah. We stayed at a very nice resort. And what I remember most about that was their coffee. Great coffee there. Great coffee. Add it to the list. Well, you had the Indian reserves?

No, no. The Indigenous People's Reserve? Yeah. No, I don't think so. They have a talking stick? You can't call them Indian? Nah, I'm fucking with you. Oh.

You're going to call them. call whatever you want. It was a beautiful resort, though, with a bunch of green grasses and stuff. You can call them whatever you want. That wasn't an out there. I'm gonna get myself in trouble. That wasn't out.

Not with a DJT picture, but with that comment, okay? Oh, fun times. Good times. Having a good time. Yeah, it was the best, maybe the best date in the continental United States. Really? I mean, think about it.

People say that? I say that. I know for it. This is a lot of retired NFL players there. That's just because of cheap. Is there a tax implications out there? No, it's like 4% state income tax. It's not like one of those non-stating-grade golfing.

Warm weather for the joints. Warm weather. You go north, find some green, find some mountains. Okay. So you're on it. You understand. I think it's a great state. Good hunting.

Let's say you're in Scottsdale. Yeah. Hour in 10 minutes you're at the border of Mexico, right? You're a 45-minute flight to Vegas. You're like a 35-minute flight to San Diego. You go an hour north drive. You're in the mountains. You can snowboard, ski, whatever you want to do.

You're right. It's a great location. And you got great weather all year round. Yeah, it gets hot in summer. Get over it. No grass. Yeah. That's what people are.

I kind of love the brown. You like, I mean, I grew up there. Whoa. Taylans watching. Be careful. She knows what I'm saying. No, I love Arizona. I'm not going to lie.

I love Tempe. I love Lake Havisoo. It's a 40-year-old talking about Tempe. Oh, I used to go to Havasu. There you go. My dad, though. Oh, that's an older. Jet ski.

That was like late 90s. Yeah. A lot of fun. It's still popping, though. Yeah. Oh, I go all the time. But isn't the water going down there in there? Yeah.

But, you know, they release it. The dam sometimes, I think, and then it rises. Yeah, I know about it. The Hoover Dam? No. No. What is the dam? I've been there.

I've been there twice in my life. Water gets low, release the dam, get water back in it. What about the Ozarks? He has been there. Oh, hell yeah. Ozarks a lot. Ozarks a lot. I thought I heard one of you guys talking about this before.

Was that you? He's from Missouri. He's from, no, he goes for sure. Lake and New York City's a vibe. Yeah. Party Cove. Yep. What is it, the Hornettoe?

The Hornettoe. Lit. Pull up to that thing on a boat or drive to me. Who? The Hornetode, Cape Creek Arizona. There's a restaurant there. Well, it's, okay, so it's another one in Missouri. A big-ass bar on the lake.

The Camden on the Lake, that hotel. The Camden, the hotel across the street from me. How you know I'm in there. Not a boys Who ain't he's been there I've been there Hot plates and all You know what I'm talking about

Hot plate Edson you used at Central Missouri Yeah Why boys put you on the lake Oh hell yeah They're like bro you gotta come up here I'm like man I don't fuck with lakes Got up there like I fuck with it

I fuck with lakes Like a theater They never got down like this It goes down Good Goes down Should we get into the games Let's do it

What's up with the games? How did you guys feel about the games over the weekend? Man. I think I'm heartbroken for Josh Allen. Yeah. Heartbroken. Great games, though. All around.

Great games. Chicago. We started with the Bill's game, right? Yeah. That was the first game. Bill's Denver. Bill's Denver. What was this?

Was that? 33.30? Yep. Yeah. Overtime. That was a fun game to watch. Right. I did not.

I missed on my under. I think everybody did that. We thought we'd see. We all missed on that. Miss pretty quickly. I know. I remember you saying. Oh, 46 and a hat, whatever it was.

That was tough. I'll tell you, I was surprised with the bill's run game and how much success they had, I think. They had, like, what, 33 carries at like five yards of pop? I mean, James Cook was going off. Going off. But, hey, we're dressing an elephant in the room here. Half time?

Half time. Going into halftime? Oh, yes. 13 seconds? 13 seconds on the clock? Josh Allen. Like he was bowling, bowling backwards. Put him right in field goal range.

I know, you know, every game. doesn't come down to, comes down to a few plays, and you lose by three to that. Well, you lost by three in OT with five turnovers. Denver only had one. I mean, one of those turnovers were questionable. That dude was on the ground. His knee was on the ground. He had to ball. I just hate the inconsistency.

Let's get back to that. I just hate the inconsistency from the refs and how they double down on it. They only have a pool reporter. Like, there needs to be transparency. What are we doing here? Yeah. Like, not just with the amount of, money that's on the game now, but you owe it to the viewer. I think it was a pick too because I don't

believe Cook's had, I think it was moving the whole time he was down. But if we go back and look at Pittsburgh Ravens game where Arod, you know, caught the ball lands on his knees and then buddy, the tight end had any, like there's just too much inconsistency with the catch rule. I feel like they owe it to the fan. What league was it where they actually show you? ACC network. Yeah. For the ACCC games where you get to like basically be in all the referees, about breaking down any challenge call, like anything that's under review, you're getting to listen into the conversation.

I think that would be incredible. They didn't even, the XFL did it too, but it felt like they didn't even review it. It was just like, it was so quick. Yeah, they were really quick to do that. They were really quick to jump to the next day. Is New York calling in? Are they looking at it from the eye in the sky?

Like, we don't know when does New York get involved. Like, yeah, I just think that some time should have been spent looking at that reviewing it and then coming up with a reason as to why it's going to go one way or the other. But even without that, I mean, Bill's had plenty of chances. I mean, they have plenty of chance. I feel bad for Josh Allen. I don't think he can get over the hump, man.

Oh, you're a hater. No, I like her. You're a non-believer. I mean, he haven't done it yet. I'm a believer once he do it. He haven't done it. Do the bills have a coach yet, or they're still? It looks like right now, I know last I saw Brian Dayball was interviewing for the head-coaching job.

And he'd be solid. That's who's the O-C for him when they were making those. In Buffalo? Yeah. Having those battles with the Chiefs, they ball was the OC. Dude, the end of the game when the Broncos got two pass interference calls. Oh. That, I understand because they are penalties.

Both of those were penalties. But in my opinion, when it comes to crunch time playoffs, it needs to be over the top egregious in order for you to pull up the laundry. You want the boys to sort it out themselves. They didn't call it for four quarters, too. If that's how you're going to do it. Don't call it in overtime. Do business is being done. Let them play. Let them play.

That's what we want to see. Because that, I mean, yeah, the, with the five turnovers versus the one, the Broncos had the right, they should have won that game. But it's just like, man, I was, I wanted more ball. I wanted to see a second overtime. I wanted to see something crazy. And it was just heartbreaking. It ended up being like two, two DPIs, kick a field goal in the game. We did get a second overtime, though.

That Bears game. Yeah. Bears Rams. Well, that game was electric. Electric. Dude, part of me was sad seeing Chicago lose. Same. I know.

Whoever had the ball and whoever had the opportunity to go up, I was like, I found myself rooting for that offense. But it was kind of, I was kind of bummed to see Chicago go down. I'm gonna be honest, man, DJ. Oh, that route at the end. Hey. No. He started jogging, bro.

When the game on the line? Right. Bro, you gotta expect the ball coming to you every play. You the main receiver. It was a, it was a KB. who picked it off? No. Was it a Byard who picked it off?

No, no. It was. DJ Moore. Who jumped that? Oh, wait, no, yeah. They were both on Chicago. Or something like that. It was a Rams player.

It was a Rams player. He ran the route for him. He did jump a boat as you see it unfold as they took, as they took that area out with the vertical route. And I'm, my brain, correct me if I'm wrong. You're the offensive guy. But DJ Moore, you're obviously, you're still on a full sprint, but you're trying to flatten that out, right?

I'm flattening out to get to the ball. I'm not building up letting the guy undercut me. Because even though the dude was undercut me. was undercut and kind of read it, you know, he was seen it unfold a little bit later. It's not like he ran it off for him. They had that window. They had that window. They had that throw. Yeah. Because he expected him to get across, flatten it, get across. And I don't get why DJ, it felt like he wasn't even, it felt like he was just running the route and then kind of just started jogging like he just wasn't expecting it. He was. He thought he was a decoy or something like that. Once you saw the vertical take the first one.

You should have, you should have knew he was getting the ball. But I think he saw that safety sit that played the ball. on his inside and he thought he was taking away because he probably thought he was going to get a quick shot, not thinking it was going to go fall over to the numbers, and he just stopped running. I don't know what it was. I'm sitting here like. As you say you're running that route,

as you were seeing that safety guy said there, in your brain, are you thinking, all right, I got to start flattening this out? So if that's me and I'm coming downhill like this. I'm trying to beat him to the ball. Because at the end of the day, they both broke on it at the same time. So I'm coming downhill as flat as I can, downhill at an angle.

I'm trying to beat him to the ball knowing that it's a catch tackle. That's all you need it. All he had to do is get a catch tackle. They was in field goal range. Game over. I don't know. Sometimes I'll just be sitting there. I'm like, I'm looking.

I don't know. I don't know what the play was. I'm assuming he had a dig, bro. That's what I'm assuming. Is it time to get rid of the nails now? It's over, right? Yeah. I mean, they starting to date.

I mean, like I said, she... It's not a grow on you a little bit. No, well, like I said, she put the acrylics. Yeah, acrylics on there. So I got to pick them as they come, man. You know, like, I messed up one of my nails picking them, chipped that thing. So, yeah. But also they...

Way. Delaney's nails lasted longer than the Bears postseason. They should have made it, though. They got... But even on that play, it didn't seem like it was a dig rat. He was, like, bending it over. Yeah, I just... That's why I don't know what, I can't call it, but you know you was a clearout.

So you knew somebody got to come under that clear out. That's basic. Y'all know that on defense. If someone clear out, someone usually coming underneath that clear out. So that's what I was expecting. And Caleb thought the same thing. He looked. See the safety run.

He just flings it, assuming that that dude was going to be there. I don't know what the route was. I don't know what the defense was, but when they show it from the back end zone view and the DJ is just kind of jogging. It makes me like sick to my stomach. I'm like, this is the divisional round. And like it's not week five. I know. It's like just bro, you got to.

I don't even know if he's the issue, right? I'm not saying he's felt out of character because he was showing in the playoff games. He's been, he's been showing up. Balling. But then you literally, you see like, oh, he's not running full speed, regardless of what's going on or what the route concept is supposed to deliver from who's supposed to be open. Like, you know it's like, why are you running for speed? And this is just an option.

I was surprised because they did it a few weeks ago. We talked about this on bus. I'm still surprised that he just kicks it. They kick an extra point at the end instead of trying to go for time. Yeah, I know. Because they talk about the aggressive style all year long, for it down, all this stuff. And you have a shot right there.

We had one of these that I felt strong about. Obviously, I'm not the coach in hindsight 2020. But we were playing, we lost this game. We were playing in the divisional round. Arizona Cardinals down there in Arizona, I believe it was 2015. When A-Rod threw those back-to-back. Hail Mary's to Jeff Janice and we caught it in the end zone. Nobody, I mean, times out, we now kick an extra point to go to overtime.

I'm thinking, you got the defense reeling right now. They're absolutely shook. And I feel like if you live by the sword, you got to die by the sword. So if you go out there, nobody's going to question your decision to go for it, when the crowd's out of it, when the defense is influx, and you feel like we got all the momentum, do you feel like that was the, and I felt like we should have, we ended up losing the game Larry Fitzgerald had a huge, you know, 70-yard catch receiving. We went on to lose that game.

And obviously the Bears did as well. It almost felt like that was more of a Hail Mary, like, and they're playing at home too. And you heard Ben Johnson after the game talk about, like he didn't feel good with his goal to go offense and, you know, how it was playing out. But I'm with you. I think sometimes, like, you just got to go for it.

You just got to be aggressive. And just how they've been aggressive all year long. And Greg comes on our show for most of the year to, like, recapping all these. type of situations and it's like you got to go for like this is that's how the NFL world is trending now to where it's like you want to finish the game in regulation you're going to make it like you're going to draw a line in the sand and we're going to determine right now who the winner is going to be what yeah yeah three yards where is that where do they put the two-point

conversion two and a half like it's like the two-yard line two-yard line two-yard line could be wrong about your two-point conversions are under 50 percent chance like 48 percent or something like that yeah Caleb can run it in he can get on the edge you have the number I'm rushing attack. I mean, obviously, to me, it's confusing just because of the philosophy that's been like Greg, as Taylor was saying, he's like progression, pro like the analytics, the movement that's been coming into the NFL. And you've got a lot of young coaches who go by, if Rabel being won, I don't know,

McCle's another one, Johnson, Campbell, all the younger guys. All these guys that are aggressive in these situations. And the extra point just feels like the conservative model. Because then if you're going the conservative model, why aren't you sitting there taking the points all game long? Because then instead of scoring, you're having to score that last touchdown because they turned the ball over. Caleb, Ermeled won. It was an interception.

Then they turned the ball over on downs when they could have kicked a field goal. That's six points right there. You're looking at 1716, and instead of being in 1710 having to get a touchdown and then have the decision to kick the extra point, in 1617, you're now just kicking a field goal to go up 1917. Yeah. So that's why that stuff gets confused because it feels like Coach Johnson is like the full-on aggressive. He goes forward everywhere. He's going to go for it all the time.

It doesn't make a whole loss. And then Greg's big thing is like a lot of these coaches, they let the podium kind of sway their decisions when it comes to going for it versus not going for it because it's much easier to say, hey, we took the points or defense has got to play better in the situation so we can get the ball, all those types of like not passing the blame, but be like from a team standpoint, this side's got to be better than that side was and X, Y, and Z. But Ben Johnson doesn't strike us throughout the totality of the season as a guy that's like a afraid to approach the podium and be like, you know, more conservative about his decision-making.

Well, they, and to his credit, they did stop them. Didn't they hold the Rams to three and out? They had a bad, like, flip play on third down and they get the ball back. Yeah. Hoked them, too. You know. Because the defense, the Bears defense has always been like opportunistic. Who knows what's going to happen?

And then they fucking bold. I mean, you can't give the Rams two opportunities. Like, I'm sitting there like, this fucking game is over. Number one offense. You gave him two opportunities. You could have won this game. They thought the game was over. I thought the game was over.

When Caleb threw that fucking touch, I'm like, oh, the Bears is going to win this game. I'm like, that energy at that stadium, the way he threw that pass, three people about the taggle man just throws it in there a touchdown. I'm like, the Bears are going to win. Bro, when they stopped him. Caleb running backwards.

Bro, the reaction I had just at the TV next to my wife. I'm just like, holy fuck, dude. Did you see this? I'm like hey you gotta look at this. I said oh my god, they did. They did it. Dude, the most ridiculous, he ran backwards for 15 yards. And I'm like, oh, this is over.

Just enough to get away from everybody. I'm gonna reset and just throw this thing with the tie down real quick. That play by the Rams corner too. Bro, the defensive effort in truth. I was just like, did he say he pushed me? He showed his away and you didn't get pushed it on. He, yeah, that was just wild. wild and doing it two weeks in a row two weeks in a row hit the jordan symbol on the packers and then goes

and does that's like all the momentum in the world packers are just the most momentum based team yeah of all that as a safety too just kind of being a no man's land in the back of the end zone's like dude just ran 15 yards back go find the only dude that stayed in the end zone right yeah yeah well listen i think i think we can all agree bears had a tremendous year and i think this is a good opportunity for me to to just you know address the bears organization real quick to this camera right here Chicago, congratulations on a great year. To make it to the divisional round, when I predicted that they wouldn't make the playoffs is remarkable.

And, you know, you're overachieved. And for all that, I want to say, you're welcome. You're welcome for me sparking that match. For me, just, you know, I may be retired. And you probably thought the rivalry was retired as well, but it wasn't. In the booze I heard at the 2025 NFL draft, they cannot drown out the decades of dominance that the Packers have had over you. Okay. So Ben Johnson, I know how good it feels to beat the Packers, okay?

And Caleb, to play like the Iceman, you both are welcome. And for the Chicago organization, you're welcome. Oh, I can't wait to read those comments. Well said. Well said. Just to put a bow on it. Just to put a bow on it. Let's just call a spade.

Would you as far as to say, like, they're one and done? Like that was all the success the Bears have had. They're going to regress next year. Hard to do that twice. I think they are moving in the right direction. I think Ben Johnson is a fantastic coach. Caleb showed the playoffs. I think Caleb kind of reverted back to old Caleb,

throwing five interceptions or whatever it was in that short amount of time. We talked about live by the sword dive. we talk about live by the sword die by the sword that's also what made him fun to watch make that throw like jordan make that fourth down against the rams but you see the interceptions as well you can't turn the ball over so do i think they regress no but this was this might have been their year to maybe you know at least have a chance against the seahawks so they're going to regress well what i'm saying is i think regress from making it to divisional round i i'm i think regress from making it's a divisional round? I don't know. I think they're going to be one or two in the NFC North.

The Lions obviously have to make some changes. Vikings, until they get their quarterback situation figured out. But I think the Packers are there. You get Micah back. You get Tucker. They extended the floor, which I agree with. I think they're going to be in play with the Bears one-two seed in the NFC North. So I like it. I think it's going to be a good rivalry. It's good for the NFL. It's good for both organizations. Hopefully it's more fireworks. When Harbaugh came on the market, was there a part of you, or kind of seeing that Lafleur was in contract negotiations. Like, could they make a switch here?

Let's grab Harbaugh. Or Tomlin. I just, I look at those two guys. I see him as Blue Bud coaches. Maybe that's just because of not only the amount of success they have, but the organizations they were affiliated with, the amount of success that Harbaugh had, you know, since he's been there for however long it was.

And Tomlin as well, with the Super Bowls, with all the playoff appearances with him just being him. And the way he commands, you know, that team. I could have seen it. I didn't play with LaFleur. I was going to say he's been to the playoffs six out of seven years. Right. But same reason why McDowler got fired. Getting over the hump. Yeah. I think they can. I think they definitely can do it. You know, we talked about this a little last week. I think there needs to be a little bit more leadership on that team. Specifically from the players.

Greenback. Yeah. I think they need a true wide receiver one. Everybody's kind of looking at each other. Who's going to make the play? I don't know if you heard what Micah had to say in his exit interviews, but I mean, he was just talking about how they got outstrained. He was, I mean, he had an amazing, you know, two, three minute chat with the media that, you know, a lot of people don't really say because you'd say, always throwing his teammates under the bus. But it's just, I think it's leadership and accountability. And hopefully there's more of that moving forward. I know Jordan Love is the leader of the offense. But if he needs to be more vocal, more demonstrative with his body language, I feel like there needs to be somebody on the offensive side who is the person they look to when times get rough.

can have that two weeks ago on defense. Everybody's looking around who's gonna make the play. You know, Mike is not out there. So I think if they can add a few leaders or if people can grow into that role, then I definitely got a chance to win a super bowl. How many years might have signed? Four. Four.

Four. Four. Four. Four. Four. Big bag. We'll see what he do next year. You know, all he's done is ball out. All he's done is ball out.

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Back to the episode. All right, let's get in these games. Let's dive in these games. All right. We got brave on the AFC championship. This cakewalk now. You think it's a cakewalk? Since the quarterback is done in Denver.

Hold on. Let's introduce the game for the people real quick. New England Patriots, they're at the Broncos. Broncos are dogs. Patriots are favored by five and a half points. Minus five and a half. Total points in that game is 42 and a half. You just brought it up.

Broncos, they lose Bo Nix second to last play. There's a controversial thing going on. Was it already broken? What happened? Sean Paine, he hits on the podium. bad news, he's done. All right. Turmoil in Denver.

Drake May hasn't played well either, though. I know. Hasn't done his thing. He ain't been as great as he has been. Obviously, first year in the playoffs, you know, that fatigue, playoff fatigue happens, but. I'm going out to Denver in that altitude. Denver's defense just honestly had a bad game too.

But they, look, the Patriots were dogs going away. Now they're the road favor. I'm telling you, bro, without their star quarterback in Denver, I don't believe they're going to be, have a chance. Yeah, they can run the ball. They can do all of this. But without that guy being out there with that poise and his leadership, being out there to control that offense,

I just don't feel like Denver is going to be able to keep up with the Patriots, man. The Patriots are just, you see, you saw how the Texans were able to keep the Texans in that game. Defensively. defensively. But you don't think Nick Benito's going to be able to get after Campbell. Campbell had a rough game. He had two rough games in a row. He will.

He will. I just, I- Denver will be able to pressure him to at least like, you know, I know, Stidham, maybe you get a little, the backup QB spark that I feel like teams get it. I know when the A&C championships. But it's the champions. I know. We're in the championship.

Man, only play. How many games? Two, brother. Hey, how many, how many turnovers did New England's defense force? They had like five interceptions, right? Maybe six turnovers. Yeah. It was incredible what they did.

I know C.J. Stroud did not have a great game to put it lightly. But if New England's defense plays like that, and you're right, we discussed Drake May, not having the poise in the pocket to step up to get rid of the ball. I'm seeing a lot of SACCAUs. Phnombers, Denver's defense is going to make plays. But if they can go back, and I'm talking about the Patriots now, and watch how the bills had success, run the ball, take care of the ball on offense, and allow your defense to just,

allow their offense, allow their backup quarterback to make mistakes. I think this game is going to be closer than most people think, just because of how Denver has a full week to understand, you know, to put in the correct place, to understand on defense. And everyone thinks it's going to be a cakewalk. I don't think it's going to be a cakewalk. I don't think the Patriots will win this game. I'm actually moving the line just because, like, like he said,

you go out there, you expect them to everyone like, oh, they're going to blow them out because they have a backup quarterback. No, I'll expect they're going to play a lot. little harder with that backup quarterback but the Patriots will win but I it will be closer than with the house have it what do you are moving the line to here two and a half I say they win by field goal so you're taking the Patriots minus two and a half in this game yeah it's a great pick it's a fantastic pick it's a fantastic pick does anybody have the balls to go Denver no do you I don't have the balls to go then I don't have the balls to go Denver I don't have the balls to go

I wouldn't mind seeing it. It's like, you know, the cake, just how everybody is viewing this game the moment Bo Nix goes out and the Patriots going out to Denver just seems like it's going to be the Patriots. And then obviously, Rams, I can't wait to dive into that game. The Rams is going to be electric. But everybody's just assuming this is Mike Vrabble and the Patriots going to Super Bowl. Rable right now, as we're talking, you know, is just derecruiting the entire team. I was going to say, you guys know Vrable better than anybody.

And as a former player, too, you know the mentality of the team because I'd be thinking the exact same thing as a player. I wouldn't allow it to escape, but I'd be like, oh, like, once you're getting a couple, hey, buddy, yeah. But Rable is doing everything in his power right in. I sit in that team meeting and be like, everything you guys are thinking, I completely understand it, you're not going to suit up and win this game. Right. And then show all the lumps from the Texas game that they took that that offensive line was taking. We ain't winning doing this. Right. Right. That's true. He is doing that. All that. And probably talk about how they are going to establish. Because that was the biggest surprise to me was the fact that the Broncos gave up over

180 yards on the ground. Yeah. I couldn't believe it. Because they were the second rush defense in the entire league. Yeah. But like the Broncos defense as good as they were earlier in the year, they've completely cooled off. Yeah. Like they're not getting to the quarterback as much, especially when they're rushing for. They have to blitz quite a bit to cause that type of pressure take place. They lived a lot off of the miscues of the bills.

They had so many turnovers in that game. Patriots, as much as their offense has cooled down, their defense has stepped up. Yeah. Making these two games in the postseason, they've only given up a total of 19 points. They're figuring out where teams. teams are failing. They're going to go to backup quarterback. They're going to do the exact thing. They're going to stop the run. They're going to force them to throw the ball. We're going to have this backup quarterback who's only played one snap this year and he's a kneel down to win this game.

10 places is what, 2023? Yeah, hasn't placed 2023, eight touchdowns, eight interceptions in this career. Yeah. Like, and so what the Broncos are going to have to do if will come. A five star former number one quarterback recruiting the country. Didn't he get drafted out of high school? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I drafted to New England. Hey, revenge games. Oh, I don't like that. Yeah, McDaniel kind of liked him, though, right? He liked him, but he also knows what he's not good at.

So he's in those defensive meetings as well, being like, this is what he doesn't do well with, make him feel the outside the numbers, inside the numbers, whatever his issues are. They have a little edge of like, hey, this was the issue we saw with him from a development standpoint. He hasn't played in two years. These are probably still the issues that we could help come up and make him second guess himself. So how are the Broncos going to get manufacturer pressure? They're either Will Campbell, they're going to leave them on an island continuously, or they're going to add chips and slides and all these different things versus Bonito and Cooper,

or they're going to have to blitz. And then Drake May, he's 8 for 14 for 156 yards and two touchdowns in the postseason against the blitz. So the more you kind of look and break down this game and it's how many Patriots didn't play well, they haven't played well in their last year games from an offensive standpoint. But now there's like a resurgence that I believe that they're going to have of like, oh, we're playing against a backup quarterback. maybe the Broncos as much as we're feeling great about ourselves, they're feeling a little bit lower about ourselves,

doing the whole defense, we've got to put it on our shoulders type of talk. But once you get punched in the mouth and you kind of know we're out manned and outgunned, I think it's the Patriots. So I'm taking the Patriots minus five and a half here. I like it. I think you established the run.

They've done a good job of that. Just keep it going, get in the red zone, get six instead of three. I like, I love the Patriots here at minus five and a half. Line opened up at four and a half. It did. So people are betting big on the Patriots right now. That's why when I saw that, I'm like, oh, fuck.

If it was at 4 and I would have kept it, but I don't know. The house be fucking me sometimes. So I got to- No doubt. And Certain, like early in that game, caught that little shoulder, got a little stinger. He's not 100%. And if he's like, obviously he's gonna be fine for this game,

but even at being at 70%, like there's opportunity. Booty, that little one-handed catching the end zone. They got guys that are playing well above, how everybody in the league viewed them for the start of the season. Everyone was like, this wide receiving crew, bottom five. We'll probably double their wins because of culture wins. But these guys have just elevated their game in a big way. The biggest question marks are going to be the offensive line.

Can they stop it? But the good thing about this is your two demons are on the edge. And they're not Will Anderson and they're not Daniel Hunter, but they're still very, very good. So chips, slides, slashes, all the things to slow these guys down. And having a very sustainable run game is going to be, We could put the Patriots in very good situations, getting that third and four, third and three type of situation where it's easy. Get the ball out quick.

One thing I've been super impressed with with Drake is how decisive he is. And he's used his legs quite a bit in the postseason. He looks at his first two reads. He knows where the rush is. And he's not in this like Lamar Jackson, Caleb Williams, we're going to have to like cage rush him. Everyone's still kind of like, hey, we'll put a robber out there. We'll watch him a little bit. But for the most part, he's getting away and getting five, six, seven yards.

He got some speed, too. He gets away from him. There's so many different alleys and paths for the Patriots to catch his victory over five and a half, then I see the Broncos keeping under five and a half unless the Broncos have, you know, a September, October type of defensive day. So for that, I'll be taking the Patriots. I just don't even want to see the Denver Broncos play either the Rams or the Seattle Seahawks with a backup quarterback.

But what if he balls out? I know I just had this whole thing about the Patriots, but it's like that would be an epic story. Because we've seen it before. You want best on best. I mean, I agree with you. Carson Winst goes down with the Eagles, right? You do want best on best. But St. Nick comes in.

Nick Coles started. Like he was a starter. In the moment, in the moment Bo Nick's announced that he's done, part of me was like, man, just put the bills in the- That's right. Same. That's a great take. Let the bills go play the pageers.

Let him go play. What is going on here? Come on. I love it. I would love for Josh on to be. I got a few bets here. Oh, you got a couple. You got a couple.

I have three, I have three straight bets to look into. Patriots minus two and a half. Yep. Stevenson over 48 and a half rushing yards. Love that. That's the over on his rushing yards. I'm sorry. Are you putting these in a parlay?

That's a parlay. I have a parley. I have three straight bets and I have a parlay. Well, this is his, read me your straight bets. Straight bets. Stevenson over 48 and a half rushing yards. Yeah. I like that's sitting at like minus 110.

It's in between that minus 110. It's in between that minus 110. That's perfect. Stevenson over two and a half receptions. He's been a threat out of the backfield. go look up his game log, dude catches balls out of the backfield. Same with Henderson. The Patriots minus two and a half, but the parlay is I have those three in it,

Stevenson, in rushing yards and receptions, New England minus two and a half, and I have Drake May over Altline passing yards over 175. That's doable. I like everything. All season long, he's only been under it twice. And last week with the weather, with everything going on, the elements, I think it's of a much cleaner game going into Denver. What's the weather in Denver?

The odds on that four-leg parlay, Stevenson over in rushing yards, Stevenson over in total receptions. Drake May plus 175 passing in New England, minus two and a half. That same game parlay is plus 413. Gee. It's a nice little deal.

It's a patriotic parlay right there. Patriotic parlay. I like, this is. Under 29 degrees, it could be zero. Easy. It's not wet. It's about 10 degrees. It's going to be cold.

What's the win? But we ain't, we ain't getting any precipitation. No supertation. Hey, elevation as well. That ball can still sail on that cold weather. It's not Stafford in the cold weather. That's good. That's good.

That's good. I like Ramonjay. It's kind of what I told you on that anytime parlay. I don't believe they believe in Trayvion on Henderson at this point. I know he's more, I'm going to say liability. Third now. Remandre is better at, yeah, third down back and whatnot. I think he's their go-to, especially in crunch time being the playoffs here.

I like that. I just worry not that Drake May can't throw for 175, but if you look at, at the game plan. I think they're just going to want, and you look at, you know, how many times the sack fumbles and the turnovers that Drake has had, like they just might want to, kind of like Seattle when they played the 49ers, week 18, when they won 13 to 3. Just get in and get out. All right. Like, it's going to be a dominant game, but I believe it is going to be close. I like that much to have a deep ball be, you know, if they're able to establish the run, which I think that they'll be able to, that'll open up Drake, his ability in the passing game, the play action

pass. Some of the deep balls that he's hit that he's hit throughout the year. So that's, you know. Cardi B going to be there? I believe. Has to be. Man, I heard my, you throw that ball. She'll be on the end. Yeah, shit.

You'll be there. She ain't going to miss this game. So what are our bets right now? I'm going to pass minus five and a half. You're going to Pat's minus two and a half. They've got all those bets. Solos or you parlaying on this? I have the three solos, three straights that you can get on.

And then I got the four leg parley. Gotcha. So you have an opportunity to go a four-o swing on this one game. Potentially. I'm worried about it. This is where we get back in the game. He just trying to get back up there. I'm sitting in the pocket figuring out, okay, I've had some lumps along the way.

How do I give the people a parlay to where I believe that's going to cash? This is playoff. Do we count all those wins? If we're going to count all the losses together, there's got to be a way we can get back in. There's got to be a life. Maybe you can throw us a lifeline. Maybe you could throw us a lifeline. You know, if we can't win this thing, can we add these up?

You know what I'm saying? Well, it sounds like what Will is doing right now is he's doing four bets. of all four of those bets hit, he's going to this Ram Seahawks game four and O. That's what I'm, that's what I'm, that's what I'm, but he's okay with you because I know you, new, hey, new show. Big Daddy? Big Daddy. Big Daddy.

Big Daddy. How do you guys chose, you guys accepted and chose to parlay all four your picks. You guys are sitting at one and four, O and four from last week. All good. I didn't accept nothing. I was fine when I said that. Last week, he's, he's, yes, man. He's Jim Carrey and yes, man.

This week you say no to everything. So you have four bets going on this game. Four bets. Four? Four. Three solos, one parlay. Playoff Willie. Playoff Willie mode.

Jamie Chip weekend. Can I be honest with you? I hope you walk into the Super Bowl and you're right there at the top. Right near the top. I'll be feeling good because then I'll have a Super Bowl parlay that'll shake the world. And what is your bet? Oh, yeah, no, I don't really have any right now. I got to wait, you know, I like to spend a little bit time.

Hey, the show, we bet on the show. Oh, so you have a picture. I think right now I think about what my parlay is you know I'll always come up with the parlay but you're saying hearing the the how that could be I could be fore and on now you're thinking I want to get some bets in I want to get some bets in too I'm like hey I've been taking my lumps too lately but like is there a chance you know I'm the backup quarterback Taylor saying make it what you want man yeah well I got this is I win okay I'll put it I'll put it in the I'll put it in the chat because I don't have anything prepared right now you just make sure but just give me give me the

the Patriots at minus five and a half right now. Okay. I'm taking the five and a half. I see tailing a little bit. So if I go, I'll go minus two and a half. I'm tailing these boys. Are there more bets that are going to come as well?

Are you going to throw out some more like straights or bets that? I'll put apart like. You know I'm good for a 10 leg. Yeah. Huh? Yeah, I've kind of, I've been more of a purist this whole entire year. You went Rams Money Line last week.

I've been more of a purist all you. Not, I'd say 100% of a purist. Go ahead, buddy. For you guys' like straight, your straights parles, do they have to be, are they alt lines or they have to be their set? No, so on the straights, outside of just the minus two and a half, like the Stevenson over on rushing and over on receptions, that's like the over under, that's like the straight bet you can make. I didn't go into alt line with that. I feel like if you're going to be doing these multiple. bets that's how it has to be you can't do like drag may plus 175 passing as an alt line is like

that's a bet i know i'm with that's i'm with you no yeah i understand okay i see what you're saying it doesn't count you can no he was just getting some clear he was just getting some clear they're over under rather than like their alt line he's saying well if you are choosing to do straights and it's one to count to whatever it is you need to pick the over under on on their yardage or receptions You can't do Stevenson plus 10 rushing guys. Yeah. Like I have another parlay in the Seattle Rams game where I'm choosing some alt receptions

that wouldn't be a straight bet so it wouldn't count. Gotcha. So you have the opportunity to be three and no essentially. Hey, what if you lose the alt up to make a tougher bet? Then you get two wins. Yeah, that's two. Yep. Big Daddy.

Make it two. But going into the idea for next year on units, then it would just be a unit to tell. Crazy. Crazy. Next year's the year of units. Next year's the year of units. Which is what you've always wanted.

That's always what I want it. The mule making units. Here's the situation. I don't fully know what's happening, but I hope Beeman, who's sitting here right now, like kind of with that blank stare, I'm assuming he's going to know what it is and you're going to make it very clear for the audience

of how his bets are and what it counts for. Demon's dead inside. Demon's dead inside. What's wrong with that? You know, the problem is he's in the phase of his life of wedding seasons. He's like 17 weddings. Demon's a type A cat.

He's a very prepared, structured individual. So anything that gets outside the structure creates a little bit of anxiety that comes off as this projection. But he's just like, you know, he just likes it to be clear. Right. Going into it. Which he's going to do a great job of making it for the audience right now. That's why he hired Ryan. Also, hey, happy birthday.

Happy birthday. Ryan. Happy birthday, Ryan Nolan. How old? How old? Thank you. 24. Oh, yeah.

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I'm going Seahawks. I'm going Seahawks just because they plan in the 12th band. And after seeing what they did to the 49ers, I was breathless. I mean, Seattle came out there and literally put belt to ass. Like in the beginning of the game, I almost felt like the 49ers was not ready. Opening kickoff return to the house. Come back. What was it like a pick?

Did they get a pick the next play? It was 17-0 after the first quarter. I mean, I'm like, I'm sitting there and I'm thinking Seattle, I don't think anyone can beat Seattle in Seattle. Honestly, I don't feel like the Rams are going to go to Seattle and beat them in their own. Do you remember what happened last time they played, right? Yeah, but it's this playoff atmosphere. Stafford had a 400 yards.

No, no, no. Last time they played, Clay Matthews at a 15-Lague Parlay. Yeah. That's what happened last. That was a Thursday night game. First off. Yeah. Competing for the one seed.

Yeah. I'm not worried about that. It's playoff. These two teams have been, like, when we talk about the dominance, it felt like the power of the NFC this year, it's always felt like Seattle and the Seahawks and the Rams have been like 1A, 1B all year long. All day, all year. But to think that the Rams can't go in and do it.

I don't think they can do it. They went into Chicago and barely beat Chicago. Brother. But that's a different game. Going out. Hey, Stafford even admitted it after he said, hey, the weather played a large part to the way he played out there. It's going to be cold in Seattle. He held on to that jack.

It's not going to be like it was in Chicago, all right? Bro, it was like. It was crazy cold. I know it was crazy cold, but it's still going to be cold in Seattle. I think that, I don't think the weather's going to be the issue. I think it's the 12th man. The 12th man will be the issue. But I'm saying it was a great game last time.

I think the, I think the 49ers just ran into a buzzsaw. And it pains me to say this, but it reminds me. 2016 NFC Championship. We just beat the Dallas Cowboys in the divisional round. I sent that text months ago where Mason Crosby hit that game-winning field go over the number one Dallas Cowboys down there at Dallas Stadium. And we went down there to Atlanta and got smacked. I mean, Matt Ryan threw for like 400 yards.

Julio Jones had 180. We had so many injuries. Like I think the 49ers, it just caught up to them. All the injuries, all the success they have. and they had to play a buzz saw that was ready for them. Getting back to what we're talking about here, this is a divisional game. But you don't think the Rams is riddled with injuries neither?

Not like the Niners. Not like the Niners. They not as many star players as the Niners, but they are sitting with a lot of injured players. They got Puka. They got all the tight ends. They got Devante. I'm not sure about their offensive line,

but they looked like they've been holding up their defense. Puna Ford, Jerry Verst, Fisk, all the. them. Yo, Fisk, a, watching the game last week, Fisk sprinting his ass out to the numbers on screens and everything else. He's the one finishing taxes. He's the one making solos. I love to see it. I know. Shut up Braden Fis. Yeah, Braden Fis is the homie for sure. Braidin or Brandon? Brady. Braden. That's what that, yeah, okay, good. Bring the show. I don't know, man. Just they struggle with the Chicago Bears. I don't know.

Delaney, you're going to Chicago. You watch that game, bro. The weather is. It's crazy. I get it. He was missing every phone. And I played in Seattle. And I played in Seattle and playoff situations. And I'm not going to lie. It's the worst stadium to fucking play.

It is. You can't hear the ground shaking. The atmosphere is fucking unbelievable. So don't let them get out in front. You bet not. You could pop off. Get that Rashid Shaheed Rams touchdown all the way back. They better pop off in front because if they do not start off fast,

they're going to lose that game. I guarantee it. The weather in Seattle this weekend will be 44 a kickoff. Beautiful. Like, gets around 31. Beautiful. And it's the Rams, bro. They have the horses.

They've been there before now. That two and a half, I'm taking the Seattle Seahogs. Okay. Have you won in Seattle? Oh, yeah. But we have 49ers. It's totally different. We don't beat them.

We didn't beat them. We didn't beat. 49ers just lost. I'm talking about. To Seattle. In Seattle. In Seattle. I'm talking about the 49 everybody thought we was on steroids.

The Harbaugh. Yeah. What was you there? 2006 to 2012. 12. 13, yeah. Were you? 2000.

Oh, yeah. 2012, yeah. We beat y'all. We played y'all week one. Yep. And beat y'all. In Green Bay. In Green Bay.

It was what? It beat them. And then they came to us, playoffs. What happened? Brother. Hey. Beat there.

Hey, Sticky. We opened it up. Sam Shields picked off Cap. He did. We're going, hey. We was like, damn. Then, Catt.

Y'all came back score. Cap. Let me get to it, okay? All right, we went up like 14-7, and then this was right when Kat was going off. They were running, we just weren't prepared for it. It was confusing Clay on the edge. Clay was biting on that zone right.

Right down the line. All the Montecut. TFL right here. No, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no. Yeah, yeah. Chill, boys. Yeah, yeah.

Chill, boys, chill. I know you two, hey, okay? Here's what I'm going to say. Joe Staley, like, Joe Staley locked them up all game. Oh, oh. Go back and watch week one, 2012 year. I broke Joe Staley's and in the playoffs, I had another sack, okay? So no, he's a good player.

Cap'i. He's like one of those Lamar Randall type of rollout. rollouts and Clay was like, fuck the run. Nah, I'll tell you what they did, though, okay? You do the surf technique because, you know, you got to play quarterback, but what they were doing is slicing me back 49. Who was your fullback? Bruce Miller.

Bruce Miller, they might have been bringing you as well. Me and Bruce. And they would bring two. We'll bring two. He'll take the edge. And what they would do is if like. Flash in front of Clay's face. What the fuck?

Yeah, they would. Computer wasn't working that day. They would flash. Bro, you're throwing a lot of insults. That's how you know, okay? This is 2000. No, I'm just saying like they had a great scheme. And it wasn't until they played the Ravens

and the Super Bowl with Kruger and the other white boy that they finally figured out, which was do not give them the option to run that. Because they're a great scheme. We stopped running. We definitely were putting a blender in that game. And then of course, I think I talked about this on the show. We opened up, although you had left.

It was 2013, week one. We said, we'll take cap out of it. He didn't, he did nothing. And Frank Gore on the run game, but he threw for like 400 on us. So, man, he got our number. We put that, we actually put that read option in that week. Yeah, say 52 over here.

We don't, because we like, look, we like, they're going to come down hard. They crash. They fast. They're going to crash trying to make the play. They're going to try. He kept saying they're going to try to make the play. Constantly hold it. We were doing practices where we'll hold it until you commit.

And he'll see, it's tough because in a normal zone read, if the, if the, if the, if the DN crashes down, you're line back. You got to be scraping over the time. Yeah, he got a script. You had two dogs, Joe Staley, and who was buddy from Rutgers, right tackle? Oh, Anthony Davis. Anthony Davis. He was a stud.

So, AJ and those guys had to get over the top, but then you had you or Bruce Miller sifting going up to Morgan Burnett, like, brother, we were cutting too. We cut every play. We come by, they'd be like, cut them. Don't stay up. I always say the surf technique for you guys. Couldn't stand it. To me, it was always like, crash the D& down, just go tackle and dive that way.

tackle dive that way the backer once he sees that it identifies his own read you're literally just sprinting outside oh you got to beat the tackle well this is we had so much success in the 2012 2014 nSC championship game when you know it was russell but they were running that because we were taking the two inside linebackers and if marchion let's say you know we're playing inside and marshawn's on the right you would go crash that agat force him backside scrape over the top we had a tremendous amount of success but you finish well that game I always hated it for the defense of ends when you take that tied in on the front side and you'd go to slash and that you go to like take the blow away and he'd just loop around Yeah, I do it all the stuff.

We're going to just eliminate him guys. It's like kind of a we're going to keep it no matter what type of situation because you would have to commit to, I'm going to have to take this hit on to condense the between the tackles run play. And by the time you do that, he makes you whiff and then they're out to. Yeah, the backer scraping over the top. If the backer has any type of hesitancy because you're also trying to like identify is the in crashing down with the surf technique well enough to where I can leave this. And just that little bit of hesitation, the tackle's able to get up on you way easy. And it's like, all you got to do is just get your hands on us for a second.

But also, there's so much space between you and the quarterback. When you run that play, the backside tackle there, you get to go plus one. So now the leverage you have on that play is way better. Yeah, because he's going backside coach. So Taylor going to step down, crash up. Yeah, I'm stepping down hard to make sure this end comes in. Right. The tie-in's going to fake hit him and go around.

And he's going to take the linebacker here. I'm going to a linebacker that's plus. Yep. Right. So it's just a numbers game. It's like, oh, I can reel this guy off. This is why if I'm a decorinator, I'm sending my end straight at the mesh point. Mesh point.

Yes. Take the quarterback out of it. And if the tight end does come back, you already know everybody's falling back. If your safety's in the box, if you're linebacker, you're scraping, you know, you're scraping back there. So there is no run lanes, even if the tackle's coming up, he's going to have. It's going to be really tough if you know where it's going to fit. But soon.

But it gets so creative, though. That play gets so creative, man. And if you had a fullback in it, too. I can catch too because we'll do it. And then if y'all do crash up the field, because we'll go inside of you. They'd be like, if he crashed up the field, go inside of him and look for the ball.

And then he'll be like, he'll dump it to me, quick play. Backyard football. You're in a lose. You were to lose. We thought it was all year. Especially when we opened up with a pick six. It was Candlestick Park, right?

Candlestick. Hey, they had two. I think he was still Titty Boy at the time. They had two chains. We had two chains. And he was dancing on the dawn and dugout. Yeah, we had two chains. Give me a shoutout.

You gave you a shoutout. Yeah, you gave a shot. Good flashback. Yeah, that was a hell of a game, though. It was. So you're going to seehawks. I'm taking a Seahawks minus two and a half. Minus two and a half.

That's a perfect number. At home, 12th man. 12th man. Bang, bang, Seahawks game, right? Those boys look good. Hey, give me the Rams money line here. Ooh. That's what I'm scared of.

I want to shake your hand. I'm with you on this. Ooh. Give me the Rams also. But tell me why. A little bit of his is the tummy feeling. You know what I'm saying? A little bit.

I just think when it's a divisional game, you throw away what's happened these previous two weeks. I know you talk about in Chicago, they barely squeaked by Caleb, whoever they played the week before. But I think you go out there. This is the rubber match here. You know, you split the series. Everything good outside? Everything's good for now. A little apocalyptic.

Let me focus. Come on. Focus. What's about apocalypse? Rubber match. Rubber match. Throw the match. Throw the last few weeks out the window.

Man, I just think of how they lost that game last time and the belief they have and getting it done. Because, like I said, you can throw everything out the window. I know how you guys joke when I go back to the 2010 season, but that's how we felt, okay? You know, we beat Philly on the road, Michael Vick. We beat, you know, number one C. Matt Ryan. We go, we go, hey, we're playing Chicago. We're familiar with them.

Let's just go get it done. And we're on the way to the Super Bowl. I believe in their offense. I love Sam Darno, former Trojan. I see the difference in this game being those one or two mistakes, whether it's a sack-caused fumble, whether it's an interception. The one thing, the Rams have been the best at this entire year, taking care of the ball. If they can take care of the ball, establish the run game, which they did last time,

and he went off for, what, 400 yards? I see it being a shootout, but I like the Rams taking advantage of a few mistakes from the Seahawks, hopefully getting the crowd out of the game. close I do think it's going to be close that I didn't going to get the crowd out and there's a part of my nerves too that Seattle won too easy last week they did Sam Darnold to her one when the weekend ended I'm like oh this is Seattle Seattle's going to beat the Patriots in the Super Bowl see the closer I feel like I get to the game the more of my mind is starting to go to the Rams I feel like for me I'm sorry to cut you off but like I don't know what it's going to take maybe Sam Donald to win a Super Bowl for me to believe

It's kind of like Bo Nix. I'm always, like, doubting him. And I watched Bow Nix. Like, Bo Nix was a stud. Like, he was last week, like, I love how, like, he doesn't have his first second, you know, 10-yard run for a first down. Like, sneaky athletic. That would be a fun game to watch.

Take care of the ball, too. Takes care of the ball. That's neither here nor there. Yeah. But, what are we, CT is hitting? What are we talking about that? San Darno, you want to see him win the Super Bowl. He only had to throw.

What were his stats last week? 12 for 17, 124 yards, one TD. They didn't have to do it. They scored 27 points off. defensive turnover. So it's like, I want to see him throw it 35, 40 times a game. And I know he did have success

the last time they played the Rams, but that's why I feel like that might be the difference in it at this point in the season as those one or two plays. Give me the Rams money. But you remember what Will said, like he said,

Sam Donald, the only reason why the Seahawks can lose the game. So don't put it in his hand. And that's what they've been doing. They are going to have to, like the defense is going to have to play a similar game.

They're going to have to. And they are, that's a phenomenal defense. What they're missing? Kenan Walker was running like crazy. Yeah, but Walker's, he went butt. He went nuts. And he's going to again. Yeah.

They'll just give it to him every time. Because we don't have cabernet now. So, yeah, we have to. Cabernet, Charbonnet. Some type of wine. Some type of wine. Grades were smashed in the process of making that guy's last name. Is it Cabernet?

Charbonnet. Charbonnet. Charonet. Huh? Chargernet. I know that's why. I just thought that was his name. You know.

Come on. He's French. He's French? He's something. Yeah. Rams, money line. Where you going? I'm going to tease you to the point I'm going Rams plus three and a half.

Okay. That's smart. Because right now it's two and a half. I'm going to go Rams plus three and a half. See, I like the doubt. So that's what I'm going to stay. I do have a parlay though. I think you guys will enjoy this parlay.

Some maybe more than other. I don't know you're putting these together. I'm kind of disappointed. I usually share them with the boys. I want to share them. We're trying to get not, we'll try to come back in B. We just don't have it.

We only have two games. College football is over. We had two games, so I had some free time. Let me see if I can put together something before we get on the show. Beautiful. So that way I'm not as much in a panic or reaching out, being like, what parlay is we got going on this weekend? And since I hit that money line one last week. But here's my same game parlay with the Seahawks Rams.

Kenneth Walker, anytime touchdown. Matt Stafford, over 253 and a half passing yards. Yeah, that's easy. Puka Nakua, 6 plus receptions. JSN, 5 plus receptions. Kairn Williams, 30 plus rushing yards. Yep. And the Rams plus 7 and a half.

Wait, is he going to be playing? He got hurt last game. Kyle. Kyran? Kyrin Williams got hurt in the last game. I don't want you to send that to a group chat. I want you to send that to me solo. Okay.

That's how much I love that. Is he going to play? I need, no, no, no. He can say to group chat also, but I want to hold that. He got knocked out the last game. He didn't come back in after he got hit that last game. Odds on that is plus 473. Boy, loves living in the 400s right now.

Plus 473. And by the way, I do like Stafford straight up over 253 and a half passing yards. If you parlay it. That's just a, that's the overrunner. That's a straight. And if you parlay it with your other three or four legger that you had on it? I'll sprinkle that massive championship weekend. No, no, no, no.

You got to put them together, big. I mean, that's a, that's a, it's a 5,000 plus one. You know what I mean? That's definitely is. have its own parlay. That's what I learned. Yeah. Each game has seven's a play. Yeah, they'd have to fuck your parlay of you. You don't do it that way. But then. So Rams plus three and a half as a straight. Stafford over 253 and a half as a straight. But the parlay, the parlay is Kenneth Walker anytime touchdown. Stafford over 253 and a half.

Puka 6 plus receptions. That's an all. JSM 5 plus receptions. That's an all. And Kieran Williams 30 plus rushing yards as an all. And Rams, to put a bow on it, Rams plus seven and a half. So are the Rams going to the Super Bowl? You might be winning, but are the Rams winning at plus seven and a half? I don't know. I'm going to take that parlay. I'm going to put Ram's Money Line on it, too, see what turns out. I was going to say you guys might love it.

That might have to do that. That might be a plus. Hey, Club, am I looking at these right with the plus? Hold on. Can I say who I'm going to pick first? Really? I thought you were going to Rams Money line. I want to put a little boat on it.

That's crazy. Okay, got you, got you. I see it. But hey. Who's going to make the graphics this week? Coupe will be making the graphics. Come on, Coop, lock in. Coup's, I don't even see Coop.

Yeah, I'll be taking the Rams money line. Sam Donald, love the story. So we believe this is going to be a, off his back of all-rmatch. All-Rams, me, Seattle. There's going to be a Super Bowl rematch. Rams plus. Yeah, I know. They take it money line, you taking plus.

2018. Okay, that's going to set us apart right there. That's one. Yeah. Oh, yeah. You want to throw over under it? You know, I put the Seahawks to, I've been Ryan with the Seahawks.

I think I called Carolina to Seahawks, Chicago, and the future show, looking back, I think I called all these teams who made it to the playoffs. You think so? Yeah, perfect. Features next week. I can't wait to see how you did.

I can't wait neither. Yeah, I'll take the Rams. I will take the Rams. I'll take the Rams. The 12th man. I'll take that parlay. It's a good, that's a sexy parlay, yeah? Sexy.

How electric was looming field. We're talking about a little Victoria, He took that opening kickoff back. Oh, my. I could feel it through the TV. Yeah. When Shaheed ran that opening kickoff return back. What an acquisition for Seattle.

Unbelievable. Biggest one of the draft. Him and Jacoby Myers, I think, were the two biggest acquisitions. Yeah, yeah, mid-season. Going to Jacksonville. Yeah. Why do teams, I'm asking, I'm putting my mind in it. Why do teams get rid of players like that?

The Raiders get rid of Jacob Myers for what? Third round pick, maybe. Something. It's just because they got value. When the team ain't doing really well, you got to get rid of your value. Right, you know you're doing a rebuild anyway. Yeah.

Okay, maybe I can grab a third. Some draft equities that I can throw in. Both those players are better than a third round pick because they're guaranteed now to be studs. Dude, ever since the Rams went on the mission of, hey, let's forget about draft picks. Let's trade our draft picks to acquire players that are already established in the league. I kind of mess with that game plan. That's the best game plan.

Taking production over potential. Where else? Cignetty. Production over potential. It seems like the move. How did the Rams do in 20? That was the year they won They trained for Vaughan Miller, right?

They won like four, yeah, that was 20, O'Dell Beckham, Vaughn Miller. That was 2021. They go and get older players a lot. You know, they called, the Rams called me. You was there? Check it out. Real call.

No, the rant, so I played with the Rams in 2019. Okay. 20-20. Was that a trade? They traded for you? No, they did not. I was a free agent. They let me go.

In 2021, one of their pass rushers got hurt, like two weeks before camp. Chris Shula, who's the defensive coordinator of the Rams right now. He was my linebacker coach at times. Hey, he's staying in shape, this and that. So he put McVeigh on the phone, too, and they're like, you want to come back to L.A.? And I just moved to Tennessee. I said, buddy, I'm done.

Hey. Click. You like Shula? Shula's a stud. You like Sneeps? Because Shula's starting getting head coaching conversations. I don't. Shula's the man.

I really liked him. The thing I loved, I'm not sure if you guys had that, but I went from McCarthy, you know, a Pittsburgh guy where there's a separation between player and coach and player. And then I go to L.A. and I go, I understand why they have so much success. You know, I texted Devonte before the season. He was like, I get it. Everybody who goes there. But Shula was my linebacker's coach at the time.

And he was 33. I was 33 and man, it was really cool working with him. So I'm happy for all his success. I wouldn't be surprised. Did Miami already get a coach? Yeah. They did? Jeff Halfley.

Yeah, Jeff, yeah. I don't know. There's too many coaching coaches. There's too many coaching carousel and like what these coaches are going to bring. It's not my bag at all. But I just saw all the time. Yeah, no, Shula. I know Shula started getting in conversations.

Yeah, I think he'll be a head coach at some point. But he's a good dude. I like him. To go back to like when you trade a player for a draft pick, it has some type of like standards to it. Like say if you trade that player, he does better than what they expect him to do. That draft pick may change to like a second round draft pick or right. You can put those kind of things in contracts. You can put those in contracts.

Snaps played, production, all those things. See, that's how that. That's why they do that. Expecting that player is going outplay. Yeah, but that's not a mid-season show. I'm talking about like a mid-season trade, but whatever. I don't know how it worked out for Jacksonville and it worked out for Seattle. There's two players.

I think this Ram Seahawks game is going to be. I hope so. I hope it's just like the last one. Quite possible. This is going to be phenomenal. Quite possibly. What is the game of the century right now? Do you think it's the Patriots Falcons?

2006, Ohio State, Michigan. I'm sorry, NFL. Chiefs Rams. That was just a regular season game, though. Yeah, but it's still electric. Dude, maybe the Bill's Chiefs that 13 seconds. Chiefs when they were going back and forth, there's like too much time still left. I know, and they called it too just crazy.

Kelsey over the middle, big chunk there. They're playing pre-event too much. How did that go? They was beating us 32. They was beating us like 30-something to three. We came back, won that game for like two minutes left in the game. What about Patriots Falcons? That's what I just said.

Oh, that was the best game. Yeah, to come back. Yeah, that has to be. It's a Super Bowl. Dude, I remember. Yeah, yeah, you're right about that. It wasn't. Oh, I know.

But it was like, it was one of the greatest comebacks of all time. Seahawks Patriots. They let Tom Brady come back and just destroyed that. That's a good one in Arizona. Greatest comeback. Yeah, I would feel right. Eagles and Patriots, they're Super Bowl with Nick Foles. Yeah, awesome quality.

That was a good one. I don't think that was the game. Most elected Rams. Yeah, I'm just throwing out games out there. They were like just phenomenal watches. Yeah. Week 10, 2019, Titans Chiefs. Oh, me, God.

Man, that was a hell of a game. That was a hell of a game. A boring. 2018, Eagles Titans. Corey Davis in the back of the end zone. We didn't have some, so we did have some phenomenal game. We had a chance.

A boring Super Bowl was, was it the, was it the, was it the Rams Patriots? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Under, yeah. Just two defensive beauties going after it. Did Odell get hurt in that game? No, that was the Bengals game. That was when the Rams won. That was one when they hit me over through, who cooks in the end zone? or Robert Woods or something like that.

He had them. What about the, was it the Saints in Minnesota? Oh, yes. When Diggs had that catch on the fourth down. Oh, yeah. Man. Yeah. When the Rams advanced,

because they didn't call that PI versus the Saints. Yeah, that was a quick. There's some of the football rants here. I mess with football. All right. Bet the boys parlay. Bet the boys parlay. I got JSN anytime touchdown.

I got Pooka anytime touchdown. And that's plus 120. I just so y'all know. That's crazy. Ramandre Stevenson. Give me Kenneth Walker. Those odds right there, total out. Plus 1,5.

So if you bet, heading that too this weekend. If you bet $10,000, you win $153,000. Do not do that at home. Why not? $10 to win $150,000. $1.50 million.

Maybe you're rich. Maybe you bet $100,000. $1.5 million. boys we should pull up the money 250 each I see I think I got a I think I got a hundred K in our anytime never know you're trying to bet a million on this game I think I got a hundred K in my business account right now man you said $2508 I'm thinking a thousand yeah

you said bet a million on it right no 100 thousand gets you $1.5 million but if you bet $25k each let me see if I got it in my business account Hey it's us the Jonas brothers and guess what we have some big news What's the news news? Huge news we created our own podcast Oh oh hey Jonas we invented a podcast Well, we didn't invent it. We just contributed to it.

We're the first people to do podcasts. Pretty, yeah, pretty wide range of podcasts throughout there. But this one's extra special. So how did we actually come up with a name, Hey Jonas, guys? I honestly don't remember. I think it was on a call about what we should call it. Oh, we were thinking I'm originally calling it one of the early names of our band. Before Jonas Brothers was...

This is how you guys remember it going down? Yes. I have a very different memory of this. We were talking about a thing, a bit for the podcast, people could call in and say, hey, Jonas. And then I wrote down on my little notepad, Hey Jonas, and offered it up as a potential title for the podcast. But thanks for remembering that, guys.

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