Green Light with Chris Long - Eagles Beat the Bills, Frank Reich Fired & 49ers & Cowboys Roll! NFL Week 12 Reactions!

Episode Date: November 27, 2023

The Eagles get the over time win over the Bills! And more NFL Week 12 Reactions with Chris Long, Kyle Long and Nate 'Dr. Fax' Collins! We breakdown each game in the week 12 NFL slate and talk the bigg...est storylines across the league. Frank Reich is relieved of his duties in Carolina, the Steelers' offense seems to have exited the Matt Canada dark ages, the Broncos get a big AFC win over the Browns, the Chiefs look like themselves against the Raiders and the Lions take a tumble in the NFC North. All of that and more on today's episode of Green Light! (2:25) - America’s Teams: Eagles, Broncos and Green Light Fans (21:08) - Carolina Panthers at Tennessee Titans: Panthers fire Frank Reich, Josh McCown and Duce Staley (29:14) - Buffalo Bills at Philadelphia Eagles: JALEN HURTS (46:07) - San Francisco 49ers at Seattle Seahawks: 49ers Roll (51:22) - Washington Commanders at Dallas Cowboys: Cowboys Roll (53:54) - Green Bay Packers at Detroit Lions: Lions Lose Ground (1:04:09) - Miami Dolphins at New York Jets (1:06:03) - Kansas City Chiefs at Las Vegas Raiders: Chiefs Find Their Mojo (1:12:50) - Jacksonville Jaguars at Houston Texans: AFC South Showdown (1:20:19) - Baltimore Ravens at LA Chargers: Ravens Take Care of Business (1:26:22) - Pittsburgh Steelers at Cincinnati: Steelers Offense On Track (1:30:50) - Cleveland Browns at Denver Broncos: Broncos Push Through Browns Defense (1:38:21) - NFC Wildcard Race: New Orleans Saints at Atlanta Falcons, Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Indianapolis Colts, LA Rams at Arizona Cardinals and New England Patriots at New York Giants (1:50:46) - Miller Lite Moments: Green Bay’s Best Flight, Jameis Winston’s Best Seat and Mississippi State’s Coaching Blunder (2:11:42) - Little Caesars’ Monday Night Football Preview: Chicago Bears at Minnesota Vikings Want to win a chance to watch the NFL Conference Championships with Chris Long and the Green Light crew in Studio J? Enter below: MILLERLITE.COM/GREENLIGHTSWEEPS This podcast is brought to you by Cash App. With multiple tools for saving, spending, and sending, Cash App is the easy way to stay in control of your money. Cash App is a financial platform, not a bank. Banking services provided by Cash App's bank partner(s). Cash App's Football Dreams Giveaway: NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. Open to US residents, 21 and up. Ends 11/9/23. For complete rules, visit cash/app/exclusives/footballdreams2023 Use the GameTime app for all your ticketing needs. Create an account and use code GREENLIGHT for $20 off your first purchase. Terms apply. Download the GameTime app today last minute tickets lowest price guaranteed. Make sure to check out Fax and the King every Wednesday on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@FaxAndTheKing Have some interesting takes, some codebreaks or just want to talk to the Green Light Crew? We want to hear from you. Call into the Green Light Hotline and give us your hottest takes, your biggest gripes and general thoughts. Day and night, this hotline is open. Green Light Hotline: ‪(202) 991-0723‬ Send any Talent Search submissions to: social@chalkmedia.com Include any video of your talents, takes and bits as well as a little bit about yourself. Love hearing from the Green Light fans. Also, check out our paddling partners at Appomattox River Company to get your canoes, kayaks and paddleboards so you're set to hit the river this summer. https://paddleva.com/ Green Light Spotify Music: https://open.spotify.com/user/951jyryv2nu6l4iqz9p81him9?si=17c560d10ff04a9b   Spotify Layup Line: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1olmCMKGMEyWwOKaT1Aah3?si=675d445ddb824c42   Green Light Tube YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/GreenLightTube1   Green Light with Chris Long: Subscribe and enjoy weekly content including podcasts, documentaries, live chats, celebrity interviews and more including hot news items, trending discussions from the NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA, NCAA are just a small part of what we will be sharing with you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Might be one of the greatest kicks in regular season. For real. NFL history. We played a game you and me off air where we were like overrated underrated. I think I did like Julian Edelman, the catch in the playoffs, overrated underrated. Chris was like properly rated. Like if you catch, Odell. We're going to do this later this week.
Starting point is 00:00:16 Jake Elliott field goal underrated, in my opinion. It's going to be underrated. And it received a massive amount of attention on social media. Everybody paid attention to it. It's such a big kick. But like, truly, that is so. a deep shot. That's such a clutch shot, even if it's perfect conditions. That situation, that kick is crazy. Unbelievable. With everything on the line, because what we're talking about is home field advantage,
Starting point is 00:00:39 and we are talking about teams breathing down their neck. Welcome to the Green Light podcast. Thank you for being here. A wild week 12 in the NFL, Chris Kyle and Nate will take you through it, break down all the matchups. First, we have our America's teams featuring an alma matter of one of our hosts and featuring the biggest arrival of the alma matter of another one of our hosts. Then we break down our week 12 games. Obviously the Eagles stormed back to beat the bills in overtime behind some huge plays from the usual suspects, Jason Kelsey, Jalen Hertz, Jake Elliott, and a few plays from some unsung heroes, namely former UVA star, Lamede Zakias. We go in depth on that one, talk about the impact for the bills the rest of the season,
Starting point is 00:01:25 what it meant for the Eagles to show up and play that poorly in the first half and then come back and take the win. We also watched the Steelers offense looking decent yesterday. come back from the dark ages of Matt Canada. The Broncos took down the Browns in Denver, Maya High. They took them up to the mountains and beat them. In a quarterback battle in the AFC South, we hope to see for another decade at least. All that and more on today's show. We hope you enjoy it.
Starting point is 00:01:52 We'll be back on Wednesday with Stanford, Steve, and Macon. We'll see you then enjoy. Welcome to Greenlight. Week 12. It's like a playoff. It's like hearing Jason Garrett's voice. It just gets me excited when he's. Reed says welcome. I just sweat a little bit.
Starting point is 00:02:37 Jason Garrett, they call it on the studio, like, look at the two. You know that thing? In studio, maybe you can explain this to me. The two shot. Yeah, they're like, everybody on the two in five seconds. I have no idea where the two is. I just look like. Is that the camera number? I think it's the camera.
Starting point is 00:02:52 I mostly just try to talk. I just talk to the guy, and I'm like, pretend there's no camera. I'll look at the other guys. They're looking at the two. I'm like, where's the two. It's hard. It's hard. But Jason Garrett knows where it two is. Yes.
Starting point is 00:03:03 And when they go to the two, Jason Garrett, you know, the under, tired, Chris Collinsworth slide, wired Jason Garrett looking at the camera like Buzz Light here every time they... Wired, tired. I like that. Yeah, you know. I think I'm late. I think I'm late on that. Speaking of what the kids do, I want to send this layup line out to my son Whalen, who we were sitting there watching all the Thanksgiving games. And he just mutters at one point, chicken nugget dreamland. And I'm going to what the fuck?
Starting point is 00:03:29 What do you? We said that. We looked at each other. I was like, what's he talking about? Chicken Nugget Dreamland? It's the chicken nugget dreamland. So I asked what it is, and it's a song. So let's get the song, I've got my chicken nuggets right here.
Starting point is 00:03:42 Shout out to Waylow. It's a chicken nugget dreamland. Polynesian sauce. Support small poultry. Oh! That was like that Amadolica. Let's do it, Jake Gellian. Jay Gallaghan?
Starting point is 00:04:04 Yeah. Can't miss. Yeah! Boom! Chicken Nugget Dreamland! Shut out to wait on. Ready for the habachi now. Okay, I'm gonna get some water,
Starting point is 00:04:17 okay, here. That's good. So, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. A piece of chicken ever. Oh, I was the... Dumb and Dumber soundtrack when I was his age? Now, I was listening to Chicken Nugget Dreamland. What's the backstory on that?
Starting point is 00:04:28 Like, where's that? Like, how did... It's like kids' house music. But, like, is it on? shuffle, like how do they come across it? I don't know. You too. I'll read it.
Starting point is 00:04:36 Stuff like that. Okay. And then they rock out in the car. That's great. A bunch of songs about farts, chicken nuggets drink. Really? Yeah, that's a soundtrack to my kids a lot. Scatman?
Starting point is 00:04:46 Yeah. No, not scatman. Flat man. I'm not scat man. All right, so anyway. Jikes. What do you say? Flash man.
Starting point is 00:04:57 So we've got America's teams in a second. Yeah, I'm going to keep working on my chicken nuggets. But, Kyle, why don't you go ahead first? I'll go first. Mine's a little dry because it's mainly about one team. There's America's Teams here. If you guys are new to the show, this is your first time joining. Welcome.
Starting point is 00:05:10 This is how we started. We do the America's Teams. It's what we see as American teams. But a lot of arguing about America's teams, too, between Jim Harbaugh and Drinkwits. You heard this? A lot of people are claiming. There's a lot of claim. It's like Game of Thrones in this motherfucker.
Starting point is 00:05:25 People showing up off the shore from foreign lands saying we are America's teams, number one for me. It's obvious. The Dallas Cowboys. The Dallas Cowboys are an amazing football team. That star represent a certain brand, Chris. It's a tradition of excellence down there at Jerry's World in the Lone Star State. And Dak Prescott has been more than excellent.
Starting point is 00:05:46 He's in the MVP conversation. I wish more people were standing on the table for him because he's been great. We've got a table. You're going to have your moment with your guy, and I'm going to give him his due as well. But the Cowboys have been awesome. They've been at a loss defensively with injury, and we're going to talk about some of that later. but Duran Bland, guys stepping up in big spots, time and time again, Dallas Cowboys. Number one, America's team.
Starting point is 00:06:09 I just can't wait to see what they do in the playoffs, Chris. I can't wait to see what they're doing the playoffs. By the way, Cowboys might be America's team because they finally covered on Thanksgiving. Seriously, they hadn't covered on Thanksgiving in ages. I love the Cowboys. I like McCarthy too. Anytime they show the tight shot on McCarthy on the sideline, there's not a more American-looking football coach to Mike McCarthy. Yeah, yeah, for sure.
Starting point is 00:06:31 And honestly, he's kind of stuck the landing on this thing because I didn't know what was going to happen with Kellyn Moore gone. Haven't been as good in the red zone. But they've been pretty good. He's your high school football coach, strength coach, and driver's ed, instruction. All those three things, dude.
Starting point is 00:06:45 I had, I nailed driver's ed the first time. I know this story. It took me twice. I turned, I was like, what the fuck, Chris? I turned left on red. You know, it was kind of confusing the left on red. The left on green thing is a little bit confusing to me when I first got behind the wheel.
Starting point is 00:07:01 Mrs. King, who's still out there driving, folks, because I tailed the shit out of her the other day for failing me the first time I saw her in the car. Stop. And I just got right behind. Flashing at her? Yeah, they had that cheese wedge on top, a super driver. So was it in one of the cars where there was
Starting point is 00:07:15 two wheels? No, it wasn't two wheels. So did they immediately, like, did you just have to stop and you failed right away as soon as you made that left? Yeah, so it was a left, yeah. I think it's here. Let's go back to the high school. I think it's here, we've got to get back to the Ahead's okay, we're on a roll here. Number two, you know who else is on a fucking roll, but Denver,
Starting point is 00:07:31 football, Bronco. Same defense. They gave up 70 points. Now Avondin defense. They got rid of some guys, but it's been a renaissance of sorts. And I was laughing at Sean Peyton and all these guys when they gave up all the points. And you look at the stats, the quotes. And it was a laughable operation. But now they just can't stop winning, bro. And Russell Wilson stepped out of his fucking time machine again this week and was awesome. And you know what? Love Russell he gets a ton of hate. And I truly think there's nothing more relatable as American than getting a little hate, getting hated on, you know?
Starting point is 00:08:04 Relentless believe, Kyle. And Russell says, we still believe. We believe. We believe. Believe. Believe. Believe. Believe. And I do. Number two, Denver Broncos, America's team. And number three, Oregon, the University of Oregon, the Ducks.
Starting point is 00:08:16 They're the fifth team in the playoff race. They got a huge game against Washington. And we watched them last time. Pennix was awesome. Big-time throws. It's going to be the matchup of all matchups, a pack-twess. championship. Selection committee, if you're listening to this, selection committee,
Starting point is 00:08:31 you're fucking up if you don't put a one lost Oregon team in that goes and beats the team that beat them, especially if they beat them, they cover all that stuff. I think they're a nine and a half. What is it? Nine and a half? Yep. Remember when people were mad? Nine and a half point favorite? Remember when people were mad at Dan Lanning? It would be criminal. Because he was mean to Dion in Colorado.
Starting point is 00:08:47 Listen, big Colorado fan here. Hope they get more Louis luggage next year. But Dan Lanning was playing football and his team has responded. Even Vegas knows that I'm right here. Number three, Oregon, America's team. They're a nine and a half point favorite against the Huskies who beat them, bro. So fucking game on. Get the Oregon Ducks in the playoff. We deserve it.
Starting point is 00:09:05 I know it. You know it. Number four, the Carolina Panthers. They can't escape the coaching carousel. I watched a video online last night of a ski lift. I believe it was in Russia. It went rogue with people on it. Full speed.
Starting point is 00:09:18 It just was going in a carousel. They were like, jump. You know, top titles. Oh, I see that video where they can get off. Jump. That's the Carolina Panthers. Ben Johnson's like, I'm not. not getting on that.
Starting point is 00:09:28 And TEPPER is just up there and he doesn't want to press emergency stop. He's like, send the next one down. The next one. The next one. And that's really the situation going on in Carolina. And I can't think of a more American situation than we just can't fucking get right. Since 2018, four head coaches, he's still on the table for Bryce Young. The juicy guy is obviously C.J. Strout.
Starting point is 00:09:48 And he missed. And they missed. What are the Panthers? A Kia? Because Teper depreciated those fucking guys. You have a key fetish. As soon as he pulled him off the lot, dude, it's a $2.25 billion enterprise. Chris's gambling unit is Kia.
Starting point is 00:10:01 Kia, it's a Kia. Every other organization is like a bond. You know, when your granddad used to give you a bond, like that's not going anywhere. Bonds are good. An NFL fucking organization should be like a bond, but this guy's treating it like a Kia. But here's the deal.
Starting point is 00:10:16 I mean, it's just... Chris, nobody wants the Panthers to suck. Nobody wants Bryce Young to suck. Nobody. I feel like it's something that we can all agree on. Bryce Young is a dude that we can say, I hope you do well. I hope he does well.
Starting point is 00:10:27 I root for him. I don't think the story's over. I don't think the story is over for Rice Young. For right now, he's in the dark part. He's forging himself mentally and physically, unfortunately, for him. There'll be a gross perk coming, too, Kyle. Yeah, so the guy who's stepping in as the interim head coach is Chris Tabor. Chris Tabor was a special team's coach in Chicago.
Starting point is 00:10:48 He was there with me. He actually bought my home in Lake Forest. I sold it to him. No way. Cut him a great deal. No way. And I said, along with this deal, I will not. not be playing on field goal.
Starting point is 00:10:57 That's good. And we had a good deal work. That's good. You've got to put that in the fine friend. Shout out to Chris Taver. So, you know what I will say? You're not going to degrade this organization anymore this year. Chris Tabor is a good guy.
Starting point is 00:11:08 He's experienced. He knows how to handle this thing. He's not a head coach, but he's a good interim. How about him trying to take the number one pick away from your bears, man? That's what he's out to do, dude. I don't know if that's going to happen. That's your mission if you choose to accept it. Chris Tabor, mission accepted.
Starting point is 00:11:24 And the guys like him. And also, if you're just a fan of personalities at the head coach position, go watch his press conferences. He's a great dude. And when I say he's not a head coach, I mean like he is your traditional special team. Yeah, he's a traditional. He's a unique human being and all of those guys are. But you never know. At one point, Dan Campbell was a guy who was running Oklahoma drills week three in Miami,
Starting point is 00:11:42 and people were like, what the fuck is he doing down here? And 10 years later, the guy is, well, we'll talk about the lines a little bit, but I love Dan Campbell. Number five, America's team, the heart and soul of this whole operation we call the Monday show, the Greenlight Podcast. It's the listeners, it's the viewers, it's the enjoyers of the Green Light podcast. I got a message from my buddy Cameron Milton. My favorite golf pro in the state of
Starting point is 00:12:04 Montana, Palsam Bay, Country Club. He wrote me a message saying, you know, I was listening to the Friday mailbag. And it made my, I'm working out, listening to the Mailbag, getting rid of listening to the live show, and this show makes my day so much better. We appreciate you guys. It improved my Monday. So Cam Milton and all the Greenlight
Starting point is 00:12:22 enjoyers out there, whatever state you're in, whatever piece of language you're off. Well, this show's making somebody's fucking day. It made me happy. I know. Involved this on the number five American team, and that's all I got, man. All time high for live listeners right now.
Starting point is 00:12:37 Welcome to the show, motherfuckers. Thank you very much. Don't call them motherfuckers. You just slurping. It was kind of a... Some people don't like that. Yeah, some people don't like the term of endearment motherfuckers. They like to be hugged and then just a little slap.
Starting point is 00:12:49 You know the story. I told them called these guys hardworking motherfuckers in a meeting once, and Matt didn't like it. two weeks later, he's like, hey, two weeks ago, you called us motherfuckers. I said, I said, what was the context? You know, this is me trying to tailor my NFL vernacular to, like, the corporate word.
Starting point is 00:13:05 Which I guess you don't get in a board meeting and say, I get a list of words. You got some hardworking motherfuckers. You didn't get that at the school district, did you? No. But motherfucker is a word that you can use for so many things. It's like the debo-samiel of words. It's a Swiss Army knife of words.
Starting point is 00:13:22 Person plays a thing. You can do, motherfucking can be so many things. Motherfucking could be a verb. Motherfuck somebody can be a verb. Anyways, there's too much of that. All right, so America's themes. So I got a, I got a, speaking of listeners
Starting point is 00:13:38 of the podcast this morning, you announced that we were going to go live, and I got a mention in there from Matt White, and he goes, what's up, Matt White? He goes, you get in the jaw ready to deep throat the ease? He said, I mean, I'm going to listen because I always do, but I'd be shocked if I weren't right.
Starting point is 00:13:56 Well, Matt. Chill out. Matt, chill, it's Monday. It's 9 in the morning. Chill out. I want to get the whole offensive line. This is disgusting. You know, Jason Gelsie of that?
Starting point is 00:14:13 The Eagles are America's team. The Eagles are America's team, dude. Like, I'm going to give it out for Beville Conway and the whole thing, and there's going to be multiple mentions of the Eagles for Miller Light mentions later. but let me just say this. If you take your your rooting allegiance out of it, and you're disdain for Eagles fans,
Starting point is 00:14:33 because I understand, they're intense, and maybe you don't like them, okay? They come out in droves, they'll fuck your day up. That's why I love them. But the Eagles are the most likable team in the NFL. They are. They are the most clutch team in the NFL. They're great, but they are relatable
Starting point is 00:14:52 in that they can botch things. can get down to teams, like they can lose games. But what they are is they're the most clutch team in the NFL. And as the game went on last night, you could see that. And that scene, and I'll talk more about it later, at the link, people are soaked. They almost liked it. Fucking sickos. They're like-socks.
Starting point is 00:15:10 They're a wackos. In the best way, in the same way that we call Matt a motherfucker and we mean it in a good way, they're some sick folks. They're like chia pets. Men, women, children. They grow. They rise up to the occasion. Cowboys fans.
Starting point is 00:15:25 Did you see the kid try to dapp up the Bills fan as like an eight-year-old kid walking by a Bill's fan in the parking lot? He was like, hey, good luck. And the Bill's sound like, thanks, buddy. He pulled back. Oh, that's great. It's amazing. And like, riddies away or something.
Starting point is 00:15:38 But, you know, you guys got that big. Eagles, there's some wackos, dude. Big dome in the desert down there. You guys can't handle rain. This was beautiful, man. This was just the Eagles are, and I know I'm a homer and all that stuff. And I got to check my coat at the door on that thing. But objectively, how could you not like this?
Starting point is 00:15:54 team. How did you not like Jalen Hertz? If you don't like Jalen Hertz, there's something wrong with you. And I'll admit it. I was one of the guys in the beginning. I was like, why are we driving this quarterback? He's AI. And his first year, I was like, I don't know if he's a guy. I remember, you know, I was saying, I want to see him throw some people open. I want to see some more from him. I didn't know. So it's not like I walked in the door and was like Jalen Hertz fanboy. I wanted to see more, and he has delivered that and more. I mean, against the best teams in the toughest situations. Just want to shout the Eagles out. this is where it gets weird for me
Starting point is 00:16:26 because I don't have many I guess I'll give it to all the kids at my house for Thanksgiving there were 10 children I wish they were under the age of seven at my house kids are vomiting people are crying like it was it was chaos I saw one kid choke on a canelope
Starting point is 00:16:41 there was a kid that choked on a canelope and I just watched there were so many fucking kids nobody knew that kid was choking on a cantalope like that's where you got a problem right and then there were three adult hands in there I just think about the scene Well, you're Monday morning quarterback in here
Starting point is 00:16:57 because you were on the couch. You didn't even pull an office. I was looking. I went like this. I was like, let's let the thing work itself out. So maybe America seems the adults in my house that overcame that Thanksgiving.
Starting point is 00:17:07 We also did a Turkey Day Bowl that there were four kids that cried at different times during the Turkey Bowl, including one kid. We had a four-year-old. We're trying to get him some carries. You know, like it's like when they run out the fucking all the walk-ons for a kickoff at Texas A&M, and you want to go down there and force the fumble.
Starting point is 00:17:27 Yeah, well, I was like, let's get this kid to carry. So we all went out and kind of fit it up. And I told the one other four-year-old, hey, go tackle your dad. That was easy. But I had to fit up on like a six-year-old. And I fit up on the six-year-old, and he just falls, okay, because he's not doing the speed ladder. He's not looking real good out there.
Starting point is 00:17:45 And he falls. And for 15 minutes, he pushed me. He pushed me! And I've never been in a situation where I was like, hey, kid. And like, here's my God. I want to name him. I wanted to be like, no, I didn't. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:17:59 You know, like, what do I do in this situation? You're dead wrong, Tommy. It was like wedding crashers. Nobody pushed you. When, like, you're trying to do the right thing in the football game and everybody's like, or is it meet the parents where everybody's ganging up on Benziller. They're playing volleyball. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:18:14 I'm just playing the game. It's just a game, Jerry. Yeah, that's what it turned into, dude. And I felt that way. And then it's all my in-laws. And so they huddle up to take a picture. after Turkey Bowl and I'm in the picture and the, you know, Joe,
Starting point is 00:18:26 Big Joe, he's taking the picture and he's like the Patriarch and I'm like, Joe, you got to get in the picture like, I'm the only one who's not technically in the family, let me take the picture. And he goes, what do you mean technically in the family? Everybody's like, technically in the family. I was Ben Stiller. I was Ben Stiller. And we lost the game.
Starting point is 00:18:44 He almost took a laugh. The tie went to the kid that slept in the longest in the morning and had some like backdoor deal and one of the kids slept in until like 9 a.m. so they won the game, so we didn't even win the game. Okay, and last, I'm going to, and I thought long and hard. Chris Falker. Yeah, exactly.
Starting point is 00:19:00 I bet you would Panama, right? The day after Thanksgiving, I've gotten used to this, we play tech every year, and let me just tell you something about Virginia Tech. Virginia Tech beat me four times in a row, beat everybody, like 15 times in a row. One for Bryce Perkins, yeah, Nate's never beaten Tech. There's a whole generation. I never beat them. You never beat tech.
Starting point is 00:19:23 But there's no difference between you and me. There's a whole generation of guys that never held the Commonwealth Cup. So I go to talk to the team on Thursday. I'm fucking unloading. I've given them all my best stuff. But at the end of the day, I didn't beat tech. So what the fuck do I know? So these words might ring hollow.
Starting point is 00:19:37 So I think I got them charged up. We're going to the game because I'm getting a community service award at the end of the third quarter. And all I can hope is that we're winning at the end of the third quarter. Now, when they walk me down at the end of the third quarter, we had just dropped the path for a first quarter. down 48 to 7. So they're parading me out there in front of like 15,000 tech fans. And I just want to give America's team to the Virginia Tech Hokies.
Starting point is 00:20:04 I mean, I hate saying this. What? Bro, listen. And we know the coach. We met the coach. If we don't like it, we got to be. No. If we don't like it, you got to be.
Starting point is 00:20:12 No. No. Okay. The America's team. For a week. For a week. Because I got to tip my capsule. UVA's maintenance workers, that team.
Starting point is 00:20:24 I think that's on a timer. He just challenged you. Because after the game. He just challenged you. No, it's fine. He has a different opinion than me. It's shocking. But here's how I feel.
Starting point is 00:20:33 You want to be America's team. You want to be Virginia's team. You've got to beat Tech. You want to be Virginia's team. You've got to beat JMU. But we got to beat Tech one of these years. And until then, I'll tip my cap to you guys, and you get 30 seconds on this show.
Starting point is 00:20:44 Where about Liberty? Liberty, too. But I will say this. Tech fans, you see them after the game. I was in 30 Nell. He's met a few of them. they're fucking good people they're cool people
Starting point is 00:20:52 They just wear different shirts You know if I If I want to hate tech So bad then let's go out and beat you We actually have a lot of green light listeners Chris is actually wearing maroon today So So anyway
Starting point is 00:21:04 Chris is wearing maroon today I mean that's not for you guys It's just one of my only beanie So Alright before we get into the NFL here Including the Frank Reich News I want to get a message to our sponsors Yeah you're fucking lunch pails and all that stuff
Starting point is 00:21:17 You're hideous campus I'll finish it with Shout out to our ex-teammate, Fonteel Mines. He's coaching over there. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Yeah. Fonel. He was a big threat.
Starting point is 00:21:29 I just tip my cap, you guys. When you got it, you got it. You guys got it right now. Things could change. We met their coach at the Richmond Motor Speedway. Yeah, he was cool. He was a nice guy. He was cool.
Starting point is 00:21:39 And I told him, I was like, we're coming for your, I'm not even on you via. I'm like, we're coming for your ad. And Nate's like, you can't do that. He's like, I'm like, you need me on that wall. You want me on that. And then he hoped. like a pace car. It was like George Bush. Now watch this drive. He like hopped in the
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Starting point is 00:22:44 Kyle, while you were reading that ad read, Somebody commented, Kyle almost Deontay Johnson, the kid that was choking. Because Deontay Johnson just walked off the field yesterday with a fumble loose on the ground. Well, then cut me because that was bad ball I was watching.
Starting point is 00:22:59 That was bad ball by you, though. I mean, you know? The fact that I just got called Deante Johnson, I was doing the right thing. Don't you know that you're not supposed to put the fingers in the mouth? No, you've got to scoop. You can scoop. And then, first case scenario, I'm ready for the trache.
Starting point is 00:23:12 Well, then now I'm... Because I've Googled this shit. I'm definitely now seeing that there are... You know about the trache. This is a... Nate's all fucking... Is that the machine? No, no, not a machine.
Starting point is 00:23:22 If somebody showed it bad enough... The Instagram machine? And it gets down to... The Heimlich? No, the Heimlich fails. This is like the Hail Mary. Oh. But it's got a higher percentage
Starting point is 00:23:31 than the Hail Mary. You got to create an airway right here. Oh. No, the trick. Yeah, yeah. They did it in Anaconda. Did they do anaconda? I think they did the trick in Anaconda.
Starting point is 00:23:41 Yeah, well, to the guy on Twitter, I've treated the Eagles like James Conn and Anaconda. I got a message for the... guy on Twitter, eat it. All right, so anyways, let's talk about Frank Wright because this morning we wake up, he's fired. This is the third coach in three years that I think has been fired in the NFL in just a year. So the NFL, like the patience level, is at an all-time low.
Starting point is 00:24:07 And I don't think it's good for quarterbacks. I don't think it's good for teams. Now, the owners, this guy, David Tepper, who of course the report was that he walked out of the building saying, fuck yesterday. I guess this is a bad sign. You see what in the last five years, including the
Starting point is 00:24:26 Panthers, he also owns the soccer team. He's also fired two of their head coaches. So the past five years, he's fired five head coaches. Is this the worst job in the NFL? Honestly, because Ben Johnson knew it. He didn't take it. And, you know, like he's the guy that, you know, he said
Starting point is 00:24:42 I'm not, I'm giving up my ticket on the Titanic. I got some more be. I think it's the best job in the NFL Chris and hear me out. Okay, this is going to be... I mean, it's just dollars and cents. You get the job, you get fired, you get paid, right? That's what I was going to say. You've got to have your guarantees up
Starting point is 00:25:00 in this situation because you might be last in. You go to the Charlotte Night Race, you have a good time, you make... How much? How many a year? I don't know what he's making. Cost of living is very cheap down there. But you know, like, this whole year, the play calling thing, him giving the play calling up, him ripping it back, like,
Starting point is 00:25:16 You hear about the draft. You hear Reich evidently doesn't want, you know, Bryce. He won C.J. Stroud. Oof. Which is, you never know where this information is coming from at this point. Like maybe you call your buddy in the media two weeks into camp, and you're like, I'm going to need you to run with that rumor. You know, like, or maybe you really wanted him.
Starting point is 00:25:39 And in that case, I think Frank Reich was really fucked here. Because, and he should have known that, too, take the job. know the owner, know how involved he's going to be, know where his head's at. The unknowns Bryce, though. I mean, we didn't know that Bryce wouldn't be able to elevate this poor, poorly constructed football team. We didn't know that, you know, Bryce Young, I mean, things wouldn't sink up. It just hasn't looked right the whole year. And they shuffle, like you said, they shuffled the play calling.
Starting point is 00:26:09 Thomas Brown in, and then a week or two later, he's out. We're shuffling this thing around like a hot potato. Who's going to get fired first and why? Well, you bring in Miles Sanders who, I like Miles Sanders, but again, it's like all of a sudden football looks like a different sport for him. I mean, it's like running behind that Eagles offensive line is a different experience. People don't get that. It's different.
Starting point is 00:26:30 And going down to Carolina, you see, hey, that free agent pickup kind of doesn't pan out. The offensive line's not great. They actually are worse than you'd think they'd be, you know? And then Theelin, who's actually played pretty well for them, is a veteran addition. So he's kind of past his prime. So it's not like they did a lot to set this guy up. He's been great. A lot of great number one picks.
Starting point is 00:26:54 A lot of great number one picks that are quarterbacks have struggled as rookies. So when I'm looking at that job compared to something like the Raiders, at least you have a quantity that could be great. You have an unknown quantity, but it's less unknown than the Raiders job. But I still think it's the worst job of football. It's just impatience on behalf of the owner. And that's really what makes it so. Charlotte's a great town.
Starting point is 00:27:16 It's not one of those markets that you get swallowed up in as a coach. You're not going to be micromanaged by the media. You got fucking... Charlotte's a great town. You got like three beat reporters in there a day. It's not like playing in New York or any of that. I almost texted Johnny Hecker this morning. Hang in there.
Starting point is 00:27:32 You're back on the Rams, like the OG Rams. Like in his career, Johnny Hecker was on. This is the type of teams that I was on early in my career. And, you know, like seeing these guys go through it, I feel for a guy like Brian Burns, who's been really solid for them for a long time now for five, six years. He's closing in on 50 sht. Perennial STL Memorial.
Starting point is 00:27:52 I was on a team with Blaine Gabbard. And it was the same thing. Well, we know because we talked about it. Your girl likes playing Havard from the mailbag last year. Looking ahead for this season, I talked about Chris Tabor and the Carolina Panthers in my America's team. What I failed to mention or remind people of is that against the bears a few weeks ago. This is who you're getting as a coach, by the way, during the interim.
Starting point is 00:28:14 He's a guy that's like, fuck it. I mean, I'm playing with house money, right, in this situation. He put Eddie Panero, former bear, out there in a game-winning situation in which Eddie Pinero shook him off, and he was like, no, no, no, no. Give it a go. Really? How far back? I mean, he was out of his range.
Starting point is 00:28:31 And even Eddie was like, no. Eddie's like a soccer player motherfucker. He's like, let me kick it. So Bryce Young, if you're going to men in black, if you're going to flash everybody there, that's going to be part of your core moving forward, and you're going to forget about this season, why not say fuck it, take shots. I think that he's going to be in the ear of whoever's calling the play is saying,
Starting point is 00:28:51 fuck it. Yeah. It could be some fun ball in Carolina. So we got maybe some fakes or like a surprise. Dude, you're going to see awesome special teams fakes. That's a great point. Chris Tabor's been waiting. He's been sitting on a stack of index cards.
Starting point is 00:29:05 And he's just, you know, he's just a shifty old dude. Now I'm the guy calling the plays, as long as David Pepper's not got a direct line down. You're a great dude, man. All right, so when you talk about these games, we got to lead off with the Eagles game. And there's a lot of people in the chat that are waiting for me to talk about the Eagles game. I appreciate you, Eagles fans. Hang out for the show, even when we're not talking about the Eagles, I hope.
Starting point is 00:29:31 There was a video that went out last night of me reacting to pretty much everything that happened in this game. And it went, like, relatively viral by my standards. and anything where I'm reacting to the Eagles generally does. And I get a lot of, hey, Chris, you only spent two years here. You've embraced it like, you know, this is your team, the whole thing. And yeah, obviously, like, this is a very special two years for me. And I love that organization. And part of my heart's always in it.
Starting point is 00:29:57 But my wallet is usually in it, too. And so I just wanted to make that clear. Like, I am pulling for the Eagles. I'm ready for everybody. But when he hit that ball, that Alabama, kind of throw from this weekend to Zekees, our Virginia brother. That was the over. And, you know, it also put the Eagles ahead, so we're happy.
Starting point is 00:30:22 And then in overtime, this is wild. I had, you know, like a long, odd six-leg parlay. Hertz. You had tackles. I had tackles. I had. So there were two props that I had to hit left when we got into overtime. So this is dead if they don't go to overtime.
Starting point is 00:30:40 The best feeling ever. Extra free football. Free football. Not for Caesars, though. Free football for me. Okay, so anyways, and I've been hitting these John Gannon shots, verticals, parades. And it came down to the last tackle on that drive where Josh runs out of bounds and Slay puts a hand on him. So we get our tackle.
Starting point is 00:31:03 And I'm like, okay, all I need is one D'Andre Swift carry. And it took all game for them to get him the ball. and I'm like, surely they're going to give him the ball. That drive went eight plays before they gave him the fucking ball. And it was the second to last play of that game that he got the ball. So I walked away with a bunch of money in my pocket. I appreciate the Eagles. I want fans to know, yeah, but you're giving me too much credit.
Starting point is 00:31:24 You know, like it's my wallet too. So I thought this was gutsy. When you talk about the Eagles and I mentioned an America's team, how many times are the Cowboys coming back from these kind of deficits? It's how many times of other teams that we talk about seeing themselves in these situations? You know, Mahomes in Kansas City, they've been in these situations. They were in one yesterday, but this is an upstart Bills team, and Josh is a bad matchup. I tweeted this in the first half for this defensive line because if your back end is your weakness and you've got a good defensive line, he can negate that.
Starting point is 00:31:57 And you saw that throughout the game. Eagles lead the league in basically third and long conversions. That's been a problem for them, especially down the red zone. and they talked about that last night. The pass rush wasn't always getting there, and when it did, it was Josh just being Josh. And he kept them ahead and in this game down the stretch. So talking about it from the Eagles standpoint, I did not like the first half play calls. And I think it's a little bit unfair to talk about this as like a big problem
Starting point is 00:32:26 because Lane Johnson's a scratch as of Sunday morning. And I know he's dinged. He's going to try to get back hopefully for these. next two games, but yesterday he wasn't up to it. And, you know, their win percentage goes down from 646 to 371 without Lane in the lineup. The only other game. Think San Francisco without Trent. Yeah, it's the same thing. And, you know, like, people think about Lane as a pass protector. I think they're apprehensive to run the ball early in the game with Lane out. A thousand percent. You come out and throw the ball three straight times. The very first play is
Starting point is 00:32:59 pressure on Lane's side. Get pressure three times. So, you know, like, I understand. And the Jets game, same thing. A lot of first down passes in that Jets game. Usually they're like 50-50 and Lane came out nine plays into that game. So that's the sample size you're looking at. And they did. They tried to throw the ball early. Now on that touchdown drive, five first down plays, five first down runs, including a Jalen Scramble. So they came out and ran the ball in that touchdown drive, but they weren't getting swift the ball. The RPO stuff was kind of drying up. I thought the bills were ready for all their automatic stuff. be run game, Reed plays, RPO's, they gave him like a man.
Starting point is 00:33:37 Middle of that defense played well. They did. And Ed Oliver is a heck of a player. I really like Ed Oliver. He's a Tom. Their edge guys were getting after it. Great pickup getting Linville. Linville was a big pickup, making his presence felt.
Starting point is 00:33:49 But like you saw early there was an RPO and Jalen just kind of held the ball. He's got multiple options, but they gave him a man look. And they played a lot of zone. So, you know, there was a third down, like third and six where he's got 85 at the sticks. and he just doesn't go to him. So at times I thought Jalen was a little bit apprehensive in the first half. And I think it's the thinking about he doesn't have to think about the rush when Lanes out. But all of a sudden he sees color over here and he's like, okay, that's Driscoll.
Starting point is 00:34:17 It's a little bit different. I got to reset. Maybe I can't throw this ball. But I thought when they came out, and by the way, Jalen, not a good first down passer. If you look at his passer rating on first down in general when you look at his team, they want to live setting up the pass with the run. Sometimes they've set the pass up with the run. last year. They did that a lot, but set
Starting point is 00:34:36 the pass up with the run, and that's what they did in the second half. I think they came out and just said, fuck it, we're going to run the ball to the left. We're going to run away from this void. If you look at that first touchdown drive, it was Kelsey pulling twice. It's three runs to the left, and then they get down in the red zone,
Starting point is 00:34:52 and they get another man look against RPO. And what they did here is they ran the tight end across the formation. Because that run game's going, you suck everybody up, you've got the tight end, sets up a touch Same thing on a Devante Smith drive on that touchdown where the RPO leads to the God, he's been big for the...
Starting point is 00:35:09 And so I just think the Eagles, this is them, three straight touchdown drives down, 17-7 down, 24-14, and then the drive to take the lead. Like the pressure was on the entire second half, and they just kept riding those running backs, making the adjustments. I think they did a great job of making those adjustments. I don't know what took them so long sometimes. But that Bama play that I keep calling a Bama play because it looked just like it. That felt like last year.
Starting point is 00:35:35 It was just like, hey, we take big chances. I'm going to go up top, and he hits the keyest in the corner of the end zone. So I think it was like. The Eagles are one of the only teams right now in the league that have a real identity. Yes. That's their identity is that, like, hey, it doesn't matter what happens in this game. We can be down 14. We can be down 10.
Starting point is 00:35:54 Like, we're not out of this game, and we're going to play accordingly. We're going to stick to the run. And, like, I've seen a stat. There's seven for seven in the red zone in the past. two weeks. So, like, that's everyone's biggest problem when you get the ball down to the red area. It's the hardest place to score. It's the hardest place to score. But for them, as bad as if you watch the game and you look at the stats, when it's time to score, they're getting the ball. Situational football, man. That's what they're doing well. And, you know, whether it's the two-minute drive at the end of the game, hey, turnovers, got to
Starting point is 00:36:25 clean them up. You know, that was a Jets replay on that, on that tipped pass on a short game thing with Jalen where it's just like, hey, burn the ball, don't even try it. They were ready for that stuff. And, you know, obviously the exchange as well. So eliminate that stuff for sure. But I think, like, when it comes down to nut-cutting time, this is as good a team as there is in the NFL, because they play together and because they've already died, dude. Yeah. Like, that's the thing.
Starting point is 00:36:50 Like, when you go to the Super Bowl and you lose, the way it's been described to me. You're just John Snow. You've already died, dude. You have nothing to lose anymore. And for them to lose that Super Bowl, feel like maybe they were the better team, to have that turnover, to have that penalty, to come back and be nine and one, I don't think people realize how hard that is. I think it's a great credit to Siriani, the leadership on the team.
Starting point is 00:37:15 They're just unflappable. And the defense, I talked about the conversions. Josh was a bad matchup, okay? But, you know, decide. My one thing is you heat Josh up on second down in the red zone. You get to him. they're running like a re-play and they can't even get it off.
Starting point is 00:37:31 Okay, third down, what are you going to do? He heats him up again. And we've seen this time and time again this year where D.C.s get greedy on consecutive downs, whether it's Wilkes or whether it's McDermott against the Broncos. You know, coming with the Blitz again, somebody said, hey, guys just got to make that tackle on Josh Allen Scramble.
Starting point is 00:37:48 The fuck he doesn't, man. There's some things you don't put guys in positions like that because that's a lot of green grass with the best guy at beating the blitz with his legs in the NFL and a one-on-one tackle. And that's Josh's magic. And sometimes you can only horse collar on him to get him down because he's a horse. Now, I'll acknowledge this, Kyle.
Starting point is 00:38:07 You know, Bill's fans here and Eagles fans, they'll get real testy about this, but we got some calls. Yeah. You know, like, hey, listen, the bills also had a ton of penalties. So, you know, like, and the turnover that you couldn't have, you had it. You know, the sleigh stuff on like the fifth possession, he was getting away with it. the horse collar, I get that. And that led to, and the bills have lost a lot of games like this, losing on special teams because it backs them up. They get the field goal blocked by Jalen Carter,
Starting point is 00:38:36 defensive rookie of the year. Thank you cash that ticket. And then on the other side of things, they miss a field goal out of the half. So whether it's the punt return for a touchdown, the first game of the year against the Jets, or whether it's, you know, the Denver missed cues with the 12 men and the whole thing in the returns, they have lost games on special teams. but I want to go back to this pick. Because I don't think this is Josh's worst pick. And we were sitting here. I said, we're going to get a touchdown.
Starting point is 00:39:02 Matt, I told you. So we're going to get a touchdown, and then we're going to get a backed up pick. You did call it. It said Josh is going to fuck this up. But I think it was more the Eagles being heads up. The Eagles getting that look with Diggs at number two, going to a POMS check,
Starting point is 00:39:15 communicating that one's going vertical on the sly and saying, hey, I'm going to jump this out route. And they were ready for that situation. they made the check, and it's just more of the Eagles being on the ball in big situations, and taking that football off, Josh, was huge. That's heady preparedness and confidence. I played with a few guys in the secondary that were truly confident. They would look at you before the game and see, I'm going to get one of these today.
Starting point is 00:39:41 I don't say, how do you know that? I'm like, wait, scratch that. You just stare at your fucking iPad all week. That's what you do. You do. These guys know tendencies and the ones that truly prepare, they make plays on the ball, and you see guys that stand out, they're outliers like Duran bland guys of that nature where they're making plays every week and it's just obviously there's
Starting point is 00:39:59 an outlier there. I think it's the preparation and the confidence. And the last thing is like the bills, I mean obviously you can get a couple calls. You had a bunch of penalties, but you have a chance to win that game. I thought as soon as the ball left Josh's hands, I think it was third down in overtime. I thought this game was over because it's just a matter of Gabe Davis turned in the right way. So, you know, again, it comes down to like the narratives, the things we're going to talk about, the bill's getting in the playoffs or not, which is not a foregone conclusion at all, if these little things don't get done,
Starting point is 00:40:32 it's a totally different conversation we're having. That game should be over in that situation. And because you didn't handle a little thing, you end up giving the ball back to the Eagles, and D'Andre Swift, getting that 14th carry, was huge. What a cut back by him. I mean, that guy has made the most of this year, because I've always thought he was a good player,
Starting point is 00:40:53 but to play behind this line is truly like a make-a-wish type of thing, dude. I mean, just to get one year behind the Eagles line can turn your career in a way that you couldn't have imagined. And this guy made a great cut to credit him to set them up for that touchdown. One advantage they have that seems to be consistent throughout the season, everybody's talked about their conversion rate on fourth and short. That's obvious. But how about having the best field goal kicker in the league? Without him yesterday, they lose that game. Bro, we haven't even talked about it.
Starting point is 00:41:21 Is he getting tested today? No, I don't know. He might get tested. He might run his back, linebackers, they get tested. He looks like one of Santa's elders. So I don't know if he's just got some, like, he was hit by lightning or something, but he's got a powerful leg. And he kick that ball, that soggy ball in the rain.
Starting point is 00:41:39 Now, I don't know what the metrics or, you know, like some of the analytics are on kicking in the rain, but a 61-yarder. Now, I've seen him hit that kick. Early in my career, I think it was maybe my first year there in 2017. team we played the Giants in the heat and we had to beat them on a 61-yard kick from Jake Elliott. And we could not believe that Doug trotted him out there to try to win that game and he nailed it. And I just couldn't get it out of my head. I was on FaceTime whaling. He was ahead. So, you know, like, I could tell he was ahead three seconds. I was like,
Starting point is 00:42:11 turn the phone around. And that two, three seconds of him couldn't find the fucking TV, nothing. I was just like, please, Jake. But to have that weapon, unbelievable. Jake Elliott deserves a lot of credit. talk a little bit about the way. Might be one of the greatest kicks in regular season.
Starting point is 00:42:24 For real. NFL history. We played a game you and me off air where we were like overrated underrated. I think I did like
Starting point is 00:42:30 Julian Edelman the catch in the playoffs overrated underrated. This is going to be underrated. Chris was like properly rated like if you catch Odell.
Starting point is 00:42:37 We're going to do this later this week. Jake Elliott field goal underrated in my opinion. It's going to be underrated. And it received a massive amount of attention
Starting point is 00:42:46 on social media. Everybody paid attention to it. Such a big kick. But like truly that is such a deep shot, that's such a clutch shot, even if it's perfect conditions. That situation, that kick is crazy. Unbelievable.
Starting point is 00:42:58 With everything on the line, because what we're talking about is home field advantage, and we are talking about teams breathing down their neck. And the San Francisco 49ers are a fucking machine right now. And like the Eagles, it's like I talk about the Eagles. It's like Jalen Hertz. I'm not going to say he's the best quarterback in the league, but when it comes to crunch time, he's the most clutch quarterback in the league. I don't know if the Eagles are the best team in the league.
Starting point is 00:43:21 but they're the most clutch team in the league. And when other teams lose 10 to 15% in these big situations, they stay consistent. And so I don't know how you would define best team in the league. I think San Francisco on paper could be that. And I think this is a really tough matchup. I'm not going to get into how it plays out because it's early in the week. But like coming off a game where you played 92, 93 snaps defensively in the rain,
Starting point is 00:43:48 physical, late game, right, 4 p.m. all the hours matter and getting your body back. You're going to play the Niners now. You're going to host them. And this is a physical football team. So they've got to get their bodies right this week. They've stepped up in the gauntlet the first two weeks. They walked into the cave, punched the fucking ogre in the mouth,
Starting point is 00:44:05 and they took five more steps, and they wrestled the dragon to the ground. Now they've got to go fight whatever the next mythical beast is that the Niners are. But they take it one week at a time. But they're awesome. They are following the lead of their quarterback. They're just fucking nailed, man. They just are nails. unaffected by everything going on around him.
Starting point is 00:44:24 When I was on bad teams, Dad used to text me and say, I don't care if the sky's falling around you. You keep coming. You keep coming. I think it was just a group text. Jalen Hertz is like that. Jalen hurts. Even when Jake Elliott made the field goal,
Starting point is 00:44:36 he's just on the sideline, running through mental reps. He's almost like tigerish. I talked about Mahomes like Tiger Woods because he can hit the deep shot. He can do any kind of bunker shot. Well, Jalen mentally, reminds me of Tiger Woods.
Starting point is 00:44:50 He's just unaffected. curves his brim, he gets into tunnel vision, and when it's time to go hit his shot, he fucking hits it. And like he said, the Bama ball, stuff like that matters. He's a leader. The rest of the team knows they have that weapon, and they're confident. I want to talk about Buffalo, though. No, but what do you want to say about Buffalo? I want to say this. They got Joe Brady right. Joe Brady, you fucking do whatever you can to keep that guy in the building. I thought the Joe Brady, Josh Allen offense isn't letting him run, but he almost had 100 yards rushing. He's confident in that offense. I think that's one thing. The Gabe Davis option route. He's putting
Starting point is 00:45:20 his guys in position to win. They just love to win. If Cook's catch that ball. If Cooks catch that ball, you want to talk about the penalties, catch the ball. Yeah. Catch the ball. Be on the right side on the option route. But I love Josh Allen and Joe Brady. Let me tell you about this, Josh Allen. How do you feel about him being 0 and 6 all time and overtime? I think it's a wild that. Think of the team. Hey, listen. So I look at this. So I look at this. Okay. The last game, they're in overtime. this game.
Starting point is 00:45:50 If Gabe Davis turns the right way, there's one win. Now do the Kansas City one. I can't blame anybody that played offense in that game. And we can go back a few and I could probably look at all of them. But I don't think, I'm not selling Josh. I'll buy them low, if anything, with a coordinator change.
Starting point is 00:46:08 But they probably dug it too big a hole. San Francisco, surging, okay, Thanksgiving. They got this division in a headlock. Not just this year. We're on to San Francisco now? Yeah, we're on to San Francisco. Not just this year, but in general, they got this division in the headlock because Gino looks human at times. He's not 100% either.
Starting point is 00:46:27 He's not 100%. But I don't think this is a team that, like, in the next three years, is going to win a Super Bowl with Gino as a quarterback. And that's a harsh reality, but that's where you are. And if you look up at San Francisco, you've got this young guy, their core is healthy. Purdy looks good when he's got all this stuff around him. And he looks great at times. He really does look great at times. And they jumped out 24-3, ton of Saturday.
Starting point is 00:46:48 The way they rush as a group now with Chase Young, it's like it's the worst kind of pocket penetration because it's not like there's one level. They're all at the same level. It's a wall. And 91 too. There's a wave coming out at you. 91's great too. 91. Hargraves play better.
Starting point is 00:47:05 Me too at the quarterback. So it's really hard for quarterbacks because there's no pocket to climb. There's no like here's the escape lane. I got one guy to worry about and you could see that. And you know like Nick Bosa after the game comes up to think. Thanksgiving table. And I kind of... Strange.
Starting point is 00:47:21 Well, he was like, you want any food? He's like, that's the last thing I want after a game. I'm like, what are you want after a game, Nick? But all those guys standing around... Too many carbs. Maybe an edible. All these guys standing around... Yeah, what if you said a fat bong rip?
Starting point is 00:47:35 Yeah. All these guys standing around this table and just smoking a turkey, just like they're all taking bites. They're barely talking to... Kittles interviewing everybody. Kittles interviewing everybody because nobody else can talk to them. They're all just like the class clowns. And there's like seven of them.
Starting point is 00:47:51 And it was like every minute a new star walked up to that table. It was the last supper is what it was. Yeah. And it would be like, oh, there's Fred Warner. He just joined. Oh, Nick Bosa just joined. I thought they only had five blue chip players. They have eight standing around this table.
Starting point is 00:48:04 That's a great point. It was like a Renaissance painting. Yes. And it just reinforces how good this team is because they just have so many blue chip players. And you talk about Christian McCaffrey. I don't think anybody gets to full speed after. cut faster than him. And, you know, like, he was on Thursday night.
Starting point is 00:48:21 And, you know, at the end of the game, he's got pain all over him, he's got blood. Did you see the- I saw the video where they... Who's got it better than Christian McCaffrey? He gets to have his body inspected. Yeah. By Olivia Culpo, his soon-to-be wife and her friend, who I'm assuming is not an ugly person. I've done Bonnero with Olivia Corpoh.
Starting point is 00:48:39 She's super cool. I'm like, hey, Kristen's like, you know, I got this one two weeks ago. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he's got some bruises. He's like Batman at the end of the day, taking his suit off. they got screwdrivers, two screwdrivers trying to fix his helmet. He's just, there's paint all over him. He is like Mega Man, dude.
Starting point is 00:48:55 He just, he is, remember that game Mega Man? Oh, yeah. He just keeps going, dude. He's so compact. And Brock Purdy knows that he's human, right? Yeah. We all know that Christian's human. He is a God-tier football player, but we know he's human.
Starting point is 00:49:10 So does Brock Purdy. And at the end of that game, they're riding, Christian McCaffrey, they're riding that running game. And it's kind of meaningless touches here. You're at that point in the game, and what I fucking love about Brock Ferdie is, he goes for the whole shot. He doesn't throw under the backer. There was a drop backer. He threw it over the backer.
Starting point is 00:49:29 He said, we're getting off the fucking field. I'm putting my guy on the bench. And it was right when Collinsworth said, I love this. This is a family that loves to dice you up with the play. They do. Who doesn't love the dice up? There's, you know, Coach Shanahan. He was my OC. He was 19 years old or something like that.
Starting point is 00:49:49 And then whole shot, touchdown, and you're like, fuck, these guys are dangerous. Generations of football geniuses. O-line running backs, they love that because they're off the field. So the thing about Brock Purdy is, and the last thing I'll say on this is he had his tough spell. There were injuries. He's not the same player when a couple of those guys are missing, but who is? Like in the NFL, like when you have a good setup, if Tyreek goes down in Miami, what happens? What does Tua look like?
Starting point is 00:50:14 If A.J. Brown goes down in Philly now, although I think that's more of a traditional. This quarterback's winning your games. But Brock is not just a game manager. You know, I said this. I don't care where you want to put him. If it's like, you know, bottom of the top 10, maybe five to 10 somewhere in there. But I don't think that's disrespect to the guy. I think he's a really good quarterback, and he's a point guard who can actually go score.
Starting point is 00:50:38 You know, like, where some guys are just point guards and you're like, oh, they're running a great offense. there's a yeah-but with the San Francisco 49ers, and that guy can make plays off schedule. He's an artist a little bit more than the other guy. They infused his DNA with a little bit of spiciness, maybe from the Brett Farv Tree, but more the acceptable Brett Farvary. Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's no...
Starting point is 00:50:58 Like, Brett didn't give a fuck. There's no field house. Like, they prioritize taking care of the football in San Francisco and all the guys from the Washington, and the San Francisco tree, they want to take care of the football. Sam Howl is Brett Farms. And Brock, yeah, he is. But Brock, at times, you can see it come out.
Starting point is 00:51:13 Like, he's like, and the ball comes out. And you're like, what the fuck? Like the throw last week across his body and the end zone to IUC after the game, he's like, I got to stop doing that. Okay. So let's talk about Brett Barb here and Dallas and and Howl. Howell showed me something, man. I know what the score looked like at the end of the game, the Duramblan pick and everything. But like, Howl showed me something.
Starting point is 00:51:36 I thought they had a really good plan for these guys. And, you know, the quick game was working early. I think Eric the enemy is your next head coach. He's the guy. He's your guy, dude. You know, like, whether it's Hal or somebody else, this guy has taken this offense to heights that I didn't think they could go statistically. And in some of these games where they're not supposed to be competitive.
Starting point is 00:51:55 So I just wanted to shout him out, and I wanted to shout out Sam Hal, because I thought he showed me something here. But the Dallas defense in the second half, just too much. Suffocating. Just every short yardage play, every fourth down, they dominated. And then, you know, I thought the Duran Blan, and I'm not a cowboy hater necessarily. I'm like everybody else. Like, I say this.
Starting point is 00:52:18 They're not your number one American team. I don't hate the Cowboys like Eagles fans do, but I'm just a, you know, like a run-of-the-mill cowboys, you know, hater. But you have to admit, it's cool seeing Duran Blan break that record on Thanksgiving. I mean, down to the call. Great interview, too. You know, the call was great. and then also like John Madden's up there smiling somewhere because they got in perimeter run early
Starting point is 00:52:42 and we're gashing these guys and they highlighted Terrence Steele twice on one drive. You get a right tackle highlighted once it's good but when you get it twice, that's a boom. You know, that's the John Madden, you know, like that's right up his alley. So I thought. Tyler Smith. Tyler Smith.
Starting point is 00:52:59 I texted a buddy of mine who's a coach in the NFL actually in that division, former coach of mine. I said this Tyler Smith guy, is he on Mount Rushmore yet? current guards and he was like once he gets his hands on you, you're dead. Number two, it will be very soon yet. Yeah, he's that good, dude. He's that good.
Starting point is 00:53:17 And I want to say this about Dallas. They hit the lotto in the last deck of guards. Yeah, they really have. Whoever's picking guards for them, give him a lifetime deal. Sign them up. But you know, like we often get on Dallas for beating up on bad teams. San Francisco did that too, because
Starting point is 00:53:33 I don't think Seattle's very good. Like, Washington went to Seattle and almost beat him. So I want to give Dallas their props for this game because they pulled away in a division matchup where they're double-digit favorites. I don't love those spots for the favorites, especially on Thanksgiving. They haven't been great. This was really good from them. I got scarred on Thanksgiving.
Starting point is 00:53:51 Yeah, I never got to play on things. This is my transition. Okay. Okay, good. Oh, explain. I think we're going to Green Bay, Detroit? Yeah, we're going to Green Bay Detroit. Thanksgiving, right?
Starting point is 00:54:01 Yeah, and I'm going to leave with... I tried my best. Yeah, it was good. I tried hard. It was good. It was really good. That's on me. That's on me.
Starting point is 00:54:11 My bad. Okay, so the Lions, man, like, I got inside the NFL last week, and I stood my ground on the Chiefs. Everybody on the set was like, we're panicking the whole thing. And so during that game, I'm thinking about these guys, like, you know, the Dumb and Dumber thing where he's on the toilet and you're seeing Lloyd Christmas and he's not. Trying to figure out how to get the toilet.
Starting point is 00:54:31 That's how I'm imagining Ryan Clark is while the Chiefs are up, because you can't wait to dumb. on me. I got this week off. They're going to dunk on me when I'm not there. But they also were hot on the lions and I was the one that was like, hey, these turnovers, man, you know, Jared Goff, that's what worries me about this team and the defense. There's plenty of things that worry me about the lions. And so earlier this year when people got mad at me because I said they're not contenders, I had a change of heart and was like, what could I, like, why even use the word contender?
Starting point is 00:55:00 It's like the problem is with the word. Like, of course they can go win a Super Bowl shirt. We did it with Nick Foles, you know, but the big butt is you've got to have home field advantage. Watch Jared Gough off the spot when he's pressured against the Packers. Okay, that's a good rush unit. Rishon Gary's a beast. You have a problem. It's not just the fact that you haven't the last month played good football because people say, yeah, but the Chargers game.
Starting point is 00:55:26 Chargers just got held to 10 points at home by the Ravens. That's what a real defense looks like on Sunday night football. You guys were in a Mike Leach Big 12 shootout. And no defensive player made that big play that turned the tide in that game. So you didn't play a complete game, whether it's the Vegas game where you're bad in the red zone, you throw a bad pick, whether it's a Chicago game where they have 98% chance to win, you can't live this way. And then to play a division foe like Green Bay and get beat, like it's not a fluke. There weren't a bunch of fluky things that happened in this game. They just kicked your ass.
Starting point is 00:55:58 Early. If your offensive line's not your strength, then who are you? Okay. And they couldn't protect him. So if you're a Detroit fan, here's what you got in front of you. You got to play really well if you want home field advantage. Some things got to fall right. But they're the first game on Thanksgiving.
Starting point is 00:56:14 You take a little break. All right, let's see where we'd have to go if we went to the playoffs. Okay, let's watch the Cowboys. They have motherfuckers that run down on punts who are defensive ends. Okay? They have Micah Parsons. They have Tank Lawrence. They will kill you.
Starting point is 00:56:30 Okay. Then you get to San Francisco. You're like, well, settle in. Maybe San Francisco will look. better. San Francisco, that's a tall task too. You got to go there, you got to go to Dallas, you got to Philly. I don't like your chances. I'm going to squarely
Starting point is 00:56:42 say that. Okay, so if you want any chance to make a run, you have to take care of business down the stretch and that's something they haven't been doing in games they should win. And so I think on a this season level, I'm concerned about them, but on a macro level for Jordan Love
Starting point is 00:56:58 and I think they were running a preseason offense the first half of the season, especially in the first half of these games. And I don't know if it was thing where they're not confident in him. And one day they woke up and they said, oh, we've got to see what we got in this guy. They pressed the fuck it button. They said, fuck it. Throw it deep.
Starting point is 00:57:11 And it took a shot right off the bat. Jordan Love, I wrote this down after the game. I think I said, Jordan Love, everything you want in a West Coast system quarterback can layer the field, can play the high-low game, can make the tough arm angle throws. If he turns into a guy and you're the Detroit Lions, would you rather have Jared Gough or Jordan Love? This isn't an overreaction. You have to think long and hard about this, especially over the next four years.
Starting point is 00:57:37 Because if this guy turns into a guy, I think Matt LaFleur is a good coach. This division is no longer like, oh, it looks like it's Detroit the next couple years. It's kind of like on a smaller scale, Jacksonville thinking, oh, we're sitting pretty. Lovie Smith just fucked up their tankathon. Tennessee's losing their luster. I don't know who else is going to pop up in this division. And then boom! And then boom, there's CJ Stroud.
Starting point is 00:58:02 okay well it's a little bit slower of a burn but if Jordan Love comes on it's not your division the way it was six weeks ago. Unless Stash and Hendon Hooker works out. Unless it works out now it's your division this year if you don't fuck it up but I think Jordan Love looking like he looked is a little twisting
Starting point is 00:58:18 of the knife there on a macro but the defense not talent rich you've had nine sacks over your last six weeks I think two sacks the last three games four hits on love on 32 dropback it's just not good.
Starting point is 00:58:35 It's just not good. You're not going to be able to win games on defense. You're going to have to win shootouts. And I don't know if Jared Gough, I trust him outside doing that in the playoffs. And so the golf turnover is not just decisions. It's bad throws. Do you want to talk decisions? They ran for 2-11 in the first fucking game.
Starting point is 00:58:53 You want to talk to decisions? They didn't stick to the run game. It was out the window. They cannot get back in the game, the entire game. So I don't know. Lions fans, I love y'all. I love the Lions. The first thing I did this off-season,
Starting point is 00:59:06 bet one was Lions over win total. You guys are a good team. But what I've seen over the last month does not make me confident in you. What's that movie, Jack Nicholson, The Shining? It kind of went crazy, right? Yeah, you got cold. He went crazy. Well, the Lions looked cold yesterday, and Dan Campbell went crazy.
Starting point is 00:59:27 I watched him go crazy because he kept doing the same thing over and over again. I know it works sometimes, and you have to go against the Ask Madden methodology. I firmly agree in that. You've got to go with your gut. But failing to convert the number of times they did, Chris, when they did it, how they did it, and where they did it, most importantly, to me was fucking insane. And I loved his candidness after the game with the press. They're saying, you know, those are bad decisions.
Starting point is 00:59:54 That was on me, particularly the one. Yeah. But, like, you got out-detrooted by your individual. division rival. And to your point, what the hell? You can't be a kneecap-biting organization. You can't be a lead to the tip of the spear type unit if your O-line's not going to be out front leading and your defense isn't going to make plays because teams that have that MO that you're talking about, they do those two things well. They block motherfuckers up consistently in the run game and they stop guys up in the pass and the run. Is Denver's defense that much more talented than
Starting point is 01:00:29 than Detroit's. I don't know that they are. What they have outside is better corners. But you got Hutch, you got McNeil, you got Anzolone's made plays. We got Brunch. You got some dudes. And I'm not saying either defense is full of blue chips.
Starting point is 01:00:44 I think that's the problem. But Denver's forced 15 turnovers over the last month. Where are the big plays? Okay, I got on Ryan Rosillo's pod earlier this week. They said, is Aidan Hutchinson, you know, in that blue chip kind of tier? And I love Hutch, bro. like when I look at Hutch, I look at a better version of me. Okay, so like I'm not down in Hutch.
Starting point is 01:01:05 But what I am saying is he's not T.J. He's not Miles. He's not Max. He's not Nick. He's not Mika. He's in that tier of guys with, and I would have put Josh Allen in this tier, but Josh is playing like he's in the higher tier. You're talking like Burns?
Starting point is 01:01:19 I'm talking like Burns and Hendrickson's at the top of that tier and Hunter's somewhere kind of one foot in that tier. In the next one. In the next one. But the point is, is like, you can't just have that guy and say, because Hutch is a good player. He can rush inside. He can rush out. He's good against the run.
Starting point is 01:01:36 He's a playmaker, too, which is something I never was. In big moments, he makes play. What I mean is not the clutch scheme. What I mean is like the, hey, catch the screen pass that comes right at you. You know, like make the tackle in the open field. Like that's the playmaker. Knock the reverse down. Even in garbage time, he made a play on the backside of tackle.
Starting point is 01:01:54 And that stuff's all good. That's hard to do. But we need more guys. to compliment him down the line if you want to be this team. So that was my little two-s-win-old. I got to tip the cap to Matt LaFleur, Jordan Love for sticking with this thing. There's no panic. And I think it started back in.
Starting point is 01:02:10 Oh, we forgot Hassan Reddick. Somebody said Hassan disrespect. Hassan's up in that tier, too. What is it? Hassan's in that tier with Krosby and those guys. He's ridiculous. But the point is LaFleur, Jordan Love, there's no panic. And it started back in the mid-teens in the 2000s when Aaron Rogers said relax.
Starting point is 01:02:26 And it was kind of like fans have bought into this in Green Bay. And I don't think anybody's panicked in Green Bay in Wisconsin. And like you said, the throne is up for grabs in the NFC North. And if Jordan Love can continue to play confidently. We said week one after we watched, I said, God, a lot of these off-schedule, off-platform feet off-the-ground, body contorting throws, quick, you know, changing the arm. It kind of looks like Aaron Rogers. Yeah. And I'll never.
Starting point is 01:02:53 I'm going to whisper. I said this because I knew that, like, I could come back and hang my hands. hat on it. But I don't want Aaron Nagler to hear him. I'll never be out on Jordan Love because he makes the high quality throws. You know, like some of the stuff where you're like, is he sure to let the ball go? That's the type of thing. I think some of that's the offense, some of them like giving him confidence. But when he has an opportunity to make a high quality throw, he makes some high quality throws. He's as good as anybody. Well, not as good as anything. And their core is coming together. They're coming up together. Yeah. But like those deep overs that you layer and you
Starting point is 01:03:21 play action, you turn your back to the defense for a second and you deliver that ball to Christian who all of a sudden they got something out of him. Here's what I'll put. We're going to talk about the, you're eating my waffle fries. The NFC in the playoff picture, I think they have like a 45% chance to getting in. Take Seattle out right now and put them in. If we're talking about the best teams in the NFC, they're better than Seattle. I mean, they're better in these NFC South teams.
Starting point is 01:03:49 They're better than, you know, the, I don't know, that's kind of where it stops. Are they as good as the Vikings? That's the big question. You basically got two teams for, or four teams for two spots between Seahawks, Rams, Vikings, and Packers. The Packers are showing life, man. That's all I wanted to say. Okay, so as we go in this Thanksgiving weekend, we're getting into the AFC, I think the Dolphins game was interesting. I didn't think they're going to lose this game.
Starting point is 01:04:15 What I said before the game was, if they have any chance, they need to turn 14 points off turnovers. Like, that's the only way. And that's the number, 14. They got seven in the first half Because Tua threw a bad ball before the half He threw a couple of bad balls before the half They got seven there But then they gave it right back before the half
Starting point is 01:04:34 I mean I walked out The most ridiculous play Because I had the under I walked out to the back porch Whalen ran out Yeah so we're out there trying to have a left hand cigarette under the deck Doing the cousin walk
Starting point is 01:04:46 And Whalen who side team is the dolphins Comes running out and Kyle's got a stash his You know it's like Oh we have to stash our Yeah, we are in the shower. Holy fuck. Well, I just said we were having the left-hand. But then you said what?
Starting point is 01:05:00 You had it in your hand. Come out, guys. Did you not have it in your hand when you walked out? He pointed out in me and said he had it in his hand. Okay, answer the question. We've got to just plead the fifth in this situation. Kyle, that guy, get caught. No, he didn't.
Starting point is 01:05:14 He didn't. But all Whalen wanted to say was, did you see that play? And I'm like, yeah, I saw it to him. He's not that guy, way. And then he's like, no, did you see the next play? And I'm like, oh, damn. What happened? So you go in there and you see sleepy Tim Boyle fucking throwing a Hail Mary
Starting point is 01:05:30 and nobody can get Jvonne Holland down. Like that's the game right there because you brought yourself within inches of things. Defense of any time touchdown. And two of them made some nice throws in the second half. I mean there was either a slop fade or a wheel. I can't remember which one dropped it right in there. The whole thing like he's going to have to make those throws down the stretch. I thought this was a really good win by the Dolphins.
Starting point is 01:05:51 And with their schedule the way it is, the rest of the way they're going to have to play well. But for, you know, the Chiefs, it does put pressure on you to see these teams win. And we'll talk about Baltimore in a little bit. But before the game, Miami took care of business. So it puts pressure on you to go win. And so let's talk about your Kansas City Chiefs. With the backdrop of what I said on inside the NFL, my asshole was tight, especially because I had the Chiefs in like three big teasers. And I'm like, last week, as soon as they lost that game, I said, bet the Chiefs. You're sharp. I said, you got to bet the Chiefs right now. You didn't seem nervous at 14-0, though.
Starting point is 01:06:25 I really was. No, it's an evergreen tweet. The Chiefs are losing to the Raiders. The Chiefs suck. And then Patrick's like, hold my beer for a minute. Exactly. And maybe that's the best, I don't know, like for those of you who gamble, if you bet on a good team and they get down where they fuck something up,
Starting point is 01:06:42 how confident are you inside? That might tell you who the best teams in the league are. You know, like, it's a stupid way of putting it. But I got to tell you, my asshole is tight because of my take and everything. But in reality, I knew they were. going to win the game. But Vegas still had them at favor. It's even 14 under.
Starting point is 01:06:57 No question. And, you know, I want to tip my cap to your guy, the offensive coordinator in Vegas. Yeah, Bo Hardigree. Bo Hard agree. Man, they came out and they had a great script, dude. Like, they knew when they were getting man. They had bunches.
Starting point is 01:07:11 They had rub routes. First play, they took Karloftus for an eight-yard public transportation ride, dude. John. George or John? No, they put them on the John. They put them on the John. Yeah, they put them on the John bus. The John.
Starting point is 01:07:22 For those of you don't know, we have a public transportation called John. So they came out and they're like, we're going to get up on these linebackers. Because the Chief's linebackers, Kyle, you like tranquil. Trenk was been big. No, I know. Well. He's been big for them this year in the hole that was Nick Bolton. I think just having a guy out there with experience is great, right?
Starting point is 01:07:39 But Nick Bolton is a big deal. And you could see it like early in this game in the run game. You saw it in the Denver game. They were jet sweeping to Jacobs. Jacobson's slot. They run a jet sweep to him. They're doing a retrace motion with Jacoby Meyer leading through the 8. gap in the run game. Renfro
Starting point is 01:07:54 pick play for the touchdown creates miscommunication. They really had a great script. So I want to shout that guy out. And overall, I want to say this. They might have their offensive coordinator and their head coach next year in Vegas.
Starting point is 01:08:10 And I think if you're the owner of that team in Mark Davis, you're scorn from letting Rich Bessachi go. So if I had odds-on favorite to be the head coach next year, should be Antonio Pierce. This guy has showed plenty, in my opinion, to give
Starting point is 01:08:26 him a shot for a year. And the same thing with his court year. I love that. I think they've made good adjustments. They got out of eye formation. They got rid of some of those New England traits that they had. What kids say, run it back? And they did a good job, man. But including the Jacobs touchdown, which I want
Starting point is 01:08:42 to shout out Michael Mayer, bump in the five technique in the crease and then gets the Thornhill, I think it was, and just, I mean, like, then they go. And these guys are selling out to play the run, and these guys just increased them. So you find yourself down 14-0-0. And I think the Chiefs, this sounds stupid.
Starting point is 01:08:58 Bear with me, this is the best thing that could have happened to them. I think going down 14-0 to the Raiders in a game where you're like, we're going to win this game. Okay, this isn't 14-0 to the Eagles, it's not 14-0 to the Ravens. This is a team we should beat.
Starting point is 01:09:14 Now let's go run our shit. Let's go fucking try to be explosive, get Kelsey the ball. He almost had 100 yards. they went to Rishi Rice which is something I was asked before last week I mean they had one drop you talk about the second half they came out in the second half and were really good
Starting point is 01:09:31 so some people would say oh it's just the Raiders but had they lost the Raiders it'd be a big deal and the second half would be a big deal but they came out in the second half and they ran their shit and they looked like there so the drops hopefully that dries up
Starting point is 01:09:47 I thought this is the perfect situation I said going into the game last week. Fucking run your shit. Throw the ball a bunch. Try to give yourself opportunities to shake this bad vibe because that's what you needed. And I thought going down 14-0-0 might have been what the doctor ordered. I thought the defense stood up in the second half. Sneed on Adams was a big adjustment. Great job I achieve. Love their defense. Their defense is great. Evergreen tweet. We say that every fucking week. But I mean, Patrick is still Patrick. Travis is still Travis. People are
Starting point is 01:10:17 writing these guys off. They don't suck. They're still the big. Best combination doing it in the National Football League. My favorite sequence in the game, though, Chris, end of the second quarter. Justin Watson scrambled drill down there in the red area. He gets knocked over by the linebacker. He shuffles over, gets open. Patrick finds him in the void. Immediately Justin Watson gets up talking shit to the linebacker in his face.
Starting point is 01:10:40 Who's there to pull him out? 15. Patrick Mahomes, leadership, bro. He's like, we can't afford any of this riff-raft right now. First off, great job making a play. Second off, get the fuck back in the huddle. And then, you know, giving Rishi Rice an opportunity, going to him time and time again.
Starting point is 01:10:57 And he makes a big play there at the end. How many yards was it? Like 40 something? It was like 40, 30. Big explosive, though. That's what you're looking for. Give guys opportunities to make plays. Get the ball in their hands and let them make fun.
Starting point is 01:11:09 He's the best guy outside of Kelsey with the ball in his hands. So you've got to get him the ball. Pacheco is great. I mean, out there. Yeah, you can still throw it to Pachcheco. You can throw it to Pacheco. The screen game's been really good this year. I wasn't sure.
Starting point is 01:11:21 I looked at some of the numbers. They've been really good. So that's not something I left with Eric Bien to me because the screen game's really good. Maybe it's something that he took to Washington, but he didn't take it with him. He took what they know. I just think this was a big boy performance for them.
Starting point is 01:11:36 And Patrick Mahomes last week, and I said this on the inside, before they cut me up and ganged up on me about this shit. Those motherfuckers. Yeah, those motherfuckers. We're in the production meeting. They're like, Chris, what do you think? Are you panicking about the chiefs? I'm like, no.
Starting point is 01:11:49 And everybody's like, hmm, okay. And, you know, then we go out on the set. And they're like, re-e-h. You know, I start going, I'm like, you know why they're going to be okay? Because Patrick Mahomes, you know, at the podium after the game, putting that MBS drop on himself. Are you kidding me? And what I'm about to say is that's the leadership that's going to get them right. You know, you can't.
Starting point is 01:12:09 These guys do this shit, man. They do this year after year. So don't tell me that I'm supposed to be panicking about the chiefs. when they know this is crunch time, and they're going to figure some things out. Are they as good as they used to be? No, are they as explosive as they used to be? Probably not. They're a different team.
Starting point is 01:12:26 Are they down, maybe? But so is the field in the AFC. And I think if you're the chiefs, you've got to feel good about, like if you can wrap this home field advantage up, you feel good about all your matchups. So anyways, talking about the chiefs. They're just experienced. They're experienced. And like you said, they needed that go down and come back.
Starting point is 01:12:45 They needed that. Yep. This team needed it. Not the Chiefs in general. Pat's been there, but this roster. This particular team. This roster. You're damn right, Kyle.
Starting point is 01:12:54 And then the Jags, who keep winning, okay? Got their overwin total. Two week ago, this was a big. It was close. It was close. But I want to shout out their defense, man. Doug had these guys ready to play. And, you know, like, off the rip, when you played them at home,
Starting point is 01:13:11 Houston scripted the fuck out of you, man. It was, like, from the outset, and with no run game, these guys were tearing you apart. And the offense had problems and that sort of thing. We'll talk about that. They got to fix. But giving them the breathing room out of the gate, three punts, big deal for the Jacksonville defense. You're talking about great effort throughout the game.
Starting point is 01:13:32 There was that near goal line stand in the second half on that Stroud touchdown. The first two plays, including the touchdown, look like people were playing for their lives. Like this is a rivalry, man. This is a division rivalry that is. rivalry that is popped up. Yeah. And it is after Thanksgiving now, and these two teams are playing for their playoff lives
Starting point is 01:13:51 in the same division. And it's not just the like, who's getting in the playoffs this year? You don't want to be Jacksonville losing twice to this rookie quarterback saying, fuck, no matter what we do this year, this guy's always here. And you thought you had the generational guy. You thought you had the generational guy.
Starting point is 01:14:05 Well, look who's got the generational guy? No. So they got the generational guy. And, you know, I thought the defense was great. People didn't like, you know, people didn't like that end-a-half call from Doug, you know, at the goal line. Better play. They'd like a better play call. But I think in the second half, the Jags kind of out-coached these guys.
Starting point is 01:14:27 I think the Jags had, there were a couple key moments where whether it's, you know, Ryan's using a timeout due to a 12th man on special teams and not being able to have that one later. Or, you know, midfield, end a third. They decided to heat up Stroud. That was a really good decision. They didn't really have a great hot option. They had one dude on the right, but I don't think you could see him. So that was a big decision. And then the biggest one to me was, and other people feel me on this,
Starting point is 01:14:55 third and one, you're down 10, you're chasing two scores, you're at midfield. You decide to drop back and pass. Okay, I don't love that. You know, I'm conservative Chris. But the second down on fourth and on fourth and one, you pass again. and that's just not one you can get back. If you get a field goal out of that thing, different game, right? So I didn't like that.
Starting point is 01:15:19 And then at the end of the game, Josh Allen, who really took this game over, two sacks in that final drive. And Houston's really good at overcoming being behind the sticks. They overcame second and 25. But the second time, it's second and 19. It's third and 12. Kyle, it's third and 12. Times running out.
Starting point is 01:15:36 This kicker's never made from this distance. instead of taking a profit, and you've got people running on the field and Jacksonville's kind of out of sorts. Bro, the slot receiver wasn't even a line. The slot receiver wasn't even set, and they didn't call it. Well, and that's all fine and good, but they ran the play.
Starting point is 01:15:51 I'd like to get the ball out on the perimeter, on a smoke or something, or take that off coverage and pick up five, seven yards, because that's the difference in Amandola making that kick. Thousand percent. And so instead, you have hero ball
Starting point is 01:16:01 with CJ Stroudan. He can't take a sack. It's a bad spot to be in. So I didn't like some of the situational football from the Texans late in the game. But they are a young team with a young quarterback and a young coach. They're going to be fine. Josh Allen was great.
Starting point is 01:16:16 That free runner sack, that's one of the most difficult plays in football. I wanted to shout him out. But who I want to shout out is Trayvon Walker. And he's taking a lot of shit. Sacks aren't everything, but right now, you know, people are always comparing him to Hutchinson. He's not Hutch.
Starting point is 01:16:29 Okay? But what he is, is he can play with a lot of effort. And if he figures out how to play with power, he can be a plus. and I think sack-wise he's right there with him. Now, they look way different than Hutch's plays. But I thought it was encouraging. The first drive, okay, it's third and nine, C.J. Stroud.
Starting point is 01:16:48 Now, you want to get off to a good start. You're in midfield. Straub breaks the pocket. Some guys are changing speeds. Trayvon tracks him from the left end to the right side line and makes the play three yards short of the sticks. He's going to get that first down. These are little hidden plays in the game
Starting point is 01:17:03 that I think Trayvon Walker should be commended for, including Josh Allen, one of his sacks, if Trayvon doesn't come in there and snap that fucking center's headback on a mixer, which is an E.T and a T to different sides. The old mixer. The balance up guy on an end around the tackle has to balance up.
Starting point is 01:17:21 And if you can do it violently, even better. Man, when I say he used that center's carcass to catapult Josh Allen. That has a wet ball. He used that as the wall, like a parkour surface, for Josh Allen to accelerate off of. And so when you look at one guy getting a sack, it's always more than just that one guy. And Trayvon Walker deserves some love.
Starting point is 01:17:41 I thought Josh Allen was great, but Trayvon played well too. I just want to say this, and I didn't do this in America's team, Kyle. Are the Texans like this generation's cowboys, if we look up in five, seven years? Because they look fucking sick in all red. They have the coolest young quarterback. They have Tank Dell. Slims, though. I think the masses, they're going to like it.
Starting point is 01:18:03 I don't think it's going to get as much. I know, but people like Dallas in the 90s. The point is, we're going to look up to 15 years. Are we in the moment where we like them? Yeah, we are in the moment where we like them. And then in 15 years, is it going to be like all my kids' friends are going to be Texans fans? They're going to be like those Cowboys people that have the flags on their cars, you know, in some dystopian future. This is the Mahomes effect.
Starting point is 01:18:22 The Steph Curry effect. And there's a reason that C.J. Stroud says after a game where he has a couple of turnovers, he's like, Steph Curry doesn't blink. He just keeps shooting. and I'm like, kids love that. They relate to that. Yeah, they're going to love this team, bro. It's a great point. It's a fun, exciting team, even a loss.
Starting point is 01:18:40 And him and Tanker buddies, he stood on the table for him after CJ got drafted. He was like, you've got to get Tank Dell. I just want to say this, though. Trevor Lawrence, not perfect. This was a big spot for him. And, you know, especially with Cam Robinson going down, Walker Little moving out to left tackle, Ezra, who they traded for, pops in the lineup. They made the plays they had to.
Starting point is 01:19:00 You know, Ridley, Kirk, they dropped some balls. Yeah, this thing's been a work in progress all year. But I thought in a divisional game for the offense to jump out like that, that was the key on the road to get a lead like that. It just changes the tone of the entire game. And I thought this was a really, really kind of bookmark win that they can kind of hang their hat on for the Jags. And go back to it and say, hey, guys, we did that in Houston. Like, we've done this stuff. They're a team that has been, the last.
Starting point is 01:19:30 The last few years they're a talented underdog and the future is bright, you know, for the Jaguars, and they had to play from behind and rely on Trevor Lawrence. Now you have to learn how to play with the lead. If you want to be a team that's going to, you know, make a statement and make a run in the playoffs, you have to win games, but you have to know how to play with a lead. And they're in the infant stages of that, but to your point, it's a huge win against a really hot team. And they've finished. And they have the easiest schedule remaining of all the AFC teams with three losses.
Starting point is 01:20:00 So there's a legitimate chance that they could have a buy. And their vitamin D level will be higher. If they want to be a cheap, it's got a real thing. I swear to God, vitamin D is massively important. That's why the dolphins want that home field advantage. That's why the dolphins were undefeated back now. So anyways, you had vitamin D. The whole point is the AFC race is tight at the top.
Starting point is 01:20:20 And all these teams are different. I want to talk about Baltimore now because they have three losses as well. I coming out, I bet the under last night. I just didn't think that the Ravens would look like the Ravens offensively because of Mark Andrews. I think people look past that a little bit. And they found themselves in a bit of a dog fight. And I'd just say this. I think Todd Monkin deserves a lot of credit because to see this.
Starting point is 01:20:48 Guys were open. They changed their offense. Okay. This looks more like a college offense, okay? Where it's like, hey, we just win the numbers game over here. If it's not there, we do this. In the run game, it's Keaton Mitchell, who they featured a lot. more I think that's an intentional departure from that kind of football team they look like
Starting point is 01:21:05 they can do this too which is let's spread guys out Isaiah likely is not going to be a you know a point of a point of attack point of attack blocker he's not going to be the guy that's you can split him out more I know Mark will split out sometimes but Isaiah likely on the quick stuff with 10 yards head start like he's an athlete man and we call those the door guys by the way the door guys line really yeah you who's going to kick that door it's going to be the first motherfucker it's not Isaiah likely. It's not Isaiah likely. He's the guy out there where you're going to split him out, do some creative
Starting point is 01:21:36 stuff with him. But overall, I thought that the team speed showed a little more last night. And that's kind of, if you want to see what they're going to look like the rest of the year, and maybe it's a game plan thing, but I think it's like, hey, Mark Andrews is no longer here. We've got to get what we got to get out of these wide receivers, but we got to feature the fast guys on the field here
Starting point is 01:21:52 for us. Zay is getting chased just perpetually. It's just Zayflowers being chased by somebody that's maniacally sprinted. And Zayflowers killed so many teasers last night. I mean, I didn't care because I had one like I tried to hit it three ways. I had Ravens and the under teaser. I had chargers and I was trying to
Starting point is 01:22:08 thread the needle. I had the under chargers and the Bears teaser. But of course that goes up in smoke because Zay Flowers decides he wants to do a fucking touchdown celebration at the end of the game. They beat him by 10. Blue a bunch of teasers. I had Ravens minus three and a half, so I felt good about that. That was good for you. That was good for a lot of people because
Starting point is 01:22:26 I guess they had the hook on that thing. A lot of people had the hook. So that was huge. And for the Chargers, they're probably dead now. I mean, I've seen enough. You know, like, they played better defensively, the whole thing, but a bunch of turnovers, your best players turn the ball over, the fumbles. I feel bad for Justin because outside of Keenan Allen, there's really nobody.
Starting point is 01:22:48 It'd be like if Michael Jordan was playing with Scotty Burrell and Dickie Simpkins, after Robben and Pippen go down with injuries, to put it into language that Brandon Staley could understand. That's what's going on right now. It's like, yeah, you want to look like the 95 Bulls, but not like this. So there's nobody to throw to the defense. I was on Twitter last night. I think it's probably too little.
Starting point is 01:23:09 Somebody said, get this bald guy off my team. I was so angry because they were making fun of Austin Echler. Oh, God. And I was like, first off, it's baldness. Yeah. Like, I was so fucking pissed at this account. I almost went in at him. And we love Austin Echler.
Starting point is 01:23:24 We love Austin Eccler. He's a great. We stand Austin Echler. Yeah. All around football player. But when things are that. everybody, whether it's Keenan Allen Don't take it out of a ball thing.
Starting point is 01:23:33 Whether it's a fumble, whether it's Austin Echler fumbling twice in two weeks. It's another touchdown drive at the end of the game where they need it and they can't get it. And I don't put it all on Justin Herbert. I just don't. I'm not going to do that. But what I will say about this Ravens' defense is you pay that fucking tax
Starting point is 01:23:51 when you go over the middle of the field with these guys. Bro, there were some hits in that game where if you are an offense that likes to access, the middle of the field, you are getting taxed. Cold tub full today. Buddy, that defense is physical. And you know what they have? I'm talking about Detroit.
Starting point is 01:24:08 Because I don't think they have like a load of great rushers, you know. They've got a bunch of Swiss Army knives. Hey, they do have a blue chip player in Roquan. I think Kyle Hamilton's headed that way. I think, you know, they've got corners. They've got Matabeeke, the whole thing. But they're not a sexy defense the way, since Ravensman's good sense about this. Here's what I mean to say.
Starting point is 01:24:27 It's not like on paper you're like. like, oh my God, they just assembled this dream team. They're getting stuff out of Clowny, you know, on the other side of 30. Number 24. He's making big play, dude, looking. And that's the thing. When you talk about the Lions, where's your big play? I know Baltimore's better, but, like, you've gotten this out of Clownie.
Starting point is 01:24:46 Like, Clownie has made some plays in big situations, including the Redsardown. Every time Roquan runs out of ball carrier, I'm like, look out for the fumble. Yeah, could be. Look out for the football. Ball! They take the ball off people, man. He's such a football player. I swear I'm going to sound crazy saying this, but Luke Keechley was the guy.
Starting point is 01:25:02 I mean, I think Roquan's the guy. Like a different Luke. Like different dudes, but in terms of just being able to take over the game mentally and having the savvy and the wherewithal to be like in the moment, making a tackle on the biggest player on their team, boom, that balls out. You're going for the football. He's like a little bit of a spot. It's like a Russia that's like a D.N that doesn't just go for the sack.
Starting point is 01:25:24 They're going for the football and they want to take it to the end zone. I think the game moves slow for him. Yes. He's a football guy. The game moves really slow. When you come on a tackle, like if you're a defensive end, the game might move slow for me rushing the passer, but then out in space trying to make a play,
Starting point is 01:25:39 I can't imagine what it's like to be Roquan Smith, where you're like a heat-seeking missile that can change course at the very last second, and you knew where to be before the play. Remember the Patriots? Well, the Patriots. I remember them. What I remember them as is a team that didn't have 99s overall. They had 86s, a course.
Starting point is 01:25:57 crossed the board, and they all knew exactly what they were doing. And they were interchangeable. Like, you know, like, I think about Oway and his versatility, and I think about Hamilton, and the things they can bring him up in the box. Now he's part of the run numbers. Now he's part of the past numbers. They were a one-trick pony with Wink. Now they can do a bunch of different stuff.
Starting point is 01:26:16 We love Wink. And I love Wink, but, like, when you blitz that much, it kind of becomes who you are. And so I think the versatility that McDonald's brought to his defense and the personnel moves, they continue to make the right one. So Steelers, staying in that division, I told y'all, don't be panicking about these fucking Steelers, man. They're going to be in the playoffs. They're fine, okay? Overwin total is going to hit.
Starting point is 01:26:37 I thought, if you need any evidence that it was Matt Canada yesterday, you can explain a lot of shit away, but you can't explain 58 games without 400 yards of off. Numbers never lie. And they go out there, and yeah, I lost on the over a point total, 16 and a half, okay? But I'm not going to hold the points against them because what I saw from Kenny Pickett was confidence. And the run game, perimeter run, sets up the inside run. They look like a functional running football team. And in the past game, it's not just Friermouth down the seams, it's not just discovering a tight end.
Starting point is 01:27:13 Who is the best friend of a young quarterback? It's also the two balls that he delivered outside the numbers. Everybody loves the tight end. And he touched to Deonté Johnson, yes. The touchdown to Deontay Johnson, which should have been challenged. these are great throws, man. These are legitimately really good throws, and I think Kenny Pickett feels like he probably
Starting point is 01:27:30 breathed the sigh of relief for reasons unknown, specifically. Why wasn't it challenged? I was watching that with Gronk. I was sitting there with Gronk, and we were both like, that's a touchdown. Why don't you challenge it?
Starting point is 01:27:42 Next thing you know, they cut to the wide and they're running a fucking play. What's it like in the locker room when you maybe see a video that's going viral of a teammate giving no effort like Deonto Johnson was? Is that a confrontation? It depends on, no, I mean, like, I've never been on Deontay's side of it.
Starting point is 01:27:58 Okay, because you just don't do that. Okay, like, I understand he thinks the ball's handed off or whatever, but, like, the ball's on the ground now. One time when I was in Philly, I got a sack on Derek Carr. We were playing late in the year. We were playing for a home-foot advantage with big play, took the ball off him. I thought I just sacked him, and I ran off the field, like celebrating. And the ball is squirting out back there.
Starting point is 01:28:20 And, like, five people are running to pick the ball up. And I felt like a moron, dude. apologize after the game in the post-game interviews. Now, I play great, but I apologize. This guy, man, like, I'll just say this. And I don't want to make it personal or say that, like, Deontes not doing his job because I don't know what's going on in an offensive room sometimes with the quarterback-in-receiver. Well, I can tell you what he did was not his job. Well, that was bad effort. But I think you can explain away that effort and say, hey, it was a bad down. If there's not so many other fucked up plays where, you know, whether it's the third and four and they're just not on the same
Starting point is 01:28:52 page or a drop or a penalty. He's been the guy at times in various situations. I can remember, like, they played Minnesota a couple years ago and these guys, these receivers and Deonté was one of them. It was just mistake after mistake. And I think it was last year. Can't win with him.
Starting point is 01:29:08 No, I think you can. The point is, I've got to get something out of this guy because you don't have to go to the offensive meeting. He's a good player. He's a good player and I don't know what's going on there. If it's Kenny's fault more often than not or not. Something in the water. But it's not happening with other receivers the same way it's happening with him.
Starting point is 01:29:25 And so I just want to see Deonté Johnson look like the guy he is. And I think hopefully this change at coordinator might boost the vibe where they get on the same page or that sort of thing. I don't know. He's got skills. I'm not rooting against him, but I would tell you this, if you're in that locker room and it probably wouldn't be me because I was never a captain, somebody has to go talk to that guy.
Starting point is 01:29:44 Well, I would be... Somebody doesn't have to talk to him. Somebody has to have a conversation with him. And the conversation I would have, you know, being in that situation. I'd like to hear what he has to say. What I would say is, are you good, man? Yeah, yeah. Are you good?
Starting point is 01:29:57 Like, because I don't think anybody, we're all grown, man. Like, he knows he can't have that. But just, hey, like, what's going on? Is it something with, you know, is it something in your personal life? Is it something at home? Is it something with the offense? Reach out and take the temperature on this guy because there's stuff going on that I'm not seeing.
Starting point is 01:30:16 And Mike Tomlin is as good as anybody of keeping his finger on the pulse of his team. So I'm assuming that this is being handled in Pittsburgh, and it's going to be in-house. No question. I'm not worried about this team. This team's going to be fine. But the difference between the Steelers, I said a week ago before Canada was fired, they could give somebody hell in the first round. They could win a playoff game if the offense looks like this.
Starting point is 01:30:40 Because T.J. Watt is T.J. Watt. And just got to 100 sacks, the whole thing. The guy's dog. That defensive line. They got out-gained every game, and they're in the playoffs. I worry about their linebackers. I worry about some of the back-end stuff. but good football team, they're going to get in.
Starting point is 01:30:55 Broncos, man. This is the part of the... How are you feeling, Lee? How many games in a row is it? I mean, this feels like a billion. It feels great. The fact that we've won a number of games that we didn't think we would... Every time it's like, oh, Broncos are going to Bronco.
Starting point is 01:31:14 It happened yesterday. The Browns go down there. They score the touchdown. It's 14-12. They drop the two-point conversion. You're thinking it's all over. They put together the drive to get back ahead, and then they shut the door the rest of the way. Obviously, the injury of the DTR, it sucks to see.
Starting point is 01:31:31 Because he was playing really well. DTR. He had some solid passes. But I got to say this. Like, I usually feel bad when a guy gets hurt, and I felt bad, but he put himself in that situation. I mean, not just running around like a chicken with his head cut off back there, but then jumping in the air. And I think it was Browning, just lit him up and tried to put his head in the right place. But, you know, that's a tough one to pass up.
Starting point is 01:31:51 And so, you know, after that, I thought maybe PJ Walker might give him some life, but not really. It's like PJ's done great in a lot of spots, but he's not the come from behind kind of guy. He can go even with teams. He can go and get you a game-winning field. And that's their team. That's their team. That's their team. And the minute they fell back and, like, I think.
Starting point is 01:32:10 Their parents don't get knocked out. Yeah, yeah. If we just stay in this fight, you never know. But, like, 170 yards rushing for the Broncos, like, that's not a misprint. And we talked about this. And now you might be down Miles Garrett. Like we talked about this Cleveland defense. Like they were a historic defense.
Starting point is 01:32:30 This is the problem I have with this defense. They're two up and down. You know, like one week you go out there, like your backs against the wall. And you beat Pittsburgh in a spot where a lot of people didn't think you're going to win that game. And then you go to play the Broncos. And I think most people coming to this game were like the Broncos are the hot team, but Cleveland's better. Like you're going to figure this thing. out. They did not. And to give up that many yards rushing, the three takeaways for Denver,
Starting point is 01:32:55 15 over the last month, as I mentioned, 20 or fewer points the last six game. I think Vance checked his ego at the door or was told like you have to and said, hey, we're just going to, we're not going to be as aggressive, make some switches with the roster. And I think it's worked out for them. This is an example of a team with a new coach that on paper you said, hey, they're a seven-win team. They're an eight-win team. But on the field, it wasn't showing. And I think what's happened is, this is good coaching. You know, this is Sean
Starting point is 01:33:26 Peyton being Sean Payton. So when he laughed at Nathaniel Hackett in the off-season, and everybody was like, ha-ha, Sean Peyton, eggs on your face. Yeah, after the Jets game. And what's going on in New York? Yeah. I'm making it. But Sean Peyton, yeah, he's like, how do
Starting point is 01:33:42 you want it? You want it? You want it? You want it, like, Sonny's side up. You want Gordon Ramsey style, the whole thing. He has morph this team into what he wants them to be. And I think the Kansas City game was a real turning point where they were like, guys, we can win games. The fact we won that after being blown out of every Kansas City game the last felt like the millennium is, I mean, that gave the whole team confidence in Sean Payton doing what
Starting point is 01:34:06 he, you know, is able to do. What they're doing is dragging people in the deep water. Yes. Okay, like, they're dang gambling. Detroit wants to drag people in deep water. They're in the shallow water right now. Defense isn't scary. No, they're taking them to the mountains, no oxygen.
Starting point is 01:34:19 Denver's big thing as the ocean. So they're Dan Campbell's version of, well, let's speak you up to on top of the mountains. The Eagles. The Ravens. Yeah. Yeah, dude. It's, uh, they're doing what Robert Sala wanted to do. That's what it was.
Starting point is 01:34:38 Yeah. Not the Eagles. Salah talking about. They wanted to take them up to high altitude. They can't play these kinds of games. And I think Denver is a tough out, man. And so I don't know what the Browns are doing. Seven yards of pop for Ford in the first half.
Starting point is 01:34:52 Kind of went away from it. And then DTR gets hurt. They run a reverse. Fumble the ball. Camas in the chat. Shout out to Camas in the chat. Everybody in the chat here. Yeah, we love the chat.
Starting point is 01:35:01 If Broncos legit make a playoff run, Russ' comeback player of the year? Or is everyone still on Hamelin? No, I mean, I think Russ could enter that conversation for sure. That would be sad. Last year, he was a meme, dude. And, like, you know, Damar, you've earned being in this conversation. No question. But like, Russ is playing.
Starting point is 01:35:19 There's a guy on our YouTube, and he'll comment again today. He's commented like seven times, and they're all just like kind of politically charged things. He hates anything I've said in the past. But the Hamlin thing really got him because the point I made about the Hamlin thing is the guy almost died on the field. That's enough to be in the conversation for a comeback player of the year. These are three NFL players telling you that. But because you're mad because it wasn't the vaccine, and it turned out to be he just got hit really, hard, square in the heart. And he's not a clone.
Starting point is 01:35:49 He's not a clone. Yeah, you were one of the guys that were like, he's a clone up at the fucking NFL honor. If they had 13 men on the field, you know, that's how bad this crowd has been. I thought for 12 hours after that game that DeMarne fucked the game up by being 12th man on the field. He
Starting point is 01:36:05 wasn't even on the field. Yeah. It's just fake news. So anyways, I just want to shout that guy out. You can comment all you want, buddy. Demar Hamlin's still one of the leaders for comeback player a year, according to Las Vegas. If you know more to Las Vegas, buddy,
Starting point is 01:36:20 I don't know who you are, I don't know who you are, but you know you are. I love Sean Peyton. Yeah. I love the Broncos. I love Reed. I'll never comment back. I love those uniforms.
Starting point is 01:36:29 And they're really the only, I love Justin Herbert in the AFC. West, but they're the only team I really, I like outside of the Chiefs. I mean, I love Cortland Sutton in the Red Zone. And popping up. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:36:39 He's been awesome. Yeah. I mean, he's great. And I think the, the way that Russell handled the offseason and getting his body in tune to be able to go on this long haul and the way he's been convincing us of
Starting point is 01:36:51 we're believing. Yeah. I mean sometimes you just got to believe. Relentless belief. Got a stretch on the airplane? Got a stretch on the airplane? I need. But, all right, so Sean Payton got rid of all that means. And the O line, they handled the Browns. The O line for the Broncos. Obviously, we talked about
Starting point is 01:37:06 the rushing yards, 170 rushing arts, but they threw it a number of times too. They're built to be a tough out here, down the stretch. So, talking about the AFC playoff race, all good. We'll get to the NFC in a second, but I want to talk to you about game time, okay? So you shouldn't have to worry about when you buy tickets to your next big event.
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Starting point is 01:38:06 GameTime app got us to the Tech UVA game. Thank you. The outcome. Thank you, GameTime, for... Where Reed got the cosplay as a Virginia fan. They were like, Your honor is at the end of the third quarter
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Starting point is 01:38:30 I think the first question is Who wants to win the South man And I don't think it's the Saints Because Like yesterday it was a microcosm Of these two team seasons Where Hey I'll own it
Starting point is 01:38:43 I didn't think Taylor Heineke looked real good when he came in. So I was... He wasn't the spark. I was campaigning for Taylor Heineke over Desmond Ritter. And one of the arguments we were having six weeks ago is whether or not Ritter is a franchise quarterback. I don't know the answer to that. But what I do know is the franchise quarterback for the saints through the picks at the worst time. I mean, his pick in the red zone, that's a killer.
Starting point is 01:39:10 The fumble in the red zone by Tassum Hill, that's a killer. You know, Ritter had some bad balls, but they were able to survive those. And he made a really nice throw to Bejohn when he ran into the tunnel late in the game. So props to him for coming back out and fighting, and this team's going to have to do a lot of fighting. The throw was the dart or the free throw. So you see that on a halfback screen. You know, sometimes you've got to throw it around, the lineman, or the blitzer. Or sometimes you've got to go with the free throw.
Starting point is 01:39:38 He went with the free throw. He was like, Bejohn, go get it, buddy. And I thought that was a great throw. and man, it's so disappointing for the Saints to assemble this team, the action of going all in on Derek Carr, kicking the can down the road with the cap and all that stuff. And you end up here? Like you have 32 possessions, your last 32 possessions,
Starting point is 01:39:57 you have three touchdowns, two of those for James, one of those for Taysam. None of them for Derek Carr. Okay? You know, like Derek Carr is not getting it done, and to mortgage the future, relatively speaking, in the way you did. And to have this team in a division, where it's like there for the taking.
Starting point is 01:40:12 You win nine games. You win this division. It's the Great Lakes region of the Little League World Series, Chris. We know that whoever wins this has to play the Japanese team and they're not going to be. Is that what happened to the Great Lakes? Yeah. They're like, fuck, man. Like, we got to battle the, you know, Lake Superior.
Starting point is 01:40:27 The House of the Rising Suns. And then they go play the fucking Japanese. Yeah, always wins. It's over. Yeah, but listen. And the Japanese, in this case, are the Dallas Cowboys. Or the Dallas Cowboys, where you're going to have to go to Tokyo and just get curbstop. be a lot of bright lights.
Starting point is 01:40:42 Oh, man. You fucking, anyways. So I think Jesse Bates has been one of the most important players for the Atlanta Falcons this year, on a defense that I'm not high on right now. To make the plays he made for them, you know, two turnovers in the red zone, one of them pick six, go watch that play.
Starting point is 01:41:02 And this speaks to the Saints' predictability. He almost overruns that ball. He broke on it so fast. You know, he sees number two coming inside. So here comes the ball, and he almost has to stop to catch that ball. That's how predictable the Saints are right now. And that's how good of a study guy, Jesse Bates is. And that's what he adds to his defense, the punching the ball out in the red zone.
Starting point is 01:41:24 Like, this guy's been huge for them. I think if there's one team that's going to win the South, it's probably there. When did Derek Carr get a southern accent? That's why I stopped trusting him. I don't know. Yeah, well. When he was done being from Bakersfield, he's from Shelby, North Carolina. Dude, the fucking John Fogarty is from Bakersfield. I'm Derek Carr, I'm Luke Bryan.
Starting point is 01:41:44 Welcome to America's Got Town. It happened to John Fogarty, too. Like, he had a whole career where people are like, these guys are from Alabama. They're from Bakersfield, CCR. It's the same thing with... They're from Bakersfield? Yeah, something like that.
Starting point is 01:41:57 You just blew my mind, but they're not from the Bible Belt. Exactly, dude. Credence, Clearwater Revival, brought to you by Gavin Newsom. But back in the day, like, you know, streets of... You know streets of Bakerfield? Dwight Yolkham?
Starting point is 01:42:13 Dwight Yolkham? A real goat. Yeah, well, Streets at Bakerfield is about, back in the day, country artists, if you watch the Ken Burns special, they went out west, and they set up shop out west. Out west was basically, it was countryer than the south. So at one point, Bakersfield was like the country. And they still kind of are the country.
Starting point is 01:42:31 You ever drive through Southern California? Bakersfield's very real. I've got to give a shout out to the Bakersfield College Renegades, one of the best college football stadiums in America. If you don't think college football, the junior college kind is not real. Go to the Bakersfield games on Saturday night. I feel like the entire team or the entire town shows up. It's like over here in Stanton, Virginia, all these schools that play high school football,
Starting point is 01:42:53 everybody and their mama show up. That's how it is. Wait until the Japanese come to town. Shout out to the Renegades, but we beat you guys the one time I was there. Okay. So Bakersfield got a ton of love in this pod. That's good. So we don't know who's going to win the South.
Starting point is 01:43:06 But out of the teams that don't win the. the South. If you're talking about the Bucks, they're tricking it off. You know, Jonathan Taylor got rolling yesterday. The Colts, by the way, are a team that can, I mean, they could win the division if shit goes really south for the Jacks. They have played really well relative to expectation. I mean, the beginning of the season, you get your prize quarterback knocked out who looks like the truth. People forgot about him. He's going to be good. But you've got to keep him healthy. Gardner Minshu has looked really good. Jonathan Taylor is starting to come on.
Starting point is 01:43:41 Shane Steichen's just, I got a lot of respect for him. So they could slide in. They have a chance of the wild card spot on the other side of things. The Rams rolled. They're still in the conversation. But let's not even talk about the Seahawks. Seehawks actually now their chances of making the playoffs. You've got to scroll down a bit for the Seahawks.
Starting point is 01:44:01 34%. They have tricked it off. The Rams actually have a higher percent chance at 37. Okay. And then if you look at the NFC South, and this is kind of wacky, they got the Falcons with the highest percentage chance, 60%, the Saints, 43%, bucks down to 15. It's about time to pack up in Tampa. And then up a little bit, we have the Packers with a 45% chance to slide in that thing. I'd love to see two NFC North teams slide in and be the AFC north of the NFC.
Starting point is 01:44:34 It would be fun. It'd be fun. So I think the Packers have a real opportunity here. I think the Vikings have a real opportunity here. NFC North's got a little matchin to it, doesn't it? Yeah, it's fun. It's electric. I mean, all these divisional games, just like the NFC West.
Starting point is 01:44:47 Like when you were in the NFC West, it was a bloodbath every week. You guys were on paper the worst team in the division, but you made it a fucking bloodbath. We always hung tough. That's why I think it's going to happen in that Monday night game tonight. Yeah, I think Chicago wins that game. Look ahead. Justin Fields. I think Chicago wins that game.
Starting point is 01:45:03 But we've got the Patriots. We hadn't mentioned them. How can we forget about the Patriots? securing that draft pick, going out there missing that kick, giving up 10 points to DeVito. I'm not going to say much about that game. It's all fucked up. We've got Aden's a big fan of the Patriots. He's looking up clothing.
Starting point is 01:45:22 He don't want to think about the Patriots. He was cheering when they missed the kick because now they might get track. He was cheering. So, you know, we've got a resident Pat's fan here. And like, listen, you know me. I like the Pats. I want the Pats to do well. I just don't think it's going to be this year.
Starting point is 01:45:35 I think it's going to be next year. You're going to have to hit on that quarterback. I love my three-team trade that I fucking tried to roll out the other day. Justin Fields. I was smoking too much pot to try to get that trade out. But basically, it's Mike Vrable to the New England Patriots for their pick. And the Tennessee Titans are going to grab Drake May with that, hire Ben Johnson, and you get Vrable up in New England.
Starting point is 01:45:58 Now the three-team thing pops in because you're going to send something over to Chicago, and that's something as Bill Belichick, and then you get Justin Fields back. So you're going to have Vrable and Justin Fields up there. Caleb Williams and Belichick in Chicago. And then in Tennessee, you got Drake May and Ben Johnson. Thank you very much. You like that trade? And Levice is going up there too.
Starting point is 01:46:18 You just throw Levice in. Mayo guys going up to New England. Mayo, it's a binder. So I think the paths are close. Like, hey, say Tennessee fires Brable. You walk him right up there and make him the head coach. Giraud Mayo, he's got head coach. They become America's team immediately.
Starting point is 01:46:36 Yes. Now, if Belichick leaves or gets fired, that's what we're talking about. But he could stay. I don't believe stuff until I see it. He's staying. I don't believe stuff until I see it. But you're also not going to fire Belichick during the season. I just don't think they're going to do that.
Starting point is 01:46:51 So. Talking about coaches, I don't think we mentioned this in the Carolina portion. I'm sorry if we did. But out also with Frank Reich are McCown and Deuce Staling. Yeah. We're also. That sucks, too. guys. I mean, we didn't even mention Jack
Starting point is 01:47:08 Del Rio. Clean. Yeah. Who got back, the bus got backed up. Moment of silence for those guys. Yeah. Yeah, it sucks. It's a tough league. It is a tough league. So with that, we should get into our mentions, but before we do that, we've got a Miller-Lite ad read
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Starting point is 01:49:32 Ad-reed and sports. Yeah, no. DTR before we got All right So So For the moments
Starting point is 01:49:45 Reminds at the time We went to Laramie Wyoming to open the season I was there 20 to 3 When Algrove took us off The bus the first day It was like we're going to go run
Starting point is 01:49:55 And get acclimated I don't think it works that way I think we just get At the same level As where the game was Got beat by a bunch of ranchers Who couldn't even feel the altitude There was a guy
Starting point is 01:50:05 Noose to Marsh on that team He was a punt return I remember him Good player. A good player. Kyle, only time I've ever seen your brother do the fist to come out. And this was in the first quarter. Like, literally.
Starting point is 01:50:15 I've never seen that. And when he did that, everyone on the sideline on the D-line was so confused because we'd never had it happen. So it's like, who goes in for him? Yeah. Yeah, it was like Alex Fields. It was Alex Fields. Yeah, you wanted like two plays. Two plays.
Starting point is 01:50:30 I ended up with 81 or 82 because we ran. I'd never forget watching guys running in place. We went to the half in that little locker room, you would have thought Antietam just happened. Everybody had an IV bag. I mean, nobody was getting like amputated, but everybody had an IV bag. That was raw.
Starting point is 01:50:49 I know they had those IV bags rolling at Antietam. So I'm going to give out the first Miller-Light moment, the Best Flight. Do it. What do you think? Best Flight Ravens. They got to go to L.A. And this year, people have fun in L.A.
Starting point is 01:51:03 When they play football, great town, great night life. They did it without Mark Andrews. Now they're all alone in the AFC at number one. They're headed to the buy week. They got the Rams out of the buy. It's a tough out, but I feel like the Ravens feel great about that win, the look ahead, and the flight home. I'm sure they had the, what is it, yak? The yak was flowing.
Starting point is 01:51:24 Maybe. But also like, you can't really get drunk on that flight because then when you get home at 7 a.m. And you're like, I have a hangover now. And it's like. Oh, I'm getting shitty. Not on those flights. I'm taking some extracurriculars. Who's your best flight?
Starting point is 01:51:39 My best flight is the 90-minute flight, according to Delta, but probably shorter, that goes from Detroit to Green Bay. Now, the Packers, the best part about this is they play in the first Thanksgiving game. So they played at, like, 12 or one. So they're home for dinner. They're home for Thanksgiving, for real, with a 10-day head start on the week. and I mean like they have this mini buy coming off Thanksgiving and get to show their best stuff. So I think Rashon Gary and those guys had a great flight.
Starting point is 01:52:12 Miami also coming home for a long weekend. Chris Collinsworth took off last night to be with his family for Thanksgiving. And then they panned to the sideline and Jack's on the sideline. Oh, that's fucking good, dude. Worst flight, Jack Collinsville. Oh, that's great. How about we moved Thanksgiving?
Starting point is 01:52:28 We got to be on the same page here. We did it again. We moved Thanksgiving. We're family for Christ's face. We had pizza. I'm eating pizza over, very good pizza, by the way, over the games Thursday. We moved Thanksgiving to Friday because my dad didn't do what Chris Collinsworth did. Daddy.
Starting point is 01:52:44 My daddy. He decided to come back Thursday night late, and then so we do Thanksgiving on Friday. Worst flight. Oh, it's me. Worst flight. Browns, they lost in Denver. Can't go home. Straight to L.A. to play the Rams.
Starting point is 01:52:58 The Bills flight is awful, dude. You know, there's nothing better than getting wet and physical out there on the field. Like, just – I didn't know you like to get wet. I do like to get wet on the field. You like to get wet. Yeah, Jake. You're a grown man, Jake. Getting all soggy out there.
Starting point is 01:53:17 It's cold. You get on the plane, you warm up after a win. Like, you lick your wounds. But if you're the bills, you blow another game that you absolutely need, and you have to get on a flight after a late 4 o'clock game. They probably didn't get back until almost midnight, and it's rinse and reap. And from cold to colder. Yeah, exactly.
Starting point is 01:53:35 Yeah, they're one waterfall away from Canada, bro. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Bevel Conway. Bevel Conway, I love Jason Garrett, dude. He's just your Bevel Conway? No, hold on. The smile.
Starting point is 01:53:47 It's infectious. You don't need the camera on them to see it. Every time you hear him react, it's a visceral, laughter, smile. You can hear it audibly, and it makes me smile. The Bevel Conway for me was the surprise appearance of Jason Garrett in the booth last night and the reaction on socials.
Starting point is 01:54:05 Everybody loves this guy for different reasons. They love to either make fun of him, as we do, or they love him because he's a coach, he's been there, he's done this thing, which we do. He's a smart guy. I love his 6 feet 4, Kyle Hamilton breakdown. That was great. I kept saying 6 feet 4.
Starting point is 01:54:24 It's 6 foot 4, right? It's not 6 feet 4. I don't know if I would enjoy playing for him because I enjoy him in this role. You know what I'm saying? He seems like a real nice guy, smart guy, but there's got to be a catch there. If you play for him, there's got to be something. You know all those drug medication commercials, Lady Gaga's in one? I have no idea. I think it's migraines, and she's kind of freaking me out.
Starting point is 01:54:46 They're playing a bunch of those this weekend. How about a Jason Garrett commercial for like... See Alice. Instead of Paxil, it's like Jason Garrett. First thing in the morning. He's just in the kitchen. He gives you that smile. Hey, Chris. How could your day not go good?
Starting point is 01:55:00 That's true. You know, like put in your prescription drugs and get you Jason Garris. So that's my Bebble Conway. That's it. Chance of heart attack, stroke, sudden death, and... Smiles. Underwhelming records. The team is really challenged.
Starting point is 01:55:20 All right, so... I mean to say that. Bebble Conway for me, this is easy, man. This is just a scene. It is the Eagles. I did not. know they were wearing Kelly Green at all. I don't know how that slipped past my defense
Starting point is 01:55:34 system, but going out there in that game, Kelly Green, in the rain. I mean, like, the tush push was gorgeous at the goal line. You could not find Jalen Hertz. Like, where is he? It's just so hard for... He entered a wormhole. Devante Smith says that
Starting point is 01:55:50 when he's under there, sometimes he was on Kevin Clark's show, who's the man, but DeVante Smith says he can't breathe in there sometimes. Like, it's real life. It's real deal. Holyfield under there. It's in the rain. They come out of commercial one time they're playing CCR. You know, have you ever seen the rain? Have you ever seen the rain?
Starting point is 01:56:08 And they're cutting to Bradley Cooper. I can't even see Bradley Cooper in the box. It's that rainy. And people are sick. They're in the fucking stands. They love it. And I just thought the whole scene with the Kelly Green. They're wacko. The puddles, the wet people. The Bradley Cooper. You couldn't even see him. I love him. He should have wore a trash. That was the beautiful. That was the most beautiful
Starting point is 01:56:28 scene. Opportunity missed. probably. Yeah, he did. Well, he's in the suite. Regardless. It would have been cool. Yeah. Yeah. Call back. So now I'm going to go, anti-beville Conway, Panthers versus Titans. Number one, I hate the Titans uniforms in general. They should just rebrand. Number two, double blue, no good.
Starting point is 01:56:44 Who'd you say? Titans, Panthers. Yeah, that was ugly. But it was ugly in a good way. I had the under, and boy, did Bryce almost fuck that up. You know, like, it's just sketchy. Okay, I'll go, I'll go, Hollow Man, the Mississippi State interim coach. I think they lost the Egg Bowl, yeah?
Starting point is 01:57:02 And it was like a super low-scoring game. Egg Bowl was like, hey, look at us. There's like three NFL game, the Egg Bowl. So this guy's an interim coach. Kyle, have you seen this video? The motherfucker rides a four-wheeler on the to lead his game. And they asked him, what is this symbolic of? Unity.
Starting point is 01:57:23 And he said, this is about handling adversity. This is a life lesson. I'm still waiting for the life lesson. Like, that you handle adversity, you just hop on a four-wheeler. You know, like, he's the interim coach? He lost fantasy football last year. Yeah. And someone was like, yeah, you have to ride out on a four-wheel.
Starting point is 01:57:41 Probably. Bro, if you get this job. You have a horse. Or a horse. A horse would have been better. A mini-horse. But, I mean, to talk about, like, when it comes to adversity, you just got to get on a Yamaha. Sometimes you just got to.
Starting point is 01:57:56 ride out. Are you experiencing some... Or he has an NIL deal. Someone was like, ride this hour. Are you bankrupt? You're struggling with your mental health? Try a Polaris Ranger. You know, like, what the fuck does that mean, dude? Inversity, hop on a
Starting point is 01:58:12 four-wheeler. Come on. Hollow Man. I'm going to go Hollow Man, Dan Campbell's brain during the game. He regained consciousness at the podium. All right. Here's what I've said. One more thing about this Mississippi State guy. Where do you put him on the pantheon of like interim head coaches that did something funny?
Starting point is 01:58:34 Because I remember Jim Tom Sula's press conference. He farted. Was one of the funniest fucking things in the world. Not just the fart. Just the whole transcript. You got to go back and watch it. Jim Tom Sula, I want to shout him out. And then one more hollow man.
Starting point is 01:58:49 My college roommate in the middle of the Jim Ursa rant last week about how, you know, his mom's black. It was his nanny, the whole thing. And it was just a really bad look. He's just going off on this tangent. Jim put the phone down, like bad time to do this. It was my buddy Tom Sannie's birthday the other day. And Tom Sanny played for the Indianapolis Colts. I retweeted that.
Starting point is 01:59:12 And Tom Sanny was my college roommate and played under Jim Mersey's organization. And out of left field, Jim decides. And I think it's a diversion tactic. Like when you do a bad tweet, you got to throw something else out. And he's like, what could I put up more random than happy birthday to do? Tom Sandy. And he listed Tom's stats. He was like, he was like, he only caught seven balls for 85 yards.
Starting point is 01:59:36 But he is a cold. But he also had some really key plays and the whole thing. And I was like, damn, Tom, you're just sitting on your fucking couch, minding your own business. And Jim Ursay's tweet about you. Jim Ursay. I had to look at that again. I was like, wait. Like, he's going from, like, wigging out. And then to a birthday shout out.
Starting point is 01:59:56 And then I was like, it's. Classic diversion. Is this our Tom Santee from Virginia that I quickly looked it up? And I was like, it is his birthday. It was Tom's birthday. He shouted out Tom. I did, like, Jim, somebody, imagine how this goes. Jim, like, does he have a guy who texts him?
Starting point is 02:00:10 He's like, hey, put the phone down. Like now. Is it a code word or something? Because he took that code word to mean I can make this right. I'm going to wish one of my players a happy birthday. And it happened to be my buddy, Tom Sannie. I just cannot believe we were in the middle of that thing for a second. Okay, best and worst seat.
Starting point is 02:00:28 best and worst seat. I've just been doing a worse seat, so I'm going to give you something. Oh, I was going to do best seat, but I got an STL Memorial, right? That's cool, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so I'll go first with the STL Memorial. I have been doing the old school route of media journalism. I take a lot of notes, and it takes a while, and sometimes when I have a thought, I can't write it down fast enough
Starting point is 02:00:49 to make it sound like it's my voice, you know what I'm saying? So what I did is I went online, and I got the best laptop I could get. I went and got a gaming laptop as an alienware laptop. And this isn't a sponsored read. It can be. My show this Sunday, my show this Sunday was better as a result of the work I did throughout the week on this. On your alien laptop. My alien wear.
Starting point is 02:01:11 And then when I got to the hotel Saturday night in New York, I didn't have anything to do because I got all my prep done ahead of time. I played CounterStrike with my buddies in the hotel around them. And then I was able to go do my show Sunday. So I got to give. And you know what? The thing about this alienware laptop, it's a Dell. So I'm going to name it tank. That's cool.
Starting point is 02:01:33 Because it does everything. It's brand new with my offense. That's pretty awesome. It's a fucking weapon. CJ Stroud. I will. Tank Dell cut out. No, just a tank, a tank.
Starting point is 02:01:43 Okay. Candy tank. They need to get C.J. Stroud to do a marketing campaign and do the whole bring back dude you're getting a Dell. Yeah. Have Tank Dell come and bring the laptop. That's pretty good. They save that for Adnet.
Starting point is 02:01:55 That's good stuff right there. Okay, STL Moore, I'll give it to Kyron Williams. Nobody watched that game unless you're an idiot like me and put a little down on the Cardinals to win. I don't know what the fuck I was thinking. They are on my do not bet list the rest of the year. It was fun for like two weeks. But Kyron Williams going off, coming back.
Starting point is 02:02:13 Nobody's paying attention to this team. I don't think we should be, but they're playing hard. And I want to tip my cap to Sean McVeigh for continuing to make them competitive. He's damn good, bro. And listen, at the end of the day, If Stafford's healthy, if Cups healthy, if Pooka's healthy, they're not bad offensively. If Kairn's in the lineup, they just have a lot of guys on defense.
Starting point is 02:02:35 By that, I mean lowercase G. So I don't see them making a lot of noise deep in the playoffs or getting in, but good for them. I'm going to do Best seat. Cool with that? Yeah. Best seat, me on Sunday, because I got to do my show at CBS Sports, that other pregame show, which was fucking awesome. tune in 8 a.m. Eastern every Sunday, 8 to noon. We're live. It's a lot of fun.
Starting point is 02:02:58 But I got to go hang out with Dad and watch him do his thing in New York City. For whatever reason, Fox, they're usually in L.A. at that awesome studio. They were at another awesome studio in New York, right down the road from where I work. So when I got done on my show at noon, I high-tailed it over there in a car. And when I got dropped off, they were out there on the little turf field. It was just cool. He was right there. Being a kid again, because we used to go see.
Starting point is 02:03:24 I could touch him, you know, and he didn't see me. But they brought me back into where they watched the games, Chris. And I'm sitting there with, you know, it's Stray, it's Jimmy Johnson, it's Kurt, it's gronk, all the people. And they were so cool. And like you said, we've been there since we were little kids. But it's been a while, right? So getting to go back there and watch and see all the games and hearing all these bright
Starting point is 02:03:47 dudes, stars of our game. Talk about the Sunday slate was awesome. Best seen me. Yeah, that was. that's a cool trip man it was like we were teammates for the first time ever dad and I we traveled up on Saturday together and flew back on
Starting point is 02:04:01 every time I hugged dad he was like I'm in the car with Kyle like you know you guys spent a lot of time we prepped together we had conversations and then on the way out we were like two pieces together I've never played with Callie Long but I was on his team this week two peas in a pod you guys you know what I mean
Starting point is 02:04:15 all right so I want to give best seat and house to Ed Oliver So you guys might not remember this, but I do. Like it was just five minutes ago. It was Jordan Davis play like 91, or one of those plays, running 17 miles an hour per next-gen stats to chase Josh Allen out of bound. And he hit the ground and just like the force of it, everything he'd been through that day.
Starting point is 02:04:44 Like I think just like that he just stayed down for a while. And I mean like this dude was a wrecking ball on a few plays. So was our guy, defensive rookie of the year, Jalen Carter. But just watching these guys on the sideline, Ed Oliver in that D-line, watch him hit the ground, go through the two minutes on the ground, get up. When he got up, you should see the guy's faces, at Oliver, namely on the sideline.
Starting point is 02:05:12 It was like, who the fuck is that? Like, what are you? Like, those guys were laughing on the sideline when he got up. And I think it was just the sheer force that he was running over there with. And then they huddled up. They got closer to get a closer look. And then he got up. It's like a grizzly bear got hit in Yellowstone.
Starting point is 02:05:34 And it's like a big 700-pound grizzly bear. And all the tourists crowded around to see if he would live. And then the bear got up and walked back into the forest. And they were all like, holy shit. There's a video of a moose in Canada. The guy just lays down. The truck drives down the road. The moose crosses.
Starting point is 02:05:51 the road at like 20 miles an hour gets hit in the hip, flies, skids on the road, lays there for a second, pops up and the guys of the video are like, jeez. Holy fuck, Ed Oliver was like, dude. I go back and look at that thing. It was crazy. Those guys were appreciators of the moment. And then
Starting point is 02:06:09 we're sitting the house and probably the funniest thing I saw all weekend and had it not been for Virginia Tech doing what they do to us every damn year, I would have laughed so hard at it, but here's Oklahoma running out of a smoke tunnel and as the video goes on, it's clear that it's like Black Friday. Just people getting trampled.
Starting point is 02:06:28 Like, it's clear one guy goes down. And then watch the sheer panic. This is like a definitely a dangerous situation. Guys are like falling off to the side. They're climbing out on their hands and knees. I have no idea. They went from IFR to PIA. Whenever at Virginia, we would come out and I would see the Pyrotech guys for the smoke being there,
Starting point is 02:06:49 I would always try to be it. be in the front because, yo, that one second that you can't see. Yeah, it's dangerous. It's so dangerous. This is what happens. It's like when you shut the lights off at night and go to your bed and pitch black and you're, but it's not knowing what's in front of you. Or behind you.
Starting point is 02:07:09 But then the feeling that someone's going to stop because that's what you can't control. If you're not in front and all your homies are behind you, they get nervous and they slow up a little bit, then you might be the cause of the dominole. Can you imagine they went smoke down in Starkville? And the guy's just running over his players and that four-wheeler? This is like a quintuple homicide by vehicle? Quintuple homo. Vehicular homicide.
Starting point is 02:07:34 Oh, my God. M-B-Li-Li. Ambuli. I got flying on the wall now, right? Okay, fly on the wall. I want to know who Frank Reich's first phone call was after he got fired. He's a well-respected dude. He's been in this league for a while.
Starting point is 02:07:50 and he's on the ass end of a human centipede in Carolina with the coaching carers. That's what it is. It's the next guy eating the last guy's shit. That he didn't get to fully digest. I've only been here six weeks. It's the human centipede. It's four coaches fired since 2018. And PFT already made the third job, the third rank joke about his third job.
Starting point is 02:08:11 Who's Matt Rule? Is Matt Rule and Ron Rivera's ass? It's somebody else's stuff at all times in Carolina. and I work with Boom, and Boomer knows Frank Reich well. He loves the guy. So, like, by nature of the transit of property, I also love Frank Wright. Who are some guys that you think Carolina should or would hire because of the situation? Top of my mind, Greg Shiano.
Starting point is 02:08:34 Like, that would be the perfect Carolina hire next year. You know, Greg Shiano. Let's go right back to the Matt Rule thing. We're going to fix it with, yeah, we're going to fix it. I'm not going to do the Melthaggart. Yeah, but who does Frank Wright call? to spill all the beans to be like maybe Doug, maybe Doug
Starting point is 02:08:51 like maybe Doug but just such a fucked up situation man, yeah fly on the wall, I don't really have one but I guess I'll just go back to the Chargers like what's going on after the game? Are we talking about this thing yet? Because
Starting point is 02:09:07 they just asked Frank Wright and that guy's like horny to fire people but then on the other end of things you've got Spanos who's like I'll just I'm going to stamp Pat and I'm just wondering how many of these games we're going to go through, are we going to give them the off season? Because I think you've missed the bus for the playoffs. I think you missed the bus. I think you had multiple opportunities to get a bus pass. And now that thing's just screaming down the street,
Starting point is 02:09:32 and you're standing there with your fucking, with BJ Armstrong and Scotty Burrell. And there they go. Excuse me, I'm extending my parking time. How about game? We're about done here. Game ball. Game ball. Game ball. This one's easy. I'm going to name it and then you take it away. Jalen Hertz. The Jalen Hertz game ball.
Starting point is 02:09:55 It's the biggest win by a good team yesterday. Biggest win by a good team all week. And the guy that is the common denominator between all these great moments that they've had against good football teams, down, whatever it is. Jalen Hertz has got something between his ears that's different. And so he gets to game ball. Jalen hurts when trailing in the second half,
Starting point is 02:10:17 have has 140 passor raiders, seven passing touchdowns, and three russing touchdowns with no picks this year. They, unreal. And he's the team chaplain. Is he? I don't mean, he fucking carries himself as such. He does carry himself like team chaplain. What a crazy thing just to throw out.
Starting point is 02:10:33 Yeah. He quotes the Bible a lot. Yeah. What's your viral moment of the week? So this week I have a two for, a two for two four. A two four one. A two four one. My viral moment of the week was originally just ludicrous, propelling.
Starting point is 02:10:47 From the Atlanta's Dome Stadium rapping, move bitch. Oh, that's him? That's ludicrous. He looks like he's 25. But here's the best thing about it. Then you see a clip going viral of while this is going on, James Winston is rapping it in front of the car's face. That's so good.
Starting point is 02:11:08 That's so good. And Derek's nodding his head. Yeah, it's just so James. Another James moment. If you listen to the lyrics, it's just, funny the part of the song that he's singing and they have this video it's just funny that he's like rapping that
Starting point is 02:11:23 so what part is the song? It's move bitch right? I mean back up quarterback saying that as a starter I'd be pretty I'd be pretty impressive Drew Locke could wrap along with mystical you know like then I'm like all right I did see Twista make a video of
Starting point is 02:11:39 a guy shooting two guns while he was rapping a midnight celebrity I said this is a juxtaposition this is interesting This is interesting. Well, this has been fun. This has been fun, and I want to help you with a Little Caesar's ad
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Starting point is 02:12:41 seventh leg of a parlay is Vikings money line for a big. amount should I hedge by betting bears plus three and maybe win both? Yeah, dude, I would go bears plus three or I might tease, bear with me here, the under 44 with the bears. I don't think the under hits. You don't think so? No. What do you think to the total points?
Starting point is 02:13:05 Whatever it is, I think Justin Fields goes over it. I've got... He's going to make flow pay for some of the blitzers there to come at him, and I think they're going to think they have them trapped, and next thing you know, you're down a man. I've got 24. I've got 23, 20 for the sake of the under bears. 27 to
Starting point is 02:13:24 24. Okay, okay. It's still hit on a teaser now. Well, if you buy the extra point. I don't know what that means. You have to 5.1. I'm going with the Vikings. 2117. There you got the vibe. I told you the score.
Starting point is 02:13:37 I told you the score. All right, guys, please come back. Thank you for everybody showing up today. Please, please, please. See you next Monday. We want to be rich. Really rich. We want to be Pat McAfee rich. Help us get Pat Mackey rich. I'll take my shirt off. I'm life rich, hanging out with you. I'll wear an A shirt. Every Monday in the chat.
Starting point is 02:13:55 We are life rich. Thanks. Bro. You too, Nate. We're all life rich. But I'm down to get rich rich rich, too. Rich rich would be great. Let's do it. I'll be on CBS HQ in about 30 minutes. So you want to see that. CBS HQ, competitors of ours. So take care.

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