Green Light with Chris Long - NFL Season Awards! Best Offense, Favorite Announcers, Top Moments & NFL News!

Starting point is 00:00:00 The Belichick Award, yeah, let me see. Vic Fangio. Look at the way they improve from, you know, we say it all the time, but like I just have this image burn in my head of the Atlanta game. People were questioning the whole thing. By the end of the season, Nolan Smith was like a big play machine. Jalen Carter, finally people coming around to him being one of the best in the league. Aaron Donald passed him torch.

Starting point is 00:00:24 Milton Williams is going to make tens of millions of dollars here soon. Josh Sweat has been really solid for them and you turned Nkobi Dean into a damn good player lost him but Zach Bond who's the headliner of the whole thing is up for all these awards and a year ago most people did not know who he was It's time for a message from BetMGM The sports book Born in Vegas

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Starting point is 00:01:31 Have a blast with it. give out our season long moment awards. We talk NFL news. We obviously hit the Luca Donchich and the Anthony Davis trade. And Chris also gives you a quick review of Dogman. He went and saw it the other day. But a great episode for you all. Enjoy it.

Starting point is 00:01:45 And we'll see you from the Super Bowl in New Orleans. Welcome to show. It's time to wrap up the 2004, 2025 season. We've reached the end. So we're having the, what do we call this? Like a banquet night or something? Yeah. award show yeah falcon club that's what i was about to say a little inside baseball yeah they

Starting point is 00:02:36 were like inside baseball inside baseball being it's like a little bit of an inside reference okay not everybody's going to remember the falcon club that was a local award show oh i got you where uh i watch brian lesconneck and uh and joe sanford uh win co falcon club player of the year my senior that was I don't even care, but everybody was like, who? Those guys are awesome. I ruined with Brian Lesconac in Virginia. And he ran for like 6,000 yards. He was fucking incredible.

Starting point is 00:03:10 It wasn't best potential player. Yeah. It was, I mean, they were, it was like, what did they run the option over there? Wing T. Maybe a wing Tee, yeah. Shout out to my dog, Lesconac. Be Lesk got in against Temple. Y'all remember 51 to 3 against Temple?

Starting point is 00:03:27 yeah i do is uh first first uh game of our college career that class oh that was the opener yeah opener nice and and then the first game of my pro career same building so getting her ass kicked by the eagles yeah seriously wow out there fucking oh my god it's tray thomas and john runyon oh my god it's brian westbrook on a wheel uh stephen jackson just got decapitated the nflbals really hard. This game hasn't slowed down for me yet. No, it has not slowed down. I can imagine the guys now without a preseason

Starting point is 00:04:06 it just being the craziest thing in the world. Anyways, it's a banquet night. So we've got about 34 awards to give out. And Cowboy Reed has compiled a list of them. And he will be running the award section of this show. We'll be rocked in a little bit. We'll be rocking. First thing I want to say,

Starting point is 00:04:25 non-sports severance okay we're on season two no spoilers but I think it's genius what they're doing not just the plot but the fact the plot's so fucking complicated

Starting point is 00:04:39 they're probably getting people that are restreaming season one just off rip and it's the most complicated show ever what's severance about it's wonderful it's hard to describe not really people go to work

Starting point is 00:04:51 they get zapped and they're like a different person okay so a lot of them or like distressed at home and they want to check out for a while. Okay. Your home life and your work life are completely separate.

Starting point is 00:05:02 Severed. They're severed. You might say. Ah, nice. But it's a complicated fucking show. Would you not agree? I gotta check it out. Yeah, for sure.

Starting point is 00:05:11 Like if you just go in cold, they also delayed the season. A couple years. You know, so it's like who remembers. Yeah. I have a movie you guys should check out that's on right now. What is it?

Starting point is 00:05:26 If you're a Channing Tatum fan. Who among us would not be a Channing Tatum fan? He's never done anything wrong to me. If you watch this movie, he's so good in it that after you're like, why would you pick this part to play? Blink twice? Yes. Did you watch it? No, but Kingsman put it on above you.

Starting point is 00:05:46 Oh, man. You got to see. Quick draw McGraw. It's a good, it's a good, it's a good, good. He's really good in some movies. Bro, it's a suspense movie. and it's like the whole time like you're literally sitting there like you're kind of like on your toes your heart's kind of beating like what's about to happen and just a bunch of little plot twist i got one for you saw it yesterday dog man dog man pretty good if you got kids go see dog man it's awesome part dog part man all hero so the plot's amazing okay all right hold on let me let me tell you about the plot don't look i'll tell you dog and cop like it's like a buddy cop thing they just ride around solving mysteries and shit okay the cops

Starting point is 00:06:33 really dumb and uh the dog's also dumb kind of because he's a dog but they're getting this terrible accident and they take them to the hospital and they're like man the dog's body's not going to make it it's all wrapped in gauze like a mummy oh it's like a centaur you hold on and then they get to the don't jump to conclusions. And they get to the cop and they're like, oh my God, your face is ruined. We've got to find you a new face. Light bulb. They just combine the two.

Starting point is 00:07:08 But he doesn't come out speaking like a human or anything. He's just got arms and legs. And he's got this fucking tennis ball. Can I pause this for a second? Yeah, sure. Is this like a cartoon movie or is this like? No, it's based on a true story. and and are you sitting down the doctor is the kid's mother

Starting point is 00:07:35 hey hey hey hey hey that's a motherfucker right there dude wait what wait wait no go ahead yeah all right so uh this uh the parent and the kid getting this terrible accident so the parent dies in the accident all right And they rush the kid to the ER. Yeah. They're in the operating room and pretend for a second you can't operate on your own child.

Starting point is 00:08:05 And the doctor says, I can't operate on this child. Okay. That's my kid. That's my son. How is that possible? Guys, what are we doing? I'm sorry. It's a riddle.

Starting point is 00:08:21 No, it's a tough one. The doc? I didn't get it the first time. The doc and the OR? I felt just like this. This is the kid's mom. It's a woman. So it's a woman doctor.

Starting point is 00:08:30 There are women doctors. clearly guys same thing happened to make me guys like time out time out

Starting point is 00:08:40 yeah I'm 20 second TO I'm severely confused yeah yeah we didn't make it easy first off

Starting point is 00:08:48 yeah was this just this whole thing a bit in a joke or no no no dog man is real dog man's real dude okay

Starting point is 00:08:56 so did you was my question answered or was that a joke when I asked Is this like a, like a cartoon movie or like, is this like a movie with real people? Let's play that out for a second. No, not play it out. No, no, no, no.

Starting point is 00:09:14 Just the answer. No, yes or no. It's a cartoon. Okay. That's all I want. No, I guess how would it work if it were real people? No. That would be a hell of, no, costume design would be crazy.

Starting point is 00:09:25 Even you guys explaining it right now to me. Yeah. I don't see even how it works as a cartoon. No, I'm, no, that's, I mean, kind of that's the way I felt sitting in the theater, but you know what? Oh, this was also in the theater. I saw yesterday. You paid to see this. Bro, it fucking worked.

Starting point is 00:09:40 It was really good. It was really good. Go see Dog man. Dog man. And tell that riddle to every man in your family at the dinner table tonight. But, but with a preamble about how parents can't operate on their children. Yeah, exactly. Or else read back on how to tell it correctly.

Starting point is 00:10:00 it's a tough riddle man yeah i remember the first time i was like man so you've seen this movie too dog man no he hadn't seen dog man but you should see dog man in my opinion um dog man all right it's like the opposite of severance it's like bind exactly same time yeah combination it could have been called. Combination. When he went back, there was a time in the movie, there was a sad point in the movie, when Dog Man, they put him back together. He was Dog Man.

Starting point is 00:10:37 And he goes back to his house. And he's having these flashbacks of him and him sitting on the couch. That's sad, man. Yeah. Anyways. All right. Talking football, talking basketball. Start with the basketball.

Starting point is 00:10:56 We don't talk a lot of basketball. But I woke up this morning. I've been doing this thing where I put my phone. I have like an outbuilding where I do my work. And I put my phone out there. So phone's just out there. Go to sleep, wake up in the morning. Don't look at a phone.

Starting point is 00:11:13 Nothing. It's actually amazing. And I woke up this morning, walked in the kitchen. And my son just, did you hear? Did you hear about the trade? And I'm like, how fucking big a deal could it be? It's going to be like Rudy Gobert. You know what I mean?

Starting point is 00:11:29 Because I just had Rosillo on, and he was talking about how Super Bowl Week sucks because it ruins the NBA trade deadline or vice versa. And he was joking about, you know, what am I going to miss a trade for like, who did he? Deer and Fox, maybe. It was the guy who went to the Knicks last year, the European guy, Bogdanovich. Yeah. And I was like, yeah, you're right. Trade deadline sucks. Who cares?

Starting point is 00:11:55 And then Luca and seven other players, including Anthony Davis in a three-way trade. Yeah. What's your theory on this? The Mavericks must have thought that Luca wasn't going to sign an extension and was going to ask for a trade. So they figured pull the rug before people realize that he wants out. But that being said, you got to think they could get more for him. It's like one of the most shocking trades I've ever seen. I didn't believe it.

Starting point is 00:12:23 I did the same thing. I thought it was fake. I was like, shut up. Come on, that's not real. I thought it was fake. No what it is? I don't even watch, but I was like, you don't do that. What is it?

Starting point is 00:12:32 Fat shaming is up in the NBA, man. That's all it is. Guys gain a little weight and people freak out. You see what they did, the Zion? Yeah. You see what they did the Zion. And if someone put a trade on the table for Zion like this, they probably would have did it.

Starting point is 00:12:46 All the stuff they went through with them. And they're saying that, Luca maybe is getting too big. They have the video of, of Michael Finley taking the beer out of his hand after they did. I know that video looks bad now. I mean, it does. I mean, it looks bad when it happened.

Starting point is 00:13:02 You don't take a beer from like another grown man. You do. Especially when he just did what he did. But you do. In a basketball game. You do if maybe you're your nutritionists and the guys behind the scenes are saying, hey, we know he's great, but his vitals and the way he's going and how young he is, he's not going to be able to last that long.

Starting point is 00:13:25 And if they haven't seen anything changed, that might scare you as a front office. I just wouldn't have made the trade. And you're trading for Anthony Davis, who, six years older, that's hate, injury history. Is it? Bro.

Starting point is 00:13:39 Anthony, Anthony Davis, like, look, granted, if he stays healthy, he's still a dog. He's still a player. And you're putting him with... He didn't start in crunch time for the U.S. during the Olympics. But look, you're putting him,

Starting point is 00:13:50 You're putting him with one of the best ball handlers ever to be on the NBA floor with Kyrie. And I just feel like- Watch this work out and you'll look like a genius. No, I just feel like with Kyrie, it just has a chance as long as he stays healthy. The only way this works out is if- Anthony Davis stays healthy. Is if Luca looks like Brennan Frazier and Whale at some point. Oh, no, no.

Starting point is 00:14:10 That's the only way this works out. Oh, this is great for the Lakers. I think J.J. Reddick, oh, through the roof with the way he wants to play with the Lakers, he wants them to shoot threes all day. Yeah, but are the doors big enough to fit his fat ass through to get him into the staple center? Is that where they play? I think so.

Starting point is 00:14:28 As long as he, as long as his fat ass can make three. I have to staple his stomach shut. And look, and look. I know, how's it going to, this guy's like morbidly obese in your mind. But look, L.A. food is not better than Dallas food. You know, that's interesting.

Starting point is 00:14:46 You know what I'm saying? Everyone goes to L.A. to be models and shit, and they lose weight. So that's interesting. So he's on his way to the perfect spot. Look. I'll tell you what. Movie star Luca coming soon. You can show your math.

Starting point is 00:14:59 I mean, that's pretty impressive there. The theory that in L.A., the food sucks. Which I don't think the food sucks. I don't think it sucks either. But. Yeah. It should have sent him to Portland. Nobody talks about the Portland cuisine.

Starting point is 00:15:16 You know anything about Portland restaurants? Actually, that's where Nicholas Cage in the pig was a truffle hunter. Right. So never mind. Never mind. Portland's divided into four quadrants, northwest, northeast, southeast, and southwest. Right. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:15:34 What's Miami divided into? Oh, my gosh. 47 quadrants. Isn't Portland where they... Wouldn't be quadrants anymore, would they? Isn't Portland where they, like, legalized all the drugs? It legalized everything there. Like, I think so.

Starting point is 00:15:47 like there's like a place there that you can just do anything. Sodom and Gamora. It's fucking crazy. Yeah, it's crazy. It's the worst trade in the history of sports. It's awful. It's what it is. It's awful.

Starting point is 00:15:59 Look, my thing is, they should out no bad trades in the, how, Mark Cuban said he'd leave his wife before he let Luke go. And then he's not like he was a minority owner now. Right. So he can't veto that trade. But,

Starting point is 00:16:14 hey, worst seat, his wife. Yeah. who's reminded of that quote. Like she was like, God, I hope they'd ever trade Luca because I never want to see this fucking stupid quote again.

Starting point is 00:16:25 Here's, he woke up this morning and threw a vase and screamed. How are we already calling it the worst trade without even seeing because he's one of the greatest

Starting point is 00:16:36 players to play basketball? It's one of the worst because of the return you could have gotten. But what if it works for both teams? Hands up. I don't watch the NBA. What if both teams make like make it far like make it far this year they might like say the NBA final but then check back

Starting point is 00:16:50 in six years with Luca donchich and the Dallas Mavericks I mean but check back in six years too you know what I'm saying when Anthony Davis is 37 and you know uh Luca's fucking anorexic because he's a he lives in L.A. All the championship rings are weighing his ass down he's skinny as fuck he's like he's just going for 40 and 20 a night. I love this skinny. I love this for JJ. Yeah, I do too.

Starting point is 00:17:19 What a first year. Love JJ. First year. Yeah, anyways, that's enough basketball. There's your conspiracy theory. In bigger news, Chip Kelly was hired as the offensive coordinator in Vegas. Seriously. Huh.

Starting point is 00:17:33 That's also not an onion article. And it makes a lot of sense. Yeah, it was excellent this year. He's been a good coordinator. He's been a good coordinator. The thing that sucks for him is it's all that, you know, And this is the chance you take when you become a head coach. You know, you talk about a jump from being a college football player to an NFL player,

Starting point is 00:17:54 like the jump at exposure, the whole thing. Going from being a coordinator and a damn good coordinator, you can ruin your life being a head coach. I mean, they're still talking about it on one podcast. Not that that's, I mean, fuck. Look at this one. But I'm just saying like, you know, it sucks, man. he probably didn't do a great job, but that doesn't mean he can't coach his ass off.

Starting point is 00:18:19 Ohio State was, I mean, they were unbelievable. It is college football, but he had that stretch in Philly, too. Just not a head coach. I looked at a graphic today with Pete, Patrick Graham, who's really respected, you know, like really, really well respected in the league. And then Chip, and I'm like, all right,

Starting point is 00:18:40 that looks pretty this is probably you're going to get clipped in in two and a half years when peak attacks or something but I'll blame it on Tom Brady seriously

Starting point is 00:18:53 I trust Tom whatever they're doing it's going through Tom and I'm sure they have a plan so I don't know the other hire that that perked my ears today uh

Starting point is 00:19:05 piqued my interest rather I liked what you were doing perk my ears yeah my ears were like whoa even though i read it who reddit um was uh be enemy to chicago running back's coach now listen i know the head coach thing was kind of like

Starting point is 00:19:25 that didn't work out right but uh that guy's reputation is the is supposedly a real motherfucker yeah like he he's on the details and he's he's the guy that that in every NFL building Tough cookie. He's a tough cookie, read. Tough cookie of the Chicago Bears.

Starting point is 00:19:45 No, but like, I've been in a lot of locker rooms, a lot of coaching staffs. Oh, good cookie. And sometimes you'll see something happening and you'll be like, how the fuck is that happening? You know what I mean? Like any NFL player listening or, you know, would probably agree. Nate, you've been in some locker rooms where you're like, how is this incompetent thing happening? How is this guy who's supposed to be the best player getting away with XYZ? How is this young draft pick not being held to a high standard?

Starting point is 00:20:18 How is the Ritchie Incognito and the other guy's situation going on? Sure. I just mean, like, he's not going to let any of that shit happen. Like, that was his rap in Kansas City. Like, he's tough on guys. Like, and they're going to need that. I mean, you saw some shit this year where guys were kind of not bought in. I know that, you know, Iber Fluse had the vibes bad and they weren't playing well, but like,

Starting point is 00:20:42 you got to, you got to be on the details and they weren't a detail-oriented team. They got a lot of problems up front, you know, game management. Ben's going to solve a lot of that stuff, but you need a bad guy. You know what I mean? If Ben's going to be kind of cool, and I don't know what he's going to be like. I'm sure he holds people to a high standard, but it's nice to have somebody in the building that you can kind of lean on to be like, hey, nothing's going to be left unsaid.

Starting point is 00:21:08 And that's what I mean. You sit in a meeting and be like, you're not going to say anything about that, that detail that's not getting done. So I'm excited for Caleb having him in the building because he's going to push Caleb too. Yeah. Like you could probably ask Patrick Mahomes.

Starting point is 00:21:19 I don't know what he would say, but I would guess Patrick Mahomes would say you've got to be mentally tough to work with Eric. And that's what Caleb needs right now. He needs to grow up. Like that's one of the things for him just outside looking in. Like, he just has to mature, like, as like. As does any rookie.

Starting point is 00:21:35 Yeah, for sure. But like also as the quarterback and someone that they're going to need to be a leader of that offense, you're going to need people to hold you accountable early in your career. So it sets a tone and a foundation for you. And you know what else? It allows, you know, the quarterback still got to get on everybody's ass. Like, hey, I need that route broke off where I need it broke off or, hey, get your split right or whatever. And like you're saying, if there's a coach that maybe is doing that, saying that more and more for you, it might give you the confidence to be like. And some hard conversations. You know, quarterback doesn't need to have every conversation. Because then you start looking, especially like a young guy, like, come on, bro, we get it. Like, you're trying to, you're growing too. And you're supposed to reach all other 10 guys on the offense and, like, get after all of them. Like, you can, but it helps to have some tough ass coaches in the building. So what else is going on in the football world, guys?

Starting point is 00:22:28 Well, the NFL announced that they're going to explore putting, measuring first downs, electronically next season. So this will be like the second rule that's been changed because of Josh Allen and the bill is getting screwed in the playoffs. I know. I know. It's, well, I don't want to say, hey, listen, I've, I've grown up a lot since I said what I said the other day.

Starting point is 00:22:49 I need to be clear with people. I don't think, I hope you listening would not think I think the NFL is rigged. Like that. And nobody called me nothing. I just laid the sarcasm on a little thick at that point. if you remember i was like hey the moon we didn't land on the moon you know that's kind of what but maybe i could lay it on thicker i still don't like the call that's not i also think we gave kens city a lot of credit you know in that breakdown they won the game and you know we're

Starting point is 00:23:19 going to talk about the year in review um somebody in the senator of mailbag was like hey what do you think the defining moment for 2024 was and honestly like for me without trying to pinpoint one specific moment. I think like Kansas City's opening game against the Ravens, you know, like they won it by, there was a controversial call, right? Which I thought they got right. Wasn't it likely back in the end zone?

Starting point is 00:23:53 The toe. We're arguing over a toe. We start the year arguing over a toe, right? Chiefs winning a close game, the other team making mistakes, you know, the other team being close but maybe it's a call but maybe it's just the chiefs being better and uh i think as we get ready to talk about this game this week that's the scariest thing as as somebody who's like pulling for the eagles um it's a one and a half point line they win every

Starting point is 00:24:22 one score game you know and to circle back to last week like we said and again i should have been clearer they won that game fair and square doing the little things right where the bills didn't do every little thing right including the two point conversions and all that shit so um i think the chip in the ball is a good idea but the reason we're talking about this to me it wasn't just another spot i think the nfl talking about this is a concession or people talking about it rather in general is like an admission as sports fans that like, hey, this was close. You know, it could have been really big. I think, I still think he got it.

Starting point is 00:25:08 But again, it didn't lose in the game. Trey Aitman said the quiet part out loud, which is gambling has become a really big deal. There are people, and listen, I didn't lose that much money. I'll tell you how much money I lost in the game was like, I think it was like, I don't want to say it. well because that's a loaded thing you say how much money you lost you say it's not that much like you asshole you know it was i've had 15 worst losses this year put it in in perspective um but i can imagine some people losing money and being like holy shit like i lost my mortgage but but here's and i swear i know you can't see the ball but i know where the ball is so i get why we're

Starting point is 00:25:52 talking about it and I think it it's probably inevitable but even with even with the chip in the digital it's not going to change you as the fan and you as someone who is betting to feel like if it's right or wrong well no it's not going to change it's not going to change the conspiracy theorist the conspiracy theorist is going to say hey the NFL has rigged the spot no yeah the NFL has rigged the chips to somebody who really thinks there's a script you will never be happy. No, yeah. But somebody like me who's like,

Starting point is 00:26:25 hey, I got a couple bucks on the game. And just being objective, I did think he had that spot. Don't think it lost in the game. Do I think it, you know, woulda, coulda, shoulda? Sure. But that's a big spot.

Starting point is 00:26:40 And we come out of the game. And I think part of my frustration leaving that game was like, my job is to talk about football. And if this is how it's going to be every fucking Monday, the rest of my career, I don't want to do it. You know what I mean?

Starting point is 00:26:54 Like, we come into the game talking about the officiating. I've been defending the chiefs. And I feel like I'm right. Chief defender. I'm Chief defender. Defender and chief. And so we get to the game and it's like fucking, it's Manning and Brady.

Starting point is 00:27:14 And instead of like coming out, talking about Manning and Brady, and like, there was a lot of Manning and Brady stuff going but the fact that we had to even talk about it and talk about it longer than we should because everybody's talking about it that sucks so it would be nice at some point and a judgment call like PI or holding is going to be hard to litigate with a fucking chip you're never going to be able to which is good I think that's what we love about the game we in the tennis community right there was a same sort of talk like oh we don't want to take human error out of the game we need

Starting point is 00:27:50 line judges on every line saying in or out. When the Hawkeye technology was implemented, you know if the balls in or out, it was awesome. It was fantastic. And then you can, and then there's a great big buildup to show on the big screen whether the balls landed in or out and you, you don't miss the human error. So I think, and the thing about this is somebody knows, because the chip is in the ball. You heard there. Yeah. Somebody knows. And so if they come out, say if they come out in a month or so and say, hey, actually, we have, we have the data. Like, we just didn't implement it yet. First down. Saying that, like, no, saying that it was the right call. Like, would you change, would you change your stance? Would you still be like, I still think it was the first

Starting point is 00:28:34 out? I think if, if you can do something that's going to exploit the game a little bit, the thing I'll miss, and this is stupid, is a chain gang. I love the chain gang. No. Call me some nostalgic sucker. No. But I love the chain gang, dude. I don't know what kind of obsolete technology somebody who's watching this who's like 60 is like yeah when they got rid of X

Starting point is 00:28:58 when they got rid of a car phone you know I was really into that car phone and it might have felt nostalgic at the time but I don't give a fuck about that car phone anymore maybe that's the way I'll feel in 20 years about the chain gang but right now I don't right now I like seeing everybody crowding around the ball

Starting point is 00:29:15 and doing this and like cuddling and I like everybody at the bar being like stop stop stop like everybody shuts the fuck up for a second it's kind of awesome well they still could have it right they could still could have the chain they just tell them exactly where to go and you can still have like the measuring like if we don't have both the chain gang guys they don't know when they drop the sticks at the right time you see we seen a lot of those guys end up on the stretcher this year that's part of it is seeing them on stretch that's part of it well that's what makes it a badass job yeah that's why we love the gang you're like a fucking traffic director at it

Starting point is 00:29:48 the indie 500. Yeah. Work on your plyometrics. No. No. No, it's not like the Indy 500. None of those guys are getting hit by the cars, bro. Would you get hit by a football player?

Starting point is 00:30:01 But there's no traffic directors of the Indy 500. It'd be a made-up thing. But that's what it would feel like is what I'm saying. So if we can have both great. I mean, like, and no, it wouldn't change my stance. I'd love to know because if somebody could just, I don't argue with things if it's proven to me that one side or the other is like

Starting point is 00:30:21 empirically the winner. I would love to know if he had it or not. Just unless somebody can show me that, I feel like you had it. And what I hate is doing this a week later. So wouldn't it be nice if we had that little chip and it told us? And we called Josh Allen rule.

Starting point is 00:30:41 He's changed two rules now. What's the next rule going to be? Nick Wright's going to say, hey, here's a rule after Josh Allen loses no one can feel sorry for him not even a fucking little bit did you see that rant yeah i love nick right bro but i was like nick you know what i think he got wrong about that rant he was like hey we all grew up and we're like hey we want to be pro athletes but you know there's just nothing bad at all about being a pro athlete at all it's like the best thing in the world the only

Starting point is 00:31:12 bad thing is you can fail in public like cTE bankruptcy family members distancing themselves from you people asking for tickets crippling arthritis isolation addiction fucking meetings oh oh oh uh terrible Nick hey you're wrong anxiety anxiety bro deferred dream of owning a river company Yeah, so Nick, fuck you very much. There's a lot, you know, it's not just that. But I agree with Nick on that thing. It's like this is the, now the thing I don't agree with Nick on is that we can't feel bad for athletes.

Starting point is 00:32:05 And you know, I went back to see if he was consistent with the Lamar thing. And he fucking ripped Lamar last week. So I'll give it to Nick. He's being consistent. But I just feel like especially as athletes. And maybe that's why, because we felt the other side of it. we should be allowed to especially say, hey, I feel bad for that fucking guy.

Starting point is 00:32:25 Because we know how it feels. And also, you're gonna tell me in the 90s, he was acting like, back in the day, we never felt bad for anybody. I'm like, I guarantee you there were a bunch of sad emojis at news desks the next day after the fourth time the bills lost. You know, my family and I, we like to go out west and,

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Starting point is 00:34:10 All right, that's football for you. That's what's news. Any other news guys before we're getting these awards? Deera Fox just got you. traded to play with Wimby. Oh, that's fun. That will be fun. I like it.

Starting point is 00:34:25 Yeah. That's it, Chris. I got nothing on that one. Deer and Fox, though, I mean, he's a quick guy. I saw him. He's quick. Like a fox.

Starting point is 00:34:34 Isn't he quick as shit? Maybe the fastest player in the week. He might be able to play free safety. Perfect last name. Fox? Mm-hmm. Yeah. Dun-da-da-da-da-na.

Starting point is 00:34:48 Fun season awards. That's what we're doing here. Do it, guys. All right. We did these last year. We're throwing in one additional one. The long national nightmare is over. The open is over.

Starting point is 00:35:01 I can get to the awards. Let's get creative. Our fun season awards made up a few of these for our favorite offenses, defenses, coordinators, coaches. And the first one we're kicking off with, the greatest show on turf award. That is the most fun watching. watching off an offense. What is the most fun you had on a Sunday, Monday, Thursday,

Starting point is 00:35:26 Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday since we had games on every day this season. What was the best NFL offense to watch? Greatest show on turf. It had to be the Bills and the Lions game. Like if I'm thinking about one one performance, I just have like that game, there was no margin for error for Detroit and kind of the same thing for the, the, the Bills and Rams game. their defense was so bad Buffalo for a couple weeks this year

Starting point is 00:35:55 that it made for must-cTV. I'll never forget that game. And then the Malik Willis indie game, you know, that was the ground and pound, though. That was like a totally different flavor. That was like, let's see if we can,

Starting point is 00:36:10 like I'm sure leading up to that game, fly on the wall would be sitting in their meeting rooms being like, as the coaches are like knocking on each other's doors, like I think we can I think we can absolutely buff up fuck these people on the ground I think I don't think I don't think we need to throw the ball at all yeah no gaps can run like all day would they run for like 300 yards 350 they ran it 53 times for 261 yards that was that's a salt dude that's the type of thing where it's like and coming in

Starting point is 00:36:48 to it you're like we have to stop the run that's all they're going to do like all they're going to do so yeah those two for me well i had detroit also putting up 50 week 17 drew lock and leaky neighbors putting up 45 points on the indianapolis colts leaky went for 171 two tuds giants fell from the number one overall pick to four at that point back up to three and and may have save themselves from themselves, that story is yet to be written. Well, I just remember thinking like maybe most embarrassing loss of the year.

Starting point is 00:37:30 For the Colts. No offense. No, well, some. I mean, they got Colt. That was after that game, after Pat McAfee was like, I'm good. Yeah, I'm good on the Colts. Yeah, it takes a lot for Pat to do that.

Starting point is 00:37:43 In some dystopian future, am I going to have to do that? with the Eagles what would it take there will be a point when the Eagles aren't one of the best damn teams in league every year for like a two year period maybe

Starting point is 00:37:59 I don't know but like it's going to test me because I'm going to have to be telling the truth up in this motherfucker not while how he's there no it's hard to imagine it's very hard to imagine what were we on greatest show on turf

Starting point is 00:38:15 that was great a show on turf this is age Defy Fyres Award. The greatest defense, most fun you had watching a defense this season. I'll let you guys go because I don't want my list to... Well, I'm going to go with the Texans. And if you watch the Texans, the guys on their defense, they run downhill. They had the, we had the little controversial hit on Trevor Lawrence, but just their

Starting point is 00:38:44 defense as a whole, if you go back and watch them, the way they run to the ball. ball and they what you call run downhill arrows through snow bro it's it's fun to watch them if you like defense and you like big hits and guys playing the right way and still that hit was controversial with al shire yeah but if you watch all his other plays other than that hit you would know that he's a guy that he plays hard every down like that and he tackles and Their defense, again, as a whole, it's fun to watch. No, he's cool with me, man. I mean, he made a mistake.

Starting point is 00:39:24 Yeah. It wasn't one that he was, like, out, I don't think, like, woke up that morning. I'm going to fuck up Trevor Warren. Absolutely. I don't think so either. You know, he might have decided that in, like, in the split second. But it can be hard out there. For sure.

Starting point is 00:39:38 I was stunned once more at the success of the Pittsburgh Steelers. In weeks one through three, they gave up 10 points, six points, and 10 points. getting that rickety-ass offense off to a three-and-o start. And those first three were against two-and-a-half playoff teams and the Broncos Chargers and Falcons being the half team. Just a fun-ass, scary group. You name them. Ogun Joby, Hayward, Highsmith, Patrick Queen.

Starting point is 00:40:12 Mika Fitzpatrick, Joy Porter, Jr. Dini Bishop. An impressive little group. Little group right there. Pittsburgh Steelers. White guy from NC State. Peyton Wilson. Peyton Wilson, whose name I just can never get.

Starting point is 00:40:25 White guy from NC State. I mean, how they got a Landon Roberts. All right, I got a couple games I want to shout out. I loved watching Denver against the Jets. Everybody knows that. That was like one of my favorite games to watch on ends up. Well, any angle was good. It was fun.

Starting point is 00:40:47 P-O-V? Yeah, the P-O-V was, I mean, you fucking gloat you-nolan, what was that, dude? Yeah, Nolan. Freaky white boys. Freaky-ass white boys. Dashler Nolan. No, but, but it was, that was a, Vance was cooking that day, and, uh, I would just shout them out for that game and then. A thrilling 10 to 9, Vickery. It was awesome. It was a proper rock fight in the rain.

Starting point is 00:41:12 Like, it was, it was incredible. And then lions against the Vikings, like, when they were down guys late in the year, the C in two weeks game. You know, it went a long way exposing Minnesota, but just Aaron Glenn burning the ship saying, you know, we don't have a lot of guys out here. We're going to play football in three-second increments. We're not going to play football for six seconds tonight.

Starting point is 00:41:35 We're going to speed these guys up. So that was a lot of fun. And then, you know, I hate to say it because, you know, I joke about the bills game losing like money. I lost a ton more money. and watching this game, but I got hats off to the damn cowboys against the Bucks in a game where the Bucks had to win

Starting point is 00:41:54 while they had more chances down the line. But, man, just, they were playing hero ball out there. Oversown. It was like they were playing for, like, the coach. But they fired him anyways. Yeah. Maybe just let it expire. You're fired.

Starting point is 00:42:13 It's not all smiles and glory holes. so um and then uh and then i'll give the award of the rams d line i kind of went with a unit here i there's a lot of fun to watch shout out to gift miss dline coach uh maybe we'll get him on the show eventually at some point like i said uh he shot me a text late in the in the season and uh i think it was really cool to hear from like the rams d line coach now and you know being a guy that played in the past and watching that group and just really admire in the way they play like when you when you saw them kind of start putting in together the first thing I thought was like who's coaching him so he did a great job and you asked if you could get a rush

Starting point is 00:42:56 no it was more like hey hope to run into you you know that sort of thing because they were coming up to philly I didn't go to that game remember that was a snow game um but at some point love to get out and see those guys play in person because they're a lot of fun to watch so 85 bears award rams d-line and the 85 bears had a great deal line Dirty Dent had like a billion sacks. Bill Walsh Award, offensive coordinator. Yo, it's Cliff for me, man. That was really impressive.

Starting point is 00:43:27 I've never been so scared of a rookie piloted offense. It seemed like he put those guys in the right positions all season long. Brian Robinson and Austin Echler I didn't really have as a dynamic one-two punch. They were. Terry McLaurin was Terry McLaurin, but guys like Diombe Brown and Alamedes Akees were unlocked. Wah-Hua-Wa.

Starting point is 00:43:56 Zach Ertz looked like he was 25 years old running around out there. It was all very smooth and on schedule. They didn't take a bunch of negatives and they didn't turn the ball over. Yeah. And a lot of that's credit to the quarterback, but, you know,

Starting point is 00:44:11 And also there was a period where you started to say, hey, they figured this offense out, Cliff again late in the season. And Jane Daniels, with the help of his OC, proved that, hey, you know, some of it was Kyler. You guys? You know, because that was a big thing that I was kind of wondering, hey, and the story's not over because year two, you saw what happened with Bobby Sloick. And you saw it happened with Ben Johnson hanging around.

Starting point is 00:44:37 Yeah. You know, it can go either way. You guys buying stock in VR? They're saying that, Jay, And Daniels is the reason why he was maybe so ready was because how much time he spent using his VR POV quarterback. Absolutely. I believe that. I think it helps.

Starting point is 00:44:54 Andy Reed just, he's a coach that if you watch the Kansas City Chiefs every week, they're just always ready to play. And I feel like their offense, they're always in position to win games. And when you have enough good players on a. offense or defense and as a coaching staff, if you put guys in a position to win and make plays and they end up doing it, you're gonna win, you're gonna win a lot of games. You know, I feel like that's what happened to you.

Starting point is 00:45:23 Also, Matt and Aggie being there, like you gotta give him his props. I know it's Kansas City, I know it's basically like whoever's there, but I also think, you know, that matters. And we just talked about being a coordinator and then getting a head coaching job and your reputation being damaged. And like, you know, for him

Starting point is 00:45:41 to wind up there. It's a great place to wind up. But, you know, they've lauded his role and what he's done for them. Especially, as you said the other day, changing the offensive. That's a big deal. To me, they've been hitting a moving target for two years. Like, totally. Last year it was just, hey, who can we even be? Who can we afford to be? Can we get these guys to be dependable in the playoffs? And as they usually do, they make a jump in the details. You know, like their penalties go down. The drive. went down you know that's another thing when you talk about penalties in the regular season and in the playoffs and you find it hard to believe that they get

Starting point is 00:46:19 that much better look at the way they improved last year in the playoffs on the details and then this year it's all long drives you know how on the on the ball you have to be on details that's not just Patrick it's not just Andy it's all the coaches there you said the other night five-yard chunks yeah they got those chunks in five yards five-yard explosive they'll kill you slow I mean but they they they're explosive in the most like routine ways the way they they run mesh is like explosive in that they're so on the details the angles are all right and as you can see guys get picked guys get you know like they're explosive in the way they run gap scheme runs i mean they

Starting point is 00:47:00 have a really good group up front they're explosive in their screen game you know they're explosive as the down goes on when you're playing zone and you've got Travis kelsey and guys working together like it's a damn basketball game. I mean, like, they just do everything right. They don't have to be Miami. You know, the way you play Miami and you're deathly afraid of the two fast guys, the one of them used to be there.

Starting point is 00:47:24 They don't have to be a team that has to, they don't have to do spectacular shit. Like Josh hurtling two guys and picking up a third and eight, like they're just going to, they're going to find the exact weakness and exploit it. Is Matt Nagy your Bill Walsh? No, fuck no. respectfully. I still like Matt Nagy. I would say it's Dave Canales. I think fixing Bryce Young. I mean,

Starting point is 00:47:48 and maybe Bryce fixing himself. Like there are two guys that I want to shout out is like comeback players. One of them's Bryce and one of them's Tua. Honestly, I'm just going to say this. Tua? Yeah, dude, because what happened to him early in the season was awful. I mean, like, I remember sitting there and being like, I don't even want to watch the rest of the game. You know what I mean? Let alone do a breakdown after the game and shit. And you know, guys get knocked out all the time. But it was like again.

Starting point is 00:48:19 And I was like, maybe he shouldn't play anymore. And maybe it's not the safest thing that's happening right now, him continuing on. But I thought he played some of the best ball of his career, honestly, down the stretch in some spots. Now, I still think what I think. But I got to say, like coming back from that injury. it took balls and and I thought he played well so yeah Bryce and Canales man like you know the job he did with him the confidence a lot of times you can tell not just by the execution on the field but watching the guy kind of move around and and the way he operates and he was a lot more confident and I think that when you're a player that's struggling you have to have a coach that builds your confidence and you know I think he's probably the perfect guy. He did it in a way that would

Starting point is 00:49:11 almost like ruin a lot of other like I don't know, I still don't know if he did it. Yeah, right. Yeah. Whatever they did. And I still feel like they should have just started the season with the backup. Like they end up looking like, oh, they did the right thing because of the result. Yeah. But I think you could have got the same result just trotting the back out. But it did take all that pressure off and. For sure. Like totally different player. He went in and looking like a rookie quarterback despite having a year.

Starting point is 00:49:44 And he came out like a five year. It's a good segue into the next guy I want to mention in this thing, which is September Kubiak. September Kubiak was something else. The first two games of the season, early September Kubiak. 91 points. You know, it might have just been they were playing the Saints in September, Year of Our Lord, 2004.

Starting point is 00:50:05 They were a fucking Super Bowl looking ass team. They played the others and the cowboys. I know that many people knew it wasn't real, but they did look really good the first two weeks of the season. It was impressive, nonetheless. And conversely, the Adam Gase Award is going to be given to the Eagles' first quarters through much of the season.

Starting point is 00:50:28 Heading the defensive side of the ball. The Belichick Award for the best defensive coordinator this season. Chris, who do you have? Oh, the Belichick Award. Yeah. see. Vic Fangio. Look at the way they improve from, you know, we say it all the time, but like I just have this image burnt in my head of the Atlanta game and, you know, the way it looked exactly like what

Starting point is 00:50:52 they said, hey, this is an antiquated scheme. He's not in vogue. He's just going to give up big chunks and sit back and like the end of that Atlanta game was like, and the pass rush. Man, like, Nobody was getting home. People were questioning the whole thing. By the end of the season, Nolan Smith was like a big play machine. Jalen Carter, finally people coming around to him being one of the best in the league.

Starting point is 00:51:19 Aaron Donald passed him to torch. Milton Williams is going to make tens of millions of dollars here soon. Josh Sweat has been really solid for them. And you turned Nkobie Dean into a damn good player, lost him. But Zach Bond, who's the headliner, the whole thing is up for all these awards. And a year ago,

Starting point is 00:51:40 most people did not know who he was. And that happened by just honing his skill set and using it in a way that he could simplify his job description and play off ball. And he shows his versatility, but I thought it was the focusing in on what he was doing. And then not to mention, Cooper de Gene. I mean, putting him in a lineup, changed everything.

Starting point is 00:52:04 Quignon, you could say he was probably going to be good anyway. but Slay's playing some of the best ball of his late career and CJ's been great for them so you go down the line I didn't even mention reblanketship everybody played well let me ask you something does it scare you that there's a stat that Patrick Mahomes has never lost to Vic Fangio ain't no ever well as let's think about where he's been now

Starting point is 00:52:30 it was uh Miami six games for the Broncos two to Chicago. One of them in a ice storm. I think, also I think in those scores, somebody got their foot amputated after that game. Seriously, remember that? What game was?

Starting point is 00:52:55 I don't. That's when this helmet broke. That's when Patrick Mahomes' helmet. Yeah, in the playoff game where it was like zero degrees. Yeah, yeah, yeah. People were like, this is why we shouldn't have, we should have domes. They shouldn't have to play it.

Starting point is 00:53:07 And then after the game, I have to defend that people get their foot cut off. But look, speaking of domes, another stat, Patrick Mahomes has never lost the football game in a dome. How does that make you feel, Chris? Well, can I take this time to stand on a soapbox and talk about how bad the lighting is in that building? New Orleans? Yes. Yeah. Awful.

Starting point is 00:53:30 Yeah. I mean, otherwise, could be a Beville Conway. Not quite. I mean, maybe not quite. That's the only corner where we're not standing on the same. Well, red and green is good. Yeah, I don't. That's for Christmas.

Starting point is 00:53:43 Mahomes is 15 and O in domed and closed roof stage. You didn't like that Thursday night game in 2016. Guys, he's only lost like two to three games a year. Right. Did you not like that 2016 Thursday night game between the bills and the Jets? Color Rush? I did not. It was like a damn St. Nick situation.

Starting point is 00:54:00 Yeah. And for the color blind, it was a nothing. Yeah. Do you know, Tanner? Yes. Were you here? Did you know this? You're colorblind?

Starting point is 00:54:10 Yeah, dude. What color these glasses? Those look green from back here. Yeah, but fucking liar. He's not to see my glasses as clear as day. No, no, no, it doesn't work that way. There's a couple colors he can't see in detail. One being red.

Starting point is 00:54:24 It looks like electric brown. And then he can't see purple. Purple looks like blue. Oh. He can't see the red and purple. Purple is amazing too. Yeah, well, that's what I've heard. that he also went to

Starting point is 00:54:35 you're about to be you're about to be fucked up in new Orleans New Orleans is a bunch of colors you're not going to be able to see we were charging we've been charging a few of them

Starting point is 00:54:45 the last couple days and the uh it's red or orange if it's not charged green if it's charged and he was staring at it for I felt so bad

Starting point is 00:54:56 but we did we figured out a system for him to figure out if it's charged or not what is the system the green one is I guess a little brighter in your eyes right? Well, if one's green and one's red,

Starting point is 00:55:08 it hurts my eye. Yeah. And I got one of these has got to be green. 50-50 shot. You're missing out, Tanner. You need to make TikTok videos making fun of yourself doing that. I was texting my old boss right before the show, actually, and I told him my goal for 2025 was to beat

Starting point is 00:55:23 colorblindness. Beat color. I think it's all in my head. Yeah? Literally. You can manifest this? You just got a fine. Earlier today, I was like, that one's green. And Reed was like right. I got like seven right and right. Just trust your gut. Exactly. A quick note for the Vic Fangio Patrick Mahomes stat. It is 8.0, but the Denver and Miami offenses scored six points, three points, 16 points, 16 points, 19 points, nine points, 24 points, 14 points and

Starting point is 00:55:50 seven points. Take that stats against those chiefs defense. Where was he on the 24 pointer? That sounds like enough to me. A poor worksman blames his tools. Did you know that? Also craftsman too. Yeah It's almost the same Principle as a solar system I asked I asked The solar system

Starting point is 00:56:17 You guys don't get it Because you don't watch the Sopranos Oh yeah okay Oh Which episode is that We did like 20 years ago Matt doesn't even get it It's over Matt's head

Starting point is 00:56:35 That's a deep cut Oh, man. Can you explain it? Oh, man. Yeah, man. It's just the same principle as the solar system, man. Okay. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:56:46 Oh, it's when Tony's high on peyote and he's gambling on roulette and he says it's the same principle as the solar system. Okay. Winning. All right. That's good. Got it. I did.

Starting point is 00:56:57 I have all 153 episodes downloaded on my, my Apple TV. So I'm ready to re-watch them all. Make it, are you Spranos fan? Yeah. You are? Yeah. Chris, he isn't. No, I am.

Starting point is 00:57:13 But my point is I saw them all, but I just wish I remembered all the little things more because everybody always has the cool jokes. Yeah. And I'm always having to be like, yeah, I remember that. Well, I'm with you on that. I can't pull out any. You know what I mean? Same thing with the office, too, honestly, though.

Starting point is 00:57:29 But like, the office, which I loved and know better than the Sopranos, y'all are fucking next level. It is next level. I've seen every episode of the office like eight times. Yeah. I don't get like 95% of the- Yeah. I'm the same way.

Starting point is 00:57:43 I watched the office probably like three or four times fully through. And one night I went to like an office trivia night. And I was just like, I was just shocked that you can watch something so many times. And then like people ask you questions about it. But I do that with movies. I forget the entire plot of movies. Yeah. I saw like on the train like two weeks ago.

Starting point is 00:58:06 seriously but but you but you didn't forget the plot some movie with jude law the order the order you got to watch more movie movies you like like dog man dog man was lit you you remember that movie yeah dude how could you forget a plot like that fucking it's a half dog half man they put him back and my kids are my kids are just sitting there like what the fuck the buildings came to life and were like wrecking the city it was crazy wait so are you like the mascot for dogman when you had your underdog kind of i am dog man your dog man yeah that's very good what was the next award uh we need Nate and Macon's Belichick award mine's going to Dimeco Ryan I think he did a great job with um the Texans defense I think they had the short end of

Starting point is 00:59:05 one of a couple of teams that had the shortening stick with the injury bug for offense for them. But I feel like their defense kept them in a lot of games this year, brought them to the playoffs, played tough even in their loss in the playoffs. But I feel like that was a defense that maybe guys, people weren't paying attention to. But I look forward to them in the future. and I think D'Amico he's kind of showing that he's not an easy win. Let's put it like that. And he has the defense playing that way.

Starting point is 00:59:44 You know, you put two halves together offensively that would help them out to a great deal. I mean, like, they struggled out of the half offensively all year. And that's a really hard thing when you're on defense in the second half. You know, you're going right back out there, sudden change. that should get better for them with the hiring of a competent coordinator. You know, you figure out those adjustments. Nate's guy beat my guy when it mattered most,

Starting point is 01:00:11 but mine goes to Jesse Mentor, Los Angeles Chargers, fewest points per game allowed in the NFL, L.A. They won 11 games in the regular season. They made it to the big dance behind in large part. A very good defense. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:00:31 Without a whole lot of superstars. Yeah. Is the playoffs the big dance? Yeah. So what would the Super Bowl be if the playoffs is the big dance? The national championship game. The final dance. The daddy daughter dance.

Starting point is 01:00:49 Somebody's the daddy. Okay. In everybody's man cave, they always talk about how big is the TV. The most important thing in a man. Cave is actually the couch. And this year I went with a satchional. It's a guy used to sack the quarterback. It makes a lot of sense.

Starting point is 01:01:07 Love sacks sectionals. They're easy to put together, and they're even easier to sink into and watch about five ball games at once. And that's what we did all year. At my house, we got this big Love Sack Sactional. It's Wisted to test the time.

Starting point is 01:01:22 17 weeks, plus the playoffs. I'm pretty sure it's going to make it through Super Bowl Sunday. It is a comfortable couch and like I said, super easy to put together. Of course, LoveSack products are comfortable, but they can go beyond literal comfort. You can rest assured knowing that these are built to last to grow and change with you as your life changes. This will be the last couch you ever need to purchase. All right, guys, let's talk game days. You know I love a good tailgate, and this year, Smyranoff's taking it to new lengths, literally.

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Starting point is 01:02:46 and we'll see you there. Must be 21 or older to attend, and as always, drink responsibly, my friends. Madden Award. Favorite color comment, comment commentator or moment. Yeah, Tom Brady, not for the whole award,

Starting point is 01:03:05 but I thought stressful was not having Super Bowl rings. So this wasn't daycare. I wanted to have fun. If I wanted to have fun, I would go to Disney World with my kids. He was talking about Baker and his comments on it wasn't fun in Tampa when Tom was there.

Starting point is 01:03:20 And Tom got on the mic that same week and just fucking obliterated him. But by the end of the game, That was like during the game, wasn't it? Yeah, but by the end of the game, and obviously, like, going forward, whenever I heard him call a game, like, he obviously likes Baker. Yeah. It just was like, I got to say something. And that was an interesting moment.

Starting point is 01:03:37 I'll give it to Ross Tucker. I think he's the man. We already talked about him this year. Enjoy hearing him call games. If I had to do, like, an off the beaten path, like, not, don't pull from the A teams and put together a group to do the Super Bowl, I'd love to hear, like, Harlan and Tucker. Kevin Harland's a man. And wouldn't Greg Olson be on that list?

Starting point is 01:04:03 Yeah, Greg for sure too. Now he's no longer an A list. Exactly. I just think Ross deserves some shine. Yeah. Yeah, put them in a three-man booth. That'd be great. What was it?

Starting point is 01:04:11 The seventh floor or ninth floor? Seventh floor crew. Yeah. Tried to scrub that from his resume. Making. They won't let them. I think Troy Aikman

Starting point is 01:04:25 is sincerely sliding into the John Madden role. He's incredible. As the best. Yes. And the guy you always look forward to here and every week. He's great. He's been outstanding. Thank you.

Starting point is 01:04:38 And there's plenty of so-so out there. And he calls out the NFL a good bit. Yeah. The thing about the gambling was like an inside thought. Boom. But he really is good, man. He can convey what's going on. Just to the point.

Starting point is 01:04:57 Yep. You know, and, and, uh, him and Joe took a lot of shit over the years because they're the big show. They're the big dance, you know, and everybody's watching. So, you know, heavy is the head that wears the crown. I think they do a great job, both of them. Say word. Word. Word.

Starting point is 01:05:17 Word. My favorite commentator moment, my madden award, is also a, going to Tom Brady talking about Austin Echler's tiny hands after he fumbled. What did he say? I can't remember. He's like, yeah, Echler is also a guy that in the past, he's had issues with fumbling. And then he's like, yeah, it's those tiny hands he had. No, he did not. Yes, he did. It's such an emasculating thing. Oh, and while I was watching, I was like, you know, to be Austin Echler and after he gets off the field after this loss. Oh, actually, did they win that game?

Starting point is 01:06:01 Whatever. After this game and just to see in a moment like that when you fumble to hear Tom Brady who's probably got huge hands. Make fun of your small hands. Echler's got to secure that ball. Who's got the smallest hands in here? Does anybody have small hands? I have pretty small hands.

Starting point is 01:06:19 Really? Yeah. It's not Nate. Yeah. Just a hand check. But hold, I'm not calling smallest. No. Look.

Starting point is 01:06:29 Say the quote. What did he say? Echler's got to secure that ball. He's had fumbling problems over the course of his career. He's got very small hands. It wasn't secured against his body because naturally, as he's trying to get up, you're just kind of using your one hand to get up and you don't have a chance to cover it up. Very small hand.

Starting point is 01:06:47 If you have very small hands, do you like keep them in your pockets a lot? Does that really factor into most of your interactions? You got to meet new people. You're worried. These little tiny hands, those tiny hands. Grab my strong hands. Take my strong hand. We got the Moss Award, the contract year guy who has crushed it this season.

Starting point is 01:07:06 What did you guys have? I got to be honest, I don't have anything. You don't have anything? I could give you Milton Williams. What about T. Higgins? I got T. Higgins. I think he just, he can, he has enough money to go to Mekanos whenever he wants now. No question.

Starting point is 01:07:24 He's the number one somewhere. 76 yards a game and 10, 10 TDs and 12 games, I think it was. Ooh. Next to Jamara, T. Higgins. Yeah. Again, a guy you don't have to worry about being a one because, you know, it's not, he's a 50-50 ball guy. Just throw it to him.

Starting point is 01:07:42 Doesn't really matter who's on him. He's got a size advantage over most guys. I mean, fuck, dude. Some of the best hands in the NFL. T. Higgins, go to the commanders. Shake the league. Oof oof. Flacco award.

Starting point is 01:07:57 Old guy who did work this season. Calais Campbell. I feel so far removed from football, it's crazy. Callais Campbell. He is my age. Same year. Yes. Same year.

Starting point is 01:08:12 And your head pictures, he's like James Earl Jones. Yes. Yeah, dude. He has a voice like that deeper. more like a friendly monster in a Pixar movie. That's good. It's good. I ended a picture.

Starting point is 01:08:32 Damn, what's his name? I can't think of his name. Furry. Sully. Yeah, good, good pull. Monster Zake. Friendly monster. Yeah, yeah, he's furry.

Starting point is 01:08:44 That's how in my head pictures. Shout out Bobby Wagner of the Washington team. Hell yeah. Zach hurts, too. He's just really good. Pretty old. Brandon Graham should be on the list. My Flacko Awards going to my old teammate, Mercedes-Lewis, who is still out there.

Starting point is 01:09:03 Jason Peters. Do you know how much you got to love football? Seriously. Yeah. Oh, for him to still be out there. He's 42? Is he the oldest player in the NFL position player in the NFL? 43, he's got it.

Starting point is 01:09:19 43. Offensive tackle. Like, not. He's been on practice squad. He's been a guy loves a game. Junkie. Lifer. 43, doing two spot.

Starting point is 01:09:30 Could you imagine? Slater Award. Special team award, the best special teamer. I'm going to give it to Chris Boswell because he's really good at kicking. And he's not Justin Tucker. And he didn't forget to kick like seemingly half the league, including Justin Tucker. And now I understand maybe why. Mm-hmm.

Starting point is 01:09:54 Yeah, Boswell, he's the ultimate, like, he's a football player's kicker. He's out there in the tall grass at Heinzfield, not Heinzield, at Accroshore. Mm-hmm. And he's hitting it out of the rough every time. You know, I know they get some weird weather systems coming off the river. Three of them, three rivers. All those rivers. The rivers.

Starting point is 01:10:17 You know? So, always outdoors. he doesn't hide Chris Boswell can't hide shout out to him Nate who'd you have I had Cavante Turpin

Starting point is 01:10:29 the small guy from the Cowboys very very fast he had a game this year where he scored a kick return for a touchdown and a punt return for a touchdown

Starting point is 01:10:40 and for a team that didn't have too many bright spots this year I think Turpin he did that for a first special teams for the Cowboys. And they used them on offense. Yeah, they did. It would say they really, I think going forward more of it. Yep. Caliph Raymond, Detroit Lions. I like this guy because he attempted so many returns. There's a, I'm going to start tracking this next year,

Starting point is 01:11:09 fair catch to return ratio. Caliph didn't see a ball in there. He didn't want to catch and then run with. Nice. There's some other guys now. They're passing it up. Won't mention names. Jaden Reed, 30 fair catches leading the league. Cowboys guy, Marvin Mims, 25 fair catches. This is off a punts or kickoffs? Those are punts.

Starting point is 01:11:35 Off a punts. Cleef Raymond, 13 plus yards of a punt return. That'll help. Help big ton of. Help big time. Big Dick Nick Award. Favorite backup quarterback. James Winston.

Starting point is 01:11:50 I know I made sure you didn't have him. He was just on inside the NFL. Bro, we're going to see him at the Super Bowl. Amazing. We're going to kick it. His guy's picking me up at the airport. Amazing. Is this his granddad?

Starting point is 01:12:04 His granddad. That's how he calls him granddad. It's not his granddad, but they call him granddaddy. Well, dude, this guy's picking me up at the airport, and he is a fucking piece of work. He's the man. So, James is a guy that beat the Ravens and the state. Steelers this year and beat the Steelers in the snow. Who could forget that game?

Starting point is 01:12:26 His first snow game. He played his ass off. Beville Conway. Yeah, that was amazing. That was amazing. Also shout out to Kenny Pickett, if y'all didn't take him. Just say everybody. No, I just said, because Kenny Pickett had like the backup's dream game,

Starting point is 01:12:44 like clinching the division and the Kelly Greens. Growing up an Eagles fan, that was crazy. My Big Dick Nick Award is going to Marcus Marriota. He stepped in. Jaden Daniels probably had some broken ribs, a few games early in the season. And Mariotta stepped in, won a few games, got cashed in on a few of his bonuses, which is always, it's always good to hear guys making some big-time money by just doing your job. He's a good guy.

Starting point is 01:13:20 You could just tell. And he ran the commander's tush-push. He's their tush-push guy. Yeah. And Marriota, this funny story, one time I was in Hawaii on vacation, and Mariotta was playing. And, like, when you're in Hawaii, games are on at, like, 2 in the afternoon or, like, whatever it is, because the time difference. And everything on the island shut down because he was playing. Really?

Starting point is 01:13:47 Like, like, Texas, but like on an island. And it was like all the little local stores, it was like Mariotta's playing. Like literally for those two to three hours until that game was over and then like everything opened back up. And I thought that was like, was like, your rookie year? Had to be. It had to be. Because he's what, 13, class of 13?

Starting point is 01:14:06 Yeah, I have to look back. He's James's year. Yeah, what years I was there. But I just thought that I was like, yo, this is dope that him being here. And you don't know how like, I don't think Hawaii is that big of a football community. but just for them to be aware and know, like, hey, like, he's one of our guys and he's doing it at the highest level. They need to make a varsity blues, but in Hawaii. That's a, you should pitch that.

Starting point is 01:14:31 Actually, they have enough players and enough big time guys. Big a movie. Yeah, it probably would be. Yeah. Mix in some surfing scenes. Mm-hmm. Can I interest you guys in 17 of 22 on the season? Three touchdowns, zero picks.

Starting point is 01:14:46 Let's guess. Oh. who got sacked zero times average more than four yards of carry oh oh oh oh oh oh oh 17 to 22 my guy from the Patriots no it's one start that was a good guess it's one start you're two games played oh wow garbage time so it's gonna be uh

Starting point is 01:15:10 aFC East uh it's it's Mitchell Trevisky no no Tyrod Taylor hirod Taylor Ryan. A hokey. You gave it to a hokey. My favorite hokey. He could start for half the freaking teams in the league. Any given day. Guys are good football. I'm not going to lie. One of my favorite UVA moments is being able to sack Tyraud Taylor in my last game. Stay words. You got him down?

Starting point is 01:15:38 On a bootleg. On a bootleg. Buy the jersey and was able to hold on, get a sack. You ran them down. Grabbed them. Just played it. I don't even know if I was playing the right key. You know, I was playing N at this point. So.

Starting point is 01:15:54 Number 98 in your program. Yep. You know the rest. Number one in your heart. How about the Jeremy Linn Award? Jeremy Linn award, which is, yeah, somebody who just had like a moment. I hate it had to be him. I think it was, it was Joe Flacco.

Starting point is 01:16:10 There was a real moment there where we were all like, yeah, just ride it out with Joe. and it probably I don't think they were going anywhere either way but for a minute there I was jumping out of the gym for I just want to you know that what they did in Cleveland last year with him at times was so impressive I thought they could do it again in indie

Starting point is 01:16:29 just didn't work out and also Drew Locke the Drew Locke game you pointed that out before we just turned it on what were his stats in that game you already mentioned it 45 pointer I only have Leaky neighbors committed to memory,

Starting point is 01:16:44 which was 17 to 171 and two touchdowns. Unbelievable, that guy's so good. Yeah, Leak. Also shows you how good they could be pretty quickly with the number one right, like that. Like Drew Locke. Drew Lock, and then Tyrone Tracy. 17-23-309, four Tuddies.

Starting point is 01:17:02 Five carries zero yards. He really had to pick it up on the group. I think the Giants could be okay before you know it. Appreciate that. Yeah. I have Derrickar, start the season off hot, made Saints putting up a lot of points, and then it went downhill fast for them.

Starting point is 01:17:21 Jeremy Lynn. I neglected to prepare for this particular award because I did not know what it meant by just Jeremy Lynn. And then I forgot to ask what it's meant by the Jeremy Lynn Award. But you would agree with our sentiments. For sure. How about the Armchair quarterback award? This is the best social media presence.

Starting point is 01:17:40 Man, I have no idea. You don't? You would know. Yeah, this is easy. Is it Micah? My guy, Michael Parsons. Micah Parsons. I mean, he did a great job a year, down year on the field,

Starting point is 01:17:55 but a big year off the field for him, media presence, followers, subscriptions, up, up, up. And hey, like, if your owner's going to do it like that, I mean, it trickles down. Not as well. Just follow the. trend you know why why should why should you lose our money off the field that's i mean that's how jerry jones looks at it yeah and these are the season meant moments awards everyone knows them moments from the

Starting point is 01:18:24 season my bevel conway is the snow game san francisco and buffalo probably more specifically the play where amari cooper lateral the ball to josh and he dove for the pylon that was that was cool man That was a fucking sick game to watch. I also had a snow game that's been mentioned the first one of the year, Cleveland in Pittsburgh that Cleveland won once for a game. Somebody zagged on the internet this year, which I kind of liked.

Starting point is 01:18:51 Do we, are we sure, are we positive that we like snow games? We love them. Yes. Yeah, dude. But can we think about it for a second? We love them. Are we sure?

Starting point is 01:19:02 Yes. Positive. Okay, just wanted to make sure. Positive. It's good to make sure. Unless we can simulate like a sandstorm in a game, snowstorms is the best. You'd like to see a sandstorm? Yes.

Starting point is 01:19:15 Yes. Why? The elements of the sand, what they bring, like, you know how like snow? What's that dune sound? Ha! You know how snow is just like... People are like hitting the ground and then Vita Vaya comes out. I just think it would be a different element.

Starting point is 01:19:41 And then the sand falling, if you let it accumulate on the field, like they do snow for a little bit. It's like, it's different running surface makes it kind of harder. It'll be similar to like when you watch. Like a beach. Like a beach. Why don't they just play on the beach in your sand game? Yeah, that's a little too much. But it's kind of like tennis when they play in the clay courts.

Starting point is 01:20:04 There you go. A little different surface. Switch it up. Same game, different surface. Mm-hmm. Right. Football, same surfaced. Just a thought.

Starting point is 01:20:14 Anti-Belbele colored weight. Ugh. The end of the Bears Lions game on Thanksgiving. It's not exactly like a, but even visually, it was awful. Lions barely want, oh, right, right, right, right,

Starting point is 01:20:28 Eber Flues. Yeah, that was just like, of all the moments this year that you were just like, oh my God, this is professional sports. This is really happening. It was crazy, man. Didn't they wait an extra day to fire?

Starting point is 01:20:37 Yeah, and then maybe so, but here's the craziest thing. You pick Thanksgiving to do that. Right. Like, everybody's watching. Yep. Every human being is watching that game. Just embarrassing. Yeah, my anti-bevil is going to, I don't even want to bring this back up, but Tinkdale's

Starting point is 01:20:54 injury, just that whole scene. Sheepers. Yeah. I mean, yeah, no, you're not wrong. That whole scene, like, I don't think there's really any, too many, too many times I can remember they show guys in an active game like with their helmets off crying like from seeing like a in real time injury happening and I just think that visual is kind of like an anti-bevel like just while we're here let's let's let's let's talk about Kevin where exactly no you know

Starting point is 01:21:27 might as well it's the same it's the same thing bro it's it's the same thing and I remember I remember watching the replays of that too with people on the bench their facial expressions being in front of it and being like, like just being in shock because you don't really, you maybe think that something like that can happen because the football is so violent or whatever. In basketball is maybe different. You don't think that you can see that gruesome of an injury,

Starting point is 01:21:55 but it just goes to show like it. It was the people crying for me. Yeah. Just seeing somebody, you know, I've seen a lot of injuries, and I've seen a lot of reactions to injuries. I don't see a lot of people crying. And I know part of it is just CJ might be emotional. It's his boy and everything, but like, I think you can always tell how bad an injury is by the people's facial expressions in the circle around the injury.

Starting point is 01:22:19 Absolutely. And for trainers, they gotta go out there and like keep a straight face, bro. Yeah. Like, it's crazy. Yeah, shout out to the trainers. Shout out for sure. Anti-bevel. Look, I love greatness.

Starting point is 01:22:35 I appreciate greatness. greatness, you know? I'm tired of seeing the same teams and I would have liked a different Super Bowl. And my anti-bevel is Super Bowl licks where we're going to see red and green and the Chiefs and the Eagles. And if we could have just,

Starting point is 01:22:56 if we just spiced it up a little bit with Eagles bills, for instance, I think that would have been really special. Anything but the commanders in these uniforms? Commanders and chiefs would have been on a variety of levels, something else. Something else. But I just want to speak for, you know,

Starting point is 01:23:13 the parody people out there. How about the best seat? Oh, best seat. Best seat, Bo Allen sitting in a suite with Taylor Swift. Like, you're in the center, that's, Bo loves that. He's in the center of the universe, dude. He's hanging out with Taylor Swift.

Starting point is 01:23:33 And low-key, that whole thing, swung him into a whole new job if you really think about it i know now they because they thought it was it's like saving silverman with his replacement friends he's not going to hang out with us anymore no but also katelyn clark was in that uh sweet as well shout out to katelyn clark yeah she had a stalker a real stalker he got into court and sat down and said lock me up he walked it he said yeah guilty Yes, charge. Oh my goodness. You know how great you have to be at something to have that level of a stalker?

Starting point is 01:24:20 I guess, yeah. That guy was. Sir, you have a right to remain silent? What is his representation thing? And I expect you to exercise it. Worst seat, his lawyer. Oh, my goodness. All right, I want you, when we get in there, don't say anything.

Starting point is 01:24:40 that's probably exactly how I'm waiting. Just, all right, I got you. Let me cook. It's the lean back in the chair while he says that it takes me over the top. Oh, man, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Stalkers aren't funny. Is that your best seat, Nathan? No, best seat is going to Howie Rosen.

Starting point is 01:25:10 Oh shit. Yeah. Howie Roseman. You have him too? Yeah, dog. Yeah, man, year after year. The Twitter GM. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:25:17 I love it. And he managed to, not one. You guys have two. The Eagles have two white debacks in the game at the same time. And they are playing lights out. And I just feel like year after year, he's just getting guys that maybe at the start of the season. everyone's kind of like, huh? And then by the end of the season, you're just like,

Starting point is 01:25:44 damn, this guy is good. Yeah. Like, he has a, he has an Australian tackle, a six foot seven guard, and white D.Bs. I love it. Where's he finding this stuff? No idea. Unhooked the trailer.

Starting point is 01:26:01 No, it's crazy. Unhooked the trailer. Go, son. He was quoting Bain last week. I was wondering what would break? like fast y'all spirit all your body he did it perfectly he does sound exactly like bain did it perfectly um scarier than bane yeah a little bit bigger probably yeah uh worst seat how about the worst seat oh the worst the worst the worst seat i i was going to bring this up

Starting point is 01:26:32 just for conversational purposes but i think jason kelsey's seat this weekend sucks agreed he has to like i i don't know i wouldn't even ask him i will this week i'll ask him like who you really who you're rooting for do you think his seat uh sucks more this super bowl or in 2022 when he was play no this super because when you're playing it's easy you want to win the game but then now you're like am i a bad guy rooting against my brother which i don't think he is necessarily i also think it makes it easier for him that Travis has won twice you know like actually more than twice now right three so that I mean shit I guess you can kind of just say hey he's got enough of them but doesn't it feel weird rooting against your brother 100% you know when Eli Manning was in

Starting point is 01:27:20 the suite and Peyton won with the Broncos and I felt bad for Eli because he just doesn't have a good like excited face like I don't think there's any ill will he's harboring towards his brother and wasn't that shot like I think there was still Tom on the clock or there was some situation to where he i think peyton was saying eliz was trying to figure out he was in game mode he was trying to figure out whatever it was he's just not the best guy to like you know read his body language or his facial expressions no doubt i'm doing this on the fly because it just made me think about it when you said it the worst seat i'm giving it to taylor swift because if you're a real swift you know that taylor

Starting point is 01:28:05 Swift is actually an Eagles fan. And so now she's in the predicament where if the Eagles win, everything with her in Eagles jersey and paraphernalia on is going to go viral for the next however many months. And that might be. Sounds like a pretty good seat. Yeah. On the contrary. Have you heard Nate's, given what you think is.

Starting point is 01:28:35 going to happen. So after Kansas City inevitably wins this game on a controversial call from the refs and they win in the confetti, the red in whatever color confetti's going down on the field, red and yellow. And we're going to see a bunch of bodyguards walking to the field. You're going to be like, what's that? And it's going to be them bringing Taylor Swift down and they're going to bring her to the stage to Travis who will have the ring somewhere

Starting point is 01:29:05 in his cup or jock strap and he will pull it out and he will propose. He's going to have it in his truck strap. He's going to pull the ring out. Oh, God.

Starting point is 01:29:16 Smell like dick. Diamond. Smell like nutsack. That's not how you propose. And he's going to propose. You don't think he would give it to an equipment manager? Nope. Is that he's going to be running around

Starting point is 01:29:29 with the fucking cushion cut diamond and is between his testicles. Yep. And it's going to be and it's he's going to give her his gouging and a friendship bracelet that says forever on it

Starting point is 01:29:44 and it's going to be the number one watch clip ever, ever like I will be so mad and I hope to God that they get married and live a long, happy life together because I like them both. I mean, what's not to like about those?

Starting point is 01:29:59 to. But if they do this, this weekend, people are going to go nuts. Their heads are going to explode. And I'm afraid that it's going to drive the nation into a state of further disarray. Just like, yeah. It's going to be like the Dave Chappelle. It's going to be like the Dave Chappelle. Take your mask off. Yeah. No, that's exactly what I was thinking about when his fucking head exploded. Show us your face, brother. Yeah. You want to see it? Yeah. Yeah, that's how people are going to react. If they get married, they're going to be script. And then I can't do my fucking job here

Starting point is 01:30:38 because everybody thinks the game is scripted. I might take some time off if they get married this weekend. Maybe she could propose to him. That would be... They would take the jock strap out of the occasion. Entirely. Megan, did you have a worse seat? It's played out.

Starting point is 01:30:59 But I guess Joe Shane's, kid at the breakfast table. It's like, oh, you only get this job once. Why don't you take Jaden Daniels? And while not possible, you know, trading with a division rival to get up to two to take a generational talent, it's got to be like, hmm, wish that hadn't been recorded. Maybe worst seat Joe Shane when you think about it because he did exactly what you probably should have done, not paying Sequin.

Starting point is 01:31:29 You weren't ready to win. people just hate you either way if he stayed they'd have been like they're killing this guy's career which they were and then on top of it not possible yet everybody talks about oh they should have took Jaden Daniels yeah because his

Starting point is 01:31:43 kid said that they should and then Danny Dimes you know but I'm gonna merge an award right now and because you guys already talking about it my fly in a wall would be just in all the scenarios you guys are talking about and just

Starting point is 01:31:58 having or hearing his kid maybe throughout the season every time jaden has had a good game be like see oh yeah he probably like kind of like there he is again like elbows him and he's like jadden daniel's then i wonder if he ever had a bad day like yo son shut the fuck it's not fucking funny son i don't like any of your jokes but i'm not going to pretend to laugh at this one because that hurts yeah dude it was not possible but even if the giants had scooped up jaden they don't get malique you know who's he throwing the ball to no no offense i think most people would say hey like scoop him up waterback but yeah that's a good way to soften the blow yeah flying the wall oh i also want to give a best seat out to robert sala i just think about that

Starting point is 01:32:49 interview that they ran him down for in the in the um in the uh grocery store parking lot and they were like are you are you okay and i'm like he's fine he's pretty good Like he's been fantasizing about this moment, like pushing a fucking shopping cart. Check still hitting and he's going to go hang out with this buddy. Yeah, I'm going to Green Bay. So yeah. What was flying the wall? Fly on the wall?

Starting point is 01:33:13 Fly on the wall? What did, uh, I still want to know what C.J. Gardner Johnson said to get ejected. It's akin to the Chris Jones mystery against Indianapolis a couple years ago where he said something to an official or to Matt Ryan and was ejected. I don't think there's footage of this. because I think Jerry, Gerra, was just talking to Schaefter, but I really want to see

Starting point is 01:33:41 Jerry saying he ain't Brian no more. Because the way it comes across on paper, it's one of the more asinine quotes to try to boost your career assistant

Starting point is 01:33:58 head coach that I've ever read. He, because he is still Brian. Well, could be like a severance thing. He'll remain

Starting point is 01:34:08 Brian. Yeah. No, he's still Brian. But what he's saying is he's, he's, he's not that fucking bad anymore. If that's what,

Starting point is 01:34:20 if that's the way you took it, I didn't see the quote. I know. That's why I want to be a fly on the wall, seeing him say it. I didn't hear it. It's the first time hearing this.

Starting point is 01:34:29 It's the first time I've heard this. He ain't Brian. No More. Well, that sounds tough to defend. Jerry had a crazy year. You got caught talking about somebody's piece. Dick sizes. Brian Schottenheimer is known as a career assistant.

Starting point is 01:34:44 He ain't Brian no more. He is now known as the head coach of the Dallas. He just needed more context. No, no, I had that context. I think what Jerry was going for was he ain't career assistant no more. Right. Cross the wires with all that line memorization. Yeah, does he just call him?

Starting point is 01:35:01 calls him something else now. Every time you go to the Dallas Cowboys. Brian with a Y. Schottenheimer. How old is Jerry? 80. 84, I think. 84.

Starting point is 01:35:10 82. 82. You got to give it to him. 82. Still doing interviews all the time. Making cameos and. He can mess up. Play his fuck up a little bit.

Starting point is 01:35:20 No, like, I don't even think it's a fuck up. I just think it's a remarkable quote. He ain't Brian no more. He's had some doozies this month. Glory hole. How about the Hollow Man? We all know who it is. We all know.

Starting point is 01:35:38 Mark Andrews? Yeah. But I don't want to spend too much time on it because it still pains me to think about what happened. Yeah. But I want to get the guy who spit on Devante Smith. You know, when that happened, I said the Saints are, now they're in trouble. You know, it's just karma's coming back. And after they lost that game, they went on a six.

Starting point is 01:35:59 six game losing streak. You know what number Devante Smith is? Six. Now it's a seven game losing streak, but you see the way I play with the numbers there. At that point, there were 2 and 0 with a 91 to 19 point differential. And it just, it went downhill.

Starting point is 01:36:18 Shouldn't spit. Shouldn't spit on Devante Smith, that's for sure. Shouldn't spit on anybody. No, you shouldn't. They really deserve it. It's not all smiles and glory holes. Hollow man, Liam Cohen. It's just, it's a, it's a tall mountain to overcome.

Starting point is 01:36:40 That was an all time. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's his eyes darting around the room. Even if he turns into Bill Belichick. Easy. Easy. Easy. The eyebrow. Yeah, the eyebrow thing. The, I've seen it, I've seen a couple clips now that, that it's approaching being problematic. I've seen a couple clips that. I think it's legitimately an issue.

Starting point is 01:37:05 did have a good point with you the other night. What he said? It was a lot of these interviews are the first time these guys are in the spotlight. No question. Tough. But. He just took a big swing. If you're going to take a big swing like that,

Starting point is 01:37:18 you have to really get with somebody in the community before he shout out the community. Yeah. And let the community tell you how to say Duvall. But look. It was like you practiced with his wife who gave him like the wrong information. But look. It's a new regime. Now what happens if the Jaguars just turn it around.

Starting point is 01:37:35 immensely and he changes it for them and everyone is gonna start saying do now that would be pretty incredible if things start going well for it that's it he can turn a negative into a positive yeah you know just last half how about the STL Memorial Award there's a couple rookies I want to shout out Brian Thomas Jr if you didn't watch Jacksonville is is incredible as well as Brock Bowers yeah The people voting for the Pro Bowl didn't watch Brian Thomas Jr. either because he was originally snubbed. Ridiculous? He's got a chance. Him and neighbors are going to be so good for so long.

Starting point is 01:38:19 And they're going to be linked together at the LSU tie. It's another Justin Jefferson Jamar Chase. And the guy I want to also shout as the Buccaneers duck handler. The guy that got the duck. When the duck was loose on the field, the guy returned the duck to safety. held it right there by the nape of its neck and escorted it out into the parking lot. And he looked just like a guy that you would figure would be comfortable picking up a duck.

Starting point is 01:38:45 He is central casting. And the best part of that, his first name is anchor. Anchor Brandt. That guy, shout out Anchor Brandt. He's the flag runner for the bucks as well. Anchor Brand. Nice.

Starting point is 01:38:58 It's a cool name. Shout out Chuba Hubbard. Eighth and the NFL in rushing. Who'd have thought it. Chuba Hubbard. Who would have thunk it. Without quarterback setting the world on fire, for the most part. Good back.

Starting point is 01:39:14 Chuba Hubbard, 25 years old. Oklahoma State Polk. You can tote the rock a little bit at Chuba Hubbard. Bad fumble. Hard to disagree. Taught everybody to say his name correctly. Nice. And only 15 games.

Starting point is 01:39:33 You motherfuckers. Most of these guys playing. 17 games out there. Chuba Hubbard suits up 15 times and finish eighth in the league and rushing. Impressive. You know, Sequine Barclay only played 16 games? Do you hear

Starting point is 01:39:52 about that? Yeah. It's really cost them so far. Mine's going, Trey Hendrickson. He was a guy, I mean, the Bengals. They were cooked pretty early. Then they weren't cooked. Then it got cooked again, but all while this was happening, Trey was getting sacks.

Starting point is 01:40:15 He was cooking. He was just getting sacks, going to work, getting sacks, no matter what the score was. It's really hard to do. And yeah, it is hard to do. Especially without not a lot of help around him. But he was doing it. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:40:31 Do you two have a best flight, worst flight? Anything you want to throw? We kind of talked about it. Well, worst flight we didn't talk about. I would say that misery loves company, Devante Adams, from Las Vegas to New York from a bad situation to a bad situation

Starting point is 01:40:48 and maybe you thought it was going to go better but it didn't and I just knew it from the start the way him and Aaron Rogers their shit eating grins on the little on their live and now he probably

Starting point is 01:41:03 was a weird he probably thinks about that like damn this this season suck but the flight was probably it was probably chartered Yeah. It's probably a good flight in a vacuum. I got a best flight also chartered for a team after a loss.

Starting point is 01:41:22 Now hold on. The Philadelphia Eagles losing to D.C. 3633. It's probably like a seven-minute flight from Washington and Philly. Okay. And. There's a lot of time to do whatever you're going to say they did. Everyone who. who had to worry about playing on or near Christmas.

Starting point is 01:41:43 Eagles didn't have to worry about that. They played on December the 22nd. Didn't play again for a week, December the 29th. And it gave them that little, ended a million game winning streak, which you know, you don't want to go into the playoffs winning a million games in a row and allowed them that chip on the shoulder

Starting point is 01:41:58 for the NFC championship game. Yeah. When they throttled the commanders. Throttled. Wasn't even close. Saw him in person. Beat the A. So that's the season awards.

Starting point is 01:42:11 Great work, fellas. Thank you. Great work. Thank you. Great work. We've got one more segment of the show today. I got a couple, I want to give out play of the year. Probably everybody's thinking the Hail Mary, but if we're going off a game-winning scores,

Starting point is 01:42:27 the Drake May to force overtime against the Titans was like an S-B-worthy kind of play in a vacuum, but it was for nothing, and they ended up losing the game anyways. It was for the over. It was for the over. That play probably was the only play that we saw while watching at your house in that game. Yep, for real. We just zoomed in and it happened.

Starting point is 01:42:50 Also, the Lamar, stiff farming hovered in the red zone was like jaw dropping. And then another play that probably nobody talks about but was just as good. I don't want to say it was just as good as the Beckham catch because part of the Beckham catch is being first. but like the Gare Wilson against the Texans catch

Starting point is 01:43:12 was unbelievable and I just want to give him like the Wilson Award which is basically a castaway award somebody rescue that guy somebody rescue that guy Best trend was the stick a fork in him guy the Philly guy

Starting point is 01:43:28 the Philly fan who liked to stick a fork in everybody they beat he went viral this year if you're watching on YouTube you'll see it finished put the fork in him The code D with a great play And the worst trend is I have a gun celebration It's just

Starting point is 01:43:56 It's just not a good celebration It has nothing to do with football And it's like every time I see somebody doing it I'm like bro like that's just a bad football play You're gonna get flagged I don't want to ruin your take But it kind of does No it doesn't

Starting point is 01:44:14 On defense it does No, it doesn't because they go 15 yards and you don't have a gun. I got the strap. That's the, that's the interpretation. I know, hey, seatbelt. I'm all for it. Once I figured out it was a seatbelt, I thought it was a sword and a sheath for a long time. I was like, man, these guys, it must have gone to medieval times on one of these away trips

Starting point is 01:44:38 because they love this sword and the sheath celebration. We got some archery celebration coming. Yeah, well, archery's okay. Because not a lot of people are getting killed with bow and arrows. We just lead the league in that thing. And I'm like, what are we doing? True.

Starting point is 01:44:53 He's like, true. He's like, he was the, he was the guy who was like, he was letting it go. He unleashed about 12 arrows. Oh yeah, he did. And then he got pushed and he was over there by himself. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:45:07 The guy who pushed him, he kept. That was funny. And then the guy got pushed came back and he's like, why are you still doing that to me? That's so funny. Jam you too. Shout out. They're the color purple tanner.

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Starting point is 01:45:52 You think anybody's going to be like, hey, you're the guy. I know you. You're the guy. Escorted off campus. Yeah. All right. Take care.

Green Light with Chris Long - NFL Season Awards! Best Offense, Favorite Announcers, Top Moments & NFL News!

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