Green Light with Chris Long - NFL WK16 Recap! Cowboys Beat the Eagles, Vikings Win Another One Score & Tom Brady in OT.

Episode Date: December 26, 2022

(2:20) - Merry Christmas, America's Teams & Puss in Boots: The Final Wish Review. (22:31) - Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Arizona Cardinals & OT Tom Brady. (30:51) - Denver Broncos at LA Rams & Baker's Legitimacy. (37:17) - Washington Commanders at San Francisco 49ers & The Dominance of Nick Bosa. (41:30) - Philadelphia Eagles at Dallas Cowboys & Dak's Zone Excellence. (52:33) - NY Giants at Minnesota Vikings & Another One Score Victory. (58:51) - Green Bay Packers at Miami Dolphins & Tua's INTs. (1:05:52) - Cincinnati Bengals at New England Patriots & Mac's Dirty Play. (1:20:14) - Miller Lite Mentions! Green Light Spotify Music: https://open.spotify.com/user/951jyryv2nu6l4iqz9p81him9?si=17c560d10ff04a9b   Spotify Layup Line: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1olmCMKGMEyWwOKaT1Aah3?si=675d445ddb824c42   Green Light Tube YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/GreenLightTube1   Green Light with Chris Long:   Subscribe and enjoy weekly content including podcasts, documentaries, live chats, celebrity interviews and more including hot news items, trending discussions from the NFL, MLB, NHL, NBA, NCAA are just a small part of what we will be sharing with you. https://www.greenlightpodcast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Tennessee, y'all 2. 1-800-9-9-7-89. Welcome everybody to the Greenlight Podcast. Merry Christmas. I hope Santa brought you everything you needed and wanted on your Christmas list. And I hope you were able to give some wonderful presents as well. Talking about giving some presents, we've got Week 16 NFL recap with Chris Cullen, making everyone's back together. We're going to run through some of the biggest games that have the most impact on the NFL playoffs. Talk Tom's performance, how he keeps pulling out these overtime wins. Mack Jones is he a dirty player?

The Giants Vikings game and another Vikings single-digit win. In the Eagles Cowboys' thriller. We'll also be tossing in a couple guests the lines throughout the show, so stay tuned for those. And as always, our Miller Light mentions. Christmas is over, guys. We're on to New years. We did it. We did it. What did you guys get? Oh, some sleep. Yeah, sleep was good. A couple canceled flights, but I got to see my wife and kid. We got to open some presents. You had to drive up to New York, huh? Drove to New York. The bomb cyclone got you. And I felt like really I made the right because so many of my colleagues were like, well, I'm still at the airport. It's like 11 p.m. on Christmas Eve.

It's always better to drive. When your flight's up in the air and you have time, it's always better to drive. Meg, did you get anything? Yeah, and nothing's coming to me at the moment. It was crystallized this year that it really is about the kids. Yeah. You know, it's a holiday for the kids. Yep.

And actually, and actually our family was like, ah, maybe this year we'd chill on the adult gift giving. Which is nice. Oh, best thing I had ever heard. Yeah. That was terrific. A big secret Santa guy. It really keeps the boundaries.

It does. It keeps it from, whoa, you didn't have to do all that. Well, kind of a code break. Now I feel like I have to do. Mom and Dad, I got Secret Santa, I got Howie. I sent them some Lulu Lemon. And mom and dad sent me some shit anyways. That's how they do it.

And then I didn't send anything to them. Did you send anything to them? No, that makes me feel better. No, I follow the rules. Well, I wouldn't say fuck no. I thought about it. But, you know, the rules and all. Whalen got some Nintendo Switch games that are a lot of fun.

Anybody out there play Mario Strikers? It's awesome. It's a great game. There is something a little bit racist about the game, though. When Wario scores a goal, he eats a piece of garlic. And he says, that's good. Anti-Mittaranians, land. No, no, it's Italians, my people.

Adonisios. They're out there with the garlic, just pulling garlic out of his pants. What, do we all just eat garlic? Like T.L. pulling a Sharpie out of his sock. Yep. I'd tell you something I got. I've got a blemish.

Yeah, you got a pimple. I got a blemish on my nose, really for the first time in a long time. Yeah. You know? Yeah. You used to come in here talking about skin care a lot. Yeah. Not so much anymore.

Get a beard. You get a beard. You don't get any more pimples. I can't. Dude, you used to have a beard. I got a COVID beard. COVID beard. Well, also another thing is if you're thinking about something to take your young son or daughter to over the holidays,

I would think, twice about puss and boots it's the scariest fucking movie ever is it really yeah dude my friend kenny shout out to kennie he knows he knows he made a mistake he was texting all the dads we ran it out a theater to watch puss and boots and there's this terrifying wolf there's scenes about death there's scenes about yeah it's it's insane dude it's it's total misfire if you're going to take your little kid to a movie just maybe watch the preview before is it as dark as it's a life. It might be darker than it's wonderful life. Oh my God, I've never

seen. Did Kenny read after the colon? Because it says the last wish. Yeah, the last wish. An adventure film. Yeah, no, no, it's definitely, I felt like I was tripping on acid watching the movie and there were some terrifying scenes. Wow.

Puss and Boots, I guess, is one person. Yes. Discovers that his passion for adventure has taken its toll. He has burnt through eight of his nine lives. Yes, dude. He's down to his last life. Which loosely translates to cat in shoes.

Yep. Right. Yep. So it's not that confusing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, if you think about it, we're all on our ninth life here as a human beings. Yeah, we were born on number nine. We get one shot out.

Yeah. Yeah. It's a tough thing to explain to my kids after the movie. Yep. Okay. So, yeah, just a word to the wise there. Hey, you came back all matured. Yeah, I got my haircut.

That's awesome, man. The minute I cut my hair, I was like, what the fuck were you doing? Yeah. I just look so dirty. Who makes that jacket? Button down. I don't know. It's nice.

It's a Christmas present. It's a handsome jacket. I'm wearing my Christmas presents in. A haircut will do wonders. You got your hair cut or you actually took skizzards to it? No, no, no. I went to see Dana. Shout out.

Yeah. Lori give me a brownie. Oh, yeah, yeah. Those are good brownies. Yeah, really good brownies. potentially another movie on the horizon. Here's a hair as well, Chris, right? Which one?

We could be going to see a... Oh, we might go see Avatar tonight. We're trying to run a whole theater out to see Avatar. You want to see it with us? No, thanks. Okay. It would be me and Chris. I got Coles charges.

Tripping Billy's. Yeah, well, we'll talk about it. We'll talk about it on the pod that will drop Wednesday. We hope that's if we can secure a theater to ourselves tonight because we want our own space for this. Which is tough sledding. Okay. All right, let's kick this off with America's teams.

shall we? Yeah, you want me to go ahead? Sure. Fuck it. The Dallas Cowboys. Yeah, obviously. I'm not even going to have to explain that one. The Dallas Cowboys,

they'll probably meet again. Okay, so number two, the Salvation Army. What a team. They come together to fight all kinds of... What are they fighting, Kyle? They're fighting all kind of fights. They're an army, Chris, and they're everywhere. They're here to Salvation Us.

Yes. Save us. Salvation Army. And they play good music outside of them. Salvation Army is a lot of us. Army is a Protestant church. Number three, Minnesota Vikings. 11, one score wins.

And you know what? It reminds me of my holiday season where it's like, man, have I done enough to get by the holiday? Oh, we won by one score. We got through Christmas. We got through Thanksgiving, okay. And now we're on to New Year's. I think it's kind of an American theme.

Just doing getting by. We were talking about this earlier, Kyle. Having kids is like being the Minnesota Vikings. You're always in a one score game. Even when you're up, you're not up by two scores. You're always up by five to seven points. When you're down, you could get it back. You can't ever put your helmet down on the sideline.

You can't put your helmet down. You can't relax. It's not like a preseason game where you can grab that tin of dip that you put in your sock down in your sock and sit on the bench and watch the fourth stringers play with a dip. The dip in the sock, yeah. I used to keep uncrustables in there. I'd go in at the half and get all the snacks. And I'd be like a drug mule. Well, the Minnesota Vikings.

They're kind of a microcosm of the American way during the holiday season. And then number four, the Rams, because I'm not as good as I once was, but I'm as good as I'm as good once as I ever was. But you know what? Hold on. Pretty good. That's tough. You know what, though?

They are better than they've ever been this year. If you look at the points that they're scoring. I love that line because Sean McVee was going to try his little butt off. Yep. Trying to make Baker work. And then the last one, I couldn't come up with the. right words here either it seems to be a theme but the department of energy thank you okay the department of energy sucking off utility there was a lot of people with this awful winter weather the last week that

were really struggling that were left without heat without power yes and i know hard these people were fighting during the holiday season to make uh people as comfortable as they can so thank you and welcome to the america's team list hey it was christmas eve and i was pulling out of my uh in-laws i think you saw my my in-law. I did. And the HVAC truck was coming up the road at about 10 p.m. Which is, that's just a... Christmas Eve.

10 p.m. You were like, roll on highway. Roll on the department of energy, man. I'm getting cold. Not too bad. You're up? Oh, sure. Okay.

The Carolina Panthers. Yeah. Ever heard of them? Yep. $3.20 to 45 on the ground. Deante, Chuba, Steve Wilkes assaulted with a handshake after the game. A little aggressive for me. Hey, I didn't see the handshake.

Oh, it was aggressive. We should pull it up. Pull that handshake up for me. It's a little much. That was an absolute ass kick. That's a fucking great job. You know what, though? Wilkes had to be like, you had to feel good about that.

When somebody enthusiastically thanks you for kicking, you know, Campbell's like, thank you for exposing these fucking pansies. It was so aggressive, though. would have been like is he he's serious right no well without the sound and without the context you don't know but if you know who dan campbell is you know he's going to congratulate you for kicking his ass yeah he's so real yep yep the pittsburgh steelers oh my god oh are we running through yeah we're yeah it's okay i got an extra five and two in the last seven i like this little group of skill players pickens friar mooth harris johnson moose and and can he pick it yeah hey give me canny pick

over that to a tongue of Ayala. Okay. Holy shit. Welcome home. And let us be the last to say rest in peace to Franks.

I remember during the Baltimore game in the first half, the dolphins. Right past that touching tribute. And you had, you texted me and you were like, man, this guy stinks. Like I'm coming around on this.

And then there was the month long of just scorched earth against the little giants and the like. And you were kind of like ready to troll. me and now you're back home welcome home that guy's terrible i mean that guy turned the ball over yeah i just cannot i cannot believe i had to listen to this bullshit for so long and and here it was a two a apology form i was i was on there my face was on there they

misquoted me i mean they got to start over they got to find a quarterback you think scylus yes yeah trade that guy mar jackson my dream of lamar jackson coming home is is not dead by the way. Very much a lot. We made such a big deal out of Buffalo, Miami playing in 28 degrees, maybe just because it was Miami. But 28 degrees is nothing. It's not that bad. It's nice. It's 16 outside right now. Yes. I mean, 28 degrees. I took the trash out in shorts yesterday. No problem. 28 degrees. Exactly. No problem. Yeah. Third one. Another one people love to hate, I think, the Green Bay Packers. I'll, um, awesome. They got, they got two at home in division to get into the playoffs. And now it's kind of like, all right, these are relaxed, everybody.

Aaron Rogers led Packers. Let's get him into the playoffs. Give the playoffs a little bit of credibility with all these stank teams with a little juice. 17 games and seven playoffs. Because it's the Packers or who? Like we're looking at the Lions, the commanders. They don't definitely get in with two wins. They need either the Giants or the commanders.

Don't let Aaron hang around though. So you just lose one game. Commanders and Giants both have to lose one game? Commanders would need to lose one. Giants would have to lose two. Oh, and the Giants play this week. weekend, do we know? The Giants have the Colts and the Eagles. I mean, rest in everybody. Anything is possible. The Giants are sitting really pretty right now.

Yeah, it's keep the Colts, winning in. Yeah, that's interesting. But here's the two, the two Green Bay playoff scores if they get in. You ready? Yeah. Packers 24, Vikings 23, all right? That's just going to, oh, the Viking. Can you believe 14 and 3 and you lose to Aaron Rogers? They're going to. His worst team in 15 years. And then it would be Philly 41 Green Bay 6. Don't you think that's how it goes? Well, I think the first matchup, there's enough to build some confidence for the Packers.

And the safety situation for the Eagles is up in the air. My fourth America's team is the Denver Nuggets. Denver Nuggets are 21 and 11. They're first in the Western Conference. NBA begins at Christmas, yeah? Maybe not until the Super Bowl is over. This is a fun team.

Nicola Yolkich, he went 41, 15, and 12 or something. He's the big guy? He's the big guy. I like him. He looks like a giant baby. He's just... 83 career triple doubles.

You can't jump. You could put a sheet of paper under his shoes. He couldn't clear it. But he's like an MVP. And he could also have you disposed of too. Have you seen his brothers? I love those guys. Yeah, you got no choice. He went for 41, 15, and 15 last night.

That's the fourth 40, 15, 15 game in NBA history. Other two, James Hardin and us. Oscar Robertson twice. They go. They're a fun team. There's no catch here. You're just putting an NBA team on America's team. Well, it's Christmas.

It started, you know? Yeah. And not a lot of these teams are a whole lot of fun. Thank you. Yeah, Kingston supports it. And finally, since this will have it on a Saturday, and we won't have another opportunity to get to America's teams, you know I'm a Michigan man.

The Texas Sister Christian Horn Frogs are one of my America's teams. founded in 1873, Kyle. Motor Ed! There you go. They got about a $2.5 billion endowment. It started off as the ad ran male and female college. How don't we get one of those $2.5 billion endowments here in Charlottesville? We just got to say that we're Virginia Christian University.

Exactly. Yeah. Exactly. Breaking news, the University of Virginia is now VCU. There's an arts school in Richmond that... That is no longer VCU. Yeah, they'll understand. Our endowment.

It's for God. It looks like our endowment as of October 21 was 14. Name image and likeness. We made our program and the name image and likeness of God. That's a lot. Chris. But I'll ask you this. What is an endowment?

Endowment just means it's like the collective bargaining agreement. It gives you all this money to spend on different departments. I don't think you can spend it. I think you just grow it. I think endowments, you just grow and you don't spend. You just talk about it. It's like a bond. They prop up the other fundraising.

Amazing. Right. Oh, they got a big endowment. We had a big endowment, but we also have an annual fund. And you're going to need to pay your tuition. So at any rate, TCU, only the 128th ranked English department in the country. But wait, the anesthesiology department of the nursing school, number 29 in the country. Wow.

DCU. Yeah. Nurses of America. I like Michigan, but it'd be fun of TCU. Crazy how much better they are at knocking people out than they are at reading. and how many people are actually still better. That's a football school for you. There you go.

That's a football school for you. It's a fucking game. Well, and shout out to... Somebody check on the VAMA anesthesiology department. Nodak State and SOTAC State. We'll have time to get to that because they take a month off between the semis and the finals,

but the Jack Rabbits and the Bison are going to be playing for the national title. Really? The Dakota Bowl. I'll be tuning in. In Friscoe, Texas on January the 8th. Okay. Let them play in the Nodak.

My America's teams, Flu survivors of America. Yes. Yes. We can touch each other. You know? Hey, man. That thing was no joke.

Oh, man. Let me tell you. Sunday. That shit changed my life. I'm a change man. I don't know if you knows. It's got a haircut. I don't smoke as much marijuana.

You're going to bed earlier. I tried to smoke a cone last night. I thought I had COVID. I couldn't stop coughing. I just, it's not something I do anymore. You know? And you go to bed early. I go to bed early.

Way to go. Yeah. You don't bet bucks money lines. I did bet bucks. Like they were the three teasers. Live under. Shout out to Tamaflu. I know you didn't have that luxury.

No, I didn't. It knocked it out a little quicker for me, but boy, I couldn't walk 10 feet without taking a break. Man, listen, I'm glad we're past that. Okay, flu survivors of America, if you're out there struggling with it, you're not alone. Tony Romo and Jim Nance, they had to call the Broncos Rams game on Christmas Day. Imagine rising to the top of your profession,

and they're like, you're going to be, well, at least it's in L.A., you know, so they get to go out to eat afterwards or whatever. But, yeah, you're away from your family because of the Broncos and the Rams. Come on. NFL players, braving sub-zero temps for our entertainment. They're in the holiday. True gladiators. They're out there shirtless.

Almost as brave as Bruce Willis and Die Hard. Yeah, a Christmas movie. Would y'all do pregame? Did y'all do those try hard things? Fuck no. No, we didn't. But I just went out there and I didn't wear sleeves. T.J. Watt had sleeves on.

By the way, Josh McDaniels, he's a headband guy. 70% or something of your heat escapes through your dome. Yeah. You know, what's he? He needs to talk to his sports science department. He's out there in a fucking headband. He put a hat on Josh. Losing all of his bandwidth.

Has he ever worn a hat? Because he's a visor guy. That's a big decision. I mean, it's fucking, it's below zero out there. It looks like you're playing in a beer fridge. That is weird that he never covers the top of his. Even Nagy went visor to Beanie. Injoku was out there shirtless.

It was 45 mile prior wind gusts. It was the coldest game in Cleveland Brown's history. And Jokku's like, I'm from New Jersey. I'm like, what? It's actually colder here. That's what he said. He was like, I'm from New Jersey. This is no problem.

I'm like, let me check the forecast in New Jersey. Nope, colder here. But hats off. I mean, literally hats off to David and Joku because he didn't even wear a fucking hat. He was letting all the heat escape. Guys look great too, by the way. All the fucking, the, the, the Seahawks

guys out there just shredded, dude. Who is the one guy? Is that their street coach? The strength coach is out there shredded. Good for him. That's my STL Memorial Award. That guy. Strength coach for the Seahawks.

Because even if they won or lost, you and I are talking about how shredded. Yeah, he was out there looking like, like Mario Lopez. Yes. if extra we're outside in sub-zero temperatures, you know when you get checking to the hotel and Mario Lopez is just screaming at you,

can't find the remote, extra, extra. You guys don't know what that's like. Yeah, in the hotel. Yeah, flip it up to the Superstation. Channel Zero. You might have saved by the Bell reruns, A.C. Slater. I never got into that one.

I'll try it after Seinfeld. Okay, personal trainers. Okay, it's New Year's resolution time. Yeah. So all you guys can roll your eyes as you listen to your new clientele that are going to last 10 days. Very good. All the things that they intend to do in 2023.

You're not going to do it. Steelers and the Panthers rounding this thing out. Steelers, Franco Harris Week. Obviously, that was tough, man. You know, like, it was one of those things in sports. You're like, this is not scripted. The guy actually passed away the week we're going to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the play that he's so closely associated with against the team that you made it against.

And it was beautiful. I'm going to give my Bevel Conway out right now to Steelers and Raiders. Like I said, playing in a beer fridge, you had that layer of ice silt that was just kind of like blowing on the, on the, on the, it looked like the grass was concrete. Ice dew. Yeah, ice dew, whatever it is. There was one time Minka Fitzpatrick ran out of the back of the end zone. They just fucking fell down because it was just solid ice behind the end zone. That was a beautiful game.

The Steelers, they're not going to go sub 500. Mike Tomlin's going to. going to keep that train moving. Yeah. And then the Carolina Panthers, and they were flexed, by the way, to the Sunday night spot at Baltimore. Carolina Panthers running the ball like the armed forces.

You got discarded Steve Wilkes. You got discarded Sam Darnold. By the way, the Jets fans Thursday night, that was terrible. I mean, that put the nail in the cough and a Zach Wilson, although they're not saying that outright. I kind of wondered if Jets fans were watching Saturday and thinking,

do we miss Sam Darnold? Yeah. This version of Sam Darnold is good. Now, of course, he's propped up by a running game that had run for more first half yards than any team. And, you know, in years, it was like 240 yards or whatever it was. But it's hard not to like the Panthers. And you're sitting there watching and you're saying, this is probably, this is the best team. Trust your eyes.

It's the best team in the NFC South. If you're Dallas, you'd rather play Tampa? If you're Dallas, you'd probably. You'd probably rather play Tampa. But in the back of your mind, you're thinking about that week one game that your offense really struggling against that defense. And as you watch Tampa,

even last night, I can't help but be impressed by their defense. These guys play hard. There were a lot of reasons to last night, and we can talk about this game, but there's a lot of reasons to kind of get frustrated and get mad at Tom Brady or the lack of chemistry between him and Mike Evans. you know, the picks, just not being able to move the ball with regularity on the fucking

the Cardinals, they got J.J. Watt out there looking like Prime J.J. Watt. By the way, that's the power of how inept the Arizona Cardinals franchises right now that J.J. Watt probably got snub for a Pro Bowl. How does that happen? He's the guy that doesn't get snub for the Pro Bowl. It happens the other way. He had eight and a half sacks this year, at least coming in this game. He was all over the field. Chris Collinsworth did not know how to talk about jay j watch young son did you notice that he was like uh and uh j jay's young son is watching i guess i miss that part two and a half months old so i guess chris makes a good point he's not really watching yeah he's he didn't know the kid's name he's like that was for you

young son j j j j j j ch chris chris was struggling through that but um i thought you know this was the first game that I've honestly thought and I've the entire year I've thought Tom Brady isn't going out like this right he's going to go find a new job with a better setup and finish the right way but last night was the first game that I was watching and thinking maybe he's done well all it was was let's get uh the running backs out into the flat and let me throw it to him as soon as humanly possible yeah and they don't have speed to separate you know they're down another tackle. You know, it just, it looks like hell on earth for Brady.

And maybe the worst part is they have to keep going. You know, like, it's not like they're out of it. Any other year they might be out of this thing, but they've got to keep going. And maybe you get Brady and Rogers in the playoffs. I don't know, but it was pretty depressing watching them go to commercial playing Mr. Grinch after every Brady interception last night. Trace McSorley and his huge hairless Dad. Did you see him?

Yeah. God, the guy's got a fucking jaw structure, doesn't he? Yes, yes, he does. I want to see him. You trace McSorley's dad? Thank you, and thank you for your service. Guys, Tester McSorley. Yeah, he's a service man.

He's his testosterone is through the roof. Yeah, and yet look like a nice man. Oh, it looks like a great guy. The gentle, chiseled. Veral. Is that the word, Veral? Veral. Veral?

Yeah. Yes, Chris, Chris, Chris. So I remember like one good Brady throw was the one to Evans and overtime. A corner route might be strong for, there he is. There's Mr. McSorley. Dog, look at his face structure. That's the white David Goggins. Yes.

Ready to come slaughter. Oh, he looks a little like Cheryl Hines. Larry's wife and Kerr. I know who Cheryl Hines. Your hornyness. Cheryl Hines appreciator. Honey. But don't ruin Cheryl Hines.

Do you remember that one throw to Evans where it was like, Right side line. Yes. There was a window. You had to fit it in. And you did. But everything else was to wait. He was thinking.

Every time him and Evans try to connect, it looks like there's this mental block. And Collinsworth talked about it. There was a play where, you know, if he just lets that ball go and trust that Evans is going to be open earlier in the game, that's an easy completion. And it's something that Brady does, you know, in his sleep. But right now there's something that's blocked. I don't know if it's the muscle memory of things going wrong this year. I don't know if it's the fact that he's anticipating getting hit.

But this is the first time I felt like, hey, maybe this is it for Brady. You know, so. Well, everything else was to God went engaged within a yard or two of the line of scrimmage. Yep. And I'm, I mean, what's he looking at on that surface? Because he's, he's staring at, he's staring through it. every single second he's on the sideline when he's not yelling at off the line. And I think that left tackle Walton actually held up decently.

He was getting a lot of heat from the broadcast crew, but it was all right. But I mean there only so many, all you're doing is checking down. Like, what are you looking for? I don't know what he's looking at. Maybe he's got that thing. He's got jailbreak Instagram on there. He's checking out his new, new GF. And Byron's always sitting right next to him.

Yeah. Todd Bowles is just muttering into his headset. Bulls, man. And there's some good players on that defense. Zavin Collins, Isaiah Simmons, Marco Wilson was all over the place. You mentioned JJ. But golly.

Let's not mention Buda Baker. Chris, I don't know Buda Baker. I don't think the answers are in that Microsoft surface. No, I don't think they are. Chuck it downfield if you want to do something differently. They're their best when they have to score at the end of games. Yes. As are a lot of teams.

But this is, you know, and I know that you want to play complimentary. football and whatnot, but you're not going to be able to keep up with people if you slide in the playoffs. Hell, you might not be able to keep up with the Carolina Panthers this week, one of America's teams. That is one game. If it is Dallas at Tampa Bay to start the playoffs. The best moments in a sports fan's life are in football season. I'm not talking about September. I'm not talking about the first week in October. I'm not even talking about the second week in October. I'm talking about when it gets colder, the temperature drops, the games get bigger, the hits get harder. The hits get harder. and you can curl up and watch some meaningful football.

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Can we talk about the Broncos real quick read? Certainly. Yeah, you love that. Real quickly. Yeah. I mean, spend much time here. Yeah, Russell, more picks. There's drama on the sideline.

You've got Rippin trying to defend him. But Fanyl looks like a lot of. different guy with heavy mustache heavy goatee yeah it looks cool he's seen some shit he can pass off his uh rich eisen's brother right rich eyes his brother i can't see that maybe well i'd have to see a picture yeah just like a sherele hines situation well so so here here's what i'm wondering in this game uh you know i i don't want to take time i don't want to beat the broncos up here but it looks like shit is absolutely hitting the fan on the sidelines every every bald white guy look like to read. Yeah, pretty much.

No rich eyes. Yeah, he looks like the, he looks more like the FIFA guy that got salt bay on the sideline. Honestly, he does look like the FIFA guy. Nathaniel Hackett a little bit. Who's the FIFA guy? The FIFA, the villain, Gianni Infantino, which loosely translates to

giant baby. Today I feel a Muslim. Today I feel a migrant worker. Today I feel a Russell Wilson. Yeah. Today, today I feel a Nathaniel Hackett. So here's my question. Have you seen enough from Baker Mayfield to peak your interest going at, especially with the situation you have.

You can't acquire draft picks. You can't give up a bunch of, now I still think they could trade Ramsey or Donald and recoup some picks and that sort of thing. But Baker Mayfield is running the fuck out of this offense. And I kind of wonder, if this Higby Mayfield thing, if it's going to be a long-term marriage

or one of these summer flings, you know, where Higby's like, I remember that. I had this really hot crazy chick that just showed up in town. Halfway through the semester. 41 balls. Yeah, right, exactly. And now I've got to go back to Matt Stafford,

who's got gray's in his beard. I don't know what's going to happen next year. Call me a sucker. Tell me I'm jumping out of the gym. But I kind of feel like, Sean McVey might be able to make a little something out of Baker-Mayfield, especially considering the circumstance where you don't have a lot of options. And I don't think Matt Stafford's a sure thing going in the next season.

Just based on the interactions that I was seeing. Am I talking myself into Baker? Chris, yes. I'm with you. Just based off the interactions I saw with Sean McVeigh and Baker-Mayfield on the sideline, you know, walking in and out from the kitchen to the game. I didn't watch the entirety of the game, but I see the score. I see that the vibes are good.

It just seems to me like it should work. And if McFay doesn't find anything that he hates about him, like he did with Jared Gough, then it could be in marriage and last. Well, we might be getting out in front of ourselves here, and maybe the Broncos just quit defensively. But they did a really good job. I mean, he hit some nice throws.

He ran the offense. The huge mistakes weren't there that I saw. You know, so I... And Cam Acres. Cam Acres is... One 18 for three touchdowns. playing himself into... Nine weeks ago, he was dead in the water.

What was that? Fox? CBS? What was that? CBS? Tony. Nancy fell on that grenade. And they kept being like,

this is, oh, I don't know, this could be a game. They put that out. Here they come, 4116. First letter of first name and then last name

when somebody scores a touchdown. So I was reading Kakers a lot, which is a cool little... That is. And then, Bigby. That is some phenomenon. Isn't that cool? I'm just sitting there looking at letters.

That's crazy. And reading them. Baker, we're four calendar years removed from him being the number one overall pick. I mean, maybe it's in there. But to your point, this is literally the beginning of a relationship where everybody tries their hardest. Where everybody tries their hardest. And, yeah, I mean, like, it's easy to jump out of the gym right now, and I'll do it a little bit. On a scale of 1 to 10, how much am I jumping out of the gym?

Like a 6 and a half. Yep. You know, like, let's see what the offense. holds the next couple weeks and going to the off season. All I'm saying is, consider it, Sean. It carries great weight with a roster of how you finish the season with a quarterback.

Like if it's not your normal guy, like if you finish hot, that's going to be the vibe going into the spring. And I know this isn't a popular take online because everybody, I mean, we get it. First round pick, quarterbacks, they get a million chances. Baker, you know, has been insufferable at times

so some people don't like Baker. you know the the odell thing uh Carolina didn't work you know got run out of Cleveland but maybe just maybe Sean McVe is a pretty good coach I don't know and that was the one thing that everybody should have taken into account yesterday before possibly betting the Broncos is the coaches you know like that just showed that showed up you know I think McVe can take some shit sometimes but he's a Super Bowl winning head football coach I just want to I want to know how the Broncos give up so many sacks. Oh.

I just want to know how many. Well, that's another thing is Russell Wilson no longer makes magic. And I don't see that changing. Even if the offense, you know, even if they get this thing down and they improve next year, when we used to play Russ, Russ would take off out of the back of the pocket and sometimes you get him, but sometimes it would go for 40. You'd find, you know, somebody in man coverage and throw the ball up. And, you know, every time he turns his back to the rush, it ends in a sack.

now. And, you know, I've just lost a little bit of a step. He's not as athletic as he once was. And the guy's talking about he wants to play into his 40s. I need John Brinkas sports science to break down the acceleration. He self-sacks. He self-sacks. He self-sacks. Like Matt Ryan back there. Yeah. And the Broncos are like the second most injured team in the league. We've had injuries all along the front. And our wide receiver core has been injured all year. But also, Russell, help yourself. There were multiple instances when we could had a six-yard pass for a first down, instead he's firing the ball

incomplete 20 yards down the field when he's bail in a pocket. You saw Cortland Sutton just freaking out at the first down marker while Russell zings a ball over his head to Dulchich. Yeah, that's not great. So real quick here, because I want to mention the Niners

beating the commies. The main thing from this game is there's two things. One, we had a Carson Went sighting. You know, I thought Rivera was fucking bluffing, but we did see Carson Went. It's all gone downhill for Taylor Hinekees since he didn't know who the Alman Brothers were. Do you think Taylor's play was going on there? Do you think it was worthy of benching?

I don't know, Reed. Unfortunately, I think the team's ceiling is the team's ceiling. Right. And, you know, no matter who's playing quarterback, I think they're a nice story, but they're not a contender. Right. You know, and so I'm not really sure what he's doing there, benching Taylor Heineke, but it's hard to argue because their offense hasn't taken that next step. Here's what I want to, the point I want to make, and their playoff chances are, you know,

if they win out. They control their own destiny, so if they win the next two games they're in. Cleveland and Balt and Dallas. And Dallas is going to be playing hard. We think. Maybe not. Maybe not. Not if the Eagles, well, it depends on what happens this week.

still up for grabs. The NFC is up for grabs. Dallas is toe to toe with a couple other NFC teams though, depending on who's going to get the home, who's going to get the home game if Minnesota plays Dallas? Who's going to get the home game if San Francisco plays Dallas? Isn't that the case? That's still in flux. I think Dallas is locked into the five. They locked into the five no matter what. They don't win the division, yeah. Yeah. Which is very unlikely at this point. So there's a good chance Dallas will be resting players on 18.

Yeah. Okay, well, the commanders could sneak in, but I just don't, I don't see their ceiling being that of a contending team. Here's what I want to say. Nick Bosa solidified his DPOI argument. The Dallas Cowboys played Saturday. We'll get into that game in a second. They had no sacks, no hits. You know, Michael Parsons is a great player, but I got into it with a couple fans last week of the Cowboys when I said that this is Nick Bosa's race to lose. after that Seattle game. The reason I say that is because he just wins so many one-on-ones. And that's what this thing's about is, are you winning rushes, you know?

Are you affecting ball games? And Nick Bosa affects ball games in a bunch of different ways. I know that, you know, Micah Parsons is probably more versatile, but there's also things that Nick Bosa can do that Micah Parsons can't do. And he had two sacks. He's up to 17 and a half. He had a fourth downstop. You know, this guy's going to challenge Alden Smith for the San Francisco.

Francisco 49er's sack record, I believe it's 19 and a half. And just a second to pause to talk about Alden Smith. When he was in his prime, he was one of the best rushers I have ever seen. And I know that sometimes people took something away from him because of Justin Smith. You know, they had the Smith brothers. And a lot of times, you know, he might get free on a grab game because Justin Smith used to put his big gloveless paws. Justin Smith have a small tattoo, tiny Anheiser-Busch.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which is, you got to worry about a guy when he's got a tiny, I'm sorry, that's the original cowboy, by the way. Yes, he's a total cowboy. But, yeah, Alden Smith was amazing. And now Bosa, you know, San Francisco plays, who do they play this week? He's going to have an opportunity to make a run. And with Armstead back, it's like he's even more dangerous.

Yep. Well, they got the Raiders, okay, there's, and then the Cardinals. He's got an opportunity to break that record. He's going to get 22 sacks. He could end up with 20 sacks this season. And, you know, I think, you know, the headline there is Bosa's secure. is the DPOI is what I saw on ESPN, and I think they're right. So preemptive congratulations to him.

To your point about how valuable he is, even when he's not getting in, he is getting home, obviously he was 18 times or whatever. When he's not getting home, he's still affecting the play. He's denting the pocket. He's forcing the wins from other guys on the line. And also he just has that mental hurdle. You have to leap over every play as an offensive lineman when playing against him. And the bottom line is this.

they have the best defense in football right now. And this weekend solidified it because the Cowboys had a chance to take care of business. And they did. They won the game, but they give up 34 points to the Eagles who've got a backup, you know, backup quarterback. I mean, Minchu's a heck of a backup, but he's a backup. If you want to be talked about like one of those defenses, you can't leave things to chance. I know they were the benefactors of four turnovers talking about that game. I thought DAC played magnificently, especially after that pick six.

I mean, that pick six was bad. Josh Sweat is a freak show. He shouldn't throw that ball. But 24 or 24 against zone coverage, and I kind of wonder if Gannon, you know, in the spirit of kind of what we talked about, is that you're going to see these guys again, change the way you play these guys a little bit and save something in the hopper for round three. He ran a lot of zone and DAC picked them apart. I thought early in the game, when they went down 10-0, the pressure was so high on

DAC from a football standpoint, getting back in that football game, but also from a, you know, like I hate to do this and use the L word, but a legacy standpoint, you know, he lives in a first-take world. You play quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys. Gardner-Minchu comes to town, and you spot these guys 10 points. In fact, they were down 10 twice to these guys. and Dak early hurt them with his legs. There was a third and five early in this ballgame

where Avanti Maddox has him, dead to rights in the backfield, came on a blitz, DAC escapes, pirouettes, and converts a first down. And that was just an enormous, enormous playing this game

because you can't go down three scores. And I thought what he did early and what he did late to put them in position to win this ball game was tremendous. It never feels like that team's out of it. You know, watching that game,

it's, wow, this Eagles team is really good. They're up two scores already, and then it's, wow, the Cowboys are really good. I don't think it's enough for the Eagles, and that as the game moves on, what did it finish, 40 to 34? 40 to 304. That's a lot of fucking scoring, man. To your point, those defenses, neither of which really impressed me in big moments. It's one or two stops for each side, and it could be lopsided either way.

Well, and there's a couple things here on the injury front. The Eagles have been very healthy all season long, but now you're waiting on news, on the Lane Johnson injury, which is huge. Massive. Driscoll got bowled back into Munchu on the last play of the game. You know, that's an important, important spot. He's quite possibly your best offensive player. I mean, when you look at it, you just look at like Madden ratings.

He's been, you know, one of the best players in the league the last five, seven years. And he's so important to what they do. You can just forget about that side of the line, right? And now you actually have to account for the left end. Way more than you did before he got hurt. So you got to worry about that. And then Avanti Maddox, who was out in the second quarter, was a huge injury.

And it could be an even bigger injury down the stretch if it's something that, I don't know what they're saying about the Maddox injury, but it was big in this game. He's one of the best nickels in the league. Scott, the guy that came in for him, really struggled. He struggled on that third and 30. Slay was really pissed off at him. You know, that third and 30,

they're in some variation of cover two in Slays in a trail tech. and the safety's just really late coming over. He's in the middle of the field. And, you know, there's no excuse there. And that's T.Y. Hilton's big, first big play. I think it was his first reception. Pretty cool to see him on the cover. Yeah, you know what?

It's good for T.Y. Hilton, getting an opportunity. He's always been a clutch, underrated player. Underappreciated. Underappreciated. But that was a backbreaker right there. And, you know, to have the safety play that you've had when you're at your best with Maddox, as your nickel, Gardner Johnson back there. And to see the drop off when the other guys come in,

I mean, Scott really struggled with Lamb. He had over 100 yards in the first half. He's a fucking beast. Lamb's a beast. He's 11 targets. He is a beast. So that's what you got to worry about if you're the Eagles. It's the safety position.

It's Lane. If you're the Eagles, you come away from this game and you say, all right, we're good. We don't have to worry about getting Russian Jalen back. I think we can steal a win against New Orleans with Minshew. offense operates really nicely with Minchew in there. But Dallas also kind of did the Minnesota game plan. When Minnesota played Philly in prime time, they played off coverage a lot.

And Minchew heard them in the intermediate areas of the defense. Now there was no quarterback run game you have to account for. I don't think this is one of those things where you just purely look at it from a point scored standpoint and say, oh, the Eagles' offense is no different. Eagles offense is different. And those turnovers, they're not all on Minchew. but, you know, the picks, they're 50-50 balls. Cuez Watkins is persona non-grata right now in Philly, and he also kind of lost them in the Washington game with that fumble

after that big reception. So, you know, the turnovers is what killed him. Four of them, Dallas's defense came up with them. Eagles defense didn't come up with him. Dallas fell on their fumbles. If on the Eagles, I feel pretty good about playing these guys the third time. One thing that changes significantly about the Eagles attack, particularly the run-pass option with Jalen Hurts or whoever it is a quarterback.

With Lane Johnson out on the right side, you're no longer to be able to fake that inside zone to the right because Lane Johnson is the spearhead that gets you off the line of scrimmage and clears two or three yards. If you do want to hand it, now you're going to have to scheme up the front side. You're going to have to put more tight ends. You're going to have to maybe put an extra alignment over there if you want to run to that side. It was a gimmee in the pass with one-on-one protection with Lane Johnson. and he's going to shut anybody off as well as the run. But it's underappreciated how significant it is having Lane Johnson out on the front side of that run game.

No question. Hell of a cover by the Cowboys, too, which gave us enough money to lose on the Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic. Who was in that one? Oh, everybody. They're about eight basketball teams. Oh, it was a ball game. Couldn't get it on the right side of any of them. But that line, that line kept climbing with the news that Hertz was going out.

But it settled it for. And that's why I think, you know, it was dicey if you bet the Cowboys. Is this help or hurt Jalen's MVP chances, do you think? Honestly, I think it's Patrick Mahomes to lose. I think it's Patrick Mahomes to lose. You watch him making plays like he made yesterday, stretching that football out at the pylon. He just makes those wild.

He's playing for an MVP right now. He makes those wow plays, and they have so little to work with compared to Philly. You know, I think Jalen's been sensational. And had he stayed healthy, you know, he had to be perfect to probably win the MVP race. He had to stay healthy. They probably had to win out. He had to be rock solid.

But logically, they drop another. Oh, they can't win a football game without this guy? Yeah, well, they didn't lose it because they're all-time. They didn't lose it because of Gardner. You know? No, the turnover is hurt, but he looked good. You know, I think if Gardner Mincher had come out and they'd have scored 14 points on the road and looked kind of out of sync, then maybe you'd be talking.

But I really do think when you look at this award, I tend to give it to somebody who adds a lot of value. And I know Jalen adds a ton of value. I've argued for that value. I've argued for the value he adds with his legs, his leadership, the throws he's made, the big throws he's made. He's done everything right. But, you know, if it's close, you give it to the guy that's not working with as much,

especially a guy who's got a bigger profile and has proved it over more years. And I think Patrick Mahomes is probably in the driver's seat right now. But again, we get into this thing and we're cutting hairs here, talking about who's the most valuable playing a league. We're not throwing shade at Josh Allen. We're not throwing shade at Joe Burrow. We're not throwing shade at Jalen Hertz. But all these guys are in the conversation.

I just think Patrick Mahomes is the guy that if he finishes strong and they secure that home field advantage and the road runs through Arrowhead. It's probably his to lose. We can go out and watch some of those games. Yeah, yeah. I really enjoyed my trip up there to watch. You guys beat the bills. I mean, that was, it's such an old school stadium.

It's just everything about it is I feel like it was the 90s. Yeah, you pull into this giant massive sports complex, the Royals baseball stadiums right there, arrowheads right there. It's one shared giant parking lot. People are there all day, ready to go. And then the sea of red, man,

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and pick up the ultimate daily nutritional insurance. I think Justin Jefferson should be top three for MVP. You're right about that. Talk about that game. I'd be remiss if I didn't say that. I'll talk about it a little bit. Kurt Cousins came out hot as a motherfucker. T.J. Hawkinson, Justin Jefferson, early and often in this game.

Also, Jefferson set the single season yards record for the Vikings, 100-yard mark, 24th, 100-yard game and 48 games. It's just unbelievable. He passed Randy Moss on the all-time single-season, or the single-season mark. The Vikings were awesome, as always. They won a close game, but I was really impressed with Daniel Jones all day.

People talk about Daniel Jones, the question marks surrounding the quarterback position in New York, and I think Daniel Jones has showed up throughout the year, but more importantly in the last few weeks, and show people that he is going to be the guy. I firmly believe in Daniel Jones. I think that the staff is great. They've been awesome for them.

And the weapons out there, Richie James, Slayton, all these guys making plays for him. Is they a Hodgins? Hodgons? Hodgians? Yeah. You're like, who are these guys just throwing the ball to?

I mean, I know who these guys are, but, you know, I thought, and they racked up 450 yards of offense, I think. I thought they looked great. It was also a testament to how, Now, the Giants couldn't finish some drives, and that's what cost them, right? You had Richie James had some big drops. You had a pick.

Graham got out of the best game of his life. They weren't perfect. But as I watched that game, and you're playing a 10-plus win team who wins a lot of close games on the road in a hostile environment is a whiteout. I'm not sure what the difference is between a standard. Yeah, they cheated with the fake end zones. Yeah. That was strange. They had to deal with that.

You know a white end zone with a purple border, both in bounds, and then a white sideline. It looked like two different sidelines. It was cheating. Opposite of Beville-Connor. It's cheating, yeah. So I just thought this was a spot where I learned a lot about the Giants. And, you know, the question's going to be is Daniel Jones the guy. I think he's done a lot to solidify a really strong case for, hey, we can build around this guy.

It'd be one thing if there were a bunch of weapons out there. that he wasn't hitting. But again, you name the people he's throwing the ball to. The defense isn't terribly talented. They're very disciplined. They do a lot of little things. Well, they've gotten a lot of guys like Jihad Ward, you know. Holy War.

Yeah, he's a holy war on the edge, man. He's always sitting that thing. Philly guy, shout out. Do you remember the first quarter against Washington, the New York Washington first quarter, where the commanders were fairly dominant? It was just Brian Robinson, eight yards a clip. I don't know if I can't remember a single play changing a season like that,

like that Tibido strip sack for a touchdown. It was huge. And you know what? Like we talked about him last week, you know, I don't think he's your Bruce Smith. He's not going to light the stat sheet up with a bunch of sacks every year. But what he is is a good all-round football player. He infuses energy in other players. And, you know, good for him because he heard a lot of shit in pre-draft

that had nothing to do with football, and he's handled all that stuff. But their defense isn't terribly talented. So there's a lot you can build around if you're the Giants. And you look at the reasons you're here and the reasons you're not taking the next step. And I don't think Daniel Jones is the reason you're not taking the next step. I agree. Giants were up 13 to 10 in the third quarter. Cousins gets the ball.

He hits Jefferson back to back on awesome throws, awesome catches. It almost looks too easy with Johnson Jefferson on the field. He's open all the time. Especially when you need. it. And then they go to Hawkinson with a huge catch on the left side that bombed the bread basket throw to Hawkinson. Touchdown. Touchdown was awesome. Strong hands. And then all of a sudden, you get Patrick Peterson hopping in the time machine, blitzin, making huge plays at the end of the game. Not enough. And a blocked punt. Justin Jefferson. I wrote Justin Jefferson, wow,

they elect to kick the extra point instead of going for the two-point conversion, which was a huge point in that game. Could have taken the lead by nine. Give the Giants a chance, right? Mm-hmm. Giants come down, score, and then obviously Greg Joseph, 61 yards. The Battle of the Kickers. That was like Curry and Dame Lillard all day. It was like, Ganoe, Joseph, Ganoe, Joseph. They were great.

And, you know, the Vikings, if they're given four points to an opponent who's halfway decent, bet the other team. Because they're always winning close games. You know, we said this last week, Indie was free money. Well, it didn't look free in the second half. But the Giants were in this game the entire time. I had the Giants catching four. This weekend, the Vikings play the Packers.

And actually, let's guess a couple lines, shall we? Yes, I got them right here. Let's do that before we get in the Packers' Dolphins. I'm really good in my car doing this with Simmons and Cousin Sal. I'm not so good in this space, so I'm going to try to slow things down. These expectations setting. And I just want to apologize to Bill Simmons for doing the same thing you do sometimes. we're going to guess what the line.

It's a great idea. To put a bow on that, Justin Jefferson should be in the MVP race, and Daniel Jones is the quarterback for the Giants. That's period. Okay. Well, shoot, Brock Purdy is about to win a freaking Super Bowl. So, yeah, let's roll with DJ.

Yep. All right, Vikings at Packers. Kyle, then making them. Vikings at Packers. Vikings at Packers. I've got Packers minus two and a half. I was going to say Packers, two and a half, yeah. This is the time of year where you got to think about

what people are playing for. So I'm thinking about Minnesota. Okay, they're not, they're not locked into the two probably. San Francisco can still jump by. But it's also an NFC North matchup. Later round consideration. Packers must win out. What time of day is it?

What time of, what time? Four o'clock game. Oh, it's going to be a good one. Dark and limbo. What's going on with Christian Watson? You know, because he had a hip yesterday. Dobbs had a drop. He also had a 14-point swing that turned out to be zero points

because Aaron Rogers sailed him the football at the end zone, and then he threw him a low red ball, and he tripped and fell over. I'd be so pissed by us. He was going to be my SDL Memorial. I think you guys are close, but because it's a must-win for Green Bay, I'll go even higher. I'll go three and a half. You guys all tie.

It's Packers minus three. Okay, good job, guys. We're on it. Another one here. Does that count? Biggest game of the week is probably Dolphins at Patriots in terms of playoff consideration. Dolphins minus two. Dolphins minus one and a half.

Dolphins at the Patriots. Patriots, they're both stealing. I would bet the pads though. Man, because, yikes. Again, not to get into the dolphins, but they're going to force turnovers. Can I recuse myself on account of

losing lots of money on the Miami? They're going to run the fuck out of the ball. They need to. I cannot believe those interceptions. It's dolphins minus one. Dolphins minus one. Okay, so we were right on it. Pick them.

What about, hey, is Jeff Wilson not healthy? Well, he wasn't healthy, but he played this weekend, yeah. Okay, because every time I looked up, it was Rahim Moster. Well, Moster had a great game. He was awful, except for the fumble. Yeah. Yeah. Not the most dynamic return man.

When it's like, damn, two is going to turn it over, so you just need to run back the kickoff. Well, listen, let's pause here on this game. this was a free money situation. Because the Packers, the Packers moved the ball on these guys, and they moved it late in the game without Christian Watson. You know, they hit Mercedes-Louis for a big chunk,

which was probably an incomplete pass. A couple of 2013-looking balls and catches from Mercedes-Ler. Rogers had some nice balls. He also had some not-so-great balls. They just stuck with it. They hung around. there were times where the dolphins could have put this game away and they just didn't. Obviously the late picks were awful.

No surprise. Three of them. Bing, bomb, boom. Man, there was a point in the game where I had the over and I was like, man, the Packers are driving. They're up 23, 20 at this point. They have a chance to make it 30 to 20. But I kind of wanted them to lay up and kick the field goal just so that the dolphins

had to be in a presser situation. I go watch Tua throw another pick. Okay, you can tell me Robert Griffin, the third, that I'm climbing out of my cave. I live in a single family home. Thank you very much. And I'm not a Tua hater. I'm a Tua hyperbole denier.

You have eyes. Tua realist. When you're insecure about your take and you're experiencing cognitive dissonance, anyone who disagrees with you is a hater. But all I've done is just tell the truth. about what I see with my eyes on the football field. So I want to take the time to invite apologies from anyone who said, I don't know ball.

I want to invite apology from that young lady who was peppering all our mentions. Our mentions under our posts for like a month when the Texans and the fucking Browns couldn't slow to it down. You know, you can just put that apology the same place. You put all that craziness under our show posts. The CBO Box 6969 Reality Avenue. You know, the people that made the Tua apology form that I'm featured on, you can apologize to that fucking humanoid dolphin that told me to meet him in Temecula.

I told him to meet me in Temecula. Somebody said, meet me in Temecula? No, I was fucking with the dolphin. But you can all apologize to me. You can all apologize to me. The only thing I was wrong about the dolphins about maybe is that they might make the playoffs. I picked them to go to the playoffs

and you found a way to be so bad late in the year that that might not be true. The no flag on the 3rd and 15. Also, RG3, do you know how the internet works? Fucking every six yard out that Tua completed over a seven-week span, you and Emmanuel Acho had a fucking had a party on the timeline. And now, you know, somebody wants to point out that Tua went for the hat trick in the second half

of one of the biggest games of the season. Yeah. Patrick. Yeah. Well, I mean, you know, you guys learn how the internet works, please. Miami made their bacon middle of the season. Steelers, lions, bears, Browns, Texas. They barely made their bacon against the Steelers,

lions, bears, Browns, Texans. One thing we're not mentioning about this game was the amount of fourth down, go for it, situations that were in this one. Yeah. We saw Aaron Rogers, QB, Sneaks. We saw Tua in fourth. and fourth and ones. We saw some really cool play calls.

There was one here that was, third and one, AJ Dylan got stuffed. It was 10 to 20. The Packers were down 10. Third and one, AJ and Dylan gets stuffed. Fourth and one,

the Packers hit a play action to convert. There was tremendous action. This play was drawn up so beautifully. If you go back and watch, the one that set up the 13 to 20 field goal by Mason Crosby. But it was a little play action, rollout action for Aaron Rogers. vintage Rogers, seeing him get outside the pocket and make a quick strike.

Aaron Rogers looks like Aaron Rogers. I don't give a shit what anybody says or how much ayahuasca he took or how many practices he missed. I've heard it all this year, but he's still Aaron Rogers. The good Aaron Rogers, the best of Aaron Rogers still looks like the best of Aaron Rogers. Yes. You know, he hit a couple beautiful balls yesterday, and he's going to have to play his best ball over the next two weeks.

But it does feel like they're rounding into form a little bit. The Watson injury is going to be the big one for me. See where that kind of ends up. Okay, more lines. All right. How about Monday night's game, Buffalo at Cincinnati? Oh. Oh.

I'm going to go. Callie. Buffalo Bills. Big game. C-C-minus four. And I know that that's not the line, but. Oh, so you like the Bengals. I like the Bengals.

Buffalo at Sensi. Bill scared me a bit against the Bears. And then all of a sudden it was like, Yeah, we got to show up for this game. Now it's 45 to 15. Yeah, well, they're out there chucking the ball in sub-zero temperatures. Before you hit the line, just remember,

the Bengals lost their starting tackle for the season. Yeah, and I want to talk about this game in a second, but let's, including that loss, give me three. Since he by field goal, yeah. Kyle?

I think it's going to be closer. I think this thing's going to be almost like a pick-em. Yes, that's why I say pick-em. But if I had to make the line, go ahead. It's bills minus one and a half. Yeah. Yeah. Surprising to me.

Well, are they trying to get Johnny Public there on a 3513 final score in Chicago? Because that was 21. They might. And, you know, the Bengals struggle to escape Gillette and that sort of thing. But let me say this about Sinci. And this was the most interesting game of the weekend. First off, karma's not real. Okay, in football, because Mac Jones did the scummiest all-time fucking move.

You know, there have been times where he's been called dirty before, and I kind of looked the other way because I was like, I need to see it. You know, the Brian Burns play. It's a little Duke point guard in him. What's that guy's name? Grayson Allen. And then this weekend, you know, since he's running the ball back on what was actually

not even a touchdown, and he just launches himself. Was it into Bates his knees? Like a Domican's move. It was worse. It was worse. Oh, the play. This is one of the worst. I mean, I don't mean to be hyperbolic.

Kyle, he's a fucking scumbag. Look at this. That's the scummiest shit that I've seen all season. And, you know, at some point, I'm going to be pulling for people on defense playing Mac Jones to put a little extra English on all sacks and hits. There's no doubt if I'm in a D-Line room or a linebacker room and I see this and I got Mac Jones coming up, I'm saying, boys, we're going to fuck him. Marked man.

Yeah. Marked man. We used to do that to linebackers who would hit us after the play. Jaylin Phillips, Bradley Chubb, Melvin Ingram, T-off, fellas. You know Melvin Ingram's going to take some shots. T-off. Because this is the scummiest shit I've ever seen. But the reason karma's not real is the very next play, they get the deflection for the touchdown.

The football gods. Yeah, football gods are like, oh, we're actually huge scumbags. He gave a lot of money to the church this year. Don't ever talk to me about football. God's again. That was 20, Eli Apple, just to... Is Eli Apple? Yeah.

So, and one of your favorite... My guy. His mom was not happy. So, so I, I, um, karma's not real. The Pats were lucky to get back in this game. Last week, you lost on the laterals. This week... This was worse in my mind.

This is worse because you have an opportunity at home to basically kick that ball through the uprights and win the game. If they hit both their... extra points earlier in that game. They're not down four. They're down two. They're going to be kicking to win that football game. They also missed a two-point conversion. Just the last Nick Folk extra point.

That's a cover. You're thinking, you're thinking gambling, and I know that this one hurts you. He texted me before the game. He's like, Chris, I know you're not going to want to hear this, but New England is the right side. Yes. And then he texts me, goes, 22-20-1, New England. and I laughed at him and I turned that game off because I'm watching the other games and I said,

holy shit, but New England has to be fucking kicking themselves here. No pun intended. Yeah, well, because of the extra points, but not just that. You mentioned Remandre Stevenson with the big fumble and Von Bell took it off him. Again, the Bengals being ball aware, they've done that all season. But Ramonre Stevenson out of the half, fumbled the first play of the half. They throw him a ball in the flat. he's running towards the sideline.

He gets stripped. The ball goes out of bounds. So no harm, no foul, right? Usually the ball doesn't touch his hands again, though. Yeah, exactly. And that's the thing. And the bill I know, he doesn't see the light of day. He's like, take a seat.

You know, and it ends up being coming down to Remandre-Stiefenson fumble. And the only other back, you got a carry was Kevin Harris. Yeah, so they were down Damien Harris. He was inactive. Damien Harris is inactive. I understand you don't have a lot of choice. is there but it just sucks that like you know ball security is such a big deal to them the guy that fumbles out of the half probably if they have a full stable of backs doesn't see the ball again no

and then you know in the low red at the end of the football game they but that's what the bangles do they they play tough sound ball aware defense and they made just enough plays uh to win and also mac jones uh missed uh missed a fucking touchdown in the third quarter on a go ball they're gonna look at lot of stuff that, you know, the Patriots are going to look at a lot of stuff at the end of the season as they miss the playoffs most likely. I mean, I don't know what their chances are at this point, but if they win both their games, they're in. So they got to beat Miami and then, and then Miami and Buffalo. Yeah, so it's going to be tough. Well, it depends on what Buffalo does since then. The big regret that the Patriots will have when they watch the film is, yeah,

there's all these issues that happen, fumbles, and things happen in a football game. But at the end of the game, when you get a chance in a two-minute situation, you line up and you got to execute. And what they did was have a delay a game, 10-second runoff. That is the worst way to start these two-minute drives. You can't take a sack. You can't have penalties. And they didn't even have an opportunity to run a play.

A lot of very un-New England things happening to them the last couple weeks, including the fumble, the lateral. A couple things with the Bengals offense, man. T. Higgins? is he's just so he won me fantasy this week probably my favorite it's my favorite quarterback receiver duo to watch he's an alpha because he's just such a big fucking target i love watching him catch a back shoulder fade i love watching him stand next to a marcus jones he's six four marcus jones is five eight the first drive they get him involved right away and one of the things that i thought they did

really well is they took the checkdowns early they just took what they were given until they until they put this game almost out of reach. You know, in the second half, Burrow threw a couple picks in this game. You know, there was the late in the game, the zero blitz that I believe came down to communication with him and Jamar Chase. He's thrown to a spot there.

I think Chase is supposed to be there. Didn't see what you saw. Given the benefit of the doubt. And then there was also the pick in the high red, which, you know, they're up 15-0 at that point, I think if they drive them, the ball in. They got to feel pretty good about their chances. But Tyler Boyd kind of quit on the route. So I thought Burrow played a really clean game. I don't want to explain away all his

picks, but this is a circumstance where I don't think those two were really on him. Boyd should have competed for that ball. I don't know what happened there. Another thing is this fucking guy, the child actor, Trenton Irwin, Trenton Irwin, had a huge day. The first time. The first time, touchdown was a really weird McCordy angle. I don't know if he didn't see him or was just tracking the ball or what happened. The rare bad McCordy angle. Yeah, the third and four that he caught early in that game was beautiful. He, you know, I think it was covered two man and just thread the needle to this guy.

And then the low red touchdown before the half was big. He had a touchdown late in the game, but it's just off his fingertips. That's the one ball that Joe Burroughs going to want back had they lost. that game but I think Joe Burrow just showing more and more why he's such a coveted piece under center. I mean, he's just nails. I know some people were like, I threw two picks, but the

picks, in my opinion, again, were miscommunications and a wide receiver quitting on a route. They came to do what they had, they came to do a job and they did it. They won a tough football game up in New England. So tough to win. They still have an opportunity at that one seat in the AFC. It's an outside

chance, right? What would have to happen? Well, they got to be Buffalo. And they need the chiefs to lose Yeah, they need, yeah. Which is why I think, I don't know about that line. I think since he beats Buffalo. I think since he beats Buffalo. I think since he beats Buffalo as well. I don't know.

There's no need to jump the gun. We haven't given our picks yet. But give us a couple more lines here. Hey, I got a kid. She's one. She's about turned two. But then I say, how old are you now? And she still just holds up the one finger, which is a cool thing.

And here in a couple weeks, that's not going to be doable anymore. At any rate, she's got a, a little kickball looking thing and she and she was walking around the house carrying it

and then she threw it and I was like oh Ramandre huh? dropped the ball and then and then she said Ramandre

and she said you know that's cute that's cute how your gambling is bleeding into your fathering on to Cincinnati

can I say something before Baltimore Atlanta we're about to get into our mentions Miller Light mentions our Miller Light mentions Baltimore Atlanta was like the medieval times bowl, dude.

Those fucking uniforms, they look like a bunch of court gestures out there. Baltimore's got the stupid fucking Maryland crest, and then Atlanta's running around out there in tights looking like, doesn't it look like a medieval times situation? And Arthur Smith looks like a dad who's fired up to be at medieval times. Yes. That game sucked objectively, but I was entertained at how hideous the uniform matchup was. single from the four,

Alger for two, then I'll jeer for zero, then Ritter for one, then I'll gear for minus one. Yeah. Yeah, that was, that was no good. Give us a couple of lines,

then we'll get into the mentions. NFC South rubber match. Panthers at Bucks. Panthers at Bucks. Panthers playing better than the Bucks. People are, but yeah, the Joe Public is going to think, absolutely.

I think Panthers by three. I think they're going to try to hook people into betting the Panthers. And as I'm watching the Panthers destroy the lines, I'm thinking of myself, like this is a tailor-made situation if the Bucks don't come out hot for everybody to be on the Panthers. What do you think makes? Panthers at Bucks?

Yes, sir. Panthers is one and a half. I don't think you're giving Joe public enough discredit. I bet it's bucks, two and a half. makes got it bucks minus three oh man bet the panthers bet the panthers i will be interested i think probably a lot of the tickets are going to be on the panthers so i want to kind of keep track of that yeah but dude i they just a defense Tampa Tampa defense might might complicate things broncos at chiefs chiefs have

something to play for for sure oh man chiefs by nine and a half wonka's don't know how to beat the chief Chiefs by a Foles. 11. Broncos at Chiefs. Chiefs do have self-play for you. Time of day, please. 11. Language of origin.

Using the sentence? Well, the Chiefs just had whom? Chiefs just had the Seahawks. Chiefs just had Seattle and that was nine and a half, yeah? Yeah. And now the Chiefs have the Denver Broncos. Seattle was really, I'll go, I'll go, I'll go, I'll go 11. That's my number.

Chiefs by 13. Yeah. Geez. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. I want to bet the Broncos there. Yeah.

If you dare. Ross looks great. Well, he did. He looked good a couple weeks ago when he was playing the Chiefs. Yep. Yep. One more. Colts at Giants. Colts Giants.

Giants by four and a half. Whoa, whoa. Giants minus six and a half. I think it will be the New York Giants favored by four points. Yeah, it's Giants minus three. Okay. Bet the G, man. Yikes, that's a little low.

They got a lot to play for. I know. Well, you know, fucking... What do you think about tonight? Colts Chargers? I don't. That feels squirrely. I'm going to tell you what I'm going to do tonight.

I'm going to go to see Avatar. Look at you, man. I'm just going to ignore Monday night football. You're going to be hydrating. I don't know that I'm going to gamble on the game, although I'm up big the last couple weeks. I just, I think this is a good one to sit out. I don't want to go into this pivotal week down because I bet Monday night football like an idiot. You give me some of your money to invest.

And you get out of your movie. I've seen how that's been going. You get out of your movie. Yeah. And we'll see, you know, either you have more money or, or my, my, I'm forever. indebted. You know the movie with Richard Gear where he just pissed away people's money?

Pretty woman, yeah. There's one more recently about the financial crisis, I think, and he's Bertie Madoff. It's kind of what you remind me of right now. No, no, no, no. I actually haven't been kind of hot. You know, there's groups of people that are kind of mad about the Avatar movie. Why?

The indigenous folks. I think that the story has been stolen. Every story's been stolen, Kyle. He had a couple words in the run-up when he was getting interviewed about it. Yeah, he sounded like an idiot. Yeah, yeah. I love this line of sight to you, cowboy.

This is good. Right here, yeah. You're looking good. How's your Christmas? Mellow. Mellow. Of course, it was Mellow. Yeah, yeah, yeah, pretty good.

Got over the flu, you know. I sort of have a question for you guys. So you got the Titans this weekend playing the Cowboys and the Jaguars playing the Texans. Neither one of them is anything to play for until the following week for the AFC South. So like, is that true? Yeah. That's interesting, yeah, because it's going to come down to week 18 no matter what.

The next game doesn't matter. So those teams rest. Which is going to be a great, great game. Probably going to be. Yeah, you know what? I don't want to. I say don't sit them. By week.

Let's see. Would you rather have nothing on the line in week? What are we 17 now? Well, we might get a half of football then. Or would you rather have since you want to get, you want to get half a, half a, half of football in. So you're saying you'd rather no stakes as opposed to Sissy Buffalo

where you've got to be all the way up. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. In January. Oh, I like being all the way up. Oh, you do? Yeah, I do. Okay. I do.

A lot of the 9th, two-hous bases loaded down three. Every week, though. I think it sharpens the sword. You're in the playoffs, so to speak. You're in that mode when you go in. Okay, let's go mentions real quick. Miller Light mentions. Mensions, huh?

So Best Flight, um, I'm going to give this flight to the, the Bengals on Christmas Eve, getting home relatively early. They played in the 1 p.m. game. They escaped Foxborough. Yeah, I don't,

you could say the Packers, but a long fucking way. You could. Yeah, you could. I got the Jacksonville Jaguars. A little mini-bye on Thursday night. Mini-bye. Mini-bye.

They got to fly on the Caribbean from there. And now you're in first place with Houston beaten Tennessee. That was one of the worst football games I've ever seen. Didn't watch it. I mean, bless you. It was terrible, dude. Is there any?

No, Jacksonville and the Jets. Oh, sorry, my bad. Watch every single snap. It was awful. I was on that one. It was awful. Yep, yep, yep. I mean, I've seen some bad, this was like,

I think that that was the game. That was a straw that broke the camel's back. Yeah, Jets fans, you know, shots of Jets fans in the stadium was pretty much I was living for that. Yeah. My best flight, it was Green Bay. When you play in Green Bay or Chicago or Minnesota, Detroit, you get an opportunity to play somewhere like Miami late in the year. What a great trip.

The flight down there was probably awesome. The flight back, clearly awesome. It's not cold when you're waiting on the tarmac to get onto your time. Coming around on this, Kyle. But you know what? When you get to Wisconsin, you're going to be nice and sauced up, lubricated, properly insulated with that Woodford that you have on there. And you'll be back home.

Wisconsin can't drink on the plains co well I bet you Aaron Rogers does uh worst flight I'm gonna go with the Raiders head wins much think about that you know I fuck dude that's a long flight game ended at 11 10 p.m. I'm about to take my melatonin and go to sleep derrick car jacob's is talking about he's not going to be the team next year rough dude rough Derek cart those three picks all on in breaking routes yeah what the fuck are we doing you saw the same stat yeah uh those inbrose breakers no man well he's gonna be on the plane a while and they're just gonna be flying into the wind against the win like bob seager that's they're in bob segar mode sat saturday night

detroit fucking christmas and they gotta go back to los vegas for christmas looking at a bunch of cacti that's not christmas christmas in the desert well counterpoint uh bad santa was set in uh Arizona? No question. All I'm saying is it's not very Christmassy and you had to fly about eight hours to get there. I want my fucking lunch break.

And you've been eliminated essentially. I mean, they're basically out of it. They could get lucky. How lucky would they have to get? They have to win both games, then have the commanders lose both games or the Giants. Now the commanders could lose both games.

Cleveland. Cleveland at home. But it's the giants they need to lose. Yeah. Either one. How could you drop? me onto my own head. Bad Santa.

Detroit Lions, worst flight. It's not going to be shitting right for a week. Hey, I don't know. Apache Junction. Apache Junction. The fucking Lions,

you know? Just beat Sam Darnel. But lions aren't that team yet. You know, you can't just put it on cruise control and go win an NFL game. Well, Dan Campbell was not on cruise control after the game.

No. No. That was an asking. Dudes were not tackling. I'll tell you that much. So that stinks. Now you've made things harder on yourselves. Yeah.

Commanders. Dough. It's a long flight. Coming home across the country, also probably into some headwinds. No, no, no, they get the tailwinds. On tailwind, then. At least they're getting their ass-wooked on the way home, too. Nice save.

Christmas Eve, probably a really tired Christmas, which definitely sucks. Yeah. You know? Carson went straight into a tree stand. That guy kills more deer. than any NFL quarterback in history. Hollow Man, I guess I could give it to Tua, but I'm not going to do that.

I'm going to take the high road, you fucks. I'm going to give it to the NFL social media team who tweeted out Franco's Italian Army during the game. Oh, yeah. There was a flag that was hanging up next to the 32. And see, flags are hard. Kind of looks like an Italian flag. Flags are hard.

Similar colors, you know, the whole thing. thing. Him and Mike Tariko, both Italian. Franco's Army. Hey, without even looking, I can tell you that the Mexican flag has something in the middle of it. It's got an eagle. Look, see? It's not good. It's just a big, it's a big flag confusion situation. Flags are hard. You've always said it. Franco's Italian Army with a Mexican flag. They used to drink wine at the stadium and they would hide the wine in baguettes of bread, which is awesome. Okay. Give me, uh, give me,

Give me your hollow man. Hollow man. My hollow man are Zach Wilson and Tua Tua Taka Viloa. Zach Wilson, I'm getting you a VR headset for Christmas and you're going to be able to win football games on that. Tua. Like the kid laying on his bed in the commercial that's like, I want to win games for Dallas Cowboy,

and then they slap the Oculus. That's Zach Wilson. I'm glad I said men. Nick Fult, Remandre Stevenson, for obvious reasons. But hey, hey, kickers are going to be a problem here in the playoffs. There are a lot of kickers. good kickers who are struggling. And there's a lot of kickers doing well, too, but

kicks aren't a gimmee anymore. The kickers who are doing well are on a couple bad apples. Fairly irrelevant, it seems like. I mean, even your guy, Tyler Bass and Buffalo struggling. Harrison Buckker's struggling. Butchers had a rough go at it.

Yeah. Watch out. That's a reason to like the Bengals, actually. McPherson's solid. Yep. McPherson has not been solid. Another good one. McPherson,

Had a bad year last year, I feel like. I can't get the Packers game out of my head. I feel like he was MVP last year. He, uh, didn't he, am I, am I crazy? It might just be because I was watching the Giants of Vikings games, and those guys were just fucking launch codes. Does he suck this year? He missed extra point, the first touchdown against the Pats.

Okay, well, it was fucking freezing this weekend. Let's not be overreactive. It was cold making. You know, all these guys are kicking frozen, solid leather balls. Thank God for Ryan's suckup, man. Suck up was great last night. I was going to be a rough man.

For the family. You got a, you got a STL Memorial? Oh, I got a viewing party, Kyle. That's good. The guy who got yelled at in Las Vegas, sign me up for getting yelled at in Las Vegas. I got a box for you. I'll sit with Robert Kraft. That was incredible.

The guy's first football game, some woman gives him RSV to the face. Just screaming six inches from his face. And Robert Kraft finds him and sits him in his box with him. Yeah. It was incredible. What do you think him and Robert? What do you think him and RKK talked about? I thought the video was really cool, the inception of this whole thing,

because the guy was just like, I'm just here to watch a game. Yeah. Why are you screaming at me? Yeah, that was cool. Shout out to that guy. Yeah, shout out. Gary Edmund. Picture of patience.

Yeah. Small talk with RKK.K. You ever, you would probably know better than us? Yeah, I talked to him a little bit. He's a good small talk. He's a good small talker. I like RKK. Yeah.

I don't not. It's a good man. I love RKK. Robbie. I just don't know if he's going to. Bro, if he can make small talk, he makes small talk with Meek Mill. He can make small talk with Bill Belichick. He's got range on the small talk.

I guess what I don't like is the small talk. Maybe if he goes deeper. Maybe he was going deeper. Give an example of small talk. Oh, you see his weather? Yeah, it's cold. Yeah, man. I remember back in 96, I was also cold.

You should have seen him. There was a game, and it was cold. STL Memorial, give it out, Kyle. Well, I got to do my viewing party. Sure. It would be Jerry's World. Always seems like a really fun place to be. I loved playing there.

I hate that stadium. Because it's like a fucking circus. You feel like some places are cathedrals to football, like U.S. Bank, like, Jerry's World, like the hard rock, these new bright light places. It would have been a cool place to watch that game. The total recall-ass stadium. You feel like if the glass breaks. I really wish that Gardner Minchew would have done it.

Oh, yeah. That would have been nice. Viewing party, Jerry's World. Okay, that's a good one. Kyle wants to go to Dallas. I just, I want to be a party that Brady Leftwich, Microsoft Surface Party on the bench. Just what are we talking about?

I've tried to read their lips like hard. all year. It's really, we need a lip reader. And Brady will walk over in that face to, oh, Kyle. Brady will walk over that poor Hainesie

and then just walk away saying motherfucker at that time. Oh, Denver. Yeah. What the fuck are we doing? Okay, any other mentions guys? Hell yeah, dude. I've got to fly on the wall.

I would have loved to been one of the extra alignment during the, following the Broncos sideline debacle, the scuffle. And Rizner, he was screaming at the quarterback And then, like, rip it. And then the next time they come back for commercial, Rizner is getting talked to, like, sawmiss by Russell Wilson.

Through a football. You know how the NBA guys cover their mouths when they're like, no one can hear us talk about free agency. And all these, I'm sorry. Yeah, but like Russell, like no one cares, man. Like, you know, you don't need to put the football up to your face, like a harmonica. Fly on the wall. Yeah. Flying the wall. I've already mentioned all these. I want to be on the other side of that. Todd Bull's headset.

What are you talking about? Because it's not advancing your team's cause. Game ball, seedy lamb. Game ball, Dak Prescott. 11, there we go. Same garage. Game ball, T.J. Hawkinson. That's a good call. I like that.

Frank Gore, St. Louis Memorial. Man, you know. Zach Tom, left tackle, Green Bay Packers. Yeah, number 50, bro. He's out there number 50. Yeah. They're balling. Yeah.

There's a play I really like. His name's Jamin Davis. He's a linebacker for Washington. Jamalna! Oh, Jehan Dodson could get this too. Jehan Dodson is an incredible player. Yeah. Goes up and gets it.

They've got something in the future there. I got you somebody else who goes up and gets it who's a rookie. Drake London. Drake London, yeah. Nobody's watching, but he does. They only put it up in there a few times a game, but he's really good. The medieval Times Bowl. Weirdly, I don't know if it's weirdly since they're all taken in the freaking first round.

those receivers are all really good Olave, Garrett Wilson, Drake London. Would Baker Mayfield qualify for the St. Louis Memorial Award? Sure, he's balling in obscurity, 24, 28? I mean, everybody was watching, but they weren't really watching. That was the biggest background noise game of all

time. I guarantee you a bunch of TVs were still on it, and they probably got the ratings for it. I was rocking the baby. I was like, I'm going to be doing this and this and this. I was like, I'm not going to be able to see it, you know, but luckily it was a blowout. It was just noise. We were playing Nintendo Switch. I could hear the game.

Second mention, I got this little daughter, right? And she's saying, beep, beep, beep, which means she wants to put wheels on the bus on the TV. And I told her that I had to keep watching football for work,

51 to 14. Even she was like, it's fucking 51 to 15. I don't even know. Russell Wilson is out there. Yeah, well, my wife was kind of walking around the couch yesterday as the Rams went up like 41, 14. It became like one of those things We're like, do you really have to watch this for your job?

That's tough on dad. This seems like gratuitous. No, it was tough on the family that I wasn't paying attention to my family on Christmas in lieu of that game. I know, but Cowboy Reed, like your Broncos, can you hold them under like 40, under 50? Just so we can look busy. Just about every other game we could have, but Baker. I had a notepad out there for, I'd say.

All right. Any games we didn't mention, Houston, Tennessee. Good for Lovey Smith. Houston, Tennessee, Davis Mills. Great job. Did y'all, is there, is Malik Willis showing any signs? I didn't like, I didn't like to see Malik Willis to me. It looked like a hodge, like they drew up the offense in the dirt right before he went on the field every single time.

It didn't look to be very good. Ryan Tannenhill, MVP. There you go. Yep. Oh, you're looking for a team that looks worse with the other quarterback? Yes. Okay. Well, that's everything, guys.

Hopefully nobody watched that awful thing. Saints Browns game. Oh, Saints Browns. I did because I had the under. Oh, I had the under. Gloved up Andy Dalton. Oh, I was sitting there just like,

I was cold watching that game, man. You too had the under because of you. Yeah, well, it was a good, it was a good play. You know, got a little hairy at the end there. Does it get more cold weather team and dome team than Saints and Browns? Oh, man. I don't know, but I feel like when Drew Brees retired, they kind of shed the dome team reputation.

Now they just have Andy Dalton. Yeah. So they're always out of it and always in. my one word is Vegas this was one where there are like 10% of the bets on the Saints and like 80% of the money yeah yeah yeah and that

that seemed to make sense to me yep um okay well that's good guys anything else Patrick solidifying MVP yep that's good we talked about that yeah that's like closing well Tanna Thrill just entered the conversation and Pussin boots is scary

one more reminder scary as fuck I was in there scared. There's a wolf. He's got swords. He whistles. It's really terrifying. Jack Horner's terrifying. Does he get the extra wish at the end? The last wish?

No spoilers read, but he decides that it's more important to live this life. You know? And he needs to fucking relax and maybe hang it up. He finds love. There's another cat. There's another cat that he left at the altar. I just don't like cats.

Me neither. But Puss and boots more like shaking in your boots sounds like yeah he he he went out sad Oh Olivia Coleman's in that oh John Malaney Antonio Benderas is Puss in boots Wow okay I'd love to do voices and Everybody take care everybody Gee geez happy new year yeah yeah hey hey happy new year