Green Light with Chris Long - Stanford Steve! NFL WK 14 Best Bets, Favorite CFB Bowl Matchups & Coughlin Award Winner. Sports Trivia and Mailbag.

Episode Date: December 10, 2021

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Tennessee, y'all too, 1-8009-9-9. Welcome to the Greenlight podcast. I am Cowboy Reed. Cowboy. Today, it's a Stanford Steve extravaganza. Steve goes in depth on week 14's best bets and best matchups. Chris Stephen Macon also talk about their favorite upcoming bowl games this season. And Steve announces the highly anticipated winner of the Collin Award.

Outside of Steve, Chris and Macon obviously talk about succession. And we do a little sports tribune mailbag at the end. Enjoy. It's Thursday, Macon. Thursday nighttime machine. You hit a... Had a dawn last week out of the park. A triple, a three-run dong.

Yeah, maybe a grand slam, depending how you look at it, though. I know three points and everything. Right, you got three points, yeah. Yeah, things have tightened up. I'm only up eight to five with several weeks remaining. Yeah, it's getting sweaty. It's getting sweaty. So what I'm going to let you do today is give your score first.

Okay, great. Because there's a lot of tension. Why don't you set the table mathematically what has to happen? You don't even have to win out because you can hit it on the nose again. I don't want to do that again, you know? Boring. 2717 Cowboys Good on you

Listen man Everybody knows this is a big loaded game for me We've got the Vikings Under 9 and a half wins That's monumental We have a Thursday night time machine So what do I do? Do I hedge?

Do I put all my Poker chips in the middle of the table? Card counter The movie What do I do? I'll tell you after you tell me What you're going to do? Vikings 26

Steelers 21 Great. Good old-fashioned pick-em. Okay. Good old-fashioned pick-in-old-pick. Big Ben and Chris. I'm going to put my, going Stan Marsh in the wheelbarrow. I'm not going to hedge.

I'm not a hedge guy. I thought you'd know that, right? So you must be feeling very good about the Vikings. Yeah, I think we should win. I think a lot of things line up and they tell me to bet the Vikings. I mean, this was from one of our friends here on Instagram, Jeremy Morris.

The Vikings are four and two coming off a loss, and the Steelers are one in four coming off a win. And those numbers are against the spread for the season. Both things. Right. The Zag. Yeah. But no Madison, no Thielen.

They're a reason to pick Steelers. That's a big deal for me. It's like the Red Zone. And I texted Reed earlier to come up with some red zone numbers for the Vikings without Adam Thielen, and they don't have to deal with that much. And they did last week, and they weren't great. And also the Vikings made St. Brown and Reynolds look like Herman

more out there. You know what I mean? Shout out. I really feel okay about this Tomlin's 45, 23, and three as a dog. So even with Dalvin Cook back, I'm just going to put. Oh, is he back? Probably. That's good. That's good. No, could you, good you right up on the game? Well, it's like. I'm up three with three to go, you know? Maybe you could do me a favor because of fantasy football. You scratch my back. I scratch your back. Do you want to possibly for $200? pick the Steelers by 75 points. There's still time.

For $200? Yeah, for $200? $200. No, I'm good. Okay. I will do it for $3,200. What? Oh, dude, come on.

I'm going to make money in the Waffle House, son. I'm going to make money this year in the Waffle House. I'm going to be setting up shop. Good luck to you, sir. Congratulations on playing clean, not accepting a bribe. That was a test. I wasn't really offering that. I wasn't really going to take $3,200.

I like your pick better than mine. Naji, Deontay Johnson down the sideline. Friermuth. Friarmooth. Yeah. Targets of all shapes and sizes. That's right. Chula Vista, California.

Hello. How was that? You know, maybe I am good at something. No offense. Yeah, no, you're really good. You're really good at the co-hosty things. dude. Thanks yeah. It'd be great if you did them more. I still think the hello thing's a little hokey but um people love the hello thing everybody's sitting at home like just fingers crossed yeah you know

when's it going to be the whole state of Maryland still way no Texas mm-hmm when's it going to be Honolulu Hawaii I'm using a randomizer we're going to automate it on this thing that's like steroids might take your job wow a robot yeah geez the robots are fucking now dude did you hear this? I did not. Used to be a calendar year ago. Guys had sex robots. Now robots are like, no thanks. I need the real

thing. And they're reproducing. Dude, they're robots reproducing. Hello. Oh, God. What? Hello. What's that? A robot saying hello. Yeah, but I'm not talking about a laptop, you know,

fucking robot. I'm talking about the, the bipedal. ones. There was a video a couple weeks ago. Robot was given facial expressions and then I hear that there's a robot embryo. Yeah, it's called a xenobot. It's an AI design bot that can do biological self-replication. Meaning fucking itself and then making another robot. I don't know if it fucks itself, but it creates robots from itself. Yeah. It sounds like a robot factory. Why not just build a robot factory? What's the point? Hold on a second, make. Sorry. What's the point of what's the point of making a robot that can reproduce if you just,

you could build a robot factory. It'd be a lot safer. I have no retort. Yeah, I agree. Robot factory. Oh, yes. Okay. I don't know where this is going with the robots. Yeah, the robot one sucks. I acknowledge what you're doing. Anyways, it's freaking me out. Hey, layup lines. today? Immigrant's song by Led Zeppelin. You know that one. I actually do. Yeah, there we go. Yeah. Aplaus, uh, soundboard noise. I would need that soundboard read at some point. We got to look into soundboards here. Yes. We need to be able to hit a button. We would have so much fun like one of those radio guys. Sex. That one was funny. Thank you. Anyways, I'm trying to fade the Vikings.

Songs about Vikings or songs about imperialism, depending on how you look at it. But, I'm thinking if I put this one out into the atmosphere, then maybe the Vikings will be jinxed, and it'll work. So this is an entire open dedicated to the Vikings. Yeah. It's your turn to take the baton here. Okay. How do you mean?

Just talk about something, dude. Sure. I'm down with a booster. This is my flu game. I had a booster shot, Moderna. I do it say, say it that way. You said it that way? Uh-huh.

Okay. I had a Moderna booster yesterday. rolled up to the big lots in Almore County if you haven't had your booster and you're considering boosters not a conspiracy theorist go check it out the only downside is bill gates is following me I told you Bill Gates like the minute I got the booster it was like somebody was tracking me now the other downside is body aches brain fog a little bit of fatigue but no fever I'm feeling good but I'm going to call this my flu game nonetheless this has been a challenge today getting here I can attest to that Yep.

As well, some scheduling. Blunders. Maybe miss comms. Yeah. I had it last week. Sweets, shivering, but only overnight. Ship shape by the next day. What snat me out of it, you might remember, is podcasting.

I felt good midway through the podcast. Yeah, well, hopefully this will kick in at some point. You're not the only one going through something. What are you going through, buddy? No dessert December. Yeah. Trademarked. So thanks for, thanks to everyone who gave me.

suggestions on what to eat if hungry between the hours of eight and eleven or yeah you were like I'm trying to lay off the sugar and 15 people were like how about sugar cookies basically yeah it's like people do not read on that website hey here's some uh low sugar items for you no but I did go with a sugary fallback which was a banana with a little almond butter all right now I've heard the words glycemic index so whatever with that what you will way better than all the almond shortbreads and black Cadillac cookies and Ben and Jerry. Yeah, I'm not trying to slander bananas.

I'm just saying let that be your guide at 10 p.m. Here's a deal. Yeah. We are on December the 9th. It's been a breeze. I've had to go to the banana and almond butter two out of eight nights. And the other six, I just haven't craved dessert. I haven't wanted it.

It's easy. Fans, write us and tell us if you want this segment every week. And actually, I think I've been more sluggish this. week. I might have to go back to the sugar. Yeah, you're coming down off of a drug. Oh, I'm coming down. Yeah, coming down off a drug. You want to get really serious? Quit, quit sugar and coffee. Ah, really serious about what, though? Like, I love coffee. Coffee kills, man. Yeah, but I love it. And the dessert, I don't, I don't know that. I'll go back every now and again, maybe, after this little experiment. We had two mice in the house. Tell me about them. I saw one scurrying, Chris.

and I hopped up onto the couch and like started yelling at it. You jumped away from a mouse? Not a way. I would just, well I guess away and in a way. But now I was scurrying and so I started yelling at it. The dog was no help. And we put down traps, the have a heart traps

where you just trap the thing and then you can set it free. And I heard it one night. I heard it trapped. And I was like, oh dear, what do I do? Because I'm very, I'm a humane person even when it comes to mice. you know I'm put it outside but then you have to grab the thing with the mouse in it and like it probably has like teeth

and like a tail and it's hairy and nasty just open the gate just put it on your front porch open the gate see I've never done this before so what I did was uh wife alert I went to sleep and then in the morning I was like it's like did we get one is their mouse and my lovely wife Kate was like yeah I uh I drove it away this morning

what a move out what a And I was like, oh, thanks so much for doing that. That's great that the mouse is gone. She'll never know. We'll see. About two days later, a mouse droppings. And so we set the trap back up. Well, my lovely stepmother, Meredith comes over.

And though I already knew a mouse was in there, I opened the door. I was like, oh, mouse. And she was like, yeah. You should take it outside. Take it out. And I was like, I'm really scared and I wouldn't know what to do. And so she took it out. So apparently a very simple chore, not difficult.

You're like a coach with a great staff. Thanks. Like legitimately, like you're one of these ride around coaches. You got your dad taking care of burglars for you. You get your wife and your stepmother taking care of mice for you. Nobody's working on your hot tub still looks the same. Like, maybe hire a guy, a hot tub guy because that shit looks pitiful down there. Hey.

You said it. There's algae growing on that sucker. Oh, but inside it's. No, it's ship shape. Maybe we'll get a meet up for a tub. Yeah, do you want to? I'd love to. It's that time of year.

It is that. It's tub time. Okay, maybe tonight. Not right now, dude. I feel like ass. Hey, we got Stanford Steve for you. And it's a bummer because Steve's going to, well, it's not a bummer because Steve's going to make my life awesome on Sunday nights. We'll still have Dr. Faxx.

And Steve and I will get together and talk about probably a couple of the premier games every week. And that means Steve will not be doing Fridays anymore the rest of the season. Yeah, it stinks. It does stink. but there's a way. Prants on in here on Sunday night. Prants. Is that what I do?

A prance? I don't prance, but you look, yeah. Prant. You're a little prancing. No, I'm a walker.

Yeah. I walk with the purpose. Yeah. Hey, this, I'm not gonna, you're gonna sound fine. And there's no wrong answer.

Okay. Go ahead. You ready? Uh-huh. Is Kindle dead or alive? Kindle? Yeah. Like reading on a,

A fictional character named Kendall. People will know what you're talking about. It's all the rage. Just say dead or alive. You can't be wrong. We don't know. Probably dead. Okay.

I like that take. I think it's a good take. No, you know, how long has we been wondering about this, this Kendall? A week. Like how many episodes?

One since Sunday night. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Kindle's alive, actually. Okay.

Because the finale is this coming Sunday. Yeah, alive. You think he's alive? Alive. Is there going to be another season or is this the... There will be another season. season. Fuck, they could cliff hang you.

I think the show is so good that they can move on from a character like this. Sylvester Stallonia. What show is it? Succession. Oh, Succession. What the fuck are they talking about now on that show? It's all they do is we have a podcast.

He's on the record alive. Kendall alive. I think he's alive. Okay. I did read that the mom's dead. She's getting married actually. Oh, good for her. Caroline Collingwood. Good for her. She's marrying. Peter Munion.

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Help us help students in need this year. and I hope to see your classroom soon. For information and to donate, visit chrislongfoundation.org. Steve, Thursday, Steve. We got Sunday, Steve coming up. Make, are you bummed? Yeah, Steve, this is goodbye for you and me.

We had a production meeting yesterday. I said, we can't move Steve all Fridays because the best part of the product is Steve in Macon. I was muted. All right, so Steve, he's bummed that he's saying goodbye to you, because you're moving to Sunday nights and with college football ending, we're going to find guests every week that fit the Thursday or the Friday show. Sunday, Steve makes my job easy.

I mean, it's just two dudes talking ball. Steve, Macon says that he misses you already and that this is goodbye. Is there any solution you can think of where he might see you again? Well, he already guaranteed me his in-laws floor seats for the Duke Virginia game. Okay, so we're going to see you then in February. Seeing how that's going to go, those. Was that before or after the second quarter phase? time because I don't know if I can.

You know what else I forgot about that night was the tweet you said about me and Rosillo. And that was right before you tried calling Uber. I regretted that to such a degree that I deleted it. I waited like two days. It got a ton of likes and then I deleted it. What was your tweet at 2 a.m.? I'm surprised you could type. It was so drunk.

It was dumb. It was like. What did he look like trying to get into an Uber? I handed him off to you once he walked out. He called Uber. He didn't like call in Uber. He tried. I have not seen somebody calling Uber like it was yellow cab in ever, in ever, dude.

Customer service. Chris, I'm sitting next to him in the booth and he does this. Well, I don't even know what that means. What is that? He's just, he's just confused calling Uber inside the bar like, A, they could hear you. I can't call Uber. That's what, that's what getting, getting beat by tech a, a billion times breaks your brain.

Okay, so Steve, there's a report out there we're going to hire Tony Elliott. This is Tuesday, or what day is it? It is Thursday. Chalk that up to the booster shot. Okay, it's Thursday afternoon. Maybe we get him, maybe we don't. I don't know, but if we don't get Tony Elliott,

who do you like for the Virginia job? I would say Jeff Grimes, but I know he previously had to stop at BYU and the people in Charlottesville are probably not looking forward to another person that's spent time in Provo. Is that fair? Yeah. I mean, I enjoyed the folks from Provo. I enjoyed them, but I mean, you know

how these hires go. They often go the opposite. Right. Yeah. Probably got a zag. Exactly. So I think he was my vote for the Broils Award, top assistant. I think he's phenomenal on what he's done at BYU and

then coming to Baylor and I mean, Baylor won two games last year. Now they won a big 12th title. I know Dave Aran is the head coach, but I love crimes. I mean, they did what backup quarterback. Like that, that just tells me the guy I could coach

from, you know, adding on to pretty stuff. So that would be my guy. So if you're a Virginia fan Wednesday morning and something happens, I don't know, there's a report out.

I don't know what to expect. Wednesday morning? Are we back to Tuesday already? I forgot what to do this again. Good Lord. It's COVID brain. They injected me with COVID. Well,

that's not true. They injected me with half a dose of the second Moderna shot and it's wrecking my brain. Bill Gates is following me outside as soon as I got the jab. It'll always. my window. Yeah, it's perpetually Tuesday. These are the side effects of getting the COVID booster.

All right, so Army Navy, let's fucking talk about our service men and women. How about we do that and some football? Absolutely. You're going, Steve. I'm fired up. You're going to see some people I haven't seen in a while. It's going to be good that way. I went a bunch of years in a row right when I got out of college. The year after, I should say the year of 9-11, the game was in Philly. And it's still one of the best events I ever went to. The stadium was absolutely. incredible. The emotion involved, it's just it's got everything you want. So I'm really fired up. I think

it's 15 years in a row. The under has come in. I'm willing to take a shot in the over here. There is 80% chance of rain, but that doesn't matter with Army Navy. I think both teams have shown capability this year. Navy is not, you know, as has been on the downward tick and Army

has gone up since, you know, they hired Monk and, but you know, throw the records out. I'm on the underdog. I'll take Navy and I'll take the over. Shout out to my buddy, Jason Van Camp, Green Beret. He was nice enough to offer us to come up there, but we had a conflict. We're coming next year. The whole green light contingency, Jason, if the setup still stands.

Dude, when you go in there, what's the craziest visual thing about that game to you? Is it just everybody being in the same outfit? Is it the rain? It's like, what's your association with it visually? Because I think it's one of, Beville Conway, probably for the entire year almost. We're not pandering to the troops. love this scene. Well, the, sorry, I don't know my aircraft terms and everything, but the silence over the stadium before they fly over, because you can't hear them, obviously. And then when,

when they get over and you hear it, and it's just, the roar from that takes over everything. And, you know, back at 01, President Bush came out and did the coin toss, and it was, I mean, it was incredible. Just the raw emotion you have. and knowing what these guys are due and knowing how they come together when they need to, but that they actually hate each other on this. It's a real thing. I'm like, it's just incredible.

You know, I was fortunate enough when I was younger in Little League and stuff like that, we used to take trips up, all-star teams and go play at West Point, and we would play against all their, you know, sons in baseball and basketball. And it really hit me like the hatred, like the rivalry.

Like, we did a tour and like in the pool. At Army, the bottom of the pool says beat Navy. Oh, doesn't really? Yeah, like it's just, it's just, it's awesome. The way, I mean, it's so simple. Beat Army, go Navy, you know, the other way around. So it's great.

And I'm fired up to be able to go back to it. My brother, my nephew's would be there. So it would be a really good time. Damn, I'm jealous as hell. And by the way, Navy leads the all-time series, 61, 53, and 7. And Navy is not great offensively this year at all. So Navy, Navy, uniform.

on the other hand. Cheeks. Great. Cheeks. I liked them. Look at these Army. Armies are fantastic. Army's a better uniform.

But in the dock here, we had these beautiful new like Capcom looking street fighter, shoulder stripe. Yeah, that looks like a movie uniform to me. And it might look good on TV. And I think what this is what the Patriots uniforms could look like if they were good. I don't know about the. Captain America helmet? No, the helmet is, it's like, it kind of looks like, what does it call when they spray paint

art airbrush. It looks airbrushed. The fighter jet looks airbrushed from a distance. I don't know that it's going to look great. Hey, college football playoff preview here, man. That's why you're here. That's why they pay you the big bucks. You know college football. And you're a big Sincey fan. Both of you guys actually are big Sissy fans. I'm wondering if Sinci can actually be Bama. Sure they can. They've shown the capability all year. Here's the deal, Chris. And this is why I'm really happy for these matchups. Okay. For all week, I've heard from Big Ten people talk about, oh, the SEC got two teams in it

again. The SEC did this again. The SEC did this again. I'm done with it, all right? The Big Ten, whatever, what better opportunity can you have? You have your best team against their second best team. Beat them. That's the only way you're going to get respect.

Just go beat them. I don't understand what more you're going to. can ask for. You have your best team against their second best team. Line up and go beat them. And then for the Cincinnati people, the underdogs, the group of five people, you cried all this time saying everything was rigged. It's proven it's not rigged. You got in. Now prove you belong. That's what it comes out to me. And that's why I'm really fired up for these opportunities, the chances. And I think both underdogs are both capable in their own way. And that's why I'm fire up to see it. Enough enough about

talking. Let's see it on the field. You know they're not going to stop. Just because you guys said that. I mean, what about ACC people that are just disgusted to see Georgia and Bama in another college football playoff championship? I mean, they're fans.

You know, like they're just fans that are down the middle on the whole thing. I want to see a good clean ball game. I don't want to see the game I just saw it, not in the championship. Is that a weird thing to you or are you like into that? My thing is beat them. beat him beat them what about for Georgia

your ACC champion got beat almost lost in Tennessee we're not identifying as ACC people right now we don't care about the ACC at all I'm just a fan and I would have rather have seen that in the first round get it out of the way and give me somebody else in the national championship I'm with you I voted

Michigan one yeah I have Michigan one two SEC's two and three but you know it's it's not going to happen that way how about Michigan do they do they like learn anything from watching Georgia. I don't want to say get exposed

because, I mean, it's not an exposure thing. It's just they just got their ass kick. Do they learn anything that they can apply to that matchup with them? I don't want to say they play into Georgia's hands, but it's a better matchup for Georgia. Got it. Because Michigan, we know what they like to do. They want to run the football.

But they're not really a zone team, Chris. Yeah. They don't run the ball with zone. And when I look at what Alabama did, Alabama didn't really RPO. They sped things up and just let Bryce Young get the ball and throw. And that's what I think caused George's timing to be way off. I was still puzzled why they kept sending pressure when they weren't getting home

and guys were wide open in the secondary. What I would have thought, like, maybe give your guys some help on the back end and count on your talent to win one-on-one matchups up front. They didn't do that either. Jordan Davis did not play well. I thought Alabama did a really, really good job. of play call. And you saw how the bunches formation totally screwed it up. There's clips out there of the runner in cover two jumping a shallow cross in the first touchdown. That's why James

Williams is wide open. How you leave him wide open, I don't know, I would have priority on him. But getting back to Michigan, they're more, I don't want to say a power team, but more, you know, their gap runs. And I don't know if that's going to be able to hold up against Georgia. Can you be effective? Yes. Can you be effective enough to to be able to, to be able to run play action, that's the key. Because I think Michigan's best pass has come off play action, but you know that. Like, defenses aren't going to respect play action when you can't run the ball. So Michigan's plenty capable.

I'm fire up to see their defense against Georgia because that's the question I have with Georgia, going back and forth with SEC people all week. I felt like I wanted to see JT. Daniels in the second half because it's pretty evident now. If you play Bama again, you're going to have to outscore them. and I don't know if Stets and Bennett is capable enough. I wanted to see more from the wide receivers on the edge, but that's the way I look at it. Can they win this game and the next game with Stets and Bennett?

I'm not sure they can, but it doesn't look like we're going to see J.T. Daniels if we didn't see him in the second half. Right. If it is Alabama, Georgia again, where would you set that line? I've seen minus one posted already. Georgia favored.

So there's no way that's going to end up like that. I could probably see Alabama minus three. Wow. How about bowl games? Is there one of the couple you're really excited about this year? I haven't even honestly looked. I'm going to peel behind the Finway bowl. Yeah,

you don't have tickets for the Fenway Bowl? Well, you know, I'd love to go sit on top of the green monster and then jump off. Like Ted? Did Ted do that in the movie? Maybe he did. Yeah, like Ted. I think maybe he did. Ooh, NC State, UCLA.

That looks fun. Holiday Bowl. Holiday Bowl is one of my personal favorite. bowl's. You don't know if to see ACC in that bad boy. Yeah, that's a new partnership you got there. What do you think about that matchup? Let's start with that ballgum.

That's a really, I'm actually fired up for the matchups. I think we got a lot of intrigue. Here's the deal though, Chris. Yeah. It is I used to love as soon as the lines came out jump on games, right? Hey, I like this team. I like this offense. Against this defense. I think this, you know, position

group has an advantage. You can't do that anymore. Right. We see every day guys opt out. And I saw the Arkansas, all SEC receiver, Trailing Burks opt out. He's first team all SEC receiver. He's the best offensive player on Arkansas. They're an underdog to Penn State.

I had that circled. And now I don't know what to think with a team who doesn't have their best offensive player. Things are going to be a little bit different. The one I did jump out and grab was Tennessee opened up as an underdog. And that's against Purdue. three points. Purdue was favored by three. And in my mind, I thought,

Carlaptist, the defensive end for Purdue, and David Bell, the wide receiver. Those guys are first team, All-American candidates. I'm not sure what the, it might be the Nashville Bowl, I think. Music City may be right. But it's not the biggest game, and I thought those guys might opt out. So I grabbed Tennessee, and those guys,

Coach Brown said they're going to further their pro career, which tells me they're not going to play in the, bowl game and now Tennessee is favored by three. So I felt a little smart doing that. But guys are just, you know, they're dropping out game by game. You know, there's a lot of talking about Pickett, not playing for Pitt, which would really suck to me. I think the line moved. I think the line moved. I think the line moved to Michigan State are now favorites. And I don't, I mean, I'm, you know, we played at Stan. Like, we played to go to a bowl game. Like that was our whole focus of season. And I mean, I still remember my sophomore year. We go up to Wazoo. And, and,

and play Ryan Leaf, his Heisman year. And that was the game to clinch us a five and six season. That gave us our six loss. And I still remember all the scene, you know, there's tears and Ryan Leaves striking the Heisman in the end zone. Our buses are pulling out. And it was an awful, awful scene. And I just, that's what I think about.

Like, some of the best times I ever had in college were at the bowl game. Yeah. And I can't agree. I mean. I definitely agree with that. You know, like it's just you had, you know, you're getting, per diem, you're getting gear, you got your swag, you're good, your family's going out to see you. Here's your walk man.

I actually used my per diem. I didn't spend at the Rose Bowl to buy my first cell phone. That's what I did. Wow. When I got home, 2000. What kind of cell phone was it, Steve? Sprint, Sprint, because they had the national minutes, wherever, whenever minutes. Yeah.

They didn't have the low. And I was always calling people back home in Connecticut. So I went sprint with the first cell. Remember when we were waiting for like nighttime? time and weekends to call people. Yeah. Yeah, that's funny. Steve was definitely calling people back in Connecticut from a pay phone.

Yeah. Do they have pay phones in Palo Alto? There used to be a line on the one pay phone in our dorm during camp. It would be a line out the door to call your little shorties or whatever you had to call back in the day. Oh, my God. We used to not have unlimited text messaging. You were calling girlfriends on pay phones? Yeah.

Man, absolutely. I feel like... I don't picture you in one of these 80s football movies, but that's what everybody was doing in these 80s football movies. There was a big technological ledge working backwards before we got to college. I mean, car phones, pay phones, the whole thing. Steve, that's crazy. Heated, like pounding on the door.

It was up against curfew. We probably had like an hour. It's like, all right, you got five, you got 10. Like, make it quick, make it quick. Yeah. And, you know, maybe this. Some guys had more than one girl to call. Damn, dude.

Not Stanford guys. Maybe. Oh, no, Sanford guys, maybe, too. How about Houston and Auburn? Give me that one. What do you think about that ball game there? To me, Auburn obviously ended the season on a down note. And I don't know what their situation is.

I mean, their head coach has been rumored for a ton of jobs, even though he's only been at Auburn. I don't buy any of it. but, you know, he's a Boise guy. The Washington job was open. He was rumored there. The Oregon job is open now. He's rumored there.

I don't think any of it's going to happen. He did let go his offensive coordinator. And that's the other thing. These coaching changes, like I was really happy to see Joe Morhead, the Oregon offensive coordinator, say, you know what, I'll hang around and I'll coach the team because Chris the ball went to Miami. Right. And Morhead took the job at Akron.

So I'm telling you, you've got to be careful. You've got to read these beat, I mean, these guys, I mean, of all the bad that's on Twitter, that's the stuff that I look for is going to follow these beat guys. Beat writers. To get information, man. You've got to get the information. So I don't know how, you know, and then the other thing is motivation.

How motivated is Auburn? I would think they're going to be pretty darn motivated, seeing how they have a chance to get better for next year. They're favored in their bowl game. And they got to be pretty pissed off at how they ended the season. And then you have Houston coming in with Coach Hulgerson will be, you know, slaying it all around the place. So that's another great matchup.

I would probably lean Houston because I think they're pretty capable offensively. I hadn't even looked. The line in the, we are favored in the Boston Bowl, Fenway Bowl, sorry. By how many? A point. Yeah, that's pretty wild. You didn't answer, well, I didn't ask you directly,

but if Kenny Pickett's sitting, as you alluded to, then the line move, that might tell you maybe that's the case. Would you bet Michigan State as it is? I like Michigan State before. If he plays, I like Michigan State. Talk about a team that season went sour real quick at the end. I mean, they got embarrassed by Ohio State.

They got up off the deck, beat Penn State in the snow. But I got to feel they got to be pretty mad about how it ended. Walker, not getting invited to the Heisman. I think Michigan State's going to be pretty motivated. Narduzi used to be the defensive coordinator at Michigan State, but that was when De Antonio was the head coach. So people trying to tie that line. it's not really calling the Narduzi

Bulls. I don't really buy that. But I think it's a high level game. Both opposites are really capable. We know Penn State struggles in the passing game. That's what I want to say. If you're picket and you've got a chance to be the first quarterback taken, and you have a chance to play the worst past defense

in a bowl game, indoors, on turf. I don't know. Because if he torches them for 400 yards, I feel like with these quarterbacks is pretty much all about the agents and it's all about like who they kind of preordained and it's kind of slated this far in the year. Now a bowl game could make a difference,

but I feel like even if he torches them, the risk maybe of turning his ankle fake sliding or something is higher. True. And actually, yeah, he doesn't want people to take his fucking head off after what he did last week. He fake slid.

And if he's, you know, if I'm Kenny Pickett, I might say, see you later. I don't know. It's three more weeks of trying to help your first step on a 40 really going to help a quarterback?

Like, I don't care about it. No, it's more. risk it's more the risk you know aversion right i mean it's more hey there's a one in a hundred chance that i'm going to be sitting for a year because something

catastrophic happens all right guys one bowl game that you would decline the invite to based on the location or the putting you on the spot here the gear you'd get fenway ball you're motherfucker aren't you he

he's a they're playing in a cool baseball stadium. I love Fenway. I tell you which one I'm taken. You can offer me a New Year 6 and instead I'm going to the Myrtle Beach Bowl. Oh, hell yeah.

Presented by Tax Act. Get a timeshare. O.D.U. and Tulsa. Yeah. Hell yeah. Going there in a heartbeat. I'll tell you where I'm not going to go to the Duke's Mayo Bowl. Bobby Wagner said it best. Whatever he said negatively about mayo.

That's, it was said best. Fuck mayonnaise and I would never go there. What do you get there? Like what do they give you at the Duke's Mayo Bowl? It can't just be mayonnaise. I think it's pretty nice stuff. That's formerly Belk Bowl, Tire Bowl, all that good stuff. I think you're getting like the PS5s.

Nobody can get that sort of thing. We were like around 2000 Charlotte. We were there in high school. VIPs. Yeah, we went up to the Continental Tire Bowl. We went down. Well, we were literally, we weren't VIPs. That was the problem.

I went down to the Charlotte Bowl there and walked into a, I was underage, walked into a, yeah, walked into Uptown Cabaret. Does that sound right? It does. Oh. And I ran into somebody at my school, a faculty member. An administrator. Yeah, a faculty member of my school, dude, at my high school.

Yeah, so we didn't get in the VIP area and that been that, but Virginia football was VIP back then. Any other ball game you'd want to hit before we move to the NFL, Steve, Sunday, Steve. Bahama. Ooh. Bahama and the, if you're a coach, unless you really don't give a fuck about the results of your, your bowl game,

like you do not want your team going to the Bahama or the Hawaii Bowl. I like how we were singularizing Bahamas. Well, he, I mean, is it Bahamas? Is it Bahamas or Bahamas? I know it is on the map, but I,

Bahamas. Yeah, how about the Gasparilla? But it's Tommy Bahama, right? That's right. Tommy Bahamas. I can see where you could have gotten confused there. confused. Maybe Tommy Bahamas

the sponsor. Tommy Bahama Bahamas Bowl. Yep, that there's an opportunity. They didn't name the Bahamas after Tommy? I was thinking it's unclear. It's unclear. Don't have to. Is your brother's first name, Stanford, too? It's not.

Okay. NFL games this weekend, man. I got a few scheduled here. Ravens Browns. You love the AFC North stuff. I do. As much as I do. Yeah, you want to take Cleveland. Yeah, you want to take Cleveland. I kind of want to take Cleveland too, but it's so hard.

I can't. What do you think has to happen in that ballgame for Cleveland to come up with a win? And first time since 91, a team has had one opponent on either side of the buy. It's incredible. It's weird, dude. I went to the game two weeks ago in Baltimore. It was the first. Everybody around Cleveland, so I'm asking, that's the most healthy they've been all year.

They lose Conklin. I think it was a second series to a knee. He's done. I still think. They have to run the football against the Ravens. Like now Humphrey's out. I think they're going to try and compensate for that on the back end. We know Cleveland doesn't have any game breakers in the past game.

I think they got to do off a by week. We know Baker's not 100. You've got to be able to run the football. And I think that, I mean, it's right there for the taking. I mean, with all the games left against each other, I expect an A effort out of Cleveland, but I just don't trust them. Yeah, I don't trust them either because, I mean, I know Baltimore loaded the box a good bit last week and say,

Baker's got to beat us. They manned up on the outside and like, listen, if Baker's going to win this game, he's going to have to win some of those one-on-one matchups. These guys are physical in your face. And honestly, Humphrey being out, he hasn't looked awesome all year. I mean, he's looked a little dinged up.

So I don't know who's behind him, but when you get those shots on the edges, you have to maximize them. And that includes sometimes, do one of these underthrown PI balls if you're Baker. Like, this is the kind of game. where you just need one or two of those big shots, but you have to have the run game

so you can turn your back to the defense for a second and take these shots. I also would expect, I mean, those three tight ends they got in Joku, Hooper, and Bryant, I think those guys are going to have big days. I think they got to get. I mean, Brian's a tough matchup. So I like Cleveland.

I'm all right. I'm taking them. No, okay. You just talked yourself into Cleveland. Let me tell you something. Lamar played as bad as he humanly possibly could have played that Sunday night. you were there in person to see it. He under threw a pick to Andrews.

He rifled a ball in the middle of field that he probably should took something off. He just said, fuck it and threw one to delve it. And then the last one was maybe miscommunication with Mark Andrews. So they ran the gamutal like, this is the type of interception we can throw today. And so I just bank on him being better,

although he has gotten his top knocked off the past couple games. He was sacked like seven times last week. He just to beat the Blitz. That's it. He didn't do that the last time they played. I'll take the Ravens, but I'm not going to give that out. I do like the Cleveland Browns.

Nojoku on the COVID list, by the way, Steve. And Brian has a high ankle. So they're both questionable. Not necessarily out. Maybe more reason to take. I'd love to know what first half unders are in Ravens games because it feels like every game goes under in the first half. Yeah, dude.

Yeah, you don't get that. You don't get that, oh, shit, feeling a lot when you bet the under in Baltimore. It's usually like it lulls you to sleep and then there's a back door over or something like that. How about Cowboys and Football Team? Because this one really intrigues me here. I'll tell you what I think it's all about for Dallas. I think it's about getting well on really on the defensive front, you know, like stopping the run.

You know, Washington's been pretty good running the ball, but that O line is kind of patchwork. And then on the other side of things like, Washington's secondary is not that great and DAC has not looked right. This is his best opportunity to turn the corner going to the last month of the season as he's going to have. have. And sometimes you really need those games. So they have to take advantage of that and stop the run, which they haven't done well. And they have to take advantage of the back end for Washington.

I actually like the Cowboys here. In some places, it's up to four and a half. I look at the last time Dallas was favored by four and a half on the road, it was the worst beat of the year. It was the Patriots game. But, Kendrick-Born. Washington's done a great drop of getting the lead and then just mucking things up. They've done a great job of ball control and keeping the ball away from the other offense. I wonder about DAC here. I saw, I believe, earlier in the week, Zeke and Pollard didn't practice.

They really need those guys, even though Zeke doesn't look 100 to me. I would actually try and get Pollard to ball more. Oh, yeah. But, yeah, I still think Dallas is as talented as team as there is. I really do. They got Dexback on the D-line. I would lean Dallas here if I had to take something.

It's going to be a home game for him, and God only knows what the team. surface will be like in that stadium knowing how bad it's been. But I lean Dallas in that game. Dude's falling down. Big plays by the Cowboys. C.D. Lamb, whoever they put on him. That's going to be a matchup to watch.

They didn't really target him effectively last week. I think they were like 13 targets, seven connections. That's not very good. They'll be better. Give me the Cowboys. I'm not going to necessarily give it out yet. I'll say that after all of these breakdowns. Niners, bangles.

That's a fun one to me. I mean, because since he's got their back against the wall, the Niners have their backs against. the wall as well. And Joe Burrow, you want to see how he looks with that pinky? This is a big spot, dude. This is like one of the most intense games you'll see this weekend.

No doubt. No doubt about it. I really, I like the over, because I like the matchup for both offenses. I sent you to text about the San Francisco O-line against the Cincinnati D-line, which is going to be awesome. Those guys don't switch side, so we got some really good matchups that way. But I just, I

need to see Burrow. I need to see how he's throwing the football. It looks like it's going to be good weather. I think San Francisco will be confident they could run the ball. They still got to be sick. They blew that game last week. It was awesome to see Kittle back at 100% just

dominating the game and only the way he can. He's the funnest player to me to watch in the league. I lean San Francisco in this game. I think they have the goods to do it. I do as well. Might be Jeff Wilson instead of Eli Mitchell. And where are we on Debo? I have no idea. I just assumed Debo's going to be there.

Questionable. Yeah, I think Debo's going to play. You got the season on the line. Did not practice Wednesday. Shit, if I was Debo Sambo, I wouldn't practice on Wednesday either. Jamichael, what about Jeff Wilson? He tweaked up. He's dinged too. These are the guys on my fantasy team.

Well, there you go. All right, so the big one that everybody's looking forward to, but I'm not really sure what to make of it, Bill's Bucks. I mean, this is as close to a stay-a-wit-well. for me as could be possible this week. I just, I don't see why. And again, maybe the right side is the bills for this reason. The way these two teams match up, unless Josh Allen just torches them without a run game,

because even as bad as Tampa's been up front stopping the run, I don't think they have what it takes to exploit that weakness. If they didn't run the ball last week, they're not going to run it. You're never going to run it. You know, like, I mean, only Belichick would do that. It's just freaking genius. That game plan. Tell Shawman Tournament that make them upset.

Yeah. Yeah, salty. Here's a deal. I wanted to bet Buffalo to make the playoffs, but I'm not sure I should do it now or wait and take the chance for them to lose. Like that. I'd let them lose and then they're going to get in. Yeah.

But if they win, then they're going to be minus a lot of money. Yeah, you don't want to do that. Let them lose. Do you think the body's short week playing in the cold, then going down to Tampa and play and affects them? I would think so but honestly sometimes and I've said this before like

when you're on a really shitty streak sometimes it's nice to go on the road I'm not even I'm not even joking like sometimes when you're at home you almost feel like there's so much pressure that you're going to you know jump off sides on third down or somebody's going to throw a deflection early game and you know the sound of a crowd that's out of it

and is like I've had enough of this shit and I think for the record we're talking about Thursday night football there's a high risk of that hour tonight y'all's last night in Minnesota this this evening. I just think it's one of those things where it's nice to get on the road. They'll welcome the warmth. And they'll see this is an opportunity. We've said this a couple times the last couple weeks.

I'll say it again. Football is one of the only sports where you can look like shit for a span of two, three months and win one big game and all of a sudden everybody takes you seriously and you'll be back in the top five on all the power rankings. Like you just have to do it convincingly and this is an opportunity. Yeah, I just look at it as an opportunity too for Brady to take a personal against Josh Allen and win the game as he always does find some kind of motivation. And so I would take Tampa there.

Rams Cardinals, okay? You know, Cardinals got after him the first time. What's changed? The Rams are worse. They're down Robert Woods. You know, Matt Stafford's beat up and he got just fucking pummeled last week. I don't see why for a team that's just terrorized people defensively, the Cardinals won't continue that trend.

And I don't see why I wouldn't take the Cardinals. but maybe this is one of those games. Yeah, I think it's one of those deals too. Scott and I've talked about this this week on our pod, Chris, because people haven't seen Kingsbury and Kyler in the playoffs should be successful, they're not going to give them any credit. Right. And they're on this mission just to keep proving people wrong.

And that's the one game I really want to see in the playoffs is Tampa at Arizona. Because I think that's everything at state. Now, will we get it? Probably not. But I'm fascinated by that matchup. I think Arizona just does a great job with the matchups. And that's why I lean Green Bay in the NFC,

because Green Bay, the first chance they saw them, they dominated them on both sides. And I'm interested to see if the Rams could do anything differently on the defensive line. The Cardinals did whatever they wanted in that first game. And it was really a shock to me because the Rams were off that win over Tampa. And everybody was talking Super Bowl for them. So I stick with Arizona.

They've been awesome against the spread and on the field as a result. They're in the driver's seat for the one seed. I think the Rams got their work cut out for him. Ever since Woods went down, that offense is not the same. So I'll take Arizona at home, only give it two and a half.

That's a big spot to show out. Cardinals also have Buda Baker who runs a 4-4-5. He's scored a touchdown in his career. He has scored a touchdown in his career. We're going to point that at every time he comes up. Let's give out some winners here and get Steve out here. I'm looking at, I'll give one out the first thing. You know what it's going to be because we talked about this last night.

It's going to be Seattle, Houston over. It's sitting there just over 40. I think the way Russell looked last week, I think he's starting to look healthy. I think he's playing for, like kind of like a coach that wants to get into the playoff. Like he's a quarterback that wants to be on your team next year. You know what I mean? Like whether it's the Giants, whether it's the Broncos, whether it's the Saints, whoever he knows damn well what's going on right now.

and the Texans, I feel like have bottomed out a little bit getting their asses kicked by the Colts like that last week. I think there's going to be points from the Seahawks. And Tyrod, we'll see. What number am I getting for Denver? Denver and Detroit. I think you're getting like 10 almost at this point. I think there's a bit of a, maybe ever got their booster shots this week in Detroit.

Steve, I'm in a pool where you pick five games a week against the spread. No am I. I've never done well. 70-odd people. Week 14. I'm in first by two games. I'm at 63%. I want to thank you.

I want to thank Chris. I want to thank you now because they're far too many weeks to go. It's going to go poorly. But I took those Denver Broncos yesterday. Got to get them in Wednesday. Wednesday was yesterday. Yeah, that sucks. And the number was seven and a half.

No, no, it's good. I feel good. You took the Broncos. But at 10, I might, that feels like a whole lot of points for the. It does feel like a lot of points, but there's probably a good reason that the line. this move like that. Okay.

I feel like people might overreact and say, nobody watch the Lions and the Vikings, unless you had money on her, you have a soft spot for Dan Campbell. I have both. The Lions are not, still not that good. And Denver is a physical football team.

I just, I think Denver here with, with what the line's telling you, is probably going to roll. I'm going to go that, those Cleveland Browns, two and a half, Seattle Seahawks minus the seven and a half.

Okay. And Arizona minus the two on Monday night. Hey, can I say something? I love your bets. Thank you. Mine a seven and a half. Love it. I think I'll probably do that in real life.

Okay. Steve, you got any? Since I said I'm taking the lions every week, they have covered every week. I will take the lions. Okay. All right. I've just not heard about the booster shots.

They're sick, dude. Something's going on there. Yeesh, this slate. Oh, you don't like the slate now, huh, Steve? This is NFL, Chris. I'll take the Niners. I complain about NFL slates, too.

And I'll take Tampa. God, I like the Niners, too. Fuck. There's room on the bandwagon. There's room on the bandwagon. I'll tell you on San Francisco. I'm on, again, the Seattle, Houston over. And give me, man, I'm thinking about the Raiders.

It just makes too little sense to bet them. I like that. You know what I'm saying? Like, it just makes too little sense. And all it takes is for the Chiefs to be off offensively. I think the Raiders can score with them. We have Waller? Is Waller up?

That's going to be the big key. That's huge. I don't think we know. He's got a cue next to his name. Reed's back there trying to make a cue. He's throwing up gang signs back there. It's a circle with a fucking pinky coming out of it. It's a really tough one.

He's questionable. I'm going to stay away. Who's starting at quarterback for the Giants? Oh. Could it be six foot eight, Sean Glennon? No, no, don't say it. Don't say it, read. Don't say it read.

Don't say it read. Oh, it's a name we know from college recently. I think he was on Bill's practice squad Is it the guy Is it the Georgia kid? It's Jake Fromm? It is Jake Fromm. People are going to try to kill him.

It is Jake Fromm. Who are they playing again? The charges, charges defense might show up. Yeah. They're going to try to kill him. Oh yeah. Give me the chargers.

Okay. I just give me the charges fade Jake from. I just, realize that he's still all right, cool. Awesome. Give me the Chargers. I don't even feel good about it, but I'm just going to fade Jake from. They can't possibly

score with the Chargers. You're right. Yeah, give me the Chargers. Mike Williams and Keenan Allen are on the COVID list. That's also that. Oh, fuck me. Echler though. Come on, dude. Fucking Plannedemic. All right. Fuck, I'll find a, I'll find a

falcons. It's starting to be like a quarterback draft or a Fantasy drive. Well, the fucked up thing is we're parking our cars in a lot of the same garages. Give me, who, who, who, who, who, who, who can it pal. Give me the Raiders. Fuck it. Give me the Raiders.

Awesome. Thank you. Fabian Moreau. Whatever, dude. Hey, don't. Don't whatever, dude. Come on. Tight end, bro.

Whatever. Don't we need to have a, uh, a ceremony for the Cochlin Award? We do. Sure. Hope you guys have it set up. Is this the... So it's been a long journey for the Cochlin Award. We started way back in September, maybe August.

Seemed to go to Brock Bowers most weeks. A couple of Matthew Mayers in there. Keaton Thompson, there was a... Whatever. This is the greatest award in sports. Forget college sports, sports in general. So we got that dumb Heisman where a good quarterback's going to win it. But Cochlin here is something of a...

black box. We have no idea where you're going to go. And the entire world is watching. And the floor is now yours. Stanford Steve to give out the inaugural Cauckland Award. The 2021 Caucusle Award goes to Will Anderson from Alabama. Oh yeah.

He is the best player in college football. Wow. Wow. Yes. He is not going to New York City. Absolute dog. Had like 100 tackles, 15. sacks, whatever it was. The guy's a machine. I love that. I love that.

Watch the tape. Give me him. Over Aiden Hutchinson. The numbers, the tape, I'll take them. Hey, Steve. Sorry, Brock. Isn't that, like, patriotic music you just played? No, this is the graduation. Oh, it's graduation. Yeah. Okay. I thought we were going to war, I guess.

No. No. Would we all? You know, you... I was like, for taste, Army Navy Week. Stolen valor No, it's just graduating I know you're not You're not Too familiar with this particular

I know that's the layout Well fuck yeah All right well Steve that about does it And this is This is good This It's not goodbye

Hey goodbyes It's not goodbye You're gonna see Macin In February And if any of these Sunday nights That he feels like showing up And hanging out What do you think

That's probably zero So you guys say your abys And then I'm gonna let Steve go one just come for one Sunday not no why it's too late as long as people know that at home because I think some people think that I make decisions based upon anything but your availability and they're like yeah he's well I was available and you know I did show up I know you did but and then you reassigned me right because I didn't have a co-host during the week as a result because you you can't do all three pods so Steve this is goodbye I just want to say this thank you

you guys making Wednesday I think it's February 23rd I'll be in town I expect those seats I'm going to Africa oh we're gonna miss you buddy Steve you will be at my place Steve's gonna have to pull out now

this is gonna be fine you'll finally get to meet Zoe Rabbit oh this is good you can still use my guest house not protect my family okay Steve I love you and I'll miss you we're gonna let you go Steve you have my phone number

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Oh. Ooh! Did you hear that? Would you say? Side ja. Uh, We anyhow? That's goodbye.

That's Chinese. Yeah. Yeah. Fucking bilingual, dude. Try. I'm not saying all by words, by the way. That was my joke. I think I said welcome.

Oh. Okay. Oh, okay. Got it. Got it. Yep. Hey, so we got some breaking news coming out from HBO. They got their trailer out for their new series winning

Time, The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty. New series from Adam McKay, the director of Anchorman, Talladega Nights, and The Big Short, stars John C. Riley as Jerry Buss. You guys in or no? I'm in, dude. I trust John C. Riley. Will Ferrell wanted that gig. Adam McKay

didn't give it to him. Really? Yeah, they talked about that. Adam McKay's talked about that in public. Wow. It's been a falling out. Falling out, huh? Adam McKay and Will Ferrell, they're best buddies, or they were best buddies.

Wow. Yeah. they were that's crazy oh my god reality imitates art it's just like the talladega night's situation they broke up john c riley and will feral it's uh... LA LA times is that right vanity fair vanity fair

Adam mcade details his professional split from will feral so yeah it's not a John C deal but John C did take the game from his buddy I don't know How do you think that works? You think those two are cool? Probably. Money's on, yeah. I hope so.

There's some other cool casting decisions in that show. You got Adrian Brody is Pat Riley, Wood Harris. You might remember from the wire as Spencer Haywood. Yeah, and the wire, yeah. And Jason Siegel is Paul Westhead. Jason Segal, he's the guy from forgetting Sarah Marshall. Forgetting Sarah Marshall. That's the cringiest scene I've ever seen, but the movie's pretty funny.

I love that movie. Paul Rudd. Yeah. Actually, speaking of movies, you guys want to do a little bit of sports movie trivia? Yeah. Hell yeah, I do. Hold on. Hold on.

Hold on. So I have to tell a story. Once upon a time, I really wanted to work at ESPN. And so, um, Ryan Rissillo's calling. Speaking of that. Hey, Ryan. How's the gang? How's your brood?

Hey, we're on the, uh, we're on the green light pod. Oh, nice. I want to check in on the family. I was wondering how Santa was doing. He was going to be able to come through this year if you need anything. Santa's not real, Ryan. Goggles. Hey, Meg, you got something to say to your friend?

Hey, Rye, is Kindle dead or alive? You know, it's unbelievable because I didn't think there was any chance he was dead. But again, you know, when I think of the foundation of the show, all the bricks that have been laid, you know, if you take away the father-son dynamic, that is the foundation. I mean, that's the plot. Those are the porings. Those are the, depending if it's sand work, the piling that you have to drill. So to take that away, I think it would shift to a Tom and Shiv show, which I'm all for because I enjoy Tom a lot. But I just, I'm not quite there.

And I think what people are doing, and this is my guess is I've read a couple of the reviews. And I think they're kind of playing the results. Like all of a sudden now, because he looked over a balcony or because he took a bath or because he took a bath with no water, that this is all like some arts. Those are some real seed planning deals for long term. And I don't know if you're writing that stuff into season one. if you're baking it into season one to pay off at the end of season three. But again, you know, a lot of my shows have been picked up yet, so maybe I'm

doing it wrong. Yeah, well, that's giving Succession a lot of fucking credit. Well, succession is phenomenal, Chris. Now I'm personally rooting against it. It's kind of like Hardin, never winning a finals because I have so much time. You don't like Hardin? I've never heard that. I know, I know. I hope he's alive too. I should see the times I don't, you should see the times

I don't hit Send on Hardin takes, where I go, are you going to do another one? Like, I self-edited enough where I I go, wait, you're watching them again, and you're going to post another hardened video? Like, just relax today. Sometimes I just go look at Ryan's mentions. It's some of the most critical. His listeners, they are really, like, tough-love people.

NBA Twitter is tough. Yeah, especially mine, but it's iron sharpens iron. Yeah, that's good. That's good. We got a lot of that going here, so. Hey, real quick, make it, you big Taysam Hill guy, I bet? No, fuck you. Oh, why would you say that?

No, I'm not. Oh, he hung up. He hung up. Oh, he's funny. That was a good performance by him. It's always a performance with him, a very performative guy. Not a genuine bone in his body. You were telling a story?

Yeah. So they call you if you want to be like a PA at ESPN and they fire off a bunch of sports trivia at you. So I'm a fourth year at the university and they call at about 8.30 a.m., which might as well be 5.30 a.m. and it's like who won the Heisman six years ago and I'm all like hmm

Dan Marino They really put you through this Yeah yeah yeah At any rate didn't get a didn't get a job offer Related I stump the Schwab So if they're going to be asking their You know their prospective employees to know stuff like this The Schwab needs to know stuff like this

And I'm not taking a shot at the Schwab But I'm just I met him And I'm pretty sure being the Schwab has got to be annoying as fuck Even today like he's just checking out At the grocery store guys like Who won the hunt? husband, who's the last player to win the husband twice? He's like, fuck, I know that one.

Okay. But I stumped them two times in a row. Just let the record show. You know what the question was, one of them? No. Who stopped work down on the one yard line in 1995. Just pains me to bring that up right now. Adrian Burnham.

Adrian Brody. Go ahead. Trivia, sports trivia? All right. So I'm going to ask you guys a couple of sports trivia questions. I'll direct it to one of you. And then if you'd get it wrong, the other person can get a chance. So, Chris, you first.

This is to see if I'm, like, concussed from this booster. To see exactly how many brain cells you have remaining. What day is it? I already failed to what day is it? All right. Let's start. I used to ask you that. Like, where are we?

I was like, and then when the stadium changes, this is a fucked up thing before you get to the trivia. If you get dinged, like your doctors, your team doctors might ask you where you are and say the stadium change. Like, say you're in Santa Clara. And I'm like, I'm in San Francisco. they're like failed it's unfair okay hard rock now yeah dude it's an unfair question go ahead i mean i would ask you the date but you never know the date so it's the ninth there we go is it yeah oh fuck yeah all right blind squirrel all right chris what actor played

running back julian washington in any given sunday oh is it um it's uh l l cool jay correct yeah oh obviously so is it ranken's turn now yes so that's great has a point all right uh Macon. So far not concussed. What was Mr. T's character's name in Rocky 3? Um, um, um, oh my God, dude. Apollo Creed. Incorrect. Chris, you want to steal? Yikes. Is that the character's name in those films? Yeah, it is, but it's not him. Um, I feel like this could be, uh, you know, and for the record, I'm sure I knew this at some point, but today is rough. I feel like it could be a, uh, Mr. T situation. Can I phone a friend. Sure. You can use your phone to phone a friend. You have to choose one friend from your phone book, though. William Hayes. Okay. No, I'm not going to really call him. I don't know what the fuck.

Is clubberling. Clubber lane. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I've heard of that. Never seen any of them. Not one second. A couple. Chris, in draft day, Kevin Costner plays Sunny Wheeler Jr. No idea. Which team was he the general manager for? The taxes. Oh, I know that. Oh, whoa. You want to steal it? Steal, steal, can I steal? Steel, I'd like to steal. Cleveland Browns. Ding, ding, ding. All right, we got a tie. Haven't seen that one either. All right, Megan.

Club or Lang. Some sort of genius. Other than Shaquille O'Neal, name a basketball player that appeared as an actor in blue chips. Woo, woo, woo, woo, Penny Hardaway, Penny Hardaway. Woo, woo, woo.

Taking the lead. Nice. Boom. All right, Chris. Which former NBA star played the role of pilot Randy Murdoch in airplane. Fuck me running, dude. I don't know.

Kareem. God. That's right. Yeah. That's right. I know he had a foray into Hollywood. All right. Makes tall guy that Kareem.

I knew that one. How do they do the shots with him? Are you sure? Think about that. Tom Cruise and Kareem can't be in the same movie. Shoes won't do it. Well, they were seated in the plane. Yeah, well, that's the only role he can take with, you know,

self-conscious actors. All right, one or two more. Macon, what is the last name of the character, Danny, who plays the caddy in Caddyshack? Oh, fuck, I know this. My dad, it's suss. Noonan is correct. Let's go!

Alright, Chris, if you can get this last one right, you guys tie. Let's go, bitch. Macon will text me like six hours, say, please bleat, bitch. Testing you for a concussion. Let's go, bitch. Go ahead.

All right, what's the name of Will Farrell's ABA team in semi-pro. The Flint Tropics. Correct. Are you sure that's right? Yes. He's against tropics, singular. It's whatever, dude.

All right. We got a tie. You want a tie-breaker? Yeah, I'd love a tie breaker. I'd like to tie. I'd like to tie. You don't want to lose to booster Chris, do you? No.

I don't. How about a tie? Nah. Gentleman's tie. I'll give you a deal here. It's a fucking deal of your life. Okay. Offer you.

Offer you can't refuse. Godfather. O'bary can't refuse. Okay. come down for he can refuse okay you pick this deal who's 75 nothing tonight I let you tie this trivia no deal no we'll go to a tiebreaker

no we'll go to a tiebreaker all right um now is this still one and one or what's the deal do we have to buzz what's going on man shout out the answer if you know what and give us a fucking question all right in the fuck up you know in the movie tin cup what club does Kevin Kockner say is his favorite

shouted if you know it oh wait shout it? Yep. What if I'm wrong? Then you don't get to shout again. I'd rather write it down. Can we write it down? Can we both pass?

No, I just want to say this. Give me another ball. Has to be one of the best scenes in movie history. I want to guess. That's my attitude on Sunday. That's my attitude on Sunday. Give me another ball. I'm going to guess.

Money line. Maximum risk. But then if I'm wrong, he has to guess too. No. But why do I have to guess first? I think we can both agree to pass. I would like to guess. Have at it, Haas.

Now, if I get this wrong, do I lose? No, we just go until we win. Okay, seven iron. Bing, Bing, Bing, Bing. Let's go! Let's go, bitch! You just, you know, hold on. Beat up on some middle schooling.

You just, you get out of bed every day, and you put one foot in front of the other, and you, and you hydrate, and I know you just got out of bed, but you get good sleep, you hydrate, and you just keep going, and sometimes good things happen, you know? Just keep going out there. Just keep going. Keep knocking. Keep knocking on that door until it breaks down. Keep knocking. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. Ralph Waldo. Fucking Emerson, I'm with you. You got some mailbag and we'll get out of here.

Danny McVVVT. asked things you thought, things you thought were cool as a kid that you cannot stand as an adult. Power Rangers. I'm not a big fan of the Power Rangers. You just love the Power Rangers. I never liked the Power Rangers. It's a good answer. People wiping my ass for me. Not so cool. When you get to that stage, you're like, it's time to pack it in.

I guess hope. You don't think hope's cool. You're right. Thank you. Hope can hurt. That's right. Hope's dangerous. Hope can hurt.

Let me tell you something, my friend. It's a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane. All right. Liz Knighton asks, any update on Wayland's American Ninja Warrior, training. Oh yeah, he did a flip. He did a flip at a jump here locally. Jump is like a big trampoline park. Shout out. Chris Crater. Our dude. He did like an effortless front flip. I couldn't

do a flip. I can't dive off a diving board, dude, like a real dive like hands first pink, you know, tips of your fingers first. My family makes fun of me, dude. Hmm. Yeah. How does that make you feel when they make funny? Not bad. Sure. Yeah. Sure. It's not like a tough guy exterior. A little, side you're trying to put on? No, but really the thing that's more confounding is like how to dive. I'm more like, guys, I know it's fucking, it's escaping me right now. Don't you just go, go in?

Supposedly, I kind of either go straight down or like out, straight out. I can't dive. I'd give you credit for the straight down. I definitely can't do a flip. So my kid's off to a good start. Yeah, I'd worry about the head and neck. I feel like Waylon is like a damn, a dirt bike, like BMX mountain climb. I'm in guy. We're not going to do any wingsuit stuff.

A minute he talks about wingsuits, I'm cutting him off financially. Just go live in the street, buddy. You know, I have a connection to Travis Pastrana, if you want me to look at all up. Yeah. Yeah? So real estate for him?

Well, I couldn't talk about that if that were true. But no, in college, I was in the Taco Bell drive-through lane, and the person said, you look like Travis Pastrana. And I didn't, I didn't know if I knew who. that was at that time. That's funny right when you said his name I was like damn making kind of looks like him do you really look like him I don't even know what he he looks like Brad Mueller asked if you had to live in a state other than Virginia which state would you choose Maine wow easy main on the water and Maine fuck find me a little bay I don't even like water I think the idea of central

California because if I ever move Denver for sure like major city Denver. But if I right read Cowboy. It'd be awesome Would you move with me if I went to Denver? Probably if we could live like outside of Denver. Reed I got to advise you to not agree to anything

without speaking with an agent. Hey, no probably Denver but I always think about Central California and it sounds like a really good idea because if I were ever leave Virginia that would mean like I'm just so fucking tired of shit I want to go like read leaves of grass and wow and my kids will

like bathe in a creek I hear I hear I hear North Cal and SoCal a lot Murder Mountain I don't hear much about Central California There's a bunch of pasta Pasta pasta white rasta Do you have a city for us?

No city or two You got those big trees Oh the redwoods Probably live near those Yeah Yeah I think so Yeah Maine just too cold for me

Oak 5 asks Are you a fan of candy canes No You know, Oak 5, not really. And it's Christmas, and we are one of the top Christmas sports and pop culture pods. Around. Around. But we're not candy cane people.

Not really, yeah, no. I'm not offended by them. No. But I wouldn't choose to put one. Now, if you gave me, like, if I was at a function and you need a little, like, just in case your breath stinks. Oh, yeah. You grab one of those things. Many ones.

Yeah, the many ones. But don't. cane. There's like no adult should be eating in candy cane. If I see an adult eating a candy cane, I'm just smack it out of their hand. What the fuck are you doing? Y'all take care. See y'all. Tickpick should be your first choice to buy football tickets because they save fans money by never

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