KSR - NFL Cover Zero: How many teams are capable of winning the Super Bowl?

Episode Date: January 5, 2026

Matt Jones and Drew Franklin end the NFL regular season with an incredible ending of Ravens/Steelers.  How many mistakes were made before both kickers missed?  The Texans beat the Colts, but Matt was hoping for more Philip Rivers.  Cam Little kicks a 67 yard field goal in the Jaguars win. Myles Garrett breaks the sack record in the Browns win over the Bengals. Was this the last game for Travis Kelce with the Chiefs?  The Panthers will host a playoff game after winning the NFC South.  What's next for the Bucs after missing the playoffs? Another big game for Matthew Stafford in a Rams win. The Bears win while the Eagles lost, so the NFC seeds are set.  The Seahawks are the 1 seed in the NFC and are the favorites in the Super Bowl odds.  How will the Playoffs play out?  Matt explains why he's really looking forward to Bears-Packers. The Bills face the Jaguars and the game could go either way. The Eagles host the 49ers and Matt thinks the Chargers could beat the Patriots.  How far can the Steelers go in the playoffs? Matt thinks 11 teams are capable of winning the Super Bowl!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This is an I-Heart podcast. Guaranteed Human. NFL Cover Zero with Matt Jones and Drew Franklin is a production of the NFL and IHeart podcast. It was a heck of a finish to the regular season. It is week 18 of NFL cover zero. We just finished watching the Ravens and the Steelers. It feels like every Sunday night football game, Monday night football game this year has been unbelievable.

If the NFL had won it, to script that ending. I'm not sure they could have scripted it much more exciting and heartbreaking. Drew, Raven Steelers delivers once again. Yeah, we started the year with Ravens pulling off a chaotic game on Sunday night football and week one in

Buffalo and we wrap up the regular season, leaving the Ravens behind after that chaotic finish. Kickers, man. I think I saw that Sunday, I've often thought that it felt like the Ravens and Steelers play on Sunday night more than anyone else. It turns out that's true. The Ravens and the Steelers are the matchup that has occurred the most on Sunday night football.

And this probably was the best one. I mean, there's a lot of things to talk about. But let's just start with kickers. Nothing better than starting with people's failures. Well, that tells the story at the end. Just think about these two stats. We were talking to Billy about people who give stats. These are two of Mason's said.

Boswell, Pittsburgh's kicker, missed the extra points. that looked like it was going to cost him the game. He had not missed an extra point since December 2023. It's a long time. Misses it. Tyler Loop. Tyler Loop. That's right.

Is that a person? Baltimore's kicker. Okay. Didn't know that. By the way, I had someone text me right before the kick. Justin Tucker is going to make this. They have not been keeping up with the news. I haven't been listening to cover zero.

Will we break down all kickers? Or just reading the reports of things. But, it said loop was 28 of 28 on field goals inside 50 yards. So two people who did not miss had the pressure squeeze him right there at the end. You know, if Luke makes it, we're talking about Boswell, once Boswell missed that one, throwing off the math there, keep us from OT, I feel like it's the better of the two endings. At least the guy that missed the 44-yarder who's not been with the team for a long time.

At least he's the one that missed. He was crying. But think if Boswell. misses an extra point. Yeah, but Boswell, I think, Tyler Loop, I mean, what's he, like, you yourself, you wanted to say

Tyler Luke, no, Tyler. Poop, I know, I said it under my breath. I wasn't going to bring that to the podcast. That was during the kick. I feel bad for him. Boswell at least has some built-in equity with the Pittsburgh fan base. He was a lot closer, though.

A lot closer. Extra point. Rogers was so happy when he got that touchdown. Rogers was already in the playoffs in his brain. But who would you rather have made it? Lamar or Aaron Rogers. Lamar, by the way, that's two years in a row. Guy can't catch a break.

I mean, Andrews drops it last year in the playoffs. And then Loopy Lou misses. I'm sorry, Lump was crying. You did not have any sympathy? Well, really, they both robbed all of us of maybe more football. Maybe we're not even talking right now. We're watching Lamar and Aaron Rogers just seeing who's the least washed right now, playing until the end for this spot. He cried immediately.

Like he didn't even have time for the gravity of it to hit him, which makes me think, and I say this like with genuine sympathy for him. It makes me think he was like too scared when he starts. Sometimes the moment's too big. If you're crying immediately, then you were like preemptively crying before. Like you knew this could happen. And hot take, I think his. coaching staff could done a little better, I would have probably run another play with a timeout. That is on the road in Pittsburgh with the playoffs on the line.

True. Settling from 44 yards. And they still had enough to miss it by a lot. He did. But I would have at least tried to get him a little more room. They had time and a timeout to give him space. Still, tough way for it to end. What's nuts, though, are how many people made egregious errors to get to that point?

I mean, you had Jalen Ramsey just letting Zay Flowers run down the field. Tyler Loop did not save Boswell for me. He saved Jalen Ramsey because Jalen Ramsey would have been the talk of that loss. Yeah. On both instances. On both one, the Zay Flowers catch and then the catch at the end. The river, what was the guy's name?

Likely. Likely made. And then, I mean, this wasn't an error so much as he just fell. The Baltimore guy. Baltimore guy. Oomzee. He falls. That you hate to see a slip.

Ramsey was just him being old. He's not a safety. He made a mistake. The slip would have been a hard way. to go out. So it was a great game. I feel bad for Lamar. And you know how Aaron Rogers, like, they play Houston.

They could win, right? Get D.K. back. Think about all the things that are different. Now, does John Harbaugh get fired because of Loop de Lou? It's tough. They had some injuries. They gambled with some guys on the back end of their careers. But, I mean, 8 and 8 with that team is bad.

Yeah, 8.9. Or 8.9, excuse me, 8 and 8 going on that game. And then Lamar will be bad. but did you see Mike Tomlin did a kiss into the camera at the end? I didn't see that. That stadium had been booing him just about a month ago. Dude. He should,

I actually think now he should walk away himself and kind of do a, everybody kiss my tail. Yeah, because whatever happens next, it's going to be a pretty big rebate. I mean, maybe Aaron Rogers has another year left,

but this, it's not like this is a roster with the big feature. Whatever job is the best job available, he could go take it immediately. Like, he would be, if he's a free agent, anyone would want him, right? Oh, come to Nashville. I would love to have Mike Tomlin compared to what they're talking about right now. What if he ended up in Baltimore? I mean, in Baltimore, if that would be an option, they should take it.

I mean, still a great coach, even though Steelers started on a big year. That would be the best quarterback he's had since Ben Rafflesberger. That would be weird to see. I don't know if he could do that switch. But I mean his record of winning You know of nine win seasons is unbelievable That was just that was a great game That's what makes the NFL an awesome sport

Is that that kind of game right there Raven Steelers is the best rivalry In a winner goes to playoffs losers out Like how can you have it any better? Yeah late in the fourth quarter Had a couple different you know friend group techs Be like everybody gets to Sunday night football If you're not watching it's chaos

And that was before like The fourth down. Who is your group text that doesn't know of Monday Night Football? I mean, sometimes. But somebody's like, hey, you may not have thought of this. Steelers Ravens today. I don't know why. If something's going crazy, yeah, we do it all the time.

Are y'all tuned in to whatever, name of basketball, whatever, just making sure everybody's locked in. Point is, they were talking about how chaotic it was. And that was before the extra point, the fourth down, and the miskick at the end. It was already chaotic chaotic pretty early when they started trading touchdowns late in the fourth quarter. I want to know who Billy was on that group text I can tell you. Who wasn't watching?

Did someone, was someone not watching? I would say most weren't watching. Okay. How many people is in the group? Seven, eight, including me. Okay. Kyle said if you're not watching, this game is off the rails. I like Kyle.

And then somebody hit with a heart. So they were probably watching. I like that. My mom's big up the heart. And then Derek said, oh, Derek said, extra point incoming dirt. So then we started getting some live. commentary.

That's why you have to mute the group chat. Oh, it's 100 a day. Easy. Seven or eight people, though, is not bad. I'm in a group. I'm in a, my fellowship group chat is 25 people. And when they get going, when they get going, I'm like, all right, everybody just looks to slow that one bit.

If we're going to tell them my group chat, I got to be honest, more like Tyler poop came from the group chat. So if we're going to throw me under the bus here, I'm going to throw my group chat. Is it the possibility that over all these years just stealing from the group? All the funny things. you've said have been a collective like writing? Yeah. It's like a writing staff. I've never considered that. I can't even say the name of the group on the air. In fact, when it pops up on my phone, I get really embarrassed if anyone's around because just the name in itself is inappropriate. Well, I mean, I think that's okay.

I had to give a speech once and I had to write a lot of jokes. And I had a group, we don't have a group chat, but I've created one for it. And probably 50% of the jokes came from the group. So I feel like It's all right. They're taking over. It's the ones where you have 30 people and there's a green person in there that's running everything. The green people should be, the green people are going to be like Tyler Loop in terms of their ability to go anywhere. Why do we keep making fun of him? I feel bad for him.

I genuinely do. Like, that would be the loneliest existence in the world. You're with a group of people who are bigger than you, stronger than you, faster than you, cooler than you, richer than you. and you are like, hey guys, I get to play kicker. And then you miss. And he's a rookie. No, he's not. He's also younger than everybody.

I mean, he was already getting the laundry and bringing the donuts every morning. Oh, my goodness. I don't know if he's doing laundry. I think they employ people to do that. But yeah, he's a rookie. He's going to hurt for a while. I don't mean to pick on him either. That's why I'm throwing my group chat under the bus.

his rookie year ends with not even like I missed it and there was more football left this was a direct you're either end or you're out he went to the University of Arizona and look he's got such a like he does he's got like such a nice like boy haircut got a little Davis Mills thing going on too yeah we'll get to him oh my goodness well all right

he's only three misses before tonight looking at his stats we're all from 50 or more well his Instagram says he's an athlete he was seven for seven from 40 to 49 for tonight's game I'm sorry Tyler loop I wish you the best well maybe we can get him on the pod I don't know if this is like I don't think he should use this as his moment let's call him right now to take over well all right so the Steelers make it so now we have the playoffs they are set for next week um Well, I guess let's go through the games and then we'll talk about the playoffs in a little bit.

So, our 1 o'clock games, you mentioned the Texans. They beat the Colts. Why do you want to talk about Davis Mills? Well, they won, and he played the entire second half. They didn't play C.J. Stroud. Does you think that was weird that they substituted him at half time? I can tell you why they did it. Why?

They needed the Jags to win. They got in the locker room, turned on the TV. The Jags were up 317 at halftime against the Titans. And they probably said... So they needed the Jags to lose. Excuse me, needed Jags to lose. It was meaningless if the Jags won. Okay.

31-7 at halftime against the Titans. I assume there was a TV in the locker room and they thought, all right. Because they pulled a lot of people, not just Stroud. Yeah. Well, that's a good call. You know what? This is why we have you on for your expert analysis. I didn't make that.

Well, I was the, me and the Titans coaches. That comes with the group. Yeah, too. No, me and the Texans coaches were the only people still watching Titans Jags. So that's why I'm glad someone else out there had eyeballs on that. game. Well, so let's do both these. The Jags beat the Titans. The Texans beat the Colts. Two AFC South matchups. I didn't realize until before the game that Philip River was retired. Did that get said before the game? Yes.

So why not play the last game? Couldn't do it. Too sore. I mean, play three games. That's it? I mean, you have one more for the rest of your life. Don't you just want to go play? Like, why not? I think he just wanted to hand it off to Raleigh Leonard. Kind of like I'm handing off the Colts quarterback jersey to you, Raleigh Lennard. But I mean, listen, it was a great story. And he actually did much better than I thought, but he was 0 and 3. One of his kids probably had like a recital or something.

He was on the sidelines. He was eating a corn dog most of the game. There's a game January 4th. I can't make it that game, guys. I'll do your last three. Why would he not play the last game? He had enough. Went out on top.

I think the Colts wanted to see what they had on bottom. I think the Colts wanted to see what they had. Riley Leonard. It was his first start. So maybe he saw that... Well, they clearly didn't think they had much, which is why Philip Rivers was on the team to begin with, right? Well, they lost. So the Texas win, Davis Mills. What's his record? 23 and O this year? It's incredible. Four and O, I think. The Texans have won nine straight. Is there a quarterback controversy? Texas have won nine straight? Texans have won nine straight. They're the hottest team in the NFL. Meanwhile, the Colts

lost seven in a row to miss the playoffs after starting eight and two, I believe. I don't know the exact timeline, but Davis Mills is somewhere in the beginning of that win streak. If not started it, he's game two or three. He might be a guy that in all seriousness, if you're a team that needs a quarterback you would look at in the offseason, right? Because he, when he played before CJ Stroud, wasn't he the quarterback for you? He was all right. He was all right. So, I mean, why wouldn't you look at him? He's been there like five years. Since Stroud's been there, I don't think they haven't used him before Stroud. He was like the starter for a season due to injury. And I think he was okay. Well, maybe.

not. I mean, they kept them around for three more years. It must not been that good because they got the number one pick and pick C.J. Stroud. Well, he's been fine this year. Yeah. Well, and we know he's one of the best quarterbacks in Stanford history. Yeah, you know, another Stanford debut, we'll get to later today.

Big name. But I thought the AFC was going to be terrible. AFC South. You get two teams in and then the Jags that put on the Titans today. Oh, by the way, there was a moment in the Titans game. I know you two would hate. Cam Little kicked a 67-yard field goal and I think he was still on its way up.

He single-handedly should have the kicking rules changed because he's a little shrimp too and he kicks it like he doesn't even look like he's trying and he's kicked now the two longest field goals in history this year and you're not going to tell me that he's just some superhuman he's not the tiger woods of kicking. And he was like giggling about it like that was nothing.

Like screw me back. Do you think the kickers have a group chat like where they're all talking? Oh yes. Do you think kickers do you think they support each other? Like, do you think there are kickers saying hang in there? It's such a cutthroat position where they'll fire you in a heartbeat and get the next guy. I think they're constantly just rooting for others to fail.

Oh, that's interesting. So you think it's like one bad game and they'll cut you. You think it's like the real housewives of kickers? Definitely. Like they all want to, they all are like nice to each other, but really they want each other to fall in the ocean. And it's probably like golf where they all pretend they're rooting for each other. But you know on their brain when they're on the green, they're like, miss it, miss it. They don't say it.

They'll shake your hand. They'll applaud you. but on the inside, you know they're like missing. I don't know if I've ever noticed this, but like at the end of games, when everybody goes and hugs, is the only people the kickers hug the other kickers? Seems like the specialist find each other.

Long snappers, they'll hug a kicker. Punter, kicker, long snappers, find each other. Long snappers have to hug each other and go, we are pulling one on the world. Right. We are using a roster spot and we don't do anything. And I think the Jags long snapper was there. only pro bowler and they've like been celebrating him. How do you have? I mean, he's on the posters.

How do you even have a pro bowl longs? How do you determine who's good? You snap real good. But I mean, I off the top of my head can't think of one bad long snap this year. Like on a punt. Can you think of one? No. It feels like it should be a 32 way tie. Do you think because he's being celebrated so much in Jacksonville, the other long snappers are like, dude, you're flying too close to that? the sun. Chill. We're supposed to be incognito here. We don't want people to really zoom in on this and see what we're doing. Yeah, probably. Well, anyway, there's your Texans

Colts and Jaguard. Got hurt. I saw that. Hopefully not too bad. Shoulder, maybe, or something like that. They scored, though, on the first drive. Scored on the play, got hurt. And Trevor Lawrence got grills in the post-game locker room. I saw that. So they bought him grills. Yeah. Why? I think that's a Duval

County thing. Is it? Yes. So everyone in Jacksonville gets grills? I wouldn't say everybody, but I think it is part of the culture of that city. First of all, how would... They were talking about it. Because it's not like you just... No, I'm not just pulling this.

I mean, I would, I mean, if I were looking for Duval County culture, I would usually come to you. But so I'm not trying to not trust you. He is our Floridian on the show. Yeah. That is true. So that's a Duval thing. Okay. Is Liam Cohen going to be a girl?

Did I see it was only on his bottom teeth? I thought he had on top and bottom, but there's a meme of an AI generated Trevor Lawrence with grills that goes around. Oh, okay. And so they actually got him the real ones. Okay, well, that's kind of nice. They are, without question, the most disrespected good team, right? Oh, yeah. I mean, they've been on fire lately, especially in Lawrence. He and Cohen started the year. I think we even talked about it.

They were like arguing on the sidelines. It looked like they didn't get along. You wondered what was going on. And now here we are at the end of the season. And Cohen has been, obviously, great for that team and great for Lawrence. He's been playing great throws. No, he's been good to like. last month and a half, two months.

All right, so then you had the Browns beat the Bengals. The only thing I cared about this game is that, did you see the post game? Joe Burroughs' hair kept getting in his eyes? No, I didn't see that. I wouldn't dialed in for the Bingles Browns post game. Usually I am. He clearly wanted his hair to be out, but it just kept falling into his eyes. But he just kept letting it.

Did he give it the blow? I think he did it probably just to increase the female thirst trap. I think it was his version of aura farming, isn't that a thing? It was a weird thing to aura farm when you lost the last game of the season

to your rival. To the Browns. It sounds like they're bringing back their coach though, the Bengals. Bingles fans are not happy about that. They've been complaining about him maybe before game one. When the record was oh and oh,

they were done with him. I'm pretty surprised by that. The Browns with the win, by the way, hit the over, which I think surprised a lot people. And they probably won't keep their coach. Which I think is weird because I think he's a good coach.

But I guess, shockingly in the Stefansky versus Chodor thing, is Chador going to win? Is Chidor going to be? I mean, they can pick a quarterback. Should they? Yeah. I don't

love the options where they would be drafting. Maybe you get another year. They're going to be, what, fifth or sixth, right? Yeah, but I just don't think there's that many pick. like Raiders are going to get one. I don't think it's greater.

But Raiders will get one. They're six. Cardinals maybe. Jets, I guess. Jets. I think at that point, maybe just roll with them again. Yeah.

I don't think he's the answer, though. It's just added to the list of Brown's QB. The carousel will continue, whether it's this offseason or next. All right, let's talk about the NFC South. Maybe they go get Davis Mills. Well, and Miles Garrett broke the sack record. That was cool.

Well, yeah, we need to talk about that. Okay, Zach Taylor whined about that, though. Oh, he did? Because they did a five-minute, like, celebration during or he said it was five minutes. I don't know how long it was. But he breaks the Sacks record, which was cool. I loved his dad in the stands with the camera.

I thought that was a neat thing. He breaks the Sack record. They stopped the game and do a little celebration. Zach Taylor said he was not informed about that, and he was not happy. He was like, there's five minutes left in the game. It was a key point. You should have let me know you're going to do that.

I would have said to him, Zach, no one is watching this game, except for the off chance Miles Garan gets that sack, so we're going to honor it. No one is here to watch you, and you should be lucky you're getting five more minutes in the National Football League. It seemed like the Bengals didn't want him to get it.

Like, they were doing things to not let him get it. That wasn't a laydown. That wasn't the old breadfar of... I agree. Yeah. I mean, he got right to him, but it wasn't like they just let up and let him have his moment.

Yeah, I'm with you. I think that was an earned... That was an earned final sack. And the one thing they can hang their hat on. Bingles got to be... Are they the most disappointing team of the year? Yeah, because I mean, the Chiefs,

Chiefs are disappointing, too. Yeah, that's got to be the answer. Bingles are up there, though, because that offense was still supposed to be a lot more exciting. You know, Chiefs are going to get a top 10 pick, though. It's kind of dangerous to give Mahomes a top 10 pick, isn't it? Well, I feel like you already got away with robbery, the last two drafts getting Rice and Worthy where he did.

So, yeah, them get to pick that far up. I think so. You with that pick could probably get Kelsey's replacement, right? You could probably get the best tied in in the draft there, you would think. Yeah. Whoever that is. I don't know who that is, but. Maybe they could even trade it and load up on some picks, try to keep the dynasty going.

Yeah. Depending how they want to do it. That's interesting. Do you think this was the last game with Travis and? Yeah. What do you have 12 yards? Yeah, it wasn't great. I did see a picture, though.

Did you see the picture of him and Taylor with Carissa Thompson and Aaron Andrews and their boyfriends? Yeah, they're like best friends. They vacation together. It's like a... The six of them? Yeah. It's a power triplet of a couple. How do they got to know each other? Because I would think Taylor Swift's like way bigger than them, right? I guess maybe through Travis, Kelsey, I guess, probably. There was some story early on with them when Fort Travis even met Taylor. On their podcast, they're really playing up. Taylor Swift needs to give them a chance. I guess they're Swifties. They were big on. I don't know if they actually helped. Would you want to be friends? with someone you were a big fan of before.

Like, who's your favorite musical artist? I actually don't even have one right now. I'd change it. Lil Wayne, maybe? I saw him, if you just got to vacation with Lil Wayne, would you want to do that? Go on vacation tomorrow.

I would love for you to go. What would you and Lil Wayne do on vacation? I would just be like, remember in Birdman Jr. When you said... You can't do that. You can't just talk to him about remember when I liked you. Like, you have to be friends. You all have to talk.

Yeah, we'll go to dinner. What are you going to talk about? I don't know. Probably. the Carter 1 through 5 I could rank the Carter's for him, the Packers I don't think he wants to talk about the Carters Okay so you'd have to talk to me about the Packers

Okay so I can't talk to him about a rap Is what you're saying I can't ask the questions I mean I don't think he wants your friendship I think when your friends was like you don't sit here And we and our friends you don't sit here and ask me about Kentucky basketball we talk about everything else I would feel very genuine I would probably be like all right

Lou Wayne Dwayne his name's actually Dwayne You can't call him Louie Dwayne Michael Carter What See, I don't think you're everything to say to her. I'm not ready for this moment. I think I'm starstruck.

I think it would be hard. I would fumble my friendship with Lowell Wayne. I think it would be very hard. I mean, I've met my favorite artist multiple times, Tyler Childers. And it is hard because, like, you go up to him. He knows me. But we all, we only know of each other the thing that they're known for. And so, like, he'll be, like, I know he wants to talk.

to me about Kentucky basketball. And I want to talk to him about, you know, follow you to vergy. But if you take those two points away, we have nothing to say to you. Because we don't know each other. You don't go too far in. You'll think you're a super fan, but you don't want to just act like nothing. But I've now seen him multiple times. So I'll be like, I'll give it.

We give each other the bro hug. But then we're out of things to say. This reminds me of a great story. Okay. I went on a bachelor party with my dear friends. It was in Atlanta. He's a big Braves guy. We're in Atlanta.

Just doing Bachelor party things. We're at a club. And I guess I can say the player's name because it doesn't matter. Jason Hayward's in there. And this is when he's big star, the Braves, hadn't been traded yet. And I tell the manager with... I remember that you've told me. I was like, The Bachelor over here loves the Braves.

It's like Dahart. Like he knows the AAA roster, but he also specifically loves Jason Hayward. And I was like, is there any way I could bring my Bachelor over to Jason Hayward just for a quick hello and the manager like yeah let's set this up but like he can't fanboy and be weird like I'll tell Jason you know fans can be like he can't be you know

in the area yeah so I go up to I won't say the bachelor we'll say Bachelor and I was like dude you're going to get to meet Hayward just play it cool you know don't be weird asking for selfies he might get to hang out I swear we walk up to Jason Hayward I'm like hey Jason this is my friend the Bachelor and the Bachelor goes hey man what do you do

for a living like completely acting like he took don't be fan into, I acted like he doesn't know who he was. And then Hayward's confused. Like, I thought he knew who I was. And we just have this awkward standoff. So he went too cool and pretended he didn't even know who his favorite. Don't.

Don't. What do you do for a living? Yeah, like, hey man, who are you? What do you do? I was like, you went too far. You can acknowledge that he plays baseball. Don't super fan, but he went too far the other direction. It is tough, though, because I would challenge you to think about if you met your favorite person.

at something, but you couldn't talk to them about that. What would you say? Because that's how you know them and why you're excited. That's exactly right. I don't know Tyler Childers because we both like severance. I don't even know if you see. And it would be weird if I just went up to him and go, hey, do you watch severance? Maybe that's what I asked a little way in about.

You're severance guy. Pitt, season two is coming out. You want to go to the beach? That would be weird. You asked him if you wanted to go to the beach. All right. I don't know how we got off on that either. I'd like to win.

NFC South. You predicted Billy last week. Yes. Exactly what would happen. You said the Buccaneers would win, but then the Falcons would win the next day and knock them out, and that's exactly what happened. It was a strange kind of depression I found myself watching my two rivals,

second and third strings, battle it out in order who would win the division. I mean, it was awful. I mean, losing eight of your last 10 games was awful enough, but. But then they got your hopes up. Then they got my hopes up and they win. I mean, in that slop of a game on Saturday. And then I will never rely on the Saints ever again. And now the Panthers host a playoff game, Carolina Mike.

If you had 150,000. That's right. He put out, I saw it today after they won the game and after the Saints lost. he put out a video that was, he said, a new verse. And initially he just put the old song out again. I think he had uploaded the wrong video. So he just literally put his same song on again, which I love. I know they've already brought him to the stadium to perform.

They have to it again. I mean, full-blown parking lot concert. Have you wondered, though, when he goes places over and over? I've wondered this about him. When he goes places and performs, if you don't know who he is, You have to think something like your world is messed up. Why is this middle-aged man? This guy with a contest.

Who is not talented. Hey. Hey. Talented just limited in his catalog. Only one song. It is a banger. Yeah. He just needs to grow the collection.

But if you, like, if you just came up, like, if you were at a Panthers game and you did not know who he was, wouldn't you be like, what is happening right now? Now, why is this man performing? But he's already done it in the arena and got the applause. But now, like I saw, like next week he's performing a Wake Forest basketball game. There is a really good chance that a huge portion of that crowd is not going to know who he is. Right.

He just does it too. He just follows Red Panda around, halftime venues, college basketball. Like, what percentage of the college students at Wake Forest do you think know who he is? It can't be there. that many. A lot of Panthers fans in that. Yeah, he's staying in state. Yeah, keeping it in state.

If you said Virginia Tech, I'm going to be... Virginia Tech, I'm going to be... Virginia Tech 5%. 1%. And then he gets out there, what are they just going to be like, who's dad? Just bob your head and wonder, how am I not a part of this?

What did I miss that everyone else is enjoying them? I kind of want to go to Winston's saying, just to watch it and to see what everybody does. We focus on him, but has anyone done a... wellness check on Meow Mix. It's been very quiet. Oh. Since remember the players told them to stay, stay dark, stay in your room, stay quiet, and

they did. It's got to be hard on them. But they're in, I mean, the moment they stopped podcasting is when. Literally the moment. Switch flipped. Now we're good. In the playoffs. Yeah.

Are you, would you blow it up if you're the, for your team? I would. Get rid of Baker? No, no. Baker's sticking around. Keep Baker, but everybody else goes. Bulls, I think, would go. But I think the word is that they're going to keep him.

That's what Schefter was saying this morning, is that the owners want to keep him. But like Dave Canales was our offensive coordinator. He takes the Panthers to the playoffs. Liam Cohen was our offensive coordinator, takes the Jags. It's just frustrating. Yeah, that just means you got more great coordinators. Well, I mean, if you're known for defense and your defense was the worst in the league the last 10 weeks, I mean, you've got to be held accountable.

But probably the last game for Levante David and Mike Evans in Tampa. Make you sad? Mike Evans is like, was a part of your child? Those two are first ballot Hall of Famers, no doubt. And to see them and like how long they stayed on the field after the game and stuff was really sad. So poor one out for them. Baker tricked me because he scored on the opening drive and they zoomed in and he's yelling, I'm him and he's doing this. And I thought, is he back?

Did he snap out of something? And then they didn't score another touchdown. Yeah. By the way, the Vikings and Packers played the one o'clock games. And I don't think they ever put that game on Red Zone. They actually didn't show a Packers offensive snap until the game. there were about four minutes left on the Reds. How do you know that?

Because Scott, or Hanson made a... He said it? Yeah, he made a note about that. I was watching it in the airport, and I was like, at one point they put it on, and I go, I didn't know they were playing. Nine got hurt again. Who did?

Nine. Your boy, Non got hurt again. He apologized to all the players. Yeah, he apologized, but they won. I think most of the players are like, we're good. We don't really care if you play or not. Well, his comments after it, he sounded sad like he might not be back, or at least that the guy, he was like, well, whatever they do.

their decision, I hope to be here, but you know, kind of one of those. He wasn't speaking like a confident. You said about JJ McCarthy? Yeah, I wasn't talking like a confident quarterback. Why would they not bring him back? I mean, he would be on the team, but he was talking like a guy that doesn't know that he'll be the future. Well, maybe he shouldn't be. I'd go get, I'd go get Davis Mills.

Yeah. You mentioned Scott Hanson. Did you all see his sign off? No, what did he say? He was very emotional. Why? This is kind of a new red zone to me year. I'm usually a Sunday taking.

No, ESPN's keeping him. He got like, seriously got like a lump in his throat. And I thought, does this happen every year? Am I sad? Is there something I don't know? What's he sad about? I don't know. But it was in his sign-off.

It was like, serious very emotional. And I thought, is this happened every season? I don't think you should cry after every year. See, this is my first, you know, full red zone where I did the whole year with him. So it was my first sign-off. I mean, listen, NFL, I'm essentially part of the league. I like Scott Hans. I think he's good.

But I miss the other guy. Siciliano. Yeah, his ears. I mean, I've been watching him for 15 years. He's great. He's great. I miss him. What's he do now?

I think he's on the Browns Radio Network. He's still around. That's a demotion. I've seen him somewhere else. He went from Red Zone to the Browns Radio Network? Believe so. And I think he still does his NFL Network stuff. Yeah, I see him.

Okay, so he's still on the NFL network. Yeah. Okay, good. Because I do like that guy. That guy was actually really funny. Maybe he wasn't getting emotional enough at signoffs. Scott does take it serious with the whole don't go to the bathroom and... I'm not making this up.

He said, don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened today. That was the sign off. But that seems like the kind of thing you would say if you were getting fired. Now, I know it's changing hands, but we already knew that before this season and they're keeping him. Like, it's going to ESPN, but they already've been talking about that. That's not new. Why would that be? I don't know, but he was very...

I'm worried about him, actually. He was only on YouTube TV for two. years. Go back and watch it. It makes you think, like, what's going on? Is this okay? It's sad.

It's over. Yeah. Well, I'm sad. Don't cry that it's over. Smile that it happened. Well, dude, you're going to be on TV Monday, probably somewhere. Got next year or two. Five football left.

Then the four o'clock games, they had a lot of them. I was flying during a lot of these. But the Rams, they beat the Cardinals. Although the Cardinals kept it relatively close. They did. Most of the game. Stafford had another four touchdown game. I saw Bill Simmons whining because he said that McVeigh was patting the stats for Stafford so he could win the MVP,

not noting that the Drake May played the Patriots, or she plays the Jets and the Dolphins the last two weeks. Who would you vote for, by the way? It's so close. Stafford is now the favorite. Did you see that? Like May was a big favorite going into today, and at this moment, Stafford is a small favorite for it. Because Stafford had another huge game. I didn't see it as running up, though.

I think it was like 23-20 in the fourth quarter. The Cardinals were in it. So, no, I don't believe they're pad. Maybe the last touchdown, but that didn't change much. What if they did? So what? Yeah. And so, yeah.

I mean, it's not illegal to pad your stats. The Broncos win, Patriots win. So the Broncos will be the number one seed. The Raiders won. Now, who has the number one pick? The Raiders. They got to keep it because the Giants beat the Cowboys. Okay.

So they... But going into today, you know, that wasn't expected. Pete Carroll got hot. No, I do not. Okay. No. Would you walk away if you're Pete Carroll? Go out on top, beating the defending AFC champs.

Well, you always want to leave places better than you found it. He's walking a – that's a big rivalry too. Yeah, defending AFC champs. Used to be nasty. I mean, they were the Super Bowl favorites coming in the year. So he could walk out and go, look, I beat the Super Bowl favorites. What do you want from me? I think he walked.

Granted, it was the third street. quarterback. But if he doesn't already have a cigar in his mouth right now about beating the Chiefs for this walk off, they got to take. Shane Buckel was the quarterback today of the Chiefs. I know that... I thought he used to coach the Cardinals, or

it was Joe Buegel. The reason I know Shane... That's a person, right? Yeah. Look up. See if there was a guy named Joe Buegel. Anyway, going about Shane Bucle. The reason I know that is because he is when I hit my breaking point. There were so many quarterbacks that I'd never heard of today. And then I just threw my arm

in the air when Shane Buckel was in over Chris Ola Dukin or whatever. Yeah. Am I right about Joe Buegel? Yeah. He kind of looked like he probably smoked and played poker. Is that what he looks like? Yeah. No, he does.

Yeah, doesn't he look like a guy who would be... Offensive line coach. Yeah. Played at Western Kentucky. I think he also coached the Raiders, didn't he? Yes. He was an assistant head coach, I believe. Of the Raiders and the Cardinals.

95 and 96. Yep. And Raiders head coach in 97. That's what I said. You were right. I like you act like you discovered new information. We landed on the moon. The Bears and the Eagles both had to win to be the two-seat.

Either one of them. The Bears played their starters, played awful for basically three-quarters, and then got really hot in the fourth quarter, nearly won the game, should have gone for it on fourth down, didn't lines end up winning. So it looks like they've lost a two-seat. But then the Eagles chose not to play their starters and end up the three-seat.

Both teams lost, so it didn't matter. But I think the Eagles probably win if they play their starters, or at least have a good chance. I think that was a mistake? Huge mistake. And if I'm an Eagles fan, I'm livid. It's the commanders with Josh Johnson at quarterback. Just play our guys, get a comfortable league, then bench him.

But he rested. Barkley, Hertz, most key. starters and you end up losing a game you should never lost in the first place and losing the number two seat. I can't believe he did that. They started Tanner McKee at quarterback from Stanford. Maybe. Okay, you were, I was wondering when you were going to get that.

Maybe Siriani just listens to cover zero and thought, I got a Stanford quarterback right now. I'll just use him. But I can't believe he did that. But Tanner McKee played okay. He was all right, but you tried to be smart and get one over. I think, didn't it? I think they had an injury in the last week last.

It was very predictable the Bears could lose. I think they were the underdog. Because I think people thought they might not play. It's like a point to half or something like that. So why? I mean, to me, the Packers, who you would play as a two-seat are a much better opponent for the Eagles than the 49ers who they're going to play. I don't get this.

I feel like Siriani deserves a lot of questioning about it. Yeah, if I'm an Eagles fan, I'm looking at today and what we need to do and like, okay, Bear's got the Lions. We have the commanders. We have a gray draw. Let's finish this off. And then I'm watching... Commanders at home.

Then I'm watching Tank Bigsby and Tanner McKee on my team that I think is a contender. Yeah, I'm livid. I think... I don't know this for sure. I think Tank Biggsby has played in the NFL since 1991. Since 91, Billy? I feel like he's been... Isn't that a name?

First of all, his name's Tank. That seems like I'm running back from the early 90s. How long? How long as tank Biggsby been in the league? I think he went to Auburn, but I'm looking at there. He is Auburn, but I don't know how long he's been in. That's why I think he's, because I heard him when he was at Auburn. Auburn with their tanks and their Cadillac.

So he was drafted in 2023 in the third round. So he's played for the Jags and the Eagles. So you meant he was born in 1991? I think that's what you were trying to say. Born in 2001. You know, all these numbers run together. I think his parents met in 1991 is what I was thinking. Yeah.

That was it. I think that's what I mean. Yeah, definitely. Then Saturday night, Seahawks beat the 49ers to get the one seed. Seahawks are the Super Bowl favorites by the odds. Does that seem right? Now that they have the one seed in the buy, obviously that gives them the edge. But their defense also answered a big question.

49ers have a great offense. They went in there and almost shut them out, held them to three points in a game with seating on the line. And so we already know Donald's having a good year and that offense has been great. But that defense holding them to three was a big statement to me. So I agree with it. So on my ESPN show, Myron goes, I'm going on record. Seahawks over the Jags in the Super Bowl. And I started laughing.

I was like, are you crazy? That's the most ridiculous thing. And then I realized the Seahawks are the one seed, the Jags are three. It's not crazy at all. But that sounds like a ludicrous Super Bowl that like chat GPT would come up with. If you said that before you think you're crazy, Sam Darnold that Minnesota just got rid of versus Trevor Lawrence.

William Cohen. Yeah. I mean, you know, just as I said the Seahawks defense had that big statement, the Jags going to beating the Broncos in Denver two weeks ago was a big statement too, so I don't think it's crazy at all. Do you ever see when these graphics get put up, chat GPT predicts the next 75 NFL champs or whatever? I saw one the other day.

It was chat GPT does the next 75 NFL champions. had in 2053 a grocery store winning. Which one? It was literally like Harris Teeter. And then it was all NFL team. It was all NFL teams. And then like 2053 was Harris Teeter. And then like 2062 was KISS, the band.

Expansion. AI still has its flaws. And that's where I was like, you know what, why do we, our entire economy, for people who don't follow the economy. Our entire stock market is propped up on the idea that AI is going to be big. But when they pick a grocery store to win the NFL championship, I'm questioning the information I get off of there. I just saw one of these last week, too, had the Titans winning in five years.

That might be crazier than the grocery store. Yeah. And then I saw one with the NBA, and it was like the next 75 years. and it was 74 NBA teams and then the Cincinnati Reds Congrats Well it's like when people edit a photo And you're like wow that looks real

And then you're like wait a minute Why do they have eight fingers? It's like the AI It isn't just quite there to perfect it yet You're still getting the Harris Teeter Super Bowl pick Yeah so I don't know I feel like I feel like you got to be careful about those The chat GPT

You know champions because I fall for them because I'll see it say Kentucky's going to win the basketball title in like 2031 and I'm like oh man they already know our class. Yeah, robots. They know. But then when I saw Harris Teeter was winning the NFL title. Well, what do we not know about Harris Teeter? Is it that the AI is wrong or is that we just can't wrap our minds around what Harris Teeter could be working on? Have you ever been to a Harris Teeter?

I'm not. I've not. That's like the North Carolina. Yeah, then they're in Tennessee as well. I've seen them. just having had the pleasure. That's the North Carolina one. Yeah, so right here, here's one.

This is chat, GPD picks. Now, this isn't the one I saw earlier. The next 50 Super Bowls. They have in 2068 the London-England Monarchs. Oh, did they create an international team naming it and predicting it will win the Super Bowl. That's pretty crazy. There'll be a team in London. I tell you what, if in like five years they announce a team.

called the London Monarchs. I'm running and making a bet for Super Bowl of 2068. Even just getting the name right would be impressive. It would be very impressive. All right. So, playoffs. Now, they announced the schedule. One of the things, this tells you how I've listened to Bill Simmons too much over the years. He has, for as long as I've known, there's apparently a pizza place in Los Angeles

that is really bad that he and his friends always get together and watch the first Saturday NFL playoff game every year because it's usually the worst one and they call it the Shakey's game

because Shaky's Pizza is apparently bad. I've thought about that a lot over the years because I wonder if Shaky's Pizza you think they like that publicity? Because it's like he he says they go there because it's so bad. I mean maybe they look forward to that day they double their stuff.

staff. But I think if I go to L.A., I haven't been in a lot. There's a part of me that we want to go seeing, because I know people have to go there to see is it as bad as everybody says. And chances are, look up, look up Billy's Shaky's Pizza in L.A. Because I'm going to bet you there are reviews that say, not as bad as Bill Simmons makes it out to be. It has to be good enough to at least keep the lights on. So someone's eating there, even if it's only a couple people a week. I've also wondered, since they talk about it every year, and you know when it is, don't you think Bill Simmons fans?

Like, Jimmy Kimmel goes. Yeah, you'd think there'd be a lot out the door. You would think there would be people that go. Like, people could just think, I'm going to create my own watch party with this podcast. I want to go hang out with these guys that I like. So I've often wondered how that would work. What are their reviews like, a Shakey's Pizza? It's a 4.1 out of 5 on Yelp.

And the first person said, I've been coming to Shakey's for over 20 years. and it never disappoints. The food and the service are always bomb. You got to be craving Shaggy's pizza. Thin-crust pizza, mojos, and chicken always hit the spot. That sound good. Next year we don't go to Buffalo, we ask our bosses at the league. They'll take us to Shakey's?

Yeah. Well, this year, the Shakey's game is what Bill Simmons always calls it. He predicted it would be whoever won the NFC. South, he was correct. It's the Rams and the Panthers. We'll preview these more on Wednesday, but early thoughts. First of all, I want to congratulate the Texans. The Texans have been a wildcard team eight times and have played the 430 Saturday game eight times. This is the first time in their history that they are in wildcard weekend and not the first 430 Saturday game.

So it took a ninth trip to the playoffs, but congrats on the Texans for not getting this one. But I'm going to agree with the Shaky's crew. It was a lock to get the Panthers. I know they're excited that they won. We're excited for a guy, Carolina Mike, but this was a lock, and I should be the Rams in a route. I don't give away our picks,

but this deserve the 430 spot. The Rams just lost to Carolina a couple weeks ago. Yeah, but I think that's more likely they win. Yeah. Well, I'm not going to give my pick away, but I'm going to bet a lot of money on the next. I think on this one, we can maybe lean to let people know we're going to pick the Rams.

Saturday night, what I think is probably the best in terms of marquee game, of the entire playoffs, Amazon Prime gets. Kind of an interesting decision. The Bears and the Packers. I mean, that, to me, is the marquee game of the first round. Do you agree with that? We just got this twice in the last couple weeks. Didn't disappoint.

Ready for round three? The question is, how excited are you being your team with a real chance here? Even though losing back-to-back games. They're two and five against the Packers and the playoffs historically. But we did beat them twice this year. hard to beat a team three times. That's what everybody always says. I don't think that's true.

Are you worried you're limping in? Lost the last two games in regular season? I don't care about today. I mean, but could have won them both. Like they both came down in the final play. I mean, the Bears every game this year is coming down in the final play. I don't know. You have to tell me how healthy Jordan Love is going to be.

I mean, if he's going to be healthy, I think they're probably, we should, we could have lost both those games to the backers. So I'm probably, I'm a little nervous about it. But to me, this is all, you're playing with House money here. Like, I don't expect us to do anything. Being in the two-seat is crazy. What does a Matt Jones viewing experience look like? Are you throwing a jersey?

Do you watch it home? Kentucky's playing during the game. Oh, it's a night game, isn't it? Kentucky plays at 8 30 and the Bears play at 8. I mean, why they have to do that? I've run into this in the past with the Titans in a Saturday game. It's the worst. It's the one downside of the NFL Saturday.

And it's not even both on cable. One of them's on streaming. So I can't. Can't do the box. I'm going to have to, like, literally restart my television. to flip from one game to the other. So I guess I'll watch the bears on my phone. Poor timing there.

Yeah. So I don't like it, but that's Amazon Prime. So there are some whispers this could be Al Michaels last game. Oh, hopefully good one to go out on, though, if you were him, right? I feel like he should be part of that Travis Kelsey friend group. If the fourth couple was just him and his wife. Skying and the Aspen ski trip together. They're all in the hot tub.

Al Michaels, Travis Kelsey. Like a hockey player, I think. Who are the other two guys? Yeah, they're just two random hands. Once a hockey player, Aaron Andrews is married to NHL. You know, we have a friend who used to date Aaron Andrew. What if he was part of that? Like, what if he had become...

Had a hopped up with Al Michaels? No, but I mean, like, you and I have a very good friend that dated Aaron Andrews for a long time. And like, what if he was like Taylor's bestie? Oh, that's crazy. We could be getting all the NFL scoop on Trave. Maybe we could have met her. We could have gotten in the hot tub Without Michael

Alby and there would help our chances I think Because they let anybody in Bill's Jags are the early game On Sunday I do think I think that's all the bills are favored

Which is kind of crazy Because objectively the Jaguars have been a much better team But who wants to bet against Josh Allen with Trevor Lawrence I could see any result in that game. You know what I mean? I could see either team blowing the other one out. And it just feels weird that this like Jacksonville gets to play out.

I know they've been awesome. They deserve it. But just seeing Josh Allen's path goes through Jacksonville and just doesn't feel right. What if I told you that to go to the Super Bowl, Josh Allen might have to beat Trevor Lawrence and two second year quarterments. That's crazy. It's all deserved. And we've saw it all season.

But I'm just putting myself in September. It's also Josh Allen versus Josh Allen. That's right. Made him change his name. Another reason for this. But we thought going for the year, at least I thought, this is the year he finally gets over the hump. Just him having to play at the hot tub stadium in the first step. Oh, did you see that hot tub today?

Oh, yeah. They're exciting. People just. Not people. P. There's just P all in that. There's pee. And then there's, do you think they don't allow bikinis? All the swimsuits are one pieces.

Oh, you think it's a one? A one-piece rule. I actually do. You don't want to get too scantily clad in there. But you also don't see one-pieces a lot in life anymore. But that's all that's in that pool. I think there's a one-piece rule. They don't want to trash you it up with some.

Is there one? Are you looking it up? I'm going to try to find the rules, yeah, but I don't have it here. Is there a rule on just getting tested before you get in? I think that should be the rule. There was also a guy in a lucho Libre mask. I was not you're going to say. He was also wearing a one-piece.

No, I didn't see the mask. No, there's a guy wearing like a Lucha Libre mask and a T-shirt. That's just because he doesn't want his family to know he got in the hot tub at a Jags game. He didn't want to get cold played on TV. That was a great picture of the Jacksonville pool today. I saw a bunch of people in there. I did not see the mask. Yeah, and he was sitting back just like enjoying it.

Telling you, he did not want people to know he was in there. He bought a single ticket, left his family and kids at home and went and got in the Jags pool because he's so excited. might have been Mark Brunel. Yeah, it was you think it was yeah, look at this. See, look, there's the guy right there. He's just sitting there

with the Lucha Libre mask. That's a man with a job. And there's two children in front of him. Maybe he definitely didn't want to be on TV knowing he took his kids there. You can't take your kids there. But look, it's like one piece's there's a child that has a lifeguard thing on.

He can't be the lifeguard. That kid is too young. And then a man is just sitting back with his lucia reliever rematch. And a shirt on. You might have a grill in? Billy said everybody in Jacksonville has grills. How many grills are in the photo? So gross.

Anyway, that game's at 1 o'clock. Did you see what Buffalo Josh Allen did today to keep his consecutive starting streak? He did one snap. He did a handoff. Yeah, I can't get too upset about that. I mean, Cal Ripkin used to do that when he was breaking the baseball streak. He had a couple games.

He just came in. They faked the power outage for him. Yeah, because of Kevin Costner. By the way, your old quarterback. It's not true, I don't think. Your old Bears quarterback, look great in place, Josh Shell, and Trubisky. At four touchdowns today. He plays well, though.

He always plays, yeah, Ray Davis. It's another reason watching Trubisky versus Brady Cook on my TV today. It didn't feel right. The 430 game is 49ers and Eagles. That's a good game, right? Is Siriani going to play Hertz and Barclay and the crew? The rest of them the first half for the second half. Yeah, that's a great first one.

I'm not an eagle. I said that last week before they choked and benched everybody. I'm picking the Eagles in that game, though. The 49ers have no offense. Well, that's your original week one cover zero pick is that they'd have a great record and not do anything in the playoffs. So a big moment for you coming up too. That's exactly right. Then the night game is Patri's Chargers at Pats.

Yeah, Chargers at Pats. I'm going to go ahead and pick the Chargers. Put me down. You know what? I didn't know you were going to do this, but when the schedule came out, I considered it. I'm going to let you have it. but it popped in my head. That could be upset special.

I just think the Chargers weakness has been their offensive line, but the Patriots have not done a great job getting to the passers, so I think that's okay. Drake May is really good, but I don't know. I just feel like I think the Patriots had such an easy schedule. So, I mean, it's got to catch up to them at some point. Yeah, they just playoff.

And the Chargers clearly wanted to play them because they didn't try to move up. They wanted. The Patriots. They want to smoke. Yeah. It's just too wide open this year. I think we're going to get a good upset, and that could be the one to do it.

I think one of these top seats is going out in their first game. Chris Collinsworth, by the way, apparently signed off tonight going, like all great movies you attend, it catches you off guard. But this is about as much fun as I've had watching a football game in a long time. The quote doesn't make a lot of sense. First of all, when I go to a great movie, I usually expect it. be pretty good. That's why I went. It didn't catch me as off guard. I saw the trailer. Yeah, I mean, I want to go see one battle after another. I think it's going to be good.

I got that downloaded on my iPad for a flight tomorrow. It's going to catch me off guard if it's not good. And then he goes, and plus, didn't everybody think Raven Steelers was going to be good? I mean, it was better than we thought, but like, it didn't catch me off guard. I was like expecting this can be a great gate. Yeah, when I woke up this morning, I was the one I was most excited about. Yeah. So I don't really understand that one. He also said at the end, the gods wanted Aaron Rogers to play again. Nah. The gods hate Tyler Loop, is what he's saying. I mean, see, now you've gotten a pet peeve of mine.

What's that? When people in a situation where there's a winner and a loser. And when people, like players or athletes say, God was with us tonight. I always want to go. Do you think God hates the other team? You're implying he was not over there. You think God is like Tyler Loop. I'm going to make your life miserable.

For the next, I don't know. Ask Scott Norwood how it goes when you miss these kicks. So like if God, I would say to Chris Collinsworth, if God wants Aaron Rogers to win, what about Lamar? He prays. Thanks God often, actually. Yeah.

God's not like me. I bet he thinks God more than Aaron Rogers. God's not like me and his recliner at noon trying to pick aside in all these games before one o'clock, you know? He likes both. That's the spread. That seems a great point.

God just sits there and goes, hmm. Who should I bless today? Point and a half? He watches the shows and gets the fantasy lineups and then picks his side. Let's see. Should I bless

Lamar Jackson, a wonderful young man who has delighted thousands, or Aaron Rogers. I won't even go further with what he could say. All right. We'll go to the final game. Aaron Rogers will play against the Texans. They go from Saturday afternoon to Monday night.

Good job, Texans. What a turnaround. Who do you like? Proud of you. I thought the Steelers would beat the Ravens to get into this. I'm worried they're going to run out of gas. This should be a good matchup, though. It's just surprising to even see the Texans here at all.

and really starting the year's surprise with the Steelers too. This one will be of all the matchups. I think this could be one of the better ones, which is why it gets the night to itself. I agree. I think it'll be really good. Did you find out the rules about the pool? Not the rules, but if you want a pool, it starts at $17,000.

And you get 35 tickets. You get your own personal cabana. You get up to 50 guests. So there are multiple pools? I thought there was just one. No, it's just the one. And it costs $35,000. 17 grand is what it starts.

And he had 35 tickets. That actually answered a question for me. So we're seeing these people. They're all part of a group. I thought you could get like a single and you're in there with strangers. Like it could be any walk of life that you're swimming with. So that means the Lucha Libre guy. See, I thought he bought one.

And then like that family was there and he just got in the pool. I don't know if I'm more concerned that he knows them. That eases my concerns that he knows them. So tell you what, guys. I really want to go to a jet. No, I'm not going to do it. Next year. No, I'm going to treat you all.

I'm going to get the pool tickets. Okay. So gross. Bill, you get the masks. All right, so let me warn you about what we're going to do on the midweek podcast. Are you going to be there or no? Remotly, yeah. I'm on vacation, but I'm taking my mic.

We're going to do a touchdown pick in every game. And we won't even do it by position. You can pick anybody but we'll draft. So like one game, Drew will go first, then Billy to me. next game it'll be Billy first than me than you're but we'll do all six games and we will each have six touchdown picks all right I like it because I guess you and I tied in the regular season yeah at five and he had four so we'll keep it going then through the playoffs but we'll have more you have more options to score do you like that yeah and we'll lock in and fill our brackets too yeah let me ask you I can't remember the NFL used to do it where in the second round the higher seed would always play the lowest seed they still do that every seed yeah reseed re seed every round Yep.

Okay. So Denver and Seattle will get the worst team on each side. Do you like that? I do. In some sports, I like the Cinderella aspect, obviously March Madness, but NFL, give me the best teams in the best scenarios. But I would say, though, in all honesty, if I were to look at this thing, how many teams in the playoffs do we think have zero chance to win the Super Bowl?

All right. I think Pittsburgh has zero chance to win the Super Bowl. Carolina. I think Carolina has zero chance to win the Super Bowl. I think an argument. can be made that maybe for the first time that I can ever remember, you could make a case for the other 12. I think the charges would be unlikely, so let's just go to 11.

But I genuinely think 11 teams could win the Super Bowl, and I'm not sure that that's ever been true. Do you agree with that? Yeah, I completely agree. The top of the line, no one is truly like elite, elite, elite. most years there's a team where you know somebody's got to knock them off we don't have that this year and then what are you just looking at the seating your six seats are what the bills and the 49ers are your six seats yeah yeah or no the bills and the rams or no 49ers bills in the 49 regardless regardless that's

pretty good yeah that's that's some contenders so would you agree with me yeah 11 teams could win the super bowl i would that's amazing so it's going to be arguably the the most open playoff of all time. There's not one team in the playoffs that I think is guaranteed to win their first game. I completely agree. I mean, we were just talking, even the Panthers,

the Rams to me have the best chance. But the Panthers beat the Rams just a couple weeks ago. Two weeks ago. So anybody can do it. It's wide open. That's why I'm so looking forward to it. And it's going to be hard to predict. And Monday is Black Monday.

We saw Rahim Morris get fired this afternoon. Yeah. Well, that'll probably be what we'll do with midweek show. I was talking about who got fired. Morris likely. Now, he's out. So is the GM. Maybe the Titans will keep Mike McCoy.

I'm trying to keep people on the edge of the scene for Wednesday. And we don't want to give away our school. Spoiler alert. Ray Morris is fired. I got a spoiler, by the way, today I'm pretty upset about. An article about one of the, you know, there's a hockey show where, like, everybody kisses. You know, there's. What?

I haven't seen it. I just know that it's called, like, heated robbery. Oh, it's a real show. I thought you were just saying like a hockey pre-gris. game show and everybody's just all the said kissing it was her talking it was hurricanes redweeks. Okay, let's check that out.

I'm crazy thing. Crazy thing. Steve and and I don't even know Steve Eisenman so funny. I'm watching the wrong shows. No, there's a show. Have you not heard about this show? No, I haven't.

Well, I won't go into the details. It's very popular on with women. Okay. And one of the main characters on the show, he was being profiled in New York Magazine. You know, I'm like the last person in the world. Still read hard copy magazines. Very excited.

Have my New York Magazine was going to read on the plane. First story is a profile of this guy on the hockey show with Steve Eisenman. Right. So he in it, they say he got his start. And one of his big breaks was Joker Part 2, okay, that just came out a year or two. two ago. I have not seen that yet. I love Joker part one. Haven't seen it. They say in the article he got his break playing the guy who killed Joker at the end of Joker Part 2. Hey, spoiler. Spoiler. What? I know that's what the article did. It spoiled it for me.

They got to warn you. I had no idea for us. Wait a minute. Did you all never see Joker Part 2? No. Have you all seen Joker 1? Yeah. Well, I heard it was bad. That's why I didn't watch it. But, I mean, we've all, that's an interesting thing. Did you all like Joker one? I loved it. I did. I thought it was great. And yet not one of us decided to see Joker part two.

Isn't that weird? Well, I remember the reviews were terrible. And I hate when I have something I like, they try to redo it or make a sequel. It's surprising. It was a musical. Is it? Yeah. Oh.

I like musicals. What's the whole? Musicals? They're hit or miss. What guy got a big in it? Yes. Well, by the way, he dies at the end. What?

Didn't know the Joker died. And this other guy from the hockey show, apparently. When they're kissing. Where they kiss. He kills him and then says he's the Joker. On the hockey kissing show. And that's Joker 3. Anyway, the point was it spoiled the movie for me.

Just like an offhand comment in the interview. And I've now spoiled it for all the rest of you. We also spoiled the stranger things on the show too. Did I? We put a spoiler alert on that show. Yeah, well, did we really? And on Wednesday, should we again? Coming up Wednesday, we'll spoil who wins the Super Bowl without a piss.

That's exactly right. Enjoy your vacation, by the way. Thank you. I'll talk to y'all Wednesday. And we'll see you later. This has been NFL Cover Zero. NFL Cover Zero with Matt Jones and Drew Franklin is a production of the NFL and IHeart podcast.

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