New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce - Chiefs Schedule Reactions, Taking Back Football Sundays & Mascot Fights | Ep 192

Episode Date: May 20, 2026

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You played golf today. How'd you play? My approach game, though my short game is getting a lot better. And then I go tonight to Jerome Bettis's golf outing, which I think is at Sabonik up in the Hamptons. Hell yeah, man. Go see the bus.

My favorite player, all time. All time, dude. That's so fucking cool, man. And he is just the fucking best dude ever. I ran into him. I think he was actually down in Florida doing a foundation event. I got to run into him at dinner. And I was like,

I was like telling him about him. Like, that dude was a fucking beast. Yeah, yes. It's like he was fucking running dudes over. And then I showed her a drone bett's highlight tape. And she was like, why does he look like an offensive lineman? Just like because he was the bus. Oh, man.

This shit's epic. Welcome back to new heights, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls and wondery show brought to you by Adobe Acrobat. We're your host. I'm Travis Kelsey. This is my big brother, Jason Kelsey, out of Cleveland. Heights, Ohio. Shout out to the Heights. Shout out to the Bearcats.

Shout out to the Cincinnati baseball. Shout out to you. Yeah. Let's fucking go, man. Shout out to the boys. Subscribe on YouTube, wherever you get to podcasts and follow the show

and all social media at New Heights show with one ask for fun clips throughout the week. We got a fantastic episode and Jason's about to tell you just how fantastic it is. Well, 92%

we've got another great episode geared up for you guys right now. We're going to break down the 2026 NFL schedule release answer some of your no dumb questions and talk a little NBA playoffs. And the guest this week is Just Us. The Just Us. You're stuck with just the Kelsey Brothers, a bunch of Tom Foolery and shenanigans.

Let's get into it right now. All right. New News. New News is brought to you by American Express. First of all, fuck you, Jake. That's right, baby. The Cavs. heading back to the Eastern Conference finals to face the Knicks.

The Knicks already knocked off Philadelphia and took over our entire arena, which was unfortunate. The Cavs are heading back to the Eastern Conference finals to face the Knicks. Game 7 was a blowout against the Pistons. Did you see good old Dan Gilbert sent 25 buses of fans to Detroit for the game? I did see that. Yeah, it started off. I think, I'm not sure if it started off in the beginning of the series, but I know Game 5 we sent a few buses up there

and then I think that damn near doubled or tripled or quadrupled. I'm not sure what it was but I know 25 buses went up there full of fucking calves fans and that shit is absolutely electric. Dan Gilbert, the owner of the calves for those that don't know and I'm pretty sure he's a

Detroit native so he wanted the calves loud and proud at his hometown. Yeah, I mean, listen, I'd like when there's a proactive effort to take over opposing arenas that did have Philadelphia, The Knicks got us at home. Obviously, the Sixers, I think, are a little,

it's like, it's one of those where I think there's a lot of everybody who's supporting them, but also there's still some frustration with the organization. And the Knicks right now are very much full of themselves. They are, they're feeling it. They're feeling good. And they should. Jalen Brunson is the freaking man, Philadelphia's finest. We will take credit for that at least.

A little trivia for you. This will be the Cavaliers first Eastern Conference Finals appears without LeBron James. Since, well, I'm guessing it's the last time they went to when we were at the Steakhouse together. What year was that? What? Oh, the first without LeBron James. Okay, so before LeBron James. Dude, that's a long time ago.

That's not that far ago. It's probably around when I was born around like 1989, 90 when Michael Jordan hit the shot. That's a long time ago, Travis. I actually don't know. I actually don't know if that was the finals. I don't know if that was the finals. Yeah. I think it might have been

I think it was well let's guess you're going to go 80 I'm going to go 89 89 90 let's see let's see what the reveal is I have no fucking idea that's about as good of a guess as I could hear Travis our resident 1992 I think that is the game

you're thinking of though right no it's not no 1992 the price is right baby that gun I mean that is that's still a long time ago that's over 30 years ago yeah I mean it's so it's it's been a while

I forget how old are um pretty fucking crazy well it's really i mean we did have lebron james for a large portion of the time in between there so uh are we going to a game in cleveland or new york probably not to be honest with you but i am going to watch on tv i can't wait to watch the series man i want to get to a game so fucking bad you know gosh going to cleveland msg i've always wanted to go to msg when the fucking nicks are good and the stadiums rocking and this is it and i i just don't know if i'm be able to get to a game. Yeah.

That's the square is an awesome place to go watch a basketball game or really do watch anything, to be honest. Anything, man. I want to go there and watch the Rangers. I just want to go when the teams are good and New York's fucking cooking. And sure enough, this is the perfect time to go. Might have to play hooky. Go back to the good old gun arena, even though they like to call it something else now.

It's rocket mortgage. Or actually quick. Shout out to Dan. Shout out to Dan. Doing it right. He's doing it right. Man, it would be fucking electric to see the calves. but we need you guys to hold it down, baby.

Take care of the fucking Knicks, man. I'm saying Cabs in 7. Let's fucking go. All right. We have an official date for the fourth annual beer bowl. That's right. The festivities down at the shore. It will be held on Thursday, June 25th at C.L. Yacht Club.

That's right. It's been there for the last two years. Heading on year three at the Yacht Club. Very excited about it. If you want to participate, tag us in a video with hashtag beer bowl. Have a team name and theme, demonstrate drinking prowess as well as why you should be included in this year's beer bowl. The format will be slightly different. It says that we're still figuring out we are, but one thing that we do know,

taking notes from every time we've done this. In previous years, we've screwed up by only having one event happen at a time. That leads a lot to like, you have to have a really good viewpoint of the game happening. and a lot of standing around. We're going to try and have multiple events happening throughout the venue so that no matter where you're at, you got action happening. There's going to be stuff out in the bay on the water. There'll be games happening inside of tables,

and there'll be a whole round in the first round that is going to have multiple games and point acclamations to see if you get in to the next round. So this is a long story of like there's been teams before where they've done all this work to get there, and they've only participated in one event, and then they're eliminated on that first event. And then it's like, hey, I came all this way and got to do one thing.

We're going to make it so that every team gets to participate in multiple different things. Then there'll be an elimination round after that of the teams that are good enough to get into the elimination round. Yeah. Still, I think, a $50,000 gram prize. We also have some other things being announced at the OD event. There will be a beer aquarium. I have just gotten word of this from garage beer. Holy shit.

It's a 500-gallon aquarium, Travis, that's apparently 3,000 beers. Somebody did the math on that. And if the aquarium gets drank, we will be donating $100,000 to Eagles autism. So drink for a cause and come down to the ocean drive. Everyone's going to be hammered. Not necessarily.

So of all the people that came last year, the OD event, there were 3,000 people apparently that made their way through the bars during the time. Nice. That's fucking epic. So as long as you come down and get a beer from the beer aquariums, we should. Everybody just gets one beer.

Just one beer to help families, awareness, research towards the autism cause. And of course, you just have fun with your fellow man and woman. And, uh, yeah, I just, I don't know, it just sounded like a great idea. We're going to have like little fishy swimming in it. Yeah. The fishies swim. Apparently, they got like a whole keg system underneath the aquarium. that so it like funnels down into that so that it gets served cold but yeah doesn't surprise me man

garage beers on top of it as they always are so yeah we got a lot of between the wed and the beer bowl we're going to have a lot of fun this year we're trying to figure out a way to have the beer bowl broadcast live on new heights um i feel like i'm probably getting out of my realm of ability there's a lot of production that's involved brandon come on in here what are the chances we do a live cast of a beer bowl. Fuck it, sure. Yeah. You can do it.

If we say, if we say we can do it, it will just happen. This is a, yeah, the whole show is about manifesting. Just speak it into existence. Somebody behind the scenes is panicking,

right? This is even more preposterous that we can pull this off. Uh, no, somebody other than me is probably panicking right now, but I'm gonna keep very cool about that. Yeah, sure,

it seems great. I'm chill. Everybody be cool. Be cool. Be cool. Heart rate is not going up at all. It's going to be live, Carly's shaking your head.

That's what Carly does. She just shakes her head and it happens. It's fine. Everybody needs a contrarian. You need a contrarian. And that's what we have in Carly. We did just meet with Jim down at the Seattle Yacht Club this past weekend in Seattle. And we were getting the lay of the land of what's doable.

The grease pole will not be back. But we will be making usage of the docking system. Brandon, we still got to figure out the game. I know you can't. I know you can't attend, Travis, but we would like, if you can help us figure out some drinking games. Okay. All right. We need like a Travis Kelsey event, but I don't know what that is yet.

We did think of, uh, jousting with a, um, paddleboard jousting, right? Okay. Yeah. And maybe, but I don't know the drinking aspect of that. Maybe you just have to be drinking the beer in one hand and you're jousting with the other. Or you have to chug your beer and you can't start drinking. You can't start jousting until your beer's done. I like that.

You can't start until the beer's empty. I like that. I think somebody's going to lose the tooth. No, but we're not hitting. There's a lot of waivers, a lot of waivers being signed. Don't worry about that. We got lawyers. Jousting's hilarious.

I had one that I pitched to Jake that he really liked. There was, um, you know, those like reaction machines where you got to like grab the little sticks that are falling? Oh, beers. Do those with beers. Do those with beers. Yes. I like that. I like that.

Do those with beers. Okay, there's one. But we can also do the regular ones. The beers be the flip cup. We'll have the regular games incorporated as well so that they're still drinking aspects. But there's also a physicality. How bad do you want it? No hammers.

How bad do you want the championship? Do a little three-a-th inning a baseball game. We got to, it's going to be faster than that, unfortunately. And do one inning a baseball game. One inning, one at bat. One inning at bat. Can we do that? I just like a swimming relay race for time.

Swim, get to the dock, chug the beer. Next guy goes, swim. We just talked about how we weren't going to do. What? You pulled a hamstring last year. What do you want to do this year? Well, swimming, swimming, you'll be fine. You'll be fine, swimming.

Okay. We got life cards. We'll be fine. We did have lifeguards. And then you go down and they all look at me and I was like, do something. And they're like, he's fine. I made it back to the dock. You were fine.

Should be fair. You were fine. You just went down and I got very nervous. And then we were like, let's put Cooper de Jean on a grease pole. And it's like, guys, I think he's an important part of the defense here. We do have Ross Tucker back for his third annual beer bowl as well. The legend, Ross Tucker. Which, by the way, Ross and I just completely dominated beer pong at the Super Bowl.

Did you? We won like 10 games straight. We could not be beat in the back of the... I've never known you to be a good beer... I don't think I am. I think Ross is... He went... Him and Cooper won 70.

He has like a weird... Like, you know how I get for beer ball and certain games where I just get this look at my eye where I can't be defeated? Ross gets that way with beer pong. He's a very good beer pong player. Yeah. He's not even that good of a shot.

It's more just like an energy and an ability to get in the opposing person's head. It's a good that I respect a lot because I feel like he's only good because he's a, like, turns into a complete Neanderthal. Those seem to be the best any beer game players in my mind. I've yet to see one guy be good at a beer game. There's a good energy to Ross. Shout out to Ross Tucker.

All right. Oh, do we want to watch the video of the submission, Brandon? Yeah, I'll play it. All right, got the, not going to lie, suck my ass t-shirt on. Love that, Lily. Welcome to the vlog of my first garage beer before. This is her first. Where's garage beer?

I don't even know if I like beer. Whoa. New Heights, hoodie. Yeah! High garage beer IQ. Nice, nice, unreasonably confident. New Heights told me to get my beer bowl submission and quick. Unfortunately for me, I do not have a team.

So I see a shortlist potential teams for their consideration. And I believe each option brings really unique strengths to the beer bowl. Team suck my ass brings elite in chemistry. Advanced tailgate capabilities and absolutely zero tolerance for nonsense. Hey. Oh. Team Thumbleruski specializes in trick plays. Oh, Travis, you've been called out.

Hall of Fame confidence levels. Oh, nice. Yeah. Yeah. The shotgun. Oh, that's actually a pretty good shotgun. Oh, the reverse worm. Dangerous hungry dog energy.

and almost no volume control. Team interns gone wild excels in workplace distraction, corporate synergy, and looking productive during complete chaos. Team the rebuild year specializes in a most of the resilience. I love the tears. Optimism and continuing to believe. This woman's hammered in her backyard. She is hammered.

This is great. Awesome creativity. Clearly she wants to come and she's willing to put in the energy and effort to making an awesome video. We don't know what your team name is going to be. I regret to inform me. Travis cannot attend, so he will not be there. I'm sorry. I think, unfortunately, this year I'm going to be subjected to announcing beer bowl.

And Brandon and J. are going to be instrumental in doing the beer bowl as well. So you still need to find a partner. But I do love where you're started. And we will have a place for you, Lily. Outstanding video. All right. For everyone else, keep submitting those videos.

We look forward to seeing your submissions. I think this is going to be the best year. I really do. I think we finally are starting to iron this out. It's going to be a spectacle. You're going to want to be there. Oh, man. All right.

I can't wait to see how hammered everyone is. All right. Last thing, space is filling up if you want to come to the new heights live in Los Angeles, June 15th. So check the link in the description. And if you want to attend, do this ASAP. We cannot fucking. wait. It's going to be fun. All of our live shows have been absolutely electric. And I, like I said, I keep saying it week after week. I'm going to shoot Jason in the face with a

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But the Chiefs do have six primetime games. That's right. Prime time, including week one on Monday night. Little Monday night football, baby. Trav, do we get to have Patrick Mahomes on the field Monday night? Is he back week one? Because they said it at the Disney up front. And I was like, I don't know if he's back yet, but I think I like that we're advertising

it this way. Is he going to be back? That man's working his ass off. know that. All right. That's a very corporate answer and fine. We'll accept it. Monday, September 14th against the Denver Broncos, the Chiefs will be playing on Monday night, ESPN and ABC at 715 p.m. I believe that's probably central time. They also will be prime time week two, Sunday night on NBC against the Indianapolis Colts. Also had an outstanding season last year, back-to-back primetime games. Then you're slotting in for that one o'clock against the Miami Dolphins, a little Las Vegas.

Raiders. Little Miami in September. Let's fucking go. Well, let's talk about this. I think week five is the earliest buy you can get, right? Yeah, we're always week five or week 11, I think. Yeah. So I like, I like the late,

I always like the late buys better. But how do you feel about the early buy? It is what it is. What can you do? Yeah. You know, and it's been a little bit different. I actually don't mind the when I get the buys at this point. Obviously, early on in my career,

we didn't play as many primetime games. But this year, if you look at later on in this schedule, like closer to late November and December, we have some big primetime games. We have a little bit of a buy after Thursday, December 3rd. So there's going to be some opportunities to get some time off. The biggest difference of this year's schedule that is kind of blown in my mind is it kind of starts a week late.

and we play two games in January, which is very different. I feel like I've only ever played one game in January. Usually just one game. Yeah. That's kind of the way the cookie crumbles sometimes. That is kind of rare. I agree.

Usually it's only one game and then you're into the playoffs. The Super Bowl is February 14th, which is. A little Valentine's Day? Yeah, a little Valentine's Day. I don't think I could ever remember it being, I don't know. That late? That late in February. I'm just like, in my mind, I'm like, is what's going on?

Do I, is it, is it just kind of how the month of September starts here? I feel like we're always like in a single digit for the first game of the year in September and now we're September 14. I feel like I remember Valentine's Day being close to the Super Bowl again another year on it because I remember it being big news for men to be watching the Super Bowl on Valentine's Day. I think I remember that. I feel like I always remember Valentine's Day being like the NBA All-Star weekend. Yeah.

I mean, the schedules change. Now there's 17 games. There's 18 weeks. Eventually there's going to be 18 games. This whole thing is gearing up for the Super Bowl to be on that President's Day weekend that they keep talking about, which will be the following week or two weeks after that. And if they add in a buy, I don't know, whatever. As of right now, you guys do get a little help with those Thursday games back to back later in the season, week 12, week 13.

Bills, is that Thanksgiving, November 26? Yes. Bills is Thanksgiving night up there in Buffalo in that beautiful new stadium they got. Nice, nice. So that'll be electric. Obviously, Pat Mahomes and Josh Allen is always an instant classic band. So that'll be a fun one on NBC. And then we follow up with our Thursday night game on Amazon out there in Los Angeles.

How about that? How about that? That would be a fun one to play Maddie Stafford and the Rams. Go from New York to L.A. Yep. And then get a nice little mini-buy is what they call that after the Thursday game and take on your long rivals at this point, the Cincinnati Bengals, Joe Burrow, hopefully we'll be back in full effect.

Those four games right there, really five, six, seven, damn. We got a nice little stretch in November to finish off the season. Playing a lot of big time games, man. I can see all those games being meaningful. No Christmas Day game this year. You will have Christmas to be able to celebrate with family. Yeah, after we go out and practice, have a nice day Friday practice. It'll be Friday.

They'll be fast Friday practice. All righty. Well, how do you feel about the six pride-tide games? A lot of being made of the schedule, the streaming services. A lot of people with the Eagles fan base is upset about the net rest days. Have you heard about this? Net rest days. Am I saying this, right, Brandon? Yeah, net rest days.

It's the like difference between you and your opponent in terms of average rest days. So some teams on average will be more rested than who they play. Some teams go ahead. That's it. Thoughts. Fuck about how much rest anybody gets. Figure that was the answer. There we go.

Well, I mean, apparently it's, it is a big deal, though, facing teams that have more rest than you do. I mean, it's been shown. They've been proven, they've been proving it through numbers and stuff. Nice. There you go. Everyone gets a Thursday night game, and I believe not everyone gets a Monday or Sunday night, but the Thursday games, everyone gets one of those, which means you have a short week and you have a longer week after that.

I think that's fair. I don't really buy into, you know, the net rest and all that, man. The schedule's there. Obviously, you know, you have to be fortunate in the NFL to stay as healthy as possible. It is what it is. That's half of the battle. And the fortune that comes in with the NFL season is being able to stay healthy. Or if you do get banged up, get healthy by the next week.

and I think it's just a part of the fucking NFL, you know, madness. And I don't think anybody's at a disadvantage. That's what I thought, too, until I saw this net rest. What was the number one team that was disadvantaged by this, Brandon? It was shocking how many more days their opponents get than they did for rest. So the Chicago Bears, their opponents are, they're going to be facing opponents this year and have a plus 15-day rest differential, meaning their opponents throughout the season

will have 15 more days of rest than they will. I feel like that number feels high. You know what I mean? Other way around. They'll have the Bayers will be statistically more arrested. Yeah, go to the minus. The minus is the chargers. That was the one.

Because I was about said, the Eagles are high in this category as well. They're minus 15. That's where I feel like once you start getting, like, to a certain point, it feels like that's probably a little bit much. And then the other thing Eagles fans are upset about as a Christmas Eve game,

but like you just said, that's a Thursday game. And it's Christmas. Yeah, the Christmas Eve game. Everybody's upset about it in Philly. It's just the way the Thursday game fell this year, right? Why are they upset about a Christmas Eve game? Because Christmas Eve, you're supposed to be with family.

People don't want to like spend time thinking about the football on Christmas Eve. I get it. I do. But at the same time, this is the way, I mean, first of all, first of all, I don't know why. I don't know why I'm hard pressed to believe that that's not the majority. I think Chris, for some reason, at Christmas Eve night. Birds fans and Philadelphians are going to get excited for a game like that.

I don't know. I don't know why I'm like, maybe I'm catching that wrong. I think Christmas Eve for some reason at night feels like that is like prime time where you're with the family. You're getting everything ready. The presents are getting ready to be put under the tree by Santa. So I think it's a big. You're at the house watching the game.

But there's, the Thursdays are sold from Amazon, so it's not like they can move. Somebody's going to be on that Thursday because Amazon's about the right Thursday. And this is where as players, you get used to playing on holidays. You just realize that that's part of the gig. Yeah, I don't know why I'm like, that's, you're going to be at home getting ready for Christmas the next day, watching the birds play football. I feel like that's like a bonding family experience. I like the holiday games. We've been on record as that.

I like. I love the holiday games. I like watching Christmas with. the family. You get to watch some football. Thanksgiving. You get to watch the football. All of this is just people are getting frustrated with the league in general. There's more streaming platforms that are that are costing fans money to watch the games. It's harder to watch every game you want of your team than it's been in a long time or ever. You know, I think there's more international games. We had JJ Watt talking about he had this tweet. International

Game Slade is nearing the realm of traveling circus. as opposed to occasional showcase. I mean, I get what he's saying. It is the one area still trying to grow the game internationally. I like the international games, and I've always liked playing in them. I love the international games. But as a fan, it's going to take a home game away from somebody.

Well, it's taken, now it's taking away the home game for the 18th. The added eighth game. Yeah. Yes, thank you. Ninth, thank you. Either way, I think the international games are a blast. I think the NFL is. is smart by, you know, visiting new, new countries, new cities.

Well, and building countries that are fans of the game. Like, there's at this point, there's a bunch of games in London. And they have a big hunger to see the game of football played, right? American football, I guess as they would call it. Yeah. I was over in Dublin last year for the game in Ireland. Awesome experience. Ireland was fucking loving the game.

And it was at an awesome park. Oh my gosh. It's like a historic stadium that's in Dublin. Yeah, I'm not going to do it any justice. Anyways, and we have a bunch more. Obviously, the first game in Australia is happening in Melbourne. Another game in Rio de Janeiro. Paris?

Kylie and I love Paris. Oh, my gosh. Madrid, Munich. Who doesn't love going to Germany? I've never been. You didn't. That was one you actually said you didn't like as much. Is that fair to say?

Should we not say that? I didn't say that. You said you didn't like the food. It was too many tubular meats. Well, time out. I just don't like sausages. I never said it in like the schnitzels. The snistles were delicious.

The schnitzels are good. Yeah, I've had a bunch of fun out there in Germany. Fair enough. And I'll say they have, their pilsners are very smooth. I do think this is the one thing that I feel like the NFL needs to hold on to that. I feel like we're starting to drift away from. What's that? I don't think we're there yet.

Sunday is the day of football, right? Outside of going to church in the morning, if you're still religious and you do that, Sunday is like where so many games happen and that's what you grow up and you gear your entire week around watching football on Sunday. Yeah. It's an institution at this point,

the NFL playing games on Sunday. With every day that we keep adding in there, we're getting away from that just a little bit. And I worry that I think the game got big one of the reasons it got so popular and big was because all of the game, it was an event. Sunday is the NFL

and everybody set their week apart to tune into their games that were happening on Sunday. And you're watching kind of all of them now take place across the, I mean, Sunday ticket, right? I worry that we're getting away from that just a little bit by building too many of this.

Well, all the international games are on Sunday except for the first one. Right. Correct. This is an international thing. I'm more talking about the Christmases, the Christmas Eve game now, the Thanksgiving Eve. There's a Wednesday game now before Thanksgiving. Everybody's sitting around. I get it.

I'm just saying. I'm just saying one of the things. I don't think that'll ever change. I hear what you're saying, but I think they're very, they're very few far in between outside of the holidays. That is, there's not just like a random Wednesday game. in September. I just looked at our schedule. We got four games that are it on Sunday. And we probably have the higher end of that not playing on Sunday. For sure. Right. Yeah, it's not there yet, but it's close. And to some people, it probably is there.

I think it's awesome, man. I honestly do as somebody who's played on Christmas, just played on Christmas Eve, or played on Thanksgiving Eve, Thanksgiving, who's played, you know, in a lot of like awkward, short week moments, I think it's fun, man, and I don't think it's, you know, as taxing as it may seem, because it's the NFL, man, you're living out your dream. You're going to get, if there's a chance to play on a fucking prime time game, which all these one-off games are that aren't on Sunday, I'm fucking getting so excited for those opportunities, man,

because those are the opportunities you really get to show yourself. The schedule is appearing to go in that, continue to go in that direction, right? NFL owners are voting Tuesday. day. That's a day before you guys seeing this on whether to increase the international slate from eight to ten games per year. Again, I like the international games. It's someone who likes to travel. It's fun to go see the games in another country. You tie it in as a full trip. I get that everybody can't do that. I get it takes away a home game, but I like it. And I like it as a player, but I get it's not for everybody. The primetime games are

continuing to get up. Five teams have zero primetime games. Have you looked at this? Don't look. Don't look. Don't look. Can you guess? No. All right. I won't look. Can I guess? You look. Jets. Arizona.

Jets, Arizona. I knew the Jets are on it. I mean, I would say Cleveland, but I don't think that's right. No, it's not. Oh my gosh. Who else do I not think? Jets? Uh, what?

Dolphins. Top five picks this year. Yeah, dolphins. That's right. That's pretty much what it comes on. Jets, dolphins, raiders. Arizona. Yep, and one more.

One more? Yep. I can't think. Who is it? Titans. Titans. All righty. Well, the Los Angeles Rams are in the Kansas City Chiefs era with seven primetime games.

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what we got. First game, rank them one through 10 as they come up. Falcons at Saints week four, Monday night football. A lot of people speculating this would be the 20-year dome coming anniversary game. That would be the 20 years when the Saints came back to the Superdome after Katrina. I'll let Trav rank this one because I feel like I have too much I'm a, what is it when you recuse yourself because you have a, come on. This is going to be electric. Is it? Yeah.

Well, no, I think for rivalry purposes, this will be an electric game, yes. I think it would be an incredible atmosphere if this is what this is. I'm not, I'm not going to lie. You were going to put it down for football reasons, which is fine. This is why we play the game. Yeah, I was going to say in terms of excitement for football, I'm not a big fan of like. The Saints end of the year pretty hot. I'm like, I think there's some excitement to this game, but knowing what's coming

later. I don't know. Probably going to put this at 10. I was going to say 9 or 10. I was going to go maybe 9 just because maybe there's some a game worse than this. You're probably going to have to give me like, and I understand it's Monday night football. I think might be electric. That's all right. It's why I play the game. Saints ended the

season hot last year. I actually am looking forward to seeing how they progress in Calla Moore's second year. Falcons. I mean, they still have Bijan, so it'll be I mean, that guy's always fun to watch play. I just don't. I don't know if I've ever been so distant from a rival, right? rivalry in the NFL.

Like, I've never, I can't remember getting excited for a Saints Falcons game. There's real hatred here. All right. Well, I say we go nine. Let's go nine. Let's go nine. Let's go nine. Okay.

Next game. Hackers at Bears. Christmas. Christmas? I mean, Jesus. I'm going to get pretty fucking pumped for this one. I just, there's actual hatred. There's like Benjohns and the full court hate each other.

What goes better? like as a backdrop for the most joyous holiday of all time than with pure hatred. I'm going to go. I mean, listen, it's hard for me to not go with an Eagles game is number one or a Chiefs game is number one. I'm very much looking forward to this game. I'm fucking up on this. Let's go three.

Let's go three. Three. Three. Interesting. Okay. Bears at Lions. Thanksgiving. I mean,

it's another good one. Obviously, you got the Ben Johnson, Dan Campbell. I mean, the NFC North has got. some freaking bangers. They're going to have a bunch of those, yeah. I'll say Thanksgiving.

I'm going to put it below. I'm more excited for the Packers game, but I am very excited for this game. I'll go four. I'll give it a six. I'll give it a six. Oh, I was looking forward more than that. All right. Lions at Bill's week two. This would be the Bill's new stadium opening day. It'll be big pop and circumstance, but I don't know about the football. So time out. The last one, do we go six or do we go five or four? What do we do for that one? Sounds like you want to go five.

So we can go forward. No, no, no. I'm genuinely asking what Brandon put, because if you said it put it down for six, I'll put this one at five. You think this one's more exciting? All right. I'm excited about the new stadium. And I'm happy that the bills kept the stadium outdoor. So I actually am very much looking forward to the new stadium.

Definitely pumped on the new stadium. So we're at right now. We have Packers, Bears, Christmas at three, Bears at Lines, Thanksgiving at six, Falcon Saints at nine. Okay, we'll go back. You could have just said we put the game at six and we would be for me. I was finding out myself. Lines of bills.

week two. Five, he just said, right? Okay. Patriots at Seahawks, week one. I mean, I know it's the Super Bowl rematch. They're doing that week one. They've done this before where week one is a Super Bowl rematch. I don't know why. I mean, I'm not as excited about this game, even though it's a Super Bowl rematch. Yeah, I feel like Seahawks lost a lot of key pieces.

The pets, I don't know why. They're obviously a fucking great team, but it's not like exciting. I don't feel like the Patriots and Seahawks are like a huge rivalry. That's what it comes down to. Like I don't, and I guess the Lions Bills isn't either, but the Lions Bills is at least there's like a stadium happening.

There's a Super Bowl rematch, but like, I mean, the Seahawks dominated the game. It's not like we're seeing like some like Barnburner like redone. This is like Mike Tyson knocking somebody out in the first round and we're going to see that run back again. I mean, I don't know. Yeah. I mean, I can see the Pats winning.

I'm probably, do you want to go eight? I feel like it's a Super Bowl rematch. This feels a little disrespectful to pets and the Yawks fans. I'm just not that geared up about it. I don't know. All right. You want to go eight? Yeah, eight sounds good.

Chiefs. At Bill's Thanksgiving. Come home, baby. New stadium. This is one or two for me. Right now. The nightcap on a, what, triple header Thanksgiving? I don't know Philly's schedule, but I'm going to say this is number one for me, baby.

Because you are still playing in the actual game, Travis, I will defer to you. And we can put this as one. All right, put it as one. Our number one, Cowboys at Eagles, Thanksgiving. Now I feel like, can we revert? Can I have takes back? Can I have takes you backsies? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I mean, listen, I'm really geared up about this. I think the Cowboys are unfortunately a very good team. They've made a lot of adjustments. Offensively, they're really good. Defensively, they're getting better. This is such a funny phrase. You're unfortunately a good team. So I'll go, I'll go two.

Yeah, I mean, yeah, one, two. One of the biggest rivalries, the biggest rivalry. It's going to be so good. Yeah. NFL did such a great job with Thanksgiving this year. All right. Yep. Rams at Seahawks week 16 Christmas.

See, this is what's weird. I'm more excited about this game than I am for the Patriots Seahawks game, right? Yeah, I'm with you. Like, these games were so close last year. Either of these teams could have won in that NFC championship, and I think they probably. And it's Christmas. Don't forget about Christmas.

I kind of want to go four. Too high? Too soon? I mean, it's our only. It's either seven or four. Seven, four, we have four, seven and ten. I know. Seven would still put it above the Super Bowl rematch.

Do you want to go seven? Yeah, I think seven is nice. All right, seven. Back to Seahawks at Rames' Week 18. A little trick. A little trick. I do like, come on. Come on.

I do. I do like. I do like. I was getting shit last week. I do like that we put the Rams at Seahawks at seven so that we could put the Seahawks at Rams at 10 because the better game is definitely in Seattle. And on Christmas.

All right. Cool. I don't know, but week 18 could be a massive playoff. I think they did this on purpose. And I think week 18, this could settle one division and maybe like conference. I agree. I agree.

But I'm not putting it at four. It's always going to be a divisional game. so they made it, they made it worth our while for sure. I love that they did this to him, too. You might have just talked me to it. Do we go four? Stop.

Ravens at Steelers, week 15, first meeting since the Ravens missed a field goal to give the Pitt the North title. I don't know, man. NFC, North, man, I fucking like this.

Steelers, Steelers Ravens are up there with fucking Eagles and... First of all, I don't know about that. The Ravens haven't been a team long enough to declare that, but they are a big rivalry. The AFC North,

I love AFC. see north football um week 15 late in the season playoff implications we'll be there i mean it's there's only one more spot they have to be four right yeah they're four and i like this i like this a lot i wish we went lower did we get 10 did i fuck up not put 10 on here no we got to no it's 100% okay there we go this is our final rankings how do we feel looking at it i love it i think listen i think ravement steels is too high i think it's cions at 10 is so bad that's what i'm saying Neither of those teams, what? Neither of those teams were that competitive last year.

So, like, yeah, I like watching those two teams play. The Ravens and Seahawks were not, the Ravens and Steelers. Like, I like them. I love the fan bases. I love all that. But to say that's number four, until they prove that they can get, like, Lamar back, I like Jesse Minter, like, I'm excited to watch the game. But to say it's the fourth game I'm excited about, I don't love that.

I would have a much more true. excited about the Seahawks and Rams games. The AFC Northerner in me is saying I'm more excited for that rivalry. I don't know why. We grew up with AFC North. Yeah. I also think Bears and Lions should be above it. This is blind ranking.

This is why we blind rank. It makes it fun. Us having the 10th game of Seattle against the Rams week 18 and this blind ranking is going to come. People are going to give some shit about it. We're going to get some comments. We're going to get a week 18 big match. there and it's good big yeah turns out this is the game of the fucking year with all the balls

people are going to remember this list and come back to it all right we'll stamp it let's stamp it and see how we end up doing at the end of it we'll get stamped and that does of a bold topics brought to you by Reese's you got to love those peanut butter cups chocolate peanut butter cups all right it's time for no dumb questions no dumb questions is brought to you by sleep number see what David pitner has to say over on X despite NFL efforts to avoid it teams occasionally play a regular season opponent in preseason. This year, the Chiefs play the Rams and the Seahawks to marquee matchups preseason and regular season. How does this affect preseason game planning and play?

I'll tell you what, I've never had this happen. And this kind of ironic that it's happened. Really? Not that I can remember maybe once we played like Green Bay, I think, in the preseason. But the have two games like this is. slowing my mind right now. But we play both of them in the preseason and these are like two of the best teams in the league. And I'd like to think that the Chiefs is one of the best teams in a league. So I think these are like essentially four games where we're going to see these guys.

I always thought the preseason games were kind of one-off games that you don't really see the other opponent during the season. It's definitely the way it usually is for sure. And I don't know why this year I get two of the best teams in the league in preseason. would assume that it will kind of change the game planning, but more so the guys won't play in every single game. I feel like when we did this before, I think we did this with the Steelers one year, maybe the Jets another year, because the Steelers and Jets are like just two teams we always played in the preseason.

We always played like our last preseason game almost every time against the Jets. And then we would always have a Steelers game usually. And a couple of times we did play them in the regular season. and you just end up, I mean, you're not showing anything in these preseason games anyways. Like you're doing a very rundown vanilla offense. You're not doing specific plays that you would try to run against these guys in the regular season. You're just kind of doing generic things. Yeah, don't get me wrong.

You're still trying to win the game. But more so, you're just trying to get your fundamentals in. You're trying to, you know, get lined up, see how the other team's presenting itself and getting in sync with the guys in a live situation. It does seem like teams are doing more. Like, defensive coordinator, as I see running like zero blitz in preseason games now, and I see like them doing more chaotic stuff, which you used to like, you used to get mad.

Like I remember Marty Morningway wanting to fight a defense coordinator one time in the preseason because he did a blitz zero. It's like an unspoken rule that you aren't going to do a lot of that stuff, well. I've never heard of that rule. That's what I'm saying. It's not a rule anymore. I feel like I've seen it more so towards the end of games if the game means,

is it like the game is coming down to the wire with the young guys in there because you you sense I want to see how a quarterback reacts. I want to see how players go up and make plays in that situation to get them ready for a live, you know, in season moment when the bullets are really flying. So in terms of planning and play, I just think it's, it's obviously going to be different just because it's the preseason. The other thing is if you have a joint practice, usually you won't do a joint practice with the team that you're playing.

Like I've almost, I don't think I've ever seen that. Maybe I'm wrong. I thought that's what you do. You go, oh, you're talking about joint practice with somebody you play during the season. Correct. Nice. That's one that I feel like is, because you are showing, usually that's why the coaches like the joint practices, is they feel a little bit more willing to do some of the things that they've been working on.

And you're going to show a little bit more because it's not nationally broadcast in the practice. Although coaches do talk, they do be talking. talking. I do think, I feel like that would be something I would avoid for sure if I was playing the team in the regular season. All right. Do we want to do one more? Yeah, let's do it. All right, this one is, what are your top three favorite schedule release videos? I'm not going to lie. I do not watch schedule release videos. I don't watch them either. Did hear that mom was a part of Kansas City, so shout out mom. Oh, shut out mom. Mascots. Which NFL team's mascot would survive the longest to wait if mascots had to play one down of real football which NFL team's mascot

would survive the what does that fucking mean and which one would instantly regret its life choices so which one would dominate the most and which one would get killed that's what I'm taking away shout out to Tyler Garman for the tweet right off the bat the one the one that's the most reckless with like the peewee games is the Colts oh I dude, I'm all in on Big Blue. I think him, uh, doesn't the Jaguars guy, like, zip line in? He does some gnarly shit. The Jaguars mascot does do some very cool stuff.

Casey Wolf is a goofball and I fucking love him. Yeah. I'll throw him up there. I don't know. Not necessarily intimidating, but definitely not. He's not going to be a little bitch. Um, same with swoop. I'll go swoop on that as well.

You know who I think's going to get just, I don't know. part of this just is like the animal that it represents. I feel like the Cardinals just going to get absolutely obliterated. I mean, this thing is like, it's a little baby bird. The one that's going to last the longest is big blue. He's shown the most recklessness of all the mascots. There we go. Oh, yeah, look at this highlight.

Just really, that's a hell of a whole. Oh, no. You're on a flag. This kid's just, oh, nice, get them, get them. Team fight, team fight. Look at the Viking coming in. I would have had so much fun if this was a real thing. He's got to get his jersey back.

Did he take his jersey off? I think one of the little kids might have ripped it off. Ripped it off? Or did he take it off? Oh, got ripped off. Nice. That's a good move. I like it.

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We'll see you guys next week. Peace. All right. Let's move on. That's enough schedule talk. Well, we've, okay, sorry to be a dick here, but we kind of covered a lot of these. Yeah, fuck. We already kind of answered all these questions.

Well, I mean, it is what it is. That's because you're looking at two dumbasses, Brandon. we think in the dumb questions well to be fair the questions weren't like that wild um let's ask AI a dumb question no why isn't the number 11 pronounced one d one what why isn't the number 11 pronounced one d one 22 33

Brandon are you understanding what he's saying oh god damn it I get it now yeah I took that did not connect that fucking boomerang around the room for a minute. Jesus, I got it. If you're in a boat in the middle of a lake and you throw an anchor overboard, does the lake get deeper? Yeah.

It's got, right? No. Well, I mean, yeah, but like by fraction. Inperceptible amount. Yeah, it's got to go up like you're adding something to the volume of the lake. Wait, but no, it doesn't because the anchor is already factored into the buoyancy in the boat. Right? That weight is already in the boat. So it's already displaced. So the boat's already pushing down on the top of the water, moving the water out.

And the anchor was in the boat. And when you move the anchor from the boat in, it just kind of nets out. Right? I think that's how that works. I wish I wasn't stupid. That's actually a pretty good one. That's a pretty good one.