Pardon My Take - Carson Palmer

Episode Date: September 14, 2018

Big Cat has a big surprise to make the podcast the best it's ever been (2:04-6:01). Does Joe Flacco suck and why the hell did they get rid of color rush jerseys?(6:02-12:55) Week 2 story lines and gambling picks.(12:56-27:31) Fantasy corner with Rick Pitino and Ed Edinneti.(27:32-31:10) Former Bengals and Cardinals QB Carson Palmer joins the show to talk about his career, playing for Marvin Lewis, does Hue Jackson get a bad rap, Coach O, and Bruce Arians.(37:12-1:07:44) Segments include Jalen Ramsey said a thing (1:11:12-1:12:26), PR 101 for Redskins(1:12:27-1:15:32), Respect The Biz (1:15:33-1:19:00), Ass Eatin Szn for Lebron James (1:19:01-1:21:46), and Hank's Grab Bag. (1:21:47-1:28:29)You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/PardonMyTake

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Really fun interview. And we have a new segment for your fantasy needs. A Hank grab bag. A Joe Flacco Does He Suck conversation that we're about to get into. And a little surprise. So we have everything on this show. Cause it's Friday.

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Welcome to Part of My Take, presented by SeatGeek. Today is Friday, September 14th. And PFT, I've been doing some thinking. Uh-oh. Yeah. I've been in trouble. I've been doing some thinking about relationships

and you know the old saying, like when you have a relationship for a long time, you gotta do something to keep it fresh, to keep yourself young, to keep everyone happy. Or are we gonna do in the butt? Well, I got something to tell ya. Do you notice anything different in here today? Larry.

Nope. We have a secret guest on the podcast. It's Larry the Goldfish hanging out. Think a little harder, look a little harder. You notice anything different in here today? I don't. Notice anything different in here today? Oh, you dyed your hair.

I dyed my fucking hair, boys. Let's go. I did it. It's so noticeable. Yeah, you noticed it. I can tell. I can tell right away. Not even.

He was like, wow, one side's more dyed than the other. Can I tell you something? Yeah. You looked better when it was gray. No, I'm just trying to stay young for you. Now you know what you look like? You look like you're the immature one in this podcast. It's also still gray.

So as the dad, as the more mature one in the podcast, I'd like to steer the conversation more towards sports. Because that's why people listen. No, you're a young whippersnapper now. I dyed my hair. And I think I've said that I was not going to dye my hair, but I did it because I noticed on TV how gray my hair actually is.

And Hank also made a comment about it. And so it got a little bit self-conscious, whatever. So I took the plunge. And I have to say, I feel so much younger and so much more full of energy. Like, I walked 10,000 steps today. All because my hair is dyed. And people look at me different.

They're like, damn, that guy, he looks like wise, but also young. This is so weird. So I don't know. I'm just saying this is a new era for part of my take. I've got dyed hair. I feel young. And I'm on PED, so I'm ready to go.

OK, Colin Coward. So let's steer it more towards. That's fine. Yeah, that's what you become. Yeah, that's fine. The analytics cow turds. That's fine. It sounds like someone's a little jealous that my hair,

my new hair is getting all the attention. Why would my hair be jealous of yours? It's OK. Just a little chat. Trying to move the conversation along when, guess what? I mean, we could talk about my hair. We could turn this into a podcast about your hair. Just talking about my hair, and you're a little upset.

I honestly couldn't tell. Yeah, you can. I think you need to go full Shoshoski and just go jet jet. I'm down for it. And now that I've gotten a little bit of dye in, I might go full, like, I'm addicted to the dye life. Did you have to dye your mustache? No, that's all natural.

Please do not start spreading those rumors. Please do not. That's what I heard. Somebody told me today, like, ask Big Cat why his mustache looks weirdly darker to that. So here's a little thing with, just remember when you dye your hair, it has this whole instruction manual.

Oh, I know. I've dyed my facial hair before. Oh, yeah, that's right. That's right. And it's still been working. And it's been a cock facial hair, yeah. So it's like, hey, you should put some on your elbow just to make sure that you're not allergic and wait 48 hours.

Nobody does that. I just skipped it. And then I had a moment where I put it in, and you know, like a placebo effect. You're like, oh, this itches a little. And I was like, am I going to be the new Joe Buck where I just end up in the hospital? Like, we didn't do part of my take today,

because Big Cat's in the hospital with EpiPens coming out of his face, because he has an allergic reaction to just for men. Just for men. Well, finally, hair coloring for men only. I once, when I first dyed my facial hair, I did the thing where I just put it on my arm, just because. Oh, so you are a baby.

Well, no, because it said, like, check to see if you get allergic. But then I put it on my arm, and I'm like, there's no way that I'm going to wait for a full day to find this out. So I just went for it. And then the next day, I got sick. And I thought that just like me having. So you had the same moment. I was sneezing.

Yeah. And I was like, oh my god, I'm allergic. Yes. Yeah, exactly. Turns out I just inhaled some pepper. So let's do part of my take, the young version. Hey, if you need any tips on how to be a millennial, just ask me, because I got dyed hair, bro.

Joe Flacco. He stinks. They need to get him from the receiver home. They need to get Joe Flacco from receivers. He's a, what is he? He's a lame-o. How do you, what is a young thing he's saying? No, that's it.

What? I'm like, where? Give me something. He's a. He chips. He's a chips? No, he's chips. He's chips.

Wait, no, he's oogie, oogie, oogie, oogie. What is chips? It's just chips, chips allay. What the fuck does that mean? I mean, it's just bad. OK. He's chips allay. Disgust.

Not his fault. He needs some receiving help. The Ravens just won't go out and get. That's going to be the excuse for Joe Flacco for his entire career. OK. Because he doesn't have receivers. He does still look hot.

He still does have his tan. Trey and Willie Snead and John Brown. Still, the jury's out on those guys right now. OK. So then how about discuss my Bengals to win the AFC North? They look pretty good. Well, here's the thing. I don't think that they're going to win the AFC North.

I think that's Browntown, baby. But I think that Marvin Lewis probably just earned himself a lifetime extension as head coach for starting to know. Here's the thing. Their owner is going to see that stat that came out that said first year head coaches went 0 and 7 in week one. And he's like, I'm never going to get a new.

Coach, I took that risk. Never going to do that. So Marvin Lewis, you're signed up for life. You know, I'm going to give some credit to Marvin Lewis here. At the end of the game, it felt like when the Ravens were down eight and Joe Flacco was about to make his drive where he just gets a bunch of passenger fairances and walks down the field. Marvin Lewis is like, you know what?

Let me try something a little different. Instead of just going in a soft zone and not letting him beat us deep, maybe I'm going to blitz. Maybe I'm going to attack him. And I don't think I've ever seen that from Marvin Lewis where he's like, Hey, I'm not going to lose this game. I'm going to try to win it. Yeah.

So credit to him, credit to Andy Dalton, credit to A.J. Green, that rock and refuel, he was ready to go. Turns out it works. Yeah. How many touchdowns do you have? Three. Three touchdowns in the first half. Yeah, yeah, pretty good.

But the real story of the game, there's two real stories of the game. No color rush is like I didn't realize how much color rush meant to me as a human being until today tonight. Because I think third last Thursday, I was like, whatever, football's back, the game just looks slower. It looks different. It looks awkward. We're big color rush guys.

Like I need something that's a bright color on the field. Right. I don't care if it's if it's the uniforms or if it's the green zone. That's the thing is like, pick one or the other. Either give me the green zone or give me color rush. You can't take them all away from me all at once. Right. That's a bunch of bullshit.

Next week, I know that the Browns are wearing their color rush jerseys. This is telling me like really which teams have their shit together. Right. Even it's like one of those things where we're not going to make it mandatory to wear your color rush, but it would be nice if you wanted to. If you just pieces of flair from office space. Correct. I noticed you only had the bare minimum on right.

Well, yeah, that was rule. That's what these teams did tonight. You didn't tell us we had to wear them. Yeah, you know what? Your parents would tell you that you had to do the dishes every day, but it was nice when they got home from work and didn't have to worry about loading up the dishwasher. It just felt like like everything was just a little duller.

You know, the roses didn't smell as sweet. The sun didn't shine as bright. The colors just weren't there for me. They weren't popping. Your hair is doing color rush hair is doing color rush. By the way, we should have mentioned we actually have another guest in studio right now, Larry, the goldfish is with us. We're going to do his picks during the ads.

So you can't fast forward the ads. A little trick there, but I've just watched Larry eat so much styrofoam. Like he just in front of me, just ate so much styrofoam. Good question would be, why is there styrofoam in Larry's tank? I don't know. I can't answer that. I'm not a scientist. I can't answer that.

We aren't scientists. We have a very qualified 21 year old. Just eat again. He just ate another piece of styrofoam. That's okay. In your face, Bill and I turns out that styrofoam is actually good for the environment. So Larry's picks are coming up. He went three and two last week.

He's going to be doing it. We're going to do the picks during the ads. So you have to listen. Can I just say one other thing that bothered me about this broadcast tonight? Yeah, Joe Buck and Troy Aikman, the Fox team on NFL Network. They cut to commercial break. I don't hear the Fox music. What am I, how does that work in my brain?

I was so confused when he popped up on NFL Network and I was just like, there's more styrofoam than Larry's eating. He popped up and I was like, what's going on right now with this bizarro world? Why is he doing this? So what's the deal? I, we must have missed this because we actually interviewed Joe Buck. Someone tweeted at us and was like, Hey, you interviewed Joe Buck in March and you asked him if he was going to do Thursday night games.

He said, no chance. Is Tony Romo, is Tony Romo okay? I, so Fox has all the Thursday night games. Is there something wrong with him? This is a lot of work for Troy Aikman. Listen, he's not going to be able to handle this. What I think they should do, they should just go full and brace the shield in terms of like football teamwork and put together a super broadcast

where they do have Tony Romo. They've got like Terry Bradshaw, Terry Bradshaw doing a Frank Calliendo impression of Jimmy Johnson. Just like, give me every NFL guy talking about the NFL once. I want to see teamwork. Well, and they also, so they're trying, Troy is already like, this is already stressing him out because he had a moment in the first half where he was like, the Bengals offense is has the Ravens on the heels,

something on their heels, something the bills couldn't do. No shit, dude. They lost 47 to three with Nathan Peterman in their quarter. It's probably a factor, but they also are doing a, they're trying to basically rip off inside the NBA, the TNT NBA show with their halftime show with Michael Irvin, Steve Smith and Reggie Bush. And it had maybe the most awkward moment ever when Michael Irvin said that Joe Flacco has not trusted a wide receiver since Anquan Bolden.

And Steve Smith was sitting right there and Steve Smith was like, I might just kill you right now. Yeah, he definitely thought about it. I think his quote was like, I've got a doctorate in route running. You've got like a associate's degree. Michael Irvin, like, yeah, okay. You're kind of a crazy guy. To be fair to Michael Irvin, Larry the Goldfish has a better

short-term memory than Michael Irvin does. True. So like he can't be expected to remember two seasons ago. Steve Smith is probably the only guy I wouldn't talk shit to. Like he does not forget when you talk shit to him. So that one's going to be interesting to watch. But Irvin's right. He's never had receiver help.

That's what I'm going to stick with that. I don't care who they get a wide receiver. It's not his fault. Troy Aikman also got very, very angry and very protective of Joe Flacco when they started to bring Lamar Jackson into the game. He was like, if I was Joe Flacco, I would straight up murder John Harbaugh right now. I don't know if that was his exact quote. His exact quote, he said, I would commit homicide against John Harbaugh.

I would kill John Harbaugh's family. And strangle him with his own mock turtleneck. His direct quote from him. But he was like very, very upset about the fact that they were asking Joe Flacco to stand next to the sideline. Little bad radio here. This is a fun little behind the scenes thing. Big Cat is just enamored with Larry.

He's just eating so much Styrofoam. It's like when you have- Well, I really, I honestly, I really don't, I can't talk about Joe Flacco this much longer. Well, okay. Well, we'll only do it for 30 seconds because I don't think I've ever seen a quarterback as uninterested in pretending to play wide receiver as Joe Flacco was tonight with the exception of Jake Cutler. Yeah.

That was an all-time Jake Cutler. That's how I know how to bring him back. Hands on the hips. Jake Cutler and the Dolphins. I'm just worried about Larry. Okay. So let's talk week two. We have picks.

We have storylines. We have everything. Let's start with the most important storyline of week two, Josh Allen starting a quarterback. Yes. We did it. We did it. He's playing against the Chargers.

And Joey Bose is not playing. Yeah. So this is going to be a big week. So the good news is for Josh Allen, he can't play any worse than Nathan Peterman did last week, right? I don't think. No, no. I don't think it's possible.

That's, I'm going to say definitively, no. So that's a plus already. He's already, he's our QB1. Yes. We also have a rematch of the AFC championship game with Jalen Ramsey talking so much ship beforehand, which we will get to during segments. That game should be fun. And Danifel did the nice thing.

The rare East Coast time zone, a late game, which they don't usually do. Usually they only give us two little late games. You know, it'll be like the Rams and then Phil Rivers throwing into the fourth quarter. There's always the Chargers and the Raiders. Yeah. They finally gave us something nice there. So that's going to be a fun game to watch. I'm excited for that.

What other storylines we got before we do our picks? Let's see. We've got, well, I want to give people a quick update here on, this is like a very lucky thing that happened to me in fantasy football last week with Danny Woodhead's team. Oh, we don't care. But it's with Danny Woodhead's team. Okay. That he's managing.

And if he wins the season, then I'm going to cut my hair all the way off. You're not going to tell us that you won by like one point. No, he lost. Okay. He lost. But because we had the draft, the auto draft for him on the morning of Thursday, for some reason they didn't count that as a week one. So he actually played in a preseason fantasy football game last week.

So you got the kinks out. Yeah. So you got all the kinks out. So Danny is back on the right track. Okay. That is a good story. Good job. Because I actually care about fantasy preseason because it doesn't happen.

Right. Yeah. So yeah, it was the very first fantasy preseason game. So we also have, I feel like we have some coach, like all the, all the rookie coaches lost, 0 and 7. It's a big story. I actually, if we want to get into our picks, my first pick, I think I'm ready to say it already week one.

You ready for this? Hmm. The Lions already quit on Matt Patricia. Oh, did he lose the locker room? I think he's already lost the locker room. I'm going to go all the way there. Is it time for a players only meeting yet? Okay.

So we've talked about this before. Bill Belichick. Do you think tennis coaches or tennis players ever have players only meetings? By themselves. By themselves when they're coaches. So listen, Matt Patricia, we talked about this. Bill Belichick disciples, they all go out and they spread their wings and they try to be Bill Belichick and they try to be, you know, uh, this like guy who can, who can

kick the shit out of his players and be like, if you follow this routine, we will win. And, uh, you know, demand so much out of them, cut players, do all these kinds of things, but they forget that they're not Bill Belichick. And I think that's going to happen to Matt Patricia, especially with the franchise like the Lions. I'm saying it right now, the Lions, they already hate Matt Patricia. They already hate that stupid backwards hat and the trash bag you wears. And I actually kind of like Matt Patricia, but they already hate that.

I'm taking the 49ers minus five and a half. Okay. All right. Interesting. I think that Jim Bo Kooder is going to bounce back this week. I just love the name Jim Bo Kooder. Yeah. He's going to dial something up.

Maybe like try to run the ball four times. He's going to dial it up. That's what he's going to do. My, okay. I'll give my first pick. My favorite that I'm taking is going to be the Jets minus three against the Dolphins at home. You're buying it. I'm buying into, I got Donald Mania.

You're tricked. Donald Trump, we're going to win. We're going to win. We're going to win. You're going to get so sick of winning. You're tricked because the Lions are maybe the worst team in the NFL. So that was smoke and mirrors. Is this a major like Ravens against the Bill situation where they're overvalued now?

Correct. Well, guess what? I'm an idiot. And so actually all of my picks, I'm looking at them all right now. They're all basic pitch picks. I would fade myself. Okay. I went for no less.

By the way, just a game that no one cares about the Texans and the Titans are playing this week. Yeah. They might as well play that on the dark side of the moon. That's a game that if they don't show it on the red zone, like if they're, if this the game, if the Texans and the Titans finishes like 1713. So there's only a couple red zone spots. You could tell me it never happened. Here's what's going to happen.

The only thing noteworthy is going to be some stupid like JJ Watts going to catch a touchdown pass. Yeah. And then they'll be like, Oh yeah, that game have actually, you know what? Here's my theory. I don't think that Mike Vrabel is going to let JJ Watt catch any more touchdown passes because he wants to be known as the best defensive player to also be a tight end. That's a good point. That's a good point.

Okay. Let's go over my over. I have the Indianapolis Colts in the Washington R words. Andrew Luck throwing on his first game back from a mysterious shoulder injury where we thought he could never throw a football again. I think he threw 53 times. The Colts are back in the fact that they just throw, throw, throw, throw, throw. And I actually think Alex Smith, like that's a perfect.

Jay Gruden's offense perfect for him. He's just going to dump it down, dump it down. Maybe a couple of shots deep every now and then. I like the over. I think it's going to be a shootout. Okay. I like that too. My over is going to be Philly at Tampa Bay, 43 and a half.

So it's a low line. Wow. I'm buying into the Fitz magic, baby. So you're buying into the Fitz magic and you're, you're risking your life with Nick Foles on the road. Yep. Okay. Wait, am I betting my life?

Yeah. I guess so. Yeah. I'm betting my life on it. This is, these are life locks. I will jump off a bridge if I lose. Okay. My, uh, very short bridge.

Under. My under is going to be the bills and the chargers under 43, uh, or 43 and a half, 43. We'll say 43. Yeah, we'll give you. Yeah. What the hell? No, it's under. Oh, you're taking the end.

Yes. So I'm actually being very nice. Gotcha. My under is 43 bills and chargers. No Joey Bosa, Josh Allen's first game. They're going to try to run the ball a lot. Phil Rivers going east. I feel like the chargers always suck when they go east.

Yes. So this will be a game that the chargers won't wake up to the fourth quarter. And I'm taking the under. Okay. But you still think the chargers are going to win, right? Yes. Okay. My under is going to be Saints Browns.

Saints Browns under. The Browns defense is frisky. What about the Saints defense? Miles Garrett is. So here's got 48. You're going to burn the tape from last week. I like that. The burn of the tape.

Sean Payne, guess what? We're moving on. Yeah. Week two. It's in the past. Don't worry about it with the same team we were last year, even though we're definitely not, but that game is going to go under.

It's, it's not so much me trusting the Saints defense as just remembering that it's the Browns on the road. Yes. That's a good point. Thank you. That's a good point. Um, okay. My, by the way, Todd Haley,

you will not see a more hungover man in America than Todd Haley the night after he's been on Bourbon Street. Do you, did you see the Todd Haley counts mental errors? Really? Yeah. He said the, the Browns had 29 mental errors on offense on Sunday. 10 is a winning performance. Oh my God.

That's amazing. I don't know what. How do you, how do you kind of have no idea? I have no idea, but you know, Todd Haley's got some kind of like he thinks it's, it's rocket science. He's got all these algorithms and everything, but it's really just a guy, guy walked over or rolled his eyes while getting yelled at by Todd Haley.

Mental error. False start, uh, because you couldn't hear the snap count. That's a mental error. Yes. I've had a football coach like that. Had to wipe hands on towel because it was raining all game. Mental error. Yeah.

Um, so that's my, oh no, that's your under. My underdog, I love this pick. I love it so much. I'm on, I like, I love this pick. The Giants plus three. We talked about this off air. Doesn't it feel like the Giants and Cowboys play on Sunday night football a million times,

but doesn't it feel like every time that Eli goes to Dallas, and this is not based on any statistics whatsoever. So don't worry about it guys. Like we didn't actually do research. I don't want to confuse people and have to be like, whoa, really, no actually like, you know, looking at stats now. I feel like Eli Manning always plays well in Dallas. And I feel like the Sunday night game is when

he has like the buzz like, is Eli Manning? Is he back? Is he not as old as we think he is? He's going to, he's going to have, maybe the Giants will even score like 24 points. Saquon Barkley, breakout game. Jason Garris still sucks. Dak Prescott doesn't know how to throw a football.

Ezekiel Elliott is good, but they don't run them enough. I like the Giants in this game. Odell Beckham also is going to have a huge touchdown. Like a big, big, long touchdown. I feel like this is the game where the Giants defensive line also gets like seven sacks. Yeah. And he's going to, Odell Beckham will, will catch like an eight yard slant and go 80 yards.

Yep. And I like all this. Giants plus three. And then, and then Eli next week will throw four interceptions. I don't think that there's a more boring combination of uniforms in the world than the Giants at the Cowboys in Dallas in a night game. For some reason it just looks like I'm staring at a black wall.

Yes. Absolutely agree. Absolutely agree. Thank God they gave it to us again. My underdog, I love this pick. I love it. I love it. How much do you love it? Do you love it as much as I love the Giants? I love it more than your pick.

I'm taking Kansas City plus five and a half at Pittsburgh. Again, that's another basic pitch pick. A lot of people are probably going to be on Kansas City after what happened in week one. And then the Steelers also tying the Browns. So I don't know. I feel like, I feel like I'm buying it. I, I'm believing the Patrick Mahomes hype.

Oh, he's my guy. I've always believed it. He's got, his shoulder is so big. Andy Reed wants to marinate it and pineapple juice and Coca-Cola and make carnitas with it. One, one issue with this pick. I don't trust the chief's defense. I love this over too. That almost made my over of the day.

I think that's going to be a shootout. Big Ben is going to, especially at home. At home, yeah. Yeah. Big Ben at home. He wakes up in his own bed or with a, maybe somebody else's bed. You know, it's his own bed. He's got his own PF Chang's leftovers in his refrigerator.

He feels good, you know? His dog is like, I'd imagine Big Ben's alarm clock is his dog just getting on his chest and licking his face. Yeah. Big Ben's got that thing where, you know how blind people, once they acclimate themselves to a city, they can just like walk to work and know when to turn? Yeah.

Big Ben's basically, he functions as a blind person. He gets out of bed and his body just tells him when to turn in his car. He's not actually looking at anything. Because we know Big Ben doesn't turn his head to look at the rush coming at him. He just kind of finds his way. Like a cat that you lose after you move across the country

and it walks all the way back to your old house. I like it. So those are our A-picks. Hank, we need one pick from you. I just decided this on the fly. This is our guarantee. A pardon my take guarantee. We're going to go over 500 every single week.

Nine picks. As a team. Okay. We're going to go over 500 every single week. So you are the ninth pick. You're the cherry on top every single week. I'm going to give PFT one guess on what my pick is going to be. Hank's going to take the Patriots pick him.

Why do you think so? Why? I don't know. Just a hunch, I guess. Yeah. Because the public's on the Jaguars. Everyone loves them. Everyone thinks that they're- Is the public on the Jaguars?

I bet you they are. I haven't looked at the stats guys. That's true to fly. I don't think that they are. I think I looked at the stats before we got in here and I think it was like 70%. You know what? Just go with it, Hank. Go with it.

This is club. You know what? It'd be yourself. Hank's a classic Belichick disciple. It's us against the world. Yeah. Nobody out there's given us a chance. Okay. So Patriots pick him as Hank's ninth pick.

It's a pick him? Well, yeah. I think it's minus one or a pick him. Yeah. It's coming up and down. To the bank. Okay. So those are our picks. Any other games we need to talk about?

I mean, Roger's going to play, right? Yeah. I think he's going to play. And he also, Hank was saying that if you looked into his eyes after the Bears Packers game, maybe we need to talk to Roger Goodell, because it looked like he had maybe had a couple of pain pills. Well, if you heard him talk, he became Brett Farr.

Yeah. He had a Southern accent. He'd slowly morphed into, they said, Aaron, what's wrong? And he goes, my knee. Yeah. So I'm going to say Bears are one and all, because that's illegal.

You can't use pain pills. Okay. I think that's fair. Yeah. That's totally fair. Yeah. They don't, we don't tolerate that. That's totally fair. And no tour at all. By me. And then also, I guess we should mention the Panthers Falcons game

because I think this is like, if Matt Ryan has another bad game, we're going red alert, fraud alert, all, like everyone's going to start piling on the Falcons. Are we sure that Matt Ryan's a good quarterback? I think the Falcons are going to win that game. Are we sure? This is actually a lose-release town game.

Yes. Because we're talking about division rivals. Both teams kind of suck, I think. Mm-hmm. Is that fair to say? I think they both kind of suck. I wouldn't, I'm not going to go all the way there with the Panthers quite yet.

I do think the Falcons are going to have trouble because they lost to Keanu Neal in the first game and that he's, you know, a very, very, very good player. So I would say the Falcons have the, they are on teetering on suck. The Panthers, I am not going to say that they suck yet. What do we call a hot seat for an assistant coach? Because it shouldn't be a hot seat.

It should be like a hot shoulder, like a parrot sitting on a pirate's arm. If the Falcons lose this game and they score fewer than 20 points, Sark is on the hot shoulder. Agreed. Okay. So those are our picks.

Those are week two previews. Should we touch on college football at all? Let's just say, I think Ohio State's going to kill TCU on Saturday night. How about Coach O? Coach O, going to the Plains. I'm excited about that question for you. Tiger V Tiger.

Is there any original Tiger? How come Auburn gets to have two mascots? If you have two mascots, you don't have one. That's true. Is there anything more intimidating though? And it's always said in a right Thompson voice, like down on the Plains, you're going to Auburn down on the Plains.

And I always am like, oh geez, you don't want to go down on the Plains. That's just your coach. No, but going down on the Plains is scary. Captain Sullenberger will tell you that. It is very, very scary to go down on the Plains. Yeah. Can't bail out.

So yeah, LSU, tough game, plus 10. I'm liking the Tigers on the road. I think they're going to muck it up. And I also saw some quotes. Like, I can tell Coach O is doing something in the locker room in the meetings this week because I saw like a D-Lime and was like, yeah, this is going to be a war.

Where there's going to be a bloodbath, there's going to be a war. So Coach O is doing something. He's showing them some kind of videos. He's doing some motivational shit. He's got the virtual reality headsets on the guys, except they're just watching 300. Everyone's reading Steven Ambrose, D-Day.

Like something's going on at LSU. They're ready for war. I can smell it. Yeah. So it's going to be a great Saturday. That's going to be good. It's some awesome awesome games. Do people, I got people forget about college football.

Do people forget that Tom Herman kisses his players before every game? I think so. I think people do forget that. We were talking about this earlier. We think that Texas might actually beat USC. I think they will. This feels like Texas comes out and, hey,

maybe they're not as bad as we thought they were. Also, Tom Herman had an all-time quote when he beat Tulsa by one touchdown last week. He said, winning is really hard. So spot the line. Way to go, Coach. Yeah, you know what? You got this shit under control, man.

It's even harder not to lose. Yeah, true, true. Marvin Lewis taught us that. All right, let's do our fantasy advice. We've got a new fantasy advice. So we're going to go on and off this year. Larry just hates some more Styrofoam, and he spit it out. I think those are bubbles.

No, that's for sure Styrofoam, Hank. 100% Styrofoam. White bubbles. Yeah, white bubbles that just sit there and never go away. And they're solid. So we're doing fantasy advice from your friends, Rick Petino and Ed and Eddie. That's right, the dynamic duo.

You know that they were going to have a podcast coming, so we're going to do 15 seconds per position for Rick Petino. And then Ed and Eddie's going to just give us thoughts. Yeah. OK, so you want to play some like Godfather Music? Yes, please do. Please do. All right, so here we go, Rick.

If you're playing in some standard leagues, we've got some hot tips coming in for you. Rick, who do you like this week on fantasy? So from my quarterback, I love Drew Brees. A lot of people say he's too short, you know, just because something's a little short, whether it be his stature or, you know, a duration of time, doesn't necessarily mean that it's bad.

I mean, look at that gash on his face. I was looking at picture Drew Brees, just looking. Oh, oh, oh, there it is. OK, I'm finished. All right, take it easy, Rick. Take it easy, Rick. Hey, Rick, listen, I'm not giving you fantasy advice, because I'm not a fantasy guy.

I'm Ed and Eddie. I just want to talk to you real quick. You see this rat? Fuck Nathan Peterman's got a fucking website with his own t-shirts on it. NathanPeterman.shopify.com. Wait, wait, wait. What the fuck is this shit?

I don't know what we're going to do, but we got to go over to Nathan Peterman's house and say, hey, we're going to take a little cut. Knock that shit off. What the fuck? Are you telling me that this guy's trying to make money off his own likeness? I actually bought a shirt.

I bought a shirt for you, too, Rick. Rick, who you got on in your wide receiver? I got to change shirts a lot and pants, too. My running back is Melvin Gordon, OK? Because I got this guy, he's going against the bills. He's going against Buffalo. And he can really rack up the odds. You know who else can really rack up the bills as lawyers?

You ever deal with these guys? Yeah. These blood suckers you pay them by the hour. Usually when I pay people by the hour, it's actually very efficient for my purpose. But I just like what Melvin Gordon is doing back there. It's like, you know, get in, get out of there. He gets places to go.

He's got things to see people do. I just love Melvin Gordon. All right, well, I'll take Melvin Gordon if I played that stupid fucking fantasy football you like. All right, I really want to talk to you real quick. You see these fucking Beatles? You see them fucking jerking off with each other?

Yeah, it's team building. Yeah, fucking Paul McCartney and John Lennon, fucking jerking off each other. You ever think we should do that? You ever think you and I should fucking jerk off each other? I don't think that. All right, well, they're like a popular fucking band. It's basically Billy Joel, Frank Sinatra, and the Beatles.

Those are the three bands I listened to. The Rap Pack, they used to jerk off all the time. OK, so maybe we do that. Maybe we do that. They play this thing. They get it. Certainly he's here. OK, just reach to your right.

And then it completed circles of people. Yeah. OK, so just think about it. All right. OK, my tight end. I've got Travis Kelsey going up against the Steelers. Travis Kelsey, just a wonderful, wonderful human. You get, you know, you get a hit out there.

You know what he does when he plays out there? When you got Hill above him, Hill's out there taking the top off the defense. And I like that. I like that. I like a guy that can take the top off. Hell yeah. And then Kelsey just under, you know, he finds the soft zone.

I like that. And so I'm like, hey, yeah, that's really, that's really good. Well, it gets soft. It gets soft after a while. All right. Hey, I'm going to throw something out there for you, because I know you still got your wide receiver, right? Yeah, I got one.

You got to do a wide receiver? I'll do a wide receiver for you. I'll throw a wide receiver for you. I'll do a wide receiver. All right. I like Julio Jones this week. You know why? Because that's Steve Sarkuzio guy.

Steve Sarkuzio. He knows, he knows if he fucks up this week. It's, you know what I'm saying? No, I'm not saying it. I'm not going to say it, but you know what I'm saying. I got you. Steve Sarkuzio. Yeah, Steve Sarkuzio.

He's a fellow. You know, he's one of our guys. Yeah. What I really like about Sark is, you know, when he played for Sabin, Sabin to throw him under the bus. Sabin's a good guy. Sabin was like, hey, this is my guy. Sabin's a good guy.

He was the kind of guy that would bring a guy in and just trust him and just be like, I'll get you whatever you want. Ford Mustang, Cadillac, whatever you need. Kyle Cash, Nick Sabin's got it. You just say the word. Yeah. And you know what? Those rat fucks against you.

They don't go after Sabin. That's right. Well, I wonder why. I wonder why. Yeah, I wonder why. Because he probably didn't come down his leg because he's got sticky things. But I'm not trying to say anything, Rick.

No, I don't know. No offense taken. I'm a very efficient ejaculator. All right. That was our fantasy advice. I don't know if we'll keep doing that, but it was good for one week to get off fantasy fuck boys. But yeah, do we take all those fantasy?

But I actually like all those picks. Yeah. Melvin Gordon's. That's why I met him. Melvin Gordon, Julio Jones, Travis Kelsey, and Drew Brees. Drew Brees. Those are some sleepers for you guys. And people now, not if people forget,

people now know that John Lennon and Paul McCartney actually jerk off with each other. Well, they used jerks. They used jerks. Because John Lennon's dead. RIP. Yeah. Do you think Paul and George, Paul and Ringo,

as the last two, is Ringo still alive? Yeah. Ringo's still alive as he's ever been. Are we sure? Yeah, Ringo, yeah, still alive. Absolutely. Harrison's gone. Lennon's gone.

Paul McCartney, who knows? He's kind of, Paul McCartney's withering away. He's like, he's Schrodinger's base player. All right, Ringo's still alive. Yeah. OK. All right. I got that confirmed.

We just saved Ringo Starr's life. Yes, we did. All right. Before we get to Carson Palmer, we're going to do a couple of ads, but you have to listen to the ads because while we do the ads, the other person is going to be doing Larry's pick. So PFT is set up.

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So that's why he didn't speak for the first 10 minutes. I was in the gym. But then he got there. Yeah, he just wasn't there. Well, fun fact. I thought that the interview had been canceled. It hadn't. And I was nude in the gym.

Trying to blame us. And I received the back to back to back phone calls from Hank. And that's universal code for somebody's dead. And so even though there are many signs in the locker room saying, do not receive phone calls in here, I broke the rules, because that's how much I care about you guys. And then tried to blame us. And I tried to blame you.

And say someone told him that it was canceled, which is like, who could have told you besides me or Hank? Word on the street was it was canceled. So yeah, I guess it's partially on me and Hank. The important part is we're not treating PFT like a five-year-old and telling them what his schedule is every day. The important part is I was at the gym. Yeah.

So here's Carson Palmer. Our PFT enters around the 10 to 12 minute mark. Okay, we now welcome on a very special guest. He is former quarterback for the USC Trojans for the Cincinnati Bengals, for the Oakland Raiders for a minute, which we'll bring up. And the Arizona Cardinals, it's Carson Palmer.

What's going on? We've had your brother on before. Have you? Yes. Why? Yeah, because he was like supposed to be some guru or something. And then you had him on the show and you realized he wasn't. Yeah, he had Josh Allen.

He had, who else did he have? Yeah, Sam Darnold. Sam Darnold. Josh Allen. And so he came on. I think we ended up with him being a QB Ninja because we didn't want to say he was a whisper guru yet. No, you have to be at least 50 to be a guru.

Yeah, exactly. All right, so let's start there. Well, first of all, you're here with FedEx. So people can, fans can go FedEx, Aaron Ground, NFL program. You can go to NFL.com slash FedEx. And you can join the conversation on Twitter using hashtag Aaron Ground.

FedEx will make $2,000 donation to the USO in both the winning quarterback and running backs name each week. So that, ooh, wow. So you're just giving money away. I'm the spokesman. I'm not giving the money away. It's not coming out of your pocket.

It's not coming out. It's coming out of FedEx's pocket. Okay. The money is going directly to the USO program, which is a great organization. It helps our retired servicemen and women figure out what's next in life. There's also the FedEx football fellowship,

which is really cool. FedEx is letting two retired servicemen or women work for the Tennessee Titans and the Washington Redskins. So a job behind the scenes, it's a 12-week program. It helps them kind of get a, get a behind the scenes tour of what it's like to work for an NFL team and all the intertwining things that happened during a season and the things that go on.

So it's a really cool thing that FedEx is doing. I'm here for that and excited about the opportunity. That's awesome. So we were just talking about your brother. Let's start there. Are you, you're retired. Do you miss football? And are you going to maybe take over your brother's QB whisper?

Because you were a more accomplished quarterback. I think it's easy to say that. So are you like, hey man, enough of this. Like I'm the actual QB whisperer. You know, that's the thing that I think people overestimate is that, is that just cause you played the game, doesn't mean you can coach it. And coaching is such a different world

and so much harder to me than playing. So just cause a guy plays it, doesn't mean automatically he can teach it. Cause saying it and repeating it is so different than teaching something and it actually sinking in and somebody absorbing it and then being able to implement that into their game. I don't have that, that bug to get into the coaching side of it.

My brother absolutely loves every aspect of it and loves it. So I'm definitely not getting into coaching. You will not see me on the sidelines wearing a headset like this or, you know, wanting to get into that whole world. That's a whole, whole nother world. But my brother Jordan's done a really good job and has actually got a good thing going. But have you missed like the, you know, it gets late summer.

The, the, it starts smelling like fall. You get a little, little chill in the air, the grass, none of it. No. Really. I, I miss certain aspects. I mean, I miss the, absolutely the games are fun. Practice was fun when I, when I was, when I was playing, when you're the quarterback, you don't ever get hit.

You know, practice sucks for everybody, but the quarterback and the kicker. So I, I miss certain aspects of it. I think the thing I miss most is just the everyday challenge, the everyday you got to be on, you're representing this team, you're representing this big brand, you're the starter, you're, you know, all those things that, that challenge of every single day, rain or shine, sick or in, you know, feeling great, whatever it is,

you have to be the same person every day. And, and I enjoyed that, that aspect of it. It's a challenge every day, the off season, every day of the season, press conferences, team meetings, whatever it is, all those things, always having to be on, because then all of a sudden you retire and you don't ever have to be on, which is nice. But after a while, you start to kind of miss that. So yeah, I missed, it was, it was, you know,

I was reminiscing a little bit on Sunday, watching games and, but it wasn't like this big hole inside of me, just eating me away, cause I missed the game so much. I had my run and had a blast and was blessed to do it for as long as I was, but it's on to the next for me. See, I think you didn't do like a big retirement thing. I think you can still tell people that you're just playing. And like, I think the Cardinals might even give you a paycheck

because like I said, like, oh yeah, we have Carson Palmer coming in, like, is he, is he still? Shouldn't he be at practice? Yeah, like, what's going on? Did you, I don't know how the timeline worked out, but did Bruce Arians tell you that he wasn't coming back before you retired or what was that, how'd that sequence go? I knew a couple weeks before he announced his retirement,

he was retiring. Would you have come back if he had done another job? I was done. Done, no matter what. For me, that was it. Yeah, you got to know when to say when. Because when you don't know when to say when, it can get really ugly.

And I would love, I mean, I'd love to play till I was 45, like Brady's talking about, but your body only gives you so many years and so many throws and so many drops and so many hits. And I knew it was time, my body was telling me it was time, so it was an easy decision for me. Was there a point in time, because the Raiders, I alluded to it at the beginning, you know,

that obviously the Raiders have had some trouble in the last 15 years or so. Was there a time when you were with the Raiders, you're like, this might be it. Like this, this could be done. No, okay. No, because I was only 32 or three at the time, so I knew I still had football left to me.

Well, do you think Hugh Jackson gets a bad rep? 131 and one is like, I mean, it's kind of fair. But they're not loose. They didn't lose 31 games because of coaching. Yeah, more like 29 of them or something. Uh, no, I mean, when I look at that mess over the last two decades that's been going on, it's not coaching. I mean, now they finally have, they actually,

they're talented. That is a deep team. Receiver spot is really, really set. Offensive line is pretty good. They have three good tailbacks. Defensive line is young and fast and explosive. On the secondary, that's a, that's a talented team. And they've, they've stockpiled picks and they've built that talent up.

But once everything starts to click, that's going to be a good spot because you, you look around that division, Baltimore's on the way down. Flacco's at the end of, into his deal. Trail Suggs is at the end of his, his deal. You look at Pittsburgh. Rothersburg has got a couple of years left. They're older in a lot of spots. Cincinnati's always Cincinnati.

So what does that elaborate on that? They're, they're not a contender. Ooh. So, so you've, you've got a division in the right spot. I mean, just look at the history of that division. That division is Baltimore and, and Pittsburgh. And both of those teams are starting to kind of get to that point when they're, in their quarterbacks careers where the future is not five or six more years

of Super Bowl possibilities. It's one or two and Cleveland's going to be sitting there right at the right time to get good. So when you came in the league, you, you were obviously drafted by the Bengals. Kind of a similar spot for the Bengals. You know, uh, not a hapless franchise, but a franchise that did not have a winning, you know, success in the, in the nineties and, and it didn't feel, you weren't like Bengals winning football. And you turned that around and had a culture where it's like,

Oh, these guys are actually good. They're competing every year. What is that like process? How is it? Is it just getting rid of all the old players or is there some kind of mentality like, Hey, we're not going to be the guys that were here before us. It's, it's a combination. It's bringing in the right guys that, uh, you know,

everybody watched this hard knocks or saw the, the clip of Jarvis Landry talking about just something simple. It's just practicing, you know, changing that mentality under making guys understand this is not how you win. This is what you've been doing is how you lose. And there's a reason you're one in 31 and one. So bringing in the right vets that can translate what the coaches are saying, which is, Hey, you got to practice hard and you got to work hard,

which guys don't want to hear from the coaches. But when another player gets up and says it and demonstrates it weekend, week out, day in, day out, you need that kind of vet and, and you need the coaches to somehow spark, uh, and, and get guys on board. Like this is how we do things. This is how we work. This is how we watch film. This is how we meet.

This is how we do walkthroughs, you know, having the right combination of the vets and the coaches to change the culture, uh, is a difficult science. It's not easy. Who is that guy? And where, where? Yeah. Uh, when I was there, um, man, we, we had an interesting crew, uh, from myself and,

and Chad Johnson and, and TJ Hussman Zata and Rudy Johnson on offense. We had Justin Smith on defense who ended up having a great career with the 49ers. Um, uh, I'm trying to think of, of other guys that, that were great leaders. Tori James and, and Delph O'Neill were, were our corners that were really good players and worked hard. Um, so sometimes, sometimes you can find it in a guy in year eight, nine, 10, 11, 12. Um, sometimes it ends up being a younger guy and, and young guys can lead too. It's not about, it's not about what you say.

It's about how you work. So if you're in year one, you bust your button, people see it, and then you produce on the field, you can be that kind of guy. Did it also help that you guys were at the beginning of Marvin Lewis's career? So you didn't, or you didn't like figure out that he's never going to win a playoff game. We were like, Oh, we might actually win a playoff game with this guy. Yeah. I mean, when, when I had first gotten, um, to Sinsey, it was Marvin was coming from, um,

a Super Bowl win in Baltimore or two years ago or two years prior to that. Um, and, and he's, he's tried to, uh, he's changed the culture a little bit. I mean, they've, they've, they've gotten to the playoffs over the last, last handful of years and he's done a good job with that. Um, and, and, and they looked good in week one. I mean, they, they might have a shot. We'll see. Do you think that like, I mean,

he's, it's crazy that he still has a job. Are you surprised that he's still, Marvin's a good coach. Marvin's a good coach. Marvin at going like eight and eight. He's had a bunch of eight and eights. Well, it's interesting because it's, it's very hard. I feel like in the NFL, there's teams are very impatient with their coaches.

So I kind of understand where the Bengals are like, Hey, we want to keep some kind of continuity here. You can get caught quickly in that we're firing a coach every two years thing. It's easy to do. It's easy to fire a coach and just we'll change, we'll change that position out. We'll change that spot out. He's been consistent. He's, I think that organization just likes knowing that he, it's the same system. He's going to be back.

He's going to be back. I don't, I don't know how much control per se he may have over things he wants to have control over. But for the amount of control he's had, he's done a pretty good job. Do the Bengals actually have a GM? No. They don't. So it's the owner. I'm not sure who's calling shots in here.

It's been a long time since I've been there. Totally up in the air. Yeah. That's not a good sign for an organization. GM's are good. Yeah. I ended my career in Arizona with Steve Kine was a phenomenal GM. So I got to see no GM where you're not really sure who's calling shots or you do know, but

it's, it's always kind of up in the air to this is the GM. He's making a decision. He says you're gone. He says we're signing you. And he says we're drafting him two, two completely different worlds. And it's much easier to operate with a GM that you know is in control. Yeah. I've noticed that most teams have GM's.

So that typically works. I think I don't know many teams that don't. Yeah. I'm PFT, by the way. Is there another? Nice to meet you. You're PFT. Yeah.

Are you a Ninerfam PFT? I have their hat because they gave me one for free. We went out to see. Do you have any free stuff? Because I wear it. Uh, you want some water? Yeah, I'll take some water. I'm actually thirsty.

I just came from the gym not to brag. We got a lot of water. Going back real quick to your time in Scentsy, what's going on over in Pittsburgh? Well, first of all, do you still hate the Steelers? No. I mean, I respect the hell out of the Steelers. And that organization is phenomenal.

I mean, you look at the way they reload talent. And you look at the guys that have been through that locker room that other people have paid, you know, Emmanuel Sanders, you can go on and on down the list. That they know how to draft. They know how to develop. And I think they have as good a chance as anybody this year. Yeah.

You don't have any bitterness towards them? No, no. What about when we say the name Kimo von Ohoffen? Hey, I, uh, I would love to have bitterness at the end of the day. It's football. Yeah. But being bitter is fun. It's fun to hate sometimes.

You also made him someone because he would be no one if you didn't. He was a really good player. Yeah. That's the thing about that defense. That's the thing you remember. What I remember about those years is having to play against the Baltimore Ravens who had Ed Reid and go on and on down. You can go, you can keep talking forever.

And then the next week having to play against the Steelers who had Kimo, Brett Kiesel, Casey Hampton, Harrison. I mean, you can go on and on. Those were great, great defenses and great players. And Kimo, um, got more recognition for, for blowing my knee up. But Kimo was a dominant run stuffer and he was a great player and won two Super Bowl. Do you ever think, do you ever look down at your knee and you're like, I got a dead body in my leg?

I don't anymore. Really? I had, I had a dead body in my leg. Okay. And then that popped and broke and they took that out. The dead body also failed. They took the dead body out. Was it Robert Griffin's body that you got the tendon from?

And then they went in and cut my Achilles tendon out and put my Achilles in my knee. That sounds fun. So dead body to. No Achilles. You have no Achilles heel. I still have. Oh, no, you should have walked around like and said that. Yeah, yeah.

I have no weakness. Are you a little bit pissed off that they changed the rule after Tom Brady's knee got hurt, but not after yours? No, they did. They did change it after you. Yeah. But wasn't it like roll up into someone's leg? Well, then they started calling it the Tom Brady, but it originally was mine.

So I want that back. We're taking it back. That's the Carson Palmer rule. Carson Palmer. Like that. But I was starting to ask about the Steelers because they've got an interesting situation with Levy on Bell going on there. I know you had like a few disputes with Cincinnati ownership there at the end.

Now his teammates are kind of turning on a little bit. Did you, when you were going through that, were your teammates supportive of you behind the scenes? Because I don't remember anybody saying anything like publicly. Yeah. I mean, I think anybody that's ever played for the Bengals understood probably, especially anybody that's played for the Bengals and then played for the Steelers or the Patriots or the Packers or, you know, other organizations, anybody that has a chance to compare and contrast

would understand what I was doing. I got you. Yeah. So you're picking up and I'm putting down. Yeah, we can pick it up. Is that, it was the story that you drove to watch Peyton Manning with Chad Johnson Trill. Yes. That was like the favorite story for every booth to be like, hey, you know, these guys

drove in a truck together for five hours. I guess you wouldn't know that because you don't listen to the games. It was, it was an hour. Yeah. What was it? And running hours about my, I mean, Chad and I, we worked out in off seasons in LA and and if there was traffic and it was going to be an over an hour drive, Chad's a lot. Yeah.

He walked into this office like a week ago and he's just like, who wants to get their ass whooped in FIFA and then you just started screaming. Then he played video games for like seven hours. I didn't even know why he was here. He's the best. Yeah. He's the best. Yeah.

So how's that relationship like, how do you build that relationship? How does the quarterback, cause I think that's something most casual fans don't really understand. You're like, Oh, we'll just pick up this wide receiver, pick up this tight end, plug them in. Does it take a lot of time to get to that point where you trust them? I mean, not with somebody as talented as Chad. I mean, Chad, anytime Chad was one on one, he was getting the football.

Now people stopped trying to cover him one on one. So he was so gifted and so explosive and could beat anybody. I don't care. Deion Sanders, you name it, put them out there. Chad, Chad will win his fair share of those opportunities. So with him, it's different. He, he's so unique and obviously one of the best to play the game. But yeah, if you're in week five of the season and somebody gets hurt and you got to bring in

a guy off the street and he has to start at X for you, you know, seven days later, that timing and chemistry doesn't just happen, especially with guys that aren't as gifted as Chad at creating separation. When you really have to put the ball in the perfect spot for a guy that can't create separation, get open on his own. That's something that just takes week after week after week. And if they drop it, would you just like I'm not throwing it to you for the rest of the game? No, I'm, I was always, I'll give you multiple opportunities.

Really? Yeah. Cause we all miss passes and throw it too high or too low and the great ones drop them every once in a while. If it becomes a trend, yeah, I'm not looking your way anymore. He's a guy that I was actually, I was shocked when he made it to New England and he didn't perform there. Like there was something that was totally different about the Patriots system or whatever

it was because he was always like the best route runner that I ever saw. I thought he could fit in any system whatsoever. And then once he got there, it was like all his confidence was gone and he couldn't even catch passes anymore. Why do you think that he kind of struggled to fit in in New England with that talent? Yeah, I don't know. He was so used to when we were together, we were, we were in so much no huddle. I mean, we were 70% of the game in no huddle and he and I just had such a good flow and

rhythm of communication with our hands that, you know, I would send him routes or adjustments and stuff from the line of scrimmage. And then he went to New England, there was none of that. I mean, I don't know how their system or their scheme is set up verbally. It's a lot of cheating. There's a lot of cheating going on. So yeah, I mean, I don't know exactly what went, what went wrong. I just remember, man, if I ever had him one on one, which he just, I don't feel like he got

as much in New England. I felt like there's a lot of zones and, and they did so much with Wes Walker underneath and Edelman underneath that there was a lot of zone coverage going his way, which route running isn't as important as it is in man to man against zone, just because in a zone coverage, when you're running around, you just need to get to that spot. Yeah, in order to sit down. But when you're in man, you have to win from the line of scrimmage, get to the top of the route and win at the top of the route.

Also totally different way to run around. So we were talking beforehand, a mutual friend of ours, coach O, he was not your positions coach, obviously at USC, but did you interact them? Are you still talk to him at all? Yeah, coach, coach Ozaron was the defensive line coach, the best defensive line coach on the planet. Damn right. He got absolutely everything out of every player and a good friend of my frosty rucker,

who plays in Oakland now, played for him. When I was there, I think frosty's in probably year 12, 13. Yeah, I saw it on Monday night when he was like frosty rucker, like what? This is like frosty rucker junior? Great football name too. You hear the name frosty rucker, you think ball. I could not believe he's the point. Great, great player, but he each of these days like that's not even close.

Coach Ozaron was the best defensive line coach and then he's played for some good ones. Everybody else falls so short to what coach, because coach O found a way to push a button on each guy. Every, you know, defensive linemen, they're all a little, little out there, a little odd. So you got to find a way to relate to each guy and then how to push each guy and coach O had that ability. What's the craziest position group? Craziest from what standpoint.

Like just mentally, like I don't trust these guys. Full backs. I'd say offensive line. I've been around some defense. I mean, we talked about Justin Smith earlier. Justin Smith is awesome. Absolutely awesome, but absolutely out of his mind. Frosty's a good one.

Yeah, defense linemen, you get some odd characters. Robert and Kim Ditchie, who, who was from old Miss is the first round pick of the Cardinals. Yeah. He plays the saxophone. He wears the same clothes every single day of the week. He has like 19 cats. Oh my God. He's the coolest guy.

No. Okay. So that's exactly defensive line. He's a cat guy. He's a cool guy. He's a hoarder. He has 19 cats. He's a hoarder.

But he's a phenomenal guy, but he's, is out there. As that makes sense, because when you think about it, like line to play the line is crazy and offensive line, at least they're kind of all pulling together. Whereas defensive line, there's probably a little competition amongst them. No doubt. And you're just smashing your face into somebody else's face over and over and over. Occasionally on offensive line, you get to go back and pass protect. Right.

And you also like, you're like, you're like, good job. Good job team. Yeah. Um, no offense. I know you're not a quarterback whisperer like your brother. We had your brother on the show. Or is he a guru? I forget what he said.

No, he's a ninja. He's not a guru. Quarterback ninja. He's quarterback ninja. Yeah. And so he was, he was talking to us about some of these quarterbacks getting ready for the draft this year. I know that you're a big, big Sam Darnold fan.

You Calibro's got to stick together a little bit. Who has the best upside? Sam Darnold or Josh Rosen? The best upside of the draft class is Josh Allen. Josh Allen. Yeah, there we go. We finish each other's sentences. But I left them out.

We should be doing this. Yeah, we had this in here. I left them out because it was the obvious answer. Oh, it's obvious. That's why you're not a guru. Okay, I'm, you know, I'm being too obvious. I think Sam is, Sam doesn't need a ton to grow to reach his potential. He's played in huge games.

He's won huge games. He's been in LA and now he's in New York. Josh was at UCLA and I think they won half their games maybe each year. So he hasn't really played in that, that type of atmosphere. So maybe there's something to see and something to grow into that, that you can see from Josh, but Sam's done it. I mean, he hasn't won the Super Bowl yet, but he's played his best in the biggest games.

That's pretty close. That was a really good way to answer, does Josh Rosen love football? Yeah. Like that's a new, crafty way. Good job. Yeah, it was. It was like a roundabout way.

They were like, oh. Can I keep this seat? Like from New York, this neighborhood was really cool where you guys office. Well, before we podcast, you and I will, let's do, we'll do the outfit challenge. How did that start? The QB outfit that basically became you don't have the right body type.

Well, you haven't seen these tits, man. I don't want to see these tits. That's why you don't have the right body type. You got to have the nipple. You're seeing pepperonis for nipples. Yeah. You got some pepperonis now. Oh yeah.

Like summer sausages. Yeah. Just show off. Show off to girls. I also have, yeah. What is that? Right. It's a gamble show.

From like, have you not showered? My nipple's a little hard right now, so it's not as big as usual. Sorry. Let me see it. Yeah. Sorry. Yeah.

You're too. But seriously, how did that QB outfit start? It was a drill we would do every Friday, and it started as trying to hit the goal post from the 30-yard line. You know, it's a tough shot. Yeah. It graduated into throwing into a trash can.

And so I've always been doing it from my rookie year, you know, way back when, and I've brought it to wherever I've played, and it's kind of morphed into whoever loses, we have to find a way to make them look like an absolute slappy. And figure out what outfit would really piss them off to have to wear and get Monday night football, the film crews out there,

pre-game, and Instagram, and all these different outlets. We were trying to embarrass the guy that lost as much as we possibly could. Hazing. We were hazing. Yeah, but it's OK. But it's fun hazing. Yeah, but it's good hazing.

Yeah, yeah. No one gets hurt. In like three more years, it'll be problematic, but it plays. Right now, yeah. The whole, with all the stuff that's going on outside of here. People will get more, you know, like, oh, they're making each other dress up. But I thought it was funny and great.

It was fun, and we had a good time with it. But it was basically to find a way to make the loser of this game look like the biggest jackass as possible. And we did great. I was great. I noticed that usually the winner would be like Patrick Peterson, or somebody that didn't play

quarterback. Or at least that's what they showed me on all or nothing. Well, it wasn't about winning. It was about not losing. So Pat wouldn't lose. That's Hugh Jackson's motto now, by the way. 2018 season, just don't, it doesn't matter about winning. So really, they're one and all.

Just don't lose, yeah, exactly. OK, perfect season. So yeah, so that was the drill. That was the game. Then it was fun. But yeah, I take that back. Now that I've seen without your shirt on, I think you could play that game.

If the point is to be looking like the biggest jackass, I am made for that. What was the worst outfit? There were some bad ones. See, the really bad ones, we would do on the plane to the game, because there wasn't as many cameras around. Right.

We could do some really, some stuff I probably can't say on the air. It's OK, we'll cut it. And one time, we went to Philly. And I had to dress as a mermaid. And it was a long flight to Philly. And it was made out of like this Lycra stuff. So it's just one of those outfits that you probably

wear on Saturday nights that was just on just dripping sweat. It was super hot. But it was just like a bikini top and then like the mermaid thing going. It was bad. That's miserable. That sounds really bad. On a flight, that would be awful.

Yeah. Five hours of Philly. Yeah, just flying to Philadelphia in general. Yeah, and then you have to be in Philly, too. Afterwards. No offense, Philly, I love you. OK, I don't know what else we've covered here, because. I got rapid fire for you.

Favorite player to play with in your career. Oh, man. I've already screwed up the rapid fire part. Yeah, this is slow. Your base time is terrible. You know who I love playing with? You know who I love playing with? It's Chris Johnson.

OK. One of the best football players I've ever played with. And I played with him way past his prime. Yeah. Good answer. Where's your heisman right now? Uh, in my basement, I think. Do you ever look at it?

No. Really? Why? I mean, what? I've seen it. You go in the heisman. I would touch it occasionally. Yeah.

Just like, get ready for the day. Eric Crouch, Danny Warfell, like the biggest name to football. Yeah. I mean, I'm honored. OJ. Yes. OJ. It's awesome.

OJ. But yeah, I don't like walk by it and high five it. Did you get a call from OJ after you won the heisman? Like, USC guys, yeah. I saw OJ. We were in Miami to play in the Orange Bowl, and he came out to practice. Yeah.

I got to hang out with OJ. It's like 30 minutes. He couldn't have been cooler. Yeah. Yeah. Except for the hole. Cool guy. That's that stuff.

Yeah. But the other stuff is cool. He was innocent. Actually, you were pre. You were pre. That's pre. J.O.O.J. Yeah.

Pre. Like, whooping up. Yeah. Before he committed crimes that he was convicted of. Yes, exactly. This was innocent, OJ, and he was awesome. Yeah. Were you an intimidating California teenager?

Intimidating? Yeah. No. You were big as a kid, right? I mean, everything needs to be put in for big. How tall were you when you were 13 years old? 6'2". Fucking A.

Yeah. You were like a Calibre. Like, eh, let's hang that back. I've never been a Calibre. How many tank tops did you own as a teenager? I own more tank tops today than I did when I was a kid. You're reclaiming your youth. Tank tops and turtlenecks are awesome.

They are pretty awesome. Yeah. Danny Canal made him. He brought turtlenecks back. What age did you start selling wheat? 15. Yeah. So you were intimidating a Cali teenager.

I read that you met your wife at freshman orientation. I did. Big Cat met Joe Thomas at his freshman orientation. Why do you think you were able to close a deal when Big Cat wasn't? Those nipples. Yeah, those big turn-offs. Probably the nipples.

Huge turn-off. Yeah. All right. Last question is a Seeky question. Put in promo code TAKE. You get $10 off. Carson Palmer had been a lot of fun. What did you just say?

Say that. You got to go. Seeky question. OK. Put in promo code TAKE. OK. Seeky promo code TAKE. Do you live in Cali now?

Yeah. Can we talk about? Do you like to go to an LA Rams game? Can we talk about FedEx and the FedEx air and ground? Let's honor FedEx. Let's honor FedEx. So as opposed to doing whatever the Seeky thing is. No, we're still doing the Seeky thing.

Log on to Twitter. Yes. Log on to Facebook. NFL.com backslash FedEx. Hashtag Aaron Ground and vote for your favorite players of the week. OK. The quarterbacks and the running backs.

Who are the nominees? The nominees this week. Patrick Mahomes, Aaron Rodgers, which Aaron shouldn't get it. I'm a huge Patrick Mahomes guy. Aaron shouldn't get it. Ryan Fitzpatrick should get it. Yeah. That's who I'm voting for.

Me too. And I'm voting for Stake 1 Barkley. OK. That's fair. What about Blake Bortles? You didn't make the cut this year? Not this week. Next week.

Next week, for sure. All right. So last question. It's the people also ask question. So on Google, if you go, people also ask Carson Palmer. OK. So it's not me asking. It's the people asking.

OK. What NFL teams did Carson Palmer play for? People are asking that. And you want me to answer that? Yeah. You've got to answer it. People are asking that. OK.

So I played for the Bengals. OK. The Raiders. I'm going to write this down. The Redskins. OK. The Patriots. OK.

The Tansola team. Where was I after New England? I went from New England to, oh, I went to Oakland. Yep. San Fran. Yep. St. Petersburg, Florida. Yep.

And where was I when I played in North Dakota? What city was that? Bismarck. Yeah. Yeah, the Bison. Was it really? Yeah. It's the only city in North Dakota.

Wasn't that hard to guess. The next people also ask are Carson and Jesse Palmer's brothers. Cousins. Really? No. That's a lie. OK, that's a lie.

I believed you on the Bismarck thing. And then last question. What is Carson Palmer's net worth? Can we go back to FedEx? Because it was really cool when we were talking about what they're doing with the USO. Make sure you guys are involved in the chatter on Twitter, hashtag, air and ground.

Yeah, I'm going to chatter it up. $2,000 to the winner. Chatter bait. $2,000 to each winner. $4,000 per week. To each winner. $4,000 per week. Coming out of Carson Palmer's pocket because you are worth.

How much? To the USO. The USO is a phenomenal organization, helping our retired servicemen and women get reacclimated to civilian life. Facts. Facts. Facts.

Set out Marlins Park. All right, Carson, thank you so much. You're welcome any time. Yeah? Yeah, please come back. Can I come back this afternoon? Yeah, sure. Are you guys on the air all day?

We don't tape tonight. We don't tape tonight, but you can sit there. Yeah, we'll just hang out. Oh, hang out. You guys have a great office. Yeah, we do. It's phenomenal. You could use some more whatever

that padding on the wall is. Isolation. Asbestos. Yeah, I think we could use a little bit more asbestos in here. Problem is, when I get hungry, I just start chewing the walls. I can tell. So yeah, it's an issue. All right, Carson Palmer, thanks so much.

Appreciate it. Thank you. OK, that interview with Carson Wentz was brought to you by Bud Light. We're going to set Larry up again here for another pick. He's going to pick between the eagles and the eagles. And the bucks this time, right, big cat? Yeah, bucks and the eagles.

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So Jalen Ramsey says a lot of things, but he said a new thing today. And he said that he would hit his grandmother if she was on the football field out of respect for the game. Yeah. I love it. Yeah, I love it too. But I bet his grandma would whoop his ass.

Yeah. Jalen Ramsey strikes me as a guy that has a, you don't learn to talk that good of shit without having a grandmother that is probably very, very sweet until you step over the line. And then she just whoops the shit out of you. Right. And she can shit talk.

Yes. She absolutely can shit talk. If you get hit with a purse, it's not child abuse. Yes. Jalen Ramsey also, I don't know if you guys saw this. It was a screen grab I saw where a reporter asked Jalen Ramsey's defensive coordinator, what would you say if someone said

Rob Gronkowski was overrated and the defense coordinator said, I'd call that person crazy. And then they just said it to Jalen Ramsey and he was just like, well, OK. So that should be a fun game. Maybe he's a little bit crazy. Yeah. But I mean, who wants the same defensive back?

That's true. The last thing you want is a guy that's back there over thinking things. That's true. That's how you get burned on double wraps. That's how you get Kyle Fuller dropping a pass thrown right to him. Yes.

You think too much. You think too much about it. It's too sweet and fast. Don't think, just catch. He's like, oh my god, I'm going to drop it. It was too catchable. It actually was too catchable. OK, we have a PR 101 for the Redskins.

What did the Redskins do? The Edwards. So they took the step. They credit to that team because they've realized that everybody just hates them, including their own fans. So they sent out an email to season ticket holders asking for advice.

They're crowdsourcing it. And they said, how do we be a first class organization? How can we protect our brand and make it something that means integrity and means class to people? What? So good question. OK. I mean, listen.

So they're just admitting that they are not those things. Yes. Yeah. But that's fine. And so they're asking for help on how to be classy, which is probably the most classy thing you can do. If we're talking first class, like if we're looking at what you deal with with first class on an airplane,

maybe give extra leg room to the seats that you have that are positioned directly behind giant cement pillars. So you can stretch out a little bit when you're trying to not be able to watch the game. Or if we're going to stick on seats, maybe don't say every game's a sell out when it's very clear that half the stadium is empty.

No, it's a sell out. Yeah. The sell out streak is still going. It continues. Yeah, remember that week 17 game a few years ago, when they're like sell out streak? And it was the wide fish eye camera from all the way up. And there was maybe 20% of the stadium full.

It was just the hogettes. Just the guys wearing the dresses and the nose. Yes. That counts, though. Maybe just move the team farther away from DC. Put in Delaware. I'm sure there's a tax break. Dan Snyder could figure out by moving the team all the way

to Delaware. OK, this one's crazy. And stop me if it's too crazy. But maybe don't play your football games in an actual sandbox. Try to play it on grass. It got rid of Robert Griffin, though. Yeah, true.

Without that sandbox. And Cal Shanan. Robert Griffin. I mean, then Mike Shanan. Would still be leading the team in probably multiple playoff wins, but also being very annoying the whole time. Yeah. You just, the quotes would be, imagine an alternate universe

where Robert Griffin never got hurt and was like an MVP quarterback year over year. That's basically the worst characteristics of Russell Wilson times a billion. Yeah. Just quotes and quotes and quotes and quotes. I actually wish it happened. Yeah, of course.

I did, too, just to see what the world looks like. And Subway would probably still be in business. Yeah, Subway would have a franchise on the 20-yard line. Yes. I think they are still in business, but yeah. What else? Anything else? I don't know.

I would say more coaching changes. Just more turnover in general. Because you're bound to strike a good hire at some point. You have to. You just have to. By math, you have to. It's been 25 years. You have to find a good coach.

OK, last one for me. This is also crazy. Try to win the regular season, not the off season. No, because we have a dynasty in DC. OK. With off season. With off season. OK, all right.

That was too crazy. Oh, by the way, shout out. Washington Sports continues to dominate. They won the WNBA championship. Not. No, it's Seattle. So it's Washington. Oh, got it.

There you go. Washington Sports. Nice. We got it. Yeah, that's a nice little sweep. Elina del Don, she's going to demand a trade, dude. No, she's not. That's what she does when she loses in the finals.

Mystic for life. That's what she does when she loses the finals. She runs. She's like KD. She's going to try to find another team. She's got a knee injury, so she won't get buried far. All right, we have a respect the biz for Antonio Brown. So he apologized today.

And what did he apologize for? He apologized because last week he threatened a reporter. And the reporter actually wrote a story about how basically calling Antonio Brown a thought. Because he was like, look at his Instagram. He's part of the thought garage. He has a bunch of thirst-trapping pictures of him shirtless. I've been doing some thirst-trapping on Instagram

recently, too. I really put my hand up, yeah. Got it. But it's mostly me just playing shitty cover songs on my guitar. Yeah, but you've been thirst-trapping. So Antonio Brown sent a tweet to Jesse Washington from, I think, ESPN.

I don't know. The undefeated. I'm going to say the athletic. Fuck it. That's probably the 90% chance right that he works for the athletic. And he said, wait. Wait till I see you, bro.

We going to see what your job like. So basically just saying, I'm going to punch you in the face when I see you next. It's fate on site for Jesse. Yes. OK. So then he apologized for today. And I actually liked his apology because there's

a little thing that he did that I think all new apologies should all apologies should do this. Well, first of all, they should all be written using the Notes app on the iPhone and then a screenshot of them. Yeah, but listen to this. I made a mistake in judgment with my tweet last week. And I apologize for that.

It is not OK to threaten anyone. And I need to be better spiritually and professionally. He's working on his spirit. But that's pretty fucking good. Also throwing his pastor under the bus. Yes. I haven't been taught well enough spiritually. The Steelers are a shit shell.

I would just like to say that, how come we don't have a lot of blue check mark journalists protesting his treatment of the press? That's good. Sir. Yes, sir. I'm going to start calling it Antonio Brown, sir. They asked me today, I did a radio hit on DV in Pittsburgh.

They said, have we ever been threatened by anybody that we've interviewed? And I couldn't really say. But then Lord Taylor was killed. Yeah, I said Lord Taylor was terrifying. Chris Long, he threatens us implicitly all the time by being like, oh, global warming is real, and you're all going to die soon.

True. So he has actually threatened more members of the media than anybody in the NFL. Yeah, he's just like, oh, why is that OK? This president is going to ruin this world. Sir, Chris Long. If you don't stop him, that's a threat. Yes.

Yeah, that's what he that's what Chris Long says. He's threatened me with nuclear annihilation at the hands of Kim Jong-un. So the Steelers are a fucking mess. Levi-Anne Bell, Antonio Brown. This is like the fact that this is all happening within the first week or two, and they tied the Browns, and Big Ben is already injured.

This team is a fucking mess. Well, when Big Ben is a steady hand of your organization, you have some problems. Right. So I don't know. I mean, Mike Tomlin. Let's get Jeff Reed back in there too. Get it together, Mike Tomlin.

Let's just go full shit show in Pittsburgh. On Jeff Reed, I want James Harris. I want Joey Porter running out into the field with his dogs attacking offensive players in the middle of plays. I want Mike Tomlin tripping players on the sidelines. The Roonies need to get it under control. Well, wait.

Is Mr. Rooney? He passed away, right? There's a Rooney still there. Yeah, there is a Rooney, but Mr. Rooney's there. But Mr. Rooney's passed away. Yeah, but there's multiple Roonies. You know what? There's a ghost Rooney.

Yeah. The Steelers have a ghost. Update Larry's eating more Styrofoam. We have last before we get to grab like so much Styrofoam. I'm pretty sure those are bubbles. I'm going to fucking Styrofoam it. I'm going to fish it out and figure out what it is. It's Styrofoam.

No, no, no, it's not Styrofoam, I don't think. All right, we have last up. We have ass eaten season before we get to the grab bag. It's rocks. Yeah, it's a segment. It's rocks. It's ass eaten season. LeBron.

Oh. Oh, yeah. That's kind of like Carill. No. Oh, well, yeah, that was something else. But yeah, OK, whatever. I was going to go down a road there. I did not want to go down.

Ass eaten season LeBron, he went on Ellen DeGeneres. And Ellen DeGeneres does this really fun game where she puts blindfold on you and then makes you lick things. And he licked Kiwi. And he was like, I think it's a Kiwi. But my initial reaction was that tastes like ass, which means LeBron knows what ass tastes like. And also.

Well, let's not forget, he's got a great palate from his wine tasting. So I trust him. Also, he's also known for just following in whatever Duane Wade does. Yes. Yeah, that's a good point, Hank. Great point, Hank.

But it also means that the ass that he is eating, not saying anyone's ass, but the ass that he's eating has fuzz on it. Everyone's ass has fuzz on it. But a lot of fuzz. Everyone's ass has fuzz on it. He says it tastes like Kiwi tastes like ass. Yeah.

LeBron, a little too much there. Well, there's kids. Your father, three. Well, we can take away. Your father, three. We can officially say now that LeBron James is eating ass that ass eating season is canceled. It's over.

Congrats. Jump to the shark. We don't eat ass. We spit into each other's mouths now. I actually just remember this. But how much do you think LeBron James Jr. hates LeBron? Because he posted on his Instagram story.

LeBron James did. He posted his son's player ranking. And it was like number 24. And it was like, doesn't matter who's ahead of you. All it matters is the team ranking. And then he posted the team ranking. They're ranked number one. And he said, we want all the smoke.

Which basically just winks is going to make every other team in the world. That's terrible. What a terrible father. And LeBron James Jr. is 25. So LeBron James is counting. He's like doing the QB wins thing. And he was like, he's giving his son.

He's like, he's a great player because of his team. Although I'm sure LeBron James Jr. Just a hunch, he's probably the best player on his team. No, it's 25. No, it's 25 in like that. No, I know. But I think there was a couple of players on his team that were ahead of him.

But it's also like he's saying he's 25. It doesn't matter. But by posting that it's 25, it does matter. It's LeBron. So it's like, just be a worse father. Right. Hank, dad to dad. And you just step off LeBron, OK?

He's a good dad. He's a good dad. Although he did say that he eats ass on Elm DeGeneres. Well, that's OK. Yeah, I guarantee that LeBron. The teams that beat LeBron James Jr.'s team are going to be like, your dad eats ass. And we just smoke him.

Your dad eats Kiwi ass. I bet you anything LeBron James eats ass with his mouthpiece in. No, I do. Yeah, that's probably true. Yeah. LeBron is definitely a good dad. So you're wrong, Hank, on that.

But he eats Kiwi ass. He thinks Steph Curry's ever gotten his mouthpiece stuck in somebody's butthole when he's trying to eat it because he keeps playing with it. Go to the grab bag. Explain it to Hank. Why do dogs enjoy hanging their heads out the window but hate it when you blow in their face?

Oh, that's a great question. Yeah, I think this person's breath just smells. Yeah. Because Leroy actually loves it when I blow into his face. I spit into Leroy's mouth because it's cool like that. We don't actually do that. I would say it's probably because a hot breath. And I think dogs just don't, in general,

like people in their face, directly in their face. Yeah. I think the temperature actually does have a lot to do with it because my dog, he'll just, first of all, God bless him. Leroy's not a very smart dog. But he'll just go up and stare at the air conditioner as it blows cold air into his face.

Just stand there for like seven minutes. Well, he's not staring at it. He's getting cold air in his face. Yeah, I know. But that's what I'm saying. He likes the cold air in his face when you stick your head out the window in a car. You get, yeah.

Plus, you can, there's a chance that bugs will fly into your mouth if your face is out of car window. But that doesn't make him dumb. That makes you dumb for thinking that he's just getting his air. Yeah, I get it. Yeah, you said he stares at this. But he treats the air conditioner like it's a television. Oi.

I'm a new listener from London. I've only been listening for about four months or so. Curious what all this drama with ESPN and Sam Ponda is about and if you guys are going to work with them in the future. No. No, we're not going to. So Sam chose to bring up the barstle van talk thing. This is the last thing I'm going to say of it

because we've talked about it too much already. But Sam said that she said a couple of things that were factually very, very false about wanting to meet with us and not trying to get our show canceled, which were very, very easily proven false. And so then there's been like a lot of back and forth. And to be honest with you, I don't like, I don't think we need to go after her at all.

I think that she's kind of showed her hand that she has either been fed some bad information or she has some wrong impressions of what me and Big Cat do. But that said, I don't think that we need to go after her at all. I think just let it be what it is. We'll do our thing. She'll do hers.

And we'll squash it that way. All right. Kill me. Kill me. Kytus. All right. P.V.P.T. Is it possible to continuously hook up with someone

and not develop feelings? Why or why not? Like good feelings? Because I think it is. No, one person always has feelings. So you're fucked. Sounds like you have feelings. And you're like, why does this guy or girl

not reciprocate the feelings? So they're just not that into you. Sorry. That's brutally honest. Brutally honest. Sorry. Yeah, but keep doing it if the sex is good. If you're writing into a sports podcast,

asking if it's possible to not get feelings, then I think you already know the answer to that question. Why does every odd number have an E in it? Whoa. Whoa. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Just stand by. We're going to count through the entire alphabet of numbers.

11, 13, 14, 15, 17. How many numbers are in the letter? 19, 21, 21. Well, once you get above 19, then they start repeating themselves. No, hold on. Stop, stop, stop, stop, please. Because there's a 1, 2, 3, 7. Yeah, checks out.

Fuck. I don't know. That's a whoa. That's a whoa. That's a fucking whoa. Who created the numbers? Was that the? Pluto.

Pluto. The dog? The dog? Philosopher. Oh, yeah, yeah. No, yeah. We have Pluto. Yep, no Pluto.

You're right. Yeah. Plato's the ninth planet. Yeah, OK. Well, a formerly planet. Yes. It's just a moon. Pluto's on the comeback.

No, yeah, they didn't do their break back. Embrace the base. That was such a fucking. It was a classic. That was a classic NASA, like we don't have enough shit to do. So we're going to make Pluto not a planet. And then in a few months, we're going to be like actually just kidding, it is a planet.

We're on to you. NASA likes to keep their name in the press. Yeah. Just like anybody else. Right. You can't just cancel a planet. We fucking learn the plans when we're kids. Why are girls never named after their parents?

I've never heard of a Sarah, Jr. or a Jennifer, Jr. That's a great question. That's a very good question. I don't know. Yeah. I think it's just a. It's a patriarch. I don't know.

Patriarch, it's talk. It's a patriarch. Yeah, talk. It's just showing through again. I have heard of a girl that's named after her mom, but she took her mom's last name as her first name. Her mom has made a name as her first name. I think that happens a lot actually.

I wouldn't say a lot. It happens somewhat frequently. It's happened to me once in your life. I knew of it. In your entire life, you know one person. And totally, I know of at least one person. You've met millions of women not to brag. Well, extrapolating.

And you know one of them. I've definitely met millions of women online. Explain to me. Like what is it and how does it get all over my bedroom? It's dead skin, bro. I was going to say it's dead skin. It's God's sperm. No, it's dead skin.

It's gross. Dead skin everywhere. Or is it breathing it in right now? Or is it ghosts? Ready? Hank, just breathe in dead skin. He just did the other fun thing about those dust particles is their spider parts.

Yep, that's a lot of spider parts. Dead spider parts, ghosts, dead skin. You're intentionally not breathing right now. I don't believe you. So it doesn't matter. You just breathe in. You're an idiot. You just ate dead skin.

Hank, just ate skin from my balsak. Yeah, what a fucking idiot. All right, last one. My girlfriend was nominated for a People's Choice Award, and I didn't realize that if she won, I would be able to go and party with celebrities all week. And so I didn't really promote it and get her to get votes. Wow.

Super, that's a big, big jimbo. Super relatable. That sucks. So Hank, this person would have gotten to go on another vacation. We don't make those jokes. If the person, well, there's still time. Oh, there is.

If they win the award, then that person would, in theory, get to go to LA and take a vacation. Take some time off with it. Would that person also eat a lot of In-N-Out Burger? In theory, if that person's girlfriend won the award, yes. OK, so in theory, how could people help vote for that person to eat a lot of In-N-Out Burger, and not take a vacation, but just eat In-N-Out Burger?

In theory, if this was happening, you would go to the People's Choice Awards and vote for Chicks in the Office. Oh, I know them. Yeah. Oh, that's who we were talking about. Yeah, Hank, aren't you dating with him? Wait, is that you?

Are we talking about you? It must be Fran's boyfriend. Oh, Fran's boyfriend. Got you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, got it, got it. You're at it. Hank's getting cucked. Oh.

Oh. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. OK, so vote for Chicks in the Office. People Choice Award. I'm going to tweet it tomorrow. Everyone just retweet it, and let's get. Retweets count, right? Yeah.

Yeah, so everyone retweet. Please, do they count as endorsements? Because in my bio, it specifically says that they do not. Yes. So retweet it. We're going to tweet it out. Please help us out so Hank can go eat in and out with your.

Wait, that is right. So this is all about you. No, I'm just reading the text submissions. So if you'd like Bubba to fill in for Hank on five episodes of Part of My Tape, go ahead and repeat that. The Sultry Tones of Bubba's Voice. OK, we'll see everyone on Monday, week two. Get excited, more football.

One last thing, I want to give a quick shout-out to Chad Dummer's award-winning listener. Chad, heard you got some bad news, but you're going to start a big fight right now and just know that me, Bubba, Big Cat, Hank, and Larry, the Goldfish are all on your side. You got this, buddy. Love you guys.

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