Pardon My Take - NFL Week 18, Fastest 2 Minutes And A Wild Raiders/Chargers Ending
Episode Date: January 10, 2022Week 18 is over and we start with fastest 2 minutes. We then recap every game from Sunday (00:02:22 - 00:07:43) Raiders/Chargers (00:07:43 - 00:29:24) Jaguars/Colts (00:29:24 - 00:37:20) Steelers/...Ravens (00:37:20 - 00:42:50) Titans/Texans (00:42:50 - 00:48:28) Lions/Packers (00:48:28 - 00:53:47) WFT/Giants (00:53:47 - 00:58:08) Browns/Bengals (00:59:29 - 00:59:37) Vikings/Bears (00:59:37 - 01:04:44) 49ers/Rams (01:04:44 - 01:10:48) Seahawks/Cardinals (01:10:48 - 01:15:17) Bills/Jets (01:15:17 - 01:22:33) Dolphins/Patriots (01:22:33 - 01:24:24) Saints/Falcons (01:24:24 - 01:27:38) COORS - 01:27:38 Bucs/Panthers (01:27:38 - 01:31:43) We do football guy of the week and wrap up with football guy of the week.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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Today is Monday, January 10th.
Week 18.
We start in Duval, I started early.
We start in Duval, where the stands were filled with clowns.
But the biggest bozo of the day was Frank Wright.
Arson Wentz lit the cult's season on fire
and hung around long enough to watch the franchise burn.
Trevor Jennifer Lawrence is starting to look like an A-lister,
but don't look up Jags.
No, seriously, you literally can't look up.
You clinched the number one pick as per Adam Schefter.
Jacksonville is officially on the clock.
Please credit Schefter.
He had it first.
The Jags stunned the cults.
Keep them out of the playoffs.
26-11.
In Baltimore, you can throw out the record books
when these two teams face off.
Benjamin Button Rocklesberger looks like he's aging in reverse
as he linked up with Chase Deadpool to revive their careers.
Chris, the Wizard of Boswell, followed the yellow kick road
to a Steelers playoff berth and a potential Super Bowl run.
B.J. Watt continues to be the king of the D
as he swallowed up another sack tying Brett Forbes' record.
And the Steelers are going to the Yoffes?
Huh?
Huh?
Huh?
Huh?
Huh?
Huh?
Steelers, six-eight.
Ravens, 13.
In Detroit, where Jared Gotth told lazy boy Aaron Rodgers
to take a seat, take a billion seats,
Fam and Ross St. Brown continued to play like a hungry dog
as Instagram and Ross St. Brown added more memorable moments
to his grid.
Tom John F. Kennedy took the top off the defense
and delivered a magic bullet for a touchdown.
Too soon, boom.
Don't let the Lions get hot as they finish the season
with a big win.
They just ran out of time.
The Lions, 37.
The limping into the playoffs packers, 30.
In Los Angeles, where Tim DeMo Samuel threw up a prayer
for a touchdown to get the Niners back in the playoffs.
John Craig Jennings put the whole team on his back,
adding two scores.
Tyler, Eleanor Higbee, he's a score twice in a game
against Couch in a hand.
Choked job by the Rams.
Then there was Jim G. He really sucked in the first,
but then his thumb magically healed.
Are the Niners for real?
Niners, 27.
The Rams, 24.
Down to the desert where Rashad, my cousin Penny,
painted the Mona Lisa Vita with 109 yards rushing
in a touchdown.
And I think it's going to be a long, long time
to touchdowns bring me round to fine.
I'm not the man that they think I had on.
Oh, no, no, no.
I'm Tyler Lockett, man.
Lockett, man.
Burning up his fuse up here alone.
And much like the Challenger, the Cardinals crash
and burn their way into the playoffs, 38-30.
In Tampa Bay, where Mike Evans Bacon got
six degrees of separation for two touchdowns,
Sam Hay-Darnold continues to dress up like Stinky Peterson
when playing on Sundays as the Bucks locked up Chuba Indian
in the Hubbard, making sure he never came to life.
Qashon Veronica Vaughn is so hot.
Want to touch the high knee?
What a fine piece of ace.
As the Bucks roll into the playoffs with the two seed.
Bucks, 41.
The Packers, 17.
In the 305, Jalen Bottleservice started the party off
the only way Miami knows how to dancing in the end zone.
Meanwhile, Tic Macto put his X in the wrong spot
when Jones threw a pick six in the first quarter.
Three different running backs for the Patriots.
That's a bold and strategy, Cotton.
Let's see if it pays off for them.
Well, it did.
Brandon scored twice.
And at least someone named Duke won this weekend
as Johnson broke 100 yards and scored a touchdown.
Dolphins, 33.
Patriots, 24.
Up in Orchard Park, Devon, all the single Terries
had two scores as the team of Destiny's child
and loves Buffalo so much, they want
to put a Super Bowl ring on it.
Robert Salah, my name, was crazy in love with Wilson
in the first half.
But in the end, it was the Bills, Bills, Bills.
27, Jets 10.
And no one circles the wagons like the Buffalo Billies.
Standing on a corner, Jamies Winston down to Nola.
Such a fine sight to see.
It's her sending me in, went out and got the win.
Cuz Taysum had an injury.
Come on, Jamies.
Come back and save us.
And our team is going to win.
Come back and save us.
And our dismiss, Beard, is the greatest.
Sates go marching, 30, 19.
All right, week 18 in the books.
We just watched the end of the Chargers Raiders game
in overtime when it felt like all of America
was rooting for a tie and also half of America
the NFL was rigged like it was a WWE
script from the late 90s.
But we got justice.
The Raiders win.
They get into the playoffs.
That was fucking incredible.
No, Big Cat, you can't script an ending like this.
Chris Collinsworth told me he would have walked out of the movie.
Yeah.
If you had tried to pawn off an ending to the NFL season.
Hollywood would have thrown you in front of a train
that was loaded with dynamite if you got a script like this.
That was the perfect ending though because we had rigged.
We had hashtag rigged trending.
We had everyone coming up with wild conspiracy theories.
And I think it was like the last day of QAnon
when JFK Jr. didn't show up and they're all like,
well, what do we do now?
What do you mean the last two non?
Oh, yeah, sure.
Two non still going strong.
Two non going strong.
Two non going strong.
QAnon is not.
Just wait.
JFK Jr. is coming back.
But that was, you know, like you're all just standing there
like, wait.
So we were just complaining about this game being rigged
for the last three hours.
And then the Raiders ended up winning.
The Steelers are in the playoffs.
It's basically impossible to rig a game for a tie in the NFL.
Without it being blatantly, blatantly obvious.
The closest that we came to was on that final drive
by the Raiders when, if they hadn't have gotten that first tie,
it probably would have ended in a tie.
But you can't steal a Herm Edwards thing.
You play to win the game.
I was getting into a debate with Jake about whether or not
it was smart to play for a tie or not.
He was saying you play to win the Super Bowl,
but I think you play to win the game.
You got to win a game before you win a Super Bowl.
On a, just a level for the Raiders,
it was smart to go for the win.
Once they're in that spot at the end of the game,
they know that like, obviously if some crazy,
crazy thing happens, they could lose the game, right?
But if they're sitting there and they're like,
should we kick a field goal or should we kneel
and let the Chargers in?
Well, if you let the Chargers in, you have to go play the Chiefs.
Right.
Where now you get to go play the Bengals.
I mean, the Bengals are better than the Raiders,
but they have a lot better of a chance against the Bengals
than they have against the Chiefs,
who has had their number and kicked their ass this year.
So I, you know, what a game.
There's nothing like the NFL.
Week 18 did not disappoint.
It was insane from start to finish.
I would like to actually quote our good friend, Magic Johnson,
who said, the NFC and ASC playoffs are going to be so exciting
because anybody can win.
I can't wait until next weekend.
Just a fact, he speaks for all of us.
He really does.
I can't say it better myself.
I am very excited for NFL playoff football.
Anyone can win.
You know what?
A big fuck you to those dorks over at the New York Times.
Yeah.
They were all doom and gloom being like 18 weeks sucks in the NFL.
No one's excited about these games.
Guess what?
That was, I'm just going to say that was the best week 18
in the history of the NFL.
Yeah.
It came right down to the last game of the last week.
Congratulations, Roger Goodell.
You've done it again.
You magnificent bastard.
Incredible.
Did Derek Carr grow an entire beard during that game?
Yeah.
No, he's got a lot of hair, facial hair, regular hair.
He's got it all.
He's like a chia pet.
I think he was faceballed at the start of this game.
I think he just, Derek Carr just took that next step in front of
her very eyes.
Incredible.
And then, you know, it feels like 10 games ago,
but Brandon Staley living and dying by going forward on fourth down.
This game changed basically.
The Raiders were up three and Brandon Staley went forward
on fourth and one on his own 20.
The Raiders then reeled off like whatever it was 13 straight
points felt like they were going to run away with it.
We had the Chargers, every single drive they had the last
fourth quarter and overtime was just nothing on first down,
nothing on second down, maybe something on third down,
but most likely you have to get a wild fourth and 10 conversion
or penalty.
And they went for that, that game tying drive at the end of
the fourth quarter, which was, I think it was like 19 plays
in 60 yards.
It made no sense.
Everything was incomplete or just an insane,
like how is this game still going on play?
Crazy.
Did Brandon Staley being a crazy motherfucker all season on fourth
down actually end up preparing the Chargers for that last and
final drive?
Yeah.
They're used to it.
They're used to fourth downs, but I think in the first half,
on that fourth down play call they had from his own 19 yard
line.
I think Brandon Staley.
That was the second half, but yeah.
I think he might have killed Math.
Yeah.
That was in the second half?
Yeah, that was in the second half, correct?
No, that was in the first half.
I thought that was when it was maybe the first half as well.
It was?
Yeah.
He killed Math.
Oh, he was doing it early.
Okay.
Yeah, he absolutely destroyed Math.
No one should ever use Math anywhere on a football field again.
The only thing that Brandon Staley accomplished when he did
that was I think he made the Raiders think like this guy's
crazy.
He was crazy.
This guy's actually insane.
He's liable to do anything, except then most of those play
calls at the end of the game on the fourth downs were just
like run your receivers as far down the field as you can.
Yes.
And throw the ball to them.
I've never seen an NFL game where the broadcasters are talking
nonstop about how tired wide receivers are.
Yeah.
That was in the second half.
It was the third quarter.
He's that crazy.
That's insane.
It was 17-14.
They went for it on fourth and one at their own 18 with eight
men, eight 57 left in the third quarter.
That's how crazy he is.
Guys, fucking crazy.
And then like I said, they went directly.
They were up 17-14 or they were down 17-14.
And then they blinked and it was 29-14.
And they had to crawl back in the last four minutes of the
game, but it was it.
Yeah.
He's a madman.
He's a madman.
And I'm glad that it ended this way because for a second,
we thought that we were going to get gifted one last final last
game for Big Ben and you can't take that away from us.
No, I would have been apoplectic.
It would have been so cruel for Steelers fans to have everything
break their way all day and we'll get into all the games like the
Jaguars losing and getting embarrassed by it or sorry,
the Colts losing, getting embarrassed by a bad Jaguars team.
Everything breaking their way.
They went in overtime against the Ravens and have that be a tie
would have been brutal.
Billy, as our number one, you were rooting for a tie so much.
So I got a little creeped out like that.
Maybe you were related to a tie.
Did you have money on the tie?
Because you were geeking out over the tie.
It was just I was rooting for something that was so,
so unique and probably would never,
ever happen again in the history of football.
The Jets winning a Super Bowl might happen.
The Browns winning a Super Bowl might happen.
A tie like that happening again.
Probably would never happen.
Maybe I just I got to the point where like the day happened
and I was like Big Ben is going to be in the playoffs is going
to be awesome.
So when the tab that like ripped away from us would have sucked.
You can't take away the joy that we felt when we saw Big Ben
at the end of that game.
Yeah.
Mike Tomlin can't take away him dancing on an Instagram live
post to celebrate the Steelers getting into the post season.
That would have been it would have been the most disappointing
ending for Big Ben's career.
Imagine he would probably have to come back next year.
I think we actually got something even better though, Billy.
Like we got so close to a tie there.
It was we got to visualize a tie and then we had the fairness
of the game actually ending with a winner.
If Brandon Staley didn't take that one time out,
he wouldn't have broken the trust and they would have tied.
Oh, you think that was the prisoners dilemma dilemma.
Exactly.
That was Staley signaling that he wasn't willing to go through
with it at the end.
Exactly.
He was trying to win.
So then they both tried to win in the Raiders one.
Mm-hmm.
That's also I made like it felt like everyone in the world who
watches football had realized like it was a fact they learned
that if the the Chargers and the Raiders tied tonight that
they would both go into the playoff and then they basically
walked around and tried to tell everyone that maybe doesn't
watch football like the prisoners dilemma and how this
could work out.
It was like that fun fact that everyone was talking about all
day.
Yep.
Until we all knew it.
Everyone knew it.
A lot of people were like the dog chasing the car.
Right.
Where it was cool to like pursue the tie.
But if you had actually gotten the tie, I think everybody would
have been like, what have I done?
Right.
You wouldn't have enjoyed it.
And we would have lost Big Ben.
I think that we're also in a unique spot because we want to see
Big Ben in the playoffs one last time because it's funny.
Maybe get another Super Bowl.
Yeah, it's like a fun idea.
So I think maybe it would have changed everything if it was
like a different team and it wasn't the circumstances of
Big Ben retiring.
We probably would have been more pro tie, but we really were.
We had that moment today.
We were like, we get one more Big Ben.
Yeah, it's great.
It's an awesome thing to look forward to all week long.
This is breaking news from Derek Carr.
He said in his post game interview that the fact that Brandon
Staley took that time out, changed the Raiders mindset.
So Billy's right.
Billy's right.
As first reported by Bill.
Broke the trust.
They seriously?
Derek Carr said that changed their mindset.
Yep.
Broke the trust.
So we almost had the tie.
We almost had the tie.
It was the prisoners dilemma.
Brandon Staley called the worst time out in the history of sports.
I still think they were going to kick a field goal no matter
what, because they had, they had like, there was no real
losing it.
I guess you could have a block and I don't think that they
would have kicked it unless they had gotten that first down
because that would have been too far of a field goal and they
wouldn't have gotten that first down if Brandon Staley
didn't call the time out.
Yeah.
If they had it because he would have made them punt it
possibly.
I guess it was smart.
It was a smart time out for Brandon Staley.
Traditionally.
Yeah.
If you're trying to win the game.
You're smart.
But he sent the wrong signal to them.
Right.
But no, he was smart because if they didn't get the first down
it would have been what you're saying.
I'm using what you're saying.
The field goal would have been too far.
Right.
Uh huh.
It would have been a tie.
So it was actually his last play that he could have done.
Okay.
Right.
I'm just saying that they tried to get another first down
after the time out.
Whereas the Raiders could have just run like a soft play
up the middle.
Right.
And he gets tackled.
The clock.
You can take the clock.
Right.
And the clock is zero.
You don't know if they're going to do that or not.
But his time out basically said if we stop them here
they're going to have to punt and we're going to tie.
Yeah.
Like he was basically saying this is the only way that I can
envision us fully holding our own destiny here.
They were getting a stop.
They were speaking two different languages when it came to
signaling their willingness to tie with each other.
But it was rigged.
It was NFL rigged.
NFL rigged.
Um, we, we.
I honestly wonder if the two sidelines ever had any discussion
or communication about a mutual tie.
I bet you they, in the middle of the field, they like, like
Basicki and, uh, and Brandon Staley, like how to chuckle
about it before the game.
I think, yeah.
Wouldn't that be crazy?
I think it was like Brandon Staley went out there and he was
like, Hey, uh, you know, they're saying that if we just,
you going to do the Neil thing today, ha, ha, ha.
Then slapped each other on the back.
Yeah.
Like it maybe stared an extra second into the other guy's
eyes being like, where, where's he at?
Mm hmm.
Mentally.
Whoever went out for the overtime coin toss.
I feel like that would have been perfect.
Chase Daniels.
Yeah.
That would have been a good deal.
I feel like that would have been the perfect time.
And negotiation.
In front of America.
With live microphones.
Yeah.
I mean, people, people.
Man, if they had rigged it, it would have been a total disaster.
I'm totally in favor of saying that the NFL is rigged all the time
for any reason, especially when it goes against what I want to
happen to my team or my bet.
Yeah.
Um, but it would have been the dumbest rig job of all time
if it had gotten the Steelers out of the playoffs.
And now the, the chargers, America's darling, media's darling
is out with a incredible quarterback, a coach.
Everyone likes who we like and a team that should be a roster
that should be a playoff team.
They, uh, fall in the last seconds of overtime in week 18.
And we get the Raiders.
Raiders.
Rich Bersicchi should get the job.
He should get the job.
Like how the fact that they're in the playoffs is insane when
you just stack it all up and everything they've had go against
them.
You could make a case for like 33% of the coaches in the NFL to
be the coach of the year this year.
Yeah.
Can you make a case for Bersicchi?
Absolutely.
Foxhole guy.
Yes.
I mean, I still don't know how to pronounce his last name.
Yeah.
No, I, people, people get mad about that.
Maybe Jake can help us out.
But John Gruden gets fired, Henry rugs, six and nine.
They end up 10 and 10 and, uh, or no, sorry, six and seven.
They end up 10 and seven.
They win every single game, the last four games in like, I think
all the games they won were by two points or three points down
the stretch.
Like they beat the Browns of that game.
They, I know they beat the, the Colts by a field goal.
So everything was a razor thin margin and they did it.
What do you got?
Basaccia.
Basaccia.
I like Basaccia.
Yeah.
I just wanted to try it out with them.
I'm going to stick with Basaccia.
Yeah.
It's kind of what we do.
Another little fun hot mic moment.
I don't know who Echler's talking to, but he's talking to a
Raiders player on the, on the field after the game and you can
read his lips and he says, were you going to nail it?
And the Raiders guy says, yeah.
Wow.
Oh man.
So yeah.
Okay.
So it was a miscommunication because I actually understand what
Brandon Staley was doing because it was too far.
He was fucking up is what he was doing.
Right.
But it, because it was too far, he was basically saying, if we
can get this one stop on third down, it will be a punt.
Oops.
Do you think he was making it too blatant and then Basaccia sees
that and he's like, you know, fuck that.
We're going to win the game.
I don't know.
Because it's a major what, what would Madden do in this
situation?
Madden.
Win the game.
He would, he would win the game.
What would Gruden do?
Save someone's life.
Madden wouldn't win the game.
He, he didn't want to, uh, in the 2001 Super Bowl, he said the
patch would just nail it and go to overtime.
Right.
But once they're in overtime, you got to win the game.
I guess.
But then he also said Tom Brady gave him goosebumps.
Yeah.
All right.
Hank, are you retroactively mad at John Gruner for disrespecting
Tom Brady?
I'm not.
That's, I mean, did that not happen?
Yeah.
Like I love John Madden.
I respect the show.
You just said John Madden would go for it.
And I would just give you an example of a situation where he
said you shouldn't go for it.
That's not hate.
Yeah.
Sometimes you like to spin things I say.
No, it just sounds like you're mad.
You're still mad at John Madden.
I'm not mad.
I don't fucking remember.
I was eight years old.
For disrespecting Tom Brady.
I don't, I'm just giving you an example of, you know, the
opposite of what you said.
You know, you're right.
He did want, he did want to kneel and play for overtime in that
situation.
Um, crazy though.
Everything's crazy.
So we have it set.
Uh, it is.
So here's the schedule.
If you, if you went to sleep early and you haven't checked the
schedule on Saturday afternoon, we're going to have the, uh,
Raiders versus the Bengals, which is perfect because the Texans
having that Saturday afternoon spot was always, even though
it's, it's different because it's not the one o'clock Saturday
was always a placeholder for the Bengals.
Yeah.
It was either the Bengals or the Texas or sometimes a combination
of the two.
So back to the rightful, uh, owners then on Saturday night,
Hank Patriots going to Buffalo.
Are you ready?
I'm so ready.
I've never been more ready for anything in my life.
Hank wants this.
Okay.
You want, you do want this.
I do want it.
One of those things is why, why wait?
You know, the bills are the better team.
They're, they're favored to all that shit.
They're at home, but this is what you want.
Why, why run?
Why don't I just face it head on?
What's the spread?
We talked about it before the game.
Big brother.
You guys should guess.
I think it's five.
Is it out yet?
It is.
It is.
All right.
Uh, I'll say four, three and a three and a half, four.
Well, you guys are right split in between.
It's plus four and a half right now.
There it is.
Okay.
Okay.
Uh, and the weather is going to be bad.
It's going to be cold.
Breaking news.
It's going to be cold in Buffalo, New York the second week of January.
Whoa.
Uh, then Sunday we have Eagles at bucks, 49ers of cowboys.
That's the Nickelodeon game.
Yup.
So we got to, we got to start circling our potential NVPs in this situation here.
I think it's got to be Kittle.
We got to keep it in the family.
Yeah.
Kittle would be nice.
We have to keep it in the, I think that's the only answer.
It's Kittle.
It's Kittle.
No matter what.
Well, Dak Press got the current guests as well.
Yeah.
They don't have to be the winning team.
No.
Dak Press.
We're the losing team.
One of our great friends and part of my take.
I think this is a don't overthink it.
Kittle.
Kittle.
Congratulations to Greg Kittle.
If there is a fan vote, he has one MVP.
All right, Greg.
Although hitting or losing would have won it.
What, what if the cowboys lose and we give it to Mike McCarthy so that he can get slimed?
I don't think they do the coaches, but if they do.
Yes.
We should do that.
He probably chugged us on.
I don't think coaches are eligible for the MVP.
And then we have Sunday night, the Steelers, Big Ben's last ride, going into the Chiefs.
You might remember that game from the Mike Tomlin's sad field goal.
I think it was like 35 to 10 or something.
It was never even that close.
The worst field goal.
Yeah.
And then do you think that there's like 2% of Big Ben who's really regretting having
to play another week?
You already asked him to play a 17 game slate this year.
Now you're making him extend his last season.
I do honestly think he might have gone to sleep, not realizing that a tie could have
fucked everything up.
No.
And then he would have woken up and been like, wait, what do you mean I'm not on the playoff?
I hope they just don't explain to him what happened.
Yeah.
Because that's just going to confuse him when he finds out that he almost didn't make the
playoff.
Yes.
Yes.
So, yeah, he probably, there's probably a little, he might have booked a trip.
He might have booked a trip.
For sure.
All right.
And then Cardinals Rams Monday night football.
So let me just, let me just read it back to you real quick.
The NFC and AFC playoffs are going to be so exciting because anybody can win.
I can't wait until next weekend.
You said it, man.
That's it.
I mean, that's.
Cosign.
It couldn't be more, everything's in front of us.
There's no, it's no better feeling.
All right.
I wish there was a way to retweet somebody in real life because I would just go around
read like just saying it.
Yeah.
Verbally retweeting Magic Johnson all the time.
He speaks for me.
Yeah.
Did you hear about the AFC and NFC playoffs?
It's going to be exciting.
Can't wait for next weekend.
Like just walking around and saying anything can happen, anything can happen.
I might have to turn that tweet into a song, actually.
I feel like that's next up.
Okay.
So should we hop into the games?
Oh, and Billy and PFT are driving to the Super Bowl, L.A.
They are second place and last place in the competition.
So they'll be driving in a Chevy Silverado, new one.
All new Chevy Silverado.
No, electric one.
I think so.
Yeah.
Maybe not.
So it's going to be an all new Chevy Silverado.
It's whatever Dana Beers drove back from Coach Brown in Mississippi.
It's going to smell like Dana.
Yeah.
Yep.
Great.
I was I was excited.
No convertible.
That's a shame.
I was excited to come in second in this.
I went one in seven in my last two weeks somehow.
But then it I'll be honest, it took me about five minutes.
No, you can't do this.
No, no, listen, listen, I'm going to tell you a little story about a conversation
that I had about five minutes after it was determined that Billy and I would
be making the trip.
Billy immediately started suggesting what sort of a time frame we should spend
on the road.
And the first thing he said was, all right, so I think I've got it figured out.
We should leave on the evening of that Thursday, I think.
And he said, we should drive until six o'clock in the morning and then sleep
until one PM and then continue a drive.
And I immediately realized that this is not going to be the bed of roses that I
had envisioned for myself.
Can't.
That's no backseat.
No backseat, no backseat.
The East Coast has more traffic, so we go, we travel, we travel at night
when there's the least amount of traffic.
Yeah, when it's dark on the road, the Midwest by the morning.
Cars, lights, right.
That's great.
I'll drive it.
You can sleep.
And it's also maybe the safest truck on the road.
Exactly.
Where do we listen to Billy?
What's on the playlist?
Oh, I got a great road trip classic rock playlist, Life's Highway, all sorts of stuff.
There we go.
Joe Rogan.
Cars one.
Cars one has a killer sound.
I does.
Actually, I know that goat soundtrack.
So does that we found something to bond over here?
The troll soundtrack.
Yeah.
So you guys will be going to LA.
It'll be great content or Dallas or Dallas or Vegas.
I think it was Dallas.
You guys have to go to LA to Dallas.
That would be awesome.
I agree.
I'm everyone else agree.
So we fly to LA.
No, you have to drive to LA and then drive to Dallas.
I saw a recommendation from the 405.
That's a great point.
I got a point.
Hank, we got to touch the 405.
Yeah.
Great point.
Hank, I'll accept that.
I saw a recommendation from an AWL.
No GPS.
You have to use physical maps.
I mean, they'll never get there.
I'm actually pretty good at maps.
You forget the map is what got me into this mess to begin with.
I saw a map online and it got me excited about this road trip.
So you guys are in so down yet?
No, we know because they're very down.
It doesn't matter if you were very down.
Where we're trying to figure out the big decision is do we hit Chicago
and then go Nebraska?
Well, the good news is you got a month to figure it out.
Iowa, Nebraska, or do we go St. Louis?
Missouri, Oklahoma.
So those are the only two options.
Yeah, well, we take which one has the Memphis Bass Pro Shop.
You know what, why don't we just every every show?
We're stopping by checking on where the route is
because we have a month until you guys have to leave.
I'm going to put Billy in charge of the route.
Check in and be like, Hey, where are we at with the route?
That good working on it? Yeah. All right. Perfect.
OK, should we hop into the games?
Should we do the games? Let's do it.
All right. Jaguars, Colts was the start of the madness.
The Jaguars upset the Colts.
Twenty six, eleven.
Trevor Lawrence looked like a real quarterback for once.
And the Colts, Carson Wentz is Carson Wentz.
My pinky is safe.
I know that people wanted them to make the playoffs
for my pinky. I am happy because I was actually very nervous about the Colts.
But yeah, that is in all time.
How the fuck do you lose that game?
You literally went to you went to play a two win team
that had fired their coach a month and a half ago, had just lost by like 50
and the entire crowd were people dressed as clowns.
Yeah, I've got the data in front of me right now.
That's the first time that a team that was hoping to go to the playoffs
has gone on the road and lost in a clown out environment.
Yes, the clown outs were previous.
No one had ever won a clown game before.
It was so sad.
I saw this one picture of these this couple.
They had a picture.
They had a big poster and they're like 10 season ticket,
10 years season ticket holders clowns faced went to the game.
Clown faced 10 year season ticket holders record 43 and 120.
At what point are you just like this is just punishment.
Well, also at what point being Jaguars fans getting dressed up as clowns,
going to the game, does that become a cell phone cell phone?
That's kind of a you're a major cell phone situation.
Yep, when Pro Max 13, those could those could mean a lot.
A lot of different things wearing clown makeup to a game.
But usually you're just saying like I am a clown for attending this game.
And you would be forgiven for thinking that being a Jaguars fan
over all these years besides obviously the Blake Bortles years.
But yeah, that's you also got to keep wearing clown outfits.
I think you're Jags fans, right?
Yeah, you're undefeated as the clown.
Yes, you are the clown. Change the team name to the clowns.
I I don't know what Colts fans like this is one of those very,
very difficult to wake up on Monday morning moments,
because as recently as week 15, the Colts, there was legitimate buzz
that the Colts were playing the best football in the NFL.
I saw like Dan Orlowski did a whole victory lap on ESPN,
because he called that they were going to be a playoff team.
He also would like run away and get married to Carson Menz.
That's true. No, Matt Stafford first.
Matt Stafford, then Carson Wentz.
But it was everyone was taking their victory lap.
The Colts were in the playoffs.
The Colts were a really good team.
I was very nervous.
They had just beaten the Patriots.
They had just beaten the Cardinals.
They had won a shitload of games in a row.
And then they lose to the Raiders at home and they lose the Jaguars.
And now you wake up again, this is very mean to Colts fans.
I'm sorry, but you know this is the truth.
You wake up on Monday morning.
Carson Wentz is your quarterback.
He's got $15 million dead cap next year.
You gave up a first round pick for him and your team didn't make the playoffs.
Yeah, I don't think that if you're if you're a Colts fan,
you're not consuming any media today.
You don't know you might as well be an Amish person for this week
because you don't want to turn on a television.
You don't want to open up a newspaper.
You don't want to listen to a podcast.
No. So if you are if you are one of those perverted Colts fans
that is listening to this on Monday morning, what's what's wrong?
I give you permission to delete this episode of this podcast and to stop listening.
You should not be downloaded again, though.
Yeah, but you don't you don't need to be subjecting yourself to this.
I think you're just you're embracing the suck, embracing the pain.
Yes, Hank, there's also like an insane amount of football buzz
and excitement going on in downtown Indianapolis today.
Oh, yeah, that's true.
So like, if you have to go to work in Indianapolis, you're trying to avoid
football and it's like everyone's just jazzed up, fired up football, football, football.
And you're like, I don't want to I don't even want to look at a football.
Yes, someone's going to win a national title like in your backyard.
And it's going to be the pinnacle of their year.
And you lost the Jaguars.
And again, with the HBO crew documenting.
Yeah, that's like whatever Amazon Prime.
Yeah. And the and the fact you have Carson Wentz.
So Frank Reich was asked afterwards about Carson Wentz.
And he responded.
He was like, you know, is your quarterback going going into next year?
Like talk about Carson Wentz.
He said he did a lot.
And then he also said, I think he's our quarterback.
Yeah, no. So that yikes.
And that's the first round.
Yeah, I think he's our quarterback.
Carson Wentz has had a stat line in every single game he's been in,
I think this year where he's been at some point in the game, five for 12.
It's so painful, too, because Colts fans.
I know that you deluded yourself to thinking that he had changed.
There were times when I did the same thing and was like, oh, Carson Wentz.
He's looking. He's he's made a few six throws this year.
They were always, you know, remember the game against the Titans
when they when he did the smartest play in the world.
And he gave up that shovel pass interception, pick six instead of taking a safety.
There were a lot of people being like, that was the first time he was
Carson Wentz all year like he did.
He's actually not turned the ball over.
And then when he had to play his best football,
the Raiders game, he's stunk.
And this game, he's stunk.
Carson Wentz is is still the king of making bad plays worse.
Yeah. And he'll always be that guy.
You know what, I'm going to add the Colts to the list of teams
that I think if Kirk Cousins was on, they could win a Super Bowl.
Maybe I think that a team like the Browns or the Colts
having Kirk Cousins, that's like that's your ideal quarterback right now.
Yeah, a guy who he won't make bad plays worse.
He'll just make bad plays kind of average.
And then he'll also make good plays, pretty average.
Yeah, he'll make he'll make great plays a check down.
Yeah, right, right.
So Colts fans whoof.
This is I'm just happy I'm my pinky.
I'm happy I'm my pinky.
You did have that moment where you were rooting for the Colts
to win so that we got one pinky game in the playoffs.
Well, yeah. And I was not just very mean.
Hank and I were both doing that, but just in the name of content,
it would have been good to have you sweat it out a little bit.
I do agree that watching someone be miserable in a bet scenario.
Yes, good content. Correct. Right.
Correct. Right. Exactly.
Glad we're on the same. Yeah, we're all we all agree.
We all agree. Yeah.
But I'm happy they're not in. I'm happy they're not in.
I let me know. Listen, I did think they were had a chance.
Like as of week 15, I was like, I'm I had the conversation with with Mrs.
Cat and I was like, listen, just so you know, the Colts are playing really good.
And she's like, you made this bet again.
You don't need your pinky.
You don't need the tip of your pinky.
If anything, that's just a signal to everybody.
Like this guy really doesn't do coke.
No, it was it was a bad conversation, though, because we were just walking
with our two kids and she was like, why are you still making these bets?
I was like, because they're fun and it's fun.
And it's like thrilling that the Colts are playing better,
even though I wrote them off.
And so there was a lot of disdain and she also pointed out like you can't.
I stupidly was like, well, yeah, just walk into a hospital and they'll cut it off.
Like, that's not how it works.
They don't just they won't just dismember you.
You'd have to intentionally get the tip of it like infected.
Yeah.
And have just get like a little bit of gangrene at the end of your pinky
so that they have to do a medical procedure to cut it off.
But I just wanted to moil and get circumcised.
I wanted on the record.
I had that actual conversation.
If people think that I'm not like I wouldn't take it seriously, I would.
It would suck.
But I was having those real life conversations of like, oh, yeah,
the Colts might make the playoffs and they're pretty damn good.
And I got to cut my pinky off.
It just would have been good to have one game, one playoff game,
just so the dream stays alive for another week.
Yeah, I mean, we had it with the Texans.
We haven't had it since I'm I'm shocked.
I did not think I thought the Jags would give him a game.
I did not think the Colts would lose this game the way they did.
I really didn't. It was crazy.
It was this was the ultimate.
The NFL makes no sense game.
Yeah.
When you look at what's happened to both teams in the last even three weeks.
Yes. How does how do the Jags win this game?
I the only thing is like Trevor Lawrence.
He looked really good in that first half.
I think he started off 11 for 11.
Yeah. No, he looks really good.
This like he took a shit on Sam Elger.
Yeah. Yes.
He looks really, really good.
So big time.
Trevor Lawrence positive momentum.
I think we're now die hard believers in Trevor.
Yes, based on the first half of this one game.
All right. Next game Steelers Ravens.
We kind of touched on it.
Big Ben, he gets one more shot at it.
Maybe they're a team of destiny.
Maybe they'll get blown out by 30 to the chiefs.
You know, cry on the sideline again.
But either way, Big Ben, Sunday Night Football.
His true send off.
I'm excited.
So I've seen this debate a couple of places.
I think it's probably the dumbest use of the term.
Like no one wants to see the Steelers in the playoffs.
No, I think I said that.
I think Dave Damashack.
I think the Steelers are the team that you want.
If you were to circle a team that you would really want to see.
Without a doubt.
I I really want to see the Steelers in the playoffs can be run on.
Can't run the ball.
The quarterback doesn't have legs.
It's like they're the opposite of everything.
Julien Edelman has told us a tough team.
Yes, the stealer, their quarterback, his face got so fat
that he can't physically remove his helmet.
Yes. I think I think you really want to see the Steelers in the playoffs.
The chiefs are pumped.
But it is it is kind of a team of destiny vibes.
And I can talk myself and the Steelers win this game.
I can do it.
You want you want to hear me talk myself into doing it?
T.J.
Watts, seven seven, T.J.
Watts. Yeah. Best player in the NFL right now.
T.J.
Watts and then maybe Chase Claypool goes off.
Fitzpatrick can get an interception.
Yes, there we go.
Yes, Ray Ray. Those two names go together.
Ray Ray McLeod and interception Ray Ray McLeod is due
because he's never scored a touchdown ever.
Statistically, he is.
Is it time that we say that T.J.
Watts is now officially the best Watt brother?
He is defensive player of the year easily.
I think you'd have to win.
JJ did win back to back defensive player of the years.
There was a three in a row.
Might have been three. I don't know.
But he never got 22 sacks.
He never got 22 sacks.
But he did have a stretch there where remember that stretch
where he was like he was unstoppable.
This is not this is not human 12, 14 and 15.
So two in a row, three out of three out of four.
He had a dynasty.
Yeah, he did.
He had to play and the thing also with JJ was he was probably
like a top 10 tight end.
Right. Whenever he wanted to get in the game
and catch a touchdown pass.
But yeah, no, he's T.J.
Watts has been insane this year.
He's defensive player of the year.
Twenty two and a half sacks ties.
Michael Strahan.
I do. I loved that some people were saying, well, there's an extra game.
He played realistically speaking.
He played like 14 games this year.
So he played less games than Michael Strahan and also didn't have Brett
Farve fall down for the game time.
So that was the record tying sack.
That was the biggest asterisk move of all time.
Brett Farve talking to Michael Strahan before the play saying,
I'm going to roll out this way and fall down and get you the set.
NFL raked.
And that was, you know what?
Watching Michael Strahan celebrate that sack.
A little bit of me dies every time I see that celebration.
I agree. If you think it's bad when you watch
quarterbacks celebrate an incomplete pass that missed by 15 yards,
nothing compared to what Strahan did after getting gifted that final sack.
Agreed.
I think.
I think T.J.
Watt right now is, you know what?
I was going to say something nice about.
We've said a lot of nice things about T.J.
Watt. I just might become one of the Aaron Donnell guys.
Be like, actually, Aaron Donald, yeah, based on his win rate,
yeah, should get the defensive player of the year every year.
He wrecks all the games.
Yeah. Yeah. It's the craziest part, too, is T.J.
Watt got paid all that money and then got had his best year ever,
which is a it's a cool thing in sports, because obviously a lot of times
guys get a lot of money.
You're usually paying for past production, not future production.
But in this case, he got that big paycheck.
Well, it's because he got that back in the room.
He got that workout in right after he signed the deal.
That one workout probably made all the difference to get him to sacri.
Propelled him.
Big Ben also in this game, he took over second place alone
for game winning drives.
So 57th game winning drive.
He passed. Wait, but even in breeze.
Tom Brady is still number one.
He had two game winning drives in this game, though.
We should count two separate drives.
He had two two drives with the game really on the line.
Yep. And he was able to pull it off.
This looked like it also might tie at the end.
It was fun, though, because he was throwing a couple of balls that were like
there'd be ducks, but then he'd reach back and he'd laser one for like five yards.
He tried to run the hurry up offense at one point.
And then his whole team looked at Ben.
Don't. No, don't do this, Ben.
Please. We need we need your all your energy.
Yeah. So Steelers are in Ravens.
We've talked about it, but like they went from eight and three to eight and nine.
They went from a team that looked like was going to be contending in the AFC
to falling apart, missing the playoffs injuries.
Just like I think you could honestly, if you're a Ravens fan, be like,
that was just the year from hell.
There's nothing we can do about it.
I think I want to go ahead and say I would.
I might have gotten a little bit too excited about Tyler Huntley.
But I'm going to back you up as a friend and say
I also did. And that's just how we react.
He did look good for like a week and a half.
No, he looked great. He looked really in losses.
That was I think that might have been the key is that we kept on being like,
this guy is awesome.
Well, they lost.
He lost the Packers.
They lost the but he was awesome.
He was the ultimate case of like seeing seeing a flash out of player.
And he's still probably going to be a really good backup wherever he ends up.
Yeah. But you you see how good he plays.
And then you're like, how come everyone missed on this guy?
Then you go back and you read the scouting reports come out of college
and you start reading the like two guys that got their scouting report correct on him.
Yeah. And you're like, yep.
To see these two guys I've never heard of that just put like PFF
in their Twitter handle, even though they don't work for any company.
Right. These guys, they saw something.
I knew there was something about this.
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OK, let's move on.
We're going to start buzzing through a few of these games.
Titans, Texans, Titans get the one seed.
Crazy season.
The fact that they they had the most resounding loss in week one
when they got absolutely killed by the Cardinals.
They had they lost to the Jets.
They lost to these same Texans.
They had lost Derek Henry, AJ Brown, Julio Jones.
I gave you the stat last week.
They broke the record for most players played on a roster in a season.
They also didn't have a 1000 yard
rusher or 1000 yard receiver, and they have the one seed.
Crazy, crazy.
Brable coach of the year, coach of the year.
I actually do think that he's probably going to end up winning
coach of the year unless he's a bad guy and hub has something to hold against him.
But I think I think he checks out.
He's a very good guy, great coach, even better human being.
Yes. How about that?
Yes, I realized watching this game that Danny Amidola is still in the league.
Yes, he had a little little breakout game.
Dola Dola got two touchdowns, I think, and a two point conversion.
Yeah, because Davis Mills is the future.
He is. And I think David Cully is coming back next year.
Good. He deserves it.
He outperformed expectations, which is maybe saying how low the bar was
for David Cully coming into this year.
Yeah. And you know what?
He learned over the course of the season.
You remember at the start of the year, he was the punt God.
That's all he would do.
He would find new ways to punt.
And I think he kind of like he showed improvement over the course of the season.
And really, what else are you going to do if you're the Texan?
And this is like if you're the Texans, this is you're in year one and a half
of probably a four year tank job.
And it's actually kind of awesome, though, that you might have found your quarterback
because that was like to Sean Watson now becomes a realistic.
Hey, we could trade him and get a ton of picks and re really restart the rebuild.
So Davis Mills, the last four games of season, he was two and two, eight touchdowns,
two interceptions, 68 percent, nine hundred and twenty seven yards.
Not bad.
Like he he looked better and progressed as the season went along.
And it's, you know, the fact that he came out early from Stanford,
it's crazy to think, but if he had stayed at Stanford,
he probably would have been a top five pick.
So there you go.
Just tell yourself that.
I know that's not how it works, but just tell yourself he's a top five pick.
And that's your franchise.
Yeah.
So we should also say something nice about Taylor Luan,
because remember after that first week when he gave up five sacks,
he put out in one game.
Yeah, I think it was one game.
Fuck. Yeah.
And he put out that statement.
He basically took out a full page ad being like, hey, I'm sorry, I sucked.
I'm going to work harder.
I'm going to improve, but I deserve everybody telling me how much I blow.
He should be entitled to take out a full page ad in whatever newspaper that he wants
and just say, suck my dick.
Yeah, Taylor Luan.
Yeah, because they're I mean, they were able to run the ball without Derek Henry
and Derek Henry might be back.
It's yeah, it's wild that they're the one seat and it's wild.
They they don't have to play the chiefs until potentially they have C championship game.
So I don't know what like the best matchup for them would be.
But fuck it, they got to they got to win two games to get to the Super Bowl.
And they're the only team with like the buy becomes so much more significant now.
I I I want to do like a deeper dive into seeing what the makeup
of most of these coaching staffs that are still in right now look like.
But I'm pretty sure that Ravel's defensive coaching staff, if he includes himself,
are are the most aggressive human beings.
Yes, because he's got Jim Haslett.
Yep. And he's got Jim Schwartz,
coaching defense, fight people, he just wants to kick everyone's ass.
He probably has the largest coaching staff.
I'm talking like mass, mass wise.
I think there's something to be said to just being like,
listen, at the end of the day, if it ever gets down to like, hey,
you want to take a step outside, we got this.
Yeah, we'll step outside.
That's a tiebreaker.
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaking of another coach, so that was that was Titans Texans.
Again, we're going to whip through some of these because some of them just don't matter.
Lions Packers didn't matter, except for the fact that I do think the Packers are
now officially limping into the playoffs after losing to the Lions
and shout out Farmingdale's own Tom Kennedy, who we met.
He threw the 75 yard touchdown pass.
He's a wide receiver for the Lions.
He threw a 75 yard touchdown pass on a trick play.
And we know him because we met him at Stu Finder's house
and we watched Frank, the tank, a topless Frank, the tank, standing in
Stu Finder's pool, make fun of Tom Kennedy and the Lions so much
so that Tom Kennedy left the party.
He eviscerated the Lions.
Yeah. And so we don't know he left because of Frank.
I mean, I will say that.
Exactly. Frank.
I don't want to.
Frank ran him off.
Sounded like he had a pissy fit and ran out.
No, no, no, he didn't.
There was no pissy fit because he just got mentally demolished by Frank, the tank.
So he sits down at the pool next to us and Stu's like, oh,
this guy's in training camp for the Lions right now.
And Frank goes, the cowardly Lions.
Are they even a real NFL team?
All they do is lose on Thanksgiving.
He emptied the clip.
And I don't think Tom Kennedy left because it was a pissy fit.
I think I think Tom Kennedy left because he was like,
I don't think this guy has any limits, the amount of jokes
he has written about the Lions.
And I mean, Frank could go on for a day.
He was right.
Roasting the lines.
Yeah. Well, I don't want to I don't want to be subjected to this.
I think I think it's safe to say that these Lions
are the best three 13 and one team of all time.
Fact, fact.
I mean, they were fighting till the bitter end.
Also, Jordan loves socks.
That's awesome.
Yeah, he does.
He's socks. Well, I mean, was this loss on Jordan Lover?
Was it Aaron Rodgers?
Because Rodgers played, you know what?
This might be Aaron Rodgers last regular season game as a packer.
Yeah. No one's talking about that.
Also, it might have been selfish of him to be in the game
because he could have gotten hurt.
Yeah. Why were they playing their starters?
I think they I think Aaron Rodgers just wanted to like get more stats.
He just want to be on TV again.
Yeah. So selfish reasons, I'm sure.
Mm hmm.
You probably want to get his per diem meal.
Yep. Some some bullshit like that.
You got to play.
I do think that the Packers have a serious issue, though.
And that's Crosby and Bajorquez.
No, it's Holder. No, they're fine.
They they need to like duct tape themselves to each other.
They need to walk around holding each other's hands.
They need to stay in the other person's house.
They need to be by each other's side
because I think I think they just don't like each other.
They're totally fine.
It's going to be it's going to be fine.
It won't bite them in the eye.
I would be very worried if I was a package fan.
Well, last thing from this game, Amon Ross, St.
Brown, our last update because we've been updating every week.
His last six games, he had 51 catches,
five hundred sixty yards and six touchdowns.
That's a full season.
His last six games.
He's a fucking stud.
Dan Campbell said earlier this week they're in the Arctic Ocean now,
but they're heading for the Caribbean. Beautiful.
So if I'm if I'm tracking his progress,
I I think the Lions are somewhere off the coast of Newfoundland.
Yeah, they're making their way south.
They're getting there. It's slowly still very cold.
Also, I saw Jerry Goff say to Devonte Adams
after go in the whole thing. So noted.
OK, noted.
Put that in my tickler file.
So noted. So if the Packers win the whole thing,
it's because of their pump up speech from Jerry Goff.
Who is playing as well as almost any quarterback in the NFL right now?
Yeah, he maybe gets a vote.
Maybe Habarkish votes for him for MVP.
He did. He was the last.
He was the last person to beat Aaron Rodgers.
Yeah, you want to be the man, you got to beat the man.
Right. He did that in the regular season.
And the Lions finished the year, most importantly,
credit to Hank Lockwood for texting this to a group thread.
Eleven and six against the spread. Wow.
Spread gods.
That's incredible.
And an outright win for your dog, Parley.
I actually I think that these Lions are probably the best
awful team that I've ever seen.
I was surprised you guys didn't give me like a couple minutes to,
you know, accept and speech for being the best gambler on the show
when you're talking about it.
But if I did have an exception, well, PFC was trying to lose.
Yeah, I mean, I did a really good job.
No, I mean, no.
If I did have an exception speech, I would dedicate the Lions.
Oh, OK. Nice. Thank you, Lions.
Much of the reason why I was the number one gambler on this podcast
is because of you and Dan Campbell.
I do like I like the truthers that are suggesting that I threw it at the end
just to make Hank happy like we do that Mount Rushmore.
Yeah, I mean, you were very clear with what you were doing.
I was very blatant with my reasons.
In the reverse as the worst gambler on the podcast,
I'd like to dedicate my losing season to the Jets.
I don't usually give the last.
Yeah, we don't usually give that a speech.
If you're an award show, you know, just throw it out.
Billy, did you end up going five hundred on the year?
No, no, I was close.
Very close. But that's not if the charge is covered.
It would have been thirty six, thirty six and one, but he's thirty five, thirty seven.
I mean, that's pretty impressive for Billy
when we all treat him like a sack of shit when he was predicting like, OK,
I'm trying to win this game and lose this game.
If it actually worked out where he was exactly five hundred on the year.
Well, no, but there were some weeks where he was trying to win them all.
That's switch to strategy.
Midway through. Yeah.
OK, so that that's Lions Packers.
We'll see the Packers in in the play in the playoffs in the visual round.
Next up, we got Washington football team giants.
I just want to have a special shout out to Joe Judge.
I don't think I've ever seen someone
be told that they're going to get to keep their job
and done everything in their power to try to have them reverse that decision.
I looked it up.
Joe Judge was told that he was going to keep his job on December 26th.
Little little late Christmas gift.
The last after that moment, he lost a combined 85 to 20 in the three games.
He had a game where he had minus six passing yards.
He had a story where he said that ex players were calling him
and saying how bad they wish they were still playing for him,
even though they were making more money.
And then he had two plays today where he did a QB sneak
from the three yard line in the four yard line
on second and 10 and third and nine,
because he was too scared about getting the Bears
getting a safety against him last week.
That's what he said in the game afterwards in the post game.
Well, he called two quarterback sinks back to back
because you might see the first one coming,
but you usually wouldn't see the second one coming.
No, no, but he literally said it was because of last week.
And it got I think it got one yard each time.
Yeah, they definitely saw it coming both times.
Now, you could you conveniently left out the fact that I didn't see
any players from the Giants on the sidelines holding golf clubs,
getting ready to go on vacation.
But they played they ran those quarterback sneaks
with a high level of commitment and violence on the offensive line.
They played their hearts out.
But could you on those two quarterback sneaks like that?
Could you imagine like that?
I think you're not hearing what I'm saying about the post game press conference.
He said that we got they got we got we gave up a safety last week
and we were scared we were going to give up another one.
How crazy is that?
No, he's insane.
That's crazy. There's really there's no good explanation
for running a quarterback sneak on third and nine from like your own two yard line.
Because one time we gave up a safety.
You're crazy. You're a crazy person for doing that.
And this is again, I'm going to go back to the clown comment earlier this week.
He said, we're not a clown franchise.
We don't have our players fighting each other's.
If you're if you're denying that you're a clown,
chances are, yes, about 100 percent that you're a clown.
You are a clown.
You never want to be in a position where you're like, hey, just for the record,
I know you might think I'm a clown, but I'm actually not.
Yes. And he also kind of did like an aha, because he said
we were trying not to get a safety and we stopped them the next time
after we punted it.
So like eggs on your guy's face.
That was actually a tactical advantage for us.
We gained 11 yards of field position.
Incredible, incredible.
I just want to shout out, Joe, judge.
I like he literally went from Joe, judge, you're coming back and everyone's
like, no, why is he coming back to saying?
Fuck it, let me see if I can lose this job for real.
There's a there's a possibility, though, that Gettelman has convinced the
Marys that he he's going to lie to Joe, judge and say that he's coming back,
but then fire him.
I still think he might be fired.
Joe, judge. Yeah. I mean, they should.
I think that there's no excuse to keeping them.
There really is not a reason to do it.
I can't think of a more depressing place to be on planet Earth.
Then one PM at the Meadowlands, it was like 35 degrees outside
to watch the Washington football team play against the New York Giants.
There's there's no good excuse unless you work at the game or have a relative,
a blood relative on the field.
There's no reason to put yourself through that.
Tickets were going for seven dollars.
That's way too expensive.
Yeah, it was it was it was a brutal one.
So, Joe, Joe, Joe, shout out, you man, because here it is.
Here's the replay second 11.
Right up the middle and be sneak.
The crazy thing is they saw this the second QB sneak coming.
Yes, the defense lined up to stop a callback sneak.
Yes, yes, crazy.
It's insanity.
Shout out to the Washington football team.
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Boom. That's a dynasty right there.
That's something about consistency.
First, you got to you got to learn how not to lose seven games
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We did. Well, one more one more loss.
Yeah, but no, we don't have to talk about the fact there's an extra game.
We got the same amount of seven wins.
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Browns Bengals, this game happened.
Yep. OK, sucked.
Yeah, Browns, good job.
You got eight wins.
Bears Vikings, this game also happened.
I just had two quotes.
Mike, it was the coaches getting fired bull.
Mike Zimmer afterwards was asked about his job and he responded to the reporter.
I haven't heard about yours either.
Yeah, so that's a yes. I'm fired.
I know that I'm fired.
Did anybody ask about killing Monville?
Jake. No comment.
OK.
I had, by the way, I was in Michigan this week and I had like 10 people come off
and be like, wow, Jake, screwed up this week.
I love it.
And then Matt Nagy, it's weird whenever you get to the end of a coach that you've
hated so much because there's a little part of you that's like, oh,
that feel kind of bad, but I don't.
And you're almost like we just been waiting for the moment that I don't.
I won't even really react on Monday because he's fired.
You've been fired for a while.
You guys have been in a loveless marriage and you've been waiting for your kids
to go to go off to college and now it finally happened.
And I think it's just going to be best for all parties involved if you keep it
friendly. Right. It's like I've cried all my tears.
Yeah, I can't. I can't.
I don't have any emotion left.
He did say to his team, let this stuff refine you, not to find you.
I kind of like that.
That Nagy with quirky, cool sayings right to the bitter end.
You know what, though? I think Matt Nagy,
I think he gets most of his motivational quotes from just like random shit posters
that he sees at Target seem like something that you would get with your
first apartment when you like the live laugh love collection by Matt Nagy.
He gets them from from the calendar, the appeal every day.
I don't think he feels one off.
It's not the calendar.
Just like shit that's on a wall in in the most unoriginal person's house.
He takes he got to find inspiration somewhere, I guess.
Well, that's being himself.
He's being you. He's being he needs to be him.
Yeah. Not be you.
Right. Or maybe maybe his you is just not good enough.
Yeah, no, it's not.
So someone else see a Matt Nagy.
I it was I was there was at one point he was a good coach.
And then the double joint broke his brain.
You know what? I mean, he was a he was a good coach with Mitch Trebisky.
He won NFL coach the year.
Yeah. Remember that.
Mitch Trebisky and Matt Nagy had something going.
Remember that because that will be a great trivia question.
Two thousand eighteen, who won NFL coach the year?
Matt Nagy will stump you.
I was looking at Kirk stats this year because cousins is, you know,
he's he's the stack God.
He was he was one of the top five quarterbacks in most things
that you would keep track of besides wins and losses.
Things you collect things, things that you would look at and be like,
oh, those numbers look big. Right.
Kirk cousins is without a doubt like a top 10, maybe top five guy
in some of those categories.
I think I figured out his problem, though, because they they lost a lot
of the games where he played well, statistically, well,
I think he's just too good.
And I think that he scores too fast sometimes and then puts his defense
in a position to Kirk's Kirk needs to get a little bit worse
at playing if he wants to be truly good.
OK, so I'm just I'm just saying like you could make the argument
that the season that he had this year is statistically better
than the season that Brett Favre had when he was lights out in Minnesota.
Got it. So it's it's got to be somebody else's fault.
But Kirk's he's got to be a little bit worse.
He's got to be a little bit worse.
So you don't put your defense in a position to be much worse.
Yeah.
Mike Simmer's gone. Yeah, he's gone. He's gone.
I don't think he wants he he'll probably fire himself if they don't do it.
Yeah, it feels like that.
He I think they caught him taking a picture with the defensive coordinator
on the sideline and someone was like, why would you do that?
He's like, oh, we've never taken a picture together.
It's like like what?
I mean, it's like it's like to strike you as a guy that does it for the gram.
It's like going through like your grandmother's
like, you know, heirlooms and stuff like, what are you doing?
Oh, no, no, no, she's she's just moving to an apartment
where they have a nurse 24 seven. Right.
It's not a big deal.
He he's definitely aged a lot while he's been in Minnesota.
How long has been there five years, six years?
Way longer than that, I feel like it's it feels like longer.
He is I would have guessed he aged eight.
He aged worse than presidents do.
Yeah, start in 2014.
So seven years, seven years.
This is the eighth.
I don't know how you count the years are always tough
when you like do the seasons in this playoff playoffs.
Yeah, like you consider this the twenty twenty two playoff like shout out baseball.
The one thing they got right is to do the whole fucking thing.
The end of his eighth season. OK. All right.
They completed eight years.
Yes. They should really 16, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21.
They should. There we go.
They should rearrange the entire calendar around football.
So like the new year should start in September.
Yeah, first year should be Super Bowl.
Yeah, next day.
I like how you how you kind of like patronize me a little bit there.
No, I was looking for myself.
No, I know, I know you guys swag back. I like it.
Also, you need to just swag back.
It's good that it came into Mike Zimmer fact.
Full circle. Exactly.
No, no, you saw me.
Kind of like I was doing for myself, you know, on account years.
No, I like it. I liked it.
OK, I want you to swag back.
All right.
The Bears social media also tweeted twenty minutes ago.
Ten minutes to kick off.
I guess they scheduled for 1250 a.m. and not P.M. Oh, that's great.
So I've been there. They're getting ratioed right now.
Shits. That's awesome.
OK, 49ers Rams, an actually good game, a great game.
We had in this game, the Kyle Shanahan's biggest comeback
as 49ers head coach and Sean McVeigh's largest league blown
as Rams head coach.
So it was a wild game and it all kind of spun out of control for the Rams
when Sean McVeigh jumped into the end zone and celebrated with his team
because he thought they were going to kick the shit out of the 49ers
and the 49ers like credit to them.
They just kept running the ball.
I think there was that was that drive.
They ran like 11 times in a row.
So I think it was like 10, 10 times in a row.
And then they didn't even let Jimmy G.
pass on their next next passing down.
They let Debo say that was. Yeah, OK.
That's what so they got outscored 27 to seven after Sean McVeigh.
Yes, celebrating the end zone, probably should have gotten flagged
if we're being honest for excessive celebration.
Absolutely. The ref kind of rigged.
Yeah, if I'll rigged.
And then Sean McVeigh made contact with the official NFL rigged.
NFL rigged. They were they were trying to get, you know what?
They want the Rams to play in the Super Bowl
because it's in their home stadium.
Yeah, which Mr.
Cronkey built using his own hard earned money.
That's a fact. They didn't pay taxes. Yes. Yes.
Niners, though, like that was they needed it
because the Saints won, so they needed to win to get in.
They found a way incredible game.
I'm very nervous about the Niners
because of my Cowboys future, like the Niners are going to be a tough out.
It's pretty much if you're playing the Niners,
you know, you're going to get the shit kicked out of you
in terms of they're going to run the ball down your throats
and they play physical on the defensive line.
It's just a question of can you just wait till Jimmy G. Fox up?
Or Jimmy G. is actually a quarterback
that he likes to start out really shitty.
Yeah. And then he likes to almost lose his job.
And that's what really motivates him.
He's like, you know, he'll go out there and fuck around a little bit.
But then when he's about to get benched is when Jimmy G.
Is like, OK, I better figure it out.
And he started to play pretty like he he improved over the course of this game.
He was looking like a competent quarterback, whereas in the first half
he looked just fucking awful.
I just can't visualize the Cowboys.
Like close your eyes, visualize the Niners
have run the ball for 200 yards.
They've just had a drive where they ran the ball.
They took an entire quarter.
They ran like 17 plays, 15 of them runs.
And Mike McCarthy is drooling a little bit down his down his face.
And he's like, I don't know what to do.
I'm a little fucked up when it comes to envisioning this game,
because I think with the uniform combination.
Class. It's such a classic combo.
I can't see one team just getting manhandled.
Yeah, I feel like it's going to be a good game.
Also, I like the Cowboys defense a lot.
I don't think that they can get pushed around like the Rams can.
Yeah, but I feel like the Niners just do it to everyone.
I mean, the fact that the Niners were down 17
and obviously they got that field goal before half time.
But you know, it's rare you see a team that's down 17 or down 14 at the time
being like, no, we're going to keep running the ball
and running the ball and running the ball.
And it doesn't matter.
And they can they didn't change who they were.
They can do it.
They can I think they can run the ball
and anybody with any running back.
That part doesn't really matter.
They didn't have Trent Williams today either.
And they were still able to like impose their will.
Getting him back is going to be big.
We talked about this week one or week two
when we said that we should give an award this year
for the X factor of the year.
Yep. Remember that when we were talking about
Quarterelle Patterson.
Yep. I feel like it's a two person race.
Right. It's it's Quarterelle himself and then Debo.
Debo.
So you got we maybe we can give two awards.
One where it's like Debo wins the award for wide
everyone participation trophy wide receiver running back
and quarterback combo.
And Quarterelle wins it for running back wide receiver
kick return. Debo Samuel wins the guy I like to watch
play football the most or he wins the award for guy
that can bail you the fuck out. Yes. Yes.
I'm just happy to that.
MVP Greg Kittles in the playoffs.
So happy for him.
Also Cooper Cup won the Triple Crown, which is fucking crazy.
Deserves to be noted.
He had led the league in receptions with 138 led the league
in yards with 1,829 led the league in touchdowns with 15.
So he should be off as a player of the year.
I mean, that that's insane to get the Triple Crown
and he was so good.
And it just he's scary.
But you know, it was really scary as Matt Stafford
because that's have fun Rams fans.
I you are just constantly being like,
he's going to give up the big one like he is.
We have three interceptions today.
I think he had two, but and he had 40 touchdowns this year
and he had a really, really good year.
I think I saw a stat where he's like only the second or third guy
who had. Oh, no, he was the fifth guy all time,
who's had 40 40 touchdown seasons in multiple seasons.
But he he will always just give one up.
He's also the definition of he's a guy that's constantly
banged up this year.
Yep. But he's just you know what I mean?
Like that feeling of, well, this is like there'll be a moment
and he will make sure that he throws an interception in that
moment, that critical moment and then your season's over.
I'm also concerned about the Rams because they just can't run the ball.
Yeah. So if we're doing the Julian Edelman thing.
Yep. Special teams, probably OK.
Defense, not so much.
Sometimes, sometimes they can be good at defense.
Yeah. Donald is a great player.
Yes. That's what Jalen Ramsey, Vaughan Miller, very good player.
Leonard Floyd. They got to let, you know what?
They got to name everyone.
They got a lot of good players, big cap, but do they have a great team?
Nope. Probably not.
Probably not. And if you pause the game,
like four minutes to go in the second quarter,
you'd be like the Rams look like the Super Bowl champions.
Well, fortunately, they play four quarters.
The good news for them is they're playing against the Arizona Frognals.
Yes, let's go to them.
Oh, look, they split the series this year.
The Cardinals and the Rams. Right.
They're matching up again on Monday Night Football.
The Cardinals lost to the Seahawks 38-30.
Do you want to talk about that game?
Well, I was just going to say, like, it's my bad.
My bad look, big yikes guy of the week goes to Rams fans at home
because that was a 49ers home game. It was. It was.
And I don't know if Cardinals fans travel to L.A.
Cortez will be there. Cortez will be on the road.
Whose line is it anyway?
Oh, I'm going to say pick them.
I'm going to say Rams.
I'm going to go with the same as the Patriots line minus four.
I would say Rams minus two.
But the actual line is Rams minus four and a half.
Oh, wow. OK.
I might fuck around and take the Cardinals.
Cardinals plus four and a half.
Oh, Cardinals defense.
I mean, they got torched by the Seahawks.
Yeah, Kyler, the Kyler just goes from looking incredible
one second to what's going on here the next.
Yes, the cards in the Rams are kind of two sides of the same coin
because they've both regressed.
So it's like which team has regressed their regression the most?
Well, yeah, which team started highest
and then where did their regression lead them?
Yeah, I feel like the Cardinals regress.
They're the regressed Kings of the NFL.
Well, they regressed the most,
but they also started higher than the Rams.
Are you talking about like week one?
Are you talking expectations going into this week?
I'm talking about the week one, like the first.
From their high.
From their high, the Cardinals were the highest
and they regressed the most, but they might have their regression
might leave them a little higher than the Rams.
Right. The Rams were never super, super high.
They won that one game.
They won the week three Super Bowl against the Bucks.
Yeah, against the Bucks.
So that was when they were the highest.
And I would say that they've they've regressed quite a bit,
but their regression has regressed.
They've looked more impressive and impressive
in some of their losses recently
than the Cardinals have in their loss.
Right.
Oh, the Cardinals did beat the Cowboys.
But yes, who knows with this game?
I think take the point.
I think take the points.
Yeah, we'll discuss all the playoff games.
This is the last time we see Russ in a Seahawks jersey.
I saw the quote.
Says he hopes to be back with the Seahawks.
Depending on what Sierra says, I just want to remind Russ
that you get to decide that you are the franchise quarterback.
It's your decision.
Yeah. 100 percent.
If you want to be back with the Seahawks, you.
So when you say the Seahawks should actually go to them
and be like print out the the ESPN bottom line where it says
Russell Wilson says he hopes to be back with the Seahawks.
So just put it on his desk and be like, OK, great.
So you're back. You're under contract.
You're back. Yeah. It's great.
So you hope to be back.
So you're back.
I now think that both Pete Carroll and Russ Wilson will come back next year.
Why not? I think they're going to.
I think they're going to run it back.
They can. It can do like they can do the mental gymnastics of like,
we just Russ was heart for a month and a half.
You can do that.
And you can also say like getting a quarterback as good as Russell Wilson
is very tough to do in this league.
I would say it's very tough getting a coach like Pete Carroll
is tough to do in this league.
Why don't we just try to give another shot?
The crazy part is they probably won't make any actual material changes.
To the rest of their team.
But they're just going to be like, all right,
Pete Carroll and Russ Wilson coming back next year.
Right. Good combination.
We feel excited about our direction.
Yes. They I'm looking at it right now.
Their season.
They went one in six in the Russ Wilson injury weeks.
And I'm including I'm including when he came back and was still injured.
So I don't know.
They went one in six.
And then in the other weeks, when he was healthy, they went six and four.
So didn't we call the decent team?
Didn't we also call this game like right when the Seahawks were,
you know, by the eyeball test eliminated, I think we said
the Seahawks are going to spoil some team in week seven or week 18.
And they did spoil because the Cardinals went from having a home game
to a road game with the Rams losing as well.
Yeah. And good news if you're a Cardinals fan, because Cliff Kingsbury was asked
or you concerned about the lack of urgency that your team has had recently.
He said, well, next week we're in the playoffs.
So I think we're going to see a higher degree of urgency.
Beautiful. So there you go.
And JJ Watts back.
JJ Watts is going to try to come back.
No, he's back.
Officially. Oh, yes.
Per JJ Watts. Per J.J.
Per Ian Rappport. Per JJ Watts.
He's back. I'm sure he'll be at 100 percent.
He will be back.
Bill's Jets. Anything.
Josh Allen is really, really good.
Yeah. It feels like the Bills are quietly.
Like we're getting their groove back a little bit.
Well, just I was looking at the bracket
and I don't know, like they they could beat the Chiefs, right?
I'm telling you, didn't they beat the Chiefs this year?
Yeah, I'm telling they play the Chiefs.
No, yeah, they. Oh, OK.
Sorry. You went. OK.
Yeah, you're right. I'm just out.
They beat him in Sunday night.
Yeah, they could beat anyone.
That's all I said is they could.
I think that the bill is I think the five thirty eight twenty.
The Chiefs, the Bills beat the Chiefs.
Yep. In Kansas City.
Mm hmm. I think the I think the Bills have quietly put together
like they put themselves back together to being one of those teams
that's contending in the AFC. You know, I think for sure.
I think the playoffs.
I think the Bills went from being the team that everyone.
Everyone in the playoffs is contending.
Now they're the team that nobody's talking about.
Yeah, right. We've forgotten about the bill.
That's my point.
Is everyone contending in the AFC?
Yeah, everyone, everyone that's still alive.
Steelers are contending to win the. Yeah, Big Ben.
You think the Raiders are contending?
Are they still in the playoffs?
They are. Then yes.
The Patriots. Yes.
Do you think it's soupy?
What are your expectations?
I'm thinking Saturday night, beat the Bills.
Worry about, you know, worry about the game out there.
One game at a time. Yeah.
It's going to be exciting. Anyone can win.
It is good point.
Thank you, Jake.
Exactly.
Thank you, Jake.
You want to talk about the Bills, Dolphins?
I mean, the Patriots, Dolphins?
I got a couple of things to say about the Bills, though.
Has it always been the camera angle all fucked up
in Orchard Park?
Yeah, I don't know.
Maybe it's too windy.
No, it's like 20 feet lower than any other camera angle.
Yeah, they do have a low camera.
A very low camera angle there.
And the other note that I had in this game was
how does Josh Allen not have a nickname yet?
Looks good in shorts.
He does look good in shorts.
We need a nickname for Josh Allen.
I think his name is fun to just say.
Josh Allen.
And it's quick.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Josh Allen.
Yeah, I was coming up empty
when I was trying to think of nicknames.
You can't force it.
But when I saw him make that one throw
where he was, you know, matrix style,
parallel to the ground,
he just basically willed the ball into the end zone,
I was like, that's a magic man right there.
Yeah, but how many quarterbacks
actually have nicknames at this day and age?
Not that many.
Not that many.
Like, and...
We'll let it come to us.
Yeah, I don't think you can do Magic Man.
The Magic Man.
That was...
What's his name?
Fucking former Packers quarterback.
Right before Farf.
Blake Portals.
Yeah.
Yeah, Blake is the Magic Man.
Yeah, Blake Portals is who I was thinking of.
The boat.
Yeah, like, that one comes naturally.
He's the boat.
Yeah.
But, like, Lamar doesn't...
Don Magikowski?
Yeah, yeah.
Right before Farf.
How about Super Bowl Champion Josh Allen?
The Packers just...
Whatever.
Yeah, Super Bowl Champion Josh Allen.
Although Hank, would you say that you're not allowed
at the Super Bowl, like, festivities if the Bills win?
Or, you know, we're not going to go to Buffalo,
but the festivities of, like, being happy for Josh Allen?
Yeah, that's fair.
I think you've excluded yourself at this point.
I'm fine with that.
Yeah, I think that's fair, right?
Yeah.
Billy, where do you stand as a Jetsuper fan?
If we didn't play in the playoffs, it'd be a little bit different,
but, you know, when you got to take out...
I have nothing again.
Again, I'll say it again.
Nothing against the Bills, nothing against Bills fans,
but you're on our way and you're going to get run over.
That's just how it goes.
It doesn't matter what team it was.
If Josh wins the Super Bowl and then he comes in
and he does his, you know, he probably goes on Fallon
and then he comes here,
I would expect you to be pouting the entire time.
Meh.
Come on.
Meh.
I think you got to.
In a wild card game.
Can you give us that?
No.
Half a pout?
We'll see.
You're pouting right now.
I'm not...
Just extend.
You, PFT, tell me what my emotions are.
Stop pouting.
Mansplaining my emotions back to me.
I'm not pouting.
Listen, I'm not going to talk about the Super Bowl.
I'm not going to talk about the divisional round.
I'm not going to talk about the championship round.
Wild card round.
That's all the focus is.
One game at a time.
How excited are you that it's Saturday night?
Very excited.
That's awesome.
Yeah.
People forget about it.
Yep.
That's actually a very nice bonus.
I don't have time to sleep on it, get my takes ready.
Yes.
It's good.
It's good stuff.
You never want to be...
Although we played the Colts on Saturday night, that sucked.
You also played...
Didn't you play the Titans on Saturday night?
When Mike Vareble figured out how to, like, delete three minutes of time from the Colts?
Yeah, so maybe not.
Yeah, but you never want to be the last game on Sunday night.
No.
And now, obviously, it's different with the Monday night football.
But the last game on Sunday is usually the leading game in terms of what people are talking about.
For sure.
Billy, where do you stand on Zach Wilson and your Jets?
The offseason will bring many truths.
And Zach Wilson has gone five weeks in a row without throwing an interception.
He also just absolutely loves to drift 30 yards directly backfield and then throw the ball
out about it.
Yeah, he's called extending the play.
Did he have, like, 90 yards today?
Look, he was balling.
He's got no one on the beat.
No interceptions.
No interceptions is no interceptions.
There's one of those weeks, Mike White?
No.
Remember Mike White?
That was legendary.
That was so much fun.
That little stretch.
That was weird.
That was a fun Mike White stretch.
It was weird.
Mike White played good for, like, a half.
Then Joe Flacco's name got thrown around a little bit.
Seven for 20 for 87 yards.
But no interceptions.
He was balling.
He was balling.
He was.
He had, like, no, like, all-supporting cast.
What happened?
Everyone was hurt.
Got it.
I mean, yeah.
I still, I don't think you can judge any rookie quarterback.
Like, you got to give him your two.
Your two, if he progresses, that will tell you everything.
Exactly.
Putting Justin Fields in that camp.
Putting Zach Wilson.
Putting Trevor Lawrence.
Look what happened to Joe in this offseason.
He didn't throw a pick six today.
Yeah.
Tua was on fire.
Tua.
So let's talk about that game.
I have one thing that'll make you happy.
Yeah.
That was the last game on Sunday, 2009.
That was the Roger Stripsack game against the Cardinals.
Oh, yes.
That was awesome.
51 to 45.
That was an awesome game.
And it ended the weekend.
Wow.
Yeah.
2018 was the double-dink.
That was Saturday?
No, that was Sunday.
The last game of the weekend.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Dolphins Patriots.
The Dolphins finish.
The craziest stat of all time.
They go 9-0 against teams.
With starting quarterbacks with an O in their last name
and an O and 8 against teams with a starting quarterback
without an O in their last name.
It makes no sense.
I wish we had gotten this NFL rig to beforehand
so we could have bet accordingly.
The symbolism will be their downfall.
They did it.
Expect us.
Tua and on.
So they also finally beat a good team.
Yes.
Well, they did beat them week one.
They beat them week one.
What's up with Brian Flores being the only coach
that can beat Bill Belichick consistently?
Yeah, they kind of have your number right now.
Just any Dolphins coach.
Yeah, but he, in particular, what is he, four and two?
He did coach there.
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
Season sweep.
Jalen Waddle had the rookie record for receptions.
Any other thoughts from this game, Hank?
No, we're on a buffalo.
Regular season's over.
The real season begins.
Did that reporter lady ask for this year's resolution?
No one...
Tell you this much.
No one is like...
No one's thinking the Pats are going to win this game
based off the game against the Dolphins,
which I like to be in that spot.
Right.
Shame they lost the Titans.
Obviously, the whole game plan would have changed.
They lost the Jags.
That's the shame.
Yeah, none of the London game.
Yeah.
The Dolphins yet again are the team
that everyone's going to talk about next year being like,
look how they finish the season.
Right.
Get to some protection.
And I don't know if you...
Look out.
Yeah.
I don't really know if you answered a lot of the questions.
Brian Flores came in here.
No, I mean, at the midway point this season was a disaster.
They had all those picks last year and...
Yeah.
Jalen Waddle is awesome.
Yeah.
He is awesome.
He's fun.
So he broke Anquan Bolden's record for...
I feel like every rookie wide receiver is just breaking every record.
Yeah.
Jamar Chase.
I guess that's just what the NFL is now.
Yeah.
But I always thought that that Anquan Bolden record would be...
And I guess it did stand for a really long time.
Yeah.
But that was like an incredible season that he had.
Yep.
Especially considering how slow he was coming out of the draft.
But yeah, Waddle also has the coolest new touchdown celebration.
By far.
More people should be doing the Waddle and fewer people should be doing the Gritty.
Because you can get injured doing the Gritty.
Yeah.
Adam Schefter.
Adam Schefter.
All-time move getting injured doing that.
Wait.
Did he not?
He did break the record, right?
I'm looking right now.
It says he's got 99.
Maybe he didn't.
Maybe I have my facts wrong.
Can you look that up for me, Jake?
That would be embarrassing.
Saints Falcons.
Do you think your breeze is a little bit happy?
Oh, of course.
Of course he's happy.
He finally gets to be like, hey, you remember how bad I sucked with my fucked up shoulder
and 19 broken ribs?
I'm still better.
Yeah.
I'm still better.
Turns out Taysum Hill, maybe, and Taysum Hill has been playing better recently, but maybe
having a quarterback whose job it is to run into the most violent members of the defense
repeatedly during a game isn't really the best possible game plan for his longevity.
Yes.
I'd agree.
So, yeah.
Oh, he did.
He did.
He broke the record.
102 receptions.
I looked it up.
They made, last time the Saints missed the playoffs was 2016.
They made it eight out of the last 12 years that your breeze was there.
He's got to be so pumped.
I mean, the real question is, do the Saints get the one seed overall if James Winston doesn't
get injured?
Yes.
I think they definitely do.
Man, I hope James gets the job.
I really do.
I mean, who else could you possibly bring in to be better than James?
I might draft someone.
I don't know.
Yeah.
Give James another shot at it.
Yes.
Because they were a really good team at the start of the year.
Yeah.
And they, I, until the end, they were the team, I think if you had to list the teams that
didn't make the playoffs that teams wouldn't want to see in the playoffs, the Saints would
be the top of the list.
I kept looking up this year and somehow the Saints were still in the playoff picture.
I kept, for the last like six weeks, I just constantly expected that they would be completely
out of the equation for making the playoffs and they almost did it.
I think they needed Kyle Shanahan's greatest comeback and Sean McVeigh's greatest lead blown
to make the playoffs, to miss out on the playoffs.
So they were that close.
And then the Falcons, I mean, they were the best bad team in the world.
The perfect, they were the dividing line between good and bad.
They were incredible.
The thin blue line of the NFL.
An incredible team in terms of point differential.
I'm pretty sure that they finished like almost dead last in point differential.
And no, wait, I'm sorting it real quick.
I just want to look at this.
The Falcons finished the Falcons finished fifth from last for point differential.
They had seven wins.
Like the teams around them in the point differential won three games or four games.
They've somehow managed to win seven.
Yeah.
Cause they're, they just, they love getting the shit kicked out of them by great teams.
Yep.
All right.
Last game.
I didn't see that Matt Ryan is going to stick around next year.
Okay.
According to Arthur Smith.
There we go.
He said that was part of the deal when I took this job is I want at least two years of Matt
Ryan.
Yep.
I mean, if they get Calvin Ridley back and they draft well, I don't know, they can maybe
make going from being, they could go from being the best worst team to the worst best team.
Well, you could make the argument that a team that has that bad of a point differential that
still manages to win seven games.
They're probably doing a lot of small things wrong or small things right.
Yeah.
Besides scoring points.
Like beating the teams they should be beating every team that you should beat.
And then if you just increase your, if you decrease your points differential by 50 next
year off that, you're probably winning 10, 11 games.
Yep.
Per.
That's simple.
Just score 50 more points.
You got it.
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Bucks Panthers.
Don Brady is 44 years old and he had the most passing yards of his career.
Yup.
43 touchdowns.
Second most touchdowns of his career.
It's insane.
Some of the passes he was throwing today are not like washed passes.
No.
Just incredible passes.
It's crazy.
It is crazy what he's doing.
It's also crazy that the Panthers continue to wear black jerseys because they went 0 and
7 in their black uniforms this year.
Here's a fun stat.
They're 3 and 21 since 2018 wearing their black jerseys.
Wow.
Just stop wearing those jerseys.
Someone's got to stop them.
Stop them.
Yes.
Change at Matt Rule.
Everyone gets a smock.
All right.
I mean, I'm very excited for the playoffs.
We'll obviously talk playoffs all week.
Bob Sagetide.
That sucked.
RIP.
RIP.
That really did suck.
One other thought.
Moment of silence real quick.
Okay.
Okay.
One other thought I had about Tom Brady going into this game was just that this game pretty
much existed for Tom to try to get all of his players paid off their various incentives.
Yes.
There's a quarterback that knows exactly what has to happen and he can go out there and
still win a game and completely dominate another team while completing the exact correct amount
of passes to Rob Gronkowski, Mike Evans, et cetera, et cetera.
Antonio Brown really fucked up.
I actually do think that there's a chance that he thought that the season was over last
week.
Yes.
Yes.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
No.
Gronk got his 7.
He needed 7.
And I think he got his yards.
I think you could tell Tom Brady going into any game like, all right, you're allowed to
complete six.
You have to complete six passes to Mike Evans, seven to Rob Gronkowski, and you have to attempt
over 42 passes today.
But you have to hit those other numbers perfectly on the nose.
I think that Brady could still probably win a majority of his games by double digits doing
those things.
Yes.
It'd probably be fun for him.
Yeah.
A challenge.
Any other playoff things before we go to Football Guy of the Week and Who's Back of the Week?
I'm just, I'm going to read it again one last time.
Week 8 team was awesome.
Week 8 team was awesome.
We'd think about Week 19 next year.
Week 19.
Add another game.
You want to fucking do it?
Let's get crazy with it.
We want to fucking do it.
All right.
Here we go.
Hold on one last time.
The NFC and ASC playoffs are going to be so exciting because anybody can win.
I can't wait until next weekend.
It's beautiful.
Verbal retweet.
It's beautiful.
It's beautiful.
RIP Bob Saget.
RIP Bob Saget.
I feel like I moved on too flippantly from that.
That's okay.
He was a very funny guy.
Yes.
I'm very sad about that.
He's America's dad.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Danny Tanner.
Okay.
Tray Wingo.
Let's go to Football Guy of the Week and wrap up the show.
Billy, Football Guy of the Week.
This is the last Football Guy of the Week.
I think that with the playoffs you'll probably run out of material.
So this will be it.
This is the last Football Guy of the Week.
Did you see, by the way, Nick Saban's cool guy jacket?
Yeah.
I liked it.
Did you like it?
What's he wearing?
Cool leather jacket getting off the plane.
And Nick Saban, he was like an Indiana Jones jacket.
He doesn't really dress up.
But he did give us this quote, which I loved.
Hold on.
I'll play it for everyone here.
Okay.
I think the most important thing is you got to keep the main thing, the main thing.
Yep.
That's it.
You got to keep the main thing, the main thing.
Don't overthink it.
Keep the main thing, the main thing.
The most important thing is to keep the main thing, the main thing.
So I said this privately to you guys, but I feel like I should tell the AWLs this too,
just in case I had a premonition, because I had a dream.
I dreamt about the National Championship game, and it was a very clear, vivid dream.
I never remember my dreams.
The final score was 30 to 21, Alabama.
So I'm going to bet that exact same.
I'm going to bet that kind of the spread at an alternate line at 11.
I feel good about it.
I don't know if I can trust my own brain sometimes, but I feel like when I turn my brain off,
that's when I do my best thinking.
You got to also remember you're on Billy's pills.
I am on Billy's pills.
So that could have affected that.
Yeah, that's another firefest that I've got going on.
Yeah, your sleep could have.
Who knows what's happening?
My body is fucked up.
You're literally under the influence at all times.
Billy has destroyed my body.
My prostate is just out of control right now.
I'm peeing every 20 minutes, and Billy told me that he might have given me cancer from
his pills.
Yeah, I hope not.
That's cool.
Fun little wrinkle one weekend.
Yeah.
What's the worst could happen?
Oh, prostate cancer.
By far one of the worst cancers.
My job was to raise his testosterone, and an enlarged prostate is a sign that your testosterone
is pretty high right now.
Yeah.
That I'm pissing more?
No, because your prostate's got cancer.
My prostate's got gains, too.
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All right.
Football guys of the week.
Congratulations to last week's penultimate 2021 season football guy of the week, Joe
Burrow.
Okay.
He just didn't have his name played football guy playing for the name on the front.
Our first nominee for this week is Robert Quinn, outside linebacker Chicago Bears.
When asked about his courtesy towards the media, Robert Quinn quotes what he says is
a familiar saying.
A man's got two things, his word, and his nuts, and you don't want to lose either.
That's three things, though, unless you're Lance Armstrong.
Correct.
Number two is John Brown, Equinamious, and Amon Ross, St. Brown's father, who was just
sporting his dope half and half jersey, which was actually sick, because the.
Yeah.
It wasn't like a traditional half and half where they were just split down the middle.
He had like the breastplate was lions and the sleeves were packers.
So credit to him for doing something new with an old, like we saw, you know, the first
one I remember was obviously Brady Quinn's sister, who was dating AJ Hawke, right?
They had that right?
Yep.
And she had the half and half Notre Dame Ohio State.
He did something cool with it.
So I think that the way they had it set up was John was wearing one of the jerseys and
then his wife was wearing a different one.
So they took two jerseys and they cut out like the middle part of it and then they swapped
and then they stitched it together.
Very cool.
Very cool.
Wild, too.
Mm hmm.
That he was watching both his sons.
He's a he is like an all time great neighbor of his children.
Yes.
Equinamious and Amon Ross.
Yes.
Our third nominee is Hunter Lupke, Lupka.
Lupke.
Lupke, fullback, North Dakota State.
Basically, he had a wide open path to the end zone on a run and instead of just running
in the wide open path to get to the end zone and score a touchdown, he decided to avert
his like route to the end zone to run someone over to get to the end.
I love that.
That's the old Nelson months for the Simpsons making sure to knock everybody.
This motherfucker, Hunter Lepke, I love him, but I hate him.
He's the majestic beast.
That's what they call him, which is an all time fullback name.
And he he singlehandedly destroyed JMU in the semifinals after we didn't include him
in the low man awards.
That was an oversight on our part in retrospect.
Like yes, he should have been on that list.
But yeah, North Dakota State, they were nobody was beaten up.
He also leg dabbed in the end zone.
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
That's pretty cool flexibility.
Our fourth nominee is Jonathan Smith, the head coach at Oregon State.
So after the season, he just cartoon style dynamite box, like with the lever blew up
his stadium.
Very cool.
Very cool.
They're new.
They got a new stadium coming in Corvallis.
Was it actually him pushing the lever or was it like a fake one that was going to blow
it?
No, I think it was him.
It was straight up.
Like I didn't even know that's how they do it anymore.
It was very cool.
And I think that's one of those things that like they can't even like technology.
It's sometimes nice to know that like technology can't even fix like the Bugs Bunny TNT box.
It's just nice.
You know what I mean?
To know that that that still happens.
And don't anyone ruin it for me if that's not how it works.
And our old school football guy of the week is a story of the Patriots general manager
Pat Sullivan in 1986 got hit in the face by Raiders linebacker Matt Millen with his helmet.
And you know, it's a better visual.
Check it out on the blog.
This general manager just ran on the field to talk shit and got absolutely pummeled by
this Raiders linebacker.
Yeah, Matt Millen continues to be the coolest guy ever.
Yeah, he's just sitting in a way from your front office.
He's sitting in a barn somewhere just chopping wood for no reason in a flannel at all times.
Probably just wrestling a cow.
Yeah.
Thinking about wide receivers he wants to draft.
Okay.
Good job, Billy.
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Let's wrap up.
We've got Who's Back of the Week, Hank?
Who's Back of the Week?
My Who's Back of the Week is Clay Thompson.
Yes.
Overshadowed by Sunday Night Football.
He was overshadowed by Sunday Night Football.
Though they didn't.
I mean, they did a pretty, pretty heavy ceremony.
A lot of people were paying his respects.
Some people, there's some saver metrics that came out about Bitcoin.
I'm trying to pull them up real quick.
Okay.
You can just fill a buster for a second.
Yeah.
Okay.
Who's a better pure shooter?
Clay or Steph?
Mmm.
When you throw the word pure in there, you can literally make up anything that you want
out of that.
Yeah, you can.
I'm going to still go with Steph.
It was crazy because it was Clay's first game in their new arena.
That was kind of a fun fact.
Is it really?
Yeah.
Because they opened it, I think, last year.
He hasn't played for years.
He's been out.
Yeah.
He's been on a little Michael Thomas type.
It's crazy.
It sucks.
I do.
It's crazy.
When we talked about Resilo on Friday, let me know, Hank, whatever you're ready, but
we talked about it with the Resilo on Friday.
Got it.
The best free agent acquisition is the Warriors getting Clay.
Clay Thompson.
He picked them up off waivers.
Impact.
This was just so, yeah, obviously a lot of people were excited.
Clay's coming back.
One of the best pure shooters back in the game.
Yeah.
Maybe the best.
You know, hard injury, tougher replacements.
People understand.
Yeah.
People are just happy for the game.
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It's crazy how time works.
Yeah.
And Bitcoin has gone up.
You could just be like, Bitcoin's gone up.
No, it's just fun.
You know, it's always a fun thing to do.
Who's the former...
It's just shoving it in everyone's face like, ha ha, you could have had all this money.
Who's the former eSports contributor?
Oh, we know what it is.
You know what it is.
Yeah.
To this show?
We got to get them in a fight so we don't say his name.
Oh, that motherfucker.
Yeah.
Yes.
Yes.
I'm in duck shit.
Okay.
Thank you, Hank.
Good job.
Good who's back.
Thank you.
Clay Thompson.
Back.
PFT.
My who's back of the week.
It's Todd Haley.
Yes.
Todd Haley.
He's been gone for too long.
We finally got him verified on Twitter.
That was a major win for some of us out there, but he's coaching in the USFL.
They announced their coaches.
Big names would be Kevin Sumlin.
Okay.
Okay.
And then Todd Haley, obviously, he's coaching Tampa Bay, so he's already gone out and made
an offer to Antonio Brown to give him a roster spot on the Tampa Bay Bandits.
So when is this?
It's never going to happen, probably.
When are they supposed to be playing?
I think March or April.
I'm booked with March Madness.
The only way that this succeeds is give Trump a team again and then do hard knocks on Donald
Trump's team.
Yeah.
And then it'll be like April 16th.
April 16th.
So right after March Madness.
Perfect.
Okay.
Masters.
Masters.
That's also like right around when NBA and NHL playoffs are.
All I want for...
I think they have one week.
I think...
Yeah, yeah.
I think they have one week that I'll pay attention to.
Yeah.
All I want from this league is to give me a very exciting week one and maybe have one
sort of new technology that they debut that gets instantly swallowed up by the NFL next
year.
Yes.
That's what we're looking for in the USFL.
I also would like that.
All right.
This is a game of the years.
I'm taking Georgia.
Even though I dream.
This is such a mistake.
Well, I dreamed of pills.
I don't believe it.
What about the first game of the year, big cat?
Bill is putting pills into your brain to give us false flags and lead us astray.
And ruin the podcast?
Yeah.
I just got to say something, big cat.
I haven't said this to you off the record, but I've been thinking about it for a while.
I was with you in the first game of the year.
Well, no, you weren't.
Pit.
Okay.
All right.
All I'm going to say is that after the Georgia, the game of the year, you've been chasing.
You have been chasing.
No, I won my game of the year.
These are not real games of the year.
No, they are.
No, I love Georgia.
I love Georgia.
I love Georgia.
No, you lost your game of the year.
You're one-on-one.
No.
And you knew you had to get a game of the year and before the year ended.
So you came up with a game of the year and then now you're coming up with this game
of the year.
Hold on.
Hold on.
Hold on.
This isn't actually a game of the year.
You just want to call out a game of the year.
Time out.
Time out.
You're right about it.
Time out.
You're right about the Michigan game.
That was the total.
Like it's the last day of the year.
Utah.
I loved all bullseys.
And it was my mortal lock when we did the Pickham episode, which is different from a
game of the year.
Yes, it is.
It's on Pickham.
I made a mortal lock of Utah three weeks before the Rose Bowl.
I then upgraded.
It's my game of the year.
Yeah.
It's thrilling to have game of the year.
Wait.
Is this your second Georgia game of the year?
No.
That was last year.
Yeah.
This is my second game of the year this year.
Okay.
Got it.
It's thrilling.
I love how Hank just explained the bit.
Big Cat, I'm a little worried because you think that's more than one game of the year.
Right.
Even though it's just, it's supposed to be one game per year.
No.
I was, I believe.
Sorry.
Sorry.
It was real to me and no longer is.
Well, because you missed the first game of the year.
I guess.
And you missed the first game of the year again this year.
2022 is going to be the year of game of the years.
I'm just saying it right now.
What year is it in the Lunar calendar coming up?
Is it the, is it the pig this year?
I don't know.
2022 is going to be the year of the game of the years.
Georgia minus two and a half.
I've decided this is breaking news game of the year.
I'm wrong with PFT and his dream.
Okay.
Here we go.
Great.
I'm so excited for my game of the year.
I have a dream, baby.
I have a staff for you.
I have a staff.
Roll tide.
Nick Saban.
No one believes in us.
Allsac lives on Kirby Smart's face.
No one.
Alabama, Georgia will be the fifth time teams have met twice in the same season with both
meetings being AP top five matchups.
The loser of the first game won the rematch in all four previous instances.
It's tough to beat Kirby Smart twice in the year.
I'm just going to bet the over.
They always say that.
You're in my head.
You're in my head.
There you go.
That's fine.
I respect that.
But let me have my game of the year.
Go for it.
Did you imagine going to an own game of the year?
I beg your pardon.
I don't want to sound like a hater.
I'm just, I'm just worried about your own.
I'm just trying to like make sure you don't get in, you know, in too deep and then you
already won an own game of the year.
Yeah.
You're stuck.
You're stuck in a hole you can't get out of.
Yes.
I, if I lose this game of the year, I will not have game of the year records in my Twitter
buy.
That's that easy.
I just asked for it and I'll say it's not there.
But then you don't have a game of the year on like Friday just to go to.
No.
No.
Wait.
Saturday made me because it's the playoffs Saturday, possibly undecided.
You also get to do a game of the year in any sport too.
You can have your basketball, your NBA game of the year, your college basketball game,
your ACC game of the year.
If I want to do 365 game of the years, I'll fucking do it.
Okay.
It's the year of the game of the years.
Georgia minus two and a half game of the year.
I'm so excited.
Billy real quick, Chinese New Year.
It's going to be the year of the tiger.
Oh, that's a tiger just calling out and getting the game of the years.
You know what a tiger is?
It's a big cat.
Yes.
It's my year.
It is literally my year.
Wait.
It's also tiger as in like Tiger Woods too.
Right.
Right.
And what did he win?
Game of the years all the time.
Masters never heard of it.
Yeah.
That's a game of the year.
Round of the year.
Boom.
Let me get behind a Buick.
Okay.
My who's back is the manning cast curse.
It is officially undefeated on the year.
Did Roger Goodell die?
No, but Aaron Rodgers went on week 17 and the Packers lost the Lions.
So yeah.
Yeah.
Week one Travis Kelsey.
Yeah.
That's true.
Wilson.
They all lost the week after they appeared.
Okay.
Are they doing a manning cast this weekend?
For the Monday night game?
I doubt it.
I doubt it.
It's still on the year.
They should have had one on Saturday.
No manning cast was doing one of those mega casts where it's like every ESPN-owned channel
is like.
You'd be a psycho to watch the manning cast during a playoff game.
Yeah.
Like you got to soak in a playoff game.
Definitely.
And who are they getting for the mega cast though?
They got to, you got to bring Erdemar.
Oh, sorry.
No.
No.
I was talking about tomorrow's uh, Jake.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Got it.
Yeah.
It's one where Bill Walens on like Pay-O-D and.
Yeah.
Right.
I'll have to double check on the playoff.
Well, I actually like watching that one.
Oh, when they get all the coaches in the room, that's what they'll have tomorrow, I'm pretty
sure.
And half of them are still hoping they get like big time jobs so they're just not giving
away their secrets.
Oh, Jimbo Fisher in the film room.
Oh, there we go.
Let's get Coach Owen there too.
Jimbo knows them both.
Um, okay.
Jake, you're who's back of the week?
Well, my who's back of the week?
Kind of on the same topic.
Is A-Rod?
Yes.
Baseball is doing the same thing with Sunday Night Baseball and A-Rod and Michael K.
I can't wait.
We'll be on the ESPN two cast.
It's going to be so good.
The one thing I always say about baseball is I wish there was a second broadcast where
I could hear people talk more.
Well, no, listen, um, the sequel's always better than the original.
Especially when you have a personality like Alex Rodriguez, who I could listen to him
read the phone book.
It's going to be really good.
I wonder which guests they'll get on every week.
Just have him watch it, watch it, watch it, relax, relax, little alternative way to watch
Sunday Night Baseball.
Yeah.
I'm sure it'll be great.
It's going to be awesome.
That's all I'll say about that.
Yeah.
Good job, Jake.
Thanks.
Ben Schwab, who's on this week?
We'll wait.
Oh, nice.
You guys are an LSU seed stealer.
Big cats coming on Thursday.
Okay.
All right.
Nice.
Nice.
We'll wait on today's episode Thursday.
I'm not worried.
I've been transparent the whole time.
I was wrong in the beginning of the season.
A lot of hate.
No, Jake, you were right at the time.
Fair.
But he could have been a thought leader.
He could have.
He could have dragged his nuts across Joe Lennarty's face.
That's not the point of bracketology.
Bracketology, you're a weatherman.
You're saying what temperature it is outside right now, not what you think it's going to
be in a week.
Right.
Yeah, but the preseason one, you can kind of take some shots.
Yeah.
Oh, well, that's okay.
Learning lesson.
Yeah, you could have dunked on Joe Lennarty.
You could have.
That would have probably been your big break.
It's all right.
Actually, you already had your big break when you came in with those clammy hands and you
shook our hands with a suit.
Didn't hurt.
Yeah, that was great.
Yeah.
That was a still power move.
Jake coming in with a suit.
All right.
Numbers.
You mean eight?
Forty-four.
Twenty-two.
Everything's back in there.
Give me two eights.
Twenty-two.
As in 88.
You mean eight?
Eight?
Eight?
88 degrees.
The pool.
The pool.
That was Tom Kennedy.
Danny.
Thirty-nine.
Yeah.
I thought it too.
I thought it was.
Thirty-nine.
Fifth time.
I love you guys.
That is what she said.
Oh.
Billy.
Goddamn.
Come on, Billy.
Keep that in.
You're talking away.
The wind of what?
I'm just saying I'm saying it anyway.
Today is another day to find you.
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