Pardon My Take - NFL Week 7, Fastest 2 Minutes, Recapping Every Game + Astros And Phillies In The World Series

Episode Date: October 24, 2022

NFL Week 7 and Fastest 2 Minutes (00:02:24-00:08:38) Giants 23, Jaguars 17 (00:08:38-00:23:15) Ravens 23, Browns 20 (00:23:15-00:30:22) Commanders 23, Packers 21 (00:30:22-00:44:12) Panthers 21, Bucs 3 (00:44:12-01:01:07) Titans 19, Colts 10 (01:01:07- 01:14:27) Bengals 35, Falcons 17 (01:14:27-01:27:13) Cowboys 24, Lions 6 (01:27:13-01:38:42) Jets 16, Broncos 9 (01:38:42-01:55:11) Raiders 38, Texans 20 (01:55:11-02:00:21) Seahawks 37, Chargers 23 (02:00:21-02:06:09) Chiefs 44, 49ers 23 (02:06:09-02:14:28) Football guy of the week (02:14:28-02:18:19) and who's back of the week including World Series talk (02:18:19-02:42:37).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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and then we'll take it higher. Welcome to part of my take presented by Papa John's. Try the new pepperoni-crusted Papadilla at papajohnsorderatpapajohns.com or through the Papa John's app. Today is Monday, October 24th. Week 7. We begin as New York jets down to Jacksonville

to take on the Jaguars and they're drinking the Kool-Aid with Daniel Jonestown and his inspired play this year. Trevor Lawrence and repeat and his long hippie hair played like shampoo-poo and it's clear you have to question the Jaguars conditioning as the giants were head and shoulders above as the game got late.

And that's the ball of truth, boom. When the giants needed to ice the game, they played an oldie but a goodie as Se-quan-mi, Se-quan-mi rushed for 72 yards. Wait, I can't find the giants in the standings. Aha, they're up towards the top at 6-1. The giants, the G-men.

23, Jaguars 17. Sticking in the NFC beast down to Ralph John where Devandre 3000 Campbell had a big boy, pig six, as Packers fans feelin, alright, alright, alright, alright, alright, alright, alright. Now ladies, now don't get too close to Aaron Rodgers or else you'll get some of that hippie stank on ya as Green Bay fans might be asking for the Jordan Love Below.

Joey Slivester Stallone looked a little rocky with his right hook but was able to find his feet and steal the win. The commanders are riding high-nikey as they win 23-21. In Cincinnati where it was country western day as Bullo Tyler Boyd and Jamar Chase Rice lit up the scoreboard in the first half.

This Falcons offense really pits different when Kyle doesn't get any deep balls but they're able to launder some points with a shot to Demir Marty Byrd. Head Coach Taylor has proven that the Bengals' imperfections only run skin deep as he cured them with a shot of Zacutane. Bengals 35, Falcons 17.

In Dallas where the big scar was ready for war as the Empire strikes back. It was a Dallas defense that showed out as Anthony Part 2-D2 had a fumble recovery. Amon Rao St. Brown's dad said, these are not the roids you're looking for as the Lions offense lacked a punch after the receiver went out with an injury.

Darth Trayvon Diggs said, Jared, I am your father. As the Cowboys win easily. 24, Tessex. In Nashville where the clock might be striking midnight for Jonathan Taylor Swift in the Colts. Matt Ryan is in a labyrinth of decision-making as people are starting to question the mastermind Chris Ballard

and his team that looks like snow on the beach. When Jermurse wakes up from his lavender haze people are worried he may get on his vigilante shit telling Frank Reich, you're on your own kid as the Colts anti-hero Mike Frable sits atop his bejeweled throne in the AFC South. Karma, am I right? Titans 19, Colts 10.

Have you heard the new Taylor Swift album? It's really good, Boom. It's really good. That's my shit, Boom. Up to Baltimore where in a touching tribute to my good friend Liz, Big Truss was in the news despite having a vote of no confidence in Lamarlamen.

Chief Justice Hill had a bumble recovery as John Harbaugh reinforced his lifetime appointment as Raven's Hank coach. Sus Edwards ate up the man-to-man D scoring twice on the way to a Raven's victory as the usual Gus Becks are at the top of the NFC North. Ravens 23, LeBron's 20. And San Francisco a rematch of Super Bowl 54

as the Chiefs take on the Niners. It was the Niners early as Mahomes had some a-a-fingla stuck in his throat leading to a 10-0 lead. The turnaround came quick as Miko Hardman switched back and forth between rushing and receiving getting clits all over Kansas City wetter than their barbecue. George Kiddler on the roof made it close to the second half

but as is tradition, Mahomes stepped on their throat to end the game in a touching tribute to when Iowa State was actually good at football. Kyle Shanahan brought in Brock Purdy to continue the legacy of Brocktober with a completed pass at Garbage Time. The Chiefs won the Niners 44-23. What?

In sunny Las Vegas, Davis can you pay my mills? Can you pay my automomills? I don't think you do so Houston's going to lose the Raiders offensive backfield was working at the car, Josh. Working at the car, Josh, yeah. Devonte Adams' song never thought

Houston would beat him at home. Another six months, Josh McCown's their coach. And as the Texans never conquered, rarely came now that their mind is to Sean. They continued to inch closer to the number one pick in the draft. The... —

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A Panthers dead cat bounce. Are they better off without McCaffrey? Come on, Brady. You're looking lazy. You lost to P.J. Walker. You should Harry Carey. Panthers 21, Bucks 3. And that is week 7 brought to you by our friends at Chevy. Chevy, the commanding unstoppable Chevy Silverado. Learn more at Chevy.com. The greatest truck ever created the new Chevy Silverado. Check it out. Chevy.com and tell them PMT sent you. Okay, week 7 in the books. We're watching Dolphins Steelers, Barn Burner. Dolphins wearing their throwbacks,

which I we do tend to talk a lot about jerseys and throwbacks. The fact that the dolphins don't have the mini helmet on the dolphin logo as their main helmet is the dumbest thing ever. Especially Big Cat in this age of preventing concussions. Yes. To not put any sort of protective gear at all on that dolphins. I think that since since a bad message to the youngsters out there. It really does. And two is out there scrambling around like nothing happened. Just lowering his head. Yeah, he's every time he runs with a ball. He's just he's ducking his head before the game. He was talking to who was it? Was it it was someone from NBC

saying that he's trying to along in his career. He's looking out for his safety first. Understanding that health comes before winning football games. Right. And then he's been doing nothing all day except just like lowering his head. Yeah. And going like Fitzpatrick style. Yeah, running over people. Right. Exactly. So we will we will talk about this game when it concludes start the fourth quarters right now. We'll also talk about the Yankees Astros later on with the Philly stuff. Let's talk some football. I know the prevailing story is going to be old quarterbacks looking very old and we will get to that. But I think I was looking

at it chronologically because obviously there's a couple that you can shift around in the early games. I think it has to be Giants 23 Jaguar 17 and New York Giants now six in one. And my biggest question when I was looking through everything I was saying to myself is Daniel Jones going to be the guy now. No, he's he's definitely become the guy. He big had he had 200 yards passing 100 yards rushing first Giants quarterback to ever do that. And when I thought about it, I was like, well, yeah, that kind of makes sense because they've they have a long tradition of having Eli Manning as their quarterback. Right. But yeah,

pretty impressive. He's got that. He's got that dog in him officially now. And this was the game that we all thought going into it. Everyone was like, well, Vegas knows something. The Jaguars are minus three. Like this, you know, at some point, this Giants magic has to run out. And it was essentially the same thing that happened in every Giants game where they keep the game close. They're down going into the second half. And Daniel Jones makes some plays. Saquon ices the game and like and runs his ass off in the fourth quarter. And I mean, the game ended literally on the one inch line. It was probably the best

ending to a game that we had in the early slate. Well, Saquon should have he should not have run out of bounds earlier on because Saquon put them in that position. They it should never have come down to that tackle that was made on the one inch line. Because if he had stayed in bounds, I think they would have taken the clock down to 30 seconds. And so Saquon is like that he was he was watching on the sidelines, just knowing that everything from that point on was his fault. He tried not to and he just he took one too many steps. But it was it was the most exciting game. It was there

weren't a ton of like thrillers down the stretch. That was probably the most exciting finish just because the game ended literally on the one yard line. Christian Kirk getting stopped on the one yard line is the Jaguars tried to come back. And I I know we I know we feel like a broken record, but like the Giants being six and one and Brian Dable being this good of a coach in his first year. It's still shocking to me because they are legitimately a good team and they find ways to do more with less. And Daniel Jones, I think is now going to get a contract. He was he you remember like John Merrow is like we've

screwed this kid up so much. Like we feel bad for him, but we're not giving him the fifth year. I don't know. Like if they go to the playoffs, do they have to give him a contract? I think if they go to the playoffs, they should they're getting that position where they at least would have to give him the fifth year. I know they can't. I don't think I can give him the fifth. Not anymore. I think that deadline passed. I think it passed like April or whatever. Okay, so what they're going to be looking at then there. The Giants are kind of fucked in terms of their cap situation like we discussed earlier on the show. They've

had a couple games where they've just had like 50 people on the roster because they actually can't afford. They don't have they don't have the cap space to have a full roster all the time. So they're kind of going to be fucked in terms of what they can do at the quarterback position. I could see Daniel Jones being like a Duke kid doesn't seem like he's really like he feels to me like he comes from money. I don't know the history of like his family or anything. Daniel Jones could just be like, you know what, fair is fair. Just pay me $5 million. I haven't played that well, but I'd like to stick around

because this is comfortable. Yeah, and this is cool that I get to, you know, go like Mack on chicks and hobo. Exactly, which actually wouldn't be the worst career move necessarily for him to do like a one year thing. And then he can pick wherever he would want to be a backup after that. Or he just plays his dick off and earns a massive contract. Someone would, I mean, he is playing legitimately good football. Yeah. And he's doing the things like, and this is more credit to Brian Dable and is it Mike Kafka, I think. Kafka. Yeah. Yeah. Northwestern legend. They are like what they're doing and what they're showing

is, and it's easier said than done. But when it, when a coach, when a coaching staff comes in and they're like, we're playing to this guy's strengths instead of saying, here's our offense, you got to fit to it. And we saw Brian Dable do it with Josh Allen in Buffalo. Like, hey, Daniel Jones is an electric runner. Like that, that, that running play they kept on running with Daniel Jones in the fourth quarter. The Jaguars could not stop it. They basically would run with Saquon, then run with Daniel Jones. And the Jaguars had no answer for it. Yeah, I'm really looking forward to the reports coming out of Giant's Camp of

how they're going to work with Daniel Jones on sliding. Yeah. Because he obviously doesn't, he doesn't like sliding. He's not very good at doing it. When he, he's the kind of quarterback that when he tries to slide, he actually runs a higher risk of injuring himself on the slide than he would then if he just put his head down like two and tried to run somebody over. But yeah, the Giants are now the first team in NFL history to start six and one or better and have each of their first seven games decided by just one possession. One possession. The largest, the largest one was the Bears. They won by eight.

Yep. So the old saying of like, don't get into an argument with an idiot because they'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience. That's what the Giants are doing. They're they're making games ugly, sometimes against very good teams and then just beating them with Brian Dable's coaching at the end. Yeah. And it makes me wonder, like, why wasn't why wasn't Brian Dable a head coach before this? I probably too fat, too fat.

Like, I don't mean that. I love Brian Dable. But you know that, like, that is a real thing that happens. Of course. I mean, absolutely. It's discrimination where they're like, oh, well, he's like, what is he going to pass out on the sideline? Then he knows these nuts, Joe. So I probably didn't take him seriously. Yeah, that too. But like they probably are like, oh, he's probably too fat.

It's like, no, he's fine. He's he's stout. He's strong. He's like, he's like George. George is the NFL head coaches. I understand. Yeah. But they usually get large after they've been on the job. There also haven't been as many as you think. Successful, successful. Different. Successful.

Again, he read. Shout out to Andy Reed. He held it down for the big boys winning a Super Bowl because there's not a ton of fat coaches that win Super Bowl. Rex Ryan was pretty big, but then he actually got worse as he got thinner. He lost his power like Samson. Yeah. I mean, think about the list of fat head coaches winning Super Bowls. It is. Listen, it's just it's something that people do.

They're very mean about it, but they see a fat guy and they're like, his brain moves slower. Brian Dabel has not true. I he's got a sharp brain. There was one picture of him on the sidelines last week that he has a little Alex Jones in him. If you look at like a lot of the strength, a lot about. Yeah, the power. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

He's not fat. He's powerful. Yeah, I do not think I do not see Brian Dabel and think fat guy. I think powerful man. Yes, you know, like he's he's just like he's a he's like a cannonball. Yeah, it was good to see this game turn out the way that we thought it would turn out, even though we did bet on the Jaguars, we did so under the assumption that we thought that Vegas knew something that we didn't know. Turns out we're way smarter than Vegas.

Yeah, we should be able to dominate football season. I think I went in three today, but we should be able to fucking dominate Vegas because we knew that this line was messed up. And it was only because we operated on the assumption that they were smarter than us that they made us stupid. Yeah, so you're using a heavy we here because we you're you want to explain your bet that was all time galaxy brand. Well, we can go back and listen to listen to Friday's show.

But I think we all said Vegas knows. Yeah, Vegas knows something, but you went. OK, so I tried. I thought I had this whole gambling shit figured out because I took the I took the Jaguars minus three and then I also put a little bit of money on the giants minus nine and a half on the other side because I'm like, I think the giants are going to win, but I think Vegas knows something. I know it, so I'm covering both sides of the equation.

Not realizing that the Giants. Yeah, they left yourself like the juiciest middle, the biggest, the biggest possible mental. But you know what? That's how you make money in this game. Yeah, you can't. Scared money don't make money. That's a fact. That's a fact. So yeah, I mean, I'm I keep like thinking about like what this season has become. And there's, you know, a list of a very short list of very good teams.

And the Giants seemed to seem to be like knocking on that door every single week. Not none of their wins have looked incredible. But at what point when you're six and one and if you look at their schedule coming up, they play the Seahawks who will get to who might the first place Seahawks might I add, which is crazy that were in the end of October in the Seattle Seahawks or in first place to the NFC West. There's no chance anyone had that preseason. They play the Seahawks, the Texans and the Lions, their next three.

I mean, that that that could easily be a seven and two team. It could be. I mean, like I got news for you. Yeah, the New York Giants are going to make the playoffs. Yeah, I mean, they're going to make they just are. They're going to I want you to all prepare yourself for that moment because I don't want to sneak up on anybody. The New York Giants are going to be a playoff team. It's hard to miss the playoffs starting six and one.

And I think I think people will probably be very upset at us for they'll be like, you're jinxing us. What are you doing? Why are you doing this to us? It is hard, though. I feel like to miss the playoffs when you start six and one like they are. I know I know how hard it is, because I think the Bears have done. I think we started eight and one once and didn't make the playoffs. If you just give them two wins over the commanders, a win over the Lions and a win over the Texans, those two games are at home

against the Texans and the Lions. If you just give those to them, that's 10 wins right there. What about we should talk a little bit about the Jaguars. It feels like we're just back to square one. And I don't know. They now are in the camp of like they have enough talent, it feels like, and just putting together four cohesive quarters. I also saw Nate Tice, who does the athletic podcast, Robert Mays.

He was tweeting out the the throwing map of of Trevor Lawrence. And he it basically like stops at 20 yards. He does not attempt to pass. It's over 20 yards. He's got a little bit of the zoomies. It's crazy. Have you noticed that? He's got a zoomie issue where any ball that's about 15 to 30 yards down the field, he will miss his receiver. What appears to be like 10 feet above his head. Right. And he just, yeah, he he'll have throws where you're like,

where the hell was that going? And I don't I don't know what I like. I was we sat here week three or week four, whatever it was being like, the Jaguars are starting to put something together. And they have just since that moment have looked not great at all. Yeah, I've got an idea to fix Trevor Lawrence. My idea to fix Trevor Lawrence is pretty simple. Just get players that were on Clemson to play in his office.

Travis Etienne is looking pretty nice. Yeah, Travis Etienne looks good. Maybe go out, try to trade for Hunter Renfrow. Who's the guy in the Packers is his name. It's another Rogers, isn't it? Amari Rogers, I think, right? Which I think the Packers would like to cut. Yeah, get Amari Rogers on the team. Yeah, if you look around the league, there are a couple like Jamar Chase,

Joe Burrow. Yeah, that was a good transition for both of them. I love when when Devonte Adams, Derek Carr, that's why they got in waddle to a waddle. That's why they got a Tebow to go to New England to team them up with Aaron Hernandez. Right. That didn't work out. Yep. But the logic is there, the precedent is there. I just feel like Trevor Lawrence, he looks a little bit uncomfortable sometimes. Yes.

Throwing to guys that he didn't go to college with. So let's try to get somebody they went to college with. I feel bad for Jaguar's fans, too, because you just don't. The early season success to then have it fall backwards. You'd always rather have the late season success so you can have a whole off season of being like we were coming on. Like we were what was happening towards the end. Like we just ran out of time.

If there was a 25 week season, which Roger Goodell eventually will get to, they would have made the playoffs. Like, but having an early start where September looks awesome and then having it fade and you have to sit with the team that doesn't look any better for the rest of the season, that sucks. I just think that, you know, they'll find their footing once they go to London. That's next week, right? Is it? Yeah, we got the Londoner, the Londoner game.

This is where the Jaguars get into a rhythm Jaguar's dolphins Jaguar's Broncos. Oh, my God, they might actually leave Nathaniel Hackett in England. I'm not going to watch that game. No, yeah, that's a lie. No, you're not going to watch that game. You're lying. You know, I might just. You're lying. You're lying.

That's a very basic P.F.D. commentary for the marks. They should leave blank and blank. Yeah, yeah. They're playing far away. Leave them on the tarmac. I might I might just boycott that game because then that would be fun to try to give a recap of like I'll listen to your.

You're you're such a liar. You're going to watch that game. Of course. You're lying so hard right now. I'm going to do a mega lock. You can do the boycott that I do sometimes. Just go boycott the NFL from Tuesday to Thursday afternoon. Yeah, except for the cover in the waiver wire. Yeah, the cover year when they started

that really screwed football. Did you see how Jake just completely alphaed me? I just made a comment about like leaving Nathaniel Hackett on the tarmac. He's and that was his very polite way of being like here. That's that's such a basic thing to say. But in like the nicest way ever where I thought for a second, he was complimenting me. Yeah, no, he was not. He was not OK, Jake.

Giants six and one. The New York Giants six and one. Oh, shout out to the guys in the front row wearing the Brian Dabel shirts. Just total guys being dudes. They were they were just partying it up. They were giving the the bright. They had a Brian Dabel, like a big cartoon head of him on their shirts. It looked like maybe a bachelor party or something.

And they were feeding the shirt beer. Yeah, so they were giving the beer. The shirt sips of beer and then sipping out of the beer. And it was like, what's better than this? Six and one team pumped about your coach. Yeah, it's pretty cool. Just pouring beer on yourself and it's hilarious. A great guy's moment.

It's pretty cool. I would I would have actually preferred if they had tried to feed it nachos. Yeah, then the game they just end up with like cheese sauce and salsa. Yeah, chili all over their shirts. They see they see some girls later. They try to talk to me like, what's up with your shirt? Oh, it's just feeding coach. I should actually do that.

I should make a shirt where it's the mouth is right around my belly button. And then they'd be like, where'd the chips go? And just shove them right into my belly button. I want to do one. I want to do one where it's Mike McDaniel. And then I just I just put a gravity bong up to my belly button. That would be cool, too. That would be very cool.

All right, next game Ravens Browns, Ravens, 23 Browns, 20. The Ravens held on to a fourth quarter lead. Congratulations. They didn't. And they almost didn't because they fumbled and they tried to give it up. And we also had a Mari Cooper score a touchdown and they called for offensive pass interference, which it seemed like it was. But it also was one of those like calls like they don't usually call it.

Why did they do that? It was one of those calls where, yeah, by the book, it's 100 percent the right call, but at the same time, it's like, come on, it's the Browns. Just like, let them let him get away with that. Right. But then at the same time, I feel bad for for defensive backs because the every evolution of the NFL rulebook for the last 50 years has been the league trying to figure out a way to take a shit on cornerbacks. And so it's OK to call one against the offense when it's really blatant like that.

Because that's what it really was like. It was I watched it back and it was like, I just feel like that doesn't get called. It was it was very impactful. It wasn't it wasn't flagrant in terms of the guy didn't fall down. And it wasn't a full like a stiff arm push. But he definitely got his hands on him. He definitely got like a half step separation. It was it was honestly a great play by a Mark Cooper.

And a lot of times it doesn't get called. But I think it was the right call. Now, what was bullshit is what happened after that when they were kicking the field goal and they were kicking a fifty six, it was really like a fifty five yard field goal and then they called a phantom off sides or excuse me, they called a phantom false start against the Browns, even though the Ravens like encroached and ran into a guy on the line. And then they had to move it back five yards.

And then kid York kicked it like directly into the line. Yeah, because you have to get low. Yeah. Yeah, no, it sucked for the Browns. But the Ravens held on to elite. And it was also a throwback game for the Ravens. I, you know, when you're watching all these games, you can't fully pay attention to every single second. And I saw Lamar make a couple nice throws.

And then I look back and he completed nine passes. Yeah. And I was like, what happened here? They just ran the ball and they actually did what we've been saying. Like you have to do if you're the Ravens, the fourth quarter, they got the ball with the lead with, I don't know, seven minutes left. And they ran the ball just down their throat, like 11 out of 12 plays took off six minutes, a clock were about to score when there was a fumble. But it felt like the Ravens finally are learning from the fact

that every single fourth quarter, they blow a lead. Yeah, don't don't let Lamar just go full on passing in the fourth grade, especially if you have a big lead like they have at. So that was that was very smart to see. I was hoping that we get to see Deshaun Jackson for at least one play today. Yeah, every time Deshaun gets signed, you and I have the same thought process, which is I can't wait to see Deshaun Jackson catch like a 73 yard touchdown pass and probably pull his hamstring

on his way into the end zone and then never play again for the rest of that season. Yeah, the 80 the one catch 80 yard touchdown stat line for Deshaun Jackson. And then in the fourth quarter, yeah, it's a some kind of injury. It's like, all right, that was fun. Yeah, he'll do that till he's 50 years old. I want to see how many teams Deshaun Jackson has beaten as a wide receiver because he's played for like every team. Yeah, he's played for a lot of teams played for a lot of.

And basically, I think the way that he operates is he says he watches red zone like all of us and he sees whatever quarterback throws one nice long ball. He's like, I want to play with that guy. Yeah, I just want to I could catch that guy's long ball for once. Just one time and then and then I'll get injured. Yeah, and then I'll catch catch my paycheck. I saw Miles Garrett is doing his Halloween things again. Oh, so he's got the spooky graveyard set up.

I think he set his place up to look like the upside down from Stranger Things. I think he's doing the thing where he's got the the quarterback gravestones for everybody that you remember when he had the cute little Kyler Murray grave last year, the little one that was cute. That was awesome. So he's yeah, he's turning his yard into a house of horrors. Spookiest house in Miles Garrett, a spookiest room in Miles Garrett's house. Big Cat, do you know what it is?

What is it? His garage. Aha, nice. As he crashed his car and almost died. Yeah. By the way, we have three teams now, which is crazy to say, because like looking at the NFL right now, there's some really bad teams out there. I don't know if the Browns are really bad because they have enough dudes

that we can name, but they aren't playing good football. And we have the Saints at two and five. They have their first pick, first round pick next year, go to the Eagles. The Browns at two and five, their first round pick, going to the Texans. The Broncos at two and five, their first round pick going to Seahawks. Yeah. So we have three teams now that are all could be like top 10, top five picks, all giving up their first round pick to another team, which is like a fun thing to watch because you're I that's got to just be.

I mean, I know from experience, having a really bad team and not having your first round pick is a very, very shitty feeling. Yeah, it's tough. I also think we need to we need to realize the difference between bad teams that are angry that they're bad. That doesn't always mean that they're good teams. Right. Do you know what I mean by that? So like the Browns are really pissed off at themselves for being

saints to saints are really things are absolutely pissed off. After this game, there was a tweet. I forget I just copied and pasted the words. I don't know who this is, but it said, we could hear screaming inside the Browns locker room after the loss. Stefansky called it normal football emotion, which I love normal football emotion. I get that, but they're really mad at themselves for sucking right now. That's because they have the dudes.

It's because they have the dudes who are like, we're better than this. Like, I'm Nick Chubb. I'm better than this. I'm Miles Garrett. I'm better than. Yeah. But it's another lesson if you're like, you're going to be bad. Just don't have any dudes. Yeah. So they might they might actually be bad, though. They've got some dudes, but they're they're bad, but they're just bad. Their defense is bad just because you're mad about being bad

doesn't mean that you're not actually bad. No, no, their defense is bad and poor Jacoby Berset is like, it's it's it's tough that he has to do this for an extended period of time, because he really he probably was the like one person when he was like looking at Deshaun Watson's suspension was like, fuck, it's 11 games or whatever it may be. Like, can it be like four games? And I thought that's what I signed up for. Like Tom Brady got suspended for four games only to play one of those.

Yeah, this is not at all. Like, Jacoby Berset is best in small doses, give him three weeks, have him win one of those games and maybe lose one to a really good team by a close margin. And then you can move on being like Jacoby Berset to good backup. And now we're just stuck with Jacoby Berset for multiple months. And it just it feels too much like when you're watching him, even Kevin Harlan was calling him a magician today because he

like he basically got out of a sack. Yeah, it was a very basic place like Jacoby Berset, the magician, because he was just shocked that he was able to do that. So I've had my Jacoby Berset fill. I'm done. I'm just I don't really want to watch him play football. I'm done with him. Yeah. Until he comes back until he shows up in a spot start, then I'll get excited about him because that's exactly what he is as a backup for preferably another team.

Yeah, I don't think I need to see him as the Browns backup anymore. Not anymore. Yeah, I'd agree. All right, let's get to the sad old quarterback portion of the show. We've got three in a row. We'll start with the commanders, 23 Packers, 21. Taylor Heineke and the commanders beat Aaron Rogers. He's got what is it? Three straight losses now. Three straight losses, three.

He personally on him has three straight losses looking dead on the ground after the game and the Patriots weren't even trying to beat him. And the other was it. Thank you, Hank. Yep. Good point to mention that. So he's got four. Technically, he has four straight losses. Four straight losses. That's a little pro tip to anybody out there. If you put the word technically around any take that you have,

it makes it automatically correct. Technically, they haven't won a game because they didn't embarrass the bears, which is a loss. Yeah, I mean, that's their standard. I mean, technically, the commanders are the hottest team in football right now. That's true to in a row. But yeah, let's start with the commanders. And then we'll get we'll we'll we'll talk about Aaron Rogers, dead body on the ground.

Taylor Heineke, I mean, that was the perfect Taylor Heineke experience where it's pick six, looking terrible in the first half and then just lights out gunslinger in the second pick. Six should have been a fumble. Six probably should have been another pick six sprinkled in there, but he doesn't stop trying to throw the ball. No, that's what I love about Taylor. The play is never dead when Taylor Heineke is your quarterback.

Whereas if it's Carson Wentz, he will panic and he'll end the play way too soon because he gets scared of things and noises. Taylor Heineke, he embraces the chaos. I invite everybody out there to embrace the chaos that is Taylor Heineke because watching a game with him as a quarterback is genuinely fun to do. It is like every time he throws a ball, I just I just mutter. I just screamed myself like Heineke and you never know. It could that could be a Heineke of doom.

Could be a Heineke of complete joy. That's a home run for the New York Air. Sir Bader. His name. Yeah, Bader. Mr. October. Mr. October. Master Bader just took it up. Five, four Yankees in the sixth bottom of the sixth. So, yeah, I'm I'm I love watching Taylor Heineke play.

I don't have any expectation for this team, really. But I'm rooting for Heineke. I hope that he gets a good contract. I hope he makes a lot of money. And he's he's a good he's a fun quarterback to watch, and especially when you're beating teams like the Green Bay Packers, you can delude yourself at times into being. I know they're not the Green Bay Packers.

No, they're bad. They're bad now. They're bad. But much like much like when the Jets, I think what this really says is maybe that Jets win against the Packers might have been Fool's goal last week. Well, it's it's funny because we have and we're going to talk about the Bucks next. But it is like now that we're getting a few weeks further down the line, realizing, oh, this team actually might be bad. And that's what the Packers feel like right now.

And yeah, Taylor Heineke, he was 13 for 16 for 162 yards in a touchdown in the second half. He gets stronger and better as the game goes along because he's like, I'm Taylor Heineke. I was meant for this moment versus Carson Wentz is like, I'm Carson Wentz. Oh, my God, watch out for that line. And let me do a spin move and fumble the ball. Yeah, maybe my and sprained both ankles.

Yeah, because my body is trying so hard to escape the big man that's coming right to me. Taylor Heineke is he's like all the he's like a drug. With all the great side effects and all the really terrible drawbacks. Right. But I enjoy doing them every Sunday. Yeah. And I hope I hope they keep putting him out there as quarterback,

even when Wentz comes back when he gets healthy. I hope it's still Heineke, maybe a little bit, sprinkle a little bit of Sam Howland there at the end of the year. But he's way more fun to watch. He makes watching football fun, as opposed to Carson Wentz, who just makes watching football seriously, seriously depressed. Yes. And the staff, by the way, that they they popped up on the screen.

The Washington football franchise, I guess you call it, because there's three different names have had 11 different starting quarterbacks since 2018. That's impressive. I thought it was more. I'll be honest with you. That's impressive. It felt like more.

Yeah. When you go through the like Wednesday, Garrett Gilbert starts, that that feels like a multiplier where you could have told me 24 different quarterbacks in the last four years. I would say that that sounds about right to me. But the takeaway is I'm happy with my commanders. I love Taylor Heineke and I will be tweeting at national sports personalities tomorrow, asking them to talk about the commanders.

Yeah. Talk about the commanders. Say something nice about the commander. Say something nice. Greeny, I'm looking at you motherfucker. They were they were my mortal lock today. And I loved every second of that game because Taylor Heineke is a gamer. I'm glad.

He's a gamer. I'm glad we let Matt LaFleur walk. Yeah. Yeah. He so let's talk about the Packers because the the panic that is setting in for the Green Bay Packers is it's basically the highlight of my season. They are now all kind of like self-combusting because they have

a quarterback they paid a ton of money to who's getting older. I don't think Aaron Rodgers is washed, but he's getting older. And they have a roster set up to run the football and play defense and win games the ugly way. Yet they just refuse to run the football and use probably their best their best offensive player, not Aaron Rodgers is Aaron Jones. They just don't use him and watching it week in and week out and Packers fans get upset about the same thing.

Week in and week out is glorious because they're essentially running an offense that is not fit for their personnel and it just keeps failing. And Aaron Rodgers at one point today looked at the sidelines. He's like, what the fuck are we doing? But and he hates this offense. He hates you. But they're not running. He's still running.

They're not running. The offense they should be running. He hates the fact that he doesn't have wide receivers, but you don't have wide receivers. You should run the ball and you should be OK with running the ball. And Aaron Rodgers kind of blames everyone else like you're not playing perfect football either. I'm talking about the motion motion stuff that he's pissed off about because

he's used to just lining up and playing football and just seeing the field, knowing where he's going to the West Coast offense. And he's very mad at Matt LaFluori. I don't know what they said after today's game. But I'm sure that whatever Aaron Rodgers said, he'll get on a microphone tomorrow and be like, no, I didn't mean it like that. I'm in a different, less antagonistic way. But the Packers, they're just they're they're bad.

And at the end of the game, I did think for a second that, OK, there is too much time of the clock for Aaron Rodgers and they ran some weird plays. They didn't let Aaron Rodgers throw Hail Mary. Yeah. Why don't why don't you call Hail Mary for statistically the best? He's too old. He's an atheist, too, which I think impacts his Hail Mary capabilities. Yes.

And they did the. You're on a roll tonight with those. What? That was a good joke. Yeah. Well, it's true. It's like the Miles Garrett. He's an atheist.

Yeah. So that was a bad one. Yeah. But the play at the end of this game was they tried to do the rugby style thing and coaches, I know that like I talk about the rugby design laterals too much, maybe on this show. But just for the end of the game in that situation, you're right. If you know how to set up a basic line, you should be able to run that play and at least advance the ball 30, 40 yards every time.

Yeah. You should because they don't have to defend it. Yeah. But they don't know and it ended up it was very funny. Aaron Rodgers throwing it all the way across the field to his offensive line. Forward. Forward. Justin Fields, a better passer backwards than Aaron Rodgers.

That's a statistical fact. That's true. And then and then Aaron Rodgers is lying face down on the ground. He wouldn't get up. Just crying, just weeping into that shitty turf. It was so delicious. They suck. They're not a good football team and it feels like none of them are on the same page.

It feels like the front office, coach and quarterback, none of them are on the same page because they built this entire team to be one way and they're playing games the complete opposite way and they keep losing and they're like, why are we losing? Because I just, if they ran, if they just took Aaron Jones or like run it down your throat every time, I think they would be a five and two team right now. I really do. I know that maybe that's just because that's exactly what they did to the Bears and it worked very well.

But I don't know why. I think they ran it. I think they ran a total of 12 running plays today. Aaron Jones, when he had the ball, I don't know what the numbers are, but I do remember in the first half them running the ball and be like, well, they can just get six yards of carry. So they, so they ran the ball 12 times for 38 yards, which obviously isn't a great average. But that's to run the ball effectively. You have to keep running it and then you can break one or two.

Yeah, right. And then eventually you're going to weaken the defense to be able to break those 12, 12 rushes is just like, that's not enough when Aaron Jones is one of your best players. It's pretty bad. Shout out to the FedExField crowd today. I know that there were, it was probably like 60% Washington Commander's fans today, which is an improvement over what it's been in the past. They had some really loud sell the team chance going.

They booed the fuck out of Tanya Snyder when they put her ass on the Jumbotron. Alumni we see. So well done. It was alumni, which is just everyone who hasn't sued the Commander's comes back. What it is, it's any, any member of a team that finished above 500 that is currently not actively involved in litigation against the team, also minus Chris Cooley, who just hates the team. Then they'll bring you back and they will award you with like, they'll let you touch one of the old Lombardi trophies at halftime.

Yeah. So that was really nice to see. What did you guys just point, Hank? What did you just point to Jake for? They're just showing the time for tomorrow's game, if necessary. What does it say? 430. Oh, it is.

That's what it's on the graphic. 507. This is 507 on the. 430 for the pregame start or whatever. Damn. I just want to, want to put this out here because we're going to see eventually maybe a touchdown catch by Sammy Watkins. And when that happens, then you'll have to update your Aaron Rodgers graphics.

So if he's now thrown two touchdowns to players that were drafted in the first Yes. Yes. I'm looking up by the way, Aaron Jones, rushing this year. So against the Bears, he was 15 carries for 132 yards against the Patriots. These are two of the three wins. He was 16 carries for 110 yards. And then he's run the ball nine times, eight times today and nine times last week.

I don't really get that. That makes no sense. But I love it. I don't want them to stop doing this. Never give Aaron Jones the ball. Here's a little stat. Aaron Rodgers, he now joined Tom Brady at three and four. That's his first season with a losing record through seven games and his entire career.

Wow. Not even the Mike McCarthy year. The firing year. Apparently not. I guess they lost down the stretch. That's probably what put the accelerator on firing Mike. Yeah. Remember Joe Philbin?

Yep. Oh my God. Yeah. Joe Philbin was Dolphins legend. Yeah. Joe Philbin looking like a dead guy just standing on the sidelines. He said that face. He just instilled like I am no higher than a special teams coordinator.

No. Don't ever make me anything more than that. It's like him and Matt Rule. Those are the two prime guys that if I saw that you were hiring that person to be a head football coach, I would fire you for even considering hiring. And he was the head coach when they were on hard knocks. So you got a front row seat to that. Yeah.

So that year there were three, four and one. Which coach do you think was more boring on hard knocks? Joe Philbin or whoever it was? What's that guy's name that was the coach of the Buccaneers? Fuck. Who was it? That guy that looked like he worked at Home Depot. Shit.

He had maybe like a German name with a K in it. Wait, not a head coach? No. I think he was a head coach. A head coach? Yeah. Bucks head coach. They had Lovie obviously.

This is going to kill me. What year? Dirk Cutter. Yes. Dirk Cutter. That was him, right? Yeah. I haven't looked it up yet.

Dirk Cutter. Who is, I now think the passing game coordinator for, oh no. He's the interim offensive coordinator at Boise. I knew his name popped up because they fired the offensive coordinator and Dirk Cutter's name. Maybe we'll see him at the Arizona Bowl. This is kind of what, Dirk Cutter, you'll never believe this. He was the coach for three whole years in Tampa Bay. Wow.

Good times. What were you guys thinking? Dirk Cutter. Good times. Yeah. The Packers sucked. They didn't have a third down conversion without a penalty flag today, which is crazy to say. Also in Russia, that was 47 passing yards in the first half.

It was wild, especially considering that this Washington commander's defense is essentially, personnel wise, basically the same from last year when they had a historically bad third down defense. Right. And by historically, I believe they were the worst of all time. Yes. And then they can't even get a single third down conversion today. It was crazy.

I couldn't believe what was going on with the Packers. If you can't convert a third down against this Washington defense, your team's broken. Yeah. Broke broken. Yes. No, they are very, very broken. So it's great. And I hope they don't figure it out.

Let me look at their schedule real quick. Because it does. And people are probably getting burned being like, this is, I thankfully got off of this. I was like, the Packers stink. The commanders with Taylor Heinecke are frisky. You're going to keep doing this. Oh, yeah. Yes.

Holy shit. Yes. They play the Bills on Sunday night football next week. That is going. We might, we might have to record late. You're getting in a problem. We might have to record late. I might have to, I might have to just soak in that game.

You're getting perverted right now. I am, I am literally getting half, half, half a chub. Like thinking about what Josh Allen's going to do that team. There was, there was one national NFL writer that texted us. I'll just say that it was Hank that did it, that said that he prefers Antonio Gibson over Brian Robinson. College football writer. College football writer.

Also dabbles in NFL. Yeah. Tweets out a lot of his gambling perks. He's not very smart in the NFL. He's also pervert and Italian. Yeah. And he said that he prefers Antonio Gibson to Brian Robinson because. Bad take.

Because Antonio Gibson is fully healthy without bullets in his leg. And I thought that was a bit over the line. It was, it was similar to Billy's favorite president. Oh, Kenny Pickett just threw a terrible pick. I like, I like my running backs who don't get shot. Well, guess what? Brian Robinson. He's awesome.

I still think if you can get comeback player of the year for something that happens in the middle of the season, give it to that guy. Yes. Kenny Pickett just threw a terrible, terrible pick. Looks like the Dolphins are going to win. Hopefully they don't cover, but it feels like they're also going to cover. So that was bad. There's a lot of action going on right now.

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And then I just keep betting on the bucks. I think they're going to turn it around. The bucks are a bad football team. They lose 21 to three to the Carolina Panthers who everyone thought was the worst football team in the NFL, maybe the Texans, but they were in the running for it. They not only beat them, they beat like the shit out of them. The bucks are so broken.

It started with Mike Evans dropping a ball that was, he was, they calculated he was 10.9 yards of separation. That's how far open he was, which is like almost unheard of in the NFL. And he drops it from that point on. The Bucks offense was as bad as it gets. Their drive chart was punt, punt, punt, punt, end of half, punt, downs, punt, field goal downs. Not great.

Zero turnovers, three points. That's hard to do. Not great. Tom Brady, when was the last time he had three points that he played on? He had three. So it's funny you bring that up because I have a stat that Hank's going to like. Oh, wait. Is it that New Orleans Saints game?

Well, here's the stat. Hank's going to love this because this Hank, you can just put this in your back pocket to the Bucks have ruined Tom Brady. Tom Brady has scored three or less points five times in his entire career. In his first 20 years off of the New England Patriots, he did it twice in the last three years with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He's done it three times. Yeah.

Not good. Not good. So my theory, my theory on these Panthers is that they see that they're trading way all the good players right now. And so all the players on the Panthers hate playing on the Panthers so much that now they're trying really hard because they're like, wait, if I play well, freedom, I might get traded away from here. So that's that's a very powerful motivational tool for these Panthers

players to be having right now. Although they shouldn't trade like it was DJ Moore played well, caught a crazy touchdown pass and Brian Burns played well. And he's like the Panthers should not trade those two guys. I know there's been a lot of talk about it. And I'm sure there's some Panthers fans like, oh, let's get all the picks. You don't want to trade like you're actually young, good talent because then you draft someone and there's like a 50% chance they suck.

Those guys are good. So we know they're good. So you want to use a draft picks to get guys like that. Don't give them away. In your wildest dreams, you would want your picks to turn into those guys. You're overpriced running back in Christopher Capri's good, but that's a position that you shouldn't be using a ton of your money on. That's someone you trade.

Not the guys that are young and can be the future of your franchise. That rule took over this team. And he was like, the fans seem to really like Christian McCaffrey. Let's give him a big contract. I'd like to keep him around for a while. So yeah, I think that the Panthers, they might be experiencing that little thing where they're playing for future jobs and they're playing for the right to not have to be a Carolina Panther anymore.

And here's a fun little stat about Tom Brady with his week seven loss to the Panthers. Tom Brady has a losing record through his first seven games of the season for the first time since when trivia question. Never had trivia question to 2002. His first full season as a starting quarterback. And that's the only healthy season of his career where he did not make the playoffs. He's in it's crazy because the XFL is very much back because we had Taylor Heineke and PJ Walker XFL legends

being Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady today. PJ Walker is like, how can you not root for the guy because he was undrafted, cut, led the league and led the XFL in touchdowns and yards before it got canceled. Now as I think two and one is a spot starter. And he I don't I mean watching this game. It was crazy because you just kept on thinking like, oh, yeah, the Bucks will wake up. They just aren't good.

They're just straight up are not a good team. Their losses against the Panthers and the Steelers are probably that's probably the worst two game stretch that any team will have all season. It's I mean it can when you can when you take into account 13 point favorite. Yeah, when you take into account how much they were favored by in each game. It's it's pretty bad. This is supposed to be the get right game for the Bucks. They're wrong.

They got they got less right than they were before. They got worse. I actually so I had this idea last night when we were when I was watching South Carolina, Texas A&M and Miami had just lost to Duke by I think double digits. And at the end of the year, I want us to do like a recap of big games. We thought they were big games that ended up not being big games like the Texas Miami game and whatever it was week three. Everyone got pumped for it.

Oh man, Texas A&M is great. Miami's back and it's like both those teams are probably going to not even go to a bowl. The Packers Bucks game that we watched, whatever it was week three, week four, we're like big game. Huge game implications for the playoffs. We're going to look back and be like, no, that game just sucked in 1412 was exactly what we thought it was like a defensive battle. And oh, they aren't healthy. No, no, both those teams just aren't that good.

Yeah, you're going to probably maybe say that about maybe Rams Cardinals. Yeah, maybe some of those games. So we need to we need to do a retrospective of all the all the all the games that we thought were big games in the moment. And then we look back and we're like that game. If they played that now, we'd be like, no thanks. What are we saying? Miami and Texas A&M played right now.

Yeah. I'm like, no, put it in noon and I'll watch it on ESPNU. I think we're saying when we did our season preview with Andy Staples that we should draft games that will be played over the course of the season and see how good those games are going to be compared to our drafting of those matchups. Yeah. Hank and I were talking a little bit on the couch today about about Brady and Hank, you were saying that that Brady still has like an ace up his sleeve that he can use with his family,

where if he if he just walks away from the team right now in the middle, that like what could be more saying some other what could be more romantic than that. Right. Like what if what if Tom Brady just like quit in the middle of the season to go be with his family like Gisele would probably be taken aback and be like, wow, this is a grand gesture. It's the most romantic thing you've ever done. I would be. Yeah, they would. I think I think the best and you know, like it, you know, the bucks stink.

Tom Brady probably realizes that, you know, the playoffs are a long way away. Well, no, that's the problem is they 100% are still going to make. Yeah, they'll make it. So they play in the NFC side. I actually think the most romantic thing, and this should be a motivational tool for Tom Brady, the most romantic thing you can do if you really want your family back, you got to turn this motherfucker around. You got to get the bucks to the playoffs.

You got to get them all the way to the Super Bowl and then quit right before the Super Bowl and go back to her and be like, I've realized where in in in all this perspective, having that I've done this week, I've realized that you're what's more important to me than some who cares about a Super Bowl. Kyle Trask will play in the Super Bowl. Yeah. Jake, remind us, because this is going to happen. The bucks are going to make the playoffs.

They are, they play it. Oh, the Yankees are about to blow this lead. They had an ending ending double play with an error and the Astros just tied it. Oh man. Similar to game three when they collided in the outfield and that hit a two run home run. Sweep is coming. That's really hard. This is a painful way to go out.

It's not ideal. It's a painful way to go out. Kind of crazy to think that in the history of part of my take, like most of us have had teams win a World Series. Yeah. And now it's up to Billy. You, Jake. Yeah.

The Yankees are and Max. Yeah. We've, yeah. Yeah. Four sixths of the show have gone or four fifths because you guys are both Yankee fans have gone to at least gone to the World Series. Yankees have not to tip the cap. Imagine saying that.

Congratulations. The Red Sox, the Phillies, the Cubs and the Nationals have all gone to the World Series and the Yankees have not. Correct. Wow. Not good. That's a bad franchise. No hiding from it.

It's a bad franchise. I think it just speaks to how bad decade. No, it's a bad franchise. It's a bad franchise. Poorly run. Pinchripes don't mean anything anymore. That's a fact. It's not ideal.

Yeah. Well, no, it's a good, you guys made the playoffs pretty much every year in the decade. And that seems like a good thing now. I was saying this spins on earlier. You guys are just choke artists and can't even make it to the championship. 62 home runs is like, that's better than a World Series. Right. No clean players ever done that.

That's like almost top five of all time. Yeah. Hang a banner. Number one clean runs. Number one clean. Number one clean player. Check the record books. You're a stats guy.

Yeah. So does it say clean or dirty on the record? No, it says not. You show me Sammy Sosa's failed drug test? Jake, what? Yeah, you can't. Where did Barry Bons ever test positive? So what are you?

I don't know. I just go by the record books. Yeah. You believe the fake news. That's what you do. Yeah. Okay. So 62.

That's hang a banner. Um, okay. Wait, Brady, we were talking about. Oh, yeah. He's old. Yeah. He's old. Oh, yeah.

They will go to the playoffs. Yep. What I was saying to Jake is remind us, because this is what's going to happen. The Bucks are going to win the NFC South. They're probably going to win, I don't know. Let's say, what do you think they're going to go? Maybe 10 and seven, maybe?

Off the, if I'm just putting my finger in the wind and feeling which way I think that this Bucks team could go, I think that they probably make the playoffs at 10 and seven. Nine and eight, maybe? Or they could, they could go 11 and six. I don't think they're going 11 and six. I mean, they're not, not how they are right now. Do you think they only lose two more games?

No, they're not going 11 and six. I'm just saying like how long until Bruce Arians gets moved from like two steps off the sideline to one step off the side. Yeah. No, I don't think they're going 11 and six. I could see them going yet. 10 and seven, nine and eight. Either way, they're going to have a home playoff game

because they're winning the NFC South. Jake, you need to, no matter what we say, don't let us bet on the Bucks, because what we're going to say in everyone in the world is going to say, don't count on Tom Brady. This team is bad. This team is just bad. And sometimes you got to say, guess what?

It's not all Tom Brady's fault, but the team is bad. This is not going to be the first don't bet on this person in the playoffs reminder. Who's what's the other one? It's from the January 24th of last season. Titans, Bengals. Don't let Big Cat bet on Ryan. 10.

Okay. All right. Yeah. All right. So this is the same date. I was going to do the same thing. So now we have two reminders. All right.

So that's actually the perfect segue because the Titans are going to win the AFC South. So both, oh, Kenny Pickett just threw a pick. He was leading him down. No, incomplete. Oh, incomplete. Wait, wait, Big Cat, before you get to that, I'm just looking at the Bucks schedule.

Yeah, no, they're not going 11 and 6. Loss, loss. They're playing the Seahawks at 9.30 AM. I'm assuming that's a London game. Yep. That's, I like the Seahawks. That's a weird Seahawks game. Seahawks are in first place.

Why was that ruled incomplete? Yeah, that was then Deshaun Watson. Yeah, 9 and 7. But they might make the playoffs if they're 9 and 7. No, I think they will. I think if they just beat, if they beat the Saints, if they can beat the Panthers, which they couldn't today, and they already have one game against the Falcons,

they're going to go to the playoffs. Don't let us bet because you know we're going to talk ourselves and be like, don't count on Tom Brady. This team is just bad, similar to the Packers. They're just bad. It's just a bad team. Maybe they figure it out, but they're a bad team. But how romantic would it be if the, let's just say

they're up by like one point at halftime and Tom Brady pulls Avante Davis and just leaves and drives home at halftime of the Super Bowl to be with his wife. And I don't think it's all Tom Brady. Their offensive line is crap. Their defense is supposed to be really good. And then it felt like whatever the Panthers needed to get

a drive or even ice the game, they were able to gash them. It's just a bad football team. I feel like they just, they don't have any weapons. I mean, Mike Evans, yeah, he's great, but and he dropped that one catch today, which was really tough to watch. Julio Jones, guess what? He's old, he hasn't played, he stinks now.

Tom Brady is probably considering getting on the phone with Antonio Brown. Yeah. Be like, Hey, I know that you've been posting some memes recently. You've been very active in Photoshop, but let's just let bygones be bygones because I'm trying to win a football game here.

Yes. All right. So the Steelers officially have lost this game. That was actually. But the Steelers covered. Yeah, they covered. Good teams win. Great teams cover.

Dolphins feel like they're back on track. Right back in the mix. I'm defeated with two in a full game. Yes. They finally did a full four quarters where they had the same quarterback the whole time, which they hadn't done in like a month. They haven't lost with that formula.

Yes. So good for the Dolphins. I mean, the Steelers are put the Steelers in your frisky file because it does feel like they play frisky ball and TJ Watt will be coming back. Yeah. So, but yeah, that didn't, that didn't feel.

I'll have to watch the all 22. It didn't feel like Kenny was great down the stretch, even though I still believe. And the answer is taking the lead after the error of inning ending double play. And Hank is chuckling like the Joker. That was a very Joker fried chuckle that you gave. Are you going to finally give up, Jake?

Of course not. Okay. That was like, that was even like the Joaquin Phoenix Joker. Yeah. That was an evil, evil villainous laugh. Pathetic team. Pathetic team. Pathetic.

Pathetic. Billy? Come on. Billy knows the pathetic. The game's not over. Billy knows the pathetic. I went. How do you feel about the pathetic?

You guys both went to the game. I went to the game. I went to the game. Pathetic. That was pathetic. Saturday night's game was pathetic. Yankee games in my life. That was the worst playoff game I've ever been to.

Would you say it was pathetic? It was pathetic. Yes. You guys had like two hits? Three hits, two of them in the ninth inning. Yeah. Pathetic. They had one hit entering the ninth inning.

Going to a game and not being able to cheer like once. Yeah. That's pathetic. Cole having a scoreless first inning. Oh, that was cool. Yeah. That was awesome. And it was cool when he said I got you.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that was very funny. Yeah, it was awesome. Don't worry, I'll take care of this guy. Good teammate. And the short porch. Just poetic. Yeah, it's like you built your own stadium to eliminate yourself.

Yes. That's tough. It was a really nice day. Foisted by your own petard. Oh, no. I hate that. If they only had closed the roof, game two would have been different. That was very funny.

Yeah. The Yankees, I mean, you guys have to admit the Yankees, the way they go out and like the excuses they make are so funny. It's very funny that it's the Yankees. You can't defend. No, you can't defend the fact that they were like exit velocity. I said, I was like, why not just play the games whoever has the hardest hit ball in the game wins.

Also, it's inning ending double play, but on the plate of first, the pitcher should have been there a lot earlier. That was two mistakes. Two mistakes. That's full muscle. I'll do this quick. Bad, you know what they say? Bad fundies.

Yeah, fund the money. This is the stuff they work off in spring to inning. Big hat. Home runs. Yeah, it's true. 62 of them. And the team in general, like they just mash, so who cares? You know what though?

Can't play small ball. Most Yankee fans? Can't field. Can't pitch. No bullpen. The majority of Yankee fans are the one nice thing you could say is the majority Yankee fans are giants or Jets fans. So at least they have a good football team.

That's a fact. Except Jake. Except well, his team just won. He's won. Yeah, his team just won. Okay. Next up, sad quarterbacks. Titans, Colts, Titans 19, Colts 10.

Matt Ryan just got absolutely demolished in this game. The Titans wanted essentially just Derrick. They're like old school Titans. They went Derrick Henry in defense. Bud Dupree back. Best name ever. Playing great defense. And yeah, it's like the Colts, they had that nice little two game stretcher.

It was like, hey, they're winning games ugly. Look at like they went to the short night short game in Denver and they win a Thursday night game. Then they beat the Jags at home with a fourth quarter comeback. And then you come back to earth and you see Matt Ryan just running for his life, getting absolutely smoked, playing and play out. He has nine interceptions, 11 fumbles, three loss, but 11 fumbles. And this is what you paid for.

He's actually, he's had a good couple weeks for his fumbling. Considering what he was at before. So he's on an upswing for that. He's doing this thing where anytime somebody gets in the backfield, he like starts to bail on a throw before even starts to throw. He gets scared. He gets very scared, which I mean, like all things considered, it's probably correct to get scared.

He gets played against these guys at your age. Yes. But you have to have a quarterback that just pretends to not be afraid. We're trying to throw football. He's not at that point anymore. So do you know, congratulations to the, to the AFC South Tennessee Titans. I mean, the champions, the Titans are, it's just, they just do it every year. They're not, no one's going to say the Titans are like this incredible team,

but they just keep having wins and results. And they have the driver's seat now with two games at hand against the Colts, which feels like 10. Feels like 10. The Jaguars stink, the Texans stink. The Titans, it's their division to lose. And Derek Henry, he had 128 yards on 30 attempts. It was just old school football.

The Titans are now 15 and three the last three years when he rushes for over a hundred yards. And I do have one thing that I found. So two, two quotes that I found that are, made me chuck a one. Our friend Dan Dockage said, this is just a very old man thing to say. He just tweeted, Matt Ryan comma my ass. Yeah. Yeah.

Just loved it. I was like, yeah, that's enough said. He also, my ass. Dockage had another fire tweet yesterday about his ass too. His ass. We gotta, can somebody put together maybe Jake or Billy? This sounds like more like a Billy, Billy assignment. Can you look up all of Dan Dockage's tweets that use the phrase ass?

My ass. Especially my ass. That's such an, I see it all the time for me. And every time I see it, I just, I have to hit retweet because I, I love Dan Dockage thinking about his ass. Like I think the first time that was ever said was like when they invented color TVs or like color TVs, my ass. Yeah.

I wanted black and white. That's how that's an old school thing to say my ass. I would say just the first, the first car that was invented. Yeah. I got a horse. Yeah. What's this? A motor, my ass.

My ass. Yeah. It's literally a donkey. Yeah. We got a lot. Yeah. We got a lot. No, baby, read us some.

Read us a couple. Most recent. Matt Ryan, my ass. Yup. We got this one's from a year ago. My man, Jackson Parton can really go. College coaches, if you want a tough ass winner, this is the kid. That's not, that's not the,

My ass, three hours ago, my ass. Okay. And not our ass. Just my ass. About what? What's the context on that one? How do you even know? It's just,

He's just treated my ass. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Good. And he might have like tire ears. This one, this one's from June to fund the police, my ass. Okay.

Nice. Yeah. This is all the, yeah, I like this. What the fuck is IU doing? It's Branch McCracken court put his damn name in the court. Cindy Simon, scotch assembly hall, my ass. Okay. Very good.

Okay. Just saw the release Woodson is acting like he fired Fife. How ridiculous is that? What have I told you about Fife? What have I told you for years about IUBB brotherhood, my ass? My ass. Okay. That's a good one.

Ha, ha, ha. As I explained today, I don't need morality lessons from a politician. I need results. Honest, my ass. Yeah. This is, yeah, he, when you, when he, when dockets drops of my ass, you're done. Yeah. You're cooked.

So Matt Ryan. Matt Ryan, Matt Ryan, my ass. My ass. Picture of Whoopi Goldberg tells about health and how you're supposed to act. My ass. Oh, I like that. Oh, oh, here, this is the one that I saw the other night. Get off Brian Kelly's all caps.

Ass. Oh, nice. I think it's nice. Yeah. I mean, Brian Kelly. Hooked on confetti, my ass. My ass. Yeah.

So I saw that one. Great quote. Dan Dockich, you know, just that there's nothing more to be said than Matt Ryan, my ass, like watching him play quarterback. It has to be painful for Colts fans right now. And then Jim Ursay, this is such a telling quote. It was a story. I think it was either chef's or rap board tweeted out a story.

Jim Ursay said about Matt Ryan. I've been around a lot of leaders and I'd put him right up there with Peyton Manning. When you have to talk about your quarterback as a leader, not actually a quarterback, they probably suck. I don't know how he's comparable to Peyton Manning. As a leader, though, he didn't say anything about his quarterbacking, which is what you pay him to do. I guess he's a leader in terms that he gets the team to play for him.

No, I think it's like him. Like right now, this Colts entire style of play kind of does embody Matt Ryan. Yeah. So they are playing, they are taking after his identity. So you could say he's doing a good job leading them to be who he is. Right. And I think it's more that he's an older guy in the locker room and he's played a lot of games. So people follow him and he's a nice guy.

We've had him on the show. He's a very nice guy. He's had a great career. He's not good anymore. I just think Jim Ursay bases whatever his current mood is just pretty much perfectly aligned with whatever Bob Dylan song he just ended up listening to. So if he hears the times they are changing, then that's when he gets in front of a microphone and says, we're going to fire Dan Stein.

That sort of thing. So he probably heard like an emotional song and he was like, yeah, I like, you know what? Now, for the time being, I like Matt Ryan. Yeah, Matt Ryan, but I do just as good of a leader as Peyton Manning. What about his quarterbacking? I do think he's probably going to fire Frank Reich and and Ballard. I think that I think you have to fire Ballard. He probably should get rid of both of them.

I feel like Frank Reich might be a midseason firing. Yeah. I mean, little birdie told me they got a special teams coordinator that they're looking at. Okay. They, they are still very much in the playoff hunt with the AFC. So I mean, it, like we said, the Titans losing to the Titans twice this early in the season feels like a very large deficit. They have to overcome, but they're three, they're three, three and one, which is, you know,

we're talking about how bad Matt Ryan has been and how bad the team has been, but they, they are three, three and one. So I guess they can't be the worst. Yeah. They're not as bad as the Texans and the Jaguars. And guess what? They get to play the Texans and the Jaguars. No, they play the Jaguars twice.

They have the Texans again one more time. This is kind of a perfect summation of what it's like being a Titans fan a little bit because after the game, Ryan Tannehill was seen in a walking boot. He was hurt in the second half. He got it out. He got it out. He had to be like just handing it off their account. He had a walking boot on his right foot, I believe.

And the Titans are in first place. They're probably going to win that division. It's starting to be tractor-cito season and nobody in the Titans fan base is freaking out about Ryan Tannehill potentially being injured. No, because they're like, well, probably want to see Malik Willis out there. He's probably not going to be, probably not going to be as bad, but I like Malik Willis. I do, but it seems like they don't know how to use them when they put them in games. Seems like most cool things that I've seen Malik Willis do when he's been in the game for

the Titans has been because something broke down and he has to improvise on the back end of it and figure out a way to make something happen. I just think that the Titans are probably, I mean, it's a credit to Mike Vrabel as an incredible coach that they're always seemed to be in this situation. They start 0-2 this year. They're now on a four-game winning streak. They do have the driver's seat. They also scored their first points in the fourth quarter of the season today with six,

six fourth quarter points, huge. But if you're a Titans fan deep down, you're like, so we're going to go to the playoffs and we're going to just watch Ryan Tannehill again. Give us something new because this is a playoff team. And then if you have, oh, Giancarlo just short, that's brutal. They should bring the porch in a little more in the off season. They should, like the Orioles extended their outfield. Let's get about 10 more feet in.

If Jeffrey Merer was out there, that would have been a home run. That's tough, Jake. Man. But yeah, if I were a Titans fan, I would feel very much like, hey, it would be cool to have a new toy. Yeah. A new thing. Well, they're getting excited about. Well, they're getting a roof on their stadium.

That's kind of cool. Oh, they are. Anything about that? Yeah, they're getting a new dome put in there. Oh, nice. Just on top of the. I think they're building a new stadium that is going to have a dome. Okay.

So they're not putting us, because that's some, that's some fucking Lloyd Lightfoot shit where she's trying to do that soldier field, like we'll just put a roof on it. Yeah. Like that's not how it works. No, they're, they're getting a roof, but they're also getting another stadium. Got it. That is attached to the new roof that they're going to get. That's going to be, oh, that means we get a Super Bowl in Nashville.

In Las Vegas, baby. That's going to be awesome. Yeah. Nashville Broadway is not ready. Oh my God. Those two twins, they're just the twins that take pictures. It's like two little short twins, dudes. They just take pictures on Broadway with people.

I need to look this up because I don't know who those guys are. Yeah. Oh wait. Are those the guys that ride in the motorcycles? Twins. No. Broadway. Nashville.

They like hand out. They hand out like, yeah, I mean, guys love twins. Bang. This is what they're called. I have an Instagram account called bang. The bang. This twins official Nashville. They just stand around on Broadway taking pictures with people.

I think they. Oh yeah. I've seen those guys. Yeah. Yeah. You know them. They kind of look like what I'm going to look like when I'm old. Yeah.

Bang this twins. So we need to find you a twin. Okay. Last. Wait. I had one more note on this game. Okay. Yeah.

Um, Mike Vrabel, I think, I don't know if he's one or one A when it comes to the funniest coaches, when it comes to challenging officials, like throwing the flag. Yep. Because Belichick's up there. I think it's Belichick and Vrabel as one or two. Today, Vrabel did this one where he like, he stepped in front of the ref. And took the challenge flag out and just dropped it in his face. I love it.

And it's like rubbing your dog's face in it when they, when they pee inside the house. He was like, you fucked up. I'm going to make you watch me drop this flag. Belichick, when he does it, he just, he tries to get it like out of his jacket as quickly as possible. Or sock. Yeah. It's, yeah. It's like a lit cigarette somewhere inside of me just takes and just kind of like throws it off.

But Vrabel does it when he's got intent. Yeah. He's like, I want you to know that you fucked this. I want him to do like the Scott Disick and shove it in one of the ref's mouth. Yeah. Here you go. If you hit a ref with a flag, is that a penalty? Because let's, let's fuck around and find out.

Because refs can hit players with flags. Yeah. Let's fuck around and find out. Was it Orlando? No. What was his name? Yeah. The guy that got hit in the eye.

Fuck. What was his name? We're dating ourselves. Was it Orlando Brown? Maybe. Maybe. He blinded. He got blinded.

The ref threw a flag right into his eye. It was, yeah. That was very bad. Yeah. Orlando Brown. All right. So our memory still works. Yeah.

If you're the Titans, good win, great win. But we know, like Titans fans, we know. We're talking to you right now. Your team is good. Your coach is great. It might be time to try something new. If you win a playoff game this year, you've got to be like kind of pumped about that. You just know it's, there is a feeling when you have a team that has,

that is better than most teams and most likely going to win their division, but you also know exactly where the season will end and how it will end. And just having that in the back of your head, it has to suck. You know what you got to be hoping for? You got to be hoping for a fucked up weather game in the playoffs. Yeah. The Titans could win a fucked up weather game. Big time.

If it's like super windy. I think that's the key. I don't know if you can go into Buffalo and beat them in the snow. That to me feels like the Bills can just like play their offense. And you feel like a tornado. It's got to be windy as fuck. Yeah. You got to hope for like 30 mile an hour wind.

An actual tornado I'm talking about. Hopefully a tornado and maybe some rain too. Because I think Derek Henry could run through a tornado, although Josh Allen definitely could run through a tornado. Yeah, that's tricky. There's no way a tornado could tackle Josh Allen. No, I don't think you're beating the Bills. But Josh Allen, I think is light enough where he might get picked up by the tornado.

Derek Henry is heavier. Have you ever seen the movie Twister? Where the twit, the tornado, RIP Bill Paxton, the tornado fucks up all the lightweight cars? When did he die, by the way? Like three years ago, I think. Fuck. I, you missed it?

I saw a tweet the other day and I was like, damn, he's dead. Yeah, no, yeah, I missed that one. RIP. That's on me, hand up. That's on me. Okay, next game. Let's talk about a team that actually does have a future. The Bengals, 35, Falcon 17, the Bengals are back.

And we kind of felt like this was happening in the second half against the Saints. Now it confirmed against the Falcons. They are back. They are back doing the Bengal stuff where you cannot guard all their weapons. Joe Burrow back shoulder to Jamar Chase is literally an unguardable play. Running out of shotgun, just flinging it around. Their defense making stops the second half.

The Bengals are all the way back. I think they're all the way back. They're out of shotgun like basically the entire day today. That's what they should always do. And Burrow, if you don't blitz him and he catches the ball in shotgun and he's got all the time in the world, he is going to throw touchdowns. He's going to throw yards on you. And the first half, he had 345 yards and three touchdowns.

It's insane. He was on pace to break the single game. But I feel like that happens a lot now where teams get out to a huge lead and throw the ball of shitload in the first half. And then you'll never catch Norm Van Brockland. He's up in heaven. Yes, Josh Allen. Is he dead?

He's probably dead. He's up in heaven. He's laughing at you when you have 345 yards in the first half. He's like, you're not getting close to my record. No. Today, I'm more confused about what happened with the Falcons because we know that the Bengals offense can do this whenever, if Joe Burrow has time, he will pick you apart and he will find his weapons downfield.

The Falcons offense, how do you lose by 18 points and you only attempt 13 passes? Because that's what they do. They're not built to throw. At all. Ever. So fun little stat here. It's a qualify for passing yards. Like if you're doing like a passing yards per completion stat,

you have to attempt at least 14 passes over the course of the game. The Falcons didn't even attempt enough passes to qualify for passing stats. And they lost by 18 points. Yeah, I mean, that was a game that they lost the game in the first quarter because the Bengals just were throwing it down the field and they got such a lead that it's like the Falcons can't, they're not built to do this. They have to muck it up and play these like ugly games.

It's actually the Falcons are like a giant's light. You know what I mean? Like the Giants, if a team comes out and goes up 21-nothing on the Giants, similar to what the Bengals did, like the Giants aren't really built to do that, although they did come back on the Packers. But yeah, the Falcons were screwed right away. And the Bengals, we mentioned on Friday's show, but if you're looking for free money,

just take the Bengals second half no matter what, because they do not give up points in the second half. They give up no points in the second half today. That is now, we're now seven weeks into the season, seven games, and they have given up a total of 27 points in the second half. All field goals have not given up a touchdown in the second half. That means that they are giving up an average of less than two points a quarter in the second half. Pretty good.

That's crazy. The defensive adjustments they make is nuts. It's pretty good. I think it's safe to say the Bengals are officially a well-coached team. Yeah, and it's now, I now feel confident because we said, but going in this season, if you had to pick one team, it's like, hey, was that an illusion last year? Or is this something that they're going to build on?

We had the Bengals, we don't doubt Joe Burrow ever, but we had the Bengals as a franchise in that group of sustained success for the Bengals, might be tough. And it did look that way for the first couple of games. And now it's like, nope, they're back. This is exactly where they need to be. It's just going to take a while to get the Bengals stench off you. Yeah, right.

And so you are the Bengals. Of course, we're going to doubt a little bit that you can put together back-to-back winning seasons because you've never been able to do that like ever, or at least in the last 30 years. But yeah, it's not a fluke. Their coaching staff is good. And it's funny because I think a lot of Bengals fans kind of hate their coaching staff. Well, they hate them when they don't let them just,

when they don't let Joe Burrow just be Joe Burrow and throw it down the field. Right. But I think the body of evidence is big enough now on Zach Taylor, where you can say, he's a very good coach. Like, as long as he doesn't... He might fuck up occasionally game to game, but you're in good hands with Zach Taylor in the long term. I think he's a good coach that sometimes has dumb coach thoughts,

where he's like, hey, let's just run the ball and not throw it to these incredible weapons we have to let Joe Burrow be in shock. Of course. So he's going to make a few... But for like full game plans. For a full game plan. I think it's safe to say he's a pretty good coach. It's funny like bringing up the Falcons the way that they're built.

If they fall behind, I do think that Arthur Smith is like, well, we're not going to beat you if I let Marcus Mario to throw the ball 30 times. So I'm just going to... We're just going to get practice reps in for the rest of this game. And we're going to hope that what we learn today carries over to next week, where we're probably going to kick the shit out of the Panthers. Right. So he treated the second half of this game a little bit like it was prepped for...

And they should win like four out of their next five games. I think the Falcons are going to make the playoffs. Ooh. That's my take. How? I think they might make the playoffs. How? So the Bucks won't then.

The Bucks... I just looked at the schedule for the Falcons. I might be walking back my Bucks take. Okay. Okay. Yeah. I mean, the Falcons do have the Bears and the Commanders coming up. Yeah.

They get the Panthers, the Chargers at home. They get the Panthers again. The Bears, the Commanders, the Steelers at home. All right. So your issue though is going to be... It feels like there's going to be three teams out of the NFC East. So that's a very small margin. You're basically...

If you say the Falcons are making the playoffs, that means... I'm trying to do the Giants Jaguars bet all over again right now with the stats. So if the Falcons are making the playoffs and I like to take, like whatever, let's root for Arthur Smith. But you're essentially... It's a bet against... You're saying the Packers, the Bucks, the Rams and the 49ers, only one of those teams can really make the playoffs.

Packers, the Bucks, the Rams, 49ers. Maybe two. Packers are out. Okay. And you're going to kick out the Rams and the 49ers? I'm going to say maybe the 49ers will make it. Okay. Yeah.

Because you can't have... It would be tough. If you believe in the NFC Beast, it would be tough for the Falcons to make the playoffs. I just think, hey, let's fucking... Let's make a bet on it. Let's bet on it. I think that probably crazy odds.

I think that the Cowboys, they're going to learn their lesson that they should have stuck with Cooper Rush. And so they're going to follow up. Cowboys defense travels. Their Cowboys are going to... I actually bet a guy, I think, a Cowboys. A Cowboys fan tweeted me. It was like, as soon as that got her,

he's like, if the Cowboys have a better record than the Bears when they play week eight, you owe me 100 push-ups. So I have to do 100 push-ups this week. Oh, that sucks. Yeah. Thoughts and prayers. So here's what I think is going to happen with the Falcons. Once or just throughout the week?

I think just throughout the week. Because I can't do it. I didn't really... I didn't pull this take out of thin air. I've been circling the Falcons for a little bit and I was just going to throw out the result of this game no matter what happened because I thought the Bengals were going to win.

But their schedule is so easy in the next five games. And I think at some point, they're going to go to Desmond Ritter. And he might be able... If he could just pass the ball, I don't know, for 200 yards game, 220 yards a game, then this team could be... They could unlock the next level. So the problem with the Falcons being the playoffs is I love the take and I love the idea

because I do like what Arthur Smith is doing. But it's like, in a vacuum, if the Falcons just existed on their own and you're like, they just need to get to nine wins and they'll make the playoffs. I think they can get to nine wins. But it's like all those other teams sucking would be pretty tough.

You're betting against a lot of really teams that are more talented than them sucking for the rest of the year. I'm thinking that the most likely possibility for the Falcons to make the playoffs would be if the Buccaneers imploded entirely. Yes, yes. And that could happen.

And that could happen. That could absolutely happen if Tom Brady retired. Right. So I've got two real options here. One is that the Buccaneers implode entirely underneath their own weight. The second is that, what, three out of those four teams that you mentioned? Yeah, the Packers, the 49ers,

the Packers, the 49ers, and the Bucs all have to fall off. So it's some combination of those. I think they could do it. That's all I'm saying is I think if I'm a Falcons fan, I would actually... It's the opposite of what the Titans are feeling where the Titans, they know that they're going to make the playoffs and probably not do that much once they get there.

If the Falcons make the playoffs at all this year, you are fucking pumped going into next year. Like, because you realize that Arthur Smith is a good coach. Yes. If they're able to do that. Yes. Last thing on this game, I have to just say it because I get insults that...

Oh, the Yankee fans look like they're about to cry. It's Josh Donaldson. Oh, what happened with Josh Donaldson? The fans are letting him here. I like all these check-ins that we get for this game. This is actually very fun. And it looks like a lot of empty seats. You can't strike out looking.

Jake, looks like a lot of empty seats right now. People left. I don't think so. Oh, that's a lot of empty seats. That's a lot of empty seats. Spring training? That's a lot of empty seats. That's Rudy Giuliani's seat right there.

Jake, that's a lot of empty seats than Falcons. There's a lot of empty seats right now. Billy, you agree. You can see... We're just seeing it with our eyes. There's a lot of empty seats for a playoffs. The only fan behind the dugout that's behind home plate that's still there is Ted Cruz.

Yeah, Ted Cruz. Big baseball guy. Look at you, Ted Cruz. Ted Cruz takes part in it right there. Yeah. So I get insults statted left and right. So I just need to throw this out there. Jamar Chase and Tyler Boyd,

they both had 100 yards and a touchdown in the first half. The last time two teammates did that was 2015. Jeremy Langford and Zach Miller for the Bears. Wow. Pretty cool. That is an elite company. Zach Miller had an 87-yard touchdown pass from Cuddy. So I just...

It's rare that I get a stat that goes my way for once. No, that's very nice. You have to take advantage of those moments for sure. I'll just say that if we're re-ranking, like we did last year, AFC North quarterbacks, I would say number one is Joe Burrow after he appears in part of my take. Yes.

That's number one. And he has to appear again for a full interview for us to keep him at one. Yes. Number two is backup Mitch Trebisky. Okay. When he comes in off the bench. Number two and the number three...

First half Lamar. First half Lamar. And number four, second half Kenny Pickett. Yes, second half Kenny. A lot of picks. He does have like six or seven picks now. Then Jacobi Bresset until the last minute of most games. And then Deshaun Watson.

I'd say castrated Deshaun Watson is sixth place. Maybe with a... Yeah. Horny Deshaun, seventh, last place. We put him on some... Was it Prozac? Get his boner down? Yeah, he won't.

He'll just be like... Yeah. Kind of just... Kind of just there. Yeah, there, right. And then very last place behind that is Joe Burrow when he goes on Colin Coward. Yes, yes.

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The Lions almost scored a touchdown down on the like one inch line. Very next play fumble by Jamal Williams on the goal line. Then the Cowboys, you know, game was over. Game was over. Yeah. Game was over. If you can't catch, if you can't catch,

you play cornerback, right? And if you can't really catch at all a single little bit, then you play cornerback on the Lions. Yeah. I think they dropped two pick sixes today. It was bad. It was really bad. It just felt like the Lions were in that game

and their defense, like that, that was the frustrating part for Lions fans. Their defense actually played a good game for once and they held on for a while. And then when you can't score at all, they just kind of, it all kind of fell apart. They had, I think they had five second half turnovers the Lions did.

So just, it was like, they were in it. They were in it. They were in a six, three and a half, I think. And then all of a sudden it just, once the wheels came off, they just came off in a hilariously bad fashion and the whole train blew up. I think that their offense had as many tackles as their starting middle linebacker did.

And that's not a good stat to have. Yeah, Rodrigo, I think he had four tackles and then between Jared, Penae Soule, and a couple other guys. I think Tim Kennedy got in on the action. I think they, yeah, dog, absolute dog. Four tackles a piece when you compare those two. Jack Fox stat, Jack Fox, their punter through a dime.

And he got a new contract. He's now the highest paid punter in the NFL. So shout out to Jack Fox. Okay, that's huge. He's an AWL. That's huge. That is, that's love Jack Fox. Their punter is really good.

Yeah. Is like, if you're the Detroit Lions, you've got a lot of ups and downs, some highs and lows, mostly lows. You've got some expectations. And the one, the one person on the team that always lives up to the expectation is Jack Fox. Yes.

So salute to you. And I don't know, I was reading, because, you know, we haven't seen the Lions for two weeks because they were obviously on a buy. And we're talking about is Dan Campbell going to be in trouble? I was reading some more about it. It feels like maybe not that they're very committed to him. They like him, but he's now 0 and 11 on the road with the Lions.

Coming off a buy, it felt like the offense was, I mean, I'm on Ross St. Brown got hurt. So that should, that is your best offensive player. He got hurt in the first quarter, I think, with the concussion. But they are like the one time their defense held. It was, it held for three quarters. And then you just can't find a lead in that, in that bang bang down at the one fumble next play was just,

that was such a same old Lions thing that it just depressed me. It's tough. So they were missing St. Brown. They're missing Chark who's been out for a couple of weeks now. And they were missing Swift. Yeah. Also didn't play today. So they're all maybe, yeah.

Their offense just kind of wasn't there at all. And yeah, Dan Campbell, he needs to figure out something new to do because I think he's going to end up killing himself, not like suicidal or anything like that. I'm saying through his own emotions. Yeah, he's going to, he's going to give himself a stroke. He's going to try to just like, will his team through motivation to win a game?

And it's like, you got to do something else. Yeah. Something else because it's, it's a bummer. And I want to, I want the Lions like, even though they're in, in the best division, like the Lions being good, the people of Detroit deserve it. And it felt like watching them the first few weeks, at least they were fun.

And now the fun is gone. And it's like, you lose whatever it was, 29, nothing to the Patriots. And then lose 24, six to the Cowboys. Also from our guy, Stathole, only three of the 64 teams that started one in five have given up more points than the Lions. Yeah. No, their defense is historically, historically. And it held.

That's the craziest part. It held. Like Dak comes back. He looked okay. I actually, the craziest thing that I, I'm sure they'll go away from it because it feels like every time Dak is out there, they're like, Hey, let's just throw it a bunch. When it's like the Cowboys, the reason why Cooper Rush was winning

football games is they were playing to their strength of Ezekiel and Tony Pollard and then running play action off of it. And if you do that with Dak, you could have like a really, really good team and they did it today. And they ran the ball really effectively today. And I just, I don't know. I'm just bummed about the Lions. I thought they were going to be frisky and fun and they're not.

Yeah. And they're sad. So you can't, you can't use tears after every single game. And I feel like that's, Dan Campbell's been crying a lot this season. Yeah. And at some point you tune out the tears. Like Dan Campbell will be first team all NFL like getting out of speeding tickets. Yes.

But in terms of like motivating your team to come back in the second half when you're down, I don't, he needs to hire somebody like Nathaniel Hackett, hire a guy to give him decision making advice. Dan Campbell just needs to hire a guy who's a halftime specialist. Yes. Because I feel like Dan Campbell, he will get you ready to play in a football game. He will get you ready to run through a brick wall form and you want to play and you want to win for him.

But he's not the smart. How do I say this diplomatically? He's kind of a meathead. Yeah. And you need someone who's kind of a nerd to counterbalance that. If you're going to make a halftime adjustment. Yes. So if you're getting out coached, if you're getting out nerded by Mike McCarthy at halftime,

that's an issue that you might want to address. Yeah. So just get, get some sort of a nerd to help you out and figure out what's going wrong in the first half and what particular things you need to change to execute on in the second half. Instead of just going into the speech and being like, we need to play harder. Dan Campbell and Mike McDaniels together. That'd be perfect. Super Bowl.

Great buddy cop movie too. Super Bowl. Yes. That would be incredible to see the two of them walking out. Has they ever, has there ever been a team? Co-head coaches. Two head coaches. No.

I think that they, that would be the best of both worlds entirely. It really would. It really would. People will say that, I mean, I guess like Buddy Ryan and Mike Dicker kind of did that, although Mike Dicker would disagree. But that would be a great. That would be like Belichick and Parcells. Yeah.

Like why not? Just two kind of coaches. It worked out pretty well. Yeah. Dan Campbell also got the embarrassment of the Cowboys pregame program. They named him, they said Lions first year head coach, and then they used a picture of the D-Line coach, Todd Wash, instead of Dan Campbell. Dan Campbell used to play on the Cowboys.

That's fucked up. Very fucked up. Yeah. Very fucked up. And then also there was a report that Dak specifically picked the Lions to come back from his injury, which I don't even understand that. Like wouldn't he just come back when he's ready to come back? When you're healthy.

But he specifically picked the Lions. So it's bad. It's bad and the Cowboys are good. Like the Cowboys are a good team. I think we've established that. Like their defense is very, very good. And the Trayvon Diggs now has, which it's kind of the, it's been washed away a little bit like, you know, the talk about Trayvon Diggs being this all world corner

when he does take a lot of chances, but he's now played 35 games. The NFL has 17 intercepts. It's pretty crazy. It's crazy. He takes a shitload of chances, but really good defense is usually have one of those guys that will do something. And then if you have good enough talent around them, you can kind of make up for some of that.

Also, it helps when you have Michael Parsons rushing the quarterback. Yes. Because then you can and you should take those chances because you know he's got to get rid of the ball as soon as possible. Down to three outs, the Yankees boys. They're kind of trying to, they're trying to muster up some courage. I'm also like the Cowardly Lions right now. One swing.

One swing. One swing. There you go. Aaron Judge. Coming up. Oh, he's going to wait. Aaron Judge is going to hit third this inning. Yeah.

He's going to strike out to end the game. And he's going to strike out to end the entire season. And Aaron Judge back to back. Oh my God. Yeah. Oh, okay. There you go, Jake. Jake, I can't wait for Aaron Judge to strike out to end the Yankee season.

This is going to be great. This is going to be great. Yeah. Listen, I don't hate Yankee. I kind of do hate Yankees fans in a certain way. There's something really to hate though. It's fun to watch Yankees fans lose. But there's way less to like.

There's truly nothing to like. They're not even lovable losers. There's nothing endearing. They're cocky about championships they won in like 1911. I agree with that. Yeah. But like. Do you see Aaron Boone was.

Yeah. Showing 2004. And he FaceTime big copy. That's tough. So he got weird. So we got. I thought that was satire. He got the Yankee.

Yeah. It read like satire. Hank is the expert. I'll pull up the tweet. No, it was from Brian Hoek who covers the team for MLB.com. He got. He got the Yankees. I had to check multiple sources.

He got the Yankees. What's his last name? Pumped up. H-O-C-H. To win a playoff game by showing them videotapes of Yankees losing playoff games. Yeah. Yeah.

And FaceTime big poppy. That's that's incredible. Yeah. Why not just show like his home run. Yeah. He had. He is the guy. Game seven.

They have to get the game seven first. I know. So he is the guy that has the ultimate like playoff success video. Be like look what I did just be me here. Here's here's a spin zone for you. I'm a master at spin zones. The joy that we're having at your expense right now both you

and Billy and the joy that a lot of people are having. Oh I know. Yeah. The Yankees are relevant. Always like there's no one like no one's doing these jokes about the Padres. Losing in the. Right.

LCS. Right. No one cares about the Padres losing the NLCS. When the Yankees lose people people clown. And that means you mean something. They're the Yankees. Aaron Boone said that Chad bowling the Yankees mental skills coach.

Oh man. Which. Fire that person. Was sending around highlight videos of the 2004 Red Sox this morning. Eduardo Perez also FaceTime David Ortiz into Boone's office pregame. Oh man.

Was that just you just laugh like. Here watch this clip of the guys wearing your uniforms have the biggest mental meltdown in the history of baseball. Thanks to me. Here's how I did it. Here you go. Good luck. Hey they're not dead yet.

All right. They're not dead yet. We'll update everyone. Aaron Judge is about to get up there and probably not hit a home run. Yeah. The Cowboys are very good. And I'm very scared for Justin Fields life next week.

I like I like the new trend that I'm seeing which is every week that somebody asked Jerry Jones a question about essentially saying do you think you'll get to see another Super Bowl before you die. Right. And trying to put it diplomatically like Jerry do you think that you know you said that you'd like to get one more Super Bowl here.

You think that with this team you think they're going to be able to get you that. And it's just Jerry like constantly reckoning with his own mortality and trying to figure out whether or not the team that he personally has assembled will give him joy before he actually dies. Right. Right.

It's it's quite something. It is. It's yeah the Cowboys are good but who I don't think they're Super Bowl good but they're good. They're good. They're a good team. Yeah. And they play great defense.

All right. Next up Billy you're ready Jets 16 Broncos nine turns out Brett Rippin can run Russell Wilson's offense just as poorly. Well he passed the ball across the middle a few more times. Yes that's true. But it was like oh that's the same exact offense. It still stinks. And the Jets are now five and two and you can't apologize for

being five and two. They're five and two. They've gotten to play a couple of backups but who the fuck cares. They're five and two. 16 points may have been a low scoring game but 16 points is the most amount of points allowed by the Denver Broncos defense at home this season.

Okay. How many home games have they had. I think it's not too many. Two others. Two. I think it's like three. Texans there's the 49ers. I know they play.

Yeah. Okay. So yeah but honestly Zach Wilson a lot of people are talking about his stat line. We played one of the. Oh in the Colts in the Colts. Yeah I was going to say that Thursday night. Yeah in the Colts.

So yeah they have they've played for that's yeah. Yeah played one of the best defenses in the NFL and zero turnovers ran the team. It wasn't the time for him to like you know really put up some serious numbers. He did what he had to do. The defense played amazing. Get lost in the sauce.

Yeah. Sauce gardener is incredible. You should Billy what you need to do spin zone is just saying Zach Wilson is efficient because he's thrown for 231 yards in the last two weeks combined to win though. That's efficient. He takes two and did it. And skips him right another another stat hole sports stat

to it was the last one to do it for less yards in 2020. He won two games in a row with 206 yards and then if you go all the way back this is a fun one to look up. Sean King in 2001 back to back games for the Bucks with 171 yards combined in two games. That's pretty that's pretty efficient. That's pretty efficient. So yeah the Broncos are a really fucking good defense and

it's completely wasted by a garbage garbage offense. The Broncos have given up in seven games seven total touchdowns so seven touchdowns in seven games and they are two in five. What I liked about this game it was it was filled with quarterbacks figuring out new ways to throw the ball down field without committing intentional grounding penalties. Yeah.

So Zach Wilson does this a lot when he gets close to the sidelines dude is he'll like he'll figure out a way to just get that ball out at the last second. Brett Rippon's past that he had where he overthrew the safeties by probably 30 yards so that he wouldn't get intentional grounded because like refs they're not used to seeing that if you're if you're grounding the ball intentionally they're looking for you to throw the ball like

15 yards into the dirt where nobody is. Brett Rippon just airmailed this thing out of the back of the end zone on Brady. Yeah. So I put I put it down as a note. We always talk about like the physical comedy of quarterbacks and we need someone. We had Philip Rivers was the king of it. James Winston was his heir apparent.

I think Zach Wilson is the future. He when he gets in trouble he spins and does such so many weird things and he's like he will be 50 he'll run 15 yards back then to the sideline then still try to like throw the ball out of bounds at the last second and I love it. He'll like throw it behind his back. Yeah. Almost to try to get it downfield.

Yeah. And that was that was a fumble. That was crazy. The the Broncos did get a little screwed. By the way Aaron judges up. He's batting 143 in the playoffs. Two outs with two outs. You know let's talk about the Jets.

No no this is pretty important in terms of like the sports world out there Billy. Hang on. We'll get back to the Jets in a second. Right now. I'm going to do Jake. Can you do some play by play. Yeah.

Just some play by play. Here we go. This will be good. This is good. This is good. Come on. Jake doesn't really he doesn't really do baseball that much. Set the stage.

Oh one count to judge with the season on the line. Takes strike down the middle. And the Yankees are down to their final strike. That's the clean home home run champion Aaron judge. Right. Yes 62. Okay. Okay.

It's never been done before by a clean player. Again I would love to see Sammy Sosa's positive test. Just show it to me and then we can agree. Jake it. Pressley please. He's going to waste his pitch. Judges going to all the fans on their feet and the O2 outside one and two. I'll do the color.

So Jake Aaron judge really sucks in the postseason. You think he's earned his pinch stripes. He had a great regular season but some are saying postseason didn't really translate that. This is last game is the Yankee. Oh that's a good point. That's the third guy in the booth. Great point.

The one to ground ball to the pitcher. Pressley flips us at first and the Houston Astros win the American League champion. Jake I'm down here on the field right now and the Astros are going absolutely nuts. Ted Cruz is just celebrating popping some champagne. Dusty Baker is nodding. He's nodding his head rather quickly. This is a happy team.

Back to you Jake Houston advances to the World Series for the first time since two thousand and nineteen three times since two thousand and seventeen Jake. Jake I'm down. I'm down on the field. Who would happen to two thousand nineteen World Series Jake. The Washington Nationals won it. Ah that's wild. Jake question.

Do you think you know watching this game watching this series it felt like the Astros own this series but you got to think if the roof was closed in game two things would be going different right now. Yeah some are saying that but believe it's the MLB's call. I think they should play game five because the exit velocity on Alex Bregman's home run was nowhere near the exit velocity on John Carlos Stanton's out. Sure. Jake I think do you think it was a good idea to show them the highlight.

You could say that it worked perfectly. They got the exact result that they visualized by watching the Yankees losing the playoffs. Yeah. Okay thanks Jake. Congratulations to Houston. Now my nightmare of the Bears being truly standalone. Yeah. What should I should I do.

We're so close to another sports equinox. Yes. Just couldn't do it. Should I do a should I do PS5 tweets tomorrow when things go bad or should I just do the thing where like like Taylor Lorenz always does where she closes the replies. Just lock your account. Should I close. Should I close the replies to all my tweets like halfway through the first quarter when

things start going bad. I like that might be my move. I like doing that when I tweet about Miley Cyrus. Yeah. And then nobody can block me. Yeah I think I'm going to do that. I think I'm going to do that tomorrow. I'm going to give that a shot just being like no one can reply to me and just

wallow in my own. They can still quote tweet you though. Yeah that's true. This ends up so then that's true. Then it looks pretty bad. Okay all right. So I'll just it's going to be like one retweet 600 quotes. Yeah I'll just do the PS5s.

All right. Jets back to the Jets. The Broncos defense is awesome. The Jets are five and two. Breece Hall got hurt. I think it's ACL. Yeah. But what that means is we got Michael Carter who's going to who was sharing reps

with Breece Hall. Yeah but that's Breece Hall was really fucking good. I knew but I also think Michael Carter is pretty good. He just was getting overshadowed by Breece Hall. Okay. Braxton Barrios looked pretty good out there. Yeah. I'd say he looked like yeah relatively dope today.

Also Russell Wilson somehow the camera found him during warm ups. He was warming up probably taking reps from Brett Rippen. It was next level mental reps he was doing. Yeah so and he had those cool shades on. Yeah. Can I go LeBron reply guy on the Jets? Yeah. I don't mean to.

I feel like I'm punching down on the Jets but I guess what's that Billy? What's that lip smack? You just gave me a lip smack. I don't know. What? Here's what we were talking about earlier. I just want to say with your chest Billy. I want to say a conversation that PFT and I were having earlier that I just

the Jets are five and two. They're a good team. They have a lot of good young talent. What I don't understand and maybe this is just the psyche of different fan bases. When the Bears are good I'm just waiting for the other shoe to drop. The Jets are good or five and two and it feels like Jets fans are like we're the best team in the world. Like nothing's going to go bad.

Is that just is that fair? I feel like Brissol towards ACL that's a bummer. Right. But Michael Carter just there's been like if you've went through the butt fumble like that is the worst collapse and probably like a psychological collapse in any team. Ever since then it was. What about the Yankees? Yeah.

Good point. What about the Yankees in 2004? But like since then it can never get that bad. Yeah. So really like we've been through something worse. That was rock bottom. I'm never. To me that would if I experienced something like that I would always go back to thinking

that it was going to happen again. Correct. Whenever the Bears are good I'm like they're not going to be good for an extended period of time. This is just we're good right now. But we know I know that like tomorrow will probably be bad again. You know what it is. It's the new uniforms. I was actually thinking about this new uniforms new quarterback new head coach.

Everything's new. There's nothing. Listen if you have the confidence I'm not telling you not to. I just whenever I just always am waiting for the bad thing to happen. It feels like I guess just enjoy the ride. Five and two is like they are a good team. Bill you got you got the new head coach. You got the new quarterback new uniforms.

You're five and two. Almost the top of the division home game against the Patriots next week. Guess the line. Oh who flies it anyway. I think they're probably favored by seven. Wait what the Patriots are favored by seven. No the Patriots are favored by seven. In New York.

How would that make sense. I'm going to say three and a half. I'll take the jet. I think yeah I think the Jets are favored by. Is the line out. Two and a half points. What is oh we're favored by two. I'm guessing two and a half.

I think that's probably the first time. I'm going to say a pick up. Hank what's the line. Paths minus one. Oh oh so I knew the yeah yeah okay. I knew the path for me favored. I'm not that good at predicting lines but I knew the path would be favored. So when I when I alluded to was going LeBron reply guy on the Jets

and if you wanted to I'm not I'm not saying this but I'm saying watch out in the Jets replies on Twitter because there's probably somebody. The haters. The haters not me again. The haters online would say. That you beat Brett Rippin. Skyler Thompson.

Jacobi Bressette in the last second of a game. Kenny Pickett off the bench. And a washed up Aaron Rodgers. That's what they would. And then yeah and then you lost to the only real starting quarterbacks that you played against. Again really can I tell you what you could say to reply to that. Yeah what do I say.

Well we had Joe Flacco. Yeah. That was Joe Flacco. This is Zach Wilson. Yeah that's how you have to. We didn't have our starter. That's what you gotta say. Back to him.

I'm just saying watch out for the reply guys. Are you are you on your burner account. I'm not on anything. No I'm just saying that hypothetically somebody could point out to the Jets accounts the list of quarterbacks that they've beaten. All right. And also I mean the Jets do have a bunch of young talents so I guess that would be where the confidence is a little different

like sauce gardener is an absolute stud. Brett Rippin I love when a backup comes in and they're like yeah fuck it. I can do this. He threw it at sauce gardener nine times today. It was three completed catches for eight yards. Like that's it. He just like nah I'm going to keep trying sauce garden. Yeah I don't I don't know Brett Rippin's story

but I seem to recall when they signed him it was like almost a favor that John Elway was doing to Brett Rippin's uncle because they're like buds. Yeah. Do you think Russell Wilson would have done better. No. I think Russell Wilson. So I think no I think I'm beating Russell. I know they're often sucks no matter what.

Yeah. Like it looked exactly Brett Rippin looked exactly the same as Russell Wilson in that off. Listen the Jets are five and two and that's awesome if you're a Jets fan and they're probably going to continue to they're a very well coached team. They play very very hard. Also Elijah morning even play. Yeah.

Yeah. There's a little stuff going on there but hopefully he gets back. What is that with the injuries. He demanded a trade. Yeah. It's kind of weird. Kind of freaking out on Twitter. What happened with the trade demand.

He wanted a trade even though he's on a winning team and there has been injuries. This would have been the perfect game for him to like really get a bunch of touches but the guys got in the ball like I think it's in your first 17 games. I think he got a hundred seven times targeted which is more than Deandre Hopkins. More than tons of other wide outs in the league. So I don't know what I actually played one game. I just want to clear I'm I the Jets again five and two. A lot of young talent.

They're winning games. You don't apologize for that. I I would like to hear from Jets fans. Do you feel like the shoe is going to drop like I would always feel whenever the bears are good for like a minute. Do you feel that or are you like no this team is really good. Yeah. I just want to hear I like to hear realistically.

I'm trying you know the the you know the optimistic is like the the pessimistic is pretty played out. So just try to keep positive. Yeah. No I'm not saying you should be pessimistic. I actually think with this team and you're right the new jerseys that they're wearing. Yeah. It's different.

New coach. It's different. New quarterback. It's different. I feel like you don't really have a reason to be expecting harrowing defeat from this group of Jets. 60 percent of the team is under I think 24. Yeah that's really what it is.

There's been so much turnover. And here's the thing the Jets have the Jets have three games coming up that they can prove it because if they figure out a way to go two in one they're playing the Patriots Bills by or sorry Patriots Bills by weak Patriots again. If they go two in one there now it's a totally different conversation. Now it's like the confidence is warranted. If we get one win over the Patriots in that stretch. Well yeah if you and I mean if you could somehow beat the bill like if you get either

two wins against Patriots or you beat the bills somehow like that's now we're talking about a team that okay eyes wide open holy shit. They're real. Yeah also pushing out of the gun bet. Remember we're gonna oh yeah you weren't gonna yeah if they beat the Patriots play so they get shot just getting ahead of it. You're not gonna do it. Yeah I think we gotta well now you're cursing the rest of the season.

Yeah you know the Jets are probably gonna collapse now because that vibes. What about my cheese steak with hot sauce. Okay I don't understand. Yes just just don't shoot me. Let's go back down there. Billy yeah a lot of people would say like old Billy would have done it. Get shot. Yeah.

Yeah new new Billy. New Billy's not gonna do it. New Jets. New Jets. Turn over new leaf. Okay all right let's move on. I'm pretty sure I said you could shoot me with a bow and arrow if the Jets beat the Patriots twice. So I guess since you're pushing out then I get I get out as well.

Yeah okay so I would have rather done it. The vibes are balanced. I would still like to see Hank get shot with a bow and arrow. Yeah I mean that's that's like the cat thing though you guys don't want the other side. Paint paintball gun I'll do a paintball gun. Okay that's fair. Deal um Broncos just that that has to be so fucking frustrating. Paintball gun real bullets.

That will jam. Even better. But what if it doesn't. Ultimate rush. If you're. Nail gun. If you're on the Broncos. If you're oh that'll be sick.

That's probably worse than a bullet. Yeah. If you're on the Broncos defense I mean you have to just be so upset about everything. Because your defense is so goddamn good and your team sucks. Did you see that before this game they were I I don't know where this rumor came from but people were talking about the Broncos trading away they're good players. Like giving up on the season. Yeah there's a report about Bradley Chubb.

Yeah on the trade block. How mad would you be if you're if you're the Walmart family and you just bought this team. They didn't. And then like Russell Wilson was probably a pretty big part why you bought this team. And then it all sucks. Yeah it all sucks so bad and you don't have your first round draft pick either. 90 day return policy. Sucks at Walmart.

They always gave it to us. Yeah did you keep the receipt. Yeah. Good point. Nordstrom would take it back. Immediately. They've always given us the 90 day return. You can return anything to Nordstrom.

It's part of their policy. I swear to God you can bring in like a tire that you bought at an auto part store. Return at Nordstrom they'll give you money back for it. Yeah they should. The Walton's should take Russell Wilson to Nordstrom and try to return them and see if they could get money back for them. Just an idea. Yeah just an idea.

I like the idea. Okay next game Raiders Texans. We got a couple more left Raiders 38 Texans 20. I don't really have much about this other than Josh Jacobs was a beast. He's playing mad. He didn't get his fifth year option picked up. Derek Carr looked good and Davis Mills Mills Mafia in trouble. On the Josh Jacobs thing I get the feeling that

McDaniels is trying to make a case to management to pay this guy. Yeah. And to give him a big extension. Yeah. And so he's feeding him the ball and for the last like three weeks or so Josh Jacobs has been probably the best running back in the NFL. Yeah. He's been very very good this year.

He's running angry. I actually wanted to seed my time talking about this game to just talking about Mark Davis's house. Do you see Mark Davis's house that he's building in Las Vegas. No how many he is. I am such a big Mark Davis fan because he just he just does whatever he wants. He has the worst haircut. He wears white jeans. He looks like a slob and he has the Raiders.

I think he looks good. He looks really good. Right. And then this is his house. How many slides does he have. Look at this. This is the final what it's going to look like. Oh yeah.

Yeah. I've seen that. Yeah. But this is the update. So it's coming along nicely. Beautiful. So if you haven't seen Mark Davis's house search it online. He's building basically like a Dr. Evil type layer in Las Vegas.

That looks so fucking cool. Yeah. I imagine it would be like the opposite of Russell Wilson's house where Russ has like three bathrooms and like 20 bedrooms. He probably has like Mark Davis has like three bathrooms in every room. Yeah. And he has one bedroom. Yeah.

No gas. It's just a shitload of bath. Yeah. I can pee in any room of my house. Yeah. It's a bedroom with just one bedroom with a huge fucking bed that's like the entire expanse of the room. And then yeah.

He can just there's just sinks everywhere that he can pee. He has piss everywhere. Yeah. And update on the pinky bet. So the Raiders looked obviously a lot better today off the bye week. They're playing the Texans. But they have a chance of going on a nice little stretch here. Because they play the Saints the Jaguars the Colts the Broncos and Seahawks all

winnable games. So it could get interesting. I think we said that the Raiders are the best one in four team maybe of all time. Yeah. So now I think they're a pretty much above average two and five team. But they can play on a level with most teams I think. You know how certain games you just like this one was off on the side TV. We would check in on it.

And for some reason they gave their cameraman instructions like this is going to be the Lovey Smith game. Yeah. So every time you look at the TV it was just like Lovey looking stoic. Yeah. On the sideline. For Noah I couldn't really figure out a reason why they kept showing Lovey. Except whatever he was doing was his beard was more entertaining to look at than what

was happening on the field for most of the game. Yes. I think that's what the reason was. That's a fact. So yeah. Good job by the Raiders. They might be back. But they also played the Texans.

I love always they're like are the Raiders back or do they just play the Texans. Time will tell. And we'll find out next week when they play the Saints. All right. We have two games left. Before we do that PFT you got one last ad. Yes. Before we get to our last couple games here I want to talk to you about our great friends.

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Another fun stat. I know you like fun stats. Yankees are the first team to lose five straight ALCS series. Oh, that is fun. A lot of final fours. They don't count that in baseball to do college basketball though. So yeah, but if they did hang the banner if they did, I'd be sick. It would be.

Yeah, ALCS finalists put it up. Yeah, I like it. Let's let's go one out of 22 years. Let's go to the next game and talk about the first place Seattle Seahawks Seahawks 37 chargers 23 the first place Seattle Seahawks. No one, no one. I there is not a single person who had the Seahawks being in first place in the last week of October. This was supposed to be one of the worst teams in the NFL and they're four and three and they

throttled the chargers. Throttled. Guess what they might? They might even be getting better because their new running back. Kenneth Walker. Kenneth Walker, Michigan State 22.09 miles per hour. Fastest player in the NFL so far this season. Fastest ball carrier.

Yeah, incredible. He's an awesome running back. He was awesome at Michigan State 23 yards for 100 or 23 carries for 168 yards. Their defense is like young and getting better. They I don't know. I mean, the Seahawks are they good? Like the Seahawks are good. They might be a good football team.

I think the Seahawks are good as long as DK is not too badly injured. Yeah, that's so it was. So he had a knee injury and he got carted off. But he's he's kind of the boy that diarrhea wolf at this point. So everybody was like, oh, he's probably just got a shit. And it's like, no, he actually is using the cart for its intended purpose this time. X-rays were negative. He's getting an MRI today.

Hope he's okay. Good thing he got paid before the season started. Congrats on that, DK. But as long as he can stay healthy, I do. I think that the Seahawks what they're doing, they're not lucky. No, anything that they're doing. They beat the chargers. They're just they're playing good football.

Yeah. And I the inverse of what I was saying, like big games that ended up not being big games. How about looking at games before the season starts being like that game sucks. The Seahawks play the Giants next week. That's that's a good game now. Big game. That's a big game now that will tell you a lot about both teams. And yeah, I I mean, the chargers are the chargers are just the chargers.

They they they lose a game that they were favored at home. And they also lose another player to injury. JC Jackson got carted off as well. I think he it seems like he's out for a while and Mike Williams got hurt. So I it's got to be so depressing to be a chargers fan because it feels like every year. And they have all these guys, all these names, and they either get injured or the team as a whole underperforms and even like Austin Echler starting to like play really, really well. And Justin Herbert still very, very good.

But it just feels like they're just the same team every year. That's everyone's going to talk about them at the end of December being like, man, if the chargers could make the playoffs, watch out for them. But they're not going to make the playoffs. I think that with the Seahawks, if you look at the remaining schedule, you can probably do the thing where you pencil in wins and losses and then just reverse all those games entirely. And that would probably end up being the case.

Yeah, I could see them beating any. I could see them actually beating the Chiefs as weird as that sounds. No, like they're they're weirdly good, the Seahawks team. And I could see them beating all the good teams and maybe losing to some teams that they shouldn't lose to. But I don't think I don't think that there's anything weird or fluky about this team. I think that they're just playing good football. And Pete Carroll is having I think he's having fun. Oh, he's having a great time figuring out like how to get the most out of Geno Smith.

And it's I mean, it's one of the funniest stories that the Broncos are just cratering. Yeah, and the Seahawks are thriving. Yep. And I don't know. And they have their first round pick. So it's like, imagine the Seahawks go to the playoffs and the Broncos have like a top five pick. Be pretty awesome.

It would be one of the worst one year in one of the worst trades ever. Yep. I mean, it's it's crazy that the C I still can't believe that they're in first place the end of October. I think most of this trade just ended up being because Sierra wanted to get out of Seattle. Yeah. Oh, definitely. She was like, I'm kind of sick of the rain. And I don't blame her like that guy. It would it would get old real.

I could live for like maybe two years in the Pacific Northwest before I was like, just get me the fuck out of here. Yeah, because it's nice. You get to spend a lot of time outside. You probably get some dogs, load up your Subaru, go hiking, kayaking a few times. But after a while, you're like, I will literally live in any city besides Seattle. Just get me out of here.

I think that's that's what it ultimately came down to. The Seahawks, by the way, they were preseason over under was five and a half wins. Yeah, no, or three. I think I think I was hand up. No, me too. I wrote not only Gino Smith, I wrote the Seahawks off big time. Full team. I think I said hammer the under on five and a half.

Everyone did. They might win one or two games. I think I said all those things. Everyone thought remember when they were going to maybe trade decay before the season started. This is this is a crazy story that they are four and three and the top of the NFC. Yeah. I mean, the Packers wanted DK Metcalf. Yeah.

Imagine that probably could use them. Probably could use them a lot. Happy that didn't happen. Yep. Yeah. And I don't know. Chargers. I just again, I feel bad for Chargers fans.

It's just every week. Both of them. Yeah, they lose and then they lose in injuries. It's like, all right, we're going to lose a game and we're also going to lose like our best players every single week. Yeah, it's tough. On stuff. Did they have a kicker?

What did they do with Hopkins? Oh, I don't know. Because it is probably just he died. He died at the end of last week's game. Yeah. The game winning kick. Probably milking it again. OK, let's do our last game.

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RHO, BACK.com Chiefs Niners. Chiefs absolutely. Womped. Womped the Niners statement. Womping. It was 10 nothing at one point. Patrick Holmes had thrown a pick, which wasn't really his. It was it kind of bounced everywhere.

Incredible play by the Niners defense. Huffinga. But after that, they put on a complete like offensive clinic. They scored touchdowns in five of their next six drives. The only one they didn't. They missed the field goal short field goal. Holmes was on fire 23 25 for 34 for 23 yards and three touchdowns. They were averaging 12 and a half yards per pass play like that.

It was it was silly what they were doing to the Niners defense. And I feel like an absolute asshole because I bet on Jimmy G against the Chiefs. And it just reminded me that the Chiefs are really fucking Chiefs are still very good. That's the problem is they played the bills. So it's like you forget the bills are just really fucking good. And then the Chiefs are really good. And the Colts. Yeah, that was just weird.

Yeah, we're going to that's going to be the game that we look back on at the end of year. Well, how the app that was fucked up that happened. But we saw that it was going to happen. Right. I think we actually predicted that one. Here's a fun little stat. Okay. Since 2019, the highest quarterback win percentage, including the playoffs since 2019.

Number one, Patrick Mahomes, 79%. Number two, Aaron Rodgers, 73%. Number three in the NFL is Patrick Mahomes in games that his team has trailed by 10 or more points, 71%. And then number four is Tom Brady, 69%. Damn. So Patrick Mahomes in games where he's been behind by 10 or more points has a higher winning percentage than Tom Brady and all this starts us.

He's crazy. It is. It's it's wild. And in the offense was just absolutely humming. Andy Reid just fucked over everyone. I think Andy Reid just loves to do this to fantasy owners and anyone who's betting on these games. There was an report before the game that Pacheco was going to be the QB one. And then he had nine offensive snaps and Clyde Edwards Allaire had 27 offensive snaps.

So that was nice. And he just had Miko Harbman run all the touchdowns. I just hate it when Pacheco's out there because he's he's of slender build. And he wears Tyreek Hill's number. And I always think, oh, that guy's as good as Tyreek Hill because he looks like him. And then he's just not Tyreek Hill. But in Andy Reid, I feel like he does this every year where he's just like, oh, yeah, am I running back?

Like, yeah, you should start him. You remember, watch, watch me not do anything with him. You remember when the Chiefs got Levy on Bell and everybody was like, oh, my God, how could we all? It's not fair. How could we let the Chiefs get Levy on Bell? He's not going to use them. Yeah.

No, Levy. He's busy getting his ass kicked by Adrian Peterson and a boxing ring for like 13 people. Yeah. This is Andy Reid. He doesn't need him running back. Yeah. It was it was an ass kicking up and down the Chief's credit. Valdez, Scantling, Kelsey and Mahomes playing Warzone together.

Yes. They've been playing Warzone together. They won three games in a row. Did they really? So the report was they won three games in a row on Friday nights. Squad up. So Kyler Murray is just like, I think maybe Kyler Murray's teammates just suck too much

at Warzone. Yeah. He's just like, why can't I be on the Chiefs? They get to play Warzone? Well, I think maybe the Chiefs get an easier lobbies. Yeah. Is that something that happens? I don't know if you've got shitty players with you.

I'm pretty sure it does. So yeah, it was a it was just a reminder that the Chiefs are the Chiefs. Now, I don't don't count out anything that they do ever. I think that Christian McCaffrey looks way faster wearing number 23. Agreed. Then he did wearing number 22. He looked good. He got in that uniform.

That uniform makes him look faster for sure. It magically cured all of his his soft tissue injuries too. Yes. So his hamstrings fine now that he's on a good team. I'm looking forward. I want to see them do like a Debo, Christian McCaffrey and Kittle and maybe even Trent Williams in the backfield combination. Yes.

At one point. Yes. Hey, because this is like the Christian McCaffrey on the 49ers is really Kalashen and hence wet dream. Yeah. This is him creating a brand. He has the opportunity to redefine what running the football can look like with his offense. Yeah.

And I hope he gets weird as fuck with it. And Jimmy G is Hank was just Hank was was spouting off. He's like, if you're a Niners fan, you just know Jimmy G. He's he's got some vitriol for Jimmy G. It's not vitriol. It's it's when they got McCaffrey, everyone was freaking out. And I was like, all I said was, again, this is what you guys spin in my words. If I was a 49ers fan, I would almost be nervous because it's like you have all the weapons.

But you still got to get Jimmy G to get it to him. But you need a Super Bowl winning coach. And then after that, you guys were giving me shit for it. I went back and rewatched the the fourth quarter. Whoa, you did the tape. There's a highlight like a highlight reel. You just watched you watch his bad passes. It was all of his passes.

Yeah. He was. No, I mean, this is the this is the concern for any you're you're not wrong. Like all I was saying is like it's almost it's it's it's pressure. It's like, again, you know, as a Patriots fan for a long time, it's like, you know, all the pressures on you, if you don't want a Super Bowl, it's a bust. When you're the bills kind of similar situation, the chiefs in the similar situation. Now the 49ers are too.

They have all the weapons. There's no reason why they shouldn't make the NFC championship or the Super Bowl. And if they don't, it's probably going to be because of Jimmy G. I like him personally. I just I would be worried. There's they put up a graphic too. In this game, Kyle Shanahan won in 29 record when trailing by three plus points, entering the fourth quarter. I get I don't know if that's a I don't know if that graphic is like confusing because,

you know, if you're down 17 points, you're not going to win the game in the fourth quarter. But that does feel bad. There were some other stats on that same graphic that had it had some other bad second half indications. It feels bad. It feels this. So Kyle Shanahan, we keep saying like he I would love to have Kyle Shanahan as my coach and you would love to have him as your coach as well.

But he's so good that I think now he does have those X. He's got expectations like Jimmy G. has where like Kyle Shanahan, if he doesn't get to a Super Bowl, it's kind of like he's a bust again this season. Yeah. I mean, they went all in and they mortgage some of the future. And they've already mortgage some of the future for Tre Lantz. Right. So yeah.

One last thing on this game we had history made. Brock Purdy, if you're a college football fan, you know, Brock Tober used to be a thing. Brock Purdy was awesome in October for Iowa State. He came in for Jimmy G in garbage time. The first Mr. Irrelevant to ever complete a pass in the NFL. That's pretty cool. Pretty cool.

Seven other quarterbacks draft is Mr. Irrelevant. Actually, your guy Chad Kelly, he his only play in the NFL was a kneel down, but he completed a pass. Brock Purdy, Brock Tober still still rides. Brock Tober, they said in training camp this year that Brock Purdy has the it factor, which is something to keep your eyeball on. Watch out. The it factor is a real thing when it comes to Kyle Shanahan

and how he evaluates quarterbacks. Yes. Yes, Billy. The ball popped off his hand. Yeah, that's the it factor. You saw the it factor. Yes. Yes.

So the good news for Niners fans is you get to play the Rams next week and you own them. I own them. So that will hopefully cure everything. That will be a fun game to watch. Yeah. The Chiefs. I it feels like we're just on a collision course for the Chiefs in the bills again. That's that's what I'm looking forward to so much is next week because I feel like

if Kyle Shanahan, he's going to want to try to use Christian McCaffrey in all these new weird ways, especially against the coach that he just dominates. I have a feeling we might see some clown shit next week. Yeah, 49ers in the Rams. Yeah, some real clown shit. Yeah, I'm ready for it. I'm ready for the clown shit. Okay.

Also shout out to Jušek, who dislocated his finger and kept running with the football on the play, even though I think it was as pinky was pointing straight downwards. Shit. That was pretty awesome to see. That is he's another guy that's going to be involved in that that nuclear backfield that I'm talking about. Yes. Oh, absolutely.

They should just have no line. Oh, that'd be sick. Just everyone in the backfield together. I don't think that's legal, but it'd be cool. You have to have you have to have five, six guys. On the line of scrimmage. Yeah, on the line of scrimmage. Yeah, but it would be fucking sick.

Okay. Let's finish up the show. We have a football guy of the week brought to you by our friends at Papa John's. Papa John's have outdone themselves with the pepperoni crusted. Papa Dia. Go check it out this week at papajohns.com or through their app. They've found a way to add more pepperoni and it is delicious. I tried it last week.

Football guy of the week brought to you by papajohns, papajohns.com or through their app. Okay, Billy, football guy of the week. Cool. So this week's winner is the Tennessee Volunteers football fans. Carrying out the field goalposts. So if that that football that's now in a Florida detention facility with the guy who tackled the nine-year-old, whoever's there, could they just send it to Tennessee just randomly?

Someone will get it. A lot of Tennessee fans really like to move the goalposts on things at most. Yeah. It's interesting. Our first nominee are two college wrestlers who were mauled by a grizzly bear. They fought him off and survived. Okay. Just.

Bears take another L. Yeah. So. Nothing to do with football, but just football guys. Yeah, they were teammates and one of them wrestled a bear off of his friend. Was it a black bear or a brown grizzly bear? This makes me nervous. Wait, is this the same story you told us last week?

Is it the same? Is this part of the bear attacks we talked about? Yes. Okay. Okay. I just want to make sure it's not even more. Right. Right.

This one had to be included. I'm nervous about the next three if we're. We'll start with the wrestling bear. The wrestling guys against a bear that we talked about last week. This is very quickly going to turn into Billy's Bears of the Week. Which I actually wouldn't be mad about, maybe in the off season. Actually, this one is a little bears related. A guy proposed to his girlfriend with a 1985 Chicago Bear Super Bowl ring.

Okay. That is both so sad and beautiful. Such love. They seemed like young people. I don't know where he got that ring. Was it a real ring or was it like the rings that anybody can get? I think there's been a couple of bears who had to sell their rings. So yeah, it might have been a real one.

Equipment guy or something. Jason Kelsey on game day apparel said, What the fuck do I care about a game day fit? I don't like to play dress up. I like to play football. And the best part about this is just a direct shot at his brother. Yeah. Like direct shot.

Did you see what Travis Kelsey was wearing in the interview today? Yes. It's like I love what he does. He does it a couple of times. What did he say? He said something last year where it was like, I played hockey. He played basketball.

So I was like, what do you like? He just every now and then he takes a shot at his brother. Travis Kelsey was wearing like the Joseph and the technical or dream chote robe today. And then he was wearing the clear glasses. He looked like the guys. If the guys from like throwing fits or failing upward, if they like got hit in the head with a baseball bat,

that's what Travis Kelsey would look like. And our last nominee is Eric Gentry, an inside linebacker from USC who was in the injury tent and ran out with a bad ankle to go hype up his team on the field. Nice. He exited the tent. There was trainers trailing him like saying like, Hey, get back to the tent.

What are you doing? He was hopping around on a bad ankle. Just yelling for his defense to hype him up and get them going. So run pass. They lost. Yes. To Utah. Yes.

Yeah. But that's okay. That's still a football guy. We'll say that for who's back. What? Oh, wait, what? Oh, something we don't know. Oh, no, Billy was asking me.

I was trying to get some room in West Form. Billy, you had one other guy that you wanted to put on your football guy. Go ahead, Billy. Go for it. We'll say for who's back. Like he made a he made a tackle, right? Right.

We'll say for who's back. It's actually a football player and not a wrestler. Yeah. Okay. All right. We'll say for who's back. Who's back? Brought to you by our friends at Visible.

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My who's back of the week is tanking. Yeah. Tanking in the NBA. NBA started a couple of weeks ago. Philly's her own three. Webb and Yana. Yeah. Adam Silver came out to the interview, which is all bullshit where he's like,

you know, I think we might start talking about relegation and trying, you know, stop teams from tanking because there is a clear, clear, clear number one. Victor Webb and Yama. From France. From France. He's like seven, seven, seven, 17 at least. Just an absolute freak.

Freaking nature. Seven feet, 17 inches. He is crazy. I would set a record. So teams are tanking the Sixers 0 and 3 trying to get them. Lakers 0 and 3 trying to get them. So it's kind of sad. They don't want to compete.

They don't want to try. It is football and baseball season, so I get it. But this is how you know how threatened you are right now is that you're going off, getting ahead of the Philly story by saying. Hey, Hank, I'm just curious. I'm just curious. What are the, what's the Celtics record? Celtics are 3-0.

Oh, yeah. I mean, you know, new coach, a lot of turmoil in the off season, all that stuff, block out the noise. That's not, you're not bringing this up so that you can talk about the Celtics being 3-0 and the Sixers being 0 and 3. No, I mean, tanking, tanking is the thing. Adam Silver did adjust to the interview talking about it. That obviously, once you hear that, you're like, oh, that means that they're worried

about team's tanking. Let's look at the leaderboard, see who's 0 and 3. It just happened to be the Sixers and the Lakers. That's not, again, like I didn't choose the Sixers to go 0 and 3. Yeah. They just are. If you want to hear them. And the Lakers are so bad.

Russell Westbrook, putting him in the last two minutes of a game is just, that's the clearest time of tanking you could have. I think I saw a stat that said he went 1 for 6 on layups today. He went 0 for 11 on Friday night, I want to say, or Thursday night. It's not great, but if you want to hear the emptiest of empty promises or empty threats, is Adam Silver saying that we're considering relegation, because that's not ever going to happen. And they know it's going to be a conversation of all season long.

They would have him killed. Yes. Like they would actually kill Adam Silver if he tried to institute relegation. Interesting though, tanking. So watch out for the Sixers and Lakers trying to lose all these games. Got it. It's baseball season though, football season. I don't know why you keep saying that.

No one cares about the NBA right now. You keep saying that as like a dig towards me. But no, no, you are. Pact-efficient fact. It's baseball season. Wait, I see both sides of this because they are, they are 0 and 3. So you have to ask if they're tanking. But it doesn't, it doesn't, don't even ask them about basketball.

It's football and baseball. Right. But are the Sixers tank? I talked to me when football and baseball season are over. OK. All right. But if I had to ask you right now, would you say maybe? I would say not winning a single game so far would lead me to the conclusion, yes.

OK. I have no other choice. Yeah. Who's your who's number? Numbers never lie. No. Men lie, women lie, numbers don't. Yeah.

All right. Your who's back, PFT. My who's back the week is Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift's back big time. Yep. Dropped an album on Friday morning slash Thursday night at midnight. Would you do two, like two for one or something? What?

She has, she, she's like a daily double or something. There's a second version of the album that came out too, like with all the extras. So if you. What does that mean? I don't know. It's just Taylor Swift. Was it, was it more songs? These are bad vibes.

These are hater vibes. I know, I'm legitimately curious. You're taking your tanking energy into the Taylor Swift talk and I don't appreciate it. Dude, I'm legitimately curious. I'm not as flimsy. I see people talking about it. She's not from Philadelphia. I promise you.

Taylor Swift put the album out. Well, you're gone down. And they're like, oh, I like, I like this version. And then they're like, I like the second version. Yeah. Oh, are you mad about different versions? She is. She is from Pennsylvania.

She is from, like. Oh, all right. That explains a lot of it. I'm not, you guys again. The same shit as GBG. Like, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not being a hater. I'm just asking questions. I thought she was from Nashville.

Anyways, so she put out, she put out an album, maybe two albums. Hank's really upset about more songs. Just curious. You just, you know, you're not mad. No, I want, wait, I want to clear it. I want to clear. Fact or fiction, fact or fiction Monday.

Hey, hey, fact or fiction, this is my segment. Shut up, Hank. Fiction. It's our segment. It's my turn, but it's my turn to talk. It is your turn. Fact. Fact, there you go.

Fact. But I'm talking right now. So you can talk in a second. OK. And all I'm going to say is she put out a lot of music for people to enjoy. And Hank's very mad about that for some reason. Fiction.

OK. And now go with your fact. Fact or fiction, she put out some songs at one point and other songs later on, but called them one album. Question mark. I don't know. I actually, I don't know. I actually try to find out if that's fact or fiction.

I don't know. I just know that on Spotify, I click on her songs and then it makes me feel sad sometimes, but in a happy way. So I like her new album. It's OK. And I think she's discovered kind of a life hack when it comes to releasing music,

which is just drop an album in the fall when people are just emotional anyways. Yeah. It's lumineer season. And the season's changing. It's like there's, if the leaves are a different color on a tree than they were a couple of days ago and you hear a song, you're going to like that song more.

Because nature, we're all on our like annual period right now, which is this time of year. It's getting cold. You're sad because summer's over. You're looking forward to cuffing season or whatever in the winter time. This is when you're really able to get those songs under your skin like a splinter.

And that's what she does. And so far, I give this, I give it a B plus. The album gets B plus 50. OK. I feel like the combo of Philadelphia fans and Swifties coming after you is, it could be a lot. You have your guard up. I'm not worried about it.

OK. My who's back is Philadelphia. And I will let Max speak about it as well. It's baseball season, baby. The reason why you know Philadelphia's back is we had the tweet in the picture of them greasing the polls ahead of game five of the NLCS. So people can't climb all of the traffic lights

and the light poles. Philadelphia is all the way back though. The Phillies are in the World Series. Max, how we feel. I mean, Bryce Harper, like he, I know that he still has to win the World Series. But what he has done this playoffs and like erased any negative like Bryce Harper,

you know, the Nationals winning when he left. He's been absolutely insane. I still like that. Everything Aaron judges him. He's he's he's absolutely. He is. He was saying, I think after he hit his second home run, the game winning home run, he was saying into the camera,

I am that dude. And it's like, yeah, you are. And there was like, there was like a, you could like a close up view of him in the dugout talking to one of his teammates. I can't believe I just did that. Yeah. Which is unreal.

Yeah. It was, it was an electric, electric moment because the Phillies were looking like they were going to have to go all the way to San Diego to play game six. And Bryce Harper is that you just knew he was going to do it when he stepped in the box. Awesome. So Max, what first take us through the whole weekend

because you saw you got to see the Phillies win game four in a crazy like, you know, back and forth, you know, you're down for nothing in the first inning. You're at the game. What was that like? I was at, I was at a game. So what game? I was at, I was at the game.

The game. I was at a game, a sports, sporting event in Pennsylvania. Okay. Okay. So when you saw like four nothing in the first inning, you're probably like, oh my God, we're so fucked right now. Yeah. What was it?

What was the, were people leaving the stadium? Yeah. What was the stadium like? What were the vibes like? Actually, the stadium was insane. Everyone had a little rally towels going or it was pom-poms. People were all at night.

There are people wearing red for the Phillies. No, they were wearing white. Oh, okay. They're wearing white. Everyone was wearing white. It was great. It was great. What kind of event was this?

Really, it was a massive sporting event. There were so many people there. Anytime you play the Minnesota Gophers, four and three. Sold out. It was sick. It's big. So, but no, you're, I mean, we watched, we watched the final out together.

You were Phillie through and through. You, you clinched the World Series, then you turned to one of our co-workers and you just pointed right in his face, his face. And you're like, fuck you, fuck you. I was like, what's going on here? I don't know. I did that.

Yeah. That was unnecessary. That was rude. I apologized after the fact. It wasn't even, it was not Hank, people who would think that. I said that. Do you want to say that to Hank?

No, Hank. I've ruined for the Phillies. No, no, no. The fact that Hank is trying to dance on graves for a 3-0 start to the NBA season in October is exactly. Yeah. It's only three.

No, no, no, no. But the Celtics being 3-0. That's expected. I think he was just pointing out. No, no, no. You're taking. No, that just shows where Boston Sports is, is that now we're just,

now we're just celebrating three. I would not have mentioned that. But they are. I had no choice. Okay. So how are you feeling though? I mean, this is. I mean, it's great.

It's like. And it's a football season. It's a football season anyway. Team of Destiny vibes. Like it's, it's, it couldn't be a more fun run to watch because all of your big players are coming up with big hits. And it's like the emotion that you see like on the field

and after every game in the locker room, it's like you just root for the guys. It's a, it is kind of like the Cubs team is just like, it's a bunch of guys that you root for and you know that they're having fun and you're enjoying. Couldn't be more opposite of the Yankees, but you're just like enjoying the ride with them. And it's just the city.

I mean, I don't think they can. I don't want to say it at home. At home. They're like, it is so tough to play. You know, you know, the Astros are really good though. The Astros are really, really, really good. We also have the Philly Apocalypse I pointed out to you. If the World Series goes six, the Game Six would be in Houston

Friday night, November 3rd, I want to say. The night before the Eagles are playing the Texans on Thursday night football. Be like the rehearsal dinner that night. It would be insane. That Texan Stadium would be gross. It would be gross. So I actually think that if the Phillies can pull this off,

if they can manage to win the World Series, at that point, that's going to play even more into the Eagles. Oh, yeah. Like the Eagles are going to build off that. Oh, yeah. It's the new title town. I would say like if you can get a World Series and a Super Bowl, like I would say that Philadelphia would be the one city

in the American Northeast that I would think about when I'm talking about sports championships in the 21st century. I would agree. It's hard to do. Feels pretty feels like the vibes in Philly are at all time. Not couldn't. Everything's coming up Philly. Penn State beats Minnesota.

Penn State did beat Minnesota. That is true. Yeah. I heard that was also a good place to be at. I also, I mean, not to make this about me, but I do obviously have some bit of a rivalry with Philly because of basketball and football. But I have said on this show for a long time

that the Astros got off easier than any other sports team or anyone in history with their whole cheating scandal and COVID and all that shit. And I still think there's comebacks. So I'm rooting for the Phillies in the World Series. It would be kind of awesome to see the Astros just go to World Series after World Series and lose all of them. Yeah.

Yeah. That would be cool. And I want Shorbert to win. Yeah. Shorbert's cool. Bryce Harper's cool. And Bryce Harper's the man. Kyle Zalanos.

Miles Teller. Great like celebrity fan. Like that's cool. I want to see Mike Trout in the stands for the Phillies, rooting for the Phillies. Yes. That's what I like caring so much more about the Phillies than he does about the Angels.

That would be the least surprising thing ever. That would be awesome. I guarantee he's going to be at one of these games. Yeah. He has to be. All right, Billy. So my who's back is life imitating art. Recurring guest Jimmy Tatro had a skit that he did about,

you know those videos, the inspirational videos of the special needs kids running in touchdowns. Well, Jimmy Tatro did a skit once where one of the kids on the field doesn't get the memo that they're supposed to let the kid walk in the end zone and tackles the kid. And that happened over the weekend. Oh, it did.

There was a viral video. The kid didn't know what was going on. He tackled the kid in the backfield. Everyone was like, what the hell is going on? Yes. Everyone put their hands on their head immediately. I want to see those. I sent it to you.

It's from a football standpoint, the kid made an electric, a hell of a play. Right. That was my point. It's like, he might be a football guy. Oh, he blew that up. Yeah. It was like, it was like Troy Palamale.

It's kind of a football guy moved to not realize what's going on. And just be like, I see a guy with a ball. I got to tackle. Yeah. I think that regardless of who the running back was at that point, that quarterback got hit at the mesh point. Like that kid was making a play. You know, it's so crazy because high school football,

it's such a shit show. Like I knew, I never knew how all those videos always got done so well with everyone on the same page because there's always some kid who has no idea what he's fucking doing. And he like doesn't even know what to do when he's playing in the actual games. Yeah.

To make sure that everyone knows like to not actually play. Yeah. It's a, we all knew it was going to happen at some point in some place across America with how many football games go on on Friday nights. But it happened. Right. Can you, can you ever get like 11, 17 year olds

to all do the same thing at any given time? Very hard. Very tough to do. So yeah, it's shocking that it hasn't been, that we haven't seen this happen before. His expression after he doesn't realize what's happened where he looks back at the kid on the ground and he's like, oh my God, like what did I do?

It was tough to see, but at the same time you can acknowledge that the kid made a play. He made a play. Also realistic experience for the other kid. That's a good point. That is true. That is true. Okay, Jake.

But they gave him the ball in the next play. Yeah, they scored. Okay, that's good. Makes the touchdown sweeter. It does. Yeah, there was a stop. You had to earn those yards. Yeah, yeah.

Two carries. You can do his yards per carry now, that whole thing. Two carries, 80 yards touchdown. That's a good start. And he didn't fumble the ball, did he? Right, he didn't. Ball security, that's great. Big time.

That's awesome. Listen, that's a great way to learn about life a little bit. Yeah. Didn't want to put him on football guys of the week because I didn't want to send the football with a nail in it from a penitentiary to that guy. Yeah. You want to celebrate that?

That's a good call. You can acknowledge it, but not celebrate. Exactly. Jake, finish this off. My who's back is Bruce Bochie. Great MLB manager. He's the new manager of the Texas Rangers. Whoa.

Yeah. OK. Second show he's been referenced on this week. Visors. Oh, yeah. Studied. Yeah. Yeah, that's weird.

Out of nowhere. Out of nowhere, yeah. Now it's recorded before he was hired. Yeah. Yes, that's also true. Yeah, so not enough people talk about that even your dynasty with the Giants. Yeah, that's true.

That's a good point. That's the 2016 Cubs ended. Yeah. Bruce Bochie. I would like to see the 87 Mets, I think. What's Ron Washington doing these days? I think he's the third base coach of the Braves. They should bring him.

He basically got fired from the Houston or from the Texas Rangers for doing Coke, right? Yeah. That should be a requirement of any team playing out of Dallas. Yeah, it is. You should look down. Jerry Jones probably wants to gobble that guy up. Yeah.

Jerry Jones, yeah, if you made that a rule. Like, here's my theory. You don't want a guy that does Coke all the time. But if you have a guy that's doing Coke, then that means he's a cool enough guy to be offered Coke. I'll say this. Aaron Boone, if he was maybe more of a party guy, I feel like the Yankees might go farther.

I agree. He's too much for a robot. He gives me hall monitor vibes. He's timing big poppy before the elimination. Do you guys think there's any percent by the time this episode's out? Aaron Boone's fired? I mean, I think you want that to happen, right?

Something has to. You've got to get a major. The same thing every year. You guys need a rod in the clubhouse. And it's crazy that you go. That's a fact. You go to the ALCS and you just don't win games. Right.

I think it's a re-signed judge. Stanton and Kohl are obviously long term. But besides that, I say anything else is on the table. I would give him an extension. I'd say you don't want to mess things up too badly. But last year. Yeah, no, give him another one. You don't want to pay him to go away.

So I'm open to anything. Keeping judge, obviously Stanton and Kohl. Yeah, they should get Ron Washington. Bedtimes. That's what they should do. Like put him in New York City. Get a dome that you can open and close. Jeter.

Wow, that was a manager. That would be crazy. No. I mean, I could see him coming back and like, he's not with the Marlins anymore. So maybe a front office role. He can come and save. Don Mattingly is no longer with the Marlins.

A-Rod. A-Rod. World Series champions. Jabba Chamberlain. Yeah. Here's the whole squad. David Wells. As you get David Wells and Ron Washington together.

It's all these guys. Swisher is a big vibes guy, I feel like. CeCe. Mark Tashara. CeCe. Tech. Jason Giambi. Oh, Francesa.

That would be crazy. Francesa to Manage the Yankees. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Good call, G. No, he has a whole thing with Jason Giambi. His call is. Oh, no, I want Francesa to Manage the Yankees. That would be fun.

162 and L. Steve Nash. Press conferences would be muscle. Yeah. Let's do it. Yeah. Everything's on. Kyrie.

You want to change the vibes around. Get Kyrie to set off some sage and dug out. That'd be nice. So we'll see. But yeah, I'm hoping for major change. Are you pretty down? I mean, this is pretty bad. Yeah.

Yeah. The Yankees are like. That's as down as Jake gets. The Yankees are. That was Jake being like, I want to kill myself. Like, yeah, I'm a little down. I grew up in a Yankees like bedroom, like pinstripe wallpaper. What's that?

Who's? Like, this is my team. Oh, right. But like. No, we know. But. Okay. Yeah.

Not, uh, I hope not. It was John Wetland. What? That guy. He did some fucked up shit. Hideki Matsui. Matsui throughout the first pitch. Yeah.

I didn't see that. I was thinking of a Rabu who's passed away. No, no, Hideki. I know. I know a Rabu. Matsui had like $80,000 worth of porn. Did you know that about him? All I thought you were saying, he had

that Matsui himself. John Wetland was on the Yankees. And I think he's in jail. Yep. He's in jail. For bad things. Very bad. Disavow.

Yeah. Disavow. Thank you. That was good. Yeah. All right. So now we're clean slate. We've just disavowed John Wetland

and the Yankees are back. Uh, numbers. Hank, have you ever gotten this? I have not shout to everyone this weekend. Down at LSU. That's the number one thing I get now in public is just people telling me numbers. 17.

That's what people told you? 17. No. I'm going to fight God. The one that you keep guessing and not getting. Come with a horse you rode in on. All right. I'll go 16.

Hideki Matsui had 55,000 porn videos in a collection. I believe he was also in the 55. Everywhere. Yeah. That was before the internet, dude. You guys stay strapped. Yeah. He would give it away to team beat writers.

All right. 16. And also regular writers. 69. 37. 18. Oh, Hank. Could you get it?

Nope. 68. Oh, man. Dilley was trying to run up the score on you. 68. That was close. I'm rooting for you. But actually, because I want you to get it once,

so you get it twice, so you have to pay us. Do you want to borrow 69 for a couple? No. Days? I appreciate that. That's actually very one of the nicest things you've ever said to me. But no.

Statistically. You can't win with another man's number. You know, you can just say 69, though, like Billy. Yeah, that's true. Billy doesn't have to get it to you. Yeah. Yeah. I'll start doing that.

That's a bubble wrap under you. Wait, so, Hank, what did you pick this time? I chose 17. So you're going to stay with 17? I don't fucking know. Don't worry about it. Worry about yourself. All right, let's do a fake one.

Let's do a fake one. You think there's a lot of machines. This doesn't count. Nothing counts. Nothing counts. No, you can't do this. You can't do this. Go ahead.

All right, so Hank's taking 17. This does not count. Oh, 10. Oh, man, I would love a fake one to have 17. Do one more. Yeah, fuck it. It's 1.30 in the morning, fucking. Hank, have you checked to see if 17's in there?

26. I'm going to tweet out right now. Just finished taping part of my take. Tune in for Hank's number. Eyeball emoji. People get excited and it just won't happen. I feel like the veteran AWLs will sniff that out. Yeah, yeah.

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