Pardon My Take - Paul Bissonnette, NFL Christmas Day And The Bears New Low, Week 17 Picks And Preview + New Years Resolutions

Episode Date: December 27, 2024

The Bears hit a new low on a stand alone primetime game (00:00:00-00:09:26). We talk Christmas NFL and the Chiefs wrap up the 1 seed while the Ravens keep rolling (00:09:26-00:37:20). Week 17 picks and preview including our New Years Resolutions in place of the Titans/Jags game (00:37:20-01:37:38). TD Parlay and fantasy Fuccbois (01:37:38-01:44:57). Our good friend Paul Bissonnette joins the show to talk about his 1 on 7 with the Irish Travelers, hockey season, glass bang kid, and the Chiclets lives show in Chicago on Sunday (01:44:57-02:26:40). We finish with Fyre fest of the week (02:26:40-02:35:29).You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/pardon-my-take

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Welcome to Part of My Take presented by DraftKings. Go right now to DraftKings. Place $10 or more on any college football playoff parlay of at least plus 400 odds and 100 listeners will have a shot at receiving a $1,000 bonus bet for the College Football National Championship. Go check it out and opt in today on the DraftKings Sportsbook hundred listeners will have a shot at receiving a thousand dollar bonus bet for the college football national championship. Go check it out and opt in today on the Draft King Sportsbook app. Today is Friday, December 27th, and I just want to apologize to America for what they had to

watch with the Bears on their final prime time game of the year, the final Thursday night football game of the year. year, the final Thursday night football game of the year. Holy shit. Was it horrific? Six to three Seahawks win. I just want this season to be over so, so badly. It's such a complete disaster and mess. And it feels again, like there's no way out. I'm still going to stay optimistic about Caleb, but he was bad. The whole team's bad. Defense was good.

Yeah, defense, defense actually, I thought the defense was going to give a million yards and they did like after the first drive and then they didn't. Yeah, Brian Poles did a interview before the game and said that some of the slow starts are some of the things that weren't fixed in training camp. So he's talking about training camp in week 17. Fire this whole fucking organization to the sun. I'm so sick of it. I apologize again from the bottom of my heart. That is some of the worst football. Like it's just a perfect fitting end to not only the Bears playing standalone games, but Thursday Night Football.

The only thing I'm worried about is like Kirk Herbstreet, our good friend. He's going to get even more aggro after having to watch that. And like he's going to be in just a sour, sour mood next week after having to watch that. So I apologize to everyone. It was a horrific game. They're a horrific organization. They're a complete joke. George McCasky should feel shame.

He won't feel shame. Fans rightfully were booing fans also got Thomas Brown who can't figure out a clock to save his life. I think he might have been behind the Detroit collapse on Thanksgiving to go for it on fourth and one or fourth and five with like 215 left. I was like fucking just punted. I don't even care. Like what does it matter? But it's this is the dumbest organization ever and I apologize to everyone. Also, the Seahawks are bad. Can we just say that the Seahawks are really bad as well? Because like

you shouldn't six to three is not a game you should be in with the Bears. Yeah, you shouldn't feel good about yourself if you're the Seahawks for sure. And it's it's mean what Roger Goodell keeps doing to my good friend Big Cat and making them play prime time games. Right. When you think you're done. Oh no, we've got another Bears prime time game. It's mean what Roger Goodell keeps doing to my good friend Big Cat and making them play prime time games, right? When you think you're done, oh no, we've got another Bears prime time game. It's meaner what they're doing to Big Cat than what he did to Hank and Tom Brady, the Patriots. Roger Goodell is a bigger dickhead for making Big Cat be exposed to the Bears in prime time all these times this year.

Then deflecate sanctions? Yep. I'll say. I mean, it's, and next year the schedule will come out and they'll do it again. It'll just be like, fuck it, I'll do it again. So, so Big Cat, there's some coaching search news for the Bears. So, yeah, let's talk about it. So Ben Johnson's still like, you're going to interview Ben Johnson. He's intrigued He's intrigued by Caleb Williams balls. They whistle and he likes that Pete Carroll has also thrown his hat into the ring as he did with the Jets But he wouldn't mind coaching the Bears apparently or maybe it was his agent saying that to drum up interest I don't know. It depends on which side you fall on in the Schefter-Florio dispute. Yeah. So this was news, I think, on Christmas morning that Pete Carroll would like a job.

Everyone wants a head coaching job in the NFL. These are the reports that, why don't you just put everyone's name? Have a list. Have a huge list, like hey listen, Ben McAdoo wants a job, Matt Patricia wants a head coaching job, Rex Ryan, Ron Rivera, Pete Carroll, just go down the whole list of guys that want a head coaching job in the NFL because they all want a job because they're the best jobs in the world in terms of like pay and in the height of your profession. As for Pete Carroll, he's a very good coach. He's 73 years old. And guess what?

Pete Carroll is exactly what the Bears will do. They would do that, where they'll just be like, you know what, we need someone stable to right the ship, to be a professional in Hallis Hall, instead of being like, hey, why don't we try to just pay Ben Johnson $20 million and be like, hey, yeah, you know what? Ben Johnson might not work out, but at least we

tried to get the best possible hire out there, instead of being like, oh, this guy won a Super Bowl a decade ago? Cool, let's bring him in. That will be fun. He's 70 fucking three years old. John Fox all over again. John Fox all over again. John Fox all over again.

At least Pete Carroll won a Super Bowl. Yeah, I think there's a difference between John Fox and Pete Carroll. He's got a little bit more energy to him. But yeah, it's like a very safe hire for them to do. The only safer hire in their mind, in their fucked up mind, would probably be Ron Rivera, because the ties back to the 85 Bears.

And he was defensive coordinator there for a long time. There was, did you see that article? It was in the New York times or the athletic. It said the bears need a coach who holds players accountable. Look no further than Ron Rivera. Again, I like Ron Rivera. He's a friend of the show. Great guy. Uh, but this is my point that I was just saying, every single one of these guys wants this job because you get paid a shitload of money to coach an NFL team. So that doesn't mean like it would just be so bears to go hire Pete Carroll. Like that's what they would do. They would do it. And then they'd be like, listen, this guy is stability and we need to get, you know, we need, we need someone who knows

how to win and the culture and all these 73 years old, go fucking give Ben Johnson every last dollar in your bank account, George McCasky. And, and, and guess what? If it, if it, if Ben Johnson turns out to be a bad coach, I can't be mad that they at least tried. You know what I mean? Like they went and tried to get the number one guy out there. Once you guys say he's the number, I mean, Mike Vrabel obviously is also a number one guy out there, but go get the number one guy. I would say the safest guy is, is Mike Vrabel. Right. Well, no, P. Carol will be the safest in terms of like, uh, like he, you know, P. Carol won't have a two win season. He's going to be a good head coach. That's almost a guarantee. He might not drive the price tag that Ben

Johnson's driving right now because he's gonna have a crazy bidding war for his services but I feel like if you're gonna try to save on price just get Vrabel. He's gonna be a great coach. Yeah I love Mike Vrabel. If Mike Vrabel is the coach of the Bears, I'll be very happy. I just want, I want them to once go and get the number one guy, the guy that everyone's like, holy shit, Ben Johnson. And it probably won't happen. I'll say it almost definitely won't happen, but at least go try. Don't say fucking Pete Carroll. I just want to get to the playoffs, so I have to think about the Bears like I just

don't want to even they're not worth they're not worth anything. They're they're they're they should sell the team. You know what the McCaskill should do they should sell the team for $100 what their family bought the team for and be like you know what we did such a bad job we're going to sell for $100 do a lot of watching Yellowstone someone gets to win the Bears. Yeah, yeah, sell it to a Native American tribe for what they stole it for. I like that. Yes. I have not been watching Yellowstone, but I'm in. Okay, should we talk some Christmas Day games, some actual football? Yep. They now have like 24 days off. I don't care what, you know,

people can poke holes in the Chiefs and be like, they're not impressive because they haven't scored over 30 points and they've had a couple close calls. They're going to win the Super Bowl again. Just accept it. Like if you don't accept it, I hope it doesn't happen. I want to see the Bills win the Super Bowl. I want to see, you know, another, a new team get to the Super Bowl that hasn't been to the Super Bowl in a long time. You have to say in your head, like what's going to end up happening is the Chiefs now with the one seed, their second round game is going to be a team that they will kill and then they will play one game to get

to the Super Bowl. They will have one tough game to get to the Super Bowl and it will be at Arrowhead and they deserve it because they're the best team in football right now, 15 and one. But just think about it in your head who they're going to have to play in the second in their first playoff game is going to be like the Texans or the Steelers or the Broncos or the Chargers like one of those teams and they're going to fucking demolish them. So you can't even do the rest versus Russ because they're going to get a tune up game and then they just have to beat the Bills or the Ravens at home and they'll be in the Super Bowl and then it's patch from homes in a Super Bowl.

That's exactly it. It's going to be probably the Texans or the Steelers in the first round. Two teams that they've already beaten this year. They decided they whooped the shit out of the Steelers in that second half. They beat the Texans pretty convincingly. So they're going to have to play one of those two teams at Arrowhead and then they're going to play in all likelihood, the Bills or the Ravens, but to get it at home. So congratulations to the Chiefs. You guys did it.

You've won almost all your games, even though there were a lot of close ones. It's the Chiefs is it and like I'm still impressed by the Chiefs because they're often their offense is looking good, like actually good. Patrick. My homes is throwing the ball in like under a second. They're getting the ball out of his hands. The offense looks alive. The running game looks pretty good. They're just yeah, they're it's it's not even frustrating to me because like, yeah, I would ultimately like to see another team, like a team that maybe

hasn't won in a long time when a Superbowl but at the same they're so good. It's kind of like the Steph Curry effect where you're like, it's still kind of entertaining to watch greatness at this level. So congrats, the chiefs I watched the chiefs a holic documentary today. Have you guys seen that yet? No, I haven't I need to, I recommend it. Uh, we show up in there for about three seconds. It's Billy asking if he can go hunt down chiefs of holic when you

skipped bail and us saying, yeah, please go, go hunt them down. Um, also the hard factor guys are in there. Robbie Fox is in there for about a quarter of a second. Somehow that part didn't make any sense. Um, but yeah, good documentary chiefs of holics could be very happy in his prison cell somewhere. They're just inevitable. They are. They're just really, really fucking good. And we've said this before, but if you are someone who is sitting there being like the Chiefs aren't that good, they're lucky to be 15-1, I can't stress enough how stupid

that sounds because they are just the best coach team with the best quarterback and it might not look pretty but when they need like if you make a mistake against the Chiefs the way they're set up and the guys that they have they will always capitalize and every single mistake is magnified by that much because you have Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid and Chris Jones on the other side didn't even play against the Steelers. They're just really good at football and to discredit them is silly at this point. And oh yeah, they got Hollywood Brown now. Yeah, and Xavier Worthy who we talked about is starting to work his way in like he's going

to be a big, big factor in the playoffs. And a pretty rested, healthy Travis Kelce and oh yeah, their coach is literally Santa Claus. So, good luck with that. It rocks. As for the Steelers, I'm so happy that I didn't always go all the way in on the Steelers. I always was one foot in one foot out because that team is a fraud and they just did the same thing that they've done every single year where they win more games than you expect and then at the end of the season, they start to to that they've done every single year where they win more games than you expect.

And then at the end of the season, they start to fall off a cliff and they're limping into the playoffs here after losing to the Eagles, the Ravens and the Chiefs, who are all very good teams. Like if you ask me, are the Steelers better than 20 teams in the NFL? Yeah, they are. But they're nowhere near the top five teams in the NFL, and that's what you judge it on, especially in a town like Pittsburgh. They're just not to be taken seriously in the AFC playoffs.

Yeah, I mean, I think I think they can beat the Texans. But I mean, the Texas are bad, too. Texans aren't looking so good. But I think they can beat the Texans. They might just be right outside that Chiefs, Ravens, Bills. They're not serious. If they're not, it doesn't mean that they're a bad team. I think that they're a good team actually. They're just, they're not good. They're not to be taken seriously. They're not playing for a Super Bowl. Correct. Yeah, they're just not. They're not playing. There's no world where

they're gonna win three playoff games in January. Yeah. It's still cool. Russ Wilson story. I think what do you do with them now? I think you, you kind of just let him hang around. We sign them. Like, yeah, I think you wait to see if he comes to you and asks you for a contract. You just, you just hope it's an on auto renew. Yeah. I heard price. Yeah. You just kind of wait them out. Maybe just do that. Maybe just

like send them an email. Congratulations. Your contract with a Pittsburgh Steelers says auto renewed for the next 12 months. The same price of $1 million. Yeah. I don't think that you like paying a shitload of money. But I may make him an insulting offer and see how insulted he is at it. I do feel bad for Oh yeah, the Steelers also memes just texted this. They have a an issue on defense because basically it was like Kim Heyward, TJ Watt, I think Patrick Queen. They all have been alluding to there's one guy who's just not doing their job. It seems like people are thinking this might be Minka, but I don't know. But Kim Heyward said when 10 guys do their job, one guy doesn't,

we are screwed. And there's been these like weird things, quotes the last three weeks that it feels like there's a big problem on the defensive side in that locker room and someone's not pulling their weight. So I don't I mean, Tomlin's a guy who can figure it out. But I also Steelers fans I feel bad for because most of the NFL looks at the Steelers and they're like, I want that never going under 500. Mike Tomlin, I think, is still a very good coach. But the Steelers fans in the city of Pittsburgh, they are one of those franchises that judges on Super Bowls. So I can say I want what the Steelers have,

but then the Steelers are like, hey, we haven't won a playoff game in seven years. This is bullshit. And I think it was the fourth time in the past six years the Steelers have lost three consecutive games in December. So this is just I think it was the fourth time in the past six years that Steelers have lost three consecutive games in December. So this is just kind of what they've been doing. So I feel bad for Steelers fans because for the majority of the NFL, we're jealous of

what you have, but Steelers fans are like, no, no, no, this is not Steelers football. We are not a serious contender. They kind of have been dealing with it though. Like, yeah, they're not happy with it. Steelers fans aren't happy with it, but the organization is is okay with it. They have to be. The model, I don't know what. I just feel bad for Steelers fans because they're like, you can't, if you're a Steelers fan and you complain to a lot of people in the outside world, they're

like, dude, shut up. You guys never go under 500, but their standard is different. So I understand their complaints and it's definitely Minka. That's the guy. Definitely Minka. Definitely if you saw the most recent uh the last two games, he's just he's just like completely freelancing when he comes in and try to tackle and run support. He's just yeah he'll be in the wrong channel and then it'll be a 50 yard run and it's all because he took the wrong angle on it. And they're not even like that that was such a Mike

Tomlin spot on Christmas Day. Chiefs don't want to have to go there. Chiefs don't you know they all they got to do is win one of their last two games. Underdog at home for Mike Tomlin and they just got they got absolutely worked like it wasn't even it wasn't really a competitive game. No, it will. The first half at the end of the first half, I thought it was going to

be competitive because they put together a nice little drive and you thought maybe but then second half was just all chiefs. Yeah. Um and then for the other game, I mean that was a shit kicking. What was the final score? 31 to 2? 2. Not a score of Gami, right? Not a score of Gami. Not a score of Gami. The Ravens absolutely killed the Texans. The Texans are in a

bad, bad spot. Let's talk about the Texans real quick, and then I want to talk about Lamar and the Ravens. CJ Stroud is regressed. I know there's a lot of things around him that are not going well. And two out of his top three wide receivers got hurt. His offensive line is a joke. But he's regressed.

And I don't know what else to say. Like, he was anointedointed and we did it too. We're just like some of that talk about being like, he's so good and his contract's so cheap. Like he has not been good this year. Who would you rather have, CJ Stroud or Bryce Young? I ask again. Redraft, redraft.

Well, definitely CJ Stroud. But yeah, there are sad offensives to watch right now. makes him look like he was going to get into the end zone. And then once he got stopped at the one, it felt like nothing, nothing at all went to Texans way. You're probably not looking forward very much to that opening round playoff game. If you're the Texans. No, it's like you would rather just try to lick your wounds and be like, okay, let's let's regroup, try to get people healthy if we can.

They couldn't do anything with Derek Henry. Couldn't do anything with Lamar. Also, Derek Henry, I don't know how we missed this. We haven't talked about this. Derek Henry cut his hair. Yeah, he did. Yeah, a couple of weeks ago. After the bi-week.

Yeah, so he got, well, I guess it wasn't, I don't know if it was a haircut or not, but he turned the giant ass braids into cornrows so you can no longer tackle Derek Henry That was his one like that's a surefire way to get him down Just grab that the big clump of hair and jerk his neck backwards So he can't that's championship mentality by the way because he's been growing that out for probably 10 years And he's like I'm gonna change it for this playoff run. I feel like that's that's a good vibe. His head's in the game. Yeah, but they couldn't do anything with Lamar who just passed Michael Vicks record. 41 fewer games, by the way. Yeah, it's insane. Defense couldn't do anything at all against him. Also, shout out to Netflix. Shout out to Netflix. The score bug was awesome. Score bug was cool. It felt like it was classic.

Minus the fact that they just took away a Steelers timeout to start the game. Yes. That confused the fuck out of me. The game hadn't kicked off and the Steelers had two timeouts. But other than that, it was a good broadcast. But yeah, the Christmas Day solidified. What we

already knew, but it was like really crystallizedized that the AFC is the chiefs, the bills, the ravens. That's it. There's no one else. Like those are the, those are the three teams and watching him Duke it out. And this is why the chiefs getting the one seat is so important because the chiefs, the bills and the ravens are going to have to play and then play the chiefs. So it's, but the Ravens are playing great ball and Lamar is out of his mind. He said on the 48 yard touchdown run, he said he was just jogging. He was 21.25 miles per

hour and Lamar Jackson has 41 games fewer than Michael Vick all time record. He also has the second highest passer rating in a single NFL season this year. So 2011 was Aaron Rodgers 122.5. Lamar this year is 121.6. He's been out of control. You see that after the game some news broke about Josh Allen's hand. He's been playing with a broken left hand all season and then people were saying like, oh is Josh doing like some PR work here because Lamar had such a good game I hope I wish they could both win MVP. I wish I wanted to be co-MVPs Like there were as Peyton Manning and Steve McNair, right? Yeah as a messed up time to be alive 2004 I don't yeah, that sounds about right. But yeah Lamar seems like this was this game was a step towards maybe an MVP for him.

I just wish we could find out who was going to win MVP before they played the playoffs because then I would bet on the other side. Yeah. That's it. What were you saying? Beyonce? Oh, didn't watch. Your thoughts?

I was in Lego hell in this game I was in Lego hell I just want to say that I did not watch the Beyonce halftime show I mean they did this they basically did a Super Bowl halftime show it was it was it was spectacle impressive I watched with the sound off I thought was pretty good there's our reviews I saw people were mad about it online, so she probably did an okay job. Was there any satanic imagery in this one?

Yeah, there was some satanic imagery, there were some people talking about Jay-Z and Diddy. So that means she did a good job, I guess. If people watch music, a halftimeime music show and then take to, uh, what's the app called P F T? Uh, the everything app. Yeah. Uh, they take, they take to the everything app and they talk about how America's, uh, eroding and, and, and our country's going to, going to shit off of a 10 minute musical performance at a half time of a football game. That means they probably did a good job. Yeah, I would agree.

As somebody who watched it with the sound off, I think at one point she did that Texas Hold'em song, one where it's like down, down, down. That's a great song. It probably sounded good if you listen to it. There's another note from the halftime show. They were all wearing Cowboys gear. What? Yeah, her album's called Cowboy Carter.

But it was like the same colors as the it was the same color as the Dallas Cowboys. You know what it was? You know what it was? It was probably Goodell sending his smoke signal that the Cowboys are going to play a triple header next year on Christmas Day after what LeBron said. They were in it was in Texas. Yeah. But the Cowboys weren't in the game and they were wearing stuff that said Cowboy Carter is a Philly cowboy. I've ever heard one.

This is a Philly cowboy. I was not the I was I was not the only I was not the only one that said that. Oh, yeah. Was it all the other Philly people? Your dad all sitting in your living room? Did you know until just now that her album was called Cowboy Carter? No, I did not. It didn't.

It's like there were multiple people in my household who were pissed about this Cowboys gear they were wearing. I why did it have to be that color? It was if they had the Eagles playing at a halftime show you think actually yeah Cowboys fans would be pissed about that. See I can appreciate this complaint. This is the this is a complaint more in my wavelength than than being like the satanic imagery and all that shit. That shit's always over my head. But just a pissed off, like way too full Max with his broken foot, probably leaking farts out of his ass being like, what the fuck are the Cowboys gear on?

Also may not exactly be the Cowboys color, but it was the Cowboys font. Whatever that like Houston blue is their uniform. Battle Blue. I think there's a lot of white, wasn't it? It was a lot of white uniforms. How many games do you guys think we're getting next year on Christmas? After what LeBron said, I think we get six. No, no, they won't. They won't do a full slate. They'll do. They'll do three. I think, but Caddell might just be like, you know what? Fuck you, LeBron. Yeah. Christmas is the only thing that matters. Only support that matters. Yeah.

No, Christmas is, is the NBA's day. I like how he said that after the game, like, like he knew what the ratings were already. Yeah, just because he felt good about how he played on Christmas. LeBron in LeBron like listen, I know that Christmas is historically been the NBA's day. But it's been Jesus's day. but I'm saying like in the sports world, it has been the NBA's day. Uh, LeBron, I, I don't know if you knew this, but like the NFL, whatever they want, they're going to take. And you can't say shit about it because I watched, I didn't watch a second of, because that was the other thing.

The, the fuck you by the NFL is being like, we're doing it on Netflix. So you can't even flip back and forth. Yeah. I watched. You can't log out of the app There's no there's no channel changing I basically my NBA watching on on Christmas Day was literally just the sandwich of the football I watched the first quarter of the Spurs and Knicks game and I watched the fourth quarter of the Warriors Lakers game

It was just when football wasn't on I turned on the basketball. Yeah, so I was that I the first time I got to play the great he is that I didn't even know. And I was like, fuck, you really know, you know, football because she's a Taylor Swift fan. And then there was another middle school guy that right when the NBA games kicked off, he goes, can we please change the channel off the NBA? This product is unwatchable. And I was like, yeah, you guys know ball. Yeah, the Lakers Warriors game was great now. So Max and Hank, you guys went up against each other you you fought on the text chain where it was just

You guys were just congratulating each other back and forth for what felt like a half hour um What any thoughts on the game? Hank i'll let you start Max i'll kick it to you No, you can go ahead on this one. Congrats. Congrats. Yeah, Sixers are back. Everyone knows the NBA starts on Christmas. The Sixers are one and oh in the NBA season this year. The Celtics are 0 and 1. That's the only way that you can really look at it. And that's just a fact. All right. Are you back out of the Cooper flag business?

Out of Cooper flag, officially out on Cooper flag. 11 wins on Christmas. You got one more than you than you told us you're going to get. We also said that if the Sixers beat the Celtics on Christmas, that counts as 10 wins in itself. Wow. That was part of the stipulation. Is Joel okay? Yeah. He played great. He tripped over over a Joel beat in Bryson DeChambeau. Don't put any ropes near those guys. I'm just going to ignore that. That was a nothing thing that Twitter got excited about for no reason.

One thing that is relevant is Caleb Martin might be the Celtic killer. That might be the difference. I'm gonna hate that guy. Yeah, Caleb Martin, he has been horrendous this year. And all of a sudden shows up on Christmas day, goes seven of nine from three, and just buries every single shot against the seas. He's a Celtic killer.

He's gonna be the difference maker this year. We'll always say to Al Horford, I don't understand why he plays so well against the Sixers He's the South to killer. He's he's going to be the difference maker this year. We'll always say to how Al Horford I don't understand why he plays so well against the Sixers every single time. Yeah, I mean, listen, it was it was a good one for the Sixers. Like, obviously, they're not that good of a team. I wouldn't say it was a championship DVD starting win. But it is like when they're in the playing game in April, like they'll probably have to run some video to start that game. And it will probably start with the Christmas game. So like that's, you know, little victories

and I'm happy for Max. Congrats. Hank, you're so mad because you don't, I mean, you, you, you, you're so mad. You just gave them life. There are let there, there are still six games under 500. Like I actually game. They're one game ahead of their progress report, which was 10 wins on Christmas. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's, it sucks. Jeremy Kane's office season. Cause then that then I'd be really worried. But again, I mean, if you're counting on Caleb Martin to black out and hit every shot, every game, like good luck, good luck with that. Like that's, that's

not a, I guess he does against the Celtics. he does. Against the Celtics. He cooks the Celtics. He's the Celtic killer. Yeah, we'll see in the playoffs. I guess if you guys make it. I like that GoHank. It's the play in game hype video. Yeah. Eight and three in their past 11.

Sixers are eight and three in their past 11. Two words for you, Max. Mack McClung. Do it. Three in the past 11 sixes are eight in their past 11 two words for you max Mac McClung Do it call him up do it. I don't even know if he's still in the organization I'm sure you can have that name just come to your I'm sure okay, so at this same Christmas party I was talking to the world's number one Mac McClung fan So at this same Christmas party, I was talking to the world's number one Mack McClung fan,

probably even more so than his parents. And by the end of it, I'd watched all the highlights. I was like, it is bullshit that he's not in the league. The Sixers should bring him back. He's on the Osceola magic. I'm like visualizing you sitting at the kids table for some reason during all these discussions. Oh no. It was a podcast meeting from the basement. Yeah, yeah, it was three kids sitting on the couch. Yeah. Bring him back. Bring him back, Max. I made a promise to a child.

Oh man. All right. All the details. Jason Tatum will just forever be able to get away with pushoffs until the end of time. It's incredible. Every single time. Every single time he shoots a three, he just completely pushes off to create separation every time and then he winds that he got fouled.

Jason Tatum is just as much of a whiner as Joellen Bede. I will stand on that hill. Jason Tatum, push off, whiner. Okay, so the Celtic Sixers game had 5.1 million viewers. The Ravens Texans game again was score that 31 to 2. 31 to 2. They had Beyonce. Oh really?

24.3 million viewers. Yeah. The only thing I didn't really love about the broadcast was how it seemed like, I don't know what the rules are, but they had people from like every channel that it was like the Avengers that they brought in where it's like they have a host of people from ESPN NFL Network Amazon they like mixed it all together and they're like here's our here's our studio and then they had Netflix rules analyst Gene Steritor and I was like that's not that's not right

He's not an analyst. I don't know what the rules are but they can just pick anybody off Shout out CM Punk who went on before the game and was like sell the team George Rokaski. You're a piece of shit I like that. But yeah, you're right. It was the Avengers It was like wait RG 3 and Mina kinds and, and who else was, Oh, man, title, man, title from NFL network was on drew breeze. Was he on there? Yeah, I think he was. I'm surprised. I was just, I was waiting for a jump scare cut to Tony Dungey to, to frighten everybody. Yeah. JJ Watts did a good job in the first game. Like it was, yeah, it was, it was both the Eagles. Yep. Calling the games. Uh, but yeah, the, uh, it was a good, listen, I'll watch football

a hundred times out of a hundred times over NBA. I, I will, I still love the NBA playoffs and that fourth quarter of the Lakers Warriors was awesome because that was throwback Steph hitting that three and then Austin Reeves, terrible defense. Austin Reeves went right to the cup, but that was an awesome game. I had a lot of fun watching that. Good job, NBA. Good job, NBA. But yeah, I wouldn't pick a fight with Roger Goodell because I seriously think the Cowboys might play a quadruple header on Christmas Day next year. What would be the ideal Christmas Day matchup for the NFL?

Oh, oh, if you don't think the Chiefs and the Bills are going to play, no, it's going to be Chiefs and Bills and then it might be Cowboys-Eagles. Like it's going to be, Roger Goodell is going to drop the hammer on the NBA with the matchups because it's also a Thursday game so it's like it won't be you know it won't be as weird with the Wednesday stuff like it he's going to drop the hammer on on the NBA what about Aaron Rodgers comes back Jets at Packers he'll be the Vikings quarterback next year probably Vikings at Packers nobody it's going yeah like if I had to predict it, it would be it's going to be Ravens. Sorry, it's going to be Bills Chiefs.

It might even be Ravens Bengals and then Cowboys Eagles or Cowboys Lions. Like it's going to be awesome. The triple header that Roger Goodell, he's going to drop his nutsack on Adam Silver's face and bet all the away teams because Christmas like if the games are on Christmas, you don't think that the way teams have a big advantage on that. Oh yeah. There's my there's my under theory that that is no longer existing, but it worked for like a decade on NBA unders. I think it's a little bit different even with the NFL because the road teams, they don't have to worry about like having a big meal Christmas Eve, Christmas morning.

They don't have to. It's like the opposite of the baby bump. When you have when you're a home team and you have your parents in town that you're hosting, you actually play lethargic. Having relatives in town is is a detriment to your game. What did we have last year? Christmas. It was was it Raiders chiefs? NFL. Eagles played the Giants. 49ers played. Eagles played the Giants. Yeah, the Raiders won. The Eagles did when they were home. And then the Ravens won. So

two and one road teams yeah Eagles almost blew that game though they were well they blew every game last year sure sure very good Hank can you set a reminder for Christmas next year the most important thing is to bet on the road teams mm-hmm mm-hmm yeah it's sad my NBA unders we had a hell of a run it's just they shoot too many threes now. It was eight years in a row where it was a sound investment. Where it was just every, every single NBA, every single Christmas day, it would go two and one unders for the first three games or three and oh,

bare minimum two and one because they would just all be like, I just ate a big breakfast. I open presents to my kids. I didn't do shoot around and now I'm here playing an NBA game. Cuz you got you gotta think that the road team celebrate when they get back home, right? Yeah, big time. They don't do it early. Big time. Um okay. Good show boys. We're we're kicking to ourselves for some week 17 picks and preview. Make sure you listen to our really in depth Jaguars Titans preview.

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I mean, that's incredible. So get excited. It's happening on Saturday December 28th. The Pop Tarts Bowl is back. Okay boys, weekend preview. We've got a lot of games that mean absolutely nothing. We've got a few games that mean a lot. Should we start with Saturday? Saturday, Saturday, Saturday. Hank, there is Saturday football again. Just so you know, I know the Patriots are playing Oh, okay. All right. So he's aware of their Saturday football. So we got that at least covered Let's start with that game chargers at Patriots I'm in San Diego. It's delightful. Oh wow 10 a.m. Football 10 a.m. Football House divided for Hank who are you rooting for the city of San Diego?

but they're the LA Chargers or the City of New England? Well, I mean, I had to put all my bets in before I left Chicago because they don't have DraftKings in California. I bet the Patriots, but I'm, you know, as usual, kind of rooting for them to lose. Okay. So Patriots plus four, where did you get them at? Overrunners 42.5. Let me check. You might have got them even better because I think it came down. I think he had some sharp money on it. Did you guys see Jim Harbaugh had like a quote this week that was, you know, sir, we asked if this was your handwriting. He was asked about playing in the cold in Foxborough and

he said, these guys are young, they're healthy and their heart pumps warm blood. It pumps it from the arteries to the veins to the tributaries to the capillaries throughout their whole body. You just play ball. Now I might have gotten that in the wrong order there as well documented. I'm not a doctor. Yeah, so that was literally my only note on this game besides bust Hanks balls for going up against his home city. Uh, yeah. Um, the only other thing that I really thought about going into this is I'd like to see stone

smart score touchdown just because he's got a very underrated name. Oh, well, the charters do have the best name in football and Jim Harbaugh. That was his other one. He said it was one of the great names in football. DiCaprio booty. DiCaprio bootle. Booty. Booty. Booty. Yeah. DiCaprio bootle. Yeah. It's a great quote by Harbaugh. I'm not a doctor either, but I'm pretty sure that young guys and old guys, when their

heart speed, doesn't matter if you're young, it sends the blood through your body. But he's not wrong. Young guys do it too. Yeah. And also he's not wrong. Old guys, definitely the cold weather bothers them more. That's why everyone moves south when they get older in retirement Yeah, the only thing I had noted in this game was Chargers clinch with the play the clinch playoffs with a win. I

Do think that Drake may has been this might be Drake mays like best game I'm gonna say right now Hank because he's kind of flirting with it. He's had some really nice games He's had some really nice moments that He's had some really nice moments. That Bills game almost taking down the Bills in Buffalo last week. It wouldn't shock me if Drake May just goes nuts in this game because the Chargers defense has been fading a little bit. And you're like, holy shit, how did the Patriots just

beat the Chargers? Is this going to tell us actually whether or not Drake May is a good quarterback? Because the Chargers defense is very, very good against bad quarterbacks. And they're not so great against good quarterbacks. So this might be a Drake may. Which side are you on game? Yeah, this could be.

This could be the litmus test for Drake may what will happen in this game. So Hank you're rooting for Drake may to go off in the Patriots to lose but also I actually bet the money line. So I'm actually rooting for them to win this game. Which I don't know why I did that. Wow. I got him plus 195 is is plus one 85 now.

Okay. That's huge. Hank, does this have anything to do with you rooting against the chargers? No. Hank would love nothing more than for the chargers. Not even to make the playoffs. He would love it because if they make the playoffs, my my reasoning on the Chargers future wasn't completely unsound. It was always get to the playoffs, maybe win a game and then you can hedge out. So if they don't make the playoffs, Hank can laugh in my face and be like, hungry dog. No, I also think I've been pretty honest with the Chargers.

Like I said, on when they won that Thursday night game like they show me something like I Did not think that they were a good team. I thought they were fraudulent and that there was a dumb bet they show me something with that Thursday night game people can change I I people can't change the The moment of realization and on Hank's face when he realized that even his subconscious is a troll when he puts in these types Of bets it's's pretty excellent. Well, that was like, I literally was just firing through, you know, it was a week away. Like I don't know exactly why I picked the Patriots Moneyline, but I did. And maybe, yeah, maybe it was my subconscious. The Chargers are going to maybe get J.K. Dobbins back, not probably this week, but his practice

window open. That is enormous. but I mean, I'll be honest I obviously would love if the Chargers could win a playoff game But the six and seven seed in the AFC are just heading for like an absolute ass kicking to either Buffalo or Baltimore Yeah, yeah, it's um, we probably already talked about this with the Chiefs or we haven't talked about the Chiefs yet I get confused when record these out of order, But the fact of the matter is really not hard. We were doing a show opening with the Chiefs and Christmas Day and the Bears game. Well, we already talked about it then. So I'm just saying, yeah, yeah. But you also could save it. No, yeah. We we've already talked about it. Right. Good point. It was really smart. Yeah. It was really smart. What you said. I agree. Yeah.

All right. Broncos at Bengals. This game actually means something. Means a lot. Means a lot. The Bengals though are probably fucked because the Broncos have to lose out for the Bengals to have a chance. They also need the Colts and the Dolphins to drop a game. Now the Chiefs can rest everyone. It looks like that's not going to happen, but they're going to try to win this game, obviously. And Riley Moss should be back. Do you guys know, this was actually courtesy of our friend and future recurring guest, because we have to have him on at some point, Ben Baby. The Cincinnati Bengals have not beaten a QB one this year.

I did not know that. Yes. The QBs they have beaten are Andy Dalton, Mack Jones, oh, I guess was it Deshaun Watson, I guess would be one of the QB ones. So one, uh, well, so maybe it's not, maybe it's not just QB ones. It's just really bad QBs because Andy Dalton, Mac Jones, Deshaun Watson, Gardner Minshew, Cooper rush, will Levis and DTR. Yeah. So, so we'll love us is QB one. Yeah. Was one. Yeah. And, uh, Deshaun Watson was QB one. And there was another one that you mentioned partner. I think was, so it's, I misquoted Ben baby. It's just, it's, oh, sorry, not being a current QB one. So current QB one, which is fact, but also if you list all those

QBs, they're terrible. Yeah. Pretty bad. I did not realize that. The best one. Cooper rush is the best quarterback. I listed. You don't think about the Bengals that way because they do score such a fuckload of points that you think, oh, it's not just but their defense is just that bad where they Yeah, they have to have a bad quarterback that they're going against. If they have a chance about scoring that person. I, I looked up the stats for for burrow and chase. And I did not realize that the Bengals, their quarterback leads the league in passing yards. Their wide receiver one re leads the league in reception yards.

And they also have the number one sack getter in the NFL this year on defense. And they still. Yeah, and they still suck because their pass rush as a whole is bad, which makes you think that Bo Nicks might have a Bo Nicks is good game. Because Bo Nicks basically has Bo Nicks is good game because Bo Nix basically has Bo Nix is good games when he has a clean pocket and then whenever he has a little bit of pressure, it's oh, the Denver Broncos defense is good. Yeah, we're going to figure out whether or not Lou Anna Rumo has got a little bit of

Greg Williams in this week because with with Mahomes being out, like, would you be surprised if they hit Bo N next a little extra hard? Hmm. They hit my home. Yeah, they they I mean, they have to figure out some way to get pressure on them because they can't get pressure. They're 22 22nd in the league in pressure rate. So yeah, but I'm saying figure out something if they if they also need the Broncos to lose

the Chiefs next week. Yeah, what would Greg Williams do? That's what I'm saying. Like we'll see how old school and a rumor was. You don't think Zach Wilson could beat the Chiefs next week. Yeah, what would Greg Williams do? That's what I'm saying. Like we'll see how old school and a rumo is. You don't think Zach Wilson could beat the Chiefs? Well, it's gonna be Carson Wentz, right? Yeah, but Zach Wilson will be the Broncos backup. Yeah. Anybody can be Carson Wentz. Yeah, maybe Zach Wilson carrying the Broncos to the playoffs. Here's another crazy stat for you. Patrick Sertan this year has allowed a passer rating of 39.1 when targeted. A QB's passer rating would be higher if they threw it in the ground on each pass.

39.6. So it's smarter just to throw it into the ground than test Patrick Sertan and Riley Moss should be back which makes a huge difference because The Broncos defense without Riley Moss. They basically are fucked because they don't have another corner Yeah, they're forcing us to learn the names of all the anonymous crush like John Gruden calls him What three now? Yeah This is chill three it's really good To their defense if you can't name any more than that and you just know that they're fucking awesome.

Yeah, and you don't want to, I mean, anonymous crush is a great nickname. If we learn too many, you can't do that nickname anymore. Yeah, I had several anonymous crushes back in my day. I want the Bengals in the playoffs. I don't think the Bengals are going to make the playoffs. It doesn't look good for him I was hoping for the Steelers to do their part just because I feel like the playoffs will be that much more chaotic with They might not win but you know, you can circle that wouldn't be like that's gonna be a fun ass game

Yeah, I wait I gotta find it cuz our good friend Mike Florio go get his book It might not be free anymore, but you should still buy it. He had one of the dumbest hypotheticals ever. Oh yeah, here it is. Ready? If you're the Chiefs, would you rather have the number one seed, but the Bengals make the playoffs, or the number two seed, and the Bengals don't make the playoffs? That's a very interesting hypothetical. I think I'd rather have the buy and home field advantage and not worry about the

Cincinnati Bengals who can't beat a good quarterback all year. Yeah, would you rather play the Bills or the Ravens in round two or the Steelers or let's see, I guess it would be the Steelers, the Texans round two. Well, I guess his thought process was the Bengals would win their first round game. So then the Chiefs would have to play the Bengals in the second round because the recede. I don't think that the Steelers would win a first round game. They would make an entertaining game. It would be very, very fun to watch. But we've learned, we've seen enough.

There's enough body of evidence out there on the Bengals this year to know that they're just not that good of a team overall. Their offense is electric, but their defense is so so fucked that it's beyond hope. Yeah, here at the quarterbacks again, Andy Dalton, Mac Jones, Deshaun Watson, Gardner Minshew, Cooper Rush, Will Leves, DTR. Literally, the Cooper Rush is is the is the one I would take out of all those. Yeah, I think I think Cooper Rush might be QB one. Yeah, he would be. Yeah, you're right. We, we started that debate last people are having the discussion is Cooper rush really the guy in Dallas, not me, big cat. I'm a results

guy. He's got him playing hard. All right. Next game. This is the Saturday night game. Cardinals at Rams Rams minus six and a half over under 48. The only note I have from this is the Cardinals are dead. Uh, the Rams, uh, are, are look like they're going to be in the playoffs. They, they control their own destiny. I would like to just say to Jonathan Gannon shots, explosives, pew, pew, pew, um, treat this game, how it should be treated. Treat it like a bowl game. Not like Pat Narduzzi, all time coward move by him in the whatever bowl that was, Toledo

versus Pitt. Treat it like a bowl game where you have nothing to lose and do just empty the clip. Get Trey McBride a touchdown, do trick plays, go for forward on fourth down, fake punts, just empty the clip. Like just let, let them just be loose and just go nuts. I just want to see a coach do that once. Just, just fucking go crazy. Jeff Ulbrich did it, but he did it in the most like boring way ever where the jet scored nine points in, in, uh, an entire game and never punted. I wanted to, Kyler Murray's the perfect guy to just empty the clip and do a bunch of fuck shit. Yeah. I'd like to see that. You remember what happened week two with these teams? It feels like it was forever ago. Week two, the Cardinals

won 41 to 10 against the Rams, which seems absolutely insane right now, but the Rams did not have Puka in that game and Puka. I feel like Puka is a wide receiver that like gives you, I don't know what his what his war is, like how many wins he adds just by starting. But I feel like it's a lot. Because I feel like everybody in the secondary is thinking like, where's Puka all the time? Yeah. And he's obviously a dynamic pass catcher and great running with ball. So it's gonna be a different game. I feel like it's gonna be a

shit pumping. But I do agree with you that you don't have anything to lose. The Cardinals fans are pissed off right now because of the collapse that we've seen the second half of the season. At least give them something exciting. Give them a team that does not give a fuck that will let their balls hang a little bit. Right.

And it's not like there are a lot of teams that have nothing to play for, but there's a lot of those teams don't even have the ability to do the fuck shit I'm talking about. Like the Saints don't have anything to play for. They're not going to be able to do anything crazy with Spencer Rattler. The Cardinals still have an offense that could go crazy and nuclear. Just do it. Just like whatever crazy play you've always dreamed up that you're like, now we can't try that. It's too nuts. Do that play on Saturday night. Do it. Just go nuts. They're not going to have James Connor though. I don't think, right? No, I don't think so. But

still might even be down to the third string running back. Get Trey McBride five touchdowns. His season looks like he had a really like good season touchdown wise. Yeah, they tried to last game. They drew something up for him in the first half. Didn't work out. But yeah, just it. Okay, so either do all the fuck shit, all the pew pew pew explosives. Don't let anybody named McVeigh hear that. Or you just make the entire game plan. Feed the ball Trey McBride. Yes. Yeah. That's one of the entire game plan, feed the ball, trade McBride. Yes, yeah.

That's one or the other, because listen, it's a Saturday night game. We're all going to be watching. The Cardinals have nothing to play for. Let us enjoy something crazy. Give it to us. I'm asking you, Cardinals. We deserve it, Saturday night football.

Jonathan Gannon, I will forever have loyalty towards you and never say a bad word against you ever again if you go for it on at least three fourth downs and there's at least three trick plays in this game. That's what I'm, you get full pardon my take immunity for life. That's it. We'll never say a bad word against them. Maybe even Citizen of the Year. Citizen of the Year. It's up there. Okay. Sunday. Jets at Bills. Bills minus nine and a half overrunners 46 and a half. Now the Bills don't have anything

to play for but they kind of do. They have to still get the two seed. They have to win one more game out of the last two. I don't know if you saw but Josh Allen he had a quote last week I believe it was maybe after the Patriots game where he essentially was like we're in this like weird zone where we know we're not gonna get the one seed but we so we don't want to show too many things so he basically was admitting that the game plan is probably going to be a little vanilla. And this game, I don't even know what's like the jets have a million injuries, Aaron Rogers knees hurt.

So I don't even know what we're going to get out of the jets. I don't really have any thoughts other than I'd probably take the under. That's it. Yeah, I don't want to speak too much because Bricks definitely listening right now. Also shout out Bricks. I hope it gave you more responsibility last week. Let's get to work, buddy I I think that the bills definitely do have they're they're going to try to play vanilla Unless it's close and then they will they because they have to get the two seed

They have and ideally you would like to be able to use next week to rest up Correct. So this is this is a game where I wouldn't mind seeing them open up the playbook a little bit if it's even remotely close just so that they can make sure that they don't have anything to worry about going into next week. Also shout out Jack we always forget Jack. Jack Brick's trying to you know outshine you. You're actually the real GM. We stand with Jack. You just say the word and we'll we'll go against Brick and beat Team Jack. But we're not trying to divide them. Wait, so his name is Jack Johnson? I'm pretty sure, right?

I think we looked it up. Brick and Jack? That's amazing. Yeah. Memes, thoughts on this game? This game I thought was going to be good, but I checked the weather. It's going to rain, so it's going to be bad. Okay. That was some great analysis who does the rain favor memes? the rain favors the Bills, Jets can't play in the rain

the Bills defense has been playing bad, Jets offense is electric so it would have been over City but now it's gonna rain so now it's under over City then? yeah nine points last week it was windy it was windy and also that first drive and the first drive was sick. Yeah. Yeah first drive was so sick But Joe Brady smart, so they're probably just gonna run for 300 yards. Yeah, I feel like that's exactly what's gonna happen It's not even gonna be James Cook. It's gonna be Ty Johnson or whoever and just like run it down their throat We might even see some Mitch. Yeah.

Memes do you think that when this game kicks off, are you going to be rooting for the jets? I'm rooting for no injuries. Okay. Okay. What do you know? No more injuries for rooting for health. Oh, Lou got hurt last week. I just want no more injuries for people for next year. I can say something real quick. I agree with you, no more injuries for next year. But I'm of the mindset that next year is so far away that no injury matters.

Like even, I mean, Tank Del, it came out in his rehab. He might miss all next year. But in my head, I'm like, no, no, no, he'll be fine. Because I just can't even comprehend next year yet. You know what I mean? A 12 12 year recovery? Yeah. Yeah. 12 month recovery. That doesn't it. That's not a football number. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. Now we're kind of seeing like what happened with Adrian Peterson's knee. Now that's happening with

guys that tear their Achilles where it's like, oh, they can be back in eight months. Whose dog is barking? That's that memes? that Memes? No, that is Blake. Yeah. I thought Memes had a dog. Blake's mad at me. I farted on Blake by accident on the couch earlier. And he stood up, and he barked at me,

and he left the couch and went and laid down. He won't even look at me now. I'm sorry. You broke the meme. I didn't mean to. I was on Airplane. Pro code. Pro code.

OK. Memes, so Memes' official statement on this game is he thought it would be electric and then it's gonna rain so it won't Yeah, not a steak Okay, okay Memes I started watching the Aaron Rodgers documentary. How do you like it? I don't like it, but that's not like I think it's well done. It's just I don't I Mean I just when he did I'm still in the Packers stuff, so it's like, I still hate it. You know what I mean? Like, it's just him telling his side. Yeah, no, I like that part. I mean, he's an interesting guy.

Yeah, he's an interesting guy. I just, I don't care for Aaron Rodgers highlights in a Packers uniform. It's not my cup of tea. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Raiders at Saints. Saints plus one over under 38. The only note I have in this game is I feel like there's a chance the Saints might win because, and this is, there's no insider information. I don't have any insider information on the Saints. I feel like Darren Rizzi probably cried in front of the boys after the shutout. I think he got embarrassed. Yeah. Yeah. And he cried. I would have liked to see him take it out a little bit on the floor after Monday night, like give him, you know, one of the drive-by handshakes or like yell something at him. I seem very undaring Rizzi like that. He didn't say anything during that. Like you're an interim

coach, dude. What do you have to lose? Like just, just fucking lay into him. You got embarrassed on Monday night. The fact that he didn't do that he bottled that shit up. Yeah, so he either took it out on the team, or his family, and he might be looking for a little retribution. But I just think that I don't know that there's something about the Raiders where they are like anti tanking. They feel like they are trying to win as hard as they can. Every single game. They're preparing like it's their super bowl every week, even though ultimately they would, they would much rather lose. Yeah. No,

they said they like Antonio Pierce was like, I mean, he's coaching for his job. So well, his job is to coach, but he, he, uh, he was like, yeah, I don't care about the number one pick they did so much damage to their future by winning last week and if they win this game it's gonna be even more damage but yeah I there's something in my head that I'm just like I can I can close my eyes and see it like Darren Rizzi got in front of the team probably Wednesday morning and he cried and he just cried and the guys are like, man, I can't believe we made coach cry and they were manly tears just

so we're clear. They weren't like whimpering tears. They were manly tears. Like I love football so much and what happened on Monday night like, you know, hurt me to my core. So I just, I think there, I guess it wouldn't have been Wednesday, it would have been Thursday because Wednesday was Christmas. They, I think the Saints might come out hot because of the cry Yeah, also the seven fishes probably did something to him. It's true Yeah, I maybe Antonio Pierce is just fucking Tom Brady over one last time. Maybe that's why he's winning these games. That's true Okay, Colts of Giants Giants plus seven and a half over under his 40 Colts and Giants. Giants plus seven and a half over under is 40. Colts are still alive. They need the Broncos to lose out as well.

Everyone's hoping the Broncos lose out. We are on Tebow watch for Anthony Richardson, which we mentioned on Sunday. He's at 47.7% completion percentage. Tebow finished an entire season at 46.5. This is a game that's just gonna stink. This is gonna be one of those, I don't even know the weather, maybe it won't, maybe it will be rainy, but it just feels like a, you always mention it PFT, sun shining so bright at MetLife Stadium and this game's gonna suck. Yeah the sun shining bright as fuck and the temperature being like 25 degrees. One of those late December games. That's

just very, very depressing to watch. I'm pulling up the weather right now. Uh, sun. Oh no, it's going to be rainy. It's going to be rainy and like in the fifties and forties there. So that's that is going to suck. That's this is going to be a bad game. This is going to be, this is going to be a really bad game. They should not televise this game. Yeah, just give us the updates. And if Anthony Richardson throws or runs like a 50 yard run or a 50 yard bomb, then like give us a live look at that Scott Hanson. But yeah, this is it's going to be stinky. They do have a lot to play for.

But did I hear that Anthony Richardson might not play? Joe Flacco was getting some reps. So, okay. Well, that's what I'm rooting for. Yeah. I mean, Joe Flacco coming in would be awesome. Maybe they know that Anthony Richardson's on T-Bow watch. So, they're like, let's not get, let's not leave this up to chance. Let's just get old Joe Flacco in there. That would be nice. Yeah. That's why they drafted him. Because he can play in the rain. Yeah, and you basically were like,

all right, Anthony Richardson, you cleared it. You went 7-4-11 last week. We don't have to do the Tebow thing. Let's just get Joe Flacco in, and we'll finish off the season. Yeah. This is... I know that Week 17 and 18 are always kind of tough, but there are just so many bad teams this year

that it's just, and I know the Colts are technically still alive, so I'm not even putting them in the bad team, even though they kind of are a bad team, but like Raiders and Saints, the Giants and Colts, like the Titans and Jaguars, some of these games, man. And we're gonna watch them all, and they're gonna out, they're gonna outrate LeBron in his little league, his little basketball league. No, their ratings are up 84% in the NBA, big cat. You see that? Up 84% year over year and they got smoked by like five times by the NFL.

Yeah. Okay. Cowboys and Eagles, Eagles minus seven over under 38 and a half. Max will be there. Max, I saw the saddest tweet of all time earlier today, I believe, although I think it's been updated. This is what it was said, with Jalen Hurts and Kenny Pickett banged up, former Eagles QB Ian Book paid the team a visit today. That is gun in the mouth stuff. Yeah, gotta get healthy. There's nothing else really to say. Quarterback room is not looking great. Tanner McKee, Tanner McKee is underrated ball player though. I wouldn't need to see Tanner McKee get a shot out there. Yeah. I think I'm afraid of Tanner McKee just based on the fact that all the guys, I'm always terrified of like a third string quarterback that the hometown absolutely loves and he seems like that guy.

Also pug loves Tana McKee and he's been, he's been hiding himself from this zoom this entire time. And I said Tana McKee, he went off of, off of hiding himself, gave me a fierce nod and then went right back to hiding himself. All right. Hey, can you give us a report on Tanner McKee? He's been the Eagles third string. He lights it up every preseason. And he's just the best kept secret in the NFL. He played at Stanford. He looked like if you pull him up,

he just looks like a guy who should be doing your taxes. It is not a. who should be doing your taxes. It is not a, he looks like the nicest, like he is the number one like guy who you want to date your daughter because he's, he's just going to like you get him like a Peter Millar shirt. He's got a hundred Q-zips. He's a baller though. Tanner McKee will always put a coaster down before putting a drink on a table. Always. Tanner Mckee, I am a fan of Tanner Mckee. Tanner. Why? Why? Why? Just from preseason?

Yeah, no, he looks he throws a nice spiral. OK, so it's a. Throws a nice spiral. He beat cancer. Stun. That's huge. Max, where do you stand on, um, on the latest Nick Sirianni on the field incident where he had to be separated from Zach Ertz by big Dom? Good question. Passionate guy, passionate guy, fiery guy fights for his team. You like it. You like that stuff? Yeah. I feel bad for McDonald's at this point because

it's like Nick Sirianni is like, he's drawn off of people and then he has to have the rock come in and pick them up and escort them away. Since I mentioned a bad Florio tweet, I'll give him credit for a good one. He said Nick Sirianni gives him the vibes of a Eagles fan that want to contest to coach the team. And that is exactly right. Kim getting in a fight with Zach Ertz and Big Dom having to break it up. What are we talking about? At some point, Big Dom has to be like, Jesus Christ, I got to go manage this guy's emotions again.

Big Dom has the hardest job in the world. He literally just is living the meme where it's like big guy goes out to bar and the little friend always gets into shit that the big guy has to get him out of. Yeah. Max, I don't know what you want me to say, but I will say we're talking about we're defending big. He's the problem you'd be giving like isn't Zach or it's a Eagles legend. Like is there no respect for that? Hey, why are you worried about your basketball team over there?

All right, buddy. I'm just asking questions. Oh. I think what Hank is trying to say is that we love Big Dom so much that at one point does it become a distraction for Big Dom where now his full-time job is just have a leash on Nick Sirianni. Yeah. He also had to walk CJ Gardner Johnson to the to the locker room the other day. So that was that was awesome. He looked awesome. He looked awesome. Yeah. I

just don't like like the Eagles should be very thankful for Big Dom like Big Dom. Say what you want about he earns his paycheck. We can imagine what the Eagles will be like without him. Also, he's kind of big Dom's relationship with Nick Sirianni. He's kind of proving that the old saying there are no bad dogs, only bad dog owners is wrong. Because like Nick Sirianni is a bad dog. Big Dom's not doing anything bad as his dog owner. We love Big Dom. I kind of don't know why next year he's getting in a fight with Zach Ertz.

What are we talking about? You know, it's like you treat your champions, your former champions, come into Philly and get, try to beat up by their coach. He tried to beat him up, Max? Yeah, he tried to kick him back. Sometimes, you know, Italians just their words get, get misconstrued by the other guy when he's just trying to have a conversation.

Well, that's not what I heard. I didn't hear that it was misconstrued. Also put some respect on Julie Ertz's husband's name. That's a goddamn national hero. What I heard was that Nick Sirianni initiated a zoom call with Zach Ertz where he apologized to him via zoom. Oh, if you have to zoom call someone to apologize, you did some fucked up. Yeah. Damn. Not even FaceTime. He said, he sent him an email invite for the apology.

Sometimes family members fight. It's Christmas. It's Christmas. All right. Um, I, I feel like the Cowboys are live in this game, even though CD Lamb is out for the rest of the year. So that's, that's their one awesome player on offense. But Cooper Rush might be their second awesome player on offense. Cooper Rush might be awesome. Doudel is close to a thousand yards, I think, which is pretty cool for him, I guess. Yeah. And then there are other wide receivers who's the guy that they that they got that they traded for with the Panthers when they were going all in this trade deadline. Is it Mingo? Yeah yeah yeah. So now they got Mingo and

Flournoy. Dave Flournoy is a playing receiver for them. That's gonna be sick. Are you? no Max, you have nothing to play for, right? Like there's nothing, just just get healthy. I mean I guess Saquon, Saquon Yards is what you're playing for, but like you're going to this game. Are you, you always want to beat the the Cowboys, but are you like there's nothing to play for, right? Technically we're still playing for the NFC East, but we would just have to win one out of the next two games. Wait, what? You could not win the NFC East? They're gonna win the NFC East.

But they could not? If they lose the Cavaliers and the Giants. If the Giants won next week it would it would ruin their franchise did you yes chef he actually had that as a as a little uh windhorse moment on uh NFL countdown he's like watch out for the Eagles week 18 they're going to try to throw that game so the Giants don't get the one pick and the Giants stay in the cellar see I I don't know that one pick and the Giants stay in the cellar. See, I I don't know that Sirianni is capable

of pulling off that type of mastermind. I think Sirianni is more likely to just give Sequon the ball 40 times. Yeah. And have him try to get the record against the Giants. Yeah. Did you also see Shefty got community noted

yesterday? Oh no. For what? He reported Jalen Hurts did not practice today when none of the Eagles practiced yesterday on Christmas. Oh, but wait so he was right though. Correct, but he still got community noted. Jalen Hurts missed he he did not practice on Wednesday. I didn't practice either. Could have added me in there. Yep. Neither did I. Wow, so you think you just own Shefty and really like Community Notes just proved it was wrong.

I don't know what you want. I didn't own anything. I just told you what happened and what I said happened. Sounds like you were the one who did the Community Notes. Yeah, you filled out the Community Notes. What I heard is that Jalen Hurts was absent from the team facility on the day when Ian Book paid them a visit, which is actually good move by Jalen Hurts. I saw a report that Ian Book was seen in the parking lot dapping up AJ Brown. Yeah, they're great friends. Good. I love everyone in the locker room to be friends.

I would like everyone in my locker room to be dapping each other up. No, Max, as an Eagles fan, you still got a hope that you destroy the Cowboys. Yeah, you gotta Yeah, of course always embarrassed. Yeah Especially with you in in person. Okay next up Panthers at box box minus eight over under 48 and a half Did you guys see that Xavier LeGette brought leftover raccoon to the locker room from Christmas Day? That rocked. Nice guy. What a good dude. I love Xavier LeGette. I wish he had caught that pass against Max but besides that, awesome dude. Yeah. I also I think the Panthers are live in this game. I think they're just full-on like the Panthers and the Cowboys are the two

teams that stink but are playing actually good on like the Panthers and the Cowboys are the two teams that stink but are playing actually good ball in the last month and feels like they're just ready to play spoiler. Yeah, if there's a team that starts out the season and they sucked or playoff chances are over in like October, but then they get hot at the end of the year, that's actually a team that will, they'll have a ton to play for even though they don't have any playoff hopes or aspirations. Like they've turned something around. So they're trying,

there's going to be a lot of guys that will probably be back next year for the Panthers. And so they are actually like, they're looking at this as a preseason for next year. So, um, I like to pay it. I like the Panthers in the points. I don't know if I like them, uh, money line against the bucks, but I feel like that's a lot of points for this team. A lot of points. They're factoring in weeks like one through eight

in this spread, I think, a little bit. Yeah. And Bucs, figure it out. I want to see the Bucs in the playoffs. No offense to the Falcons. I would like to see the Bucs in the playoffs. That's a personal choice of mine. I want to see Baker in the playoffs.

I'll see Bucky in the playoffs. Yeah. OK. Titans and Jaguars, Jaguars minus one over under 39 and a half. Do you guys have any New Year's resolutions? I do. I've got a couple of New Year's resolutions. Okay. Lay them on me. I'm going to drink more water again this year. I'm going to get a six pack by the summer. Same. to get a six pack by the summer. Mm hmm. Back summer. And I'm going to spin.

I'm going to get a couple of new planes and and hit the flight simulator back up now that I've got the virtual reality 360. Hell yes. Hell yeah. Yeah. I have to. Oh, let me hear him. Get a physical.

Okay. Go to the dentist. Okay. That's good. That's huge. And we. Yeah. Whoa, physical, okay. Go to the dentist. Okay. That's good. That's huge. And we, yeah,

months. Wait, having, having a, a new year's resolution be go to the dentist. That's something that you should do every year. That wasn't the question. It's literally every 12 months. Right. It's every, every six months. Uh, no, my, my actual resolution is to get my drive about 15 yards longer so that Hank will owe me more

money. I love that. I love that. Yeah, tune into the last episode of the Doc. It's out. Go watch it. My New Year's resolution is there's a dive bar or maybe, I don't know, like three blocks from my house that I want to try to become a regular at. Now, I don't really have

time to go to the bar, but I'm thinking if I can get there six or seven times next year and just really show face, it's my goal. That's my goal. I'll let you guys know how it goes. Maybe I'll bring you guys once. Maybe become like a morning drinker. Ooh, just a couple pops before work. Yeah. It's not too far for my son's school. Yeah. There you go. Just tell them that. Like all the bartenders will know your name. Like, oh, that's there comes Dan. Yeah. He just dropped his son off at 7.45 in the morning. Yeah, he needs to stop by the office real quick and do some paperwork before he drops you off.

It's a great move. Being a regular is so fun. I walk by it all the time. I'm like, damn, I really want to go there. So that's my goal. And now I crushed my goal last year. I looked at my Uber Eats app and I ordered blizzards 27 times last year. So pretty good.

Pretty good. That's a lot. I said I was going to eat more blizzards. I ate a whole shitload more blizzards. I think I had two the year before. So yeah. Anyone else? Anyone else got New Year's resolutions for the Titans Jaguars preview? Yep, I

got to um I would like to lose a lot of weight also learn how to make bread. So, those two things aren't gonna go super hand in hand but I'm pretty confident that I'm gonna be able to do at least one of those and I think it's gonna be the bread. You've

been talking for a while. Well, no, well, I brought it up to chef Donnie a couple months ago and now he he got super excited and he's like trying to get it sold and we're trying to do a series out of it. But me and Donnie will be the bread boys in 2025. And I'm gonna learn how to make bread but I'm also going to lose weight. Learn weight. Yeah, lose weight. I'm gonna learn learn how to make bread, but I'm also going to lose weight. Learn weight. Yeah. Lose weight. Lose weight. I'm going to learn weight and lose bread. Okay. You didn't say that you were going to eat more bread. You were going to make it for other people. True. But you know, part of a trial and error is like, you got to taste at least some of the bread. Yeah. But I mean, this is like just the next step for Max's deli at work. You got to-

I know. It's deli at work. You got to know Bread What about when people say don't trust a skinny chef, how can I get bread from a skinny max No, see here's the thing. I think that I could still lose 30 pounds but also be fat. So that yeah, that's where I get to get. I want to get you a point where I lose weight but am still fat. Yeah, I think I've lost like 15 pounds and if I typed it into the obesity thing, I'm still obese. Yeah, yeah.

Oh yeah, that's a go-ahead. By the way, I forgot, I'm also going to read a book. I haven't read a book in a decade. I'm going to read a book. I haven't read a book in a decade. I'm going to read a book. Oh, does this account? No read with my two eyes. It might take me the entire year. I'm going to fucking do it. I feel it. This is the year I'm going to read a book.

It can't be a movie. You should read the art of war. Can I read? All right. If it can't be a movie, can I read a Michael Lewis book knowing that eventually it will be a movie? Yes. Yeah I read? All right. If it can't be a movie, can I read a Michael Lewis book knowing that it eventually will be a movie? Yes. Yeah. Okay. All right. Cool. You just want to tell people you read the book that the book was. Yeah, that's

that's why I've read like every Michael Lewis book because they always become movies and I can be like, Oh yeah, I have the money ball. Read that. Big short. No, it. All right. memes. Any any New Year's resolutions? I'm gonna go to a doctor. I don't know which one but I'm gonna go to a doctor and I'm gonna get at least two more TVs. Okay. I like that. Fuck yes. Fuck yes. The boys are up. The boys are up. Alright Shane anything? I think I want to try an apple, try an apple, try some fruit. I think I want to go to Italy this year, so hit up Duolingo,

get a nice Duolingo street going. Oh, you're going to bring back a bride, aren't you? Shane's going to have a kid. Yeah, yes, yeah, you are. You're going to bring back a bride, aren't you? Shane's going to have a kid. Yeah, yes. Yeah, you are. You're going to have a kid. Yes, I love it. I love it. Shane's going to be walking in and being like, hey, I need.

Can you can you talk to H.R.? I have an Italian wife and child now I have to put on on health insurance. Like what, dude? You went there for three days. We got to get you one of those. You know how the NFL coaches wear the shirts and the hats with the flags on. We got to get you a Chargers Italy sweater. Yes. Yes. Yes. And a little one, a toddler one for your kid. All right. Pug, last one. So you play more NFL blitz for sure. Okay. Once a day. I'm going to play a new year's resolution. I'm going to play a new year's resolution. I'm going to play a new year's

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resolution. I'm going to play a new year's resolution. I'm going to play a new year's resolution. I'm podcast with all these new year's resolutions. Yeah, we're gonna be sitting pretty. We're gonna fucking be, I mean, we're gonna get Max skinny bread making. Shane is Italian kid memes. All he has to do is go to Target once. He's got his thing. He's got his thing.

He's got his thing. He's got his thing. He's got his thing. He's got his thing. He's got his thing. He's got his thing. He's got his thing. He's kind of a doctor. Go to Walmart, get your blood pressure test and get your two TVs. You're done. You're done on January 1st. There really should be like a doctor's office for guys where in the same doctor's office, they have the doctor, they've got your dentist, they've got like a secondary doctor that does like blood work and all that. And maybe like a place for lunch

One of my ideas that I pitched to cubit is we got to figure out a way to get a dentist on a plane So it's like, you know, you have you know, you're stuck on a plane, you know travel sucks Just have a dentist do your teeth then It's a little bit turbulence. I haven't been able to figure that part out, but everything else makes sense. Mm-hmm bit turbulence. I haven't been able to figure that part out, but everything else makes sense. Why aren't we doing more of the shitty things we have to do in life on planes? Imagine getting on a flight and being like, yeah, this is actually the accountant's flight. They're just going to do everyone's taxes coast to coast. Yeah. It's not a bad idea. They've already got the oxygen mass things that come down, just putting nitrous in there knocked out on the plane Right any any shitty thing you have to do like magic if you have to eat like oh, yeah, you got to get divorced

Okay, get on this flight to Hawaii by the time you land will have you divorced and then you're in Hawaii single There should be an airline that has like Professors that are the the stewards and the steward. And they just teach you like a college class if you fly in there like six times. Yeah. And you get a degree. You can get a diploma. Pass the bar.

Yeah, pass the bar. Pass the bar. Or teach you Italian on if you take four plane flights. Teach you how to fucking Italian. Yeah. Just figure out a way. Traveling sucks. Planes suck. Figure out a way. Traveling sucks. Plane suck.

Figure out a way to double it up. All right. That was our Titans Jaguars preview. Dolphins at Browns Browns plus six and a half over under thirty nine and a half. I don't. I mean, this is DTR. I'm going to bet against DTR if he plays, if he starts. I know he's got like maybe a calf injury, but I'm, I'm, I'm a, I have faded DTR, I think in every single one of his starts in the NFL and I'm going to continue to do so.

Yeah. I read, I read one update from him where I think his direct quote was like, I've got a sore little calf. That didn't really give me a lot of inspiration. So we're probably not going to get James, even if we don't get DTR, right? Cause his shoulder is still banged up but yeah I saw I saw James eating chicken wings online this week and the man just he he just needs to be in front of the camera at all

times. That's that's my only note here. Uh this is gonna be a poopy game. Dolphins I guess still entertaining at times but yeah. It's gonna be bad. Bish, bish. I don't even know. Like they don't even do the like crazy explosives anymore. So yeah, it's gonna be a bad game. All right, here's a good game. Packers and Vikings, Vikings plus one over under 48 and a half.

This game can rock. They flex this game to the afternoon. The Green Bay Packers is a hurtful stat for myself and anyone who hates the Packers, they have now made the playoffs 13 of the last 16 years, which is the most in the NFL in that time frame. They also obviously were the first team to pitch a shutout against the Saints on Monday Night Football. Yeah, I mean, the Vikings are going for the one seed. The, I have you seen PFT, the discourse. This is like, uh, NFC North fans are now doing the like, Hey, we got to change the rules because it's not fair.

The Packers are going to have to go on the road. It's like, come on guys. Like the whole point is division should matter. That that's the fun of it. Like if we get rid of divisions and it's just the four best records, divisions won't fucking matter anymore. That's the fun of it. Like if we get rid of divisions and it's just the four best records, divisions won't fucking matter anymore. Yeah. And we do have divisions for a reason because it's good for the game to have rivals that you play every single year, year in and year out. It's not like playing an unbalanced schedule or anything. Um, and yeah, uh, it, it will suck for the Vikings if they end up being like a great, great, uh, you know, wild card

team and get that first wild card spot. That's going to suck to have to go on the road. But I mean, that's such as life deal with it. So, um, yeah, for both of them, it would suck. I mean, for the Packers and the Vikings, they're going to have, no matter what they're going to both have more wins than the team they play in the first round, cause they will be slotted into the FAA. You know, obviously the Lions can

also get one of those spots, but two out of the three NFC North teams will be the fifth or the sixth seed and they're going to have to play against a team that did not win as many games as them, but that's that's just what how it works and I kind of like how it works because divisions matter. Yeah, two good quarterbacks, very good quarterbacks in this game. I saw a stat that they're both I think they're two of the top three quarterbacks against man-to-man so far this year and they are

two of the five worst I believe against zone this year. So, the Vikings, I know they do a lot of zone blitzing and shit like that. I don't know if they'll be able to get into it, but I feel like Jordan Love does better when he's off his back foot anyway. So I'm truly, I'm just like excited to watch this game. It's going to be, this is going to be a playoff game. Yeah, this is going to be a great, great game. And like you said, the Vikings, they're still going for that one seed. They play the Lions week 18 and the Packers, I guess you're rooting for the Vikings BFT because you can still jump the Packers, right? Yeah, it's still possible that we could jump the Packers, I guess you're rooting for the Vikings PFT because you can still jump the Packers, right?

Yeah, it's still possible that we could jump the Packers, but then you start getting into, there's a lot of other stuff that has to shake out too. So we could jump the Packers and get that sixth seed, I believe, but then you'd be looking at maybe playing at the Rams in the first round, which is not really, there's no good place to play in the first round. I guess if I had to draw it up, I would want to go to Philadelphia and beat the fuck out of Max. So that's what I'm hoping for.

And Max said he'd do it with Kenny. Yeah, he's fucking beat you with Kenny. He said he'd actually doesn't want Jalen Hurst to start. He wants to beat you with Kenny. Listen, I would love to beat him. He would still be Jalen Hurst. He would still be Jalen Hurst. He would still be Jalen Hurst. He would still be Jalen Hurst. He would still be Jalen Hurst. He would still be Jalen Hurst.

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They're so fucking bad. I'm sorry, America. PFT thoughts on this. They didn't get it. You're ahead of me. No, they got a false start. Oh, my God. I am I am bummed out. I'm bummed out that we're not going to get Kirk Cousins.

Yeah, I had mentally prepared myself to to face Kirk Cousins at home. I don't know what we're not gonna get Kirk Cousins. Yeah, I had mentally prepared myself to face Kirk Cousins at home. I don't know what we're gonna get with Pennix. I don't think anybody really knows. We had like a little bit of a clue last week, but not really. So it's kind of like the unknown that we're going into. I think I like the commanders. They've been, their offense played pretty well last week against a really, really good Eagles defense, kind of embarrassed him in the fourth quarter, but

I'm always afraid to see the commanders in prime time. And I always will be. Those scars run very, very deep where it's just like, I'm always thinking in the back of my head this is about to be the most embarrassing thing ever. But I don't know, I don't know that I truly believe in Michael Pennant. How can you after one week? So there's a chance that he goes out there and just lights us up because our

defense, not that great. We've been playing a little bit better with a lot more actually went back and watch the tape grinded 22 on Latimore. Uh, he didn't play that bad. He had some good plays. He played much, much better than you. You did the all 22 on Latimore. I did the all 22 on Latimore. He was getting that. He was getting worked. He made, he had a couple of PBUs. Again, if you're, you're all 22 is I feel like broken. He was getting destroyed. If you watch ball,

if you want, you're exposing yourselves as non ball knowers right now, because the passenger interference penalty is not always a bad thing for cornerbacks. It means that they were in position to make a play. Oh my God. Bears picked it up. Bears might win this game. Meet it. Sorry. We already talked about this. Go up. PFT, uh, continue on. You're also adding me some Marshawn Latimore. All right. I'll also notice listening to you cause you sound like an idiot, but continue. Oh, here we go.

Max, you don't know ball, Max. You don't talk to somebody that watches ball for a living. They'll tell you that that pastor is not always that bad. Keep coping. Yeah. But that one drive when he basically gave up one hundred and seven yards of passenger fare, that was bad. I agree with you, by the way, on on Monday. And I said how bad that was. And then and then first of all you got to say that Jay and Daniels threw two interceptions in addition to his five touchdowns. First you have to say that.

I agree with you PFT. It's kind of like the you know you like quarterbacks not all interceptions are bad like pass interference sometimes is not a bad play. Yeah I mean it gets penalized but don't get me wrong like it's not good that he got called for pass interference, but it also means you can't get called for pass interference if you're five yards away from a guy like Emmanuel Forbes used to be. And there's times when you actually getting called for pass interference is good

because you would have given up a touchdown easily. Right. That is not good. If you were going to give him a touchdown, that is bad. That is bad, but that's good to then get a pass interference instead of a touchdown. Right now we have a Bears fan arguing that interceptions are good for quarterback and a Washington fan arguing that pass interferences are good for corners. That's just what's going on. Wait, wait. Kale Williams doesn't throw interceptions. So I actually wouldn't mind if he threw a couple more. So I stand by what I said. Yeah. I seriously do. I stand by it.

And I stand by what I said too, Max. I think it, okay, it sounds stupid and it probably is stupid to start, but if you talk to ball, no, there's real ones out there. They'll be like, yeah, that's a bad stat to, to ding a quarterback for. Also now is probably a good time to mention that Marshawn Latimore might not even play this week. Oh no what happened? Yeah he's yellow he's dealing with everyone's deal with something this time of year his hamstring got cleared out he was great against the tank. Okay alright so you're worried about this game? Yeah I'm worried because I think there might be like a post-cousins bump. It's the fear of the unknown it's the fear of the unknown. And I feel like the, the Falcon skill players, when they're not like deflecting

passes that get intercepted and returned for six points, they're probably pretty excited to have somebody that can throw the ball and, and hit somebody outside the numbers. It's also you guys went through like that, that game was, uh, I mean, it was an incredible game against the the Eagles incredible win guts Yes, yes, but Jayden did throw two in reception speedcat. That's true But he but like off of that divisional game that you didn't expect to win There might be a little bit of a letdown. I don't know. I'm just I like the commanders this game I'm just I'm just for fodder. That would be why I would like if you want to get scared, there's things you could get scared about.

I don't think Dan Quinn is going to let him get scared like that. I don't think he's going to have him. He's gonna have him ready to play. But I, I'm not like supreme. We're not a great team right now. We're capable of doing great things. And when everything works for us, we are a great team. But it's, it's nothing that you can count on. I can't bank on beating the Falcons, especially in prime time. It's nothing that you can count on I can't bank on beating the Falcons, especially in primetime. Yeah

Okay picks What are those standings memes? I think we crushed the week 17 preview When you got to talk about every game, it's it's it's tough with this time of year, but we did it Hey, 17 and a half points me and big cat 16 pft and max 14 Hank just needs one win and he clenches he doesn't have to do the punishment Maximum amount of points for pft max is 18 We're not doing playoffs Are we doing playoffs we didn't last year yeah, that's true we didn't last year. Yeah, that's true. We didn't last year. Nobody was tied.

I think it's a regular, it's normally a regular season thing, right? It is a regular season. I just wanted to say that because it would piss Hank off because he'd be like, I fucking had to do an hour stand up. This is bullshit. You guys are trying to find a way for me to lose. Well, this one doesn't even matter. It's like I, I, you know, I picked the bad ones to win your way You run away from winning. So so basically it's a two-way race and maybe a four-way race And it looks like it's gonna be me and Max. Yeah the max Okay, who's up first?

Pft is up first Okay Pft. I love that. I'm going to go with the Eagles minus seven. I think they're gonna spank the Cowboys. Oh, spanking. Thank one. Um, all right, I'll take the Panthers plus eight. I will take the New York Jets plus nine and a half. Packers Vikings over 48. I like that.

I am going to take the Giants Colts under 40 and a half. Yeah, that's OK. You do that every time. Max, Max's okay. You do that every time. Max, Max, real Max was in the cave last Sunday being like, you guys fucking made sounds after my pick and I won. And we're like, dude, we make those sounds after every pick you've ever made. It's like, fuck, I didn't realize that last week. It's a bad pick. Even if it wins. You should know that it's a bad pick. You could be like Josh Allen to get one yard passing,

and we'd be like, ugh, gross, dude. Also, Max, we all suck. All right, what's your second pick? But I suck the most. My second pick will be the Rams minus 6 and 1 half against the Cardinals. After we just told Jonathan again and do some **** ****. Dude, the cardinals beat him 41 to 10. Yeah, he wants immunity for life. Okay, who's up next memes? I'm gonna

take the lions minus three and a half. I like that pick. I think Dan Campbell like basically was like, yeah, we're not sitting anyone. We're out for revenge. Yeah, it's gonna be like that Cowboys game earlier in the year. I know. Yeah.

I'm gonna take one of the most slept on backup QBs to just go the fuck off. Give me the Eagles Cowboys over 38 and a half. Tanner McKee. Tanner McKee, Tanner McKee going nuts. Okay, I am going to take, I have to do an over under and they all suck. Did anyone take the under in the Jets bills? I will take the under in Jets bills, 46 and a half. Thinking maybe we get Mitch in the second half. Run out the clock.

That'd be bad. Mitch to Mack. Yeah. OK. PFT. OK. I'm going to take the over in Colts Giants. Oh. Head to head. Head to head. I like that. I like

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nights. Uh I will let's just start with an easy one. Josh Jacobs. Okay. I've got Diami Brown. Okay. What's 370? Whoa. But I like them. They look warm in the red zone a lot. That was decisive.

We've we were two for two on decisive picks. Bijan will be the third pick. Decisive. Wow. Okay. Decisive. All right. Good picks boys. Let's do Fantasy Fuck Boys

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Worst fucking Christmas movie I've ever seen. I don't know how they made so much money. Also Caleb Williams said to me just threw a fucking interception. This team is fucking horrible dude. I said I like my guys throwing more interceptions. Yeah, I knew that was going to happen when you said that. Same with me, I knew it too. They're a joke.

They're really bad. My sleeper is mouth tape. If you want to fall asleep, throw some fucking tape on your mouth. It helps you get a better night's sleep. It does a lot of wonders. We taped up my friend Billy Batts' mouth one time. Worked real good. Yeah.

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They fucking suck what's going on in Boston right now this team can't win a fucking game bad bad basketball Coach trying to fight guys at court what the fuck is going on in Boston right now? This team can't win a fucking game. Bad, bad basketball. Coach trying to fight guys at half court. What the fuck is going on with these clowns? Fuck you. Whoa. My sleeper is cheap flights to Hawaii from Chicago because you can get them for zero dollars if you just climb up into the landing gear and then you just kind of hold on and you hope that you get there safe and sound but you usually die. So it's RIP to that guy.

Love that. RIP to that guy. Real great guy. Yeah, I had a guy, my guy left Chicago and he was like, I want to go to Maui. What's the best way to get to Maui? I'll just climb up into the landing gear compartment. And then the landing gear crushed him to death and also was like negative 70 degrees on the flight. I think they did a study and they said 70%

of people that have tried that move have died but the 30% you get a great deal. Great deal, great deal. Alright what's up guys it's Frankie Pastrami. My stardom this week is Teddy Bridgewater because he's back and he might win a ring because he's with the Detroit Lions now. Teddy Bridgewater, standup guy Teddy big sticker Stand up guy stand up guy my syndrome is this week in the calendar because it's no man's week I don't know where the fuck I am. I don't know what's going on. There's football games all hours I love that part, but holy shit you start a diet. Do you not start a diet? Do you read a book do you go to the dentist? You don't do shit. It's just no man's land. All week long. I don't know about you guys, but on Sunday,

well I thought Christmas was Sunday because there was football on TV, and so I've been referring to Thursday as being Monday and Friday as being Tuesday. Yeah, all fucked up. It kind of reminds me of when we change our clocks in two weeks. My sleeper is Xavier LeGette because he brought that raccoon with him to the locker room. Oh that shit. It actually looked kind of good It looked like pulled pork. Yeah, that guy's a gamer Teddy Bridgewater, by the way being back is awesome. It is very cool. I love that So he just won a state championship coaching his high school team, right? And then he's like, you know, I'll just come back. Yeah, it's crazy. Okay. Let's hire that. They're making just because he's a good guy that people like to be around. Yeah, I like that. That's a culture changer. Culture. Yep. Okay. Let's get to our interview with Paul Bisson that PFT.

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this. How are you doing overall? And, uh, maybe like a little background for the people that don't know what we're talking about. I'm doing fine. Uh, I, I got conked. Obviously I was, uh, you know, just kind of kind of on the IR for a couple of weeks there, but, uh, I've been getting some good time massages recently and it's been working out the kinks in my neck. So I'm not as fucked up as I was, but for those of you who have no clue what's going on, I went to eat at a family restaurant called Houston's that I normally go to. I go there like three, four, five times a week sometimes when I'm back and just these drunk Irish travelers, I don't know

people who are listening know what Irish travelers are, basically like modern-day gypsies. But they were in there causing a ruckus. They got in the manager's face. They assaulted them. They harassed them. And then finally I'd seen enough. I go over and I said, hey, I said, if you guys keep doing that, I'm going to bring in the parking lot. We're going to have issues. And then they just started swinging. So that fight went from inside the restaurant all the way over to the CVS. It was a three minute round and I was gassed by the end of it. Took a couple of boot fucks to the head, but all in all, doing good, doing pretty good boys. Some gave some more.

It was my favorite line. Yeah. You fought seven dudes in a parking lot and you, and you held your own again. You're my hero. You're my hero. I mean, I want you singing the national anthem at a rough and rowdy in which I'm beating the fucking wheels off this Danny Bradley puke. The kid who was caught on video an hour and a half before

that altercation sucker punching a guy at Ravens golf club and then moseyed on over to Houston's to do the exact same thing to that manager. But before he was able to cock his right back and swing, I went over there and then the rest of it ensued. And on top of all of what has gone on, now Glassbanger ends up in prison. Yes, all your foes are going down. You're just having an insane run right now. So what's going on right now with the, uh, the legal proceedings with these guys?

I saw one clip of one of the dudes who said, yeah, I'll try to make it back. And the judge is like, well, you have to do better than try. Have we got an update on that guy? He never made it back. Oh, shock hired a lawyer named Larry Kazan, a local Scottsdale guy whose kid, uh, Ben Kazan ended up DMing the Sheae Stevens guy who's been doing all the undercover work on behalf of spittin' Chicklets, Barstool, and then our side of it. It was just some random Chicklets fan who's also a private investigator who has been uncovering all this crazy shit about these Irish travelers, like how they scam all these guys' records in the

past, the fact that they have affiliation to these people who have caused Our or who have been involved in murders for insurance fraud scams It the list goes on and on and on as to how big of a dirt bag or how big a dirt bags These guys are so shut out the Shea Stevens But that Ben Kazan kid ended up sending them a DM basically being like eat a bag of dicks Fuck you you Canadian because the shea Stephen kids Canadian. So now we got this slimy lawyer in the mix and that's why he didn't have to show up because he hired this big wig lawyer and he ended up, uh, you know, taking,

taking the standard as far as his defense. So they know they dropped three of their charges to enhance them to felonies. So I'm going to end up going after these guys civilly. We're probably going to have to wait till all the legal proceedings from a criminal side going out and about. But I don't even want, I want my hospital bills recovered. I want my physio and all that paid for it because my neck's still jacked up and I dealt with concussions, but I won't go after them that hard civilly if that Danny Bradley is willing to fuck willing to fight me. So that's basically what I'm going to present to their side saying I won't

ruin your lives if you end up paying the piper inside of a ring. Yeah, just be a man about it. Yeah. So I mean, I feel like you could take them all out one by one, rough and rowdy, just biz versus the Irish. Do it one night only, and then just give them three rounds and everybody steps up. You beat the fuck out of them. You beat the next guy, but you're such a nice guy. You're willing to say that you just want one of them. You just want one of their scalps.

I, so Danny Bradley was the guy in the lime green golf shirt who you see at Ravens Golf Club who suckers the employee. He ends up clipping one of the girl waitresses too. He was the instigator in that one. He was also the instigator who was getting in and putting his hand inside the manager's face like giving her one of these ones. right. And acting them up onto the back bar. That's when I kept turning around in my seat being like, like, like did I smoke a bad batch of weed here? Like, am I going fucking crazy? Like we're at Houston's restaurant and these nine drunk golfers are getting in these guys face and the lime green golf shirt guy was the guy who was the

antagonist in both situations. And they're just all come back piece to shit who rip off everyday Americans. Anybody's grandparents who were listening who live in Texas they're going around knocking on their door saying they're going to perform asphalt jobs. They say hey do half down if you don't like it we'll give you all your money back. See you later. Never see never to be seen again. Go to the next town the plaza. These guys are scum. Yeah, it's a wild, wild story. So when I heard about like, obviously I heard it, I was, I was very concerned for like, cause you know, you're seven on one. That's scary. You know, like a guy could get knocked out and then get hit in the, you know, kicked

in the face. They tried to kick you in the head. Like that, you know, like shit, bad shit can happen in a street fight. And when I thought about it, I was like, Oh, it's probably just some like random, you know, college bros or something. But then to find out that they're legitimate, like, uh, like criminals, traveling criminals that go around and do this, you're it's crazy. The whole story is insane. The way that unraveled because the next day I was expecting maybe like, like officers call and say, Hey, these guys want to reach out to you about what happened where we could all just kind of go our own way. And even though they kicked me in the head, it's like,

well, maybe they just had one too many drinks and this was a one-off and a horrible mistake they made. And I understand that those types of things happen. But when I ended up seeing that other video When that she Stevens who the undercover detective or whatever the PI or whatever you want to call him He'd been getting messages like crazy from people from their their town in Fort Worth, Texas being like these guys show up to bars and restaurants And they'll get so rowdy to where they're gonna be ripped. They've ripped flat-screen TV TVs off the wall They like go and terrorize small businesses. So the exact opposite of basically what Barstool stands for and Dave Portnoy, what he does for small businesses, these people are terrorizing them

and then ripping off everyday civilians in order to buy their G wagons or escalates. These guys are cruising around like living life very lavishly by ripping people off with other people's money So these these guys they need to pay the piper this. Yeah. Yeah, it's this We finally got these guys We got them pinned down and including not only that Danny Bradley kid But that's Sean Daly kid who I mean he's got a rap sheet as long as fucking a Santa list And he ended up having a military ID on him a fake one

So he could get discounts at hotels and restaurants and then they go do that at these places and then when he got caught after kicking me in the head because Did keep in mind so at the Raven golf club about an hour and a half two hours earlier It had been called in but they didn't catch them So they were off and running around town and apparently they stopped at a Ruth's Chris before they ended up getting to Houston's. So, um, the cops were aware that these guys were out and about. So the minute that Houston's called in and they kind of were like, okay, it's probably the same guys. They were over there in like three minutes. Cause by the

time the fight ended, some of them had been caught. Some of the guys, some of these guys were able to like run away and avoid police. But the camera operators, there was a camera across the street. They were operating it because they heard the call and they're like, okay, it moved outside and then they followed it along. So they were able to identify what the guys were wearing and then call out to the cops being like, this is what these guys are wearing. And then like a few of them were caught a few miles down the road,

which included that Sean daily kid with the red shirt who boot, fuck me in the head three, four times. Um, at one point his, his foot, when he missed me ended up getting to the probably the height of his shoulders. So they were, if I would've, if I would've gotten knocked out, out, they would've kept boot. Yeah, they wouldn't. Yeah. Like, like it would have, it would have, they would have maybe killed you. That's, that's the craziest part. These guys are, are the absolute scum of the earth pieces of shit. And like they, the other part about about it is they do this all around and they all people and they take advantage

of people and they are able to do it because they're, you know, they do it to anonymous regular civilians. They just happen to do it to someone who has a huge following that's tremendously like well liked across the internet. And now they fucked up because now the world knows about them. So I feel like it's my duty at this point. Like I don't care about like getting kicked in the head or any of that stuff, but I just feel like it's my duty now to publicly humiliate these guys. If they're willing to pay the piper and go through the legal system and pay their dues, not only criminally, but somewhat civilly. As I said, you sign the documentation, we

meet in a ring somewhere. I'll make an example out of you and then we can all move on from this. But if they don't and they keep, I'm I'm gonna I said to them on on my on the podcast I've said it in class. I'm gonna smoke them out. I'm gonna use every resource. I got I got you know There's some there's some bad people out there. There's there Irish travelers are not the only bad people out there, right? Yeah, that's true. You might know some bad people out there some bad on bad people out there. Right? Yeah, that's true. You might know some bad people out there. Some bad on and the their own Irish, the other Irish travelers are probably not very happy that they're doing this until they fucked with the wrong guy. Yeah. That's that. That's my understanding is there's an Arizona chapter and a Texas chapter and you, I know it's just

ridiculous because we had never heard about the subculture until you got into a fight with seven of them. And now it's like I'm obsessed with finding out more about these guys. Until they tried to bootfuck you. Outside the CVS. That's what I'm saying. So apparently the Arizona chapter is very angry being like we're doing these small petty crimes under the table and you guys are bringing us all this negative attention like fuck off. So I don't know.

It's a it's a gong show, but it also seems like something that like the government or the feds need to get involved in from a bigger scale in order to take these guys down. Like they, like it's, you know, I think that, you know, immigration and people coming over is great man. Like, you know, North America is the land of opportunity, but to come over here and then do that, like, come on here, what are we talking about? This isn't people that we want inside of our country. Is it? No, let's get the feds involved. Let's get the FBI monitoring the, uh, the Irish travelers. They bootfucked the wrong guy. They did. They did. They stepped in it. That's a fact.

And I love the fact that you're formally offering a, you know, a retribution challenge for yourself. Like I will, I will drop everything if I can just beat the fuck out of one of them. You're like Jason. How do you send that, that offer to them? Do you send that to their attorney or are you just like faxing a document over? Be like, you want to go Paul Bissonnette. You want one? Yeah.

Officially you want one. Right. It reads tap on the shin pads. It's a circle. Yes or no. Yeah. But you laugh. That is exactly the way you do it. We slide over the number that we want to cover my hospital ambulance and all the bullshit bills. And of course the lawyer fees or whatever it is and it's like this is gonna be a lot less painful financially if you just meet me in the middle of a ring somewhere.

I don't wanna do it in a boxing ring, I wanna do it in an MMA ring. I want the punches to hurt. Yeah, yeah, yeah, there you go, light gloves. Arm bar them. Yeah, because I wanna just pin down a couple details because I've done a lot of reading about this and I'm so happy that you're okay. And I think it's, it's a, it's ended up being one of these

stories where Paul Bissonnette becomes a legend. You're like Paul Bunyan. You can tell me anything about Paul Bissonnette. It's like, okay, I believe- You guys would have done the same thing though, if you will. No, no, no. I would, I would like to say that I would have- Hold on PFT. If I ate it at Houston's four or five nights a week, maybe I would like to say that I would have hold on PFT if I ate it at Houston's four or five nights a week Maybe I would well so that was one of the details. I wanted to I wanted to clear up here So Houston's this place is a it's a family restaurant Yes, and how many times a week do you eat there? I?

Would say at the height probably like I would say four to five times at the height I've only been there back twice since the ordeal in the last month, just cause like I just don't, you know, it just doesn't feel as comfortable and cozy as it once did. And maybe a little PTSD. Yeah. Uh, and just like, I don't want to go in there and just like have to talk about it every time. So I've hit up a few other local spots where I just moved into my place, not too long ago, uh, my newer spot.

So I haven't gotten back into my cooking routine like I was when I was renting my apartment the last few years. Yeah, so you eat there you said four to five times a week. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, like I thought at the height of it. Yeah. Okay, so you get the same thing every time you go. I switch it up a little bit. Okay, because I've heard that their salad is outstanding

traditional salad. Yeah. How would you know? It's a kickstarter. It's a family restaurant. It's a family restaurant. It is a family restaurant. You confirmed that. Yeah, but so 39 locations. Have you ever eaten at a Houston's? Not No, I have. Okay, it's it's it's very military like like it's it's like they are. They are hardcore like the process to get hired there, like they don't fuck shit up. They are on everything's always cooked perfectly. The service is incredible. They run a tight, tight ship. So that's why I go there. I usually get the rotisserie chicken. I do the fillet sometimes if I'm feeling like extra wild, maybe the French dip. Um, and yeah, that's, uh, that's usually the extent of it.

Yeah. And then, um, in the fight, I saw the video several times. I'm pretty upset. I know that you're upset about this, the, the part where you clock the guy, you're behind the tree. So you don't get to see like the full on clock. Can you tell me just about that punch and how good it felt and, and seeing that guy get knocked out? So, yeah, so I kept getting backed up through the parking lot and I don't know how many people who are listening. The videos are everywhere if you go search them online. Like

if you go on my Twitter timeline, if you back it up a little bit, Shay Stevens has them, the local Fox station posted it. So probably like three quarters through the distance of the fight. Because remember this started inside the Houston's and it made its way all the way over to CVS inside the same strip mall because they kept backing me out and and when you're fighting like that you don't want to get clipped to the where you end up getting knocked out where you're asleep because like I said they'll just keep kicking your head in so as I kept backing up and then there would be a little bit of engagement kept backing up little engagement the one one of the one guys who was the biggest dickhead William Carroll, he ended up sprinting past the group to try to get me like to try

to catch me off guard. And I hit him with a right hook and you could see in his mug shot that he's all fucked up on his left temple. And the minute I got him right on the temple with my right, he just dropped right to his knees, ready to fucking suck on my foursie, right? Right? Like he was getting ready to Unzip my zipper that fucking piece of shit. I Should have fucking pulled it out and gave him a little bit of a night Fuck it Irishman Like and then I guess their side was trying to say that he like fell on the golf course and that's why he was also

That I did that. Like give me a F a, but if you watch the surveillance from across the street in which catches them as they continue to kick me in the head after that, you could see him point at me and sprint that me in the, into the frame. And then he disappears behind the dumpster. And then out the other side, there's four of them sprinting at me cause they're off. I just knocked out their buddy and he doesn't come out the other side, there's four of them sprinting at me because they're pissed off. I just knocked out their buddy and he doesn't come out the other side.

So pretty hard to deny and then below the tree line when the camera falls it as he runs in where you get blocked, you could kind of see him drop. Yeah, and then you come see me sprinting out the other side. So listen to this before any of the surveillance came, didn't even know if they had surveillance, I recounted the whole story on the podcast and I posted something on social media. I was 95% bang on with all of the details of what happened. I thought the guy I knocked out was bald. He wasn't bald. He had a little bit of hair. He was maybe a little bit thin on top. Keep in mind, I was kicked in the head three, four times. So my memory was a little bit blurry, but every, every detail about the whole ordeal, I pretty much got bang on in my statement. And even the cops said like, they were like, wow, you were unreal at recounting this before they'd even show

me the tape myself. And then, and then the postgame pressers were these runnable. I mean, you should watch it. Yeah. The postgame pressers, you got guys like they're finding guys at hotels like two miles down where they're pretending they weren't there. You got another guy who basically who literally was like direct quote. He's like, he looked like Dwayne the rock Johnson. He didn't have a lick, you know, a lick of body fat on them. But I said it. I was like, they, they basically were talking like Braveheart, like you're William Wallace. They're like, he's nine feet tall and shoots fireballs out of his ass. It was so awesome watching that. They were, they were so scared. What

a scene in Braveheart when he's running on the Hills and they're like telling the tale of William Wallace. That fucking gives you goosebumps when you said that. Yeah, that's you in the after report. I think the guys wanted to fuck you for the most part. He had his body was just covered with awesome tattoos. Yeah, he's Mexican is awesome. Beat the fuck out of us. So there was there was one moment where you're backing up through the parking lot and it seems like there are three guys that are walking at you, but they're not they're not running at you yet. You're just kind of keeping your head on a swivel, backpedaling, trying to get out of the situation where it seems like you guys are exchanging words at that point

Yes, what do you say? Are you having a conversation at that point? Are you like I'll fuck you up and he's a Yeah, the one one guys know the one I'm being like I said, what the fuck are you guys doing man? Like these people are good people and I and I pointed at the assistant manager who walked out The one that that guy with the red shirt was screaming his face. That's when it all started and I turned around. So he ended up being removed from the restaurant. So when the assistant manager came out to try to break it up, that William Carroll guy grabbed him by the neck and threw him against the car. You could see that in one of the clips. So as he veers off and goes and does that you could see me pointing

And then one of the other guys is like fight him fight him and pointing at the Danny Bradley guy I go I go you guys back up and I'll square off with a one-on-one, but they never backed up It was never it was never gonna be a fair fight right all at one point I think there was three or four of them because two or three of them had veered off to go fuck around with the assistant manager. But the minute that they'd thrown him against the car and assaulted him again, they hopped back in to come out by the dumpster. So that's basically the words being exchanged were like, yeah, I'd love to go with a guy in the lime green shirt one on one, but I know that ain't going to happen. Yeah, because it didn't happen in the restaurant. It didn't happen when you guys got me down by the rock pile quickly when

you started punching and kicking me. And then it obviously didn't happen after I knocked the William Carroll out when one of them tackled me like it was a rugby match. And then the other three had their way with me. Yeah. They didn't. They never wanted to fight fair. I mean the whole story. It's not a fight. Yeah. And if, and if a few of them want to jump in the ring, we'll let Sean Daly, the boot fuck specialist, we can let him, I'll take him as my, uh, my traditional salad appetizer and then send in Danny Bradley when I'm done with him. I'm going to make these fucking guys famous. Yeah. I love it. We got to have front row, all the Houston staff, uh, sit in front row of the, of the fight, you know,

the VIP just treat them well and they get to watch these, these idiots get their ass kicked by you. But in the meantime, we're going to let the legal process. Yes. Yes. And let's hope Larry Kazan, the local big wig lawyer whose son wants to get in the mix firing DMS off the good side. Like this guy lives locally. His son Ben went to ASU and these guys are jumping on those guys side. That's crazy. These guys terrorizing the streets of Scottsdale when they live here. I think it's a bad look for Larry Kazan and he can eat a bag of dicks too, just like this kid. All right. So biz, I do have have a couple hockey questions, but I want

to say a couple other things. So we have the winter classics coming up at Wrigley. The black house are playing in the winter classic this year and the spitting chiclets boys are doing a live show on Sunday, December 29th at four o'clock PM local time at the rib. There's still some tickets left. Uh, Chelyos is, is going to be a confirmed, confirmed guests. Any other confirmed guests, Jeremy Rona, yeah. And a local legend Jr. He started his career there.

I think Mike Keenan was the head coach. This guy's got the best stories of all time. So does Chely the best stories of all time. So does Shelley. These guys are unbelievable dudes. So happy that JR finally got inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. That was much, much needed and long awaited based on what he did for the game, not only on the ice, but off the ice. So great to have those two guys in the mix.

We're actually going to have Tim Stapleton as well, who is one of the OG favorite Chicklets interviews, probably a top five guy. He was the guy who kind of cracked open the can on all the Russian KHL stories. Oh, love it. Joining us. Yans will be there. The game notes guys, Merle and army will be there. And I think at this point right now, there's about 150 tickets left over. I want to say the venue seats about 11 to 1200. So there's some lower bowls available. There's some upper bowls available, but it's going to be a live show at four o'clock.

So even if you're a Hawks fan and you're going to the game that night, you'll be downtown. Come grab a couple of cocktails, come to the show at four, and then you'll be out of there by five 30. You can go grab a quick bite to eat and then off to the Chicago black Hawks game. And then of course they play two days later on the 31st, which is going to be the winter classic. It's going to be awesome. I actually liked that it's on new year's day. Yeah. Rather or sorry, new year's day day. Yeah. Rather than new year's day, just cause people are like hung over. It's almost like you go to the game, you get that little buzz going, you go have fun. And then the next day you could just sit on the couch and watch football. Yeah. And also it doesn't compete against college football,

uh, the ball game. So, uh, which by the way, biz might, he might stick around and watch a little ball games with us on new year's day. I'm going to get it. I'm trying to convince the ends as well. I changed my flight. All right. I'll tell you ends. I'll text him that. All right. So definitely buy tickets to that. Uh can buy it. Yeah. You will put the link in the, uh, in the YouTube for our show today. So go buy it. Uh, tickets for the live show. It's going to be awesome. We'll get back to American and Canadian hero Paul Bisson. That he's brought to you by Experian for the AWLs who really know us, you know how responsible we are with our money. The secret reason we got so much to gamble with is because Experian

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and see how much you could save today. And now here's more Paul Bissonnette. Hockey question. Is it the Leafs year finally? Give us a quick, I don't know, three minute, like who's playing well, who's playing like dog shit, who's, who's, you know, Macklin Celebrini. He's been awesome. Like give us a quick, this isn't our full NHL preview. That probably won't happen for another two months, but just give us a quick like, Hey, here's what's going on in the league. Uh, refresher because football's winding down in hockey season starts for us. I would say this is the best lineup. The least have had in the last 15, 20 years, a very solid backend. They're getting incredible goaltending. They have three guys actually, actually Matt Murray who finally came back from injury who won a couple Stanley Cups with the Penguins

Mind you like, you know, he does deal with the injury bug They have that Joseph wall who last year played incredible got injured for game seven And then oh god, I'm drawing a blank here There's their starter who just got hurt. I'm drawing a blank, but he's been unreal all season long for them. He just went on the IR. I think he's out four to six weeks. Help me out by Googling him. I can't believe I forgot his name. But they're back end solid. They're core four. All the guys making all the big dough.

Matthews, Marner, Tavares and Nylander are buzzing. Matthews has been out a little bit with back issues. I don't know if it's spasms or whatnot. He actually went over to Germany to get looked at, came back, was buzzing when he returned and then left or got re-injured the other night after taking a cross check in the back in the Buffalo game. But very solid team. They're at the top of that Atlantic division which is very strong. They're tied in points with Florida Who's a juggernaut again who has the possibility to reach their third Stanley Cup finals in a row if they stay healthy

Looking around the rest of the league, New Jersey great bounce back here a stole ours is the Leafs. Yeah, he's been incredible for them a great pickup Going to the metro, New Jersey just looks really solid. They solidified their goal tending. They got Markstrom and then who's the other one? Not Elliot. Fuck. No, I'm drawing a lot of blanks on the goalies names today. He's a little what's that? You got boot fucked. I got boot fucked in the head. Sorry, folks. But their offense is incredible. They got a great top nine forward group, great defense. The probably the biggest surprise

so far this year has been the Washington Capitals, PFDs team. Yeah, they made a lot of trades in the off season, like five or six guys they brought in, like whether it was signings or trades, and they have just really panned. Pierre-Luc Dubois playing solid. Uh, they got Jacob Chickren, uh, over from Ottawa, who's a great defender. Uh, uh, Mangio Pani has been solid Roy. So they just, they went out and got five or six guys where they were able to gel very quickly. I would say the overall MVP of their team, uh, not only Ovechkin because of

the goal chase, but because of the mojo he's created around the team. Him and Dylan Stromov had incredible chemistry. They really slow the game down. It's almost like the reincarnation of Backstrom. Not to insult Backstrom at all, but just the chemistry that these two have together. But I would have to say Carberry, the coach, he's the front runner for the Jack Adams. He just is such a modern day coach, players coach, really inspires the players and they've really gotten behind him. Carolina is

always solid with Rob Brindamore, although the people don't have much trust for them to get past the conference finals. They seem to get there every year and they blow their load and they just can't get over that hump. Winnipeg had a crazy start to the year where they were 15 0 and 1 People didn't expect that. So that was another huge surprise And then Minnesota Caril the thrill another crazy Russian in the league who's been lighting the lamp probably a top three candidate for MVP right now and Just an unreal player to watch where every game, game in, game out, shift in, shift out,

he has much watched television. And then probably just have to give a little bit of love to Witte's Oilers who have made a great comeback in a sense of another slow start. They were bullshit off the beginning. Probably some hangover from going all the way to the cup finals and then, oh God, we got to do this all over again.

And then probably the front runner in that Pacific division is the Vegas Golden Knights. They got great depth up the middle. They have a really, really good back end and good goal tending and they're well coached. So that's a good synopsis of the league. I don't know if you guys had any further questions about the NHL, but that's pretty much my rundown. I had one further question. That was a great rundown. Um, are you worried at all about, cause I was actually texting with wit about this, uh, that the Dallas stars are going to be a team of destiny because glass banger kid got put in jail and he is going to get out right

as the Western conference finals start. I, I think Dallas is a top five team in the league. So yes, I think that they could be a problem with glass banger. So a little bit of a backstory. So for you, non hockey fans, like it's a faux pas to continually bang on the glass as the play gets close to you. Right? I can understand some people, it's their first hockey game. They're getting excited. The play comes over and they want to start body checking the glass

a little bit to like feel like they're in the mix. But eventually you figure it out. You stop doing that. Or someone just grabs your shoulder and says, Hey buddy, stop banging the fucking glass or I'm going to give you a knuckle sandwich or I'm going to kick boot. Fuck you. Like an Irish traveler. Well, this guy, he's a trust fund baby. He has glass seats. He calls himself the glass banger.

He bang brings a sign. Every game has the hashtag bang. He wears a full white suit and anytime the play comes near him or anytime he wants to distract the goalie, he's just continually banging the glass, throwing body checks against the glass. So even last year during playoffs, the camera would pan over, there'd be a battle behind the net and he'd be over there getting in on the four check with the rest of the team, just banging, banging, banging. So the section that he sits in, the people are fed up with them. They

hate him. He also to put a cherry on top brings pay for play hookers to every game. Like he'll bring like he'll call girl from back pages, get sucked off in his limo outside and then bring them on in and then just be obnoxious. And then that's it. Every game in game out. So apparently he ended up like what getting a DUI And then that's it. Every game in game out. So apparently he ended up like what getting a DUI and then forgot about it. Yeah. He was like, he got pulled over. He's like, there was a miscommunication. He had a warrant out first arrest for a previous DUI. So now he's in jail. I mean, I don't know how that happens where you're like, Oh

whoops. I don't call Saul. Yeah. Like I didn't realize that I had a ward for the DUI I had, but uh, yeah, you're mulling down one by one. What about Marchand? What about him? What, what bad stuff is going to happen? Cause he, he boot, boot, fuck you in the face on TNT. Yeah, he got you good. Just one, just when I didn't need it. Brad Marshall comes in the cozy Nostra. Uh, Brad Marshall is such an incredible ambassador to the NHL. So I have no more beef with him, nor do I want to get a put any more, uh, headlocks with noogies from, from Brad. But, uh, we had a fun little back and forth on TNT after that happened.

And I don't know how many people watched the clip online, but so every time pregame, the whole panel usually asks one question. So they had just replaced their coach. They fired Jim Montgomery, they brought in Joe Sacco and I was curious to know because it's the first time that we got a chance to talk to him. What was it that Brad as captain of the Boston Bruins took away from what when Sacco first addressed the team? Like what did you guys need to button up and change and what was the message? So I asked that and he's like lots a bit of a boring question and then proceeds to answer it

So he antagonized me so I tap Liam I go give me one more So the other guys are in the midst of asking their questions and then finally they're they're done and he's not answering and I say Brad one last question here from biz I said you're you know, I heard about all these off season surgeries, because he had like two or three off season surgeries. I said, was one of them getting a turkish hair transplant? Because his hair looked great. Filled in some spots as the guys at Barstool Bowl, this thing can really change the top of your dome. He had a good chuckle and he goes, ah, hi. He goes, I've just tried to look like one of those Irish Irish travelers that beat the wheels off you the other night

So I get I get nose kicked and He gets the last laugh. So sure enough we have them on back-to-back broadcasts so we plan this whole skit where I do a Department of player safety, like George Paros used to film the clips and we roll it. And then I come out of it and I got the neck brace on and the, and the head wrap and he didn't know. So we got him a monitor so he could see me asking that next question.

And then we, we shared another awesome back and forth. But these are the type of things that I think the NHL needs in order to, to draw outside interest. awesome back and forth. But these are the type of things that I think the NHL needs in order to, to draw outside interest. And I just can't thank Marshy for being a good sport and not only involving himself, but, but definitely giving it back. So it was a fun exchange. Yeah. You guys are so good on TNT with, uh, it's, it feels like the inside the NBA, you know, it feels like, you know, Chuck and Kenny and those guys, like you guys have, I got to go sit and do a hit with those guys. Like

we, we, I sat down with them for 10 minutes to go on and promote the winter classic. So I got to sit down with those guys. And as you just said, they, they laid the foundation so, you know, we could be a little bit more personable and maybe be a little less stale and traditional broadcast. So not only, you know, thank you to TNT for everything they've done for me, but also those guys for, for laying the foundation of what is just nonstop entertainment. And yeah, very grateful and honored to get to sit down with, uh, with all of them. Ernie, uh, Shaq, um, uh, Kenny,

and uh, who's a, and Barkley is, uh, who, sorry. I've drawn a blank to the guy to who was to my left. Is it a Kenny's? I think you were in the middle. So Kenny was to your left. Yeah. Kenny, Kenny. Yeah. I feel like he's like the glue guy. Yeah. No, like you always talk about Shaq and Berkeley, but he, he has some quick one-liners that he's a funny fucker, man. Yeah. They have just great chemistry. Oh yeah. I'd like to present you with a part of my take citizen of the year award. I don't think we've ever done that. Should he be, I feel like 2024, it should go to Paul Bisson. It's an of the year. Wow.

You get the key to the podcast. Yeah. Citizen of the year. A little bump on there for you. Boys, boys. I'm honored. Like, I always get a little bit envious when I see like the blank of the year or awards that you give out and the fact that I'm, I'm taking in my first ever year. I mean the year isn't over, but right now you're the front row. Don't, don't mess anything off your minus 900 to be the citizen of the year award. Okay. I didn't have a speech prepared, but I guess I should wait till the new year. Yeah. Wait till you officially win it. You got to officially win it for, for you to, yeah, I'll just say if I do win it, okay. I'm not saying I'm going to don't

want to jinx it. If I do win it, I want to pass it along to all the citizens of Scottsdale and also the police fire department, all the first responders and the amazing people. What are you, why you do it? What do you mean? This is why you're going to win it. Probably. I just wanted to solidify that. But all those police officers that caught those scumbags and helped rein those guys

in from creating more terror in our city. So thank you to the police department. I'm not only paradise Valley, but Scottsdale road bad boys, bad boys. What about the don't do it? This comes full. I'm so busy. I got one last question. So robot question, R H O B C K.com promo code take 20% off your first purchase. Q-zips, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts. So hopefully you will, first of all, go buy the tickets again. Uh, there, the, the, the Chicklets boys are doing a live show on a Sunday, December 29th at 4 PM at the RIV. You can go buy tickets. We'll, we'll, we'll post it here on the YouTube so you can,

and we'll put it in the episode description. If you're listening on the podcast, go buy. It's gonna be a great show. Uh, so my last question is, uh, well, you're gonna hopefully win citizen of the year. Uh, you're going to come watch maybe some college football with us on, on January 1st. If you do, then we'll have you have, we'll have you back on to do a citizen of the year acceptance speech, but would you maybe decide, would you display your citizen of the year award in Houston's if you want it? Cause I would love for the, the people at Houston pay the respects to pay the respects. So would you do that? Would you consider that? I would a hundred percent bring it over and say, Hey,

the PMT boy only if next time you're in there, they give you a traditional salad on the house. Okay. Okay. I like that. You listen, you should, you should not pay for another meal there ever. Ever. We'll see. Okay. Okay. If you do the traditional salad, you got to do it with thousand Island dressing. Okay. Okay. They should at least name a menu item after you. That salad should be called the biz. Yeah. Well, maybe I could bring, I know you're not going to be here. PFT, but big cat, maybe I can bring you when you're here on the 26th. Yeah. Bring you in there, show you around, show you the blood spatter that's still on the ground there. Be nice. Show me the people, the chalk line, tremendous staff.

Yeah. We'll get like X's put on the ground, like it's Dealey Plaza. So people can go through it and relive the night. Be like, Oh, that's where he got bootfucked. Also you recap mean, you didn't plan on doing it this way, but it was, you have a way about speaking that's like, and maybe it's part, you know, the Canadian part of you, where you're retelling this very scary event, but almost like in a whimsical way, where you're like, yeah, three or four guys

just boot fucked me in the parking lot outside the CVS. And it makes you wanna laugh as you're recapping it, but it's like serious stuff. It was just, it's been, it's been a whirlwind of last month for you. Yeah. You're our hero. And thank you, biz. Thank you for your service. I also, I, first of all, thank you guys for having me on and the kind words. And the last thing I'll say is like,

I was never that much of a fighter growing up. Like, yeah, I got in a few dustups on the, you know, look at the playground and, and, and did a little bit in junior. But when I got to the American hockey league and I switched from defense to forward, that's kind of when I got thrown in the fire where I had to start playing that role. So when I was playing in the AHL back to back years, I got over 30 fights. So we would get on a bus.

We drive to the away city, get off the bus, you get dressed and I have to fight Jeremy Oblonski and Binghamton once or sometimes even twice, get bambied, get conkeyed, go to the penalty box. There was no spotter back then. You just went and licked your wounds in the box and acted like nothing was wrong. And then after that game, you put your gear back in your bag. You hop back on the bus. You travel four hours to the next city.

You'd go and unpack your gear at that rink at 2 a.m. or whatever time it was, you'd go to the motel, you'd sleep, you'd wake up and you'd do it all over again, you'd do that three in a row, three in threes. So that basically prepared me to get boot-fucked in the CVS parking lot. Like I was, I need to thank Jeremy Iblonski and the John Marasties, John nasty Marasty and all those other guys who used to beat the wheels off me when I was learning how to scrap that prepared me for the Irish traveler. So without them, I'd probably be drinking out of a straw and a respirator right now. Yeah. Well, we're glad that you're not. Yeah. But I do hope

you get your nose fixed at some point. They fucked up pretty bad there. Yeah. I'm going to add that to the note that I'm sliding across Larry Pizan's desk. Maybe a snuck bench can pay for the nose job. You had a great nose before that fight. They need to fix that. All right. Well, Biz, you're the best man. And Citizen of the Year award, we get like five days left in the year.

So hopefully you can wrap it up. Yeah, don't fuck up. I hope this doesn't become a Jussie Smollett in the next week where we found out that none of this actually happened. But right now, right now minus 900, we're hired actors. Yeah. We'd still probably give you the award. Yeah. Thanks, biz. Appreciate it, man. I love you guys. Welcome back to another fire fest of the week brought to you by our good friends over at Morgan and Morgan. You know what really sucks is thinking that you can dunk in training for basically a year and not being able to dunk.

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or you can dial pound law pound five to nine from your cell phone. All right. Fire Fest of the week to wrap us up. Henry. I mean, tough, tough to have a fire fest on a great week like this. I don't know. I guess I watch sure I Played nine holes on Christmas had a great time with with the fam shot five over It was a like a part three part four course short course People are very mean to me online, but that's to be expected not really a fire fest I watched Red one the rock Christmas movie horrible just just an abomination of a Christmas

movie you expected more no I got well I guess I guess the real fire fest I got trolled I got satired no no I it. We know read a tweet thread from someone that was like I know all the reviews of read one were bad But actually it was pretty good And then there was a few replies from people that were also in on the bit being like yeah This movie was really funny like people don't like it was good, and I bought it So I recommended it to my family being like I think this movie's good. We should watch it no Morpheus it recommended it to my family being like I think this movie's good we should watch it. No. You got Morbius? Yeah pretty much within five minutes I was like no this is that like I I went back and checked I was like yeah no this was satire I

didn't I didn't pick up on it and this is so bad. Damn. That's tough. That's added to New Year's resolutions. I'm usually gonna read one book this year. Yeah. Yeah. It's gonna be huge. Um alright. In terms of FireFest, that's nothing. Especially. Yeah. We got last week and then we got this week. You know, not every week is the same. Not all FireFest are created equal. Yeah. Yeah. Uh alright. PFT. Um yeah. Kind of like Hank. It's a good week. Christmas. The joy is here. I'm in the Christmas

spirit. Got to see some family and hang out. It's been a good week. So I get my only FireFest is I guess I went to a speak easy on Monday. You guys ever go to speak easy? Maybe I don't really know what the definition of a speakeasy is because like I feel like it's like something from like the prohibition era and now bars just say it's a speakeasy is because like I feel like it's like something like the prohibition era and And now bars just say it's a speakeasy. Yeah, unless there's a secret entrance. I don't think it should be called a speakeasy I I agree and I don't think that there should be speakeasies unless they're actually like illegal places where you can like smoke inside and Like it's against the law. That's what a speakeasy should be There are way too many speakeasies in America right now

If you want to have a cool bar, you just call it a speakeasy and you just go up to the door. You like knock on it. You just have to know the right door and then you walk in and it's a bar. There's this one that's down in Texas that I just heard about where you go up to it and it looks like it's a flower shop that's closing and you go in and there's a guy that's like cleaning off the counters and then you go in and he lets you into the actual bar. So this guy up front is just like an actor playing somebody that that cleans up at night. And then he's like, Okay, here's the bar. There's way too many

speakeasies. If you're gonna have a speakeasy, it should be illegal. You should feel like you're getting away with something like you could you stand the chance of getting arrested and have or at least watching the entire place get shut down while you're in it. There's way too many speakeasies out there. They're just bars. You're looking for an excuse to charge like $7 more for a beer and $10 more for a cocktail, but you're just a bar. You're not a speakeasy. It's, it's stolen valor.

Yeah. Bars during COVID that actually like ran, were open like that with some true speakeasy shit, where they like black out the windows and like, would be the cops are coming turn the music down for 10 minutes. Like I during COVID I got a haircut and my it like when they weren't allowed to be open and the in the bar my barber let me in through the back door and then like kept all the lights off in the front and I was like in the way back that was fucking cool. That's what a speakeasy should be. Yeah. That counts as a speakeasy, but now the term just gets thrown around fast.

It's not a speakeasy if I look at your wall and you have your health department grade on the wall. You're right. It pisses me off. I don't know, maybe there's people out there that like the whole speakeasy trend. I'm not one of them. Can I piggyback real quick, PFT?

Another trend that I fucking hate, bars. I can't stand, I don't know why this pops up every now and then the bars that have the, like pour your own beers. Yeah, I hate that shit. That shit is so stupid. The whole point of going to a bar is have someone like you get to sit down, you get to have a little conversation with the bartender. They pour you a beer. You feel like a man. Like I don't want to have to get up and go pour my own beer. I suck at pouring beer. Yeah. And you need to have a card to activate. Yeah. Yeah. You feel

like you're playing laser tag or some shit. Yeah. A Dave and Buster's mega beer that you have to pour yourself. I didn't like it when Elon did that, uh, the Tesla convention or whatever and he had the robot bartender. I don't want a robot bartender. I didn't like it when Elon did that Tesla convention or whatever and he had the robot bartender. I don't want a robot bartender. I want a bartender that's going to be friendly with me and trick me into thinking that we're friends now and then I'm going to have a good conversation with him. I don't want to have to wait patiently for a robot or a machine to pour my beer. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. My Fire Fire Fest. I mean, it's the Bears and what just happened on

national television, but it's also because Sundays we always stream so I'm not home. I watched the first half with my son and he was just like, why why are the Bears always losing? And I just couldn't answer that. I was just like, I it was just,

I don't it's kind of similar to when he was like, how, how hot is the sun? I was just like, I don't fucking know. Like, I don't it's kind of similar to when he was like how how hot is the sun? I was just like, I don't fucking know. Like, I don't have an answer. Don't say anything. Don't look at it. Yeah, don't look at it. He was just like the he was like the the other two. The bad guys have three and the Bears have zero.

Why are we always losing? I was like, dude, I don't fucking know. Have you had the conversation about like, did you try to turn him off tanking? Yeah, no, he's been off tanking. Was we in a long discussion about Caleb in the off season that's not aging well? That was in the privacy of my own home. I'm gonna take in some videos on draft day,

saying this is the day that's gonna change our lives and we're gonna play this later when you're like 15. But yeah, no, it sucks. It sucks. The Bears are miserable. Thank God they don't have any more nationally televised games because there's only one more game left. But holy shit. It's setting the game of football back decades, decades. It's a bad. It's so bad, dude. So Caleb had a dime, an absolute dot for a touchdown

That's unbelievable that Was like today's the day that we're gonna laugh about this decade That touchdown pass that he threw was it to Roman Dunge in the first half. This is awesome That was a personal highlight reel didn't count. It's bullshit that the Bears aren't allowed to cheat. They should be allowed to cheat. One guy should be allowed to cheat on every play. I'm gonna have to find these videos. I'll send it to you Hank. It's just so bad. It's just me being like. Gert and also saying you can just play Thursday Night Football. Yeah. All right. Good, good, good, good. Thursday Night Football.

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