The Bill Simmons Podcast - Ep. 8: Week 6 NFL w/ Cousin Sal

Episode Date: October 13, 2015

HBO's Bill Simmons discusses the Chase Utley slide, early NFL surprises, Week 6 lines, soccer-watching confessions and the Patriots in F.U. mode with Cousin Sal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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After that hotel room phone disaster last week. That was worse than Watergate. It really was. Well, we got through it, and now we can talk football again. You had another good week on SportsCenter. I did. I was 2-1 four weeks in a again. You had another good week on SportsCenter. I did. I was 2-1 four weeks in a row. I'm 2-1.

That's good. That wins money. I'll take that. 2-1 wins money every week. It's the only thing keeping me going this season. I really feel usually I have to. I know. I know.

It's usually me. You always get sad around week six, the quality of football. I feel it's like I'm talking you into it because it's around NBA season. You're about to jump ship. But you're going to have to talk me back into this season. Right. The quality of play is poor. I'm looking at the slate this week.

There's like three games in which I'm interested in both quarterbacks. Right? Honestly. It's so bad. And now, you know, botched calls by refs and everything else. I feel like the good divisions, competitive divisions are already settled i think that's the problem too i think the nfc west i have no doubt the cards are going to run away with that i really don't really i have i have a tiny shred of doubt but for the who's gonna be i'm not ready to cross off the seahawks yet

yeah i think it's early and they had some chemistry stuff going on. See, I would say the AFC West seems just done. AFC West is done. That's usually competitive. AFC North is done. AFC North is done, despite Pittsburgh's improbable win. AFC North is done. Yes, that's done. AFC South isn't done. Carolina and Atlanta. That's fun.

That's fun. You're really writing off Seattle. You're going to be in the newspaper there. That offensive line is dismal. You're going to be in the newspaper there. That offensive line is dismal. He's been sacked 22 times, I think, Russell Wilson. Yeah, it seems like they can run the ball, but they can't block for any pass, which is kind of a problem in the NFL. It's hard to tell if he's being nifty in the pocket or if they're just collapsing on him, but I think it's the latter.

I'm amazed by how many quarterbacks that i had already written off mentally were actually competent in the last seven days matt hasselbeck right is he like the 12th best quarterback in the league yes i think so honestly he's my age yeah he was really good in that game he had a couple like really uh really nice plays josh mccown was awesome i'm not even talking fantasy wise i think mccown and bordles are top 10 quarterbacks in the league portals yes look at his numbers it's insane um all right so what do we like then so we like the patriots in general yeah we like aaron rogers we like the rams defense definitely we like denver's defense um arizona you have to like arizona arizona is just

general like i like that they took care of business in detroit those games came off a loss they just beat them up before they start they just what else do we like pittsburgh has some has some weapons well like they they have like four guys who can make a 60 yard touchdown i was gonna pose it to you this way which undefe team, which there are six of them now, right, which is remarkable at this point in the season, are you most excited to bet against in the playoffs? Oh, I'm excited to bet against any AFC South team in the playoffs. AFC South.

Yeah, because they're going to be the four seed. Right. They're going to be going against the number one wild card and probably getting three points at home, and I'm taking the road team. Interesting. I can tell you right now. So even more so than, well, Andy Dalton will get a bye, possibly. So you won't say.

It's usually the Bengals that we're excited. It could be the Falcons. I don't know if Andy Dalton gets a bye. Who's the second? How do we know? Denver doesn't. Denver's just going to keep rolling. Yeah, I guess that would be Denver and New England.

The thing with Denver is Manning and Breeze both look just horrendous. And with Denver, it hasn't mattered because their defense is so good. But my question for them is what happens when we get to November and December? Always, yeah. The weather gets cold. Manning has to make a couple throws. Right. But their defense is, I mean, they've got six guys on every tackle.

It's been impressive. Their division is poorer than ever, I think. Like the Raiders, you want them to be good, but they'll always find a way to blow it in the end. Right. The Chiefs, now with Jamal Charles out, you can't think they're going to win 10 games. We were talking last week about, well, the Chiefs, who knows?

They play three of the four best teams. They'll take care of business. They lose. So their season's over. I'm crossing them off. Yeah. Chargers, when would you ever bet the Chargers? Is there ever a scenario that you'd take them?

How about Phil Rivers had to use the silent count last night at home because the Steelers fans were so loud. At that point, you should lose your team. I'm sorry, San Diego. You might have to lose your team. There are too many Steelers fans there. You've got to protect your home base. They do travel well, but that's insane.

That's embarrassing. The quarterback is clapping furiously. He's breaking his thumb trying to get the playoff. Here are the tough Denver games left. Green Bay home Sunday night. Is at Indy a tough game? I feel like it's not. I don't think Indy's good. I just

don't think they're good at football. New England at home on a Sunday night. They're at San Diego at Pitt and home for Cincinnati on Monday night. They only have five tough games left. And here's Cincinnati's. Cincinnati's tough.

I know they've always... At Buffalo's not easy, right? Should be harder than it might be. I mean, their road games are tough. At Buffalo, at Pittsburgh, at Zona, at San Francisco on a Sunday night and at Denver on a Monday night. No, that's not easy.

And they're also at Cleveland, which, you know, at least Cleveland's going to make you work a little bit. They probably won't get a bye. They probably won't. And they have the Rams and Pittsburgh and then Baltimore

in Week 17. I would say Denver is a safer bet. What did you think of my team rooting against my team last week? You look good for like a quarter.

Yeah, just... I don't know what to say. We're not... You know, we have Devon Street split out wide, so I don't expect much to happen offensively. But, you know, we have Devon Street split out wide, so I don't expect much to happen offensively. But you have to change the game plan.

It feels like Brandon Whedon's goal is to set the completion percentage mark, and it's just not good. Like, they're gaining three yards on second down on a pass, and you're not going to score points. And obviously, how many times have you seen it where a team kicks a field goal against you on fourth and two and you're like, oh, we got them now. Now we're going to come back and score a touchdown. And that was just stupid to do against the Patriots.

So you got Matt Castle this week, maybe? Well, it's a bye this week. Oh, next week, yeah. It's looking like it could be Castle. Who are the bye teams? The bye teams are Oakland, Dallas, St. Louis, and Tampa Bay. The Rams, I'm not giving up on the Rams. Here's the problem.

Everyone was blaming Nick Foles, and he was atrocious, and he should be blamed. But also, their receivers are terrible. It's the rare combination of a shaky quarterback with probably the worst receiving crew in the league. Right. And those guys are never open, and he feels like he has to make a play. And, like, they were right there in that Packers game. Believe me, that was my best bet, Packers minus nine. You sweated that one out, man.

I should have lost it a hundred different ways. Yeah. I mean, they missed field goals. They turned the ball over in the end zone. Red zone. Red zone, yeah. And Packers receivers weren't open. No.

They weren't open for Rodgers. He was in trouble a lot of that game. That defense is solid for the Rams. So I don't think I'm wrong to say there's some mild red flags with the Packers because they only put together one touchdown drive in that game. I think they had a 65-yard touchdown to James Jones. They got a pick six. Right. And they scored 24 points. Right. that game i think they had a 65 yard touchdown to james jones they got a pick six right and they

scored 24 points right the week before they didn't look great either against san francisco i i don't know if they're as explosive as it seems like they are i think they're the super bowl favorites right now that doesn't make sense to me they're at denver on sunday night and then they're at carolina the night they have uh i're at Carolina the night. They have a – oh, I'm sorry. Home for the Rams. No, they played that. Chargers. Home for the Chargers, bye week, and then at Denver, at Carolina, back-to-back. And that's when we'll find out if their offense is good or not.

Yeah, yeah. It's hard to tell sometimes if Rodgers is just going through the motions or if no one's open for him. But I think no one was open. I thought the Rams played solid, and yeah. I mean, they're what did you win that division what was your tv watching on sunday night because there was a lot of tv on sunday night trying to think there was a there was uh a mediocre sunday night football oh no that was a good sunday night football game yeah that weird giant's game could have won that i enjoyed enjoyed that. Right. And then what was the baseball game?

Baseball was going on. Yeah. And then we had Homeland and the Affair, Project Greenlight, my favorite show of 2015. Right. A 90-minute Walking Dead that was just completely incoherent. And I have no idea what happened. It was insane. Was I supposed to take drugs before I watched that Walking Dead? I think so.

Or was I supposed to smoke pot? There's 5,000 extras. There's so much makeup in there. I don't know how they did it. We're changing colors. Can we just be a normal episode? What is this? There was a lot of TV.

I watch like half of Homeland and then decide. I might be out on Homeland. I might be done. I didn't watch the end of it, so don't tell me. I'm 40 minutes in. For three straight seasons, I've been watching it as I do other things. It's just kind of odd. I just look up.

When I hear gunfire, I just look up. There's no way you can watch that and do other things and understand what's going on. All the factions are involved. Yeah. The affair is really good. You like that, huh? I like the affair. It's a good one.

A lot of repercussions with those affairs. Yeah, no, you watch it with the old lady? Oh, yeah. You do? Oh, she likes it. Wow. Yeah, she likes it. Interesting.

Oh, and then Last Man on Earth. Last Man on Earth. I watch what the kids say. They like that, at least, for the most part. It's America's favorite kid show that nobody thinks is a kid show, but all kids love Last Man on Earth. It's simple enough. Every episode, they should put in a scene when he just breaks stuff

in an abandoned mansion. Exactly. My kids think that's like the funniest thing ever. It's in the White House. Oh, he's knocking over vases. Ha, ha, ha. Of course they're in Malibu.

Why wouldn't they be in Malibu? I said that from day one. I feel so vindicated. Why are you in Arizona? Go to Malibu. Go to Orange County. Right. All right.

Looking good. Well, before we talk about football, I want to talk about the Mets and your feelings about Chase Utley. Well, I know you didn't want to do this yesterday. By the way, I know it's Columbus Day, but Columbus was a degenerate Italian gamble like I am, I'm sure. So he would have appreciated a podcast yesterday and i'm sure the fans would too as i was bemoaning the cowboys loss yeah and the awful awful chase utley call but what what did you think i mean i felt like neutral as you get right i have mets fans i have dodger fans buddies from both sides i don't really care i didn't bet on it i thought it was an insanely cheap play because

Filthy. Yeah, you know, Trot Nixon used to do this with the Red Sox sometimes and I never felt good about it, but he would at least try to touch the bag as he was just completely taking out somebody. How hard is it to just leave your left arm back? You gotta get a finger on the bag. Right. And that one, it's

like he was by the bag and then just the thing is, if it happened in hockey, it would have been a 15 game suspension. Right. And that one, it's like he was by the bag and then just, the thing is, if it happened in hockey, it would have been a 15 game suspension. Yeah. Like if that was a boarding in hockey, the guy would have been out. He would have been out for the whole month of October. But here's the thing. I do agree with this defense from my Dodger fan friends who have tried to figure out how

to spin this. The guy did turn his back on Utley. Like, what are you doing? I know. You never turn your back on the base runner, but especially like, guy did turn his back on Utley. Like, what are you doing? I know. You never turn your back on the base runner, but especially like, you know Utley's on first base. Yeah. And in your head, you have to be thinking like,

if there's a double play ball, that guy's going to try to take me out. Like, I know this. Like, I thought it was a mistake. But that's like saying, when you go to a restaurant, make sure your back's not to the door because a gunman can come in and shoot you. I'm with you.

But it's the other way too. I'm with you. I just thought like way, too. I'm with you. I just thought, like, if he doesn't do that, the play doesn't happen. But at the same time, I thought that was one of the cheapest plays I've seen in baseball. Like, he really just wanted to hurt the guy, it seemed like. I was at the game, and I'm not exaggerating. It's a modern miracle I'm here and didn't get murdered.

I was so loud and so stupid in defense of the Mets there. And the Dodger fans were not having it. You're not going to believe that. And I was in the first base side. So that wasn't going to be a double play. I know he pivoted, but I think he would have seen that he wasn't going to get it and he wouldn't have thrown it. Whatever, regardless.

And I don't even care that he's suspended. I don't even care. He's got to be out. He's got to be out. He's got to be called out. There's no rule that can save him on that play. No. You can't start your slide after the bag that you haven't touched and then be safe.

Your back foot lands for the first time past the base. It's insane. He still hasn't touched the base. There's an instant where Tejada lands on him with the ball so he should be out right there he's off the base there's so many things like I don't know how you call that guy safe it's it's outrageous to me were you amazed that uh sweaty erratic Matt Harvey didn't start just throwing at Dodgers last night yeah well we're a classy team what are you gonna do we get it done we get it done. We get it done.

Why didn't we have the over and runs in that game yesterday? Was there any doubt one of those two pitchers was going to give up a slew of runs? All four games went way over baseball games. So I told my Dodger fan friends, I think from a karma standpoint, they're screwed in this series because of that Utley play. I just think you can't recover from that. And also, the stupidity of taking Kershaw out at 113 pitches on the biggest batter of the game in game one. Oh, you think so?

Ugh. Again, I'm a neutral party. I don't care who wins. Yeah. If I'm the Mets, I'd much rather have Baez come in there than have the best pitcher of the decade trying to throw five more pitches. I mean, it's ludicrous. But if he goes 120, he probably doesn't pitch tonight. Maybe

he would have gone 114. I don't know. I mean, DeGrom's not pitching tonight because he went 120. It's tough. I've known you since 2002. There's no way you like DeGrom's hair. There's just no way. It bothers you.

I love it. If one of your sons grew DeGrom's hair, he would not live in your house. You would make him live with a grandparent or something. He could maybe, yes. And we'd treat him. Look, he could be Caitlyn Jenner if you want. If he's throwing 75 fastballs and 73 or 95 miles an hour or more, fine. Do what you want.

Does DeGrom think that looks good? Everyone's got crazy long hair now. Kershaw, Grank, everybody. His is the longest, though. I know. It's pretty long. It's pretty long. We're going to win tonight. Was he watching Mask with Cher and Eric Stoltz and thought he was just going to have the kid from Mask's hair?

So what do you, so what do you think? We're taping this on a Tuesday morning. I'm going to say we wrap it up tonight. I think we hit lefties. I think, uh, we had Kershaw,

our lefties hit lefties, which is, which is, doesn't usually happen for us. We got this guy, Matt's on the mound, grew up 20 minutes from me. Uh,

Ward Melville high school. You know who else went there? Kevin James and Mick Foley. A little trivia for you. Mick Foley's father was the athletic director. So we got a lot going for us tonight. I think we close it out. The Mets fans were so up.

Every Mets fan I know was so mad at Chase Utley. I don't think I have to go back to like 30 years ago when Lambert cheap shot at Bird and all the Celtic fans like really wanted Lambert to die. And then we will. We like we we telepathically will perish to punch him in game five of the 87 finals. Right. All right. Eastern finals.

That was the kind of level of hatred for Chase Utley. But the Celtics hated him, too. Not just the fans. Like I get that. I get the idea that the Mets aren't too upset about it. And just the fans are besides themselves. You do need that Milton Bradley type guy on the team who's just like, I'm going to get you.

It's going to be either during this series or later over the winter. I'm going to find you Chase Utley. You don't have that guy. How about Terry Collins just get thrown out of that game? Be upset. If there's not a 20-minute break for them to bring a stretcher on the field, they probably don't even review that play anyway. Were you okay

with him walking out in the cane? Tejada? Yeah. I would have gone full wheelchair. Why not? Oh, really? Oh, yeah. Like Pierce? No, not like Pierce. Really, this guy's so hurt he can't even walk on a crutch. He's been maimed. Interesting. Come on, Mets fans. Full body cast.

Yeah. Yeah, maybe they should have done that. Did you... The Astros collapse yesterday was really interesting. Yeah. The eighth inning took an hour and a half. They're not ready to go away, Royals. But one of these game fives, one of these road teams wins, I think.

I don't know who the... I've watched a lot of these baseball games, and I have no idea who the best team is. It just seems like it's turning into football now. You didn't like the Astros. I tried to talk you into the Astros. I think you had too many fantasy guys on your team. I was worried about their bullpen. It seems like that was validated yesterday, right?

They blew a 6-2 lead. That's really it, isn't it? It's outs 23 through 27. 7th, 8th, 9th innings. You feel okay about 7th, 8th, 9th? I have no problem putting a guy like Colon in or Neese in the 6th or 7th inning. I think, first of all,

you don't want to have first, how many 26-year-olds are we going to have out there that have ice water in their veins? Eventually, someone's going to implode. Someone's going to get nervous. Yeah, so get Colon in there, get some solid innings, and that and that's fine well the good news is you pitch familia with a six run lead in the night yesterday with two more playoff games coming what if he has come on come on terry collins act like you've been there before for god's sakes i don't like it so have curtis granderson pitch Before we get to the week six, week six lines, quickly, anyone that's ever worked in a corporate

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Whether it's about the new office move, the change in benefits plans, plan, or even free snacks in the kitchen, this sounds like something you could use to torture your coworkers at Jimmy Kimmel Live. Yeah, let's do that. I'm going to do more research on this.

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and people would leave their computer. Oh, yeah. They'd make the mistake of going to the bathroom but not logging out. Right, right, right. And then you would go in their computer and send a nasty email to somebody else from their email. Do you still do that? I still do it.

But I will say it's people have used it to their advantage, too. If they send off like a shitty email that they didn't mean to send. They say you did it. Like, hey, can you do me a solid and just say that it was you? I was like, all right. It's pretty specific. And that doesn't include anything that I would know. But if we can get away with it.

And then the person like, oh, my God, I'm so glad I thought you were mad. And it all ends up working out. So you're, it's almost like when people blame the dog for their own farts. Right. Exactly. So you're now the dog in a farts scenario. I don't have to always use my powers for evil.

Right. Yeah. Amazing. What was the most trouble you've ever gotten in for that? Or what's the most trouble you've ever caused? Um, I think I sent the president of the network from our executive producer, Jill's email.

You know, summer ratings are never great for late night television. Yeah. I think I just wrote ratings, subject ratings. It's summer. Get over it. But she kind of nipped in the bud before it got there. But it was still a little weird that he uh

yeah all right uh week six we have thursday night game thursday night well you did not send me your lines this week which means oh who knows i have them right here well what does that mean when did you do that two minutes before i got here'm sorry. More cheating than ever from you. All right. I swear I didn't look. I'm sorry I didn't send them. I just forgot. Go ahead.

Thursday night, Atlanta, New Orleans. I have the Falcons by three and a half. See what I mean? Here we go. It's exactly three and a half. I said four. Of course it was going to be three and a half. Why not four?

The Saints are terrible. Is Drew Brees' career over? I hope so. I picked him last week. Who has more mustard on the ball? Drew Brees, Peyton Manning, or the third strongest arm out of your three sons? Yeah, I know. Or Harrison, your one and a half year old son his

uh his arm is bad his decision making is bad too he gets caught way too much i think he's getting protection and still getting slammed back there i don't think the saints are long for this season we might count them out i think we could add them to uh maybe out of the playoff teams i'd like to cross them off as well and i I'll tell you another thing. Devontae Freeman, yet again, another fourth-round running back who's one of the five best running backs in the league. It's terrible. Him and the guy on the Seahawks, who I'd never heard of in my life before a week ago,

are two of the best five running backs in the league now. Think about the top ten running backs. You would only want two of them. You'd only want Peterson or Bell. All the others are garbage. Charles is bad now. I have him want Peterson or Bell. All the others are garbage. Like Charles was bad now. I have him on three fantasy games. 60 bucks.

Yeah, that was bad. Who else are we talking about? Marshawn Lynch is bad. Peterson's been up and down. He's been okay, though. I'd take Peterson and Bell. Can we talk about, just very quickly, how I drafted in our auction?

McCoy and Murray, yeah. In our auction, Dion Lewis for a dollar. That was nice. And I stumped the room, and then I bragged about it. That was nice. Before even knowing what was going to happen. It was good. It was one of my best moments in a while.

I thought you said, I hope this doesn't work out because we're in a lot of trouble if it does. Didn't you say something like that? No. Didn't you say? No. I definitely didn't say that. I think you said, if this guy's in my starting lineup, my team has brought... You didn't say that if this definitely didn't say that you said if this guy's in my starting lineup my team has brought you didn't say that i don't remember saying that i don't remember say that at all all i know is i drafted him for a dollar and everyone had a chance to go

too and nobody did that's not fair any any pick made after 2 30 in the morning should be re-evaluated all right we're going to the Sunday games. Denver and Cleveland. All of a sudden. I had trouble with this one. So the Broncos line was four and a half in Oakland, and I feel like Oakland and Cleveland are right around the same, but yet the Broncos covered, so I went Broncos by five and a half. I went Vegas zone. You're going to get it. I said six, and it's five.

So you're up two nothing on me. It feels like Josh McCown, who had his little victory lap this week, he got a big section in Peter King in the MMQB column. Almost became a school teacher. Yeah. And now the victory lap is going to end

this week against Denver. Yeah, this is like the four interception week. I got to say, 51 passes without an interception for a Browns quarterback is unheard of. Is he the best Browns 2.0 quarterback ever or is it still Derek Anderson?

That one year we worked at Jimmy's show together, Derek Anderson started a playoff game for the Browns. Right, that's true. So Josh McCown has to top that. He's been playing remarkably. He's better than the other 28 guys they've used. 500 yards of offense on the road, that's pretty good. But this Denver defense, like you talked about.

Very good defense. Even if DeMarcus Ware is out, they have this guy Shaquille Barrett who had a sack. They just seem to move some moving parts, and it all works. The nose tackle is good, too. Chicago has a couple good guys on defense. That Pernell McPhee, I think he was a relatively— I don't think they broke the bank on him, but would you rather have him or Sue for $114 million?

No, to anyone but Sue. I mean, that's terrible. Cancer. I bought our friend Tony a—he's a big Dolphins fan— a Dominican Sue sweatshirt, thinking, like, wow, this will be a cool— it's now one of his thousand ironic shirts. Oh, it's already ironic got to be ironic oh wow he's a mess uh chicago at detroit oh i had uh i didn't like this one i had the lions by three and a half but i don't feel good about it well that's good enough it's lions Lions by three. I said the Bears by two.

What does anyone have to see from this Lions team? They're terrible. Just terrible. It's hard to believe that Jim Caldwell isn't working out. Yeah. Are we sure they're good? This week's edition, Matthew Stafford. Are we sure he's good?

Seems like he's not good. They lost both their home games by double digits. It's year seven for him. Yeah. It's his seventh year. You are what you are. Next year's not good. They lost both their home games by double digits. It's year seven for him. Yeah. It's his seventh year. You are what you are. Next year's year eight. Yeah, I don't know.

Is Dan Orlovsky, are we supposed to be excited about it? Like another scrub we're forced to care about? I like Chicago, I think, this game. It's too high. I do too. I'm not positive the Bears are bad. Hold on. Let's look at the Bears really quick.

Lost to the Packers by eight. Got crushed by the Cardinals. Everybody does. Got shut out by the Seahawks in Seattle. Seattle had to have that. Beat the Raiders. Beat the Chiefs. Yeah.

Not terrible, but those two, week two, week three, they didn't have Cutler. Right. I think they could be okay. Yeah, they might be 7-9. Houston at Jacksonville. I had the Jags by 2.5, and I wanted to go 3. I think the Texans are one of the four worst teams in the league. Well, this is going to stun you.

This is kind of what I thought about the last game. I said Jags by 2, and and i'm gonna get it slightly but we're both way off it's houston by one and a half that's stupid houston's a terrible football team they stink is it possible that they could just move whatever afc south game is on to wednesday night just make that the wednesday night game so we don't have to even deal with it on sunday but do we have wednesday games no we don't it'll start deal with it on Sunday. Do we have Wednesday games? No, we don't. It'll start.

I think every Sunday there should be a 6.30 in the morning West Coast game and they should just make it the AFC South when there's not a London game. Okay, that's fine. Yeah, let's do that. That's good, too. Cincinnati at Buffalo. Ooh. At higher hopes for this one. I hit this one exact.

Go ahead. Bengals by three. Yeah, you did. You really did I said three and a half I thought Vegas would Favor them a little more Don't know what to make

Of this Buffalo team I know what to make of them You don't like them No I thought Tennessee Should have beaten them I had that on one of the four TVs Yeah

I actually got to watch football This weekend Because my daughter's soccer game Wasn't until 320 Nice The Bills Were very lucky in that game Tyrod Taylor I actually got to watch football this weekend because my daughter's soccer game was until 320. Nice. The Bills were very lucky in that game. Tyrod Taylor made a couple scrambles.

But if Watkins doesn't play, they just can't throw the ball. They're not going to score more than 17 points. I was just going to say, all right, it looks good. Bills at home getting points. And then you're like, all right, it's going to be Tyrod Taylor to Chris Hogan. And who's running the ball nowadays? That was an important win for the Bengals. Because I think if they lose that game, they're back to square one with everyone's feelings and sentiments on Andy Dalton and Marvin Lewis. And now it's like, all right, we're 5-0.

We came back. They were in the Super Bowl last year. And we came back from 17. And you can build on that. We have this game on right now, the replay. Oh, no, now it's Chiefs-Barrett. But I still don't know how they came back from 17. I know they were home.

I've got to say, I turned it off. It was 24-7. I was done. Because there were some good games on. I just turned it. And then all of a sudden, it was 24-21. But it was really because Seattle, it seemed like I watched it on shortcuts, it seems like their D-line just died. I don't think they have the depth anymore.

I don't know enough about it. I haven't researched who left, who changed, but it just seems like that whole team got gassed. You got seven guys making up 85% of the payroll. It's tough. Washington at New York Jets. I like the Bengals in that game. I don't mind either of these teams. These might be the eighth and ninth best teams in the league,

the Jets and the Washington professional football team. I have the Jets by four. I hit this one exactly at six. Oh. A lot of respect, Vegas. A lot of respect. That's too high. Well, Washington got seven and a half from Atlanta.

Yeah, but Ryan Fitzpatrick, their defense is pretty good. Washington. Ryan Fitzpatrick has him reared his ugly head. That's good, too. Sheldon Richardson's back. Yeah. It just doesn't look right, them giving so many points. That seems like a lot.

Kansas City at Minnesota. I put this in the Vegas zone. I have Vikings by five. I don't feel good about it. You went too high. I said four, and it's three and a half. It actually was four and went lower. I don't know who's betting the Chiefs with all their problems.

That's way too much respect for the Chiefs, and I think they have a giant salad fork sticking out of them. Yeah. So, Niles Davis? Well, listen. Does he go for like 70 bucks in our fantasy auctions? No. Or does somebody have him?

He doesn't go for anything because I have him. Oh. Because I have Jamal Charles, but it might not even be Niles Davis now. They have this guy, Charkandrick West. Charkandrick West? Charkandrick West. We almost named our son Charkandrick. You did?

Yeah. That's right. Charkandrick Simmons. My wife couldn't spell it. Have another one. Just have another one. You should do it. I'm going't spell it. Have another one. Just have another one. You should do it. I'm going to bid on this guy, so don't be a dick.

Just let me have him. I had Jamal Charles. I've been hoarding all my auction money just for a moment like this. You have the most points in the league, I think. I have a good team. You're two and three with the most points in the league. I have a really good team. I actually go sometimes to our website and just look at my team and marvel at how good it is.

Wow, what a weird dude you are. It's really good. Aaron Rodgers, Deion Lewis, Forsett or Melvin Gordon, Odell Beckham Jr., Larry Fitzgerald. That's somehow good. Julian Edelman. Right. Eifert on the Bengals. Oh, yeah.

Jeez. The Arizona kicker in the Rams defense. That is a juggernaut. I'm looking good. And I got bench guys, too. Well, you're two and three. Let me ask you this. In my other league, the Brady news wasn't announced when we drafted if he was going to be playing.

I told you he was going to play. I know. I don't want the rest of the league to know that. I have Brady and Rodgers. And I have Jamal Charles. So now I have to fill this running back slot. Who do you trade, Brady and Rodgers. And I have Jamal Charles. So now I have to fill this running back slot. Who do you trade, Brady or Rodgers?

Rodgers. You trade Rodgers? I do. I think Brady's going to have like 49 touchdowns in one pick. Yeah, maybe even this Sunday. Brady's locked in, man. These new rules, they're not new anymore. They're a couple years old. I wrote last year everyone thought i was crazy i really think he could play till he's 45

what which new he doesn't get hit yeah you don't get hit you're not allowed to hit anyone these the wide receivers can just get open all he does is go to the line he sees what the d is going to do he's like all right they're doing this i'm going to throw here well like hey he can do that for seven more years manning could do that for seven more years. Manning could do it for seven more years if his arm was even remotely competent. I'm not even taking anything away because you beat us 30-6 and everything

the Patriots do does work, but the pick plays are just, it's necessary. If you're an offensive coordinator and don't have a pick play in your arsenal, you're way behind the air. You're just not watching football. I don't even know why they rank these cornerbacks in the combines

on 40 times and leaping ability. It's like if you're going to get picked, you're not going to do well in the NFL. And Brady has it all figured out. Rodgers has it figured out. Palmer and obviously Peyton Manning. It's a third and three. Forget about busting out a run there. You got it.

It's a first down every time. Pick plays. When you play intramural football in college, 90% of the plays are pick plays. They are, right? So it would make sense that in the NFL, nobody's ever really totally been able to figure out how to stop the pick play. No. And no one knows which ones are legal and which ones are illegal.

Oh, I forgot. Oh, I thought you were switching. And then it's a touchdown. Yeah. It doesn't matter who's the fastest corner or the biggest or whatever. Where are we? Arizona, Pittsburgh. So do we think we get Roethlisberger this week?

You know, I saw that because they're playing Arizona and Arians, his old offensive coordinator, Roethlisberger's really going to try to play because of that. To me, that's like, you have to find out who's at the party before you decide to go. Like, all right, yeah, I will. I made this pick assuming Vic was playing Cardinals by one and a half. All right. I said, no, it's more than that.

I said plus four, and it's five and a half all right I said no it's more than that it's I said plus four and it's five and a half what is the Cardinals are giving five and a half Cardinals are giving five and a half really yeah oh I don't agree with that that seems too high they're damn good they don't care where they are they went on the road doesn't really matter it just seems high yeah Pittsburgh's got playmakers what quickly what'd you think of the Le'Veon, Le'Veon, Le'Veon, Le'Veon, Bell play call yesterday? So there's no time left if he gets stopped, right? They don't put a second back on the clock and say that Tomlin can use his time out.

No. I thought it was moronic, and they were very lucky. Yeah, I did too. It's hard to criticize a play that worked, but. Right. And it wasn't a straight handoff. It was just he danced around and found the white, the plane. I did too. It's hard to criticize a play that worked. Right. And it wasn't a straight handoff. It was just he danced around and found the white, the plane.

Yeah, because basically you're saying this guy's the best running back in the league. He's going to get in the end zone, get the ball. Yeah. So it worked under that respect. When it works, it's always good. Just roll Vic out and either he throws it away or he scrambles. That's the only play you can do there. Mm-hmm. If that play doesn't work, that's the worst call of the year.

Tomlin's thinking we're playing the Chargers and they're terrible and this will work one way or another. Are you scared of going overtime with the Chargers? Like I can see doing that if you're playing, if you're in Green Bay, I get it. You're like, we got to win this game right now. Here's our best play. But not against the Chargers when you have two thirds of the fans there. If the Mets weren't winning by 40 runs i would have been i would have been furious because

i lost fantasy to our friend brad when heath miller was held out of the end zone if he yeah it's at the two inch line if he scores i went i have something to tell you oh yeah i'm gonna take a dramatic pause all right actually let's read let's read a little. I have a confession to make, but first we're going to talk about our friends at SeatGeek. It's my favorite app for sporting tickets or really any event tickets. When you shop on SeatGeek.com, you can check out virtually every ticket option available for games and events. Sal, put this on your phone. All right. Put SeatGeek on it.

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i had no idea the Utley thing had happened. I hadn't checked Twitter because I didn't want to spoil it. I thought you weighed in a little late on it. Yeah, I was a little late. It was because I was watching soccer. I knew that would hurt your feelings. That is so bad. I know.

It was a great game, too. They scored or something? There was a goal, goal, and a goal. There were three goals. That's terrible. It was amazing. The fact that there was no riot slash fights at either Dodger Stadium or the Rose Bowl that night, considering the events of what happened in those games, is like a miracle.

And Obama was in town. It was hard to get around. Yeah, it was hard to get around that night. Well, I'm sorry about that. I wish I had told you sooner. Miami at Tennessee. Titans by two and a half. I'm way off. No, you's all right. I wish I had told you sooner. Miami at Tennessee. Titans by two and a half. I'm way off.

No, you're right on. I said three. I don't know why anyone can't give less than a field goal to Dolphins at home. You're right on. I actually think the Titans are mildly talented and Wisenhunt is an atrocity. Really? He's just a bad coach. They should have beaten Buffalo. I don't like how they use Mariota.

I think Mariota's good. I don't think they use him correctly. They do dumb things with him. He is. Where are we with the Bills defense? Is it good? Is it bad? They give up 40 to the Patriots but then they're tough to score on if you're the Dolphins. It's good, not great. Titans.

I like the Titans in that game. This is Miami with a new coach off a bye. New coach talking a lot of smack about bringing the intensity back in practices. Dan Campbell, that's what he said. What did he say? Heads are going to roll or something? Oh, speaking of cliches. Yeah.

I never watched the pregame shows, but I was setting up the TVs and they were interviewing Brandon Whedon and he said Yeah So I was And I never watched The pregame shows But I was setting up The TVs Right And they were interviewing Brandon Whedon And he said your thing Which one X's and O's

He said it's not about The X's and O's What is it It's about the It's not about the X's and O's It's the Jim's and Joe's He said it

He did Yeah Brandon Whedon said it On the Fox pregame show It happened I was so excited I was like I didn't know what to do

With myself I tried to tape it and turn the channel. I was going to save it for you. He's really good. He might just be a cliche karaoke machine. I mean, hopefully he's just rattling them off on the sidelines next week and we don't have to see them throw a

three yard underneath pass every time back. Oh, and I also heard an announcer on TV go, you cannot break someone's leg. One of those MLB Network guys on the Upland side. So he weighed in there. That was good. That was my argument with every Dodger fan in my section. He was like, do you think he tried to break his leg?

I was like, I don't give a crap what he tried to do. You can't go in there like a wrecking ball and take a guy out like that. It's outrageous. Just touch the bag. Just try to touch it. Why are the catch out like that. It's outrageous. Just touch the bag. Just try to touch it. Why are the catchers? You're sliding into a bag. Touch the bag.

You can't miss the bag. It doesn't matter if you don't touch it. If you were able to touch it, you're okay. Nonsense. Why am I always on the side of the, hey, good call, bad rule? My teams are always on that. You've never had luck with that ever. It's just a bad rule.

They might change it. They might not in the offseason, but whatever. It was a good call. Well, I can just tell you, Chuck Nixon tried to take out Jeter like that 27 times from 1999 to 2003. And had he done so, I would have felt bad for a second and then fully supported him. Don't you feel like we've watched thousands of baseball games,

probably more than football even. We've seen that double play granted on that a bunch of times. Every time. Right? Everyone's like, no, no, no. That's the rule. That's what gets me crazy. Everyone's an expert on how, nope, nope, that's how it is.

Don't you watch? Yeah. Yeah. By the way, how many Mets fans were at game two of that Dodgers thing? It felt like 40%. I think it was about 30, 70. 30, 70? Man, the secondary market.

Yeah. And what do you think of Dodger fans at the Mets game yesterday? Like 20%? I don't know. They were drowned. Well, you thought that many? I don't know. It seemed like they showed a lot of blue hats.

That was a good showing. It's a great series from a van pace standpoint. It really is. And then Mets-Cubs would just be an unbelievable tortured fan base matchup. Definitely. It's so good. And you guys have actually won. They haven't won in 108 years.

But somehow you're the tortured fan base. You won the luckiest World Series in the history of baseball. And the Cubs have, how dare, what are you talking about? Which was the luckiest? Game 686. Come on. It was over. We had two outs. nobody on in the ninth you're crazy you're out of your mind i remember a drunken manager brought in bob stanley yeah shilling bleeding through his sock i thought that's what you were talking about

no stop it all right caroline at seattle are we in the late games yet i'm sorry this is the late game you have to read something no i'm sorry yeah This is the late game. Do you have to read something? No. I'm sorry. Yeah, this is the first late game. I'm excited for this game. It's the only good game. I think Carolina might not be good, but they've shoved it in my face every week. I have the Seahawks by six and a half. Probably too low.

Oh, man. Too low? No, you got it. I said six. I thought that was a good guess, and it is six and a half. God, what was the Broncos line? Six to four, you got it. I said six. I thought that was a good guess, and it is six and a half. God, what was the Broncos' line? Six to four, you're leading. The Broncos were five.

Oh, you're thinking the teaser here? Yeah, I'm afraid of Josh McCown. What's happening? He threw for 590 yards last week. They're very excited about this guy in Cleveland. I'm teasing the Seahawks with somebody. I don't think Carolina can score on them. Well, Keekly comes back this week,'re very excited about this guy in cleveland i'm teasing the seahawks with somebody i don't think carolina can score on them well kinkley comes back this week i think he's cleared from his concussion yeah but he thinks his name is frank uh isn't it what it's not frank frank

kinkley he's cleared from his concussion you're cleared from your brains being scrambled you're fine now hustle and bustle is going to be run around a lot. Maybe, though. How many? Have they lost their home game? I had a really bad concussion between my junior and senior in high school. I didn't feel right for like three months. I don't know how they clear anybody.

Light would bother me. There's just no way you feel right after that. You just claimed the Mets won a lucky world series. You're still not right. How is that not a Lucky World Series? Why is that? Why? You won on a wild pitch and an error. Errors are part of the game.

Your season was over. Don't put Buckner out there just to be happy. You're right. We blew the series. It was the biggest choke ever. How about that? Let's agree on that. I'll call you that.

Baltimore at San Francisco. The Niners by one and a half. I'm wrong. I just don't believe in Baltimore. All right. I had the Niners by one and a half. I'm wrong. I just don't believe in Baltimore. All right. I had the Niners by three, and somehow the Ravens are favored by two and a half points.

Yeah, but we've seen this. We see this every year, and this year it's the Ravens. The team that people just keep waiting for them to turn it around, turn it around, turn it around, turn it around, and they're not good.

The Ravens are not good. I agree. It's not happening. They have no pass rush. They can't stop anybody on any third down. They have no deep threat at all. They're not a good team. They have the second-worst receivers in the league.

So why are they? No Steve Smith? Give me a break. That's terrible. If you give the home field team a three-point advantage for being home, now they're saying the Ravens are a five-and-a-half point better than the 49ers?

That can't be. A neutral field? I still think Kaepernick... He did well Sunday. He did. I still think he's done. Yeah. The Giants have no pass rush at all. Right. And it's because their best pass rusher uh blew

off his hand in a fireworks accident so they have no pass rush so it's not totally their fault but kaepernick was fine with no pressure whatsoever he's not going to get pressure on this game either because baltimore has no pass rush yeah leading to the whole kyle kaepernick he's turned it around yeah and then they have se Seattle at home on Thursday night. Nine days from now. The 49ers do. The 49ers do. And that's the game where he throws 17 interceptions. Yeah.

Yeah. That's why I kind of think he's got a... So just mark that down in your calendar now. All right. When he gets negative fantasy points nine days from now. Two one and fours. How about Super Bowl? How many years ago?

Three? They're both one and four now? Yeah. San Diego at Green Bay. San Diego stinks. I have Green Bay by 11. I'm probably too low. No, you're a little high, but you're going to get it.

I had Green Bay. You know, I forgot to adjust this after last night's game. I had Green Bay by seven. It's 10. So you're going to get this. Green Bay by seven? I don't know. I thought San Diego would.

I thought they weren't as awful thought san diego would i thought they weren't as awful as they were but yeah well green bay was what they give they gave the rams nine and i thought the charges were a little better they're not better this this is a game where um rogers could put up like the six touchdown no picks 29 for 32 for 309 yards kind of game. I agree. They're so banged up, the Chargers. Somehow a Charger got hurt listening to me talking about their injuries just now. Choked himself with his iPod cord or something.

When they're here next year in L.A., we can nurse them back to health. That's right. That's right. The Sunday night game. How long have you been waiting for this? Oh, my God. Your New England Patriots at the Indianapolis Colts. From what we know. Well, actually, let's ask them right now. We take you now to the comments of one Andrew the Giant Luck.

Andrew, you take on the Patriots at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center in Poughkeepsie, New York. Everyone wants to know. Class classy Freddy Blassie, Captain Lou Albano would like to know, are you in fact playing? I mean, right now, I don't know if I'm playing or not. I'll tell you this, Matt Ausenbeck's doing a great, great job for us. And either way, the team's going to be in great hands. I was working on it. Thank you. I love it. That's the first time i've seen it live thank you it's beautiful uh hasselbeck put this way he's he's in for a treat on sunday night hopefully yeah yeah do you think it's hasselbeck i think

luck will play actually says luck has been practicing. We don't know how much, but he has definitely been practicing extensively. I would be very surprised if the Patriots lost this game without sounding overconfident. What do you think? We talked about last week. This game has the most FU points built into the line in years. I don't remember the last time. Oh, yeah.

So I said Pats by eight, and I'm probably too low. You are a little low. I went high. I said 11 and a half i thought they would really wow total f you well this team nine is the number yeah so i went by not yeah you're gonna win the whole week i think uh yeah i i think the patriots would be properly motivated for this game well let me let me ask you this, and that's been the narrative all along. The Patriots are going to kill them, wait until they go to the Colts, they have something to prove. But it was the Colts who lost by 50 points to the Patriots. Don't they have something to prove?

Don't they have any pride at all? Like they're going to want to keep this close? Well, I mean, they're going to have to come up with some sort of plan for when they're down 28 at halftime. They're going to have to come up with some sort of plan for when they're down 28 at halftime. They're going to have to come up with some sort of conspiracy to leak to Bob Kravitz. You love it. Oh, I love it. You know what I really love?

Is the fact that the Patriots kill the Colts every time they play. Yeah, I know. That's what I'm saying. Their defense is terrible. It's like cherry picking for Brady. I'm very confident. I'd be confident, too. But let's remember, you went against three of your four quarterbacks

Ty Taylor, Bortles, and Brandon Whedon yeah it could be a shootout I'm just confident in the Patriots scoring points I think that Colts defense has been an abomination really remember that Chiefs game the Chiefs

Colts remember before all the Chiefs started getting hurt in the playoff game? They were on pace to give up like 50 in that game. This team has over and over again just gotten destroyed by decent and good offenses. I know. It's bad. You're very confident.

No, my fear is that they're going to try to take out Gronk low on a play and hurt one of my Patriots. And then I'll really have to get mad. Were you a little nervous that we had five sacks against you, the Cowboys? You know what was interesting? I talked to my dad about this, actually. They were really taken by surprise with that 3-2-6. Yeah.

And Belichick even said after, he was like, we didn't know what to do. And then they figured it out. But yeah, Hardy was insane. He's a monster. He's literally a monster. And they couldn't keep him off. They double teamed him. Nate Solder had to come out.

Yeah. You were afraid of Deion Lewis. Yeah, I know. But you don't have to make fun of my team. I'm not making fun of your team. We have a disability right now. It's like, do you see a homeless guy in a wheelchair on the street and spit on him? What are you going to do?

When does Romo come back? Have some compassion. Probably around Thanksgiving. But the thing with the Cowboys offense was like, it's like, when you know a guy's not throwing downfield, it's so much easier to defend, obviously, right? The safety could cheat up. It's like being at the company picnic and uh and the boss's son you're playing softball and the boss's son gets up it's like all right everybody move in

right we know exactly what we need to do that's brandon whedon he's the boss's son and you called me by the way i don't know if you remember you called me after the pats game yeah right was i driving home from my daughter's soccer game i hope hope not because you sound a little worse for the wear. That was a rough loss. I have the message here. We played the best team in the league and we almost beat them. Really? The Galaxy team.

Where was this? It was in Long Beach. San Francisco? No, in Zoe's team. Yeah, I know. You're always driving far. Yeah, but we went toe-to-toe with them. There were some signs.

Really? Feeling good about the team now. All right, can I read the fake goddamn voice message already? Yeah, please, sorry. Oh, sorry. Okay, here. This is you after the game. Cousin Sal, sports-ish guy here.

I just got done watching Tom Terrific, Thunder Thighs Brady finish off your Cowboys 30-6. And I also just downed my eighth pink passion margarita. I was going to call and gloat about the win, but I realize we're pals, and I know you must be feeling down in the dumps, so I really just have one question for you, and here it is. How many Cowboys fans does it take to change

a light bulb? None! They're all happy living in the Patriot shadow. Get it? They don't have to change light bulbs. Alright, one more question. What do the Dallas Cowboys and Possums have in common? Both play dead at home and get killed on the road. I love that one. Here's one more.

What does a Cowboys fan do when his team has won the Super Bowl? He turns off Madden 2K16. That one kills me. All right. 30-6. Brandon Whedon sucks. Pick, play, sports sports guy over and out luke and bob bootay wow that's the first joke we've ever we're actually gonna cut out of the

podcast oh yeah we're cutting that one you crossed the line you cross the line it's your call what are you talking about you're unbelievable oh I thought we weren't cutting jokes. All right. One more. Monday. Giants and Philly. I had the Eagles by two and a half, and I have no idea. It seems like the Eagles are still awful.

Yeah. You killed me this week. Let me just add them up. It's 10-4 because you win that one. It's Eagles by three and a half. I said two. I thought the Giants were that much better than the Eagles. I like the Giants.

I think the Giants are solid. Yeah, I just think it might be the same thing. You point out the Giants don't have a good pass rush. They don't. And the Saints didn't last week. That's good for Sam Bradford. Yeah. That's what I'm worried about. Yeah, that's it then. That's good for Sam Bradford. Yeah. That's what I'm worried about.

Yeah. That's it then. That's it. We're pretty much done. We should mention I have a new show on HBO coming out in April. It's going to be good. Very excited about that. Or May, somewhere in the spring, hopefully, maybe.

And also, there's some news. My old Grantland coworkers, Sean Fantasy, Chris Ryan, Mallory Rubin, and Julia Lippman, they're leaving Grantland to develop a new project with me. Good group. That was written about. Good for you. Very good group. Good for them.

And there might have been a couple of Grantland people that said nice things about them on a podcast, and it might have been edited out by people who work over there. Is that right? So I wanted to pass along those sentiments from some of the people at grantland too oh who was tell me who was it who was it maybe one of the podcasts that happened oh yeah all right now which which grantland uh writers were you unable to get that you would have liked to get it's yeah we'll see we'll see how this goes um but it was good. So your picks are Friday? Yeah, let me just say Jimmy Kimmel, Taraji Henson from Empire,

Matthew Fox, stand-up Byron Bowers tonight, later in the week Nathan Fillion, Justin Theroux, Scott Foley, and Duran Duran hit me up at at D Cousin Sal on Twitter. And, yes, late Thursday night or friday morning three more picks two and one against the spread four weeks in a row my best bet is four and one so let's see that's great let's see what i'm doing well with best bets as well on sundays you are right i'm 10 four and two or something yeah you know um my daughter practices right next to your stage oh yeah and uh there was a video yesterday and i I thought it was Depeche Mode.

So it was that they were doing this drill, and it was Depeche Mode was playing. And I sent it to Jimmy, and Jimmy got mad because it wasn't Depeche Mode. It was whatever the band was yesterday. They were playing a Depeche Mode song. He got mad that they were covering? That I didn't know it wasn't Depeche Mode. It was a new band. But the implication was that it would have been crazy for Depeche Mode to be playing the show. But now you have Duran Duran.

Right. Which was also from that 80s. So I'm going to go back in them. Oh, I see what's going on here. He's like, that wasn't Depeche Mode. It's like, oh, sorry. I thought it was Depeche Mode. They're singing a Depeche Mode song and we couldn't sing the stage. Did the girls respond to the

practice? it's been really interesting with some of the music because it it puts a little hop in their step sometimes i think like demi lovato was playing once and they were just flying around also you have our lunatic um uh audience warm-up guy don barris can hear him yeah hey get ready for the here's Jimmy Kimmel so that was good

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Yeah. You're going on tomorrow. I'm so jealous. I am so jealous. It is going to be huge. Is he going to hear the impression? So I just have to. Oh, yeah.

I'm going to. I'll do Dog. I should be Dog, right? Yeah. Because he's not with Dog anymore. Sure. I'm really going to badger him about him and Dog getting back together. Yeah.

You should. I think they. What do you think? Well, they both proved that they can make it on their own. So now You should. I think they, what do you think? Well, they both proved that they can make it on their own. So now it's like, all right, you proved it.

Now give us the best radio show of all time again. They might hate each other too much though. Come on. Just try to, try to dig that out of them. I'll work. I'm very excited. I've been waiting for,

you know, I wasn't allowed to go. ESPN has this weird policy where you're not allowed to go on any non ESPN shows. Right. It's their way of like choking the competition. I know. But it's, and yet I'm allowed to do ESPN has this weird policy where you're not allowed to go on any non-ESPN shows right it's their way of like choking the competition I know but and yet I'm allowed to do this podcast with you bad mouth them 70% of the time no I've been very nice ESPN's been you know it was a good place to work I do feel bad for you you do three hours worth of podcasts and then Yahoo will take one single line from one of the podcasts and then that'll be the big thing. I've done nine podcasts

probably talked about ESPN for 15 minutes. But, wait, what were we talking about? Mad, oh yeah. Francesca.

So they would not, you know, I could never go on the Boston stations. I could never go on Francesca. I couldn't go on Dan Patrick and, you know,

so I'm excited to do a couple of those. You should bring an air horn if he falls asleep because he tends to sleep a lot. No, he'll be so he's going to have like a 16 ounce Diet Coke to get ready for me. I'm excited. It's going to be a huge, huge day.

Me and Francesa, four o'clock Wednesday. And we have two more podcasts coming this week on Thursday and on Friday. Next week, we're going to a Monday schedule on this. We will. The Cuss. Good job. Good job. Bye.

Bye.