The Bill Simmons Podcast - The Frisky Cowboys, the Next Stafford, KC’s Houdini Act, an NFL Thanks Session, and Guess the Lines With Cousin Sal

Episode Date: November 24, 2025

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The Bill Simmons podcast brought to you by the Ringer podcast network, where I have a new rewatchable is coming for you on Monday night. We're gambling again. We're doing two for the money, 20-year anniversary, Matthew McConaughey, Al Pacino, Renee Russo. It's just a guilty pleasure. It was on a lot. CR and I kept circling it.

We kept circling. And finally, we decided to do it in person with Cousin Sal, who's coming up on this podcast later. So that is coming at some point tomorrow night. I'm not sure about the schedule this week for this podcast. I know we're doing Tuesday. I know I'm popping on Zach Lowe's podcast tomorrow to talk about Chris Paul. And then after that, I just don't know. I don't know when we're doing NFL picks. Might only have two podcasts this week. If I do any sort of Thanksgiving ringer 107, whatever, and it's not on a podcast, it will be on my YouTube channel, the Bill Simmons YouTube channel. So you know where it is. I put up a actually a hot take today from the sauna about

Will Campbell. You can check that out. You check on my Instagram as well. So yeah, schedule a little up in the air. You know what's not up in the air? The Patriots have won, I think eight straight games, nine? Can't even keep track. They're 10 and two. The first 10 win team, but some bad stuff happened today. Some good stuff happened for Cousin Salas team. We're going to talk about all of it next. We went live on YouTube. We're going to take a break. Pearl Jim. then Cousin' South. This episode of the Bill Simmons podcast is presented by State Farm. Having insurance isn't the same as having State Farm. It's like needing the protection, offensive guard on the football field, but getting an elementary school crossing guard. Sure, they're both guards, but you can only

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What a bunch of cheats this is. Give me a break. Thanks for the turn of the punch bowl, Mike. Green Bay 40-40 came three weeks after Buffalo 41, Baltimore 40. Two really good ones. Next week was Pat's Bulls. That was okay. After that, Chiefs Lions, Chiefs 1 by 13, Niners, 20, Atlanta, 10.

Green Bay, Pittsburgh, 35, 25, and Seattle kills Washington. Chargers killed the Stewards. Eagles, Lions, stink fast. And then this week, what's going on? Monday night, not a whole lot better. Thursday night, not great either. I'm not sure. I would say Thursday night's been the best night out of the three.

Has it? We've had some good ones. Like Bill's Texans was pretty good on Thursday. That's true. Yeah, that's true. That came back to be a good game. A lot of these games are just mostly unwatchable and then close at the end. You know what I mean?

Well, we had a really nice early game lightning round window near the end. We have Thanksgiving three games on Thursday. We have Black Friday noon, which is somehow an awesome game, Bears, Eagles. Then we got Sunday, then we got Monday. So we got a lot of football coming up. Rams, it feels like Stafford is now a prohibitive MVP frontrunner, but that's not what I want to start with. Of course it's not.

Of course it isn't. Yeah. Why would you? Well, we're going to talk about your team. All right. Oh, I see. Okay, that's good. That's fine.

Let's start with your team. Rarely do we get to come on a Sunday night pod with some cowboys. The five and one resurgent cowboys. What's happening, Sal? I don't know. I really didn't want to fall for this. I didn't because I know how it is. The media, you're a member of the media, right?

They want to get you excited. Yeah, you're in the, they want to get you excited about the Cowboys so they could tear them down. Like, I get it. I get the whole roller coaster ride you're going. So it's like feeding a, like a child peas. But here comes the airplane,

but you tricked me into eating peas. And I wasn't buying it. And then when they were down 21 nothing, I'm like, F you to anybody who said they can win this game because we beat the Raiders. We're going to, get excited about that? No. Yeah. And then Simmons, we really stepped

up defensively. I did. 107 yards on the last eight drives. Okay, Eagles were stupid. A lot of penalties. I think they had 14 penalties. They're terrible. My God. There's so much to like about this team. There's so much, that Pickens,

pickings like that, is that the best trade of all time? Like, forget Herschel Walker. This, I think, is the best trade of all time for a third rounder. Franchise tag the man. Do it now. Isn't he in the top five in receiving yards now or even maybe even higher? Yeah, top five, yeah, for sure. I think where is he now?

He was nine for 146 today. He has more receiving yards than the whole Steelers team combined. Right. Yeah, looking good. Fine. Good move, maybe by accident, Jerry, but good job by you. I don't know. Kind of give Jerry, maybe Jerry this whole time.

Maybe he just knew. Maybe he knew what's happening. Yeah, I'm looking at the plus 520 to make the playoffs. I'm not by, until they beat the chiefs next week. I know I'm going to be vomiting up corn pudding next week when I could have just been rolling my eyes at the TV screen after we lose by 17. But whatever, let's see it happen.

Let's do. Yeah, Pickens is the only, there's only 2,000-yard receivers right down. He's one of them. J.S.N. the second. Smith, the other one, yeah. I'll say this about your team.

I watched them when I flew to New York on Monday. I watched every play of that game, which was one of the reasons I bet on the Browns today. because I just thought the Raiders were so bad on Monday night. It also made me think the Eagles were going to win today. But your team, two guys who can always get open, you can run the ball a hell of a lot better than you did last year. And then Dak, who was a little up and down in the last few weeks,

when he's on, and you can see it right away, and he's threading those long ones. So you have that. And then the defensive line is definitely a little different. Like you can stop the run. I mean, granted, they traded a lot for Quinn and Williams, but it looks a little more like a real defense. The part I don't understand is why guys aren't wide open all over in the secondary.

That's one. And then the other, the Eagles, like, where was Barclay today? You must have been doing backflips every time they didn't give Barclay the ball on anything. Yeah. I mean, we held them in check, in check, whatever, the first game. I think he's a little slowed down. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's injury, but we're not seeing the same Barkley we saw last year for sure, right?

Yeah. And then our defense is a little better, I would say better than it was beginning of the year. I just, we got some guys who want to play for this coach. And by the way, he's got his faults like every other coach, like how they turn that ball over from that two-yard line. They didn't run on second and third down when Javante Williams was scoring from that part of the field. It was like four minutes left.

But just you could tell guys you're going. Watch that Elijah Clark play on that punt, number 38, right? He's a free agent rookie from Syracuse. he gets chucked all over the field and then chases down and forces a fumble. Just like stuff like that, we've been missing for a while. Yeah, and the Neeland thing, I was watching some of the clips after the game on Monday night,

which, you know, he was getting choked up, thanking the team after and talking about them on Monday night. But, you know, sports are weird. Sometimes something like that, galvanizes a team. You only need like a couple of these little momentum things to push a season in a certain direction. But beating the Eagles, you know, especially coming back 21-0.

I'm watching the game. I didn't lie bet it. I didn't put my money where my mouth was in any capacity. But unlike with this Rams game today where the Rams took a lead, it's like this is done. Yeah. It never feels done when the Eagles have a lead because we've seen this before. We've seen them do it. They've done it multiple times this year.

There's something about the pace of what they play, the way they call plays. You never really feel like they put the game away. And I'm sure the way you throw the ball, you felt like you were in. it when it was 21 7 you're like oh we're still in it we can get this definitely especially the way we scored in like 40 seconds to tie it right down 21 14 then we tie it i thought the eagles like everyone did so this i think set a record especially in that four o'clock window i'm like that dizzy i felt like i was tripping my face off on molly watching all the dumb decisions the quarterback decisions and coaching decisions but yeah the eagles were doing stupid shit too like i think it was a two minute

time out third and two all you have to do is not get sacked there hurts you know you're going on fourth and one or fourth and two he loses like nine and they're out of it they're punting like what we're getting the ball back here so we got a little lucky right over the middle too right just kind of kind of held the ball yeah we had some good we had some good bad coaching going on the jaggs cardinals game was like a bad coaching super ball i didn't i guess the cardinals lost that was awful and then uh the saints falcons it was pretty brutal too. But, all right. So the Eagles final seven possessions.

Five punts to fumble, missed field goal. That's how they ended it. Is anyone in the NFC good? Because we were saying last week, I said to you, I thought the Eagles defense was the best unit in the NFC. Cowboys, you know, Kate, when coming back and beating them,

maybe that's not sure anymore. The Rams seem like the most buttoned up. Like when I compare the Rams to like my team, Like, you know, they get inside the 10-yard line. You know they're going to score. They're going to run really smart plays. They're just going to, they just have that little extra gear. They have kind of the killer instinct that I don't feel like the Patriots have had in the red zone.

Is there anyone else? It's got to be the Rams. It's almost a Rams by default, right? No, and I know we change our mind. I hate to be a prisoner of the moment because we just saw Chris's 500 game and it turned out to be a blowout. But they're just incredibly well balanced, especially in today's NFL, right? like not going to be too many coaching brain farts or staffer's just phenomenal and like Collinsworth tried to explain it like the Puka Nakua phenomenon like he's basically like two

players because he plays like LT and just how he opens up uh opens up zones but I don't want to again like is this Kurt Warner's Rams with a better defense just are they just going to blow through the playoffs I'm looking at them at plus 220 for the NFC not a great price but for God's sakes who beats that team? I'm not ready for that yet. The thing that I like about them, they have these multiple options on like third and four, third and eight,

and then they can go big. Like, they can change their look depending on who they're playing. They can put in all those tight ends. They can try to air it out. They can run the ball. So offensively, it's probably the most complete team. And then you have the Stafford piece

who's now at 30 touchdowns and two picks. your camera's like I don't know if your camera could handle the Cowboys I'm very excited my camera's getting it's getting an erection from the Cowboys is what's going on Is that what's happening

is Jerry Jones filming It should be okay now I don't know Yeah Stafford's 30 TD's two picks headed for 4,000 yards and probably looking decent for him to be the one seed

and this is we talk about MVP every week this is the first time where it feels like there's like a prohibitive favor now right yeah I mean and now there's clips of him throwing no-look touchdowns to the tight ends and stuff.

So that just adds to it. But his numbers are just too good. What did you say he was, 27? No, he had 27 before today, right? He is 30 total. 30 touchdowns now. Did they put the, did Fando put the awards back up? Yeah, they did.

I saw minus 200. Yeah, so he's minus 220. 220 now? Yeah. I think that's fair. You could talk to me into a three-to-one. Because now it's like a two-horse race because May is plus 220 and everyone else is 21 and up. Yeah.

We'll talk about the Pats later, but May lost his left tackle. today for at least a couple of games. I don't, he's been okay the last couple weeks. I don't think he's been fantastic. Stafford's been fantastic. You want to give him a nickname? He's okay. No, what else? Don't do any names. Senten him for okay. Don't do it.

Pat's fans already Matt. Although the Pat's fans have moved all of their anger towards Stephen A. Smith, so I think you're off the hook. Oh, good, good, all right. Yeah, well, we have so much in common. Yeah. So I was thinking with Stafford, the first 12 years of his career, he was 0 and 3 in the playoffs, right? And then famously goes to the Rams, puts together those rounds, wins the Super Bowl.

He's only finished. What do you think for MVP finishes in his career? How many top 10 and how high did he get if you had to guess? I don't think it was just last week where he ended up over 500 for his career, right? Yeah. So how many top, I don't know based on the criteria. How many years has he been in? He's like year 17.

It's like 37 years old at this point. One. Wow. He finished 8th in 2023. As far as I can tell for my three minutes of research. Wow. Two Pro Bowls and that's it. And then when you look at the old QBs that have won a MVP,

Brady won when he was 40, Rogers 38, 37, Manning 37, and then Rich Gannon and Y.A. Tittle 37. So he doesn't turn 38 until after the season. So he would be one of the oldest ever to, win. But it's just pretty, I'm trying to think of other, other athletes and then other possible situations where this could happen. Like, this is, if Trevor Lawrence was better, Trevor Lawrence, 10 years from now, if he ended up on a good team and we were like, well, he was good all along.

But Stafford was always better than Trevor Long. I don't even know what the comparison is. Yeah, I don't think you can make it. Like, I guess if Gino Smith had gone a little further last year or two years ago, we know what's not happening. What may happen for him in the UFL or whatever the It's not happening now. Yeah, I don't know. I think you're right. Like, Elway was like kind of steady. You know, the stats weren't great, but how old was he when he won?

I guess he was older than 30. Yeah, but he made multiple Super Bowls. Yeah. So he was probably in the MVP for a while. But yeah, I don't, I don't really, I can't think of another comparison to this. Yeah. I wish I had given it some thought. I don't know.

There's certainly no NBA player that peaked in their mid to late 30s, like for the first time, went up a level. But just, we have. After a week, he's looked like he's the best quarterback. I don't, you know, Mahomes kind of came on a little bit today. Alan took a step back on Thursday, May the last couple weeks, I think it's been a little off, although he had an awesome game today. But, yeah. And then, you know, when you look at going forward with the way this goes, Seattle might be

the second best team in the NFC if Philly can't figure out their shit. I don't really understand what's going on with Philly. other than that, it seems like Groundhog Day every week with them. They're unhappy. There's some griping. They're fine. They went. See, we're fine. All the naysayers, take it over here. Then they have another.

It's like a rinse-lather repeat situation. They won the Super Bowl last year, so you can't pitch about them too much. But something does seem a little off. But I can't really place it. I watched that whole Cowboys game. And I thought that, you know, they just seemed like they were going to score

every time they had the ball. And when E.J. Brown scores, right? And he's like spiking the ball in your face and everything. Like, oh, man, that's it. Like that, if that guy's, right? If they're in sync with him, that's all it needs, really, right? But you got the lineman out, you know, I don't know. I don't know what it is. Why, you think it's Big Dom? You think these players owe Big Dom a lot of money? I think the lineman might be a piece of it. And you made a key point. Like, Barclay doesn't look like he did last year. And he had, what did he have, like 450, touches or something last year. He like shattered the curse of 370. I don't know. All I know is this is the team Philadelphia. This is the perfect team for the city, for the fan base. Good record. They can complain. They lost this Dallas game. Multiple Eagle fans of my life. Like just the entire week now ruined might carry over into Thanksgiving. They've this Black Friday game looming. It's the voodoo bears. Who the hell knows? But I don't think you can catch some. But also they're going to be fine.

they're going to be fine right like if i still had a gun to my head i go rams eagles i don't know how the seedings match up but that would be my nbc championship the lion certainly didn't look great not sold on the packers now with bucks and baker like that was my super bowl team that sucks him going down i hope he's not out too long but that was his bad shoulder from from before what was that play even i don't even know i know he was trying to throw hell mary but how did his left shoulder get banged up he fell on it he threw it and it seemed like as he was throwing it something happened to the shoulder that he wasn't throwing the ball or he was already hurt you know what's interesting about that uh bears eagles game next week potentially for the two seed

which is crazy because the bears every week win by three points it comes down to the last two minutes you never feel great about it and then ben jonson has a video after and does this whole thing but philly and the bears are both eight and three that's the two seed because it's either rams or seattle and then the one would be the five seed. Green Bay 7, 3 and 1, it feels like they have at least two more losses than them. Other than that, I don't really see anybody, so...

I don't know what to do with the Bears anymore, right? Like, they just get it done. I know like, you know, Ben Johnson could maybe pre-tape those post-game speeches because they re-ran the one. It was a repeat today. That was a repeat? Yeah, it was like when they used to repeat

the 80 sitcoms in our childhood. SNL? Yeah, it's on vacation. That wasn't alive on this week. The camera wasn't working. They just ran it back. I mean, you're not going to like this, but, you know, well, Caleb hasn't thrown a pick in five weeks, so that's great. And they pick up turnovers at the right times, it seems, all the time.

But they're also having patriots-esque luck-wise as to which quarterbacks they're facing. It's like Rudolph, McCarthy, Dart, Flacco, Huntley, I wrote these down. Rattler, Gino, these are all either first or last year quarterbacks or worse. Yeah, and Caleb, it's okay If you actually watch the game, there's misthrows I think he had 26% of his passes today We're on catchable, it was the stat But didn't turn the ball over

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I got a few to thank. Yeah. I want to thank looking ahead, the NFL, you know, we crap. Most of our hour and a half is like talking about how bad everything is, but it's an amazing slate of Thanksgiving games, right? Detroit, Green Bay, Dallas, Casey, Cincinnati, maybe Burrow. But probably not at Baltimore. It's my favorite day of the year.

Oh, I think it's going to be Burrow. You think he's going to, that's what he saved it for? I think it will be Burrow. They know what they're doing, huh? Yeah. I just love Thanksgiving so much in what the NFL does. Like, I hate birthdays. I think you do too now.

Like, they're kind of grim. You don't want to celebrate them, right? But Thanksgiving, I feel like, oh, I made it to another Thanksgiving. And the NFL is going to show its appreciation by entertaining me all day while I stuff my face. with cranberries and Coke zeros. I love it. But there's a problem with this Thanksgiving. Go ahead.

The football's too good. I know. I know. Three must-watch games. I mean, you could argue there's one, two. No, they're all, of course. There's six good games out of the 15 this week. And three of them are on Thursday.

Like, what are the 50% of the games? And one's Friday. Yeah. Lions Packers. Chiefs Cowboys, I mean, Chiefs Cowboys, I don't think they hit the jackpot with that. That's one of the most entertaining matchups we could come up with, then Ravens Bengals would the Burrow come back.

And then right next day, like noon the next day, we get Eagles Bears. So it's a noon E.T or noon PT? I can't remember. Noon PT, I think. I don't know, I think. But, you know, yeah, we should have known better. I'm not saying anything set up or anything,

but we should have made Dowell. money line parlay with KC because they're both relevant now. They're both coming off wins. It's exactly what the league wanted. They have a chance to break the $50 million mark. I think the record was $42 million, like three years ago, Cowboys Giants, on Thanksgiving.

If I put it at $46.5 million, you go over or under. That $50 million seems high. So who, is that Fox or CBS for that game? Fox gets the morning, right? Oh, yeah, Fox Kids, Green Bay, Detroit, Kansas City, Dallas is CBS. Okay, Jim. That's right.

50 million viewers. Let's do it. Very exciting. So that's my thanks, the NFL. Who do you think? I'm going to thank the Giants and the Jets for not hiring Mike Frable. Okay. I really appreciate it, guys.

You both need a coaches. The Jets brought back Sala last year. When it was clear, he didn't have the magic anymore, and Vrable was available. And they're like, eh, let's see what we have with Salah one more year. Maybe it'll be different this year. Nope. And then the Giants could have hired him two years ago.

And then they decided to bring back Dayball this year. Passed up Vrabel again. Not that at that point, I think Vrabel thought he had a chance to get Drake made. But I'd like to thank all the teams that passed on Mike Vrabel. Damn, this all really worked out for you. He went 12 and 5 one year, who made the AFC title game another year, who never had a competent quarterback better than, like, Ryan Tanehill. And, you know, was coaching the Browns.

What was he doing for the Browns last year? He was, like, special game management coordinator, just like. He sold luxury suites. Yeah. I don't know what he did. I mean, is it possible? He might have passed on them, too, though, right? Like, they might have, the agent might have sent it along.

I think he roped up the Jets a little to make Kraft worried that he was going to sign with the Jets. Right. Because that makes sense. You know, it's like if you and I were potentially like top seven NFL coaches and we were going to take a new job, our one chance to redo our destiny, to show everyone how awesome we were as a coach, I want to know I have a QB. That's the only, I'm not even coming back until I have the QB. So I'm going to Dallas. I'm going to New England. I'm going anywhere where it's like I have somebody I can build around. And Vrable, like, that's what he told everybody that I know

who knows, Rable was like, I went there because of Drake May. It was like, that's cool. I played for the Patriots, whatever. It was like, Drake May was the reason I went there. I think you're so right. And the luxury you have being fired as a coach or leaving and you have like a year off, if you're still a football junkie, you get to like we do, watch those 1 PM games and never does it stand out more that you need a quarterback than from 1 to 4 Eastern, right?

So yes, I think you're right. That was the next step. And I don't think the bears were on the table because they were fired up from for Ben Johnson, but if he had a choice between Caleb and Drake May, that would have, well, maybe we'll find out 30 years from now we were taking. I have another thanks. I'd like to thank Sean McVey for saving Matthew Stafford all those years ago. Because we just don't have enough good quarterbacks.

Matthew Stafford was on Detroit, getting the shit kicked out of him, year after year, a couple good receivers. Now you can see him, this awesome offense that's been really fun to watch for half a decade now. So thank you to him. And I hope there's another QB. I don't know who the next Stafford is, like who the next savior QB is. Because he really checked a lot of the boxes.

I don't think there's another one sitting there. I don't think there's anyone. So what you'd have to look at is, oh, who's a great quarterback stuck on a bad team? I guess Herbert had a shot for a minute. But they would make the playoffs, though, right? Like, so I don't know. Herbert's had some success.

Lawrence's, I think, checks the, most amount of boxes, but he's not Stafford. But you could say, oh, he had that Urban Meyer year. He's always been in a bad situation, blah, blah, blah. And he could talk yourself into it. But Stafford, you know, for years, it was always like, oh, man, if only that guy could find a good team. I feel so bad for him being with that fucked up playing. Think about those miserable Thanksgiving games that he had to start and just get his ass beat every year.

It wasn't his fault. What's your next one? You know what? I'll thank Collinsworth, 500 telecast. Yeah. Right? Why not? It's going to probably take him another 500 before he figures out how to pronounce pass rush. But I love the voice. I love the insight. And I'm going to miss it if he ever hangs it up. Like we, you know, I watched that Cowboys documentary. And one thing that stood out to me, or one of the things is Madden and Summerall, how big they made a game, right? I know. Vince Scully and baseball. And then these guys go away. And I don't think AI is going to be ready yet to just throw their voices in the booth after they move on. That would be pretty cool. But I don't know if we'll ever, we'll ever get. there. So good job by you, Chris Collinsworth. Buck

and Aikman and Collinsworth probably have the pedigree of like this feels like a bigger game because these guys are doing it. We have some good guys on the horizon though. I think JJ Watts's been really good this year. Olson's been really good for a while. I got to say, I thought Adam Amin

and Drew Brees were good today. I couldn't hear them. I think Adam Amin's good. I don't know. They did one of the I think one of the later games. Yeah. But wait, I have it written down. Because I, did they do, oh, they did the Saints Falcons. Oh, the Falcons. They did the Saints Falcon disaster.

Adam Amin. Just to stay awake, I give him kudos. Yeah. Adam Amin bounces back. Yeah. The Sanchez thing happens. It's like, am I going to have a partner? And Drew Priest comes fine.

And, all right, I'm going to thank, I'm going to think the guy who came up with the idea that we should start videotaping the locker room postgame speeches. Yeah, smart. this has really been a breakout year I know I actively look for them after games I can't wait for the Ben Johnson one Brayball I feel like has been kind of mailing them in to be honest

he's just kind of I think he knows their videotape I don't think he wants to say anything crazy Ben Johnson is now doing like late 80s ultimate warriors like when I see you at the Nassau Coliseum brother like he's like fucking really going for it I enjoy him

I enjoy your coach. I think he's been really good. He can start screaming, then he can go low. But I've really enjoyed them all the way around. I think they've been great. I think it's like the best part of hard knocks, right? Like when the coach is all we have left. And we get it every week.

Yeah, it's a lot of fun. I don't know. We talked about this like last year. Is it, do they consider this for coach of the year? Like, I don't know. Locker room speech. Win, win losses, then locker room speech. Yeah, like this guy's making a difference.

Stephansky had a really good one today for the Browns. Oh, yeah. He went through and he went this guy. And then he's like, how about she during his first start? Just immediately went going to the next guy. He didn't like give him a game ball and nothing because he wanted to get to Miles Garrett because Miles Garrett has 18 sacks. But yeah, I think the next evolution of this is I think we need to also see the losing speeches now.

Oh, that's true. Yeah. Yeah. That's good. We need to see like Seriani after that. Eagle's game. Like, all, can't win them all. No game balls today. I'll see you Tuesday. Like, I don't even know, but there we never get to see those.

In three hours. Yeah, sorry, guys. Yeah, I feel like, you know, the NCAA does that. You know, when they have their March, Matt, when they have the, they reveal the brackets. They'd show the teams going crazy. They don't show the teams that are upset anymore. Nobody wants to show negative stuff anymore. But I think you're right. Yeah, bring that back. I got a couple more. What else do you have to? Anyone else to think? Well, you brought up wrestling. I don't want to thank Brett the hitman heart.

I mean, WWA Hall of Famer, gossip columnist, extraordinary. Look it up if you have to. Yikes. Sorry to do that. Let's talk about it. We can. You went out of a podcast, and it seemed like he was serious. He said that the Montreal screw job, the origins, were that Vince Ockman and Sean Michaels

had a love affair. Yeah. And that's why Vince Oakman was trying to do right by Sean Michaels. and the host of the, it would seem like a live show. The host thought Brett Hart was kidding. Yeah. And Brett Hart's like, I'm not kidding. I'm serious.

He's so angry. He's still mad. There's a whole new meeting to the Montreal Screwchop. He knows it's scripted, right? Like, he just didn't have it that night. Like, come on. But, all right, but that's good, though. It's fun.

It's crazy. What else you have? Brandon Nimmo traded. It was a great, Matt. I know you're going to laugh at that. Switching sports? I'm sorry. 13 pick in 2011.

Stayed with this. How often does a guy stay 14 years? Almost a thousand hits. Big home run against the filthies last year. Played hard. Likeable dude. And I thank him mostly for sticking around so my kids could wear his jersey year after year,

like not replace it. So save me a little money. We'll miss you, Brandon Nimmo. Go ahead. Bob, Bob Nemo, what was his name? Brandon Nimmo, huh? I was just being a dick.

Stop it. Come on. We're about to have a free agency winner where the Red Sox aren't going to actually do anything. Who do you have? I have bad coaches, I'd like to think. You know, we lose a Brandon Staley, we lose an Antonio Pierce, we lose a Gerard Mayo. And one of my favorite things is to watch somebody just completely botch, you know, either a fourth and two type of situation, a last two minutes of a half,

some sort of game management thing and you know deep down I want to live in a world where we have six to eight coaches each year who will just fuck this stuff up and then you have Aaron Glenn down three points in the second half to the Ravens

on his own 42 and a fourth and two with maybe the worst offense in the AFC I don't know it's in the top three and he decides yeah you know what we're going to go for this and it doesn't get it and all of a sudden it's 177 and the game's over you have that

you have all the stuff Jonathan Gannon did you have even your coach who's done a good job this year just completely fucking up all the stuff that happened in the last three minutes when they're inside the five yard line um did you say Liam Cohn the down fourth and two they could go up six and they uh the Jags guy was my favorite I was I that was so what was it there was two minutes left playing Arizona um they have a quarterback who's already had four turnovers there's no pass or run play on that fourth and two that I think was going to work for the Jaguars that I can come up with,

having watched that entire game. And it was fourth and two. It wasn't even fourth and a half, fourth and one. We could entertain a quarterback sneak. It's that play where the quarterback rolls right and the tailback releases. And if they pick up the tailback, you are screwed because now you've got nowhere. And they threw it deep to the end zone. The guy's like twisting around and it didn't work.

Yeah, that sucked. That was real. By the way, you have a kicker who could nail a field goal from Tucson and you pass up on it. It only would have been a 45-yard field goal anyway. Well, it speaks to how Little Fate they had in the special teams. Because if we go up six, we can kick the ball off, and they're going to have the ball at the 40, go 60 yards and beat us.

Right. If we get this, we can win. The problem was that Lawrence was very close to five turnovers. Yeah. Who's there? Any other ones you want to thank? Not really. I want to thank my Dynamite legal team.

I've assembled to sue Pablo Torre. I'm not sure what my claim is going to be, but I'll figure it out later. He hasn't that a podcast about you yet? Whatever, I'm dying. It's a preliminary. So I want to let him know. I'm suing him.

You proactively get to sue him before he does anything. Thanking my attorneys at a time. Yeah. I'd like to thank everybody who hires old coaches from now on. Going forward, any head coach that's 74 and over, I think if somebody hires them, the comedy that's going to come from that, it's going to be great.

Like the Raiders today fired Chip Kelly, their offensive coordinator. He lasted 11 weeks. Somehow all of this was his fault. But between that and Belichick on four and seven, I think we might have hit a wall here with old coaches. Yeah, I think mid-70s politicians and head coaches, that might be it.

Because they want another year at him. Yeah, the Chip Kelly thing is interesting. Tate and I predicted this in the beginning of the week. You did? Yeah, like he's going to be gone. Like they have to get rid of somebody. and I think they want Pete Carroll's stay sick around another year and Chip Kelly will probably get one of these big college jobs

who knows Florida who knows where he'll go but yeah that's just I felt for I felt for Gino today right like 10 sacks for minus 77 yards give me a break but you can see it coming from the Monday night game your entire defensive line was in the back foot every every time yeah the I don't think Gino's moving like he did five years ago either which is another five months ago yeah yeah or maybe he's taken some some hits i feel bad for p carroll though this is i guess how it ends we've seen a lot of

a lot of great head coaches over the years either they stay to one year too long or they take that one last job like people don't remember when joe walsh came back um right when uh not joe walsh bill walsh i think i'm getting all joe gips life's been good joe waltz when eagle's guitar is joe Josh came back. No, Joe Gibbs. Jimmy Johnson came back. Parcells had that last run and the Cowboys, but it seems like that last go-around. Even then, I think you could maybe pull it off with Parcells and Jimmy Johnson. The players are just so different now and the salaries and every other structure thing and the not allowed to practice. And I feel bad, especially bad for Carol, because he's not one of

these guys is collecting a paycheck. Like after their fifth sack, there was a TV timeout. He ran on the field. He's like, we can't have another sack. It's like, well, there's going to be five more. Sorry, Pete. Yeah. But, yeah, that's a mess. Get ready.

All right, let's talk about some of the other games. Chiefs, Indy is the big one that we didn't talk about yet. Cheats are down 20 to 9, threatening to go 5 and 6 for the season. Offense looked a little choppy. And two things happened. Rice got going. I think Rice had 111 yards. I think that might have all been in the second half,

but in the end of the game with four straight three and outs. Last four times I had the ball, including overtime, three and out. They went 10 first downs for the game. The 11 penalties in a 68-minute game, they only had the ball for 25 minutes, $255 total. They're on the road, outdoors. This was the scenario that we wanted to see with the Colts, and they couldn't do anything.

And I do think it meant something because this was like, if you're going to tell me, you're going to do the 99 Rams, and you're just going to be indoors the entire time, the 09 Saints, we're never going to have to worry about you outdoors in cold weather having to do something. It's one thing, but I don't think they're going to be a one seed. And it didn't seem like they trusted Jones. And they couldn't run the ball and put the game away like I thought they could.

What did you see in that second half? Well, I want to give, I'll start positive. I want to give the defense credit. I mean, you went over at KC, but they held Indy scoreless in the third quarter, the fourth quarter, and an overtime, right? So Spaggs really stepped up and he had to. but yeah I thought I love the chiefs today and they didn't cover but I thought the Colts I was like well this is going to be a game like when they went to Pittsburgh a couple weeks ago and it was like a must win for Pittsburgh and they kind of no-showed and they got pushed around it wasn't that at all like they jumped out at that and Mahomes he's definitely a little off right like he's he's not bad but he's not exceptional he's not he's I guess you're not supposed to roll left as a righty and complete a 30-yard pass in the middle of the field right so Now he's just like overthrowing guys a little bit, but he's getting it together.

You said those receivers stepped up and that's what they need. Whenever they need like a big run out of Kareem Hunt on third and three or whatever, they get it. And they want a one-score game, which they haven't. So maybe this gets them going. Doesn't seem like he's connecting on those deep balls just anymore. It almost feels like it's now surprising if he hits one. He's moving really well, though.

Like his scrambling is still really good, I think. I thought he had a couple of big scrambles today. and you know the inside either the red zone 10 or his own 10 just weird shit has happened with them this whole season like the turnover today yeah you know these are like Trevor Lawrence type of turnovers that I just don't remember seeing from him before but you know I thought that was a good win for the chiefs but I thought that was a horrible loss for the Colts they really could have especially like with what happened with the Patriots today and some of the injuries to the offensive line that the Colts could have they could have locked down potentially a one seed

and the momentum for it because they win the tiebreaker against Denver you know the pats who knows when Will Campbell's going to come back but um and instead it's going the other way we were texting middle of the week about Colts to miss the playoffs was what plus 720 something like that plus 710 and the scenario was just who they have the rest of the way here because there were so now they're eight and three well they have both against the Jags and both against the Texans left. Like, that's the weird part, right? Houston next week, yeah, they play their four rivals four times,

and they're at Seattle and they're home for San Francisco. And we were saying, like, what if they go one in five? Right. You know, what if they only win one more time? Could nine and eight, is that even a playoff team? I guess they'll win two, but they're not leaving themselves enough error for a team that, enough room for error for a team that seem like they're going to be the guarantee. What's the, it's asking a lot that they don't make the playoffs, I think, at this point.

But the division, the Texans at 7-1, they have some work to do, though, right? But you talk about impressive units, like that, Texans defense is the most impressive unit in that division, for sure. So there's 7-1 in the division now, and the Jags are plus 270. And the Jags are the worst of the three. I don't think there's any question. They're just a ridiculous team. But I will say this with Houston. And I was glad I listened to your show with the Bundown Highfits on Friday.

I felt the exact same way. I do think we overreact to the Thursday games. Because I was flying back from New York. So all the shows were on. I was watching Get Up. There were six people on Get Up at one point. Schrager is just, he was like Tom Castaway, just drawing help in the sand. As Bart Scott talks for a minute straight, followed by another two-minute Orlapski monologue.

Shreger got his pocket picked. He lost his wallet. And there's no telling who because just so many people on the set, there's no telling where who got it. Can't find it. But I was watching those shows for, I had just had them on on JetBlue. And you would have thought Buffalo blew their season.

It's like, dude, they played three days rest. They were going into Houston playing the best defense in the league. And FYI, they were on the 10-yard line trying to score. Like, they almost won the game. Right. And I know Alan got sacked and he didn't look great, but I just, I just,

we can't overrate those Thursday games. Like the Rams lost to the Mac Jones at overtime on a Thursday. The Thursday games are stupid. They are done. And more than that. Just be careful. Yeah, it's like you can't count the bills out.

Like it was a couple years ago, they won six in a row, right? Didn't have to win six in a row against tough teams down the stretch to make the playoffs. So as long as Josh Allen is healthy, you know, it's just a slap in the face for people who count these teams out. they have the same problem they had a month ago

where I don't really know what they're doing on third and eight we've talked about it I feel like multiple times on the pod but they don't have that one like Devante Adams

what he's become on the Rams what Diggs has been for the Patriots all year they don't have that one guy I know where they're going but you know Josh Palmer's like they're easing him back in

because he was injured I wonder if maybe he I'm just I'm not even close to count in that team out yet that's a great defense that Texas defense so the chiefs amazing basically saved the season today although i think maybe seven losses is it so that would have been six today but now that's play thursday that's play your stupid team

and your team's going to throw the ball on them yeah i don't know what to expect honestly i just i know i'm going to have a odget of watching that game but i don't know if we have like a 10 point lead and blow it or how it how it turns out but i think spagnola is going to pressure, DAC, and that's what we haven't seen too much from a lot of these teams. And whether he could withstand that is going to tell if the win or not. I don't know. So probably going to be a close game. We'll go over the spread, but it surprised me.

Brutal. Lions. So actually... Chaser minus 240, by the way. I think I texted you, like, when they were down five. I was like, they're minus 102 to make the playoffs. So now everything's right in the world, minus 240. Lions survived the Giants.

They won an OT. And they basically won because Jake Gibbs had a 59-yarder, 10 regulation. Did he? How did that get in? It made it by like this much. It just got through. And then they went an OT. Lions 7 and 4.

Now LaPorte is out for the year. I don't know. It doesn't, something's missing with that team. I thought the Giants should have won. That was the most interesting game to me, whereas like the Giants clearly should have won. and fucked it up, left the game on the table. But, you know, their chance.

Did you talk about that coach, too? Did you say that was a terrible thing? And I liked them, too. Like, he had these trick plays. I was like, this is a guy. Kafka wants a job next year. This is what you do. You don't sit there like a lame duck, you know, like you.

But he could have taken three points from the six yard line. I would have put them up six with a couple minutes left. It's a little too Maverick there. I think that's kind of sealed the deal for him getting hired. I don't think it's happening now. Yeah, it almost seemed like, He felt good, even if they didn't get it, that golf would have to go basically 70 yards.

And guess what? Detroit went 70 yards. I feel like we have this podcast, this exact podcast discussion every year. I just feel like Jamis has to be one of the 32 starting QBs. It might have to be like a law. Right. We watch like there's six shitty QBs every week.

It's just that needs to be a law that James has to be one of the 32. too. He's too much fun. He's fun for both teams. Today, 366, he caught a TD. He did it. We're a TD dance. He threw multiple almost picks and just did, it was the full James. I loved it. I was watching Mahomes and Jackson struggle Lamar. And I was like, all right, it's one thing if the great quarterbacks want to take a week off, a couple weeks off, whatever. But one of the bad quarterbacks and to turn the ball over, like, James didn't really do it until the end. And he had 10 receptions of, 10 catches of 20 plus yards. Like, that's insane against that defense. How does the lion's defense look so soft at home after a win? You know, we have the good bad teams. Yeah.

I always talk about it. It's probably Jacksonville this year. I think the Giants are the bad, good team. They're 2 and 10. I have them in five either-war games, and they lost all five. They've blown five double-digit leads on the road. they've played the lions they played tough the packers the bears the broncos they played tough the chargers they played tough

they played your team tough and they've had a bunch of injuries too but they i don't know they're out of all the bad teams that's the one i was even nervous about putting the lions um in a parlay as it got closer to sunday thinking about like how why did i trust the lions so much are we sure they're even good right and then uh it turns out they have this graphic where the the giants lost all these games and it'll show like one game they were up 17 with six minutes left. One game they were beating the

Cowboys with like 40 seconds like oh my God when it looks side by side it's crazy but the good thing about them is the little Patriots ask and that you know they're going to be there's promise for next year right you get neighbors back you get Scataboo back you get dart back you got that good front

seven for the most part you know they pressure the quarterback so I could see well who is it though that's what they they deserve a good coach, and I think a good coach will bite there. So that's what's going to be interesting. It's a little different than last year where Vrable and Ben Johnson

were clearly the best two guys last year. And this year, I don't feel like there's people like that. It's a pretty good job, though. Guy like Dart. You just have to tell Dart to not try to run into seven guys at once and they have some good blue chippers on both sides of the ball. But yeah, the Lions

we'll find out this week. They're playing the Packers. You know, the Bears keep winning. And it's turning into if the Bears just it's just going to be one of those goofy seasons where they go like 12 and 5

and nobody understands how then that means it's Lions versus Packers for one playoff spot So here's what I think They could decide it Going for them to Lions They have the best player

In the division I mean Jimer Gibbs is He's phenomenal Like I don't want to compare him to Barry Sanders But he's that electric You know Yeah

And you can tell within a second If he's going to score From the 40 yard line I went against him in fantasy He had 69 point I mean, they should cap it. It should never be six, 70 points. That's 50.

Yeah, yeah. It's like when you're golfing. Like, all right, you can't get a 12 on this hole. Everybody gets, it's just not fair. But I think he needs to touch the ball every three plays. And you could, you could convince me that it's every play, honestly. 264 all purpose for him. Yeah.

And then the Bears out voodoo the, the voodoo Steelers, Pittsburgh, they got the fumble TD. They were playing all the hits. Right. The fumble TD, they got another dump turnover. They ran for 186 yards. They're running these stupid plays. You're like, oh, my God, how did that work? Mason Rudolph's the quarterback, and then the Bears ended up pulling them off.

And 8 and 3, the Bears fans are pumped. I'm happy for the Bears fans. I think even they know, like, this is a little smoke in Mersey. But at some point in the NFL, this is what happens during a season. Sure. You start winning these week after week, you start believing you're going to win them. It worked out. They got the good coach.

They got the quarterback who's not screwing up, then they're right there. They're in a, you know, their division is wacky this year, right? This was, we thought for sure this was the best division in football. And now week to week, we don't know which team is going to survive January. It was the best division in football. The problem is they have one stinky team in the division. And it's a stinky team because they just completely missed on this quarterback. My God.

McCarthy was 12 for 19 for 87 a day, two picks, five sacks. And Lombardi always used to talk about this with when you stay with the QB who clearly you can't win with and you move into that, you could lose the locker room territory where all these guys, football is this violent, brutal sport. You're just week after week. You're just killing yourself to get out there and you're lifting and you're just taking these hits and playing with concussions and injuries, all these different things. And when you have a shit quarterback, it's just it's not like in basketball. it's like, oh, our point card's kind of a shithead. Like, all right, fine. I'll just shoot some threes.

Like, in football, you can't. And he's so bad. I actually, I didn't bet the vikes this week, but I did put small money line parlay on them. I was just curious. Like, oh, what happens if he is good? This was the week where it's like, this guy, I don't see it. It's probably never happening. Can I tell you, speaking of shitheads, what I did?

Like, what? You know, I can't really make fun of these coaches for making dumb decisions. when I do the same, as a better, as an avid gambler, I'm making the same dumb moves every week. Why take the Raiders minus three and a half against anyone? I don't care if they're playing Austin B, right? Short week, no less, you know? Why take the Saints?

Oh, everyone's got the Saints. You like Chuck? Everybody was on the Saints. They lost. I had Minnesota on a three-team teaser plus 16 and a half. That lost 23-7. I'm the biggest idiot in the NFL. Ten first downs.

he he's completely murdered Justin Jefferson's fantasy season and maybe his life for as a fantasy guy. Addison, too, nothing, yep. What was on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 is Larry Fitzgerald for like three years on the Cardinals? Jefferson's like an eight. Because it's the combo of not only you're not going to make big plays and this guy's your quarterback,

but he also might like decapitate you. Sure, right. That second pick he threw, the guy wasn't going to pick it. he was going to completely lay out the receiver if that guy was going to catch it. But can I read you the best J.J. McCarthy stat that actually would have saved those receivers.

J.J. McCarthy would have had a higher passing rating if he would have just spiked the ball on every play. He would have had a 39.6 versus the 34.2 he carried. He should try that next week. Who knows? It'll work.

I sent you that locker room. That's brutal. Is he in that locker room quip of him after week one? Yeah. This guy will follow him. It's like, uh-oh. A quarterback who, I don't know what's going on with is Zombie Lamar Jackson. Yeah.

He just, it looks like he's been replaced. It was like that story of the lady who claimed she saw people on the airplane. Remember that story? Right, right, right. She's like, they're there. And everyone thought she was nuts. and then she gave an interview three weeks later and she looked different.

People thought she had been replaced. I'm in the Lamar might have been replaced. It doesn't even, it might be Tavares Jackson. Like one of those type of backups from over the years. I don't know who it is. There are a lot of popular names. Lamar Jackson. Yeah.

I don't know, man. This is one of those games where I scratched my head. Like, and I was saying on another text chain, like maybe these teams we're hoping are good, just won't get there, right? Like, there's a chance, right? the Ravens and the Chiefs and the Bills are just not two out of three. I've been saying that with the Ravens. I don't think they have it.

I really don't. I don't think they're good enough this year because I have some Pat's fans in my life are like, oh, it's going to suck if we get two seed and the Ravens get the seven. I'm like, what good game have the Ravens played this year? Like at some point, it's Thanksgiving. We haven't seen them play good yet. They are not good. When he can't scramble and when he can't do his thing, they're not good.

They're receivers are idiots. Zayflower is getting knocked over. by passes that are hitting them in the chest and yet they're like, I'm looking now, they're minus 425 to win the division. This team was, they were 1 in 5 and they're going to have this division wrapped up before Thanksgiving?

You kidding me? They won 5 straight. Yeah. Well, one of the teams they're going against is the Jaguars who beat Arizona and OT. We talked about it earlier. Lawrence had the full DeLum in play. He had four turnovers,

including a fumble TD. I could remember if a DeLone was, the full the loan was there has to be a defensive TD and it has to be five turnovers total. Yeah. And it could be four picks and a fumble or five picks, some combination, but it has to get to five. Right. So he had the full delon was in play for a good hour, but he got out of it with only four turnovers. The announcers, at one point, like he threw another terrible pick and they cut to Liam Cohen and he was

like doing this. Like he thought there's a flag, but it wasn't. He was like, what the fuck did he just see? Right, right, right. And that pick. So they come back, they get the ball again, and he throws a completion. And the announcers are praising Lawrence. It's like, now that's a pro right there. You got to shake off that last pass. Trevor Lawrence shook it off.

And I'm thinking, like, who has more experience shaking off a terrible past than Trevor Lawrence? That guy's got 10 years of experience of shaking it off. The past after his interception, he hits 65% on that one path. But then it goes back. throw another one, but yeah. Of course he shook it off. He throws interceptions all the time. Shake your hair out. I think

he, if we put aside the first year quarterbacks or the quarterbacks who are completely washed, I think he makes the worst decisions at any quarterback. Right. If you're not in that new quarterback or just done quarterback bin, that's the nicest thing I could say about him, honestly.

I had him in Ringer 107, I had the Jags, plus I bet on them. Yeah. And it's just a roller coaster ride for three. hours. Yeah. Every time he goes back to pass, you don't feel like anything good's going to happen. Right. So I was thinking about him versus James.

Lawrence's career record now is 29 and 42. James is 36 and 52. Lawrence has one playoff win. James has zero playoff starts. Lawrence has 83 TDs, 54 picks. James has 154 TDs, 112 picks. and Lawrence has 6.7 yards per attempt. James was in 7.6.

I think, right? Wouldn't you say? He was in that AFC North for a while. I guess the Saints. James' career was longer. I think he was more entertaining. But they're basically the same QB is my point. And I didn't realize that until I was watching both of them today.

And I was like, what's the difference in these two guys? Something really good might happen. something really terrible might happen. Well, James is more entertaining. James seems like a better hang. Yeah, right, when the good thing does happen. But, yeah, I hated this game. I was like, how is this game still going on?

I know we don't have cross-offs for Coach of the Year, but I'd like to guide my Sharpie right through both these guys' names. Unbelievable. Well, Gannon might get fired. Yeah. Yeah, Liam Cohn, pretty tough. And then the only other one was Saints Falcons, where everyone had this on Thursday,

And by Sunday, it became clear that something horrible was going to happen. Everybody loved the Saints. The Saints missed two field goals. They fucked up two different first and goal from inside the two situations. So they actually left 20 points on the table. And Kirk Cousins, who was mostly Kirk Cousins, but they'd have a couple good plays. Here's my question, Sal. Is this our first cross-on, our first uncross on?

our first uncross-off, the Falcons? For who? So we crossed them off. What do we do? Because of the Baker thing? Like, Bainfield might be hurt. I know. I know.

They're four and seven. They're two behind Tampa. They're two behind Carolina who plays San Francisco tomorrow night. They play the jets in New York next week. Atlanta plays home Seattle at Tampa, at Zona, home Rams, home Saints. They might get to eight wins. Could eight and nine win the division? I think they're one of those teams that for years and years, you just shouldn't pay attention to them.

Don't bet on them. Don't bet against them. It's like a dog, like a neighborhood dog, you know, has a few bites under his repertoire. And you're like, just don't make eye contact with him. Stay away. It's like my dog, yeah. Boy, I mean, because if Baker's out, you got that division, Teddy, two gloves, two gloves, cousins, Mother Shucker, and Bryce Young, who before last week had three straight games.

under 150 yards. I can't believe this division now. Well, Carolina plays Tampa twice. They have it tough, yeah. If Teddy Bridgewater is the Tampa QB the rest of the way, I think all bets are off with this division. And right now it says, is this right?

Panthers are a half game up now, right? Or they're even right now. No, they're even. Yeah. It says, on Fando, it says Tampa's minus 360. Oh, they have a hearts. Atlanta's plus 310 and Atlanta's 55 to 1

how's that possible? Like 8.9 might win the division. They could get to 8 wins. So Kirk Cousins would have to win how many. I mean, House and I were saying I would bet it. 55 to 1. 55 to 1. Upside down division.

Yeah. I was thinking this was his last start ever before the game. House and I were talking about it. But nope, looks like he's the top two quarterback in that division now. All right, well, let's play it out. Tampa loses to Arizona next week.

They're six and six. Carolina loses in San Francisco and home to the Rams. They're six and seven. And then Atlanta wins in New York against the Jets. They'd be five and seven. They'd be a game back. They're right there. And by the way, Panics wasn't any hot shit.

It's not like he was awesome. I didn't like betting on Pennix. I think I've lost more money in Atlanta this year than all the other teams combined. I think I'm like one and eight on Falcons games this year. They're the A-old neighbor a dog. Don't look at them. Just don't even, don't make eye contact.

Yeah, I mean, Drake London being out is rough, right? Like you don't want to pair all of a sudden introduce Kirk Cousins to an offense that doesn't have its best receiver. But yeah, you're right. It should have been a red flag when all of us like the Saints, like pretty much everybody who picks games, bets on them. We all have the Saints.

They're 2 and 8 and they had Tyler Shuck as their quarterback and we're just like Saints lock it in. What could go wrong? A lot of stuff. You know, it's cute to have Tyler Shuck when it kicks off at 10 a.m. on the West Coast. But when he's down like 10 points in the third quarter, you're like, ooh, boy, this couldn't be more done this bet.

You're excited to see Taseham Hill. Brown's Raiders, we talked about this. Just quickly on Shador. because he was terrible last week we talked about. He came in cold. He had a couple of good plays today. He did. He had a couple bad plays.

But I thought for the most part was a little more encouraging than Dylan Gabriel because there was at least a little bit of explosiveness. He had a bad pick, missed a couple guys. That 50-yard pass was great. The touchdown they keep showing. It's like that might have been backward pass. I don't know.

The screen pass, yeah. So, but no, it's, look, he didn't get sacked as much as his counterpart did, and that helped. That was nice. And then Seattle held it off Tennessee in a game that everybody had in the T's. Right. So I watched a little of this, just because I had T's interest. Cam Ward reminds me a little of what Drake was like last year on just an awful team with an interim coach, basically. basically, and having to play from behind, but makes like good throws and you can see the seeds

of, oh, like, I can see like a really smart, good coach being like that I'm going to, I want to back that guy. We can put some weapons around this dude. I don't know. I just like how he's played the last couple weeks, even though they're losing. He was good today. I bet them over 13.5 points, which I thought it was like a home team, 13.5 total point scored. But he has that play. And he's done it a few times now, which makes me think it's actually in the playbook, where he rolls right, his right foot is almost out of bounds, and he slings it deep across

the middle, and he hits on it. Yeah, he's fun, too. Yeah. JSN, 1313, receiving yards, 2000 in play. The record is 1964 from Megatron. So that's... 80 receptions.

So they have six games left, 687 yards. It's like a little bit doable. he is uh i think he's plus 130 i don't know if the odds went away for offensive player of the year do you give it to him or do you give it to taylor oh taylor's slipping

yeah Gibbs has to be in there too and then the only other thing is we have 12 cross-off teams because we're adding minnesota is officially added today good unless you want to uncross Atlanta

do you want to uncross Atlanta i don't like uncrossing it's that's a bad precedent It's not a good example for the kids. All right. So we have 12 cross-off teams, Jets, Browns, Tennessee, Miami, New Orleans, Vegas, Giants, Arizona, Washington, Cincinnati, Atlanta, and Minnesota. 20 teams still in the mix. 10 in each conference. Your team has the worst record of 5-5-1, but you have Tampa falling toward you.

Basically, there's going to be one in that division. Then you have to hope Detroit, Green Bay, one of those falls. Lots of hope. It's going to be tough. Yeah, you're going to need probably. a Niners collapse after that you need them to beat Carolina and then collapse. Some things need to happen. All right.

Guess the lines. Hold on. Do we skip a game? What do we skip? A pretty important game in your life. Oh, yeah, I guess we did. I'm fine with it. I'm okay.

I didn't really want to talk about it. Really? That's a win. You said you liked the adversity. I don't know how long our left tackle is out. We lost the entire left side of the line today before halftime. And the Will Campbell thing looked bad.

And if he's out for the year, the team doesn't, there's no way. There are sprains, though. Aren't they sprains? I thought they already said. But I don't know. We're taping this.

It's 918 Pacific time. It was really dark today. It was the worst. It was one of those, like your team wins, but you just have a pit in your stomach. They're not going to be able to block without those guys.

And I don't know how long Campbell's going to be out. They might have banked enough wins to get the one seed. Wow, listen to you. You're really down on this. Well, the offensive line was like barely good to begin with. It was probably like a C or a C-minus offensive line with Campbell, who was the best guy in the line. Right.

And, you know, it's just they didn't have any injuries. He did okay in the fourth quarter with Adam. Not great, but he converted some third day. But Cincinnati has a terrible defense in that, you know, they left a lot of stuff on the red zone. It wasn't a great Patriot game. They weren't lucky. They deserved their better team.

But, you know, it's a game they should have won double figures. When Drake through the interception, you went down seven or ten, actually. I was like, all right, I could be snarky here. No, that's fine. They've done that all year. I'll be right about Drake maybe for the next 45 seconds. Or we could be smart and live bet the Patriots at minus 102. So I did that.

I mean, you're, he's, he does things that the other quarterbacks don't do like third and 11 from his own seven he'll throw a long down field but a high percentage pass like he's not afraid and the next play you threw a long like pass interference and now you're on the five yard line so yeah you can get you can move down there

I'm not telling you anything you don't know the play to that throw to Pop Douglas which was the best play of the game that he had there's basically three people he has like this one little window to hit him in he hits him perfectly right and then the next play was a touchdown the interference was actually a great

interference because it ended up like screwing them up and I think they had to settle right I think they might have to settle for a field goal instead of a touchdown but it was like it was clearly going to be a touchdown. Was that when they didn't QB sneak them or was that the other way? Yeah, they finally did QB sneak and then they didn't get it. So after all the complaining I did, they have to figure out the Shori Ardard's thing by January and I don't know how they're going to figure it out.

Did they maybe retire the quarterback sneak under and Brady's honor? Like we'll never do the quarterback because no one was it better than him at it. you know i just i talk about this all the time it was it was i think he was like 842 for 845 on kuby sneaks brady like some crazy stack i only knows what it was it's like in wrestling they

they read they said wrestlers couldn't do the chop anymore in honor of rick flare remember that like the chop went away it's like oh that seems like a pretty uh aggressive stance there they got to figure it out because it uh it's gonna cost them one of these games when it actually matters when they can't get these third and ones or third and goal from the one yard line, fourth and two. Just not getting them. But, yeah, the Will Campbell thing, not great.

And then they lost a guard, too. They lost the whole left side of the line. Jeez, you're so down. An hour into the game. I was bummed. You got 14 wins. You're going to be fine. 10 and 2 officially hit the other over.

Yeah, yeah. So we hit that one. Yeah, it's going to be adjusted over. It's going to hit a lot of them. All right, guess the lines. I won last week. Yeah, this is not good. I'm up for the year.

What is it? Seven to four? It's more. It's eight to three? Eight four. Eight four. Week 13. Week 13.

Thanksgiving. Lyons home for Packers. This will be under three. I have a lion's two and a half. I hit it exactly. I said three. And that's what it is. Yeah.

Vegas hasn't been trusting Green Bay. Not sure they should trust Detroit after that game. I think that ends at two and a half. I don't want to touch it I mean I know it's impossible not have money on the first game but I'm looking at this for 20 minutes I was like I don't I'm not going to take either team I don't think right

I just feel like it's such an advantage to be home yeah on that early early Thanksgiving game if the teams are even and each team played on Sunday I don't know I'm probably I'll probably lean Detroit this next game though I have no idea Chiefs at Dallas and you know this will be either Chiefs by 3 or Chiefs by 3 and a half

I'm going to say Chiefs by 3. Nice that's what I said it's 3 and a half well let's think about this so they were home to the Colts in 3 and a half and at Dallas 3 and a half I think this will go down

don't you I like your team I think there should be I mean honestly I think this should be Chiefs two and a half with the way the Chiefs have played this season. Yeah, the Cowboys money will come in. The Eagles were three and a half all week

and then it changed this morning, so to three. Ravens are home for the Bengals. Joe Burrow will be the QB. I'm not sure that's going to affect, it seemed like it affected the line two points for the Pats. When Burrow was going to play, it was five and a half. When it became Flacco was seven and a half.

I think the Pats have played Joe Flacco, like 80 times, by the way. I just feel like every year we somehow play him twice. The league's got your back. I mean, they play, they're like, all right,

we're not taking the training wheels off Patriots just yet. They get the Bengals, but no Joe Burrow. Oh, and we're going to suspend the best receiver for spitting in the playground.

Don't spit in somebody's face. And then, I don't think that's, I don't think that's good advice to give out. And then T. Higgins gets a concussions. Give me a break. That was tough.

Yeah. I have the Ravens favored by nine. over the Bengals. I said eight and it's seven and a half. Oh. All right. It's a little low. Not a lot of respect for the old Ravens.

Maybe they deservedly. If they don't solve that their offensive woes this week. I don't know if it's going to happen, to be honest. Black Friday. Eagles, Bears. It's in Philadelphia. I can't think of a better candidate for the Vegas zone. I put this Eagles five and a half at home.

That's what I had. It's seven. Oh. Okay. They went the full seven here. Oh. All right. Well, so we got a little teaser with a, I can't put the Ravens on tease.

That's all right. There's more during the weekend. There's some big numbers. The Cowboys, three team seven pointer. You got to settle it. It has to settle Thursday. What do you do? It's just, you're going to quit betting after that?

No, just, no, I'm trying to tie in the Black Friday. Eagles, Cowboys, 10 and a half, Bengals 14 and a half. Oh, you're going three teams. Oh, boy. Who blows that? Don't put McCarthy on it. McCarthy's on the D&B list. If they had Sam Darno, what would their record be?

I think he could put, he'd be in this mix to take them to the playoffs. Like, that's a, I'm not going to say it's an underrated. up because now everyone's talking about it. Because they also had the Wince games too. Yeah. Right. I mean, a lot of this, remember they kept the high ankle sprain for McCarthy?

It's like, wow, that's a long time for high ankle sprain. Right. Now it's clear like they were like, Fox, should we bring him back? Yeah. And then Wins got hurt. But they obviously know. It wouldn't have 10 interceptions for this team, I don't think.

Two watchable. Oh, by the way, the other thing with McCarthy, I think he might hold the ball the longest of all the guys who holds the ball too long. Oh, yeah. Right. Like, he has a shattered internal clock in his head. He goes back and he's just like, hey, oh, that guy.

Hey, and then he just gets nailed. He needs a father, like, yelling or a family member yelling from the sideline or something, now or now, you know, you know, when you do that with your kid, like swing or, you know, or, yeah, go, kick it. I don't know what you would do, but he needs somebody. Well, they'd have to turn the headset off, right? Yeah, yeah, but like a really loud family member. Could he wear an Apple watch?

And they, like, they hit some alarm where it's like, all of a sudden the alarm goes off. It's like, ah, like an insuring candidate. Or maybe one of a little silent disco headphones. Anything. Anything would help, honestly. Sunday marquee game. This might be the first time we've had a Sunday marquee game in the AFC South since, like, 2009. Colts, Texans in Indianapolis, big stakes all the way around, best defense in the

league against a very good offense. It's a fun one. Do we see C.J. Stroud? David Smiles is 3-0. I know. It's not bad. If you look at his career numbers, they're not bad either. Yeah. But I say if Stroud's ready. Yeah.

He's in it. Okay. It's Indianapolis, and I have the Colts by three. We split it. I said four. It's three and a half. I can't hit any of these. I was thinking about, we talked about the Shaky's game, and if there's three AFC South teams, like Shakey's is not going to know what to do. They may have to just close for the day.

If there's three AFC South teams, what's the whole they do? So if three AFC South teams are in the playoffs, Shakey's has to close on Saturday because it's just too much for them. I think so. Yeah. The customers are just going to lose their minds.

You can't have chaos. What do we do with? We've made all these Shakey's jokes over the years, but Shakey's is like spending all this money. they've had this reinvention, rejuvenation. Right. Do we need like a new, a new depressing place to go? Because I don't know if Shakey's is depressing anymore.

Oh, no, it's still disgusting. And I say it in the nicest way possible. The one we have in Hollywood. Yeah, yeah. They got to clean that joint up a little bit. Well, we went to the one on, what was it on sunset last year? That wasn't bad, right? It wasn't bad.

Yeah. Sometimes you look at these and the mojo potatoes are crawling on the floor. It's like, is that being carried by a rat? I don't know. Two watchables games. Rams Panthers in Carolina. How did this happen? It's the vagusonious Vegas game I can imagine.

I have Rams by four and a half. Oh, wow. Well, I should get two wins for this. I saw them annihilated team today, and I put them at seven to half, and it's nine and a half. Wow. Yeah.

Is that the most I've missed a game? I think so. I think so. Well, every time this happens, I always say, that line's too high. Yeah, that's good. That's ridiculous. And then the team covers, so it was high for a reason. So if I'm off five points, maybe we should just start betting when I'm that far off.

Yeah. Maybe Vegas knows. I mean, yeah, it's like you're built in a whole teaser for yourself there. I mean, it's outdoors. it's in Carolina where weird shit always happens it's coming off of an awesome win it's going to be a whole week

of Matthew Stafford MVP stuff this is like this checks 19 be careful boxes I guess everyone's going to have them in a parley they could get tripped up short week for the Panthers but

a little high do you think how many days could Aaron Donald Aaron Donald be ready to play like if he's like I want to come back for week 16 you saw what they when they showed him yeah yeah yeah but if he's like I'll come back for five weeks to try to win the Super Bowl with you guys

interesting like they're not hanging up right I think he would need three weeks though still so he starts right now comes back for like week 18 yeah I don't know some of these guys are lunatics they just right they're just they're training like they're still playing so maybe it wouldn't matter be funny of they just talk to them all the time. It's like... I'm ready.

Yeah, I mean, our D is so fast. I mean, I don't even know if you could play with these guys now. Like, starts doing like that... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Starts fucking with them. Yeah, I mean, it's just different than when you played because these guys are just really locked in now.

Yeah. Another road dog, I think. It's going to be Pittsburgh hosting the Buffalo Bills for... This is another matchup where I feel like these teams play every year. I have the bills favored by one and a half. No. Oh, it's higher than that. I said four, and I believe it's four and a half.

Wow. I'm off. That's usually a bad sign for my gambling. Yeah, four and a half. Well, I don't think the bills should be favored by four and a half in Pittsburgh. What have you liked about the bills? Nothing. Really nothing, other than that they just have to start winning.

That's really it. But I guess the Steelers are in the same boat. The Steelers, what are they? They have the Ravens twice. They have the Bills and the Lions. Yeah. They really screwed this up today. Fairly watchables.

Niners at the Browns. You know, this Cleveland where they're, Cleveland at home is like a different animal, but I still feel like this is on the higher end of the Vegas zone for me. I got Niners by five and a half. All right. You get it. I said five. It's, sorry, it's six and a half.

Okay. I don't know. They're pretty damn good on the road today. I guess the Raiders are just everyone's... Yeah, when you get right game, yeah. Put their defense against a team that can't block and has Gino Smith and an offensive coordinator. It's about to get fired.

Bucks Cardinals, that's in Tampa. Oof. I mean, we don't know. Is there even a line on this? Hold on. Let me change mine because I did this before the game. I'm not going to look. I dropped mine by three and a half points.

All right, go ahead. What do you got? I had seven before the Baker injury. Now I had bucks three and a half. I had eight and a half. So I went to five and it is two and a half. You get it. Oh, wow.

Wow, that sucks for them. That's rough for them. I feel bad for that team. They've got the borderline year from health from them with the injuries. It doesn't feel like they've been healthy for two weeks. I hit the Ibuka over last week

I bet on his receiving yards in like early August it was like 6.74 it hit Oh nice it hit on like November 15th That's my It's the only prop I did the whole year It is really

The only player over under prop I did was Egbuka Oh I did uh So I'm one to know Batting a thousand I only did like 93-94 player props I'm right behind you. But I have them for offensive rookie of the year. And the longer DART sits out, the better off I am, I guess.

Seahawks' home for the Vikings is another fairly watchable. And I just think Seahawks' defense against McCarthy, it has to be at least eight and a half. So I'm going to go eight and a half. Wow. I said seven and a half. It was eight and a half. It moved to nine and a half.

Yeah, that makes sense. This is a Seahawks defense Could win your fantasy week Single-handedly kind of match up Yeah If Minnesota wins this game I might be done watching football I'm just telling you now

So we do Seahawks Seahawks money line Eagles money line Cowboys adjusted Cowboys like eight and a half Yeah you could just put 10 on everybody That's fine okay Who wins?

So this is the Sam Darnold Bowl right so my mailbag somebody we were talking about Sam Donald nicknames for when evil Sam Donald shows up and a reader or a listener suggested Benedict Darnold it's good yeah that's good for this game especially yeah poop fact of four games Jags at Tennessee

I really wanted to Vegas own this but I bumped it right above I have Jags minus six I said eight and a half and it is six and a half. Damn. Oh. I'm coming back. Hold on.

What's the score here? Seven to... That's like four in a row. Yeah, it's seven, seven, including the ties. Dolphins Saints, Miami home. They should never be favored by six points against anybody in the league, but I'm going to say Dolphins by six. Get it again.

I said seven. It's five and a half. Ooh. Come on. The Saints on the road aren't getting a touchdown. It break. That was one of the first. the first game i've talked about this before but one of the first gambling rules i ever remember

in gus's picks pool which you're in yeah which he had since he was at rollins college in the 80s his friend john oakes anytime there's a team that was favored by seven or more and he didn't think the team was good he was like i just blind have to take the other side that no but that team should never be favored by seven or more against anybody so gus would call it the oaks rule so oakes will take the saints here no because it's not seven but I think this does get to seven by Sunday I think this gets to dolphins minus seven and they should

never be favored by seven over everybody so this is an oaks role game Falcons at the Jets Kurt Cousins maybe scouting his team next year this has Falcons minus three written all over it you get this one too

I had Falcons one and a half it's two and a half this doesn't sneak into the tick-tack zone no the Jets are pretty awful. Oh, man. The Jets can look good for about an hour. Yeah.

What 80s wrestler are they? Like SD Special Delivery, SD Jones? Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's an insult to SD. They can throw a couple, they can throw the guy out of the ring a couple times. Yeah. That's about it. Chargers, home for the Raiders.

All right, I'm going to get this one. So I forgot to ask you this earlier. The Raiders are the worst team in the league, right? They have to be. They're number 32 now? So they beat the Titans is the only thing, right? I think they're the worst thing in the league. I trust, as far as gambling goes, I trust Tennessee more than the Raiders.

Yeah, so I think this had, I had chargers by seven and a half here. Okay, I get this. Is I? I said, no, I said 10.5, it's nine and a half. Oh, oh, yeah. Vegas is done with the Raiders. Yeah, so that kind of proved my point. Yeah, odds-wise and probably proximity-wise.

So what's the score now? Are we tied? I think you're up. 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 8, 2, 8, 2, 8, 2 left. And I was pretty close on these. All right. Broncos at Washington. I think, is it Jaden Daniels?

Do we get them? Maybe? I think it's just a maybe. I factor that into my guess I have the Broncos by five and a half Vegas zone in it Ooh I get it I said seven It's six and a half

We're tied I was off one point On the last one I think I'm gonna hit this Okay Monday night Patriots home Probably without Will Campbell Against the Giants

And I had the Patriots by 10 and a half Yes eight and a half is what I said and it's only seven and a half oh wow they really factored the lousy offensive line there's your teaser let's see how much you like James I want to see who my left tackle is man those Sunday and those night favorites really look good Denver and Patriots

I'm going to lose so much money this week I can't wait let's see Parent Corner what do you got No sponsor? We don't have a sponsor this week? I guess we don't have a sponsor this week. So my son Harrison plays flag football. He's played since he's 12. He's played since he was five.

And the team won the flag championship. And this league is, it's Friday nights. There's crazy. There's a DJ there blasting rap music. And it's sponsored by Snoop Dogg and T.J. Hushmanzada. And, yeah. So he plays with his team. They won.

They played six seasons. together. They have three titles in the last four years, and they just wrecked everybody they played this year, right? So it's flag football, but they're pretty good athlete. They don't drop balls. Like, that's why I watch on Sunday. I'm like, how would they play dropping? I know it's a different thing, but so they win the game. They win by like 24, 25 points. And the coaches tell me, hey, we're going to give Harrison the MVP award and we're going to present him with it. And I'm like, yeah, yeah, why? I was like, well, you don't have to do this. They're like, three kids more talented than he is.

And he would tell you, like they have better stats. And they said, no, no, no. And they both said this. They're like, you don't understand. He makes our job simple. He does all the little things. He's the easiest to coach. He's a great teammate.

He has tremendous field awareness, breaks off his route without flooding the zone. He does a million little things. And I felt good because I was like, well, he watches games with me and my stupid instruction based on, you know, playing high school football and watching on TV for 100 years it kind of paid off, right? So they give him this giant gold necklace that like Snoop wouldn't

Snoop would think this was tacky, I think. He wears a giant gold necklace and this ring and he's taking pictures and everything. And our cousin, Jimmy was there and Jimmy takes a picture of him and our little cousin Michael, who was also on the team is a stud flagpuller and he texted to Snoop. He's like, this is there in your league.

This is cool. They've won three out of four years. So I'm not sure if Snoop responded. I'm not sure if he even knows he runs a flag football league. But that's it. So congrats to Team Bolt Up 12 you. And thanks to Jamie and Bruce, the coaches they're great. Either one of them can coach the Arizona Cardinals right now. So good job by them.

And if they did this just to get on Parent Corner, it worked. There you go. See, you should have had the necklace. Oh, right. I can run and get it. my daughter came back today so my wife was in hawaii i was in new york city and then my daughter was was uh in college but came back today so each day somebody new has come home for my dog murph and i was trying to think like what do dogs think when people just come and go because he's gotten

to the point like i was packing on monday to go to new york and he got he gets really bummed out when he sees the suitcase. He thinks that's going to be bad. Right. The suitcase is here. That means I'm going somewhere. So he just gets really sad. And then when I come back and I have the suitcase and I bring it up,

he's like, oh, you brought it back up. And now you're taking the stuff out of the suitcase. Like, I think he gets it. But then when Zoe comes on him out of nowhere, I just wonder, like, do dogs have a long-term memory? What does he do? Does he lose his mind? Well, he gets, yeah, he goes crazy.

He's so excited. She came back. Did he think she was ever coming back? Like, did he forget about her? Like, he goes and sleeps in her room sometimes. Right, right. But he must, like, hope she's going to come back. But he also has an IQ of, like, 30.

Right. So I just, I just would love to know what's going on in his brain. I think about it because they look so sad, right? When they're just laying there and, like, so Melissa goes away for the weekend, the dog will just sit there and look sad. And I think I'm like, oh, man, he's sad because she's gone. And then I'm like, no, it's a dog. What's you going to do?

He can't have, right? He can't have like a James Winston type life where he's, just dancing around, right? So he hangs out in the window and looks out in the street and waits for people to come back. So he clearly is like, if I hang out here long enough, somebody's going to come back. So I have that. And then I have some texts from my mom.

Oh, let's hear it. My mom's been just on fire the last couple weeks. This is her review of Beast and Me with Claire Danes. She said, I'm already finished with Beast and Me. good. Do you think whenever a part comes up for an emotionally imbalanced substance abuser female, everyone shouts Claire Dane's exclamation point. The lesbian part was new at least. That was her view of beasted me. Then she said, tell Chang, I already ordered the book by the 11 Madison-So-Mai-A. Chang should take over the Andrew McBone Appetit Wine videos.

My favorite. He loved to be a winemaker. Chang could do a wine food segment which he is great at. That's her career advice for Chang. She saw the story about Bill Maher not wanting to stand-up comedy tours and texted me back, Narcissistic phony, never watched him after his big dinner with Trump, unfollowed him on social media and YouTube, dead to me. So that's her take on Bill Maher. And then this is the coup de grace. She watched Frankenstein on Netflix.

I can't believe I'm even reading this one. She said, my biggest disappointment in Frank. was that he didn't get a monster erection in the scene when Elizabeth first finds him starts touching him from the face moving downward. Then she goes, ha-ha. So what are you right back? How about I have not responded to yet? Yeah.

But anyway, those are some of my mom's text. That's great. She should get a job writing on page two. I think these are good observations. Page six, page two. six one of the ages so listen so clare dain's got some props chang needs to do videos frankenstein needs an erection and bill mar's dead tar oh poor bill mar that's that's what i got so sad oh that's my mom's on fire and then uh and then my dad hits the big seven eight on on on uh really

think on thanksgiving yeah are you is he out here or uh no no you have to see him soon he does my dad does this new thing where he has these secret medical procedures and doesn't tell me oh no And then my stepmother mentions them in passing. He's like, well, your father got that shot in his neck. Like, what shot? Oh, he had arthritis in his neck. He's having injections. My kid didn't tell me.

She's like, well, he didn't want to worry you. It's like, well, what is this with the parents when they don't want to worry us? Like, just give me the information. Let me decide if I'm going to be worried or not. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, what is the point of hiding medical shit from us? It's so funny. There's like nothing in between, right?

Either they're over the top going to bother you. or me, in this case, with medical stuff, or they keep it from you. It's really weird that there's no in between. I feel like when we get older, I'm going to want to worry my kids all the time. Sure. Yeah. I don't, I would want them to be thinking because otherwise they're probably not going to think about us.

And they're like, yeah, I got to go to the doctor. Yeah. We'll see. Could be bad. Right. And also, maybe you've heard of like a solution that they haven't run by, right? So why don't you send him a sauna and a t-shirt? that could help

maybe I should I don't know if my dad were making it in a sauna all right that's it for a parent corner anything else we got before before we go other than other than the Cowboys

are 2 and O no that's it they're 2 and O what do you mean with Clito like he had been going back to Vegas two wins this week

I don't know really magical comeback keep it going Clito doing a good job with these Cowboys Yeah. And that's it. Yeah, we're going to have a ringer gambling show. We're cramming a lot of shows in the first three days. Tate and I are going to go over the massive college football games coming up. House and the Bundle. Going to make fun of each other on Wednesday. The 107 picks. I think we need to spice this up a little. Everyone's in first and last place. Yeah, I'm going to have this week. I think we need a booby prize and we need some sort of actual price.

I had from, yes, I think a booby prize because this ends around February, the loser has to say. stand in Bourbon Street for a whole day. I heard you say this. Why Bourbon Street? Well, because only you're not near here. No, I know. So what? You don't have to make it easy for the person. But I was at a prize where you get flown to New Orleans. No, it's not a prize. This is the last place. They have to stay in the street, the filthy street for a whole day without moving. I don't know. Well, we'll come up with better. It has to be something. Am I allowed to firehouse after 12 weeks or now? Am I stuck with him the whole year? I don't know. I'd feel like he, I don't

know. He said you wanted him to take New England or something. We did. They didn't cover about a half point. It wasn't like it was a bad pick. They won. Okay. House was, but his big pick was New Orleans. Oh, we all had New Orleans. Not at House. So bad. So bad. Oh, and I think I'm doing something with you tomorrow. Are we allowed to say? Yeah, we're doing rewatchables. We're doing two for the money. Okay. All right. I don't know. Yeah. That's going to be fun. I've watched it twice in the last four days. It's really just a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful I watch it one and a half times. I'm like, this movie sucks.

I have to watch it again. I was so excited. Anyway, we'll talk about it. I don't know why there are more sports game movies. All right, I'll see you tomorrow. Coz, good job by you. Good job by you, buddy. Thanks to everybody on YouTube.

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