The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - GBF- SuperWildCardWeekend dot com

Episode Date: January 10, 2025

Stugotz, Billy, and Mikey A react to Notre Dame's win over Penn State to put them in CFP Championship game. The guys are joined by the owners of JoshAllen.com and they explain what it will take for th...em to give up the domain name (Stugotz tries to low ball them). Simms joins the show to talk about the coaching carrousel as well as preview the Super Wild Card Weekend games. And most of the crew is back to make picks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:01:42 Better Man, now playing in select theaters. God bless football. Mikey A? God bless football, Stu Gatz. Thank you. It's just the two of us. How about that? Yeah. How about that? Where's Billy? Billy's gotta go drop kids off at school.
Starting point is 00:02:12 Really? I guess. All right. James Franklin is one in 18 in his career versus AP top five teams. One in 18. You're not even gonna build up to it. You're just gonna come dunk on James Franklin bright and early
Starting point is 00:02:28 in the morning. And you know what? He deserves it. He is 18. Yes. What in 18? Let me say that again. Okay, because suddenly after two playoff wins, he became the
Starting point is 00:02:39 greatest postseason coach in the history of college football because he was undefeated in the postseason against teams that had no business being in the postseason. How about that? Okay. And then all of a sudden he became big game James and they get out to a lead last night. The rare game, by the way, that starts as a complete clunker and turns into a classic by the end. I mean, unbelievable. But James Franklin jumps out to the lead and then he does James Franklin types things and drew. Aller throws a terrible pass middle of the field late in the game and Notre Dame
Starting point is 00:03:12 wins and Penn State loses and again one and 18 versus the AP top five ranked teams throughout his career as someone who sprinkled some shekels in his draft King account on Notre Dame. I never doubted you for a second. James Franklin. I never doubted you for a second that you were going to make sure that you went back to your your standard of losing big games. Speaking of dumping some shekels into a it case, you can join us for our listener league
Starting point is 00:03:46 presented by Smirnoff, the world's number one vodka. Please drink responsibly. How'd you do last week, Mikey? Not great. Not great. Nope, I had big plans for certain guys and they just did not. No, wasn't a good week for me.
Starting point is 00:04:07 Didn't pan out, huh? Didn't, didn't, Mike Evans was supposed to dominate that game and he kind of just inched over his 86 yards or whatever he needed line. So that was bad. None of my running backs. Yeah, it was just a bad week. I probably finished in the 400s.
Starting point is 00:04:24 All right, well, I was gonna say better, but it's impossible to do worse. So yeah, and yet I have yet I have. Yeah, we have a we have another college football semifinal tonight. Wild card weekend is coming up. We're going to discuss all of it, of course, with the guys who secured Josh Allen dot com. I was going to say Chris Sibs. And then at the last second, I realized, oh, we have the
Starting point is 00:04:53 guys who secure the domain name, which we discussed on the Leviton show earlier this week. We have the guys who have secured the domain name for Josh Allen. It's Josh Allen dot com. We're going to try to pry it away from them. But Chris is going to join us as well. Today's episode of God Bless Football is presented by DraftKings DraftKings.
Starting point is 00:05:12 The crown is yours. So, Mikey Notre Dame, do you feel like they have based on what you saw last night? Again, started off as a lousy game, turned into a classic. Do you think Notre Dame has a realistic chance against the two teams we're gonna see play tonight, which is Ohio State and Texas? Ohio State has suddenly become
Starting point is 00:05:36 the greatest team in the country. I think both Ohio State and Texas have a little bit of roller coaster to them. And the problem is, I will say that if either of those teams, Ohio State or Texas plays one of their good to perfect games, Notre Dame doesn't stand a chance. So what if they catch them on one of those off days, Notre Dame is is physical enough and they're good enough.
Starting point is 00:06:01 Hopefully they get a little healthier by then to, then, to actually win that game, yes. So you're saying Ohio State's best is better than Notre Dame's best. If they both came out and played their best games, their A games, their absolute best games, Ohio State is going to beat Notre Dame. I think if Ohio State plays their A game, nobody's beating them in that slot. Texas isn't beating an Ohio State A game, and Notre Dame certainly isn't beating an Ohio State A game. The Gullicks have to be happy this morning, huh? I imagine that it was a late night for the well for junior. Mike probably watched that game on recorded at 3 AM this morning when he got there.
Starting point is 00:06:40 I would say if Gullick if senior merely made it up for the game like he stayed up for the entire game That's the latest he's been up in a long time. Yeah. Yeah, it was a great game He probably he watches it at 3 a.m. When he gets up for his for his morning coffee Yeah, it will listen in Jay listen and James Franklin's defense and it's it's tough to defend a guy Who's won in 18 versus the AP top five since he started coaching at Penn State. But in his defense, what Penn State at least proved to me is that they belonged in college football's final four. They did. They played very, very well. That's an athletic team played very, very well and had every chance to win that game, especially at the
Starting point is 00:07:20 end. They had chances. But listen, James Franklin didn't fall down and let Notre Dame score a big touchdown at the one point of the game. You can't fall down and let Notre Dame score a touchdown and James Franklin didn't throw that awful pass in the middle of the field when it was just. No reason to do that right then, right? Did you feel bad for for Alan? Right. Did you feel bad for for Alan? No. You make a bad decision, you move with it. It happens. Yeah, but he's going to think about that decision every day for the remainder of his life. I felt worse for the kid that fell down because your feet got tripped up and you gave up the touchdown.
Starting point is 00:08:00 Aller made a football play and he messed up. Yeah. I felt great for the rest of the country because for one more week, we get to see Marcus Freeman. Chris Sims are the guys who own the domain for Josh Allen.com next. So, I want to tell you a story. I'm serious here. My wife and my two daughters, they begged me to buy a Peloton.
Starting point is 00:08:31 So I bought a Peloton and then I watched that Peloton sit in my office and stare at me. So you know what I did one day? I looked at it and so I decided to get off my ass and I jumped on the Peloton because no one else was using it and I paid for it. I mean, so why not? Then I realized eventually that they bought it for me. And I gotta tell you, way more challenging than I could have ever imagined. Peloton coaches are walking the walk. I love the coaches. I do the Grateful Dead one. It's fantastic.
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Starting point is 00:09:43 We are talking to the owners of Josh Allen dot.com because we were discussing on the show. Todd better get back here because I have questions. I'm here. All right, Todd. Good. You could stay off to the side. It's fine. As long as you can hear me and we can hear you.
Starting point is 00:09:58 We were discussing on the show how disappointed we were in ourselves for not securing certain domains that have been sold since For many many many millions of dollars including stuff like birds.com or cars.com How did I not grab that domain? Why did you guys grab the domain Josh Allen comm? I just you know, I'm a super fan and obviously I study the market I watched domains and and I own a lot of dot coms. And so I just knew I fought for this one for several years and finally got the owner to sell to me. And I've just obviously with Josh, I mean in Buffalo, Josh Yellen is our messiah, right? And with his lucrative contracts, his endorsements, it's just a great investment for me to have and hold
Starting point is 00:10:51 and wait for the right opportunity to present itself. How much did you buy it for, if you don't mind me asking? It's five figure range in the five figures. OK, and what are you selling it? Because I'm going to try to buy it from you just so you know, but what are you what are you trying to sell it for now? Yes. So if you work for Nike at $1 million, if you work for Pepsi, a million dollars, if you're, you know, trying to monetize and doing an
Starting point is 00:11:19 endorsement and doing a deal, I'm at 300 K. 300 that wow. If you're Josh Allen. Right. Yeah. Yeah. So we're we're we do get hits, right? I do get interest and so I'm just waiting for the right fit. Josh Allen's camp, maybe his agent, Pepsi or Nike. They're all his major endorsements. So it's, yeah, go ahead and finish up. I want to hear this. Yeah. So it's plausible that, you know, I'll get the call or do a deal with one of these giants, right? That are already sponsoring him.
Starting point is 00:11:55 Right. Well, since you're good at this, and you do this, and you study this, I'm assuming you have all kind of the Josh Allen, joshallent12.com. Do you have all those you have everything secured? So Josh is forced to buy it from you if indeed he wants to. 100%, yeah. So I also own, so we call him the alien, Josh Alien. So I own joshalien.com.
Starting point is 00:12:17 You're smart, yeah, you're smart. I own Josh Allen Madden Football, right? Because he's the face of Madden football now. So I own that as well, right? So maybe, you know, the Madden people call me, hey, they want to monetize it and promote the Josh domain. So if you go, you segue over to Patrick Mahomes, it's Adidas, it's an Adidas platform.
Starting point is 00:12:41 So if we go to patrickmahomes.com, he's selling millions of dollars in Adidas merchandise, right? Tom Brady, right? TB12, he's selling all of his merch and his endorsements, his speaking engagements. So these guys monetize these at a very high level. So I knew after I fought for this for several years, I never give up. I never give up. Right. If I want something and I know it's going to have a good payoff, I'll, I'll be white on rice till I get it. So I have two questions. The first one is for Stu gots. Did you think that Josh Allen's
Starting point is 00:13:17 number was 12? And that's why you said Josh Allen, 17, I made a mistake. I made a mistake. I made a mistake. Where he's at. For those of you that Todd got caught it. We're being so polite. I appreciate that. I'm not going to be as polite. There's a cardboard cutout of Josh Allen right behind Todd's business partner, but Todd was standing in the way of it. Okay. So I was thinking TB 12 to be honest with you. Go ahead. What's your next question? All right. Here's my next question. What would Josh Allen suppose Josh, you're welcome. Suppose
Starting point is 00:13:50 Josh Allen calls me and be like, listen, I'm not going to give you the 300 K, but I got two Superbowl tickets. I got a flight out there. I got a hotel. Are we, is there any kind of trade we're talking about here? Sign Jersey with it and the whole bit. Yeah, we'll give you a 10,000 off and a check for two. I like them. I like them a lot. It's not worth it. Oh, my. So you listen, you have been sure that if Josh Allen wants a domain that he has to go through you guys to get said domain. Percent. Yeah, yeah. Wow. 100%. Yeah. So if you go to GoDaddy, you can go to the GoDaddy platform and you punch in JoshAlan.com, you'll see the evaluation on GoDaddy.
Starting point is 00:14:36 It's like a million ninety thousand. Wow. That's, that's, that's the price on GoDaddy. Right. Ron, how you feeling about all this? I love it. What we're looking to sell this for is to kind of use some seed funding for a new company product that we're putting out, it's fentanyl testing ships.
Starting point is 00:14:55 We want to make them readily available at your corner stores, Bodega. So it's not like, Todd's selling this, he's going to buy a Lamborghini tomorrow with it. You know, we're going to put this to really good work, save a lot of lives with high reduction tools. Oh, that's a good job by you guys. I am. Well, I'm happy to hear you're doing something productive other than securing domain names. Okay.
Starting point is 00:15:18 You guys are helping people. So what if I objected? Yeah. What if I offered you 250 K today? What would you say to me? With Super Bowl tickets in a signed autographed jersey from Josh Allen? Yeah. Okay, then we got a deal.
Starting point is 00:15:33 Really? Okay, what if we put you in a room with Josh Allen? That's all I do is I just put you in a room with Josh Allen. What do you think? I'm good. What other domains do you own? I've got some, this is just us talking, right? Yes. Yeah. No one's listening. Okay. Yeah. I've got some VIPs. I've got some high level people. I have a list. I have a big list, but at the end of the day, the highest value one that I have is Josh, right? There's nothing that's going to beat his evaluation then out of my entire portfolio.
Starting point is 00:16:13 I think you guys find this funny too. This is, I started working with Todd, what this summer and he's made a substantial amount of money selling phone numbers. Yeah. It's all phone numbers too. What? Yeah. Dude, I got a lesson in this and I'm like, cell phone numbers too. What? Yeah. Dude, I got a lesson in this and I'm like, dude, I got to start doing this. So I have hundreds of phone
Starting point is 00:16:29 numbers, vanity numbers, right? You know, I sell them to attorneys, high level companies. So I've been brokering phone numbers and domains for a long time. And, you know, again, you have to buy, right? And you got to find who's the best partner and we're good match, right? So all the ubiquitous advertising with lawyers, right? Lawyers are lawyers, right? The really good ones are good marketers. They're not any better lawyer than others, but they know how to catch the fish, right?
Starting point is 00:17:03 And that's where a good domain and or a good phone number comes into play. So I can get like 716 or, you know, all eights, we call those repeaters 444, 4444. I get a hundred K for those, right? Yeah, yeah, a hundred percent, a hundred percent. So this is, I've been doing this for, you know, 20 years, right? And I've got a lot of networking partners. So we know how to dig, we know how to break legs, we know how to twist arms,
Starting point is 00:17:33 and we know how to make deals happen. But my biggest baby is Josh, right? So in that's where we're just looking for a good partner in or a good relationship. We wanted to go into the right hands. It seems like you're looking to extort him. If we're gonna be honest, it seems like you're looking just to get money from him not a partnership. And some Super Bowl tickets. No, no, it's plausible.
Starting point is 00:17:56 So here on the other end, I can monetize the shit out of this site just by selling merchandise, right? Yeah. So that's option B. Wow. And I don't have to, I can either A, pay the NFL their licensing and sell millions off of this mark every month, right? Or I can go plan B and sell generic football stuff and still do super well. In Buffalo, anything that has Josh Yellen, it flies off the shelves, right? The amount of merchandise that they sell in this market is astronomical.
Starting point is 00:18:34 Every store you go to, every car you see, something has either Buffalo Bills or Josh Yellen on it. Wow. I can't believe, like, how's the guy, do you speak to the guy that you bought it from? Because he, I mean, he, he gave it up for a cheap price. Yeah. So the, this was, you know, I've had it for a few years now, but I do get hits, right? I've had lots of different brokers call me.
Starting point is 00:19:00 I even had Josh Allen. He's not the Josh Allen, but another Josh Allen that wanted to buy it. And you know, we were just too far apart. You had to be like, was he pretending to be Josh Allen? What was he doing? No, no, no, just a guy named Josh Allen, who's in media marketing. And he goes, yeah, that was my domain. And I'm like, yeah, that's it's my domain. And, you know. You're a badass. Yeah, it's real estate, man. It's real estate, right? Digital real estate.
Starting point is 00:19:32 But yeah, the right deal comes along. I'll do business. How do you get around cyber-squatting laws? You'll have to check with your attorney on that. But at the end of the day, it's just, it's real estate. I can do, I own it. That's not really a, it's just an item that I own, right? So I'm not infringing on Josh Allen or I don't have his picture.
Starting point is 00:19:59 I'm not monetizing it as I am Josh Allen's representative or agent. I just at this point possessed it for the deal. Now, if Josh just won a Superbowl, like he won a Superbowl, you guys are big Bills fans, you love Josh Allen, he is God up there. If he won a Superbowl and called you the next day and said, hey, listen, I won you a Superbowl, it's miserable and Buffalo.
Starting point is 00:20:22 I want the domain name joshallan.com. I made you happy. The happiest you've ever been as a sports fan. I want that thing for free. Would you give it to them? No, now the price goes up to 2 million because the valuation has now doubled. I don't know, so guys, if you noticed,
Starting point is 00:20:39 it went from 200,000 yesterday to I reached out. I was like, hey, you guys wanna talk? And this morning was 300,000. So the price fluctuates depending on activity, I think. These guys are businessmen. They don't care. They're assassins, man. It's the buzz, right?
Starting point is 00:20:53 So the stock rises every single day. The MVP is knocking on the door, right? So as the buzz continues to grow, so does the price. But that's still a fire sale and a discounted price compared to the million dollar listing on GoDaddy. How much did the evaluation get hurt when Josh Allen of the Jaguars started by going, going by Josh Fiennes Allen? Did you lose like half your market there? Yeah. No, no. You mean the other Josh Allen? The other Josh Allen. Well, you lost one of the two big there? Yeah. No. You mean the other Josh Allen?
Starting point is 00:21:25 The other Josh Allen. Well, you lost one of the two big ones, yeah. Yeah, he changed his name, right? He added his, yeah. Could you get Josh Hines Allen? Is it up? Is it available? No, it's, yeah.
Starting point is 00:21:38 Nothing I can do. Maybe Josh Hines Allen 12, Stu Gotts? Oh, maybe. Todd, are you looking for a business partner? I mean. It's, we're open to Well, maybe. Todd, are you looking for a business partner? I mean. We're open to discussions, yes. Wow, wow. I mean, I can help you.
Starting point is 00:21:50 You help me, I'll help you. You know what I'm saying? Can I make a suggestion for you guys? So, Josh, Josh, we've seen, yeah, you too, Stugots. Because I'm part of their company. Josh, we saw, is engaged. Congratulations to Josh and Haley. Now, JoshAllen Allen comm is seemingly unavailable
Starting point is 00:22:07 So what if as a result Josh Allen decides to change his last name to Josh Steinfeld? Have you decided to lock that? We already have it. I guess we need to take to that. Yes. This is why you need a billion astugots in your business. The idea man. This is why you need us. I got the N1 too.
Starting point is 00:22:35 Oh you do? Like Ron, are you guys constantly scouting out like what's going to be next? What hasn't been taken? What's going to be next? What you think is going to be popular? Just grabbing domain? When Todd told me that this is what he did and he was making all this money, I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna start going to like high school football games and like,
Starting point is 00:22:53 yeah, like Texas and just start getting like all of these domains for these kids. What's the domain that you bought and then eventually sold? Like what deal made you the most money in terms of a domain? Probably the attorneys that I've helped over the years. Explain that. You see a law firm,
Starting point is 00:23:15 you grab their domain name, and then they come calling eventually to buy it from you. Yeah. Typically, it'll happen like they'll research or researchers search it out and then they'll come to me and then we'll broker and negotiate a deal right? Yeah. Uh and then also I'll do the cold calling as well right with the inventory. I'll see what's a good deal. Acquire it and then you know offer my assistance. Do you guys have super wildcardweekend.com? Have you?
Starting point is 00:23:47 Ooh. Well. I gotta go to the bathroom. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I love Todd. I mean, he's my new business partner.
Starting point is 00:23:57 What's the most money you've made on a single deal? Is that an insensitive question? Can you share that with us? Six figures. They're all six figures. Every deal is, you're making six figures. I do them for nickels and dimes and 20s and 30s. Right. I have several 7500. Are you surprised? Josh? Are you surprised Josh
Starting point is 00:24:17 Allen hasn't sold yet? Um, I'm not. I could have sold it just that the numbers aren't there yet. Right. So I have a minimum, right? And basically, if you look on the site, that's where I want to be. I'm hopeful Nike or one of the other big guys come and pay the seven figures. That's the want and the wish. But at the end of the day, we have a very impactful product and startup that we're doing. And that's where I'm looking to liquidate to take this funding for the startup and then do something super impactful with the epidemic,
Starting point is 00:24:57 with the harmful opioid crisis, right? So I've been working on that for about 15 months. I developed the product, marketed it, and now we're just doing, we want to go Q1 with our first launch. And I believe wholeheartedly this is going to be massive, right? It's going to be a massive endeavor. The good news about this product is it's a win-win, right? I think all of us have been touched is it's a win-win, right? I think all of us have been touched by life of loss or the struggles of opioid addiction. And me, myself, my personal story,
Starting point is 00:25:32 I'm a recovered addict, and you know, 20 years ago, right? But I also have six kids, right? My friends have lost their sons, right? We've all known or know the epidemic of over a hundred thousand people, Americans dying on an annual basis. So back when I was a kid, the AIDS epidemic came in. And there were two things you did or didn't do. It was A, abstain from sex or use a condom. So now today, we can't just use drugs recreationally. Our kids can't use drugs. Nobody should use drugs.
Starting point is 00:26:05 So either A, abstain from drugs or use responsibly. And this is what I want to do is bring the testing mainstream into the retail markets, your convenience stores, your gas stations. A cup of coffee is $3. Here's a test strip. It's three bucks. Test? Test it before you ingest it, Fenex it or forget it, right? This is the product that I believe I've been called to do. And this is why I do all these maniacal things to get to my main objective. And, but yeah, Fenex is the product that I've developed. And that's what my biggest energy is targeting. I like it guys. So essentially the domain money,
Starting point is 00:26:52 it's really money to fund something that's way more important. Absolutely, 100%. 100%. Who do you like, Chargers or Texans? Yeah, good question. Chargers, Texans guys, who you liking that, Kim? You like the Chargers, Ronnie?
Starting point is 00:27:10 The Chargers, Texans for sure. Okay, Bill, you're gonna ask them all the games, aren't you? Any domains on the Chargers that we should be aware of or the Texans? Yeah, I think I have her at justinherbert.com. CJstroud.com, anything like that? Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:24 Yes, yes. Dude, you just made new competition here, man. Yeah, didstroud.com, anything like that. You just made new competition here, man. Yeah. Did you, well, hold on. Did you swipe up to fungigs.com when he was in town? One deal at a time. One deal at a time. Yep. Listen, uh, there's no competition. You can either bring us in or we're going to end your company. So it's up to you, whatever you want to do. Like, you know, what do you think? I love it.
Starting point is 00:27:46 How many transactions, how many transactions do you guys make like on an average? Like what's a work week like for you guys? You're just like looking up numbers and domains or you making sales. Cause like you just have to wait around for the right sales more or less. Right? Yeah. Yeah. The, um, like I said, I have a wide, wide inventory, right? It's more than just sports and with the phone numbers in or the digital assets.
Starting point is 00:28:12 So but you know, I also do other I have other investments in other other things that I'm involved with. Interesting. Ravens. Yeah, Steelers Ravens. What do you like there, guys? Yes, I want that's where you win. Really? I mean, you want to see others to win, right?
Starting point is 00:28:31 Because you want to because you don't want to see. Yeah, you don't want to see Lamar Jackson. Right. So if the Steelers won, they would go to Kansas City and then you would get the you would get the Chargers in that scenario. Yeah. Well, like I said, man, last people, I don't want to see Baltimore again. I don't want to see Derek Henry again. I mean, listen, you just have to beat Lamar Jackson. And then once you've done that, go to Kansas City and be Patrick Mahomes. You guys got this. I mean, we're on the same page. How much do you guys dislike Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs?
Starting point is 00:29:01 Not at all. I admire him. He's he's he's amazing. He's got dang Patrick Mahomes. But it's it's Josh's time, right? It's it's time for Josh to wear the crown. Yeah. What happens to the value of the domain if Josh Allen gets bounced out in the second round of the playoffs? Well, then it we give a 5% discount. Okay. Really? Is that right?
Starting point is 00:29:29 What's the number? If someone called you right now and gave you a number, what's the number? As in a cash deal? Yeah, that you can't say no to, right? Yeah, non-traceable. Yeah, no tickets, no nothing, no meetings with Josh, nothing. Just straight, here's the cash, give me that domain. Yeah, it's 250.
Starting point is 00:29:48 250. What if it was in a briefcase though? But if it was in a briefcase. Yeah, it was just 225 in a briefcase. Are we talking Louis Vuitton, Coach? What type of briefcase would it be? You get to pick. You pick, yeah, uh, you pick.
Starting point is 00:30:05 Yeah, it's, it's on us. What if we just said, listen, what are we doing? 40 in a duffle bag, 240 in a duffle. I like your style. A duffle bag is much better. What if we just said, Hey, you guys, both of you, okay. Ronnie, Todd, both of you co-hosting the show with us every week, promote your product, promote your company all you want wait hold on with with
Starting point is 00:30:26 One of the Grinkowski brothers. Yeah, not Rob, but not Rob. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah We're down to Gordy this year. Yeah, but already so Clear just so we're clear we host a show it's called god bless football Chris Sims is part of it Mike Golick is a part of it. We have a lot of big celebrities, big names. We are offering you guys a chance to be a weekly part of our show in exchange for, and we appreciate it, but you get to promote your company,
Starting point is 00:30:57 the important stuff, the stuff you're doing with Fentanyl. Exactly. And what we get in return for that is the domain, JoshAllen.com. What do you think? Yeah, love the offer, but I still need the seed funding, right? I still need the money to do the purchase orders and to fund the project. But consider like advertise like an advertising expenditure. You know what I mean? Like we're really just giving you the opportunity to get the message out, you know This podcast has won best football podcast in America three out of the last four years
Starting point is 00:31:31 It's a massive podcast set a massive audience. Yeah, and we're primed to do so again next year. Yep That's awesome. And I think of it think of it this way think of it this way Todd doesn't care It's it's just one measly... You've got a good read on me. It's just one... You're all about cash, man. It's just one URL where you have told us you have so many different ones. You have so many domain names, so many different phone numbers. You're just giving one away. So in exchange, we're giving you this great platform and you get to hang out with Gordy Gronkowski.
Starting point is 00:32:04 And I don't know if you're familiar with Carl Douglas. and you get to hang out with Gordy Gronkowski. And I don't know if you're familiar with Carl Douglas. Have you ever heard of Carl Douglas? Have you? Dream team attorney for OJ. He was one of OJ's attorney. He makes pictures of us every week, surely. And I'm not going to presume anything here, but surely you've got something going on that
Starting point is 00:32:21 Carl Douglas can help you out with or will at some point and Gordy Granckowski is a good friend of mine I can go say uh within the hour yeah absolutely absolutely now is he a friend like like Josh Allen is a friend where you've been to his house yeah Gordy knows he's your friend? We're actually friends, yeah. We've done business together for years. Really? Robbfitness.com, you guys swooped that one up?
Starting point is 00:32:53 He lifts right down the street from me. Oh my God. Billy, I'm telling you- Are you friends with Bobby Goons also? You know Bobby Goons? No. He's the guy who travels around with Robb, okay. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:33:04 You know Papa G, do you know Big G? You have to. No, doesn't ring. He's the guy who travels around with Rob. Okay. Yeah. You know, Papa G. Do you know big G? You have to. No, it doesn't ring a bell. No. Chris Grinkowski. Mr. Rob.
Starting point is 00:33:12 That's who I deal with. Mr. G. Wow. Billy, I think we have to have them on for a pick segment. It seems like it. It seems like that's where this is headed. Would you guys like to join us for a pick segment with Gordy Gronkowski and the crew? I love it, I love it.
Starting point is 00:33:29 You're in? Well, we'll see. I'll have to talk to my advisors. Right. No, no, we're not asking for anything. We're just offering you another opportunity to come on. I don't want the domain. Just, I want you to come on with Gordy, that's all.
Starting point is 00:33:41 I'll come on with Gordy, yeah. Yeah, it's- Okay, all right. Ronnie, something tells me like Ronnie's always wanted to be a sports radio host. I think Ronnie would take the deal. Am I wrong, Ron? Yeah. I love what you guys are doing, dude. It's... Well, I like what you're doing. Okay. I like what you guys are doing. I mean, you're making money off phone numbers. Yeah. Yeah. It's genius. All right, guys, this is, I'll get back to you on the 250. What if I offer 200 right now?
Starting point is 00:34:08 Cash, wired, right to your account. Are you serious? No, he's not, no. We're gonna take it, we're gonna take it. Never, never. Only if you're serious. Well, hold on a second. I don't know if you know this, Stugats has been hot this year and making picks.
Starting point is 00:34:27 What if he gave you $200,000 worth of gambling advice? Oh, and it's, and it's really could be worth more depending on how much you gamble. It could be a million dollars worth of gambling advice just for a website. I heard some sarcasm about where do I sign Todd? That's not a great idea. Generational love for some power life picks. I don't know man. It sounds a Tisi. I think if we just had Ron on this deal would be done already. We would have Josh Allen. Yeah. And he was like, no deals, no deals. He talked to me. I'm like, all right. Yeah. Well, listen, now I know the guy, if I'm serious about this, I know who I got to call and it's Ron. It's not Todd. Okay. You got it over, man. So he's
Starting point is 00:35:15 a pushover. Yes. Yes. All right, guys. I look forward to getting into business with you and being partners with you. I'm going to make this happen. I'm intrigued by what it is you're doing. Uh, we're going to be partner suit. I'm with you. I'm going to make this happen. I'm intrigued by what it is you're doing. We're going to be partners soon. I'm telling you, I'm going to be in touch with you. Okay. Well, send us some parlays for this weekend and we'll see how it goes. It is time for this week's edition of Stooya Gouts presented by Giraffe King Sportsbook. Giraffe Kings, the crowd is yours. NFL Super Texans have no idea if they're any good. Buy it down to two and a half. Take the Chargers. They
Starting point is 00:36:08 win. They cover the Chargers by ten points on the road. Ravens, Lamar Jackson, speaking of doing it in the playoffs, minus nine and a half. Take the Ravens. They win. They cover the Ravens by fourteen points at home over the Steelers. Bills at home minus eight and a half.
Starting point is 00:36:27 Take it on the Broncos. Buy it down to eight. Take Buffalo. They win. They cover Buffalo by 17 points at home. Packers plus four and a half. They're at Philadelphia. Take it on the Eagles. The Eagles win. The Packers cover. I wanted to say the Packers win. Sirianni gets fired, which might very well happen, but the Eagles win, the Packers cover. I wanted to say the Packers win, Sirianni gets fired, which might very well happen, but the Eagles win and they win by a point. Last second field goal. How about that? But the Pack, they get the cover.
Starting point is 00:36:56 I'm taking the Packers plus four and a half. Commanders plus three on the road. They're taking on Tampa. By it up to three and a half. Take the Commanders. They win the game outright They beat Tampa by six points. Sorry Baker Mayfield and finally Rams Vikings in a game that will likely be moved to Arizona I am taking the Rams here to win the game outright. They cover the spread. They win the game the Rams by seven points
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Starting point is 00:38:58 Hey, he's Mike Raible. He was 11 and like 17. Vince Lombardi is out there. Like Billy. It's Mike Vrabel. He was 11 and like 17. Vince Lombardi is out there. Billy, Billy, when you see what else is out there, when you see what else is out there, you kill for Vrabel. Well, hold on. Let's get Sims involved here. Sims is saying that we're treating Mike Vrabel like Vince Lombardi.
Starting point is 00:39:20 What are your thoughts? Well, I'm a big fan of Mike Vrabel. I mean, I'm not ready to compare him to Vincent Bardy quite yet, but I think Mike Vrabel is a phenomenal head coach. I do. I mean, one, I think he's about as close as you're going to get in football to like Parcells and Belichick with that type of attitude. And I think he's actually got a little more parcels in him in a lot of ways where he can be like snarky and like charming to the media at the same time a little bit that way. He's very hands on with his coaching and what he does on the football field during practice. He's a really good motivator. He's cutting edge with things he does like training in the off season.
Starting point is 00:40:05 And yeah, I mean, look at what there was there in Tennessee. I mean, he, he went as a number one seed in the AFC playoffs with a team that set the record for the most injuries in a season. And like had to sign all these people all they went to the AFC championship game with like, let's with the Ryan Tannehill who couldn't play, right? Remember now everybody told me he couldn't play until they saw him playing. And then they went, Oh, he can play. And then, but we, we don't want to give Mike Vrabel the like credit for bringing him along a little bit. So yeah, I'm a big fan of Vrabel. I think he is the best candidate out there. No doubt for me,
Starting point is 00:40:44 but he's not Vince Lombardi.. But he's not Vince Lombardi. No, he's not Vince Lombardi. Not Vince Lombardi, he's not Bill Belichick. Not exactly. Sims, you headed to Texas? What's going on here? Got the whole family? Yep, whole family.
Starting point is 00:40:56 Got like a 330 flight today. Pumped about it. I mean, I really am. I got the kids are excited. My wife was like kind of poo pooing it there for a little bit, giving me this whole spiel. Like you're the only one that wants to go. Why are we going to this? And my kids like walked in the room in the middle of that and they were like, no, no, we want to go. My son was like, Oh, I'm pumped.
Starting point is 00:41:17 And my daughter was like, yeah, I'm excited, mom. I don't know what you're talking about. So she finally came to her senses because I mean, we were, if she said it again last night, I was going to go stay the hell home. We, we got plenty of other people. I want to come. I'm wondering why she isn't staying home. Why do we need to, if she pulls that bulls**t today, she's staying at home. We got plenty of people want to come to the game right here. Ready? I'll have a a flight. I'll meet you in flight. Same flight. Same flight. Where are we meeting up? Extra room?
Starting point is 00:41:50 What else is there? No, Stu Gotz, I could deal with you and Mikey A. Just Billy. I won't take up more than half our bed. Our bed. You can sleep outside on the floor. Where where a dog is on like the mat outside the door. That sounds good. So why is your wife going? Is she going to like she wants to be with the family? What
Starting point is 00:42:14 is the deal? I guess. I guess she feels guilted into it now. But yeah, now I don't even know. I don't know why she's going now, but we got her going, you know, like she was like giving me this whole spiel. Like when they won, you just said, let's make like, I want to go, let's go. Like, and she's a loud mouth, North Jersey woman who never like doesn't share her opinion. And I was like, why didn't you tell me when I said that, that you really don't want to go like, just tell me that. Why are you telling me two nights before we're going that you don't want to do this? So we'll see yesterday. She said, sorry, my kids, I think in a
Starting point is 00:42:50 lot of ways were a little bit like, wow, hey, hey, dad, we're your this is a quote from my son. Hey, dad, we're your buddies. We'll have fun without her. Don't worry. And I think my daughter wants me to bring her boyfriend and my son likes that too. So they're willing to ditch mom and leave her ass for the boyfriend. Of course. Yeah. Did you throw out the idea of uncle Billy going?
Starting point is 00:43:14 No, I did not. I did not. No, I did not. Do you have Sims's kids calling you uncle Billy? Is that they're probably close to my age on this. What's this cool hat you got on today? This hat? You like this hat? You want me to send you one?
Starting point is 00:43:30 He's talking to Mikey A. Well, it depends on what I'm doing. No, I'm talking about yours, Billy. What is it? I'm talking about Billy's hat. Billy's hat is cool. It is cool. This is a hat that I got.
Starting point is 00:43:38 Is this a, you know, food influence? Is that a K? No, it's an M. It's an M, yeah. Oh, that's an M. Okay, okay. Yeah. All right, so some Marlins. All right. Cool No, it's not it's not more this guy. Mr. Eats. He goes around he reviews some food. Send me a hat
Starting point is 00:43:51 I said, hey cool. Nice. Thanks. Okay, cool. All right. Yeah, you're such a you want one. I'll send you one You're easy. I know you know you just make it easy You just send send me something Chris. I'll put it on whatever it is. You're kind of a You just make it easy. Just send me send me something Chris. I'll put it on whatever it is. You're kind of a Horror it sounds like you just anything for merchandise or anything If the price is right, yeah Call it our bed Exactly right sleep with me just to go to the game I mean cheese tells you how easy is what I'm saying. I think send me whatever you want me to wear
Starting point is 00:44:23 We'll wear it. Yes. I think if you decided to do this for a living, you decided on being a whore, Chris. We are. Yeah, yeah, you're right. How do you feel about your chances against Ohio State? Because it's funny, Ohio State, everyone the fire, Ryan Day, and now the most talented team in the country, the favorite to win the national championship.
Starting point is 00:44:42 Right. Is it not kind of funny how quickly it like turned in three weeks? Like literally like, oh, they're the most overrated overhyped team ever to literally like, I want to be like SpongeBob 14, 14 days later. They're the best team we've ever seen. I don't know if anybody can beat them. I mean, they're dangerous. They're talented as hell. I know that they're the most talented team in college football, but not by so much that they can just like walk through this game against Texas. RD is real. I think RD
Starting point is 00:45:11 will pose problems for them and their defense is very good, but they play a style and then I think that it'll fit us being able to throw the football down the field. They're pretty aggressive. They'll play man-to-man on the outside. They'll do stuff like that. And if we have, you know, number seven bond, totally healthy, you better be careful about playing us totally man-to-man like that. We got guys in a system and a quarterback that certainly can make some big plays down the field. So yeah, of course, I give us our give ourselves a chance to win this game. Chris, is Steve Sarkisian a coach you could see coaching in the NFL? I think yes.
Starting point is 00:45:49 I think he's one of the few that could probably make that crossover. One, I mean, he's he's a quarterback guy. He's an offensive guy. He's had a little history in the NFL. Of course, he worked for Nick Saban, which is as close as you're going to get in the college football level to NFL game planning and detail and preparation. I look at it and go, he's always got a few little new wrinkles and game plan ideas.
Starting point is 00:46:14 So I do think he has that capability. Yes, I mean, it's not easy, as you know. But yeah, offensive game plan designer who's creative and knows how to kind of coexist and bring a quarterback along. I think that's always going to be fancied in the NFL. And yeah, I think he is on a short list of guys that could actually get that done. What do you make of these reports that Quinn Ewers might stay in college for a fifth year, not at Texas, somewhere else, somewhere in the neighborhood of six to ten million dollars as opposed to going to the NFL?
Starting point is 00:46:43 Yeah, it's crazy. I would actually, I would do that if I was him. Yeah. I had this conversation a little bit with, I think, Dan Patrick about two weeks ago. And that's what I expected. They're going to Arch Manning next year. That is not an option. They are super excited about what Arch Manning could be.
Starting point is 00:47:04 And they're giving you the signals that they think they can be way greater than they are even now with Arch Manning could be. And they're giving you the signals that they think they can be way greater than they are even now with Arch Manning at quarterback if he gets time to play and gets the reps and all that. Ewers, I think if he was like, oh, wait, the NFL views me as a fringe first rounder or maybe a second rounder, I'd go, go, see you later. But the NFL doesn't view him like that.
Starting point is 00:47:23 He's got to make a few more people believers. Just like you said, again, like you saw but the NFL doesn't view him like that. He's got to he's got to make a few more people believers just like you said again like you saw in the Arizona State game there's just a few throws and a few plays every game where you just go wait you're too good to miss that throw or lob the ball up to let somebody knock it down I think he needs to go one more year and kind of work on some things to improve himself which will will then improve his stock, you know, in the NFL eyes or the people that are important in the NFL eyes. Chris, there are reports that I think five or six teams have reached out to Bill
Starting point is 00:47:55 Belichick. Belichick is at North Carolina. Diana Racini reported that he's staying at North Carolina, at least for now. You know Belichick very well. Is Belichick going to give Carolina at least one season? I think so. I would expect that. But I would still be if I'm like, you know, the the dean at North Carolina or whatever, I'd be a little worried right now. I would be.
Starting point is 00:48:20 You know, I think Bill Belichick first off was I think he panicked. That would be the first thing. I think he wanted to know or have a deal kind of in place, right? Like, wink, wink, we're going to hire you. We're going to go through the interview process and do all the things that we need to do.
Starting point is 00:48:37 But when it's all said and done, we'll be wink, wink, back to you and we're going to hire Bill Belichick. He never got that. So I think because of that, he panicked a little bit and went to college football. But within that, anybody that knows him or has ever been around him, we all question whether he fits college football for a lot of reasons.
Starting point is 00:48:58 I know you and I, we've all discussed this a little bit. But the recruiting, dealing with Jimmy and Johnny's mom, dealing with the fact Johnny's mom, dealing with the fact that he's going to have to game plan way more simple than he ever has in his life. Is he going to be mentally intrigued by that? Like, right? Is that going to keep him going when he has to play like, Oh, I got to play cover four for nine out of the 10 next snaps here because I got young kids who didn't get enough reps and I can't even do some of the crazy awesome stuff that I can really do. So there's that aspect and all of that and let alone relating to young kids and a kid that's
Starting point is 00:49:34 different than back in the old days when he grew up or anything like that. You'll hear Brady and Gronk, none of them thought he would do this or be able to coexist in a college environment. So that would scare me. And yeah, if you made me bet, I would say it's one and done. And then he hands it over to Stephen Belichick to become the head coach. And then he tries to find a spot. But I still would be scared right now because $10 million is chump change to any owner who wants to buy him out.
Starting point is 00:50:02 $10 million is chump change to Bill Belichick. I mean, Bill Belichick is swimming in it. He's got more money than he knows what to do with. So that means nothing, I think, in the long run, other than that his reputation will take a big hit if he leaves right now. I think the job he wants, if there's an NFL job he wants to punctuate his career with, it would be the New York Giants, right? I mean, I think that would be his spot for sure, but I don't know if the Giants would be the place I'd want to go to right now if I'm
Starting point is 00:50:30 Bill Belichick, just because the Giants I think is a project, right? And I mean, we know they're keeping their coach and their GM anyways, but like if you heard anything Michael Lombardi, who's close to Belichick say, right, there's the jobs this year are not viewed as that great, right? Usually when you have seven or eight job openings, there's one or two that you look at and go, that team's pretty damn good. The coach was just horrible there and was messing it up. I'd like to take over that team. I think Chicago was that team in this hiring cycle. I think Bill was trying to get to Chicago because of that. Chicago is really ready.
Starting point is 00:51:06 You just need another offensive lineman or two, maybe one more defensive playmaker and you go, okay, we're pretty good. And now let's just bring this rookie quarterback along. I also think that's why Tampa was on his radar in a big way because there was tot holes, maybe retires and gets out and he's looking at Tampa going, they got a lot of stuff that works down there. Everything else is a little bit of a project or unknown, but I feel like to your point though, if all was equal, yeah,
Starting point is 00:51:32 I still think the Giants are a very special place to him and in his heart. The only thing I'll say about that Chicago job is you have to deal with Jordan Love, the Vikings, and Dan Campbell and Jared Goff in the next 10 years. You know? I know, I know you're right. That's a tough thing to do. It's like, you know, I was kind of saying those same things with like Sean Payton and
Starting point is 00:51:52 Jim Harbaugh. Like, are you sure you want to go to the AFC West and deal with Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes? Right. But sometimes you just got to take the best situation available and go, okay, this is this allows me to be my best. And now let's see if I can compete and beat the best situation available and go, okay, this this allows me to be my best. And now let's see if I can compete and beat the best at my best. And you know, that's sometimes all it all it boils down to. Chris looking at the playoffs this weekend, obviously, you know, every matchup is difficult.
Starting point is 00:52:17 But is there a team you want to see more than the Texans at this moment? That seems like the team that if you get your choice in the first round, especially if you're going on the road, Houston seems like a winnable game for the Chargers. Yes, agreed. I mean, Houston, if they're not in the AFC South, are they even in the playoffs?
Starting point is 00:52:37 I mean, I don't know. They haven't played like a playoff football team the last 10 or 11 weeks. I mean, got off to a hard, hot start. And what are they over the last 11 games? I might be off by or something like they're five and six. Right? Something like that. It's nothing special.
Starting point is 00:52:52 We've got offensive concerns, right? Everybody wants to blame CJ Stroud, which is stupid. When I watch CJ Stroud, he still hits every open throw. He still plays at a high level. There just ain't much there for him to do. They can't protect. They have long developing pass plays down the field. And that doesn't make sense when you can't protect, right? I mean, that makes no sense. You know, their running game is iffy, it's average at best. The defense has got some talent. It does. But you worry
Starting point is 00:53:19 about it where, okay, they don't do a ton on defense, two of their greatest assets are their pass rushers. And I think that gets wiped out a little bit in this game because Rashaun Slater and Joe Walt are damn good tackles. So they're not going to be like, Oh, we got to help with a tight end or a back in these situations. They're going to feel good about those matchups. And because they're a little predictable on defense Houston. Yeah. I think Jim Harbaugh and Greg Roman will have some plays that'll screw them for you know lack of a better way to say it. I took the Chargers to win twenty-four to seventeen. I don't have faith in Houston.
Starting point is 00:53:51 Yeah, they've been going the wrong way for a long time here. PFT with Mike Florio every day on Peacock, the Unbuttoned Podcast, Football Night in America. Chris Simms is with us here on God Bless Football. What's the game you're most excited for this weekend? Oh, I think it's. The Packers Eagles game has, I think, the biggest potential to be special just because I think the Packers are one of the few teams in football that will never be physically outclassed by a team like the Eagles,
Starting point is 00:54:22 the Lions, the Chiefs, the Ravens, they can hang right in there with them, right? The big question is, is Jordan Love, his health, the fact that he hasn't played that well, the fact that they're going into the playoffs after losing to Chicago and they were trying to win that game last week, and the Eagles are going to be a fresh football team, you know, other than Jalen Hurts, like he hasn't played and he's just about to get out of concussion protocol. That's your only concern there. But that game has a chance.
Starting point is 00:54:50 I'm taking the Eagles, right? But I still think there's a lot of heavy hitters on the field. Bothers me in Green Bay. They have no Christian Watson, right? Romeo Dobbs has been going through some stuff. Jordan Love, of course, not at his best. That worries me a little bit as far as Green Bay is concerned. If the Eagles happen to lose this game, is there a chance Nick Sirianni
Starting point is 00:55:10 gets fired afterwards? I think that it could be a real possibility. Like my workmate Mike Florio, who you just talked about in PFT, I think he thinks there's a chance. A team that talented, if they go out one and done, there could be trouble. He also thinks there's a chance. A team that talented, if they go out one and done, there could be trouble. He also thinks there's a chance Baltimore Ravens, like if they go one and done with this team, Harbaugh could be in trouble.
Starting point is 00:55:35 If it looks bad against, and let's say vice versa, the Baltimore dominates Pittsburgh. He has a thought, and usually Mike, when he has a thought, he's getting inklings from somewhere, that he thinks that Tomlin could be in trouble too. So, you know, we got some playoff teams here that certainly that could have some drama if things don't go the right way this weekend. You know, the horrible one is interesting because he kind of skates by he's won two playoff games in the last decade and he's had the two time MVP on his roster.
Starting point is 00:56:04 That's what I think where it might come to a head if they disappoint here, right? I don't expect them to. I'm taking them to beat the Steelers. I think the Steelers are going like this and the Ravens are going like this right now. I expect them to control the game. I picked Ravens 35 to 20. So if it goes as expected, he'll be okay. But yeah, I think that what you're saying,
Starting point is 00:56:26 the Ravens fans know that. And that's why, you know, every few years, you kind of hear like a rumbling of, I don't know, is John Harbaugh still gonna be the head coach of the Ravens? And I think it's kind of the things you're alluding to that, you know, rubbed some people the wrong way in that fan base.
Starting point is 00:56:40 Chris, what's wrong with the Steelers? They're on this giant skid and there's no big injury or something where you could point to and go. Oh, well, they lost that guy and that's why they're not doing it Yeah, I think that People figured out how Russell Wilson led Pittsburgh Steelers want to play football a little bit The one thing you see with Russell Wilson and watching back even the Ravens game the last one they played played, which was 34-17 Ravens, and it was closer than that. It was a misleading score. But, you know, Wilson's made some mistakes lately. Wilson's definitely turned down some completions. Middle of the field is still an issue with Russell Wilson. It's an issue. And if there's an advantage to have in this matchup, Friar moved down the middle against Roquan Smith.
Starting point is 00:57:23 There was people open down the middle in the last matchup against the Ravens. He's reluctant to throw the ball into those windows. I don't know if it's because he's shorter and he can't see or if he's just very protective of the ball, but he's going to have to be a little more aggressive in this one. I think too, the other thing you start to realize is that, you know, when they don't have George Pickens and he's not focused and he or he's dropping the ball or talking too much. You can see that they're just not the same offense. There's nobody that scares you. So I think it's a little bit of all of that.
Starting point is 00:57:53 Uh, and then the defense is good, but it's not great. I think that's probably the big thing. I look there. I'm expecting Baltimore to kind of control this game. Mikey, a like jump off to a big lead and then kind of take the foot off the gas pedal. And Pittsburgh kind of comes back to make it look respectable.
Starting point is 00:58:11 But I don't think they're in the same class as the Baltimore Bravens right now. Chris, how big a loss was it for the Vikings to lose in week 18 the way they did? Not just losing the one seed in home field, but to be dominated by the team that you're ultimately gonna have to go through to get to the Super Bowl yeah I get you there right now where I where I think I'll fight back on you a
Starting point is 00:58:34 little bit is the word dominate right because the score looks dominant I understand that it does but let's not forget Sam Donald missed a lot of throws a lot of throws a lot of reads right A lot of throws, a lot of reads, right? You might have saw some on special media. Right. There was guys where you go, he's the first read. He's wide open, but he's already like, he was jittery and he was already moving to somebody else. And it's like, wait, wait, the second guy's not even where he needs to be yet because you got off the first guy who's wide
Starting point is 00:59:01 open for a touchdown. Just throw it. So yeah, he didn't play good. But Kevin O'Connell will be able to say it that way. Now, you know, they had four consecutive drives where three of them, they were like inside the five yard line and one of them, they were at the eight yard line and they got two field goals out of those four drives. That was it. That was it. The other two drives inside the five and came away with zero points He's gonna be able to sell to his team look if Sam makes this thrower Hey, we've seen Sam make this read if we play them again this game ain't 31 to 9 Their defense played well for the better part of the football game. So like O'Connell said this on Monday He said we can't forget that we won nine in a row and we were really good
Starting point is 00:59:44 We didn't play our best last night and we messed up. And that's what he's gonna have to kind of sell and beat into the brain of his football team. Thirty-one to nine was misleading. I think that game was closer than that and they certainly blew some opportunities to put some pressure on Detroit early in the football game and make it be a little bit of a different football game in general. Chris, after Lamar Jackson, who has
Starting point is 01:00:04 the most amount of pressure on them headed into the postseason? I think it's Josh Allen. So do I. I think they're kind of in the same boat when I look at it that way. Right? Like Lamar Jackson is, for as great as he is, what is it so far? Is it two playoff wins? Or we had two? Yeah, I think so. So, I mean, that's kind of remarkable for a guy
Starting point is 01:00:29 that's the two-time league MVP, maybe about to be the third one, like Mikey Ye was just talking about, or you were talking about with the hardball stuff, and we've only won two games. So there's a lot of pressure on him, but Josh Allen has the same amount of pressure, and it might not just be about winning the big it might not be winning playoff games
Starting point is 01:00:47 But it's like can you get to the can you get to the championship? Can you get to the Super Bowl? Can you get there that way? But I think those two are the two that are under the most pressure. They're so talented There is talented as we've ever seen in football. They're all-time greats talented as we've ever seen in football. They're all time greats. They're just missing this part of you know their resume to say playoff big wins and all that type of stuff and that's why there's a lot of pressure on him. So he has an opportunity here since because you know this he has an opportunity to erase all the demons. He could be Tomlin in
Starting point is 01:01:18 the first round. He can go to Buffalo take out Josh Allen in the second round. You can go to Kansas City and take out my homes in the AMC championship game just to get to the Super Bowl. That's right. And that's what Josh Allen's saying. He's going, I just got to beat Sean Payton this week. And then if I beat Lamar Jackson and then I go on the road and we beat Kansas City, damn, all the demons will be off my back. So it's like, it's funny. They're in the same boat, right?
Starting point is 01:01:42 It really is. It's crazy that way. And yeah, then to go to the Superbowl, like you said, and then have to deal with, you know, who knows what team the lions, the Eagles and go over, well, they're pretty good. I gotta beat them. Does that count? Does this one count? I don't know what's going to happen, right? But, uh, these, these are, these are the things that we know greatness in the NFL Pantheon, the hall of famers, all that. They're judged on these moments. And it's unfortunate that three greats like this are all on the same side of the bracket and got to deal with each other. But that's just the way it is. And
Starting point is 01:02:14 that's what's going to make this playoffs. Awesome. If you, Chris, were to switching over now to the NFL coaching search right now, if you were an NFL head coaching candidate, which is the job that Chris Sims would want the most? Because a lot of people now are saying, hey, the Patriots are a good landing spot because they have a quarterback, they're going to have some cap room. The idea of getting Trevor Lawrence, which we know you're never going to turn down, but the idea of getting Trevor Lawrence is something a lot of people are salivating over. Chicago is one that intrigues a lot of people.
Starting point is 01:02:48 You now have Las Vegas that became available this week, where you have Tom Brady calling the shots, which might not be the best thing there. But which is one that if you were a head coaching candidate, you would desire the most? Well, Brady will know the right coaches, right? You know, I know you guys released some shit on social media about me and all the damn Brady stuff last week. That was Billy. That wasn't me.
Starting point is 01:03:12 I'm a believer in Brady. I am, as far as a football mind. I like Tom Brady a lot. And in fact, it hurts me that that goes out on social media just because I like him. But I still stand by what I said. But either way, like, yeah. Cut out all the like him stuff before this, then just because I like him. But I still stand by what I said. But either way, like, yeah. Cut out all the like him stuff before this,
Starting point is 01:03:27 then just play all this negative. He's going to say no. Shut up. I don't like you. So shut that up. All right? This is why you're not invited to the Texas game. And me and Mikey, I don't want to be there.
Starting point is 01:03:36 I think you hit the teams and the points there, Billy. I think you're right in what you're saying. I mean, I know you don't like Trevor Lawrence, and there might be other people in football that feel the same way. I get that, but it's still not a bad one to have. And the Jaguars, a little bit like you said, like I would say with the Bears, wait, we got receivers,
Starting point is 01:03:57 we got a running back, we got two of them actually, we got some pass rushers, we got some guys in the secondary, we just need to kind of improve the old line a little bit and get a maybe a better defensive tackle in there. So they're not far off. The Bears, I already explained that, right? Not far off. And you got the quarterback there. And the Patriots, you know, they're a little more work than the Jaguars and the Bears as far as the full team, but you do have Drake May, certainly, right? But you know, there's a lot more to do there.
Starting point is 01:04:27 And that's where, you know, I feel bad for Gerard Mayo is that like they finished exactly where I think everybody thought they would finish. Like nobody looked at the Patriots and went, oh, they're an under the radar sleeping giant this year. Watch out for them. I mean, there's not a lot of bright spots on their football team. They got a few good
Starting point is 01:04:46 secondary players, right? They got Drake May. They got Ramondre Stevenson. After that, everybody's gonna be looking evaluated to see whether they should be the guys going forward. So, you know, there's a little more work there in New England than those other two. Uh Chris, I wanna explore just how far out I can push this. So, if I told you, I think the Rams are gonna make it to the Super Bowl, would you be surprised? I think I would be right now. I would.
Starting point is 01:05:11 Okay. All right. Yeah, pain in the ass, certainly. Right. I'm going to pick. I'm picking Minnesota to win that game this weekend, but only by a field goal. But I worry about what I've seen from the Rams offense. And even though the Rams defense has been better as of late, I don't know if it's good enough to hold down the fort if the offense can't be explosive and put up some points.
Starting point is 01:05:36 So I look at them to be a team that could maybe they can win this weekend, maybe could upset one of the teams in the next round. I certainly don't think that's crazy, but I would think it kind of ends there right around that story. That's about it. If I told you the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Starting point is 01:05:53 were gonna make it to the Super Bowl, you would say what? I would say kind of the same type of stuff, more though I really worry about the Tampa Bay pass defense. Their offense is capable of going to the Super Bowl. They can do it all. It's the defense aside and the pass defense especially I know I've made fun of them a little bit here on the show before but I mean Todd bowls the Bucks they play defense every week like they're playing the 92 Cowboys. And I want to go, why? I mean, there was plays last week while I'm watching the game in the viewing room here at NBC, and I'm going, Alvin Kamara is not playing and the Saints can't run the ball. And there's six guys
Starting point is 01:06:35 at the line of scrimmage. Look at this. I, I, and I'm literally calling out, I guarantee they throw it over the middle where nobody is. I guarantee they do this. It's just way too aggressive in the run defense, way too aggressive, let alone they have injuries all over their secondary. It makes no sense. So that's why I don't have faith in that. They're just a little too much of a roller coaster team right now.
Starting point is 01:06:57 So it seems like you'd be surprised by any team other than Philadelphia or the Lions to make it out of the NFC. Is that fair? I would say that's fair. It is. I would have like maybe about four or three weeks ago, I would have put Green Bay in that conversation, but they've lost me. I don't trust the offense right now and Jordan Love and
Starting point is 01:07:16 all that's gone down there. Christian Watson hurt now. So yeah, I feel like if it's not Lions or Philadelphia, I'm gonna be jaw dropped like holy **** I can't if it's not Lions or Philadelphia, I'm gonna be jaw dropped like, holy shit, I can't believe it. And in the AFC, if it's any team other than the three teams, Baltimore, Buffalo, Kansas City, are you gonna be surprised? Let's say the Chargers make it. Yeah, yes, I would, same thing.
Starting point is 01:07:36 I mean, like jaw on the ground, like what the, no way, right? Yeah, I think it's the three heavy hitters. I'll be shocked. I will be absolutely shocked if it's not one of those three teams. 100% Stugats. Now here's the interesting one. If Cincinnati made the playoffs and then went on to make the Super Bowl, would you have been shocked? Probably not. No, less than the other ones. Less than the other ones. I know. I know that's
Starting point is 01:08:02 what's crazy and that's what stinks. And that's what stinks about when a team that's good blows games early in the year or loses games they're not supposed to lose. Then we get cheated out of the best possible playoff scenarios. So yeah, they're not in it, but Denver's not a bad consolation. Denver was Sean Payton and Bo Nix and they've already won the year. They're playing with house money. They'll be dangerous this weekend. I think that'll be a fun game. Kind of one where it's a shootout and the Bills pull away late. That's kind of what I'm expecting. Alright, we'll get you out of here in just a second. PFT with Mike Florio every day on Peacock, the Unbuttoned
Starting point is 01:08:34 Podcast, Football Night in America. He's off to Texas. He's going to the Cottonball, but hear me out on this, okay? Because I believe that the Chiefs have a different kind of pressure on them headed into the postseason. Last year, the story was Patrick Mahomes woke up one day. They had three road games to win. He called his wife. He said, I decided the Chiefs are going to win the Super Bowl. Okay. This year, though, Chris, he has one of the most coveted thing in the sports. It reminds me of the Patriots where they have a bye week.
Starting point is 01:09:00 They have two home games to get to a Super Bowl. You have to take advantage of those opportunities and if you're chasing Tom Brady to be the all-time great, you need to be the all-time best quarterback in NFL history. You need to do things that Tom has never done and no quarterback has ever done and winning three straight is one of those things. There is some pressure here on the Chiefs to get it done right now. Definitely. I mean, that's why what they've done this year is remarkable. That's why Andy Reid should be more in the coach of the year candidate conversation. I don't
Starting point is 01:09:29 get that. I don't get it. I mean, it's just, oh, hey, here's another challenge. They can't do that. Oh, they do it easily. Oh, okay. Oh, and so they, they can't be, you know, a top team in the AFC for a third year in a row and make a Super Bowl. Oh, they're the best record in football. Oh, okay. Then they can do it. I mean, they just, they don't, they've slayed so many dragons at this point though, Stu Gotts, they don't look at anything as pressure. They look at it all as like, yeah, bring it on, bring it on. We're going to show you how great we are. I've been around them enough to know and seen them at practice and playoff games and all that. They don't back down from anything, right? Just like the Patriots, they
Starting point is 01:10:12 were the same way, except the Chiefs are a little bit more of like, yeah, we want it, bring it. Taylor Swift haters, come on, bring it all. We love it all, right? That's where I don't think they feel the pressure. They like are, instead of feeling the pressure, it's just a, we're striving to be the greatest thing ever and we're gonna just pedal to the metal and not even think twice about it and go for it. That's what's cool about the Chiefs. And that's where they've handled so many pressure moments
Starting point is 01:10:40 that I don't even know if they feel pressure anymore, Stu Gotts. All right, but knowing Patrick the the way you know, Patrick, like he knows that, right? He knows he's, he's, yes. He knows all the things you said. He knows exactly. To me, what you said is one of the big reasons
Starting point is 01:10:58 they have stayed the course and done what they've done this year because they got a guy in my homes who then has a backup man in Kelsey, who they could go, hey, they can every day. And Chris Jones is the same way in the defensive side. We got something special we can do this year. Nobody can do this.
Starting point is 01:11:17 Nobody's done this. Those great Cowboy teams, the great Steeler teams, the 49ers, Tom Brady and the Patriots, we can set aside, I might not be teams, the 49ers, Tom Brady and the Patriots. We can set aside. I might not be able to get to seven, but I can maybe get five or six and go, but you never won three in a row, Tom, right? All of that. And I think that's why they're a motivated team because their motivators are motivated by what you're talking about. All right, Chris, enjoy the weekend. Get off to Texas. Listen, the plane takes off when
Starting point is 01:11:42 you get there. We all know that. Okay. I mean, but no, no, what's, what's, what's even worse is I, my wife just texted me and said they've canceled our flight. So I'm like, Oh, because Dallas is having this weather issue, right? And I went to school at Texas and if they get flurries, the state shuts down. They don't know how to handle cold or ice or snow and we're having issues. So I'm already concerned about my ability to get there. Road trip right now. I'm getting in the car. Just you and the kids. Yeah. I see it right here, Chris. 23 hours, seven minute drive from New Jersey to Dallas. I'll drive. I'll drive with two ships. We'll do Mikey will drive and you and I will sit in the back seat and smoke weed. Sims. Let's go. Whoa.
Starting point is 01:12:30 Unbelievable. I can't even believe it. It's such a dummies only in the car. Yeah. He's so upset. Look at him. He's crushed right now. He wants to go to he wants to go to the cotton ball. He can't. Well, where's the problem? Dallas. Why don't you fly into somewhere else and then just drive from there and text. You have a private plane. You just tell them wherever the land. Who do you think I am that I have a private plane or can fly?
Starting point is 01:12:50 Air Sims. You're Sims. The plane's called Big D***. I mean. Yeah, I wish, but you know, Big D*** played in the 80s. He ain't that rich, all right? Let me just tell you, okay? He'd be killing it today though, man.
Starting point is 01:13:05 No, I mean, for the first time ever in the last year, it was the first time I ever heard my dad hit the point of his life where he was jealous of the new contracts, right? It was the first time ever. My dad's always been like, Hey, I'm happy. The players are awesome. And then one day he was like, I can't believe this money. Some of these guys are getting, holy, can you believe blah, blah, blah is about to get 40 million or whatever? You know, it's just crazy. It really is. It was Danny dimes. Wasn't it? It was
Starting point is 01:13:38 you believe in Danny dimes and the Sims household. So it would be like, God, I love you guys. All right. Good luck at the Texas fan. Sorry about that. Yeah. Alright, I'll see you guys. See you. Enjoy super wildcard weekend. You'll figure out a way. So you're saying you'll get there. It's wildcard weekend. They cancel the super finally. No, I call super wildcard weekend. I don't give a **** what they cancel. I'm gonna call it super wildcard. I'm gonna call it super wild card. I like it. My man.
Starting point is 01:14:06 Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh.
Starting point is 01:14:13 Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Okay, so Gordy, we were talking about cyber squatting somehow, we were looking up websites that we could own that people would then pay us millions of dollars for. And we stumbled across joshallen.com
Starting point is 01:14:28 and found out that someone in Buffalo owns joshallen.com and it is a man named Ron and his associate, Todd. And Ron and Todd both live in Buffalo and they both buy up a bunch of websites and phone numbers. And then we're like, would you like to meet Gordy Gronkowski and like, we knowordy we're like okay perfect I don't know how many Ron's and Todd's you hang out with but they they claim to know you okay perfect I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing I mean if they could give us a
Starting point is 01:14:59 good discount on it that would be good. Unwilling to do that. Gordy I tried listen I was negotiating okay and your name came up because we said listen on it. That would be good. I was negotiating, okay? And your name came up because we said, listen, if you give us the joshallan.com domain for $100,000 less, perhaps, we could get you in a room or a suite with Gordy Gorkowski.
Starting point is 01:15:19 Yeah, there you go. Maybe we'll even bring Papa Grog. Yeah. Well, they claim to know him too. go. Maybe we'll even bring Papa Grock. Yeah. Well, they claim to know him too. Yeah. Yeah. They claim to know him too. Last time I was on the show, we had Papa Grock sitting on the
Starting point is 01:15:35 bed doing his thing. I love it is underwear. I think he went to it. Oh, did he really? Oh my god. Hey, Billy, check and see if they have Carl Douglas dot com available. I want to talk about that one. All right Hold on. But here's the thing. I probably swooped it up. I mean just don't say that too loud Carl because then then someone will buy it And and I will tell you I'll tell you this He said that most of his business was lawyers that he would buy up law firms. So It's possible that he's done that.
Starting point is 01:16:06 I think it's already taken from the OJ years. I tried to get one way back then and I think it was already taken. Well, it could have expired. Let's see here. I think it is taken, but they're not doing much with it. I get it. It's a story of my life.
Starting point is 01:16:19 It's a story of my life. All right, well, Carl's got a ghost you got. So if you want, we can start getting picks done because we have a little bit of controversy and I don't know where K-Funk is. He's doing one of his disappearing acts, apparently. Oh no, he has too much smear enough. Did he lose? Did he lose? Well, that's what is up for debate and dispute here is the last time, if you remember, we
Starting point is 01:16:43 had a situation where we were discussing the playoff games in college and they were only going to count if he did well. Now I don't really care about whether he did well or not I want you guys to do well it's really the truth. So I was really kind of banking on if you guys did well we would maybe count them and if you guys did poorly we wouldn't. Carl had a very rough NFL week. If you did not include the playoff games he was two and three but if you included the playoff games Carl was six and three because he won all of the playoff games. Correct. Now more impressive was Mike Rollis. Mike Rollis had a very good four in one week. Now if you include the playoff games he had an eight in one week and here's here's where we really need to kind of pay attention is Mojo was 0 and 5 in NFL
Starting point is 01:17:34 games with his 6 and 9 theory that he was trying to pull off. His college games didn't help him much I think he went 1 and 6 at the end because he was just saying I don't care about that game and he wasn't really making picks. Okay. Kayfunk had a two and three week which isn't great but from what I have and I need to go back and check a little more thoroughly he ended up being three and four and Sharebear was one and four but he won three of the four. So what do we want to rule here? Do we want to count the college games or not this week? Yes absolutely we said we were gonna count them. It doesn week. Yes, absolutely. We said we were going to count them. It doesn't matter how good he did.
Starting point is 01:18:07 We said we're going to count them. We got to count them. OK, fine. This is a man of integrity, Billy. Gordy, I don't think you said in your picks, but I'm going to assume that you. I do everything opposite of K-Funk if I'm not on the show. OK, well, I'm just going to assume
Starting point is 01:18:22 that you went 4-0 in the playoffs, and we won't bother you with the NFL. So we'll say that you were 4-0 that week. Actually, what I heard last week was Gordy say for the first time, we'll go opposite Mojo. That's what I heard. So by my records, you're 6-1, Gordy. So we'll just throw that right there. That's fair, because I had a tough start and I was coming on hot and you know I was probably gonna going to be right around that record anyways. Okay, perfect. He needs a help. I love Gordon.
Starting point is 01:18:48 He needs a help. He needs help. Give him a help. Okay, perfect. Yeah, I need a lot of help right now. It's official. Yeah. All right.
Starting point is 01:18:56 So we're just going to do this because we have we share bears not here. We don't have Mike Rollins. We don't have Mojo. We don't have Game Fun. So you ready? Well, I have picks for Mike Rollins and I have picks for Share Bear at the moment. Okay. I have picks for Mojo and K-Funk. Mojo got them right and K-Funk got them wrong. Okay. Well, there you go. Easy peasy. We're picking six games. Are you telling me
Starting point is 01:19:21 before the games are played that K-Funk has already got Owen six. I'll let you know in the fourth quarter what K-Funk pick. Are we taking college games this week? No college this week. No college this week. We have one
Starting point is 01:19:36 game we can do. We have the game tomorrow, Billy. We can do that. Yeah. I get it. Well, you want to do college, let's do college. Whatever. Let's just agree on this, that K-Funk is Owen 7 now, okay? Okay. He's gonna have a heart attack, I love K-Funk, he's gonna have a heart attack, guys. He does seem to take it more personally than everyone else.
Starting point is 01:19:56 Yeah. He does, he's a competitive guy and he thinks it's personal. I love him. All right, so you ready? You guys ready to do this? Yeah. All right, because Carl's got to get out of here. He's in his car.
Starting point is 01:20:06 He's on his way to work. So we got to get him out of here. Let's roll out to the first game wild card weekend. Chargers at Texans. Texans are three point underdogs at home. They haven't been playing well. Chargers playing very, very well. So I'll go to you first, Gordy.
Starting point is 01:20:23 Gordy, Chargers are minus three at Houston. Who are you taking here? You know what? I like the home team and the points. I know they're kind of beat up Houston, but I think it's still going to be a tight game. I don't really ever see the Chargers blowing people up. So I'm going with Houston. All right. Billy, you have Share Bear's picks? Yeah. Share Bear took the Chargers. Mike Rollins took the Texans. Okay. And K-Funk is 0-1, and Mojo is 1-0.
Starting point is 01:20:48 Carl Bugg was Chargers at Texans. Chargers are minus three. Mikey Yeg, thank you for that joke. I'm not gonna stop saying it. Chargers are minus three at the Texans. Who you got, Carl? I'm a lifelong Angelino. We hate the Chargers, but in this game, I'm going to go with them because they're playing
Starting point is 01:21:06 well. Give me the Chargers. I'll give them the points. All right. Carl has taken the Chargers. Next game is Steelers at Ravens. Ravens minus nine and a half points at home. Carl, I'll start with you.
Starting point is 01:21:16 Who you take it here? My wife's entire family is from Pittsburgh. She's going to hate me me but I'm going to take the Ravens. I don't think they can score for Pittsburgh. So, I'm taking the Ravens. Go with the points. Alright, Billy, who does uh Rollins and
Starting point is 01:21:31 Share Bear have? Share Bear and Mike Rollins both have the Steelers. Alright, Gordy, who you taking here? Uh we have four G and G fitness retail stores in the heart of Pittsburgh. Uh we help supply the Steelers with their
Starting point is 01:21:44 fitness equipment. You know, I just think they're going to, you know, last longer on the field because we beat these guys up. So I'm going with Steelers, baby. You're going with the Steelers and you're giving your own company credit for the Steelers getting the deal. Correct. I love that.
Starting point is 01:22:00 What if the Ravens were a client? You would have taken them? I would have, then I wouldn't have brought that situation up. With how hot he's been, maybe the Ravens want to give him a call, just saying. Right, right. Just saying. Hey, it's taking a lot of energy. All right, and here's Mojo.
Starting point is 01:22:19 All right, so Mojo, we have to be quick and we have to be efficient here. By the way, Mojo, if you want to drop back off, we already gave you an undefeated week. Whoa, sweet. Well, really what I did was I gave K-Funk a win this week, and I gave you opposite funk. So you didn't have to give him that. He was going to produce that on his own. That's what he does.
Starting point is 01:22:40 We have a whole season's worth of results to back that up. Mathematical factual statement. Carl Douglas, that would be an open shut case if he was in a quarter wall. There you go, man. There you go. There you go. Well, here's how it would have happened is that Kay Funk never showed up
Starting point is 01:22:57 and he never sent his picks. So by our rules, that's a forfeit. So you'd do opposite forfeit, you'd get all the wins, I think. Yeah. Don't pick a thing,jo don't you're good Wait, just just hang around here. I mean he's He's gonna have a heart attack next to me. You're gonna kill my guy case up next week when he hits him
Starting point is 01:23:16 Yeah, I mean you get you can pick game for funsies, but I feel like we're locked in at that ruling What's a fun notebook to say is my question. It's a great question. It's going to say he didn't show up and we gave him an 0 and 6. That's what he's going to say. Orbit, yeah. Considering he's the one that individually texts us every single hour of every single day leading into this show every week.
Starting point is 01:23:37 It's odd. You have perfect attendance. Yeah. So Mojo, what would you like to do? Do you want to pick the games or not? I'll pick the games. I'll pick the games. I'll let him
Starting point is 01:23:47 pick. Alright, you're listening. No pressure. You're undefeated. Okay. Chargers at Texans, Texans plus three at home. What are you taking there? Chargers at Texans. Ooh. Give me Sean Maryman and the Chargers, baby. Alright.
Starting point is 01:24:03 That's the last time he's playing. He's playing this weekend, right? I think he's day to day, but it's it's trending that way. In questionable since oh four. All right, Mojo Steelers at Ravens. Ravens, that's a big spread too. But the spread master ain't scared Baltimore all day. Steelers are having a really, really good run right now. Okay. Yeah. We're back. We're back on track here.
Starting point is 01:24:27 So next game Broncos at Bills, Bills minus eight and a half. Billy, who did Rawls and Cherbear take here? Mike Rawls has the Bills, Cherbear has the Broncos. Okay. Let's go to Gordy first here. Gordy Bills, I know who Gordy is taking. Bills minus eight and a half. They're at home. They're taking on the Broncos. Just skip right over me. You know who I'm going to take the bills. I know it's taking bills minus eight and a half. They're taking
Starting point is 01:24:46 on the right over me. Just skip right over me. You know what? I'm going to. I think you're taking the bills, Gordy. Yeah, absolutely. We have a fitness store right in Buffalo that you know that's our hometown. I just buy the fitness equipment
Starting point is 01:24:57 to the bills. So yeah, I gotta go with J Allen. Let's go. Let's go baby. Alright, Paul Douglas. So you take it here bills minus eight and a half at home taking on Bo Nix and the Broncos. I think the Bills are gonna win, but I'm taking the Broncos because I think they're gonna cover.
Starting point is 01:25:12 Give me the Broncos. All right, Bills win, Broncos cover. Mojo, who you taking? I'm gonna take the Bills because they're gonna have to make a statement win here this week to kick off the players' playoffs, but I'm mostly going to take the bills because the first Time you might have to censor me on this afterwards depending on what Gord says is best
Starting point is 01:25:32 But the first time I went over to the Gronkowski family household they had a massive massive party going on go figure and they Introduced me to the game of slip and flip. If you're not familiar with this game, you do a sprint, you dive, you slide down a slip and slide. Theirs was literally 40 yards long. It was for, it's the longest one I've ever seen. Then you get up, you have to do a flip cup
Starting point is 01:26:00 at the end of the line. Then baton style, you have to sprint all the way back to the beginning, tag in the next guy and it's a relay race of who's gonna win that slip and flip. So I'm watching this and I'm like, this is awesome. I can't wait to play this. There's an athletic component. There's a party component. I'm in.
Starting point is 01:26:20 I decided not to because someone decided that everyone was going to go in for a round of their around of shots and one of their buddies who will remain nameless stayed out at the slip and slide and use the bathroom at the top of the slip and slide. So that way when they resume the game they would be sliding right through it which I thought was very funny. So because of that, Gordy's face looks like he hasn't heard this yet. I have it. I have it.
Starting point is 01:26:51 And he's slipped through a bunch of games. Gordy's face looked like he did not know this was a game. I slid through it. That's what you're telling me. Yeah. Well, unless Gord was the one that did it. Well, I did. We don't know.
Starting point is 01:26:59 We don't know. Because I want to know now. And yeah, I thought that was pretty funny. I thought that was pretty funny. I thought that was pretty funny. I thought that was pretty funny. I thought that was pretty funny. I thought that was pretty funny. I thought that was pretty funny. it. We don't know. We don't know. Because I want to know now. Yeah, I thought that was pretty awesome.
Starting point is 01:27:11 So I'll take that. Now I don't think it is. Yeah, I'll go with it. All right. I'm texting you right now. Who was I'm going to say? I knew it wasn't me. Wait, so Gordy, he's going to text you who it was and then feel free to share it without just reading. It'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Starting point is 01:27:25 I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Starting point is 01:27:33 I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Starting point is 01:27:41 I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Carl. Our apologies. No problem. No problem. No problem. No problem. Maybe speed picks for Carl and then he can enjoy as
Starting point is 01:27:51 much as he wants and when he's got to go, he can go. Alright, Packers at Eagles, Eagles minus four and a half. Who are you taking Carl? Give me the Eagles. I'm I'm I'm I'm worried about love's arm and I'm worried about Kristen Watson and God.
Starting point is 01:28:07 Give me the Eagles. Alright, taking the Eagles. I'm going to get you out of here. Call commanders at Bucks Bucks minus the the the the the the the the the trial right now in Compton on a wrongful death case seeking justice for the family of Fred Williams III. Wish me luck. All right and Carl we wish you luck with all the fires and everything going on out there.
Starting point is 01:28:32 You'll be in our thoughts and our prayers the entire weekend. You, your friends, your family, everyone. Good luck to you and hopefully you guys get through it. Thank you brother. May God bless. See you guys next week. Love you. All right. Thank you Carl. I love you buddy. He is fantastic. I love that man. All right. Thank you, Carl. Love you, buddy. He is fantastic. I love that man.
Starting point is 01:28:46 All right, so where we leave off. So Gordy Packers at Eagles, Eagles minus four and a half. Who are you taking it? I'm going with the Packers, taking the points. Okay, did Mojo send you the name yet? Yeah, he did. But if I click on it on my cell phone,
Starting point is 01:29:00 I'm worried I might not be able to get back in the street. Okay. That is a good line, dude. Wow, that was incredible, and it's true, too. Mojo, you take it here. Eagles minus 4 1 2 1. Here's what Mojo's gonna do. Mojo's gonna flip the script today.
Starting point is 01:29:17 The Packers broke an 11-game win streak against the Chicago Bears, who suck all the asses, our arch rival. Very much upsetting Mojo. Now you would think that that would be the message into their head to flip this thing around for the playoffs, but I'm not sure it's enough right now. So I'm going to take the Eagles wall against the Packers for the first time all season,
Starting point is 01:29:44 knowing that every single member of the Packers football team listens to God bless football to hear the spread master call their name every week. And when they hear that I took the other guys, they're gonna be so pissed off to prove me wrong that they're absolutely going to smash the Eagles face in. So that's what I'm doing. All right, I love it. Billy, who did Share Bear and Rawlis take?
Starting point is 01:30:09 Share Bear took the Eagles, Rawlis took the Packers. All right, Gordy, I'm tempted to tell you just to go check the text and then come back to the Zoom. Maybe I already did check it. Ooh. Maybe that's why he's not sharing who it is. Maybe it's not even exciting for the shop, you don't know who it is. the- the- the- the- the- the- the- the- the- the- the- the- the- the- the- the- the- the-
Starting point is 01:30:42 the- the- the- the- the- the- the- the- the- the- the- the- the- the- the- the- the- the- I'm going to the game. Uh Bucks or minus three at home against the commanders. I think Bucks pulled off. Um I'm going to the game. I am tailgating. So, I will be a little emotional but I think it's going to be a close game. I'm
Starting point is 01:30:55 going to take Washington. Alright, you're taking Washington. Uh Billy, who did Chervair Rollins take for this game? Chervair took the Bucks. Rollins took the Bucks. Alright, Mojo, who you going with? Commanders at Bucks, Bucks minus three at home. You know Mojo's name used to be Dean. Way less exciting. Not middle name if you're wondering. That's true, that's true and Dean didn't party. Dean studied late. Dean went
Starting point is 01:31:19 to bed early. Dean did all the right things. Dean has kids. Once Dean met Gordon Grunkowski, Gordon Dean Grunkowski Jr. in Washington DC, that's when the journey to Mojo began. And because of that reason, I'm taking Washington. Take it inside. It all began. Same exact reason I did. Right.
Starting point is 01:31:44 Yeah. Are you saying that Mojo? Carl too. Are exactly. He's excited. Right. Yeah. Are you saying that? Are you saying Dean's a dad, but Mojo is not? Is that what you're saying? Yeah. Well, no, because Mojo is probably more times over a dad than Dean actually is. Okay.
Starting point is 01:32:00 All right. But they're different people, right? I mean, well, we don't know this. Yeah. Mojo parties, Dean does not party. Dean hasn't left out. Dean is a father, Mojo is a dad. There you go. Is mojo.com available by the way?
Starting point is 01:32:14 Yeah. Nice. Billy, do we know mojo.com as well? I don't know. All right, so Gordy, promote your great company on the way out here. We appreciate you guys taking the time to do this. Alright. So, Gordy, promote promote your great company on the way out here. We appreciate you guys taking the
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Starting point is 01:33:33 Let's go, baby, let's go. All right, boys. Ojo, congratulations on being undefeated this week. Yeah. Once again. Poor K-Funk. Yeah. Nahum bum! Bum bum. Once again. Poor K-Funk. Yeah. Nah.
Starting point is 01:33:46 Well, he didn't show up. Rock on. God bless football.

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