The Fumblerooski Podcast - Hall of Shame -Ep 421 The Fumblerooski Podcast

Episode Date: January 30, 2026

On today’s episode, we break down the shocking news of Bill Belichick being snubbed from making the Hall of Fame on the first ballot and react to the fallout and rumors that followed. Chris Costich and CJ Medeiros also dive into the Browns shocking decision to hire Todd Monken as Head Coach as well as Joe Brady being promoted to Bills Head Coach.

It's 2026. The Patriots and the Seahawks are in the Super Bowl. And Bill Belichick and deflategate and SpyGate are in question again. This time, Bill Belchick, not a first ballot Hall of Famer. Unreal, unreal. We're going to talk to all that and more. This is a Fulmeroski podcast. It may not have always showed it in the stat sheet,

but you can see him making throws when he needs to make the throws. Back-to-back games where he has three touchdowns. Someone's got to get that six or seven spot. He's an elite wide receiver as a rookie. Truly a lose-lose scenario for both sides. Welcome to the Fulburyski podcast by Power 8018 Radio and Secret Weptain Consulting. We got C.J. Madero, some Chris Kostitch. Don't have Adam or Tuck, unfortunately, for today, but that's all right.

Not a ton going on today besides, well, one thing, really. And it's Bill Belichick. Not a first ballot Hall of Famer. did not meet the required 40 out of 50 votes needed to make it to the Hall of Fame. Amongst others, of course, as well, Eli Manning also did not receive enough votes to make the Hall of Fame on the second go-around, which is a little surprising. But we can talk about that in a second. This was leaked on Tuesday, Tuesday night, and let's just say the NFL – Like, if you were to tell me that the entire NFL world doesn't matter the fan base,

doesn't matter the team, doesn't matter the person was going to rally behind Bill Belichick, I would have said that you're on crack. Like that, the amount of support for Belichick after this happened was unbelievable. And I mean, the fact that you have. just the stories and the reasonings for Belichick to not be named or to not make it to the Hall of Fame on the first go-round is benign to me.

Or benign. It's insane to me. It's insane. Let me just read some of the shit for you. Bill Pullian, of course, was the biggest name involved with this. and the rumor was that Bill Pollyan gathered the voters,

some voters around and said, we need to punish this guy for, uh, for spy gate, for deflategate, basically give him a punishment for a year and then vote him in the next year, which that's, that's kind of the other part of this,

right, is like, he's just going to be voted. He's going to be voted into the Hall of Fame next year and everyone's going to forget that this, and everyone's probably going to forget that this even happened. But the fact of the matter still. is that we're in a wild, wild, wild time where the pro football hall of fame is now put into the same conversation as the baseball hall of fame, which is like the baseball hall of fame obviously has its issues, right?

Like they don't have the best baseball players actually in the Hall of Fame. They just have a lot of shit going wrong for them. And there's way too much controversy on that side of the aisle. And baseball media is by far the oldest, crankiest, and unforgiving of the four major American sports. Yes. And here's some other, like, things to kind of help in the Bill Belichick case, right? Think about every other person that is in the Hall of Fame, right? I'm just going to name, I'm just going to throw out a couple of names for you, right?

O.J. Simpson murdered someone. He did not get kicked out of the Hall of Fame. Yeah. Jerry Rice was using Stickham. He's a Hall of Famer. Or what about Lawrence Taylor? Like, we all know the horrible shit he did off the field, then nothing. Or, you know, I'm just going to say it.

When he listens back, Tuck isn't going to like it. But Ray Lewis killed the guy, allegedly. But come on. Or allegedly got rid of sufficient evidence for a murder. case. Or, or, I'll go a step further. Michael Irving stabbed his teammate with a pair of scissors. Exactly.

All right. Back to Bill Pullian real quick. Here's a list of the times that Bill Pullian cheated and awful decisions that and takes that he made. Bill Pullian used artificial crowd noise at the RCA dome to hinder opponents during the 2000s as the Colts precedent. Oh, I almost lost that for a second there. polling convinced the bears to hire one of the worst head coaches of all time at iberfluse

he also said lamar jackson was not good enough to play qb in the nflb and should change the wide receiver he also had the pass interference rule changed fuck i keep clicking the wrong thing you also are you looking at what i sent you by the way what is this what i sent you i don't know this is from is this m l football yeah that yeah that's what i said yeah i don't know i end up i brought But, yeah, I saved it. Pullian had pass interference rule changed because Tylaw, Rodney Harrison, and the Patriots defense bullied the fuck out of Peyton Manning, Marvin Harrison, and Reggie Wayne in the Colts. Pullian said Tyron Matthew was undraftable.

Passed on Tom Brady multiple times, despite claiming he had first round grade on him. Keep clicking out of this for some reason. oversaw a decade of poor drafting for the Colts leading to bust and got him fired in 2011 after a 2 and 14th season. He compared Johnny Mansell's deep ball to Hall famers Jim Kelly, lost four Super Bowls and somehow only won one.

And was known as one of the most insecure and revenge-seeking men in the league. Here's some of sports illustrator also posted out some possibilities, four possibilities used to be more exact. There's a fifth one I'm going to say. But possibility number one, a handful of voters assumed Belichick was going to be elected,

so they voted for other candidates instead, which this was a bit of a theme that ended up coming out, which, by the way, the fact that we're finding out about this information now is against the Pro Football Hall of Fame bylaws. I just wanted to point that out. Possibility. So there was other stuff that came out that was like,

like, well, some other people who were voting for other candidates that had been on the ballot for a while, which makes sense. But we're not in the business of catering to one's feelings. We are here in the business of facts. Possibility number two. And this is kind of based off of what I just said. A handful of voters decided to prioritize senior players on the ballot, assuming that Belichick will be back on the ballot next year, while other players might not yet get another. chance. Possibility number three, some voters wanted to punish Belichick for Spyggy into Flakegate, which is kind of what I was referring to with Bill Pulling.

Possibility number four, a few voters may have been protesting in the new Hall of Fame rules, which made coaches eligible one year after retiring instead of five, which is for the players. Or possibility number five, which is the top comment, or one of the top comments on here by V. Marcus Coon. Possibility number five, incompetence driven by jealousy. Yeah, I would say that. Yeah, and of course, and that, there's just so much that you could say as well about this. You could bring up a lot of different things.

You could talk about the Patriots bias in terms of hate-driven. or hate-fueled, whatever, just a lot of hate in general for 20 years of dominance. You look at every other dynasty and those teams have their GMs, their head coaches, and at least 10 players, or just a handful of fucking players that made the Hall of Fame. Look at the 85 Bears, for example. They weren't even a dynasty in half of that roster is in the Hall of Fame. Yeah, true. and the Patriots have two players maybe, not even.

From the dynasty or in general? From the dynasty. No, from the dynasty is there's two. Yeah, it's Richard Seymour and Thai law. More will be coming, but like, the entry is insane. The fact that it's been this long and only two players in the 20-year span of the dynasty and really more players from those first three Super Bowl should be in the Hall of Fame shows you exactly what the Hall of Fame thinks of the New England Patriots.

And you could even make a case that this helps Bill Belichick's case of being a first ballot Hall of Famer, considering that he only had two Hall of Famers outside of Brady and Grom. Mm-hmm. Exactly. So there's a lot to unpack here. There's a lot. There's a lot. And I'm not even like,

I haven't even scratched the surface of everything I wanted to even touch on too. Yeah. But, um, I would like to go saying, but you know. Yeah, yeah. I'm going to find some more,

uh, some more stuff that I said or that I saved, I should say, or bookmarked. I just. Yeah. Out of the, like,

like I got to get some housekeeping stuff out of the way first. All the little Belichick supporters are rubbing their hands together and saying, Oh, yes, yes, keep him out of the Hall of Fame. I'm such a dirty little loser. Chud, that lives in my parents' basement and drinks soy. Like, that's, that's how they are. That's how I see them. And all the Belichick haters, listen to the fuck up, okay?

I got some shit to tell you. All right, there are three narratives. That's why you shouldn't be in the Hall of Fame. Number one, and by far the dumbest is the whole, well, he was the Brady merchant. Like, okay. So people are saying that not only should you not be first ballot, but he shouldn't be a Hall of Famer, period, because he is a Brady merchant. Okay, so then by your own logic, Don Shula, Chuck Knoll, Walsh, from the Niners,

Landry for the Cowboys, who did not win without their quarterbacks. should not be in the Hall of Fame either. Congratulations. I could tell you rode the short bus when you were a kid. Second, SpyGate. Let me break it down. It's not that they were filming signals. Everyone did that.

They were literally doing what they did, but a little shifted in a different location. They were literally doing the thing everyone else did, but just from like a different room. Ooh, shiver me, timbers. Like, you mean they were supposed to be in Room A, but they were filming from Room B right next door. Oh, my God, the unbelievable horror.

And deflategate. You know it. I know it. It's been debunked. The hater, now that cooler heads have prevailed, they all admitted it. You know, I mean, hell. You know, it's bad when it was like Yale or Harvard or someone like that, literally proved it wrong.

But what did the NFL want to do? They propped up some snot-nosed brat from Kentucky who, who some Colts fan who won a science fair project that was proving it. It's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Who needs Yale and Harvard when you've got some bunkin from Kentucky, you know, some little brat like,

I don't like the Patriots. That's what the NFL propped up. Not to mention, there's a report from Mike Florio that literally like caught the NFL red-handed. What was it there? Oh, yeah. Making up numbers. Like, it was literally,

a hoax. They were making up the numbers. And so, yeah, there you go. There's that. Now let's move on to Bill Pullian. This loser, he's just a loser. He's a perennial loser. Bill Belichick beat his ass cheeks red on the football field every day. His team would put the hurt on Polians team.

And now he just decided to pull total spoil brat move and try to beat him at the Hall of Fame ballot box because he couldn't beat. him on the field. That's just how it was. It's jealousy. And I bet you anything that weirdo Tony Dungy was in on it too. You know, because Belichai was another one that just outclassed him again and again and again. But what if I told you? It gets better. Bill Pollyan said, oh, well, I don't remember not voting for Bill. Now look, the dude is... He doesn't remember voting, period.

He doesn't remember who he voted for. Exactly. So it sounds to me like somebody should, should have their vote stricken because you don't have the mental faculties to do it. It's like, you know, it's like he's probably just wandering around. Like probably eating ice cream and watching Matlock. Like, oh, oh, where's my life alert? I'm Bill Pullian. Just what an absolute loser. In a just society, this blatant tomfoolery would get you hung by your thumbs in a Turkish prison

or at least caned anywhere else. just oh my god just riding a bill polion the word that comes to mind is just loser pure and simple unadulterated loser like honest to god you know he's in the hall of fame himself he is a gold jacket rip him of it take out his bust remove his take go to his house rip up that jacket and say nah nah your ass is out of here your ass is grass buddy and and i just it's just sickening and sure you can say, oh yeah, but you're a Patriots fan. Of course you feel this way. Here's the real thing of this. To the NFL,

no polion, whoever, do you have the slightest idea of what you've done? Do you know what it is that you just did? You have given the NFL Hall of Fame a massive black eye.

And no, it's not because of the deflategate hoax. No, it's not because the spy gate of that overreaction there. And no, it's not because of the routinely debunked fact that he was a Brady merchant, which, you know, it's not like Brady was pick 199 or anything, and he wouldn't have had that career being drafted anywhere else, just saying. No, it's because you loathsome vermin in the media are met. You're but her. Because Bill Belichick didn't suffer your stupid questions. He was known for staring reporters down and putting them in a corner when they asked

stupid, obvious questions. And you got your whittle feelings hurt. That's what it is. This is literally like Chris said, this is becoming like the baseball Hall of Fame. It's that bad. And the worst part is the NFL media has proven that they are a bunch of toddlers who don't like it when someone's mean to them. Remember, they made T.O. weight. And he's like a top three receipts. of all time. They made him wait. And no, and here's the thing, Tio's not a bad guy.

Look, I'll give you this. He's a character. And he's, you could call him a diva. You could call him flamboyant. He's definitely a character. But he's not a bad dude. All of his antics were on the field. He kept his nose clean off of it.

He didn't hit his wife. He didn't assault anyone. He didn't do any hit and runs. Like, he kept his nose. clean off the field. Oh, but because he was a little snarky with the media, let's make them wait for a year. They're doing the same thing with Bill. And if Bill Belichick is not a first ballot hall of fame head coach, second most wins of all time, one of the better winning percentages of all time, six super rules as a head coach, two as a coordinator, eight total,

then nobody is. I better not see another head coach ever the first ballot. That goes for Andy Reid. That goes for Mike Tomlin. That goes for whoever the hell else could go in. I better not see a single one because this is just asinine. That's the only way I can describe it is just asinine. This does so much damage to the league. This does so much damage to the credibility of the Hall of Fame. And it was already skating on thin ice as it was, you know, after the whole T.O. thing. But just as we forgot, oh, no, they doubled down on their sense. Bill Polion, I hope you're happy. Go rotten hell. That, you know, that's the long and short of it. This is, I mean, I know the NFL is probably going to recover from this because they always do,

but I just, I'm shocked. Like, I, I am genuinely stunned, honestly. I cannot believe that this is not out of any, like, virtuous reasons. It's just petty. And, you know, Bill Pullian, like you said, was already known as just being petty and spiteful when he was an executive. And yeah, looks like that hasn't changed at all. And I know it's not orthodox, but when you have a vote, which let's call it what it is, rigged, done by a smear campaign, right, or they literally rigged the vote, they pressured. And I mean, I can't prove it, but I wouldn't rule out intimidation as well. I would say, I think an overcorrection has to be involved.

That's when the league has to say, fuck you, Bill Polly and fuck you probably Tony Dungey or whatever other butt hurt jackasses are voting and put Bill in the Hall of Fame anyway, solely out of spite. When these people try to game the system, you put a boot on their neck. It's the only way to do it. Yeah.

Shortly afterwards, the Hall of Fame made a statement for release. And basically it was saying if it is the sermon that any members violate the selection process bylaws, they understand action will be taken. And this is in regards to just all this information being released in regards to Belichick not making the hall, Eli Manning not making the hall, because all this information isn't supposed to be released until like the summer. So that's a bit of a problem. Wait,

I thought I was supposed to come out during NFL honors and they announced who's or NFL honors. Sorry. But I feel, I think Peter King is probably the one guy that's just like, what the fuck? Because this is the first year that, because he had been a long time,

a Hall of Fame voter. This is the first year that he decided not to vote or I think he retired from the process. This is the first year and and this shit happens. And you can you can best believe that Peter King was going to be voting for Belichick as well. Yeah, because this whole, I guess to even further the process too, you know, like you think about just all the Patriots that haven't made the Hall of Fame in the last

20 years and like Robert Kraft another one that hasn't been in. inducted into the Hall of Fame and Jerry Jones is in there, you know, like, and crap you could say he has way more success than what Jerry Jones has. Just a lot of fucked up things and just goes to show the league bias

towards the Patriots. It's, or bias hate towards the Patriots. Yeah. I don't think that we'll ever see another moment in time where the entirety of the NFL media, the league, the players, the coaches, all support Belichick. And like, which is crazy, considering everything that has happened in the last two years since Belichick got fired after the 23 season.

Just insane. insane. Anything else we want to touch on from this? No, not really. I just, I have one more message to all the Belichick haters. Keep this in mind to everyone who doesn't like him and thinks he shouldn't be in. Your favorite player thinks he should be in. So what does that say about you?

Yeah. That's all. I feel like the only people that don't think that he's in or the 11 people that voted against Belichick at this point. also like we have to start making these votes public i think when it comes to hall of fame voting there needs to be a pressure there needs to be at least from the public a sense of i won't say fear but accountability the base some of the baseball hall of fame voters make their votes public too yeah but that's usually when they don't have a lot to hide except for that one dude that

voted against jeter but yeah the what that that's yeah you didn't even do it because of any hatred And he just said, I wanted to be the guy that said no. But no, no, no. I'm just saying, like, make these votes public. These people are too comfortable, I think, being anonymous. Like, actually, like, and then once their vote becomes public, then they have to answer to the fans. You know, and to these people, if you find out who they are, I'd say, just blow up their DMs. Like, don't threaten anyone, obviously.

Like, duh, don't do that. Don't go over. But you just got to, you just got to badger them. Just say, hey, what's up? Hey, do you know you're a fraud? Like don't threaten, don't do anything stupid. But you got to remind them, hey, you're a little fraudulent. Yeah.

Like, I guess the last thing I'll wrap up with is, you know, you can say all you want about the NFL in terms of the good spot they're in of the talent, the competition. And, you know, we've talked about, we've talked to death about this season being one of the best seasons we've had ever, considering the amount of game of the years that we had week in and week out and multiple of them weekend and week out but at the same time

they're in a bad really bad spot with the pro football fame now being in the same conversation as the baseball hall of fame the referees don't even know what it catches league officials handing out punishments that are

insufficient or insufficient or not They're just random That's probably Punishment is if they're random You know what's bad When the nickname for their punishment system

is the wheel of discipline That's because like literally it's just It's so inconsistent from one guy to the next Or it's like oh hey you were betting on a game That you weren't part of That's a year Oh what's that you viciously beat your wife For games

Yeah also the Pro Bowl I know we say it was Proble, too. But, Chris, all the slander over the years that I've spit on the Pro Bowl, is it not justified now? Oh, yeah, no. I think, the fact that Shadur Sanders made a Pro Bowl before Bill Belichick got into the Hall of Fame is probably one of the biggest, like, this is what kills the Pro Bowl. Yeah.

Like, no disrespect to Shadur Sanders, but the stat line that he had is not, Pro Bowl worthy. It's really not. No. All right. Let's take a quick break. When we come back, we'll get into just some housekeeping stuff in terms of another head coaching hire and a little bit of Super Bowl coverage. This is the Fuller's podcast.

It may not have always showed it in the staff sheet, but you can see him making throws when he needs to make the throws. Back-to-back games where he has three touchdowns. Someone's got to get that six or seven spot. He's an elite wide receiver as a rookie. truly a lose-lose scenario for both sides. Long back to the Fulmuriski podcast. Get into a little housekeeping stuff.

First, we'll get into the Cleveland Browns. This has been an interesting 24 hours for Jimmy Haslam. They hired Todd Monk in the former office coordinator of the Baltimore Ravens as their head coach, which interesting that you're going to pull. division rival, an AFC North rival, to be your main guy, especially when it felt like the entire fan base was kind of pushing for Jim Schwartz, the Brown's defensive coordinator, to be the head coach of the Browns. And you could, you kind of had that sense that it was going to happen, but it seems like

Jimmy Haslin came down and was like, nope, Tom Monkin's the guy. and in the same span, Jimmy Haslam also being an owner of the Milwaukee Bucks, Janus requesting a trade almost at the same time as this happening. So pretty interesting play. But I think this is not the, I think they should have just gone with Jim Schwartz. This is not the right hire that the Brown should have made.

Yeah. Yeah. This is by far, I mean, I guess on the Cleveland Brown scale of pain, this probably registers as a six, because I don't even know if it's in like the top five dumbest things they've ever done, just like in the last 10 years. Yeah. Or maybe it is. I don't know. But, oh my God. You what the worst part is about all this? they're going to lose Jim Schwartz as a defensive coordinator. Yeah. He's going to lead. And here's the thing.

I know, you know, if you're the Browns, you had, I'm sure you saw this, three names withdraw themselves from their head coach search. Guys they wanted to talk to and they just said, yeah, no,

was Mike McDaniel was one. Grant Udinski was another. And there was a third whose name escapes me. And so, you know, wasn't Chris Schuil, I don't know. Actually, I don't think they interviewed Shula. He just said, I don't want to be your coach. So, yeah, that's something, ain't it, Cleveland?

And I know, like I said, Schwartz wasn't like a sexy pickup, but the players love him. They respect him. And he's a hell of a defensive coordinator. So I would say give it what you got, you know, knowing that if you pass up on him, there's a legitimate shot. He doesn't stick around. And you hire Todd Munkin.

Who the hell thought Tom Munkin should be a head coach? No, who really thinks, ah, yes, for my franchise, I want Todd Munkin. Like, well, can Jimmy Haslam or Andrew Berry look anyone in the eyes and actually say, yes. I believe that this was the best choice, and we don't regret this at all. and he's going to lead us to the promised land. I'm going to wager that they can't do that. And, like, I just, I don't get it. Why?

You had Jim Schwartz right there. And because you browned again, now, you know what's going to happen? He's going to leave. He is going to leave. And I don't know if you saw the reports, Chris, but he was pissed when he didn't get the head coach on. but he apparently told them in no uncertain words or no uncertain terms to go fuck themselves. Yeah, he was not happy. I'll try to find the report when you get to your next point.

But oh my God, this is this is just another Browns type thing to do. That's all I got to say. Yeah, no, I don't really have much else to really add to this, to be honest. The only other Browns thing that I really have in mind is what I saw this morning in terms of Elliot Wolf. I don't know if you saw that, but apparently Elliot Wolf said that, um, they at the trade deadline, they almost nabbed Miles Garrett from the Browns for three first round picks, but really? Yeah. That's what Wolf was saying. Yeah. But he couldn't, you know, I hate parting ways with first rounders, but three of them. Yeah. That, that was, that was what Wolf said. He was like,

he couldn't justify three first round picks just for, or giving away your future for one guy. and how old is Miles Garrett again? 29. 29. Yeah, exactly. So not saying Miles Garrett won't be dominant for the next four years, but it's definitely a,

it's a gamble. It's a gamble. Oh, by the way, Chris. Did you find the report? Yeah, CBS Sports. Brown's defensive coordinator, Jim Schwartz, bothered after a head coach of reportedly plans on leaving Cleveland.

he was apparently they used the term upset oh and get this Todd Munkin is open to keeping him but yeah guess what Munkin that's not going to be your choice I'm afraid unfortunately not yeah and they're going to try to keep it with the organization but that's this is not going to happen and apparently he was not um like I said he wasn't thrilled and now the Browns like I'm I'd like to be Todd Munkin, though. You're just hired. And already, you've got a five-alarm fire you got to put out. They're in crisis mode.

And I'm trying to find the boat where he was really irate. I saw it yesterday. I don't have it on me right now. But the worst part about all this, have you seen Miles Garrett's reaction? I have not. And keep in mind, I saw this myself because, I follow Miles Garrett on Instagram.

On his Instagram story, you're not going to see it if you just listen in on the show, but he posted this. Interesting. Just like it's fast food for those who are listening, it's a fast food worker, probably on their break, sitting on a bench, exhausted, probably a little sad, you know, elbows on knees hunched over. Like, yeah, that's Miles Garrett right now.

Yep. Well, he also signed the big contract. Yeah, so I can't really feel that bad. He chased the money. So yeah, you got what you got, buddy. Yeah. Yeah, so that's our coverage of Todd Monkin being head coach of the Browns. A little Super Bowl coverage.

We're going to go neck deep into it next week starting Tuesday. But, you know, just some things to talk about. One thing that I found interesting going to, into this was this was the most improbable Super Bowl matchup in terms of betting odds that we've ever had or that could have happened this season. It was 48,000 to 1 for this Super Bowl matchup. That's pretty insane. Because the Patriots at Seahawks were both 60 to 1 to win the Super Bowl.

And the Patriots after week three were 120 to 1. Another interesting note as well. Patriots opening up as underdogs, but if they close as underdogs, it will break a streak of eight straight Super Bowls where New England was the betting favorite, which the last time being, of course, Super Bowl 36 where they played the Rams. And I guess I'm just going to read through the betting notes on ESPN at this point. But in terms of some other things, the underdogs have covered five street Super Bowls for. Hold on, Chris, wait a minute.

I'm going to stop you right there. That ESPN report is some BS because even though I was only in like seventh grade, I remember the Pats were not favored against Seattle that first time. Although, to be fair, it did close as what they, it was a pure pickum Super Bowl because Seattle opened as like one and a half. and they didn't new angle was never explicitly favored they literally just turned it into a pickum game yeah the Patriots ended up being a one point favorites I don't remember that but okay yeah um

underdogs have covered five straight soup bowls four and one outright and have one three straight since oh seven underdogs are 11 and 7 and 13 and 5 against the spread uh since 2001 underdogs are 13 and 11 outright and 17 and 7 against the spread. This is kind of, I mean, this is also just like what we've seen out of the Super Bowl in general because obviously most people remember from 1960, from Super Bowl 1 to about Super Bowl 35, almost every single game was a freaking blowout and wasn't even a game to begin with. And since then, other than 2002, which other than Super Bowl 37,

Super Bowl 47, no, Super Bowl 48, and last year's Super Bowl, every single Super Bowl has been down the wire. The other story for the Super Bowl, too, Drake May in his shoulder. Chalking it up, really, to just everyone's beat up. It's a long season. Quarterbacks are throwing every single day, up to 100 times a day. it makes sense he was limited in practice apparently yesterday

I'm pretty sure was he a full participant I forget think he was limited yeah either way I don't think it's anything to really worry about I think the funniest one of the funnier stories to come out of this everyone remembers the

49ers electromagnetic substation uh yeah uh controversy though it's going on. Nobody is practicing at the 49ers facility during Super Bowl week. Yeah, but it's not a big deal, right? Scientists. Look, I'm not saying I know more, but apparently it's enough to rattle some of these teams. Yeah. Supposedly they are going to be

practicing at some colleges that are in the area. I'm just going to want. Stanford. Give me a sec. Super Bowl. practice locations. Yeah, Stanford University in Palo Alto, which is where the Patriots are going to be at, and the Seahawks will be at San Jose State. Yeah, I called it.

Nice. Yeah. But, yeah. I will say one thing, though. Since everybody loves to discredit the Patriot success and find excuses, surely if New England lose, they'll, you know, they won't have a double standard, and surely if they lose, they'll bring up May's shoulder. Right?

Surely you wouldn't be caught dead. Performing a double standard. And surely, if you don't do that, if New England wins, you won't bring up Sam Darnold's oblique making him limited. Right? surely you won't yep I also saw a great tweet and it was

it was talking about the team talking about the Patriot soft schedule and whatnot someone came out with who the Seahawks have had to play since the week 8 by injured Jaden Daniels backup

Jacoby Brissette Division QB rookie Cam Ward backup Max Brasmer back up Kirk cousins, retired Philip Rivers, division QB, mediocre Bryce Young, division QB, round one by, Division QB, Division QB. Also, come on, the Seattle beat up the 49ers practice squad. Like, if we're going to start poking holes in victories, then we can do it too. Yeah.

And what? Look, I can do mental gymnastics too. You beat up Grandpa Matthew Stafford. What'd he do? and, you know, and the Rams only have half a defense anyway. Yeah. Like, do you want a medal? Like, come on.

See, I can do it too, but you don't like that. However, even as a Pat's fan, a patch fan who does not expect New England to win, in fact, I wouldn't be shocked if it's like a two score loss. I'll tell you this. If New England wins NFL fans, the odds fans, whatever, no more, if you're so confident that you won't mind making a little deal with me right now. If New England wins, no crying, no whining, no excuses. No but it's just Sam Donald because you're gassing them up.

No, it's just the Seahawks because you're hyping them up. If they lose, own it like a man. Deal. We'll see. That's all. Like, surely if you're that confident, then you won't have to make excuses if they win. Because I keep here, oh, they're going to get destroyed. They're going to get dogwalked.

They're going to get eviscerated. well surely if on the off chance they do lose Seattle I mean you won't make any excuses but I guess we'll just have to wait and see yeah um all right that's all the scheduled content that we have for you today this is probably the shortest episode that we've had in months boy Adam Wright's doing cartwheels somewhere this one's for you buddy yeah um we're gonna like I said we're gonna have oh wait also Chris we're one quick thing uh Joe Brady is now the head coach of the bill that's right how did we miss that how did we not how do we forget about that um yeah bills hire joe brady as their head coach uh former offensive

coordinator or was the offense coordinator uh sorry i'm trying to type out the banner right now but oh but yeah so that they promoted their own OC and that's so weird brian dable wanted to be there. And I imagine there were no shortage of coaches that were lining up to try to coach with Josh Allen. 100%. And that would Joe Brady. That's so safe. That's another sickeningly safe higher.

Outside of like the Ravens when that job officially opened up, when Sean McDermott got fired, the Bill's job should have been the most sought after job in the league because of Josh Allen. Obviously the Ravens, but the Ravens figure there's. shit out pretty quickly. But, like, after the Ravens found their guy, this was the most sought after job.

And they just promoted their OC who, not many Bill's fans are extremely fond of. I mean, with the quarterback like Josh Allen, I bet you anything. They could have coached, I'm going to butcher's name,

sorry, to advance the Rams O.C. Shieldhoss. or their D.C. Shula. I bet you anything, they could have probably coaxed one of them to come over. The world's essentially your oyster. You probably could have gotten Udinski from Jacksonville. You probably could have gotten Flores from Minnesota.

Any of the hot shop coordinators. You want them, you got them. But you promoted Joe Brady. Yeah. Yeah, I don't get that at all. I don't understand. I genuinely don't get it. I mean, heck, dayball, I don't even think is that bad of a,

coach. And he has familiarity with Josh Allen. You went with Joe Brady. Okay. That's all I got. It's just, okay. It's a hire. I'll give him that. It is a higher. One of the hires, some would say. It's a higher of all time. Yep. It is. All right. I mean, I think Josh Allen, he's a big, he's a big fan of Joe Brady. so maybe it turns into a good thing. Maybe it doesn't. I don't know. We'll see how that goes.

Now that's all the schedule content for you today. Now official via Mike Reese, the Patriots will wear their white jersey white pants combo in the Super Bowl. They had the choice as the home team. So that's where their choice is. Adam Wright from the heavens just let us know as well. according to Joe Boscaglia, Josh Allen apparently played with a broken foot during the playoffs.

And it was something, said it was an older injury that was re-agravated against Cleveland. And he had a procedure done on it on Monday in Birmingham. This is from Yahoo Sports. Josh Allen apparently showed up to, the Bill's head coach introduction there with a walking boot and crutches. There you go. Well, a good thing we're talking about Joe Brady,

considering that he's being introduced as the head coach today. Yep. All right. So that's all the scheduled content that we have for you today. We're going to obviously get neck deep into Super Bowl coverage next week and skip and talk about position comparisons, position matchups. Of course,

lines, favorites, our picks, including the Super Bowl props, Super Bowl special, and NFL honors stuff as well for next week. So be sure to tune in for that. But that'll do it for us today.

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