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Welcome to Part of My take presented by DraftKings. The crown is yours. Today is Friday, January 2nd. Happy New Year's, guys.

Happy New Year.

Happy new year.

Happy 2026.

And let me just say to start 2026, if you are a regular fan of college football, let's say 95% of us out there that don't root for the blue bloods, let's call us haters. What a Start to the new year because we watched in 24 hours Ohio State, Alabama and Georgia all lose the Red Bloods. Yeah.

Yeah.

And I think if memory serves, since we've gone to the 14 playoff and now to the 12 team playoff, I think this might be the first year where none of those teams are in the final four. So, yeah, it's all we got all new colors.

Yeah. We got Oregon vs. Indiana in one side of the bracket, Ole Miss vs. Miami and the other side, Joe Klotz. Probably got to feel a little stupid right now because Miami. Incredible. Let's start with that one. Miami just absolutely manned up Ohio State on New Year's Eve. It was shocking, but also not shocking because Miami had this in them, but in the fact that Ohio State just looked like they got bullied the entire time. The Julian saying pick six obviously tilted the game. But my big takeaway from this game was not only obviously Miami can win the national title, but this was felt like Mario Cristobal, like he coached a perfect game. And even in that last drive that Miami had where you're like, are they going to get too conservative when they're up three or they get, you know, six minutes left? No, no, they.

He.

There was a perfect drive, perfect use of the clock. Absolutely big Boydom and Ohio State. Listen, hand up. Sometimes you get it wrong. This Ohio State, not better than last year's Ohio State, officially. Yeah. Well, no, they did beat Michigan.

They did.

Which last year's Ohio State team did not.

But this year is 2026.

Yes.

So this team in 2026.

Well, no, they lost in 2025.

On. On which time zones?

That's true.

Not every time zone.

We can't get into time.

We can't do that.

But yeah, that was. Ohio State lost their last two games of the year. They lost Indiana. They lost it. It actually is my, my weird take here is that Michigan did it again.

They broke them.

They. Ryan Day had spent so much energy to beat Michigan this year. After they beat Michigan, it was over.

The whole season was building up to that. Yeah. I do think that if you were to just say like the last two weeks of each program, Michigan had a better. A better last two weeks.

And I hate that my head went there. But it did feel like Ryan Day obviously getting the monkey off his back beating Michigan. The Indiana game in the Big Ten championship game was very close. They hit a field goal. It's different this game, though. Miami, they like watching this game. You're like, Miami's the better team from the opening drive.

It felt like Miami was violent. Yeah, they brought. They brought some bad intentions to the field. And yeah, Mario Crystal ball, that defense, the defensive line and the linebackers for Miami, they were just beating the shit out of Ohio State. In a way. Ruben Bane is a monster.

Yep.

And I think we had the two best defensive players in college football on the field with Bane and Caleb Downs.

Yep.

For Ohio State, both guys played great. It was just the big boys for Miami were. They were more violent. Sometimes the game of football just comes down to who has the capability and the will to. To inflict physical pain on your opponent. And yeah, Miami was fun to watch also. Michael Irvin, Ray Lewis, what a dynamic dude on the sidelines, just like screaming at each other in a language that twins teach each other. It was just. It was. It was built to ass.

It was the perfect. They're perfect for Miami.

Yeah.

Because you know, when you watch Texas game, you see Bevo, when you see Georgia, you have. Ugga, you have all these traditions. And then Miami tradition is Michael Irvin losing his mind, taking off his belt and whipping a Gatorade bottle to the point where you're like, please stop hurting that Gatorade bottle. And it's so Miami.

I think he also assaulted a trash can at some point.

He was put in Ohio State jersey on a Gatorade bottle.

Yeah.

And out of it.

And Ray Lewis just screaming at him. They were yelling at each other. But that's. That's brotherhood, man.

The U is back.

The U. The U is so back.

When. When the title. So yeah, that was. That was New Year's Eve, which it wasn't like the most exciting game, but it was exciting to see a team dominate Ohio State the way they did. And you know, Ohio State still is going to be, you know, Ryan Day. I know it's. It's funny that Ohio State fans basically lived out the hypothetical we all talked about last year. Would you rather lose to Michigan and win the national tit title or beat Michigan and not win the national title? You did it in back to back years. I would imagine. Most Ohio State fans right now are feeling like last year was the preferable outcome.

I would say winning the national championship is the preferable. Yeah. Yeah, I would agree with that.

But you listen our guy Tate, Good season.

There's nothing hanging.

Good season. 120 Ohio State.

You guys had fun.

Yeah.

You had a lot of fun.

12 and a lot of memories.

A lot of friends made a lot of fraud.

Watch comments being made.

There's a lot of frauds. Yeah, there's a lot of frauds. That's my big takeaway from this weekend in college football. So many frauds.

Yeah.

So many frauds.

So the, the. We started New Year's Day with Oregon, Texas Tech, which was a tough watch or now Oregon is, was way better and they deserve all the credit. But I also like, you know, when people watch a game and it's low scoring, they're like, you don't love defensive battles.

Yeah.

Oregon's defense, very good or Texas Tech's defense very good. Texas Tech's offense was like abysmal.

Unbelievably bad.

Just unbelievable. And Baron Morton, I know he's been injured. He's. I think he said he was like 85%, but still, it was so tough to watch. And credit to Oregon for just taking it to him and, and squeezing the life out of him. But that was not a. I wouldn't say that's a rewatchable game.

It was a terrible game. It was a bad football game.

I do think it's good for the time of day and like New Year's Day.

Yeah.

Like you'd rather have the stinker be early or hungover. You can just take a nap.

It was a good sleep through game for sure. And for me, I really enjoyed watching this game. I kicked my feet back that I felt like today was a win for jmu.

Yeah.

It was just. Yeah. Texas Tech could not move the ball against Oregon. I think Oregon is probably the second best team right now. I think the numbers would probably bear that out with the, the spreads that are coming out.

Yeah. And it's gonna be.

They played a good game earlier this season too.

Yeah.

So, yeah, Oregon just kicked the shit out of him. It was a, it was way, way worse of a game than I had even thought.

Did you see Zach, by the way, your nickname? You should. We should have gotten this nickname for you. But unfortunately it's. It's not yours. Did you see the, the Mateo?

I did see the country. The Concrete centric nickname. Great nickname.

Young Concrete.

Good one.

Great nickname.

That's a good one.

Was he the one that they were like. He runs a 4, 640 and squats 775 pounds. There's one guy on Oregon's defense, I don't know if it was him or someone else, but it was just. They said like four numbers in a row and I just. How is this, how is this possible? But they have dudes, if you just.

Call somebody Young Concrete, they're able to hit harder.

Yeah.

Just with that nickname.

Young Concrete. So what? And then Alabama, Indiana, which was absolute belt to ass.

It was, yeah, it was just, it was just smothering by Indiana. They were trying to run the score up. They were trying to emasculate Alabama and they did like from the very start, I guess. The first drive from, from Indiana they ended up punting, right.

They went through, they went three and.

Out on that one. After that it was just. Mendoza was perfect. He played a perfect game of football. Indiana's offense really played a perfect game of football. Just methodical.

Indiana's defense played a perfect game.

Their defense was great. They, they just moved the chains. They didn't take too many shots, but every time they took a shot it was a touchdown. It was like a 30 yard touchdown.

Yeah.

Mendoza is a fucking beast. Putting it on a, on a dot in the end zone.

The.

So it, it. I'm the worst gambler of all time. So this isn't like something that I'm, I'm going to pump my chest out but every now and then I'll get something right. And I thought going into this game if you had flipped the jerseys and Indiana was wearing Bama jerseys and Bama was wearing Indiana jerseys, it would have been like a 14 point spread. Indiana is in my theory going into it was Indiana is better than Alabama in every single facet of this game. And a seven point spread was so disrespectful to the type of team because people still have it in their brain. There's a Bama. Bama always wins these games. Indiana. No way could they have turned. No.

Indiana's turn.

Indiana. Kurt Signetti is such a psycho. He wears a quarter zip with nothing underneath. Yeah. That is a psychotic, psychotic move. That's a serial killer. Or a guy who goes and kills Alabama's program.

He's going straight up, zipper to skin.

Yeah.

The cold ass zipper right down the sternum. It is, it is crazy. I just, I look at him, I'm wondering like when you zip that thing up, you're pulling out your chest hair because you like it.

Yeah.

Because you think that feels good.

In his snarl, in his looks. When, when, when Alabama went forward on that fourth down, he was just staring at them. They're just such a good football team. I know it takes a while sometimes for people to come around to these things. Last year's Indiana team was a great story, but they weren't, you know, good enough to win a national title. This year's Indiana team is like, they're just better than pretty much every team. Yeah, they could lose to Oregon because you could always lose, especially when you play the second time. But a game like today, they're just better than Alabama. Like, their dudes are better. Top to bottom.

The. I love that they gave the MVP of the Rose bowl to the center.

Yeah.

On. In the whole offensive line and the whole offensive line. Yeah. That's. That's awesome. It was just like Indiana was in control with every single thing that they did. And with. With Sig, people have talked about, like, is he the best sports hire ever? I think he is.

I think he might be the best.

Is he the best hire ever for any job ever done? I would say Michelangelo when he painted the Sistine Chapel. I think they nailed that one.

Yeah.

Oppenheimer to build the atomic bomb.

Okay.

Mission accomplished.

Ben Mintz.

I was gonna say Max, but yeah, Ben Mintz. Maybe Celine Dion singing the Titanic song.

Yeah.

But outside of that.

Yeah.

I think he goes on the Mount Rushmore of just best hires for any job ever.

They're so, so good. And Mendoza is so poised. And his I'm now. I've been completely converted to his post game. You know, interviews are must watch. I need them because someone fan tweeted me drip Bayless. Great Twitter name, by the way. He said, Mendoza is like a kid trying to tell you a story and it's the truth. It just goes and you don't really know where.

Yeah.

And he just. He's so enthusiastic, like a little kid. When my like 6 year old tells me a story, he's so enthusiastic about it. But it also rambles, but it's also enthralling.

I think he does. He rambles from time to time, but he definitely has like index cards that he writes up his postgame speech on. Like before. That's probably part of his process. Like the night before a game. I love, like, write down your thoughts because he. He came out there and he dropped Conglomerate on America.

It was.

He's like, we've got such a great conglomerate of guys in the Hoggies on this. The Hoggies. We got the best Hoggies.

The Hoggies.

I actually think that Mendoza is AI. When you look at him in these post game speeches and he's staring into the camera, into America's soul, and he doesn't have a hair on his face. He's just like making perfect eye contact with you. He's being eloquent. He's speaking, like you said, like a TED Talk.

Yep.

It seems like he's some computer program.

He's the best.

He's a hologram.

I, I am a massive fan of his because he's just. It is. I know I, I had that one tweet after the Big Ten championship game where it's like I was joking that he just lost the Heisman. But now it's like he is the quintessential pure. Why can't we just like someone who's just pure and like good natured. Let's not be cynical all the time. He just loves ball. He loves his teammates. He doesn't have. So like he, he said he doesn't go on social. I think the only social media he goes on during the season is LinkedIn. I'm pretty sure that he said for what I, I don't know, just to update stuff.

He.

No, he probably reads the posts on LinkedIn.

Yeah.

And that's where he gets his material for the post game speeches.

But he's just the, he's just the man and he's going to be a very good. Yeah, he's got, he does have an active LinkedIn profile. I don't have LinkedIn so I can't see it, but he's. Yeah. Student athlete, Indiana University, Bloomington. It's also process driven and detail oriented leader studying business administration, Indiana's Kelly School of Business.

Yeah, this, this guy, he goes on LinkedIn. He reads the post from like the Silicon Valley founders that are like here's what I learned about my brain and my body by waking up at 3:30am every day for a month.

Yeah, he's, he's. Man, Indiana's just good. I'm happy for Indiana fans like that. The Rose bowl was, was just packed with them. They total takeover. Also you mentioned it, a win for jmu. I think today might have been a win for Wisconsin because Wisconsin only lost Indiana 31 to 7.

Yeah, I would agree.

And we have no other way to see if Wisconsin was.

You're better than Bama.

Yeah. Right.

As of right now.

I mean they, they lost 38 to three. Yeah, we lost 31 to seven. I know that you don't play these games. You know the hypothetical game. You don't play it on the field. You play it on, on screen. Yeah, on screen. No, we have no other way to put 2025 Alabama versus 2025 Wisconsin.

It's 100% correct. You, you have to, you have to dig and dig and dig and find your cope and I think that's a good way to do it. Yeah, I think that, that Indiana is one of the better all around college football teams I've seen in A long time.

There's. Yeah, they're. They're nails. They kind of remind me a little bit of. They're. They're not the exact same, but at least how they play. Like Michigan a couple years ago was one of the best teams I've ever seen in the fact that like, remember how they tackled.

Yeah.

And how they just didn't make mistakes. Yeah. And they just were. It wasn't like they had the most incredible guys, you know, running down the field and, and beating you deep, but they just did not make mistakes. They were perfectly sound in every facet of the game. That's what Indiana looks like.

And when their offensive line gets moving in space like a pack of wild dogs, just giant dogs looking for something to hunt, you know that good things are about to happen. Yeah.

Do you think there's a little part of. So Alabama fans obviously are going through it right now. I don't think anyone feels bad for them.

But if you're an Alabama fan, you had your doubts about this team.

Yeah.

You had your doubts.

Oh, they were not even going back. Not.

Not just to the start of the season, but also like the SEC championship game. That was. That was embarrassing. Yeah. You knew that you had a deeply flawed team and you beat another deeply flawed team in the playoffs. By the way, teams now through the last two seasons when we've had the 12 game playoff, seven out of the eight by teams lost. Indiana is the only buy team that didn't lose. I think they're just stronger than rest. I think Signetti's on that. No naps bullshit.

We should put some context on it. Last year the four buy teams that lost were all underdogs.

That is true.

So that. Because I saw that stat floating around and I was like, remember Boise and Arizona State were by teams.

Yep. Oregon was favored.

No, they were not.

They were not favored.

State was. Oh no, no.

This year.

Yeah. Yeah. So. Yeah.

So.

So the only two that have been favored by teams that have been favored that have lost are Georgia that today and Ohio State last night.

Yep.

The. But the other thing I was to say about Alabama is do you think there's a little part of them. The. Now that we have the final Four, all of the coaches that are coaching in the final four are Nick Saban disciples. Alabama currently has a coach that is not a Nick Saban disciple.

Not a disciple.

His seed is everywhere. And you don't have like Pete Golding coach for Alabama. Kurt Signetti coach under Saban.

Yep.

Dan Lanning under Saban. Mario Cristobal Under Saban. So it's. That's got to hurt a little bit.

You got to get something from that tree.

You got to get something from that. Even, you know, Kirby Smart, obviously coach was.

Yeah.

So you got to get something from that tree.

Yeah, you need it. You need it bad. Caleb DeBoer.

It's a big tree. There's a lot on that tree.

There's a lot. There's a lot of fruit.

Yeah.

There's a lot that's still ready to be picked too.

Yeah. So the, the crazy thing was we had, we had the Indiana, Alabama Rose Bowl. That was, you know, a fun game if you're an Indiana fan or bet on Indiana, but otherwise not exactly the most watchable game because Alabama just wasn't in the fight. And it was a lot about Kurt Signetti and what he's done. And then you had in the final game a team that doesn't have a coach or does have a coach, but just got him, you know, two weeks ago because Elaine Kiffin left for lsu somehow outlasting Georgia in an instant classic. Trinidad Chambliss was out of this world.

His best player that I saw all weekend.

He was making plays. He was the king of the. No, no, no. Yes.

Play.

Yeah.

You're like, holy fuck, we're fucked. We're fucked, we're fucked. Oh, my God, it's a 20 yard pass.

So, So I think that Mendoza, great player, maybe, maybe a better player than Trinidad Chambliss. But what they asked Trinidad Chambliss to do was very different from what Mendoza had to do in the game.

Yeah.

And it was just Trinidad. We're going to hand the ball to Lacey, but we also need you to go out there and just scramble around the pocket, avoid a few sacks, find a guy downfield, make it work. And he was incredible tonight. Just the best player on the field. And I.

Well, maybe co. Best player because Ole Miss's kicker was incredible.

He was very good.

Yeah. I mean that was especially with college kickers. We were sitting next to our good friend Ohio State and he was just saying that if he had, if Ohio State had that kicker, they would have won the Big Ten championship game and probably won against Miami.

I'll say Trinidad Chambliss maybe not the best player all weekend. I'm gonna say that's Mendoza. I think Champ. The most electric player.

Yeah.

Of the weekend for sure. And he's. Must watch tv. Love watching them play out there. Also, I think, I think Ole Miss might be a place where you can win a National championship.

If. If Ole Miss wins the national championships, it would. It would be the funniest outcome possible.

It would also be a real win win because Ole Miss would win a national championship for them. Lane Kiffin would get paid a million bucks.

$2 million.

2 million extra. 1 million to win that particular game.

Yeah. 1 million on the way there.

But I mean, maybe.

Maybe more, isn't it?

No, It's. It was 250 last week. Oh, yeah. Actually more. Yeah. It would be two and a half million.

Yeah.

Yeah. So it's. It was 250 last week. 500 to win this game.

757 semi finals and then a million two and a half in the natty.

Goes from LSU to. To Lane Kiffin's pockets. I think that you can make the argument that. That Ole Miss is a better team right now because of what happened with Lane Kiffin.

They're all just.

They're all pissed off. It's like Steve Jobs was an orphan.

Yeah.

And he founded Apple. He had something to prove.

Pete Golding is doing an incredible job. Yes.

Yeah.

He's doing it all.

He did such a good job. I think he got two Gatorade showers.

Yeah.

That was the craziest ending.

Golden showers. Yeah.

I also. If you're a Georgia fan, as, you know, as shitty as this probably feels, I feel like you also kind of knew. I mean, Georgia was playing really good football. But I saw. I saw Kirby Smart doing a press conference the other day, which I actually liked, where he was like, it's just a winner. It's win it all or nothing mentality now. And that's not how I view success. I view success about getting better every day. That's a coach that knows that maybe he doesn't have a national championship team. Yeah. He is kind of being like, yeah, this is. This is a good team, but we'll find out if they're a great team.

Yeah, they haven't been the Georgia vault.

I mean, the questions have to be asked. Is the sec. We saw what happened with Iowa and Vandy. I know, I know. People in the SEC will obviously say that the bowl games that aren't the College Football Playoff don't count, but in the College Football Playoff, yet Alabama getting whooped. Ole Miss is sec, but they beat Georgia. It's a little. I mean, you have two Big Ten teams in the Final Four. I don't know. Ask the question. Is the ACC better than the sec?

The acc?

Yeah.

I think. Yes.

We'll find out. I mean, they're Miami versus Ole Miss.

Miami was the fourth place team.

Yeah, right.

What was Ole Miss?

They were third or fourth.

Third. Yeah. I mean, the fourth place team from the ACC is in the.

Imagine if they'd sent their first place.

So like, if they'd sent Duke.

Yeah.

If we had Duke uva, Sun bowl champion and Miami. Yeah, that'd be crazy.

But it was. It was a fun, fun, you know, 24 hours.

Also, it's very funny watching. Watching Mendoza after the game and then seeing Diego Pavia all week. Oh, and just being like, these two guys.

Yeah.

These are the two faces of college football.

It was quite something.

Which one are you?

Shout out the Iowa social team. Because that was. I mean, Diego Pavia also just put it on a tee for him.

Oh, yeah.

He.

He.

His. His quotes were. It was almost looked like it was AI when he had a quote. I think with the bus and boys being like, if you play Iowa, all you got to do is score seven to win. That's I love. How's that. How do you have that quoted?

A lot. A lot of people. A lot of people hate Diego Pavia. I like somebody like him in the sport.

I do too. I think you got to maybe be a little bit better.

But it's kind of refreshing when the guy that's not a little bit better.

Yeah.

Then gets his ass kicked by Iowa.

True. I like when a guy's talk and then can back it up.

That's also fun. But it's also fun when a guy wouldn't like a. Talks a lot of and then gets stomped.

Yeah. So any other storylines from these games? We did. We were saying that what was. What is Pete Herb street now, Peter.

The director of Snuggles?

Yeah, we were. We were saying that this is another sign of nepotism in America.

He's a. He's a nepo dog. Yeah.

If Pete Herb street did not have the last name Herb street, do you think he would been the director of Snuggles?

Imagine all the other snuglier dogs out there that got passed over for the job that have to grind their way up as an intern. Just given Snuggles on coffee breaks. I need so much screen time.

I need someone to take this angle like in, you know, the Atlantic or something. Yeah, it's a nepotism in the dog world. It's not right.

He's a nepo puppy.

What are you. What are you shaking your head?

My dog's way more snuggly than this dog.

Yeah.

Blake 100 change his last name to Herb Street.

Nope.

See if he can get a. See if you can get a director of Snuggles.

Also, my dog's not even my last name. My fiance made it her last name.

Wait, so. But when you get married, does your dog take your name? Yeah.

Yeah. Yes.

Or is it gonna hyphenate?

Hyphenate it. Okay. What else do we have? We have. So we recorded our weekend preview on.

Wednesday, and Jerry does talk about Pete. Herb Street.

He does?

Yeah, he gets into that.

He does. So a couple things that we missed. And then I have a couple questions for Zach and Hank. Chris Olave is now out. That sucks. That sucks for the Bucks, that sucks for Tyler Shuck, but I think Tyler Shucks so good. He's going to find a way. Yeah, we also had. I think the. The packers announced it was officially Clayton Tune. I think we might have said Malik Willis. Yeah, we said.

But we also tossed in clean Clayton Tune.

And then we also saw Lamar Jackson kind of put. He directly addressed everything and said he was hurt. He's never quit on his team. His relationship with Jim Harbaugh or John Harbaugh is good. So he kind of went right at it.

Yeah, but, I mean, okay, I. I think he said the right things.

I think it's different in the fact that I. I don't remember a time when he's had to. When he's just gone directly at it.

Yeah. Because he had the pcl. Remember that? Where some of his teammates made some comments like, I don't know what. What he's doing, what's going on. But, yeah, I think he had to, at this point, speak up about it. And he's going to play on Saturday, as we all knew. And then also. Or Sunday. And then Diggs. Diggs signed with the Packers.

Dig. Signed with the Packers.

And what was that waiver?

I think it was wave.

I think. I think Schefter initially said that he signed with them, and then he updated it and said it was a waiver claim. Which if it's a waiver claim, that's. That's wild because that means that Green Bay has to pay a shitload of money every week for Diggs to be on that team, as opposed to just, like, waiting for him to clear and then giving him a free agent contract.

Yeah, I mean, he's. He wasn't great this year.

No.

I mean, in the time he did.

Play, not a lot of stripper poles in Green Bay.

Yeah.

Great.

Well, he had the year where you had all these.

Yeah, he just had interceptions.

Yeah, a lot of interceptions. He Had a lot of interceptions.

Yeah, but he also got burned.

He's a ball hog.

He did.

Yeah. But he had a lot of interceptions. What do you. What do you. What are you shaking your head?

Interceptions are overrated.

Yeah, yeah.

Agreed.

Me. Oh, yeah. There you go. Memes.

Oh, yeah.

Okay, questions for Zach and Hank, because again, we did the weekend preview on Wednesday when they weren't back yet. Zach, how are you feeling? You were going to stream on Saturday, so you got to be here.

Yes, sir.

How are you feeling about the Bucks?

I wish I would had an immediate answer there to make it seem like I feel better about this. I don't feel the best about this, and we just got to see how it goes.

Do you think there's a. Are you nervous more about the Bucks winning or the. The Saints winning?

I don't really want to live in a world where the Saints hit on a quarterback.

But you would need the Saints to win. You know that.

Yeah.

Also, you're living in it, buddy.

Yeah. You are living. Yeah, you're. It's the shucks world.

Don't deny reality right now.

He's been shocking a lot. A lot of guys getting shocked.

So which one are you more nervous about? Like, do you have any confidence in the Bucks winning?

I do.

So then do you have confidence in the Shuckster?

You got to jump aboard the shuttle.

Yeah.

What are you doing?

You understand what's happening, right? You have to win off record.

I think he can win, and you need.

No, he's off.

Right.

Let him go, Zach. Permission to go off record. Granted.

I appreciate that.

Yeah.

I do have faith. I do have confidence. They can win.

And.

And I think the Bucks can win.

Okay.

There's a borrow where they both lose.

I don't. Max, I agree with you. I agree with you. I don't like that. Zach. Get on the chuck wagon, baby.

You're gonna maybe need him.

I'm. I'm hesitant to shock.

You can't be hesitant.

That's how people get hurt.

The only way you get into the playoffs is if.

Is if they get shucked up.

But they could get shucked up without full backing of shucking. But I'm. I'm here to shock. We can if we have to shock. No, no.

But I think you're getting confused here. Okay.

That could be also very well true.

So the confusion I think you're seeing. We're seeing here is that you think that this. So let's say the Bucks win, and then on Sunday, you're rooting for Tyler Schuck. To not play well, but the Saints to win. Because you're living in denial that Tyler Shuck is somehow not, like, the next greatest quarterback in the NFL history, and he is.

I don't want to put myself in a denial situation.

You are, though. You're in denial right now.

I would like there to be a world where, like, things go positive.

Have you seen how catchable his ball is? Yeah, it's so catchy.

I'm gonna have to pull up some highlights.

He is. He's an athlete in.

In.

In what world, Zach? Do the Saints win that game and Tyler Schuck doesn't play good?

No, I.

But even if he doesn't play good in that game and they win that game, he still is going to be the best quarterback of the NFC South.

I would like for them to win and him.

Look at that. Look how catchable that is. Oh, my God.

This is also a highlight tape. This is unfair.

This is all 22.

It floats into their hands like a drop. Oh, my God. There's velocity on it that you don't even know because it looks so soft.

It's like catching a snowflake on your tongue.

Oh, look at him evade pressure like this.

Oh, dot, quick release.

Look at this. The thing just floats up there. Hey. Oh, you want to just put your hands out and have it just fall into your hands? Sure.

Look, that tight window throws.

Could you imagine this guy not winning rookie of the year?

No, he's a rookie of the year, hands down, easily. Hands down.

All right, so get. Get on the shucks train, because you're going to need them if you win on Saturday.

I need. I need the Saints to win, but we can't. Are we drinking too much of the shuck?

No, no, no. Not a dog.

I had to ask.

I actually would like to waterboard you with Tyler Schuck highlights.

I'm currently doing it.

Yeah, I got it up right now. All right, Hank, my question for you. Everything good?

Everything's great. Yeah. I missed you guys.

Yeah. But everything good?

Yeah, everything's great.

Okay, What's.

What's going on?

I don't know what's going on.

Let's give some context.

Yeah, There was.

There was some. Some reports that came out about accusations made against some Patriots players. Stefan Diggs, Barrymore.

I.

The statements from the Patriots are interesting because they, like. They're like, we. We trust Stefan Diggs. And with the other one, they were kind of like, we're just gonna let this play out. Legal due process. It was from August.

Yeah.

The Bar more.

One was, yeah, from, from a while ago, but it came out this last week.

Robert Kraft and the Patriots are a solid organization. I think that if they have a player that's in legal trouble, they would immediately do the right thing if there was any merit to it.

Right.

Yeah.

I mean, I, I, I'm not going to speak on an ongoing legal situation. I think you gotta just let it play out and if that's what we.

Do, like every day.

True.

Yeah.

Like they're, you know, you got to take the appropriate action.

Are you worried at all that this might be a distraction?

I'm not worried at all. I think in these situations, especially with a guy like variable, it can almost help kind of galvanize of like there's outside distractions. We need to just focus on what's inside the building and what's in front of us.

We should say too, on the positive side, congratulations. It, it feels like Drake May is going to win the mvp.

It does.

It definitely feels that way.

Yeah.

Matthew Stafford's Monday night performance kind of submitted it.

Yeah. In third place in division. I don't think MVPs, like there's been MVPs that finished that low in the division.

So yeah, I think it's Drake's.

Are you.

And it's, it's well deserved.

Do you care at all about Sunday's game? Because the, the Chargers are not playing anymore.

One.

So the Broncos should win.

Yeah, but the Chargers, the thing with the Chargers is they're a ball club. Like top to bottom starters and backups. When you have a coach like Jim Harbaugh, as I've kind of learned from you guys, like, if you're a ball club, it's not just the starters, it's the whole team that goes all the.

Way down to like the equipment managers. So play all your keepers.

You don't need to play. I think they can still win. I'm holding out, hopefully. So, yes, I am focused on, you know, winning against the Dolphins and I believe in the Chargers.

Well, I think you got to win anyway because the Jags, if they win, could jump you.

Yeah.

So you don't want that.

Are you concerned at all with, with Quinn Ewers?

No, the, I mean, the Dolphins always, like the end of season games against the Dolphins are always weird with the Patriots, they always have been going back to the Brady era. So I am not overlooking the Dolphins in the way I would like the jets. But so, yeah, I'm a little concerned. I think, I think, you know, especially with all the ongoing stuff Outside of the locker room. Like, they gotta, they gotta extra focus and get it done this week. But I believe in the Chargers.

They're ball club. Yeah, they're an absolute ball.

Digg should get engaged.

He.

He should actually get engaged right now as, like a PR thing. New leaf.

Maybe after the game.

Maybe after the game. Taking.

It was fun listening to the podcast and hearing you say that before Max interrupted, I was like, what is he talking about? Like, I was getting so mad.

Yeah.

I kind of had the feeling of listeners when we just say stuff that's not true before it gets corrected.

When have you ever done that if.

It doesn't get corrected? Because I was like, no, he did. I got, I was like, what is he talking about?

Picture.

I did see the picture, but I, I, I didn't. It was one picture and one tweet.

I looked at multiple tweets. Multiple tweets.

Yeah.

Hank, did you know that Diggs, if he gets 30 yards on Sunday, he gets 1,000 for the season, and he would make 500 grand in contract incentives. Pretty cool.

That's cool.

Do you think we should bet on that?

Yeah, I think it's a good bet. I think Jerk Mays, he likes to, he likes to spread it out. He takes care of his guys.

Okay.

If he won 500 grand, do you think, what kind of, like, meals would you get with that?

Probably get a lot of meals.

I think you would get two. Two chefs.

Do you think it's disrespectful that teams are trying to get the seventh seed?

Is that officially something that's happening?

No, I just looked. I just. This, this one person said this.

It's a good question.

Well, Bills and Chargers, both resting starters. Josh. Josh Allen and Justin Herbert are both injured.

They could be trying to get the seven seat.

You think so?

I don't bring it on.

I'm just.

That's.

Bring it on.

I don't know if the guilty is.

Charged podcast said they're aiming for the seven seed.

I don't. I feel like it's more that Josh Allen and Justin Herbert are both injured.

What would you don't trust the guilty as charged?

I, I, listen, I like the guilty charge, guys. I just don't. I don't know. I, I guess, I don't know. Maybe they brought up a good point. I have no idea.

I think that.

I just know it also happens to be that both of the quarterbacks are dealing with injuries.

If you watch Justin Herbert over the last month or so and just seen the, the abuse that he's taken. I think it's probably a good move to rest him up for a little bit, but I. Far be it for me to disagree with. Guilty as charged.

So how would the. How would it work out if we play the Chargers? You would play the Chargers ball club. If the Bills win and the Broncos lose or the Broncos win, you'd play the Chargers.

I'm like, it's pretty. I feel like we're going to play the Chargers.

That's. You don't think the Bills with Mitch Trubisky can. Can't beat.

Yeah. What are you saying?

Yes.

If the Bills beat the jets and the Chargers lose, do we play the Bills?

Yeah. Wait, hold on. Let me look.

No, if the.

I'm looking right now. Hold on. I'm looking it up. I got the Jaguars winning right now.

The Bills are the seven seed.

The Bills. Yeah. If the Chargers lose and the Bills win, then it would be the 6 seed. If both lose, the Bills would be the 7th seed. What are you rooting for? You're rooting to play the Chargers? Yeah. Duh. Duh.

So they want you and you want them.

I want.

That sound like. Yeah. Mutually agreed upon.

Yeah.

I would rather. I'd rather play the ball club than the Bills.

Okay.

You don't think Bills are ball club?

No, I do. Bills are good.

It would really be sick if they did Justin Herbert. If they did the seatings by. You know, you get the. The conference winners get a home playoff game.

Yeah.

And then we just do a draft of who? Like the Patriots literally come out and say, we want to play the Chargers.

Is there any way for the.

That would be so sick.

I think every team would just be like, Steelers.

Yeah. No, no. The Steelers. No, no. Because they would have a home playoff.

As a division champion.

Yeah. So the division champs get to call out someone.

Yeah. From either conference.

The Jackson had this idea before, but it would be very fun because you have to win. Instant Bolton board.

Yeah.

Got it.

Okay. So you're gonna get the Chargers.

I don't know, man.

The jets somehow Winters losing. The Jags win. Yeah.

Or the Chargers win.

That's why they play the games, boys.

There's so much going.

And then if the Broncos and Patriots lose. Jaguars, one seed.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That would be crazy.

That would be crazy.

That would be nuts. Okay, we got anything else before we get to our weekend preview?

You guys got any resolutions?

Yep. Zipline.

Oh, you're gonna try a zipline?

I just want to zipline more. I've never ziplined, so just gotta do it. Once.

Some more than. What? More than zero time?

Yeah, I'm not.

Whoa.

What are you looking at me like that for? Max, I'm not talking about, like, the Amazon zip lines. I'm talking about, like, Wisconsin Dells. Just go from, like, one end of a warehouse to another.

Are you talking about, like, an indoor, like, trampoline park? That zipline into a phone?

Dude, easy.

Okay?

I haven't done it. I would like to do it. Is that not a good New Year's resolution?

That's good. It's attainable.

Why? It's a zipline.

I. I think my resolution is I. I want to be a happy birthday guy. Like a guy that remembers people's birthdays and sends the text. It's like, hey, happy birthday. I'm one for one so far.

Okay.

I had a Stanford Steve. Oh, yeah.

Birthday today.

I think it was the 31st of December.

So that doesn't even. That's last year.

But I think I. But I think I texted him a day late.

So you're over one.

No, no.

Yeah, you missed it.

No, I think I. It counts as the text was sent in the new year.

But you missed his birthday.

You forget.

You.

You forgot his birthday.

Wait, let me see.

You forgot his birthday.

So it's either. No plus side to this.

I texted him yesterday, so I got. It was last year.

Last year.

Yeah.

You haven't done it yet. Yeah, you're not one for.

But that's my. Have you ziplined yet?

No, I said it's my New Year's resolution. I didn't say I'm one for one.

Mine is to become a happy birthday.

Yeah, but you just said you're one for one.

I was practicing.

I was.

Okay. I was. I was one for.365.

We've been dieting this week.

But I'm hot, right?

You're ready to go.

I'm hot right now.

Yeah, you're going to get your. Yeah, you're just putting in some red.

Wait, wait, let me see. Whose birthday. Who has a birthday on January 1st?

LeBron's birthday was yesterday.

Yeah, I already.

I did my one for yesterday. Ice Spice.

Shout out.

Ice Spice. Happy birthday, baby. January 1st.

Well, she's going to be listening to this on the second.

Text her.

Yeah, you need to get someone on the second.

You're gonna text that.

I'm telling. I. But I'm doing it on the first.

Right, but she's not gonna hear it till the second.

That's fine. I'll do two.

Don't do someone's shouting out on a podcast.

A little pretentious, too.

No, I think that counts. You gotta find someone on the second.

No.

All right, who we got? These are people. How the. The famous birthdays?

Fernando Tatis Jr. Okay, Fernando Tatis, let's go.

Tay Diggs.

Happy birthday, Gooding. Fernando.

Dax Shepard is a podcast guy. It's his birthday on January 2nd.

Competition.

I don't want to. What's your guys doing?

Sorry.

I want to do Jiu Jitsu.

What?

Missoula? Yeah. I mean, I. I've told Missoula you're.

Just becoming Chef Donnie for a couple years.

Chef Donnie are just slowly, slowly becoming one in the scene.

I don't think I'm gonna, like doing it, and I don't think I'm gonna, like, do it. We'll see. I've just told him that I'm gonna try it. Chef Donnie does do it.

That.

That is part of it. More just because he's like, you know, it's. It would be easy for me. He's got a place to go to, so it's not like I have to find a place and go alone. But, yeah, I. I told him I'd do it, and I. I want to do it.

Okay.

Do you think the Jiu Jitsu is going to interfere with your. Your golf schedule?

It's winter.

What if you get injured?

That is a concern. Yeah, that's a major concern.

What about the guys in the booth? We got any New Year's resolutions? We are on a diet.

Cycling. Oh, cycling classes.

You need to get in a skin tight Lance Armstrong suit.

Yep.

Nope. But.

But, yeah, I took one cycling class this week, and I was dreading it. And then by the end of it, I was like, this is. This isn't so bad. This is, like, good.

Were you going fast enough?

Yeah, no, I. I was. Me and Ebo did it. I think he burned a little bit more calories than me, but we. We were in the. In the same.

So you guys can cycle together, but me and Chef Tony can't go to Jiu Jitsu together.

I didn't say that you can't. I just said that you are.

You're turning into Ebo, Max.

Yeah.

Yeah. Good. I would love.

He's got a great body.

Yeah.

Evo's a skinny guy.

Yeah.

I would have to.

I'm not getting shorter. I was about to say it.

Say it. I was about to say it.

Max, we'll get you going on. On a peloton. We'll do Buns of Anarchy.

No, I Like, I'm in. I'm an in person guy.

Okay.

Emo doesn't do peloton.

Yeah. Sorry for trying to help.

Yeah.

What about you, Zach?

I'm thinking about trying to become a little bilingual this year. I would like to try to learn Spanish.

Damn, you guys are really showing me up. I just was gonna get on a zip line at like a kids park.

That takes balls.

We got jiu jitsu and bilingual.

Well, yours is. It's like yours is actually gonna happen, right?

That's. I like to do New Year's resolutions. I remember a few years ago, I did New Year's resolution to drink more apple juice. I had apple juice like three times. Crushed it. That was it. You got to do things that are attainable.

Last year I did baked bread. I think I did. I baked two things of bread.

You're gonna make a sandwiches all the time. You never did.

The deli slicer is so hard to clean that.

Yeah.

It's just not worth it.

All right, so bilingual. What language?

I would like to be dangerous enough to communicate in Spanish just because, like, I'm thinking about, like, eventually in life I should get a passport and maybe go somewhere in Spanish. The utility on learning Spanish is so you. It's so much utility.

Yeah, it is. Okay, so you're gonna take courses. You're gonna listen to podcasts or what YouTube is saying. Download a lot of apps.

Duolingo.

He's just gonna fucking play Call of Duty with Spanish dudes.

Yeah. Set. Reset your server.

I could do.

Yeah, that would be funny.

Just talk shit in Spanish. Yeah.

Also, January 3rd, happy birthday to two of my favorites, Mel Gibson and Greta Thunberg. What a dynamic duo.

But again, January 3rd, if they listen to this. January 2nd.

Happy birthday in advance. Take this day for yourselves, guys.

Memes. What do you got?

I'm going to come a winner.

Oh, yeah. Georgia. You are a Georgia fan.

I'm over, over one right now.

Yeah. So how we. I should have come to you for this game. That was. That was tough.

It's okay.

Would you have any thoughts on it? You. Did you see that Kirby press conference I referenced?

I did not.

Oh. Where he was talking about, like, success and.

No, everything was right in front of him. I thought the script was leaning towards, Georgia, win this game, Go play Carson Beck, then go play Dan Lanning, old dc. Unfortunately, Chambliss turned into Joe Burrow.

Yeah, yeah.

Stuff last year.

All right, wait. Do this. Show more, Juan. I want to hear him, but show more. I want to read the quote. Yeah. So he said some coaches get the most out of their teams and don't win the national championship, and that's a hell of a year. We used to be able to credit a lot of people for a hell of a year. Unfortunately, it's gotten to win it all or nothing. I don't evaluate our success that way. That's a quote from a guy who's like, hey, just. Everyone knows we might not be winning at all this year.

Yeah.

If you're, if you're dropping that.

Yeah, I know what you're saying. But he did have the defense playing incredible, like, towards the end of the season, and then they just had a month off.

Yeah. No, I, I, I'm not saying that Georgia couldn't have. I mean, they, they could have won it all this year. They were, they were a very good team. I, I think Kirby Smart, when he won back to back national championships, might not have had the same quote because he had the war machine.

Yeah, they don't, they don't got the guys on defense, but he was having them play at a very high level towards the end of the season.

Yeah, he said it in. That was before the fourth quarter. He's like, we got to play with more violence. We don't play with it. We're not playing with enough violence.

Yeah. And that was the first game they lost out of 76, when they had a fourth quarter lead.

Wow.

Yeah.

That's pretty crazy.

Got shambless.

They did.

Yeah.

They have a formula, unfortunately. They got Chandler.

Yeah. What were our new resolutions last year?

Big cat. Become a regular at a dive bar.

Didn't do that.

I gotta do that.

Read one Michael Lewis book.

Didn't do that. Gotta do that, Hank.

Get a physical. I did do that.

Okay.

Go to the dentist. I did do that. At the very end of the year.

Why?

Because I had a cavity, which. And I now have to get like a. Not major oral surgery, but I have to get like a significant oral surgery. Probably because I waited so long to go to the dentist. But I did go to the dentist.

Coming.

I have to. Oh, I also, my wisdom teeth are coming in, apparently.

AJ Brown, by the way, for just getting his wisdom teeth out. Week 18.

Yeah.

I have a problem with a tooth that has a root canal. So they have to, like. You have to go to a specialist. Specialist can only do Thursdays and Saturdays.

What?

No, it's on a tooth that already has a root canal.

He got the root canal done, and then that root canal now is no good. Yeah.

Yeah.

So I have to go to the specialist. They're trying to schedule it, and it's like, oh, Thursday or Saturday. And I. I literally had to say I have to wait until Sunday to see, like, when the Patriots are playing. And I. There was a weird text to send to basically, like, I've never even talked to this person in real life. I was just texting the front desk or whatever, and that was that. I was like, I'll let you know on Monday. But I have to see some work scheduling. I think it's just the Patriots.

That's.

That's a reasonable accommodation.

Pft. Drink more water.

Yeah.

Six pack by the summer.

You have a six pack this summer?

The back. The back through that.

Get me.

You definitely drank a six pack.

I drank many six packs this summer. Yeah.

Get new planes on the flight simulator.

Did that. Yeah. Definitely picked up the F15E. Strike Eagle. That thing's a missile truck.

Max. Lose weight.

Gained weight.

Learn how to bake bread.

I. You tried.

You.

You.

You.

Donnie baked bread and you just.

If you watch any of those videos, Donnie didn't even show up half the time.

I didn't.

So would you. Did you learn how to bake bread?

No.

Okay.

By the way, I'm counting my New Year's resolutions. Even though those ones listed did not hit. I'm counting as check mark on all my New Year's resolutions. I got an ice cream machine that was like a life goal of resolution. Yeah.

Memes go to a doctor.

I went to a dentist.

No, that's a doctor.

Yeah.

And get at least two more TVs.

Oh, yeah.

You only got one.

Oh, no. Memes.

Shane's was to try an apple and learn Italian.

Okay.

And pugs was play NFL blitz more and cook for himself more.

Okay.

I don't think he. That blitz machine doesn't get used.

Pug uses sometimes, though.

Pug definitely uses it in addition to the zipline. I'm going to become a. I'm going to try to become an ice bath guy.

Okay.

Love that notice. I said try to become.

Yeah.

I'm not going to commit myself to becoming one because I might be a pussy.

Yeah.

The ice bath sounds really good until you actually do the ice bath.

But if I can do it and I become one, I'm basically a Navy seal. Mm. So that's what's at stake here. Pussy or Navy seal? We will find out. I'm excited.

Cast your bets now.

Yeah. Okay. Let's. Let's. Let's crush 2026, huh?

We're all gonna get jacked up. We're gonna get skinny.

I'm sure you get less fat.

I just. I just. I don't.

I just gotta eat less fat.

Oh, I'm gonna get. I. I have my, My doctor's appointment to see if I can get on trt. So that's coming up. I'll let you guys know how it goes. I wouldn't mind if we all just did it together.

I don't think I'm going to do.

Trt, but wait till you see how ripped I become. I would. I might just leave this podcast for the Navy.

I will say, though, that. That spending the entire day at the office January 1st on a new diet and we did like a Super bowl because it's a football day. It's hard. It's. It's very difficult. You talk about temptations around every corner while you're at the office. I walk one way. There's seven pizzas. I. I turn around and there's an ice cream machine.

And there's wings.

There's wings and there's candy, and there's Chinese food.

We just got to get ourselves canes.

I did. I held out.

I did, too. I had four wings, six, but that wasn't that many. In one slice of pizza.

10 wings.

And one ice cream cone. But I also walked on the treadmill.

It was a small. It was a small cone though, right?

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Are we gonna do a quick touchdown parlay? We gotta do one, right?

Yep.

Yep.

All right. Afternoon games. I think we gotta throw. I'll. I'll throw one out there. I think they play in the afternoon. Trey McBride scores every week. I feel like he's still trying. You like that?

I like it.

Trey McBride. What do you got, Hank? And anything we gotta do Raven. Steelers, too. Someone on the Bills.

What about Hunter Henry?

Oh, James Cook. Remember talking about him getting the rushing title? I feel like maybe we throw him in there.

I like that.

And then what about you? Well, should we do a Steelers?

Ravens? We could do one in the night game?

I like Hunter Henry. We could throw Hunter Henry in there.

Steelers. Ravens. I'm gonna go.

About.

Say flowers.

Okay. Hank, do you want to do Hunter Henry instead of Trey McBride?

No, we can do Trevor Pride.

Okay, so Trey McBride, James Cook. Zay Flowers.

Or should we just. We could just go chalk and go Derek Henry.

Oh, he's got a sneeze.

Is that sneeze or toothache?

He's got a sneeze. Toothache.

I'm good. I'm good.

No.

Does sneezing hurt your tooth?

No.

That's good.

What should we do? Should we do Derek Henry?

Booth, you make the call. We need help from the booth.

Derek Henry.

Let's go.

Let's go.

Zay Flowers. Which one?

Derek Henry. All right, so Derek Henry, Trey McBride, James Cook.

Love it.

Okay, and then. So we'll have that up there for the people. Max. Gonna put it out there right now. Let's see what it ends up being.

Brides not out. Yeah.

Okay, so then do Hunter Henry. There we go. Decisions made.

So, yeah, we got two Henry's.

Two Henry's. Oh, wow.

There's one right in one lefty there.

Third one we could get.

This isn't out yet. I feel like.

Is there another Henry? Search for another Henry.

This is important.

Oh, the Henry parlay would be incredible.

Yeah, that would be the Henry dog.

Henry. We do Hunter Henry and Derrick Henry. Score two. The Henry dog.

That would be insane. Actually, not. Not that Derek. Not Derek Henry.

Yeah.

100.

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Well, I'm probably not gonna be there on Saturday, so clean Saturday. Oh, they're clean Sunday.

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Okay, double clean. We double clean it up. We could do maybe some bowls. Let's get steaks. Let's get Donnie to make us steaks. Let's eat some steak dinners.

That would be awesome.

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Mean a lot.

Mean a lot of stuff.

Mean a lot. Saturday, we have two games that mean a lot. We have the potentially the Saints Falcons game meeting. A lot of. There's some seeding in the NFC that still can happen. There's obviously Sunday Night Football, which will mean a lot. But yeah, it's. It's. We, we have all of our playoff teams that, you know, outside of, obviously the AFC north and NFC south, the other six spots are already set. I'm excited, though. There's still some good games and we got to figure out incentives. We got to get some because this is the last slate. You got to enjoy the last Sunday slate. I know that there's a lot of games are like, oh, fuck this game. Who's going to try? I'm going to try. I'm going to try and win some bets.

Yeah, there's. There's going to be a lot of stuff that comes out as the week goes on and on and on, where we find out who's playing, who's not.

Yes.

And there's some teams that don't have anything to play for that it sounds like they're going to play everybody.

Right.

Because it's football.

Right.

And that's what you do. And we love it. You try to win games.

Yeah. Okay, so let's get into it Saturday. Panthers at bucks. Bucks are minus two and a half over unders 43 and a half. The Panthers, if they win, it's a. It's a T shirt and hat game they're in. If the Bucks win, there will not be. Not be T shirts and hats in the locker room because they then need Tyler Schuck to beat the Falcons. It's a ridiculous way for this NFC south season to end, but it's also great. I am. I think the Panthers are better than the Bucks. I just can't quit. Baker Mayfield.

Yeah. So the. The Panthers have won every other week since week seven.

Yes.

Which would mean that this would be a winning week for them, but they're also not very good away from home.

They also are undefeated as. Or, sorry, all eight of the Panthers wins this season have come as underdogs. Yep. So they, they. They're not undefeated as underdogs. They've lost games. Underdogs. But they. All eight of their wins have become. Come as underdogs. So they've checked that box. At least they're not favored in this game.

I want to know what happens if the Bucs win this game. Where do they watch the game? Where do they watch the Falcons Saints game? Do they get together as a team? Is it like college football?

I think it's college basketball. March Madness. They all get together in their jumpsuits.

And they sit around in the gym. Yeah, they go in the gym. They watch on the big screen. I would like to see that happen.

Any Bucks players who want to come watch it in the gambling cave and watch Tyler Shuck. Listen, we've been. We've. We've had some good things happen with Tyler Shuck in the gambling cave.

Yeah, the shocking ears.

So you're ready to go? We're. We're ready. We'll invite anyone who wants to come. I am. We're. I like both these teams have flaws. Obviously. The Bucks winning would obviously like. Would give us another meaningful game. So I think I'm rooting for the Bucks in that. In just that reason. Yeah, no, there's no Panthers slander. It's just I want another meaningful game on Sunday and I want it to be the Shock versus the Falcons. I'm fine with whatever the result is there. So, like, I'm fine with the Panthers getting in. I just want one more meaningful game.

I think I'm going to bet on the Bucks to win because it feels like with the home field advantage, I think that they're a better team than The Panthers on the road.

But the Bucks suck, man.

They do suck.

For fucking two months now.

They do suck.

How long can we go where we're just like, this team just sucks.

So I think I'm going to bet on the Buccaneers and then I'm also going to bet on Chuck.

Okay, so like a correlated bucks to make the playoffs.

I think so, yeah. Although, I mean, all the signs do point to the Panthers winning the super bowl with Ohio State, Jennifer Lopez filing for divorce. I. Far be it for me to turn my nose up at the universe, but I think sometimes you just got to go with your gut. And I. I think overall the Bucks should be a better team.

Yeah.

I don't know. Do you think that if the Bucks make the playoffs, even if they limp in, let's say they.

No. I'm going to answer your question before you even finish it. No.

Well, do you know what I was going to ask?

I don't know but I'm going to say.

But the answer is no.

Because the question was not going to.

Be about if they're going to be dangerous. I don't think that they would.

Yeah. That's a no.

And the reality is you'd rather be the 5 seed than the 4 seed in the playoffs. If you look at the history of. Of how those seeds do. I think. I think Todd Bowles would save his job if he made the playoffs. That's what I was going to ask if. If they bring him back. No matter what. If they make the playoffs. Let's say they lose by 10 points in the first round.

I don't know. I think they should get rid of him. He sucks.

I agree.

But I think he's. This could be his third straight division title and he's still. And he's What? He'll be one game over. 500.

Yeah.

It's insane.

You know, it's a fun fact is the both these teams are two of the teams that have made the playoffs with losing records.

Yeah.

I think there's like four or five.

Ron Rivera's year. Yeah. Remember he did the press conference after.

Yep.

So we will hit on some incentives and milestones that are. That are going on in week 18. I don't think that applies for this game necessarily because it's obviously a very important game. So they're not like, hey, let's just get this. But guy the ball. But one that I. I did see. Sterling shepherd needs one reception for 125, 000.

Okay. He'll get that.

I feel like Baker's like A teammate that would. Would do that, they could figure out a way to make 29 yards for. For another 125, 000. So if you. I don't know how many catches, what his line is going to be, but I'm gonna. I'm gonna try to figure out a way for him to get one catch. Yeah.

You know how a lot of teams are trying to figure out the best way to handle the new Sam Schwartzstein dynamic kickoff.

Yeah.

Todd Bolas has just given up on it.

Oh, yeah, he said that? Yeah.

He said Chase McGloff, no matter what, just kick it out of the back of the end zone. That's one less thing I have to worry about. He's got a lot on his plate. All right, Chase.

Insane that he. Like a coach would come up and just say, like, I can't figure this out.

Yeah. Tell you what, I know they're not going to score a touchdown if you kick it out of the back of the end zone.

Todd Bowles is just like us. Because I still don't know it. I still, I still get surprised every now and then.

I think there's some teams that, that have figured it out, though.

Yeah, no, definitely. There's. I, I saw the whole. There was a whole article about it where there's. There's teams that are. I think it's the Rams kicker maybe who's like perfected the knuckleball. Remember the game against the Eagles? The Rams Eagles. And it was. The Eagles just got bad starting position all. All afternoon.

That was insane.

Yeah. The Rams guy has figured out how to do. Who's. Who's the Rams kicker?

Mevis Nevis.

Yeah. He's figured out the knuckleball.

I think the commanders figured it out too. There's. There's a strategy behind it, but Todd Bowles is like, there's, you know what? The, the probability of them scoring a touchdown is 0% when it goes out of the back of the end zone. So I don't care where the touchback is. Let's do that. In.

In Todd Bowles defense, like, he is at a point where it's like, hey, control what you can control. We can't control this.

That's true.

Just gotta, gotta, gotta keep things simple.

Also, he's, you know, he's not a young guy, Todd Bowles. He's been around the league for a while.

He.

If he learned something new, that pushes one thing that he's already learned out of his brain.

Yeah.

And we can't handle that.

Yeah.

Okay.

Saturday night two really good teams. Seahawks at Niners. Niners are one and a half point underdogs over Unders 47 and a half. I'm very, very excited for this game. The Seattle Seahawks, by the way, have lost three games this year by a combined eight points and they've won 13 games by a combined 189 points. They have been very, very dominant. I told you the stat about, you know, the fact that they can even win when Sam Donald turns the ball over. The Niners are playing incredible offensive football. Their defense obviously has a lot of injuries and is. It has holes. They also are going to play with their. For the faithful uniforms, which I hate. Niners are in the camp of teams that have classic beautiful uniforms. You close your eyes, you can hear. You can hear. You know, some are all Madden calling a Niners game. Instead we're going to get weird black helmets and black jerseys. I don't like this.

I don't like it. In a game that means this much.

Correct.

You should be able to decide. You should be able to switch it up the week of if it doesn't feel right because the all black jerseys Saturday night for the division, for the one seed, you should be able to change that.

The. So this is such a massive game because it does feel like the winner of this game is going to have. They will be the favorite to go to the super bowl from the nfc. That's a fair statement.

Right.

I think they only have to play two games. They get to play at home. They're going to get to play the lower seed in this divisional round. They don't have to play, you know, the Bears of the Eagles right away like they're. This feels, this feels like a super big swing game in terms of how everything's going to go.

I think. I agree. I think if the Niners get the one seed, I don't know that they would be the odds on favorite to host or to I guess. Yeah. Host the Super Bowl.

Yeah.

Because they wouldn't have to leave Santa Clara for the rest of the year.

They had going into the Sunday Night Football game against the Bears. If the Niners just won all their games, they'd have five home games in a row.

Yeah, that. That never used to happen. We never used to even really be in the conversation of the super bowl host team will even get to the Super Bowl.

And now it's happened twice.

Yeah. The last five years it seemed like it's been. It's been more. Way more likely.

Was it Tampa Bay and then the Rams. Right. Yeah. The Rams were in.

They were in sofa. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

So that's. That is pretty crazy because it always was like something that you throw out there. Remember when the Eagles and Vikings played before the super bowl in Minnesota? It was like, whoa, this would be nuts.

Yeah, this.

This would be nuts.

It would be nuts if it happened again. I. I need to see if Trent Williams is going to play.

Yeah.

Now they, they did pretty good. Their offense looked good against the Bears without Trent.

That is fool's gold because the Bears.

Don'T have a pass rush that is. Yeah.

Can't really expect.

And the Seahawks have a great defense. Yeah. They have one of the best defensive lines in football. So I feel like missing Trent Williams is going to be a big thing for him. And their defense is not going to be able to really do anything against Sam Darnold offense. They would have to win a game similar to the game that they played against the Bears. And I don't think that's possible to do against Seattle defense.

Brock Purdy since returning from injuries. 6, 0. He's the number for. Number one in the PFF grades, which I don't really believe in the PFF grades because we were joking about it. They have Christian McCaffrey at like 18th running back, which makes no sense. 16 touchdown passes. That's tied for first. 80.8% adjusted completion rate. That's first. So he's been in the zone lights out since he returned from injury. Yeah, I, I've gone back and forth in this game. I think. I think I'm going to probably bet the Seahawks.

Do you think the schedule makers got it right? Do you think that putting this game on on Saturday night was the right move? Because it was either going to be Raven Steelers.

Yeah.

Or Niner Seahawks.

I would have preferred it reversed.

I agree.

I would have. I would have rather had the Raven Steelers on Saturday night and the Seahawks Niners to finish the season.

I agree because with the Raven Steelers there's a very high likelihood that we're looking at like a 14 to 10 game.

Yeah. I think the reason why. Because I saw some people complaining about it and I understand it. I think the reasoning behind it is the winner of the Raven Steelers game is hosting a home playoff game. The loser of the Niners Seahawks game has to go on the road. So they probably wanted to give him an extra day.

Okay. Yeah, that makes sense.

Right.

I'm speaking for America, for the, for the television viewer.

Yep.

I think it would have been better if this was Sunday, but that's okay.

Agreed. I think that was more just a. Lamar.

I like the. I. I like that Ravens, that Raven Steelers a Sunday night.

But in terms of like that's not going to be an exciting game.

But it's win or go home.

Yeah.

Like I said, like, I think that there's way more at stake to that game and. And it's like such a historic rivalry.

Ready for a hot take? I think there's more stake for this game. The.

For the Niners there is. No, no, I think the Seahawks there isn't.

I think there's more at stake for this game in the fact that the Ravens and Steelers are not going to win the Super Bowl. The winner of this game is like could very likely win the super bowl and it will increase their chances by a lot.

But for the Niners. Yes. For the Seahawks, if you lose, you're the 5 seed and you. And you go to NFC and you go.

Yeah. But then you got just having to play three games. But it's.

It. The five seed is still a very good path.

It's a good spot to be. Yeah.

Yeah. But that's my hot take. My more important for this. For to win the super bowl. This is more important because neither the Ravens or Steelers are going to win the Super Bowl.

Also think about like those fan bases.

Yeah.

Like there's way more. If you're a fan of one of those teams, there's way more pressure on that game.

Yeah. And the Niners, obviously, if they get. If they lose, they go down to the six. Right. Or there's a potential. The Rams have to win.

No. The.

The c. Yeah. Yes. The Ra. If the Rams win, the Niners would go down to the six. So they would have to go to Philadelphia.

Yes.

Yep. The Bears can only play the Rams, packers or Niners.

I think the Seahawks have to be a fit like their first. They could be his fifth.

Correct.

Correct.

Yeah. So it is a swing for the Niners.

I do think that the Niners uniforms. Those are better for Saturday. Yeah. Those don't feel like Sunday night uniforms.

That's true.

So at least it is that.

Okay. Sunday we have the Saints Falcons game which hopefully will mean something. Yep. And we have Tyler Shuck, who's been Incredible most offensive TDs in the fourth quarter of one score games this season. Tyler Shuck is fifth. He's only played six games.

Rookie of the year.

No big deal.

Tyler Schuck has also turned around that Saints defense too.

Yep.

They're averaging 4.3 yards per play against on defense since Tyler Shuck that's, that's the second best in the entire NFL. That's what a guy like Shuck does to an entire organization, to an entire city.

Culture, guy.

Culture.

Culture.

Yeah. If I told a Falcons fan in late August, the Falcons defense is going to have 50 plus sacks. Bijan's going to go for 20, 20, 2200 yards, all purpose yards. Kyle Pitts can have a really nice season. Drake London is going to be dominant and they're going to have a really impactful rookie class.

Yeah.

And the division sucks. You're like, well, yeah, the Falcons are in the playoffs.

But then if you had said they also have to play musical chairs with their kicker. Yeah. Then you'd be like, yep, that's, that's the Falcons.

And if I also said they, they are going to lose the New York jets and get blown out by the Miami Dolphins. Yeah, that's a, they're, they're a big time, what if, holy shit, how'd this happen?

Kind of team, but also beat the Bills.

And the Rams.

And the Rams. They're a very strange team.

It's crazy, really.

Does the season kind of comes down to week one?

Yeah.

Young Weku missed that. It was a 44 yard field goal.

Yep.

As time expired. He missed it. That was against the Bucks. If they win that game, then we're talking the Falcons in the playoffs.

Yeah, it's, it's the, the teams that are on the top of the list of wow. This could have like we were, we were right there. And if a couple things go different, it's the Falcons, it's the Vikings, it's the Lions.

Yeah.

Those are the teams where I'm like, if you're a fan of one of those teams, you have to be sitting there like that. We're right there.

Yeah. And we, we could have Kirk Cousins in the playoffs right now.

Kirk Cousins. Should, should Kirk Cousins be the starter next year?

Well, I don't think they're going to pay him next year. I think he's done after this season.

Okay.

At least in Atlanta.

By the way, the Falcons too. This is a crazy stat. So in the last decade, The Falcons are 53 and 78 in games when they are still playing for a playoff spot. They are 12 and 4 when mathematically eliminated.

That's interesting.

That makes me scared for shock. They're really good when they're eliminated.

Yeah, they also, I saw a stat.

I think they're like 13 and 3 or something in the red helmets. Why wouldn't you just do that all the time?

The Red helmets are great. I like those. I still like shock. I. I gotta believe that that shuck has just come. He's changed everything about that locker room.

Yes.

Everything about the facility.

Something about shock. Okay. Browns at Bengals. Bengals are minus seven and a half overrunners. 44 and a half. If this is it, this. There's two storylines in this game. It's Joe Burrow, or, sorry, it's Joe Flacco. This might be it. Yeah. If it's it, we love you forever. And then Miles Garrett, can he get.

A half a sack?

And it sounds like. Like Joe Burrow is not designing the entire premise of him playing quarterback around preventing Miles Garrett from getting that Joe Flacco.

Joe Flacco's playing.

Joe Flacco's playing.

Yeah, I believe so. I actually don't know because I saw someone.

Because I saw an interview with Joe Burrow where he said there's going to be some times in the game where taking a sack is the best option.

Oh, okay.

So I'm not saying that Joe's.

Maybe it's Joe Burrow.

He's not going to lay down.

Actually, seven and a half means it's Joe Burrow.

Yeah, he's not going to lay down for Miles Garrett. But it also sounds like, you know, there were. There were a couple plays with the Steelers last week where Rogers took, like, a completed pass for a loss of three yards over getting sacked.

Yeah.

And it was in the back of his head. And it doesn't sound like Joe's got that same mindset, so I feel like. I feel like Myles Garrett gets it this week.

Put in Joe Flacco, though, for a little bit. We gotta. We gotta send them off.

Yeah, Let. Let him throw a deep ball.

Yeah.

Just one last deep ball for the. For the people.

Packers at Vikings. Vikings minus seven and a half over. Under 35 and a half. I don't. The packers are wrestling everyone. They should.

They're getting the seven seed. Yeah.

The Vikings might start J.J. mcCarthy.

Yeah.

Okay.

I think they gotta see what they got.

Yeah, they gotta see what they got. Justin Jefferson needs 53 receiving yards to get to a thousand on the season. So not a money incentive, but I think that's actually something they're going to try to do. Teammate of the year.

Yeah, teammate of the year. We're getting Malik Willis. He might be a little bit banged up.

He's also might be better.

So it might be the Clayton Tune situation.

He might be better than.

I mean, again, I don't think he's a better quarterback. No, but he's more fun.

And he might be better.

And he might be better.

Yeah. Cowboys, Giants, Giants. Plus three and a half.

By the way, that would also hit the Vikings win total over for the season.

Oh, yeah.

As much as it seems like a disappointment because they were so good last year.

Not.

It was eight and a half.

Yeah. Nine and eight. They are definitely a what if team.

Yeah.

Cowboys, Giants, Giants need to win. Memes. That's what you're hoping for.

Yes.

It feels like they're going to try to win because they tried really hard to win against the Raiders.

Yeah.

And I. The Cowboys, I do think the thing I would be nervous about if you are rooting for the Giants to win this game, this does feel like Dak Prescott, George Pickens gets their numbers game.

It might even feel like a Joe Milton.

Joe Milton.

Joe Milton.

Joe Milton's gonna get in.

He might. Schottenheimer says that he's. He's mesmerized. Mesmerized by his arm.

They need to really. Week 18. They just. Everyone complains about week 18. I understand the complaints. We just need to have. There needs to be a deadline on Saturday morning and every coach has to be like, this is our exact plan.

Yeah.

Because then we could have fun with it. If we're like, hey, we know it's gonna be Joe Milton in the second half. Great.

Well, there's some guys, too, that. That get the start. Like, I'm sure Josh Allen will get the start.

Yeah. Because of his streak.

Because of the streak.

Right.

And I don't know if that's like a point of pride for Dak Prescott being like. Yeah, it's. I started this many games. I could see. I could see them putting Bazooka Joe in in the second half. Yeah.

By the way, there was a report that the Giants would be interested in Kevin Stefanski if he gets fired. Okay. There was also a report that the Browns would be Interested in Mike McDaniel if he gets fired.

I think the. I think the Giants are going to interview everybody.

Yeah.

I think it's just going to be like, open. No. No bad ideas.

I have a question. This is not about the game. It's about. Somewhat related.

But.

But do you think Eli Manning has fun when they release the Pro Football hall of Fame nominees? I feel like that can't be fun for him because every time they do it, it's just a bunch of people saying, Eli Manning was actually a totally average quarterback, but won two Super Bowls. Yeah.

But also, the further he gets away from his career when he's doing. He's doing all the media right now, I do think that he's going to get in.

I do, too. But I just. It basically opens up every single time for people to bash him and be like, actually, he was never a top five quarterback. He was not that good. He just had two incredibly clutch runs.

But those were great runs.

I agree. I think he should be in as well. But you see what I'm saying, that people just start picking him apart. Whereas, like, Drew Brees, he's going to be in. Larry Fitzgerald, he's going to be in.

Yeah, I. Yeah, there's probably some of that where he's like, I wish people didn't bring up all my interceptions.

Yeah, right.

I wish that he. Now he's a guy that he kept that streak going for a long time when he probably shouldn't have.

Yeah.

When he was his. His shoulder was just falling out of the socket. He's like, I can go coach.

Well, that was. What. What did Ben McAdoodoo in, right? Yep. Putting in Geno.

Yep.

Okay. Titans at jaguars. Jaguars are minus 12 and a half over under 47 and a half. This game does matter. The Jaguars are playing for the AFC South. They're playing for a home playoff game. They also are alive in seating. So the Jaguars. It would be a long stretch for the Dolphins to beat the Patriots and for the Broncos to lose to the backups of the Chargers. But if that happened in the Jaguars one, the Jaguars would be the one seed.

So if either one of those two teams. Teams lose the Broncos or the Patriots and the Jags win, they get. They get the number two seed.

Yep.

So, yeah, they. They've got a lot to play for. I think they're going to. The Jaguars aren't at a spot where they can be like, yeah, we like what we've got right now. Let's just coast to the playoffs. I feel like it's been such a work in progress this year. They finally gotten to the point where they're. They're a very good football team, that they're probably. They're probably afraid of taking a week off.

Right. And I do like, I appreciate teams like the Titans where it doesn't matter who's playing, they're just bad. Yep.

Yep.

We just know. Yep.

Cam Ward, so he's thrown for over 3,000 yards now. He cracked that last week. That's the first time that the Titans have had a quarterback throw for over 3,000 yards since when Brian Tannehill. That special 2021 season where they got the one seed. Just a great team. Mike Vrabel, coach, leader of men. No one saw the Titans coming that year. They locked up that one seed. Great, great season. All on the arm of Ryan Tannehill.

Yeah. Colts at Texans. Another one that matters because the Texans, if they win in the Jaguars lose, the Texans would win the AFC South. Texans are minus 10 and a half over. Under is 38 and a half. We should figure out a way to do I. It would be kind of impossible, but actually, no. What if. What if there was flex scheduling in the NFL in terms of opponents too, where the last two weeks are two divisional games. But we don't know until Week 16 because it would be awesome if the Texans in the Jaguars were playing each other this week.

I think. I think that's a good idea.

I don't know how it works.

I think you might. You might get it wrong every now and again because the teams are so close to each other in the division.

Right. And obviously week 17 would then impact week 18.

Yeah.

But it would be cool if you just like the last two games, we know we're playing two division opponents. We don't know what order it is.

Yeah.

And here's here. Here's what it is.

Now, I don't want this to come out sounding like I'm upset that Shane Steichen brought in Philip Rivers because I'm not. I'm not at all. It brought a lot of joy.

Sound like you're upset.

A lot of. Brought a lot of joy to America. I loved watching him play. He's not going to be playing. He's not gonna be starting this week.

Yeah.

Why did they do that? Why didn't they just have they want Riley Leonard play.

They want to take a look. Well, remember Riley Leonard was a little banged up when they brought in Phil Rivers.

A little bit.

Yeah, he was. I think he couldn't have played that Seahawks game.

Yeah.

So that was why they did it. And then now they just want to take a look at Riley Leonard.

Okay. But I feel like he probably could have played at some point over the stretch.

I again, did.

He drew he reception. It was a great Hail Mary. Again, not upset at all if they brought in Philip Rivers. But I'm thinking from like a big picture perspective on the team.

I.

You'd probably want to see what your young quarterback has rather than do the. The Philip Rivers carnival, which. Which was fun. I love the carnival.

I did. I did love Philip Rivers saying afterwards, talking about meaningless games, this is just a good quote for life he said to say a game is meaningless is not in my DNA. He said those games we played in the backyard and we were 10 years old, they weren't meaningless. Right. Nobody gave a riff about those. I like riff. Yeah. Instead of. But you went home crying or you went home happy, you know, so there's no such thing. Everything we do matters. I would put a little asterisk next to it and just say everything we do matters. Except the exhibition four nations tournament.

That's true. Yeah, good point.

Everything else, though, we do matter.

Good point. Yeah. Sometimes you just go out there and you just kind of. You just fly around, don't really think about anything.

Right.

I don't even remember that tournament.

I don't either. It was. It's a good message because there's a lot of cynicism in the world. There's a lot of people, we're like, oh, that's lame. No, everything we do matters.

Yeah. This.

Try your hardest at everything you do.

It does mean a lot to the Texans to. To try to get home field advantage because they're good at home, at least in that first round.

Yep.

They're not very good on the road. I think they're 20 home playoff games. They're 02 on the road.

Okay.

So that's with D' Amico Ryan's as a coach.

Tomiko Ryan's. Good looking guy.

Great looking guy.

Bill's Jets. This will be Mitch after Josh allen starts bills minus seven over under 38 and a half. I don't really know what to make of the Bills, by the way.

I think we're gonna see, we're gonna see just how valuable Josh Allen is to that team.

Yeah.

I mean, this game, the, the Bills probably can win with Mitch. Right. Memes. You can't win this game.

Yeah. And it's the last game ever being played in that stadium.

That's right.

Yeah.

And well. Yeah, that's right. Because they don't have a. Unless. Unless the Texans, who's gonna be the seventh seed. It's gonna be Bills.

It's gonna be the Chargers.

Yeah, Chargers.

So I guess there would be one chance if the Bills went to the AFC Championship game and hosted the Chargers. Right?

Yeah. Six, seven matchup.

Six, seven.

I think there's like an outside chance that the Bills could get a home playoff game.

Yeah. They would have to. Yeah. If they win, the Chargers lose.

Okay. Probably not gonna happen. Memes. I think this is the week. I think, I think the jets are going to get an interception this week.

I don't think so.

Do you want to go the full season without a pick?

Yeah.

Why?

And then you get one week. One.

That's new. Yeah. New beginning. Is Aaron Glenn going to still have a job?

I believe so, yes. The noise right now is crazy, but I've noticed it.

It's starting to ramp up.

It ramped up big time, especially on, like, New York radio. But then there was finally an adult in the room that spoke up.

Who?

Brick? No. No. Oh. Oh. Baldy.

Baldi was just like, this is not an NFL roster right now. So that should give you the perspective that this team sucks. They showed that they were competitive with a bad roster, being the Falcons who just beat the Rams.

Yep.

You see what you have. You have some pieces in place. All the guys who have quit right now, Those guys aren't going to be on the roster. It's going to be a total overhaul of the entire roster. You have 11 draft picks. You got two first round picks. You got two second round picks.

Yep.

Go build a roster. Forget about this season.

Move on.

Now. Do you trust the guy that's going to be there to build the roster?

I trust. I. I do like the gm. They have Darren Muji.

Okay. All right, memes. I didn't bring this up on Monday show because I thought it was a mean insult stat and I didn't want to twist the knife too much on the Jets. But then I told you after the show and you said, no, you should bring this up. You should talk about it. It's a good stat. So I'm going to bring it up and talk about it. The quarterbacks that play against the jets this season, they've quietly, as a whole, as their own separate unit, put up an MVP season. They've got 32 touchdowns, zero interceptions, 7.4 yards per attempt, and they've gone 13 and three. That's every quarterback in the NFL that's played against the jets this year.

That's pretty damn good.

It's a pretty good year for those quarterbacks.

That's incredible.

Yeah, no, they. They played a lot of good quarterbacks. It was going through their schedule. Like we. Max, would make fun of you last year because Jane Danielson play any quarterbacks? I was trying to find if the jets lost any bad quarterbacks. They didn't. They played all good quarterbacks this year. So going into next year, they just need a defensive coordinator and a quarterback, and I think. I think we're fine.

Who's the worst quarterback that you guys have lost to?

When you say fine, what is that competitive Competitive football.

Yeah, I just want to watch competitive football.

Yep.

The worst quarterback we lost to.

Did you lose Bryce Young, maybe lose to Spencer Rattler?

No, we lost Tyler Shuck.

Oh, well, that, that, I mean, that's. That's probably the best quarterback you lost to, right?

Pull up Jeff schedule.

The jets, they played tua.

Maybe two is undefeated against Jets.

Two. Yeah. Two might be the answer though, to that. You beat. You beat Joe Flacco, you beat the Browns. Yeah, I think it's probably. It's probably two.

I think people need to start talking about how unfair this schedule was. The jets, you guys played an MVP quarterback every single week.

Yeah. No, you're right.

Facts, by the way. Something to look out for in this game when we're talking about incentives and everything that's going on. Sean McDermott did say when asked about James Cook in position to win the rushing title. That's definitely on my mind.

Hmm.

Hmm. So right now James Cook is 50 ish yards, 40 yards. 40, 47 yards to be exact, ahead of Jonathan Taylor and he is 200 yards ahead of Derek Henry, who's in third. So it's essentially a two man race. James Cook versus Jonathan Taylor. And it's on Sean McDermott's mind.

I like that. And they're also wearing the, the sick red helmets too.

Yeah. Okay. Afternoon Lions at bears. Bears -2 and a half over under 50 and a half. I believe the Bears are going to be playing everyone who's healthy. This is a, a double revenge game. So it's revenge for Ben Johnson after the loss to the Lions in week two and the Lions kind of ran it up and then it feels like a revenge for Dan Campbell because the story all year has been Dan Campbell's Ben Johnson merchant. And he is potentially going to raid the entire Bears coaching staff in the off season.

Yeah. Is he allowed to do that?

I.

Well, I think you can. It's the old. Like you can give guys like. Al Harris is probably going to get defensive coordinator jobs.

Yeah.

A lot of he might do that.

Some guys are going to get like associate head coaching.

Doyle could become the offensive coordinator for life. Like, I don't know. I don't know what exactly that entails. Al Harris is the name that a lot of people are talking.

I always love it when, when coaches get like a quarterback coach, but they also make him associate head coach.

Yes.

Even though he's not a coordinator yet. I think that Dan Campbell is going to be playing everybody. Yeah, I think, I don't think he's taking his Foot off the gas, he said, I think if guys can't go because of injury, next guy up will go younger, old, younger, veteran, next best guy available. So it sounds like they're going to be treating this like it's a real game now.

So I, I, I, the Bears should treat it like a real game because getting the two seed is, is important. I believe having the chance for an extra home game, having a chance to play the seven seed, like these are important things. The, I do think Ben Johnson is going to try to get Caleb Williams to 4,000 yards. I just think that's something that's important. That's, it's like a fuck you to everyone. I did it in my first year. We did it. And I do think I'm a little nervous for this game because the Lions big issue has been blocking for Jared Goff and the Bears cannot get a pass rush.

Yeah.

Whatsoever. So that makes me nervous now also.

If the Lions lose this game, they could get fourth place, which is not.

Yeah. Which is three games different.

Which is three games different. But it's still, I mean, if you look at the stats, the teams that play the fourth place schedule, they tend to do better.

Actually. I think if they win this game, they can also get fourth place if the Vikings win.

So if it's double win because they.

Lost the Vikings twice. So the Vikings would definitely have the tiebreaker over.

Okay.

Both eight and eight right now. So the Lions are going to try, they're going to try really hard. I don't, I don't think Dan Campbell has it in his DNA to do anything different.

I don't think so either. I think that this is, he's not a guy that's going to rest anybody. You're going to get the full lines experience.

Yeah. Okay. So, but I do think I, if you, if you're looking to bet something. I do, I do think that they're going to make it an effort to try to get to the 4,000 yard mark. He said Ben Johnson on getting to 4,000 yards, if were to happen, that'd be great. But you'd agree with me. Our number one objective is to win this ball game. I think he then winked after he didn't actually wink.

And you're okay. You're not, you're not a little bit scared of having Green Bay come to Chicago?

Oh, I'm definitely, I'm definitely scared in the fact I think the Bears are better than the Packers. I'm scared in the fact that if the Bears lose to the packers, this entire Season is like, you look back and you're like, that wasn't fun. That loss, it wipes out fun.

That loss would hurt a lot more.

The big picture means absolutely nothing because it's like, big picture. Ben Johnson, Caleb Williams, I think are going to be incredible going forward. But in terms of the 2025 Chicago Bears, that has been such a fun ride. That would no longer be the case.

It would kind of make the off season painful instead of happy.

Yeah. And it would just be. It would just be like, yeah, that was. That was awesome. Until the packers and the packers fans would get to say, same old Bears and Bears suck and all. You know, all that stuff.

Yeah. So it would be the Rams. Right. You could end up playing the Rams.

Play the rams or the 49ers or.

The 49ers, and if either one of those two teams beat you in Chicago, it'd be like, great season. We're a year away, bad outcome.

Right.

We made the playoffs. It feels like we're even, like a year ahead of schedule where we thought we'd be. But if the packers do it, then it's like, this fucking sucks again.

Yeah. Yeah. And the. The Bears have not had a lead on the packers this year.

That's interesting.

So that, I mean, it's. It's scary proposition. And the packers are resting everyone.

Who would you rather play, Malik Willis or Love?

Probably Jordan.

Love.

Yeah.

So good. He's really good. He's so good. He's so good. I would. Something about Malik Willis. I. I do think that. Yeah. I mean, Caleb's been lights out. He's been. Everything has gotten better throughout the course of the year.

All.

If you look at all the advanced numbers and. And, you know, his arm, that, that throw. I think I've watched that throw to Colson Loveland a million times where it's just an absolute 50 yard frozen rope that just got there in two seconds.

There have been a couple of those throws.

Yeah, the Luther Burton one as well. Okay. And one last thing about the Bears, I love Ben Johnson so much. His accountability is so refreshing. Where, you know, like, a guy like Eberfluss would always just fumble his way through a press conference. Blame the players. Blame execution. Ben Johnson essentially said the last play of the game against the 49ers, he screwed up, not getting it in fast enough. And he said that the field goal drive, when they had first and 10, first and goal on the 10, he was asked directly, like, do you think you should have run the ball more? He's like, yeah, I Hated what I did there. I got to look. I got to look at what I did, and I have to do better. I have to call a better game in those spots.

Yeah. Again, I think with Ben Johnson, at least you have a coach that thinks everything through and he's accountable.

He's saying, like, yeah, I didn't do a good. Like, I got to put our team not, oh, our team. You know, execution was bad or this or that. He's like, no, I. I have to do a better job.

Yeah.

And I love that. Yep. Okay. Chargers at Broncos. Broncos minus 12 and a half over under 37 and a half. Chargers are not playing anyone, which is the smart move. Broncos obviously need to win to get the one seed. Is there a chance Trey Lance is going to start? Yeah, we might see DJ we might see DJ we might see DJ you.

Know, the last time Trey Lance threw a touchdown pass?

North Dakota State. No, no.

It's his rookie year.

Oh, okay.

His rookie year, 20, 21. And he's started a couple times. He's attempted 85 passes since then. But he. He could be benched for Djala Lay.

Yep.

I need Jake to remind me how to pronounce that.

Who was my 11 pick after that Notre Dame, Clemson game in Covid? Yeah.

He was so good. He was. He just looked like a bulldozer.

I was like, that guy. It is pretty crazy to think about the 49ers and how good they are. Obviously, last year they had a bad year, but how good they are year in and year out, and they burned. Was it the third overall pick on Trey Lance?

They trade. They traded up for him.

Yeah, right. Like, think about that. They basically made it as hard as possible. Like, hey, we have a top three pick, and we're going to. We're going to draft a guy who never was good.

If any of the other 32 or 31 teams besides the Niners had taken Brock Purdy in that draft, I don't know that John lynch still has a job.

Yeah. And I don't know. I mean, let's see. Who is the. I believe he was the third overall pick. Yeah. I mean, Brock Purdy, I guess, makes up for that. But it. It's nuts to, like, taking a third overall pick. That is a. That is not good. That quickly is a. Is like, ruins a franchise.

And we don't really talk about Trey Lance being a bust because of that, because they've been. The Niners were fine.

Yeah. I think it's because we just didn't see enough of them in College. Like, if he had been in a Power 4 school and won a big bowl game.

Well, he did beat JMU in the national championship.

Yeah, that is. That's big. What did you guys think about the Chargers posting a picture of Drew Brees saying, close to Canton in a. In a Chargers uniform?

I guess you got to get those clicks in. I. I think they might have known what they were doing, trying to get the engagement. They're like, people. People are going to be so pissed about this.

Yeah. The. The. The last thing I had on this game. If you are someone who still thinks Justin Herbert is bad, I saw this stat. The final Chargers offensive line rankings ahead of week 18 where they're going to probably rest some guys. ESPN pass block win rate 32nd. ESPN run block win rate 31st. PFF. Pass blocking efficiency, 30th PFF. Run blocking grade 32nd. PFF. Pass blocking grade 31st. He is playing behind the worst offensive line possible, and he's still the man.

I just think he's the best that ever was.

He is the best.

God bless you, Justin.

Yeah, so do you.

Wherever you are.

Do you want to retract? Stupid pick guy.

I never said he was a bad quarterback.

That reinforces. If you're a good quarterback and you're liable to throw a stupid pick, then you're a big, stupid pick guy.

Correct.

Like, there's a lot of guys that throw stupid picks that aren't big, stupid picks. Guys. Because they're just bad quarterbacks.

Exactly.

Right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay. Chiefs at raiders. Raiders are plus five and a half over under 36 and a half. Looks like Pete Carroll is going to be done.

He doesn't know.

That's all the reports.

He's had positive conversations. Big cat. He's had a lot of positive conversations with guys in that building.

And how'd they go? They went positively.

He said, anything that can happen, I feel like I've got their support. What does that mean? I don't know, but our conversations have been really good.

There were some conversations.

He's been having good conversations with people around the office. So it would be. It'd be shocking to him if he was fired.

I. I would not be shocked.

I would not be shocked either. I think it's pro. I think it's going to be Tom Brady, like, learning how to be an owner in real time.

Yeah.

Like any. Any guy that comes from a successful background. Doesn't matter if that background is in software sales. Doesn't matter if it's in private equity or just being a good Quarterback. They all go through the same process, just like we would go through if we owned a team, which is we try to get a bunch of players that used to be good and coaches that used to be good, build a fantasy team, and then we think it's going to work out and it doesn't. And then you realize the mistakes and then you say you're going to take your. You're going to be more of like a holistic, hands off type owner. Let the football guys make the football choices.

Yep.

And then they do that and then you start to meddle again. And then you realize, okay, now I've really learned my lesson. Now I'm just going to go play golf and let everybody else do their job. And that's when you get good at football.

That's when. That's when it's David Tepper.

Yeah. So right now he is in. He's Tom Brady starting phase two of that.

He's. He's about to enter phase two.

About to enter phase two. So I give the Raiders, like three more seasons.

The Raiders have to lose to keep the 1 pick.

Yeah.

I'm going to try to not watch a second of this game.

I think we can make that happen.

Although I might close my eyes anytime my head goes towards that TV.

There is a milestone.

Oh.

Travis Kelsey, 57 yards away from Jason Whitten to move into second place all time.

Okay. He also is two receptions away from passing to. For eighth all time in terms of balls caught, which is pretty incredible for a tight end.

I feel like getting to second place. If your retirement is up in the air like his island. I think the Chiefs will try to make that happen.

Yeah, definitely. Definitely both things. To be like, hey, top 10 receptions, second place receiving yards. Yep. Yeah. I don't care about this game.

You think Max Crosby's going to watch this game while he's at CrossFit?

Yeah, dude. Max Crosby, we could talk about it now. Good basketball player.

Yeah, very good.

Yeah. I. Max Crosby is the number one. Every single team, every. Every single decent team is going to want to in the off season. I don't know.

I want him.

I don't know if this entered Max's calculations, but we get. You've been a great teammate. Nobody would hold it against you if you were like, I'd like to be traded now. Yeah, you've said all the right things. We've checked that box. You're not a diva, Max.

No.

You wanted to stick around.

All he does is play.

You wanted to be there. I think at this point, you're well within your rights to be like. You guys trade me.

Yes. And do it.

Please. Yeah, please do it.

Please, please do it. The. I. I think we should maybe do. Maybe we should do a round robin where we have to bet every single game just for fun.

Okay.

Like you should. No one should bet the Raiders Chiefs game. But we. We gotta.

Yeah. I mean, I'm. I'm definitely going, but.

But no one should do it. No one should do it. Rams, Cardinals. Rams are seven point favorites. Over. Under is 46 and a half. This one is kind of an up in the air, up in the air game. Because if the Seahawks win. No, sorry. If the Niners win, the Rams have a complete lock on six, Right? Yes, I believe that's true. If the Niners win, the Rams cannot go anywhere but the six seed. So if the Niners win on Saturday night, I would expect the Rams to not play.

Anyone see Niners win on Saturday night, Rams.

I believe that's true because we said that earlier. Seahawks can't move off the fifth spot. Yep. So that will be the. That. That will be. And then if the alternative happens, if the Seahawks win, I would assume the Rams are going to try to win this game because then they would be the fifth seed and get to go to the NFC South.

Yes.

Which is a big difference in going to Philadelphia.

You're going to try very.

Max's got.

Yep.

Got it, got it, got it, got it.

We had the camera on Max's face.

Yeah. You're going to. You're going to try very hard to win this game.

Yeah.

If you're able to move up, that's a big difference.

I also will throw this out there. There's another one coming up. There's actually a couple coming up. I think the Rams probably could win this game with Jimmy G. I think.

That what the Rams are doing right now is actually right along those lines. It's. It's smart. What McVeigh is saying. He's saying that he's going to play all the starters says we need to play better. And they asked him about it. They said, are you doing that because you've lost two in a row? His answer was no. They were going to play anyways. We need to play. We need to play better football. So I don't know what the consequences are on those different types of things, but we have to play better. So he essentially said, no, but Also, yes, you're 100 correct that I'm playing by starters because we have to play better. I think that if there's a chance that if the Saturday night game does not go the Rams way, they might just not play their starters. Yeah, they might just. But he's keeping that door open for us.

Yeah. So we'll. We'll see if this game is good or not. The. The Dolphins at Patriots Patriots minus ten and a half. Drake May is going to win the mvp.

It looks that way.

I mean, I say it all the time.

It's. It's.

I, I think both are good choices. If Drake May wins the mvp, that's a good choice. If Matthew Stafford wins the mvp, good choice. I don't really have a strong take or bet on it. The thing with the mvp, and I've said every single year, if Matthew Stafford had played the Falcons at noon on Sunday, would he still win the mvp? Probably. He played him on Monday Night Football and he had a, you know, pick sixes in the, in. The Rams lost. That's what people go for.

Now what if the Dolphins beat the Patriots? Because Miami, I think they've won two in a row in Foxborough.

Okay. And. But it's a cold weather game.

Is a cold weather game.

But it's not Tua.

It's Quinn yours.

Wow. Wow.

Can Quinn play in the cold?

I don't know. Yeah, he, he. I mean, he went to Ohio State for a year.

Yeah.

Right.

Yeah.

So, yeah, Quinn can maybe. I mean, he's from Texas, but he did go to Ohio State for years, so he's at least aware of cold.

I don't think that the cold affects him as much as it does Tua. I think that's a safe bet.

Yeah, I agree with that.

And I, I still think that the Patriots are going to win.

Yeah, they are.

And I think that even if they lose, I think Drake May should probably be the mvp.

The, the bigger question with the Patriots this week is, is everything okay? Because Stefan Diggs and Christian Barmore.

Well, yeah, I mean, you're talking about Stefan Diggs incentives, right?

Yeah.

He's got 30 yards on Sunday to get a thousand for the season. And that would give him $500,000. Enough to pay 10 chefs. Wow. Yeah.

Think about all the meals.

It'd be a lot of meals. He could even have two chefs.

I wish Hank was here.

We'll.

We'll ask him about it. But yeah, the Patriots are primed to. I mean, they'.

I think so.

I think they're going to win this game and Drake May is going to win the MVP and the dolphins are going to possibly keep Mike McDaniel I don't know. I don't know what the Dolphins are going to do.

I think he might have done enough.

He might have done enough. He might have done enough. Commanders at Eagles. Eagles are minus three and a half now, over under 38 and a half. The big question is, can the Eagles beat the commanders with their backups? Because Nick Sirianni is going to play the backups. Max, how do you feel about that?

Love it. Any place, anywhere, anytime. Shows confidence in your team. Get the boys healthy for the playoffs.

Will you be upset, slightly upset. If the Bears lose and the Eagles, like, barely lose the Commanders.

Any place, anywhere, anytime, but you'll be slightly upset?

Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Because I do think that we were talking about it before. I think the Eagles are in a different spot than the Bears where if the roles were reversed and it's. If you win this game, you get the two seed. You have to. You have to play everyone. They're in a spot where they could win the game and still not get the two seeds. So why risk injury?

Yeah.

Which makes sense.

Also, the. The five number three seeds in 50 years have reached the Super bowl and only three have won the Super Bowl. So it's actually better to be the 4 seed than it is to be the 3 seed historically.

But they can't be the 4 suit.

But they can't be. But they could be the 3C. It could be the 3 now. Max, I think that I actually like the commanders in this game.

Okay.

I do.

I'm happy for you.

Okay. This doesn't mean anything to you? You said that you're gonna be slightly upset.

I mean, we're playing our backups.

Yeah. Is it Tanner McKee? Tanner McKee.

I like Tanner. I mean, they're still. I think they're four and a half point favorites.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

Which is disrespect.

Disrespect.

That's big time disrespect. Disrespect.

It is. Yeah. Yeah. Disrespectful.

No, it's. It's.

It's disrespect.

Definitely.

It is. I, I do like Debo Samuel to. To get a. Maybe another touchdown. If he gets one more, he gets 250 grand. And if he gets 97 receiving yards, he gets $200,000.

Okay.

So I like a big game out of Debo and I. Josh Johnson. Sure. Yeah. Let's try Josh Johnson out there. This is.

That's a good point. It's not like you guys have your first team. Your first team, either.

It's A great game for me. If we lose, awesome. Maybe better draft pick. If we win, I get to beat Max and I get this.

It doesn't feel. It doesn't feel as good beating the backups.

Yeah, well, it would. It would ensure NFC east divisional tournament championship in season. We'd high. Yeah. We'd have. No, no, no, no outright.

It doesn't.

It doesn't matter.

That's right.

No prior results matter.

No. This game.

No.

We'd have two wins in the tournament.

Right, Right.

And I think you'd have one win.

You would have one win, Right? Yeah.

Right.

So, yeah, it's cumulative wins. We'd have two. The Cowboys, I think, would have one.

If the Cowboys beat the Giants, they'd have two.

Oh, is that true?

Well, they beat the Commanders last week.

So we could talk. Yeah.

Oh.

No.

Who's a bigger Giants fan?

You don't know the tiebreaker. The tiebreaker, I think, is strength of victory.

Okay.

And the Cowboys would have beaten. They would have beaten the Commanders.

Eagles definitely would have been the strength of victory.

Yeah. Yeah. And they would have been the Giants, who stink.

Yep.

We would have a win against the Eagles, who are good.

All right. So it doesn't matter.

Strength, victory.

Yeah.

We have the best matter back.

Yeah, I think it's. I think it's. It's margin of victory. So you got to root for a specific. You lost by seven of the Cowboys. You got to hope that the Cowboys don't.

Wait.

Beat the Giants by more than. Yeah.

Head to head is not so head to head.

We don't do head to head. Doesn't matter.

Yeah, you can't.

It's a hat and T shirt game for us.

No.

This has been a sad season. I'm glad to see that. I'm glad to see that it's over. If we're getting to week 18, and I'm talking about a made up tournament that Dan Quinn invented to try to get his team to show more than 5% effort. And I'm putting all my weight behind that. This. That's a surefire sign that I need this regular season to be over.

Shit's gotten sad. You can't. The good news is the Commanders cannot fall past the seventh spot.

We locked that in with the same lottery. Yeah.

So you can. If. If teams ahead of you win on Sunday, you could potentially get a. A better pick. You'd go all the way up. I mean, the. The chances of the. The Giants, Jets, Titans and Cardinals all winning is very small.

Yeah.

But I would say that did happen. And you lost. You could potentially have the. The two pick.

Yeah. I don't. I think we're going to find ourselves right around somewhere between five and seven.

Yeah, that seems right. Okay. Last game. This one means something. Ravens and Steelers to end the 2025 regular season in the NFL, these Steelers are three and a half point underdogs. The over under is 40 and a half. I think the Ravens are going to win.

I think so too. Lamar is going to play.

Yep. And I think they're going to run Derrick Henry.

Yeah.

And I just. I. If you close your eyes, I can just see a sad Aaron Rodgers and Mike Tomlin walking off the field.

Yeah. Unfortunately I. I did want the Steelers to. To make the playoffs. I.

So you.

But.

No but now you can say you, you, you. I guess we'll never know.

We'll never know. If they do make the playoffs. I think they'll win a game. But I don't think they're going to make the playoffs.

Now.

Do. Do you still think they're going to win a game? They'd have to play. Who'd they play?

I think they. I mean it's all up in the air.

It is all up in the air. But I.

So we don't know it be.

Would maybe be the Texans.

It could be the Texans.

That. That doesn't seem like a game they would win.

Texans are.02 on the road in the playoffs under D' Amigo. Ryan's.

Yeah, but think about Aaron Rodgers in that pass going up against that pass rush.

I do think about that. And Rodgers is already looking forward to next year. It sounds like he's coming back.

Yeah, I'm actually. I gotta. I gotta root for the Ravens here because I think the Ravens could beat the Texans.

They could.

The Steelers I don't think can, but I think the Ravens could.

Yeah, the. The Ravens are going to give a healthy dose of Derek Henry for sure. Last week they did something that hadn't been done in a long time with Derek Henry. They ran the ball out of I form which is awesome.

Yes.

It's old school football. He had 18 runs from I formation. That's the most by any ball carrier since 2015.

This is. It does feel like maybe an end of an era for the losing team in this game.

It does. And we said it should be a loser leaves town for the coaches.

Yeah.

Like whichever coach loses this game. And then Adam Schefter kind of alluded to that. He said like it might be. Yeah.

The Steelers, by the way, at home against the Ravens. Have been good. They're 4 and 1 at home against the Ravens their last five years. They also are 20 and 5 in the regular season finale since 2011and 1 at home. Those stats really probably don't mean anything, but it's cool to look at. Just say they always win their last game.

I would like to see DK just come back.

Yeah, just show up.

Just do a.

Do a Jamis.

Just show up. What are they going to do if you play it is. Is the ref. Does. Does the ref have the physical ability to keep DK Metcalf off the field?

We should do a reappeal on this because for the viewer and the people at home, DK Metcalf playing in this game makes it so much better.

Yeah, but what would happen if he just. If he went out there on the field for the first possession, what if he went.

What if he brought the guy. The Lions fan came out, let the Lions fan slap him in the face. He's like, we're good.

Or DK kidnaps the Lions fan and then forces him to do a video. Being like, I'd like for you to reinstate DK Metcalf for this game. I'm sorry. I was in the wrong.

What if the Lions. We. We say DK Metcalf can play, but the Steelers have to play their entire first offensive series. Series with the Lions fan at wide receiver. Yeah, that would be awesome.

I'd agree to that. Yeah, I'd agree to that.

I would definitely agree.

Punishment should fit the crime.

Yeah. Okay. That is. Yeah. I'm excited for that game. It's. I just think the Ravens.

I don't know.

I. Lamar. The whole Lamar thing is weird, but the fact that he's going to be playing, because I had to take earlier this week that if he doesn't play, could we. Could this have been the last time we see him in a Ravens uniform? I. It seems like he's going to play, so I don't know what's going to end up happening. If they win a couple games, will they just keep going with the Harbaugh Lamar thing? There's a lot of smoke, but they have one game to get in. And who knows? The Ravens would officially. If the Ravens win this game convincingly, there'll be a lot of the Ravens or the team to watch out for.

I think that if the Ravens get in, there's definitely a possibility that they could win at least one game.

Yeah.

And then I don't think that you do anything about Lamar and Harbaugh.

Yeah.

I think you just, you run it back.

You just try not to get injured.

And it does feel like he's going to play because this is what the Ravens do every single time they play the Steelers with Lamar at the start of the week, it's like, oh, we don't know if Lamar is going to play. And then guess what? Lamar plays.

Jerry wants to play Lamar.

Yes.

He said that he would rather have the Ravens play Lamar than Snoop Huntley. Yep. Which is. He's. I mean, he. The Steelers have. I just said the stat at home and Steelers have kind of owned the Ravens recently.

Yep.

So, okay, let's do our picks and then we have Jerry O' Connell exit interview for the 2025 fantasy football season. So who's got the first picks? I have Zach and Hanks picks. They sent me three options for each. So we'll get one of their options. I'm up first.

Yes, sir.

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Okay, I am going to go with my first first selection. I'm going to take the bears Lions over 50 and a half. Who is up next? Is that Hank?

That'd be Hank.

All right. So Hank's selections I'm going to pick off of his order. His first selection is going to be the Steelers plus three and a half memes.

I'm gonna go with the Jaguars minus 12 and a half.

Okay.

I'm riding the hot hand. Give me the shuckster plus three.

I love that good pick. Love that. Zach, his first selection is going to be the Buccaneers minus two and a half. Okay. Pft.

I am going to go with the under and Raven Steelers. Oh, 40 and a half.

Zach's number one pick that he. Because I had him send me his top four is the over in the game. So he's going to take over 40 and a half.

Okay. Do I get two now?

Oh, sorry.

I am going to take down to two. I'm going to take the. 49ers.

Okay.

Plus one and a half.

Okay.

I think. I think Trent Williams might play.

Okay. So that's the over in the Ravens Steelers game. What is your pick?

I am going to take the over in titans jags over 47 and a half.

Okay.

I'm gonna go over in Seahawks 49ers over 47 and a half.

Hank is going to take under. Should I give him. So he sent me Commander's Eagles under 41 and a half. It's now 38 and a half. Or should I give him. His other option was bears Lions under 50 and a half which is stage true.

Do that. Okay, that's too confusing.

Okay. All right. Bears Lions and then I have the last pick. I am going to take today. We'll take the Seahawks.

Nope.

Nope.

I'm gonna take the Seahawks minus one and a half.

All right.

Okay. Do we have. Do we do a touchdown parlay or should we just. We. There might not be enough things out there. We can. We'll have one. We'll have one. We'll. We'll. It'll be at the beginning of the show. We'll put one together at the beginning of the show because it'll be closer. Okay.

I think shock runs went in.

Oh. Oh.

I think he uses the legs.

Oh. I think that's a. That's a really game. But we'll still bet it.

Yeah. All right.

I like that, too, though.

Yeah.

He's done it all.

Yeah.

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Okay. We now welcome on a guest. It is our fantasy football manager, Jerry o'. Connell. This is our exit interview. We thought the Awls deserve to have the exit interview, be public. So we made it to the championship this year. We lost in the championship. We were starting Jacoby Brissette, and we just want to have a recap, see where we're at as a team. I think most teams, you know, this is. We're getting close to Black Monday. A lot of owners sit with their coaches, be like, hey, where did things go wrong? How do you think you did assess the season and. And you know what's going to happen going forward.

You asked me to speak now.

Yeah, yeah, go ahead. I mean, if the floor is yours. I mean, how do you think the season went?

First of all, just want to say what's up to the Awls. Thank you for all your support this season in helping me manage this team. They were very helpful, except for the one guy during the draft who kept screaming, Ollie Gordon, Ollie Gordon, Ollie Gordon over and over again. That was. That was annoying. That said, when you texted me about this exit interview, I was a little nervous. I. I texted you, Big Cat, what's this about? What's going on? I mean, runner up. How much better can we do? We did not have to pay that substantial entry fee. Substantial. I actually broke it down. You know, last time I told you it was one tenth of my driveway. I actually broke it down here. I put in a new heating system in my home. It is one third of a new heating system. One third of a new heating system in a. I don't want to show off, but a three bedroom home.

Okay.

It is. It is a substantial amount of money. This exit interview should be nothing but grateful coming from both of you. Big Cat, I've read some things online that you've said and I appreciate it. Pft. You've been a little rude and not very appreciative.

I gave Jerry a vote of confidence after Sunday.

Listen, you don't want the vote of confidence. Jerry, the vote of confidence is a kiss of death in the NFL. You know that coaches, New York Giants head coaches have gotten like seven consecutive votes of confidence before they've been fired. What Big Cat's doing is. I mean, I think he's actually a little bit more appreciative than I am. That's true.

I am giving you a real vote of confidence. I have no intention of firing you from this, from this job unless this exit interview goes poorly.

So it is true that Big Cat's a little more appreciative than I am. I think my, My pain comes from a. A place of expectations being set by you before the season. You're wearing the jersey right now, the Jaden Daniels jersey. I believe you said he was going to break every NFL quarterback record this year.

I put.

He did not. By the way. He did not do any of those things. If there's a blame pie that we're cutting up, I, I probably give you 33% of the blame for Jaden Daniel season going poorly because of the expectations that you put on him in the preseason.

Oh, 33%. That's funny. That's. That's the exact amount that it took to get his new water heater that he stole from us.

From the.

The money that he got back.

Yeah, exactly.

Exactly.

So it wasn't a water heater, dude. It was a heating system.

Like if you want heat in your house.

It was like 60 degrees the other night here in LA, like you need a heater, you know? Let me ask you. I mean, hopefully I'm. I'm still your manager next season. I mean, I'd like to see Shefty get you this much content or whatever. Shout out, shout out. Game time. What are, like. Let's just say we were gonna draft some commanders next season. What assurances can you give us? What are maybe some commanders going to do to. No. Work on, like, tendon strength, bone density. What are they going to do in the off season?

I think for the commanders.

I think for the commanders. You're banned from drafting any commanders next year. I would like to see that. I'd like to see that put in place. I don't want you to touch anybody on my team ever, you know?

Okay.

All right, that's good. We can work with that.

Yeah, we were going to do that anyway, unless you could assure me someone was going to, I don't know, work. Work on legs, do some squats. Some of those videos we see from.

From.

From some of the Eagles facility. Team members clapping and backup, like, team members doing, like, putting on, like, six or seven plates on each side. Are we gonna see any of that? See people gonna drink milk?

Here's. Here's where we differ, Jerry. I. I think that you are the reason for it. I don't think that our strength and conditioning is making them bad. Meaning you don't want to draft them next year. I think it's a chicken or the egg situation. I would just. I would like to move forward, removing all commanders from the draft pool for you next year. I know that in the past, you've taken entire teams off your draft list, so let's just add one more.

I. I mean, news flash, if I am your manager next season. Also, we're never drafting. Is Max here?

Yeah.

Or is he still on vacation?

I'm here. I'm here.

No, he's here.

We're never drafting an Eagle ever again. Max, it's over. Saquon. Hey, Max.

We're talking about the Commanders.

Hey, Max. Saquon us hard this season. He us real hard. He was our first pick.

Yeah.

He has 1100 yards and eight touchdowns. It's a good year, dude.

Not okay. Not okay. Not with the first pick. A first pick has got to be lights out. We're talking jsn. We're. We're. We're. We're talking Ashton Genti. We're. We're talking Bijan.

Ashton.

Dude.

Does not have better numbers than Saquon Barkley this year.

Championship game.

One single game.

No, dude, No, I. I was there. I was at that Chargers game when I was begging for Saquon at the end of the game. I. I was. I was live texting with.

He had a 50 yard touchdown that game.

He did have a 50 yard touchdown toward the end of the game. It was a fluke. Thank God it happened. He had about five points going into there. He us so hard, Max. So hard.

Two examples you gave were Ashton Genty over Saquon Barkley and the Chargers game.

Jonathan Taylor. Jonathan Taylor.

He would have. He would have. He kind of fell off at the end of the season in terms of numbers.

I think what, Jerry, what we're looking at is you need to do a better job of drafting clutch players. Saquon Barkley, not clutch. In the fantasy championship.

Yeah, you know, I was trying to keep it sort of friendly with the podcast and stuff, but you know what? You guys win. We're just going to draft all Patriots next year and let's see how morale is in that room.

Hey, it's on vacation right now.

Of course he is.

I got a question for you, Jerry. I got a question. And this is again, this is an exit interview that I. I went in. I'm going in. We were texting last night. I w. I went. I'm going into this exit interview being like, Jerry's my fantasy manager. Nothing's going to change. But I do have some questions and I just like some answers to. Jaden Daniels obviously got hurt this year. The backup plan for Jacobe Brissette. Did we ever have an option to maybe upgrade the backup plan? Did we ever have a different waiver wire? Did we have a guy we could trade for? Cause it felt like going into the championship with Jacoby Brissette was a. Was not the best.

We did.

First of all, that. That league that you put me in, I felt bad when I was talking those guys we were in the championship with. That was a little. I don't know if you read those texts. That was a little rough.

Yeah. You went atomic. You also added me and PFT to text thread with just two random guys and then left it.

They actually. Yeah, I'm. I'm. I'm so sorry. Full story to the awl is why I gave your phone numbers out. Sorry about that. I. I shouldn't have done that. They wanted to double the money in the championship and also second place gets no money, and I didn't feel comfortable authorizing that, to be honest. The amount of money that's being thrown around it really. It's. What else did I do? You know, I had some tree trimming done in my backyard. It was. It was literally like how much it costs to trim all the trees, like, in. In my backyard. I just don't have that kind of. I don't have that money to throw around. And of course, Big Cat said, let's go, winner takes all. Thank God I talked you off that ledge because I saved us a substantial amount of money. You have to call 1-800-GAMBLER Big Cat. This isn't even double it.

I wanted to double it.

Do you think that maybe having the safety net there for second place, that. That made you more comfortable going into the finals, made you less likely to go out and get a replacement for Jacoby Brissette?

Pressure. Pressure makes diamonds.

No one in that league would. Would trade with me. You saw the texts, pft. You read them on the show.

I did.

Begging anyone to make a trade with me. I was offering Max's beloved Saquon, who had such a sick season. A sick season. I was begging anyone to take him up our hands for anyone. We did have Jackson Dart.

Yeah.

After week 16 and that one and that one point game, I couldn't start him. He did perform better than Jacoby Brissette in Week 17, but I could not start him after that Week 16 game. I couldn't do it.

So Max has a question. Because I. I would like to hear Max's question. Max, did we ever think about picking.

Up Tyler Shuck for this?

Good question.

Because I know there was. There was a time where he was available, and we've been in on him early.

Jackson Dart, by the way, had two touchdowns in the fantasy championship.

I think Tyler Shuck could have helped us this week.

Yeah, I. I didn't because PFT wanted to keep Jaden on our team. So we had. We had. I mean, he's on our roster right now. You can go and look.

He wanted him to get a ring.

I did want it. Yeah. I did request that Jerry not cut Jaden Daniels so that he could get a championship.

Okay, that is true.

But, I mean, there's other guys that you could have cut.

Yeah, guys, it was a tough season. I mean, we also had Cam Scatter.

Boo.

We just had, you know, tmac. That's how we're supposed to say it. Everyone. That one guy can stop texting me that we're saying his name wrong. If you say he wants to be called TMac, his mom wants us to call him TMac, not Tet. Uh, Max called him Tet the other day. There's just some guy who keeps texting me. You could stop texting me. I said it.

Dude.

How do all these people get your phone numbers?

No, he wasn't texting. He was dming.

Okay, Jerry, speaking of texting, I have. I have a question. Because you. You talked about the trades. Do you think maybe next year we should maybe not be as aggressive texting the whole entire group chat of the league? Because that might negatively impact what people are thinking about you and not want to do a trade with you.

Well, you could beep this out if you want. I didn't realize C.J. mcCollum, who was playing, like, through some pretty big games this season, when I was, like, texting him directly and saying, dude, gotta give us a trade. Gotta give us a trade. Didn't realize he was, like, right in the middle of his. His season. Yeah, he was very polite, by the way. Very nice.

Great guy.

Oh, dude. How about when I went atomic on those guys?

Maybe you should get some improv classes.

Yeah, what?

You told him? Told him get some improv classes. Do you have a funny friend that you could bounce ideas off? This isn't going to cut it.

Said so they don't play sports because they. They clearly didn't play sports because that's not how guys talk.

It's just they sent that one, like, bing bong. You blew it meme. And it just set me off. I gotta say, the worst thing about coming in second place is knowing I'm gonna be in a Chili's with my family or an Applebee's or a Hillstone, and, like, four, like, young men are gonna come up to me at the table and lean down, and my whole family's gonna look up, and they're gonna look me right in the eye and go, bing bong. You blew it. You blew it. Show us your tootsies, Jerry. And then they're gonna walk off, and then my frightened children and wife are gonna go, what the fuck was that? What the fuck was that?

Now, Jerry, we don't care about Hank here, and you don't either. But do you think maybe that's a little ironic? Because that is just Hank's life now.

It's what he gets.

Yeah, yeah. Fair. Fair point.

Hey, guys, I realize this is an exit interview. I'm gonna very quickly. I know it's the holidays, and you guys have to go to all these parties and everything. I'm gonna go through some stuff that I'm gonna do next season. If I am your.

If.

If I Am your minute.

But before you do, I have one last question.

We have no parties, by the way.

Yeah, no parties. I. I got one question about your performance this year as it pertains to the championship. Then I want to hear all about next year, what your plans are. That's a big part of the evaluation process that we have for you in the championship game. You made one really good call. I want to give you a pat on the back. It came down to Taysom Hill or Colston Loveland to start a tight end, and you selected Colston Loveland. Tayson Hill had zero points. Loveland. I believe he had something like 18 fantasy points.

No, it was incredible game. Best game of the year.

A great call on your part. Clutch call. Can you walk us through the process that you use to decide, okay, are we going to go with the Bears or the Saints?

You're being such a little bitch right now.

Pfd.

You're being so.

What you're doing.

It was a great call.

Honestly. I was going to be nice here and say, like, congrats on Netflix and not call you guys sellouts or anything, but you're being such a. What you're saying right now is just touching. You're like an acupuncturist. You're, like, going. And you're touching the nerve with, like, a little needle.

What nerve are we talking about? We're driving right now.

For those who don't follow us on the Everything app, I said, hey, guys, we're down 20. I'm thinking about getting bold and starting Taysom Hill. A lot of our awl said, don't do that. Don't do that. So I took it to a vote. I've never done one of those votes on X. It truly is the Everything app. Like, it was fun to do a poll, you know, did any experts help you out? Adam Schefter jumped in and said, absolutely. I would. I wouldn't go. I would go Loveland over Overhill.

Oh, okay.

You know, I don't want to get him in trouble with, you know, because obviously there was money at stake and everything. But Schefter was absolutely correct.

He was absolutely.

He actually. He actually. I reached out to. To Shefty. He's. He's got a message for you. Do you want me to play it?

Yeah, sure. Let's go.

Okay. All right. So he sent me this because he was busy today. Otherwise, he would have. He would have joined the segment.

Interview.

Oh, it's a voice message.

Yeah, yeah. No, it's a video. It's a video. You ready?

Oh, it's a video.

You ready?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Jerry, I just want to congratulate you.

On a very strong season.

Not strong enough, but very strong. Impressive all the way around. Know you were juggling a lot. And I also wanted you to know if the guys want to get me involved in managing this team after their.

Review of your performance, I'd be honored.

And I'd most likely say yes.

But I do want you to know that I still have full confidence in you getting it done and bringing home the championship that was so elusive this year. Yeah. Congratulations on a job well done.

Just not really well done.

That was nice, right?

Very nice. Yeah.

Yeah.

Super good.

Another vote of confidence.

Somebody just record this. Memes. Just record this and you can send a message back to Shefty for me. Okay?

Okay.

Are you ready, Memes?

Make sure you're recording this for the podcast.

You record this real quick.

Thanks. Thanks, Memes. Hey, Chef D. What's up? It's Jerry o'. Connell. Thanks for your help with that whole Loveland thing. Pft reminded me. Hey, man. Yeah, come on in, the water's warm. I would love to have you co manage this team. Hope you're cool with like 20 year old men coming up to your table and whispering in your ear. Bing, bong. You blew it. Show us your tootsies, Tiffany. Show us your tootsies. You blew it. You're never gonna get a driveway, ever. Respect, I, your wife, respectfully hope you're okay with that stuff, Shefty. Yeah, thanks. And. And we'll talk in the off season. We'll just have some, like, Dynasty combos. See ya.

Okay.

That was good.

I think it was really good.

I think he's gonna be intrigued by that offer.

Let me. Let me go through some of these things that I might do for you next season. Just sort of like an exit interview. Some ideas that I had going out there. Let's start with the AFC East. Wait, it pains me to say this. He's not there.

Time out. Are we. Are you doing the whole. Are you doing the whole NFL?

This will take. This will take 15 minutes tops.

Let it rip, Jerry.

Go for it.

Let it rip.

Go for it.

Like, what else do you have to do? Isn't it vacation down the Christmas shit?

Yeah, we go for it.

Oh, you thought this was just going to be like a fantasy minute thing? No, dude.

Let it rip, Jerry.

Unfortunately, it pains me to say this, he's not there so I could talk shit about him. I can't believe it, but we have to draft all those patch pats next season. It's so upsetting that it's 2017, 2019 all over again. They are. They. They are back. Oh. That said, I. He's not there, so I can't talk to him. I do think this Stefan Diggs thing is going to be a distraction going into the postseason. Not helping. I mean, Max, you just got engaged, right? Congratulations.

Thank you, Jerry.

I mean, let's just say you had a private chef. Like, you were in a good mood after you got. Got engaged, right?

Yeah, Yeah, I was in a good mood.

I mean, would you choke out your private chef if you had just gotten engaged? Like, would you, like, be like, in that sort of like, like.

No.

You wouldn't even think to do that?

Absolutely not. Absolutely not.

Staying in the AFC East.

Got engaged.

Yeah. Didn't he? Didn't he? Wasn't. That photo. You tell me that photo was. That photo was real, dude. Don't tell me it was.

AI.

He took a knee. He took a knee. That's all I need to see.

That photo was real. I. I heard you guys arguing about that. That was real. Oh, I. I actually have a thing about the Bills. If Josh Allen doesn't. Friend of the show. If. If Josh Allen doesn't do it this season, I don't know when he is with Mahomes a burrow out of there. If he's not going to the super bowl this season, I. I don't know when he is.

Yeah.

Oh, I really hope George Pickens goes to the Bills, though. That would make Josh Allen a must draft for us next season.

That'd be great.

First round. You think the Dolphins stay with yours? I do.

You think they're going to roll the dice, just let him go?

No, I think they're going to. I think he's going to be their starter next season.

Okay.

Okay.

Would you draft him.

If they draft Ty Simpson from Alabama? I would draft him.

Okay.

Okay.

No, no. I mean, if they. If. If they draft that.

That.

A wide receiver. Not Ty Simpson. Carnell Tate. If they draft Carnell Tate, I would draft him.

Okay.

Oh, God. Memes. What are we doing? Memes. Dante Moore.

Dante Moore. Garrett Wilson. That's all I have.

Lamar.

I can't believe you were on the Lamar thing so early on. I don't know what websites you're going to, but you were on it early. Hey, what about Mac Jones means. I'm not even joking.

We're just going to run through the entire 2022 class.

Well, I mean, just like he's going to be out there.

Yeah, fuck it.

Okay.

What about Kyler?

Sure. He just wants a quarterback.

I think literally any quarterback.

Number one, Lamar. Number two, Dante.

I'd probably say number one Dante. No, number one Lamar. Number two, Dante.

But I thought you said that you were going to get Lamar and then. And then rest him for the entire season.

That's also true.

Okay. Memes is it? Memes is he hasn't done his own exit interview with himself yet, so he's not clear on the plan next year.

All right, let's go to the AFC North. I wish I could get a bead on Jalen Warren. He's so hot. He's so cold. We just can't draft. I just too up and down a hundred percent. I am on DK side. But by the way, what is the common denominator between that Steelers game? The. What was that fight called with the Meta. Meta. World peace.

The.

Yeah. Malice in the Palace. I was going to say the scrum and the Forum. The Malice in the Palace. What is the. What is the common denominator?

I. I don't know.

Guys. Come on. It's right there. It's Detroit.

Detroit.

It's Detroit.

The mouse in the palace happened. Yeah, it was in Detroit.

I don't want to get sued by anyone who has hats on backwards, but 100%, if you're not on DK side on that, I'm sorry, everybody, Then you're not a sports fan. That guy was. That guy was out of pocket. Out of pocket. Wanted it. Wanted it. DK gave him what he wanted.

Yep.

Don't sue me. I'm all allegedly. Oh, you know, it was a real letdown this year, and we almost drafted him. We didn't. Was John. Who?

Smith.

Everybody forgets, like, what a big deal that was him. Him going to the Steelers, you know, was. I really missed. Was. I'm moving on to Baltimore. Zay Flowers was a real deal. He went in the sixth round and I missed him.

Yeah.

Who'd we take instead of him?

Not safe.

Flowers.

I'll tell you, the big one we missed was in the third round. Jackson, Smith, Najigba. We took. We took Jaden. And that was an error. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Error. It was.

What are we doing this off season? Are we gonna, like, work on, like, what are we doing in the offseason? Pft.

Well, we're banning Jerry o' Connor from drafting him next year, so I think that's gonna.

Yeah.

Arrow going straight up for Jaden. Straight up to the right. Yep.

Right.

But are we doing anything? Any. Like what? Like, like, sort of. Like what sort of, like strength and conditioning are we doing?

I think we're gonna do more virtual reality stuff. So process it. Process things faster. Yeah.

More computers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Computers. Because. Because that's the problem. Oh, man. Bengals. We got to do it again, guys. We love shitty defenses in fantasy. Chase Brown. I'm going to say it right now. AP Offensive Player of the Year.

Okay.

Wow. Yeah.

Yeah.

Wow.

Think about it.

So you have a lot of confidence in Joe coming back then? There was some smoke a couple weeks ago. I think he's coming back. But you're not. You're not scared by that?

You do. And by the way, this is fantasy, guys.

Okay?

This isn't teams winning. We love a shitty defense. A shitty defense in a good offense. Yeah, that's like. That's like. That's like a naked. That's like Sydney Sweeney. That's what you want.

Yeah.

Can't fancy. Jerry. I'm gonna. I'm gonna stand up first. I'm not. I'm not. I'm still listening. I still have my headphones on. I'm just gonna put on the college football games because I just, you know, I don't want to. It's going to be like halftime by the time we're done with this.

I just want to say, for the record, this meeting was supposed to start a half hour ago. I've been sitting in this parking lot here.

Down.

Down the street from my house. PFT was, I guess, I don't know, at A Planet Fitness. I was looking at guys in the locker room. I don't know what was like. I was really talking to guys in locker rooms. Like, where were you? I've been sitting here for. I was here for. No joke, 40 minutes in a parking lot.

This time of year, we have a lot of conversations with a lot of people regarding our fantasy team, our plans for next year. I don't want to say who I was talking to or where I was, but, you know, I'm doing my due diligence.

Jerry, do you think that if you really. And I think you really care about this, it's, like, pretty much ruined your holidays, you know, the championship and just in going through it all. But do you think that if you really wanted to show us how much you care, you. You would have been here in person?

Listen, guys, I couldn't. It was my daughter's 17th birthday. They were having a party at our house.

Day, right? On Sunday.

Yes.

Today's Wednesday.

Oh, here, here. For this?

Yeah. I half expected you to just walk in the door with your briefcase.

Yeah, guys, it is. I mean, like, you know, the AOL should know, like, all the smoke and mirrors that happens to. We are recording this on New Year's Eve, and I have, like, a wife and children and stuff. You wanted me to fly to Chicago.

No, I did not.

You guys fire me and play me messages from Schefter?

No, I just was asking a simple question.

If you thought it was important to come here for the exit interview, then we would have thought it was important.

Hey, guys, if it wasn't, like, the biggest holiday of the year, yeah, I would have been there.

Oh, okay.

If it was some random Wednesday in August, you know, I would have been there. Yeah, you know what? I'm still on the Bengals. Does the name Stephanie Niles mean anything to you guys?

Stephanie Niles? I don't know.

Yeah, it's actually. It's Jake Browning's wife who dresses up at those.

Lovely lady.

Yeah. Lovely lady.

And don't put this on the bunk list. This is. This is all respectfully. She's happily married, but I like. She looks cute and all those things. It's cute.

I like that.

It's.

It's fun.

Jerry, have you ever been to a Diddy New Year's Eve party?

Oh.

No, I have.

I saw you.

You go onto a different podcast and talk about how you've been to diddy parties.

You did the Diddy. You did your diddy stories on a different show.

Yeah, we talked about this.

Oh, we did.

Oh, yeah.

That's on me. That's on me.

What other podcasts did I say I went to a diddy party at?

I don't know.

I saw a clip of it. I did see a clip, too. Yeah.

Yeah.

Maybe it was Bert. Bert Kreischer. Yeah, I went to a diddy party. I. I didn't get invited. I mean, I wasn't invited to any sort of, like, after party. I didn't see anything. There was no baby oil involved. I was actually asked to leave. I was. Because I was, like, drinking a lot, and I was asked to leave the party.

Okay.

Oh, good.

Good.

Did you do anything?

I didn't.

Did you do anything regrettable, anything that caused them to ask you to leave?

You know, it was what they call a white party, so everyone has to wear pure white. And I immediately came in and got to the bar was so packed. It was, like, six people deep. And I got two vodka cranberries, and on the dance floor, spilled them on my White outfit, so I looked like I had. Like. I wasn't in. I just looked like a mess. I was drinking heavily in those days. Okay, well, just saw Max just wipe the screen there.

Yeah, yeah.

Max diet starts today. Let's go. 20, 26.

So. So no more AFC North.

Hey, guys, why are you guys dieting? Why don't you just go on those fucking drugs that everybody's on? Like, what's the deal? Like, everyone just takes that shot?

We.

I mean, we. We're going to give it an honest try, and then we'll see.

Now, are you doing that thing where you're like, we're on this journey. We're partnering with Planet Fitness, and then you're really, like, secretly taking the shot? Because that's a little, like.

No, no. The only thing I'm in the market for right now is trt, which I have a doctor's appointment on Monday, and I will be very open with everyone. If I do, in fact, start taking.

Trt, I, too, will be open if I get. If I get on the big O. But right now, I'm not there.

I. I'm. I'm hoping I. The. My. My biggest fear is going to my doctor and them being like, actually, you have of, like, high tea. And I'd be like, what the. Why do I feel like, you know, I was.

I was somewhere recently and somebody in Calabasas, where I live, this suburb, this tony suburb that I live in, an older dad leaned over to me and went, hey, man, you ever think about trt? And I was like, what? And he went, no. I saw that clip where they said you look like an aging lesbian. And you know that there might be something to that and, like, you should go on trc, man. Like, that would. That would change that whole narrative. You wouldn't.

They.

It wouldn't call you an aging lesbian.

I'll let you know how it goes if I get it.

Jerry, I have a question about the. The work. Life outside of fantasy right now. What are you working on in terms of, you know, your career, your TV movie career, your star?

Yeah, I'm actually. I'm about to start a movie for a little streaming service called To Be in the New Year.

Oh, okay.

I will be. I'll be traveling to Cape Town, South Africa, for it.

Whoa.

Yeah. I'll be gone for a little bit. I've never been. I'm gonna go visit Mandela's prison. I'm gonna do it all. I'm gonna. I hear it's beautiful.

So what's the role that you're playing.

I play a. It's like a aging lesbian. Okay.

Nice.

No, no, I'm playing a stepdad. I'm probably gonna have to cut my hair and stuff. It's like a teen movie, so it's all coming off. But I'm glad that we're doing this because I won't be available for the next couple months, guys.

Sorry.

I mean, people have to do, you know.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Can't you sit around. Can't you sit around here waiting for PFT to show up?

Yeah. So I guess that's the. That's the price we pay for having.

An A lister when we get back, Jerry, because I. Actually, we.

We do.

We do have a plan. We're going to do a.

Back in February.

Oh, all right. So you're gone for like, three weeks.

Yeah. Okay.

Never mind. You are invited, by the way. You're invited to Max's bachelor party. We're throwing a pmt. Yeah.

I don't care where I am.

I'm there.

You kidding me? It's a highlight of my life. I'm out of there. I don't care if my children, if they're graduating. I don't care if they're giving birth to whatever baby they're carrying. I'm out of there. I'm coming to that.

Okay. Great. Great.

Teen pregnancy.

Where are we? What are they doing?

Cleveland.

Oh.

What are they gonna do in Cleveland? They have to start desean, right?

I. I think maybe.

I.

Who knows?

Who knows?

I mean, anybody jump in like Max means? What do they. They have to start desean?

Who.

Who's going to take him?

I'm worried about the. This year's real playoffs.

Yeah. We still got football.

Yeah.

I'm not worried about what the Browns are doing in 2027.

That's why Jerry's different, though.

Six.

Yeah.

Thank you. Pft.

Yeah.

Listen, Jerry, I. I'm. I'm a fair evaluator of talent.

We're going to get to the ufc. East, Jacksonville, all of them. Amazing what an offensive minded head coach does for a team, isn't it? I mean, you're. You're feeling it in Chicago.

Yep.

Liam Cohen. We all made fun of him. You get an offensive minded head coach, an offensive coordinator as a head coach. Lights out. So awesome. Even Breton. Strange. We're drafting them all.

Yeah.

Jerry, I have a question.

Yeah?

It seems like right now you're just saying which teams had good years and bad years.

Yeah.

We're not projecting anything for next year.

You're just.

Well, no, that's not true. I, I said you weren't listening. Now I'm gonna make fun of you like you made fun of me with the ash and genti stick.

I was putting this. I, I had to put the college football Bengals.

The Bengals didn't have a good year.

That's true. Okay, That's a good fantasy year.

Max, you're on thin ice with me with this whole Saquon. And I know I, and I know your, your boy is coming back on your offensive line and everything's gonna change in the postseason. We don't give a about the postseason. We don't give a about the postseason. All we care about is week one through week 17.

That's it.

That's fair. That's fair. That's fair. We care about the fantasy, not the real postseason right now.

Max.

Every time I saw Saquon looked up and he had five points for us in a game, I was like, I'm gonna kill Max. I'm gonna kill him. This is all Max's fault.

I get it.

I get it.

Texans. All right, here we go. Here's a team that had a good, a good, a good season. We can't draft any Texans. They're too much of a defensive minded team. They only have to score like 19 points a game and we can't draft any of them.

Okay, okay.

Colts. I mean, Tyler Warren's going to be a fun draft. He'll go in the third or fourth round. And I love my tight ends. Tennessee, Absolutely none of them. I have no idea how Pollard had a 30 point game and a couple weeks ago, that was crazy. Denver. I gotta tell you, Doddington is not that great of a quarterback to draft in fantasy. He just doesn't put up major numbers. I really missed RJ Harvey, though. I missed him in this, in this draft.

What do you think about the dog conversation with Bo Nix? The fact that you know, you know.

You know, I gotta tell you, and I'm gonna say something kind of sacrilegious and this is part of my take, so I'm allowed to have a take. This is kind of a fucked up thing I'm about to say.

Okay?

I think Mr. Herb street bringing his beautiful dog, it's a great dog everywhere. I think it's what we call, like, it's a crutch. Okay. It's like attention is not given toward you and solely you. Every. All attention goes toward the dog. So you bring the dog around with you as obviously an emotional thing. You know, he travels a lot and he's in hotels and it's. You need some sort of like, emotional support there. But no one looks at Mr. Herb Street. Everyone looks at the dog.

Yeah.

So any. Anytime I see content about his dog, I immediately flip past it and turn it off. I don't. I don't pay any attention to that.

This.

So I. Honestly, to answer your question, I don't even care.

Yeah.

It's like I've got a fantasy team to run. I don't give a. About. Oh, the dog. There was a weird interaction with the dog and he's scared of dogs. I loved your debate the other day, by the way. I. I mean, it was too expensive, but I was really interested in getting one of those mats. One of those.

Yeah.

My wife said, what the hell is this? It's three huge boxes sitting in my front door.

Yeah. Was it Kyler that got them? Who got them?

Tua.

Tua. Yeah, I. The other bench quarterback. I. I was really interested in that. But yeah, to answer your question, I don't. When it comes to the dog. What's the dog's name again?

A Pete, is it?

No, I don't care. I don't care. I don't care.

Pete was the last one. I don't know what the dog's name is. Patrick. No. Might be Pete. This might actually also be. Instead of doing a diet, maybe we just start walking around with dogs all the time. People don't look at us.

Just fucking go on a GLP1. It's what everyone does in Hollywood. Everyone's on it. Are you just fucking stop. No, I'm not. Not because of. Because it makes you nauseous. And actually, my thing is, I. If I don't go to the gym, I lose weight. And if you read the comments on YouTube. RIP the comments on YouTube, I look like an aging lesbian. So my whole thing is, like, I need to, like, for some reason, like, continually lift weights and like, not look like an aging lesbian. And according to that older gentleman in Calabasas. Go on trt.

Yeah.

Oh, the Chargers. All of them. That offense is just electric. That said, why do I feel like they're gonna lose in. In the first round of the playoffs? Like, it just feels that way, right?

Yeah, it's the Chargers. So that. Yeah, it's a. It's a safe bet.

Wow. None of the Chiefs. Taylor Swift isn't going to be there when there's no reason to watch. Just none of them. They're going to have some problems. It's going to be like the old days. I think we're all we realize Mendoza is going to be a Raider. We're still in the AFC west here.

Yeah. Yep.

That said, you know, he like, he likes to throw that short ball. Bowers is going to be. Bowers going to have a good season. Genti, Max is gonna have a good season.

He was projecting for next year.

I know. And Bowers. Yeah, both of those, both those are good. I just want to, I'm just trying to keep you honest here.

Your Eagles, by the way, I gotta say I went to that Eagles Chargers game, the one that Shane went to. Seeing A.J. brown in person is really something special, Max. I do have to tell you, he is grateful. To see him in person is something really special. He is, he is a really special athlete. He really is.

Agree.

God. From a fantasy standpoint though, that team sucks. Me Saquon. Really us. Dallas again, love. Okay, Max, here we go. Team that didn't have a good season, we love Dallas. Shitty defense, super offense. Love them. We're drafting all of them.

They did a good fantasy season though.

Yeah, man. With the commanders were in the NFC East. Can't really draft Bill Merritt because when Rodriguez is back, that's a sort of like dual backfield.

Yeah.

It's good for your team. Such a bummer about Zach Ertz. Yeah, I, I, I, I, I don't know. Pft. It's not looking good. I thought for sure that you won the quarterback draft last season, but I don't, I don't know.

It's one season. So I, I'm still optimistic on Jaden long term. Do you have any regrets though? Because it seemed like you were, you were dead set on Jaden and you gassed him up so hard. I feel like you, you have to evaluate yourself. Right. What went wrong with that?

Yeah, yeah. You know, I gotta tell you too, what with Liam Cohen and Ben Johnson doing so well, I think having defensive coordinators as head coaches hurts offenses.

Sorry.

I, I think, I think from, and this is a fantasy. I'm a fantasy manager. From a fantasy standpoint, when you get an offensive coordinator as a head coach, it really helps that offense.

Yeah. Yeah.

So Jaden is officially. You're not drafting him next year, right?

I'm not going to say a term that is, is, is highly offensive.

Okay, good.

I just, I'm, I'm not sure. I'm not sure he can give us 14 games a season. Pft.

Okay.

I'm not sure what's the over under on how many games he plays in next season. Pft.

Well, he missed. I want to say he Missed one game his rookie year.

What's the over. Under next season on games? Just off the top of your head?

Top of my head. I'd probably say 15.

I could work with 15.

Okay. But again, you're not. You're not allowed to draft him, though. I thought we went through this.

Yeah. Hey, let's talk about Giants. You have no real Giants in that room.

You're still. You're still going to draft them. That's what. That's what I'm hearing from you.

I got the jersey. I can't return it. I know you put it on.

I know it feels like. It feels like this might be one of those situations where you think that it's worth it to draft Jaden just so that you can be mad at me if Jaden doesn't play, despite the fact that. That you did. All the expectations on Jaden.

Guys, we're gonna move on. We've talked enough about. Once again, guys, talking way too much about the commanders. Really shouldn't be talking about them this far in the postseason. Let's talk about the Giants for a second. You know what? I may have to become a Giants fan. Sorry means just because you have no other Giants fans in that room and things could get interesting for that team soon, I think their head coach is going to be Clint Kubiak.

Oh, okay.

And if that's the case, every single Giant becomes a must draft in next year's fantasy. Fantasy world. I. Now, if that dude from the Rams. Oh, God, he's somebody's son. Who's the defensive coordinator on the Rams?

No, that's. That's Sean McVeigh. Yeah.

Chris Shula. Now Chris Shula becomes the head coach. We're not drafting any offensive players who have a defensive coordinator as a head coach. We're not doing that anymore. But I think if Clint Kubiak becomes the head coach of the Giants, I think really good things could be coming their way.

Okay.

Scatter Boo is back. Gosh, that was such a terrible week 16 with Jackson Dart, though. But Malik, Neighbors, you gotta remember that everyone was so high on that team before everything went to.

Yeah.

Oh, what happens with Kafka? You think he stays his.

No, no. See, no.

No.

Wow, man. I gotta tell you, we're moving on to the north. Big Cat Loveland and Caleb, they're the new laporta. And golf, man, I like that he fucking did it. They're so fun to watch. Swift is difficult to draft. You have no idea what he's going to give you.

Yeah, Yeah. I mean, he's not. Yeah, it's a, it's two, two backs and you don't know. I think the Bears will probably try to maybe get another running back. Yeah.

And A Dunes A is hot and cold. You know, he's been injured. Oh, God. Green Bay. Such a bummer, isn't it? Just about their defense. They're just like limping in. It's just so weird to watch. And, and you said it the other day, I don't want to repeat, but when Tucker Kraft went away, that whole. It's funny how a tight end for some quarterbacks, like that's it. It's over, you know?

Yeah.

Vikings. None of them. None of them. It's, I don't, I'm, I'm, I guess they're gonna have to stick with JJ next season. But I mean, I'm sorry to say this, but nine ruined a perfectly good offense and an elite offense. Oh, I have a question. Where does Montgomery go in the Lions? He tweeted that. What did we get to the bottom of that photo when he tweeted the photo? Remember he. Yeah, he's a photo of his jersey.

Yeah.

He's not happy, clearly, so he'd be someone to watch. Love Montgomery. Carolina is just such a bummer. Say T. Mac, everybody. I know Dowdall had like some numbers, but he's gonna have to split carries with Hubbard. Okay. In Tampa. Is Zach, is Zach there?

No, he's not. He's, he's, he's not.

If Clint Kubiak becomes Tampa Bay's head coach, then all of them.

Okay.

Because Bulls is not going to be there, right?

Probably not.

I, I, yeah, I don't know. I hope not.

Again, we're gonna follow where Clint Kubiak goes and then draft everyone that, that he is, he is coaching.

I like that. That's, that's a good forward looking statement. This is what I like to hear from you, Jerry.

Atlanta. It's just incredible what he's done in Seattle. I mean, he's like, like Liam Cohen, like Ben Johnson. These guys are other level. They're doing things we don't even understand that defenses don't understand. Interesting. And by the way, doing what he's working with in Seattle, the guy's a fucking genius.

Yeah.

Atlanta. I'm just not a Pennx guy.

Oh, God.

You know what's so funny about Atlanta? I was thinking, I was watching the game the other night and I was thinking, wow, their defensive court, like Jeff Ulrich finally stepped it up. Of course against the Rams. Yeah, guys, I mean, Remember? Hey, Max, do you remember when I. When I crank called you and made believe I was Big Dom and said, do you want to go to the White House?

No Hamas. Yep.

I'm. I'm familia.

Remember that, Max? That's so funny.

Yep, Familiar.

And then you texted me back that video where you went bing bong, Jerry, and you were at the White House. That was crazy. Guys, we should really. For April Fools because we've been. I've been really thinking about April Fools. We should really prank call Jeff Ulrich somehow.

Okay, yeah, that's a good idea.

We should crank call him and let him know. He's like, we should tape it maybe and let him know he's the head coach. Like, he's like, we want him to be the head coach of, I don't know, of the Giants or something. We should do it.

Yeah, we should.

We should really fucking get him good. And he can't even get mad at us, can he? Because his fucking son, he has to be like, oh, it's just kids being kids on part of my town.

Jerry, I have a question for you with the Falcons. Bijon Robinson, was he available when we drafted in the first round?

I haven't. I glanced at. I don't have my computer in front of me.

Where did we pick?

I think we had six. I think we had six. And we took Saquon. I gotta tell you, too, I was also trying to draft with our show. I was trying to say, we did it, Max. I thought maybe we would, like, be celebrating and saying Saquon did it for us. But Saquon and the Eagles in that offensive line had a terrible year. And in hindsight, yes, we should have drafted Bijan. I mean, I think Derrick Henry went in the second round. I'm ashamed. I'm ashamed, guys. I'm not proud of what I've done. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not even going to defend myself. Hey, Pft. I don't like this position we picked. I don't like the fact that Awls get to come up to me when I'm standing in a supermarket line and whisper, whisper. Chef. You should have asked Chef Deeper help. I. I don't like that. It doesn't make me feel good.

No, I know. We have to have just the honest, honest conversations. Tough conversations.

The saints. God, isn't it great? I mean, you said it, so I'm not going to repeat it, but Olave is just reborn.

Yeah.

Shuck is awesome. The backfield is weird because. Who is it? Estimate Is it. Is it Kamara? Is it Neil? So their backfield's weird. Juwan Johnson. We're gonna fucking draft him, okay? It's gonna be awesome.

Do you have a vote for your own personal offensive rookie of the Year? And if so, who would it be?

Chase Brown. Oh, oh, oh. Offensive Rookie of the year.

Rookie of the year for this year.

It's gotta be. It's gotta be Tyler. I mean, of course.

Yeah.

Make it graphic. Make a graphic. Jerry o' Connell's rookie of the Year.

If you had a vote.

We are taping this before week 18, but I don't even care.

Doesn't matter. Yep.

Seattle. Listen, it's so funny with, like, Jackson Smith Najigba having the year that he's having. I do think this is going to change my strategy going into fantasy football.

Mm.

I've been. I'm an older person. I know. I'm an aging lesbian. I can't wait till there's no more comments on Netflix. No one is allowed to call me an aging lesbian on Netflix.

Yeah.

Because there's no fucking comments. Awls, so fuck you.

No, there probably will be eventually, I think. Yeah.

Yeah. Having a lesbian on our show I think will be good in terms of the Netflix culture.

But my strategy, because I'm an older, aging lesbian is running back. Maybe quarterback, maybe another running back, maybe a tight end. But, like, I go running back first. First two rounds.

Okay.

With Jackson Smith Najigba season, I think next year we're going to go round one, running back, Round two running. Round one, wide wide receiver. Round two wide wide receiver, round three, wide receiver.

Wow.

I think we're gonna go three wide receivers. It's just if you land on a Jackson Smith Najigba, I'm not even having this exit interview. We're. We're counting money.

Yeah, that's true.

It's just. It's just an hour of me counting money.

Yeah.

It's an hour of me getting a new air conditioning system, because that's next in my house. I think we're gonna go wide receiver, wide receiver, wide receiver, which is sort of a new school way of drafting.

I like that.

Let's go. New school.

I like a lot. Jerry, I don't mean to cut you off in your recap.

It's a preview.

The. The. The pre recap preview. I don't know exactly what it is, but it feels to me. Here's what I'm hearing. I have. I have confidence in you. I'd like to give you a vote of confidence Confidence, Jerry. But I would like to be all in next year.

Yeah.

I'm talking championship or bust.

Yep.

No matter what.

Yep.

Is that something that you'd be comfortable with? That pressure?

Yes.

Oh, I love that. All in.

We're all in for 27.

Yeah.

I want every.

I want.

I want every day of your life for the next year to be focused around the premise of we're all in. You're all in, Jerry.

Yeah. This year was fluid. Next year's all in.

I. I do have to tell you guys, just based on, like, the text chain and everything. Don't know how much more in I.

Could have been this season. You can go more all in.

You can be inner.

Yeah.

Really said. I spent a good 80% of my days either actively looking on the waiver wires or, like, thinking about our league. Like, 80% of my day. That's a lot of time. I have teenage daughters at home. I have a wife who's, like, this close to leaving, like, this close. She's like. She's meeting one Brazilian man away. She's meeting one, like, jiu jitsu instructor away from, like, leaving me, like. And it has to do with, like, a lot of my focus is basically just on, is Saquon gonna do anything this weekend? Will anyone take Saquon? Is there any way I can get a wide receiver for Saquon? Like, a lot of my time is spent thinking about our league. I gotta tell you. Yes, I'm all in. But I'm not sure how much more I have to give than I gave this season.

It sounds to me like you're saying that second place, in that case, like a second place, the ceiling. If you're as all in. It sounds like you're saying that's the best you can do.

I think. Well, in the third round, we drafted a quarterback whose elbow went, like. I know most elbows go like this, but his elbow, like, this way went like this. And he was just. That. That scrambling quarterback was gone. We started him his next start, but that was a mistake because he was in and out of there pretty, pretty fast. We lost that week.

Whose decision was it to draft that guy?

Guy.

Was my decision.

Okay.

All right. So. But what I'm hearing, though, is you sound like you. You've hit the. The peak, like, this is all you can do. And I'm interested to. To see how that squares with bring me back. I want to win a championship, so we got to find a way to be more all in than we were.

Yeah.

I'm all in. Love that the Niners in the NC West. You guys said it. I'm repeating. How good is Brock Purdy?

Yeah, it's really good.

Oh, God. Let me tell you, everybody's in trouble because that guy is healthy going into these next couple months. It's crazy. Yeah, he is so good. Oh, you know what really us, the devonte Adams injury. We were starting him every week and winning a lot of games with him. He was just an end zone machine.

Yeah.

You know, when you have to play Tyrone Tracy in that flex where you were playing devonte, you're not going to really win a championship.

Yeah.

Man. It's. Isn't it amazing how this super bowl is definitely going to go through the NFC West? It's just crazy how that, that, that division, Arizona. I mean, I guess Coach Gannon is coming back. Even though he struck DeMarcado. By the way. Here's. Here's a hot take. This is part of my take. I don't condone hitting in the workplace. Like, you should never hit anyone, you know.

Agreed.

But what D. Markado did to Coach Gannon in that game, I, I thought it justified what what Coach Canada did to him. Like just tapping him on the chest like that. I thought he actually could have struck him harder. That really, he really over Coach Gannon. He really fought like they were going to get a win there.

Yeah.

When he really needed it.

Yeah.

And I thought he could have actually hit him like harder.

Yeah, yeah.

Don't condone hitting in the workplace. Oh, you know what? I want to root for Marvin Harrison so bad, but it's just, it's never happening. All right, guys, thanks for letting me go through that. You can make your decisions off camera. You could talk to other candidates. You know, talk to Stavi, talk to Shefty guy from. I have talked to the guy from Third Eye Blind. That was a great interview. Talk to him. I have, I have.

Yeah.

He was awesome.

Yeah, go ahead.

No, see, see, see what he knows and if he's gonna listen to Kelly Stafford's podcast for three days to see if Stafford's coming back to the Rams or not and how his back is doing.

See if.

Yeah, see if the third eye, Third eye blonde guy will do that.

Okay. Okay.

Go ahead, look around. See if you can find someone who will spend more time on your fucking high stakes fantasy league. Hey, guys, I got Happy New Year. The awls, Jerry.

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YouTube. YouTube. YouTube. Seeing Max find love was beautiful and romantic, Especially after hearing about all the titties he. YouTube. YouTube. YouTube. But no matter how romantic and sweet Max gets, Jake Elliott still sucks. Congrats on the engagement. YouTube. YouTube, YouTube. Yes, great takes were always had. And all the zones all of you always did spin. YouTube. YouTube, YouTube. Like memes threatening to bomb the. Or Hank trying to pronounce Ogbyn opportunity. YouTube. YouTube. YouTube. Speaking of Hank, so many great moments from Hank that all of you did bilk. YouTube. YouTube, YouTube. Like the time he never paid his taxes. Or the time he sucked on his sister and lost titties and drank her very own breast milk.

I think it was a bottle.

That was.

I think it was a bottle.

Crazy.

Yeah. Got out of the fridge.

It wasn't on the titty.

I don't think it was straight from the source.

No.

Not out of the tap.

No.

My. My version's better.

Yeah.

YouTube. YouTube, YouTube. We witnessed the birth of a heartthrob, Zach, who makes all the pilates instructors gooey. YouTube. YouTube. YouTube. We witnessed Jake start a career in sports casting, but we still have no idea what happened to Huey. No clue. YouTube. YouTube, YouTube. But let us give Zach his flowers. Some would call him the glue of the show. Or even the conductor.

YouTube.

YouTube. YouTube. And while Zach is really good at making ice cream for big Cat. What we really want to know is, did he. The Pilates instructor? Did you her. Zach, did you her.

YouTube.

YouTube. YouTube. So we love that everyone is getting paid now. And we love the part of my take is finally getting its credit. YouTube. YouTube. YouTube. But if we want to read the comments now, I guess we'll all just have to go to Reddit. Recipes, YouTube. Love you guys.

Beautiful, Jerry.

Thank you, Jerry. We are going to get comments on Netflix. Don't worry. You'll be able to. You'll be able to see people calling you a lesbian there. All right, all right, Jerry, by the way, roback.com promo code. Take 20% off your first purchase. I want to say right now, I have my vote. It is for you to continue being our manager.

Pft.

Oh, I'm doing my vote right now. I'm still stuck on the all in thing. It doesn't sound like you're all in.

He can. He can wait. We can wait. We have time. You know, you have one vote. You have one of the two votes.

It sounds to me like you're afraid of being all in if we're being totally honest because you're saying, hey, I'm doing all this stuff already. I'm listening to Kelly Stafford's podcast. I'm. I'm creeping in the bushes outside training camps. I'm figuring out all the edges. It sounds like you're afraid of being more in, and I want you to get over that.

Okay. Okay. I'm gonna. I'm gonna. I'm gonna sit on that. I'm gonna.

I'm.

I'm gonna sleep on that. I'm gonna let that simmer for a little bit. Thank you, Big Cat. Thank you. So motivating. You really know how to motivate the troops.

Well, I mean, we're playing, by the.

Way, next time we have one of these meetings. Big PFT. Like, within 40 minutes. Like, try and be like, within 40 minutes of when you call it.

You're clearly a busy man.

Movie to go do in South Africa, like I have to do, but whatever. 40 minutes.

Yeah.

I'll wait around for you. I'm sure you were, you know, trying to get the old Camino started up. I don't know what you were doing, like, in. In a Planet Fitness, looking for the five. Looking for the five pound plates.

All right, Jerry, we love you. Great season. Great season.

Happy New Year.

Happy New Year. Okay, let's wrap up the show with fyre fest of the week. Back to regular Programming next week, Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Hank week, Fire fest of the week.

What's up, guys? Missed you guys.

Well, we already did the beginning of the show where we talked about how much.

Yeah, I mean, my firefight week, we had the week off.

It was.

It was so not. Not a lot. It was a great week. Got some sun down in Mexico. My fire fest, though, which I think you guys have. Have experienced, too. I wasn't thinking. I. I was. I was going to play golf. I was a little hungover, and I was just excited about going to play golf. I. I posted a picture on my story being like, big day, first time playing lefty, and it was a bad picture. And I didn't. I didn't think about it. I didn't notice it till I got, you know, hours, hours later, and people obviously, you know, I, I. There's a lot of trolls and haters where it's. It's some. You can just write them off as trolls.

You can call them truth tellers.

There was a lot of people. No, but then this is where it hurts, where it's like, there's a lot of people that were genuinely like, love you. Are you okay?

Oh, you're so hungover.

Like, what is wrong with you? Like, you look. I looked really old. I think it was bad lighting.

Yeah, it's bad lighting.

Bad lighting.

But it was. Was outdoors.

It was. It was indoors, but there was an overhead light right on my face. It was. It was. It was a bad picture. Objectively bad picture. I looked very, very old. And I. I got cooked. Not just cooked by trolls, but cooked by, like, people that I think like me, that were just genuinely, like, concern. What's wrong with you? I'll send you guys a picture.

I got a question. I saw it wasn't your best picture. That's okay. I have a question for you, Hank.

Yes.

This year, now that we're in 20, 26, you are turning how old?

33.

So you could be old.

I am old, but could be old. Not like this was this, like, you look 45. You know, I said first round, lefty, like, has. Has trying to be a Lefty. Age you 30 years. And it was like, I, you know, again, it wasn't. I'm.

I'm.

I'm used to just writing off trolls as trolls. This was like. You could tell from the messages.

Yeah, you look very old. You look. You look like you're 60.

Yeah, no, it's.

It's.

It was.

It was a hat, too.

Yeah, I mean, that's just. That's Just a vibe. But it was, it was just one of those.

I was like, you, what is wrong with your torso?

I don't know.

It was just like, for like a.

Like, I was like, you know, I was hungover. I had some, had some wine night before. I was, I was like, excited. Just, just go play some golf. And it was like, oh, let's, let's post a story for the people. Eight hours later, no one was, no one cared about what I was doing. They were just like, what is wrong with that?

It's kind of like that boy bent vibe.

Yeah. It's like. And also the, the socks, maybe the shoes. I, Your torso is massive.

Yeah, I might have to do. It might be. I might have to get into skin care.

Okay.

I might have to do like a skincare routine or something.

And it is bad lighting. The, the bags under your eyes are. Yeah, the right side are pretty pronounced also.

You're hungover.

Yeah.

Right?

Yeah, it's a hungover picture.

Right.

But yeah, that was the frosted tips look in the sun.

They look good. I mean, they looked. I, they. Once I got a little tan, I was like, yeah, I, I, I'm kind of sick of them. I'm, I'm probably going to cut most of them off this week.

I might go back. This might just be me now.

But once I got a little tan, I was like, oh, I kind of like them again.

So, Hank, the people want to know though, more importantly, how did the left handed round go?

It went pretty good.

Good.

Making a decision today, this afternoon on what, what, what I'm gonna do for my future.

But Friday.

On Friday, Friday afternoon. Friday afternoon.

Are you going live? A big announcement I'm gonna make.

Yeah. The decision on.

Wow.

On live. I don't know, I might make a video. I might do live.

I think it's got to be live.

It's got to be live.

Instagram live. Yeah.

How are you going to choose? Are you going to have 4pm you.

Will be yakking, but are you going to do it?

I'll do it, yeah.

Okay.

Are you, are you going to have like two gloves?

Two probably two hats?

You should do two gloves and then, but then the left one, you select if you want to play right handed. And then the right handed one, you.

Should have your hands underneath your, the, the table and then you pull out both your hands. That will be really confusing, but I like that.

Whatever one that has the glove on for a lefty, though.

Yeah, so, so it would be a right.

Yeah.

Right.

Means that you're going left.

That's what I'm saying. He brings out the left. The left glove.

Yeah.

And they're like, oh, he picked the left hand. Plot twist. That's actually a right handed golf club.

Yeah.

Which Hank sometimes.

Yeah. So do that.

Struggles with.

Set it up and then. Yeah. Have your hands and just reveal it.

I like that.

I'll do that.

Okay, Perfect.

Yeah, it was. It was, you know, great week. Great time in the sun. Missed you guys. I feel refreshed and recharged.

I don't know if you missed. You missed us. I don't.

By the third day, I missed you guys.

Okay.

I think.

I think, you know, after whatever.

Did you have any of the dread that Zach had? No, Zach was the fact that we recorded, which we were always planning on, and we said, it's like, no problem. You guys are gone. Like, it's not a big deal. We're going to do a Monday show and then you guys will be back for the Friday show. But Zach had immense amount. I was half expecting him to just get on a flight. Well, yeah, we.

We had. We had the planned time off. I was expecting to do a zoom show and then you guys, like, we'll be here. That's just how it goes. I wasn't. I. I didn't.

I didn't.

I didn't feel any type of way. And it was helpful. The Patriots just, you know, wiping the floor with. With the jets helped. If it was the week before where it was like, you know, Patriots prime time versus the Ravens, I would have been like this. I feel like I should be there.

But no, it was. Zach, go ahead. You were. You're the dread.

I thought we were good, but then I just saw the chat going, and I was like, this chat's going in a way of which they're going live and we're not in the seats.

Yeah, this can't be good.

Yeah, I got to get to the seats.

And I was like, well, there's no.

Way I'm getting to the seat.

We miss you guys.

I miss you guys, too.

Yeah. Zach did feel good to be back.

Did you feel any type of. Of jealousy towards Stephen Shea?

Oh, yeah. And Jerry?

I. I think they did a great job.

Yeah, it was pretty fun.

Were you rooting for him?

You got to.

Well, that was like, one of those things I didn't want. You guys were like. We said, we decided this a while ago, so it wasn't like I expected you guys to be here. And it also would have been annoying to text and be like, hey, can you guys write a boomer and zoom in? It's like, fuck that. We got Chain Jerry. And on Sunday night, I think Chain Jerry are going to be here too.

Yeah.

So we can use them again if you want us to.

And Jerry might have another take. That's too hot for the podcast. Do you have any. Hank, do you have any guesses as.

To what I was thinking about? That it had to be about Mike Tomlin?

Yeah. Yeah, it was. It was so hot.

It was definitely too hot.

Way too hot.

But, yeah, the. The other thing, you know, with this time of year, in the past few years, there. There I was like, I'm excited for.

For.

For January football. Oh, yeah, Go.

This.

This time of year, when you have a team that's. That's Has a chance to make a run, like, there's no better feeling. Yeah, no better feeling. I'm excited.

It does. Winter, like, the bear season has made it. So, like, I'm not even worried about winter, when, obviously it. When. And if they get eliminated, it will be winter instantly, but it's not winter until that happens. All right. Pft.

I was actually just thinking the other day about. Well, my fire fest is that I was thinking about the Patriots getting to the super bowl and. And having to pay Hank $50,000. And so I. I wanted to do something special for it, and my thought was that I would pay Hank in $50,000 worth of quarters. So I actually called the bank earlier this week to see if we could set that up, how long that would take place. I didn't even start it. Yeah, but I.

If you got to get ahead.

Yeah. If you want to do $50,000. The quarters, which I believe is, like, tons. Like, maybe silver. Yeah. So I. I tried to set that up, and the bank was like, sorry, we can't accommodate that. Our bank isn't. Our vault isn't big enough to hold that many quarters in it at once. So now I got to go back to the drawing board. And they were. I talked to, like, five different levels of manager, and each person was like, what do you need this for? I was like, I might lose a bet to a friend, and I want to pay him, but I want to make it a big pain in the ass for him to take the money from me.

£625.

£625. Okay.

Shame if you got that.

I think I looked up Nickels. Nichols was the ones that. That was tons. What's that?

I said, it'd be a shame if they don't make the super bowl. And you're stuck with $50,000 worth, of course.

Well, I wouldn't have it, but you have to line it up in advance to get a shipment of that many coins.

Yeah, PFT's just in his planning ahead mode right now. Yeah, he bet the Bucks game today.

Oh, yeah. So that's my other. My other fire fest is the days are. It's Thursday right now, as were taping his Thursday night Sunday. And about like six hours ago, we were sitting on the couch. We're watching college football. I believe it was like 3:30. It was like 3:30. It was right at the start, I think of the Indiana. Yeah. Indiana game. And I asked through the cave. I was like, what time does the Bucks game start? And then Big Cat turned around, was like, what, like Milwaukee Bucks? I was like, no, no, football. And Big Cat's like, it's, it's, it's Thursday.

I was like, we're two days away.

I thought it was Saturday until about 3:30pm today.

I thought the Rose bowl was just going up against NFL.

I put in a parlay that I was super excited about earlier today with the Bucks. It was a double McMillan. It was McMillan for the Bucks, McMillan for the Panthers. I felt really good about it, and then I found out that it was not, in fact Saturday today at 3:30. But this. Yeah, this week's weird.

Yeah, it's so weird. Every day just blends together.

By the way, you're right. With the tons I, I, I up that search.

Oh, oh, okay.

I did 50,000 quarters. Not $50,000 in quarters.

Gotcha. Gotcha. So, yeah, accountability. It would have been very, very heavy. And then my, my other firefest is that I'm, I'm now addicted to buying mascot costumes.

I bought I love the Twisted T videos.

Yeah, it was great.

I bought another one today.

Love that.

Yeah, Pat.

I don't want to say who it is, Pat. I want to be surprised. It's got to be Pat for everybody. I want to be based off of the.

The way where your brain is thinking.

24 7, Hank, I'm not thinking about you all the time.

It's not.

It's not. Max knows.

Speaking of, speaking of purchases that are not great, we do have an update on the on the go mats.

Oh, I thought those were wonderful.

We got them. They're crystals. They might be a scam. So they came fat. I'll say this about the go mats, because if people remember, on Monday, we were going through, through QB Gifts and we found Tua got glow mats. Go mats for his offensive lineman. I found them. It was like midnight, and I bought three of them. Four, five hundred dollars, the total. They got to my house in like two days.

So I think they work.

I think they probably don't. Aren't shipping a lot of them out, so they're like, oh, we got an order.

Yeah.

But, yeah, I think they kind of work too.

Yeah.

It's junk science. You just got to believe in it. I felt refreshed.

I like when you lay down on it. There's almost like a crystal feel.

Yeah.

Underneath you.

So we're gonna start doing heating pad.

No, no, no, Max.

No, it's.

I could feel it in my brain.

You don't know anything. Brain waves, you dummy.

Yep, Yep.

My bad.

Yep.

Alpha, beta, and theta waves.

Yep, Yep. Exactly. Okay. My fire fest. I got a couple. I was. I was down in Florida with my family for Christmas, and one I. I tweeted about. Hank, did you see this one? You like this one? So I was sitting at the pool the last day. It was my father in law's condo, so we were at the pool every day, and I was sitting there with my kids, watching my kids swim. And two guys with their kids were walking by me going to the beach, and one of them comes up to me and it's like, hey, you dropped this. And I was like, oh, shit. My kids probably dropped something. It was a piece of paper. I opened it up, and it was just 2015 Duke celebrating winning the national title over Wisconsin. So they printed it out and handed to me and kept on walking. Which I think is the real.

Yeah.

Story here is the guys had the, like, if they had stopped and been like, hey, can we get a picture? I think it would have gone differently. They did not. They gave it to me and walked away. Also, they're with kids.

You're like, oh, this is.

Yeah. And I yelled at them on the way out. I was like, hey, I. I thought I had my coach K fact sheet on me, but I didn't have my wallet, so that one hurt. But also credit to them. Incredible moves.

Did they.

Did they say anything to you before during the week? Perfect crime.

No. Perfect crime. It was. They played it so perfectly. They did not say anything to me. They didn't, like, you know, maybe at one point I was like, oh, those guys might recognize me. But I. It was never that. And then I texted it to Sam Decker and Frank Kaminsky, and they both were like, you got to go to the ocean and drown them. And I was like, I. I think you're right. But incredible crime.

If anything, maybe this can just bring up the discussion of justice for Pete Gaudett.

That.

Yeah. Yeah. I wish I had the cards on me. I didn't. The other one is. Is pool related as well. My 2 year old had a.

He.

He pooped in his swim diaper in the pool. And it was a whole sea. It actually didn't get anywhere because he was on one of those floaty things. But the whole condo just hated us.

They have to do shut down.

They. So I Joe potted. And by that I mean I went to the front desk and I was.

Like, hey, you covered it up.

Someone. Someone pooped in the pool. Just wanted to let you know. And then I was like, I did my job.

Yeah.

I elevated to the right authorities and then walked away. It didn't get anywhere. Like he had a swim. The swim diapers are pretty. Pretty.

Did you do it to turd?

No, it was like you could just see he had a poop in his diapers. Didn't get out. But everyone freaked out and they were just like. So that one sucked also.

Someone else noticed it?

No, his cousin was like, oh, I think he just. Just went to the. You know, he pooped and it's like, yep, he did. He was sitting on a floaty thing. Also, I pooped my pants too. So.

Have you ever noticed at the pool it always says, like, if you've had diarrhea within the last two weeks.

Yeah.

You're not allowed to swim here. When was the last time anybody here has gone more than two weeks without having diarrhea?

Never.

Never.

Yeah. Yeah. Bunch of perpetrators.

Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, I pooped myself to one of the nights. Zach. I farted while I was sleeping and I was like, oh. And then I went to the bathroom and there was.

So you pooped the bed?

No, it's just in my underwear.

There was probably a little.

No. A little bit on the bed. There might have been a tiny little bit. The next morning I saw a little on the sheet and I was like, oh, no.

Are you a back sleeper?

No. Come on my side.

Okay. Yeah, it's probably fine.

Did you tell.

Did you tell your wife that there. There was poop in the bed?

So the good news was it.

Was she finding out right now? No.

No. That's what I might be because. So here's the good news was we were. We were staying at an Airbnb and. And if you're traveling with little kids, sleeping is a nightmare. They in a different house or like, oh, where Am I. So after the first night, which went horrible, we split it up where my son slept in the bed with me, and then my daughter slept with my wife, and the youngest was in his crib, so it was with my son, so we just. I didn't have to tell him.

Yeah.

No way.

That's just dude stuff.

Yeah, right.

That's just guys being dick. Just two dudes in a bed together, one of them happened to shit themselves. It happens. I threw the underwear away. Fine.

Perfect crime.

Perfect crime. I did the thing where you throw. I threw the underwear away, and then I, like, rolled up a bunch of toilet paper and threw it on top of it so no one saw that there was just underwear in the trash. You got. It's kind of what I do when I, like, eat ice cream. Like a whole.

Bury that trash.

You gotta bury that.

Yeah.

Everyone buries trash.

That's another thing. And if you travel overseas, like, especially to certain parts of Europe, you never know if it's going to be in a country where you flush the toilet paper.

Yeah.

Or if you put the toilet paper in a trash can next to the toilet. I heard Greece does some places in Greece you can flush, but most of them, you can't.

It's crazy.

It's really strange. And then you go into a bathroom and you're not sure if it's going to be a flush bathroom or not.

Yeah.

And then you kind of have to read the context clues. Like, you open up the tiny little lid of the trash can. You're like that. I think there might be some poop on the toilet paper that's in there. So I don't know if I can flush. That's one thing. Look, like. Say what you want about. About anything when it comes to comparing the United States and you're. I think. I think the food might be better in Europe. I think some of the alcohol might be better in Europe. We can at least flush our toilet paper after we wipe our asses with it. And we have air conditioning and air conditioning. So.

Two huge things.

So respectfully, you're up. Suck my dick.

Yeah, you guys suck.

Yeah.

All right, Zach, finish us off. Unless Memes and Max, do you guys have one?

You guys going?

No, I had a good week.

Okay. I didn't really think.

Good week.

Good week. All right, Zach.

I got a quick one because I also did have a good week. Great break. Rideshare services back home.

Rideshare?

Yeah.

Little rideshare issue.

I didn't really.

Last couple months here in Chicago. I use a lot Of Uber, a lot of Lyft. No car. I did the same in back home, but it was the first time I ran into the same driver multiple days in a row. So I had had this one lady, nice lady, we're taking a ride. And I've never thought about it being in strangers cars when you take these services until the other day, that it is just a stranger's their own car that they take home and take everywhere else.

Yep.

So where did she just drive in this? You know like the vanity mirrors that drop down. Yeah, just spider drops down on low web, lands on her lap. She like kind of freaks out. It was like two lanes this way into the turning lane. And then she cries a little bit and it's like, sorry, there's a spider. And I was, okay, that's fine, no worries, we're good. And then instantly I could think about, he's like, this stranger's car could just.

Be filled with spiders.

Oh, the entire ride.

Did you, did you. She hit anything?

No, no.

Because I'd have been so funny if you got in another car crash.

So.

So because you've been in like eight.

I get in her car two days later, unbeknownst to me, she makes a spider joke. As I'm getting in, I'm like, oh, this is the same lady.

Yeah, this is a spider car.

And then we're pulling out of my like street to get on the main road. There's like a two lane here and then a median. Like grass, concrete, you know what I mean?

Yeah.

And then two more lanes and then she just takes the left straight up onto the median and is on the median for like 8 to 10 seconds. Which doesn't sound like a long time.

No, that's very long.

But we were really on the median. And then she, she goes, oh, I hope my tire's okay. And then she goes, I never do this. I promise I'm a good driver. And it was a good, it was a good realization.

Like, as a guy who said, I promise I'm a good driver several times, I'm not a good driver. That's. That's what you say.

I think she had a crush on you.

No, she put her life in danger two separate times.

I know, but she was like, she saw those eyes and she, she was distracted. There was no spider.

I did get her number just in case I could get the dash.

Oh, shit.

Just for dash cam footage though.

She.

She has not yet sent it.

She. Would you date her?

I would ride share again, but with a helmet.

But you would Date her.

No, not. I don't know about that.

That's.

What age range was she in?

Probably like early 30s.

Oh, I'm not sure. But Zack.

But I say all that just to.

Say if the spider lady.

Careful Strangers cars.

That this is a Hallmark movie.

Holy shit.

Yeah, PSA that. Be very careful in rideshares.

But you also because PSA might fall in love.

It could be anything now.

Yeah, PSA you might get in a ride share and then next thing you know, you're wifed up.

That would be quite the story.

Might get your heart stolen. You should.

You should see if she'll give you a ride. But give your location in Chicago, see if she'll come to you.

Then, you know, fly around.

Would be quite the Uber.

It would be, but that would be.

Listen, you travel for love, right? Yeah.

How romantic would that be if she just pulled up to your apartment in a new car that she like rented here?

Yeah, new.

So a spider free car.

You need a ride?

No, I think she's a. She's a BYOs. She brings you her own spider.

That makes sense.

Yeah.

I'll give you a ride, big boy.

Were you expecting this story to end this way?

No, it's just now ending this way. Now this was more about public safety.

But imagine getting roadhead from her. But she's still driving.

She.

That's, that's, that's like a porn.

She's driving your shotgun.

She was so kind. And there's a dash cam, so that would be bad.

Okay. Or hot.

It might be hot.

That would be really hot. Yeah, but she can't drive worse.

I don't know. I mean, she leveled it up the next day.

Yeah.

Surfing on that medium, big guy.

Did she blame the spider for the second turn? I would have blamed it. I would have been like, oh, there was another spider.

Yeah, she blamed her window tent. She's like, I knew this window tent was too dark.

What is the wind?

The windshield winted.

No, she goes, look, the front's not too bad. She's had like the strip. And she's like. But when I'm looking out the side window, like this is your vehicle.

That's like Jerry. I mean Jerry can't see out of any, any window of his car because.

The seats not high enough.

Yeah. And also the window tint.

You gotta have your own car fine tuned. We can't be just finding out our window tints too dark.

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Memes. It's a new year. You think this is the year you're gonna get it? Last two years, the answer was no.

Well, I did guess it.

No, no.

But this is the year I'll win it.

It you see or you're gonna win it.

I'm gonna win it.

Numbers.

Three.

Oh, I think that was pf.

No, I think. I think it might have been memes.

You think that was memes?

I think it was memes. So we can check.

Let's check memes.

Okay. Even check. Yeah.

Checked. Memes.

He didn't check.

He didn't check.

I checked. It's memes. He didn't check at all.

100.

I'll go 26.

I'll go 15. Is that Mendoza's number?

Yeah.

15.

I will go 60.

I'll go 66.

62.

8. Good luck, memes.

Thank you.

Oh, my God.

Oh, my God. It happened. He did it.

Let's go. Memes.

Memes.

We may have to go back and check that.

Max, did you actually check it?

I didn't.

No. We did check that.

No, I do think it was me.

How? We have to hear.

I think it was me.

You think it was me?

I think it was memes. We got to check it. We got to check it. We got to check it.

Memes. Memes, Step out of the booth.

We got.

I don't think.

Until we like to go.

Step out of the.

Oh, my God. Memes.

Let Max look at it. We need.

You have to look at it, Max.

No, no.

What do you mean?

Memes won't. No, no, no. You got to check it.

We should check.

You got it.

You've got to check. How do we check?

I think memes got it.

Yeah, Go check the stream.

All right.

Go, go.

Stream won't do anything because it's. We need to check the track.

You just tell.

You know what? You know what? I'll give it to you. Memes.

Oh, my God.

Wait.

So. So not officially checked, but I'm. I'm doing asterisks.

I'm giving it to me.

No, no asterisk.

But it's. But he's. Are we checking or not checking?

I'm giving.

What do we do with this thing now?

We got to get a new machine. We have to get a new machine.

This is the greatest omen that's ever happened in the history.

What a year this could be for you memes. The first of the year. What a moment.

And the record.

You're not nearly as excited as you should be. You haven't, like, said anything.

He was pumped.

I never thought it'd happen.

I never thought it would happen.

And the fact that you got a first year, like, cuz, you know, getting it.

You know, I also could barely see it because there's just a glare from the clocks.

Oh, it's 13. It was memes.

Memes.

No, it's three.

It's three memes. Unbelievable.

How many was he away from the record? 25.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, hey, so who's the longest now?

Me. I'm still Me.

Still hang.

No, but right now, like, who has the. Who has the longest current?

What we got to do is we're gonna get a brand new lottery ball machine.

Yeah.

It's also Hank.

Oh, Hank.

Oh, hey.

It's been forever since you got it.

How long has it been since Hank got it?

988 days.

Wow.

What?

That's not true.

No, that's his longest.

Oh, longest drought. My bad.

320 days since he last got it. Wow. Wow. Hank better not let that drought go any further.

Nah, it doesn't.

We got to get.

We got to get.

We got to get a new machine. We got to get a new machine, and everyone's got to get.

The new machine just restarts.

Unbelievable.

Congrats.

That is the best omen ever.

Ever, ever.

To start the year, jets going to.

Get a franchise quarterback. Then they're going to win Super Bowl.

Wow. Let's not get too crazy.

Maybe that'll be the number Lamar.

What if Lamar wears. Does anyone wear three that.

We got to bet on a three this weekend?

Yeah, something three is going to come up. What are you thinking about?

Oh, Georgia three seed.

Oh, yeah. Ooh. Wow, Memes. I'm happy for you.

Love you guys.

What?

What?

What?

We're not that happy. And now the. The lottery ball is dead.

No, I'm happy for me.

No, we're gonna get a new. We're getting a new machine.

I'm a winner.

Okay.

Today.

Today I won.

Today you're a winner.

I won. Yeah, you did.

No, no, Max, we're gonna. I'd say by the end of. By. By after super bowl, we'll probably have a new machine that we can christen.

I'm very.

That's gone.

And that. I saw it. It just dropped there. And then the new machine will literally just be a race to see who can.

Who.

Who's the last to get it.

I'm very.

Just repeats.

I'm very happy for memes, but I'm very. I'm upset that we don't have anybody to bully.

Well, again, Hank, is the longest drought by far.

Yeah. Ever.

Still days and guess.

Not even really close either.

Not even close to close.

No.

988. This also just means 404 guesses what.

Everyone'S open to get to.

Oh, yeah, the treatment. Oh, no, the calendar year. It actually makes it more fun because it becomes a race.