Transcript of Jon Gruden In Studio, Joe Flacco Wins TNF And The Hearts Of America, Week 7 Picks And Preview + Fyre Fest

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Barn at my take. Welcome to part of my take presented by DraftKings. The crown is yours. Today is Friday, October 17th and PFT. There's just something about Joe Flacco.

I'm gonna let our commander in chief take it from here. That's okay with you guys?

Something about him. What do you got?

Joe Flacco is actually a very elite quarterback. He won a Super Bowl. He did it really to a certain extent with that great arm of his. I would say absolutely he is an elite quarterback.

That's Facts.

That's facts. Joe Flacco on that one.

He has saved Thursday Night Football. It was an unbelievable game. Bengals win 33, 31 in an absolute shoot. And Joe, our. Our prayers have been answered. We said the Bengals have a lot of prime time standalone games coming up. We need a quarterback we can enjoy that we can love. And Joe Flacco is that quarterback. He was electric. And the Bengals watch out for the Bengals.

The Bengals are back to being fun.

Again with Joe Flacco. Watch.

Flacco understands the mission. When you're the Cincinnati quarterback and the mission is get the ball to Jamar Chase, occasionally, T. Higgins, and then mix in some Yoshi.

Yeah.

That's what you got to do. And Joe did. He was just force feeding Jamar Chase all night. It was a beautiful thing to watch.

Jamar Chase ended up with 16 receptions for 161 yards. Yeah.

Joe Flacco, he is on a. A one man barnstorming tour to make every fan base fall in love with him eventually.

Yeah.

And he's going to get there. He. I think one. I think one day he's going to end up playing for the Steelers.

Yeah.

Because Mike Tomlin absolutely hates Joe Flacker. He. He respects him and he hates playing against him. He was pissed off at Andrew Barry for trading him inside the division. Like, what the are you doing, dude? Why are you making me play against this guy again? Why would you ever do that? The guy was good enough to be your starting quarterback week one of the season and now you're trading him across the state. It didn't make sense to Mike Tomlin. It doesn't make sense to anybody except for the Bengals. And I'm so goddamn glad that they got him because. Yes. Not only the primetime games. Thanksgiving is saved because of Joe.

Yep.

He wasn't retired. He was real tired.

Yeah.

From playing on the Browns and he.

Yeah. So Mike Tomlin said earlier in the week, you know, to be honest, it was shocking to me. Andrew Berry must be a lot smarter than us because it doesn't make sense to me to trade a quarterback that you think enough of to make your opening day starter to a division opponent that's hurting in that area. He's right. He had a right to be pissed. They lose this game because of Joe Flacco. The Bengals defense, still not great. Doesn't matter.

Neither was Steelers.

But listen, they're three and four now. They have the jets next week, they have the Bears the week after. And then they play the Steelers again. They have a tough little stretch There where we don't know what the Ravens are going to be, but they play the Patriots, Ravens and Bills in a four game stretch and they finished with the Dolphins, Cardinals and Browns. Like can the Bengals. I'm gonna say it. Bengals. What?

What, what are you gonna say?

They're not out of it.

I'm gonna say that the Bengals.

I'm not. I'm gonna say they're not out of it.

I'm gonna say crazier things have happened in Joe Flacco's career.

Here's what I'm gonna say about the Bengals and Bengals fans who are listening right now. You are not. You are no longer just playing out the string of the season. There is something that you are looking. You can look forward to your Sundays. The next two games are Jets, Bears at home. Why? Why is that crazy? Hank? Why is that crazy?

It's not crazy.

I was.

I thought you were going to say can the bagels make a run?

It's not.

It's not crazy.

All right, all right, let's break it down. All right. Because I'll be. I'll be. I'll be honest here with Joe Flacco. I mean they could beat anyone. So let's just say they beat the jets and the Bears. I'll give you the Bears without sounds. Say it so that. So that would be 5 and 4. Okay. Then they play the Patriots, Ravens, Bills. Wait, you said the Bears? Yeah, I'm. I'm just doing this for a hypothetical.

Okay.

He's not saying they're going to.

He's saying that they're hypothetical.

Yes, of course.

Are not good enough to be like, oh, the Bears are going to beat the Bengals.

They beat the Steelers tonight.

Yeah.

So?

So Hank. Hank does not want Bengals fans to be happy. Here we go.

Let's just say, to be fair, Hank hates Joe Flacco.

He does hate Joe Flacco. All right, so. Pft. I'll talk to you.

Yeah.

Yeah.

All right.

You don't really. Yes, I agree.

I obviously want the Bears to beat the Bengals. I'm just saying they were. If they beat the jets of the Bears, they would be five and four. They play the Patriots, Ravens, Bills, Ravens. Let's say they go one and three there. Okay. Let's just say that would make them six and seven.

Yep.

Then they beat the Dolphins, Cardinals and Browns to finish the season. By math, my math, that's 10 and 7.

I got them at 10 or 11.

10 and 7.

Yeah.

It could happen again. They could lose to anyone.

The defense does stink. It wasn't good. The, the Steelers defense wasn't good either. But I mean, Joe Flacco, I was surprised that he had that much time to throw. And there were a lot of throws he was making that was like, quick. He took like, you know, a few steps, had T. Higgins and mostly actually Jamar Chase tonight on those crossing routes. It's like just get it in between the linebackers and I mean, the Steelers did a terrible job of exhausting, terrible, because it was pretty clear what the Bengals were going to be doing. And they just kept doing it. They just kept doing it until they got stopped and they never got stopped.

And I don't think the Bengals are going to make the playoffs. I don't think they're going to make a run. I'm more trying to pump up Bengals fans because from where Bengals fans were two weeks ago to where they are right now, they can at least enjoy football for another month, which is a big, big thing. Like your football season ending before Halloween is a terrible feeling. Yeah, I've been there. It sucks. Now they can at least be like, you never know with Joe Flacco. He did it with the Browns. Why the fuck not? Just let Cincinnati daydream.

Let's Cincinnati daydream.

That's all it is.

Haven't they been through enough?

Yeah, it's a daydream, Hank. It's not. It's like if you told me to do, I had to bet it with my own money right now they're going to make the playoffs, I probably would bet. No, but I'm going to let them daydream a little bit. He threw for 342, three touchdowns. And if you add what were. What, what, what, what he finished with last week. Because last week it's basically Joe Flacco in the last six quarters. Yeah, he was bad in the first quarter against the packers. And then the last six quarters, he's realized the offense, he's realized this is Jamar Chase button that he has to keep hitting. And he's played well. Yeah. Last week he, he ended with like. So he's probably in the last six quarters, like 356 touchdowns or five touchdowns. Just saying something about Joe Flacco.

About Joe Flacco. And if you watch the games, he's. Flacco's gotten better every quarter.

Something about.

He's improving on a 15 minute by 15 minute basis.

Something about Joe.

Something about it. He was. He was an elite quarterback tonight. He had elite speed, too.

Yeah.

Put him on the naked bootleg and Flacco what do you get, like 11 yards rushing?

And that fan just being like, holy.

Oh, the shout out to the Bengals fan that was waving the towel over his head tonight like a helicopter to the point where I thought he was going to levitate off the ground. I thought that towel was whipping around fast enough where he was actually going to get airborne on that flat. Credit to Flacco. Man, I. I bet Flacco is going to have a good night tonight. I bet he's going to celebrate. I bet he's going to go home. I mean, he's going to drink one and a half beers. I bet you he's going to fall asleep on the big chair after drinking one and a half beers. Then I bet you his wife is going to wake him up at like 2am being like, Joe, you should come upstairs and go to bed. He'll be like, all right, yeah, that's enough partying for tonight.

I don't even think he lives with his wife.

That's a great.

I think his whole family's in New Jersey.

Oh. Because I know.

I think he's probably just hanging out. He's probably gonna get in a robe and hang out his hotel room.

Well, I know that.

Have a great wife.

Got driven over from Cleveland to Cincinnati.

Okay. Because I know his kids are still, like, in high school in New Jersey, and he's. They're playing high school football and stuff. So he's got.

I mean, Joe, I feel like Mrs. Flacco's got to make the trip for.

Thursday night for the game. Yeah, yeah, she probably did, but. But then she's probably going back and he's probably just got a hotel room by himself.

Yeah, that'd be nice. Have a nice little celebratory jail.

Yeah. Just hang out some about Flacco. As for the Steelers, this was the most. Mike Tomlin. The Steelers are the Steelers. And I was on Pittsburgh radio with our friends Randy and Bill on. On. On this morning, and they were saying. And I was like, are they the same Steelers? Like, no, no, they're different, but they are. Because Mike Tomlin, in a game that he's a favorite and supposed to win, will always lose that game. And I'm not saying the Steelers season's done or anything. It's just these are the Steelers. They will win a game at some point that they weren't supposed to win. But Mike Tomlin, the rules of. Of. Of always staying around 500 and staying even. He's got to give a couple of these away. And this is the one that he gave away. And I, you just like, I, I thought it going in because our good friend Jersey Jerry was saying how this team is different and they're so much better. I was like, yeah, I've heard that every single year. And then you fall on your face.

He said earlier today, 0% chance they lose this game. You're going to clip this. Clip it. I want you to clip it. No chance they lose this game. Yeah, not going to be close.

We also, by the way, speaking of which, Pittsburgh radio Andrew Philip, Phil Pano. Filipano.

Filiponi.

Filiponi, who is a host on 9:37 the fan said before the game, there's no way the Steelers lose tonight. In fact, I'll get my nipples pierced with no numbing agents if they lose to the bungles. It ain't happening.

Now, I'm told that Mr. Filiponi has made bets and promises like this before. He's like a serial better. And he doesn't follow through on him.

I mean, this one does. This one is so specific that I. We were joking about in the cave. But like, this sounds like a guy who has wanted to get nipples pierced for his entire life. And he's like, I'm just going to throw it out there for this. Like I'm going to. Hey, guys, don't make me get my nipples pierced. Oh, no. Now I got to get my nipples pierced. Yeah, you wanted Andrew, you wanted your nipples pierced. Just admit it. You're freak and that's fine. We're sex positive podcasts. You're a freak and you want your nipples pierced and you want them rubbed. And now you can do it.

Hey, if JMU loses this weekend, I'm going to go out and I'm going to eat a full rack of ribs.

Yeah.

And I will drink the coldest beer that I can find on Saturday.

Tonight, I.

Boy, I hope they don't.

If Wisconsin loses Ohio State on Saturday, this guy right here. 10 wings on Sunday.

10 wings.

10 wings.

That's crazy.

How many? 10 wings.

And some nachos.

And some nachos. And maybe some ice cream.

You know what? You know what? If the Commanders beat the Cowboys on sun.

Oh, no.

If the Commanders lose to the Cowboys on Sunday, I will do a 12 hour flight simulator marathon and I won't stop the entire time. I'm going to be in the air and I'm going to do it. And I really hope that it doesn't come to that because, man, that's a lot of time to play video games.

Yeah, that's a lot of time. You sure? Pft.

Yeah, I'm sure. That's how much I believe in my.

Sound like a guy who wants to get his nipples.

That's how I kind of maybe.

No, you don't.

Maybe the third one.

If you got your nipples pierced, I would judge you.

So what about just the third one?

What about we don't judge each other here?

That one's not even sensitive.

Yes, yes, you do.

If you became a nipple Pierce guy, it would change the entire course of this podcast. You know that.

Yeah, I mean, we already saw Cuomo on the debates tonight. Nobody likes nipple piercing guy.

Unbelievable, though. Great game, Thursday Night Football. This is why we watch. These are the types of games where I walk away from and I'm like, yeah, that's why I sit through jets and Broncos in London. That's why I sit through, you know, crappy Thursday night games later in the season where Al Michaels wants to be anywhere but in that booth. I do it because nights like tonight can happen and you're just buzzing and it sets the stage for a great football weekend.

So did you see Joe Burrow pregame? You see Joe's haircut?

He looks very sad.

He looked very sad. He looked very emo. He had like the. The floppy almost like the tick tock hair, you know, I'm talking about like that flop that goes down in front. But then at halftime he switched up the backwards hat. He looked cool again. Okay. But yeah, Joe, if you're listening to this, the bangs, it makes me sad to see you like that. It looks like you've been sitting in your room listening to the Cure all night.

Yeah. By the way, I will say one thing positive about the Steelers. Their defense. I don't understand because their defense was supposed to be turning the corner and it got absolutely torched tonight. And their secondary specifically got abused all night long. But Aaron Rodgers does have it. We had some vintage Aaron Rodgers plays the Friar move. Touchdown to take the lead late. The fact that he threw a Hail Mary 70 yards in the air or whatever it was. How far. How far was that Hail Mary?

I think it went about.

Still got it.

I think it went about 65 yards in the air.

Okay.

It was a clean 65. And he's. Yeah, he's the best at throwing Hail Marys. And he did have like some incredible touchdown passes tonight. The one to Fryer moved over. The defender looked good. He seems like he's. He also spends like 50% of his time on the field yelling at somebody. Yeah, he's like Always frustrated that somebody's not motioning in the right direction. They don't know the right route to run. But yeah, he. Aaron Rodgers was not the problem tonight for the Steelers.

No. So defense. And also, unfortunately for the Steelers, you lost the game and you lost the battle as well, because Mike Tomlin punted the ball on a fourth and four with, like, about four minutes left. And the Steelers did get the ball back. So that just emboldens him to do it again. That's like, hey, I was right. Of course. This is what you're supposed to do. So he, like, you can't let him have those little wins because now he's going to feel even more bold about it.

Yeah, he will. The Steelers are also kind of building their entire red zone offense out of, like, the entire. The entire offense is built out of the tight end. Oh, yeah, they've got. They lead the league in tight ends. They'll just throw it to. If. If you weigh over 240 pounds, they're going to throw a touchdown past.

I mean, their number one receiver is almost a tight end.

Yeah. DK's a tight end.

Like, hey, DK Fryer.

Mo.

Darnell Washington, no fan. They're all tight ends.

They respect Mass. And also Darnell not.

No offense. Jonu Smith, no offense. On the bank.

Yeah. Darnell Washington. They. They put his graphic up as 300 plus pounds, which is awesome. Like, they're not going to. We're not going to say how much because that's Hippa, but He weighs over 300 pounds. I think he weighed in at the start of the year. Or he's listed at 264.

Yeah.

And then Tomlin's just like, we don't need to tell them exactly how big you are, Darnell, but you are. You are 300 plus pounds. And that means that the left side of their line was 1,219 plus pounds is what they put on the graphic tonight.

The. You know, the meme our. Our. Our good friend Ebo had a good meme. You know the meme that the. The like, office harassment rules, where it's like the same thing. And. And it's Darnell Washington. I'm 6, 7, 300 pounds. And the lady's like, oh, you're sweet. And then it's Zion Williamson. I'm 6, 7, 300 pounds. Hello, Human Resources. Yeah, please, someone come get Human resources. We got a problem.

Somebody suggested I should just list my height as five, eight plus.

Yeah, why not?

I think. I think we can go with that. Yeah. 300 plus pounds for Darnell and also Jamar Chase told us what was going to happen. Yeah, the Steelers were going to come in there and try to raw dog them.

Yep.

And they got to be prepared to not let the Steelers. Rod. I. I'd say raw dog averted. Yeah, Reverse raw dog. We know the Steelers are going to come in and try to raw dog us and kill us, but we will be ready for that challenge and waiting for it.

Did you see the stat at the beginning of the game that was shocking? The Pittsburgh Steelers, 56 consecutive regular season games with seven or fewer points in the first quarter. That's insane. To not have one first quarter in 56 games where it's like, oh, we lucked into having, you know, a turnover in short field and kicked a field goal. They just cannot score more than seven points in the first quarter.

Yeah, we've been watching the same Steelers game for the last. It feels like 10 years. Listen, the offense did look better tonight. Yeah, it didn't look like the same old Steelers in terms of running that bland, like, weird tight end out. Run up the middle. Run up the middle offense. Yeah, they mixed it up a little bit, but yeah, the defense, Jalen Ramsey getting burnt by. Burnt by T. Higgins. And credit to T. Higgins for going down and not scoring a touchdown.

Yeah.

Because you know that he wanted to score very, very deeply.

Yeah.

And yeah, he. He made the smart play, went down. Evan McFerson cleaned it up. So I game.

I have the exact stats. By the way, next gen stats said Aaron Rodgers Hail Mary pass attempt that resulted in incompletion traveled 69.8 yards in the air. The longest recorded pass attempt since at least 2017. That's pretty crazy.

That is wild.

Aaron Rodgers still got that arm.

Still got it.

He still got that arm.

Do you see the Darnell Washington six seven dance that he did in the end zone?

No, I didn't.

Yeah, he did the 6 7. I pretend I was like, I get it.

I was gonna say, I saw it.

I get it.

But I didn't know what he was doing.

Yeah, it's a. Yeah, I heard that. 41.

Zach give it to us.

6 7.

What does it mean?

Just ended up being like a 2k. It was in a lot of 2k edits, but initially came from a rap artist, Skrilla out of a Philadelphia. He's got a music video on Kensington and it's in one of his songs, and the song blew up on Tick Tock and then it went into like a you basketball edits. And it doesn't mean anything.

I heard that.

Nice. I heard that. Good explanation.

One is the next up.

41.

41. Is that right?

There's a couple camps pushing that.

A couple camps? Are they camp I want to be.

Involved with, like, August, I think, but fell off.

Yeah.

What? Hank, do you appreciate that Zach's here now to explain these things to us?

Very much.

Yeah.

You.

You can just check out on that.

I mean, I. I didn't really know what that was in the first place, but.

Yeah, I.

Like, I didn't know any of that. I knew it was a rap song.

I think I said this, but my kids know six, seven.

Yeah.

I'm getting closer and closer to. I'm gonna get lapped at some point. I mean, they're closer in age to. Well, no, Zach, you're 27, right?

28.

Oh.

Well, you're in the. You're in the culture.

I try to be relatively tapped in.

Yeah. What's the culture feeling with Zach? I think 68 has to feel like chopped liver. Like, 69 is the sex number. 67 is now the cool new number.

What.

What's wrong with me?

You got nothing. Should we talk a little baseball before we do picks and preview Dodgers again? They're unfair, but, I mean, what are you gonna like?

I'm.

I'm more jealous than anything. They're so good.

Oh, yeah.

We got Tyler Glass now. Let's just roll him out there.

It's.

It's.

It's nuts. And they're. You know, Shohei hit a. Hit a triple to start the game, like, where he basically threw the bat at the ball, and it's just. It's nuts. The broadcast to at one point was like, the Dodgers are so talented that they're. They're able to keep some of their, like, incredible aces in, you know, in the farms or in, like, rehab starts until they need him in the playoffs. I. I wouldn't say, like, that. It's the money. It's the money that they're able to do it because of, like, it's not. It's not like, they just have so much talent that they built up. Like, they. They just have got all the good plays.

They're in a great spot where they can just bring awesome guys in that they've already paid for. Yes. Yeah. No, I agree with that. 100. Yeah. And need the brewers to win a game because we just need more baseball. We can't just have one series end in a sweep.

I don't think they're gonna win.

We need the brewers to Try. I don't think they're gonna just try. Brewers.

And then the Toronto Blue Jays. The Jays are back. They absolutely kicked the out of the Mariners in the first two games. No team has won a home game yet. That was a. What is it? Wednesday night was a dong fest. Was it? Eight home runs in that game. Crazy. And then tonight they did the same thing where they just beat the shit out of. Yeah.

Every time I was looking over, I put that on the second screen. That, that game got demoted to second screen on Wednesday night. And every time I looked over at it, it was another dong leaving the stadium. And then by the end of it, there were some. There was a sad dong from the Mariners.

Yeah.

That left the stadium. And I think, I think Cal touched the trident. The home run trident.

Yep.

He didn't want to, like, pick it up and demonstrate with it, which credit to him for. For having a sense of the moment. But, yeah, there's nothing like a sad, A sad home run prop being enacted.

Yeah, the.

Tough to watch.

We gotta. We got a prop off between these two teams. We got the trident and then the jacket on the Jays. Yeah, they got that cool jacket they put on. Also, congrats on to our friend Jeff Passon. He gets to go back to the Imperial Pub.

Yeah. Good for him.

Yeah. So this, this series is going back to Toronto. Whether it be three two Mariners or three two Blue Jays, we don't know. But it's an awesome series. I would love for it to go seven. Two franchises that really, really like fan bases that deserve it, want it bad. Fun stories. Will they get smoked by the Dodgers? Probably, but I don't care. Just get there.

Yeah.

Chip in a chair.

You know what? If you get to the World Series, if you're in the American League and you get your ass kicked by the dot, you get some sick T shirts out of it. Yeah. American League Championship.

You get an. Actually, we talked about it, like, the celebration that these teams do if whoever wins the ALCS should really celebrate. Yeah. Celebrate like you won the World Series.

Yeah. In fact, you know what? That's my, My world champion is going to be the American League champion.

Yeah, I like that. But the, the baseball. Yeah. I mean, the Dodgers have kind of ruined. I, I, I don't want to do the. The Dodgers have ruined the sport, but if they sweep the brewers and like, win the World Series in, like, four or five, then, yeah, I'm ready to say yeah.

The problem with the Dodgers is, yes, they, they have completely cornered the market on awesome baseball players. But Their. Their players are still very fun to watch.

Yeah.

Like, I like watching them play.

Correct.

It just feels like a foregone conclusion that they've just amassed so much talent that it's pointless.

Right. That's. Max. What do you. What do you think, baseball guy, our baseball expert?

I don't want to make this about myself, but the Phillies are going to be the only team that had a shot.

They could have.

They were in every single one of those games. They should have won at least one of those three. One of those three to at least force game five. I think the Dodgers are going to beat the fuck out of every other team, and it's not even going to be close.

So, America, we had our chance with the Phillies.

We did. But I don't want to make it.

I don't want to make it about me or make it about the Philadelphia.

I'm not going to make it about Philadelphia. But if you guys had beaten the Dodgers in the first series, would you guys have then won the World Series or who would have beaten you? We would have choked, but yeah, yeah.

We could have beat the Dodgers.

Yeah, if you'd won that game, you would have beaten the Dodgers. I actually believe that there was three.

They could have won either. Whatever, whatever, whatever, whatever, whatever, whatever.

Don't make it by yourself.

Also, shout out.

Making about myself.

Shout out to Max Scherzer.

Yeah.

Ageless wonder. I mean, he was awesome tonight. He's five, five and two thirds. Two earned runs.

Like screaming at his manager.

Yeah.

When he was about to get pulled from the game, he just yelled like, get the off my mound. I. I love Mad Max, man. He is absolutely insane. I. I love that he's still out there doing it, still throwing some gas.

And the Toronto Blue Jays have great uniforms.

Yep.

Great, great uniforms. Love them. Okay, I think that's it. Let's get to our week seven picks in preview. Shout out Joe Flacco.

I love Joe Flacco so much.

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I think. I think we might see some teams with good records kind of show themselves to maybe not be that good this. This week.

Yep. We have the Texans and the Bills are on by. So Ravens or. Sorry, Ravens. Yeah, sorry, the Ravens and the Bills. All right, let's get into the games. We have starting on Sunday morning, the Rams and the Jaguars. The Rams are three point favorites right now. Over under is 44 and a half. The Rams are going to London on Saturday, which I don't love. The Jaguars are going on Tuesday, which is fine business. Rams are going from Baltimore where they've been all week. They've actually been practicing on Camden Yards field, which is kind of cool.

It is kind of cool. McVeigh said that they might not be able to practice some of the vertical shots that they would like.

Okay.

Because there's just not enough grass in a baseball outfield. They're saying that they're more limited with some of the vertical grass is what he said. He said that might be a good thing. And Devonte Adams said that the defense is probably not thrilled about having 25 yards of fuel to practice on, but they're working on a lot of red zone stuff.

Okay.

Kind of making do.

Is Puka Nakua playing?

I don't think that he is.

That's a big question.

If you have like a sprained ankle and you get on a plane, that makes it swell up more, right?

Yeah. Although it's been. Whatever. Maybe that's why they waited till Saturday. Maybe like we got to get Puka's swelling down before we can leave.

Strictly for Puka, I actually don't think.

That that would be that crazy. That's that important.

That might be it. So he's questionable. I don't know if he's been practicing. We'll find out more on Friday. But he's obviously the heart and soul of their offense. I got some interesting stats about the. The Rams and how good they've been against the spread.

Okay.

We haven't really talked about the Rams against the spread, but I looked into it. They are 11 and 3 against the spread in their last 14 games.

Yep.

One of those was the blocked field goal by the Eagles that got returned and. And switched every. If they just missed that field goal they cover, they should be 12 and 2 at that point. And then there was the fumble at the goal line by Kyron Williams on that Thursday night that Would not necessarily have made them cover, but it would have put them in a position where they could cover.

Yep.

That game. If you didn't fumble it. So the Rams are just knocking people out against the spread recently.

Yes. The big story though of this game is are we taking the Jaguars because Travis Hunter already got baptized before the game last Sunday.

Well, you can get born again.

Yeah. So I don't know Skip Bayless. I. That was a. Seeing Skip bayless have a 28 minute video on Travis Hunter being selfish for getting baptized before the game on Sunday.

Yeah.

Didn't expect that take. Well, there it was.

I, Yeah, I thought it'd be an hour. I thought it'd be more material than that. But yeah, just when you think Skips, he doesn't have his fastball anymore, he comes out with Travis Hunter lost that game because he dedicated his life to the Lord. On Sunday morning when he should have been thinking about football, I didn't think about that. I kind of kicked myself for not having that take before Skip did.

Yep.

But I also have to just take my hat off to Skip Bayless because the man, he, he still has it.

Still got it.

He still has it.

We also have the fun. Liam Cohen used to be Sean McVay's like coffee guy. He was, he was explaining, you know, when he first started with the Rams, he actually was the one who was drawing up the plays for Sean McVeigh and learning how Sean McVeigh's brain works and said he got a ton of access to Sean McVeigh that most other coaches wouldn't get. So I think there is some fondness there. Does Liam Cohen maybe know something about Sean McVeigh that he could take advantage of?

Well, they both do the sign sealing stuff according to Robert Salah. So who's going to be stealing signs from who in this game?

Yeah. Also, we should mention, I said this last week. I'll say it again because it reigns true again. But the Rams have yet to give up a 20 plus yard run on the season.

Yeah, that's crazy.

That's pretty good.

Did you know that since 2007 we've had 41 games in London and this is only the second time that both teams have a winning record.

Oh, wow.

In a game. So this is, this is maybe the best matchup that London has ever seen.

And the Jaguars are the London's team. They are London's team.

They are. Yeah. I, I again don't like these early mornings when we have to do them every single week. Goodell's taking Advantage of us. I don't know if we talked about this on this show, but I was thinking that there should be a different way that we decide which teams go over to London, and it's just a fan vote on Monday morning.

Yeah.

It's like the worst matchup of the week.

Yeah.

Send that one over to London.

Just like, I don't know, pretend that. Stop. I just. Is this it For a while? Are we done for a while?

I think so.

I think we're done for a while.

And then look at the schedule.

Max.

There's two more.

I know. There's the Madrid game that you got to play. Pft.

Yeah, I do.

You're gonna be jet lag from that.

You're just pinned back. I'm gonna fly out on Tuesday, if that's okay.

Yeah.

Get acclimated.

All right, so we have. This is the second to last or third to last Sunday, November 9, in Berlin. Sunday, November 16, in Madrid.

So we got Germany and Spain, and then we're done. But we do have a little break, so we don't have a game overseas for the next few weeks at least.

And this is actually, like, I. I know that a lot of the complaints are like, well, we watched the Broncos Jets. That game sucked. The Steelers or the Browns versus Vikings. I actually am, like, more mad when it's two potentially playoff teams having to go to London. Yeah. Play that game in front of Amer American fans and play it under, like, on a regular Sunday, like, slot. I. You're right. Like, send the worst games.

Yeah. Browns, Dolphins should be in London this weekend.

Wow. I'm excited for that game. Let's actually do that game next. Browns, Dolphins.

Wait. Do you know anyone who actually watched all 28 minutes of the Skip Bayless video about Travis Hunter? No, I. I need to find somebody that's watched that entire thing. I made it through about a minute and a half.

Yeah. I didn't even click on it, even.

Even for Skip. It was a shocking take.

Yeah, it was. Dolphins, Browns. Let's talk about this game. So this is back.

This is the.

The noon slate. Browns are two and a half point favorites. The over under is 37 and a half because we have the first ever matchup of. Oh, it's actually 36 and a half right now. Yeah. The first ever matchup of two Hawaiian lefties who can't really throw the ball playing quarterback in really shitty Cleveland weather. There's reports right now which I don't believe these reports this early of like 50 to 60 mile an hour gusts and rain. I gotta wait till game day to figure this out. But on paper this could be a very fun, horrific game.

It could be ugly. I, I had the same reaction when I saw the initial report of 50 to 60 mile an hour wind gusts possible. I got excited as I do anytime they forecast like the first snow football game of the year. I get excited by it. And then you dig deeper into the forecast. It's like probably like 20 to 30 mile an hour winds.

Yeah.

I don't know if it's gonna be up. I hope it's up to 50. I hope it's up to 70. I would love to see that. But it's always, it's always going to be better than what was promised.

Yes.

If it was 60, that would be a great football game to watch especially. Yeah. Two, two left handed Hawaiian born starting quarterbacks that don't have a relationship for the first time.

Yeah, they don't. So. So Dylan Gabriel broke one of two is passing records in high school in 2018. But it's weird. They do not. They asked Dylan Gabriel, he's like, yeah, we don't really talk. You'd think lefty Hawaiian quarterbacks would be like the brotherhood.

Yeah, yeah. Lefty use actually the Hawaiian word for left handed is lima hema.

Okay.

Which is kind of cool.

That is cool. Tua also had to apologize this week. He said I made a mistake. We talk a lot about we got to get this going, come in excited for work and forget about the noise. And I feel like I just added on that for our guys. He's talking to obviously about him saying there's people not showing up to player only meetings and they lack leadership. Even though he's a quarterback. We're all trying to find the guy who did this. It's bad. I love the Browns in this game by the way because the Dolphins have the worst rush defense in the NFL. They are giving up 5.6 yards per carry. That's 30th. They've allowed the most rushing yards in a thousand 11 yards. I think this is going to be a quinshon Judkins, get him going. Make it as easy as possible for Dylan Gabriel. And the Browns defense at home has always been good and I feel like they might be able to win a game.

Yeah, I think this is a matchup of. Of what's the best unit. The best unit is the Browns defense.

Yeah.

That's the only good unit that we're going to see.

Especially if the weather's bad.

Especially.

Yeah.

And that, that Defense is going to play well if it's. If it's just really, really shitty outside. The Browns defense can definitely make two uncomfortable. The Browns being a favorite makes me a little nervous.

Yeah. I kind of like it even more.

So I looked into Mike McDaniel's stats in terms of teams that he's played with losing records and teams that he's played with winning records. Do you have a guess for what his record is against winning teams?

Mike McDaniel. Yeah. As a head coach, one win.

Three and 15. Okay.

I know it's bad.

And against teams with losing records, I guess 500 and below.

He's got to be like 12 and five.

No, he's 26 and 13.

Oh, wow.

Against those teams, so much. Much better. Against bad teams.

Yeah.

Good teams.

So this is a bad team.

But a good unit.

But a good unit.

Yeah.

And Dylan Gabriel and Quintean Judkins. And Dylan Gabriel said that after he got beat up by the Steelers, he said, I'm. I'm used to it. My mom used to beat my ass when I was a kid, so nothing will compare to that. I'm just kidding. He said, I'm just kidding at the end. But also now. I think your mom probably beat your ass.

No, I think he probably has a little bit of grit to him.

Yeah. Yeah. This is gonna be a bad one. What. What game are we gonna put on on main tv? Vikings, Eagles. No. Oh, he's. Max is shaking his head. He shook it off. Should we just embrace the suck and put this on main?

No, it might be so bad. It's good.

Like, I don't want to put Saints, Bears. I mean, I. Obviously, I would prefer that, but I'm not going to try to say that we need. We need to put the Saints on or the Bears on sound.

I'd rather that or Vikings Eagles, I think.

Okay.

Yeah.

All right, Max, you don't want Vikings Eagles on sound.

We'll get to it.

Okay. All right. We will get to it. All right, let's talk Saints Bears. The Bears are right now. What is it?

Four and a half.

Four and a half. It's gone down to four and a half. It was five and a half point favorites. This is a game that the Bears have to win. I'm dubbing it a must win because the Bears are, you'd think, better than the Saints.

Over.

Under is 46 and a half. They must win this game. They must win this game. They have to win this game. If you're going to be a good team, which they're not yet. They're in the process of trying to become a good team. They must win this game.

Do you think that these two quarterbacks hate each other?

Well, yeah. So Caleb Williams took Spencer Rattler's job, and Spencer Rattler was asked about it, and he was just like, yeah, I guess we're cordial.

He was like, I respect him. I think he's a great player. He gave, like, the most boilerplate answers ever.

Yep.

Which sounds to me like Spencer Rattler has learned what to say instead of being honest.

Yes.

Because, like, if you're. If you're Spencer, you have no choice but to hate that guy.

Right. Yeah.

Like, he took your job. You were. You were the anointed king of Norman, Oklahoma, and then all the fans turned on you. It felt like in one game, they just turned on him. And then. Yeah. He went on to South Carolina.

And then Caleb left.

And then Caleb left, and now he's like, what the.

Did?

You took my job, Then you left. I feel like he has to hate Caleb.

He's going. I would say yes, because he's going with the. It was a blessing in disguise route. Yeah. That's always a telltale sign. It is a. So a revenge game for Spencer Rattler. Is it a revenge game for Saints players against Dennis Allen?

Yes.

Or is it a love game? Because they probably like Dennis Allen because he was there. Obviously they didn't like him as a head coach, but he was also there for 15 years.

Yeah.

So he was there. Obviously. They don't have, like, the rosters turned over, but he. He was there for a long time with the Saints.

Well, I was gonna say, do you think it's a Dennis Allen revenge game?

It might be.

Even though. Although. Shout out to the Saints for. For keeping him as the head coach for so long.

I was gonna say Dennis Allen can't be like, oh, man, I can't believe they fired me.

Yeah.

How. How would that work? He. He. He probably when he got fired, he's like, yeah, that makes sense. I would have fired me a while ago.

Yeah. He probably spent the last, like, eight weeks of his job wondering if today's the day that he's going to get fired.

Yeah.

Which I guess is also torture against a man.

Yep.

So, yeah, I don't think that. I don't think Dennis Allen has any right to be upset at the Saints.

No.

Keeping him gainfully employed. I don't know. Did. I don't know if the Saints. If the players like Dennis Allen or not, though.

I. I feel like they Would I feel like he's one of those guys because he was a coordinator for so long before the head coach. I feel like there's never been anyone saying that he didn't like Dennis Allen. They just said Dennis Allen can't co head coach.

Yeah.

Speaking of head coaches, the Bears under Matt Evil were 6 and 20 in one score games, are now 2 and 1 in one score games with Ben Johnson.

Yeah.

Culture is changing. Also, Bears are the only team to score at least 21 points in each of their first five games. They've scored in 18 of their 20 quarters this season, which is pretty good.

That is pretty good.

Yeah.

If you're looking at the, the first quarter stuff, the Saints have allowed touchdowns on each of their opponents first two possessions in their last four games. This is a, this is a Ben Johnson script game.

I'm very worried about this game because I do think Spencer Rattler is not that bad.

No, he's not.

And this, this is like a, hey, you know, big Monday night win. Feeling like, you know, like things are going well. Fall flat on your face spot. So I'm a little nervous. Also, the Troy Aikman stuff continued all week. I guess Caleb was grinding tape so hard he missed the meeting with Troy Aikman. And that's why Troy Aikman maybe blasted him extra.

Oh, is that what happened?

Yeah, they. He was asked about it in a press conference. Like. Yeah, I was. I missed the meeting with him because I was working on the game plan. I tried to call him, he didn't pick up. I, I don't know what else to say.

And then Troy held that against him.

Yeah. Which I'm fine with.

Troy can hold it against also USC quarterback UCLA guy. Troy probably baked in there somewhere.

Yeah.

So I did see some of the, some of the side by side comparisons of each player's like first 23 games or whatever. Caleb Williams versus Troy Aikman's. I saw those going around. It's always very funny to see those with Troy Aikman because Troy Aikman was bad when he first got into the league. But also the first like year and a half.

Let me. So I don't like that Troy Aikman trash Caleb Williams. But I also don't care because it's like, hey, you're. You got that camp. If Caleb ends up, you know, progressing and being awesome, we'll just be like double birds of Troyman. Who cares? We gotta stop real. We gotta start realizing. I feel like there's like a new group of NFL fans that don't realize just how different the game is now because I saw Troy Aikman side by side with Ryan Tannehill and people were like, how is Troy been a Hall of Famer? Ryan Tannehill was better. And then someone quoted with like, hey, here's adjusted for era. And it was just like, Trachman was so much.

Yeah, Troy Aikman was awesome. I mean, he was bad for his rookie year.

His numbers look bad because he played in a different era and it was.

A bad team when he first got the league and probably until like the second, maybe start of the third year. Yeah, that's when we started playing well. But, yeah, if you look at Caleb Williams stats compared to Troy Aikman's, Caleb takes every on him. But it could be anybody from that.

Every single person. Yeah. In this era. Yeah.

You could do Spencer Rattler.

Yeah.

Versus Troy Aikman, and you'd be like, damn, Spencer Rattler.

Future hall of Fame Joe Namath had more interceptions than touchdowns.

Yeah. Do you think that Spencer Rattler has a future as a starting quarterback in this league?

Maybe.

I think. I think he might, maybe. I think he might, and I feel strong about maybe. Have we heard the name Tyler Schuck in the last six weeks?

I have not. I think. Is he hurt?

Is he.

I thought something happened to him. I think it might have gotten hurt. What's that? Paul George story?

We know we're talking football.

What's that Paul George story?

He will not be available for the season over shot.

No.

Joel Embiid, they are hopeful he will be. So good news, too.

Oh, no, that's good news.

You know, you don't say, oh, no to that.

Okay. Tyler Shark, he held out for a fully guaranteed contract, so he probably didn't get enough training camp. That's what people are saying. Okay.

We haven't even heard, like, oh, is it. Is it time to switch to shuck now? That's how good Spencer Rattler's been on a shitty team.

Oh, he's the backup, so he's. He. He has been the backup, so he has. He's not hurt. Yeah.

It said, well, this is from October 4th.

Okay.

Yeah. I don't think Spencer Rattler's been playing that bad. Hank, are you going to be putting the Bears in the Hunger or the Saints in the Hungry Dog?

I haven't put it in officially, but it's. It's looking like a yes. Yeah. It's just a letdown spot for the Bears.

And I'll be. I've been very honest about The Bears, like I did. They are.

And the. The Saints were in the game against the Patriots. They were moving the ball in the first. They had two penalties on their first two drives that, like, stopped their field goal drives instead of touchdown drives, but they were moving the ball and in that game till the end.

Yeah, the Bears are definitely in the category. Our defense is not good, and we have turned the ball over. We've taken the ball away. If those takeaways go away, it could look a lot different. We're living and dying on takeaways right now as a defensive unit. So that could always just be one of those situations where like. Oh, like kind of similar to the Jaguars. Jaguars, you know, started. What was it, 5 and 1, 4 and 1. Have takeaways in every single game. Then they play the Seahawks. Don't take the ball away, lose the Seahawks.

So that.

That could happen at any point because the Bears are number one in takeaways this year.

Do you think that you figured something out on Monday with your rush defense?

No, not at all. It was good. No, no.

I think your running defense was. It was legitimately good.

No, I think what they figured out is they have to kind of sell out. Basically, the defensive strategy is sell out for the run and hope you turn the ball over in the passing game. We have gotten a little healthier in the secondary, but, yeah, it's. It was a lot of kind of sellout and try to stop the run and.

Do we have Cairo Santos this week? Are we going back to Moody?

If Cairo Santos is healthy, he is the starting kick kicker.

Do you know if he's healthy?

I do not. But he is a starting kicker. He did not lose his job for injury.

Okay.

Okay. Next game. Hank. The Patriots going to the Titans. Brian Callahan fired Mike mccoy now coaching for the Titans. Will that light a fire up the Titan's ass?

I feel like in these situations, it goes one way or the other. Like, they. That could happen. They could also lose by 40.

So could win or lose the game.

They could maybe cover, I think, because the players are motivated. Or they could respond negatively and just get like. It's a complete train wreck.

So which one are you thinking about?

I'm thinking lose by 40.

Now, I think that. That Mike McCoy is not the type of interim coach to get that. That typical interim coach.

Bump.

Like, I'm scared of this guy. I'm fired up by this guy.

Bump.

He seems more like, well, at least it's not Brian Callahan, which is good for something. It's probably good for a couple Points.

Yeah. But the players like they're having a bad year. They're you know, QB saying their ass. You got to think about just them, you know, coming into the building. And like you said, I don't think Mike McCoy is someone that changes. Oh, we got Mike McCoy now. Let's come in the building fired up, ready to win.

A visor interim coach that rarely seen.

I think, I think this is. This is Patriots. Keep the foot on the gas.

Yeah.

Although there's. There's so much people. So many people think the same thing. There's so much money bet on the Patriots that it scares me.

That should be one of the things that we use to. To figure out who should the interim coach should have been is are they a visor guy if they're advisor guy, not an interim head coach.

Fat guys always interim. Yeah.

Big guy. If you don't wear a hat at all, that's an interim head coach. Shaved head. Interim head coach.

Yep.

Ball cap. Usually interim head coach visor doesn't feel like interim head coach material.

No, I'd agree. I, I feel like they. I, I think the Titans are going to rally for Mike McCoy, but I don't know if they are. Like they might just be such dog that a rally doesn't even look good enough to cover a game.

Yeah. And I also feel like the Patriots are going to rally for Mike Vrabel.

Yeah.

Like this is his. The ultimate revenge game. Although that the sting's taken out of it a little bit given that the guy that replaced him got fired and.

He texted him, said that he texted Brian Callahan because he's like, listen, nobody texts you when you lose. And he's like I appreciate everyone who texts me when I got fired. So reached out.

We have an update also might have.

Reached out and been like, hey, tell me. Tell me some things.

Yeah.

Which like those guys.

Let's.

Let's really put it to him.

If I was Brian Callahan, I would absolutely 100 everything. The Titans will not be doing a video tribute to Mike Frable.

Okay.

At this game in case anybody was wondering.

Yeah, that's rude. The Titans are also 0 and 10 against the spread in their last 10 home games. I got a blind resume for you guys. Oh, QB1 1000. This is through six games. 1,100 passing yards, three touchdowns, four interceptions, four fumbles lost. 25 sacks taken. QB2, 1,266 passing yards, seven TDS, two interceptions, two fumbles lost. 19 six sacks taken.

I think one's Cam Ward.

Yep. Two is Will Levis Interesting numbers.

Great quarterback.

Significantly better.

I got a blind resume.

Okay.

Because I am a big, big Drake May believer. Been very public about that. I think he's an awesome quarterback. The start of his career has been unreal. So I looked up his stats for Hank just to show him some things that maybe he hasn't seen before. And we have a blind resume. Max, can you put that up? Try to figure out which quarterback is which. Max is going to put it up on the screen.

Oh, it's a video.

It's a video.

Yeah.

Because we're going to fade in their actual faces here.

Take a Look at those 373 completions, 67 completion percentage, 4,000 yards, 23 touchdowns, 14 interceptions.

Wow. Talk about it.

The guy on the left is Tom Brady, and the guy on the right. Strike may actually, no, the guy on the left is Mac Jones. Those are Mac Jones's first 18 games in the NFL. And that's Drake Maze on the right. Pretty crazy.

It is pretty crazy.

I mean, Josh McDaniels. I think people. People aren't giving enough credit to Josh McDaniels. He was Mac Jones's OC early on when he was a Pro Bowler. He's been with Drake May. I think. I just think people, you know, he get. He should get more credit for how good of an offensive coordinator.

He's very good. He's very good. Really bad head coach.

That's fine.

Not.

He's not our head coach.

Yeah, yeah.

I'm. I appreciate it.

Do you. Do you have any comment on PFT making this graphic for you?

No. I mean, it's a. It's a fair graphic. I, again, like Mac Jones. There was.

There was.

There was time where there was, you know, Pro Bowler.

Yeah. Yeah.

Mac Joneses don't grow on trees.

Yeah, no, that. That doesn't. That doesn't really phase me or change anything.

I think that. That Mac Jones actually has kind of revived the Mac Jones name based on how he's played for the Niners.

Oh, big time.

He might be the next, like, Baker Mayfield, Sam Darnold. Why did we let these guys leave town?

As long as he doesn't laugh. Every time he laughs, I cringe.

Yeah.

Do you guys. Cam Ward said to Mike Silver this week, once I play how I want to play, I think the league will be. Do you think he'll ever play how he wants to play?

Does he mean, like, the league will be? Like, nobody will want to watch it?

I don't know. But he said, once I play how I want to Play. I think the league will be. Be. That's a nice quote though, because you could just be like, if he sucks forever, he's like, I never got how I wanted to play.

I like his honesty.

Yeah, no, he's. He's very direct and he's a cool story from like his entire rise through college football. But are we worried about the league being fucked?

I'm not worried about the league being fucked, but I am worrying about the league sucking if, like, Cam Ward plays the way that he wants to play. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's just so bad.

It's. Well, it seems like he plays the way that he wants to play already. Like he's already doing whatever comes to his head when he's back there. He's like, yeah, it'll throw across my body. I don't care. I, I do think that Cam Ward has the potential to be a very good quarterback, but again, we're gonna have to wait till next season to know anything about the guy.

By the way, the last four QBs taken number one overall have had their head coach fired during their rookie campaign. Cam Ward, Brian Callahan, Kale Williams, Matt Eberfluice, Bryce Young, Frank Reich and Trevor Lawrence. Urban Meyer. So not as having the number one pick. Maybe not always what it's, you know, set up to be.

Yeah. Yeah. Hank, I do have a good stat about your defense. The Patriots still haven't allowed 50 rushing yards to a ball carrier this season. Oh, that's pretty crazy, isn't it?

Yeah.

50.

50.

That's really good.

Really good.

Good team.

Okay, next game. Raiders. Chiefs. Chiefs are going to win the super bowl. Chiefs are minus 11 and a half. They just keep getting guys back. The overrunners 45 and a half. This game is pretty simple to me. The Chiefs have scored 28 plus points in the last three games. Their offense is humming. Ken. The Las Vegas Raiders score 16 points. I say no.

I, I think they might. Only because I think the Chiefs are going to score a lot of.

A lot more than 28.

Yeah, I think the Chiefs are going to kick off a lot to the Raiders. Okay, so the Raiders might be able to get 16. Rasheed rice coming back this week.

Yep.

It will be a different Chiefs offense.

This is also a sneaky. Patrick Mahomes always goes like he. The Raiders have beaten him a few times. Max Crosby has beaten him up a few times. There is that bad blood of like. Remember they did Coach Gruden. Who's, who's coming up in a minute. The, the, the bus ride around Arrowhead Yeah. The Kermit the Frog video last year. So this is a true rivalry. And Mahomes, I feel like steps it up in these games.

Yeah. I. The Raiders are. They're bad. They're a very bad football team.

Their Geno is just a bummer. He's just a bummer to watch right now.

How much worse, how bad does it have to get to go to Kenny Pickett?

I don't know. I don't know.

I feel like a three interception game might do it.

Yeah, he's definitely able to do that. He's got 10 on the season.

He's got that in him. Did you watch Rashid Rice's hype video.

That he made for him?

I did not.

I watched it.

Was it good?

I thought that he was like coming back from a debilitating injury or something off the field that he's been freed. A heartbreaking story.

But in reality.

And then I had to remind myself, he's coming back from hitting somebody with his car.

Yeah. Going way too fast. Yeah. And being a dangerous person.

Yeah. It's like a. It's a pretty crazy hype video that he made for himself. The return of rr.

Listen, we all find adversity in different ways, right? Wow. The return of rr.

Yeah. Everyone's talking about it.

He's in a pool.

Band work.

Band work. Careful. Anthony Richardson. He's pushing. And now he's back.

Now he's back and ready to go.

Yeah. This is gonna be unfair. The Chiefs are gonna be really good. Like they've. They're gonna be. Their offense looks completely fine.

Yeah.

And they still have spags and Chris Jones. He's got a YouTube. How many subscribers does he have on YouTube?

Rasheed Rice.

Yeah. Who's. What. What kind of content is he putting out?

I probably just work out defensive driving.

I'd like to see this. She Rice. What has he got going on? Does he have YouTube? It said maybe he doesn't. Maybe he hasn't dropped his YouTube yet.

Oh, this is. Yeah, it's like pre subscribed.

Yeah. He's come. Yeah, he's coming back. And he's also going to bring a YouTube with him this time.

Watch this. Space.

Max is not the number one searcher.

I searched his name on YouTube. I don't know what else I'm supposed to search.

Let's see.

Rashid Rice YouTube channel.

Yep.

But I'm on. I searched his name on YouTube and nothing is showing up.

Okay. Well, I. I apologize. That was. That was rude of me.

Yeah.

Like accept my apology.

I accept thank you.

I like the Chiefs a lot.

That was confusing that he did the YouTube. We're looking to subscribe. Rashi, Rashi, if you're listening to this, please let us subscribe.

We need more content, buddy.

Please let us subscribe. Okay. Panthers, Jets. I don't really know what to say about this game. The jets are one and a half point underdogs. I. Maybe we put this on main TV. No, over. Under 42 and a half.

The Panthers stink on the road.

Meow Mix, though. Two and. Oh, no. Garrett Wilson. This is going to be a tough watch, a really tough one.

We do have a new Meow Mix parlay, though.

Okay, give it to me.

For the kids out there.

Panthers are 0 and 10 against the spread and straight up as a favor since 2021. Yikes, yikes, yikes. All right, what do we got for.

The the Meow Mix parlay? Gambling for the children. Taking the Panthers against the spread. Programming update. We definitely won't be returning if the Panthers continue to win as we legitimately might be cursed. Yes, Update from Meow Mix about that one. Okay, wait, what's the parlay? The. They're just taking. Panthers against the spread. Yeah.

Yeah.

So, yeah, Panthers against the spread. That's it. Gambling for the kids. Shout out Meow Mix. My concern is that Dave Canales has not won a game this year in a state where they make you take a photo of your ID if you want to access porn online. And he is a porn addict. A self described porn addict.

He is.

He is 3. 0 in states where they do make you verify your identification.

Which would be Carolina.

Which would be North Carolina. Yeah, but we. Yeah, so he might. He might be up all night beforehand.

So There have been 17 head coaches since 1980 who have started their career head coaching. Zero, six memes. Positive note. Four of them eventually took their teams to the playoffs.

How many lasted the next season?

I don't know how many lasted the next season, but 14 of them or 13 of them did not take their team to the playoff and got fired. But that. Let's focus on the positive. Dan Campbell started 0 and 6. Zach Taylor started 0 and 6. Kyle Shanahan started 0 and 6. Jimmy Johnson started 0 6.

It's a good group.

That's a good group. It's a great group. Yeah. The other ones that started 0 and 6, like Frank Reich, Brian Flores, Hugh Jackson, Gus Bradley, Chan Gailey, Steve Swagnola, Raheem Morris when he was with the Bucks, Cam Cameron. Remember that. Where are we at, Memes? You can win this game. Oh, we found Rashid rice's. He's got 41 subscribers. Be the 42nd subscriber. Max Bang. Look at that. That's like. That's pretty 41.

His only video is the hype video.

It's a good hype video. It tells me big things. Coming from Rishi Rice.

Yeah. Memes. Where we at? Let's talk it through.

I don't look forward to Sundays anymore, but the players are playing with pride right now.

Are they?

We don't. The players are. You don't. It's not necessarily coaching. It's not coaching at all.

They're playing with pride.

They're just playing with pride, and that's why they played for each other. Decent on the defensive side of the ball last week.

Okay, okay. Yeah, we can work with that.

You can absolutely work.

What do you expect out of the team this week? More pride.

More pride.

Pride month.

A lot of pride.

I'm, like, slightly rooting for them to go on 17.

Oh, okay. So once the ball gets kicked off, are you rooting for them to lose or are you still rooting for them to win?

Still rooting for them to win. But I. It's in the back of my mind, it's just zero. 17 is the only way to, like, put a blemish on Woody Johnson. To be like, you're. You're the worst owner in professional sports.

I see what you're saying, and I kind of agree. Where you needed to be. You're at the point where it's like, I've been there before. Where it's like, you needed to get even worse than it. Than it is right now. And it is as bad as it could possibly be. And you're like, we got to go lower in that.

In that scenario probably means you're also like, the Giants. Being good is better for you.

Yeah.

It's like the city.

Yeah. You need the pressure.

The city is like, well, the Giants are making a run. New quarterback.

You know, you need, like, video.

You need Woody Johnson to see, like, videos of, like, elementary school kids being like, I wanted to be a Jets fan, but I'm a. I love Jackson, Dartmouth, Cam, Scatterboat, like, that type of stuff where he's losing fans.

Yeah. And then the other side of that, there was a video from England last week of how they became fans of the jets, and it was the saddest thing ever.

What would they say?

Which is, like, pain.

Yeah.

They're just, like, became a fan of the Jets. They never won since, but maybe next year. Probably not.

We're just trying me hardest.

Try me hardest.

Did you know that the Panthers now are the second team in NFL history to have 400 total yards, 200 rushing yards and 25 first downs in three consecutive games?

I did not. Say it again.

Well, the Panthers have done it two straight weeks. One other team did that for three straight weeks.

Okay.

And so the Panthers could join the 1983 Steelers to be the only team that have ever done that.

Okay.

So that's more just showing. Like, the Panthers have been really good for two weeks.

Right.

But we don't know.

We still don't have two weeks.

It's been a really hot two weeks. But we still don't know if the Panthers are good. They're three and three. That's like. That's great for the Panthers.

Yeah.

But we still don't know, like, how good of a 33 team are they?

Right? How. What's the off. No. Garrett Wilson. Who's getting the ball?

Josh Reynolds.

Okay.

Okay. Are they going to free 20?

Is there going to be a Tyrod Taylor appearance?

I think if Justin Fields doesn't throw the ball, then there will be. There has to be.

Yeah.

The bright side is you're not playing the Broncos defense or any defense similar to that. I guess. I guess the Browns for the rest of the season.

True, true. Game is so bad, so he should.

Be able to not play that bad ever again.

This will be a pretty big test for the Panthers. They got to win this game.

Yeah. Bryce is 1 in 15 on the road. He's won one game. It's not a great road record. I memes, I think this might. This might be the week. Fuck it.

I'm gonna say I'm.

New York jets are going to win a football game this weekend.

Let's go, memes.

The only reason why I think that is they have to be thinking that they just handily beat the Cowboys. And the Cowboys just kicked the living shit out of the jets at home. So they're probably like, there's no way we lose this team.

Yeah.

And then they lose.

And then they lose that team. This is the week, memes.

You're going to win a game this week.

You're going to celebrate when they win.

Yeah, of course.

Yeah.

Pop the champagne.

We're going to let you talk that shit.

Talk that shit.

You're going to talk that shit the week after. Yeah.

Well, you go buy then Browns.

I know, but like a buy will be nice for your mental state.

You probably lose to the buy.

No. Come on.

Yeah.

What if you guys win this this week and then you come back, you. You beat both Ohio teams and now you got three wins.

Now you guys are the best team in Ohio.

Three. The jets might be on the precipice of a three game. Three game winning streak.

Let's not get ahead of ourselves.

This could be the turn.

Yeah.

Start of the championship dvd.

You guys are mean for doing.

No, no.

Look at the schedule.

Max talking it out.

Schedule.

Yeah. Look at the Jets.

All right. What do you want us to say, Max? Oh, memes. Jets suck dick. They're going to be owing 17. You're pathetic. You should keep being sad. No, we're trying to boost our boy up.

This is the weak memes.

Thank you.

You guys know what you're doing?

No, no. I'm gonna bet the pa. I'm gonna bet.

Oh, you just said, I'm gonna bet the pants.

No, I said it was a Freudian slip. I'm gonna bet the jets free saw.

Jets are good against spread.

Just, you know what they need to do. If the jets can go into this game and just be like, hey, we're running Army's offense. You've been saying that all year. Justin Fields. You don't even have to throw maybe a couple. Maybe a couple passes to the tight end. Who cares? Just run it down their throat.

Mason Taylor game.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Let it fly.

Let it fly. No, but not now.

Maybe just run.

Has thrown an interception all season.

Let it fly with your feet. Yeah. Run like the wind.

Let. He played good that the first week.

Yeah, I know.

There you go.

That first week was mean.

Yeah. They should have lost 32 to nothing.

Yeah, it was really mean.

Throw five interceptions.

Yeah.

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Let's do it.

All right. Vikings Eagles, where are we at mentally? Vikings are two and a half point dogs. I think maybe now one and a half point dogs. They're off a buy. We don't know who's starting quarterback for the Vikings.

It's leaning towards Wentz, I think.

Leaning towards Wentz, which I think you would prefer to be McCarthy.

Yeah, I think so, too.

One and a half point underdogs, the Vikings.

Over.

Under is 43 and a half. Where we at?

This is the do or die game.

You're putting this one as a do or die game? Yep. Wow.

If you lose third week in a row to Carson Wentz when all of this is coming out, they should be all hell. Like they should be. Mostly healthy on Mitchell playing Quinon. Mitchell was practicing today. It's leaning toward. Towards looking like he's going to play. Jalen Carter's definitely going to play.

Okay, that helps.

Landon Dickerson was practicing today.

Is the.

Darius Smith playing.

He's a. Darius Smith has mysteriously retired.

Okay.

Which is not great. We talked about this the other day.

You're right. Forgot about that.

I think that I.

It's.

If they lose this game, I think it comes crumbling down. But if they win this game, you. You can be like, all right, we did this last year early in the season. We had a little blimp and then we figured it out.

It's not.

That's not the word.

A little blimp in the. Blimp in the radar.

Nope.

What's the word I was looking for?

Blip.

Oh, look at that. Blimp in the radar. Yeah, It's a big Goodyear blimp.

I've said blimp every. I've always thought that was blimp in the radar. It's okay. I'm not a words guy. That's fine. But. Yeah, no, if we win this game, you. You can. You can work back. If you lose this game, it's looking like two years ago. Yeah, it's gonna. There's already been words that like the vibes in the locker room feels a lot like two years ago.

Who's been saying that?

Reports.

What reports?

Racini.

Probably Rossini.

Probably Florio.

I wanna.

What?

What happened?

Whoa. Say it.

Her husband's a huge birds guy. How is she? How is he letting this happen?

Yeah, that's true.

That's what that. Every time I read it, that's what I'm thinking.

You think you should suppress the. The news. Yeah.

Yes.

Yes.

Yeah.

She should. Yeah.

If I. If it were me.

Yes. Withhold sex.

No. No wife of mine. No wife of mine is going to report against the Birds.

Yeah.

Correct.

Yeah.

Correct.

Max, I got a quick.

Man, I got a question. If you keep saying shit about the purse.

Yeah.

I got a question for you, Max. Would this describe some of the problems with the Eagles offense this year? That your passes are too short, there's no real vertical threat at times.

Yeah, that's. That's been a lot. Very predictable short passes. Not a lot of risks.

Yeah.

Bad on first down.

Really bad on first and second down. We can't run the football either.

Yeah. Would you say.

Because it.

Look, I think they're running, like, three plays.

Would you say that the run game that, like, used to be a strength is now not dominant anymore?

It is a.

Yes. It is a negative.

Would you say that the offense is too predictable?

Yes.

Would you say that the adjustments are an issue?

Sure.

Adjustments.

Yes.

Yes.

I thought you meant, like, at the line of scrimmage.

No adjustments. Like in game.

Yeah, in game.

Adjustments. Those are actually all the criticisms of the offense in 2023 when they had just switched coordinators.

That's what I. Just.

After the coordinators, I got yelled.

Couple weeks ago.

Huh? What'd you say?

I got yelled at for saying that a couple weeks ago.

By me.

Yeah.

Week to week league.

Week to week league.

Yeah. This is exactly what happened the last time they changed. Was it Brian Johnson? Right.

Yeah.

This is. We're seeing. All those criticisms were actually taken from an article that was written in 2023, and it's exactly what's happening right now.

Max, have you thought about smiling and accepting the challenge?

What?

Just smiling and accepting the challenge.

Is that like a saying, or have.

You thought about that?

Accepting the challenge of what?

I was just, like, losing the last two games. Smile. Just walk in with a smile every day and accept the challenge that you see in front of you.

Is this. Is this.

That's what Jalen hurts?

Yeah.

He's gonna smile and accept the challenge. Have you thought about doing that? He's your leader. Let's start seeing you smiling, accepting challenges every day.

I was smiling. Asked PFT if I was smiling during the Giants game.

You were laughing. Yeah.

You're smiling.

You turned into laughing. It was the joker.

Yeah.

So, yes, I will be. If. If they. If they lose this game.

Yeah.

Because you're gonna go psycho.

No, psycho.

Max.

Yeah.

If they lose this Game.

I'm, I'm.

It's, it's just. No, I, I, we need a cap guy. We need a cat.

Yeah, we got to get a cap guy.

I don't understand. I don't understand the dead cap, and I don't understand why everyone is saying that A.J. brown is going to get traded when he can't get traded.

All right, we're going to do a cap guy next week.

Because I don't get it. Like, every half of Twitter is saying, A.J. brown definitely going to get traded. The other half of Twitter is saying AJ Brown cannot get traded because of the dead cat. And then I looked at dead cat, and then some of them say it's like 90 million. Then some of them say it's like 30 million. I don't get it.

It's. It's 40 million next season if you trade him. If you trade him right now, it's 40 million next off season, and it's 30 million the offseason after that.

That sounds like he's not going to get traded. Am I, Am I an idiot?

Did you know you had a cap guy sitting right next to you?

Are you cap guy who plays mad?

Yeah, I have to learn the cap.

Wow.

So do you. He can't be traded if that's the case.

It feels like that.

So why is everyone saying he's going to get traded?

Because it's fun to say. It's fun to get you riled up.

No, but that, like, it's everywhere.

How about he just play?

Will put out a report, Be like, an AFC GM thinks that AJ Brown's gonna get traded. How? How is he going to be traded?

How? I think sometimes, Sometimes journalists like to write that, just envisioning your reaction. I think sometimes they write it as for an audience.

Should call Diana right now and see if her husband's there. Just be like, dude, what the. Let's give her a call.

I don't, I don't like this.

What the.

This is a closed door.

This is a closed door.

Stop reporting bad things. Tell her to stop doing her job when it comes to the Eagles.

Let's try it again.

She can't hear me.

Nope. Nexted.

Give her a zoom link. When she hops in, she hops in. Give her a zoom link. Text. Pft. The zoom.

Give me the zoom link. I'll send it to Zoomer.

Zoom, zoom. Yeah, yeah. She'll just pop in. I will keep going. And she pops in. We'll get to the bottom of this and we can actually ask her the cap Thing, too. That's perfect. This is on the.

That's all I want to know. That's all I want to know. I also don't even know if she's the one that's reporting.

Reporting.

No, it doesn't matter.

You've turned into memes.

Yeah, I know. I know.

I said that.

I did. The meme. Two memes of. What is it the Seth Rogen stepbrothers meme? You help me out. Help me out. Come on, guys.

This seems kind of fucked up now.

Yeah, this seems kind of fucked up now.

Whatever.

Whatever she was doing to me.

Memes.

Do you have any suggestions for Max on how to get over this over Rossini? Yeah, you've done a pretty good job.

All right, so I got.

Well, she moved. She moved on to the Eagles.

Yeah. Let's talk about this game.

She's here.

She says she'll do it.

So let me.

Yeah, send me. Text me the link. We'll get her on.

Okay. Oh, breaking moves. Kurt Signetti has signed a new deal with Indiana for eight years. $11.6 million a year.

Wow.

Good for him. Through November 2033.

Good for him.

Dude, how much does it rock to be that guy? Jimmy Sexton, The. The college. The college football agent? Yeah, it just like one pet. When. When James Franklin gets fired. Who. I think James Franklin is his client. He's just like, now I just get to get all my guys more money. Yeah.

If you have one coach that's. That's doing really, really good. It's like, we're going to. One way or another, we're going to make so much money this off season.

All right, so that's breaking moves about Kurt Signetti. Congrats to Hoosiers fans. They got to be very excited because that was probably not going to be fun to have to go an entire season of people being like, well, your coach is going to Penn State. All right. While she's joining, before she joins, the Vikings are also getting healthy. Offensive line should be healthier. They're coming off a buy. Kevin o' Connell's never played against Vic Fangio defense as a coordinator or head coach. And Nick Sirianni's 8 no against the NFC north since joining the Eagles. So a couple stats there. I do think the Vikings in the Hungry Duck. Will you reveal the Hungry Dog at the end of this?

Yeah.

Okay. But, yeah, it could be. It could be.

It's. It's. It's almost definitely.

Okay.

Is. Is JJ McCarthy.

See what Diana says?

Is JJ McCarthy not playing because he's injured or because he's not ready. Or maybe a little bit of both.

Probably a little bit of both, yeah.

Because you would think that he might have tried to. They might have had him play, right? He would like, if he's healthy, he should be the start.

Especially with the offensive line getting healthy, right?

Like, ideally. But I don't know. Seems kind of weird.

Quinion Mitchell's got to play in this game. Justin Jefferson and Jordan Addison going against. No. Quinon Mitchell, then it's dead.

If Quinn. If he doesn't play, it's dead. The season is dead.

Dinos here.

All right, we're going to let her on.

We got to get to the bottom of this.

I let Max. Okay. Diane is here. She's in her studio. Diana, hey. Max has some questions for you. He's got a few that you need to answer. We're in the middle of our. I don't know, preview, and we're doing Vikings versus Eagles, and your name came up multiple times. So we need some answers right now.

I think you guys brought her name up.

No, you.

You.

You brought her name up.

No, no, no, no, no. Because Max said very clearly, I think Diane is putting out a lot of bad information. And, Matt, she's doing all this bad stuff about the Eagles like she did to the jets this year.

I did say no.

He thinks that you're targeting him much in the same way as you targeted me.

But the most important thing he said, Diana, which. This is what you first have to address. Max said, I don't understand how Diana is married to an Eagles fan. I didn't say that. And she keeps getting to say bad stuff about the Eagles. And then we might have said that your husband needs to maybe, like, withhold sex from you.

You said that.

You said that he's got to do something.

Say it, because it's actually happening right now.

Yes.

That's.

That's my guy. I love that guy. I've always loved that guy.

That is so. The truth is, like, Kevin has lost attraction to me since I put out.

Yes.

Like. Like, I think he thought I was, like, cute at one point. I can just tell by the way he passes me in the house. He's like, you're disgusting.

Yeah.

Yeah. So. So, like, has he at any point been like, hey, how about let's take it easy on the Eagles because Max wants. You got to take it easy on.

The Eagles every day.

Okay?

Every day he's like, stop.

Okay.

What do you.

Because what happens is Kev's group chats blow up because they hate like his. He's like, no one likes you anymore. Like, we don't have friends. My brother in law is like, they don't even call my kids to wish him happy birthday because I had them.

You know.

Look, here's like, you guys know I understand what happens in Philly when I report this stuff. I don't do it and go, Max.

Is going to flip out.

Like, you guys have known me for so long.

I actually said the opposite. I said that you do do that. Yeah, that you think about Max. Laughing. Yeah, yeah.

Memes. Yes, Max means I think about the Jets. I haven't even typed the word jets.

This year so that you moved on to the Eagles. You just replaced. You replace all your jets negativity with Eagles stuff.

The worst part is that it doesn't even. It doesn't look like she's wrong. It looks like she's. It looks like you're right, which is.

Oh yeah, she's a reporter.

I know. Well, but means this whole thing was. He would, he would say that she's wrong. I never said that she was wrong. I just don't like that you're reporting.

Yeah, I like, I like that the Booth is just figuring out that Diana's not just reporting like random things and just.

Actually, I never said that.

I know. Max. If anyone knows that I am talking to people, it's you. You sat next to me on a five hour flight and saw me. I mean, if you just looked over instead of sleeping, you would have seen so much action.

My, My mind was focusing on staying alive.

So I will say one of the, one of the things that's is really hard in my house, like, Kevin can see who I'm talking to and I don't think it's appropriate or professional for me to show him the text from the players or the, you know, the staff members or whomever it is that I'm talking to. But he wants to see it. So most husbands are looking in wise phones to see if there's dudes they're talking to. My husband's just looking for Eagles intel. Like, he's just like checking all my stuff to see like. Oh, so you didn't tell me that. Actually this one asked for a trade. You know, that didn't happen. But so Max, bottom line, like, find a friend. We go back. It's not good.

I know it's not good. I know it's not good.

All right.

Who could have ever seen this coming? That the Eagles, if they have like a couple down weeks, the Fans flip out on the reigning super bowl champions and then want everybody fired. We never could have seen that coming, Max.

I haven't said that. I haven't said that yet.

Oh, Diana, last question, because this is the important one we also got into. Can the Eagles trade AJ Brown? What is. What is the cap?

Okay, so right now I will tell you because it just was something that I was part of the last few hours. They. They are not trading him. Okay, so. Okay, but look, it's. Right now I. What happens in the next few weeks if AJ Makes this thing so impossible to deal with? That. That how he goes, all right, this has now become a problem. This is a cancer. Players don't like each other. Too many people want the ball. This can't work. And he says, all right, well, let's do this. Let's. Let's. Let's move it. They could do it. It would cost them a lot. But I can tell you, people around the league that are kind of watching it have been saying that the only way Howie does this is if he thinks that he can get a player who is immediately going to be better than AJ In a position of need. Right? So you guys need pass rush, you need a corner. Would you take that? Like, Max, would you be willing to give away A.J. brown for an elite pass rusher?

I don't understand the cap. That's my whole can.

They trade, doesn't it?

Wouldn't that just fuck us for the next two years?

They can do it. It just. Yes.

So then why, like, how. How. How could you be put in a better situation with less money and no A.J. brown?

Like, I don't wonder from a business standpoint, It. It doesn't make sense. It wouldn't be smart. But teams do this all the time. Even they. Teams eat it constantly and they just push it down. You know, they move the ball down. Down the field, so to speak, of going, oh, we'll deal with it later. Kick the can is actually the term I was looking for. So, yeah, like, the cap is the. Is the thing that is going to keep you calm, that it won't happen. I just think you're crazy if you don't think if it turns bad, that it couldn't happen. It's just. It's just something you gotta watch.

But.

Am I freaking you out?

Yeah, a little bit.

He's freaked out.

He's freaked out.

He just doesn't understand the cap.

I don't know. The cat freaks me out in general.

It.

It annoys me.

What you said is, you can do it. You would be in cap hell.

But like.

But then we don't know what Cap hell looks like.

Wouldn't that like. I understand teams do that for like, Russell Wilson because Russell, like, you're.

Yeah. I mean, he's a bad.

He is a bad quarterback. A.J. brown is still a good wide receiver. So it's like, it makes so little sense to me that that would. That you would give up a good player and choose to go into cap hell and like, make your team worse. Like, why?

I don't.

I don't.

Why would it make your team worse? Because. Would you agree that your team actually isn't using A.J. brown in the best way?

Yes. Yes, I agree.

Doesn't. The identity of the Eagles offense doesn't exactly include A.J. brown. It's.

It.

They are a run first team, they're a run heavy. They can't even run the ball and they're struggling. Well, they're old. The. The offensive line is. Is what? Like, when I talked to the Giants after that. That game, I was like, what's like your quick, like, thought on. On the Eagles? They're like, they're beat up up front, like something's not right. Like they're injured. They miss Makai Becton.

Yeah.

Right. And they're just older and. And I know we say that every year and they're always able to overcome it, but I. I think this may be the year where it's just hard.

Yeah.

Can we commit to if. If the Eagles win this week, can you try to write, like, one positive thing about the Eagles next week just to be like, hey, the team, they're playing really hard and they beat the shit out of those pussies. The Vikings.

Yeah.

Like something get Max fired up.

All the birds say, if the Eagles win, will, can I have sex with Cat?

What about this? What about just writing if the Eagles win, just maybe in your notes, just be like, maybe it was just a blimp in the radar.

No, because it's not. It's not. I. Trust me, like, I call Philly before I put this stuff out. And I think they know we know and it may be worse.

So you're saying it's not a blimp in the radar?

It is.

I said blimp in the radar instead of blip, and he's trying to make fun of me.

Max has been saying blimp in the radar his entire life.

Everyone has those where they have things wrong.

I just said kick the ball down that.

Whatever.

I said, sure.

Yeah. But I mean, blimp is way funny.

The radar is very funny.

Yeah, that's because I. That's because I said it.

Because a blimp could be in a radar.

Yeah. It would just be really big and you'd be like, whoa, that's a radar.

Nothing's worse than obgyn.

I n. But yeah.

Yeah.

I love you, Hank, but it's my favorite one. It makes me love you more. But you're not even that person anymore, Hank. You're so savvy and smart. I don't even know.

You're so savvy.

Facts.

All right.

Hey, Hank.

Wait, wait.

Real quick.

Sorry. Not to take up more time.

Yeah, yeah.

How about them Patriots?

I know, it's exciting.

He's been swagging on all of us. He's.

Yeah, he's feeling himself.

This Sunday's gonna be good against the Titans. Happy for you. You don't know what it's like to win, so. I feel it. Finally.

Thank you.

Yeah.

Rebuilding's tough, but it's. It's good to be on the other side.

All right. Diana, you're the best. Thank you for call. You know, answering the bat signal there.

Calling in like a.

Like a talk show. Go Bears, buddy. I'm happy for you.

Thank you. Appreciate it.

See ya.

All right. That's Diana Rossini. She's a very good reporter. The booth just now figuring out that she reports.

I never. I never said that she was. I don't maybe at one point said that it was wrong.

Yeah.

Yeah.

All right. So this game, by the way, what she mentioned, there's stats to back it up. The Saquon Barkley running behind Landon Dickerson and Makai becton last year, 6.1 yards per carry. Saquon Barkley running behind a hurt Lander and Dickerson and Brett Toth or Tyler Steen, 3.7 yards per carry. So there's the difference.

And the Vikings are not. They're not great against the run. They allow 132 rushing yards per game. Just get the running game going. Just run the football. Max.

I would love run the damn.

Give them.

You know what? You know what you need? This is the cure for everything that healed. You need a classic. Like Jalen hurts under a hundred yard passing game. He doesn't throw the ball at all. Maybe gets like two tush pushes and Saquon goes off for like 150.

What we need is we haven't had one Saquon 75 yard touchdown this year. We need Saquon to break one and then really just get the juices flowing.

This is a massive, massive game because it's.

It's the game.

It's.

It's the season.

The top five hardest remaining schedules. Vikings are one and Eagles are three.

Which is insane because we had. We've had a hard schedule.

But you won the Super Bowl.

Yeah, there's. That shouldn't matter. No, first place.

Yeah, that.

But every. Like winning the super bowl doesn't make it any.

Well, you play the hardest schedule because you want. You were first place.

First place. Is that how that works?

Yeah. Did you not.

You played.

Division? Divisional, First.

Yeah.

Divisional, first place.

Yes. It's a hard schedule.

Yeah. Yeah. But like, I don't know. Texans, I guess. Texans have. I don't know. It. Whatever. I don't care.

You know what? You won the super bowl last year.

Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah.

You can deal with it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You're a big guy. It's a blimp on the radar.

Yeah. This is the.

This is the game.

Game.

Season. All right, let's get to the afternoon. Three games in the afternoon. We've got the Colts and the Chargers. Boys, I'm ready to say it right now. The Colts are very, very good. I'm ready to sell on the peak of the Colts.

You're selling right now?

I'm selling in this game only.

Is that because of the uniforms that the Chargers are wearing?

It is not. I hate those uniforms.

The yellow. The piss yellow uniforms.

It is because.

Charger power uniforms.

It is because we're at the point in the season where you can start looking at body of work. And again, I think the Colts are very good. I'm not selling on them for the season. I'm just selling them this game. The Colts have beaten Tua Bo Nix in that game that the. The Broncos kind of pissed away Cam Ward, Gino and Jacoby Brissette. I think Justin Herbert's a lot better than all those guys. I also am worried about the Colts secondary with Char Davius Ward not practicing because of that concussion. Kenny Moore is working back from an injury. Jalen Jones, they're. They could be down again their. Their top three corners. And you saw Jacoby Brissette through for over 300 yards against them.

He looked good.

Yeah. So I'm. That's. I'm selling them for this game only. I'm selling them. I think the Colts. I think the Chargers are going to win this game.

I mean, it's almost like a must win for the Chargers, too. The Chargers, they've been down. I like. I do like the Chargers this weekend, the Colts. I, I'm not like, selling them at all. Over the long term.

Yeah.

I even think they'll be competitive in this game.

Correct.

But I just. I, I don't know. I, I don't know which. Which side to take against the spread, but I think it's like two kind of evenly matched teams. One is a little bit more desperate than the other.

Yes. And Khalil Mack is starting his practice windows opening back up. That's good for him.

About Joe Alt.

Joe Walt. I do not know what's going on with Joe Waltz. Is he coming back soon?

That would be a big possibility that he's back.

Joe Alt would be a big, big thing for the Chargers to get back Joe Alt. Let's look at. Oh, yeah, there's optimism about Joe Alt. He did not practice. Khalil Mack was limited, but there's optimism that both could be back.

That'd be huge.

That would be enormous for this game.

Is this the first time that we've had an NFL team have a starting quarterback from Duke and a backup quarterback from Duke? Maybe if you can call Riley Leonard a Duke guy, which he is. He is a Duke guy.

Kind of a Notre Dame guy, but, yeah, he's Duke guy.

Double Duke.

He's Duke. Yeah.

I don't know that we've ever had that before.

Duked up. Yeah. I kind of like the Chargers in this game. I really like the Chargers in this game. I do. I really like the Chargers and I really like the Browns. That's gonna be pain.

Browns, though. I. I love the Browns this week.

Should we just go heavy on the Browns and root like. We're like, they're our team.

I'm rooting for the wind.

Yeah. Speaking of teams, pfd, your team game of the week. Commanders of Cowboys.

Yeah.

Commanders are two and a half point favorites. The over under is all the way up to. Is it 55 and a half still? 54 and a half.

Yeah.

They're expecting a lot of points, so.

I took the over earlier this week. I forget the number that I got, but I took it on, like, Tuesday morning. You. Sometimes you just got to bet yourself out of. Out of a depression. And I woke up on Tuesday morning feeling bad about my team. So I was like, let's get back on the horse. Let's take the over already on that game because it's going to be just points on top of points. And then the week went on, and then Debo's not practicing, and then Terry is also not practicing. And if we don't have Debo or Terry against the Cowboys Problem. That would mean that our starting and Noah Brown is on the IR now.

Okay.

So that would mean that our starting receivers would be Luke McCaffrey, Jalen Lane, the rookie and maybe Chris Moore.

Okay.

So that. That's not a recipe for the over right there.

What? But the Dallas defense is really bad.

But again, those are. Those three would start defense is really bad. I'm a believer in Luke, but I don't know that he's like a number one threat.

But he still should be able to light up. This Dallas defense, they're that bad.

I mean, ideally you would be able to with. With nobody at receiver, but.

And you could run. I mean, Rico Dowdle just went off.

It's a lot of firepower that we'd be missing. So I'm a little bit nervous. I. It's. This is definitely a must win for us because if we lose this, then the Chiefs and the Lions afterwards, like you could be looking at four losses in a row right there.

Yeah, I got a blind resume for you guys.

You ready for it?

QB1, 78, 49 and 1. QB2. 78.49.

Dak Prescott and Tony Romo.

Yes.

Bang.

That's good.

That's pretty good.

Yeah. Yeah. Dakota.

Pretty crazy that they're. That. That it's literally that tie. They. You know, that's the only difference between their records right now.

Dak is playing like an MVP right now.

He is. He's.

He's really, really good. I have a prediction for this game though.

Okay.

I think either George Pickens, Lattimore, or maybe both will get ejected. This seems like a fight game.

Is CD Lamb going to be back? I think he's close.

Officially back.

Okay.

Okay. Don't like that.

Nope.

The only good injury news that the commanders have is that Sam Cosby is going to play, which is big, which is big at guard.

That is good.

He's an awesome player and I'm glad that he's back. But yeah, the. The top three receivers potentially being out has me. I. I'm. I'm in my feelings right now.

Are you worried about the sun at all?

Not worried about the sun because it.

Is an afternoon game.

We can handle the sun.

The Dallas, they. They asked Brian Schadenheimer about the. The sun and he said if you guys could see the process and the plan we have in place to figure out. We have satellite imaging, we have pictures of the sun when it's coming down. There's a big plan in process, but I Think when you look at historically at what's happened, it really hasn't affected many situations. We plan for it, the opponents plan for it. But the end of the day, it's something we're very aware of. It's very beautiful. It's majestic. When the sun comes through there.

Yeah. So he.

A lot of talk about the sun.

They have an astrologist on staff, satellite imaging, sadly, to know where the sun.

Is, where the sun's setting.

Okay. The sun, I think it sets in. Correct me from the same place every day.

Yes, correct.

Okay. So they could just walk outside and see where the sun is.

Correct.

No, I'm not, I'm not concerned about the sun. I think the sun affects both teams. Both teams have to play under the sun.

Yes.

That's just a fact. I am concerned, though, about the, about the health of the team and about our defense against that offense.

A must winner. Can't lose.

It's a. It's both.

Okay.

It's both. Yeah, We. We must not lose. We can't. Must not lose this game.

That's big.

Yeah. I mean it like if you look at the commanders right now and how they've been playing recently, it's hard to have confidence in the season if they lose this game.

Yeah. All right. So must win. Can't lose.

Yep.

Must win. Can't lose.

All right.

Last afternoon game, the packers and the Cardinals. The packers are six and a half point favorites. The over under in this game is 45 and a half. Oh, actually no, we have one more. I forgot. The Giants and Broncos. We gotta hit that as well. Jonathan Gannon. What a quote. They asked him this week, when did he like learn to take emotion out of coaching. And he said 2007. When our quarterback went to jail.

Yeah.

So there it is.

Then he got up and just walked away. That was, that was the mic drop of his press conference.

Yeah.

There's really no follow up to that.

No.

Everyone's like, oh, yeah, I remember that. That sucked.

This feels like a game that the packers should win handily if they're going to be for real. For real.

Would you agree?

Yeah, I would agree.

Do we know pressure on the Packers? I would never want to do that.

If you were the Cardinals, would you rather have Kyler starting or Jacoby Brissette starting this weekend?

Jacoby.

Jacoby.

Probably Jacoby.

Probably Jacoby.

Probably. It looked different with Jacoby.

Yeah, probably. But we know Jacoby's also not very good. Yeah. So.

But. But the offense looked better with Jacoby.

Yeah, they said it's leaning Jacoby.

Okay, we're leaning Jacoby this weekend.

Jordan Love, by the way, he is first in yards per attempt in a clean pocket and last in under pressure. So got to heat up the quarterback. There's my key to the game.

And then he starts to drift.

Yeah, then he starts to drift. He drifts hard.

He's a hard drifter.

He looks like I'm.

When I play mad, I feel bad because I've been talking a lot about Marvin Harrison not breaking tackles on this podcast. I should also highlight the fact that Marvin Harrison Jr. This year is elite at drawing pass interferences.

So that's almost like a tackle broken.

I think he's like, second in the league in terms of yardage gained on pass interferences. But he might not play this weekend. He's in the concussion protocol, so, yeah.

The packers got to kill him.

They should.

They should. Colts or. Sorry, Giants and Broncos. I kind of like love the Giants in this game. Giants are plus seven. The over under is 39 and a half, plus seven with the low. Low total. I feel like we're not giving enough credit for the Giants offense just being significantly better now that they don't have Russell Wilson playing.

Yeah. I also feel like Jackson Dart is the type of quarterback that Sean Payton's just kind of in love with from a distance.

Yeah.

I think he's. He just watches him. He's like, damn, I would love to coach that kid. Like, he's got his own at home. He's got Bo Nicks, who he's obsessed with, but I do feel like he's probably watching Jackson Dart just like, you know, late night, 2:00am he can't sleep. Let's watch some Giants film. Check this out.

This is. I don't know. I just have a feeling because the, you know, the Broncos, big win against the Eagles. Got to fly to London. Got to fly all the way back. The. The Giants off of minibuy now. The numbers don't back this up. The Broncos is home favorites in the Bonix era. They are eight. No, straight up, they're seven and one against the spread. 32.3 points per game, 12.3 points per game allowed. So they've been killing teams at home in the Bonix era. Yeah.

We got a game inside the game, too. This weekend. We got Nick Bonito.

Yep.

Probably the best at his position.

Yeah.

Andrew Thomas, one of the best at his position.

Yeah.

That's gonna be fun to see.

And they're in the Broncos we talked about on Sunday. The Broncos have 30 sacks on the season they're on pace to smashed the record of the 84 Bears. And I don't know. Jackson Dart, though, he's elusive. Camp Scatter Boo.

Yeah.

Running in people's faces.

You know what's crazy about Scatter Boo? The way that he plays. I think everybody's like, oh, Mike Allstot 2.0. Kim Scatterboo is 213 pounds.

Yeah.

He's not huge. No, he's just like super dense and.

He'S just super aggressive.

He's a compact. Yeah. He's like one of the, you know, the pit bulls that they overbreed.

Yeah.

The point where they can't get off the ground. Really. And there's just these jacked up, like, you know the blue one.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's Cam Scatterboat.

Yeah.

He's just all muscle.

Very.

He's a bowling ball.

I'm just happy that we can watch. Like the Giants are fun watch now.

Very fun.

You know, like there's the afternoon games this week. There's three fun watches and who knows what will happen with the Packers Cardinals game. But I'm excited to watch watch Colts Chargers excited to watch Cowboys commander excited to watch Giants Bronco. Three fun watches in the afternoon. All right, last game, Sunday night football it is the 49ers and the Falcons. The Falcons are going to San Francisco. They are two and a half point underdogs. They're over. Under is 47 and a half. I think I'm starting to believe in the Falcons.

Yeah.

Are you ready to do that with me?

Yeah, I, I'm. I've been ready. I, I said that the Falcons were. They were going to make the playoffs this year.

Yeah.

Before the season started. I think they got too much talent at the key positions. And I think I like Michael Pennocks, too. A lot of it's just from watching him when he was at college. And he was just like the most accurate guy ever. And he hasn't been great so far, but he's been very good.

Yeah.

And I think if he just realizes, oh, yeah, I'm gonna. I'm gonna find Bajan out in the flat and let him do all the work for me. That's a good formula.

And no Fred Warner. Fred Warner. That's a huge loss for the 49ers. The Kyle Shanahan doing the injury report this week. In his press conference, it took him 32 seconds and six breaths to get through the five 49ers injury report.

Six breaths.

Six breaths.

That's not good.

Can you. What can you pull it up? It was quite the injury report. Six breaths to get through the injury report. Kyle Shanahan this week. Also, the 49ers haven't been able to run the ball like, as well. Like, Christian McCaffrey is still awesome, but their interior O line is not great, and they just haven't been able to run the ball effectively to what they want to do. Here it is. Here's Kyle Shannon. 32 seconds, six breaths.

All right, injuries for today.

We got you to her.

Knee, hamstring will be out.

Ricky, knee will be out. Sky Moore, ankle will be out.

Trent Williams, vet day. Christian vet day.

Jordan Watkins, calf limited.

Brock Purdy, toe, limited. Mac Jones, neo bleak, limited.

Pune knee, limited.

Kevin Givens, pack limited.

Juwan Jennings, ankle rib shoulder, limited. Bernardo Green, neck, limited. CJ west, thumb, limited.

George Kittle, hamstring, limited. Clea Davis, hand, limited.

Mikel Williams, thumb. Oh, wait, those guys are full.

Go ahead.

Yeah.

All right.

For today.

Not great. They're just so banged up.

Fred Warner seemed like it was the. The breaking point for the Niners.

Yeah, I mean, that's. They lost Bosa and it's like, oh, as long as we have Fred Warner and now losing Fred Warner, who's one of the best at his position, if not best. It's tough. It's just like, how many times can they get off the mat with all these injuries?

Do we know who's starting at quarterback for him this weekend?

I don't. I'm not sure.

And then the follow up would be, Would it matter?

I don't know.

Between. Between Brock Purdy and Mac Jones, Would it matter?

Maybe Mac Jones is playing better.

I. I don't think it matters that much at this moment.

Did you know, by the way, the Falcons defense has been very good and Jeff Ulbrich, who maybe didn't have the best last year because he was the jets interim head coach, and then obviously his son prank called Shador Sanders. Josh Allen's last three games that he has had two interceptions in four sacks, they were all at the hands of a Jeff Ulbricht defense. The Falcons on Monday night, the Jets 2023, the Jets 2022. So he's pretty good defensive coordinator. The NFL's MVP has had his worst three games basically the last four years, all against Jeff O'. Brien.

Jones is trending to start.

Okay.

Trending to start.

Okay.

Because I, I feel like Brock Purdy, he came back way too fast from the toe.

Yeah.

Like a guy that maybe didn't want to lose his job.

Yeah. But it's like, you shouldn't lose your job to Mac Jones. Mac Jones said he's not. It's Brock Purdy's job.

Yeah. It's exactly what he should say.

Yeah.

Being a great backup. Did you know that the 49ers have Diamador Lenore Lenoir at cornerback?

Yep.

And you know what his nickname is?

No.

It's the hyena.

Okay.

Would it. Would it impress you any less to know that he gave himself that nickname?

No, I think that plays.

He said, I gravitated towards the hyena after the Philly game. When I made that big hit, you. My teammates were like, you need a name. I wanted to be an animal. I started looking back at all the animals. You got your honey badgers, your bears, your lions. There ain't no hyena. So that's how I came up with that.

I like that.

I like.

He's right.

He identified a gap in the market. There's no hyena.

Yeah, he. He the hyena. We don't see a lot of hyenas.

We don't.

I mean, you need.

You need a hyena.

Yeah.

If you had, like, if every. Sometimes you just gotta laugh. Yeah. Right?

Yeah. Okay, let's do our Jerry fantasy minute, and then we'll do our picks, and then we'll get to coach Gruden and finish off with Fire Fest. Ooh, hyenas.

Look.

Look nasty. Yeah. All right. This is our Jerry o'. Connell. I emailed it to you, Max. Jerry Oconnell's fantasy minute, which hopefully he kept it to a minute. I. I have not. I. As is tradition, I do not click on it because I want to make sure that it's fresh for all of us when he sends it to me on Wednesday night. How's our fantasy team doing? Pft.

I believe we've lost two games, so that'll make us four and two.

Oh, that's good.

Four and two is pretty good.

Yeah, let's go. Four and two is pretty good. Come on, Jerry. How about. How about this year being the year, Jerry? How about this year being the year?

I also like that Jerry gives us. He tries to give us actual fantasy advice during the fantasy.

Oh, this one. Oh, wow. He did a Max remake.

Oh, the Blue Closet. The blue closet.

Put you on your headphones, Max. Put them on. Max for Jerry. Put them on.

I can hear it.

Okay, here we go. Jerry's face. Can't believe I have to do this.

Right now, but it's my job.

Start the music. Memes Start the music. I only have one minute. Start the music. Welcome to Fantasy Boys. Drop all the Jets. All of them.

They suck.

I'm sorry. I told everybody to pick up that tight end, Taylor last week. He's. That whole team is. Drop them all. Pick up Pacheco. He's available in most leagues and he is the lead back on a high powered offense.

Pick up Cade Otten and Sterling Shepherd.

You know Baker's gonna throw it. And they're the only two receivers on Tampa this weekend. Jaden playing with dailies. He's gonna throw for 40 tds against that Dallas D. And he's angry. He's angry. And Boswell, the kicker Steelers is back. They got an offense.

I did it.

One minute, you big cat. Call 1-800-GAMBLER you degenerate. RIP Diane Keaton.

I did it. Oh, Just a quick fact check. Jerry's kids. The fantasy team is actually three and three.

Oh, so we're not as good.

Yeah, we're. We're right at 500.

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What are we doing, boys?

I think I'm in it.

Yep.

Hank, are you in it?

Yep.

And then Max is in it.

Give it to us.

I have mine.

Okay.

Kamani Vidal.

I don't charge.

Yeah. Chargers running back.

Love it.

I'm gonna go with George Pickens.

Okay.

All right.

Even though he's worried about that.

Yeah, I'm a little worried about that. But CD Lamb, coming off an injury, I feel like George is the guy.

But you close your eyes, you could see Lattimore and pick.

I could. I know.

Really going at it.

Should I switch to Ferguson?

No, don't let me talk you out of it.

Okay. You've been hot.

Not with these, but yeah.

Okay.

I'm gonna go with. We're gonna go J.K. dobbins.

Okay. J.K. all afternoon.

Slate. Yeah.

Let's hit this, boys. Better on DraftKings it is plus 727. 20.

Okay.

All right. Let's go, boys. Hank, before we do our picks, do you want to share with the class what your hungry dog is going to be?

Yeah, my hungry dog. This week it's going to be the Dallas Cowboys against the Washington Commanders. It's going to be the New Orleans Saints against the Bears and the Minnesota.

Vikings against the Eagles.

You knew he was going to.

Oh, against the Eagles.

Yeah. Are you going to be wearing your hater sweater?

No, that's. That's. That's. Big game sweater.

That's a Philly sweater.

Listen, I actually prefer you do it this way because, like, none of us can be like. You always pick against my. You're just picking against all of our teams. Yeah.

Yeah. It's personal.

It is for all of us. It is what it is what it is. Yeah. I'm gonna do the opposite. I'm gonna bet on all of our teams.

I like that.

Yeah, I like that, too.

The fat cat parlay.

The opposite. We're gonna go ahead and play the.

Cowboys, so I. I can do that.

Oh, no.

Fat cat.

Yeah, the fat cat.

All right, let's do our picks. Memes in first with seven points, then everyone else. Except PFT has six points and PFT has five points. We are exactly 500 as an entire show.

I love that.

That's.

That's actually good.

Yeah.

Five. Four of us are six and six. Memes is seven and five. PFT is five and seven. What?

Wow.

Boys, way to go. All right, who's up first?

That we're back at the top with Henry.

Henry. Let's go.

All right. I'm happy I'm first because I figured this would not have got back around to me. I'm gonna go in the. With the over in Dolphins Browns.

Wow.

Yeah.

There's no way that would have gone back to you. That's a. That's a sharp play.

Over 37 and a half.

36.

Six and a half.

Yeah. Oh, I'm looking right. I'm seeing 37 and a half.

Oh, 37 and a half. That's a key number.

Plus a hundred. It was 36 and a half at 20 minutes ago.

Let's give him 37.

Okay.

That's fair. Yeah, let's give you 37.

Okay.

All right. We also got to make sure to everybody remembers their number when Shane sends a graphic.

Three.

Okay.

Mean.

I'm going to go with the over in Carolina Panthers and New York Jets 42 and a half.

Oh, okay. What was that? It's a. That's a. These are two. Those are the two grossest games that we just went over on both of them. I'm getting ugly. I like it. I'm got to get comfortable being uncomfortable.

Yep.

No, the Panthers are over team on the road. Get Jets. Yeah, I guess jets variable.

I am going to go Browns minus.

Two and a half.

I knew.

I knew that was jerk. It was a jerk move.

All right.

You guys kept talking about how you liked it. So I had. I had to pick it before you guys got.

Got it.

I would like to take in the Colts Chargers game. The Chargers minus one and a half.

God damn it. There's only two bets I love. All right. Gotta find something else. That's fine. Hey, that's fine. I just gotta find something else.

That's how the cookie crumbles.

That's how the cookie crumbles. Wasn't my day.

I'm going to go with the Rams minus three against the Jaguars.

Okay. I guess I'll go Giants plus seven. And I will go with the under in Jets Panthers 42 and a half.

It's a bad pick.

Okay, we'll see. Head to head.

You'll be 76 and Sonny.

All right.

I thought you were gonna take mine.

Oh, I'm going to take the under in the Browns Dolphins. Can I get 37 and a half? It stands at 37 and a half on the screen.

Definitely.

So Hank only gets the pity happen. That's the spread.

Hank.

I'm looking at the spread right now. What do you want me to not take the spread?

No, you get 37 as well.

Yeah, 37 no, no. Under 37 and a half.

You both get 37.

You both get 37.

The spread is literally 37 and a half. Right now you get.

I think BFC should get 37 and a half at the current.

But it's plus. Yeah, It's. It's. It's minus 120 under. So that's what. That's the point. This will do the 37.

But have we ever. Have we ever done that before where we don't take the number that's listed?

Well, we just did.

Yeah, for Hank, we just did out of pity.

Yeah, 37. Just go flat 37.

That is a key number.

It is under 36 and a half is minus 102.

What? Okay, hold on. I don't see that. I see under 37 and a half is minus.

But if you go to the alternate under six, like.

Okay, let's go under. Oh, you're right.

We're doing, like, CSI investigations into the numbers.

Yeah. So it's 37, 37. You guys both have 37 at a principle.

I'm not going to take under 37.

Okay, I like that principle.

Yeah, it's a good principle. You got to stand for something.

All right, so what are you going.

To take in that case? I'm going to take.

Oh, all right, let's make a deal. You get under 37 and a half, you get over 36 and a half. But if it lands on 37, you both get nothing. You both. You both lose both of your picks.

Deal?

Deal.

If it lands exactly on 37, you lose the other pick as well, no matter what.

That seems like a terrible deal for. For me and Hank.

Why? You get a better number? No, no, I'm saying you get over 36 and a half.

Yeah.

You get under 37 and a half. If it lands exactly 37, then you lose that pick.

And our other pick.

And our other. Your other pick. Oh, no. Yeah.

If it's.

Lose that pick, I'm fine with that, but I'm not losing both picks for one.

Okay, fine. If you land 37, you lose that pick. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay.

Lands exactly 37.

Okay, deal.

Deal. I think that. Yeah, okay, well that also complete.

Yeah, it's fine.

You basically just took under 37 and you didn't get the push.

I took under 36 and a half. There's too many numbers.

Oh, you guys accepted. So we just have to.

Okay.

All right.

I'm going. Exact score 37.

I'm going to do this, but I also. I'm going to cash this bank error in at some other time in the season. If there's a dispute on the spread.

37.

Yeah. If there's a dispute on the spread. I'm going to return to this.

This isn't going to matter at all.

No. All right, Zach, I would like to.

Take the over in the Giants Broncos game.

Okay.

Oh, I would like to take the under in the Giants Broncos game.

Okay.

I would like to take the Chiefs minus 11 and a half.

That number is 40 and a half.

By the way, for me and Zach. Hank, last pick.

I would like to take The Arizona Cardinals plus six.

I'm seeing 39.

Oh, 39 and a half.

Okay.

Okay. All right.

Plus six and a half.

Plus six and a half. What? What? Max.

All right. We had to. We had a. We had another line change in me and Zach's okay. Me and Sax thing, but it's fine. I'll take. I'll take the lower number.

All right, let's get to coach Gruden and then we'll finish up with Fire Fest.

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Okay. We now welcome on a very, very, very special guest. We haven't talked to him in a couple months. On this show, it is coach John Gruden. In studio, super bowl winning head coach John Gruden, future coach of the Penn State Nittany Lions. John Gruden.

All right.

Also future coach grand of the Arkansas Razorbacks. How are you? Let's start there. How are you going to coach six different college football teams next year?

That's a strange introduction, Dan. You know, I have no idea how that'll happen, but I'm having fun, man. We are having a blast. Football season is in high gear, so.

It'S got to be. It's got to be. At least it's nice to have your name mentioned with every job. I know that, you know, that's. I was, I was half joking, but like, it's, it's kind of nice that your name gets.

Absolutely. I absolutely love football. I love it. And it's pretty much all I, all I have. You know, I have an office for the people that don't know. I've got a server in there. I just put a lot of money into a server that collects all the films and allows me to study them and who knows what will happen. But I'm preparing myself, as always, to coach. But behind the scenes, we're getting plenty of football, I promise you.

Yeah, I know you love football and I know. Do you still do the grid and Grinder?

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Okay, so who's, who's a Gruden Grinder? Who's the one from last week that we.

Well, we do five grinders. We had Dan, we had Landman, the linebacker for the Rams, 17 tackles, Devin White, Justin Stranada, the Denver Broncos. And then we had our first trios, three receivers for Tampa Bay, Tez Johnson, Cameron Johnson, and Sterling Shepard. Man, did they pick up the slack. And then three pass rushers for the Seahawks all had two sacks. Byron Murphy, Lawrence, and my guy Nwasu. So we had those as our Gruden grinders last week.

How much do you love Baker Mayfield? Because we love Baker Mayfield. What does he do? If you're, if you're, you know, thinking of it from a coach, like, what does he do that is so special that that gives you a chance every single week to win a Football game. Yeah.

We were on that Fox show, and they asked me who I thought the MVP would be, and I said if we did it today, it'd be Baker. And I just compare him to Brett Favre when we were in Green Bay. He brought life to the huddle, to the practice field. He gave the defense hope. If we just get the ball back for this guy, he'll figure it out. And then he's kind of a combination between Favre and Rocky Balboa. I mean, this guy takes punches, man. He gets hit. He gets. He keeps getting up.

Yeah.

You take away his running back, you take away his two tackles, you take away all his receivers, you put him behind. He's. He is a son of a man. When it comes right down to it, this guy grits it. He. He's. He's all ball, and I love him.

It's like the more you talk to him, the better he gets, too. He feeds off that. I would tell my guys, don't say a word to Baker because he'll use that against you somehow.

Yep.

Just. You gotta.

Got a chip on his shoulder. I mean, you know, you cut me, you cut me, you cut me, I'm gonna cut you up. I kind of feel like I'm gonna.

Yeah.

You know, I'm going to get back at all you people for doubting me. Yeah, he's a fun guy to be around. I want to watch the Buck scrimmage the Titans, and you just watch him. It's a hot day. Nobody's having fun. It's the middle of training camp, and this guy's flying around having fun. He's just different. He's a weapon when it comes to energy, positivity, and hope. I love Mayfield.

Yeah.

Great, great guy. I want to talk a little bit about the London games because we have them. It feels like every week, week now. You traveled over to London. When you're the coach of the Raiders, I read a quote from you where you said that you're not a good traveler, that you get on an airplane. You said, I had vertigo for a month. I couldn't lay down. The house was spinning. I'm not a great traveler. I'll be honest with you. I hate it. I'm not good. I'm concerned. I'm more worried about that. That are goal line offense right now.

Yeah.

When you were going over there, how did. First of all, how did you end up doing on that trip? And second of all, what's something that you were not ready for? Like an unexpected challenge that happened?

Yeah. It was the first time we went. It was my first year back in coach in 2018. We weren't a very good team. We played Seattle and I told people, I said, I don't want to go to London until I absolutely have to. They said, now you should go a week before and get acclimated. I said, I don't need all that shit. I said, I don't want to go. We went over there and got our brains beat in. Now the next time I went early and I gave ourselves time to get acclimated and we beat the Bears. One of our best performances. That was a good Bears defense. We went out, played very well. But it's a different. Different deal. The flight home before you go. There's a lot of arrangements that need to take place. I don't like it personally. I don't know any coaches in the league that like it.

Yeah.

But I don't think anybody cares about coaches anymore.

Yeah.

It's all about making money. And believe me, there's a lot of money to be made by playing these games. That's why they're doing it.

Yeah. I saw that the Rams are going on Saturday morning, which. That feels weird. So they stayed. They stayed in Baltimore for the week. They're going Saturday morning. That just feels like you're. There's no way that you can get your body clock.

And it's a double body clock because the Rams being on Pacific time, it's like Rams fans, they're gonna have to wake up at 6:30 in the morning.

Yeah.

To watch football.

Yeah.

That's not a football time.

We played the Indianapolis Colts. It's the game Vontes Burfitt got suspended and kicked out of the league. We beat the Colts in Indianapolis and flew out late that night to London.

Yeah.

And I remember being out there trying to do the game plans from a hotel room. Getting acclimated to the time. I went off campus three days before the game, two days before the game to try to get out of the hotel. I was getting a little stir crazy. I'm a little nuts. So me and my wife and a couple of my friends found this place off some ranch somewhere. We got some wild game and I got sick so bad I looked like a demon. My eyes were bloodshot red. It's a great experience flying over there, especially losing one of your home games.

Yeah.

I mean, you get eight home games and now you got to give one up to. To play over.

Yeah. Let's talk about the Eagles because the Eagles are. It feels like they're in that situation where it's like, what's going on here? Are they going to hold it together? Is it going to be a replay of the year after they went to the Super bowl in 2023 and they started hot and they fell apart? What's wrong with the Eagles offense? What's wrong with the. The Eagles in general and can they fix this so they don't have another situation where they go to the super bowl and then they get, you know, they made the playoffs next year, but they got killed by the Bucks on that. On that playoff game.

It's tough to repeat. I remember after we won the super bowl, we tried to keep that band together. I remember losing Jure Vicious and Allstot on the same play for the season in Week 2. The Eagles aren't the same team. The chemistry of the team is not the same. I'm looking around the league. I'm seeing Isaiah Rogers, I'm seeing Darius Slay, I'm seeing Josh Sweat, Milt Williams, some of their best players on that super bowl defense, playing elsewhere, they're not as good because the players that won the super bowl aren't there. And offensively, Becton's gone. Dickerson at left guard has not been the same. With that injury. You don't stay the same in pro football. You either get better or worse. Right now, they're not as good a team and they don't look like they have a great chemistry. It just doesn't look like they. They care a lot about each other right now, but I'm hoping they wake up and snap out of the funk they're in. Hasn't looked good so far.

Yeah, winning fixes a lot of that.

Yeah.

You start winning games, then you start getting closer. As a team. A team that doesn't seem like they're close right now is the Miami Dolphins and the. The players only meeting that that tool was speaking about on Monday or on Sunday after the game, saying, guys aren't showing up, they're showing up late for it. With a team like that, did you know when the players only meetings were happening and did you have a guy that was on the inside that was like, hey, Coach, here's what we talked about in the players only meeting.

I think players only meetings can be healthy to a degree. I think it's good for these guys to have a meeting sometimes. Go out there and run your own practice. See how easy it is.

Yeah.

You know, let these guys have a little bit of ownership of how we operate. I think they can be very positive, used properly But I think Miami's having a lot of these meetings out of desperation. You know, I think they're starting to point a little bit of fingers. But when your quarterback comes out and says things like that for the national media, that's an issue, because he's got to walk in the building the next day and see the players, you know, And I think he's already apologized. I think he regrets saying those things. But where there's smoke, there's fire, and there's a lot of smoke down there in Miami.

There is. Yeah. No, No. A team that's doing better than expected, especially offensively. The. The Dallas Cowboys, they look great on offense. And as an offensive guy yourself, like, what are you seeing from Dallas this season that. That's special about them? Because obviously their defense is one side of it, and they're going to play in a lot of shootouts, might lose a lot of those, but offensively, they're. They're a great team right now. So what is it about the Cowboys this year that's better than it has been in the past?

Well, they've been a good offense with McCarthy there, too. Now, they have not been a poor offense. They've not had much of a running game. They. They found a little bit of it with Javante Williams. But Dak Prescott, he is a straw that stirs the drink down there, man. I mean, CD Lamb's not even playing. They score 40 points against Green Bay, CD Lamb's not playing. They're able to move the ball and function at a high level. You got to give Schottenheimer credit. But they got a lot of high picks on that offensive line. Ferguson's a really good tight end. It doesn't get a lot of notoriety. Pickens is a badass. You know, he's starting to really concentrate and get some consistency, and he is a talented dude now. And Prescott can still get out of trouble. He can recognize looks at the line of scrimmage. Premier competitor, and, man, is he throwing the ball. And they play in perfect conditions. You know, they get to play indoors, and they're gonna score points. I expect the Cowboys and the Bears to do something at the trade deadline. Go get a. Yeah, Chubb. Go get a pass rusher.

Go get somebody that gives your team juice, hope, and energy.

Yeah.

Pass rusher in Dallas. That would be a crazy combination.

Yeah. Are we just spinning our wheels, though? Is it the Chiefs again? Because it feels like the Chiefs. They're three and three. They started slow. They're fine. They're better than fine. Their Offense looks like it has the explosiveness back to it. Is it crazy? Does it feel like part of the time? I'm like, I'm so glued to the NFL and I'm so invested in every single week, and I have to take a step back and be like, the Chiefs are just going to be in the super bowl again. I don't know if they'll win the super bowl, but they'll be in the super bowl again. Does it not feel that way?

Yeah, we talked about it on a previous show. We did. I think Andy Reid, the way they practice has a lot to do with their success. I went up there for five or six days two years ago. I mean, they're hitting each other. They're live periods. They're putting guys on the ground. They play real old school training camp football when they're in pads. And when you look at the Chiefs right now, they don't have anybody hurt. Rashi Rice is coming back. I'm worried about Simmons, their left tackle. Where is he? What's the issue? But Mahomes is playing at a high level, man. And when you got Andy Reid and Mahomes and Spags coaching that defense, they're going to be in it. If it's not for that 99 yard return by Jacksonville and Kelsey mishandling that ball against Philly, they're six and one or five. I mean, it's a good football team.

Yeah.

So which team should be more concerned right now, The. The Philadelphia Eagles at 4 and 2 or the Buffalo Bills at 4 and 2?

I think the Bills. You know, I think the Eagles, after winning a Super bowl with the nucleus of players they have, I would be less concerned than them. Buffalo's got to get to the super bowl and win it, and then they can, you know, deal with some adversity then. But Buffalo's defense, they just don't look good to me. They've had some injuries in the secondary at linebacker. Ed Oliver just came back. They really don't have the firepower outside, you know, since Gabe Davis and Stefan left town. They throw a lot of quick screens to Shakir in the slot. The tight ends are a factor now, but offensively they don't have the weapons that they once had. And I think they're a good team. I just don't know if they're a great team.

Yeah.

Yeah, I feel.

I. I feel that way, too. It just. It's frustrating to watch because the Bills, when they look good, they're awesome, and then you have games like that. Maybe it's Just, I don't know. They got to get healthy. But at some point, like, you can only say so many times, you tell me this, like, as a coach, yeah, health obviously matters. You lose a guy, but at some point, you got to just look in the mirror and be like, hey, we have what we have. We're not going to get like this. Not going to be a magic health button that gets all our guys back from week one figure out a way.

Yeah. I think the game that really opened my eyes was the Patriot game, when New England went up there and won. And it's not just them winning, it's how they won. They went in there, they. They played man to man coverage. They went up there in Keon Coleman's face, Joshua Palmer's face. They played press coverage man to man, and they make it hard for Josh Allen to scramble around when you can cancel out some of these gaps. But I, I think Buffalo is a team that could use a, a wide receiver to come in and give them some juice as well.

Yeah. So if you had to pick it today, if you had to call it, do you think the Bills are still winning that division or do you think the Patriots have.

I think the Bills will win that division. I still think New England has a lot of youth on their offense, particularly on that left side of the offensive line. I still like Buffalo to win the division, but New England has narrowed the gap.

Yeah, they have, sure. Another team in the AFC that I feel like has been right at the top for the last, I don't know, 25 years, the Ravens. We're not, it feels like we're not as concerned about the Ravens. We're like, they'll figure it out somehow. Harbaugh will figure this out. Is it. Are they in a position where you think they're able to figure it out, or are there problems, their flaws so deep, that they're just not going to be a great team this year.

Man, I was there in the preseason and I thought they were going to go to the super bowl and potentially win it. They look that good now when you take away as many players from their team that, that they have on IR now are out. Yeah, it's almost mind boggling. I can't even. Ronnie Stanley doesn't play. Mattabike. Their best defensive tackles out. Roquan's out. Lamar Jackson's out. I mean, it's a completely different football team.

Yeah.

And I do think the way they lost a couple of those games, Detroit pounded them. They, you know, they ran it right down their throat. And then losing that 15 point lead to Buffalo, I think they have some scars. They have five number one picks in their secondary. Couple of them haven't done much. They're not the same Raven team. They got a long way to go to these things.

And we've been saying season from hell. Did you have a season from hell like that where it's like everything bounced the wrong way? And there's something about that where you can just have those seasons where it's like you didn't get a break and it's not that you were the worst team, you just never got the break you needed.

Yeah, I mean, I can vividly remember we scored touchdown, last play of the game to beat Carolina. It's nine to nine. It was a slugfest. We had just beat the Philadelphia Eagles in Philly and we get the extra point blocked and then we go on overtime and lose. I remember Peyton Manning. We got a 35 to 14 lead with six minutes left. They return a kickoff to our one yard line. They get an onside kick. All hell breaks loose. The sheriff shoots me dead. You know, you lose some games and you lose some players and some other teams now around the league are getting better and better and better. The league is not set up for you to maintain a dynasty. You win the super bowl, you pick 32nd, you win the Super bowl, you got six players that want more money and deserve more money. You play a really hard schedule, play a harder schedule. So there are a lot of issues. And then if you compound it with injuries, bad breaks, and some of these referees give you some bad calls, man, you can lose your mind and get a lot of gray hair in coaching.

Yeah.

Would you have referees that would apologize to you in the game and say, hey, sorry, we, we booted that one. We that up. And then you understand that you're going to get a makeup call or make a couple times.

Yeah, it's happened a couple times.

They make you smile as a coach or we still like this guy.

Yeah, I, I never really got along with any of the officials on game day, you know. Yeah, yeah, they got a tough job, don't get me wrong, but some of these games are being decided by pass interference calls. You see them at the end of the game, very specific judgment calls are deciding some of these close games and that's just the way it's going to be.

Yeah, yeah. Oh, go, go ahead.

I was going to say, like, as a quarterback guy yourself, we try to watch Cam Ward play on the Titans and we try to evaluate, like, is he Good, Is he not good? We don't know. It's impossible for us to. To tell because the. The situation that he's in, obviously in Tennessee, has not been good this year for him. He's been very good at evaluating himself. He said we asked. He was correct about that. He gave himself an F in terms of grading himself for the season. I like that he's tough on himself, but is there anything that you've seen from Cam Ward this year that you're like, this guy's got something I can build with this guy.

I saw Cam against Tampa in the preseason scrimmage. He's got a great arm. He can throw it off platform. He's got all the crazy releases. I just think he's. He's a little bit too casual back there too, you know, Laissez faire.

Yeah.

I think his fundamentals are inconsistent. Their protection plan, I don't know if he's responsible for it. The center's not making the calls. Not only has he been sacked 25 times, they're not recognizing blitzes. They're missing hot receivers. They don't audible enough. When you're the quarterback, you take the bullets, man, whether you're a rookie or not. This is the number one pick in the draft. This offense has struggled. He's got to take a big piece of the pie.

Yeah. Falcons look for real.

Yeah, they do.

Can I start believing in the Falcons? Because every time I've ever believed in the Falcons, they burn me. But their defense is good. Bijan might be the best running back in the league this year. Drake London, Kyle Pitts is doing okay. Like, they're. Is it. Is it safe for me to. When you watch the tape, are you like, this team is doing things the right way? They're going to sustain some success this year? Or am I going to fall for it again?

I like them, man. I like them. I'm really impressed. After they lose 30 to nothing to Carolina, I think everybody was on their ass. You know, this is a bad team. Typical Falcons. But what they did coming back, beaten Washington going on a buy and coming back and taking it to Buffalo on national television, there's a lot of enthusiasm, a lot of confidence. Mike Penix, man, I'm telling you, this guy is a very talented cat. Yeah, he can really spin it. And Drake London is starting to play like Andre Johnson. He's starting to play physical. That touchdown that he scored against Buffalo on the last play of the first half, well, he didn't score, but it was a great Andre Johnson, like, effort.

Yeah.

And Kyle Pitts is showing why he was the top 10 pick when they get Darnell Mooney back. Remember, Mooney had almost a thousand yards to really blow the top off. I think they have a lot of firepower, man. Bijan special.

Yeah.

And Algiers comes in fresh as a daisy. I'm not saying it's Montgomery and Gibbs, but it's pretty damn close.

Yeah.

Defense, we call these guys the Blank squad. Nobody knows their name. I mean, you talk about Zach Harrison and this doorless guy and. Or Rororo, I mean, Diablo and Ellis, they play their asses off, man. And I wouldn't want to play these guys. Jeff Ulbricht's done a great job. Raheem Morris did this in LA when he was the defensive coordinator. You remember this? They find all these young guys. Byron Bryant, young at Tennessee. He comes in, he's a badass. You know, they get Verse Fisk, all these guys, they come in and they become formidable. And that's what they're doing in Atlanta.

I like hearing you say Aurora Row. It sounds like a cartoon dog. I know.

Number nine.

Or Ro.

Ro. Ro. That's good.

It's great. I want to ask you something. It might give you an aneurysm. It might make your head hurt.

Oh.

Because I can. I can tell it's something that would frustrate you to no end. You ever have a guy that was about to score a touchdown then just dropped the ball on the 1 inch line before he crossed the line? That ever happened to you?

I'm sure something like that has happened. We played the Dallas Cowboys on Monday Night Football and we threw a pass. Never forget it. Freddie Solomon caught the ball. Just go down so we can clock it or go out of bounds so we can kick the field goal. We had a guy run, run out some time where we were unable to do that. But I can't remember. Can't remember that.

What would you do?

Yeah. Yeah. Or when it happens in the league, do you then that week show your guys being like, yeah, don't do this.

We always try to do that. You know, there are lessons to be learned in wins and losses. Hey, look out. Philadelphia lost this game. Look how Cincinnati won this game. And we have coaches that would have responsibilities if that pertained to them. You're the two minute expert. You're the short yardage goal line expert. You know, you're the blitz expert. We might show seven or eight examples of quarterbacks getting killed because the other team doesn't know how to pick up a blitz. Yeah. Get Your shit together. Learn how to pick these four week blitzes up. So yes, but for that to happen twice in a matter of two weeks, that's unbelievable. But there's an old saying, and Peanut Tillman made it famous, the Peanut punch. And he was most dominant in blind pursuit situations. I mean, you're walking to your car, you're just thinking you're going to open kaboom. You know, you get that ball punched out and that's what's happening. If you don't finish the play, you're going to get victimized because somebody's coming.

Yeah.

You know, so that's, that's what's happening in these instances.

I got a non football question for you. How in the world do you have a right hand man and assistant? And Jake Malasek, who is 25 years old. 26 years. 26 years old. And he had never been to a freaking concert until last week. How is that possible? You're a music guy, you love going to concerts.

You know Malac's interesting. Big cat.

He's a weirdo.

This guy went to boarding school, you know, this guy comes from. He comes from a different planet.

Yeah.

Doesn't use soap.

I don't know about that.

No, I know about that.

I don't know. That has to be confirmed by me. I have.

It's confirmed. Confirmed.

What do you mean confirmed by you.

Smell a guy that doesn't use snow.

He doesn't use soap.

He doesn't.

He.

He's confirmed.

Confirmed.

He's officially confirmed.

Tell you about this guy though, Malisek. He is working worldly. He knows lacrosse players, he knows football, basketball. I mean we played trivia. He's my guy. Yeah, he knows everything.

But he doesn't know musicians. He's never been to a concert. How's that possible?

There's not a lot of people I would want to go see in concert these days either. Yeah, it's not like when we were kids, man. We go see Bob Seeger and we get a ticket to go see van Halen. Holy AC DC's in town. I mean there was a lot of cops concerts to go to. What concert would you go want to see right now?

Yeah, I went and saw. We had these guys Goose come in a couple. The name of the band's Goose. They were really good. I saw a den company at the Sphere in April.

I saw AC DC over the summer. They're still doing it.

Goose. I don't know.

Oasis.

Oasis.

No, we're boycotting them.

Yeah, we're boycotting Them.

Because the London game.

Yeah. What. What song would you listen to to get. Get fired up in your. In your office before?

It's always Shoot to Thrill by AC Hair of the Dog by Nazareth. Yeah, that's a good. Unchained by Van Halen. I. You know, I want to go back there. Yeah, I like that song, dude. Looks Like a lady by A.C. yeah.

Yeah.

Anything by A.C.D.C, put that on. I'm ready to go.

It's, it's, it's.

I like that one song. Come to Papa by Bob Seeger. Yeah, I like Bob Seeger.

Bob Seeger's great.

What was the last contract you went to do?

I want the AC DC in Tampa.

Yeah.

James Stadium.

See your concert guy?

Yeah. Oh, yeah. I saw REO Speedwagon a couple years ago. That was pretty cool. Yeah, I like the classic rock bands.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, yeah, a lot of them are no longer touring or no longer around.

To Big Cat's Point, though. What would you do if you had a player that. That refused to shower, that didn't use soap?

Refused?

Yeah. He will not use soap, Coach.

I will not use soap.

I don't need soap, Coach.

I would put him on another bus.

Depends on how many sacks you got.

I think you're giving a guy a bad rap, man.

No, I mean, he's admitted to this.

Yeah. He does it himself. He does. Go ahead, Jake. Makes my skin feel dry. It makes his skin feel dry.

He says, come on, Jake. So let's get it. Let's get a word with our sponsor.

I'm good here.

I'm all right.

He's. He's. He's a weird guy.

How's the booth going on, guys? Boots smell good, Max.

Yeah.

We're having a good boot smelling day.

Okay. Boot smells good, but that is your guy. He's the guy that you gotta rely on, guys.

The guy's very, very good, man. I wouldn't trade Jake for nothing we.

Like to give him, though. Yeah. Especially fun to give him.

With UVA football being so good this year, you got to cut them down a little bit.

Insane. I like the way Virginia's playing, but their schedule is pretty good.

Yeah. Is there a quarterback in college that you've got your eyes on that you're like, oh, man, this guy.

I like. Mendoza. Yeah, like Mendoza at Indiana. I like him a lot. You know, I went to the Manning camp, and this kid at Washington, Williams. You watch out for Williams senior. Yeah. He had 500 yards of total offense last week. I like Sam Levitt at Arizona State. Quite A bit. I like Nussmeier at lsu. I'm still waiting. I'm still kind of waiting for somebody to knock my side socks off.

Yeah. Yeah. It does feel like this is the year where it could be.

Well, it was disappointing with the injury, you know, and Cade Clubnik got off to a rough start. I was expecting a lot more from them, but you know, they.

Ty Simpson, you like.

I love Tyson.

I love Tyson.

I think right now he and Mendoz are the top two guys. Ty Simpson could win the Heisman Trophy.

Awesome.

He's not making everyday throws now. He's pushing it down the field. He's getting out of trouble. He's got a soul about it, man. I think his team loves him.

Yeah.

He's also. He's that type of guy like third and long. I trust you.

Yeah. When you go to Georgia and win and eliminate Georgia's long time home winning streak and the way he did it. Dog is a dog. He's a coach's son. I've had a chance to meet him. He came down to our office. He's the real deal, man.

Yeah.

What do you think about Arch down in like Arch?

I think that was a signature win for him against Oklahoma.

Okay.

You know, down the stretch they're 10 for 13. On third down, the touchdown pass on third and eight from the 12 yard line. He ends the game with the scramble. I think that's a great launching pad for Arch.

So you're buying stock on Arch you haven't sold.

I never sold any stock in them. I was disappointed obviously, because the expectations are so high.

Yeah.

You know, you open up at Ohio State against Matt Patricia. It's not like Arch had a ton of tape to study on Matt Patricia. That's about as hard as it gets for anybody. But I think this is going to be a great launching pad for Manning. I expect him to really take off now.

Yeah. What do you think about the. About the Giants? We saw a great performance from them on Thursday. An exciting perform. That was a fun game to watch with Scaboo and Dart out there. Just like running into everybody, going face first into linebackers. It was a fun game to watch. Do you, are you, are you sold on. On dart? Because I know that you had him in your. In your off office. Right. You guys watch.

I mean he's got a lot of the intangibles that you just really want in your locker room and he's athletic and he's an arm talent guy. He can do a lot. He's smart, competitive guy. I'm not shot in the ass with them yet. You know, they went to New Orleans and have five straight turnovers. On five straight possessions, you know, they. They failed miserably. They beat the Chargers. I think they had 66 yards passing. The Chargers were decimated on offense. I liked what they did against Philly, but that was a real short week. I want to see it now. I want to see him go to Denver. They've had a couple extra days to prepare. They're going up against a hell of a defense that's going to force Dart to do some things at the line of scrimmage. But I will say this. He's got to keep his head out of this tackling.

Yeah.

He's got to be smarter when he running around. He's Twice he's been in that concussion tent. They got to make sure they keep him healthy. He's got to keep himself helped.

I. I think sometimes he watches his teammate, Scatter Boo run, and he's like, I want to do that. That looks like the crowd's getting into it because there was one point in the game on Thursday when Scatter Boo was just running people over, and that Dart kept it, went on a scramble, saw safety, and he just leapt, like, head first into the safety to try to knock him out. Try to get involved in whatever Cam's got going on, he needs to be, like, a little bit sp. Just keep your head out of the tackle.

Right. I mean, they could have fined Dart for that.

Yeah.

You know, I've seen runners get fined for lowering their head, using the helmet as a weapon. Look, the quarterback's the only guy that can't play with a sore right shoulder or a broken right finger. And when you get into the concussion protocol, you can be out for a couple of weeks. Availability is the number one ability you got to have. And the Giants need Dart more than any other team needs a quarterback. He has really brought life to this franchise.

Yeah. Yeah. All right, I got one last question for you, coach. Always great having you come by. Rollback question. Rho b a c-k.com promo code take 20 off your first purchase. Q zips, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts. Roback.com promo code.

Take.

We're six weeks into the NFL season. Week seven coming up. I think we asked for your super bowl winner before the season. I'm gonna let you pick again right now. Who do you have in the Super Bowl? Who do you have winning the Super Bowl? Super Bowl?

I think I had Baltimore and Green.

Bay before the season. You're saying and what do you. You can amend now?

I, I really like Tampa Bay, honestly. Yeah, I like Tampa Bay. They're doing it with mirrors right now. They've got some really good players about to return. The quarterbacks having a MVP type season. I think the Seattle Seahawks are a sleeper. I think this defense is really pretty good.

You're high on Sam Darnold.

I'm high on Sam Darnold. Man. I like, I like Jigba Smith a lot. I think they've got a couple good backs. They can close you out with a fourth quarter pass rush. I like them a lot. And then in the afc, I'm. I'm all in on Kansas City. Yeah, I'm all in on the Chiefs.

It's nuts how the more things change, the more they stay the same with the Chiefs.

And when you bring up, you, you always bring up the green team. And now I'm looking out for the green team out there in the fourth quarter and it's real. Who has the best green team in the NFL? NFL.

Well, the Seahawks are pretty good. You know, I like, you know, in the afc, you know, you look at Buffalo, you just don't see a lot of. You don't see a lot of consistency out of the team. But the best green team, I wanted to say was going to be Green Bay with Parsons. And you know, you got 52 over there. You got Devonte Wyatt, Rashawn Gary. I just haven't felt them against Dallas. You know, a couple weeks ago I wanted more against Cincinnati, you know, you got the lead, man. You're on defense. Close these guys out. That's, that's going to be. The Pittsburgh Steelers are another team that I'm really excited about. Yeah, I think they have arguably the best fourth quarter pass rush. They got three ends that can kick your ass.

Yeah.

Why Watts the best? This her big guy. I don't know how they got this guy. Yeah, he's unbelievable.

Yeah.

And high. Smith's healthy. They got a lot of good blitzes, man, and they're not afraid to call them. And they got the guys in the back end against cover. You big cat.

Yeah.

Slay Jalen Ramsey plays free safety, corner nickel. He's a badass man. I mean, yeah, they got some guys. Deshawn Elliott's an intimidating presence in the middle of your defense. And I love Patrick Queen and Peyton whatever his name is. Wilson, number 41. The Steelers, they're dangerous. They got a great fourth quarter pass rush.

All right, coach, you're the best. Always great Seeing you. We love football. Remember that.

We love football. Stay positive. The Bears.

Yeah.

Three straight wins. The Commanders. Come on, pfd. We gotta get some turnovers, man.

Yeah, turnovers have been bit. Mikey needs to catch those balls.

We need McLaren back, Matt.

Well, I think we're getting him this week.

Yeah, he's a different.

Points.

Yeah, Points. We need points. There's gonna be so many points.

Yes, I. I agree. Four and a half is the number.

I'm not panicking yet.

Going on the over.

If we lose this one, I might start to panic because then you got the. The Lions or the Chiefs, then the Lions afterwards. That might be an issue.

And by the way, check out coach Gruden's game previews. You do three a week?

Yeah.

They're awesome. You strap in, it's like 45 minutes to an hour of a game. It's the best. You feel like you know every angle of the game when you're watching these game previews. So we'll watch them on YouTube.

Thank you, guys.

Yes.

Thanks, coach.

Yep.

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We got fire fest of the week. Hank.

Yeah, Fyre fest of the week. I mean, two. Both. Both involving two of my favorite. One, one current NFL or one former NFL. But just the Jared Goff saga. All the reports coming out, Dan Campbell saying that the ref told them that the call came from the NFL. NFL saying that never happened. Just something's not adding up.

Yeah, it's a touchdown that won't die because we've gotten updates on this touchdown. It seems like every day this week there's another WRINKLE to it.

And a lot of the times when you, you know, NFL rigged, it's like, it just goes away.

Yeah.

You know, people, the fans of whatever happened, they about it for, like, maybe a day, and then it goes away. This is just every day, more stories, more clips. Jared was on, you know, press conference, being like, yeah, it was. I thought it was completely fine. I don't understand it. Dan Campbell News just. It won't go away.

Do you ever listen to other podcasts and you just, like, catch a stray? On part of my take. Like, they talk about something that happened on part of my take on another podcast that you're listening to, and you're like, whoa, I thought. I thought I was outside of my little world for a second.

What was that?

That. That happened to me this week? I listened to the Bears podcast.

Okay.

Chris Felika, awesome guy.

Yeah, yeah.

And they were talking about the bad beat of the week, and it was like, yeah, Hank at barstool. Oh, got destroyed by this Jared Goff touchdown.

Yeah.

I've just been reminded of it, like, every single day. There's been something else about Hank's beat.

But Jared did text me saying that he saw your reaction on Monday, and it made him laugh a little. Yeah, no, I'll be.

I'll be rides.

He's a Hank guy. You're a Jared guy.

Love, Jared love. I'll be. I'll be Jared anytime. Touchdown for the remainder of the season.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You got to get revenge.

Yeah.

And then kind of pft. Similar to your point of catching astray on a podcast you listen to. Feitelberg was on Julian Edelman's Games with Names podcast, and they were talking. Well, they talked about the jail story, and they were, you know, Elmo's like, did Hank really take a. Which that was, you know, I never want to hear that. Or, like, watching the clip, I was like, oh, yeah. And then Feidelberg, he asked Feidelberg to rank his Mount Rushmore of Barcelona personalities. And then Feidelberg asked Julian to rank his Mount Rushmore of partial personalities. He said, dave, big cat. Pft. And then he was, you know, pondering the fourth Vitalberger. Say, oh, what about Hank? And then Julian kind of in a callback to our Mount Rushmore of recurring guests. Like, he's more of an honorable mention guy.

Oh, I love it.

It's good.

Which I honestly like, you know, I. For an eye respect hat tip, that's, you know.

Yeah. He.

He.

He holds on to it. He was. He was. And he. He doesn't Forget.

Yeah, yeah.

So that my Fire Fest roan.

Okay.

That's a good, strong, great Mount Russell.

Yeah, I.

My.

My Fire fest is.

Is shout out.

Not putting Edelman on five years ago.

But you inspired him to be great.

Yeah, yeah. His podcast rocks.

Kind of like Belichick. You treat him like Belichick did.

Yeah. That's your same relationship.

Yeah, yeah.

Exact same relationship.

Did you guys see that. That Mike Lombardi visited Saudi Arabia to. To try to drum up money for UNC this off season? Boy, yeah.

Oh, boy.

Yeah.

Okay.

Lots of stories coming out about. About that program.

They're trying hard.

Belichick was probably like, they. I agree with the Saudis on a lot of things about journalism.

Yeah.

I think they treat journalists right over there.

That's true. All right. Your Firefest. Pft.

My Firefest. It actually happened yesterday. Big Cat alluded to it during an ad read, but we went to the national association of Convenience Stores.

Yes.

The. The big convention that was downtown. Actually kind of fun.

Very.

To go there because you just walked around and it was just products and snacks.

Memes and Zach, they had bags full of swag. They were just walking. Memes actually was like. We were walking out. Memes goes, oh, the hot food's over there. Can we go there? And we're like, we just want to go home, dude. And he was just like, but what about the. The foot long mozzarella sticks? And we're like, they have foot long mozzarella sticks? I mean, she says, I don't know, but probably he just. He had made it up in his head.

They almost bought tickets today to go back.

Yeah, no, I like to.

I would go back. It's just like everything. You feel like you're in a giant buc ee's.

Wait, is it. Is it tomorrow too?

Think so.

I'll buy you tickets to go back. You guys want to make a video? If you guys want to go, Zach and Memes, I will. I will pay for your tickets to go. You can decide later.

Zach wants to go.

Really bad friends, by the way, which I love. They are best friends. Yeah.

Just walking around that place after we got done with our little meet and greet, I probably drank five or six different cans of sparkling water or sparkling water energy drink just that people were handing out for free. So I was super hydrated. And then I made the long walk back to the garage to go to my car to drive out of there. And by the time I got to my car, I really. I had to pee super bad. Really bad. So I got in My car. I had an empty body armor bottle in my car. So I'm in the garage, unfortunately, what, 90 of the time I wear shorts. I was wearing pants.

Yep.

And I was, well, this is gonna make it a little bit tougher to pee, but there's no chance I can get home because I have to pee, like, right now. So before I leave, I'm just going to try to pee in my car. And so pulled down a little bit, started to pee. Then I see in my side view mirror there's a group of people that's walking up, like, right next to my window.

Yeah.

As I'm peeing. So I did the only thing that I could do, which is I tried to pinch stop and pull up so I'm not like, nobody walks past me and just sees me, like, pissing into a bottle right in my driver's seat.

It's a lot of tension.

It's a. It's a lot of tension. And as I. As I tried to pull my pants up and I. You have to let go before you pull the pants up. Even though I did the pinch at the tip and then put it back in. As I was putting it in, it just shot out all over. All over my window. Then it got on me a little bit, and then by that time, my pants were all the way up. And then for about five seconds afterwards, it just keeps pissing. And so I just sat there in my car.

When you say keeps pissing, you mean your own pee?

My own penis. I got pissed on, just kept on pissing by my own penis. The guy that I'm supposed to be, the. We're supposed to be allies.

Yeah.

That's happened to me. I've done this before.

Can I get. Can I give you a tip, though, for the future? I got.

I got home and my pants were, like, full on soaking wet.

That's brutal.

And then Blake came up to me and just wanted to smell me.

Oh, yeah.

Like, got right. I had to go upstairs and take a shower.

I'm surprised he didn't pee on you. Yeah. Mark double market. The move there, though, is you don't sit in your seat. You have the door open and you stand, like, leaning into your car. Because then it's a little like the sitting. Peeing in a bottle.

Yeah.

Always is a problem. It's always hard to cut it off. So you kind of stand like you're almost looking for something. So that way if someone walks by, they can't see your penis. They can see maybe the back of you, like, leaning into Your car, but that's the move you got to do.

I thought about doing that, but there were people that were like milling around the parking lot, so I didn't. I felt uncomfortable standing there peeing.

But if you're. Well, I could see people, but you're, but like you're. Everything is below your car door, like the window, and it just looks like you're like, kind of just like standing in your car. I've done that a million times. That's the move.

I probably didn't think it through enough, but what I ended up doing was probably, probably the worst thing that I've done. And then I drove home and I looked like I was looking around my car and on the front windshield and on my driver's side windshield, there was just like a streak of pee from when I unpinched.

That's funny.

And just shot across the entire car. So, yeah, I, I pissed all over myself yesterday.

Damn, that's a brutal one. My fire fest is. I mean, we've all dealt with this, but. And I, I feel like. Pft. I'm. I'm now realizing I'm. You and I are more alike than I, I realize. But I, I've been trying to dress a little bit nicer and bought some new jeans and I just keep having people be like, whoa, jeans?

Yeah.

And I just don't know what to say. I, I. How do I just be. I'm like Shane trying to become a ring guy. Like, can I wear jeans? But everyone just keeps commenting on them and it makes me self conscious. Then I got to go back to joggers.

Yeah. Go back to. But make sure they're pulled all the way down.

Yeah. People were calling my. They were saying I was wearing capris on Monday night. They weren't. They were just hiked up because I put my legs up because I'm too fat to sit like a normal human being.

There's no chance McDaniel wears capris during this, this weather that they're going to have.

Right? I bet you he does.

Like six. It's going to be 60, but it's going to be windy and maybe, maybe rainy.

Yeah, he's got to change it. But yeah. What? I don't know. I, I think the problem is I don't think these jeans are shout out Mugsy. Very comfortable jeans. She can't. Can't wear jeans anymore.

The problem with guys like us is the buttons. If, if somebody sees us wearing a button anywhere on our body, they're like, oh, what's going on with you dressed up today? Yeah, dressed up. What's going on? Like, funeral later.

It's just I'm in that mo. It's usually right around fall where I get in the. Every fall is the same thing. Like right around October, I'm like, you know what? I'm gonna start dressing like an adult. And I buy some new stuff, and then I try for a couple, like, weeks, month, maybe month and a half. And then winter comes, and then I'm like, now I'm just gonna wear sweatpants, but this is my dressing like an adult time.

You're in your era.

Yeah.

Your buttons are about four weeks.

Zach, finish us off.

My fire fest this week is also a little bit of aquatic. Like, PFTs happened again this morning, late last week. Rubbed my eyes, got out of bed. Wet foot instantly. There a little bit of a flood situation. Water is just coming up from the shower. Had the maintenance guy come in. He said he would come when I was there. He didn't come while I was there. He came while he. On his own accord. I go in there. He's just in there doing his thing. He said he fixed it. Promised me he fixed it this morning. Wake up, no wet foot, but soaked. Entry and bathroom. Every towel in most T shirts available. Used to sop up dryer space isn't really there to dry those things.

So, wait, so you shower. Do you have a shower that just has, like a flat bottom to it or is it like a tub?

There's no tubs. It's just flat with the floor, too. So, like water. Water's coming out when it decides to. And also if I use the sink.

So you're. So you just woke up at one point this morning and just the first thing you did was step into a puddle?

I didn't step in water this morning. This time it wasn't wet foot. Last Friday was wet foot. This was the return of the floodgate.

Okay. Because that's a terrible thing to step into a puddle immediately.

It was mystery liquid, too. Like, I would have had no idea where it's coming from. Oh, and I don't know what to do. I was thinking about rioting.

Rioting?

A one man riot.

Yeah, one man riot is on my. Maybe on my agenda.

So he didn't fix it.

He said he did, but there's no way he did. Because we're wet again. We're so wet.

This might be a systemic problem in your apartment building.

You think I should ask around?

I think there might be a. I don't want to say. I don't want to freak you out.

Yeah.

But there was one time, this apartment building that had a serial killer in it. And everybody's all their backed up because the guy was flushing body parts down his toilet. And that's how he got caught. Yeah.

So that's.

Again, I don't want to freak you out.

Okay.

That's good.

Yeah, they could flush anything.

There could.

They could be flushing all sorts of stuff before. Legs and arms.

Yep.

But it could be a dude also flushing legs and arms.

I guess it could be legs and arms.

Double locked doors.

Yeah. Do you have an idea of who that might be like, of. Of your neighbors?

I. I have no clue.

No. We gotta get this figured.

I can investigate.

We can't have you be wet like this.

So don't. Don't investigate. I don't want you to.

Yeah, yeah.

You mind your own business.

Stay inside.

Yeah, yeah, stay inside. Stay inside. Damn.

Wait.

Double check foot is brutal, bro.

You don't know where it's cut.

Where?

I assume it's not like clean water. No, you know it's not.

It was clear.

It wasn't like murky. But it's also coming from the drain, which can't be good, right?

Yeah.

So then I started thinking, other people shower water that just made me want to jump out the window.

No smell to it.

No smell as of yet.

Okay.

Hopefully this doesn't progress in that direction, but.

I'm sorry.

All good.

That sucks. Max. No traveling.

No done until Thanksgiving.

I'm so excited. So you're ready. You're back.

I can't. And I canceled plans this weekend.

Oh, let's go.

Yep. I told McCarthy's guy who works here a while ago I would go to Ohio State.

Jackie tables.

Yep. Okay. I told him I would go to Ohio State, Wisconsin. And I just said I can't do it.

No game to skip. Yeah, it's gonna be a bad game. Yeah, real bad game. CBS game. I actually felt really bad for J.J. watt because on last Sunday, he. He was doing his game on cbs and they had multiple times they had to do the promo for Wisconsin, Ohio State. Like, I was looking.

We were looking at tickets this week. Just like by happenstance, $2 turned. Turned on game time. $80, 50 yard line, 8 rows up. Yep. It's like great if you want to go to that game. Great deals on game.

Saw rumor. Matt Campbell. Maybe I'd be down for Matt Campbell. He's a guy who can get you eight to nine wins every year.

Yeah.

And nothing more.

Max or less. Have you seen who's going to be on college game day this weekend?

I have. I have not.

James Franklin.

No way.

James Franklin is going to be on college game day this weekend.

Like the guest picker.

I don't know if he's the guest picker.

Where.

Where are they doing it?

I just saw an article on. I think it was. Somebody linked me to it on awful announcing. Let me see. Let me. Let me double check that to make sure.

Georgia Big noon kickoffs will be at the Holy War. Very excited for that game. Byu, Utah.

Yeah. He's appearing live on college game day.

All right.

His first public appearance since his firing last week.

It really wasn't that long.

Yeah.

You don't need to do a first public appearance. Like, we got it.

I think. Is this like his audition just so he can be like, I'm making a good. A good faith effort to find a job.

Yeah, definitely.

All right, number three.

There you go. Memes back.

22.

Go memes.

33.

10.

Go. 49.

15.

Everyone watch PMTV.

99.

Pug 55. 83.

Shane, you got the rings on? Yeah. 43. Anyone have 43? No. 43 memes?

Nope.

It's just not gonna happen. No, it's really. It's three in there.

I don't know.

Have you ever looked?

No.

You wanna do one more?

Yeah, let's do one more.

One more. No, change of numbers.

Everyone keeps your number.

Yep. 49.

Is it in there?

22.

I assume it is.

I've seen it. I've seen it in there before.

I just saw it.

I think it's gonna hit right now.

35. Not even close.

35.

Love.

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