Transcript of NFL Conference Championship Sunday, Fastest 2 Minutes, Eagles Whomp The Commanders, The Chiefs are Inevitable + Who's Back of the Week

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We start in Philadelphia commanders. And like my good friend, Max, Saquon was obviously winded at the end of the runs, breathing heavily and having big pants. Also like Max, Saquon flew and popped twice up the giant gut and rolled into the end zone making Washington go belly up. The story of this game was turnovers, not the ones Max eats, fat. And much like Max in the bathtub, washing ton, struggled to clean up their game.

As the Eagles continue to pound the rock, they began to tip the scales and put up a huge number, Max. Ultimately, it was a great season for the Commanders, but much like Max, Washington fans have to admit, even though they took 1 on the chins, being a good football team was worth the huge wait. As for the Eagles, just like when Max has ice cream, they go for the Super Bowl. I mean, this is this is ridiculous. I tried to cheer What the fuck?

Trying to cheer up my friend's PFT. Pussy shit. I'm trying to I were losing this game,

so I

wouldn't be doing all this shit. Cheer up my friend PFT. Boom. Boom. Did did you

hear about the, Washington Commander's lie the the defensive players for

the Commanders? When I told There was there were some bad LBs.

Like, when I told Max I was gonna write this boomer, I said, I'm a cheer up. I'm a cheer up my good friend PFT. Let me finish it, Max. As for the Eagles, just like when Max has ice cream, they go for the Super Bowl. We're all You're the 1 who eats ice cream.

Some on the floor.

This is my boomer. Eagles is 55. Commander is 23. You played really well, teach.

Also also, boom, they're very excited about getting to the licks.

We go to Kansas City for our annual coronation of Patrick Mahomes as the Bills come into town with a wagon circle. After a quick 3 out, the Chiefs get the ball and proceed to march 90 yards with Kareem with me, Kareem for the ear, Kareem for the laugh, Kareem for the tears. Hunt set Aerosmith Stadium ablaze. Buffalo responded to take the lead as Edgar James almost Cook stood and delivered a score of his own. Xavier Tears, Worthy, had another grande weekend, teaming up with Patrick Mahomes in a deep cut, and then Mahomes ran 1 in for section celebrated with a worst attempted spike since Bill Crosby.

But the Bills needed to cut it to a 1 score game before halftime as Josh Allen dropped back back back back back back and found Mac Mac Mac Mac Mac Hollins cutting his lead to 5 before the break. The second half started like the bachelor party that Max will be invited to as the Bills kept rolling, but the big man refused to get TD fucked. Buffalo did their best impression of Patrick Mahomes senior putting together another wild drive before blowing 2 points. This game was drunk, folks. And somehow Kansas City's offense stalled out giving Buffalo the ball back with the lead.

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Super Bowl 59 is set. Eagles versus Chiefs rematch of Super Bowl 57, but we gotta talk about the games first. And then we'll we'll do some some early thoughts on the Super Bowl. Let's start with eagles 55, commanders 23, PFT.

I gotta take some medicine. That sucked. I gotta take some medicine. We got our ass kicked. It was an ass kicking.

The fumbles really what what caused the game to be such a blowout, but it it didn't really feel like I got bad vibes from that first defensive snap of the game when Saquon Barkley was 1 of my key to the games. It was, not letting Saquon Barkley score long touchdowns.

Yeah.

And he scored a long touchdown right when he got the ball. The defense played pretty poorly today. Offense with the fumbles. It was an ass kicking, and I will admit that it was easier to come back against Kenny Pickett Mhmm. When we're down a similar amount.

That was in the game.

That was easy. He got in the game late. It was easier to come back against him in that offense. Jalen Hurts played awesome today. He played really, really good.

Saquon Barkley is a beast. Dickerson is a tough motherfucker. Cam Juergens, tough motherfucker on their offensive line. Yep. Credit to them.

I I hear a lot of people talking about big picture. That that's the words of comfort that people are giving me to me right now is like, well, think about the I don't wanna think about the big picture right now. The big picture who cares about the big picture? I'm standing too close to the painting to worry about the big picture. Big picture, that's that's a conversation for another day.

It's off season.

Like, I just watched Friday night lights yesterday, the movie. Mhmm. Big picture. Yeah. You could say Billingsley has a cool ass dad that loves to party.

Big picture, Boobie Miles has twins that he loves very much. I don't care about big I I care about what happened today, and what happened today was an ass kicking. We're very close to Super Bowl, 1 game away. But then once that game started, it did not feel like we were very close to the Super Bowl.

Yeah.

Jaden played awesome. I thought he played great. We're not counting that last interception.

You you actually said it before. You're like, we're not counting these if he throws a pick on this last drive, it doesn't count. I I agree with that.

Yeah. Yeah. It counts for Quinton Mitchell. That was a great interception by him, but that doesn't go against Jaden stats in my book. Yeah.

It was just it was an ass kicking. The offense moved the ball pretty good, but when we did move the ball, we'd give it up on a fumble or it was the 4th downs were looking good too right off the bat. That initial drive that we took down the field, we only came away at 3, but it felt like a good drive to set the tone, hang on to the football, control the clock, just manage. Take what they give you. And, you know, then the Eagles went up, and then it felt like we were never really in a position where it felt like it could be real.

Yeah. So it sucks it sucks to lose. This is like this is a new feeling for me because it's it it sucks to lose a lot of games, but it also does suck to be close to going to a Super Bowl and then losing that because nothing is guaranteed. Dan Marino got to a Super Bowl his 2nd year, and he's like, I'll be back to plenty of these. Not necessarily the case.

I think he made it back to 2 AFC championship games after that

Mhmm.

And lost both of those. So when you're this close, it sucks. But that said, I I do realize that we've got a great quarterback. We've got, in my opinion, a great head coach for this moment, and Adam Peters, a great GM. And also, I will admit that Max was right when I didn't say, shut the fuck up, Hank.

Mhmm.

When I didn't say fuck. He was. But I think we all

knew that. I think the the wind horse fingers Yeah. We knew by your reaction that it there's it was probably true.

Yeah. So my off season, I'm trying to figure out levels of cope, levels of cope after this game. I'm not gonna stoop to the levels of certain people. I'm not gonna just say I blame the refs. I saw a lot of that going on.

A lot of the Eagles are 7 and o when Sean Hockley refs their games. We got our ass kicked. We they hung 55 points on us.

Mhmm. That

was not I'm not gonna blame that on the refs.

Conference championship record. Conference championship record. Also tied the most rushing touchdowns.

Yeah. It was bad. It was an ass kicking. It was an ass kicking across the board. Our defense didn't play well at all.

Latimore didn't play well. Mike Sander still didn't play well. Nobody I mean, maybe Jonathan Allen had a decent game. It was just bad. It was a it was a bad thing to experience, but, you know, maybe we'll get better.

My off season is gonna be spent just scouring top 10 quarterback list. I think that's how I'll I'll go. And if I'm dissatisfied with where people put Jaden Daniels, I'll get really mad at that. I feel like that's something I'm gonna be focusing in on.

That's a good use of your energy.

Also, great performance by Max today. Sitting next to him on the couch, she spat on me, like, 7 times accidentally. Mhmm. Hit me in my eyeball. Yeah.

Not that 1 was wrong. It was

a it it was hell. It was hell since Similar to Jaylen Carter. Similar. Very similar.

Yeah. But, I actually think Max I wrote down his note, like, you should get to poke Max in the eye.

Yeah. Listen.

Like, he should come in here right now, and you should poke him directly in the eye.

I wish he had hit me in both eyes so I didn't have to see the ass kicking. Mhmm. It's very rare that you can see yourself getting your ass kicked.

Yeah. It was, it it was a tough game for the commanders. I mean, the 4 turnovers or or 3 turnovers or 3 fumbles were very bad, but I I don't think that it was obviously, they're significant, but, also, the Eagles offense was just running down your throat. And Jalen Hurts was awesome. He that the game, I I feel like, came down to that 4th and 5, shot played AJ Brown because that was, I think, a 20 to 12 game at the moment at the time.

And he makes that throw perfect throw, and he was doing everything. Saquon was doing everything, and the Eagles' defense is is fucking good because it's as much as, like, Jaden played well, it also everything was more difficult for the commanders. Even that first drive, it was, like, 14 plays. You got 3. And you did that a few times where it's like you get 3 you get 3 instead of 7, and you just can't do that against a team like the Eagles with the way they were playing on offense.

It was way more difficult for us when we had the ball for sure. And, yeah, the turnovers sucked. That was turnovers were very significant. But also at the same time, they turned those turnovers into touchdowns.

Right.

And that's what made it so difficult to come back from.

Yeah.

And so, yeah, we at least we still have the hard rock.

You still have the hard rock.

Commander's territory. Can you play the guy

the the guy's video? So for people who've missed it, the commanders commander fan meet up at the hard rock in Philly last night.

Philly, iconic space in Philadelphia.

Yes. Everyone knows I I saw a lot of Philly people being like, I don't even know where the fuck this is, but the Hard Rock has fallen. And this guy's speech was was so funny because it really was, like, what I would imagine, they said once they stormed the beaches of Normandy and they and they finally got, like, the, you know, they they got control of France. They they entered into France. This is almost exactly what it was like when they got the hard rock last night.

Alright. Play it. Guys for coming out here tonight and fucking represent it. Right? Excuse my language.

But what we want to do tonight, we did.

We didn't

go with this place. Yeah. That's right. The hard rock has fallen. We wanted to have a safe space for all of us to be tonight, and that's what we did.

I love each and every 1 of you guys. We came out to all these We came out to make Do me a favor. You take care of all these people in the Hard Rock. Yeah. Good guy.

I love it. Yeah. Place. He he does seem like a genuinely good guy, and it's more just part

of all

The the funniest is more just the fact

that it

was the hard rock. Yeah. And they're like Go, man. We came out here to accomplish Get this up. Getting, you know And you deserve this.

And you deserve this. 50 simultaneous reservations at the hard rock. Shout out shout out open table. We did it.

That guy that guy sounds a lot like Obama. It's not Obama. He's like, good evening.

Tonight. I can report to the American people and to the world that the Washington commanders have conducted an operation that fully compromised the hard rock cafe.

Oh, no. Were they giving him shit on the way out? What were they saying? Great tailgate at the hard rock. Great.

And the fact that I just got to go over the hard rock.

The hard rock, the the rocky steps.

To the hard rock.

This is what you think about.

That's nice.

It's a good rock. Great job to hard rock, buddy. I'll eat them. Oh, no. I'll eat them.

It's so funny that it was the Hard Rock Cafe. And I I think They they went for the week that they went they they figured out that if Philadelphia has 1 weakness, it's that you can probably get a a shitload of reservations on a Saturday night before the NFC championship game at the Hard Rock downtown.

That's the 1, yeah, that's the 1 area of weakness that you guys have. Yeah. The that speech probably happens across America before every football game, every weekend, like, opposing fans come into town. This guy was just unfortunate enough that it was videotaped and put out there as, like, a motivational thing.

Then it was 5523. Yeah. It's, I I like to imagine, like what what's the guy's name? Tailgate something? I he had it on his back.

Anyway, I like I like to imagine this guy this week, like, sitting around tailgate Teddy, I think. Sitting around with, like, war maps out being like, should we go to for the Applebee's? What about the Chili's? No, sir. We've done some advanced scouting, and the hard rock is weak.

We can get into the hard rock.

I've seen some vulnerabilities.

We could take over the hard rock.

Yeah. The,

We've scouted it out. We've we've had we've had advanced scouts at the Hard Rock all week, you know, testing their patterns and everything.

I love that because for a moment, when I felt like the Commanders might win the game right basically, right after kickoff Yeah. I just thought about how that hard rock will always forever be known as a Washington commander's watering hole. The hard rock is falling. A place that you have to you have to make a trip to whenever you're in Philly.

Like, it's

mecca. But yeah. Listen. I no excuses. It was an ass kicking.

We got a a a rental defense full of bunch of 1 year guys. It's gonna be a different team next year. They were playing better than they did at the start of the year, but, yeah, the defense was was not good today. Yep.

It's tough. Before we talk about the Eagles and let Max, bathe in the glory here, I also wanna say, shout out Frankyluvu for letting us all know that a rule exists that I didn't know existed until today. It's called the palpably unfair act. And, apparently, if you just do this if you if you intentionally get a penalty over and over, the ref can just award a touchdown to the other team. So there was a moment in the Q3, I believe, where the Eagles were on the goal line, and they were trying to push push.

And Frankie Louvoo kept on jumping over the line Mhmm. Trying to tackle Jalen Hurts and getting an offsides penalty. And the ref said, this is a warning for a probably unfair act. And if they continue to do it, we will award the Eagles a touchdown. I had no idea.

Florio obviously was all over it. I guess it's been

a rule since 1942. It's so, like, if if Mike Tomlin had stepped onto the field and tackled the Ravens returner on his way into the end zone

Yeah.

Then you could award it. Like, in in rugby, they have it's called penalty try

that

they do actually a lot.

Yeah. They I I think they he also noted, like, there was a game maybe last year where a team was jumping off sides over and over for a field goal try. Yeah. So they could just give you the points, which I had no idea. That's kind of it's kinda crazy the ref could just say that.

I kinda wish they had just ruled it a touchdown. Because if they'd ruled it a touchdown, then I could be like, the fucking refs

gave you guys 6 points. Stay woke. Stay woke. They obviously, basically educated America on the probably unfair act rule right before they use it for the Chiefs in the Super Bowl. Yeah.

Good call. I mean, that's they're gonna use it for the Chiefs, and we're all gonna be like, wait. Oh, yeah. That is a rule. It's been around since 1942.

Yeah. You're gonna look at the guy that's next to you at the Super Bowl party that doesn't know the palpably unfair rule. That's that's a rule I wish I could hear John Madden pronounce.

Yeah.

That would be great.

I It's an act. It's not even a rule.

It's an act.

It's a

probably unfair act. That was what Frankie Louvoo was doing.

I would also like to announce that this game, I will not allow it to turn me into an anti tush push guy. Okay. Because the tush push the tush push, it's a play. It's a football play. If you wanna stop it, then stop it.

Don't stop it by taking out. You can run it too. Yeah. Like, anybody can do it. I had saw a lot of people that were pissed off about the tush push.

We didn't lose the game because of the referees. We lost the game because Philadelphia played very, very good on defense, and they played excellently on offense. Yeah. Hurts had an incredible game today, and that throw to AJ Brown that kinda felt like it it stopped whatever momentum that we had. Yeah.

It was a perfect throw.

It was a perfect throw. And and, yeah, Vic Fangio is an incredible defensive coordinator. It was very clear from the jump that their entire game plan was, let's just take away. We're gonna take away, Jaden Daniels' first read and make him go through his progressions, which he's able to do, obviously. But you could see the explosiveness wasn't there for the Washington offense because it was a lot of shorter passes that, you know, you had to go 14 play drive to get 3.

Mhmm. And Vic Fangio is just I mean, he's a great defensive coordinator. And, you know, dialing up blitzes when he had to, they were able to keep like, they played really sound defense in keeping Jaden Daniels in the pocket as well. Like, it didn't feel like he had he had a couple of those big runs. I there was 1 that I can really think of.

But for the most part, they did a really good job of making sure that he wasn't able to just completely gas him with his legs.

Yeah. They did a very good job. And congrats, Max. Congrats, Hank. Hank, how do you feel?

Your birds are going to

the Super Bowl. You you actually, I think, were the closest to having the correct score.

Yeah.

Yet it is a blowout.

So it was gonna be a blowout. It was a blowout. I feel good. I don't feel as good after the Chiefs win. I kinda I just stuck in between a rock and a hard place, but, you know, if wasn't for the fumbles, it could have been a closer game.

I don't think the Commanders played as badly as as you're you're kinda saying PFT, but the fumbles made it impossible to win. No. Or The Commanders

need to Their offense is really bad. Their defense played awful.

Yeah.

I mean, their the Yeah.

The first thing

rushing touchdowns is is pretty hard to come come back.

And a lot of bad penalties that gave them the ball in in scoring position. So it was yeah. The defense played very poor. I I don't think

the offense played bad at all.

I give the offense a b grade. The Eagles went 230 passing 229 rushing. I mean and that's that's his that's his, like, sound of a game as you can possibly have. 459 total yards. And, it did feel like whenever they had the ball, they were just gonna go right down the field.

Max, I have some things to say about Nick Sirianni. Would you like to hear them?

I would love to hear them.

Okay. So Nick Sirianni, as a head coach, this is his 4th season. He's the 1st head coach to win the NFC, 2 out of his 1st 4 years in the last 40 years. No other coach has done that. He's 4820, all time, which is the highest winning percentage of any active head coach.

706 winning percentage. He's 53 in the playoffs. He's made the playoff playoffs all 4 years. People obviously be like, well, yeah, he's had a super team. I mean, the 1st year, they were 9 8.

They weren't a super team. Like, they went to the Super Bowl his 2nd year. Last year, it felt like everything was kinda falling apart at the end of the season, comes into this year. Since September, they have not lost the game that Jalen Hartz Jalen Hartz started and finished, and was healthy since September 29th. So that's a long ass time.

I think that was week 4 against the Bucks. And he's done all of this while being, like, maybe having, like, a mental issue and very Italian.

No mental issue. That that was an unnecessary issue.

Crazy. You tried to run

you tried to run him out of town last year. Yeah.

What you're talking about.

He's a little emotionally unstable. I'm saying this is all credit to him. Like, he's and he's coaching Italian. Coaching Italian, that's a hard thing to do. Coaching Italian.

Fiery guy.

No. Yeah. That's a positive. Coaching Italian is a good thing.

You coach it, but it can also be a negative sometimes.

Vince Lombardi?

Yeah. True. Ever heard of him? Coaching Italian is is hard to do. He's thinking of other Italians.

Steve Spagnuolo? Mhmm.

Yeah. Great head coach. Great head coach.

Great coordinator.

I would say coaching Italian is is difficult. This credit to Sirianni. Yep. He's coaching very Italian.

Yeah. No. He's good. He's great.

Alright. So, yeah, Sirianni is is has proven that he's 1 of the best coaches in in the NFL. It is crazy that I think at the beginning of this season, he was on a hot seat. But with the way last year ended, it's not like there's still some context, but he completely rebounded off off of the debacle of the end of last season. This team is really fucking good.

And like I said, they haven't lost a game with Jalen Hurts healthy since September 29th, and they're going to another Super Bowl 2 out of his 1st 4 years as a head coach. He's a awesome, awesome head coach, and he deserves a lot of credit. And Jalen Hurst deserves a lot of credit too because, he has had games where it hasn't looked pretty. This is another big game where he came up big, and he was awesome today with his legs. And, I mean, he's injured, and he was throwing the ball well.

And, if you're gonna say, like, Jalen Hurst is in a good QB, then you should have to give more credit to Nick Sirionni. Right? You can't have it both ways. I'm talking about the haters.

I don't think the haters can say any Yeah.

The haters can't say anything, but I'm just pointing out that, like, if your argument is Jalen Hurts is not is, like, not great, it's like, well, then Nick Sirianni is the best coach ever. Or Jalen Hurts is really good, and Nick Sirianni is also really good, which is what I believe.

No. I mean, Jalen Hurts, I I I knew he was gonna have a a good game today. He always does that.

Why are you mad about that?

Yeah. He's angry at the

at the haters.

I am angry at the haters.

I have

a list of the haters.

Oh, yeah. You I told you. Make make sure you compile a list.

You know what we should do? At the Super we should make Max available for media interviews. Yeah. Like, if if other if other shows want to interview

Max Yes. We'll we'll screen him.

Yep. But we'll

I won't do a good job

with that. Go on any show.

Yep. I won't do a good job with that those. Okay.

I want you going up and down Radio Row.

Put them on Radio Row. Yeah. Alright. Go and take it out.

I will do it.

I have 6 people on my bad list, and then 2 people are on on a good list.

Oh.

I do have 2 Hank? Hank?

Hank's looking to me.

While you're doing the face.

Put on he he wants to be on the good list.

Yeah. You Hank can Hank can be

on the good list.

That's 3 people.

I'll add Hank to the good list.

Okay.

I also don't have there's no references here. It was just I was I was throughout the week going through Twitter and, like, watching different things and then just putting people on name on the list. I don't remember what any of them said.

Okay. Okay.

So don't ask don't ask me that.

Yeah. That's fair.

Bad list. Mike Greenberg.

What'd he say?

Don't know. Chris Simms. Chris Simms said a lot of shit.

Okay. Uh-huh.

Chase Daniel.

K.

Co host of Diana Rossini, I think. Right?

Yeah. Yep. Yes.

That's the name of

the podcast.

Yes. Co it's

called Diana Rossini.

No. It's it's actually just called cohost of Diana Rossini.

Alex Smith, Kurt Benkert

Okay.

And Nick Wright.

Okay.

All bad. All bad. Good. Dan Orlovsky. Yep.

He he told everyone they're pieces of shit for saying that Jalen Hurd stinks, and he said that

Jalen Hurd. Shit, though. He said piece piece of turd.

I don't think yeah. He basically just said that turd was good.

Yeah.

And Craig Carton Craig Carton also was was backing up the Eagles. So those are my 2 good guy list and my 6 bad guy list. I don't know any of the context for any of these people, but that that's I

get it. I get it. They probably said something, like, I don't know if Jalen Hurts has what it takes to win this football game.

Yeah. No. Bad. Oh, there's a lot of Jalen Hurts is not a Super Bowl winning quarterback, which really pissed me off.

Well, he's not.

Not yet.

We got let out today. Yeah. He said, Sirianni finally let me out. Yeah. Let him off the league.

Well, yeah. I mean, he was last week last week was a snow game. It's hard for any quarterback to be good in the snow game, and he was hurt. And now he's he's got a little confidence. We're going back to the Super Bowl.

He had he had his best game of his career against Patrick Mahomes in the Super Bowl. He's gotta do it again.

Okay. So talk to us about the game. I mean, the you you almost passed out watching this game.

Yeah. That was bad. That was that was, like, this a big wake up moment in that game. Positive pass out.

Some people are saying that

you Wait.

What exactly pass out play?

It was the fumble on the kickoff. Off. He got up too fast and, I got excited. And screamed and then spit on PFT and then held his head because he was like, oh my god. I almost passed out.

Some people are saying you don't go all the way because, like, they're the Eagles players are out there blood and guts, puking, just trying their hardest, and you're worried about passing out.

I was very close to passing out.

You should've just passed out.

I was very close to passing out. Mom, I know you're listening to this. I'm gonna work on it. I'm sorry because she's definitely gonna be very upset that that that I almost passed out.

Mhmm. She's gonna wish you had passed out.

Yeah. Were any of the things I said in the boomers true?

I no. Okay. Max.

Max, you got a dog to live for now. You can't pass out.

Yeah. Great great dog. Nola.

Nola. Breaking Moose. Breaking Moose. Breaking Moose. Nola was the name Nola boss.

Given name.

I was really hoping that dog was gonna be a Jinx, that he got a dog named Nola 2 days before the, the game to send you to Nola.

Yeah. No. That that was that was bizarre.

What's it? You got a dog?

I did get a dog. So for the haters that say, hate dogs

Is she okay? Eat you.

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K cups, whole beans, grounds, everything. Sellbluecoffee.com. Alright. So you got a dog, Noah from Paws. Shout out Paws.

Shout out Paws. Paws made it very easy. It was a very good They're the best. You know, interaction. They brought me into the dog and made it seamless.

Got me out to in and out the door really quickly and you know?

Also, I just wanna say Paws does do screening. So you like, they did screen Max before. I know that people are gonna be like, what kind of operation is Paws if they're letting Max walk out with a dog? They called me and they asked for like, they basically talked to me for 30 minutes about the history of Max.

Yeah. Well, I mean, you look at the Philadelphia Eagles jersey, you think Michael Vick. Not sure if this guy needs a dog right now.

Mhmm. But yeah. So they vetted him. And I had to I think I had to sign I had to sign something on your back.

This is this is all this is all

a lie.

It's a very cute dog. It's a cute

dog, Max.

It's gonna

be a great dog owner.

I'm excited.

Going into it going into the game, PFT PFT at a better height video, and he and Max was like, I haven't slept. I've had a bad weekend because of this dog.

I was worried on That's not true. I had a good weekend because of the dog, but I had a But he

said, like, I haven't slept. My sleep schedule's fucked, and this dog is ruined it.

Like The reason I haven't slept is the dart stream. And the dog.

Noah. Were you nervous about getting a dog named Nola

right before

I was very nervous about that.

What is the dog? So the dog's name is not Nola anymore?

The dog's name is Billy.

Oh, like football?

Yeah. Kinda kinda like football. Nope. She's she's a good dog. We went through.

We've been looking at Paula's for me and my girlfriend have been looking at Paula's for a really long time, and we finally found a dog that we were not not finally, but the we found a dog that we were really excited about, and we jumped on it. And it happened to be that her name was Nola.

You jumped on the dog?

We jumped on the opportunity to get the dog.

It would've been so good, though, if you'd if you'd lost this game and your dog's name I would've just called that dog Nola Yeah. For forever.

But you didn't. If you win the Super Bowl, I think it's gotta go back to Nola.

Yeah. We can't keep going back. I thought about it, but we can't keep going back and forth.

Alright. So back to the game. Kugats on the dog. Very cute dog. Also Everyone go get a dog from Paws Chicago.

Any Chicago dog trainers out there, hit me up. I gotta train this dog. Okay.

K. Congratulations, Max.

The game, Max?

Yeah. No. The game was great. There's not really much more I can say. Jalen Hurst was fantastic.

Shaquan Barkley is the best player in the NFL, and I think that he will he's gonna change the running back market because it shows that we're going we're going back into a play of game where running the football matters and you you can win running. Because there was that stat that was going on for forever that actually Yeah. We still don't know that we still don't know that stat.

Well, yeah, because you didn't win the Super Bowl yet.

I know. But Saquon Barkley is a piece that this team this team is where they are right now without Saquon.

Okay. Max, I fully acknowledge that Saquon Barkley is probably the best running back in the NFL. Him and Derrick Henry, I would say Saquon's probably a little bit better. I'm pissed off at the Giants the Giants for letting you guys have them. That sucks for me.

But when you say he's gonna change the way that we look at running backs and signing running backs, the free agents this offseason, Aaron Jones, pretty good player. Najee Harris, Jeff Wilson, AJ Dillon, Nick Chubb off an injury. I don't know if any of those guys are worth

I'm not just saying immediately, but, like, going forward, like, if like, Saquon Barkley is getting paid less than Gabe Davis.

Yeah. No. I mean, Saquon Barkley, but does he doesn't grow on trees.

But, like, I'm saying, like, Bijon's next contract. Yeah. Yeah. Like, he's going to

get Yeah.

Yeah. More than the top running back was getting this past offseason.

And it was it's also like the Eagles played it perfectly because I I don't I still don't think that you should pay a running back a ton of money if you're not a team ready to compete for a Super Bowl. The Eagles were a loaded roster, and adding Saquon Barkley just makes them that much better. Whereas, like, if you added Saquon Barkley to the Giants, the Giants aren't going to the playoffs. True. So it it it's more like teams that are are on the precipice.

Like, that that's a perfect perfect signing, but he's a beast. The Eagles are just really fucking good, and they were we said it in on Friday. Like, they're better at pretty much every position than the commanders, and that that showed today. Like, their their defensive line got a great push. Their offensive line, even though there's injuries, was was very good, kept Jalen Hurts relatively clean.

AJ Brown and Devante Smith are still difference makers. Dallas Goater, 1 of the most underrated tight ends. He needs more credit. Dallas Goddard's a beast. He was an absolute monster.

And he actually the the the the biggest 1 of the biggest plays in the first half that felt like a pretty consequential play was when they didn't have Dallas Goedder on the field, and Calcutterra wasn't able to pick up the blitz, and they got a huge the Commander's got a huge sack. And, that was, like, the moment where it's like, oh, shit. Are the Commander's gonna be back in this game? But, yeah, the Eagles are just an all around really, really good team. Speaking of huge sacks, that was a

great fake punt to Dan Quinkle.

Oh, yeah.

It was awesome. And when I said that we have a better punter, Tresway can also throw the ball. Yeah. That was but that was also 1 of those you're down, what, 14 to 3 at the time, I think.

Yeah.

It's like you gotta you gotta try something. You gotta you gotta put your nuts on the table. And, it was it was a great play, but it it never felt sustainable what the commanders were doing. Yeah. It just didn't.

We got behind, and we kinda stayed behind. Great touchdown catch and run by Terry McLaurin. I'm so glad he's a commander. I'm so glad I get to root for guys like Terry and guys like Jaden. But still, I don't wanna I don't wanna think big picture.

A lot of people are are gonna be sending me big picture wishes. I appreciate the wishes, but I do not I don't wanna think about the big picture right now. Just let me be be very sad and upset in the small little microscope. I'm I'm looking at the season with an electron microscope right now. Yeah.

Play by play for today.

I guess, correct way to do it. The big picture is an off season thing. Yeah. That's that's an off season, thought exercise that you'll be able to do for the next 7 months. Right now, you got your ass kicked in

the NFC championship game. That sucks. I promise you I will be moved on to big picture by next week. This Maybe not. I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna make sure.

Way when we're when we're

Super Bowl.

Yeah. When we're in New Orleans and Max is, like, living his best life and wearing ridiculous pants,

I'm gonna gumbo my way out of it. I'm gonna gumbo my way out of thinking small picture.

In you. I believe in you. Max, yeah, that was that had to be been, like, 1 of the most enjoyable games, though, for you.

Yeah. No. It was great. I it it it's still it's still was stressful. You know, I was saying stupid shit at the end

of the day. Max said when, the Eagles were up, I believe they were up 25 with 6 minutes left. Max said this is still gonna end up being ending, 1 score game. Yeah. And we had to explain to him.

We're like, there's 6 minutes left. The best like, if they score 17 points, they're down 8, and they that would mean they had 3 possessions in the last 6 minutes.

Well, we we work at a company where it's like you'd you realize that you have to go out of your way not to say anything that could be ever interpreted as

a jinx. Yeah.

So if you're up, you don't say things like great win before the game's over. You don't count your chickens, and that was White Sox Dave,

by the way.

Yeah. Nice job, White Sox.

Said I'll never apologize for a win.

I'll never apologize for a win.

Yeah.

So Mac but Mac has learned to not touch these 3rd rails because he's gotten shocked so many times that now he's just he's not even going down to the subway station.

I I still grace those rails.

Yeah. I mean, he said we we want the commies before he even played the Rams.

That's true. But in his defense, he was drunk. Yeah. He was drunk. It was a Saturday night.

Max, also shout out Roan. Big he surprised everyone. He texted me yesterday. He was like, I'm gonna be there. Don't tell anyone.

He walked in. I've you could tell that it was that was tough for you.

It was tough. And, hey, I gotta put my

hand weapon.

I gotta put

my hand up too and say, like, I I didn't show enough fight either. I don't know. I gotta learn how to win.

Yeah. It's a process. It was, it was a asking, though, Max. You gotta you gotta feel good, and you're going back to the Super Bowl. You gotta get redemption against the Kansas City Chiefs.

And not to put pressure on you, Max, but do you have you had the moment to realize, like, what what's at stake here in terms of you in this podcast? And, like, if we have to have another losing Max second place situation, like, that's a bit bad.

I mean, that that's you would love that. No.

I'm I don't want that. I have a future on the Eagles.

But as far as far as for this podcast, you would love good for numbers. You would love to see me lose.

Just in terms of numbers, I think people wanna see Sad Max in the pants.

Yeah. I'm not I'm not saying me.

They've seen it enough.

Oh, but It's Chiefs. I know. I'm rooting

for the Eagles. If it was the Bills, it would be a whole other thing.

The Bills. I would have cashed out and I would have been I would have been Josh Allen in your face the whole time.

Let's mix it up. Let's get some Happy Macs celebratory mix.

You don't have anything financially No. At stake here, do you?

Or legacy stake. Oh, legacy.

Oh, I'm thinking about the fans and what they want.

Big legacy stake.

They wanna see Max win.

I I don't like that memes has weaponized the Max picture. And even when Max wins, he just puts somebody else's face on Max. Yeah. And then it's also a reminder of that time that Max lost.

I don't think that's fair to Max. Yeah.

He put your face That was you, bro.

I don't think that's fair to Max.

It was you.

That was you. It was me. It was my face.

So Deal with the beard. It's just a great sad

time to tell me.

Yeah. Oh, you have to get wax now too.

Oh. I

forgot about the wax. I didn't I forgot about the wax too. Shit. I'll get wax and Nola. How about that?

Yeah. Yeah. That'll be tough.

Max, have you texted big Dom yet? No. I I texted him on your behalf.

No. Already?

Yeah. I said no. I didn't say anything about the I just said, congrats

to

you and Nola with the eagle emoji and the Italian flag. And he just wrote back, thanks, Paisan. See you there. Italian flag. He thinks I'm Italian, which

is fine. I'm not Italian father. Italian father.

Yeah. Italian father. Max, this is the 5th time in Super Bowl history we're gonna have a rematch of coaches in the big game. The losing coach has lost all 4 of the rematches.

You were telling me stats last week, though, that that for you that

Jalen Hurts. Chuck Noah over Tom Landry, Jimmy Johnson over Marv Levy, Coughlin over Bill Belichick, and Andy Reid over Shanahan. And this will be Andy Reid versus, Nick Sirianni too. So each time, the winning the winning coach the first time won the second time as well.

Eagles win rematches, though. Well, that's

There you go.

Yeah. That and we're go killers.

Yep. Chiefs also win rematches. Shit. Do they? Well, they yeah.

We figured out the stat before. Well, look. They win the re they re they win the first 1 too. And the rematch rematch. Yeah.

I guess it's almost a rematch.

Yeah. They somehow win everything.

Yeah. Chiefs like to win.

Yeah. Mhmm.

Alright. So any anything else, Max? Like like, New Orleans, it's gonna be your week.

I know. I'm so excited. It's gonna be, like, the best week of my life. I

Cool. That's awesome. That's fucking cool. That's that is so so fucking sweet. About the week

before like, what about preceding that? We're probably gonna get to interview an eagle, hopefully.

Yep. That'll be all. Even a big dom.

Maybe big dom. Although, I don't really wanna

big dom.

I don't wanna interview big dom Super Bowl week because he I didn't wanna ask because he's gonna be like, it's about the players.

The people want big Dom.

We're gonna interview big Dom Grit Week. Maybe. We're we're gonna interview him Grit

Week. Let's not well, let's not big Dom, you know big Dom does what big Dom wants.

We love big Dom. We're not gonna We're not gonna we're not gonna pressure him. I don't know. I wouldn't feel comfortable

asking him,

but we're gonna try to get an eagle.

What if what if his daughter's getting married, like, during the week? And we can go to him. We can ask him whatever favor we want, and he has to say yes.

That's true.

I don't know. Okay. I'm just excited for the week. I I want the Eagles win.

Will the pants be making a a can we get the pants back on?

No. I'm wearing the same thing that I've worn the past few games.

But can we get the

saw what PFT did when he changed up his outfit.

You mean when I changed up my outfit?

I I

wore 2 different outfits for each of her playoff games. I didn't have an outfit to repeat.

You got you got bullied online for the for the jumpsuit and

you Oh, I got bullied online.

You got scared to wear it.

You think you think I'm afraid to wear something that makes me look ridiculous?

You showed up in jeans today.

Yeah. It's a they're pants. They're Muggsies. They're super comfortable pants. They feel like sweatpants.

They're most comfortable pants

in the world, you idiot. But you the you don't you're not a jeans guy for a big game. You're a wear crazy jumpsuit guy.

I've that's last week. I wear jeans for games all the time. My most famous pictures at games are of me wearing jeans. Like, big jeans.

Clutch jeans.

Clutch jeans. You could've I oh, that's fair. I should've worn the Gencos. I should've worn the Gencos today.

We have we have Muggsy Gencos. Mhmm.

I should've worn them. That's a fair point. But to say that the jumpsuit I didn't have, like, an outfit that I wore, a good luck outfit.

And you and you shaved

your beard. But Max had a good luck outfit.

I didn't I didn't shave

my where he is. You got a haircut? I got I

got a haircut. Everyone knows playoff time. Playoff

Max wants us to mention the fact that he's been growing out his beard. No. Which I didn't realize. That's

not true. I don't even want you to realize it. I just want you to know that I am I'm dialed on winning a Super Bowl. I need to win a Super Bowl.

He also he he's out of the boot, and he wore the boot.

Yeah. Yep. I put the boot back. I Big Ben. Yeah.

No. I I had I'm bringing the boot I'm bringing the boot to normal.

You're bringing the boot to the boot?

I'm bringing the boot to the boot. I I have to wear

You have to wear to

wear the boot inside inside the Caesars Caesar Superdome. Okay.

Did Nick say What?

Can we do can we do

the Eagles win? That's a promise. If the Eagles win, I will do a shoey out of the boot. I love that. Did Nick say that'll be so gross?

Ugh. I love it.

Did Nick say that every Tuesday is Mardi Gras for Max?

Yeah. He did. Yeah.

I thought I heard that.

Another another thing Nick wrote down.

Yeah.

I didn't say.

Oh, because I'm fat?

I didn't

say I

didn't say it.

No. No.

I didn't know you spoke French.

Hey. So, Max, you're can we get the pants during the week?

I don't know exactly where those pants are right now.

Oh, no. I love that. I think they're here. I they

might be. I gave them the I gave them the hang for this Halloween costume, and then I think he gave them back to me. We gotta find them.

We gotta find them. People wanna see the pants. We gotta find

the pants.

To me, losing pants is 1 of the funniest things you can do. Yeah. I lost those particular pants.

I lose all of my clothing. My clothing is, like, a pants. 1 year lifespan until it gets lost.

Max, I have I have a question for you. Honest question. So after the game, Nick Sirianni called Jalen Hurts a winner. Mhmm. He's a winner.

Mhmm.

Do you

think that Jalen Hurts is a winner?

Mhmm. Good question.

His head's just about to

implode. I'm trying to look

at that.

Like, out of

this. Max is getting a fever. He can't get out of this.

Right way to answer.

He might just pass out.

He can't get out of this.

This question's gonna make you tap.

Is he a winner? Yes.

He is a winner. Yes. Has he won a Super Bowl?

He's in the Super Bowl.

Okay. Yeah. Hank

Hank, I'm calling in the lefty.

Every winner that's ever considered a winner has also lost Super Bowls.

Joe Montana?

Most of the winners that we could ever

consider a winner

has has lost Super Bowl.

Okay. That question.

I'm going through the list of winners.

Lot of losses in the Super Bowl.

I my whole thing I just wanted Nick Sirianni to also be listed as a winner when he's not. Terry Bradshaw? Terry Bradshaw lose?

I

don't think I don't think he did.

But they lost games. They lost big games.

Okay. We're not talking about big games. We're talking about winning Super Bowl. Because that's the standard that we have on this broadcast.

You know what I mean?

Is Terry Bradshaw the the GOAT? Is he, I mean, the GOAT?

He beat the GOAT.

We're not talking about Jalen Hurst as a GOAT. We're just asking if he's a winner or not.

Yeah. He's a winner.

He hasn't won the big 1 yet.

Okay. So you can be a winner without where he went.

But Max said that Dan Campbell

20 7.

Yeah. But Max said Dan Campbell's not a winner.

He won a national championship.

Yep. Dan Marino. Mhmm.

2 winner?

No. But he he was on

the team. He won. He played played in the game. Is Dan Marino a

winner? Nah. Okay.

He only made it once.

Dan Marino is not a winner. That was my phone, not a fart.

So if you make it twice, then you're a winner.

Farky. I mean, make it twice at the age that he's at. I would I would classify him as winner and winning a national championship.

Is Josh Allen a winner?

Josh Allen is a winner. Okay. Lamar Jackson?

He has Josh Allen

has over performed in the playoffs. Lamar Jackson has underperformed.

Okay. But if Lamar wins a second MVP Philip Rivers? 3rd? 3rd MVP.

Phil Rivers? Nope.

Not a winner? No. Okay. Okay.

Joel Embiid. Absolutely not. How can you say that with the Philly shirt on?

He hasn't made it to the past 2nd round. You see Paul George got stuck in the

In the Broad Street, like

He's trying to drive down Broad Street, and it was just, like, a

In the middle of the game? Like, after the game?

Yeah. I saw the funniest video afterwards.

The there

was this 1 kid from Philadelphia. When I say kid, I mean, I think he was 3 years old

Yeah. He looked very young.

That went up to the light pole and started trying to climb the light pole, and then a cop came up to him, fake arrested him, like, put his hand behind his back. The kid the kid wiggled out of the fake arrest and ran right back over to the light pole and started to get ready to climb it again.

I love it. Yeah. The the Philly, fan too that was walking around with the, roasting a pig with on a shopping cart, that was genius. Real men a genius.

Listen. We gotta learn how to win like that.

Yeah. Philly was on fire today. It was it looked like a very fun day in Philadelphia.

Well, I I'm not thinking big picture. I do have to acknowledge that this was an awesome season. It was beyond anyone's wild wildest expectations for the team. Hank laughed when we hired Dan Quinn. The tweet was which I bookmarked.

We got into big bookmark off. I wanna bring that

back up. Left hand up. All all on that.

So he's Sorry about your

future, by the way. I'm the commander.

Yeah. Yes.

It's heart it's heartbreaking stuff.

But it was a great season. We're I'm not thinking big picture yet, but I I am saying I'm willing to acknowledge the fact that being in this game in the NFC championship game is a feeling that I haven't felt in a very long time, and it was awesome to to care this deeply about football this late into the season.

And cherry on top, we actually, I think, posed this question last week. Does Dan Snyder watch? The story came out, which was, like, pretty much just porn for you. Oh, yeah. That Dan Snyder not only, like, is aware of the Commanders.

He's living in England, and he's fucking pissed off and so angry about all of it. Yeah.

It was so good. It came out, like, first thing in the morning on Saturday. I laid in bed reading the story just laughing out loud. He's really fucking pissed. Good.

I'm glad you're pissed. I hope you watch every second. I hope that your life is just tormented from this point forward. I was very happy reading that, but the details in that story were crazy. Yeah.

Like, after I'd probably celebrated 6 times the sale of the team, when it came time to send the financial information, all he had to do was send Josh Harris his, routing number.

Bank account.

Yeah. His bank account number. And at the very last second, Dan Snyder was like, no. I don't think I'm gonna send him my bank account number so that he can't pay me $6,000,000,000.

And and the best part was Goodell got Dan Snyder on the way out because Dan Snyder basically was like, I'm only selling this. I don't wanna sell this team. I'll sell I'm gonna make the price so ridiculous that, like, no one's gonna be able to pay for it. He wanted over $6,000,000,000. Josh Harris was barely able to get the $6,000,000,000.

And then as he's, like, about to wire the $6,000,000,000, the NFL fined him $65,000,000 that took the actual, like, full transaction just below $6,000,000,000. Yep.

That's you know what? We we said that at the time too. We said that feels like an oddly specific number. Yeah. It was like 50.5

Oh.

$1,000,000 fine on the way out. Good. I'm glad. I'm glad that he's not happy.

So funny.

I take I take pity on whatever EPL team he's

You ran him out of the country. Yeah. He literally doesn't live in the country anymore. Yeah. I got it.

He can't sell his house. He had to give that away. Yeah. Which I mean, I guess that was a nice move by him because he did give it to, like, the Cancer Society. But

Well, he also gave

because it's a tax write off too.

But he gave it to them, and it still hasn't sold.

Yeah. Yeah.

And now they have to pay for the upkeep of that house, and they're like, can we just sell this fucking thing already?

Yeah. And he, yeah. He's he's basically been run away. He lives in England, and, they even threw in, like, oh, no. Well, he actually loves it there.

And he, like, goes to a pub and, and, like

Yeah.

He he's he's having a great time.

Like a normal guy.

Best life.

I kinda I wanna do

And he doesn't drink, I don't think.

I wanna go over there.

Imagine living in London and not drinking?

He's got a drink if he's going to a Westminster pub.

Well, there was that there was that anecdote too where he was, like at 1 point, they were trying to say that, he was basically gonna get out of all the shit he did bad by being like, I used to drink, and I did that all when I was drinking, and now I don't drink anymore. Yeah. Like, I went I checked myself in a rehab excuse.

Well, his plan was, I'm gonna tell them that I stopped drinking. Yeah. Which is that's what you say when you are really admitting that you have a problem. Yeah. I'm gonna make them think I don't drink anymore.

I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna become a born again. Yeah. That'll be fine.

That's I was very happy to read that. That was great. It was fun to care about football this much until late January, but it still sucks.

Yeah.

It still hurts.

And congrats to Max. Stressful week, not a stressful game, and you're on to on to New Orleans.

It's still pretty stressful.

And so you're gonna Max is gonna go to the game. He will have a setup so that he can he can zoom in win or lose. We're not gonna stay in New Orleans for those extra days, but Max will go to the game as well of on on field reporting, and he will be on the show, win or lose. Mhmm. Actually, when does he have to come on?

I he could maybe he could he could, like, zoom in from his phone on Bourbon Street.

No. We'd have you you have to get your victory lap if you win the Super Bowl. Also, Matt you have to really stick it to us.

Shut up. There was nothing stressful about that game for you.

No. There really wasn't. I mean, there was

You scored a you scored a 60 yard touchdown on your first carry from scrimmage.

Yeah. Saquon rocks.

The the only stressful time was, like, in the Q2 when it was, I think, 1412. And then but then you guys scored, and then you got a fumble on the kickoff right after and scored again. The fake 1412 was the only time where it's like, oh, this could be a game.

The fake punt was stressful.

You were up 14 to 3.

But you were up you were up

But that felt like a like a game like, a momentum changing

But the minute you touched the ball on offense, you never were trailing.

Yeah. No. That's true. That that that's exactly for, like, 16 seconds, I think.

Yeah. Right. So you in in the 14 12, like, that was when it was close. You scored, and then the next time the commanders touched the ball is 2712.

Yeah. But we were a bit we were up 2 scores against them in that that other game too. So that's

why I keep picking.

Well, I kept saying that, and you kept telling

me that. Because I was deluding myself into thinking we had a chance to win. Perfectly normal behavior. Matter.

I know, but I it's still stressful. Like, when we went when, we went 3 and out to start the second half, I felt kinda stressed then.

I would say, like, maybe at the start of the game when we kept converting those 4th downs on that very first drive, that was probably a little bit stressful.

Yeah. The first drive was stressful.

But, Max, here's here's my road map that me and a lot of other people had this week to convince ourselves this was gonna be a good, good football game. The Eagles are so good. They're better at every position. Yeah. But Jaden Daniels might be actual magic.

That's what that's what we're telling ourselves and force we're forcing ourselves to believe that Jaden Daniels was literally God and that he could do whatever he want he wanted and nothing else in the game would matter. That's that's the level that we had to get to to convince ourselves that this was gonna be a commander's win.

Fred Smoot, we told me we were gonna lose by 50.

Think Fred Smoot watched that game and was like, what the what the fuck? He was he just like I know. I was watch that game being like, did I is am I sleeping right now? Like, this can't be happening.

I was getting I love what I I love what Fred Smoot was saying because I liked hearing it. I liked listening to it. But, also, as he was saying it, I was just thinking the whole time, like, this is not good. This is not good that he's gassing us up so much. But yeah.

Congrats, Max. Congrats, Hank.

Yeah. I'm I'm excited for next week.

I got a feature too on the Eagles.

Oh, also buy some merch. We got some new merch Yeah.

There you go.

In the Philly store. Hank is wearing some of this.

Does that make you nervous that it's Chiefs Eagles again and I can

Oh, yeah. I can

win a shitload of money?

Oh, yeah. Okay. A lot of this sounds familiar.

Yeah. A lot of it sounds very familiar.

Hit them low. Hit them high.

There we

go. Unnecessary

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Okay. Chiefs 32, Bills 29. How do we wanna do this, PFT? Do we wanna just do the ref thing at first or we wanna talk about the game and then we can give ourselves a minute talk about the ref thing.

I was thinking that we would do 40 minutes on the spot. Yeah. 40 minutes on the 4th down spot.

That game was a great game, incredible game, like, as close as it could be. It felt like to start the game, the bills were gonna get boat raced, but they hung tough. And, you know, let's just say it because everyone's complaining about it. The the spot, I did not agree with the spot. I still will I'll still maintain that the Chiefs like, again, we've said it a 1000000 times, say it a 1000000 times more.

Like, they have the championship DNA that big time plays, big time moments, they will come through. And if they have a 5050 thing go their way, they'll capitalize on it. That did suck, though. Because if the Bills got that first down, it felt like they were gonna go down and score and be up 9. And it was like, you won't even give Patrick Mahomes a chance to to to win this game.

And I I I thought the spot sucked, but here's what really sucked about and for anyone who's who didn't watch the game, I assume everyone who's listening did. It was 4th and 1 on the Kansas City, 41 in the Q4. The Bills are up 22/21. They do, Josh Allen sneak, and the far line judge, I believe, ruled it pretty much close to a first down. The the the closer line judge, had a completely different interpretation.

They went to review. They didn't give him the first down. I thought it was a first down. I thought it was bullshit. But you know what was really bullshit?

As the fact that Sean McDermott and Joe Brady decided to keep running the same play that the Chiefs were clearly ready for all game, and that was the tush push. They didn't even do correctly. They don't even push. Right. They just they just ram Josh Allen in

the

line. That was coaching malpractice in my eyes. Like, stop running a play that's not working, and they kept running it, and it burned them on a on a on a fourth and 1 that again, I thought they got it, but it was so close that it leaves it up to the review, and that sucked.

And and whichever ref got that spot and where they put it down, that's what they're gonna stick with.

Right.

Because the review didn't show the ball. It didn't show anything, so it's hard to overturn that. You can guess where his body was gonna be. I thought it was a first down too in the moment. But, yeah, the the Bills on just short yardage situations all day, not good.

Not good. Good. And that that's why I despite the fact that it I just got fucked by the tush push, I can say that the people that are calling for it to be removed are losers because the Bills tried to do the same thing. They can't do it. Everyone can try to do it.

The the best they looked on, on that short yardage situation was when Josh had to jump over the pile Right. And and extend the ball in a bad play. Yeah. That probably should have been a fumble. And he I think he did he might have dropped the ball and picked it back up.

Yeah. Big hands.

And but it was it it it's heartbreaking for Josh Allen. I know there'll be a lot of people who, like, he he can't win the big 1. I if you watch that game and you're like, Josh Allen can't win the big 1. I mean, they're they they I I think that re really does come down to Sean McDermott had a really bad game again against Chiefs, which happens every single year. Their defense got torched.

I know that I know Benford went out early with a, concussion, and their their secondary was thinned, has a little depth wrapped in play in the game. But the Mahomes in that offense, like, they scored dirt more than 30 points the first time all year. Yeah. They had 8.3 yards per play on passing downs. They it felt like guys were just wide open.

And the and and what really would drive me nuts if I was a Bills fans outside of the ref stuff, which we've acknowledged, is on that last, drive where you have 3 timeouts, you have 2 minutes or more than 2 minutes to try to go down the field and score a touchdown and win the game. You do not get a single touch for James Cook who was by far your best player on offense. Like, James Cook had a 139 yards, receiving and rushing, 2 touchdowns. He was averaging 8.6 yards per touch, and he did not touch the ball. On those 6 plays that you ran, 1, you know, was a perfectly timed Steve Spagnola blitz where that's where it's the Chiefs.

Like, Spaggs is such a good coach, and Andy Reid is such a good coach. They have that blitz that gave Josh no time. He throws up a prayer to Dalton Kincaid who probably could have caught that. And I know people are saying Khalil Shaquir was open on the backside. If you watch that play and you're like, how Josh Allen had a guy in his face in less than a half a second.

Yeah.

He couldn't get the ball. He couldn't get the ball to

secure

on that. Yeah. It was too much pressure. And Spaggs had I think I counted 3 of those blitzes that were perfectly

timed up.

Yeah. I don't know how he does it. It's but it's it's always perfect. It always causes the most disruption. It always changes the game, and it sucks for Buffalo because, yeah, you you look like you're driving down the field with a 1 point lead.

You're about to get that 4th down, and everything's gonna be different this time.

It sucks.

And it's and it's not different. And you just have to deal with the fact that Mahomes is going to the Super Bowl again. Josh Allen and the Bills have to think about this for another year and hope that next time it's gonna be different. Every year, I tell myself after this matchup, don't ever forget what happened. This is just always gonna keep repeating.

And then 1 calendar year later, I convinced myself the Bills are gonna do it, and they are always so close. They're all I guess it's not as bad as the 13 seconds

would happen today. I don't know, man. Today was pretty brutal because, like The 13 seconds is the most different. Was was awful. I it it goes into the whole storyline of the chiefs and the refs and everything.

And and, look, I I get it. Like, that that spot sucked. And and the Xavier worthy review, where there was a penalty on that play. So, obviously, it was it cost them yards, but the chiefs were gonna get a first down anyway. But that 1 was was iffy and and didn't really make sense to me.

I don't know. I just I'm not gonna sit here and be like, the Chiefs are only in the Super Bowl because of the refs.

But I

I I I feel like the Bills like, that play sucked, but the Bills game plan of defensively, they weren't able to guard anyone. And and, offensively, just ramming into Chris Jones in that defensive line on those short yards made no sense, and it was just like like, I I just don't get the James. Like, James Cook, that that touchdown by James Cook was 1 of the coolest touchdowns I've ever seen. Yeah. He was in the matrix.

He floated. His body was contorted, and he floated into the end zone. And that guy didn't get he he he didn't end up getting and they also kinda went away from the run-in the first half where second half, you see them come out. They they shove it down their throat. And here's another 1.

I I I get it. You can't second guess everything. Sean McDermott taking points off the board. Basically, I mean, that's a 31, 31 game if he doesn't take the points off the board. So, essentially, what happens is they score a touchdown at the end of the first half.

The Chiefs get a penalty. The the the, the Bills kick the extra point, so it's 21/17. They there's a penalty. They're like, fuck it. We'll go for 2.

Now they don't get it. So instead of 21/17, it's 21/16. They score a touchdown in the second half because it's because they didn't get it the first time, they go for it again. So instead of being it if you'd kick both extra points, it's 24, 21, and now it's 22, 21. Do the math.

It would have been 3131.

Not to get all analytical on you, but part of the reason why you go for 2 is because there is a chance that you missed the extra point.

Of course.

So if you've already made the extra point Right. Then that's a little bit less of a reason

to get the Don't take the points off the board. I just feel like I feel like Sean McDermott just again, Andy Reid just outcoached him, and, and I feel bad for Josh. Like, yeah, was there especially beginning of the game, he was kind of erratic. And could he have played better? Yeah.

But he he also has been asked to play basically perfect to give them a chance. And it's yet again where his defense and his coaching just they don't do enough.

Yeah. It was it was sad for Bill's fans. Sad for America too. Even though listen. I I appreciate Patrick Moms.

I appreciate the Chiefs. I think we respect the Chiefs enough on

this show. People will listen and and and take away you know, people can listen to the show, and there'll be people like you just glazed Josh Allen or you hate the Chiefs or I I've been saying it for how how many times have I said that the Chiefs? The reason why the Chiefs are the Chiefs is is not because of the refs. It's because they if you make a mistake, they take advantage of it. And that's what a championship team does.

Yeah. Like, I I don't know how more clear I can be that the Chiefs have that DNA. They every big play they need, They were 6 of 10 on 3rd 4th down. Patrick Mahomes used his legs perfectly today. He scored 2 touchdowns.

And then the best was we were having the debate in the cave when it was when the bills so who went out of bounds? That was so stupid of them. Was it Pacheco went out of bounds? It stopped the clock with, like, a minute and a half left. I can't remember who went out of bounds, but it was very low football IQ.

It was Pacheco. It was Pacheco. Like, that was very unchiefs like. So the Bills technically still had a chance. It was 3rd 9.

And we're sitting there being like, should they kick the field goal? What should they do? And then I just stopped. I was like, what do we got? What are we talking about right now?

They're gonna get the 1st down, and that's what they did. They have a play that gets them a 1st down when they need to get a 1st down that ends the game.

Yeah. And and when Mahomes is running with the ball, he was also tough as fuck today. Yeah. He was he was putting his head down. He was trying to run through people.

He he did not do the tiptoe on the sideline stuff. He didn't do any of the the things that he's been criticized for. He played an awesome game of football. Andy Reid coached another great game of football. The Chiefs look like they they might be unstoppable again.

And now we've got a rematch, the Chiefs and the Eagles. Max, who do you think that Jason Kelsey's gonna be rooting for?

I don't know. I am terrified of that. I think he's gonna do, like, a, like, a house divided jersey.

He's gonna wear both? I you you can't do a house divided. You you just gotta sit it out.

No. He'll be there.

No. No. I'm but I'm saying you can't, like, you can't wear a logo.

Maybe. The only thing that the only thing that makes me

He should be rooting for the Eagles.

He should be. Yeah. He should be.

Travis just won 1.

I he should be, but I don't know if he will.

And the and and that same team beat the fucking Eagles.

I know. But, like, it's

He should be rooting for the Eagles.

I agree.

Will you think less of them if he doesn't?

He was in the locker room. He felt the pain after they lost to that

Chiefs team. Boys.

And it's all those same boys have a chance to get revenge against the Chiefs.

Also, just for, like, the storyline, he should be really like, if not to give him podcast advice, but, like Yeah. You root for the Eagles, dude.

Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. Like, I don't know what he ended up doing today. He was at the Eagles tailgate, but he said on, like, his show on Friday night that he was gonna try and get to the Chiefs game.

He was trying to go to both games somehow. I think he's

possible. Possible.

He I second half? Yeah. No. That's what I'm saying. Like, I don't know what he ended up doing, but he was at the Eagles' tailgate for, like, ESPN game.

I forgot. I don't know what they do. They're they're pregame for the NFL. And then he was like, I really wanna get to the get to Kansas City, though, for Travis's game. I think Travis is gonna retire after this year.

I think in my way I think By the way

talked about that made me made me think that he's gonna retire.

If they win, he he will.

But by the way, more so to the Chiefs' Land proposal. Greatness, Patrick Holmes. Travis Kelce was taken away in this game. The Bills did a good job of taking him away, and they're like, we're not gonna let him beat us. And then Patrick Mahomes just the Hollywood Browns, Xavier Worthy, Deandre Hopkins.

He found other ways with his feet. He found other ways to beat him. I got a couple crazy Patrick Mahomes stats for you. So this is from Josh DuBoeau AP. Patrick Mahomes has trailed in 4th quarters in 9 playoff games.

He has come back to win 6 and forced OT and 2 others before losing. He has a 132.2 rating with 5 touchdown passes, 1 TD run, went down 1 to 8 points in the Q4 OT of playoff games, leading scores on 13 of 14 drives. That's as money as you get. That's Patrick Mahomes being incredible, the best quarterback in in football. That's not refs.

I know that people will say it's refs. That's not refs.

What about the blended clock?

The blended clock. Was bullshit.

We learned the

Yeah. That the blended clock, like well, who's that painter? Salvador Dali?

Mhmm.

The guy that paint yeah. The clay the melted Yeah. So what the blended clock is just when the refs say, we're gonna combine the play clock with the clock before the 2 minute warning.

He was explaining it was, like, a half a when it's half a second off, you can just you can just run it down.

But then I see the zeros on 1, and I don't see the zeros on the other.

Makes no sense. Also, Patrick Mahomes has been a starter in the NFL for 7 years. He has gone to 5 Super Bowls, and his worst season is a loss in the AFC championship game twice. Yeah. That's insane.

That's insane. He's great. And and, again, I thought that was a first down. I really did. And I I I I'm so, like, gutted for Josh Allen and the Bills because, like, I do think that if they get that first down no.

Who am I kidding? The Chiefs probably find a way to win the game anyway.

If they win that if they get that first down, they win the Super Bowl.

But it's just it's it sucks. Being a Bills fan is torture. I I like, they they they they go through torture. I I don't know what else to say. Like, this is it's it's so brutal.

And and I really do you you said it a week or 2 ago, PFT. Like, if they lose in the playoffs, is there a chance Sean McDermott's on the hot seat? Now I I think Sean McDermott's a really good coach, but kind of like Andy Reid in Philadelphia. Like, is there a chance that they've hit the wall and to get through the wall, they need something different?

Yeah. But then you gotta make sure that whatever he put in place pre wall stays up. Yeah. Because the Bills, they were a bad team before Sean McDermott I know. And then Josh Allen.

So I yeah. I don't think you fire him, but I just it it did feel like this game was another winnable Bills game that coaching and defense, like, it hurt them. And and Josh could have been better. He he he he was a little erratic at times, but he also made some fucking huge that Mac Collins touchdown was a huge throw. And, you know, they obviously were gonna try to run the ball, and they did a really good job of that.

And they just couldn't get stops. I mean, the Chiefs didn't score 30 points all season. They did today. Do you

think that Rex Ryan is gonna publicly lobby for the Bills job now? Probably.

Like, it's coming home? Probably. I what what do we say to the people who are now saying they're not gonna watch the Super Bowl? Who's saying that? A lot of people online saying it's rigged, they're not gonna watch Super Bowl.

If it if it's rigged,

if you truly believe it's rigged, then why don't you just make a fuckload of money betting on the Chiefs?

Great question.

That's me personally. That's what

I would time.

Yeah. Something is rigged. Yeah. Just clean up.

I also think people just don't like the matchup.

Yeah. No. They don't like the matchup, but it's still the Super Bowl. I don't care. It's the Super Bowl.

Yeah. It's the last football game of the year. You're gonna watch Super Bowl. You gotta watch the Super Bowl. If you don't watch Super Bowl, you're just not American.

Hank, why did you make a disgusted face when you said he's probably gonna propose?

I was just thinking he wouldn't actually after I said it, I realized Taylor would never allow it to happen, but I was thinking of, like, confetti.

Yeah.

Like, Boise State player

Mhmm.

When the Super Bowl proposed, not retire.

You think he could do better is what you're saying?

No. I just that that that thought of all that scene disgusted me, but I don't think I think they would do it in a little more classy way. I think she But I think he will retire, and he will propose in the Aussies.

I think she's gonna propose to him.

Mhmm.

But if we

just win, Hank, what if we just win? We're not

gonna win.

You're cooked. Yeah. Oh, memes just said you're cooked.

Do you think it's

gonna be the refs, or it's gonna be Patrick Mahomes? I don't know.

We just gotta win.

The screenshot of the first down is going to be

Though it's also brutal that as as, you know, good of a blitz as it was, and it was a very, like, tough throw for Josh. It was an extremely catchable ball.

Oh. Like Dalton Kincaid.

It's not like he had not he just had to throw it away or threw it up, and it was nowhere else. It was extremely extremely catchable. All time

play that went down in the history books. But, again, I still I don't know how the the bills would have gotten any stops. I guess they'd have to score a touchdown there, and then maybe the the game would have been over. But it it didn't feel like the Bills were ever gonna like, if it went to overtime, did you think the Bills were gonna get stopped then?

It would have been poetic because of

Yeah.

I know. But it That's just They couldn't get they couldn't get off

the field. That's why that that first down, that fourth down was so big because they could have made it a 2 score game. I know. And then your defense has some room where they can, you know, they can let Patrick Mahomes do his thing and it doesn't kill you.

I know. It sucks.

I'm gonna know everything. Really bad. We're gonna know everything there is to know about the ref that called that ball short. And whatever connections he has to to Kansas City or Texas Tech or Andy Reid.

I really thought it was a first down. I really did. And I thought that 1 that 1 ref, like, basically came out and did that, but it's just again, it's more like I understand. But if all Bills fans should be mad at the refs, and they should complain about the refs, and they have every right to be mad at the refs and and talk about it, acknowledge him about the refs. I'm removed a little from it that I can be like, maybe just don't run the same play that was getting nothing over and over.

Yeah. They weren't even running the tush push correctly. They weren't pushing. I agree.

I thought he got the first down as well.

And it was clear the Chiefs had figured it out. Like, the Chiefs were were were were were defending against it so well. Yep.

I thought they got it, but I didn't think that there was anything on the replay that was, like, definitive enough for them to

say We're sucks. Gonna overrule what

we just 1 of our refs said on the field.

And that's that then the Chiefs are just really fucking good, and that's what they do. They capitalize on everything. And Mahomes makes big plays. And you're you're right about Mahomes running, like, tough. He wasn't doing any of the No.

Trying to get hit late or trying to dance around the sideline. He was just you could tell, like, he was jacked up on some of those runs.

1 thing you can say negatively about Mahomes today is he had the worst spike in the history of football

That's true.

After the touchdown.

That's a fact. He

was too jacked up. He couldn't spike it properly.

That's a fact. Alright. Anything anything else on this game? I mean, I just feel really bad for for Bills fans, and I just feel really bad for Josh. I want I it just sucks.

And it was people will people will be like, hey. Josh Allen sucks. Like, no. He just keeps running up against Mahomes, and, like, he he's playing to a level that should win games. I I just think the the bills keep kinda getting out coached in these games.

Yeah. Like, there there's the the margin for error is so small in these games, and Sean McDermott makes a couple of these errors chasing points early, running the same play that's not working over and over. Challenging that 1 catch. Yeah. Like, there's just these these moments where it's like if you just can do a better job or, like, you know, knowing that Spaggs is gonna do something crazy on that last using a time out and talking it and, like, figuring out your best play because you had 3 timeouts there.

I know you wanted to save them in case you didn't get that first down, but also the play calling on that drive made no sense. Again, James Cook, like, they just you can't make any mistakes against a team like the Chiefs. They're so fucking good. They're so well coached. Patrick Mahomes is just he's money in the playoffs.

That's what he does. Chiefs are just a wagon, and they're going for history. 1st 3 peat ever, which would be insane.

Yeah. They're gonna get it. Congrats.

Max, you stand in the way.

I know we have to we we gotta take him down. We gotta take him down for for Hank's legacy, really.

And you've also for your for your legacy too, Max, because 1 of the it it could it could change in your it could change in your well, how many how many of these big games has Hank lost? He wasn't Philly Hank until recently.

Only lost to the Eagles.

No. There's I mean, but this just tears down everything the patriots built.

It's but no. Not If Nahum

keeps winning.

Fully if he keeps winning. But

but, I mean, a 3 peat is

3 peat is

tough.

3 peat is the best team in history of the NFL. But a 3 peat No teams ever done a 3 peat.

A 3 peat would be tough against the Eagles too because 2 of those would be against you. Yeah.

No. That'd be tough. That would be tough. It'd be

known like, people would think first of them beating the Eagles in the Super Bowl.

Just win. Just win.

If the Eagle everyone knows lose this game, I will have lost 67% of the Super Bowls on this podcast.

Would you

Since I've since I've been here. Yeah. Since I've been here. Mhmm.

Yeah. That's a lot. What were

you gonna say, Hank?

That's a lot of podcasts of Super Bowls. The Eagles are gonna lose.

Shut up, Hank. What you see, now when I need you, you're just a fucking dick.

Now I'm beginning to think you're not actually an Eagles fan, Hank.

Well, what what was last week last week, you're you were you know?

I was I just I I call it how I see it. I knew that game was gonna be a blowout. I also thought that Commanders are gonna beat the Lions. I

I want the Eagles

to win. I just it's impossible. Rooting against the Chiefs is is legitimately like rooting against LeBron on the heat. Like, it it reminds me the same way. I root as hard as I can against them, and they just win again and again and again.

Yeah.

I wanted this game for Josh so bad, and I was just like, I I should've just bet on the Chiefs because that's a smart play.

So what are you gonna do with your future?

Patrick Mahomes under a field goal.

I'm gonna ride it out, but

I'm riding as well, Max. I'm not cashing out.

Alright. Go birds. Go. With you. I'm riding with you.

Go birds.

Chiefs are just really fucking good. So are the Eagles. And they're so well coached.

I'd just rather die than than not than root for the Chiefs, but I I had

this might be a good future, would you bet the Chiefs? No. I did it last year in the Super Bowl, and it was a great experience.

I'll just bet, like, no

because it was the whole time. It was just like, oh, Wilma Holmes is gonna win this game. Such a dickhead. Yeah. Why would you do that?

Why'd you kick him in when he's

I was just thinking. That's what I did for that Super Bowl.

Do we give enough credit to the Chiefs?

Fuck the Chiefs. K.

I think it's I mean, they're just really good. I I don't know what like I mean, the

highest compliment you can get as a as a fan of a sports team is having everybody in the country hate your team.

Yeah. And the refs, it sucks that that happened. The 4th and 1, that sucks. That's they're just gonna replay that over. That's why it's like, ah, man.

I the bills fit. Like, the they just invent new ways to just what is it? What is Max looking at? Villain hero.

I know there was some meme of, like, the the Eagles and the Chiefs playing the Patriots in the Super Bowl, and it's 1 of those, like, America maps of, like, what every team

Oh, yeah. Yeah. The part of my take account to me, though.

As long yeah.

The job means

Live long enough to be the villain, you yeah. Whatever the hell the saying is.

Yeah. If you're if

you're chief you you realize that people you you've broken so many cities for us through the rampage that you know that they're gonna hate you. That's how that's how sports is. We all yearn to be hated.

Josh is gonna get 1. Right? Man. He has to. But this team was like I know they were rebuilding, but their defense, obviously, Benford going out in the Q1 was bad.

But, like, the defense was fairly healthy considering how unhealthy they've been in the last couple years, and the AFC is just so goddamn hard.

Mhmm. How did you, how'd you make that map means? What what data did you sort through for that?

You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. Got it off Google. Okay. Yeah. And now it's flipped again where the eagles are the hero again because it's a map of everyone rooting for the eagles in the Super Bowl against patriots and everyone rooting against for the Chiefs in the AFC championship against the patriots and then everyone rooting for the Bills versus Chiefs, and everyone rooting for the Commanders against the Eagles.

What do you think the breakdown on the new map's gonna be, though? Because I think we might have a couple states that are Chiefs besides just Kansas and maybe Missouri. I think I think Texas might be rooting for the Chiefs.

Yeah. Dallas. Houston isn't. Houston is not. Yeah.

No. It's a bigger city too. That is a bigger city. Yeah. I don't

DC certainly isn't rooting for the Eagles.

No. No. I don't think anyone's although yeah. No. DC Giants certainly are not.

Yeah. Yeah. Saquon winning. Yeah. So, yeah, there's a couple spots.

Niners niners fans hate the Eagles.

I they also hate the Eagles. Twice to the Chiefs in the Super Bowl, Max. Chiefs are just destroying everyone.

Yeah. This is

what they do.

Fuck. We can't lose again. Speel legends. Stop. Yeah.

Everyone's

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Okay. Oh, whose line is anyway Super Bowl 59? I haven't looked. I said it was just gonna be under a field goal. Is Chiefs, are they favored?

What's the line? 1a half. Chiefs 1a half.

That's probably gonna move a little bit.

Okay.

It's it usually never stays the same for the Super Bowl.

Also never gonna get to a field goal either way. That's never gonna

be Chiefs minus 3 is never

gonna happen.

Out of bounds?

I think it's never gonna happen.

I think people will gobble that up.

Yeah. I think they would gobble that up in a second. Over under 49a half, gonna probably bet the over because it's the Super Bowl.

Gets un American.

Get it all on DraftKings. I'm gonna bet I'm gonna bet tails tonight just to feel like I'm I'm locked in the

National anthem? Yeah. You should be able to bet on the flyover too.

Yeah. Alright. So, coaching news. Liam Cone is the new head coach for the Jacksonville Jaguars, and it was quite assorted affair on Thursday. It was after we we recorded.

We we actually got a little bit of it in there, but then more details came out. He spurned the Bucks. He basically the timeline goes like this. Liam Cone took the first interview with the Jaguars. Actually, at the Glazers telling him like, hey.

Go take this interview. Came back. Balke was still the head, the GM of the Jaguars. The offer was probably in the, I don't know, 5, 6000000, whatever you wanna call it, range. He talks to the Bucks handshake deal.

Bucks are gonna make him the highest paid coordinator, offensive coordinator in the league. Part of the handshake deal is he can't go for a second interview with the Jags. Trent Baalke gets fired. Sean Khan calls up Liam Cohen says, hey. The price just went up.

We're gonna pay you 13, $14,000,000 a year. Mhmm. Liam Cohen's now stuck because he made the handshake deal that if he takes a second interview, he's not gonna be the highest paid coordinator. So he goes to Jacksonville, basically tells the Bucks, hey. I'm gonna come in on Thursday to to sign my new contract.

Doesn't take any calls from them, tells them that he's tending to a family emergency. Word gets out that he actually is in Jacksonville interviewing for the Jaguars job. The Jaguars are also trying to keep it under rack wraps because they had to, clear the Rooney rule and get another minority candidate in the building. So they do that on Thursday morning, get Liam Cone to agree to be the the head coach, then Liam Cone, I think, picks up a phone call from Todd Bowles. He's like, hey.

I'm I'm at the hospital with my kid, and, also, this jaguar situation is changing. Takes Jaguar's job, and the Bucks are pissed.

He used the term material change. We haven't seen that in a couple years. Yeah. I I don't ever fault a guy for taking a head coaching job because there's very limited in supply. If you get the opportunity to do it, you probably wanna do it, and you also get paid a shitload more money.

He probably coulda handled this a little bit better. But when he basically, he went back to the Bucks, and then the Jaguars were like, we understand that there's a guy that you really hate.

Yeah.

And I know that we said we weren't gonna fire him, but we want you so much that we're gonna fire this guy just to make you happy. And And then at that point, they'd now if he didn't take that job, they just fired a guy for no real reason. And he he that was probably, like, a big selling point for him. He's like, I don't have to work with that guy anymore.

He's getting he's getting paid insane money. Ben Johnson money is what they said, which is insane money as well. The Bears paying Ben Johnson insane money. But it's unprecedented for a first time head coach. It's also unprecedented for a first time head coach to be able to pick their GM.

I don't really blame Liam Cohn at all in this. I know that that's probably look like scumbag behavior, but he the I don't know what choices he had in the fact that the Bucks shouldn't have made it contingent on not taking the second interview. If you're an employer, you should let your employees take those interviews. Go see what is out there, especially in this business when you know that guys are gonna try to, you know, get dream jobs. There's only 32 of them.

If they didn't make it contingent on him not taking the second interview, I think he probably would have been more forthright about it, but he was stuck in a position where if he takes a second interview, he could potentially lose his job with the Bucks and not get the Jags interview or job.

I think if anything, he's guilty of being a bad friend and a bad texter.

Bad texter probably could I listen. Coulda handled it better, but I also go back to, like, NFL franchises will cut players anytime they want. They will like, our our colleague, Jon Gruden, who worked for the Bucks, signed an extension, and then got fired 4 months later or whatever it was. Or, like, look

at Bobby Slovak, the the coordinator for the Texans. After last season Yeah. He was 1 of the hot names out there getting all the interviews. He decides to go back to Houston. The next season happens.

His name is now not in good standing with the rest of the NFL. He gets he gets fired by the Houston Texans.

Lou Anarumo got Yeah. Was the hottest name after the Bengals go to the Super Bowl. He just got fired by the Bengals. Like, I I just think it's such a cutthroat business that if you don't look out for yourself, you you're kinda like, you can't be a nice guy in the NFL. Right?

That's really weird. Because and you know what the craziest part is too? Like, I understand Todd Bowles is mad. If the Bucks didn't make the playoffs this year, top Bowles probably would have been fired for Liam Cohen.

Yeah. But you know what? I I accept the fact that the Bucks are gonna be pissed at him.

Yeah.

No. Of course, Dave. I'm ready to get pissed, but I'm just

like should be like, this guy is a snake. I'm fucking pissed at him. I hope we beat the shit out of him. I hate that guy. That's a that's a completely reasonable response from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have.

But just, like, big picture, I like, yeah. It's a head coaching job.

But people, like, call

him gonna take it.

Yeah. People calling him, like, a scumbag. I'm just like, I don't know. Where's where's that same energy when a team does that to a player or a team does that to a coach? Because that happens literally all the time.

And now it's the 1 time it's flipped where a coach has kinda fucked over a team. I don't know. It's just the NFL's cutthroat. It did play

out like a soap opera, though. Yeah. It was incredible. Succession meets eastbound and down.

I just I feel like the NFL, you just can't expect like, loyalty and feelings just don't exist. Because everyone's they they know that, like, the minute things go bad, you're gonna get fired. And the and you have no guarantee of having a job opening like this again, especially with this money. And, really, the if you wanna blame anyone, it's probably Shad Khan probably should have just fired Trent Baalke on on, Black Monday when everyone expected it, and this would have made it a lot easier. But to

be fair, he was told by Trent Baalke that it would be a bad decision to fire

Trent Baalke. Him.

Yeah. Yeah. I think bad information.

I think, like, on a personal level, I think, you know, people in the Bucks building should be upset, but I also again, I think that if the Bucks had a chance to do something like this to a coach or someone, they probably would. Whatever makes their team better, they're gonna do. So why can't Liam Cohn do whatever makes his life better? You know, the

only reason why I'm mad is because Baker. Because now Baker has to have another offensive coordinator, and they're gonna run that fucking graphic next year where it's the roller coaster. All the OCs that he's been with, they've gotten fired. This guy left. He got cut.

He got traded, whatever, etcetera, etcetera. That's just that's another thing that he's gonna have to do.

Also, Liam Cohn has jumped around. I think he said this is his 5th different job in 5 years. You hired that guy. Mhmm. You knew that that guy could do this.

You saw the resume.

Right. Like, it's not it's not crazy to be like, wow. I never I thought he would make roots here and and stay forever.

Yeah. Some people convince themselves somehow that it's gonna work for them even though it never has. Will will it work for us?

Yeah. I

don't think it might.

I I also think, like, the Jags, they they just got in a spot where, you know, Ben Johnson said no to him. I don't even know if Mike Vrabel interviewed with them, and they, like, had to do a panic move where the price they basically boxed themselves into being like, we have to fire Trent Baalke and pay an insane amount of money so that we can get someone that is sought after instead of having a situation where we end up with, like, the 6th option. And everyone's like, wow. The Jags really fucked this up. Would it

would it be totally crazy to think, like, Doug Peterson would have been a good idea?

Keep him around. Let's keep him around. He's the

2nd best in terms of winning percentage in the history of the franchise.

That's true. So it was crazy, though. The whole thing was crazy. I just thought it was very funny that people were like, how could anyone ever do this? Like, it's the NFL.

Yeah.

It's true.

This happens Do you do you think when a coach gets in front of, like, when when like, a college coach does a press conference, like, I wanna be here for the rest of my life, and then and then he gets an offer the next day and he jumps? Like, we've seen that a 1000000 times.

Like, if the Bucks had hired Lane Kiffin to be their offensive coordinator

Yeah.

And then he left after a year, would you be pissed at Lane, or would you be like, I can't believe that I let the scorpion ride on my back across

the river? Right. Right. And then when and then when Lane Kiffin gets left on a tarmac at USC, that's the other way. It just goes I feel like everyone just cuts everyone in in the back in the NFL, and it sucks, but it's just the truth of it.

That that remind me of the time that Al Davis fired Lane and had a whole PowerPoint presentation on an overhead projector. Yeah. And he called the media into his room to watch his his overhead projector and outlined the reasons why he just fired Lane Kiffin.

So That rocked. Good segue. Speaking of Al Davis, Jerry Jones is in his late Al Davis years because he hired, Brian Schottenheimer

Mhmm.

Which was his offensive coordinator this year. So the Cowboys basically, the the Cowboys' off season has gone, blocking Mike McCarthy from doing any interviews, having everyone believe that they're gonna resign Mike McCarthy, not resigning Mike McCarthy, then doing, like, a half ass search for a head coach, calling Deion once, and then Jerry Jones walking down the hallway and being like, hey, you. What's your name again? You wanna be the head coach? And now Brian Schottenheimer's head coach.

And and Jerry even said, 1 of the weirdest quotes ever. Brian Schottenheimer is known as a career assistant. He ain't Brian no more. He is now known as the head coach of

the Dallas cowboys. That's his name.

He ain't Brian no more.

That's you also left out Jerry Jones putting off a Emmy worthy performance in land man.

Yeah.

That was also a big part of their off season. Yeah. I well, I think it goes to show you that the cowboys' job probably probably not as desirable as Jerry Jones thinks that it is.

Yeah. I mean, they didn't even did they even do a coach search? I don't know if they did.

They kinda did. They interviewed a few guys. But if you're Jerry Jones, you your big sell has always been you get to be the head head ball coach of the Dallas Cowboys. And now I think most football guys are like, that's not necessarily a great thing because that means that Jerry Jones is really the head of the entire operation. And I'm just I have to learn how to be Jerry Jones's bitch while also pretending to be the alpha on this team.

When every player on the team understands that, like, when their boss, their coach is talking to them, he's not really their final boss. Yeah. He's not the boss boss.

And and this goes to I've been saying it for a while now because I thought they weren't gonna fire Mike McCarthy or part ways with him. Jerry Jones, the Jerry Jones from the nineties and the Jimmy Johnson stuff and Barry Switzer and then bringing in Parcells, that guy doesn't exist anymore. He just wants a coach that will just follow whatever he says. And guess who's gonna follow whatever he says? The career assistant who is down the hall.

He's like, here, you be the head coach. He doesn't he doesn't have opportunity, sir. Yeah. Ever since Bill Parcells, he's not gonna hire someone who is gonna have that alpha energy and be like, this is my show. He's gonna hire people, Jason Garrett, you know, Mike McCarthy, who, you know, didn't have who sat out for a year.

Guys who are gonna basically do what Jerry says and be like, thank you, Jerry, for giving me a life.

Yeah. You're it's like a situation where your head coach is speaking to you after practice, like, take a knee boys, and he's like, the buck stops here with me. I'm the boss. I'm in charge of everything, and then his hat gets blown off by Jerry helicopter as it lands on the field.

Yeah. Yeah. This has to make you, PFT and Max oh, he's leaving. He's taking a piss.

I think it's a great high, by the

way. You guys gotta be both very pumped.

I think it's

Cowboys are a disaster.

You just have to ask the fans of teams that Schottenheimer has coached for in the past what they think of them. Yeah. Now I could be wrong. I've been wrong before. I was wrong last year about Dan Quinn.

I should've had him 2nd on I should've have him first instead of but I have him, like, 3rd. Yeah. But I've been wrong before. I don't always get it right. But if you're asking me right now, I love it.

I love this hire.

And people are bringing up like, oh, well, everyone thought Dan Campbell was crazy. I this hire could work. I think it's more the fact that the process made no sense because it doesn't feel, again, like they did it felt like Jerry Jones just called up Deion Sanders and was like, do you want the job? He's like, no. He's like, alright.

I think he talked to Pete Carroll.

Yeah. Who Pete Carroll got hired by the Raiders, which is awesome because Pete Carroll is it's gonna be fun to have him back there. He will be on week 1. He will be the oldest coach to coach an NFL game. I think he beats Romeo Cornell by, like, 6 months, who was the oldest pre who is the oldest right now when he was interim for the Texans.

But the real story with Pete Carroll being in the Raiders is that Jim Harbaugh and Pete Carroll are destined to just go against each other. I love that they no matter what, they will always follow each other. This time, it's Pete Carroll following Jim Harbaugh. Obviously, we had Stanford and and USC and their famous dust ups, the biggest, upset ever, 41 and a half point favorites. Then Pete Carroll goes to the Seahawks.

Jim Harbaugh goes to the niners. And now Jim Harbaugh to the chargers and Pete Carroll to the raiders. They just they have to be together.

And it's not just those 2. That whole division rocks. Yeah. That whole division. You got Andy Reid and Sean Payton.

Yeah. And then Harbaugh and Pete Carroll.

Yeah. It's great.

That's gonna be great. I'm excited about that. I also like I like Pete Carroll teaming up with Tom Brady. Because Pete Carroll, he's not he might be on his own TB 12 thing because he does not look like the oldest coaches.

No.

He's he's young as fuck.

Yeah. He's he's, like, as young as his body years, his true body years, if you were to measure it and whatever shit Dana White got extracted from his blood that 1 time

Yeah.

He's probably about as as young as mere you.

Yeah.

I think our that might actually just say that we're very old. But we meet somewhere in the middle.

Yeah.

Well, happy birthday week,

by the way.

What? Yeah. Birthday. This is our last week in our thirties. I'm not freaking out about it.

No. I haven't thought about it at all.

Definitely been freaking out about it a little bit. Yeah. Memes is shaking his head. He's so happy.

I had to get up. Happy birthday.

It's not our birthday yet.

I had to get up 3 times to

pee the other day.

Not our birthday yet. Actually, tune in to Friday's show because I think PFT and I will by the way, subscribe to the YouTube. Please subscribe to the YouTube and watch us. On the Friday show, we'll probably do the kiss because Thursday is my birthday and Friday is yours.

That's right. Yeah.

So we'll probably do the kiss Midnight. Exclusive to YouTube only. What a tradition. Yeah. We kiss every year.

At the stroke of midnight.

At the stroke of midnight between January 30th 31st. Yeah. We're gonna be

It's 40. Very weird.

It's fine. You know what? We just gotta get through, like, the week where everyone says, you guys are old, and then we'll be young again. So, like, we're not 50. 40 plus.

Yeah. It's a cool Hey.

You're fucking, like, 32.

I know. That woah. Woah. Woah.

Not yet. Having panic attacks at 32? 31. You're gonna be 32?

Panic attacks at 31.

Max is gonna be 30?

Yeah. I'm over it. In 2 years? This year.

Oh, means you're, like, 40. Next month. You're 30?

Yeah. Next month. Oh my god. We gotta get it.

Alright. We gotta get an intern this year. We gotta get younger. We gotta get 1 young guy here.

Jack's young. Shane's young.

Yeah. I know. But we need to get we're gonna we're gonna do it right this year. We're gonna intern for the whole summer. And we gotta get we can't say age, but we need a teenager.

Yeah.

Pardon my drink. We need some we need someone whose parents are really cool and they can sign the waiver. We need a 16 year old. Yep. The next generation.

What? We're cool. I'm just kidding. We're not gonna get a 16 year old. 17's fine.

Unless they're, like, really good.

Yeah. Unless they're really funny. 17. If you're listening to this, they're 17.

Big cat

big catademics. Yeah. You can dreaming and get in here. I Yeah. We want a kid who's like I want the Rizzler.

I'll just say it. We can't afford the Rizzler.

Spot's open for the Rizzler.

I want a kid walking in here being like, yeah. I started listening to you guys when I was 9.

Speaking of the Rizzler, what are the saints doing? Are they gonna hire a coach?

I think Mike McCarthy. Okay. Feels like that.

That makes sense.

Yeah. Dennis Allen's now the DC in Chicago.

But whoever signs up to coach the saints, you are you're walking into Cap Hell. Yeah. This is ongoing Cap Hell that

you have.

McCarthy can get he's got he knows numbers. Got some computers. Yeah. Alright. Rhoback question real quick.

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Max, Noah, the question that everyone really wants to know is, Saturday night, will you be drinking champagne and getting fucked up?

I will not be drinking champagne. I will definitely be getting fucked up.

So Are

you gonna be losing your phone?

I was thinking about just getting a new phone on on super like That's a good choice.

Yeah. That's not good. Wait.

What's your thought process?

What? Stupid.

I'm concerned, Max. The I don't think you know what? Enjoy the win.

No. That

was all. You gotta be mentally I don't

know why I was thinking.

You're not mentally

Why not just save all your energy for Sunday? What? Like, if I were you, like, most the night before Super Bowl

is fun.

Yeah. I know. But it's No.

I'm not gonna I'm not gonna get it.

Mad last time.

I'm not gonna get it as drunk as

I'm fight you.

That was

No. I just said that I could fight it.

Funniest sign of my life. I I would I would sign up for that.

The thing about me is I beat the fuck out of head.

Yeah. No. I'm not gonna get that drunk.

Okay.

I'm not gonna get that.

Dumbies. Yeah.

I never said that. Are you

gonna are you gonna creep out any mentalists? Gonna

puke in

a Uber? No. It's no. Shut up, memes.

He was having a ball right now.

Oh, man.

That was so He's gonna make good decisions. Who's gonna be when he's blackout drunk the night before the Super Bowl in New Orleans?

Who's gonna go to the Super Bowl with you?

Me, Smackie, and Roan.

Love that. That's a hell of a crew. That's a hell of a crew. Alright. Let's see who's back.

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Who's back of the week is USA.

Yeah.

Yeah.

USA, Australian Open, Ariana Sabolinko. Notorious best tennis player. Got the number 1 seed. We were watching this during the dark stream at 2:30 in the morning. I bet a lot on Sabolinko because I'm like, it's a lot.

She's so good. She's the best to do it. Got smoked by Madison Keys, American, 19th seed in the tournament, major upset, USA, Aussie Open champion, America's back. I like that, Hank. That's very good.

Very good. For the country.

Very good, Hank.

What happened to Novak?

He got hurt. He has, like, a crazy hip contusion. Yeah.

He tweeted out a picture of his MRI, and I looked at it. I was like, oh, I see. I had no idea what the fuck it was.

Also, he basically won the whole thing because he beat Alcaraz.

Wait. It would tweeting out a picture of your isn't that Hippo?

He don't care what's that shit.

Yeah. Right.

Hey, Hank. You wanna recap your dart stream at all? It was great.

The dart stream went well. Yeah. It went a lot better than, I thought. I got a a triple because we split it up into 3 legs, 1818141. The second leg was always gonna be help, which I thought was gonna take a lot of time.

I thought it was gonna be you know, I was tired. We're gonna have guests come in. You guys are gonna come in. Anyone can throw darts if they hit 2. I always have to the third 1.

I had a 180 in my own in the first hour, which was a miracle on its own. Then Max hit 2 triple twenties, and I just stepped up and hit the third 1 the first time. Absolute miracle, if we're being completely honest. And then PFT came in the morning with Blake. He, you know, at his request, returned him to the golf stream, hit a hole in 1 in the first 5 attempts.

No big deal. So the stream I was expecting to like, I was, again, dreading it. I thought it was still gonna be going right now. Like, I thought I was gonna be living at this office, you know, doing this podcast and being like, alright. See you guys.

I'm gonna go to sleep here, wake up, continue the stream. So when I got home on Saturday afternoon and and I was done, it was it was a great relief. Thank you to everyone who tuned in. It was it was it was honestly fun. We had a we had a good time.

Liam Blutman, he got the, game dart. He just hung out just to hang out. Like, he didn't even

have to be here.

I kept trying

to tell him, like, you don't have to stay, dude. And And he's like, no. I'm chilling.

Darts are ball. Yeah. Yeah. Game dart was a a touching award. I was I was bouncing in and out on Friday night when you got started keeping tabs on it.

I got oiled up.

Yeah. When I yeah. I was about to say when I tuned in, I was I was greeted with Hank just completely shirtless covered in oil, throwing darts for about an hour. Can you explain that

to me? Everyone in the chat was like, oil up Max, oil up pug, oil up Hank.

Somebody said boil pugs.

Someone said boil pug. Yeah. And and I was I was 1 leg in, and I was like, if we get the 2nd leg done before Sabalenka starts, which was at 2:30 in the morning, I was like, I'll get oiled up. Thinking that was not gonna happen, and it happened. So I man of my word, I got oiled up.

Yeah. You were

you were glistening.

Love

it. It also made the dart so oily.

Yeah. Which was No. Duh.

But, like and so hard to throw. Yeah. It it was a it was a big detriment to

You crushed it, Hank. You crushed it.

Yeah. My arm I think if my left arm is definitely pretty injured. If we had gotten another, like, 6 to 8 hours, I probably would have been in, like, Tommy John territory.

I I tuned in on Friday night when I got home from the movies, and I you I, like, almost instantly, you hit your first, 180, and I was so pumped for you.

What about the sleep talking?

Yeah. Well, I was worried about the sleep talking. I wasn't even planning on sleeping, but I stayed up. It was, like, 8 o'clock. I was getting we turned the chat.

We turned the stream over every 12 hours. You have to, like, start a new stream just so that it stays live on YouTube. And the overnight vibes were great. We were watching tennis, having a good time. Everyone was positive.

We switched over at, like, 7 AM, and I hadn't slept, so I was maybe a little irritated too. And everyone was so negative, and they were so annoying. Just and that's when I realized I was like, I'm fatigued. I'm tired. Like, I'm not we had the Roxxon 10 minute edge where I got a mulligan.

I didn't get through it, and I was like, I need to take a break. I'm gonna take a nap 2 hours, and then we'll, you know, we'll finish this thing. Didn't put on any mouth tape. And my friend, Kurt, who you guys have all met, he was in the chat at, like, 4 AM. Like, he just popped in.

He was like, oh, what's up? And I was like, oh, Kurt. So it must have just been on the top of my mind. And in my sleep, I was yelling. I was just like, Kurt.

Kurt, which was my biggest fear because I've I

Yeah.

I've gone into trouble before where

I just I don't know I it's I don't know why

I say what I say. I don't have any recollection of the dreams or what's going on in my head when I say it, but I have woken up many times with people being like, what the fuck was that? Who is this person? Like, what is that about? And I'm like, I have no idea.

So the I'm happy it was just Kurt. Like, that's where it's like, shit gets weird in my sleep. I was worried about it, and that was why.

That's very funny. Yeah. He probably thinks you're dreaming about him.

No. I texted him a clip. I was like, yeah.

Oh, you got me. He was in your chat. Yeah. Yeah.

But it's always like it's like 1 of those random things. It's like, it's not there's no rhyme or reason. It's just like it was probably because I was, like, talking about him or to him, like, late at night, and then it was just like Yeah.

Yeah. He's the last thing

in your head. Yeah. Mhmm.

Okay. PFT, your who's back?

My who's back in the week is gonna be not understanding jokes.

Mhmm.

Because Hank has been on this Goona side for the last 5 days. Mhmm. And when he explained it, me and big cat were just like Yeah. Wait. What's what's the joke?

I don't think it's I don't I don't

You think it's it's very funny?

I don't know. It might be funny. I don't know. I don't, yeah, I don't know either. I don't think it's funny.

Hey. You think it's funny?

No. I don't.

Basically, what happened was a guy You're watching. Way too deep online.

Life. Yeah. No.

You probably know this. A guy there's a there's a a coffee shop in Arizona where the the baristas wear bikinis. A guy got caught on video, jerking off while trying to order coffee. He became a meme, and then he killed himself. So it's not funny.

Agreed.

Not funny at all.

But he keeps bringing up the goonoo side.

Like, did you guys see about the goonoo side? Then earlier, like, 30 minutes ago, Hank was like They

held a goonoo. They had a goonoo before him.

Hank explained to us last week, and we just sat here. We're like, wait. We're That's not the guy died? That's fucked up. And he was just like, yeah.

I'm pressuring to set this out. Hank, do

you think

It's 1 of those things just needs to stay online.

You think he's gonna be cremated? Again, like, I

I can't memes make me laugh, and sometimes they're they're messed up. Hank, who's gonna eulogism? Yeah. Exactly. Like, it's it's a sad story.

Not understanding jokes. Did I tell you guys the the 1 that I had? Gooneril.

The gooneril, the cemetery.

Yeah.

Yeah. The 1 I had, last week that made me wanna kill myself was, our good friend, Keith Yandle, who's now part of Barstool Sports. Shout out to spitting chiclets. They've added Yans. I was talking to Yans about mini golf.

And, like, now that he's part of Barstool, I was like, we gotta get you in on these things. And I was like, you gotta come and do March Madness with us. And he replied and he's like, when is that? And I was like, it's March. And he's like, yeah.

I fucking know. I was joking. And I was like, I wanna I might just kill myself and leave it as a suicide note.

But to be fair, you you were texting with Yans, and in your mind, it was, like, 50% like texting with biz.

Yeah. But he Maybe

maybe this

is just a bit.

Has got, like he said to me, and then he made where she's like, I think he's like, I used to get all the Canadian dudes in the locker room with that 1. I think you're the 1st American I've ever gotten. And I was like, god fucking damn it. So but Jans is the best. So, hopefully, he'll he'll be here for March Madness, which is in March.

Also, a little bit in April. Yeah. Speaking of which, by who's back, National Sports Podcast, college basketball. College basketball is back for me, feast week. I I love college basketball, but now that the football is over, weekends are for a lot of America college basketball.

Quick thoughts on college basketball. Duke is a problem, but the ACC fucking sucks. So I'm just gonna tell myself that they're good only because they're killing everyone in the ACC. The SEC is so goddamn loaded. Auburn and Alabama are both really fucking good.

Tennessee's good. Florida's really, really good. Houston's the same team every year. And I'm trying to think what other thoughts you have. Kansas.

Well, Kansas, that was 1 of I hate Kansas so much now. That was they were they were up 6 going to the line with 18 seconds left and somehow lost that game in double overtime.

Is that worse than what A and M did, though?

A and M was no. Because I should have even said Kansas also in regulation. They were up 3, and they got a 5 second call with 2 timeouts. Yes. A and M.

I like A and M. I think A and M's, gonna be a good tournament team, but, yeah, they they completely choked against Texas.

That was meltdown. That was bad.

Total meltdown. And then also, for the sickos and perverts out there, I have started to believe in the Wisconsin badgers who are ranked, and, their offense is actually awesome. And they whap threes. And so get ready for me to have my heart broken on that because I actually believe that they could make a a run, which they won't, and you guys will get to watch that on livestream. Also, last 1 I had was, Villanova.

Dead. Next. So when you told me to bet Eric Dixon, player of the year, and I bet it, was that a bad bet? Bad bet. I didn't even get a week of thinking that was a good bet.

Incorrect.

Yukon. Yukon. Yeah. Yukon. Yukon.

It was a 100 to 1. I I like if you give someone a 100 to 1, you can't be like, oh, what the fuck? It's a a 100 to 1. Obviously, he

was gonna win. Villanova was supposed to make the tournament, you said.

Yeah. And then they started sucking again, but it's okay.

By the way, people are mad about Dan Hurley. If you missed it last week, he, yelled at a ref, don't turn your back on me. I'm the best fucking coach in the league Mhmm. Or in the country. Jay Bilas did a whole preachy thing where he's like, this is just

You're being disingenuous.

Yeah. He was he did a preachy thing. I can't say this clearly enough. College basketball needs asshole coaches. That's what it was built on.

It's the the players change

Especially in the big east.

The transfer portal has changed everything. You don't know who you're rooting for. I need a Bayheim. I need a coach k. I need a like, as much as I hate coach k, he has that that, like, ah, I hate him.

I wanna root against him. Dan Hurley is that. If you hate him, that's good for college basketball. So I want him to do whatever he wants to do.

He's also being just as hard on his own players as he is refs.

Although he had a great line. Was it was it against Villanova that the Karaban missed the free throws? Yes. Yeah. Karaban missed 2 free throws.

He's a great free throw shooter. And, Hurley Hurley told what? He missed what? It was

a ball don't lie. It was terrible.

Yeah. Yeah. It was a bad call. And Hurley just told him after, he's like, if you wanna cry about it, go cry about it with your 2 national championship rings.

Mhmm.

It's like, get get back to practice.

Auburn's really good,

though. Auburn's really good. No. Auburn and Auburn are both really good. Oh, the SEC is loaded.

I mean, the SEC has teams. Mississippi State's good. Kentucky's good. Vandy just beat Kentucky. Like, the SEC top to bottom is so goddamn good, that it's gonna be like, I don't know how each team is gonna survive.

Mississippi's good. Like Mississippi state. Mississippi state. Mississippi. Like, all these teams are really fucking good.

Missouri's decent. So, Yeah. I'm excited for college basketball, and it's always fun because I love just getting really mad. Just kids. Yeah.

I I watch Hunter Jenkinson, not a kid.

Not a kid. He's just 25.

Doesn't whatever. I've been watching Defense is just because you stand up and down straight up and down doesn't mean you're playing good defense.

I've been watching about 2 college basketball games a week for the last month or so. This weekend is really when I sink my teeth into college basketball.

Yeah.

This week when you got the Pro Bowl on, it's like you could focus on it for the first time.

I love it. I love it. They also need to figure out the schedule because they don't like, it used to be that Monday Thursday still had a lot of games. They've taken away Monday Thursday. Tuesday Wednesday has all the games, and it's just a because Friday now has games.

Just give us even out the games. Even out the games. Also, Doug's is back. 3 PM today. I'm gonna be doing a Doug stream, so tune in.

We just got 1 last 1 that we're gonna do a little you know, there's no there's no football on for 2 weeks. So we do a dug stream. Gonna get there, try to try to win some games, have some fun. We haven't decided exactly the format either. I'm gonna try to win a Natty playing in the tournament.

Yeah. That's what I'm gonna do. Not gonna play Jerry. Jerry will be there, though, for defensive coordinating in the, so I'm gonna start I'm gonna basically start at the, playoff and try to win a natty for a couple hours. So tune in on the part of my take YouTube and subscribe to the part of my take YouTube.

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