Transcript of NFL Divisional Round, Fastest 2 Minutes, Commanders And Eagles On A Collision Course, Bills Outlast Ravens And Head To Kansas City + Who's Back Of The Week

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What? What? They're not gonna get them. Sound spread. Great football.

We start in Kansas City where it was a cold January game, and the Texans reminded everyone of Mayweather the way they struggled with Reed. The game started with an explosion as Nico Bosco Remigio returned the kick, forcing Chris Boyds of London to put his special teams coaches manhood up for sale after he shoved them on the sidelines. Travis Kelseyman was anything but a white bust as he came out ahead and had the stickiest of hands. PJ Stroud and grandpa Joe Mixon tried to, to end this Chiefs dynasty to bed. I screwed that up.

He ain't tried to put this Chiefs dynasty dynasty to bed, but it was Patrick Mahomes who had the golden ticket and the everlasting ref stoppers, making the Texans the ones who kicked the bucket. In other news, Caitlin Clark and Taylor Swift submitted a box of the year nominee at Arrowhead, Saturday, as the Chiefs booked their ticket to the Kansas City Invitational. Chiefs, 23. Texans, 14. What?

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We go to Ford Field as the Lions hosted the commanders in a biblical showdown where Daniels entering the Lions' Den. David Montgomery came back from a knee injury, but Lions fans were screaming, what Gibbs? As Jamere was taken off the field despite gashing the commanders like the Roman Senate. Washington got a miracle from their Terry Godmother as McClurence slipped through the screen like it was a Take On Me music video. In response, Ben Johnson and Johnson was forced to take an experimental shot down field as the lines trailed by 10 and the commanders got the ball back and as my good friend Eminem would say hi my name is what my name is who my name is quinchedy and Mikey Sandra still my bones collapse collapse.

Shut Jared down for some minor mistakes like a subway marketing representative. The Danalytics tilted cords to Commanders with Washington being even more aggressive than Campbell. And a case of my Dan can beat up your Dan, Detroit coach Dan Talica tried to reload, singing, give me today, Sewell. Give me fire. Give me that 1 shot as a.

Hooh. But Quinter Sandman showed up saying, I've got Jaden, and nothing else matters. The Washington commanders are going to the NFC championship game. 4531, commanders win. Left hand up.

We head to snowy Philadelphia where Max Celente was on the scene.

We head over to Philadelphia where the birds were shitting on the Rams d d early, but Jake Smelly was once again act acting extra smelly as he stinks at kicking, stinking extra points. After a stellar run game by the birds, the 4th quarter came in knocking, and Jaquan Barkley was telling the Rams defense. 2. Here comes the 2 to the 6th of the line. Now I'm looking at Hertz right in his eyes.

Tell him, hey, man. I got this for the guys. Couple seconds past. Now they're chasing my big thighs. Everybody in the club get t d's.

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But after a pants shitting come back by LA, Jalen cowboy Carter told the Rams o line, this ain't LA. You can't hold me. So LA, Matt Stafford down down down down. Eagles win 28, 20 2.

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He's a lawyer. Boom. Scored a touchdown to make it a game. Mark Aaron Andrews should have been on the sidelines instead of in the game as he dropped a 2 point conversion sending Buffalo off to the AFC championship game. And no 1 circles the

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been the quarter of the week, the 2nd quarter in

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But, yeah, we deserve that. We should just soak in it. Love it. We have so much to talk about.

And somehow, next Sunday Yeah. That seems like it's an even bigger day.

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Alright. Yeah. I don't think anyone expected, that little tangent. Number 1 sports podcast. Yeah.

We're talking ribs and vaginas. Alright. Chiefs 23, Texans 14. Oh, boy. There's a lot to talk about here.

I have this as my 2 things can be true game. Yep. The first thing can be that the Texans got absolutely screwed by penalties. And the second thing that can also be true is, the chiefs deserve to win this game because they outplayed them in special teams, and they made big, you know, defensive stands, and they made big plays to Travis Kelce. And as much as it sucks, it's like, yes.

Did the did the Texas get screwed? Of course, they did. That the the the roughing the passer penalty in the Q1 that led to a field goal where I that 1 was kind of like you can't you can't even put yourself in a position where you're going helmet to helmet, on a quarterback because you just know that's probably gonna get called. I thought the the 1 that happened, I think, in the Q3, the unnecessary roughness where the Texans hit each other Yeah. And Mahomes slid underneath them that led to a touchdown.

That 1 was absolutely bullshit. And if you're a Texans fan, you have every you probably weren't gonna win the game because you didn't execute in the big moments and especially special teams. But if you're a Texans fan, you have every right to bitch about that for the next week straight. Like, I'm talking, you know, video replay slow mo replays, replying to every chief's tweet, just being upset. You have every single right in the in the in the legal court of the Internet go off.

I saw a picture

of Patrick Mahomes kissing a referee.

Yeah. I did too.

I actually I can't believe that they just let that happen. I went up you.

I saw a picture of Andy Reid blowing a ref.

I saw that too. Yeah. Yeah. Andy Reid was on his knees on the sidelines. But the 1 where Patrick Mahomes is kissing a referee on the lips, I don't know how if you're the NFL, you can let the Chiefs get away with that.

Yes. Something should be done about that. But, yeah, to your point, big cat, the Texas, they were the first team that outgained an opponent by a 100 yards, had 0 turnovers, and lost a game in the playoffs.

That's that's kind of bullshit.

But diving deeper into what you said, they had a kick blocked. They missed an extra point. Yeah. They missed a field goal. And you could tell that Kyami Fairbairn first of all, not not a cold weather name.

2nd, when he went out there wearing the full on subzero mask

Yeah.

The full ski mask, he was not he the cold was in his head. Yeah. So there's there's that, and then there's the big return that they let up right off the bat. Stroud also got sacked 8 times. He got banged up early too, and there were just pressures up his dick.

Right. I saw that stat. That stat was bullshit because not only, did the Chiefs intentionally take a safety and lose, like, 27 yards at the end of the game, which would have made that not a 100 yard difference. The Chiefs also had a 110 yards, of kick returns

Yeah.

Which, I mean, you could win a game Well, most of you were on that first 1. Yeah. Yeah. And it was 64. They had some other good kick returns.

Like, you could, theoretically, you could have a 99 yard kick return every single time and then and win a game with 4 yards of offense. Yeah.

That's true.

So, that's that was misleading. I the the Texas just have a right to be upset, and I don't think that's what they they'd screwed up the game in so many other ways. Not to mention, like, the the kick the the special teams, that was atrocious. And we said it when it was happening. Kymy Fairburn was he looked like subzero.

Yeah. He was he was not that is not a cold weather kicker.

Yeah. You can't you can't wear that much cold weather gear and, like, exude any type of confidence for your teammates.

No. The weather was up the weather was up by 11 points before kickoff. So on those plays, it leads me to 1 thing I've been talking about for the last couple years, which is the in studio analysts. Mhmm. The in studio analysts that that do these network games.

This guy on ESPN was a guy by the name of Russell Yirk. Mhmm. Who we've never heard of before.

Mhmm.

We thought he might be AI because the picture of him looked like he was AI. He was on he they shot showed his picture on the screen for about, like, 2 seconds, then they take it away. This guy was the guy who headed up the oversight for instant replay for, like, a dozen years in the NFL. He he is a computer program.

Right.

His job, he was not a ref. He was the head of replay officiating. So he might as well be just a a piece of software code.

Right.

I'm sick of the replay, guys. The analysts getting on TV and just being, like, yeah, the refs are right.

Right.

That that was a good call. The the unnecessary roughness against Mahomes was complete bullshit.

Complete bullshit.

The 1 where they hit him in the pocket, that was bullshit too because it was the chest that made contact with his shoulder. And then, yeah, his face or his helmet got close to the problem is close to the home with his face mask afterwards. That was bullshit. But, again, if if the Chiefs get any breaks in games, they capitalize on. They always do.

And, also, the the Texans might be circled as being, like, 1 of the teams that refs take a closer look at because of the way they reacted to the Al Shayer Yeah. Suspension thing, which is complete bullshit also. But, also, the matchup of Chris Jones going up against this Texans offensive line on the field, in between the lines, in between the whistles, that was dominance.

The He

was just so disruptive.

Yeah. He he and Karl Loftus was incredible. I mean, he was he was just wrecking them on big, big plays. The Texans, that that 4th and 10 that they ran where they weren't really set, didn't call a time out, that was just, like, a enormous play. And it just felt like outside of the penalties, which were egregious, the the Chiefs did what they do.

They execute big time situations like that that throw to Travis Kelce where Mahomes was completely parallel to the ground. Those type of plays, the big third downs. I will I do wanna say so you're Russell York, loser. Troy Aikman. Shout out Troy Aikman.

Yeah. Because I like that he has just basically I don't know when it happened, but he essentially is just like, I'm gonna be brutally honest all the time and say, fuck it. If he watches a bad football game, he's gonna tell you it's a bad football game. And his point on Patrick Mahomes was spot on. That Mahomes, as great as he is, and he is the best, right now in the NFL, he's going for a 3 peat, which has never happened in the NFL.

His thing where he lets up per like, he lets up, on purpose to try to get go players into hitting him is bullshit. Mhmm. It's bullshit. Like, you can't. It's so hard for defenders to hit a quarterback in today's NFL.

It's it's essentially impossible, and they have all the rights the quarterback does in terms of how they can dictate, how the play is gonna go. And he called out that 1 specific play where Mahomes it wasn't even 1 of the penalties. It was Mahomes essentially who's scrambling and, like, almost stood still waiting for a guy to hit him illegally or hit him out of bounds. And I wish Mahomes didn't do that because he doesn't have to. Yeah.

That that's the 1 thing. He he doesn't have

to do that. But, also, it's it is a smart play by Mahomes too because he gets those calls all the time. No. The it's Which is which is like the the same thing that you were saying. It's it's 2 things are true.

He's doing the right thing in terms of

Correct.

How to win a football game. That works. It sucks to watch. It sucks to be a defender. The only thing that needs to happen, the NFL needs to change rule or they need to what they should do this is actually a perfect example of what the NFL should do with replay.

That's a pretty cut and dry 1 where you can watch on replay and say, is this an out of bounce hit or not?

Right. And it it's it's no different than the NBA when guys used to, try to jump into people to get a shooting foul. Yeah. Like, it's guys were doing that because they were calling it. You need to figure out a way to not call it as much so that Mahomes isn't, you know, benefiting from it because then he'll stop doing it.

Yeah. If that's the rule, then he's gonna continue to do it as long as it's it's helping his team out. I actually thought the Texan's defense, for the most part, at least in terms of their quarterbacks, played pretty good. They played really well. Stingley and Lacer gave up 0 catches.

0 catches. That's pretty fucking good.

I counterpoint, they just didn't, like, account for Travis Kelce.

Right. But Travis Kelce was Stingley

and Lassiter. No. Yeah. But the game plan of, like, oh, we think Travis Kelce's over the hill. That's just not true because Travis Kelce continues to be a monster in the playoffs.

He went for 7 catches, a 117 yards, and a touchdown. Travis Kelce, that is his 14th straight game with over 70 playoff game with over 70 yards. In those 14 games, he is averaging these are all playoff games. He is averaging 8 and a half catches, 99 yards, and over a touchdown per game. Like, you probably should've worried about Travis Kelce a little bit more.

And that way we said this on Friday when we're doing the preview. When the Chiefs get in the playoffs, it's Mahomes with his legs and Travis Kelce on 3rd down, and you just know that it's gonna be there, and it was there when they needed it. And that was the difference in the game. Like, if you if you don't let Travis Kelce beat you, maybe the Texans win that game. I don't know.

They at the end of the day, the Texans just didn't execute in special teams more than anything and not blocking you know, it it felt like there was multiple times that the Chiefs needed a big play on defense, and SPAG would dial something up, and they would send a blitzer

to the

right left. Car Karl Loftus would would win it 1 on 1, and they would get that big sack and get him into negative plays. It sucks because I thought CJ Shroud was he played well, and he was tough as fuck because he got absolutely killed a few times.

It looks like he got hit out of bounds when he was running in the Q1, and then he was significantly hampered when he was trying to run after that. By the end of the game, he was just torn.

Hit again too, I think, later in the game.

He was torn up. But, yeah, the the Chiefs defense played really well. I I just think that the Texans, they played a lot better than a lot of people thought that they would.

Yeah. They only scored 1 touchdown, though.

That's like you you you

look at it, and you're like, okay. You you you left a bunch of points on the field with your your field goal unit. You left a you you hurt your defense by giving up a bunch of kick returns, and then you scored 1 touchdown. Like, you can't win a game scoring 1 touchdown against the Chiefs in Arrowhead in the playoffs.

You

wanna do a thought experiment real quick? Yeah. Okay. Imagine the Kansas City Chiefs had never won a Super Bowl. Would people be rooting for the Chiefs in these playoffs?

Would they be a team that's fun to watch that still no. Do you don't think so?

I wouldn't say they're fun to watch.

Compared to the teams left?

Yeah. I mean so would it be the Chiefs have the same history, but they never would they have gotten as far and, like, fallen short?

Yeah.

I guess that's that's the question you have

to ask.

Super because then, yes, I think the teams people would have been rooting for Mahomes, kind of like a Josh Allen or Lamar where it's like, if he had gotten to all these Super Bowls and never won 1 Yeah.

Alternate universe where Josh has 3 Super Bowls. Yeah. Patrick Mahomes doesn't have any.

I think people would be rooting for him. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But but they would But that's just they would still

get root.

They would still get upset with the whole sideline dancing thing. And when when he took that when he did that slide, when the 2 Texans hit each other, that's not I don't blame Mahomes for doing that. He was just trying to get on the ground. But that's a call that you can't make as a ref. Do you know how fast he's got

to go

on the ground? So long to

go to the ground, though. He wasn't he wasn't really trying to get to the ground.

But it's but this is what we say. I mean, the Chiefs are it for the every call is goes, you know, the Chiefs way. I actually don't think statistically, I don't think that's true. Like, people pull it up and it's, like, it's actually not true. It feels that way.

The reason why it feels that way is that if you give the Chiefs even an inch, they're gonna win the game.

If you're getting a drive.

If you if you get if you make a simp singular mistake with the Chiefs, and these these calls weren't mistakes because they were just bad calls, they will capitalize every single time and make you pay for it. So the calls get magnified.

You know

what I mean? Like, if they don't if they don't score a touchdown in a field goal off these 2 calls, it probably just doesn't feel as as significant. But because if they get a free 15 yards, they're gonna go score a touchdown. That's just what the Chiefs do. That's a championship team.

That's what they do.

Mhmm. And we're gonna be 60 years old, and Travis Kelce is just gonna be sitting down in the middle of zone coverage, catching a football, turning up field, running for 12 more yards. It's That's just gonna happen. I love it when he now just like, this guy just knows how to get open.

He's he's so good, and he's so good in these big situations. And like I said, I mean, the 14 14 straight playoff games of 70 yards or more. I think only 1 of the I think 2 of those 14 were were in the seventies. Like, he had 171 and 179. There's a bunch that are in the 100.

Like, he just he just shows up. He's there for Mahomes when he needs to be. And that I mean, that passed by Mahomes where he was completely parallel was insane.

It was nuts.

It was absolutely insane. And now Mahomes is 7 and o in the divisional round. He has won a playoff game every single year that he has been a starter, which is pretty insane. That's just baseline. He's gonna win at least 1 playoff game.

And the last 7 years for the Chiefs look like this. They in 2018, they lost the patriots in the AFC championship game. In 2019, they won the Super Bowl. In 2020, they lost the Super Bowl. In 2021, they lost to the Bengals in the AFC championship game.

22 Super Bowl champs. 23 Super Bowl champs. 24 AFC championship game. The the floor for their season is the AFC championship game.

Yeah. It must be nice. That's it. Must be real nice being a I wanna see what the map looks like when they put out the map of who America is rooting for these games. Yeah.

It's probably just Kansas, Missouri.

I think

it's just Kansas.

Can't Missouri probably.

Maybe.

Maybe Texas. Maybe Texas. Probably not. But that's probably about it in this 1.

It it's crazy. They're just they they're just always there, and it is I mean, Scott Van Pelt joked about it like the the Kansas City Invitational. That's what it's become. Yeah. They just I think they oh, I guess last year, they didn't host it because they they went to Baltimore.

But the other 6 years, I believe they hosted all

of those.

I just wanna put a magnifying glass or a spotlight on Deontay Johnson's year this year.

Mhmm.

Because I think he's had the craziest year of any NFL player ever. So he got traded from the Steelers to the Panthers. Yep. He got traded from the Panthers to the Ravens. He got suspended from the Ravens.

Then he got brought back and cut by the Ravens. Then he got signed by the Texans. Then he got cut cut by the Texans. And then he got signed by the Ravens again, mostly just for procedural things so they could cut him and, I think, get, like, a compensatory pay

Yeah. That's right. Out of it.

But that's you you have to be really bad at wide receiver to get cut by the Ravens and the Texans.

Also, probably not a great locker room guy.

In this year. Yeah. Probably not a great locker room guy.

Yeah. I think there was that clip of him, like, when the I I think it was on the Ravens when he got, like, 1 target and they won the game.

I think he was pissed off after.

I

think he was pissed after the Texans won their playoff game. I I think he was upset after that.

Yeah. He should never have left Pittsburgh.

Yeah. Well, yeah. I mean, to this year to get cut from the stealer to get cut from the Texans and the Ravens given their receiver injuries.

Yeah.

That's pretty bad. Also, getting traded away as a wide receiver from the Steelers is really bad

this year. Really bad. So, Texans, I feel like as rocky as this season looked, and it did look really rocky because CJ Stroud I mean, he took a step back. He was not as good as he was last year. I feel like the arrow is still pointing up for them because that defense is so legit.

And you gotta hope that you're not gonna have 2 of your top 3 weapons get hurt like they did with Tankdell and Stefon Diggs. I know Tankdell might not be back for

a while, but that He also came to play in the playoff game. Like that. Like, he he he showed he showed that dog in the playoff game. Like, they didn't lose because of him at all.

No. You and the and the chargers game, they killed him. And and that defense is I mean, that was an incredible defense. And they they went toe to toe with the chiefs. I know that the final score doesn't look like that, but they were in that game for the majority of that game.

And they just had a few plays whether it be the block, you know, field goal, missed field goal, couple sacks here and there, like, they they just they if they get an offensive line and maybe another weapon, they'll be right back in the in the thick of it.

Yeah. After the game, CJ Stroud was pretty realistic about it. He was like, yeah. I'd I'd say this you know, I'm not happy with the loss, but I'm happy with how we competed, and there's some things to be optimistic about. And then they asked Mikko Ryans that same question.

He was like, no. I'm fucking furious. This sucks.

This is

the worst ever.

Yeah. And there was a lot of, rightfully so, Texans players being like, you can't I actually thought that they were they I saw a couple quotes, and they were essentially, like, you just can't make mistakes against Chiefs.

Mhmm.

Like, you know that they they were kinda blaming the refs, but it is true. Like, you just can't make a single mistake against Chiefs because Patrick Mahomes is that level now where he's not the same guy that he was 6 years ago where he was just throwing bombs to Tyreek Hill. But his, like, savviness and ability to just make a big play when it needs to be made is so off the charts. It's like that winning his numbers don't jump off the tee off the page, but like, they used to. But his ability to just win and be in big moments is so out of control that you just know the Chiefs are gonna be there.

You know what's scary to think about? This right now, what we're seeing Patrick Mahomes do this season, this might be the NFL figuring out Patrick Mahomes. Yeah. Because when he had Tyreek Hill, and he was putting up all those crazy stats and numbers, that was before defenses adjusted. Then they started running that, like, too high safety look on him.

You're not gonna score 30 points in a quarter against us anymore. And then this is the NFL figuring out Patrick Holmes, and they won 15 games.

They they went 15 to 2, and they're in the AFC championship

game. Yeah.

Figured it. And and last year, everyone was, like, the Chiefs are not good, and they won the Super Bowl. Yeah. That's that's that's the level that Patrick Mahomes is playing at, and their defense is just so legit.

Mhmm.

I mean, their their defensive line wrecks wrecks teams. McDuffie is such a stud. Jim Watson being back was huge. And Spaggs is I mean, he just it feels like there's, like, 3 or 4 times a game where Spaggs would just call the perfect play that it's, it's it's it's the same thing as, like, a genius offensive coordinator who will call a play that no 1 sees coming and trick a team. He does that on defense, and it's it's incredible to watch.

Because you just know if you get in a spot where you are in, like, obvious passing downs late in the game and you're trailing to the Chiefs, SPAGS will figure it out. Mhmm. And that's what he did.

At at all the right times. Yeah. Hank, what were you gonna say? I thought you raised your hand.

No. No. I mean, I I understand what it was like rooting against the Patriots for a long time. I always used to do the, you know, hate us because they anus, but Yeah. It's just miserable.

It's it's slow death. No one's rooting for the Chiefs. At least, like, I'm not.

I like that they hate us because they anus.

Better be rooting for the Bills. Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. That's our friend Josh. Rooting for

your friend Tom Brady's dynasty. And it's Josh gotta do it. Yeah. So, yeah. I mean, the Chiefs, they're just they pounce on everything.

What? They just do. They're just gonna they're gonna keep doing this year in, year out. And when it comes to Patrick Mahomes, if it means that he has to throw a 150 yards and win, he'll figure out a way to do that. Right.

And guess what? Their their running game will probably be cooking that game.

Yeah. I mean, they they didn't really have I mean, they we we we said it with the yards gain. I mean, like I said, the the field position was was great for them, but it's not I mean, Kareem Hunt carried the ball 8 times. That wasn't that was their leading rusher for 44 yards. And and and Pacheco had 5 rushes for 18 yards.

Like, they didn't they it was Travis Kelce and Patrick Mahomes. And in a sick Big place.

In a sick twist as as Chiefs fans and Chiefs players have been,

you know,

scrapping around looking for bulletin board material wherever they can find for the last, like, 3 seasons because they're everybody respects the Chiefs. Everybody knows how good they are. Now they've got the bulletin board material of 1, Patrick Mahomes did not make the Pro Bowl. That was unnecessary bulletin board material that we gave them in America. Number 2 is, talking about the refs.

That has somehow become a strength of theirs where they're like, all you guys are gonna do is complain about the refs.

Talk about the refs, Travis Kelce being washed in the regular season. His his over under yards for the playoff game was 50.

Yeah. I think they were saving him.

Yeah. They of course, they are.

Yeah. He

just he has to show up in the playoffs, and that's what he does. So it's Mahomes, the refs, Travis Kelce. Also remember that stat, the, they're they're 1 of, like, 3 teams to not score 30 points? Yep. That's still going.

Mhmm. Dio scored 30 points 11 times. The Detroit lions Yeah. Like, that's they they don't give a fuck. The the Chiefs are not trying to win style points.

They're just winning football games, and they're they do it at a level that is insane. I

respect the hell out of the Chiefs for being able to do this. I I see. This up. It's it's honestly pretty incredible.

Yeah.

I mean, like I said, Mahomes has has reached a different level where it's not it's not the wow eye popping numbers that he's had in years past, but it doesn't matter because he's just at a he's, like, thinking the game at a different level. Mhmm. And every time you need a big play, it's Mahomes. And, yeah, I mean, the Chiefs fans, like I think Chiefs fans need to just embrace the fact that, the refs did did help them in this game and just be like, sorry. Don't make mistakes.

Don't ever lead with your helmet near within a 10 yards of Patrick Mahomes. If you put your helmet even 10 yards within Patrick Mahomes Mhmm. There's a chance it's gonna get flat.

It probably will.

Yeah. So just don't do it.

Yeah. And that you mentioned in the past 2 minutes, they did have the box of the year. Yeah. They had Taylor Swift, Caitlin Clark, Tommy Alter

Mhmm.

Our friend, put some respect on Tommy was just lingering in the background of that.

Big time lingering.

And then they had, Donna Kelsey. Right? She was up there? Yep. Donna Kelsey.

Was mister was mister Kelsey around? I don't know.

He never gets talked to me.

He never gets FaceTime.

But yeah. Kelsey never gets it. Yeah. Fox here is also Dave Portnoy's, like, dream dream box. Yep.

It was. He he he probably saw that and was like, man, I wish I was there.

Are

you guys box guys? Yeah. Yeah. Big time. Like, just the box, or do you need the game?

You need TVs around the box?

The game. Yeah. No. I I would like the game. Mhmm.

I I don't think I could just watch a box. I could.

I love being in a good box.

Yeah. But not not watching the box.

But if you go into a box, you're just not gonna watch the game?

No. But if you're watching the box

I like going inside the box.

You would like to just watch the box instead of the football game.

Yeah. See, sometimes I would like to just watch the box.

I'd like to watch the whole thing. Mhmm. I want everything around the box. Like, what's a box if you don't have the football game going?

The goal is to get into the box.

What's a box

if you're not inside

of it? The box is that's what you wanna get into. Yeah.

That's just Sometimes if that's just looking at a picture of a box Right. And that doesn't do anything. No.

Sometimes Yeah. The chase to get in the box is better than being in the box.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, if you never get in the box, so that kinda sucks.

It does. Yeah. If you look back on it, you're like, maybe I could've gotten in that box, but we'll never know.

Maybe I

should just ask if I could've gotten in that box. Yeah. And the box would've been like, yeah. Why did it take you so long to ask? Mhmm.

That is

So what if

the worst feeling.

But then that maybe there are some boxes that you think that you could have gotten into, but in reality, you wouldn't have. But you you always will go on thinking I could have been in that box. Then you can tell your friends I could have been that box.

Well, yeah, those are some of the best boxes when you go and you're like, oh, do you do you see how many boxes I could've gotten into tonight? But I don't

I didn't

you know what? I'd rather just

have pizza. All of them.

Yeah. Sometimes we just I'd rather

just have pizza and hang with the boys at 2 AM Yeah. Instead of getting into all those boxes that were inviting me. Mhmm.

When you saw Tommy or friend in the box, were you like, damn? Like, were you like, mad, or are you, like, happy

to tell him? I asked him to please not shower so I could smell him after.

I was happy. I was I was super pumped for Tommy. Yeah. Like, you gotta gas your bros up. Yeah.

For sure. Of course. We did. We we texted him. We're like, dude.

Big time. How sick was that box?

Looked pretty sick.

It looked really sick.

Yeah.

Chiefs are just gonna go to the Super Bowl again, aren't they?

I mean, you'd be you'd be a fool to say to write them off or to doubt them.

I tweeted it a month ago. I was like, everyone needs to just recognize the Chiefs are gonna 3 peat and then act accordingly. And it's not like I'm rooting it I'm rooting for the opposite to happen. I was I bet the Chiefs in this game because I was like, well, it's playoff Mahomes. And I was actively rooting for the Texans during the game.

Also It was the Travis the Travis Kelce parallel to the ground touchdown. That's when it was like, yeah.

Yeah. That's Mahomes. Yeah. That's like he has just

stood there looking at the defender like you tried.

And he's gonna have, like, 2 or 3 of those plays a game where, like, no 1 else could do that, and he did that. And that's why he's Mahomes and everyone else is everyone else. I, like, just thinking about this game, what like, the the I I do wanna say, anyone who bet minus 9a half, apologies because I know it was 8a half all week, and then on Saturday, it was 9a half. That safety was so fucked. That's an all time all time.

After the missed field goal.

After the

missed field goal, we were like, holy shit. We did it. And then they'll lose it. I think some people push it 9 as well. That's 1 that you have a right to complain about just as much as the Texas can complain.

Again, I don't think the, I think the Texans, when you score 1 touchdown and have those gaps on special teams, you can't be like, man, we should've won that game if those calls go differently. But that doesn't that's that's common sense. That's the the 2 things can be true. That's common sense. Irrational fan brain, complain the fuck away.

Yeah. At least you have a great complaint to just bitch about. Yeah. You can always in your mind, you can look back on this game a year from now being, like, we should've beat the Chiefs, but the refs fucked us.

Yeah. We got screwed by the refs.

That's good. It's it's nice to have an excuse that is not your fault at all.

Yeah. Okay. So anything else from this game? The Chiefs, I believe, are 1 and a half point favorites over the Bills Okay. Which that's disrespectful to Patrick Mahomes.

I would say so.

It sets they'll just throw that out there. They just I also shot did you guys see that picture of the Texans fans that were at the last last row of Arrowhead? No. Oh my god. I wanna just I don't know.

They they probably don't if they're hearing this, if they know someone if someone knows these people, just be like, hey. We we mentioned them. I'll I'll try to find it for you. It it's like a narrow portion where it, like they were so far up there and it was so cold and so windy that I don't know how they survived. And that those are just those fans need a shout out.

Let me find a a picture. Can you find it, Max?

1 thing I do like about the

Texas fans Arrowhead.

The cold weather is when the coaches wear the ski mask on the sidelines because the 1 that goes, like, above your mouth, it blocks out the lip readers out there.

Yeah.

It's perfect. That's why Andy Reid has a big mustache.

Yeah. Alright. Yeah. Look at that. Look at that picture.

Yeah. Those Texans fans. That's I don't even know if they make you pay for those seats.

Is that a safe row?

I Is that It's crazy. Structurally sound. That's so far up there. And that's like You know they're just getting their fucking dicks kicked in by the wind up there.

Yeah. That's like, that thing that leans out over the Willis Tower Yeah. That you look at.

Yeah. So shout out those Texans fans. Arrow pointing up for the Texans. I I really do think that. Like, this this was weirdly, bad season because, you know, the injuries and CJ Stroud step back, but they they're gonna be there next year.

Yeah. And they're gonna they they are the only team to never be in a champ championship game. I think I saw that stuff.

I didn't think that CJ played bad. I I think that this is something that you can be happy with going to next year.

And remember, you have more playoff wins than the cowboys, since your franchise was created. Pretty good. Just we made that graphic. Just take that graphic, save it in your phone, show it to everyone. Okay.

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Love that, Hank. Okay. Night game. Commander's 45, lions 31, PFT, what a game. Yeah.

What a fucking game.

If you're a lions fan, please fast forward probably for the next 3 minutes. I understand that you would not want to longer than that. That you would wanna listen to this.

Yeah.

But for the first time that I can ever remember in my life, I'm thinking soupy. Mhmm. I'm finally thinking soupy. And the turnaround this team had is fucking unreal from last year. Last year, the commanders were 4 and 13.

We had the worst defense in the NFL, ranked number 32. We had the 20 5th offense in the NFL, a minus 189 point differential. This year, 14 and 5, 16th ranked defense, 5th ranked offense, 1st ranked offense on 4th down. A couple weeks ago, we weren't sure if they were good. We thought that they just won games.

They're good.

Yeah.

They just kicked a great team's ass in their house. They're a fucking good team.

Mhmm.

And Jaden Daniels, he is god. Jaden is he's the best. I think he's the best quarterback in the NFC. I think he's probably top 5 in the NFL. This team is just incredible to watch.

It was a lot of fun. That second quarter was just it was nuts. Just score, score, score. And the defense stepped it up big time creating turnovers, the interceptions of Jared, the

interception of the trick play that Ben Johnson tried to run. Mhmm. They did

kind of a bend, but don't be. Bin but don't break thing. The the lines were scoring touchdowns. They were gashing us with Jamere Gibbs. And then for some reason, they kept putting Montgomery back out there.

Mhmm.

On Friday, I I said, Montgomery is a great player, and it's he's tough as fuck. If he's battled back and he's playing in this game, I respect the hell out of him. But at the same time, if you're gonna tell me I'm either getting Montgomery on the field or Gibbs on the field as a Commanders fan, give Montgomery as many touches as you can possibly give him because we couldn't stop Jahmure Gibbs at all. And, yeah, they they scored their points. They they took their shots, but their defense, I think, probably sustained too many injuries over the course of the season to be able to do much to stop the, the Commanders.

But it is it's incredible. It's it's been such a fun season, and, Jaden is the 1st quarterback that's drafted in the top 4 to ever make a championship game as a rookie. And, yeah, it's it was a lot of fun. It was scary going to the game. I wasn't I wasn't feeling confident until we recovered that onside kick at the end.

But yeah. Man, I I think that I think we can beat anybody. Yeah. That's what Jaden has done. Like, I don't think that we're the best team in the NFL.

I don't think we necessarily have the best roster top to bottom in the NFL, but I think that we could beat any team on any given Sunday. And the keys to the game, fuck them up, put the women, children to bed

Yep.

Jaden Daniels and the hype video for check marks.

Which is a great hype video.

Thank you. I appreciate it.

Right. Great. I watched the whole thing. It was great hype video, and then I listened to Coldplay in my car.

Yeah. I did. That's a lie saying

that you know a hype video is good that you listen to song after the hype video. Mhmm.

It's a great song.

Yeah.

That's a lie saying that I didn't care for it. I thought it was a really good video, but it, other people agreed with me that it seemed more like a end of season video.

Guess what? It it worked.

It worked.

It worked.

Was it supposed to hype up other people or Commanders fans?

No. There was Commanders fans that were saying that too.

No. I didn't see that. I did I I saw almost a 100% approval rating on the hype video.

No. Everyone said it. It was a good video. It was a great video. It just the it but, you know, it worked.

So what can I say? It worked. Yeah.

I was telling a story. I was telling a story.

It was a great storytelling. This game to me came down to 2 things. 1, a guy by the name of Philly Mays on Twitter tweeted out the lions may win this game by a 100

Mhmm. When they were up

7 to 3, that was almost instantly proven incorrect. And then the real thing was I think we all had the same thought when we're watching this game. Commanders were incredible in the first half. We're like, can they can they hold on? And what happened in the second half?

Commanders get the ball 3 and out. The lions go down the field score, make it a 3 point game. You're like, uh-oh. Here it comes. And then Jaden Daniels went on a 15 play 70 yard drive, started with 828 in the Q3, gave the ball back to the lions with 1329 in the Q4, got a touchdown, back to a 10 point lead.

That was it. Like, that that drive because that was the moment. That was the moment. And I think I tweeted Jaden Daniels' unflappable. Commanders could have blinked.

And, like, you know, you're in a ruckus environment. You're an 8 and a half point dog. You just went 3 and out. They just went and scored. It's 3 point game, and he didn't blink.

And he's I mean, he's special. Like, that's what I wrote down right here. Jaden Daniels is special. He's incredible. Like, his rookie season has been out of this world, probably 1 of the best of all time, rookie seasons.

Obviously, I get tagged in a lot of tweets. He's way better than Caleb Williams right now. I still have hopes for Caleb Williams, but I also think that if Jaden Daniels was drafted by the bears, he wouldn't have been good. That's neither here nor there. This is more about Jaden Daniels.

He's special. He's an incredible, incredible talent. And we I said this to you on Friday. I was like I I I went in the game being like, the lions are better, but Jaden Daniels is just different. Yeah.

And, like, that was I kept on saying in my head, I ended up betting the commanders on the spread. I wish I'd been a money line. But I just kept on saying, like, whatever's happening here, it's a whole team believing and this guy just carrying them all to this place where it's like they're just everyone's playing better and everyone plays different knowing they have that guy who can make those type of drives and those type of plays, 4th down plays where it just it's incredible.

So on 4th down, I I noticed this early on in the season, like, 3rd and short, 4th and short. Jaden Daniels just doesn't care. He just doesn't care at all. He's he's the same guy. He acts like it's a first and 10 every time.

He acts like it's the easiest play in the world. He's unflappable. He's cool. He does not panic ever. So when we we do these 4th down conversions, I'm always, like, yeah.

You know what, Dan? Fuck it. Let's go for it.

Except for Marcus Mariota. That was 1 of the worst.

That was that was bad. So we I think we're 3 for 4

Yeah.

On 4th down conversions.

Don't don't take the ball out of Jaden Daniels' hands.

Don't do it with the Commanders. I I think after Saturday night's game, we now have the most 4th down conversions in playoff history

Mhmm.

After 2 games. Like, they they go for it. They're consistent. Dan Quinn's been doing this all year. He's do like, he outdanned Dan.

Yeah. It was this is the type of game plan that Dan Campbell's known for. Dan Quinn did it. We executed better. Just he doesn't he does not give a fuck that it's 4th down.

Yeah. I don't know how he does it. He doesn't feel emotions. He just goes out there, and he acts like it's practice.

The term Orlovsky, I like the term he uses. He says pocket peace. Yeah. I like that. He's got the best pocket piece.

Like, he's just piece he

has he's at peace and He's unflappable. That was the 2 words, unflappable and special. Like, there's just something going on there where he's just he's the game is slowing down for him almost, where he just looks like he's playing it at a completely different speed than everyone else. Also to add to your, like, turnaround Mhmm. Each of the top 8 commander tacklers this year on defense were not on the roster a year ago.

Yeah. And Dan Quinn and Kliff Kingsbury and your ownership group and, you know, your GM, everyone. Like, this is watching this, I I've I've come to peace with it. Obviously, I've had, mixed feelings where I, you know, tried to fight against it. And I was like, fuck.

This is not like, this isn't happening. Jaden D'Angelo is special. I had I I've I've given up probably, like, 3 weeks ago where I was like, this is just I think it was the Falcons game where I was like, why even fight it? The guy is on another level. And if anything, it gives hope to anyone who roots for a bad team.

He's like, you just gotta get a new owner. Yeah. And then everything can work because Dan Quinn, everything's working for him, and, everything's working for Kliff Kingsbury. Everything's working for Jaden Daniels. The only thing that's not working is Stu Finner did say that, after every everyone on the Commanders hugged Magic Johnson after the game that the whole team is out with AIDS next week.

Well, that's not true scientifically. Yeah.

That was that was that was Stu going back in his bag.

But you know what? It's a playoff. Everybody's dealing with something. Yeah. Everyone's nicked up in the playoffs.

No. It's a crazy I'm happy for you. It's crazy. Like, I know people are like, oh, you're not actually happy for him. I gave up on trying to fight it, like I said, a month ago, where it's like, you you just gotta sit back and watch and be like, this is what we're watching is incredible and enjoy it as a sports watcher and not think about, you know, what could have been.

It's just he's he's a joy to watch play football.

He's unreal. He's unreal. Yeah. The the turnaround that they've had and the the guys on defense, the the 2nd drive that the Lions had going in, they were up 73 Mhmm. And we forced a fumble, recovered it.

I think if the Lions score that, it but it might be a different game. And but to come up with a big play at the right time between him, Jeremy Chin, Mikey Sander still, I fucking love this guy. I love him so much. Got 2 picks. He played receiver at Michigan too, not just quarterback.

He is the best. And, tough break with Sam Cosme who was playing well, and and then he got rolled up on probably our best offensive lineman. He's our only pro bowl offensive lineman. He is he is now out with an ACL. That sucks.

But, we saw the emergence in the last couple weeks of playoff De'Ami. Mhmm. So De'Ami Brown is absolutely the story behind him is wild. So Grant Paulson tweeted out these stats. De'Ami Brown went 4 years in the NFL without catching 5 passes in the game.

Jeez.

Not once over 4 seasons did he do it. In the last 2 games in the playoffs, 5 catches, 89 yards and a touchdown, 6 catches, 98 yards. And this is going up against Amun Ra Saint Brown, who is a great receiver that talks shit about Diame. I I think that was last year being, like, tell me how many catches this guy has.

Yeah. Like,

I think he he might have been drafted ahead of him, so that's 1 of the guys that he remembers on that list. But playoff De'Ami is a different guy.

Yeah.

And, that that drop in the bucket that Jaden had to him on that post route while he was blindfolded with the hand of the defender, just absolutely incredible stuff.

And De'ame Brown, like, what you just all the stats you just said, that really goes back to what I was saying with Jaden Dano being special. And you know when you're watching a special quarterback because he just elevates every single person. Yeah. Like, every single person plays better. The line blocks better.

Running backs run harder. Just everything looks better because of that guy. And I I know that's oversimplifying it, but I truly believe it. That's why it's the most important position in all of American sports.

Yeah. Like, the culture and

Right.

The GM and and the head coach and the belief in yourself. Like, none of that means shit unless you have a special quarterback.

Right. And

that's a that's the biggest part of the equation. But, yeah, I love Dan Quinn. I love Jaden Daniels. I love Terry McClure. And I'm so happy for him every time he does something that that stands out because it's like this guy has been a great great wide receiver for some really shitty quarterbacks.

Mhmm. So it's fun seeing him. And just saying the words, the Washington commanders are in the NFC championship game.

It's crazy. I feel like I died.

I feel like I'm a dead person, and this is the 6th sense, or I'm in heaven. Oh, I mean, if I'm in heaven, cool. That rhymes.

That means we're there too.

So it's like win win. But, yeah, I feel like I'm dead and this is something that's not real that's happening. I'd never never thought that this would happen this quickly. But, yeah, if you have a shitty owner, just all you have to do is protest for 20 years, have him found, culpable for sexual harassment via multiple investigations, have him, be investigated for cooking the books and stealing money from the other owners.

Mhmm.

And then maybe you'll end up getting him out too.

Because you you agree with this statement because what I was saying was if the bear like, revisionist history, if the bears had drafted Jaden Daniels, I think he would not have had this rookie year because he would have been on the bears. And we had Eberforce as a coach and all this turmoil and all this shit and offensive line, all that crap. Like, I just don't think it would have gone at the same way. Just like that, if Dan Snyder still owns the team, you guys aren't in the industry.

No. If Dan Snyder owns the team, the the field goal last week is missing by 40 yards. So the right

stance and everything around it matters. Even gets

to the holder. Yeah. It matters

so much.

The hail Mary would have never happened if it were Dan Snyder that owned the team. You don't get good luck on your side if you have shitty owner.

I'd say the 1 good thing I

do think he watched the game. Yeah. I was thinking, I hope I hope that he watched the game, and I hope he's so fucking pissed off. I hope you're I hope you're just miserable right now, Dan. Wherever you are, fuck you.

It's hard. It would be hard not to watch football.

Yeah. Even if it's a team that you used to own.

I also want 1 spin zone because obviously, you know, the Jaden Daniels, Cale Williams, I mean, my own personal hell, it does mask the fact that Dan Quinn also was a finalist for the Bears head coaching job, and they were, like, nah. Eberfluss.

I think he was the last person hired.

They flew him commercial.

Yeah. Yeah. He was the last

coach hired.

Commercial middle seats. So And let this That that masked that whole thing.

Let this also show for the record that in case you were somehow a fucking moron and you thought that me and big cat know ball, Dan Quinn was the last guy on my list. Yeah. I did doubt Dan Quinn. I I wanted Ben Johnson last year.

Hopefully, that happens for me with Mike McCarthy.

I wanted Ben Johnson last year, and guess what happened? I didn't get Ben Johnson. I was upset. Instead, I got Dan Quinn. What does Dan Quinn do?

He goes and he beats Ben Johnson

in the playoffs. And he gets Kliff Kingsbury. And he gets That was so huge because Kliff Kingsbury has done an incredible job of basically making sure that a rookie quarterback is in the perfect spot to succeed. Essentially, everything that I said that was wrong in the off season just applied to Jaden Daniels.

You know what's crazy is

because I'm a fucking moron.

That, this game probably should have been 45 to 24 instead of 45 to 31. There was the the phantom face mask penalty that they called that was not a face mask, extended that drive that was on 3rd down 3rd and long. They would have punted that ball away, and they ended up scoring a touchdown off it.

Now if we're gonna do what ifs, I have 1 question for you. Yeah. The that was a crazy hit on Jared Goff on the pick 6. Yeah. But also And he might have been concussed.

But also Jared was kind of engaged with a different Yeah. Defender, and Luvoo came in. It was a little bit high, but it was, like Yeah.

By the way, it's crazy in the fact that quarterbacks don't like, usually, that's a flag. Yeah. That's you Max. No. That's a flag, Max.

Yes. Yeah. That's definitely Alright. Yeah. Yeah.

You agree with me.

Wait. So what I'm saying is it might be it might be a

crazy.

It might be a flag.

Alright. I thought you were disagreeing. That was a crazy hit.

It might be a flag, but, also, Newton shoved him at the last second so the the target moves.

I mean, he launched into him, and This is crazy. Jared Goff probably got he listen. Jared Goff played a bad game. We love Jared. He's a friend of the show, been a friend of the show since the beginning of the show.

He had a bad game. He was careless with the ball. I I wonder if he got concussed there because he did go back to the locker room, and he got fucking wrecked on this play. Yeah. And that is usually that's flagged almost all the time.

Like, when you hit a quarterback like that after a pick, that's that's a flag. I mean, that's Mahomes, that's jail if you do that to Mahomes.

Yeah.

Drop a bomb on you.

What did you say, Max?

Throw a grenade

or something. Memes told me to bring this up earlier because he was like, you have to Oh,

I was always gonna bring it up. Yeah. Yeah. But, no, that was that that and I don't know if he got concussed or not. Like, he he obviously threw that pick before that hit, so he was not playing great before that hit, but he didn't play great after either.

Yeah. No. I don't think it made a difference in the game.

No. Yeah. The No.

The lions were never winning that game. But that was, like, that was a crazy hit.

That was a crazy hit.

Yeah. So it's it's I mean, if they didn't

the the the trick play interception, like, that was that was a 10 point game. If they scored a touchdown on that drive, they easily could've won the game.

Where the lions really lost the game? J J. M. O. Lost the game for them, and I I like, like, it sucks because I like watching Jameson Williams play football, and he's electric, but and he had that incredible run.

But Jameson Williams lost this game for them in in 2 different ways. And and Jared Goff obviously deserves and and the defense, all that stuff, which we can get all the Lions stuff. But I thought the Jamieson William trick play where he threw the ball, just don't, like, throw it out of bounds. I don't know. Do something else.

And then I actually thought in the the end of the first half was where the Lions really, like, kinda lost the game because they're going down to score and Jared throws, pass to Jamieson Williams in the end zone that gets intercepted. And that was, like, maybe Jamieson Williams being a younger receiver where a savvy vet, you slow down and let the quarterback make contact through you and you get a flag. Like, he kind of he wasn't strong enough on the ball there and the quarterback made a great play. And that was maybe maybe the lines are down 3 going in the half, and now they're down 10 and they don't get the ball.

Yeah. I thought that was a great play by San Cristiano. He kinda undercut the route.

Yeah. But he he he just wasn't strong enough to the ball. You know what I mean? Like, he like, a a a vet receiver is stronger to the ball there than Jameson Williams.

And then he kinda mentally checked out in the second half.

Yeah. So, but we should talk about the Lions. That was about as devastating of a loss as you can have for a team. Now, I I like, you have a season that's a dream season, in terms of record and and 15 wins and number 1 seed for the first time in franchise history. But the defensive injuries and I know listen.

Everyone gets injured. I saw the the depth chart. Did you see that? Mhmm. That, they they basically I'm gonna I'm gonna look it up real quick.

I think I bookmarked it. The lions because they lost to Meek Robertson, in the Q1 of the game, and he's obviously a very important yeah. So here it is. So they had, by the end of this game, they were out, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 week 1 starters on defense. And then 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 7 backups.

And, what is that? 3, 4 of them where they lost the starter and the backup. They had basically no 1 playing defense at the end of the game. So I I do feel bad in that respect because that's just the shittiest the shittiest luck with injuries on defense it could possibly have.

It's actually pretty remarkable that they got this far and they got the they got the buy in the 1 seed. Like, they did a great job. Aaron Glenn did a great job getting every single bit that they could have gotten out of the players that they had. By the time you're on, like, the 3rd string at multiple positions, it's gonna be tough no matter who is gonna coach you up. But they they did a good job this season.

It just it ran too thin. Yeah. They just didn't have anybody back there.

And and now you have alliance franchise that's kind of at a crossroads because you're gonna lose your offensive coordinator. You're gonna lose your defensive quarter. Most likely, your defensive quarter. Schefter already reported that Ben Johnson will take a head coaching job between the Raiders, the Jaguars, or the Bears. And you just won 15 games.

You come off an NFC championship appearance last year. You climbed back to the mountain. You could see it in Dan Campbell's postgame press conference. He was crying. He was very emotional.

He took all the blame. Again, I think it's when you look at, like, the blame pie for the lions, Jared had a really bad game at the worst time, and their defense couldn't withstand the amount of injuries they had. And Jaden Daniels is special. Our friend Detroit Don did hit me up. He said, this is at midnight on Saturday night.

He said, I'm staying off social media for a month. See you on the backside. Me and super fan are sick. Yeah. And you could see it.

They were showing the the Lions fans at the end of the game. And, it was just shock and disbelief. And they I mean, the first time in franchise history that they have the path goes through Detroit and to have that happen where it wasn't it wasn't a fluke. It wasn't like a crazy, you know, bounce off a helmet. It wasn't a hail Mary.

It was the commanders were better. They had all the guys from Detroit.

They had Calvin Johnson there. They had Barry Sanders. They had they they pulled out all the stops. It felt like this was gonna be the line's ear if there was 1. And Dan Campbell seemed to have the team just humming.

Like, they were they were playing with the same intensity, in that game against the Vikings that you saw out of week 1 out of the lines. It was a pretty incredible season form, but you're not gonna remember the incredible season. You're gonna remember this is the team that that should have gone farther.

How quickly is the, storyline gonna be that, like, Dan Campbell pushes too hard and the practices are too hard and that's why they're injured so much?

I I actually think there'll be a different story before that 1.

Okay.

The story before that 1 will be, did Ben Johnson and Aaron Glenn lose focus on this game because they were doing interviews going into this week.

Yeah. Ben Johnson didn't have his best game, although the, double shovel pass was awesome.

That was a great play.

That was an incredible play. But, yeah, the the trick play to J Mo was it it was baffling.

And don't get me wrong.

And they

were just running it. They didn't need it.

They didn't need it.

They just run Jamere Gibbs.

Yeah.

Like, he like, I know David Montgomery came back faster than anyone ever expected. Jamere Gibbs is such an insane talent. And the way he runs and how fast he is and his vision, just run the whole game through Jamere Gibbs.

In the first half, it was like he was averaging 15 yards a carry. Yeah. It was it was crazy. The the fact that they went away from him was nuts. The the commanders also did get a little bit of luck on their side.

They had like you mentioned, okay, there's a call that that probably should have been made. There was also a route that Amun Ra, just slipped on when he would have been wide open for a first down on an important drive. So, yeah, there's there's luck.

That's you can't

There's break.

That's not that that happens every game.

There's breaks.

Game of inches.

There's breaks that you get. And and, fortunately, we got more breaks, and I think we were the better team.

Yeah. You absolutely were. And Jaden Daniels significantly outplayed Jared. Like, that's just a fact. You can't you can't sugarcoat it or anything.

I thought that there was a a pretty interesting stat. This is the first time that a Josh Harris owned team has gotten past the 2nd round of the playoffs. Oh. Is that interesting? Wow.

Woah. How many teams

does he own?

Yeah. What are those?

He owns the, devils, the New Jersey devils, and then I believe he owns a basketball team. I think it's the sixers.

Oh. He's been doing that for a while. Right?

Yeah. He's had yeah. Sixers.

And they haven't gotten to the

They haven't. We're talking football here. No. But no. Yeah.

Josh Harris is the owner

of shit. Keep talking shit. We'll see you next week.

Washington Commanders.

Oh, this is I can't wait.

He's the

owner of the Washington Commanders.

Talking shit. I don't wanna talk Commanders Eagles until after we talk all the games, but then I wanna do No.

I I just wanna remind him

get it.

While he's talking shit who he where he has to go next week.

What? What what was win the NBA championship?

That was just a fact. Where where was

the shit talking? No.

No. I'm happy for Josh

Harris. I got

a word. Where was the shit talk?

I am a fan of Josh Harris, and I'm happy that he's owning a team that's that's living up to his ability as an owner.

That was no that was just a stat. He just did a stat.

Okay.

And everything Jaden Daniels has done for the city, I'm so glad that he was able to help Josh out in that same way. Josh is he's a DC area guy.

That was just a stat.

Josh Harris, thank you for everything that you've done for the city.

I'm happy for you PFC. Get ready for Washington. Get ready for the longest week of your life, though.

Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. I'm listen. I'm I'm taking today to celebrate just like we won a game. Today, I'm gonna celebrate.

I'm gonna enjoy the victory. And then starting Monday, guess what? Back

to work.

I'm not celebrating for the record. Oh, wow. I will be I am doing 0 celebrating. Oh.

Back to work. Okay.

Sometimes you gotta stop and smell the roses. And you're saying act like you've been there before. I have not been here before. I'm going to I'm gonna enjoy a day. I'm giving myself a day, and as

you should,

you're not gonna see me anymore locked in. You better fucking believe I'm doing a hype video again on Friday. And it's gonna kick the shit out of the last 1 I did.

He was there was rumors it might be Freebird, which is, like, 9 minutes long.

Yeah. I'll have to talk to poor Quakes.

Quakes about that 1. Quakes.

I I haven't decided. I haven't really

finalized Quakes. Have not made the final choice. Adviser's done. He's got the time. I haven't made a final

choice on what song is gonna be the soundtrack, but Freebird is 1 of the names that's in the hat right now.

I'm I'm happy for you too, PFT. I'm happy that I also made the decision to let go of, just trying to fight it.

Yeah. I I see.

Go. I just had to do it because it's better for my mental health and because it it was, like, 1 of those things where people would text me. I think I I got in a fight with SVP on text, about a month ago, and I was like, what are you doing, dude? Like, kill I I still think he could be great, but he had a disaster. Like, the bears were a disaster this year, and Jaden Daniels is special.

Just just let go.

Yeah. And the way I look at it, I honestly don't care if you're upset or not. There are

a lot of people. Not. Yeah. Like, that's the thing. I know people could be like, oh, he's so upset.

He could mention it. I literally have. Jaden Daniels is so much fun to watch.

Listen. To me, I'm I'm not there are people that are also out there, like, oh, you know that big cat's so mad right now. I I wanna be perfectly clear. I'm I'm enjoying this. The thought of whether big cat is enjoying my success does not ever enter my brain.

Correct. I do

not give a shit about that. I'm going to love what's happening to my team because it's it's a miracle what I'm seeing from the Washington. The the commanders are in the NFC championship game.

I do think that the I mean, we you know, our words get dissected over a 1000000 times. I do think people would would have noticed that I have had a a shift in, general vibe just because it's it's fun to watch Jaden Daniels play football. And I'm not gonna rob myself of having fun watching someone play football just thinking about what what could be because, again, Jaden Daniels would suck if he was on the Bears. Yeah. He just would've.

And Kale Williams would be here.

I I don't know about that. I wouldn't go that far.

I don't fucking know.

I had Jaden number 1 on my big board. Glad that we got our top guy. We had him tagged as a commander going into the draft. We only gave out 3 commanders tags. That's true.

And he got 1 of them. So I had him number 1.

By

the way, the NFC North most regular season wins 45, with 0 playoff wins. The NFC beast is back. Bears had just as many playoff wins as the rest of the division. Yep. That's a fact.

So tied for the most wins in in 2025. Who do to 1 with the lions. Yep. Who do

you think had a worst time watching this weekend slate? Cowboys fans? Because you've got their former defensive coordinator

Mhmm.

Dan Quinn. Mhmm. And then you've got their former offensive coordinator, Kellen Moore Mhmm. Winning. Also, Jaden Daniels just tied Dak Prescott for most career playoff wins.

Mhmm.

I guess, Dak, Jaden Daniels now has as many career playoff wins as Dan Snyder too Mhmm. Which is pretty cool. Do you think they had a worse time or Giants fans watching Saquon?

A Lions fans.

Lions fans.

Yeah. I'm not I don't feel bad for Lions fans because they're in the division, and they've talked a lot of shit. I do feel bad for Detroit Don and Super Fan. Yeah. Those 2 guys, specifically, I I

I feel bad Lions fans. I feel bad for Lions fans. Tortured fan bases will always have a soft spot

in my heart,

and I I feel bad.

Because I feel bad for Sprinkles.

I don't feel bad that we won the game, but I I feel for Lions fans.

And I feel bad

for the team. When you have

a season like that and you have the bye week

I know.

You're not even thinking about the divisional round. Yeah. That's what that's what like, you they got hit in the mouth, and they didn't realize it till, like, probably halfway through the Q3.

Their d it's just their d like, their defense was just so, so broken. They had no no names. They had guys who, like, didn't practice, who just showed up and had to play in in a divisional round playoff game.

So the top seeds are now 12 and 8 in their 1st playoff games in the divisional round. So getting the buy doesn't it's not that great.

No. No.

I gotta say it.

Say it.

I gotta say it. Say it. We love Dan Campbell. We can't we can't say it. We can't keep saying the winner thing.

We can't.

I didn't say winner. When did I say winner? We But when did I say it now? Did I say it now?

We haven't. But But

I didn't say it. Did I say it?

He had to say it.

I had to say it.

But, I mean, we didn't We've

had to call him a winner this last and forth for the past for the past 3 years.

I mean, he he was a winner this year, but he he I he's not winner for this game. He the team wasn't

ready. Correct. Yeah. I know. We I that's all that's all we have to say.

I had to address it.

What? Did we say that Dan Campbell is a winner?

Do we say that a lot?

Well, I had the I had the argument that you can't keep calling him a winner. You had

the argument.

Wins in the playoffs.

Well, he did go to the NFC championship game last year.

Yeah. And Yeah. Correct. And during the season, he was winning a lot of football games.

Correct. But that doesn't make someone a winner. Winning regular season games

is not We didn't call him a winner for like, imagine if we had started this and been, like, alright, PFT.

Hold on a second. But you've said it. You

said it. You wanna talk about the commanders being the NFC championship game, but I'd first like to say Dan Campbell's a winner.

I also don't think that we've had long extended conversations about what have been 1 day Campbell.

Where he was like, you can't say he's a winner until he

wins in the playoffs.

I think he

I still I think he's a I still think Dan Campbell's a very good coach, but that's something that we talked about, and he's gotta win in the playoffs with the 49th.

Grading it

on a curve I think grading it on a curve, Dan Campbell's a winner because he changed the complete culture of the Detroit lions. The Detroit lions.

That's fair.

That's a fair point. Culture and and performance of the Detroit lions, a franchise that just there's they're besides the Cleveland Browns, they're the like, you'd never say winning in the Detroit lions, and he made that a a real thing that happened the last couple of years. He's not a winner today. They lost. He wasn't ready.

How many playoff

games would you

need to win to be become a winner in your eyes?

Super Bowl. Okay. That's what I said. Okay. That's what I said the first time.

I'm happy you addressed that because I was worried.

There's a

lot of people

out there. I was worried

someone was gonna be like, hey. Why didn't they talk about Dan Campbell?

Well, I

we're gonna do

we're gonna whatever.

Dan Campbell Dan Campbell did not have his team ready to play.

Yeah. That's yeah. People are

you know? There was a lot

of there was a lot of blame. A lot of blame to Ben Johnson. A lot of blame to

I said that Dan Campbell I I'm pretty sure I said that. If I didn't, I'm sorry. Dan Campbell got outcoached. Okay. That Hank?

What? Are you happy he said that? He had to say

it. I had to say it. I had to say

it. National Sports Podcast.

I I think I do think Dan Campbell's a very good coach, but I wanted to I don't know. He didn't have his he didn't have his guys ready to play tonight.

I do think that anyone who who makes the lions a 15 win team by nature is a winner.

Yeah.

That's a pretty tough thing

to do.

Like, that's almost impossible. Getting a buy, top seed

I mean, the most wins in franchise history.

That's crazy. Okay. So let me ask you this, Matt. Are are you if you're a Lions fan or has the thought entered your head at all, like, maybe Dan Campbell's the problem?

Should we fire? If you're Lions fan,

are you thinking

if you're Lions fan, are you, like, should we fire a day

on the ball?

Show when

I said that you can't call him a winner until he wins in the playoffs.

He has won in the playoffs.

Should he has won won the championship game.

But every that doesn't make you a winner. Maybe the playoff game does not make

you a winner.

He until he wins in the playoffs, but he he has won in

the playoffs.

Won a Super Bowl. Okay.

Well, a

lot of coaches haven't won a

Super Bowl.

Yeah. That's true. I should Lions fans think about Dan Campbell being fired?

No. That's not what I'm saying.

That is not a winner, and you need a winner to win.

That's true.

Not even saying that he's not a winner.

I'll tell you what.

Not even saying that he's not a winner. All I'm saying is that

You literally said it has

to be said. No. But it has to be

yes.

It has to be said because we add

this to the saying it?

No. I'm not saying that he's I'm I'm just not giving him the label of Dan Campbell, winner.

So that would imply

he's not

a winner. A loser either.

What is he?

He's just not he's just a queen.

He's just coach. He's a good coach.

He's just he's a good coach.

But not a winner?

He's not not labeled winner.

Is that Hayden Daniels a winner?

Well, yeah. I mean, we haven't seen him we haven't losing the

playoffs. Won a Super Bowl.

So Andy Reid was not a winner until he went to Kansas City.

Yeah. That was literally the the big thing of

Andy Reid. Say that. But Jane Daniels is not

a winner. That was that was that actually made my argument perfect. Yeah.

That that hurt Josh Allen and Lamar Jackson not winners. Correct. Jane Daniel's not a winner.

Not yet. I don't know why all of his

the the Knicks is

he is. But he might turn he might turn into a loser next week. Correct. We never know.

I'm it

happens that fast. I mean, I we this is just a different discourse for different people.

So happy you brought

this up. Yeah. He had

to say want

someone to tweet and be like, I was waiting for Max to say that.

Max, does this have anything to

do with the fact

that Memes was back there Memes was back here with

me. Up.

Does this have anything to do with

the the

the fact that

I told

him to take notes and then bring it up in the Eagles.

Does this have anything to do with the fact that we give credit to Dan Campbell for going forward on 4th downs? Well

Yes. That's this is basic this is something

they're asking about it.

So we're on Slaney.

Nick Sirianni a loser and Dan Campbell a winner. But Okay.

Well, Nick Sirianni a winner. You gave us the right to call Nick Sirianni a loser by calling him a loser. Fair.

But now I don't think so.

But he's not won a Super Bowl. True. Not not he's still not a winner.

He's in the middle he's in the middle category. Coach. He's good coach. Both both in the same category of

I had I wrote down praise for Nick Sirionni. It's coming, bud.

I will get to it.

You should've shouldn't have jumped the gun. I had praise for Nick Siriano.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said anything.

I shouldn't have said anything. I liked it.

I liked it. Fired up. I like it, Max.

We shouldn't have said anything.

I like it. Dan Campbell's still a winner.

Yeah. I would agree. I would agree with that.

Bad game. He's a I think bad game. What team wasn't ready. They got punched in the mouth. They were they're supposed to be the tougher team that, you know, punches other teams in the mouth, biting kneecaps, all that shit.

That was a bad like, he just they weren't ready. And and yeah. But he is a winner.

This is what memes really wants to talk about is PFT fucking the floor.

He was doing the J Mov.

I did the J Mov.

Yeah. I know. It was great.

Yeah. Jamieson Williams caught the touchdown, fucked the carpet, didn't get a flag for it. He was having sex with the ground at at Ford Field. So first thing I thought about was, yeah, fuck that carpet.

Also very funny, because PFT was wearing an outrageous, for the outsiders, an outrageous jumpsuit, Washington commander's jumpsuit. And coach Gruden even said to me, he's like, do you believe what this guy's wearing today? And I had to, like, look and be like, oh, yeah. I guess for for you, that would be weird. I was like, that's I didn't flinch when PFT walked in with that on.

Number 1, it's jumpsuit January.

Yes.

Number 2, that's a commander's jumpsuit. Yep. Number 3, I've worn that jumpsuit before. Yeah. So I've broken it in a little bit.

But yeah. I mean, it's the playoffs. You have to pull out all the stops from playoffs.

There's really nothing besides if you walked in with, like, a tuxedo Yeah. That I would be shocked.

If I

wear a collared shirt, people are like, you have court later, don't you?

Yeah. I'm like, who died?

That was the most average PFT outfit.

Yeah. That's what I'm saying. Yeah.

Shocking. Anyone was saying anything.

Gruden doesn't know. So he was like, can you believe this? I was like,

Yeah.

No. I can. Yeah. Yeah. That makes sense.

And and Gruden, he hates the commanders. I probably would hate the commanders if I were him too. Yes. But I converted him, like, halfway through the Q2. He was like, I can't root against this guy anymore.

That's what I'm saying. James, if you are rooting against obviously, if you're an Eagles fan

Yeah.

But if you're a a neutral party, it's way more fun, especially if you're neutral party and you're, you know, a Bears fan who has Kale Williams, like myself. If you're neutral party, though, it's a lot more fun to just let go and be like, he's awesome to watch because he is. He's awesome to watch. And that was a very fun game.

I would say even probably, like, 50% of Eagles fans are kinda rooting for Jane Daniels this weekend because he's that fun to watch. And there's I'd say that's probably true. City known for their sportsmanship.

Yeah. I'd say most Eagles fans are like, damn. He's so much fun to watch.

They'd probably be a little bit happy if they lost the game. They'd be like, you know what? I I wanna see that guy play in the Super Bowl.

That is incorrect. I will say no no no notes for Jaden Daniels this week. He was incredible. He's really fucking good. And the Eagles better win now because I I'm scared that that guy's gonna that I'm officially scared that he is around for, like, the rest of my life.

Yeah. Mhmm. Oh.

He is that good.

Yeah. Max.

I I hope you live. My life is bad. I hope

you live more than 45.

No. Shane's gonna be here for, like, 50 years. Okay. Is ever gonna be bad again.

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Now back to the games.

Okay, Max. Eagles 28, Rams 22, Saquon Barkley. That's it. Saquon Barkley. I mean, obviously, the Eagles defense well, which I wanna talk about, but Saquon Barkley is so fucking good.

Saquon Barkley had, that was his 6 touchdown of 60 plus yards. 4 of the 6 have come against the Rams. He had, so 534 total yards is the most a player's ever had against another opponent in a season, and he only played the Rams twice. Think about that. He only played them twice.

He had 534 total yards of scrimmage for scrimmage. He the the the run-in the first half, the run to end the game, he is so goddamn good. And Max, did you see that clip, which is 1 of the coolest things I've ever seen before the 78 yard touchdown? He turned to Jalen Hertz. They did a mouth reading, and he said, watch this.

He just knew what it was gonna happen, and he ripped off 78 yard run. And the Eagles are back in the NFC championship game. Nick Sirianni, really good coach, winner. Nick Sirianni is now 3 and over Sean McVay. Nick Sirianni is 8 and o versus Sean McVay, Matt LaFleur, and Dan Campbell.

That's pretty good. It's a winner. Those are 3 coaches that everyone's, you know, like, hey. Coach of the years and and everything, Super Bowl coach and Sean McVeigh, he's 8 and o against those guys. That's a winner.

I may jump the gun a little bit here. Why? The whole I mean

Yeah. You didn't know I had

that stat right now.

I may have jumped the gun

a little bit. I was gonna be praising

Nick Siewende.

I may have jumped the gun a little bit. That's fair. That's fair. Sometimes you gotta

You had to say it. I had Dan Campbell in the stat.

That's yep. That's on me. That's on me. Sometimes I get a little excited. Oh.

That's fair. Well, it's more so whatever. It had to

be said.

It had to be said. It had

to be said. And to

be fair, he's beating a bunch of losers. Yeah.

So But it had to be said. But

yeah. Those

those 3 coaches you would say if you're like, hey. Who are the top 3 coaches in the NFC? I mean, maybe throw in Kyle Shanahan as well, but those are 3 names that come up. And Nick Sirionni has not lost to any of those guys. He's 8 and o.

And the Eagles, Jalen Hurts gets hurt. I don't know what his status is, Max. Can you tell us? Also, shout out, mother nature because she showed up at the perfect time. We got a

great snow game. Yeah. Kurt Warner was sick. I love it. I love it when playoff games are half not in the snow and then the second half in the snow.

Yeah.

Gruden kinda was we are watching the game with Gruden, and he kinda had the same

take as Kurt Warner.

Really? Yeah. Yeah. He's like Wait. Play Kurt Warner's, take because he he he still fights this all the time.

This is from our show. And I

get it. When everybody says it's football weather, this is what it is. But here's the problem that I have, and it doesn't necessarily apply to these 2 teams. But being a guy that played in the dome, being a guy that played in Arizona, I have no way to get ready for those conditions. And so you can say all you want about home field advantage, and that's why you put well, no.

Because the patriots can come to Arizona, and there's no difference other than we have our fans, obviously. But they can play in my weather. I can't play in their weather because I can't get used to it. You you know, there's nothing you can do to get used to cold weather in a situation. So to me, I'm just like, I want the best.

I wanna be able to be my best. I wanna play against their best, and I want the best to advance. And so for me, last night, I mean Yeah. I played in that weather before. I grew up in Iowa, so I played in all that stuff.

I feel like

You know, it's just like that kicking that ball. I I'm sure when he kicked it, he's like, oh, that's money.

That's right down the middle. It's just taking a little

bit more money. He's just

like, it's not fair

to say to your side.

I think it's a fair point to say I can't simulate practicing in the snow.

Of course.

But this is also

what makes till the vanish.

This is what yeah. Get number 1, win more games. Number 2, I don't really give a shit because I love watching snow football on TV. It's 1 of the weird things. Like, the NFL is a weird sport.

You have to be able to respond to different things that you don't expect happening, and you have to be able to deal with shit. Yeah. And just as a fan watching on TV, do not take away my snow games. Yeah. I love watching snow football because you think back to when you were a kid and you're like, oh, I would be so good out in the snow.

I was unstoppable in my backyard when it snowed outside. I don't give a shit that Kurt Warner thinks it's unfair. I think it's the best thing.

And the snow fucked up the Rams because it was, I mean, they fumbled. The the Eagles didn't fumble.

Matt Stafford looked like he didn't wanna be out there for the entire Q3.

Yeah. They did, by the way, the Eagles also didn't really love playing on it. Do you see Josh Swett's Yeah. Quote after he said ass playing on the snow today? That's what he said ass.

He said, I'd rather play on the shitty Brazil field before playing on that again. I ain't gonna lie to you. I like that quote.

Yeah. It's Ass. I'm I'm fine with the players thinking that it's ass.

Yeah. But this was, this game was very tight at the end, but the Eagles, they did the thing that they are built around. Their offensive line mauled. Shaquan Barkley was special, and their defense was incredible.

Jalen Carter.

Jalen Carter was insane. The guy scares me. He was so good. He had 5 tackles, 5 pressures, 3 QB hits, 2 sacks, 2 fumbles, or 2 2, 1 forced fumble and 2 tackles for a loss. And he made the biggest put like, the Vic Fangio is obviously deserves a lot of credit as well because what he was doing in that game when, I think it was around the Q2, they started stunting, and you could see Stafford was, like it was fucking Stafford up because he tried to step up and there'd be a guy in his face.

And then on that that, second what was it? 3rd and 2? 3rd and 2 on the 13 yard line with a minute and change left. They faked a stunt, and that's where Jalen Carter just basically blew right by his guy because he tried to pass him off, and that was the game. Like, that sack saved the eagle season because I do think if you even watch that play, Tyler Higbee was wide open.

He had beaten his guy. Tyler Higbee was gonna catch that ball, maybe even score on that play, and Jalen Carter made the play and, saved their season.

Yeah. They got dudes up front that would just wreck your shit constantly. Yeah. I they the defensive line scares me on the Eagles very much. And then when they're not getting cute, when they decide, okay, we're just gonna hand the ball to Saquon because he's the best, and we're gonna let our offensive line do what our offensive line does the best, then they're almost impossible to stop.

I don't know how you slow them down.

Yeah. Have you let go of Jalen Carter too?

That one's totally different because you can't say the bears don't address offensive line and be like, we should've taken Jalen Carter, but then we also took Darnell Wright in that position, who's a really good offensive lineman. And then got Dexter as well in the second round, who's a really good he's not Jalen Carter, but you can't criticize the Bears for not, like, being like, why didn't you dress us offensive line? Also, why didn't you take Jalen Carter? But I don't know why he's a really good offensive line, but you can't have it both ways.

But when you're watching it,

you're not like, fuck. I honestly, Dexter's really awesome, and I said it at the time. Jalen Carter would have been drafted to a locker room that was in complete flux, and he had some character issues, and I don't think it would've worked the same. I also He went to a locker room with Brandon Graham and a bunch of veterans who probably

Fletcher Cox.

Fletcher Cox who probably helped him a lot. You gotta know, like, hey. We have a rebuilding team that sucks ass. If we draft Jalen Carter, it might not work out.

You could probably also make a criticism for every other team that picked that did not take Jalen Carter.

Yeah. It was 8.

CJ Stroud or who who else got drafted before him?

I don't know. But either way, you you got Darnell Wright, who's a really good offense. So he's our best offensive lineman, so you can't you know what I mean? You can't be like, man, they don't do anything for the offensive line. Oh, yeah.

You should've taken Jalen Carter.

So let's see here. You got the draft order? But yeah.

I mean, that's also, like, the Bears' history. It's like, oh, that that guy could have been. Okay.

Wait a minute. Bryce Young, CJ Stroud, Will Anderson, great players. Anthony Richardson, Devin could have used them. Witherspoon. Yep.

Paris Johnson. Yep. Terry Wilson.

Yep. That's probably the 1 that's really if you're a Raiders fan, that should have been Jalen Carter. But yeah. I mean, Jamir Gibbs went 12th.

Yeah. And people shit on that pick.

Yeah. By the way, Saquon Barkley is wouldn't be a top 30 paid wide receiver.

That's crazy to say.

Gabe Davis gets paid more than him.

It's also I think it's fair to say that the better your team is, the more you should spend on running back.

Yeah. Of course.

As, like, the final piece to make you, like, a great team. It's like a tight pair of jeans. Like, the if you're in really good shape, then, yes, spend a lot of money on tight, fashionable jeans. If you're fat, buy buy Jinkos.

It's why I have some sympathy for Giants fans who have to fight this fight. And, yes, you probably should've kept Saquon Barkley. Probably shouldn't have paid Daniel Jones hindsight 2020, although a lot of Giants fans said that in the moment. Yeah. But Saquon Barkley on the Giants this year doesn't make the Giants a playoff team.

Mhmm. It makes it more fun to watch. They probably win a couple more games because he's their most explosive player, but you're right. Like, you Saquon Barkley works when he when it's on a great team, and then he becomes the complete x factor that can dominate these type of playoff. Like Derrick Henry.

Yeah. Right. If the Cowboys had signed Derrick Henry, who gives a shit? Right. But, yeah, on a on a great team.

On the Panthers not the Panthers deserve credit. The the Derek Henry's on the Raiders Yeah. Doesn't change anything. Max, let's hear from you.

It was a hard fought game. Snow games are tough. We're kinda built for it. The offensive line was fantastic. Those 2 long touchdown runs, it yes.

Saquon burst through the line and was you know, once he gets through, he's gone, but there there's huge holes, and those huge holes are from the offensive line just dominating the trenches. I'm happy with the win, but we're on the next week. We're we're we're the goal is to win a Super Bowl. The goal is to win a Super Bowl in Philadelphia, and I'm happy with this taking this step.

That's very good.

Can I give you And you

get a home game?

Yeah. You get a home game.

And we get a home game.

Can I give you 2 stats, Max, that, might be of use for you in terms of online discourse? Sure. Okay. Here's the first 1. The Eagles in the playoffs are 4 and o when Jake Elliott misses an extra point.

That's crazy.

That's crazy. He's missing him on purpose.

I'm shown I'm so nervous about him.

He is he's nerve wracking.

So bad right now.

He's nerve wracking. Here's another 1. Jalen Hurts. Didn't really I mean, the weather was a big factor. Didn't he also was banged up.

Jalen Hurts in his 4 playoff wins, a 154 yards passing, a 121 yards passing, a 131 yards passing, a 100 and 28 yards passing.

Doesn't matter. Is that because they're running the football?

Yeah. But he also does more. I'm sick. I know. I'm saying, like, don't I'm giving you these stats to use.

Yeah.

Yeah. No. I I got

a lot of stats. To be what you know, he had the incredible Super Bowl. They lost.

Yep. No. I I I These are

good stats.

I agree. Maybe Jake

precarious, but yeah. Yeah. But it's still 4 and o.

Right. No. I had the 1 stat I

Jake Elliott's gonna do winner. I'll do that. Jake Elliott's a winner. He wins games.

I wish he had a question.

This is to

be said. The the reason why I said it is because Eagles fans are so pissed off at Nick Sirianni right now because For what? For the pass the pass play on second down when they had the ball that he where Hertz took the sack.

Yeah. But on the sliding scale of things that you should be upset with Nick Sirianni for, I think, like, Philly fans are gonna be upset about something probably.

That was a bad play call. It was. Yeah.

Yeah. It was a bad play call, but, ultimately, I think Sirianni, he did the right thing

to do.

So that's Kellam Moore. No? So

that Yeah. That I had this whole thing in my head that you were that that was gonna be a a topic of conversation, and you were gonna blame Sirionni. I I I jumped the gun. Sometimes you jumped the gun. Right.

In the moment, we said, why are you taking quarterback that can't run right now, rolling him out to his left and having him try to escape the pocket and then stop, throw across his body. And then we said, that's a weird play call. That's on Kellen Moore, isn't it? And we were like, yeah. It is.

This is the most max thing ever that he had a pre fight

Yeah.

With

us. K? Hypothetical pre fight.

Wait. You wanna just let's let's let's run it back and play into his fantasy.

Yeah. But he but he had a he had a hypothetical pre fight and and never in the, like, wildest imaginations realized that I actually wrote down pro Nick Sirianni stuff instead of negative Nick. We're so in his head that he's think is the men mean? Like, we're not even thinking about you, dude.

Yeah. No. That's that's that's mad.

We're we're just talking about the games.

I wish I could I wish I could rewind time and and not have that fight that I had earlier.

Instead of enjoying the win, you're just paranoid. Like, at least PFT is giving himself a day to, like, enjoy the win.

This is not all. Give yourself a mental day.

I gave myself an hour.

We've actually caused psychological harm to you. Yes. Like, we we I I will take hand up. Everyone in this room should put their hand up. Me and put your hand up.

We have battered

this just said, what did I do?

We have battered this man to

the point fucking memes that are about me.

He's gonna he Max face photoshops that he's done.

We have battered this man

to the point

where he is literally fighting his shadow. Yeah.

No. I'm a I'm a broken man. And that's the other thing. Like, I I think Dan Campbell is a good coach. Do you do you talk

to yourself in the shower?

You're still fighting yourself.

I know. I think Dan Campbell is a good coach. I wish I didn't I wish I didn't make that fight.

It had to be said, though.

No. I'm actually I'm so happy you did that because of this moment right here where we just get we just fully went into Max's mind. And Max's mind is just like it's Max larger man with his hair up in a ninja thing. He's got a kimono on, and he's got maybe the Donatello stick. What is that called?

The kinja stick?

Yeah. Whatever. The kinja stick. Yeah. And he's just kinja sticking all 4 of us in his brain constantly where where he's like, oh, I gotta get them this, this, this.

And we're I didn't even think I was in your brain, but I guess I am. Yeah. I need a graphic of that. You kinja sticking like the 4 of us.

I don't

know if it's called inside of your brain. See what it's called.

You wanna know know another secret? Yeah. I had another fight planned in my head as well.

Oh, tell us.

I was gonna do blind court blind quarterback resumes for the day and then Mhmm. Do Josh Allen's stats and Jalen Hurts's stats.

Never was Yeah.

Never No. I had, but I had

a positive Jalen Hurts.

I know. I know.

I mean, his touchdown run was awesome.

I know. I know.

And he got banged up. Like, he was clear that he was in. AJ Brown dropped an easy easy ball that would have made his stats look a little bit different. Mhmm. He he was tough dude today.

He I thought tough. He was tough. He made he made that 1 throw to double coverage. JJ Brown was bad in the end zone. That was a bad throw.

That was a bad decision. But, otherwise, he played he played winning football. Mhmm. Like, he made the plays that he had to play, and he knows that he's got a running back that can do everything. Do you wanna do that fight with him?

Well, no. Thank you. I would prefer for my mental.

My my next thing was just I thought the Eagles I thought they executed well today. Sirioni's play calling at times left me with a big question mark.

On offense and defense.

Offense and defense. Yeah.

He played in a pre Sirioni went to prevent defense way too early.

You've got Saquon Barkley as your running back, Nick. Yep. And on second down, when you had the opportunity to ice the game, burn the clock, you're having your injured quarterback roll out to his left Mhmm. Throw across his body. Mhmm.

What the fuck are you what kind of play

call was that shit? Oh, let me guess. Nick, did you after Saquon Barkley ran a 74 yard touchdown pass, did you look into the camera and point at it? I bet he did. So sick, dude.

I bet he did. That was just I it's what goes on in this guy's brain sometimes. It makes me quiet.

Shit for brains. Yeah. He's gonna be their undoing. Dumbass. Thoughts?

I would like to pass on this discourse.

Hank, do you have anything to add?

That had to be said.

I just had all I want you to come and look at my notes after this just so you can see that I literally had it all written down.

Yeah. No. No.

That's that Jalen hurts. Like, people are gonna shit on Jalen hurts. I don't he does what he's supposed to do. And, yeah, there'll be moments where he has to to make some more throws, but he was clearly hampered by both snow and injury. Is he gonna be okay?

That's a question mark. His his answers to that question after the game were not great.

Why? What were his answers?

They they asked about him. He said, we'll see how the week

What was the injury?

Something like

that. He got he got squished on his knee.

I know. Was it, like, a knee sprain?

His knee. Also, the hip drop tackle just doesn't exist. Yeah. Like, every single week, there's a hip drop. Like, I'm not saying that that that should have been called 1 because they just haven't been calling it at all.

But why do they implement that rule into the game if they're just never going to call

it?

Because they wanted to invent something that looked like they're doing something for player safety. Right. So they made the most nebulous tackle of all time a penalty where it's like nobody we're we're probably not even gonna enforce it during games because it's impossible to tell what is a hip drop tackle. But if there's somebody that gets injured, we can always find that guy a week later. Mhmm.

Yeah. It's I mean, it's crazy.

Is Quinnion Mitchell gonna be okay?

That seems honestly, which is crazy because Jalen Hurts finished the game. Quinney Mitchell did not the reports of that is that he will be fine, but Jalen Hurts is still up in the air.

Okay. So

If I had to guess, I think I'm I'm optimistic about Quinney and Mitchell. It seems like that he'd it's just a sprain and that they'll that he'll be ready to go almost at almost at a 100% next week. Jalen Hurts, if I had to if I had to make a guess, and I'm pretty confident in this guess, I think he will be playing at probably around 60 to 70%.

I just wanna say for the record, I want the Eagles to be healthy. I want all their starters. Mhmm. I don't want injuries. Max and I agreed to turn injuries off this week.

I want I want the Eagles at their best.

I also would like to say this. I want the I want the commanders at their best at as well, and I take back a lot of the criticism I had towards the commanders. They are a worthy opponent, and I'm looking at looking at them.

I don't know where you can take that back.

No. You can't take that back.

You said a

lot of things.

Are you so you want the commanders at their best. Will you apologize for the Brock Purdy injury?

If I could take back the Brock Purdy injury, I would.

Okay. That's a big man of you.

If I could, I would.

So, Max, we're getting a lot of questions about if we're gonna do

a hair bet. Wait. Let's say let's say this for after we talk Bills Ravens. I wanna I wanna preview the, like, light preview, and we can set the stage for you guys, because I I wanna I wanna do that. We should talk real quick Rams.

First of all, Jared Verz. I love when people talk shit and then back it up. He backed it up. He had a great game. He said that he hated Philadelphia fans.

That was awesome. I think the arrow's pointing up for the Rams because they did flip this roster very quickly, but Matthew Stafford's not getting any younger.

Yeah.

I would agree with that. They got they got strong at running back. They've got a great running back now. Yep. And their defense is awesome.

I don't like, this is a tough I

mean, Cooper Kupp kind of disappeared at the end of the season. He's getting a little older too.

He looked okay today, but they're it's it's more like this is a weird this was a very tough game for the Rams to win in that environment. They almost spun it out. They almost pulled it out at the end. They were a play away. You're not happy if you're a Rams fan.

You're you're pissed off. But, ultimately, I I think the big question for Rams fans is how much older are we gonna let Matt Stafford get

Right.

Before we do something about

it. Right. It's not

like it's not like Matt Stafford sucks. He doesn't suck. No. But you have to naturally ask that

question.

They stayed in this game. I mean, it was a nerve wracking game. I mean, even that the sack should we talk should we talk about the overalls? What's the plan? So for people who didn't watch the stream, we had a couple things working, mojo wise.

Obviously, the Rams were my pinky team. I may be done with the pinky bet because that was that was the most I've been afraid. And I know people are like, they're 2 games away from the Super Bowl. The idea of the Rams being able to host an NFC championship game and then you're like, if they if a pinky team ever gets to Super Bowl, I'm gonna shit myself. I don't know what I'm gonna do.

I'm gonna be a wreck.

I think the the move is if it's, like, the Chiefs and the Rams in this year's Super Bowl, then you just bet your dick on the Chiefs. And that way, if the Rams win, at least they only cut my finger off.

That's true. That's a good point. But I I might be done with it because it was

You're actually playing you're doing the pinky bet in the in the safest era to do it in because it's just Patrick Mahomes every year.

True. But it there's just no upside. It was the moment when I had explained it to coach Gruden, and he's like, what? It really stuck to me, like, why why do you do this? But what listen.

I need to I'm not gonna make any rash decisions

Yeah.

After, successfully keeping all 10 of my fingers for another season. You know, it's an emotional season, a long season like Dan Campbell said. So I'm not gonna I'm not gonna do any retirement talk until we maybe get in the off season. You're gonna see how

you feel after training camp.

That was insanely stressful. I think, Max, you you felt the stress on me. But we had so we had 2 things. We had, the the TV broke in the gambling cave for the first in the Q1, and they had to reset it. And I pulled up my phone.

And as I pulled up my phone, Jalen Hurst ran for a touchdown. And after he ran for a touchdown, the TV came back on and Jake Elliott missed extra points. So for the rest of the game, I was basically playing a game of should I watch it on my phone? Should I not? I went and took a shit and washed on my phone and the Rams went 3 and out, and I was like, there's something about this phone.

And then we also had Max's overalls. He had a sweatshirt on over his overalls. We flipped the coin to see if he should do overalls or not. Well, the

the chat just started spending a shit ton of money

Shout out to chat.

Me to do it. And at that point, I felt I felt bad that fans were spending their hard earned money to see me in the overall, so I thought I would give them at at least a drive and then, obviously

It was instant safety.

Max, do

you think

Instant safety. Instant safety.

Do you think they were spending their their hard earned money in the chat because they wanted to see you win in overalls, or they wanna see you lose in overalls?

Probably wanted to see me lose, but I respect the fans. Mhmm.

Max, are you gonna be wearing the overalls for the NFC championship game?

See, that's what I don't know because I may I may just need to wear them underneath the sweatshirt again because that called over the the Overalls. Yeah. So I might be wearing underalls. Yeah. You're wearing underalls.

Be wearing underalls because it's if it's it's kind of if it's not broke, don't fix it. Right. But it's not even went well when I had the o the underalls under my under my sweatshirt. But you're also wearing underwear. So you're

wearing underalls over your underwear. You're wearing

Mittles. Underalls. You're wearing Dan Campbell of alls.

No. I'm not Dan Campbell, good coach. I wish I never said that. Right. It was it was pre anger.

It's pre anger.

Sometimes more potent than just anger.

That's right. After the game, Max, he to his credit, he went right into the weight room, started working out. And by working out, I mean, just sitting on the bench press, just refreshing Twitter, trying to see if if there were any injury news that he could

I did end up I think I did. I I sat there for about an hour and a half, and I think I did 5 sets of bench press Oh, wow. Which still counts.

That does count.

That still counts.

He probably also was just watching our Twitter to see if we tipped our hand on what angle we're gonna

do. Yeah. I was watching so many I cannot wait. The 1 thing that I will say about the highlights, I cannot wait for the baldy breakdown of how good Jalen Carter was in this game. He was incredible.

He was so fucking good.

He was incredible.

I I think that's that scares me because being down our right guard, our best offensive lineman, that is it's troubling to think about that. Yeah. That dude scares me. Your offensive line scares me too.

He was insane. He was insane. Good win. Do you

see the graphic that memes posted? He's got a memes graveyard. So these are memes that he constructs in anticipation of something potentially happening.

Okay.

And then when it doesn't happen, then he has to just throw them by the way. So there's a big graveyard of memes out there that never get

used. Oh.

And the 1 for the NFC championship game, if it was gonna be Rams versus Commanders, was me for the Commanders and then big cat holding up a hand with the pinky cut off Oh. For

the Rams. And he also had, Max sad sad Max with my face over it. Do you see that? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah.

I honestly didn't know

that that was your face. I thought I thought he was just posting sad Max.

Max, do you wanna say anything about the spitting?

No. That's that's passion.

I I'll

I'll I'll never apologize for that.

Good. Good. Fact. Okay. We're we're we are gonna talk about the matchup in in little, like, preview of of what's coming this week.

But let's get to the last game before we do that. Bills 27, Ravens 25. Wow. This is an awesome game, and, this is another 2 things can be true. Lamar had an incredible drive

because he won

the game. Mark Andrews is having probably the worst night of anyone in America right now because he not only fumbled, but he dropped the 2 point conversion. Lamar had 2 turnovers, and he hasn't had 2 turnovers all year. And he now has 4 games, 4 of his 8 playoff games, has 2 plus turnovers. I don't wanna do the, like, Lamar sucks and Lamar because he doesn't suck.

But it's okay to say that he did not play his best when the Ravens need him to play his best.

Sometimes it's hard to beat good teams on the road.

That's a fact.

And that's what he ran into. Yeah. And the the Ravens, to their credit, they they did keep running the ball. It's this is not on Harbaugh, like we could say it was last year. This game, I would say it's on 2 guys.

It's probably on Mark Andrews and Lamar. Yeah. And the fumble fumble. I don't know how he dropped that ball. He was he was getting tackled around his legs.

Yeah. And then he just kinda dropped it. But it didn't get hit out.

I there will be this will obviously be the narrative coming out of this game is playoff Lamar can't get it done. And while it's very reductive to say that, because I still think he's 1 of the best quarterbacks in the NFL, you you can't he didn't play his best. He had his he actually had his worst game probably of the year because he had 2 turnovers, and you need your best player to play his best in these games.

I like that we've got a nice clean hierarchy for now, though, of AFC West quarterbacks. Right?

AFC

AFC. Or AFC quarterbacks. Yeah. It goes Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, and then Joe Burrow, if he was in the playoffs, he'd just probably be beating everybody.

Yeah. But it's it it it sucks for Lamar because, obviously, you have all this season where you were incredible. I mean, he had 4 turnover 4 interceptions all year, and then he threw 1. And I I know that was probably miscommunication with Bateman, but the the fumble, led to points and that was and they were playing from behind the whole game. Like, that was he put them in a spot where it was not great for the Ravens and especially a team that likes to play from ahead and run the ball.

I also do think that that that, 2 point conversion, the first 1, that 1 kinda didn't make any sense because they ran right down the field and then they passed in the 2 point conversion.

It's not just that they passed. They also moved Derrick Henry out to the side where he wasn't even a threat of running the ball.

Yeah.

They just got him out of the play entirely.

The thing I'll say about the bills here so the reason why I like the bills in this game, better than the bills this game we talked about on Friday. If you thought the bills ravens first game was gonna be just a replay for today, you just weren't paying attention to who the bills had back on defense. And the 2 of the biggest plays in the game came from 2 of those guys. Matt Milano tipped the pass on the first 2 point conversion to keep it a 2 point game. And then Bernard, who didn't play in the first game, had the game changing fumble on Mark Andrews that was really like that was that did change the entire course of the game because I don't know what the Bills plan was.

Obviously, you win and you just survive in advance. They had a very weird offensive game plan where they were just very conservative, and they didn't let Josh Allen just be Josh Allen.

Mhmm.

It was

a lot of dump offs, running the ball a lot. Maybe they saw something. They were like, we can control the game this way. But I thought the second half for the Bills, they were just trying to hold on instead of just taking it to the Ravens and finishing that game earlier.

I think

there were multiple times where each team was just trying to kill as much of the clock as possible.

Right. So scared of the other guy.

That was the game plan. It's like just end with the ball. And, I mean, who knows what would have happened if Mark Andrews catches that 2 point conversion? He should've caught it. It was a very easy catch for him.

But there's still a lot of time left in that game.

Yep.

This is growth though. You wanna talk about growth with Josh Allen? There was the run that he had. There was, 4 minutes 15 seconds left in the game. 3rd and goal from the 2 yard line.

Josh keeps it, runs up the middle. Yep. And he thinks he stops himself, like, mid action. He thinks about trying to pitch the ball out of a group of, like, 4 ravens defenders back to James Cook, who's standing, like, 12 yards away as Josh's arms are tied up. He he wanted to do it.

And in that moment, Josh was like, you know, all the people that think maybe you shouldn't be so reckless with the ball all the time? They're right in the circumstance. And he pulled it in and got tackled.

Yeah. Like, did

you know that? 3rd down or second down?

It was 3rd down. 3rd and goal.

Yeah. You're right. You're absolutely right.

That was that's that's personal growth.

Yeah. He was definitely looking to pitch it.

And it probably would end up costing them dearly. I that would have been a tough play to make. So credit to Josh Allen for not being a for not matching all the buttons.

Yeah. He hit what He held on to it.

Yeah. What's the just go down button? Why?

Yeah. He hit y. He he made the right choice.

Yeah.

Also, Josh Allen, like so he statistically, he didn't it wasn't like he lit the world on fire. No. I they they didn't they really didn't try to go deep often. But he's such a weapon when you get into goal line where he had those 2 touchdown runs where it's like you get within 10 yards and Josh Allen is going to just pull you over a couple times. And I do think he's gonna have to they're gonna have to let him be himself more against the Chiefs because you can't you just can't expect to beat Patrick Mahomes in his house unless Josh plays out of his mind, and I think he has that in him.

But, it was the Bills, they their defense stood up. Like, besides that really long Ravens drive, they did they had a really good plan for for Derrick Henry, and they weren't gonna let him they weren't gonna let the Ravens run it down their throat. That you could see that that from the very jump, that was their plan. They're like, we're gonna have to let Lamar beat us with his arm, which he did a couple times. Mhmm.

But for the most part, the plan worked, and they made the big plays when he had to make the big plays. They got 3 turnovers that changed the game.

They had enough plays where they stopped Derrick Henry for 1 or 2 yards and just hit the fuck out of him up the middle. That it it set a tone for their defense, and Derrick was never ever like, he had a couple nice runs in the open field that they kinda shoestring tackle him on. But if you can if you can prevent him from doing the home run ones where he goes 70 yards scores a touchdown, good job to the Bills defense. Your linebackers and and Ed Oliver was was hitting people too. Great game from Ed.

Yeah. They the the Bills defense stood up when they need to stand up, and, the Bills keep going. By the way, we should mention also the DPI call, at the end of the first half was bullshit. Yeah. Even fans, similar to Texas fans, you have a right to be, upset about that.

Also, but if we're doing fairness, the Deon Dawkins, hold call was bullshit and that was when the Bills were driving and they immediately had to punt after that. The only person who thought the DPI call wasn't, a good call or was was a good call was Tony Romo. Mhmm.

Tony Romo. Let James Cook. You ever heard of that 1?

Let James Cook. They're trying to they're trying to, impose their will. Imposing their will. Imposing their will. Yep.

Over and over. Yeah. Tony blew out. Their will.

Also, shout out Josh Allen. He did the Aaron Rodgers where he just developed a spontaneous southern accent in the post game interview. Yeah. Was that the Perk Rogers game?

I think so.

I think that was a Perk Rogers.

Yeah.

I mean, we got Perk Perk Allen today.

But, yeah, the Bills are a tough team. I I I don't know. The Chiefs fucking gonna win. We need the Bills. We need the Bills.

I they can't play conservative like they did. It did feel in the second half because they had the perfect first half. They go up 2110 before halftime. They get the ball, and it just felt like they're like, hey. We're just gonna hold on here.

I will say Sean McDermott. I did like I know we've we've had a lot of discourse about being aggressive, trying to win the game. I thought that was the right call to kick that field goal, with 4 minutes left because it was a long 2. Well If it was 1, maybe you do the the the push, but with 2 and to be able to go up 8 and exactly what Yeah. The Ravens have to go down the field score and then get a 2 point conversion.

At the moment, I was like, I think you gotta kick the field goal here.

Weird stuff happens. And on a 2 point conversion, yeah, it should have been a catch, should have been 2 points, but because you played it smart, kicked a field goal, put them in a position where weird shit benefits you.

Yeah. You you put them in a position where they have to execute an extra play.

Yeah.

And it's like you have another chance to have them not be able to execute this play.

Max, I'm curious to hear your take on this. There was a Baltimore radio host that called Buffalo a city of losers today. Would you concur with that guy?

They lose a lot in the playoffs.

Would you concur that there's a city of losers? Because then Sean McDermott said in his postgame speech, this is a city of winners. The people of the city deserve more than whoever said that about about them. The Do you agree with Sean McDermott or the radio host that called them a city of losers?

I'd say they're probably in between. Not necessarily losers nor winners. I'm sure the the citizens of Baltimore Buffalo. Oh, wait. Buffalo's winners or Baltimore's

The the Baltimore radio host called Buffalo is

city of losers. Yeah. No. Buffalo is a city of winners.

They've never won a Super Bowl?

No. The people are are winners, though. But the yeah. No. The team the team has not won a Super Bowl.

So yeah.

He's kinda backtracking on the whole winner loser thing.

Sounds like you're confused.

Yeah. He is.

Yeah. No. I am. That's fine. I'm not too I I I'm not calling anyone a loser.

I'm saying that there's winners, and then there's everyone else. Patriots winners, Chiefs winners.

I would I would love Buffalo to get to the Super Bowl. I would love it.

It would be so fucking rough.

For the Bills and Bills fans. What's that what's that face, Hank? You okay? What is that face? Oh, big cat took a piss.

I had to piss. Oh.

I could hear it.

We pre taped the ads. I had to piss. We were gonna take a break. What are you gonna do?

He's not using the sink.

What do you want me to do? Well, I had

to piss.

Grosses gross me out. The sound the sound the sound is I number 1

sports podcast.

You didn't want you to need a sound. I was still talking during that. I was following along. I had to piss. So what's your take on it?

Buffalo is trying to be a city of winners. They're trying their best. They're trying their best to be a city of winners.

There's a better way than I put it, but I I concur.

They're on their path to trying to be winners. This is their year. This is their

fucking year. Fuck the Chiefs.

Oh, man. We need They're

gonna win Sunday. I want

Josh to New Orleans. Buffalo.

They're like, Buffalo. I don't know. Is that what's the thing where they have, like, sister schools or sister cities? Like, Buffalo and New Orleans, that is the same city. And it doesn't make sense, but it does.

Like, if Buffalo is gonna win a Super Bowl, it should be in New Orleans.

Yeah. It would be it would be awesome. I mean, partying with with Bills fans all week would be awesome. Yeah.

I wanna I want Hank to get I mean, no offense.

Well, no. I get it. They're they're both drunk. Yeah. That's what he was going for.

Okay. Okay. They're drunk. I feel like they're very different cities.

No.

It's called Buffalo. New Orleans is like a huge

tourist trap of a city.

Sister city. Sister city. Sister city. Sisters sisters don't always look alike, Max. That's fair.

But they can still be sisters.

Yeah. 1 has, like, huge tits that they show every couple, you know, a couple times a year. The other likes Weird 1. Likes beef on Wack and wings.

They're sisters, though. Yeah. Buffalo's got a great personality. Right.

I love Buffalo. We've been to Buffalo. The city the people of Buffalo are great. The city of Buffalo is great.

Have you guys thought about that possibility? Because, obviously, if you go if either of you goes against the Chiefs, America's gonna be on your side.

I'm taking it 1 game at a time.

We'll be on your side, Bob.

About it.

If you guys go against the Bills, I will be rooting for my friend, Josh Allen.

Yeah. I I expect that Buffalo would probably be the the darling of America if they got I'm not worried about that.

I'm worried about it. I'll root for the I don't know if

I've moved for

the US.

You can control what you can control.

That's not true,

Hank. No. It's true. I've thought about it. Trust me.

I've done the calculations. No. No. No. I'm saying it's the Bills, though.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Like, I would root for the Commanders against

the Bills. I would not root for the Bills Bills. Yeah. I never know. I thought you were saying I would never

root for the Eagles. No. No. No. No.

Bills, Eagles, I'd root for Josh full full throated. If it was Bill's full throated. But, yeah, I said it. I mean, listen. We get accused of it, so why not just come out and say we do it?

If it was Bill's commanders, I think I would just take a step back and be like, well, there's a positive 1 way or

the other. That's not you would root for the Bills.

I don't know. You said, like,

2 weeks ago that you hoped that I would lose the Super Bowl.

I know. But then I I, like, I let go of the I said I hope you don't get to the Super Bowl. I I said it would be bullshit if you got to the Super Bowl. I hadn't really think about what would happen if you got to the Super Bowl because then it's, like, 1 of the closest people in my life to have a ton of happiness. I think I'd have to be like, yeah.

I want Josh Allen to win.

I I am rooting, I'm rooting for the the Commanders, and I'm rooting, for the Bills.

No. I think I think if you went to the Super Bowl, PFT, I would I would be rooting for you. Because, I mean, it would be it'd be fucking awesome for you. I'd be I'd be I'd get back to probably being bitter, about Jaden Daniels, but I'd be happy for you.

Why wouldn't it be why wouldn't it be awesome for me?

Nah. We all know what we want.

I mean, Max, you the sad man. You had your shot, and you got to the Super Bowl, and you would never see somebody rooting harder for you in that Super Bowl than big cat was because he had 20 thou $200,000 on the line.

Yeah. No. Maybe that maybe that's the recipe then that I don't need.

Yeah.

I'm I'm rooting for the Eagles. I don't care who we play on the other side. I'm rooting for the Eagles.

Alright. Let's let's wrap up this game.

Yes.

I don't know about that. Let's wrap up this game. Ravens, what do they do?

I don't know that you'd change anything.

It's gotta I mean, they're starting to get to that point of, like, what's happening.

I don't I don't know that you make any drastic changes. I don't know that you can look at this game and say, like, the the guys that made mistakes, Mark Andrews, still a good player.

Yeah. The trees do you

guys see

the tweet from the Ravens? No. They tweeted a pregame clip of Mark Andrews warming up and was like, Mark Andrews not affected by the snow.

Oh, no.

Shit. So maybe do cut him. Yeah. I I just I yeah. You still have to keep going because you have Lamar Jackson, and your window's open as long as you have Lamar Jackson.

But this is now how many years of Lamar Jackson being 1 of the best quarterbacks in the NFL, and they have not I mean, they had a I wonder last year probably hurt more. Yeah. Because they were favorites at home against Chiefs, and they and they lost.

A little snow doesn't bother Mark Andrews was the 1 I think

on the

Maybe cut to social media person. Mhmm. I think what happens is Ravens fans just go into next season with

an

impending send of sense of doom. Mhmm. Whereas this season, it was like, okay, full this is the year we believe they still were very optimistic. Lamar's playing as good as he has in his entire career.

And they were the hottest team.

But next year, you go into the season being, like, a little bit jaded. I don't know that we can do anything until I see it.

Yeah. Because they were playing I mean, you know, they beat the Steelers. They kicked the shit out of the Texans down the stretch, and they were they were it felt like everything was clicking at the right time for them. And yeah. They go back to the well.

They go back to the well. That's a tough 1. That's really we're gonna try to get Stavion. So maybe he can answer that for us.

Mhmm. I

feel bad, but I'm gonna have ask him. I'm not gonna I didn't ask him today. I'm gonna wait till tomorrow.

It kinda sucks. Whoever lost this game was gonna have to deal with a significant narrative.

Right. Right.

And as members of the media, it's our responsibility to uphold those narratives.

Right. And they would've and they would've both quarterbacks had stat like, Lamar with the turnovers, and Josh, they didn't really stretch the field, and they didn't let him be himself. So they both whoever lost was gonna have to answer to it.

It was gonna be execution by the Internet.

Yeah. Okay. Let's take another break. When we come back, let's talk national championship and also, a little tiny first thoughts about the championship Sunday coming up. Alright.

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Boys, PFT, Max, what's this week gonna be like for the AWLs for us in the room? How how are we feeling?

Speaking for myself, I I'm going to be on edge all

week. Yeah.

I mean, I to be fair, I'm playing with house money. Yeah. Max has a lot more to lose than I do right now. If if the Commanders I

like this.

If the Commanders lose the NFC championship, this this is the start, Like, the window's open. Our window is just I'm I'm lifting up the window right now. It's it's cracked, and I'm getting that nice a nice gust of cool air in on a hot summer day. So this is the start of something. For Max, this is, like, maybe middle middle to end of something.

The pressure.

I feel

like I'm playing with house money, but I'm still gonna be very nervous this week because it's the biggest game that I've seen since 1992.

I don't disagree I don't disagree with anything you just said.

Yeah.

I think that's that's why there's a difference in

To me,

you're you

are watching the highlights. You're celebrating the win. It's been over 24 hours.

You're back

to work.

I watched 14 hours worth of highlights. My phone died. The battery on my phone died twice since the game ended last night because I was watching too many highlights.

Yeah. No. I I don't I'm on I'm on to next week.

You you you're don't care

about I don't care that I just beat the that I just that I I don't care about being in the conference championship.

That means

so little to me.

It's Monday right now. I've moved on. Just turned 1201. Back to work.

Okay. If the Eagles if the Eagles lose on Sunday, this season is a complete failure.

What about

the managers lose, which is a terrifying place to be in.

Yeah. What about for this podcast will be the lowest point will be the lowest point?

Yeah. No. I think it'll be a really downloaded episode.

Will it be the lowest point, Max?

Yeah. And I have not had don't have a good track record

in this

But that's actually way worse that you've had only low points, and this will be the lowest point. I mean, the Super Bowl, Max. But I think this might like, the Super Bowl is worse. The Super Bowl was was the opening of a window, and you lose to Mahomes. And as much as it sucks, it's Patrick Mahomes.

He would have to look at you every single day pretty much for the rest of his life because he says he's only gonna live to 45. Mhmm. And that will be in his head every single day.

And you know PFC would buy every single piece of NFC champion gear.

Oh my

god. And that would

basically be his wardrobe for 2 years. Years. No 1 will buy it. Make my own. The have you ever seen a plaid NFC championship shirt?

You're about to.

I I have 1 losing to Hank is worse than losing to PFT, I will say.

Have you lost to PFT?

No. Well, yes. I have a lot.

Yeah. They they Regular season.

Correct. But you're so much more of an asshole. And the look on your face when you went and when you went like, there's a part of PFT will be will you know, he'll he'll have his moment, and it'll suck to see him, but I won't hate him the way that I hate Hank. Mhmm. However, I do care way more about the Eagles than I do the Sixers.

And the Sixers, that was such a long shot for them to, like the Eagles have a real chance of winning too. No. But the sixers are the sixers. Like, the chances of them like, they weren't in, like, a, like, a like, the the eagles are favored to win the Super Bowl right now. The sixers were never favored to win the NBA finals.

They're favored to win the Super Bowl, but they're probably gonna be underdogs to whoever they play in the AFC.

As of as of right now, the Eagles are favored to win the Super Bowl. They are in a win like, this is a time that you have to win. Right. Especially, I said I mentioned it earlier. Jaden Daniels is terrifying.

That game against the lions was incredible. He looked like a guy that I am very scared of for a very long time, and you gotta beat him now. Mhmm. Yeah. You gotta beat him now.

Mhmm. Yeah. I think, if any if any rookie quarterback is capable of doing what seems to be impossible and winning a Super Bowl in their 1st year, What I've seen from Jaden, he seems to be the kind of guy that could do that.

That's, that sort of De'Ami Brown was so fucking good.

Yeah. And I'm not saying that I'm I'm not confident that the Commanders are gonna win the Super Bowl, but I think that they could, which is crazy. The growth that we've seen out of this guy.

2 games away. You absolutely could.

Yeah. We absolutely could. And I'm I'm entitled to think soupy now because I'm by thinking soupy, that just means I'm thinking about this game this weekend.

Yeah. So 100%.

Yeah. I I agree. Listen, Max, we said it before we started taping. Like, things are things are gonna get contentious by the end of the week. I think we're both trying to start this week out not firing the other guy up too much, not talking as much shit because that's naturally gonna occur as we get closer to the NFC championship.

But shout out to the NFC East. We are who the NFC East. People thought the NFC North was.

PMTV, we should try to, we should do, like, some kind of competition where Hank and I versus Max PFT let him get get maybe closer as friends. Get him get him on the same team.

I think I'm gonna just scout Max this week. I'm gonna watch a lot of Max film.

I'd like to put

out a lot of bad tape. I'll tell you that much.

Mhmm. What

what I think I think

I think we should be able to Is that threat? I don't know.

Everything I do is bad tape.

Oh, he's talking about himself. Oh, himself. Okay. Yeah.

No. Yeah. Yes.

Sleep on it, obviously, and I think we can we can reconvene Tuesday, but people have been saying it a lot, and and you guys do both have long hair.

We do. I was thinking maybe a mullet bet. Oh.

I would do Buy buy buy Super Bowl tickets bet?

I think,

it's not fair.

That's not fair. I know

that's not fair.

I I also wanna say for the record that if the Eagles

We have our great friends at game time.

Are lucky enough to make it to the Super Bowl, I think Max should attend that game

in person. Yes. So wait. I was gonna ask this. Beams, Hank, Who you guys rooting for?

So I am in a interesting spot because

Why are you asking me?

4th grade was a great question. He has an answer.

Yeah. No shit. I have an answer for everything. Everyone does. I went on a heater a couple weeks ago.

I was up I went up, like, 15 grand on 1 Sunday, and I was like, I'm gonna put a future. I put it on the Eagles. $58100. Biggest future I've ever put on, plus 4.50. Right

now,

I could cash out for $10 so I could cash out and make money, but I don't think I should. No. Probably not. So I think I'm gonna I I will make a decision by the end of the week. I will also be sleeping on it.

And I thought initially going into this game, I was like, if the Eagles win, I'm cashing out, renew for the Commanders. Once that happened and I was looking at it, I have thought about it more. And the Eagles, I feel like, are the better team. They got more guys, better defense. Commanders are playing with house money.

If they lose, they're not gonna be that upset about it. I my gut my Sunday gut is telling me to stick with the Eagles and ride with Max.

I I just I think the commander the team is going to be upset. They lose. Very upset.

Well, obviously, but but that's what you just said.

I honestly think that's a better scenario for you. Like, I think that that is a reason.

Well, Hank's been betting against us all season long, so why mess up a good thing? And people are gonna bring

up the Commanders. I have $100 on the Commanders to win, like, $1,000. I have 58100 on the Eagles to win the Super Bowl at, to win 38 grand. And the other thing that I'm thinking about, because I'm, you know, next level thinker, the Eagles have a much better chance to beat the Chiefs.

That's true.

And so I don't I don't I don't wanna roof for the Commanders, have them win, and then just get smoked by the Chiefs and then 3 peat. So So I'm I'm I'm I'm leaning heavily, Eagles. Memes? No offense. Just memes people.

That's understandable. That's not that wasn't that's not a personal thing. Counterpoint.

Everyone thought that the Lions were gonna smoke the Commanders.

The Lions don't have double magic. That's true. They have actually, like, the they have just the devil on, like, against them.

Yeah. Mhmm. Memes? I woke up. I I was gonna root for PFT to win the Super Bowl, and then he tweeted a picture of Amy Schumer interviewing for the Jets' head coaching job.

K.

And then I and then it's breaking news. Amy Schumer has just completed her interview. That meme.

They're talking to everybody.

That's that's all the job was.

We get to stay in New Orleans today. So memes that, yeah, that's I I we talked we were talking about it before. And, if the Eagles go to the Super Bowl I think

you will be able to regardless, memes.

Yeah. You might be able to regardless

I gotta do the podcast.

If the Eagles go to the Super Bowl, Max is gonna go to the Super Bowl, Max?

Yes. I would love to go to the Super Bowl.

So Max is gonna go to the Super Bowl, but we will not stay in New Orleans because we can easily have Max zoom in after the game. If the Commanders go, PFT is gonna go to the Super Bowl, and we can't do a Super Bowl show with PFT and I both on Zoom. So I'd have to stay 3 extra days in New Orleans. And I wanna kill myself just thinking about that. No no offense to New Orleans, but I also like I'd like to see my kids.

Why won't you just fly back and then fly back? That sounds even worse.

That sounds way worse.

So it sounds like, PFT got a stacked

I actually was thinking about

stacked against

stack against I I anybody shocking. Anybody, anytime, anywhere. Well, I I was wanting to root for the commanders, and then I because I wanna see Max sad. But then when we mapped out the plans, I was like, wait. What?

We have to do through Monday? And then I'm going on vacation on Wednesday, so I basically just wouldn't see my kids for 2 weeks and that would suck a lot.

I wanna be perfectly perfectly clear. I do not give a shit who you guys root for.

I know. I just wanted to throw it out there for the listeners. Couple of listeners might wanna know who the I'm on your side.

Thanks, memes.

Oh, you're back. No. No. Because we're staying till Monday. Oh, me

and memes all the way. Always been best friend.

Right? I I that's huge for me. That felt like a,

Oh, the graphic. That looked like

a graphic. Alright. I'm back on Mac.

I also might switch.

I might switch too. I might try to figure out how to just not go to New Orleans until the Super Bowl. Skip Super Bowl weekend.

I wish the if the Bills I wish the

Bills Chiefs game was first.

Yeah. Yeah.

Because if the Bills win, I'm cashing out and rooting for the Bills.

I would yeah. It was really nice being able to watch the games today knowing that I was already in the NFC championship game. Next week, it's gonna suck because I'm either gonna well, if I lose, I'm gonna be so upset during the AFC championship game that I'm not gonna be able to properly enjoy it. Mhmm.

Man, this is gonna be fun. House money. This is gonna be fun.

I wish I had house money.

In a vacuum. Take take your headphones off, 50. In a in a vacuum, big cat. Yeah.

I I think the exact same thing I thought before the Lions' Commanders game. And I ended up putting the Commanders. I know I didn't bet a money line, but I bet a mate and a half. The Eagles are a better team. Jaden Daniels is special.

Like, I don't if they play this game 10 times, I think it's 55 because I think Jaden Daniels just does like, if you give him the ball late, he's gonna do something special, and he's going to beat them. So yeah, on paper, eagles are way better. Most talented Russian in the NFL. They don't have Jaden Daniels. That's just it just keeps sticking in my head.

It's just

like barely beat him with

with Kenny Pickett.

But it but it doesn't matter. There's something going on that you just can't like, the Eagles dropped a pick at the end of that game to to didn't they? Didn't they drop a

No. Devante Smith dropped a dropped the

1st out at

the end

of the game.

Right. Like, that shit is happening where it's it doesn't matter.

We should also say, though, that Jaden did throw 2 interceptions.

Wait. You weren't supposed to be listening. Yeah.

No. I'm just saying I wanna make sure to point that out because Max was gonna say we have to talk about that.

No. No. I I told you no notes, Jaden Daniels. I'm I I I have given Jaden Daniels the utmost respect in this in this episode.

Mhmm. Yeah. So Max and I are both being very careful with our words. Yeah. It's early.

It's early. It's early in the week. We're gonna ease our way into we're gonna work up a ladder by Friday.

I agree with everything that Big Cat just said, by the way. The Eagles are for sure are I think you agree with that. The Eagles are are the better team, but we don't have Jaden Daniels is a scary player.

I I would cut yeah. On paper, the roster, you got

They are. They just the the team is better, but but Jaden Daniels and the team of Destiny vibes of the commanders is a thing.

But you also have to look

at were better. You guys still won that, but the

lines are fine. Scrubs. The thing

is the lines were not better. We were the better team. It's not like like, our guys were better than their guys on Saturday.

That yeah. That's all their guys were hurt. I mean, obviously. Yeah. But but in the grand scheme of things, if you were like, the Lions are were the better football team all year than the commanders.

But on that, yes, obviously, on that day, the commanders were better. But it overall, you wouldn't say that if if you look at this whole team.

Yeah.

Yeah. But if you were doing a guy off Yeah. Yeah. I would agree with you.

Yeah. I,

What's the most important position?

Quarterback. And that's that's what I am Yeah. I am I'm agreeing with you.

Yeah.

I I think I've also realized that, for logistics standpoint, I think I want the Eagles to win the NFC championship. If the Commanders win the NFC championship, I think I am gonna be rooting for the Commanders in Super Bowl because I'm gonna have to stay an extra 3 days, and I want it to be worth it.

Yeah. Not against the Bills, though. You're you're gonna root for the Bills.

I don't know, dude. Again, it comes down to, like, you actually like, that you're there, and it's like your ultimate happiness. I I would I'd be I'd be bitter about Jay and Danes, but I'd be happy for you. And I'll also be like, at least we stayed for you to win. Yeah.

Because if you lost, I'd be like, fuck. Why'd we stay?

On the numbers side of it, misery always does better than being happy. Right? Well, we're getting that no matter what.

That's the

beauty. That's

the beauty. Beauty of this. That is the beauty of this.

If And we get a chance, man. We get a chance for double misery, but it can't be against the Chiefs.

Hank is ridiculous.

Tell you, PFPs. Double misery bills.

If you get to I'm I'm not with you next Sunday, but if you get to the thing, win the whole fucking But, no. Actually, that's what I'm that's where I'm at. If you get to the Super Bowl, you fucking win that whole thing.

I I kind of agree, actually. I'm like, that whole misery is I would rather have I do not agree. Max misery, PFT win the Super Bowl, but, also,

I have this fucking stupid

Like, the worst case scenario here is you is is the Chiefs just win. I I would also

say and that's what's gonna happen.

And it's like we go in we go to the Super Bowl, and we're all miserable.

And then that's that's that's pod misery.

So that's

why I'm like, I will be rooting for you.

I I I'll also say that if we get to the Super Bowl, if we're lucky enough to win the Super Bowl, that night is statistically my most probable night of dying that I think I've ever had in my life. Mhmm. New Orleans, Super Bowl victory. I'm 40.

Mhmm. You're a man. That's like if you look

at a pie chart of different days and how likely I was to die on each day in my entire life, that would be, like, 12% of the entire pie. Not 1 day.

Just promise me if if I have to stay 3 extra days in New Orleans, you win the whole thing.

Okay.

That's all I ask. If the captain then it's worth it for me.

Wait. Listen. I'm I'm focused on this week.

Yeah. I understand. Because you promised me.

I promise. Okay.

If the commanders go to the Super Bowl, I'm gonna get more drunk that that weekend than I did last year than I did the last time because I will be so miserable that I am, like, I will be so miserable that I am

I'm gonna probably I'm probably gonna game of the year at the commander's money line to try to make that extra 3 days in New Orleans worth it.

I don't hate it.

Yeah. I I might have to do that because I might just be like, fuck it. I'm going all in with you. Like, if you're gonna be miserable, I'll just join you.

Memes also has something to say.

I know misery sells, but has anything positive happened to you guys that, like, we know the outcome of that? Like, numbers wise? Number wise. Like, the double donk was the most listed to podcast. No.

Misery, dude. Misery. But it's misery. Positive happened.

No. When when Hank, was in the victory parade

That was huge.

But that's it's misery.

Parting with Patriots after they won 2 Super Bowls.

Misery is 2 times what what happened

is it. Okay. I think it would actually be I think people would listen at a super high clip if it was Commanders, Chiefs, and the Super Bowl, and the Commanders beat the Holmes and the Chiefs.

Yeah. I

think that would do some numbers.

But it still would be misery. Yeah. Misery is always number 1. Sickos and perverts love it. But we don't know.

No. I I think we know. It's Yeah. We know. How the Internet works, memes.

You you you are a student of the Internet. You live on the Internet.

I think that, yeah, I think the NFC championship game will be bigger. That will be a bigger episode regardless of what happens in the Super Bowl.

What clips get watched more when it like, when fans freak out and lose or when fans get happy? The Hank celebrating the Boston Celtics went viral. But freak outs and losses are Max's Super Bowl loss wasn't bigger.

Hank, what you just said was insane, though. You think that the episode after the NFC championship game is gonna be bigger than the episode of suit after Super Bowl?

Potentially, if it's a close if it's a if it's a if it's a game. Yeah.

I don't know about that.

Either way, we're in a good spot. God's in AWL.

Just not the truth.

Work, boys. Who do you guys like tonight?

Ohio State. Ohio State. Yeah. But I think Lou Holtz is gonna be in the building.

What are you shaking your head about, Max?

I forgot that there was a college game.

This is why

they shouldn't know there's been 0 buzz about this game. In the negative round negative buzz about this game.

Is why the season lasts too long. I've been locked in on NFL. I haven't had time.

This game feels like an exhibition. I do think Not a national championship.

I mean, Ohio State's the better team. I feel like it's 1 of those things where, like, Notre Dame, 2 out of 10 times maybe, could win this game. They gotta get Will Howard to turn the ball over. They gotta be able to, like I mean, Notre Dame's defense is very good.

I do love Notre Dame's rushing attack too.

Yeah. And Riley Leonard's gonna have to play perfect, But it it could be there. Get him into a tight game. Let Marcus Freeman out coach Ryan Day. I just I'm worried about, Notre Dame's rush defense.

And I I yeah. Yeah.

If you

get if Ryan Day is sweating in the second half, he's gonna drop the ball.

And the problem with the problem with, Ohio State like, obviously, everyone knows Jeremiah Smith, and they got dudes everywhere. But, like, their defense their defensive line is so nasty, and they'll just be able to get pressure with 4 and be able to play coverage. And I Notre Dame doesn't exactly have, like they don't have a Jeremiah Smith. That's really what it comes out. They don't have a difference maker on the outside.

Oh, Faizon. Yeah. He's quick. He could do something. It's probably Ohio State.

But, yeah, the the the college football season goes on too long. Also, we talked about it with boogers. So if you want a full

Well, like, I'm I'm okay with the season going on this long because it's more football. We have we have a meaningful football game tomorrow night, but, also, I was not thinking at all about college football this week.

I'm not saying take I'm not saying do less football. Just do it earlier. Yeah. Like, there's a there's spots in the schedule where they could just be like, hey. We're gonna play a game instead.

And now the the college football national championship should be, like, January 10th at the latest. Yeah. That's that's what it feels like.

Make week 0, week 1? Or just get rid of

the conference championships and start playoffs then.

Yeah. That's really what it is. Just give the conference championship to whoever the home like, whoever would have won the home team seating for the conference championship game.

Also, there's an entire week between conference championship week and the or 2 weeks between conference championship week and the playoffs. Yeah.

But also keep arm Army Navy as a

alone. I might have to play it on a different day.

I don't like that. I like that as stand alone.

Yeah. I just I it's too late. It's too late for it. Okay. Let's finish up.

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Alright. Who's back of the week? Hank.

My who's back of the week is TikTok. Yeah.

So Saturday Our national nightmare is over.

Yeah. Saturday because there was an announcement last week that they were banning TikTok on January 19th. Mhmm. Saturday, if you went on TikTok, every single person was basically, there's people crying. Everyone was acting like the world was ending.

People at this office asking us to not fire them.

People in this office asking us to not fire them. What's gonna happen? How does this gonna affect us? You would have thought the world was ending. The the funny trend that was happening was, like, you know, TikTokers and and influencers that got big on the TikTok app were basically revealing all their dirtiest secrets.

Like, oh, you know, 1 last

day on this app, I might as well tell you this and

then just tell, like, basically, them, like, lying about something or doing something nefarious. And then that,

like plane's gonna crash, and so you just confess your love to the person that you're next to?

Yes. But in this Yeah.

It was analogy, like, life does go on.

Well, basically, that's that's what what's that almost famous that it was basically that scene in almost famous, because it got banged, I think, 10 o'clock, and then the next Sunday morning, it was back. Just completely fine.

Mhmm. But when it's what a smart marketing move by TikTok to have everybody celebrate the death of your app, talk about how great it is, start crying because they can't use your app anymore. Boom. We're back. Yeah.

It was yeah. It wasn't even 24 hours. I thought it was gonna be maybe till the inauguration, like, officially happened, but now they just they brought it back Sunday morning.

Yeah.

Yeah. So we're back. So TikTok is back.

What about all the influencers that signed up for for was it red scare?

Red note. Red note.

Yeah. The the Chinese government owned app that's, like, glorify I think in the terms of service, it said to promote the values of socialism. Mhmm.

Yeah. And we were, like, sharing there's there's a bunch of clips of, like, people sharing videos from aircraft carriers and shit. Yeah. Not great.

So TikTok back. TikTok's back. I think they

said they're they're doing, like, a 90 day, extension, and then it might be banned again, but there's just no way that it ever gets banned.

I thought the Supreme Court was it, like, 9 nothing. It was unanimous, and it upheld the ban. But it's back. So how like We're back. Yeah.

We're back.

If you

can beat a 9 nothing supreme court vote They beat the outgays. Back. Yeah.

That's like having infinity stars in GTA.

It also is, like, Zuckerberg is are we much better? Are the other apps much better? Like, everyone's gonna switch like, I I don't I don't I've never understood that part of it.

Well, the thing about I I read something, and I think it was for the

devil you know versus the devil you don't.

Yeah. From the court briefing on on what they were saying about TikTok, I think that with TikTok, if you like if you have TikTok and let's say your mom doesn't have TikTok, by you being on TikTok and allowing access to your contacts, the Chinese government now has access to everything about your mom, who's not even on the app.

But they have that shit anyway. Like, it's it's they have it all. Everyone has

it all.

Brothers watching everything.

Do you have an iPhone, everything's out there.

TikTok, though. Congrats to everyone who makes a living on TikTok because that would suck for them. Yeah. Like, there's a lot of people who are probably freaking the fuck out.

But, yeah, there was there was there was real tears going on. Yeah. Mhmm.

Yeah. Also, did you see snack

Snackin' Girl came back?

I did see that was great. It was awesome.

Now she's great. She did

Did the snacking. Oh, she ran it back?

Yeah. Oh,

man. She's like, this might be the end. Here it is.

1 last time.

Yeah. Alright. P f t year. Who's back?

My who's back of the week? Well, I have an update on the falconer for Lazio. Oh. So he disputes the claim. I mean, to refresh your memory, he is the falconer for the soccer team Lazio that got Never needed the surgery.

Because he got a penis enhancement surgery, and then he barricade himself inside the team facility to protest his firing. He is claiming that he never barricaded himself inside the team facility, rather that he had a medical condition after the surgery where if he stood up, he would have started bleeding from his penis. Oh. And he said that he said, I have a medical certificate. If I get up, I will lose blood from my penis.

So he's got a note from the doctor saying the only reason he barricaded himself was because he was not allowed to stand up and move around.

Got it.

So we'll see. As of now, still fired. I don't think the Falcon was ever in any immediate danger, but we do advocate for his reinstatement as Falconer. Mhmm. Official team Falconer ASAP.

My other who's back the week is wooly mammoths. They're back. There's a company called Colossal Biosciences, and they just raised $200,000,000. Their company is valued at 10,200,000,000 to bring back and clone wooly mammoths. Woah.

And I'd say it's it's high time that this happened.

That's pretty awesome. I've been

waiting for a billionaire to actually do Jurassic Park ever since that movie came out.

We have

the technology, like, what bad could happen from reinventing all these old extinct animals? Yeah. So wooly mammoths might be back soon, which I would I would fucking love to see wooly mammoths walking around out there. Yeah. Why not?

We got coyotes. Let's do it. Why not wooly mammoths?

Yeah. Let's fucking do it.

I'm all in. Wooly mammoths.

Alright. My who's back? I got 2, the dodgers. They signed another, like, guy who's gonna be incredible. 2 of them, Tanner Scott and Saki.

They're just really fucking good. I don't really know what else to say.

Yeah. He wanted to be a dodger because he grew up loving Jackie Robinson. Oh. That's what he said. Nice.

And then my other who's back is, Gun Girl aka poop girl.

Oh, yeah. She's back.

We'll do interviews again.

I debated her 1 time.

Yeah. You did?

Yeah. Yeah. It was She's, She's got hot and heavy.

She's, yes. She's she said I'm back. First time on campus in 5 years.

I didn't debate her about anything political. I debated her on whether or not she pooped her pants. Ah. I took the position of yes, she did.

And she said no.

Yeah. I won the debate. Yeah.

She said stay tuned for some wild conversation about transgenderism and abortion at USF. Great. Awesome. That sounds fun. I saw it I I saw it because someone quote you.

It was like her face looks like when you eat mushrooms and you're you look at yourself in the mirror. I thought that was funny.

Yeah. Alright. I'm glad she's back.

Welcome back. Okay. Good show, boys. What a week we got coming up. Huge week.

What a week we got coming up.

Max, let's let's just agree that this week, a lot of stuff is gonna be said. There's no but after that. Just a lot of stuff is gonna be said this week.

That's it. I'm, like, not yeah. This is

not I mean, you're not you're not in a, like, you just need the game to kick off because you're not Well, no. Not in exactly a I'm I'm gonna say that you versus PFT in a battle of words, wits. I'm It's not going to be it's not gonna go your way.

Yeah. You're calling for daddy. You want daddy to fly you're trying to fly out Roan. Facts.

You need Roan.

Facts.

You need him.

I for the record, I do not want Roan to fly out, not because I don't like getting, you know, hanging out with Roan and being with him. Roan scares me. You need Roan and Big Dom scare me.

You need Roan. Bad. Real bad. Real, real bad.

I mean, the words doesn't really if the Eagles it just whoever wins.

Yeah. But the Rowan will give you support to feel like you can fight a fight. And then, like, the backup is Connor Griffin.

Yeah. No. No. Yeah. I I I love Connor Griffin.

I love Connor Griffin.

Is there a but? Anything else?

That we said no buts.

Well, you also we did say no buts.

I mean, also, pugs here.

Pug is here. Yeah. Pugs.

Pugs is an

Eagles fan.

Pugs, you wanna talk shit?

No. No. It's NFC East respect.

We we respect each other.

Love that. Pugh. Love that pug.

Is Jack here?

Jack is here.

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Yes.

What do you got?

Honestly, I will take that loss if it means OSU loses tomorrow.

Because that's probably not gonna happen. Yikes. I know. Who who did you think you were making that deal with?

I don't know.

Like, if this is the universe's plan, then you're kind of okay with it.

You you I mean, we did establish that god is an AWL, so maybe you can tell him right now. Like, hey, dude. I really need you to get OSU to lose. So lions are obviously second behind Michigan football.

Yes. Yeah. Yeah.

Man, that was really sad coming out of your mouth, dude. Because, like, OSU's probably gonna win, and then you're gonna have Lions loss. And then

Yeah. It's gonna be a rough week.

That's a hell of a cope that he's in right now. Yeah. Like, you you went you went to bed on Saturday night. You're like, well, at least this probably means that OSU's gonna lose.

There's a chance.

All the bad things can happen.

Oh, man. Alright. I'm rooting for Notre Dame now for your sake.

Thank you. It's it's funny that Notre Dame is like the plucky underdog.

Yeah. America's rooting for Notre Dame.

Nobody believes in them.

Okay. Numbers. 17.

5. 8. 3.

99 putt. 11. 45.

29. 85.

Love you, guys.