Transcript of NFL Week 6, Fastest 2 Minutes, Baker Mayfield MVP, Chiefs Are Back, Drake Maye Looks Awesome + Playoff Baseball, Cubs Eliminated And Who's Back Of The Week

Hey, Pardon My Take listeners. You can find every episode on Apple podcasts, Spotify or YouTube Prime. Members can listen ad free on Amazon Music. On today's Pardon My take presented by DraftKings. It is week six in the NFL. We're going to recap every game. The London game was sad. We had some big wins in the late slate. The Bucks look awesome. The Chiefs are going to win the Super Bowl. Hanks Patriots are back, back, so back. Chargers hold off on the Dolphins. Dolphins are bad vibe city. And we're going to talk some playoff baseball. The Cubs got eliminated on Saturday night. I was at the game. We'll recap that. We'll talk about the Mariners 15 inning win on Friday and then game one win tonight. We'll do a little James Franklin talk who's back of the week and it's all brought to you by Game time. The NFL is in full swing. Tailgates pack stands that buzz before kickoff. But getting in nightmare. Hank, can you find tickets for Monday Night Football? Surely cues price jumps getting logged out mid click. All you want is to be there beer in hand, losing your voice with the crowd.

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Panthers 30, Cowboys 27 we go to.

Baltimore where Pooper Rush is playing like a number two quarterback as the Ravens are looking to dig their way out of their biggest hole yet. Puka Nakua Dan Afrayed's season has been a blur so far as his uniform changed from NC 17 to 12 and no one was scoring in the first half. But then Kyron Williams Wallace declared prima nocta on the Baltimore end zone. The Ravens had several chances in the red zone, but Mark Andrews Tate tried to impose his will and got flattened like a European pancake and couldn't beat the statutory crepe allegations. Dave Matthews Stafford had the ants marching down the field finding Tyler Higby baby one more time for some td's that still look great after all these years. Snoop bluntly made his way out of the backwoods and onto the field after the game and went up in smoke as The Ravens dipped to 1. 5 against Puna Ford and the Rams. The Rams win 17 3.

Puna Ford's on the Rams.

He was on the Chargers.

We go across the pond where Memes has promised for a great boomer in.

Foggy London town where we imagine all the people who had to wake up early to watch Justin Nathan Fielder say, I hope you're hungry for nothing after passing for net negative 10 yards. J.K. dobby the Elf J.K. dobby is a free elf. Couldn't get it going on the ground but had to get saved by the Nate Atkins diet who showed the end zone 252lbs of lean meat as the tight end scored the only touchdown of the day. Aaron G G G G Glenn the jets decided to run the clock out in the first half. The new coach had jets fans thinking that maybe you were gonna be the one that saves me and after all, you kinda suck balls. Not much happened in the second half as the Broncos were serving up fish and chips with a side of Deez Nuts will hit the go ahead field goal as Zach Abba and the Broncos defense said gimme gimme gimme your quarterback after midnight. Won't somebody help you as we put the game away. Broncos 13, Jets 11 Great job memes.

We're back to stateside and we head down to Miami where the Dolphins were trying not to be the worst team in the AFC Far East. Everybody did their part. Kung Fu otagliaboa was able to hit Darren Great Waller and Jalen Sanity Waddle played like he was in MSG, but just like Mike McDaniel's pants, they came up short. Come on. Ividal Sassoon cut through the hair of the Dolphins defense all afternoon and it looked like the LA was gonna win this one easily. But after a furious Dolphins comeback, the Chargers, facing a tough loss in the face, dipped into their bag for a lad Macon Key Bump as he sprinted down the sideline like Mark Sanchez in Indianapolis Alley, putting the Chargers in field goal range and and getting the win. The San Diego Superchargers 29, the Miami Dolphins 27.

Now we go to Pittsburgh where for Cleveland Browns the times they are a changing as Bob Dylan Gabriel's playbook looked like a complete unknown to him and went from being a folk hero to having his own fans boo him for trying to be too electric. Myles Garrett wanted to put Aaron Rodgers in his spooky sack graveyard, but you can't kill a guy who's already used up his brain's natural supply of DMT as Mr. Rogers took off his slippers and cardigan, teaching the Browns their ABCDK Metcalfe while the Connor carry on My Hayward son said don't you cry, don't you cry, don't you cry Shador. The Steelers win 23 to 9 and.

Now we head down to the Big Easy where Henry Lockwood was on the scene down in the Bayou Drake all.

Things seem possible in May connected with.

Demario Andretti Douglas who went zoom into the end zone for a P1 finish. Blake Augustus Group said, I like chocolate and field goals as he had four.

Of them, three of which came in the first half. Taysom Henry Hill said, as far back as I can remember I always wanted to be a touchdown scorer in the.

Second quarter to get the Saints within one. Mike Frable wanted to eat K Sean's.

Booty like groceries after he connected with Drake.

May 1st score and the Patriots win again 25:19. All right for the game of the week Zach in Tampa Bay 49ers Bucks.

To kick it off in Tampa. Easy Baker Oven Mayfield hands off to Rashad White Chocolate Chip who absolutely drags his macadamia nuts across San Francisco's defense.

From two yards out.

Christian Metcalfe Ray Ban Sunglasses throws on his hater blockers with the blue tent.

And strolls into the end zone for a touchdown.

Baker Mayfield hands it off to Sean Tucker.

I barely know her.

Who walks in the end zone from 10 yards out. Eddie Penier was left to his own devices, kicking 4 for 4 for 13 points.

But the walls tumbling down as Pat a cake. Pat a cake. Baker's our man. Threw it to the end zone as fast as he can to Cameron Johnson. And Johnson, who got into the end zone faster than those booster shots that started rolling out that one year we all stayed inside. Tampa 30, San Francisco 19.

Great job, Zach.

It was great, Zach.

Oh, and we have a very special guest to sing us off. You thought he might have died on Thursday night, but it's Max.

Standing on the corner. Jameis Winston Villanova. Such a fine sight to see. It's gotta boo. My Lord walks through the blue tent door helping dart to spell cte.

Billy's error.

The goddamn birds are giving me flamencia. Hang screaming wheel.

Eagles lose. 34, 17. And that was the fastest two minutes from week six. That was a great one, boys.

That was really good.

It's great.

I enjoyed your accent, Zach. Yeah, his accent was something else incredible.

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Always wanted to treat ourselves to staying up late and watching a full Sunday Night Football game.

Yeah, and we usually do like a interspersed Sunday Night Football. This time we're going to. We're going to recap Sunday Night football at the end of all the games. Sequential order is a long day of football because Roger Goodell keeps demanding that we start the day very early. And it started with a gross one. Broncos 13, Jets 11. Oh, boy. This is one of those ones we should apologize to England for.

Yeah, you want the colonies back?

I mean, memes, I don't know if you can even be hurt anymore, but if you could be hurt anymore, this game would have hurt you more. Is that fair to say?

This game did hurt me more.

Okay, so it did hurt because you're still able to be hurt. And this one was atrocious. The jets had 32 first half yards. They had negative 10 passing yards, net passing yards. They had 82 total yards on the game. They got their first first down right before the two minute warning in the first half, which coincided with one of the weirdest did Aaron Glenn already quit his job? Moments where the jets did a fake fake punt on a fourth and one at the end of the half to get a first down, and then with that first down at midfield, did absolutely nothing.

So watching this live, Kurt Warner was just like beyond furious about the whole thing.

He was just so.

He just couldn't speak anymore. But that, that's his job is to, is to tell us why he's so angry. But he was just so upset with football, with the quality of play that he just wouldn't say anything. When I watched this initially, I was like, memes, I have no idea what the fuck Aaron Glenn is doing. Then I thought about it for a second. Tell me, tell me if I'm on the right track.

38. Sorry I said midfield is their own 38.

But still, tell me if I'm on the right track here. Memes, Aaron Glenn faked that punt and then ran the clock out because he trusts his defense so little that he doesn't want to give. He feels like it's worth it to go for an extra, you know, one yard on a fourth down around midfield and then kill the clock at the end of the half because he thinks that if he gives the ball to the Broncos with like 40 seconds left, they're going to score a touchdown. Is that fair?

That's correct, yeah. The previous two weeks, the Cowboys scored two touchdowns in under two minutes and then to rod through a pick six right before the end of the half in the Bucks game.

But your defense wasn't even bad today.

No, I don't agree with what he did. They should have threw like a five or ten yard out.

But try to get like, we were sitting there, all of us were watching this with 35 seconds left on a third and eight, like go try to pick it up, try to take one deep shot and then punt with 35 seconds left. The Broncos only have one timeout. It was so baffling. I. I think he's quit. I think he's quit.

I think he realizes how bad this team is, and he's just trying to get games over with, get the first overall pick and then try to get guys in. But I don't know if he'll be. If he'll be coaching this time next year.

Yeah.

Yeah. Do you think that was an embarrassing enough showing to the point where Woody's going to have a talk with him? Maybe Brick has a talk with him.

Yeah, I don't think so.

Well, Garrett Wilson, your best player, is that fair to say? On offense?

It's fair to say.

Yeah. He said. I just didn't know exactly what the plan one was. Once I figured it out, I was disappointed. I'll just say that. And he talked to Aaron Glenn. He was just like. Like, if you're an offensive player, you're basically telling your offense you're. You guys are not capable of. Of getting yards, which they weren't on Sunday. So I guess credit to Aaron Glenn. He was. He read the room correctly. They were not capable of getting yards. Which leads me to the other point of why is to Rod Taylor not playing like Justin Fields is. It's bad. It's bad.

I got to be honest, because I tried my very hardest to come up with a blind resume. Comparing Justin Fields and Jalen Hurts. There's not a single stat that that is possible to parse.

No.

Yeah. I tried breaking it down, like, third quarter, second drive against the Broncos.

Yeah.

Compare the two head to head. I tried, like, SEC drives after the Broncos score a touchdown. I tried to parse it every way I possibly could. He's unblind resume, unblind resume, able. That's how bad Justin Fields has gotten at this point.

He's. It's so bad. He got sacked nine times. That's a lot of credit to the Broncos defense, which I want to talk about in a second. But he can't. He doesn't read the field well. It's like. It's painful to watch him try to pass. He had as many. He was sacked as many times as he completed a pass, Both nine. It's. It was to the point where at the end of the game, the jets had a chance to win the game, which is everything we're saying. It's like, jets were in this game. Broncos played down to their competition. The jets were in this game. There was a moment where it was a fourth and Eight with I don't know how much time was left. It was like very little time left. And I said to myself, Nick Folk, who his career long. He's like a million years old.

Yeah.

His career long in the NFL is 58 yards. There is a significantly better chance for Nick Folk to make a 62 yard field goal than for Justin Fields to pick up a fourth and eight.

Yes.

That's just without a doubt. I would play the field goal every single time.

That didn't make a lot of sense. Although Nick Folk, he looks like he's. He's enjoyed a few meals at the end of his playing career. He doesn't seem like he's. He might not have the muscle mass necessary to kick it, but still, I agree with you. You never know what's going. You can just run up and kick it as hard as you possibly can. There's a chance and there's a chance there. When they got that safety, I thought to myself, the jets are going to fuck around and win a hilarious game in England. This would be like a classic, weird start to the day.

Yeah.

But no, they just seemed like they couldn't. They didn't seem like a football team today.

No, no. They seem like. I don't even know what it was. And again, the Broncos didn't play great. The Broncos defense played great. The Broncos offense did not play great. They threw in a safety. Was like pretty close. I mean, Bo Nicks had a couple moments where it's like, okay, he's back to being Bo Nix, but overall, I think Sean Payton, like, that was a letdown spot that they played to, traveling all the way to London after beating the Eagles. But that Broncos pass rush is insane. Nine sacks, they have 30 on the season. So we're taping this before Sunday Night Football. The second most sacks for a team Lions haven't played yet. They have 16. The Broncos have 30 sacks. The record is 72 by the 84 Bears. They're like, I know it is all off of a nine sack day when they're not going to get nine sacks every game. But they have 30 through, through. Through six weeks.

They were still pretty good if you don't count that game. Yeah, they're still. Yeah, they had 21, so pretty incredible. Yeah, the Broncos defense is always going to be. Defense travels. I think that's what we can take away.

So the.

I'm willing to like write off a weird, fluky offensive game from the Broncos and be like, they'll probably be okay. Yeah, they'll probably figure it out. Get better.

But they have just, I mean, got.

Out of England with a win. That's good.

Nick Bonito, Jonathan Cooper, DJ Jones, like all these guys are just getting pressure time and time again. And yeah, I like, they're. I think they're second in. In points given up. I think the Texans are first. The Broncos defense is what everyone was high on going into the season, and they have answered the bell. Can the offense be consistent enough to take that next step? Today they weren't, but I've also seen flashes of bonix where I'm like, yeah, it can be.

Yeah. So the, the negative 10 net pass yards for Justin Fields today, that's the worst that jets quarterback has ever had, and it's the worst by any NFL team in 27 years. It's a long time.

Wait, what was the. Justin Fields, his rookie year. Remember the game against the Browns? We're in Aurora for that. Maybe you guys weren't there. We were in it. We bought. We did a. We did a.

Was that 20, 21?

I think so. It was against the Browns. One of the worst games I've ever watched. I wonder what the net passing yards in that game were. He got sacked a million times in that game as well.

Let's see. Browns 26, bears 6.

That one's. That one.

Okay, let's take a look here. Passing yards. He had 68 passing yards.

Was it net?

How.

How many net.

I'm looking up sacks right now. So let's see. Sacks, box score.

That was his first start in the NFL and we're four years into it and it's. Or five years into it and it's. It hasn't gotten much better. Uh, it was. I mean, it was bad. I just remember how bad it was. That's all. I just remember being like, holy shit. This is about as bad as it could get. Yeah, he was. He was 6 for 20 for 68 yards in that game.

And he had 67 yards worth of sacks in that game.

Yeah. So one. So he had one passing yard.

He had one passing yard. He had a yard. Yeah.

So I guess so. Yeah. He's going backwards. Yeah.

Going backwards. Going backwards. Yeah.

Yeah, he's going back.

This is where minus 10 is. Is hard to do.

It was tough to watch. I. I'm not going to stop watching the London games, but I think I'm going to do a boycott in name only because I'm sick of them.

Yeah, I was thinking about ways to boycott in name only.

We tried to name.

We tried to do this last. We boycotted the first half of the Pro bowl last year. I think I might have just thrown in the second half Pro bowl for free. Yeah, but I don't think that that got the league's attention.

It's just. Has. No, it just always feels just weird, out of place. And it was designed when it was. Whatever it was. Whenever we started doing this 10 years, 15 years ago, you could tell me we're doing this 20 years ago, I'd be like, yeah, that makes sense. Time doesn't make sense to me anymore in general. When it was two times a year, it felt like an experience. It felt like something like, oh, this week we've get. We get early football, London football. Now they're just throwing it at us every single Sunday. How many more do we have? Well, we've got Rams, Jags next week.

Yep.

Falcons, Colts in November and then Dolphins Commanders in Spain. Yeah, Spain.

In Spain. Madrid Rams.

Jacks is good game.

Yeah, I. I'm going to. Again, it's a boycott name only. Anyone who wants to join me. It's a boycott name.

That's not a boycott.

No, it. It is.

No, you can just say. You can say you're boycotting.

All right. Yeah, I'm boycotting from my couch while I watch the game.

I have a dumb idea.

Yeah.

Monday Night Football in London.

No.

30Am on Monday.

Stop it.

I actually kind of like that.

No, nobody could watch that. 8:30am The Monday Night Football could. Yeah, we could, but like, people can't watch that.

You know, people can't watch that. No, but what about like a 4 o', clock, 4pm okay, here's something that people could watch at work. Because you can watch anywhere now. It's not like, you know, back in the day where it's like, I'm not in front of a tv. No, everyone can watch everywhere. On your phone, on your work. Give us an afternoon work day. I would. I'd be in on that.

You remember that U.S. open, the one that finished in a playoff on a. On a Monday.

Yeah.

Where nobody went to Tiger versus Rock. Rocco versus Rocco. Yeah. The NFL could do that and say just like, okay, week, week 10, we're going to take the teams that have the best two records in the NFL and they're going to play a Monday game. Monday morning. Monday afternoon game.

Not morning, afternoon, afternoon.

Like a flash scheduling thing. Because everybody would watch it.

It would save our Mondays. It would make Monday fly back by that much faster. I mean, this was what happened in Covid football. Remember when we had the random like Tuesday Afternoon game.

Yep. We could.

What.

What apps are these on? I know they. They care a lot about people watching on the apps.

What do you mean?

Well, I'm going to watch the game on the app. Right. I'm g. I'm going to watch the game if. If there's football being played. Yeah.

I just watch on YouTube TV.

I'm going to tune in. I might. I might delete whatever app as a form of protest. Delete whatever app the game's on right after the game's over for, like the next week.

Like London. They do like NFL Network.

Yeah, I know. I just watched it on YouTube TV. So maybe download the NFL Network app and then delete. And then delete it and then watch.

It on YouTube and watch it on YouTube TV.

I'm. I'm carrying forward with my boycotting name only again. I will watch them. I'm not going to like it, but I'm going to watch it. I'm going to boycott a name only.

Could we just boycott English things?

That's fine.

Is there like an English series on Netflix that everyone's watching that. We can just boycott that instead.

Yeah, I like that. You know what?

Rest of the year, put a tariff on England.

I'm not. I'm not eating any blood sausage with like a whole tomato.

Yeah. Guess what?

Done.

I'm out on spotted dick.

No tea.

No more.

No tea. Okay. That feels good. We talked that.

Spotted dick.

Spotted dick.

Spotted dick.

It's a dessert.

Yeah.

No, it's not.

Yeah, yeah. Look it up. Spot a dick.

Don't, don't Google.

Don't, don't, don't Google it. Google spotted dick. Let's just goog.

Yeah.

Dessert.

Don't spot a dick.

Don't do.

Don't just.

Yeah, there it is. Spot a dick.

Now. Google just spotted dick. Just see it. Let's just do a quick X out. Get ready to X out. Oh, still new images. You're on safe mode right now. Yeah, look at that.

Look at that. It looks terrible.

It looks pretty good.

Yeah, it actually kind of looks really good.

Okay. If you were given.

Really funny.

If you had to eat.

It's like a blueberry cake.

If you had to put something named spotted dick in your mouth, you go 10 times out of 10 with that. Yeah, that's the best spot. That's the best form of spotted dick.

No sausage, no blood sausage, no full tomatoes. I'll always slice my tomatoes.

And I'm not ever going to say tomatoes ever again.

No spotted dick, no tea and boycotting name only.

The office English version.

Yeah, fuck that. Fuck that, fuck that.

I'm out.

Yeah. Does Christian Bale have any movies coming out, like soon?

You know what?

Because if he doesn't, I'm going to boycott his. Any new Christian Bale movies for the rest of the year.

Hank, do you want to boycott Oasis? I don't think there play any more shows that you're going to go to.

Listen.

Yeah, but going to Oasis.

Yes.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay.

I won't go to anymore.

Yeah, I'm boycotting, going, attending Oasis shows in the United States.

We're showing you. Roger. The Broncos. Are the Broncos for real? Oh, yeah, I think so. Yeah.

They are frisky.

I mean, their defense. Oh, they're. They're just frisky.

I love this. I love where Hank's brain is. I love it because it's like risky. No, you're thinking back to like the Broncos when they used to play against Tom Brady.

No, I'm just thinking in the Broncos making a deep playoff run.

This defense is really good, man. And like, look at the games. They should have won the game against the Colts, they could easily be a five and one team. They threw that game away. They lost by three to the Chargers. I know. They haven't. They haven't. I mean, the Eagles win was big because they haven't played like a ton of awesome teams. Other than that, their schedule is not that difficult. Yeah, they have the Raiders twice coming up. They got the Giants, who are frisky Cowboys. I don't know. I'm, I think I'm, I'm backing on the Broncos and some Broncos stuff.

No, the Bronco, they're going to make the playoffs.

Yeah.

After they lost to the Chargers, I looked at the schedule and even not taking into into account the Eagles game like they, the Broncos are. They're going to be there. You're going to be a tough team to beat in the playoffs to that.

Defense and you could say, like, oh, they only beat the Jets 13 to 11 and they could easily lost this game. Yes. That was the most let down you could ever like, let down spot you could ever find on a schedule off of a big win against the Eagles and having to go to London and their defense traveled. Yeah, their defense won them this game. Memes overall, like what? Oh, I have a blind resume for you. Ready for it?

Yeah.

All right. Team one, first six games, 063 losses were in one score. Games averaged 18.5 points per game. Team two, 0 and 6, 4 losses were in one score. Games Averaged 20.5 points per game. Which team would you take?

Are they both the Jets?

No.

One's the Lions, right?

Yeah, one's the 20, 21 lions, right before Dan Campbell started turning that ship around. So you're close from Jack back. He's. It's a little copium, basically. Like Aaron Glenn's about to turn this thing around just like Dan Campbell. The difference being that the jets don't have Jared Goff.

Yeah, it's. It's bad right now.

It's.

It's really bad. Unfortunately, they're going to. There. There's about to be a fire sale.

Probably this week.

Yep.

Any good. Any good players gone? Probably Quinn and Williams too, which is sad.

Who would you put on the fire sale?

I. I think Breeze hall is going to go to the Chargers or the Chiefs. Alan Lazard's probably already in Pittsburgh. Yeah, both Quinn and Quincy, the Williams.

Brothers, they're gone, most likely. Are you splitting them up? I think you sent them both to the same team.

Same team.

You got to. That would be fucked up as a.

Jets fan, if you could go back in time to like one specific. One specific moment that the jets have had, like a decision that they've made and you could do the thing where you. You like, scream at them, no, don't do this. Stop what you're doing right now. You're going to destroy everything. What. What moment would that be?

When they drafted Zach Wilson and got rid of Sam Darnold.

That's where it went. That's where it all went wrong.

That's a good one.

What about.

Would you have taken instead?

No, it would kill Sam Darnold.

Sam Darnold, Sewell.

Oh.

Oh, that was.

That would have been good at the time. What were you 25 years old, by the way? He's so young.

It's. It was just fucking Joe Douglas.

At the moment. What were you saying?

At the moment?

Yeah, during that draft.

I get behind anybody. They draft, I follow. I follow blindly. I don't give a shit. I think COVID ruined football with all those quarterbacks in that draft. They played in front of no fans. So then all you have is their pro day. You couldn't send scouts to the game, and then you rely on one throw that Zach Wilson makes at a BYU pro day.

It was a good throw.

You rely your entire. Sorry, I'm rambling.

No, no, keep going.

You trust your entire franchise in this fucking pussy from Utah?

Yep. Keep going.

And then you're fucked for years to come. And then you have to rely on a 41 year old who was still good. I liked him. And his Achilles explodes on Monday Night Football.

And now you're back to a Covid quarterback.

Back to a Covid quarter.

Justin Fields is Covid. That's. That's brutal. Way to put it.

Yeah, no, we've tried everything. I don't really know where you go from here. You just got to stockpile draft picks.

I have a.

Also, I don't know. I got fired from the team.

Yeah, you did. You got. You got relieved of your duties. Good news on the jets front. Mark Sanchez got released from the hospital.

Yeah.

And then immediately booked in jail.

That's a tough, tough release. You walk out just knowing. Out of the. Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

Yeah.

I thought he should have been on Fox today. I would have liked to see him.

Calling the game in his sling.

Yeah. In a sling.

Yeah.

He's got to face. He's got to face the public.

He's. I don't know what. I mean. He's got to be. Was he fired?

I don't think they fired him yet. And I know that there's like a lawsuit against him and against Fox, so we'll see what happens with that. But I did watch the video. I watched the behind the scenes surveillance film.

Yeah.

Sanchez, the. The wind sprint part was too good to be true.

Okay.

He wasn't like getting down to three point Sands, running, stopping, catching his breath, then sprinting back and timing himself. That's what I had hoped that they meant when they said that. I think that's what was implied. He. He ran up and. And down the alley a couple times to confront people.

Got it.

I don't think he was doing it to get in shape. He didn't have a stopwatch on himself and he didn't.

Yeah, he was wearing sneakers, so he was just casually walks towards Street. Sanchez casually walks towards street. This is. He spent a lot of time in Indy that you didn't expect to spend.

Is this the. The number one thing that people are going to remember Sanchez for now?

I. That's what I was. I was making that argument. I can't remember when that, like the butt fumble is probably number two. Mission accomplished. Because when we had him on, he did not like us joking about the button.

No, he did not. I'm glad that was done remotely.

Yeah, I'd agree.

Knowing what we know.

Okay. Yeah. So let's get to the regular slated games. Sorry. Memes. That was brutal. Especially having to wake up and watch that. That's the part where it's like, it's an extra. You're like, what the fuck? It's 8:30 in the morning, and I got to watch us have negative 10 passing yards.

Yeah. I said, this was it last week or the week before? Like, your job's on the line.

Just.

Just get rid of the ball. You're just a pussy.

One more thing. With the international games, did you guys know that. That countries have, like, exclusive marketing rights to certain teams in the NFL?

No.

So back in 2021, the NFL divided up the league and said, okay, like Argentina, you have Miami Dolphins. Oh, you're a Dolphins.

So this is like the sister cities thing. That they'll just be like, oh, you'll, like, go into an airport. Like, oh, okay. They're the sister city of what?

Yeah, yeah, they just. They just assign teams to different countries. Sometimes they make sense, sometimes they don't. You know what? Where the Bears are?

Well, I know. I think the Chicago sister city might be Warsaw. One of them. I think there's multiple sister cities.

Poland, the Bears.

That would be Poland. Warsaw.

The Bears got Spain.

Oh, okay.

And let's see, who else do we get?

A United Kingdom. They just pull it up right here.

There you go. Yeah.

Nice.

In the uk so those are two decent countries.

The Saints got France. That makes sense. Yep. Dolphins get in Columbia. That makes sense.

Perfect sense right there.

Yeah. I don't know how the Chargers ended up with Greece. Eagles getting Ghana. That's a huge win. Max.

Did Somalia get the Buccaneers and the Raiders?

Yeah, yeah, that would be awesome. See it right there.

Oh, we got. Oh, nice. Commander's got uae. The Emirates, dude.

I mean, the.

A lot of money.

Imagine being a dude in Nigeria and you're like, we got the Browns.

That's.

That's fucking bullshit.

Yeah.

That's so mean. Yeah, they should have based it on, like, which countries are, like, doing well. Give them the shitty teams. You get the Browns. Yeah, like, Japan should get the Browns.

What's. What's us. Oh, Austria got the Lions, Colts, Chiefs, Patriots, Seahawks, Bucks. Austria is living large right now.

Yeah. Damn, they got a lot of them.

They hooked them up.

This is very funny.

I don't like giving stuff to Austria.

Like, I would love to have sat in this meeting, like, yeah, we're just gonna hand. We're just gonna hand all these teams to different countries. It's not gonna work, but we're gonna do it.

Oh, Switzerland.

Yeah.

Switzerland looked out, too.

Yeah, Switzerland got it up. Uab. Your uae.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Uae, uab. I think they just fired Trent Doherty.

They did.

Yeah. Who could have seen that coming when he's looking at his phone getting like Hondo pieced by Tennessee. All right, next game, Chargers 29, Dolphins 27. This was very close to the Chargers dropping three straight, right? Yeah, it would have been three straight. They would have been three and three. They were 41 seconds away from that happening. And then Justin Herbert eluded a sack, made an incredible play and lad McConkey made an even better play. And then afterwards Jim Harbaugh said, that play will be burning in my mind until they throw dirt over top of me. Because that was the game winner. Where Lab McConkey went for 42 yards down the sideline to set up the game winning field goal. It was that close. Though the Chargers were in control for the majority of this game. The Dolphins to actually as bad as he played at times. He had a nice fourth quarter drive to take the lead with a minute left. And The Chargers survive 4 and 2. They still have no offensive line, but 4 and 2 road win feels good. Especially when Justin Herbert and Lab McConkey do something special like that because he was just.

Herbert was sacked. He was basically had the guy all, all around him, was able to step through it. And lad McConkey put on like one of the best jukes to seal the game.

He shrugged him off. And then, yeah, Harbaugh, when he said, like I'm going to remember that play for the rest of my life until I'm dead. He, he also. I like this description that he, Herbert, he said he's able to just mighty man it. Yeah, he just thinks that he's mighty man.

That kind of is what it looked like.

He turns into a superman sometimes and is able, he's able to just get out of these crazy situations. This was a must win for the Chargers.

Must win.

It was a must win. And their, their running game showed up big time. The guy that was on the practice squad, Vidal.

Yep.

He had what, 100 yards. He had a nice game. But the good news for the Dolphins is they only gave up 140 yards rushing, which is much, much better than their standard 174 yards rushing.

Okay.

But it was still 5.6 yards per carry. That's what, that's what teams do against.

They, they just run it down their face.

So it didn't get any worse. The YPC didn't get any worse against the, the Dolphins.

That poor teacher.

Yeah.

Update the ypc.

She's got it. She's got to let the people know about that.

Do you know by the way, because we got to talk a lot about the Dolphins. Do you know that Justin Herbert actually. So this was. He's now in second place for game winning drive since 2020. Mahomes has 19, Justin Herbert has 18 since 2020. Game winning drives. He's tied for second place. Can you guess who is tied for second place with Justin Herbert?

With Justin Herbert.

Mahomes has 19, Justin herbert has 18. This is game winning drive since 2020.

Matthew Stafford.

No. Good guess, but no Tom Brady. No. Kirk Cousins.

No way.

Yeah.

Good for Curtis.

18 game winning drives since 2020.

That should be weighted on a special curve for the Chargers.

Yeah.

Because the Chargers, they're. They're so used to giving away heartbreaking games at the, at the very end.

Yep.

The fact that he's in second place like that should. They should count double.

Yeah.

That's like having 36 game winning drives for the Dolphins.

I was preaching before the season that it wasn't like a hot, hot take. Although I had a little pushback. I said they were going to be my bad vibes team of the year. That has been so true. We had after. So after two or three, his third and final pick, the stadium played Wangster to troll him. So he's getting trolled by his own.

The owner guys.

Yeah, his own PA guy. Then he went to the post game and he said that we have guys showing up late to players only meetings.

Yeah, guys. Some guys not showing up at all to play.

Not showing up at all.

And then he said it starts with leadership.

Yeah.

Do you think that TUA is a leader?

I don't know.

Was that his way of being like, it starts with me. But he didn't. He went third person on leadership.

I think maybe he's talking about Mike McDaniel. Now I said this on Friday and it's even more true because I did some advanced statistical analysis on this. Coaches that don't wear proper pants Capris are now 1 in 11 this season. I actually don't know if McVeigh's been wearing regular pants or not. But Mike McDaniel and Aaron Glenn continue to wear pants that do not go past their shins. Can you pull up the picture? Mike McDaniel standing at the press conference like, dude, you're one in five. Your quarterback is saying that we need leadership. You lose games in like just horrific fashion. And you're standing there. If you go to my Twitter, I quote, tweeted it and you're standing there in pants for a 12 year old. I know this is a Meatball take. But I firmly believe that you cannot lose. You cannot be one in five and be wearing pants like Mike McDaniel's pants every single press conference. Look at these.

Yeah, those.

That's ridiculous.

Those are absurd. And what you have to do is you have to change. If you're Mike McDaniel. If you lose, you can't go to the podium in those.

You can't wear those on the sideline. Wear regular pants. Pants until you win a game.

You can't let people see that. If, if you lose and you're dressed like, you know, Cam Newton when he lost a game, change into something different, something more understated. If you're showing off the legs like that after a loss, it makes you so much sadder.

It's just again, meatball take. But I firmly believe it. You can't. You can win football games and then wear those pants. You can't be one in five and continue to come out in those pants. Yeah. Aaron Glenn as well. Do you agree Memes? You got to put on regular pants.

Yeah, you should wear a suit.

That would be cool.

Memes only wears these pants.

Do you memes?

It's comfortable.

But you wear socks up to those usually.

No, I pull them up.

Why is.

I'm a loser though.

Maybe you need to start. Maybe the leadership starts with you.

Why is that more comfortable?

Have you tried it?

I've tried it. I look like shit. I look like shit in everything.

Yeah, I don't think I've tried capris.

I tried to wear blue jeans last Thursday and it. Everyone commented, including my four year old daughter being like, why are you wearing those?

Yeah, I've got jeans on today. I don't feel right.

I can't. I can't wear anything anymore. I just come in a shower curtain.

Just give me elastic.

Yeah, I. I'm standing by this take though. Put on some regular pants, Mike McDaniel, you might win a football game.

He looks sick in a pair of Jinkos. Yeah, imagine that. Like the super wide legs, some bell bottoms. You know that Mike McDaniel has the, the kangaroo pocket jinkos. At least $600 ones.

Yeah, at least he took off the, the tags on the off whites. He doesn't. He's not wearing those still. Those looked ridiculous as well.

I'd like to see him bring back the earrings that he had when he was a ball boy for Denver.

Yeah.

Remember those? Yeah, that'd be a good look.

I don't know. They're. They're just a bad vibes. I mean They're. He's. He's gonna get fired, so. Right.

Yeah, for sure.

Back to.

I think he's a good, he's going to be a good offensive coordinator somewhere else.

Yeah. Back to the players only meeting thing. If guys aren't showing up to their players only meetings, it's quite possible that they've just overdone it on the players only meeting.

That true?

Because they had one before the season started, I think. Yes. And so very early. It sounds like they're scheduling more meetings on a weekly basis and then people just stop attending them. That's very relatable across any business in the world. It's like, yeah, if you do too many meetings, people are going to check out on it. Maybe get better snacks at your meetings. How about that? Or do them. They should be emails.

Ice cream machine.

Yeah, ice cream machine. Or just get like an email thread going.

Or just. Yeah, just say free ice cream at the players only meeting and trap them.

Do you think that any players in the NFL have like a Slack channel? No. With their teammates?

No.

You think that's something that's ever existed?

No.

I bet, I bet you one, one weirdo coaches tried it.

No. Maybe I could maybe see a WhatsApp.

Yeah.

Marlins man keeps trying to get me to go to WhatsApp. I don't know why.

Encrypted.

Well, he, he. After Friday night's 15 inning game, he, he offered me exclusive rights to the video that he took. And then he, he took the, the game winning hit video from his seats.

Okay.

He offered me exclusive rights and then he said Darren Revell also wants it. So I was like, he can have it.

It might just be me.

I think that I saw it on tv.

I think the second Marlins man's better. Have you seen the other one?

The Asian one?

Yeah, I like. Yeah, I think he's better. I think he's better.

Do you think the Asian Marlins man is doing it to steal his style or do you think Marlin's man hired him so that everyone just remembers to talk about Marlins man? Although that's not what he's doing it for. He's not doing this for people to talk about him. He's doing it because he loves the game.

I think the other guy had the idea completely independently of Marlin's man.

But wouldn't you, would you, would you be shock if I told you our Marlins man was like, I can't make it to every game. I need a representation at every game.

I would think that the, the backup Marlins man that he would send out on the road, would be probably not a male and would probably have like a low cut.

Yeah.

Marlin shirt.

I do like that. It's an Asian guy just sitting there.

Yeah, that guy. That guy's better.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. So he has been with him. So. Yeah, maybe he did hire him. Is that the same spotted with him?

That. Was that the same guy?

Yeah, on the left. So.

But are we sure that's the same guy that's in the other picture?

I'm assuming. I don't know. They're both blurry pictures, but how many people are willing to do this? Small. Yeah, it's a small sample size. I would.

I would imagine he started a franchise fan movement. You can buy into it. Like he makes you pay $500 for the kit.

The royalty. Oh, man. Yeah. I don't know where the Dolphins go from here. I think.

I think they need to spend. Do the opposite. Have no meetings whatsoever. Mike McDaniel would be the only coach that I could see saying, like, we're just not going to practice. Yeah, let's keep you guys fresh. Just show up on game day. Let's see what happens.

Playing the Dolphins and Browns next week. That. That's going to be a fun one. Yeah, that's going to be a real fun one. Okay, next up, Patriots 25, Saints 19. Hank?

Yep.

How you feeling? Feel great. Drake may look great.

Drake may look great.

Three touchdowns. Booty back in Louisiana had two big scores.

Saints beat the refs.

Yeah. What was happening with the refs?

Something was happening with the refs. Just there was an egregious pass interference called on Stefon Diggs that negated a touchdown that was called. They released like the Patriots scored, celebrated, went to the sideline and then the flag came in after they released like they put up the replay of the all 22. The ref didn't throw the flag until like after the touchdown was scored. And then when you see the replay, it was just not pass interference at all. And then on back to back plays, they called offensive pass interference on Diggs again on a catch down the sideline, which was not offensive pass interference. And then on the very next play, the ref was looking at Matt Collins like getting his arm dragged down on the sideline. And they didn't call that.

So I don't know.

There was something weird going on with the rest.

But you survived.

It sounded like they had it in for Stefan Diggs. Yeah, it was a very strange pass interference call.

It.

It was like, it was like five yards past the Line of scrimmage. Both. They both made contact with each other and it's not like he was displaced or anything. And they called it late and it was late. Yeah. So, yeah, you guys did overcome a lot today. Clearly the better team. I thought that Spencer Rattler didn't look that bad though. No.

Yeah.

They were moving the ball.

Yeah. Are you a little nervous that Drake May dipped below 70% completion percentage today?

No.

Okay. He was at 69.8.

Sorry.

Yeah.

Everyone's going to have off games.

Drake May I. Drake May looks really good. He standing in the pocket, just throwing it downfield. He. There's that one play. I think it was negated from a penalty where he threw like an absolute diamond. Someone was holding onto his jersey. I love when that happens.

Yeah.

Elastic of the jersey.

It stretched out so far.

It's very funny. Yeah. Drake May joins Patrick Mahomes, Dak Prescott, and Dan Marino is the only age 23 or younger with 200 plus pass yards and 100 plus passer rating in five consecutive games.

It's exciting. It's exciting times.

He also. The Patriots have tied their win total from the last two seasons through six weeks.

And our schedule. Oh, our schedule is just. It's so fun to look at.

Yes, it is. It's wide open for you guys.

It's crazy, our schedule.

I think I saw a graphic. There's like one team out of the bottom 10 in the NFL that we're not playing.

Yeah. No. If you guys. If. If the PAT split the Falcons in Bucks, there's a very good chance that they're nine and three. If you look at their schedule, their next six games, they're playing the Titans, the Browns, then they have the Falcons, Bucks, Jets, Bengals. That's. That. That if you. If you win one of the Falcons bucks. Yet 9 and 3 feels very doable.

There's a very good chance that The Patriots win 11 games this year. Maybe 12.

12.

It's definitely possible.

They could maybe be the best team on this podcast.

He's back.

If they win those 12 games, though, what's going to happen is they'll go into the playoffs and then everybody will just be talking about their schedule and they'll say, we don't know. If the Patriots are good, that's fine.

That's. I mean, I'm used to that. It's. Everyone hate us because they.

It would have been fun if they had lost the Bills last week and they. They just had. They went like 10 or 11 wins. Never beating a team over.500. That would have been. Yeah. Discourse. They kind of robbed us of that.

That would have been very fun.

That's up. That Drake May robbed us of that narrative. It would have been a very fun narrative.

What if Hank was right about the passing of the torch game? What if it would have. Drake May is just.

You're terrified of that.

What if it's just that? So, Hank, I did find myself like, actively rooting against Drake May for the first time today.

That's fucked up.

It's never happened.

I would never do that.

And yeah. So I. There is a part of me that's like, Drake May might be legit. Legit. And it has less to do with my quarterback, but more to do with the fact that I don't think that America is ready to handle Patriots fans with a big ego again.

But it has a little do with your quarterback.

Yeah. Tiny, tiny bit. Yeah. And when I say.

Can I tell you.

When I say Patriots fans, I mean specifically Hank. America's not ready for Hank.

Can I. Can I tell you can't exist. Can I tell you how. You don't even watch gft Because I live this now.

I'm watching Karen and you hate it.

I live this for the entirety of last year. It starts with just a little like, I'm rooting against them silently and then you're rooting against more and then you just kind of give up. Like I had to give up with Jaden.

Yeah.

I was like, he's just good and I'm not going to fight it. Like, there's nothing you can do.

Yeah.

We're probably a few weeks away from you being like, yeah, Drake May is just really good.

But. But I've realized that when I was rooting against Drake May, it was. It was purely because I don't want Hank to be successful. Yeah, we've had enough of that.

Look at him. Look at his smile.

We've had enough. America can't. We can't deal with it.

It's like Hank took like a quick four year nap. Rebuilding is hard.

Rebuilding is hard. I know. No, no, you're rebuilding.

You chime in memes.

Hank was in a sports.

Talking to you right now.

Hank.

Hank knocked himself out. When your team comes out and loses.

And the expectation, it's like you gotta just stick with them and trust the process and. And you know, there's light at the end of the tunnel and I'm. I'm living proof of that.

Your rebuilding process was you just checking out on sports that I don't understand.

No, you have been a Guard.

I've been here every, every Sunday for.

The last four years in in body. But I'm not going to be body. You have in spirit.

Maybe not like what am I gonna do?

We had a couple down years. I knew that. I knew that the winds were coming back and they did.

This is what irritates me is because we have coping mechanisms that we've used in the past to get through those bottom out years where like you sell yourself on a guy, you get all in on something, then you watch everything that you said just explode in your face. I was. Because it's not good. You never, you never really experienced the pain of rebuild.

I did Mac Jones after the, the Buffalo Monday night game, I was like, we're gonna beat them in the playoffs. Then we got 30 pieced.

Yeah. Yeah. It's. Yeah, it's crazy. Drake May is good. It is crazy.

Variable dog. Joshua Daniels dog. It's, it's fun. All the receivers, all the press conferences, like that's, that's what's exciting. When your team is good is like you know, you know your team's good. When you're watching all the post game pressers, all the recap videos and the Patriots wide receivers just love Drake May. They just can't stop talking about his leadership and how everyone would die for him.

Let's all remember that we're having this conversation after a six point win against the Saints.

Well, it was, it was basically 15 because of the refs and we covered.

Like what we covered.

We covered.

It's the Saints.

Did you cover on Thursday?

There you go.

Hank, would you like to address who was the guy who pointed out we should shout him out. The hater sweater that you, that you apparently have.

It's good to have.

So who was this good to have in my arsenal? Awl. Incredible eye. By this awl, he, he realized that Hank was wearing the exact same sweater when the Phillies got eliminated. This was what, what year would they. 2023. This is from Karen8263 shout out. That guy. Incredible eye. Yeah. He said just noticed Hank is wearing the same sweater today he wore when the Phillies lost the NLCS in 2023 as well. I actually I, I saw that tweet and I initially got mad. I was like we should have made Max sit on the couch on Thursday night. But he might have killed.

That would, that would have been dangerous. He need to be behind the glass like a gorilla. But yeah, gorilla, yeah.

Shot a gorilla.

But Hank was. The sweater is also a very funny sweater to have as your hater sweater.

Yeah.

Well, I think.

Honestly, I. I was thinking about it because it 100 was probably the same situation. Like, it was kind of the nice, crisp fall night.

Yeah.

And that's like, all right, it's fall time. Let's bust out the sweater. Same time of year.

Will you be dawning it? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's.

But. But you. You have to pick it wisely, because you. If. If Max wins with you in the haters hater sweater, he kind of negates it.

I wasn't.

I was rooting for the Phillies. I wanted the Phillies to win, so I wasn't even against. It was an unintentional hater sweater.

But now it's just a full look at his smile. This is like two years have passed, and it's just we're. We're doing the same.

I don't think that Hank should be allowed to put the hater sweater on after a bad loss. When he's on the couch, I think he's got to call his shot with that. You got to wear it that day.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

By the way, the Saints. Can we talk about the Saints real quick? What do you say, Max?

Do you think that person just watched, like, the sadness that I had on. On Thursday night and was like, I need more of this. Let me go back and find more sadness.

It's either that or your. Your sadness moments are incredible. Oh, they just lateral play. Your sadness moments are very memorable. It's sick and it's perverted. I mean, all of ours are. But yours especially. Especially with the overalls and the pigtails. It's something special. The aws. It's Christmas for the aws.

You know, that means just goes, yeah, you're a relevant loser.

Just won a Super Bowl.

I know, I know, I know. I know.

You're a relevant loser.

Rel.

Yes.

Like, he's an irrelevant loser.

Yeah. Oh, it's like both ends of the spectrum.

You got both ends of loser dope.

Yeah.

He just won a Super Bowl. I do want to talk about the Saints real quick. I. I got something. I'm gonna say something crazy. You ready? I kind of. I kind of am starting to like Spencer Rattler.

That's what I was saying. He didn't play bad at all.

No.

Spencer Rattler. He's got to be the best quarterback to start out. Owen 10 of all time. I don't think it's close.

Their car. Yeah, I think Derek Carr. I mean, Spencer Rattler could get there. But Derek Carr. Yeah, Derek Carr. But Spencer Rattler, like Chris Olave, had a bunch of drops. That fumble by Juwan Johnson when they were trying to drive to, to maybe win the game. Spencer Rattler didn't play bad and he had a couple. Like there was a, there was one that was a perfect pass that just was dropped in the end zone. Like I, Spencer Rattler might be okay. I don't know. It's hard to make a case for a guy who's 1 in 11 all time as a starting quarterback. But I think I'm ready to make that case. I think I'm ready to say that I like Spencer Rattler.

I think it's because we saw the other options that the Saints had at quarterback.

Yeah.

And then we see, we see Spencer Rattler and we're like, yes, that. That guy looks like he knows how to play the position somewhat.

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And every time they. They have a rookie quarterback, you're like, I hope that they do something different with this guy. I hope they protect him. I hope that they move him along in a way that makes sense logically and. And put him in the best possible position to not get the soul sucked out of him.

Yep.

Before he plays too many more games. And then they send Dylan Gabriel out there and he throws 50 times.

Yeah.

They make him throw the ball 50 times.

What was his exact stat line?

Let's see. I don't have it in front of me.

And he was trying to throw a lot of interceptions. There were so many. He was so many dropped. There's 52 pass attempts.

Yeah.

For just 221 yards. It was. So I looked it up in terms of what. What happens with the Browns in every single. Oh, that was bad. It was bad for the. Over. Hank.

The fuck was that?

What was that?

Threw it away on fourth down.

Oh, no. It was a timeout. There you go. All right, here's the Browns games this year. You ready for this first half? Down by four, lost by one. This week one, week two, down by seven, lost by 24. Week three, the one win, they were down by three. They won by three. Week four, they were down six, lost by 24. Week five, they were up three. They lost by four. Today, they were down six, lost By 14. The game starts. The Browns defense keeps them in the game, keeps it close. They have not been trailing by more than a touchdown in any of the games they played this year in the first half. And then the second half goes and the defense gets tired, and they just keep hammering them, hammering them, and they lose by a margin. And it happens every single week. And it's absolute torture to watch if you're a Browns fan, because you basically watch an entire half of football. You're like, wow, this team, this defense. Oh, my God. That was the funniest touchdown. Oh, hey. What was that hanging. Jared Goff scored the first touchdown he had. First touchdown, Jared Goff, and he caught it in passing.

What was it?

90 to 1.

90 to 1.

Yeah.

God damn it. We're in for a long fall.

Oh, my God, it's gonna be such a long. He just can't stop winning, dude. Oh, my. What'd you win? Oh, he almost dropped It.

Oh, my God.

You didn't even see it.

150 to win 13k.

Oh, my God. Anyone who. Anyone who hates anyone on this podcast except Hank. It's in the wrong direction.

Yeah.

Come on. Hey. Yeah. That's crazy. Good for you, Hank. I'm happy for you.

Thank you.

No, you're not.

But thank you.

No, I. What do I care? I didn't have it.

Who's in the hungry dog this week?

Hungry dog lost.

I don't bet first touchdown scores. I just don't. I can't.

I did say it when we were.

Yeah, no, you did. No, I'm not mad at you at all. Like, that was. That's an unbelievable hit. The way it happened too. That. The timeout and then that pass play. It sucks for. It's one more touchdown taken away from the Lions. Monroe St. Brown. The Awls that we keep fighting for. But Hank keeps that too.

And the over.

Hank keeps winning points bonanza.

I bet the ultimate over points Bonanza.

Awls. You'll just have to.

I. I do every. Every prime night football game. Both quarterbacks for such.

Oh, there's a flag.

Stop.

Oh, no.

Stop.

This would be so funny. Oh, no. It's an illegal shift.

Oh, no.

Oh, no.

Hank. Oh, no.

It's fourth down now.

Did you tweet? No. Wow. That's bullshit. So late. That was so late.

Hey, shift on.

I hate that this is all being recorded right now. Oh, my God. Oh, what was man?

What was illegal about the shift?

I don't know. And that flag was so late.

Oh.

Now they're going to through this. Hank Memes. Max, you want to chime in?

I just keep telling memes to zoom in closer on his face.

That was so perfect. How this all. That was a nice ebb and flow of. Pardon my take right there, Hank.

That means that it's still alive, though.

It is still alive, Hank. Yeah.

They're going to kick a field goal. Pat Mahomes might get it. Jared might get it.

Whatever. Talk to us, Hank.

It was.

It was a long shot.

It.

You know, I mean, that was so late. That was a sit. Wait, wait. They're going for it.

They're not kicking a field goal.

What if they just run the same.

This is why I need to stop betting any Lions game for four field goals.

Also, the TVs in the studio.

Oh, man. We got to keep people. We were like, holy. What just happened in the last. Imagine if he does it now.

I mean, his. Hank's reaction was. I've never seen him react like that to a play.

Yeah. I mean, that was $150, 13k. Insane.

Even the Derek Watt, TJ Watt bet that's insane.

And, you know, that was like a perfect play they had drawn up. Oh, there's another flag.

They're gonna kick now.

They gotta kick now. They have to kick. Okay. Okay. All right. Steelers, Browns. We're Talking about Steelers, 23, Browns 9. The. The Browns just do the same thing every single time. Time. It's brutal. And I. I. Dylan Gabriel, I don't want to trash him because it's his second start. I don't know if he's the guy.

I'll say.

Is that fair?

I would say it's impossible to know if he's.

It's impossible to know, but I haven't seen any guy stuff the lefty.

Yeah. When lefties do bad things, it looks worse.

And Brian Flores put in my head that he's 2.

Yeah. But 52 attempts. Nobody was going to be successful with this. No, nobody was. And. And the defense for the Browns, yeah, they played good. They didn't get any sacks, though, today, which is tough because that's really how they can stay in these types of games and possibly win them is if they're able to. To get to the quarterback. They didn't do that at all today. Aaron Rodgers looked pretty good. He looked really good today.

Yeah. That throw to DK on a nice age. And I have throw to Connor Hayward for the touchdown. Vic Rogers off platform, like, he looked good.

The Steelers should just pass the ball to Darnell Washington every down.

He's. Dude, I don't care. The ball in open space. It's scary.

I don't care that he's slow. No one's ever boxed out a glacier before, right?

Yeah.

Like, he can just go out there, throw the ball in the air, he'll catch it, and then he'll take two guys with him and get an extra three to five yards afterwards.

It's crazy watching him run down the.

Field with the ball like he is the biggest football player that I've ever seen.

Yeah.

And. And he can catch.

And he can catch most of the time. Most of the time.

Yeah. And he's a devastating bl I. I.

Feel hands are so big when they.

Have him on the field, it's like, yeah, he will block the out of you. And then when he's not blocking, he's going to be open because he's always open. Because no one's big enough to gu.

Yep.

They can just get him the ball.

Yeah. I. The Steelers might be the team that. I think they're good, but I don't fully know yet. We'll see when they start playing, maybe some other elite teams. But what the Steelers do have. Aaron Rodgers is their best quarterback they've had since Big Ben got injured and they have a stranglehold on the AFC north right now. They are 4 and 1 and the Bengals, who are now starting Joe Flacco are the second place team at 2 and 4. Browns, Ravens 1 and 5. That's a significant lead early in the season. So it feels like it's their division to lose. Would you not agree?

I would agree with that. I feel like they are thinking about the Ravens. I'm not saying the Ravens are going to do it and come all the way back, but if you were to ask a Pittsburgh Steelers fan like, hey, are you confident in your chances to win the division? They'll say, yeah, yeah, we're confident. But. But the Ravens.

Well, they haven't yet. Yeah. If the Ravens beat him twice, that's. You have it right there.

Ravens are still out there. But yeah, I think. I think the Steelers are in a good spot. They've got competent quarterback play. They've got a like true number one receiver and they've got a solid defense.

Yeah.

A good enough.

Come back around. Yeah.

They should have had. You're right. They should have had way more interest. They had zero interceptions today.

It just kept on like they would.

Have had multiple times. Two or three at least.

Yeah. Yeah. And I feel bad for the Browns. I don't. It's just. It's tort. It's now 11 straight games. They have not scored more than 17 points. They just cannot score. And it's been like this for way too long. And I don't know. Like, I just. I'm not saying anything new. It's just like it's. It's a special type of torture to not even have. You know exactly what's going to happen. They're not going to score 17 points. They're going to be in the game in the first half. They're going to lose the game by maybe double digits.

Yeah. Is it Shador time?

Maybe.

I feel like you. You don't really have anything to lose if you're the Browns.

Yeah. Why not try out everyone. Yeah. Bring back to Sean, I guess you.

Could say, best case scenario, Shador goes out there and he plays pretty good.

Yeah.

And then you could trade him.

Yeah.

Like you have nothing to lose. You're not going to make the playoffs. You're not going to win probably more than eight games this year. At the very eight, at the very, very best. Because Stefanski is a good coach. I still kind of believe in him.

But they're, they're not winning eight games. They could play 25 games. They're not winning eight games.

Yeah, you're not a good team, but just, just roll the dice on Shador.

Yeah.

Again, nothing to lose. Best case scenario, it doesn't work out, then you send Gabriel back out there, you continue to not win games, you get a better draft pick. Put your door out there.

Yeah. Miles Garrett, do you think he regrets the money at all?

I think during the games, yes.

So he was asked after the game about what goes through his mind when he watches the Steelers pass rushers get after the QB with a two score lead. He replied, must be nice. Yeah, that feels like someone who might be regretting it. During the game.

Yeah, during the game. I'd say like on game day, he regrets it. When he gets home, when he gets into his house and he drives in.

His very fast car and his robot.

Butler is like, let me get your, your jacket for you, Miles.

He's good.

And then he's got another Robo Butler that, that like sets up his Halloween decorations for him. He's like, this is pretty good.

Yeah, this is, I'm, I'm living. Okay. But yeah, so I, I have nothing else on the Browns and the Steelers. Aaron Rodgers, like, he's showing that he might, he might have some vintage Aaron Rodgers left in him. And with that defense, could be. I mean, they should win the North. They should win the North.

Do you think that if, if you took like the best players on the jets and the best players on the Browns and you made a 53 man roster out of those 53. The Brett's. Yeah, I like the, the Neveland. Yeah, the Neveland. Brett.

No, the new Cleveland Brett.

New Cleveland Brett. Do you think that they could go 500? Who starts at quarterback? Is the quarterback is the obvious part. Yeah, that's the obvious question. Maybe. Deshawn. I don't know.

I'll say. Me, I say Stefanski coaching. Yep. The new Cleveland Breads. I think they could. I don't know.

I feel like the defense would be good memes because it's all.

That defense would be nasty.

It's all the nasty. And they would get Garrett Wilson on offense, which would be really nice.

But who's going to throw him the ball?

Who's going to throw him the ball?

If I, if I read this list of names to you. Who would you rather have thrown the ball? Justin Fields, Dylan Gabriel, Shador Sanders. To Rod Taylor. Yes, I think Todd.

I think to Rod. I think to Rod could get him to nine wins. The new Cleveland Brett's with Rod Taylor's starting quarterback, could get nine wins.

I'm in.

I'm in.

Who starts from the jets offensive line?

Membu.

Okay.

I probably put Joe Tippman at center. I don't know. The Brown center is.

Yeah, we could find it. We could.

We could make this work.

You'd have depth. You'd have crazy depth. You could actually just rotate offensive line, line.

Our defensive line, too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They have a nasty rotation on defense.

Okay, well, we were talking about the Ravens. Let's talk about them. Ram 17. Ravens 3. This was an ugly, ugly first half game where it was three. Three at half. The Ravens actually were in it. They had a goal line situation where they decided. And I know we're of the standpoint that Derek Henry's not good in short yardage situations, but. But they went tush push twice.

Yep. It didn't work with Mark Andrews.

You shouldn't do the tush push if you don't know how to do the tush push.

It's with Mark Andrews. They've done it before, and it's, it's worked before, but it didn't really even come close to working this time.

No.

And, and if you're John Harbaugh, I, I, I never thought that his job was in jeopardy because you can lose when you're, when you're banged up and you've got that as the excuse.

The. Yep.

But you can't do shithead stuff in these losses.

No.

And this qualifies as a stuff, I would agree. Like doing it twice. Running, Running the same play twice in a row. That is very obviously a play is the most shithead you can be.

I would also say that starting Cooper Rush instead of Tyler Hunt Huntley is a shithead play.

I would agree with that.

I know Tyler Huntley. Did he just join the team this week or was he already on the team? I think he was on practice squad.

Yeah.

I think he's been around either way. Tyler Huntley got in and he could move the ball a little bit. Cooper Rush cannot. And Derek Henry, actually, he maybe listens to the podcast because he shut up the haters. He had more yards in the first quarter than he's had in any of his final, like, totals of games weeks two through five. He had 50 in the first quarter ended with 122, so he's okay. And Lamar is going to be back after the buy.

Yeah. So they. The Ravens are going to dominate the bye week. I came at a great time.

I was looking at it. I. This might be crazy because obviously their defense is also banged up and their defense is really, really bad.

Well, pretty good showing from them today.

I think the Ravens could be sitting at six and six, even though they're one in five right now. I think they could be sitting at six and six.

So four teams in NFL history made the playoffs after going one and five.

Yep.

Last was the 2020 Washington Football Team. So it hasn't been done in a little bit, but this Ravens team, Xavier Worthy.

Yep.

That's a check bang. All right, come on. Let's go, boys. Let's go. So it's possible.

I mapped it out for. I mapped it out for Ravens fans, if you're listening. So I think they can go six and six. Unfortunately, they're. The Bears are. My Bears are playing them after the bye week and I've already circled this as a problem because Lamar is going to come back with big time revenge of just like we suck. Everyone thinks I suck. I'm back. So they play the Bears, Dolphins, Vikings, Browns, Jets, Bengals. That. That to me looks like at minimum five and one with a healthy Lamar. Would you guys agree?

At minimum five and one.

I think with a healthy Lamar in like a do or die desperation. Lamar, like, we gotta win. We have to win right now.

I've seen the Ravens play some pretty bad football.

Okay. But they're better than the Dolphins, they're better than the Browns, they're better than the Jets, Bengals, they're better than the Bears. And the Vikings would be the toss up.

I think the story might be, yes, obviously Lamar coming back, but this might be the week that the defense somehow flips a switch.

Okay.

They do something different.

Yeah. All right, so. So follow me along. So I'm saying they're going to go five and one in that stretch. That's six and six. Yep. They then finished the season playing the Steelers twice. They have Steelers, Bengals, Patriots, Packers, Steelers. If they could find a way to go three and two in that stretch, that's a nine win team that might get you in in the AFC.

And the Patriots, they're going to have the one seed locked up by then in week 16. And yeah, so they're not going to have anything to play for.

Yeah.

So that's a win.

But yeah, I, I like, I almost want to. I don't think they're going to go anywhere in the playoffs, but I almost want to bet them to make make the playoffs. Can we look at DraftKings and see what their odds are to make the playoffs? I've mapped it out. Now that I've mapped it all out, I'm probably going to be wildly wrong and Lamar will probably just never come back and this will all look really stupid.

My guess is they're probably like plus 150.

Yeah. Something ridiculous.

Something stupid.

Yeah. As the AFC kind of falls off. What is so on the DraftKings sports, we're looking up to make the playoffs for the Baltimore Ravens. Either way. I, I, I've, I've mapped it out. I think the Ravens are still going to be heard from at some point. There's going to be a moment in when, when it leads shows being like, watch out for the Ravens. Like, don't look now.

I don't think it's on. It's on there right now.

Okay. What is it? To win the. They have it to win the AFC North.

They also don't. That's why I assume it's not in the playoffs either.

The Rams are good. They kind of fucked around today. They kind of played with their food. Their defense is really good, though. I know it's Cooper Rush, but they also had. Yeah.

Puka Naku have been out of the game for a while. Definitely.

And the Rams, like I was looking at it, I was like, all right, they beat up Cooper Rush. Who cares? And Byron Young and Joe Verse were everywhere all day. But they also lost to a backup last week. So it's good that they righted it. They lost the Mac Jones last week.

Yep.

They came back and they beat Cooper Rush got the win on the, on the East Coast. I told you guys on Friday. Sean McVeigh doesn't lose in these games as favorite on the road. He always wins. He always, he most of the time covers. And yeah, the Rams are good.

So back to, back to that double tush push.

Yeah.

That they ran. They asked Harbaugh about that after the game. Tell me where this ranks in terms of your like coach speak flowchart.

Okay.

He's. They asked him who made those calls and did you have input into making those play calls? He said those are planned calls. Those are calls that get made. So he went like, that's high. He went passive voice on it. Those are calls that get made.

That's high. It's basically being like, like, we don't know where those God makes those calls. Yeah.

Like AI.

Yeah. They just come in and we're not going to say who. They just happen.

That was always going to happen. There was nothing we could do about it. Our hands are tied.

Yeah. Coaches, did anyone ask him specifically about starting Tyler Huntley? Because Cooper Rush, since putting on a Ravens uniform, has one touchdown in seven interceptions. How do you have a team as talented as the Ravens? And again they're very banged up on defense to. They were losing games with Lamar as well. But I don't understand how you have a team as talent as the Ravens and have that much of a fall off to the backup quarterback. Where is seven interceptions in one touchdown.

So Harbaugh said that the plan was always to play both Cooper Rush and Tyler Huntley.

Okay.

In this game. The dual headed quarterback.

They're averaging six and a half points per game without Lamar Jackson this season. That's not good.

No, they've been. They've been terrible.

Yeah, they've been really bad.

But credit to their defense for not playing as poorly as they have.

Yeah.

Like that. I feel like going into this bye week they can get a little bit healthy. They. They might be. I know it's almost cliche already to say like the Ravens can still do it, but I actually believe it.

Yeah.

With these Ravens.

Yeah. I think six and six. Mark this down. Six and six.

All right, well go. So I know going into this week the Ravens were still the favorites to win the division. They can't be anymore at one. They can't be.

Yeah. They absolutely cannot be. Although again they play the Steelers twice. Yeah. And they still have the Browns one more time in the Bengals. The Bengals is what makes it all. The Bengals having no Joe Burrow is what makes it all like attainable. Yeah.

I mean you get free.

Yeah.

Pasco collect $200.

Right.

When you play them. Right.

Okay. Seahawks 20, Jaguars 12. A rare moment of for me where I feel like I knew ball and I was like, I think we're too high on the J. And the Seahawks came in and. And took care of business. It was also one of those games we've been talking about. The Jaguars, they are a good team. Maybe a little too high because you know they just had the biggest win regular season win in franchise history possibly on Monday night against the Chiefs. And the, the, the turnover regression. They did not turn the ball over. They're not going to take away in this game after having so many in the first five weeks. Sam Darnold played well. Seahawks defense was awesome. They were blitzing the. Out of Trevor Lawrence had him. I think they sacked him seven times. So, yeah, I, I, I kind of expected this game. But the Seahawks are a good team. The Jaguars are a good team. Seahawks, obviously better today.

There's also a very funny moment with Trevor Lawrence. The cameras caught him on the sideline. He was like, bent over with all of his hair, like, covering his entire face. I think he learned from last week and was having a pick. Yeah, I think he was like, we're gonna dig deep and the cameras won't see me when I'm doing this. But when you look at the Seahawks offense, it's, it's like a very strange offense because they are like Boomer bust drive to drive.

And they're also. Exactly. I think they have one, I think they have exactly one more run attempt than pass attempt this year. Yeah, they try to go exactly 50.

50, and they, they either just go three and out or they have a long touchdown drive. Yeah, that's kind of what they do. They don't, they don't like, mess around too much in between because Darnold throws down deep. If you watch this offense like they are, they're always throwing it deep to JSN, I think, like 40% of the targets on the entire team to JSN. And then Darnold leads the league in yards per attempt, too.

Yep.

So he's just. They're, they're kind of a fun off. If you time their drives right. If you're like watching multiple games at a time and you catch them at the start of a good drive, you would think that they're the most fun offensive.

Yeah.

If you catch them at the start of a bad drive where they give the ball to Charbonnet twice and he gets like 2 yards per carry and then they end up throwing incomplete and punting, then you're like, this team sucks.

Yeah.

It really is like back and forth to them.

They had a, they had that long touchdown to JSN and they also, I think, were like 1 for 12 on third downs today.

Yeah, yeah, they, they go three and out a lot.

Yeah. JSM, by the way, he needs to be. Where, where is he top five right now? I mean, he's insane. The year he's having, just the year he's having, he's 696 yards through six games every single week. He's just dominating. He's got four, four games over a hundred yards. It's in the end, like, one of the other ones was 96 yards in a touchdown. He's so, so good.

Well, then that. No. The other one was when he had 79 yards.

That was. Yeah, that was his worst case. His worst game was four catches. 79.

79 yards.

Yeah.

And that was.

That was the Arizona game.

A tough time to have it.

Yeah.

But, yeah, he's awesome. You've said it. Pft. And I looked into it. The Seahawks at home just aren't good anymore. Did you know that Mike McDonald, since he's become the Seahawks head coach, he is ten and one on the road.

I did not know that.

He's four and eight at home. He's ten and one on the road.

That's crazy.

They got to figure out, like, they need to have him staying at a weird hotel or something when they're home.

Yeah.

Do something to make him think he's playing a road game. Because 10 and 1 at home and 4 or 10 and 1 on the road and 4 and 8 at home for the Seattle Seahawks is insane.

They got team busses that pick everybody up. Like, go to their houses.

Yeah.

Like it's a school bus stop. Get on the bus, drive to the game together. Yeah. Stay in a motel.

I don't know. Make him stay in the Visit. Change the locker rooms. Make them stay in the visiting locker room in Seattle.

Yeah.

What's something.

What's going on with that?

I. It's very weird. Weird. I was shocked when I saw that stat.

Did they stop pumping in crowd noise? Maybe that might be it.

Yeah. Maybe they're too focused on the Mariners.

Yep. Also possibility.

Yeah.

But yeah, the Jags were kind of due for a come down to earth moment, I think.

Yeah. This was that. This was it. It was. And they didn't get. And again, they didn't take the ball away, which they've been living on. And you had, like, some bad penalties, too. I feel like they had a couple. I feel like they had a good punt return. They also had a. I think they had a touchdown, a Brian Thomas touchdown that was taken back from a Travis Hunter penalty.

Yeah. Travis Hunter.

So they had some bad penalties. That definitely did them in.

Yep.

I still think that they're going to be. Jaguars will be right in the mix.

Yeah. Okay. Panthers 30, Cowboys 27. We are now in a world where Meow Mix has not been a podcast for two weeks. And the Carolina Panthers are two and a half know is this. They have to stay retired.

You can't come back in in a winning streak.

No, you cannot.

You can't do it. And not the way that. That Rico Dowdle's playing.

Rico Dowdle.

It was A seat belt game. It was a buckle. It was a buckle up game.

Yeah. So he said that. But before the game he said, it's going to be a very physical game. I take pride in that. Buckle your chin strap up. I will be coming.

Yep.

Rico said that I will be coming. And he came and he came everywhere.

And then that Jerry Jones talked about before the game and he said, I know we're going to have to buckle up. And our whole team is shaking. We're shaking in fear of that man. Of buckling up, buckling up. And. But he said like to make fun of him, like, oh, yeah. Oh, we're so scared of Rico Daddle.

Yeah.

Rico Daddle went out there and he had 239 total yards, franchise record.

Yep.

Christian McCaffrey had 237 yards twice. But Dowdle beat it by two. And it's also the highest two game total in franchise history.

Yeah.

Rico Dowdle is on fire right now.

I think I saw it. It was like his. The record for yards from scrimmage for the Panthers are Rico Dowdle, 1, Christian McCaffrey 2. Christian McCaffrey 3, Rico Doddle, 4. Yeah. He also first undrafted player since 1970 with back to back 200 plus yards from scrimmage and he also has the most yards from scrimmage against a former team in history.

That's very.

That's awesome.

That's very good.

He backed it up. He had. He talked his shit. He backed it up.

After the game he said they wasn't buckled up.

They were. They weren't buckled up.

They were not buckled.

They were not ready for Rico Dowdle.

No.

Yeah.

Panthers are undefeated at home. Speaking of teams that are good and bad at home, the Panthers just took the Seahawks magic. Yeah, they did because they look completely different at home.

Yeah.

And the Panthers run defense was awesome. They completely shut down Javante Williams. George Pickens has made himself a lot of money in CD Lamb's absence. He had nine catches for 168 yards and a touchdown. I love when he. We talk a lot about George Pickens, but when he has the ball running down the sideline and he knows about to get tackled and he does like he almost belly flops on a defender.

Yeah.

We just get. He's like, I'm just gonna get airborne.

Well, you jumped the guy.

Yeah.

And then that's very dangerous when Pickens does that early in a game because you know he's going to try to do it again. Yeah. And then he tried to it again and got pretty much hit in the nut sack and was like, okay, I shouldn't do that anymore. But yeah, he, he switches hands with the ball so often when he's running, it's like every other step. It's like he's dribbling.

Yeah.

He's like, I don't want to travel. And then he, he, he'll like palm it out, hold it to the side, like almost taunt a defender to go for the ball. And then that makes the defender miss him because they're going for the ball. He's. He's a psychopath out there and I love watching him play. He's. I, if I were George Pickens, I would think about going back to the Cowboys.

Yeah.

Because, like, him and Dak have a good thing going on. And the Cowboys offense is great. Obviously the exception being the Russian game this week. But like, the Cowboys offense is very, very good.

Well, that was where I was going with this game is it's. You can't blame Dak in the offense when their defense is such ass. And it is ass. Ran right through them every single time he looked up. They were just getting chunk gains right in the Cowboys face. But this was a very winnable game for the Cowboys. They had, they had it inside the 10 yard line, had to settle for a field goal, and then with eight minutes left, they got the ball around midfield and went 3 and out and lost 8 yards. Never got the ball back.

Yeah.

So like, the defense sucks. The offense needed to make a couple more plays to win this game. And they were right there like they, they had the chance to make those plays and they couldn't make those plays and that's why they lost.

So they, they punted. The Panthers got the ball back with 6 minutes, 7 seconds left in the game.

Game.

And they just went downfield and kneeled out, I think the last two snaps.

Yeah.

To kick a field goal and win it. So they went at 30. 27. 27. 27. Six minutes left. Cowboys didn't touch the ball from that point on. And Bryce Young, when his team was behind in this game when the Panthers were trailing, Bryce Young had a perfect passer rating.

Wow.

125 yards and three touchdowns when they were losing. Pretty good. Pretty good.

Starting to look a little good.

And as depressing as Bryce Young looks when he's not playing well, he. Look, he's got that much joy when he's winning, he's like the happiest guy on earth.

Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. I'm happy for the Panthers. Panthers are 3 and 3.

How about that?

The Panthers are 3 and 3. This goes more to my saying, Hank, you. You scoffed at me. There's not. There aren't bad teams in the NFC like the NFC does not have. They have. Not great teams. They have. They have some bad, badish teams, but everyone's. I mean, the Saints are the worst team and they're frisky. Yeah, it's a better conference, for sure. Yeah. It just feels like. Like top to bottom. I mean, the Panthers are three and three, and you would. You would put them in the. Their bad category.

It's.

It's a tough, tough conference. Who do the Panthers have coming up?

I don't think this week, Hank. We classify the Saints as being a bad team, though.

Yeah. Oh, the Panthers have. The Panthers have the jets next week.

Ooh.

So The Panthers go above.500.

That's. That's an interesting game.

Suck on the road.

They stink.

They stink on the road. And they're going into MetLife.

But the jets suck.

This is going to be a must win for the Jets. Right? Memes. I mean, I know you want to lose games and you want to get a better draft pick. This is a game that. That you have to win this game.

Their schedule is easier as it goes on. So it's like Panthers and they play the Bengals. So I think every game's a must win going forward.

Whose line is it anyway?

Panthers.

Jets at Jets.

DraftKings sportsbook. It might be Panthers -2½.

Panthers -1½.

I think it might be.

Pick up them on the DraftKings sports book.

Oh, the jets are favored.

Wow, that's gonna change.

Why that. My computer model totally disagrees in my head.

Why. Why are they.

The jets are favored. Memes.

I think jets will win.

I've been saying that for, like, four weeks straight, but I think this is the one way. I think. You know what? Yeah, this is the one.

This is the one.

Yeah. Memes. You're gonna win this game.

Game.

You're gonna win this game.

You're gonna win this game.

Memes.

Look at it. Look at it.

Look. Look us in the eyes. You're gonna win this game.

Win this game.

I don't think so.

It's the Panthers, dude.

Panthers on the road.

It's Panthers on the road. Panthers on the road.

Meow Mix.

Yeah. Meow Mix. Yeah. Well, they might if they do a podcast. We have to unload on the Jets.

Yeah.

Yeah. That's a fact.

Their bet did not hit, unfortunately.

We'll try again next week.

They need ted to get 70. He got two touchdowns.

Yeah, he got two, but.

Yeah, it didn't get seven.

Okay, last early game, Colts 31, Cardinals 27. The Colts are just fucking good. I don't know what else. I feel like people are waiting for the shoe to drop. The Colts are 5 and 1. The Colts have scored 30 plus in four of those five victories. They have 194 points through six weeks. That's most by any indie team ever. Peyton Manning played on some really good offense. Daniel Jones has 1500 yards, 12 total TDs. Tyler Warren has 370 yards, three TDs. Jonathan Taylor has 600 yards, eight total TDs. Their offense is awesome. The Colts are good. They just need to stop having warmups where everyone gets hurt.

Yeah. They had two guys get knocked out in warmups.

So bizarre.

They had a concussion for Travarius Ward, which was. He had a tight end.

Brutal.

A tight end ran into him when he was back there, like fielding passes or. So I. I don't know what the drill was exactly, but for the tight end at least.

Yep.

But Trevaris was doing like DB drills. And then a tight end sprints off the sideline for some reason and just targets him. Just goes like head to head. Knocks him out for the game. And then obviously, Anthony Richardson was he. He got his orbital bone broken doing a band exercise in pre games. So, yeah, he wasn't going to play today either. I feel bad for Anthony.

I do, too. That's brutal.

I feel bad for.

He basically got a rubber band snapped in his eye. Yeah. That's a terrible, terrible injury.

It's got to be a painful, painful injury.

Yeah.

This is why you should never work out.

Never. Especially with bands.

Might get hurt.

Because that's like the fad now. It's like, I don't lift. I do bands. Yeah.

No, but on the Cardinals side of it, did you know the Cardinals, they've lost four games by a total of nine points.

Yeah, because remember, they were the first team ever to get walked off field goal three weeks in a row.

Three weeks in a row. And so. So, yeah, they've lost. It's probably total of. This is. It's crazy. I feel so. I feel bad for the Cardinals or at least for their fans still. But it just seems like this is a dead man walking situation.

Yeah.

Because you could make the argument if you lose close games, you can make the argument sometimes we're not that far away, we're close. But if you keep losing close games, that's usually a sign of bad coaching.

Yeah.

And if you look at the teams that had the worst, like the, the most like one score losses last year, you're looking at guys like Matt Eberfluss. You're looking at. I think the Jaguars had a lot of one score losses last year. The Saints had some one score losses, a bunch of them. That's usually a sign that that guy is probably not going to stick around very long. And then on the flip side, if your team consistently wins one score game, then you talk about guys like Mike Tomlin, Sirianni and Dan Campbell and Andy Reid. Read. So I think that things are not going in a good direction for Gannon, especially the fact that like his owner find him a hundred thousand dollars. Yeah. Looks bad in front of the team. Probably also should have done it. But having the owner be like, hey guys, I got your back. I'm gonna find your head coach.

Yeah. Also probably not great. Like you, you had a chance. Jacoby Brissette, we've talked about him a million times. We like watching him play.

He's.

You always have a chance. On his first start. Start, I feel like, yeah, that's when he's, he's the best version of Jacoby Brissette. Then it just slowly goes down. He had 320 yards and two touchdowns. It's been 34 games, almost three years since Kyler Murray has had 300 and over 320 yards and two touchdowns.

Yeah, that, that would be a very depressing. Good game for Cardinals fans.

Yeah.

To be like, yep, this is, this is what this team can look like. Because the Colts are a good team. Team.

Yeah.

And for them to compete with Jacoby Brissette, you're like, wait a second. That looked like football.

Yeah. By the way, the open roof shot they did was so sick.

That was.

I think they were honoring. I think they were like doing something.

Special for Jim Ursay today or something about the one where they zoomed in. Real. Yeah, they did that when the, the tight end on the Cardinals got hurt.

I think they were trying to just get a. Get us off, but they're like, look.

At this sweet ass stadium. And for a second I was like, that's all.

That's awesome.

Immediately forgot about the injury and was like, oh, wow, that's so cool.

And I don't know what configuration they had it in today, but it reminded me of that game that the Colts had against the Chiefs where Sky Moore got blinded by the sun.

Yep.

And fucked it up.

Yep.

That sun is a weapon in Indy big time. If you can. Shadows are Tough if you can time it out right. That sun is going right into your face on the field.

Yeah. The Colts haven't been 5 and 1 since 2009, so Super bowl year. They're good, man. They're good. I, again, I think people are just waiting for it to not work, but I, I, I think they're just really good. Yeah.

What's, what's Daniel Jones contract right now?

I think he got 40 million. I want to say. No, no, no, I was, that was.

No, because he had to. Oh, he did.

Yeah, I think so. I, I, like I was looking up stuff before and I forgot that that was, I didn't mean to do that. Thankfully, the guys in the booth are not listening right now.

Yeah.

So that's good because memes would take that personally. Yeah, he would definitely get mad at me for that. But they're not listening. So no one, Literally no one. We're just talking to ourselves right now. I'm looking at Hank, I'm looking at. Literally no one's literally what this podcast. We're just having, we're just having a conversation. Does anyone want to take good.

Com.

Anyone want to take a guess what I just said?

He, Daniel Jones got paid 40 million. Which he did not.

Who did? I don't know. Oh, yeah, no, I, I, I, I thought he got paid 40 million. Then I remembered that I think that's what Justin Fields is getting paid.

14 million million. 14 million he's going to make.

Yeah. So Justin fields is a 22 million dollar dead cap.

Yeah.

That's a lot.

That's a lot.

That's a pre June 1st cut.

Okay, so you just cut him before June 1st?

No, I keep him as backup.

Oh, so you're going to keep that cap a backup?

What qb? Why not to Rod?

Yeah. Charade's probably better backup. Yeah.

But two year plan dead cap. You can't have dead cap.

You know that because you did that one year of Madden.

One year Madden. And I think there's.

But you didn't even get a chance to get into the dead cat.

I think between Aaron Rodgers and Justin fields, it's like $60 million worth of dead cap.

Got it.

That's a lot of dead cat.

That's a lot of dead cap.

But yeah, Daniel Jones is going to get a shitload of money.

This office. Hopefully he stays with the Colts.

That'd be fun.

I would, I would assume they will try to do that. And I feel like he took a little less money, so maybe he, yeah, he just wants to stay on the Colts. Okay, let's take a break and we'll do our afternoon games before we do a couple ads.

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PMT okay, afternoon games. Packers 27, Bengals 18 Only three afternoon games. We were saying it's a little. It felt a little off. Putting the two Monday night games Also too much. Yeah, also too.

It's a lot. It's. It's a lot.

I liked Monday night having one game to focus on. It's my cool down, pull my brain down from football moment.

How much attention do you think we're going to be paying to the Buffalo Bills against the Atlanta Falcons.

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You know what's crazy about this game? The the Bears and commanders are starting the same two quarterbacks in back to back matchups.

Yeah.

And I bet you'd probably have to go back to like the year 2000.

Yeah.

To have that happen again.

Also, the Bears just only play in Washington.

Yeah.

Bullshit.

Yeah, that is true.

Someone needs to do something about that.

We'll fix it. We'll get right on it.

Thank you. All right, we'll talk a little bit more about that game as we end the show. Packers 27, Bengals 18. The packers actually look kind of shitty in the first half. Off the by little clunky. Jordan Love was doing his like impersonation of basically me playing Madden where I don't step up in the pocket. I just keep drifting, drifting, drifting, and then throw it. He did that a couple times the first half. Then he locked in. The packers offense looked good in the second half. Matthew golden is going to be really good. This was kind of his first like, oh, shit, this guy. He had that big catch at the end of the game to basically ice the game away. And that's. That was the scary part where it's like, yeah, they do have a ton of weapons and when they are clicking like Jordan Love throwing the deep ball, it just, when it works, it looks very, very good.

It looks very tough to beat. Especially when you combine that with Josh Jacobs looking pretty good too.

Oh, yeah.

Running like super physically monster. And then Joe Flacco looked like a guy that hadn't been on his team.

For longer than four days for the first half. Second half, he started slinging it. He was like, oh, I forgot it's Jamar Chase now. It's not whoever's on the Browns. I could just throw it in his general area. And that touchdown catch was just a. I'm going to throw in his general area and let Jamar Chase be Jamar Chase.

Yeah. In the first half though, it there were like guys either running the wrong routes or he didn't know where to go with the ball. I think Baker screwed it up for everybody. Yeah. When Baker went to Los Angeles and started on like 12 hours of learning the playbook. So earlier this week, Flacco was driven from Cleveland to Cincinnati with the playbook. He studied the playbook on the way there. There, then got a Little bit of practice in, tried to learn everybody's name. Probably still doesn't know everyone's name. First half things looked out of sorts. You saw on the sidelines they had some backups that were getting a little bit limber on the sidelines and I thought that was very rude to Joe. It's like the guy just got here, let him work his way in. He couldn't get away from the pass rush when it got to him because he's Joe Flacco and he's old.

Yeah.

But then the second half he just started chucking it and when he chucks it, he can still do the.

Yeah, he, they, I mean the Bengals also, this was not a Joe Flacco problem. This is the fourth straight game they have not scored a touchdown in the first half. So they've been starting slow. I feel like that second half Joe Flacco showed enough for them to be like, hey, we might have a fighting chance here.

Yeah. Oh for sure.

A little bit more of than what you were getting from Jake Browning. And. But this was, I mean the packers controlled the game in the second half and it was, I was, it was. There was one moment where the second half started 10 nothing packers and the Bengals went on like a eight minute drive to make it 10 seven. You're like, are the fucking Bengals going to do. Is Joe Flacco going to do this again? And I bet packers fans were thinking the same thing because it was kind of the same game script. Low scoring game, like you know, keep just hanging around, hanging around. And then the packers were able to.

Pull away and then Joe Flacco just gets traded to every team that's about to play the Green Bay packers for the rest of the season.

So I got a blind resume for you guys.

Okay.

For this, this is. Which QB would you want versus the Packers? QB1,361 yards, three touchdowns. QB2,319 yards, three touchdowns.

I'm going to guess that they might both be the same guy. Big Cat.

No, they're not. QB two, 319 yards and three touchdowns is Dak Prescott when he put up 40 on the Packers. Oh, QB one is Joe Flacco versus the Packers. Two games.

Two games. Got it. Yeah.

361 yards, three touchdown.

That's good. I was, I, I saw that he threw for 219 today, so I thought there was a transcription error.

No.

Yeah, no. Definitely no.

Joe Flacco versus the Packers. 3161 yards, 361 yards, three touchdowns. I also might have left out an interception.

Well, yeah. You didn't say you didn't list interceptions.

Yeah.

You just didn't touchdown.

Either guy had it. Yeah.

So it doesn't matter.

Yeah, exactly.

Joe looked great, by the way, in a Bengals uniform.

Yeah.

And the striped helmet. He looked awesome. Trey Hendrickson going out probably didn't help the cause.

Nope.

At all.

Is he going to be okay?

I don't know.

I'm not sure what he had.

They have a short week. They're playing the Steelers. Jamar Chase is ready for it. He said after the game. We know the Steelers are going to come in and try to raw dog us and kill us, but we'll be ready for that challenge and waiting for it.

Skin on skin.

They're going to raw dog them. They're going to raw dog them.

Yep.

I have a question for packers fans. Are you worried about the pass rush? Because the Bengals offensive line is bad. Joe Flacco is old and they only sacked him once. And they only have two sacks in their last two games.

They got in his face, though. They made him uncomfortable.

They did.

They forced a lot of it. A lot of incompletions. Hit him five times, I think.

But you would expect with Micah Parsons.

This was a game where.

Get more sacks.

Yeah. This is a game going into it where Parsons and the rest of the guys were like, okay, let's. Let's pat or stay stats a little bit here.

Yeah.

One where everybody should get one.

And I feel like this was a game that packers wins a win. But I saw, at least from the packers fans, I follow, like, they were like, what the hell's going on in the first half? You're coming off a buy.

This should be.

You know, you started the season hot, and then you had a couple bumps in the road with the Browns game and the Cowboys game. What's going on here? Why aren't we killing the Bengals? And then they did end up kind of killing the Bengals.

So as far as I can see it, Flaco's got two jobs to do on the Bengals. No one, no one thinks that Flacco is going to lead the Bengals to the playoffs.

Right. I'm not ready to say no.

You can hope.

I'm not ready to say no.

But as Americans, here's what we should hope for. For Joe Flacco, two things. One is that you keep Jamar Chase engaged enough in this offense to make him still play hard throughout the entire season. Season. So we can all watch Jamar Chase play football and be really good at football, because that's so much fun to watch. And also so he doesn't have bad vibes that linger on into next year for the Bengals.

Yep.

Job number two for Joe Flacco is going to be to make the Bengals watchable in all these primetime and national standalone games that they have.

Yep.

I think what we saw in the second half was enough for us to kind of take our foot off that. That holy button. I can't stand to watch this team play.

Yes.

I don't want to. I'm looking ahead in the schedule four weeks and thinking how much I'm going to be dreading watching the Bengals as a standalone game. I think he did enough to make us think it might. Things might be okay.

There's always.

It's an important service for America with.

With the. The. The big. I completely agree. The big. The big difference between Jake Browning and. And Jake Browning has done some nice things. Some not these things. We watched that Broncos Bengals game. They just couldn't throw the ball downfield. Joe Flacco is going to throw the ball down.

Yes.

If you let him.

Yes.

He will throw the ball down.

He will throw it up.

And that's all we asked for.

And he Targeted Jamar Chase 10 times. That's great.

Yeah.

Keep that up, Joe.

If you keep doing it, if you.

Keep throwing the ball in his. In his area, think good things are going to happen for you. I do have a problem with something that Matt LaFleur did though. Oh, he deprived us of history to today.

Oh, yeah, he did.

Called a sneaky timeout.

Yep.

As Evan McFerson was attempting a 67 yard field goal.

Yep.

NFL record. McFerson made it. Bounced it off the upright and went in kind of like. That was the Justin Tucker kick against the. The Lions, right?

Yep.

It set the record. And then he kicked it again and it landed like five yards short.

Yeah.

It was returned.

He robbed us.

Robbed us of a moment.

Rob.

Robbed us of a little history being made in this game.

Yeah. No, that was. That. That was a sick kick. Like outdoor 67 yards. Just barely like it doinked and like rolled in, skipped. Yeah, that did suck. That would have been cool for Evan McPherson. You gotta. Especially a team like the Bengals, like let them have that.

Yeah. Give them their moment.

I guess that also would have meant that they were. Would have been tied when the Bengals did score a touchdown in the. To start the second half.

It's still a sneaky move. It's a sneaky. It's beneath that.

Sneaky. It's a sneaky, sneaky.

It's beneath the packers organization.

Yeah. It is a sneaky move. Okay. Okay. Anything else? I mean, the packers are good. I, I did think it was weird they came out slow like that. But you know, I guess teams respond differently to the, to the buy.

Yep.

But who do they play?

Oh, they play the Cardinals.

Yeah. They're going to kill the Cardinals. That's not going to be.

And then Steelers.

That will be fun.

That'll be fun.

Game at Steelers.

Yeah, that'll be very fun.

Yeah, that'll be very fun. There'll be a lot of story lines in that game. It's a Sunday Night Football game.

Oh, also, you know Aaron Rodgers used.

To play for the back.

He did, Yeah. A couple teams ago.

Yeah.

So it, it's also helpful that Joe's playing well because I, I absolutely hate the standalone games where the announcers make their entire storyline like, this team sucks.

Yeah.

Like going into it like there's. They've struggled a lot and then they have to try to convince America to get excited about Jake Browning.

Yeah.

They're trying to like build one thing that he's done. Yeah. Now you don't have to try to dig for a storyline. It's like, can Joe do it again?

Yeah. By the way, I, I completely forgot to mention one thing. Did you know that Aaron Rodgers, he hit the. His best numbers against any team in the NFL is actually the Cleveland Browns.

I did not know that.

This is more just trying to deflect for what he's done to the Bears. He's 4 and O against the Browns. 11 touchdowns, zero interceptions, 124 passer rating.

Oh, he hates the Browns. He must hate Cleveland.

Hates the Browns. Okay. Raiders 20, Titans 10. Yeah.

Yeah.

Did you see any Cam Ward today?

Yeah, Cam Ward was not great. He had three turnovers and he also.

Had like a couple others that looked like turnovers.

Yeah.

That ended up not being turned. I forgot that Cam Ward was a small hands guy.

Yeah.

It was nine inches.

It wasn't good. It was not good. The Tennessee Titans have scored 83 points. It's week six. Scored 83 points. Again, it's week six. It's. That's not a lot of points for, for six games. They also. Here's their first half point total in the last four weeks. Zero points. Six points. Zero points. Six points scored. Zero points today. Not good.

I felt really good about taking the Raiders minus three and a half.

Yeah.

Until the very end of the game where it looked like they were about to get the sneakiest backdoor cover of all time.

Well, listen, Cam Ward, we. I think he's set up in a really bad spot right now. Calvin Ridley also out like he's got nothing. Yeah. It is worth noting that he. So in the last two games, he's thrown for 487 yards. 304 of those yards have come on just five drives. The last three of the Cardinals game and the last two in today's game. Now, obviously they won the Cardinals game, so you can't call it garbage time, but there was a little bit of garbage time before the final couple drives. So it hasn't been great for the Titans. Let's just say that it's bad. And to add even to it, Brian Callahan is 419 as a Titans head coach Mike Vull has four wins and his new job.

And who are the Titans playing next week?

They're playing the New England Patriots.

I think Mike Frable is going to kick the shit out of the Titans.

Yeah. Actually. Whose Line Is It Anyway? I already bet it right now.

Where is it?

I think it's in Tennessee because I think I saw this stat and I'm not trying to pile on Tennessee Titans fans. We know it's bad right now. Hey, listen, Cam Ward might be good.

We don't know. It's impossible to know.

He might be good. Where. Where is it? It's in. It's in Tennessee.

Right?

It's at Tennessee.

I think that might even be worse.

So what's. Whose Line Is it anyway on the DraftKings sports.

I know what it is.

You guys want to guess?

I. I already.

I already bet it for a nuclear earlier time.

I'm going to guess nine at Tennessee.

Yeah. Six and a half.

Based on your reaction, what were you gonna say before? Hex reaction?

I was gonna say like seven and a half. I was gonna say over a touchdown.

I thought it was gonna be over a touchdown.

I was.

I. I thought the same thing. And then I feel like it's gonna. I hope the line moves variable is.

During the week gonna be on a mission.

Oh my God. So.

And the Patriots are gonna be on a mission for.

If the Patriots win that game, Mike Vrabel will have the same amount of wins in Nissan Stadium as a visiting coach as Brian Callahan does. And he's played a lot more games in Nissan Stadium last two years that's won one game at home. Yeah. So Mike Vrabel can tie that. That would be. Wow. Yeah.

Much like it's impossible to know if. If Cam Ward is good or not. I think it's also kind of impossible to know if Ashton Genti is good or not.

Yeah.

Because watch this.

Gets smashed on every play.

Watch him run the ball. It's. It's like he's driving a moped into a brick wall.

Yeah.

Every time. And like, there's no way that he can get out of some of these hits that he's taking. It's impossible.

Yeah, It's. The Raiders are not good. They just played the Titans. I think, like, are the Raiders back? No, no, they just played the Titans.

Yeah.

So. Because like Gino, even I. My hot take going to this game was Gino is not going to throw a pick. He threw a pick.

Proved it wrong.

Yep. Almost made it. We made it a full half. He now has 10 picks on the season. He also had a weird quote. He said, I told coach that I need to jump into a lake or ocean or something. It's a lot of bad luck stuff happening to me, but I'm in control of that. So I don't really understand this quote because one Vegas doesn't have any. I guess they do have some lakes.

They got the man made lake.

Right.

They got the man made the Hoover damage.

But also it's a lot of bad luck stuff happening to me, but I'm in control of that. So is he. He's the bad luck.

He can control his bad luck, though. He hasn't done enough to turn his bad luck around.

But he's like, damn, how'd that interception happen again?

Yeah.

No.

Yeah. I threw it.

Yeah. He thinks bad luck is something that is actually like in your own hands. You can flip it around if you care enough.

Yeah.

He has not a good town to be unlucky in.

No, no, no. So, yeah. But I guess it's good for. For the Raiders. They want a game.

Yeah. Yeah.

I think they have a gauntlet coming up too.

This would be a game that you would lose and. And you would probably then have like no fans coming out to support you.

Yeah.

At home.

Yeah. Also, yeah, I would say it's. It's getting. Brian Callahan. It's Brian Callahan, Mike McDaniel. Let's do coach. Coach firings. Who's the next. Who's the first coach firings hot list. Brian Callahan, Mike McDaniel.

Gannon's got to be in the conversation.

Aaron Glenn.

Aaron Glenn. Those are the four. Who you guys picking? I think I'm going with callahan.

I think McDaniel has been there longer and it's just gotten worse and worse.

Who's got the bye week first? Let's See, bye weeks, that's always, let's see, like, hey, we can fire him right before the bye week.

When does Callahan have his bye?

Yeah, because that will be a big.

Whenever his buy is after the Patriots.

Oh, no. See? Oh no.

Oh, no, wait. I did that wrong. Nope, wrong. That was a mistake.

No, they haven't in a few weeks. Week 10. Week 10 is their bye week. If it was after the Patriots, it would have been. It would have been done.

Yeah. So the Charger. So what's going to happen is the Patriots are going to kick the ever loving out of him and then he's going to convince them like, hey, just let me stick around for a little bit longer. Younger. They're going to go to the Colts, they're going to get smashed by the Colts, then against the Chargers, and then he'll be fired.

All right, so week 12 is the bye week for the Dolphins. So I think I'd probably.

Probably have to go call hand. Yeah.

What did say after the game? I'm incredibly discouraged by the outcome. Everyone is a part of it, including Cam Ward.

Well, he's not wrong, but that's not something that Callahan would have said until he felt real pressure on him.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's just like every. Hey, guys, I don't just suck. Everyone sucks. Yeah, which he's right.

Yeah, they do.

He's absolutely right.

But again, like, not really an indictment on Cam Ward necessarily. The fact that Cam Ward sucked today is not 100% on Cam Ward.

Yeah. This is a brutal game to watch though, because I feel like every time I looked up, someone was getting sacked instantly. Or Gino was just throwing the ball like four feet away from him. Yeah, he. I looked it up because I was like, it feels like he didn't throw anything deep. He had. He averaged 2.7 air yards per attempt. He had one pass over 10 yards.

So even on his misses, his passes probably also went like 2.7.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So it was just. It was a tough one to watch.

It was a very tough game to watch. Now the Cardinals, they. Gannon might be a sneaky one.

Oh, when's. When is. When's their bi week?

I'm not good at figuring out when bye weeks are.

Well, if you just look.

Oh, the 19th is against the Packers. And then.

Are you just trying to guess based.

On the date on the dates? Yeah, but I think I got this one. I think it's actually. They got one more game and then the buy.

Yes, you're right.

Am I right?

Yeah. They play Green Bay and then they have the bye week.

So.

Yeah, it could be Gannon.

It could be Gannon.

It could be Gannon. And man, listen, I don't root for anyone to be fired. Remember, these guys have. Have to move their houses. They have to get paid a lot of money.

It sucks.

Yeah. If Gannon gets fired, there's never been anything that's been more correct than seeing that shots, pew, pew, pew, pew. And being like, nope, not a coach. Like, instantly. Nope.

What if Callahan.

Wait, is Gannon. No, Gannon's defensive. Right. So you wouldn't bring him back. Yeah. Yeah. You really.

We need McDaniel.

Oh, do you think you'd bring in McDaniel?

Has. Has there ever been an OC mid season hiring?

Yeah. Well, you bring him on as, like, what you do is you bring him on as a consultant, and then after a few weeks, you're like, hey, actually, he's going to start calling plays, actually.

Yeah, I think we did that with Patricia.

Yeah. No, that definitely can happen. You just ease them in. You don't just do it right away. Yeah. Oh, you got to root. Yeah, you got to root for. You got to get an offensive guy quickly.

But I feel he'd be more likely to go back to a, like a Shanahan McVeigh type landing spot, right? Who, McDaniel.

Yeah. Unless the Eagles are just like, hey, we could. We could win a Super bowl here.

We could pay you more. We got Big Dom.

Got Big Dom.

They don't.

Yeah.

Do you think that if Callahan gets fired, his dad could take his place as head coach?

The reverse Oedipus complex still working there, though? Yeah, he is.

I think so.

Oh, then maybe. That would be sick.

Yeah.

And I like Brian Callahan as guy. This is a bad situation that the whole thing is. It's just a bad situation. I don't know what else to say.

I don't even know if it's Brian Callahan's fault for sucking. I don't think that it's Cam Ward's fault for sucking. Right now. I think that's mostly on Brian Callahan, but I don't know that it's Brian Callahan's fault that Brian Callahan is making Cam Ward suck.

Right.

Because of the environment.

Yeah, he is. He is. Bill Callahan still is there.

That'd be such a funny thing. Your son gets fired. I'll take that job.

Yeah.

I mean, I got it from here, son.

Once.

A lifetime opportunity.

Well, you needed a guy who's coached before.

Yeah.

Okay. Last afternoon game, Bucks 30, 49ers 19, Baker Mayfield. That's it.

Baker Mayfield.

That's Baker May. It's Baker Mayfield. Like, I. I don't want to just distill this game into one play or one drive, but Baker Mayfield, they don't have. The Bucks don't have Mike Evans, they don't have Chris Godwin, they don't have Jalen McMillan. Ebuka was out for the second half. The third and 14 scramble that Baker had where you could screenshot it at any moment and be like, he's about to get killed. And he just somehow found a way to get a first down. And then I think two plays later, pump, fade, dime to Tez Johnson. 45 yard touchdown to go up 30 to 19. Baker Mayfield.

Baker Mayfield. I'm gonna. I'm gonna let Kevin Durant say, because he said it pretty good a. Baker, you hooping.

Yeah.

With four exclamation points. And then he edited that to make it say, hey, Baker, you hooping with no exclamation points. And somebody said, you decided the four exclamation points were too much glaze. And Kevin Durant said, yes.

That'S perfect.

But it's legit. Like, I think he probably thought to himself, I. I shouldn't be glazing him this hard. He hates Texas.

Yeah.

And so I can't. I can't do that to him. So he deleted the exclamation points. But Baker, he has now as many rushes for first downs on third down plays as anybody else in the NFL.

That's crazy. Yeah.

So he's tied with Jalen Hurts. He's.

I mean, he's so fucking good. I don't know what to say. Like, I. It's like this team and the 49ers are kind of in the similar way, where it's like the amount of injuries that The Bucks and 49ers have, I think would. They would be like, if you just played those guys, they would beat the jets easily. Yeah.

It's crazy to flash back, like, two years.

Probably beat the Bears. Probably beat everyone. I beat the Eagles.

When the Bucks signed Baker Mayfield, they did it because they were like, oh, shit, Tom Brady's retiring. We don't really have that many options. We'll just let these guys duke it out and training camp, see who's better.

Yeah.

Like, Baker was not guaranteed of a starting job.

Yeah.

When the Bucks got him. And now he's legitimately an MVP candidate.

Yeah.

And when he.

When he made.

Not MVP candidate mvp. He might be a front runner right now. Look at the. Look at the Odds on. On drafting. I mean, he's got 12 touchdowns, one interception. He just makes big plays. He also just takes, like, he's always taking shots downfield. Yeah. He's third in odds. So it's Josh, Allen, Mahomes, then Baker.

That's crazy.

He's a front runner.

And when he. When he connected with Tez on that deep ball.

Yeah.

Did you. Did you hear what Tess said about that play afterwards? No. He caught it in the end zone, and then he heard the MVP chance, and Tez, for a second, thought that the fans were chanting MVP for him.

Oh, that's awesome.

Yeah. And then he did a flip. Yeah. And they did a flip, and. And he freaked out, and he's like, oh, yeah. They're probably saying that about Baker.

And they asked Baker after about the flip, and he like, yeah, if I weighed 116 pounds or 142 pounds, I'd probably be able to fly, too.

Yeah.

I haven't weighed 142 pounds in sixth grade.

Yeah.

So the. The Bucks are fun. I don't know what else to say. Like, Baker is. Must watch tv. He's awesome. Their defense, Vita Vay, is a monster. There was he. It just felt like he was getting a push on every play. And, yeah, if they get healthy, they're a dangerous, dangerous team. As for the 49ers, this was just like, they won that game on Thursday night against. The Rams. Emptied the clip. This is a tough one to get back up for. And Fred Warner getting hurt was brutal. The ankle dislocation, he's probably out for the year. They just can't catch a break.

You're going to need to find some more dead bodies every morning for Mac Jones to see. It's crazy to get fired up enough. And then one of their healthy receivers, Juwan Jennings. Jennings has five broken ribs and high and low ankle sprains.

Jesus Christ. Yeah. There was a report that Juwan Jennings and Kyle Shanahan had to be, like, kind of separated from the sideline during the game. They were, like, yelling at each other. And Mac Jones. Yeah, he.

Juan was probably just like, ouch.

Yeah.

He's like, don't tell me you're hurt, please. Fair enough.

Mac Jones battled. He had two interceptions. The first one wasn't really his fault. The wide receiver just didn't run the route that he was expecting him to run. And, yeah, Kendrick Bourne's good. It's. It's crazy that the. The 49ers are able to just have guys be good when, like, guy Gets hurt, it's like, oh, yeah, Kendrick Bourne's gonna rip off 140 yards.

And they, they look competitive like the Niners were. Oh, yeah, they were competing in the, in this game until the second half when things got like a little bit out of hand.

He has a one score game till two and a half minutes left.

Yeah. So the Niners, I think they'll be fine. Fine. I'm still optimistic about them if they can get healthy, but that's a big if. I've Learned about the 49ers because they just keep getting hurt and. Yeah, it's, it's, it's tough.

How many more Baker do we have? A lot of Baker prime time games because this is where we need like the flex scheduling where it's.

They play the Patriots at 1:00'. Clock. That's got to get flexed to at least 4 o' clock because the Patriots, both MVPs.

Oh, we got, we got the Lions next.

Oh, Monday Night Football.

Yeah. Oh, that's a good one.

Another double header.

Damn. That's going to be the one that we watch.

Yeah. Oh, they got a few. They got a Sunday night game, two Sunday night game and a Thursday night game coming up. So good. I need more Baker. Baker. I just want more Baker.

Would you rather have them stagger the starts or do them like back to back with Monday night?

Good question.

I like the back to back pack.

Same.

I like to focus on one game.

Yeah.

Especially after a, a long Sunday where it's just like all the football happening at the same time. I like having a night where I can just sit Watch one game.

Yep.

Watch the next game.

I just saw a lot of people bitching about the being late or whatever.

I mean, it was late, but I would rather be able to focus.

Especially with baseball.

Yeah, I agree. Yeah. Two games. That's probably why they're doing it.

To try to take away from baseball.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, what. There's two, there's two CS games on Monday.

Yeah.

There's two football games. Damn.

It's a good sports night.

It's a great sports night. I'm not complaining. I'm just saying, like, I, I do like having Monday Night Football be like a sacred. Sit down on the couch now.

It does suck when you get Monday Night Football.

When you get a bad, when you get a bad game, it does suck. I do like the fact that with two games you have the ability to be like, all right, if one of them sucks, you got another game to bail you out. Yeah.

But when bad Games get bad during Monday Night Football.

They.

They become funny sometimes.

Yeah. Right. That's why I'm actually excited that we have a doubleheader for tomorrow night. Because, like, if the Bears are bad, it's like. But look at the Bills and the Falcons. That game's going on sick.

It's a big game.

I know it's a big game, but I'm saying the Bears playing on national television doesn't usually go well. It's not like a sick time where everyone's just like, this team sucks over and over.

I'd say for the. For the commanders, too. Like, historically, we've been very bad on Monday Night Football.

Yeah. It just becomes a. Like, you know, it. When it. When it's happening in real time, when you're like, okay, here comes, you know, open mic night.

Yeah.

Next four hours, we're just gonna get blasted. Yeah.

Especially with Joe Buck up in the booth and for you, because there's, like, an outside chance that he might take a veiled shot at you. So if it gets out of hand enough, it's really.

It gets bored enough, if it gets.

Really, really bad in the fourth quarter.

Yeah.

He might throw something out there that just personally insults you. I'm looking forward to tomorrow night. Yeah, it's gonna be fun.

Let's talk about the last game, then we'll talk about that.

And some.

Some playoffs. The Chiefs are going back to at least the AFC Championship game, probably the super bowl now. So they beat the Lions, 30, 17. I said this two weeks ago. I think there was a quote card that people were dunking on, trying to dunk on me. I was like, chiefs are going to go back to the Super Bowl. Patrick Mahomes can win the mvp. There's nothing we can do about it. That's happening. That's happening. You see it. Their offense is getting right. Their defense is good. They even said on the broadcast, they're like, yeah, these guys were telling us in private conversations they feel better about this team at 2 and 3. You know, the game was still going on at 2 and 3 than they did last year. About the team that was 10 and 1 or whatever that tells you. Yeah, they know that they're good.

It's a better team. It's a better team overall. And they. There's. They're evolving, too. So this is like the wrinkle that I think Andy Reid had been hanging on to for a while. They're putting Mahomes under center now.

Yep.

And they're handing the ball off, and it's Working really well.

Yep.

And now they're going to be doing play action under center and then Mahomes is going to be like, oh, this game's back on easy mode for me now.

Yep.

Now that I can do this. They didn't have to do that before. There was no need to. They didn't even have to run the ball if they didn't want to. But now they're trying to keep teams honest and now it's just going to go back to Patrick Mahomes thinking that this game is very simple and everybody else being very frustrated.

Yeah. And he's just scrap. He's back to like every, every drop back. He's just either they're perfectly blocking for him. If they don't, he just scrambles to the perfect place where he can throw it to.

Yeah.

Like every play is just kept alive at all times. Patrick Mahomes. I also think that I feel like the, the, the Lions got a little too cute. Just run the fucking ball some more. Like. And then they ran the ball too much at the end when they had to make up a. You know, they're still trying to establish the run down a bunch. But like even the, the. We were listening to it. You heard it live. The Jared golf play. Like, you have fourth down. Just run it one more time right up their face. You have David Montgomery. Like, you have an awesome offensive line. Just pound it. That's what you do. Daniel Campbell.

Yeah. Yeah. I, I think that the Lions, they were not ready tonight.

No.

The Chiefs were way more physical than they thought they'd be.

Right.

It's not a finesse Chiefs team. It. They are very capable of getting like muddy with you, getting dirty with you. And then you pissed Mahomes off too when you hit him a little bit late. Aiden Hutchinson, by the way, looked awesome tonight.

Yeah, he did.

He was in his face the whole time. But he took a couple unnecessary like, extra step shots at him.

Yeah.

And then you don't want to piss my homes off.

But it was just the difference in this game felt like it was. The Lions weren't able to. To convert on those like, fourth downs that they had. And the Chiefs were able to just keep doing it like going down the field. That was the difference. Like the Lions, when they, when they don't have their, their fourth downs don't go their way, it. This is what can happen. And Dan Campbell knew coming in. He said he had to. They had to score 30 to win. He was right. The Chief scored 30.

Yep.

They scored 17. But yeah, the Chiefs are. What are you going to do? They're. They're awesome. Mahomes is awesome. No one. The. The. They gave that brief glimpse of, like, oh, they might not be good anymore. And it was so brief. And if you fell for it, I'm sorry, but it's just not true. Do you agree, Hank?

Yeah. And, like the NFL on their side.

Oh, they're.

They're good, though. They're very good.

Yeah, they're gonna. They're gonna be just fine. They'll probably not get the one seed and then they'll just. And everyone will make a conversation about how they have to go on the road and then Patrick Rollins will go on the road and it'll be fine.

I mean, there goes into New England, though, because with the Patriots schedule, Hank, you guys will probably host a playoff game, host Mahomes, and then you have the chance to just really take the torch away from him. The torch that he took from Tom.

If we really want to take the torch away from him, we take it from him there and in his house.

You want that?

Yeah.

You're going to take it from him in his house?

Yeah.

I mean, the.

We.

The.

The.

They're one game back from, you know, the Broncos and the Chiefs or, sorry, in the Chargers. They still get to play the Broncos twice.

Chargers don't look good anymore. Or they don't look like they did at the start of the season because of injuries.

Yeah, the Chiefs played a really, really hard schedule to start. Start the season, and now it probably is going to get a little softer. Although I think they still have some tough games. But, yeah, they're going to go. They're going to. They're going to be in the SEC championship game. You can't fight it. Just let it go. Do you guys agree? Just let it go.

I think the Chiefs are right now, yes, extremely dangerous.

Yeah.

You're kidding yourself if you think they're not.

Anyone want to disagree?

They're getting Rashid Rice back.

Yeah.

Yeah, they're going to be good. They're going to be very good.

Zach, I forgot to ask you, like, how. How on like a level of 1 to 10, how much do you love Baker?

Oh, it's so much fun to watch. Every Sunday or not every Sunday. You know what I mean? Not every Sunday, but like, every. Every time they're on the field. It's so much fun to watch. And like, you see like, a move comes up with the hamstring is like, oh, goodness, this can't be good. And like, oh, just next man up. Like, we'll make this work. And like the defense was so much fun to watch today. Like held the one, one touchdown on the ground, two picks, the whole team. It just like, it's a great way to spend the weekend.

Yeah.

Watch the Bucks play football.

It's an enjoyable experience.

I hope I get to continue to watch them play football.

What, are you going to die or something?

No, it's never guaranteed. I just hope next week we can watch some more football and we're going to go to Detroit and they're going to do their best they can do to win another game.

Yeah.

Yep, it was do it.

Yeah.

One week at a time, Zach.

That's it.

One day at a time.

Yes, sir.

But one week as well.

How, how nervous do you get? Like, do you get for Bucs playoff games?

Playoff games are very, very nerve wracking. Just because like over here now, like the regular season is good. You need those reps to get in. But playoff games is like, oh shit, we might be able to do it.

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Okay. Playoff baseball. Mariners start with the AL Mariners. Incredible. Al. They're in the alcs. They win game one, which was. I thought they were not going to have any chance in game one because on Friday night they played a 15 inning game against Detroit Tigers, which was pure torture for those fan bases.

I felt so bad, especially for Mariners fans, because once you start to get to the 13th, 14th inning, you start to remember some other games that have happened there. You start to think about Houston. You start to think about Yordon Alvarez.

Yeah.

And it seemed like the, the vibes were not great in Seattle until they flipped the script. And this, this went goes as much to their stadium management crew as it does to the team on the field.

Yep.

Because T Mobile park was a dead zone. People were just living in fear. And then they did a second salmon race. Sir, A second salmon race has hit T Mobile Park.

Get the vibes up.

And Humpy the salmon, a mascot who never won the salmon run that they do there, his record was oh and 162. 2 Since they started doing the salmon run on opening day of 2024. Humpy was going up against King Silver. Sockeye never won. But on Friday night, they did a second salmon run. Humpy one vibe shift entirely. Next inning, Mariners win. Yeah, pretty incredible time at the ballpark.

And it was, it was an insane game. It was one of those games where it got so late you had forgotten that we had watched two insane pitching performances from Kirby and Scubal. If you're a Tigers fan, you're just sitting there like, we pulled Scubal again because Finnegan, who came in for him, gave up a run after school, got pulled in the sixth inning. He was in 99 pitches. He had 13 strikeouts. He is so dominant. But it was the Mariners like being resilient. They, you know, they found a way to, to make it happen. It was just every single, like there was guys on base. I feel like in a lot of the extra innings that just the tension was insane. I feel bad for the Tigers. I'm happy for Mariners fans. They, like, they're crying in games. They're. They're the crowd is stressed beyond belief. It was, it was quite a scene.

I saw some people shaming, shaming Mariners fans for crying. Crying when they won, stupid.

Yeah, well, no, it was because it wasn't. When they won. There was a guy who's crying when like in the sixth inning because it.

Was all too much for him.

No. Yeah, like they got a, they like took the lead or something or they had a big hit that was big crying. Listen, it was like the sixth inning.

We should be encouraging guys to all these emotional releases.

I agree. And then tonight. So they went, they played 15 innings on Friday night and then had to fly all the way to Toronto for game one. I was like, there's just no way this team is going to be able. Like you just throw this game away and try to get him game two. And then they take it to the Blue Jays and they win three one and they're up one nothing in the alcs. It's crazy.

Was it three hitter?

Yeah. And they use, they use like a lot of pitcher. I was actually getting to a point where it's like if this just keeps going like do you, you do you just run out of pitchers because you just. At some point you're going to run out of pitchers.

Some of the arms have to be gassed. Just from the 15 inning game.

Yeah. And no, I'm saying during the 15 inning game I was like, are they going to just run out of pitchers at some point? Because if it went to 25 innings.

Yeah. What do you do? I don't know.

What do you do?

I don't know that that's. The Ghost Runner was supposed to solve this.

Yeah.

They don't do in the playoffs, which I'm, I'm, I think that's actually a great rule change that baseball.

Oh, I love it.

It's like the Ghost Runner in the regular season. Awesome. Yeah, but don't bring that into the playoffs, dude.

Pitch clock awesome in the postseason.

Also. I, I love.

Been awesome.

I love, I love Senor Smoke. It's just such a cool nickname.

Dude. What a, what a moment for him too on his birthday.

Yeah.

Yeah. It was also funny because. Were you guys listening to the game at all? AJ Prinsinski was getting so frustrated because they just kept on throwing sliders.

Yeah.

He was getting so mad. He's like, this is where you throw a fastball up another slider. He also, he loves saying the word punchy for, for strikeouts. Yeah. Yeah. He's got 13 punches. But yeah, it was, it was a two hitter. Tonight for the 200 Mariners and Big Dumper went poo poo and the Mariners are up one nothing. Saturday night Cubs got eliminated. I went up there. It was. I'm. I do not regret going because it was a fun ride up. So I took 16 guys, we've got a part. I rented a party. But us mix of friends and then people from the office all trying to go up to Milwaukee, get a win, have an all time night, did not go that way. It was a soul sucking loss. That one of those losses that just you just watched. You sat there being like something's got to happen. Something's got to happen and nothing happened.

I imagine that that was extremely frustrating because it was such a close game too.

Yeah.

Where one small positive thing happens and you're like, yes, okay, it's about to happen now. And then nothing happens. So the game you get like you allow yourself to, to buy into the hope over and over and over and over again. Oh, with nothing happening the whole time.

We were just after every inning we're, we're just pumping ourselves up being like, just get a baserunner. Just get a baserunner. I will say I, I was nervous from the journey because the Cubs were. The way they were playing was just a little off. They weren't the sharp. They weren't as sharp as I was expecting them to be in Game 5. And it started in the first inning when PCA who's just, he's, listen, he's you know, young, excited to be in the playoffs, maybe a little spazzy at times, you know, trying to, trying to catch home runs. He did it again. He did it like 300ft over.

This one wasn't as bad as the. But it was still funny.

But it happened in the first inning and there was a moment where PCA basically there was a ball hit almost directly to Ian Hap and PCA called him off and took his ball. And you could see the hat being like, dude, what the. Like that was my ball. And then there was little things like that. Like Dansby Swanson had a throwing error that didn't cost us any runs, but he doesn't have errors. And like there was, you know, a base stolen on Kittridge when he was in and he didn't even flinch, he didn't even move. They just stole a base. I was like, little things. But the game was basically came down to in the sixth inning. The two on, nobody out. Kyle Tucker up hard of the lineup up. Kyle Tucker was traded for this moment. This was the exact moment that you Get a guy like Kyle Tucker. He had a 3:1 count and he gets a fastball right down the dick and he meekly fouled it off and then he struck out. And that was it. That was that from that moment. And then we went fly out, strikeout. And it was.

It like that was. It basically sucked all the energy out. And it sucks because I did not think the Cubs were going to be a. I didn't think the Cubs were good enough to win a World Series, especially with where their pitching had gotten to. I. Once you get into the dance, once you get to a Game 5, the NLDS, you're like, I just want to keep going on this ride. Like, I just want to keep playing more baseball. They like, I was proud of them for fighting back and not getting strong. Swept and Wrigley was awesome on Wednesday and Thursday, but. So it was disappointing. It's a weird, like, blend of, like, disappointing. But also the team probably over achieved a little bit because of how bad the pitching had gotten in terms of. They had like one and a half starters left, so. But yeah, it was. It was. It was a tough ride back. We sat in the. We sat in the parking lot for about an hour, hour and a half. Didn't move an inch. Just sitting there, 16 of us in the bus, just being like, that sucked. And it.

It did suck.

Yeah.

It was the type of loss that you're just like, sucks. You like, it just. It was soul sucking because it was three solo home runs. We had one solo home run and it's like nothing else.

Yeah. So I know that earlier in the season you were like, just resign Tucker now. Yeah, get it done. Now what. What are we feeling about that?

That I personally would resign him because it's not my money and Tom Ricketts makes more than enough money, by the way. Just an aside, don't you think that Tom Ricketts and Crane Kenny should match my donation to the Lost Boys?

I think that's the least they could do.

I mean, that would be nice, right? I'm at 5K. You got a lot of money.

Listen, you should. They should double.

They should double. So I don't care because it's not my money. There's no salary cap. They should definitely resign Kyle Tucker. There's a zero percent chance they resigned Kyle Tucker. Kyle Tucker gave a quote after the game that has. There's never been a guy who has been more gone than Kyle Tucker was gone in that moment. I don't know if you can pull it up because I don't Know why my Twitter's not working right now, but his post, they're not resigning him. It's zero percent chance. I don't even know if they're going to offer him. So. And I. That's the biggest. Biggest. That's the biggest, like, fear. Oh, yeah, there it is. Oh, no, that's not it. Yeah, you can find it. He basically was like, I. If I'm not here, I just want to wish these guys well. You don't wish someone well when you could potentially resign.

My guess is that they haven't had a conversation yet.

No, I. I think what has happened is I think the Cubs might have, like, tried to start a conversation and Kyle Tucker was like, no, I'm going to be a free agent. And. And they just know that there's just no way they're going to. The Cubs are cheap. They're not going to resign them. They're going to. They're going to try to do it the cheap way. And that's the frustrating part because I think the Cubs. Here it is. We'll see what happens. Don't know what the future is going to hold if not. It's been an honor playing with all these guys and wish everyone best of luck whether it's playing next year or not with them.

Yeah, that's not good.

That's the most goodbye you could possibly have.

And then you think about the fact that you tried. Traded three guys to get him.

Yeah.

For a season.

Which I.

So.

Which is fine if you keep them.

Well. So I don't know what the Cubs are going to do in the off season. I'm still not going to judge it. If they don't spend any money, then I'm going to be like, what the fuck was that? They did have a team, you know, if Justin Steele doesn't get hurt, if Kate Horton doesn't get hurt, like, they had a team that was competitive and could have. And the other thing I will say, in Kyle Tucker's defense, he did get injured and it completely changed his season. I think he had 20 home runs in the first half. He broke his. His finger sliding into a base in the middle of the summer. He had two home runs the rest of the year. And then he hurt his leg at the end of this in September. He was not the same guy. You could see it. He didn't have any pop in his bat. So people judging his second half, like, you have to put the context that he was hurt and he was playing hurt and he was like, it was one of those things. Where he didn't even say he was hurt. People didn't know he was hurt for like three weeks.

He just started sucking and everyone's like, oh shit, he might be hurt. And they're like, yeah, actually he is. Got a broken hand. I just. I don't know. The Cubs. The thing that will drive me nuts is the Cubs have a little momentum. They have a good young core. They have positive things. It was cool to have playoff baseball back at Wrigley. The crowd was electric. It was a fun season. Overall, all my fear is that Tom Ricketts will be like, oh, well, that was cool. We can basically just, you know, be like, hey, remember when we went back to the playoffs and not spend any money and be like, well, this team's good enough to win 88 games.

Yeah.

Maybe get in the wild card again.

But maybe they'll get better too. Maybe they'll. Maybe they'll learn better this offseason. So we won't make any changes. We'll go with the guys we got.

Right. So that, that would be my fear. And if they do that, I will be mad about the Kyle Tucker trade.

So it's a bummer.

Is that.

That it was. The game happened on a non show night. So we didn't get to see your initial reaction. Like we got Max's. Would. Would you say that your reaction approached Max's?

Not even close. Because the way the Cubs lost, I knew it was a loss from the six inning on. Do you know what I mean? Like, I had a lot of time to mentally prepare for the Cubs not winning that game. When, when. That moment when Kyle Tucker struck, struck out in the sixth inning, I was like, that's it. That was the moment. We just blew the moment. So it wasn't like a walk off home run kind of thing.

Yeah.

You know what I mean? Like I. We just had. We had no fight after that.

Yeah.

So it just. You process it and you're like, this is the reality. And you have like an hour basically to have the reality set in. And it's different than Max because the Cubs are on the young side and Max, his team is basically going to completely change. So that was the end of an ERA for Max. Max. I'm hoping this is the beginning of an ERA for the Cubs and hopefully this is what the Cubs were in 2015 and then they won the World Series in 2016. I'm not saying they're gonna win the World Series next year, but the year before the year kind of thing.

Have you thought about who you're targeting.

I would love Framber and Kyle Schwerber.

Schwarber would be great.

Schwarber would be awesome. Bring him home. Be awesome.

Max, did you follow through on your promise to not look at your phone?

Absolutely not.

There was something said that I actually. I defended Max on the bus. Someone said after the game, I would have rather lost, like, the Phillies.

And I was like, no, no, you don't. No, no.

And then I said, I would maybe rather have lost like the Tigers than just because what you do you watch the game?

The 15 inning game?

No, I know. Did you watch the Cubs game? Yeah, they, like, laid down. Yeah. The last. The last three innings were just bullshit. Like, they completely laid down and it was just like strike out after, like, bad at bat. And it just. It's when. When it's.

But you'd rather go through a 15.

I don't know. I would not fight your ass off.

I would not.

It's the same result.

No, I know.

15 innings and then you get so close and some of the extra innings and you don't get a run in.

It was just very demoralizing to watch the way the Cubs went out and they only gave. And it was like always. I think they all their. All their runs. The brewers runs came with two outs. Like, they. They just. It was just like, oh, we're out of the sitting. Oh, so a home run. Fuck, that happens. Shit. And just like scoring one run in the second inning and having nothing else is just. It sucked. But yeah, Tigers. Tigers was worse. I was trying to cope. Credit to Bruce Bruiser Are a really good playoff team. They get big hits when they need to. Mizorowski pitched well. They had a great plan. They started with Trevor McGill, their closer, because basically. Basically the Cubs had scored so many runs in the first inning. They're like, we. The first inning is now the ninth inning. And he was jacked up.

I don't hate that.

And it was. It was a smart play. Like, Pat Murphy's a hell of a manager. They managed the hell out of the game. They're a really good team. They won the Central. Like, what are you gonna do? Like, there's. They're. They were better than the Cubs and it sucks. I do think it was a little bit of. They. They flew the L flag after.

Yeah, no, that was.

Was.

That was sad.

So I have no problem with it because there's obviously a lot of anger because of the Craig Council thing.

Yeah.

I'll just say it. It's little brother energy.

I think that's for fans.

It's a little brother energy move.

I think fans should do that, right?

I. I'm not mad about it, but it is little brother energy. But, yeah, fans absolutely should.

No, I don't even think it's little brother if. If fans do it. If fans.

No, no, I agree.

That's all fair.

No. Fans should get their. Their shots.

Yeah.

There's a disparity between the two teams. The Cubs should have, like, Cubs should outspend everyone in the Central every single year. Ricketts doesn't. I mean, they do, but they don't. They could, like, make it way bigger. And the brewers are, you know, low salary, scrappy team, and they're really good. Like, they have just dogs who. Who get big hits and big moments.

Jackson, Cheerio. I know he wasn't great in this game, but Jackson, cheerio is a beast.

I mean, Andrew Vaughn was. Is. Was garbage. He's garbage, and he just has become the best hitter and a big, big time hitter. William Contreras is an awesome catcher, and he had big moments. Like, Sal Frelich might be the fastest guy to get out of the box in mlb. Although Sal, I know he's a stoolie because he came by the office. That was a big move, not scoring in the fourth inning when the ball, like, died in the infield. He could have easily scored. Yeah. Could have easily scored there. Yeah. That was him being a little bit of a. He.

He.

I could say that because we lost.

Sometimes you got to know when to disobey orders.

Yeah.

You got to blow through that.

But Sal Freich, dog like that just. They're just a fundamentally sound team that gets big hits in big moments. And, yeah, they're. They were the better team.

I can't believe that Tarang hit a home run.

Yeah.

He'd been ice cold.

That was another done. I think that was another two out one where it's just like we got out of the inning. So what are you looking at? The payrolls?

Yeah, this is just the payroll.

Yeah. The Brews are what bottom like brewers are. They are 14, 14th. Oh, so they're not bottom, but the Cubs are what?

Cubs are ninth.

Okay. But the Cubs should be way higher. Yeah. That's the thing.

Yeah.

It's crazy. It's. It's frustrating as all hell. Well, but, yeah, I'm just sad that there's not more games at Wrigley. They were fun. It was gonna be. I, like, had it all mapped out in my head and, yeah, 16 dudes going up to Milwaukee Getting drunk on a party bus, farting, saying, we.

We.

The night ended with us singing. We were just doing a sing along to Fleetwood Mac on the way home. So that's kind of where the vibes. Wait, which song we're doing Landslide.

Yeah. Okay.

And then Mikey Bets. What? Whenever. Like, there was instrumental part. Mikey Betts would. Would put us on to some porn stars that he was. He was jiving with recently.

That's good.

That's good vibes. Yeah. Yeah. So you'd be like, hey, you guys should check out this chick.

The problem with making that drive is back to it. There's too much stuff that you want to stop on the side of the road and check out the Cheese Castle.

Yeah.

The Dells.

Listen, it's nice the, the, the. The situation. I. I would do it again. I would do it again. I would absolutely do it again. But you'd hope you'd win because it's like a. You're basically putting all your chips into. Like, this is going to be the funnest night ever or this is going to be the worst night ever. And it was pretty close to the worst night ever. The Dells aren't, by the way, on the way. But that doesn't.

They're not.

No.

They're like kind of up.

I still see signs for them.

Yeah.

Yeah. And I think about going there.

Dells are awesome. Great.

Wolf Lodge, Cruising, Chubby.

Chubby's.

There's a lot of stuff.

Chubby's is a great strip club.

A lot of stuff. I want to. I want to stop by and check out.

And they really let you know the name.

Yeah.

Cruising Chubbies.

Yeah.

It is Cruising.

Yeah. You get exactly what you pay for there.

Yeah. I'm sorry that for the awls and for you guys that we. Memes was right. It was too bad it wasn't a show night.

Yeah.

Yeah.

The payroll thing was wrong, by the way. I was looking at the 2026 season.

Okay, so you.

So we're.

You guys are fifth and the brewers are 17th. Yeah. There's a disparity. That's credit to the Brewers. They're just a. Fundamentally like they do. They do more with less. And then the Cubs, they won the Central by a lot of games. They played better all season. Played better in this series. I was very happy that we did not get swept and that we pushed it to five. I thought we were going to win. That game sucks. So it goes. So it goes. All right. Should we do who's back of the week? Oh, rollback question. Rhobac.com promo code take 20% off your first purchase. Q zips, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts. Roback.com promo code take who are you guys picking or rooting for in the MLB playoffs? For the rest of the playoffs? Now we have four teams left.

I've got a future on the brewers that I put in in early off August.

They could absolutely beat the Dodgers.

I also like Yellich. I'm rooting for Yellich.

So if it's I Brewers, Mariners, I.

Can'T root for the brewers because they. They their rival and they took out the Cubs. I think I'm going big dumper. Yeah, I'm just going big dump or go poo poo.

I would be. I would be very happy to see the Mariners win the World Series over my future.

I mean, it would be. It would be cool if it were Brewers, Mariners, it's first time win winner.

Yeah. Out of those, I'd be happy for Seattle. Happy for the dumper.

Yeah.

I was born in la.

Yeah.

We'd probably get kind of switched to the pods, though.

Yeah.

Yeah, we'd probably get some, like, games where each year would show up. King Griffey Jr. Would probably show up.

Each year would show up in a Jersey.

Randy Johnson would probably show up with a camera in his hand, a rod.

Oh, dude. Do you know?

We'll be there.

A real, like, you want to feel old moment. I was watching the game on Friday night, and they. They're like, the last time the Mariners had a elimination game or something like that in the stadium, they're like, 30 years ago and looked like it was 100 years ago and it was Randy Johnson. And I was like, yeah, that's ancient history. But I remember it vividly.

You know what, though? I've noticed if you watch games, especially football games on YouTube from, like, 2010, it looks like they were filmed in, like, the 90s. Yeah, it's ridiculous. It's like, no. I remember watching these games on tv. It didn't look that bad on TV when I saw it.

Yeah, I saw a picture in a bar of Kaminsky park or whatever.

The.

The old one closed in 1990, and it was like the. The final day of. Of the park when it closed. 1990. It looked like it was 1944.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Like, it looked like old time. Like, I was like, is this when it opened? Yeah, this is when it closed. 1990.

You know, I just realized if the Mariners are in the World Series, they probably will have both Randy Johnson and King Griffey. Junior. As MLB media photographers.

Yeah.

Covering those games.

Good point, Booth. Who are you guys rooting for? Memes. You got your. Your hater. Your hater. Parlay your hater, you know, pins that you're putting in our little voodoo doll. It's been on fire.

Yeah.

It worked perfectly.

I. It isn't working on Hank, but everyone else it is.

Yeah. You need to start switching.

You.

You didn't have the Patriots on your radar yet and.

Yeah.

You got it.

You got it.

His time will come.

Oh. Oh, that sounds.

That was.

Put some thought that was a threat.

Like, you know exactly how he did this last time. Yeah.

With Mac Jones. They get. They get.

I see.

Get overhyped and then Drake may.

Might be better than Mac Jones.

But. Yeah, But.

But then. Yeah, but then.

But then they say. I don't. I don't get excited.

Okay.

Who are you guys rooting for?

I'm going Mariners.

Blue Jays.

Okay.

One of the relievers I went to high school with.

Oh, yeah.

Played. Played with him.

You mean the Toronto Blue Jays.

Correct.

Because if you're not saying Toronto.

Yeah.

Jj. Yeah.

What does oldie say?

Brendan Little.

Shout out.

Brendan Little.

Shout out. Brendan Little.

He gave Verona, but shot up.

Brendan Little.

But I was unnecessary there, Max.

Yeah, I know. Well, people are gonna. I was rooting. I'm rooting for him.

You little.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'll probably go a Mariners as well.

Okay. Oh, last thing from the brewers game. The 5050 raffle at the brewers game is old school tickets. And I've never felt worse for buying $400 worth of tickets because the woman just had to stand there for. For like, 10 minutes ripping up the tickets.

Yeah. It takes a while to get them there.

Yeah. For sure. It was. Yeah. I felt bad about that. Did not win, but also felt bad.

But at least, you know. What. Did you go multiple times?

No.

Yeah. So you know, pretty quickly if you wanted.

I was. Yeah. I was too locked in. I wasn't. I don't think I left. I left my seat, like, one time to take a piss, and I timed it so I didn't miss a single thing. It's like those elimination games. You just like. You can't leave.

No.

Yeah. Okay. Let's do who's Back of the Week. Let's wrap it up with who's Back of the Week. It's brought to you by our friends at Twisted Tea. Who's Back of the Week is sponsored by Twisted Tea. Twisted Tea is a refreshing, hard iced tea made with real Brewed tea and 5% alcohol. Twisted tea is a perfect alcohol beverage to keep the good times going all season long. Whether you're hanging out with a friend's house, catching a game at the stadium or at the bar, or just seeing where the day takes you, Twisted Tea is there to turn your day up a notch and make a good time a great time. Keep it twisted. Grab a tea. Game time. Stock up an ice cold twisted tea today, Hank. Oh, I actually will amend a little something. I will definitely be more. I'll re. I'll be remad when I see the NLCS game one start.

Yeah.

You know. You know how that happened.

Yeah. It could be us.

Yeah. Like, I was so tired last night. I started the day in champagne at 6am did big noon kick off, drove back to Chicago, drove up to Milwaukee, drove back to Chicago. I was like, I. I'm sad, but I'm also like, I just need to go to sleep. Soon as. As soon as I see the Brewers Stadium on Monday night and the first pitch and be like, fuck, yeah. The.

The.

God damn it.

The FOMO sets in.

Yeah. You're like, this was supposed to be the Cubs. Okay, Hank, who's back? Of the week?

Of the week is dudes.

Yeah.

Yeah. Dudes.

This was a. One of the most authentic, best, like, Internet videos I've seen in a long time. At the Oklahoma State game.

Yes.

It started as one dude in the bleachers. Oklahoma State was getting smoked.

Smoked.

No one was really in the stadium.

Oh. Actually, they might be the worst power four team.

Yes.

Because Wisconsin's close. But I. I feel better that it might be with Oklahoma State.

And then it started. There was one guy just in an empty bleacher area, shirtless, waving his shirt around. And then another guy came up, joined him. There's two guys shirtless, waving their shirts around. Then, like, two or three more guys showed up. Five guys shirtless, waving their shirts around. And then it just formed. And any guy that was in the stadium seemed like, came. Came up, went up in the area. And by the end, it was like a couple hundred dudes, tarps off, helicopter, waving around shirts. It was. It was flash mob one of, like, you know, you can't. You can't make these moments up. And it's like it was one of just the. The best dudes rocks moments of all time.

You know what? This would never happen at Taylor Swift concert. No, they. You won't do this, ladies.

This is so awesome.

You couldn't do that.

And they're so. They're dog.

Bet you won't do It.

And it was.

It was so many people by the end like, it.

It was so natural. Yeah. Yeah.

I. I watched this video like 20 times yesterday.

It was cool. This guy's having a good time.

Dude, rock.

Dude, dudes rock. Pft.

My. Who's back of the week is airport security. I finally did it, guys. Oh, I finally did it. Your boy is now TSA PreCheck certified.

Let's go.

After 10 years of doing this podcast.

And just hoping that you would get. There was a while you guys would get on my tsa, piggybacked on your.

On your TSA pre check. And I. I've had clear for a long time too, so clear usually is pretty good. But then you get the. The clear and the TSA pre check combo, and you can walk onto the airplane with a gun. They don't check anything that you have.

Probably shouldn't have said that.

Should have said that.

I disagree with what you're saying.

I also did make so the way that it happened, and I've made like six appointments in the last 10 years where I've said, yeah, okay, walk into.

A staples and do it.

Yeah, there's a lot of stuff you can do, Hank.

You know, everyone could do a lot of stuff.

I'm a busy man. Okay. I've got plans ablos, but I. I've. I've canceled a few of these appointments. Not shown up to some of the appointments. I think at one point we might have had it at the barstool sports office.

Yeah.

And I wasn't there for whatever that day was, but I was checking in for my flight to go to Baton Rouge this weekend. As I'm going through clear, the clear person's like, hey, do you want TSA pre check? It'll literally take you five minutes. And I was about two hours early for the flight. So I said, you know, this is actually the one scenario. This is what I need this exact scenario to happen to me. I'm at the airport checking in. All I have to do is like, type in my name a couple times. So I did it. And then now I can already feel, like a sense of superiority that's just one washed over me. And I. I see the rest of the world, the. The plebes out there who don't have TSA pre check. And now I realize the way that you guys must have been looking at me for the last ten years.

Horrible news.

You don't have to take your shoes off.

Well, before you tell me the horrible news, let me tell you what my thought was. After I got it, when I, when I immediately started to feel superior to everybody else. If a guy like me is getting it at this point, there's of a bunch bubble. Yeah, there's a bubble. And they're going to do like a TSA pre check plus or like a platinum level and then that's going to be the next one that everyone's going to get into.

So for some, I did this exact same thing like two weeks ago.

Yeah, feels good, right?

The exact same thing. I had clear didn't have pre check. They did the whole takes five minutes. Get pre check.

Yeah.

The line with clear, clear and pre check is significantly longer than the last line with just clear.

Is it?

I've done the past two weeks since I've gotten pre check. I wait significantly longer now and you can't. If you have pre check, they don't let you go to the just clear line.

They say you.

I was like, I tried to go in. They're like, no, you have pre check.

You have to go to this line. Oh no.

So they've, they've made us pay all this money.

Yes.

And do the check.

And now they're doing that. Like everyone who just has clear, they're trying to send them to the clear end pre check line. And it's worse.

I should have known they. Why would they try to make my life easier? Yeah, I'm checking like, sir, would you like pre check?

I did this exact same, I went through this exact same cycle two weeks ago. Felt awesome about it. I was like, this is great. I'm gonna, you know, fly. And then the past two weeks I've gone to the airport and it's still. You only have to wait like I don't know.

But you don't have to take your shoes off.

You don't have to take your shoes off in regular anymore either. Yeah, that's like a, that's like a whole new thing. And there's zero line for just a clear. There's like, I mean it's like a five, ten minute line for clear and pre check. But there was for sure it, it's zero line at the regular.

There was nobody in line.

Yeah.

Well, you could just not put in your clear check number when you book your flight.

But it's just like on. It's just like in my United States.

No, you just, there's a, you enter it.

But if they have you.

No.

Already in the system one.

No, you can do that. No, but I, I always, I book all of my stuff through the United app and it's just like.

Oh, that might be different. Yeah. But like, if you're booking on like kayak.

Yeah.

You don't, you just don't put in. Yeah.

And then I'm good.

Yeah.

Okay, well, I'll take, I'll take the pre check for a spin next.

So you're gonna book. Yeah, I was gonna say then you just be booking flights to not use.

Pre check, which I might do.

Well, there's a lot of airports that don't have clear. So that's what's good for pre check. Yeah, for the airports that don't have clear. That's why I wanted to get it. Because Philly doesn't have clear.

But yeah, immediately when I got it, I, I started making jokes like right away in front of the TSA agents and the clear agents. And I was just like, yeah, now if anyone need me to bring some cocaine on the next flight, I got you. I'm pre check. I'm pre qualified. I'm above the law. I can do whatever I want now. So I, I, I do feel bad now that I'm looking at from that side that I did not have it for so long and I made you guys fly with me. Not having pre check.

No, it's. Yeah.

As a bum. But I feel good now.

Yeah. That's awesome.

There's a bubble.

All right, my who's back of the week is coaches getting fired. James Franklin fired. Penn State lost again to Northwest. Ever since Hank became a Penn State fan, they have not won a game. And their coach of 10 plus years got fired. Yeah.

End of an era. Never saw him win a game since.

You guys made the video. They are 03.

Yep. Bosses.

The Phillies got booted out of the playoffs.

Yeah.

And the we don't have to eagle. The Birds are owing to two Penn State's own three.

That's.

And the Phillies are 0 and 1 in series.

We are.

That is nothing.

Pen. Penn State has nothing to do with the city of Philadelphia.

Thank you for coming.

What state, what state is Philadelphia?

God bless you.

Yep.

Nailed it.

I was surprised that it happened so fast.

You're welcome.

But they had to.

They had to.

Yeah, they had to.

Fan base had completely turned on. Like they lost.

The UCLA loss was, was as bad as bad gets. And then you lost Northwestern at home.

Yeah.

Andrew Allers out for the year. You had to because he's out for the year. Yeah. I didn't see that really tuned in. No, you, you had to because ir because they're gonna have to recruit and get like you can't fire your coach.

Where's he gonna get drafted?

I don't, I don't know. He should have left. He's gonna, he would have been a.

First round pick if you should have.

Left when Tyler Ward. Yeah, I think that part has been very clear. That was. Yeah, but he, you have to fire him now because like, I mean I, I hope Wisconsin, I, I like Luke Fickle's guy, but you gotta fire him soon.

What do you think about my idea? You guys just switched coaches. Wisconsin gets James Franklin.

I don't know.

Luke Fickle.

Not taking Luke. Yeah, but. Yeah, I was a little shocked. I was a little shocked just because he had, he had, he had survived so many times of like the rumors of him leaving or them like. But yeah, he just, it just unraveled so fast.

Yeah.

Three weeks.

It's one thing.

They showed a screenshot of him yucking it up with Nick Saban 15 days ago on game day when they'd played the white out.

They hadn't played anybody.

They had not played anybody.

And they just went for two in the whiteout out.

I know. Do you think he's thinking about that now?

Well, he should be.

They still would a law like.

No, no, I disagree. If they beat Oregon at home, they.

Don'T lose to UCLA. Northwestern to an 04 UCLA team.

No, no, they're. They're feeling good about themselves.

No. Yeah, I, I made the, the argument on pick them. I was like, I think that Oregon just beat Penn State now three times. The UCLA loss was Oregon beating him twice because it was. It's not taking anything away from ucla, but you basically had. Your entire program was building up to the whiteout with Oregon and you lost it in that way to get off the mat is almost impossible. Yeah, I couldn't.

I agree that if they win that game, they are, they're one of the best teams in the country right now.

Brutal.

Oh, man, you should have gone for two. Don't be a coward.

Yeah, but he's the done, Hank.

Who or Max, who do you want?

Signetti.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Poor Indiana. They're so good. But if they lose Signetti, that would be tragic.

Yeah, it would be.

They're so good.

But like he's, he's got to be the guy.

They went, they went to Oregon and they just Google them, kick the out of them.

I loved his interview that he did after the game where the lady was like, you've never won a game like this on the road. But she was talking about Indiana and then he Started just thinking about his personal accomplishments.

Yeah.

He's like, no, I've won a bunch of games on the road, big games in my past. If you look it up like that's Signet is a great coach. Don't get me wrong. Awesome coach. I don't think that he has like Indiana in his blood. I think that if, if I don't know. Penn State called. He's picking up the phone.

He's definitely picking up the phone. I don't know though. He's got pretty good right now. And the Penn State is that fan base is the best. They're going to want someone like to the best. All right, Zach finishes off my who's.

Back of the week is Anthony Davis. Yeah, NBA player Anthony Davis. A little bit backstory. When Kaisernat finishes his subathon on Twitch, he's the biggest streamer in the world. Right. He hogs a lot of viewership when he's currently streaming. So when he ends his subathon, many streamers go to subathoning because now the viewership has opened up. And one of my favorite pastimes this time of year is just in these subathons. They enter giveaways so I like or they do giveaways so I like to enter a bunch of giveaways to see if I can hit on them. And the streamer I was watching yesterday when I was trying to win some giveaways, I went over three. But then Anthony Davis came in. He dropped like 600 subs and then gave away $4,500 in chat at like one o' clock in the morning. All time move from Anthony Davis.

That is cool.

Just came in for the love of the game.

Love that. Did you get any?

I lost. I didn't win any of the giveaways.

No.

That would have been so electric.

Just like 1am he just for the love of the game. And you were in there 10 grand in the chat.

What was he doing?

He just said what's up? And then gifted like 600 subs for like 600 people to be ad free and then donated 4,500bucks.

Did you say you were Zach from pardon my take?

No, I just. I'm just in the chat trying to win giveaways.

Yeah.

What's your go to line if you're trying to winning?

Oh, you. You just sub up. You just like gift give 5 subs. Get in in the running. It's like a sweepstakes kind of.

What.

How often are you doing this when they.

When the pretty. Pretty regularly I try to hit on the giveaways.

Yeah.

It's like a little entry for a lot of maybe.

Yeah. Gifts. Yeah. Yeah.

Giveaways are fun.

Yeah. That is fun.

I know that Anthony Davis went live like that.

He. That's the thing. He wasn't live. He just like just happened to pop in the. I guess he just lurking on Twitch popped in and just donated.

Oh, that's.

Oh, so he was just like in the chat.

He's like another guy that was just in chat and just decided to bless the chat with more giveaways.

That's awesome.

That's very cool.

Shout out Anthony Davis.

Big shot Anthony Davis.

Yeah. Max, while you were taking a piss, I was saying that the, like, sadness that. And anger I felt on Saturday night is going to come back on Monday night when I see the Dodgers and Brewers playing. Do you agree? No. You're done. I'm.

I'm just gonna pretend like that that doesn't exist.

How are you feeling, Max, overall? Because Thursday was tough.

I was too harsh on the Eagles.

Yeah.

Say that.

What about the union?

The union got the union. Fans were mad, big mad. The union. I don't give a. About the union. I'll stay on business with that.

I love that.

Are you still fucking me?

Jets are pretty bad. That's the thing. Like that. That's where I went too far.

Yeah.

But I was in the mo. In the moment. I'm so angry. I'm not thinking rational.

Yeah. In the moment you were like, I think it. Sports sucks. Even though I just won a Super Bowl. Like winning a Super bowl isn't fun because I had this night. Do you still think that way?

No, it was just. I was so angry at that moment, I forgot what it. What happiness in sports was like. And now that I'm a couple days removed, it's like winning the super bowl, right?

Yeah, the. The removal of days, definitely.

Yeah.

You had to have it happen all at once. It was just all show night. On a show night.

Yeah.

I mean, the Eagles were super banged up on Thursday night. It was a bad game.

But did anyone here piss you off at Extra? We were. I feel like we were walking on eggshells.

I feel like everyone was pretty good.

Yeah.

I did listen back to when we were making the jokes about the snack closet and you were. You just like, you're prick so good.

Hank. I. I didn't look. I wasn't obviously looking at anything. And then I just saw Hank was just smiling ear to ear the whole time the entire.

Yeah.

He loved it that I was trying so Hard not to laugh. But I kept looking over at ha. Hank and Hank like every time you would get over the top, every time Max would go over the top and say something extremely depressing, Hank would just try like that laughing and then that. That makes me laugh that Hank's laughing at Max being like, I'd rather not be on earth. See? He's such a prick.

Prick.

I love him though.

Yeah.

Yeah. I love him.

Okay, Hank, I got a question for you.

Yes. Pst.

Who are you rooting for tomorrow night?

I am going to bet on the Bears.

Okay, good.

Yeah.

That's surprising to me.

Yeah.

Why? Well, he likes plus money plus the plus signs. Yeah.

When push comes to stuff, I like the plus signs. I also, I've said it time and time again and the Cubs like, it's another example. Like Chicago is fun when their teams are good. Like the Bears going on a run would be fun.

It would be an interesting game because it feels like at least for the Bears, I don't know where you're at. Pft. But like the Bears, if they can find a way to win this game, then I'll maybe start maybe thinking to start thinking about yoffs now.

That sounds like it's above a 6 out of 10.

No, because I said. You hear me? I said I'll split start maybe thinking about. Start thinking about eoffs still two steps away. And if they lose, it's going to be like, let's see what happens. It also depends on how I. I'm very nervous about our defense. Our defense is not good. I think Bill's going to run for a lot of yards. I just expect and hope that our offense off of bye week can come out firing.

I'm worried about what Ben Johnson has put into the playbook in a bye week. I feel like he's had a lot of time to think about this.

Yeah.

And our defense is not great. It's. It's played really good at times, but it's not a great defense. But I. I agree. I think that Bill and Jaden I think is going to run and I think Erz is going to have a big night too.

Let's get some score predictions.

I got 27, 16 commies.

Oh, that's kind of a asking.

It's a mini whomping.

Yeah, mini whomping for sure.

Seven points at the end.

End. What?

So it's 2020, 2016 and then we added it.

Yeah. Bears 31, Commanders 30. Wow.

It'd be fun.

Hail Mary.

Oh, hail Mary. Listen, I've actually part of. Part of therapy.

I've.

I've learned that the Hail Mary. Actually, if I could go back, I wouldn't change it because I. I was talking this through. Hear me out songs through. When I was on with Waddle and Sylvie Last week on ESPN 1000 sometimes, we were. We were saying the hypothetical of, like, what happens if the Bears win that game? They probably don't fall off a cliff. Like, they fell off a cliff because, remember the Cardinals game after. And then the Patriots. And then it was just like a loss after loss after loss, loss. They would maybe find a way to, like. I would say maybe like seven or eight wins. They ended with five. So I'm just saying, you know, the Commander's game would be six. Two more wins. Ibrahoos might not get fired. So, yeah. That Hail Mary got the Bears. Ben Johnson. I think how that's. It's the domino.

I think it's great that you're going to therapy. I think everybody should give therapy a chance. But I also think it's hilarious that you talk to your therapist about the Hail Mary.

No, I was. My therapist was watching.

Okay.

It's that part. Yeah.

That you were saying that I was like, can I go to therapy to talk about something?

Yeah, yeah, you can. You could. You can. No, it was Waddle and Sylvie. We were doing the hypothetical.

Would they just tell you not to watch sports?

Yeah.

Yeah, probably.

Yeah, they probably talk you.

They'd probably just be like, it doesn't matter. You can't control it. Blah, blah, blah. That's. Yeah. Blah, blah, blah, blah.

I would need my therapist. Be, like, an Eagles fan.

No, we could just be your therapist.

No, w. That's what WIP exists for.

Yeah.

It's just. Yeah.

Yeah. That's exactly what it is. A radio show that I do a hit on every week. And we literally had this discussion where it's like, Sylvie asked me. He's like, would you. Or Waddle asked me, would you trade? Would you. Would. If you go back in time, would you have the Hail Mary not happen? And I thought about it and I was like, actually, I don't. Knowing everything we know now, I don't think so. Because they probably would have done just enough to keep Iber flu.

Yeah.

And that would have sucked. Yeah.

It would have been a different season.

Right.

Right.

So thank you.

You're welcome.

Yeah, this feels good.

Miracles happen.

Yeah. We're gonna be live on a Hail Mary.

Would be awesome, though, if the game ended. Another Hail Mary.

Yeah.

What Memes is smiling.

Either way. Either way. It'd be an incredible moment.

Yeah.

Double Hail Mary.

What do you mean, double Hail Mary?

So it succeeds, then there's a flag, and then you do it again.

Why are we under these assumptions saying the Bears can't have a Hail Mary?

I'm just saying a double hair.

No, because he's.

My first question was trying to double.

Doink the Hail Mary when you said.

That you were going to win by one.

Oh, yeah. No. I don't know how we got to 31. 30 score predictions, sir.

Pointless.

I say numbers and then three. Oh, wow.

That counts. That counts.

Wow. I go 15.

Good job. We're going to be strong one on the part of my take YouTube from the studio, so tune in.

That was awesome.

Yeah.

I hope you win this one.

I hope you win this one. 33. I'm not going to. People tag me in that.

Tagging me in that fish. Winning for the first time.

What fish?

Humpy.

Humpy.

Yeah.

I missed it.

Oh, oh, oh.

Humpy one before mem. Yeah, that fish. I think the fish has autism. I do. I think that's like Humpy's thing.

Me too.

Tattoo bat. Do you know what tattoo you're going to get?

No, I haven't decided. I think this one's going to be like a more of a spur of the moment fun one.

Yeah.

Did you know they're wearing the black uniforms? Oh, it's the only game this season that the commanders are wearing the black uniforms, and it just happens to be the uniform forms they wore for the Hail Mary game last year.

Yeah, that seems.

Seems mean.

Yeah. But again, sick. I'm happy the Hail Mary happened. Yeah, it's good.

My reasoning. It's good.

It's.

It's called turned a negative into a positive.

I'll go.

I'm happy it happened, too. 22. 76.

I'll go. 52 memes. You're gonna get it. What was yours?

22.

Oh, 24.

Wait.

Yeah, we had.

We had double 22s there.

Oh.

Invalid.

Invalid.

All right, I'll take 24.

So, Hank, you gotta pick a new new number. Who. Who picked 22? Jack, Jack, Jack. You got to pick a new number.

You have to pick a new number.

Jack. 42.

Okay. Wow. This would be a way. What a way to. For memes to get it on. Invalid.

Disqualification.

94. 94. Sorry, memes. I don't think you're ever gonna get it.

Love you guys.

Congrats to Humpy.

Sam. Sa.