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Very low, but we still have a chance of-We have no chance. God bless football, everybody.

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So right now, the Eagles are up 26 to 10, but the commanders are driving And if they get a shutdown, a two-point conversion, an onsite kick recovery, then another shutdown, another two-point conversion, we can be facing some overtime here.

We're not going to do this.

Well, you never know.

Tick, tick, tick, tick,Tick, tick, tick, tick.

Can I tell you about something? Billy brought up nick Seriani, and I had to put on my glasses to see this because I'm getting old.

Okay.

I was sleeping 45 minutes ago. Billy said, This is a big game for your boy, nick Seriani. A, he's not my boy. B, his career record... Okay, he's my boy. His career record is 41 and 19. He's been to the playoff's three consecutive seasons and was a play away from winning the Super Bowl. The whole conversation is ludicrous.

That's all I'm This big bounceback game for him. He's seven and three commanders. We have a big episode today, by the way, if you're listening now. As you can tell, we're doing this Thursday night as this game is winding down. We have Chris Sims, we have Mike Golic, we have Studio God's Picks, we have a regular guy coming back to make their weekly Picks, Carl and Mojo and the crew. And also, spoiler alert, we're going to get to the bottom of the JFK assassination with Chris Sims. Yes. And Aliens. And Aliens, which I never thought would be a conversation we'd have, but that's coming up. And by the way- Only because we couldn't get Oliver Stone. By the way- You still with us? Yeah. What would happen to Oliver I was asking.

Don't find me. I was just asking about-No, fine, sir.

Oh, oh, oh. Touchdown. Here we go. We need a two-point conversion.Touchdown Washington.Zackert. 26:16. Yeah. By the way, God bless football's Presented by Smirnov. We do game days. Please drink responsibly. The Smirnov Company, New York, New York. This is fun, huh? Watching the end of the game together.

Yeah, that's great.

Isn't it?

Been doing this for 30 years, and I'm up on Thursday night with you two watching the game.

I mean, 7:3 versus 7:2, this was looking like it was going to be a great game, and then it turned into a total crap game. And now here at the end, it's turning out into maybe an okay game.

Come on, we're the same age.

Yeah. Yeah, of course.

I can't believe you're up this late. Mikey, this will be the third consecutive game that Jaden Daniels... Did he just throw that touch down pass?

Yeah, he did.

Okay, so it would have been his third consecutive. It was a garbage touch down. It doesn't count. Third consecutive game without a touch down. Last three games, he's thrown a lot. He hasn't been great, and they haven't been great. Last three games.

Yeah. No.

Has the lead caught up to him?

Oh, wow. Can you have a sophomore slump your rookie season?

You have the second half of your first season.

Here we go. This is the play of the game so far. Two-point conversion, 26 to 16. Uh-oh, he's scrambling. He's scrambling. Oh, they got him. Oh, he's running away. Oh, no one's open. Oh, that's a pass interference. Wow, they got away with it. When he pushed that curse out of bounds, that seems like this is going to wrap up the game. Ten points now.

Billy, I don't think you do play by play.

It airs tomorrow. We're fine.

This airs tomorrow.

I mean, it airs right now, whatever date is. It aird yesterday, I guess, if you're listening on a Saturday or two days ago on a Sunday. Oh, you know what? He may have caught that. No, that second foot didn't get down. Zack Gerts, huh? Still in the lead.

Still at it.

Still at it.Revenge game.It's.

Still a thing.

I think maybe two touch downs are going.

Yeah. At seven, nothing. Right.

Yeah. Anyway, so exciting week. You guys ready for what week is this? Week 11?

It is week 11. Big weekend. You have the Ravens and the stealers. You have the bills and the chiefs. It's going to be a fun weekend. It's a great weekend.

Yeah.

Good college games.

What are you most looking forward to on this episode, guys?

Oh, since talking about JFK, yeah.

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All right. Billy, can I ask you a question?

They're reviewing the play. We're still alive. Yes. See, guys, what's the question?

Sims.

Yeah.

Weird dude, huh?

Because he spent so much time doing his own research on JFK?

And Aliens. I'm just saying, okay? I'm asking you the question. I don't find him to be weird. I love him. He's a good friend of mine. Hold on a second. I think you find him to be a little bit cookey.

No, you're not going to do that to me, where you have declared him a weird guy, and now you're trying to pan that up onto me.

I just asked a question. I mean, that's all I did.

That's going to be a catch, by the way, that we're going to have an eight-point game, and they're going to have to kick an outside kick here.

By the way, nothing wrong with weird. Weird is cool. I love him to death. And if he's weird, he's weird. Big deal. I'm weird. Anyway, what, Mike?

I'd like to let the audience a little behind the curtain. So before Sims signed on, we were doing some stupid stuff. Oh, boy.

Yeah. What happened?

It's an eight-point game now. It's an eight-point game.

What's going to happen?

They just they've overturned the call.

What do you guys think is... I get what happened. What do you think is going to happen?

Well, now there's an outside kick, and if they get the ball back, it's an eight-point game. That's one score. They have 28 seconds to score another touch down, another two-point conversion.

I I don't like that you have to declare the outside kick.

Me neither. I mean, everybody knows it. I hate it. No, I know, but still, I mean, come on.

Declare it. Takes the element of surprise out of it once in a while.

You think nick Siriani would be a fun hang?

Yeah.

Really?

No.

Yeah. Not a chance. Why? He takes himself way too seriously.

He's way too seriously. He's the guy where you say a joke and he yells at you because it's factually incorrect.

You know what he does? He gets you and friends into a massive fight and walks away. He's that guy.

With other people, right? Not you guys.

He gets you guys in a fight with other people, and he's not involved in the fight, but he starts it, but he doesn't participate.

Yeah, probably.

That's what Yeah.

All right.

Here's a big-I love him, though.

Big onside kick.

Mikey, can you imagine having a four-year... Mikey, we're Jeff fans. 41 and 19 Super Bowl. Can you imagine?

No. Right.

Fire him.

Terrible kick.

Get rid of him.

Terrible kick.

That'll do it for that.

That'll probably wrap it up.

Should we get to the episode?

26 to 18. Hey, would you guys want Deion as your coach? Do we get to that in this episode? I think we do.

I would.

Yeah.

I get Shador, right?

Wait, am I getting Shador? Would you want him without Shador? Because I was seeing out there, hey, would Jerry Jones hire Sanders to be the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys, but they have Dak, right? So unless they trade Dak because they drafted Shador, which why would they do that anyways? Would you want Deion without Shador?

Would you, Mike?

I would rather Shador without Deion than Deion without Shador.

Well, you would always take the player over the coach, the quarterback, because it's unknown whether either of them would be good in the NFL. And I'll take the unknown quarterback over the unknown I'm with you on that. The Eagles are good. Yeah, the Eagles are really good. Seriani is a good coach. Jalen Hertz is an MVP candidate. What are you guys doing? He's now 42 and 19.

All right.

Well, that's it.

Who are we going to first here?

Let's go to Golik. The man that didn't let us into his house.

Find out Golic's dream job.

Oh, God. I forgot about that. That was a good episode.

Wait, Billy, I have a question for you.

Yeah.

Golic, weirdo.

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Mike, did you have Any issues with the college football rankings? They came out the second edition of the committee's rankings. Any issues?

I was surprised with the strength of schedule and strength of resume Georgia has that they dropped as much as they did. They dropped nine spots to number 12, which basically puts them out because as long as a group of five is below the 12 slot, they get the 12 slot and knock the 12 slot out. Georgia, while technically at the 12 slot, isn't really there because Boise State was 13, they would move to 12. I think they did a little bit of course correction on BIO. I know in the ESPN show, Greg McElroy had been talking about how BIO got disrespected the first week, and they did a course correct. And Reece Davis said he didn't think it was. It was because Georgia and Miami lost, so they just naturally fell below BIO. But BIO and Indiana both jumped Tennessee. Tennessee stayed at seven, and Indiana went from eight to five, and BIO went from nine to six. I do think it was a little bit of a correction for BIO to give them a little more love.

Do you think the committee, Mike, do you want to see Colorado get into the playoff? Do you think the committee wants to see Colorado get into the playoff?

Oh, no, they don't want to see him get into the playoff. I mean, this is just going to go to the, should conference champions be in the play or get automatic spots? Because outside, I think the Sun Belt, I think all the conferences took away divisions. So do you just go to who wins the regular season conference and don't have that extra game? Because quite honestly, you could have the extra game playing the conference, Championship game, lose it and be out of the playoffs. And somebody in the conference could have not made the Championship game, not had to play that extra game, and still be in the payoff. So there's going to be flaws to every system. And quite honestly, do you take the human human element out of it? Do you go back to the old BCS computer? You looked at the four playoff teams picked by the committee over the years. And if you put basically the computer, the old BCS computer in there, a lot of times it was the same four teams. Well, now it's 12. Now it's a little bit more. Now it's so four was subjective, 12 is subjective, but obviously with more teams.

Do you take the human element out of it and just put all the information in a computer and let it spit out the 12 teams.

Billy, did you hear what I heard? I mean, all of a sudden, goaling is into the BCS again.

Longing for the BCS is all I heard.

Listen, I had no problem. Now, the BCS was just two teams. Obviously, the committee was four teams.

Not our BCS. It was six last year, Mike.

No, believe me, I'm still waiting to pull my hammie whenever you do the show.

You're longing for our BCS? Remember, we flirter with the idea of adding Lucy to the committee, which could help you out because maybe it'll give us some more credibility. Maybe things will be somewhat under control.

Well, yeah. I mean, that would certainly class it up a bit. There's no doubt about that.

Mike, is a lot of this much to do about nothing because Georgia will play Tennessee, right? Indiana will play Ohio State. These things will sort themselves out.

And the committee knows that, Billy, right?

Why I look at where the rankings are, BIO going to six, I think, is important because if they were to lose in the Big 12 Championship game to Iowa State or probably Colorado, then while that Colorado, let's just say it's Colorado, would have an automatic bid. I think BIO is high enough to where they wouldn't drop out. They could still make the playoffs. So I think the Big 12 could possibly get two teams. And if Indiana were to lose Ohio State, BIO will move up another spot to at least number five. I think the Big 12 has a chance to get two teams, and the ACC is down to one, with Miami being the highest seed now at nine. They're going to have one team. It's going to be Miami and SMU or possibly Clemson, but probably Miami and SMU. Winner is going to be in, loser is going to be out, and they're going to have one representative.

How much of that do you think the committee factors in? Because you said that you would love to be part of the committee one day. Do you think that there are committee members who are actively thinking, Okay, let's use this one, but we could be setting this up for future ones? This is a good team, but if they slip, if we have them here, they'll fall out. But if we put them two spots higher, they'll stay in. So not that they're protecting teams or trying to set it up for failure potentially. But do you think some of that is going on?

I don't think there's anything wrong with positioning teams. No. And you hear different things out of the committee every week. It's supposed to be a week-to-week thing, which I get. But I mean, I think BIO deserves to be in a position to where if they were to lose... Now, again, if they got blown out, maybe you think differently, but if it was a close game, that they could still be in the top 12. If they were ranked 10, that wouldn't happen. If they were ranked Nine or eight, maybe that even wouldn't happen. But six or five, they have a good shot. I do think you have to have a little bit of foresight.

It's also a very different season, where the undefeated team isn't really a thing. Outside of Oregon, being undefeated. You'll have an Indiana and a BIO who are still undefeated, but everyone's lost, right? So there's nothing wrong with a one lost BIO being 12th in the country and getting in.

No, there's going to be a two lost team, maybe a couple of two lost teams that get in. Alabama sitting at 10, so if they don't move, they're going to be in. There could be a couple of two lost SEC teams in there. I mean, Texas A&M and Texas still have to play. As you mentioned, Georgia and Tennessee still have to play. Ohio State and Indiana have to play. Ohio State, at number two, think about Ohio State. So they had a one-point loss to Oregon. If they were to lose a close game to the committee's number 5, Indiana, now they're not playing in a conference championship game. So as long as they win the rest of their regular season games, the most they're going to have is two losses. They're going to be in the top 12, right? I mean, a close loss to Indiana, who is at five, is not going to make OSU fall out of the playoffs. It's just not going to happen. So there could actually be a benefit to not playing in a Conference Championship game, where basically you're done and you're locked in and don't have the threat of losing a conference championship game.

We talked about it last week a little bit, but I think as we're getting closer, it seems less likely that a three-loss team or multiple three-loss teams are going to make it in.

If it is, it's an SEC team for sure.

It's going to be Georgia if it is, right? Yeah.

Well, Georgia Georgia, no. Georgia loses to Tennessee, they're done. They're already, the committee already.

Right now, they're out. So if they lose, they're going to fall further.

So if they get a third loss, there's no shot that they're in the playoffs.

I do not think there will be a three-loss team in the playoffs.

Mike, you mentioned Miami before, and considering how they won all their games, nail biters at the end and miraculous comebacks, and then losing to Georgia Tech, are you surprised they only dropped four or five spots? What did they drop? Five spots?

Yeah, they dropped five spots. I am surprised a little bit because they've been living on the edge for weeks, and living on the edge against all right teams, not great teams, okay teams. They haven't needed Kam Ward to pull their butts out of the fire, and that just didn't happen against Georgia Tech. So I was surprised they fell. I mean, I get it. The committee is saying they were still undefeated before they lost. But if you look at some of losses or some of their wins, they were very, very close. But I think to Billy's point, they're in a position now to where if they lose the conference Championship game, they're going to be out. They're at nine. They're going to fall outside the top 12 for sure.

If the Canes lose another game, they're out of the playoffs is what you're saying. And you're right. Oh, absolutely. Right. Any game. It could be Syracuse final regular season, game of the year.

Exactly. Right.

There is-Including the conference championship.

There's not going to be a two-loss ACC team, I don't think, unless it's the automatic qualifier somehow, some way. That would be the only way.

Well, could they be a two-loss team that doesn't make the Conference Championship and makes it in because they're stronger than the conference champion?

Well, no. A conference champion has an automatic bid. If Miami gets a second loss before the conference championship game, they're at nine now. They get a second loss now. They're done. I mean, there's no way they'll be in the top 12.

Mike, will you be attending the Notre Dame Army game in a couple of weeks at Yankee Stadium?

I will not. I usually have to travel on that day for my Sunday game.

Because Mike, I was thinking, Notre Dame is going to get in, whether they win that game or not. Army has no chance of getting in if they lose that game. Perhaps you should talk to the folks over at Notre Dame and maybe figure out a way for our armed forces the people that protect this country, to possibly get into the playoff. What do you think?

Notre Dame is absolutely, positively not guaranteed a spot if they lose.

Oh, come on.

They're sitting at 8.

They're in, regardless.

They're sitting at 8. They can only be 9, 10, or 11 if a group of five is outside the top 12 because that 12 spot is a death spot. You get knocked out. I think if Notre Dame loses the army, I do not think they're making the playoffs.

I'm with where I feel like the committee is going to put... They would be the three-loss team that could get in. Notre Dame is getting in. No, no way. No way. Not a chance?

No, three-loss team will be an SEC team, if there is, but I don't think there will.

Well, they'd only have two if they lost to Army, right? The other game is getting in. Mike, come on, don't worry about this. Don't stress this situation.

If they lose the Army, I'm telling you they're not getting in.

They don't have a conference game to lose, so they'll be fine. They don't. That's true. They're fine. Don't worry.

But Mike, if you're going to lose and not make the play off, the team that you would want to lose to is the army, right?

If you go that route, yes. I would rather them lose to army than lose to Virginia or USA. Certainly not USA. If they were to drop a game, I would rather beat an army than anybody. Rather than not drop a game, believe me. But yes, it would beat an army.

He hates this conversation. He does.

He hates it. I don't understand why.

We put him in such a bad spot. He's going... Everyone knows who Mike is and how much Mike appreciates the military, and we're putting him in a terrible spot.

You guys love doing that.

You thrive on doing that.

Mike, how would you feel? Billy and I were discussing this on the show the other day. How would you feel if in the NFL, there was a selection committee, and they selected who the playoff teams were going to be?

Oh, I would hate it. I like it all decided on the field. I would hate the subjectivity of that. Really? No. No, no, no. Don't give me that unless I'm on the committee.

Do you just want to be on committees in general?

Is that where we're at? He loves the committee.

This college football committee seems to eat really well.

Yeah. It's all he cares about, though. You can buy food.

I'd rather have it given to me.

Where's the line for committee? You want to be the HOA committee? You want to be school board? Where's the line for you in terms of committee?

When I'm done with everything, I'd like to be the security guy that drives around in the truck with the development's name on the side of it, like.

What would you be doing?

You just drive around.

You're right. He's talking about like, fake security. It's not real. I know.

Like a little flash light. If you see something, like teens, like skateboards, what do you do? Like point of flash? Keep them moving over there.

No, it would take a lot for me to get out of my car. It's just about having a presence.

Right. Okay. Would you want one of the little, not a blue and red one, obviously, because you wouldn't want to be impersonating a cop, but maybe a yellow siren on the top. You just hit a thing like a.

Oh, absolutely. Moving along, kids. Moving along.

Plus it makes it official. What a strange dream.

Then have all the kids swear at me, Look at this, rent a cop.

What is keeping you from pursuing that dream?

I came high.

Yeah. Come on. What is keeping you from doing this? I mean, you as a Wackin Hut security guy would be great.

Oh, listen, because I'm doing a show every day with my son and calling games on the weekends. I mean, how much do you want to bog me down here? I'm in semi-retirement.

Twelve to four in the afternoon. What are we doing? Let's drive around. I got golfing.

Hopefully golfing. Okay.

I'm looking up for you now like a police auction, retired police cars. Maybe we can get you one. You could just drive around. Have it wrapped for you or something. Mike, do it.

I don't really want to fake it right now. I'd actually like to have a job as a development security person.Oh.

Come on.Oh, God. You're fine. You don't need to be paid whatever it is that they're paid. You're okay. Oh, I found one for you. I'm going to put in the chat.

Pay him in a spread.

Yeah, he just wants to lunch.

Pay him with food. That's it.

That would be part of the deal that I get three squares.

Mike, what is he- Long shift, three squares.

I was going to say a 4-hour shift.

He wants three squares.

It's crazy.

Yeah, it's unbelievable.

I found you a 2008 Dodge Charger Sedan, retired police car for $1,200, Mike.

Oh, wow. See, in $1,200 is fine because I only need it to drive in the neighborhood.

Yeah, I mean, air conditioning, maybe.

That's it. I mean, $1,200 is two stops, radio road, talking about diabetes. I mean, that's what it is, right?

Two stops. That's half a stop. Who are you kidding?

I was going to say-Wow, I'm sorry. You don't know who you're talking to.

Half a stop. So what are you saying? That's seven and a half minutes of a 15-minute interview with 94.7, the Bone in New Orleans? Yeah. Oh, God. Mike, of the NFL games, it's such a big NFL weekend. Which game are you most excited for? You have Steelers and Ravens. You have Bills and Chiefs. It's a great weekend in the NFL. Is there one that stands out for you?

I mean, those are the two. The Chiefs went in 15 in a row, but they're just pulling games out. It's amazing. Would it shock anybody if the Bills won this game? I don't know who had the Steelers at the top of the division going into the season. Yeah. When they had two quarterbacks, we say you have two quarterbacks, you have none, but they had no real tie to either Justin Fields or Russell Wilson. They could go with either one. And now Mike Tomlin looks like a genius, even though Justin Fields went four and two. He switches to Russell Wilson, and it's worked. The Ravens' offense is just incredible, but their back, the back end of the defense, just given up so many chunk plays. But the thing about it is, The Steelers, well, aren't a monster passing team. They're a better passing team with Russ than Justin Fields. Russ always has thrown the best deep ball. Mike Williams has been a recipient to that. George Pickens has been a recipient to that. Baltimore has shown propensity to give up the big play. So that's something Baltimore has got. I don't know how they're going to fix it, but they have to try and fix it.

Mike, what are the Colts doing with Anthony Richardson? I mean, it's ridiculous.

Listen, even though we don't think they're a playoff team, a couple of weeks ago, they were in the hunt for the AFC wild card. And quite honestly- They still are.

I mean, technically.

Yeah, if you look at it, they still are. Now, do we think they're a playoff team? Not really. But I think a couple of weeks ago, Shane Steiken owed it to the other 52 guys in the locker room to take a shot because Anthony Richardson was not playing well, and he wasn't alone. He wasn't alone, but he wasn't playing well, turning the ball over. See if that Joe Flacko magic like he had in Cleveland would come back. It didn't. Now you go back to Anthony Richardson, and you keep him in now. You don't play musical chairs at the quarterback position. Now you keep him in. Unless he is just completely lost out there, you let him play the string out.

Billy, what are you laughing at there? I see you're looking up something.

What are you laughing I found you a 2011 Ford Crown Victoria. It has the bumper on the front and everything. It's a nice-looking former police car, Mike.

Oh, the bumper on the front where I could tap something if I need it.

Yeah, if you had to. Okay. This is a good one.

Just the threat of tapping something, I think, is key.

It's black. A lemonade stand, perhaps. It has the white doors here. It plenty of room to put your own personalized decal on there. Goalic security or whatever you want it to be.

Mike, yeah, you're right. I mean, does the lemonade stand, do they have a permit?

That's a great question. You'll find out. You'll get to the bottom of that. I have no doubts.

Or is it a rogue lemonade stand? I'll get to the bottom of it.

I'd like to come up with some scenarios for next week, if we could, of if Mike were a security guard driving around and certain things happen in the neighborhood, how he would handle said things.

What I would get out of the car for.

Well, I imagine the lemonade stand, not to put out there that you may be able to be bought, but if someone hands you a cold cup of lemonade, I think maybe we look the other way.

You say, You know what? Just get your affairs in order. We'll be back tomorrow.

It depends on the transgression. I may have to leave there with a couple of cups and some snacks.

Yeah.

I love the idea of burglars using food to lure Mike out of the car. He starts to-like his Yogi Bear or something. Right. And they start robbing over their heads.

That's true. He just floats out of his car and his nose is smelling the Yogi Bear. He's floating.

Oh, man. Check him out, Gojo and Golik every day, 8:00 to 10:00 AM Eastern on the DraftKings Network and wherever you get your podcast. Do you have a game this weekend, Mike?

I do. I am doing the bangles at the Chargers in LA.

Chargers, sneaky good, Mike.

Yeah, chargers are. I mean, we thought it'd be a year or so for Jim to build the team he wants, but boy, that defense has come along quickly on the offense. Herbert, obviously still throwing the ball well, but not to the... Quentin Johnston is having himself a nice year. They're a surprise team. I do that Sunday game, and then I pick up a quick Thursday game. I do next Thursday, Pittsburgh at Cleveland.

Nice. You can skip that one.

What are we doing with that one? Okay, yeah, that's fine.

What Billy is saying is he's going to skip that one.

No, we actually have a watch party for that one. Mike, we thought it It was maybe a good one last Sunday, but like, sneaky good game. It was looking like it wasn't going to be at the beginning. It was looking like the Texas were going to blow them out. Then, sure enough.

23 to 7. Houston outscores Detroit in the first half, and then 19 Zip in the second half. Yeah, it was a tale of two games for sure.

All right, Mike, we know you have to run. Arizona. We loved it, by the way. Fantastic, beautiful spot. We left a gift in the mailbox. I hope you guys got it. I mean, thank you for letting us stay there.

I'm afraid to look at any gift that you send because I have no idea what it's going to do.

That's not nice.

I mean, yeah, come on.

It's either a live or white powder, so I don't know.

It depends on the white powder.

The white powder I left in the bathroom, Mike. All right, have a good weekend. It is time for this week's edition of Studio Gotts, presented by DraftKings Sportsbooks. Stay tuned because you'll hear more about DraftKings and all it has to offer throughout the show, DraftKings, the Crown is yours. College football, week 12, five and seven a week ago, 56, 51, and 2:00 on the season. Not terrible. Blaine Gabbert. Let's get to the games. Texas minus 13 and a half. They're taking on Arkansas. It's at Arkansas. Buy it down to 13. Texas wins, and they cover Texas by 17 points on the road. Colorado, minus 11. Take it on Utah. Colorado wins, and they cover Colorado by 21 points at home over Utah. Liberty, minus 14.5 at UMass. Umass, terrible. Liberty, pretty good. When I have a terrible team versus a pretty good team, I take the team that's pretty good. Liberty is minus 14.5. Buy it down to 14. Liberty wins the game. Liberty covers. They win by 21 points on the road. Jacksonville State, Billy's not going to be happy. Minus 14, take it on FIU. Buy it down to 13.5. I'm taking Jacksonville State to win by 17 points.

Georgia Southern, minus seven and a half, take it on Troy. Buy it down to seven. Georgia Southern wins. They cover Georgia Southern by 10 points. Illinois minus three, take it on Michigan State. Buy it down to two and a half. Illinois wins and covers. They win by 10 points at home. Oregon, take it on Wisconsin. Wisconsin, not Very good. Oregon might be the best team in the country. Buy it down to 13 and a half. I'm taking Oregon to win and cover. They win by 21 points. Big game this weekend. Tennessee, Georgia, SEC clash. Tennessee getting 10 points. Georgia should not be favored by 10 points over anyone at this point, but they are. I'm taking Tennessee. Georgia wins the game. Tennessee covers Georgia by a field goal. Memphis minus 14, on UAB, buy it down to 13.5. Memphis wins by 17 points. Bio minus two and a half. They're taking on Kansas. Kansas, they have the audacity to think they're going to stall in the Provo, Utah on a Saturday night and get a win. They're not. Bio will. They win, they cover BIO by 10 points at home. Nfl, Week 10, 4-3 a week ago, 45, 27-2 on the This is the season.

I am on a heater. I really am. Lions minus 13. Take it on the Jaguars. Lions win, they cover. Buy it down to 12.5. The Lions win by 21 points at home. Ravens minus three at the Stealers. I'm taking the Ravens here. It's two and a half. Buy it down to two and a half. I'm taking the Ravens to win and cover the Ravens by seven points on the road. Dolphins, they bounced back last week. Now they're home this week. They're taking on the Raiders. It's minus seven. I like the Dolphins. They are still in the mix. Buy it down to six and a half. The Dolphins win. They cover the game. The Dolphins buy 14 points at home over the Raiders. San Francisco getting healthy. Minus six and a half. Take it on Seattle. Buy it down to six. The Niners win, and they cover the Niners by 13 points at home. Broncos minus two and a half. They're taking on the Falcons. Broncos are sneaky good. I'm telling you, the Broncos win and they cover the Broncos by 10 points at home. And finally, the Chargers. Sunday night, take it on the Bengals.

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He's what it's supposed to look like for then Tom Cruise to come in and just undercut him.

You're making Sims out to be Iceman. I mean, that's what you're essentially... And now, Iceman eventually came around. He did. He came around, they became friends. But that's essentially what you're making Sims to be. And I agree with you guys. Iceman, he is the cocky guy on the beach, dog tags out, playing volleyball, high-fiving his teammates. That's who he is.

I don't think he'd have a problem with it, to be honest with you.

During the final mission. Sims is also one of the guys in the first group around Tom Cruise when he's singing to Kelly McGillis. Yes, he's there. He's the one that's going like, Oh, I've done this before. I know this move. Then it's time for the final mission, and Tom Cruise and Chris Sims are there getting their orders, and then all of a sudden, Mike Golic runs up with his flight suit on. They're like, What the hell are you doing here?

He's like, One last ride, and they all go together. Wait, so now you have Gholik and Tom Cruise. No, he's there with him. Okay. One last ride.

Yeah, one last ride. If we were in the world of Independence Day, I could see Golic as Randy Quaid saving us from the aliens, but also as Bill Polman, the President. He. Yeah.

He's a great speech.

Golic could be both quays, Randy and Dennis somehow.

You're right.

See, and I got Sims as the guy on the ground at Area 51, being training the pilots. He knew about the aliens. These are not the normal planes you guys are used to. I'm not training any pilots, but I am somewhere in Area 51 looking for the good that they've been hiding from everybody in society. I'm breaking the rules going, Oh, I don't have clearance here. Hold on. I got to get there and see what's going on. I want to see that stuff.

You think there's weed in Area 51? I mean, you want the aliens.

I want the aliens. I want all that stuff that they talk about, the alien ships, whatever, all the things that they've always said through the years that is covered up there. I mean, I've always been interested in that and the JFK assassination. There's two things that I have a little bit of a hobby with every now and then we'll read stuff on. Yeah, I would consider myself the most knowledgeable JFK J. Assassination person any of you know. I will say that. I have done my diligence watching, reading, doing all that. So yeah, I find that stuff cool. Maybe they have the secrets to who killed JFK there in Area 51.

Well, hold on a second. So what happened with JFK? Right.

Who Killed him.

Well, the United States government killed JFK, right? There's no doubt about that. Lee Harvey Oswell was in the CIA. To get into it, there's a lot. It's deep, right? Either way. But yeah, it was United States government with maybe in cajoots with some other things here and there. But either way, when you lead it back to that, no doubt about it. No question.

Multiple shooters or just one?

I mean, we'll see. I mean, oh, yeah. Lee Harvey Oswell pulled off the greatest shooting expedition that nobody else has ever done still to this day.

The magic bullet, Chris. Oh, I know, because bullets go through bodies, and then they take right turns, and then take left turns, and then go through somebody's body, and then take another left turn, and then go back left the other That's what all you have to say to people who believe that Lee Harvey-Ouswell killed JFK.

You have to go, Wait, so you're telling me you believe in a theory that a bullet went through someone, took a right turn, then took a left turn, went through somebody, took a left turn and then took another left turn and came out. That's all you're going to have to say. There's only this visual evidence of a guy's head being blown off and going this way. But yeah, no, he got shot from the back. Okay, sure.

What happened at the Grassy Nole?

Yeah, That's where the shot was. I mean, there was somebody there. But who was it? Well, I don't know. Somebody that was working for the CIA or somebody there.

How about the Mafia? Was the Mafia involved?

Mafia, I think, was helping of the covering up and some of that, but not there that day. They didn't take all the agents off the streets, right? They didn't make it to this parade route. Have you ever been to the place where he got shot? No. I mean, oh, you need to go see it. Really? First of all, it's the biggest coup d'État. I don't even know how to shoot a gun, but I'm just telling you, if I was there, I'd go, I might be able to hit him from here. It's all so close and so tight. You don't understand Billy. It literally, from that observatory building, he is right underneath them. It's less than 100 yards away. It's not far. The grassy knole is like, I could have thrown a football and hit him in the head from there. It's no joke. That's where there's a lot there. But we can dive into that more and more as you want.

No, I want to stay right here. You went to the grassy knole?

I've been there I've been there twice.

I've been there twice. Wow. Have you taken the follow-up notes on what you missed the first time or what?

I've stilled on the X exactly. There's an X on the street where it all happened, and it's crazy. There's the feel the power that's there and all that. But yeah, oh, come on. I mean, people coming out of the woodworks and taking cameras out of people's hands seconds after it happened. The changing of the autopsy. I mean, you all saw his head's blown off. I mean, the autopsy, his head's together and there's a little hole.

I have never checked out the autopsy.

I can't tell if he's an expert or if he watched Oliver Stone's JFK.

I mean, I just- No, he's an expert.

I've watched that. What did he get wrong?

What did Oliver Stone get wrong?

And his follow-up And he did a documentary that's really good. I can't remember. The best thing that I've read some books that have what they do. This is what got me started. In eighth grade, I had somebody come to my school and they did a presentation, and it was on the assassination, which I was already interested in. But they sued the US government. He said, Listen, they sue you. If you sue them, they'll send you the information, but they drowned you in the information. If the report's 200 pages, they send you a million books in a million pages that make you go through it, and you have to figure it out. And yes, the best books I've read have actual documentation, like Document 2449, A, B, C, whatever. It has all this. And if you read through it, it's crazy. It's crazy. It's just exhausting to read or decipher through, and most people don't want to do that.

I have an idea, Chris, and I feel like this is an idea that we pitch to Peacock, and I don't know how it is, right? But I feel like Peacock is the place for it. I'm volunteering. I think me and you go together, and it's Billy and Chris Sims, or Chris Sims and Billy, because you obviously have a bigger name. Chris Sims and Billy. I don't even have to be in there, right? And it's just football crime solvers.

So now it's just Chris Sims?

Yeah. Football history crime solvers. And we just go around and we try to solve history's crimes. And it's you on the grassy knoll, and it's you trying to see, Can I throw a football and hit JFK in that head from the grassy knoll? We use football to see if we can solve crimes.

Yeah, but Billy, you would be JFK in that scenario.

You love ideas where me and you travel together and do all that. I don't think there's much of a lifeline for that show. I would have to talk over. It's really one show. It's over.

You know I'd be doing a lot of the lead work. I'd be doing a lot of the lead work. You It just been showing up and guiding me around. I had an idea once, Chris, that I think that you would have liked, and it never got off the ground, and I never even pitched it because I thought that it was going to go nowhere. But it was when we were at ESPN and they were launching ESPN Plus and they were just looking for content. And I wanted to pitch a travel show where it was me and Mike Leach going around the country, and he was just teaching me American history. So he would take me to battle sites and just tell me all of these things that he knew off of the top of his head. One day, I'm I'm going to hook a fish that's going to do a travel show.

I'm glad you never pitched it.

One day, you tell me who wants to invest in that horrible idea.

This is where you pull the strings. I'm getting you the answers to the JFK thing that you so desire. Entire. Yeah, right.

All you have to know is with every time everybody says, oh, it's about to get released and they don't release those last 100 pages. That's all you got. Trump was talking about it. When Trump got elected on 2016, It was the thing I was most excited about. I was like, Oh, my gosh, we're going to finally find the JFK stuff because he promised it. But what happens every time is the CIA comes in and they go, You can't because we killed him, and we just can't tell everybody that, or we'll lose face in the government. That's all there is to know.

I want you to rethink your position on what Billy is proposing because he is willing to be JFK in this scenario. So you're on the grassy- No, I'm not. Wait, what? No, you're on the grassy- I love to throw a football on his head. Yeah, you get to That's exactly. Now we all want to throw footballs on his head.

We don't need to go to Dallas and put him in a parade route to do that. Can you curve it? Can you curve the football?

Can we talk one at a time?

It's a magic football theory.

Okay, hold on a second. How about this? Jesus. If this will seal the deal, I will ride on the back of a convertible and you can throw a football on my head in Dallas.

No, it's not going to seal the deal because the rest of the trip sounds not fun and it's a lot of work for nothing. All right? So I'm not doing it.

All right?

It's going to be great. Imagine it's like mythbusters, but with unsolved historical crimes in football.

Yes, mythbusters, football edition. Historical game tape. Exactly right. Let's go to the Sabruder, Phil.

I'm going to Oh, my God. The Zapruder Film Room, and we have you break down the film with X's and O's.

Naming rights.

I'm going to put some work in on this, Chris. I'll do the legwork. I'll follow up with you in a couple of weeks.

I'm just glad my fucking jersey's back up this week. Thanks a lot for the acknowledging me.

Now, here's the thing that Mikey and Stugatz may have not noticed or may not tell you is when we recorded earlier today for another part of the episode, that was not up. I actually went to make sure that that was up for you this week because I know it hurt you so much last week.

Well, why isn't it up all the time? That didn't make me feel any better. I don't understand. So you're just telling me you're just trying to use me and butter me up a little bit for 30 minutes every day? I thought it was there all the time.

It is there all the time, but I had taken it down last week. We were doing some cleaning. I moved it around so that we wouldn't damage it, and then I forgot to put it back up, but it's fine. I have a question for you regarding Area 51. I don't know how much research you've done into area 51.

I'm perfectly fine staying here the entire time. Go ahead, Billy.

Do you guys think... I don't know. Do you believe in aliens, first of all?

Yes.

Okay, so that's a good starting point.

Have you encountered one?

No, I haven't. But I'm playing the percentages. The universe is big. Gosh, damn, we got a lot of big things, and we a ton of videos of what we're seeing flying through our Earth right now, and you're going, That's not a normal airplane. I don't know what the fuck that is. So yeah, I'm a believer in it.

Do you think that they've made their way to Earth and they've interacted with humans, or we have an alien species or whatever at Area 51?

I don't think so. I mean, maybe they caught one that's dead. I mean, I could see that maybe or something like that. Are they roaming amongst us? No. Are they coming here right now going, why is this species trying to kill themselves and fuck up the place they live? Definitely. They're like, wait, this is the dumbest shit I've ever seen. Are they the dumbest people or dumbest beings in the universe? They're ruining their planet they live on, and they talk about God's green Earth all the time. What? I don't understand it.

Okay. Well, my question was more so, what drugs do you think aliens do? You think they have drugs on their planets that are different than drugs here on Earth?

No, they're high on life. Really? That's why they're not killing their own planets. They're out having a good time.

There's lots of dead planets It's out there, Chris.

That could have been killed by aliens. Probably humans did that, too. We just don't know yet. I'm going to bet. Anything bad, I'm going to blame it on humans. I'm guaranteeing they probably f up.

You think humans went and killed off other planets? Would you like to know?

The way it looks right now. I mean, every billionaire on Earth is trying to get off the planet again right now, looking to get a starship, spaceship cruiser and build a place somewhere else. It's all a little weird out there. You could do that, Sam.

Would you go live on another planet?

No, I would like not to.

It'd be boring as hell. There's nothing to do there. I prefer Earth, but I would prefer Earth not to be 80 in November in the Northeast.

That's a little weird.

Would you smoke weed with an alien?

Yeah, we got a lot of work to do.

Would you smoke weed with an alien?

Oh, yeah, I definitely would. Right. I mean, that would enhance the experience. I think I might be able to speak his language when I smoke weed with him a little bit. Really? Like, Oh, yeah, I get what he's saying. Oh, yeah, me too. Do you think- I don't think the dolphins aren't that good either, and Billy's in a different degree.

Do you think a team of aliens would beat the Chiefs?

Wow. I would think they'd have some special powers. They'd have some special... Their alien, Randy Moss, would just be too much for any of our people to handle.

You done?

So the Chiefs are playing the bills this week.

No, that was a question for Billy. Bft with Mike Floria, The Unbutton podcast, Football Night in America as well. Chris Sims is with us here. God God bless football. Let's start with Anthony Richardson. Some people would say Anthony Richardson is an alien. Seriously, physically, what are the folks and the cults doing, Sims? What are they doing?

All right, so here are some things. I've said a few things, too, on TV and tried to tell some people a little bit. I understand why they benched him. The play was all over the place. We talked about this, right? The tapping out of the game, that's odd, too. I've said even over the last week on my pod and to Florio a little bit, is just that there's more than just that. They benched him not only because of some of that stuff, but I don't think he's quite been the day-to-day professional they would like him to be. So this is a little bit of like, Hey, set an example. We want you to go back and start acting the right way here and being detailed and doing the things you need to do on a day-to-day, week-to-week basis to be the starting quarterback in the NFL. So there was a little bit of that is why he was also benched by the Indianapolis Colts. And of course, they were in the playoff race at 4-4 when they did it, so I get it. But now they're going, We lost two games. The offense hasn't looked all that great with Joe Flacko.

It certainly has. And the big picture is still we want Anthony Richardson to be the future of our organization. So I think within looking at that, they probably had a meeting Tuesday and went, Wait, we can't cut off our nose despite our face here, even though we know Anthony Richardson hasn't done some of the things we'd like him to do. He's not a bad guy. He likes the game. We like him. We believe in him. He'll clean up some of these things as far as detail on the day-to-day basis, and we got to get him out there to play. And we're four and six. And what are we really expecting to do if we get to the playoffs or anything anyways? Come on, they're not that team. So I think it is the right decision to go back with him. And I think if you look at it last two weeks, I'm not so sure. Hey, they're every bit as dangerous with him as a quarterback. Yeah, they might be a little more surgical with Flacko, but Anthony Riches' ability to make big plays, which he does every game with his right arm. It might be three or four, but it's wow.

And then his running, coupled with Jonathan Taylor, I think all of that, they just looked at it and said, Let's go back to what our future is and what we're looking at big picture in our organization.

Chris, I thought they never should have went away from Anthony Richardson.

I remember you saying that.

Yeah, I'm wondering what it does to the rest of the team, the rest of that locker room, when you have a coach who comes out and he says with all that bluster and he says, Hey, this guy, he's our quarterback, Flacko, for the remainder of the year. And then two weeks later, he changes his tune and it's back to Anthony Richardson. Does that impact the rest of the guys on the team?

I don't think it does. I think, one, they're going to look at it and go, Okay, I'm glad that they gave Anthony Richardson a little bit of a slap on the wrist for being late to meetings or being late to rehab or whatever else. Again, I don't think this is a guy that's disliked at all on their football team. It's a guy that I just think people in the locker room looked at to go, he could step it up a little bit as far as being the quarterback of our team doing all the little things that all quarterbacks do in the NFL. So I think that's where the team is going to look at that. They know he's the big picture. The coach, when you make a quarterback change like that, too, you got to make a definitive statement like that to a degree. And the locker room knows that, too. I mean, they can't say, Hey, we're going to go with Joe, and we'll just see how he plays this week. And if it's not good, we'll take his ass out, too. I mean, that doesn't do any good either. So sometimes, coach-speak gets coaches in trouble.

But I I think these guys know what's going on there, and they understand it. And they saw the way Joe Flacko played the last two weeks to go, Okay, wait, we're not that much better, or maybe we're worse with Flacko. Let's go with Anthony Richardson, and hopefully, he gets better at the things we've talked about. Sims, it's a question I didn't think I'd be asking you, but they asked Aaron Rodgers if he was coming back next year, and he says, Yeah, I think so.

My question is, do I want him back?

Is that something I should want him to come back? Yeah, but it has to be like, we almost need to get a contract written up and going like, No, you need to do this, this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and this, and then we'll let you back on the football team. Because if you're going to come back, you don't get to run the show anymore. We don't run your offense anymore. Your offense sucks. It's sucky-ducky. We've seen that. So, yeah, you can come back, but we're hiring an offensive coordinator that we think is best for our team, and They're not going to run any of the plays you like. They're going to run the plays we like. No more screen to Devante and then screen to Garrett and then screen to Breese Hall and then three-yard slant to Breese Hall and then three-yard slant to Garrett Wilson. That's got to change. That's where you don't want them, This is my big thing in my quarterback rankings. I took a lot of crap for saying he was the 14th best quarterback in football. The way it looks like I should have made him lower.

I don't know what you want to say. That was my thing. He can't play the way he thinks he can play. He thought he was going to dance around and do all this crap that he's been doing his whole career. He hasn't done that in three years, let alone coming off an Achilles injury. So, yeah, if he does come back, it's got to be like the sheriff comes into town and goes, Hey, no, no, no. Almost a little bit like Kubiak with Peyton Manning in the last year. Remember that? Yes. We know you have a million ways to throw 90 million screens and short passes to make your stats look good. But that ain't doing shit when it comes time for the playoffs. We're going to be tough. We're going to run the ball. You're not going to call your ninth screen check to West Walker out here. We're going to do that, and we're going to play that way. I feel like that's what it will have to be with Aaron Rodgers at this point if you want him back, Mikey A.

Chris, Brock Purdy has had a pretty good year. That team is starting to get healthy. I know you love that team. I know you love that coach. You're not going to be surprised if that team beats the Lions, NFC Championship game or makes it that far, I guess, is what I'm saying.

I wouldn't be shocked if they made it that far. If you had to ask me right now, I'd go, No, they're not going to make that far. They have a little bit of the disease of, it up right now. Whether it's miss field goals, letting up a big kick return, a big punt return. We're in a shootout with the Chiefs and we're about to score and we fumble on the four-yard line going in. They've had a lot of that this year. We're blowing out the Seattle Seahawks on a Thursday night. Oh, no. Now they ran a 105-yard kick return back for a tech jump. We're in a football game all of a sudden. They've just been a little sloppy, but their top-end quality play, Stugats, is worthy of that. When they play really good, yeah, I would not be shocked if they go to the NFC Championship. Mccafee changes their team. You saw their explosive. They're all going to get better running the ball with them. Last week was all past game, and Purdy, to your point, has been better this year than last year, in my opinion. Wow. As far as making plays happen that aren't necessarily there to be had all the time.

He's done more on his own this year, and that's what I've liked. Big throws, scramble, buy time, scramble, write whatever, all of that. That's where he's picked it up a notch, in my opinion.

Chris, you guys had a good Sunday night football game last week. This week, not a bad one in the bangles and the chargers, but four o'clock, we have a battle of big dogs. We have the Chiefs, and we have the Bills. What a weekend. I feel like this is a who's who's game for the AFC.

Well, yeah, you got Raven stealers in one, right? You got that one at 4:25. Hey, I think our game is damn good. I I do. The bangles, we know it's desperation time. The chargers, nobody's given them the credit they deserve. Their defense is awesome, but I don't think people really understand it or don't want to give it credit because they've had an easy schedule to this point to a degree. I think it's going to be a fun game on Sunday night, and I think this is the cool thing, and you've seen this a little bit. Joe Burrow is the best zone quarterback in football. The chargers love to play zone. Nobody scored more than 20 points against the chargers this year. I expect Joe Burrow, if the chargers play their zones and as awesome as they are, that still pick them apart. I think they'll go plus 20 points, but I still just don't trust that Bangles defense. That's the issue there. So I'm going to take the chargers, I think, in a close one, but I could see the upset happening. The Bills Chiefs game, it's going to be really damn good. I'm leaning Chiefs, and for these reasons, the Chiefs, they got a big offensive line.

Even though Pacheco is not there, you got to worry about their run. They'll stay patient and consistent with it. Normally in those type of situations, these are the teams that give the Bills problems on defense. The Bills are not real big on their front seven, so then they have to flood people in the box to slow that down. And then that leads it to favorable looks in the past game. The Bills aren't good at man-to-man. They play a lot of zone. And Andy Reid and Mahomes are great at spreading these zones out and finding Travis Kielsey wide open in the end zone, like the divisional playoff game last year. So I look at that. And then I also worry about Billy the injuries a little bit on the Bills' offense. Kean Coleman and Amari Cooper. If they're not playing, I don't think they're going to be able to move the ball consistently on the Chiefs. I'm going to take the Chiefs to win on the road in a close one, but I think it'll be a fun one for sure. Billy, I couldn't help but notice you threw the term big dog in there in that question.

Yeah, big dogs.

Were you trying to hint at something there?

No, I feel like... Chris, I'll come clean. I'll tell you. Last Sunday, we were in Arizona and we were doing a watch-along for the Jets and the Cardinals game. When he's done telling you this, you'll want to be on the grassy knoll throwing footballs in his face.

Go ahead.

No, that's not true.

No, that's you.

The guys will regularly I bragged to us about like, Oh, I have Josh Allen's number. Oh, I have Baker Mayfield's number. Oh, they start throwing these things around. So as we're doing the show, we're like, just text Josh like, Hey, or it wasn't Josh. It was text Baker like, hey. It was Baker at first. He was like, Hey, just text Baker like, Hey, hang in there, Big Dog. It was a good game. It was a good loss for Baker last week. Keep your head up, Big Dog. And he refused to do so. And then we said, Okay, then text Josh. You're so good friends with these people. Text Josh. Be like, Hey, good game, Big Dog. Big win there for you. Refused to do it. So then Charles Barkley showed up and we're like, Hey, Chuck, how's it going, Big Dog? Because he maintains this thing that no one likes being called Big Dog. And I said, That's absolutely not the case. People like it. If they're Big Dogs, they like being called Big Dog.

Well, yeah, I don't know. There's nothing bad about it. I don't think there's anything bad. That's what I'd say.

That's all that happens.

Well, now you know why you got the text.

You seem intent on the word Big Dog and reaching out to these guys. He can't just say, Hey, great game. He has to say Big Dog. It's weird. Yeah, but after all that- Thank you, Sims. After all that, the person he was willing to call Big Dog was you. He was going to text you.

No.

Hey, Sims, have a good show today, Big Dog.

Yeah, Billy was like, That doesn't count. You and Sims are No, Billy said that text. Oh, you texted him.

But stew said he was going to text you. Did you write Big Dog on there? I don't remember. Did you write Have a Good Show, Big Dog?

It was totally insincere. You got one for Billy and said Big Dog.

I did. I got one which I thought was so random. Was it nice? Them, but now it's expanding. Now it's making sense. It was insincere. It was 5:30 on a Sunday afternoon. It was like, Good luck, Big Dog, with the show.

Good luck. I was like, Big Dog.

I was like, Who the fuck are you and what'd you do with Billy? Who are you?

I'm just supportive. I'm trying to have us to have this good relationship headed into our travel show together. Big dog.

Big dog. Are the Cardinals for real?

The Cardinals are for real as far as a playoff team, yes. I don't think they have some of the high-end players you need to make a run in the playoffs. But the way Kyler Murray is playing, they're creative in the run game and the pass game. You see, they know how to use this Trey McBride and Marvin Harrison Jr. And do all that. James Connor is damn good. The defense is the same thing. A lot of good, there's just not enough great. But I think, yes, they're good enough to be in the playoffs. That's for sure, Stugatz. But this is why I was big on, don't make a trade before the trade deadline or do that. It's so set up for them to really take their team to another level this offseason with some of the draft picks they have, some of the money they're going to have. And I think they're going to be able to add to their football team to where next year, when we're doing a show in May and you go, Hey, who's a team that you think is going to be really good and surprise people this year? I'm going to go, I think it's the Arizona Cardinals.

Look what they did in free agency in the draft. They already had a good nucleus. Watch out for them this year. They're close. They're one more offseason away from me going, Woo, watch out for the Cardinals and what they got on both sides of the ball.

Chris, if we assume the Jets job will be open, it is open. The Jacksonville job is going to be open. The bears, cowboys. Which of those jobs, if you were a potential head which would you most want?

The bears would be up there. Yeah, they would have to be. I'd probably want the bears.

Yeah?

I just think there's a lot of young talent on the football. The Jets are just so many things. Right. And it's the Aaron Rodgers thing and all of that where it's just like, I don't know. I don't. And you got a few players who are due to make some big contracts and some older players you're going to have to make some decisions on and whether you want to keep them going forward all that. Yeah, I look at the bears as having the best nucleus with that quarterback, DJ Moore, Dunzé, Cole Kameh. They need some improvements on the O-line, but there's some pieces there on the defense, too. That would be the team I would look at. Too many unknowns with some of the other stuff. Dallas has got a lot of work to do. I think that's the one. I think that would be the one, Chicago, for sure.

Do you think the guy that most teams are going to want is Ben Johnson? Is that the guy or is it Belichick?

No, I think it's Ben Johnson. I think it's going to be, what do I want to say? Taster's choice with Belichick. I could see a lot of teams just go, no way do we want to deal with that, blah, blah, blah. We're not doing that. And then he might just have one or two teams that are like, no, we want you. I go to, this is to me. I know Bill Belichick's out there. I get it. I'd want Mike Vrabel. Mike Vrabel would be the guy that I would want over everybody. That'd be number one on my list. I had a Ben Johnson. Ben Johnson is right there. I think he's the next guy you look at. He's the guy that makes the most sense to me when I think of Chicago and go, Oh, what do they want to do? And help Caleb Williams out and all that? That makes a lot of sense there. I feel like I'm missing some people. Like I've told you, I think in the past, Todd Monken, I think, deserves some talk in this conversation. The defensive coordinator for the Chargers, Jesse Minner is going to be involved in this conversation a little bit.

Those are some of the names that really pop out to me right off the top of my head.

The Chargers are sneaky good, huh?

The Chargers are sneaky good. The thing that's holding them back is the fact that people haven't got to see them on the national stage a whole lot. And like I said, the schedule they've had, I don't think people have bought into, Oh, wow, they're actually good. People are just going, Oh, they're beating the teams they're supposed to beat. I get that. No, they're good. The defense is really damn good. The Deon Henley, their middle linebacker, he is phenomenal. He's one of the better linebackers in football. Their D-line has got everything. Their secondary is smart. They got really good safeties. They're banged up at corner, so they're playing some young guys right now. But then, yeah, the offensive side of the ball. They remind me of my dad's late '80s New York Giants. It's like you saw last week, it's Justin Herbert, 15 for 18. And four or five of those throws are big throws that change the football game. That's how my dad and them used to play. That's the way it was. Defense, run the ball. Oh, wait, you're cheating on the run? Oh, Big Phil is going to throw a 30-yard throw to Mark Ingram or Steven Baker or Mark Bavaro right here and change the field position.

That's the way it goes, and it's a tough formula to defend. They're playing damn good football. I got a little crush on the Chargers, Stugatz.

So do I. They're a good team. They're well-coached. We'll get you out of here in just a second. Pft with Mike Florio every day on Peacock, the Unbutton podcast, Football Night in America. Ravens, Steelers. Lamar struggled with Pittsburgh. The Ravens have struggled against Mike Tomlin. What are you thinking in that game? Such a big game, such a great game.

Oh, it is. It's going to be an awesome game. I am pumped for it. The Steelers know how to defend Lamar, even though Lamar hasn't played them all that much. Think about how long he's been there. He's one and three. He's only played four times. He's always hurt. This is a different Baltimore team than ever before, though. This is the best offense Baltimore has ever had, ever. I know Lamar His first full year as a starter when he won the MVP, they were really good. Don't get me wrong here, but that was more of a system taking a league by storm and people were like, Wait, I don't know how to defend him and the run and all this they're doing, right? This is like, they can do whatever they want. They can run it, he can run it, and he can absolutely dice you up in the pass game. Now, I do think Pittsburgh will be able to contain him maybe a little bit from some of the scrambling and all that, but there's just too many weapons I think he has right now. And I I just don't know, do I think Pittsburgh can keep pace?

This Baltimore defense stinks. It stinks. But I don't know if I think Pittsburgh can just outscore Baltimore that way. I got to see a little more from that Pittsburgh offense. It's been better. I like I don't know what Russell Wilson is doing, all that. But I took the Ravens 28, 24, and I think it'll be a fun game. I just feel like that Ravens offense is pretty damn special, and I got to see the Steelers win those one of those games with their offense first before I buy into it. I'm not betting money on that one, but I'm taking the Ravens.

Me and Billy were trying to argue earlier this week with Levatore that the Dolphins are back in the mix. Are the Dolphins back in the mix?

They're in the mix. They are. They're going to have to go on a run here, and it's going to be tough. I think that seventh seed in the AFC playoffs, though, is still there and up for grabs. I think that will be and continue to be here throughout the year. So We'll see where it goes in that department. But let me see. I just want to do this, pull up their schedule. It's nonetheless, just a little feel for it.

It's pretty easy. You can put them at five and six right now, Sims.

No, but they have the Texans, they have the packers, they have the 49ers.

The Raiders and Patriots will know how to defend them. They will, and it won't look as pretty as you think. But I do think, like you're saying, Stugats, they'll win the next two. But then after that, I don't know if I'm ready to I don't say they can make the playoffs, but I think they'll make a strong push. I think for that seventh spot, my point is that nine and eight, I think, is eventually going to get you in there. It might be them and the Broncos and the Bangles and the Colts all jumbled up for that last spot to make it happen. So they got a shot. They're alive. Their defense is better than I gave it credit for. The offense, we'll see. Again, like I said, I still got questions on whether I think this can really work with this current formula and how they're playing right now.

All right, last one for me. I'm sorry. Go ahead, Billy.

Go ahead, Billy.

I was going to say it seems, Chris, like teams have figured out if you just don't let Tyreek get behind you, you can let John Smith get 40, 50, 60 yards a game, and you'll be perfectly fine. It doesn't matter.

That's it. I think even to couple that or to even accentuate what you're saying there, don't let them get behind you. Really, the big thing is that I think see teams because we're not... Tula throwing 60-yard bombs is not necessarily on everybody's mind when you play them. I think the biggest thing is you see them taking away him catching balls like 12 to 15 yards down the middle of the field on the run. If you think of all the crazy Dolphin plays, it's him or Waddle, like 15 yards over the middle on the run, great row, accurate, and then they carve through the defense. We haven't seen that in a while. I think that's where most teams are going. We take away that, we'll deal with some of the other stuff in a run here and that. But they're a different offense that way. I think you're spot on there, Billy.

Chris, if the Lions played the Chiefs right now, who would you take?

The Lions.

Really?

I would take the Lions. It wouldn't be easy, but I would. I think the Lions are arguably the toughest matchup in football for the Chiefs. I think that'd be the one team in the Super Bowl. I think if they play them, I go, Oh, I don't know. I just think there's a little too much offense and too many answers everywhere. Even Even though their defense isn't great, they're game plan specific, and the Chiefs just don't have a lot of answers on the offensive side of the ball. Yeah, I think I'd probably take the lines in that one.

Chris, we were watching the game last week, the Lynes and the Texans that you guys covered. One of the things that I obviously don't know as much as you, but one of the things that I saw was like, Oh, this is different. It sounds stupid and simple. Okay, so if the Lynes are going to kick field goals instead of going for it fourth down and just take the points, they could run through the playoffs and not shoot themselves in the foot, being overly aggressive, Dan Campbell, and running themselves out of games.

They don't need to be that aggressive, right? They don't. Of course, I was not a fan of what they did in the NFC Championship game. I think they found, to me, the right touch this year as far as when to be aggressive and when to go, No, let's just kick the field goal or punt here. Let's not do that. I'm always in favor, Billy, of when you're the better team or you're the best team, just keep playing football. Don't make it all about one play. The cream will rise to the top. The more we play, our team's better. The more plays we have against each other, the better team will show out and win that football game. So, yeah, I'm not into these. A lot of these teams with these, I'm going to win the game on this play. And I'm going to go, You can't win the game on this play, but you can lose the game on this play, you fucking idiots, with your aggressive, I got to be aggressive. The analytics said, be aggressive, right? And that's what they did last year. That's what they did. They weren't going to win the game if they got the first down.

But you can talk to the 49ers and they'll all go, We can't believe they went for it there. Thank God they did it. It gave us a second wind in that game and gave us a chance. And I don't think he'll do it that way this year. They're phenomenal. They got it all. And even like, come on, what they did in that game the other night, got unlucky, tipped past interceptions, right? Houston still got issues, as you can see. But to be down like that, they don't panic, and they just go, Hey, Hey, we got a whole second half to play, and if we just play good football, we're better than them. We don't need to take any chances. You saw that, and they came right back and beat them.

I've never been more wrong about thinking whether or not a head coach would be great or not. I didn't think Dan Campbell would be this good, Chris. Did you?

No, not this good. I knew he had some traits to be an incredible leader and a communicator. I'd heard enough about him through the years, of course, because I hear about anybody in the Parcells coaching tree, and I always know the dirt on those guys. Yeah, he was part of the Parcells and Sean Payton group there and all that. I had always heard about what a football guy is, what a great talker and communicator and leader he is. He's not just some dumb, big, tight-end meathead who puts a dip in his mouth. He's smart. He knows what buttons to push. He's been absolutely phenomenal. He's the offensive version of Mike Vrabel. That's what I look at him as. He played offense. It's tough, mother, for sure, you don't want to fuck with, but he's got a little personality. Vrabel is like, I'm a defensive guy. My personality is not the same. My personality is I look at you and you get scared of the list. That's what it is. But it's still the same way, hands-on, great motivator, know how to talk to their guys. Very similar that way.

I love coaches like that. The players feel like they're playing in the game with them.

Exactly right. That's what it is. You got to have the right touch. You got to have the right touch because we've seen some of these ex-player guys, whatever not work. I think sometimes maybe they're too player friendly or it's too much about just talk and motivation all the time. There's got to be a little bit of both there. I think Dan Campbell and Vrabel really got that.

All right, PFT with Mike Florio Every Day on Peacock, The Unbutton podcast as well. Football Night in America. They have the Bengals and the chargers coming up this Sunday night. This was a pleasure. I mean, Aliens, JFK, Conspiracies. What an episode. We hit it all. We hit it all. I'm very happy about it.

Yeah, you just let me know. Anytime you want to dive into more, some JFK stuff, let me know. But yeah, it's crazy, man. I got so many great stories for you that are documented. It's phenomenal.

It really is. You also have a lot of work before we see you next week. You have two pitches to make on behalf of you and Billy for a couple of shows.

I'm working on that. I'm going to get back to Chris when we're good. Don't worry. I'll handle that, Chris. I got you.

You better be paying me a lot because that sounds a lot of wasting my time.

No, Peacock will pay you. Don't worry. Not me.

Okay, good. All right. We'll put it on their tab.

Did I hear you guys analyzing and discussing football? Do we still do that on this show?

You know what? Our apologies. Yeah. Sorry about that. I don't know what got into us. That's what happens when you guys aren't around, when you're not around. Exactly.

It gets very serious around here.

Is that a bad thing? Because, I mean, technically, it's called God bless football. But if either funk or higher on the show, obviously, we're not going We're not going to be discussing football at all. We're just going to be insulting people the whole time.

Yeah, that's the way we like it. Don't change a thing.

It's funny you should mention him because I'm getting a little concerned because KFunk is always the first one to arrive, and he's always the one rounding up the troops, and he's nowhere to be found today, which we did have something planned for him that fell through. But regardless, I legitimately do not know where KFunk is. I texted him, Where are you? And he hasn't responded. So I don't know what's going on with him today. I'm a little bit concerned. And here's the worst part about it. He actually had a winning week last week, the first time he's had one in about a month and a half, and he's not here to even celebrate it.

Well, I was wondering about that, too, because I figured he would have came on to talk trash or celebrate. I did I didn't give him a gift. I picked him winners. Now, I didn't give him a 4-0 or a 4-1 or a 5-0 week. I made it the smallest margin of a winning week as I possibly could.

Moja, just so we're clear, you went into it trying to give him a 3-2 week so he could feel good about it, right?

Correct. That's exactly what was happening. I was actually starting to get concerned about his mental well-being. I think that's something we were going to have to discuss on this show, but I figured that it was time to give him a win, to make him a winner because obviously he's incapable of doing that himself. Right.

That was very nice of you. He's a great guy.

What a great guy. I'm a great guy.

I feel like you giving him three and two is like the Jets win against the Texans, and I can't wait for him to get his ass kicked next week like the Jets did with the Cardinals. It's all just, Here's a little bit of hope. Here's a little bit of hope. Let's just go ahead and snatch it away.

That pick really blew up in your face, though, Mojo.

Yeah, it did.

Remember, you told me that me and my brother could kiss your ass, and you were getting revenge for me taking your 24/7 Championship when we were in WWE. Yeah, that really blew up.

Well, that goes back to my earlier point, Rollis. I mean, that was actually a double win for me because it allowed me to give Funk a win, which he desperately needed, but it also gave me the opportunity to bury you. So that was like a double whammy for me.

Well, I appreciate it. I mean, it worked out for me.

Closing the gap, buddy.

Billy, what are the records right now for the season?

So Mojo is still in first place with a 607 win percentage. He went down a little bit. He had a two and three week, but he's still leading the pack here.

How about that? First place, and he gave KFunk a week. I mean, amazing. He did.

What a guy.

Next amongst the regulars is Carl, who's 26, 19 to one, had a two and three week also, but still has a 576 win percentage. Uh-oh. Now, shooting up the standings is Mike Rauhlas, who now is one game under 500 at 17 and 18.

Wow.

He's past Share Bear. Share Bear is 21, 28 and 2 with a 4,31 win percentage. And then KFunk last week, after his big three and two week, jumped over Gordie. So KFunk is 18, 33 and two, and Gordie is 18, 31 and two at the moment.

Right. Well, poor Gordie.

He's a baseball guy.

Yeah. Gordie?

Yeah. He's the equivalent of when we had Java on the show for so long. I mean, you can't rip a baseball guy for not making good football.

Oh, no. I'm not ripping him. I love Gordie. And Gordie, listen, it doesn't matter if he loses this thing. Gordie is the big winner here. We all know that. Gordie or Carl.

So, guys, what do we do with today's episode? There's only six of us. We actually can hear each other speak. I mean, we could tell stories and have interactions. We haven't had this since I think I first came on the show.

Yeah, I don't know what to do with myself. Do you want to make your pics and just give KFunk the opposite? What do you want to do here?

Are we going right into pics? I figured Mike Rollis had a good wrestling or football story for us that he could tell.

I got to be honest with you. We're a little upset with Mike Rollis because his brother's defense fits in the air. Okay? Oh, wow. I'm leaving it in.

I think what happens is his brother actually listens to this show. When we talk trash about his defense, that's when he makes sure that they give up two and a half points and just shut everything down. And when we praise him, he lets his foot off the gas. I think that's how he's been coaching the Arizona Cardinals. Is that right, Mike? Can you confirm that?

That could be the case. He doesn't respond to text during season very often. So if he's got enough time to listen to God bless football and not even respond to me, we might have an issue. But it is the bye week this week, so we're chilling in Arizona a little bit.

Carl, I want you to make a ruling on this. We need you to make a ruling on this. We're going to start this without Kate Funk, okay? I am not waiting here. Okay? Carl, from a legal standpoint, I'm going to let Mojo pick, and KFunk gets the opposite of what Mojo picks. Is there anything KFunk could do to us next week? Because you know he's going to be upset about it. Is there anything that he could do next week that will erase what's happening this week?

The only thing I would think he could do would be the next week he picks and gives Mojo his picks, the opposite of his picks.

I'm okay with that any week. I accept.

All right, Mikey A, what's your suggestion here?

No, he can erase last week's picks, this week's picks, if he wants to, if he brings on Verlander and Kate Upton.

Okay.

You're saying if he has a bad record, he can make make that bad record go away by bringing on Verlander and Kate Upton?

One alone is not enough. No, one alone is not enough.

Mike Wallace, are you good with this arrangement? Are you okay with this?

Yeah, that works for me.

Okay, Karl, are you good with this arrangement?

If he can do that, that's fine with me. I want to see Kate myself.

Okay. Not Berlander, huh? Who? Mojo. Mojo, are you okay with this I will forever be okay with any arrangement that allows me to pick opposite of KFung's picks.

It's a guaranteed minimum four in one week for me. So that's how bad he is.

But you're making the picks this week, so you know, okay?

Yeah, I know. I don't know if I should be a good guy or not.

Well, think about what KFung would do and do the opposite, okay?

Yeah, but if he just stays in last place, it's not even funny anymore. It's just like, sad plus pathetic, right?

I don't even feel bad.

I don't even feel bad. I'm talking trash about him. He's not even here.

He'll never come back if he stays in the last place. He'll never come back.

Listen, you have the power to keep him happy, Mojo. Give him another three and two this week. I mean.

Damn it. All right, fine.

He also, by the way, As I mentioned before, he jumped over Gordie. So Gordie, while having an off-season, really is doing a service to KFunk and his mental well-being by having a worse season than KFunk. Also, I don't think Gordie cares at all what his record is. Well, KFunk cares very much so. I don't think Gordie cares about anything. Yeah, exactly.

I think what Gordie does is he gets the tape and then he plays it in a room full of chips while he's part, and he's like, Hey, check me out on this cool podcast. It would impress him, and he uses it as a... I bet you any money in the world, that's what's happening.

No one checks the results.

It doesn't matter.

Or to get out of parking and speeding tickets with the cops, and that's why he's befriended them and brought them on the show. I know Gordy. I spent a lot of time with Gordy at one point.

Let me If I know, he's no longer in last place.

Yeah, I'll tell him he's not in last place anymore. Mike, by the way, you went hunting. How did that go last week?

It struck out.

Oh, really?

Well, it was a slow week. I still got some meat in the freezer from last time, but it was a slow week. I probably sat for over 30 hours and I saw about five deer, and none of them were shooters, as we say. So good time in nature, good reset, good time to let my charge on God bless football here as I come for Mojo, sink in and get a mental reset, but no, no deer.

All right. What a life you I can't believe. You got to fly all the country.

Carl, it was a line of the week on the entire episode last week where you just blurted out no one on this Zoom, it works. I'm going to lose it. Carl, I thought this was work.

That's what Mojo told me. Said I got a job for you.

Carl, if you go back in time, what would you redo with your life to end up, I guess, in a different path? Would you become a wrestler, maybe? What would you do?

If I'd have grown to be 6'3, I would have wanted to play basketball.

Yeah.

You'd be a small basketball player. I was the shortest guy in the ninth grade, shortest male, and I wanted to be 6'3.

I had a good handle, but there you go.

It worked out just fine for you, Carl. I got to be honest.

I'm not complaining.

All right, Billy, I'm going to start making pics here, okay, with the guys, and we'll see what happens with the game. We have the Ravens at the Stealers. That's the first game this week. I'll give you Sharebear's pick. He took the Stealers. I'll give you Gordie's pick. He also took the Stealers. Ravens at Stealers. Stealers are plus three. I don't see Mojo there, so I'm going to go to Carl Douglas first. Carl, who are you Who's taking here?

My wife and her entire family are from Pittsburgh, so I'm taking the Stealers this time.

All right, you're taking the Stealers. Mike, who do you have here?

Yeah, I mean, I don't like how chalky it's getting here, but I got to go with... I can't believe I'm picking Russell Wilson. He's like my sworn enemy. He doesn't know it. But yeah, I think Home Dogs. I'll go Steelers. What's your issue?

Why is he your sworn enemy?

Thank you.

Oh, I never really bought into the whole college football rivalry, except with Wisconsin, I hated Wisconsin so much. And Russell Wilson came in for one year. And if I'm just going to be honest, he absolutely diced us up. He went 16 of 17 for 250 yards and four TDs or something like that. One time I was blitzing and he got outside me. I forced him out of bounds, but he evaded the sack and gained a couple of yards. It was a rough game.

Let it So you're taking the Stealers.

Hold on to that for life.

It's only been twelve years. I can't just let it go.

All right, so you're taking Russ here, huh?

Yeah, I'll take Russ.

All right, Mojo, you are up. K-fuck gets the opposite.

All right. Well, I also played against Russell Wilson in college at the University of Maryland, and we also tax that ass and beat the crap out of him and his team. So I obviously cannot pick him. And as a Maryland guy, I'm not picking against Baltimore. So I will be taking the Ravens. Funk will be taking the stealers. But seeing as how the other two guys took the stealers, Majority says that's the more popular pick, so that is the gift for Funk from Mojo.

That's why you're good at this. I mean, Gordie took the stealer.

Yeah, that's a bad side.

Wait, so Mojo, when you were playing against Russ in college, if I told you then that Russ would turn into this, you would have told me what?

It's hard to say for a player to become that good at such a high level for that long. But I will say I would not be surprised that it happened. We played them It was a monsoon, man. You couldn't get any traction. But I remember it wasn't the best play call, but I believe it was for the game and he was going for a Hail Mary. We rushed three when they were protecting with six or seven. I ended up missing, sacking Russ three times in the same play. I just couldn't get there, man. In one play? In one play, he scrambled. I'm not even kidding when I say it might have been like an 18-second scramble. It was the longest we had the entire season. Granted, we're all getting freaking triple team, but still, it was so ridiculous. They had this offensive tackle that was 6'9 or 10. He was massive. Russ He just disappeared behind him. You couldn't see him.

Now, my question is, with the advanced statistics, do you get three pressures on one play for that? Yeah. He was panning his stats, Rolls.

He was putting it back up.

What the hell, man?

He was panning his own stat. That is great.

Pressure rate skyrocketed on that.

Mike EA is looking for... I believe Mike EA is looking for the play right now, so we can show it. Did you find that?

Rolls, you had eight tackles the game against for us. Is that a bad game for you?

Okay, yeah. I mean, look, it didn't go well. I mean, we can promote that box score if we want eight tackles.

It went well for you.

On the ESPN article, does it say, Rauwish has eight tackles in loss?

Is that the headline? I mean, we could rewrite it that way. By the way, if you were to question whether-Okay.

I think that, honestly, you know what? Now that you mentioned it, that was the storyline coming out of that game with I had eight tackles.

If you did question whether or not he actually considers him his nemesis or not, you were exactly right. He was 17 of 18 for 178 yards, four touch downs. And somehow with the four touch downs, you guys lost 42 to 13.

Yeah, it was rough. I mean, it was like every time we sat back in cover two, they just outcoached us, outplayed us. Everything just diced us up.

Which is the worst, I guess, game that you remember? Which do you have the most PTSD from? It's not the Russell Wilson game.

I mean, we got absolutely stomped in Michigan. That was probably the worst.

What was the score?

I don't remember. Really? Wow. 55, nothing, maybe. It was rough.

Listen, did Northwestern ever beat Minnesota when you were there?

Northwestern did. That was a close one. They had Trevor Simeon. Now, you want to talk about couldn't believe Trevor Simeon became... I mean, he's been in the league now for 15 years or something. Crazy. And I think he went one for seven against us, and they still beat us 21 to 13.

I got a pretty good story, I got to say, if we're talking about worst college moments here. Yes.

Yeah, go ahead.

We're playing Boston College my senior year. We're at Boston College. I'm playing at Maryland. I believe the situation was if we beat them, we would go on to the ACC Championship game, likely. If we took the dub and I had this awesome play, I split a double team, tackle for loss, force fumble, we recover, and it was going to seal the deal. And instead, the ref called the running back's knee down, and it was total bullshit. It was so obvious. I don't know why the coach didn't throw the flag. Maybe he didn't get it out in time. The next play, they take it in for a score that wins the game, right? So we go from going to the ACC Championship game instead dropping all the way down to go to the roadies truck stop humanitarian Bowl in Boise, Idaho. I was so pissed off. It was like my hero moment just ripped away from me, and we're going to the freaking toilet bowl, literally afterwards. I'm sitting there and I'm like, This day cannot get any worse. I go back to my locker and the team all showers, and they're all getting in the bus.

I'm the last one to get in the showers, right? And I'm just so pissed off. And empty shower well, mind you, there's no one else showering in there but me. And then all of a sudden, I don't know I don't know if you all remember Ralph Friedgen.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Big fridge. Yeah. Walks in, butt naked, takes the shower right next to me. As soon as I got in, hadn't soaked up, nothing, stink as hell, playing in the mud, immediately just walked out of the shower, refused to be in that situation. So had to fly all the way home smelling like ass after having my dreams torn out. That was the dump for me. That was my worst college moment.

Smell like ass. Put it on the podcast.

So the quarterback in the game, you guys lost 58 to nothing, was Denard Robinson. But he was one of three quarterbacks because it was 38 nothing at halftime. So they then went and replaced the quarterback two more times. Yeah, that was a rough one.

That was a fun one.

It seems like you enjoyed it, Mike. Let's get to the next game here. We have Browns at Saints. Saints are minus one. Gordie has taken the Saints here. Sharebare has also taken the Saints. I'm going to go to you first, Mike. Mike, who are you taking here? Browns at Saints. Saints minus one at home.

I mean, just to diversify a little bit here and then give myself some insurance, I can't pick the same as Gordie again. I mean, that's just way too risky. So I'm going Jameis Winston Revenge game. I think he lights him up.

Wow. I like that. Carl Douglas, who are you taking here? Browns at Saints, Saints minus one.

I've already made my pick before hearing about Gordie, but I'm going with the Saints as well.

Okay, you're taking the Saints. Mojo, who are you taking here?

Well, I just arrived at a new strategy here instantaneously. If K-Fun takes all of Gordie's picks, then there's no way he can get last place for the season.

Done. It's true.

Yeah.

So I feel like that's a good friend move to make.

All right, so have K-Funk go opposite Gordie?

No, to take all of Gordie's picks.

Exactly. He's slightly ahead of Gordie right now, I think, by a game. All right. So he's got to have to pass him at some point in time. So is that what you want to do? But then that leaves, what do we do with you? So are you taking opposite Gordie? If KFung is taking all the same as Gordie, Oh, that's a good point, too.

For fun, I'll take the browns for this one.

Okay. All right. You'll take the Browns. Okay. Keep in mind, we want KFund to have a bad week here because we want to give him the ability to erase it, to have Verlander and Updod.

He's been promising that for three years, man. It ain't happening. We got to find somebody else.

Wait until you throw an 05 in his face and see what the fuck happens. We also...

Again, you mean?

We had something cooking for KFont to try to get his mentals up.

So it would be good if we do get that guest next week, if he's coming off of a bad week.

That's true.

So many story lines. There's a lot of ways we can go here.

Poor KFong, I'm worried about him. He's never missed this segment. Let's go to what? Chiefs at Bills. A big game this week at Chiefs at Bills. The game's in Buffalo. We have Gordie taking the Bills here minus two. We have Share Bear taking the Chiefs here plus two. Carl Douglas, I'll start with you. Chiefs Bills, Bills minus two at home.

I said it once, I'll say it again. I'm not going against the Chiefs.

Yeah.

I'll take the point.

All right. Mike Rauh, who are you taking here?

Yeah, it confirms after last week, they got some black magic going on over there. I don't know if it's Taylor Swift or Mahomes or Andy Reid or what, but God, the Chiefs as underdogs, you got to go Chiefs.

It's crazy. Chiefs underdog. Mojo, who are you taking here?

Gosh, man. Chiefs got the best referees in all of football, so that's helpful. Now, I'm looking at this from a storyline perspective. Guys, they got to lose at some point, right? I mean, that keeps the fans on your side. You can't just go undefeated all year. Everybody will hate you. That doesn't help the NFL. If everyone starts to turn on their babies, they need everyone to like this Taylor Swift relationship. If there was a team to knock them off, I mean, the Bills certainly qualify to be that team. So that being said, I guess I got to stick with the previous strategy of keeping K-Funke ahead of Gord. He can take the Bills and I'll take the Chiefs.

Okay. Let's go to the next game here. Bengals at Chargers. Chargers, they're playing well. Minus one and a half. Cher bear took the Chargers. Gordie took the Bengals. Mike Rolls, who are you taking here? Bengals at Chargers.

Chargers minus one and a This is a really tough one. If you look at the chargers wins this year, it's almost like the bottom of the draft, like the start of the draft order. They have hardly beaten a team that has more than two wins, but they are playing good ball. I mean, it's Since it's a toss-up for me, I'll take the points. I'll go chargers.

Okay. Carl Douglas, are you taking here?

Mike has said, Everything I wanted to say is a tough game. I think the charger defense will come through. I'm a Ram fan, but I'll take the chargers and give me the points.

All right. I like it, Carl. Mojo, who are you taking here?

I'm a man of my word. I said I wasn't picking the Bungles at all this year. Plus, I just interviewed Sean Merriman for TMZ Sports just an hour ago, so I am going to take the Chargers. Plus, Gord, I think, took the Bungles, too. So give funk those guys.

Did you invite Merriman on the podcast?

I think that would be a good addition for the show, actually.

I agree. Let's get on that.

As For the Jets fans, is there a preferred winner here? This is a big wild card picture game.

I would want the Bengals to win. Bengals have a worst record, more than six. Yeah, Bengals.

Yeah, but you could also argue you want to let the chargers take the five or six seed and get the bangles further to the back of the line.

I'd rather get the bangles to four and seven, I think.

Which one gives me Hope, because that's the one I don't want. I don't want any more hope.

I don't want that.

Fair enough.

Wait, where's the AFC wild card at right now?

The Broncos, I think, are the seven seed at five and five.

So five and five. I see what you're saying. So you just got to concede that the chargers. So they get the seven and three, right. And then the Jets, even if they win, they're at four and seven. You're chasing five. But you're not really chasing the Chargers is what you're saying. We're more chasing the bangles than the Chargers.

Right.

Yeah. Wow.

To be a Jets fan is really what's up these days.

It's the worst thing. All the wrong is rubbing it in. Just to hear you still go through that analysis.

His brain working in.

Oh my God. That's been my entire life. It's me trying to figure out, and the three and seven Jets will make it to the play. I get it. No. All right. Final game here. Texans at Cowboys. Cowboys, they're real and they're injured. Plus seven and a half. Gordie took the Cowboys here. Perfect. Taking on the Texans. Share Bear also took the Cowboys at home. Taking on the Texans. Carl Douglas, Texans at Cowboys. Cowboys plus seven and a half. What you got?

I've always learned from this show that you always take the points. Went a lot of points, but I hate the Cowboys. I'll take the Texans.

You learn nothing. I hate the Cowboys. Mike, are you taking?

I'm going with the Texans, too. I think C. J. Stroud comes back a little pissed and dices them up.

Okay. Mojo, final pick here. Who are you taking? You lost them for a second.

To keep with the theme here, Funk will take the Cowboys and I will take the Texans.

Okay, wonderful. Let's all pray for KFuck. We hope he returns next week. I might reach out to him after this, to be honest.

We need to send someone to his house.

All right, before we get out of here, Mike Rolls, do you have anything to promote on the way out?

Yeah, Rauhless Regimen. Head there for your customized workout program. We'll get you feeling the best shape of your life.

All right. Awesome. Carl Douglas, promote that big, beautiful law firm out in LA for us.

The one and only, Douglas Hicks Law in Los Angeles.

Yeah.

Can we get Hicks on someday?

Sure. I'll get Hicks.

Let's get Hicks. Thank you. Let's get Hicks on. Mojo, promote Only the way Mojo can promote on the way out.

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