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God bless football, Mikey, eh?

God bless football, Fuentes. God bless football, Stugatz.

Thank with you. Very exciting weekend coming up, the weekend before Thanksgiving. I love Thanksgiving, my favorite holiday of the year, but we have an exciting weekend. Really? Yeah, it is. It's not your favorite holiday? It's not?

It's okay. I don't know about my favorite of all time.

Mikey A, your favorite?

My favorite? No, no. Christmas is my favorite. Really? We get a football on Christmas this year.

We actually get much better football than what we're getting on Thanksgiving. Well, I don't celebrate Christmas. I celebrate Hanica. Therefore, Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Next day. It's the next day. Yeah, but you guys get 12 days. I get eight crazy nights. It just doesn't seem fair. Christmas, it dominates Hanica Christmas. It really does.

By the way, guys, we're presented by Smirnov. We do game days. Please drink responsibly. The Smirnoff Company, New York, New York. I'm a little sad. Why? It's been a couple of years because we're missing the annual tradition that we had for two or three seasons. We didn't have it last year, and now we're not having it again this year. So it's sad that we're going to miss this tradition. And that, of course, is the annual tradition of Stugatz asking Java Chamberlain what he's doing for Thanksgiving for Java, that then tells Stugatz, I don't celebrate Thanksgiving.

Thanks, asshole. I forgot about that.

Sad we're going to miss out on that one again.

Not my thing.

Not my thing. You forgot about it. I've thought about it every day since I asked him.

Then you ask him the next year, too.

I did.

Oh, my God, Billy. I miss Java. Today was actually the first day I woke up, and I didn't think about that. And now Billy reminded me. It's the first day in years.

I'm sorry. Yes. Yeah, the first day in years. Every day you wake up in that trauma.

Guys, I cannot believe I am saying this. But the thing I am most excited about at an important part of the year for college football and the NFL, with many big games on the schedule, the The thing I'm most excited for this weekend is a college football game involving Indiana. I just want to see if they're any good. I know they're undefeated, but I have no idea if they're good. You don't have any idea if they're any good. I'm not even certain they know if they're any good. They're going to find out this weekend when they play at Ohio State, and I'm excited for it.

Do you think they are good? Do you want them to be good? What do you want out of this? Do you want them to be good and beat Ohio State? Do you want them to get demolished so that they're out of the picture? Do you want them to keep it close? What are you hoping for?

What I think is going to happen is I don't think they're very good. Their schedule is one of the worst in the country. I think Ohio State is going to blow them out, and Indiana will be out of the playoff. That's what I think is going to happen. What I want to happen is for Indiana to spring the upset. I do, but I can't see it. I just don't see it happening.

I mean, they haven't really played great teams, and they've been blowing everyone out. I saw Indiana the first game of the season because they played against FIU, and FIU was playing them pretty close, and then got a backdoor cover at the end of the game. But it'll be interesting to see how this game goes.

Billy, that's so funny because I saw Indiana play at Northwestern. My daughter goes to school there, and I said to myself right then and there, that team is not good enough to win a national championship. They physically don't look big enough, and they weren't good enough on that particular day where I walked away saying, Oh, man, that team is going to be one of the last four teams standing.

It also, by the way, and I know that we've upset a lot of people in Indiana by our coverage of Indiana football, but-I don't care.

There's that we again.

It's not-It's not-It's not we again. Yeah. We really got it to be better. But it's not an indictment on them. It's their first year with Signate as their coach. It's only going to get better from here. I mean, assuming he stays and he doesn't leave.

I was going to say their first in last year with Signetia as their coach.

He got a big contract.

Yeah.

Okay. I know. It doesn't mean much.

Get a bigger one.

Is the most important game for Indiana left on the schedule the Michigan-Ohio State game? Because if Michigan wins, then Signetia is definitely going to Ohio State next year.

That's so funny. Even if Ohio State beats them. That is crazy. What a scenario. But I think the thing I'm more interested in is how close Indiana needs to keep the game. I can't see them winning. I cannot see Indiana winning the game. I can't see a scenario where Ohio State wins by 7 to 10 points. I'm trying to figure out where's the line of demarcation for the committee where they'll say, Okay, Indiana hung, and they hung long enough with Ohio State that we're going to put them into the college football playoff.

Stugats, you mentioned a committee. I have exciting news for everyone. What's that? Later today on this episode of God bless football, Mike Golick is going to be introduced to a potentially new committee. He's going to be introduced to a revolutionary idea in the world of college football. Mike Yee has some what ifs from Mike. Exciting episode ahead today.

It is. I have a feeling that Golic is going to hate both those ideas.

I don't know. I'm not certain.

You're not, huh?

I feel like he might be open to some of these. If not, then maybe it's a him problem. I agree. I don't want to point the finger, but it's always, what are we doing to upset Mike Golik? Maybe it's him. Have we ever considered that? You're right.

There's never been a better time to play what if or If the Season Ended Today or any variations of those games because you actually have stuff to do it with. We'll try out What If with Mike Golic coming up later and a revolutionary new idea for the NFL playoffs, I believe as well. Chris Sims is going to join us as well.

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All right. A lot of buy weeks this week, just so you know, Billy. A lot of buy weeks. Are you guys ready to try these two games out on Mike Golic? I maintain that he's going to hate him. Are you guys still want to keep going forward with this? Well, we have no choice. Mike Golic next. We have to. Mike Golic next.

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Yeah, makes one of us.

When's your birthday?

December 12th.

Oh, okay. Let me write this down. December 12.

I think you did this last year, Billy.

He did. He wrote it down. He didn't send him a thing. He did.

It's somewhere. It's somewhere.

You understand what Billy just did is he asked for Mike Golick's birthday, and then he said he was going to write it down. Mike EA and I are saying that Billy did the exact same thing last year, asked him his birthday, wrote it down on a piece of paper. Golick, what did Billy get you for your birthday last year?

I don't recall anything coming to the house from Billy.

I have it there. December 12th, it's written down. This isn't for your birthday, though. I was asking out of curiosity because before we started recording, we decided collectively as a group that We want to honor Mike Golic with a Mike Golic Day. So I was wondering when his birthday was to see if we should plan it around his birthday or maybe... Because there's a lot of December babies. I don't know if you were like this growing up where you're not close enough to Christmas, where you probably got the two separate presents for your birthday and Christmas, right? Where if you're in the 20s range, I feel like that's when people start getting away with only giving you one thing. So I'm thinking Mike Golic Day has to be in May or June. So it's a nice six months away from your birthday.

Well, I have two of my three kids. Sydney was born on December 21st, and Jake is actually a Christmas baby. So he would fall into that category of at what point do you get screwed out of gifts. But now, going back to the Mike Golic Day, what would that entail? Would that entail prizes and gifts and trips?

We're in the early planning phases of the Mike Golic Day situation.

I think one of the things we need to figure out is where Mike like this day to be because there are several places that would like to host a Mike Golic Day. It could be Cleveland, it could be Notre Dame, it could be Philadelphia, it could be Bristol, Connecticut. I mean, Mike, let's What would you start there. The location of this event, where would you like it?

Well, if it's in summertime, probably not Arizona because it'll be 115. If it's wintertime, probably not Notre Dame because there'll be 10 feet snow. A lot depends on the time of year that it were to be held.

Let's say late spring, early summer. Where should we hold my goal at day?

I would probably say at Notre Dame.

Wow, what a day.

What a day. I'm excited. Let me call. Who's in charge here now? Father what?

This is a waste of exercise.

Mike Golic Day in Notre Dame would be fantastic. You get a key to the city, you get some good food, you get beers. Everyone is celebrating the Golic name the entire day. You're not in on this? I mean, no.

However, I will say this, Mike. You're going to have to cut off all of your public appearances at Notre Dame between now and Mike Golic Day so that we build up some demand for it. So you're going to have to cut off all income that comes out of Notre Dame festivities between now and Mike Golic Day if you'd like Mike Golic Day to be at Notre Dame.

If you would like to make up said income, then I will gladly to do that.

Well, I mean, we'll do so in honor.

No, I like cold hard cash in my hand. Right.

So Jake was born on Christmas, Immaculate Conception?

No, my friend. No.

Okay.

You know what I'm talking about?

Talking about Chef D when he breaks news.

Yeah, how about it? I mean, talk about... That wasn't even a humble brag. And To say that Chephty, again, for those that don't know what we're talking about, Chephti said he broke news in Denver right after having sex. The thing that for me got me was he said it was with the first time with this woman. So what did you just pick her Up in Denver? Talk about your classic one-night stand. What was the deal?

There were lots of follow-ups. Adam Chephter.

Yeah, Chephti.

Oh, boy.

Wow. Sorry. It deserved it. I met the moment. It did. You're talking about Schafter. You're talking about him having sex. I followed it up with an Adam Schafter. I mean, there's nothing wrong with that. You did. It's fair. Mikey A is shaking his head. Oh, really, Mikey A? That's the one. I crossed the line for you, huh, Mikey A? That's the line.

Adam Schafter. That's my line.

Schafter. Oh, God. Mike, we have not one but two games that I think are going to... Well, no, Mike. Mike, give us some credit here. You haven't heard us out yet. Mike, E. A. Has some scenarios, a little game we like to call what if. So the college football playoff was released. And now so, more than ever, Mike, you can actually play the games what if or if the season ended today. And so we're going to play that with you. And then Billy and I have been talking about changing everything with the NFL postseason.

But first- Everything. Everything, Mike. Also, Mike, I have a potential game game changer for sports forever moving forward that we would implement in college football. Yes.

It's exciting. You guys have really been putting a lot of time and effort into things I'm going to shoot down.

Well, we'll see. We will see, Mike. You might like our ideas. You never know.

Give it a shot.

I want to start with what if, though. If we could start there, Mike, EA. He has a series of questions. Mike, before we get to what if, what were your overall thoughts here on the College Football Committee's rankings of the teams for the playoff?

Well, I mean, we're in the third one, so nothing is really changing, and we still have on the field things that are going to lay out. Indiana playing Ohio State, Texas playing Texas State on the last week of the season. So you're going to get more shifting. And I think hearing Lane Kiffin complain, and I think there is a little bit to that of saying, what's the good of making a SEC Championship game? If you lose it and it's a third loss, and you don't even make the playoff, as opposed to not making it and sitting there with two losses and making the playoffs. I think SEC teams are saying that because SEC teams right now are seven, nine, 10 and 11, as opposed to Big Ten teams, which are one, two, four, and five.

Yeah, it's crazy. The SEC, though, I feel like they're deserving to have that many teams. Everyone's making a big deal about the SEC, ES FPN, SEC, College Football Committee. I want the best matchups, and I feel like the best teams are in the SEC. Am I wrong, Mike?

No, I think it is the deepest. What happens first? Do you get rid of the automatic bid of the conferences? Because the lowest conference seed for the ACC is eight in Miami. And for the Big 12, hell, it's out of the top 12. Boise State at 12 would actually have the number four seed and have a buy. So is that something that everybody is good with? Basically, outside of the Sun Belt, all the divisions are gone in college. There's conferences, and they're It used to be divisions within conferences. Now, I think the Sun Belt is the only conference that has divisions. So do you just have regular season conference champs, not have a conference championship game, and go from there?

I mean, I'm not sure. Didn't Boise State go to Oregon and lose by three points. Oregon is the committee's number one team in the country. I'm not even certain how to do this correctly, to be honest with you.

I know. I know. Yes, it's crazy.

Mikey, you have some what-if scenarios here for Mr. Mike Golic?

I do, including one that I'm particularly excited about, but we'll start it off easy, Mike. We'll go right to your wheelhouse.

What if Notre Dame beats Army but then loses to USA?

Oh, wow. I like it.

Well, if Notre Dame beats Army and Indiana loses Ohio State, Notre Dame will move up to at least to five. So then it's a matter if they lose to USA, so let's just say it's a close game, do they drop eight spots out of it or seven spots out of it and be number 12 and get bumped out if there's a conference champ that's lower than 12? I think because USA season is so bad right now, and Notre Dame's other loss to a Northern Illinois team, which is just losing game after game now. I have a feeling Notre Dame could be out. I think they literally could be out.

Too bad losses. Hold on, Billy made a sound.

Too bad losses.

Hold on. Let's hear Billy out. He made a sound. He's objecting to this. Go ahead, Billy.

Notre Dame is in the playoff regardless. They can lose the last two games of the season. They're still making it in, Mike. This playoff was designed specifically to make sure Notre Dame gets in every season. You know it, I know it. We don't need to pretend that that's not what's going on here.

Not going to happen.

All right, Mikey, you got another one?

All right, I got two more. Here's the next one. This one's going to get a little more complicated now, Mike. We're going to the Big 12 here.

All right.

Kansas State beats Colorado, right? Arizona State beats BIO. And Iowa State loses to Utah.

Wow.

So what you would have is a two-loss BIO, a three-loss Iowa State and a three-loss Colorado.

Colorado would be out in that scenario.

Yeah.

Yes.

What are you looking for for me? You're only going to get one team in the Big 12 in this. You're only going to get one team. It's going to be the conference winner, and that's it. So we already have turmoil in the SEC about who's going to be in the SEC title game. But the Big 12 is wide open as well. But it just show you're probably only going to get one of the Big 12, and maybe only one in the ACC. Say SMU plays Miami, or Clemson plays Miami, and SMU or Clemson win over a Miami team. But I think Miami may drop out, but you're definitely only getting one big 12. So all those teams you mentioned all have the possibility of winning the Big 12. They would be the only team in and most likely be the 12th ranked.

Mike, allow me to translate. He said that what if was terrible. That's what he said. That's fine.

Listen, I'm setting them up. That's the pitch I threw out of the zone so that he'd look at it so I can throw this one.

All right, give him the good stuff. You ready? Go ahead. We're going to the SEC now. Here we go. Over the next two weeks, Florida beats Ole Miss, Oklahoma beats Bama, Vanderbilt beats Tennessee, Auburn beats A&M, but beats Texas.

So Now, Ole Miss, Bama, Tennessee, A&M would all have three losses.

His head is going to explode.

I don't know who would be in the SEC title game. I don't know. I I mean, but we do know that the winner is in. But I guarantee you, with your scenario, if it's two three lost teams in the SEC, then only one SEC team is getting in. Yeah. Texas or Georgia, Texas or Georgia, where the teams I left out, suppose one of them wins the SEC title.

Will the SEC only have one or two teams in a twelve-team play-up?

I'll put it this way. If there is a three-loss team that's going to get it. It's going to be with the SEC, which would probably give them a third team in. There is something to Lane Kiffin saying, if a two-loss team makes the title game and gets blown out, that they might drop out, and somebody just hanging around with two losses not in the SEC title game might be in it. So it might be a detriment to make it to the SEC title game. I don't know how much I buy it, but I will say this along your scenario, that if there is a three-loss team to make it in the playoffs, it will be an SEC team.

I agree.

Or Notre Dame. Or Notre Dame, right?

No.

I mean, Notre Dame is it. Mikey, do you have any more? Are we done here? Because I have one for goal.

No, I think we can be done.

I have one for Billy. I am fascinated by Ohio State and Indiana, Mike. I want your thoughts on this because I'm not certain. Outside of winning, is there a scenario if Indiana loses by seven points, where's the line of demarcation? That's what I'm looking for, where Indiana loses by too much, and therefore it prevents them from getting into the playoff.

They would have to get really blown out, I think. But their strength of schedule is awful. It's triple digits. I think it's 106.

It is, yes.

They need, at worst, a close loss to hang there. Then, even with one loss, there will be SEC teams that are screaming that their two loss teams should be ranked higher than Indiana's one loss team. You know what? They're not all wrong. But the Big Ten and the SEC are the two big two power conferences, so they're always going to get the benefit of the doubt. I think if Indiana loses a close game, they're still going to be in.

Mike, how do we define a close game here? They're in the game the entire time, and they lose by seven. How do we define a close game?

I would say the eye test of, are they in this game? Are they really in this game? Is Ohio State pulling away in this game? Is it not very competitive? Which I expect it to be because Indiana, their defense is playing some ball for the offense for Ohio State. They have two linemen out now. They lost a tackle a bit ago. They lost their center in practice. And that defense, that D-line for Indiana is really good. I actually expect it to be a close game, but I think it's one of those, Ste, that you'll know when you see it, you'll say, Oh, that game wasn't competitive at all, which would put Indiana in a very precarious position. But I do think it'll be a very good game.

The committee is not going for 24/7 Ohio State fourth quarter, and Indiana tacks on a couple of garbage touch downs at the end to make it 24/21 or something like that.

I wouldn't think so. I think there'll be a lot of eye test here of just knowing how competitive the game was.

Are you concerned about Army at all? I mean, undefeated, take it on Notre Dame, Yankee Stadium. Really?

I definitely am. But just like Notre Dame, Navy had, what, two turnovers total. When they played Notre Dame. Notre Dame turned them over six times. Now, some of those were just bad plays by Navy. Navy had been a passing team as well. Army is not. Their quarterback has a million shutdown rushes this year. You have to take their running attack away. With the triple option, you have to play disciplined football. If they play it like they played against Navy, they should be able to beat an army. But yeah, I'm always concerned with an option team controlling the ball, controlling the clock, and controlling the scoreboard.

Mike, I would say if Indiana wins, and I would say even teams like SMU and Miami would be upset. If Indiana loses, excuse me, because Miami would say, Hey, let's say Miami has two losses. Indiana has one, but their one loss is to the one good team they played. I think Miami SMU, if they had two losses, would say, Hey, we're better than that team.

Miami's played no one also.

The SEC would say that as well. But Miami has been living on a wing and a prayer for a while. You guys are right. They should have lost a couple of more games, quite honestly, but they didn't. To their credit, they came back and wanted. Yes, Indiana definitely seems to be the linchpin of why are they getting all this love when they haven't played anybody? It's because they're playing one of the top two conferences in the country, and they're undefeated. That's why.

They played the defending national champions. It's not their fault. The defending national champions suck this year. I mean, when does that ever happen?

That's exactly right.

Billy and I have decided we like the college football playoff so much that we would like to form a committee and try this out in the NFL?

No.

Well, hold on, Mike. Before we go to the NFL, Mike, I have an idea that I I had earlier this week in college, and it's been getting surprisingly positive feedback. I had even a respected voice in the college football world, a broadcaster of college football games, reach out to me and say, I love this idea. Let me run it by you.

He hates it already.

You haven't heard it.

I'm with you, Billy. Mike, do you have an open mind?

For most everybody, yes, but for you, it's already half closed.

You seem to have that effect on everyone, Billy.

I don't understand it. I'm just trying to make what is becoming a very good system better, and I'm trying to make a competitive system more competitive. So here's my proposal to you, and obviously, there are a lot of details that we need to figure out. But obviously, we have Rivalry Week, right? We're going to have Conference Championship Week coming Then we're going to have the bowl games. Now, to what we were talking about Indiana, for example, and the very popular saying is you can only play the teams on your schedule, correct? But what if you could play teams that were not on your schedule. Here's the proposal. I have come up with this idea for a week called Swap Week, and I'd like Swap Week to be week 10 of the regular season. The idea is if you You are a team that could potentially be in contention, or you're a team that maybe suffered a bad loss early on, and you're trying to get in the top 12 to make it to the potential college football playoffs, week 10 of the regular season is before Rivalry Week, and it's before Conference Championship Week. And what you could do is by week 8, you declare, We are electing to opt in on Swap Week.

And what you could do is you then have a database of all the teams who have elected to swap into Swap Week and you can choose your opponent for week 10 amongst the other teams who have elected to swap out their game. So if they have a cupcake game that's going to do nothing to up their standings, they can switch to a harder game.

Or if they feel like- He's falling asleep, Billy.

If they feel like they've done enough, they can swap out and say, You know what? We're going to take an easier game this week. We want to be healthy. We want to buy in this situation. You know what I mean? Swap week. You have a chance to boost your resume towards the end of the season within the teams that have also decided, We need to strengthen our schedule here. What do you think?

I'm a master of body language, and I think he loves it.

Because here's the thing, Mike. Here's the thing, and it sounds crazy.

There's another thing?

Here's the thing. It sounds crazy, but also, so did a 12-team playoff at one point in time, right? I can envision a world in which we adopt Swap Week. Again, we have to to work out the details because you obviously have deals with the teams, you have travel, you have all that set up. But you adopt Swap Week, and then what is the committee going to take into consideration? Not just the teams that swaped and who they swaped to play, but the teams who decided not to swap. How did they handle Swap Week? Did they show courage or did they say, You know what? We're going to take it easy. We're taking this committee for granted. We're just going to Coast on in there. Swap Week, coming soon to college football.

You were muted. I didn't hear anything you said.

Okay, so I was thinking week 10 of the regular season, we do something called Swap Week.

Bad move, Golic.

Wow. My Can we just tell him you like the fucking idea so we can move on?

Again, I'll remind you, I had a person that you respect, a person that I know for a fact you respect, and a voice of the game of college football reach out to me and say, I love Swap Week.

They must have been drunk.

Well as your son.

That went well.

I know he was drunk. Yeah, that's a little too involved for me. Yeah.

Have we ask you a single question that has made any sense to you? Anything.

No. Well, it's only going to get worse from here, Mike. I hate to tell you.

Yeah, I know.

Mike, here's the thought behind an NFL committee. Choosing the playoffs. Because not only do I want the matchups that I want, do I want the quarterbacks in the playoffs that I want in there, you have teams getting unhealthy at the wrong times. You have teams who are getting healthy at the right time. And so this is to reward the fans and the teams and put the best actual NFL teams in the playoff. For example, everyone would love to see Joe Burrow and the Bengals in the playoff as opposed to seeing Bo Nicks and the Broncos in the playoff. This is an opportunity for the committee to get together and say, You know what? I don't think Denver is one of the 14 best teams in the NFL. I think Cincinnati is. Their defense is getting healthy right now. Plus, we'd like to see Joe Burrow take on Patrick Mahomes, and they create that matchup for us. You don't like this idea at all?

No. Why? No. Why? No. I mean, what are you playing the regular season for to a record if the record's not going to matter.

Practice.

Ask college football.

Yeah, exactly right.

Here's the other thing I would say. I don't know, even though when I'm done in this business in a few years, I would like to be on the committee. I would like to be one of the 13 members on the committee.

Swap week, here we come. God.

That being said, I really think you almost need to take human element out of it and pick the top 12 by going back to the old BCS computer way and just punching in all the numbers and seeing the 12 teams that spits out. I like it.

Yeah. Mike, we ran through, just so you're saying, we ran through our computers to get this scenario of a committee for the NFL playoffs, if you'd like it. So we tore up the playbook. We no longer have conferences. We're going to have both conferences together. We're just going to seed teams one through four. Now, we also, because this is a TV product, we have themes for the different rounds. I'll have you know. So the first round is no longer Super Wild Card Weekend. It's Super Revenge Weekend. So every matchup will have a revenge aspect to it because that will get people tuning in. I will also let you know that where you finish in the regular season is taken into account, but it also doesn't necessarily affect your seeding in the playoff bracket. If you want, our computers have given everything up here, and I can give you who it is that is going to be playing the first matchups of each round of Super Revenge Weekend.

I'm at a loss for words.

We're giving the people what they want. We're giving them revenge games. We're giving great matchups. We're giving the matchups that everyone wants to see.

That's what we're doing. Okay, so here we go. Super Revenge Weekend. Now, there are two buys, okay? The lions had a buy, and the Chiefs had a buy. However, we used the buy nullifier on the Chiefs and gave the buy to the bill because there's a buy nullifier every year. So if one of the teams that gets a buy, it doesn't make sense. There's a buy nullifier. So the Chiefs were hit with the buy nullifier the fire, and the Bills now have the buy. So the two teams on the buy are number one seed lines, and the number two seed now Bills after the buy nullifier. The first matchup, number three, Stealers versus number 14, Broncos. That's a doosy. Russell Wilson, Sean Payton, Revenge Game. You like it, Mike? Super Revenge Weekend. What a way to set the tone on Saturday.

I just thought in the last two minutes ago, you guys had the Broncos out of the playoff since Cincinnati in the playoff.

Well, no, in a scenario, but the computers ran it like you wanted, and the computers had them in.

You said to get the human element, so we did. Yeah, right.

We took out the human element. Okay, next one. Number 4, Eagles versus number 13, Bengals. Now you wonder, what's the revenge element here? Sydney Brown, Eagles Safety, and Chase Brown, Bengals Running Back, Identical Twins: The Rare House Divided Game.

Mike, can you imagine?

I actually like that thought. Okay, all right.

Perfect. All right, perfect. Now we're moving on. We're getting somewhere. The now number 5 chiefs are taking on the number 12, 49ers, Super Bowl 58 rematch in the first round, Super Revenge Weekend.

You like that, huh?

All right. Number 6, packers against number 11. Now, this is one of the Super Wild Card spots. The other Super Wild Card spot went to the bangles. Number 6, packers against number 11, Jets. Aaron Rodgers, Revenge has been waiting for.

What do you mean, Mike? Packers Jets. I mean, let me tell you, more people would be watching that game, packers and Jets, to advance in the playoffs. In fact, I'm going to say this, that would be the highest rated game of Super Revenge Wild Card Weekend.

Well, there's two more. There's two more. There's number seven.

That's your Sunday nighter.

There's number seven against number 10, the Ravens against the chargers.

Harbor.

Harbor. You're getting that this Monday.

We are getting in there. We'll also get that in the first round, Super Revenge Weekend. And then finally- It's going to be a revenge game for one of them.

Those damn computers. We're going to lose this week.

Double revenge. Then finally, we have number 8, Commanders against number 9, Cardinals, Cliff Kingsbury, and Kyler Murray. Then unfortunately, the first two teams out are going to be the Vikings at 8:00 and 2:00 and the Texans at 7:00 and 4:00. You know what, Mike?

Don't respond. Mike, respond after this. I don't like the idea either. It was a bad idea by us. I am bailing on this idea. I'm bailing on this segment. Mike, you can respond now.

Listen, I like the thought of the revenge, the different scenarios within the revenge game, but you can't base playoffs just on the revenge factor. Yeah, you have to make the regular season count for something.

All right, we'll take it into consideration.

Hear me out. What if instead of the packers, the Jets played the Vikings, and it's the Sam Darnold revenge game? Now you got the 8-2 team back in there.

Yeah. What if?

No.

I think he likes it.

All right. Well, we have some notes here. We have some things to work on. We'll have this cleaned up somewhat for you the next time we do this. Don't worry about that. All right. Thank you, Mike. You guys actually just left in the middle of the segment. Well, there you go.

He hated it so much. Your own guy doesn't even like the idea. He just left.

I'll let you know, Mike, I sent an email to Father Doubt, and we are working on Mike Golic Day at Notre Dame.

All right.

I'm excited for that. Heels are in motion. So cancel all your future appearances.

Yeah, I don't think that's going to happen, but I appreciate the effort.

All right. God bless football, Mike.

God bless football, Mike.

God bless football, everybody.

It is time for this week's edition of Still You Got. It's 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 13, 3:07 a week ago. My apologies. Rough one. Bounce back. Here we go. I'm bouncing back. 59, 58, and 2 on the season. I'm Blaine Gabbert. That's who I am with college football picks. Ohio State, big game this weekend. Taking on Indiana. Ohio State is minus 13. Buy it down to 12 and a half. Indiana, umbrella season, done. Ohio State wins. They cover the Buckeyes by 21 points at home. Florida, plus 10. Take it on Mississippi. Buy it up to 10.5. Mississippi wins the game. Florida covers Mississippi by seven points in Gainesville. Illinois plus one and a half. Take it on Rutgers. The game is at Rutgers. I'm taking the Illini. They win, they cover Illinois by seven points on the road. Unc at BC. It is minus three for the Tar Heels. I'm doing this for Taylor. It was Taylor's pick. Buy it down to two and a half. Take North Carolina. They've been playing better lately.

They win. They cover Carolina by 10 points on the road. Taylor. Arizona State minus three. Take it off B-Y-U. B-y-u, the B-Y-Ju. Coming off a loss. I don't like teams who had a national championship in sight, and then they have their first loss. You know what that means? They usually lose the weekend after they lose that first game. I just made that up. I have no idea if I'm right or not. I totally made it up off the top of my head. I'm taking Arizona State minus two and a half. They're going to beat BIO, the Sun Devils win by 10 points over BIO. Colorado, they're going to the playoffs. They're taking on Kansas. Kansas is getting three points. I'm taking Colorado buy it down to two and a half. Colorado wins and covers Colorado by 14 points over Kansas. Texas Tech minus three and a half. They're at Oklahoma State. Oklahoma State is awful, awful, just terrible. I'm taking Tech here. Buy it down to three. Tech wins, they cover, they win by 14 points. Louisiana minus 10 at home. They're taking on Troy. Buy it down to nine and a half. Louisiana wins, and they cover Louisiana by 14 points.

Texas A&M minus two and a half at Auburn. I'm taking the Auggies here. They win. They cover. They win by a touch dab. Colorado State plus three and a half at Fresno State. Colorado State wins the game outright. They win by four points at Fresno State. They cover as well. Nfl, week 11, 4-2 a week ago, 49, 29, and 2 on the season. I'm on a heater. If I'm the Blaine Gabbard of picking college football games. I'm the Tom F. Grady of picking NFL games. How about that? This is where it all goes to right here because I'm getting cocky. Dolphins, minus seven, take it on the Patriots, buy it down to six and a half. Dolphins win, they cover, they win by 17 points at home. Texans, minus seven and a half, they're taking on the Titans. Titans, not good. Texans, very good. Buy it down to 7. Houston wins and covers. They win by 13 points. Broncos, Bo Nicks. Sneaky good. Minus five and a half. They're at the Raiders. The Broncos win, and they cover Broncos by 10 points. Shador Sanders excited yet again on social media because the Raiders have lost.

Packers minus two and a half. Take it on San Francisco. They win. They cover Packers by 10. It's Arizona minus one. At Seattle, Arizona, they're good. I'm convinced Kyler Murray has finally arrived. They win. They cover Arizona by six points on the road. Eagles minus three at the Rams. Buy it down to two and a half. The Eagles win in cover. The Eagles buy 10 points on the road. And finally, Chargers plus three. Take it on the Ravens. The Ravens are three-point favorites on the road against the Chargers. They are overrating Baltimore, underrating the LA Chargers. I'm taking the Chargers here. Buy it up to three and a half. They get three and a half at home. I have the Chargers winning the game outright. How about that? The Chargers buy four points over the Ratings. Those are the pics, everyone. Good luck.

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Co/beball. Where's Dickface at?

That's a whole thing, man. Well, I'm here, but Stugats, it's a whole thing. It's the week that his book is coming out. It's coming out next Tuesday.

So now, we have our normal thing. They just showed us. They just showed me an inside look at him selling his book.

Oh, my God. He's running around selling his book, not even doing his normal obligations. He's just guests appearing on other shows. Didn't even tell us this was happening. We find out like, Hey, got to go. I got to go do a promo for my book.

Jeez.

Yeah. Big week next week for you, Chris.

Big week? Why?

It's your family's Thanksgiving football game.

Yeah, that's right. Have the lines come out yet on it? Yeah. Not yet. Vegas is still trying to figure out who's playing, who's in, who's out.

Do you know the rosters yet?

Big Phil, will he be playing? I don't know. Maybe this year. Do they know that you've been doing CrossFit? That's got to move the line at least a couple. That's right. Probably why they haven't come out with the line. They got a few investigators out checking my shape. See what I'm doing.

Sure, it looks a little looser than the last two weeks. All right, on to the next. Sorry, See how here we go.

What the fuck? Are you kidding me? That was the biggest fucking Billy move ever right there.

What?

I mean, we got a thing scheduled. He scheduled something else for his own personal fucking life enjoyment out of his book. I mean, once he got to write in a book, I moved from Long Island, I moved to Miami, and I can talk like an idiot on the radio every day. What a book. Great book.

I don't know if he can even hear you.

I don't even know if he can hear you, but that was wonderful. It was a good impression. I heard him a little bit. I hope you're recording, right? I hope we're going. We're recording, Sims.

Go ahead. Keep talking about me. Go ahead.

Yeah, we're about you. Don't worry. We talked a lot about you.

Yeah, I'm sure you did.

Very Billy of you to show up late here and doing other things.

I'm sorry. I'm promoting my book. That's all I was doing.

Damn. What's the title of the book?

The The middle of the book is Stugatz's Personal Record Book.

It is right here. Stugatz's Personal Record Book?

Yes, it is my personal record book, The Real Winners and Losers in Sports. I use the personal record book as a throwaway line once at ESPN when I was talking about Kevin Durant saying, I don't care what the record books say in my personal record book, which I don't have, but now I do. I do remember that. I said, Durant has no rings in my personal record book.

Right. Okay. All right. I understand the title then. That makes sense. At first, it did not make sense to me, and I was like, damn, that's a lot of words, but okay.

Yeah, well, it is a lot of words. More words than I ever thought I would write in my entire life, Sims.

Okay. Yeah, you're right. I mean, damn, writing a book. I was making fun of you for writing a book and how much he really got on it. We know he's not writing. He's talking to someone who's writing it for him.

We got that. I love your support. Thank you, guys.

We know that. I mean, yeah. He's not even talking clearly. They have to fix his talking as they go, too. They're like, Wait, that didn't make sense. Can you say it in an English sentence for us the proper way? Yeah.

So lots of issues. Luckily, I got LeBetard to write the forward, and I got plenty of people to contribute. And Sims, if you're wondering why you weren't one of them, it's because I have you earmarked for Chapter 10 in the next book. How about that? You're excited?

Oh, wow. There's a sequel to the next book? You're already that confident that this will do that well, that they're going to ask you to do another one. I don't know. I'll have to throw the challenge flag on that one.

Really? What is the next one, Stugatz? I have no idea.

I was just making it. Okay.

All right, Stugatz, while you were away, before you joined us, Chris Sims was telling us how we shouldn't use microwaves anymore. Why?

You don't want to eat.

Remove those from your diet.

Microwave takes the nutrients out of your food. You can look it up right now if you want, but you don't want to use a microwave. You're not getting the full nutritional benefits of the food that you're eating when you put it in a microwave. I haven't used a microwave. I told Billy, no joke, it's been 20 years. I don't think I've had a microwave in the last two houses I've lived in, maybe the last three houses. I stay away from that stuff.

How'd you guys feel about that, Billy? How do you feel about that?

Well, we got to it because he's eating breakfast. He has home-cooked food that he's eating there, and he has tinfoil around it. Then we ask how he heats it up. He said tinfoil, and that he doesn't microwave anything. How do you like your bacon? Crispy?

Like a little stuff? When I was younger, it was crispy. Now I like a little flop in it. It's funny. As you get older, you start to like fat and grizzle a little bit more. I don't know what... I used to be the guy that would cut that off, and now I'm the one that's telling my kids, You wimp, eat this right here. That's a great piece.

I like my bacon hard enough that I could stab someone in the chest with it if I needed to.

Wow, that's stupid. Why would you like that? Why? It hurts your teeth. I like it crispy. You like it to hurt your teeth like that? I don't know.

I mean, Sims, what happens when you're in a rush and you just got to nuke something real quick?

That doesn't happen. I I don't know. It doesn't happen. I haven't thought about it in forever, and it's either hot and ready to go or it's just not going to get fucking eaten. Or you just got to turn the oven on before you go. You got to turn the oven on, let it heat up in there for a few minutes and go. But yeah, no microwave in the Sims household right now.

Guys, I asked him the same question before, and he gave me the most dead answer ever. He said, Don't be in a rush.

There you go. Or be in a rush and make sure it's hot already and then just take it with you. That's what I do. That's why I have a wife. I mean, those are one One of the things that is a benefit of having a wife in my old traditional 1950 marriage that we both agreed to is like, Hey, where's my fucking breakfast? I'm going out the door here. It better be hot and ready to go.

Are you certain your wife agreed to these terms? Are you certain of that? Because I'm going to send this audio to her and see if she agreed to that.

No, she would agree. She wouldn't even fight. She'd be like, No, that's our relationship. That's why I can go buy a Birkin bag for from Hermes whenever I want. Trust me, she's winning, so don't worry. He lives next to Adam Silver. If he wants me to have that relationship, I'll make sure his breakfast is hot and ready.

Wow, there you go.

You're funny. Yeah, sorry. I don't want to see you in the kitchen, though, when I get there.

I'm guessing his wife is slightly more attractive, Mikey.

Chris, if you had to marry one of the three of us, who would it be?

Oh, good question. None of them. What do you mean? There's no positive thing to answer there.

But you have to. I'm not marrying any of you. You have to.

I'm going to live a single life. I'm going to live a single life.

I mean, Sims, come on. I mean, money, you wouldn't factor in anything. You have to marry one of the three of us.

I'd go Billy. No, he's not marrying any of us for money. Get out of here.

I'm not marrying any of you. I mean, no way. That's just not happening. Sorry. There's just some things I'll play along with, and this is one that I won't.

I was using the money to try to get him to marry me, Billy.

I understand, but he's worth more than me.

You win.

He's worth way more than I had. I know, but you're a below average writer, and I like creativity, so I could never marry you.

It's why I needed all these people to write my book. Sims, you should write a book, man.

No. I mean, maybe one day, but I'll let the stories I need to accumulate. One day I'll get there, maybe, but I don't know. I'm also one that's like, Am I that interesting to write a book? I don't want to deal with having to even get it orchestrated or talk to somebody a few hours every day and do all that crap. Maybe when I'm older.

I think being the son an NFL quarterback, Super Bowl winning champion quarterback, what it's like growing up in that household, what it's like being in that environment. I do think there's some people that would be interested in that.

He was an NFL quarterback.

I hear that. I got a ton of stories. That's part of the story. That's one thing I will never go away. It's me and stories, just whether it's my dad's career, end of my own career. I've been very fortunate to be around a lot of cool, crazy people in a crazy business. So, yeah, we'll get there eventually.

Chris, you mentioned earlier not being in a rush. You know who wasn't in a rush this weekend? Mike McDaniel on the Dolphins. It was a strange game for them, where normally it's just fast, fast, fast here, try to get an 80-yard countdown. If not, it's a three and out, turn the ball over. And they have a lot of possessions. This week, we saw something different from McDaniel on the Dolphins' offense, where they had really long, drawn-out drives. They had eight, nine-minute drives. I think they only had the ball five or six times the entire game. They scored all of them except the one leading into the half where they ran out the clock. Is this what they're going to have to do to make things work?

Well, yeah, it's who they are. It's cool, right? I always heard that phrase three yards in a cloud of dust from a running football team. It's not dust, but it's three yards in a cloud because they're literally playing that way through the pass game. It's like a ball control passing offense is what I've said to people over the last few weeks. Even the week before that against the Rams, it was similar. And then, of course, the week before that against the Arizona Cardinals, it's not big plays, right? We've talked about it. They're going to just surgically destroy you. A lot of 4, 8, 5, 4, run the ball, run the ball screen, run it again, do all that, chew up the clock. They're pretty efficient doing that, going to go down and get points, and then you're going to lean on your defense. And your defense plays the same way, where it's like, well, we're going to make you go the long way and the hard way. And we think that one of those plays of the 10-yard drive, you'll mess up and we'll get a turnover. You'll get so far behind the chains that you won't be able to get a first down.

They're playing that way. It's effective. It fits their football team. I think they'll win easily this week against the Patriots because of that.

Pft with Mike Florio, Every Day on Peacock, The Unbutton podcast as well, Football Night in America. Chris, are the bangles going to fuck up Joe Burrows' prime?

Well, I hope not. I mean, of course, they've fucked up this year, that's for sure. But you can't say that about other years. So this is the first year of where you can probably put The onus on the bangles organization going, You didn't make the proper moves. You didn't handle certain situations in the offseason the right way. And that's why you're sitting here at 4:00 and 7:00 and really probably got to run the table, maybe can lose one game, Maybe. But yeah, not addressing some of the defensive issues and being able to evaluate that at the end of training camp going, Man, we need more depth on the D-line. Maybe we need to get another corner in the group to help our secondary. Of Of course, the Jamar Chase contract situation was definitely a distraction. So that is all on the bangles and ownership and the front office and all of that. Hopefully, they don't do that next year. But to your point, Stugatz, this is definitely one where you can put on them for sure.

No question about it. How about Josh Allen? Did he win the MVP on that walk-off, shutdown run against Kansas City? I know Kansas City got the ball back, but...

Yeah, no, I don't think it's MVP. I don't think he wins the MVP yet.

It was a great moment, though, for him It was a great moment.

Him and Lamar, I mean, again, we can't be recency bias. Lamar has been MVP, awesome highlight show almost every week the whole year. This last game, of course, it was the Steelers. They got his number. He didn't play his best either. So there's a little of all that. But I think as you do look at it, I do think it's those two guys right now as far as the leaders, the guys in the leader house there as far as the MVP conversation. I will say that I think last week is a landmark moment to your point, Stugas, in this way. The bills are real this year. This is the most real team they've had in a while. If they play the Chiefs in the play Playoffs. I'm going to say it, and this might come back to bite me, they're going to beat the Chiefs in the playoffs this year, too. This was the first time the Chiefs couldn't just play, Let's just stop Josh Allen and we'll win the game. The Bills have other guys now. Oh, you want to play man-to-man and put everybody in the box and stop the Josh Allen run or our run game?

Oh, Amari Cooper or Khalil Shaqir will beat you in man-to-man coverage. Sorry. You don't have Lejaria Sneed anymore. Your defense isn't as good. The Bills' old line is so good That when the Chiefs play a vanilla defense, they get pushed around and moved around. And then we know the Chief's offense is not good. So, yeah, I think the Bills are going to be in this. They're going to be in the race of the number one seed. I would say they're the best in the AFC. The Chiefs things, guy, is crazy. Forty years of football intuition wants to tell me they can't do this and go to the Super Bowl. Play defense, just get it done type of thing. Except they had a five-year game run at the end of last year that they did it. So you're scared to say that. But I just find that it'll be hard to replicate and what the way they're playing right now on the offensive side of the ball, especially. I've said it every year.

Just keep saying it until you get it right and then hold that one up.

Well, this one's got real There are flaws to it. That's where last year- And real challengers, Chris.

Real challengers.

Exactly right. And last year, Kelsey was a better player than he is this year. He's on the downward trend of his career. At this time of the year, last year, we saw Rashe Rice starting to come along going, Oh, he's got something to him here. Watch out. Right now, there's nobody coming along that I say, Oh, watch out. We might see Xavier worthy here and there and all that. I get it. The Chiefs, when they just rush four, they can't really get after the quarterback. And like I said, without Lejarious need, people have forgotten about that. They had Lejarious need in McDuffie, I would say two of the top four corners in football on their team last year. They could basically just go, Hey, nine guys, stop the run. These two guys will cover the other guy, the receiver. No worries. They don't do that now. There's some different issues there. And yeah, I don't think they're as good as last year.

Chris, is it possible we're looking at a situation in which, and I can't believe I'm saying this, where Bo Nicks might be the best quarterback out of this quarterback class?

I don't think it's crazy to think that. He's got skills. This is where the draft evaluators and all that got to stop looking at the college offense and drafting the offense. They, Oh, he throws screens. He must not have a very strong arm. Well, what about the four 25-yard lasers he threw during the game? They're just going to discount those? So decipher through it. Work a little bit. That's what I don't get. And that's where everybody I talked to, all he did was throw screens. Now they're talking about Dylan Gabriel this year who's doing the same thing, and they're like, Hey, he's going to win the Heisman. He's the best player in college football. It's just like, So why? That's awesome, but this wasn't. What the hell is everybody talking about? It's ass backwards with that there. He's an incredible athlete. He's very smart. He's played football. He's accurate as hell, and his arm is way stronger than people gave it credit for. And all they do But his throw power throws. So the greatest offensive mind we've seen in football over the last 20 years, he liked the guy, and every throw they throw is 25, 30 yards down the field.

He obviously thinks his arm's strong enough. And yes, Sugatz, They're going to be here. They can go to the playoffs. I would bet they're going to be in the playoffs, and he's got a good chance of winning Rookey of the Year.

Who are you calling out there? Are you calling out GM?

I'm calling out all the draft. It's all I ever heard heard. I still hear it. I still hear people on certain text I'm on where they'll watch Bo Nicks for a minute, and they'll send a screenshot of his stats from the first quarter of a game and go, I can't believe this guy was drafted in the first round. And I want to send the text at the end of the game to go, Oh, they fucking won, and he threw for 70% in 300. I'm like, Fuck you. You don't know what you're talking about. That's what I want to say to some of these idiots on my group text. Do it. I know. Well, I do it. I usually end up just saying in person. Don't worry.

Big dog.

What'd you make of Joe Douglas being let go by the Jets this past week here?

I mean, I'm not surprised. I feel bad for Joe Douglas in some ways. There's just so many issues there with the Jets. Here's my first thing is the talent on the team, which the GM was responsible for. I mean, nobody in football would sit here and go, Oh, the Jets don't have any talent. I mean, there's a lot of teams in football that go, I'd trade the Jets' roster for on my roster right now. I'll do it. They got a lot of great stuff. The thing that hurt him, there's two things. Some of the bad coaching hires, you could say that right from the very start, Zack Wilson, he gets a defensive head coach, and Robert Salah, first-time head coach, has no idea how to bring along a young quarterback. Of course, you can get into then, I think, so you can get into the coaching stuff there, offensive coordinators through those times, all of that. Then you can also get into the Aaron Rodgers thing. When they brought in Aaron Rodgers, they anointed him king of the organization. It's very rarely king of the organization works. That doesn't work in football. Tom braided and the Patriots are also Why?

Because Bill Belichick was king, and braided was the general, and that's when football works. As awesome as Peyton Manning was, the sheriff, he still wasn't the king. Tony Dungy was the fucking king. He was the sheriff. The king at quarterback never has worked, even when braided went to Tampa Bay. Bruce Arians was still king. He made everybody know that that was the case. Even in the Chiefs right now, Patrick Mahomes is maybe the greatest thing we've ever seen a quarterback. This king is still Andy Reid. Those would be the mistakes I look at a Joe Douglas that led to his demise.

What's the order? It's King, Sheriff, General. Where are General and Sheriff in the whole situation?

I think General is ahead of Sheriff in the packing order.

It just depends. It's It depends. Payton's from the south, so I went with the sheriff. I don't know. It just seems like it was better that way. I don't make sense. I have no idea. Either way, it's very high ranking, and you should listen to them. That's my point. All right. Jets don't even have a Duke. Yeah, you don't even have a Duke. You don't even have a deputy. You guys are on a crap. You got a traffic officer. That's what you got. We can't even fire a 30 and 64 GM the right way. We can't even do that. No, No, you can't do a lot of things the right way. I know, Mikey.

Chris, is that going to be a good job, the Jets' job? Because there's weapons, you just don't have a quarterback, it seems, because if you read the reports, Aaron is not going to be back next year. Woody didn't want him to be here this year. No.

Do you want that job? I saw the article Mikey A wrote about that Roger's not throwing the ball down the field. It's good work, Mikey A. I mean, spot on. I appreciate that.

He got it all from you.

Well, it was great, and he did a deeper dive into it and got in the numbers even farther than me there. Again, to only throw the ball in the air over 10 yards four times last week, you should be fired just because of that. The current NFL, you threw four passes over 10 yards against the shitty ass Colts defense. Are you trying to win or are you protecting your numbers? Again, it goes back to that conversation. That's part of the problem. Again, when you play defense against the Jets, you just got to worry about runs and little short passes to the outside. That's all you got to worry about.

Chris, I'm interested in your thoughts on this. Am I crazy to be okay with Woody Johnson? Because last year, if you remember the criticism, hold on a sec. If you remember that criticism of, Hey, we don't have a backup in case Aaron gets hurt. Aaron got hurt, and they didn't have a backup, and we mocked them the entire season. So this year, they went out of their way to get Tyrod Taylor, who was a legitimate backup in the NFL. He has started many games in the NFL. Woody, who Jet fans criticized for not taking this thing seriously, not paying attention, not carrying the way the fan base cares, he recognized that Aaron wasn't playing well, wasn't throwing the ball down the field, and had the audacity as the owner to walk into an office that he owns and say, Hey, how about Tyrod Taylor instead of Aaron Rodgers? I'm okay with that, Chris. The fact that Joe Douglas and Salah were protecting a guy that has no business being protected by the Jets is absurd.

I hear you there. Back to the Jets, when people want to be, was that a good job? Yes, it's a good job. But there's going to be people out there go, I don't know if I want to deal with Woody Johnson and the quarterback issue. That'll be a thing. It will, whether that's fair or not. To your point here, I think a lot of what you say there is right. But what I will push back against is, and what we've heard, the timing of that and him saying that was 10 days after I heard the whole Jets fan base like, Have you ever seen a quarterback be to read defenses like Aaron Rodgers? Oh, my gosh. What he did against the Patriots? He was like, he called their defense before they called their defense. It was like, How does he see it so quickly? Oh, my gosh. And then 10 days later, you want to bench him? That's where I can't get behind that.

I was one of them, by the way.

Well, right. So everybody was. I'm not trying to get on you. So was I. But if that conversation went down two weeks I'd be like, Oh, yeah, that's justifiable. The quarterback's sucky right now. Maybe they need to put somebody else in. I don't think you're crazy with that thought. I just don't think the timing of that thought and what Woody has said, I We think he has said whatever through the Rumorville, all that. I don't think that timing is correct. Speaking of sucky quarterbacks in New York, what did you make of the decision to bench Daniel Jones, but not for Drew Locke, who they brought in to be the number two, but for Tommy Cutlets? Oh, I know. Well, I mean, I'm not surprised by the Daniel Jones thing, right? With the 23 million injury guarantee. We all knew this was coming. I didn't know if it was going to come this week right away. I thought maybe they'd try to maybe try to win a game or two with Daniel Jones and then put them on ice just to make the record look better. I didn't know how it was going to shake out.

Now, the reason Tommy DeVito is getting pushed is all about dollars and cents in the fan base. It's a total business decision. That's what it is. How do that goes over in the locker room? I don't know. There's definitely be certain people that go, damn, so we're just not going to play the better player now. The guy that we've seen in practice be the number two that we talked about benching the first guy for to put in, and we're going to put the third guy over all of them? There's going to be guys in the in the back room. Like, what the hell is that? But hey, it's Tommy DeVito. He does have a following. He's a Jersey guy. The fans up here are frustrated with the Giants, and they've been clamoring for Tommy DeVito. So the Giants owners and front office gave them what they want. And I think it's just as simple as that, Mikey A. Is Brian Dayball in trouble? Is he on the hot seat with this? I think so. How could they not all be? I think, again, how the year ends and how they play for Brian Dayball down the stretch and what he does on the offensive side of the ball is all going to go into that first meeting evaluation right after the season is over to where it goes.

Now, where I will go crazy, and you'll hear me next week, is if they break We'll check out some different offenses because this is a pet peeve of mine. Oh, we have a good quarterback. He's our starter. This is our offense. Then we get to the backup or the third stringer, and they go, Hey, we got to help him out. We got to do some more trick plays. We got to do this, do that, that. I always come on with Oreo and go, Why the fuck couldn't they've done that with the starting quarterback? Why? There was a rule like, Oh, that play was too good. We don't want to do that to our starting quarterback. That's where I will go crazy this week. I won't be surprised if we watch. We'll see some of that crap this week where the Giants will be creative all of a sudden. Daniel Jones is going to be on the sideline going, We couldn't call this play when I was in the game? So we'll see where that goes.

Pft with Mike Florio every day on Peacock, The Unbutton podcast as well. Football Night in America. I will get We got to get out of here in just a second, Chris. I'm wondering, if you're in charge of the Dallas Cowboys, who is the person you're hiring to run that organization?

I know.

It's a tough one.

I go back to my same... Again, I don't think a Bill Belichick would be horrible there. I think they could use a guy that get the whole organization in order. I look at that. You know my love of Mike Vrabel and everything there. But do they change it up? Do they try to go some young, unproven offensive guy to add some life and juice to their football team? I really don't know where it goes, but they're a disaster. Their offense is not good. They're starting quarterbacks out. They have one receiver can worry about. They can't run the football, and their defense is just okay. I, of course, expect them to lose this week against the commanders by a shutdown or two in that one.

How about the Jets? Who would you hire there? Because Belichick doesn't want that job. No.

Which job would you rather have? I would probably rather have the Jets job. The Jets one is the one where I look at and go, and I think we said this last week, that's where I look at Mike Vrabel. Mike Vrabel, they need to have a guy that's going to go in there and go, No, this is how it's going down in the facility. This is how it's going down in the practice field. I've been around football my whole life. We're going to worry about this and this and football and football and football and not hard knocks and press conference and we're cool. Our rookie and second-year players are going to make state-of-the-union addresses all the time and tell us how the state of the team is. To me, I'm a big Vrabel fan. He'd be top on my list in a lot of places, Stugatz.

What's a top job? Jets, Cowboys, bears.

Gosh, I think the bears would probably be that. The bears have a lot of young talent, and you have the quarterback. But damn, I mean, as we look at it right now, there's going to be seven, eight job openings, I think, right? Yeah. I do. But the bears one, I think, will be one that is the offensive play collar ones, the Ben Johnson's of the world. They're all going to go, I'd like to go to Chicago. We improve that offensive line. We maybe get one more receiver. Watch out for us. I think that It would be towards the top of the list.

Well, there's also possibly, I mean, not officially yet, but I mean, we assume it's going to happen. The Jaguars with your beloved Trevor Lawrence might be out here, Chris.

Well, yeah, it could be. There's a lot of people that believe that's what part of the reason Ben Johnson put 52 on the Jaguars last week with the lions. I had a lot of people in football. Again, that's not going to be the worst job in the world. People are going to look at that and go, Wait, there's really only to go up. The quarterback Again, I understand you questioning him, Billy, but we have seen him do it. We've seen him go on a playoff run and make some magical games, game-winning comebacks, had the Chiefs on the road. So there's enough evidence to go, I think I can make it work with this guy. I know maybe not everybody's going to believe that, but I still think that Jaguars as a whole, they got a lot of young pieces, too. They certainly shouldn't have the record they have right now with the talent on that team.

Chris, the team that's starting to scare me, last one for me, the Chargers, because you have Justin Herbert, who's a great quarterback, but he's simply not turning the ball over. He's got one interception, I think, the entire year. If he continues to do that, it doesn't matter how many countdown passes he throws for. That defense is so fucking good that if he could just not turn the ball over, that team could go far in the playoffs, man.

They're made for the playoffs. They're made for it. They're made for, oh, tough, physical, 23-20, 2017 divisional playoff game in cold weather, whatever. Ever. The Broncos are similar that way. They just have a rookie quarterback. The Steelers are a little that way, too, but I think the Chargers are the best version of all of them. Joe Burrow and the Bangles didn't crack the code last week. I did a full breakdown of this on my Wednesday podcast, Chris Hims on Button, when I watched the... I mean, Joe Burrow and Chase and Higgins just made some absolute baller-fucking plays, period. That's all there is, too. It wasn't like the Ravens this week are like, Oh, they cracked the code. Now we know how to attack. We got it. We Got it. No, not at all. Their defense is phenomenal. You said it about Herb. They can run the ball. I think they're dangerous. I think the chargers are one of the top teams. I actually picked them to beat the Ravens this week in LA. Again, I wouldn't bet on that, but I'm going to take them to win by three points. I am.

Well, you concerned about the Ravens at all? Because if they lose that game, they're sitting at 6-5, I think, right?

I've been concerned about the Ravens. The Ravens don't play through the run enough. You know I banged on the table forever about that. And I understand they get away with it some weeks because they're so good and they can get away with it. But there was a game the other day where the run game was there, and there's a little reluctance to call it and ride with it a little bit. Agreed. They got to do that. When they play through the run, we don't notice they play through the run. We go, Whoa, look at all these yards and points. And I go, Well, yeah, look at the start of the game. They ran the ball, they gashed them, and then it just all opens up. And they don't do that. They're reluctant to do that at times. And of course, I'm scared of their defense. Their defense stinks. And that's why it's like, they'll never be a game that's not close. As long as they're playing a team that's in the upper half of football, it'll be a close game with the Ravens because everybody can throw the football on them. I think, really, you can run the ball on them a little better than people think, too.

It's just people want to throw at every play because it's easy pickings that way.

All right, man, we appreciate it. My apologies for being late.PFT with Mike Florio.It's okay. Books to sell. Wanted to apologize. Pft with Mike Florio. Every day on Peacock, the Unbutton podcast this as well. Football Night in America. They have the Rams, they have the Eagles, they have the NFL Coach of the Year, nick Siriani. Chris Sims. Guys, big week coming up next week. We get the Thanksgiving Day Sims football game preview. This is very exciting.

Lock it in. Lock it in. Big year. The first time Big Phil will be there in a year.

Wow.

Big Phil is going to be there. What's going to go down there?

Is he playing?

I don't know. If he's playing, he becomes full-time quarterback. Oh, boy. I was going to say no auto QB for you. Wait a second. Wait. Now I'll be running routes, which is dangerous.

That releases a weapon, a CrossFit weapon.

It does. The Vegas is not sure what the line of the game is yet because of the quarterback situation, and they want to check my physical status after CrossFit. They know I might be a notch above most years, so I'm dangerous. I'm like, Tyrie kill out there this year.

What about your brother Matt? Is he playing?

Oh, yeah, he'll play. The big thing with my brother and them is, will they get there before it's dark? That's my sister and brother, the last few thanksgivings, they get there and we can barely play because it's fucking dark outside. So hopefully I can get them there earlier today.

Can you imagine, Phil, if he tells Chris to go on a 10-yard in route and Chris goes out. Can you imagine? Oh, my God. Phil is going to mother you, dude.

Seriously. I'll hear it from my house. Or I'll start taking over and be like, No, no, do this, do this. And he'll be like, Well, you shut up, Christopher. I got it. Now, I want to film I'm imagining Phil throwing hospital balls out there where Chris is sending his nephews to the hospital.

He's just targeting all of that. Maybe.

He better be careful.

All right, we'll get the full preview next week. We might have to have big fucker on just to preview the game.

That'd be good. Actually, I'll reach out and see if we can get them on there.

Oh, that'd be so much fun. All right, check them out. Pft with Mike Florio, The Unbutton podcast as well. Football Night in America. Again, they have the Rams coming up against nick Siriani and Philadelphia Eagles this Sunday night. It's a pretty good game. Both teams still in contention. The Eagles is one of the better teams in the NFL. We appreciate it, buddy. Looking forward to next week.

Always, guys. Be good. Have a good weekend. Enjoy the games. Love you guys.

Long time.

Guys, guys, guys. Who's that stranger I see?

Who's that stranger in the corner?

Who is that that just joined?

Who the fuck is that?

Are we recording? Carl, my man, baby. I missed you, buddy. I missed you.

Man, come on. Man, I've been missing you. I've been talking It's not the same without you.

I know. I know. I have some family, some stuff with my son, but it's all good. Thank you though.

That's the story.

Okay.

That's the story you tell me.

I listen to both shows, so I wrote down a couple of notes.

You wrote down notes on this show.

He's back.

What notes did you write down, K. You don't mind us asking.

Is Mojo on? I don't want to wait till he gets on.

He's not here yet. We'll wait for Mojo so you can give us your notes on what we do. It also is quite coincidental, Kefunt, that you're coming on after having a three and two week, and there's a three and two week that you've had in months.

I was three and two the last two weeks when I wasn't on, right?

Yeah. I mean, you seem to be doing better when you're not here than when you are here. Yeah.

That's been a trend on the show this year.

That's interesting. That should be studied, I think.

Yeah. When Mojo doesn't come on and he goes opposite me, he wins. When he makes his own picks, he loses.

Carl's hot streak started when he wasn't on the show.

I turned around when I wasn't on the show. Exactly. Gordie, did you have a good week last week?

Well, I know last week, two weeks ago. We all went. Yeah, same thing happened.

We all went three and two, except I think Mojo went two and three.

No, there was someone else who didn't go three and two, and it was Carl Douglas who went four and one last week. Four and one. Hey, hey, hey. He's immune to the show now.

Nice, Carl.

Big one for Carl. Are we recording now?

We are recording. I will share with all of you this information. After Carl's four and one week and Mojo's two and three week, we have a new head of the leaderboard here. So if we go to the standings, Carl has now surpassed Mojo in of the standings at 30, 20, and one. Carl has a 598 win percentage. After a two and three week, Mojo has fallen down to 32, 22, and two, and he has a 589 win percentage. Okay. Also, he Very slow path, but we got here. Mike Rauhlas is back at 500 at 20 and 20.

Big Mike.

Can I ask you a question? And I love Mike. Mike's awesome, especially the shit that he talks about Mojo. I love that.

Here There you go.

Let me ask you a question. That 'O' and '5' week of Mike's, did we just delete that from the- What 'O' and '5' week of Mike's? He went 'O' and '5' one week, and we just deleted it.

No, all of his weeks have counted so far. Okay.

All right. Hey, Mike, props to you, baby. I love you.

The only weeks of Mike that didn't count were his first three weeks that he missed, that he went '15 and 0. We didn't count those. If that was the case, he'd be '35 and 20. All right. Continue on. Yeah. Well, and then we also had- But I get it. I mean, I wasn't- We had a a little bit of movement at the bottom of the rankings as well, where... Well, Sharebear is staying where he's right been the entire season. He's 24, 30, and 2. He has a 4,31 win percentage. And Gordie has passed KFunk. He passed him a couple of weeks ago and had the exact same record as KFunk last week at three and two, each of them. So Gordie's 21, 34, and two. He has a 386 win percentage. And KFunk, thanks to all of his college games that he sends us that lose, he is 21, 35, and two with 379 win percentage. All right.

Well, like I said, those college games don't count, so let's get those off. I'll talk to my attorney, Carl, on this one. Because first of all, I'm two and... If you look at the group chat, I'm two and two.

I'm with you. The college game, Billy, come on. The college game don't count.

Well, hold on. You got to take it off of mine because I took his pick.

Carl, I never said... Hey, let me talk. Carl, I never said anything about, Hey, this is for the show. We have a group chat where we talk shit to each other about everything. And I said, Oh, I bet on this game. I bet on this game. I'm not once involved in any show. Billy and Mikey A.

You gave your own hashtag, Thank you, K-Funk. Yeah. That counts.

That has nothing to do with it.

I didn't know that KFunk.

Did you have your own hashtag, man. Come on. Yeah.

He also... He called them his locks of the Week also, Carl.

Carl, that's going to be hard to abracadabra K-Funk.

Wait, he called them Locks of the Week.

Wait, I told him.

Wait, wait, wait. Wait, wait. He said Locks of the Week. K-fum, did you say, Locks of the Week?

Carl, listen to me. Listen to me. K-fum, did you say they were locks?

Did you say Locks of the Week?

Can I talk to you? Can I talk?

Yes or no?

All right. Can I speak? Yes or no? Okay, just listen. One of the games I did say it was my Locker of the week. That had nothing to do with the show. That was my gambling. I put my hard-earned money into that, okay? Second of all, the two wins that I posted on the group chat, Billy did not count. He only counted the two losses.

I don't know about that.

Well, I mean, it's funny because when I went to the casino and I said, Can I have my money back? Because they don't count for the show, they seem to say no, that they can't have it back.

I told you I pay you. I told you I give you your money back.

You pay him?

I told him I'd pay for his bet. I felt bad.

Why? Why is he mad?

I can feel bad? Why you feel bad? I feel bad because he don't make a lot of money. Stukas don't pay that guy's shit.

I can't see that. Okay. Well, Carl- He's not wrong. Carl, I will say this. One of his locks of the week was Florida State University. I heard about that one, right? We should have known.

I want, of course. I want that one alone to be enough to cursify you.

But really, in fairness, if you're going to count as losses, you have to count as wins as well. Correct.

We'll look Well, no, because, Carl, this is what happened. This is what was going on. Is that because he was doing so poorly, he would give us his lock of the week shortly after we would record or early in the day. And then once things started going South. He would then give us an additional five games, and it got out of control. We're like, KFunk, you cannot just be coming up with all of these games to try to improve your record. That's not how it works.

Billy, none of this had anything to do with my record. It's on our group that I was talking about gambling, and I only did four pics total, and I went two and two. None of that had to do with the show, dude. If it had to do with the show, I would say it right now. I would say, Hey, I want to get more games.

If I remember correctly, and I think, Mike, Mojo is not here, but if I remember correctly, I think some of them were in-game bets as well, where games were already in hand. Some of my games were already over. They were in Asia. They were already over. See, Sharebear... Thank you, Sharebear.

It was like Biff on Back of the Future. He got that special book.

Exactly right.

Anyway, this Carl, regardless, our group chat has nothing to do with the show.

Fair enough.

What do you mean?

If you count the losses, you got to count the wins.

Well, the wins were suspect at best, Carl. At best.

Thankfully, I have a record and receipt, so we'll figure that out.

Actually, you know what? I would like that, Kavon. Can you bring next week all of your receipts and can you give us what you believe your accurate record would be in the maybe, Carl?

I have no idea what my record is, but I'm going to say it's probably the same as Gordie's because Two weeks ago on the show, you said I had the same as Gordie's, and I went three and two the last two weeks, so I don't know how I'm below on that.

Well, your only percentage points, mere percentage points below Gordie, and it was because of one of your bonus pics. So Gordie's 21, 34 and two, and you're He went 35 and two, and it's because one of your bonus pics was a loss.

How did I do that week?

Gordie and I have the same record, and we'll call it a day, and we'll move on from here.

Hold on.

I'm going to get Carl involved. You're not going to like to- You're to eliminate a loss?

I don't know about that.

It's not a loss from the show, Billy.

You said, Count it towards my record, specifically.

I never said that. I never said, Count it towards my record.

Bullshit. Let me get this straight. You only want to count the record of pics you made on the show, correct?

Yes, NFL Picks. We don't do college pics.

Hold on a second. Hold on.

Hold on, Ms. America. Billy, I got this. So you only want- There we go. The pics made on the show to count. The NFL Picks you made on the show?

No. Every pick that we make on the show is on the show.

You said only NFL.

No, not true. Any pick on the show is a pick on the show.

Okay, And which pics did you make the last two weeks?

End of story.

Those two, three, and two weeks. Which are those pics?

I tried to, but Mojo told me that... And Billy told me that Mojo picked for me.

Well, if he tried to, I guess.

It seems like six and four might need to be erased from the record. That's all I'm saying. I'd also say- I'll eliminate those college pics if you get rid of the six and four, too.

Anyway, getting back to my notes from the show.

Hold on. I'd also say- That was pretty good.

I'm not doing it, but that was... Mike, That was well thought through.

I'm not doing that.

Where do you want to hire me, I'm free, Karl. That was well thought through. I let that shoot. I don't agree with it, but I let that shoot. I'm not going to agree with it. That was a good one. That was a good one.

Okay, KFunk, you said that you have notes on the show, I'm interested in hearing what those notes are exactly. When you were listening to the show, did you hear that an offer was made to remove your record from last week? Now, it was a winning record, so I don't know if you necessarily want to take us up on that offer.

No, that was My main notes were this. One, the first one was just, Mikey A is just such a hater, dude. I just... Jesus. I mean, I don't know what you guys pay this guy to hate on me. I mean, this guy came down to Tampa.

I rolled out the- It was the hashtag. It was the hashtag. The red? It was the hashtag.

I treated this guy like a king in Tampa. A king.

Thank you. Love you.

Don't hashtag. But this guy is just a hater. And Billy, you're a little under him, but that was my main note.

That was another.

That was another. Hey, He's a hater. K-fun rolls rolls off the carpet. I'm not going to lie. We had a great time. He really does.

He really does.

Great time.

I love you. I love you, Aldo.

So that was your note, just Mikey is a hater?

And also my second note It's just that everyone's like, Sweat and Mojo. His record is like, he got the record. His three weeks that he went 14 and one was just going opposite me. He didn't make the pics. Listen, the two weeks that Mojo made his own pics, he went 0 and 5 and 1 and 4. So to me, he's just whatever. He has a good scheme going. That's fine.

What is it? He's a paper champion.

Exactly. He's not a spread master. He's not good when he has to pick under pressure. He's good when he rides. I was on a cold streak, and yeah, he I rode the cold streak.

Well, I rode that cold streak with you.

He wasn't even on the show. He didn't even know who he was picking. He just goes opposite KFunk, and he signed off.

I'm going to have to look into that. I'm not sure that's exactly how it went. I got to hear from Mojo.

You got to hear from Mojo.

Where is Mojo, KFunk? Weren't you in charge of getting him on here?

He said he'll be here. Okay.

All right. Well, I think Mojo is our only multiple-time champion, so I'd be careful the way you're speaking of the spread master, KFunk.

Multiple-time champion with one.

He's won this show multiple times, if I remember correctly. He won the first season, and I won the second, too. So you're totally- No, I think if I'm remembering correctly, no. I think Mojo has won two times, and I think that you've finished second three times, if I remember correctly.

I won last year and the year before. Nice try, though.

I don't think that that's how that went.

Season 2, I was 70 %. Studio God said he's never seen anything like that.

I'll consult the record books, and I'll have a report for you next week, but I don't think that you've won two years in a row. I don't think you've ever won.

Okay. Well, consult the record books.

Hey, Gordie, how are you?

I'm fantastic. I've been just listening to some great conversations and-up, and he's gone.

Sherbert did very discreetly ask if we could send him a microphone and a camera this week. No, no, no. Christmas present.

Was that your smartest idea of all time?

How was that discreet?

How did it discreetly?

How was it discreetly done?

He just said, this year for Christmas presents, you should send us microphones He wanted a whole communication package.

Okay, yeah.

No cookies this year.

I want us to be up for free to use Billy and stew because they're legends, to get a free tablet and some stuff. Why wouldn't we want to get it?

Oh, my God.

Wait a minute. Mojo, welcome to the party. Kfunk has joined us again this week for the first time in a month, and he has been quite defensive.

Hey, Funk, how How are you doing, man? It's good to see you, pal.

Doing well, buddy. Doing well.

Good to see you. The show has not been the same without you, Funk. Everybody's missed you. The fans, ratings are down. The teams are playing poorly on Sundays. Funk, we need you, Funk. We missed you and we love you, Funk. That's true. We're here for you, pal.

Karl already told me, baby. Thank you, though.

I told him, Mojo, that I believe you're our only multiple-time winner, and that KFunk has finished third place, or second place three different times. Kfunk has said that he has won multiple seasons, and you've only won once. So there's a lot being disputed today. Also, Mojo, Karl went four and one last week, and he has overtaken first place. He has jumped over you after your three and two week, which is impressive showing by Carl. And KFunk has fallen to last place behind Gordie, and he has disputed that as well.

Well, here's the thing, guys. This is going to be KFunk's moment. Yes, he hasn't won a season yet, but that doesn't matter. His heart has been there, and he's been a valuable part of this show. And I think that he's going to turn this thing around. I think he can win this year. I think it's the year of Funk. It's time to get funky.

How many people are on this? Let's see, picking games. It looks like there's six. So, KFunk, I have an idea. So since you're in last place and there's six guys, I propose, and you guys can vote on this, and it's early in the season, but I propose that KFunk should be sixth man of the year this year.

Billy, once again, no one's interested in your jargon over here.

Well, it's a real award in the NBA. It's for the best bench player. Like I said, hey, season two, season 3, I won.

Mojo wasn't even here. Mojo, Chris, and Jaba just ditched the show, ran off, said they were not good enough for us. And what did I do? I jumped in, I grabbed the reins, I invited Sherry, I invited Gordie. I saved the year last year. I saved the year last year. And what do I get out of it? I get Mike Yee talking shit and hitting on Kate Funk.

I will say that, Funk, even though you've always been last in the standings, you've always been first in our hearts, and we love you guys.

Yes, that is true. A lot of applause for that. Well said.

He's a leading candidate for the sixth man of the year. Let's go with sixth man of the year, K-Funk. Leading candidate.

We have a special pick this week, too.

Okay, here we go with your bullshit. What is the special pick this week?

If you think it's bullshit, what's the sex of Mojo's baby that's due next week? So it's not bullshit.

We already know the answer. He told us.

No, you did? No, you didn't. Are you kidding me? You didn't. No. Did you? I won't say anything ill about his child, but that guy, I got something for him.

Why would you say something ill about his child?

I don't know. He said we were doing a gender reveal.

Well, he did. You weren't here for it.

Well, when was this? Because I didn't hear about it.

Do you not know what it is? No one tell him.

I don't know. I mean, I think I know, but...

All right. Well, what do you know about this? Bucaneers are Giants, Giants plus five and a half, K, Funk.

I'm not going first every time, so we're- You have to.

No, you don't have to. This way, you can't be influenced by anyone else. Come on.

I don't mind going first.

I don't mind going first.

I'm very supportive of my friend I'm Creston Logerman.

Okay, fine, Mojo. You can go first then. Bucaneers of Giants plus five and a half.

Yeah, I'll take the Buc.

Okay, perfect. Buc.

And, Funk, you're welcome to pick the same team as me if you'd like. All right, I'll go first. We're not going to make fun of anybody today. I love this.

I'm going first. This is a GVF love.

I'll go first on the rest of the pick, because I'm not dealing with Mojo. Okay, who do you want for this game?

Who do you think? I'm going to go with... I mean, as much as I like to take Tommy Cutlets, I can't do that.

I'm taking the Bucks. You're copying Mojo.

Yeah. So I'll go first next one.

We're just really good friends. We see eye to eye. Creston knows half the players on the Bucks. They like him, and they're here for him, too. I talked to the head coach today. He said, We all support Creston. We got his back. We know he's going to do a dynamite job with his pics, and his friendship means a lot to us.

I love that. Okay, Gordie, who do you have? Bucaneers of Giants plus five and a half.

I'm jumping on the bandwagon.

Okay.

I'm going with Creston.

Everyone supports this week. Okay. Share Bear, who do you want to go with?

Bucaneers of where? Giants?

Yeah, Giants plus five and a half.

Actually, last minute, I'm flying to New York tomorrow. Just like I got pickleball in ESPN, you got to hear this. Bike Polo, my buddy's doing the production for Bike Polo. It's going to be an ESPN, the Ocho. It's going to be the Kings versus the Queens, the King of Manhattan. Bike Polo Manhattan district. I'm going, I'm going to color commentate. What? It's like the subway series, Mets versus Yankees. I'm not joking. I'm serious. I'm not that funny. It's actually serious. Bike Polo, baby. So I'm going, I'm going to be in New York, so I'm going all Giants.

I'm all in.

All right, Mike. Well, I just wanted to say, you just disappeared, but it sounds like Mojo is getting an early jump on.

He's getting into his dean mode here.

Yeah.

Almost coach mode. It sounds like he's very politically correct. He's coming out like he's given a press conference almost, and he's back in K-Funk.

It's pretty respectable to see.

I'll get out in the bandwagon. Mike Evans is supposed to be back this week.

I think the Bucks are too good.

They beat him by the touch.

Are we seeing the beginnings of Daddy Dean? That's what I think. Coach Dean, maybe. Yeah. All right, Carl- I've been called that before. Well, I think this is a different context.

I'm going with Dean and Creston, and I'm going to take the Bucks, too.

Wow. Look at that, KFunk. Everyone supports you this week, except Share Bear because of bike Polo.

Watch out for Tommy Colors, bro.

Okay, KFunk, you wanted to go first this week, this one, so that you're not copying Mojo again?

Yeah, sure.

Why not? Taking NFL Picks history, that's the reason has been bike polo.

Yeah, probably. It's got to be the first time ever. Bro, four years ago, though, Pickleball, everyone the same thing. I'm feeling it. In the Kings versus the Queens, who better to freaking just start off with?

It's a big- Steve Gotz and Billy were laughing at me when I was hyping out Pickleball.

Yeah, I support you in all your griffs, but this one, Bike Polo, I don't think is going to catch on.

You're so good on Mike Polo. Imagine it's hitting people, Mojo. Look it up, Bike Polo. It's fucking unreal. It's unreal.

This seems not like it's going to catch on.

Billy, 20 years ago, getting to a stranger's car and going somewhere was unthinkable as well.

That is That is true. Okay, fine. Maybe bike polo. Yeah, we'll buy low on bike polo, I guess. Okay, K-Funk.

I don't know what you guys are talking about. I thought that's what Gord's shirt was called, the bike polo. I didn't know what was happening.

He's an auctioneer.

K-funk, who do you like in this one? 49ers and packers minus two and a half packers.

God, this is tough. I think this is the toughest game on there. I want to take the pack at home. Give me the packers at home.

All right. Mojo?

I just think that was a brilliant observation by KFunk, and I think he's on to something here, and he's made a career out of sports betting for decades, and he always does such a swell job with us. Really, really neato what he's been able to produce here on the show. I think I will also copy his pick and go with the Green Bay packer. Wow.

Look at you guys on the same page. Share Bear, who do you like?

Who is the packers playing?

49ers@packers. Packers minus two and a half.

I had a buddy, my physio. He's actually Garner Minshaw's physio, too. Almost got the dolphins last week until about a couple of rough ones. But I got him some packers tickets this week. So I had a buddy do me a favor. So I'm going to go with the pack.

Give me a favor, and let's go to the pack this week.

All right, Gordie, 49ers or packers?

I would really like to take it at three and the points, but I don't know. I don't think they're going to get blown out again. Sam Frant has to win. They're too good not to. I'm going to go with Sam Frant.

I know it's West East Coast game, but I'm taking the 49ers. All right, Mike?

Yeah, I mean, it's interesting.

There's a lot of NFC West games that are on the schedule, the flight this week. And it's near dear to my heart.

I'm going to just go with my heart over my mind and go pack as well.

Okay. Go pack, go. Karl, who do you have?

This is a hard one, man. And you know it's funny because I study this shit and Share Bear just picks a city because he's going to buy a polo in some shit.

He's amazing, man.

I'm not going to lie. The 90s have a lot of injuries, man, but I think they're going to want it more, so they're going to cover.

I I like that.

The nine is to cover.

To an ass. Your studies showed you that the 49ers wanted it more.

They're going to win by one or two, he says.

That's what I'm saying.

Okay, KFunk. Cardinals at Seahawks, Seahawks minus one.

This is another tricky one. And this, to me, is a coin flip, too. There's three coin flip games here. But I am going to go with my guy, Rollis here, his brother, man. I tell you, ever since I talk shit about his brother, he's been putting it So give me the Arizona there.

I don't know if you witnessed, if you were here for that, but I apologize on behalf of everyone, KFunk.

I listen to the show when I'm not on.

Is there anything else that you would like to add to that, KFunk? The apology episode. In your notes, did you take any apology notes, additional apologies that you'd like to add?

I just want to make sure you have the chance.

Yeah.

To Rollis for saying his brother sucked. That was like a month ago.

I like him now. Well, that's the last time you were on.

Right there in the month. Long time.

Ancient history in NFL years. I like him now.

I'm team Rollis now.

Okay. Love it. Mojo, who do you like in this? A Cardinal's at Seahawks minus one.

I just want to take after my guy, K. Funk, over there because I also insulted Rollis' brother. Well, really Rollis, mostly Rollis, but his brother by default. Maybe I should take a page out of K. Fung's book just because he's such a humble, gracious human being. I think I'll follow Kreston's pick once again.

Okay, wow. This is incredible. Okay, Carl, who do you like in this one? Cardinals at Seahawks minus one and a half.

The Cardinals are playing really good ball right now. They may even win the division. I have James Connor and Marvin Harrison on my fantasy team, so I'm going with Cardinals as well.

Okay, Mike, do I even need to ask you? No, but I just wanted to ask Karl if he, in his research, saw that the Seahawks don't have power at their facility currently.

I didn't see that.

They're practicing without power. In the rain.

The Boom cyclone is coming through. That's what's going on. Sounds like sabotage.

Yeah, or adversity to overcome.

Yeah.

It could rally around it, but I'm going cards.

All right, Gordie?

Carl, I was just wondering, it didn't sound like you did much research for that game. It just sounded like you picked that team because of your fantasy, guys.

Yeah.

Karma, man. I can't go against it exactly. You just got to win in fantasy, so you got to go with that, right? They could lose. And Connor had to touch outside with me.

You know what?

I went with Rollis because the first time I loved Aze. It wasn't Rollis that insult us. Aze insult us that week, and they've been on fire since. I got to roll with Aze. I think they're going to blow them out. I don't know why. I don't think it's going to be a tech game. I know it's a division game.

All right, Shera Bear. Murray's good.

It's a tough one. I like Spies Nadel, but God, many Grung Beach events. You got to love Scottsdale. You got Gotts Amigos. What a great spot. Ryan House, Old Town, Toka Madera. God, but I've been looking at the weather right now, and it looks like it's going to be raining hard in Seattle on Sunday. And you guys are going to probably say, Oh, they play indoors. But that doesn't matter. It really affects the whole flow of the game. They're playing indoors in the rain, the way the fans are, and I was happy to go. I'm going to go with Seattle. I don't think the away team is going to like the rain.

Okay.

It's the bus. It's just tough. It messes up the way the transportation from the hotel. It just messes things up.

I'm happy to I'm going to tell you that it's not everyone's on the cards.

So thank you, Share Bear.

I'm not on the cards, but just the city.

We got grunt beats this year in New Orleans or what's up?

Yeah, what is going on with that?

Unfortunately-i don't like this.

Yeah, there has been a change of plans.

Oh, no.

No. I know.

I'm going to let you talk to your best friend, Dan Mojo.

No.

Is this Dan's fault?

No.

It's not I just don't think that it felt like it was the right city to do Grand Beach this year. There has never been a better city, I think, for Grand Beach. Well, maybe you should have a discussion with Dan. I don't want to be part of this. You know how I feel about grunk Beach? Let's get rid of Rob and let's make this like Gordie grunk Beach. That's a way better party anyways.

Or just all beads, just control the whole upstairs.

Oh, grunk beads.

Yeah, and have a little The little things that lift you up, the power thing. And you just bring the girls, they lift up, they come on up. Lift them up, come on up.

Change the name, Grunt Beads. We'll get on this.

The lineman. The lineman.

Terry, you're on to something.

You're on to something, buddy.

I don't care I'm watching G. It's being created. It's amazing to watch you guys talk.

Abracadabra.

I don't care if it's Super Bowl's in Minnesota, you can do a Grunk Beach.

The good thing is there's a lot of people that throw up at Grong Beach, but now, if it's in New Orleans, Nobody cares because vomit is part of the culture. It's literally caked on the street.

That is true. All right, K. Funk, who do you like in this one? Eagles at Rams plus two and a half.

I'm taking the Rams in this one.

Okay. Mojo?

You know what? Funk, is it okay if I take opposite you here, buddy? Is that okay?

Yeah.

Can I have Funk?

Okay, guys, I can't do the same pick as Funk every week. I think he made a sensational pick. I know he did his homework and he worked really hard on this, and he's going to do a good job. But I'm going to take Philly, please.

Okay. You've been supportive enough, I think. Gordie, who do you like?

This is a tough match. I wish it was at three again. My college roommates are all from Philly. They're playing good right now. I know it's a tough game, East West Coast, but I'm going Philly.

Okay. Carl, who do you like?

Of course, man. Rams.

All right, the Rams. Getting better, getting healthier. Maybe I should I'm going to switch. Carl's on fire. Can I switch my thing? Sure. You can switch. So you want the Rams now?

Yeah. Carl's. This guy is doing great. There you go, G-Man.

There you go. Mike, who do you like? My brother coach for the Eagles a couple of years ago when they went to the Super Bowl, and I was flying back on the flight from my wrestling to go over to the Super Bowl with a bunch of eagles fans from the East Coast. And when they're not on your team, you hate them, but it's fun to be a part of that fan base when you're on the same side. And all that to say, really, I just need them to beat the Rams for the Cardinals' sake. I'm going to go on the Eagles. Okay, Sharebear.

I feel like Mojo's got a wedding coming up, and he needs a babysitter. That's why he's being so nice to funk. I have a feeling. He's married, Sherbert.

I know. Not his wedding. He's saying another wedding.

It's near Tampa.

He needs a babysitter. There's got to be a reason why he's being so nice. I want to see what happens. I like it. Something good is happening here. I am The Eagles. My good old friend, The Underdog. She had a big week. She's the leader in the clubhouse, right? With Picks.

I think she had come back to town in a couple of days here.

She said she might get a little... Once we hit a twin peak. So I'm going to go with the Eagles.

All right, Perfect. Last game, KFunk. Ravens of chargers, chargers plus three.

I'll tell you what, Billy, you picked some good ones this week. This one's tough, too. Another toss up here.

Of course, a toss up. There's only two teams.

Billy, say thank you to Funk for that.

There's more to it than that, sure.

I gave KFunk also the option to pick the games yet again, and he declined on that. Yeah, I don't need any advantage here. Well, I don't know that it would help you.

It's just tough. Chargers are hot. Baltimore just lost. Give me the Ravens.

Okay. Ravens, Mojo.

I just still really feel guilty about going opposite funk last pick. I don't know if I'm going to be able to sleep at night. Obviously, I got to go back to this good state of Maryland over here, and I'll take the Ravens as well.

Okay. Share Bear?

Were they playing?

Ravens at Chargers. Chargers plus three.

San Diego is a great a lot.

Even though they're playing-They're LA now.

They're LA now. It doesn't matter. I still feel San Diego. I used to love going to San Diego and hanging out with Silo and then going to Tijuana, missing the games. But he didn't know I missed the games as long as I was back by the time they finished the game, finished press conferences. He would never have known I was in Tijuana. So I'm going to go with the Chargers.

All right, Gordie, who do you have? Ravens at Chargers, Chargers plus three.

I got the Ravens. Too good.

Let's go. Okay. Ravens. Rollis, who do you like? Well, it's a Harba bowl. No one said that yet. This is not a traditional pick-em show. It's a weird pick-em show. And so I'm going to air on the side of the weird Harba here, and I'm going to take the points in the chargers. Okay, Carl?

It's a tough one because everybody who's in LA who loves the Rams, hate the chargers. I think the Ravens need to win more. They can't go Two losses in a row.

I'm taking the Ravens, get on the point.

All right. Wow. What a week, guys. This was a lot of fun. Who has something to promote? Mojo, you have something to promote? Mojo, is he here?

So what's going on? I still don't believe you guys that Mojo told you what the baby was.

What do you mean?

I don't believe it.

Okay.

Okay.

Let's hear it.

We'll hear what?

What's the sex of the baby?

Well, hold on. I mean, maybe it was an off-air conversation we had, and he's not ready to do this on air. Okay, Funk. You could just reach out to him as a friend and ask him.

Do you think he told you before he would tell TMZ?

It's a fair point by you. Mojo. Okay. Mojo, do you have anything you want to promote this week? Mike, do you want to promote your website? Sure. Raulesregimen.

Com. Go get a custom workout.

We'll tune it to exactly what you need. All right, Gordie? My good friends, this mojo would start over at Pit Viper.

I just wanted to give them a shout out for always making me look so glossy and smooth, especially last night at my brother's Legacy Hall of Fame event at TD Garden. I look fabulous. Thank you, Pit Viper, for always making me look fresh.

Mocho, you want to promote anything?

Yeah, I'd like to promote something that's very near and dear to my heart, and That's my good buddy, K. Funk, Kreston Lagerman. This is going to be the week of the funk. We know we've all been waiting for it. Honestly, he's such a good guy that I think he's made this record this bad just to shine us all up and make us all feel good about ourselves and give us a moment every week. But I think the time has come where he's going to flip the script, and that's going to be this week. And that's why we're all standing by our guy and supporting him because we need funk to do better, and it's going to happen. We know it.

Is funk going to be the godfather? Is he in the vote?

Oh, great question, Shera Bear.

I mean, is he in the voting, at least?

Is that another pick we're making?

But is he in the voting? Is he at least on the ballot?

Yeah, he's in contention. I vote no, if that's the case. I mean, it's okay, but he's on the ballot.

We just want to know if he's on the ballot.

Yeah, he's on the ballot.

All right. Well, that's great. Of course, I am. Great.

What was that mean?

Sherbert You want to promote anything besides bike polo?

No, it's going to be big.

You're selling us on this, man.

I mean, I said I'm pickleball four years ago. People thought I was crazy, but it is what it is, right? But with that, me and Gordie had a great time in Puerto Rico. I wanted to promote the Raising and Rain Foundation. We had a blast. They literally flew us first class. $2,000-a-night rooms at the Ritz, 50 Cent private party. Wow. As a group, we got to figure out how to get everybody down there next year. I didn't know what I was getting myself into, but wow. And Gordie got lost a few times in the community. I didn't make it home a few nights. I mean, lost a golf cart. It's one a weekend. So I just want to thank them for everything.

Okay. If anyone wants details, we can discuss off here. Okay, perfect. Carl? Carl?

I'm just so impressed by the love today. I'm going to just close honoring Crestive Looker and of lucker than myself. I love the guy, and may God bless him. And God bless football.

God bless Kate Bunk.

You guys are funny. You really are.

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