Pardon My Take
NFL Week 15, Fastest 2 Minutes, Bills Statement Win, Eagles Dominate The Steelers, The Broncos Incredible Turnaround And More
Mon, 16 Dec 2024
Week 15 and we start with Fastest 2 minutes. We then recap every game from Sunday (00:00:00-00:08:43) Commanders 20, Saints 19 (00:08:43-00:17:02) Chiefs 21, Browns 7 (00:17:02-00:26:03) Bengals 37, Titans 27 (00:26:03-00:32:31) Cowboys 30, Panthers 14 (00:32:31-00:38:09) Ravens 35, Giants 14 (00:38:09-00:42:42) Jets 32, Jaguars 25 (00:42:42-00:55:26) Texans 20, Dolphins 12 (00:55:26-01:01:21) Cardinals 30, Patriots 17 (01:01:21-01:08:12) Bucs 40, Chargers 17 (01:11:01-01:19:05) Broncos 31, Colts 13 (01:19:05-01:27:26) Eagles 27, Steelers 13 (01:27:26-01:42:42) Bills 48, Lions 42 (01:42:42-01:48:31) Packers 30, Seahawks 13 (01:48:31-01:54:33) We then finish with who's back of the week including what is going on with Lebron (01:54:33-02:05:09).You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/pardon-my-take
Hey, Pardon My Take listeners. You can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. On today's part of my take, it is week 15 in the NFL. We've got a lot of games to talk about. Bills-Lions. Bills, maybe the best team in the NFL. Eagles, statement win. Chiefs going to 13-1. PFDU surviving in the Dome. Survive the Dome.
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Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. They're not going to get them.
Some spread. We start in Nashville where running back Chase Antonio Brown got to CTE, see the end zone, as the Bengals were fighting for their playoff hopes. The Hennessy Titans came out hot and looked to be in it until Spill Levis left a brown stain in his pants, throwing three picks. But what's that? What's that? Is that Mason Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer's music? Oh, my God, it is.
Who comes in relief to save the season? And he threw a pick. The Bengals stay alive thanks to Sam I.M. Hubbard saying, I do like touchdown passes, Sam I.M. Bengals 37, Titans 27. What?
Over to New York, where Rashad Master Bateman shot out a couple seeds and spermanently ended the Giants' season. There's been a lot of talk about dangerous flying objects in New Jersey, as both Tim Boyle and Tommy DeVito attempted passes on Sunday, furthering concerns residents of the Garden State.
LaMartha Stewart Jackson might be getting older, but that butt don't quit, as he did unspeakable things to the New York Stock Exchange Giants on the way to a blowout. Ravens, 35.
The G-Men, 14.
In Carolina, where Cowboys ride receiver Creed D. Lamb couldn't be stabbed, while on the other side of the line, Micah Parsons saying, My Sacra the Bryce. Absolutely destroying the tiny young, making him regret his pro choice.
The lone highlight for Carolina came when the offense got a huge bump from Jalen Coker to end the first half, but they were only able to return to the bathroom slash end zone one more time in the second half. Cowboys 30, Panthers 14, and we head down to Florida where memes is there for the Jets-Jaguars tilt.
In Florida, where Aaron Rodgers committed several HIPAA violations against the Vaxenville Jaguars, throwing for three touchdowns. Devontae Diggs Adams at the half said, Give me the ball or I will dust your ass, biatch. Brian Rob Thompson said, Baby, baby, it's 1 p.m. I must be lonely. In the end zone with the Jaguars' only touchdowns.
The end zone was calling for Trevor Etienne to come home with the help from the Wizard of Ass, Doug Peterson, but fell short. Jets 32, Jaguars 25.
Thank you, memes. We go to Tampa, where Mike El Angelo Evans is experiencing a renaissance as he painted a masterpiece with 159 yards. And the Bucs had a nice little package featuring Levante's Statue of David and a touching tribute to Max Delente. Justin Hurtbert suffered another ankle injury after taking way too many shots.
Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin-McConkie's offensive efforts were stolen as the Chargers offense continues to lack real and Russian threats. Los Angeles Laker Mayfield and Lebronte David are back from their unexplained absence from earlier this season, leaving Judge Judy saying, he didn't just beat us, did he? Bucks 40, Chargers 17.
We head out west where Hank is out there for the Cardinals and Patriots game.
In Arizona in the first quarter, Rekyler Murray said, it gets to a point, dude, after Craig Lou Dorsch fumbled the ball into the end zone. But it was recovered by Jonah Hill-Williams for a touchdown. And he said, I'll tell you what, I'm never eating at a Benihana again. I don't care whose birthday it is.
Drake K. Rowling May was a sorcerer with a stone all day, throwing for a TD to Demario Douglas Dimadome, owner of the Dimmsdale Dimadome, and running for another in the fourth quarter. But it wasn't enough to take down the Cardinals and James Sean Connery, who said, Winners go home and fuck the prom queen. After stealing the victory with two fourth quarter scores, Cardinals win 30-17.
Over to Pennsylvania where Max Delente, who's on the IR... Was that the game?
We head over to Philadelphia where Kenneth 2 Chainswell had everyone saying, Oh, yeah, follower alert. Lil Steeler's a bitch and are now on fraud alert. TJ Squat had the weight of the whole team on his back as seemingly he was the only Steeler to show up to Philly today. Jalen, skrrt skrrt, played like an absolute savage today and had all the haters in Philly eating their words.
Eagles 27, Steelers 13.
We go over to Detroit where Josh Ray Allen was getting there, switching back and forth between throwing and passing touchdowns on the Lions' D Sunday. Dan John Skipper ran furiously towards the white line but claimed it was the first time he tried it as he scored a touchdown in the first half.
Sean McDermotologist was able to help James Cook with his hair loss as the Buffalo Bills Clintons pulled out their victory cigar against the Detroit Leonskis and their snazzy blue dress. Bills, 48. The Lions, 42.
Standing on the corner, Jameis Winston, Cuyahoga, such a fine sight to see. It's Carson Wentz, locked up for arson since he burned down Washington, D.C. Come on, my homes, you've got some strong bones.
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Got a lot of football to talk about. Early was tough. There was a moment early where we were watching Jake Hainer, Spencer Rattler, Tim Boyle, Tommy DeVito, DTR. Who am I missing? Mac Jones. Mac Jones, Cooper Rush, Jackson. It got ugly for a little bit there. Yeah, Carson Wentz. Mason Rudolph, Will Levis. Yeah. It was ugly for a little bit there, but we got some great games in the afternoon.
We're going to recap them all, and we'll start with PFTU surviving the Dome. Commanders 20, Saints 19. Yeah. Holy shit. Uh, you almost got screwed with the clock, but also if Darren Rizzi had maybe started Spencer Rattler instead of Jake Hayner, who I don't think I've ever seen a quarterback. Like we watch all types of quarterbacks, Jake Hayner.
It actually looks like a dangerous for him to be out there. He looks like an acrobat back there wearing the black tights.
It looked like he was wearing Lululemon athletic pants instead of football pants. The pictures of Jake Hainer, I was nervous about it because I could not lose to Jake Hainer. That's a loss that will follow you around. But Hainer's going to hate, I guess, because he was not good. No, he was bad. He was not good. And then Spencer Rattler got in and looked pretty decent, actually.
I thought that Jaden played pretty well. He missed a couple wide-open bombs to Terry McLaurin by like a total of probably a total of eight inches away from three more touchdown passes to Terry.
Yeah.
So we had our chances, missed some of the chances. Defense played good enough. At the end, when they got the ball down to like the two-yard line and the clock just stopped with nine seconds left, I was screaming. I was going nuts. I don't know how that happens. I don't know. I guess it's in the dome. It was crazy. It's the dome clock operator.
So after the game, Sean Hockley was like, yeah, that shouldn't have happened. Our bad. Sorry about that. Almost cost you the game. Almost cost us the game. If you had the Commanders minus seven, you should be eligible to sue Roger Goodell. Yeah, I'd agree. You should demand restitution from him for that because that was dirty what happened at the end of that game.
But Darren Rizzi's field goal defense remains excellent. Mm-hmm. So we missed a field goal at the very end from like 50-some yards, and we missed a field goal at the end of the third quarter that didn't count because I guess the clock had expired before it was snapped. So then he got to kick it again at the start of the fourth corner. Rizzi was not happy about that.
He said, I've coached kickers for 30 years, and I can tell you if they get a practice shot, they're going to make the second one more often than not. So listen, not going to apologize for a win. No. It's hard to win on the road in this league.
That was the weirdest game because with J.K. and her in, it was never in doubt. And it was like, the commanders are going to cakewalk to this one. It's easy. And then they put in Spencer Rattler. And there was seven games going on, so you kind of lose track. And then you look up and you're like, oh, shit. The Commanders are in one right now.
Yes. And you can't lose this game. So it was awesome to see Lattimore out there. Because Marshawn Lattimore played for the first time against his old team, the Saints. They didn't throw at him a single time. Smart. No catches, no yards, no targets. That also might be because of the quarterbacks playing. Probably also because of the quarterback. But they threw to other guys.
Yeah, they just didn't target him at all. Mike Sanders still. I love that dude. He's come on strong. I'm I'm a little bit I'm apprehensive about the Eagles next week. The commanders there. They're a good team, but I don't think that they're where they they're not going to win a playoff game if they keep playing like this. Yeah. So listen, they're not in five.
The commanders are not a season for the first time since 1992. Wow. That's pretty crazy. So I'm, I'm happy. I could have dealt with like a little bit less stress today, but overall I did find myself saying though, like right after the game, I started doing the playoff machine thing. There's a possibility we get the sixth seed.
And avoid the Eagles. The Eagles are banged up, though.
I'm going to need you to beat the Packers week 18. Again, you keep saying that. It's not going to happen. That's the key to all this. It's not going to happen. That's the key to all this. It ain't going to happen.
Yeah. A win is a win. Wait, that's you guys winning out and the Bears beating the Packers?
Yeah.
No. You got to move on from something else. You got to move on to something else. That's just not going to happen. Don't waste any energy on that.
What if you guys win tomorrow?
We're not going to win tomorrow. We're not going to win another game. But, yeah, it was crazy because I'm sure you felt the same way where it was like, wait, what's happening right now? Why is this a game?
How is this possibly a game right now? A few things. Again, Terry McLaurin could have had three more touchdown catches. Yeah, there was a few of those. And they were just very, very slight overthrows.
The big issue for the Commanders, I don't think we'll stick around, and that's like the running game sucked today, with the exception of Jaden just tucking in and going 20 yards whenever he felt like it. But our center was out, and we couldn't block anybody, so we couldn't get Brian Robinson to run game going.
So hopefully when he gets back, I'm still, I feel like this could be an inbound shit pumping, because I thought we were going to whomp the Saints. Yeah. And it was not a womp. It was a womp until Spencer Rattler showed up. And again, I don't know what the hell Rizzi thought he was going to get a spark with Jake Hayner.
Also, did you see Rizzi caressing the back of Jake Hayner's head?
That doesn't really help Jake Hayner. I did that to Blake this morning. That same move, like scratch on the back of the head.
Yeah, that was weird. Who's a good quarterback? I didn't really understand that. But yeah, listen. Hey, next week, anyone can win any game. Yeah. It's at home. Listen.
Eagles are banged up. Max has got one foot. Yeah, Max is banged up. But we can get to that later. I think that the foot thing might be a good thing for Max. Really? I think it might be good vibes. Like, everyone's banged up. Like you said, Max absolutely gritting out a foot injury to do a podcast.
True. True. Also, your win today officially eliminated the Bears. Oh, sorry. So that's okay. I mean, they really need to change in the hunt and just be like, teams that are not eliminated but everyone knows are eliminated, just eliminate them. Yeah, come on. Just be like, hey, they're eliminated. Yeah. Like, stop fucking around. This is stupid. Spencer Rattler, maybe the future. I don't know.
Probably not. I would, without a doubt, start him next week. Yeah. Oh, definitely. I don't understand how you get to Jake Hainer. No. I don't know how that decision took place when watching him. Seriously, it felt like a danger to him. When he got sacked, he looked so much smaller than everyone else. And you're like, this is a problem. He's going to be in bodily harm every time he takes a snap.
Yeah, he was like a crash test on me. His ankles were ending up over his head. Yeah. He got sacked somehow.
Yeah. So, okay. Good win. Needed that win. What's the playoff percentage at? Max, what did you make that face for? Not a good win?
I mean, that wasn't a good win.
82%?
Yeah, I mean, if they had lost that game, it would have been very, very bad.
But I don't know if that counts this week because it says right there, it's got the New Orleans Saints symbol. No, it does. It counts this week. Okay. Okay. 82% is pretty fucking good. 82% is good. I'm happy. Listen, this season was supposed to be the season before the season. Who do you guys have after the Eagles? We get the Eagles and the Falcons. That's right. Cowboys.
Right. And the Rams have the Jets, I believe. Yeah. Who they could be. Oh, memes is smiling again. All it took was one Jets win for memes to be like, he put Aaron Rodgers head back on his.
He just keeps doing AI of me on different famous handy or wheelchair people.
Like who, Stephen Hawking?
He just face-swapped me and Sister Jean. That's good.
I like that. If you could forward that to the group chat memes. Yeah, that would be nice.
I would like to see all those. All right, so just hold off the Rams, PFT.
I need you to hold off the Rams. I'm doing everything that I can to hold off the Rams. Rams have Jets, Cardinals, Seahawks. It's going to be tough. Listen.
i'm excited i'm happy this is awesome for me and also also we might have seahawks with chino we we just watched that he might be in trouble yeah he might be in trouble yeah significant trouble yeah yeah no you should be happy i'm very happy and i'm not gonna apologize for winning i'm enjoying this season it's been great you needed that win you got that win yep that's all that matters uh all right next up chiefs 21 brown seven chiefs finally win a game easily
The big story, though, is, well, there's two big stories. Patrick Mahomes' high ankle sprain. Do we believe it? Do we think it matters? Because I feel like this happens to him once a year, and he ends up being totally fine, and everyone's like, oh, man, he's banged up, but he'll be fine. So do we believe it?
I think no. I don't believe it, yeah. He has the ability to just go back and hover over a medical device kit like in a video game for a little bit, and he just recharges.
Yeah. I mean, even if he misses a game, they're 13-1. They're two games up on the bye. So they could afford. The one bad thing for him is they play Saturday and Wednesday. So that's not exactly an easy schedule if you have a high ankle sprain. But the Chiefs could realistically sit him for a game, let him get healthy, and then win the last two games and still get the one seed.
Yeah, the NFL is not going to let Patrick Mahomes sit out on Christmas. No, no, absolutely not.
It happened in the Super Bowl. It was like he's going to be here for the Super Bowl. He went in halftime, got the super steroids and was fine.
Yeah, it didn't happen in the playoff game against the Jazz as well.
There was one where it was like, it looks bad. Yeah, it's really bad. Went to the locker room. He was fine.
Yeah, so who do they have on Christmas Day again? They have the Steelers. They play the Texans on Saturday and the Steelers on Wednesday. There's 0% chance that Carson Wentz, he'll be the Wentz who stole Christmas.
Yeah, they cannot let us have Carson Wentz on Christmas. But the bigger story is...
It might be over for Jameis. In Cleveland. We needed something from him today. In Cleveland. We needed to see him play against the Bengals defense. In Cleveland is what we're saying.
Not over forever, but he had three picks. The Chiefs defense was insane today. They had six turnovers. They had a bunch of sacks. They were also the third worst team in terms of takeaways going into this game. So they had 10 going into the game. They got six just today. And yeah, when you get benched for DTR, it's bad. I'll say this.
If you watch this game, the Chiefs defensive line was on fire and Jameis had no time. So no one would have been able to handle that.
Also, he continues to be delivered from pick sixes. I think two of his interceptions were thrown into the opponent's end zone, which is as far away from a pick six as you can get. So he's improving. You know what? I'm okay with Jameis just traveling the United States playing for various teams.
Every fan base should be so lucky to have an experience like Jameis Winston for a season as a bridge quarterback.
I don't know what's going to happen now. Getting benched for DTR is bad.
Maybe it was just we need to see a different look in this game. Maybe. There was also one of the interceptions, I think it was Trent McDuffie's.
Yeah.
He said after the game that he saw Jameis throw it to his side of the field on the video board during the play. So he turned his head around. So he's cheating. So he's cheating. So you can see it also on the replay of it from the end zone angle. He's trailing his guy into the end zone. He looks up at the video board in the end zone, and then he turns his head around to intercept it.
That's cheating. That's cheating. You shouldn't be allowed to do that.
That shouldn't count as a pick against Jameis.
No, it shouldn't. That's a pick against the Jumbotron.
Yeah, the Browns are just a bummer to watch. And this is so Chiefs that they finally had a game where it was like never a worry. They still didn't look incredible because Patrick Holmes is under fire. Their offensive line is a problem. But they have no problems taking care of the Browns.
They're 13-1, and then they're like, hey, let's just throw in a Patrick Mahomes ankle injury just so that we can get the haters and doubters back out.
And then after the game was over, to make matters worse for Browns fans, they leaked a story that Deshaun Watson might come back and compete to be the starting quarterback next year.
why they're not closing the door on the show why what was his injury achilles he should never be in a room with door closed uh yeah it was achilles this is i'm just bummed about jamis i'm really bummed about jamis where does he go memes wants him on the jets yeah he wants him as a bridge quarterback who wins the super bowl on the jets
That's actually a really... That's the perfect bridge quarterback.
All right, so let's find a landing home for Jameis next season. Maybe the Saints. Go back to New Orleans. Saints would be good.
I actually wouldn't hate him on the Seahawks as Geno's backup. Yeah. That would be fun. He should actually... You know where he should go? He should go to the Dolphins. If... If Jameis was on the Dolphins this year, they wouldn't have lost all the games that Tua was out for. That's true. And they'd still be alive. And he would take shots. He would try to find Tyreek. Right.
He wouldn't do this stupid dump-off offense that they showed us today. Yeah. Chiefs. Chiefs? Get him a ring? That would be great. I'd be fine with Jameis ring-chasing. Uh-huh. I have a question.
Yeah. Eagles. Do you guys get nervous about him going to a team that you can't rhyme the Jameis song with? Oh, we'll figure something out. We can figure it out. Because I get worried.
That's something that gets you worried?
Yeah. That's what I think of. I mean, it's down in Cuyahoga now, so it's like you can think of something. I know. That was a good one.
Maybe we just find a city near wherever he's playing.
Just a random city.
I get nervous of him going to the Packers because that would suck.
Yeah, going to a place where he couldn't root for him.
Yeah. That's what I would hate. That would really suck. Yeah, if he went to the Eagles. That would suck. Or he went to the Cowboys. That would be bad. He...
it's just bad it's a bad it's a bummer although and there's something about the browns too like it's extra bummer because late season browns games the weather just is so gross yeah and just the game looks disgusting if he went to the cowboys i'd be fun for a little bit because you could just i i would just lean into like bench stack prescott right right qb controversy yeah james is so much better yeah yeah um
Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what we're going to do. It feels like a crisis, though. Mahomes limping off. I mean, if it's a high ankle sprain for real, that's not... He does do these crazy... Have you seen his workouts where he's like... He does the off-season workouts where he's just twisting himself constantly.
I feel like that does keep him very healthy routinely, but high ankle sprain for two games, three games in 10 days is not exactly what you want if you're the Chief.
no and also for the brown it was just a bummer day for the browns because nick chubb out for the season yeah broke his foot and that might be i don't want to say his career but it definitely how old is nick chubb it just feels like he's that old but yeah it seems like him and he's had so many injuries he's gonna be he's gonna be 29 in in a week yeah so i got a question for you bummer where was taylor swift today
Does she not at the game? Does she hate Cleveland? Because my thought was the two biggest stars in the world both refused to go to Cleveland. Taylor Swift, Marlins man. That's the only place that Marlins man won't go. That's true. You know that. What is it about Cleveland that's keeping all the stars out?
I thought she was in Cleveland. Dante the Don said that he was trying to get her to go to John Boy in Cleveland this weekend.
Was he just anticipating that she would be there?
Well, I guess it was her birthday. Okay. So what? What?
i just that's funny that he was trying to get her to go to he was like i'm job boy yeah save a table for her yeah i mean he was you got a dream it's a great place to have a birthday yeah so i thought i thought she was there but no she wasn't she didn't go to the game oh wow that isn't he from yeah yeah travis is from cleveland so that was like it was like a big deal that it was you know maybe his last game in cleveland
Where was Marlins man today?
Where was Marlins? Was he with Taylor Swift? That was the big question is where was Marlins? Yeah.
Yeah. I wonder if there's a word from stadium securities that Taylor Swift is not attending today's game.
Interesting. Interesting. But she was in Cleveland, according to my sources, Dante the Don this weekend. So she decided not to go. That really just tells you.
Was he trying to get you to help?
No, no. He just tweeted. I just saw him tweet it.
I think he probably thought that she, since the Chiefs were in town, she might be there.
And it was her birthday. So he was like, yeah, it's her birthday dinner. And then we're going to try to get her to go to John Boy. Like, fuck, let's do it. Let me find the tweet. Listen, you're laughing, but hey, he's a businessman.
No, yeah, that would be unbelievable if that had happened.
Yeah, it would have been incredible. It would have popped off. He might have deleted the tweet. Shit.
Well, he's going to be mad at you, Hank, for laughing at this.
I love Dante. I love John Boy.
John Boy's a great bar. Also a great ratio for any of you guys out there.
Not anymore. Thinking Taylor Swift was going to go to John Boy for her birthday is crazy. Why not?
You're in Cleveland.
Yeah, where else are you going to go?
It's true. It's true.
Yeah. Okay, next game. Bengals 37, Titans 27. Bengals still alive somehow.
The Bengals, it could happen. It could happen. There is a path for the Bengals now.
Yeah, it's unfortunately at expense of the Chargers, which we'll get to, but I'm going to admit the Chargers are not going to win the Super Bowl or maybe even get to the playoffs at this point.
So look at the Broncos' schedule, though. Yeah. It might be more at the expense of the Broncos. Okay. Because the Broncos, they do play the Chargers next week, I think. And then they play the Bengals, right?
And they play the Bengals, and I think they play the Chiefs, too. Right. The Chiefs will most likely have everything wrapped up, so they probably won't play anyone. Yeah. But still, it could happen. It could happen. The Bengals. This was a game where, like, at the beginning of the game, I was like, what the fuck is going on?
They're down 14-7 and Joe Burrow's throwing a pick and everything looks weird. And then it's like, oh, yeah, that's right. Unfortunately, it's Will Levis versus Joe Burrow, and he'll just throw some interceptions your way, Bengals, and you'll be fine. The Bengals even had a – we had two Deshaun Jackson moments today, one which we'll talk about later that was very significant.
But the Bengals, like, they had no problem winning this game even though they started as slow as you could start.
Yeah, this one was an unintentional Sean Jackson moment. He got excited at the one-yard line. He freaked out. I thought the better defensive player running with the ball in this game was Tavondre Sweat. Oh, yeah. So our guy StatHole posted this. I think it's true. That's the heaviest player to ever run with a football in NFL history. He sent me that, too.
And Ted Washington, I feel like, was heavier. I don't know. Tavondre Sweat is 366 pounds. He might be, yeah. And I'll tell you what, he's faster than I am.
The stiff arm he threw on Alex Kappa was ferocious.
Yeah. Ferocious.
And he was... I love when a big guy picks up the ball and he's like, I may never get this again. I'm going to the house. Yeah, he made the most of it. And he was maybe 60 yards away from getting to the house, but he was trying to go to the house.
So the league has an abundance of sweat on defense. Yeah. They got Montez, Tavondre, and Josh Sweat on defense. This is probably the sweatiest the league's ever been. Yep. It's awesome.
It was an awesome run. And we also are just going to continue the Joe Burrow should be in the MVP discussion, but his team sucks because Joe Burrow, six straight games with three-plus passing touchdowns. and he is now six straight games, 250-plus passing yards, three-plus touchdowns. Only other person to do that is Tom Brady. He's insane.
It's insane how good he's been, and they're not going to make it in the playoffs, but he's been incredible.
Yep, and the Titans, good luck. Good luck with the rest of your season. I vote that we should probably put the Titans with the Jaguars. Yeah. We'll find something else to talk about.
We don't need to talk about them anymore. They're probably not going to win another game. Oh, no, they play the Jaguars. So I guess that game.
On Thursday? I don't think it's a Thursday game. It should be. You should flex that to Thursday. Like a doubleheader Thursday. That should be played at 4 p.m.
Yeah, the Titans are the sixth pick right now. There's so many bad teams.
So how many teams have three wins right now?
There are the Patriots, the Jags, the Panthers, the Titans, the Browns. So that's, what, five teams? And then there's another two teams with four wins. So there's nine teams with four or less wins. Damn. It's a lot of bad teams.
Pats and Panthers are good three-win teams, though.
yeah yeah okay okay good good for three win teams they're good one of the best three win teams in history out of that group yeah like i had the passing pandas are the future is bright okay would you power rankings you'd say they're the top three win team yeah i mean the pandas have been coming on strong but i would say it's it's new england and carolina cleveland No. With Jameis?
They just got rid of – they don't even have a quarterback. Yeah, that's true.
That's true. By the way, shout out to Sam Hubbard because he scored a touchdown, which is very cool. Also got hurt on that, which sucked. And in reading the tea leaves, he might be a cap casualty this year, which would suck because he's been a Bengals legend for them for however long now. But if that was his last play for the Bengals, kind of a cool way to go out scoring a touchdown.
Yeah, what was the injury that he had? I think he said possible PCL.
Oh, that's not good.
But it was like a contested catch, too. It was an awesome catch.
Yeah, it was great.
Yeah, so that does suck for him. But if it's the end, that's a very cool moment to have it be the end. There's no way the Bengals are making the playoffs. What's their odds? There's no way the Bengals are making the playoffs. What, like 3%? I mean, we all want them to make the playoffs just because it would be so much fun.
There is a path, though. I don't believe the percentage that I saw earlier. My personal math. I did the math in my head. I've got them at 24%. I have them at 5%. They're at 5%? 5%.
There's no chance. It's too low. It's a big 5%. That's a huge 5%. It's a long 5%. I just want them to at least be able to keep saying, like, we're still alive until the very end so they can keep trying as hard as they can.
We have killed them, like, nine times.
Yeah. And Joe Burrow's going to probably end, if he plays the rest of the season, which I would assume he will, he's going to probably lead the league in passing yards and touchdowns. So he's had an incredible year. And they just... Man, it's got to be the most torturous feeling to look back at that schedule and be like, how did we lose this game? Let's do that real quick. Sorry, Bengals fans.
You're going to want to maybe skip ahead here. Let's do the top three. How did they lose that game?
Yeah, week one to the Patriots. I think that's the number one on the list.
Week one to the Patriots. Let's see. Oh, the Chargers game was pretty bad too. That Chargers game was bad.
I think maybe the Ravens. Both Ravens. 35-34. Both Ravens. And then Ravens 41-38. Yeah. The Steelers too.
And Chiefs. Chiefs game when they got screwed by the refs.
All they needed was if one of these changed. And you could look at the Commanders game week three and say if we had forced them to punt one time, we could have won that game.
Yeah. If we had taken the Commanders seriously. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Next up, Cowboys-Panthers. Cowboys 30, Panthers 14. Hank, credit to you. You're exactly right. Thank you. Let's not have the Panthers be favorites anymore. Thank you.
Very stupid. 33 weeks in a row that they were underdogs? Yep. Should have been 34. Yep. That was an oversight by Las Vegas. Yep. But, yeah, the Cooper rush looked pretty good today. Because I think he realized, I should just continue to throw the ball to Ralph Wiggum. City lamb.
Yeah. Yes, yes. Ralph Wiggum, feed him the ball. Enrico Dowdle is awesome. Yeah. He had, like, 149 yards. He's been awesome. The Cowboys defense was all over Bryce Young. He, like, had no – especially in the second half, felt like he had no time. Bryce Young kind of – I mean, not a day you want to forget. He's gone.
He's done a lot better, but this was definitely a day he wants to forget because he had four turnovers or six sacks. He was just harassed the entire game.
And I think if you just keep getting the ball to dowdle and mixing a little turpin, too. Yeah. Because like he's dynamic with the bowling.
Yeah.
And then every now and then just be like Zeke. Yeah. You need two yards. Zeke will get you one. I think they put Zeke in just just to make Jerry Jones happy. I feel like he had one good just to make Jerry feel young.
I feel like he had one good play. I feel like I looked up and I was like, oh, shit, Zeke. And he wasn't tackled for a loss.
uh he had his longest rush was five yards there we go oh yeah you know it was his uh he caught one ball for 11 yards he's back that's huge he's it's like depressing watching ezekiel elliott run with a football in his hands yeah you think he's happy though like no like well probably not but he gets at least like he shouldn't be on an nfl roster anymore and at least he gets to keep catching a
Yeah, they did the rare bring him back and then pay him for his service that he provided you over the years. Yeah. Usually that doesn't happen. Usually you give some guy a contract who's still on your team. Like in the NBA, this happens. Yeah, Jerry's good to his guys. Yeah, you're good to your guys. But to bring someone back and then give them like a retirement contract is crazy.
Yeah. Rico Dottle was 25 carries, 149 yards, six yards carry. Zeke, they gave it to him nine times for 30 yards, 3.3 yards for carry. That's really nice. That's really nice that they did that for him.
Yeah. Letting your oldest dog have, like, a T-bone steak. Yeah. Like, okay, this might be your last week. Yeah. Let's make you feel good.
By the way, the Cowboys have won three straight. And I think Mike McCarthy... Or, no, sorry, they've won three out of the last four at the Bengals game, obviously, with the Leon Lett play. But... They've saved Mike McCarthy's job.
I think they might have. I think he might be coming back next season. This is a game that if they lose, then you would think, okay, time to get rid of Mike. Right. But I think he's done enough where they'll bring him back.
And then Stephen Jones was talking about how they need to figure out what they did wrong, the different procedures and mechanisms that need to be put in place as a front office to make sure that they can turn this around. It's still going to be Jerry and Steven Jones making all the decisions. Yes. So it's going to continue to be fucked.
And they said, I think it's going to be tight this offseason because they don't have a lot of money. Yeah. Which is what they always are at. Yeah. Well, they couldn't get Derrick Henry last year. Couldn't get Derrick Henry. He wasn't a fit. No. Also, shout out to Cowboys and Mike McCarthy for at least attempting a 70-yard field goal. There should be more of that in the NFL. It was great.
It was nice to see. I actually think that he can make that. I do, too. Maybe not outside, but I would agree. Indoors, I think Brandon Aubrey could make that. It's just fun to attempt it. We haven't had that since Janikowski. I just want to see it. Every time there's a 70-yard field goal, you're like, holy shit, everyone stop. Let's watch this.
The Janikowski field goal was especially funny 76 It was 76 yards at the end of the half I think And it probably landed 15 yards short and to the left Yeah This one he also hooked to the left a little bit But I think just give him That's your purpose for the rest of the season Mike McCarthy Let's have him break the NFL record for longest field goal Yeah
Yeah, why not? But credit to you, Hank. You were right. The Panthers, as they've been playing better football, should never be favorites. Should never, ever be favorites.
Also, there was a report that came out today. Stefan Diggs, he's going to need massive surgery. Like Trayvon? Oh, yeah, yeah, Trayvon Diggs. Going to need massive, massive surgery. Keeping him out maybe into next year. So things are not looking good in Dallas.
Wait, we're watching the Janikowski.
Yeah, he was so short.
I missed it to the right. Yeah, he missed it so, so short. But it was awesome. They attempted. Was that Lane Kiffin? I think it was. I think Lane Kiffin was the coach of the Raiders then. More of that. We need more of that in the NFL. Why not? Just the fuck it 70-yarder. Let's give it a shot. All right, anything else?
I mean, these early games were just like, like I said, we went through it and we're just like, what are we watching? Like all these games, there's not a lot of teams that have winning records. But the Cowboys, again, they're 6-8. I wouldn't have expected them to be 6-8 at this point in the season if you'd asked me a month ago. Cooper Rush, he's been a good backup quarterback before.
Yeah, he's kind of putting it... I don't want to say putting it together, but yeah, he's putting it together as a backup quarterback. I think he's handling business.
Yeah. Relatively speaking, he's putting it together. He might be... If you had a better record going into the Cooper Rush experiment, he would be keeping you afloat. Treading water, yeah.
He would have been able to tread water for you. That's the thing is the Cowboys sucked before Dak got hurt. Yeah. So you can't be like, oh, Dak got hurt. And CeeDee Lamb is still incredible. Okay. Ravens 35, Giants 14. Another one that was, oof, the New York Giants. So before the game, the new sign on the plane was, Mr. Mara, enough. We won't stop until you fire everyone. Plane or drone?
It was a plane. No, that was one of the good aliens. Yeah, it was a plane. The aliens that watch ball.
Mr. Mayor, enough. We won't stop until you fire everyone. It should be next week or whenever their next home game is, their last home game of the season. The tweet that was to start the second half that said, Tim Boyle is warming up as if he's going to play in the second half. No sign of Tommy DeVito out of the locker room. That's it. That's the Giants.
That sentence right there is the New York Giants, and it's as sad and bad as it gets.
I like that because if you read that in a sarcastic voice, it's very funny. It's like Tim Boyle is warming up as if he's going to get into this game. Yeah, no, he was. Tim Boyle's threatening to get into this game. As if he would, and he did. Bad times in New York, but credit to Lamar Jackson. Great game from Lamar today. More touchdowns and incompletions. Five touchdowns, four incompletions.
Yeah. Is Lamar back in the MVP conversation?
He absolutely is. I think Josh Allen is. I mean, what Josh Allen's done the last few weeks has been insane. But I know you have an MVP ticket on Lamar. That's why I want to know if he's back in the conversation.
I'm happy to help.
I do, too. I'm happy to help. All right, let's get it going. Let's discuss it. People aren't mad at us at all about Travis Hunter, so let's just hop right back in.
Let's have the conversation. National Sports Podcast. Second place.
As of right now. He's in the hunt.
Yeah. And listen, if he just goes nuts for the last four games, who's to say?
Odds schmods. All that matters is he's in second. He's one behind the leader.
Odds schmods. Odds schmods. That's what we say.
Lamar should be the MVP, although we love Josh. No, I'm willing to say right now he should not be the MVP. That's Josh Allen right now. But I think he's lurking. I will help you if you need me. No, you don't. I don't want to get greedy. I don't want to get greedy.
All right. I mean, we would have voted for Ashton Gentry if we had a vote. Yeah. I think we all agree on that.
Yeah, Rashad Bateman's really good. That was the only other note I took. That's like, finally, it feels like the Ravens, they had that little lull, and it feels like they're, I mean, we'll find out on Saturday when they play the Steelers, because if they beat the Steelers. It kind of changes how the playoff picture might look.
And they could hop up into the three seed and it's like, oh shit, this is going to be a packed top three. Not that the Steelers aren't bad, but I do think the Ravens are better. And so this will be a very interesting question on Saturday because...
Lamar has struggled against the Steelers. So back to what we talked about on Friday. With this loss, now they are 0-8 at home. And so they would be the first team to go 0-9 if they lose at home to the Colts. Yeah. Which is like a double insult that it's the Colts that are going to do it to them. Potentially. Maybe not, though. We don't know. Maybe they'll win.
I'm going to root for the Giants in that game. I don't want to see the Giants do that. Yeah, win one game. Give your fans one thing, like a happy Sunday to drive home with.
Guy who flies the plane, please do use that tweet, though. Tim Boyle is warming up as if he's going in. Yeah.
That's a good one.
Also, fun fact, Mark Andrews now is the franchise record holder for the Baltimore Ravens for touchdowns.
That is a fun fact. Good for him.
Kind of crazy. Yeah. Jamal Lewis was the person he passed.
This was maybe a get-right game for Justin Tucker. Yeah. Extra points only. Yeah. Five for five.
Yeah.
It looked like they went right down the middle.
Yeah.
Felt good that he could see one go through. Yeah. He saw five go through today. Yeah.
That's got to be good for the confidence. Yeah. This was not even I mean, this was this game was it's it's rare that you have a 16 point spread in the NFL and you're like, yeah, I'll take it. Yeah. Never in doubt. Yeah. Fucking it's Tim Boyle. And I mean, Tim Boyle did do an OK job force feeding it to Malik neighbors in the second half. Yeah. And Malik neighbors is good. Yeah. And Malik Nabors.
Okay, here we go, Giants fans. Malik Nabors was seen warming up in the streets of New York with Shador Sanders this weekend. Is that true? Yeah. They were throwing a ball. They were just playing catch.
I mean, that would be awesome for the Giants fans.
Yeah. So that's a little glimpse. Yeah, they got a little chemistry going. Yeah. Yeah, they were just throwing a little toss. Okay, before we get to the other two early games, PFT, you had a couple quick ads.
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Okay, game of the year for memes. Jets 32, Jaguars 25. This was memes. This was everything you wanted to see, not in the first half. Aaron Rodgers started three for eight, 55 yards in the first half. And then in the second half, he was like, oh, yeah, Devontae Adams is my best friend, and I'm just going to throw the ball to him.
And Devontae Adams, in the second half, he had no catches in the first half. He had nine catches, 198 yards, two touchdowns. Devontae Adams had 145 yards in the final four minutes in regulation. And memes. Are you back?
Are you back? Unfortunately not. It was almost every... Well, I'm backing on Rodgers. Yeah, that's what I'm asking. I'm backing on Rodgers.
Yeah, I'm not asking if you're back. You guys have been eliminated from play. I was asking for the future.
Rodgers. Back.
No, you're right. You're eliminated.
You have a quarterback.
I got to remind you, you're eliminated.
Yeah, but your team could be complete as a whole going into next year. Right. Would be being back in my head. Okay. We don't have a coach. Unfortunately, our defense is bad. Yeah. Very bad. Sauce Garner was also... Bad. Got the game-winning pick. Got the game-winning pick. But he was very bad today as well. Okay, but are you back? I'm back.
On Rodgers.
I'm back in on Rodgers.
You put his fat head back up on the... Yeah, I didn't put him on his body, but he's next to... Because you had ripped it off? You had ripped his head off his body?
Yep, ripped it completely off. His arms are also gone.
So are you putting them back on?
His arms? Everything. Just the head. I think the arms got thrown out. Okay. Did you throw them out? Yeah. Okay. So are you back in on Aaron Rodgers with Devontae Adams? I'm back in on Aaron Rodgers if that means we get to keep Devontae Adams. Okay.
If you have to parent trap Devontae Adams into staying. What if something happens and Devontae's not there next year? Still back on Aaron Rodgers? No. No. Oh, you need, you need both. We need both. Yeah. Who's daddy.
Damn. That was, I mean, it was incredible. The second half, it was, it felt like vintage, uh, Rogers and Devante Adams felt like vintage Rogers.
The offense was clicking, uh, Garrett Wilson is still a stud. Alan Lazard still can't catch. So there would be another touchdown added on to that. There was a dot in there. It was beautiful.
Yeah. Jaguars' throwbacks were awesome. Doug Peterson's hair looked extra white.
Yeah, they were great jerseys.
And also I came to the conclusion that I don't think there's – maybe we could do a research topic on this, but I think Mac Jones might be the cockiest bad quarterback of all time. Drew Locke Drew Locke is cocky but like not in a Drew Locke has swagger his highs are and he also has swagger it's not like cockiness that's like
Like, Mac Jones made... He had, like, a run today where he was, like, he was doing the Dikembe finger... The Rizzler. Yeah, he was doing everything. It was like, dude, you're Mac Jones. What are you doing?
He called his sound rhetoric a bitch.
Yeah. Like, he is legitimately cocky for how bad he is. Because, you know what I mean? Like, Drew Locke has swagger, but I don't think of it as, like, total cockiness. Mac Jones... He'll talk shit to someone on a 3-10 team down a million. And cry. And then cry. Yeah, look at this. He did the Rizzler. Oh, wow. Yeah. He did a – I don't know if you have the finger wag.
He did one where he was just like – he was doing the Dikembe finger wag at them. I need to sit down and think about this.
The worst quarterbacks with the most confidence.
Yeah, it's not confidence. It's cockiness. Because confidence – like I want confidence, and confidence is good, but he's cocky. Johnny Manziel. Yeah, but he was so good in college.
Yeah. He was Johnny Football. I mean, Mac Jones was good in college, too. Yeah, true.
He's just Jimmy G. Yeah, he does. Jimmy G wasn't cocky. Yeah, no, Jimmy G wasn't cocky. He didn't come off cocky.
No, no. Mac Jones is cocky. You agree, right?
Oh, yeah, for sure.
It's crazy. It's crazy to watch him play football and be like, why is he talking shit?
He's like country club kid cocky, too. My dad's a lawyer. Yeah, he's a rich kid cocky. Drew Locke actually had possessed swag.
Yeah, right. He's got aura. Mac Jones is just like, yeah, he's got the cockiness of my dad will sue you. Which is not good cockiness. Brian Thomas is also really, really good. Yeah. They were force-feeding him, and it was... But yeah, I don't know.
Something about it, Matt Jones, he just... Because most backup QBs, too, are like backup QBs. He's still got that I'm a starter energy.
Like yelling at people, pointing at people. He's also kind of a dirty player.
Yeah. Definitely.
Yeah. Oh, it's good that you can say that.
Took you a while, but you can finally say that. He was just a competitor when he was on the Patriots.
Yeah. Memes, would you like to talk about Bill Belichick trying to be the Jets head coach? Sure. Do you believe that report? I do believe it. But it was done by a Rossini.
Yeah. The Rossini. I'm marking down which one she's right about and which one she's wrong about. Got it.
So we talked about this earlier, and I think she's, what, three for four? Two for three. Well, what was the one that she was wrong about that you claim?
That they were benching Aaron Rodgers.
That there were discussions about benching Aaron Rodgers?
After the bye, they're going to bench him.
Was the report they will be benching Aaron Rodgers? Yeah. I don't remember that report.
So you believe the Belichick one? Please forward that to our files. You believe the Belichick one?
I believe the Belichick one. Actually, it would make sense why he all of a sudden decided to go to UNC. If he tried to go to the Jets and the Jets were like, no. That's the one franchise that should say yes. It's the one franchise he shouldn't want to go to. So it's almost like him bending over backwards to be like, give me a job, please. Yeah, he seemed desperate.
Right. Yeah. Which is why I think the report was put out there by the Jets. Yeah. They saw their one opportunity to get a clean shot in at Bill and be like, hey, he's down so bad that he even wanted to work for us. Yeah. Which is maybe not the same own that they think that it is. Hank, do you believe it?
No, I mean, he took shots at the ownership on the Manning cast. I could definitely see it being a petty. I could see him floating it out there, but I don't think it was too serious by Belichick. He also, did you guys see his contract details with the buyout?
Oh, yeah, it's like $1 million.
He basically has it set up where he could potentially take an NFL job this offseason.
Well, yeah, if some team needed to coach in June, he would just do it.
He could do it. So he might never coach at UNC.
That would be very funny. So if an NFL coach gets fired during the offseason, then Bill could take their spot.
Yeah, I guess that's true with Black Monday or whatever. They usually get settled by June, but yeah. The way they structure the contract to be specifically like, you know, after June 1st, then the buyout's a lot less makes it seem like he is still, you know, telling UNC, like, I kind of want to coach the NFL. Yeah, right.
What have we found here, Memes? Aaron Rodgers disputed Diana Rossini's report. He doesn't want to play for the Jets in 2020. That doesn't say anything about benching.
That's for next year.
But he does say, I don't talk to that person.
Yeah. Okay. Well, we didn't think he did.
She can have sources that aren't Roger's.
But also, it feels weird that you're talking to yourself. You're picking. I'm telling Max. Max is in charge of looking stuff up.
You're telling me to find something that doesn't hurt. He's mad at you.
You haven't found his imaginary story.
You write it. He's got one foot, dude.
If Max can't find Luigi being Greek, he's not going to find this. We're going to have to talk about your foot. Okay, so back it on Rodgers being the quarterback next year with Devontae Adams.
I think so because this game told you a lot. Did it? The defense let up so many points against a Mac Jones-led team. But he's cocky. Couldn't score a touchdown until the fourth quarter against the Titans last week. Right. So I think you just – because if you draft a quarterback top 10, you're still neglecting so many parts of the team that you have so many holes.
Yeah, but the thing is about the NFL, if you have a very good quarterback, then everything else kind of changes.
But you are going to have the eighth pick, so you probably don't want to take a quarterback there.
Yeah, and all the quarterbacks are going back to their team in college. Yeah, true. It's like day by day. Somebody just keeps going back. Yeah. All right, so you want to fix the defense first? I think fix defense. Hire a coach. Hire a coach. Hire a coach.
Well, no, hire a coach first. Wait, hire a GM first or a coach?
Hire a GM.
What?
The owner's son.
Yeah, promote your son. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
There was a rumor he was making a lot of the decisions. Okay. Yeah. Promote your son.
Just make your son the GM. Right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And coach.
Yeah.
Aaron Rodgers bridge. Bridge. Okay. To Jameis.
Jameis could be on the team, too.
Okay. Co-bridges.
Co-bridges.
If you have two bridges, you don't have one.
Yeah. That would actually make it a lot stronger.
Yeah.
Just two bridges sitting, going right next to each other.
Give it another go next year. Yep. then quarterback the next year.
Okay. All right, that's a good plan. So maybe compete for the division next year with the bridge?
Oh, yeah, we're definitely competing next year.
Okay, yeah. In your mind, what does a bridge quarterback mean?
Uh... Someone to help you compete and win the Super Bowl. Okay, got it.
That's a bridge. Got it.
Realistic. Got it. Okay, next game. Texans 20, Dolphins 12. Tua, that was bad.
The Dolphins might bum me out as much, if not more, than any other team.
We talked about it on Friday, though. We forgot about it. I was trying to remind everyone. The Dolphins, playing good teams, will always suck. And that's what happened. The Texans are over .500. The Dolphins suck against them. But yeah, they were... Now, obviously, Jalen Waddell getting hurt and Du Bois getting hurt, which was very, very scary. And hope he's okay. Limited their offense, but...
Watching that game and watching the Dolphins just run basically the same little dump-off screen over and over and over again. And then it was just dump-off, dump-off, two interception. It was so maddening and so frustrating to watch. And the Dolphins' defense actually played pretty well, but...
Get this team out of here. I thought that, I mean, Tua was dumping off a little bit early in the game, and then after the injury to his receiver, DuBose, he felt, to me, it felt like he didn't want to throw anything across the middle, which on a human level, I kind of get it. Yeah. I understand it. That was like a really scary moment for everyone.
But yeah, the offense didn't look like, it looked like the Steelers offense that we saw like the last two seasons. Yeah. It was not fun. No, it was a bummer to watch. And when you see Mike McDaniel on the sideline, when he's bummed out, that bums me out too. Yep, yep.
It's like some coaches have the capacity when their team is playing bad to at least get super pissed off, and then that makes me entertained. Right. When I get to see them grabbing people and spitting and shit. Mike McDaniel, he just gets sad on the sideline.
It was a tough, tough watch, and Tua just, ugh, it was bad.
He just kept on throwing picks to Derek Stingley. So you remember that Dolphins-Broncos game? Remember that one where the Dolphins scored 70 points? Yes. And blew out the Broncos? Yes. So since that game, the Dolphins are 14 and 15, and the Broncos are 17 and 11. Yikes.
Yikes. It flipped. They flipped. Yeah, they're a bummer to watch. I don't want to watch the Dolphins anymore. No. I mean, that was their season because I think if they had won this game, they would have a 31% chance, and now they have a 4% chance of making the playoffs.
And the Texans, I believe they clinched the AFC South.
Yes, they did.
Because they won and the Colts lost, right?
Yes, they did. Credit to the Texans. I still don't know what to make of the Texans, especially offensively. They had 181 total yards, which is kind of crazy. They couldn't run the ball at all. It felt like their offense was Tua throwing a pick and then C.J. Stroud doing something awesome to Nico Collins. I mean, the game flipped on the incredible fake punt, which was an awesome call.
Awesome play call. Awesome design. But, yeah, I don't know what to make of it. Like, the Texans don't give me any confidence when I'm watching them offensively. It doesn't feel like they have any rhythm.
So the Texans, they could win two out of their next three because they got the Chiefs next week, right? Yeah. And maybe no Mahomes. Maybe no Mahomes. Then they host the Ravens. Probably a loss. But that's Christmas, right? Yeah. That's the Beyonce game. And then last week at the Titans. So they'll probably end up with 11 wins.
I don't know if they're going to win two out of the last three. You don't think so? I don't think, even without Mahomes.
I don't know if I trust.
Is that at Kansas City?
That is at Kansas City.
Yeah, Carson Wentz is going to win that game.
think so yeah Carson wants to win I think I think the Texans end up with 11 wins and they become the most disrespected 11 win team of all time but rightfully so but maybe rightfully so maybe rightfully so and then you've got they could then play against the uh the Ravens
In the first round. Yeah, it'd be the Raiders or the Steelers, depending on who wins the AFC North. Yeah, I don't know if the Texans are going to win. I still, even with Carson Wentz, I just don't trust their defense. I mean, their offense at all. Yeah. Like, their offense doesn't... It's boom or bust. If Joe Mixon's going crazy, it feels like every game you'll know right away.
Joe Mixon's going to go for 150 or he's going to go for 20.
So if you're a Texans fan, you're probably not happy with how your offense looked this year compared to last season, right? Right. So Bobby Sloak was a name that was thrown out a lot last season as being the next up-and-coming coordinator that's going to be a head coach somewhere. Yep. He's probably not going to get that buzz this offseason.
In fact, Texans fans, I think a lot of Texans fans want to fire him, want to move on. This might be the best thing, though. You might get three seasons of C.J. Stroud with Bobby Slowik because he didn't have a great second year.
Yeah.
Sophomore slump. Yeah, so yeah.
I think the Bears are going to hire him somehow. You think so? Yeah, somehow.
I mean, CJ looked good last year.
He did. He looked really good last year. And it's not all on CJ Stroud. I mean, their offensive line has struggled, and I just don't have any confidence. It's weird because, like what you said, say they get to 11 wins. Like, when I look at the AFC... I don't know if you feel the same way, but I think of the Chiefs, the Bills, and the Ravens, and maybe the Steelers. We'll see.
I haven't even thought about the Texans as being a threat to any of those teams. No. In any type of capacity. I mean, the Broncos are kind of there too. Yeah, the Broncos are there. I don't know if the Broncos can win multiple playoff games.
But right now, if the Broncos went to Houston, first round of the playoffs, are you taking the Broncos? I would take the Broncos.
I'm not putting the Broncos in the Chiefs, Bills, Ravens category. That seems a little too far. Wouldn't you agree? Yeah, I would. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Bummer of a game. Bummer of a game. Okay. Next up, we're finally in the afternoon. We'll finally get to some good games. But we got one more game that didn't really matter. Cardinals 30, Patriots 17, Hank. Drake May 10 for 10 in the first half.
He's played well. He's enjoyable to watch. Interceptions, not his fault. Hits guys in the hands, and they just hand it to the other team.
Yeah, there was that one that was so, like, who was that? Booty. Booty, yeah.
How many times has Booty done that this year?
A lot, and a lot of drops.
I think probably, like, three or four times. He's just played volleyball to a defensive player.
But the path is clear. Keep losing, Travis Hunter.
okay oh yeah yeah like drake may travis hunter gets gets the juices so travis playing wide receiver i mean travis hunter and christian and then travis hunter christian gonzalez yeah yeah that's elite why not do it both in the pros be the first to do that wow okay what about uh what about mayo you still a mayo boy no and even better so then today no i've never really been a mayo boy uh
I think everything I've ever said on this program has not been a big bought-in on Mayo. I've always kind of said he feels like a puppet for Kraft. But today, they were cutting to the booth, and the lip readers, they had Jonathan Kraft taking notes, and you could clearly read his lips being like, the play calling is terrible.
Oh. Uh-oh. But that's not Mayo, is it?
It's the head coach. I mean, if you're taking notes, and you're the owner's son, like... Oh, is that a catch? Ah... That's not a good sign.
No, it's not.
But it is a good sign if you want a new head coach. Yeah. So I think it was a win. Today was a great day. Wins all around.
If you were to find out that Mayo was coming back next season, you would be bummed out?
Yeah. I wouldn't understand it. I would say exactly what I said about Matt Eberflus, but I would... I was joking, being like, there has to be a reason to bring him back, knowing that there isn't and he's a bad coach.
I think they will bring him back. And the reason why is because of Robert Kraft. Because Robert Kraft doesn't want to seem like he's a guy that's short-tempered. He doesn't want to admit that he made a bad decision. He wants a guy that he will allow to grow into the role of a head coach.
I don't think so. Is he actually on the hot seat like this? I think he is. I mean, you tell me, if you're the owner and your son's sitting next to you taking notes...
Probably because Alex Van Pelt is on the hot seat. I, I mean, I didn't realize he was maybe on the hot seat, but it would make sense. He hasn't been, it hasn't exactly been an inspiring.
And I don't think craft. I mean, I think there's something to be said about like the, you know, he clearly cares about the PR and the perception and stuff, but, the fans are not necessarily on his side. I don't think they like Mayo. So this might be like a way for him to kind of get back, you know, in the good graces of the fans.
Right. I just think that Robert Kraft, he wants to be, he visions himself like the Steelers organization where it's like a stable franchise. So I don't think he would want to fire a coach after one year.
What is this? Jared Mayo giving his post game press conference after the game. It's just a video of Osama bin Laden.
Yeah, that's not, that's not. So maybe he's on the hot seat. Community notes.
Yeah, that does seem like... All right, this guy said the Kraft family would bring back Gerard Mayo and his staff because they do not want to admit a mistake. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, but... Yeah, it seems like a bad situation, Hank, because you don't want to... Why would you bring him back just so you don't want to make a mistake? Like, you're just making a mistake.
You're delaying the inevitable. Yeah, you're delaying the inevitable.
If you think he's not the guy, Belichick would get rid of him one year too early. Yeah. Probably did when he was playing.
Patriots head coach Gerard Mayo was asked if there was a consideration to running Drake May on third and one and fourth and one in the red zone because of his rushing ability. Mayo responded, you said it, I didn't. What?
What is that? So that seems like it's a shot at Alex Van Pelt.
Oh, on a follow-up he said, it's always my decision. I would say the quarterback obviously has, you know, a good pair of legs. Huh. Huh.
Yeah, so he's blaming his coordinator.
Yeah, that does seem Matt Iverflus-esque. Yeah, you're dealing with a similar situation. Cardinals, I mean, I expected them to play well today, and they did. James Conner had a big day. They still are alive, especially because we're watching Sunday Night Football right now, and Geno might be out for the year. So that kind of opens some things up.
Although the Cardinals already have played the Seahawks twice, and they lost both times.
Kyler did have that one that one interception it was a bad interception too they got called back from roughing the pass yeah which was a bullshit I feel so bad I feel so bad for defensive players especially when you're trying to hit Kyler Murray who's his strike zone the head is already pretty low for him and then he ducked into it as he was going to the ground that was purely a interception that or sorry a roughing the pass it was like he's too small we have to
protect he's just a little he's just a little guy yeah but his head are at the defender's arms yeah and he ducked too this is why the nfl needs the super challenge we've seen it a bunch this year the super challenge should be a thing challenge anything challenge once again once again if you can see that the call is wrong on the replay the super challenge turns it over immediately I like that.
Orange flag.
Yeah. Orange. You like that? Oh, the orange. What if you have to light it on fire? That would be cool, too.
You can't use it after.
Like a magician. Yeah. You light it on fire. But then it's kind of like maybe it explodes. Yeah. On the field. Like a grenade. You get a grenade. You get a grenade. The challenge grenade. If you hit a ref, that's fair play. Dude, the challenge grenade. You tell me that that wouldn't drive ratings up. It would stop the game. The NBA fucked up their whole challenge system. Now nobody watches. Yeah.
If Steve Kerr had a grenade that he would throw onto the court, damn right people would tune in.
Yeah. I'm in. Challenge grenade. Yeah. Do it. All right, Hank. Anything else?
No. Good loss.
Good loss.
Good loss.
Yeah.
And it was nice.
It's on your third pick overall.
Yeah.
So it could be Travis Hunter. Although the Jags. Oh, no. Sorry.
No, it's two. They got two. Giants and Raiders. Yeah.
Two QB teams.
Would you want him primarily as a receiver or primarily as a corner?
Primarily, I think he's better as a corner. I don't know. He's better as a corner. He's better as a corner. But he's really good as a receiver. But it's also like he'd be fun because they would mix it up and he'd probably do returns. He'd be a lecturer. Every time they put him on the field, they could throw him in the field for formations and stuff and just get the people going.
If you had him and Christian Gonzalez, that would be such an awesome pair of corners. That would be the Patriot Missile, no-fly zone.
Very hard to stop. Yeah. Okay, let's get to some good games. Before we do that, PFT, you got a couple ads.
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Okay, we got some games that actually had some meaning in the afternoon. Bucks 40, Chargers 17. I'd like to speak to Max and Max only. Max, I think that the Chargers are probably dead. I think I agree. Yeah. J.K. Dobbins getting hurt against the Ravens, really. They can't run the ball anymore.
And that wasn't the difference in this game because the Bucs are actually really good and Baker was incredible. But I think the Chargers can still make the playoffs. I do not think they can win a playoff game. It sucks. Lad's back, though. Lad is back. He had a couple drops.
A few drops today.
Didn't look like he was in full Lad shape. It was a close game, and then it was just the Bucs dominating in the second half. Mike Evans, who we are a big Mike Evans podcast. Respect Mike Evans. He's one of the greatest receivers of all time. He had 159 yards, two touchdowns. He is now 749 yards.
So he's got an average 83.7 yards in his final three games to reach 1,000 yards for the 11th straight season. And that's all 11 years of his career. Yep. Mike Evans is incredible.
Yeah, he's legit.
But, yeah, Baker was on fire today. Baker was 22 for 27, 288 in four touchdowns. And the Chargers just, like, they got gashed.
And he also ran with the ball pretty well. Yeah.
They gave up 505 yards to the Bucs.
Yeah, the defense, the once vaunted Chargers defense does not look good when they have to play against good quarterbacks.
They just look like they've run out of gas, and I don't know what it is. I mean, the Bucs, it's more the Bucs are playing great football right now, and the Bucs, that was a huge win for the Bucs because that was their last game against a team over .500.
So, you know, they're up in the NFC South right now and they control their own destiny and they have the Cowboys, Panthers and Saints to finish the season. Last two games at home. The Bucks are a dangerous team.
Yeah.
The Bucks are a dangerous team. I think they're a very good team.
They've played well all season, and when they had their best players out, they still played well just with worse players. So they've been kind of consistent, even though at times they weren't very good, if that makes sense at all. Yeah, no, it makes perfect sense. So now that they've got some of their better players back, Yeah, they're a legitimate threat, I think, in the playoffs.
This game got off to a great start because our good friend Coach Harbaugh had Judge Judy serve as one of the captains for the Chargers before the game. He's been a huge fan of Judge Judy. I always laugh when I see those pictures of Harbaugh and his dad sitting at a live taping. Yeah. Of Judge Judy. The best. So he's pulling out all the stops. What else can you do if you're Harbaugh?
I know.
He brought out the big guns.
You can't lose the Judge Judy game. You can't lose the Judge Judy game. That's brutal. Yeah, it's bad.
Like, what do you do next? Well, to be fair also, Herbert, he got hurt in the first half. Yeah. He got rolled up on it, fucked his ankle up. He's had just a rotating series of, I feel like he goes back and forth between both of his ankles. Yeah. Just keep getting fucked up.
I mean, I'm not going to make excuses. I think the Chargers are just playing bad football right now. Like they even that game against the Falcons, they kind of got dominated and were lucky to win it. So, you know, they've been playing good teams, the Chiefs and the Bucks and the Ravens. So you can you can say like, hey, they've had a tough schedule, but.
Still, you would have liked them to be a little bit more competitive against the Bucs in the second half, and they just got absolutely worked, worked. And it feels like it's just two teams going in two different directions when you're talking about the Bucs and the Chargers.
This is a big game for the Bucs, too. So now what are they at, 87% to make the playoffs? Yeah.
And I don't think the Falcons are going to lose to the Raiders on Monday Night Football, but I wouldn't be shocked. It could happen. Because that's just something the Falcons would do. Yep. They would do something stupid like that and have Desmond Ritter revenge game. And yeah, the Bucks are a team I want to see in the playoffs because they will.
And that will be a very, very interesting first round matchup because they'll play one of the NFC North teams and it will be like. They've beaten the Lions. They've beaten the Lions. They've beaten the Eagles.
But they're not going to play the Lions in the first round.
Yeah. Well, no, they absolutely could play the Lions in the first round. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The Vikings could get the one seat. Yeah. Or the Vikings get the two seed. Vikings are very much alive to be, and they play the Lions, I think, week 18. So the Vikings are not, Vikings are there. We kind of forgot about the Vikings, but with the Lions loss today, the Vikings are there.
I've mentally had the Vikings just locked into that fifth seed. No.
They are very much sitting there being like, this one seed could be ours if they keep winning. Because I think the one seed comes down to conference record. So I guess they would be tied with the Eagles. I don't know how they'd figure that one out. But the Vikings, if they went out, if they went out, they win the North. That's for a fact. So they control their own destiny in that respect.
All right. But, yeah, the Bucs, I'm excited to see the Bucs in the playoffs. I like Baker. He's been awesome. Todd Bowles still can't figure out when to go for two.
He has no idea. No idea. No idea when to punt. No idea when to call a timeout. No idea when to go for two. None. But it didn't matter today.
Didn't matter today because they kicked the shit out of the Chargers and the Chargers. It's sad. I'm sad. I'm sad about the Chargers. I do... They're going to still make the playoffs. The problem is the entire idea of them making the playoffs was that they wouldn't have the seven seed. They'd have the six seed and they wouldn't have to play the bills.
Now they're in the seven seed and they would have to play the bills if the playoffs started today.
I think the Eagles have the tiebreaker over the Vikings, by the way. Oh, they do. They lost to the Rams, and we beat the Rams.
Oh, there you go. Okay. But the Vikings, if they won out, would at bare minimum have the two seed. Yeah, they would win that division. Yeah. Okay. Next up. Oh, wait.
No, yeah. Memes makes a good point. They beat the Falcons.
Uh-oh. Crunch the numbers. Crunch the numbers. Well, you guys beat the Falcons too, right?
Oh, shit. GFD. I don't know if you saw this, but Saquon.
We beat the Commanders.
That's true. Yeah. So you guys have the tiebreaker overs.
I don't know the numbers. I don't know the numbers. Find it.
You need to know the numbers. These are the most important. You've been begging for the Lions to lose another game for the last month, and they finally did, and you don't have the numbers? You got to know the numbers. This is inexcusable. There it is. If Fillion Vikings went out. There it is. Tiebreaker for the number. Click that. Click the max. Your foot's broken, not your brain, right? Okay.
Scroll down. Scroll down. See, it literally says it right there. Strength of victory would be strength of victory. Okay. Strength of victory. I mean, I don't know. I like that, though. Like the best teams that you've beaten?
Yeah, or how bad you've beaten them? I think it's how bad you've beaten them. Minnesota has a higher strength of victory. It sounds like a shitty video game, doesn't it? Oh, it's the teams you play. Like the win-loss record for the teams you play.
Okay.
So that will probably hurt the Eagles.
Win-loss record for the teams you beat.
Yeah, teams you beat. Strength of victory. So that would hurt the Eagles because they don't... I think they still have to play the Cowboys. Have you played the Giants twice?
No, we put the Giants and the Cowboys. So that's bad.
Would it be bad for your strength of victories? Bad. That's bad for your strength.
But if you lose to the Commanders this week, then that victory over the Commanders from Thursday night looks a lot better.
Strength of victory. But then if you have a third loss, then you're in trouble.
Yeah, no. Okay. We've got to win now.
All right, Broncos 31, Colts 13. This game was crazy because the Colts were in full control, and then Jonathan Taylor dropped the ball going into the end zone to go up 20-7, and all hell broke loose, and the Broncos ended up kicking the shit out of the Colts in the fourth quarter.
Yeah, I mean, we could sit here and say how stupid it is to drop the ball on the one-yard line. I'd never do it. I have never dropped the ball on the one-yard line. If my body was teleported into Jonathan Taylor's body at the one-yard line, you bet your ass we'd score that touchdown. Yep. I could have scored that touchdown. Every time. It's mass hysteria at this point. It's crazy.
Because it's made no sense since day one when it first started, Deshaun Jackson. Yep. And the fact that people keep doing it for absolutely no reason at all. There's no other explanation.
They think it looks cool, I think.
I think they think it looks cool. I think they just give up on it. You know what? We can make this about society. Yeah. You know what, Big Cat? That's the problem with Zoomers. Yep. Is that they never finish anything.
Yeah. They don't finish what they started. No. Go score a touchdown.
Not like us. I only finish.
I would always finish. That's the only thing I'm good at is finishing. Yeah. I barely start. Yeah. I finish so fast you don't even know I started. It's crazy. Look, the Colts... I've talked a lot about Anthony Richardson. I'm not a big fan. He has guys drop the ball a lot, but he also misses a lot of throws and he throws bad interceptions.
But Jonathan Taylor, you get that ball in the end zone and the pressure is on the Broncos, who Bo Nix was not playing well at the time. and everything fell apart from there. It was the punt return that put him in a great field position. It was the stupid gimmick play that the Broncos picked off. Nick Benetti picked off and took to the house.
So was that a pick six? Was that technically an interception? It might have been a fumble. Like a backwards pass or backwards fumble that went 30 yards in the air? I don't know. So what would the score to that game been if Jonathan Taylor 20 to seven, it would have been 20 to seven, 20 to seven, way to seven in the third, in the start of the third quarter.
And they were still leading in the start of the fourth quarter. But, yeah, that was their season, too. That was the Colts' season. It's all over now. They're pretty much on the outside looking in. I think 6% to get in. Yeah, and you just don't have any excuse for that because it was just, I don't know how you do that. It was so, so monumentally stupid in that moment to drop the ball.
And, by the way, the Broncos. Broncos are one of the best stories in the NFL right now. So this is from Zach Byrne. The Broncos came into the season with a win total set at 5.5, a roster ranked dead last by PFF, absorbing the largest dead cap in NFL history and the least thought of rookie quarterback.
And they just secured their first winning season since 2016 and have a playoff probability north of 90%. They're the best story right now in the NFL and the fact that no one expected the Broncos. $90 million in dead cap. Yeah. And Sean Payton was... I think we all thought he might have lost a touch last year with how that season went. And he's still a really, really good coach.
And Bo Nix, even though he didn't play great today, is a baller. And yeah, the Broncos, like that's... 2016, that was the last time they had a winning season.
I would say that... I would say probably the Broncos as a franchise that wakes up today at the fan base and just looks at the playoff standings. And they deserve it. And they're like, look at that. We're the sixth seed right now, baby.
This was going to be, going into this year, a true rebuilding, see what you got in your rookie quarterback type of year. And now they're sitting here with nine wins after week 15 in the sixth seed. I mean, their defense is good. When Bo Nix is playing well, again, he had three picks today. It was windy. We'll say that. It was windy.
But, yeah, I just can't get over how bad the Colts blew this game.
Yeah, it was bad. It was very bad. Benito, was that his second pick six of the year? Yeah. He does the hold my dick jumping in the end zone. Yeah, he got a flag for that. The ref had the flag out of his pocket while the hand was still on the dick. Yeah. Jumping into the end zone. But yeah, if you're a Broncos fan, just spend all day Monday looking at the standings.
Just looking at the playoff picture.
And I'm happy the Broncos are back in the playoffs and back to winning football because they're a fun franchise. They're like... I don't know. They had the longest time where they were just consistently there, and then they've obviously had a really bad nine years. But now they're back, and the future is bright. It feels good to be a Broncos fan.
It does feel. You look back at that loss against the Dolphins. That was the bottom. That was the turning point. That was it.
Fuck, Jonathan Taylor.
Badger, that was tough.
What do we do with Anthony Richardson? I feel like Colts fans are starting to be a little more aware. And again, I've liked a couple of things he's done. Game winning drive against the Patriots. Game winning drive against the Jets. He just can't consistently be accurate.
I mean, the Colts have a very rich recent history of hiring the least mobile old-ass quarterback in the NFL. Yeah. So Flacco, Matt Ryan, Phillip Rivers, Aaron Rodgers. Who can fill that void for them as a bridge? Jameis. Jameis.
He's mobile. Yeah.
No, I'm saying, but, like, Jameis would actually be a good fit.
I have a question for Colts fans. Chris Ballard, I don't know the in and outs of the Colts franchise. That guy feels like he's had a job for way too long.
All I know about Chris Ballard is that he is maybe the leading recipient of the Dan Dockage My Ass tweets.
Yeah, but doesn't it feel... He's been the GM for what feels like a very long time, and it just doesn't feel like the Colts are ever going... They're always right around that middle ground, but they're never going forward.
Yeah, I get a feeling like Ursae is not a fan of cycling through his right-hand men.
Yeah, but it might be time.
He likes to keep those guys around.
It might be time, and I don't know what to do with Anthony Richardson. I just don't know what to do. You just can't. Again, there was a lot of guys. It feels like his receivers let him down a lot, but he also will have multiple times a game where it's like, oh, here's a 10-yard out, and I'm going to throw it 15 yards over the guy's head.
Yeah. I do like the idea of Jameis. Yeah.
The game's on at noon on Saturday?
Yeah, there's a game on at noon.
That's weird. Why? Saturday at noon is like I'm not a holiday. It's just bizarre. Saturday night. You don't watch college football. Yeah, there's a new no college football. Yeah, but you don't watch.
Well, yeah, there's always games on at noon on Saturday.
No, I'm saying college.
No, they're doing big noon kickoff on Saturday. Penn State's playing at the same time.
That makes sense. It's college football.
Which NFL game, too? They had to do it because they're making him play four days later on Wednesday. Got it. So the four teams that are playing on Saturday play again on Wednesday. Got it. Yeah. And I don't think they wanted to make either of those teams play late on Saturday night. It's pretty crazy that they're having to turn around and play that. Like the three games in 10 days. Yeah.
All because we need football on Thanksgiving. Well, because we need it to take over the NBA on Christmas. I mean, we've taken over the NBA.
That's been done. We could just play replays on Christmas and probably still win that battle. That's a good idea.
Yeah.
Okay. Okay. Eagles 27, Steelers 13. I want to start with the Roback question. R-H-O-B-A-C-K.com, promo code TAKE. 20% off your first purchase. Q-Zips, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts. Roback.com, promo code TAKE. Go right now. Roback.com, promo code TAKE. My first question on Eagles 27, Steelers 13 is, Max, how was your weekend? Broke my foot. What?
Broke my foot. What do you mean? Listen, sometimes... You get out of a car and you break your foot. That's facts.
Wait, so you broke it getting out of the car?
That's so true.
It's so true. So relatable.
Getting out of the car. I slipped. It was rainy. It was rainy night. Were you drunk? Very much so. Yes. Which is a problem.
Wine drunk?
Wine drunk. Oh, no. Yeah.
You were over served. What time was this?
Like 11?
It's pretty early to be wine drunk.
I know we had a birthday party during the day. Shout out Quigs. So then we went from that into a dinner where Jack McCarthy and I just had too much red wine. So it's Jack McCarthy's fault. It's Jack McCarthy's fault. And Quigs.
What's the exact prognosis, diagnosis? I have a Jones fracture in my left foot.
Did any famous Philadelphians have that same?
Ben Simmons.
Ben Simmons. But he's okay. Yeah. No. He turned out fine.
So are you going to have surgery?
Excuse me. He's still drunk. The doctor today said that I probably will not need surgery.
So my friend, Dr. Dan, did tell me that they'll tell anyone who they don't deem an athlete that they don't need surgery. Correct. So you're good.
You're an athlete. Max, you're not an athlete. I do not want to get the surgery.
I mean, how are you going to pitch?
Yeah, that's a problem. That's a problem.
They're going to have to have you out there in a wheelchair. That's a problem. Like George H.W. Bush at the Astros game. That's a problem. That's a problem.
Walk me through waking up this morning, because we spent all day together. I still don't think it's registered in your head how awful this is.
No, yeah, this is terrible. This is so, so, so, so, so, so bad. I woke up this morning, honestly kind of forgot about it. Got out of bed to take a piss. And the battle to get to the bathroom was one of the most difficult things I've ever done. And then I ended up sitting and peeing. And then I just sat there for an extra like 10 minutes because I was like, I can't.
Like, I'm dreading getting up and getting back to this bed. Yeah.
Like, you couldn't even put any pressure on it?
You were hopping? Zero weight. Zero weight. Is it black and blue? It honestly wasn't as swollen as you would have thought. Or as I would have thought.
It'll probably be worse tomorrow.
But I can't even look at it.
Yeah, so it might be swollen right now.
I have to go to a foot doctor at some point this week, like a specialist, to look at it.
How many foot doctors have you seen in the last eight months? This will be... Do you have a frequent flyer account at that one guy? This will be my third, I believe.
So you're going to be... Super Bowl? Super Bowl?
I don't know. The foot specialist, I think, will give me more information.
We need to get you in a boot. Once you're in a boot, you'll be fine.
My toes are so cold. My toes are cold.
So the very first year part of my take, that fall, I had the exact same thing happen where I was stepping off of a curb after it was my buddy Quiggs' birthday party and basically Jack McCarthy forced me to drink wine. And I fractured my foot, got the Jones fracture. You're going to go to a doctor. They're going to x-ray you. They're going to hopefully put you in a boot.
And then they're going to check you again in a couple weeks to see if it healed. And if it doesn't, then you have to get the surgery. And then at that point, you're off it for like two months.
Did you get the surgery? No. I did have the surgery. I do not want the surgery. Yeah. Anyone out there... That was when we checked him out. Yeah. Just tell me I don't need to get the surgery.
Okay, but... I need you to be okay for Super Bowl.
No, I think I'm going to be like Lieutenant Dan on bourbon. Yeah. Hank wants me scooting around bourbons. Yeah.
I mean, Max, you in a wheelchair, if the Eagles are in the Super Bowl, going to the game in a wheelchair. Oh, my God. And guess what? We got you a wheelchair. Yeah. We got you a joystick wheelchair. I wanted to get you one with the straw. That's crazy. A motorized wheelchair. How sick is that going to be? That'll be cool.
That'll be cool. Max, last question.
How worried am I about being fat?
That's not what I was going to say. I was going to say, how fat are you going to get?
So I need to just not eat. I'm just not going to eat food.
Have you thought about the showering situation? Because you're going to be taking some sponge baths, buddy.
I think I'm going to be taking real baths with my foot out of the tub.
But how about the fat?
I am so, so, so worried about that.
How are you going to get out? I don't even want to think about that. It's all gross. If your foot is elevated and you're in the bath, how are you going to get out? That's a great point, Henry.
Yeah. Here's what you're going to have to do, Max. You're going to be sitting on the edge of the tub with a garbage bag tied around one of your feet, and then you're just going to take a washcloth and just wash yourself with a rag.
Yeah.
You're going to get so fat.
I'm just not going to eat. I don't know how you're going to eat. I'm just not going to eat. At all? Yep. No eating? Salads. Just salads. What if you lost weight? There's no way. Calories in, calories out. Shake weight. I need to figure out how.
You could curl. You could bench.
Yeah. No, I'm still going to do some upper body, but that's not really like burning calories.
You don't have to do it fast enough. The problem with that, Max, is you're going to do like arms workouts, and you're going to get sweaty, and then your foot's going to sink.
Can you stop? You guys just keep bringing up things that are going to suck for me. It's reality. I'm worried about that plane. I have to take...
You don't have to go to any weddings anymore. I got a wedding next week in New York.
So I have to go to Philly. You won't split your pants dancing. I have to go to Philly, take a train to New York, take a train back to Philly, go to Hilton Head, and then come back to Chicago all within the next three weeks.
How good on crutches are you?
Bad. Bad. Really, really, shockingly bad. I almost slipped walking here. Yeah.
And that's bad because every time you put pressure on that foot, you make that fracture worse.
Also, the elevator to my parking garage is broken right now. I just thought about that.
I feel really bad for you. This is the worst. It's one of the worst times to do it. Right before the holidays when you have to travel and you're also going to have time off and you can't do anything.
nothing nothing except eat nope not gonna eat salads salads salads you can drink you can drink a lot yeah i got some shrimp cocktail today that was nice you're not in danger of falling down so you can get as drunk as you want can you get a dui in a wheelchair um what you ordered shrimp cocktail what yep i got a salad i got a steak salad and shrimp cocktail oh man for lunch today
All right, the game.
Eagles dominated the Steelers. The Eagles are so good. The Eagles dominated the Steelers. We had one of – so the Eagles, I think the – what was the stat? Oh, 401 yards to 163. The Eagles' defense is ferocious. And we had one of the all-time what-the-fuck-is-he-doing moves by Mike Tomlin today because the Eagles – the Steelers couldn't do anything offensively.
They were down 27-13 with 10-40 left in the game and fourth and seven on the Philly 46. So plus territory and Mike Tomlin decided to punt and they never got the ball again. 10-40 and they never got the ball again. The Eagles went on a 21 play 88 yard drive. They never got the ball.
Yeah, they started with 10 minutes, 29 seconds left, and they picked up 12 on third and 13. They converted a fourth and one. They converted another third down. 21 play, 88 yards, 10 minutes, 29 second drive at the end. The decision to punt was just unreal in real time. Yeah. Watching like, what the fuck are you down? You're down by two scores.
Why are you kicking the ball where you're down 14 points? You're in plus territory. Mike Tomlin, why is this even a thought that you would consider?
It was something that we were saying. This is so stupid. While it was happening, little did we know that they would never get the ball back. We thought it was stupid because they were going to punt and maybe get the ball back one more time. They punted, and they never got the ball back. The Steelers had two possessions in the second half. Two. Two possessions in the second half.
And the Eagles defense is awesome. And Jalen Hurts, he answered all the critics. He threw the ball well today. He threw it to A.J.? A.J. had eight catches, 110 yards, and a touchdown. Devontae had 11 catches, 109 yards, and a touchdown. We also had the anecdote from Jay Glazer, which made me laugh, that in a team meeting earlier this week,
Brandon Graham apologized for his radio comments, and then Jalen Hurts and A.J. Brown dapped each other up in front of the team to show that everything is good. That's good. That's great. They literally got in front of the team, and they're like, watch this. So they're friends. They're friends.
Did you see their touchdown downs? Was it cool?
Are they best friends? They might be back to best friends. They dapped each other up in front of the entire team.
What a good moment that must have been.
Yeah, no. Yeah, see, look at this touchdown dance. So fun. They don't look like they're in sync.
They didn't practice that.
That was like, we got to do a touchdown dance to make everyone think that we did a touchdown dance together, but it's not. No.
Here's what that happened with that. Jalen, he texted AJ a YouTube link to, hey, this is the dance that we're going to do together. And then they both learned it at their own houses. Yeah. And then they did together for the first time right there.
Yeah. But the Eagles are back. Ten in a row. Statement win against a very good defense. And now the one seed is right there, Max. And it is pretty crazy to think about the difference in the Eagles welcoming a Minnesota Vikings or Detroit Lions or them having to go on the road.
But the Eagles might be just good enough to beat all of them. I think the Eagles are very, very, very good right now.
Yeah. I mean, they're the most complete team in the NFC. Is Dickerson hurt?
I don't know if there's... Yeah, you need him not hurt.
I mean, it does matter, but today it did not matter because you were able to do that drive without one of your best players. Also, Kenny. Kenny Gainwell.
He was great today. He had one of the best games of his entire career today. I was happy for him.
Yeah, no, it was a dominant effort by the Eagles and the Steelers. I don't know. This is why I've always been a little bit half in, half out. I know George Pickens isn't in there, but their offense, it doesn't feel explosive and it doesn't feel like it can get you out of a game like this.
When Najee fumbled that pitch. Yeah. It felt like the game was over.
But even the way they, like, the only reason it was a close game was you had Cooper Dejean fumbling that punt. And, like, other than that, the Steelers never sustained anything that felt like they were threatening. No. And I just don't know. Now T.J. Watt might be hurt. So he left the game with an ankle injury. I think it's just a sprain, which is good.
But I just walked away being like, the Eagles, I'll say it, Eagles are the best team in the NFC.
After today, they are. With the injuries in Detroit, yeah. Yeah, they are. I think they probably are.
They are. They're the best team in the NFC as of right now. I can change my opinion when the Vikings beat the Bears by 100.
Are you worried about Jalen Hurts' broken ring finger?
It's his non-throwing finger.
Oh, okay, so no problem. And he threw today. Isn't that weird that he just needed to be called out to actually throw?
Yeah, 292 touchdowns, 125 quarterback rating. It's a great game.
Are you worried at all that Nick Ceriani's grown back his hair a little bit and they have not lost a game since he shaved his head? Do you think he needs to reshave his head?
Only if you lose. You keep it going until you lose.
We talked about that. Then he shaves it, and then you start winning again. His beard looked horrendous today, though.
Yeah. But Nick Sirianni has been really good. Yeah. Like – Everyone gave him a bunch of shit in the beginning of the year, as they probably should have, but he's adjusted, and he's done a really good job with this team.
And it wasn't even like a Saquon is the best player in the league game, so he still feels like the Eagles had something left in the tank. I just think their defense. I mean, the drafting all Georgia players is starting to work wonders because, like, N'Kobe Dean is awesome, and obviously your guys on the defensive line, Jordan Davis and Jalen Carter.
Nolan Smith is also really coming into his own.
100%.
100%. Anything less than a soupy is a disappointment.
Winning a soupy or getting to a soupy?
Winning a soupy.
Got to win a soupy.
Winning a soupy.
Got to win it.
Must win.
I don't know why you guys wouldn't. I mean, you have everything. It feels like you have everything.
Must win.
How do you feel about kicker?
Kicker had a better day today. He did.
He didn't have to kick anything over 50.
He made a 49er. 49er didn't count.
Yeah.
That's not 50, though.
It's not 50.
It's close.
50 is in his head. That's for sure. Okay. Anything else in this game? I don't know. If the Steelers can beat the Ravens, then it doesn't feel like the Steelers might be not fading, but they have to play the Ravens, and then they have to play the Chiefs. And if they lose those two games, they're going to now be a road playoff game to start.
And it definitely feels a little different.
Well, Pickens being out makes a big difference for them. Oh, for sure. Their offense just goes back to what it was before Russ. Yeah. When you don't have him in there. It just becomes find a tight end, hopefully, run the football, try to, and then maybe convert like a three-yard out.
Yeah.
And with Pickens in there, they throw the ball downfield, they push it. Rusty does his moon balls. Without him in, they're, again, back to being very boring to watch without Georgie.
We'll see what happens with the Ravens game on Saturday. It's a massive, massive game.
But the Steelers, they are built to beat the Ravens.
Yes. No, absolutely. If there's one team that can beat the Ravens, it's the Steelers. We know that for a fact. Lamar struggles with the Steelers. It's just crazy how hard their schedule is down the stretch, like the fact that they're going Eagles, Ravens, Chiefs, and then a Bengals team that could be still alive. Yeah. Who knows? Okay. Last game. Best game. Bills 48, Lions 42.
This was a Josh Allen masterclass. He was on fire. I mean, every single time he touched the ball, it was basically a touchdown.
He's a tough motherfucker, too. He gets hit so hard. He just bounces right up from it.
Josh Allen is now the first player in NFL history to have 35 or more passing slash rushing touchdowns in four consecutive seasons. Pretty crazy.
Yeah, it was an awesome game today. Not a lot of defense being played. Not a lot of defense. The Lions got a couple more injuries on their defense.
Yeah, Lee McNeil and Carlton Davis is bad.
They can't really afford having any more injuries on their defense, but they got them. And then Dan Campbell, I don't know what he was doing with the onside kick. Yeah. With what, 12 minutes left in the game? 10 minutes left. 10 minutes left in the game? That made no sense to me. And they asked him about it afterwards. He's like, yeah, I kind of wish that I hadn't done that at the time.
The recovery rate's what, like 7% for an onside kick?
So I would understand it if you could still surprise onside kick. Because the idea is our defense can't stop them at all. The Bills came into this game, they were up 14-0 in the blink of an eye, and they were going right down the field doing whatever they wanted. If you could do a surprise onside kick, you're like, hey, our defense can't get a stop. Let's try to catch them off guard.
The fact you can't do a surprise onside kick anymore makes it really the dumbest thing you could possibly do. It really made no sense.
It was very, very stupid.
Yeah, and Matt Collins returned it to like the five-yard line.
Yeah, and then they tried to do an onside kick to get the ball back one last time at the end, and that was a way better onside kick. Yeah. That one almost worked for him.
Well, and the Lions pointed first, so I thought they had gotten it. Yeah, they did a great job of pointing right off the bat. Really good job of pointing first. If you point first, I'm just going to always assume that you recovered.
This was such a cool game, not only because there were so many points scored, but also everybody out there is in fantasy playoffs. Yeah. And having all the stars get yards and get points all at the same time, that fourth quarter felt like it was going to last forever.
Yeah.
When every league was still up in the air at that point.
Yeah, I mean, Jared threw five touchdowns. He spread it around to everyone. Yeah. He was making sure everyone got a touch. But I just... I mean, I said it on Friday. I was like, I love this spot for the Bills. And I know. Listen, the Lions are very injured. It sucks. I don't know what you want. Like, I feel bad for Lions fans. It sucks that they have this many injuries.
I think this is going to be a very, very big problem getting into the playoffs. Like, when they're in there playing a game where their defense... I feel like their defense hasn't gotten a stop in forever at this point. And... It's a problem. No team has ever given up 45 points at home in the regular season and went on to win the Super Bowl.
Yeah, so losing two more cornerbacks. Bad, bad spot. And a Lee McNeil.
Yeah. That's, I mean, he's very, very important. But yeah. And listen, the Bills have defensive injuries as well. Their defense has gotten gashed the last two games. But Josh Allen is playing at such an insane level that it hasn't mattered. I guess it mattered last week because they lost the Rams.
Because this is like the best Josh Allen that we've ever seen.
He just, everything works. And it's just every, when he just gets, all he has to do is just hike the ball and it's like either someone's going to be open or he's going to run around long enough that someone will be open or he'll just run for a touchdown. And James Cook looked good today. Yeah. I feel like they're getting James Cook going. They were saving him. Yeah. That was the theory.
What do you have? You have all the, I mean, the Lions are just ravaged by injuries. It sucks. It sucks. This is the shitty part of the NFL that you can have everything set up for a dream season and then you get the wrong guys injured and you're just stuck with a defense that can't stop anything. So I don't know.
I mean, if they can figure out a way to hold on to that one seed, that would be obviously massive because they would get the bye but also having to play these teams at home. But I don't know if they're going to be able to I don't know if they'll be able to win out.
I don't know. If you thought that Dan Campbell was reckless with fourth downs earlier, now that he's got all these injuries, he might not punt for the rest of the season. He might cut the punter for another defensive player. Yeah, sorry, Jack Fox. Thank you for your service.
Yeah. But, yeah, I mean, the Bills are... I don't want to get ahead of myself, but the Bills are legit, legit. And they're – I mean, we'll see what happens in the playoffs because we know the Bills' history in the playoffs. But Josh is playing out of his mind.
I went into today thinking, like, Super Bowl preview in this game. Now I'm like, yeah, Bills could definitely make the Super Bowl. Lions, I'm not confident at all.
It's just their defense is just – it's so – It sucks. It sucks a lot that their defense has this many injuries and it's fallen off – this much and their offense is still elite and still i mean that that past dan skipper was sick and and jerry was hitting i mean amon ross scored what like a 60 yarder but uh Yeah, sad for the Lions that their defense got in the way.
Listen, their schedule isn't – it's all going to come down to Week 18 for them because they play the Bears next week. They're going to kill us by 100. And then the Niners who might – who knows where the Niners are going to be at as a franchise at that point. And then Week 18 against the Vikings could be for the one seed, could be for the two seed, could be for everything.
I feel bad now about the Lions. I feel very bad. I've been super high on them all season, even when they had a lot of injuries. Now they've just got their morgue. Yeah.
It's tough. Max, you got your wish in the fact they took another loss.
Yeah, but still work to be done. Still work to be done.
They do play all their games at home.
Yeah, today at home.
Today at home. They played at home. All right, last game. We want to talk about Sunday Night Football at all. I think the big story is Geno Smith might be out for a while because he left the game with a knee injury. Packers looked awesome. Packers are a problem. The NFC playoffs are loaded.
Yeah, the Packers look loaded. Really good. Yeah, the Seahawks, they didn't even look that good when Geno was in the game. No. Geno was just like drifting back and sacked a lot. The offense looked disjointed. The defense did not look – they're like a very schizophrenic defense too. Yes. They can look very good. I bought into the death zone.
Death zone got me. And then Josh Jacobs showed up in the first drive and just ran it down their throat. Let's do a quick – I mean, in the NFC – Like, five out of seven teams? Are you saying that you can't win the Super Bowl or get to the Super Bowl, PFT?
I'm saying that I cannot win the Super Bowl this year. Get to the Super Bowl. Get to the Super Bowl. Can you get to the Super Bowl? Let's see. Can I answer that question after next weekend against the Eagles? Because right now the answer is no.
Okay.
But I reserve the right to change that if we somehow beat the Eagles.
But the Lions, the Eagles, the Bucs, the Rams, who are now at the four seed because of the Seahawks loss. I mean, the Rams are a problem for me big time.
The problem with the playoffs is you don't get to beat any bad teams in the playoffs. Right. So that's where I think we might run into a small issue. A tiny issue. A tiny issue. But if you play the Panthers in the playoffs, it'd be awesome. That could all change. If we get to, if we beat the Eagles next week, if we beat the, what are the, the Falcons are above 500, right?
I got to be nervous about the Rams.
Are they one game below?
Jesus Christ.
What? Say it again. I think it's Eagles and then a step down and then a big cluster.
You think it's a big cluster after the Eagles? Yeah. Because the Bucks, the Rams, the Vikings, the Packers.
Yeah.
No, the Vikings and Packers are both very good.
Yeah. But I think the Eagles are a slight step above.
Max, I might have to lose my pinky if the fucking Rams. The Rams are scary. The Rams are scary. The Rams are scary.
We smoked the Rams in L.A.
Okay, you're right. You did. You smoked the Rams in L.A. That made me feel a lot more confident.
Yeah. My NFC power rankings are Eagles won. Vikings two, Packers three, Lions fourth, Bucks fifth. I'm not going to dump the Lions all the way down.
The Lions just beat the Packers. Yeah, they beat them twice.
Yeah, but now they're so banged up they can't get a stop on defense.
Yeah, I'm still going to keep the Lions at second until we play out the strength. Just because they deserve that and their offense is still elite.
Yeah, I'll still say the Lions are the team I'm still most scared of. Yeah. For sure.
Yeah, I mean, their offense is insane. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I would say Lions, too. And then it's like the clump of Vikings, Packers, Rams, Bucs. I don't know. All those teams.
They're fucking good. Do you have the commanders in last place in your NFC playoff?
I probably do. Yeah, that's fair. I probably do. They could be like the Bucs. They won't play them, but.
We lost to the Bucs. They won't play them. That is the last team that we beat in the playoffs was the Bucs, 2006.
Yeah. It's the first year of a rebuild. There's nothing to be ashamed of.
Oh, I'm not ashamed. You guys can win a playoff game. I'm not saying that you can't. Put us above the Seahawks. Yeah, well, Seahawks aren't in the playoffs right now. Right now they're not. Yeah. So, yes, you are above the Seahawks. Absolutely. You're above the Seahawks. You're above the Panthers. You're above the Cowboys.
You're above the Giants. You're above the Bears.
Cowboys beat us. Okay, maybe not the Cowboys. You're above the Saints. Cardinals. Cardinals.
Niners. Yep, love it.
A lot of these teams. A lot of these teams. Yeah, Seahawks. Do we have an update on Mochino? I thought it was his ankle. Knee, maybe? Oh, man. But that just changes everything if he's out. Mm-hmm. Because he's, like, Seahawks are, like I said, if the playoffs started today, they wouldn't be in it. It happened just like that. Okay.
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My who's back of the week is LeBron James.
Yeah, he is back.
Is he, though? Is he back? Oh, yeah. Where was he? No one knows, people. There's rumors that... So he left the Lakers a few days ago. They were asking JJ Redick. He said he doesn't really know. And there was, you know, internet rumors circulating that he was maybe getting arrested, that he was disappearing. He was never coming back. He was retiring. It was very odd to be honest with you. Uh,
And then Sunday comes around and he gets reported that he's with the team, shoot around, comes out, plays tonight, played really well, had some explosive plays, a couple of chase down blocks, a couple of dunks in traffic. I saw one tweet that said, you know, the time that he was gone is just enough time to go to Germany, re-up on some PEDs and come back.
I'm not saying that's what he was doing, but... It was weird the way it was. You know, he left. And with LeBron and the media, they will talk about him nonstop. And it kind of got swept under the rug. So it was strange. But he's back and all is well.
Yeah, he just left. He's done this before. He did it in Miami. I know that for a fact. Maybe the Germany thing. But it is weird.
The problem is that LeBron James has his own little media ecosystem that's right around him. Yeah. And so they're people that have proven loyalty to LeBron's people. Right. And so they will not put out anything that's bad about him if he's not around. Yeah. What do you think is going on, Hank? It's weird.
I have no idea. I really don't, you know... I'm not an investigative journalist. I was getting DMs and random... Like, someone got my number. I don't even know who it was. Texted me and being like, LeBron just got arrested. Report it. And obviously it's a random number. I'm not going to report that. And I got DMs being like, you know, he's... Who knows? It's all conspiracy shit.
So it's like, I have no idea. I literally have no idea. It makes no sense. All I know is the fact that The way it was underreported is odd.
If LeBron got arrested, somebody would have leaked that. Yeah.
Obviously. Obviously. No, he didn't get arrested. But the whole thing is just odd.
It's weird. It's weird. And I would love to know, like, do you think JJ Redick's having fun?
Do you think he knows and has to pretend like he doesn't know? The way he responded seemed like he actually didn't know. I think he doesn't know. Right.
I don't think LeBron tells anyone.
There also is a chance that there's, like, something going on with his family. For sure. So we don't know. We don't know.
But, like, you would think he would say, you know, I got some stuff going on. Just tell the people I have some stuff going on. Yeah, right.
You could easily say, like, yeah, I have stuff going on with my family. I'm not going to be here. Yeah, I feel like JJ probably is not having the best time right now. Also, did you guys see the NBA ratings are not doing well?
Yeah. No.
Time for a change. Maybe different color balls? Maybe different color balls. Maybe... I don't know. I don't know what the answer is. I still like playoff basketball. The season is very long. I've got an idea.
What if the players really cared?
Yeah.
That'd be good.
They could try that. I don't know what the answer is, though. Hank? Hank? Are you a little salty that the ratings are down when the Celtics repeat? Kind of.
Yeah, I knew that. I knew you were going to say that. In this era, who even notices? I'm as tuned in as I ever have been.
But it's tough to watch.
It's tough to watch, meaning it's hard to find the games. You have to have a bunch of... They have all these games and all these different apps. I think it's the same with the MLB, where it's like, You can't just turn on the TV and watch a game. Sometimes you have to log into this app to watch it or log into that app.
Yeah. I was watching it in the Metaverse on Saturday. That's sick. It was awesome. Joel Embiid, I saw him fall down in the Metaverse. I felt like I was there for it.
Oh, how are we doing on the 10-win hunt?
Dead. Everyone's hurt. Dead.
What happened to Joel?
Embiid, gone.
Wait, did Jerry McCain get hurt? Did he?
Yep, dead. Oh.
max gone yeah max you just did it in solidarity huh yes sympathy foot sympathy foot yep correct so is joel is he out for a while i don't know is he got a sinus fracture yeah tom wilson came back and played scored two goals a sinus fracture same injury sounds very painful uh
Yeah, I love that Hank is salty about this. This is great.
Well, Hank also... This is great. Hank told me that he thought when he first read the report that Joel Embiid was out indefinitely because he had a sinus infection.
Oh.
Which would have been... That would have been very funny.
That would have been very funny.
Yeah.
If he just needed the little neti pot or whatever the fuck it is.
Yeah, he's just going to blow his nose. Yeah.
Okay. Good who's back. I don't know where LeBron has been. I'll tell you what will save the NBA. Cooper Flagg. Yeah. Cooper Flagg. Cooper Flagg. It is like I feel like they're at a little bit of a crossroads because they got like the stars of the league are old. Yeah, the league has been LeBron James. Right. For what, 21 years? Right. And you got to like LeBron. I mean, I don't know.
Let me look at the standings. But LeBron, like the Lakers are the 10th seed. If you think about like the biggest stars, the Steph and the Warriors are what, the 8th seed? So, yeah, I mean, KD's the sixth seed. It's hard when the biggest stars, you need a new age.
It's analytics. I blame analytics. That too.
Three-point shot. Dunk should be three.
That'd be sick. That would be nice. Dunk should be three. That would be awesome. What if they, in the NBA Cup, they just got rid of the three-pointer?
yeah but imagine if they made dunks threes everyone was just trying to fucking yam on each other constantly yeah that would be sick that would be sick uh okay who's your who's back pft uh my who's back of the week is america because the army navy game went over went over yes a lot of points throwing the ball a little bit that was a fun game to watch it was very fun it was a good time uh
And also, I like it when rivalry games happen like this, when one team is, obviously when it's Army-Navy, it's up in the air no matter what, but it's kind of like Michigan-Ohio State.
Yeah.
Where it was like, okay, Army's having their top year this year, and then Navy goes in and just smashes.
Yeah, it was also... It would have been great if Army had made the playoffs.
Oh, my God.
I mean, the people who are saying that Army should have made the playoffs, that's a tough take.
But that would be a very funny thing to wake up to on Sunday morning. Yeah, because Navy was just the better team for the entire game. But it was awesome. It was a fun game to watch. And I like the fact that it's its own thing. There's no other games on. I'm glad that if the NFL was in charge of college football, they would schedule a new weird round of the playoffs for that same day as Army.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
All right, my who's back is Chicago Cubs because we've got Kyle Tucker. Big. All right. For one year. Huge. And then we're not going to pay him. Huge. But one year is going to be sick. Yeah. I just want to watch someone who actually can threaten to hit home runs on a consistent basis, and he can do that. No wins going out. And also the Yankees wanted him, but the Astros wouldn't trade it to him.
Are the Yankees back too? Yeah, who'd they get? I think they're going to get Cody Bellinger. They got to close it, right?
Yeah, I think they're going to. They traded for Devin Williams. They also signed Max Fried.
Yeah, they're going to try to get Cody Bellinger, I think, which if they want to trade Luis Gil for him, I'd do that.
The Phillies also tried to trade for Kyle Tucker. Yeah.
The Astros said no. He's awesome at baseball. That actually makes me feel bad because I feel like the Astros are like, well, the Cubs won't be a problem. Yeah, why did they say no to the Phillies? Because they said no to the Yankees. They said no to the Phillies. Cubs, sure. Yeah, sure. They won't pay him in a year. Yeah. But one year of maybe winning more than like 83 games. That's kind of fun.
I'm excited about it. I wanted something. I wanted them to show a little life of like, hey, we can actually do something. Again, they probably won't re-sign him, and that will make me even more mad. But at least it's going to be fun. You want to be in a playoff, Chase? Yes.
yeah yeah i want a guy who the opposing pitcher fears yeah kyle tucker it's nice it's good to have like at least one of your teams be in the mix for something i don't have any yeah at all even close the cubs i feel like the cubs could be in the mix probably not though probably not probably not uh all right anything else good show boys
Anything else? Max, I feel bad for you. I feel really bad. Oh, Max, are you going to cut out the lottery ball today? Oh, yeah. Sorry to everyone. Cut out the lottery ball.
TD Parlay hit. TD Parlay hit. TD Parlay. Yeah, ho, ho.
Did I get it?
You did not get it. That was memes. Memes was sabotaging the lottery ball.
Max called me. Obviously, I understand people like it. It's part of the show. But it was on the YouTube in the Rumble, so you could have watched it. It was documented. It just got cut out of the podcast. But I did appreciate Max's remorse when he called me on Friday morning. It sounded like he was going to cry. He's just like, I don't know what happened. I don't like fucking up.
I don't know what to do. I don't know what to have.
I got karma. I got punished for my actions on Friday.
That doesn't feel like a fair punishment.
I lost a foot.
Losing a foot off of screwing up the lottery ball. All right. Well, this is going to be in there, right?
This will be in.
11.
17. I'm going to go 8. 3.
44.
21.
51. 51. Not even close, Migs.
Bye.