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God bless football, Billy Gill. God bless football, Mikey A., God bless football, Stugatz. Thank you, Mikey. Happy holidays to everyone in the audience. We have an exciting show coming up. We have an exciting weekend coming up. We have the college football playoff first round coming up. We have the NFL as well. Chris Felica, the bear, going to join us.
Mike Lombardi, the new GM at North Carolina, is going to join us. And Chris Sims is going to join us as well. How about Lombardi, GM, North Carolina? I'm expecting a different Mike Lombardi today, Billy. Are you? I am, yes.
It's funny because we've had Mike Lombardi on a number of times, and it was promote books and, you know, whatever projects he was working on at the time. He had a show at VSYN. He did some stuff with DraftKings. And you would always say, you know... Billy, this is how you do this. You get Lombardi, and then when he takes over an NFL team, you have that relationship.
You'll tell me that with everyone, to the likes of Drew Millard, who writes a book about golf. When he's on the PGA Tour, it's like, Drew Millard's never going to be on the PGA Tour, but whatever. And sure enough, now Mike Lombardi has taken over, you know, University of North Carolina. By the way, Stu Gatz, I don't know if you know this. What? God Bless Football is presented by Smirnoff.
We do games. I didn't know that. Please drink responsibly. The Smirnoff Company, New York, New York. I mean, how could I possibly have known that? I mean, you should. They sponsor us every week. Also, by the way, here's another thing. Yes. Guys. If you want to do us a solid, go to sportspodcastgroup.com. You can vote for us for Best American Football Podcast.
Listen, I'm not here to go into any conspiracy theories or anything like that, but someone did point out that some of the heavier hitters are at the top of the list when you go to vote for Best American Football Podcast, the Kelseys. What? I'm not saying shenanigans is a foot here, but I'm saying go to sportspodcastgroup.com. Scroll down a little bit. You'll find God bless football.
Vote for us, the little guys, to go up against the Giants. If you hate Taylor Swift, vote for us. If you hate Travis Kelsey, vote for us. If you love Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey, vote for us. Either way. Vote for us. Sportspodcastgroup.com. God bless football. Best American football podcast.
I want to be clear on the accusation you're making. I'm making no accusation. Are the Kelseys being put first because they want the Kelseys to win that award? Is that what they're doing?
I didn't say that. I just had someone reach out to me and say, why aren't these in alphabetical order? To which I said, I don't know. Vote for us. So please vote for us for Sports Podcast Group Awards. We can stick it to management who doesn't believe in us.
Do the Kelseys, do they even talk football? I mean, honestly. I don't know. I've never listened to the podcast. I only listen to God Bless Football. That's all you listen to. That's all you need to listen to. Did you say stick it to management that doesn't believe in us?
You always have to, whether it's true or not, you always have to kind of paint this thing like you're the little dog. You know what I mean? So that then the audience gets behind you and they're like, you know what? I want them to succeed. So just, you know.
Create your narratives. Let's try it this way, okay? Management does not believe in me, in Billy, in Mikey A. They don't support it, okay? They don't want us to win awards, okay? They don't want us really. They don't. I'm being honest. They don't. And I'm telling you right now. I got this message. I don't think Billy got it, but I got it. If we don't win this award, they might cancel the show.
So go and I did not get that message. I hope that's not the case.
I was trying to do what you were saying. Oh, sorry.
Sorry. Sorry. They told me that. And they also said they also said, Billy, you have two dogs. If you don't win this award. You're going to have one dog, and you can't choose which one.
It's like, wow. That's extreme.
That is, wow. Management doesn't play. Please vote for us, sportspodcastgroup.com.
Please, for Billy's dog.
Thank you.
I don't know which one.
I'm trying not to get attached to either one of them, just in case. I was following your lead there.
Which dog would you get rid of, though, by the way? I don't have a choice. I don't get to choose. But what if you did have a choice? What if you did? What if you did? What if you did? Come on, Billy. What are your dogs' names?
I love them both equally, Dopey and Izzy. Dopey and Izzy? Yeah, I love them both equally.
No one loves both of them equally, so go ahead.
But if I had to choose one... See, I'm not going to say. I'm not going to say, because guess what? If I tip off which one I want more, then they take the other dog. You know what I mean? I would save this one, and they're like, Nope! Boom! This dog is gone to a new home. Not anywhere else. We're not doing anything bad to the dogs.
Right.
But please vote for us so that they get both still live in my house.
Which one are you getting rid of?
I'm not going to say. Okay. They're both your dogs. I know. I love them, but I'm getting choked up just thinking about it. It's terrible. So vote for us so that I don't have to make that horrible choice that I don't even have to make anyways. Oh, also, after you vote for us, sportspodcastgroup.com. Compete against us in weekly fantasy presented by Smirnoff. Go to DKNG.co slash Smirnoff.
Just before we did this, Stugas was filling out his roster, and he feels pretty confident about it this week. I do.
I took Tyler Murray.
What'd you say, Mike? I'm coming for the top 500 this week.
Well, you can only go up from last week.
After 510th last week, I'm coming for the top 500 this week. Yeah.
I did fill out the roster right before we came on air here. I have Kyla Murray as my quarterback. What's the rest of your roster? Let me check it out. I wanted to ask you guys a question before we get to the bear here, Chris Felica, who's going to give us 12 picks for Christmas, okay? Santa Claus. Santa Claus is going to give us 12 picks for Christmas. Why not? The bear. It's so ridiculous.
Hold on. I'm trying to pull up the line up here. Hold on a second, Billy. I have Kyler Murray. I took Shakir, the Bills receiver. I was trying to trick you. Don't tell people your roster because they'll pick the exact same roster as you. Why would you ever pick my roster?
I mean, just spite. I don't know.
I wanted to ask you guys a question. College football playoff is this weekend. NFL is this weekend. Both NFL games are good. The college football playoffs are win or go home. I'm confused by the college football zealots who are upset that they have to compete against the NFL. Who doesn't want more football? I don't understand. You guys don't have a preference, do you?
You're fine with all this being mashed together, right, Billy?
I love it. I'm going to watch it all. Oh, my God. We're headed into the holidays. Work responsibilities are winding down. All I have to worry about after all the presents. That's a story for another day. Don't get me started on that. Holiday shopping. But Saturday is football day. God bless it.
The Bear, Chris Felica, is joining us. Billy, a very exciting time. Mikey, a very exciting time. We have college football playoffs coming up. What a Saturday. Two NFL games, three college playoff games. The Bear is going to join us. He is going to sing us 12 picks at the end of this segment for the holidays. We're going to call it Santa Paws. Is that good with you?
Bear, we'll get to college football in a second and we'll get to the games. But for those of you who don't know, Felica is a big Jets fan. OK, he is part of our tortured fan base. And so I am wondering here, Mikey, I will have a breaking story for you that just drives me crazy. But I am wondering how you feel about whether or not Aaron Rodgers should come back.
And if he does come back, do you want him back as the Jets quarterback?
Why? Why? Why? Why are you bringing him back?
He looks good the last couple of games, Bear.
But you're not going anywhere. The team is terrible. You're not winning next year. You are now in tear it down, new GM, new coach, new everything. You're in tear it down, Mo. You're not, hey, let's trot out a 41-year-old quarterback for another year. It's not going to accomplish anything.
Right. Mikey, I think for the first time I saw you nodding. Do you want Aaron Rodgers back, Mikey A.? No, I'm just not sure what the alternative is. Bear, let me just say this, okay? I would rather Aaron Rodgers be bad for the Jets than be great somewhere else. So therefore, I want him back. I can't stomach seeing him be great somewhere else. He's not going to be great. He might. He might.
Jensen, you will tell you, he could be great.
Are you just applying that Jets defeatist logic? Yes, that's the only thing I'm applying.
Sam Darnold.
Gino Smith. What a freaking clown that guy was.
We're two years away from Zach Wilson winning the MVP.
That will not be one of the 12 days of Christmas bets. I can promise you that. Zach Wilson will be 2026 MVP.
I like that you say like, oh, that clown Adam Gase, like Robert Sala was like a genius.
No, he wasn't. But it wasn't like, I mean, Adam Gase, Darnold was the quarterback then. I mean, clearly with some pretty good coaching now in Minnesota, he's doing okay. I mean, look, it wasn't like he went to Carolina and was great either. That was another dysfunctional organization.
There is a there's a great report by Diana Rossini from The Athletic, because I have maintained for many, many years that we as Jet fans care more about the team than the fans do. Mikey, please share this report with the bear and let's get his let's get his response to it.
There's a lot in it, bear, including that Woody wanted to keep. the Mr. Irrelevant pick just because he wanted the pomp and circumstance that goes with it. But the part that really stands out is he nixed a Jerry Judy trade from Denver, even though everything was in place, because his teenage son said his Madden rating was too low to make the deal.
I mean, that makes perfect sense, right?
I mean, do you really need another reason than that? When you don't know football, you go to Madden for, oh, I guess this guy is good. He's an 87. Yeah, without a doubt.
Seriously. How, how ridiculous is that? Like, I want to keep the last pick because I want to have another Brock party. Like, like give me a break. Like seriously, that's a once in forever type hit that the Niners had with that guy.
But then again, this is the reason he fired Robert Sala because his team got embarrassed in London where he was for the ambassador for four years and he was bruised and he was embarrassed and he fired his head coach because of that. So it's like this type of owner that he is.
Were you okay with Belichick reaching out to the Jets and the Jets saying, get the f*** out of here?
Yes. Yes. Absolutely. Yes. Of course I was. I mean, look, he held a grudge for whatever, and he lambasted him. Actually, for once, the Jets actually showed a little bit of a spine. I like it.
Yes. What did you think of Belichick going to Carolina? Did that surprise you?
I think it's either going to be – I don't think it's a middle ground. I think it's either going to be great or it's going to be a complete disaster. But then again, look, this is the guy who figured out a way to plant cameras to spy on his opponent before the Super Bowl and figure out a way to doctor footballs to get him into the game for Tom Brady.
If he can do that, I think he can figure out a way to out-game plan Jake Dickert and Dave Doering.
You made news on this show recently saying Don Shula was a cheater. Are you alleging that Bill Belichick is also a cheater?
All I know is those tapes have mysteriously been destroyed and everything to do with the Spygate, with the Rams, like suddenly it's gone. Well, not suddenly. It's been gone for a while. None of it exists anymore. Right. I don't know. Will this smoke this fire?
You're right. Yes, well said by you. Bear, before the season started, and we'll get to your picks at the end here, before the college football season started, you and I voiced concern. We shared similar concerns about what it would do, the new playoff format would do, to the regular season. So now that we've had a full regular season to kind of digest this new era, what do you think?
Has your opinion changed? Did it ruin the regular season? Did it enhance it? What are your thoughts here?
I still liked it at four, but I will say this. It accomplished its goal. And for that, I'll say it was a success. It made more fan bases involved. It created more conversation. It created more discussion. We cared more about it later. I will say... it was a success again. I'll, I will fully admit, uh, that I was, I liked it more, uh, than I thought I would.
However, I still think there are problems with the, uh, the way these teams are ranked, the way it's seated, if we're going to spin it towards the playoff itself, like the way they see like Boise state, getting a buy is ridiculous. Um, you just need to see it at one through 12th of the top four, get a buy. And then you want to put all the conference champions and that's fine.
That's a different story, but I give you four best teams, uh, teams buys, but yeah, it will, it will look and we'll see what happens this weekend. I mean, people talked about wanting the extra games because they upsets are going to happen. You get more teams in, you don't know, but we can have first round upsets.
Well, all four of these teams that are hosting in the first round are north of a touchdown favorite. So we'll see if one of these teams can go on the road and pull an upset. If not, then we're kind of That doesn't mean that it will never happen, but it will just kind of give the people and say, hey, why are we putting like 12 teams in? We really don't need more than four or eight.
So we'll see what happens.
All right. So this is interesting. Of the four underdogs playing this weekend, SMU, Tennessee, Clemson, Indiana, which team do you think has the best chance of springing the upset?
I think it's SMU. Really? Yeah, I think what we saw from Penn State against Oregon, I think we saw the Oregon offense. Look, granted, that's Dylan Gabriel and that offense and Tez Johnson and those wide receivers, but they really – got little resistance from that Penn State defense in the Big Ten Championship game.
And with Kevin Jennings and the Miami transfers that they have down there and Rhett Lashley has at SMU, I think they can do some similar type things. But it would not surprise me to see SMU hang around in this game. Now, look, they could go there. And their lack of beating anybody good throughout the year, their strength to schedule, it may wear its ugly head this coming weekend.
But I think they have the pieces that exist the most to potentially pull an upset.
So it's interesting. Do you think any of the eight teams playing this weekend can actually win the national championship? Yes. You do think so? Okay, go ahead. Who?
Ohio State. Really? Ohio State is still powering. In Texas, too. Ohio State and Texas are two of the best four teams in the country. I like that. That's what I was getting at with, with the seating. Like if you, if you say who are the best four teams in the country, I mean, some people might want to throw Notre Dame in there, but it's Ohio state, Texas, Oregon, and Georgia.
Those are the four best teams. And you got two of them that potentially would have to play four games in order to, to win the title. But yeah, if Texas or Ohio state won the national title, no one would be shocked at all.
But I think what college football wants to see eventually, and they think it's going to happen, I'm not so sure, they want to see one of these teams like SMU make a run and play in the national championship game, don't they? And I just can't envision a day where we're going to see that, Bear.
I can't either. I mean, you're asking SMU to beat To be Penn State, and then they would luck out. You would get Boise State in the next round, but then you'd potentially get Georgia, and then you're going to get either Ohio State, Texas, or Oregon. It's not going to happen. The way the teams are built are different. In college basketball, you have five players on the court at once. It's not...
Build continuity with upperclassmen and you're playing together for three, four years. That stuff matters. College football, you're not going to get that. You get 11 on 11, the two deeps. It's just college football is the most schedule-reliant sport that there is. And I know people hate it when I say it, but all schedules are not created equal. All conferences are not created equal.
And the ringing indictment of that, This year was look at, look at Indiana. They played two teams with the winning record. Uh, SMU played, played nobody, Texas, no, no wins over a team currently ranked.
So like, even you look, compare the Texas schedule in the SEC to what Georgia faced going on the road to Texas, Ole Miss, uh, Alabama, and then having to play Texas again in the, in the conference championship game. Like, uh, you need to figure out a way that that, that is like one of my fixes, uh, for the sport that you need with these mega conferences.
Now, 16, 18 teams in the league, 14 teams, you need to have two divisions. You at least need to have some clarity of who you're playing and, and make it clear as opposed to Indiana missing out on everybody good in the big 10, uh, with the exception of Ohio state and, and did some of the other leagues because it really was unfair, uh,
to a lot of these conferences, just the gap and the chasm in scheduling.
So if you're running one of these programs under the current construct, you're scheduling easy teams, right?
Yeah, right, I am. Yes. Absolutely. And that's what the committee did. You almost needed to think in like 3D chess or checkers with the committee and kind of Lay it out in your mind. Like they painted themselves and inbox themselves into a corner with, with SMU. And I brought this up a couple of weeks out.
Like if you had SMU ahead of Alabama on the final week of the season, going into a conference championship game, You can't knock them out because they play in a conference championship. You're saying, okay, you're in, and then you can say, oh, well, you got to play in that conference championship game. You're not in.
You should have had them behind Alabama and basically say, hey, go win the game, and then we're going to put you in. So they did a lot of loss, almost gave you a good New York-Long Island loss there. Every now and then it comes out. I like it. Coffee. But yeah, it was a lot of loss ordering by, by the committee.
So like they need to do a better job in ranking these teams and not just look at, because again, SMU is 11 and one is not as good as what Ole Miss is nine and three or Alabama's nine and three is.
But Barry, it's like impossible to play that game, right? Because you have to schedule these things out like years in advance and you have no idea what the committee is going to think three years from now. And also like the strength of schedule arguably is why Miami didn't really have a shot.
I mean, they didn't play for a conference championship, but you still had a three loss Alabama just because of the conference they were in over in Miami who didn't have as many losses. So like scheduling gimmies is good for like SEC teams and big 10 teams at the moment.
But like if your conference is not viewed as one of the better ones and then you don't have the strength of schedule, you can't get in.
Fair point. And to give Miami at least a little bit of credit, they did schedule Florida. And they didn't think that Florida was going to have – and Florida actually wound up having a much better year than people thought.
But a bad year to schedule Florida, bad timing to play them.
But you don't know three years ago.
You can't control it.
Exactly. It's crazy just how scheduling ends up affecting it when you can't control it.
And even within the season. And we've talked about this with – With Mike and all the guys in the Miami, the Miami chat that we're like, what happens if Miami and that game is played in November as opposed to September? That could be a whole different team because the Florida team in late in the season was much better than the one we saw earlier in the year.
Where does Mario go from here after losing Cam Ward? Because Cam Ward really is what kind of kept that team alive. So he basically has to find a Cam Ward every year under this current plan.
And I hate it. I, I, it's why I hate this. Like you need to go out and like, I guess the nickel kid supposedly is, is, is a guy. So that, that, that's a positive, but this is what I hate with this current, like a portal transfer NIL era. Like every, it's like, Oh, we're just going to go out and buy a quarterback. It's not that easy. Look at this year now.
Oh, we're just going to go out and get John Mateer. Oh no, you didn't. Cause he went to Oklahoma. Cause Baker Mayfield made a call. Exactly. So I don't know. It's still the backbone of building your team is recruiting and finding blue chip guys and keeping them and developing. You got to find the right kid to be able to do it. I know people are going to argue and say no.
Look at Texas and Oregon have transfer quarterbacks, but Clemson doesn't. Penn State doesn't. Georgia doesn't. So there's still something to be said for bringing in a quarterback and having maybe the right makeup to be able to say, you know, I'll sit in here and knowing that as a sophomore after a year of practice and a year of maybe some mop-up time, it's going to be my team.
So we'll see what happens. Hopefully this kid will play out. I know a lot of chatter about maybe Mendoza from Cal being the guy now. But, yeah, I'm not a fan of having to rely on that every year.
Yep. Yep.
Yes. You've got multiple TVs, two TV games. Anybody remember the good, who was involved in two TV games? Anybody there involved in two TV games? Right here. There we go.
You have a phone too as a third TV. Exactly.
Listen, who the hell objects to more football? It's ludicrous.
Idiots.
Exactly. I mean, and if you're like, like what we had on Monday night with two absolute garbage games on Monday night, the odds are maybe at least one of them should, should be good.
But I'll tell you what, it is going to be a little bit of a debate on, uh, which gets the, which gets volume up in my house on, uh, on Saturday, just cause my wife being the, uh, the Steelers fan for Pittsburgh, right, right in the middle of the afternoon. So that will be a, that will be an interesting call to see, uh, If Raven Steelers or I guess the second college football playoff game is what?
The Texas Clemson game, I think, is the second one. Yeah, I think it is.
And let me tell you how that call is going down right now, okay? You're piping Raven Steelers throughout the house.
Yeah, I would think the Sonos Click Connect AV1, that's probably how it is going to go down.
All right. This is very exciting because the bear, we love him. He's great. The audience loves him. And he has decided to be our Santa Paws. He is going to give you 12 beautifully wrapped gifts for the holidays. It is Bears Picks. And by the way, check out his podcast, Bear Bets, wherever you get your podcast. So how are we going to do this? Are you going to sing this?
Do you want us to sing you in? How do you want to do it?
Well, I'll, I'll, I'll just do it like one by one. You, you can, you can, you can kind of tee me up for each time and react to whatever I may have said, but yeah, I'll just give you like a, well, we'll do for the, just to give you a, for example, on the first bed of Christmas, the bear gave to me the six years to miss the playoffs plus one 30. I'll give you a little bit of that.
Okay.
It's going to get really old and tiring, isn't it?
No, it's not. No, it's, it will never get old. It will never get tiring. I'm wondering what we do at five, the fifth day. That's going to be tough for all.
No, I got a good one. I got a good one for five.
Oh, okay.
Like, like I am, as you probably may know this, I'm not like the biggest NBA guy in the world, but my buddies who follow the stuff, uh, I'm kind of hijacking this from them. Like, the Sixers are terrible. I know the East is bad, but they are, what, 8-16, and B can't walk. Everybody's hurt.
And the way these bets are graded to miss playoffs, it's you can make the play-in and then get knocked out of the play-in. As long as you're not in the final field of eight to actually compete in the playoffs, like, that's a winner. So, like, the Sixers to miss the playoffs at plus 130 is a – is a bet that my NBA-centric friends think is still pretty good.
They were actually on it a few weeks back when it was a better number, but I still think the way the season is playing out, plus 130 is still a good bet.
All right, so that's an official bet right there. That is the first bet of Christmas. That's the first day of Bearmas, yeah. First bet of Christmas, okay. So, all right, Billy, you want to sing them in with me here? On the second day of Christmas, the bear gave to me.
Texas A&M minus three and a half versus USC.
On the third day of Christmas, the bear gave to me a Jeremiah Smith anytime TD versus Tennessee. On the fourth day of Christmas, fourth bed of Christmas, the bear gave to me Liverpool to win the EFL and Premier League. On the fifth day of Christmas, the bear gave to me the White Sox to win 50.
On the sixth bed of Christmas, the bear gave to me the Premier League saying bye-bye to Man City. I'm saying they're going to get relegated, by the way. They're going to get slapped with a major penalty, and they're going to get sent down to the championship next year. That's 10-1, by the way.
okay wait is it really you can get a bet on that yeah absolutely all right on the seventh bed of christmas the bear gave to me ohio state minus seven and a half versus tennessee i love you on the eighth day of on the eighth bed of i keep saying day on the bed of christmas the bear gave to me
The Eagles to win the NFC plus 220. It's your show. You can do whatever the hell you want.
On the ninth bed of Christmas, the bear gave to me. I love watching Mikey write these down. Go ahead.
Clemson did not score 20. That's under 19.5 versus Texas for those who weren't able to figure that out.
On the 10th bed of Christmas, the bear gave to me.
Texas, Syracuse, and Ohio State in a money line parlay. That's minus 106, all three on the money line together. 106 is a very important number, by the way, because that's my birthday, January 6th. Wow. I feel really good about that. The math actually came out to that. January 7th. There we go. Wow. Perfect. We get to celebrate it on January 7th.
There we go. On the 11th bed of Christmas, the bear gave to me La Liga to be won by Atleti.
470, plus 470 to win La Liga. Big one coming up this weekend against Barcelona, by the way. Sometimes it's just not your year. We saw it with the 49ers in the NFL. Real Madrid, Barcelona, both kind of, it's not going well for them right now. Give my man Simeone. La Liga title.
On the 12th bed of Christmas, the bear gave to me the New York Jets plus three.
Wow.
What?
I like the Jets plus three against the Rams this week.
Really?
Yeah, I do.
I like the first 11.
I hit myself forward. Maybe that will be what convinces me to want Aaron Rodgers to hang around for another year.
I might just erase all of his bets now after that one.
Rip them up, throw them in the garbage. This was delightful. I like this.
Yeah, it was terrific.
I'm upset with myself that I didn't think of it sooner. I'm sorry.
That's okay. I love getting the frantic 9-12 text from Stu Gatz. Hey, we're thinking about doing this 12, giving you 12 bets. Sure, whatever you want. Who needs breakfast? I just need to write out my bets.
You also need to go do your own podcast. Yeah, I know. That's coming up. We're getting there. Bear beds. Check it out wherever you get your podcast. Thank you for those 12 beautiful gifts, buddy.
You're so welcome. Happy holidays, guys.
I want to tell you a story. I'm serious here. My wife and my two daughters, they begged me to buy a Peloton. So I bought a Peloton. And then I watched that Peloton sit in my office and stare at me. So you know what I did one day? I looked at it. And so I decided to get off my ass and I jumped on the Peloton because no one else was using it and I paid for it. I mean, so why not?
Then I realized eventually that they bought it for me. And I got to tell you, way more challenging than I could have ever imagined. Peloton coaches are walking the walk. I love the coaches. I do the Grateful Dead one. It's fantastic. They have a sub three hour marathon runner, military trained athlete, a former college basketball player and so many other well-rounded coaches on their team.
All this experience really shows in their classes. which are never short of challenging, especially for me. So I jumped on it that first time. It was challenging, more challenging than I thought. Then I wanted to beat the bike, and so I kept jumping on it, and I absolutely love it. I mean, I'm the only one who uses it, but again, they got it for me. I mean, I had no idea.
That's a little passive-aggressive, don't you think? Find your push, find your power with Peloton at OnePeloton.com. I love that you're donning the Carolina sweatshirt already.
Hey, look, you give me a chance to promote the school, I'm going to promote it.
Yes. Did you hit the ground running, Mike?
Yeah, hit it running. I haven't stopped, yeah. It's hard because we're trying to get this thing going. We're trying to... We've got to recruit. There's all sorts of levels of recruiting. There's the portal. There's still the high school recruiting with the kids. Then there's your own kids you've got to recruit. There's three different worlds coming together.
Mike, can you put us on the phone when Bill Belichick calls you and he starts discussing? How did that process work where Belichick's calling you and saying, Mike, I'm taking the Carolina job. Do you want to come and be my general manager?
Well, I think a lot of that was conversations that we've had ongoing. You know, we were doing the coach podcast. We still are. And we would have conversations about opportunities. And I think when this one came up, you know, as I've mentioned many times before, Bill and I were on this campus and We were walking around here thinking, how can't you win here? It's a magical place.
I mean, there's nothing prettier than Carolina. And they've been so good, and they've got such great fan base, the alumni. It's a great institution. And we've always thought this had untapped potential. And so I think, to me, it was more about – what he wanted to do than it was what I wanted to do. I always wanted to go back and work with him.
So that was easy to kind of assume it was what he was going to be comfortable with. And once he started talking to North Carolina, I think he realized he got very comfortable.
It's interesting. So I'm guessing, Mike, knowing you the way I do, you don't take this job unless you know Bill Belichick's going to be there for a while, right?
Oh, yeah. I had a good thing going with the media, with VEASAN. As you know, we were partners on DraftKings, and I was doing a lot of things. And it was a perfect ending to my career. I've written two books, and I was working on a third book. And so I wouldn't have done this if it wasn't I wanted to work for him. I've always did. We've enjoyed ourselves working together.
It's a really good partnership. It's tremendous reward. And I know that the effort that he's going to put in is going to far exceed anything that anybody else would. And I wanted to be a part of it.
Where'd you leave off on the third book? Like, what are you doing there, Mike?
Well, the third book was actually going to be about the last five years in New England. He's writing a book on leadership. But if you look at the last five years, the last five years of New England, the success that they had, three Super Bowls, we won two together.
a conference championship loss those kind of things you know it was the book is going to be about the second run you know like we've made the first run back in the early 2000s but that second run from 14 to 18 was pretty impressive too
Do you think, Mike, at all that Bill, does he still have a desire to coach in the NFL at some point?
No, I think he, I think, look, I think, you know, the question everybody asks is why isn't he chasing Shula? And the people that ask that question really don't know Bill.
because if you know bill bill wants to win championship bill wants to go somewhere he wants to set up his program he wants to build a program and he wants to run the program now people misconstrued that conversation as if he wants to control everything no he wants to be able to build his culture there's two different things building a culture and controlling are two different
And so he wants to build a culture. And in pro football today, it becomes increasingly harder to establish a full throttle culture because you've got so many outside entities coming in. I've often said this many times, they've never dedicated a monument to a committee. And so in the NFL, there's a lot of committees. And so it's hard to get anything done.
And I think in college now with the landscape, because it is professional, the players are getting paid, that you can run your program how you want to run it.
So it's interesting. So you and Bill have had conversations. Why did you view Carolina as a destination, as a sleeping giant?
Because it's one of the greatest public institutions in the country. The campus is incredible. The high school football in North Carolina is great. And when you produce a player like Lawrence Taylor, Julius Peppers, guys that are in the Hall of Fame, they've always had great players. I mean, we could fill up the ring of honor back here at the stadium like you can't believe.
but they've not been able to kind of sustain success or get over that threshold, you know, and this notion that, well, they're a basketball school, that's a crock of crap, right? I mean... You're a school. Vince Lombardi used to say this. A school without football is basically just a cathedral of knowledge. That's all it is. And so it's a giant study hall.
And I think to me, football is a huge sport. And I think if you see now the landscape by these conferences, how things have changed, football is a predominant moneymaker. And you've got to have a good football team if you want to support all the other programs in the school. So, and this school's got, look, the women's soccer team just won their 23rd championship.
This school's got great history in all the sports. I just think to me, football needs to catch up and that's why we're here.
Yeah, lacrosse is one of them. How big of an influence was that for Bill? Just the fact that they have that lacrosse program. Petramal is a good friend of his. How big of a factor was that for him?
Oh, I think it is big because, you know, Coach P could tell him about everything that goes on down here. They have a great relationship and what it's like to work here and what it takes to win here, right? And I think that was a huge influence. I'm sure that was the first call Bill made when he was talking about the school.
How'd your family and friends take the news?
Oh, you know, I've had some interesting texts. You know, one text I got from a very good friend of mine who I've known for 40 years. He's a high power agent. He said, you've lost your mind. And so I wrote him back. I love you, too. But I think to me, this is I don't see it that way. I see I've been this is the arena I've lived in my whole life. Sure.
I've spent my whole life having people knock on my door wanting money. I mean, so whether it's 18 years old or whether you're 40, I mean, the knock's the same knock. You know, the story is the same story. I got better at saying no. You know, you know, what's that Jimmy Buffa line? Occupational hazard mean occupation just not around? Well, you know, you got to be able to move to the next one.
How different is this role than when you were like general manager and VP of the Browns? Because it's seemingly a new position in college, but it seems like it's very similar to a general manager of a professional team.
Well, actually, I think I have way more authority here than I had as a general manager of the Cleveland Browns. So I had a report to a president. I had a report to the owner. Everything had to be checked and balances with the president. So I have a lot more authority to do what I want to do to set up the program. That's going to take a lot of work.
Just because you have the authority doesn't mean you're going to get the job done. There's a lot of process. We have to establish a process. So what we're going to try to do here at North Carolina is build a personnel department that is resembling a NFL pro personnel department. See, whenever you have money involved in any decision, you have to value the player.
Player Y is valued at X. Player X is valued at this. So without grades, the player's value is meaningless. So we're going to build that database. We're going to grade every high school player. We'll grade every college player. So when a guy hits the portal, we know exactly what we're doing.
Mike, it seems, correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like the two of you are kind of laying down the foundation, the blueprint of what college programs are going to look like moving forward.
Yeah, I don't know that. I just know how to run this. I know how to do this job. And I said this to somebody else, and I don't mean this in any egotistical way. As you get older in life, you get better at what you want to do. I am so more prepared to be a general manager at 65 than I was when I was able to do it in my 30s. So I'm going to do the best that I can based on the experience.
Experience matters. And you've got to understand how you want to build a team. The appealing factor about working with Coach Belichick is we both see how to build a team in the same way.
What is a realistic timeline, I guess, for North Carolina? Because now college football is so different where year over year, your roster is completely different, which I would think is a challenge compared to the NFL where you lock people in for years and you don't have to constantly be. There's not the same turnover that now you have in college.
So where do you guys want North Carolina to be realistically? Is it an ACC championship? Is it the playoffs year one? Like what are the expectations? Yeah.
I mean, we got in this to win a championship, and this school should recruit nationally. There's no, I mean, that brand. I mean, when I wear this, when you see this, this isn't at every airport. You can't go to an airport and not see somebody wearing a North Carolina gear. We've got Michael Jordan. You've got Lawrence Taylor. We're going to be able to walk into any high school and say,
They're going to know North Carolina. Now, we've got to sell the school and sell the ability to win. So I don't see why we should put any cap on it. I mean, we're going to climb a mountain. Now, we're at the bottom of the mountain. We get that. But we're going to try to get to the top. I mean, there's no sense in going halfway up Everest. Nobody gives you an award for that.
Most people who go halfway up Everest are dead. Yeah, right. You're right. They're frozen.
They don't make their way back down.
Billy, but this is Lombardi and Belichick. They think they're holding up the national championship trophy next year.
That's what I'm saying. You're going to talk me into this. I think North Carolina is the national champions now.
No, I mean, look, it's not just because we're here. It's going to take a collective effort. We've got to get really good players. We've got to spend time. But one thing I do know, we have the greatest coach of all time coaching the team. The team will get better. There's no question about that.
What do you think is going to be Bill's biggest challenge going from the NFL game that he had to now doing college football the way it is? Is it the time that he's allowed to do? Is it his interaction with players and the recruiting aspect?
No, well, I mean, he's always been a really good recruiter. I don't think people have seen that side of Bill because of what you guys see at the press conferences, the one-word answer. Bill's very good inside talking to a player, especially one that loves football and wants to get better.
I don't think there is a challenge to him because you actually have more time to spend with players than you do with the NFL. You get more practice time here in college. We got spring practice. Hell, we can't do anything with the players until May in the NFL. We lost all that in the last collective bargaining agreement.
That's why the offensive lines in the NFL are so deficient, because we've lost so many of those players that we haven't been able to do that. So I think that's really a hard thing. I think it's actually easier to do this than it ever was before.
Mike, I'll tell you this, because Belichick gave a pregame speech to my daughter's lacrosse team at Northwestern. He's very close with the head coach there, Kelly Hiller, and gave a pregame speech. If people are wondering if Belichick can relate to 20, 21, 22, 17, 18-year-olds, that team walked out of that locker room saying that was the coolest 15 minutes they've ever experienced.
So Bill can do it.
I mean, look, I know he can do it. I've heard him do it many times. He just doesn't want to do it for the 60 million people that come to his press conference.
Or does he have to do it?
Not yet. I'm going to buy one. He's going to buy one. Look, we're fully vested in this. We're not going down to Boca Vista here and retiring. We're going to put every ounce of energy we have into this.
Why'd you go Boca Vista there?
Well, isn't that where Seinfeld's parents retired to?
Del Boca Vista. Del Boca Vista. You're really excited for this. I'm excited for you, man. This is what you've wanted to do for a long time. If you were going to pry yourself away, if you're going to be pried away for the media, it was only to go do something like this with Bill, I think, right?
Well, no question. And not have to answer to anybody. You know, we have Lee Roberts, the chancellor here, is tremendous. I mean, he sent me a text this morning asking me what we need, how we're doing. I mean, I never got that text from anybody when you work in the NFL. Right. So it's like you're just you're here without interference.
And when I say interference, I don't mean it in a malicious way without anybody telling you how to run to do it. You know, we see you see all these reports that come out that the owner of the Jets wanted, you know, didn't want to trade for a player because his Madden rating wasn't high enough.
I mean, seriously, if that's a true story and I don't know if it is, but that's the world I don't want to live in.
Yeah, no, it is. It is. Are you surprised the NFL? It seems like the NFL two years in a row has kind of and I'm shocked by this because I think he's the greatest coach who has ever lived. But it seems like the NFL has kind of said, hey, Bill, we're done with you.
Are you surprised by that? Well, I mean, look, the Atlanta Falcons improved their team by saying they didn't think he was very good, haven't they? They've done a great job with that. I mean, you know, they've spent a hundred million dollars on a quarterback that they're going to bench. They had three coaches better than Bill Belichick.
So I, my hat's off to them to find three guys better than him at seven. And what's their record seven and six. Now they, you know, they haven't really improved from Arthur Smith who did a really good job there last year. So no, I'm not surprised because as Bill Walsh once told me in 1984, it's not always the league of the best and the brightest.
So, Mike, just as a friend, I want to give you some advice. Like, I don't want you, like, don't kill the basketball program and walk in there and say, oh, we're going to turn it into a football school. Like Michael Jordan. Don't piss him off is what I'm trying to tell you, okay?
Oh, no, we need Michael Jordan, and we need the basketball school to be great. I mean, that's part of what makes this school so good. Every time a sport wins, the baseball team, the football team, the women's soccer team, we need that because we're a school that's going to build winners, and they have. And they have. They haven't needed Michael Lombardi or Bill Belichick to produce winners.
They've done it on their own. We're just going to try to help them.
I love the idea of Jordan helping on a recruiting trip. What do you think?
I mean, I think Bill and him had a conversation. I think to me he's going to hopefully – I think he's proud of his school. So I'm sure he wants to see good football in his school. He loves football. He loves the competition. We need him. I mean, I think there's no question. We need Lawrence Taylor. I mean, Lawrence was on Adam Schefter's podcast the other day talking about it.
So, look, this school has incredible alumni, whether they play football, whether it's – Whether it's in the country music world where there's certainly people that gravitate to this team that want to be around it. I think to me, it's really important.
Billy, imagine that, like, you hear what's happening here, okay? You're going to have Belichick, you're going to have Jordan, you're going to have Lawrence Taylor, and you're going to have Mike Lombardi walk into a kid's home. Like, that deal's getting done. I'll take you to Carolina to win the next five national championships. Wow. Next five.
We're just trying to win the first game.
That's all we've got to do, right? I mean, no, you've got to do more than just win the first game. If that's all you do, it's a colossal failure, Mike.
Well, look, you can't win the second one until you win the first one. That is true.
But, Mike, listen, you're a media savvy guy. You're a media veteran. You know what's going to happen if you lose that first game. I'm going to crush you, okay? Okay, good.
Yeah, and I love it. And I love it. And so, look, that comes with the territory. As the great Hyman Roth said in The Godfather, this is the business we've chosen. We know what the rules are.
I'll crush you with a smile, though, okay? There you go. Good.
uh billy do we want to try to get taylor a gig here what do you think do you think the time has passed what do you want well here's the thing we work with this guy taylor mike and he uh he's a former north carolina football player he was a walk-on but he uh he did a lot of practice team stuff and he tore up his knee so that ended his football career now some would say he was a fifth year walk-on who was still on the practice squad his his nfl career never had really a shot the knee had nothing to do with it
regardless he has this interest in football, but also he doesn't just want any job. He wants a job that gives him benefits, but he doesn't seem like he wants to really pay his dues. Like he's not like a quality control type guy.
Right. Right. Yeah. So what he wants is he wants one of those. He wants to get comp for room food and beverage and but not play the slots. Right. So that's what he wants. He wants to get any coordinator positions.
We had a holiday party last night, Mike. We had our holiday. He said, listen, he will take a job that just has benefits and no pay. If he could just stand next to you or Belichick, he doesn't maybe like a researcher, break down some tape, something like that. Walk on onto the Carolina football team.
was that might be that might be exhausting too much research he might have to you know he might need the pearl vision eyesight plan to make sure he doesn't lose it and all that but hey look we'll take anybody who can help us i'll tell you that wow okay okay so he's hired i mean no he's not high you got an interview right listen i'll pay you to get him away from us okay
I'm joking. Mike, I am so happy. I can see how happy you are. You're glowing, man. You're the GM of the North Carolina football program, and Bill Belichick is its head coach. I am so happy for you, man. Congratulations.
Thank you so much. Thank you so much, guys. I appreciate you having me today. Thank you. It's been great.
It is time for this week's edition of Studio Gouts presented by DraftKings Sportsbook. Stay tuned because you'll hear more about DraftKings and all it has to offer throughout the show. DraftKings, the crown is yours. College football, it's playoff time, 76-66-2 on the regular season. We're only picking playoff games this year. I'm not doing ancillary bowl games. I'm not doing it.
It's gotten me in trouble in years past. I'm not going to do it. Let's get to the playoff games. Notre Dame, minus 7.5. They're at home. They're taking on Indiana. Wow. What a great game. Is it? I have no idea if either of these teams can win a national championship, but I do think Notre Dame is going to win and cover the spread. Buy it down to seven points. Notre Dame wins.
They cover Notre Dame by 14 points over Indiana. SMU plus eight and a half at Penn State. Weather could be a factor here. Oh, I don't know what that means, but I do like SMU here. Penn State going to win the game. SMU going to cover. Penn State wins by three points and advances in the playoffs. Texas, minus 12, take it on Clemson. Texas wins. They cover Texas by 18 points at home.
Tennessee, plus 7.5 at Ohio State. Ohio State wins. I don't know what to do with that. Buy it up to eight points. Take Tennessee. Ohio State wins. They win by four. Tennessee gets the cover. So Tennessee, Texas, SMU, and Notre Dame. NFL, week 16, five and three a week ago. I am on fire. I'm having a season for the ages. Seriously. I would put my record up against anybody's record in the country.
How about that? 66-40-2. Let me say that again. 66-40-2. Let's get to the picks. We have the Ravens. Minus 6.5 to take it on the Steelers. The Ravens have to win this game, right? Lamar has to beat the Steelers occasionally, right? Well, it's six and a half. We're going to buy it down to six. We're going to take the Ravens. The Ravens win. They cover Baltimore by 13 points over Pittsburgh.
The Lions on the road. Bounce back week. Dan Campbell hit a reset button. They're at Chicago. Take it on the Bears who are lousy. They've given up on the entire season. The Lions win. They cover Detroit by 14 points on the road. Falcons minus eight and a half. Michael Penningston. They're taking on the Giants. The Giants are awful.
The Falcons still have a shot at winning that division and making the playoffs. I'm taking the Falcons here. It's more pick against the Giants than it is for Atlanta. I'm taking the Falcons here by 14 points. They cover over the Giants. The Rams at the Jets. Rams minus three. Buy it down to two and a half. Rams win and they cover. The Rams by 10 points on the road. Vikings minus three at Seattle.
Buy it down to two and a half. Vikings, again, we're not going to give them any credit until they're hoisting, until they're hoisting the Super Bowl trophy. And even after that, we still might not give them credit. Sam Darnold, please. Vikings win and cover. The Vikings by seven points on the road in Seattle. The Bills. It's Josh Allen's time. Yes, it is. They're going to win the Super Bowl.
You heard it here first. I'm certain other people have said that, but you heard it here first. Bills minus 14. They're taking on the Patriots by down to 13 and a half. The Bills win and they cover by 21 points at home. Dolphins don't think they're playing for something. The Niners, they're not. Dolphins minus one over the 49ers. Sunday afternoon, Dolphins at 425. The Dolphins are great.
Sunday afternoons at 425, they made that up. The Dolphins win and they cover. The Dolphins by 10 points on the road. When you're 66-42, you can make it up. The Bucs minus four at Dallas. Buy it down to three and a half. Take Tampa. The Bucs win and they cover Tampa by 10 points on the road. Those are the picks, everyone. Merry Christmas. Good luck.
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There are two jerseys hanging in Billy's office. What is Tua and what is yours, Chris Sims? I know.
I have two lefties. He likes lefties. I don't know. Does he like strong arms or weak arms? Because if he likes strong arms, then he should put mine in the frame. If he likes weak arms, then we got it right.
Yours isn't signed yet. Once it's signed, it'll go right up there next to Tua's. It won't actually.
To Billy, I can throw more than 10 yards, Chris Sims. That's what I'll write.
I do love Sims not liking that he's not in the main frame.
Well, so here's the thing. When I took this one, it was like two years ago. So like he signed this when we were at the Super Bowl. So I was like, oh, whatever, I'll frame it. Like, it's kind of cool. He's like the franchise quarterback.
Sure.
So when I when I went to sign it, it was like in that offseason. And the frame guy who I'm giving money to is like, are you sure you want to frame this? They may cut him like I'm here. They might cut him. I love it. I'm like, dude, take my money. Like, what are you even doing? Yeah, seriously.
I feel like now if I go back to the guy and I give him a Chris Sims jersey autograph, I'm like, I want this framed too. He's like, dude, definitely do not frame this. Like, why would you do this?
The framed guy always knows, though.
Yeah, apparently he knows what's cool and what's not.
No, but sometimes those guys know players are going to get cut, and we dismiss it, and then they get cut. I mean, it happens. Happened to me and Dan one time. A caller called in. He was a bouncer. He said Shaquille O'Neal's getting traded from the Heat to the Phoenix Suns. We dismissed him. Five minutes later, Shaquille O'Neal traded to the Phoenix Suns.
That's incredible. That's amazing. That's a good one right there. Where was he a bouncer at? That's what I want to know because, yeah, I'm sure there are certain establishments where he might have picked that up at it.
I am not certain where he was a bouncer, but, you know, the streets talk, Chris. You know that, you know, they do.
They do talk. You know, Chris, I'm a man.
We're we're we're far enough removed from your NFL playing days. And if you can't answer this question, don't. But. You lived in Tampa when you were in the NFL. That's famous for for some, you know, naked ladies and strip clubs.
Yeah.
Yeah. And massage parlors. Oh, right. OK, well now. OK, so you answer the question. I was going to say if you partook in all of this, but you're giving us more details, though.
Well, you're, I mean, just laying out the facts of the city. I mean, there's a massage parlor on every corner and there's in between those corners, there's seven strip clubs in certain areas. So no, like, in fact, I was talking about this a little bit the other night. I used to go to strip clubs a lot when I was there. I did, right? Because one, it became like the place we hung out.
Like on a Monday night, Monday night football's on, right? Tuesday's a player's day off. So, hey, I could sleep in a little on Tuesday. Most Monday nights in my career, I, Hey, Joey Galloway or blah, blah, blah. Where are we going? Oh, we're going to go to this strip club and watch the game and eat a steak. Cause they got some, you know, higher end strip clubs there too.
And I, it became kind of a thing. It really did. It drove my wife crazy. Cause she was like, wait, you're, you're going to the strip club again. I'm like, yeah, well that's where everybody is. And we're going to watch the game there. So I was there often.
Yeah. Wait a second. Wait, everyone slowed down. Hold on. I was talking about Busch Gardens. Time out. You told your wife you were going to the strip club.
I always told my wife stuff like that. Just because, again, I was the quarterback of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. I was pretty hard to hide. I just felt like with stuff like that, why try to hide it? Somebody's going to say something to her. It's going to come up in a conversation, maybe when one of my friends are over the house and she's going to hear it.
So, yeah, I was kind of like transparent with stuff like that.
Are you a Christmas Day or Christmas Eve family? Oh.
Well, we're a little both. I like Christmas Eve better. I love that night before Christmas, we kind of have the family over our house. My wife cooks an Italian dinner. Her dad, who was a restaurant owner and a cook,
as well as he grew up he gets involved in cooking so we have a great time the food's awesome i guess there's the excitement about the next day being christmas and feeling the energy of my kids can't wait to open presents and stuff like that so i think i like christmas eve better than i do christmas actually christmas day i'm already kind of tired of christmas i hear you i saw you guys yesterday like we don't need to do this again
I, I, that's where like we, we have everybody at our house and like years past, we've gone everybody at our house. And then the next morning you get up, you eat breakfast, you open the presents, all that. And we'd all get dressed up and go to my parents' house. I don't think that's going to happen this year. That's, that's not just because I got to work the next day and be up early.
And like you just said, it's just like, wait, we just spent the last, you know, nine hours together. And I just, I think it's a little too much, not going to happen this year.
How does Chris Sims feel about company holiday parties?
Oh, my gosh. I can't stand them. I can't stand them. That's how I feel about that. What's the problem, Sims? Did yours happen already? No, no. I mean, we had some. We have a few more. I'm all for, like, parties and love giving back. Right. But sometimes the holiday parties are like, yeah, during the middle of the work week or during the week. And you're like, wait, we were just all together.
And now we're going to spend the whole day together. Like, we just all like go to bed together, too. Damn. Like, how much do we got to see each other? And if the holiday party isn't at something special, I kind of just sit there and go, eh. B minus job by the company. Kind of cheap party. Like you brought us out here to do what? And this is what we're getting. Huh?
How much money did we pay to certain people this year? What? So I look at that stuff. And, you know, if you're going to make me come to the party, it better be a good party.
So you're judging the state of the company by the party.
A hundred percent.
And you hate the small talk. There's no way a Sims like small talk.
I don't mind. The good thing I'll say about company parties, if I do go, I'm going to have a drink and have some fun. And I usually am around some people that you like and you can talk and have some fun talk with. So that's not the worst part of it.
Jason Garrett looks like he loves a gift exchange.
Um, nobody liked it more than Mike Tirico. Mike Tirico was the best. He really would. He was the spearhead of like, Hey, we're having a gift exchange. We're going to do this. He was very creative and gifts that he got, uh, for other people. He was definitely the one I think that led the charge in that department. Jason Garrett's a very thoughtful person, so he is really good at it.
Like Jason Garrett. I just got it yesterday. Every Christmas sends me a smoked turkey. And let me tell you, that thing is good. I mean, it is good. So just a turkey arrives.
It's different than a standard card picture of the family.
Exactly right. No, a turkey. That's what when you're rich and you coach the Cowboys, you say a card. Here's a whole turkey. And that's what he's done. Hold on.
So how does this gift exchange work that Tariq organized? Did you each draw a name or you just got things for everyone?
Draw a name. You can't tell anybody who you drew.
It's supposed to be a surprise.
It's kind of Secret Santa. Exactly right. You're supposed to have a price point that generally you try to work with. I usually go above that as far as what I get. I usually am lazy, so I get something more expensive that's maybe not as personally meaningful to the person. And who'd you get? No, you're not going to know the person. The person's a behind-the-scenes person, right?
So it's not one of the top on-air personalities or anything like that. It's all our production crew, everybody, director, producer, all of them getting involved in this. And yeah, they're good. They are good. And some people are very creative and funny about what they do. Like last year, I received a video message from... Gene Steratore. He didn't know he was making it from me. He did not know.
So this person listed out all the things and how I yell at the refs on Sundays and how I smoke pot from time to time. And he sent back this video having no idea that it was me just dissecting and kind of trashing me. And I heard you trash the referees a lot. Let me just tell you, they're 90% right. And so it was really funny. I actually sent it as my dad.
And I said, show this to Steratore and say, how dare he talk to me like that?
So what do you think, the four of us next year?
yeah what are they a little secret stand it's not too late what do you think okay sure yeah we can do that next year we can sure all right great who's uh you're gonna get a book from stugatz just uh just between just between the four of us chris who's the person that we would know like the on-air person like god i hope they don't draw my name like this is just a horrible gift here who's the gift giver i
I can't say there's any, there's nobody that I can look at to say they're shitty.
Matthew Berry.
He's been all right. He was all right last year. He passed the test the first time around. Right. So I don't know.
Billy.
Tony Dungey. Very gifted Cooper Rush in the 12th round.
Tony Dungey.
Coach Dungey, so thoughtful. He would never mess up.
Jack Collinsworth.
Jack's not a part of it because he's on the road, so he's not there.
Yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
But even if there was a bad one in this one, you're not going to get me to say it. Oh, so there is a bad one. Okay.
Maria.
There really hasn't been. Maria? Wow. No, definitely not Maria. Maria is pretty damn good in that department as well.
PFT with Mike Florio, the Unbuttoned Podcast, Football Night in America, Sunday Night Football. Chris Sims is with us here on God Bless Football. We have something else we want to discuss with you besides football, outside of football. We'll get to that in a second. I am wondering here, Aaron Rodgers has looked really, really good the last two or three weeks.
Yeah.
Should the Jets want Aaron to come back?
I mean, that's a big... It's a big... future discussion, big picture of what you want the jets to be. And I think a little bit of that's going to be detailed by the new GM and the new head coach. Right. And I would think that a lot of GMs and new head coaches are going to be like, man, I don't want to have to start.
And then I got to deal with Aaron Rogers and all that comes along with it because there's a lot, there's a lot right now. I mean, he's a distraction, whether he wants to say it or not, he is a distraction. And he could still throw the football, but the issues still remain about the things we've talked about. We've seen the ball go down the field a little bit, definitely better, right?
Can he consistently do that against some of the better teams in football? That's where I don't know. Do you want to start a new future for your football team? I guess what I'm saying, if I was making that decision, I would say, no, I don't want it back. We tried it. It didn't work. We're going to move on. We're going to build our team for the future here.
We have some good young pieces that we like, and we're going to build around that. So that's what I would say. But, yeah, I mean, again, I don't think there's going to be anybody that's going to come in there and really want to deal with that is what I would say, really, Stu Gatz.
Sims, do you remember your Madden ratings? I only ask because I want to find out if the Jets would trade for you or not because that's apparently how they do things now.
I know. I heard, and I heard about that story. We talked about it a little this morning with Florio on Pro Football Talk. My best Madden rating, I think it was 86. It was like the year I lost my spleen, but we had just gone to the playoffs the year before. That's as good as it got.
So I don't know what Aaron Rodgers is rated on Madden right now, but I don't have any – I should not be named in the same sentence as Aaron Rodgers as long as we're talking about quarterbacks. I will say that.
But, Chris, here's the problem. And I've said this before. You can't run a team like that. The Jets fans care more about the organization than the owner does. They take it more seriously than the owner does. And that's frustrating as a fan, man.
I understand it. And this is the problem, too, when you make –
It seems like rash decisions and firing people, and it's happened a lot here with the Jets over the last few years, let alone, yeah, things have been somewhat dysfunctional there, and now those people get out of the building and they tell all their coaching friends and their coaching tree, and word starts to filter out throughout the NFL, let alone they're bitter about the way they were treated or fired or whatever by the Jets either way, the Woody Johnson, the Johnson family.
So, yeah, Woody Johnson, they're going to be under the microscope. They are. Between stories like that, the sons that are 18 years old giving game balls out in the locker room, those are things that are just not normal things you hear. within a successful football organization or the coach being fired, right?
And when you're one game out and it's still early in the season and one game away from taking the lead in the AFCs. So the Jets are not going to be a top destination for the coaches that have options. That is what I can tell you. But as we know, there's going to be one or two that are going to go, wait, I don't have options. The Jets are the only place that really wants me.
And there's only 32 of these, and I'm going to go there.
Are you surprised Belichick took that Carolina job?
I am. I am surprised. Do I believe he's going to stay there long? Absolutely not. I mean, the buyout tells you everything. Starting this June, he can be bought out for couch cushion change from NFL owners. I mean, come on. A million dollars? Belichick has got a million dollars of cash he could put in his pocket and pay that off. I mean, Belichick, that's nothing. He's worth hundreds of millions.
Like, that's nothing. So that alone tells me he doesn't want to stay there long term. He was shocked, I know, and so were people around him, that there wasn't more of a calling for him to be the head coach. So, yeah, am I shocked he's going to college? Definitely. Did I think there would be a team out there that would latch on to Belichick? I did think that. But I'm not shocked.
that the NFL rejected Belichick. His age, his control, his demeanor, everything that comes along with him. Yeah, there's going to be some organizations that are going to be like, wait, we don't want to deal with that. We don't know how much longer he's going to coach. And we're not just going to give him free reign to take over everything if he's only going to be here for two or three years.
And let alone this too. And this is the other aspect. Belichick has...
treated most of the NFL like for the last 20 years and I don't mean it in disrespectful it's just the Patriots are so you know uptight you know quiet lip they don't talk to anybody he doesn't let coaches talk to other coaches on the field pre-game right there's certainly a lot of coaches think there's a lot of arrogance that came out of New England over the last 20 years I've said this on TV I mean man over the last 20 years if you gave me a dollar for every coach I talked to oh
New England, yeah, I forgot they invented football. Oh, yeah, New England thinks they know everything. Oh, yeah, I know. Belichick's got all the answers, all that. They've burned bridges there. So there's a lot of people in football that just wouldn't want to deal with Belichick in general.
Chris, I will tell you this. Now, whether you believe it or not, that's obviously up to you. But Mike Lombardi, who he hired to be the general manager of North Carolina football, which I think is the blueprint moving forward, I think they're laying down the foundation of how college programs are going to look.
Lombardi said he would not have signed the contract if he felt like Belichick was going to leave after a year or two.
Yeah, I know. And listen, I'm friends with Mike, and Mike's the man, in my opinion. Yeah, he's great. He's somebody I talk about and talk football with a lot. And we see the game the same way. And when he does say stuff like that, I do go, ooh, all right, maybe, maybe. But again, too, I don't know. When it comes to business, I wouldn't exactly trust Bill Belichick in every word he says.
We've seen he can dodge questions and lie and bullshit pretty good to the media. And that's what I kind of find funny about the whole thing. He doesn't talk to the media for the last 15 years, and now he's a media darling telling everybody about how every team should play and coach and do all this. And I think it's very, very hypocritical, honestly.
All right. Well, I mean, you don't miss your word, Sims. I love you. Chris, the Lions, are they too banged up, especially on the defensive side? Are they too banged up to win the Super Bowl?
I don't want to say that, but it's the first time I've questioned it. It's definitely gotten to a point. It's a lot, Chris. I know. I've had fun with this all week because I always go, next man up, next man up. I get it. It's cool. And I know we all want to latch onto that. But let me just give you a little story and an inkling into next man up, OK? Next man up, right?
After you get past the first guy to the second guy, it's usually like, well, there's a difference. There's a reason he's a starter and that's a backup. Once you get to the second guy and now you start going to the third guy, then it becomes like, oh, wait. Third guy's playing. I mean, we cut him last year. He wasn't even on a team. Now he's starting for us.
So like you could say next man up all you want. There's a big drop off. And that's what you worry about with them. It's banged up. And it's not like I don't feel horrible about their starters.
on the D-line and things like that, it's affected their depth to where when they come off the field, you look at the second unit and you go, oh my gosh, they have no chance against this offense or Josh Allen and this offensive line. And that's where you worry about it. They're going to have to adjust their style. And I don't know what that's going to be, Stugatz.
That's going to be the interesting thing. Do they just go super aggressive with their offense and go, screw it, we're going to outscore you and we're going to play that style? Or will they go a little bit like, hey, we can run the ball and control the clock and do that. We're good enough to do that on the offense, and maybe we play that way and not put our defense out there as much.
I'll be interested to see what Dan Campbell and companies' approach is there in Detroit. I still believe in them, but as you know, With the injuries, I certainly don't think they're the best team in football right now. You know I think that title goes to the Philadelphia Eagles.
Yep. What do you do? We'll get to the Eagles here in a minute. What do you do, though, if you're the Chiefs with Patrick Mahomes? Do you arrest him? Do you play him? What do you do there?
Well, I mean, it's going to be hard not to play him. He wants to play. I've been around Mahomes too many times in my life and gotten the chance to know him a little bit. He's a psycho. He's the psycho you want in a good way. He's a gym rat. He's obsessed.
I mean, when I'm around them in Kansas City and Andy Reid, I don't know how many times Andy Reid's had to tell me, like, man, I mean, him, he's obsessed. Oh, my gosh, he's all over everything. He's a gym rat. That's what he says. He'll cut your throat out to win the football game. So he's that way. The big thing is let him play if he can do it. That's cool.
But don't let him play if it's so bad to where we might sacrifice the big picture of things, right? Like, just to be the number one seed is not worth it just to go, well, now we don't even have Mahomes for the playoffs, right? Like, all right, whoop-de-f***ing-do. You just proved last year you don't have to be the number one seed and you can win the Super Bowl.
So don't make that the main objective. The main objective is to make sure 15 can play in the playoffs because when you got him, you know you can beat anybody.
Billy, I heard when Sims was talking about his friendship with Mahomes there, the times that they have hung out, spent some time together. I heard that. Best friends. I heard a sound come out of your mouth. What was that?
I was impressed with all the famous friends he has.
You want me to ask him to get him on the show?
I don't know if I can do that. Chris, walk me off the ledge. Why should I still believe in the Dolphins this year?
Oh, you shouldn't just walk off the edge. Just walk in and hold a big weight while you're doing it. All right. Hold a big one. Tie it to your ankle. All right.
But if they beat the Niners, they have a 12% chance.
Sorry. That was just too easy. You set it up. Perfect. There. He knew he did. You know, it stinks. It stinks. They lost last week. Y'all played the Texans. You guys know that you saw it. You could be up. You got your defense plays good football. You still got playmakers on the offensive side of the ball. Billy, this is the big thing here. You know, I put some stuff on Instagram.
I don't know if you saw that. I talked about the Dolphins a little this week. It's odd, let me just say this, and I know who I'm labeled as here, but it's odd that the highest paid player on your team is the biggest question mark we have in big football games. That doesn't match up. When I grew up, the Giants were never like, hey, we're worried about Lawrence Taylor this week. We...
We got to come up with something. We got to make sure he looks good. And it's hard to win games, okay, when it seems like the objective of the team is just to make one guy look good and functional and not get him hurt on a weekly basis. If the NFL's hard enough, let alone to go in with a preconceived notion of how we're going to play the game, that's where it's tough.
Let alone, again, your highest paid player is the guy that you never should have to worry about or game plan for. It'd just be like, no, you're good. We put you there. Win. And then we're going to figure out everything else with everybody else. And that's the unfortunate thing with the Dolphins and the thing I'm going to question going forward until proven otherwise, Billy.
Chris, just quickly here, I want to give you three things that the media is saying and fans are saying down here in South Florida and see if you agree. The first one is Mike McDaniel should be fired. Like, why? What? Three and 12 against teams with winning records, two playoff appearances.
And a big reason of that is because he's been handcuffed because he has to do it with a quarterback and had no choice. That's just always going to struggle in those type of games in that moment. That's just what it is. I mean, it doesn't matter whatever it is, right? So I don't agree with that. They've done special things on the offensive side of the football.
I mean, everybody knows dealing with Mike McDaniel and that offense is a pain in the ass. So, no, I don't agree with firing Mike McDaniel.
Not at all. All right. The second one, which is, it's a lot louder. There are a lot more people saying this. Chris Greer, the GM, he has to go.
That I can deal with. Again, the biggest problem with it is team building. Team building. And that's the biggest no-no of what I just said. You don't do that. Negotiate against yourself. Pay more money than market value. And your best player, like we talked about, be a concern. And double down and just try to make that work forever. We're going to sacrifice coaches and players and the whole team.
Because I picked this guy five, and I'm never going to back down for it, and I'm going to make sure he works, and so what if the team falls apart doing it? Flores got wasted the first time around because of Chris Greer, and he had the owner's ear. So, yeah, I look at it that way. And there's some other contracts and things there that I don't agree with on the football team either.
So, yeah, I would be more in favor of that than firing Mike McDaniel.
All right, third thing being said is Tariq Hale should be traded.
Yeah. Well, ding, ding, ding. Back to the GM. And we gave him a contract where we can't trade him or it totally ruins our football team. So they're paying Jalen Ramsey like he's the top corner in football. Crazy. Nobody thinks Jalen Ramsey is even close in that discussion in football. Nobody. He's a really good defensive secondary piece to be paid like he's an island shutdown corner. Like what?
Are you kidding me? I mean, no. So yeah, there's a lot of issues there and I could dive into a bunch of other roster moves and things that I just, I don't agree with there.
You also have Jalen Waddle, who I think is like in the top seven of wide receivers being paid also, which is a problem when you have Tyreek Hill also in there. Like two of the top seven or whatever. Wide receivers is crazy when he's not really producing. Exactly.
The offensive line issues, Waddle, he's been injured and all that. And I like Waddle. But yeah, do I think they overpaid him a little bit? Yeah, certainly. I do. You know, it's certainly, yeah, I'm not in love with some of the contracts and the way they've built the roster totally.
Before we get to drones, Chris, help me out with this, because the NFC is wide open, okay? This is as wide open as a conference has been in quite some time. So tell me right now, if I tell you one of these teams makes it out of the NFC to the Super Bowl, if you'll be surprised by any of them. Lions, Eagles, Vikings, Packers, Bucks, Rams. Ooh.
You want to know what's odd? I mean, you know why Lions and Eagles, I surely expect them. Green Bay, I do think, is talented enough to be in the Super Bowl. Like, no doubt. They are not outclassed by the Eagles or the Lions as far as talent's considered.
Tampa's dangerous to where I would say, I don't know if I think they're a Super Bowl team really, but the way this playoffs could shake out and you play the Lions with the defensive injuries like you talked about, could I see them winning some kind of shootout type of football game? And the Rams too, that I believed in that way? Like, I could see any of those four.
Oddly enough, and what I was going to say is the Vikings are the one team I think I'd be the most shocked by. I do.
I know. Isn't that weird?
I know. I don't even... It's funny you're saying it, but I think, like, I'm rooting for Sam Darnold, but I got to see it to believe it, I guess, is what I want to see a little bit more. Of course. Okay? You know, the defense... is really well coached.
I question whether they have enough real playmakers and big-time guys that can make some plays against these high-quality teams when it really counts in those moments. So I think those are the two things I worry about. And their run game is solid, but it's a little bit up and down. And I just think there's some teams they're going to have issues with there in that department.
So, yeah, the Vikings are the one that's crazy, as good as they are, that I question whether they can get to the Super Bowl. Yeah.
We're going to doubt them all the way until they hoist the trophy.
I think so. Right. Right. I mean, it's going to be one of those because I'm totally I'm totally with you.
What do you make of these drones, Sims?
Yeah, I don't even know. I don't know all of it. Right. I mean, I've seen it, of course, in New Jersey. It's a big deal.
it's crazy i i mean i really don't even know what to say i've been reading a lot about ufo stuff because like there's been some government stuff recently about they've laying it out there and they're like no they're here and we know it and they have technology we don't know and they basically say in this hearing like we're trying to recruit people that are smart more smart people to try to help us figure out what the hell these things are and how they do what they do
The drone stuff's just, I don't know, crazy, and it just seems like it's gotten out of hand, and there's got to be national security or something done about it because it's obviously causing issues.
It's amazing. The aliens have arrived, and no one wants to talk about it. No one's concerned. You're right. I'm with you on that.
I know. I don't know if I think the drone thing's the alien thing. I don't know if I believe that, but I don't know. I don't know.
I know.
Right.
It feels, Billy, I don't know. Are you getting the vibe that Sims feels like the drones? There's something going on here, right? Like, that's the vibe I get from Sims. He knows something.
I don't feel like the drone thing is an alien thing or anything like that. I feel like, too, it's like, I mean, some of these people have, we have technology now to have one person who can control, he can control 30 drones at once, right? So I don't know. That's above my pay, and I haven't read enough about it yet to really know all the stories here with that one. All right. Next week, then.
Yeah.
I mean, I'm too worried about real spaceships and what I'm seeing there on government-issued. Yeah.
Look at it. Wait. What are you doing?
Hold on a second.
What are you worried about? They're unveiling it.
That's the funniest thing about this is the government is unveiling videos of real spaceships, not drones or whatever.
Right.
And that's not getting talked about. We're talking about drones. That's where we find these.
Where do we find these videos? I don't know. They call it the Internet. All right.
Figure it out. Billy, you weren't listening. The aliens are here. No, I heard.
I'm trying to find out how to learn about the aliens. You just tell me go on the Internet.
Jeez. I asked you so many Packer questions this week because I think the Packers are winning the Super Bowl. That's why.
I had the Packers going to the Super Bowl this year. I did. Now, we'll see where it goes, but I do think they have that type of talent. They're that kind of team, and they can physically hang in there and then some against teams like the Eagles and Detroit that I look at to be some of the most physical teams in the sport.
I was just wondering when you moved off your Jets versus Bears Super Bowl to get the Packers in there. Yeah, yeah.
Seriously, that would have been torture.
I was doing a thing, Chris. I was with the Gullicks. You're always doing a thing. I kick up in Kansas City. That was his prediction. It's all I do is things. Well said, Mikey. BFD with Mike Florio on Button Podcast, Football Night in America. A Merry Christmas to the Sims family, to Big F***er, to your wife, Danielle, to all the kids. Merry Christmas to you, Chris Sims. We love you. We do.
Thank you. I love you guys too. Happy holidays. Have fun. Enjoy. We'll talk next Thursday. We'll talk some Christmas and some stories and I'll have some for you. The big thing for me is will I stay awake to actually help my wife put the gifts under the Christmas tree?
Because last year was the first time in 10 years that I didn't drunkenly pass out and say, see you later and just go lay in the bed and good night for the night. Yeah. We'll see if I can do it two years in a row.
You're growing, Chris.
I'm such a mature man.
Chris, you got to work Saturday. You can't watch Texas Clemson.
I mean, I know. Well, I'll get to watch it. But yeah, we got to work. I'm actually going to be at Universal Studios in Florida doing the pregame show from there on Saturday. So that's going to be kind of cool.
Why are you telling us this now? We could have gone up. We could have gone to the theme park. Yeah. I don't have time. Will Billy's hand on a roller coaster?
This is a business trip. I don't have time for you. Harry Potter Land together had some fun.
Exactly.
We're going to pub some of the new things in the park while we do the pregame show. It should be cool. You might see me next to Harry Potter breaking the game down.
All right.
I'll see you next to some sort of Potter.
Listen, me and Billy are three hours away.
I'll see you Saturday, Chris.
We'll see you Saturday.
Okay. By the time you get here, I'll be on the plane out of here. See you later.
What do you want? That's not nice. We're going to bring a gift. You need anything?
I mean, I don't have time for you guys on Saturday. It's gone. Boom. Get to the airplane. Got to get back. Got to do a Sunday show here. All right.
Got to work. Yeah. What are you expecting to be under your tree on Christmas Eve? I can tell you what I would give him.
I mean, what do I expect? A lot of my hard earned money paying for everybody else's great Christmas. That's what I expect. That's usually what it is. I spend none of my money and watch my wife spend it all on herself and the kids. Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. That's right. I'm f***ing Santa Claus. That's who I am.
No, you're the Grinch, Chris. Jeez. See you later.
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choice of games here we got a lot of big games out on the slate that are missing this week so what do you mean pittsburgh ravens philly washington minnesota seattle houston you got some locks and you're giving us the dolphins in the niners dude what's wrong with the titans and colts i mean the titans and colts barn burner huh you mean the colts need it i mean yeah you're right they do
All right. Well, I'll take a note because you're now the second person who's had a bit of an issue with the picks this week.
And it's the college football playoffs, which we do every year, and you didn't put one game on there.
You want to do all of those games as well? You want to do all four of them?
Yeah, we can do that real fast.
All right.
How about this? Why don't we start with that, K-Funk? Carl said yes.
Hold on.
Hold on a second. Let's switch roles here. Why don't we let you drive this portion of the –
I just produced a show while we're at it. It'd probably be better.
Guys, by the way, I want to congratulate everyone involved here because we haven't formally discussed this, but we were nominated for Best American Football Podcast in the Sports Podcast Awards. We might be winners again for Best American Football Podcast. Congratulations to everyone involved. Especially you, K-Funk.
No, not me. I can't take credit. You're the oldest alum on K-Funk.
Take credit for it, baby.
Yeah, take credit. We did win a couple years in a row there. I think last year we stumbled a little bit.
Yeah. By the way, more congratulations are in order because yet again we had a 5-0 week last week. And we have a repeat offender in Mike Rawless.
Oh, shit.
Two and three times. We have time to acknowledge him. We have time to let him talk this week. Since last week, I went undefeated and we didn't have time to do anything.
You continue with this undefeated thing. You had a tie.
A tie doesn't count. A tie doesn't count, K-Funk. A tie doesn't count.
Mojo will be joining us in a little bit. He'll be joining us shortly. But K-Funk, you have the four games. Go to DraftKings. Get us to DraftKings lines and then walk us through.
I already did that, Billy. I already did that.
Okay, very good.
I already got the live drafting lines here, boys. We got the college football playoffs this weekend. Four games. So we're going to make quick picks. We'll do this quick. I'll get Gordy's. Gordy's very busy today. He's meeting with the sports complex owners for some ground fitness.
Wow. Gordy, by the way, went 4-1 last week. So he's starting to pull away from you a little bit.
I don't know. I'm 15-9 in the last month, so it's not too bad.
You're 33-42 overall and three.
After last week where you just don't know anyone's records and stuff, this whole season I'm going to have to audit it.
No, don't worry. I went back. I fixed those. No, he picks everything.
Oh, that doesn't count. This doesn't count.
Hold on. Hold on a second. So for those who are actually curious, amongst the leaders right now, and I have to get win percentages, but Mojo's at 44-29-3. Mike Rawless, who started out very poorly, is at 34-25-1. Carl's at 37-32-2. Gordy, after his 4-1, is 35-39-3. Good comeback. Kayfunk is 33-42-3, and ShareBear's at 31-42-2. You got it, ShareBear.
Yeah, don't worry.
He's got what? The longer it goes, the better it is from ShareBear.
Slow and steady wins the race.
I was 15 games under .500. Now I'm four, so I'll take that.
Well, no, you're not four. You're nine under. What are you talking about, four? You're 33 and 42. Better than 15, I guess.
Okay. Hey, you know what? Get control of your show.
You're only as good as your last game. Last week you were two and three, so you're not very good.
That's under 500. I need to do better.
I need to do better.
All right, Billy, let me talk now. All right. So we got the first game this week. Indiana Hoosiers are at Notre Dame. Notre Dame's minus seven on DraftKings. Did you go two and three last week? I was two and three last week.
Oh. Welcome, Mojo.
Welcome, Mojo.
Mojo, just to catch you up on what's going on, K-Funk decided that we need to do college games this week, so we told K-Funk, you can just host the college portion of it. So K-Funk is hosting the show as we speak.
Mojo, how you doing? Welcome. Where's the baby?
I'm feeling like I don't want to be a part of a K-Funk hosted show. I logged in late. Maybe I should log off early too.
No, no, don't do that, Mojo. We're doing college?
Have your picks been that bad since I've been gone? I didn't think that could get any worse.
It's hard to be worse than zero wins.
Yeah.
Mojo, Mojo, Mojo, let me catch you up. Three big things you need to know. One, Rallis went 5-0. Two, we're nominated for the Sports Podcast Awards Best American Football Podcast again.
Well, again, yeah, we win every year.
Well, hold on a second. We didn't win last year, and one person was absent last year.
Yeah.
Now you're back.
I'm back. Well, now it's automatic then. We're batting 100 when I'm on the show.
Well, not 100, 1,000. 100 would be really bad, but we get the point. He's an athlete.
He's an athlete. Did you get an MBA?
Aren't numbers your thing?
Yeah. It's right there. Also, Carl's a grandfather now, Mojo. Yeah.
Wait, was that Mikey A's third thing? Congratulations, Carl Douglas. Was that Mikey A's third thing? My third thing? No, I thought that was all fair.
No, my third thing was going to be K-Funk went 2-3 last week, in case you didn't know.
Yeah. All three were going to be Rawless 5-0.
K-Funk went 2-3 last week and then bragged about how great he is and then said, you're only as good as your last week. And we're like, well, your last week was terrible. Now you're all caught up.
All right, Mojo. Hold on. There's no way we're not doing the NFL this week. No, we're doing the NFL.
We're doing the NFL.
We're doing the NFL.
Honestly, okay, listen, K-Funk. I'm going to edit all this out. K-Funk, you're done. We're not doing any more college. Here's the deal. I was just stalling for Mojo to join, if I'm going to be honest with you. All right, Stu Gatz, get us back on track with the real games.
He's not playing college football now. We do college football playoffs every year.
Okay. So what were you saying, Stu? Yes, you guys. What were the games?
What I was saying is Browns at Bengals. Bengals minus seven and a half, okay? Bengals are minus seven and a half. They're taking on the Browns. Gabe Buck is so upset right now. Mojo has no idea what's going on. Carl needs to get to work.
Let's go.
Let's minus seven and a half. Carl Douglas, wear that Rams hat. They're hot. No one wants to see them in the playoffs, Carl Douglas. Joe Burrell's hot right now. All right, so you're taking the Bengals minus 7.5 at home against the Cleveland Browns. Joe Burrow is hot. You're right. Any other year on any other team, he'd probably be the MVP. Let's go to Mike Rawless. Rawless, Bengals, minus 7.5.
They're at home. They're taking on the Browns. Who do you got coming off a 5-0?
Yeah, I'm going to agree with Carl here. I looked at the schedules for both these teams. The Browns have been blown out a whole bunch recently. And the Bengals, even though they've struggled in a lot of close games, they've blown a lot of teams out too by seven or more a couple times or four or five times this year on Bengals.
Right. Share Bear, are you ordering lunch? What's going on there? Always, always. Who are you taking here?
You know, I've become a Browns fan ever since I went out one night with Crescent's old running mate, good old Gerald Big Money Warren. So I'm going to go with the Browns.
Big Money, baby. I like it. Good boy. Okay, Funko, you take it off. You're two and three here. Bengals, they're hosting the Browns.
Bengals are seven and a half point favorite.
You were two and three. I'm just standing in the back.
That's a good week for you, Funko. Two and three?
It is a good week for you.
That's almost 500, dude. Congratulations. Mojo. This is your best week all season, dude. No wonder you wanted to move to college. You got to retire and go out on top.
Weren't you a bench warmer at college at Maryland? You should want to bet on college.
How much did you play in college, K-Funk, incidentally?
I didn't play anything. A lot less than, you know, whatever. Where did you play? I don't even have to say anything, K-Funk. You do it to yourself. All right, buddy. I'm going to go ahead and take... I'm not going to take Dorian, Thomas, whatever the hell his name is.
Thompson. There you go. Thank you, Mike.
Mojo, who are you taking here? Bengals at Browns. Bengals, seven and a half point favorite.
All right, guys. Well, here's the thing. Mojo's a dad now. But just because I'm a dad, it doesn't mean that I've lost my mojo. And I'm taking this one back to season one kind of logic here. And here's the thing, guys. The Bengals are 6-8, meaning if they lose, they're going to be 6-9, which means I have no choice but to take the Browns.
No choice.
He won that season.
It's the only angle Mojo thinks of. Am I still winning this season? You are. Just keep doing it the way you're doing it, Mojo.
You were 4-1 last week. That's a bad one for Mojo.
He wasn't 4-1, was he?
Yeah, he was. I was 4-1 last week.
Really?
You are. Check your notes. Yeah, check your notes. Exactly right.
I am checking my notes right now. All right. I was 4-1 too last week, to be clear. He has notes. That is true. He has notes. That's the worst part of this.
All right, on to the next game, Titans at Colts. Colts are three-and-a-half-point favorites over the Titans. Colts actually need to win this game, I guess, to still have a shot at making the playoffs. We'll go to Mike Rollins off of 5-0. We'll go to him first. Mike, will you take it?
Yeah, this one's real tough. I mean, God damn did the Colts get to bed last week after getting off to a good start. But I guess I'd choose them to rebound over Mason Rudolph, you know, I guess. It's a good game. Thanks for including this one, Billy. I mean, it's a really good and interesting game. So I think I'm going to go with the Colts.
All right, Cole Douglas, who are you taking here? We have the Colts, three-and-a-half-point favorites at home. Take it on the Titans.
The Colts have a slight chance to make the playoffs. They dropped a bomb last week, but I'm going to hope for a comeback. I think the Colts give up the points.
All right. Carl Douglas taking the Colts. ShareBear, who are you taking here?
You know me. I don't really go with logic. I'm kind of a field player, you know. I look for signs. I was out in West Palm on Sunday night, and I saw a big Javon curse. It was nice to run into him. And then randomly I was watching the little Kurt Warner American underdog last night. So I'm kind of feeling bad for the Titans, which means I think I got to go with them.
I feel like they're going to turn it around. There's been a lot of Titans in my subliminal, cautious mind. So I'm going with the Titans.
All right. Who are we taking here, Kay Funk?
uh share bear aren't you in a tournament right now yeah i'm here at daytona hurry up k-funk speedway daytona speedway make your pad man all right uh yeah i'm gonna go with uh mason rudolph here give me the titans thanks really taking the titans huh go ahead mojo have at it because because he believes in mason rudolph it's so weird they're trying to lose go ahead mojo
All right, guys, just because I'm a dad now, it doesn't mean that I've lost my mojo here. So the Colts are 6-8, which means if they lose, they go 6-9, 69. I'm taking the Titans.
I think Carl's starting to get why we said pick these games. It's a better reason. I think he's starting to get it.
Anything we can do to promote Joe.
It all makes sense now.
Oh, boy.
Anything we can do for Mojo.
And, Mikey, you're right. There's a reason, and it's a dumb reason. You're right.
It's a dumb reason, exactly. Thank you, Carl. But there are reasons that make us smile.
I get it now.
I get it now. Yeah. No need to pick good games. Let's just pick Mojo's 69 games.
Well, this is a good game. I mean, we got America's team here. I mean, it doesn't get bigger than this, okay? You have the Bucs and the Cowboys. Bucs need this game. They have to win it. They're taking on America's team in Dallas. The Cowboys are plus four at home. Mike Rollins, who do you take it here?
Well, I just remembered that I was supposed to be doing a southern accent for my pick. Oh, yeah. I did make a promise, and I'm wearing my Randy Moss gear here, so I think I'm going to just start to slip into a little bit of a West Virginia accent or something like that.
And, you know, with this game, if you look at America's team, they're about one bad botch punt away from being on a 5-0 win streak, something like that. So I think I'm going to go with the Cowboys to cover at home.
Okay. Okay. I love that you're staying in character. You don't have to. I'll give you a pass for a week if you want, if you want to do it next week because you're hot right now. You're 5-0.
Look, man, I made a promise. I'm going to stick to it. This is what Randy would want me to do. I know that, and it's what I'm going to do.
Integrity, man.
Integrity. Nice. Nice.
Let's go to ShareBear. ShareBear, who are you taking here? Ooh. I don't know.
You never know. You never know.
We can come back to you if you want.
Well, you know, I'm in Daytona right now. I'm going to be driving back through Tampa on Sunday. So, you know, I always like to think of myself first. So it gives me an excuse to maybe have a good night if the Bucs win. So let's go with the Bucs.
Let's go with the Bucs. But in Tampa, yes.
Selfishly. Got it. Carl Douglas, who are you taking here? Bucs and Cowboys. Cowboys plus four at home.
Well, first of all, I'm impressed that Mike could do a West Virginia accent. I didn't know what that was until I heard him talking to someone. Now I get it. The Bucs are playing for more. I'm taking the Bucs. I hate the Cowboys. Give me the Bucs.
I hate the Cowboys as well.
I hate the Cowboys. Kay Funk, who are you taking here?
I can't stand the Cowboys. I don't like the four points, but I don't know, man. The Bucs. I think they beat the Lions and the Eagles, right? Give me the Bucs, too. Baker, give me Baker here.
All right, you're taking the Bucs. Mojo, go ahead. The floor is yours.
Guys, just because I'm a dad now, it doesn't mean that I lost my Mojo and the Dallas Cowboys are 6-8, which means if they lose, they're going to be 6-9. Give me the Buccaneers because I'm 69.
I also hope you go 5-0, man. Let's go to the next game.
It's my favorite week all season. This is the one week I wait for the entire year.
We know. Saints at Packers. Saints at Packers. These aren't bad games, but, you know, whatever.
14-and-a-half. Whatever.
The theme is worth the bad games. Right, right.
Honestly, K-Funk getting mad is worth the bad games. Yes, that's even better.
I mean, K-Funk has every right to be upset about the choice of these games.
Yeah, Carl brought it up first.
Two people disagreed with us with our picks, Carl and K-Funk. One's got a big smile picking the games, and the other one is cursing everybody out.
Saints and Packers. Let's go to the guy who's smiling first. Carl Douglas, who are you taking here? Saints and Packers. What's the Saints record? Yeah, 14 and a half.
What's the Saints record?
It's bad. Five and eight. No, five and nine.
Five and nine. I've learned from this show never to give up so many points. I'm taking the points. I'll take the Saints.
All right, taking the Saints. Let's go to Mike Rawls in a Southern accent. Go ahead, Mike.
Yeah, well, back in the day, I scored a touchdown. Randy Moss scored a touchdown on the Packers, dropped my pants, moved the fans, and infamously paid that fine in straight cash, homie. And this time I'm going to give it back to the Packers. I'm going to pick the Packers to cover this one. So they're rolling right now, man. Give me the Packers.
All right. Cher Bear, who do you like here? Packers, 14.5-point favorites at home against the Saints.
I mean, I'm going to have to go with the daddy over here and just go with the logic. Saints are going to win. I'll go with the Saints.
Saints? That's your logic? They're 5-9.
They've got to win, right?
If they win, Mojo will tell us what's going to happen. You should listen to him, Cher Bear. He was 2-3 last week. He's in first place.
I'm going with Mojo.
Okay, Punk, who do you think it is?
They... Half time, they put Rattler in. I like him. They gave him a little push there last week. So 14 and a half is way too much. Give me the thanks here. I don't care what the record is.
I'm just kidding. All right. Mojo?
Don't worry, Mojo's taking all my picks, I know.
Guys, just because I'm a dad now, it does not mean that I've lost my mojo. The Saints are 5-9, which means if they win against my favorite team that I pick every single week on God Bless Football, they're going to be 6-9. So I got to put my love for 69 above my love for the Packers. Give me the Saints.
Go ahead.
All right, final game here. Carl needs to leave. 49ers, they're taking on the Dolphins. Dolphins are one-point favorites. Let's go to Cher Bear first. Cher Bear, go ahead.
Let's go – Let's go with the Dolphins. Let's end strong here in Miami. And, you know, we've got big Fairweather fans in Miami, so we just need a nice win at the end of the year to kind of get them excited for next year.
Right, to placate all those Fairweather fans.
Fairweather? There's no Fairweather fans on this show.
Let's go.
Billy, you're a Fairweather fan? You're not a Fairweather fan.
I mean, I'm not going to be insulted by ShareFair. It's fine. I wasn't talking about this show. I was talking about the city of Miami. I'm talking about the people that throw the parties, you know? You're right.
Yes. Yes. They're not fans at all.
They're not even Fairweather fans.
They're fans of party. Let's go to Mike Rollo, Southern Accent. Go ahead, Mike.
Yeah, this one's tough. Both both teams have been a little bit disappointed this year. So, man, I just think the rallying off back back when I played at Minnesota the year after I left, I was I wore number 26 the year after I left. There was another young linebacker that came in. He was number 26. That linebacker's name was Devondre Campbell.
I don't know if you guys saw him in the news this week, but he walked out of the 49ers. They've suspended him. I think they rally around that, and they squeeze out a win here in Miami, giving the Niners.
All right, taking the 49ers there. Well done. Let's go to Carl Douglas. Niners at Dolphins. Carl, who are you taking? Dolphins a one-point favorite at home. Still have a 12% chance of making the playoffs if they win this game.
Both these teams have had a disappointing season, but I'm going to take the teacher over the student. Give me the 49ers.
I like it, Carl. Let's go to Kay Funk. Kay Funk, can you take it here?
I mean, this is just a Billy special here. I don't even know who to take. My Dolphins are just an embarrassment. Give me the Dolphins. Oh, okay. Now, this is interesting here.
We're at home, dude.
If we can't win this game. Really, Mike?
What a coincidence.
Let's see what happens. Mojo, the floor is yours, sir. Go ahead.
Guys, just because I'm a dad now. It doesn't mean that I've lost my mojo. This is it. This is our main event, our Super Bowl of this week, because both teams, everybody, both teams are 6-8 right now. And since I cannot... pick both teams to lose this game. If there was an option, I would gladly choose it. But it's not an option here.
This is a win-win for Mojo because somebody's going to be 69ing after this game. So with that logic in mind, there's only one logical move to make here today. And that move is, can anybody tell me?
Pick opposite K from it.
Opposite funk. Opposite funk. everybody it's a surefire winner Funk coming off his best week at two and three still a losing week opposite Funk holds true all year he's become like a rock singer who stops singing and the crowd just picks it up you know there's a reason why this show wins sports podcast of the year all the time yep
Great job. K-Funk, you still have two games to host here if you're still doing that, unless you've given up on college. Don't you dare.
Mojo's scared to pick college games. I don't know.
Well, now that we did the 69 thing, I can, whatever you guys, we can pick bowling if you really need to, K-Funk.
All right, real quick. We already did the older games.
I want to add something in here quick. I'm okay with us doing the college games, but they only count for the records if K-Funk actually does well. I just want to handicap this as much as possible. Wow. Yeah. We've been doing this all season. I don't know if he's actually noticed this or not.
Mojo, the only reason you're in first place is because of the three weeks you went opposite me. You weren't even on the show, so you're welcome. I don't know about that. It has nothing to do with your picks or your knowledge.
I still chose to go opposite you, Funk.
That is true.
That's what I'm saying. Nothing to do with him. It was a choice. He's some great kicker or something.
Huh. Spreadmaster. Exactly. There's a reason. Thank you. Right. It's documented, Funk.
Yeah. I got to go. I got to go. Okay, Funk, come on.
Stop stalling.
He's got to go, man.
Just get Carl's games.
Get Carl's games.
Carl, I'll go to you first, Carl. You can do the rest of these three. We got Penn State is minus nine. SMU, Carl, who do you want?
I'm taking Penn State. Give him the points.
All right. We broke news to Rollins earlier that SMU made the playoffs. Go ahead.
Carl, we got Carl Clemson at Texas. Texas is minus 12.
I'm with Texas, USC Connection, Sarkeesian. I'm taking Texas.
All right. And then the last one for you, Carl, will be Ohio State, the Ohio State University at Tennessee. And Tennessee is plus seven and a half. I'm sorry. It's at Ohio State. Ohio State's minus seven and a half.
This is the game for the coach's life. If he loses, he's going to get fired. I'm taking Ohio State. They're going to play for the coach.
Wow.
And if he gets fired, he's coming to USC. Just watch.
All right, Carl.
Have a great day, Carl. Thanks for coming on. All right, Rawless, you took Penn State.
You didn't promote the law firm. What happened?
Yes, it worked. We got ShareBear, Penn State, and SMU. SMU is minus nine. I mean, SMU is plus nine, ShareBear.
I'm going to go Penn State. It's not very exciting when you're doing the hosting.
None of them are six to nine. None of them are six to nine. They're all good.
I'll make this quick for you. Penn State, Clemson, Ohio State.
Okay. Who'd you want in Notre Dame?
James Franklin was my offensive coordinator in college now at Maryland.
Really?
Hey, Coach of Penn State, that's my guy.
You know what comes next, Mojo. Get him on the show. I mean, let's go.
Get him on the show.
Mojo, who do you want in Indiana Notre Dame? Stu Gatz picked Indiana for you. You want to keep that or you want Notre Dame? I don't care. All right, we'll give him Indiana.
We'll give him Indiana.
Worst job with coin.
He came here for one reason today, man. Yeah.
Unfortunately, we should have logged off of that. All right, Scare Bear, you're up. Penn State. Penn State SMU, Cher Bear.
You got to put some voice inflection on or something, man. He's picked Penn State seven times.
Cher Bear's picked Penn State seven times. He picked them one. Cher Bear, Clemson at Texas, Texas minus 12.
You should sneak in an SMU real quick.
Let's go Austin, Texas. Gotta love 6th Street.
Let's go Texas. And then Cher Bear, Ohio State minus 7.5 against Tennessee.
Ooh, Knoxville. Cool beans. Good bar. I'm going to go Tennessee. Tennessee.
All right, Rawless, me and you are left. Rawless, you have Penn State. You have Notre Dame. I'll take SMU. And then, Rawless, we have Clemson, Texas. Texas minus 12.
I'm going to go with the favorites here. Give me Texas.
You want Texas, or then you want Ohio State, I'm assuming, against Tennessee.
These are all home games, too. They're not like – They're actual home games, yes. Yeah, okay. Everyone's pulling their hair out. I'll go Ohio State's – the horseshoe is loud, man. I remember my freshman year we were there, and Jesus, what was their super tall – Terrell Pryor. Terrell Pryor. Sorry, I had to put him on with him. I forgot his name. Got two, baby. Got two.
Yeah, he had like a 30-yard rushing touchdown on us in the first quarter. And I remember I was on the sideline. I was a special teams guy my freshman year mostly. And I remember just testing it. I just started yelling as loud as I could to see if I could hear myself, and I couldn't. That horseshoe gets loud, so I'm going Ohio State.
All right. And I'll take – I got Notre Dame. I got SMU. I'll take Texas and Tennessee. So give me two underdogs there. Ooh. SEC, baby. Let's go. All right. Rollis. Rollis. Anything you want to roll there out in sunny Arizona?
Yeah. Yeah, I had to move into the shade because my phone was overheating. But – You know, there was a DVD that I used to watch religiously back in the day. It was called The Moss Method, and it showed Randy Moss working out. And that gave birth to the Rawless Regiment, which now you can go to RawlessRegiment.com and we'll make you a customized program tailored to your every need.
And we'll make it specifically for you, whatever your goals are, whatever your schedule is, whatever equipment you have. It'll be perfect for you. RawlessRegiment.com.
Awesome. Hopefully you go undefeated again, buddy. I'm rooting for you. Thank you. Sounds so sincere. I get nothing to promote. Mojo, before we get out of here, Dean, Daddy, is there anything you'd like to promote?
Yes, I would like to... promote the Creston Logerman Lullaby Company. Anytime your child is fussy and needs to take a nap, have Creston host a podcast that will instantaneously put the child and everyone else in the room to sleep. Creston Logerman Lullaby Services. Check it out. That's nice. Is that it? That's all you got? And... Guys, everybody listening at home, the band is back together.
That's right, and we're going for Sports Podcast of the Year. Last year, we took a year off. We didn't have the team back together, but this year. The team has been back and it's so much energy, so much excitement, suspense, love. We have all the categories here on this one show. And that is why you need to get up off your asses and vote for this show.
God bless football as the sports podcast of the year. If you don't. This is it for this group. We're never coming back together. We're drawing a line in the sand. We're done. You'll never see me and Funk on the same show ever again. So if you want this trash talk, put your money where your mouth is and go cast your vote. Fellas, where do they go to vote?
Sportspodcastgroup.com. By the way, you guys, also, we have a decision to make. If Mojo and K-Funk aren't ever going to do a show together, if we lose, who do we keep?
Oh, that's a tough one. I wonder who. Who do we keep? Let's have Billy and Mikey A vote on that one.
He is coming off a two and three. All right, boys. Get out of here. Merry Christmas. Happy holidays to all of you. I wish Gordy was here. Carl was here. And Jim here as well. So we can wish them a happy holidays. But we love you guys. We appreciate it. Audience, listen to Mojo.
Because if you don't vote as number one, you will never see Mojo and Kay Funk in the same Zoom again on the same show again. So start voting right now. Gentlemen, Merry Christmas. Happy holidays. Happy New Year. Happy and healthy. We will speak to you next week. Happy holidays.
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