Billy and Stugotz are getting ready to head out to New Orleans, where Stugotz has four times the amount of dinner plans than he does actual dinners. Winners and Losers dips its toe into the NBA where a trade may have let Jerry Jones off the hook in Dallas. Billy has learned that the Pro Bowl games are not for him and also recaps where sports media stands in terms of job importance. Stugotz gives his top 5 power rankings for the 2025 season before the 2024 season even ends. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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God bless football, Billy Gill.
God bless football, Mikey A. God bless football, Stugatz.
Thank you, Mikey A. And thank you to the audience for making us the football podcast of the year for a third time. How about that, Billy? Excited? Mikey, excited? Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, it's nice. It's fan voting, so thank you to the fans because they're the reason that we won Sports Podcast Awards, American Football Podcast of the Year, which is very wordy, if I'm going to be honest with you. Yeah, it is. Hey, what are you going to do? We won a British award. Thank you, Brits.
Did we say expected? Dare we say? At this point.
That we expected to win it? Yeah. No, I did not expect to win it this year at all. I was trying to sound more confident than I was. Yeah, we were up against Shannon. We were up against Mina. We were up against the Kelseys. We had a lot of stiff competition this year. I honestly was very surprised that we won because last year we didn't even play.
But thank you again to all the fans who voted for us because it's a fan voting award. So you guys are really the ones that helped us win this. So thank you guys.
yep uh billy we're headed out to new orleans uh it is hopefully for you i am headed out to new orleans uh billy's not feeling well are you okay billy i'm worried about you man um i i'll be fine i guess we have to like 24 hours to get through this and then and hop on a bird and then once i'm on the once i land we'll power through right once i land if i have to be on radio row
with some performance enhancers, so be it. I'll do that.
I have a few New Orleans-related questions for you, Stu Gatz. Okay. So you arrive Monday or Tuesday?
I arrive shortly after we're done with this show.
Gotcha. You'll be doing this show in transit. And you come home Friday?
No, I do not come home on Friday. I come home on Monday morning. monday morning yes okay so you have what six dinners uh i have six well no i have five are you talking about in new orleans yeah i have uh i have four dinners i have monday night tuesday night wednesday night thursday night yes
Okay, and how many people have you promised to have dinner with in those four dinners?
So I have four nights, and I have promised 16 people we're having dinner.
Yes. That's kind of what I was getting at. So I'm just wondering, how many of those are getting canceled, and how many are you just going to try and power through and have a second dinner?
That's a very good question. 16 dinners, four nights means I need to get rid of 12 reservations. Okay. God, I don't know. Like, Felica, that 515 Felica dinner that he invited me and Billy to, that's probably getting... That's probably getting canceled.
But that's at 5.15, right? I know, but I'll just be finishing lunch.
You could almost count that as lunch. 5.15 is, yeah, that's late lunch.
You're invited, by the way, Billy.
Oh, that's great.
Yeah, it's me, you, Felica, and Jeff Schwartz. Oh, okay.
5.15.
Watch out for it.
Rolls right into Levitard's event.
I mean, you got something. You're coming back on Monday, the day after the Super Bowl.
I have a 5 a.m. flight. So Rachel has a lacrosse game on Friday and then she has a game on Sunday. And then I have a 5 a.m. flight back to Miami on Monday morning. Yeah.
Who scheduled who scheduled the game on Sunday? What is this?
I don't know, Billy. I mean, what do you want me to do?
Super Bowl Sunday. I mean, a little respect by the planning committee here. What time is that game at?
Super Bowl doesn't start until 618-ish, right? That game's at 1 o'clock Central Time, I believe, in Chicago. Yeah. I didn't want to watch the Super Bowl in a bird. You know what I'm saying?
You know, I wonder if that would be a bad experience. I'll tell you this much. I will admit this. I was on a plane yesterday and checked in on the Pro Bowl games. I was going to watch the Pro Bowl games to be ready for today's massive recap of the Pro Bowl games where we can give our winners and losers presented by Smirnoff, the world's number one vodka. Please drink responsibly.
I watched the tug of war and watched two battles in the tug of war. I saw Peyton telling his team, hey, if we win the tug of war, we're right back in this. And I said, you know what? This isn't for me. Pro Bowl games, I don't think are my thing.
And no one loves football more than you. I mean, nobody.
The purity of the game. I think that's what it was, is no one loves football more than me. And I think that's what happened is I was like, this... This is not football. When Jackson Smith and Jigba's out there and he's throwing multiple interceptions, we're good. Yeah. You know what? No need. I like the scoring. We scored like 140 points almost combined between the two teams. Mm-hmm.
What are we doing? What are we actually doing this for at this point?
The Jets called to inquire if Jackson Smith and Jigba can play quarterback for them.
You never know. Emergency. After all those interceptions. Yeah.
He'd be a top five. He'd be a starter. He'd be a top five job linebacker of all time. I mean. Interesting. Yeah. Are you looking forward to New Orleans, Billy? If you get there, I mean.
Yeah, I think it should be. I think it should be nice.
Yeah.
This back to back trips thing, though, was not a good idea. Yeah. Yeah. And something seems to be going around. Right.
But you had a day in a city right in Georgia. What happened?
I was in Georgia for the weekend. I was there Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Yesterday we did a little Georgia aquarium action. Flew back, got in at night, and my family was sick the entire weekend. I was doing well. I thought I had dodged it all. I mean, I thought I would get this in New Orleans, and then lo and behold, it found me. So I'll bring it up to you in New Orleans. Don't worry.
I'll give you a gift that keeps on giving. Mike, do you want some of this? I'm good.
I'm starting to think, Billy, I don't want you to be a hero here. Like, I don't want you to jump on a bird unless you're – because we're going to a warehouse, essentially, of sports radio. That's where we're going, okay?
What a warehouse it is.
I know, but I don't want you to, like, bring anything with you that's going to get everyone there sick unless it's Chris Simms.
I love the idea of – I love the idea of Billy getting everybody in New Orleans sick.
Patient zero.
Like the entire Super Bowl media. Yeah, it's –
It fits. I was thinking if there's an outbreak and I'm patient, zero. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Now, I theoretically wouldn't get any of the players sick because we're not going to run into any of the ones that's playing in the game, more than likely.
You get Tom Brady sick. Tom Brady has an interview. It spreads.
Wow. You know what I was thinking the other day? What? I'm glad that we have this forum to discuss this. Michael Jordan...
is praised for the flu game right yeah everyone's michael jim gutsy performance wow what a guy the flu game look at him he was there and he came out and yeah you know he was you know he's on his deathbed essentially and he played a game great game whatever right some people question whether or not he actually had the flu but anyway go ahead
Well, the point is, like, I feel like if Michael Jordan tried to pull that in this year, the year of our Lord 2025, he would be like severely reprimanded. Like there's none of this come to come to work this horribly sick that you're going to get everyone else sick business going on. You know what I mean? Like, I don't I don't think the flu game would be as well received now.
I think he'd be looked at as a very selfish person.
So if that game took place today, you're saying Michael calls Phil, says he has the flu, and Phil says stay away?
Well, not Phil. Someone else. Like someone in HR. I don't know if there's like HR on like NBA teams, but like someone in HR would be like, hold your horses, fella. You're not coming in like that.
Yeah, yeah.
Michael Jordan played all those minutes with the flu and not a single other person caught the flu.
It's weird.
Scotty's carrying him off the court. He's sweating all over Scotty.
It's crazy.
It's odd.
This is God bless football.
I understand what you're saying. If Patrick Mahomes somehow caught the flu from you this week, calls Andy Reid and says, Andy, got the flu. What does Andy say? You can't go?
No, Andy... No, no, no.
Then we get the dream matchup of Carson Wentz versus the Eagles.
I mean... That would be great. I mean, people are clamoring for that. Yes. You know? I don't think Andy's involved in that, but I do think that maybe the media is around it. They're like, well, this is a very selfish movie. Could have gotten so many people sick. And think of all the hundreds of millions of people watching at home and what an example that's setting. And what if we're able to...
past germs through the television and he's gotten everybody else sick and it was just you know just one of those things uh before we go back to football real quick for a second yeah so the match just gave luca to the lakers huh like That's just how the NBA works now.
You just give someone your best player because LeBron's on your team and you're trying to, like, I guess maybe win him one on the way out, maybe boost some NBA ratings. Like, how did that just happen? They've been talking for weeks behind the scenes and then all of a sudden no one knew about this and he's just a Laker. Like, that's crazy.
Yeah, it's been a while, but the NBA won a weekend. I mean, how about that?
Yeah, I mean, it had to be Pro Bowl weekend.
It took no football. It was Pro Bowl weekend, though. It took a tug of war at the Pro Bowl games, but.
Had to be that weekend. Yeah.
What are you asking me? How did that happen?
It's just a little shady.
I want you guys to consider that the person the Mavericks chose to build around was Kyrie Irving. Not 25-year-old Luca.
You know what? Winners and losers presented by Spirinoff, the world's number one vodka. Please drink responsibly. Winners, the Lakers. Losers, the GM. of the Mavericks because I was going to say no one will ever forget this guy, but I don't even remember his name. No one will remember him, but also he's a rare guy. I never knew him.
I was going to say he's the rare guy that no one will ever remember and no one will never forget at the same time. Who is he? So I saw this thing, and I'm wondering how real it is, because you never know with the internet. So I saw this thing that was saying, I guess he was involved in the negotiations with Steph Curry when Steph was deciding between Under Armour and Nike.
And those negotiations went terribly, and he has denied some of the allegations in said presentation. But in the presentation... Steph was called by the wrong name. He had a slide that had Kevin Durant's name on it. And when they did call him his name, they pronounced it wrong. And they were offering significantly less than Under Armour and refused to match the money on Under Armour.
So those negotiations obviously did not go well for Nike. And Steph never signed with Nike. And then he went on to be... The face of Under Armour. So this GM was somewhere in that whole situation back in the day. And that's where we had seen his name previous to this situation.
This GM should be his name. I could give you guys a million guesses. I now know the name. You guys would never be able to guess his name ever.
Is it Jeff?
It's not Jeff. It's not Bob. You want to keep guessing? I love this. God bless football, everyone. I will tell you, I'll give you a hint. Well, it doesn't matter because even when you get the first name, you're not going to know the last name. I was going to say wide receiver Houston Texans.
Nico Collins.
Nico, yes.
I should have gone with Tank.
Steelers defensive end who, when he took his helmet off on the sideline, this is the last name, used to have steam coming up from his head.
Nico Steamhead.
Nah, close. Nico Harrison. James Harrison. Nico Harrison. That's the guy I was thinking of.
I do like, before we get back to football, it is Super Bowl week. I don't know why we're doing this. And it's 100% my fault. Yeah, no, it's 100% my fault.
I'll bring it back to football. I'll give you a winner. I'll give you a loser.
Okay.
For winners and losers presented by Smirnoff. Go ahead. My winner this week, Jerry Jones. Because he's no longer the worst sports executive in Dallas. Really? Nico Harrison. That's a good one.
Hey, now you know his name. Look at you.
Yeah. Knew it the whole time.
So you have a winner. Do you have a loser? Nico Harrison.
The city of Dallas. Yeah. They had a week, man. They had a week.
I have a winner and a loser.
Okay.
New Orleans. Winner.
Okay.
Hosting the Super Bowl. Everyone's saying it's the... Now, I've never been for a Super Bowl, but everyone says it is the best Super Bowl city, so I'm looking forward to finding out why they think that. I also have a loser. New Orleans. New Orleans. No one wants to coach that team?
Yeah. Well, they got a coach. They got a wink-wink behind-the-scenes deal done. They just can't. They just can't do it yet. Really? Really. With? Yeah, that coach might be coaching on Sunday. Will Spaggs? He might be a little offensive coordinator for one of the teams, and it's not Matt Nagy.
Well, luckily for them. Will Spaggs? No, no spags. No spags. It'd be great.
More or less. It would be great if they hire one of the coordinators from one of the teams and the coordinator's like, I am so committed to the New Orleans Saints. I'm going to take over right now. You guys are going to have to find someone else to guide you through the Super Bowl because my heart now lies in New Orleans. Actually, you know what?
If the coordinator wins the Super Bowl, they can say that they brought a Super Bowl to New Orleans before they've even taken the job. Like, I know what it's like to win a Super Bowl in New Orleans, and it would actually be the truth. So I like this.
Last time on the field, he's holding the trophy.
I get it.
I think his job, right, the winning offensive coordinator should get the Saints job. How about that? Wow.
What if you start tanking the Super Bowl?
You'll have the entire city of New Orleans rooting for Philadelphia.
And Kansas City wanting to lose because he wants to stay with Mahomes. I don't want to go coach that team.
We're down three touchdowns. We're on it. Up the middle.
Oh, God. It's crazy. Crazy. So it's Super Bowl week. We're headed to New Orleans. We're going to have a who's who of guests on. I'm very much looking forward to it, including Funny Marco.
That's going to be a good one with you and Funny Marco's two guys.
I don't know who Funny Marco is, and I also have no idea if he's funny. You don't get a name like Funny Marco out of the blue. You don't just pick that one out of the sky. It's a massive expectation when your name is funny, right? You better be funny, correct?
Start with that.
Yeah. All right. So Funny Marco, Super Bowl, Radio Row.
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so it's super bowl week we're we're headed towards new orleans kind of getting their staggered arrivals slowly trickling in stugas leaves after the show today we'll get in there he'll be there early tomorrow i leave early tomorrow you guys don't care about a trial sketch i don't know why i'm doing this but as one does week of the super bowl where we have a rematch to one of the uh one of the better super bowls as of late we are breaking down off air
the Las Vegas Raiders and what it is that they've done this off season and what it is that they have. And you know, it's a strange time to be doing that granted, but also we're going to have a week full of breaking down this game. So we want to talk Raiders. I don't see why we can't just talk some Raiders, you know, they bring in chip Kelly. They brought in Pete Carroll.
Tom Brady seems to be calling all the shots, which probably is going to be a disaster. But who knows? They still don't have a quarterback, but that's what their focus seems to be now headed into the draft. So a new day for the Las Vegas Raiders, Stugatz.
It is. Tom Brady is an owner. Pete Carroll is a head coach. Chip Kelly is an offensive coordinator. No quarterback. What does that lead me to believe? they will somehow trade up, do whatever they have to do to get Shador Sanders, I believe.
I'm proud of you because in years past, when you said, what does that lead me to believe, you would have said Tom Brady's coming back to be the quarterback of the Raiders.
That's where I thought he was going.
I'm not ruling it out. I'm just, you know, I mean, but.
I'm very surprised and proud of you for not going in that direction. So congratulations to Gots. Yep. To growth.
I'm growing up. Yes, to growth.
Look at you.
big day forgot didn't you look at our little our little boy no i said brady's name on the front end billy's right he knows i never miss a brady opportunity especially when it's talking about brady coming back but brady's not coming back he's not coming back the broadcasting thing some people are saying wasn't great look if you ask me i thought he's been fine as a broadcaster hasn't been good hasn't been terrible he's gotten fine yeah he's gotten better yeah but like i
know why people care so much about the broadcasters and why they complain so much about the broadcasters like unless you're saying the wrong play or the wrong team scored or you're like completely confusing everything he's been fine enough like who care I honestly I don't even really think about it at times like I'll just tune into the game especially if I'm watching red zone and all of a sudden I hear his voice like yeah watch this game for five minutes didn't realize Brady was on it who cares right
You're asking why people care about us, sports media, essentially, right?
Well, no. Our jobs are some of the most important jobs in the world. They put us up there. Just below the armed services, obviously. Yep.
We thank you for your service.
Even more or less with doctors and the likes. You know what I mean? Sure.
Right on par.
Armed services, teachers... And then like us and like maybe doctors, lawyers. And then like, I don't know the people that I can tell you who's at the bottom of the list. And like, you know what? I'm not going to tell you who's at the bottom of the list. I want to hear who's at the bottom of the list. I kind of want to hear the people that write parking tickets. They're they're down here.
I'm sure they're nice people, but you friends have picked one of the absolute worst jobs. Also, Actually, never mind. Go on. Say it.
Say what you want to say. Say it. No, I need it now.
Say it to somebody. I got in a car accident, as you guys know, a little over a month ago. Yeah. And the driver was in his 90s. Mm-hmm.
and uh and when they they filled out the report they didn't issue blame to me or him because i said like yeah i had a green turn arrow so i went and the guy just completely ran a red light right and like and drilled me and then uh and then so we go we go through all the insurance and his insurance is like well he was not at fault i'm like how on earth was he not at fault and they're like well a lot so i go i have to pay to buy the police report the police reports are like well
Driver A, which was me, said he had a steady green arrow and driver B said he had a steady green light. So we don't know what happened. And then back and forth with the insurance and boom, I'm out now. The deductible, my insurance is going to go a ball because this 91 year old just either lied or.
Had no idea what color the light was while he's driving around in this giant pickup truck, just ramming into people. And I will say this, and this is a controversial stance. Okay. And God bless football to all. I will say this about the 91 year old. If he lied to that police officer. Yeah. Well, one, I've thought, how far do I want to push this? He's 91, right?
How much am I going to go above the deductible that I have to pay on a principled stance? Should I take him to small claims court? Should I take him to Judge Judy? Where can we go so that I can get the justice that I feel like I deserve? Because this is not something that's just going to cost me my deductible.
Again, and now going to have higher insurance for years to come because this man either didn't know where he was, what color the light was, or he lied. And I would say this. If I get to 91, there's different ways to look at this. If I get to 91, I am going to make sure to do everything on the straight and narrow to try to...
out undo any wrongs that i had done in my life so that i don't spend the rest of my life in hell so i'm trying to do so you're gonna spend your 90s atoning for your sins a life i'm trying to yeah so that i'm i'm i'm definitely not adding to the list that you know take me to the the great beyond where there's fire and i don't know if there's brimstone there but where the fire is you know what i mean like i'm not gonna be lying in my 90s and trying to punch my ticket to the
To see Art Bryles?
Yeah, well, thanks for bringing it back to football because it is Super Bowl week.
Wait, I have a rule here. First off, if you're 91, you should not be driving. Automatically, you win the case. You do.
I did want to send somewhat of a lippy email back to the person that said this was denied and say, guys, you are the ones that are reckless here by insuring this man who should not be on the road. This should not be going on.
He's a 91-year-old man driving a pickup truck.
Yeah.
Yeah. Guilty.
Well, what's he going to be driving a minivan?
You're 91. You shouldn't be driving. You definitely should not be driving a pickup truck.
Listen, if your parents if your parents are still driving or like when I'm older, I think that's the I would get them a car like that, like a big SUV or something just to make sure. Like, let's make sure like me, mom, people are safe when they're driving around just in case. But also they're driving around tanks, which is not safe for anyone else involved. Sure. Yeah. Anyway, Super Bowl.
Yeah, I think the Eagles are going to win.
Oh, okay. Well, there you go. Thanks, guys. Don't listen next week. We just cut to the chase and see you the day after the Super Bowl to see if Stugas was right or not.
Now, Billy, listen, you know this, Mikey. Yeah, you know this. Fuentes, you know this. I say that today. I have not left for New Orleans. I haven't spoken to anyone. I could change my opinion a thousand times throughout the week based on the guests that we have. If funny Marco tells me he likes the Chiefs, that might sway me back to the Kansas City Chiefs. But as it stands right now,
I love the Eagles' chances simply because they can run the football. This is a better team, a team more suited to beat the Chiefs than they were two years ago when they almost beat the Chiefs. But this team can run the football and keep Patrick Mahomes off the field, and I believe they're going to do that. How about that?
I think you keep mentioning funny Marco. I think that you should talk to your daughters to ask them what you should talk to funny Marco about. Like, this seems like someone that would be in their sphere that they could kind of help you with. Also, if you want a connection point, uh, Funny Marco, we ran into, didn't talk to, but we ran into at kickoff for the season this year.
He was running around also the tailgates recording some stuff on videos. So if you want to have a connection point with Funny Marco, he was also there running around the tailgates doing some stuff. But he had like a bunch of handlers, so we couldn't even get within like arms distance of him to talk to him about anything.
I think Billy's right. I have to run this through the prism of my kids. I will ask them if Funny Marco is someone I should be having on the show. I don't care. I'm happy to have Funny Marco on. No, Billy, last year, who was it? Bad Bunny? Who was the guy we had on?
It was definitely not Bad Bunny that we had on. It was Lil Dicky. Oh, Lil Dicky. Lil Dicky.
I asked you, why the hell are we having Lil Dicky on? And you said, ask your kids. And I sent a text to my kids, and they were like, are you kidding me, Dad? Little Dicky is as big a star as it gets. What are they called? Bad Bunny?
Yeah.
Yeah. Who's Bad Bunny? You did.
Do me a favor. Don't ask your kids about Funny Marco for all the parties involved. Just head into that interview with the exact information that you have now. No more, no less. Don't look them up. Don't do anything. Just head into it exactly as you are. No prep? No prep. You don't need prep. I think the two of you can kind of get along and just kind of roll with it together, you know?
Really? Yeah, maybe. Is he funny?
They don't call him unfunny, Marco.
You know what I mean? Don't call him serious, Marco.
Yeah, exactly right.
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That's Mikey. God bless football is presented by Smirnoff. We do game days. Please drink responsibly. The Smirnoff Company, New York, New York. Sad times to God. The season is coming to an end, as we've discussed. It is going to be an exciting week, hopefully, and hopefully an exciting Super Bowl. But I can't help. And I know that you're probably the same as I am.
I can't help but start to think towards next season already, even though this season is not officially done. There's only one game left. So I feel like the scrambling is going to start soon to start previewing next season. We had the senior bowl. We have the combine coming up. We have the draft. It's right around the corner.
I don't know if you're doing big, big boards this year for the draft, but yeah,
Are we headed to Green Bay for the draft? I mean, it's in Green Bay this year.
Green Bay-ish. I think that I heard, and this is just speculation, so it will not be Green Bay. But I think, I think... I think we may be going to Nashville since they have the number one pick in the draft.
Really?
To do a draft show. I think. I don't think that's finalized. I think still in the works location TBD, but I think the last we heard that was the location, which will be very, very exciting for the first pick. And then after that, we'll kind of be like, so we're in Nashville and the... Yeah. The Packers have selected, and then it's like, okay, no one cares. They already got their number one pick.
By the way, speaking of Tennessee, they got a new GM, and I can't pronounce his name, so I'm not going to try. But he did one of the smartest things I've ever seen a GM do. He came out, and he said that they're not dead set on taking a quarterback, but when they see a generational talent, they're going to take it. Now, the best part is he doesn't say who it is.
So whenever they take that player, they get to say, that's the generational talent we always thought it was. Right.
Interesting. But if it's not, then they were on the record saying this is a generational tie. It doesn't matter. It's a big risk.
You're going to get fired if you blow the number one pick anyway.
Yeah. Probably.
Yes. I mean, Billy, do you think we should be in Nashville? What if Nashville trades the pick?
I mean... That would be really funny. Honestly, that would be hilarious. It's freaking Nashville. They trade the pick.
And we're sitting there in Nashville. I mean...
Here we are at this honky-tonk and, you know, didn't go as planned.
Stu, would you rather be in Green Bay? Come on, man.
Yeah, come on. Come on, man. What are you doing?
Don't look and give Taurus in the mouth.
Yeah, exactly right.
I mean, Green Bay, it seems like a fun place for the draft. No, I'm just saying. Cold.
Especially because we'd be in Milwaukee.
Especially since I'd be an hour outside of Green Bay.
Listen, you want to go to Green Bay so bad, let's use some PTO on that, friend. You know what I mean? Let's not take an entire crew of people to Green Bay in the middle of April.
I think two of us should go to Nashville and two of us should go to Las Vegas in the event that they trade the pick because they watch Adore Sanders. Seriously. I don't think Nashville's going to use the pick. I'll get to my next year top five power rankings in a second.
Oh. OK, so you're ahead of the game. I was going to say we should start looking forward, but you've already created your power ranking. So you're ahead of us trying to get ahead of it.
I'm ahead of everyone. Yes, I already said the thing that everyone's going to say later in the week. Eagles going to win the game. Keep Patrick Mahomes off the field. You got to set trends. That's what you have to do at Radio Row at Super Bowl week, Billy. And I've done it. OK, you want my top five headed into next year?
Yeah, sure. Let's do the top five headed into next year.
Because, Billy, I'm with you. There is a sadness that comes with the Super Bowl and Super Bowl week because we only have one game left. In fact, when you get to a tug-of-war at the Pro Bowl games, you've arrived at the end of the season. You've arrived at sadness. There is one game left, and that makes me sad. So I, too, am on to week one of next year. I have my power rankings.
Oh, well, you're saying the tug of war is the 91 year old driver and a pickup truck of of the Super Bowl season of the football season.
Well, let me let me ask you something just for clarification purposes. Yes. These power rankings are headed into the season. Correct. Because we don't we don't know the we we don't know.
the schedules yet we know who the teams will play but we don't know where and when yeah i guess we know the where but we don't know where yeah we don't know the when so this is headed into the season your power ranking this is after the draft everything you've accounted for all of that this is the team's post-draft it's kickoff this thursday yeah boom these are your power rankings yes these are my four months early or whatever it is more than that like eight months early
These are my top five teams headed into next season. Yes.
Okay. Yeah. All right. You ready? Yes.
Number five.
Hmm.
The Baltimore Ravens. Wow. Yeah. Number five. Hmm. Some people might say they should be higher. I say no. They should be right at number five.
Constantly fifth place. I got you. They're in the mix.
Yep. They're in the mix. Number four, the Washington Commanders. Wow. Yeah. Wow. No idea who they're going to pick up via free agency. No idea who they're going to draft. What I do know is they have Jaden Daniels. That's what I know.
Well, and Cliff Kingsbury opted not to leave for a head coaching job. He's staying put. He wants to ride with Jaden, so we'll see if that works out for Cliff. It won't, but we'll see if that works out for Cliff. Not because of Jaden, by the way, just because it never works out for old Cliff.
Number three, the Green Bay Packers.
Oh, wow. Yeah, you like that.
Most people would say in that division, you go Vikings, you go Lions. I'm done with the Lions. Lost all the coordinators. I'm done with them. Vikings, Sam Darnold, they've got a year. They have to start over with J.J. McCarthy. Green Bay Packers, Jordan Love, I like that team a lot. They have a good chance at winning a Super Bowl next season.
Wow. You can tell those people that in person when you go by yourself to cover the draft there.
Thank you. Where was I?
Number two.
Ah, yes. Number two, Billy the Buffalo Bills. If not next year, when?
This year. Last year.
If not next year, the following year. The Buffalo Bills coming in at number two. Now. I'm anxious. You might be saying to yourself, there are two teams playing in a Super Bowl this week, and you only have one spot left.
Yeah. Yeah. Who are you going to put there? I mean, I know who you're going to put there, I think. Who do you think I'm going to put there? Let's see how well you guys know me. Well, I mean, the thing is, you know who I actually think you're going to end up putting there is the Chiefs. Because you think that I think you're going to put the Eagles there. Right.
So then you would put the Chiefs there just to kind of confuse the situation. And now you're rethinking that because you didn't lock this in anywhere. So now you could still be going back and forth.
I'm going to make it even harder on them. I'll take the other team. So one of us is going to be right.
You seem to be erasing there, too. I saw you scratch something out. I was just adding. We know it's adding. There's only one team. We know it's not the Lions. We know it's not the Vikings. You already told us that. We know it's not going to be like the 49ers or anyone like that. No, no. So it's going to be either the Eagles or the Chiefs.
Right. Wrong! The Cincinnati Bengals.
Of course, yeah. See?
What is wrong with that? They're number one. Hottest team in the NFL towards the end of the regular season. Joe Burrow. We'll see if T. Higgins is back. Jamar Chase. That team's got a legit chance if they're healthy the entire year. They do. The Bengals.
Number one. They still don't have a defense, and they're probably going to lose T. Higgins. Defense.
Well, this is also, he's telling us this as if it's the Monday leading into kickoff. So he already knows all of those results. I will say, though.
You guys are going to be shocked when you see what happens with T. Higgins. I mean, anyway, go ahead. When you say to us. That's embarrassed Super Bowl fans.
What's wrong? They may have a chance. They may have a chance. It's very different than number one on the power rankings. They may have a chance. It's like a five maybe on your list. Not one.
I don't know. The Eagles lose this game. They're going to fall apart. The Chiefs win this game. They're not going to do a four-peat. Come on. Who does that? No one does that.
You should copyright four-peat right now.
Who does a three-peat? Oh, Billy, we're on to something. Is that domain available? Fourpeat.com?
I mean, that guy probably has one in Buffalo. Yeah. Just call like two, two, two, two, two, two, two. You'll get a hold of him. He has all the phone numbers. Yeah, he's got all the phone numbers.
How good is Pat Riley, who who coined that phrase many, many years ago that he has three feet, right? He feels it's a good week for Riley. Yes.
He copyrighted it. I mean, the NFC had a three-peat yesterday in the Pro Bowl games. However, I don't think anyone is making NFC three-peat shirts, so I don't think that Pat's going to make money off of the NFC's Pro Bowl game three-peat. Right. But some are saying...
maybe maybe pat's greatest move ever some are saying not me i wouldn't dare right i mean basketball legend look at all the teams you put together championship coach some are saying best thing you ever did was copyright three repeat some said that right right got it so not getting lebron james or Some are saying.
I mean, others would say maybe if we weren't counting all of our future earnings from 3P, maybe we could have inquired about Luca down here, get rid of Jimmy Butler, the two birds with one stone situation, get rid of one disgruntled superstar, bring in another superstar who you could sign up to a long extension, maybe fix the trajectory of your organization. But not me. I wouldn't say that.
I didn't say that.
I love that people are making such a big deal about this NBA trade. I mean, they traded a guy in street clothes for a guy in street clothes. I mean, these guys never play. Neither of them. They don't ever play.
They're going to start playing now, friends. What do you mean? All of a sudden, all the ailments are going to be fixed up real quick.
Billy, if the Mavericks and this guy, Nico Harrison, if he asked for Bronny back, do you think LeBron does the trade? Oh, wow.
We just missed an opportunity.
No, Nico missed an opportunity. I know. Wow. He says no, right? Probably. It's crazy. You take my son away from me?
You can keep Anthony Davis. We want Bronny.
And put him with Kyrie?
God bless football.