From the deep inside the bowels of the city market in Kansas City, Missouri downtown property
to the banks of the beautiful crystal blue waters of the Missouri River
it is the original two, Topher and Mark, given the 2024 football predictions for the season.
You thought they were done, didn't you?
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Harambe loved talking sports. Harambe doesn't talk sports anymore.
Why not? Because Harambe's dead.
Harambe died because some idiot could not watch their children properly while they were on the phone.
They shot him. Senselessly murdered. Harambe does not talk sports anymore.
Sorry Harambe.
I'll probably have to adjust the gain on the fly as we go.
That's what we always do, isn't it?
I've got gain here and I've got gain there.
You know, I've got audio tonic at home and I notice you have Audacity.
On the laptop. On the desktop I've got audio tonic.
Okay, yeah. There's slight differences in it, I've noticed.
Yeah.
Which one do you find easier?
I've gotten more used to the audio tonic.
Me too. I thought it was easier to operate and more features.
Yeah, yeah.
So, okay. Yeah, that was rebuilt for just Windows, I believe, wasn't it?
I think so.
As they say, there's a pretty steep learning curve on it.
You know, you can get started pretty easily right away.
But to really use a lot of the stuff, you've got to dive in and learn and do the tutorials.
Believe me. I just realized that you can accent your words
by just highlighting them.
You can double, triple, quadruple them if you want
by just highlighting and hitting a feature on the effects.
Isn't that cool?
Wow.
Yeah. There's all kinds of tricks like that.
Instead of doing it the old fashioned way and taking like four of the same bit
and then, you know, erasing three quarters of it and moving it just a little over so it echoes.
You can do that right there. It takes about 10 seconds at the most.
Yeah, yeah. I tend to look at any kind of effects to be, you know, for the whole sound file,
the whole global thing.
No, me too. I was like that too.
So, yeah, just doing it for a little bit here and there, that makes perfect sense.
You think about it.
Yeah. You know what? And just one day I thought, you know what? I bet you could do this.
And I did it. I'm like, shit, you can do this.
So, anyhow, yeah, I'm still learning. I don't know shit about it, I mean, really honestly.
So, all right. Well, should we go over our picks?
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This isn't going to be pretty.
No, it isn't.
Oh my God. We got the ass paddling.
Yeah, I think so. Yeah, there are a couple of games that's like, oh man, did I do wrong there.
We'll get to it.
Yeah, we will. Anyhow, this is Mark and Topher and we're doing our NFL show.
And we're out in front of the city market. You're not going to hear this probably till tonight or tomorrow.
So, I'd tell you to come down and join us. But, well, you'll come down here and we won't be here.
Yeah. Should we tell them we're trying out a brand new microphone?
Yes. Yeah.
All right.
All right. So, I think it sounds better in our earphones. I mean.
Yeah. Yeah. So far I'm really digging it.
Yeah, me too. And it actually looks really kind of like more professional.
It does. The other mic was cool and retro looking. It looked like something from the 50s.
Which I love. But this is cool too.
Yeah. Yeah. It's more designed to be an indoor mic, I'm sure. So, yeah.
Well, but it was a good opportunity to try it out.
Yeah. So, that's cool.
Yeah.
All right. Well, the first game, of course, that we picked and the first game on the docket last week was Ravens versus the Chiefs.
We're both for the Chiefs.
I wasn't very good on the points on that one, I know.
You had 34 to 31.
Yeah.
And I had 27 to 17. So, okay. First off, did you take any key notes from the game? What did you think?
I think the defense is really good still. There's been some changes there. We lost Willie Gay and Snead.
I can't remember Snead's first name off the bat.
Ligerius. Ligerius, that's it. But I think we're going to be okay without them.
Rasheer Rice had a really good game.
Yes.
And let's see. Somebody else.
Worthy.
Yes.
Worthy looked phenomenal.
Worthy looked good. He looks like he's going to be everything they need him to be this season.
Yeah. Schuster and Brown too, if they're all healthy.
Yeah. Yeah.
Go ahead. Tell yours that I'm going to.
Defense, as I said, still looks pretty solid. The offense, some of the question marks I had seem like they've got the right people and it's just going to get better from here.
So, I was pretty encouraged by what I saw from the Chiefs. You know, getting behind and coming back. I'm used to that by now.
Yes. Yeah.
That's not the thing to panic about that it used to be.
Yes. Any more I don't worry about. I'm like, okay, this is what's supposed to happen.
Exactly.
As far as the Ravens go, they look like a pretty decent team. I don't think they ran very well.
No, they did not like I thought they were going to.
Yeah, it seemed like they were counting on Lamar Jackson to be their running game two, which long term is not a viable solution.
The especially the older quarterback gets. Well, I said this last podcast. He is an accident waiting to happen. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. One one bad hit.
One twisted knee away from wrecking their whole season. And it's it's been done before there too.
So, I'm sure Baltimore hated taking the loss. And oh, my God, I saw the success of penalties for illegal formation for the what the Ravens left.
You sent me a text about that. Yes. You know, he was lining up too far back.
He was and he was told to do it and he didn't. And he was pretty good for a while.
But the Chiefs right tackle, Jawan Taylor, 74. He got away with at least three false starts. I know he flinches. Yeah. Yes, I know.
He picks up that back leg. He puts a leg behind him and he picks it up and leans back too early. Yes.
And he got called once, but he didn't get called three times.
So any Baltimore Ravens fan that wants to say the fix is in and it was unfair. I feel you. It was not fair.
The Chiefs got away with things they shouldn't have gotten away with. Yeah.
Well, I mean, OK, here I can play a counter here. There should have been another roughing the passer call in there.
Yes. That late hit out of bounds was blatant and actually shouldn't have never happened. He was trying to hurt my homes.
Yeah. And that's the only thing you think is, was that a makeup call to make up for something the refs did?
That's where I got. Yeah. But to do it on a play that could physically damage the star quarterback,
that is the darling of the league, that's an odd place to pick to do a makeup and non call.
Yes. And also, don't you think they have a vested interest in the game being a nut tugger? True. Yeah.
This is the influence of the games we've been talking about, in my opinion. Yeah.
I mean, two big benefits to having a close fought game is one, people watching aren't going to quit and two,
people are going to keep placing bets. Yes. Because it's going to go back and forth. It's still tight.
People are going to keep betting, keep betting, keep betting. And those are the two things the NFL wants, viewers and bettors.
People are not going to abandon the game. Yeah. If it's like 30 to nothing or 30 to five or whatever.
Yeah. Even the bookies are getting out of that one. Yeah. Yeah. They're going to say, oh, hey, crime scene CSI is on, you know.
Whatever. Yeah. Yeah. Unless you live in Kansas City or Baltimore, you're exiting that game. Yeah.
It's like, oh, this is a stinker. Yeah. And if you're not watching, you're not betting on it.
Kind of like that game last night. I watched all of it just because I felt like I needed to.
But man, if we weren't doing this podcast, I would have liked to watch. I would have went to the record section of my of my outfit there,
my fire stick. And I would have went to Ryan Seacrest's first appearance on Wheel of Fortune.
By the way, he's not much better than Tom Brady. But in my opinion. Yeah.
Hey, how go? Yeah, I was looking forward to watching the Broncos and Seahawks game, but they decided not to air it in the Casey area unless you paid to stream it.
Yes. And they're doing that on purpose. They know that we have an interest in the Western Division. Right. And how they do.
Yeah. They they they figure out what we want and then they take it away and put it behind a paywall to see if we're willing to pay for it.
I wasn't. No, me neither. You know, they're required to give us the Chiefs game.
But yeah, they'll they'll they'll take they'll figure out what we want and use it against us.
Yes, they will. You're right. Yeah. And that's the other thing is they're talking about going to an 18 game season.
I believe it will happen. And that's taking away another preseason game. Oh, wow. OK. I can see that trading preseason for regular season.
At what point, though, is it going to be necessary to have a relief quarterback that we have relief pitchers?
Because expecting one quarterback to go full tilt for 18 games in 19 weeks, that's a lot to ask.
Carson Wentz, I think, is that guy for Kansas City.
I think that he had a good career. He got injured, got a little bit upside down, had some bad luck.
And I think that if anyone's going to save him, it's Coach Reed. So he can be a top tier quarterback.
So what's that advantage? That advantage is if Mahone needs a break and we're up, I don't know, 27 to 3,
you can throw him in there and comfortably know that he's not going to screw the game up.
And I think the NFL wants to normalize doing that. Yes. And they're going to try to force the issue by having so many freaking games.
Yes. Because think about it. A team will have one good quarterback and one just total scrub. Yes. For someone who's over the hill.
Yeah, an ass bag that used to play. Yeah. And so the quarterback gets hurt and suddenly the game is a dud and everyone fails.
The NFL doesn't like that. No, no, no. The NFL wants you to have a good backup quarterback that can keep the game going and keep the game exciting.
And I think the teams that start doing that and then start putting them in for like the whole fourth quarter and, you know,
sorry about your stats, Mahomes, but we're looking out for your health and the team's health. Well, that will happen.
Yeah, it will happen. I think that's going to have to be the new normal is your starter plays three quarters.
If you're comfortably ahead, they're done. And I've got a little bit deeper theory than that.
And then we can go back to the first game, you know, that you're talking about. OK.
An 18 game season is going to push the mini camp back another couple of weeks, right? True.
I'm pretty sure they're going to have to because of that. Yeah, you're going to have to.
You know, the benefit you used to get from that third preseason game is now going to have to come from mini camps.
That aligns with right when basketball season ends. Perfect. Perfect. Yeah.
You know, teams want to be relevant all season long. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, all year long, not just in the season.
And this is going to really hurt baseball's bottom feeders because who's going to watch a game between?
I don't even know who the bottom feeders are. Chicago, the White Sox against.
I don't know who else is a bottom feeder. Yeah. You know, you're looking at like a team that won 25 games, maybe the White Sox against.
You put them against a team that won 40 games. No one's watching that.
I mean, even with the Royals doing so good and right now, if it ended today, they'd be in the playoffs.
The Chiefs still get the first run. Yeah. I mean, just practicing, they get the first run. Yeah.
So anyhow, and when you think about it, deep into the NFL season, you're going to start hearing stuff about basketball and baseball.
Yes. Big time because the audience is there watching football.
So that's when you remind them about the other sports. NFL should be doing that, too.
In what? May and June, when the NBA playoffs are going on. Yes.
Have tons of important stuff going on at many camps and OTAs and stuff that you can jump in during the NBA playoffs and say, oh, by the way, here in Vikings, many camp.
This happened. Yes. It's perfect. Yeah. Why not?
Yeah. I mean, that's why you take someone like Mahone, so prolific and loved in Kansas City and actually all over, and you make him an investor in the Royals.
Yeah. Great idea. Really good. Now they just need Taylor and Kelsey to invest in them. Yeah.
Let's see what Royals player can start getting involved with some attractive pop star. Yeah.
And who would that pop star be? Yeah. Tatey at Kauffman Stadium a couple of times. They're sold out the rest of the year. I'm surprised they haven't done that.
Now, let's see. Salvador Perez starts dating Megan the stallion. How's that? There we go.
And she shows up at the stadium and people look at her like, all right, cool. We got our own version of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey.
You never know. This might be the template for for future. Well, it's such a copycat league. Yeah.
I think it's yeah, I think it's pretty much a given that it worked for Kansas City. It made them not only national, but global news. Yeah.
And the other teams are like drool. Sign me up, man. Yeah. It's got to be the right couple, though, because Tony Romo and Carrie Underwood dated and nobody gave a shit.
There was a little bit of a hubbub when he was dating Jessica Simpson. I remember seeing her up in the players box on the owner's box or whatever.
But she was just boring as hell. I mean, you go to look at Taylor during the game, the camera goes to her.
She's jumping around. People are yelling and screaming when they showed Jessica Simpson.
She was sitting there, obviously, not know what's going on. Yeah.
Really know what football was all about. But she was just kind of being there because it was good publicity.
Well, I believe everything they say about Taylor Swift being really smart. I believe that. I mean, too. Yeah.
I totally believe that. And also, another thing is, is they said she designed some plays that they're going to do. Cool.
Isn't that interesting that she could pick up on it that quick?
You know, 15 years ago, people or 20 years ago, people would have screamed and howled about what does some woman know about football and all this kind of crap.
But now it's something that is just the idea is entertained with an open mind. Yeah. Yeah, it is.
And anyhow, OK, go ahead about the game there before we really get sidetracked like we always do.
So we were still talking about the Chiefs and the Ravens. Yes. Yeah.
Either team could have won that. I was pretty sure the Chiefs were going to be able to pull it out, you know, zero head first game of the season, just unveiled the banner.
It's like and you did last year against the Lions. You let them come in and spank you. I think that was a big motivator.
Yeah, they're like, this is not going to happen again. Booms is on the sideline. Remember last year. Remember last year. I'm sure he was.
I'm sure he posted the pictures of the scoreboard. Yeah. At the end of that game. I'm sure he did.
Good idea to be reminded. But it was it was a fun and exciting game.
I remember several times having to calm myself down and relax myself.
Like this is an exciting, intense moment, but there's no reason for me to be hyperventilating on the sofa.
Yeah. Yes. Let the players play. Just watch. I agree.
It did kind of get me caught up and really emotionally invested in the game, which for me usually doesn't happen.
I usually take a lot more pragmatic approach. I tried to, but I do both.
I mean, I can't help it. I waffle back and forth. Yeah. And so.
OK, so that's your analysis. You got anything else? I think that's all I got. OK.
All right. You can say that'll do pig.
Charlotte's Web, wasn't that it? The guy said that'll do pig. Yes. Yep.
And you know, realize, I think I forgot the horn. No, I don't think I did.
OK, I got the worst, like the 30 worst quotes ever by a commentator.
Oh, gosh. That's going to be fun. OK. So first off, I would like to say that the Chiefs are the superior team.
Yeah, you can tell they're much better. They're head and tail above the Ravens.
They should have put that game away, but they didn't.
Again, we had not as bad, but we had issues of us shooting ourselves in our foot.
We had some senseless penalties. It called some big plays back. Yeah.
Will that get better during the season? I think so. Yeah.
That's that's a discipline and focus kind of thing.
This team's good at that. Yeah.
Still, the play that I like the best, he didn't gain anything. He didn't gain anything.
He would have been tackled seven yards back, but he fought and pushed his way to line the scrimmage. Yeah.
I mean, that was just a play is a blown play. They knew he was coming.
I think I remember that they said, you know, he gets back to the line of scrimmage.
It doesn't count as a sack. It counts as a run for no gain.
He was damn determined that he was going to make it back to line of scrimmage.
And he did. That's the kind of guy we need there in the fullback position or whatever it is now.
Oh, OK. Stars to see. I was thinking about my home.
There's one where my home's had to fight. Oh, my home's did too. Yeah.
But that's my home's. I mean, yeah. But I miss that.
But yeah, Carson Steele, definitely. He's got that.
Don't quit that you saw in like Mike Allstott. Yes.
John, not who else? John Riggins. That's John Riggins. Yeah.
He's old school. There's some others. Just the big, tough, strong running backs.
Yeah, a guy that's just going to power his way through there.
LaDaney and Tomlinson. That's who I was trying to think. Yeah, Tomlinson's a good one. Yeah.
We've been missing that in the NFL for quite a while.
And so the other thing I'd like to go on is Kelsey. He is selfless.
He was a decoy most of the game and he was happy with that.
Yeah, I'm really happy to see the Chiefs taking advantage of that.
He still has a phenomenal amount of talent.
And so now is the time to use him as a decoy if you've got other talent.
And this also helps prolong his career. It's just a great idea all day around.
They always have to account for him, usually with a couple of people.
And he's good with that because he knows that Watson or someone in the middle is going to catch that ball.
Maybe Schuster. Someone in the middle is going to catch that ball while people are after him.
And if they go, all right, well, they're hitting the other ones, then they're going to go after them and he's going to kill them.
And he knows this and he's good. Yeah.
Having him is like always being in a four wide receiver set. Yes, exactly. He's that good. He is.
Because you got your slot receiver, you're running back and then usually you have two more receivers in the tight end.
Kelsey is a fourth wide receiver or he can be the awesome lead blocker.
And it's just having that kind of tight end. A lot of teams have keyed on that.
It's like, yeah, we need a tight end like that. Some teams have different guys.
This guy's are receiving tight end. This guy's are blocking tight end.
But when you have one that can do both like Kelsey or Kittle. Yeah, yeah.
Kittle is another good example. Yeah.
Even though he didn't have his best game in the Super Bowl. Yeah.
Yeah, you know that. And another thing that you can do with Kelsey, too, and I've seen this done before and I know you have too, is he could throw the ball.
Oh, yeah. On a gimmick play. I tend to forget that. But yeah, he can throw it.
He's also been used as a running back on a gimmick play. That guy can do about anything. Yeah.
So you utilize him, but you only do the cute stuff as practice run for the postseason. Yeah.
The cute stuff is just seeing if they can get away with it. Yeah.
And then later on, you see him do that to perfection or the backwards pass.
Well, Mahomes poo-pooed that off. Yeah. But you tell me that they don't have that in the back of their mind. They can do that.
Yeah, I didn't buy it. That it was just spur of the moment thought of it. No.
I think he said that on purpose to protect it. It's going to go, oh, yeah, yeah. I was mad at him. And I think it was predetermined.
Yeah, protecting trade secrets. Yes.
Then I'm going to go into another example about how Kelsey is selfless.
Last year, he could have had a thousand yard season and hit the record books on the last game.
He said, no, I'm sending it out. The object is to win the Super Bowl. Yeah.
And he sat it out, did not get a thousand yard season because of it.
And that right there told me he is a total team player and he is he is dedicated to winning. Yeah.
That is the kind of guy you want on your team. And we have him on our team and he's not going anywhere.
And that is another great reason why he's not going anywhere.
You can name a lot of wide receivers or tight ends and go, no, no, I'm going to go get my thousand yards and I'll be back in because quarterbacks to quarterbacks to.
Yeah. And you read gave them a choice. He said, if you want to go get your record, do it.
But if you don't, and you rather concentrate on winning in the playoffs, that's fine, too.
I think every one that was going for some sort of a significant margin starter. Yeah. Sat.
I can understand if there's like a financial incentive in your contract that you're trying to hit that was a Chris Jones bonus.
Yeah. Like Chris Jones. Yeah. And you know, he stayed in long enough to trigger that bonus and then he was out. Yes.
And I get that. I get. Oh, I do, too. And they're trying to sign him to a long term deal.
So that was essential in letting him do that because that shows like, hey, we love what you do for us. So we're going to let you try to do this.
Yeah. And he got the sack and then he went out. No problems.
That thing right there makes sure that Chris Jones did sign the contract and he wants to be in Kansas City.
And I mean, he did anyhow. But that right there gives him just more love for us.
He's like, you know what? Coach Reed said, go ahead, get your money, you know, and other players look at that and say, hey,
that's a good team to go play for. I might look at them in free agency. Absolutely.
And that's how come teams take less money to come here.
That's how the Niners built their dynasty in the what was it, 80s and early 90s. Yes.
Is they spent money on the players. They pampered their players.
They treated their players like the money earners they were. Yes.
They didn't treat them like a business or whatever or an expendable tool.
It's like, no, you guys are the reason everybody pays to watch and gives us all our money.
So we're going to treat you well. Yeah.
And D Bartolo was the guy who owned the Niners at the time.
And he was forced out due to gambling. Yes. The gambling scandal.
But if he had stuck around and kept spending and spending money on the team like that, it would have been the wind inside.
We would be talking about the Niners' dynasty ahead of there was something else going on with it.
Oh, yeah, you're right. There was something else with the D Bartolos.
I can't think of what it was. There's another scandal. Big fight with his sister.
Well, that was part. But there was something more than that.
I'll have to look it up because I know you're right. There was something else.
There was something else, too. And then finally, it's like the league just looking at him going, you're making us a crap ton of money, but you got to go. Yes.
And also, I don't know if George Seifert was a great replacement for Walsh, who basically he stepped out. He retired. Yeah.
Seifert did. He did win one. He won a Super Bowl with Young with Steve Young.
But I don't think he was the guy to carry on the tradition. I think it was lost after that.
Yeah. Seifert was the guy who was going to help you coast to another championship while the team slowly fell apart.
But he wasn't going to be able to do anything about it. No, no, that was it. And he was kind of put in there to be fired, really.
Yeah, I think ownership said we can win one more Super Bowl with somebody in there who just won't screw it up. Yeah.
So they put Seifert in. Yeah. And then after that, Steve Young's career was still good, but not the same after they won.
I don't know what the deal was. He just never to me. He never looked the same.
He looked like his heart really wasn't in it anymore. He wasn't willing to go the extra mile, the super sacrifice.
He was still, you know, putting a lot of effort into it. But the drive just wasn't there anymore.
Yeah. I mean, I think he's more concerned about his magic underwear. If you know, you know.
Yes. Supposedly they hang those out on the line to try as often as possible to trick the neighbors into thinking they're having more sex than they are.
How many times do you think the kitchens closed in that religion?
We're not making fun of you guys. Hey, man, God bless you, man. You you worship however you want.
We're just having a little fun. As long as you're not hurting anybody. We don't care. Yep.
All right. Shall we move on to the Patriots versus the Bengals? Yeah.
That was a game when I wanted both of them to kind of suck and be bad. Yeah.
But turned out just one of them did. Yeah.
We didn't give scores on this one. Did you know that? Funny. We missed it.
Well, we got sidetracked on some other shit. We're like a dog when we see a squirrel. Yeah.
So we didn't give scores, but I think evidently everyone else in the world thought the Patriots is going to win this except us.
I would have picked the Bengals. I would have too. Even in a bad day, I thought they would have won. Yeah.
You know, so yeah, the Bengals without Mixon, they do not look I mean, they look horrible.
And it's been kind of NFL gospel for a while that if you have a decent line, you can plug any running back in there and get a decent running game.
But oops, turns out Mixon was the only thing keeping their running game going. Yes.
So this this isn't like the end of the season for the Bengals, of course.
But this is something to remember for the next couple of weeks and see how they do. Oh, yeah.
And also, we do very well in Kansas City. We have a lot of downloads in Kansas City.
So there's a lot of Kansas City people that listen. So this is why I'm saying this.
Don't expect a cakewalk against the Bengals. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. They hate us and they want to beat us with a passion.
Even if they're having a mediocre season or losing season, they'll come in here breathing fire.
Yeah. How many times the Broncos had a horrible season to come in here and kick the shit out of this just because they hate us.
Yeah. And vice versa. You know, you know, same thing.
I watch for it. It's going to happen. Yeah. You know, they have to eat a lot of their pride.
They were propped up so heavy and gave so much love because people did not want little Kansas City to do anything.
And they were propped up so big and everything. And it's got to be a hell of a letdown. Yeah.
And I think that if they beat us this year, they're going to go, all right, we may not have that good of a year.
This is later on. Right now, everyone thinks they're going to have a good year. Yeah. They're figuring it out.
You know, even even the Bengals are like, OK, we're going to get this thing figured out.
We're going to start blocking differently. This guy's going to start running differently.
Burroughs going to fake different. You know, they're all figuring it out.
But later on in the season, they're going to go, you know what? I mean, at least we beat Kansas City. Yeah.
And that's going to be it. So, you know, I think the mainstream sports entertainment industry has finally made their peace with Kansas City being a player.
In the early days, Mahomes, they were trying to downplay it.
There was lots of rumors and speculation that the chiefs should trade Mahomes to a bigger market.
Yeah. Yeah. That was them. Yeah. They were projecting. They wanted that. They wanted that. Yeah.
So by now, industry has made their peace with Kansas City being a hot item.
But the fan base still can't to a large degree. They're like, oh, the chiefs. Are you kidding me?
And I love it's going to take a while to turn people's minds around.
You know, when the Patriots started winning, they were a sucky team for decades. Yeah.
I mean, that one blip in 85 when they went to the Super Bowl against the giant, the Bears, was an aberration.
But the Patriots had been just a shit organization for decades. Oh, yeah.
And it took people a while to figure out, OK, they're for real. But being in the New England area, it was a lot easier.
It's like, oh, big market. Yeah, whatever. She's had a little bit more of a struggle in that area.
But yeah, because really people will figure it out.
I think they're starting to, whether they admit it or not, even a little skipper ballist. Yeah.
Yeah, he he needs to retract. But he is such a little asshole.
He's going to keep waving his little fist at my homes. Yeah.
And he's just going to keep looking like an asshole. He's like Rush Limbaugh.
He found a character that works on and he won't be in radio and whatever.
Yeah. He's he's going to ride the money making pony for as long as he can.
Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, anyhow, so, you know, Natty is.
They're going to bring their best game. I think the way you beat them is a run.
They can't stop the run. They got one hundred and thirty yards on one hundred and thirty yards.
The Patriots did. That's pretty good. Can you name one of the running backs? I can't.
No idea. Jimmy, Jimmy Smith or Alex.
I don't know. Let me Williams or no, I'm just making generic names up.
Yeah. But see, in the past, they've had what they had Ligarret Blunt.
Was that his name? Yeah. He's not there anymore. No, no.
So, I mean, unless they drafted some dynamite young phenom that like caught right on,
they don't really have anybody running the ball and they still got one hundred and thirty yards on them.
And that was probably by several running backs. Yeah. Added up.
Not just one guy having a great day. That's what I'm thinking. Yeah.
Which shows that, you know, anybody can run on the Bengals.
So I'm looking for Pacheco to go insane on him. That would be so good.
He was running so hard that guy, he wants to be the elite running back
and he may very well do it the way he's running. Yeah.
His angry running is just it makes a cream hunt look like a cheerleader. It does.
I mean, every game you see him, he's back there.
He's ready to tear through people. Yeah.
So I think the run is the key to beat the Bengals and we will see.
I mean, like I said, they're going to have their best game and it's going to be another nuttucker, in my opinion.
Yeah. So I said nuttucker and the lady turned around and smiled.
You would have seen it as classics.
Anyhow, Topher, you got some ideas on the game?
It really seemed to be the Patriots had an idea of what they wanted to do.
They didn't seem to be going for anything, you know, trick plays, lots of bombs down the field, whatever.
They just showed up and played good football. Yeah.
The Bengals looked like they had an idea and a plan and it fell apart in the first five minutes
and they didn't know what to do at that point. That's funny.
That's exactly how I analyze it too is after that they didn't have an answer.
The thing that got me was Burroughs' inability to take the game on his back.
I've never seen that in him actually. I've just seen him just being a system guy.
And I really do think that in a system he's fantastic, but I don't think he can improvise and I think it's been proven like Mahomes.
Yeah. I guess we're spoiled here with Mahomes because he's like super fiery, passionate.
Oh, he's a gold standard. He's what everybody else wants.
And you know, I don't expect Burroughs to be out Mahomes, Mahomes, but yeah, he doesn't look like he's like,
no, I'll do my part. Sure hope the rest of the guys do theirs. Yeah. He's that kind of guy.
No, no, you don't see him going across the body dead run. You don't see him breaking four tackles.
I mean, he gets sacked a lot. He's too fragile to risk his body the way Mahomes risks his.
Yeah. I mean, how many times he's been injured? Pretty much every season. Hasn't been?
Yeah, pretty much every season. So he's not durable. So as far as being unprepared, I put that on the coaching staff.
I do too. They should have had a backup plan. They should have been able to adapt.
Yeah. Burroughs should have come in and come to the sideline and said, look, this and this aren't working.
But this over here is open for now. Let's take advantage of that. Yeah.
Burroughs fine, man. He's a good guy, I believe. And I think that he practices hard and he wants to win.
But when you have a coaching staff that's not on board with you and figuring out your assets is going to help win, there's not much you can do.
True. If you took Mahomes and said, you're just a pocket passer, that's it. It would be a disaster.
And their head coach is like that. It's like, we're going to make you fit our system. Yeah.
Yeah. The good ones. I mean, Schottenheimer was a great example of that. Yeah.
He had a staunch way of doing things. He didn't deviate. Well, except in the playoffs at one time. Yeah.
But he would do it to a fault. Yeah. This is a pattern for us to win and we're going to do it like that.
And that's kind of why he went through so many players. Yeah. They didn't like it.
Players would show up last half a season and out they go. Yeah.
Because they had to fit his mold and Schottenheimer wasn't really a compromising kind of guy.
No. No. So he wasn't for everybody. I mean, to me, his system used to work.
It will not work now. And that's how Kim Belichick is an employee, except in TV, I think. Yeah.
I think he got a TV contract somewhere. I think so. But we'll go into Tom Brady a little bit later.
We both have some feelings about that. But yeah, that make you fit my pattern kind of stuff.
It works pretty well in high school because guys are pretty malleable.
They haven't really set in their ways yet. It works decent in college.
But once you get to the pros, it's like you should realize what this guy is and what he's capable of.
I agree. And use that. Yeah. And if you can't, then I don't believe that you're kind of coach that can win.
Are we still going or not? Yeah, it's just crawling real slow. Oh, OK.
I forgot. I'm not used to audacity. I'm used to the audio tonic. Sorry. Yeah.
I zoomed way out so the whole. Oh, that's why I'm recording is showing up at once.
That way I can check for clipping or. Oh, that's cool. High spots.
OK, cool. Good idea, actually. Thank you. Thank you.
Well, we both went for the bingles. So, yeah.
The little electroshock collar we have around our necks just went off.
Little negative reinforcement. Yeah, that would be fun. Put shock collars on us.
All I put on here, I don't know, I was half asleep last night transcribing this out from when I scribbled down, listening to the podcast.
Right here. We were both for the Eagles and not for Green Bay. And that's all I put down.
So I guess that's the important thing. And I don't know if we gave a score on that.
Maybe not. We skipped. We skipped some. Yeah.
So I'm assuming we didn't give a score. Yeah. We both picked the Eagles. Go ahead.
Yeah, I think not to say the Eagles are like a top echelon team anymore, but they're good.
They've got key players in good places. They've got lots of playoff experience, et cetera.
So more is expected of them. Green Bay really is kind of having trouble getting a new identity.
And Jordan Love got hurt in the game. I don't know what the extent of it is. I think he's out for a few weeks.
Yeah, that's the one question, one of the questions I had about Jordan Love.
And let's not forget, everyone had a year now to look at this guy. Yeah.
So they have the pattern of what they believe will be him. Yeah.
And I think the Eagles brushed on it, but didn't do it perfectly because I don't think they're that good of a team to do that against that caliber.
Yeah, they might. The Eagles will get better at it as the season goes along. Yeah, of course.
Teams will show more of their hand as the season goes along because it's more vital. Oh, yeah. That's a great point.
Right now, they're not putting out all the tricks and gimmicks. Yeah.
They're real. They're just like, we're going to do this enough to win. Later on, we're going to do the stuff that we think is going to work against the really top notch teams.
Yeah. Yeah. You want to you want to keep some things hidden and keep the speculation going. Yes. Until you really need it.
So Green Bay, they're in a decent division. Lions are tougher than them.
But the Vikings don't look like much and the Bears are kind of whatever.
The Vikings did very well. Yeah. But yeah, they have what the hell is his name?
I forgot. Damn it. QB. Yeah, the QB.
I don't even know. He's he's been around a while. Anyhow, go ahead.
So I can't remember what my predictions were for Green Bay.
I'm going to take a look here, but
I don't think I had them listed too high. Yeah, I had the Packers down at like 10 and seven third in the division.
They're going to choke in the when it counts in the regular season and they aren't going to be able to handle a line.
The Vikings quarterback. So I agree with you. That's kind of what I was feeling for the Daniel Jones.
Oh, yeah. That's right. Yeah. I mean, as soon as I saw that, not Mac Jones, but Daniel Jones, not Adam Pacman Jones.
I hear their brothers. I think everybody named Jones his brothers. Yes, I do, too.
Like that famous song Me and Mrs. Jones got something going on. I think that's probably their mom.
I think so. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Davy Jones. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That was her third cousin.
Yeah. He runs a sporting goods store. That's why he has a locker. Yes.
OK. OK. Settle down. This is a sports show. We don't make fun of things. Yeah, we do.
So anyway, I didn't have a whole lot more on the Eagles Packers than that.
I was not impressed with Green Bay in the least. They look generic.
They look slow. They look lethargic. And Jordan Love looked like an average quarterback.
Yeah, they need to get their head together if they're going to be anywhere. They look like an eight and nine or nine and eight team to me.
That's going to exit the playoffs if they make it really quick. Yeah.
Either the team has just got no fire and no motivation or if that's what they look like with fire and motivation, then they're going to have a hard time.
They're going to have a hard time. Yes. I did. Yeah, I was very unimpressed with them.
The Eagles look good. They have flashes of looking really good. Yeah.
They don't quite have that power punch without Jason Kelsey.
I can't remember how did Saquon Barkley do for the running game for the Eagles?
You know what? I don't think he did stand out because he wasn't in any of the highlights.
There wasn't on the bottom of the screen. Saquon Barkley got nine thousand yards.
So I think he was probably gave a pedestrian performance.
But if he was being used as a decoy, that's OK. Chances are that's what they did.
I think Sirianni knows enough and he knows not to mount off for the arrowhead now. Yeah.
Yeah, I think he probably does stuff like that. Yeah. He's like, go out there. We're going to flick it over here.
You know, we're going to pass. Yeah, I found that works pretty well.
What are some of Barkley's twenty twenty four regular season stats most of the time in real life and it works really well on video games as you go in with a running back and three tight ends and the other team is going to think run, run, run.
Barkley had an excellent game. OK.
One hundred nine yards. OK. Four point five average. Two touchdowns and two receptions. That is awesome. I wonder why nobody mentioned it, at least not in the KC area. I didn't see a lot of mention of it.
I can't believe it didn't stand out. I watched the game. Yeah, it probably did. I just forgot. I don't know. You know, you know, we all have lives.
Yeah. Well, if he is flying under the radar to that extent, that that sounds good for the Eagles future success. It does. He's going to be one hundred nine yards. That's that's a touchdown plus 10 yards. Yeah, that's right.
Yeah. Yeah. And you got two touchdowns. Yeah. And two receptions, too. So he's got that dual threat capability. So so Barkley, I think, is probably I mean, if he doesn't get injured, he should have pre-stellar.
Yeah, I think he's going to be mainstay of the offense. Probably the offense is going to kind of rise or fall, depending on Barkley's production.
I think that probably the plan there is Hertz needs to take a step back and Barkley needs to take a step forward. Yeah.
The Hertz is another one like Lamar Jackson that is a broken leg waiting to happen. Yes. Some of those guys, when they run, you can just tell they are taking chances. They're not protecting themselves, especially Lamar Jackson.
He leaves himself open for the most brutal shots. I don't know why he does that. He should at least tuck, you know, like, like snail up, you know. Yeah. But no, he's a little hedgehog. Yeah.
I don't know why they don't. Maybe they did coach it. He just doesn't do it. But I don't know why they don't coach. Hey, fall to the ground. Yeah. Something. You know, Mahomes does it. A rushing quarterback is not the guy you want fighting for extra yards ever.
Unless the game is on the line. No, I know. I agree. You know, that one play. But yeah, you know, let your running back, your fullback or something fight for extra yards. But the quarterback, I don't know. Well, you see, that's the thing is, is he's always trying to make that play.
He's kind of the opposite of burrow. He's putting the team on his back when he doesn't need to. Exactly. Yeah, they have a great defense. Likely. I don't know about his intellect, but he's a hell of a receiver. We'll go into that a little bit later.
Anyhow, likely is a hell of a receiver. Mahomes is right. We should have wore white cleats. Yes. But anyhow, I think we both agreed the Eagles was a superior team. They have a shot at it this year. They have a shot to go. I agree.
But I give them a lesser shot than San Francisco and Detroit. Yeah, I would say so. Yeah. Yeah. Next Steelers versus Falcons. Wow.
That didn't work out so well for the Falcons. No. Kirk Cousins didn't look all that great. I didn't think he would. ACL. He never was that standout of the quarterback. He's a good stat guy, but that's about it.
He'll bring you some good stats, but. Yeah, he's kind of like the game manager, which is a dirty word anymore. It is. But credit the Steelers for going into a dome stadium first week and doing what it takes.
It's not like the game was handed to him. No, the Steelers played well enough to win, played well enough to beat the home team. Actually, the Vikings won that.
I think, didn't they? OK, that's one of the ones I got wrong. Damn. Because that's that's all I heard was.
I'm gonna look like a moron. Yeah, I.
See, oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I think I might be the moron.
No, no, no, no, that. Yeah. Here we go. 28 to 6.
I've got 18 to 10. OK, hang on. We've got some problems here.
28 6 is Vikings Giants. OK, so yeah, Steelers Falcons was Steelers 18 Falcons 10.
OK, all right. Thank you. Thank God.
I don't mean the idiot, but yeah, I mean, not a high scoring game. No, you know, kind of a weird score and a lot of touchdowns. Yeah, but Steelers got it done.
So.
Go ahead, is that it or yeah, that wasn't one of the ones I was able to watch.
No, me neither. I picked up info where I could get same here. Yeah.
Steelers have a quarterback problem, but Mike Tomlin is a great coach.
So I think that they're going to win a lot of games like this that are just going to be really pedestrian games.
Yeah, that's all. Yeah, yeah, not really winning ugly, but just kind of winning boring. Yes, winning boring.
Yeah, I mean, pretty much I took the Falcons, so I'm minus one here.
Yeah, I think I took the Falcons too. OK, yep. Yeah, we both did.
So all right.
OK, the next one is Buffalo versus the Cards. Yeah, I'm sure I took Buffalo in that one because I don't think much of the Cardinals.
But damn if the Cardinals didn't play him tough. They played him really tough. What was the final like 33, 34, 28, 34, 28.
Yeah, Buffalo's defense doesn't look exceptional. No, no, not if the cards can put four touchdowns on you.
Yeah, Kyler Murray without Brown. Yeah, they lost Hollywood Brown.
He doesn't really have that many receivers that I'm aware of.
Yeah, that was really seemed like a strange move for the Cardinals to get rid of such a key piece of their offense that they were counting on.
Excuse me. Did they trade him to us? I think it was a trade, yeah.
Do you think maybe he hijacked him? I thought it. Hang on.
So we keep asking each other questions that we don't know. Yeah, I know.
Well, if it's a trade, that doesn't make sense at all. It doesn't matter.
If it was a free agent, then they needed to find a way to sign him. Yeah.
Well, whatever it was, I can't believe that they wouldn't. They may have tried, who knows? So anyhow, Hollywood Brown's here.
So Kyler Murray and the Buffalo defense and Buffalo defense doesn't seem to be what it was or at least not on this game.
Yeah. We'll see what happens because my opinion and your opinion too is if the cards put up that many points on you, you're not that good.
Yeah. And this was at home. Yeah. Buffalo was at home. Yeah. And first game of the season at home, you get judged a little harder.
Yes. And wasn't it 17-14, the divisional round where we went to Buffalo?
That sounds right. He held the Chiefs to 14 points. They held the Chiefs to 14 points. So what happened in the offseason?
Yeah. So yeah, we'll see if they get better or not. But I know this, they're not as good.
You know, Buffalo isn't because they let Stevon Diggs go. Yeah. Every season there's teams that do a whole lot worse than you think they are.
Yep. I picked the cards on an upset. So a minus one there. You picked the Bills 30 to 17. You weren't that far off. You're about 10 points off.
Yeah. That's not bad. Yeah. We're going to be getting lucky. Yeah.
Let's see here. Chicago versus the Titans. Well, Bears won, but Caleb Williams passed for less than 100 yards. Yes. That's a problem.
It is. It's a big problem. I mean, congrats on the win, but Caleb Williams ran for almost as much as he threw for, didn't he?
And then I think he scored a touchdown on the ground. Well, there's a problem with that, like you said, because he isn't that type of a quarterback generally.
Yeah. And it works okay in college. But in the pros, a running quarterback has got a short career span. Yeah.
Congratulations to him on the win. But is this an indictment of how bad the Titans might be? But Chicago was one of the worst teams last year.
Yeah. Yeah. It's hard to tell, really, because on the one hand, the Titans held Caleb Williams to so few passing yards. On the other hand, they still couldn't win.
Well, but one of them was Legerrius Snead. That's true. And he is a rookie quarterback. And Legerrius Snead doesn't give up touchdowns. No, he does not.
He's allergic to that. Yeah. Yeah, I think both teams should look at this as a real disappointment. Yeah, that's exactly what I think, too.
I think they're both looking in the mirror going, man, we have got to shore things up. Yeah. It's a long season. They're going to have to start figuring this stuff out.
Chicago got the win, props to them. But they have much to work on. But the Titans may have a lot more to work on the way of season. Yeah.
You know, Will Levis needs to quit doing Mayo commercials and maybe work on that quarterback position. Hey, Al, I'm sorry. I think you're going to say something.
I was going to say that fortunately for these two teams, it counts as a loss and that's it. It's not within the division. It's not within the conference.
So I agree. It has zero implication beyond it's a loss on your or a win on your schedule.
To me, I would look at this game as almost like a preseason game. Almost. Yeah. The reason is, is because you're trying different things out.
It's not necessarily going to probably at the end of the year mean much of anything. True, true. So why not look at it like that?
Just go, you know what? We're going to go out and maybe that's part of it. Maybe that's why Caleb Williams had under 100 yards. Yeah.
They just said, hey, man, shrug this one off. Yeah. Yeah. I think the reason they ran so much was simply luxurious need.
Being a shut down corner and maybe you don't want to ruin your quarterback on the first game. True. Yeah, that's a good point.
You wouldn't want to put him in a lot of situations where he's got a good chance to fail. Yeah. To wreck with his confidence.
But how do you explain he just, you know, was it in completions? Was he just not taking shots?
I was wondering if it was dink and dunk and the people were stopped right there. I don't know. It's weird. I don't know.
Well, you know what? The jury's still out on him and right now I would give him probably about a C. Yeah.
So, you know, he's got nowhere to go but up, really. Yeah. Yep. And we'll see how it goes.
Let's see. The Texans. I screwed this whole thing up so bad.
I was half asleep when I fucking tried to transcribe it last night. I apologize. I really thought it was going to be better than this.
Who the hell did the Texans? The Texans played the Colts. The Colts. That's right.
I was picking the Texans to have a great year so I'm sure I picked the Texans. Not by that close to score I'm sure. It was 29-27.
You picked the Texans 35-10. That's right. And I picked the Texans 32-13.
So, the Colts scored a lot more points than we thought they would. Yeah. Their quarterback looked pretty good. Richardson? Yeah.
Yeah, he is tough. He might be somebody to watch. You know, they've been touting this guy. They had him last year, didn't they?
Yeah, I don't think he's really... he was in his practice squad. Yeah, something like that. They really like this guy and they utilized him perfectly.
Yeah, that's smart. The Texans won but like I was kind of thinking and you were thinking too, they had a year to study C.J. Stroud. Yeah.
This is where he either comes back to earth or he excels. So, we're going to see what happens.
I mean, I think that he's good enough right now to probably make the playoffs again. Yeah. But is the tubeledge he's getting the right one?
Like I said last year, if Andy Reid would have had that guy on this team, they would have went to the Super Bowl too. Yeah.
Because he would have gotten the right nurturing that they needed and he would have coached him along and did the stuff he couldn't do and didn't let him do the stuff he couldn't do.
Yeah, this season right here is going to be the time for C.J. Stroud to show either he's got more than what you've seen so far or he can learn new things. Yes.
Because if this is all... I mean, he's super talented. He's a great quarterback. But if he's already shown you everything he can do, he'll get figured out and he'll be neutralized. Yes.
You've got to be unpredictable. You've got to keep learning things. You've got to keep surprising people so they don't get you figured out. So, this is going to become that kind of season for Stroud.
Yeah. And another thing is it looked like they're guarding against a long ball because they saw him last year. Yeah. Yeah.
So, you're going to see a lot of teams like the Colts and that going, yeah, don't let them get the big one. Let them get a couple in the middle. Don't let them get the big one.
Yeah. I mean, at its core, if you make them run six plays to get 30 yards as opposed to one play to get 30 yards, you've got five chances more to intercept or fumble or whatever.
So, those big chunk plays take away opportunities to get the ball away from them.
Yeah. All these defensive coordinators were studying the film in the whole offseason and figuring this guy out. So, now it's going to be up to CJ Stroud to figure out how to break it.
And also, but this is where I go with the coaches. The coaches have to give him the right tootlage and give him the right plays to be successful. So, we're going to see. I mean, I think he's got a ton of talent.
Yeah. Texans don't have a reputation of building quarterbacks or having career franchise quarterbacks. I'm afraid of him becoming wasted. Yeah. Yeah.
Now, hopefully he can become the new standard for the Texans and he'll be hailed as the first true franchise quarterback they have because I want them to do well. I want them to be great. I do too.
I'd love to have the Chiefs meeting the Texans every year in the playoffs. That would be cool.
Well, I want that earmark game in December where they're coming to Arrowhead. CJ Stroud, the young phenom against the guy that's done it all, possibly the greatest player ever.
Yeah. That game is going to be so much more fun if the Texans are winning and CJ Stroud is doing well. Yes. I'd love to see that.
And I want a shootout. I want like the Baker Mayfield, Patrick Mahomes, Oklahoma, Texas Tech shootout. Yeah. 65 to 63 or whatever the hell that was. I want that.
That would be fun. But that's not what you're going to get. This Chiefs defense will not allow that.
Back in the 80s, the Jets and the Dolphins used to have these massive shootouts. Oh gosh, yeah. Like almost 100 points a game. It's the craziest thing.
Was it Testicle or quarterback? That was Ken O'Brien. It was Ken O'Brien. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's right. It was Marino for the Dolphins and Ken O'Brien for the Jets. Yeah.
And man, it was just offense all day long. That's funny. You know who I was talking about. Testicle. Vinnie Testicles. Yeah. Vinnie Testicles.
There was a guy I used to work with that called him Vinnie Testicles all the time. Testicles. Awesome.
Next one on the docket is the Dolphins versus the Jags. Now, I've got some thoughts on this game too.
Who did I pick? You picked the Dolphins. I picked the Dolphins. Okay. And I picked the Dolphins also.
All right. So we both got that right. Yours is 30 to 14. Mine was 24 to 20. You were a lot closer. It was 20-17.
Oh, wow. I didn't realize I picked that. Okay. Yeah. Okay. So I think I looked for a lot more wide open games opening weekend.
Yeah. But a lot of them wound up being closer. Dolphins did well. Jaguars did better than I thought they would.
I don't know. I didn't really see anything that changes my mind about either team. I think the Jags are going to have a troubled season.
I think the Dolphins are going to have a really good one. Yeah. Yeah. I think this is make or break for Doug Peterson.
I think if they don't make the playoffs and at least win one game, he's going to be back with Kansas City next.
But that's true. You know, you give the coach everything he needs, everything he's asked for, and he's still not winning in the playoffs or even getting into the playoffs.
It's like, yeah, we can't blame the team. We gave you the team. We've got the pieces. You're just not using them right.
The only saving grace for Peterson is he did not draft Trevor Lawrence. True. That's all. He didn't have any hand in that.
I don't know if Trevor Lawrence is that good. I don't know if he's that dedicated.
Yeah. He's another one of those guys that maybe we've seen everything he can do. Kind of almost looks like it.
And he's got nothing new to show us. So you know what to expect from him. He's getting ready to get out of his rookie contract.
That's going to be interesting to see if they're willing to pay him the quarterbacks pay of the scale now or if they're going to opt to go somewhere else.
Yeah, that's an interesting thing. He may feel with his accomplishments that he deserves to be paid in the neighborhood of the home.
I'm going to guarantee you if Alex Cousins, or not Alex Cousins, if Kirk Cousins got that kind of a contract, he's going to want more.
He's younger. Yeah. And he has more of an upside. He doesn't have a torn ACL and he's not like 37 or whatever.
Yeah, he would do himself a huge favor by having a great year, a great season, putting up massive stats.
That would help in negotiations. Yeah.
I don't know. I think the fan base in Jacksonville is not tired of him yet. They'd be more likely to let the coach go than the quarterback.
I agree. And also, I don't think they care that much. Yeah. I mean, you can go, you can get in any game just like that.
Yeah. We could like buy tickets right now to their next home game and get good ones.
Yeah, I think Jacksonville fan base is happy to have a successful team, a winning team and a shot at the playoffs. And they're happy just to be there.
Exactly. Yeah. So, anyhow, we both got that right. And we can speak about the Tyreke Hill incident now or later.
You're going to have to fill me in on that. I missed that one. We'll do it a little bit later.
Okay. It's interesting. I can tell you that. I remember seeing his face on the screen a lot, but I had the sound down.
Yeah. I was kind of doing some other things at the same time. So. Okay. No, that's cool. I'll clue you in on it.
The next one on the docket is Giants versus Panthers. So we got both of those right.
Giants and Vikings. Saints and Panthers. I'm sorry, man. I was half asleep last night writing this out.
Saints and Giants looked almost identical on the page. Yeah. Yeah. Saints and Panthers was 47-10. Yeah. And you said.
I think Saints going to do well. Yeah. And we both went for the Saints. Yeah. And Panthers are being the Panthers.
And if I remember correctly, I think I thought the Saints are going to score 24 points. So you're much closer on that one, I think.
So what's his name? The quarterback for the Saints. From. Car. Car. Derrick Carr looked sharp. Looked good. Yep.
I've always liked Derrick Carr. Me too. I always thought he was a solid quarterback. I don't know why they got rid of him and got Heropolo.
Because I was thinking. At the time I was thinking he was the same quarterback. Now I think Carr is much better. Yeah.
It had to have been some sort of off the field personality thing. Oh, it was because they sat him, remember? Yeah.
They sat him for four games for no reason. Yeah. And the Raiders are notorious for that.
You know, getting into a little tantrum with their players. Yeah. And Devontae Adams, I'm sure, wasn't too happy about that.
Because that's the reason. One of the big reasons he went to the Raiders is because Derrick Carr. Yeah.
And when they sat him, Devontae had to be pissed. And when they dealt him, he had to be pissed. True. True.
Yeah. But that's the Raiders. They'll burn their own house down just to make a point. And they did too. Yeah.
I mean, so much so to where their coach I really like. I'm worried about them ruining him. True.
If he doesn't have good success soon, then let's hope he gets out of there and gets a chance somewhere else.
I think he should. I think he should step down. This season, if they do horrible and the stats are horrible, I think he should.
He'd just go, you know what? This isn't working out like I thought. Yeah. Just gleaming on not being a good fit or something.
Yeah. Yeah. I think he'd do better. But I mean, I'm afraid that they're going to ruin him over there.
I know. It'd be a shame. So, next one would be Chargers versus Raiders, speaking of the Raiders.
You picked the Raiders, 30 to 13. Yeah. Oops. And I believe, didn't I pick the Chargers?
I think you did. Yeah. Yeah. I thought the Raiders were going to have a much better year.
So, I was starting to pick them in a lot of games. I picked Chargers as my surprise team. Yeah.
Anyhow, go ahead. Yeah. I still don't think the Chargers are all that good, but they were sure good enough to beat the Raiders.
Yeah. And I don't think it took much. Yeah. Yeah. Two scorers. That's all the Raiders got.
Yeah. I think that because Jim Harbaugh is so good with working with talented quarterbacks, that he's going to will at least four games.
Yeah. So, I'm going to put that with some tomato cans they have in their schedule.
And I'm going to say, I'm still going to say eight and nine, or nine and eight, depending on a little luck and a ball flip, you know, something like that.
Someone dropping the ball or whatever. I thought it was going to be a bigger deal that the Chargers head coach is only there because he's so crooked he got ran out of college football.
Yeah. And we both talked about that. And that is true. I mean, he wasn't ready to go back to the NFL. He was loving college and they caught him.
And there's already a documentary out on him called Secret Signs Dealer. It's all about Harbaugh and the Michigan Wolverines. I mean, it's already out there.
Oh, I mean, Netflix, Hulu, I forget what you're talking about. He was going to have the death sentence for what, six years or something? Something like that. Yeah.
He wasn't going to stick around there. The question I got, I don't know if you know this or not, if he goes back in a few years, if he's done doing that well in the NFL and he goes back in a few years, do you think that they're going to still impose a penalty on him because he's no longer with Michigan?
I don't think they will. I think if he can bring a whole, if he has a bunch of success in the NFL and then goes back to college, they're going to welcome him with open arms.
You see, I think maybe his heart isn't in it. He's doing it because he has to, but he really wants to go back to college.
So he's got to succeed here to be attractive enough to go back to college. Yeah. Yeah. He was in a bad predicament. And anyhow, yeah, like you said, man, the dude, I don't know. I never did really like him. I like John Harbaugh better. He seems like a more, more even keel, not so sporadic guy.
Which one of them was the quarterback for the Bears? Was that Jim? Jim. Jim. Yeah. Yeah. I wasn't impressed him as a quarterback. I thought he was a crybaby in a powder. He was. I remember the playoff game between the Colts and this is Rich Gannon, I believe. And he won it.
But he was still whining after it. I forgot what it was or something he was saying. And,
Hey, I agree. He's a whiner. Yeah. There was a Bears game where Didkiss sent in a play and said, call this play, do this play, don't audible out of it. And he went to the line and audibled out of it and threw an interception.
And the first thing Harbaugh did was go whining to the press. Coach says I can't play audibles anymore. I remember that. I remember that. Yeah.
Didn't keep his mouth shut. Didn't take his punishment. Not a game player. Yeah. I mean, he did exactly what the coach told him not to do. And then he whined about it to the press.
So, I mean, that's been my impression of Jim Harbaugh. Right from the beginning. I can't argue any of that. What does it say about the NFL that they're willing to let such a horrible, horrible cheater into the league? Just like, yeah, come on, man. No problem.
That is such a good point. I guess, I suppose they can't really stop an owner from doing what they want because he's not actually done anything towards the NFL.
Yeah, I think that's the excuse is what he's doing in college. He's not going to be able to get away with in the NFL. But that just means he's going to come up with something else because he's demonstrated he's a cheater that will cheat and continue to cheat if it's successful.
What makes you think he's going to be any different in the NFL? He's going to cheat. He's going to try to get away with it as much as possible.
I think the only thing I think that's going to run him out of the Chargers is he's going to get involved in some big cheating scandal. They're going to have to dump it. Yeah. And then college won't want him back.
Well, I would be very cautious on that game against them, the Chiefs. Yeah. He's going to try to hurt my hopes. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's going to be Bounty Gate all over again. Oh, yeah.
So, yeah, I think the way you saw that is eye for an eye. So when does that you go right after their quarterback and take a penalty and then go over there and say, you don't do it. We don't do it.
They do that in baseball. Yeah, you know, one team pitcher beams a batter, then the other team is going to beam someone to and it's like, all right, now we're even what you're going to do.
Yeah. And then it's done. Yeah. It's like, OK, you did it first. You did it second. Boom. Then the umpire comes out and starts pointing at each one going either one of you guys one more year out.
And then that's it. Yep. So and actually, I remember an umpire can even forfeit the game for that. Oh, wow. He can stop the game and give it to the even if if what I read is correct.
I hope so. I read on the Internet. So it's got to be true that even if the other team is leading. Yeah, I would hope that that would be right because the pitcher is intentionally trying to cause physical damage to the opposing batter.
And they don't have to take that. They don't have to put up with that. That should be criminal assault. I mean, the police should be waiting for the guy in the locker room. Yeah, I agree.
And, you know, screw your traditions. You know, if he's throwing this this ball at 100 miles an hour at a guy's head. Yeah, he should be going to jail for that.
That's potentially killing somebody. Yeah. And if he wants to whine and say, is an accident got away from me as well, then you can't be a pitcher anymore because you're endangering people's lives.
Yeah, but it's just something that people put up with in baseball and cry and whine about it. But then don't do anything about it. But in the NFL. Yeah, you're right. I think the Chargers is going to be one of several teams that are going to come in here with the idea of injure the key.
The team's key players and knock them out of the playoff race. Yep, I agree. That's I think that's the reality of this season is the team's players are going to be intentionally hurt.
Oh, yeah, yeah, they want to knock them off the throne. Well, this next one go and put a minus on both of ours.
The Seahawks beat the Broncos. Yeah, I really wish I could have seen that game without having to pay for stream that game look great.
It looked great, didn't it? I wish I could have too. But I'm not going to pay for streaming because it pisses me off. I love to see it and I can afford it. But it pisses me off that bad and rages me that bad that they're fucking ripping us off that bad.
Yeah, I'm like, No, I'm not going to be a part of it, even though I do want to see these games. Yeah.
And it was done fully knowing that this was a desirable game that the Chiefs would want to see. And so they picked that one to put behind the paywall.
Let's face it, 10 years ago, that would have been on on our TV. Absolutely. Because the Chiefs already played Thursday, or would have been the game opposite if they could have or whatever.
You know, because but now because it's a preferred game, something we have somewhat of an interest in. They throw it straight to pay per view.
Yeah. And even if you get on your Internet radio app and find this radio stations carrying the play by play, it'll be blacked out in your area.
When it was 101 the Fox carrying them, all you heard was music. Yep. It pissed me off to no end. I was out of town working.
And I was like, Oh, no problem. I was in Nashville. I remember well. And anyhow, I'm like, Oh, okay. So I go to Brian, I was working with Hang on, Hang on, Hang on.
I can get it on the radio. 101 the Fox has an app. Oh, great idea. Put it on and they kept playing music. What the fuck?
And it turns out that they just play other programming while the game's on.
It's the NFL hasn't figured out a way to monetize that yet because you can't count how many people are listening to that broadcast. They just shut it down.
So they say, Hey, you know, we want to charge you per per listener, but we can't figure out how to do that yet.
So you can't do it. I wonder if Odyssey, the owner of 96.5 Sports, the fan or whatever.
I wonder if they can work something out with them to where you can do it on the app, because a lot of people I know they're FM and they have in the AM is simulcast.
But you think about how many people would rather just go online and hear it for a lot of different reasons, whether it work or what, you know.
Oh, yeah. Unfortunately, I think this falls under league wide regulation. You know what? You're right.
There's nothing they can do about it. It's in place to protect shared revenues between all 30. Yeah, that's right.
So there's no way one team is going to make any changes because it's a shared revenue thing between all the teams.
And they will. Well, actually, I do have a pay for listen. OK, yeah, they do that on the NFL app. That's true.
You can listen or watch to any game. OK, yeah. So they're they're funneling you towards their established pay app to pay for listen, pay per view, et cetera.
It's just like when I bought Royals tickets and anyhow, you had to go through to get the tickets online.
You had to go through their app, the Major League Baseball play ball app. I think it's what it's called.
So they get their cut. I was so pissed. I mean, this is bullshit.
And now they send me stuff all the time that I don't want. Yeah.
But, you know, if a game is going to be streamed, they're only going to allow one source so they can control the price.
You're right. More than one source, then there's a price war and NFL loses. Yeah. So.
This next one, go ahead and give us another minus. Cowboys versus Browns.
Yeah, man, that was disappointing. It really was.
I'm not only for the Browns to lose, but for it to be not a very good game.
I went low scoring. Yeah. Late fumble.
Twenty three to twenty one. And you said twenty one twenty. Yeah.
The Browns got 17 points, so they were kind of close. But then the Cowboys just piled it on.
Yeah. And Deshaun Watson, I think he's gone. Yeah, I don't see anything there anymore.
Whatever was there before that little spark, it's gone.
I think it too much has went by, too much trouble has happened, and he's just out of it now.
I think among the the female audience, he's one of the most hated guys in football.
Well, I never thought about that. But you're right, man. He took advantage.
Yeah. Or supposedly or whatever.
I can see from a female perspective thinking this guy got away with all of that crap
and he's still making millions and help.
And on the broadcast, the announcers can't say anything bad about him. They got to talk about him.
Oh, he's great. This is wonderful. That is because they're required to never say anything bad.
Tom Brady kind of screwed that one up. Yes.
He was starting to say all sorts of negative things about the Browns.
They'll talk to him this week and next week he's going to not say anything bad about the teams.
I've got a lot to say about Tom Brady and so do you.
Because when you alerted me to it when I got home, I was like, I earmarked that game.
Yeah. It could not have went worse. Yeah. So anyhow.
And I watched a YouTube video a while back about with guys and Rick Goldman,
who was the worst play by play announcer in NFL history.
He did one game and screwed it up so badly that they shit candle.
Wow. It was Fox. And he was calling games for the Vikings.
And he called the game between the Vikings and the Lions and he got everything wrong.
Down in distance, the names of the players, names of the coaches, play after play.
He was calling the wrong game. He's like, oh, well, nothing there.
The guy gained three yards. Oh, well, he ran for about six, eight yards.
He got a first down. It was 12 yards. He was just wrong constantly.
He started talking about a Vikings player being so glad to work with the Lions head coach is just total screw up.
And what was his name? Mike Goldman. I'm going to look for his most worst quote.
Yeah. And then during the during the in between week, you know, Fox was like, yeah, you screwed up.
But we're going to let him do the next game anyway.
But during the during the week, he got called out by some fans on social media and he started cussing them out.
And then Fox said, yeah, you can't cut out our fans because you did screw up.
So this wasn't real long ago. I would say this was 90s or early 2000s or some judging by the graphics on the game.
OK. Wow. But yeah, it was some sort of Facebook or Twitter or something feed.
I called him out and he tweeted back, you know, fuck you, man. Yep.
And his defense was, well, I call a lot of MMA fights and that's kind of how you do it.
And I know she does know you don't do that. You don't respond to the Packers.
Yeah. And I mean, like, you know, birds pecking at you. Yeah. Yeah. You don't respond to them.
Yeah. So anyway, apart from the play by play, we'll get have fun getting back to Brady.
But, you know, the Cowboys just played like it was midseason form.
Browns were struggling. They surprised me. Yeah.
Browns couldn't string together successive good plays.
It was always just, you know, two steps forward, five steps back.
I didn't see much of Elliott, though. No.
I think that he's going to be an insurance policy now.
I would say so. And he's a fan favorite. It'll help see us sell season tickets.
I can't remember. Did they have Pollard?
I don't remember seeing Pollard's name. I think he left. So, OK.
Yeah. Jack was playing really well, especially concerning it's the press.
That is Jack's template, though. That's true.
An important game. He's going to shit the bed. Yeah. Yeah.
He's always best when it doesn't really matter all that much. Exactly.
So the jury's still out, I say. Yeah, they look great right now.
What about December? January?
You know, if he's choking the important games because he's overthinking and too worried,
then, man, take a couple of hits of weed before the game. Chill out.
Yes.
That'll silence those voices in your head. Be done.
Of course, not that I want the Cowboys to succeed. No. I agree.
So, yeah, Cowboys are looking a lot stronger than I thought they were going to be.
And Browns, yeah, like you said, I think Deshaun Watson is definitely not the answer.
No. I mean, actually, the thing that clued me into it last year is when Joe Flacco came in
and the team actually started ascending more than with Deshaun Jackson.
That was pretty telling. You know?
Watson. Deshaun Watson. I always call him Jackson. Anyhow.
Yeah. Man, it's not going to be a good season for the Browns fans.
Oh, thanks. No.
Yeah, sure, we're judging from one game, but at home, not good.
No, no, no. They're at home. They should have at least put up a fist fight, and they didn't.
Yeah, Cleveland's got a great home field advantage.
Yeah, they have the dog pound.
You've got to give them something. You can't.
Oh, those fans looked dejected. They looked like the leveler of life just broke up with them.
I'm sure the preseason propaganda in Cleveland was, this is it, man. This is our year. We're strong.
We're coming on. And they show up for the first game and see them just peeing down their leg.
You know, the last time they went to the playoffs, I do believe it was Bill Belichick that took them there.
Was it?
It's been a while.
Hmm. Damn. Let me see.
Huh.
You know what? No, no, no. Stay on track.
OK. Yeah. All right.
Done there.
Yep. Look, stuff that matters to us, pride does not matter to other people. We're nerds.
Next one. Bucks versus Rams. We both have the Bucks.
I've got Bucks and Commanders.
Oh, I mean Commanders. Sorry.
You know what I did?
Somehow I got some sentences mixed up on here.
I don't know. I probably hit the wrong function key.
Yeah. Bucks versus Washington. Sorry. And I do have it down here. Bucks versus Washington is just below it.
So.
Who did I pick?
You picked the Bucks and so did I.
Yeah. OK. That's right. Yeah.
The Rams.
Commanders quarterback didn't do all that well this game.
Oh, no. Wait a minute. You picked Washington 27-21.
OK. Well, another wrong for me.
And I picked the Bucks 28-17.
Yeah. I was kind of thinking the Bucks would have a down year.
Not so great.
I was pretty wrong about this one.
Another game I wasn't able to watch, but from what I was able to glean,
they were expecting a lot more out of the quarterback, the commanders, Jalen something.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
All I can think is Watson. It's not Watson.
We'll just call him Jalen Watson.
Yeah. But he didn't do well, not as well as expected.
And again, the Buccaneers to put up 37 points on man, they were they were doing everything right.
They're taking advantage of opportunities.
So I thought Mayfield had a decent chance of catching on fire.
Yeah. Todd Bowles. I love him as a head coach.
He is. Yeah.
I think that he might have figured out the right coach, offensive coordinator
and the right system to put him in to thrive.
Yeah.
And we'll see. I mean, you know, Washington may not be that good of a team. We don't know.
Yeah. I kind of picked him going eight and nine.
You can't pick 500 anymore because there's uneven.
That's what gets me. That's another reason they want to go 18. Yeah.
They want a nice. They want to be able to.
Well, yeah, because from a gambling standpoint, you could, you know, if the game,
if the team ends up like eight and eight or nine and nine, then it's a push.
And the bookie wins the bet if you pick them to win or lose.
That's right. So having that third option of a tie with the tide season,
the 500 season gives the bookies a bit more of an advantage. Yeah.
So I think that's going to make it through no problem with the gambling industry on board behind.
Yeah. Yeah. Let's face it, man. That's what half of it's about anymore.
Yeah. All during the game. Here were betting lines showing up at the bottom of the screen.
You know, this player, that offensive line, whatever the over under.
It's it's just a big part of football.
They were leaning towards it last year doing that.
Just doing it. It's like, hey, this is what everybody wants. So we're doing it.
Last year was to ease us in. And this year, it's like it's like it's all about you gamblers.
They're even squeezing out the fantasy football players. I know.
That was something I noticed. They used to have fantasy stats up there. They don't now.
I think the fantasy football guys are all switching over to live sports gambling.
I think you're right. Yeah. I think if they're going to put that much effort and time into,
they're going to put bets on it. They're not going to just compete against their
you know, coworkers or whatever. I think online sports gambling is it's fast.
It's immediate. It's like quick payoff. You don't have to wait till the end of the season.
It just makes more sense. All the Missouri guys just think this state line south state line south.
Get your bag of weed in Missouri. Go over state line south. Stone and pick your bets.
Because if you're stone, I firmly believe you'll pick better than if you're sober.
Yeah. So and the Kansas cops are OK with it because Kansas gets the revenue.
Yeah, they get a little deal out of it. They're like, look, man, you get a little this, we get a little that.
We're all happy. So the next one is Rams versus the Lions. Yeah.
You pick the Lions 32, 27. I pick the Lions 27, 24. Yeah, it was a six point game.
Lions look good. I thought I like the Lions head coach, Dan Campbell.
I think Dan Campbell is a hell of a coach. He looks like he could jump in and play.
Yeah, he kind of reminds me of. Oh, gosh.
The guy that used to be the Steelers head coach, the Cowher.
Yeah, he reminds me a little bit of Bill Cowher. Cowher used to play, too.
He's a big guy. Yeah. So, yeah, I think Dan is the right right head coach for that organization.
And the Rams are a good team. They lost Aaron Donald to retirement.
But Rams are still a really good, successful team and the Lions handled them.
Yeah. Aaron Donald. I mean, I don't blame him for retiring.
He was getting hurt all the time. He was just like, you know what? It's time to go. Yeah.
And I think he was getting a lot of attention from the officials every game. He was. He got the reputation of Mr. Dirty.
Yeah. Yeah. I don't know whether that was earned or not, but he got that reputation.
Well, I mean, Vaughn Miller is Reverend, but he was dirty. He was real dirty. Yeah.
And people love him. I mean, actually, you could look back and a lot of the very effective ones
of linebackers or defensive ends or whatever are a bit dirty because you have to be. Yeah.
I mean, you have to strong arm people, strong form, get away with holding and all this stuff.
So, yeah, so we're both right on that. And then the last one we're both right on, too.
And that's Sam Fran versus the Jets. You had thirty four ten.
You're much closer to me. I had thirty three twenty seven. Yeah.
I honestly thought that Aaron Rodgers going to put up a fistfight. I did, too.
In my season prediction, I was counting on Aaron Rodgers being pretty much most of the team,
but it wouldn't be enough. But he just looked like.
Now, he looked bad. I'll just put that he looked bad.
I don't think the team likes him. I don't think the organization likes him.
I think it. I agree with that. The team does not.
It looks like they not only not like him, they disdain him. Yeah.
After that injury right away last season, he did everything wrong.
He didn't stick around a route for the team.
He didn't stick around and help the replacement quarterbacks with the game planning and et cetera.
He is just like, screw you guys, I'm off doing my own thing for the rest of the season.
Yeah. And also, I think that another thing is, is his prolific stuff that he said and did.
I think that the media probably doesn't like him either. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. See a little what do they call it?
Little exhaustion from overexposure to Aaron Rodgers.
They're like, yeah, we're kind of tired of this guy.
We're tired of propping them up just on the hopes that they'll do something good.
Well, now that he went to New York and he's like really, you know, his first season was completely done.
Boom. You know, got injured third play. That's it.
And now he's 40 years old with a torn ACL, repaired ACL.
And no one even knows if he rehabbed it right because he's into alternative healing.
Yeah. You know, did he take a bunch of leucigenics and go, I'm better. Yeah.
Or did he do yoga and go on better? Yeah. He's he's shown that he'll lie.
He'll lie about anything. That's a great point. Yeah.
He's lied about so much. No one believes him. Yeah.
Man, going to New York and even having that injury season, he could have been the darling of New York.
He could have been like Mr. cheerleader for the team, degraciate himself, do everything right.
But yeah, you saw who Aaron Rodgers is. He's in it for Aaron Rodgers.
Period. Well, you know what? I started looking at some some old someone put this online.
Some of his old press conferences and stuff. Oh, OK.
There's a lot of I, I mean me and not the team. And they pointed this out.
That's why they did this. You can probably find it.
But Aaron Rodgers has always been pompous and about himself.
It's just you didn't notice it before. Now you do. So yeah, he kind of got what he deserved.
I think he's going to get many ass kickers because their schedule is not that great this year for them.
Yeah. So yeah, I think.
Aaron Rodgers, I believe, was the one who was quoted as saying
he's more interested in winning player of the year than playoffs.
I go back to Kelsey in my homes, sitting out that game where they could did
they could have hit probably some bonuses, a thousand yard bonus for a lot of attention.
Yeah. Yeah. Kelsey had his tenth straight. But no, they both sat out.
It's better for the team. Yeah. For the team.
Aaron Rodgers would not do that. He'd go, no, I'm playing, man. I'm getting my bonus.
And that's the difference between a to me, a winner and a loser.
Yeah. Aaron Rodgers strikes me as the guy who
I have no evidence this, but he strikes me as the type of guy
who would place heavy bets on himself and his performance
and then go out and try to meet those. So he'd win his bets.
And who cares? Who wins the game? I agree. A hundred percent.
He strikes me as that kind of guy. He is that kind of guy. I'm pretty sure.
So before we go into the next, you know, predicting the games and everything,
a little thing I want to say about the Ravens, the Ravens and how they acted after the game.
It was surprising because they're a well coached team. Yeah.
So, you know, the Ravens, they seem a little pissy after their loss to the Chiefs on opening night.
Yeah. The press conference after was a good indication of this.
Lamar Jackson was asked about the receiver Isaiah likely being over the line.
And he said he didn't believe he was out of bounds. Chris Collinsworth caught it.
Yeah, it was on the screen. It was everywhere.
He can't take everyone's word for it that, oh, yeah, it really was.
Chris Collinsworth said, oh, oh, oh, oh, if he notices it, comment.
I'm not dogging Chris Collinsworth. Some people might think I'm not.
I actually like him. I think he's one of the best ones out there.
If he noticed it while describing the game, then it was blatant enough. Yeah.
And so they had to do a replay. So him saying that to me sounds like a spoiled brat. Yeah.
It's like denying the reality. It doesn't. It's not a good look. Yeah.
I'm wondering how well they're going to do now because of the complexity of how they're of the team.
Yeah. If they can make their peace with this and let it go and realize, OK, he was out and it's done.
But if they hang on to this, no, man, we got robbed, we're screwed.
I'm sure the fan base will do that. But if the team does that, that's a recipe for disaster.
That's bad. That's why I wanted to bring this up with you. You feel like I do.
Isaiah likely said at the press conference, the receiver and the one that was out of bounds.
If that's all they got, then I feel sorry for them playoff time. Sour grapes, man. Yeah.
Yeah. Sour grapes. I mean, Mr. Likely, the team who you lost to the last game of the year in 2023
and the team you lost to in the first game of 2024 are the same team.
And this is a team that said that you said that about you really want to give them material.
Do you really want to poke the bear? Man, if we meet the Ravens in the playoffs, that's going to be all over.
Everywhere. Yeah. Hey, they thought this was all we had going for us. Let's go out and slaughter them.
Yeah. And I've got a final statement on this. I would say your team in the playoffs and winning is not likely.
Yeah, that's good. Yeah. So yeah, I was surprised, especially Lamar Jackson.
He's usually better than that because before they asked him about revenge game and he said, quite frankly,
it's like every game is a revenge game. I remember him saying that. Yeah. He was so good and getting out of that question
and being, you know, not pointing fingers, not saying, oh, we hate them or nothing.
He didn't give anything for the Chiefs to work on. And I thought, oh, OK, guy's smart. Yeah.
And then he does that after the game. I know you have emotions, but you still have to have enough to be able to go,
you know what? I'm not doing that. I'm just going to go out there and compliment him, congratulate him on the win.
And you're good. Yeah. Yeah. And it's a matter of except he needs to accept it himself that this is what happened.
And this is why it happened. And being angry and bitter about it and saying the wrong things is a bad idea.
Yeah. OK, I've got the 30 worth. I'll see what you want to go to.
I think it's more like 23 worst statements ever by commentators.
And then we can talk about how Brady did. Yeah, Brady Tyree kill incident.
Yeah. Chiefs plan versus a Bengals Aaron Rodgers performance.
And then after that, we can go into our predictions. All right. OK.
These are like the 23 or something like that. Worst people did.
They did a poll and they put these statements out there. And this is the people that said are the most that dumbest, most egregious ones.
I love it. I can't wait. The first one is by Brady Quinn. Oh, remember Brady Quinn. Yeah.
When he achieved for a while. I think so. Oh, no. Is that Tim Couch?
Tim Couch, I don't think was ever he might have come in during a training camp or something.
OK, then is Brady Quinn. I think he played like one season and sucked real bad. Yeah. Touchdowns are better than field goals.
And water is wet. Breaking news.
That would have been sound is going down.
I'm putting on closed caption and turning the sound off.
Well, that reminds me of his when Nirvana, the band was first popular.
Dave Grohl was interviewed was interviewed about his drumming and he said, Yeah, it's cool, man.
I learned that if I hit a drum hard, it's loud. But if I hit to at the same time, it's even louder.
And I thought, well, this guy's an idiot. Turns out he wasn't.
But he just had a brain fart moment and said to someone he was trying to come up with that answer.
And he didn't, you know, either that he or he was just toying with the interviewer and trying to trying to wreck his interview by saying stupid things.
But yeah, wow, that's pretty bad. It is.
The Patriots motto is one word, situational football.
Steve Tasker, I can believe that from Steve Tasker. I think I heard that.
I think I remember hearing that and the whole booth went silent.
Can you count the one man? It's like, should I bring it?
No, no, no, no. Let it go.
There's probably something in their contract. You will not embarrass your coworker on air because he will embarrass himself.
Next was by Joe Theismann.
This is a home game. This is where you finally get to play at home.
Joe Theismann.
How about quarterbacks are supposed to be smart?
I never accused him of being smart.
I mean, he was a fun guy. He was a fun guy.
He was. I liked it.
You know, any time he spoke on TV, he was fun to watch and listen.
Actually, he was a smart guy, but I mean, he said dumb things. He said dumb things.
Yeah, he'd get excited and he'd just start blurting.
Yeah, he would try to come up with that one zinger. Yeah.
And it would always blow up in his face.
He's usually coming up with about 30 minutes too late. He's like, oh, man, I should have said.
Yes. Yeah. It's like, damn it. How can I get the subject back to that so I could throw the zinger in?
And then, you know, he looks dumber trying to bring it back.
One thing you got to give Joe Theismann is like he's in like the top five of horrific on field injuries.
I was getting ready to say that. Yes. Yep. Yep. Yep.
That was the Alex Smith injury that he had in the same field, almost the same location.
I'm telling you, the commanders are cursed. I think so.
And I think it's because their name used to be the Redskins.
But they did that with the permission of Chief Whitecaff.
Yeah. Whitecaff said that's fine. Yeah.
It's just the overreacting liberal white folks who had a problem with the name.
You're not kidding. Yeah. Yeah.
I agree with that 100 percent. The ones that try to act like they're not a certain way, but really are secretly.
Yep. Yeah. Yeah.
In fact, the advocacy group for the Native Americans, I'm sure there's more than one,
but the one that's been fighting this has actually filed a suit in federal court to try to get them to change their name back.
And the team and their new owner said not happening.
They said they said we might not stay the commanders, but we're never going back to that name.
Oh, yeah. And the cool thing is the Chiefs can never get that. Exactly.
Because they're not named after Native Americans. They're named after H. Roe Bartle.
Yeah. He was the mayor of KC who got the Chiefs there. Yeah. Bartle was a really good mayor.
And they have Barney Alice Plaza. They have all these things. Roe Boulevard. Yeah. Yep.
Bartle Hall. Bartle Hall. Yeah. Yeah. He was the mayor and he really started getting Kansas City on the map with some of his policies and some of the dealings that he did.
His nickname was the Chief. The Chief. Yep.
And as far as the Arrowhead goes, look everywhere in the creek beds around the KC area. You'll find Arrowheads.
Exactly. And that was one of the reasons they went with it. Yeah. It's just a very common archaeological find around here. Yeah.
And everybody, not just Native Americans, used Arrowheads. Yes. Everybody. Yep.
So nothing ties this directly to Native Americans. Some of the early logos, yeah, those are pretty unfortunate.
But just the KC and the Arrowhead, there's absolutely no way a court would find that offensive. I agree.
It's just a dead issue. Yep. But politicians will try to make some pay around that. They divide. Divide and conquer.
I mean, you know, that's how they get in. They divide everybody and hope that they have a couple more votes than the other guy.
Man, it just, I don't get it why people keep voting for politicians because they're the worst people to have in office.
Well, notice my shirt today? Yes. Ozzy for president. I love that.
Yeah. I mean, I always love this shirt, but I think I'm making the statement. Yeah.
Next one. Meaningless yards are not meaningful. John Gruden. Oh, God. Wow.
Oh, yeah. I'm trying to agree. Yeah. Sometimes stating the obvious can be kind of a fun thing to do, but.
It's got to be in the right context. I don't believe this was. Yeah. By the way, it's written.
It's like one of the things Brady kept saying over and over.
Well, you just got to tell the Cleveland Browns, man, you can't go forward by going backwards.
And saying it once was OK, but he said it several times.
And also, if I was the Cleveland Browns, I would call up CBS and go, hey, you need to listen to your boy.
Yeah. Tell him to shut up. The Cleveland Browns are one thirty second of the earning power of the NFL.
Yes. And he was there shit calling them. Yeah. That's not cool.
I've never heard anyone do that of a commentator. Not anymore. I mean, not since the heyday.
Will Howard Cosell used to blatantly be against Kansas City. Oh, my God. He used to just like. Joe Buck.
Oh, yeah. He hates Kansas City. He's up. He's up. Baumgartner's asked the whole 2014 series.
Hanging his prostate. Yes. But no, Joe Buck grew up in St. Louis and he has a thing.
You know, if St. Louis doesn't do good and we do good, it pisses him off. Yeah.
So anyhow, Joe Bucks, I turned the sound down on him and Troy Aikman is the only guy that make Joe Buck look OK.
Yeah. Yeah. You know, Troy Aikman doesn't say the stupid run on stuff that Romo does,
but half the stuff Aikman says is just meaningless. Yeah. Generic. I don't care. Yeah.
Yeah. He's either stating the obvious or going off on some obscure tangent about,
well, this read on that safety under these circumstances, it's like we're three plays later, dude. Let it go.
Yeah. Yeah. Monk Troy Aikman. The sky is blue. Oh, thank you, Troy.
Or no, he go, the sky is actually not blue. It's a reflection.
It's a reflection of my blue eyes, which are so awesome. Yes.
And I'm not gay. If you know, you know. Yep. Google it.
Or as a younger generation, they don't call it Google anymore. They call it search because they use all other different.
Well, that's true. Yeah. Google as a search engine kind of sucks anymore.
I know it's not good. Being is much better. I thought I this morning I did a Google search of most common current allergies in Kansas City.
So I want to know what is common right now. And all of the Google search results are here are the most common allergies.
Here are the most common food. It's not what you asked. No, I asked for the what's happening in the air in Casey right now.
And Google. Well, Google will tailor the search results to something that they can advertise.
And then the next day you're going to see advertisements tailored to that.
Yeah. Tomorrow I'll see, you know, things for air filters to remove the allergens from my home. It's going to be all over everywhere.
They're not tailored to help you. No. They're tailored to sell. Yeah.
Yeah. Google's because look, I didn't give Google any money to do that search for me. So they're getting the money to do it from the companies who say, hey, whatever they search for, steer them towards our product.
Just like the GPS, like we talked about before. Yeah. It's going to go to the one that paid them to it could be 10 miles out of the way that higher.
That's already I don't know if you can patent that or trademark or whatever. That's already several several people inside the industry have said that's already under development is to get the payout from the restaurants or stores or whatever.
And then change your GPS directions to drive you past it. And then maybe while you're driving past your Google person will start telling you about all the sales going on.
Yeah, I can see that today is a ham and eggs for 399. And then on a cinnamon roll. And if you don't like that, want to get rid of it. Well, just pay the 1599 a month forever for the premium service.
Yes. It's another one of those things that they're going to make the regular service so unpleasant that you either got to completely drop it or pay the never ending monthly fee. Yes.
That's the way it's that's where everything goes. It is. I mean, okay, next and then here in a minute to keep this going. I'm going to go.
But I'll tell you something about tuning about how they interrupt the program now with commercials and you miss that part of the program doesn't stop it.
And then right there, as soon as you click on it, it says, hey, you can have our premium feed with no advertisements. So I found a way around it. I listen to everything but tuning now. Fuck them.
Yeah. The Dallas Cowboys have two kinds of plays in their offense, running plays and passing plays. John Madden.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The Dallas Cowboys. I have a I can hear Madden saying that I could do.
I have two contemplates what they're the only other kind of plays would be kicking plays and those are special teams. So offense is just running a passing. That's two. Yeah. Two things you can do.
No matter what you do, you qualify to the runner or pass. Even if you do the Statue of Liberty, I think it's what it's called. It's still a running play. Yeah.
Everything counts as a runner or a pass unless it's special teams. I think the Statue of Liberty has only been done once in the NFL, but several times in college. Yeah. And then that where you hide the football.
The one I'm familiar with is where the quarterback will go back and raise the football over his head like he's looking to pass and someone runs around behind him and pulls it out of his hand. Yeah, that was it.
So it's like the Statue of Liberty holding the torch only he's holding the football up and then instead of throwing it, somebody just sneaks up behind him, takes the hand off and runs. It's the the Leroux pitch of the NFL. Yeah. Yeah.
If you know, you know, being it whatever Leroux. The Statue of Liberty play doesn't I X Leroux. Yeah, that's it.
That's it. That's it. Okay. Yeah. And any kind of long, slow developing play like that just doesn't work in the NFL anymore. No, no. It barely works in college. Oh, no, they're on to it, man.
They see that everybody was everybody's too fast. Yeah. Everybody's reflect reflexes and they've been trained to look and react. Yeah, it's just doesn't work. Yeah. So yeah, it doesn't work anymore.
This next one. I love this one is by Ronde Barber and a high ankle spring is generally higher up than on the ankle.
Oh, Ronde.
I like Ronde. He's very first school guy. There was one point when Ronde and Tiki Barber were both in the booth doing color commissary. I loved them. It was wonderful. It was so awesome. You know, brothers is great. Twin brothers is even better.
Twin twin brothers that both had really great careers in the NFL and then broadcasters. And they're both outspoken and outgoing. Yeah, it was wonderful. Yeah, I really enjoyed those two. Oh, Ronde. Yeah. High ankle sprain is higher up.
If only there were a clue to that. That makes sense now. That's why they called it a high ankle sprain, Topher. Oh, my God. They had me fooled. And you know, I've said things equally as dumb, but I wasn't on TV when I said that's the problem.
They're on TV. Us, we say dumb. Like, how about me? I got two of the opponents wrong. Yeah, because I wrote them. I typed them down wrong. Yeah, but we're doing it on purpose here to be entertaining. Yeah, this is true.
All right. This next one is by our good friend Joe Buck.
You have to do well on third downs.
That's one of those ones. That's another water is wet kind of thing.
That's one of those memes on Facebook that says, let that sink in.
I mean, you could say like, during the course of the game, if you don't do well on third down, you have a less likelihood of winning. But to say, well, it's third down, you got to do well on this down. Duh.
And these are people that are paid millions of dollars to speak on television. Yeah, Joe Buck has a very handsome contract with ESPN, Disney or whatever. Yeah.
And it's not like I begrudge them the money they get. You know, they are they're earning. They get paid whatever they can get. But good God, be a little better at your job.
You're worth every penny that you can get. Yeah, that's all there is to it. Yeah. If you can trick someone into paying you that money or be legitimate, I don't care. You're worth it. Yeah.
Then live up to it. Yeah, live up to it. Then finally, Adam Archuleta. Yeah. They have a lot of signs around their compound. W.I.N., which obviously stands for win.
And that's a good one. Oh, no, no, hang on. There's a couple more. Actually, there's a whole bunch more. I'm sorry.
I remember when Adam Archuleta was playing, the league was starting to make a big deal about the fact that he was one of the few white guys playing defensive back. That's true.
And for about three or four games during one season, they talked about it. And then all of a sudden they shut up.
And I think somebody told him, quit calling attention to the racial disparity. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Especially when it's in favor of white people. Yes. Yeah. Who was the player?
There was some player who just recently was complaining about a certain football team and he said there aren't enough black people on the team.
Who was that? I can't remember who said that, but it was an African-American. Yeah.
See, something like that is a lot easier to say in public and get away with than if the switch situation was reversed.
Well, it's like the guy that said that white men should have no say in football at all. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
When I got the thing about all the white players in football currently and how good they are. That's right.
I think it was a former quarterback and he was saying that white people should not even be allowed to own teams. Yeah. That guy obviously a nut.
Yeah. He was looking at the clear majority of black players in the NFL and he wanted to turn that into an all-black lead top to bottom.
Everyone else is excluded. I'd like to remind him that is not equality. No, that's exclusivity.
That's what everyone is fighting against, right? Yeah. Or supposedly.
That's a big trap of people who are complaining about this treatment of the past is if you want to make sure it never happens again, great.
But if you just want your turn being the bully, then you're an asshole. Exactly.
I have three more pages of this. Let's go ahead and save some for the next one. Can we take a pause here?
Sweetly.
I'm going this way.
Hey, you see my papers running off? Please go. OK.
I wonder what these two dullards look like. Yeah, me neither.
Did you really sit there and listen to all that garbage that was being, do you actually believe one inch of it? I didn't think so.
Hang on. Game over.