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Alright, well this is the other program. This is one where we make our disastrous picks, or at least me, disastrous picks for week 10 or 11.
Week 11 now.
Week 11.
Alright, and the teams on the bye week. New York Giants, Arizona Cardinals, Carolina Panthers, and Tampa Bay Bucaneers.
Okay.
The Tampa Bay Bouteneers.
Bouteneers.
Alright.
And we already talked about Dak Prescott being out for the rest of the season.
No one notices.
No. Won't make much of a difference.
No.
Alright, first game. We have Washington 7-3 at Philly 7-2.
Okay. Well, boy, is Washington going to lose another like that and kind of be out of it?
Philly's playing very well, so I'm going to have to go with Philly, even though I don't want to.
They're the home.
Yeah, yeah. I'm going to say Philly's going to win it 32-24.
Yeah, I think I'm going to go with Philly as well. Home game, important division game.
Yeah. They're seasoned. Washington's getting there, but not quite there.
You know, 26-13.
I think that's a good score.
Alright.
We're going to check them up 2-6 Las Vegas at 3-6 Miami.
Miami?
I would think so.
I'm going to say 24-7.
You know, I could definitely see the Raiders not getting more than seven points.
No, and Miami's defense is playing pretty well right now.
Yeah. I'm going to go 27-10 Miami.
Yeah, they probably will squeeze out 10, but.
Yeah. Okay. I'm comfortable with that.
Me too.
Our next game is 2-6 Cleveland at 3-7 New Orleans.
The teams that time forgot.
Yes.
At least we're forgetting them out in this season.
Who's playing for Cleveland? Who's the quarterback? Is it?
I think it's still going to be Seamus Winston. Yeah.
Okay, I'm going to go New Orleans.
Yeah.
24-10.
I can see that.
That's pretty close to what I was going to pick, so I'm going to pick something different now, but I'm going to go 23-17.
Okay.
New Orleans.
Alright, up is 4-6 Indy at 3-7 Jets.
Boy, we've got some real stinkers on this one.
I'm even at home with the Jets.
Can you see yourself picking the Jets?
No, but they can muster out a win here and there, so I'm going to go with the Jets.
I'm going to say it's not going to be a very great game, obviously. I'm going to say 20-17.
Alright, I think I'm going to pick the Colts.
I can't blame you.
Man, I kind of like to make it a big score, but I don't think Jets are going to give up that many points.
No, I also don't see them scoring that many points either.
So I'll go Indy 23 Jets 13.
Okay.
They can finally get a touchdown this week.
Alright, we'll let them have that.
7-2 Minnesota at 2-7 Tennessee.
Minnesota's not playing that well, but Tennessee sucks.
They're at Tennessee, so it's going to be closer. I'm going to say 17-10 Minnesota.
Okay. This could be, depending on who's next for Minnesota, this could be a trap game,
but I don't want to look up and see who Minnesota's next game is.
I'll do that, but go ahead while you're doing your pick.
Even if it is a trap game, I really can't see myself picking Tennessee.
They just don't have it in them.
No, no. They'll score 10 points like you, but I think Minnesota, I see them scoring 24.
24-10 Minnesota.
Okay.
Alright. 6-2 Green Bay.
They'll take on the Bears, so it could be a trap game because it's to, yeah.
Okay. Anyhow, I'm sticking with it anyhow.
Yeah. Alright, 6-2 Green Bay at 4-5 Chicago.
Another one that's like this, I mean Chicago plays them very well traditionally. They hate each other.
Yeah, and it's in Chicago, which will help Caleb.
I'm going to pick Chicago. I think they're finally going to sack up, and they're going to do it 17-15.
Ooh, nice.
Yeah, nice weird score. I'm picking a lot of 17s this time.
Jordan Love really isn't playing all that well.
No, no he isn't.
And the rest of the team is showing flashes, but no consistency.
Yeah, nothing to put your hat on at all.
Yeah. So, let's see, I'm going to go 21-10 Bears.
Sounds reasonable.
Alright. Jacksonville, 2-8 at Detroit, 8-1.
Okay, Detroit, of course. I'm going to go 34-17.
Ooh, I'm very close. I'm 35-16.
Nice.
So, we're off by a point.
This means that, what's your names, they're going to win.
Jacksonville probably win big.
Yeah, 35-10.
Screw us out of this.
Yeah, oh yeah.
Thank God we don't bet on this, you know.
Oh, I'm not betting on it.
Okay, 4-5 Los Angeles Rams at 3-7 New England.
I don't think there's any weather to be concerned about yet this early.
By the end of the month there will.
I could see the Patriots pulling this off easily, but I'm going to go with the Rams.
I'm going to go with the Rams, and once again I'm going to go 17-10.
A lot of 17s and 10s on this one.
Yeah, I can see some low scoring games this week.
Yeah, the players are getting tired and sore, and it's a long season.
And also there's a lot of clunkers.
I mean, there's a lot of games where there's just not that good of teams playing each other.
Yeah, and even if the team isn't overlooking or looking past an opponent,
there's some teams they just don't game plan as much for because they don't think they need to.
Yeah, I think there's going to be some of that going on too.
I'm going to pick the Rams as well. I'm going to say 20-10.
Sounds better, probably. So, okay.
Okay, 7-3 Baltimore at 7-2 Pittsburgh.
I think they're going to have to have four ambulances on standby for this game.
There's going to be a lot of physicality in this game.
Is this a 3 o'clock game, a 12 o'clock game?
Yeah, it might be the last of the noon games.
That disappoints me that it's a noon game though.
I mean, that's a game that should have been taken Sunday night.
Yeah. Okay, 24-20.
I'm going to go with the Ravens. I don't know why.
They've been consistently shitting the bed every time I go with them.
But you know they've got to be up for Pittsburgh.
They have to be. Yeah. Yeah.
You would hope. I think I'm going to take Pittsburgh.
I think it's going to be 23-17.
That will be funny too.
Yeah, that makes it a six-point game, which means a touchdown would have won it.
Touchdown, yeah.
Oh, cool. All right, 4-4 Seattle at 5-4 San Francisco.
San Francisco, even with McCaffrey being limited, is still much better than Seattle,
which doesn't necessarily mean anything.
But I'm going to go 24-14 San Fran.
I think I'm going to pick Seattle this week.
They could pull it off.
That would be beautiful if they did, wouldn't it?
Yeah, just because it's so unlikely.
I think I'm going to give it a shot.
I mean, look, it's one of those picks that if you win you look like a genius.
Yeah, yeah.
And if not, you still look good because you went out on a limb.
You're like, eh, I tried.
Yeah, if I don't win they'll probably forget anyway.
Yeah, yeah, they won't care.
So I'm going to pick Seattle 23. No, I'm going to 21 to 14.
Okay.
Boring score. Three touchdowns to two.
Okay.
Six and four Atlanta at 5-5 Denver.
Denver coming off a soul-crushing loss to the Chiefs.
I'm going to pick Denver.
That probably is the smart play.
22 to 10.
Ooh.
I'm going to go Denver as well.
We're not going to be able to see this because it's on the same time as the Chiefs game.
Oh, okay. But you know what?
Unless it's on a different network.
After that soul-crushing loss I've seen Denver as much as I want to see them for a little bit.
Yeah, that's true.
So it's okay with me.
Let's see. I'm going to go 26 to 17 Denver.
Nine and 0 KC at 8-2 Buffalo.
Oddly enough a 3-25 game even though it's on the East Coast.
So CBS flexed their muscle and said, no, we want this game in the prime spot.
I've got to look that up. I bet you someone else besides the star reported on that.
CBS asked for one of their, I guess, special games.
You have like three special things that you can do.
You've got three games that you can have some special requests on.
They're the premier games.
And this is one of them.
And they wanted it to be coast to coast.
If you're not contractually obligated, you have to play that game.
And then I forgot there's other two things, but it was on Kansas City Star's website.
And I hate that newspaper, so I refused to order from them.
But they let you read part of it and then they click it away and I forgot what it was.
So I'll have to look at the rest.
Okay, I'm going to go with the Bills are going to edge them out
because the Chiefs are going to have to lose somewhere.
Yeah.
And the Bills are playing very well.
They are.
But it's not going to be easy.
But the Chiefs will recover after this and they'll do fine.
I'm going to say the Chiefs are going to lose this 23 to 21.
Yeah, I think I want to take Buffalo this week too.
Which is probably not smart.
No, it probably isn't.
But I'm looking at if the Buffalo does win, it kind of wakes the Chiefs up a little bit
so we're not hanging on by the skin of our teeth anymore.
Yeah, we have not lost since the loss to Vegas on Christmas Day last year.
So that was a wake up.
So this could be like a, hey, you know what, we're good enough to beat all those other teams,
but this is the team we're going to see in the playoffs.
So we've got to get better.
So that could be the classic smack on the head going, wake up.
Even though they're undefeated.
Yeah, I'm going to go Buffalo 27-20.
Okay.
I hope I'm wrong.
I hope I'm wrong too.
We shall see.
All right, Sunday night.
This should be the Sunday night game, Cincinnati 4-6 at the Chargers 6-3.
Boy.
Not such a great Sunday night game, is it?
No, no, no, no, no.
I'm going to, is it in LA?
Not that it matters.
It doesn't matter though.
No, not really.
No, they don't have home field advantage there.
Like the playoff game.
Playoffs, playoffs.
Not the playoff game, but the game that was there last week.
Yeah.
Was it, who was it?
Who was playing then?
I forgot.
Last week, the Chargers played Tennessee.
Okay.
No, the Rams.
The Rams came.
Yeah.
Same stadium.
Yeah, yeah.
Same stadium.
Yeah, the Rams.
They lost to Miami.
Okay.
There's a lot of Miami fans there.
Yeah.
It sounded like Miami's home team.
Yeah.
But they don't have an advantage.
I'm going to give it to Cincinnati out of just, they've got to knuckle it up somewhere and
try to salvage some one of the season and I think it starts here.
So, I'm going to say 32 to 28, and this is going to be the first game that the Chargers
lose when they scored 28 points.
Ah, I like that.
Yep.
Going out on a little limb there.
It would definitely help the Chiefs with the Chargers to lose.
Yeah.
I'm going to pick the Chargers and 30 to 17.
Oh, and the one thing I wanted to say about Miami is Miami doesn't travel well at all
and they still outnumber the Rams fans.
Yeah.
So, that tells you something.
Really?
Hmm.
All right, the Monday night game, the battle for Texas, 6 and 4 Houston at 3 and 6 Dallas.
Now, I remember back when the Houston Texans were an expansion team, their very first preseason
game was against Dallas.
Oh, yeah.
In Houston.
The former Texans.
Yeah.
And they beat Dallas in that preseason game.
I think they're going to beat Dallas again.
I think so, too.
And I think it's going to be a closer game than we think, though, just because it is
their rivals from the south.
Yeah.
I'm going to say it's going to be 27-24.
CJ and Company.
The Houston Strouds.
I like it.
Yeah.
Against the Dallas Jerry Jones.
Jerry Jones.
I think the Jerry Joneses are going to lose.
Yeah.
I'm going to make it a bad loss.
Oh, I love it.
I love it.
Please do.
30-13.
Oh, I hope you're right.
Yeah.
Okay.
Trey Lance is going to come in and look like.
Shit, it wet himself.
He's going to look exactly like a quarterback who hasn't played all season.
He's going to look like he did right out of college.
Yeah.
The guy who couldn't beat Dak Prescott out for a job.
In fact, he couldn't beat out the number two guy.
He started the season number three.
He did.
He started number three.
You know that Price is Right losing sound?
That's it right there.
Trey Lance is going to come out and all of a sudden you're going to hear over the intercom,
ba-bum-ba-bum.
And now starting quarterback Trey, ba-bum-ba-bum, Lance.
Or when he comes out, the announcement of this PA will say, thank you all for coming.
Just drive safe on your way home.
Right now we're going to show you old YouTube videos of Motley Crue.
Because Trey Lance is starting, we're going to extend beer sales past the end of the game.
Yeah, you all can huddle around and share misery.
Drink till you black out.
And then throw rocks at Jerry Jones.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, ba-bum-ba-bum.
And then the, wah-wah-wah-wah.
And the whole audience goes, aww.
Or the Jokers Wild, they had a crazy one that was like, wah-wah-wah.
I remember that.
That was just weird.
It was just nuts.
The Jokers Wild was a weird game.
Yeah, it was.
That host was a weird guy.
Because I remember he used to get mad whenever someone cracked a joke and he stopped and go,
this is my show.
I do the puns on this show.
He seemed serious.
Yeah, I think he was.
I think he was serious.
I forgot his name.
He did a couple other game shows too.
And to me, he just looked like a prick.
Whenever someone would get the devil, he'd be like, smiling, haha, you lost, bitch.
Yeah, there was a lot of cocaine going around those days.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
He was injecting it in his pee hole, I heard.
All right.
You want to go into some bullet points?
Yes, indeed.
And we might interrupt this.
This will be a part one, full disclosure.
And then I'm just going to do them in two parts.
And then the rest of it that we do on the next one, it'll just be part two.
Okay.
So I can have this one out and we can do the other one and I'll have it out after.
All righty.
Okay.
So is November 5th deadline about right, too short, or do we need more transaction time
per season?
I think it's about right.
I do too.
I love it.
You don't really influence the second half of the season as badly and you don't have
teams having a fire sale at the last second because doing a favor for their friend or
on that team and send them all your best players.
Yeah.
Baseball has done that in the past, whereas a team will say, well, let's send all our
best players to the Yankees and then next season they'll send us some players.
See, I like it being November 5th because of this right here and not it just being election
day this year, which was quite odd.
Yeah.
Because you heard no transactions that night.
All you heard was red and blue.
Yeah.
Then you found out the next day what they did.
Okay.
Always, November 5th seems to be such a deadline that right after that, the following week,
a bunch of shit happens to a team and they didn't do anything.
Yeah.
I don't know what it is.
It's just magical.
It's like they didn't do anything to get a cornerback and two cornerbacks go back and
go down in the next game.
Yeah.
That's a good point.
It's kind of a good spot right in between the first half of the season, the second half.
Yeah.
It's right there at the point where it can make a really big difference.
Yeah.
You know, like ones like Chiefs come out looking golden and then ones like Cincinnati have
a pie in their face.
Yeah.
I think it's great.
Yeah.
All right.
The next one, and we've talked about this a few times, but I think that this needs to
be brought up again because they're going to come out again a week after the NFL is
the UFL.
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
The UFL is already entwined with NFL and the NFL is promoting it, so why can't we make
that a minor league?
So all these people in college that could be, might be, instead of just having to walk
on.
Yeah.
I would like to see a minor league football system where you didn't have to go to college.
You could just go right to the minor league system.
There's a lot of talent out there.
There's some inner city kid that has no chance of going to college.
This is his only chance.
Or like have trade schools have football teams.
That would be great.
The aircraft mechanics have a football team.
Yeah.
You got an aircrafty burr that can run a fucking what?
A two-hundred?
Yeah.
I mean, you go learn, you go to a sheet metal school and they have a football team that
you can go play Notre Dame or Tennessee Volunteers.
They can call themselves the Flyers.
Yeah, right.
Probably not.
What's the one that kept fucking crashing?
That was the first podcast we ever did.
Oh, the 737 MAX.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They're not going to call themselves the 737 MAX.
Yeah.
All right.
Yeah, we both agree on that.
Absolutely.
Okay.
Do you believe there's a large number of walk-ons that will never get an opportunity?
And we kind of touched on that.
Yeah.
I think there is.
I think there's a lot of inner city kids that would love to play the sport but simply don't
have the chance.
Yeah.
I think that's a reflection of the teams knowing they have very few spots even available for
walk-ons but they bring in as many as possible because it's good PR.
It's great PR.
Yeah.
And also another thing is not just inner city but the cowpoke out there.
Yeah.
You know, out there, Buck and Hay.
Yeah.
There's plenty of them out there and they don't have the chance either because they're
on a farm.
Farmers don't make any money.
Yeah.
They don't have a chance of going to college.
It would be great.
Yeah.
So.
Oh, another point about minor league system for football.
Right now they're using the college football system as their minor league and it's free.
Oh, wow.
So the NFL is not going to be all that inclined to set up a minor league system that they
have to subsidize.
True.
Unless it, unless it like does better for them than college.
I don't see how it could be better than college is right now.
Yeah.
I mean, everything we said and plus a lot more reasons that we're not even going to
get into.
Okay.
And currently now that college players can be paid.
Imagine there's a time when a college player, you know, plays their whole college career
and when they're done, they're like, I made enough money playing college ball.
What the hell do I want to go to pros for?
True.
Yeah.
It could happen.
It could happen easily.
Yeah.
Ohio State, you know, they probably could have a pretty big budget for football players.
They could probably pay their quarterback a couple of mill a year if he's winning championships.
And then he gets out of school and he's like, I got a ton of business connections and I
got millions in the bank.
Why am I going to go beat up my body on Sundays?
I'm just going to go into business right now.
Yeah.
I'm just going to go ahead and do it.
Yeah.
That's going to drain away the NFL source of free rookies.
I love that.
I think it's great.
Yeah.
It's about time they had to pay for it.
Yeah, it would be.
All right.
So, what age would the average age of a staunch, I mean staunch, like what we do, like we're
like messy, you know, they're all day.
Oh my God.
Did you see that hit?
Oh shit.
Well, there goes Washington chant.
You know.
Yeah.
That type of a fan, what is the average age of that person?
I'm going to guess about 35.
I'm going to say slightly older, about 40.
Yeah.
That's probably a little closer.
Because at that point you've got a decent income usually.
You know what your expenses are.
You're at the point where you can spend money on a passion or a hobby.
And maybe the sports teams in your hometown are what you spend it on.
You get all the season tickets.
You go to all the home games.
Yeah.
You talk about it with all your friends.
You do the fantasy leagues, et cetera, et cetera.
Okay.
If you're much younger, you're too busy.
Usually you've got other things going on.
If you're much older, then you just really can't afford it.
Yeah, that's true.
All right.
You know what?
I think 35 to 40.
That sounds about right.
Yeah.
All right.
I am priced out of football games.
Me too.
I mean, there's other things I need to do.
Yeah.
You know, fix a foundation, what have you.
You know, I've put so much money into the house the last few years.
There's no way I could go to a football game.
You know, and I could go to the bank and get two or 300 out and go drop it on a football
game.
I could too.
I could.
I could get $300 on a cup of coffee, but it's stupid.
I'm not gonna.
It's not worth that.
No.
And it's the same about football.
You know, if I could go to a football game, start to finish for about 40 bucks, I'd do
it.
Me too.
I mean, the case in point, we went to go watch Royals.
Why?
Because I got two tickets for 35 bucks.
Uh-huh.
It was like, hell yeah, we'll go do that.
Yeah.
And it was worth every penny.
Yeah.
So anyhow.
Before I'll spend hundreds and hundreds on that NFL game, I'll walk down the street to
the high school and watch their football games.
Oh my gosh, yeah.
I need to get back into that.
Yeah.
Like go to a couple of Rockhurst ones.
It was like five bucks to get in and the snacks are cheap.
Yeah.
You can watch.
You can buy a popcorn for two bucks and a soda for two bucks.
So like you spent 20 bucks at the most with gas getting there.
Yeah.
And you've watched as good a football as you could have watched.
Yep.
The Rockhurst is such a rivalry and they always just destroy each other.
Yeah.
And it always ends with one big play.
And you'll always have better seats than you will at an arrowhead.
Oh yeah.
Plus if you say fuck you, they can hear you.
So okay, all right.
Have you noticed any different in Tom Brady's broadcast since the ownership of the Raiders
went through?
Not really.
No, me neither.
There's really any kind of difference.
They made a big deal about, you know, it limits his things he can talk about, rah rah rah.
I haven't really seen anything.
It hasn't affected him one bit.
Yeah.
Matter of fact, I think he's smoother.
Yeah.
He's still improving.
He's kind of slowing down a little bit, but he's still improving and next season he's
going to be awesome.
I'm sure.
Yeah.
I mean, he has really surprised me.
Yeah, me too.
I didn't expect him to come along that far that quick.
Yeah, he obviously is a quick study, you know.
Yeah.
He was a quarterback.
He's just one of these guys that when he was born, God said, all right, you're the one.
Yeah.
Yep.
But this year he's going to have the whole time from the last game that he does all the
way until next preseason and the first game he does to do all the things that the other
announcers do.
And I think Tom Brady, like everything else, he's going to wind up doing better than anyone
else.
Oh, I agree.
And what I loved is, is this is something I kept track on because I'm from Kansas City
and I'm a Chiefs fan.
People have been giving him shit about beating up my home's ass.
He's never deviated from it because that's the way he feels.
Yeah.
He's never backed down.
He's always said, hey, this guy is better than everyone else and that's the way it is
and you guys are going to have to accept it.
It's his league.
He has never backed down from that.
And he gets a lot of shit about it.
It's good that he's so honest.
You can't call him two-faced.
No.
He's going to tell you exactly how he feels and he's going to stick to it and he's not
going to bend the pressure.
That's the kind of guy that you can start to trust what he's saying.
Yeah.
I was wondering what was going to happen because he started getting people on the internet
everywhere and all the birds pecking.
Oh, yeah.
And he sounded exactly the same on what he was saying about everything.
So I respect that.
And not just because he's like kissing on the homes or nothing.
The reason is because he believes in what he says and he doesn't back down.
He's admitting reality.
Yes.
And he doesn't let the bunch, the crowd get at him.
He's like, okay, well, whatever.
I'm still Tom Brady and you're not, bitch.
There you go.
All right.
What network has the worst halftime only?
Only during halftime, commentators.
So let me give you a line up of each one.
And this is just the big three, not the Amazons and all that.
Okay.
So Fox, Howie Long, Terry Bradshaw, Michael Strahan, Jimmy Johnson, and Kirk Menafee.
Strong points and weak points.
Yeah.
CBS, Jim Brown, Nate Berleson, Bill Cower, JJ Watt, and Matt Ryan.
That was CBS?
That was CBS.
ABC, Jason Kelce, Scott Van Pelt, Ryan Clark.
He's also ESPN's too.
They're the same company.
Yeah.
Marcus Spears and Adam Schefter.
NBC, Maria Taylor, Jason Garrett, Devin McCoy, Tony Dungey, Mike Florio, and Chris Sims.
Yeah.
I'd put them at the bottom.
I'd go with CBS.
Jim Brown, Nate Berleson, Bill Cower.
You too.
Yeah.
Yep.
The first group you listed off, I like Howie Long.
Terry Bradshaw's...
He's interesting.
Yeah.
Football, knowledge-wise, he's been left in the dust.
Yes, he has.
But he's being kept on as just a character.
He's a character, yeah.
And that's not good enough for me.
No, I agree.
Yeah.
Michael Strahan, solid.
Yeah.
Jimmy Johnson can get tied up in his own words sometimes, but he's still effective.
Yeah, I just don't like listening to him.
He gets too wound up about what he believes sometimes.
And it's like, dude, back it down.
This is different.
This is the NFL.
This is the NFL now.
This wasn't back when you had Michael Irvin and everybody.
Yeah.
Okay.
He gets into head coach mode.
Yeah.
Yes.
And it's old head coach mode.
Yeah.
I really like the addition of Jason Kelsey with Scott Van Pelt and Ryan Clark and Marcus
Spears.
Adam Schefter is fantastic because Adam Schefter is so knowledgeable.
Yeah.
And he's so revered around the NFL because he is like one of these sources.
If you hear it from him, it happened.
There's a meme going around playing off of that.
They'll put some outrageous NFL move that didn't happen and they'll credit it to Adam
Schefter.
You have to look for the misspelling of the last name.
And it's always like Chief signed Joe Montana out of retirement according to Adam Schefter.
Schefter.
Every now and then you'll see some just really stupid and outrageous.
And if you read through the columns, about 30% are believing it and buying into it.
Yes.
They don't realize it's a parody.
It's a parody.
Yeah.
And then it's like those weird websites like KC SportsZone.
No, this is not.
Yeah.
They have a long name that doesn't make any sense.
It's like, well, who are these guys?
This isn't CBS.com.
It's something that an algorithm came up with.
It's part of the dead internet.
Yeah.
Yeah, it is dead internet.
I agree.
Next one.
Should an injured player be subject to sideline reporters following them in and out of the
locker room?
No.
I agree 100%.
That pisses me off.
I think health information.
It should be HEPA.
Leave it the fuck alone.
I know that when the players sign their contracts, they sign away that right to privacy of their
medical conditions.
Yeah.
But I think that the players union should get that out of the contract.
It's nobody's business.
Yeah.
You know, if they want to report, we have someone on the team who's got a broken leg
and is going to be out six weeks.
You know, let us speculate from there.
But don't identify a player and then talk about his medical condition.
It's, yeah.
Okay.
They are very limited on what they can do with college players because those are all
minors.
Yeah, that's right.
Yes.
And you're starting to violate some civil rights there.
You don't see that going on in college.
No.
But no, they follow them all the way to the room that they're going to be examined at
now.
It pisses me off.
It's like leave them the fuck alone.
You got some people almost crying because they know their career is done.
Yeah.
And that's what they're trying to get on film.
Yeah, they want to get that emotion.
Huh, look, he's crying.
We got him.
Okay, what the NFL Players Union should look at is how does it benefit the players to have
them hounded and all their information spread around?
It doesn't.
No, it doesn't at all.
It benefits the league and the owners and the media, but it doesn't benefit the players.
No, not at all.
So the players should say, nope, you don't get that anymore.
No, I agree.
I'd be all for that.
I think that is wrong.
And if that screws up your betting, well, too bad.
Too bad.
Find some sources.
Let's be honest.
That's one of the reasons they do it.
Yeah.
Besides, they want that look of torture on that guy's face so they can play it and paint
it everywhere.
Yeah.
So that's, you know, they always do that.
A player fumbles and then the other team goes and scores and wins the game.
And then they show them.
Immediately they find the guy who fumbled and show him, yeah.
It's sharks in the water.
Yeah, it is.
Yeah.
The guy looks dejected and sad and hurt.
And then they focus in on him on all that.
Yeah.
I mean.
I mean, I've seen that behavior.
I've seen local news shoving a microphone into a woman's face.
Tell me how you felt when the police officer told you your son was dead.
Yes.
That kind of shit.
Well, I mean, okay, I know that Don, what's his name, from the Eagles, Don Hadley from
the Eagles.
Yeah.
His dirty laundry song was a good bet because he was caught in a hotel room with, I guess,
underage girls and cocaine or something like that.
Something along those lines.
I imagine.
And he was really pissed off because they made a big deal out of him, which they probably
should have.
Yeah.
Okay.
So he wrote the song Dirty Laundry.
Yeah.
You know, it's like all the, you know, let's get the widow as they had dead yet.
All the boys in the newsroom got a run in bet.
Get the widow on the set.
Uh huh.
I mean, what he's saying is true.
Yeah.
I mean, that's it.
You know, all the guys in the newsroom going, hey, what do you think they're going to do
here?
You know, they have.
And then they get, then they show the lights, the lights dim.
They go, we have some rather sad news to report today.
And then as soon as they click off, they're like, hey, pull my finger.
Yeah.
You know?
Yeah.
That kind of media is looking ahead maybe five to 10 seconds.
Shock media.
That's how far in the future they're looking.
It's like, let's get this on right now and get a reaction.
It's shock media.
It's no different than when shock radio was going around.
Yeah.
And it should be called as such too.
Yeah.
And you do that and you are one of those shock people.
Yeah.
So, anyhow.
It's probably going to stay, but I would see, I would be happy to see those cameras and
reporters and things having to leave the injured players alone.
I would too.
Until some point where the injured player felt like talking about it.
Yeah.
I guess we, well, okay.
Yeah.
We agree on that.
All right.
Next one.
Do you believe the chiefs get enough praise, too much praise, or do they get disrespected
repeatedly because they're dominating the NFL?
I think in general, I think they're getting disrespected because people are kind of tired
of them.
I agree.
And they're looking for some flaw.
They're looking to, you know, everybody who's been up.
Close games is their flaw now.
Yeah.
Close games.
It used to be if you nutted out a win, you were like an excellent team.
It's like, oh my God, that team battled till the very end.
And even if the chiefs blew somebody out, they'd probably say, oh well, that their opponent
wasn't very good.
Yeah.
There's no winning on it.
It's the usual thing of whoever's on top, let's tear them down because they've been
up there for a while.
Yeah.
Then get somebody else up there and then love all over them until we're tired of them.
And then we'll tear them down next.
They suck now.
Yeah.
So right now the chiefs are in the let's tear them down phase.
Yeah.
I agree.
They are getting some love though.
There are certain people that are being completely honest and they're starting to come out of
the woodwork because people are just, the ones that are being honest are kind of getting
out rates.
They're like, wait a minute.
This team is nine and oh and you guys say they suck.
I can't remember who just did it recently, but they're out there going, what the hell
are you guys talking about?
What are you seeing?
Yeah.
I heard that same thing.
It's I can't remember.
It's someone very respectful.
And they said, what the hell are you guys watching?
Probably the chiefs aren't winning convincingly enough or prettily enough or whatever.
Exactly.
You got to beat everybody 50 to nothing to be respected.
Yeah.
There's some value to churning up a little controversy of, hey, here's people out here
who are hating on the chiefs.
So why don't you all rally around and love on your chiefs even harder?
If they were smart, they wouldn't do that because what helps the chiefs out?
This billboard material.
Well I mean even the chiefs organization is going to stir that up.
Yeah, I'm sure they do.
Because it's good for business.
Yeah, they're like, hey, look what this did.
They're going to remind everybody, well, they don't respect us.
They picked against this.
They don't think we're good enough.
I guarantee you, Spagnolo and Andy Reid, every chance they get, they put something up.
They're like, hey, look what was said about this.
Yeah.
Mahomes, he's so good at it.
It's all part of the cloud of manipulation and disinformation that surrounds what's actually
going on.
Yeah.
Yes.
And it's also being called selling the narrative.
Yeah.
Selling the narrative.
Everybody's jumping on the anti-chiefs.
So they sell the narrative.
It is fashionable.
It is.
If you like the chiefs, it's too safe.
Like you said, it's too safe.
Yeah.
Apart from us in Kansas City, anyone else could be accused of being a bandwagon fan.
Oh, you just like them because they're winning now.
Yeah.
We like them because we live here.
We've grown up with them.
I work with a lot of Raiders fans and I constantly go up, come on, the water's warm.
We'll take you.
Come on over.
You want to be a part of a winner?
You want to still be there in the doldrums of nothing.
Our jerseys are much more colorful.
Yes, they are.
We're nicer people.
But yeah, I always do that.
They never do, but I think it's funny just going, come on over.
Yeah.
Come on.
Dip your toe in.
Water's warm.
We're waiting for you.
I worked at a station where two of the carriers had a bet each season.
One guy picked the Raiders, the other guy picked the Chiefs, and whoever's team won
the most games would get a bottle of Crown Royal from the other guy.
Oh, nice.
And while I was working at that station, the tradition ended because the guy who backed
the Raiders, he said, man, I haven't won in years.
I'm just tired of this.
The Chiefs are always finishing ahead of the Raiders and I'm just buying him booze every
year, so screw this.
I forgot what movie that was at the end and the guy keeps losing.
He goes, look, look at my asshole.
Don't you see it's rained?
I'm tired of it.
I can't remember what movie that was.
Anyhow, yeah, you know, I mean, it is what it is and I don't care.
I love here at Alda.
It's just like whenever I get a mad email, a hate email, it goes top of the line.
It's like, oh, this is good.
I love it.
We stirred passion in somebody.
Yeah, we made someone so mad they actually wrote me.
Yeah.
So any reaction is better than no reaction, especially in the world of media.
So there you go.
Absolutely.
All right.
And finally, this one is a very, very debated subject.
Is flying the stealth bombers over Arrowhead or any stadium a waste of money, a tremendous
waste of money, or is it so cool they have to do it?
It's neither.
It's a paid advertising by the military.
The United States Department of Defense contracted with the league to have flyovers in a lot
of stadiums to promote people joining the military.
And the US military was also responsible for the national anthem being part of the television
broadcast before football games because it used to be they do the anthem before the teams
even came out of the locker room usually.
And it was never on TV.
But the military said, our recruiting is down.
We want to whip up some patriotic fervor among the NFL fans.
So put the national anthem at the beginning of every broadcast and we're going to do flyovers
and here's several million dollars.
So it came out of the military's advertising and public relations budget.
So like you said, it's neither.
It's a big debated subject right now.
A lot of people are like, well, how much money do we waste on that?
No, actually they're not.
It's part of the budget.
Yeah, it's part of the advertising expenditure that the military does every year because
if they didn't advertise, recruitment would go way, way, way down.
What better than a football game?
So the military flyover and everything, it's no different from the Bet MGM that's on the
thing or the naming it GEHA Field.
Yeah.
I mean, it's all paid endorsement and advertisement and the flyover and the national anthem are
just more advertisement.
And this time it's advertisement for joining the military.
Okay.
All right.
They've never made a secret of that.
No.
It's never been hidden information or cloud.
It's just people haven't wanted to think about it.
They'd rather think, oh, look how patriotic we are.
Well, they're under the assumption that if they don't spend it on that, that they're
going to keep the money and do something worthwhile with it.
No.
No, they're going to advertise somewhere else.
Yeah.
No, they might as well.
I mean, there are several video games that the US military heavily funds so that the
video game developers make sure that the US forces always win, always have the best equipment
and are always in the right.
So our military is spending money to influence video games as part of their advertising and
PR.
They do every fast that they can because they need young people to enlist.
Yeah.
Like Call of Duty.
They didn't just decide, hey, let's glorify the US military.
No, it's bought and paid for.
It's bought and paid for, yeah.
And it's not conspiracy theories, not cynicism.
It's reality.
And it's been that way.
I can remember back in the 90s, the US Army came out with their own standalone video game.
Yeah.
So that's what it is.
And to think that it's just something patriotic happening, you're swallowing the spin.
Yeah, that's right.
All right.
Well, should we, can this is part one, like I said?
All right.
We've got about 44 minutes here.
Okay.
Go ahead and wrap this up because I got a dance recital to be to.
All righty.
And anyhow, we'll do the rest of it tomorrow night.
Okay.
Sounds good.
Enjoy your, I hope your dancing goes well.
Oh, yes.
Do you have to wear the little tutu?
Yes, yes, I do.
Okay.
Yeah.
Well, you know, and the leotards.
Yeah.
I hope your partner in the dance can do that lift, you know, and lift you over his head
like they do on the dance thing.
I hope so.
You know, the last time that ended so badly, we needed to go good.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, that blood.
Break a leg and several other limbs.
That would if I did that.
All righty, everybody.
Part one is done.
We'll, you'll hear part two unless you run from it.
So all right, everybody.
Bye.
I really sit down 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.