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not listen to any show anymore. Sorry Harambe. Alright, sports bastards, this is
a prediction section where we're gonna make our horrible picks that won't come true.
To speed things up, I've already made my predictions and wrote them down. Oh good.
So I might modify them as I go along. Okay. But that'll help speed things up.
But okay, nobody on the bye week this week. The NFL makes everyone play on
Thanksgiving week. Oh yeah. No one gets a bye. Yeah, because everybody's at home. Yep.
Eating turkey. In fact, we have three Thursday games, a Friday game, and then
the usual Sunday and Sunday night and Monday night games. There's probably
gonna be two games left to play during the day on Sunday. Yeah, pretty much.
There's only what three games in the three o'clock slot on Sunday. That's what
I thought. Three games for the whole country. Yep. Alright, first up we have, in the morning game on
Thanksgiving, is four and seven Chicago at ten and one Detroit. Oh yeah, I'm picking Detroit, of course.
Yeah. I'm gonna say it's gonna be 35 to 23. That sounds good. I picked 30 to 13
Detroit. Okay. I think Detroit is gonna have no problem scoring at
home in a traditional Thanksgiving game. No, they're showcasing the world right
now. They're like, go and look, we're the up-and-comers, we're the dethroners.
Watch. I'm not sure if Dallas and Detroit swap, excuse me, every Thanksgiving on who
has the first game and who has the second. It seems like Detroit always has
the second game. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I was thinking that too. Usually Detroit's night
game and Dallas is a day game while people are eating. Yeah, so for Detroit
Lions, this is old hat. Playing early on Thanksgiving Day, that's what they're
used to. Chicago's not. No, they're gonna win comfortably because of that.
And then they have a superior team. Yeah, definitely. Alright, the second game on
Thursday is the two and nine Giants at the four and seven Cowboys who have not
won at home yet. I'm gonna, but they just won. I'm gonna have to go with the Cowboys. Me too. I'm gonna say it's 20 to 17. Oh, close to me. I picked 20 to
10, but this will be the first game the Cowboys win at home this year. Yeah, and
Bry the only. Man, maybe. That may be. Yep. Alright, the night game on Thursday as
you're digesting turkey and trying to stay awake is five and six Miami at eight
and three Green Bay. And taking big greasy dumps. Yeah, and something else to keep in
mind for Sunday's games, probably not for Thursday's games, is the whole New
England area is gonna get cold temperatures and crap loads of snow. Oh
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's gonna add to it, isn't it? Yeah, so you know any
games up in that area, you know Boston they were showing you getting like eight
to twelve inches of lake effect snow, so games might be postponed or relocated.
Yeah. Everyone's got to be ready for that. I picked Green Bay over Miami 23-14. I
think Green Bay is a little more complete right now. Mm-hmm. And Miami
doesn't do well in the cold, especially at night. Yeah, yeah. Same reasons. 32, 27.
Closer score than I had. Oh, you think it's gonna be a blowout? I had a nine
point difference and you got a five point difference. I think Tago Viola is on
some way over Rollins, so they're gonna put up a five. Probably is, probably is, yeah.
Alright, the Friday afternoon game, the Black Friday game. Oh yeah. Because why
not? We needed a Black Friday game, didn't we? What time is the time slot on that?
Two o'clock. Two o'clock. I guess that gives people time to go shopping in the
morning and then come home. I was wondering how they're gonna do that.
Okay. You know, typically on Black Friday, everyone stands outside the store at 4 a.m.
and then they open and then they all crush each other. Yeah, yeah. They crush
each other to death for $30 off some luggage. Yeah. Never mind that the
luggage was marked up $30 yesterday, so they could mark it down. Oh, why do you
research? Why do you research? Yeah. Alright, so two and nine Vegas, ten and one KC. I
don't think there's much questioning. No. I mean, this could be a horrible trap
game, except we already lost to Buffalo, so I think that was our scare. I think so.
35, 17 Kansas City. Really close. I picked 31, 17. Oh wow. So we're real close on
that. Yeah, I see the Chiefs getting out to big lead and not that they're gonna
show a lot, but I think it's just gonna be easy to score on Vegas. Yeah, yeah. I
think that they are just gonna enjoy stomping the piss out of them. Yeah. And
the Holmes will do some sort of a code word. Yeah, we got things handled. I like
the way he handles things. I do too. Alright, first of the noon games on
Sunday, 7 and 5 Houston at 2 and 9 Jacksonville. Who was the first one?
Houston at Jacksonville. Oh, Houston. Well, Houston's got to play well somewhere. Yeah.
I can't pick a better place than Jacksonville. Jacksonville's 2 and 9. I
mean, you've got to be able to beat the team like that. They're flatlining. Now, I
know that the Texans are having bad rhythm, at least. They're not flatlining.
They're off sync. Yeah. They're off sync. Yeah. I'm going to say that Texans are
gonna win, of course, but it's not gonna be a blowout or nothing. I'm gonna say
it's gonna be a 24 to 18. Let's give it a weird way. Yeah. I initially had 24-17, but
changed it to 20-17 Houston. Either one I could see happening very easily. So, yeah.
A couple of wrinkles to watch for Jacksonville is there are stories
coming out now that the team is considering sitting Trevor Lawrence for
the rest of the season to protect his health. Oh, he has been an A-lin health
player. Yeah. And there's no point in having him play out the rest of an
obviously losing season because the absolute best they can hope for is
8 and 9. Yeah. Which is a losing season. So, there's a lot of stories
coming out that Trevor Lawrence is gonna be sat and then traded in the off
season because that team needs more than just a quarterback. Yeah. And I think Doug
Peterson's gonna be part of the flush. Yeah. Yeah. I agree. So, I'm not looking
for Jacksonville to show much life from here on out. Yeah, I agree. Yeah, that's I
don't know what else to say about that. I mean Jacksonville's, they had a fork in
them already. Mm-hmm. So. This is scary. We're agreeing on all the teams so far. Oh, jeez.
Up next is 5 and 7 Indianapolis at 3 and 9 New England.
Who picked New England? Mm-hmm. 24-17. I went the other way finally. Oh, good, good.
We got one. I picked Indianapolis 20 to nothing. Oh. The first time I'm predicting a
shutout this season. I think New England is the capability of being absolutely
scoreless. Okay, I could see that. There's another game. I modified the score to
suit the team. Is May's? Derek May, I think, is Drake May. I think he's still playing.
May. It's May. It's not May's. I keep calling him May's. Yeah, I do too. Derek May. I think
Derek May might have a good game here and there, so I'm giving it. Is he still
starting or is it Percett? I think it's May. Okay, I'm gonna give May a little
coming out game. Yeah. What better team? So, we'll go against. Yeah, yeah. And if Percett has to go in, he used to
play for Indy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, up next, seven and four Chargers at six
and five Atlanta. Chargers. Yeah. 28. 27. Notice the 28 I put in there? Yeah. Yeah.
28, 27. Yeah, more than this. I picked the Chargers 27-13. Oh, you went one under. Okay. Yeah.
Man, Atlanta's, I think their record is deceiving because didn't they start four
and oh? Yes. So, since then, they've played two and five. So, I'm gonna start treating
them like a two and five team. Just like those Tampa Bay fans. I told them, I said,
Kirk Cousins is gonna be Kirk Cousins eventually. Yeah. There you go. Yeah.
Tampa's gonna take that division in my opinion, I think. They got a strong shot.
New Orleans isn't going anywhere and we know Carolina's not. Yeah. Yeah. Cute. All
right, next up, six and five Seattle at the three and eight New York Jets. Seattle.
Yeah. Let's say 24-14. I went 35 to 12. It's kind of wishful thinking.
I'm looking for the Jets to get humiliated from here on out. So, they just
throw away everything they're doing this season and do something different next
season. They're getting a bareback paddling in the field. Yeah. I mean, if the Jets
show signs of life and actually make a kind of decent showing the rest of the
season, then the organization will be tempted to not really do much. Oh, yeah.
And oh my gosh, they need to do everything. Yeah. I think the Jets need to
get a big unball bite. Yeah. Yeah. Which I'm gonna tell at the end of this podcast,
maybe. They need to do the radiator cap exchange. That's where your car is so bad
that you just you unscrew the radiator cap and lift it up and you back your
shitty car out, back a new car in and screw the radiator cap back down.
That's what the Jets need to do. That's what they need to do. Keep the name, keep the
stadium, throw everything else away. Everything else goes. Yeah. Change your
logo, modify your colors, change your uniform. Because you're the Jets and
you're just always gonna be the Jets. I would have an exorcism. Oh, good idea.
Yeah. Get rid of Aaron Rodgers spirit after they fire him. Really? Yes.
All right. Next game, 3-8 Tennessee at 7-5 Washington. Tennessee showed some life.
They showed some life. And Will Leves has actually been getting some yards and doing decent.
So young team versus young team. Yeah. I'm gonna have to go with Washington because I
think at some point they're gonna have to show up again. Yeah, they are. Jaden
Daniels is gonna have to start showing some of that flash and pizazz he had at
first. Yeah. I'm gonna go Washington. Mm-hmm.
30 to 14. I had 24-17 Washington. Okay. Which makes it a one score game which
you know I'd hoped for. It's probably like that because I mean like the Monday night
game wasn't as close as it looked with that garbage touchdown at the very end
from San Diego. It looked like it was a one score game but really after the third
quarter actually midway in the third quarter it was not. Yeah, no it was yeah.
You can tell San Francisco was running to try to catch up as much as possible.
They just weren't gonna get there. Yeah. Young team against young team. I think
Washington has more excitement right now. They've certainly done better this
season with double the wins that Tennessee has. So that's that's why I
went with Washington. Okay the Raiders or not the Raiders the Ravens. Mm-hmm.
Didn't okay. Where are the Ravens? Oh no go ahead go ahead I was just saying
something in my head. Oh there's the Ravens they play Philly. Okay oh that'd be a
good game. Yeah all right next up eight in three Pittsburgh at four and seven
Cincinnati. I'm gonna give it to Cincinnati. Wow. I think they're gonna
fight 34 to 30.
Signs of life from Joe Burrow. Yeah well I mean he's been playing very well.
That's true he's not he's not doing bad. I think Zach Taylor's gonna get
everybody's attention briefly. I went 24 16 Pittsburgh. Okay I'm not sure how the
game's gonna go. I just. Do you think that Natties could think we're not gonna make the playoffs
anyhow and just kind of blow it in? Or do you think that Pittsburgh is just gonna take it to them?
I think Pittsburgh's gonna take it to them. I don't see Cincinnati giving up
this year really. I know I said earlier that unless they're sure that Joe Burrow
was on his way out and then I think the players are gonna go with self-protection.
Yeah they're gonna go I'm not getting injured over this bullshit he's not even
gonna be here. Yeah and in fact that'll be a good indicator if the players know
or not is if they all start checking out half-assing the effort not really then
that'll be my cue that they know Joe Burrow is gonna be playing for a different
team next year and it's rebuilding. Which they have not because every game has
been close. Yeah yeah but. Anyhow. Even though it's been close they're still four
and seven. I know. They're just not gonna do anything. It started off with the
second game of the season against the Chiefs. I mean they're 0-1 first and
then when they played them we saw a little bit of deflating. Yes there was.
And same way I mean so many teams. Yeah second game of the season if you
couldn't get ramped up to play the Chiefs then what are you doing? Yeah.
I see that. Well there's our second game we disagree on. That's good. Okay good.
Last of the noon games 6-5 Arizona at 9-2 Minnesota. Still feels weird
to say 9-2 Minnesota doesn't it? It does. You might disagree with this I think Arizona's
gonna pull it off. 27-24. I picked Minnesota 28-17. Okay. Partly because it's
home. Partly because Arizona didn't do much last week. Yeah I'm gonna stick with
it. I probably yeah I'm probably not gonna get that right but I'm gonna stick
with it. Alrighty. First of the three excuse me three o'clock games we have
the five and six Rams at the four and seven Saints. Well the Saints are playing
better. Yeah. There's only one win off in their records. Yeah. Yeah.
Derek Carr is he back? You know I don't know I think he is. Okay.
Who's playing New Orleans now? So Rams. Rams. Rams and New Orleans. I went Rams 16-3.
I'm gonna go Rams to 24-20. I intentionally picked 16-3 because both
teams are bad and I think they're gonna have a bad score. It's probably gonna be
an unfun game to watch. Yeah. Whichever portion of the country is required to
watch that game or the next one. Sorry about your luck. Yeah. The second game at the three
o'clock spot is five and six Tampa at three and eight Carolina. Again isn't
gonna be very much fun to watch I don't think. No. Tampa. Mm-hmm. 35-24.
Nice score. Yep. I went lower scoring I went 17-10. Might happen like that too.
Yeah I don't know why. They'll be playing in Carolina so there's probably
gonna be maybe five or six hundred people in the stands. I just remember
last week when the Chiefs played Carolina and they showed the stands it
was like a game at Arrowhead. It was all red and white and gold. Yeah. Like it's
not that the Chiefs fans traveled that well it's the fact that there were so
many tickets available because it's Carolina. People are just like
they're going you know what we go we can go visit Aunt Gertrude while we're there
or something you know. Yeah. Yeah. Whenever we have that many tickets available for
that not that much money people start to plan vacations little mini vacations
around. Yeah. Yeah. So and also that's the only way some people are gonna get to
watch the game. Yeah. It's live. I mean to watch the Chiefs play live. Yeah I imagine the
tickets weren't all that much so the airfare was more reasonable if you aren't
spending much on the game tickets. The cash in their Southwest card points and off they were.
All right now the only game at three o'clock that's probably gonna be worth
watching is nine and two at Philly at eight and five at Baltimore. Let's hope
we get that game. Yes I want to see that game too. If it's any of the
other two then I'm just gonna go do something else. Yeah.
Shoo. I think I'm gonna have to go with Philly because Baltimore has just not
been playing that well. They haven't. Philly's got a good defense and their
offense is on fire right now. Saquon Barkley. Yeah. Oh yeah. Oh he is. I'm gonna say
32 to 28. That would be nice. Yeah it would. Yeah I just think that Baltimore
is starting to really come back to earth big time. Yeah. You know even though I
agree for some reason I picked Baltimore in this game. I think Philly is due for a
letdown. I think Baltimore is pissed off enough at home that they are gonna try
to go all out so I'm picking Baltimore to pull it out 21-13. I you know. It's
gonna require a lot from Baltimore's defense to hold Philly to 13 points. Yeah
yeah. I'm being bold. I get it. I mean I like your pick a lot and it almost makes
me want to change mine but no we got to be different on some games. Yeah. So. All
right for the Sunday night game 5 & 6 San Francisco at 9 & 2 Buffalo. At Buffalo.
At Buffalo. Sunday night. It's gonna be cold. There's gonna be a lot of snow on the
ground. Yeah I don't know if Brock Purdy's back. I don't know if McCaffrey's back or
nothing but I'm gonna go with Buffalo also. 33-17. It's not even gonna be close.
I agree but I made it a little more emphatic. I went 30 to 7. I could see San
Francisco getting up there and just being unable to handle the cold and the
crowd. I could too. And the night air and all that. I don't know I just kind of
feel like San Francisco could have a really really bad game. I could see that
very easily but I'm gonna stick with my yeah you know I'm not I'm not changing
it that's what I thought at first. Although you make more sense. We both
picked the same team it's just I've had a wider immersion I guess. Yeah well yeah
we'll see what happens. All right Monday night football 3 & 8
Cleveland at 7 & 5 Denver. There's been some good historic games between these two. Yeah.
I think I'm gonna go with Denver still. Even though Cleveland's been playing
very well with Jameis Winston I think they're gonna get enough pressure on
Winston to make him throw interceptions. Yeah. And fumble. Yeah I
could see turnovers. Yeah so I'm gonna say 31. I'm doing a lot of 30s this week.
Yeah 31 to 24. All right I picked Denver 30 to 10. I think
Cleveland's gonna get a debt back down to earth moment and Denver's been
playing well and on a Monday night football at home I think they're not
gonna hold back at all. Okay. That's what I got. What is it?
No it's just I just did something weird on the recording it's not gonna affect
anything. Oh I'm gonna have my audio-tonic crash on me in the middle of
that. Oh I've been having that too. Oh you too? Yeah I've discovered that if you
have more than two large audio files open it gets unstable. Maybe that's what's
going on. Yeah. I'll have to check. So the other day I had like four or five and I
was doing a mix and it just kept wonking out on me and so. Yeah. Okay let's see
where were we? So that's it that's all 16 games. We were different on four of
them. Okay that's good. Yeah. That's good because that's going to be the swing
boat. We'll probably miss a lot more than that. Yeah we will. Yeah of course.
All right well interesting games this week not that many like really premier
games but the ones that are premier are gonna be pretty interesting. Yeah. So all
right how about some bullet points? Yes indeed. Then we have your what-ifs. Yeah
yep. I figure we'll go ahead and do the bullet points first and then the what-ifs
afterwards. Okay. And let me find the bullet points for here. Oh I got the
music creep stuff but that's not gonna happen till tomorrow. Okay. Not gonna have
enough time today so this means that I need to find my bullet points for this
week for this segment. All you know oh here it is here it is okay it's usually
two pages this is one page. Okay sorry about that. All right first bullet point.
Who do you believe will receive home-filled advantage in the AFC? Kansas
City. Kansas City. Yeah. Who do you think will get home-filled advantage in the
NFC? Who? Damn. That's it's between Detroit, Minnesota and Philly right now.
Uh-huh. I think. I'm gonna have to stick with Detroit the hot hand. I think so too. I think
Minnesota would be the first one I'd eliminate from those three. Yeah and then
Philly would be second. Yeah. I think the title game the championship game might
very well be Philly against Detroit. Hopefully in Detroit. Yes. That would be
nice. Oh that'd be great. I could enjoy that. I could too. Although last year
wasn't didn't San Francisco have to travel to Detroit? Yeah I think so. And
they beat Detroit there. Yeah. Yeah cuz um Detroit got off to a hell of a lead
and looked like they were just gonna smash into nothing. Yeah and then their
habit of going for it on fourth down bit them in the butt. Bit them in the ass. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Well we'll see. Yeah we'll see. They're not invincible at home and
especially against a team that's really well coached. Yeah. And has a nice even
balance of players. Yeah. A physical team. Yeah physical team. All right in the
NFC will there be a Dark Horse or surprise team that will make some
noise in the playoffs? Playoffs. Playoffs. Um originally I gave that title to
Pittsburgh. Uh-huh. But I think Pittsburgh is gonna make the playoffs anyway. I do
too. They're kind of what we expect. Um so I'm gonna switch that to Houston. I think
Houston is going to do more in the playoffs than people expect. I agree. My
nose is cold. I think they'll go farther. Yeah I know my got my hands in my pocket. So I'm
waiting to see when it starts raining. I just let you know why I have my hands
over my nose. I didn't fart. My nose is cold. So I'm gonna pick Houston to be this
playoff surprise. Playoffs. Playoffs. Yeah I agree. Houston. I think Houston could
possibly make a run at the title game if they play right. Yeah. But they're gonna
have to do everything better. Yeah at this point I see Kansas City handling
Houston very very handily when when they come here to play. And we will find that
out coming up. Yeah. I think isn't that a Monday night game I think or something like that? I'll have to check. I think it's a
national game. It's definitely gonna be a national game. Yeah. Yeah the young and the
old even though Mahomes is an old. True but this you know C.J. Stroud is in the
Mahomes image. Well that's what everybody compared him to. It's the young versus the original. Last year they
compared him to it so now everyone has this vision of he's up and coming.
Even though Mahomes isn't going anywhere. Probably not. Hopefully not. Yeah.
So alright let's see. Oh okay I got one here. That was AFC. That was AFC. Will there be
will there be a dark horse or a surprise team that will make some noise in that
AFC? Yeah. Green Bay I think. They're not gonna win the division with Detroit and
Minnesota in the division. They're not gonna win it. No they're gonna go in a wild
card. Yeah and it's not gonna be all that easy to get a wild card but I see
Green Bay getting in the playoffs and playoffs playoffs and they probably
won't get any home games but they'll be tough. I agree. Okay. The fun part is if
I'm wrong. Yeah who cares. Yeah who cares. Yeah Green Bay is probably the dark horse. Yeah. And if
Minnesota is in flip-flops and Minnesota is a wild card and Green Bay gets the
second I could see Minnesota maybe being somewhat of a dark horse too. Yeah yeah
because Green Bay could very definitely be knocked out of the playoffs all
together. Yeah and Tampa if Tampa makes it I think they could surprise a couple.
That's true I kind of discounted them on their five and six record but yeah they
could they could still kind of get in at 11 and six. Yeah they could. So we'll see.
Alright. Cool. Okay some players signed jerseys for referees. Should that be
allowed? No. I agree. I agree 100%. That is wrong. Yeah. Because then you owe that
person a favor whether it's outwardly talked about or not. Uh-huh. Psychologically.
Oh this guy's so nice. I mean I look at this the same as rich people buying
gifts for the cops. It's raining now. Oh it is raining. Yep. Alright. Cute. Okay.
But yeah rich people buying buying the cops gifts. Yeah. You know rich people
buying politicians gifts. Same thing. It's the same thing you're buying influence. Same
exact thing. Yeah. Okay I agree. You know I think the the officials have every
right to go bid on those signed jerseys if they want to buy one from the
store. Yeah. But to be just given it by the player. No. No. That's bribery. That's
graft. That's corruption. It is. Bribery. That's a good way of putting it. It's modern-day bribery.
And everyone who sees that you should you should pay attention and say the
NFL is okay with this. The NFL is okay with Pat Mahomes giving some NFL
official the greatest gift that he'll ever get to give it to his dying 10
year old son or whatever. Yeah. You think that official is ever gonna call bad
against Mahomes again? No. The NFL is allowing this so keep that in mind when
you start complaining about things being crooked or the Chiefs getting influence.
Because that's the way it would happen. It's not something they're going to
talk about. It's going to be something where they're like you know. For all we
know that the officials are all going over to Patrick's and Kelsey's house for
dinner twice a week. Yeah. And you know if there's nothing illegal or against
rules again about it then don't complain because the NFL is okay with it. Yeah.
That's right. So as long as the NFL is okay with it why are we complaining? I
agree. You either watch or don't watch but quit complaining. Yeah. It is. Of course I
complain all the time. I do too. I'm an utter hypocrite. I freely admit that I
complain all the time but I still watch. Yeah. So. And as we were talking it's
much easier to tell people how to live their lives than it is to live the life
the way we're. Yeah like I always said like I said in the car the person giving
you advice look at them first. Yeah. See what their life is like. So easy to
preach so hard to believe. Yeah most people I find that a lot of people maybe
not most but a lot of people that preach to you don't have anything going on
right. Yeah. So anyhow. All right. Do you believe psychologically? Fucking spell
check. That's AI. Isn't it wonderful? It's AI. I can't wait for them to drive my car for me. I
don't know how they got that word. Anyhow okay. Do you believe psychologically that
the home team has an advantage in the Super Bowl? No. Doesn't make a difference. Okay. I don't
even know why they bother. No I don't know why they do either because I mean
the Chiefs won in both times and three times in white. And really you have one
end zone painted for one team and one end zone paint for the other. Yeah. I guess
it makes a difference in the coin toss who gets to call it. Yeah I guess so.
Because the visitor I guess gets to call it. Well I mean you keep that and who
cares. Yeah and why with very few exceptions you could have both teams
wear their home jerseys and it wouldn't be an issue. Yeah I think it'd be fine if
they did that. Yeah I mean if the Jets and the Eagles were in the Super Bowl that
would be tough because they're both wearing pretty close to the same shade.
The Chiefs wore white two times in the Super Bowl and then they wore red I think against
Philly. They wore white in the Super Bowl four when they beat Minnesota. Oh yeah they
did. Mm-hmm. Yeah that's why all my jerseys are white. Because they got all muddy. Chiefs jerseys. Yeah.
Okay do you think players look at the betting line and react to it? Yes. I do too.
Not all of them but a certain amount do. Yeah they look at it as a matter of are
they respecting me or not? Yeah yeah it's not a matter of place of the bet it's
like well you know I'm how does everyone think we're gonna do it's a matter of
curiosity. It's no different from me going online and checking how many
downloads we have of certain episodes. Oh yeah that's right. Yeah I keep track. Little ego, little interest.
Little way to measure yourself. One way that I see how well we're
doing at least on the douchebags is the hate mail. Yeah that's a good indicator.
The hate mail the more hate mail you get the better you're doing. It means you're
reaching people. Yeah. You're getting a reaction out of them. They're not
snoring through your podcast. Yeah. Like that son of a bitch how dare you say that.
It's like oh you listen? Yeah. To build off your thing about the home team for
the Super Bowl how about we get rid of the coin toss at the beginning of the
game. You can have one for overtime but just make it for the visiting team just
presume they won the coin toss and they get to cheese. So don't worry about the
whole ritual of a coin toss just the visiting team gets to pick. That would be
great but you know how much money's placed on the coin toss? That'll never happen.
But imagine a team deciding during the week okay when we get there we're gonna
take the ball in the second half so we're gonna be on defense first half
let's prepare for that. Yeah yeah that's true. That would be an advantage for the
teams but as you said there's money to be made betting on the coin toss and
then what people what teams will do once the coin toss happens so they're not
they're never gonna give up a revenue stream. I got I got another one for you
too. Okay the coin toss also leads to this if the Chiefs win it all sudden
their percentage of winning the game probably goes up by 30 40 percent. Yep. So
that's a bet right there. Also someone comes in goes oh they won the coin toss.
All right you know. And it gives league an opportunity to sell copies of the
commemorative coin that they used for the coin toss. Oh yeah that's right. Another revenue stream.
And they do do that. Yes yeah so yeah if there's money to be made that's what the
league will do. I want to invest in McRibsauce not a coin toss. And a half gallon jug.
Because we're Americans. Why a half gallon jug? Because we're Americans.
So anyhow. All right. If Christmas Day Netflix is another disaster should they ever be
allowed to broadcast games solely? Yeah but I think they should put minimum
technology requirements in place and if they don't have it in place like four
weeks prior to the game switch to a different network or channel or something.
Okay that sounds good. You know make it to where if the streaming service is
gonna carry the game they've got to do it as reliably and well as the broadcast
networks do or they get it pulled. And they don't get their money back.
Yeah it's like no you just lost it. Put your technology where your money is
where your mouth is so the fans don't get screwed. I agree. But of course that's
not the way it's gonna go. No no no no. Money talks. Yeah. So okay do you believe
all this segregating of the networks and what games they get might be leading to
a pay-per-game system? I think so. You subscribe to ten different services or
you just pay for the games you want to watch. Yeah. You only pay for what you
need like Liberty Mutual says. Well cable and satellite TV resisted that to this
day of letting you pick individual channels and build from there. Yeah. They
insist that you buy if this is the channel you want you're gonna get ten
channels you don't want to have to pay for them too. Well. I think the NFL
probably would want to keep doing that because they want to get an app and you
pay for the subscription and then you get all the games so that's the only way
you're gonna get all the games on one platform. Yeah yeah because if you had to
subscribe to like eight different streaming services to get the games then
that's just outrageous. Well everybody now basically has internet that supports
TV. TV internet that you could get online games like that on your TV. Yeah. So I see
an app being really popular too. Yeah. They'd be like well yeah you can do this
but the best thing to do is an app. Yeah but you know they're gonna have to come
up with a solution for like some of the games that are coming up like what's a
bad one. Like a blowout game like Vegas at KC. You know there are some people
gonna watch and others are like I don't care about that and they're just not
gonna watch but if it's the only game on they're gonna watch. But if they're
streaming everything they're gonna find something else to do. So that the NFL
would lead themselves open to a lot of games being unsupported and under watched
because they gave us that choice. Do you think they care? If it affects their
bottom line yeah. Yeah but I'm not sure if it would enough on the on the high
side they're getting more money on the low side they're getting less money. I
think there's less money to be lost than to be gained. Especially if you do
dynamic pricing. Yes. Like a highly desirable game that if you bought the
streaming rights you know six weeks ago you paid this price but if you buy it
this week then you know it's ten times as much because it's way more popular.
That is a good point. That would be something that would make it more
worthwhile that way they'd make money on the more popular games that they're
losing on the less popular games. And Americans proved they put up with
dynamic pricing. Yeah. They do? Yeah. I mean why else were the Eagles with their
with their bullshit you know playing the music in the background not even
performing live make thousands of dollars a ticket. Yeah and you know we
get it the other way around because you know there's venues that they're
desperate sell tickets they discount them heavily on game day. Yeah that's true.
So we get the positive side so that kind of makes it legal for them do it the
other way around is jack the prices up. Let's say like last year that first
playoff game against Miami the 30 below one we get tickets for $30. Yeah? Yeah.
That's true. Now what they couldn't do like if you're attending the game if you
buy that you know they have to leave parking the same. Yeah. And the
concessions they can't raise those prices just for you. Those are prone to
dynamic. There's also surveillance pricing which is basically how you get
car insurance because they look at you specifically and figure out what how
you're going to drive what you're going to do and what you can afford to pay and
then they quote your rate on that. Surveillance pricing for everything else
is like you go to a movie and the person in front of you pays ten bucks to get in
and they size you up and see what kind of car you drove in and they think this
guy can afford 25 and he probably will pay it so they'll charge you 25. That's
surveillance pricing everybody gets an individualized price based on what's the
most they'll pay. I could see the NFL going that route. Yeah it's gonna be
interesting because they have different options on everything and what they're
gonna be looking at is what is gonna be mainstream that they can spread
everywhere. Yeah. And people will you know do like okay that's what I think maybe an
app might be in play. Yeah there there is a tipping point between if you do all
these things you'll get more money but it's an immense bureaucracy nightmare
to keep track of all that so here's the simple solution and we'll still making
enough money to make a worthwhile. So if you're an app would fill in right there.
Yeah if you're elderly and they're not that tech savvy you don't have to there's
other ways to get the game but if you're younger and you want everything you're
like oh I'll just buy the app what is it per year okay. That's that brings up
another industry point I'll be brief on this but up till now people with
something to sell have focused on a certain target audience or demographic
and pretty much anyone outside that they don't care about. Uh-huh. But if you make
it super easy to offer your product to everyone and make it super easy for them
to get it now you don't have to pick a target demographic. You do with your
advertising but as far as selling your product people you can sell to everybody.
Yeah and the target demographics of Payton NAS because of this right here
there's stations in markets they get huge numbers but they're everybody. Yeah.
They don't have a target audience that they can sell they go okay I got men 25
to 54 yeah so okay we're gonna sell this and this and this to them. Yeah. These
advertisers know where they're going for it and then they can sell to. And that's
where the technology comes in really handy where they can they can send
individual and personalized commercials to your house. Uh-huh. Over the cable
network and the guy next to you is getting a different ad that appeals to
him and the guy down the street is getting a different ad that appeals to
him and that way advertisers can pick individual households to advertise to
on the fly. Yeah and the CUME rating will sell that you know a CUME rating is
everybody no matter what the demographic is. Yeah. That would solve that too by
having one platform that everybody goes to. Yeah. You see because like you said they
don't care if it's a young girl and old man watching they can figure all that
logistics out by your app and go okay well we have all their information so
we're gonna send them this we're gonna send them that. It would actually work
very well like that too because they have all the information right there.
You can do one of two ways basically I mean if Apple wants to
advertise to their demographic they'll pick a show that attracts the kind of
people that are gonna buy Apple phones and they advertise during that. Yeah. The
other way to do it is you have a program that appeals to an enormous range of
people therefore you line up about 10 or 20 different advertisers to get
individual ads out and instead of everyone seeing the Apple ad it's
everybody sees their own personalized ad from one of the 10 or 15 yeah
advertisers. Yep. You can make just as much money doing it that way. I agree. You
don't want anything? No. I'm gonna order a hot coffee because I'm cold. Yeah my feet are
starting to get cold. Not because I'm hungry but they cut or not
thirsty but yeah because I'm cold. Anyhow go ahead I'm sorry. Oh that was that was
about it. Okay let's see the next one. What current commentators should consider
retiring? Oh Romo. He won't but he should. No I agree. I agree. My wife was commenting just this
last game that Troy Aikman seems kind of out of it. You know yeah he seems
disengaged. He does. He does. I think he gets distracted. He certainly acts
distracted and sometimes he talks about something that we're already done with
and you know everyone's moved on. I've noticed that. I have to
think and go oh oh he was talking about that a couple of plays ago. Yeah yeah
it's like he comes up with things to say and he can't just let it go when the
topic moves on. It's like oh I have to say them because I thought of them. Yeah
yeah you're right. He is a I agree. Troy Aikman needs to look at the way that
he's doing his broadcasts or just step down. An interesting thing is when
they showed the was it Joe Buck and Troy Aikman is that the pair? Yeah. When they
showed them in the booth my wife looked at Troy Aikman and said in all
seriousness is Troy Aikman gay? Oh that's been speculated for years and years. And
I said I don't know but as far as I know there hasn't been any mention of that
and she looked for a man and said I'm getting a real gay vibe off of him.
Evidently a lot of people don't because he it's been rumored that he
was for years. And supposedly he is not. Yeah I mean it never occurred to me you
know I don't care either way. I don't either. But it was just interesting to me
that you know my wife who has absolutely no agenda would just you know pick up on
that and say huh. Yeah no no no that's what I find that really interesting
because yeah that's been speculated for years and you can look it up I mean but
I do believe he has wife and children I know that doesn't mean anything. Yeah
doesn't necessarily mean anything but but I think he's been pretty much
denying this the whole time so I mean you got to believe him I guess. Yeah I
mean yeah I mean they don't have any other proof. And especially since it
doesn't make any difference. Yeah yeah so exactly so could that have came from
someone that didn't like him? I imagine so I mean these rumors can even start
from something as simple as he breaks up with a girlfriend that everyone thinks
is super hot and someone says gee why did he break up with her is he gay or
something and then it just takes off from there becomes a whole big thing.
Yeah that's true. Yeah okay so there are a lot of really stupid origins to some of
these things. Well I mean your wife getting the vibes though is what gets me.
Yeah it's funny how things just change over time. Yeah and I mean women are
really good at getting that vibe too is the thing it's like hmm. Yeah you know
it's they talk about people having gay dark. Yeah and I think it's more for women.
I guess so because you know there's been a lot of times when I was totally
oblivious and everybody else around me was picking up on it was like oh really
I guess I'm just not looking for it because I mean I've had girlfriends at Val and stuff go oh yeah yeah you know he's gay and I'm like how do you know?
Yeah and it's just like it's like something that they do I mean maybe
they're mannerisms yeah I don't know. It can be wrong though I worked at one
station and my best friend there Paul is gay and he and I would talk a lot about
it and he once asked me about a certain other employee and he said you know the
guy on that route have you got ever gotten any indication that he's gay and
I said no and he said the reason I ask is he does a lot of the things that
older gay men do and I didn't ask him what they were but you know he would
know because he was an older gay man so but he says there are certain mannerisms
you see I trust their gaydar yeah yeah but he was dead wrong apparently
because this guy you know as far as I know that wasn't how he felt or what he
was. I think it's very possible to have that type mannerism and personality not
actually be gay yeah I'm because you know not everybody behaves the same way
under similar circumstances but I just thought that was interesting I mean never
said what it was that made him think that this other guy was gay and I didn't
care anyway. Now like I said I don't have the gaydar per se that I know of. But even gay
men never their gaydar could be wrong sometimes so that's encouraging that it
is fallible. One thing that I have noticed is is the reservedness and the
unwillingness to say something at first. The pause. Yeah if you're if you've had
to live your whole life thinking about the next thing you say to avoid
giving away too much that tends to alter your behavior. I mean I do that a lot of times.
They're more worried about how they're spoken. Yeah. They're just a guy. Yeah yeah
but I mean I grew up with the knowledge that anything I said around my family
was going to be challenged and I had to be ready to back it up defend it
basically debate it. Debate it yeah. So there was a lot of times I would pause and think
about what I was going to say and then make it as generic and bland as possible
so no one would challenge me. So there are all sorts of reasons to pause and
very carefully think about what the next thing you're gonna say is. If you grow up
around somebody with a violent temper or somebody who's a narcissist you're
constantly worrying about the next thing you say. Yes I get that. Yeah. Yeah. Okay
let's see the last one I had and it's just a joke. Yeah. Should Carolina apologize to the league?
I think they should. I think it's Jacksonville that needs to apologize. Well yeah Jacksonville.
Really people didn't expect that much from Carolina but they expected a lot
more from Jacksonville this year. I think they owe the league an apology and a Whitman Sampler.
Yeah yeah and anybody who bet on Jacksonville at the beginning of the season
should get a rebate. Yes and a voucher for future. A voucher would be good yeah.
Yeah yeah. They'll buy one bet one free kind of thing. Yeah yeah. Okay I've got some what ifs.
Okay. So I think I was into the bullet points. And then I had some just interesting things I
discovered during the passing week if we have time. Okay well okay mine should go pretty quick
here. So okay football what ifs. What if Joe Montana stayed with the 49ers and Steve Young
was traded. Wow fewer rings. I don't think Montana would have won. The other ring. No.
That Young would have. Where Young only got one ring? He only got one ring. Oh okay. They
definitely would not have been the playoff force and the dynamic dynasty that they were. It was
George Seifert also. It was not Bill Walsh or not Bill. Yeah Bill Walsh. Yeah Bill Walsh stepped
down health reasons I believe. He stepped down and George Seifert was the heir apparent. Yeah but it
wasn't quite the same team for a lot of obvious reasons. Some of the older people were growing a
little old on the vine too. Yeah yeah. So I would tend to say no also because Steve Young gritted
that whole season and playoff out. Yeah. The biggest reason they won was because he made stuff
happen. Yeah yeah that's he definitely took the whole franchise on his back and pushed him into
that win. At that point had been injured too many times of getting too older to do it anymore. Yeah
I agree I think so yeah they would not have had the playoff success from the Super Bowl. Playoff.
Yeah Young gave them. Okay I agree with that. Okay um what if Andy Reid coached Tom Brady with the
Patriots? Wow. That one right there I'm kind of like huh. Yeah it's gonna sound like a flip answer
but this is really what I think. Without Bill Belichick there to cheat they would not have had
the success and Andy Reid wouldn't have gone up there and cheated like that. No he wouldn't have.
I'm gonna give him three rings with him. Yeah and no undefeated season. Yeah no undefeated season.
Well they didn't get that anyhow. No they got an undefeated regular season. Regular season. And then
lost in the playoffs. Yeah but yeah I think without Belichick up there conspiring with Tom Brady to
cheat. Yeah. Because Brady was willing fully taking all the information that was illegally
gotten. Yeah he was. He didn't care where it came from. He was an accomplice. Yeah he was definitely
all the way in on it. So without that dynamic I don't see New England having nearly the dynasty
they have. I give them three rings. Yeah. Yeah. And also he would have been there another tier of three
years because he went to left under Reid. That's true. That's true. I'm gonna give him four rings.
Yeah I could see that. Okay. All right next one. What would what would have happened if Patrick
Mahomes is drafted by Carolina? Probably about as bad as Chicago. Yep. Carolina doesn't know how to
develop a quarterback and they've been running the franchise as strictly a business venture for at
least the last five years. They don't really care if they win or make the playoffs or any of that.
It's just let's have let's fill the seats and sell a lot of merchandise and that's good enough. I
don't see Mahomes thriving in that situation. No me neither. Yeah he would have wound up being
kind of an average quarterback there with flashes of brilliance. And I think someone like Andy Reid
would see something and go you know what let's trade for him and see what we can get. Shanahan
might have gotten him in San Francisco and that would be a whole different story in San Francisco.
I agree. Yeah. Because pretty much their quarterbacks are really really good. They have been really good.
But Garoppolo could not dime that pass. Yeah. So they lost that one and then Brock Purdy under
pressure is a different quarterback. Yeah true. He could not force the ball to different people.
So yeah I yeah I think you're right. Interesting. What's interesting? Just what we're talking about.
Oh okay. All right. What if Bill Belichick was never a coach but the NFL commissioner?
Oh yeah. How do you like that little curveball? Well I hmm you know in a way he really seems like
the guy who he does doesn't he? He could get sleazy enough to be a good commissioner for the NFL.
Oh I think he'd do marvelous that. Yeah. And I think if he got pissed off at somebody that would
be that everyone would know not to piss him off. They'd be like look you can do anything but don't
piss that guy off in the big chair. He's like Vince McMahon would do. I think he would have done
pretty well in Tagliabue's spot. Yeah. But for right now the commissioner is basically the
flunky of the owners. Yes. And Belichick wouldn't have been anybody's flunky. I agree. And Belichick
doesn't have the schmoozing power that Pete Rosell did or that Roger Goodell has. Yeah. If he
didn't like you and didn't want to schmooze you he'd tell you to fuck off and get out of his office.
Yeah. But he would have gotten a lot of things accomplished just by pure force of will and
being willing to be willing to be as dirty as possible. Yeah. Yep. It would have been a
different league but I think it would have been just as successful. Yep. Okay. Interesting. That
was a nice one to think about. Yeah I like that one a lot. Yeah. And then finally what if Josh
Allen was suddenly traded to Chicago right now? And Caleb Williams went to Buffalo but we can
get to that on the next one. Yeah. I don't think Josh Allen would thrive in Buffalo.
I mean he'd have success but that's not really his kind of team. I agree. Yeah.
Um it would be a mismatch. Yeah. Might work short term but long term nah. I agree.
He would be a bridge player at best. I agree. Okay. All right. You had some observations or something.
Something that I read about recently. Nothing to do with football of course. There's a class action
lawsuit that is being settled against Pyrex. That's the company that makes those oven proof glass
items. Apparently there was 110,000 glass measuring cups that went out printed made in USA
that were not made in USA. I bet that happens all the time. I'm sure it does but accidentally.
Pyrex just got caught but I'm absolutely positive it was not a mistake. They intentionally did that.
They would have to go and get the items that have already been made somewhere else and put that on
there or else have the other have the uh. So it's just going to be what it is. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. So they got caught. Also recently there was over 100,000 counterfeit Gibson guitars that came
into the country and that were seized. No shit. A lot of Gibsons are being counterfeited. Fenders.
Even Epiphone's are starting to be counterfeited now. Even the cheaper brand guitars are starting
to be counterfeited. Wow. Because it's just it's super easy to counterfeit. It's like all these
t-shirts. Yeah. T-shirts are a huge market where if you have like the officially jerseys,
the officially licensed adds like 50% cost to it because that's their cut. Yeah. And then
just if you get an official license it's an excuse to pay five times the price. Yeah. Yeah. And you
can't sell them unless they're officially licensed. Yeah. But they do. And you know it's
interesting to remember is the football games with the official NFL license and the ones without
same price. Really? Yep. So not all of them do? It's because the price is fixed for video games.
Oh okay. Across the board all the competitors get together and fix a price and then EA has to just
eat the cost of the league official league tie-in. Okay. But of course the all the other football
games died out because nobody wanted to pay for them if they didn't have the real players in them.
Yep. Players. But for a while there was a football version of the game coming out
with none of the player names and it cost just as much as the NFL version because people were
willing to pay it. And that's a price fix that you're talking about. Yeah. It's the price fix.
If you're going to sell this it has to cost this much. 60 bucks is the current price fixing.
Okay. That makes sense. Yeah. That's uh yeah. Um. Oh I saw
an example of things becoming totally different from how they started out.
Have you seen the commercials for Charmin ass wipe? Yeah. The blue cartoon bears and the red
cartoon bears and that's years and years that they've been using these cute funny cartoon bears to
advertise their product. Do you know how the ad campaign started? No. Why is it? It started out
with somebody saying does a bear shit in the woods? Yes and he uses Charmin to wipe his ass with.
That's where honestly speaking that is where the ad campaign started. A bear shitting in the woods
and then using Charmin to wipe his ass. And now it has evolved into this happy little family of
cartoon bears that can't do without their Charmin. I asked this last night on the podcast. I'm going
to ask you who do you trust more? A talking box that wants you to wipe your ass and throw it in it
and mail it somewhere? Or a Gecko that sells you insurance or an emu? Oh god. I think I trust the emu.
I don't think none of the above. A little box that says hey take a shit wipe your ass and throw it in me and mail me.
Yeah they play it up on the commercial like it's some great thing but literally you're wiping your
ass on a cardboard box and mailing it. And mailing it. That's what you're doing. Do you know people
thought it was illegal to mail shit? No it isn't. There's your point right there. No. I delivered
used tampons in the mail. I've delivered dead mice. I delivered used soiled panties. Oh you told us about that?
Oh my god. Yeah. Nasty. I bet every time you're like you're looking at the package making sure
there's not a leak or something. Anything that was lumpy or smelled bad it was like can I have a
plastic bag to put this in? I've got to go get my other coffee or whatever. So hang on.
Oh and speaking of wiping your fecal material in the box and mailing it away, 23andMe is continuing
to be parceled off in bankruptcy and there are now is a serious bidder to buy all of the DNA
information that everyone has sent in to 23andMe because your your privacy agreement was with
23andMe and they don't exist anymore. So the DNA information they have on file for all these people
is up for sale. Oh my god. Yeah so be careful what you share with a company even if they promise they'll
never share it. That company could get bought tomorrow and your agreement's in the lingoid.
We could focus in on that on the next podcast or whatever.
Yeah isn't that crazy? No one ever bargained for that. No no and you know I thought about it at the
times like you want me to send my DNA into this company and they're not just going to throw it
away when they're done they're going to use it for whatever they want to use it for. I agree.
Yeah another good example of this remember the app Pokemon Go? Yeah. Okay that only existed because
there was a company that wanted to compete with Google Maps and they couldn't afford to send out
a bunch of people or cars with cameras and they wanted to get mapping info for places where the
Google Map cars couldn't go. So the way they did it was they invented a game called Pokemon Go that
required you to open your camera give the app permission and then run around with your camera
focused everywhere. Wow. Because you could only see the little Pokemon creatures if you looked at
your phone with a camera. So every bit of time that you had your camera open and were playing
that game that was mapping data that was sent for free back to this company and that's what they
wanted anyway. And if they had an area that wasn't you know they weren't getting enough mapping info
on it they'd just go put some highly desirable fake creatures there and people would flood into that
area with their phones and map it all out for them. Wow. We were being used like lab rats.
That was the whole reason for the existence of Pokemon Go was to get us to provide free mapping
data for them. And now that company is selling all that info off for millions and millions and
millions of dollars and we gave it to them for free. All they had to do is give us a stupid
simple little colorful game and we bought right in. All right is it ready to go then is it creeps?
Yeah. Okay well we'll have to do the intro again I could not separate it and have it sound good at
all. Okay well not supposed to sound good anyway. Yeah that's true but I couldn't get it anyhow.
Did you 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.