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Alright, these sports bastards.
Yes.
Yeah, we are back.
Well, should we get right to it
and start with the Chiefs Texans,
the Texans versus the Chiefs, I guess?
Yeah, or as the Texans say,
the referees.
Yes.
Let's go over that a little bit.
Yeah, let's do.
Okay, the Texans had 13 ejections.
They were third in the league, both leagues.
13 ejections due to unnecessary roughness.
Yeah, that's a culture.
Yes, it is.
That's a teen culture.
Yeah, they're third, only two behind the leader.
The Chiefs were way down there at like number 20
with six of them.
Okay, so the Texans,
here's what happened.
The Texans are dirty players,
and they were trying to knock Mahomes out of the game.
Two helmets coming at a guy that's falling on the ground,
trying to spear him from each side,
they're trying to knock him out of the game.
And they were told ahead of time,
I'm certain of this, they were told ahead of time,
hey, they've been known to do this,
like Al Shearer and those guys.
These guys have been known to hit people
and tried to knock them out of the game.
I mean, as Trevor Lawrence.
Pretty easy to see.
So, ever since that Trevor Lawrence situation,
they've been watching him.
And I'm sure the league has told the Texans,
we're watching you because you've got a pattern and a history,
and you're knocking out the big money makers.
Yes, so you pussies down there in fucking Texas,
you guys couldn't be more wrong.
You guys are idiots,
but I don't even think you believe your own drivel.
You're trying to make an excuse for your team
that did not get any better,
although you signed a bunch of people.
There are a bunch of Houston Texan fans that get it.
And then there's the whiny bitchy few
that want to blame anybody except their own team.
Yeah, that's a better way of putting it.
When I say Texan fans,
I'm talking about the few that refuse to admit it.
It's like the fake liberals.
You have the bandwagon fans or the whiny fans
that are only happy when everything's going their way.
Oh, you can see that now.
Now that Trump's in office,
you can see them waving their tiny little fists.
It's like, get out of here, man.
Just go. Just leave us alone.
You know, and I'm not saying I'm for anybody.
What I'm saying is the phony outrage.
Yeah.
Enough.
Here's a little side note.
You remember the show Frasier?
Yes.
The reboot of it is two seasons in,
and CBS is announced
that even though they were expected to pick it up for another season,
they've announced, nope, we're not gonna.
We don't want it. It's done.
And it's because Kelsey Grammer is a Trump supporter in Trump 1.
Oh, I didn't know that.
Yeah.
He's actually a fairly well-known to be a Trump supporter.
And this is the studio's punishment to take away his TV show.
Well, you see, in my opinion,
the people that did that are phony liberals
because if you really believed, if you really believed in personal choice,
if you really believed in acceptance,
if you really believed in freedom for all,
Kelsey Grammer, in that world, Kelsey Grammer can be a Trump supporter,
and you would still love him the same.
Yeah, every time I see someone who claims to be a liberal or a leftist
taking revenge on somebody because they don't like the way they think
or the way they view politics,
yeah, you're fake.
You're fake.
You're a real liberal.
You're a fake liberal.
And you're probably saying you are just to get laid.
Yeah, yeah, that's right.
Some chick with hairy underarms and body odor.
So anyway, there's side note there.
I think we got our point across on the Texas fans.
But definitely that play, the two Texans players were coming in.
You could see them lower their heads and aim for Mahomes head.
And I think it's reasonable to believe that the Texans players have been told,
knock out the good players on the other team,
injure them enough to where they can't play.
Because you're not going to win if you don't do that.
And that says a lot about your team if that's how you have to win.
I forgot the name of the guy that did graze Mahomes' helmet.
That will get a penalty every time.
It doesn't matter.
It does not matter.
You'll also get a fine from the league office.
Yeah, and he probably is going to look at a fine too.
Troy Aikman, fucking retire you idiot.
You're a blathering fool.
I don't see anything wrong.
I don't think there's a penalty there.
Nobody asked you, you stupid fuck.
And I think the league is going to get on his ass and say,
you don't have an opinion, you have the league's opinion.
That's what we pay you to give is the league's message.
So I think they're going to tell Troy Aikman,
shut up with your own personal opinions.
That's what it sounded like to me, a fucking ape.
He probably was nervous as hell and knew he was doing something wrong
and he knew he was going to get called into corporate offices and yelled at
because he aired a personal contrary opinion
that made the NFL officials look like they didn't know what they're doing.
Yes.
NFL doesn't like that.
No, they don't.
And even though he works for the network, he still works for the NFL too.
You can look at him and tell he's a little, I don't know, something.
Touched, they used to call it or something like that.
Yeah, I think his impulse control is a little off
because most people would realize, yeah, I'm on the company time here.
I better not say anything against.
All this is personal opinion.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
And everything allegedly and all that good shit to cover our ass, okay?
So he looks to me like three seconds away from fucking starting a fight.
They ripped the Texans off.
Come on, man.
Yeah, you can see his Texas loyalty shining through.
Oh, yeah, you can.
I saw the most hilarious video this morning on Facebook.
It was a woman who was saying, the Texans fans are right.
The referees did win the game for the Chiefs and I have the video proof.
And then she started showing the video and she would photoshop in an NFL referee.
I sent that to you.
Yeah, okay, you sent it to us.
So the referee in there yanking the guy's helmet off and making him throw it.
The referee jumping in there and blocking that kick.
She was illustrating through the absurd because it's so funny.
She goes, how can this be a perfect pass?
And it shows the referee guiding the ball to Travis Kelsey.
It was such a beautiful way to deflate all the idiots.
He was like, oh, let's focus on only the things that make our argument
and ignore everything else.
Yes.
So look, Texas, you guys are going to get this next year too unless you clean up your act.
The fact is you spent a lot of cap money getting people that were supposed to take you over the top and it didn't.
Actually, C.J. Stroud came back down to earth.
There's a year of tape on him and they figured him out.
Yeah, he needs to change for next year.
Yes, he does.
The reason Mahomes didn't have to is because he is not the regular quarterback.
He can adapt during the course of a game and he has like nine different things he can switch up and do.
Stroud still is at the point, I think, where he needs the game plan.
He needs the game plan, yes.
Mahomes can read the defenses so well.
He changes stuff on the spot.
C.J. Stroud really didn't do that.
No.
Not that I could tell.
He wasn't telling people, hey, look at the formation and pointing around.
You see Mahomes doing that all the time.
He'll stand up and he'll look.
He'll do a signal like they're going to do a blitz.
And then he's signaling to the rest of the players there on the field because he has the helmet that has communication.
But he already identified it because he studies the game enough.
And whenever they do a blitz or a trick play, something going on that they're trying to do, he alerts the players to move around.
You know, I'm thinking about this as you're speaking, and I remember in the Texans, they would have the center pointing and turning around and telling the quarterback, you know, pointing.
That's exactly what I'm talking about.
Here's the mic linebacker.
There's the strong safety.
Mahomes does that himself.
The center doesn't have to.
That tells me that the center was reading the defenses, not C.J. Stroud.
Yeah.
That's a difference in ability.
I hope C.J. Stroud gets that ability because he'll be so much more fun to watch.
I'm not so high on him now.
No, no.
Jaden Daniels is a new sexy guy in town now.
Everyone's all over him.
He's looking pretty good.
He is looking.
He's looking better than C.J. Stroud did last year by far.
Yeah.
And the reason is, is he is a five-star player.
Every aspect of the game, he's got five stars.
Yeah.
I mean, no matter what he does.
Excuse me.
This guy is going to be interesting to see him develop.
Yeah.
And I give him a decent shot because of this right here, of going to the Super Bowl.
He has the imp factor.
Yeah, he does.
You create your own luck.
I've always said this.
And I believe this firmly.
You put yourself in a position to have a little luck and it will happen.
Yeah.
That's happened to Mahomes his whole career.
You don't just get lucky by walking out on the street and looking down at the road and looking at a rock.
Yeah.
You get lucky by forming that.
You put yourself in a position of success and it will happen.
Yeah.
And that's what Mahomes does, the right mindset.
And that's where someone like Andy Reid comes along.
Oh, yeah.
Andy Reid says, you don't accept anything except the best.
Yeah.
And that's what you give 100% on the field.
Brady used the term cardiac commanders, which is an odd expression.
That's a good...
Because that one came out in the 80s, didn't it?
It did, but he brought it back.
I thought that was kind of cool.
Yeah.
I think that could apply to any of the new style of quarterbacks that you can just never count out, no matter what.
Yeah.
Mahomes is one, Josh Allen is one, Jaden Daniels is looking like one.
Yeah.
I thought Justin Herbert was going to be that guy, but he kind of isn't.
The more I see him, the more he's looking like Philip Rivers of the same team, a guy that can put up stats.
Well, he's not even Philip Rivers.
He doesn't even put out the stats now.
No, Philip Rivers was tough.
Yeah.
Justin Herbert, I think he's decently tough, but Philip Rivers was way tough.
Yeah.
Justin Herbert looks to me like a guy that has the tools, but doesn't have the drive.
That's a good way to put it, yeah.
I don't think he quite believes in himself or the system or something.
No, something's going on there.
Yeah.
There's a disconnect, and Jim Harbaugh's not figuring it out as of right now.
Yeah.
Don't get me wrong.
First year, he took them to the playoffs when they're abysmal last year, which was good,
but the performance in the playoffs showed that they should not have even been there.
Yeah, yeah.
And this is a team we just took apart systematically with eight sacks, a blocked field goal, a missed point after because of the penetration.
Yeah.
The guy was nervous.
That's why he missed it.
So there's all these things that happen because we're playing at a high level and 100%.
Yeah.
So the Texans dismantled the Chargers, and we dismantled the Texans.
Yeah.
So that tells you right there.
Yeah, the Chargers.
Let's see, who would have been in if the Chargers hadn't made it in?
Would it have been maybe Miami?
I think Miami would have put a better fight of whoever because the Chiefs weren't in it.
The Chiefs would have dismantled them because they have their number.
Yeah.
They blow up Tyreek Hill at the line, and it's done.
Pretty much.
Another key thing is Jalen Watson is back.
Yes.
That guy is such a deep ball expert, if you will.
Yeah.
He seems to show up right when you need him.
I remember his name getting called a lot before he got injured in week seven.
Yeah.
I was really high on him.
He is a guy that works so well with Spagnolo because he has many faces.
You can put him on so many different looks of the defense and so many different reads.
That's what kind of player he is.
He was slowly developing and quietly developing into a premier shutdown guy.
Yeah.
I'm wondering, are they grooming him to be like the guy who covers the slot receiver?
That's what I'm thinking.
Or the nickel corner?
Yes, the nickel in the slot.
That's what it looked like to me, and he's sure done a good job because he pretty much took it away.
This is his first game back after having a broken ankle.
Yeah.
He was out about 10 weeks.
Yeah, 10 weeks.
I couldn't believe we got him back.
I was like, wow, this is perfect timing.
It is.
The only person left on injured reserve is Rashi Rice.
He's not coming back.
No, no.
No.
Boy, we've all done a really good job of forgetting about his legal troubles, haven't we?
Yeah, we did.
That's going to come up still.
We'll deal with that in the offseason.
I just remembered another bullet point.
I forgot to bring my bullet points over.
Do you want to get into them here now, some bullet points?
Yeah, we can cover the other three games in a bit.
Okay, I just remembered one.
Okay, number one, will Aaron Rodgers go to a subpar team, a losing team, just to stay
playing?
Wow.
You know, I don't really think he will.
No, his ego will not let him, I'm pretty sure.
You know, that would help to rehabilitate his image, but I don't think he really cares
that much about that.
He doesn't have that much time either.
True.
You know, if he's going to coach up a team and develop with them for three years, he's
not the type of guy that can do like Tom Brady and play until he's 45.
Yeah, and there's a whole category of injuries that would end his career, whereas a younger
quarterback would just, you know, come back next year.
Yeah, yeah, so.
Yeah, he's one strained or torn ligament away from retiring.
Okay, yeah, I agree.
I don't think he will either.
What if the Raiders came at him and Tom Brady behind it?
Wow, wouldn't that be ironic for Devontae Adams?
Because that's the team he left to go reunite with Aaron Rodgers.
But even Devontae saying, you know, Aaron Rodgers really isn't all that.
It's not that big a deal.
No, no, no, no, no, I know.
And for somebody that's supposed to be such buddies with him, he sure turned on him quick.
Yeah, yeah.
So I imagine Devontae stays where he is.
I can see Aaron Rodgers going to the Raiders, especially if they give him a promise of being
able to move into management.
Yeah, and also I think Tom Brady would be like, okay, we're going to go after this guy,
this guy, and this guy.
What do you think of that?
Yeah, yeah, they could use him.
As long as he's not on another team, they could use him as an advisor on personnel matters.
Well, he'd have to be very quiet about it, number one, because he's a commentator.
Tom Brady is the guy that basically built that team in Tampa, and he had a lot to say so with the Patriots.
Yeah.
You know, he went to Tampa and said, yeah, I'll come there, but I want this guy, this guy,
and this guy.
Gronk was one of them, and who was another one?
It was a receiver, I think.
Yeah, a couple of, there was a receiver and then somebody else.
He said, I want these three guys, and if you get these three guys, I'm in.
So they got those three guys, and he came in, and they won a Super Bowl.
Yeah, they did.
So I misunderstood, because I thought you were saying Aaron Rodgers would advise them on who to get.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
You were saying Tom Brady.
Tom Brady, I'm sorry.
Yeah, I misunderstood it, so.
Okay.
Okay, so let's say.
I think the bomb under our table is about to go off.
It is.
If I could shut that thing, if I could figure out how to undo that damn thing, I would.
Oh, yeah.
Okay, so let's look at some possible landing spots that would be good for, let's say Aaron Rodgers wants to go on with his career.
Okay.
One that I thought of was the Cleveland Browns.
Yeah.
If they have a cap room.
They've got a decent enough team around him.
I don't know about the Panthers so much.
I think they need some other help.
Watson is out for a considerable amount of time next year, too, because he reentered his MCL, I think it was, right after he had it fixed.
Yeah.
But he had to have another surgery on it.
The Cleveland Browns can't have him on the roster and win, and they can't afford to get rid of him.
What are they going to do?
You'll have to draft somebody is the only thing you can do because I don't think they have the space for Aaron Rodgers, but if they did, it'd be a perfect landing spot.
Another one would be he could follow Brett Favre's footsteps and go to Minnesota.
Yeah.
You have receivers, you have Justin Jefferson, you have a really good defense.
And that would be the exact trajectory that Brett Favre took.
Green Bay to New York Jets to Minnesota.
Yeah.
I could see him doing that.
I could, too.
I mean, I think that would make the optimal amount of sense for him.
I could see Minnesota have an interest in him after the Sam Darnold wild card player.
Yeah.
Sam Darnold.
Maybe Atlanta, maybe New Orleans.
Yeah.
But Atlanta is a more complete team than New Orleans is, I think, right now.
Yeah, absolutely.
And as far as Deshaun Watson goes, I thought of a way that the Cleveland Browns can get out from under him.
Trade him to the Raiders.
They don't even have to get that complex.
They can set him up to take a fall for some sort of morals clause in his contract.
Yeah.
And that way they could dump him and write off the cap penalties and all that.
So if the Cleveland Browns are desperate enough, they'll set him up to get busted again for something that they can say,
look, what a horrible person he is.
We can't hit him on our team.
Yeah, you're out of here.
Yeah.
That could happen.
If they're desperate enough and if they need that money enough, they could run him out of the league on a trumped up morals issue.
Yeah.
Okay.
So I think Minnesota would be the best spot for him and I think they do have some cap room.
Well, I think that if Aaron Rodgers wants to play for a good team, he's going to have to accept the cap as what it is.
True.
He's not going to get an extraordinary amount of money on any team that's ready.
Yeah, he got that with the Jets.
He needs to be happy with that and go signs or whatever.
Yeah.
Yes.
So if Minnesota is interested in him, I think that would be the most logical landing spot for him.
Okay.
Speaking of Sam Darnold.
Okay.
Jared Goff.
Jared Goff became Jared Goff again and he was one of the guys that I said Jared Goff will be Jared Goff eventually.
Yeah, that was a really bad loss for the Lions.
Yeah.
It was worse than the score indicated.
They were the best team ever.
Ask any talking head.
You know, from Skip Tard to, I don't know, Calhurd wasn't quite so high on him.
No, but just about everybody else was.
Yeah, everybody else was.
Everyone was like, oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
If the Chiefs come here, that's it.
They're done.
Yeah.
And, yeah, the story of them.
Bill Cowher was up their ass.
Oh my God.
He was so far up their ass you could only see his shoelaces.
Yeah.
You know why Cowher's not coaching anymore.
Yeah.
He makes bad judgments, obviously.
You know, Jared Goff, he's the type of guy that if you come at him hard and heavy and
you have a good pass rushing, you're going to get to him.
He will make mistakes.
He's not that disciplined when it counts.
So during the season, you're playing all these teams and they don't have that much.
They have a lot into it, but not like the playoffs.
Yeah.
The playoffs, you have the people that fucking, they fought, scratched, and clogged their
way to the top, and they're not giving up.
They're generally smarter players, more prepared players, more prepared staffs.
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
It just, that kind of answers the questions about why did the Lions have some success
during the season if the Rams just told everybody, this is how you defeat them.
They have no answer for this.
I've got one for you.
Maurice Schottenheimer with the Chiefs.
You have everything but the quarterback.
Yeah, that's true.
Everything but the quarterback is a flawed philosophy.
You have to have the quarterback.
Josh Allen in Detroit, they'd have a title.
Oh gosh, yeah.
Oh, three or four maybe.
Yeah.
Well, they haven't come to fruition that long.
They have two.
Yeah, they have two.
Yeah.
Well, I don't know.
They've been facing the Chiefs, and we'll get it out here in a little bit.
Yeah.
The Chiefs have something that nobody can figure out really.
Yeah, that's, the defense is just amazing in that Texans game.
Yeah.
And I will be very sad if Spags goes, becomes a head coach somewhere else, but he's supposedly
interviewing a little bit, but I would not be surprised if the Chiefs win the Super Bowl
with a three-peat, Kelsey retires, Andy retires, Spags gets elevated to head coach.
I don't think Andy's going to retire.
He just signed a huge deal.
Yeah, but that would kind of work out well to keep Spags here.
I think that's the only way you can do it though is if Andy retires.
I think what they might do here to keep him is say, as soon as Andy retires, it's yours.
Yeah, that would be a violation of the Rooney rule, but nobody cares about that apparently.
No, no, no, no, no, they do that shit all the time.
You just don't announce it.
Yeah, I mean the Lions just hired a head coach, a white guy.
Did they interview any people of color?
No.
No, they didn't.
The Rooney rule says they have to.
That's no biggie.
Okay, thanks.
No, I know.
But apparently the Rooney rule either doesn't apply anymore or is just being ignored because...
It's not sexy anymore, I guess.
It's sexy for a while for people to scream.
They need to hire somebody, they need to at least interview a black person.
Or a Hispanic or Asian or...
Or a Hispanic or some sort of minority, which did not happen.
Yeah, because I remember Tom Flores for a while was the guy that everybody interviewed because he was Hispanic and then they go hire the guy they wanted.
But it just shows that all along the NFL never took it seriously and was just doing it to appease the people who were complaining.
I respect this better.
They're just like, oh, okay, we're just not doing that.
They're not trying to act like they're doing it, they're just not doing it.
And it may be that the NFL has demonstrated, you know, we don't care if a guy has got a different ethnicity, we're going to hire the best.
And right now this guy is the best and he just happens to be white.
Yeah.
I think that's kind of what they're doing is the NFL has shown that they are willing to hire people of color for important positions.
So I think they relaxed the Rooney rule.
And they will continue and there'll be a part of, I'll put it like as in the quarterback.
You didn't see any black quarterbacks for what?
I don't know, for quite a while, but about 15 years ago that started to change.
And now I would say at least half of them.
Yeah.
So I think the same thing is going to happen with the big coaching positions is people are going to figure out, you know what, this guy, this is a guy we can hire and he's going to do really good for us.
You know, no skin color involved, just this guy's the best one for it.
And it's going to keep happening because, you know, I mean, there's a lot of very well qualified.
You know, I was just thinking about something.
The Cleveland Browns, I think started faltering when their general manager Ozzie Newsome left.
Yeah. Yeah.
And he was a former player and he's black and he did an excellent job.
He really did.
And when he left, the team faltered.
And what else do you need to see?
You know, do you really need the all white club to lead your team?
I mean, how much more evidence do you need to see that it doesn't matter how much pigmentation their skin has?
Well, the problem is, is everybody's seeing it taking everything in skin color and not as the person themselves.
Yeah, it's funny that diversity tends to be only what sighted people.
Exactly.
You get blind people in there and they can't tell your team's diverse.
They can't tell by, you know, because they can't see the skin color.
That seems to be what we're stuck on as far as diversity.
Oh, look at the skin color and then make it diverse.
A really good businessman. They don't care.
Yeah. Yeah.
Best guy. Who's going to make you more money? This guy?
Oh, he's black. OK, so all right. Go get him.
Yeah. But it's funny. Diversity is just diversity for sighted people.
Yeah. We don't take into account blind people.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. But I mean, you got to start somewhere.
I get that. I get that.
But the thing is, is really is, is this I think it's actually washing itself out now.
There are a few black head coaches and there'll be a lot more coming to sight quarterbacks.
We'll have to wait and see if it goes the way of gun control laws,
because for decades, gun control laws have been useless, pointless, ineffective.
But it's something that is talked about and passed to make everybody feel good
and feel like they've done something. Oh, well, it's a start. No, that's true.
It's a distraction and it's them jangling shiny keys in front of your face.
It's not a start. It's true. It's making you shut up for a while.
Yeah, that's true. It's appeasing. Yeah. Oh, see, see, we did it.
I'm pretty sure that every company who's doing the diversity and equity and inclusion stuff
is doing it because there's something in it for them and they're going to drop it
the moment there's nothing in it. Exactly. Yeah.
Bottom line, business is business. Yeah.
OK. Speaking of Spagnolo, that's where this all started.
Yeah. But we do what we do here. Yeah.
OK. Well, if he does be a head coach, will he be successful?
With the right offensive coordinator? Yeah, because just a purely defensive head coach.
That doesn't really work. I agree.
Because the league is biased towards offense and scoring points and the G-Wiz plays
and the excitement. Yeah.
So if you go in with an offensive, defensive mindset, you're already at a disadvantage.
Yeah, I agree.
He would need a very strong offensive coordinator and let him run the show.
Yeah. Yeah. OK. Spags plays for the Chiefs, right?
Or is coach for the Chiefs? OK.
The big game coming up, again, the usual suspects. Yeah.
And the Bills are going to be at the Chiefs this time for a championship game.
If Josh Allen loses this, will he be viewed as a Philip Rivers type of guy,
a guy that can get you to the playoffs but not get you over the hump?
I think so. And unfortunately, Buffalo has another example they can easily compare it to,
is the four teams that made the Super Bowl and lost every one of them.
Yeah. I was going to say him. What the hell is his name? Jim Kelly.
Jim Kelly. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Jim Kelly is actually a better example, a guy that can get you all these stats.
Or will he be known as Patrick Mahomes era?
Should have had a couple of rings, but he couldn't.
You know, I think they will take that into account when considering people for honors,
such as the Hall of Fame, et cetera, was the Mahomes era.
Because that is such a huge obstacle for a lot of these players to overcome.
And just making the playoffs and winning one in the Mahomes era is pretty damn good.
Yeah. I agree. Yeah. I agree.
I think making the playoffs out of the AFC West during the Mahomes era is an accomplishment.
I agree. Because the Chiefs have won seven in a row.
Yeah. I agree. Or no. More than that. It's seven AFC championships in a row?
Yeah. And like nine or ten West championships.
Yeah. The last team to win it before the Chiefs was Denver.
So think back how long it's been since Denver had a team that could win the division.
Oh, shit. That's how long it's been since the Chiefs have done it.
I think we're going on ten years now. I think so.
Ten seasons. Pretty close to it. Yeah. Yep.
Wow. Okay. If the Chiefs win against the Bills, will they finally get credit where it's deserved?
That will be a three-peat never done before.
Yeah. I think they will. I think that will kind of put them up there with the all-time dynasties and greatest teams of all time.
I think so, too.
I mean, look at the 85 Bears. That was a one-year wonder with that team.
But they're forever known as one of the greatest teams ever, even though that's not even close to being true.
Yeah. I mean, they really didn't. They had a dominating defense, but they didn't really blow anyone away.
They had to fight and scratch for every one of those games they won.
Jim McMahon was like a Trent Dilfer. Just kind of like a low-key guy. Didn't make a lot of mistakes, but didn't make a lot of plays.
Just kind of like heavy running game. Take time off the clock and let your defense do the rest.
Pretty much, yeah.
Yeah. So, I mean, Mike Dick knew exactly how to play that and win, and he did.
So, yeah, I think the Chiefs could easily surpass the Bears as far as greatest team of all time.
Yeah.
I think this year's team, with all the injuries and having to sub players, it's definitely in strong conversation for one of the best teams of all time.
Yes. And there's going to be a bunch of little side notes, too.
So, if they make it to the Super Bowl and they get 10 points behind, this is going to be the first time the other team freaks out.
Yeah. Oh, God, we're ahead. That's bad for us.
We're ahead by 10 points. Guys.
That's hilarious.
People may not say they believe in that, but you tell me it wouldn't enter their head.
Yeah. Oh, and do a group pose.
Oh, yeah.
Do that. Wait a minute.
Yeah. Sports players are generally superstitious, so I think they would definitely think about that.
Yeah. So, I think that they will get legitimacy with the people that are honest.
Yeah. The people that are not honest? No. They'll never get legitimacy.
And that's just all there is to it.
Marty Schoenheimer is one that said it really good. He said, if you blame the refs for losing a game, then you're not good.
You're not good enough. He always said, don't blame the refs.
And I agree with that.
Yeah, that does seem like the easy excuse.
It is.
Oh, they're all against us.
You know, the thing, I think, to calmly and rationally remember is, if the referees really are influencing the games
and making these decisions and calls to make sure one team wins over another,
then the league and their gambling partners are okay with it.
Yes.
Because otherwise, they would do something about it.
The bookies are not going to lose a bunch of bets because an NFL official stepped in and made the wrong call.
They're not going to put up with that.
I've got a great example for you, too. And here's why people are naturally leery.
And all I got to say is, would Vegas do something underhanded, Christopher?
Oh, let's see. Vegas? Yeah, I think so. They might.
Yeah, yeah. So, okay. So the game against the Texans, we were up by, let's see, the two points.
So we're up by, let's see, it was 25 to 12. Was that it?
Yeah.
And then 25 to 14.
Yeah, because the Chiefs ran out of the back of the end zone to run some time off the clock and gave up the safety.
And that enabled them to do a free kick instead of a punt.
Yes.
That actually helped them win the game.
Yeah, it did. Well, a lot of people say that's because of Vegas and the spread.
Yeah, that too.
Because a lot of people, the bet, I guess, lost a lot of money when they did that.
But then again, it was a smart thing to do, too.
It was. But I have seen a number of games where it's just like guaranteed certainty that this one team is going to win.
But then right towards the end, the breaks and the calls go the way of the other team and they can go down and get a score and put it to within a one score game.
And then all of a sudden it goes back the other way and the other teams, you know, is dominant again.
But I can see them doing that to shave points off the spread.
So the bookies are happier with how the game ends.
But Andy Reid's explanation was brilliant. And it's legit.
He said to avoid a bad snap or something and the possibility of them getting back in the game.
Yeah. That's how you do it. And he's right.
And there was a movie in the 80s with Tom Cruise and Craig T. Nelson called All the Right Moves.
Yeah.
It's about a high school football team that was perennial losers, always losing to the rich schools.
And there was a point in one game where the team was actually going to win.
All they had to do was punt the ball and run the clock out or run the ball out of them, you know, because they were like on their own one yard line.
Yeah.
And the smart play would have been to hike the ball to the quarterback and have them run out of the back of the end zone, give up the safety and punt the ball.
Time would run out and they'd win.
Instead, the quarterback tried to run out of the end zone, fumbled.
The other team pounced on the ball and got a touchdown and won.
And it was like three hours later, the coach was lying in bed thinking, oh, my God, I should have taken the safety.
But see, Andy thought of it first. Andy thought of it right away.
It's like, take the safety. That way they can't get a cheap, easy touchdown off us.
Yeah. It was there in that movie in 1985. It just happened right like that.
The Super Bowl two years ago.
Yeah. They were instructed.
Who was it was wide open.
It was a running back of ours.
Williams, maybe.
Yeah. OK.
Wide open. Lays down to not to not get the touchdown.
Oh, that was number one.
Now it's worthy is number one.
Yeah. But it was like.
Yeah. Number one, McKinnon.
Yeah. Jared McKinnon. Yeah.
Jared McKinnon. Yeah. The running back. Jared McKinnon. It wasn't Williams.
Williams was the Super Bowl a couple before that. OK.
When we had to let Kareem Hunt go. Yeah. Yeah. OK.
Jared McKinnon had a clear path to the end zone, but he was instructed.
You're probably going to have a clear path. You lay down.
He laid down at the one yard line.
And the reason is because they knew at that point you kick a field goal
and you can run the clock out. Yeah.
If you do that, you have to get a two point conversion
because to guard against them getting one and winning the game
and leaving too much time on the clock for them.
Yeah. It's more a certain point.
It's more important to run the clock out than it is to score any more points.
Yeah. So Andy Reid has a history of doing stuff like that.
And I think that a lot of this stuff and this conspiracy stuff is bullshit
because at first I fell for it and I go, oh, that makes sense.
Then I got to think about it. I'm like, no, that's wrong.
Andy Reid has a mind like that.
And he wants to make sure if he's got a win in his pocket, he's keeping that win in his pocket.
And ironically, when he was in Philly in the first few years here in KC,
he was being criticized for poor clock management. I know.
But he has fixed that, hasn't he? Yes, he has.
He's a lot better at that.
You know how you fix that by having a quarterback like Mahomes.
You know, when you have an Alex Smith, you need all your timeouts.
And yeah, think of the teams that were never in a position to where critical clock management was an issue.
You never get the practice. Yeah. Yeah.
So anyhow, yeah. So let's see. I even forgot what we started in on, but OK.
Will Tom Brady make the Raiders legitimate?
I think so. I do too.
I just get this feeling that the Raiders owner, Mark Davis, is going to listen to Tom Brady and try it his way.
And when the success starts coming, he's going to say, all right, we'll do it your way.
I think that was the whole thought process of hiring Tom Brady or letting Tom Brady buy part of his minority ownership.
Yeah. Is we want his input.
And he's not an employee of Mark Davis. No, he's a co-owner.
Yeah. So that gives him a lot more gravitas. Yeah. Yep.
Yeah. So Mark Davis is smart enough to.
OK, Tom, what do you think we should do?
That way Davis gets to spend more time with his 18 year old wife.
Yeah, yes. Yes.
Him and Bill Belichick can have a double date. Yeah. Young, young, young girlfriends and wives.
Yep. They can have a cradle robbing party. Yeah.
They can go to like a Ferris wheel and maybe what was that, the the kids museum or something with them.
Yeah. Go see the clowns. Yeah.
Anyhow. All right. Who is Jaden Daniels ahead of already?
Sam Darnold. Yeah. Aaron Rodgers. Yeah.
Let's see. CJ Stroud. CJ Stroud. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
I think he's better than Trevor Lawrence at this point. Yes.
Does Trevor. Trevor. Somebody brought this up and it made sense.
Trevor Lawrence has not progressed since college. No, he hasn't.
He's the exact same player he was in college. Yeah. And I attribute that.
He's exactly what you get. He's a beach guy, just kind of like Herbert.
And especially with Doug Peterson, who's a known quarterback guy. Yeah.
And Trevor Lawrence hasn't progressed one bit.
No, he's not wanting. He doesn't have that. He doesn't have that gut for it.
Yeah. Kind of like I'm thinking Herbert, too. I think that they're too busy
just living their lives and living on the beach and they don't really care.
I think he's surpassed Russell Wilson. Yes.
Who else? Let's see. Oh, Bryce Young. Yeah, definitely Bryce Young.
Kyler Murray. Caleb Williams. Kyler Murray. Caleb Williams and Kyler Murray. Yeah.
There's a lot of quarterbacks with several years on them that he's just run right past.
Yeah. So it's safe to say that probably about 85% of the quarterbacks he jumped ahead of.
Boy, Washington is going to look back on that draft and really pat themselves on the back.
Yeah, they are. And another thing is this here. I think that Daniels is more legit than CJ Stroud.
Yeah. Because like I said, he's a five-star player. He has five stars on every front that you can see.
CJ Stroud isn't. CJ Stroud has, like Caleb Williams, he has talent that can be developed and exploited.
Jaden Daniels is just kind of way more complete already. You don't have to develop all that much with him.
I'll put it like this. OK, if Jaden Daniels is on the Texans and they lost,
he wouldn't have said anything like, CJ Stroud, like, oh yeah, yeah, you know, talking about the refs.
He would have been like, you know, we just got to play better. We got to play better. It'll take care of itself.
He would have taken that on his back and said, you know, it starts with me. I should have played better.
I should have picked up the pace. I should have thought not to do this, not to do that.
And he goes, yeah, you know what? I failed.
Or like Lamar Jackson said, you know, we were right there, but I'm tired of being right there.
I know. I appreciated that, too, because he's right. They're always right there, but they never get over it.
But I'll tell you Lamar Jackson's problem is, is two. Josh Allen and Patrick Mahal.
Yeah. Yeah, I think if Lamar Jackson and the whole Baltimore Ravens team moved to the NFC,
they would be much better. Yeah, they'd be in a couple of Super Bowls.
They'd be fighting. They'd be beating some people in the playoffs and getting to the Super Bowl.
Yeah, I mean, I could see them beating Sam Fran just with their game plan, how they do things.
But who knows? I mean, you know, Sam Fran was a very good team. We'll see how they rebound from this.
That's another place that needs a quarterback. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
They're kind of done with the Brock Purdy era.
It looks like they're kind of washing their hands of it, doesn't it?
Yeah, I think they figured out this is all you get from Brock Purdy.
Yeah, you're not going to get anything else. And look, I mean, for a Mr. Irrelevant, great job.
Oh, absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. And also a great backup, a fantastic backup.
Yeah. Every now and then he has a little flash of something like the elite quarterbacks, but he can't sustain it.
He doesn't have that ability to take the game on his back and go, come on, guys, I'm going to guide you to where we need to go.
So, all right. Next, are the Chiefs, is their hate justified?
You know, I kind of get it how people are really sick and tired of the Chiefs.
You're right. That's where I was going to go.
It's the same overexposure that we got with the Patriots and with the Cowboys.
Yes. And with the Yankees.
Yeah, the Yankees are really good at illustrating that. Yes.
People get sick of seeing the same old, the same suspects in there.
Yeah. And especially if Mahomes wins again this weekend, you are going to see all kinds of hate.
And, oh, the referee did this, you know, a referee attacked Allen with a butcher knife.
Yeah. You know, there will be all this stuff that they say.
But you know, they're all going to still tune in to watch the Super Bowl. Exactly.
Because the ratings keep going up and up and up. The ratings between the Texas and the Chiefs was an all-time high. All-time high.
So, they might say, I hate watching the Chiefs win, but they still tune in, don't they?
Yeah, they do. And the funny thing is, is it wasn't a barn burner, like they thought. No.
It was not a throw fest. I think I predicted 31 to 29. You know, big score.
Yeah, I forgot what I predicted. It was up there. We both thought it was going to be a high-scoring game. Yeah, we did.
But boy, defense has jumped right in.
I'll tell you what, the Chiefs defense is the reason we're winning so many games.
I mean, Mahomes, too. Let me say it. OK. That's completely wrong what I just said.
Mahomes makes the plays when it counts with a strong defense is what wins games. Yeah.
He finds that guy that's open somehow at the right time and does it. Yep.
So, the Kelsey haters, I don't hear him now. No. 117 yards touchdown. Pretty good day.
Pretty good day. He actually looked like he was having fun. He didn't look like he was in this much pain.
All season he didn't look like. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's what he lives for. He lives for this.
He doesn't live for the average game. So, anyhow.
Man, I could see playoffs getting addictive to football players like, oh my God, playoffs. It feels so good.
I think all the Chiefs will like it and that's why they never want to go away.
The enormous high you get from winning a tough playoff game, that must be something else.
Oh yeah. How do you like to be like a Frank Clark that wanted to come back for nothing and they didn't get him?
He'd probably be like, gosh, I want back on that team so bad. I'd love to win a couple more.
And they're, nah, we just don't really fit into our plan.
I forgot all about him. He was 55, wasn't he? Was his number. Yeah, he was really good.
He was a lineman wearing a linebacker's number. Yeah, but they figured something out because he wasn't nearly as effective the last year that I knew that he was in.
That's true. Yeah. We got him from Seattle, I think. Seattle and he went back to Seattle.
That's right. He did go back. So good for him that he was able to get back on the team. Oh, I liked him. Great guy.
Yeah, I think he was a really good guy and good player. Another one, Tyron Matthew. Yeah.
He was a perfectly fine player, but they saw something and they let him go. Yeah.
They got a younger guy in Justin Reed. He has been much better. Former Texan. Former Texan, yes. Yes.
I bet they're wishing they hadn't given him up. Oh, I bet they are too. Yeah. Yeah.
So, you know, part of what they do here is identify what is on the dissension and what's on the ascension.
Yeah, especially if you can save a little money. Yeah, and they've done that. They've done that.
So, okay, will CJ Stroud rebound next year? I think he will. I think he will too.
Yeah, I think their head coach down there, apart from teaching his team to take dirty hits and dirty shots
or at least tolerating it if he's not actually encouraging it, if he can get over that, he can become a good head coach
and build a good team. But as long as the Texans players continue to play dirty like that, there's a special level of hatred
that is aimed towards a team like that by the other organizations because they've got millions of dollars invested in these players
and they go play Houston and some jerk decides to take his knee out. It's like theirs goes millions of dollars.
Thanks a lot, asshole. The hatred they'll get from the other organizations and the other players, it's not sustainable.
If you're a dirty team that is injuring people and messing with their careers, they're not going to put up with it.
And that is one of the reasons why they were caught. That's why they were being called so very closely and they were warned ahead of time,
don't even think about doing this because if we even get a whiff of you trying to hurt somebody, we're going to call it. And they did.
And I'll put it like this, if they knock my homes out of the game, they don't care if their two starters are ejected.
They plan on winning that game after that. Exactly. So, you know what, serves them right. Come back next year,
be a little bit more legitimate and quit trying to do that dirty play that knocks a guy out.
And the NFL has been very clear about this the last few years is here are the quarterbacks that are making us a shit ton of money
and drawing the viewers in. Don't fuck with that. Yeah. You mess with them, we're going to put you down.
Because now you're messing with our money too. Yep. Players, why can't they figure that out? Why can't the teams figure that out?
Just don't go after them and try to hurt them. Make a legitimate tackle or legitimate play or whatever.
But if you, yeah, they're going to get nailed. I agree. Okay, they're talking about adding the 18th game now, sooner than later.
Should this be figured in every contract? Yeah, I think so. They're saying it didn't amount to more injuries, but I differ.
I beg to differ on that. Yeah, true. And I think when the league schedule went from 16 to 17 games,
they didn't really figure it into the contract. It's just whatever your contract is now you get it over 17 weeks instead of 16.
Yeah. But I think if you're going to add an 18th game, the players are going to start putting in contracts of, you know,
this many games in a season equals this much money because that's wear and tear on my body. Yeah. Yep.
So there's going to be a premium paid to make them play that extra game.
Just because it didn't parlay in quarterbacks being knocked out doesn't mean anything. Yeah.
Receivers were taken a beating. And also the other side of it too, the cornerbacks. Corners and D linemen.
And D linemen, yeah. Not too many. There are some linebackers that got knocked out. There are some linebackers.
And there are some offensive linemen that paid the price too. Yeah. So they can't tell me that it didn't affect it.
It does. It does affect it. And I think that on their negotiation on every one go, look, you went from 16 to 17 games.
Now you're going to go to 18 games. You better up this offer a little bit. Plus it's going to shorten careers.
It's going to shorten careers. Because that extra game isn't just for this season. It also affects you next season.
And then there's another extra game that season too. It all accumulates. And then you might have to travel overseas.
Which affects your play and everything. So yeah, I think that this is going to amount to better contracts.
Yeah. And maybe even guaranteed ones. Yeah. I think that's definitely going to have to be taken into consideration.
And players union, if their leadership is on the ball, they will definitely be looking into that already.
They'll be all over this. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And finally, will Patrick Mahomes catch Tom Brady over the course of his career?
Wow. Boy, what's Brady got like 95,000 yards or something? Yeah. Something really stupid?
Let's just go with rings first. Rings? I think it's very doable. I think that's doable. Yeah.
I think he's at least going to tie in. Yeah. It is kind of a different era as far as the financials and the way the game is run.
So there's going to be more obstacles to overcome, I think. 95,000 yards though. I don't know if Patrick could.
I know how well he's done and he's surpassing all these legendary players earlier than them. Yeah, I know that.
But as we get and we've progressed into the game and becomes a different type of a quarterback and to where he doesn't have to gunsling anymore.
I don't think he will. Yeah. That's what I was going to mention too is Brady put up a lot of passing yards because a lot of times he had to.
Yes. To come back or to maintain a lead. Mahomes used to do that, but the team has evolved to where he really doesn't need to put up big numbers.
And credit to Brett Veach and the other guys. I mean, oh, and we can get to that too because their assistant general manager was hired as the general manager
of the Titans five year deal. And that was on my paper, but I forgot his name. Anyhow, we can look it up.
Okay, so I think that a lot of the records, he's not going to hit. I think he's going to be in the ballpark, but I don't think he'll hit.
And that is simply because Brett Veach and the guys knew you're not going to keep doing the shootout. Someone will figure it out.
They'll stop you. We're going to have to go to a defensive oriented team. And that's what they slowly did. They got Spagnolo, Bob Sutton stuff of like anybody throwing anywhere is out.
Now we're having real schemes, complicated schemes, disguised blitzes. Just because someone is in the backfield doesn't mean they're going to stay there.
Yeah. Just someone's in coverage doesn't mean they're going to stay there. Yeah. Love it. So. Another good example of that is in the Baltimore Buffalo game.
I think it was in the third quarter and Josh Allen had less than 100 yards passing. Yeah. But they were having no trouble. They're having no trouble.
Moving the ball, getting down the field, scoring. Yeah. That kind of versatility where you're not, oh, we're a passing team and that's all we do.
Well, then you can get that taken away. Yep. Yeah. The better teams are really versatile. I got a question for you. Yeah.
OK. In the AFC Championship game, what if Mahomes has more rushing yards than Josh Allen?
Does that mean they're winning the game or does that mean they're losing the game? Just a thought I just thought of.
I would say they're winning the game. Me too. Because I think if the Chiefs are struggling, Mahomes wouldn't be getting those yards.
He'd be getting sacked. Yeah. Because generally Mahomes does not. Well, the team doesn't call a design run for Mahomes anymore. No, no.
So if he runs, it's because everything broke down and this is his best chance. The quarterback sneak was X'd out after Denver and he popped his knee, hurt his knee.
In fact, they talked about that during the Texans game. They actually mentioned that on airs is, yeah, the Chiefs don't do quarterback sneaks because Mahomes got injured.
They did the radio. OK. Yeah. Because I had just mentioned it like 10 minutes before and then it came up on TV. Oh, there you go.
That's good. Yeah, I understand. Mitch Holtis is still milking that sweet nectar then. In case you're wondering.
Yeah. Yeah. So the ejaculate of the end zone. Yeah.
The Chiefs are getting a big load of the sweet nectar down their throats, right? Collinsworth and Holtis combined.
Mitch Collinsworth or Chris Holtis. Chris Holtis.
OK. Well, you had some football stuff that you have there. Yeah. Yeah, I was writing down some things.
We were watching this morning earlier, the Lions offensive coordinator, Ben Johnson, goes to the Bears to be the head coach.
They're talking about, you know, oh, is this going to save Caleb Williams? Is this going to bring him back?
The general consensus was he's not ruined. He's not that much of a project.
He's to be determined. Yeah. Yeah. Rehabilitation, I think, would be a good term, but he doesn't have to be like salvaged from the garbage heap or something.
No, I think that he hasn't been knocked around enough to where he lost all confidence. Yeah.
His biggest problem from what I can see is his lack of taking chances because Babe Ruth was the home run king for a long time.
He is also the strikeout king. He was. Why is that? Because he always took the chance.
Caleb Williams right now has not been trained to take the chance. Mahomes, he throws interceptions now.
Remember Royals Steve Balboni? Yes, he struck out all the time, but he hit home runs. Yeah.
When he came up to bat, he's either going to strike out or hit a home run. Yeah.
He's one of the two. Yep. I forgot his nickname. It's something like the big sausage or something. I forgot.
Yeah, he was a pretty big guy. Big, beefy guy. He could have played football.
Speaking of Balboni, Rocky VII is coming to theater soon. Wow.
This one it looks like is finally going to be put to rest. From what I read, Rocky dies. Oh wow.
And that's going to be it. Done. Okay.
And that's the kind of thing they probably go ahead and tell you up front to get you to come watch the movie.
Yeah, yeah. And also I think that a lot of it is virtual reality stuff. No, I can see that.
Sylvester Stallone, he looks great. Don't get me wrong. But he is 70. Yeah.
They're not going to have him in a ring against somebody. I mean, you know, maybe some of his... With his shirt off.
Yeah, with his shirt off. I'm sure he still looks great though with his shirt off. He doesn't look like he...
I'm sure he looks a hell of a lot better than I do. Oh, hell yeah. Me too.
I wish that's not hard to look better than me with a shirt off. Yeah, me neither.
The man boobs are creeping in. Yep, yep, yep. And that unsightly hernia. Yeah.
I'm talking about me, not you. Oh, okay. I've got a few surgical scars too. Yep.
Cooper Cupp. White receiver number 10 for the Rams. Yeah, yeah. He's been mouthing off lately, but I haven't had a chance to check.
He's saying he doesn't think he's going to be a Ram next season. He says it's not up to me.
I'd like to be here, but I don't know what's going to happen. Well, the back story is he has two seasons left on his contract,
but next season he's going to make $12.5 million, $5 million of it guaranteed.
And then if they cut him before June 1st, the team could save $7.5 million on the salary cap.
Okay. So pay him $12.5 million next year or save $7.5 million and get rid of him.
I think that's wishful thinking. He's looking at other teams like the Chiefs. The Chiefs, maybe Buffalo.
Yeah, yeah. He won't even hit the ground if he gets let go by the Rams. He'll be scooped up before he falls an inch.
Yeah, I think he is doing that for effect. So people will look that way.
Win-win for him. Either he puts the pressure on the Rams to keep him around. Exactly.
Or he puts the other teams on notice. Hey, save some cap room for me. I'm going to be available to save.
Save some cap room for me. And I think there are three or four teams that he said that specifically to.
And one of them would be the Chiefs. Who the heck wouldn't want to? If you're a wide receiver, why wouldn't you want to play for the Chiefs?
Yeah, yeah, exactly. You know, and I was reading where DeAndre Hopkins is like, wow, never won a divisional game before.
Now he's got that. Never been to a Super Bowl before. He may have that. In a championship game, never been to there. He's got that.
Yeah. You know, this is what the Niners were doing in the 80s. They were taking players from other teams that still had a lot left to offer and saying, come here.
We'll sign you for one season. You'll probably win the Super Bowl and you'll at least make playoffs and play.
You'd have great players on bad teams. They're like, hallelujah. I can finally see what it feels like to play a playoff game.
Yeah. Yeah. There's a lot of players that still do that like DJ Humphries. He was a pro bowler.
Yeah. I think he's still got some rehab going on and he might be there again, but he could have signed with anybody and probably for a little bit more money.
But he went to the Chiefs. Tony Gonzalez. That's a good one. Left the Chiefs and went to the Atlanta Falcons because they were way closer to Super Bowl than the Chiefs were at the time.
It didn't work out for him. No, he got to one. Yeah. He managed to actually win a playoff game with Atlanta.
Yeah. So I imagine he was excited about that. Yeah. But it's nice that the Chiefs are now that team that everyone wants to come to and have the best time of their career.
Yep. And then way too long neck Ryan kind of shit the bed in the second half. Matt Ryan.
Oh, Shane Steichen, who is the is he the GM or he's the GM or the coach of the Colts?
I think he's the GM. Yeah. Well, they're hiring former Bengals defensive coordinator Lou and Arumo to be the defensive coordinator in Indianapolis.
Did they not see the defense this year of the Bengals? That's what kind of made me wonder.
I didn't think the Colts defense was markedly worse than Cincinnati.
So why make the change unless they knew they were going to lose that guy anyway?
I'm just kind of curious about this. It says Arumo takes over a defense in India that cratered over the last two seasons.
I don't think they really cratered. No. Falling from mid-level unit to you know, they're about 15th place.
Now they're in 24th and 29th. Former Jags coach Gus Bradley was the overseeing the defense as its coordinator.
OK, but they fired him at the end of the year.
I guess I wasn't paying that much attention to Indianapolis, but apparently they've just getting been getting worse and worse and worse.
So steady slow down hill slide. It started with trying to prop up Richardson. Yeah, that's true.
Oh, India would be another place Rogers could land. Oh, that's right. That's true.
Play indoors for half your games, at least half the games. Probably help his old bones out quite a bit.
Yeah, let's see who was else in the division with them is the Titans.
Usually warm weather, the Texans warm weather, the Jags warm weather. Yeah, that'd be a good fit for Rogers.
He probably wouldn't have to get as Green Bay cold as he used to. Yeah.
And then let's see that I had the whole list of who the Raiders have fired.
They've been firing people over the whole course of the season. Oh, yeah. Yeah.
They hired their fired their head coach, Antonio Pierce on January 7th after one season.
Two days later. Yeah, not anymore. Two days later, they fired general manager Tom Tolesko. Oh, yeah.
And then during the season, they fired offensive coordinator Luke Getze, QB coach Rick Scandorillo and O-line coach James Craig.
They fired them back on November 3rd after a blowout loss to the Bengals, which dropped them to two and seven.
OK, so they've been firing people all season long. To me, that's not a legitimate team. No, no.
You stay put. Look at Jerry Jones. I mean, I hate Jerry Jones and he's an idiot, but he he knew not to get rid of McCarthy.
You're still paying him. Yeah. And the team's not going anywhere. Yeah, it's it's it's like spite.
It's like, oh, hurt you because you're hurting me. Yeah. Yeah.
Instead, just be like you're going to ride the season out as horrible as it is unless you resign.
You're staying there. Why bother with firing anybody during the season, this failed season?
Yeah. Yeah. Unless there's a coach sitting at home waiting to come in who's like a legend.
Yeah. If you're going to get Bill Belichick midseason, then yeah, go ahead and fire your guy.
He accidentally ran into Belichick at a party at a function.
And hey, I'd be willing to coach for you if you got rid of that fucking ass bag. Oh, really?
OK. OK. Don't say anything. I'm going to fire him first and then we'll get with you.
It turns out. Oh, man, I was drunk. I didn't know what I was saying. What?
You know, before the season or early in the season, I was really down on the Carolina Panthers is like the worst organization.
It's like they weren't even trying. Raiders have far surpassed them. Yeah.
And right behind the Raiders is the Cleveland Browns, specifically because they won't let go of Deshaun Watson.
I think if Cleveland wrote a book, it'd be how to destroy a perfectly good team.
And it's such a storied franchise. I mean, the Browns have been around since, what, the 50s.
Seventy five years. Art Modell was a prophet. Yeah.
And he looked at that team and said, this team is cursed. I'm fucking out of here.
Well, took them out of the whole city. And then look at Baltimore.
I mean, they may not be winning Super Bowls, but they're always in the conversation. They've won a few.
Yeah, they won a few. Yeah. Cleveland had Cleveland hasn't been to a Super Bowl.
No, no. I don't look for it the way they're doing business.
Yeah, they could write the book, how to fuck up a perfectly good team. No kidding.
And yeah, so. Yeah. And you know, the Raiders, you know, I remember the Raiders in the late 60s
and 70s and early into the 80s when Al Davis was running them. Yeah.
And he was unhinged. He was impulsive, but he would manage to every once in a while,
put together a decent team and then make a run. They just don't do that anymore.
No, I agree. They know. You can't do business that way anymore. The league has changed.
But I think Al Davis's son, Mark, has not figured that out yet. I agree.
This is the way dad did it. Did it work? No. This isn't 1975 anymore. It ain't going to work.
No, I agree. Who was that tight end that the Raiders had? He was number 46.
And he had a mullet of long curly hair and he had a molestash that he wore.
I keep trying to remember that guy's name. He used to do like a five minute commentary on the NFL.
I know who you're talking about. Yeah. Damn it. Yeah. He died young too. Yeah, he did.
I think as a result of abusing his body of steroids. Probably.
Oh, shit. I can't think of his name. Yeah. Oh, well. Anyway. Yeah. I can see his face.
But I mean, back then, the Raiders actually mattered. Yeah. They just don't matter anymore.
No, I agree. And I really don't see him mattering as long as they're in Vegas.
Vegas will never take them seriously.
It's like, oh, the Raiders are winning great. Oh, the Raiders are losing?
Screw them. There's other stuff to do. Yeah.
And it's kind of like Los Angeles. You're just never going to get any kind of decent home field advantage
because there's just so much else to do.
Anyone that has season tickets are like, oh, man, it's going to be a great day. Let's sell them online.
Yeah. Let's see. Other notable firings. 49ers fired their defensive coordinator, Nick Sorensen.
Yeah. Not to be confused with dirty Dan Sorensen.
Dan Sorensen was another one they got rid of when they saw the red. Well, he was spotty anyhow.
Yeah. He made some great plays, but he was a penalty waiting to happen. Yeah. For a lot. Yeah.
The Titans fired GM Ran Karthon. We already talked about Colts firing DC Gus Bradley.
Seahawks fired offensive coordinator, Ryan Grubb.
Bengals, we mentioned, fired their defensive coordinator, Lou Anarumo.
Patriots fired Gerard Mayo and hired Mike Vrabel. We already knew that.
Browns fired offensive coordinator, DeKen Dorsey and no line coach, Andy Dickerson.
Bears fired head coach, Mac Eberfluse and offensive coordinator, Shane Waldron.
And they've already got their new head coach. And the Saints fired head coach, Dennis Allen.
So this really seems like a lot more than the usual turnover, doesn't it?
It is. And that's why I'm afraid this might be the one that Spagnollo goes.
Yeah. Yeah. Because there's so many opportunities.
I think Spags might have a pretty good shot with New Orleans.
Yeah. Yeah, I could see New Orleans.
Yeah. And any team that is in a division where they've got to go up against somebody like Mahomes.
Yeah. Yeah. You'll need a defensive mind like Spags.
Exactly. That's what I'm thinking. And he might be able to turn that around.
I'm sure he would. Yeah. Bob Sutton's defense was so horrible and Spags turned it around in a couple of years.
It's a perfect learning situation for Spags because he's learning how to design a defense against Patrick Mahomes in practice every day.
Yeah. He goes and practices against Patrick Mahomes and every day that they practice. You've got to get good.
Yeah. Yep. That's true. Yeah. That is an advantage, though. There's a wizard that can do anything and you're trying to stop him.
Yeah. And you get to study him constantly. Yeah. So when you run up against Josh Allen, you have a pretty good inkling of what to do.
Yeah. That's got to be pretty advantageous. Yeah. Is that it? That's all I had on the hirings and firings.
The game. The championship game, AFC. Yeah. Now, let's do the NFC first and then we'll go to AFC.
OK. Philly and Washington. Sounds like the 70s, doesn't it? It does. It does. I always kind of had a soft spot for the Washington team.
Yeah. Me too, especially after they got rid of Dan Snyder. Now they're kind of like now they're winning and looking good.
I think that's awesome. It's just reward for an idiot. Yeah. The curse of Dan Snyder is gone. Yes. It's so nice.
Washington did a really good job handling the blanking who they played last week.
The Rams. The Rams. And then, well, who beat the Lions? Look how prepared we are.
Oh, shit. I thought it was Lions and Rams. Oh, shit. Was it? Hang on. Hang on. Who did beat the Lions?
It was Washington. Hang on. Let's see. Shit. I keep. I got these wrong. Yeah, we're not prepared, are we?
Well, we had to. We had to change our locale last second.
Okay. Eagles beat the Rams. Commanders dismantled the Lions. That's it. Sorry.
So, yeah, the commanders did really well against the Lions. They were on fire. They were. The defense was handling everything the Lions could handle.
Philadelphia has been a good team, but I don't know. There's something about them that just doesn't really impress me for some reason.
I know they're really good. They won a ton of games. They're right there in the NFC Championship game, but for some reason, I just really don't believe in them.
I'm not sure why. No, I. I really think.
Yeah, I was hoping the Lions would make it to the Super Bowl, but after seeing them fall apart against Washington, then I'm glad they're gone, because that would have been a real stinker of a Super Bowl.
Oh, God. Yeah.
Okay. Well, Philadelphia is seasoned and tenured, but Jayden Daniels doesn't know he can't do it.
Yeah. So that makes him really dangerous. Yeah. And he's been doing it on the road.
Yeah. I'm going to give the edge as silly as it seems. I'm going to give it to the commanders. I think so, too.
Philly may win, but Jayden Daniels going to do some special things. They're going to make the league turn around and go. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
I want to remind everybody. Well, it is D Ford that really fucked up that game. But yeah, Mahomes made it to the championship game his first year.
And so did Jayden Daniels, at least. Yeah. So if you want to compare, I think it's a little bit more comparison than some of the other ones.
So I'm giving the edge to the commanders. But and also I think I'm not a believer in Nick Sirianni. I think he's an idiot.
But Shaquan Barkley, you got to stop him. Yeah. And Jaylen Hertz and a defense. I mean, you know, it's going to be a really tall task.
But I'll tell you this. If the game is tied into the fourth quarter, I think the commanders are going to definitely win. Yeah. Yeah. I can see that. Yeah. Yeah.
If you're like got nine minutes left in the fourth quarter and it's close or tied, watch out. Yeah. You leave them in the game. Yeah.
I'm going to say the commanders are going to eat by late in the game. You? Yeah. I'm going to go with commanders as well.
A one score game. Yeah. Probably like four or five points. It's going to be close, which is good for viewing because if one touchdown can change the lead, then that's always fun.
Fun to watch. Yeah. Yeah. I think both games are going to be fantastic. So I'm going to give the commanders a slight edge. So yeah, me too.
OK. I don't have a score yet. Twenty four, twenty three. Yeah. Twenty eight, twenty seven, something like that. I think both those sound good. Yeah. Yeah.
And it would not surprise me when the Eagles win, but I'm giving the commanders a slight edge because Jaden Daniels does not know he cannot do it. Yeah.
So, oh, I was just reading on my phone here. Skip Bayless accused the NFL of rigging the game between the Texas and Chiefs to keep Taylor Swift in there.
If I was the NFL, I would ban his credentials. I would think so. He's outright calling it a fixed game. Yeah. I think he's losing his mind.
He hates the Chiefs so much. Either that or his career is sinking and he's doing everything possible to get attention.
Well, that lawsuit. Have you read that lawsuit? No, I just heard that he was getting sued. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Against him and Fox Sports, I believe.
Yeah. He is supposedly a real fucking nasty. Wow. Yeah. I can see that little bitch. Yeah. Yep. I can see that little bitch being a filthy, in my opinion. Yeah. Yeah.
Someone that has nothing to say but counter programming is an idiot. Number one, they have nothing of their own to provide. Yeah.
So, if I was the NFL, I'd say, listen, you're allegedly an old nasty and you bring nothing to the game and you just said we rigged a game. Uh-uh. You're out of here.
I'm sure you've watched TV shows where there's that one character and their entire job on the TV show is to be annoying. Yeah, that's him. And obnoxious. Yeah. And just piss you off.
Yeah, that's Skip Bayless. Yeah, that's him. On a TV show that works for a while, it's the person you love to hate. Uh-huh. But on a TV show, you script everything they say. They never surprise you.
Skip Bayless is being that guy that you can't control his mouth and you know he loves to hear himself talk. Yes. Yeah. So, who knows what he's going to say next? If he's willing to say that out loud, what is he holding back?
No, I know. And he's done this a few times on Twitter or X. You know, when Mahomes didn't get in the Pro Bowl. I told you and it's like, what do you mean? That means nothing. Yeah. Like I said, Mahomes is going to be busy. He's not going to your fucking Pro Bowl.
Yeah. He'd be the kind of guy that, you know, when somebody rescues a little kid from drowning in a swimming pool and you're all standing around congratulating the lifeguard, he's the kind of guy that would run up and say, yeah, yeah, I did great, didn't I? Yeah.
Yeah. Patting himself on the back. I'll put it like this. Mahomes is the type of guy that will tell you what he is. You don't tell him what he is. Yeah. So, you will see again what he is. And so, anyhow, that game, we both gave slight edge to Washington. Yeah.
Okay. So, now let's get over to the Kansas City Chiefs with the Buffalo Bills arriving here. Probably. Let's see. What is today? Today's Tuesday. They'll probably get here Friday. Yeah, they'll probably be here Friday. So, make sure that their steak is tough.
It's supposed to be decent weather. Yeah. Above freezing. Yeah, above freezing. So, it should, the weather should not affect that game at all. To me, it's a dead toss up. It really is. I mean, it could be a late mistake or late penalty that's going to decide this game.
You're talking about two of the greatest quarterbacks probably ever when it's all said and done. Yeah. If I had to give a slight edge to somebody, how can you not go against Mahomes? And this is not being a homer. Not really. This is body of work.
And what they've overcome this season. Yeah. I'm going to have to give a slight edge to Mahomes. And that's it. Yeah. But I think the team that doesn't make the mistake at the very end is going to be the victorious one.
Yeah, I would game plan this way. I would tell the team, don't worry about Josh Allen's running ability. Worry about his quarterback sneak ability. But stop the running backs. If Josh Allen wants to take off and run with it, let him and then hit him like you would a running back.
I would too. Yeah. Then do your usual pass defense and blitzing, etc. But I think if you take away the Bills running game as far as their two actual running backs, I think that will hurt Buffalo. I think Buffalo will have to become predictable at that point.
And also, I think disguised blitzes are going to be the key too. If he's back in the pocket and he doesn't know someone's coming, that's going to be lethal to him and good for us. The tip pass with some of our taller guys like Amenahue and Janel and Jones. Yeah. Some of these taller guys are going to get in there and get some big hands up above there.
The timing is just amazing. It boggles my mind how these giant human beings can have that much body control and timing. I know. Well, you're either born with the ability to or not. You and I don't have that ability. Plus, they're like half our age.
Yeah, that's true too. That makes a slight difference. You can get into shape and do the best you can. But if you're not born with these God-given gifts, you're not playing that type of a game. So, yeah. Chief slight-edged you. I'm going to give it a 32, 27, chiefs.
I'm going to go lower scoring. I'm going to go like 27 to 23, chiefs.
Okay. And this is not being a homer. We're going by body of work. Go ahead.
I think a home field advantage is going to come up big.
That's another thing too.
Being that loud in an outdoor stadium has got to hurt.
I could see earlier in the season when the chiefs played the Bills, they were probably thinking at that point, we're going to see these guys in the playoffs.
They said it at the end of the game. They said, we'll see here in a couple of months.
But I think in the game preparation, even back then, they were thinking, here's the stuff we want to hide. Even if we lose this game to Buffalo, this is still important to hide this stuff.
I think that was the, and we're going to see all that stuff on Sunday.
They were neck and neck until that last run from Allen. And then the one where he ran for 20-some yards and got an end zone.
So, they got a really good play in on us, but as far as the game being dominated, it didn't happen.
It's funny. It used to be win every game no matter what. Now it's win strategically.
Andy Reid, I can corner him for a lot of that. His game planning and strategies during the year are much different than the ones during the playoffs.
I think that's how it's going to go.
Okay, well, I guess we got that covered.
Yeah.
So, should we shut this off and go to the music creeps?
I think we should.
Okay, alright. Everybody, thanks for listening. Fuck you.
Bye.
Did you really sit there and listen to all that garbage that was being, do you actually believe one inch of it?
I didn't think so. Hang on, game over.