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All right.
The pigeons are still loving it around here.
Oh, I know.
Sometimes I feel like bringing something to feed the birds, but I realized that the people who have shops around here really don't want the pigeons around.
So listen, I love the shops around here, but the evil part of me wants to feed them just to watch people freak out.
Yeah.
As a matter of fact, during the summer, when this is open up and all busy, I'll be doing that.
You just got to be really careful.
You know, just kind of like kind of toss it on the ground, kind of close to them.
Then usually the kids, the first one that starts crying, then the parents get alarmed.
And then you get that little dumbass and nobody's watching.
It's trying to stomp the pigeons.
Oh, yeah.
And then the parents like, it's like, OK, really, you know, Jeffrey Dahmer in the making.
Yeah, it's like you're going to laugh when the kid tries to stomp a pigeon to death.
OK.
Well, that kid doesn't have a chance, does it?
No.
So, all right.
So we're starting off with the sports bastards.
TK Metcalfe is a hot rumor.
Kansas City is talking with Seattle.
Yeah.
About giving up a pick.
Yeah.
They're saying the number one pick, but I'm pretty sure that'll be part of the salary.
There's not too many players that will command a number one overall pick.
I mean, not overall, but number one ground pick.
Well, I don't think TK is alone.
I think that they're going to have to eat some of the money or something.
Yeah.
Because they're not going to resign him.
And we may not resign.
We probably won't resign him either.
No, it's going to win your deal.
Yeah.
So, I find a little bit more about that, but multiple places are reporting this, which
kind of leaves me to believe it came from somewhere.
Yeah.
Also heard about Stafford being rumored to go to 49ers.
That would be a good fit.
It's kind of interesting.
The Rams told both Stafford and Cooper Cup that they weren't going to be able to resign
them, but they didn't want either of the players to tell the public about it.
And Cooper Cup leaked it himself.
He said, I'd like to stay here, but it's not up to me.
And then Stafford's wife on a podcast or social media somehow started talking about it.
And the team got pissed.
It was like, screw the team.
Why should he keep their secrets for them?
No, I know.
I don't blame her.
If the boss fires you and says, don't tell anyone, through that, I'm going to go tell
everyone.
Unless there's severance as contingents on it.
Other than that, no.
I'm going to tell everybody in the world and tell them how much of a dick you are.
But this is starting to lead me to believe that the Rams are in cap trouble.
Either they are in cap trouble or they anticipate being in cap trouble because they got their
eye on somebody.
Well, OK.
For one, they haven't been that upper echelon team ever since they won the Super Bowl.
Yeah.
So you're not the preferred commodity.
True.
Now the preferred commodity is going to be the Eagles and the Chiefs still.
OK.
So anybody chasing a ring will give you a hometown discount because they figure you're
probably going to be in it again.
Yeah.
The other thing is, teams like the Rams that are a little bit on the outer edges, they
might win a playoff game.
Playoffs, if you're lucky.
Yeah.
They kind of get left out of the whole bargaining deal.
Yeah.
So they tend to do have it.
They have cap troubles, like the Chiefs used to.
Now I remember the Chiefs having lots of cap trouble.
Yeah.
And it was so frustrating because we didn't have decent players.
It's like, why are we so far over the cap?
Yeah.
They had to overpay for everybody, so that's why.
Yeah.
No one's giving me a discount.
They're going to go, yeah, 20 million except for the Chiefs.
Make that 30.
Yeah.
Well, I like it on the surface, but that's not the Chief's style, is it?
My impression of Metcalf is that he's kind of a West Coast offense kind of guy.
And I'd like to see the Chiefs do more of that, but the Chiefs are more of a downfield.
Yeah.
You know, with the offensive line troubles, maybe that is what they want to do.
Because currently, if the Chiefs throw short, it's generally to a tight end or a running
back.
They don't do that usually.
That's a really wide receiver, but not usually.
Well, whenever the scheme's working, it will probably be a wide receiver.
The word these seems to be the favorite.
This is, I don't quite believe this.
Yeah.
Number one, I don't see him giving up a high draft pick for anybody.
No, especially Metcalf's not old, but he's definitely got some miles on him at this point.
Well, it's going to be a one-year deal.
You know, unless you have an offer in place and he says, as soon as this happens, I'm
signing it.
I want to be with you guys for seven years.
Yeah.
I mean, I gave a multi-year to Hollywood Brown, but that was unusual.
Everyone else, they signed Schuster.
Oh, no, the Chiefs.
Hopkins.
They're all one-year deal.
No, Hollywood Brown was a one-year deal.
That was a one-year deal?
Yes.
I thought it was a multi-year.
No, look it up.
I thought it was too.
I don't know if it was bad information.
So all of them are one-year deals.
Yes.
And that's smart from a business standpoint.
If you like them and they liked playing for you, you can probably sign them next year.
The Bills are trying to get Hollywood Brown right now.
Oh, wow.
Yeah, no, it must have been bad information because I thought they had them for four years.
And hang on, let me make sure that the information I got isn't bad information.
I just thought about that.
I could be getting the bad information on this second one because I remember I thought
it was a four-year deal, wasn't it?
That was my impression.
It was a multi-year deal.
Okay, let's take a look here.
Okay.
Well, I could very well be wrong and I'll find out here because I remember it being
the other.
I'm thinking with Metcalfe.
Is Hollywood Brown currently under contract?
If Kelsey is going to retire, then Metcalfe could take some of those underneath routes
that Kelsey was running.
Yeah, he could.
I don't know how many of you have seen the...
Is Hollywood Brown currently under contract?
All the...
If you all have seen the fake retirement video from Kelsey?
One-year contract.
It was a one-year?
Yep.
Okay.
All right.
Well, anyhow, go ahead.
I'm sorry.
I was enjoying the fake video the other day of Kelsey retiring.
So many people...
Yeah, it's catching a lot of people.
But if you listen to what he's saying, you can tell that's nothing that Kelsey would
say.
I look at the eyes because AI has not kind of figured out eyes yet.
True.
The pupils are like really huge, unhumanly huge.
Yeah.
And AI doesn't realize that in a real press conference, there would be sound in the background.
Yeah, that's true.
People talking and rustling, cameras flashing, et cetera.
AI doesn't know about all that.
Oh, yeah.
It's a lot of fun to watch.
Well, I personally think it's funny.
It was fun to watch.
He was going to go help Taylor with her music career as if she needs help.
And like you said, you said a friend of yours bid on that.
Yeah.
He was like, hey, oh yeah, well, good luck, buddy.
I love watching you.
Hell, I've fallen for some fake videos.
Yeah, I'm not making fun of...
Oh, no.
Yeah, I'm right there with everybody else.
We were watching reaction videos to the Snow White trailers and enjoying all the sarcastic
and snarky insults.
And then YouTube came up with a fake video just for me claiming that Disney had canceled
the release of Snow White and they were just going to mull over the movie.
No, I fell for that too.
Remember, we were over there and we both were like laughing, going, aha, they canceled it.
Yeah.
And then they were just completely made up on the fly.
They're going to sit there, yeah, they're going to sit there with that bucket of shit
and ride it out, aren't they?
Yeah, I guess so.
Well, probably to satisfy their insurance, they have to actually release it before they
make a claim on their insurance to cover up.
Because studios insure movies against being a bomb, but they have to actually release it.
No, I know.
And so they're going to do it and try to get whatever they can out of it.
Okay, I talked briefly about this on the way up here, but Kansas City does not look real
interested in resigning Kareem Hunt.
That surprises me.
Me too, I'm kind of perplexed.
The guy that should have been in question to me is Pacheco.
Pacheco has never made a thousand yard season, let alone the Russian title like Hunt did
his rookie season in 2017.
Yeah, I know I'm not a GM, but I would try to resign Hunt and draft a running back and
let it all battle it out.
I believe P Ryan is still under contract, isn't he?
I would hope so.
Yeah, I hope so too.
So you have your third and fourth down guy.
You've got your special teams per guy, you know what I mean?
We need that guy that can get free in the flat real quick, you know, real quick turn
around router on the, usually him on the edges.
Nick Bolton is going to command a huge price.
With Rice coming back and we're definitely on the road to being a great, his office is
going to return to form and then the defense going to take a, this is a two part question.
Number one, the Pacheco and number two, his offense coming back and the defense taking
his seat back like before.
We won Super Bowls both ways.
Yeah, that's true.
On Pacheco first, I think Kareem Hunt and Isaiah Pacheco are similar enough in their
running styles that you don't have any kind of change up there.
And teams generally like to have a change of pace back, like this guy's a power runner,
this guy is slippery and can catch passes, et cetera.
Between the two of them, Hunt's doing it better.
Pacheco's got all the heart and desire and attitude, but it's got to translate to yard's
touchdowns.
And for him, it's not really working out.
No, and like we said, his running style, his body style does not actually, it's not very
good.
No, he seems to use himself up two thirds of the way through the season.
He's so beat up and banged up, he's a shell.
If he doesn't get injured, yeah.
Yeah, so I think, I don't know, you know, it's hard to question Brett Veach, three Super
Bowls underneath him, drafting Patrick Mahomes, he was there.
Chris Jones, no?
Yeah, yeah, Chris Jones too.
Okay, so it's hard to question him, but this one here, I can't get around.
Yeah.
To me, I think that it's questionable unless they know something we don't.
Yeah, yeah.
Which is very possible.
There's always that, because we only get the information that they want us to hear.
But why would they hire him back?
They have their choice of running backs.
Yeah.
Yeah, I would prefer to see Pacheco have to fight for his job next season, next training
camp.
And maybe that's what they're going to do.
Maybe they're going to have Pacheco fight with a new guy, and maybe they're going to
see if Hunt gets a decent contract, and then they're going to come back and go, all right,
we'll give you 50 bucks more.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Yeah, man, my choice would be to make sure Hunt was re-signed.
Me too.
And then have Pacheco earn a spot on the roster again in training camp.
I would sign Hunt to your deal if that was possible.
That sounds about right.
Yeah, and that way, look, we want you, but not just for one season.
We want you around for a couple of seasons, and then we'll reevaluate, you know, because
you're going to be getting older, and we'll see.
And I mean, you don't give a running back a huge contract.
It's been proven over time.
Yeah.
Every time that's happened, it's turned into a disaster.
And it didn't used to be this way, but you really can find decent running backs that
can be the guy for your team for, you know, third round, fourth round pick.
Easily.
Yeah.
And also, you can pick one up in the fourth round easily, too.
I think Kareem Hunt was in fourth round, wasn't he?
Yeah, the Chiefs haven't really drafted running back high since they got burned on, like,
Hill, McLeod.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Greg Hill.
Greg Hill.
Harvey Williams.
Harvey Williams, yeah.
But we're talking about the Schottenheim-Petersen era, which is completely different and not,
quite frankly, nothing like we have now.
And pretty much all teams are doing that.
They're putting the running game off to the, at the most, the second round.
Well, you guys having the man means that the running game's that much better anyhow.
You have a guy that can do it at any point.
They're like, sure, anything but throwing.
Anything but throwing.
Yeah.
So I thought that was Brandon for a second.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, right there.
Did that kind of look like him?
It didn't, though.
Just a little bit.
Okay.
Anyhow, you had some questions, and I got other stuff.
Yeah, something I was thinking about this morning, watching a little bit of the NFL Network's
morning football show.
And they were talking about everything but football.
The guy was describing his morning routine, and somebody else was talking.
Was this good morning football?
Yeah.
Yeah, of course.
Of course.
Yeah, that's what they do.
So I had plenty of time to tune them out and think about actual football things.
And one of the things I was thinking about was the style of NFL football that we have
now, that's, you know, the NFL teams are playing.
I don't think that would survive without massive public exposure.
You know, like, I know guys who would play golf for the rest of their lives, whether
it was on TV or not, whether they were tournaments or not, they don't care.
They just love golf, and they play it.
Same with, you know, bicycle riding or running or all sorts of other sports.
If football didn't have the big, massive TV audience, I don't think anybody would play
tackle football the way the NFL does, simply for a sport.
I would have, I think you're onto something there.
Yeah, I mean, it started out as a sport for entertainment and for fun and for, you know,
friendly competition.
And then it morphed into, well, let's make money off of this.
And then the NFL formed in what, 1939 or something like that, 37.
And from that point, it was all about make money.
And first it was, attendance was really the only way you made money.
And maybe you got a little bit from the radio coverage if you could get that.
And then they figured out they could make tons of money on concessions and merchandise, too.
And then came the television contracts, and that changed the game enormously.
And then the streaming contracts and blah, blah.
But every step of the way, the game has been changed for entertainment purposes.
Initially, the rules were to ensure fair competition, which means curtail on the cheating, et cetera.
But now the game keeps getting altered and the rules changed just to make it more entertaining
because it's what people want to see.
And we've all been really open about it.
The NFL says, yeah, we're cutting back on the defense's abilities to open up the passing game
for more scoring because that's what the fans want.
So they're very open about, we're changing the game to make it more entertaining for you.
And that's really all it is.
Nobody would play NFL-style tackle football if they weren't getting paid
or have the potential to eventually get paid for it.
I agree.
Nobody would do it just for fun on a Saturday afternoon.
I actually think that's a great, that's a good way of describing football anymore, actually.
I mean, that's pretty much what it is.
It feeds around being entertaining.
People going, aw, look at that. Oh, my, did you see that play?
The next morning, you know, it's like, man, did you see that interception?
You know, man, he dove and just barely got it with his fingertips.
It's the talk in the break room.
But even something like, you know, like movies are that way, too.
You're supposed to sit there and watch it for entertainment.
But even the movie actors will still go do local community theater
because they just like acting and they like performing.
Uh-huh.
NFL, no, if the money isn't flowing, they don't play.
Nobody wants to play that unless they're getting paid.
It's really weird.
It's gone from a sport that people wanted to play and enjoyed
to strictly an entertainment under these strict guidelines.
And it's been maneuvered into such a position
that nobody would ever want to play that unless they were making bank.
Yeah, yeah.
So that's what football has become, not what it started out as.
I think that actually this is what they wanted anyhow.
They probably went to the pencil pushers and said,
hey, what do you think about taking this angle right here?
And they're like, you know, there's all different types of aspects
like the betting aspect, the gambling aspect.
That's the number one right there.
An entertainment league would lend more to people, more people watching,
which means more interest in gambling.
More people are interested in entertainment
that are interested in the sport of football.
Yes, yeah.
And that's why they liked Taylor Swift until it started turning on them.
Yeah.
I think after all the boos at the Super Bowl,
I don't think you're going to be seeing a whole lot of her.
I think she's realized that her little moment there is over
and we're all kind of, not we're all,
but enough people are tired of the overexposure.
We're sick of it here.
Yeah.
But it's interesting that usually she's a lot smarter than that
and she gets out before it turns sour.
This time she was there until it got sour.
I think she's there supporting her guy.
Yeah.
And I think that really, I mean, I think the press on it was an afterthought
because let's face it, she gets enough press as it is.
Yeah.
I think that she's just there supporting all of a sudden.
It's like, oh shit, I forgot about this.
I was going to be looking at me.
Yeah.
So.
The, oh gosh, what was I going to go to next?
And one of us is ready to take a moment to thank you.
Dang it.
Hang on a second.
It's also worth noting that this is a really, really common business model
to start with something this way and then change it into a money-making machine.
It happens all the time.
And like a really quick example off the top of my head, Band Motley Crue.
It started out as a band wanting to make music and tour and get some money,
and now it's just make the money and that's it.
It's all we care about.
Yeah.
I think you can think of a popular podcast that started out interesting and cool
and talked about it's really interesting,
and now it's just kind of a mono theme
and it's what the sponsors want and it's what the painless listeners want.
Well, without saying names, there's a big guy that we can all point towards there,
and I don't want to motherfuck him because he's much bigger than us.
But yeah.
But yeah, this podcast started as something else,
and in a lot of ways that is actually a calculated move.
It's like let's start as this little friendly mom-and-pop pizza parlor,
and we'll give awesome pizza for the first year,
and then we'll start raising prices,
and then we'll start skimping out on the ingredients.
And that's what's going on.
Yeah.
Back in the 70s, there was a family restaurant called Ponderosa,
and my wife worked there when she was a teenager,
and during the course of her working there,
they switched from real hard-boiled eggs to a fake egg product
that came in like a three-foot tube,
and you just slice off little slices.
They went from real sour cream to baked potato topping is all they would call it,
fake sour cream.
It's just every step of the way they were cheaping out,
cheaping out crappier, paying employees less,
and pretty much every business, well, not every,
a lot of businesses go through that phase of let's get good,
let's get popular, let's build a reputation,
and then let's cash out and ride that reputation for as long as we can
and make our millions.
Applebee's is another good example of that, too.
The NFL is definitely in that position where it's now,
let's ride this money train as far as we can and as hard as we can,
and they really don't care what's left of the NFL when it's done.
Yeah, yeah.
Enjoy the ride, but at the end, the NFL will be utterly destroyed.
I agree.
I know there's a lot of rumbly, a little discontent over what's going on right now.
You know, it's a two-way street.
I used to be the ones like they have to get the calls right,
and now I'm like, fuck it.
Go with what was called on the field.
We need the game to keep going.
I get tired of too many commercials, too many interruptions.
And yeah, it's starting to get that kind of whiff of the reason that we're getting
so many controversial calls that have to go to replay is,
one, another commercial break, two, gambling opportunity.
Which way is this call going to go?
While we're sitting here in this commercial, let's whip out our phone and make a bet.
Well, what do you think about them going to an app now?
You cannot watch them on regular TV.
How about all the people 16 over, a lot of them?
I'm not quite there yet, but you're over 60.
But you are app savvy.
A lot of older people, and maybe 70s, maybe a little bit.
No, there's a lot of my contemporaries that just don't even care to learn
how to operate a smartphone or a computer or anything.
But yeah, the article that we both read, my initial impression was that
football was going to start being offered starting next season.
No games will be exclusively TV and no games will be exclusively streaming.
That's what I thought I read too.
Yeah.
So, and for the streaming games, they don't want you to have to rely on a specific
streaming service like Netflix or YouTube or whatever.
So they want to make it more universally on demand.
Like if I want to go watch an Austin Powers movie,
there's like about six different ways I can stream that movie through my dish
network, through my phone, my computer, and a lot of them don't rely on a
specific streaming service.
I'll put it like this, if I'm at work during a cheese game and I'm able to,
I will take out my phone and I have direct TV streaming,
and I will put the game on.
Yeah, and I think that's what the NFL is trying to go for.
Wherever you're at.
You're on vacation, you still watch the game.
Now the networks love their exclusivity.
It's like we're carrying this game in your area,
so you don't even get to watch any other game on TV,
because we're only going to give you this one.
So the NFL is really trying to end the network TV era and take it on themselves.
Instead of going through the network, it's like, you know,
say the network pays the NFL like three billion for the NFL rights.
They're still going to make money on top of that.
So the NFL is thinking, why are we settling for three billion?
Let's just do the games ourselves,
and we'll make all the money that they would have made.
So let's think what's going to change now.
Amazon's not going to change, and Netflix aren't going to change.
They're both apps.
Yep, but they're both, they're going to have to either add an absolutely free section
where you can come and watch the football games and hope that that...
Or you're going to have to pay.
Yeah, well they said they're going to try,
they're going to make it where you don't have to pay the streaming service.
Okay, then that's good.
So Amazon and Netflix will have to offer like a free account
where you just get the football games or something,
and that's their hope to try to get you to join up.
Or it's going to be like, you know, just through your TV provider.
I would like that because of this right here.
I could catch an out of market game.
If I'm on vacation, I can watch the Chiefs.
And that's what I've always wanted to do,
because when I used to go out of town for work,
it used to piss me off to no end.
You know, I'd have like direct TV streaming.
I think I had it then too.
If it wasn't, it was something else like that.
Yeah, you're out of the area, the blackout area.
It was Hulu. Yeah.
But since you live in the blackout area,
even though you traveled out of it, they still won't let you have a game.
Yeah, they won't let me have a game because they're going to show me,
like when I was in Nashville, I tried to watch the Chiefs game.
Uh-uh. They showed me the Titans game instead.
Yeah, I've noticed that I have the Dish streaming app too.
And it basically is anything that you can DVR.
Yeah.
Because it's taking it off of temporary DVR files.
Because there are some streaming channels now on Dish that you can't record.
Yeah.
Because they're streaming.
And that's it.
And then you can't watch them remotely because the remote viewing relies on your DVR.
And your DVR always knows exactly what zip code it's in and whatever restrictions.
Yeah.
But it's also worth noting that nowhere in this article did it say the games that were streaming are going to be free.
Now they say you don't have to have a paid app or join an app,
but they still might be pay-per-view.
Oh, I got what you're saying.
It never said anything about that.
It's like, oh, you want to watch the Chiefs game in St. Louis?
No problem.
$8.95.
Okay, well that agrees.
And you just log on to the NFL.com website and stream the game right from them.
But yeah, they never said it was going to be free.
They're just going to say they're going to make every game available to everybody everywhere.
They're going to find out because Gen Zers, this is going to be on the regular podcast,
but they will not even apply for a job unless it has, oh, I think I already covered it last week,
but anyhow, unless they know the salary, they won't even apply.
They are not that money-oriented.
So I'm going to say that if it comes to football, Gen Z is going to be out.
They're going to be like, I don't care that much about it.
So you've got to start thinking about probably instead of how much you can get,
how easy it is to get the game.
Right, yeah.
That would be the smarter approach is instead of trying to make every dollar you can,
just get every viewer you can, and the money will come from having that many viewers.
Yeah, and millennials are soccer-centric because that's when all the schools started promoting soccer.
They'll say, no, this is the next game.
This is the one up and coming. This is the one you want to learn.
Ironically enough, more high schoolers get serious injuries from playing soccer
than they do from getting playing football.
Yeah, but people don't think like that.
Yeah.
Sorry, I keep watching. Stupid shit keeps going on over there.
That guy went in and out of that parking space four times. Now he's leaving.
He's like the pilot practicing his touch and go on the airstrip.
He's practicing his park and go.
And then before that, someone was cleaning out their car and then go to the trunk
and all this stuff, and I was watching that.
I'm letting you know. I know what you're saying.
I'm just going, man, that's like a little area where a bunch of shit just happens.
Yeah.
So anyhow.
Something that we talked about before, the NFL wanting that 18th game.
Yeah.
And we talked about how you're going to have the players last, you know, making through that.
They're already dropping their flies.
I'm not admitting it, but I think anyone with a brain can look at it and go,
hey, there's a lot more injuries, especially wide receivers.
Yeah. Well, I had an idea that would help the quarterbacks survive.
OK.
And that is to eliminate the intentional grounding rule.
Give the quarterbacks the ability to throw the ball away anytime,
anywhere, for any reason, just spike it right down to the ground.
It'll speed up the game, too.
Exactly.
Yeah.
And that way the quarterbacks won't get hit so often.
They won't throw as many interceptions.
You'll still get sacks because they're going to be blindside sacks
or the quarterback is scrambling and doesn't have time to throw, then you still get hit.
So you'll still get plenty of sacks.
But those repeated hits, you'll eliminate a lot of those
because if the quarterback knows that anytime I can just throw this ball into the ground
and we start over, that's going to extend a lot of careers, I think.
Yeah.
And then you make a roster exemption for wide receivers instead of, you know,
you can tell the team you can carry six extra wide receivers
and they don't count against your roster limit.
So that way everybody can stock up on wide receivers.
Everybody playing decent college football at wide receiver will have a good shot in the NFL.
But the quarterback, you got to make them last.
You got to protect them.
And letting them intentionally ground, that's the only thing I could think of
that's going to avoid those hits.
Okay. Yeah.
The 18th game is going to happen.
Yeah.
So, quarterbacks, the reason they're not getting hurt is because now all the rules
are trying to keep them in the game because they know that this is the reason.
They don't want Lamar Jackson out, they don't want Josh Allen out,
they don't want Jalen Hurts, Patrick Mahomes out, Joe Burrow.
They don't want any of those guys out because those are the people that people tune in to watch.
Yeah, they do.
Yeah, so they're protecting their investment there is what they're doing.
So I'm not looking at quarterbacks because people go,
well, quarterbacks aren't at work getting hurt this year.
The wide receivers were and the defensive backs were.
Yeah.
So they're getting hurt at an alarming rate from what I could see.
Yeah, we saw it a lot on the Chiefs, but it was all over the league.
It was, yeah.
And that was the reason that there was nobody available to fill in for all these injured defensive backs
because everybody had injured players.
There's like 20 of them to choose from.
This time it's like, is there anybody out there?
Look at the practice squads.
They had to start looking at practice squads more.
Everybody got snapped up.
Yeah, we were lucky about what's his name from the Titans.
Hopkins.
Yeah, DeAndre Hopkins.
And it's kind of sad that that was probably a favor that the Chiefs called in to the Titans organization.
Yeah, because we traded them a sneed for basically a couple of fucking cans of fish bait and a slap on the ass.
And then we got Hopkins as a return favor and it was a squandered season.
Yeah, it was.
We basically could have done without him this season and been just fine.
There's an argument that we could have done better.
Yeah.
Maybe the ball would have been thrown to Worthy a little bit more or maybe to Kelsey a little bit more.
Yeah, that's something that I kind of saw in Patrick Mahomes' game is that he chose who he wanted to throw to
and he was trying to make it work.
Well, it was a trust issue, I think, because certain people weren't getting open.
Certain people he wasn't all that familiar with, too.
Yeah, that's true.
Now, Hollywood Brown, they said during preseason that they had great chemistry.
But do we believe what they tell us?
No, not now. They had nothing.
See how they lie to us.
They had nothing.
No, they had nothing.
Hollywood Brown, for someone that's that fast, I sure didn't see it in the Super Bowl.
No.
I didn't see it in the playoffs.
Playoffs?
I tend to believe it's not there.
I say you let that guy walk.
I don't think he's that good.
Or at least, I mean, he might be better with someone else.
You know, I haven't heard it yet.
People say, well, now we know why the Titans let him go.
No, I think he could have been successful.
It's just it didn't work here last season.
I think that there was way too much going on for him to really have it.
He did do some good catches.
Yeah.
And he did help win a couple of games, so he wasn't worthless.
Yeah, and I'm positive Deandre Hopkins has a lot of great football left to play.
I think he does, too, but probably not in Kansas City unless he gives us a hometown discount.
And they want him on the roster.
And that's going to be kind of I think that's going to be the big stat, the big thing in the way is,
roster can only have so many people on it, and will he give us a hometown discount to maybe win a ring?
Yeah, I really think it's time for the roster limit to increase.
I think so, too.
If you're going to go to another game, 18 games, I think you need to have the roster five more people,
is what I would say.
What do you think?
Yeah, yeah.
I think currently it's 53, and you have some inactive, and then you have some like you have your emergency quarterback that doesn't count.
Yeah.
But if you put him in, you can't put anyone else in.
No, that's it.
Once you go to the emergency, you're locked in.
Yeah, it's like taking a pitcher out.
It's usually the kicker.
Yeah, yeah.
Or the punter.
Do you remember when Nick Lowry went in a long time ago?
Oh my gosh, I think I do.
Oh, what a fucking disaster.
Oh, I would be.
I forgot what all happened, but the main quarterback was down, then another quarterback was down, and then the third stringer was down.
And then it's like, we don't know who's going in, then Nick Lowry comes in.
Nick Lowry's going in.
That would have been funny if he had just run with the ball and he'd been able to clobber him.
Wouldn't that have been awesome?
Now that we know what an awful human being he was.
He was pretty gross.
Class A fucking pervert, I guess.
You know, given the benefit of the doubt, he may be a sexual addict, because a sexual addict, I mean, it's like being a crack addict.
You'll do anything for it.
You'll base yourself in any way.
Sex addicts are the same way.
Yeah, that's true.
So is possible that's what his deal was, or it could just be that he was a perv?
It could have been.
It could be one or the other.
I always do this when I'm not sure.
I wasn't there.
Yeah.
So who knows?
Maybe he started with somebody that didn't like him because he snubbed him.
We don't know, but the word on the street was he was a class A pervert.
Yeah.
And a greasy one.
Yeah.
They say he sweat a lot.
Yeah.
He'd hit on other players wide.
Yeah, that's supposedly all sweaty.
Oh, this is allegedly, like I said, we weren't there.
No.
Even stuff that happens directly to me, most of the time I don't know the whole story anyway.
Yeah, I know what you mean.
Yeah.
Because if you step back and look at it, you think it's only involved you, and then when
you step back, you go, wait a minute, I think I was just there.
I don't think it had anything to do with me.
Yeah.
And whatever anybody else was thinking, I'm just making predictions of what I think they
were thinking.
I think they were grilling smells fucking good.
It is, yeah.
Jeez, I don't know what it is.
Okay.
We'll see.
And you see, this is psychology on me because I went to the doctors this morning, I'm down
another 10 pounds, great.
Nice.
So all of a sudden my mind relieves itself and says, hey, everything smells good.
I knew this was going to happen.
It happens every time.
Yeah.
If I would have gained weight, I'd have been the other way going, oh man, everything smells
horrible to me.
It's psychology.
Well, I think we're taught to think that way.
Yeah, yeah.
I think we're taught since youth to think that way.
You're dwindling away, Mark.
You are dwindling away.
You've got to go get some nourishment.
Yep.
Yeah.
No, you're right.
We are taught that.
Yeah.
You get a tiny little victory, celebrate by putting yourself in massive death.
That's what we're taught.
Yes.
Yeah, go out and have a big party.
Yeah.
Do stuff you don't need to do.
I got a $50 bonus at work.
I'm going to book this $1,200 air flight.
Who cares?
I got $50.
Yep.
See, we're trained to think that way.
Or now cruises are like, book your cruise with $50 because it used to be you had to
have like a quarter of the money up front.
$50, no problem.
And we will even finance you the whole time for no, they don't charge you interest.
They make it as easy as you can.
Book two years in advance.
That's only $70 a month, dude.
It sounds like that cruise line made a deal with a finance and collection agency.
Probably.
And that finance slash collection agency is covering all the bad debts.
Carnival has uplift.
I've seen uplift on other entities.
And I don't know, it seems like you don't get charged interest, but you get charged
a service charge, I think.
Like a flat rate service charge.
Yeah, yeah, it's like, okay.
Yeah, that's a way to make cut.
Each time they do it, it's five bucks or something.
Charge interest without having to call it interest.
Yeah, yeah, and they're like, see, no interest.
It's just like the cleaning fees, whatever you look on VROB or wherever you go, Airbnb.
Oh, that's only 170.
Wow, I've never seen it that low.
That's a penthouse.
And you click on it, fucking $180 cleaning fee.
Wait a minute, how'd this go to 400?
It's 170 a night.
Yeah, that's with the cleaning fee and then processing fees and maintenance fees and my
elbow itches.
Yeah, and I think that that should be illegal because it makes you click on the property
and look at it.
It's like, no, I should be able to just go, no, 400 a night altogether.
No, I think it's booking.com.
Yeah, it would be nice if they would give you the full included price right up front.
I think booking.com started doing that because they realized that people are like, fuck this.
You know, everything says it's this much, but it isn't.
Yeah.
You know, the only thing that they can't help is like the taxes and fees like every place,
Kansas City does it too.
They have a hotel tax.
Yeah.
And a dwelling.
Which we voted for.
Yeah.
We passed that.
We had to get the Sprint Center.
Yeah.
Yep.
So anyhow, I forgot where we were.
No, I was going to make also the analogy to when you're buying a car.
They'll say, you know, it's this amount, but then when you go through all the paperwork,
they add a ton of fees on.
Uh-huh.
I think you can in advance say, okay, if I buy this car, list all the fees, every fee
I'm going to get charged and exactly how much it is.
And then make your deal so you can make sure they don't add to those fees to make back
the money you got off the price of the car.
Uh-huh.
So like if you get them down to an extra 500, then they're going to spread that 500 around
in some fees and get it right back from you.
Yeah.
But make them commit upfront to how much the fees are going to be.
Yeah.
Then start bargaining about the price of the car.
Yep.
Most places won't do that.
Oh yeah, yeah.
And it's just like what we were talking about before, and it might have been on air, I don't
know, but we're talking about it.
And whenever the salesman's on your side and air quotes, and they go, I don't know if I
can get this done.
I'm going to go talk to the president right now and maybe I can get this through for you.
All you do is go, all right, I'll go with you.
Yeah.
I'm not going to talk about my deal and my money and my credit risk for you, so I'm going
with you.
It's all about me, my business.
I wouldn't be offended.
I'd be like, okay, so you got to go talk to the guy in to give me a better deal.
Fuck you.
I'm not doing it.
No.
Or you could say, why am I wasting time with you when you can't make the decision?
I should have been talking to him the whole time.
You're useless.
You know what?
Yeah, if that ever happens to me, I'm going to go, oh, I just want to go talk to him then.
You can't make a decision like this, obviously.
Yep.
So yeah.
Anyhow, it was just like that time I told you when I bought my Trailhawk and it had
a bad battery in it.
I'm at Walmart in Raymore and I go out and it doesn't start.
I'm like, oh, fuck.
I had the insurance to where you could come get it.
I had to get basically the full nine yards.
Yeah, the road hazard, emergency tow, that kind of thing.
Yeah, so they towed it there.
And anyhow, they said, oh, it's a bad battery.
I'm like, okay, good.
So I go to them.
I go, well, since I bought this car two days ago, you guys are replacing it, right?
Well, I don't know.
Here, let me give you a call.
And the guy's name, I knew his name well.
I dealt with him enough.
And I said, well, is so-and-so here?
Yeah.
Call him in.
Or no, no, no, no.
They said that.
Oh, we'll call whoever.
They called him and I heard him on the phone go, no, no, no, no.
The car was as-is.
So I went ahead and I paid for it.
I was like, all right, okay, go ahead and put it in.
I'll pay for it.
And so that Monday, well, right, actually, when they're putting it in, I went on the ratings
and just motherfuck the hell out of them.
That Monday, I get a call from that area code.
Hello?
Hey, there was a misunderstanding.
Yeah, yeah, we'll give you your money back.
We'll send it to you in a check and all this stuff.
And then at the very end, it's like, by the way, do you mind taking down your review?
Yeah.
Nowadays, I wouldn't have done that.
I did at the time.
Nowadays, I'd be like, no, it's going to stand it.
I don't want your money.
But I went ahead and took it.
But I'm kind of pissed off at myself.
I didn't really think about it.
The only reason they did is because I pushed back.
Yeah.
And if now, I'd be like, that $250 doesn't mean that much to me.
I mean, yeah, I'd like to have it.
But you know what?
I've spent that money on stupider things.
Yeah.
Nowadays, I'd just be like, no, I don't want your shit.
It's staying.
Yeah.
What price to basically betray yourself and take down that honest and truthful statement
you made on the review?
Well, I was kind of gloating because it worked.
So I kind of went along those lines.
I'm like, haha, I won.
Yeah, yeah, send me a check.
And then later on, I thought about it.
No, no, no.
Maybe I won, but I would have won better if I would have kept that up there and just said,
no, screw you guys.
And you know, that should be a decision you make in advance.
Is I'm going to post this bad review to try to get my money back and then I'll take it
down.
Or I'm going to post this bad review and to hell with it.
Well, you see, I didn't do it like that.
I've been winning or losing.
And I was like, oh, I won this.
And I was like, OK, yeah, I'll take it down.
But you know, if you go into it saying, OK, this is the tool I'm going to use to get my
money back, then it's your choice.
Yeah.
They pay you.
You take it down.
You take it down yourself because that was your intentional long.
Yeah.
And I could have put it back up, but I'm not going to do that.
You know, I told them I would take it down.
So I did.
You know, I'm not a liar.
Integrity.
Yep.
But anyhow, if I had to do that again, I would not.
I've been like, no, no, thank you.
No, no.
There's a dispensary that's kissing me off.
They've got a line.
You know, you walk into the room and the very first line you come to is for online orders
or medical card.
I know what you're talking about.
Yes.
And I have a medical card, but I don't do online orders.
So I go right into that line and I stand at the front.
And then one of the button tenders will say, do you have an online order?
And I'll say no.
And before I can say I have a medical card, they start carving at me.
Well, that line is for online orders.
You should be in like you can take either one of these other two lines, is it?
And I say, is that the one near us?
It's the one on 103rd and State line.
Yes.
Oh, no, 103rd and State line.
No, that's a different one.
Okay.
And then I said, but I have a medical card.
And this is the line for medical card, right?
Oh, oh, oh, yeah.
And this has happened three times to me that they immediately presume that I'm stupid and I'm in the wrong line.
They must have zero medical card customers there because none of their button tenders seem to have any idea
that medical card customers come in and get in that line.
They all think they're going to go through the drive-through.
Yeah.
Well, I got something similar when you're done with this.
Oh, yeah.
I was just going to say that next time I go in, I'm going to tell the person at the desk that this has happened to me three times.
I get into this line and they tell me I'm doing it wrong.
I said, if it happens this time, then I won't be back.
There's other places.
Yeah.
And I say, please let your button tenders know that I'm doing it right and they're screwing up.
You know, I'll try to say it nicer.
But seriously, I'm going to tell them and give them an advance warning.
I said, you screw this up again and I won't be back.
I'm not coming back. Yeah.
Because I'm tired of getting yelled at by your employees who think I'm doing it wrong.
Yeah.
Screw that.
Yeah, no.
There's a hundred other places that want my money.
Yeah.
That's how you do it, man.
If someone does you stupid like that, you know what?
You're not on my register anymore.
It's like you closed down in my mind.
Yeah, and then if they get pissy that I'm making them do it right.
Who cares?
That I'm done anyway.
Yeah, it's like that's all right.
Fucking do this and you won't see me again, so you won't have to worry about it.
Yeah.
My deal is, okay, there's that McDonald's here.
You on 85th?
Mm-hmm.
Or off of 85th or whatever.
Okay, some mornings I just don't have time to get anything at the house.
I'm like, you know what?
I'll just run by there real quick and grab it, okay?
Yeah.
So number one, their screen's down.
Someone hit it and you can't read it, okay?
Number two, they have AI greet you.
Yeah.
I love that they McDonald's.
And I'm like, yeah.
And I go, number four.
Number four is the two breakfast burritos, hash rounds, and a drink, right, and a coffee.
So I say number four, okay?
And then it goes, are you talking about the burritos?
Yes.
So when I get around and then I go around, they give me one burrito and one drink.
I'm like, isn't that whole purpose of saying that number four means a combo meal, right?
Yeah.
And it's supposed to make it foolproof.
Yeah.
But somehow they're able to screw it up.
Yeah.
Well, I think they're trying to make you download the app.
Oh, yeah.
If you download the app, you know it's right because it's like right there, okay, they're
charging me for this.
This is what I'm getting at 1030.
Okay.
Yeah.
That's, that is another common business tactic is to force the customers into doing what
you want by making the service just kind of unusable unless they do.
You know, get them hooked on the service and then just throw up roadblocks until they pay
the monthly fee.
I have no idea if this is true, but that's the way I think it is.
It's allegedly all of this.
I don't know if that's actually what's going on, but I mean, that's the way I kind of see
it.
Yeah.
I agree.
I've got a music app that started out, you know, just lets me access the files that are
on my own phone.
Uh-huh.
You know, that's all I want to do is I've got like, you know, five or six gig of music
on my phone and I want to listen to it.
So all I need is a simple app to access it.
And that app worked fine for a while.
And then it started when I'd open it, it would start with an ad and say, you know, click
here to proceed to the app.
Now it's gotten to the point it starts with an ad and it says click here to proceed to
the app.
So I do.
And the next thing that pops up is another ad.
And then I click past that.
And then the next one that pops up is upgrade to our premium service for X dollars a month.
Is that tuning?
This is Musio.
Oh, okay.
Tuning does that too.
And then I click past that.
And then it wants me to choose a theme for my layout.
It's like, I just wanted to play a freaking song five minutes ago and I'm having to click
through all this garbage.
Yeah, it's like, no thank you.
I'll just go ahead and watch TV.
Fuck off.
Yeah, but there are a ton of people that would look at that and instead of saying, screw
you, I'm going to find something else, they would say, okay, take my money.
I will never do that.
It's like, you keep making it inconvenient and difficult for me, I'm not going to give
you the money you want.
I'll go somewhere else.
Yeah, absolutely.
I'll go to a younger app trying to prove itself by giving you free stuff.
But as long as there are people who are willing to throw money at it to make the problems
go away, that's going to be the business model and the rest of us just get dragged down with
it.
But they're apps that I'm losing because they're making it way too difficult to use
the free version.
And they're still advertising to me on the free versions, so they're getting their money.
It's not like I'm taking advantage of them.
They gave it to me for free because they knew I'd have to see their ads.
But suddenly that's not good enough anymore.
And really the tie in here is that's where the NFL is going.
Yeah, it is.
The NFL is fully on board with all of this.
So whatever you love about football either is going to get modified, taken away, or put
behind a paywall.
That's their business model.
Oh, you want this?
Pay extra for it.
Yeah.
Oh, you really want this?
Pay a lot extra for it.
Yeah, that's going to be their business model.
And they're going to ruin the game.
They're just going to destroy football.
I think they're well on their way.
But at least I was able to watch it during the fun years of the 60s and 70s.
Yeah, me too.
Not fun in Kansas City, but fun everywhere else.
Well, I'll say late 60s.
I don't remember much football before 67 when the Packers beat the Chiefs in the Super Bowl,
the very first Super Bowl.
Oh yeah, that's right.
And then we won number four against Minnesota.
And then subsequently, let's see.
And wait until number 54.
It's 50 years apart.
Yeah, they did.
From number four to number 54.
I think we deserve a few after that, don't you?
Yeah.
And Detroit's still looking.
Cleveland's still looking.
Cleveland is.
Yeah.
Detroit, man, boy, how would you like to be them?
Oh gosh.
Oh my God.
Yeah, the high they were riding last season and now it just looks like.
Oh yeah, they couldn't wait to go to the Super Bowl.
Are they even going to be a decent team next year?
You got Jared Goff.
I'm sorry, man.
Look, the thing I said from the beginning last season,
well, probably about on their seven games in when they both looked at like world beaters.
Okay.
Yeah, at the end of the day, you still have Jared Goff and Sam Darnold.
At some point, Sam Darnold's going to be Sam Darnold,
and that's during the playoffs when he has bigger competition.
Yeah.
Jared Goff, same thing.
Yeah, Kirk Cousins turned into Kirk Cousins when he got tired late in the season.
And that's what we've been saying the whole fucking time is.
There's a reason they are the second or third tier quarterbacks.
It's because their staffs look good on paper, but they don't win.
I guess that's the ego of the general manager and or coach saying,
oh yeah, but here it's going to be different.
I can get the more out of it.
I can make it work.
That's like marrying somebody because, oh, I can change them.
Yeah, that's the same thing.
It's the same delusion.
It's like, no, get what you want instead of what you think you can turn that into.
Our head coach is really good at talking.
Hey, just get this guy, man.
We can make it work, man.
This defense here, yeah.
We're going to win every game 17 to 10, but don't worry, we'll get it.
And some of those decisions are because they decided to cheap out in one area
so they could sign some expensive area.
And do they ever really tell us the real numbers of what they sign these people for?
No.
Does anyone ever check on that?
How do we know that they really signed for that amount?
They just tell us that.
Tom Brady might still be getting a check.
Who knows?
We don't know.
If it's not in their best interest to tell us, they won't tell us.
Yeah.
Remember how closed mouth Bill Belichick was about everything?
I loved it.
The rest of the league is that way about stuff that they really don't think is any of our business.
That whole thing of Bill Belichick started early on.
Yeah.
And so they kept asking stupid questions, so he quit being animated.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, we decided to kind of go that way because it made the most sense.
And under his contract, he is legally required to attend those news conferences, press conferences,
and answer the questions.
But he doesn't have to make them fun.
Yep.
And if the reporters were asking decent, interesting, intelligent, insightful questions, he'd be all right.
He would probably do it differently.
Yeah.
I'll answer.
The stupid pandering questions that everyone have.
What were you thinking when it was like third and 17 in your sentence?
Everyone was going to ask that question.
It doesn't matter anyway.
And his response is never going to make any difference anyway.
So he just says the most boring, dull crap ever.
See, I'd be the opposite.
I'd feed a full of shit on this.
Think about Pop Tarts.
I was really fucking hungry.
We need a head coach like that.
We do.
Man, Pop Tarts are good.
Oh my gosh.
Yep.
And think about benching the starter in the third quarter and bringing the backup.
Yeah.
Now, I was thinking about barbecue and getting in my hot tub later.
Yeah, yeah.
You know, just blow off the stupid questions.
Who's the new hot blonde over in the left?
No, not her.
Him.
Oh my God.
No, man.
That would be funny if he had a head coach making fun of shit like that.
Oh yeah.
I mean, he's still obeying his contract.
He's answering the questions, but if the question is stupid or ridiculous, he gives a stupid
or ridiculous answer.
And if they don't like it, okay, I don't have to do one then, right?
Ask a better question next time.
Yeah.
The caliber of questions need to be raised before my caliber is raised.
Yeah.
But we know how controlled the NFL is.
I mean, think about the terminology that everybody uses.
You know, it would be funny if the coach said every time they fucking show me, I'm scratching
my ass or something, could you make sure and have them edit that shit out?
They have a seven second delay.
Yeah.
And be real serious about it.
Jerry Jones got caught that way.
It was like the second year maybe of his new stadium, because they're still showing him
every chance they could.
Oh yeah, yeah, they still do.
The camera went to him and he had his index finger up to the third knuckle in his nose.
Vic Fangio too, that he was head coach of the Broncos.
And I don't think the camera got it at first.
They thought maybe he was just leaning on his hand, but then he started twisting it
as the camera went zoop.
They did that this year too and I can't remember who it was.
Yeah, I remember that.
But that's the image I will always have of Jerry Jones is that index finger up almost
to the first knuckle into his nose and then he started twisting it and the camera just
zoom.
What I think is better is whenever a player is having a problem with their jock strap,
they're overtly fidgeting with their ball sack.
You see him get away from that real quick too.
You see a look on his face like, shit, how come Riley keeps ducking?
Hang on, I've got to straighten this shit out and then they're like paying to him.
Oh man.
Okay, I've got a story here.
Okay, with NFL in off-season mode, Kansas City Chief Superstar quarterback Patrick Mahomes
has had plenty of time to enjoy other sports as a spectator.
Just take for example Monday night's heavyweight Big 12 basketball showdown between number
10 Texas Tech Red Raiders and number four, Houston Cougars at United Supermarket Arena
in Lubbock, Texas.
So it's a home game where the three-time Super Bowl champion showed up to support his alma
field.
Mahomes, who played three seasons of Texas Tech football before turning pro in 2017,
sat next to the Red Raiders bench.
It's hard for viewers at home to miss Mahomes, especially with the attention given to him
by ESPN's coverage.
Yeah.
So a lot of people left comments on X.
There's like 30 comments that they just showed and people are pissed.
They're like, look, we see Mahomes every day during football season.
Overexposure.
Yeah, we know he's there.
Can you please quit showing him?
But the problem was he was right next to the bench.
So every time I looked at some of the footage, I didn't watch the game personally, but you
could see him looking towards the bench and the coach and the assistants.
And they're like, oh, wait a minute, Mahomes is more interesting.
And they go on him.
And no, it was funny because I agree with him.
They probably showed him 20 times.
Yeah, your issue is not Patrick.
Your issue is the TV coverage.
Yeah, he didn't ask him to take all this footage.
You could also see him kind of going, you know, he didn't say it, but you can see him
going, fuck, come on, man, I'm trying to watch this game.
Could you guys please?
You know, because every time it's distracting, you know, they're at you, you know, you're
like, OK, am I?
No, I'm not picking my nose.
No, I'm not coughing.
You know, yeah.
So anyhow, shoot your true.
Is there anything else we need to cover?
You want to go to the music creeps?
I think we should take a bathroom break and then go to the music creeps.
That sounds good.
Yeah.
I think this coffee needs to go somewhere.