Well, since the sports show can't be called two
douchebags with a microphone, maybe we could
just call them the sports bastards. Let's go
in and see how the levels are. Let's see how
nasty and weird the levels get. Okay. And I'm
going to get myself more imposition. Okay. And
I think we can turn this up just a hair. Okay.
We're the sports bastards, but we're figuring
some shit out. So we're still the sports bastards.
It's just we're not quite being sports bastards.
Yeah. I brought down the headphone gain a little
bit so we're not blowing our own ears out. Of
course, we're going to blow your ears out. We
don't care about that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You
guys have clearly demonstrated you don't care
about quality. You're listening to this shit.
That's exactly right. Anyhow, any takeaways from
the preseason game? Mahomes is one for one. I
got one takeaway, and that's about it. Well,
Josh Simmons played good. Yeah, yeah. That was
pretty awesome. At one point, Mahomes was one
pass for one completion for one yard and one
touchdown. Yes. That's what I love. But the thing
that I loved about it was the pass he threw.
Yeah. The pass he threw was incatchable for anybody
but the receiver. Yes, yes. I remember you mentioned
that at the time. Look where he placed that ball.
It was perfect. No one was getting it except
the intended target, and that's Mahomes' brain
at work there. Yes, and it was just preseason,
but he was doing things the way they needed to
be. Yeah, yeah. And that's what makes him above
everyone else. That's how come Tom Brady can't
quit raving about him. Yeah. Tom Brady sees things
like that, and he's like, you know, this guy
is just. There's all these opportunities to show
how he gets it, whereas a lot of players are
like, oh, well, he kind of missed that, but you
can't be on it. No, Mahomes is on the ball all
the time. All the time, yes. Well, I guess my
one big takeaway would be that the Chiefs really
didn't show much, but that's kind of what they
did. They never do. I mean, that's Andy Reid
right there, classic. So they played well. They
played efficiently. There weren't a whole lot
of screw -ups. That's all I really cared about.
Oh, yeah. You know, and Andy Reid is traditionally,
even during the season, you don't even see what
they're capable of doing. He is such a deceptionist.
It's insane. I'm sure he's got a whole list of
plays for the second half of the season only.
Or, we're not going to do this until after we've
already played Denver once. He's going to do
just enough. That kind of thing. No, I agree.
Because he's kind of like this, and people don't
realize. They go, oh, only one by one point.
That's all you need to win. And Reid knows that.
Oh, shit, they're already shutting us down. Yeah,
it's that scam likely guy. Oh, that fucking bastard.
No, let's see. In 1972, the Dolphins went with
a perfect season. Undefeated in the regular season,
all the wins in the playoffs and the Super Bowl.
I have no idea what the point margin was in any
of those games. And nobody cared. Nobody cares.
It doesn't matter. Yeah. Yeah. And they lost
all their preseason games that year, but that
didn't matter either, did it? No. No. So, yeah,
you've got to think, okay, what's important and
what do the bookies want us to think about? Yes.
Yeah. Yeah. And also, people tend to get carried
away with stuff, too. Yeah. Like, well, we just
barely won that one. Okay? That's like saying
you're sort of dead. Yes. A win, as long as I've
checked, is still a W, which still counts in
the W column, which still counts in the division,
which still counts in the conference, which still
counts in the Super Bowl. So I'm going to go
ahead and just go with that. Yeah, the weird
thing about that opening weekend of preseason
games. There were three tie games. Yes, I thought
that was interesting. It's unusual. Thank God
they've done away with overtime in preseason,
because that was just stupid. It was ridiculous.
And also, does it also indicate more of a parity
even than before, maybe? I think so, and I think
teams are... less likely to try to win these
games, even if they had a stinko season last
year. That used to be the thing. It was, oh,
well, let's get out there and get our players
used to winning. Let's win these preseason. Those
are for teams that won in 15 last year. They're
the ones doing that. And even then, they usually
don't do that anymore. Everyone's gotten smarter.
The fans have gotten a little more savvy. It's
like, it's preseason. We don't care. Just show
us that you're on the ball and you've got it
figured out. If your team's good, they're going
to win. That's it. Win when it counts. Yes. So
it was fun to see football again. Oh, I agree.
I agree. Have some bullet points or you got something
you want to go into? I was just going to say
it's really sad to see Deion Bush out for the
season. Yes. Oh, that was a gut punch. Yeah.
Yeah. What's his fourth, fifth year in the league?
Fifth year, I think. And he does a lot on special
teams. We're going to miss him on special teams
as well as in the backfield. Yeah. Achilles,
another Achilles injury. They're all over the
place this season. Well, we have stretched the
season another game. True. And they're going
to stretch it another game. So I don't know if
it's that or not. I don't know. Yeah. We'll see.
Everything tends to balance out eventually. Yeah.
Yeah, so I got some bullet points in if you want
to go into some of them. Yes, please. All right.
The Chiefs have seven stand -alone primetime
games, including the season starter in Brazil
on Friday, September 5th on YouTube. Is that
too many? I think it is. I think so, too. I mean,
for several reasons. One is overexposure of the
Chiefs brand, again. Yes. Two, just from a personal
standpoint, that's seven times I'm going to have
to stay up late to watch the game if I want to
see it live. And it's easier for me because I'm
retired, but a lot of people work and they're
going to feel like crap in the morning. So it's
just three or four a season is plenty, I think.
I remember I just got pissed every time I'd see
Dallas on Monday night or Sunday night football
six times during the season. There are other
teams I want to see, man. If you don't live in
Kansas City or from Kansas City and have some
sort of vested interest in the Chiefs, you probably
hate them. Yeah, yeah. And they're going to start
paying the price in ratings, and then they'll
fix it. But for right now, it's what they're
doing. Well, they're trying to fix it with a
schedule. Yeah. Yeah. Hey, you know, take heart,
everyone. The Chiefs might get flexed out of
some of those games. Yeah, they might. They might.
Yeah. And my hope is that they do just because
it doesn't matter to us. We're going to see the
game either way. Yeah, yeah. And the reason is
because I do think an overexposure is a problem
with them right now. Yeah. I had people that
I knew that were just all just giddy about Mahomes
before, and they loved Kelsey and the story and
all that and everything. And now they're like,
they don't like him. Yeah, yeah. Even Travis
Kelsey is saying publicly now that all of his,
extra activities last season affected his on
the field play and no shit yeah he's you know
we all knew that but it's nice that he's admitting
it publicly and he said yeah this won't be that
won't be a problem anymore that's good so and
that was another thing about having seven prime
time standalone games is a lot of the players
are going to enjoy being in the spotlight so
much that it can be a distraction from what you're
supposed to be doing on the field oh i agree
Well, time's going to tell on that one. We'll
see. I mean, has the game got away from him in
that time that he wasn't so concerned about it?
I don't think so. I don't think so. I don't either,
but, you know, we'll see. Time will tell. Yeah.
I think that a good season for him will be right
at about 1 ,000 yards. If he does that, I think
that would be a great benchmark for him to go
ahead and say adios, thank you. Whoa, time to
put the condom on the microphone. That's a lot
of wind noise. Yeah, it is. We're practicing
safe podcasting now. All right. Yeah, what do
you think touchdowns for Kelsey this season?
In 17 games, I'd be happy with 12. I'm going
to say, yeah, yeah, 12. One a game would be pushing
it. Well, I mean, last year, didn't he have a
game, was it against the Raiders, where he had
three yards and, like, four touchdowns or something?
Yeah, that's true. That's true, yeah. Or was
that the year before? There was a game where,
yeah, there was like several one -yard touchdown
passes. Yeah. Well, I look for some of those
again. Yeah, yeah. Because he has that ability
of his size and his arm length and everything
to get open in tight spots. I imagine in some
fantasy football leagues that would present a
real problem. Yeah, probably. Yes. All right,
who would be Mahomes' biggest rival? On the team
or? No. Oh, okay. No, no, no. I was going to
say Gardner Minshew looked pretty good, but that
fourth guy, Olaida Kuhn, I remember in last year,
he shows flashes. He shows some real flashes
there. Yeah. Who was the third one that threw
the interception? Bailey Zappi. Zappi, yeah.
Yeah, he's not going to be there very long. Oh,
yeah. When I saw that, it was like, who the heck
were you throwing that to? I know. Biggest rival
in the league right now? Yeah. I'm going to say
Joe Burrow. I'm going to have to say Josh Allen.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. But Joe Burrow, look, if they
get it together, it will be Joe Burrow. But they
have to get it together. And I think Joe Burrow
is also much more likely to have a personal competition
with Mahomes. The way Randy Rhodes had a personal
competition with Eddie Van Halen. Him and Burrow
may get along on the surface, but I do believe,
just my own thought, by looking and watching,
analyzing, and then you have people over there
like, oh, Jamar Chase mouthing off and stuff
like that. Well, you have a lot of them mouthing
off. I think that dynamic right there won't allow
them to actually be as close because Josh Allen
and Patrick Mahomes are good friends. Yeah, yeah,
I think that's a big difference there is Josh
Allen will look at Mahomes and say, you know,
that's all right. I can get better and I can
be better than you and I can beat you. Joe Burrow,
I think, looks at Mahomes and says, you're in
my way. Yes, I agree. And that's not a knock
on Joe Burrow. It seriously is not. It's just
kind of a different attitude. And I think if
Joe Burrow and Mahomes had actually become good
friends, that he probably would have more of
a Josh Allen attitude. I think so, too. Right
now, I think it is actually probably in Burrow's
best interest to not cozy up to Mahomes, to keep
the rivalry going, and keep that distance, and
look at him as, you're in my way, and I need
to push you out of my way. And also, everybody,
it's never been Burrow. Burrow's never come out
and mouthed off about Mahomes, ever. He's been
the perfect gentleman, and I like him personally
really well. The thing is, is everyone around
him has done that. And that's a team issue. That's
not the players. I mean, because all the players
feel the way those players have been saying.
It's just usually they don't say it out loud.
You don't express it. What you do is go, man,
you've got to take your hats off to them, man.
They came in and played their ass off. You know,
like the late hit was three years ago now, the
championship game. where you have their own people
screaming at each other, don't come in this locker
room, and stuff like that. It shows like there's
a definite problem there, and that's how come
I can't give Joe Burrow. It's not Joe Burrow.
It's his team. Yeah, it's like last season, Joe
Burrow was kind of the bright spot on that offense,
wasn't he? And that was it. Yeah, that was it,
really. He hasn't given up. He hasn't quit. No.
No, he's going to be there. He's a gamer. He's
a player. But Ty Hendrickson, I don't think he's
signing, is he? Or has he? Has he signed? I don't
think he has. I don't think Hendricks has. I
saw a story popped up that tried to fool me into
believing that he had signed with the Jaguars.
Yeah, no. Which is weird. Clickbait. You're like,
what? Yeah, and you had to look through until
finally he said, oh, no, the Jaguars are looking
for someone like him. Oh, okay. It's just like
all the clickbait on Ozzy's grave. There's like
30 of them now. Have you ever even seen the real
one? Who knows? There's so many AI -generated
grave sites of his. I'm already getting the clickbait
of Andy Reid blows up and fires three players
from the team immediately, and there's a quote,
I'm not going to stand for this. And it turns
out that there's one of those clickbaits for
every stinking team in the league, and it's just
garbage. So you've got to weed through that crap.
Yep. All right, moving on. Is this the year Karloftis
becomes the official superstar? I'm saying yes.
You know, that's a good question. I could definitely
see that happening. He's got the good contract.
He's settled in. He's been steadily improving.
Chris Jones is a year older. Yeah, and I don't
think Chris Jones has that kind of jealousy or
envy. No, no, he's the opposite. Yeah, he's not
going to be saying, hey, get me more reps than
him. There's a reason. There's a reason that
Travis Kelsey said, hey, redo my contract. Sign
him. I remember when Derek Thomas and Neal Smith
were the two big pass rushers for the Chiefs.
Yep. And Neal Smith wasn't getting as many sacks,
and he was asked about that, and he said, that
doesn't matter. You know, what I'm doing is getting
Derek Thomas sacks. And this is the same way
with Karloff to St. Jones. And then a lot of
times a Manahew gets them. It doesn't matter.
They have this rush that's designed to flush
a guy out, and then first man to him gets him.
Sometimes it's Michael Dana. But the thing is,
it's as long as they get him. That's all they
care about. Nobody cares about stats. They care
about rings, and that's why this team's been
so special. Everyone on there is looking at a
ring. They're not looking at personal stats.
They don't care. And that used to be more of
a big thing in the players' contracts. they would
base some incentives and bonuses and things on
certain stats. And I think the league as a whole
has said, you know what, this isn't working out
for us because then players don't care about
the team. Exactly. They just want their stats
so they get paid, so let's get that out of the
contracts. It's kind of faded out now, which
is a good thing. Yeah, it has, which is great.
All right. Will Aaron Rodgers win a playoff game
with the Steelers? Yeah, I think he will. I think
he's going to win one. I think he will. Then
he's going to hit the brick wall of the Bills.
Maybe the Bengals, the Chiefs. At his own age?
Yeah. Maybe Baltimore. I don't know. I'm still
not convinced on them. Texans, as of right now,
I think they could beat the Texans. I think if
he'd stayed with the Packers, I wouldn't be as
impressed with the Packers as I am this season.
Oh, yeah. Well, Jordan Love is out for a little
bit, isn't he? Yeah. Anyway, I'm jumping ahead
to predictions. Oh, okay. No, that's fine. But,
yeah, I think the Steelers are going to win one,
especially if it's a home game. But then, yeah,
they'll hit the wall. I got a question, just
a sidebar here. Sure. Do you think that the Packers
are going to win because of Jordan Love or because
he's part of the team? I think it's going to
be a team, kind of a team system. I agree, too.
I don't think he's a guy that's going to grab
the team, throw them on his shoulders and go,
come on, guys. Maybe once in a while, but not
as a regular everyday thing. There are some teams,
like the Bills, go out there knowing whatever
happens, Josh Allen is going to push and he's
going to get us. He's going to get us in a position.
And they just know it. They just know it going
in. No matter what happens, Josh Allen's never
out of it. The opposing team knows it too. They're
like, well, you have Josh Allen up there, so
we know this. Yeah, so it's going to take a bit
to build that kind of confidence. with a team
of the younger quarterback or a new quarterback
or that kind of thing. Yeah. All right. Who will
lead the league in passing this season, yards
and then rating? Wow. I'm going to say Mahomes.
That's tempting. I'm trying to think of who did
the best in signing wide receivers this season,
but that's usually a sign that there's a problem
there, so it's not a good idea. I could go Mahomes.
I could go Jaden Daniels in Washington. Jaden
Daniels, I think, might be second. The reason
I'm going Mahomes is because you have Worthy.
You have Rice. You also have Juju. Don't forget
him. You also have Hollywood. Hollywood. You
also have Kelsey. You also have Gray. You also
have... Royals is doing okay. Yeah, he's coming
on. It looks to me like we finally have a little
bit of depth. along with some superstar potential
players, and you have the quarterback to do it.
They've been, you know, it's been a long time
coming. I mean, and look, we've been winning
and everything, and he's been making every play
that he had to when he had to, obviously. Yeah.
So none of that is an issue because he's winning,
but I think this is a year that he's going to
win more with his arm than ever before. Yeah,
yeah. The line's getting improved. Oh, yeah,
and that's the other thing, too. The line seems
to be working itself out. If Josh Simmons continues
on the pace that he's going and some of the backups
are doing as well as they are and some of the
signings, yeah. And then they'll need to make
sure they have a game plan designed for if there's
nothing available in, like, three seconds, Mahomes
needs to just throw it away or run with it or
something. But to keep scrambling around and
around and changing direction, that's how he
gets hurt. Yes. And, I mean, look at the Super
Bowl. Yeah. Yeah. So you can have him flushed
out of the pocket just running willy -nilly.
Here's a question for the Chiefs for this season.
Do you think we're going to see much of the five
-receiver set where Kelsey comes no tight ends
at all? You know, I'd love to see that. Huh?
I'd love to see that. I think it depends on how
well it works. Yeah, up until now I've seen some
empty backfield sets where there's all the receivers
out there, but Kelsey's one of them. Yes. But
imagine with our wide receiver depth. resting
the tight ends or put in an extra lineman as
an eligible. I think Kelsey's age, but then Noah
Gray is looking really good anyhow. And, I mean,
he can be such a good decoy that I don't think
that that's going to be the norm the wide receiver
set. I would like to see him try it a couple
times in preseason. No, that's what I'm saying.
Just to screw with everyone. Yeah. You put the
threat in there. Yeah, absolutely. And then you
put it in there. Then they're scrambling trying
to change personnel, which is always good. Always
good. The defense is there. It's all right. Who's
got Kelsey? Wait a minute. Kelsey's not in here.
Where the hell's Kelsey? Hang on. Hang on. Time
out. Time out. Yes. Good old Andy Reid stuff
right there. Yes. If you can't have good clock
management, make sure the other team doesn't
have good clock management either. That's the
one where the other coach looks over. Andy Reid
goes, seriously? I'm seriously going to ring
your doorbell and run tonight, man. Yeah, this
is the shit that wakes him up at 3 in the morning
to jot it down. Yes. And you're like, don't.
Fuck, where's my paper? Alexa, take a note. Yeah,
yes. 42 .7 under. And in the morning he was like,
the hell did I mean by that? Yeah, let's get
ready to go. 42 .7 under. What the fuck was I
thinking? All right. Will Arrowhead end up in
the dot? Hmm. Wyandotte County, for those non
-familiar, Wyandotte County is where we have
the Raceway, the Kansas Speedway, and also Sporting
KC, which is our soccer club, and various other
teams. Yeah, it's the whole Legends shopping
area, Cabela's, Nasty Natural. Nebraska Furniture
Mart. They have the land. They have the capital.
Yeah. All the Kansas in that area works as a
unified government to where we're a free -for
-all here. Clay County is working against Jackson.
Jackson and Cass are working against Clay. You
know. Yeah. Yeah. I think not only is it likely,
it just makes sense to put the stadium in Wyandotte
County out by the racetrack, share their parking
if you need to. Yeah. Great, great tailgating.
There's 435 right there. There's several major
feeder roads coming in. There's I -70 as a backup
right there. There's two major arteries. State
Avenue and Parallel and Kansas Avenue that all
feed right into 435. Yeah, you can rearrange
stuff a little bit and make, what would you call
it, like direct into the stadiums and out. Yep.
You can have four lanes saying 435 South, four
lanes saying 435 North, four lanes saying 70
East, four lanes saying 70 West. And you could
even use, like, the Schlierbahn. outdoor amusement
park. That's across the street from that whole
area. You could use that as the staging area
and run shuttles back and forth. That'd be great.
And also you have Margaritaville there too. Oh
yeah, that's right. You have a couple of huge
hotels there where people go, we're going to
go watch a game and stay a week in Margaritaville.
We're going to go stay at Great Wolf Flora for
three days and go to the football game. That
area was... among the top three finalists for
the NASCAR Hall of Fame that they eventually
put in a much more geographically South Carolina.
Yeah, geographically that made a lot more sense.
That's where it's from. But that's how impressed
they were at the area. It's like, hey, we could
seriously put it here. I'd forgotten about that.
They were really close. They were either seriously
in the running or being seriously used as a bargaining
chip. I think they were seriously in the running
by the way it looked. I mean, they really fucked
around with them quite a bit. It wasn't like
a little brush and look. Yeah. It was more like
a, well, let's take a look at this area. Yeah,
it wasn't over the sweater. It was definitely
hand under. And also, retractable roof. They
have the money. Super bold. Yep. Oh, yeah, we'll
get a Super Bowl as soon as possible once that
retractable roof stadium's there. We'll get the
next one available. Yeah, isn't that awesome?
And then you have Margaritaville there, you have
Great Wolf Lodge, and you're going to have whatever
else they decide to build there too, which will
be quite a bit. We're right now at Arrowhead
Stadium. We have Taco Bell. And a really crappy
hotel across the highway. Oh, yeah, I forgot
about that place, whatever the fuck it is now.
American Quality Inn or some shit, or I don't
know. Let's see, the Aviation Institute is not
too far, where they teach you how to fix airplanes.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you could go there and learn
how to fix airplanes. Since 1972, the county
and city has had the ability and the opportunity
to develop that area. You know, I miss the good
old days when John F. Laughon Furniture was there.
Oh, yeah. Laughon or something like that. John
F. Laughon Furniture. I mean, there was Haun
Bedding. I think it was John F. Laughon Furniture.
Yeah, yeah. When it was right across the road.
At least you'd go get a mattress after the game.
Yeah, you'd buy a couch and put it out there
in the parking lot to tailgate all of us. Yes,
yes. Google it. John F. Lawhon. Okay? Yeah, but
it's just criminal how they let all that go to
waste and didn't develop a damn thing. Were they
just trying to punish Raytown, you think? Yes.
I think so. Man, we even had a tornado there
last year. Or this year, actually. Yeah, I've
actually recorded that one. I had my recorder
out on the porch. That's right. Yeah, the touchdown
near the stadiums and then again in Independence.
Yeah. Independence, it actually rose its head.
The stadium, it came down and said, nah, I'll
leave you guys alone. Yeah. This place is already
wrecked. Yeah, yes. The parking lot certainly
is. It manhandled a couple of outhouses and was
on its way. Yes. Yeah, so. Kind of like a George
Michael concert. He manhandled a lot of outhouses.
Literally. The joys of mental illness. So bad
it gave him a heart attack. He must have been
jacking pretty furiously. Fist of fury. That
was a Cheech and Chong bit. They had like the
masturbation. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Championships,
and Tommy Chong was playing the winner, and he
had, like, this big piece of fur glued to his
palm. Yeah. He's standing there in trench coat
just twitching. Oh, my God. No one will really
know how funny they were. Oh, my gosh. Yeah.
That was mostly because at the time there was
absolutely nothing like them and nobody had really
gone this direction before. No, no. So it was
just like all new ground. It was back when smoking
marijuana would make you kill people. Yes. Yeah,
yeah. Yes. One puff and you're addicted for life.
Yeah, and you're going to be on the street. You're
going to be fucking giving sailors fucking rim
jobs for joints. All right. Which running back
will lead the Chiefs in yards this season? I'm
going to say Hunt. I'm going to say Hunt also.
And I think Pacheco and Mitchell are going to
have a decent showing too. Yeah. If they both
make it. Pacheco had a really good first game.
He did, yeah. But he had a really good first
game last year too. Yeah. I'm the kind of guy
that say you keep at least three running backs.
I think so too. Because you're going to use at
least two during the game. The reason I say they
may not make it is they have a couple other ones
too that they're kind of high on. So I think
it's going to be a really, really nut -tugger
about who's going to get in and who isn't. I
don't think you keep over three. Yeah. And then
sometimes it comes down to, you know, we'd really
rather use this guy, but we can put him on the
practice squad. This guy, we can't. So we're
going to keep the guy that we can't put on the
practice squad. Well, like Carson, I think you
could put him on the practice squad and nobody's
really going to go after him. Yeah. If you'd
rather keep somebody else than him, then that's
a safe place to stash a team. Well, I mean, I
kind of think the Lusters wore off on him. I
mean, of course, he still could pop up and start
doing better. But to me, I think he kind of got
figured out in the league last year really easily.
Yeah, I think a lot of hype was made of him that
was not quite deserved. I agree. And it's not
his fault that he didn't live up to the hype
because he wasn't the one organizing it. Everybody
was wanting him to be a Mike Alstott. There's
no... There's only one Mike Allstock. Yeah. You
know, he's a good -looking white guy, big, could
fucking run. Yeah. Well, he got found out. We'll
see what happens. Yeah. All right. Will Worthy
crack 1 ,000 yards this season? If so, how much
will he clear 1 ,000 yards? I'm thinking he's
going to clear it by about 200, 250. Me too.
I think he's going to have 1 ,250. Yeah. Really
strong showing. Yeah. Yeah, I think that the
guy is a superstar in the making. I think he's
going to be a long yard specialist. You're going
to see him running down the sideline. Yeah, I
think his average per reception is going to be
enormous. If Rasheed Rice wasn't going to have
a suspension, I'd say he'd probably get $1 ,300,
$1 ,400. Yeah, I think Rasheed Rice... He'll
be lucky to make $1 ,000 if he's out six games.
It could be six. It could be. We'll see. We're
going to find out just how much the league wants
the Chiefs to be in it or not by their suspension.
If you try to tell me that they don't go by stuff
like that, I can show you a lot of instances
where they do. Now, God forbid this happens.
The quarterbacks who are the major challenge
to Mahomes and the AFC start getting injured
and out for the season. Yeah. You're going to
see the suspension come in and wreck our chances
so the Chiefs can't just run away with it. I
agree. I agree. Yeah. I think that's going to
be one of the big factors is as long as there
are quarterbacks alive in the AFC who can reasonably
defeat Mahomes and the Chiefs, they'll put the
suspension wherever. You just brought something
up here I'm going to take a look at. Week 17,
Denver Broncos. Week 18, Las Vegas Raiders. Week
15, Los Angeles Chargers. Yeah. There, right
there, would indicate if it's close, you're going
to see. Yeah. If you suspend him for the last
four to six games of the regular season, people
say, oh, well, now he's nice and fresh for the
playoffs. No, he'll be out of sync for the playoffs.
Yes. That would really destroy the season is
take Rice out. for the end run of the regular
season and have them just lost in the playoffs,
I think that would be a pretty good way to make
sure the Chiefs falter. Yeah, or if the Chiefs
are running away with it, like you said, all
of a sudden it's going to go, oh, six games starting
next week. Yeah. And then all of a sudden you're
going to see these last three games pop up in
the last four weeks of the season. Then they're
going to mean something. We don't have rice.
Yeah. And we came back down to earth. I mean,
we're still doing well, but all of a sudden the
division is in flux. Is this going to be the
year? It could be. We're down one of our biggest
soldiers. Every other team's playing well. Bo
Nix is playing well. What's his name? Geno Smith
is playing well. Herbert is playing well. He's
Herbert. A thing to watch would be. Right now,
the Chiefs have won the division for how many
times in a row? Eleven, maybe? It's some ridiculous
number. Yeah. So there's a bet you can place
on whether or not they'll win the division this
year. They'll be tied for the all -time with
the Patriots. Oh, yeah. Okay. The Patriots. Yeah.
Now, we need to watch that bet. Mm -hmm. And
when that number starts going up, up, up, up,
up of people betting on the Chiefs not to win
the division. then we know the suspension is
coming and it's going to hurt the Chiefs. Yes.
Because members of the NFL league office will
know when the suspension is coming. Yes. And
they will know when to place the bets. So I'm
going to watch that betting line. Yeah. And if
it starts to shift towards Chiefs are not going
to win the division, then you figure the suspension
is not far behind. We know that it's coming up.
Someone got the Iggy from inside and said, hey,
guys. I mean, you know, Vegas gets the Iggy on
everything anyhow, so, you know. But anymore,
that seems like a reasonable strategy is to watch
for the insider trading to happen right in front
of your eyes. It's really not that much different.
It's like inside information, you react to it
to make money. Yep. All right. What game will
be the roughest game on the Chiefs' schedule
this year? And let me go over a few of them here.
Yeah. Okay. We've got the Eagles, the Ravens,
the Lions, the Commanders, the Bills, Texans.
In addition to the division opponents. Yeah,
the division opponents. I kind of left them alone.
Yeah, because we know them. I'm going to say
Philadelphia. Out of that group, I was going
to go Buffalo first, Philly second. No, no, no,
you're right. Buffalo is always kicking our ass
during the regular season. And they've got something
very significant to gain by getting the tiebreaker
over us. Yes. Whereas Eagles would like to just
stomp us just for its own sake. And then Buffalo
will lose to Jacksonville the next week and we'll
win. Probably happen. That's what's been happening.
We go, there we go, we finally got it. I remember
a season where the Chiefs would get a really
tough opponent. And we'd play them tough and
we'd squeak out a victory. And then the very
next week, a cream puff would come in and the
Chiefs would just lay down and get trampled.
Yeah. Like, who the hell are you guys? Is this
the team? Are you sending in subs? Is this your
wives and kids playing? Or Michael Spinks. It's
like, there's no way this scrub's going to win.
Go home, everybody. All right. Will, finally,
will the Chiefs have home field advantage this
season? Yes. I think so too. I think as business
as usual, nameless, faceless opponent that's
always there, that they're always fighting, and
they don't stop. I think that Mahomes reads every
piece of bullshit everywhere. Yes. And I think
he doesn't get mad, he gets better. He's like,
all right, okay, let's see what else. Oh, okay,
I see I'm washed up. Oh, let's see. What is this?
Ben, Rapeless Burger said what? Oh, I'm not in
my prime. Well, that's right. Raffles Burger
was accused of rape, wasn't he? Three or four
times. Yeah. How do you think I got the name
Johnny Rohypnol? Yeah. Oh, my God. Yeah, so anyhow.
Yeah, I think. Yeah. Yeah, I think they're still
there, and I think that they're not wanting to
give it up anytime soon. No, not at all. All
right. Okay, you got something you want to go
into? That's the end of bullet points? Yeah,
I started looking at some of the latest things
happening in the league right now. First thing
that jumped out at me was the Cleveland Browns
edge rusher, Miles Garrett, cited for driving
100 in a 60 -mile -an -hour zone last weekend.
Oh, I didn't see that. I guess he was trying
to outdo Shador Sanders. He got tired of him
getting all the pub. Yes. And this was just hours
after the team's preseason opener against the
Panthers. Where Shador is getting a statue erected
right now. Yeah. Now, Garrett has been stopped
for speeding seven other times since he was drafted
number one overall pick by the franchise. Oh,
he's got him alleged for it, huh? Okay. Now,
speaking for the first time since the incident,
Browns. Coach Stefanski called the situation
with Garrett extremely disappointing. Coming
from a team leader, this is extremely disappointing.
It's been addressed with Miles with the team.
He needs to slow down for his safety and the
safety of others. Now, in September of 22, Miles
Garrett was injured after he rolled his Porsche.
It went airborne. He rolled it several times.
And he was injured. And he said at the time,
wow, that's a wake -up call for me. Man, I'm
going to change my ways. Yeah, he hasn't. No.
No. I think that he looked down on his cue card
at what his lawyer said to say. Yeah. Let's see.
Okay. What is this? What's the chart? Oh, okay.
Hang on. Oh. This is my heartfelt apology that
was written by three lawyers for me this afternoon.
Oh, shit. I mean, this is my heartfelt apology
that I wrote down earlier this afternoon. All
right. Now, Baltimore. Baltimore. This is Baltimore.
Baltimore Ravens quarterback and two -time NFL
MVP Lamar Jackson has withdrawn his trademark
opposition to former Dallas Cowboys quarterback
Troy Aikman's use of the number eight. They both
wear number eight. Okay. Now, this is more than
a year after the dispute began. Jackson's attorney,
Andrea Evans, reportedly filed a motion earlier
this week to withdraw the challenge with prejudice,
meaning that he cannot refile the petition. If
you withdraw without prejudice, that means, let
me think about it, refile. Withdraw with prejudice,
then that brings in double jeopardy. So apparently
they've reached an agreement. Okay, I didn't
know about that whole deal, did you? No, I didn't.
But it says this withdrawal of the lawsuit clears
the way for FL -101, the company that filed the
trademark applications and listed Aikman as a
director in SEC filings, not Southeastern Conference
Security and Exchange Commission. Okay, okay.
It's because Aikman's been using the number eight
on products, including apparel, beverages, bags.
Jackson initially challenged the Pro Football
Hall of Fame quarterback use of the number, arguing
that the word eight spelled out in letters on
commercial items could confuse consumers. So
there's a difference between just the number
eight and the word eight spelled out. Jackson
has long promoted the number through trademarks
such as Era 8 by Lamar Jackson, Era 8 and You
Ate Yet. Okay, so who sued who? Lamar Jackson's
been suing Troy Aikman. That's what I thought.
Okay. Yeah. And he's contended that his fame
and association with the number would make Aikman's
products appear that they were connected to him.
Yes. So that was the thing. It's like, you know,
I want to be number eight. He's trying to be
number eight. Only one of us can be the number
eight nationally. One of them owns it, so that
would be Jackson's company. No, right now it's
Aikman. It's Aikman that owns it. Yeah, so Aikman's
listed as the, what is it? And that's per this
agreement. Yeah, Aikman is listed as director
for FL -101, which has been using Aikman's number
eight in merchandise, et cetera. So now they
can continue, and Lamar Jackson's going to figure
out something else today. Okay. It's probably
a case of the attorneys got together and said,
you know, everyone's going to lose money on this.
Let's come up with a deal. I got money we could
use. 15's bitch. Wow. Oh, hey, how about second
place? We could put number two everywhere. Oh,
my gosh. All right. All right. That was mean,
and I know it. Okay. Next up, Miami Dolphins
second -year pass rusher, former Penn State star
Chop Robinson, was carted off the field with
an injury during Wednesday's joint practice against
the Lions. Some of the teammates and defensive
coordinator Anthony Weaver were seen helping
Robinson on the turf before a cart was called
in to transfer to the locker room. Extent of
his injuries has not been reported yet. supposedly
he's been really impressing the coaching staff
during practice, was developing in a premier
pass rush threat alongside Bradley Chubb and
Jalen Phillips. Earlier this summer, Robinson
had told CBS Miami that he was anxious to start
the 2020 -25 season because he had cut weight
and improved his game during the offseason, and
he was ready to just tear it up. So let's hope
this injury is not too serious, but oh my God,
there have been so many Achilles injuries. Let's
see. Phillips. Who's Phillips? Okay. Jalen Phillips
was quoted saying, I feel like Chop is going
to be one of the best players in the league very
soon. I think he's already supremely talented,
but more comfortable and confident he gets. I
think he's a future defensive player of the year
candidate. In the interest of good football,
let's hope he gets back on the field real soon.
Yeah, I hope so. Yeah. Next up, rookie quarterback
Shadir Sanders has been making headway in the
Cleveland Browns quarterback battle. Depends
on the news story you see. I get one saying he's
stinking up the place. I get one saying it's
just really awful. This is from CBS, so this
is probably a little more close to the... Well,
I mean, he's probably in the right place if he's
trying to land a spot. Yeah. He may have just
suffered a setback, though. According to the
team, Sanders injured his oblique throwing earlier
during joint practice with the Philadelphia Eagles.
That's like one of the shoulder or chest muscles
that helps with the throwing motion. Oh, I didn't
know that. I think that's what it is. That's
good, yeah. It's said that he could miss Cleveland's
preseason matchup against Philly this coming
Saturday. Sanders put together an impressive
performance during their first preseason matchup
against the Panthers, completing 14 of 23 for
138 yards, two touchdowns, no interceptions.
Deion Sanders said his son was going to be a
problem in his first preseason action, and he
was. He was a problem for the Panthers. Sanders
even saw an increase in reps during practice
during the week, but has not been promoted on
the team's depth chart. His oblique issue is
just the most recent injury for the Browns quarterback
room. Kenny Pickett and Dylan Gabriel missed
week one due to hamstring injuries, which led
Cleveland to sign quarterback Tyler Huntley.
ESPN is reporting. Was he the guy from Baltimore,
Huntley? That sounds right. I think so. Yeah,
he played a lot of that one season that Lamar
Jackson was out. Okay. And then he went to Miami.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, okay. I want to make sure we're
talking about the same person. Oh, go ahead.
I was just going to say, ESPN has been reporting
that Pickett has not taken part in team drills
since July 26th. But Gabriel has now participated
in team drills two days in a row after experiencing
hamstring tightness this past week. I've got
a question along the same lines. Deshaun Watson,
is he going to come back and play, or do you
think he's going to come back and be let go?
Let go? I think so, too. I think the fact that
he was mentioned early, early during OTAs, and
now they haven't talked about him at all, and
his name is being kept out of any Cleveland Browns
story. Could remind you of Houston, doesn't it?
Yeah, yeah. I think they're just kind of all
done talking about him. I think there's so much
more to those stories we don't know and we're
not going to know by the way everyone's acting.
Yeah. Yeah. So, all right, go ahead. I just wanted
to ask that. Jerry Jones, owner of the Dallas
Cowboys, Yoda. Yoda, yeah. He generally doesn't
keep quiet about anything. No. He blabs and tells
you everything. Yeah. But this week, he revealed
that he's been battling stage four melanoma,
which is skin cancer, for a decade. And he apparently
is doing really, really well. He said he was
diagnosed in 2010, underwent a number of treatments,
a number of surgeries. 15 years. Yep. And he
ultimately credited an experimental drug for
saving your life. It's called PD -1 therapy.
He was in the clinical trials for it. It wasn't
approved for human use yet, so he volunteered
to let them experiment on him. Sorry, I'm kicking
your foot. No, that's all right. No, I didn't
know what it was. Yeah. Okay. As a human being,
I now can have some sympathy for him because
cancer is a real shit thing to happen to anybody.
Yeah, it sucks. Yeah. But I'm looking forward
to next week when I'll forget all about it and
go back to ragging him for making really bad
decisions. I'm never going to be nice about him,
but I have a lot of empathy for him, and I hope
he gets better. Yeah, definitely. Here we go.
Los Angeles Chargers have already received bad
news along the offensive line. Oh, that's too
bad. Yeah. Isn't it just... Oh, that Jim Bahar
ball is just so likable. Franchise left tackle
Rashawn Slater suffered a season -ending torn
patellar tendon in practice. That's the tendon
that keeps your kneecap in place. Where's that
Price is Right losing sound? Let's see. Now guard
Mechie. Mickey Becton's status for the start
of the season is up in the air. He has yet to
return from practice while dealing with a quote
-unquote minor injury. It's keeping him out this
long, and he's up in the air for the season opener.
That's not really a minor issue. No, it isn't.
The offensive coordinator, Greg Roman, told reporters
that he expects Becton, who hasn't practiced
since July 28th, will be ready for the start
of the regular season, although he's not putting
anything in concrete. Mickey's working through
something, he said. He'll be fine. He's getting
a lot of great meeting time and walk -through
time. Working through something. That doesn't
sound like an injury anymore. Sounds like his
pee -pee was touched when he was like seven.
It could be. No, I don't know. I don't know.
Working through something. Yeah, it makes it
sound like it's more of a personal issue, but
they called it an injury, and then this guy forgot
that they were calling it an injury and let it
slip. There is absolutely no truth to the rumor
that his pee -pee was touched by a clown when
he was seven. It was at the circus, yes, but
the clown got nowhere near his pee -pee. Anyhow,
go ahead. Okay, John Gruden is making noise again.
Okay. He plans to appeal a ruling. by a Nevada
Supreme Court that will allow former Vegas Raiders
coach John Gruden to proceed with his lawsuit
and not go through the league for arbitration.
Gruden sued the NFL in November of 21, claiming
that the NFL and Commissioner Roger Goodell had
organized a quote, malicious and orchestrated
campaign to destroy his career by leaking old
emails he had sent that included offensive language.
Now, that did happen. They did go through all
his emails, and they leaked the worst possible
ones to the public. Supposedly, there's a lot
of other people that could have been thrown under
the bus, but Gruden took the high route. Those
emails weren't just him saying stuff. Let's see.
In a 5 -2 decision, the Nevada Supreme Court
ruled Monday that the NFL Constitution and Bylaws
Arbitration Clause does not apply to Gruden as
a former employee and is unconscionable. So the
court is saying your policy on this is really
grotesque and ugly, and no decent person would
have a clause like this. That's pretty stern.
Yes, it is. So now it allows Gruden's lawsuit
to proceed in public. I love that. Yes. The NFL
wanted to be closed arbitration, and then they
come out saying, we've reached an agreement and
we're not talking about it. That's what the NFL
wanted. That's what they wanted. And that's what
the court said is, uh -uh, you don't get to do
that. This is going to be a very public lawsuit.
Now Gruden gets to point out, hey, this is what
happened. And this is also his way to get back
some relevancy in the leak, too. Yes. To be shown
that he was done dirty like that, I think is
going to outshine anything he might have said.
Yep. So, anyhow, go ahead. Gruden claims that
the NFL selectively leaked his emails, which
they did. They selected a few. They didn't just
leak a bunch of them. They pretty much said that.
And they leaked the ones that contained allegedly
racist, misogynistic, and anti -gay remarks in
an attempt to destroy his reputation and force
the Raiders to fire him. Gruden later resigned
as head coach of the Raiders under duress. He's
seeking monetary damages, claiming the disclosure
of the emails ruined his coaching career and
endorsement contracts, which it did. Speaking
to ESPN, Gruden has said Tuesday that he's looking
forward to having the truth come out and he wants
to make sure what happened to him does not happen
to anyone else. And, boy, golly, I hope it comes
out very publicly. It cannot come out fast enough,
and I want it public, and I want it everywhere.
I would love to see someone turn over a rock
and see all the dirty, squirming, ugly things
that the NFL is trying to hide. I can't wait.
I would love to see that. I cannot wait. The
game of football will survive, but I'd like to
see the NFL get just crushed. Yes. Absolutely
crushed. If the suit goes on, they're going to
do what they can to settle out of court, I'm
thinking. Absolutely. Yeah. All right. San Francisco
49ers receiver Jawan Jennings hasn't practiced
since July 27th due to a calf injury, which came
less than two weeks after reports surfaced that
Jennings wanted a new contract and is open to
trade if he isn't compensated adequately. I remember
we talked about this. We figured his ask for
a trade was contract -based. Yeah. Well. He's
entering the final year of his two -year $15
.4 million extension. Despite wanting a new contract,
it doesn't appear that the extension is imminent.
Tim Kawakami of the San Francisco Standard. Kawakami?
Yeah. What a name. He reported Tuesday that the
two sides are not close to a new ingredient,
citing the timing of the contract request. The
49ers had a massive roster overhaul this offseason,
letting free agents such as Dre Greenlaw, Tarverius
Ward, and... Tala Noah Hufunga, excuse me, walk
-in free agency. Oh, yeah, work's free now? And
let's see, 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan addressed
the rumors earlier this month about whether Jennings'
absence from practice was contract -related or
due to the calf injury. Well, you can ask him
that, Shanahan said, but he tells me it's his
calf and the calf shows, so we got to be delicate
with those calves. This is why nobody likes him.
I think, I think. The receiver probably has,
like, a little tiny scratch on his calf, and
they're saying, look, calf injury. Sit your ass
out. I agree. Yeah. Let's see. Kyle Shanahan's
got that flippant attitude when he says stuff
anyhow. Yeah. Now, the 49ers did sign wide receiver
Brandon Ayuk to a massive four -year, $120 million
extension right before the start of the 2024
season. And people are scratching their heads.
And then Ayuk suffered a season -ending knee
injury in Week 7 against Kansas City Chiefs and
expected to start this season on the pup list.
Yep. Without Ayuk and Jennings, the 49ers wide
receiver core is thin. Additionally, rookie fourth
-round pick Jordan Watkins is out for at least
a month after suffering a high ankle sprain against
the Broncos. Headlining the group. This is who
is headlining the receivers group for the 49ers
right now. Former first -round Rick. First round
pick, Ricky Pearsall, who finished strong last
season. They also re -signed their quarterback.
Oh, yeah. Brock Purdy. Brock Purdy to a huge
deal. I didn't think that was going to happen,
but by golly, they sure did. That's giving people
scratch their heads, just like the Duke deal.
Anyhow, go ahead. I think they're a... I think
their franchise is in real trouble right now.
I kind of get that impression, yeah. That's the
extent of my NFL news, and then I wrote down
my division predictions. McCaffrey is a huge
question mark, too. You know, I keep forgetting
that he's even on the team. I know. But, yeah,
he's sitting there holding down a roster spot
and eating up a lot of cap room. They're in trouble,
I believe. Yeah. And I think this might be the
final dirt. on Shanahan's grave because they
have Salah, Robert Salah over there. Oh, yeah,
yeah. Yeah. So reportedly they really like him
in all different kinds of ways. I could see the
49ers sending a delegation to Denver and saying,
look, a couple years ago you were in salary cap
hell with a shit quarterback, and now look at
you. Tell us how you did it, please. We're in
desperate straits. Yeah. The problem is, is Denver,
they did spend some bad money with Russell Wilson,
but they didn't spend a whole lot of bad money
on anybody else. Yeah, it was just kind of all
that one guy. San Francisco spread it all around
and made sure they're fucked. Yep. So we'll see
what happens. You know, you can always draft
your way out of bullshit like that, too, if you
do it right. Yeah, yeah, and you're held by the
fact that draft picks have a... salary structure
in place you don't need to worry about your first
round draft pick holding you up for millions
yeah yep yep so all right um so that's the red
so you've got some predictions now yeah if we
were going to do the uh division by division
i've got my division winners picked okay all
right afc east i'm picking buffalo It's pretty
easy. Yeah. I actually saw some places that were
thinking New England is going to come through
and win the division. They might be a second,
but they're not going to be first. No, no. I'm
definitely seeing Buffalo without much trouble.
I think I would agree with that. Yeah. AFC North,
I'm going to go with the Bengals. I think Baltimore
is... is out of fresh ideas. I think so, too.
And what they're doing now, people have got to
figure it out. So I can see the Bengals putting
it together this year and getting the number
three, maybe even the number two seed. I think
that's accurate, too. We're right on par with
each other right now. AFC South? I'm going to
pick Jacksonville. Really? I think they're improved.
I think they've, after being irrelevant for most
of last season and the offseason, they've had
a lot of time to do stuff in private and get
things figured out. I think they've made some
good moves, and they're in a weak division. Yeah,
they are. What about Trevor Lawrence? You think
he's back from his injury? I think so. I think
so. I don't know if he's going to be 100%, but
he's going to be the best choice right now. Is
he going to take that step finally? Or do you
think he's just going to be there? I think he
is what he's going to be. I think this is as
good as he's going to get physically. Mentally,
of course, there's room for a little improvement,
sharpen up his game. That will be the team Pittsburgh
beats. Yeah. Yeah, good point. And then for the
AFC West, man, I'm waffling between. The Chiefs
and the Broncos, but I'm going to land on the
Chiefs. I'm landing on the Chiefs, too, until
they show otherwise. Yeah. The history's there.
The momentum's there. The key players are there.
Number 15. Yeah. Andy Reid. A rededicated number
87. Yes. Their restaurant has opened up. They're
all happy now. Yeah, yeah. All right. Yeah, whatever
that shit they were eating, though, did not look
that good. Did you see the plate? I know. What
the fuck was that? Let's hope it was just bad
lighting or something. I hope so. Anyhow. NFC
East. I think Washington's going to take it.
Agreed. Philly's going to be a wild card. I agree.
I think Washington has proved their offense and
defense substantially. Yep. And I think they're
going to hit the ground running. I agree. Yeah.
Yeah, Philly is going to be tough, and you've
got to watch them in the playoffs. Playoffs?
Playoffs, yeah. But I think the whole thing is,
I think if they're having problems. They've had
in the past problems keeping their focus year
in, year out, unlike the Chiefs. So I look for
that to continue. Part of it is Jalen Hurts because
he's kind of a streak guy. He can do really good
or he can not. Shaquan Barkley, I'm not convinced
on him staying healthy. That's a thing. When
he's on, he's amazing, but he's like Pacheco.
He's going to hurt himself with the way he runs.
All right, we're in agreement on that too. Okay,
NFC North. I'm picking the Packers over the Lions
and over the Vikings. You know, I think the Lions
are on the dissension now. I think they are.
I think they had their moment and their coach
kind of let them down. They're a paper tiger.
Yeah. With Jared Goff. Tiger. Yeah. Lions and
Tigers. And Bears, oh my. Yeah. I would agree
with that. I would agree with that. I think the
Packers would have taken the division last season
if they could have just quit. losing to the division
opponents. That's what killed him last year.
I think they're going to fix that this year.
I think so, too. I think Matt LeFleur is a really
good coach. I think your general manager, Gook
and Kuntz, Kuntz, Kuntz, I don't know. Babelstanch.
Babelstanch, yeah. Any way you say it, it sounds
obscene. I know. So, whatever he is, I think
he's pretty savvy. Yeah. A lot more than I thought
before. I got to watching some of his moves.
Yeah, I think they're in position to do it. I
agree. NFC South, again, kind of a weak division,
but I think it's going to be the Atlanta Falcons
because they fixed their quarterback position,
and that's really what screwed them up last year.
Yeah. Where did Kirk Cousins go? I think he's
bagging groceries in Decatur, Illinois. Probably.
Kirk Cousins probably built his own church on
his land and has his friends over. Yeah. Look,
he's a good guy. I'm not making fun of him. He's
a great guy. He's pretty mild and safe and...
I think he's a little too mild for his own good.
I think if he had a little bit more fire, he
might have been a little bit more successful.
Yeah, I just really can't picture that guy firing
a team up. No, that's what I'm saying is he's
not the kind of guy that goes in there and goes,
you know what they're saying about us? And then
he brings out this huge picture. He goes. This
is what little Skip Tard Ball has said about
us. This is what so -and -so said about us. Look
at this whole line here. This is what Sports
Illustrated, they published this last week. I
see them just going in going, hey, guys, we're
going to give it our all. Shoot on the field.
Yeah. Yeah. All right. NFC West. This one I went
around and around a couple of times, and I finally
landed on the Rams. That's funny. Because I think
everyone else is at least a year away. I agree.
And the Rams are the ones who are the closest
to being put together. I hate this, but I can't
argue with any of them. I feel the same way on
all of them. Isn't that crazy? It is. The only
one I have a little reservations about is maybe
the Commanders and Philadelphia swapping. Yeah.
But other than that, I agree with it 100%. Yeah.
I kept looking at this like, really? Well, what
would I change? And also, you made a good point
about Detroit, too, about how – what's his name?
I forgot his name. Campbell. Dan Campbell let
him down. I don't think he can recover from that.
I don't think anyone believes in him now. No,
and that's a real shame because he probably could
be a really good head coach. He needs to go back
to being coordinator for five or six years and
work his way back out. Yeah, I think that's a
good plan is if he sticks around and – wrecks
the team then he'll never get another chance
but if he takes his lumps now and takes a demotion
yeah to you know oc or dc or whatever he's good
at he's not gonna though he's not gonna he's
gonna ride it all the way down Because that's
just not its nature. We're going to have to run
a low pass, a high pass filter so they can get
out of that 100 hertz rumble. Yeah. That car
is rumbling the heck out of us. God. Look at
the waveform on the screen. It's just blooming.
Good. Sorry about your ears. Not. Our little
microphone is soldiering on. It is. It's trembling
in fear right now. It thought it was a GTO, but
it wasn't. I don't know what the fuck it was,
actually. I don't know. First glance, it could
be a Charger. It might have been a Charger. Yeah.
Okay. It's hard to tell. So, that's kind of my
football stuff. All right. How about if we go
through a couple of games? Not all of them. You
want to go through the first third of the schedule?
Sure. I know it's early and they don't even have
the rosters yet, but why not? Why not? First
one, Los Angeles Chargers, 7 p .m., 9 -5. That's
a Friday night in Brazil. Sao Paulo. Yes. A lot
of famous concerts have happened there. Yeah,
yeah. Yeah, that's amazing. Only the rockers
call it Sao Paulo. Yeah. Have you noticed that?
Uh -huh. I think it's just as popular as saying
Sao Paulo, which it should be. I saw some of
the other day on a video talking about the town
of Spokane, Washington. I want to call it Spokaki.
Yeah, there we go. I'm looking for the Chiefs
to do really well here. The Chargers are in a
bit of turmoil. I think so. They've got this
pending lawsuit over their bait and switch on
the game. which it was clearly to me. Yeah, yeah.
They told their season ticket holders you're
going to have nine home games, including the
season opener against the Chiefs, knowing full
well that they were going to move into Brazil,
and they're not giving anyone refunds for that
ninth game that they're missing out on now. Yeah.
Is that a Nissan maybe? Or is that a newer Charger?
It just looks different. It's a little bit like
a Jaguar in a way. It does look like a Jaguar,
but I don't think it is. Well, whoever steps
out will have to ask. Maybe it is a Jaguar. Oh,
well, anyhow. I just think the Chargers are going
to have some distractions. Their line is going
to be suspect. I think the pass rush is going
to eat Justin Herbert up and make him question
his lineage. Yeah, he's going to leave the field
with the same look on his face. Yeah, yeah. Of
sheer disgust. The real bright point in all this
is since they're traveling south, there's no
time zone change, no jet lag. Yeah, that's right.
It's only when you go east -west you get that
jet lag because the time zone changes. Yeah,
the Chiefs go straight south. Yeah, you can fly
from far northern Canada straight down to Panama
and stay in the same time zone and you're just
fine. Yeah. It's when they start sending games
to London. Oh, that's bullshit. You go through
so many time zones. Yeah. London, here in the
middle of the country, we're six hours behind
London. So if it's noon here, it's dinner time
in London. Yeah, and it's weird. You know, just
to the east of Brazil. is two time zones that
are relatively close to each other, because I
know, because every time we go down there to
the ABC Islands, we hit that time. Yeah. You
have Eastern time, and then I think it might
be Caribbean. Yeah. Okay? And they're really
close to each other. And it kind of reminds me
of Michigan, on the other side of Lake Michigan,
where real quick, you're either Central or Eastern,
and it depends on what block you're on. Yes.
You'd get up in the morning and walk across the
street to your job and be an hour late. Yes,
it's like, what? No, literally. We were working
in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and that happened. Because
the job was just outside of Kalamazoo, just to
the west, and we were central there. And we're
like, what? So, yeah, anyhow, just something
interesting there. I'm glad it's central, but
if you just go to the east just a little bit,
you have two time zones really close to each
other. It would really suck to work in China.
because they only have one time zone for the
whole freaking country. I know. Isn't that fucked
up? They decided, yeah, we don't want to mess
with converting. Well, it's our time. It's 5
o 'clock here. What time is it? Nah. And it's
a huge country. Everybody goes by Beijing time.
Yep. So when it's 8 o 'clock in the morning in
Beijing, it's 8 o 'clock in the morning wherever
you are, even though dawn isn't for another five
or six hours. It's still 8 o 'clock in the morning.
Get your ass up and eat breakfast. That is so
bizarre. All right. Let's see. How about the
Eagles? Chiefs will beat them. It'll be a statement
game for the Chiefs. And the Eagles will come
all confident and cocky. Hey, we beat these guys
in the Super Bowl. And the Chiefs are going to
come in and say, well, that was last year. Right
now you guys are one and one. One and one in
the Super Bowl. I want them to stay cocky. I
want them to stay cocky. Haven't the Eagles won
two? Oh, no, no, I'm talking about against each
other. Oh, okay, I was going to think overall
record. No, no, they've won two. They've won
two because they won with Nick Foles, too. Yeah,
and they lost the one to the Raiders. Yes. In
knowledge. And then they lost one to the Patriots.
Or no, or was that New Orleans? No. I can't.
I don't think the Eagles have been in only three.
I think you're right. They're two and one. I
was talking about when they went with Andy Reid.
Oh, yeah. I think it was the Patriots because
Terrell Owens was playing even though he was
limping. Oh, yeah, yeah. They almost pulled it
off. Yeah. Yeah. Anyhow, it doesn't matter. Okay,
I agree. The New York Giants are going to play
them tough, believe it or not. Probably so. And
that could be one of those trap games that they
love to talk about where you play down to the
level of your opponent. Because we have the Philadelphia
before and the Ravens after. Yeah. Two playoff,
playoff, playoffs, at least teams. Yeah, they're
going to look at the Giants as being a flyover
state. Yeah, and I think it's going to be a tough
game. It's a trap game, typical. Yeah. Typical
trap game. Yeah. I think they're capable of losing
that. And also, it's on Sunday night football,
so it would just make it even that more of a
kick in the ass. Yeah. I think they'll pull it
off, but I think it's going to be a last -minute
heroic somehow. So, all right. And then the Jags
beat them. Yeah. And then, finally, we'll stop
it right here. The Detroit Lions, October 12th,
7 .20 p .m., Sunday night football again. Hmm.
That's another one they could lose. The Lions
play them tough because they're a hard -nosed
football. I'm going to go with the Lions. I think
this is the first game they lose this season.
Yeah. And then Lions are going to get a big head
and run around and go, we're going to do it.
And then they're going to – Jared Goff's going
to wet down his leg the very next game. That's
it. It's over. See you. Kitchen closed. I remember
growing up when I was first starting to watch
football. The Lions had a reputation of being
a dirty team, the dirty heads and the intentional
injuries. At the point where I started paying
attention to football, the Lions were so bad
that they were just never even covered. Oh, yeah.
I never saw a Lions game unless it was on Thanksgiving.
It was so bad, Barry Sanders retired. Yeah. He's
like, I have no hope of winning a Super Bowl.
Why would I kill myself for this? Yeah. I'm going
to go to London and write books. I think that's
what he did, wasn't it? I think he did, yeah.
Yeah. So, anyhow. A really old computer football
game called Front Page Sports. It was actually
pretty good for the time. It was very well done,
very detailed. It was early 90s, wasn't it? Yeah.
Yeah, I remember him. Barry Sanders was on the
cover of that. Okay. Yeah. The guy that fucking
his hips, his fucking legs, his upper legs were
like the size of his head. I mean, gosh, I mean,
yeah. Yeah, it's like two giant tree trunks.
Yeah, no wonder the guy could run so well. And
the thing is, Barry Sanders was unique because
he'd lose you to... Lose you one, lose you two,
and then break off a 50 -yarder. Kind of like
Eric Dickerson. Yeah, a lot like that. Except
Eric Dickerson fumbled a little more. He fumbled
a lot, yeah, he did. And then, you know, if you
were going to play Eric Dickerson, you just had
to count on him losing yards on some blades and
fumbling. But he was going to rip off some enormous
gains. Oh, yeah, it's too bad no one could see
what Barry Sanders could have done in a critical
situation because he never had any with him.
Yeah. Was that like the Wayne LaFont? Yeah. Era.
Yeah. Yeah. I don't even remember who they had.
I remember Scotty Mitchell once at quarterback.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Scotty Mitchell.
They got him from Miami, didn't they? That sounds
about right. Wasn't he the guy that took over
for Marino? Marino, I think. Yeah. Dan Marino.
And he had a good season. It was like, we got
him. We got the next guy. There was also Brian
Greasy for a while. Brian Greasy for a little
bit. Yeah. He did okay. What was his father's
first name? Was it Don? Bob. I think it was Bob
Greasy. Bob Greasy, I think. What a name. Okay,
let's see. I think we're on board with all that.
You got anything else? Pretty well tapped out.
We got... Aaron 10, Aaron 20, something like
that. All right, you want to go ahead and end
this and go to the music creaks? We shall do
it. All right, okay. Hey, everybody, thank you
for listening. I really, really appreciate you.
Go fuck yourself. Oh, no. Looks like the show's
over, kids. Mark has explosive diarrhea and can't
afford a wireless mic. Fear not, assholes. They'll
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