Recorded live from the historic River Market
area in downtown Kansas City proper, near the
banks of the crystal blue waters of the Missouri
River, we give you the Sports Bastards. All right,
this is the Sports Bastards. Yes, indeed. You
know what? I realize we don't introduce ourselves
anymore. Oh, that's right. I'm Mark from the
Sports Bastards. And I'm Tovar from the Sports
Bastards and the Music Creeps. Yep, and the mystery
sports guy, he's no longer employed. We fired
him because we're back. He was pretty pissed
off. Yeah, but he was a good fill -in. He was
a good fill -in, yeah. Yeah, he was very sarcastic.
So, okay, well. Should we get into some Chiefs
talk? I think it needs to be said, yeah. Should
we take the condom off the microphone here? I
think there's no wind. I don't think there's
any wind either. I've got a list of demands for
the Chiefs. Yeah. I sent them to you. I agree.
I agree with all of this. Here are my demands.
Jawan Taylor, fired. Yes. Hollywood Brown, fired.
Yes. Rushy Rice. I'm going to go ahead and put
him in detention for right now. Yeah. But not
fired. Yeah, yeah. Make him, like, breakfast
club where they had to spend Saturday in detention.
Thornton is getting a promotion. Yes. Thornton
needs to start. He's our number one receiver.
Yeah. Number two, well, I mean, besides Kelsey,
he's a tight end, though. Yeah. Number two should
be worthy. Yeah. The two young speedsters. Yeah.
Special teams, Dave Coach. Coach Dave Tobe. Yeah.
Yeah, I've said that completely. So many flags.
I don't know what he does to train them. Does
he go out there and fucking scratch his balls?
I guess. Yeah. Butker kicking that one that kicked
it way short. It didn't even get far enough downfield,
so they got it at the 40. Yeah, that lost our
game. Yeah, that's just stupid. There's so many.
There's so many for instances that special teams
lost our games. Yeah. You remember when Dick
Vermeule was the head coach here, and he wouldn't
fire anybody because he was too stinking loyal?
Yeah, he'd start crying. Yeah. Oh, they do such
a good job. And the defensive coordinator was
trying to resign, and Vermeule refused to accept
his resignation. I remember that. Was that Robinson,
Greg Robinson? Robinson, yeah, and he was horrible.
Yeah, he was awful. Yeah. They started calling
the Chiefs the 32 defense because we were ranked
32nd. Yes, I remember that. The thing is, is,
yeah, Trent Green was out there working his ass
off, scoring. Yeah. But the team would always
have the last shot, and they did, so. Yeah, the
opposing team would, like, punt maybe once a
game because the defense would just never stop
them. Yeah. Yeah, Trent Green wasted the best
years of his life here under Dick Vermeule. Look,
I love Dick Vermeule and everything. Great guy.
But, man, he just, he was lucky to win one Super
Bowl. Yeah, it's the same disease Hank Stram
had. Yes. Where, you know, I like them too much
to cut them, even though they can't play anymore.
Well, you see, there are more people than business.
Yeah. And that's the problem. Yeah, yeah. And
it's the way it is. But, I mean, Andy Reid, as
nice as he is and as much as he loves people,
he's got the business side. Yeah. And he's like,
you know what, ain't getting done. Yeah. Gotta
go. I definitely agree about Dave Tao. Special
teams is just an embarrassment week after week.
I mean, last season it was like this. Yeah, it's
abysmal. It is probably the worst special teams
ever. Yeah. Oh, hey, thank you. Thank you so
much. Americano? Cabano, right? Oh, okay. Americano,
Cabano. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it.
All right. This place rules. It does. It's awesome.
We're out here podcasting. They bring us our
coffee and they know that we're out here. They're
awesome. I feel bad for wearing a hat from a
rival coffee shop. But that's not here in Kansas
City. No, they're in Columbia. Yeah, yeah. Oh,
speaking of Columbia, did your kids see the hail
storm yesterday? They probably would have had
to. I haven't talked to them. Oh, my gosh. Since
last night. They got like three inches of hail
yesterday. Damn. Yeah. People were out there
throwing snowballs at each other and shit. Until
it melted ten minutes later when the sun came
out. But other than that, yeah. Oh, okay, back
to this. Mike Caliendo. Fire. Bye -bye. He needs
to join his cousin that's a comedian. Frank Caliendo?
Frank Caliendo, yes. I just came up with that
shit right on the spot. I can't even think of
his first name. Whatever happened to that guy?
He was hot for like... A day and a half. A day
and a half. And then he was just gone. Now nobody
cares. Yeah. Somewhere eating pizza. Yeah. That's
not an Italian joke. No. Wow, that was loud.
Ouch. Although I could probably get away with
it. Yeah, yeah. So, all right. Chris Jones fired.
Bye. Yep. And we should get a refund from Chris
Jones. Yes. Yeah. And an apology to Travis Kelsey
for having to renegotiate his contract for him.
Yeah. You know, when we got him. It was the assumption
that he was going to hold up four years. Yeah.
Guess not. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, Chris Jones is one
of the biggest disappointments we've had under
the Andy Reid, Brett Veach realm. I remember
hearing Romo saying during the game, wow, Chris
Jones, this is the best I've seen him play all
season. And that's not much. He didn't say that.
No. And then five minutes later, the people I
was watching the game with were saying, where
the hell's Chris Jones? He hasn't done a thing
this game. And I thought, well, that's kind of
the season for him in a nutshell. Even when he's
playing the best he's played all season, he still
ain't getting nothing done. As much as people
don't like Tony Romo, he said that in a way to
where people that are football fans caught it.
Yes. That's the best I've seen him play all year.
Yes. He didn't say, oh, he's playing at such
a high level and he just reached out for more.
Yep. He said that's the best I've seen him play
all year. Well, he didn't say anything about
the rest. He let you fill it in. And I did, and
so did you. It's like, yeah. And he could walk
out there and take a piss on the field and play
better than he has all season. That is, I guess,
the natural assumption when someone says, this
is the best it's ever been. You think it's good.
No, I caught it when he said it. What it means
is it sucks a little less than it did 10 minutes
ago. That's exactly what he said. And also, when
he sees Chris Jones in the locker room, Chris
Jones ain't wanting to fucking punch him. Yeah,
yeah. Yeah, he's kind of like, oh, yeah, he gave
me a compliment, I think. Well, they used to
call that a left -handed compliment. Yeah, a
left -handed compliment. That's a perfect example
of a left -handed compliment. Nothing against
left -handed people. My oldest son, Lewis, is
left -handed. My wife is left -handed. And also,
left -handed people are extremely intelligent.
I know Lewis is. Left -handed people have to
be a little smarter than the rest of us because
it's a right -handed world. It is. I mean, look
at Jimi Hendrix. He's like, okay, I'll play bass
on top or on the bottom. I don't care. Whatever.
I'll flip it around. Then they start making guitars
like that. They're like, hey, let's make Hendrix
guitars. Let's make it backwards. When we get
to the music creeps, let's talk about how there
are left -handed guitars, but there aren't left
-handed pianos or violins or harps. or tubas,
or anything else. Saxophones. Why do guitar players
and bass players the only ones who get left -handed
instruments? You know, I think we need to start
a petition. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Let's start,
let's see, left -handed piano. day. You can start
a day. There's a thing online. I started the
crappy podcast day. That was started by me, although
we're not getting any credit for it. Pisses me
off, but National Crappy Podcast Day has been
accepted by the people that do these national
days. And it's a day to appreciate crappy podcasts.
You take the worst ones, like us, and you listen
to them all day. Give us a little love. It's
our biggest day of the year. Yes. But we get
no credit for it because they refuse to say two
douchebags in a microphone present. It's just
like National Crappy Podcast Day. Get the fuck
out of here. Take your crumb and go home. Yeah,
yeah, yeah. You got what you're going to get.
Go. It's like when your great -great -aunt dies.
You go over there and you get a picture. That's
what you get. Get out of here. You want this
goldfish bowl? You can have that. We're going
to sell it for a quarter. Get out of here. Alright.
Chiefs. We wander off. I'm trying to stay on
farming. We know we're going to. It's the way
it is. Chiefs leading receivers are 35 -year
-old tight end Travis Kelsey at 630 yards. That's
pretty awful. Yeah, he should be third or fourth
right now. Is that my phone ringing? I don't
know. It is my phone ringing. Uh -oh. It's Dave
Tull. It's the Performance Pavilion at Sweetwater
Music. Oh! They're having a big sale and they
want me to buy stuff. Oh, okay. Okay. I thought
it was Dave Tull. You fucking asshole, shut up
about me. It was the ghost of Dick Vermeule.
Yeah. Was he dead? I don't know. I just presumed
he was. I don't think he is. He is. He went into
winemaking in Napa Valley, but you know what?
He might be. Let me check. Okay. And then we'll
get back on track here. Yeah. That is pretty
sad that Kelsey is our leading receiver when
we were supposed to have these speed freaks that
can run down the field and catch 60, 70, 80 -yard
passes. In all honesty, there's a couple of them
that should be near 1 ,000 yards right now. Yeah.
And they're nowhere near. Drops and penalties
have robbed them of some of that yardage. But
still, they need to be performing better. Not
for meal. Dick Vermeule. 89 years old. Still
rocking it. I was going to guess 90. I was pretty
close. He's been married to his wife since 1956.
Nice. Yeah, he's a good, solid person. Yeah.
Unless he gets caught going 90 miles an hour
at night down the plaza, then he gets a little
argumentative. Yes. Allegedly. Allegedly. Allegedly.
All right. Chief sleeping receiver. That's sad.
That's sad. Number one, anytime you see a tight
end leading the receiving core, that would tell
me that you have nobody. I mean, look, Josh Allen's
doing it with virtually nobody. Yeah. Six -touchdown
game. But they did lose to Miami and only scored
13 points. But we'll get to the Patriots here
in a little bit. I kind of want to talk to them
a little bit. I mean, Mike Vrabel, I've always
loved him as a head coach. He played on the Chiefs
briefly, I remember that. At the end of his career,
what was it, one year? I think so, yeah. We were
getting a lot of linebackers in for one year.
Yeah, why not? They had nothing else. They had
Brody Coyle or somebody fucking throwing. Or
was that Heward? Brock Heward. Or Damon? Oh,
no, yeah, yeah. Damon Heward. Was it Damon Heward?
There was a Damon Heward as well. Maybe they
were a second couple. He might have been a linebacker.
Yeah, yeah, that's right. Okay. They were second
cousins. They look just alike. Yeah. Yeah, just
alike. Look at them. Compare them. All right.
Mahomes, he is becoming a problem. Yeah. Two
games, you can directly affiliate the loss. Well,
everybody attributed to the loss. Yeah, yeah.
But Mahomes' crucial mistakes in the red zone
is likely two losses. Yeah, he's making really
bad throwing decisions. I mean, really bad. Yeah.
We should be 7 -3. Yeah. Honestly. I would say
so. And the other games were really close. Yeah.
Yeah, we're losing the real close games that
we used to win. Yeah, which is a problem, which
is a big problem. So the receding cores that
are so highly touted are not there. No. Why is
that? Why are they being covered? These guys
are young, fast, good. Rasheed Rice is supposed
to be the answer to all our problems when he
came off of his stupid little suspension. Yeah,
yeah. Well, I'm comparing during the game. I
watch when the Chiefs receivers, when the ball
gets close, the defender's right there on them.
When the Chiefs are on defense and the other
team throws the ball, the nearest Chiefs player
is like five yards away. Or sometimes they're
standing on the other side of the first down
line waiting for the ball runner to come to them.
Which is stupid. This is something that I wanted
to get into also is Spagnuolo. Some of the schemes
are getting caught up with. They need to move
on. And apparently, I don't know, is it zone
coverage where you're not right there on the
guy? That's the way I understood it. The Chiefs
are getting a lot of man coverage against them
because the defenders are like right there on
his guy. So we're playing some sort of defense
where the defensive back is laying off five or
six yards, and it just ain't working, and they
don't get it. Apparently they don't see it and
say, hey, this isn't working. We need to change
it. Some of it's trickery, but that's also up
to you and the coaches to get by the trickery.
Yeah, it's like whatever the other team is doing
to get open, the Chiefs should start doing. And
if they can't, then we don't have good receivers.
Start looking at them and start emulating them
and just going, we're going to do what they're
going to do. That's what the Chiefs did for a
couple of years there, is they're like, what
kind of game are they playing? Okay, well, let's
play that. Yeah. And they'd win. It's supposed
to be a copycat league. Anybody who's got something
that's working, everyone else copies it, but
the Chiefs just aren't. Well, now it's a running
league. I mean, it's a passing league. Now it
seems to be like run first. I mean, there's a
lot, you know, but the last few years you haven't
been getting those 5 ,000 -yard. you know, seasons
and the 50 touchdowns or even close to it. That's
true. Running back. It's good to see the running
game coming back. Yeah, I mean, 235 yards for,
was it Jonathan Taylor a couple of games ago?
Was it Justin Jefferson? There was another one,
another really good one. Running back, they got
over 200 yards too. You wouldn't, 10 years ago,
that wouldn't have happened. Yeah. To go along
with that, I've seen a number of teams where
they have two or maybe three running backs, and
nobody got over 100 yards, but combined they
all three got close to 200, which is good enough.
If you can run three guys and get to that total,
then you've dominated. All of these. I noticed
that we only had Kareem Hunt. on Sunday. Yes.
Only him. That was it. Nobody else. Yeah. What
about Smith? Rashard Smith? Yeah, they just use
him in passing situations. And then Mitchell.
Mitchell, that's what I was going to say. He's
been on the practice squad so much, can't make
the team, that when they finally put him in there,
he's confused and he screws up. Yeah. Here's
what I say right here. They need to get continuity.
And how do you do that? They need to put him
in there, okay? So the plan is... Kareem Hunt
is a brutal downfield runner. He'll punish you.
Then you put in Elijah Mitchell, and he's fast.
And you're still hurting from Hunt. So he gets
by you because your ankle's kind of tweaked,
your shoulder hurts, and all of a sudden here
comes really ultra -fast Mitchell. Zoom. He's
just got 10 yards on you. What about that? What
about that? I know. That would work. That would
do. Matt Nagy, what the fuck? And the way they're
playing it now, every time they put Rashard Smith
in, they know it's a pass. They say, oh, 24 is
in, it's a pass. Matt Nagy, again. Yeah. Oh,
yeah, it's like looking at Jawan Taylor's right
foot. And if it's back farther, it's a pass play.
Yeah. If it's up even with his other, then it's
a run play. Jawan Taylor needs to go. I would
really like somebody to explain to me why everybody
can see. That he's not good enough and not doing
it. And they're trying to tell us that there
isn't a single other right tackle in the entire
league that would be a better fit than Jawan
Taylor. You're telling me he's the best available
and there's just nobody else you could get? I
don't buy it. I don't either. They're keeping
him for some reason. And I want them to tell
me the reason. Because it makes them look like
they're stupid. He's supposed to be great on
run blocking. That's what he's supposed to be
good at. Why aren't we running then? If we're
going to keep that idiot in there, we need to
be running. Even Romo. Here, even Romo. Even
Romo said that Sunday during the game, said they
need to run. Come on, run the ball more. And
people think that Romo doesn't like Kansas City.
No. No, no, no. He does. He's actually kind of
a homer if you listen to him. Yeah. But he states
the truth, and that pisses people off. And it's
– I heard that we're getting – Romo for the next
three games. I'm fine with that myself. Yeah,
including the Thanksgiving game where we play
Dallas. That'll be interesting to hear you call
that one. I'm not so sure how loyal he is to
Dallas. I know. Why would you be? You watch Aikman
last night, and he was all over Dallas' nuts.
Yep. He always is. Yep. Romo has never been quite
like that. He never seemed to me like he's like,
oh, yeah, the Cowboys. I think he knows what
they are. He's like, you know, I don't know why
I talk about them. They're not that good, you
know. Yeah. So, all right. Mahomes needs to step
up his game. And if we lose this next game, take
him out the rest of the season. Yeah, because
why bother? We're not going to make the playoffs.
No. We missed that, didn't we? If you're planning
to use him next season, why have him in for the
rest of this season? You're not going to go anywhere.
See who else you've got. Treat every game as
a preseason game. Yeah, I agree. They won't,
though. They won't. And, Ellis, if you lose out,
you're going to have to trade up. Yes. Like they
have been. Maybe you can trade to somebody else
and go back and get a running back, I don't know,
a couple of – Some D linemen. D linemen. So you
don't have to constantly blitz everybody. Yeah,
I think this next draft, you draft as many offensive
linemen and defensive linemen as you can. Yep.
And that's it. And then you don't care, just
top looking once and you sort them all out during
practice. Yeah. And so, yeah. Because one of
the problems is they've been missing on some
of these guys. Yeah, they really have. Yeah,
so the team needs to be partially gutted, not
all the way gutted. There are some aspects you
want. Like I said, like Rashi Rice is in detention.
He's not fired. Yeah. Okay. Hollywood Brown fired.
Yeah. Gone. Thornton gets a bump up. He's first
team. He's ahead of Rashi Rice. Yes. Rashi Rice,
right now you can make him second string. Although
I think maybe I do, or not second string. Use
him as slot receiver. Slot receiver, yeah. When
you're going to have a three -receiver set, that's
when he gets on the field. Yes. And so I think
Thornton, Rice, and Worthy are the combo that
you're going to do, and then you have Kelsey,
of course. Noah Gray, for a long time I was high
on him. I'm not that high on him anymore. No,
no, he's just not. showing it yet now i see how
come he's a backup i i definitely i agree with
that analysis and i don't think the answer is
giving him more playing time it's not working
he's been getting more playing time yeah um travis
kelsey's come dangerously close to a couple of
hundred yard games he's going to have well over
a thousand yards if he continues this pace yeah
that's going to be one of his better seasons
isn't that weird yeah and it doesn't look like
he's doing much but i guess Compared to everyone
else on the field. It's been two big plays. Each
game has been two big plays. That's true, that's
true. But that's okay. That's what him and Hill
were doing when they were terrorizing people.
Yeah, yeah. They'd catch the ball 10 yards. Even
with Alex Smith, they'd catch a 10 -yard pass
and run for 40. Yeah. And, you know, it made
Alex Smith look really attractive to trade that
year, and it happened. They're like, look at
that, 104 .3 or 7 rating. Quarterback rating.
Beautiful. Led the league in yards. Beautiful.
Great guy. Loves to mentor. Look what he did
with Mahomes. They're like, dangle, dangle, dangle.
And the Redskins at the time were like, we'll
take him. Yeah. And look, no, no, no. That's
not a bad thing, though. Alex Smith is a great
core guy. He's not a guy if you're actually trying
to win a Super Bowl, but he's a great core guy
to put in there, win some games, look good, but
also teach some people. Yeah, and kind of get.
The culture of your team shifted around to we
can do it, we can win, we can do something. Yes.
And then you yank him out and replace him with
your franchise quarterback. Yes. Which just sounds
mean, but, hey, that's the business. He knew
it, though. Yeah. And he still taught him. Yeah.
He was still good. You know, that's why they're
still great friends. And that's how come Mahomes'
dad always thanks him first. Yeah. Always. Always
says, we owe so much to Alex Smith. Yeah. And
that's because he was selfless and he taught
him. And, you know, if he was a dick like Jeff
George, he could have totally ruined the situation.
Yeah, yeah, and that's why someone like Reed
and Veach do not hire a Jeff George. Yes. So,
I remember that fucking brilliant when we got
him. Yeah. Yeah, it didn't work out, did it?
No, it didn't. Some people get it, some people
don't. All right. This team needs gutted, but
not all the way. We need an example of why you
do your job every snap. Not every other snap.
Not every third down situation, but every snap.
Every snap. And then, a huge problem. And this
is all I got, and then we can go into your analysis.
Karloftis is our leading sacks. Five. Five. That's
crap. Five. And all the money we spent on that
D -line. And all the hype. Yeah. Nine games in,
and our leading... Ten games in now. Ten games
in, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, our leading sack provider,
five sacks. One every other game. And the problem
is, is Karloff, this is always getting in there.
Yeah. Chris Jones is not. Amenahu is off and
on. we have a variety of people kind of doing
their job back there. The only one I see really
putting it 110 % is Karloftis. Yeah, I would
say so. And they designed the scheme to have
somebody who is on par with Karloftis also in
there, so it spreads the offense too thin. But
we don't got it no more. Jones used to flush
him out of the pocket right into Karloftis' hands.
Yeah, yeah. Or a Manahew or... Nick Bolton or
somebody that's in the area. It used to be a
design play. Now that Chris Jones can't even
scratch his ass correctly. Yeah, I'm sorry, man.
He is the most overrated player in the NFL right
now. Well, actually, no, he isn't. Nobody really,
everyone kind of sees it and they're like, yeah,
he's gone. No more. Yeah, I don't think other
teams. stay awake at night wondering how they're
going to handle Chris Jones. When they used to.
Yeah. Now it's kind of like, oh, good, Chris
Jones is playing? Cool. Yeah, no sweat. They're
dumb enough to put him in. Yeah. Yeah. They think
he's going to make the difference. Yeah. Yeah.
Okay, we're going to send our smallest guy on
him. Let's get Kevin Hart in here. Danny DeVito.
I was going to say Danny DeVito. I don't know,
though. He's kind of mad at Eli Manning right
now for taking his spot. Yeah, there's a little
blood feud going on there. Yeah, a little blood
feud. Yeah, we really believe that. They hate
each other. Well, the TV said it, so it must
be true. Oh, yeah. You know what? I forgot the
TV said it. I'm shutting up. It's got to be true.
So, let's go to you. Well, I agree with all your
changes. Definitely need to do something different
on offense and defensive schemes. Yes. Because
neither one is working out. Either it's because
you're not teaching them right or you don't have
the right personnel or they're not performing
or something. Yeah. But the stubbornness of sticking
with it is starting to really piss me off. Mahomes
takes way too long to throw anywhere. And you'd
think he'd know by now he doesn't have that long.
But he still doesn't get it and he thinks he
can run around as much as he wants and still
make a play. It ain't working for him. That's
right. Faster, quicker developing plays on offense.
You brought up that Mahomes point. It's so good
because he's in the habit of doing that and he
can't seem to get out of it. Yeah. He doesn't
trust his offensive line and he shouldn't. Yeah.
Yeah, that was mentioned during the game. There
was a play where he got the ball and he backed
up and then he immediately bailed. And there
wasn't pressure on him. He was just in the habit
of, uh -oh, it's been a half second. I better
get the hell out of here. That third and 12 at
the end of the game where he got sacked, nobody
covered him. And that's what he was trying to
guard against. At that particular time, he didn't
have time to get out of the pocket. But that's
what he's doing. That's why he's getting out
of the pocket is because someone's going to get
by one of my guys or they're not going to see
him and they're going to come destroy me. Yeah,
he just expects the bad thing to happen. Yeah,
and I get it. I'd be the same way. Oh, yeah,
yeah. Let's say you have three people in a fist
fight, okay? You know one of them is going to
just stand there and watch? Yeah. Yeah, I mean,
this is pretty much what's going on. Plus the
fact that he doesn't get the... sweetheart calls
that he used to when he was younger. It used
to be you'd breathe on him wrong and he'd call
roughing the passer. He's not the precious commodity
anymore. He's 30 years old. He's showing a little
bit of flaw in his game. People are exploiting
it. And like always, the media is jumping away
going, oh, no, no. Let's look around here. But
I'm noticing as soon as the play is over, Mahomes
is over there talking to the other player and
talking to the official, trying to say, do you
see what he's doing? And he, like, grabs his
helmet and jerks it around, like trying to say
he grabbed his face. He needs to quit doing that
because it's not doing him any favors anymore.
No, it's not. It's not getting him calls, and
it's making people just completely just make
fun of him and just have all kinds. And I know
he doesn't care. Yeah. You know, the guy's probably
worth $300 million. But money, honestly, money
doesn't have anything to do with it. It doesn't
make me like him anymore. No, no, no. He's had
the same girlfriend, high school sweethearts,
three children. He has a fantastic life, and
he knows it. He has a very deep faith. So he
doesn't care what people say. But the thing is,
I'm tired of people pointing this out and some
of it being true. Yeah, yeah. You know? I'm like,
you know, I defend the guy to no end all the
time. But then when they say something like that,
and then you see on TV he's over there whining,
it's like, no, don't do it. You're good enough,
you don't have to do it. Yeah, yeah. But the
thing is, is he emulated Tom Brady so much that
I think he's taken it a little too far. Yeah.
Tom Brady knew when to stop that. Yeah. He'd
go over there, he'd sign stuff, he'd be chumming
up with him and everything. But then after that
during the game, he wasn't so much like a, hey,
buddy, what's up? Do you see what that guy did?
He realized that that made him look weak. Yep.
And so he did. But anyhow, we're on your stuff,
so go ahead. Oh, gosh. Sorry to interrupt you.
You're talking about Mahomes and his tendency
to flush out the pocket. Yeah. And you were saying
he was emulating Brady, and that made me think
of somebody else that was... Oh, yeah. Josh Allen
has a reputation for flopping. Yes, and they
show it all the time. Yeah, you just like touch
the sleeve of his uniform and he collapses screaming
in pain and then begs the official to throw a
flag. And they've caught up with that too. Yeah,
see Josh Allen is figuring out, okay, this isn't
playing well, this isn't working, and I don't
need it. We're good enough without it. Did you
see the YouTube video where the referee told
him to get up? Yep. Yeah, that was funnier now.
He walks by and goes, get up. And he walked off.
So I think Mahomes needs to take a look at that
and realize, all right, I need to quit lobbying
for flags and quit schmoozing the officials.
Just get back to playing the freaking game. You
know, they're best friends, him and Josh Allen,
right? I would imagine, yeah. No, they are. Seriously,
they hang out afterwards. They're good friends.
You think they talk about their famous what they
got the referee to do together? Yeah, probably
so. You know, Mahomes goes, hey, man, you know
that flop against Atlanta? That was brilliant,
dude. I was there. I was squirming when I saw
you fall on the ground in pain, dude. I thought
you were really hurt. He's like, yeah, I got
him good, didn't I? I was able to squeeze out
a tear that sold it, man. Remember when you went
over there yanking on your helmet? I love that,
man. That guy ate it. He bit it. So, Eddie, I'm
sorry. We keep getting distracted. I apologize.
Good. Keep going. Definitely get a commitment
to the run game and have two good running backs
that you lean on. Well, I think, okay, Pacheco,
I love him, but he's injured too much. You can't
have him. He's not reliable. It's the way he
runs. He doesn't have the build. He's not a power
back. Hunt is more of a power back, but he has
the build for it. Pacheco doesn't have the build,
and he's great, but you cannot rely on him. Maybe
that's what Burchard Smith is in there for. Maybe
they're trying to groom him to be that number
one guy. Could be. I mean, actually, Hunt could
be that number one guy, but they need him on
the goal line situation so much they don't want
to use him up. Yeah. But Hunt, he was getting
four yards a chunk. I mean, Hunt is the kind
of guy, the more you put him in, the better he
gets. He traditionally has always been, and that's
where Cleveland, they had Chubb, and he was kind
of rotten on the sidelines. They didn't really
need him when they grabbed him. Yeah. Chubb was
doing just fine. But he's the kind of guy that
if you keep him in, he keeps developing this
rhythm with the offensive line and he keeps figuring
it out. Yeah. And the Chiefs just kind of go,
oh, come on out, come on out, you know, we're
going to put in four receivers, you know. Yeah,
that changing the lineup, it really doesn't seem
to work the way they think it works because you
don't develop the chemistry. No. You know, even
when you're changing tight ends, you know, that
makes a difference. The tight end is part of
the offensive line, basically. Well, one thing
is their philosophy. Any pass under five yards
or four yards or something like that is considered
a run. Yeah. And you know what? In all fairness,
maybe all teams consider that, but it's not.
Yeah, the 49ers are the ones that kind of started
that with their West Coast offense. Yeah. It's
an extension of the running game. Oh, that's
another good point. Why are we not doing the
slant pass stink and dunk like we did the games
that we destroyed people? That's another thing.
The pass selection is mind -boggling. Yeah, it's
like just keep running downfield and we're going
to catch somebody sometime. Meanwhile, Mahomes
is lying on the ground bleeding. Yeah, it's like
every play like that is a Hail Mary. It's not
sustainable. Nobody's getting open. Nobody's
getting open. They've got it figured out. It's
done. It's played. It's over. Move on. I think
that's part of the reason that Kelsey has so
many receiving yards. Some of those were designed
plays to throw to him, but a lot of the rest
of them were nobody else who got to dump it off
Kelsey. Kelsey is so good at backyard football.
Yeah. He just starts running around. He's going,
I'm going to wear this guy out. Watch this. Pretty
soon the guy gets bored out of boredom and walks
away, and he's like, I'm right here. That's how
he gets that large chunks of yardage this year
is because he out backyard footballed the other
guy. He just kept going, da -da -da, da -da -da,
da -da. Oh, I'm over here. And he's probably
saying, you know, while he's down there, it's
like, oh, they tackled him. The guy quits. No,
he didn't. Yes. He grabs the ball. Also, I think
there's a lot of trickery with him, too. You
know, he's not as fast as he used to be. He's
35 years old. But, you know, I also put this
in. You watch him run in person, you're going
to be like, shit. God, that guy's fast. But we're
talking about football standards. Yes, football
speed. Yeah, the guy's still in great shape.
He takes his job very seriously, of course. He's
best ever, of course. Or if not, at least top
three. But I think he's best ever by his body
of work and everything. No, he out -backyard
footballs him, but go ahead. I guess that's pretty
much the main points. How about defense? How
do you analyze that? Obviously, they can't pressure
the quarterback enough. So I would say change
your strategy to coverage. Rush your four guys
and stop blitzing so much. Leave everyone else
in coverage. Because the other quarterback is
having all the time he needs to throw anyway,
so you might as well put those pass rushers into
coverage where they can do some good. And I guess,
I mean, that's kind of the bend but don't break
thing. You're going to just let him keep sitting
back there and throwing the ball. That's what's
happening anyway. And then eventually he's going
to make a mistake or you're going to punch a
ball out or something like that. But you rush
five or six guys and you don't have enough in
coverage and suddenly they're throwing 40 yards
over everyone's head and you can't recover from
that. Yeah. And the fact that it keeps happening
game after game. You're really starting to piss
me off. No, me too. If either the Chiefs are
too dumb to see it, which I don't think is true,
or they're too stubborn to do anything about
it. Probably the latter. Yeah. Yeah. Because
I think if they decided to do something about
it, I think they're capable of doing something.
Yeah, I think so too. But at this point, they're
just like, no, we're going to keep playing our
game. I've got a question for you here real quick.
Sorry, I keep interrupting you, but, man, we
have so much to talk about about this. Okay.
If there was a malcontent on the team, who do
you think it would be? Wow. I've got my guy,
and I have an example. I can't really think of
who it might be. Chris Jones. Well, yeah, yeah.
Yeah. Not only is he not producing, but this
was said last year, and I questioned it, and
nobody seemed to care. Okay. Karloff just said
that he wanted to lead the league in sacks and
the Chiefs and all that. And his first response
was that it wasn't that's my boy or nothing.
He said, I haven't seen it yet. I remember that,
yeah. That's a bullshit statement. You don't
have that attitude. That attitude's me. It's
not us. Yeah, it does make it sound like he's
putting himself and his personal stats ahead
of the team. Yeah, I ain't seen it yet. Yeah.
You don't want to be competing against other
members of the same defense. have a rivalry to
see who gets the most, but directly competing
where you're sabotaging another guy, that might
be happening. Well, him standing there while
Trevor Lawrence gets back up off of the ground
and runs into that zone, was that a defiance?
That's what I think. He explained it as sometimes
you don't make the best decision. or something
along those lines. Oh, bullshit. I know. It was
a vague nothing. It's a vague nothing answer.
I would have suspended him on that answer. I
said, oh, is that what you think? All right,
well, you take a couple of games off. Yeah. Think
about it real hard. Go somewhere else. Don't
even report to the team. Yeah. Yeah, I think
he needs to be benched this game. Put somebody
young in there. Say, hey, you want his job? Here's
your chance. Yeah, that's something I've always
been in favor of is sending a message to your
team. Yeah, I don't care who they are. Because
they feel like, oh, no, you can't touch me. I'm
entitled. I'm the starter. They won't touch me.
Sit his ass down. And here's, I'm going to go
a step further here, and I'm going to piss people
off, but I don't give a shit. I do it every day.
Mahomes throws a couple interceptions. You put
him in shoe. You go, hey, Patrick, we think that
you're overworked. You know, you don't say, hey,
you don't do that. Don't do that. We're going
to punish you. We think you're being overworked,
and we think that you're probably not making
the best decisions. We're doing this for you.
Yeah. We're going to put in Minshew for a little
while. Yeah. And you just go sit, you know, and
think about what you're going to do to win this
game. Yeah. Yeah, we'll bring you back maybe
fourth quarter. We'll see. But go sit over there
right now, and you watch your backup play. Yeah.
Yeah. Nobody's untouchable. Don't phrase it as
a punishment. Oh, we're punishing you by taking
you out. It's like if you take your car somewhere
and then you crappy service, you're going to
take it somewhere else next time. But you're
not punishing the first place. You just learned
your lesson. Yes, exactly. And Matt Nagy, what
should Andy Reid midseason just say? You know
what? I give you a lot of these plays. You're
really not using them correctly. So I'm going
to start doing it. Yeah. Dave Taub, whatever
his name is, you need to let him go immediately,
and whoever's capable of doing that job, you
put them in there. That guy has been abysmal
since we've had him. He's horrible, and that
loyalty right there does not jive well with playing
good football. That guy is probably the worst
special teams coach in football, and my proof
is the way the special teams plays with the Chiefs.
That's my proof. That's so... telling about the
team. I judge the team based on their actions
and their inactions. So many penalties on kick
returns. And they do absolutely nothing about
it. And the same players keep doing the same
penalties on kick returns, which means they're
not even learning enough to teach that player
to not do it or take his ass out if he can't
learn. They're just letting it happen. Oh, we've
done our best. Oh, well. I don't know what their
actual kind of thinking is, but the impression
I get is this is the limit of how much they care,
and that's all we're going to get out of the
special teams because they just don't care past
that point. I agree. There's this thought. I
believe there's this thought at the Chiefs organization
is we've got Patrick. We don't care about that.
Yep. We're going to keep working on offensive
stuff. We're going to let Spagnuolo figure out
the defense. The league has caught up with him.
Yes. And it's up to them to change this. You
have to reinvent yourself. And it's not just
football. It's everything in life. You constantly
have to reinvent yourself. You have to, as the
Marines say, adapt and change. You have to do
that. If you don't, you're not going to ever
do anything. You know, that's just the way it
is. That's the way life is. And it's primarily
because whatever is working right now is working
because it's right now. Yes. Ten minutes from
now or ten years from now, things have changed
that what's working now doesn't work anymore
because the environment you're in isn't there
anymore. Yeah. So the stubbornness of, well,
this worked before. Well, before you were standing
on dry land. Now you're six feet underwater.
Yeah. So, yeah, it's not working. Yeah. Yeah,
a hurricane came over. Yeah. Fucking flooded
your island. Yeah. Get on a boat, get you another
one. But in order to make what you've always
done continue to work. Everybody else has to
keep doing what they've always done. And that
never works. That doesn't happen. That never
works. And so we go back to getting people growing
old on the vine. Yep. Rotten fruit, what does
it do? It falls off. Yep. You know? And look,
I'm not... And that's what it's supposed to do.
Yeah, that's what it's supposed to do. Look,
I can't do the stuff I did when I was 20. Yeah.
Thank God. I'd never survive it. Yeah, me neither.
But that's the way life is. I'm not going to
go out and play backyard football because I'm
afraid I'm going to hurt myself and not be able
to work. Yeah. Okay? So, I mean, this is true
in football, too. If someone's not getting it
done, if they take it personally, that's too
bad. Yeah. But the fact is, is if you want to
win, you've got to change stuff. Yep. And do
you have some more that you want to go into?
Not specifically about the Chiefs. Well, okay,
that's what I was getting at because I have bullet
points. Yeah, I was going to say it's interesting.
Like we were saying on the way down, all this
talk about the Chiefs moving to maybe Kansas
or up north or whatever, it's interesting to
know the Chiefs are incorporated in Delaware
because that's what makes business sense for
them. Now, if you ask Google, you know, where
are the Chiefs incorporated, they'll lie to you
and say Kansas City. They'll do the same with
the other teams. I don't trust Google for fucking
foot fungus, let alone anything like that. But
it would be accurate to call us the Delaware
Chiefs of Kansas City because legally they're
a Delaware corporation. If anyone sues the Chiefs,
the case gets heard in Delaware court. Maybe,
maybe the East Coast will like us then. Maybe
so. Maybe they'll put us above Buffalo for once.
I have a feeling that pretty much all 32 teams
are registered in Delaware. Probably. So it wouldn't
do us any good. They're like, ah, fuck you. Everybody's
registered there. Yeah. So for everything the
chiefs say about, oh, we love Kansas City, and
we're part of the culture here. Okay, but we're
not good enough for you to register and pay your
taxes here? That's what I was going to say. You
pay your taxes in Delaware, don't you? Yeah,
well, that's why Missouri's not going to have
them. It's going to go to Kansas. Because, look,
Missouri, we're wounded sheep over here in Jackson
County. We need to work on ourselves. We're hurting.
We have a terrible crime problem. We have some
iffy politicians in this town. Yes, we do. You
can take your choice. There's a few of them.
So we need to work on ourselves. We can't have
a professional team. So they need to go over
to Kansas. We just need to get better. We can't
have a relationship right now. We have too much
self -work to do. But don't get too excited,
Kansas, because they're still going to pay their
taxes to Delaware. That's the other thing, too.
Have at it. Have fun. Besides that, all that
traffic's going that way, not my way. Thank you.
Yeah, let them have it. All the Johnson County
people don't have to wander to Missouri, which
freaks them out. They're like, oh, no, are we
in Missouri? Lock your doors. Lock your doors.
Don't look them in the eye. And if you don't
think that goes on, look at their faces when
you drive by. They see a Missouri plate like,
oh, no, one of those rogues. They're right next
to us. Don't look at them. That's a sign of aggression.
They're going to come after you. They're animals.
You can tell we haven't podcasted in a while.
We're fucking on it today. Okay. Okay. All right.
I've got, if we're done with the Chiefs. Yeah.
Okay. And this is bullet points, but I want to
go into this for a little bit. Should the Bengals
bench Burrow for the rest of the season? Flacco,
well, this last game he didn't. Already it's
got holes in it. I wrote this before that. Flacco
scoring 40 points a game, or he did. Burrow is
their starter, but maybe resting him would be
a good idea. They're not technically out of the
playoffs, but they are. They lost seven games.
not in it by any means. Burrow has a history
of being injured, and he has an injury, that
turf toe, that comes back. It never really goes
away. I would say the smartest thing to do, if
they haven't already put him back on injured
reserve, go ahead and do it. Let him heal, write
this season off, and then in the offseason, decide
if it's worth it for as many seasons as Burrow
has been killing it on the field. there's quite
a few where he just can't make it and he's injured
and out. I would like to know his time spent
on the field versus injury. Yeah. I bet you it's
about half and half. It seems to me it's about
close to half and half. Okay. I got a question
then. All right. The Bengals, you know, they
went to the Super Bowl a few years ago, right?
Uh -huh. Okay. And they seemingly have a solid
team. Yeah. Okay. All right. If you were the
GM of the Bengals, number one, Would you re -sign
Burrow? You already re -signed the two receivers,
and you already re -signed Hendrickson, who's
injured. You went this far. Do you keep Burrow
in hopes that he would be more durable, maybe
have a better offensive line? I guess you kind
of would lean that way because you don't have
anyone else. Flacco is doing well, but... He's
old, and he could break something tomorrow and
be done. And it probably will happen, but I say
they play him as long as they can this season.
This season's done. Yeah. Rest Hendrickson the
rest of the year. Yeah. I'd say you void Jamar
Chase's contract for civil rights and crimes
against humanity by spitting on Ramsey. You void
his contract. for reasons of conduct. And then
you take all that money and you can spread it
around the team. But Jamar Chase is a piece of
shit who shouldn't be playing anymore. He's more
worried about Mahomes than he is his own team,
and that's the problem. He spat on Ramsey and
then lied about it for hours until they showed
him the video. They showed the video of him spitting
on him. And then suddenly it went from, I didn't
do it, I didn't do it, to, well, I did it because...
No, that doesn't hold water. No. And for so many
people, it's like, well, of course he lied. What
would you expect? I expect him to be a man. Me
too. And more than that, I expect him to be a
human being and take responsibility for what
he did. Yeah, I think Jamar Chase needs to be
done with football for at least the rest of the
season. My opinion is, and not just because it's
Chase, anybody, if you're caught spitting on
somebody, you should be out the rest of the season.
That is so disrespectful. We don't need that
in the league. Spraying your bodily fluids on
somebody else and whatever diseases or parasites
you have, you're spraying on somebody else. That
alone should be assault with a possibly deadly
weapon. It should be. They don't know what you
have. Especially Jamar Chase, a questionable
piece of shit like him. Allegedly. Allegedly.
Anyhow. Anyway, so for the main point, yeah,
I think I would re -sign Burrow. But as a second
point, get Jamar Chase out of the contract. Yeah.
And use that money elsewhere. Yeah, I would too.
They have Higgins, who's great, and they could
have other receivers. Yeah. You know, and also
if Burrow isn't on the field half of the time.
They're being wasted. Yeah. Right? Yeah. An average
receiver would do just fine with Flacco. Yes.
Yep. I mean, Flacco, I mean, he's better than
Burrow on one aspect. He has a ring. Yeah. Burrow
does not. That's another way to look at it, too.
He beat Tom Brady. And you know what's funny
is all the people who say, well, it's not having
the ring that really defines it. The only people
saying they're the ones without rings. Yes. Yes.
Yes. A hundred percent. A hundred percent. And
also, I think it all, back to the Chiefs really
quick. Yeah. And Burrow too. I think all the
hate kind of works against him. because you're
not like the favorite everyone that everybody
hugs anymore. And I think there's something to
be said for that. When you have a chip on your
shoulder and you have something to prove, and
I think that's one of the problems that the Chiefs
have ran into several times, but they've gotten
through it, is complacency because everybody's
patting you on the back. Everyone's like telling
you, you know, the yes man. Oh, you're the man.
You're the best. Those people get you nowhere.
The guy that comes up and goes, hey, Patrick,
hey, Joe. You know, I'm not trying to be skeptical
or nothing, but I'm trying to give you some constructive
advice. Don't run out of the pocket like that.
Or burrow, like, don't hold the ball. Go to the
ground. Or even just ask them, this obviously
isn't working. What do you think would work better
than what you're doing right now? Yes. Both of
them, I think, work better with people against
them than for them. Yeah. And it's natural. It's
not a knock on either one of them. It's natural.
And as far as Burrow goes, as a person, I like
him. But he sure is fun to make fun of because
of certain things. And plus Cincinnati. Those
guys got all high because they got one game on
us and they're all like, eee. Not so much. Go
back to your corner like you've always been,
Natty. Go back there and do nothing like you
always do. And by the way, shut up about us because
we'll come kick your ass again. So, all right.
I love to have those rivalries. Oh, they're great.
Isn't it? Yeah, and actually, to be honest, everybody
I met from Cincinnati, they're darling people.
Yeah. They've been excellent people. I have nothing
against them, but it's fun to make fun of them.
Yeah, it's like it's fun to hate on the Raiders.
but I don't want the Raiders to be an 0 -17 team
every year. I want them to be a good team so
that when the Chiefs play them, it's exciting
and fun. Yeah, I want the Nut Tuggers, the division
games. I mean, even this last one that we lost,
I mean, with Denver, that was a good old -fashioned
Nut Tugger. That was close all game long. We
had no idea who was going to win the game two
minutes into. It's kind of like, I don't know,
they're both fucking up and playing good, fucking
up and playing good. All right. Mahomes. Is he
still crazy good or maybe one of the best quarterbacks
ever? Or has he lost a step? Or are the talking
heads just hating? A little of both, I think.
Yeah, I would lean towards he has kind of lost
a step and he's not able to do some of the things
he was able to do before. There is a little bit
of hating going on, but that's to be expected
because he's been pushed in everyone's face forever.
I'm guilty of it. I used to dog Brady and make
stuff up all the time. Oh, the refs love him.
Oh, he's cheating. Deflategate, all that stuff.
The fact is he is the best ever. Brady was another
one who's adapted his game season after season
as the other teams would catch up with him. It
wasn't Belichick. It was Brady. He was not a
gunslinger. Figuring out how to do it just a
little different. Yeah. I think Mahomes is resting
on his laurels to some degree, maybe not consciously.
But, you know, you could make a case where he
was, you know, the best of this current new generation
of quarterbacks and how the game is played. Yeah,
that could be done, yeah. But just to say that
he's as good as he ever was, obviously not. No.
Another problem that works against him, and I
don't know if anyone looks at it like this, but
I do. Tom Brady always had a chip on his shoulder
because he wasn't gifted with a supreme athletic.
Mahomes was. And it seems like now when people
are catching up with him, all he knows is that
athletic. Yeah. Look, he's smart, and he reads
defenses, and he's really good with football
and everything. And it's not all that because
he does use a lot of his wit, I mean, and a lot
of his knowledge. Yes, he does. What's his name,
Todd, the quarterback? Alex. Alex Smith, yeah.
You know, he does use all of that knowledge,
but I think that he still has a problem getting
over the athleticism and how good he naturally
is. Yeah. He relies on it a little bit too much.
Yeah, from the beginning he was told he was a
great quarterback. He was groomed. He was traded
up in the first round to get him. He was always
told that he was so great and he was going to
wonderful. So he's had a pretty smooth path coming
in. Brady was picked late, spent time as a backup.
He was the last pick, wasn't he? I don't think
he was the very last, but I kept hearing fifth
round. He was a late round. I don't know. Well,
anyhow, he was not a favorite by any means. And
if you look at his rookie pictures, dude was
skinny. He was a scrawny -looking guy. He was.
And he got in because Drew Bledsoe's injury.
He didn't get in out of playing. No. And then
once he did get in and started doing well, he
was sharing the credit with Bill Belichick the
whole time. So those things combined, I think,
helped Brady to constantly want to prove himself,
adapt, expand, get better season after season.
Now I see why he left. Yeah, yeah. He wanted
to prove that it wasn't all Belichick, that it
was him. Yeah. And he did. He proved it. Now
nobody says Belichick, everyone says Brady. Yeah,
and Belichick is over stinking it up in North
Carolina. Yeah, with his hot young girlfriend.
He is. You know what? He doesn't care. Oh, I
don't think he does. No. He's taking it. He's
fucking smashing Viagra and pounding the shit
out of his young one. When she lets it. When
she lets him, yeah. You know she controls everything.
I think she basically owns him. She does. Yeah.
Look at the stuff she's done. He doesn't argue
with it. Nope. Yeah, she puts out a statement.
He's like, go ahead, dear. Yeah. I'm okay with
it. I can't say nothing or she won't sleep with
me no more. Yep, yep. It's just like the famous.
The one where he had the Russian wife, girlfriend
he had cheated on his wife for. Oh, yeah. Yeah,
yeah, yeah. And then he was mad because she would
never sleep with him, so he left all those horrible
messages. You should just shut up and blow me
and all that. Mel Gibson. Yes. Mel Gibson. That
type of situation. Yeah. Yeah, pretty soon you're
going to hear Belichick blowing up on the phone.
You need to come over here and blow me. It's
in our prenup. Yeah, yes. I can prove you've
only did it two times this month. I get it five.
Oh, my God. Giving it back to Mahomes, I guess,
is where we started. Yeah, is that where we started?
It's true. He learned a lot from Alex Smith,
and he brought a lot of stuff that he learned
in college, and he was very impressionable, and
he soaked in a lot of knowledge. But he's also
learned a lot since then. And the new knowledge
tends to push out the old. So while he can stand
there and say, oh, yeah, Alex Smith told me about
this and taught me about that, honestly, what's
happened to him in the last three years is having
a much more of an effect on him than anything
Alex Smith taught him. No, I agree. Because it's
been so recent. I agree. It's just kind of the
way things are. You know what? That's a great
point. I never even thought about it. The impression
in his mind right now is completely different
than when he came out of when he's starting the
first year. Yeah. Yeah, he's remembering himself
during the best times. And, you know, I'm sure
he's realistic to know, well, I'm not quite that.
But he's not taking a realistic view that the
way he's playing now is the quarterback he is.
And it's because of what's been happening to
him recently. And our brains are wired that way.
Whatever happened to you recently is what you've
got to deal with. I agree. So forget what happened
five years ago. Yeah, yeah. You know, but I also
do believe this. I want to preface that with
this, too. You know, Kelsey had a horrible season
last year. He's having one of his best this year,
although I know it doesn't seem like it. He is.
Yeah, it's odd. Mahomes is very capable and will
reinvent himself. Yeah. He will. But right now
he's in the middle of his season. But I'll tell
you what, too. Hollywood Brown's not getting
re -signed, and if he does, then I question everybody
there at one arrowhead drive. Juju, if you get
him for cheap, he's a great mentor. Other than
that, he probably needs to be in there every
20th snap. He got two penalties Sunday. Yeah,
he had a horrible game. He's the kind of guy,
when he has a great game, he's the best. But
this is why New England dropped him. is because
of that, the inconsistency. He's not quite as
bad as Kadarius Toney was, but he's starting
to slip down there to where his penalties and
his mistakes are far outweighing the good parts.
Yep, and also Kadarius Toney could have been
the MVP of the Super Bowl too. Yeah. And Juju
Smith has some of those plays too. It's just
the way the game is. If you're inconsistent,
you can make great plays, but if you don't do
it all the time, regularly. you're no good because
you're costing the team more than you're actually
helping the team. I was just thinking of an example
of there was a Super Bowl that was Denver versus
Washington. That's when Doug Williams was the
quarterback of the Washington Redskins. He was
the first black quarterback to go to the Super
Bowl, wasn't he, Doug Williams? And the media
was losing their minds about it. There was the
famous question at a press conference when one
reporter asked him, how long have you been a
black quarterback? I got to know. I got to know.
How did Doug Williams fall in that? I don't know.
I would have looked at my skin and go, son of
a bitch. I'm black. I never knew. What the hell?
Wasn't that old Eddie Murphy skit where someone
goes, but you're black, and he looks down at
his skin and goes, what? What? Son of a bitch.
I never knew that. If I was Doug Williams, I
would have done that. Wow. I definitely would
have called that person out for their stupidity.
All this time I thought I was in the sun too
much. Fuck. I mean, at the very least he's saying,
well, I've been black all my life. I've been
a quarterback. Yeah. But I was going to say that
in the first half of that game, Washington had
a running back that ran for like 230 yards or
something in a bunch of touchdowns and just blew
up during that game. But that was the only game
he ever played that was anywhere close to that.
He wasn't all that good before, and he wasn't
all that good afterwards, but just that one game,
suddenly everything worked out, and he just blew
up for that game. You know, there are players
like that. No, you're right. And you can't. sign
them to a six -year contract extension based
on, gee, they had one great game. That's where
being very savvy as a general manager is so important.
You look at the overall body of work, not just
the flash in the pan. And it seems like sometimes
we do get those flash in the pans, but we used
to just use them when we needed them. Now it
seems like that's all we're looking for is a
flash in the pan. Yeah, they've started being
just every -down starters. It's like, wait a
minute, this is somebody for specialized situations.
The way they used Kadarius Toney in the Super
Bowl was perfect. Yeah. It was a masterpiece.
But then the next season, they tried to use him
too much. Yeah. And then he showed all of his
flaws. It's like, well, we remember now. We remember
why he wasn't the starter last year. Okay. Anyhow,
someone's got a very loud voice. All right. All
right. Will Tom Brady ever go into coaching?
Wow. I'm going to say no. I think there are other
opportunities where he doesn't have to lose so
much of his free time and life because coaching
pretty much consumes your life. Yeah. So I can
see Tom Brady saying, nah, there's other things
I can do. I'll enjoy it more. And he doesn't
want to have to hobnob with the likes of Bill
Belichick. I agree. Yeah. No, I think so too.
I think where he's at, he's very comfortable.
Plus, if he got into coaching, he would instantly
be compared to Bill Belichick. Oh, yeah. You
know what? And that's probably the biggest drive
of not doing it anyhow. I just thought of that
just like half a second ago. I was like, wow,
yeah, that would be a reason not to. Well, that's
why Mike Grable, I'm sure that's what fuels Mike
Grable. Yeah. I'm sure it is. He wants to go
to New England and build a team rivaling of what
Belichick had. because I think they genuinely
dislike each other. Yeah. And I think every time
he has a winning season up there or if he gets
to win the Super Bowl, he's giving a middle finger
to Belichick. I remember when Grable played for
the Patriots, he looked pissed off constantly.
Yeah. And he wasn't like that when he was on
the Chiefs. No, no, no. I think it was because
he just hated being there in New England because
of Belichick. But he likes the owner, and he
likes the town, and he likes everything about
the organization. It was Belichick that was the
splinter up his ass. I also love the coaches
that look like they can kick your ass. Yeah.
Oh, yeah, yeah. You know, he looks like he could
go to any one of those players and go, Motherfucker,
what did I tell you? He looks like a guy that
could just, like, grab them and just, you know.
Supposedly, Marty Schottenheimer used to do that.
He'd walk up and grab somebody in the locker
room and go, Hey, you, I need to talk to you.
He was a linebacker, yeah. Yeah. And he'd pull
them aside to talk to them, but he'd go in there
and very abruptly go, you, come over here. I
started watching football on TV in the late 60s
through the 70s. So what I saw for head coaches
was everybody was white, everybody was old, and
everybody was out of shape. These old, fat, white
men were the head coaches of every single football
team, and that was just all you saw. The one
I can remember who was in about the best shape
was like Tom Landry because he had real good
posture. Yeah, but the rest of them looked dumpy.
Yeah, think of Jerry Glanville from the Houston
Oilers. Big old pot belly. How about Buddy Ryan?
Buddy Ryan. Big old fat lump of shit. Oh, wait
a minute. He's deceased. I'm sorry. He's a great
guy. I love him. Oh, he was so good. So good.
Charitable. But, yeah, and then at a certain
point it was we've got to get younger coaches
because these old guys are like the really old
generals in the Army who still think you're fighting
World War II. Yeah, that's true. It's like, no,
you've got to modernize and get with what everybody
else is doing. Really, I think the first head
coach of color I remember was Tom Flores. Yeah,
that was. Far as I can remember, too. Oh, I remember
Kevin Keatsman told this story. This was a while
back, but he said Marty Schottenheimer, when
he passed away, he was telling stories about
him. He said one time he was getting ready to
go into the locker room. Marty was just in his
boxers. He said something that Marty didn't like.
He ran up there, grabbed him by the collar, and
said, you come here. And he pulled him into another
room and chastised him for about 10 minutes.
And then after that, that was it. It was over.
Yeah. Kietzman never did what I forgot what he
said he did or what he said, obviously, you know.
But I thought that that was pretty cool because
he said, you know, he had a problem with me.
He told me what it was. He told me what I had
to do. And once I did that, I was fine with him.
He was a gentleman after that. He was like he
was fine. The problem was taken care of. He didn't
hold it against him. Yeah. And, you see, I'm
like you. I like the coaches that are like that.
But, you know, while we're talking about Schottenheimers,
I got a question. Yeah. Ryan Schottenheimer,
how long do you give him to turn the Cowboys
around before you go, okay, it didn't work? I
mean, listen, I like Schottenheimer. I like him
as a person, but I don't think he's a head coach
material. I never have. I could be wrong. I've
been wrong about a lot of things. Yeah, something
that gives me in his favor to give him a little
extra time is the fact that his owner is Jerry
Jones. Yeah, Jerry Jones is notorious. But like
you, he strikes me as the kind of guy that will
make an okay head coach if he's got great coordinators.
But if you've got great coordinators, they're
going to be hired away from you at the end of
the year. So you've got to keep hiring guys to
help carry your team. I think he can be a decent
interim kind of head coach, but you're still
looking for that next person who's a real fireball.
Maybe he's a cost control guy. They got him on
the cheap, and they're like, we're not ready
to win anyhow. But also, I think he's assigned
with turning Dak Prescott around, but there is
no turning him around. What you have is what
you have. Yeah, pretty much. You've got to figure
this is what Dak is. He had a great game against
the Raiders. Now he's going to go play the Eagles
or somebody and just get demolished. I mean,
it's just the way it is. Will Matthew Stafford
finally get the MVP? You know, I think he's seriously
in the running for it. Yes, and I wish he would.
My big boss at work, he's a Rams fan because
he lived in St. Louis for a long time while they
were there. And I admire he sticks with his team.
He doesn't matter. I keep telling him, I go,
hey, the water's warm. Come on over. He's like,
look, I don't have anything against them, but,
you know, no, no, no, no, no. I'm with the Rams,
and I got to commend him for that, for not jumping
ship like a couple other guys. They actually
used to be the Cleveland Rams. Did you know that?
Yes. That's where they originated. Originated
in Cleveland. And then they went to L .A. L .A.,
then to St. Louis, then back to L .A. And then
to St. Louis and now to L .A. Or Anaheim or whatever.
Whatever the hell they are. Okay, so I hope so.
Will Jared Goff get to the promised land? Okay,
I know he did. I know he did already. And he
played up against Tom Brady, which is not fair.
But he did shit his pants. He did not have a
good game. will he ever make it to the promised
land and at least put up a fight? And this is
with Detroit, of course. Yeah. I don't know.
I think he has the ability, but I think in Detroit
it's not going to happen for him. I still think
their head coach is about 80 % of what he needs
to be to get him to the Super Bowl. Yeah. I also
think Dan Campbell, to me, Just by the observations
and a lot of pictures and thoughts and the way
people said things, I think he's kind of a bounty
guy. Like, hey, you go out there and you take
out their quarterback so we can win. Because
Mahomes was not very appreciative of him after
that game, you could tell. Now, why would you
do that? Because someone told you to hit too
hard. late and you don't care, get a penalty,
but knock the piss out. Yeah, players are pretty
good at figuring that out pretty quick that,
you know, okay, they're out here to injure us
and get us off the playing field. Yes. Yeah.
That's where a switchblade works really well.
Cut their juggler while they're on the ground.
They're not fucking with you anymore. Yeah, go
ahead. I'm sorry. Yeah, that's pretty telling.
And it sends a message to your team is we're
not good enough to win in fair open competition.
So here's how I want you to cheat. And, you know,
these are your union brothers, but I want you
to go out there and hurt them and possibly end
their career. Yeah, and I don't know this for
sure, but it sure looked like it by the demeanor,
the actions, and what happened on the field.
It looked to me like that could be what's going
on. And all it would take if you're one player
to say, yeah, that's what he told me. And even
if they couldn't prove it, the stink of it would
get people to turn away from the Lions. And I
could be very wrong, but that's one of the reasons
I don't really like Dan Campbell that well. And
historically speaking, the Lions have been a
dirty playing team. Yeah, and I don't think this
is any different. And traditionally those types
of teams, they fade out in the playoffs, which
is what happened in the playoffs. Plus they get
fined into oblivion. Yeah. Yes. Jared Goff, no?
No. I don't think so either. I'll say no. And
I'm not even sure if he's going to make the championship
game anymore. And I could be wrong on that too,
but we'll see. It's odd. I think he should stay
in Detroit because that's his best situation
right now, but I don't think Detroit's going
to get him anywhere but playoffs each season
and then win a game or two, but then you're done.
I think Campbell's looking for the guy while
he's got Goff. He's like, look, we're going to
be in the playoffs every year, but we're probably
not going to go that far until I find the guy.
And then I think you're going to start seeing
in the next couple of years him trying to draft
that guy. And he'll need to schmooze Goff in
order to keep him around as a mentor. Yeah, and
I think Goff will do that. I would say, yeah.
Goff is the most boring person or the most boring
football player ever. He always has the same
look on his face. Never says much, even on the
field. He's like a scoop of vanilla ice cream
on a white piece of paper. Yes. That's him. Yeah.
Hey, Jared, are you happy you won? Yeah. Hey,
Jared, are you pissed off you share the first
name with that pedophile from Subway? Yeah. Yeah.
At least they don't call me Chomo. and slapped
me in the face every morning. That fucking piece
of crap, not Jared Goff, but Jared Vogel, yeah,
was complaining about getting smashed in the
face every morning. Poor baby. Aw. Poor pedophile.
Too bad. Who knew that prison could be unpleasant?
Geez. Wow. Tell us all about it, Jared. Maybe
that's part of the reason you don't commit a
crime is because prison sucks. That's why you
don't bang children, you piece of shit, unless
you're in Congress. Well, that's true. Or a fluid.
Yeah, or Tom Hanks. Allegedly. Allegedly. Or
J .P. Morgan, allegedly. One of Tom Hanks' kids
wrote a tell -all book that says she remembers
human sacrifice taking place. I believe it. Yeah.
He is of that ilk and of that crowd, in my opinion.
Grease is trying to revoke his citizenship and
kick his ass out. They're done with him. They're
just like, this guy is too weird, too creepy,
too disgusting. Get him the hell out of here.
Good for Grease. Yeah, no, I agree. Good for
them. Because Grease is one of those ones that
you come up and just take residency and they
don't care. Although, when I lived there, they
wouldn't let us go to school there. Yeah. Thanks
a lot, guys. Appreciate it. I had to relive fucking
third grade over here. No wonder I don't want
to live there. Yeah. So, anyhow. All right. Who
is the best team in the NFL today? I'm going
to say Patriots right now. Second place would
probably be. I don't know. I'm trying to think
of some of the NFC. The Bears are doing really
well, but they're not really winning in a convincing
fashion. They're just winning. I'm going to go
with Patriots and Denver behind them because
they've got such a defense. And you just can't
argue with the success they're having. The Chargers
have kind of fumbled, crumbled. Yeah, we knew
they would, though. That's kind of what Justin
Herbert's been doing is he looks great for a
while, and then he crumbles and has really crap
games. Yeah, there's something about the amount
of pressure we put on him. You know, if he starts
getting beat up pretty good, he loses his mind,
in my opinion. It just looks like he just all
of a sudden, all this great decision -making
and these pinpoint throws just go to hell. It's
just kind of what's happening to Mahomes right
now. It is. But Mahomes has had this before,
and he's straightened it out. I mean, look at
the Raiders game on Christmas Day two years ago.
True. You couldn't have got any lower. And that's
why I'm not quite sure if the season is really
over. Because did we have them? They were dead.
Everybody in the world said, that's it, it's
over, runs over. And they went on to win another
Super Bowl that year. Yeah. So maybe these punches
in the face, like they got from the Raiders,
are wake -up calls. Yeah. Or maybe not. There's
only, you know. Like Second Lives, do you think
there's only a certain amount of them in this
world that you get? Yeah. Yeah. Did they use
them all up and now they've got to reinvent it?
I think probably so. Yeah, could be. But I'm
still not convinced of that, so they could still
do something with the season. A big thing in
their way is right now the three teams that are
in the wild card hunt, Chiefs have lost to all
three of them. Yes. So they would have to actually,
they couldn't tie the record, they have to actually
get a better record. They could overtake the
Chargers because they played them once. If they
win the next game and then go ahead of them,
they could overtake them. They play the Colts,
and the Colts are capable of losing a couple
more games easily. So they have a shot, but I
don't know. They're 5 -5, so if they win all
the rest of their games, they'll finish 12 -5.
I think they have to. Which is enough to get
you in the playoffs by any stretch. Yeah. But
I don't see the Chiefs going 7 -0 the rest of
the way. No, I don't either. Just don't see it.
No. Are the Colts for real? Yeah, I think they're
for real this year. Until the playoffs, I think.
Yeah. Well, no, no, no, no, no. Jonathan Taylor.
Actually, they do well in the playoffs, yeah.
Yeah, Jonathan Taylor is carrying that team.
I mean, if he gets injured or loses a step because
of an ankle or something. They might be in trouble,
but right now they are firing on all cylinders.
Their defense is good. I mean, yeah, I think
the Colts are for real, but so are the Patriots.
Yeah. I was trying to remember the last time
the Colts were in the Super Bowl, and I think
that was Super Bowl VI against Dallas. Who? The
Colts. No, Peyton Manning. Didn't he win one
with them? Oh, that's true. That's true. Um,
shoot. I was under the impression that he didn't
win in Indy, but he did in Denver, but I think
he won in both places. He won in both places.
They got rid of him in favor of the guy that
got hurt all the time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I forgot
his name. Because he didn't last long. No, he
didn't last long because, yeah, his fucking,
what was it, something exploded when he got hit
the last time, and he finally came back and said,
I'm done. Oh, was that Chris Sims? No, no. He
played for somebody else. Hang on. Because his
spleen exploded, and that's why he quit. Andrew
Luck. Andrew Luck, yeah, that's right. He quit.
Yeah. But no, I remember the Colts were in Super
Bowl IV, and the Jets beat them. Yes. And then
the leagues merged, and the Colts went from the
NFC to the AFC. And in Super Bowl VI, they played
Dallas, and it was nicknamed the Blooper Bowl
because both teams played like crap. Oh, I remember
that. Baltimore Colts. They were Baltimore at
the time. Baltimore Colts scraped out a win.
Have Indianapolis Colts ever won a Super Bowl?
But then it was a long stretch until Peyton Manning.
Yes. They've won two Super Bowls. Against the
Baltimore Colts in 1971. Yeah. Isn't that interesting?
And then against the Indianapolis Colts. Oh,
wait a minute. No, no, no. It is. Yeah. The Indianapolis
Colts have won two Super Bowls. They won Super
Bowl 5. No, no, no, hang on. No, Super Bowl 5
is the Baltimore Colts in 1971. Okay, it was
5 instead of 6. Yeah, it was. And Super Bowl
31, I believe. Yeah. In 2007. Okay. Okay, that's
right. Yeah, the Chiefs won number four, and
then the Colts won number five. Yeah, yeah, and
then they came back with Manning and won, and
then they replaced Manning. He had a shoulder
injury. Yeah. And they traded Manning to Denver.
Yeah. And they signed Andrew Luck previous. Yeah.
Well, they drafted him. Yeah. And he was great
while he lasted. Yeah. So, will Sam Darnold wet
his leg in the playoffs? I'm going to say, yeah,
he shows a pattern so far. I'm going to say,
yeah. I'm going to say no because I hope he doesn't.
I would love to see him and Jonathan Taylor just
kick all four of my ass. And also, that brings
a middle of America, heart of America to the
Super Bowl again, which I love because the hosts
flip out. Oh, yeah, they did. Oh, my God, I can't
stop motherfucking them. Oh, yeah, they're not
for real. Oh, yeah, they suck. They got Sam Darnold
off. You know, yeah, the talking idiots. I'm
quite like Skip Tart Ballas. Oh, I've been leaving
a string of fucking all kinds of stuff on his
ex. Saying that every time he looks down at his
extremely underdeveloped penis, he gets angry
and lashes out at my homes. It hasn't been taken
down yet. That's pretty awesome. Yeah. And asked
him about his legal problems. Hey, Skippy. Anyone
ever look at you? Huh. I know there's some people
that looked at you in a lawsuit with Fox Sports,
maybe. Hmm. Skippy, do you have something you
don't want to talk about, Skippy? Is that it?
Aw, you little fella, little guy, poor little
guy. Little pale little piece of shit. All right,
Skippy, eat my dick. I really hope that Skip
Bayless is just playing a character, because
if he's really that way in real life, what a
tragic waste of a life. Ugh. I think he plays
a character to a fault. Yeah. I think he thinks
that he's that smart and that uber talented when
actually he's a little, little frail piece of
shit. And actually, you know, if you play that
role for so long and so well, what's the difference
between playing it and being it? There is no
difference. I would love to meet him in person
because I would grab him by the collar and go,
what did you say about Mahomes? And then see
his reaction. I really like him. I would recommend
wearing some of those, like, fisherman's hip
waders. If you grab him by the collar, he's going
to start peeing. Yeah. All right. Are the 49ers
toast? They didn't look like it. They got Brock
hurting back, and they're playing well, and they
can make the playoffs. Not playoffs. I don't
think they're toast. But as far as a championship
caliber team, I think that ship has sailed at
least for now. Yeah, yeah. They've got too much
of a hole to dig out of. The Rams and the Seahawks
are going to keep chipping away at them. Oh,
yeah. They have a way of reinventing themselves.
I mean, McCaffrey was like the biggest catalyst
of that. Then they did some pretty good drafting
and signing and stuff. But I think as far as
their championship level play, I think that's
it for now. And it could be for the Chiefs, too,
very easily. Yeah, that's true. It's interesting
to think back when McCaffrey got injured this
last time and then all the reports started coming
out about his degenerative disease for his legs
and the hips. And they said, oh, he's just never
going to play. He can't run anymore. He's just
downhill from here. All that must have been bullshit
because he's just fine. You know, he's running.
He's not hurt. He's running hard. the stolen
infant stem cells injected directly into his
hips. Oh, yeah. I just found a bonus. Oh? Before
all the stuff that happened, you know, and everything,
and we're going to do a podcast that week, right?
Yeah. Okay, I have some leftover bullet points,
and some of them are pretty good. All right,
let's do it. I didn't even know I had this. One
of my favorite is, is Skip Bayless a latent homosexual
and despises the Chiefs because he's secretly
attracted to Kelsey and Mahomes? Yes. Yes, absolutely,
100%. He wears dresses and wishes he was out
on a date with him. Allegedly. And he's not an
asshole because he's gay. He's an asshole because
he's in denial. That's very, thank you. That's
the main point. Yes, that's the point right there.
Yeah. Yeah, he's in denial and he thinks it's
not proper and it hurts him every day. Yeah.
And while he wears his dress and walks around,
he has those life -size... what do they call
them, the life -size cutout of them. Yeah, the
stand -ups. Yeah, he dances with them at night.
He plays jazz music and dances with them at night
in his dress. And he probably bought a female
blow -up doll, but then he puts a 15 jersey on
it. Yeah. And before anyone wets down their leg,
it's a joke, all of it. So, yeah, so get off
of that tip right now before you go there. Yeah,
especially in the emails. Man, people love to
take jabs in emails, and they don't understand
it. I love it. Yeah. I'm like, hey, someone was
so mad at me that they took time to call me a
bunch of names. All right, anyhow, should Russell
Wilson retire immediately? Yes. Yes. Oh, my gosh.
Why are people still paying that man? I have
no idea. Oh, I agree. And arguably, you could
say he's played his way out of any kind of Hall
of Fame consideration. Yeah. Unless the Football
Hall of Fame turns into the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame. In that case, you know, who cares? Yeah,
yeah, then who cares? The Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame, it's a joke. Oh, it's a piece of crap.
It's just stupid. Half the people that get inducted
don't give a shit. I remember, even when we started
with the Music Creeps, we'd talk about the Hall
of Fame inductees and who should be. Now it just
doesn't matter because they're so irrelevant.
They've shown themselves like whoever's popular
and will get visitors, that's who we'll put in
here. You know, they'd put Donald Trump in tomorrow
if they thought it would get them more visitors.
Yeah, they would. If they thought they were going
to get the right -wing conservatives all in there
to flock, they'd put them in there. Yeah, they
just don't care. It's all a money thing, and
that's it. All right. This one, I love this question.
I mean, you know, that first couple was kind
of tongue -in -cheek. This is actually really
serious. Get a quarterback. So as an example,
Josh Allen eclipsed a Super Bowl winner like
Mahomes just because their play is better during
the regular season. Like Dan Marino is in the
Hall of Fame, but they don't put him above anyone
that's won a Super Bowl. They're always like,
yeah, he's great, but there's always that thought
like - He never got a ring. He never got a ring.
So, and it wasn't necessarily his fault. I mean,
they - Was it Dan Reeves' defense? No, no, no,
not Dan Reeves. Mike Shula. Mike Shula, yeah.
He didn't have any defense ever, yeah. I'm going
to say yes. I think that's trending that way
because that's another thing that's really changed
over the past couple of decades. is I got so
sick of hearing, well, he never got a Super Bowl
ring, so he's not going to get considered one.
It doesn't take away from his greatness. Yeah,
anymore people are like, who cares? Only one
person gets a Super Bowl ring each year, one
quarterback. I agree. So there's 31 other great
starting quarterbacks that season. You can't
just ignore them all. So I'm going to say, yeah,
you're going to see a lot more quarterbacks who
never got a championship ring being rightfully
inducted into the Hall of Fame. I agree. and
they're going to see people who got one ring
and really didn't deserve it, and they're not
going to get automatically pulled in. No, I agree.
Yeah. All great points. I was on it when I wrote
these. I was on it. This is good here. I like
this one too. I consider Mahomes the best quarterback
in the league, body of work, stats, earlier maybe
not. Well, his stats aren't bad this year either,
really. Yeah. But, I mean, he's up in the top
three or four in yardage, Decent quarterback
to interception rate, which is getting worse.
Okay, if he's the best, who's the second best?
I'm probably going to say Josh Allen. Lamar Jackson's
kind of falling off a little bit. I'm kind of
going Jalen Hurts. Well, that's true. He's not
flashy. He doesn't throw for a lot of yards,
but every play he has to make, he makes. And
he does it perfectly, precisely. Well, that is
true. That is true. I don't see the NFC as often.
No, but I'll tell you what. Every one of those,
the games that they won where he had to make
that play, he did. Yeah, and he doesn't look
desperate doing it. No, he's smooth. Yeah. I
mean, he's not as flashy and on that trickery,
but I would almost put him up there with Mahomes.
Yeah. Yeah, that's definitely a good point. He
has a ring. He's been there twice. He's a good
person. I mean, not that that has anything to
do with overall talent, but I think Jalen Hurts
and then Josh Allen because Josh Allen has a
tendency to wet the bed. Well, yeah, yeah. Joe
Burrow, you can't because his body of work is
incomplete. He's always injured, so I'm not even
going to consider him. Lamar Jackson, injured
and inconsistent. Yeah. So, all right. That's
a good question. I was on it, and I'm glad I
found these. I just started pilfering through
here for the music creeps, and I'm like, hey,
what's this? Yeah. Now I remember it. So, all
right. Okay. Let's see. If you could pick one
Harbaugh brother to beat every game you play
from here on out, which would it be? Jim. Yeah.
Yeah. That's the one in Los Angeles. Yeah, yeah.
He's in our division. Yeah. Although I just.
I dislike them both, and I think they're both
assholes. They just have an asshole look on their
face. Maybe they're not really, but I just don't
like them. Yeah, something that rubs me wrong
about Jim Harbaugh is I think it's an intentional
look that he's getting. He's on the sideline,
and his glasses are sliding down his nose, and
he's squinting up at the scoreboard for the replay,
and his mouth is hanging open. And for all the
world, he looks like he's intentionally trying
to look like the confused grandpa because he
wants you to underestimate him. I think there's
a lot of truth in that. Yeah, it's like the used
car dealerships where the guy acts like an idiot
and a bumpkin because that'll get people to think,
hey, he's an idiot, I can take advantage of him.
like a guy used to a guy used to work with he
paid like 5 000 more for his big ford truck and
a guy did that and he come in bragging about
it and everything yeah and and the guy told me
he kind of slipped up and he said if he did another
deal like this they'd have to shut the place
down and we're all looking at each other because
another guy well the the boss he was trying to
emulate the boss he's such an ass kisser so he
bought a truck just like him and the boss came
around the corner he said i paid 5 000 less for
that car, for that truck. But he fell for it.
The guy was like, oh, I haven't been doing this
long, so forgive me. That's what I think Jim
Harbaugh is trying to do, and I just don't respect
that at all. I agree. All right. Joe Burrow is
very frustrated, but I'm sure the team's frustrated
with him. Yeah, I imagine the city's pretty damn
frustrated too. Oh, I'm sure. Would he eventually
see greener pastures? I don't think that's an
option. I don't know if anyone's going to pick
him up if he wants to leave. Yeah, I mean, every
time he gets injured and sits out any appreciable
length of time, his appeal to other teams just
takes such a hit. I wouldn't hire him, would
you? No, not for the money he's going to want.
No, no, no. There's no way Joe Burrell is going
to feel like going somewhere to be the backup
or the interim guy or the stop. He's like, oh,
I'm the starter, I'm the star, I'm the guy. Yeah,
about the only way you can protect yourself from
that is say every game that you're not in, we're
going to deduct off of your check. Yeah. But
you know what? It's nothing he can help. Yeah,
you can't really legally do that because he got
injured. You know, performing his job. And also
the offensive line is shit. Yeah. Well, we kind
of know that now. Yeah. Okay. Is Burrow in the
right situation just with horrible luck? Wow,
that's a challenging question because he is having
horrible luck, but is Cincinnati really the right
situation? No. I think it was briefly a few years
back, maybe when they first had him and he started
getting good. But I don't think Cincinnati is
really all that great a situation anymore. Let
me pose this question to you. Let's take Josh
Allen off of the Bills, and this is the teams
in the past, not this year. Like the 13th -second
team. And you put Burrow in Josh Allen's spot.
I think they win a couple of those games. Yeah.
Yeah, I could see that. If he's not injured.
Yeah, yeah. Okay, and finally, speaking of luck.
Still thinking about it. That was a good question.
Oh, I'm sorry. No, I was just still mulling it
over my head. That was a really good question.
Yeah, I love that. Okay, put him on Baltimore.
Oh, yeah. I think. I don't know how far they
go, but they would go further than with Jackson.
Because, well, he gets hurt more than Jackson,
actually. Yeah, forget that. Scratch that. Or
put Joe Burrow in Denver that season that Denver
was having Russell Wilson. Oh, yeah. Joe Burrow
probably would have taken that team to the championship
game. Yes, I agree. Or this one right now. Yeah.
This team now, the defense is so good, and they
have some receivers. They have running backs.
Yeah, I think Joe Burrow healthy. you can put
him in the Denver Broncos then or now. And somewhere
else, he'd probably have a better offensive line
and not get injured as bad. So, yeah, I agree.
And I think that Joe Burrow is a waste of talent
over there as of right now. Yeah. So, all right.
And speaking of Luck, Andrew Luck retired young
because he kept getting hammered. Yeah. Is Burrow
getting close to that? I think, yeah. I think
physically his body is definitely getting close.
Whether he's going to admit it to himself, gosh,
I hope so. There's nothing worth destroying your
body for. You have to live in your body the rest
of your life, and destroying it for the game
of football just ain't worth it. I know. No,
I agree. Actually, I like Burrow. I make fun
of him all the time, but I like him as a person.
And it would be nice to see him in the right
situation because I think it would be lethal.
You talk about a game of games. Let's say Mahomes
is on it again, him and Burrow battling it out
with a better team. It would just be epic. It
would be another 13 -second game. Whoever had
the ball last is probably going to win. At one
point, I would have said put him on the Dolphins,
but not the Dolphins now. No, no, no, not now.
Two years ago. Yeah. Two years ago, if you had
him on the Dolphins with Waddle and Hill and
their running backs. What is their running back
name? I forgot his name. He's really good. I
don't even think he's there anymore. I kind of
quit paying attention to the Dolphins. Yeah,
me too. Okay, so. All right, that's all I got.
I had an observation about Tyreek Hill. I have
heard absolutely nothing about him or from him
since he was injured. Two days ago he was talking
about retirement. Oh, okay. Well, that's the
first I've heard. And it's interesting because
usually when a player is injured and their season's
over, they continue to give him updates. Like,
okay, he's having this surgery, and now he's
doing this rehab, and he's thinking about, you
know, he could possibly. But with Tyreek Hill,
it was like the moment they carted him off the
field, everybody just quit talking about him.
Is he on the last year of his contract? Yeah.
Okay. One reason there. They know he's not coming
back. Yeah. Number two, they're not resigning
him. Number three, he's mouthed off so many times
and did this and did that. I think people aren't
taking him seriously. They're like, okay, whatever.
He's not doing anything anyhow. He's not coming
back. Whatever. And the way he reacted when he
got injured. He was smiling. The relief, the
happiness is like, you know, he's thanking God
that he got injured. It makes sense because now
he gets paid for the rest of the season contract
and he doesn't have to do any work whatsoever.
And also, he's out of his contract this year.
So he's going to try to weasel himself for a
low -budget contract on another team. I don't
think it's going to be Kansas City. They've had
their chances, from what I understand, to get
him back and they don't want him. And there's
a lot of reasons that are pretty obvious. I could
see Tyreek Hill signing a minimum salary contract
with a whole load of incentive causes in it.
With the Bills or Baltimore or somebody. Yeah.
But no, you know what, no, no, no. I think those
two organizations are smart enough. Yeah, they're
a little more complete. Maybe the Colts. I don't
know. Well, anyhow. Somebody that needs a receiver.
Yeah, yeah, somebody needs a receiver really
bad to get to promised land, but the thing is
he's not going to be available this year. It's
done. What about Arizona? Arizona, yeah. It's
like the game recently, they just ran and ran
and ran because they can't pass. Yeah, I agree.
Or maybe it was the other way around. No, I think
you said it right. There was one team recently
where they set a single season record. for the
number of pass attempts or completions in a game,
like at 47. I can't remember who it was. I'm
not sure either. There is a team out there who
just can't run the ball. There's no one out there
who just can't pass the ball. Yeah. Yeah, one
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