Hey, guess what? You just landed on the sports
bastards. Sorry about your luck. Hi there. This
is your ears. Why are you listening to this garbage?
I thought we were friends. Harambe used to love
talking sports. Harambe does not talk sports
anymore. Why, you might ask? Harambe, he was
senselessly murdered. He was murdered because
some idiot could not watch their children properly
while watching their phone. Sadly, Harambe does
not talk sports anymore. Sorry, Harambe. Alright.
The mystery will never be revealed. No. Nope,
nope, nope. And it's a really good one, too,
isn't it? Yeah. Oh, shit. I like that one. Oh,
that's great. I know. There's another mystery.
Why every pen I have in my backpack is dry and
does not function. That's me. Yeah. And whenever
you really, really need it, it's like, oh, good,
I got a pen. No, you don't. I've noticed right
off that there's a lot more reverb. Mm -hmm.
uh they've got all the doors and windows closed
here because it is freaking cold oh that's true
yeah so we're bouncing off a lot of glass here
so that's we're giving us a nice you know it's
like we're in a hall or a small venue yeah yeah
no no it does sound yeah it really does sound
the acoustics are Makes me miss going to the
Filthy Bean in Nashville. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Nashville? Yeah, Nashville. And Rick is not happy
with us. He's reached out several times, and
we haven't been able, for various reasons, to
make it there. Well, the last I heard, he was
kind of romancing the two fucknuts in a recorder.
Yeah, they took over our bench. Yeah. Should
we get back there and reclaim it? I think we
should. I think so, yeah. We don't hold a grudge
against Ray. Glad you remembered one. I forgot
one. Yeah, this one you brought me up last week.
Oh, good. Okay, that was a little scan disc to
put the show on. I'm now showing Mark how my
podcast notes have been custom -chewed by a tiny
dog. That's why I love the Talk is Cheap studio.
Everything in there, I just shut the door and
nothing gets bothered. Messy as hell, but I know
where it's at. I've been making notes and then
a small dog found my notes and decided that they
were an excellent chew toy. Yeah, the dog said,
oh, it's time to test my cuteness. Hey, watch
this. I think I can still read it. I think it's
still okay. Okay, cool. Well... Alright, there's
all kinds of stuff we can get to, but do you
want to go ahead and start with the Chiefs? How
about we talk about our blowout and upset picks
right off the bat? Okay, that's cool. I think
that would be a fun way to start it. Yeah, I
got the games with the playoff implications.
Playoffs? Yeah, playoffs. If you want to go by
this, I got this right here. These are all the
good games and ones that have that playoff implication.
Excellent. Yeah, I thought of that too. I was
wanting to do the blowouts, but you want to go
over the ones we did? Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah, from
last week. Okay, sorry. I misunderstood you.
Okay. See, last week. Oh, sports bastards. Sports
bastards. I'm Mark. I'm Topher. Still. Yeah,
I'm still Mark too. I was hoping to be someone
else today, but no, didn't go through. Didn't
go through. Anyhow. I think for blowouts, I think
we both picked. Giants and Patriots. Yeah. And
it was a blowout. It was 33 -15, so we both were
correct there. And the 15, the last touchdown
was garbage. Yeah. It was just garbage time.
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Go ahead. I will in a second. Thank you. Let's
see. And then for Upset, you picked the Bears
over the Eagles, and you were absolutely right
there, 24 -16. And you picked the Texans over
the Colts, and you were correct there, too. Yeah.
Yeah. I'm telling you, on upsets, I'm always
really good, and I can't wait to get a couple
of them. It was based on nothing. Yeah, we just
picked a kind of sperm of the moment kind of
thing. Okay, and did you pick the same with me,
or did you have some others? I think I picked
the Texans over the Colts as an upset, and I
picked Rams and Panthers as a blowout, but it
was not a blowout. It was a three -point game.
Let's go. Yeah. And then I picked the Giants
and Pats as a blowout, and I was correct there.
Well, I mean, that is an upset that you picked.
I mean, it didn't have to be a blowout, but you
picked the upset per se. Actually, I was picking
the Rams to blow out the Panthers, but the Panthers
beat the Rams by three. So I got it totally wrong.
Oh, okay. I should have picked it as an upset.
Okay, I got it. I could hear myself saying it
wrong when I said it the first time. So anyway,
that was how we did last week. Okay. All right,
so let's talk about the Chiefs. I need more coffee.
This is going to be painful. Well, I remember
thinking that the Chiefs were going to get behind
early and stay behind and be trying to catch
up all game long, but that was not the case.
It was back and forth. It was a close game. Weird
-ass penalties that were called, but that's getting
to be about normal. I think the NFL is kind of
trying to get us used to the fact that they're
going to make calls like that to influence games,
and we all need to just get used to it. And really,
they have no obligation to the gamblers and the
bettors because they tell you right up front
it's an entertainment league, not a sports league.
It's entertainment, and they're not duty -bound
to give you a fair, open, honest game. If you
bet on the NFL, you might as well go bet on the
WWE. Yeah, or go bet on a rerun of Gilligan's
Island that they might make it off the island
this time. It's already predetermined. Why are
you wagering on it? It's just ridiculous. I mean,
if you want to bet on how many first downs are
going to be made in the first half, that kind
of thing is a little random. You've got some
chances there. But if you're betting on the outcome...
That's probably been already decided in a lot
of these games. Or the point spread or the over
-under. Yeah, all that is being massaged quite
a bit. Massage, yes. I don't think that the teams
are both really trying. Yeah. But they can't
help what the refs do. And I'm not even sure
if the teams know they're doing it. Probably
not would be my guess. I don't know. Some of
them look like you can see the frustration on
their faces. man, this is just the way the scam
is and I can't do anything about it. I just got
to grit my teeth, keep playing, and cash my paycheck
because this is all way above me. You're not
going to make a difference. The guy who unloads
the truck at the back door doesn't get to decide
about your new Asian markets. He just doesn't.
That's true. Well, another thing I think that's
going on is... They influence the game so much,
and everything's according to the line and the
way the game is going. Because we live in a land,
and now in Missouri, as of yesterday, you can
sit in your home and get on your phone and bet
every play if you want. And that's the way the
game's designed. Yeah, and I think we're going
to start seeing that more and more as the game
is going to start changing on field to be more
of a gambling -friendly type of game. People
who are watching it to actually watch a football
game are going to become an ignored minority.
Because everyone is there because they've got
money wager. And all they want to see is how
their bets are going to come out. Does anybody
watch horse racing that doesn't have money on
it? No. No. And football is going that way. It's
going to become like horse racing and dog racing.
Unless you have money on it, nobody gives a damn.
Right. And that's... That's fine for the NFL
if that's what they want to do. It's their league.
They get to steer it wherever they want to steer
it, but it's just kind of a shame if that's what
they're going to do. We don't have to partake
if we don't want to. This is true. We always
have alternatives. But the difference between
this year and last year is right here, I think.
Lack of execution in crucial times. And I've
got some examples. Last year, we gave up 20 points
per game. Guess how many we gave up this year?
It's more than that. 19. Oh. Seriously. Really?
Look it up. Yeah. Wow. I would have bet – I would
have too. Look at me saying bet. I would have
thought it was going to be a lot more than that.
Okay. So what does that tell you? The games are
all close like they were last year. Last year
we had two losses, right? Yeah. Okay. Lack of
execution. Lack of staying with a guy. I mean,
how many times do you see Jamari Conner just
get lost? Yes. Lost. Yeah. And, you know, it's
not his fault. There's too much is being asked
of him. So I don't blame any of the players.
Too much is being asked of them, and the coaches
don't realize these guys can't do what you're
asking. Yeah. Part of it is the offensive line
and also Patrick Mahomes' mindset that he has
to have going into the game to not get murdered.
Yeah. I do believe. I had to write down a name,
sorry. Okay. Last year, going into this year,
the amount of quarterbacks getting hit hard has
increased. Yes. And you won't see it on like
a, let me think, J .J. McCarthy. Yeah. You'll
see hits on him. Yeah. But not that vigorous.
So that would tell me that the intent from the
other team. And if you don't believe me, just
look at the highlights. Go on YouTube and look
and say, quarterbacks getting hit this year.
Mostly clobbered Aaron Rodgers yesterday. Oh,
my God. Beat the shit out of him. What's his
name? Clobbered Giants quarterback Dart. Yeah.
If you are a quarterback that is doing reasonably
well, you get hit harder. And I'm sure it can
be proven by preponderance of evidence, by looking
all this up, looking it over and over, and then
going, okay, that's about 90%. a prominent quarterback
gets hit harder than a J .J. McCarthy or a Marcus
Mariota or someone like that. They don't really
seem to care about those quarterbacks because
they're going to beat them. Unless you're Denver.
Mariota made you look horrible. Here's something
to keep in the back of your mind about these
quarterbacks getting clobbered. Remember we were
talking about going to the 18 -game schedule,
which they say is going to happen, and the international
games, et cetera, et cetera, put a lot more strain
on the players. And we were talking about how
are they going to preserve their franchise quarterbacks,
make sure the quarterbacks can last the season.
They're going in the opposite direction, possibly,
allegedly, is let's clobber all the franchise
quarterbacks and bring the league back to interchangeable
players. It doesn't matter who's on your team.
When they're on your team, you hype them up.
You sell their jerseys, but then when they get
hit or injured, you dump them and find somebody
to replace them. And I've got more evidence on
that. I'm glad you brought that up. I didn't
even think about that, but listen to this. Okay,
how do you neutralize? How do you neuter a quarterback?
By taking away his receivers. Yep. How do you
do that? by either allowing pass interference
or calling it offensively, which happened to
us and happened to other teams too. We weren't
the only team, so they aren't focusing just on
us. And as they said, they always tell you, well,
they could call holding on every play, basically.
Yeah, that's by design. Yeah. So they're telling
you right up front that they're calling holding
when they feel like it. And we've all been fine
with that. So, hey, this is on us. But, yeah,
that's another way of, you know, oh. the team's
getting too far down the field, we'll call holding
because there was always holding. And it's like
they can take away a play any time they need
to. That's so true, yeah. And, you know, last
season we were winning all the close games, and
this season we're not. It's because we're not
being allowed to. Oh, yeah. Last season we're
being helped to win all those close games because
that was the storyline. This season it's not
the storyline, so that's working against us.
Now, allegedly. I'm not saying this is totally
true, but the influence seems to be there. Sure
seems to be there to me too. Okay, here's what
I got on that. Yeah. Okay. People are sick of
seeing the Chiefs just like we were the Patriots.
Yeah, absolutely. Okay, so this to me, I have
no proof on this, but just the way I see it is
this right here. They're doing everything they
can to make sure the Chiefs are not doing that.
because it's starting to cost them viewers. It's
starting to cost them money. And also, once you
think a league is favoring a team, people stop
betting. But I think it's more obvious now than
ever before. They're trying to show not a narrative,
but actually they're doing the narrative more
than ever. Yeah, and that way you can still influence
games, and you can hide it by influencing a bunch
of games in a bunch of ways. I'm reminded of
the storyline of a thriller movie I saw back
in the 80s, I think it was, that a certain woman
was targeted for killing because she knew too
much about a political figure. And this woman
happened to be a prostitute. Now they thought
if we just go out and kill her, just silence
her, it's going to look suspicious. But... If
we manufacture a fake serial killer and have
him go out and kill five girls and this girl
is number three, no one will think a thing of
it. They'll never look into it past, oh, she
was just another victim of a serial killer. So
they hide the murder they're intending to do
in a string of murders. Okay. Yeah. Just like
the night Janice Joplin died of that overdose,
about 17 other people did too because there was
a real hot dose going around. She wasn't the
only one. It was like the shotgun approach. Yeah,
yeah. Hide her death. Oh, well, there was just
a hot dose going around. She was just in the
wrong place, wrong time. So that no one will
ever believe you if you say Janis Joplin was
targeted because, oh, look at all those other
people that died of overdoses too. So you can
hide a game -influencing call in the fact that
you're doing it all game long and want this just
one more. And that's what's going on. Yeah. So,
I mean, look, I mean, like we said, this is all
our beliefs. This is all our own thoughts on
it. It may or may not be true. And, of course,
we take the worst and darkest aspect of it because
that's entertaining. Yeah. Yep. So, okay, so
do you want to... Let's see, we can analyze the
Chiefs a little bit more. Yeah, we were going
to talk about play calling. Yeah. Play calling's
been horrendous. It has. I don't understand in
a million years why you can't throw the little
slant pass. It was working earlier in the year.
Why did they stop it? Absolutely. Running was
working. Why did they stop it? I want these answers.
I mean, why is this going on? Is Matt Nagy that
incompetent? Is Andy Reid overriding him? Is
Mahomes overriding him? That's a good question,
yeah. Yeah, because nobody's going to tell us
what's actually going on there. Well, I offered
my big boss. I said, hey, if you ever want to
join on a podcast, let me know. And he was talking
about it, and I agreed with him after I thought
about it because I explained to him the example
that I had about how come quarterbacks that throw
like to throw. Quite simply, they're more comfortable.
And I think he's right. I think he's right. It's
not like, oh, no, we're going to do it with my
arm. That's what they're used to doing, winning
games with their arms. Like Aaron Rodgers, Mahomes.
Minnesota is in the championship game with Brett
Favre. This is after he got booted out of Jets
for showing pics of his wiener and all this stuff.
And all this stuff he should have been doing.
Yes. We were just learning about Brett Favre.
We were just learning about him. He wasn't yet
stealing funds, allegedly. From poor people.
Yeah, allegedly. Okay, so he had eight yards
to run, his four yards, I believe, four yards
for a first down. There was a guy kind of open
in the middle. He threw it to the kind of guy,
the guy kind of open, got an interception. That's
the way his career ended. Why didn't he run those
six -yard slide, and he was going to win that
game, and his game was going to end either winning
or losing the Super Bowl. Yeah. Why didn't he
do that? Well, he's used to it. He's used to
the pats on the back. He's used to the hurrahs.
He's used to being the heroes. Being talked about
after the game as the guy that took the team
on his shoulders and willed them to win. That's
what they want. That's how they are geared. Imagine,
listen, ego can work for you or against you.
It's up to you. Their ego is that big. It is.
It has to be. There's no way you can... accomplish
all that extraordinary things if you didn't have
an ego. You know, I feel that ego gets a bad
rap because of the way some people handle it.
True, true. You have to have some amount of ego.
Yeah. So I think it's a part of ingrained in
them, their ego, if you will, but not in a bad
way. Yeah. They're not thinking, I'm not going
to do this. I throw them the best ever. No, I
think it's like, hey, I think I can get it to
that guy. and I don't think that the cornerback's
going to be there. Oops! Yeah. Guess he was.
Yeah. Okay, so instead of running, that's what
he's accustomed to doing is finding the open
receiver. Running wasn't even in his option book
when he went back. Yeah, yeah, and the older
you get, the less comfortable you are running.
Yeah, when he stepped back in the pocket, I don't
even think he even thought about, all I've got
to do is run those four yards right there. and
I've got the first down, there's nobody near
me. I think the only thing tunnel vision was
is bam, right there. So the play calling on the
Chiefs, though, I don't know if it's Mahomes
all the way. I know this. Look at the enemy.
Look at that running game he's installed up there
in Chicago. They have the number one seed right
now. The Bears have the number one seed. Now,
last year, if I would have went to you and said,
hey, Topher, Bears are going to have the number
one seed. No, I mean it. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah,
that's what I'm saying. How many other teams
are quitting the league, did you say? Yeah, yes,
yeah. Yeah, so that's what I'm saying is the
enemy had a habit of getting players' asses,
just like my homes. There's famous footage of
him getting in his face and yelling at him when
he did something he didn't think was good. Yeah.
Okay. And he is offensive coordinator. Yeah.
But I do know this. The offense seemed to be
working much better with lesser talent. Yeah.
Yeah. He didn't have nearly the penalties on
offense. Yeah. So something's going on there.
Yeah. We've already discussed special teams.
I already told you what I think of Dave Tobe
and his fucking wag the dog looking over there.
Any man that will avert any question of scrutiny
towards him and throw it on something else, like
what the president said about the new rules,
that guy, what he's doing is heat reversal. It's
classic. Trump said, I don't give a fuck what
Trump said. What I'm doing is I'm asking you.
I'm asking you how come these guys aren't. Well,
that guy's wrong. The new rules are. Go ahead.
Get your name out there as saying something popular.
Hurry. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then the people
that believe in that are like that or back on
his, you know. But, you know, this isn't Midwest,
so I kind of question him in doing that. Maybe
he did the wrong thing. I don't know, you know.
So, anyhow, and this is not a political statement.
I'm not saying yay or nay. So anyone that wants
to make it out of that, just, no, that's not
what it is. You're how old you are. You know
how you feel. I'm not about to try to tell you
how you feel or how you need to change your mind.
And realistically, whatever political affiliation
you want or which politicians you like and dislike,
there's enough on the other side that they're
worth advertising to. Yes. So you just got to
put up with it. Yeah. You know, whoever you like.
There's a lot of people who don't like them,
and those people have money too. Yes, and that's
the long and the short of it. Okay, so we agree,
the play calling. Now, let's get to defense.
All right, 19 points this year, one point better,
which is significant in the NFL. Now, we're not
through with the season, so that number could
go up or down accordingly. True, true. We're
getting ready to face what could be a couple
of tomato cans, not the Texans, but I'm talking
about the Titans and the Raiders. Yeah. Okay,
that would lower your point differential, too.
And last year, the schedule was tougher. No,
this year the schedule is tougher than last year.
Yeah. The teams in the division are much better,
and the teams we faced are much better. That's
true. So you could take it 19 and actually be
pretty good with it if you look at it like that.
Yeah. So to me. I think the thing is the lack
of execution and overworking certain players.
How can we go 12 quarters without a sack? How
in the hell is that possible? You think you run
into the quarterback at least once in those 12
quarters. You get pushed into them once in those
12 quarters. Yeah. Are they scheming against
us that good? Because there's so many variables.
It's their scheme against us. It's the individual
play call. It's how tired is the player at that
time. But the overall trend, like you say, it's
lack of execution because other teams are getting
it done under exactly the same circumstances.
Yeah, Myles Garrett has over double what our
whole team does in sacks. Yeah, there are a lot
of players out there who have more sacks than
our whole team. A lot of players. And Myles Garrett,
I know he's having. A season of seasons. Yeah.
Even though he's on a shitty team. I mean, I
wish they would trade him. Oh, I would dump Chris
Jones off. Me and my boss are talking about that.
Oh, my gosh. Dump Chris Jones off to a sucker.
Yeah. Okay, like, I don't know, someone that
really, really needs a pass rusher, they think.
Titans. Yeah, yeah, yes, yeah. Ship him off there.
Hey, can we have your number one pick? No, that's
what we're talking about. A sane team might give
you a fourth or fifth, maybe, or maybe one of
those player -to -determine -later deals or compensatory
pick, maybe, possibly, and get rid of his salary.
There's teams out there that's stupid. And they're
going to get him on what he did, not what he's
doing. So they'll look at his body, work, and
go, we need that guy. So you've got to find one
of those guys, get rid of him, go after Miles
Garrett. He wants a Super Bowl ring, I'm certain.
I'm sure. He's familiar with the Chiefs. He's
familiar with the AFC. Yeah. So I'm already writing
off this year. What about you? Yeah. Yeah. I
look at the Chiefs as being a team that if somehow
they make it into the playoffs. Thank you. And
do you want any of the fried pickles? I'll nab
that last pickle. Thank you. Okay. Go ahead.
I look at the Chiefs as being a team that. If
they make it in the playoffs, they're just going
to be somebody else's tomato camp. And why have
the Chiefs in there if they're just going to
get clobbered and pummeled? Let somebody else
have a chance. Yeah. And I look at the other
teams that are ahead of the Chiefs, and they're
all playing much better. Oh, God, yeah. So they
would have to play. much worse and we would have
to play much better to even make it in the playoffs.
I don't think that's going to happen. I really
don't think there's much to be had this year.
Of course, they've got to pretend that, oh yeah,
we're still fighting. They have to do that. Until
they're mathematically eliminated, they're required
by their contracts to keep up the happy face.
I would like to see some serious changes made
in the offseason. I would, too. There's got to
be. There's got to be a partial rebuild. It can't
be all the way. I would like to see some surprising
changes that make people go, what? I do, too.
I think it's going to need something like that.
There are some people that you paid some money
to that you're probably going to have to be your
cornerstones, probably like Karloff. This is
one of them on defense, offense. You have to
keep Rice. There was a lot of, I would not re
-sign Hollywood Brown like they did. No. You
know, I wished he wouldn't have got injured last
year so we could have known and moved on. Yeah,
yeah. But Mahomes seems to love him, so I don't
know what, yeah, whatever. But maybe they're
using him wrong, too. I loved earlier in the
season where they're having to do the little
quick routes. Yeah. It didn't have to be a slant.
It could be in the middle. Yeah. He turned around,
the timing was there, bam. Mahomes got him. Nobody
near him. Nobody near him. And Hollywood Brown,
you get seven yards at a time. Who cares? That's
the same as running phenomenal. And that may
be the reason why Hollywood Brown's stats are
so disappointing this season is they took that
out of the playbook. And that's where he excels.
As you said, he gets open early because he's
really fast at acceleration. Over the long haul,
he gets caught. Yeah, and his routes, I don't
think he runs his routes all the way. Just like
I know Worthy doesn't. I was listening. I've
got to disclose this. I was listening to a surrender
show last night on WHB, and he was talking about
when Worthy caught that pass right in the middle
of this last game, towards the end of the game.
He had all these lanes for a touchdown, and he
chose to go right for the defender. Oh, yeah.
That is lack of instinct. And Saran is right.
And I agree with that 100%. Yeah. That is so
right. Because I noticed that right off the bat.
I go, why the hell is he running that way? Yeah.
There was like four other ways he could have
gotten an end zone. That right there is stuff
that you have to coach out of them. If you can't,
you've got to get rid of them. The only people
who really get away with that is like. really
big tight ends or fullbacks who are just going
to run right over you. But, yeah, he's not that
kind of guy. No, no, no, not at all. I've even
seen the defensive players doing that. I've seen
someone coming around the left end towards the
quarterback, and if they just shifted a little
to the left, they've got a clear lane. But instead,
they run directly at the blocker. Uh -huh. It's
like, isn't your goal to get to the quarterback?
I've never understood that. It must be the coaches
saying, you know, go eat up your blocker and
let someone else do their job. Your job is to
go engage that blocker. The only thing I can
think of is maybe worthy or sake you need to
get out of bounds to save time. But if you can
get in the end zone, that's saving time. No kidding.
I don't know. You know, that's the only thing
I can think of him thinking about, but still
that's flawed. It's like, end zone? Out of bounds.
There is almost no time in a football game where
scoring is a bad idea. No. We had one in the
Super Bowl. There was one time, Super Bowl, yes.
When Jared McKinnon took a knee and we just run
the clock out. And you look on Philadelphia's
face, and I'm like, oh, shit. We stood back so
he could run in the end zone, and he didn't.
Yep. Oops. Oh, about that time you saw that little
fucking weasel, Nick Sirianni, with his face.
Give him credit. He learned and remembered. You
know what? Yeah, I need to shut up. He did whip
our ass. Sorry, Nico. Okay. Anything else you
want to talk about or do we want to go into some
other stuff? We can move on. Okay. All right.
You want to go into some bullet points? You got
something you want to go into? I've got a...
A couple pages of mixed sports and music creep
stuff. So I got some things I can throw in here
and there. Okay. I love the bullet points. Okay.
All right. Okay. All right. The first, I'm starting
off on bullet points then. That's what you wanted
me to do, right? Yes, sir. Are the NFL reps trying
to prove something here? Hmm. Are they? And here's
what I'm getting at with that. Are they trying
to prove that they don't favor the Chiefs? Is
that what we have? Are they? Are they? You know
when you overcorrect in a lane and you do it
so bad that it actually makes you drive worse?
Uh -huh. Is that what they're doing? They're
overcorrecting so bad it's obvious? You know,
that does make a lot of sense. Whoever is actually
directing this, whether it's the officials' league
or the NFL league or whoever's in charge, competition
committee, could be all sorts of hands guiding
this. But yeah, this does look like a camp classic
case of overcompensating. Yeah. It's like, oh,
they're accusing us of doing this, so we'll make
sure, we'll show them that we're not. And then
they just go way too far. It's like when you
tell a lie and you give way too much information.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's the first time you
know someone's lying. Yeah, yeah. And yeah, there
was a guy at the corner that was flipping people
off. He was like, okay. And he had a blue shirt.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And it had flowers on
it. But, yeah, that's kind of what this smells
like is the officials are trying too hard to
say, nothing to see here. That's why I wrote
that out. On that game, I was like, wow, this
is like someone that got the word on something
and overcorrected. That's how obvious it was.
That will be a game full of plays that they can
point to and say, look, see, we're not biased
in favor of the Chiefs. Look at that. And then
people won't remember the whole game. And then
they hear Tony Romo. They'll just look at the
little snips there. Tony Romo talking about it
and Jim Nance, and they're both deciding, no,
that wasn't a penalty. Then everybody hears that,
and they're like, well, okay, well, if they were
on the Chiefs or not now, they're happy, they
go home. Yeah. Also, just create a little distance
between, you know, where you are now and where
you were then, and people will forget and forgive
and give you the benefit of the doubt left and
right. Yeah. And also, the Chiefs have not been
forgotten about yet either. That's another problem
too. People are still betting on the Chiefs.
They're betting on them waking up. I'm not. I'm
not that stupid. And plus, I wouldn't bet football
right now anyhow. No, not really. You have to
be a fool to bet football. So, all right. So
we agree. Yeah, looks like overcompensations
on the part of the officials. Yeah, they overswerved
and they hit the ditch. Yes. All right. Could
they be listening to the wimpy -ass crybabies
and purposely trying to look harsh on the Chiefs?
Well, we kind of answered that, didn't we? Yeah.
That's one of the things going on. I did that
in case we didn't elaborate on it because sometimes
we get distracted and we just go, yeah, we agree,
and then we go on. So, yeah, absolutely. Instead
of listening to the wimpy -ass crybabies, they're
listening to the sportsbooks in Vegas and Atlantic
City and wherever else who are saying, we're
noticing a little shift in the betting here,
so why don't you do this and this and this to
kind of shift the betting patterns back. And
then the next week you call them up and say,
yeah, that worked. Keep doing it. It wouldn't
surprise me if New York's hardwired in their
feed and telling them. Yeah. Yeah. Be like, hey,
the line just changed and you have the percentages.
You know how they do it. And then all of a sudden,
you know, everyone's like jumping on the tip
of something because someone suggested it. I
think a lot of that's going on too. I remember
a few years back the league said, oh, yeah, we
have somebody watching every play of every game
that's on. can intervene or are watching for
something they can find people for, etc., etc.
So they kind of introduced that a few years back,
that every play of every game is being scrutinized
in real time by people who know what the NFL's
party line is and what they're supposed to do.
And any one of them can contact the officiating
crew of the game and say, here's what we want.
here's what we don't like, here's what we like
more of, etc. It can happen. It's possible. Yeah,
no, you're right. It can. Okay, so we're very
much in agreement on that, like I thought we
would be. Okay, the refs are horrible. Oh, yeah.
Could we maybe get a rating system in place if
a blind -ass ref continues? He gets let go. There
should be something. Yeah, and that would actually
be a smart idea because that would give the viewing
public... the impression that we have some sort
of control and we can actually do something about
it. I purposely would not believe it. No, no,
they'll prop somebody up as the sacrificial lamb,
and however you vote, they've already decided
how the vote's going to come. I agree. And it's
like, oh, yeah, well, there you go. The fans
have spoken. Look how responsive we are, and
it's a great PR win for the league. So, yeah,
why not? Okay, we're in agreement on that one
too. They've probably already thought of it.
I'm sure they have. It's coming in 2028. Well,
just like the extra game. Right now, too many
people are getting injured. There's going to
be outrage. They're waiting, waiting, waiting.
Okay, this year we're going to have an extra
game. And then they're going to justify it by
taking away a preseason game. The starters weren't
playing in that anyhow. I think they're also
going to justify it by altering the rules as
far as hits. I agree. Making the passing game
just ridiculously easy. They'll probably put
in a rule saying you can rush no more than four
people on any given. Well, that would be nice
if they did. We'd do much better. Remember in
the Pro Bowl, they limited the number of people
you could rush. There's no blitzing. They'll
do that in a regular season game. If that's what
it takes to get the extra game and still have
the marquee quarterbacks, they'll do it. Yeah,
the new rule in the Pro Bowl is if you touch
a quarterback, you have to kiss him. Yes. Yeah,
yeah. And buy him a drink. And buy him a drink,
yes. You have to officially ask him out on a
date. Yes. If you touch him. And remember, no
means no. Yes. So no hitting unless he says it's
okay. Yeah. All right. What happened to discipline?
Oh, my gosh. And this is on the Chiefs, yes.
But a lot of teams look sloppy as fuck. Look
at Philadelphia. What happened to them? They
come out of no hangover there. They come out
of the box mean, lean, and pissed off and ready
to go, and suddenly you see them cowering in
the corner, uncertain, unsure of themselves.
Yeah. It is a weird damn game. There was a player
yesterday or Sunday who there was a turnover
on the field. I think it was the other team went
for it on fourth down, didn't make it. And the
player immediately ripped his helmet off and
started running around the field with no helmet
on. Now, everybody knows that's a penalty. You
have to be on the sideline or injured before
you can take your helmet off. It doesn't matter
if the clock has stopped. It doesn't matter.
But he did it anyway, and I started thinking,
is this the NFL having to give ground to all
the individual players wanting their own individual
brand and podcasts and endorsements? Well, okay.
If they start doing that, I mean, to me, if you
don't stick to rules, you don't have them. Yeah.
Look at NASCAR. NASCAR as a whole has sponsors
and official partners, etc. But the individual
teams can sign sponsors or whoever they want
and stick them on their car. The Kansas City
Royals have a Quick Trip logo stuck on their
uniform because that's an official sponsor. I
would not be surprised in a few years to see
NFL players with sponsor logos on their uniforms
and each player should have whichever ones they
want. NASCARs are whores. Yeah. They got them
everywhere. Look at one of their suits. Look
at one of their fire suits. Everything. It's
got the patches of everything. It's hard to tell
what color their car. I know. You can't tell.
Back in the Dale Earnhardt senior days, you had
some of them, but not all of them. Yeah. And
you could tell, okay, that's him. That's Tony
Stewart. Well, Tony Stewart raced until later
when they started putting all those. But, yeah,
Andretti's or somebody, right? Yeah, you look
back then and look now, and you're like, geez,
what happened? Every inch of real estate they
can find, they sold. Yeah. So the NFL is doing
the same thing, and there is no discipline because
I think that one thing is, is I think that the
teams have been stretched out with extra games.
Yeah. And I think when you get tired, you lose
focus. And I think the players' union has something
to do with it as well. I think there's a lot
of encouragement within the union to the players
of, you know, Be more individuals as far as team
identity, but still be a team as far as your
teammates because they're your union brothers.
Yeah, yeah. But as far as the owners and the
head coach and all that, you know, express some
individuality and some control over your life
and don't wear their sponsors. You know, we'll
fight until you can get your own sponsor's logos.
Well, there'll be a lawsuit or something where
a player says, I have a right to wear my logo.
There have been in the past. I remember in the
80s, a Bears player was wearing an Adidas headband,
and that wasn't the official sponsor of the NFL,
and he got a massive fine. Yeah, who was that?
I think it was Walter Payton. Okay, that sounds,
okay. And I remember saying, he's like, well,
I have a deal with Adidas. And they said, well,
that's fine, but. Not during an NFL game because
the NFL has a deal with Nike and whatever. He
has the NFL. Yeah. But that's something that
could be negotiated into the next collective
bargaining agreement. And I'm sure it will be.
Yeah. I mean, if that's the hangnail of getting
back on the field, I think they'll cave. Yeah.
And you can get a more cooperative workforce
if you're letting them make money on the side
too. Yep, you let them their freedom to their
entrepreneurship maybe or whatever. So, yeah,
I think that's coming up, and you will see that.
And I think that will lead to greater turnover
of players. They won't stay in the league as
long because, you know, they'll realize, hey,
I can make almost as much money or more and not
get the snot pounded out of me every week. So,
huh, after four years, I'm retiring from football.
And the NFL says, good, because you're – per
year salary was about to go up. Yep. And also,
I think, isn't it Christian Akoya that still
sells insurance? Yep. Yeah, people want to meet
him. I don't know about his rates. They could
be triple. Yeah. But people still want to meet
him, so they're like, hey, let's call up Christian
Akoya. Here's his number right here in the phone
book or whatever. My insurance agent is a Nigerian
nightmare. Yes. That would be pretty cool if
you could say that. He has a couple of bad knees,
but, man, he's still a big guy. He is. So. Yeah,
yeah. There's all kinds of ways to make money
when you're a high -profile person like that.
And Akoya was a hell of a running back for a
couple years, but he was so big that he needed
his knees. Yeah. But his knees did not need him.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then when people realized
that he could only run in a straight line, it
was pretty easy. Well, that was the other thing,
too. Yeah. They just started putting five people
on him. Yeah. It was like, okay. This guy cannot
cut back. Yeah, so, no, he was too big. I mean,
to be honest, he was too big. Funny seeing him
next to his wife. His wife looks like, I don't
know, like almost like I'm not being derogatory
or nothing, like the size of a dog next to a
human. I mean, just like small. And she's an
average -sized woman. Yeah. So that's how big
he is. He's like three of her. Yeah. That's amazing.
Yeah, that's something. So, all right. Or the
Chiefs. Too wrapped up in their recent success.
Do they need a wake -up call? And what I mean
by that is sitting the year out. January comes,
they're making Cancun plans. Yeah. Yeah, I think
that would be what it takes at this point. Because
if they make the postseason now. after all this,
then they'll say, see, we're not so bad. I want
them to feel really awful about themselves. Yeah,
they're going to go, well, we had a bad stretch,
but we're on the right track. No, we need them
to go, what the fuck happened? Everyone lapped
us, and we took a step back at the same time.
I think what would really give them a slap in
the face was lose the last two games badly in
no postseason, and then you've got to sit and
chew on that all during the offseason. And then
also, The football rankings and everything putting
you down in the 20s, that'd be a hell of a kick
in the nuts. They're used to losing a couple
of games and still being number one. They're
used to people going, nope, we're no, no, no.
They're still number one. They just had some
bad luck or whatever. No, people are not viewing
it like that now, and I think that needs to happen.
That and a slight overhaul, a partial overhaul.
You need to clean some house with some of these
people. First one going should be Chris Jones.
Yeah, I would get rid of him. Amenahew is not
doing anything. I'd get rid of number 74. Oh,
Jawan Taylor. Jawan Taylor, yeah. There's got
to be somebody out there who's better than him
at right tackle. Well, the problem is we drafted
Josh Simmons, then he took a month. And I'm not
– listen, that's family. Whatever it – yeah.
Yeah, I agree with that. That's family. Family
is more important than anything. Yeah. That was
his mom. Something was wrong with her. He needed
to be there. That's fine. Yeah. But now he's
injured for a long time. And we pretty much lost
half the season. Yeah. From him, yeah. We got
less than half of the season. So I consider that
a bust. Yeah. I mean, look, he may come back
roaring next year and be the best ever, but this
season right here, he's a bust. Yeah, yeah. That's
something we can always look back on this rookie
season and say, it was such a mess, there's no
way he can progress from that. Yeah, no, you're
right. So that was a bust right there. They missed
completely on him. But they can recover next
year. We'll see. I mean, I was talking to my
boss about it. And, you know, I was talking about
dislocated and shattered wrist. Well, he pointed
out, I didn't think about this, they have things
he can wear and stuff like that that will protect
him. Because I was wondering about his career
after that. Because you've got to push off a
lot. Yeah. You've got to put a lot. You've got
to go against a lot of weight when you're. And,
you know, they could put some rods in there too
probably or something. So, you know, at first
I was like, oh, shit, that may be it for him.
But after talking to my boss, who knows a lot
about football, but I don't blame him for not
coming on here because, you know, he's like up
there, you know, and it can be criticized or
someone could say something. So I understand,
you know. Yeah, he doesn't want to go on record,
and I get it. I get it, too. If I had his job,
I wouldn't either. I'd be like, yeah, I think
I'll just talk to you about it. How's that? So,
all right. All right. At this point. So, okay.
First, we do agree they need a wake -up call.
And the part of the wake -up call is them staying
out of the playoffs. Yes. Another thing is Travis
Kelsey retiring with nothing. Yeah. You know.
Nothing ending it. Nothing. Well, actually, Super
Bowl loss and then a team that didn't make it
to the playoffs. Yeah. Playoffs. Wow. Does that
really the way you want us to end this career?
No, I know. I mean, I thought the other players
would stand up and go, we're not letting him
end like this. Yeah. Evidently not. But then
again, we are depleted on defense. They did do
a lot of draft picks. There are a lot of younger
people there. They are still learning, and there's
a lot of people outmatched. Yeah. So, all right.
At this point, would you draft defense and rely
on free agency to secure offensive players? I
thought about that after a while, but go ahead
first. My first impulse is spend your draft picks
on O -line and D -line and then everything else
free agency. But I can see that. being a good
idea to go the free agency route for the O -line
because you can get some older, wiser, experienced
guys. Exactly, that's where I was going with
that, yes. And we should take a look at who's
on the practice squad, but you can get them working
with younger players or fixing some of these
players. Yeah, I think they already looked at
the practice squad. I don't think there's anybody
there. Now, they may be looking at other practice
squads about poaching, but I don't know. What
are the rules? Can they get them right now? or
not from someone else. Yeah, I think you can
still put them on your roster. Yeah, you have
to sign them to your active roster. Yeah. But
you can still poach from their practice squads.
You know, anybody that was anything like that
would have been protected as soon as the Chiefs
were looking. Yeah. So, yeah. Okay. Okay, so
we agree with that. I think it also widely depends
on who's out there. Yeah. If there's a mile of
Garrett dangling, you go for it. Yeah. If it's
not, how old is he? Wait a minute. I don't know.
Hang on. I've got to rethink this. He seemingly
is in the prime of his career, but you always
have that one magical season before it all starts
going downhill. Yeah. With or without that nagging
injury that you never quite recover from. Yes.
That seems to end a lot of careers. So maybe
he may not be the route we want to go. Yeah.
Now, if you want to do something this year, well,
the trade deadline's gone, so forget it. Yeah.
So, all right. All right. Should the Chiefs try
to get a franchise edge rusher? Yes. They need
someone to opposite Karloftis. Mm -hmm. That
simple. Yeah. Jones is not getting it done. Amenahu
is not getting it done. Nobody's getting it done.
Yeah. They're sending Jones up the middle a lot.
So, as far as a rusher on the offense's left
end, you really don't have primo there. You're
not getting the results out of that position.
No, you're right. A lot of teams, they'll use
a linebacker to be the speed rusher on obvious
passing plays. I've always favored having a dedicated
pass rusher. Oh, I always have too. Yeah. He's
a D end, and he's on your right end, their left
end, and he's coming around and going to clobber
the quarterback from the blind side. That's kind
of what you've got to do. Look at T .J. Watt
or Bosa. I mean, the edge rushers on them, I
mean. Bosa might have ended Aaron Rodgers' career.
Ooh, that was a smack. I know Rodgers came back
in, but you could see the look on his face. He's
not coming back. I mean, he might come back this
year, but this is his final NFL season. The look
on his face when he got fucking mangled was just
like, I can't do this. Plus the fact that the
Steelers are fading. Yeah, that's right. They're
probably not going to make the postseason either.
Because in that division, if you're not the division
winner, you're out. Well, there's chantin' fire
Tomlin now. That's surprising to me, but I guess
I can see it after so many years. I mean, look,
like we were talking about in the car, Andy Reid,
he left Philadelphia and did much better. Yeah.
Yeah, I think Tomlin can leave there and do better
too, and I think maybe they can do better with
someone new. Yeah. You know, after a while you
get complacent, you get accustomed to everything,
everything's comfortable. I think he needs to
get out there on the edge again. They go, all
right, Mike, you take this shitty team and you
make him something. I think that's what he's
built for. Marv Levy got fired in KC. And when
he got hired in Buffalo, I remember Len Dawson
being shocked and surprised. Like, what is Buffalo
thinking? Hiring old wing team Marv Levy. You
know, the guy's outdated. He's antiquated. The
wing team was stupid as hell. It was like the
college offense. Swing and gate. Yeah, yeah.
It's just like, no, it doesn't work in the NFL.
But Marvin Levy had great success in Buffalo.
Yeah, he did, but he didn't do the wing tee like
he did here. No, no. He had to change. Well,
he had Jim Kelly. Yeah, yeah. All right, but
they never did win a Super Bowl. No, they hadn't.
Wide right. Scott Norwood. On my intro, I was
talking about the penny being gone after this
year, right? Yeah. As the penny witnessed President
Kennedy assassinated, the Civil War, all this
stuff. The one thing it never witnessed in its
233 years of existence, Buffalo winning the Super
Bowl. Cleveland hasn't sniffed one either. They
haven't even been to a Super Bowl yet. No, no,
they haven't even been there. But Buffalo, the
penny's going to go out without witnessing it,
and here's why. When they end it, it's going
to be 2026. It's going to be the end of 25. The
Super Bowl's in 2026. So the penny never got
to witness it. Even if they win this season,
the penny will not witness it. The penny is gone.
And I'm sure the penny does not give one ounce
of shit either. Yeah. So, all right. And the
Buffalo head nickel also never saw. That's true.
It's what is it? Who's on the nickel? I don't
care who's on the nickel. There used to be a
Buffalo. Jefferson? Jefferson. Yeah, probably.
One of them with a damn wig that wanted to prove
they didn't have syphilis. Yeah. How fucking
weird. Okay. All right. We traded up several
times to get an offensive weapon. Should maybe
it be the defense's turn? Yeah. Yeah. If there's
someone out there available that is that good,
you do what you can to get them. Yeah, I like
the philosophy of best player available. I mean,
if the best player available is like a fullback,
then you skip over him because nobody uses fullbacks
anymore. Exactly. Unless you wind up with eight
free safeties on your team, then yeah, pick the
best player available. Let's say you took Brett
Veach's job. Hey, Topher? Yeah. Okay. We got
this fullback. What do you think? No. Okay. He'll
see the field like eight times this season? No.
He'll be handing out coffees. Yes. Hey, you want
some Gatorade? You wait for me, punk. So, okay.
Yeah, I think if there's someone that prominent,
that good, you do what you can to get them. Patrick
Bones is 30 years old. Time is ticking. It is.
He has another 10 years. but probably a little
bit more than that. But you only have ten years
to get all this done that you want to get done.
Yeah. You want to be the greatest player ever.
You're going to have to start – I mean, it's
not like he's been doing horrible. I mean, whatever.
True, but he's not finished yet. No. There's
a lot of work to be done. The more time you waste,
the more chance you have of him getting injured
for a year. All kinds of things happen. Yeah,
we're lucky that Mahomes has never been injured
for the year. He's been remarkable. Yeah. Especially
his injuries like during big games. Like the
Cleveland game, the division game here, appeared
to have a concussion. Well, Matt Moore went out
there and he sealed the game for us, but he was
back in the Super Bowl to win. Yeah. Okay? And
he didn't have a concussion. Then you had the
knee and leg problem during the Super Bowl against
Philadelphia. and he was in immense pain, screaming
and wenching. They put in, who was the backup
at the time? It wasn't Wentz. We didn't have
him yet. Gabbert? Yeah. Okay. Okay. They put
in Blaine Gabbert, and Mahomes, no. He got back
out there. Yep. And I don't even think he limped
anymore. No, no. He has a remarkable ability
to either play through pain. or just doesn't
get hurt that easy. Yeah, yeah. It's like the
quarterbacks around him get hurt instead of him.
Yeah. Because Burrow's been hurt a lot. Deshaun
Watson got clobbered in Cleveland. Yeah, Deshaun,
who cares? I hope he keeps getting clobbered.
Oh, I've got it. I've got an analogy about Joe
Burrow. Please remind me after the bullet points.
Okay. Because I got an observation about that
after this last game that he played in. And it's
glaringly obvious. You know what? I'll do it
right now and then we'll go back. Okay. Joe Burrow
should be the MVP. He'll never get it because
they're a losing team as of right now and probably
will be. The best they can do is like 9 -8 maybe
if they win out. Yeah. So, okay. Burrow is MVP
because that team was in disarray falling apart.
He comes back and they beat the shit out of Baltimore
32 -17. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Even the defense stepped
up. You can tell how important he is to that
whole team. Yeah. He's everything to that team.
When he's gone, they're lost. Yeah. Mahomes is
the same way. Don't get me wrong. I think so.
Yeah. Josh Allen, not quite so much. Yeah. Their
scheme provides a lot because I've seen a backup
in before, and they've done reasonably well.
Yeah. But Josh Allen, you know, Jalen Hurts.
That's a good one right there. You put in a –
oh, shit. Who was their backup last year? And
they failed miserably. Huntley? Was it Tyler
Huntley last year? Sounds right. Yeah, now he's
back with Baltimore, I think. Anyhow, all right.
All the turds out there that have picked the
Chiefs' demise for years now, should they get
credit? No. No. No, you predicted something often
enough. You're eventually going to get it right.
You're going to get it right. A broken clock.
Oh, go ahead. The broken clock is right twice
a day. Yes. Same thing. Calling for their demise
for eight years now. You should have shut up
after the third year and went away. I'm talking
about the idiots like Craig Carton and Skip Tard
Ballas and all those guys that they just feed
off of motherfucking the Chiefs. That's all they
do. Their shtick is to try to ridicule and belittle
the Chiefs. And the funny thing is they don't
even understand what they're doing. They're so
jealous. They don't even understand what they're
doing. It's become instinct because they're so
insecure, in my opinion. They'll get a lot of
support from the people who dislike the Chiefs.
They'll get a lot of angry calls from the people
who do like the Chiefs. There's a lot of cats
on the back. So it's, you know, guarantees somebody
will pay attention to them for a while. They're
both what I call little penis syndrome. Yes.
Small penis syndrome. So you can look it up.
So this is my opinion. SPS. Yes. I think they
both have thimble dicks and they're mad as hell.
Yeah. Packing a gherkin. A little mushroom top.
Hung like a hummingbird. Which is really bad
because birds don't have penises. Oh, yeah, that's
right. All right. Then that's what they are.
They've got a flat smoothie. They're Ken dolls.
Yes, they are. All right. All right. The next
one. If the Chiefs somehow get a miracle gift
and make the playoffs, would you take that or
would you let it bleed to address the problems?
Which one would you have if you could? If you
can do it right now. If they were going to get
a playoff game, then I would see them get stomped
and humiliated just to drive the point home.
No, you're not. You've got work to do. Quit looking
for the silver lining because there isn't one.
I thought of that, but I'm going the other way.
I think that them going to the playoffs and getting
smashed in the first round would be more humiliating
than just not making it. To them. Yeah, probably
so. Probably so. I think I would rather make
it and just let the cards fall where they will,
which we probably know where they would fall.
Yeah. That would kill off any lingering thought
of, man, if we had just made it to the playoffs,
we would have been great. Yes. Yes. That's what
I'm saying. Okay, you've convinced me. All right.
All right. And then finally. Does FanDuel DraftKings
and such need to do their own investigation into
the crooked refs, or are they in cahoots with
them? Allegedly. Yeah, I think allegedly. They
are very much on board with it because they would
have done something about it already. If it's
costing them even one penny a week, they would
have done something about it already. So I think
they're absolutely fine with it. They've got
their bases covered. They know it. They know
everything. You probably got something you want
to go into? Yeah, yeah. I remember last week
I was trying to come up with the name of a draft
pick bust by the Green Bay Packers. It was Tony
Mandarich. Yes. Remember him? Mm -hmm. Steroid.
He was basically an illusion created by smoke
and steroids. People get him mixed up with Todd
Marinovich. Yes. Marinovich was the red -haired
kid that, well, basically Marty Schottenheimer,
Derek Thomas, and Neil Smith destroyed him. Yes.
They put him in in a playoff game. Never played
a game ever before. And he hated football. His
dad made him. But anyhow, go ahead with your...
But Tony Mandrich, I remember being on the cover
of the sports magazines and the draft. and, you
know, he was eating it up. And then he was just
nothing. I mean, he couldn't play, and he kept
getting injured, and everybody was piling on
him left and right. And eventually he said himself
in a press conference, look, it's not my fault
they picked me first. I had no control over that.
I am what I am. They're the ones who made me
number one pick. That was almost probably as
famous as, damn it. Who was the quarterback that
went to San Diego Chargers at the time? Eli Manning.
No, no, no, the other one. Ryan Leaf? Leaf, yeah,
yeah. And where he's in the locker room and they're
questioning him, he's like, stop it, quit it.
Shut up, just get out of here, man. Yeah, yeah,
that was like one of those blowout moments where
they're like they had never come back from that.
Yeah, it was a very honest outburst. It just
doesn't fit in with NFL culture. No, people are
like, well, why is he even here? Yeah. Why is
he even here? Yeah. And that's pretty much what
happened. Next thing I want to talk about is
Giants rookie linebacker Abdul Carter. Okay.
Has been benched for the start of the game in
two of the last three games. Now, three games
ago, he was benched for the opening series, and
the team made some sort of excuse about, you
know, It was an administrative thing, conduct
that, damn it, hurt the team, blah, blah. He
overslept, basically. Okay. He overslept, and
they covered for it. I've got something for you
right here. Yeah? That's two different head coaches.
Yeah. Yeah. So something's going on. Both of
them are in agreement on that. Yep, because for
this most recent game, he was also benched for
the first couple of series. Yeah, the game against...
The Patriots. Yeah, the Patriots, yeah. And the
Giants gave up a field goal on their first drive,
and maybe he would have been able to help prevent
that. He's a guy they might want to go after.
No. Now this time, the unofficial word is that
he decided he was just going to skip the walkthrough
before the game. Just didn't want to do it. These
problems waiting to happen. It's only a matter
of time until he just doesn't show up. In my
opinion. Rookie, high draft pick. And he just
doesn't give a crap about being in the NFL to
the point where he'll actually do his job. That's
kind of scary. I mean, if this is the kind of
attitude that the players are coming in with
to, I mean, even if 30 % are coming into the
league with the attitude of, I don't care, I'll
do something else, NFL's really going to suffer.
I mean, the quality of play we're used to is
going to go bye -bye. Well, I mean, it really
has, especially it's showed up in special teams
more than anything. Yeah, that's true. It used
to be, man, do good on special teams so you can
make the roster. Now guys are like, hey, I'll
just be a special teamer for my whole career.
I don't care. Yeah, yeah, long snapper, whatever.
Kendall Gammon, how long was he our long snapper?
It seems like he's been there since like the
30s. Yeah. Well, the Chiefs weren't around then.
He's like he's grandfathered in when they came
over from Texas. Yeah. I'm saying we need you
to take, just say his fucking name. Kendall Gammon.
Kendall Gammon, yeah. Okay. All right. Go ahead.
Adam Thielen, wide receiver for the Vikings.
He said this is his last year, and he has now
asked the team to release him. Because he wants
to sign with a team that has a realistic chance
of making the playoffs and going into the Super
Bowl. I wonder if he would consider the Chiefs.
I wonder so too, but he has been released. The
pedigree is there for the Chiefs and also him,
good player. Yeah. I don't know if they have
to clear waivers or if there's anything else
in there or whether he can just sign with whoever
he wants because apparently they gave him a release.
Okay. I'm not going to do it now, but I'm going
to look that up and try to figure that out. That's
interesting. I didn't realize that happened.
Yeah. Who else is, like, pissed off and wanting
to leave from the Vikings? There's someone else,
too. Oh, yeah. That was early in the season.
Yeah, yeah. It was one of the receivers, I believe.
Jefferson. Yeah. Yeah. I don't blame him. I don't
blame him at all. They have been completely screwing
up. Everything they've been doing. Yeah. I'm
sorry, I have to reply to my wife. Oh, no, no,
no. You reply to Cindy. We don't need her coming
down here and putting a boot in your ass. Yeah.
And mine, because I was an accomplice. We've
got a ring doorbell, so she saw me leave without
a hat on. So she texted me, what, no hat? But
I have one. It's right here on the table. Sounds
about like Val. I just don't need it right now,
but I have one. Val made me go put my boots on
in case we hit a ditch. Oh, yeah. So, okay. I
did. I didn't argue. So, let's see. Oh, here's
three more things I've got. Excellent. Union
High School in Virginia. You heard about this?
Their head coach disappeared. He just walked
away. No. And at first it was a story about a
missing adult. He was not a senior, so it's not
a silver alert, but it's like, hey, this guy's
missing. He just kind of walked away from his
home. Like Urban Meyer did in Jacksonville? Yeah,
something like that. He stayed in Indiana with
some young chick or something? Well, this unfortunately
is a really ugly version of that. Oh, I was just
joking. No, no. Please go ahead. Since his disappearance,
the school and the local police department have
said they found numerous... instance of child
pornography on his computer, and he's been using
his computer to solicit sex from minors. Okay,
first off, Urban Meyer, all that stuff was allegedly
that went on, and I'm not even connecting him
to this at all. So go ahead. Yeah, Mark, he didn't
know. Mark didn't know where this was going,
so yeah. Now his wife is admitting that when
he left the house, he had a firearm with him.
Oh. So I think he's out there and shot himself
in the woods somewhere. And they're going to
find him dead. They're going to find his body.
But the interesting part is his team keeps winning
without him. And he had nothing to do with it.
Yeah, apparently so. So, I mean, good on the
team for keeping going and, you know, keep those
kids playing, et cetera, et cetera. And their
scumbag of a head coach has nothing to do with
them. Was there any rhythmic slapping? That we
know of in the locker room. Are you familiar
with that? I have an idea, but... That was of
the Penn State Sandusky. Sandusky, yeah. One
of the testimony was, did you actually see him,
you know, butt -fucking one of the kids? I heard
rhythmatic slapping or something like that. Like
the sound of Satan clapping his hands, basically.
Yes. Yeah. Yeah, that was – I'm so glad that
they took down Joe Paterno's statue because he
knew it. They put it back up. They did? It's
back up. Yeah, I know. It's bullshit. He knew
it. He enabled it. He benefited from it. He didn't
want to – okay. Not my fish to fry. No, you know
what? I agree with you 100%. And, you know, you
can blame the school, in my opinion, Penn State,
for letting it happen. Yep. I'm sorry. I mean,
to me, it seems to me like why would you let
the statue stand at all in all these accusations
for years? Why would you let that go on? I guess
if you've settled all the lawsuits and you just
want to pretend it never happened, then you just
do that. If I was a betting man, which I'm not
anymore on football, that'd be the way I see
it. So, yeah. Well, it doesn't sound like there's
rhythmic slapping there, so that's good. But
it sounds to me like one creep took himself off
the world, and that's fine with me. Yeah, puts
me in mind of a postal supervisor I had who was
arrested and handcuffed on the workroom floor
of the post office and taken out, along with
a couple of computers, because he was soliciting
sex from what he thought was a minor, but was
actually a sheriff's... Oh, that old gag! Yeah.
But, yeah, he did his time, had to register on
the sex offender list and all that. So that's
kind of the first thing I thought of when I saw
this coach. Who was that old white -haired guy
that looked like he's 100 ,000 years old that
used to do that to catch a predator? I can't
remember his name. Shit, I can't either. Chris
Hansen, I remember, was the host, but he didn't
have white hair. No, there's another guy that
used to do it. Yeah. Anyhow, but it's funny because
they try to get out and go, well, it says right
here in the transcripts. And you brought a six
-pack of beer and condoms. You say you're just
coming here to talk? I remember that one, too.
And you said you're just coming here to talk.
Man, I wonder how many of them. And then all
that ended when the creep went and shot himself
in the bushes, and I think that's what happened.
And they're like, we can't have a creep killing
himself. And I'm like, yeah, yeah, do that more.
Yeah, we don't have to feed him. They're off
this earth. Great. It's his own choice. There
we go. Yeah. Yep. Well, speaking of law enforcement,
remember how I've been saying that I keep wanting
somebody to actually get criminal charges filed
against them for like a late hit? Yeah, I do
too. Well, it might happen. Really? Jacksonville
Jaguars punter Logan Cook threatened to murder
Tennessee running back Julius Chestnut during
the game on the field of play. Straight up threatened
to have him murdered. Number one, a punter can
never do that to a regular player. That's true.
He's just a kicker. They should have, like, picked
him up and, like, threw him in an ice bath or
something. You stay there until you know your
role, bitch. You kick the ball only. Get out
of here. Now, the Jacksonville Jaguars coach
says, oh, it's no big deal. I hear players say
that stuff all the time. But this is a golden
opportunity here. This is the division rival,
Tennessee to Jacksonville. they can take away
their starting punter by filing charges and having
them arrested. Now, the league probably won't
step in and do anything until the legal part
happens, but you can throw a real kink into Jacksonville's
team by having their punter arrested for threatening
to murder somebody. I love the idea, but I've
also seen Jacksonville's schedule, and I'm kind
of wondering if they're going to make it now.
Yeah, they've got a tough schedule. And Trevor
Lawrence, I know we made him look good. Yeah.
Not very many other teams have made him look
that good. No, he's just not really what we think
he is. Yeah, well, I never did. Dennis Green.
They are who we thought we are. Yeah, that's
true. Let him off the hook. And he never got
another head coaching job ever. No, he didn't.
Yeah. Primarily because he couldn't keep his
self -control in front of the cameras. Yeah,
I think he held McCray to himself. Yeah, yeah,
yeah. Throwing shit and screaming. The only problem
is the news cameras forgot to edit out the vodka
bottle in the corner. Yes. And the giant dildo
hanging off the wall. Allegedly. Allegedly. One
last thing. In the offseason, the NFL sold the
right to the term red zone to ESPN. Oh, because
they have that red zone coverage deal. Yeah,
they have NFO red zone channel. I kind of like
that. I like it because I found out on my TV
you can zoom in on one of them if you want. So
if you see a player or something, you're like,
oh, hey, they just switched to the Philadelphia
-San Francisco game. It's like, oh, shit, man,
do you see McCaffrey? Hey, you can zoom in on
it when they're showing the replay and stuff
like that. I guess they might as well. They've
been using it anyhow. And, I mean, I don't suppose
they could stop them from using it, really. Well,
I think the NFL is, they sold the rights to ESPN,
but they are now paying a license fee to use
the name still. It's like selling your company.
That's a tax thing. Like where they tell you
to quit owning the building. Yeah. You've got
to start renting. Well, I own the building. No.
You've got to have something to take off your
taxes. Anyway, okay, so we have the IranFL Red
Zone channel. Now, from the beginning, it was
sold to consumers as an ad -free channel showing
all the scoring drives and plays of all the games.
And it's generally a seven -hour show throughout
the course of a Sunday. Yeah. Now they're showing
ads. They're showing 16 ads during a seven -hour
stretch. That's about two ads per hour. Uh -huh.
but you still have to pay that subscription fee,
which you paid to not get ads. The same bullshit.
Now they're giving ads anyway. The same bullshit.
We'll never do ads, and then all of a sudden
you get ads. The problem is people don't care.
If they cared, they'd stop. Right. All it takes
is enough people to say, well, this is bullshit,
and cancel those subscriptions, and they won't
do it anymore. But obviously enough people to
say, eh, whatever. I don't care. Let them go
ahead and get me. So the rest of us get dragged
along with them. It's just like credit cards.
How many subscriptions are on there that you
forgot about? I mean, not you specifically. Yeah,
I know what you're talking about. Yeah, there's
probably a hundred of them. I don't know where
all these charges came from. Because people don't
look. No one balances their checkbook anymore.
No, no, no. Anyway, so they interrupt the broadcast
for these advertisements. See, that pisses me
off, too. They'll take the regular screen and
they'll shrink it down to a small box in the
corner and cut the audio. Is this the red zone?
Yes. And then they'll bring up a big, a larger
box in the middle of the screen with the advertise
in it. And then around the edges they'll have
advertising banners. Yeah, I saw that at work
and that pissed me the fuck off. Yeah, I remember
it. So you're not only paying for the NFL Red
Zone and paying to have a commercial free, now
they're giving you commercials and the content
you paid for, they're shrinking it down to something
so small you can't see it and you can't hear
it while they run their ad. I'd never buy that,
but there's enough stupid people. Wow. And they
have said more ads to come. They said this is
the beginning. There are going to be more. I'd
be calling up my credit card because everything
is so hard to cancel anymore. Just call up your
credit card and tell them I'm disputing these
charges. I don't want them anymore, and I can't
figure out a way to cancel. Now, I've seen other
TV shows do something similar. Like back when
Paramount Network was getting all the Star Trek
rights and starting a new Star Trek series, the
premiere episode was put on broadcast TV. And
then they said, okay, from now on you have to
get Paramount Plus streaming service to see all
the rest of the episodes. So it was a come on.
It was like, okay, it's going to be subscription,
but they told you up front. And I chose to not
watch that initial episode because I wasn't going
to subscribe and I didn't care. Last night I
was watching a show called The Pit. It's a new...
I'm familiar with it. I haven't watched it yet,
but it looks interesting. Yeah, I liked it. I
won't tell you anything about it, but I think
it's good. It's interesting. I'm going to check
into it. It's about an ER in Pittsburgh, and
Noah Wiley's in it. But the first six episodes
are available. I mean, they showed three last
night, and they're going to show three more.
But then after that, subscription to HBO Max.
At least they tell you up front. Here's some
for, you know, well, sort of free because they
had ad breaks. You can tell it's a show that's
not supposed to have ad breaks because they had
to just chop right the middle of a scene to have
an ad break. And they had to bleep out all the
cussing. So you can tell it's made for a streaming
service. Oh, yeah. Did you see where Netflix
is a little bit different but in the same line?
Netflix crashed. Thanksgiving Day because the
Stranger Things final season came out. Oh, my
gosh. And everybody, you know, they didn't do
the night before when it came out, the night
before Thanksgiving. Everyone decided, hey, let's
wait until tomorrow. No one will be watching
it. No. Everybody was. Yep. Anyhow. So who knows
what's going to happen with NFL Red Zone, but
what I believe is going to happen is it will
soon be flooded with ads. Constant ads, never
-ending ads, and enough people are going to keep
subscribing. That's enough for me not to order
it. Yeah, I think enough people will that it'll
still be a thing. They will because people are
stupid. They're sheep. Standards are so low.
People treat you the way you let them treat you.
Well, on the douchebags, I have this segment
where I say people are sheep, and I have a great
example. The KCI, the Kansas City International
Guest Pass. oh yeah you gotta pay like 35 bucks
to go pay three times the price of a meal you
can get somewhere else mitch beat barbecue you
can go to overland park and get it much cheaper
yeah it's so ridiculous yes city market coffee
right here they have one there much cheaper here
but people will talk themselves into it being
a special experience just because they had to
pay more for let's go watch people happy because
they're leaving And be unhappy because we're
not. And eat a very expensive meal and then leave
dejected. That sounds great. And then pay astronomical
parking in between. Remember when the real ID
driver's licenses were announced? Yeah. You're
not going to be able to do anything. Boy, you're
going to get one right now. Son of a bitch. You
can't fly. You can't do this. You've got to bring
all that extra stuff with you. Well, I saw a
article yesterday saying that people who don't
have the real ID, now that the deadline has come
and gone, it's like, oh yeah, you can still fly.
It's just an extra $18 charge. That's it. That's
it? When they came out, it was like, well, this
is for enhanced security, so you really know
who's on the plane with you. Now it's just, eh,
$18 charge. That's like going to a gun store
to buy a gun, and instead of doing a background
check, you just give them an extra $50. Which
happens under the table, but imagine that being
absolutely okay with the government. I got two
names that happens, right? Yeah, I know a couple
of unscrupulous dealers that you come in there,
I think a 12 -year -old could walk in there for
50 bucks and get something. Or, you know, DUI
checkpoint. Pull a guy out of the car, and he's
wasted. But, hey, I'll spend $350 and put it
into the policeman's charity, and I'll just get
a pass here. Yeah. That's kind of the same attitude.
We don't care if you're safe, as long as the
money's coming in. I got one for you about the
slightly different, but along the same lines,
policeman charity. Yeah. You know the... What
is it? Is it the Policeman's Retirement Fund
or something like that that they used to call
and badger people about? Okay, and I used to
give to it. But whenever anyone calls you on
the phone, right? I don't believe it. Do you?
No. No, the guy is trying to argue with me. He
goes, no, no, no, this is real. And I go, no.
I said, if you want me to do it. Send me something
in the mail, and I'll make my decision then.
But I'm not doing a fucking thing over the phone.
He acted like I was an asshole. Yeah, yeah, I
always tell those people. To me, you're just
a voice on the phone. You can say you're anybody
or anything, and I have no idea. So I'm not telling
you anything. Yeah, and I forgot what they call
it. There's a specific name. If I said it, you'd
go, oh, yeah, yeah, I remember them. Policeman's
Benevolence Fund or something. Something, yeah,
yeah. The one I always got was for state troopers
to help with the children and the families of
troopers. who died in the line of duty. Yeah,
and you see, I agree with that, but not over
the phone. Yeah. Not over the phone. And I tried
to explain it to this guy, and he was getting
mad at me. And I'm like, no. I go, listen, first
of all, if you're getting mad at me, and I was
going to do it, I'm not now. Yeah. Second off,
no. I told him, I said, well, why don't you give
me your information? Oh, I don't know you. Okay,
then. Uh -huh. So, anyhow. All right. Go ahead.
I'm sorry. I've just got a few general... Information
things that don't have to do with sports. Okay.
Interesting thing I read about this morning was
the third phase of the Internet is upon us. And
I didn't even know there were phases, but apparently
there are. I didn't know there were phases either.
The first phase of the Internet was to connect
up all the computers. That's been done. Yep.
Second phase of the Internet is to connect ordinary
devices, like your thermostat, your speakers,
your lights. Everything's Bluetooth. That's been
done. My shoes are Bluetooth. Yeah, yeah. No,
not really. My glasses are Bluetooth. Yeah, my
nose is Bluetooth. My tooth is Bluetooth. My
asshole is Bluetooth. Anyhow, I'm sorry. Now,
third phase of the Internet is connect our bodies.
And this is happening. So my asshole would be
Bluetooth. Your asshole would. Well, what they're
doing is there is technology currently available
of micro sensors that can be injected into a
person's body. And they will communicate with
the computer somewhere and tell that computer
everything that's happening inside your body.
Supposedly, this is for health reasons, to help
diagnose illnesses or catch a heart attack. No,
no. This is for marketing. This is for control
and manipulation. They'll let you put those things
in your body. Who knows what they do? No, I know.
Yeah. Yeah, no, no, no, no, no. No, thank you.
Because then someone else will buy the information
just like I did on the DNA store. Ancestry .com.
Yeah. Yeah, and then you don't know who has it.
23andMe, whichever it was. Yeah. Yeah, 23andMe,
I think. Well, whoever it was is one of them.
Yeah. Plus, somebody could hack that and suddenly
screw your body up. Well, I'm pissed because
I have relatives do that. So now. Yeah, I had
my sister. did it with one of those, so now they
have very close to my information too. Yeah,
it pisses me off because all that shit was sold
and I don't know who to, but oh well. So anyway,
third phase of the internet is here. Wiring up
our bodies so our bodies are constantly connected.
Well, this is the same thing as the KCI guest
pass. We will run out and do it just because
it's... I want to be an early adopter. I want
to be the first one. I want to be able to brag
about it. It's the people who went out and paid
the monumental cost for those VR goggles when
they first came out. Yeah. And when VR was just
absolute shit. Oh, yeah. You had bragging rights.
Yeah. Now nobody gives a shit about them. Really.
Okay. Let's save that one for last. And I've
got a bunch of other things, too, but I want
to save them for the music creeps because I don't
have a whole lot for the music creeps. I mean,
I'm just running out of shit to say. All right.
But I have some stories, at least. So, anyhow,
go ahead. Well, these are both about China, as
it turns out. The first one is China has now
demonstrated how a flock of drones can block
satellite surveillance. They sent up a big cluster
of about 2 ,000 drones and disrupted the Starlink
satellite network to where nobody could see what
was going on. Oh, wow. So you could blind the
eye in the sky with drones. Hey, Elon Musk better
not piss the Chinese off. They blocked Starlink.
Oh, wow. They shut it down. It's like they can't
see anything that's here. There's some people
on top of the mountain very pissed off. Yeah.
Hey, where's that route out to get out of here?
I don't know. I can't get anything. Now, the
interesting part here is the story that I saved
for last. This is one that I saw like a week
ago. Satellite images of China, the ones they're
trying to block, showed China is... They're holding
drills and practicing for an amphibious invasion
with landing craft, troops, support air, everything.
Okay, now who are they thinking is going to be
an amphibious invader, I wonder? They're going
to invade Hong Kong. Oh, that's why. They looked
at the landing craft, and they can see things
about the landing craft and the way things were
done that specifically makes it. hong kong and
that's something that we have to get involved
in yeah the hong kong deal you cannot let that
go but but what a perfect setup here they deploy
their drones to block the satellite signal then
they they shut down internet and phone and then
they invade hong kong and by the time anyone
knows what's going on it's been 12 14 hours and
china's got it well okay that's when you got
to find a counter A counter. Yeah. Now, is there
something that you can put in the sky that'll
disable the drones? I bet you there is. Well,
about the best thing is just look with visible
light. Watch it craft right into them. A man
craft right into them and just explode them all.
Well, they spread them out over a huge area.
There's a way to do it. Yeah. But still, if there's
visible light, just look in visible light. You
know, it's like you can block your aircraft from
being seen on the enemy's radar, but you can
still walk outside and look at it with your eyeballs
because it's right there. Yeah. So do that instead
of relying on all the electronic technology that's
getting blocked is just send up an optical satellite
that actually looks down with an eyeball and
says, okay, this is what I see. And you see,
this is something I learned over time is they
already have defenses for the offenses that they
came up with. They're just not telling you about
it. Yeah. You know, it's just the way it is.
Each side has spies, and some of them are successful,
some of them are not. They find out this information,
and they counter it before it begins. So, yeah,
this is a bad thing, but we're going to have
to see what happens because Hong Kong is one
of those areas that you cannot just let go. No.
There's a lot of money in Hong Kong. Oh, yeah.
That would destroy the world economy right there
alone. I mean, Hong Kong is just, yeah. All right,
you got any more? I think I'm pretty well tapped
out here. Okay. Well, I've got some games. I
know we weren't on the NFL. Yeah, I've got three
more things for Music Creeps. Oh, okay. Oh, for
Music Creeps. Yeah. Okay. I still have a couple
of things for the games coming up. Oh, yeah.
The ones with playoff implications, possibly,
are the only ones where the other ones, like
the Titans against the Panthers. Well, actually,
the Panthers might even be in it now. Well, that's
true. They are. Okay. Well, the Titans against
the Browns. But that's not exactly the contested
game. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Okay. We're not worried
about that game. No. Okay, if they were playing
each other. All right. The Thursday night game
starts off week 14. This will be the Cowboys
versus the Lions. The Cowboys are ascending.
The Lions are descending. Yes, hard. But it's
in Detroit. It'll help. And it's a Thursday standalone
game. I think that that's going to be enough
to beat the Cowboys and settle them down a little
bit, get them off their high horse. It helps
that this is the Cowboys' second Thursday night
game in a row, or Thursday game in a row, not
Thursday night. Thursday day, yeah. Now, I remember
the Raiders petitioned the league to say, we
want to have more than one Thursday night football
game in a season. And the NFL is saying, no,
just one per team. That way we run through everybody.
But through technicality, the game against the
Chiefs was during the day Thursday. Their next
one is during the night Thursday. So it's not
a conflict. They find ways around it. And also,
I think a lot of it is, you know, they got Al
Michaels who's getting older too. I think a lot
of the games they're looking at, they're trying
to find more regional games to where he doesn't
have to travel as far. I've noticed that. Whether
I'm right or wrong on that, I don't know. I've
known of tours for professional musicians, bands,
etc., that the whole tour itinerary was built
around the fact that they weren't going to get
on an airplane. They just weren't. Wherever we're
going next, make sure we can drive there in one
night. Richie Blackmore does tours, but he can't
get on a plane. He's had three or four heart
attacks, and I think quadruple bypass, something
like that. He had a hell of a lot of surgeries,
a lot of problems. So he's 80, you know, so he's
going to. And John Madden. Oh, John Madden used
to travel by bus. He traveled by bus. Remember,
there was a big thing, the bus, and he put the
pictures on the bus and all that stuff. There
was a game that they did either in Hawaii or
somewhere else. Pat Summerall had somebody else
because Madden said, nope, I'm not flying. I
had to when I was a head coach because that's
what the boss said I had to do. But right now,
uh -uh, I'm not getting on an airplane no matter
what. Yeah, I remember. So they just did the
game without him. And they was like, well, our
friend John Madden is here because he doesn't
want to fly. So it was like no big deal. We were
like, okay, that's John Madden. He can do it.
Yep. So, yeah, Richie Blackmore, he does – well,
he actually canceled his last tour because of
– back issues or something. I forgot. Some sort
of issues and he couldn't fulfill it with his
band Blackmore Night. They do Celtic music with
his wife and some other people. So, anyhow, yeah,
the whole thing about the limited tours, they're
more popular now than ever before because they're
low budget, they're cheap. You use the people's
equipments there. Yeah, and I think that's a
win -win. Because the performing artist is easier
on them and gets them out more often. So we,
as the public who buys the tickets and goes to
the show, we have more opportunities. There's
probably a less expensive ticket because of smaller
venues. Like George Thorogood, he's got a tour
going on, but it's just California, Fort Wayne,
Indiana, and Canada. One stop in Canada, I think.
And it's like, what? Right now, small tours like
that aren't really worth it. The kind of graft
and skimming that usually goes on on the big
high -dollar tours. I think that's why they do
it. But once the big tours go away, they'll find
this group of small regional tours, and they'll
say, ah, start paying us. And they kind of really
are, unless it's a festival. They kind of really
are. All right, the next one. Oh, who do you
think is going to win, Cowboys or Lions? I'm
going with the Lions. I think it's going to be
a tough win, but I think they're going to pull
it out. I'll go with the Cowboys. I hope you're
right. I'd love to just see that, even though
I hate the Cowboys. Yeah. I want to see Dan Campbell
stroke out on the sideline. I'm that guy. I want
to see him just burning up light on the ground
while people grab him and resuscitate him. Yeah,
it's tough to want the Cowboys to win, but I
think the Lions aren't. what they think they
are, and they need to learn that. And I love
that. Get down, little boy. Get down. Real men
are playing here. Go sit down. Yep. Well, he
has Jared Goff, so right there they ought to
give him seven points. Yeah. All right. Sunday,
December 7th, high noon. Colts versus Jags. Colts.
Yeah. The Colts lost two in a row. They're snapping
pissed. Yeah. And the Jags are the Jags. Yeah.
That defense there is going to harass Trevor
Lawrence, and Trevor Lawrence is going to do
stupid shit. Yeah. Yeah. And I think. Taylor's
going to be able to run for the Colts on the
Jags defense. Yeah, Jonathan Taylor's going to
go berserk on him. Yeah. Yeah, basically he's
going to beat him over the head with his penis.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, he's going to go, hey, come
here. Bam. That's it. This ain't the football,
man. That's the tip of my dick. You won. You
won. I'm out of here. It's got laces on it and
everything. Like Lyndon B. Johnson, they used
to say, whenever he wanted to win an argument,
he'd flip out his enormous penis, it would hit
the table and shake the table, and everyone would
go, all right, he won. Meeting adjourned. Do
what? Milton Berle proportions. Yeah, yeah, Milton
Berle was pissed, though. He did not want that
information out. When people asked him, he was
just like, stop, stop. Yeah, he was embarrassed.
Frank Sinatra, apparently, was hung like a horse,
and he had to have his pants specially tailored
to hide it hanging down his leg. Yep. What a
horrible problem to have. Jeez, that poor guy.
Yeah, oh. I think he was the one that they originally
coined the phrase the vanilla gorilla. Oh, my
God. That's pretty good. And then I think I forgot
who is it now. Anyhow, it doesn't matter. Huey
Lewis. Oh, yeah, him too, supposedly, according
to Pamela DeMarn. One of the groupies that did
the plaster caster stuff. Sweet, sweet, got it.
I mean, yeah, and makeup for his looks. That's
true. All right. He's like, hey, I don't need
looks. Look at this. All right, you won. Huey.
All right, let's see. What a name, though. Huey.
Huey Jam. What a goof. All right, Sunday, December
7th, high noon, Steelers versus Ravens. This
one's a tough one because both teams are playing
horrible. Yeah, yeah, both are angry. This is
traditionally a really good rivalry because the
Ravens are the ex -Browns. They hated each other
when they were the Browns. I'm going to look
at the standings, but this may be one of those
games like kind of playoff implication deal.
Oh, wait, I did put it down on here. Yeah, because
the Ravens and Steelers swapped places for division.
when Pittsburgh lost. So now if Pittsburgh wins,
they'll get it back. Yeah, that's right. I'm
going with Pittsburgh because they played well
here and there, and where I see Baltimore just
looking like they're flushable. Yeah, they've
been that way all season. They've had a few games
where they look good or parts during other games
where they look good, but the Steelers had a
big run of like, they were like 5 -1 at one point,
something like that. So I know the Steelers have
it in them. I think they're going to stomp. Oh,
I think so too. Lamar Jackson's going to get
hit hard. Yeah. And Travis Henry is not the same
anymore. They can say whatever, but he's just
not putting up the numbers. He looks slow. He
looks like he doesn't know. He used to not worry
about the line developing. He just ran everybody
over. Yeah. Now he's not really that capable
of it. He's stopping at picking. Yes. And it's
just not working very well. All right, the next
one. So we both agree the Ravens. Is that it?
I pick the Steelers. Oh, I mean the Steelers.
I'm sorry. I pick the Steelers also. This one
I really love. Bears versus Packers. Yeah. This
game right here, I think, is going to be a nut
-tugger all the way down to the last second,
possibly into overtime. Let's hope they have
some sort of weather, like maybe some snow. Oh,
I hope so. That would be cool. Oh, that would
be great. Yeah. I want to see like Caleb Williams
walk up to Jordan Love with a snowball and smash
him right in the face with it. And then when
Jordan Love looks at him like, why'd you do that?
He sticks his finger right on his nose and says,
that's what. And I want Jordan Love to take his
shoe off and beat him with it. Yes, yeah. Then
they can give each other wedgies. Yes, yes. And
air. Oh, Wet Willie. Wet Willie? Yeah. And Indian
Sunburns. Yes. Yes. Oh, those were the worst.
Oh, my God. I remember getting held down and
giving the old fucking knuckle rub on the head.
Oh, my God. That sucks. It's like... Boogies.
Oh, yep. Bastards. I think I'm going to go with
Chicago over Green Bay on that one. I think they're
riding high and they're... I'm going Green Bay.
Oh, cool. All right. Here, let's mark this down.
Okay. Okay, you're going Chicago? I know they're
playing well, but I just have a feeling that
Green Bay is going to make it interesting. Yeah,
the first one is Cowboys, then Pittsburgh, and
then Chicago. You might write it down, too, because
I've been known to lose stuff a lot. So we'll
have two transcripts of it and see. That's so
Raven. And then bears over. Pack. All right.
Okay, everything else we agreed on. So, all right,
this next one, Texans versus Chiefs at Arrowhead.
Texans play them tough, and they've got a hell
of a defense. I'm going with Texans. I think
so, too. I hate doing it, but. Yeah. I don't
think – I don't know that the Chiefs can really
put together a full game at this point. They
haven't shown me this season. And it's going
to take a full, complete game to beat Jacksonville
State. Yeah. They have not shown me that this
season. No, no. So I don't know why I would jump
on it now. I mean, it pissed me off last season
when they would be behind at halftime and then
fight their way back. It's like, can't we have
one game where we're ahead the whole time? Just
one. The answer was no. Apparently. We called
the league office and they said, no, not this
season, but maybe one next year. The Texas versus
Chiefs are the Sunday night game this week. So
that's cool. Yeah. Stand alone. But the thing
that's not cool is, is Mahomes traditionally
doesn't look that great on stand alone games.
No, he doesn't. I don't know. All right. And
then finally, Monday, December 8th, 7 .15 p .m.,
it's the Eagles versus the Chargers in L .A.
Got to go Eagles with that one. I'm going to
go Eagles too because I think that they've lost
too many. And I think, you know, they have championship
DNA, obviously. And they also have a string of
the championship or close to DNA. The first game
against the Chiefs in the Super Bowl, they almost
won. I mean, they should have won it probably.
Yeah. Okay. And then they won this last one.
I think that they have the DNA. I think they
have the ability to look in the mirror and go,
all right, guys, we've got to quit fucking around
or we're going to lose this thing. Yeah. So I
think that you're going to see the Eagles. And
also, Justin Herbert, even if he plays, they're
going to hit that hand every fucking chance they
get. They're going to destroy him. Every chance
I get. I've never really fully bought in on the
Chargers with Justin Herbert. I don't think he's
that good. It just really hasn't even happened
all that much. He's good at times. He's good
at times. And then he starts looking like Justin
Herbert, and that's not good. You know, the whole
thing is, when he came out, they were like, you
know, this guy. Mahomes may have some, you know.
Yeah. And, no, he hasn't shown anything like
that because he's too inconsistent. Way too inconsistent.
Who we have to worry about in the division is
Bo Nix in Denver. Yes. That's who the Chiefs
need to worry about. Game manager, but he's also
a game saver too, it looks like. Yeah. He makes
a big play when it needs to be. So he's not going
to throw it 300 yards, but I hate saying this,
but you know who he reminds me of when he was
young? Tom Brady. Yeah, he does. A lot of that
type of play, I'm not going to lose the game.
Yep. And every now and then I'll do something
to win the game. Wow. That's him. So we'll see
if he continues. I got a couple of Chiefs observations.
That's all of the implications. So real quick,
and then we can go on to the music creeps if
you want, unless you got something else. Nope.
Okay. Whenever the Chiefs score 30 points this
year, they win. Yeah. And that's two games. Yeah.
And whenever someone else scores 30 points, they
lose. Yeah. Two games. It's not much of an observation,
but I didn't know we were going to have so much
material. So I was like, we can just talk about
this for a minute. Okay. Okay, and also, this
is some observations. We went into a lot of them,
okay? The lack of execution on the big plays
have killed us. Yeah. Have killed us. We cannot
do it this year. How do you get out of that mindset?
Wow, that's a tough one. I mean, is the talent
just not there? Is that it, and the other teams
know who to focus on, who to pick on? I'm not
sure about that. I know at least part of the
problem is I'm seeing Patrick Mahomes miss a
lot of throws that he used to make. Okay, that
I think. This again, my boss pointed this out
to me. Route running. Yeah, I wonder how much
of it is route running, but there's somewhere
it's just like Mahomes just like totally overthrows
it. It's like the guy's not that fast. So is
he throwing it away because he knows he's covered?
Is he making a mistake and throwing it too hard?
I think it's overcompensating. It's like I don't
want to get an interception, but I also want
to have a chance at this. So he makes a play
like if anybody, if anyone's going to make it,
it's going to be your guy, not the other guy.
And, you know, he does that too, but I think
if he's not getting harassed at the line so much,
he makes plays like that. If he's getting harassed,
he has no choice but to try to launch the ball
and he just hopes for the best. If it's a route
running thing? then that goes back to what Mahomes
said about the enemy. The enemy held us accountable,
called us on our mistakes, and made sure that
we owned up to them. If no one's doing that,
then the people who are running crappy routes
probably aren't getting called on it enough.
Yeah, Matt Nagy does not need to be everybody's
best friend or whoever the receiver's coach is.
Don't be their best friend. Yeah. And also, it's
not like these guys are elite. I mean, there
might be. There's one of them for sure and another
one up and coming if he can stay out of jail.
Yeah. And, okay, Rasheed Rice will be a lead
if he keeps playing, doesn't get injured, doesn't
do stupid shit. And Travis Kelsey, but he is
probably retiring after this year, I would say.
It's too early on Thornton. I mean, he looks
really good, but. He's very capable, and I think
it's all on the Chiefs and how they use him from
here on out. Yeah, I think he can be a really,
really good number two, if not eventual number
one. Yes, I agree. I agree. He could be a number
one, and we're the, I don't know, as high as
we were on him last year, as down as I am on
him this year, he has some obvious flaws that
he's going to have to get over. I mean, it was
rookie season. He was having trouble. Catching
the ball, and he's having trouble making sure
he was still inbounds when he caught the ball.
And there was one famous play where he jumped
up, tapped his toes, but forgot to catch the
ball first. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yes.
I remember that. It's like, ah. Ask backwards?
Yeah. Ah, yeah. So really, he's had one decent
season last season, but his first season and
this season, eh. I don't know. It's like, yeah.
Okay. All right, let's see. Another thing that
really, really bothered me is if it wasn't for
Rashi Rice the last two games, the Chiefs would
have scored maybe one touchdown each game. Yeah.
He was the only one getting open in the end zone.
Yeah. And when there's only one guy doing it,
then the other team knows it and they can shut
that guy down. Yeah. So this is not looking real
good. No. And Josh Simmons? Plays well when he's
in, but he hasn't been in enough. So, like I
said, you know. And also, the Josh Simmons thing,
because I'm going into this because we've talked
about him enough, is this right here. If they
lose this next game, they should take Mahomes
out before they take him out on a stretcher.
Yeah, yeah. Once they're sure they're not being
the playoffs. Playoffs. Yeah. Take him out. Yeah,
that's it. Let Minshew play. Yeah, let Minshew
play and go for a draft pick. Yeah. So, I agree.
Will they do that? Probably not. Probably not
because people come to see Mahomes play. Yeah.
People bet on Mahomes being in the game. So,
there will be pressure to keep him in. Maybe
the last game of the season they would sit him
out. You know, on the bright spot, McDonald's
saved a lot of money this year on sacks. That's
true. Yeah, they have that sack special, buy
one Big Mac, get one free. Yep. They haven't
done that in 12 quarters. Oh, gosh. It's fucking
ridiculous. It is. Yeah, so. So, okay. I think
that's pretty much all. Oh, oh, oh. This one
I wanted to go into real quick. And then we can
go into the music creeps. Because I got to pee
like a racehorse. Oh, go ahead and put it on
pause. Okay. All right. All right. You know what?
We decided it would be really nice to just go
in and end this abortion here. So, anyhow, we.
Love you guys listening. Thank you. The listenership
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