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Yes. Yep. Originated from Kansas City. So we
have a lot to talk about. Oh, unfortunately,
we have way too much to talk about. All kinds
of stuff. First off, I just want to ask you.
Yeah. What went wrong? I think in a nutshell,
Mahomes is trying to do everything. He knows
the team is struggling. He's trying to take the
entire offense on his back and make every play
work. And the rest of the team is just floundering.
They really are. He really should have only had
one interception. The three interceptions are
not really an indictment on what happened because
Travis Kelsey, as good as he is, has been having
a case of the drop sees for the last couple of
years. Yeah. And usually they lead to him handing
it to the opponent. Yeah. And I'm not dogging
him. No, it's just what happens in a tipped ball.
Yeah. Yeah. I would, on a side note, I'd be in
favor of changing the way stats are kept. And
any time it's a tipped ball, you don't charge
the interception to the quarterback. I would
agree. Yeah. I would say just make it, you know.
Like when the quarterback runs out of bounds
before crossing the line of scrimmage, it's a
sack, but nobody gets the sack because nobody
tackled it. You see, I think it should be on
the receivers. If a receiver tips the ball and
it gets intercepted, the receiver gets the interception.
Yes, I agree. It's some sort of turnover stat
on the receiver. He had 1 ,200 yards, but he
had seven interceptions. Yes. So then you know
what you're dealing with. Yep. Yeah, I like that
idea because it's not fair to the quarterback
to blame him. when the receiver muffs the ball
and basically, you know, hands it to the defender.
Yeah. Yeah, like I said, you know, keep Travis
Kelsey, of course. You know, I'm not like one
of these guys who goes, his career is over. He's
actually having a good career, a good season.
A good season, yeah, yeah. But I've seen those
people too. It's like, fire Andy, you know, fire
Travis. It's like, ah, knee jerk. Yeah. Reactionary.
If they would have fired Andy back when they
wanted to, we wouldn't have had two more Super
Bowls. Exactly. That's just the way it is. Yeah,
we'd probably have someone like Brian Dable right
now. Yeah, he's available. Yeah, for Brian Callahan.
He's available, too. Yeah. No, the whole thing
is this right here. Okay, people are also wanting
to get rid of Mahomes. Yeah, I've been hearing
that. If you want any chance of sniffing playoff
victories again in the next five years, you keep
Mahomes. That's just it right there. You have
the corner block. You have the foundation that
every franchise wish they had, except the ones
that do. Every franchise wishes they had that
guy like Mahomes. We have him. All we have to
do is build around him, which makes your job
so much easier. Now, if we were like the New
York Jets. where they need a ton of help on a
ton of positions, having a Mahomes -quality quarterback,
it would be smart to deal it. Because then you
could get like five players through draft picks
and trades and stuff like that, and that high
-quality quarterback is going to go to waste
while you rebuild your team. But we're not in
that position. Oh, no, and also having a quarterback
like that, an elite quarterback, also attracts
people. Yes, absolutely. It attracts good players
to your team. The quality free agents are going
to come here because of the homes, because of
the reputation of the fans and what it's like
to work here and live here and play here. You
don't want to mess with that. Yeah, with Mahomes
and Reed, we're kind of like the Cancun of football.
Like, it's everybody's destination. It's like
the 49ers were back in the 1980s. Yeah, yeah.
Every good player before they retired wanted
to go play for San Francisco at least for a year
and win the Super Bowl. Yeah, Bill Walsh, whether
it was Montana or Young, I don't think they did
very much after that. Who was the one before
Montana? Was it Craig or something? No, no, no,
no. Was it Vinny Testicles? No, he was never
in San Francisco, was he? Well, anyhow, it doesn't
matter. Oh, it was, oh, we had him here for a
while, a guy with a big smile, great at play
action. Yeah, Steve DeBerg. Steve DeBerg. Yeah.
Yeah, that's right. Pretty much everywhere he
went, the franchise quarterback came behind him.
Yeah. You know, Denver. Except here. San Francisco,
Tampa. He wrote out his career in mediocrity
here. Yeah, yeah. No, actually, he did go to
a few playoff games under Marty in the very first.
That's true. Yeah. I mean, he was what he was.
He really wasn't a starter, but he really wasn't
a backup. He was somewhere in between. Yeah,
yeah. Yeah. Interesting guy. I mean, he was a
good guy to get at first, too. They had nobody
else. Yeah, yeah. And it did work. It did help
turn the franchise around with the defense that
they had. He was a hard worker. He loved the
game. He was tough as nails. Yeah, yep. Yeah,
so, okay, I've got some questions here about
the last game in particular. Mahomes, is he ruined?
14 of 33, a paltry 160 yards with three interceptions.
Now, I already went through the interceptions
and told you my view on that. Yeah. It wasn't
all his fault. No, no, I agree with you. I don't
think Mahomes can ever be ruined. No, I really
don't think so. No, I've heard this, and that's
why I address this right now. Okay, he's the
type of guy that if things aren't going well,
he's trying harder, and he's going to keep going.
Yeah. He doesn't care about stats. If he throws
10 interceptions, if he gets a win, he's fine.
Yeah, yeah. And he doesn't want to come out.
He doesn't want to give the game over to somebody
else. He wants to take the chances. He's willing
to put up with taking all the blame for the opportunity
to do greatness. Oh, yeah, yeah. And then the
national audience of NFL or whatever you will,
the idiots that be, they say that Mahomes is
faking his injury. Bullshit. He was doing everything
he could to get back in that game. He was over
there fucking pressing his knee with ice and
stuff. He was not leaving that game. And if you
know anything about Mahomes at all, if you know
anything about football at all, you know that
Mahomes, he's the guy that almost had his leg
tore off in the Super Bowl and still played and
still won the game. Yeah, yeah. And that's a
little bit of a concern that Andy needs to keep
a watch on because... Patrick's the kind of guy
that will take chances with the rest of his career
to win today's game. Yes. And that's not something
you necessarily want all the time. I mean, if
today's game is the Super Bowl, then, you know,
maybe you go for it. But it's like, dude, live
to fight another day sometimes. The problem is
I have a feeling Mahomes wins out most of the
time from Reed. I think Reed kind of has, I don't
know this for sure, how could I, but the feeling
I got watching him and listening and everything
is I wouldn't be in this situation without this
guy, so I'm giving him as much leniency as he
wants. Yeah, I think in some areas Andy is definitely
the final word and top authority, but in other
areas, either Andy himself and or... People farther
up the ladder from Andy are saying, let Mahomes
do what he wants, let him have his way, give
him some space, some free room, because it's
good for the team, good for the image. And all
those guys are probably like, you know, give
him as much room as he needs because this guy
is the reason we're here. Yeah, and the exceptional
play of Mahomes and the way he's able to improvise.
get things done at the last second has enabled
the Chiefs to save a lot of money by going budget
on the depth of our roster. The starters are
good enough, but we have virtually no depth in
a lot of positions, and they've decided they
can afford to get away with that because, hey,
we've got Mahomes. He'll find a way. This season
he's not finding a way, and it exposes the Chiefs.
Just having zero depth. The problem is, is people
have analyzed this ever since the last Super
Bowl. And we'll get into the Philadelphia Eagles
and Jalen Hurts in a little bit. Yeah. Because
you talk about another team that just fucking
just went upside down. Oh, yeah. It's crazy.
Jalen Hurts suddenly became from an elite quarterback
to trash overnight. Yeah. But we'll get to that
here in a little bit. Part of it's the offensive
line, of course, like we've been going through.
Yeah. But we'll go into that here in a little
bit. So, okay, Mahomes is not finished. He still
does magic. It's just there's only so much magic
you can do. Yeah, yeah, he needs a lot of help
from the people around him. And he's not getting
it. This receiving core, what the fuck? Man,
they're stinking the place up. The broadcast,
NFL broadcast on TV, isn't going to tell us.
whether it's Mahomes being inaccurate or the
receivers running the wrong routes. But I've
got to know it's the receivers running the wrong
routes because Mahomes is not that inaccurate.
No, he has never been. Unless his arm's about
tore off and nobody's telling us, but I don't
see that. A few games ago, I would see Mahomes
after a pass that was incomplete, he would gesture
to the receiver like, you know, he'd sweep his
arm to the left like, you were supposed to go
left, idiot. I think they've told him to quit
doing that. because he's not doing it anymore.
He just looks frustrated and upset. They don't
want him calling out his teammates on camera.
But, you see, I like that. I did. I did too.
That's like Eric Bien -Ami's keeping everybody
accountable for their own mistakes. Yeah, yeah,
and that's part of being a leader too. Yep. And
you know what? He's the first one to kick himself
in the ass when he makes a mistake, and he admits
it, and he says it, and he doesn't dodge any
responsibility. He's taken every one of these
losses on himself, by the way. He said that it
starts with him and ends with him, and he's right.
He's the captain of the team. He is the facilitator
of everything offense. I was trying to watch
the last game and watch Patrick's dropbacks,
and it seemed like in the majority of the passing
plays, he would take the ball and he'd drop back
however many steps it was and then set. And he
had about a second. Usually he would have about
a second to throw. And the line was holding people
out long enough where he had a chance to set
his feet, look around, and throw to somebody.
What he doesn't have time for is to hang on to
it and scan three or four times and then run
over here and then run over there. The receivers
aren't getting open. The line is keeping the
people out and off of him long enough for him
to complete a pass if the receivers could get
open, and they're not getting open. For whatever
reason, if it's the scheme, they're not trying
hard enough, they're not running correct routes,
whatever it is, they're not getting open when
Patrick is ready to throw the ball to them. So
he's hanging on and hanging on and getting crushed.
Yeah. I think it starts with the receivers. It
does. And they're not getting open. And for such
an elite team, supposedly, on receivers, it looks
to me like a bunch of trash. Looks like they've
been paying attention to their own press clippings
and deciding, hey, we don't have to try. Look
how good we are. We'll just show up and it'll
work. Let's take Rasheed Rice. He has one great
game and then nothing. You can't do that. No.
You can't do that. They're holding him up to
be the potential franchise receiver. I don't
see it now. You can't do that unless you're consistent.
No, I don't see that now. I don't see him now
like that. He might be a good second right now.
But I'm not even sure of that. And I'm starting
to get concerned about the NFL's recent habit
of a player having an off year. And then in the
offseason they say, oh, well, he was struggling
with an injury all year and he just didn't tell
anybody. That's supposed to be illegal. Yeah,
yeah. They're required to report it. Especially
now that the gamblers are so heavily involved,
they're required to report the injury. So I'm
calling bullshit on that. That's just an excuse.
He wasn't nursing an injury. He just had a bad
year and you're trying to save his reputation.
I've been saying this all year now pretty much.
Shit, I lost it now. Forget it. But seriously,
if a player is struggling all year with an injury
and his play is suffering because of it, number
one, the player himself should self -report.
Say, Coach, I can't do it. I'm just not on habit.
Number two, the coach should figure it out. Number
three, the position coach should figure it out,
and everybody should do something about it instead
of after the season. oh, well, gee, he had this
lingering injury and he just couldn't shake it.
It's like, then you do something about it. Isn't
that your job, coach? Yeah. Isn't that your job
to take him out and get the next man up? So it
just sounds like a really lame excuse that a
lot of people are falling for. Oh, well, he had
this nagging injury. Nah, I'm calling bullshit
on that every time. No, I am too. So I say, I
mean... The younger guys you keep, like the Thornton
and Worthy, definitely. And probably Rice, you
keep him around too. But everybody else, I mean,
Kelsey, if he decides to come back, of course
you've got to let him come back. But, I mean,
Hollywood Brown, gone. Out of here. Juju, gone.
Out of here. Yeah, Juju just isn't. It's like
he's the invisible man this year. No, whenever
he's having a good game, we win. Yeah. We score
30 points every time he has a good game. And
look at our tight end corp. Kelsey is having,
statistically, a really good year, but he's making
key drops and batting the ball at other people.
This is where the receiver's interception comes
in that I'm talking about. He would have like
four or five this year. He would. And then you've
got... Noel Gray backing him up, who isn't anything
like he was looking last year. No, there was
just so much just went to hell. And then you
got Tunyon, who you signed in the offseason,
who basically almost never gets on the field.
Yeah. And when he does, I only ever see him in,
oh, look, this replay. There was Tunyon running
by doing something. He's just like a non -entity.
They spend a bunch of free agent money on him,
and nobody talks about him. Nobody knows. People
don't even know he's on the team. Well, I've
got an observation right now. Them letting P.
Ryan walk last year, which I said was a fucking
mistake. Big mistake. Yeah. P. Ryan was our third
and fourth down expert. Yes. He was the guy that
absolutely got open on that slant pattern within
the second that Mahomes needed before he got
murdered. Yep. So that is one big thing right
there. I don't know if they thought they had
the guy. Maybe they thought Rashad Smith was
going to be the guy. Maybe. I don't understand
it, but to me that whole non -signing did not
make any sense at all. No. Because he asked us
first before he went back to Cincinnati. He was
ready to come back for another season here, and
they're the ones that didn't offer him anything.
And instead they kept Edward Zolaire, who has
been on the field maybe a handful of times in
12 games. Yeah. It just doesn't make any sense.
13 games now. There's some very questionable
personnel things going on. Yeah. That's for sure.
Yeah. Okay, how about Andy Reid? Is his tenure
as the king over? I would say yeah. I mean, his
tenure in KC isn't over, but I think that he
is no longer being held up as, wow, what an amazing
coach. He's starting to look just like everybody
else. He looks like just the rest of them. He
had a good run, and now it's falling apart, and
he can't figure out. how to stop it from falling
apart just like everybody else. So he'll still
be Hall of Fame, first ballot, but he's not what
everyone's been holding up. This guy's great,
he's amazing, he can coach forever. Nah. He's
been having a good run. Yeah, he's had a good
run with the right personnel, yeah. So like I've
told people at work and my boss whenever we talk
football, I knew this day was coming for the
Chiefs. I just didn't think it was going to be
this year. Yeah, same here, same here. Yeah,
but that's the way dynasties do too. One day
they're just not there, and you can't explain
it. Enough little things change. And all of a
sudden it makes a big difference. And then the
mindset, which has changed now. The mindset is
the biggest thing. They went from we can do anything
to I don't know what happened. Yeah, what the
hell, what's going on? There's a lot of confusion
over what the hell's going on. Why isn't this
working? Instead of everyone like, okay, we know
what's wrong. Here's what we got to do. They're
saying that to the press. But that's not how
I see them looking on field. They're looking
on field like, what the hell's going on, man?
This used to work. Yeah, they have the no answers
look. Yes, absolutely. They look like me whenever
I'm doing fucking algebra. That look on my face
like, I don't have any answers. Take a look at
some of those fail videos that are all over the
place. And a lot of them... When people are trying
to set up to do something cool and then it turns
into disaster, they don't try to fix it or try
to grab it or keep it. They turn to the camera
and open their mouth real big like, and they
just stare at the camera like, oh my God, that's
a good point. Totally passive reaction. open
their mouth big and wide, open their eyes big
and wide, and look at the camera like, oh gosh,
something went wrong, help me. How did that happen?
I was like, well, I've got a pretty good idea.
Do you really want to hear it? They look totally
clueless. and they look like they haven't even
considered that things could go wrong, and they
weren't ready for it, and they had no backup
plan, no idea what to do if something went wrong.
That's how the Chiefs look to me. They look like
the fail army person who's looking at the camera
with the mouth wide open going, That was intercepted?
Gee! That's how they look to me. Well, I think
we answered this, but this is another question
I had about the game. This is in bullet points.
I have bullet points a little bit later, but
is the Dynasty dead? Yeah. Yeah, it's done. It's
done. This form. This form. Yeah. They could
come up with another formula. Yeah. Yeah, when
you go to that many Super Bowls, win as many,
all those consecutive titles, and then this year
you just sink the place up. That's not an aberration.
That's the bill coming due. Yeah. Yeah, that's
true. That is the bill coming due. I've got a
slightly different question here, Topher. Okay.
John Dorsey. He was behind drafting Hill and
Kelsey. Yeah. Okay. Supposedly, Veach was the
guy that was pushing for Mahomes. So could it
be possible that Dorsey knew receivers and Veach
knew quarterbacks? And maybe we're missing some
of that now? Yeah. Yeah, and I'm thinking that
they need somebody who's a better scout for linemen,
offensive and defensive, because they're missing
left and right. The D -line, well, number one,
they haven't been able to re -sign anybody they've
had, like Justin Reed or anybody like that. I
mean, they have to keep letting him go is the
problem. And then you have to rely on McDuffie
to do some stuff that he probably is not really
that good at doing. Yeah, and now he's out. Yeah,
yeah. This season has just turned out to be a
nightmare, and that happens. So many things got
exposed. You know, the poor decisions on backups
and depth, overpaying of certain veterans, poor
scheming, no plan for injuries, basically sailing
on the reputation from the last couple years.
Yeah. Oh, look how great we've been doing. We
don't have to change much. We'll just tweak it
a little bit. Meanwhile, every other team out
there is dissecting the Chiefs, breaking them
down into tiny little pieces. and saying, look,
here's the flaw. Here's where we beat them. Yeah,
and they've been doing it. They've been beating
us. Hey, we want to also say we love the Chiefs.
That's why we care. If I didn't care about the
Chiefs, we'd be talking about something else
right now. Yeah, we're not talking about the
Royals. No. So I still love the Royals, but I'm
just not as interested in them. Yeah, I don't
get excited about the Royals. It's great to have
them in town, and I'm glad a lot of people enjoy
them, and it's fun to watch a baseball, but they
just really don't excite me anymore. No, me neither.
So, okay, the obvious Chiefs team overhaul should
start with? I was going to say offensive line.
I'm thinking more receivers. Receivers, yes.
And then after that, pass rush. Yes. If you have
receivers, you take pressure on the offensive
line. Yeah. If you have guys that can get open
quickly, you take. You take pressure off the
offensive line. I mean, we have running backs.
We've had running backs. They're just not using
them enough. No, I agree. So, I mean, I would
have said, oh, get the running game established.
Well, we've got the running back. We've got the
talent. They're just choosing not to call the
running plays often enough to take the pressure
off the passing game. Look at how many times
in a Super Bowl a running play has saved us.
Yeah. Yeah. Damian Williams. Yeah. The go -ahead
in the very first Super Bowl 54, was it? Yeah,
fuck, I don't know. Maybe 51. The 2019 -2020
season, the first one that we won under Mahomes
and Veach and Freed. Okay. You know what? It
doesn't matter. Anyhow, is Travis Kelsey done?
Yeah, I mean, we're going a little bit slow today,
so I'm trying to speed it up a little bit here
because we're analyzing everything so much. Yeah,
true. With Kelsey, he looks like he's mentally
done. He really looks to me mentally done. Physically,
I think he could still do it and contribute to
the team if he gets his motivation back. Right
now, after that last... bobbled all where it
got intercepted. He went to the sideline and
just looked like a man who was lost at sea. He
missed his, he didn't even do his press. Yeah.
He's going to get fined. He walked off. He didn't
do his press. He's not having fun and that's
a problem. That, yeah. He used to love playing
football. He doesn't look like he's having a
single bit of fun now. No. It's a painful and
difficult job and probably a lot of guys on that
team are really looking forward to the season
being over. Yeah. Rasheed Rice, his off and on
play continues. This obviously wasn't off. I
know it's a great defense, but is his off and
on due to defenses being able to focus in on
him because they really don't have any other
offensive weapons? I would say so. They haven't
really said he's number one, he's number two,
he's number three. They just kind of flops around
like that. Especially the last couple of years,
they have not had a definitive, that's the guy.
Last year, at the end of the year, Worthy was
coming on, which is the polar opposite of this
year, where he's kind of like nowhere to be found.
He was making a little bit of a stamp in the
last game. I saw some beginnings of what I saw
last season. But we have this inconsistency issue,
and that could be due to the offensive line and
lack of running game and all that too. But we
need to get that figured out because Worthy is
at that critical moment right now, whether he's
going to be an elite player or he's going to
be a bozo. Yeah, and you don't want to waste
that phenomenal speed he has. His instinct is
a problem. I spoke about it last week, and I
told you I got that from Soren's show, and it's
true. You know he is wide open, okay? And then
he runs right towards the receiver. You do not.
That's something that, I don't know, can you
coach that out of them? I would think so. Yeah,
you'd say, no, no, see this? No, see this? No.
Kind of like you do a dog. I'm not comparing
him to a dog. No, no. You smack him on the nose
and go, no, we don't pee there. We go outside.
And then after you do that enough times, you
smack a guy's hand enough times, they're probably
going, well, I'm tired of getting my hand smacked,
so I'm going to start doing this right. Yeah.
So, all right. The defense played much better,
but they also played into their weakness, the
blitz. What gives? It seems that's about the
only arrow that the defense has in their quiver.
It's the only shot they have to take. They don't
have enough trust in their line, so they send
them all the time. And if you don't get there
on time, then you get a long completion, which
is what's happening too often. And also, I've
got to give it to C .J. Stroud. Yeah. A couple
of plays there he made, he did Mahomes plays.
Yeah. Just impossible to do. He looked really
good. He's actually, I see him really starting
to focus and come along, and I think he's going
to be an elite quarterback. It's just taking
him a little bit longer. Yeah, yeah. For the
Texans, now that they've got their defense really
clicking. It takes the pressure off of Stroud
and the offense. They don't have to score 30
points, 35 points a game. They can score 20 and
win just fine. I still contend that if C .J.
Stroud was drafted by the Chiefs with Andy Reid,
that he would probably be in the championship
game at least by now. Yeah. I think he has that
kind of talent. Definitely. He's a little awkward
on film, though. I cannot get him at all. Yeah,
there's some things about his gameplay that just
seem a little weird. His expressions, his emotions,
it's just, I don't get him at all. I'm sure he's
a great guy. I do believe he's a born -again
Christian, really nice, devout guy. But I don't
get him at all. He's got the weirdest look. And
I'm sure he's a nice guy. I imagine. Yeah, so
anyhow, he looks like a nice guy. His just mannerisms
mess me up for some reason. Yeah. So, all right.
The defense was put in a horrible spot due to
the absurd play call of the fourth and long two,
but probably more like three from their own 30.
Yeah. That, right there, was ridiculous. Yeah.
They're only seven points behind. That just didn't
make any sense whatsoever. No. That's something
I wrote down to talk about. No, wait, they were
tied, weren't they? Yeah, it was a 10 -10. That's
even more egregious. You're at home and you're
tied. You're right, it was tied because that's
when Texans went up 17 -10. Yeah. On the press
conference right after the game, Andy said, we
thought we had the right play. We thought it
was a good opportunity. I don't know how they
saw that. It didn't work out. He said at the
end, it was a mistake. It was a mistake to do
that. Look, you're not going to fire Andy Reid.
He makes more right decisions, obviously, than
he does bad decisions. But that play just got
me. I was just sitting there. Before it happened,
I go, number one, this is not going to work.
Number two, you're going to end up losing the
game because of it. And they both turned out
to be true. Well, the concerning thing was the
very next day when Andy was asked about it again.
And someone said, you went for it on that fourth
and one at the 30. But later you had a fourth
and five later on, you didn't go for that one.
What was the thinking about do it this time and
not do it that time? I think you do them both
then. Andy, well, Andy's response was, you know,
the first one, we thought we had the right play.
We thought it was, you know, we were really confident
it was going to work, you know, but it didn't
work. And the second one, I just, I really didn't
think that, you know, we had the right play and
it wasn't, I really didn't think it was going
to work. And then he said it came down to, you
know, on the fourth and whatever from the 30,
you know, I was really feeling it. I thought
I had a good feeling. And the other one, I just
wasn't feeling it. And they stopped the tape
there and said, no, wait a second. Last night
he said it was a mistake. And he thought it was
a bad choice. And now he's saying, well, instead
of analytics, I just go by whether I'm feeling
it or not. I'm not feeling it, so we're not going,
oh, I'm feeling it this time, so we're going
for it. And then they played the tape again,
and Andy said, I know you probably don't want
to hear this. It's probably a terrible thing
to say, but if I had it to do over again, I'm
going to do that again. I'm going to do it again.
It's like, wait a second. Last night you said
it was a mistake. Now you're saying, I'm going
to do it again if I feel it. I think he went
home and thought about what he should have said,
and then the next day he said what he thought
he should have said, honestly. He was caught
off guard, I do believe, with that question.
It would be interesting to see who asks that
question if they're in the press room next week.
All right. This play might have broke the defense's
back right there. Do you think that broke their
back? Yeah. I do, too. They still played hard,
but you can kind of tell. They're kind of like,
why the fuck are we here? Yeah, just the thought
of, why are you putting us in this horrible situation?
Yeah. Pump the freaking ball, man. Give us the
whole field to defend. Don't make us defend 30
yards. Yep. And then the speed at which Houston
scored was very painful. It didn't take them
long. Yeah. It was a three plays. Yeah, that
was it. Oh. Okay, so if we lose this next game,
is Mahomes out the rest of the season? He should
be. I would hope so. You've got three preseason
games to figure out what these backups can do.
And we'll get into Pohl later. Pohl had a great
debut, and this is what I'm talking about. You
could have had Pohl all season long if you've
been able to sort him out first. But then again,
I've got to be fair. Maybe all the practice squad
stuff has groomed him to be this good now. Could
be, could be. But. Like the guy that went in
for McDuffie. Did great. Yeah, yeah. Williams.
Williams. Williams had a banner fucking game,
and that was his first game. Yep. Rookies. Yeah,
rookies. Yeah. So that's a big reason. You shoot
McDuffie to a different position on the defense,
it's not so demanding. Yeah. You know, he has
so much experience, and he has that football
instinct. You put him where he's more comfortable.
Yeah. You know, just kind of like we're talking
about Matatea. Or Matatea. Matatea. Yeah. And
we're talking about how he is more comfortable
over there. At guard. At guard. And he's doing
a much better job. I think the same thing with
McDuffie. You leave Williams there. You put McDuffie
over. Maybe a free safety of some sort. Or put
him on the slot. On the slot. I think the slot,
actually. The slot would make more sense. So.
Okay, you take out Mahomes. All right. Do you
get rid of all your receiving court and get draft
picks? Or who do you keep? I would keep Worthy
and Rice. I would say goodbye to Brown and Schuster.
What about Thornton? Keep Thornton and make him
a regular starter. Yes. I would say take Rice,
Worthy, and Thornton. make them your one, two,
and three, and start them on 90 % of the plays.
I also like Worthy getting punt returns. Yeah.
I think he's got a hell of an upside, kind of
like Hill did. Yeah. So Hill at first wasn't
that fantastic pass catcher that we saw a couple
years in, too. He was more of a kick returner
guy. Yeah, yeah. I think they initially thought
of him as a kick returner slash running back,
which is why he wore number 10. Yes. But then
all of a sudden, it was like, wait a minute.
This guy, he may be short, but he's getting the
ball somehow. But he also is just such a, his
body structure is just elite. He's got muscles
that create muscles on top of muscles. His shit
fucking punches people out. Probably so, yeah.
Yeah, I'm telling you. So, all right. All right,
so we trade most of the receiving core. Yeah.
All right. So you trade most of receiving core
and also you go to free agency anything you don't
think you could get in the draft? Yeah. Okay.
I think we're doing good on linebacker. Yeah,
I think so too. Right now that's about the only
position I think I don't touch is linebacker.
Yeah, I agree because you have Bolton and Tranquil.
Tranquil is going to help a job again. Chanel.
Chanel. And if we win this next game against
the Chargers, it's going to be because of Drew
Tranquil. Probably so. He is a Charger killer.
He came for that, and I don't think he likes
him. No, I don't think he felt he was treated
quite right there. I don't either, and you can
see it in his play. So if we win, he's going
to get to Herbert and knock the ball out, knock
the piss out of him or something. He always does,
mark my words, watch for Drew Tranquil to be
just excelling in this game. Yeah. Yeah. I want
him to go over and kick Jim Harbaugh right in
the face. Oh, wouldn't that be fun? Him with
the squinty eyes when he fucking gets that, I
gotta take a shit look on his face. Yeah, the
confused grandpa look is what I call it. What
are you doing over there? Hey, hey, get out of
my bushes. It looks like he studied all the coaches
from the 1950s and early 60s. He gets that look.
Yeah, the guys that wore the hats and the...
suit jackets and the ties, the skinny ties. He's
like, I'm going to be like those guys and get
angry about everything and pout and be indignant.
Yeah, and always have a complaint, walking around
with a complaint on your face without saying
anything. That's him. He looks like he's got
to take a dump, and he can't. He's probably thinking,
man, it was so easy when I could just cheat at
Michigan. Yeah, yeah, at Michigan I could do
whatever I wanted. Here, I can't. This is bullshit.
All right. That is all of the observations I
have. We went through them all. I've got the
playoff scenario, but we can go into that a little
bit later, and I've got bullet points. Okay.
Did you hear about Phillip Rivers coming out
of retirement and signing with the Colts? No.
Yep. 44 years old, he signed to their practice
squad. Isn't that awesome? This is going to be
interesting. I hope he kicks ass. I hope he does
too. Until you hear about the cult scenario of
how we can get to the playoffs. Yeah. Playoffs.
Playoffs. Yeah, I think we need to start doing
the playoffs more vigorous. Playoffs. Playoffs.
Playoffs. Playoffs. Playoffs. I'm just trying
to win a fucking game, man. Playoffs. Jim Morrow,
I think. Yep. I've got to find that audio file.
We can just splice that in. Playoff, playoff,
playoff. That little playoff button. Yeah, that's
what we need to do. Put it on my phone. Playoff,
playoff. All right. Where the hell were we? Go
ahead. I'm sorry. Oh, okay. Well, I got some
semi -bullet points. Okay. Coaches, I want to
see if you think they should be out or kept at
the end of the season. Oh, okay. Mike Tomlin,
Pittsburgh. You think he's out? I think his tenure
there is done. I think so, too. I think he's
all done there. I love the guy. Yeah. Great,
great coach. I'd take him on our team. If Reed
was to retire, I'd take him in a second. Yeah.
I think a lot of him. Good guy, good upstanding
guy, very smart guy. Yeah, I just think that,
I mean, just like every other coach, Reed's time
was out in Philadelphia when he came here, and
he says that. He's like, yeah, he goes, it's
just my time to go. It's time for them to get
somebody else. And he said, everything worked
out. I came here to Kansas City and look what
happened. This is the same deal. It's just getting
to where they're going to get into the playoffs,
but they're not going to get that far. The thing
is, he hasn't had that guy since Roethlisberger.
Yeah, you know, that dumb shit. Yeah. Yeah. I
think Rogers is better than Mahomes because Mahomes
is past his prime. But Rogers is 42. I know,
but Mahomes is 40. He's 30 years old. All that
GHB must have fucked my brain up. No kidding.
What a dumbass. He is. Just shut up next time.
People will think more of you. Let's hope he's
just playing the character of the dumb jock on
TV. Because Terry Bradshaw does that every week.
Oh, he does that so well, too. He plays the dumb
idiot jock who can't control his outbursts. Gronkowski
really is that guy. He really is that guy. Yeah.
And I think Roethlisberger is, too. Yeah. I think
that GHB fucked his mind up. I would think, yeah.
Or no, no, no. He just put that in other drinks,
not his, right? Yeah. Yeah, okay, that's right.
Allegedly. Allegedly. All right, Zach Taylor,
Cincinnati. Definitely out, or are they going
to give him another season? I would give him
another season, and that's it. Yeah. That's it.
No, no, no, no. No, no, no. No, take him out.
How many seasons is this? Is this five or six?
I think it's five. Okay. At least five. At least
five. I don't care what the reasons are. Don't
care what the reasons are. They missed last year,
and they're going to miss this year. Don't care.
Yeah. Nope. Sometimes it's just, you know, it's
not really all your fault, but you've got to
go anyway. Yeah, I think like now there's kind
of a culture that's set in that's not good. Yeah.
And also, another thing is his freelance players
that he allows to say and do whatever. Yes. Jamar
Chase, he needs to have a talk with Jamar Chase
and just go, look, worry about our team. Worry
about our guy. Don't fucking worry about number
15. Don't worry about anyone else. You start
worrying about our guy and you keep your mouth
shut and don't give anybody any material to read
on a wall. Yeah, yeah. It gives the impression
that he's not in charge, he can't control them,
and that he's not respected by the players. I
don't think he is. Yeah. Because I don't think
the players can do all this freelance stuff and
respect the coach. Yeah. You still don't see
it on the Chiefs. No. And they're losing right
now. Mm -hmm. So, yeah, I think Taylor's got
to go. Yeah, yeah. I think he's already, as they
say, lost the team or lost the locker room. That's
it, yeah. This is gear one, but Pete Carroll
in Vegas. He is so clueless. He's so out of touch.
He's like the old grandpa who really can't figure
out that the world has moved on. Well, I was
down on him ever since he lost that Super Bowl
that he shouldn't have lost. Yeah. What an idiot.
Yeah. But all season long, instead of honestly
and realistically addressing the criticisms of
his team. He's just Mr. Cheerleader. Oh, we're
doing great. I think he's showing, you know,
he's saying improvement. I work on that. Really
think you're doing great? Get out of here. It's
lip service. Everyone knows it's lip service.
It's just happy speak so he doesn't have to say
the truth. But everyone is so freaking tired
of that. It's like, dude, just don't say anything
instead of lying to our faces about, oh, it's
doing great, we're improving, and he's doing
this great. Shut up. Tell us the truth or shut
your mouth. Say something diplomatic like, well,
we've got a lot of work to do, obviously, and
in the offseason you're going to see a complete
rebuilding. We promise you a different team in
the near future. Yeah, I think Pete Carroll is
so far out of it. No one trusts him. No one respects
him. Most of the players on the team are thinking,
Pete who? Yeah, yeah. I think he's a nice neighbor
to have. Yeah. That's about it. Yeah, he'd be
fun to have over for a couple of burgers and
beer. He'd mow part of your lawn. He'd be like,
yeah, I only have to do those four swipes, but
you know what? He doesn't have to do the side
of his house, and I'm already there. He's that
type of guy, just a great guy. But I think the
coaching thing is going. I think that ship has
sailed. He ought to be happy that he is a winner
in college and NFL. Yeah, and the fact that he
was so – in favor of Chip Kelly as offensive
coordinator. Well, that's another good one. And
he was an utter disaster. That reflects on Pete
Carroll big time. That's another good one that
I completely spaced off. Okay, anyhow, yeah.
So I think Pete Carroll should go. Gone. Kevin
Stefanski in Cleveland making bad choices, bad
decisions. Oh, he'd be the first one that I'd
let go. If I was in charge of the whole NFL,
he'd be the first one out there. Yeah, yeah.
I think he's had his chance. And not, he's just
not doing things right. Him and Matt Nagy have
the same plane ticket. Yeah. Right next to each
other. Yeah. Send them off to, what is it, Bismarck,
North Dakota. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Go find a high
school team there to ruin. Oh, yeah. It was just
like my Dave Tobe little skit that I do. Yes,
yeah. Yeah, Cass Sherwood, watch out, here I
come. Okay. And then. Gosh, what about the Jets?
I don't think you fire anybody in the off. I
mean, they already fired their coach, and they
got an interim coach in Tennessee. But the Jets
is, yeah, but then you fire their owner. The
Jets has so much wrong. I don't think you worry
about the head coach at this point. There's so
much else is wrong. When you get a team that
you can actually operate on. Then you worry about
the head coach. Right now, just let him be. Let
him take the hits. Let him take the bruises and
the bumps. And I think the head coach that you
want is not going to look twice at the Jets in
their current shape. No. They're like, no, no,
you guys need to do some work first, and then
I'll consider you. Let's say that by some stupid
reason the Chiefs let go of Andy Reid, and the
Jets call him. He ain't picking up that phone.
Who wants to ruin their legacy by wading into
that? overfilled cesspool. It's not the player's
fault. It's partly the front office's fault.
It's probably partly the team culture. A big
chunk is the owner's fault. You're in this monstrous
city of New York. Well, they're in New Jersey,
but they're representing New York. All the ingredients
are there to be a sensational team and capture
a lot of the media spotlight. They just blow
it year after year. I'm trying to remember the
last time the Jets were actually relevant as
a strong, powerful team making a playoff push.
And the only thing I can think of is mid-'80s,
I remember they were doing really well. I remember
a point that, yeah, many testicles was good.
But back around, what, 82, when they first started
keeping sack statistics? Oh, yeah. And they had
Mark Gastineau. Yeah. Oh, he was something else.
They called their defense the sack exchange.
The sack exchange, yeah. Instead of the stock
exchange. Yeah. I mean, I remember one time they
were 10 -2, and they were rolling. Gastineau
had big guy swagger. Yes, he did. Yep. He was
one of those guys that I say they sweat ham chunks,
but they still get the chicks. Yeah, until he
ran across Brigitte Nielsen, and she basically
castrated him. Oh, shit, yeah, I forgot about
that. She ruined him. I think she pegged him
every night. Oh, I think so, too. He went from
a big fun guy to, I don't want to talk about
it, just like a matter of nothing. I'm now this
albino bitch's bitch. I never got the appeal
of her. I always thought she was ugly as sin.
The sex must have been phenomenal. That's the
only thing I can think of. She must know some
techniques that just, like, are off the hook
or something. I guess. That's the only thing
I can think of. Yeah. I mean, Stallone was all
over it for a while. Oh, yeah, yeah. She doesn't
spit, obviously. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. All right.
So that's my semi -bullet points, and then...
Okay, I like those. I mean, I like it whenever
you come up with stuff because you've got such
a different personality than me. I like your
semi -bullet points or bullet points. It's good.
I think I have a couple more things on football
scattered in here, but we can get to them. Okay.
Here is the one and only, as far as I can tell,
and looking it up over and over and watching
other stuff. I've got the SF pole, pole, a little
readout here. We'll go into a little bit later,
but okay. This is the only scenario. for the
Chiefs to make the playoffs this year as far
as I can gather. Yeah. Unless, like, one of the
teams just collapses, kind of like Indy is going
to do, but they're on here. So, one, they have
to win out, which I'm not convinced at all. I'm
not convinced. They might beat the Titans and
the Raiders, but the Broncos and the Chargers,
I don't see it. So not the way they're playing.
Okay. One, win out. Two, the Colts have to lose
twice. With Daniel Jones out for the season and
then Meyer and Phillip Rivers, kind of as an
indictment to what's going on over there. Yeah.
The remaining schedule for the Colts are the
Seahawks, 49ers, Jags, and the Texans. That's
tough. Yes. With a brand -new quarterback, that's
tough. They're going to lose probably all of
them, I think. They can win one. They might win
one, and it might be against the Jags or the
49ers, depending on how the 49ers show. Yeah,
those two teams are kind of up and down. Yeah.
Number three, the Chargers have to lose to Denver
in week 17. You know, talking about it, and that's
it. Talking about it, that's not that out of
the ordinary. I think the most difficult part
of that whole scenario is the Chiefs winning
their last four games. I think so, too. That's
the part that just I can't get past. If Denver's
still in it, I see Denver beating the Chargers.
I see the Colts losing at least two easily. But
the hardest part of it is, like you said, the
Chiefs have to get out of their own way and actually
finish a game. Yeah, this season so far we've
averaged win one, lose one. Yeah. That's how
the season has been going, and I don't see it
changing. And even during last weekend's game,
the announcers kept saying, you know, the Chiefs
are in playoff mode. They tell each other, yeah,
this is more like playoff mode. We have to win
every single game from here on out. And they
sure didn't do it Sunday, did they? Exactly why
they shouldn't be in the playoffs. Playoffs?
Thank you. That's probably why they shouldn't
be in the playoffs this year. Yeah. They need
to go home and they need to think about it in
January. Yeah. And then also it forces the higher
-ups to do something else. Yeah. Not just put
a little Band -Aid on. Yeah. No. Yeah. They don't
really like to say rebuilding anymore in the
NFL, but retooling, redesigning. Look how they
parked. Somebody needs to go to remedial parking
school. That's awesome. That is kind of funny.
You wouldn't happen to know where that person
was, that car I just hit? No, whose car did you
hit? The black one right here. That's me. Yeah,
I just came in too wide and just hit you. Oh,
shit. We better pull this on pause for a second.
All right, a little fill -in while Mark is out
there in the parking lot. Some guy pulled in
and apparently swung wide and hit Mark's car.
And then he backed halfway out and left his car
sitting halfway out. We were making fun of him
as not being able to park, but it turns out he
hit Mark's car. So Mark is out there taking a
look to see what kind of damage he's done. Yeah,
we'll see where it goes from there. And it looks
like the van that hit his car belongs to a business.
So instead of an individual on an individual
type auto, this is like business versus individual,
which gets more complicated. Mark is coming back.
He doesn't look too angry. I'm telling everyone
you don't look too angry. He's buffed out a little
bit. But I'm going to get all this information.
And I've just been through this with that dumb
bitch that hit me in the parking lot at Whataburger.
Yeah. And it's a couple hundred dollar thing
is what it is. Yeah. I notice there's a business
name on that van. That makes it a little different.
And we're back. All right. Okay. Now that that's
done, I forgot where we were at. That's exciting.
I kind of forgot. I think we were kind of done
talking about where. Yeah. Okay. Oh, okay. We've
got a couple more things for football. Okay.
So, Daniel Jones is out for the season. This
is likely to happen, the rain and schedule. We
went over it. Oh, that's right. We were talking
about the scenario to make the postseason. Yes.
I'll see him. That doesn't work, does it? No.
Okay. So, I mean, it's very possible. But like
you said, the hardest part is seeing the Chiefs
all four, winning all four games in a row. They
haven't won two games in a row all season. Oh,
my God. They're going to have to double it against
quality opponents. Yeah. I do not see that. Yeah.
Because the LA Chargers are looking for a playoff
spot. The Broncos are. Yeah. Raiders aren't.
No. What was the fourth? Titans. Titans, they're
not. So, yeah, two of the remaining teams are
definitely in the hunt, so they're not going
to lay down. And the other two, the Raiders want
to beat us just because it's us. Oh, they'd love
to knock us out of the playoffs. That would be
their decade if they knocked us out of the playoffs
finally. Playoffs, playoffs. And the Titans,
it would be a boost to them. It's like as bad
as our season sucked, at least we beat the Chiefs
this season. So each of the four opponents is
going to have extra motivation to beat the Chiefs.
And so far I haven't seen the Chiefs get any
kind of extra motivation at all this year. Little
flashes here and there, but no sustained. Everything
has been a must game the last three games, and
I've seen nothing. Nothing. The only one that
I saw a little bit of anything in was the Colts
game, but that was a whole lot of nothing too.
That game was horrible, too. They just happened
to come out on top somehow. Yeah, yeah. Took
over time to do it. All right. Yeah, yeah, it
did. So, all right. Let's move on to Jalen Hurts.
Good, because that's what I had next. He looks
horrible suddenly. Yeah. Did the word get out
about getting pressure straight up the middle?
Yeah, yeah, I guess so. And it seems like. The
criticism of their offense of being pedestrian
and ordinary and kind of dumbed down looks like
that's the truth because he threw four interceptions.
I mean, he threw, wasn't the last one the game
loser in overtime? Yes. So you take away their
ass blast or their butt blast. They haven't been
able to do that very much lately, which warms
my heart. Yes. Now the people figured out that
the only way for them to get it done is to cheat.
Yeah. But they're all over the Chiefs. Yeah.
The Chiefs are the bad guys. Apparently so. But
they're off sides every tush push. No big deal.
Yeah. I don't know how the Eagles turn it around
at this point because they're like in a free
fall, and it looks like the league has figured
them out and is sharing the information. It's
like, oh, you're playing the Eagles next? Well,
here's what we did. Yeah. It's a copycat leak.
Paper tiger. The Chiefs are looking like a paper
tiger. The Eagles are looking like a paper tiger.
The Chiefs have a run of five, no, six, five
championship games and three Super Bowls to show
for it. The Eagles have one Super Bowl, been
there twice. Yeah. Under this run. Yeah. They
were there again in the 70s under Dick Vermeule,
lost to the Raiders. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Sorry.
I think Jalen Hurst definitely has the skills
and the ability and the brain to do it. I think
he's being hamstrung in part by his offensive
scheme and play calling. Yeah, I think so. I
think in a lot of ways the coaching staff is
letting down the team. I think so, too. They're
capable of better than this. Nick Sirianni, I'm
not a big fan of his anyhow. Not really. But
if he can turn this around, you know, that'll
win him points. But if he can't turn it around,
this will be an easy way to get rid of him if
they want to. I mean, I know it sounds absurd,
you know, right off a Super Bowl win and everything,
but I don't know. It seems like the team is,
like, really kind of, like, collapsing. So we'll
see how he handles this. It's going to be everything,
how they handle it. That was the term I was going
to use, late season collapse. Yeah. It doesn't
look good either. I mean, their collapse wasn't
just like the Chiefs were a combination of, like,
very close losses. These are like just. They
just started playing like shit. Yeah, they're
just getting their ass kicked. Yeah. Just getting
their ass pummeled. Yeah. At least this one,
they got it into overtime, but they still blew
it. Yeah. So, Philadelphia fan is probably. tearing
the walls down at this point trying to figure
out what the hell went wrong with their team.
Oh, I'm sure they are. And I'm right there with
you. I have no idea really what's going on with
the Eagles. I know they're playing like crap
and the coaching staff isn't doing anything to
fix it. No, I know. Yeah. All right, so we both
feel exactly the same way with the Eagles. You
got something? Last thing I had was Shadur Sanders
is looking decent. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's still making a few mistakes here and there,
but he's looking good. He's going to throw three
touchdowns and ran for another. Yeah. So I'm
starting to get impressed with Shadur Sanders.
I'm thinking that Cleveland's starting to think
maybe we should have started this guy a little
earlier in the season. Well, there was all that
debate anyhow. Yeah. People thought that Shador
Sanders should have been up there starting in
the first place. Because no one thought that
Dylan Gabriel should have been ahead of Shador
Sanders. So I don't see what it is about Shador
that everybody had such a problem with. I'm talking
fans too, not just people behind the scenes.
I didn't see anything that looked that out of
the ordinary. He's not walking around with an
entourage. He's not going around doing stupid
shit like fucking wrecking a car in Dallas and
running off or something. It's like the attitude
towards Shadur Sanders seems to be he's not grateful
enough just to be here, so we don't like him.
I don't get that at all. No, maybe it was the
reaction of his dad and how pompous he was being.
jerk he was trying to throw his weight around,
but don't blame Shadur for what his dad did.
I think part of that was that. Yeah. Because
I heard a lot of the undertones from what I could
gather was this right here. You were our friend,
now you're not. Yeah. And I'm talking about Dion.
Yeah. Because he's an agent now. Yeah. So he's
their enemy pretty much. Yeah, and I'm sure he
used everything he learned from all his buds
and then suddenly turned it against them when
he turned agent for his kid. Yeah, so they're
kind of like, that's all right, we don't want
your kid. Yeah, yeah. And I think there was a
bit of a coordinated effort to punish Dion by
punishing his son. I think so too, but I think
that's changing right now because suddenly you
get people not saying anything, which means they're
starting to change their mind and waffle. Yeah.
So, I mean, it's going to take a couple more
games. But he's better than Gabriel, I can tell
you that. Oh, and the interesting thing is, what's
his name? The guy that they bought in place of
Mayfield from Texas. Deshaun Watson. Deshaun
Watson is supposedly due to return this week
or next week. Yeah. Is Deshaun going to take
his job? God, I hope not. I hope not either.
I want to see Shador. Deshaun should be let go
and never. They should just banish him from the
league. Yeah. I mean, if they really wanted integrity,
that's what they'd do. Yeah. So. The interesting
thing I saw was Shandon Sharp, the guy who wrecked
his career because he wanted to hump an OnlyFans
girl. Oh, yeah. He opens his big stupid mouth
and says. Well, the Cleveland Browns are setting
Shadur Sanders up to fail by having him start
these last few games. They're just setting him
up to fail. They want him to fail and run him
out of town. I did hear that, and I'm like, what
are you talking about? What an idiot. A start
is a start. It's Shannon Sharp trying to get
back into the spotlight, trying to get attention,
trying to revive his career by saying stupid,
undefensible shit. Yeah. I liked him better when
he was hammering old Skip Tarnan. Yeah, yeah.
You know, being Skip Bayless' spanker. It was
a good job for him. Every day he had him over
his knee going, no skip, skip, no, no skip, no.
I think this is his attempt to try to become
relevant again and get a career going. I agree.
I think everybody should just be done with Shannon
Sharp. You know, his heyday was what, late 80s,
early 90s kind of thing? Yeah. 30 years ago.
He basically knows about as much about how the
game is played today that I do, and I've never
played. So when Sharp played back then, it's
a completely different game now, and for him
to pretend he knows what's going on any better
than the rest of us, eh, he doesn't. He's just
a loud mouth. Yeah, I agree. And his brother
Sterling was always twice as smart. Oh, yeah,
yeah, twice as good. Yes. Sterling didn't have
as long a career as Shannon, but, my God, his
stuff in Green Bay, some of those catches. Yeah.
I remember that one game where it was a snow
game, and he thought he had crossed the goal
line, but he hadn't. At the last second, he jumped
across, and then you could see just this grin.
You couldn't see anything else inside his helmet
from that distance, but you saw his teeth grin,
and he's like, oops. It wasn't like the college
player. If you can remember his name, it would
be awesome. But he started doing the scoot to
the end zone after he, like, I think it might
have been a pick six. Yeah. And he's almost to
the end zone, and he has the ball out on his
side. And one of the guys from the opposing team
ran up and slapped it and got it away from him.
Yep. I can't remember who that was. Yeah, I remember
seeing a clip of like five or six players this
year in college football who either did that
or dropped the ball before crossing the goal
line. Now, what's the point of trying to drop
the ball the instant you cross the goal line?
Is this supposed to look cool or nonchalant or
like you just don't care that you scored a touchdown?
I think it's designed to go, this is every day.
This is me. I don't have to do anything. But
I think it's funny as hell when they drop the
ball early and they look around like, huh? What
do you mean it wasn't a touchdown? I'm in here.
Well, look where the ball is, dumbass. It's over
there. Look at this instant replay. Yeah. I don't
care who it is. I'd bench them for fucking three
weeks after that and say no. I'd have them cleaning
out the... toilets in the locker room with his
own toothbrush. Yes. While someone's taking a
dump in the stall next to you. Yeah. And you
get to smell and hear. You think you're hot shit?
Let's cover you in hot shit. There you go, buddy.
Alright. You got more? That was about it for
sports. Okay, I've got some more sports stuff.
Let's see. You want to do game predictions? Yeah.
All right. And then I have the S of hole. I got
a rundown on him. I'm trying to take a look at
last week. I had Cowboys over Lions, Steelers
over Ravens, Bears over Packers, Texans over
Chiefs, and Eagles over Chargers. Okay. I missed
the Eagles one. I can't remember if the Steelers
beat the Ravens or not. Yeah, they did. So in
that case, I was four out of five. Not bad. Yeah.
I didn't keep track of mine at all, so I don't
know. I can't remember. I can't remember either.
Somebody will tell us in the comments. Yeah,
they will. Or email or something. Someone will
email us. Now I'm giving out the email more,
so it's not going to be the same ten people fucking
with us. I actually got some fresh ones from
people I don't recognize. And don't get me wrong,
the Rosses, as much as it hurts me to admit,
Mitch, even though you hate me, Keep emailing
your fucking... Let's see. Oh, Clint, he doesn't
email me anymore. And I just kept rewording his
emails into something he didn't say. And I think
he's just like, fuck this. He's not giving me
anything anyhow. All right. The Ravens versus
the Bengals in Cincinnati, noon December 14th.
I'm going with the Bengals. And I think it's
going to be lopsided. I think they're going to
smack the shit out of the Ravens. I would agree
with that. I think Ravens are another team that's
on the way down, and Joe Burrow still has enough
left to prove that he could jump into this game
and do some serious damage. I love our team,
and I love Mahomes. I never want to get rid of
him, but I would like to see one game with Joe
Burrow in our system. Oh, wow. One game. Wow.
That would be interesting. I mean, well, no,
he'd come out injured probably. Well, that's
true. Yeah, he'd get hit. Yeah. Remember they
give us twice as many linemen, you know. Yeah,
that'd be nice. Everyone else gets five linemen.
We get ten. I'm still for everybody wearing the
same jersey with the same number for one game.
There you go. Oh, I love that. I think that'd
be awesome. There was, what was it, Indiana who
played Iowa State the other night. Their quarterback
and their kicker had the exact same number, 15.
Really? And I thought, wouldn't that be clever
if you could sneak one in in place of the other?
Like you line up for a field goal, and everyone's
out there ready to block the field goal, and
it's like, oops, that's the other 15. I didn't
know they had the same number. That's Mendoza,
or I think his name's Mendoza. Anyway, number
15 for Indiana. Put him in there in place of
the kicker, and they won't notice because he's
the same number. It's like, oh, wait, damn, he's
throwing. Hang on. I like that idea. Yeah. But
would you have to report them? I wouldn't think
so. I think either one would be eligible. Yeah,
that's right. How about the Chargers versus the
Chiefs, noon December 14th at Arrowhead? I'm
actually picking the Chiefs on this one. I'm
going to go ahead and take the Chargers. Okay.
I'm saying the Chiefs are going to actually do
fairly well, and I think they're going to win
by 10 points. I could see that. I'm just angry
at the Chiefs, so I'm going to pick the Chargers.
Look, are they going to win all four games out?
I don't think so. I just think they're going
to win this one. Yeah, this might be the only
one they win the rest of the year. Well, they'll
tax the Titans and the Raiders. That's true.
I think they have a better chance of beating
the Titans or the Raiders than they do the Chargers.
But if they lose this one and lose it badly,
that's just going to be it. Yeah, that's it.
I don't think they'll win another. No, I don't
either. I think that you're not going to see
a full effort from anybody after that. I wouldn't.
But I'll get a better draft pick. Why not? Yeah,
why go out there and injure yourself and shorten
your career when you're not going anywhere this
season anyway? Hey, maybe Buffalo will trade
with us this time and give us a couple extra
draft picks, and they'll take a worthy. That'd
be good. That'd be good. That'd be all right.
The possibilities. Yeah. All right. The Lions
versus Rams, December 14th, 325 p .m. in L .A.
I'm picking the Lions, believe it or not. Wow,
I'm going to check the Rams. I'm glad we're...
I'm going with upsets here. And like I said,
my stuff is just feeling. That's all, nothing
else. Kind of like Andy Reid. I just feel it.
I'm feeling it. I'm just feeling it. Therefore,
it must be true. I don't know, feeling cute.
Might go from fourth down here. Yeah, why not?
Fourth and 50? Hell yeah. Wait, let me flip a
coin and see if I want to do this or not. Yeah,
it seems like a donut. All right, so you're going
Rams or the Lions? I'm going Rams or the Lions,
yes. Okay. The Colts at the Seahawks, 325 p .m.
December 14th. I'm picking the Seahawks by 12.
Yeah, with a new quarterback. Who is our quarterback
now? Gosh, I don't know. If they let Brissette
go with Brissette, I think they'd actually have
a chance of winning. I don't know. Maybe they're
planning it. Because they generally have to have
three. Two in an emergency. I agree. Let me see
here. Wow. Dear Indianapolis Colts, sell a few
of that guy's guitars and get a new quarterback.
Yeah, S. Ray's old guitars. His daughter doesn't
want them anyhow. We know this. She doesn't play.
Who is the starting quarterback for the Colts
now that Daniels is injured? Not Daniels. Jones.
Daniel Jones. Riley Leonard. Yeah, everybody's
going Riley who? Yeah, I'm going to go by 20.
Yeah, I think the Colts are going to have a tough
game. Seahawks aren't that great. I mean, they're
still in the running there in their division.
They're actually in first place, aren't they?
Yeah, I guess so, but it's... I know what you
mean. The Rams are in first place, but they actually
have a winning record. Yeah. But, like you...
I just don't trust them. No. Sam Darnold? Yeah.
No. It's going to be like Minnesota last year.
Yeah. You get to play the big boys, and they're
going to stomp your ass. Yeah. That's what's
going to happen. Pretty sure. Yeah. So, all right.
So, we both have the Seahawks by large. Yeah.
Packers and Broncos at Inves Field, Denver, December
14th, 325 p .m. I'm going to pick the Broncos
in a very, very close matchup. I think so, too.
I think it's going to come down to a blocked
field goal. Oh, yeah. A late fumble. I would
hope there would be a little bit of a weather
factor. It doesn't have to be rain or snow, but
just cold. And if the Broncos lose, I'm going
to go out on a limb here and say it's going to
be because Bo Nix finally makes a mistake in
a crucial situation. Oh, wow. Wouldn't that be
something? I can see that happening about right
now. We're getting into the season. You get tweaked.
You get, you know, people start doing things
differently. They start analyzing you more. They
have almost a full season of the guy. That's
true. They have last season where he wasn't quite
what he is this season. So I kind of see. He
could make a crucial mistake, but I'm going to
go that he's doing just enough, like he has been,
to win the game. But the Packers are no joke,
and Micah Parsons, I almost want to go with the
Packers because I don't think that Bo Nix has
seen that type of pressure that a Parsons can
put on him. Yeah, yeah. A second -year quarterback
versus the kind of veterans they have on Green
Bay's defense is a recipe for disaster. Not necessarily,
but yeah, like you, I could see it. I'm still
going to go with the Broncos too, but I would
not be surprised at all if there's a couple of
key mistakes and the Broncos lose big. Yeah,
exactly. I couldn't say it any better. That's
exactly how I feel. And I think if the Broncos
do lose, Bo Nix is going to make a late game
mistake, fumble, interception. not seeing a receiver,
getting sacked, trying to run around, something.
Yeah, forcing a ball in, something like that.
It's not that I'm hoping for the Broncos to lose
because I actually think Bo Nix is an awesome
quarterback and is going to be even better. I
want to have the AFC West full of good teams,
which pushes the Chiefs to become a better team.
You're getting your wish. I'm getting half my
team. Half my wish because the Chiefs aren't
getting better. Look, every year the Chiefs have
done good. They've had fierce competition. Fierce
competition. Not like the Patriots used to do,
walk through their division, sleep through it.
No, they've had stiff competition every year.
So I'm the belief still that that makes you a
better team, fighting and scratching and clawing.
Yeah. All right. Do you want to go into Esa Pole?
Yeah. All right. He is our new left tackle. Left
tackle starter. 79. I didn't know whether to
call him a starter. I guess he's a starter. I
would call him a starter, yeah. I would say he's
the starter now. Yeah, he's our new left tackle
starter. He's from not playing the sport until
he reached college to advancing from an undrafted
free agent to a roster spot in his rookie season.
To the period in his first NFL game in the Chiefs'
loss, 2010 loss to the Houston Texans on Sunday,
Pohl's football career has just been, like, extraordinary.
Yeah. He was an undrafted free agent from Washington
State and also played with the Chabot, I believe
it's how gladiators in France, Chabot, I think
is how you pronounce it, Chabot. Chabu? I don't
know. I'd have to see it. I think it's Chabu.
C -A -J -B -U -T? Yeah, it would be Chabu. Yeah,
Chabu. The final T generally isn't pronounced
in French words. Yeah, so it would be Chabu.
The 24 -year -old offensive tackle played his
first game in the NFL Sunday night against the
Texans, which is the number one ranked defense
in most defensive categories. And they're the
ones that made Buffalo Bills tackles look stupid.
Yes. Yeah, they did. Yeah. So, ESSA played a
solid game. So, pro football focus, or PFF, in
performance data, Chiefs versus Texas, week 14,
2025, pressures slash sacks allowed around three
to five. Yeah. Quarterback pressures allowed,
with some reports citing five pressures. It depends.
I mean, it could be looked at as five. If you
look at the film, it could also be viewed as
three, depending on who all was there and a lot
of different things. He gave up no sacks. Yeah.
So the total snaps, 63 out of 64, 98 % of the
offensive snaps. He swatted away star pass rusher
Daniel Hunter effectively. Yeah. Overall grade.
He's praised as a bright spot, indicating potential
future starter or key depth. He looked comfortable
and very capable. This guy looks like a key find
as we try to salvage this dismal season. Yeah.
He looks like a cornerstone. And left tackle
is such an important position, too. Yeah. I'm
hoping this is a guy that a couple years from
now will be saying, Wow, remember when he just,
like, you know, got in on a fluke? And, gee,
what a great find. I hope we're talking about
him in that way in a couple years. Gee, we're
so glad that he got in and we discovered what
a great player he is. Yeah, Morris getting hurt.
I don't know if Yonway Morris would have actually
done a better job anyhow than what was going
on with him in there. Them having to switch things
around and putting Esa Pole in there, I think,
actually worked out pretty well. I think you're
probably going to see the same thing for this
scheme, too, with a lesser defense, a good defense,
but lesser than that. Yeah. I don't remember
hearing Yonway Morris' name a whole lot, good
or bad. So I guess he's doing, you know, okay.
He's doing okay. Jawan Taylor, you keep hearing.
I was still hearing his name. No, I know. Jawan
Taylor, he's a really good player, just the discipline
part. Yeah. Yeah, he just doesn't have the discipline.
So it kind of reminds me of Dee Ford. Oh, yeah.
He could not keep his damn knuckle off of that
line. Cost us a Super Bowl. Yeah. How hard is
it? To look and see how far over your arm or
how far back you're lined up and stuff. Yeah,
you know, so, yeah, it's not that hard. And they
got him back the ultimate way is trade him to
San Francisco after signing him to a good contract
and then beat his ass. Yep. In the Super Bowl.
Okay, so Patrick Mahomes had a horrible game.
Ugh. But. As of week 13, not the one that we
just completed, going into the Sunday night matchup
with the Texans at Arrowhead, he has 3 ,238 yards
with 22 touchdowns. Well, now it's 10 interceptions
for a 96 .5 rating. Now it's a 91 .2 rating and
a 67 .8 completion percentage as well. Mahomes
projected stats for this year are 4 ,587 yards
with 31 touchdowns. And I'm going to go ahead
and beat that up to probably 13 interceptions
instead of 10 because he has 10 right now. Yeah.
Put all that together with a solid 96 .5 rating
at the least. With a couple 300 -yard games,
he could reach that magical 5 ,000 -yard season
if he has a couple. Okay. So pretty much all
the current quarterbacks would be ecstatic to
have these type of stats. Oh, yeah. This is an
offseason. Yeah. And it's amazing how everyone
thinks he's playing shitty when actually he is
not. Yeah, it's like Joe Burrow in Cincinnati.
When the team wasn't doing well, people were
forgetting that Joe Burrow was still there doing
everything he possibly could and playing well.
The only difference is he started calling out
teammates. Mahomes did not. Okay, so let's see.
They seem to take a slap in the face comment
as a challenge. I don't know if that's quite
there right now. Yeah. That was one of their
high spots was they're like, go ahead, say whatever
you want. We're going to prove you wrong on the
field. Well, I got this for these idiots like
this little bitty show called Craig Carton. That
fucking idiot, he has a very small show on X
or something. Allegedly has a show. And this
is my opinion. But you say this for eight fucking
years and now you're saying you're a success
for predicting the downfall? What a fucking moron.
That guy needs to shut his fat fucking mouth
and keep his ugly face off the internet. Yeah,
that's such a cheap trick is you keep predicting
something over and over and over and over and
over. And people will remember the one time you
were right and forget about all the times you
were wrong. I'm going to say every night this
winter we're going to reach zero degrees. And
one day I'm going to hit it. I'm going to go,
see, I told you. Wow. You must be one of them
psychics. Hey, you're another Gene fucking Dixon.
Google it. You should go buy a lottery ticket.
Yeah. I feel like smacking people saying, go
buy a lottery ticket. No, you go waste your fucking
money. Leave me alone, dickhead. No, I can do
math in my head. I'm not buying a lottery ticket.
Yep. All right, so he's not having that bad a
season is the whole point. I got more stats,
but he fucking cares. Rookie left tackle Josh
Simmons is out after having wrist surgery. Jalen
Moore will assume his duties. Jalen Moore has
done a solid job. Yep. He's done good holding
down the fork per se. Josh Simmons needs to come
back and pick up where he left off. Yeah. With
an SF pole and maybe a couple other additions
to offensive line. They might be much better.
I couldn't see him getting very much worse. But
you know what? I'm not going to tempt him. Yeah.
All right. Well, I don't know. How long have
we got on this? An hour and 20. All right. Do
you want to do some bullet points? Yeah, let's
do some bullet points. Okay. You don't have anything
else, right? I'm ready for the music reaps over
here. Oh, okay. All right. All right. All right.
Believe it or not, in most key stats, offensive
and defense, except for sacks, the Chiefs are
better this season than last. What is the problem?
Gosh. It's the little things, isn't it? Lack
of critical execution. Yeah. Last year, that
fourth and three, they didn't do it. This year,
they're doing it every time. Last year, that
third and 12, forget it. This year, they're making
it. Yeah. That is what's going on. Lack of critical
execution. On defense and offense. Both. There
are a lot of times on offense that. I've seen
blowing plays badly that last year they would
have been no sweat. How about Kelsey? He had
a good run after that catch that he gave to the
cornerback. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, he gave up that
interception on him. Yeah. If he would have caught
and ran, we might have won that game. Yeah. So.
And he's caught a million balls like that, just
all of a sudden he can't catch them anymore.
So weird. Bouncing off his hands. There's got
to be something about his psyche. There's got
to be something deep ingrained in his head. Yeah.
I think this stardom shit and everything has
kind of got to him, and he didn't even realize
it. What it looks like to me, I mean, if it were
me behaving that way, I would think it was because
I'm distracted. My mind isn't on what I'm doing.
It's scattered. It's all over the place. I'm
thinking of anything else than what I'm supposed
to be doing right now. It's pretty easy to get
distracted with the kind of lifestyle that he
has now. Yeah. And I'm sure that when he leaves
practice or goes home at the end of the day,
it's not like he's thinking totally about football
and not thinking at all about Taylor and their
life and the glittering, the travel and all that.
He's thinking about that all the time. Anytime
he has a bad day on the field, he's like, God,
it was so nice last year when I was on tour with
Taylor. Or when things go real crappy and he's
hurt, he's like, geez, if I weren't playing football.
I think that's a lot of it is he's having a lot
of time to think about how great life might be
without football because he's discovered now,
oh, look, I can have this wonderful life with
Taylor. I don't need football anymore. That's
true. I also wonder if he wonders how come his
brother became a bigger star than him overnight.
Yeah, that's a really good point. You bring that
up is because that's an example right in his
face every single day is look how happy Jason
Kelsey is. Yeah. Having a great time. He doesn't
have to worry about money. People love him. He's
smiling. He's grinning. Travis is probably looking
at that and going, if I could have that. He could
have had that this year by quitting last year.
Yeah. Yeah. Well, I'd hate to think of what this
offense would be without him. I know. There's
nobody ready to take his place. I mean, if they
went to a four wide receiver instead of a three
in the tight end, that still wouldn't do it.
If he retires. They're going to have to do something
different. They're going to need a free agent
tight end right away. They're going to have to
draft a tight end right away. And a damn good
one. Yeah. And if that's not panning out right
away, then, yeah, they're going to have to change
their offensive style big time. Did you remember
a scan disc? Yeah. No, I did not. I did not either.
Oh, well. Oh, well, we'll do it. Yeah. Okay.
Okay. All right. Will Aaron Rodgers retire finally
after this season? I'd say so. I think so, too.
I think it's done. Yeah. I think that when Joey
Bosa face -planted him in that one game, I think
Aaron Rodgers stood up thinking, yeah, I don't
want to do this again. I thought he was going
to walk off the field right there. No kidding.
I'm not doing this anymore, guys. Will Rodgers
possibly end his career with a playoff win? Or
better? Yeah, I think they can get one playoff
win. I think they're going to be playing a wild
card that's probably not that good. So, yeah.
Yeah, I see that. Yeah, they could be playing
the Chargers maybe or the Ravens. If the Ravens
win the division. They could. Pittsburgh could
play them as a wild card. Yeah, they've been
kind of trading places. I think the Ravens are
cooked, but I've been wrong many times before.
But the Ravens still have a spoiler game in them
to screw up somebody else's. playoff chances.
Yeah, I think so too. Speaking of retirement,
what's your feel on Travis Kelsey and his possible
retirement? I think he should. I think he should
stop at the end of this year. The Chiefs would
probably do a little better by having him stick
around, but we're not going to move on until
he quits. The Chiefs aren't going to figure it
out. They're going to, oh, well, he's coming
back. Let's try to do what we did last year.
No. The Chiefs need that kind of wake -up call,
rip the Travis Kelsey Band -Aid off, and start
dealing with life after Kelsey. I mean, they
should already be planning for life after Mahomes.
Yeah, I agree. I mean, they should be doing that
now. I'm sure they're not. I could see possibly
Kelsey wanting to come back after such a miserable,
disappointing end to the season. It's like, I
don't want to end my career like this. This sucks.
But I just get the strong feeling that this is
the last we'll see of Kelsey. I think so, too.
I agree. And I think that, like, he's to the
point where he's like, well, I'm chasing that
one final glory. He's not going to get it next
season, not the way this team looks. No. And
next season could be just, you know. So much
worse. He could get injured in like game three.
And it's like, is that how you end your career?
On injured reserve? I think he's going to go
five Super Bowls, three wins, I'm out. Yep. Love
you. Bye. Yeah. It's been great. Love you, KC.
But Taylor and I are off. I don't have this down
here, but I just thought of it, and I think it's
a valid question. Is him and Taylor staying here
after he retired? No. They're going somewhere
else. Yeah. Yeah. If he wasn't involved with
Taylor, I could see Travis staying here or else
going wherever his brother is based. I think
they're going back to Cleveland if it's not him
and Taylor. Yeah. They love Cleveland. They've
always said it. Yeah. All right. Will Josh Allen
make it far in the playoffs if he makes it? Yeah,
I think so. I think this time if they get their
shit together and do the right plays and do the
right game plan. they actually have a shot at
making it to the Super Bowl. Excuse me. Yeah,
I can see the Bills no question being able to
beat anybody else that's in the postseason run
at this point. I think the team that will give
them the most problems are either going to be
the Packers or the Rams if they make it. Yeah,
within the division getting past. New England
is going to be their toughest challenge. That's
the biggest thing right there, and I'm not sure
they're going to do it. They play New England.
Is it this week or next? No, no, it's not this
week. I think it's next week. And they play them.
Did they beat them in New England already, and
now they play them at home? That sounds right.
Yeah, well, Mike Vrabel is no joke as a head
coach. He's proven that. Drake May is throwing
lights out. Yeah, he's turning out to be the
good choice there. Yeah, he looks like a starter.
He looks like a definite superstar right now.
He's making critical plays. He's making them
off balance. He's making them one -footed. He's
making them in the air. He's doing everything
that a superstar does as a quarterback. Yeah.
So we'll see. I mean, this is going to be an
epic rivalry for years to come if Drake May continues
like he is and Mike Brable stays coaching like
he is. Now, I wouldn't put any – wait on whether
or not the Bills win this regular season game
against the Pats because he'll probably, the
coach in Buffalo, blanking on his name. McDermott,
Sean McDermott. He will probably take a page
from Andy Reid's playbook and say, we know we're
going to meet these guys in the playoffs, so
we're not going to show them anything. We don't
care if we lose this game because we're going
to be wild card anyway. So we're not showing
them jack. we're going to save all of our good
plays for postseason. I can see that happening
very easily. Even if the Bills lose to the Patriots
and look pretty pedestrian doing it, don't put
any weight to that. That's going to be on purpose.
Well, and also I think they're going to look
at the remaining schedule there in Patriots and
figure out whether they need to win it or not.
And they're also going to look at the ball card
standings and figure out whether they need to
win it or not too. Yeah, being able to get a
home field for your first game would be pretty
big. If they're playing a division winner in
their first game, they're not getting home field
anyway. Well, if the Patriots' only obstacle
is just them, then they might consider maybe
not showing them hardly anything at all. Or I
do think they're going to show them something,
but not what their true game plan against them
will be. So I agree. I think a really attractive
AFC championship game for me right now would
be Denver and New England. with young quarterbacks
on both sides, up -and -coming team on both sides.
To heck with these old guys that we see in the
championship game every year. Mahomes we've seen
a million times. Josh Allen we've seen a million
times. Lamar Jackson we've seen. Joe Burrow.
Let's get some new faces in there. Denver and
New England. Two quarterbacks that have never
been to the championship game before. That would
be an interesting thing to watch, wouldn't it?
I would like to see that. And either one of those
games would be capable of winning in a Super
Bowl, too, against the best the NFC has to offer.
Capable, not likely. Yeah, capable. Capable.
That's the operative word, capable. Yeah. All
right. Will Allen, is this Buffalo's chance?
that the Chiefs are not in their way. Yes. This
is a big opportunity for them, and whether they're
saying it out loud, I don't know, but they've
got to be thinking it pretty hard. They've got
to be thinking it. The Chiefs are out. The Ravens
are out. The Bengals are out. Our path is clear.
We've got to do it this year. Yeah, because the
two biggest ones that they have problems with,
the Bengals and the Chiefs, are both probably
not going to be there. Yeah. I think Bengals
for sure. I think they're out of it now. Yeah.
And the Chiefs, even if by somehow they squeak
in, they're going to be nothing. They'll be a
walkover. I don't see them doing anything. Yeah.
Okay. As of right now, who would you look to
replace in the Chiefs organization? We already
went over that. We don't have to. We already
talked about it. Yeah. I would reiterate that
offensive coordinator. And then I would get Brett
Beach an assistant because he's missing on a
lot of people now. Yes. And he's also made the
decision to go the cheap route too often. So
I think he needs someone in there to check his
decisions and kind of rat him out to the owner
and say, oh, look what Brett's doing. I thought
you should know. Yeah. I think like probably
what happened to John Dorsey. Yeah. So, okay.
I think that... I think that he needs an offensive
and defensive assistant. I think the Spagnuolo
gives him a lot of input, as in the rookies that
played last game, like Williams, that have done
such a good job. It looks to me like they might
have drafted pretty well on defense. So I think
you need an assistant with an offensive touch.
Maybe that's John Gruden. He wants to get back
in. I've heard of teams having quality control
coaches, and it seems like that's basically,
you know, you're the offensive coordinator, but
I'm the quality control, so I'm going to watch
what you do and try to find where you're having
a blind spot or missing something. Yeah. And
I could see them being very valuable for the
Chiefs to have an offensive and a defensive quality
control person. To say, no, no, no, no, you don't
see this because you're in it every day, but
I'm looking at this trend and you need to do
something different here. That kind of thing.
No, I agree. Someone who can see the bad habits
forming. We're exactly on the same page for this.
Okay. All right, we went over what coaches need
to be ousted. In your mind, you know what, that's
not. We've covered that too. We've covered so
much stuff. Some of these bullet points are just
like... We just kind of wind up talking about
it anyway. Yeah, we did. Generically, we talked
about a lot of this stuff. If Andy Reid would
retire at the end of the season, what coach would
you put in his seat, dead or alive? Doesn't matter.
You can reanimate any coach you want. Wow. I
know. Wow, I'm going to go really old school
and say Don Correale. Woo, Air Correale. Air
Correale from the old San Diego Charger days
back when he had Dan Fouts. Dan Fouts, yep. He's
still number one at Super Bowl. Just about every
pass was at least 30 yards in the air. That was
something to see. It didn't win a Super Bowl,
but it was a hell of a thing to see. It was exciting
as hell, and I think Mahomes could probably do
it at least as good as Dan Fouts did. I think
he could do it better. Dan Fouts, I don't know,
he kind of became a bitter old man. Yeah, he
was definitely a product of his time and the
scheme and situation. He was a much better quarterback
there in that situation than he ever would have
been anywhere else. I don't think he did much
of anything. Just like the guy from Green Bay
that Favre replaced. Makowski? Yeah, Makowski.
He didn't do anything anywhere else? No, no,
but he was kind of a product of that. He was
the right guy for that system, but then a Hall
of Famer came up. Yeah, Brett Favre was an even
better guy for that situation. So Makowski went
to several other places and didn't do it. So
I think the same thing. All right, let's see.
I love this. Where is that noise coming from?
We've got a poltergeist concrete sawn. It's a
leaf blower down there. Oh, it's a leaf blower.
Okay. All right. The Bengals. Almost there or
scrapped the whole thing. Are they a full season
from Burrow making a run? Yeah, I kind of see
them in the same boat as the Chiefs. They need
a significant kind of... purge and rebuild. You
can't do more band -aids. You can't just keep
throwing, cobbling it together, saying a couple
more players and we'll get it right. You've been
telling the team that for too long, Chiefs and
Bengals, and so both of them need significant
changes. Yeah, I agree. Okay. Burrow needs He
has the receivers. He has a couple of running
backs that are serviceable and good. So would
you say their main problem is offensive line,
kind of like us? Yeah, yeah, because that helps
to keep Burrow from getting injured, which whether
it's his fault or not, he gets injured a little
more often than other quarterbacks do. Beefing
up the O -line and getting some faster happening
plays will help with that. Yeah, offensive line
would definitely do the Bengals a lot of good.
And they could use a little more help on defense
because teams are scoring a lot on them. Oh,
yeah, you give up 38 points when you should have
won the game 35 to 30 or something like that.
Yeah. And you allow a team to come back like
you did against Buffalo. They seem to have Buffalo
on the ropes a couple of times and then just
let them back in. I know. They look just like
the Chiefs on that. Yeah. It's kind of like,
okay, we got them now. And then, no, you don't.
The NFL doesn't want a game that's a runway early
in the game, so they will have the officials
do things to let the other team back in and keep
it close. Agreed, 100%. Until you get to the
fourth quarter, and then they kind of let it
go wherever it's going to go. But they kept making
sure that Buffalo wasn't out of it. I agree.
And whether Cincinnati had any say in that or
not, I don't know. It could be that they just
told Cincinnati, it's like, all right, Buffalo's
going to score on this drive. Make it look good,
but they're going to score on this drive because
we don't want them more than two scorers away.
I think that happens a lot. It must be totally
demoralizing for the team to go out there and
do all that stuff right, and then the officials
come up and say, no, the network wants the other
team to get back in and make their close game,
so expect it. Expect some bad calls. You fall
down in pass coverage, that kind of thing. I
agree. Good. There's every financial incentive
to do that, and there is zero legal problems
with doing that. They can legally fix games because
they're not a sports franchise. They're entertainment.
Just like a TV show can script anything they
want for the actors to say, the NFL can script
games and have the players do whatever they want.
There's not a damn thing any of us can do about
it. And I still say this. If you bet the NFL,
you're a fool. Absolutely. It can be swayed.
It can be influenced at any time. Why would you
want to do that? Do you think that this entity
that has all this gambling going on, you can
call them or thank whatever you want? Yeah. Do
you think they're going to allow that? They're
going to make sure that everything is skewed
towards them. Yeah. The NFL made the decision
a long time ago. between having a fair, open,
and honest game or making shit tons of money.
And we know which one they chose. And they aren't
going to let fair, open, and honest competition
get in the way of making money. They're just
not. That's what they're there for, and that's
what they're doing. All right, and Chicago Bears,
are they for real? I kind of think they are.
I think they are, too. Last year I thought Minnesota
was for real, and then they just wet themselves
in the playoffs. I think Chicago's been through
a lot more and been through tougher situations.
I think Chicago looks for real, and I think they'll
win at least one game in the postseason this
year. They've got the right people to do enough
things to make them successful now. And then
now it's just a matter of building. Do I think
they're a Super Bowl team? No. No, not yet. It's
possible that they could wind up there through
circumstances, but I don't see them going into
the postseason and pushing their way through
and making it there. Yeah, we're here. I don't
either. It could happen, but it's not going to
be because of force of will. I agree. And finally,
will Caleb Williams be a starter in five years?
Wow. I like that question. I do too. I'm going
to say yes. Emotionally, yeah, I want to say
yes. I really hope so. I hope he continues to
improve. I think. And I hope in five years he's
the guy that everybody's worrying about. Yeah.
Well, I could see flashes of that. Now, I don't
know if that's going to happen, but I could definitely
see him being a starter, if not with Chicago
somewhere else. Yeah. I mean, how many fans,
how many. Chances did Trubisky and Fields get
before they're pretty much not around anymore.
Like the Jets, if the Jets oust you, you have
problems. Yeah, that had to be so embarrassing
for the Bears to go with Trubisky over Mahomes
and then have to dump him, and then he can't
even catch on anywhere else. I know. It just
drives the point home that it was the wrong choice.
And you all, there's wrong choices. It's not
an exact science. But the Bears do it over and
over and over at quarterback. That's the problem.
They keep blowing their quarterback pick. There
are four quarterbacks deep of the high picks
and not doing anything with them. Yeah. But Caleb
seems to have caught on it. Go ahead, I'm sorry.
I was going to say the Chiefs learned their lesson
after drafting Todd Blackledge. in the first
round. And Steve Fuller. They're like, oh, we're
not good at this. And so they didn't draft anyone
in the first round until Mahomes. Yeah. There
was no first round quarterback. They waited forever.
But when they did, they did it right. But what
they did in the meantime was get everyone else's
rejects. Yes. Yep. The Steve Boneheads. Yeah.
The Steve Boneheads and the Elvis Girl Scouts.
Yeah. Dave Craig was okay. He did all right.
Yeah. Old Fumble -itis. Yeah. Small hands. Yeah.
Old small hands Craig. Yeah. Oops. Was that the
football? Yes, it was. I thought it was a beach
ball. It was so big. Son of a bitch. Did I let
go of that again? Go golly. It was Derek Thomas'
fault. Yes, that bastard. All right. That's all
I got. You ready? All right. Well, I guess we're
going to go into the music creeps here in a minute.
Yeah. All right. So anyhow, everybody, thank
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