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going to be talking a lot of Chiefs, of course.
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you. Thank you. You're welcome. I'm glad he left
the lid off. That'll help cool down a little
bit. Probably ten minutes before I can take a
drink. So, we got some Chiefs stuff to talk about.
A lot of Chiefs stuff. Yes. But first, like on
the way down here, we were talking. I'd like
to go into Jim Harbaugh. Yes. And his dirty hitting,
in my opinion. Oh, my gosh. I mean, that's like
throwback from 20, 25 years ago when the teams,
you know, were doing Bounty Gate. You had teams
like the Houston Oilers. Look them up. Yeah,
Google it. The at -the -time Oakland or Los Angeles
Raiders. Wherever they were. Detroit Lions. They
all had the reputation of hitting you to injure
you, knock you out of the game because they wanted
to play against your second and third stringers.
Well, like you brought back. Look at Michigan
and the shambles he left that in. Oh, my God.
Their head coach is fired, arrested, in jail.
I know. He's having an affair with one of the
staffers, raised her salary from $58 ,000 a year
to $99 ,000 a year as soon as she started sleeping
with him, and then he's going after somebody
else, stalking her, breaking and entering into
her home. Yeah. This is the guy that Jim Harbaugh
hired, worked next to, and thought the world
of, and left the team to him. That tells you
what Jim Harbaugh is. Reminds me of Sandusky
and Joe Paterno. Yes, it does. I know this is
going on, but he is such a good coach. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Allegedly. Allegedly.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I don't like Jim Harbaugh.
I never have. No, he does the poor, confused
old grandpa look from the sidelines with his
big, giant glasses and his squinty face and his
mouth open. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's a piece of
shit in my opinion. Inside his head, he's Hitler.
His apology meant nothing. Nothing. No. You go
out and try to fucking murder somebody, and they
come out and go, I'm so sorry he was hurt. And
while he was apologizing, he was writing the
check to the player for the bounty on Mahomes'
left knee, which everybody knew was injured.
Everybody could see it. You could see it two
weeks leading up. Yeah, I even talked about it
on the podcast. Look, I've had knee problems
for a while now because of my old job and those
dirty pieces of shit. They didn't care if they
tore your body up. They just wanted money. Okay.
The thing is, is I am no stranger to knee problems.
And I identified this probably three weeks ago.
I know that sideways feather ginger walk. Yes.
I know that too well. And like you said, they
all have bone specialists on their team. Yep.
They all have all these advanced doctors. And
they all looked at it and said, yeah, that guy's
knee is fucked. Now, Mahomes' knee didn't blow
out right then because of a hit. It blew out
just because he did what I did. Remember what
I did going up these spiral stairs? Yes. About
a year ago, and I couldn't walk for almost a
week? Mm -hmm. That's what he did. You planted
it sideways just enough to where it tore the
tendons. Yeah. Mine didn't tear, luckily. Yeah.
But I definitely felt it. Yeah, with Mahomes,
it was ACL and LCL complete tear. Yeah, yeah.
So there's different ways. Jim Harbaugh, we agree,
is a piece of shit. Yeah, yeah. The ninth year,
I'm sure everybody has seen this because it's
been publicized everywhere. The ninth year, but
it was only the first game, and it was involving
the Chiefs, where Matt Castle had to take over
for Tom Brady, and they missed the playoffs that
season. Playoffs. Yeah, there we go. So, okay,
that being said. This is the ninth season of
Mahomes. They both have three Super Bowl rings,
and they both missed the playoffs in their ninth
season. Just a little bit different in the timing,
okay? All right. Now how Mahomes responds to
this is going to mean his future to me. Yeah.
Because Brady was not – he was a game manager.
He was not – we've always said this. When he
first came in the league, it was Bill Belichick's
defense. Yeah. And Brady just knew enough not
to fuck it up. Yeah. And I'm pretty sure that's
what Belichick told him. He said, all right,
boy, this is your shot, but don't mess it up.
Yes. Don't take that shot that you don't know
a la Minshew. Yeah. Okay? So don't take that
shot that you're unsure about. We're going to
run a lot, and we're going to play ball control.
Right? Okay. So. Go ahead, because I've got so
much to say, I'm just going to keep fucking talking.
It does seem like an odd parallel. And as you
were saying, Mahomes is more of the playmaker,
take the team on his back, spectacular kind of
guy that Brady wasn't at that point. And we'll
see how Mahomes' game changes. Because he's not
going to make it back by game one of next season.
No, no, no. He's probably not going to be back
until sometime in October. Yes. And his game
is going to have to change. And even when he
comes back, he won't be 100%. He won't be the
same. It's going to take until the second year
for him to get back to healthy again. Well, I
don't think we're going to be that in contention
anyhow next year. I really don't think so, no.
We start off $48 million over the cap as of right
now. Now the cap goes up every year, and I understand
this. And there's things they do to kick the
can down the road, you know. So there's things
they do to kick the can down the road. But the
problem is a lot of our can kicking has come
due. And we have these players that are rotten
on the vine, per se. And we're paying them a
large amount of money now. So like every team,
the NFL is designed like this. It's like, do
great, do great, do great. Oh, fuck, we can't
do it now. We owe everybody everything. They
talk about it openly in baseball. You spend everything,
you pretty much blow the budget to try to build
for a winning team this year, and then you know
you're going to suck for five years. And baseball
just knows that, and the fans know it, and everybody
knows that they just do it because that's the
way it works. The Royals did it. They finally
won the World Series in 2015 after how long of
an absence since 1985? 30 years. Yeah, 30 years.
So they finally won the World Series in 2015.
It took them nine years to get back to the playoffs.
which is not unusual, and I think the NFL is
going that way. Right now there are a lot of
teams better than the Chiefs and don't have to
do as much work as the Chiefs. Well, I look at
it as the Chiefs and a lot of other teams need
rebuilding, some work, some improvement, et cetera,
and all the teams are going to do it, some with
more success than others, but I see the Chiefs.
starting from farther back than a lot of other
teams in the AFC. So they're all going to improve
themselves too. So just the Chiefs improving
doesn't mean enough because the other teams aren't
sitting still. And the Bills are going to improve,
and the Bengals are going to improve. The Bengals
are just sure. Well, who knows. But all the teams
giving us trouble, the Texans are going to improve.
All the teams that gave us trouble this year,
they're going to get better too. So we've got
to get better plus some. The Texans are my dark
horse now. Yeah. I'll tell you what, they are
gelling at the right time. And now C .J. Stroud
is throwing. Oh, my gosh. He looked like Mahomes
did a few years ago. He did. It's a type of just
– and Caleb Williams threw some amazing passes
too against Cleveland. Caleb Williams has just
been off the hook. And he's not a flashy guy.
He's not going to throw for like 390 yards, 400
yards. Yeah. He's just doing what it takes. Yeah.
There's a lot to be said for that. I'm so grateful
that all of our fears seem to be misplaced about
Caleb Williams in Chicago. They're managing not
to destroy his career. And they have a running
game, and they're winning, and they could win
the division, especially now that Green Bay is
decimated. Yeah, Green Bay, yeah, Parsons is
out, and then they have another couple people
out too. They are not... They were my dark horse
in the NFC. Now, I don't know. They don't have
enough, I don't think, anymore. You see, if I
was a believer in Sam Darnold, I would go with
the Seahawks with their defense. But I am not
a believer in Sam Darnold. We saw what he did
last year in Minnesota. Yeah, he's going to wet
down his leg. So, you know, you're talking about
the Chiefs and people lapping them in Chicago.
Yeah. Do you want a comparison of the Eric Biennium
years? Two, I've got it right here. Nice. Two,
current. 2018 under Eric Biennium, Mahomes had.
And I didn't do 2017 because he had one game.
He was at the starter, and they threw him in
there just to get some work. Get us all excited
about him. Yes, which he didn't do. He looked.
Average? Yeah, he did. But next year, he made
up for that. Okay, 2018 under Eric Biennium,
5 ,097 yards, 50 touchdowns, and 12 interceptions.
And I'll just wait a second here. Somebody's
peeling a child. Yes, yes. They've got his skin
mostly off. Yeah, yeah, yep, still happening.
Yep, yep. So, anyhow, I mean, I don't know. We
could tap dance maybe while this is going on.
I could, yeah. We could tell knock -knock jokes.
Yeah, yeah, knock -knock jokes will work. You
know why dogs can never tell knock -knock jokes?
No, why? Because the first one says knock -knock,
and then they just both start barking. True,
true. So, okay, so under Eric Biennemi, 2018
is first full starting season, 597 yards, 50
touchdowns, 12 interceptions. He had a rating
of 113 .8. Yes. 2019 under Eric Biennemi, 4 ,031
yards, 26 touchdowns, 5 interceptions, 105 .3
rating. Yeah. 2020 under Eric Biennemi, 4 ,740
yards, 38 touchdowns, 6 interceptions, 108 .2
rating. 2021 under Eric Biennemi, 4 ,839 yards,
37 touchdowns, 13 interceptions, 98 .5 rating.
2022 under, hey, how you doing, Franco? Under
Eric Biennemi, 5 ,250 yards, 41 touchdowns, 12
interceptions, 105 .2 rating. Now let's go to
Matt Nagy. All these three are under Matt Nagy
since Eric the Enemy left. 20 -23, 4 ,183 yards,
27 touchdowns, 14 interceptions, 92 .6. That's
good. Touchdown -interception ratio, I've been
keeping track on that. It was excellent for Mahomes.
It was like 10 -1, 6 -1, 5 -1. Those last two
years, it was 4 -1. Yes. Under Matt Nagy, now
it's 2 -1. Part of it is... the league catching
up and figuring out Mahomes, but a one -year
jump where the ratio of touchdowns and interceptions
is cut in half. Yeah. That's a problem. There
is, and that's lack of coaching, I believe. 2024
under Nagy, 3 ,928 yards, 26 touchdowns, 11 interceptions.
It's about two to one again. Yeah. Two to one.
93 -5 interception. Now, current. Now, this season's
over for Mahomes. Yeah. 2025. Under neck. 3 ,587
yards, which is very respectable, I have to add
that. Very respectable for this point in the
season. 14 games in, yeah. Yeah, yeah. So he
could have easily got well over 4 ,000 yards,
which is a very good season for most quarterbacks.
Yeah. Now, you're saying two for one. 22 touchdowns,
11 interceptions. Two to one. Two to one. 89
.6, which is not respectable. So not only, I
mean, the touchdown to interception is going
to hammer your rating, but other things too,
the number of incompletions. Which he has a ton
of. Yeah. Which shows you right there, there
is lack of belief in your offensive line and
your running backs. The Chiefs have got to come
out and admit, because this is what I'm thinking
anyway, either Mahomes isn't as good as he used
to be and he's falling off the cliff, or the
team. Management is letting him down big time.
The front office is not doing what they need
to do, what they should do, what they have been
doing, and they're wrecking Mahomes' career.
It's one or the other. Either Mahomes is fading
or the Chiefs organization is wrecking his career.
I've got a slightly different take. Every quarterback
that's in the Hall of Fame right now. Okay, think
back to Brett Favre. Yeah. His first... Seven,
eight seasons, a monster. Yeah. And then because
of the league catching up with you, he was pedestrian
for probably ten years. Yeah, he started getting
attacked for throwing these stupid interceptions.
Yeah. Which, you know, the first few years, that
was worth it because he was still winning the
games. How about Aaron Rodgers, if you want to
still talk about Green Bay? Same thing. First
five, six seasons, amazing. Then all of a sudden
the league caught up with him and also the salary
cap doesn't look nearly as good. Don't have the
weapons. This happens to every prominent quarterback
that's going to, and Mahomes is going to be in
the Hall of Fame first ballot, no doubt. If you
want to go back in time, Dan Marino was the same
way. His first few seasons, his first or second
season in the league, he made it to the Super
Bowl and they lost. And he had amazing passing
numbers and completions. And then it all just
started fading away because the rest of the league
figured it out. He got it older. He got more
frustrated. It wasn't nearly as fun anymore.
It's the perfect storm of everything. What leads
to more of a mediocrity career is because of
that right there. All these factors and others
that we have no idea about because we're not
there. Also, I think that's part of it right
there, is the league is definitely caught up
with. So this is where... It comes up with the
chiefs to respond to this. Yes. They have to
look at themselves and have an honest review
about what's going on. Yeah. But I'm not so sure
that's going on. Yeah, I wonder about their ability
to honestly look at themselves and make the painful
changes they need. I don't think they really
have the stomach for it. They're going to have
to show me by dumping some prominent people.
Some people, they're going to make you go, what?
Like Chris Jones. Yes, that's what they need
to do is do shocking, surprising moves. That's
the only thing that's going to work. I mean,
absolutely. They need to Jerry Jones it. Yeah.
But not. A little bit more intelligent than that.
Yeah. And you've got to tell your front office
when you're doing it too. Yeah. You don't just
do it and just be like, oh, oh, by the way, Micah
Parsons will not be suiting up. I went ahead
and traded him to the Packers. What? Yeah, deal
with it. Yeah, and they're out of playoff contention
from my understanding now because they lost.
So, all right. This is, and I want your interjections
on everything. I'll pause, and I want you to
come back with this. Okay. I don't think you're
that far off like a lot of people do. Not really,
no, because they still have a lot of really good
players who've worked together for a long time,
and that's a big part of it. You put in some
new people here and there. If Mahomes was done
and gone and we had to start all over a quarterback,
that would be a lot tougher. But he's coming
back, and even though he would physically be
as good right off the bat, his brain is still
there. I hope he talks to Tom Brady. They're
friends. They're good friends. I hope he calls
him up and gets advice. Yeah, that would be a
good idea. Because I'm pretty sure Brady will
tell him, that was my clue to stay in shape better
and really make a run. Quit taking so many chances.
Quit taking so many chances. Yeah, I mean, it's
part of its ego, part of its reality. Look how
well the team does when you're playing and look
how well they don't do when you're not playing.
So take care of yourself because the rest of
the team needs you and quit running around and
flinging your body all over the place. Yeah.
Well, his comment was he felt he let everybody
down. He needs to stop that. Well, he's letting
people down by taking stupid chances. Bingo.
That's what's letting people down. Yep. By throwing
the ball away, getting the fourth down, and having
Ariza come in and punt, that's not letting the
team down. No, no it isn't. That's the front
office and the coaching staff letting the team
down. Yeah, and it's just like I go back to the
fourth and three pretty much, even though they
called it a one. Yeah. Fourth and three from
your 30 -yard line when you're tied at home with
eight minutes to go. And your defense is playing
so well that it's okay to punt. You'll get the
ball back. Yeah, you know, and the defense probably
looked at each other and said, what the fuck?
Yeah. I would have. And they are adding so much
fuel to the fire for the people who believe these
games are fixed. Because what other stupid reason
is there other than it was to make the game turn
out the way it did? If you bet on the NFL, I
still contend you're a fool. Yeah. The games
are influenced so heavily that you're not going
to have the spread. If they don't want the spread,
they'll get rid of it. And the reason they get
rid of it is by non -calls like happened in the
game. Yeah. Like someone, I mean, all over. There
were two real controversial calls in the Bills
-Patriots game that pushed the game the Bills
way. Yeah, because they want that. Yep. Josh
Allen is their pet. Yeah. They want him to win
bad. And it shows in their decision making. Yeah.
And maybe Mahomes was like that at first too.
I'm a homer. So, I mean, I like to think I'm
realistic, but I can't remember that much. Mahomes
might have got a little hug too at the beginning
also. Yeah, the first few seasons he was definitely
getting the gentle treatment from the officials.
You walk by and sneeze on him and they're going
to call you for roughing the quarterback. Well,
all that's changed. All that has definitely changed.
So I start off with this. The defense is looking
at Leet again. We have a bunch of youngsters
in there like Williams. Which is great. It is.
So we need to build on that. Okay. We need to
become a run first for real. Yes. For real. Strong
running game. You go out and either buy or draft
or a combination of both these people. No more
Aliyah Mitchells that are just going to rot on
the practice squad or on the roster. What a waste
he was. Yeah. He got into like one or two games
that I can remember and said, yeah, how much
money they pissed away. Mm -hmm. And they let
P. Ryan go. Yeah, P. Ryan should have been kept.
Yeah. And they shouldn't have even looked at
Mitchell. Or a lair. Oh, a lair. A waste of a
roster spot all season. A lair still burns my
ass. He must have pictures of somebody that he's
threatening him with. How else does he manage
to stay on the roster, eating up a roster spot
and contributing jack? Yeah. Oh, I don't get
it. Yeah, contributing nothing. Listen, I know
they like the guy and he's a fine person by all
accounts, but this is business. Business. Yeah.
Hey, next time that, you know, listeners are
out there. and they need to take an airplane
trip some way, don't get a qualified pilot who
knows what he's doing. Just get a nice guy that
you want to hang out with, and that'll be fine.
That's good enough. That's the humane thing to
do. Next time you need open -heart surgery, just
pick your best friend. Don't get that asshole
doctor who thinks he's better than you but knows
what he's doing. See how stupid that sounds?
True. Very, very true. So I think run first,
strong running game. Special teams, they need
a new coach. Oh, God. They have the talent. I
think they do, yeah. I think Vince, they have
the talent. Remigio, who else is this? Smith,
Thornton. Williams. Williams, yeah. He's getting
in there and doing some stuff. But, yeah, they
need somebody with a completely different mindset
on special teams. Yeah. I wonder, you know, special
teams also governs the kicking game. So I wonder
how much of Butker's problems relate to the special
teams coach. I would say a lot. Because the hate
he got for when he spoke out about his family
values was one thing, but that faded pretty quickly.
Oh, yeah, and Dave Tobe is obviously a liberal.
I wonder how well that pans out in the locker
room, too. Yeah, yeah, because when he got criticism
from Trump, and there's a long history of U .S.
presidents weighing in on the NFL. That's not
a new thing. That happens all the time. But for
Tobe to... totally sidestep that and pretend
it was about something else. Oh, I know. It's
just stupid. No, no, no. It was wag the dog at
its finest. You know what Trump said? It's like,
no, we're talking about your job and your people.
It seems like somebody who said, let's get Dave
Tobe out in the media and have him say whatever
the people want to hear. It's like have him pander
to the Trump haters. I question that, though.
We have so many... The Chiefs have so many fans
in Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, rural Missouri, Arkansas,
parts of Oklahoma, northern Oklahoma. Why would
you, that did not get him any favors like he
thought. There are some industries where you
can take sides. Like, you know, if you're a rock
band or you're an author or you own a small donut
shop or something. But like you're a football
team or your business makes and sells, you know,
office equipment. It's stupid to publicly take
sides on anything. I know, and he did that just
to take the diversion. A diversion. Look over
there. Quit looking at my job performance. Let's
all focus on who we hate. Yes. He thought it
was going to work, but all it did... It's so
transparent. Yeah, everybody's just like me going,
shut up. Yeah. I'll give you another example,
too, about presidents weighing in. Wilmington,
Delaware is a suburb of Philadelphia, and that's
where... Joe Biden's from, the ex -president.
He was on the sidelines of the Philadelphia game
wearing one of their hats because he is from
that area. Yeah. Okay. That's common practice.
Yeah. That is common practice right there. Nobody
said anything about that, although I did piss
some people off. In the comments, I put, who
put his hat on for him? I got a little bit of
heat for that, but it was just a joke. I mean,
you know, the guy drools. So, anyhow, bad taste
maybe? I don't care. That's what I do. Yeah.
Yeah, so get used to it. Strong running game,
running game first, special teams. Need a new
coach, we have the talent. Yeah. Chiefs need
to be a more physical team. Very much more physical.
We need to have bigger backs. And also. to counteract
the bullshit that went on in this last game of
delayed hitting. You come out there and do that
to Justin Herbert three or four times and just
knock the piss out of him. Yeah. And there you
go. Yep. Yeah, get any defensive linebackers,
yeah, but corners and safeties, get ones that
hit like a bulldozer. Yes. Like Albert Lewis
used to hit. Oh, Albert Lewis. Like Deron Cherry
or Kevin Porter used to hit. These people I remember
from the 80s. They would knock your mouth guard
out in every hit. And it was a clean hit. They
just hit with a ton of force. The Chiefs, the
whole image I get from the Chiefs defense is
they're doing a good job, but the first guy never
makes the tackle. That's something they have
to work on, and I think that's going to be part
of the coaching right there. And how many times
did the other team, the first guy not only makes
the tackle, but he blows up the ball carrier?
Yeah. Chiefs haven't done that more than a handful
of times this season. Oh, I know. They're starting
to do a little bit more as we go on, but it's
a little too little, a little too late there.
So Spagnuolo, you have to keep him. You don't
get rid of him. But you have to get some new
coaches in there under him that coach better.
You have to coach them to finish a tackle and
not just like, oh, no, fingernail it. What can
happen? Almost, almost, no. I got a hand on them
and slowed them down a little bit. Yay, you get
the sticker on your locker. Yeah, yeah. Yeah,
there's got to be a better way of doing it. And
I also think that there needs to be a change
of certain personnel. But we've got grades coming
up, so we'll go into that a little bit later.
And here is my whole thought on everything. And
this is a system, almost in a nutshell, defense
being good, maybe elite, maybe not, but close
to. Defense holding people to 20 points a game,
like they have been, or 19, or I think now it's
like 18. That's fine. 18 points a game, you should
win a majority of them. Yeah. No big deal. So,
all right. You have to have a first -run team
with a strong offensive line. With Mahomes only
doing magic when needed. Yes. Not all the time.
That puts it in a really good nutshell. It seems
like he's approaching every single play as if
it's, you know, got to make this play or the
season's over. Yeah. And remember we were talking
the other day about how women can smell desperation
on men? Yes. When it comes to dating, it's the
same way on the football team. The other team
can smell the desperation on the Chiefs, and
they're going to take advantage of it. So that
attitude of every play has to be a spectacular
game winner, you've got to knock that out of
a home's head. Well, the way you do that is because
you've got to correct the wrongs that are going
on right now. You have to correct them. You have
to get a strong defensive line to where he's
not running for his life constantly. Does it
really show – do you think it shows that Mahomes
doesn't trust his own offense? Yes. That he has
to do everything and make all these extra efforts
and run for his life and stretch and put himself
in harm's way because he doesn't think the other
ten guys are going to get it done. Yeah, I agree.
That's how it looks to me. That's what it looks
like to me too. Yeah, so you've got to build
up the trust again in Mahomes that the other
ten guys out there know what they're doing and
can do it and can get it done without him having
to make every play. Yeah. That's going to take
a bit. Well, they're going to have to coach that
out of him, which is not going to be easy, because
right now the first thing he does is run out
of the pocket. Yes. When there's time or not,
he runs out of the pocket. And ever since a guy,
it was Romo that mentioned it in a game a while
back, when Mahomes drops back, he goes through
his progression of receivers way too fast, and
he never comes back to anybody. It's like, bip,
bip, bip, throw, or bip, bip, bip, run, run,
run, run, desperation throw. And there's so many
times when the first guy he looks at, who's usually
his primary, isn't open yet, he moves on, but
if he came back, the guy's open now. And there
have been so many times when Kelsey's open, Rice
is open, Brown is open, but Mahomes doesn't bother
to even look. He's already dismissed them. It's
like they weren't open the moment he looked at
them, so for the rest of the play, they don't
exist. And that comes from no offensive line.
Yeah. That comes from that. Yeah, I don't have
time to come back and look again. I've got to
throw this damn thing as soon as I find somebody,
anybody to throw it to. Oh, God, now I've got
to run again. That's how he looks to me every
single game. Yeah. And his career is going to
last about two more years that way. Yeah, he's
got to. Two more bad years. Yeah, two more bad
years. They have to start protecting him. And
it's going to be, I don't know, his smart guy
has a lot of great instinct, despite what people
say. Yeah. I mean. Five trips to the Super Bowl,
three wins, I think that speaks for itself. Yeah.
But they're going to have to coach this out of
him, which isn't going to be real easy because
once you start getting those happy feet, it's
hard to unhappy them. Yes. As soon as you hear
footsteps, you're like, oh, shit, here it comes.
Yeah, it's going to be not only confidence in
the team, but confidence in himself to know when
to stand in, when to bail. And if he does get
hits, like, all right, well, they got me that
time, but they're not going to get me next time.
Okay, let's go to play calling real quick. And
I've got a great example. Okay, one of the reasons
we're not scoring nearly as many points is this.
Remember those wide open plays that no one could
get to you? You caught the ball before they hit
you? Yeah. That's not happening. No. We're not
fooling people. No separation. We had, look at
two years ago, the Philadelphia Super Bowl that
we won. Look at some of those plays where, like,
you had someone in the middle, wide fucking open,
no one around him, and you got the people baffled,
the commentators going, how did that happen?
There's not anyone within 100 miles. Runs in
that zone. You have someone right next to him.
He's hitting him as hard as he can. Half the
time the ball comes out, half the time he stays
right there. And then you got a third and goal
from the 12 because you got a couple of penalties.
So everything that they're doing. they're not
doing it correct right now. Yeah, yeah. It's
sad to see him hanging on to things that used
to work instead of realizing this isn't working
anymore and we need to figure out something else.
The play calling, I think, is exactly what it
is and what I said earlier. You don't worry about
those trick plays. You have a hard -nosed, Marty
Schottenheimer -type team that gets out there
and runs the ball, but Mahomes can do these Caleb
William things. That's what they're doing in
Chicago. Strong running game, and Caleb Williams
every now and then throws you a little magic.
And it has everyone go, whoa, where was that?
I've seen in a number of games this season on
play calling that they'll get into, you know,
a drive is going. They're about in the middle
of the field. And on first down, they try some
ridiculous bomb to the end zone. It's an all
-or -nothing play, and it usually winds up nothing
the way our passing game is going this year.
Oh, yeah. So now it's second and 10. And you
have a holding call. So now it's second and 20.
And they give the ball to Pacheco, who gets two
yards. Now it's third and 18. And it happens
over and over and over and over. The play calling
is so screwed up that they're getting into third
and long. And even when they get into, like,
third and two, third and three. They're still
not making it. He's still trying the long bomb
down the field. It's like, throw the ball for
five freaking yards and let's keep this drive
going. But, nope, let's gamble everything on
this long throw all the way down that doesn't
work. And it's like, oh, damn, well, here we
go. And all the rest of the drive is wasted.
Utterly wasted. Let's talk about Gardner Minshew,
okay? And you're talking about how going and
throwing the ball when you shouldn't. Mm -hmm.
That's what ended to the demise of the Chiefs
this year right there. Well, my home's going
down, but okay. Gardner Minshew should have had
that ball ran, and I'm pretty sure the play was
called in. He didn't do it himself. He's a backup
quarterback. So that play call was to throw.
Why? You're already at field goal range. Yeah.
Yeah. The object is to not turn the ball over
and give yourself a shot at winning the game.
They did everything but that. Yeah, yeah. And
I would even go as far as say call plays that
you are unlikely to commit penalties on. Yes,
that's the other thing. Running plays, generally
you commit a penalty on, don't you, Chiefs? They
do. Yeah, they do. Yeah. Yeah, the play calling
is... Horrendous. It's like they're out of touch
with what's really going on and how the team's
performing. It's like, well, if I just call these
plays, then they'll force them to step up and
perform. Uh -uh. I... I compare the Chiefs offense
to the guy that still drives around in a 1970s
van and wears really tight Levi's and a button
-up shirt and a bandana. He never did get off
the fucking pot. He stayed there. He stayed in
the 1970 fucking 7 or 8 or 1980. He stayed there.
The Chiefs stayed where they're at. They didn't
progress. And I get it. It's working. Keep doing
it. It's not working. You've got to recognize
when it stops working. I would hope it's recognized
now. Oh, gosh. And Andy Reid. He needs to not
talk so much anymore. He needs to just get out
there and do a Bill Belichick. Yeah. Well, we're
working on everything, and we've got a plan.
We're going to try to implement it the best we
can. Thank you. Bye. Yeah. Go out and say the
usual stuff that means nothing, and everyone's
used to hearing, and then leave. Yeah, and nobody
cares. They're just like, it's just Bill Belichick
saying nothing. Let's go. He's fulfilled his
legal obligation under his contract to show up
and talk to the press and answer the questions.
I love it personally. It's brilliant. It's like,
you know, I'll get out there. I'm not going to
say anything, but I'm going to go out there.
Yeah. Well, and I know how it spawned people
criticizing for everything he said, analyzing
every second of it. Holding it against you, saying,
well, three weeks ago you said this. What's changed?
And it's out of context. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. So
I get it. I definitely get that. So, anyhow,
I mean, yeah. You got something you want to go
into? Well, if we're going to stick on the Chiefs,
I'd be happy to go into the grades. Okay, yeah.
Go ahead, and then I'll go into mine. Overall
offense, I'm going to give them a C. Offensive
line gets a D. The stupid penalties, the lining
up offside, the false starts, the lining up too
far back, kind of stupid stuff. The running game,
I don't think it's the running backs' fault,
but the entire running game gets an F. They do.
The running game was basically unimportant and
didn't mean anything for most games. There was
a game or two where the running game was important.
The rest of the season was like, running game?
How funny. Yeah, yeah. So they get an F. A five
-yard pass is a run. No, it isn't. No. No. It's
a pass. Because an incomplete pass stops the
clock. A run stop for no gain keeps the clock
running. Yes. Big difference. Big difference.
So, okay. Mahomes is getting a C. That's the
same one I gave him, too, a C. The receiving
core gets a D. Little flashes of brilliance here
and there. Kelsey gets a D. The other two tight
ends get an F. Because as bad as Kelsey was playing,
the other two couldn't get him off the field.
No, I agree. Defense -wise, overall, I'll give
him a B+. Secondary gets a B. The linebackers
get a B to B+. The D line gets a D. Because for
all the talent and all the money, they are so
underperforming. I think you're being generous
with the D. Yeah, I think Guy Mills, well, let's
put a D minus. That's what I got. You paid those
four guys, or at least some of them, enormous
amounts of money. And despite the fact that a
lot of the teams get by just fine with a four
-man rush, the Chiefs couldn't. The four -man
rush never worked all season long. They had to
blitz two or three more people. The only guy
I've seen really kind of toting his weight out
there is Karloftis. Yeah, Karloftis is doing
well. He's doing as well as he can with virtually
no support from a Manahew and Jones. Yeah, he's
basically single -handedly, you see 56 in there
constantly. Yeah, I've seen him chase people
into Chris Jones' grasp. fails to make the tackle.
I've seen that several times this year. Yeah,
that worked last year, didn't work this year.
No, because Chris Jones couldn't tackle him this
year for whatever reason. Yeah, too much money
in his wallet. Probably. It's hampering his tackling
abilities. Yeah, yeah, it's weighing him down.
Special teams, F. Yeah. Butker, for the kicking
game, gets a C. Mm -hmm. The punter, Matt Ariza,
did great all season long. He did great. He gets
an A. He was awesome, yeah. I mean, he did so
many of these 10, 12 -yard line punts. Yeah,
every time you pin him inside the 20 is great.
Every time you pin him inside the 10 is, like,
super great. Yeah, but it didn't matter because
every time we stopped him at fourth down down
there, someone committed a penalty and gave him
a first down. So, you know, but still, yeah.
The punter seems like the highlight of the team
so far this year. Yeah, he is pretty much. The
punter and the secondary. Yeah, they're the only
ones consistently doing a good job. Consistently.
You got any more grades or is that pretty much
it? Coaching staff gets an F because they had
it all and they just let it all slip away. Yeah.
I don't know if it's ego or money saving or believing
their own press or... All. Yeah. Complacency.
Oh, we're good enough. Look how great we did
last year. We'll just do this, this, and yeah,
we'll be fine. With 50 % that. Yeah. 50 % that
and the other one's just like, oh, well, we always
find a way. We always find a way. Well, sometimes
you don't find a way. Yeah. And it's been proven.
And when you know all of your competitors out
there are scrutinizing every single play you
had the season before, and they have professionals
looking at it the way you have professionals.
Yeah. You know, they've got their medical staff
looking and seeing people's, you know, oh, look,
he's favoring this arm. Oh, look, he can't raise
his left arm that high. Like we talked about
Mahomes' knee. Yeah. They all looked at that.
All of it's getting analyzed and scrutinized.
They have psychologists and human behavioral
specialists who are looking at the body language
of the team and the coaches to say, these people
are demoralized. This guy's struggling physically
and mentally. Let's go after him. That's all
fair game. It's like the boxer who gets a cut
over his eye, his opponent hammers that cut over
and over. It's what you do. It's part of the
game. Yeah, so anything that's not illegal, other
teams are going to do to exploit the Chiefs.
Exactly. And even some illegal things until they
get caught. Yes, and it's a copycat league. One,
the Philadelphia Eagles in the Super Bowl exposed
some things. They figured it out. They sat back.
kept quiet, and sprung out. It's like you said
on the way down here, they showed the league
that the Chiefs are a fast team, but not a physical
team. Exactly. And all you have to do is crack
them in the mouth once or twice, and they start
crying. Yeah, and it was, I mean, it's not even
questionable. It was preponderance of evidence
right off the bat. It was, I mean, we knew the
game was over halfway in the first quarter because
of just the domination that they were giving
us. I mean, they were just like nothing. We didn't
have an answer for anything. Yeah, yeah. It's
like the big brother who's in high school, you
know. comes over where you and your grade school
friends are and just pushes you all around, there's
nothing you can do about it. That's how it looks.
And it's not like this season went off the rails
somewhere. It's like the whole season was this
way. When it started to cave in, the whole thing
fell through. It's good to remember the Chiefs
did not win two in a row all season long. They
have not won two in a row. If you ever wonder
what caliber that is, Look up the teams that
have not won two in a row through the years.
Look it up. Just go to chatbot. Yeah. And get
a list of all these teams and their final record,
and you tell me what kind of company that's in.
And the bad thing is that out of all those teams,
the Chiefs are probably the most talented of
the teams. That's the issue right there. That's
the issue. God. Of course, we could still – we
have – another couple of chances to win two in
a row this season. Because we have three games
left. We could win the next two or we could win
the last two. Let's say we've got the Titans.
Titans. Raiders. Raiders and then Broncos. Okay,
we might win both of those. So we might be able
to win Titans, Raiders, and then lose to the
Broncos. I'm kind of hoping. Or the Broncos are
probably going to be arresting everybody. We
might be able to beat them. Yeah, we'll probably
beat them. Like last year, opposite of last year
where they're just like, whatever. Except Cincinnati
won't be there to whine. Yeah. Yeah. You guys
do that on purpose. You don't want to face us.
It's like, no, we don't want to get our guys
killed, so fuck off. Yeah. You guys take care
of you. We take care of us. Deal? All right.
I got some grades here. Okay. All right. Overall,
offense gets an F -. Oh, yeah. Patrick Mahomes
gets a C. Travis Kelsey gets a C. Although he
is having a decent season, all the drop passes.
Yeah. Hollywood Brown gets a negative 50. Yeah.
Yeah, he was so much hype and so much. I never
did like him. Especially since Rasheed Rice was
going to be suspended. It was like, Hollywood
Brown, Hollywood Brown. Yeah, when they talked
about him and signed him, it was like, really?
That's what I thought. I looked at his numbers
over in Arizona and everything. Like maybe Antonio
Brown in his prime. Hollywood Brown, he's never
had that great of a fucking season. Never. I
don't know what they saw in him. At all. And
now I think it's proven right. We're like, why
did you hire this guy? Maybe another chief staffer
trying to show how clever he is by picking somebody
out of the blue and having it work out. Or it's
the only one they could afford, maybe. I don't
know. It could be a little bit of everything,
but it's not working. Xavier Worthy, see him.
Yeah. Rushie Rice gets an F. Yeah. And I'm sorry,
he's made some big plays, but he's also made
some bumbling plays. And also the fact that he
missed six games because of stupidity. Yes. All
that goes together, he gets an F. Yeah, yeah.
He chose to screw up this whole season from the
beginning. Yes. From his perspective. Uh -huh.
And as you said, the good plays he made are way
outweighed by the fact that he wasn't there and
the just utter disaster that really important
plays we needed and the ball would just bounce
off him. Yeah. Or he was like three feet past
where he was supposed to be. He isn't the automatic
that he is supposed to. And he was supposed to
be the franchise quarter receiver. That's what
the organization is saying. He looks like number
three to me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think Thornton
is way more likely to be a number one than Rice.
Yeah, and Thornton needs to get a little bit
better at ball handling. He can get open. He
can catch that catch. But you have to tuck it
in quickly before that guy comes up and hits
you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He still looks like the
rookie he is. He is. Well, he's not a rookie.
No, second year? Or third. He was with the Patriots
and they released him. Oh, that's right. That's
right. Okay. I'm thinking of somebody else that
was a rookie. No, I know who you're thinking.
Everyone thinks it's that guy, but it's not.
I know. I know who you're thinking of. No, he
was with the Patriots, and they released him.
That's right. I remember that now. But it doesn't
matter. I mean, still, we know what we have there.
And also, he's very young, so he's pretty much
a rookie because he didn't hardly play up there.
Yeah. So you could call him a rookie, really.
True. He gets a B -. Noah Gray gets an F -. Yeah.
He was supposed to progress and become a very
solid backup, if not the heir apparent. I don't
see that at all. Yeah. At all. Not even close.
I'm going to go to the offensive line. They get
an F -. Trey Smith gets a B. Creed Humphrey gets
a B -. And I like to say this. It could be because
they're overworked and asked to do too much.
They probably are as good as they're hyped. They're
asked to block three people. And you kind of
look silly trying to block three people. You
kind of get burnt trying to block three people.
Jawan Taylor gets a C. And the only reason he
was raised to a C is because they're definitively
better with him in there, even though he gets
penalties. When he's not committing a penalty,
he does a really good job on pass protection.
If they could tune him to at least cut those
penalties in half, he has cut a lot of them out.
But if they could get him to cut them in half,
he would be a very reliable... I think they need
to, before the game, have him make... fists out
of each hand and then wrap them completely in
tape where he's just got clubs and he can't use
his fingers, therefore he can't grab anybody.
I love that idea. The only way he could hold
would be hooking an entire arm around somebody.
But yeah, tape his hands up to where he can't
grab, he can't hold, he can't grip. And then
the fall starts. He's gotten better at that,
but he's got to get better at that too. But the
holding calls killed us. Yeah. His holding calls
were at the worst time. Yeah. Now part of that
is the officials are waiting because the officials
have said and journalists have said and hosts
have said and players have said they could call
holding on every play because holding occurs
in some fashion on every single play. Yeah. So
that tells me the officials are waiting until
it makes a difference, then they call it. That's
why I say if you bet on the NFL, you're a fool
in my opinion because the holding call is so
subject to the referee. Yeah. He could just not
like something you said to him. If you bet on
the NFL, then I've got a fuel pump for a Tesla
I want to sell you. Like that went a lot. Okay,
so Jawan Taylor gets a C. Kingsley Suamatia,
I think is how it's pronounced. Yeah. Okay, gets
a B. Yeah, he did well. He did well when they
switched him up. Yeah, yes, he did very well.
And he's very encouraging because he's still
learning. Yeah. Josh Simmons gets an F. Yeah.
I'm sorry. When he was in there, he did a decent
job. But the lack of him being there lowered
him to an F. Yeah. Next season, if he's in there
that much, he's going to be on the practice squad.
Yeah. I mean, he has to be able to complete a
full season. Yes. And play almost every down.
Yes. Yeah. You need your O -line. And your D
-line to some degree too, but especially the
O -line, to be able to communicate with each
other without words. They line up, the O -line
looks at the defense, and they all just know
because they've worked together so long. The
center's looking at it and saying, okay, I know
the left guard is going to do this, and I know
the right tackle's going to do this, so my responsibilities
are going to be this and this. You've got to
be in all season. build up that rapport and just,
you know, coming and going for whatever reason.
His reasons were good. His reasons were valid.
Not criticizing that. But, you know, if you're
not going to be there on a consistent, regular
basis, it doesn't matter how good you are. I
agree. Just doesn't. Yeah. Yeah. If you're not
there, it's just like at work. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.
If you don't show up, then you're not going to
make a difference and they don't want you. I
worked with a guy at the post office who had
like four accidents within a single year. Did
he shit himself? Not pretty much. Not a single
one of those was his fault. You know, he did
everything right and these just happened to him.
They fired him anyway. Even though it wasn't
his fault, the explanation was you're accident
prone. You attract accidents. You've had four
times as many accidents as anybody else in here.
There's something to that. You're breaking too
hard or switching lanes. Even though we can't
pinpoint exactly, the fact is that accidents
seek you out so we don't want you near us. Yeah.
It makes sense. So Josh Simmons, he gets an F
because of lack of being there. Yep. And listen,
I agree with the family stuff and all that, but
you promptly come back for a half a game, or
was it a game and a half? I'd take a game and
a half. Game and a half. And you shatter and
dislocate your wrist. I'm sorry. No. Nope. Right
now he gets an F. Whatever the reasons are, you
just weren't there when we needed you. Yeah,
we don't care the reasons. Blanket. F. All right,
Jalen Moore gets a C. Actually, probably a B
-. Yeah. Jalen Moore showed flashes of really
good play, but he was inconsistent. Yeah. If
he can clean that up a little bit, he's going
to be really good. Do you agree with this or
not? Yeah, yeah, I think he did a good job at
right tackle. Right tackle, you do a lot more
run blocking than pass blocking. But even then,
we didn't have much of a running game anyway.
No, we weren't running any houses. Yeah, but
he is pass blocking decent. And that was the
only one I wasn't sure about the grade on. That's
why I asked you is because I was kind of like,
meh. And after I said it out loud, I was like,
he deserves a B -. It's not a C. I'm trying to
think of who was the right guard. It was Caliendo
at the end. Oh, he's next. Yeah, but the right
guard was... Shit. Trey Smith? Trey Smith. Yeah,
he was out. I keep thinking Jim or Joe Tooney
or T -H -U -N -D -Y, but he's gone. Yeah, he's
in Chicago doing very well. Yes, he is. Probably
loving every minute that he's there. Oh, I'm
sure he is. Yeah, especially right now. Yeah,
Trey Smith was hurt. Trey Smith, I think, did
a good job, but then Caliendo. Yeah, Trey Smith,
he gets a B, like I said, and that's just because
the B, I think he's overworked, like I said.
Mike Caliendo gets an F -. Yeah. Horrible. Yeah.
Esopole, in a short time, he has a B+. Yeah.
The others didn't even register. I don't even
want to talk about it. It doesn't matter. Yeah,
I don't even know their names. Player X, Player
O, Player B, all of them. Yeah. Who cares? Yeah,
practice squad fodder. Yeah, yes. Yeah, it's
like they weren't there anyhow. Yeah, I think
the Chiefs finished the season with a lot of
guys on the active roster that would have been
lucky to be on the practice squad. Mm -hmm. Boom.
We just needed them in the game because we didn't
have anybody else. But to be fair, we were sucking
before all the injuries. So nobody could go,
oh, hey, this is because we were injured. No.
Yeah, yeah, that's what history is going to say.
Yeah, and that's what sits so wrong with so many
people, you know, in the NFL media is like you
can't point to anything. It's like everything
sucked and we don't know exactly why. What exactly
was – there wasn't one cause. There was a lot
of causes. And now he's like, oh, Mahomes is
hurt. Yeah, in history, that's what's going to
happen. But we were toast well before that. Yeah,
we're injury -ridden. No, no, no, no. It has
nothing to do with how bad we're playing. Colin
Cowherd said this, and you tell me. I think there's
some flaws in it, but there's a lot of truth
to it. He said this is how dynasties end. They
come along, they dominate, dominate, and then
they start winning the close games just barely.
And then one season, they don't win the close
games, and it's over. Yeah. I think part of that's
right, but not all of it. Yeah, yeah, that can
definitely make it over for that season, and
it is what happened with the Chiefs this season
is they lost all those close games. The reason
for that is something you need to figure out,
but the psychological damage that it does to
the players I think is the big part is they believed
in themselves so strongly, and now they're doing,
to their mind, doing everything they did last
time, but now suddenly it's not working, and
it's so confusing. I've seen so many times the
players on the sideline looking up at the scoreboard
with this just shocked and puzzled look on their
face like, what the hell happened? I want to
see that replay because I was out there in that
play and I don't know what the hell happened.
That's a bad attitude for your players to have.
They kind of need to know what went wrong so
they can fix it. So many times it was like they
just look lost. It's like you get in your car
and you... hit the starter button to turn it
on, and instead the tires blow. You're like,
what the fuck, man? That's the expression I saw.
That's a good analogy. It's like, this was supposed
to work. I just fought this. That's the look
I see on a lot of the players' faces. I agree.
It was shell shock. They're unprepared. They
weren't even prepared for adversity. No. They
were so sure that it was all going to go fine,
all going to go great, and then bad stuff happened.
That's part of the problem. They threw themselves
on the field and expected to win. It happens
all the time. And it finally happened to us.
They're lucky to hold it together so many years
and not have that happen before. Although I can
argue that it started happening last season.
True, true. But, you know, all the Chiefs haters
out there that have been waiting for a moment
like this. Go ahead and let us have it. We deserve
it. I mean, it's not like some fluke or some
bad thing went our way. The Chiefs just utterly
stunk it up this year and did nothing to fix
it. So they deserve all the anger and all the
gloating. Except for idiots, in my opinion, like
Craig Carton and Skip Bayless. You cannot predict
somebody's death for eight years, and then when
it happens, go, see, I told you. Stop that. You
guys are idiots. Every time a baby is born, you
can point them and say, I predict that child's
going to die someday. Okay, you're going to hit
it eventually. Yeah, eight years later, eight
years later, Craig Carton does an itty -bitty
show, a really small show on X, and hardly has
any viewership, allegedly, in my opinion. And
I think that he does this to try to get Kansas
City fans to watch him. To hate on them. To hate
on them. And it's an old gimmick, and it's really
mundane and boring. You're a one -note person,
in my opinion. One -note person, have nothing
to say. They're the anti -programmer, and that's
what Skip and Carton are to me. Anti -programmers.
Doesn't matter. Wind's out of the north. No,
it isn't. It's out of the south. That's what
they do. Yeah, yeah. And in the early days...
shock rock and shock djs yes it worked because
part of the ratings was determined by how many
phone calls you got yes now that doesn't matter
anymore no but on social media if you've got
like a podcast or a video or something then your
monetization depends on how many likes you get
how many views you get how many subscribers and
it doesn't matter if they're hating on you as
long as they're watching yeah no that's true
And also, the thing that really destroyed a lot
of shock radio is Nelson Radings. When Nelson
Radings came out, they kind of proved in a lot
of these shows that people want to be the rebel.
And they go, what do you listen to in the morning?
And they pick the most outlandish one and go,
I listen to this guy. And then you find out they're
listening to Easy Listening or something or KCMO.
And it's like, wait a minute, you said you listen
to, I don't know, like Johnny Dare or something.
You said you listen to him. but you're actually
listening to KCMO. The wannabe responses. Yes,
they want to look cool when they respond. It's
like the opposite of virtue signaling, where
you say, oh, I give money to that, and you don't.
You just want to have people think you do. The
opposite of that is to pretend as if you're this
outlaw, this rebel, and you live on the edge,
but really you drink warm milk every night before
you go to bed at 6 .30. Yes, you're out slamming
tequila. and fucking racing cars and stuff, but
actually you go to bed at 6 o 'clock. Yeah. After
watching Leave it to Beaver reruns. Yes. Yeah,
I agree. But what they found out when they did
the personal people meters is a lot of what they
said they did, they did not. And then you're
talking about the calls and all that. Well, it's
too easy to manipulate a lot of that, okay? You
can get a lot of calls from friends that would
count. Get somebody with a few robocall machines
and say, hey, light us up, man. Boost our ratings.
They have a name for that, don't they? And then
there's watch winding and a whole bunch of different
things you can do to beef up your ratings. Make
it look like a whole lot more people are involved
than really are. Yeah, yeah. And the great ones
did that. The great ones did that. Nobody could
have been on the phone. But they have five people
that are voice actors or something or someone
they know. Come on. all of a sudden act like
it's a huge deal, and everybody piles on. They're
like, yeah, I agree with him, and then you have
real people calling in because of the fake people
calling. Or you have someone call in and say
something completely absurd. I saw an example,
in fact, this morning on one of those half -hour
religious programs that come on early in the
morning. Oh, yeah, yeah, the pay -for? Yeah,
and after the person did their message, etc.,
then they had... you know at the end they've
got five ten minutes where they're trying to
sell you merchandise and the gym bakery yeah
yeah yeah um and for this one it was a book that
was supposed to help you through times of trouble
and they had like five different people that
they were showing is like and every one of them
was either a long this guy's like i was a meth
addict for 15 years and this one gal was like
you know i was living on the street and had a
drinking problem And so it's all these different
people who, you know, cleaned up their life,
turned them around. And I was looking at them
thinking, I don't think so. Because every person
they're showing was, number one, a little too
young to have been on the street or addicted
for that long. Number two, they all had beautifully
straight white teeth and perfect skin. Now, the
guy who was a meth addict for 15 years wouldn't
have teeth. No, you're right. And the gal who
was living on the street and drunk and selling
her body for 15 years would have scars and bad
skin. And her teeth would be bad. Every one of
these people was model perfect. They were all
extremely attractive. All of them perfectly fit.
Nobody was overweight. Nobody was underweight.
It was like, these are all models. And they're
acting. They're pretending. Just like Joel Osteen's
hair. Perfect. No, I like Joel Osteen. I have
nothing against him. But even this religious
program, they're not leaving it to chance. They're
going to fool you and trick you by bringing out
these perfect -looking people as an example of,
you know, look how beautiful and perfect they
are now that they've read the book they were
trying to sell you. It's another way to convince
you that the book will work a miracle in your
life by trotting in an actor pretending that
they had this awful backstory. So, okay, let
me get this straight. You're saying a televangelist
is a crook? Is that what you're saying? Allegedly.
Allegedly. All right, I'm going to go back to
the grades. I love that. Allegedly. Running backs,
Pacheco, F -. He should not be on the team next
year. No way, no how. And if they bring him back,
I question everything about the organization.
Yeah, that would be a clear sign that they're
clueless. And they don't get it. Exactly. Oh,
he'll get better. No, he won't. What you see
is what you get. Yeah, he's just going to get
more injured as time goes by. Rashad Smith gets
an F -. He come out looking great. He had flashes.
He had flashes, but, boy, he got stopped a lot.
A lot. They figured him out fast. Yeah, they
did. The other teams did. He didn't figure out
the running lanes ever that I saw. No. He had
him, too, on a couple of them. His instinct isn't
there. Yeah, I would see him running directly
at the guy who was trying to tackle him. Exactly.
A guy that small, you don't want to run over
a guy because you're not going to make it. You
need to fake him, jump to the side, do something
to avoid him, but run straight at the guy who
was trying to tackle him, and the guy would make
the tackle immediately. Yeah, the only guy I've
seen waiting for the hole to open up has been
Hunt. Yeah. That's it. Yeah. He has a better
instinct than the both of them, a lot better
instinct. So, all right. Who knows about Mitchell?
I mean, I'm going to give him an incomplete.
We dropped him from the class. Oh, yeah. Yeah,
yeah, yeah. You know what? I'm going to erase
him. I gave him an F-, but you know what? I don't
know, honestly. Who would know? He was barely
in there. Creamhunt gets a B -. He did good when
they used him properly, and how you use him properly
is you keep him in the game. Yes. You don't take
him out and just suddenly not run him anymore.
Do you think he is a credible? target for dump
-off passes? Do you think the other team thinks
he's a threat that way? He used to be. I don't
remember them using him much that way this season,
but they should. Leave him in, get him 30 touches
a game at least, and have five of those be passes.
He's a good catcher. He catches balls really
well, and he runs with them very well. He tucks
the ball in. In his whole career, he's only had
two fumbles. Wow. Yeah. Yeah, and they were both
with the Chiefs. Yeah, I remember one very memorable
one with the Chiefs. His first play. His first
play. Very first play. Then he didn't do it ever
again until, what, three games ago or two games
ago. Yeah. All right. Against the Colts. And
we ended up winning that game. Surprise, surprise.
Yeah, yep. Special teams. Elijah Mitchell, I
X'd him out. Yeah. Special teams, F minus. And
not because, not because of the talent that we
have. Remigio gets a C because he didn't show
anything, even though I think he was used completely
wrong. Thornton gets a B. I saw flashes there
where he looked really good, and I saw flashes
where he didn't look good, but I think there's
enough upside to where I'd give him a B. It's
kind of really kind of incomplete. We'll see.
Defense gets a B -. They finished much stronger,
but earlier in the season brought down their
score quite a bit, considerably. And lack of
critical execution is what really brought them
down. It took so long for the defense to gel.
It looked like they were playing as a unit. I
mean, you want that by the first, second game,
but it was like mid -season, the earliest, where
they finally started looking like a cohesive
unit. We let Snead go. Yeah. We let Reid go.
Yeah. Before that, we led Matthews. Tyron Matthew.
Tyron Matthew. We've led all these good people,
these proven people that command more money.
We let them go, and we brought in younger people.
So I see how come it took a while for him to
jail. And this is where I go to. We're not that
far off. That defense is looking good. And one
more year, and a lot of these guys, we don't
have to rehire. They're already on the payroll.
You bring that with a couple of good draft picks
and maybe hire somebody for a pass rusher, and
I think you're set there. And then you have to
go the offensive line, like I said, and you have
to have a great running game. Not a good one,
but a great. Run first, but I don't think they're
capable of it. I've always been a fan of having
a running game that the other team fears. Yes.
And you go into the game with the other team
thinking, oh, God, we've got to stop the run.
and then you've got them concentrating on one
thing, and you exploit everything else. It's
demoralizing. When you run on a team, it beats
them down so bad. It's demoralizing. It hurts
them. They get tweaked. Yeah, and then at the
end of the game, you start fucking throwing your
receivers out there, and you're going to have
a couple of them break loose because those other
guys are hurting, and they're tired from trying
to stop this huge guy in this huge offensive
line. Yeah. So, all right. Something I wanted
to mention about the play calling that I forgot
earlier is there were a number of times this
season where I saw on a third down, it was like,
I think I mentioned third and short, and they'd
go for a bomb, which was ridiculous. And there
were a lot of times where it was third and long,
and they would do a give -up play. Yes, yes.
Like, he'll swing out to the running back, and
he'll get, like, four yards. And it's like they've
already decided on third down, well, we're not
going to make it. Let's just get in a better
position to punt. I don't like that in a team
where they give up on third down and just. I
don't either. And that time that Mahomes threw
that interception on third down. Which time?
But everyone is explaining it away. Well, it's
basically like a punt. You know, we're considering
an arm punt. No. No, you lost an entire down.
We had the ball. Yeah. The object is to keep
the ball. And even if it had been a regular punt,
you could still get the ball back on a punt.
How about this? You play. To win the game. Yes.
Herm Edwards. Herm Edwards, yes. And by punting
when you have another down, that is not winning
the game. No. That's damage controlling. You
don't believe in yourself. Yeah. But those give
up plays on third down really bothered me. It's
like the players had to know when the play came
in from the sideline. They're like, no way we're
making the first down here. So why even try that
hard? Yeah. Don't. Don't. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So,
yeah, if it's going to be like that, then just
be completely safe. Yeah. Defense gets a B-,
they finish much stronger. Oh, I already went
over that. Bolton gets a B+. Yeah. Did a great
job. He's doing a lot better in pass coverage.
He's getting better in pass coverage. He's getting
much better. I really like watching him progress.
He is. He's one of the best defensive guys out
there, and he's not that well -known. I mean,
among the players he are, but if you go to a
different town and ask, hey, who's Nick Bolton?
They'd be like, I don't know. Isn't he that singer
guy? I was getting ready to say, yeah, Michael
Bolton's brother. Probably not on the surface,
but okay. Tranquil gets a B. Yeah. Chanel gets
a C. He was there a few times, and there's a
few times he wasn't. Yeah. Jones gets an F. Yeah.
Karloftis gets a B+. Mm -hmm. Dana gets a B minus.
Naughty gets an F. Yeah. Do you agree with all
that? Yeah, yeah, yeah. What about Amenahue?
Oh, okay, I got him on the D line. Yeah, I was
going to say C or D. Yeah, Amenahue, yeah. Collectively
get a C -. And I'll go into them here. And I
don't know why I separated. I think actually
in the article, I drug the thing down and put
it in the wrong area. But O'Manahue probably
should have been in here as a pass rusher. But
I have him on the D -line on here. Oh, okay.
Yeah. McDuffie gets a C. Connor gets a C. Cook
gets a B. Hicks gets a B+. Yeah. The D -line
is trash. O'Manahue, Tillery, Pennell, and Gelata.
Or Gelata. Yeah. Or, yeah, yeah, yeah. Ice cream.
We can call them ice cream. Gelato. Gelato. There
we go. Are also part, collectively, they get
a C -. Yeah. And the Michael Dana, Dana, Dana,
is one that the Chiefs cut, signed by somebody
else, and then they brought back. And he still
gets an F. It's like, that's the guy you went
after, you got rid of him, then you brought him
back, and you still didn't realize he was an
F -. Uh -huh. Yeah. Okay, what'd you say? All
right, okay, now that that situation is clear.
Yeah, Michael Dana, Dana, whatever his name.
Depends on who says his name. Yes. He was signed
with another team when the season opened, and
the Chiefs went and got him back. Yeah, they
thought it was this great catch, and so did a
lot of the fans. They're all celebrating. He
made one or two good plays last season. Yeah,
yeah. They went after him and got him back, and
even when they realized he wasn't performing,
they just stuck with him. It's like they did
nothing. There's so much of this season where
the coaching staff and the front office, they
can clearly see all the problems we see, and
they just do nothing. I mean, I don't understand
why they couldn't just look to the practice squad
and get someone to go up and go, you know what,
we're not winning anyhow. I'm hoping now. that
the season is over for us, that it's all backups.
Let's sort them out. Let's see what they can
do. You're going to be playing against their
first stringers. Maybe not against Denver at
the end if they lock it up. But, I mean, they're
only one game ahead, so chances are they're going
to be playing full force against us. True, true.
And that's what I want. I want to see what we
have. I know that the networks are going to fight
that. And I know that the gambling institutions
are going to fight that because they'll make
more money if the Chiefs keep starting all their
regular starters. Well, I think there's an answer
to that, too. You start out with the starters,
and then, you know, you just kind of like go,
oh, he's tweaked. Then you throw in. That's smart,
yeah, yeah, because that way all the betting
gets in, and then you just start substituting
people out in the first quarter. It'd be easy
to do. Someone walk off limping a little bit.
Oh, shit, come here. We got to look at you and,
you know. Just list him as questionable and then
never put him back in. We think he's okay, but
we're afraid to put him back in. Just like that.
We don't have a doctor here. It can be done.
Even the league office will probably complain
if the Chiefs spend the last three games treating
him like preseason games. Yeah, you're right.
I think the team should do it anyway and say,
tell the league, hey, if you don't like it, stop
us. I agree. Backup linebackers. Bossa gets a
B -. Cochran gets a C. McDonald. I don't even
think I've seen him on the field. Cooper McDonald,
have you? Uh -huh. Okay, so I don't know. Joshua
Williams gets a B+. He has shown me some promising
skills. Jaden Hicks gets a B. Jalen Watson gets
a B. Christian Fulton gets a C. Kevin Knowles
gets a C. Mike Edwards gets a C. Dave Tope fired.
Matt Nagy fired. The D -line coach, Joe Cohen,
fired. D -backs coach, Dave Merritt, fired. Linebackers
coach, Brendan Daly, fired. Oh, no, no. Linebackers
coach gets a B. Sorry. Andy Reid gets an F -minus,
and that's all I got. Yeah, that's so disappointing
in Andy all season long that he's just been a
nothing and a nobody. There's no passion. There's
no fire. There's no response. He sits there like
a big pile of pudding. At every game, every press
conference, there's no fire, there's no passion,
there's no nothing. He's just like, whatever
happens, happens. He might as well be eating
some ice cream like Joe Biden. Just be sitting
there going, oh, what's going on? Oh, okay. I
remember Gruden, John Gruden, getting fired up.
That's who I think we need. But I thought of
something better. You bring back Alex Smith,
whatever it takes, to mentor and teach Mahomes
like he did at first. Smack his hand, no. Mahomes
obviously listens to him, respects him. He says
it all the time. I think you bring back, you
find a way to get Alex Smith over here to mentor
him again. I'm remembering a Jim Harbaugh moment
when he was the quarterback in Chicago. and they
were playing a division rival, might have been
the Vikings, I don't know. And Ditka was the
coach at the time, and he sent a play in. And
along with the play came the warning, do not
audible out of this play. Whatever you see, do
not audible out of this play. You run this play.
Harbaugh gets the play, breaks the huddle, goes
up, looks at the defense, and calls an audible.
And during the course of his audible play, he
throws an interception. And after the game, he
gets asked about it from the reporters. And his
response is, yeah, well, coach told me to run
the play and told me not to audible. But, you
know, I thought I saw something that I could
exploit and I was wrong. And then so coach says
I can't audible anymore. He took away Jim Harbaugh's
ability to audible. He told him. If you audible
again, I will pull you from the game, and you
will sit the rest of the game. So you will not
audible. We need somebody like that. We need
a coach like that. We need a coach like that.
We need a coach to tell Mahomes, quit audibling
out of these plays and running around like your
ass is on fire. I agree. Do the play we call
in, and if there's a problem, call a frickin'
timeout and come over and talk to me. But you
run the play we told you. I think Mahomes has
given way too much freedom. I think so, too.
Make up plays, audible out of plays, do whatever
the hell he feels like. I think that they're
afraid to tell him what to do. I do. I mean,
I don't think it's like he's going to scream
and yell at him. I think that they're like, well,
this guy's a legend. I better leave him alone.
Yeah. Well, quit treating him like a legend and
treat him like an employee. Yeah, quit treating
Mahomes like he runs the franchise. Realize he
works for you. He has to do what you tell him
because he's under contract. Treat him that way.
I've got a great example. They picked Edwards
and Lair because of Mahomes. Yes. He wanted him.
Same with Sky Moore. First round, Sky Moore too.
Yep. Yeah, those are wasted draft picks because
they listened to him. Yep. So, and look, I mean,
we love Mahomes. One of the best quarterbacks
ever. It's not the best when it's all said and
done. I see the Ferrells are back. Yeah. So.
But he needs more discipline. Yes. He's getting
away with too much. He's being a little too free.
He's believing his own press too much. It happens
all the time. Yeah. Oh, go ahead. I'm sorry.
No, he believes his own press. He thinks he can
always get it done. All he has to do is try harder,
push harder, yell a little more. Making Mahomes
face it that he's not getting it done and what
he's doing isn't working, they didn't do that
all season long. Yeah, I agree. Not effectively.
Maybe they tried, but it didn't work. Well, whatever's
going on, I mean, it's clearly not working. Yeah.
And, you know, if Andy Reid decides to stay,
and I think he will. I don't think he's going
to give up that easily. Unless he thinks it's
a total rebuild, but I don't think it's that.
I think it's as clear as pretty much what we
pointed out. Yeah. So, I think he's going to
stay. But with him staying, he has to get different
people in certain situations, not only players
but coaches. Don't be a dick for a meal and stick
with your assistant coaches because you like
them so much. Yes. Fire the ones that aren't
doing their job. Still be their friend. Still
have them over to dinner. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If
they're not doing the job, replace them. They're
professionals. Yeah. They know this. They're
like, all right, well, it's time to go. I mean,
just like Andy Reid said, it was time for him
to go in Philadelphia. Yep. And he said it worked
out for all of us. Yep. And so he wasn't bitter.
He was like, no, I needed to go. They were right.
Yeah. Take that attitude towards some of the
coaches on your staff, Andy. Yeah, and you know
what? It's time for them to go. If they never
talk to you again, then consider that a fucking
blessing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was fired from
a band I really enjoyed being in, and I was fired
abruptly. But I'm still friends with all of them
because they did what was best for them. And
I realized, well, yeah, they're not going to
go anywhere with me because my health at the
time was bad, and I wasn't able to commit too
much. We love you, we love your drumming, but
we're moving on. And I understood, and I'm still
great friends with all of them. It is possible.
Oh, yeah. It can be done. It can be done, yep.
It's been done on a lot of levels. It's just
I don't know what this is. Is it out of loyalty?
Is it because they're afraid of shaking things
up too much? Is it the past glory or all the
above? Probably all the above. Yeah. So, all
right. You got something? I'm kind of done on
the Chiefs. We've been talking about the Chiefs
for an hour and 15 minutes. I know. So, I've
got some bullet points. Yeah. All right. Is this
Buffalo's year? Man, it better be. With Baltimore
out of the playoffs. Playoffs. Playoffs. With
Cincinnati out of the playoffs. The Chiefs out,
they've pretty much got the most clear run they
could ever have. If they trip up on this, they'll
never do it. And I don't think they're going
to get a home field advantage. I'm pretty sure
Denver's going to get that. Yeah. Or the Patriots.
Denver is very scary for Buffalo, actually. Yeah,
I think so. Their defense and how they shut down
everything. You know, you have Sertan and people
like that. that can shut down a passing game,
and they have people that can shut down a running
game. I mean, they look very scary, so that matchup
is not good for them, especially if they go to
invest field. Yeah, yeah. Which they probably
will. Yeah, I see the Bills making the playoffs
as a wild card. Playoffs, playoffs. And the lack
of home field advantage is going to hurt. I think
if they don't make... If they don't make it to
the Super Bowl this year, I think Sean McDermott's
job is in jeopardy. I think so, too. Because
he's got everything lining up for him, and they
still have that, what, four -game losing streak?
Uh -huh. Three - or four -game losing streak.
That reflects badly on the coach. Yes. And if
they can't even make it to the big game. This
season, that also reflects on the head coach.
It's like it was all laying right there in front
of you. The football gods took care of everything
for you, and you couldn't do it. Yeah, and all
of a sudden they'll be cast as the would -have
-beens, the could -have -beens, and the never
-dones. They'll get compared to the... Bill's
team that made it to the Super Bowl four years
in a row, but lost every single one of them.
So far, Jim Kelly has made it further than Josh
Allen, and I think Josh Allen is clearly the
superior quarterback, talent -wise. Yeah, Kelly
had a monster arm and could read defenses okay,
but he didn't have the finesse that Kerber has.
But we are how many years later, and quarterbacks
have evolved. Yeah, it's like 30 years now. Yeah,
yep. So, all right, so we agree to this year
or nothing. All right. Who should the Super Bowl
favorite be right now? I'd say the Rams. Yeah,
for the NFC, I'd say the Rams. AFC, I'm going
to say Buffalo because of the pedigree. Yeah,
yeah. They've been there so many times. It's
tempting to say Denver, but the team is inexperienced
with playoff wins. Playoffs, playoffs. Didn't
they make it to the postseason last year and
lost? Yes. Which was a good experience for them,
but making a run all the way to the Super Bowl
this year, I think that's a little beyond them.
I think the Patriots are more likely. I would
go Denver, New England, then Buffalo. Yeah, me
too. There's more at stake for Buffalo than the
other two. And Buffalo might have an edge just
because of the been there so many times. And
they might have learned a few things from battling
Kansas City and Cincinnati so many times. And
doing that on a relatively new team to this could
be a lot easier than doing it to a team that
was seasoned and had the pedigree. It's nice
that it's not cut and dried. I mean, you really
could make an argument for anything. But in the
NFC, I don't see too many people passing Los
Angeles. Yeah, I agree. All right. The next bullet
point is this. Joe Burrow, seemingly unhappy.
A lot of comments were made. Sounds unhappy,
yeah. Jamar Chase, I love what happened there.
Yeah. But I got a story on that. I'll get to
it here in a little bit. But you know what happened,
too, of course. So, all right. He did a Bill
Romanowski. Yes, he did. Yes, very much so. Look
him up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Google it. Burrow,
will he leave the Bengals before his contract
is up? I think he will. I think so, too. This
recent thing where he's made the comments. Yes.
Yeah, I think he's got two or three years left.
Will he pull an Andrew Luck? Probably. I would.
He made a comment. He said, you know, I mean,
he was talking about his future and it's got
to be fun. He's got to enjoy it. Yeah. That would
imply that he's not having fun. Ready to walk
away. Not necessarily go to another team. It's
just like, I'm not having fun doing this. I might
just give it up altogether. I mean, he is not
uncommon in comments like this either. Remember
when he called out his teammates and said, well,
this guy's playing good, this guy's playing good,
I'm playing good. What happened to everybody?
You know, you don't do that. What about the other
50 people on the roster? But, yeah, the comment
I heard was he's saying, if I'm going to continue
to do this, it needs to be fun. It has to be
fun and enjoyable, et cetera. So even if that
was, you know, speaking in the heat of the moment,
it does get the message out that he's ready to
give it up and walk away, that he's not locked
in and management, coaching staff, somebody,
other players. Better step it up or he's gone.
I think that that shows a fundamental lack of
respect for what system you have going, doesn't
it? Yeah, yeah. But to be fair, the Cincinnati
Bengals organization has never really been one
that you could respect as a good business. They've
always been super cheap, really petty, basically
kind of a backwards franchise. that have lucked
into a lot of good players. Well, some talent
in their front office, but the way they run the
Bengals organization, I'm surprised they're not
more like the Jets or the Titans, where they're
just also Rams every year. I also got another
observation, too. Back, was it Carson Palmer,
the quarterback, and was his name Javon Perfect,
defensive end? They had the game won, and he
committed a personal foul. Yeah. And they lost
it, and this is a championship game, right? Yeah.
Fast forward three years ago, Kansas City, Arrowhead
Stadium. Yeah, late hit out of bounds. Late hit
out of bounds, same thing. Yeah. When you get
people that are questionable, that's what happens.
They're going to do questionable things at the
wrong time. Yes. Yeah. Lack of disciplined players.
is an indictment on the coaching staff, and also
us this year, and last year even. Yeah. So, anyhow,
I mean, I don't know where else to take that.
We both feel kind of the same way. And, I mean,
if he does go, it's going to go to a team he
believes is going to win the Super Bowl. If not,
I think he'll step down and just go, I'm done.
Yeah. All right, should Kelsey retire after this
season? I think he should. Me too. For the last
two seasons, he hasn't looked like he wants to
be there and just having fun or enjoying himself.
He looks painful. Yeah. Yeah. He looks confused.
He looks unhappy, like he'd rather be anywhere
else than there. He doesn't have the fire, the
passion. It's just like going through the motions.
Every time he gets hit, he's got that look on
his face like, why the fuck am I here? Yeah.
Yeah. Damn, if I were sitting on the couch with
Taylor right now, I wouldn't be in pain. I wouldn't
be getting hit and having my guts ripped out.
Yep. So, yeah, I think he's going to retire.
Yeah. Good, bad, indifferent, whatever, he's
gone. It's going to be a shame that his last
two seasons were such suck fests. But, you know,
last season on him personally and this season
the entire team. But you don't always get to
choose how you exit. No, that's true. Nope. And
there's been many examples of this. Where you
thought you got another year. Gronkowski is one
of them. Yeah. You thought you had another year.
And then midseason, you realize, I should have
stopped right there. Yeah. I still say if they
would have won the Super Bowl, he would have
stepped down right after. Yeah. Okay. Kelsey
is right under 800 yards. This season. Yeah.
Minshew is a quarterback for the rest of the
season. You know, the guy that threw the interception
promptly. Mahomes probably would have too this
year. Yeah, probably so. So. Does he get 1 ,000
yards? No. I don't think so either just because
of Minshew. But Minshew was just throwing to
him, and that's how he got intercepted. Yeah.
You've got to also look at the fact that Mahomes
and Kelsey have more of a rapport than any two
people on the team. Yes. Minshew doesn't have
that rapport with him, so he's going to spread
the ball out a lot more. Kelsey probably won't
get even half the balls thrown his way that he
has been. Yeah, we may be down to the fourth
string by the time this season's over. All right.
Okay, did the Chiefs and Mahomes specifically
hurt their legacy this season by the horrendous
play from top players? Yeah. I think so, too.
They really did. Yeah. I think before. It was
like one of the greatest dynasties ever. Now
it's like, oh, my gosh. Oh, was this whole thing
just a facade? Yeah, that's the question that's
going to come up now is every win the Chiefs,
every winning season and winning championship,
et cetera, people are going to look at it and
say probably it was just a fluke. Smoke and mirrors.
Smoke and mirrors. Yeah. They've been saying
that anyhow. You know, the coast bias. This gives
them a lot more fuel and ammunition for that
argument to say, yeah, look at the Chiefs this
year and how they suck. Yeah, you've got the
skip -tards and the cartons and people like that
saying bullshit like that. They've been saying
it for eight years, and now they're claiming
victory like we said before. But, you know, a
game as important as Sunday's game was and your
leading rusher, Pacheco, has 11 carries for 21
yards, there's no excuse for that. There's no
way you can explain that away other than the
coaching staff. Basically screwed the pooch.
Yes. Yes. I agree. What percentage of this failure
of the season is Mahomes' fault, and how much
is the coaches' fault, and how much is the receivers'
fault? And the coaches, I mean by the schemes
and everything. I'm going to put half the blame
on the coaching staff, and then 30 % on the homes,
20 % on the receivers. Because I think the receivers
have more talent than we saw. But the coaching
staff, the scheme, the routes, et cetera, the
coaches are not putting the players in the position
where they can make plays and win. And then the
20 % of the time when they're in the right spot,
they drop it, they fumble it, they bat it to
a defender, whatever. The receivers should probably
get 25 % instead of 20%. Let's say Mahomes 25%,
the receivers 25%, and the coaching staff the
other 50 % because they're in charge. That's
about right. And it's their job to make it work.
Okay. All right. Thank you. Spread it out nice
and even. Dallas people over there, close your
ears. Okay. All right. Little Skippy, Little
Skippy Bayless has had a very emotional day this
day. I'm talking a couple days ago. He's joyous
that the Chiefs are out, but then five hours
later his Caltards are out as well. This is true.
This is true. Could we all give him a proper
fuck you? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Skip Tard, fuck you.
Fuck you. All right. Last week we picked, what,
five games. We both said Bengals over Ravens.
That didn't work. No, I missed. As good as I
was the first couple of games. Yeah. We both
picked Chargers over Chiefs. Well, we got that.
Yeah. Rams over Lions. Uh -huh. Seahawks over
Colts. That worked out. We did better than I
thought. And Broncos over Green Bay. Yep. So
we were four for one last night. We did better
than I thought. I was thinking we picked different
for some reason. Oh wait, we did pick different
on Chargers over Chiefs. I picked the Chargers.
That's what I thought. I thought they had one
more in them. Rams over Lions. One of us picked
the Rams, one of us picked the Lions. I can't
remember which. Because I put a second mark there.
I don't know. I can't remember either, so it
doesn't matter. Let us know in the comment section
what we said last week. Believe me, believe me,
they will. Believe me, they will. They're like
little pit vipers way in the corner. Yeah. As
soon as you say something just a little bit wrong,
zap, they're like charging at you. Yeah. Which
is fun. Keep us honest. That's all right. I'm
telling you, Haiti milk goes to the front like
always. Yeah. If I bother you that much, I want
to hear about it. Yes. Let's see here. You got
something? Yeah. What do you think it's going
to take to turn around the Jets? Number one,
new owner. Yeah. That owner is a buffoon. Yeah.
Yeah. The owner lost all credibility last season
when it became public knowledge that his teenage
sons were making business decisions based on
Madden football. Yes. So that tells you how to
cloud a clue that guy is. Yeah, that guy, until
they get a good owner, it's useless. Either that
or he's got to completely step aside, turn it
over to somebody else and say, I'm just going
to rake in the profits and you run the show.
So far he has not shown that ability. No, he's
trying to be Jerry Jones, and he's not even being
a Jerry Jones yet. No, the league needs to kick
him out. So you've got to sell the team. So the
Jets, they have to start with a cornerstone,
and that would be the quarterback. They have
to. Keep losing like they are. Use that number
one pick wisely. I don't know if it's this year,
so maybe you suck another year, but you find
that guy. You find that guy that's going to be
your cornerstone, and you build around him. They
already dealt Sauce Gardner, didn't they? Yes,
they did. We almost got him, which sucks. They
wanted a fourth round, and we were offering a
sixth round. I don't know why they didn't do
it. They're going to blow that fourth round anyhow
in previous years. I mean, it's like, you know,
Sky Moore. Yeah. Yeah. They still have Brees
Hall, the running back. Yeah. He is possibly
on the trading block. I mean, when the Chiefs
were in need of a running back, they were talking
about him. Right before the trade deadline, they
might try to get Brees Hall. I think they ought
to just go ahead and trade him. I think so, too.
Because a running back you can get anywhere.
I agree. Yep. Yeah, they should be trading off
all the players that other people want and then
rebuilding from the ground up. Chris Jones should
be number one. Chris Jones will command a couple
of draft picks. Yeah, yeah. I think the Jets
will probably sign him. I think so, too. The
Jets are dumb enough. If not, then maybe the
Titans because they've got about everyone else
we throw in. Yeah. I would go for something bold
and dramatic. If I were the owner of the Jets,
I would rename myself the New Jersey Jets. Just
be honest about it. You practice in Jersey. You
play in Jersey. You represent Jersey more than
you ever do New York. So just go ahead and call
yourselves the New Jersey Jets and own it. You
might get some new fans. You might? Yeah. You
might? Yeah. Yeah, no, I agree. So, new owner.
New owner, and then we can talk. But until they
have that same owner, it's going to be abysmal.
Yeah, it's kind of like Jerry Jones. If Jerry
Jones could stay out of it and quit loving the
spotlight so much, Dallas would do a lot better.
I agree. But Jerry Jones has made at least two
big errors. Well, look at Micah Parsons. He traded
him and then told everybody. It was like, oh,
by the way, we got rid of this elite pass rusher.
Yesterday, I just thought I'd let you know. And,
you know, Dallas' defense was fine without him.
They were still a fine defense. But imagine how
shut down they would have been with him. Yes.
And then they don't have to rely on Dak constantly
throwing and probably throwing an interception.
Yeah, having Micah Parsons on the Cowboys probably
would have kept the other team seven points less
per game. Yes, I agree. And also he's injured
now anyhow. He's out for the season. Yeah. Yeah.
So he didn't do Green Bay at the end of the day.
He didn't do Green Bay that much good either.
That's true. No, but if he was with Dallas still,
they would have a shutdown defense. Yeah. And
they would have to rely on Dak Prescott making
the plays that he has to. Yeah. Which a lot of
them he cannot. Yeah. So. Yeah. But if you've
got somebody like Kurt Warner as your quarterback,
you're not worried about the defense so much
because you know you're going to score 50 points
a game. Yeah. So you can get away with it in
that situation. Yes. I mean, Miami got to a Super
Bowl back in the 80s by outscoring everybody
and not giving a damn about defense. But they
didn't win it. No, they did not. Yeah. No, but,
yeah, that just shows you, like, the – what's
in the game right there. Yeah. Because you can
outscore everybody all year long, but at the
end of the day, what's going to win you anything
is the defense. Yeah. And that is one of the
problems with the Chiefs like we talked. Lack
of critical execution. Yeah. Yeah. It's pretty
much long and short of their season. Whenever
they absolutely needed something, they could
not get it done. Yeah. That's going to be the
story of this season is the stars of the team.
You guys want to talk? I just want to add two
things. Yeah, come on. The Chiefs suck, and go
Dallas Cowboys. We deserve it this year. We absolutely
deserve it. We deserve it this year. I think
I'm just going to sit there and look at our three
rings in the last five Super Bowls. And it will
make me feel much better. Hey, good luck to the
Cowboys. We're certainly not holding on to those.
Hey, you know what I want to see for real? I've
been wanting to see this for a long time. Cowboys
-Chiefs. Yeah. That would be an awesome Super
Bowl. Yeah, that would be. It's even regional,
too. Yeah. Is that when Jerry Jones is going
to die? Maybe that's when it is. Yeah, I agree.
All right, have a good day. Nice talking to you
guys. Yeah, I think Jerry Jones' next step is
he's going to have his consciousness put into
one of Elon Musk's robots. And he'll just live
forever. Yes. Like those floating heads on Futurama.
Yeah. Yeah, or Walt Disney. No, no, no. Was it
Walt Disney? Some famous guy. What was the one?
Was it Casey Kasem? That they had his head? Ted
Williams, the baseball player. Ted Williams was
one of them. Yeah, except they let it fall out
a couple of times accidentally. The skull cracked
wide open. It's just a hunk of biological waste
right now. That nobody knows what to do with
it. It's funny. People have their heads frozen.
It's like, okay, in how many years they thaw
you out, but you're still dead. You still died
of something. They're thawing out a corpse. Just
freezing you doesn't make a difference. No. As
a matter of fact, last night I did a report on
Royal Caribbean. They're in a lawsuit. A guy
that died. They over -served him 33 drinks and
he died. Oh, I heard about that, yeah. mashing
on doors and windows, just being out of control,
and then he dies somehow. But the thing is, they
said that they stuffed him in the refrigerator.
Instead of, like, the morgue, they just threw
him in the refrigerator as one of their alleged
crimes. Wow. Yeah, that's illegal to treat human
remains that way. It's going to be anxious to
see how that... I predict it's going to be settled
out of court because of that. Oh, I'm sure. But,
anyhow, we'll see. You got anything more? I think
that's all the football stuff. We already covered
the University of Michigan and the head coach
there, which reflects completely on Jim Harbaugh,
I believe. Yeah, because he loved him. Just loved
him. Yeah. Oh, I got one here, and then I guess
we'll go into music creeps. Sure. How long do
we have? Coming up on an hour 40. Okay. All right.
Bengals defend leaving snow across stadium seats,
potentially violating NFL policy. Oh. Yeah, a
flurry of wild weather hit the NFL on Sunday,
including the Cincinnati Bengals' Paycourse Stadium.
The athletic Paul Donher photographed the stadium's
lower cut. covered in ice and snow prior to the
kickoff against the Baltimore Ravens. According
to the NFL's 2022 -2023 operations manual, the
Bengals may have violated NFL policies by failing
to clear snow on the Paycourse Stadium seats.
Wow. Yeah. I didn't know that was policy. Me
neither. Now you see why Buffalo hires all those
people and lets them in the game. Green Bay does
the same thing. Green Bay does too, yeah. They
say show up with a shovel and we'll pay you $10.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, we'll pay you $10. You can
watch a game after. Yep. Each home team is responsible
for having a snow removal plan in place and ensuring
that a stadium has adequate snow removal equipment
available. Snow and ice must be removed from
the stadium before all games. This applies to
the playing field, sidelines, seating bowl, aisles,
pedestrian ramps, walkways, parking lots, etc.
And it says what pages, but who gives a shit.
And before anybody gets excited about doing that
to make the fan experience better, no, they're
doing it to limit the liability of people slipping
and falling and getting injured on that snow
and ice. That's all it is. That is the reason
why they have you remove it, is because it's
an accident liability waiting to happen. If you
couldn't sue them, they wouldn't care less. Yeah,
it's not like they actually care about the fans.
No. They disguise it as that, allegedly. But,
yeah, they wouldn't spend any money on snow removal
if they weren't worried about lawsuits. Yep.
Well, the Bengals' response is this right here.
They defended the stadium's conditions in a statement.
Seat aisles were prioritized and are in good
shape. Seats are easily wiped off and ushers
are equipped to help there, the organization
said. That's a whole lot of blah, blah. Well,
yeah, you wipe off the seat and now it's on the
floor right where you put your feet. And that's
not any better. Yeah. The knees be actually removed,
not just moved from the seat onto the floor.
Yep. Crazy. Yep. Just yet another thing that,
you know, there's hundreds of these against the
Cincinnati organization and how they cheap out,
they weasel out, they try not to spend money
if they don't have to. It's not a fun, enjoyable
place to play just because they make it so low
budget. Yeah. I agree. I agree. All right. Is
that all we have for here? I believe so. All
right, then. Let's go ahead and go to the music
creeps. We'll end this. Thanks for listening.
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