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the sports bastards the sports bastards the sports

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bastard the sports bastards the sports bastards

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the sports bastard okay that sounds good um okay

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uh this is the sports bastards i am I am Mark,

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one of your gracious hosts. And I'm Topher, and

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I'm trying to be gracious. We'll see. Actually,

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I'm probably not being gracious either. Just

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because I said it doesn't mean it's true. Although

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most Americans, when they hear it, they think

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it's true. So, except our listeners. Yes, yes.

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And on that, you see I put our battery pack up

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on the table now because I wanted to keep these

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chairs open in case anybody wanted to drop by

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and talk to us. Oh, yeah, that'd be great. Yeah,

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so open invitation. So I wanted to have a place

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for someone to sit down and join in. I love that.

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That is great, because that's inviting. I think

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the other day, people looked and they'd seen

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empty space, so they just stood there. Yeah.

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That's good. And now we just go, here, have a

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chair. Yeah, I came up with that last night,

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and I'm glad I remembered. Yeah, I am too. Well,

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we'll see how well it works. I think it'll work

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pretty well. It usually does. Yeah. I'd like

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to start off with Travis Kelsey. Okay. Oh, thank

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you. Appreciate it. We're no longer number five.

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It was fun while it lasted, wasn't it? Alright,

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I have anything here you're welcome to, of course.

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Oh, thank you so much. We have onion rings and

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we have fried dill pickle spears that look heavenly.

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Yes. For a while I thought fried pickles was

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weird until I tried them. Oh my gosh, those are

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good. Once you try them, you're hooked. Yes.

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Okay, Travis Kelsey, he stated on the New Heights

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podcast, which of course is the two brothers.

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Yeah. Okay. He said if he feels good, he wouldn't

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mind going again. Yeah, I saw that. If he thinks

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he can actually, you know. Do a full 18 to 21

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week season. Yes. Yeah. I kind of think he's

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coming back. Yeah, he's definitely looking to

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leave the door open. My first instinct when I

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saw that was that it didn't really mean anything.

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But the longer you think about it, it's like

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he didn't have to say that. He didn't have to

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say anything like that. No, he could say, I just

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didn't have my mind made up. Yeah, but he intentionally

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wanted that on the record that he could be, what

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did he say, I could be talked into coming back

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if his body will let him. So that's a way to

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say I'm not Nepali. thank you thank you thank

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you city market coffee the best absolutely best

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ever thank you very much you guys got a uh anything

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going on that you want to talk about i think

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this one's you oh okay this is city market coffee

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it's our 30th anniversary this year oh we're

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not we're not doing anything about it yet it's

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just january but okay you know keep an ear out

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okay that sounds good thank you that is properly

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hot coffee Anyway, oh yeah, by saying I could

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be talked into coming back, that's a way to not

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make it definite. Well, I will come back. It's

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a way to add a little qualifier in there. I think

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he's got to talk. He's got to talk before he

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misses. Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Because

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there's... Can't talk first. There are undoubtedly

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many, many business opportunities that he could

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pursue with... His soon -to -be wife, Taylor

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Swift. Yes. I personally feel that if he does

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retire, remember I said this first. I said this

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like a month ago. He's going to come back. As

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soon as Mahomes got injured, he's going to come

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back for one game. Mahomes is going to throw

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him a pass. He's going to walk off the field,

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and everybody's going to give him an ovation.

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Wow, that's a good thought. That's a good thought.

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I almost guarantee that's what's going to happen.

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Yeah. Because how unright? How not right would

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it be for him to leave with his last pass from

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Shane Buchel? Yeah. Nothing against Buchel. Yeah.

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His last pass should be from the Holmes. Yeah,

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yeah. And he has been let go already. Yeah. Yeah,

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yeah. Yeah, it's not going to happen unless he

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gets let go again. Yeah. I don't know. Did Buffalo

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grab him? I think Buffalo signed him back, yeah.

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Well, good. At least he's got a shot at doing

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something. Even though I think Buffalo is going

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to lose, but we'll get into that a little bit

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later. That kind of gives the impression still

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that the Buffalo Bills organization and the Kansas

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City Chiefs organization, at least front office

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-wise, they get along and they help each other.

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It looks for all the world like they just loaned

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the Chiefs Shane Bushell for how long they need

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him, and then the Chiefs gave him back. That's

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what it looks like. And remember when they traded

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with the Chiefs? So we could trade up and get

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the receiver we wanted. And then we did that

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with Mahomes too. Yeah. So it really seems to

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be that the Bills and the Chiefs like to maintain

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that rivalry on the top. But behind the scenes,

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they help each other quite a bit. It's interesting.

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Maybe it goes back to when Art still left the

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Chiefs and went to Buffalo. Could be. I don't

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know if he's an end or a tackle, but I think

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he wore number 87. Yeah. Big guy. I think it

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was Polynesian, Samoan, somewhere in that area.

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Samoan or something like that, yeah. He was like

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the last good player on the Chiefs. Yeah, poor

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guy. Nobody else was working, just him. Yeah,

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so of course they trade him for draft picks,

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which is what you do. Anyway, back to Kelsey.

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Yeah, it's definitely going to be an interesting

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discussion. with the financial advisors from

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both Swift and Kelsey, kind of talking things

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out and saying, this is the best way forward.

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Here's what we could miss out on if you don't

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play football. Here's what we could miss out

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on if you do play football. They kind of weigh

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it back and forth. So that's going to be, even

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if Kelsey's feeling good enough, that's going

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to be a major decision point is, what am I giving

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up by playing another season? Well, the one thing

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is, if he plays another season, he has more shots

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and more records. This is true. This is true.

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And that, you know, in addition to personal satisfaction,

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that is definitely a bargaining point for the

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deals you make with other companies. Endorsements

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and spokespersons and that kind of stuff. I mean,

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he could actually just stay status quo and be

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okay. Yeah. His podcast, him and his brother's

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podcast, is worth how much? 300 million or something?

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Yeah, sounds about right. Yeah, so all his endeavors

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have been very much money -making, very lucrative.

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So why does he worry about it? The only thing

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that's left is he did the COVID vaccine commercials,

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but I don't really recall him being in anything

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else. No, not for quite a while. Because now

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Josh Allen's doing all the commercials for whatever

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reason. Yeah, yeah. Who did I see? I saw somebody

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else on a commercial with some other team's quarterback,

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and I thought, that's interesting that, you know,

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of course he gets an endorsement deal, but why

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are they showing it here in Kansas City? Who

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was that? I remember, and it wasn't anybody that.

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I keep trying to say Kyler Murray, but I know

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it wasn't him. No, but it was like that. Yeah,

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it was kind of that style of quarterback. that

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far removed from Kansas City. Oh yeah, you can

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see that C .J. Stroud is on. Yeah, C .J. Stroud

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I kind of understand because I think there is

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a nice rivalry building between the Houston Texans

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and the former Dallas Texans. Yeah, I think so.

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It was nice of the Houston team to ask permission

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from Lamar Hunt and say, can we use that old

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name that he said, cool, go for it. Yeah, no,

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I thought that was cool too, that he didn't try

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to block it or anything. Okay, so on a percentage

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point, what percent do you give Kelsey coming

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back? 33. One and three. Okay. I'm going to give

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it two and three. I think that his thirst to

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win has not been quenched with his last season.

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That's a very good point. And I think that...

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Taylor will understand. She'll be like, you know

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what? She has more funds than anybody in the

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game, you know? And she's competitive too. Yes,

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so I think very much so. That two out of three,

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he's coming back. And all the rest are just the

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stuff that you cannot predict. Life going on,

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everything else. So, oh well. Interesting. Okay.

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You got something you want to go into? You want

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to go into the... No, go ahead. We have the picks

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that we made last week. Yes. We both chose Seattle

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over the 49ers, and we were correct there. I'm

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trying to remember my impressions when I watched

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the game. I've got to take the lid off that and

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let it cool down a little bit. Okay. My impression

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was San Francisco got annihilated. It was the

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impression I remember. Did they lose a number

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of players during the game? Yeah. Okay, then

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I'm remembering the right game. But, yeah, I

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can pin the memory to the event. That was Seattle

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looking damn good. It didn't matter. Seattle

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was shutting them down. Yeah. Completely shutting

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them down on every level. Now, the defense had

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a lead. I'm kind of changing my check now. Because

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I always said Sam Garber. If they can keep people

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like they have been, they shut down San Francisco

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to three points. Three points. And that's potent

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offense, you know? Yeah, Chicago, they scored

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42 on Chicago the previous week. Yeah. So. That

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tells me something right there about how much

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better this Seattle defense is. They built from

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scratch, by the way, pretty much. Yeah. With

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draft picks, almost. That's true. That's true.

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They've been quiet. From my perspective, they

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seem like they've very quietly built a team and

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not a lot of fanfare moves or big -name signees.

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It's just kind of like, yeah, we're just getting

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it done. Yeah. Kind of a stealth build. Yeah,

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I mean, yeah, I love the way they did it. It

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was stealth build. It was just kind of like on

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the low, the people in Nunu. You can have that

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last one, by the way. Those pickles are so good.

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Oh, aren't they? Yeah. Thank you so much. Yeah,

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absolutely. Yeah, and the Rams, they still look

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inconsistent, don't they? At one time, I was

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sold on the Rams, and here's why. I told my boss

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this because he's a big Rams fan. Okay, history

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repeats itself. Every year the Chiefs haven't

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made it there, the Rams have been there. I'll

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give you an example. 2019, the famous Dee Ford

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finger over the line. Rams played in the Super

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Bowl, the Patriots, and lost to Tom Brady his

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last season there. And then, fast forward to

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2023. And they faced Cincinnati and won because

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Mahomes threw an interception in overtime. Yeah.

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So. That's interesting. They're just trading

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back and forth. Yeah. After watching all the

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events, I'm going to say I don't care about that

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now. Yeah. The Rams just don't seem to have it

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together at all. Matthew Stafford might be having

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an MVP season, but you have to have everybody

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on board. I mean, it could be said for Sam Darnold,

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actually. I mean, yeah, he's holding the court

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down quite well. Yeah. You know, I'm kind of

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picturing, like, maybe 10 % chance this happens.

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But imagine a total underdog come -from -behind

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story for the Rams to make it all the way to

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the Super Bowl. I could see that happening. Where

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they're behind in every game and they struggle

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and they overcome, kind of like Elway always

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seemed to manage to do with the Broncos. Kind

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of like the Chiefs did. That could be an interesting

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storyline. I give that, as I said, about a 10

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% chance of happening. But if it did happen,

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that would be pretty compelling. It would be

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one hell of a storyline, too, wouldn't it? So

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I'm saying look for a lot of calls to go the

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Rams way if that's what they want. Yeah. Let's

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see, there was a team that rested a lot of starters

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and dropped down one point in the seeding, and

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we're okay with it. I can't remember that team.

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Was it the Eagles? No, not the Eagles. Texans?

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Yeah, I think so. Yeah. I thought that was a

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peculiar move. It really was. Well, I think maybe

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the thought was, I forgot the gentleman's name

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is their head coach. I did too. Oh, well. Okay,

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so I can see his face clearly. I just can't think

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of his name. Yeah. All right, so I think that

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with their defense being as good as it is, his

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feeling is, who cares? We've got four people

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that can get to the quarterback at any time,

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don't care. That's an interesting turnaround

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from, oh, thank you. Yeah. Normally the philosophy

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is don't worry about the next game because you

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won't be there if you don't win this game. But

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he took the approach of I am going to worry about

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the next game because it matters a whole hell

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of a lot more than this game does. Actually,

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I like it. That's a good point. Yeah. History

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will tell. Put some crumbs down for the birds.

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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. They love the crumbs. yeah

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and make sure they're near people that don't

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like birds yeah yeah oh there we go um okay uh

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go ahead with it okay we were doing our predictions

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um next up we both picked the panthers over the

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bucks and the bucks look pretty sad It's really

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weird to think how much Baker Mayfield changed

00:15:28.179 --> 00:15:30.759
over the course of the season. Oh, I know. I

00:15:30.759 --> 00:15:33.539
mean, there's got to be some reason. Like I said

00:15:33.539 --> 00:15:35.559
in the last podcast, I hope he's not hiding an

00:15:35.559 --> 00:15:38.960
injury again. I hope not either. So something

00:15:38.960 --> 00:15:43.559
else must have changed. I don't know, you know,

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because earlier in the season, I remember he

00:15:45.620 --> 00:15:47.500
was on fire with all those comeback drives. He

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had like five in a row or something. Yeah, yeah.

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So, yeah, I don't know. Very interesting point

00:15:55.919 --> 00:16:00.120
there. But, you know, if you're flipping a coin

00:16:00.120 --> 00:16:03.059
over and over, every once in a while you'll get

00:16:03.059 --> 00:16:06.179
five heads in a row. Maybe that's what it was

00:16:06.179 --> 00:16:08.320
like early in the season with Mayfield. He got

00:16:08.320 --> 00:16:10.379
lucky five games in a row, and then his luck

00:16:10.379 --> 00:16:13.419
ran out. Maybe. I mean, and people are comparing

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it. I remember seeing Monday Night Football when

00:16:15.240 --> 00:16:16.840
they did that, and they were talking about when

00:16:16.840 --> 00:16:19.580
he was with the Rams briefly. Oh, yeah. And he

00:16:19.580 --> 00:16:22.080
came in, and he got made like 10 passes in a

00:16:22.080 --> 00:16:25.320
row in the plausible 22nd. touchdown you know

00:16:25.320 --> 00:16:32.120
drive if there is a finite reservoir of good

00:16:32.120 --> 00:16:35.320
fortune good luck karma whatever he's been using

00:16:35.320 --> 00:16:46.320
his up it's gone now yeah well i don't know he

00:16:46.320 --> 00:16:49.159
could be injured because he does have a track

00:16:49.159 --> 00:16:53.440
record of doing that yeah He didn't look injured,

00:16:53.480 --> 00:16:56.259
you know, the game before. He looked pretty fired

00:16:56.259 --> 00:16:57.960
up and stuff. I don't think he was, honestly.

00:16:58.320 --> 00:17:02.120
I think just not that good, not as good as we

00:17:02.120 --> 00:17:05.839
thought. Yeah. Inconsistent teams are starting

00:17:05.839 --> 00:17:08.799
to show their inconsistencies. Yeah. Say that.

00:17:10.179 --> 00:17:13.059
Inconsistent teams starting to show their inconsistencies.

00:17:13.140 --> 00:17:16.480
Yeah, okay. I'd hate to have to translate that

00:17:16.480 --> 00:17:18.720
to another language. You know what? But at least

00:17:18.720 --> 00:17:21.000
the game was close. It was 23 -20 if I remember

00:17:21.000 --> 00:17:25.200
correctly. Yeah. Look how hard it's raining now.

00:17:26.119 --> 00:17:30.500
Nice. That's good. All right. Next up, Chargers

00:17:30.500 --> 00:17:33.539
at Broncos. And we both picked the Broncos, which

00:17:33.539 --> 00:17:37.819
of course happened. I think that Jim Harbaugh

00:17:37.819 --> 00:17:41.420
is not there yet. Not there yet. Yeah. One of

00:17:41.420 --> 00:17:43.799
his problems, although people will argue with

00:17:43.799 --> 00:17:46.660
this, is his quarterback. Yeah, yeah, yeah. His

00:17:46.660 --> 00:17:49.640
quarterback in big games doesn't show up. Yeah.

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And I noticed how the television coverage made

00:17:52.940 --> 00:17:57.220
sure to show Herbert on the bench with his helmet

00:17:57.220 --> 00:17:59.819
off looking bewildered. Oh, yeah. It's like,

00:17:59.880 --> 00:18:03.980
that's not a good sign. No. But I agree with

00:18:03.980 --> 00:18:08.329
you. The Chargers. are most of a really good

00:18:08.329 --> 00:18:10.529
team and they're most of what it takes to be

00:18:10.529 --> 00:18:16.349
the heavy playoff contender. But yeah, they're

00:18:16.349 --> 00:18:20.349
not quite there yet. It's kind of actually scary

00:18:20.349 --> 00:18:24.650
as a Chiefs fan to see the Chargers and the Broncos

00:18:24.650 --> 00:18:28.730
figuring out. what to do next and then doing

00:18:28.730 --> 00:18:31.509
it. There's no gimme's. There's no gimme's in

00:18:31.509 --> 00:18:34.490
this division anymore. But you know what? I like

00:18:34.490 --> 00:18:38.009
that. I do too. The cakewalkers usually get destroyed.

00:18:38.309 --> 00:18:41.470
Yes. If we can survive the AFC West, we're going

00:18:41.470 --> 00:18:44.309
to cruise through the playoffs. Every year, I

00:18:44.309 --> 00:18:46.710
think the important thing is with teams like

00:18:46.710 --> 00:18:49.269
that, the Raiders are going to be on the rise.

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Tom Brady's over there directing things. Yeah,

00:18:51.809 --> 00:18:53.710
he's not going to let them be the punching bag

00:18:53.710 --> 00:18:59.200
again next year. If you can come up half on all

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those teams and almost sweep the rest, which

00:19:02.160 --> 00:19:03.960
you shouldn't be able to do when someone like

00:19:03.960 --> 00:19:06.200
Mahomes and the team around him shouldn't be

00:19:06.200 --> 00:19:08.660
an issue, win half of those games. Let's say

00:19:08.660 --> 00:19:10.859
you win all your home games, lose all your away

00:19:10.859 --> 00:19:13.799
games to your division. Yeah. That's still good

00:19:13.799 --> 00:19:15.900
enough. Oh, yeah. If you win a majority of the

00:19:15.900 --> 00:19:17.880
games after that to at least get through the

00:19:17.880 --> 00:19:21.940
playoffs. If not, you know, if not win the division.

00:19:22.200 --> 00:19:27.740
Yeah. So I'm not convinced on Bo Nix. Not quite,

00:19:27.779 --> 00:19:30.039
no. I mean, he's looked great, but then, you

00:19:30.039 --> 00:19:34.619
know, as I say, inconsistencies again. And at

00:19:34.619 --> 00:19:36.900
this point, since he's been starting and been

00:19:36.900 --> 00:19:40.099
playing every single game, he's still doing some

00:19:40.099 --> 00:19:41.839
things that I thought he should have outgrown

00:19:41.839 --> 00:19:45.279
by now. So that's a little point of concern.

00:19:45.380 --> 00:19:48.819
But, you know, maybe the Broncos will change

00:19:48.819 --> 00:19:53.240
their quarterback's coach. With Sean Payton,

00:19:53.240 --> 00:19:55.200
I see him doing that. I can see him doing that

00:19:55.200 --> 00:19:57.319
really easily going, you know, I need to fine

00:19:57.319 --> 00:19:59.980
-tune him better. And, look, Bo Nix is still

00:19:59.980 --> 00:20:02.759
up for debate how good he is because he's still

00:20:02.759 --> 00:20:06.680
being formed. Yeah, yeah. I think plenty of what

00:20:06.680 --> 00:20:09.539
you want in a championship quarterback is there

00:20:09.539 --> 00:20:11.880
available in Bo Nix. It needs to be, as you say,

00:20:11.940 --> 00:20:16.950
refined and the other stuff. kind of stripped

00:20:16.950 --> 00:20:19.849
away. I think the potential is definitely there.

00:20:20.109 --> 00:20:23.529
Yeah, and another thing is he's not ever going

00:20:23.529 --> 00:20:27.089
to be a gunslinger, I don't think, per se. Yeah,

00:20:27.089 --> 00:20:30.049
and let's hope they don't need him to be. He's

00:20:30.049 --> 00:20:32.150
not going to do that, yeah. Gunslinger teams

00:20:32.150 --> 00:20:37.309
have a short window of success. Yeah. Well, that's

00:20:37.309 --> 00:20:39.809
how come all the teams have to change, the Chiefs

00:20:39.809 --> 00:20:41.690
did, everybody. It's kind of like, you know,

00:20:41.829 --> 00:20:45.170
this is cute, this is nice, but they're going

00:20:45.170 --> 00:20:47.430
to catch up with it. So we need to build up that

00:20:47.430 --> 00:20:50.210
defense. People as old as me will remember the

00:20:50.210 --> 00:20:54.349
run -and -shoot offense taking hold in the NFL

00:20:54.349 --> 00:20:56.589
and became super popular. One year there was

00:20:56.589 --> 00:20:59.509
like five different teams. Houston was one. Houston

00:20:59.509 --> 00:21:04.230
Oilers were the biggest with Warren Moon. Warren

00:21:04.230 --> 00:21:06.170
Moon was great, run -and -shoot. Everyone just

00:21:06.170 --> 00:21:09.730
goes out and you hit whoever. Every play is a

00:21:09.730 --> 00:21:12.960
pass play. You basically have no running game

00:21:12.960 --> 00:21:15.359
and you just try to massively out -scroll your

00:21:15.359 --> 00:21:19.440
opponent. And it's built on throwing as quick

00:21:19.440 --> 00:21:22.309
as you can. Yeah. fast, catching the opponent

00:21:22.309 --> 00:21:25.130
off guard. It worked very well for a couple of

00:21:25.130 --> 00:21:27.049
years, and then now you don't see it anymore.

00:21:27.289 --> 00:21:29.390
Yeah, I was going to say that. After a year or

00:21:29.390 --> 00:21:31.029
two, they figured it out, and everybody dropped

00:21:31.029 --> 00:21:33.049
it because it just didn't work anymore. Yeah,

00:21:33.150 --> 00:21:35.130
I mean, Warren Moon was tough. I mean, you know,

00:21:35.190 --> 00:21:37.109
after beating his wife for several years, he's

00:21:37.109 --> 00:21:41.130
a... Allegedly. Allegedly. Allegedly. As I recall,

00:21:41.490 --> 00:21:44.109
the strength of the run and shoot was you put

00:21:44.109 --> 00:21:46.930
five receivers out every play. Every play, yes.

00:21:47.289 --> 00:21:49.950
And in the first... a couple seconds, you should

00:21:49.950 --> 00:21:53.089
find somebody open. But what defenses didn't

00:21:53.089 --> 00:21:56.890
counter that was have an incredibly strong pass

00:21:56.890 --> 00:21:59.549
rusher up the middle that would take away those

00:21:59.549 --> 00:22:01.690
two or three seconds that you needed. And I remember

00:22:01.690 --> 00:22:03.910
Moon getting planted quite a few times. Oh, he

00:22:03.910 --> 00:22:06.930
did? Yeah. No wonder he's so angry when he got

00:22:06.930 --> 00:22:10.730
home. Yeah. He probably hurt. No kidding. Allegedly.

00:22:11.029 --> 00:22:13.789
Imagine Mark Gastineau landing on you. Oh, yeah.

00:22:14.009 --> 00:22:17.230
Yeah, that would hurt. After he'd just been pegged

00:22:17.230 --> 00:22:22.259
by his... Uh, Britt Eklund's girlfriend. Yeah.

00:22:22.779 --> 00:22:24.920
My butt hurt. I'm going to kill butt hurt. Oh,

00:22:24.920 --> 00:22:29.660
yeah, that's right. Feel that? That's nothing

00:22:29.660 --> 00:22:34.740
in my pocket. So, all right, let's see. So that's

00:22:34.740 --> 00:22:38.559
Chargers -Broncos. Okay, yeah, Broncos are, you

00:22:38.559 --> 00:22:43.309
know, they won solidly. I mean, the Chargers

00:22:43.309 --> 00:22:44.950
didn't look like they had much to offer like

00:22:44.950 --> 00:22:47.210
we thought. Yeah, and realistically, I think

00:22:47.210 --> 00:22:49.490
the Broncos have a better chance in the postseason

00:22:49.490 --> 00:22:52.410
than the Chargers would have. Yes. If their roles

00:22:52.410 --> 00:22:56.390
were switched. Yeah, so Denver deserves that

00:22:56.390 --> 00:23:00.609
number one seeding. They deserved it. And the

00:23:00.609 --> 00:23:02.990
Chargers deserve that number six or five if they

00:23:02.990 --> 00:23:07.579
got it. Yeah. And they're lucky the Chiefs aren't.

00:23:07.740 --> 00:23:10.380
Yeah. Because they'd probably be facing them

00:23:10.380 --> 00:23:13.019
Saturday or Sunday. Yeah, and the Chiefs would

00:23:13.019 --> 00:23:17.160
love to be spoilers, wouldn't they? Yes. With

00:23:17.160 --> 00:23:19.480
Mahomes. Yes. With Mahomes, not Shane Boucher.

00:23:19.559 --> 00:23:23.220
No. All right, anyhow. In our last game, really,

00:23:23.339 --> 00:23:26.660
in almost every single way, kind of could have

00:23:26.660 --> 00:23:28.539
gone either way and you'd be okay with it. That's

00:23:28.539 --> 00:23:31.720
the Ravens at the Steelers. Yeah, either one,

00:23:31.900 --> 00:23:33.819
it would have been interesting to see them play.

00:23:34.039 --> 00:23:38.420
Yes, yes, and both teams seem to be equally unprepared

00:23:38.420 --> 00:23:41.660
for the postseason. Yes. Whichever team lost

00:23:41.660 --> 00:23:45.900
was going to fire their head coach. It was more

00:23:45.900 --> 00:23:50.000
likely that Tomlin would let go, but firing John

00:23:50.000 --> 00:23:53.200
Harbaugh in Baltimore, it's kind of what we were

00:23:53.200 --> 00:23:55.700
talking about with Sean McDermott. Even though

00:23:55.700 --> 00:23:58.670
you're having very successful seasons, You can't

00:23:58.670 --> 00:24:01.569
make it over that final obstacle, so we need

00:24:01.569 --> 00:24:04.509
to find somebody who can. Yeah. And I think John

00:24:04.509 --> 00:24:06.829
Harbaugh was a victim of that. Yeah, he was.

00:24:06.970 --> 00:24:09.390
And Sean McDermott may be a victim of that if

00:24:09.390 --> 00:24:11.869
they don't make a really good showing. I got

00:24:11.869 --> 00:24:13.450
to thinking about it, and at first I was really

00:24:13.450 --> 00:24:15.430
shocked. I'm like, they really got rid of the

00:24:15.430 --> 00:24:18.890
Super Bowl winner perennial playoffs? Playoffs.

00:24:19.109 --> 00:24:22.309
Okay. That was, the Super Bowl win was with Joey

00:24:22.309 --> 00:24:29.289
Flacco. In the early 2000s. So it's quite a while

00:24:29.289 --> 00:24:31.730
ago. So I don't think they're even looking at

00:24:31.730 --> 00:24:35.289
that. That's been tossed out. The body of work

00:24:35.289 --> 00:24:38.670
since they had Lamar Jackson has been this. Playoffs

00:24:38.670 --> 00:24:40.670
and out. Playoffs and out. They've never reached

00:24:40.670 --> 00:24:44.190
a promised land. And what is the whole purpose

00:24:44.190 --> 00:24:47.049
of playing in the NFL? Win the championship.

00:24:47.470 --> 00:24:50.910
Yes. So he's failed every year. except for that

00:24:50.910 --> 00:24:54.130
magical season 23 years ago where Joe Flacco

00:24:54.130 --> 00:24:57.569
was on fire. He never got on that again. I mean,

00:24:57.589 --> 00:25:00.470
he beat Tom Brady head -to -head. He threw some

00:25:00.470 --> 00:25:03.049
passes that were just insane what they were catching.

00:25:03.470 --> 00:25:05.930
You know, from a business standpoint, you still

00:25:05.930 --> 00:25:08.490
benefit greatly from making it to the postseason

00:25:08.490 --> 00:25:11.799
and winning a game or so. Yeah. And teams are

00:25:11.799 --> 00:25:15.440
usually pretty happy with that. But if it goes

00:25:15.440 --> 00:25:18.380
on year after year after year and everybody else

00:25:18.380 --> 00:25:20.460
is winning the Super Bowl and you're not and

00:25:20.460 --> 00:25:22.980
you can't capitalize on that, it starts to grate

00:25:22.980 --> 00:25:25.700
on you. Yeah. It's like we're almost there. We

00:25:25.700 --> 00:25:28.119
just need one more push. And if this coach can't

00:25:28.119 --> 00:25:29.519
do it, I'll find somebody who can. How about

00:25:29.519 --> 00:25:32.180
Marty Schottenheimer? Yeah. Everybody loved him

00:25:32.180 --> 00:25:33.839
at first. He was the best because he was getting

00:25:33.839 --> 00:25:36.319
us in the playoffs finally. He finally had a

00:25:36.319 --> 00:25:39.140
team that could maybe do it. But he could never

00:25:39.140 --> 00:25:42.119
get over that hump. Which is the same thing that

00:25:42.119 --> 00:25:43.960
happened to him in Cleveland before he got to

00:25:43.960 --> 00:25:46.079
Kansas City. I've got to give him one ounce of

00:25:46.079 --> 00:25:48.900
credit, though, in Cleveland. Ernest Bynum. If

00:25:48.900 --> 00:25:50.779
it wasn't for that guy, he would have made it

00:25:50.779 --> 00:25:53.819
to the Super Bowl. He would have. And, you know,

00:25:53.859 --> 00:25:56.980
maybe we would never have gotten him here. Probably

00:25:56.980 --> 00:25:58.420
not. If he would have made it to the Super Bowl,

00:25:58.500 --> 00:25:59.900
we'd never have gotten him here. But history

00:25:59.900 --> 00:26:04.180
is history. His son, Brian. Did a better job

00:26:04.180 --> 00:26:06.539
down there with the Cowboys than I thought he

00:26:06.539 --> 00:26:09.200
was going to do. Yeah, definitely. He must have

00:26:09.200 --> 00:26:11.200
really matured and grown up a lot. And I'm not

00:26:11.200 --> 00:26:14.019
saying like he was ever stupid or immature. What

00:26:14.019 --> 00:26:17.279
I'm saying is he fine -tuned his game skills.

00:26:17.539 --> 00:26:19.859
Yeah. And he's much better. And he is deserving

00:26:19.859 --> 00:26:22.730
of a head coach now. I was wrong about him. I

00:26:22.730 --> 00:26:24.089
thought he was going to be one and done. No,

00:26:24.150 --> 00:26:25.569
I think he's a guy that's going to be around

00:26:25.569 --> 00:26:28.069
in the league a while. He definitely is looking

00:26:28.069 --> 00:26:30.109
more impressive. I mean, the Cowboys lost the

00:26:30.109 --> 00:26:33.349
game, but still, Schottenheimer looks like he's

00:26:33.349 --> 00:26:36.509
got it going on, and he looks like the kind of

00:26:36.509 --> 00:26:39.470
guy who can talk Gary Jones into moving on from

00:26:39.470 --> 00:26:41.890
Dak Prescott at some point. They're going to

00:26:41.890 --> 00:26:45.990
have to. I mean, I don't know what else to say

00:26:45.990 --> 00:26:52.349
except, like, try Jack. Yep. He's the biggest

00:26:52.349 --> 00:26:56.069
try -jacker around. Yep. Yeah, because he'll

00:26:56.069 --> 00:26:58.690
look like a guy that's going to win you and take

00:26:58.690 --> 00:27:01.710
you to the promised land. And then he gets in,

00:27:01.750 --> 00:27:05.230
if he gets to the playoffs, he messes it up somehow.

00:27:05.829 --> 00:27:10.069
Yeah. Those interceptions. Or how about the time

00:27:10.069 --> 00:27:13.269
he was, I think it was a playoff game where he

00:27:13.269 --> 00:27:15.849
was too slow, gave too long a scrimmage and the

00:27:15.849 --> 00:27:19.609
game ended? Yep. Clock management. Yeah, clock

00:27:19.609 --> 00:27:23.789
management. Yeah, there's only so long you can

00:27:23.789 --> 00:27:28.250
handle that before you just are so frustrated

00:27:28.250 --> 00:27:31.329
at the constant disappointment and let down.

00:27:31.549 --> 00:27:34.269
I mean, I've seen that meme everywhere. It's

00:27:34.269 --> 00:27:38.150
like a circle. Preseason, you know, Cowboys look

00:27:38.150 --> 00:27:40.890
great this year. Then the next step is we beat

00:27:40.890 --> 00:27:43.930
up on some lame teams and make it to the playoffs.

00:27:44.130 --> 00:27:47.650
Then the next step is. lose in the playoffs and

00:27:47.650 --> 00:27:50.349
say, well, maybe next year. And then the cycle

00:27:50.349 --> 00:27:52.809
just starts all over again. They get your hopes

00:27:52.809 --> 00:27:55.430
up every preseason. They look good for a while,

00:27:55.490 --> 00:27:57.650
and then they crumble and never make it. Yeah.

00:27:57.930 --> 00:28:02.990
Okay, so here's my thought on this. Who did Tony

00:28:02.990 --> 00:28:05.509
Romo replace in Dallas? He was a really good,

00:28:05.549 --> 00:28:07.170
prominent quarterback, but he didn't have any.

00:28:08.630 --> 00:28:12.529
Or Prescott never really did. Was there somebody

00:28:12.529 --> 00:28:16.460
between Romo and Aikman? Did they bring in Bledsoe

00:28:16.460 --> 00:28:19.980
for a year? I think that was Bledsoe. Yeah, yeah,

00:28:19.980 --> 00:28:22.599
because Tom Brady took his job in New England,

00:28:22.720 --> 00:28:25.779
and then Romo took his job in Dallas, and then

00:28:25.779 --> 00:28:28.319
finally he just retired. Yeah, he played briefly

00:28:28.319 --> 00:28:31.079
for the Bills, I think. I think so, too, and

00:28:31.079 --> 00:28:34.180
was ousted out of there, too. By this time, he

00:28:34.180 --> 00:28:36.000
was getting too old, to be fair. He's a fine

00:28:36.000 --> 00:28:39.220
quarterback. in his day. But you never know if

00:28:39.220 --> 00:28:41.180
that knee ever really came back. I don't think

00:28:41.180 --> 00:28:43.740
it really did, honestly. The medical technology

00:28:43.740 --> 00:28:47.259
back then just wasn't as good. No. It just really

00:28:47.259 --> 00:28:49.200
wasn't. But the pressure to get back on the field

00:28:49.200 --> 00:28:52.279
and perform was just as great as it is now. Yeah,

00:28:52.279 --> 00:28:59.240
so the need to win playoffs is extremely important.

00:29:01.000 --> 00:29:03.000
And Tony Roman was another one that he'd get

00:29:03.000 --> 00:29:04.779
you there, but he couldn't get you any further.

00:29:05.160 --> 00:29:07.579
Yeah, I remember him fumbling the placement of

00:29:07.579 --> 00:29:10.859
a field goal or an extra point or something.

00:29:11.259 --> 00:29:14.539
Was that in a playoff game? Yeah, it was. So,

00:29:14.740 --> 00:29:18.180
yeah, that's the way it goes. I mean, if you

00:29:18.180 --> 00:29:20.700
can't produce, you're not going to. You have

00:29:20.700 --> 00:29:25.099
to win a championship to be considered a successful

00:29:25.099 --> 00:29:27.819
coach. And I think I've mentioned this before,

00:29:27.960 --> 00:29:31.450
and even if something isn't your fault, the cumulative

00:29:31.450 --> 00:29:35.069
effect can still get you. I worked with somebody

00:29:35.069 --> 00:29:39.650
at one of the post offices I was at, and in the

00:29:39.650 --> 00:29:42.670
span of about two years, he had five accidents.

00:29:42.930 --> 00:29:45.910
Not one of them was his fault. Not one of them

00:29:45.910 --> 00:29:48.269
he could have prevented, but they still fired

00:29:48.269 --> 00:29:52.269
him because he attracted accidents. He said,

00:29:52.329 --> 00:29:55.170
you know, we can't ignore that wherever you go,

00:29:55.289 --> 00:29:58.009
accidents happen, so if we eliminate you, we

00:29:58.009 --> 00:30:00.990
eliminate those accidents. Yeah, and I've heard

00:30:00.990 --> 00:30:02.750
that. I've had that done to a friend of mine

00:30:02.750 --> 00:30:05.750
that was working as a delivery guy, too. Oh,

00:30:05.750 --> 00:30:09.250
yeah. Probably pretty common. Yeah, and the reason

00:30:09.250 --> 00:30:11.269
is they told him, they said, that you put yourself

00:30:11.269 --> 00:30:15.009
in situations where people can cause an accident.

00:30:15.289 --> 00:30:18.529
Yeah, that's a good point. And there's probably

00:30:18.529 --> 00:30:20.450
a lot of truth to that. We just can't really

00:30:20.450 --> 00:30:22.670
see why it happens. It kind of comes down to

00:30:22.670 --> 00:30:26.019
decision -making on just a... moment -by -moment

00:30:26.019 --> 00:30:28.039
basis? Do you make the decisions that make you

00:30:28.039 --> 00:30:30.200
safer or do you make the decisions that put you

00:30:30.200 --> 00:30:33.259
at risk? I've got a great way to describe it.

00:30:33.279 --> 00:30:35.200
Right here at the City Market, they have very

00:30:35.200 --> 00:30:38.279
narrow parking spaces. Yes, they do. That's why

00:30:38.279 --> 00:30:40.920
I always get hit here. People can't negotiate.

00:30:41.799 --> 00:30:46.700
So this place puts me in a position to get in

00:30:46.700 --> 00:30:51.079
an accident. Yeah, so I mean yeah, so they look

00:30:51.079 --> 00:30:54.039
at that gentleman like that, and I am like my

00:30:54.039 --> 00:30:56.279
friend, too They told him they said you know

00:30:56.279 --> 00:30:59.259
it's something You may not be the fault of it,

00:30:59.299 --> 00:31:00.980
but you're causing something to make this happen

00:31:00.980 --> 00:31:03.380
to you so many times. That's what they told him.

00:31:03.480 --> 00:31:07.180
Yeah, but unlike your guy they fired him out

00:31:07.180 --> 00:31:11.279
of that job and they gave him a a job inside

00:31:11.279 --> 00:31:13.299
the plant. Oh, that's good. Yeah, yeah, they

00:31:13.299 --> 00:31:15.720
said, look, we're, you know, just don't be wrecking

00:31:15.720 --> 00:31:17.960
the forklifts like that. Don't get a wreck with

00:31:17.960 --> 00:31:20.640
forklifts. Give him a job where he stands at

00:31:20.640 --> 00:31:22.660
a machine and writes down numbers all day. Yeah,

00:31:22.700 --> 00:31:26.079
well, he actually became a supervisor. He did

00:31:26.079 --> 00:31:27.859
very well. He went to another place and became

00:31:27.859 --> 00:31:31.079
a plant manager. So whatever he's doing out there,

00:31:31.119 --> 00:31:32.839
I guess he just can't drive. He can do everything

00:31:32.839 --> 00:31:35.119
else okay. Let's hope he takes an Uber to and

00:31:35.119 --> 00:31:38.390
from work. I think I might have, I think at one

00:31:38.390 --> 00:31:40.309
point, that's funny, I think at one point I gave,

00:31:40.369 --> 00:31:42.349
remember those yellow cap cards that were yellow?

00:31:42.609 --> 00:31:45.490
Yeah. I think I gave them one at one point, just

00:31:45.490 --> 00:31:47.509
to be a dick. I said, hey, you might want to

00:31:47.509 --> 00:31:54.490
invest in this. Of course. Thanks a lot. Walks

00:31:54.490 --> 00:31:55.849
off thinking, fuck you, I'm getting ready to

00:31:55.849 --> 00:32:00.299
be a supervisor, I'll get your ass back. I can't

00:32:00.299 --> 00:32:02.799
remember where I saw this. It might have been

00:32:02.799 --> 00:32:05.279
on a Saturday Night Live skit. But the premise

00:32:05.279 --> 00:32:09.019
was a guy goes to the hospital to visit his best

00:32:09.019 --> 00:32:13.200
friend who's just had their first child. So he

00:32:13.200 --> 00:32:15.380
goes to the nursery and looks at the kid, and

00:32:15.380 --> 00:32:17.619
then he goes out and buys his friend a package

00:32:17.619 --> 00:32:21.859
of condoms. The Sculpinstein's daughter. Oh,

00:32:21.859 --> 00:32:24.480
yeah. Yeah. Well, that reminds me. I'm actually

00:32:24.480 --> 00:32:27.059
dressed like a homeless person today in honor

00:32:27.059 --> 00:32:29.799
and memory of Ms. Galveston. Yes. We're going

00:32:29.799 --> 00:32:31.880
to have to go over all her accomplishments one

00:32:31.880 --> 00:32:34.960
day. Yeah, definitely. Yeah. Yeah. It's a long

00:32:34.960 --> 00:32:36.660
list. It's probably going to be about a three

00:32:36.660 --> 00:32:38.380
-hour podcast. We're going to leave some stuff

00:32:38.380 --> 00:32:41.240
out. Oh, yeah. So much. So much. Yeah. Amazing

00:32:41.240 --> 00:32:45.039
woman. Allegedly a woman. Yes. Don't get into

00:32:45.039 --> 00:32:48.559
that. Allegedly. Do you want to go over the coaches?

00:32:48.680 --> 00:32:52.079
Oh, no, no. Go ahead. No. Most of the rest of

00:32:52.079 --> 00:32:54.220
what I got here is from music groups. Oh, okay.

00:32:54.299 --> 00:32:56.220
All right. Well, I got some stuff here, so we're

00:32:56.220 --> 00:32:58.859
good. I know you do. All right. I have bullet

00:32:58.859 --> 00:33:02.619
points, too. The best segment ever in modern

00:33:02.619 --> 00:33:04.680
history. I just got a shiver down my back when

00:33:04.680 --> 00:33:07.700
you said bullet points. Yeah. I think there's

00:33:07.700 --> 00:33:10.880
some goodies on there, too. Oh, yeah. All righty.

00:33:11.359 --> 00:33:15.579
We're fired coaches. Yeah. Carol. Yeah, kind

00:33:15.579 --> 00:33:17.500
of figured that. Yeah, well, here's something

00:33:17.500 --> 00:33:19.339
important. I brought this up last night on the

00:33:19.339 --> 00:33:22.210
podcast last night. Every time the Raiders fire

00:33:22.210 --> 00:33:24.769
a head coach, change the batteries on your smoke

00:33:24.769 --> 00:33:29.049
detector. Very important. Oh, good idea. Yeah.

00:33:29.349 --> 00:33:31.490
Yeah, make sure. So those batteries don't last

00:33:31.490 --> 00:33:34.869
forever. No, no, they last about a year. So you

00:33:34.869 --> 00:33:36.589
need to get in there as soon as you find out

00:33:36.589 --> 00:33:38.589
they fired a head coach. Get in there and check

00:33:38.589 --> 00:33:40.690
your batteries. That's probably a more reliable

00:33:40.690 --> 00:33:42.890
method than changing them out when you spring

00:33:42.890 --> 00:33:45.710
forward or fall back. Yes, yeah. Because you

00:33:45.710 --> 00:33:47.890
can count on the raiders firing a little more

00:33:47.890 --> 00:33:49.009
than you can on daylight savings time. Yeah,

00:33:49.009 --> 00:33:51.930
yeah, on daylight savings time. A little uncertain

00:33:51.930 --> 00:33:53.769
there. Yeah, yeah, a little uncertain there.

00:33:56.169 --> 00:33:59.710
Pete Carroll, Raiders. Yeah. I can't say he deserved

00:33:59.710 --> 00:34:03.630
it. He was... Okay, let me put it like this.

00:34:04.109 --> 00:34:06.109
Someone tells you to make a meat lasagna, okay?

00:34:06.269 --> 00:34:08.730
Yeah. And they give you a bowl of shit. Yeah.

00:34:09.070 --> 00:34:11.630
It doesn't work. No. He got a bowl of shit and

00:34:11.630 --> 00:34:14.230
was told to produce meat lasagna. This is true.

00:34:14.309 --> 00:34:17.110
Coaches are often used as a scapegoat because

00:34:17.110 --> 00:34:20.590
they're the person you can fire. I think they

00:34:20.590 --> 00:34:22.710
wanted him to make them a little bit more relevant

00:34:22.710 --> 00:34:25.400
while they rebuild it. That's a good point. And

00:34:25.400 --> 00:34:27.659
actually they went backwards. And he seemed kind

00:34:27.659 --> 00:34:30.519
of out of touch with the modern NFL. That was

00:34:30.519 --> 00:34:32.179
the part that I was going to get into right there.

00:34:32.360 --> 00:34:35.639
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Keep going. Keep

00:34:35.639 --> 00:34:38.880
going. Yeah, in the press conferences, he really

00:34:38.880 --> 00:34:42.380
didn't seem to catch on to what the current things

00:34:42.380 --> 00:34:46.579
you say are. Yes, yep. He couldn't get off the

00:34:46.579 --> 00:34:49.400
rah -rah of our quarterback's great, he's wonderful,

00:34:49.639 --> 00:34:52.380
he's perfect. No, people tend to be a little

00:34:52.380 --> 00:34:55.599
more realistic these days. Yeah, he's the only

00:34:55.599 --> 00:34:57.800
guy that's in love with Geno Smith. Yeah, yeah.

00:34:58.059 --> 00:35:02.860
Including Geno Smith. But that definitely, that

00:35:02.860 --> 00:35:06.039
struck me every time I saw him speak, was that

00:35:06.039 --> 00:35:08.179
he just seemed a little out of touch with the

00:35:08.179 --> 00:35:09.659
modern image of the NFL. That's what did him

00:35:09.659 --> 00:35:12.019
in. That's what did him in, I'm certain. Image

00:35:12.019 --> 00:35:14.840
is a very important thing for teams. It really

00:35:14.840 --> 00:35:19.230
is. Yeah. That's true. No, he looked like a confused

00:35:19.230 --> 00:35:21.550
old man. Yeah. He really did. And I love Pete

00:35:21.550 --> 00:35:24.690
Carroll. Yeah. He was a very good coach in a

00:35:24.690 --> 00:35:27.349
lot of years for a number of different teams

00:35:27.349 --> 00:35:30.190
and college. Yeah. And a professional. Yeah.

00:35:30.269 --> 00:35:33.250
But it was time, even though it was after a year.

00:35:33.289 --> 00:35:35.289
I can't say it was fair, and I'll never say it

00:35:35.289 --> 00:35:38.130
was fair, but I will say it was time. Yeah. But

00:35:38.130 --> 00:35:41.400
life isn't fair. No. You know? And when you sign

00:35:41.400 --> 00:35:42.920
with the Raiders, you've got to know they have

00:35:42.920 --> 00:35:45.179
a quick trigger. Yeah, Topher was born with an

00:35:45.179 --> 00:35:48.840
unusually large penis. But he was dealt that

00:35:48.840 --> 00:35:51.940
way. I mean, he can't help it. Every day he has

00:35:51.940 --> 00:35:54.420
to band -aid, or not band -aid, he has to take

00:35:54.420 --> 00:35:57.619
rubber bands and bring it up and kind of hide

00:35:57.619 --> 00:36:00.460
it. Because if not, it causes a lot of issues.

00:36:00.659 --> 00:36:03.619
A lot of issues. I remember Frank Sinatra had

00:36:03.619 --> 00:36:07.619
special pants made for him. So his enormous salami

00:36:07.619 --> 00:36:09.300
could hang down on one side and people wouldn't

00:36:09.300 --> 00:36:14.539
see it. Thank God he never got a boner in the

00:36:14.539 --> 00:36:16.719
middle of a performance. Oh my gosh, yeah. Would

00:36:16.719 --> 00:36:22.980
have torn right through that fabric. Allegedly.

00:36:24.239 --> 00:36:26.960
It's fucked up what we find out about stars afterwards.

00:36:27.380 --> 00:36:31.099
Just like Milton Berle. Yeah, who knew? Oh my

00:36:31.099 --> 00:36:33.000
gosh, and he hated talking about it because it

00:36:33.000 --> 00:36:35.940
worked out. And, oh, he would get so mad. He

00:36:35.940 --> 00:36:37.260
didn't like to talk about it. Apparently he was

00:36:37.260 --> 00:36:40.019
a lot more private person than... Lyndon B. Johnson

00:36:40.019 --> 00:36:42.880
was. Yeah, yeah. Lyndon B. Johnson allegedly

00:36:42.880 --> 00:36:45.880
had a huge penis. Whenever he was losing an argument,

00:36:46.079 --> 00:36:48.420
he would pull it out and flip it on the table.

00:36:48.519 --> 00:36:51.880
It would shake the table. He goes, I am right

00:36:51.880 --> 00:36:54.760
because of this. And everyone would go, you're

00:36:54.760 --> 00:37:00.039
right, Mr. President. They copied that scene

00:37:00.039 --> 00:37:02.900
in an episode of the show Nip -Tuck. which was

00:37:02.900 --> 00:37:05.119
about plastic surgeons. Yeah, there was a meeting

00:37:05.119 --> 00:37:06.840
around a table, and they were trying to decide

00:37:06.840 --> 00:37:09.679
some very important thing, and the one arrogant

00:37:09.679 --> 00:37:12.000
surgeon just unzipped and threw his wiener out

00:37:12.000 --> 00:37:14.179
on the table and said, this is why I get my way,

00:37:14.280 --> 00:37:17.420
or something to that effect. Did he get his way?

00:37:17.500 --> 00:37:21.300
Yep. I think in the show there were brothers,

00:37:21.420 --> 00:37:24.849
and one was kind of... Mild -mannered and submissive

00:37:24.849 --> 00:37:27.150
but just wanted to do the medicine and the other

00:37:27.150 --> 00:37:30.250
one was very talented, but enormously ambitious

00:37:30.250 --> 00:37:34.670
And for a broadcast TV show they got away with

00:37:34.670 --> 00:37:36.590
quite a bit of stuff that you wouldn't think

00:37:36.590 --> 00:37:40.510
they would have at the time Kind of bordered

00:37:40.510 --> 00:37:43.869
on soft core porn They do that on purpose too

00:37:43.869 --> 00:37:47.030
Damn it, I didn't bring it. I had a story. I'm

00:37:47.030 --> 00:37:48.909
the guy with the smallest penis in the world

00:37:48.909 --> 00:37:55.329
Hummingbird man Yeah, very much so. I mean, there

00:37:55.329 --> 00:37:57.789
have actually been cases where it's like, dude,

00:37:58.030 --> 00:38:01.389
a clitoris is bigger than that. That's this guy,

00:38:01.469 --> 00:38:04.250
yes, micropenis syndrome. But basically, it's

00:38:04.250 --> 00:38:07.010
the exact same structure. You've got an X and

00:38:07.010 --> 00:38:10.889
a Y chromosome. It differentiates and becomes

00:38:10.889 --> 00:38:13.349
a penis. If you've got an X and X, it stays the

00:38:13.349 --> 00:38:15.349
way it is and becomes a clitoris. Yeah, it should

00:38:15.349 --> 00:38:18.730
have stayed female, but it didn't. At the last

00:38:18.730 --> 00:38:21.550
second, it decided to be male. At one point in

00:38:21.550 --> 00:38:24.090
the fetus development, testicles and ovaries

00:38:24.090 --> 00:38:26.670
are the exact same thing. Yeah, that's true.

00:38:26.809 --> 00:38:28.989
But if you're a male, a certain hormone turns

00:38:28.989 --> 00:38:31.429
on and they develop into testicles and drop down.

00:38:32.369 --> 00:38:35.369
So we start with a lot of very, very common parts.

00:38:35.610 --> 00:38:37.989
Yeah. It's interesting. So this guy was kind

00:38:37.989 --> 00:38:40.349
of an in -between. Yeah, yeah. The gene that

00:38:40.349 --> 00:38:42.869
was supposed to make it turn into a wee -wee

00:38:42.869 --> 00:38:46.550
didn't happen. Yikes. Poor guy. I know. That

00:38:46.550 --> 00:38:50.170
sucks. I'm going to try to bring that story next

00:38:50.170 --> 00:38:54.769
week. All right. So Pete Carroll, yeah, sucks,

00:38:55.090 --> 00:38:57.849
but that happens. And he's fine. He's still getting

00:38:57.849 --> 00:39:00.289
paid. And he's going to get paid into the future

00:39:00.289 --> 00:39:04.139
for probably, I would say, I would imagine he

00:39:04.139 --> 00:39:06.599
retires. I don't think the demand for him is

00:39:06.599 --> 00:39:09.360
going to be very high. Yeah, yeah. So the Raiders

00:39:09.360 --> 00:39:11.420
will have to pay him the remainder of his contract

00:39:11.420 --> 00:39:14.239
as long as he does not take another coaching

00:39:14.239 --> 00:39:16.679
job. Yeah. I don't think he's going to be offered

00:39:16.679 --> 00:39:19.820
all that many. I don't either. I mean, he could

00:39:19.820 --> 00:39:23.750
be a consultant. And I'm not sure how that works.

00:39:23.889 --> 00:39:25.929
There's probably clauses in the contract. Say

00:39:25.929 --> 00:39:28.909
if he takes a job under this type of category

00:39:28.909 --> 00:39:31.150
or whatever, then we don't have to pay him. He's

00:39:31.150 --> 00:39:33.110
probably just going to do what he wants for a

00:39:33.110 --> 00:39:35.349
couple of years and then reevaluate. But he is

00:39:35.349 --> 00:39:38.989
74, isn't he? Yeah. And fired coaches tend to

00:39:38.989 --> 00:39:41.969
look at it as alimony. Yeah. If they get married

00:39:41.969 --> 00:39:44.389
again, it goes away. Yeah, that's right. That's

00:39:44.389 --> 00:39:49.110
a good point. Kevin Stefanski, the Browns. Yep.

00:39:50.699 --> 00:39:53.300
Yeah, yeah, yeah, he didn't get it done. No.

00:39:54.800 --> 00:39:59.900
A lot of it, the GM. Yeah. A lot of it, the GM.

00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:04.559
But, yeah, yeah, he kind of deserved that. Something

00:40:04.559 --> 00:40:06.820
I found interesting about that is he's already

00:40:06.820 --> 00:40:09.360
been talked about as being the Giants' next head

00:40:09.360 --> 00:40:11.239
coach. Yeah, that's right. The Giants and the

00:40:11.239 --> 00:40:15.300
Falcons both. And there's a third and fourth

00:40:15.300 --> 00:40:17.460
team that they're not saying. And just like I

00:40:17.460 --> 00:40:19.940
said last year, apparently the Rooney rule gets

00:40:19.940 --> 00:40:22.820
ignored blatantly now because teams are required

00:40:22.820 --> 00:40:27.119
to make serious pursuit and interview of a minority.

00:40:27.869 --> 00:40:29.829
person for the head coach. They don't do that.

00:40:29.829 --> 00:40:31.349
But if they're coming out in advance, well, they

00:40:31.349 --> 00:40:33.429
can just say, oh, well, it's this network. It's

00:40:33.429 --> 00:40:35.590
this news service. They haven't. We didn't say

00:40:35.590 --> 00:40:37.829
that. They haven't. They haven't. They've been

00:40:37.829 --> 00:40:40.349
going, well, we're looking for somebody. Yeah.

00:40:40.429 --> 00:40:42.730
We never said he was the next guy, but then it

00:40:42.730 --> 00:40:45.070
just always works out that way. They're skirting

00:40:45.070 --> 00:40:47.349
around the intent of the Rooney rule. And that's

00:40:47.349 --> 00:40:49.570
why the enemy quit interviewing. Yep. He knew

00:40:49.570 --> 00:40:51.690
he was the Rooney rule guy. He quit. He didn't

00:40:51.690 --> 00:40:53.789
want to be the token interview. which I don't

00:40:53.789 --> 00:40:56.250
blame them. That's immensely disrespectful. It

00:40:56.250 --> 00:40:58.429
is, and they never took him seriously, although

00:40:58.429 --> 00:41:02.570
his credentials are fucking amazing. Yeah, yeah.

00:41:02.690 --> 00:41:04.949
And by the way, he said openly, I would love

00:41:04.949 --> 00:41:06.610
to come back to the Chiefs. I would love for

00:41:06.610 --> 00:41:09.530
him to, and I'll bet you it's going to happen.

00:41:09.710 --> 00:41:13.030
Yeah, I think since Nagy and Spagnuolo are both

00:41:13.030 --> 00:41:16.030
interviewing for head coaching jobs. Spagnuolo,

00:41:16.210 --> 00:41:19.530
I think, I don't know, though. I don't think

00:41:19.530 --> 00:41:22.699
he's going to get a – there's something – I don't

00:41:22.699 --> 00:41:24.840
know what it is. They view him too much defensive

00:41:24.840 --> 00:41:27.059
or don't think he can grasp around it. But we'll

00:41:27.059 --> 00:41:29.619
see. They've always kind of said like he's never

00:41:29.619 --> 00:41:32.119
really been that serious of a candidate. Yeah.

00:41:32.179 --> 00:41:35.500
Ever since he coached the Giants. Who did he

00:41:35.500 --> 00:41:37.300
coach? I think it was the Giants. Yeah, the head

00:41:37.300 --> 00:41:39.219
coach for the Giants. Yeah, they may put him

00:41:39.219 --> 00:41:41.179
in a situation where he's the head coach and

00:41:41.179 --> 00:41:43.159
calls the defense, but somebody else calls all

00:41:43.159 --> 00:41:45.039
the offense and works with the offense. They

00:41:45.039 --> 00:41:46.840
might just take it all out of his hands. Yeah,

00:41:46.840 --> 00:41:48.800
and look, I love Spaggs. I don't want him to

00:41:48.800 --> 00:41:50.480
go anywhere, but, you know, I wish him luck.

00:41:50.840 --> 00:41:52.820
Yeah, yeah, whatever's best for him, man, do

00:41:52.820 --> 00:41:55.519
it. Yeah, yeah, I'm not that guy. I'd love to

00:41:55.519 --> 00:41:57.440
have him, but, you know, you've got to move on

00:41:57.440 --> 00:41:59.780
sometimes. But I hope we get him back. Me too.

00:42:00.329 --> 00:42:02.469
So he's been something else. I'll tell you, we

00:42:02.469 --> 00:42:04.809
would not have three Super Bowls if it wasn't

00:42:04.809 --> 00:42:07.309
for him. Definitely. I mean, look at Bob Sutton.

00:42:07.389 --> 00:42:09.190
If he was still doing that, I mean, we wouldn't

00:42:09.190 --> 00:42:11.170
have gotten one. I'm convinced we wouldn't have

00:42:11.170 --> 00:42:15.590
gotten one. Yeah, his defenses were really mediocre,

00:42:15.690 --> 00:42:17.969
weren't they? They were. For someone so highly

00:42:17.969 --> 00:42:20.230
touted, I don't know what happened. I guess the

00:42:20.230 --> 00:42:23.349
game just passed him by. Yeah. So, all right,

00:42:23.429 --> 00:42:26.469
so Stefanski is going to get another job. Yeah.

00:42:27.150 --> 00:42:32.460
All right, Raheem Morris. And Coach Terry Fontenay,

00:42:32.539 --> 00:42:35.420
I believe is how you do it, from the Atlanta

00:42:35.420 --> 00:42:39.820
Falcons. Yeah. Who is looking at, of course,

00:42:39.820 --> 00:42:42.539
like we said, Stephanski. And it's interesting

00:42:42.539 --> 00:42:45.000
noting that Raheem Morris was the one who really

00:42:45.000 --> 00:42:47.579
wanted Kirk Cousins in Atlanta. And now that

00:42:47.579 --> 00:42:50.119
Raheem is out and Kirk Cousins has one year left,

00:42:50.219 --> 00:42:52.519
it's going to cost them like millions on the

00:42:52.519 --> 00:42:55.719
salary cap. Makes it seem a lot more likely that

00:42:55.719 --> 00:42:57.260
they're going to either let him go or trade him.

00:42:57.610 --> 00:43:00.510
Yes. And as we said, love to see him here to

00:43:00.510 --> 00:43:03.929
fill in for Patrick. Ever since Patrick got hurt,

00:43:04.050 --> 00:43:07.909
that's been the whole rumor, Bill, is they're

00:43:07.909 --> 00:43:10.190
going to bring him in and going to try to win

00:43:10.190 --> 00:43:12.230
at least half of their games, if not more, and

00:43:12.230 --> 00:43:14.030
then hit the ground running when Mahomes comes

00:43:14.030 --> 00:43:16.550
back. Yeah, and that gives Mahomes more time

00:43:16.550 --> 00:43:19.920
to be absolutely sure he's ready. He's not, it

00:43:19.920 --> 00:43:22.059
re -aggravates it, say bye -bye for the rest

00:43:22.059 --> 00:43:26.039
of the year and maybe into next. Yes. Do not

00:43:26.039 --> 00:43:29.260
let his competitiveness rush him back to the

00:43:29.260 --> 00:43:32.300
field. Well, they let Shane Buschel go, that's

00:43:32.300 --> 00:43:34.500
for sure. And Oleg Dolkin, I think, is still

00:43:34.500 --> 00:43:37.099
a third stringer. Yeah, yeah. As they say, he's

00:43:37.099 --> 00:43:40.280
the look quarterback. So he imitates the quarterback

00:43:40.280 --> 00:43:42.579
they're going to face that week. And they say

00:43:42.579 --> 00:43:44.639
he's actually really good at being Lamar Jackson.

00:43:46.099 --> 00:43:48.519
He kind of looks more like Lamar Jackson than

00:43:48.519 --> 00:43:52.039
Lamar does. Seeing him run on the plays that

00:43:52.039 --> 00:43:55.519
I did, he's got some really good instincts. He's

00:43:55.519 --> 00:43:59.340
not in a position where he's going to get real

00:43:59.340 --> 00:44:07.059
-world playing time. This year he did, but they're

00:44:07.059 --> 00:44:08.880
going to do whatever they can to make sure that

00:44:08.880 --> 00:44:11.460
he's not on the field because Mahomes is on the

00:44:11.460 --> 00:44:14.260
field. I think if he were born in the era...

00:44:14.559 --> 00:44:16.599
where the scrambling quarterback was the hot

00:44:16.599 --> 00:44:19.320
thing, he would have been great. Yes. I think

00:44:19.320 --> 00:44:21.179
he would have done really well. I think so too.

00:44:21.179 --> 00:44:23.059
Because everybody is like Randall Cunningham,

00:44:23.280 --> 00:44:28.400
Charlie Batch. Charlie Batch. The guy in Minnesota

00:44:28.400 --> 00:44:33.280
that Rush Limbaugh insulted. Culpepper? Yes.

00:44:33.440 --> 00:44:36.619
I mean, a number of those were given the label

00:44:36.619 --> 00:44:38.780
as a scrambling quarterback, whether they deserved

00:44:38.780 --> 00:44:40.420
it or not. And there were more, I can't remember.

00:44:40.619 --> 00:44:44.079
But if Oladokun had been around then. Some NFL

00:44:44.079 --> 00:44:45.900
team would have snapped him up and started him.

00:44:46.119 --> 00:44:50.000
Oh, yeah, I think so. Yeah, Culpepper, wasn't

00:44:50.000 --> 00:44:53.699
that the love boat? Oh, yeah. You remember that?

00:44:53.860 --> 00:44:56.579
The Minnesota love boat. Boy, Minnesota's come

00:44:56.579 --> 00:44:59.500
a long way, haven't they? Oh, it has. The team

00:44:59.500 --> 00:45:02.539
and the state. Anyway, no politics. Sports. Okay,

00:45:02.559 --> 00:45:06.059
yep, yep. So, yeah, that wasn't a big surprise

00:45:06.059 --> 00:45:09.750
either. The Falcons, they really expected Penix

00:45:09.750 --> 00:45:12.590
Jr. to come on this year and be that much further.

00:45:14.789 --> 00:45:17.070
Cousins did a lot of the year, which they didn't

00:45:17.070 --> 00:45:19.070
want. Nothing against Cousins, it's just like

00:45:19.070 --> 00:45:21.750
he's not your future. Yeah, yeah, and the more

00:45:21.750 --> 00:45:25.409
he's in there, one of the drawbacks of that is

00:45:25.409 --> 00:45:27.170
the more he's in there, the less valuable he

00:45:27.170 --> 00:45:30.519
is to the team. You have a guy who's a perennial

00:45:30.519 --> 00:45:32.719
backup, but he sat on the bench all year. He's

00:45:32.719 --> 00:45:35.079
like, it's like a year off. His body still is

00:45:35.079 --> 00:45:38.480
like running on last year's minutes. Yeah, yeah.

00:45:39.059 --> 00:45:41.619
So I think it'd be a great fit if they get him.

00:45:41.760 --> 00:45:46.599
Yeah, yeah. And then finally, no, no, no. Actually,

00:45:46.699 --> 00:45:50.219
there's four more now. I forgot. Okay. Jonathan

00:45:50.219 --> 00:45:54.980
Gannon, Rich Gannon's cousin. Yeah. And Dr. Joe

00:45:54.980 --> 00:45:57.380
Gannon from the medical center. That's his grandson.

00:45:57.699 --> 00:46:00.119
Oh, yeah, yeah, his grandson. Yeah, yeah. He

00:46:00.119 --> 00:46:02.380
was fired from the Cardinals head coaching job.

00:46:02.599 --> 00:46:07.420
Yeah. Yeah. My impression there is a lot of what

00:46:07.420 --> 00:46:10.000
got him fired was he couldn't do anything with

00:46:10.000 --> 00:46:13.239
Kyler Murray. Yes, I think that was the long

00:46:13.239 --> 00:46:15.460
and the short of it. They expected him to make

00:46:15.460 --> 00:46:19.659
Kyler Murray. This top -notch quarterback, which

00:46:19.659 --> 00:46:23.539
I'm not sure can be done. No. Kyler Murray has

00:46:23.539 --> 00:46:26.400
never shown any consistency under anybody, and

00:46:26.400 --> 00:46:29.059
I don't look for it now either. He's ruined.

00:46:29.300 --> 00:46:31.880
I know the reputation early in his career was

00:46:31.880 --> 00:46:34.219
that he spent too much time playing video games

00:46:34.219 --> 00:46:37.320
instead of practice and watching film and stuff.

00:46:37.440 --> 00:46:39.519
I remember hearing that, yeah. But since then,

00:46:39.559 --> 00:46:41.739
I've learned that teams will lie about a player

00:46:41.739 --> 00:46:43.840
in order to shame them into doing better. So

00:46:43.840 --> 00:46:47.090
who knows if any of that was true. I can see

00:46:47.090 --> 00:46:50.989
them lying about it real easily. And then we're

00:46:50.989 --> 00:46:53.050
going to go to Brian Callahan of the Titans.

00:46:53.329 --> 00:46:55.869
Yeah, he was earlier in the season. And I think

00:46:55.869 --> 00:46:58.090
that's a direct result of Cam Ward never really

00:46:58.090 --> 00:47:02.610
progressing in anything. Cam Ward, I think, can

00:47:02.610 --> 00:47:06.269
still be, if you get the right person, I think

00:47:06.269 --> 00:47:09.590
he can still be taught to be better. I don't

00:47:09.590 --> 00:47:11.489
know how much better. The upside is unclear.

00:47:13.239 --> 00:47:15.320
But hopefully they find someone that can nurture

00:47:15.320 --> 00:47:17.599
him because he has all the tools. I mean, look

00:47:17.599 --> 00:47:19.699
at Bryce Young. I mean, they've been quietly

00:47:19.699 --> 00:47:23.639
teaching him. Yeah. And he's come along pretty

00:47:23.639 --> 00:47:26.760
nice. Here he is in the postseason. Yeah. That's

00:47:26.760 --> 00:47:28.840
what you want, too. I mean, not everybody does

00:47:28.840 --> 00:47:32.139
like Andy Reid, where your guy comes in and goes

00:47:32.139 --> 00:47:34.659
straight to you. You know, the championship game

00:47:34.659 --> 00:47:37.300
and Super Bowls. Yeah. That's not what happens

00:47:37.300 --> 00:47:39.280
normally. But someone like Andy Reid, that's

00:47:39.280 --> 00:47:42.039
what happens. But that's how come he is an exceptional

00:47:42.039 --> 00:47:45.800
coach and will go down as either the greatest

00:47:45.800 --> 00:47:48.340
ever or pretty close. Yeah. Well, the person

00:47:48.340 --> 00:47:50.739
I've been hearing for the Titans job is defensive

00:47:50.739 --> 00:47:53.380
coordinator Steve Spagnuolo. And I know why.

00:47:53.380 --> 00:47:55.539
So how is he going to mentor Cam Ward? He's going

00:47:55.539 --> 00:47:57.880
to have to hire somebody to mentor him. And that's

00:47:57.880 --> 00:47:59.679
why I wasn't really sold on him. I was like,

00:47:59.719 --> 00:48:09.289
are you sure that's what you want? Yeah. I think

00:48:09.289 --> 00:48:13.570
he's at least available to come back if he gets

00:48:13.570 --> 00:48:15.550
his legal troubles settled. Yeah, that's true.

00:48:15.630 --> 00:48:18.329
Because he and another guy were allegedly shooting

00:48:18.329 --> 00:48:20.949
into another car in a stoplight and nobody actually

00:48:20.949 --> 00:48:23.489
got hit. But still, you're shooting at somebody

00:48:23.489 --> 00:48:26.489
within city limits. Good thing he's not a quarterback

00:48:26.489 --> 00:48:28.969
and he's a quarterback. Yeah. It's that aim.

00:48:29.420 --> 00:48:31.380
So, yeah, that helped him out, not getting a

00:48:31.380 --> 00:48:36.539
murder charge. And it gives you the opportunity

00:48:36.539 --> 00:48:38.460
to go to court and say, I was just kidding. I

00:48:38.460 --> 00:48:41.599
missed on purpose. Rumor has it Brian Cook tried

00:48:41.599 --> 00:48:47.980
to intercept it, but he missed. It actually was

00:48:47.980 --> 00:48:49.780
a better example than him on the Chiefs roster.

00:48:49.960 --> 00:48:52.360
I just can't think of his name. I remember always

00:48:52.360 --> 00:48:55.619
hearing a wide receiver that can't catch is made

00:48:55.619 --> 00:48:58.809
into a corner. And a corner that can't cover

00:48:58.809 --> 00:49:02.690
is made into a safety. Yep. I don't know where

00:49:02.690 --> 00:49:05.289
you go from safety. Oh, no, no. Safety is kind

00:49:05.289 --> 00:49:06.889
of like you stay in the middle. If something

00:49:06.889 --> 00:49:08.710
comes towards you, get them. Yes. Other than

00:49:08.710 --> 00:49:10.469
that, just stay right there. Yep. Okay? Just

00:49:10.469 --> 00:49:12.670
look for that quarterback to break loose or something.

00:49:12.789 --> 00:49:14.349
It's like the guy in Little League who's out

00:49:14.349 --> 00:49:17.489
in right field. Yeah. You're going to see like

00:49:17.489 --> 00:49:19.210
two balls a season, man. Yeah, you're going to

00:49:19.210 --> 00:49:23.510
see their children looking up. Or the old Adam

00:49:23.510 --> 00:49:26.090
Sandler skit, remember? Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah,

00:49:26.110 --> 00:49:28.730
where he's like, oh, please don't come to me.

00:49:28.789 --> 00:49:31.250
And then he comes right to the right fielder,

00:49:31.289 --> 00:49:35.369
the life of the right fielder. And then the ball

00:49:35.369 --> 00:49:37.329
gets by him. He starts making these excuses.

00:49:38.050 --> 00:49:41.690
There was a whole episode of WKRP that was a

00:49:41.690 --> 00:49:46.389
softball game between WKRP and WPIG. Yeah, yeah.

00:49:46.590 --> 00:49:49.010
And interesting enough, the guy who was the leader

00:49:49.010 --> 00:49:52.840
of the opposing team, was married in real life

00:49:52.840 --> 00:49:54.940
to Lonnie Anderson. Oh, yeah, that's right. I

00:49:54.940 --> 00:49:57.599
forgot. His career never really went anywhere,

00:49:57.659 --> 00:49:59.619
so he went more into the business side of it.

00:49:59.699 --> 00:50:02.519
Anyway, this is more music -y stuff. Rumor has

00:50:02.519 --> 00:50:05.840
it none of them were Bengals fans. None of WKRP.

00:50:06.460 --> 00:50:11.219
Yeah, I kind of don't think so. Yeah. And then

00:50:11.219 --> 00:50:14.780
we have Brian DeBall. That was in November, but

00:50:14.780 --> 00:50:17.780
it still counts as a firing during the 2025 season.

00:50:17.940 --> 00:50:22.360
Yes. No word. They were talking about Bill Belichick,

00:50:22.360 --> 00:50:24.199
but I haven't heard anything more about that.

00:50:24.500 --> 00:50:30.619
Yeah, yeah. Is Belichick the way to go? Man,

00:50:30.619 --> 00:50:32.780
I would say no, because now you know what kind

00:50:32.780 --> 00:50:34.980
of baggage he's bringing with him. He's got that

00:50:34.980 --> 00:50:39.119
girl with him. Yeah, and I think UNC has released

00:50:39.119 --> 00:50:41.840
a couple of statements saying Belichick's not

00:50:41.840 --> 00:50:45.429
going anywhere. He loves it here. He's committed,

00:50:45.570 --> 00:50:47.869
blah, blah, which basically means UNC is saying

00:50:47.869 --> 00:50:49.489
we're not letting you out of your contract. He's

00:50:49.489 --> 00:50:52.269
going to do what this 24 -year -old girlfriend

00:50:52.269 --> 00:50:54.989
of his says he's going to do. Yeah. And she's

00:50:54.989 --> 00:50:57.090
going to say you're staying in college. Yep.

00:50:57.269 --> 00:50:59.150
I mean, why would you walk away from all this

00:50:59.150 --> 00:51:01.989
guaranteed money to try it again in the NFL?

00:51:02.349 --> 00:51:04.150
Yeah, besides that, I mean, have they seen the

00:51:04.150 --> 00:51:08.090
tolls for the New York? transit now? Yeah, everything

00:51:08.090 --> 00:51:12.070
went up like 3 -5%. Isn't that weird? Yeah. It's

00:51:12.070 --> 00:51:14.929
almost like they were lied to. How fucking weird.

00:51:15.789 --> 00:51:20.130
So, and then finally John Harbaugh, which we

00:51:20.130 --> 00:51:24.809
already went into. I have heard, as we said,

00:51:24.869 --> 00:51:27.050
Kevin Stefanski being considered for the Giants

00:51:27.050 --> 00:51:29.550
job, and I think he'd be a better fit than Belichick.

00:51:29.550 --> 00:51:31.969
I think Stefanski is who they need to try to

00:51:31.969 --> 00:51:35.460
get. Yeah, yeah. I would like to see what Stefanski

00:51:35.460 --> 00:51:38.800
can do when he's got a more stable quarterback

00:51:38.800 --> 00:51:43.420
situation and none of the drama and baggage of

00:51:43.420 --> 00:51:45.300
what's been going on in Cleveland for the past

00:51:45.300 --> 00:51:47.820
few years. Yeah, you don't have the guy that

00:51:47.820 --> 00:51:49.639
likes to get his wiener rubbed. You don't have

00:51:49.639 --> 00:51:53.519
him sitting in the brush waiting. Yeah, ready

00:51:53.519 --> 00:51:56.760
to destroy your career. Yep. Then you got Shador

00:51:56.760 --> 00:51:59.500
doing questionable things here and there. Yeah.

00:51:59.900 --> 00:52:02.840
Then you have Gabriel, Dylan Gabriel, who you

00:52:02.840 --> 00:52:04.920
need to develop, but you're too busy with Shador

00:52:04.920 --> 00:52:08.840
right now. Yeah. And just pretty much everything

00:52:08.840 --> 00:52:11.980
that you ever had come to you fell to shit, including

00:52:11.980 --> 00:52:16.000
Mayfield. And I'd like to know his heart in Mayfield

00:52:16.000 --> 00:52:19.699
getting let go. Oh, good point. That would base

00:52:19.699 --> 00:52:21.559
my decision on whether I want to hire him or

00:52:21.559 --> 00:52:24.480
not. Yeah. One of the things that happened to

00:52:24.480 --> 00:52:27.380
Mayfield is he didn't just go straight to Tampa.

00:52:28.019 --> 00:52:30.820
He'd done a lot of little here and there, which

00:52:30.820 --> 00:52:34.280
did not help his career or his psyche. It's kind

00:52:34.280 --> 00:52:36.280
of hard to get that out when you're kind of like

00:52:36.280 --> 00:52:38.579
a known backup when you were a starter, where

00:52:38.579 --> 00:52:40.420
you were in the division around where he almost

00:52:40.420 --> 00:52:44.199
won. It'd be a hell of a thing to kind of grasp.

00:52:44.880 --> 00:52:47.239
But it turns out, I don't know if there's anything

00:52:47.239 --> 00:52:53.349
special anyhow. All right. Well, I got some more.

00:52:53.389 --> 00:52:56.530
You want me to do some bullet points? Oh, let's

00:52:56.530 --> 00:53:02.469
do the bullet points. Okay. First off, do you

00:53:02.469 --> 00:53:07.650
trust NFL? No. Me neither. Not in the least.

00:53:07.670 --> 00:53:10.409
I believe the NFL will always do what's financially

00:53:10.409 --> 00:53:13.349
best for the NFL. And which they've been proving

00:53:13.349 --> 00:53:16.909
to do over and over. So I do not trust what they

00:53:16.909 --> 00:53:20.000
say. I don't trust... on the surface what they

00:53:20.000 --> 00:53:23.739
do because I know with all those very, very smart

00:53:23.739 --> 00:53:27.239
business people who are owners of teams and on

00:53:27.239 --> 00:53:29.980
the various committees of the NFL office, there's

00:53:29.980 --> 00:53:32.199
a lot of brain power there figuring out their

00:53:32.199 --> 00:53:34.539
moves for five years from now, 10 years from

00:53:34.539 --> 00:53:37.079
now, 20 years from now. I mean, they're already

00:53:37.079 --> 00:53:40.219
planning for what football is going to be when

00:53:40.219 --> 00:53:43.650
nobody watches TV anymore. Yeah. No, you're right.

00:53:43.750 --> 00:53:45.670
I'm sure they've already got some committee on

00:53:45.670 --> 00:53:47.829
that. Oh, I'm sure it's going to be in the app.

00:53:47.949 --> 00:53:49.969
Yeah. Oh, you want to watch every game? Yep.

00:53:50.090 --> 00:53:52.550
Go from your phone. Go to the app. Yeah, only

00:53:52.550 --> 00:53:57.309
$50 ,000 a year and you've got your... Yep. Yep.

00:53:58.010 --> 00:54:01.070
Activate your virtual reality implant and it's

00:54:01.070 --> 00:54:04.030
like you're right there. We'll break in every

00:54:04.030 --> 00:54:07.429
two minutes with score update in the virtual

00:54:07.429 --> 00:54:10.719
reality brain. Yep. And unless you upgrade to

00:54:10.719 --> 00:54:12.280
the premium version, we're also going to interrupt

00:54:12.280 --> 00:54:13.940
for commercials. And the game's going to keep

00:54:13.940 --> 00:54:16.039
going without you while you're watching commercials.

00:54:16.219 --> 00:54:18.239
You know, YouTube is doing that now? Yeah, I

00:54:18.239 --> 00:54:20.920
do. The video you're watching keeps going while

00:54:20.920 --> 00:54:23.079
they run an ad. Yeah, they're telling you to

00:54:23.079 --> 00:54:25.440
buy the premium. That's all they want. Yeah,

00:54:25.440 --> 00:54:27.920
which just makes me more and more determined

00:54:27.920 --> 00:54:30.219
to never buy the premium. You know what I do

00:54:30.219 --> 00:54:32.380
every time, like you? Every time I do that, I

00:54:32.380 --> 00:54:34.940
shut it off and I don't go back for a week. What

00:54:34.940 --> 00:54:38.820
I've started doing is I'll start a video. And

00:54:38.820 --> 00:54:41.980
I'll insist on only a five second until I can

00:54:41.980 --> 00:54:45.159
skip. I'll back out and start again as long as

00:54:45.159 --> 00:54:47.400
I need to. And then I'll watch the video. When

00:54:47.400 --> 00:54:49.900
the first commercial break comes on, I quit the

00:54:49.900 --> 00:54:51.719
video and go on to something else. That's what

00:54:51.719 --> 00:54:53.960
I do too. So I'm trying to teach the algorithm

00:54:53.960 --> 00:54:57.820
that you need to give me a lot more of the video

00:54:57.820 --> 00:55:01.070
before you run an ad. And we'll see how it works.

00:55:01.469 --> 00:55:04.429
Let me know. Yeah. I'm the same way. I was teaching

00:55:04.429 --> 00:55:07.050
Spotify, and I've got other things I've got to

00:55:07.050 --> 00:55:11.230
teach now. Yes. All right. Will the Chiefs grab

00:55:11.230 --> 00:55:13.489
the lower pick, or will they trade down for more

00:55:13.489 --> 00:55:19.110
picks? Hmm. I think either one's possible. Yeah.

00:55:19.489 --> 00:55:22.690
My personal opinion is if there's a really good

00:55:22.690 --> 00:55:24.869
tight end prospect in the first round, nab him.

00:55:24.869 --> 00:55:26.449
You're going to see him grab him, yes. Yeah.

00:55:26.449 --> 00:55:29.369
Or a left tackle or something like that. Yeah.

00:55:30.030 --> 00:55:33.809
Otherwise, trade down. Because you need more

00:55:33.809 --> 00:55:38.289
bodies than you do superstars right now. Yeah,

00:55:38.309 --> 00:55:41.750
I agree. Okay. All right, we both agree with

00:55:41.750 --> 00:55:43.650
that. Yeah. I remember that one year the Chiefs

00:55:43.650 --> 00:55:45.969
had the number one overall pick, and there was

00:55:45.969 --> 00:55:48.030
really nobody in the draft that was worthy of

00:55:48.030 --> 00:55:50.289
it, and nobody would trade with the Chiefs. Oh,

00:55:50.289 --> 00:55:52.969
I remember that. No, we're stuck. We've got to

00:55:52.969 --> 00:55:54.769
pick somebody. I think they got an offensive

00:55:54.769 --> 00:55:58.530
lineman that wasn't very good. Yeah. They're

00:55:58.530 --> 00:56:00.429
like, I don't know what else to do. Yeah, and

00:56:00.429 --> 00:56:03.489
that was a year when all the sports talk guys

00:56:03.489 --> 00:56:05.489
were saying, hey, it's not this player's fault.

00:56:05.610 --> 00:56:07.650
He didn't ask to get picked number one overall.

00:56:07.809 --> 00:56:11.670
It just kind of happened to him. Yeah. It was

00:56:11.670 --> 00:56:14.650
like Dontari Poe or somebody. Yeah, I think that

00:56:14.650 --> 00:56:19.190
was it. Yeah, I think so. All right. If the Chiefs

00:56:19.190 --> 00:56:21.829
do not trade down, do you look for a high -round

00:56:21.829 --> 00:56:24.230
offensive lineman again, or should they invest

00:56:24.230 --> 00:56:26.369
in a lineman that has a proven record and can

00:56:26.369 --> 00:56:30.730
teach some of the youngsters? I'd say draft one.

00:56:30.969 --> 00:56:33.730
I think you've got a number of linemen available

00:56:33.730 --> 00:56:37.030
to be mentors on the field and in the training

00:56:37.030 --> 00:56:40.329
room or coaching room or whatever. So I'd like

00:56:40.329 --> 00:56:43.610
to see them get the young talent. I don't think

00:56:43.610 --> 00:56:48.050
you can ever go wrong having lots of good offensive

00:56:48.050 --> 00:56:50.190
linemen because either you're going to use them

00:56:50.190 --> 00:56:52.170
or some other team is going to be desperate for

00:56:52.170 --> 00:56:54.869
them. I agree. It's like one of those awesome

00:56:54.869 --> 00:56:57.110
investments that you know is going to pay off.

00:56:57.449 --> 00:57:02.409
Yes. I agree. Yep. Okay. Yep. Man, it is warm

00:57:02.409 --> 00:57:05.969
in here. It is, isn't it? Yeah. Boy, those heaters

00:57:05.969 --> 00:57:07.969
will smoke you out. Yeah, I brought an extra

00:57:07.969 --> 00:57:11.250
sweatshirt that I will not need. Well, I mean,

00:57:11.269 --> 00:57:13.429
you're trying to salute Ms. Goldfinstein. Yeah,

00:57:13.449 --> 00:57:15.550
yeah. It's our understanding that something may

00:57:15.550 --> 00:57:19.269
have happened to her. Yeah, yeah. War hero, all

00:57:19.269 --> 00:57:22.329
and everything that she's done. The Trojan horse

00:57:22.329 --> 00:57:24.730
way back in the day. True, true. She was actually

00:57:24.730 --> 00:57:27.190
inside the horse. Yeah, she's one of those Highlanders

00:57:27.190 --> 00:57:31.190
that kind of live forever. Yeah, yes. She was

00:57:31.190 --> 00:57:32.909
waiting for the village to go to sleep and she

00:57:32.909 --> 00:57:34.530
jumped out and she killed every one of them.

00:57:34.570 --> 00:57:36.989
Slipped their throats. It was a different Trojan

00:57:36.989 --> 00:57:39.809
horse than what you read in history. This is

00:57:39.809 --> 00:57:41.510
the original one that they didn't actually put

00:57:41.510 --> 00:57:45.869
down on paper. She beheaded everybody one night

00:57:45.869 --> 00:57:52.110
and they owned everything. Which team in the

00:57:52.110 --> 00:57:54.289
AFC should have been a higher seed in the playoffs?

00:57:57.070 --> 00:58:01.869
I think the one that kind of surprised me. was

00:58:01.869 --> 00:58:05.429
Houston. I kind of expected them to be number

00:58:05.429 --> 00:58:09.650
two. They were my first, yes. Early in the season,

00:58:09.730 --> 00:58:12.809
they kind of gave away from games that they shouldn't

00:58:12.809 --> 00:58:16.150
have. I mean, they actually, I was kind of looking

00:58:16.150 --> 00:58:18.750
at them number two, possibly even number one.

00:58:19.070 --> 00:58:22.809
But that didn't happen. And definitely when the

00:58:22.809 --> 00:58:24.849
Chiefs started sucking, I started to say, yeah,

00:58:24.849 --> 00:58:26.409
it's going to be Houston because they'll have

00:58:26.409 --> 00:58:29.210
the edge over Denver. It didn't quite work out

00:58:29.210 --> 00:58:31.489
that way. Their pass rush is going to be something

00:58:31.489 --> 00:58:33.829
to watch in the playoffs. Yes, yes. I think that's

00:58:33.829 --> 00:58:35.889
who I'm going to be following in the postseason

00:58:35.889 --> 00:58:39.590
is Houston. Yeah. Look, if the Bills do it, I'm

00:58:39.590 --> 00:58:42.349
fine with that. Yeah. But I don't know. I'm kind

00:58:42.349 --> 00:58:44.550
of partial to watching C .J. Stroud and the Houston

00:58:44.550 --> 00:58:47.230
Texans now. Yeah. I would not mind seeing them

00:58:47.230 --> 00:58:50.190
do it. Yeah. Oh, man, those uniforms they wore

00:58:50.190 --> 00:58:53.480
in that last game. Like iridescent red. Yeah,

00:58:53.480 --> 00:58:55.739
they need to quit that. The alternate logo on

00:58:55.739 --> 00:58:57.239
the helmet. That's the first time I've ever seen

00:58:57.239 --> 00:59:00.059
an alternate logo on an NFL helmet. That was

00:59:00.059 --> 00:59:03.880
weird. They've had the red uniforms before, but

00:59:03.880 --> 00:59:06.440
not with that alternate logo. Yeah, it's like

00:59:06.440 --> 00:59:09.440
a goth version of the letter H. They even painted

00:59:09.440 --> 00:59:12.260
it in the end zone. It was like H -Town in the

00:59:12.260 --> 00:59:14.880
end zone with that letter. I guess that's a new

00:59:14.880 --> 00:59:17.900
promotional campaign. H -Town is their buzzword.

00:59:18.349 --> 00:59:20.949
I guess. Yeah, so that's probably one. And it

00:59:20.949 --> 00:59:23.090
was the last game of the season. And postseason,

00:59:23.150 --> 00:59:25.670
you can't wear alternate or throwback anything.

00:59:25.789 --> 00:59:28.670
So, yeah, it was a way to premiere it in a game

00:59:28.670 --> 00:59:30.210
that was going to be seen by a lot of people.

00:59:30.449 --> 00:59:33.329
Yeah, and also that big H makes me not want to

00:59:33.329 --> 00:59:36.250
go to Houston. Yeah. If I see a town doing that

00:59:36.250 --> 00:59:39.269
on their logo, I'm like, no, no, I have no business

00:59:39.269 --> 00:59:41.500
in that town. It sucks. Yeah, yeah. It's like

00:59:41.500 --> 00:59:43.659
here in Kansas City, we have the Jewish Community

00:59:43.659 --> 00:59:46.900
Center, which moved from Jackson County across

00:59:46.900 --> 00:59:48.780
the state line into Johnson County. Oh, like

00:59:48.780 --> 00:59:51.219
everything else? And suddenly now they're the

00:59:51.219 --> 00:59:54.320
J. Oh, yeah. They won't even say the word Jewish

00:59:54.320 --> 00:59:57.079
in their advertisement. They're afraid of it.

00:59:57.699 --> 01:00:00.139
I can tell you why. There was a shooter there.

01:00:01.280 --> 01:00:04.559
Well, that's true. That's true. And he was shooting

01:00:04.559 --> 01:00:09.360
there. because it was called the Jewish Center.

01:00:09.800 --> 01:00:12.739
I forgot his name, but he actually ran for Congress.

01:00:12.780 --> 01:00:15.139
Of course he didn't get in. He might have gotten

01:00:15.139 --> 01:00:19.760
two votes from some idiot. So that's one of the

01:00:19.760 --> 01:00:21.619
reasons they don't use the word Jewish. I'd forgotten

01:00:21.619 --> 01:00:23.760
about that hate crime, yeah. And ironically,

01:00:23.920 --> 01:00:25.679
the people he shot and killed weren't even Jewish.

01:00:25.699 --> 01:00:27.059
I was getting ready to say that. The guy was

01:00:27.059 --> 01:00:30.800
so stupid. Didn't he die? Yeah, I believe he

01:00:30.800 --> 01:00:35.119
did. I mean, when I was a kid, anybody... could

01:00:35.119 --> 01:00:37.519
join the Jewish Community Center and use their

01:00:37.519 --> 01:00:40.699
swimming pool for the season. They didn't care.

01:00:40.840 --> 01:00:45.860
You've got American money. Come on up. That was

01:00:45.860 --> 01:00:49.699
not a Jewish joke. No. My ex -wife is Jewish.

01:00:51.739 --> 01:00:54.260
So they've never been any kind of exclusive.

01:00:56.150 --> 01:00:58.469
It's always been, you know, we're here for it.

01:00:58.510 --> 01:01:00.889
It's like the Menorah Hospital used to be called

01:01:00.889 --> 01:01:04.429
the Jewish Hospital of Kansas City. But they

01:01:04.429 --> 01:01:07.429
would treat anybody. It just, it was their name,

01:01:07.469 --> 01:01:10.429
but that didn't mean, you know, it wasn't a requirement.

01:01:10.920 --> 01:01:13.679
Yeah. Not that way. And I actually, I go to Menorah

01:01:13.679 --> 01:01:15.420
for a few things. I like them. Yeah, I do too.

01:01:15.420 --> 01:01:17.719
They do my emergency gallbladder surgery very

01:01:17.719 --> 01:01:21.239
well. Yeah. I love it. It's a beautiful hospital,

01:01:21.280 --> 01:01:23.139
actually. And they got that area out there that's

01:01:23.139 --> 01:01:26.019
like forestry and with the bridge and all that.

01:01:26.239 --> 01:01:28.380
Yeah. And then in their food court, they actually

01:01:28.380 --> 01:01:30.440
have a balcony overlooking that, which is really

01:01:30.440 --> 01:01:32.880
neat. Yeah, it is really neat. It's not a bad

01:01:32.880 --> 01:01:34.940
place if, you know, you're like there or dying

01:01:34.940 --> 01:01:37.099
or something. Yeah. At least it's kind of neat.

01:01:37.199 --> 01:01:39.409
It's kind of cool looking. Yeah. You can get

01:01:39.409 --> 01:01:41.610
out of your hospital bed and walk out there.

01:01:41.730 --> 01:01:44.710
Yeah. Isn't it funny? We got here from talking

01:01:44.710 --> 01:01:47.409
about which AFC team should be higher seated.

01:01:47.710 --> 01:01:50.329
You know what? You're right. I don't know how

01:01:50.329 --> 01:01:52.150
we got there. That tortured train of thought.

01:01:52.989 --> 01:01:57.489
Always. No, it happens on both of the, on all

01:01:57.489 --> 01:02:00.030
the podcasts that we do too. And it's just, I

01:02:00.030 --> 01:02:02.750
don't know. I love spontaneity more than. I do

01:02:02.750 --> 01:02:04.949
too. Yeah. Well, if you look at the really good

01:02:04.949 --> 01:02:08.210
shows that you really like. Yeah. They improvise

01:02:08.210 --> 01:02:10.670
better than they read stuff out. And if I see

01:02:10.670 --> 01:02:12.909
one that's heavily edited, it's always jumping

01:02:12.909 --> 01:02:15.090
and cutting. It's like, oh, what's all the stuff

01:02:15.090 --> 01:02:16.889
you didn't want me to see? Yeah, exactly. I'm

01:02:16.889 --> 01:02:20.690
not a big fan of that. Yeah. All right. What

01:02:20.690 --> 01:02:26.309
team failed to reach higher? Eagles. Philadelphia

01:02:26.309 --> 01:02:29.329
Eagles. Yep. I mean, besides the Chiefs. Well,

01:02:29.409 --> 01:02:31.969
yeah. Yeah, yeah. I think the Chiefs kind of

01:02:31.969 --> 01:02:34.639
brought this season on themselves. Because they

01:02:34.639 --> 01:02:37.639
gambled on not having any kind of depth and not

01:02:37.639 --> 01:02:40.719
having great innovation and stuff. But the Eagles,

01:02:40.820 --> 01:02:44.360
it really seems odd to see the differences between

01:02:44.360 --> 01:02:46.239
last year and this year. What is so different

01:02:46.239 --> 01:02:50.760
about them that they're so much lower seeded

01:02:50.760 --> 01:02:55.019
than we would all expect? I don't know. I think

01:02:55.019 --> 01:02:57.659
maybe partially teams caught up with them. And

01:02:57.659 --> 01:03:00.739
also, whenever you have someone that has a magical

01:03:00.739 --> 01:03:03.769
season like Barkley did, And then the next season

01:03:03.769 --> 01:03:06.030
isn't quite as much. You can go ahead and count

01:03:06.030 --> 01:03:08.829
a few losses on that too. And now that it's the

01:03:08.829 --> 01:03:11.809
postseason, we'll get to see if the reason for

01:03:11.809 --> 01:03:14.469
the Eagles having such a boring and pedestrian

01:03:14.469 --> 01:03:17.730
offense is because they were saving it for the

01:03:17.730 --> 01:03:22.530
playoffs. They did this last year too. So if

01:03:22.530 --> 01:03:25.050
the offense suddenly gets all sorts of interesting.

01:03:25.760 --> 01:03:27.780
then they were just playing possum all year.

01:03:27.940 --> 01:03:30.179
This time last year, everybody was commanders,

01:03:30.340 --> 01:03:32.599
commanders, commanders. Jalen Daniels is coming

01:03:32.599 --> 01:03:35.000
on. Watch out. He's the next big thing. Yeah,

01:03:35.039 --> 01:03:38.920
I bought in. I did too. No one thought anything

01:03:38.920 --> 01:03:41.079
about Philadelphia. Oh, those guys, yeah, didn't

01:03:41.079 --> 01:03:43.639
they lose a couple years ago to the Kansas City?

01:03:43.719 --> 01:03:46.420
Yeah, yeah, yeah, those guys. And then you started

01:03:46.420 --> 01:03:49.039
seeing them blowing these good teams out. Yeah,

01:03:49.119 --> 01:03:51.900
I remember personally being very surprised. It's

01:03:51.900 --> 01:03:54.039
like, who knew the Eagles were all this? Yeah,

01:03:54.039 --> 01:03:56.099
where did this come from? Yeah. I'm sure there

01:03:56.099 --> 01:03:57.679
were people who caught on a lot earlier than

01:03:57.679 --> 01:04:00.360
me because, you know, I'm an old man. I'm sure

01:04:00.360 --> 01:04:02.500
the same here, too. But it was surprising to

01:04:02.500 --> 01:04:04.539
see how well they were doing. It's like, wow.

01:04:04.780 --> 01:04:06.719
I think you'd be surprised how many people didn't

01:04:06.719 --> 01:04:09.599
catch on. Yeah, but I remember being quite worried

01:04:09.599 --> 01:04:14.000
when the Super Bowl came around. Oh, no, I almost

01:04:14.000 --> 01:04:16.360
expected one. I was just like thinking, man,

01:04:16.400 --> 01:04:19.000
this is going to be tough as hell. Yeah. Turns

01:04:19.000 --> 01:04:24.519
out it was. Yes, it was. What rule change absolutely

01:04:24.519 --> 01:04:29.800
needs to be fast -tracked this offseason? Oh,

01:04:29.900 --> 01:04:32.960
interesting. I'm going to say holding a pass

01:04:32.960 --> 01:04:35.320
interference call. They need to make it definite.

01:04:36.219 --> 01:04:39.880
This has to be done. And if it's not done, it

01:04:39.880 --> 01:04:42.239
is not. And if it's called, we're going to look

01:04:42.239 --> 01:04:44.539
at it and go, no, that was not pass interference.

01:04:45.019 --> 01:04:48.789
Yeah. It's influencing the game too much. I'm

01:04:48.789 --> 01:04:51.210
afraid to bet. I wouldn't bet because of that.

01:04:51.730 --> 01:04:55.570
And also I would suggest going to the college

01:04:55.570 --> 01:04:58.389
version where it's a set distance penalty, not

01:04:58.389 --> 01:05:00.949
spot penalty. That's another thing, too. Why

01:05:00.949 --> 01:05:04.190
would you give another team like a 45 -yard penalty?

01:05:04.690 --> 01:05:09.429
Make it 10 or 15 max and automatic first down

01:05:09.429 --> 01:05:11.090
if you want. Teams won't do that on purpose,

01:05:11.150 --> 01:05:13.920
so just take a deep swipe. Uh -huh. Yeah, hoping

01:05:13.920 --> 01:05:16.679
for. And usually what happens is it does happen

01:05:16.679 --> 01:05:18.679
to a degree. I don't know to a degree where it

01:05:18.679 --> 01:05:20.719
could be called. But when they catch you off

01:05:20.719 --> 01:05:23.300
by surprise, the cornerback, safety, whoever,

01:05:23.500 --> 01:05:25.880
when they catch you by surprise like that and

01:05:25.880 --> 01:05:27.639
you're already behind because you're like, wait

01:05:27.639 --> 01:05:29.820
a minute, he just took off for a long one. And

01:05:29.820 --> 01:05:32.099
you wasn't expecting that. Yeah. You do something

01:05:32.099 --> 01:05:34.260
to try to bring it back to even. And a lot of

01:05:34.260 --> 01:05:37.780
times that's grab them early. I bet. that the

01:05:37.780 --> 01:05:40.380
wide receivers all game long will keep track

01:05:40.380 --> 01:05:43.199
of who is interfering with them more and more,

01:05:43.340 --> 01:05:45.300
and they'll tell the quarterback, all right,

01:05:45.360 --> 01:05:48.860
now throw a bomb to me, all eyes will be on me,

01:05:48.960 --> 01:05:51.539
and everybody will see the interference. Yes.

01:05:51.760 --> 01:05:54.920
I could see that happening. I think that's happened

01:05:54.920 --> 01:05:57.440
quite a few times this year. I think sometimes

01:05:57.440 --> 01:06:00.440
it's purposely. knowing they're going to get

01:06:00.440 --> 01:06:02.980
a, if they see it happening over and over, they

01:06:02.980 --> 01:06:04.980
know they're going to get the call. And they're

01:06:04.980 --> 01:06:06.980
like, you know what, this is the same as a completed

01:06:06.980 --> 01:06:10.039
pass at the two -yard line. Yeah, yeah. It would

01:06:10.039 --> 01:06:12.199
be a lot tougher to see the interference if you're

01:06:12.199 --> 01:06:14.340
throwing a quick pass to a crowded portion of

01:06:14.340 --> 01:06:17.420
the field. They could miss it. But you launch

01:06:17.420 --> 01:06:19.900
that ball down the field, and every camera that

01:06:19.900 --> 01:06:23.960
the network has is trained on that ball and the

01:06:23.960 --> 01:06:27.909
person who's running to catch it. So, yeah, they'll

01:06:27.909 --> 01:06:31.449
have plenty to look at. Oh, yeah. Yep. And sometimes,

01:06:31.630 --> 01:06:33.769
to be fair, it's the other way, too. If you're

01:06:33.769 --> 01:06:36.869
getting away from a defender, they'll grab you

01:06:36.869 --> 01:06:38.070
because they know you're going to catch it and

01:06:38.070 --> 01:06:39.969
run into end zone. So they'll grab you. Just

01:06:39.969 --> 01:06:41.769
make sure it's at the two -yard line instead

01:06:41.769 --> 01:06:43.969
of in the end zone. Yeah. And then they just

01:06:43.969 --> 01:06:46.230
hope the defense holds up. And a lot of times

01:06:46.230 --> 01:06:49.489
it does. Now, the rule I would pick for a fast

01:06:49.489 --> 01:06:54.639
track, and this would help the NFL. start to

01:06:54.639 --> 01:06:57.119
push the games under the three -hour limit, which

01:06:57.119 --> 01:07:00.599
they would love to do. Yeah. In the fourth quarter,

01:07:00.800 --> 01:07:04.500
delay of game costs you the five yards and loss

01:07:04.500 --> 01:07:08.780
of down. I agree 100%. So if it's fourth down

01:07:08.780 --> 01:07:11.460
and you're there on the line trying to get the

01:07:11.460 --> 01:07:14.079
other team to jump, you better get them to jump

01:07:14.079 --> 01:07:17.440
or call a timeout. Yeah, you can't manipulate,

01:07:17.820 --> 01:07:22.460
you know what I mean? Yeah. So I would – When

01:07:22.460 --> 01:07:25.219
teams want to get a little extra breathing room

01:07:25.219 --> 01:07:27.539
for a punt, they will intentionally commit a

01:07:27.539 --> 01:07:31.360
delay of game. But, hey, if it's fourth and whatever

01:07:31.360 --> 01:07:34.039
and you do that, oh, guess what? Turnover on

01:07:34.039 --> 01:07:37.280
downs. But that would speed up the game, and

01:07:37.280 --> 01:07:41.739
it would keep teams from using that kind of cheap

01:07:41.739 --> 01:07:45.099
way to get their way. Plus, it's so boring for

01:07:45.099 --> 01:07:47.559
the fans to sit there and watch nothing happen

01:07:47.559 --> 01:07:50.079
for 20 seconds while you wait for the clock to

01:07:50.079 --> 01:07:53.039
run out. It's stupid and it's boring. I agree.

01:07:53.739 --> 01:07:55.760
Make it the second half or make it the fourth

01:07:55.760 --> 01:07:58.219
quarter. It's like delay a game is loss of down.

01:07:59.320 --> 01:08:01.980
Yeah. It can't be manipulated nearly as easy

01:08:01.980 --> 01:08:06.840
then. Yeah. So, all right. Will the Chiefs rebound

01:08:06.840 --> 01:08:10.380
next season? I'd say yes. I think so too. I don't

01:08:10.380 --> 01:08:12.679
think that much as well. Yeah, yeah. We will

01:08:12.679 --> 01:08:15.159
definitely have a winning season next year. And

01:08:15.159 --> 01:08:18.100
depending on who leaves the staff and who comes

01:08:18.100 --> 01:08:26.250
in. Then I'll make my playoff prediction. But

01:08:26.250 --> 01:08:28.710
they will definitely, as a team, be better, play

01:08:28.710 --> 01:08:31.489
better, and have a better record. That's my belief.

01:08:31.590 --> 01:08:33.390
I think they're going to be a playoff team. I

01:08:33.390 --> 01:08:35.029
don't know about winning the division, but they're

01:08:35.029 --> 01:08:36.850
definitely going to be a playoff team and a threat.

01:08:38.229 --> 01:08:41.789
I think our run of winning the AFC West year

01:08:41.789 --> 01:08:45.109
after year is done. I think so too. Look, they've

01:08:45.109 --> 01:08:47.250
gotten up with us and surpassed us this year.

01:08:47.529 --> 01:08:49.130
Yeah, well, I mean, the Chiefs will still win

01:08:49.130 --> 01:08:51.729
some, but we're not going to win every one year

01:08:51.729 --> 01:08:54.340
after year. I think 11 -5, 10 -7, you're going

01:08:54.340 --> 01:08:57.680
to see a few of those. 11 -6, 10 -7, you're going

01:08:57.680 --> 01:09:01.000
to see quite a few of those. Occasional 12 and

01:09:01.000 --> 01:09:02.399
something, whether that's good enough to win

01:09:02.399 --> 01:09:03.960
the division or not, it's going to depend on

01:09:03.960 --> 01:09:09.000
the other teams. But, like I said, just get us

01:09:09.000 --> 01:09:10.439
there. That's all I'm worried about, just get

01:09:10.439 --> 01:09:12.420
us there. You've got a guy like Mahomes, you

01:09:12.420 --> 01:09:15.319
always have to be like, I don't know, this could

01:09:15.319 --> 01:09:20.260
go either way. All right, will the Bengals rebound

01:09:20.260 --> 01:09:24.529
next season? Yes. I think so too. Like the Chiefs,

01:09:24.550 --> 01:09:27.890
there's not that much wrong, and I think they've

01:09:27.890 --> 01:09:29.649
got a good idea of what they need to change,

01:09:29.750 --> 01:09:33.510
fix, etc. I think so too. You know, the more

01:09:33.510 --> 01:09:36.109
seasons go by, the more I realize the key to

01:09:36.109 --> 01:09:38.529
success in Cincinnati is keep Joe Burrow happy.

01:09:39.670 --> 01:09:43.489
Just keep him happy. Whatever he needs, whatever

01:09:43.489 --> 01:09:47.479
it takes. you're going to get so much more out

01:09:47.479 --> 01:09:49.260
of him. He's a great quarterback now, and he's

01:09:49.260 --> 01:09:51.000
doing everything he needs to do, but you keep

01:09:51.000 --> 01:09:53.819
him happy, and then that confidence trait will

01:09:53.819 --> 01:09:59.359
blossom and it'll take you places that, you know,

01:09:59.359 --> 01:10:02.699
I guess what I'm trying to say is the luck factor

01:10:02.699 --> 01:10:05.619
will go more in Cincinnati's way if Burrow is

01:10:05.619 --> 01:10:08.239
happy. He's making all those clutch passes a

01:10:08.239 --> 01:10:10.829
little better. Oh, I agree. He's the type of

01:10:10.829 --> 01:10:12.550
quarterback that has to have everything right

01:10:12.550 --> 01:10:15.930
around him. Yeah, he'll cut down on the interceptions

01:10:15.930 --> 01:10:18.529
definitely. Or he'll bounce back faster. But,

01:10:18.529 --> 01:10:22.130
yeah, keep him happy. I agree. How about the

01:10:22.130 --> 01:10:26.789
commanders? Man, I can't figure them out. They

01:10:26.789 --> 01:10:29.409
go up and down. Even with Jaden Daniels in there,

01:10:29.430 --> 01:10:31.489
they didn't look overly impressive at all. No,

01:10:31.550 --> 01:10:34.109
no. They lost some games they shouldn't have.

01:10:34.369 --> 01:10:37.310
Well, Jaden Daniels, I mean, as good as he looked

01:10:37.310 --> 01:10:40.100
last year. This year he didn't carry it over.

01:10:40.279 --> 01:10:42.539
It's kind of like they had a year on him. Yeah.

01:10:42.640 --> 01:10:45.880
And they kind of got him. We'll see. He could

01:10:45.880 --> 01:10:47.779
be part injury. He could have been injured and

01:10:47.779 --> 01:10:50.199
not being able to do what he was the first year.

01:10:50.300 --> 01:10:53.159
Yeah. We'll see what happens with that. But I'm

01:10:53.159 --> 01:10:55.520
going to say that they're going to rebound, but

01:10:55.520 --> 01:11:00.180
not like they did the year before, whatever it

01:11:00.180 --> 01:11:02.600
is. Yeah. Yeah, the year that they went to the

01:11:02.600 --> 01:11:06.279
playoffs, not this year, 2024 -25 season. Yeah.

01:11:06.520 --> 01:11:08.420
I'm going to dig a pencil out here. I need to

01:11:08.420 --> 01:11:11.220
write something. Okay. Sounds you're here are

01:11:11.220 --> 01:11:14.260
me getting a pencil out. Yes. So, the Commanders,

01:11:14.260 --> 01:11:17.420
you got their winning record. Are they going

01:11:17.420 --> 01:11:21.159
to win? Are they going to be even? I think they

01:11:21.159 --> 01:11:24.760
have a very good chance in that division, even

01:11:24.760 --> 01:11:26.579
though Philadelphia is – I think Philadelphia

01:11:26.579 --> 01:11:30.640
is – sorry. Philadelphia will be their main –

01:11:31.379 --> 01:11:35.359
competition and stumbling block, but you'll have

01:11:35.359 --> 01:11:42.399
the Giants with a new coach. I think they've

01:11:42.399 --> 01:11:44.600
got a good chance to be relevant in the division

01:11:44.600 --> 01:11:50.520
without too much tweaking. I agree. Okay. Has

01:11:50.520 --> 01:11:57.590
Tiffon Diggs played his last NFL game? Probably

01:11:57.590 --> 01:12:00.630
so. Yeah, I think teams are starting to realize

01:12:00.630 --> 01:12:06.250
what a PR liability he is. And that tends to

01:12:06.250 --> 01:12:08.289
outweigh your performance on the field quite

01:12:08.289 --> 01:12:10.890
a bit. Because if you're doing great on the field

01:12:10.890 --> 01:12:13.470
and they can't capitalize on it because you keep

01:12:13.470 --> 01:12:15.789
getting arrested, then it doesn't matter. Yep,

01:12:15.850 --> 01:12:23.579
I agree. Yeah. Okay. Alright, next one. The Chiefs

01:12:23.579 --> 01:12:25.920
assistant coaches are definitely gone next season.

01:12:26.039 --> 01:12:32.300
Which ones are they? I think Spaggs is gone.

01:12:33.079 --> 01:12:37.039
I think Tote is gone. Oh, yeah, as far as firing

01:12:37.039 --> 01:12:38.899
and or getting a job somewhere else. I'm talking

01:12:38.899 --> 01:12:41.619
about firing. Firing, okay, then yeah, the special

01:12:41.619 --> 01:12:43.979
teams coach. Spagnolo will get a job somewhere

01:12:43.979 --> 01:12:47.229
else probably, which sucks. But I think Tove

01:12:47.229 --> 01:12:50.710
is gone. I think, damn it, I had the guy's name,

01:12:50.810 --> 01:12:55.069
the wide receivers coach. Yeah. I was going to

01:12:55.069 --> 01:12:56.729
say whoever's in charge of the passing game.

01:12:57.069 --> 01:12:59.470
Yeah, yeah. Well, that's part of it. And then

01:12:59.470 --> 01:13:03.909
quarterback's coach, I think if you see the enemy

01:13:03.909 --> 01:13:07.050
come back, you're going to see him take over

01:13:07.050 --> 01:13:11.659
a lot of that. Yeah. So. So, yeah, those are

01:13:11.659 --> 01:13:13.779
just the names right off the bat. There's some

01:13:13.779 --> 01:13:15.680
of them behind the scenes and a lot of names

01:13:15.680 --> 01:13:17.560
that you can say that people wouldn't know what

01:13:17.560 --> 01:13:20.640
they're doing. I think the O -line coach stays

01:13:20.640 --> 01:13:23.579
because he didn't have much to work with, plus

01:13:23.579 --> 01:13:26.439
they had a lot of injuries. But the D -line coach,

01:13:26.619 --> 01:13:28.420
you've got to take a hard look at him. Yeah.

01:13:28.539 --> 01:13:31.380
Because he had everything that he wanted and

01:13:31.380 --> 01:13:33.500
still couldn't get it done. Chris Jones didn't

01:13:33.500 --> 01:13:35.859
get a sack until well into the season. Oh, I

01:13:35.859 --> 01:13:39.189
know. Yeah, and you notice that last game how

01:13:39.189 --> 01:13:41.390
they kept saying how great Chris Jones was playing.

01:13:41.590 --> 01:13:44.130
Oh, yeah, there he is, the master. Yeah, he's

01:13:44.130 --> 01:13:46.529
the captain of the defense. They were really

01:13:46.529 --> 01:13:49.869
promoting him. It was like he had paid them to

01:13:49.869 --> 01:13:53.189
promote him. Well, they have their angles. Yeah.

01:13:53.289 --> 01:13:56.590
Nobody was watching. They had to brag up something.

01:13:56.729 --> 01:14:00.489
Yeah. The Chiefs were like utterless. Yeah. And

01:14:00.489 --> 01:14:04.210
so they had to say something. Chris Jones having

01:14:04.210 --> 01:14:06.550
a decent day. Oh, pop him up, prop him up. Yeah.

01:14:07.170 --> 01:14:10.369
It seemed pretty obvious to me that they were

01:14:10.369 --> 01:14:14.409
doing a promo piece on Chris Jones. Yeah, I agree.

01:14:15.529 --> 01:14:19.270
So yeah, D -line coach. Who is going to be the

01:14:19.270 --> 01:14:25.250
next coach in the casual team? Hmm. I'm going

01:14:25.250 --> 01:14:31.159
to say McDermott. Yeah, I can't really see any

01:14:31.159 --> 01:14:34.920
more coaches getting fired except the ones that

01:14:34.920 --> 01:14:38.420
are still coaching. Well, I'm talking in the

01:14:38.420 --> 01:14:42.239
next season if things get off to a terrible start.

01:14:42.500 --> 01:14:44.779
Oh, okay. I thought you meant yet this season.

01:14:44.819 --> 01:14:46.960
You know what, I worded that horribly. Okay,

01:14:47.000 --> 01:14:48.720
well, yet this season I would say McDermott.

01:14:48.779 --> 01:14:51.439
But as far as the first half of next season,

01:14:51.600 --> 01:14:56.100
yeah, I could see McDermott. I could see Sirianni.

01:14:57.020 --> 01:15:00.399
If things get off bad. And if they go one and

01:15:00.399 --> 01:15:02.800
done, I think Sirianni will be in somewhat of

01:15:02.800 --> 01:15:06.600
a hot seat, yes. And not just because of that,

01:15:06.739 --> 01:15:11.119
but a cumulative of a lot of different things.

01:15:11.199 --> 01:15:14.100
Yeah, yeah. He doesn't have the best PR, I know

01:15:14.100 --> 01:15:18.560
that. He likes to yell back at fans, apparently,

01:15:20.100 --> 01:15:23.659
allegedly strong arm people. Bring his son out

01:15:23.659 --> 01:15:29.560
as a prop. allegedly. I'm going to say McDermott,

01:15:29.640 --> 01:15:34.020
and I'm going to say Zach Taylor if things don't

01:15:34.020 --> 01:15:38.079
go well. Sirianni, I think, wouldn't get fired,

01:15:38.119 --> 01:15:41.840
but he would definitely be on the watch. And

01:15:41.840 --> 01:15:45.279
he'd have something to worry about. I'm tempted

01:15:45.279 --> 01:15:52.359
to say Campbell in Detroit. Oh! Last year, he

01:15:52.359 --> 01:15:54.560
had a collapse in the postseason. This year,

01:15:54.640 --> 01:15:57.579
they've been not as good as they were supposed

01:15:57.579 --> 01:16:02.220
to be. Jared Goff is causing a lot of turnovers.

01:16:02.420 --> 01:16:07.600
Well, I think in order to give Dan Campbell a

01:16:07.600 --> 01:16:12.180
proper grade, you have to not have Goff in there.

01:16:12.960 --> 01:16:16.399
He has to have his own guy, unless Goff was his

01:16:16.399 --> 01:16:19.649
guy, and he specifically... kind of poked him

01:16:19.649 --> 01:16:21.550
into trading for him, then that's different.

01:16:22.489 --> 01:16:25.529
Yeah, I've been watching the second season of

01:16:25.529 --> 01:16:28.750
Quarterback on Netflix. And that's the overwhelming

01:16:28.750 --> 01:16:32.930
impression I get is Dan Campbell wanted golf,

01:16:33.130 --> 01:16:36.210
was so excited to get him. And it was when they

01:16:36.210 --> 01:16:38.550
had Stafford and Rams had golf and they just

01:16:38.550 --> 01:16:41.310
traded quarterbacks. I don't know if this ever

01:16:41.310 --> 01:16:47.140
happened before that way. But they were so happy

01:16:47.140 --> 01:16:50.420
to get Goff. I mean, Dan Campbell was just like

01:16:50.420 --> 01:16:53.760
overjoyed. The F word was coming out every two

01:16:53.760 --> 01:16:57.779
-tenths of a second. So Goff is definitely his

01:16:57.779 --> 01:17:00.600
guy. Well, then you can grade him, and he should

01:17:00.600 --> 01:17:03.859
be on the hot seat. Yeah, yeah. I think his limitations

01:17:03.859 --> 01:17:06.699
are going to start showing, especially in that

01:17:06.699 --> 01:17:10.159
division. Yeah. We'll see. And Goff has already

01:17:10.159 --> 01:17:12.880
been discovered. They know what they have. Yeah.

01:17:13.800 --> 01:17:19.100
All right, coaching carousel. Here are the eight

01:17:19.100 --> 01:17:21.659
strongest head coaching candidates for Edelville

01:17:21.659 --> 01:17:24.760
Vacancies. Commander's offensive coordinator,

01:17:25.180 --> 01:17:29.000
Cliff Kingsbury. Oh, yeah. He's been a head coach

01:17:29.000 --> 01:17:32.220
before. Yes, he has. Didn't do much with, well,

01:17:32.340 --> 01:17:35.739
speaking of Kyler Murray. Yeah, he was in Arizona.

01:17:36.579 --> 01:17:38.659
And actually, I think Murray might be playing

01:17:38.659 --> 01:17:42.260
better without him. Yeah. Yeah, it seems like

01:17:42.260 --> 01:17:46.039
Clayton. Kingsbury was asking Murray to do things

01:17:46.039 --> 01:17:48.359
he couldn't quite do, which was making him look

01:17:48.359 --> 01:17:51.899
worse than he was. Yes. So he's a pedestrian

01:17:51.899 --> 01:17:54.659
quarterback and a pedestrian offense and a pedestrian

01:17:54.659 --> 01:17:59.279
team. That's it. All right. How about Broncos

01:17:59.279 --> 01:18:02.640
defensive coordinator Vance Joseph? That's a

01:18:02.640 --> 01:18:05.039
good, yeah. I think he's going to get a job.

01:18:05.399 --> 01:18:07.420
One of the first ones that's going to get a job.

01:18:08.989 --> 01:18:11.649
Because look at what he did in a few years of

01:18:11.649 --> 01:18:14.350
just drafting and building this, or had a part

01:18:14.350 --> 01:18:18.689
in it, of building this shutdown defense. Going

01:18:18.689 --> 01:18:21.050
after the Sertans and people like that, I mean,

01:18:21.069 --> 01:18:25.649
he's done a solid job. Yeah. So I think he's

01:18:25.649 --> 01:18:28.149
gonna be one of the first ones to get a head

01:18:28.149 --> 01:18:32.069
coaching job. I can see him in Cleveland because

01:18:32.069 --> 01:18:35.970
they've got a decent defense going there. With

01:18:35.970 --> 01:18:38.750
Garrett there, Miles Garrett. Miles Garrett may

01:18:38.750 --> 01:18:41.229
want to stay. I mean, he hasn't said anything,

01:18:41.369 --> 01:18:43.090
but sooner or later he's going to be tired of

01:18:43.090 --> 01:18:47.449
not being able to chase a ring. Yeah. I can see

01:18:47.449 --> 01:18:49.350
if you get someone like Vance Joseph where he'd

01:18:49.350 --> 01:18:51.569
be like, you know what, I've got some hope. I

01:18:51.569 --> 01:18:55.029
think I want to stick around. The Packers defensive

01:18:55.029 --> 01:19:00.539
coordinator, Jeff Haflin. Yeah. Hey, I'll tell

01:19:00.539 --> 01:19:02.300
you what, if there's anything that the Packers

01:19:02.300 --> 01:19:04.760
have been doing right in this defense. Yeah.

01:19:07.060 --> 01:19:08.739
Predominantly, you know, they have had some,

01:19:08.779 --> 01:19:11.039
you know, but basically I'd say, yeah, I could

01:19:11.039 --> 01:19:15.180
see that. Jeff Hatton being a strong candidate.

01:19:16.640 --> 01:19:20.260
The Rams defensive coordinator. Chris Shula.

01:19:20.520 --> 01:19:24.739
Yes. Don Shula's, and this is true, bullshit.

01:19:28.699 --> 01:19:31.600
Yeah, yeah, yeah. All that other stuff, no, but

01:19:31.600 --> 01:19:34.859
he is related to Don Shula, the great Don Shula.

01:19:35.699 --> 01:19:38.659
So, all right, the Chargers defensive coordinator,

01:19:39.079 --> 01:19:45.289
Jesse Minter. Yeah. Yeah, I remember him as a

01:19:45.289 --> 01:19:48.369
player. I would be interested in him and Vance

01:19:48.369 --> 01:19:54.130
Joseph the most right now. Yeah. Because those

01:19:54.130 --> 01:19:59.449
two showed an ability to help build something.

01:19:59.449 --> 01:20:05.109
I mean, more Vance Joseph. But I think Jesse

01:20:05.109 --> 01:20:10.250
Minter is there but not as far up. The Seahawks

01:20:10.250 --> 01:20:13.760
offensive coordinator, Clint Kubiak. Oh, yeah.

01:20:14.300 --> 01:20:18.520
Gary Kubiak was Elway's backup and almost never

01:20:18.520 --> 01:20:21.079
got into the game, but he learned and learned

01:20:21.079 --> 01:20:24.060
and learned. He's such a smart guy. And he coached

01:20:24.060 --> 01:20:27.260
for a long time, and now it's his son. Yeah,

01:20:27.279 --> 01:20:30.199
I think it's his son. Second step -cousin. Oh,

01:20:30.220 --> 01:20:33.720
yeah, well, this is another one that is actually

01:20:33.720 --> 01:20:39.180
true. But, yeah, you've got to figure since he's

01:20:39.180 --> 01:20:41.439
a little kid, he's absorbed knowledge and info

01:20:41.439 --> 01:20:44.170
from his dad. Yeah, just like Chris Shula from

01:20:44.170 --> 01:20:47.029
his granddad and all that stuff. I think Dorn

01:20:47.029 --> 01:20:49.409
was his grandfather. Brian Schotheimer. Brian

01:20:49.409 --> 01:20:52.670
Schotheimer said that, yeah. How about the Vikings

01:20:52.670 --> 01:20:55.970
defensive coordinator, Brian Flores? Yeah, yeah.

01:20:56.090 --> 01:20:58.689
Was he related to Tom Flores? No, I don't know.

01:20:58.890 --> 01:21:03.729
Tom Flores is unrecognized usually as the very

01:21:03.729 --> 01:21:07.189
first minority head coach in the NFL. Yeah, yeah,

01:21:07.229 --> 01:21:11.060
he was. The Raiders hired Art Schell as the first

01:21:11.060 --> 01:21:14.039
black head coach, but Tom Flores is Hispanic,

01:21:14.239 --> 01:21:17.199
so he was the first minority head coach in the

01:21:17.199 --> 01:21:20.380
NFL. Interestingly enough, he has a Chiefs Super

01:21:20.380 --> 01:21:23.220
Bowl ring. Yes, he does. He was Lindos' backup.

01:21:23.560 --> 01:21:30.800
Yep. Is Brian Flores and Tom Flores. Tom Flores.

01:21:31.079 --> 01:21:34.000
It didn't go through anyhow. They jump on those

01:21:34.000 --> 01:21:37.279
pauses. Is Brian Flores and Tom Flores related?

01:21:39.310 --> 01:21:44.369
And the answer is... Nope. No direct relationship.

01:21:44.609 --> 01:21:47.069
Okay. I guess that name is a little more common

01:21:47.069 --> 01:21:48.869
than I thought. It's a stepson. There we go.

01:21:48.909 --> 01:21:51.930
Yeah, yeah. Tom Forrest is a step -grandson.

01:21:52.149 --> 01:21:56.029
Yes. Yeah, there we go. Allegedly. Allegedly,

01:21:56.029 --> 01:22:00.869
yes. And then finally, former Browns coach Kevin

01:22:00.869 --> 01:22:02.869
Stefanski, which we already went over. Yeah,

01:22:02.949 --> 01:22:05.170
he is a hot commodity, and I think he should

01:22:05.170 --> 01:22:09.869
be. Yeah. Do you think we've seen the end of

01:22:09.869 --> 01:22:14.649
the era of college head coaches jumping right

01:22:14.649 --> 01:22:18.329
to NFL head coach? Absolutely. I think they definitely

01:22:18.329 --> 01:22:23.029
have to serve time as coordinators. Who was the

01:22:23.029 --> 01:22:24.869
last one that went to Jacksonville and then he

01:22:24.869 --> 01:22:27.409
stayed in Indiana with some girl at his hotel?

01:22:27.590 --> 01:22:30.619
Urban Meyer. Urban Meyer, yes. The Urban Meyer

01:22:30.619 --> 01:22:33.399
stuff is done, and he's a big reason. Yeah, I

01:22:33.399 --> 01:22:35.920
would say that kind of probably drove the nail

01:22:35.920 --> 01:22:38.119
in the coffin there. Oh, yeah, yeah. I mean,

01:22:38.119 --> 01:22:40.800
that's like shenanigans up the ass on that one,

01:22:40.880 --> 01:22:43.840
man. Jeez. And I think even if you've been a

01:22:43.840 --> 01:22:46.319
head coach in the NFL before and gone back to

01:22:46.319 --> 01:22:48.479
college, I think you don't come back as a head

01:22:48.479 --> 01:22:51.239
coach. Like Belichick. Yeah. You could come back

01:22:51.239 --> 01:22:54.460
as a coordinator, a consultant, something like

01:22:54.460 --> 01:22:56.359
that. They don't put you right into head coach.

01:22:56.699 --> 01:22:58.699
Do you think that Belichick would ever be capable

01:22:58.699 --> 01:23:00.590
of becoming? an offensive coordinator, which

01:23:00.590 --> 01:23:03.949
he was so good at under Bill Parcells. I really

01:23:03.949 --> 01:23:06.010
don't think he can let go of that much control

01:23:06.010 --> 01:23:08.109
and authority. I just don't think it's in him

01:23:08.109 --> 01:23:10.149
anymore. I don't either. I think that he would

01:23:10.149 --> 01:23:12.670
constantly be meddling if he tried. Yeah, it

01:23:12.670 --> 01:23:17.069
was like, oh gosh, it was Buddy Ryan and somebody

01:23:17.069 --> 01:23:19.850
else on the Houston Oilers team that were like...

01:23:20.060 --> 01:23:22.340
Buddy Ryan was the defensive coordinator. Somebody

01:23:22.340 --> 01:23:24.739
else was the offensive coordinator. They got

01:23:24.739 --> 01:23:27.539
into a fist fight on the sideline because they

01:23:27.539 --> 01:23:31.680
hated each other so much. I can see Belichick

01:23:31.680 --> 01:23:37.159
doing that to some team. You stupid son of a

01:23:37.159 --> 01:23:40.220
bitch. I told you the coverage wouldn't work,

01:23:40.319 --> 01:23:43.819
you sucker. You don't ever fucking listen. And

01:23:43.819 --> 01:23:46.399
then the OC, the DC, we'd be chilling and say,

01:23:46.479 --> 01:23:48.899
hey, look, I just downloaded this nudie picture

01:23:48.899 --> 01:23:53.079
of your girlfriend. Give me that. That's not

01:23:53.079 --> 01:23:55.720
her. That's a guy. Wait a minute. Maybe it is.

01:23:55.960 --> 01:24:00.100
Oh, shit. We got our violin player back. Hey,

01:24:00.100 --> 01:24:03.380
we got it on a weekday. That's nice. I think

01:24:03.380 --> 01:24:05.479
she was here last time, too, just towards the

01:24:05.479 --> 01:24:07.819
end. It was on Sunday, yeah. It was on a Sunday,

01:24:07.960 --> 01:24:11.420
yep. All right, I've got an interesting story

01:24:11.420 --> 01:24:13.119
here. You may have already heard of it, maybe

01:24:13.119 --> 01:24:16.420
not, because it did kind of get me. The Steelers

01:24:16.420 --> 01:24:18.600
looked to divine intervention when they had a

01:24:18.600 --> 01:24:21.220
priest bless their end zone with home water.

01:24:21.380 --> 01:24:25.100
Oh, my gosh. It must have worked. The Ravens

01:24:25.100 --> 01:24:28.600
kicker, Tyler Luke, missed an easy 44 -yard kick.

01:24:28.859 --> 01:24:32.699
Yeah. A field goal attempt to win the game. Father

01:24:32.699 --> 01:24:36.859
Maximilian. Maxwell. I'm not joking. Wow. Max

01:24:36.859 --> 01:24:39.619
-Max. Yeah, Max -Max. Father Max -Max. Max -Max.

01:24:39.859 --> 01:24:45.340
A Benedictine monk from St. Vincent Arch Abbey.

01:24:45.920 --> 01:24:49.340
I couldn't read my writing at all. This has been

01:24:49.340 --> 01:24:52.180
a tradition since 2001, so it's nothing new.

01:24:52.380 --> 01:24:55.159
Oh, okay. Yeah, the priest blesses the end zone

01:24:55.159 --> 01:24:58.420
for safety and good fortune, which both happen.

01:24:58.699 --> 01:25:02.430
Now, they all take a vow of poverty. So I imagine

01:25:02.430 --> 01:25:04.810
if any money changes hands, it's been the form

01:25:04.810 --> 01:25:08.130
of a donation to the Abbey. I got a question,

01:25:08.310 --> 01:25:12.770
I'm sure. What if they break down and masturbate?

01:25:13.270 --> 01:25:16.649
Do they have to give up? Do they have to step

01:25:16.649 --> 01:25:19.829
down? I think you can just whip yourself for

01:25:19.829 --> 01:25:22.270
a while and pay for it that way. Okay, okay,

01:25:22.390 --> 01:25:25.760
I was making sure. That was a medieval custom.

01:25:25.840 --> 01:25:29.939
They used what they call a flagella. A flagella,

01:25:29.939 --> 01:25:32.399
yeah. Yeah, and then they'd whip themselves and

01:25:32.399 --> 01:25:34.880
confess their sin over and over and bloody their

01:25:34.880 --> 01:25:36.859
own back. If it happens a second, I'm going to

01:25:36.859 --> 01:25:38.779
have to cut your penis off. Pretty much, yeah.

01:25:39.420 --> 01:25:45.479
You must carry it around in your hand after it's

01:25:45.479 --> 01:25:51.319
been lacquered so it doesn't rot. vacuum -dried

01:25:51.319 --> 01:25:54.079
and sealed and lacquered. And you must tell everybody,

01:25:54.319 --> 01:25:56.640
I am a masturbator, and this is why my penis

01:25:56.640 --> 01:26:02.300
is in my hand. Wow. Okay, all right. And all

01:26:02.300 --> 01:26:04.479
of this is allegedly in jokes. Yes. And nobody

01:26:04.479 --> 01:26:06.279
gets bent out of fucking shame. Yeah, we were

01:26:06.279 --> 01:26:09.079
talking about somebody else. Yes. Not the person

01:26:09.079 --> 01:26:13.119
you think they are. Yes. Yes. Thank you. I love

01:26:13.119 --> 01:26:15.050
that. We're not talking about the person you

01:26:15.050 --> 01:26:17.310
think we are. No matter who it is, it was somebody

01:26:17.310 --> 01:26:21.289
else. So get your fingers off the fucking board.

01:26:22.930 --> 01:26:25.489
Do not call the lawyer. Step away from the phone.

01:26:25.489 --> 01:26:28.069
Step away from the phone. Think about it. Take

01:26:28.069 --> 01:26:32.449
a deep breath. What do you think about Adam Thielen

01:26:32.449 --> 01:26:36.390
who left the Vikings saying, I want one more

01:26:36.390 --> 01:26:39.369
chance at a championship because this is my last

01:26:39.369 --> 01:26:47.149
year. And he went to the Falcons. Oops. I don't

01:26:47.149 --> 01:26:48.630
think he's going to have the success he wants

01:26:48.630 --> 01:26:52.250
there. No, I don't think so either. That's like,

01:26:52.390 --> 01:26:53.930
you know, I'm going to go to a great concert.

01:26:53.949 --> 01:27:00.020
What's the name of it? Fyre Fest? Okay, have

01:27:00.020 --> 01:27:02.800
fun. I hear the Rolling Stones are putting on

01:27:02.800 --> 01:27:08.319
this festival at Altamont. Oh, I'm there. Let

01:27:08.319 --> 01:27:10.819
me go online and just buy tickets blindly from

01:27:10.819 --> 01:27:14.220
someone I don't know. Let me download a bunch

01:27:14.220 --> 01:27:21.579
of jokes that insult Hell's Angels. What could

01:27:21.579 --> 01:27:24.859
possibly go wrong? I don't want to come home

01:27:24.859 --> 01:27:32.060
alive. Wow. Okay, I've got the NFC and AFC schedule

01:27:32.060 --> 01:27:35.260
for playoff games, and then I have the games

01:27:35.260 --> 01:27:37.779
that we can predict if you want to. Nice. Okay.

01:27:38.439 --> 01:27:44.420
All right. And then when we do the music, I've

01:27:44.420 --> 01:27:47.300
got an interesting story about Susan Topp. I've

01:27:47.300 --> 01:27:49.840
never seen before. It was like a maze. Nice.

01:27:50.039 --> 01:27:52.479
Okay, you may know about it. I don't know. So,

01:27:52.500 --> 01:27:55.960
okay, Saturday, January 10th, two days from now,

01:27:56.039 --> 01:28:00.899
Los Angeles Rams at Carolina Panthers at 3 .30

01:28:00.899 --> 01:28:06.600
p .m. Central on Fox. You know what? We can go

01:28:06.600 --> 01:28:09.260
ahead and just do the predictions right now while

01:28:09.260 --> 01:28:16.090
we talk about them. I am going Rams because Carolina's

01:28:16.090 --> 01:28:19.149
not quite there yet. They're building something,

01:28:19.250 --> 01:28:21.270
but the Rams have been there. They've done that.

01:28:21.329 --> 01:28:22.789
I think their pedigree is going to take them

01:28:22.789 --> 01:28:25.029
past the Panthers. It's not going to be easy.

01:28:25.710 --> 01:28:27.729
It's going to be a hard -fought game. Yeah, I

01:28:27.729 --> 01:28:31.149
think it is. I'm going to lean toward the Panthers.

01:28:31.470 --> 01:28:34.090
Home field advantage, I think, will play into

01:28:34.090 --> 01:28:38.989
it. And young and hungry can sometimes take advantage

01:28:38.989 --> 01:28:41.840
of. The guys who think, damn it, we better do

01:28:41.840 --> 01:28:44.760
it this time. No, I could see that too, but I'm

01:28:44.760 --> 01:28:46.239
going to stick with the Rams. Are you going to

01:28:46.239 --> 01:28:48.699
write down our predictions? Yeah, I got it. You're

01:28:48.699 --> 01:28:51.000
the underline and I'm the checkmark. Okay, cool.

01:28:52.779 --> 01:28:57.300
The Green Bay Plackers against the Chicago Bears.

01:29:00.619 --> 01:29:03.819
Wow, I got to go with the Bears. I'm going to

01:29:03.819 --> 01:29:07.000
go with the Bears also. Yeah. It's on Prime Video,

01:29:07.260 --> 01:29:13.260
7 p .m. Central. So I'll have to tune into YouTube,

01:29:13.359 --> 01:29:15.760
and there's a guy who will watch the game with

01:29:15.760 --> 01:29:17.920
the sound down and describe everything to you,

01:29:17.979 --> 01:29:20.140
as long as it's not a straight play -by -play.

01:29:20.340 --> 01:29:22.680
If you want to come over, that's fine, too. Oh,

01:29:22.680 --> 01:29:27.359
that's cool. Okay. Sunday, January 11th, Buffalo

01:29:27.359 --> 01:29:29.439
Bills and Jacksonville Jaguars, because I will

01:29:29.439 --> 01:29:32.579
be watching that game. Yeah. I think that's going

01:29:32.579 --> 01:29:34.199
to be one of the better games of the weekend.

01:29:34.420 --> 01:29:36.399
I think so, too. Yeah, so if you want it, you

01:29:36.399 --> 01:29:39.079
can come on over. Yeah. All right, Buffalo Bills

01:29:39.079 --> 01:29:41.500
and Jacksonville Jaguars. I'm picking the Jaguars.

01:29:41.699 --> 01:29:44.800
I am, too. They're not doing anything the top

01:29:44.800 --> 01:29:46.340
of the league, but they're doing everything well

01:29:46.340 --> 01:29:49.600
enough to win. Yeah, yeah. And they've looked

01:29:49.600 --> 01:29:52.640
more consistent, and they look like they're at

01:29:52.640 --> 01:29:55.899
least improving a little bit week to week, whereas

01:29:55.899 --> 01:29:58.039
Buffalo looks like, oh, my God, which team's

01:29:58.039 --> 01:30:00.310
going to show up today? Yeah, their situational

01:30:00.310 --> 01:30:02.770
football is insane, how they just get it done

01:30:02.770 --> 01:30:06.609
somehow, someway. Yeah. So I'm going to ride

01:30:06.609 --> 01:30:11.069
the Jaguars for now. How about the 49ers at the

01:30:11.069 --> 01:30:17.789
Eagles? Well, that's going to be hard to go against.

01:30:17.970 --> 01:30:22.569
The 49ers looked horrible. They did. But didn't

01:30:22.569 --> 01:30:26.310
they look good before against Chicago? Yeah.

01:30:27.500 --> 01:30:30.039
But the Eagles would have to unveil their actual,

01:30:30.119 --> 01:30:33.020
true, real offense in order for them to have

01:30:33.020 --> 01:30:35.119
a realistic chance. I'm going to go with the

01:30:35.119 --> 01:30:37.960
Eagles just because they're at home and their

01:30:37.960 --> 01:30:40.260
defense is still really good. Yeah, I think I

01:30:40.260 --> 01:30:43.180
will too. I wouldn't mind seeing the 49ers take

01:30:43.180 --> 01:30:45.199
it. Yeah, just because – not because I'm rooting

01:30:45.199 --> 01:30:46.979
for them. It would just be interesting. It would

01:30:46.979 --> 01:30:49.359
be interesting for a matchup later on. And it

01:30:49.359 --> 01:30:51.119
would be interesting to see how the Eagles front

01:30:51.119 --> 01:30:53.960
office reacts to losing their first game at home

01:30:53.960 --> 01:30:56.079
in the postseason. That would be interesting

01:30:56.079 --> 01:31:00.199
to see as well. Yeah. Yeah, I think so. No, I

01:31:00.199 --> 01:31:04.380
agree. Okay, so we're both on – Yep, so Rams

01:31:04.380 --> 01:31:06.300
-Panthers is the only one that we disagree on.

01:31:06.479 --> 01:31:11.720
Okay. How about – The Chargers against the Patriots.

01:31:16.699 --> 01:31:19.939
I'm going to go with the Chargers. I think I'm

01:31:19.939 --> 01:31:21.640
going to go with the Pats, even though they,

01:31:21.779 --> 01:31:23.920
you know, I think they're one and two against

01:31:23.920 --> 01:31:27.359
teams with winning records this season. That's

01:31:27.359 --> 01:31:29.319
really kind of a misleading stat, because teams

01:31:29.319 --> 01:31:31.300
go up and down throughout the course of the season.

01:31:31.640 --> 01:31:33.979
I don't like Jim Harbaugh, but I have a feeling

01:31:33.979 --> 01:31:35.739
he's going to dial up some shit that's going

01:31:35.739 --> 01:31:38.180
to freak them out. Yeah, I definitely could see

01:31:38.180 --> 01:31:41.100
it going either way, and I'd be okay with it

01:31:41.100 --> 01:31:42.939
either way, but since I've got to come down on

01:31:42.939 --> 01:31:45.960
one side or the other, it's the Pats. But I am

01:31:45.960 --> 01:31:49.060
by no means convinced, overwhelmingly. No, me

01:31:49.060 --> 01:31:51.279
neither. I'm not convinced of the Chargers either,

01:31:51.359 --> 01:31:54.140
at all. Yeah, they could show up and be inconsistent

01:31:54.140 --> 01:31:57.170
again. To me, it's just bragging rights. That's

01:31:57.170 --> 01:31:59.750
it. I think the Chargers' best game of the season

01:31:59.750 --> 01:32:01.829
was the first one against the Chiefs in Brazil.

01:32:02.130 --> 01:32:04.289
That was their best game of the season. Let's

01:32:04.289 --> 01:32:06.810
face it. They had a lot in that game. They were

01:32:06.810 --> 01:32:08.609
getting pummeled by us every year, and they got

01:32:08.609 --> 01:32:10.630
tired of it. They're like, all right, let's go

01:32:10.630 --> 01:32:13.489
home, lick our wounds. We're coming back next

01:32:13.489 --> 01:32:15.430
year, and we're going to kick their ass. And

01:32:15.430 --> 01:32:19.789
they did. All right. And then, you know, we only

01:32:19.789 --> 01:32:25.560
won one division game this year. And then finally,

01:32:25.760 --> 01:32:29.100
what? That's painful. It's painful for a 6 -11

01:32:29.100 --> 01:32:32.600
record. There you go. Houston Texans, Pittsburgh

01:32:32.600 --> 01:32:37.380
Steelers, 7 p .m. ESPN, ABC, it will be Monday

01:32:37.380 --> 01:32:42.560
Night Football, the 12th. I'm going Texans. I'm

01:32:42.560 --> 01:32:45.590
going Texans, too. Although I think the Steelers

01:32:45.590 --> 01:32:49.010
are going to make it close and make it an iffy

01:32:49.010 --> 01:32:50.590
game. And people are going to be turning their

01:32:50.590 --> 01:32:53.909
heads going, wow. Think of how rare it is to

01:32:53.909 --> 01:32:56.130
hear that the Steelers got blown out in a game.

01:32:56.390 --> 01:32:59.310
They never do. They never do. No. So I don't

01:32:59.310 --> 01:33:01.350
think this will be any different. Mike Tomlin,

01:33:01.550 --> 01:33:06.369
you know, I don't think he's ever going to get

01:33:06.369 --> 01:33:09.250
enough credit for how good he actually is. He'll

01:33:09.250 --> 01:33:12.050
go into the Hall of Fame, no question. But, yeah,

01:33:12.130 --> 01:33:16.090
I think he should be held. in whatever top tier

01:33:16.090 --> 01:33:18.630
there is. Well, his best coaching performance

01:33:18.630 --> 01:33:22.550
has been in the last 10 years. Yes. And I can

01:33:22.550 --> 01:33:25.390
attribute it to this. Marty Schottenheimer, I've

01:33:25.390 --> 01:33:27.529
already told this. A lot of people listening

01:33:27.529 --> 01:33:30.909
to this haven't heard it. But they're asking

01:33:30.909 --> 01:33:32.670
Marty Schottenheimer when he was co -hearing

01:33:32.670 --> 01:33:38.010
still, what was his best coaching performance

01:33:38.010 --> 01:33:41.430
he's most proud of. Yeah. And everyone's thinking,

01:33:42.079 --> 01:33:45.779
San Diego at the time, Kansas City, Cleveland

01:33:45.779 --> 01:33:49.359
Browns. He said the Washington Redskins. He said

01:33:49.359 --> 01:33:51.340
that team had no talent, and he coached them

01:33:51.340 --> 01:33:54.079
up to, I think, 9 -7 or 8 -9. Yeah, it was a

01:33:54.079 --> 01:33:56.859
winning record, I think. Yeah, 9 -7. He said

01:33:56.859 --> 01:33:59.220
that was his best coaching performance ever because

01:33:59.220 --> 01:34:01.979
he convinced people, he convinced a team that

01:34:01.979 --> 01:34:03.560
didn't have any talent that they were going to

01:34:03.560 --> 01:34:05.880
have to win in the game. I think their starting

01:34:05.880 --> 01:34:08.840
running back that season was fullback Donnell

01:34:08.840 --> 01:34:13.319
Bennett. I remember him. Yeah. Was that in Washington

01:34:13.319 --> 01:34:15.300
or here? Yeah, that was in Washington. Here he

01:34:15.300 --> 01:34:17.840
was like an occasional running back and fullback.

01:34:18.039 --> 01:34:19.819
When they got into Washington, they made a full

01:34:19.819 --> 01:34:22.800
-time fullback and the main ball carrier. So

01:34:22.800 --> 01:34:26.380
I remember because I bought a football game from

01:34:26.380 --> 01:34:29.640
that season, and he's there as the starting fullback,

01:34:29.680 --> 01:34:33.300
and there's no running back. Yeah. And he was

01:34:33.300 --> 01:34:37.729
just not really able to carry the team. They

01:34:37.729 --> 01:34:40.750
got a lot done with him. Yeah, they did. So I

01:34:40.750 --> 01:34:43.329
think this is the same thing. His best coaching

01:34:43.329 --> 01:34:45.930
performance is no one will ever know because

01:34:45.930 --> 01:34:49.109
they just assume there's enough talent on the

01:34:49.109 --> 01:34:50.949
team when there's nobody. True, and they're not

01:34:50.949 --> 01:34:52.550
going to come out and tell you, oh, yeah, we've

01:34:52.550 --> 01:34:55.270
got a real iffy group this season. I'm not sure

01:34:55.270 --> 01:34:57.149
how we're going to cover anybody's pass, so I

01:34:57.149 --> 01:34:59.050
better coach them the hell up. They don't do

01:34:59.050 --> 01:35:05.149
that. Like the Bryant -Wilson, Russell -Wilson

01:35:05.149 --> 01:35:09.159
and the – and the Justin Fields of the world

01:35:09.159 --> 01:35:11.680
and all that, you know, he still made them go

01:35:11.680 --> 01:35:14.140
to the playoffs. Yeah, he made them look decent

01:35:14.140 --> 01:35:17.100
enough that, you know, you accepted them as starters.

01:35:17.340 --> 01:35:18.939
Yeah, of course they got the shit kicked out

01:35:18.939 --> 01:35:21.060
of them, but him just getting there is a tribute

01:35:21.060 --> 01:35:23.020
to how good of a coach he is. Yeah, I agree.

01:35:23.079 --> 01:35:25.500
And also a lot of people said that that was his

01:35:25.500 --> 01:35:27.539
last leg if he would have lost. I don't think

01:35:27.539 --> 01:35:29.659
so. I don't think Pittsburgh is ready to let

01:35:29.659 --> 01:35:32.000
him go. No, I really don't think so either. They

01:35:32.000 --> 01:35:35.100
don't want to go back to 2 -14 or 15 now. Yeah.

01:35:35.689 --> 01:35:38.869
Two and 15. Yeah, Tomlin's definitely got a talent

01:35:38.869 --> 01:35:43.090
coaching such a wide variety of people. He's

01:35:43.090 --> 01:35:46.470
able to adapt his coaching style to get the most

01:35:46.470 --> 01:35:49.289
out of a real diverse group of personalities.

01:35:49.989 --> 01:35:53.090
So that's a really, really good thing to have.

01:35:54.350 --> 01:35:58.350
Yeah, I would like to see Tomlin continue until

01:35:58.350 --> 01:36:01.369
he wants to leave. I think he's pretty much earned

01:36:01.369 --> 01:36:04.479
that. I think so, too. He has earned royalty

01:36:04.479 --> 01:36:07.079
in the league, and I think he's got it. I really

01:36:07.079 --> 01:36:09.699
do. And if he ever gets let go, he's going to

01:36:09.699 --> 01:36:11.500
have his pick of three or four teams that are

01:36:11.500 --> 01:36:13.920
going to be calling him. Come here and rebuild

01:36:13.920 --> 01:36:16.500
our team. We'll pay you for three years and probably

01:36:16.500 --> 01:36:18.680
fire you after two so you get a year of free

01:36:18.680 --> 01:36:22.060
money. Yeah, and then the next guy will win because

01:36:22.060 --> 01:36:26.789
of you. Yeah. So he's going to be, like you said,

01:36:26.869 --> 01:36:28.329
he's going to be a Hall of Famer. He's going

01:36:28.329 --> 01:36:30.449
to be a first ballot, no question, and he should

01:36:30.449 --> 01:36:34.829
be. All right, that's all I got. I would have

01:36:34.829 --> 01:36:37.250
put the Raiders in that position if they hadn't

01:36:37.250 --> 01:36:40.090
already fired Pete Carroll. No, the same here.

01:36:40.149 --> 01:36:42.069
They definitely would have been, you know, win

01:36:42.069 --> 01:36:43.710
in the first half of the season or you're done.

01:36:43.930 --> 01:36:47.069
Do you think that Pete Carroll is a Hall of Famer?

01:36:48.750 --> 01:36:54.109
Maybe. He went to two. Yeah. Lost 4 -1 -1. But

01:36:54.109 --> 01:36:57.029
that's really kind of not the make or break anymore.

01:36:57.409 --> 01:37:00.029
You don't get kept out if you never went to one.

01:37:00.090 --> 01:37:02.050
You don't automatically get in just because you

01:37:02.050 --> 01:37:04.510
did. I think when he went to Raiders, he sealed

01:37:04.510 --> 01:37:07.189
his fate as not someone that's going to get in.

01:37:07.270 --> 01:37:11.149
That's going to harm his legacy for sure. Man,

01:37:12.029 --> 01:37:14.930
I would be really, really watching to see who

01:37:14.930 --> 01:37:16.569
the Raiders pick and what they do with their

01:37:16.569 --> 01:37:21.239
coaching staff. You know, I've gone through periods

01:37:21.239 --> 01:37:23.340
of my life where the Raiders were awesome and

01:37:23.340 --> 01:37:25.619
the Chiefs sucked, and the Chiefs were awesome

01:37:25.619 --> 01:37:28.000
and the Raiders sucked, and both of them were

01:37:28.000 --> 01:37:31.819
boring. Yes. The best football is when both teams

01:37:31.819 --> 01:37:34.880
are good, and I want the Raiders to get good

01:37:34.880 --> 01:37:37.579
so it really means something when the Chiefs

01:37:37.579 --> 01:37:39.859
beat them, and it really, really hurts when they

01:37:39.859 --> 01:37:42.300
beat the Chiefs. That's what I want. You know,

01:37:42.359 --> 01:37:43.699
I don't want to go in there and pound Little

01:37:43.699 --> 01:37:47.470
Sisters of the Poor. Oh, no. I want it to be,

01:37:47.489 --> 01:37:49.590
you know, a hard -fought battle between equals.

01:37:50.069 --> 01:37:52.250
It was like I remember the playoff game between,

01:37:52.350 --> 01:37:54.890
gosh, I can't remember the starting quarterback

01:37:54.890 --> 01:37:57.510
for the Raiders, but they took him out. And this

01:37:57.510 --> 01:38:03.369
is a playoff game. This is a wild card. And they

01:38:03.369 --> 01:38:05.409
brought in the red -haired guy. Was it Marinovich?

01:38:05.710 --> 01:38:08.449
Marinovich, yeah. Yeah. And that was a boring

01:38:08.449 --> 01:38:10.989
game because the Chiefs just destroyed him so

01:38:10.989 --> 01:38:13.289
bad because he went behind the ears. He didn't

01:38:13.289 --> 01:38:15.270
want to be there. Was it Gannon that they pulled

01:38:15.270 --> 01:38:19.350
out, or was it Ripon? Ripon. Ripon. I think it

01:38:19.350 --> 01:38:22.609
was Ripon. And they brought in Marinovich because

01:38:22.609 --> 01:38:25.930
of his dad and his family pedigree, but not because

01:38:25.930 --> 01:38:29.949
of... Not because he was ready. Yeah. And they

01:38:29.949 --> 01:38:31.890
got Gannon afterwards. They got Gannon after

01:38:31.890 --> 01:38:34.529
we had him. That's right. Yeah, we made Irwin

01:38:34.529 --> 01:38:36.890
see how good Gannon was for Minnesota. Yeah.

01:38:37.239 --> 01:38:40.460
And then promptly let him go and kept the Girl

01:38:40.460 --> 01:38:45.439
Scout. Yeah. Go back. Go back. Go back. All right.

01:38:45.920 --> 01:38:49.439
I got one more thing. Oh, all right. On the subject

01:38:49.439 --> 01:38:53.140
of the NFL wanting to add an 18th game. Do you

01:38:53.140 --> 01:38:59.380
want anything? No, I'm good. Okay. I would like

01:38:59.380 --> 01:39:01.979
to, at the same time, see them work in an extra

01:39:01.979 --> 01:39:04.859
bye week so a team would have two bye weeks during

01:39:04.859 --> 01:39:07.789
the season. I love that idea. There was a season

01:39:07.789 --> 01:39:11.689
where every team had two buys. Then they cut

01:39:11.689 --> 01:39:13.890
it back to one. Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah,

01:39:13.970 --> 01:39:17.029
I forget which year it was. But some ways they

01:39:17.029 --> 01:39:21.569
could accommodate having an extra buy and an

01:39:21.569 --> 01:39:29.850
extra gain. One of them would be to, as they

01:39:29.850 --> 01:39:32.069
were planning to do anyway, remove one preseason

01:39:32.069 --> 01:39:35.869
game. So that would put you down to, what, two?

01:39:36.980 --> 01:39:44.079
Yes. And then for the next week, change the roster

01:39:44.079 --> 01:39:47.399
cut deadline until after the first game of the

01:39:47.399 --> 01:39:49.720
season, and then give you only one preseason

01:39:49.720 --> 01:39:53.140
game. So you've got all your training camp, your

01:39:53.140 --> 01:39:56.399
OTAs, your controlled scrimmages between teams,

01:39:56.460 --> 01:39:59.600
and you get one preseason game, except for the

01:39:59.600 --> 01:40:01.659
team that plays the Hall of Fame game, and they

01:40:01.659 --> 01:40:06.739
get two. So that one preseason game. You can

01:40:06.739 --> 01:40:09.020
figure things out. But you don't have to cut

01:40:09.020 --> 01:40:12.199
anybody until next week. But next week counts.

01:40:12.300 --> 01:40:14.680
Next week counts, yep. Yeah. And since it's the

01:40:14.680 --> 01:40:17.760
same for every team, everyone's got the same

01:40:17.760 --> 01:40:20.800
advantage or disadvantage from doing that. And

01:40:20.800 --> 01:40:23.720
that would be just like heyday for the gambling

01:40:23.720 --> 01:40:26.600
community because now you've got like 75 players

01:40:26.600 --> 01:40:31.739
to bet on. instead of 53. Yeah. And it could

01:40:31.739 --> 01:40:34.199
make for some pretty wild games. It really could.

01:40:34.300 --> 01:40:37.100
And if you've got a starter, you know, he's definitely

01:40:37.100 --> 01:40:39.380
our number one and blah, blah. Maybe you sacrifice

01:40:39.380 --> 01:40:41.500
that first game just to protect your players.

01:40:41.760 --> 01:40:44.779
Who knows? But then, you know, have every team

01:40:44.779 --> 01:40:46.880
play four or five games and get it by a week.

01:40:47.060 --> 01:40:49.600
And then have them play another six or seven

01:40:49.600 --> 01:40:51.479
games and get it by a week. And then you finish

01:40:51.479 --> 01:40:54.600
out the season with divisional matches. I agree.

01:40:54.960 --> 01:40:58.510
I think that could work. Okay, like that? Yeah.

01:41:01.090 --> 01:41:05.649
Let's see. I'm trying to see if there's anything

01:41:05.649 --> 01:41:09.310
else I wrote down in my margins. I think that

01:41:09.310 --> 01:41:14.729
was it. Okay. Well, let's see here. That's all

01:41:14.729 --> 01:41:18.430
I have. Alrighty. We've got an hour and 40, so

01:41:18.430 --> 01:41:20.569
we can move on, I guess. Go to the music preach.

01:41:20.989 --> 01:41:25.909
Okay, sounds good to me. Alright. Okay, everybody,

01:41:26.069 --> 01:41:28.989
thank you guys for listening. Our listenership

01:41:28.989 --> 01:41:31.170
is way up. We really appreciate it. Thank you

01:41:31.170 --> 01:41:36.369
a lot, and go fuck yourself. Oh, no. Looks like

01:41:36.369 --> 01:41:39.529
the show's over, kids. Mark has explosive diarrhea

01:41:39.529 --> 01:41:43.529
and can't afford a wireless mic. Fear not, assholes.

01:41:43.569 --> 01:41:45.789
They'll be back invading your ear holes soon.