The Sports Bastards. The Sports Bastards. The
Sports Bastards. The Sports Bastards. The Sports
Bastards. The Sports Bastards. Oh yeah, yeah,
yeah. We were talking about mic sounds just before
we got on here. And this is the Sports Bastards.
a division of two douchebags and a microphone,
and the music creeps. Yes. I'm Mark. I'm Topher.
Well, we're talking about how these microphones
are weird, how they pick up sounds and things,
and it worked at home at the Talk is Cheap studio.
I prefer to have the... Oh, there we go. Thank
you. There's the good stuff. Oh, right on. Hey,
you got anything you want to talk about or anything?
No, I told you about the specials last week.
We start here next week for Valentine's Day.
Oh, good. Come down and see City Market because
it's their slow season, so there's not going
to be in line for you. Help these wonderful people
here come down and do a little business with
them. And also, it's great stuff. And some of
these days, the parking is free. I mean, people
have been complaining about, well, I go down
there, the parking's expensive. Not every day.
Not every day. Not every day. Appreciate you
guys. Thank you. Thank you. So yeah, head on
down here and enjoy the city market. Yeah, the
city market is such a neat area. It's funny,
we say city market, but it looks like on Google
Maps they call it river market instead. Technically,
that's the name. Yeah, I've always called it.
I've lived here since 1967, and I've always called
it river city market, so it's no big deal. Yeah,
go ahead. Oh, thank you. Of course, fried pickles.
I'm going to grab a pickle. All right. You don't
use a ranch, do you? No, no thanks. Okay, that's
what I thought. Got the dairy intolerance. That's
what I thought. I'm going to get icky sick. No.
So, I always have the microphone right to the
side of my face. It sounds better. Then you can
pop your peas a little bit more. Yeah, yeah.
Okay. Well, I have this problem with turning
around to get something and hitting the microphone
with my nose. Yeah. Yeah. I've got to figure
that shit out. Maybe suspend it over? That's
what I'm thinking. Something like that. Yeah.
Maybe that'll work. Talk past it. Well, we did
okay with our picks last week. Okay. We both
picked the Broncos over the Bills. And that was
an interesting game. I could see how they were
letting the Bills back into it there at the end.
It's like the typical script where one team does
great and then suddenly they forget how to play
and the other team comes storming back. Phantom
non -calls and phantom calls. Now, the big play
in overtime. The interception or wasn't. The
rules read just like they said. The problem I
have is... The referee's refusal to let it go
to New York. Yeah. That's the problem I had.
Yeah. It should have. Yeah, it really makes it
look like they knew in advance what they wanted
it to be and they weren't going to let anyone
talk them out of it. Yeah, and I agree with that.
Yeah. I mean, and we're not talking about full
-fledged grip riding. What we're talking about
is pushing the game in the way you want it to
go. Yep, yep, yep, yep. Which is easy to control
with key penalties or non -penalties. So let's
say that the Broncos knew. Yeah. Or the Bills
knew that they were actually kind of being propped
up because they want a better game. Yeah. They
want to go down to the fourth quarter. They're
going to be more rambunctious in their pass interferences
and the way they play because they're figuring
unless it's just, egregious, it's not going to
get called. Yeah. I do think it's kind of entertaining
that the NFL looks like they were really trying
to get the Broncos into the championship game,
except now the quarterback's out. I know. And
the last thing the NFL wants is that AFC championship
game with a backup QB in it. So it really bit
them in the ass here. I bet they're wishing they'd
let the Bills win. Yeah, I bet you they are too
because Josh Allen would be playing finally.
Yeah. Well, not in the Super Bowl. No, at least
he'd be one step closer. Well, okay, another
thing is this right here. The game right there
was obviously influenced, but every other game
was too. Yeah. But I go back to this. Good teams
will win. Yeah. Doesn't matter. Yep. So if you've
got a good enough team, you'll overcome it. If
not, you won't. But the fact that the games appear
to be tampered with is disturbing to me, especially
if you're a betting person. And it seems like
every week the protests are getting louder that
this isn't right. This is coercion. This is manipulation.
This is... I look at it as you've got a herd
of sheep out there in the field, and you send
your border collie out. He doesn't grab the sheep
physically and drag them off to the pen. He just
manipulates them. He just influences where they
go. And eventually they all wind up exactly where
they're supposed to be, but the dog has never
had to physically grab one and carry him there.
That's how the NFLs are influencing the games.
They keep moving and pushing and... nudging here
and there, and eventually it just flows exactly
where they want it to flow. Because it just gets
too difficult for anything else to happen. And
it's, I mean, the sheep never realize, oh, he's
pushing us towards this pen. They just say, oh,
I can't go there because the dog's over there.
And they're in the pen before they know it. Same
thing with the NFL games. The game is over and
the right team has won before we realize what's
been going on. And then we look at it after the
fact and it's like, wait a minute. This is just
like the game in week 13 where they did exactly
the same thing. People are starting to catch
on. Oh, I think so, too. Okay, so one of the
things I'd like to point out, though, is this
right here. The Bills and their fans are the
whiniest bunch of fucking people I've ever heard
in my life. No, I'm kidding. My God. I mean...
For someone that's been propped up, and I'm going
to go into this a little bit later, and I did
on the last podcast, the one with Rob, it's not
Josh Allen's fault. The media is the one that's
propped him up and made him the heir apparent.
Oh, he's better than Mahomes, when actually the
statistics do not, including three Super Bowl
rings, including losing to Mahomes. Four or five
times. He's like the guy who gets drafted number
one overall. It's not his fault. He didn't choose
that. It was chosen for him, but now suddenly
he's got to live up. Yeah. Josh Allen's the same
way. Like you said, he was chosen to be the next
face of the NFL for the people who are tired
of Patrick Holmes, and he couldn't measure up.
It's not his fault. He's a great quarterback.
He's an amazing physical talent. He's a smart
man. He's not able to quite play the role that
they've written for him. Not his fault. No. So
I hear all this Josh Allen hatred stuff. He's
a good guy. He is. Until proven otherwise. Until
proven otherwise, yeah. Unless he turns out to
be a Timothy Busfield, allegedly. Yeah. I would
hope not. But I can see the frustration in Bill's
fan. To think, how long has Josh Allen been here?
Has it been the whole nine years that McDermott's
there? Yes, the whole nine years, yep. So nine
years out of his career, and he's never even
sniffed a Super Bowl, let alone won one. Yeah.
And I understand the frustration of thinking,
those are nine years you just can never get back.
You're never going to get those opportunities
back. Put it in a crude way. I remember I read
in a book a guy was talking to a young man who
was just getting his first girlfriend. And he
was telling him, now listen, try to get sex every
night. Because any night you don't have sex,
you never get that back. You never have that
opportunity again. Even if you have sex twice
the next day, you still missed one. Yeah, you
missed one, yep. And I think people have that
attitude with a lot of things. NFL included is
like, Josh Allen. We've missed nine opportunities.
You're never getting any of them back. Josh Allen
is going on 30. Yep. So if not now, when? Yep.
This was supposed to be the year because everybody
that had been in his way previously was out of
his way. Yeah. Specifically Mahomes, but also
Burrow, also Jackson. I mean, the path was clear.
And you've got to start wondering, what more
can they do to set you up? and make it a perfect
situation, and then you just don't capitalize.
And that's why Josh Allen was so emotional about
it, is he knew the perfect opportunity was blown.
It's done. It's over. And then, on top of it
all, his coach that he loves, and everybody loved,
inspired. And I'm not really sure. I suppose
it probably did need to happen. They needed something
different because nine years in a row not doing
it with talent like they had would indicate there's
some sort of an issue in there, whether it's
play calling or the almosters, the guys that
can almost be the superstar. I think this is
signaling a shift in the NFL. It used to be that
people would make fun of the Raiders for firing
their coach so often. But I think the rest of
the NFL is starting to think the Raiders had
it right. Why waste two or three or four more
years? Let's make the change now and maybe get
this turned around next year. Well, like Pete
Carroll, that had to happen. He never had the
team. He didn't lose the team. He never had the
team. No one believed in him. And I think we're
going to see, I think we're seeing the last of
the old grandpa. age head coaches. I think so.
I think that's a thing of the past. They just
don't relate. They can't figure it out. The only
reason I'm not raising hell about Sean McDermott
not being hired by Kansas City is I'm relatively
sure he's looking for a head coaching job and
not an offensive coordinator. But man, would
I love to see what that guy did. I would love
to see it applied towards Mahomes. That would
be funny as hell to watch Bill's fan have to
deal with Sean McDermott being our offensive
coordinator. Yeah. And then he could have the
last laugh, too. He'd be like, look, I'm at the
Super Bowl. You guys are not. I guess I wasn't
the problem, was I? Do you think Sean McDermott
has known for at least several weeks that if
he lost, he was fired? You brought this up, and
I want to explain exactly what I think it was.
The Bills, as in their front office. They already
had a plan. When all this unfolded, and they're
like, oh, look at this. We have the Patriots
and Broncos pretty much in our way. Maybe the
Texans. Probably not the Steelers. Probably nobody
else you're going to be able to beat them like
a fucking drum. Okay. These are the two real
main ones, and they're new. They've never been
in this position before. You have. You would
have been to a Super Bowl if it wasn't for going
against Mahomes. Yeah. So, I think if they knew
it, they may not have expressed this to him,
but they got together and said, here is what's
going to have to happen. Anything short of that,
you're gone. And I think that McDermott may not
have been told that, but he knew that. Yeah.
And I think Josh Allen knew that, too. I believe
so. And it didn't help that they were, what,
number seven seed? Yes. They were at the very
last seed. When they had all that opportunity,
that had to hurt. And it had to have fucking
stung. The 13th second was probably the most
stinging loss ever for him. But everything was
set up. And the thing is, you can't help but
imagine. Because I already did. I was like, man,
he should be able to just run through it all.
And everything should be fine. And he's finally
going to get his trophy. And everyone's going
to love him. And, you know, everybody else did
that, too. They ran with it. They're like, okay,
this guy's been there forever, and none of the
usual suspects are in his way. He should be able
to run through it. Yeah. But everything else
happened besides that, including Josh Allen.
I mean, if you talked to him yourself, I'm pretty
sure he'd say the same thing is, I did not make
the plays when I needed to. Yeah, you can argue
that one play about whether it was a catch. or
an interception all night long. It doesn't matter.
Yeah. But the problem is this right here, is
the game should have been won way before that.
Yes, yes. It should have been won over – in the
third quarter it should have been over. They
could have capped that. They could have stopped
it. They could have ran it out and been done.
Yeah. Don't let yourself get into that situation.
No. I know Josh Allen was beat up and injured
for – in quite a few ways there towards the end.
So was Mahomes in the Super Bowl. And it's Josh
Allen's decision to take off and run with the
ball, not slide, and take all those hits. I mean,
some of them were hits when he was dropping back
to pass. But still, he took off running with
the ball and went head first. And every time
he would take a beating on that, I don't feel
very sorry for him. No, I don't either because
he has a choice. Yeah, it's totally unnecessary.
He's doing it because it's good for him. It's
flashy for him. It pads his stats. Great on a
highlight reel. Beautiful on a highlight reel.
So if he chooses to take that chance to hold
himself up as an awesome guy who can do it on
his own, all right, well, the consequences are
you're going to get the snot beat out of you
once in a while, and you're not going to be able
to perform well. There you go. You had the choice
of to not call your own number on that run. The
only time Mahomes does it anymore... He usually
slides now or runs out of bounds. The only times
Mahomes does it anymore is when it's a critical
situation. Otherwise, you don't see him doing
that. And most of the times he tries to run out
of bounds, and I know why. A lot of times people
take a shot at you. And when you do that, nine
times out of ten, that yellow flag's thrown because
they don't want that guy, like he is right now,
injured. They want that guy on the field. And
also, another thing is, people said, you're not
going to, you know, finally, one without Mahomes,
you're not going to miss him. No. They miss him.
Oh, my God. They need that dynamic playmaker,
the guy that just sprained his high ankle sprain
and can hardly walk. Yeah. Coming back on the
field and going, no, I'm playing, and you're
not stopping me. Yeah. And Andy Reid just turning
around going, okay, fuck it. He's going to play.
All right. Yeah. And then him breaking off a
20 -yard run while he's hobbling and still doing
it. Yeah. People need that. Yeah. And without
that, I'm telling you what, man, this. This one
has been good, but for all the games that went
to the fourth quarter, it's been relatively boring
at parts. Yeah, it really has. You need that
guy in there. You need that guy at any time.
He could be three scores down at any time. He
could just catch fire and destroy you. You need
that guy. They don't have that guy right now.
It's gotten to the point where I've been watching
these playoff games, and I realize nothing in
the first three quarters matters. Because they're
going to make sure the fourth quarter is super
exciting and that's when it comes down to the
wire. Unless you've got bets to keep track of,
then the first three quarters make no difference
whatsoever. They're massaging the games to the
point where the fourth quarter is everything.
They don't want you tuning out early. They're
going to start charging the advertisers more
for the fourth quarter commercials if they're
not already. I think they probably already are.
Another thing is... The draft kings and all of
those guys, they are going after the new sports
better because so many states have legalized
it, including Missouri. Yeah. Okay, so they're
going after the new guys, and you can see it
by the commercials. Yeah. They are really, really,
really kindergarten about how they explain it
and how they tell you how you can bet and how
you get this free stuff. Yeah, you better jump
on it. Everyone else is. The seasoned gambler
doesn't need the commercial to make it look like
a fun time and a party atmosphere. They don't
care about that. That's for the new gambler.
They want to draw you in and make it seem like
it's the greatest party in the world and suddenly
you're a part of it. Yeah. Yeah, okay. They're
doing a great job of it because obviously people
are jumping on board. I know a lot of people
at work, younger guys, that have the app and
are regularly participating. Yep. And they're
like, are you going to bet? And I just quietly
go, no, I'm not going to bet. You're being farmed
for your money through that gambling app. Yeah.
Because the phone is looking at your face when
you're reading the NFL news and placing your
bets. They know what ways they can push you to
bet more and lose more. Yeah. Keep your thumb
over the camera on your phone when you've got
the screen on. Yes. That selfie camera is there
to spy on you. It is. Yep. To read your face
and see what you like and what you don't like.
They say it isn't, but we know better. Yep. We
know better. Yep. There's a rerun of the Big
Bang Theory that was on the other day where they
were talking about some new device that was...
being researched at another university where
this device could read human facial expressions
and determine what emotions were at play. And
I thought, yeah, they're doing that for the advertisers.
In the show, they were like, oh, this will help
people who can't understand social and emotional
cues. It will really help them. Well, it's not
for them. It's for McDonald's and Burger King
and Ford and all those places. Who want to look
at your face when they show the advertisement
and say, ooh, they like this. Ooh, they didn't
like that. Ooh, they really like that. We'll
put more of that in. Yes. And when the subliminal
message of sex comes on, they see the little
spike in your facial expression, they know they
got you. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Do you want to
do some predictions? Oh, we only did one of our
previous ones. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's right.
So we can have the Broncos over Bills. We both
picked 49ers over the Seahawks. And I really
thought that they were going to make it happen.
Yeah, I thought so, but no. 40 -6 or 9? It was
pretty painful. It was a big margin. That was
really the outlier. I think Brock Purdy's getting
figured out at a rapid pace. And Christian McCaffrey.
You're getting old. McCaffrey, McCafferty, whichever
one. They call him Caffrey. But it looks like
McCafferty to me, but I don't know. But he really
didn't seem to be much of a factor in that game.
No, and the thing is, is he's getting older,
and they're, I mean, they're just clogging the
line. Yeah. You know, I mean, just typical really
good defense. You hit them hard, you disrupt
their routes, you get in their face, you brutalize
them, you harass them, and that's what they did,
and they won. Yeah. And they didn't kind of win.
Yeah. They really won. Really won. We got the
pats over the Texans right. Yeah. It looked like
that was going to be closer, but then C .J. Stroud
started doing just horrible things. Okay, that
was something I was going to go into. We'll talk
about C .J. Stroud after this, okay? And then
we picked the Rams over the Bears, which worked.
Yes. Man, that one throw by Caleb Williams where
he's running backwards, and I really thought
he was getting fourth and four. Yeah, that was
amazing. But then he followed it up with an interception
in overtime that didn't need to be thrown there
in field goal range. Yep. No, I know. Wasn't
that something? Yeah, that play was one of the
all -time great plays, but it didn't win it.
No, no. It's a shame that that wasn't the difference
and they could hold it up as, here's the highlight.
No, it just kind of didn't matter. No, all they
could do is just show the highlight. They can't
go, this is a game winner, and everybody going
crazy. No, no, no. That was for not. That was
definitely for not. So, okay, we can go to CJ
Stroud after we do our predictions. Okay. Okay,
so. Let me get my eyeballs on so I can write
legibly. Okay. All right, we got Broncos. Well,
Pat's at Broncos. Well, this was going to be
a tough one, but now that Stinnett is in it.
Yeah. Oh, man. I'm going to go ahead and pick
the Pats. Yeah, I really don't see that there's
any way. They said it hasn't been since Roger
Staubach in the 70s where a quarterback has made
his first start in the conference championship
game. Wow. Yeah, and I remember back then Staubach
was Navy, so the Naval Academy had him, and that
superseded the NFL's claim on him. But eventually
the Navy was done with him and he was able to
rejoin the team. Yeah. And then they put him
in the playoffs. Playoffs. Playoffs. But I don't
think that Stenum is going to do as well as Stalbach
did. No, no, no. Stenum also, the Patriots should
know Stenum pretty well. Yeah. He backed up Tom
Brady for a couple of years. Yeah, that's who
they got him from was the Pats. Yeah. So. You
know, I was hoping, but Phillip Rivers already
said no, he's not coming back. Wouldn't that
have been neat? Yeah, that would have been kind
of funny. Or as far as I didn't go to the Joe
Flacco court. Like who else? There was somebody
else who's like 60 and said, well, hell, I'll
make a comeback. I'll come and play. Who was
it? I remember it. People are like, no, that's
okay. That was obviously a joke for attention.
Yeah. There's no way. Anybody of that age is
coming back to the NFL. No, the first time they
get hit will be the last time they get hit. Yes.
Yeah. And you tell me that someone isn't going
to just make a point by just destroying him out
there on the field? Yeah. Go home, old man. Yeah.
So, yeah, I think I'm going to have to go with
the Pats, and I think that actually it's going
to be closer than people think. I think so, too,
especially since it's in Denver and they've got
a great defense. And also, you know, they're
going to manipulate the game even more, in my
opinion. They're going to make sure it's not
a blowout. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, so I'm definitely
going to go ahead and go with the Patriots. And
then the second game is Rams. Are you going Patriots
too? Yeah, I'm sorry. Yeah, I'm going Patriots
as well. I don't see how – there can't be any
kind of chemistry or timing between Stidham and
his receivers. They don't know his cadence all
that well. There's going to be a lot of procedural
mistakes on Denver's part because the quarterback
is just so unfamiliar with everybody. Yes, I
see for a lot of like a false start and a lot
of offensive holding too. And the first couple
of big hits that Stidham takes, we'll see how
he reacts. I mean, that might be enough to either
really fire him up or it just might kind of crush
his spirit. You never know. Yeah, it might very
well. Yeah, so we're both picking Denver, but
are you picking a close game or not? Yeah, I
think it's going to be close. I'm going to go
2017. That sounds good. And, of course, the Patriots.
I think I'll go 24 -21. Okay. All right, that
sounds good. I like both of those scores. I think
there's a really good chance one of them will
hit. And the second one, Rams at Seahawks. Okay.
I'm going with the Rams even though everything
tells me to go with the Seahawks. I know what
you mean. It's weird. There's very conflicted
information on this. Yes. The Seahawks look like
the dominant team over everybody this year and
should be the favorites to win the Super Bowl,
and I think they are. Yeah. But the Rams have
that been there, done that, and they did all
come from behind games anyhow. Yeah. They haven't
looked particularly great, but every time they've
found a way to win, which is what you want in
a team. So I'm going to go ahead and I'm going
to pick the Rams. And I'm going to pick the Rams,
I'm going to say 31 to 29. Nice. I saw a stat
this morning that kind of caught my eye. As in
the two previous games between the Rams and the
Seahawks, Darnold's thrown six interceptions.
Okay, you know what? Is that right there? Sam
Darnold being Sam Darnold. I did not have that
information. I just saw that this morning. I'm
pretty sure I saw that correctly. Because they
were talking about it's been like a two -point
game and they're really close and stuff. Well,
I've been saying all year, Sam Darnold is going
to be Sam Darnold because people know Sam Darnold.
He's been in the league for years and he's never
been an exceptional talent ever before. You can
put him in a system. Kind of like Reed did with
Alex Smith. But there's only so far you're going
to make it. Yeah. So, I'm going to go with the
Rams. And also, what you just said, six interceptions.
They know how to get after him. Yeah. They know
how to harass him. They know how to get in his
head. And I think the Rams have the pedigree.
They have the experience. And they'll get it
done. Well, I'm going to pick the Seahawks. Okay.
Because I really like their defense. Their running
back, Charbonnet, is out. But they got someone
else. They got Walker. Walker can do it, yeah.
So I'm going to pick the Seahawks 34 -20. I like
that one too. Two -score game. Wow, okay. So
in my version, the Seahawks and the Pats in the
Super Bowl. In your version, the Rams and the
Pats in the Super Bowl. Yeah, yeah. I think it's
a rematch of 2019, only it's going to be reverse.
Yeah. And that's another thing I'm going for,
too, is history repeats itself not only in life,
but in sports. Oh, yeah. You look at the matchups,
the defining matchups that always happen, that's
history repeating itself. Yeah. Over and over.
And I believe in stuff like that, and I think
that there is a way to life, and you can call
it whatever you want, but I think that that is
one of the things. Yeah. All right. Well, do
you want to go into CJ's crowd? Yes. Okay. Will.
C .J. Stroud recovered after the dismal performance.
Horrific performance. I mean, just like... Boy,
that's tough. That's the kind of game that ruins
you, yeah. And they brought up the stat is for
three years in a row, the Texans have made postseason.
kicked ass in the wild card round and then gotten
wiped out in the divisional round. Three years
in a row. So higher competition, it can't be
done. Yeah. So I've seen a number of people start
saying, I don't know if C .J. Stroud is going
to be the guy, but you've got to at least start
questioning that and thinking maybe he's not
the guy after all. Well, okay. The game at halftime
was still very much in reach. Yeah. Why was not?
Davis Mills put in. They won every game with
Davis Mills. When he was in there and he did
a great job. He did a better job than C .J. Stroud
on most of it. So why was Davis Mills not put
in? The guy threw four interceptions in the first
half. Wouldn't you do it not just because you
want to win the game, but also to preserve him?
If you think he's the guy, you'd be like, you
know what, take him out right now. We're going
to ruin him. Now, I did notice that when they
came back from halftime, Stroud looked a lot
better. He looked like he settled down, he was
making some throws, but that really didn't last
long. No. So at that point, yeah, they should
have taken him out and given him a breather.
Tell him, like, you're not necessarily done for
the rest of the game, but sit on the sideline
and observe and see what's happening from this
perspective, and then we'll see if you go back
in. Yeah, I agree. Yeah, I hope Stroud can recover,
but this really can't. He's a good kid. He's
a nice kid. I would love for him to recover,
but I don't know. We'll see what happens. Okay,
is part of the loss to blame on the coaching
staff and how they use C .J. Stroud? Yeah, I'd
say so. I would say so too. Yeah. I think that
they need more of a run first type of an approach.
And they need to mix in some. safer, higher completion
percentage passes so he's not constantly taking
the risky throws. Yeah, I don't feel that C .J.
Stroud is like Andy Reid material guy. Yeah.
You know, I don't think that he's that complex.
I'm not saying anything bad about him at all.
You have different types of players. Yeah. And
I don't think that he's that guy that you can
just go do whatever. No, no. Just give us the
results. I agree. He strikes me as a guy that
really thrives in structure. Yes. Where he knows
what's expected out of him and he knows what's
coming next. Like Sam Darnold. Yeah. Yeah. Sam
Darnold without structure is Sam Darnold as we
knew him in New York. Yeah. Yeah. So, all right.
So, I'm saying that C .J. Stroud is good. continue
to get worse. I hate saying that. I love the
kid and everything. He's a nice kid. But I just
don't see it. The first year he looked great,
and ever since then he's been regressing. And
not just kind of, but a lot. Yeah, yeah. The
other quarterbacks are doing, they're progressing
okay. In Washington, Jaden Daniels is still okay.
What's his name? I'm blanking. Anyway, there's
a couple of other younger quarterbacks. Caleb
Williams. Oh, Caleb Williams. He's getting better.
Someone who's starting to show that he's not
really all they thought he was is the Panthers
quarterback. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Young. Bryce
Young. Bryce Young, yeah. He's not necessarily
the guy. I was never sold on Bryce Young anyhow.
Trevor Lawrence is making a comeback as being
a better looking quarterback. He's better, but
he's not the guy that's going to bring it in.
They're never going to be a championship team
with Trevor Lawrence at the helm. No, no. He's
kind of reached. It looks like he's kind of reached
his upper limit. Yeah, that's about it. If you
put him on a massively talented team, then he
could probably coast with them to the Super Bowl.
But as far as driving them there, like a Montana
or Holmes, nah, I don't see it from Trevor Lawrence.
And it does seem as some quarterbacks are progressing
that C .J. Stroud is backsliding. And I would
look at their quarterback's coach and their offensive
scheme in general and, as you said, how they're
choosing to use him. It just seems so odd that
teams would waste and throw away such talent
and not use him in the best possible way. It's
almost like... They've decided if C .J. Stroud
isn't going to play quarterback our way, we don't
care about him. Yeah. We're not going to adapt
to fit his styles and his strengths. He's got
to adapt to us or he's out of here. That kind
of seems like the attitude in Houston, which
is weird. It is weird. It really shouldn't be
how they look at it. Yeah, I know. Yeah, okay.
You spoke about Caleb Williams, right? Okay.
Caleb Williams' talk is just that, talk. He's
getting better. Yeah. But let me go into this.
Okay. Caleb Williams had a strong 2025 season
for the Chicago Bears, setting a franchise passing
record with 3 ,942 yards, which isn't even 4
,000. And that's the franchise record. Yeah,
they've never had great quarterbacks. Jim McMahon,
I think, might have been the best one before
then, and he was mediocre. He was a showman.
Yeah. Okay. He had 27 touchdowns, 7 interceptions,
which is a good ratio, but 27 touchdowns isn't
that great. No. And rushing for 388 yards and
3 scores, despite some inconsistencies in completion
percentage, improved his sack avoidance. Yeah.
So, 19 games and he hadn't reached the 4 ,000
mark. He had 19 games this season. Yeah, you're
right. Okay, Mahomes. And the reason I say this
is because there's a lot of talk. Like, oh, we
need to move away from Mahomes and go to Williams.
He's the sexy one and all that. Okay. Mahomes
was, how many games was he in? 13 games? Yeah.
Okay, he's 13 games in, not 19. And he is 200
yards behind Caleb Williams. That's not much.
No. Wow. No. So, all right. So, all right. If
Mahomes is playing against the Chicago slash
Rams game, he might have thrown a pick, but he
would have threw three touchdowns to win the
game. Yeah. Caleb Williams did not. Caleb Williams,
after that fantastic, magical play, he threw
it 40 yards out, just falling backwards, almost
in the end zone. Yeah. That play, as great as
it was, is as bad as a play that lost the game
in overtime. Yeah. They were in field goal range.
He could have ran it another five yards to just
kind of like put a little icing on the cake there.
Instead, he chooses to throw the ball, and he
threw it right into a defender's hands. Yeah.
Gut punch. Yeah, gut punch. So is this guy the
next Mahomes? I don't think so. No. There might
be one out there, but it's not Caleb Williams,
at least not right now. No. Caleb Williams has
to get much better. I mean, I go back to everybody,
Mahomes' first year being in a championship game,
and he would have beat Brady if it wasn't for
fucking Dee Ford and his stupidity. Yeah. And
it may be that that was what was supposed to
happen. We don't know. It could have been. Who
knows? Tom Brady's last hurrah in the NFC. Yeah.
So the Chiefs have... Their receiving coach,
they have a new wide receiving coach. He was
from the formerly Browns and Dolphins wide receivers
coach. He was snapped up by the Chiefs, which
means the Chiefs think it was coaching and not
the receivers. So, okay, this guy is really,
really good. If you look up his stats, I forgot
his name, and, of course, I forgot to write it
down. So, but, okay, he has a history of getting
receivers wide open. Look at the Miami Dolphins
and how they were doing. Yeah. Okay, this is
what they need. They need separation. That was
a big problem this year. Yeah, because as soon
as they grab the ball, the defender is right
there. Hit them as hard as they can, ball knocks
out. That's it. Yeah. Play over. Yep. And no
run after catch, even if you do catch it. Yes.
Catch it, slam right there. Yeah. So they need
to be more wide open. Yeah. So they can make
better plays, unless you're, like, worthy. And
you run right straight at him instead of going
to the sideline and running. He's like, oh, hey,
everybody's over there. Let me go over there.
Yep. I don't know if that can be coached out
at me and there's a problem. Yeah, that's a weird
thing I see a number of football players do.
They don't run at the person with the ball. They
run at the person that's been assigned to block
them. It's like, why are you making their job
easier? Run around that guy. Fake him out. Do
something. But they just run right to him and
engage like, okay, my work's done. This is a
guy who was supposed to block me and I was supposed
to get past, so we'll just stand here and do
kangaroo fighting until the play's over. Yeah,
that's a good way of putting it, kangaroo fighting.
That's exactly it. I just don't get that attitude
of, I mean, even coaches teach us, like, here's
your job. You go and engage this guy. okay, but
if the play's over there and the ball's on the
ground, shouldn't I be jumping on the ball instead
of engaging this guy? I mean, think. Yes. Have
some thoughts in your head. Well, that's what
makes a good player from a fair player is right
there. The instinct. The instinct of knowing
what's going on in the game. That spidey sense,
like, you know. It's like coach said to do this,
but that doesn't apply here anymore because something
else happened, so I'm going to ignore his instructions
and do the right thing. Yes. Whereas so many
other players are like, nope, coach said do this.
I'm just going to do it even if it costs us the
game. Yeah. No, I agree. And also, there's something
to be said for a person in motion at full speed
is extremely hard to stop. Yep. And he may be
stopped well in the end zone, but he's going
to get another 10, 20 yards being full motion.
Yeah. Anyhow, all right, let's go to some of
your stuff. All right. I don't know. I would.
Written down as far as yesterday afternoon and
all the coaching carousel, we know that the Giants
have signed Harbaugh and the Falcons have signed
Stefanski. And Baker Mayfield certainly knows
that the Falcons have signed Stefanski. Did you
see what he said this morning? No, what did he
say? He sent out this message. Apparently Stefanski
referred to something as a failure or having
failed. that Baker Mayfield took exception to.
And he said something like, you know, failures,
you know, is it sure that's where you want to
go? And then he said, still waiting on a caller
or a text after you ran me out of Cleveland,
threw me away like a piece of garbage. Can't
wait to play you twice a year, Coach. Baker Mayfield
is going to spend all of his energy just... pounding
Stefanski's team every chance he gets. I can't
wait to watch. I'm looking forward to that big
time. So that is why Baker Mayfield was no longer
in Cleveland. When we questioned that so many
times. Yeah, Stefanski's the one who decided
to run his ass out of town. And they never recovered
from that either. No, they didn't. And I can
understand how Baker Mayfield wants to go rub
Stefanski's nose in it. So look how wrong you
were. Smell how wrong you were. Now, what happens
if Mayfield gets his ass kicked constantly by
Stefanski? That's going to hurt. He's probably
going to retire. I don't think he's going to.
I think he may not win very many games other
than that. He's going to hurt him. Yeah, he is.
Yeah. So, yeah, Atlanta, I didn't realize that.
Yeah, they're in the same division. Yep. Yep.
Let's see. And then down here we – The Falcons
hired Bill Callahan as their offensive line coach.
Dumbass Bill Callahan. I know. I guess he'll
be okay as line coach. No, I was getting ready
to say, you know, as much as I don't like him,
I think he's capable of that. Yeah, you just
don't want to make him head coach. Yeah. I mean,
they're kind of like the Kiffins. How do they
keep getting fucking jobs? Yeah. See, the Dolphins
hired... Packers defensive coordinator Jeff Halfley
is their head coach, so Chris Shula is not going
to get it. Uh -huh. The Chiefs apparently are
planning to bring back Eric Bien -Ami as offensive
coordinator. Yes. The Lions have hired the Cardinals
offensive coordinator Drew Petzig as their offensive
coordinator, so a lateral move. Uh -huh. And
the Titans are expected to hire Robert... Salah
or Salah. Salah, yeah. And that's another thing
is I don't know how he keeps getting jobs. Yeah.
And then the Chargers have hired Mike McDaniels
as their new offensive coordinator. So he went
from head coach to OC. Okay, I'm sorry, what
now? The Chargers have hired Mike McDaniel as
offensive coordinator. Okay, okay, good, good.
So we'll get to play against him twice a year.
Alright, a slight medical pause there. I'm trying
to get some sort of a letter. And then my doctor
is going to a private group where you pay per
year to be in it. $2 ,400 a year. And I'm already
getting a fucking run around calling trying to
get a letter in necessity for my fucking massages.
Makes it look like just a cash grab. That's what
it looks like to me. They really weren't offering
much else. They just wanted extra money out of
you. They were easier to deal with before they
joined this fucking group. So I know what I'm
going to do now. I'm going somewhere else because
this is bullshit. So, anyhow, I didn't say anybody's
name or nothing, so fuck off if you've got something
to say about it. All right, I'm fired up now,
so go ahead. All right, well, I've got the head
coaching vacancies that are still open. Oh, okay.
Kind of a rundown on what the team is, the pros
and cons. In Arizona, on the plus side, you've
got wide receivers Marvin Harrison Jr. and Michael
Wilson. Tied in Trey McBride. But on the minus
side for a potential new head coach, management's
awful. General Manager Monty Austinford has made
really bad drafts. And the owner is cheap. The
ownership is shown year after year. They do not
want to invest in the club or the facilities.
You know, this reminds me of one of those people
that are trying to get their foot in the door.
Man, this is unclear. Oh, geez, yeah, sure. Is
that from the metal? No, it's shining off the
window up there. In about ten minutes, the sun
will move enough and it'll be gone. So I'm just
going to put up with it for ten minutes. This
is a subpar candidate that's going to have to
take this and earn their way up because this
is not a preferred job in the NFL by any means.
As a matter of fact, it's probably one of the
lesser jobs. And doesn't that suck for Arizona
that they're perpetually the team that they need
a rookie head coach because they established
one? I know, they could never graduate. Yeah.
Hey, Pete Carroll's available. Yeah. So Arizona
is going to keep being an also -ran as long as
they're not willing to take that next step. Yes.
Yeah. And that's part of the ownership being
cheap. Yeah, that's part of everything we just
said. Yeah. All right. So Baltimore has also
got a position available. On the plus side for
a potential head coach, they are all pro at multiple
positions on that roster. On the minus side,
both the offensive line and defensive line need
makeovers. And that's difficult. You've got to
find the people. You've got to get them to mesh
and gel. It's not going to be an easy thing for
Baltimore to revamp both those lines. The Bills
were a late entry into the coaching carousel.
On the plus side, you've got Josh Allen and James
Cook. But that was it. That was the only thing
they came up with for a plus side for the Bills.
Yeah, that's about it. I was going to add new
stadium because they're getting a new stadium.
The Patriots owner has already come out and said
Bills are making a huge mistake putting a roof
on their new stadium. Oh, I agree. Because playing
in the cold gives you an edge. And unless all
the teams are going to switch to indoor, then
you're giving up an advantage. You know, I go
back to that Miami playoff game a couple of years
back when it was like 10 below and all the frostbite
and all that. There were players on our team
that were out there with no sleeves. And that
is intimidation. Yeah, and there are players
on the Miami team that had never in their lives
experienced those temperatures. Yeah, and it
obviously, I mean, by the blowout, did factor
in it. I mean, we were a superior team, yeah,
but still. But, yeah, it was a pretty crushing
defeat. Yeah, you could tell. Tago Viola had
no fucking idea. He was out there going, jeez,
man, what the hell is this? Yeah. I remember
a cartoon showing a little kid outside in winter,
and he's saying, the air is hurting my face.
There are people who just never have experienced
that, and then you want to go play three hours
of football in it. Yeah, I agree. Putting that
on there is just ridiculous. And also, the fun
and the fodder of giving people free passes to
watch a game. If they grab a snow shovel and
start shoveling, I love that. I think that's
just, to me. That's like a closeness that you
don't get with other football teams. Yeah. Well,
on the negative side for the Bills and their
potential new head coach, president of football
operations and GM, Brandon Bean. He was GM, and
now he's also been promoted to president of football
operations. He's Mr. Bean's nephew? He is. Yeah,
that's what I thought, yeah. He is picked poorly
at wide receiver. For example, Keon Coleman has
been a healthy scratch. in multiple games for
disciplinary reasons. Now, good job bashing him.
Oh, is his name Sky Moore? Oh, wait a minute.
Oh, hang on, hang on. I'm getting things confused.
Go ahead, I'm sorry. He's also drafted Joshua
Palmer, who had 22 catches for 303 yards. That
ain't much. No, he's catching them one yard at
a time. Curtis Samuel is another one. Hasn't
been performing for the Bulls. No, never heard
his name being brought up. Yep. And he's been
missing at cornerback in the draft. So those
are all areas of concern. Okay. And it's especially
bad that they've been drafting poorly wide receiver
and they traded away Stephon Diggs. Oh, I know.
Oh, thank you very much. You're welcome. Thank
you. All right. You all finished with that? Oh,
yeah, I'm finished. Thank you. The Cubans here
are the best. Yeah. You like that, huh? Okay.
So it'll be interesting to see what happens at
the Bills. Well, I got a question along the Bills
and Josh Allen in particular. Okay. How long
until the fans turn on it? I think it's already
happening. On Josh Allen? Yes. Yeah, I think
it's starting to happen. I'm starting to see
little quotes here and there from the Bills Mafia
and their whoever's and all that. Yeah. I'm starting
to see little quotes that are questioning him
or they were McDermott. Yeah. DeMurmurment. DeMurmurment.
McDermott. DeMurmuration. Yeah, yeah, him. Yeah,
that guy. Yeah, yeah, the guy that was just fired.
Yeah, him. Yeah, that's, you know, Bill's fan
is pretty rabid when they like you, but they're
also pretty rabid when they don't like you. Yes.
And if they've decided that, you know, Josh Allen
ain't all that and they've been sold a bill of
goods, they're going to get pretty upset. Well,
I see the team kind of crumbling now. I mean,
they have so many. Well, you just illustrated,
you just pointed out. All the holes, but that's
just the ones that are obvious. There's so many
holes in their whole thing. But then again, you
can look at the Chiefs the same way, I suppose.
True, true. A good GM doesn't really worry about
the salary cap like a bad GM. A good GM knows
what to do and how to do it and when to do it.
Yeah, yeah. You kick the salary of the cap heads
down the road, and it's like... 100 times easier
to get it done when you don't have multiple bad
picks that you owe money to. Yes. And that's
kind of the situation the Bills are in right
now. I remember when Denver was in that position,
they had a ton of cap money going to players
that just weren't even on the team anymore. Yeah.
They turned that around. No, that's true. When
you start getting into these large contracts
for people, that's exactly what happens to teams.
And it's beautifully designed. The NFL really
came up with a great template for what to do.
And it's working for the most part. So it's the
way it is. But like I said, someone that knows
what they're doing really well can manipulate
it enough to win all the time. So perennial winners.
And how would you like to be Patriots? You already
know going into next year that everyone else
in the division has brand new head coaches. Yeah,
oh, I'd be feasting. I think the Patriots are
just like licking their lips already for next
season. That's going to be something else. Especially
now that John Harbaugh is going to New York.
Yes. You could hear a collective sigh of relief
from the Patriots. Yes. I'm sure that they were
worried that he was going to end up in their
division. Actually, strictly speaking, he's going
to New Jersey. Well, yeah, yeah, yeah, the middle.
It's true. New York really only has one team,
and that's the Bills. Yeah, that's it. New Jersey
has two that pretend they're in New York. Yeah,
they call themselves New York, but they're actually
in New Jersey. But I want to put this up. The
Kansas City Chiefs will be the Kansas City Chiefs,
only Kansas City Kansas Chiefs. Now, we could
call ourselves the Los Angeles Chiefs of Kansas
City. I like that. Yeah. Let's do it. Yeah. Yeah.
All right. Next up on our coaching carousel is
the Browns again are on the coaching carousel.
On the plus, they have Miles Garrett and a new
stadium. Yes, and they got a new stadium in the
suburbs. Yeah. Even though they don't like it.
And supposedly they're still fighting with the
airports. Yes, they are. Yeah. On the downside,
they have no franchise QB. No. No. Nothing close.
Yeah, and also, what's his name? The cereal rubbing
tub guy. Watson. Deshaun Watson. I don't even
know if he's going to be back. They just quit
talking about him altogether. That's been the
most telling thing, is that they're completely
ignoring his existence. And it takes, every once
in a while you get an obscure reference to him
as like an oh -by -the -way part of an article.
Oh, by the way, Deshaun Watson is still hanging
around there in Cleveland. I remember during
the year last year, they were saying, yeah, Deshaun's
here. He's in the facilities. He's working with
the other players. Now they're like, Deshaun
who? The latest allegations, I think, is what
did it. Yeah. They were willing to hang with
him for a little while because they paid so much
money. But, you know, Stefanski really should
have kept his mouth shut. Oh, yeah. Because they
– They got rid of Mayfield and then just stepped
into a pile of shit. Yes, they did. If you get
rid of somebody you think is not getting the
job done or is a malcontent or whatever, that's
one thing. But how you follow that up is how
you're going to be remembered. And they handed
the team to a sexual predator. Yes, exactly.
Public relations nightmare. Yep. I mean, you
might as well go hire Jared Vogel to be your
new spokesperson. Oh, like Subway did? Yeah.
There's no allegedly there. There's no alleged
there. He is a pedophile. He's a pervert and
he's a jerk. He was in prison because of it.
Yes. And getting his face smacked in every day
by some guy that had his little wiener touched
or something like that. Don't feel a single bit
sorry for him either. No, no, no, no, no. As
a matter of fact, I hope they tripled the smackings.
That'd be great. Like every day they just smack
him like 30 times. Yeah, yeah. He may like the
first three, but then after you draw blood, he
doesn't. He's like, that's enough. He's like,
no, no, you don't get to dictate that. I do.
Because I'm much larger than you and I can do
what I want. And I'm not an underage kid. Anyhow.
I think it would be interesting. I'm going to
try to remember to do this. Look up how the Cleveland
Browns organization has done since they were
reformed. Because the Cleveland Browns ceased
to exist for a while because they moved to Baltimore
and became the Ravens. but they left the names
and the stats behind in Cleveland. There was
a point this past year where somebody was trying
to talk about records in Cleveland, and they
were completely ignoring the previous version
of the Cleveland Browns and pretending as if
this version had only been around since, what,
96? I think it was about 96. Yeah, that sounds
about right, yeah. But, I mean, I'm going to
try to find out how they've done since they were
reformed. re -entered the league. I think they've
been pretty crappy for the most part. There's
been like one or two high points here and there,
but overall, they've been a badly run organization.
Yeah, there is nothing redeeming about that.
Yeah. I think they picked the wrong ownership
group, the NFL did, when they were reconstituting
the Browns. I think so, too. And, yeah, so, yeah,
they stepped on their dicks every chance they
got. And they're going to be horrible for...
The foreseeable future. Yeah, yeah. That new
stadium is going to be great, but when you're
going to be crappy every year and miss the playoffs.
Playoffs? Playoffs. And nobody's talking about
you nationally because you just don't matter.
The new stadium is not going to be all that great.
It's going to take a real commitment to doing
the hard work. I just don't see that happening
with the current ownership in Cleveland. I don't
either. All right, go ahead. Now we have the
Las Vegas Raiders. On the plus side, they seem
to have this uncanny ability to take whatever
players they get and mold them into a Raiders
team. I know. No matter who they get, they look
like the Raiders and they act like the Raiders.
It's pretty amazing. Have you heard anything
about Max Crosby again or not? He was disgruntled
and wanted to leave. Yeah, but then in that last
game of the season, he was on the sidelines being
everybody's friend. So I think he's decided that
he better play along. Yeah, I think he's playing
along, but I think he's actually probably talking
behind the scenes going, hey, guys, I want to
win a Super Bowl sometime. Can you please release
me? And there was, I mean, when they shut him
down for the last game, initially the report
was unofficially that they were trying to protect
his trade value. That's what I read, but I don't
know if that was true. And then now the word's
coming out is the Raiders were. intentionally
tanking their season so they could get the number
one overall pick. Yeah, they're going to get
Mendoza, which I think is a fantastic pick after
watching him. Yeah, there was somebody on one
of the shows this morning, and they posed the
question, should the Raiders trade their number
one pick to get more picks and more players?
And the guy was like, no, you need a quarterback,
especially in that division. Perfect opportunity
to take Mendoza, an amazing talent. He's just
the kind of guy that Brady likes. He's a team
player. Yeah, and he was there watching the game.
Tom Brady was on the sideline watching the game.
But the guy was just, he was saying, no, if they
trade out of that pick, then write off the Raiders
forever because they just don't want to win.
So, yeah, they're going to use that pick, and
they're going to take Mendoza, and that's got
to be the way they do it. And that bodes well
for us because for some reason they figured out,
I forgot who it was. One of the services said
that the Chiefs have a better chance of getting
the number one guy they want, as in like an edge
rusher or an offensive lineman, because it looks
like the draft is going more quarterback eccentric
suddenly. We don't need one. Yeah, we don't need
one. And now they're projecting maybe three quarterbacks
in front of us, which would lead us more leeway
to get who we want. Yeah, yeah. The first draft
prediction I saw was, Mel Kuyper, the loser.
And he was showing the Chiefs drafting a running
back, Jeremiah Love. Mel Kuyper? Yeah. Drafting
a quarterback with the number nine pick in the
first round. I mean a running back with the number
nine pick in the first round. That was maybe
20 years ago. Not now. No, you don't draft running
backs in the first round. Mel Kuyper is an idiot
in my opinion. I've never liked him. Never thought
he knew a damn thing. I'm pretty certain about
it even more now. Yeah. How does he get a paycheck?
I think he must just give really good head. He
must. Allegedly and all that. Because the guy,
to me, doesn't seem like he knows a fucking thing.
Nobody in the business respects him or his opinion.
I think he's just something the fans expect.
Oh, Bill Kuyper, yeah. It's for the people who
don't realize what a moron he is. Did he get
an inheritance to where he doesn't have to earn
money? Apparently. Yeah, because I don't know
anyone that will pay for his fucking predictions.
No. Yeah, no. Yeah. But on the minus side with
the Raiders, no job security for their head coaches.
None whatsoever. And there shouldn't be. No.
No, no, no. And as I said before, I think NFL
teams are starting to learn that. It's like,
we'll get this coach and we'll give him two years,
maybe three if he's showing improvement after
that. Uh -uh. We're done. Moving on. We're not
wasting half of a decade trying to see whether
this guy is going to work out while our players
keep getting older and older. Well, it's not
like college where you recruit people and groom
them and watch them grow. Yeah. This is like
a play right now. Look, we're getting this guy.
Like Andy Reid. Yeah. As soon as we got Andy
Reid, he told them who he was wanting them to
get. And they're like, okay, go out and get these
guys. Yeah. And they got them. Of course, you
know, like they had the Jeremy Macklins and stuff
like that. They didn't have, like, who was a
nice receiver, but they couldn't get the upper
echelon ones until later. They had to draft a
couple, which they did very well. Yeah. But they
had to kind of earn their way up there, which
they did by winning. Yeah. So, and then the higher
names started looking at us. But until then,
and not until we became a Super Bowl threat.
Yes. Did we have the real ones coming after us
going, hey, guys, I'm ready. Come get me. They've
got to go through all that first. They've got
to get through the first test. They're not going
to be able to get a high unless they pay something
crazy. They're not going to get that guy. I saw
an interesting thing this morning. In conference
championship games, what is the most frequent
pairing to happen in conference championship
games? Which two teams have been there? playing
each other the most? Conference champions? Alabama
and Georgia. No, I'm talking NFL. Oh, NFL. Oh,
okay. I'm sorry, we're talking college. Yeah,
since the conference championship games are coming
up. Okay, and this is just like the championship
game, like AFC -NFC? Yeah. What two teams have
faced each other the most times in the conference
championship game? Steelers -Cowboys. It has
to be the same conference. You're talking Super
Bowl. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, shit. Okay. That makes
it harder. Hang on. What do you think here? Okay.
I didn't get it either. I'll give you a hint.
It's NFC. Okay. I'm going to say Philadelphia
-Cowboys. Close. It's 49ers -Cowboys. Ah, shit.
I didn't even think of the 49ers. That's the
one I should have said. But they've played each
other six times in the NFC Championship. Okay.
The next closest pairing has only three times.
There are several pairs of teams that have seen
each other three times in the AFC or NFC Championship.
Was one of the Chiefs and Bills? They didn't
say who they were. Okay, one of them now I think
is team champion, and then the rest will playoff
game. Playoff. Playoff. Okay. All right. That's
a good question. Yeah, I thought it was pretty
cool. Coaching carousel. Last one we have up
is Pittsburgh. On the plus side, it's a very
well -run and successful organization. That's
a preferred job. They ought to get somebody good.
Yeah. The only downside right now really is quarterback
uncertainty because Aaron Rodgers probably ain't
coming back, and they really don't have a – A
clear starter after that. Mike Tomlin's stepping
down. He's definitely not going to want to come
back. Yeah. And there's really, as of right now,
maybe Indianapolis. Yeah. Yeah. There's not really
a good fit for him, which I could see. The Steelers
were actually the only fit last year. Yeah. And
that was about it because they had Justin Fields
and who was the other guy. Oh, Wilson. Wilson,
yeah. And neither one of them could do anything,
so they needed somebody. And I think Tomlin probably
already had an idea that he might step down after
the season. So he was wanting one last hurrah,
and that was it. And right now the people who
supposedly know are predicting that Tomlin's
going to sit out the next year. He's not going
to jump back into coaching this season. He's
going to get a good job. Yeah. He's just waiting.
He's probably waiting for that team. He's got
an eye on a couple of them. He's like, okay,
whichever comes available first, I'm going to
throw my hat in. Do you think Tomlin would go
back to college, coaching college? I could see
him doing that, yeah. I could. Yeah, I think
he's got the temperament for guiding and molding
young men. That would work out really well in
college. But there again, you're dealing with
a lot more immaturity in college. Yeah. So there's
pluses and minuses. Yeah, I don't know. It just
depends on how he feels about it. I mean, you
know, some of them go back to just kind of be
fulfilled. Like, you know, the NFL's great and
everything, but I want to just go help children
and try to, you know, kids and help their way
up and show them the right way and all that.
There's got to be a really high sleaze factor
when you're that deeply involved in the NFL on
a daily basis, and it must be really refreshing
to get away from it, the constant hustle for
money and fame and influence. It must get really
tiring after a while and you're ready to step
back and say, you know what, I want to go somewhere
and fish and watch cows grazing and maybe catch
a nice rainstorm. I don't want to deal with angry,
steroided -up men who blew their last paycheck
and won a championship. It must get old. Honestly,
I've already mentioned Seattle's running back,
Zach Charbonnet, is out with a torn ACL, but
I think they can work around him. You want to
hear some player reactions to McDermott getting
fired? Yes. Oddly enough, these are all from
defensive players. No offensive players weighed
in. Wow, when he's an offensive guy, that's interesting.
It is. Okay. Defensive tackle Jordan Phillips
said, This shit here is so stupid, honestly sickening.
The best coach I've ever been around. I believe
it. Defensive end, Shaq Lawson. Damn shit don't
make sense. He changed the whole culture, which
he kind of did. He really kind of turned that
team around into believing they could win. Safety,
DeMar Hamlin. Remember him, number three, whose
heart stopped on the beat? Yeah, yeah. His post
was, thank you for everything. We love you, coach.
Pretty simple. Yeah, you know what, but that
was a nice one. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And then defensive
tackle Daquan Jones, don't make no sense, but
you got what you wanted. I think he's telling
fans, hey, this is what you wanted. You wanted
him fired if he couldn't do it. Oh, I love that.
That's the best. That's the best answer I've
ever heard. Yeah, yeah, careful what you wish
for kind of thing. You got it. So I think good
old Daquan Jones really had the best quote there.
I love that, yeah. Yeah. And then on the next
page... Their follow -up, who they hire, is going
to be so important right now. Yeah. And I think
Bill's owner, Terry Pegula, had the best quote
of all when he said, Sean has done an admiral
job. Admiral job? An admiral. I think he meant
to say admirable, but an admiral is a guy who's
high -ranking in Navy. So it's like a captain,
an admiral, a bosun. So this is how stupid the
bill's owner is. He comes out with admiral and
doesn't even realize he said the totally wrong
one. I had no idea you said that, but that's
funny. And he went on to say, we need new structure
and leadership. Well, why don't you fire yourself?
Starting it with him. So I guess he wants someone
else to come in and do an admiral job or maybe
a four -star general job or maybe a staff sergeant
job. Similar military term. What a clown. That
guy's a fucking clown. What a clown. Boy, he
could not have stepped on his fucking dick more.
Yep. Oh, well. So, Bills fan, I'm sorry, but
that's your stupid owner. I got a little something
here. Matt Ryan has left his analyst job to go
in favor of being hired as president of Atlanta
football. I can see him fitting in there. Yep,
and they hired Kevin Stefanski, so I'm thinking
he might have been behind that. Yeah. Yeah, he
let his analyst job go, which he did very well
at. He was good, except for his unusually long
neck. He did a really good job. Okay, so what
should be done about the former Pro Bowl? Now
it's that NFC -AFC flag football challenge. I
mean, they need to call it up to lather each
other's back and slap their little bottoms game
or something like that. Yeah, yeah. I think at
this point, call it the Pro Bowl, but don't even
pretend like you're playing a real game. It's
like the All -Pro team. You get named to the
team, but it's not like you ever get together
and do anything. You're just named to the team.
Do the Pro Bowl the same way. Here are the people
named to the Pro Bowl, but they're not actually
getting to play anything. Instead, have your
passing competitions and your flag football and
whatever, but just don't pretend that it has
anything to do with the Pro Bowl voting. That's
my problem too. If you want it to be a show and
tell, great. That's fine. Have people sign autographs,
have kids come up there, all that. But don't
try to act like it's this big challenge. But
there's so much more that's happening in the
league that shows that they're trying to dumb
things down. Oh, they have. There's the Nickelodeon
slime time. Have you seen that? Yes, that pisses
me off. They'll take a regular football game
and then edit out all the slow parts, and then
they'll superimpose cartoony slime and funny
hats and other goofy things onto what's basically
an extended highlight reel. And initially it's
like, oh, well, this is for kids. No, a lot of
adults watch this because they think on a comic
book level. They're dumbing it down for the idiots
because they know they'll get online and gamble
and lose badly. That's what they want. They've
got another thing they did this year before last
because it was in the Netflix show Quarterback.
They did a Simpsons version of a Bengals game.
And they even had a Simpsons version of Joe Burrow
that they show. Oh, look, this is what I look
like as a Simpson. Do you think the NFL signed
off on that or the people in general signed off
on it? Not a clue. I don't see Joe Burrow doing
that. Yeah, yeah, go ahead and cartoon me up.
But what they did was they took the real game
that was happening and then they used AI to recreate
it with... cartoon, kind of like, you know those
little dolls called Weebles that are heavy on
the bottom? That's basically what the players
look like. And Bart Simpson's the quarterback.
So they showed the play that actually happened,
which was Burrow dropped back and then threw
a pass to the corner of the end zone. The guy
caught it. Amazing catch. And then they showed
the Simpsons cartoon remake of it, which they
showed moments later. where instead of a regular
replay, they showed a cartoon replay where Bart
Simpson is making the pass. I want nothing to
do with that. If they're going after the people
that can't even handle watching actual human
beings play the game, they just want to see a
cartoon, then fire all the players and just draw
a cartoon. It's so stupid. But it's more experimentation.
It's like, what will this get us? What can we
exploit or take advantage of? We'll throw out
cartoons. We'll get the goofy, idiot people who
just want to giggle at something. The thing that
the NFL is turning into, in a couple years, I
don't see me ever wanting to watch it again,
the way it's going. It's just going to get ugly
and stupid and childish. And it's going to turn
into WWE wrestling. That's what it's going to
be. People dressed up in cartoony outfits. It's
going to look like that and RuPaul's Drag Race.
It doesn't mean anything. It's just wild visual
spectacle. It's just ugly. What do you take about
Eric Biennemi being hired back? I think that's
going to be a good thing. I'm looking forward
to Eric coming in and kicking a lot of players'
asses and saying, I don't care who you think
you are when you leave this facility, but when
you're here, then you're an employee and you
do what you're told or your ass is going to get
fired. I want him to kick a lot of asses and
say, I don't give a shit about your public appearance
or your podcast or your endorsement. Fuck that.
You're here to play football and that comes first
or you're gone. I want to see that. I do too.
I really, really want to see that. I want to
see that big time. I agree. If Eric Biennium
were here when Travis was just, you know, well,
maybe I'll play this week. Maybe I'll just hang
out. Yeah. He would have been sitting on the
sidelines. His ass would have been sitting home
in street clothes. Yeah. Oh, yeah. You're right.
Yeah. Yeah. That's what we need. Matt Nagy seems
to be everybody's best friend chuckling it up
on the sidelines. No. I don't want that. No.
I want a guy going, you know what? You did wrong.
Come here. Let me show you what you fucking did
wrong. Yeah. Do you want to win another championship?
You don't have to be a dick about it, but hold
them accountable. Show them exactly what they
did wrong. Let them know that you're not going
to stand it anymore. You're not going to put
up with it. You need to fix this. Accountability.
That was the big thing. Accountability, and he
was not afraid to get in someone's face. He didn't
care if you liked him or not. Yep. That's the
kind of guy I want. You know, being one of the
team leaders. So, yeah. So, all right, we're
on the same page. We think it's a good thing.
The only thing I would have seen better was like
a fresh face like McDermott or somebody. But
like I said, he's going to get a head coaching
job. He's not going to mess around with a – Yeah.
Unless he wants a ring before he does it. Then
he could maybe, but, you know. Yeah. So, all
right, you got something else? No, I'm pretty
well tapped out on football. Okay, let me find
my bullet points because I have some bullet points
here. But until then, you can yodel or something.
I don't care. Yodel -ee -lee. Yodel -ee -lee.
Well, I'd encourage everyone to stick around
for the music creeps because I've got some good
stuff for that. Oh, good. I've got a big list
about how bands got their name. Oh, good. I like
that. That's a good subject. And we've got a
list of older bands. that need to just quit touring
and go away. And then, let's see, singers, specifically,
who need to retire before they just die on stage.
And then this one that was really sad for me
to have to do, but female singers, who generally
last longer than the male counterparts, but female
singers who have really lost it and need to just
stop and go away. I like that. It's kind of sad,
but I'm going to say I've got overlooked drummers.
Okay. And overlooked lead singers. I like that,
man. I like all those. So we might not get to
all of that during the music creeps, but check
out your next episode. Well, I've got a bunch
of stuff, too, but, you know, other than that,
we've got other episodes we could do. Yeah. Okay.
I've got some bullet points. You want to go into
them? Hey, look, our exercise guy's back. I know.
He's back over there. Yeah. Oh, I'm very happy
for him. Very happy for him. So, whatever. You
think he's exercising the demon that is Mrs.
Gulpenstein? I think so. I think so. He's trying
to cast out her spirit. Well, he's a disciple
of her. She taught him, yeah, the martial arts.
So he's probably trying to cast out the evil
spirit that's in that wall she kept yelling at.
Yeah, he is. That's why she got him. She had
to go to Poland on some mission. Yeah. While
she's in there, she's got this guy taking over.
Yeah, yeah. I think that wall's got the ghost
of some 17th century industrialist who was murdered
for stealing from the government. Yeah, I think
so. I believe that was the full story. They see
those apparitions, and Ms. Goldstein, you know,
she could feel stuff like that. So she was warning
off that she was protecting us. Yeah, yeah. It's
like when they put up those spirits. totems that
wore the evil spirits off. She was trying to
drive the evil spirit out of the city market.
Nobody understood her. Nope, nope. Misunderstood.
Alright, and we go on to bullet points. Why are
the Bills the only fan base that consistently
cries over penalties now that Cincinnati's not
in it? Because Cincinnati was the worst. Then
it was the Bills. Yeah, in fact, that's the first
thing Sean McDermott did was complain that he
was getting ripped off by the officials. I know.
Which told me he already knew that he was going
to get fired if he lost, and he was just taking
a shot. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. We didn't really
go into that very much, but yeah. Yeah, those
are my two theories. One, he knew weeks ago that
he was going to get fired if he lost any game
but the Super Bowl. So... He took a shot at the
officials on his way out the door, figuring I
got nothing left to lose. Because taking that
shot at bad play call, if you're expecting continuous
head coach, that makes you such a whiny little
creep. Well, I'm surprised I hit it myself. You're
picking on me. It's not my fault. Yeah, it's
just bad luck for a head coach. No, I know. You
understand that the fans do that because they
have zero power. All they have to do is sit there
and take what the team dishes out. Of course
it happens when the referees are on your side.
Yeah. Well, now I'm starting to see those memes
that were against the Chiefs about the referees
holding their MVP and the teams holding up the
referee and all that. But, you know, they keep
missing the point. The referees are not in charge.
They're the ones doing the work, but who's telling
them to? But Bill's fan and Bengals fan and...
Chiefs fan and everybody else is blaming the
officials. They're not making the decisions.
They're carrying out their orders. You need to
figure out who's telling them to do this. Blame
them. Alright, which goes into here. Does the
Bills Mafia have good reason? I say yes, but
not for the reason everybody thinks. That call
was correct from what I read. I think that the
fact that they refused to have New Yorkers review
it, was an indictment about how they're going
to do what they want to do and they don't give
a shit. They may have known they would have won
and they probably did. They've been like, we
know the rule book and this is going to stand.
But there's a thing where you appease them and
you go, alright, let's send it to New York. Then
New York comes back and goes, that's the correct
call. Okay, it's done. But they have a bitch
because of that. It's kind of like the right
to a fair trial. Yeah. And that's what Dara did.
It was like, we didn't have a fair trial. You
did not send the replay to New York, so it wasn't
fair. Yeah. And I'd love to know what reason
they gave for not letting New York weigh in.
What was it now? It was really lame. The guy
goes, well, yeah, I remember now. And the referee,
he said, I see no reason in holding up the game
for an obvious call that was right. Oh, yeah,
I did hear that. Yeah. What bullshit, because
they'll hold up the game for as long as they
want. They'll hold up the game for five minutes
if the commercial break takes that long. That's
when you see Trey Smith and Patrick Mahomes watching
some crossing guard get his ass kicked. Yeah.
Yeah, that's when you see that. Yeah, that's
such a bullshit reason. Yes, but not for the
reason they're bitching. They're bitching just
out of pure disgust of their own team. And I
get it. I've been that guy too. And I'm not making
fun of them. I've been in that situation. It
sucks. But the reason they have a complaint is
because of that. You appease them. You put on
a show. And you go, sure, we'll send it. And
then when it comes back, go, sorry it didn't
go your way. Yeah, they're not even bothering
to play that game. They're getting bolder and
bolder about how obvious they're being that this
is not fair in open competition. That's what
I thought too. This right here is an indictment
of that right there. It's like, no, we're not
going to send New York. I didn't want to hold
up the game. Well, if you're really interested
in actually being fair and going by the rules,
you'd send it in there just in case there's something
you missed. Maybe a guy's finger was on the line.
Maybe the coach that was over there had his foot
over the line. There's all these things that
could have happened that nobody really saw. When
New York looks at it and breaks it down and dissects
it and slows it down and replays it, they can
see that. And really, it's a playoff divisional
round game. It's the perfect time to take your
time and stop the game and do it right. In that
situation, I'm not a fan of stopping the games
all the time either, but in that situation that
had to be done. And that's to protect the integrity
of the game. Say, look, we went by protocol and
this is what happened. But this makes it look
like this is the result we want. We're not going
to let anything happen that can overturn it.
We're just forging on it. Yes. All right, will
Josh Allen ever make it to the Super Bowl? At
this point, I'm thinking no. I'm thinking no
also. I think it's going to be a three-, four
-year rebuild up there. I don't think you're
going to get a guy coming in there that's just
going to take the team and take it to where McDermott
had it. McDermott is a fine coach, and he did
a phenomenal job, like the player said, in changing
the culture and everything that he did. He did
almost perfectly flawlessly. Yeah. He has integrity.
Look at the DeMar Hamlin situation. You know,
they could have said, you know what, no, this
is a forfeit. But they didn't. They said, listen,
Cincinnati worked with us, and we're just not
going to play the game. No win, no loss. That
right there showed me the integrity that he has.
He could have gotten by on that and said, no,
this is bullshit because our season's on the
line. We don't want to go to Kansas City. They
have to come here. Yeah. So. Yeah, I remember
that season that. there was talk about having
to do some sort of redo or something to give
the Bills credit for that game so they didn't
have to come here. And that's another thing that
really gives a sad taste for the Bills organization
is they keep whining about what other teams do
and other things that happen, trying to get all
the advantages for themselves. Like, go out and
earn those advantages. Yes. They got the overtime
rules changed twice. Yep. Because both times
something happened that knocked them out, so
they went and got the rule changed for that.
It hasn't helped. It hasn't helped at all. And
like you said, it's going to take a while to
rebuild. There are other teams that are already
in the process of revamping, rebuilding, and
are on their way and are getting up to speed,
and the Bills are sitting on the side of the
road trying to figure out what to do with this
busted tire. So it's going to take a while. Hey,
the way the Bills' mocking has been accurate.
I don't necessarily care. I was in their corner
wanting Josh Allen to get one ball in our absence
because it didn't matter to us. But now it's
kind of like, I don't know if they deserve it,
man. They've been real shitty about the way they've
been doing stuff. And for people that supposedly
know the game so well, I don't know. And it's
doubly ironic because 60 % of Bill's mafia that
goes out to the game and loses their mind, they're
not going to be able to afford to go to the game
next year. because they're going to have a $10
,000 to $12 ,000 seating license to buy, and
then the season tickets are going to be higher,
and everything's going to be higher. A lot of
hardcore, lifelong Bills mafia are never going
to be able to afford to go to a game again. So
the home field atmosphere is going to be vastly
different in Buffalo. It's going to be worse.
It's not going to be what it has been because
actually every NFL team is doing that. Every
NFL team is doing that. They're trying to pack
their stadiums with wealthy people. And they
don't necessarily lose their mind and go crazy
and dress up and travel. They're wealthy. They're
used to having what they want, when they want
it, and spending for it. So you're going to get
crowds that will be like... polite, both clap
and don't care. I think when the NFL starts to
falter from all these things they're doing, they're
going to crash really hard. Oh, I think so too.
It's the game manipulation, the gambling, the
fudging calls, the overpricing of everything,
monetizing everything. At a certain point, everyone's
going to decide. It just ain't worth it anymore.
We need to, number one, identify what a private
seat license is. That is a way to take your existing
season ticket holder that can barely afford the
tickets, has to work overtime longer to have
the tickets, the one pleasure in life that they
have. That's how they take it away. Their threshold
is not paying $5 ,000 for this and then paying
tickets at an extraordinarily high price after
that. And they can't legally say, you know, hey,
we're just going to refuse to sell you tickets
more. We're just going to kick you off the list
and take your tickets away. They can't do that.
Yes. But they can price them out. Yes. Which
is exactly what they're doing. And this is the
elaborate way of doing it and acting like, well,
wait. Yeah, we can't help it if they can't afford
it. We got our product. We're trying to make
it as affordable as possible, but this is what
we have. And they'll complain that, well, we
have to do this to keep up with all the other
teams and blah, blah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But the
realistic part is that probably about at least
a third, maybe even half of the people that they
take the season tickets away from and price them
out, they're just going to give up on the team.
They're like, well, this ain't my team anymore.
I don't recognize the stadium. I don't recognize
the coach. I don't recognize how they're treating
me. This ain't my team anymore. Yeah. And they're
just going to quit supporting the Bills because
you've made it to where they can't afford to.
Yeah. True. Okay. All right. We're going to get
a lot of manufactured fans, and on the TV coverage
you'll see AI -created crowds. Oh, yeah, yeah,
yeah. On the TV coverage. And also sound. They
already did the sound. Yeah, they've already
got the sound. Look at the COVID sound they did.
Yes. When nobody's in the stadium. It sounded
like that place is going nuts. Yep, yep. All
right, so we agree, Josh Allen. We don't think
it's going to make it to a Super Bowl unless
it's later on. And maybe with a – well, maybe
not even with another team because I don't think
he can catch on with another team and get good
enough to get to the big game. I can see him
going to Phillip Rivers when he gets older. And
so I'm going, hey, you know, Josh Allen retired
last year, but he's only 40. You think he might
want to come in and finish the season for us?
We're on track to be in the playoffs. I could
see him maybe going there like that, but in the
existence of where he is right now, no, I don't
think so. I think Josh Allen has all the skill
and ability and intelligence to get to the Super
Bowl, but I don't think that his situation is
going to hamstring him. That's probably also
what Josh Allen is thinking is like, I've spent
nine years here trying. Now we're going to spend
the next two years rebuilding, and then we can
try again. Yeah. I'm pretty sure he's having
a coming -to -God meeting every morning. Yeah.
We'll see if he requests a trade or not. Yeah.
So, all right. Elise Burrow. shut down a lot
of that. He was getting disgruntled. I think
maybe he looked over there and seen everything
else going on in the NFL and said, I better keep
my mouth shut. I got a job and people love me
here. I'm reverent and they're trying to win.
I think he might have been like, that's good.
I'm just going to shut up. I think he figured
out that he needs to quit doing things that might
get the head coach fired. Then that's just going
to make it worse. That probably was part of Joe
Burrow pulling back a little bit. I don't want
to get this guy fired because who the hell might
they bring in next who I can't get along with.
Yeah, yeah. I'm absolutely sure Joe Burrow doesn't
want to start over anywhere else. No, I'm pretty
sure he doesn't either. He's got his lifestyle
there in Cincinnati, so I'm pretty sure he's
happy in the gay part of town. No, I'm joking.
And overall speaking, Cincinnati is a cheaper
place to live than Philadelphia or Los Angeles
or Seattle or Miami. And no, he's not gay. And
if he was, I wouldn't do this shit anyhow. I'm
just poking a little fun at him. From watching
season two of the Netflix show Quarterback. Both
my wife and I are starting to get a gay vibe
off him. No, that's why I said that, because
a lot of people are saying that now. They're
bringing that up online. And like I said, I don't
give a shit. He's still the same guy either way.
I don't care. The only thing I give a shit about
is lying to everyone about it. And that I could
even get over because he's playing football and
not tennis. Yeah. You know. There's a stigma.
Or ice dancing. Yes. And he's a leader. Ice dancing.
That would be it. Yeah, yeah. Figure skaters,
though, or something like that. Ballet dancers.
Ballet dancers, yeah. So, yeah, I think that
if he is, he's got to hide it because he feels
like he's in a position of leading people. Yeah.
And it may sway some people's opinions of him.
Unfortunately, there aren't people like that.
Yeah. So, all right. Caleb Williams, overrated
already? I'd say yeah. Yeah, I'd say so. And
it's not his fault again. Not his fault. Everyone
else is doing this, not him. He's very talented.
He's very smart. He's very athletic. And, again,
this is not his fault, but the buzz around him
has been hyped up so much that a lot more is
expected of him than I think he's capable of
delivering. Yeah, I think so too. Yeah, I'm noticing
the sound going back and forth too. Yeah, it's
weird. But I think for Caleb Williams' sake,
it would be best if they just accept this is
who he is and let's work with what he is and
what he can do. rather than trying to push them
to be somebody else. I've got something to add
to that. Have you noticed how many Caleb Williams
jerseys disappeared suddenly? Yes. How many of
them appeared suddenly? And just as fast as they
appeared, they disappeared? Yeah. Yeah. Really
starting to get the bandwagon smell for this.
I'm waiting for the Drake May and Bo Nix's. No,
no, I did see some Bo Nix's. I saw a couple of
Bo Nix's. Yeah. I saw one Drake May, and that's
it. And then I saw an old Tom Brady throwback.
Yeah. All right, so he's overrated. Not his fault,
like we said. All right. Last year's newcomers,
like the Commanders, didn't make it back to the
playoffs. Yeah. So they regressed considerably.
And even if Jaden Daniels was healthy all season,
they still would have missed the playoffs. Yeah.
Playoffs. Playoffs. All right, the FC has some
newcomers. Who will not see the playoffs next
year? Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh won't. Well, they
weren't exactly newcomers, though, but they will
not. Yeah. I'm going to go out on a limb and
say the Chargers. Yeah, I can see the Chargers
missing it next year. I can see the Houston Texans
missing it next year. I think the Texans may
actually just shit the bed, and that's it. I
think you might put a cap in them for now. In
Jacksonville. In Jacksonville, yeah. I think,
yeah, I'm getting the feeling that next year's
AFC crop of postseason teams is going to be very
different. I think so. I think the Chiefs will
be back in it. I think the Dolphins will be back
in it. I think the Broncos are going to be in
it. And I think the Patriots are probably going
to hang around because their nucleus is really
good and Drake May is playing well. Plus, they
have the X Factor, the coach. Mike Grable is
a hell of a coach. And I think the Bengals have
a realistic shot of putting it together next
year, too. But there are so many things they
have to do just right, including Joe Burrow not
getting injured. Yeah. You know, because that's
what led them down to decline this year. Yeah.
They were flying high, and then Joe Burrow got
injured, and then all of a sudden they were not
flying high. Yeah. I could see Baltimore having
a playoff drought for a while. Playoffs. Playoffs.
I could, too. I'm starting to see rumors. I mean,
it's not like rumors it's going to happen, but
people are starting to speculate. Don't you think
it would be a good idea for the Ravens to trade
Lamar Jackson? Oh, no, the Raiders actually seemed
interested in him, all the reports were that
they were asking about. But I don't know now
with Mendoza. It could be let's get Jackson for
Mendoza's rookie year. But I don't know that
Jackson would be willing to go there knowing
that his replacement's going to be in the house.
I don't think Jackson would do that, no. I don't
think so. I wouldn't. Not everybody's an Alex
Smith where you don't have that ego. And I'm
not saying he does. I'm just saying I don't know
if it's going to parlay like that at all. I don't
know if that's how it's going to shake out. All
right, well, I think we covered everybody that's
not going to see it next year. We're relatively
sure. And the Patriots are going to have a first
-place schedule, so maybe if they do make it,
I think they will make it, but it's going to
be like a seventh seed or something like that.
In the NFC, I don't think Detroit's going to
be back. I don't think Philadelphia is going
to be back either. I don't think Philadelphia
is going to be back unless they really make some
changes. They're going to have to make some wholesale
changes, including possibly Jalen Hurts. Jalen
Hurts hurt them considerably. The NFC South was
such a mess. Anybody could come out of that next
year. Atlanta could. And then the West, I see
the Rams and the Seahawks and the Niners all
being strong again next year. Cardinals are always,
I mean, generally speaking, if you write the
Cardinals off more times than not, you'll be
correct, which is very sad to say because I've
always liked the Cardinals as a team. I do too.
I give the Commanders a good shot at coming back.
I think they're good to look at what they have,
come up with another couple of receivers, a little
bit more durable and not so apt to get into trouble
and all that. I think Packers are done for a
bit. Yeah. I think the Cowboys have a better
chance of getting into the postseason next year
than the Packers do. I think you're right. I
agree. And even though the Cowboys do that every
year where they look good and they crumble. Part
of that is you have Dak Prescott. Yeah. And I'm
sorry, Dak Prescott, as good as he looks is as
bad as he looks. I mean, he will break off a
string of – Just looking the best ever. I mean,
he's third rated in yards this season. I mean,
he's really a good quarterback, but he's not
a guy that you're down two scores, there's three
minutes left, and you've got to get a quick score
and then follow up after a three and out and
do another one. He's not that guy. Making a lot
of fast decisions and making them all correctly
is pretty rare. And I have yet to see Dak Prescott.
show that he can do that on any kind of consistent
basis. He does it every once in a while. He'll
rip off a string of like, you know, oh, God,
this guy's on fire. But then it just stops. That's
when the little Skippy Bayless starts jumping
on his rucksack, and then after that, all of
a sudden, he just quietly goes away. So, all
right. All right. Without Mahomes, who is the
best quarterback in both leagues? Huh. I don't
want to say Josh Allen anymore. I mean, he's
good, but you've got to look at how the team's
going and lay some of that on him. I'm going
to say Stafford. Yeah, I think Stafford has pretty
much got it. Goff turns into the turnover machine
every once in a while. Goff is not that guy.
He throws up some stats, but he can't do it for
you. Jalen Hurts is just so hard to figure out
anymore. I'm over him. He's looking like a mediocre
quarterback, and I don't know if it's because
they're hamstringing him or there's something
wrong. I don't know what, but he does not look
like the Jalen Hurts that we're used to. He doesn't
look confident anymore in the pocket. He does
not look comfortable. He doesn't look confident.
Man, how did Philadelphia as a team manage to
screw up Jalen Hurts? I don't know. Starts with
that little weasel Sirianni and goes on down.
Maybe they took him down to somebody's basement
and made him a made man. That's it right there.
Yeah, they were going to cap him. You know, Sirianni
has a wet dream every night about wishing he
was a good fella. Yeah. Hey, when you go out
there, what are you going to say about us? Oh,
you guys are the best. That's right. Take the
cannolis. Yeah, allegedly. Yeah. So, where's
my clothes right now? Best quarterback from either
side we were doing. Oh, that's right. When the
NFC, I was going to say Brock Purdy, but not
now. He got dismantled. It's tough to say. It
really is. It's really hard to tell about Minnesota's
new quarterback, McCarthy. because he keeps getting
hurt. Yeah, hang on. Let me take a look here.
I've got a list of the quarterbacks and their
yards and percentages. There was some team this
morning that I heard was looking at Brian Dable,
the ex -Giants head coach. Was that Miami? I
think it was Miami was looking at him, but I
don't know if they're serious or not. That was
just a little. No, no, it was the Bills. No,
it was the Bills. Because he was their offensive
coordinator for three or four years. Yeah, that's
right. They like him. Yeah. He might get hired.
We'll see. So, yeah. He might go from New Jersey
back to real New York team. Yeah, maybe. He's
just got to move a couple hundred miles. It's
kind of like going to Columbia or something like
that. Ganges New Jersey money for American money.
Yeah, yeah. Well, that's easy to do. They have
machines now. Yeah. You walk up there with the
U .S. dollar and they throw you out a dice. Yeah.
Yeah, that's New Jersey's currency. Speaking
of Sirianni, and if I could ever find my fucking
information, okay, you know what, screw it. I'm
going to say, shit, I don't know. So many quarterbacks
have had a bad year this past year. Yeah, I know,
I don't know. It just looked inconsistent or
downright bad. Yeah. It's tough to say who's
going to rise back up next year. And even Mahomes
might have a really crappy first half of the
season because his knee ain't quite right because
he rushed himself back. Yeah. I'm going to say,
okay, most talented overall, level -headed, winning
a game and everything, Joe Burrow. Yeah. Joe
Burrow and – I can't say Brock Purdy, though,
because he has been looking horrible lately when
you put pressure on him. Who else? You know what?
Let's just go on. All right. What team do you
look at to be back in the playoffs next year?
Playoffs? Broncos. Yeah. I would say Cincinnati.
Yeah. From the north. In the AFC South, maybe
Tennessee. I mean, they could get it turned around
that fast. They could. Who did they hire? Did
they hire anybody yet? I don't think they did,
did they? No, no, not yet. Yeah. But I don't
think Indy or Jacksonville or Houston was really
all that impressive. In the NFC, I could see
Washington. and Carolina getting back in, Minnesota
get back in, and if Baker Mayfield is as angry
as he says, then he'll get the Buccaneers back
into the playoffs next season. Playoff, yes.
All right. Sorry, I was checking to see if they
sent me the email they're supposed to, but of
course they did not. Okay. Are the Eagles going
to bounce back? I don't think so. I don't either.
I haven't heard of any big moves they've made
or even talking about making any moves. We'll
see what happens in free agency, but if they're
relying strictly on the draft, then they're already
two feet behind. Everybody else has got to step
on them. And I also heard about the Chiefs moving
up. No, they only have six picks. They're not
moving up. They're not giving up any of those
picks. If anything, they'll move down if they
don't find the right guy to get an extra couple.
Yeah, yeah. Moving up a few spots in the draft
is a whole different kind of prospect than, say,
contacting a team and saying, you want Chris
Jones to give us a fourth and a fifth round pick.
Yeah. That's a totally different thing. Well,
I could see that happening very easily. I look
for them to try to unload Jones. I hope they
do. Well, you've got to get the guy while he's
still falling, descending, not when he's all
the way to the ground. You want to make him look
somewhat attractive the last three games of his
career here. I think you could probably get a
good case like, well, he was a little dinged
up. I heard some interesting stats about the
Chiefs. O'Minohue, do you know how many tackles
he had last season? Oh, shit, not very many.
28. 28. That's not even two a game. 28. And how
many snaps did he take? Most of them. Most of
them? Okay, worthless. Let's see. Remember Jalen
Royals? Yes. Receiver? Yes. He managed to get
in on the final game and caught two passes. How
much? What was it, eight yards? Not too many
yards. Yeah. So here he was. I think he only
played. I think he was only active for seven
games, and he only really got into that last
one and caught two passes. I'm going to judge
Royals and Thornton. Thornton has already shown
flashes and worthy from here on out because I
think we have a confident wide receivers coach.
Yeah, yeah. But compare Jalen Royals only making
two catches to Isaiah Pacheco and Kareem Hunt.
You know how many runs of 20 yards or more they
had all season? I think one for Hunt and none
for Pacheco. Between them, they had two. The
same number of catches that Jalen Royals had.
That's fucking crazy. Only two rushes of 20 or
more yards the entire season for those two running
backs combined. That should never happen. Yeah,
and see how they snuck that past us? Yeah. They
snuck it past us and O'Manahue couldn't even
get two tackles a game. And then they snuck it
past that the running backs couldn't break off
a long run to save their lives. Yeah. This is
part of the partial gutting that we're talking
about. Yeah. This, everything that's been said,
like Royals, you're probably going to keep him
because he's still a rookie and he still has
upside. Yeah. And you've got a new wide receiver
coach coming in. And he's on that cheap rookie
contract. Yeah. No problem. Yep. Yeah. All right.
Mahomes says he plans on starting the first regular
season game next season. Will this happen? No.
I'm saying no. They're not going to let it happen?
I sincerely hope they don't even let him sniff
the field during preseason. Yeah. In which case
he's not ready to come back on opening day. Yeah.
It's like if Andy Reid puts him in in a preseason
game, then Andy Reid needs to get fired. because
that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Put
him in a game that means nothing and on a knee
that's barely healed, if healed, and let, no,
no. Keep him out the whole preseason and let
him see limited action the first couple three
weeks. I think you're going to see something
like a Kirk Cousins or somebody like that coming
in for the interim. They want to make the season
next season count. They don't want to throw another
way on Mahomes' dime. So they're going to have
to come up with a reasonable solution. That will
be a veteran that has won in the past that can
fit into about any type of an offensive program
and do well, and that would be like a Kirk Cousins.
So I look for something like that to be done.
Whether it's Cousins or not specifically, I don't
know. But I think something like that, they're
going to slowly introduce Mahomes back into it.
Yeah, yeah. If they rush him back, I mean, imagine
the nightmare scenario of they rush. Mahomes
back, and in the first game of the season, he
suffers a season -ending knee injury again. Well,
like on G3. Yeah. At that point, I'd say to Andy
Reid, if you're not man enough to tell this young
man, no, you can't play and make him sit on the
sideline, then yeah, Andy needs to go. Yeah.
If Andy is such a pushover that he lets that
happen, then bye, Andy. Well, now he's got the
enemy. Yeah. So we'll see. Maybe he can make
the enemy the heavy. Well, I can't tell Patrick
no. You go tell him no. Yeah, why not? The enemy
don't care. Yeah. You know, Reed likes to draw
mustaches on people while they're sleeping, right?
So how firm can he be? Yeah. All right, or he
likes to eat your nuggies. Yeah. Yeah, your noogies.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, that was disturbing there.
Don't touch noogies. Yeah, I heard it took them
a long time to get... Andy Reid, you quit drawing
penises on people's faces. That's what he was
trying to do. No, no, draw a mustache. This is
a commercial. We want you to draw a mustache.
But he kept ruining the take by drawing a big
penis on the guy's face. In all fairness, that
is fun. I came very close to having that done
to me when I was on the road with Weatherhead.
We do out -of -town gigs, and we stay overnight
to do the next night. You didn't want to be the
first person to fall asleep in the hotel room.
Because whoever did got decorated. Oh, God, yeah.
And lots of pictures taken. I don't know where
the clip went, but when me and Davey used to
have, Davey's parents used to go away on the
weekends to the lake. And then they'd be gone
for a couple weeks at a time, so it was a party
at Davey's. And during the summertime, you know,
we weren't in school, so we're all down there
partying. So we had a thing. We'd get smashed,
but... All the good sodas were in the back fridge
in the back room. Nobody knew about that unless
you've been around there a lot. So the newcomers,
they would wake up with a hangover, run to the
fridge. Nobody wanted to make coffee. So they
see this can of Pepsi or Coke in there. It may
be open, but they're thirsty and they don't care.
They swig it, but the problem is it'd been pissed
off. Yes. And it was so bad. You drink from an
open can, man. You just got to figure. Oh, yeah.
You'd hear that scream. And usually I'd sleep
in the garage to where they couldn't get me.
And Davey had some place upstairs in a closet,
a closet like a little partition attic -like
thing. He would sleep up there in the most weirded,
contorted position ever. But they would never
find us. They'd go around and try to kill everyone
else, but they couldn't find us. And it'd be
funny because you knew who did it because you'd
hear their scream. Yeah. And it's like, hey,
someone drank the piss. Oh, well, I'm tired.
I think I'm going to go back then. We got a guitar
player setting up for. Oh, good. Yeah. All right.
That's going to be awesome. Oh, yeah. Play some
purple. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, and then
Joe Burrow has been rather quiet. Is the tension
between him and the Bengals front office over
for now? I think for now it's over. I think it
is too. Yeah, I think enough has happened around
the league that he realizes, you know what, I
don't have it so bad here. It could be a whole
lot worse. I think you're right. I'm just going
to keep my head down for now. I think he's picking
his battles a little more wisely. I think he
should too. I think that's the thing with Joe
Burrow. Maybe he's getting some better advice.
Maybe he's just maturing as a person. Probably
both. And he's seeing teammates that open their
mouths and say silly things, regretful things,
and then bad things happen to him because of
it. So I think he's like, okay. I think he realized
I better just start shutting down a little bit.
It's pretty bad if you can't learn from your
own mistakes, but you've got to be a freaking
moron to not learn from somebody else's mistake.
I agree. Yep. All right. Oh, okay, yeah, but
we used to, someone would always have to work
in the morning back to the tricks and the pranks,
like you almost got a penis thrown on you. So
the person that said this, you go, all right,
what time do you need to woke up at? No later
than 6 .30, I got to be working at 7. How long
does it take you to get to work half hour? So
we would take and, you know, shave off their
eyebrows. paint their toenails, all this stuff
that they wouldn't be able to see because we
woke them up right when they had to get in the
car and go to work. Yeah. So they would fly to
work, same clothes, you know, all that, you're
a teenager, you didn't care, and your breast
stunk, and your asshole stunk, you didn't care.
Yeah. So we would send them off. After we did
that to them, we'd go, dude, dude, man, I just
woke up. You said something about going to work.
It's a half hour till. Oh, shit, I've got to
get on the road now. They run out there. They
get to work, and they'll be like, oh, ho, ho.
Someone had a little fun last night, didn't they?
Yeah, it was a great thing. All right, good times,
good times. How long have we got? Coming up on
two hours. All right, well, should we shut this
thing down and go into the music creek? Yes.
Of course, I've got to go drain a little bit.
Yep. I had a lot of coffee. I need to offload.
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