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The sports bastards. The sports bastards. The

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sports bastards. The sports bastards. The sports

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bastards. The sports bastards. Hi there. This

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is your ears. Why are you listening to this garbage?

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jumping all over to get to this complete ripoff.

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Because people are sheep. Alright. And we're

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off and running. Okay, this is the Sports Bastards.

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I'm Mark. I'm Topher. We are the bastards, of

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course. It'd be funny if we weren't the bastards,

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wouldn't it? Oh, yeah. One of these weeks we'll

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have to be somebody else. Maybe for Halloween.

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Oh, that's good. I'll even bring a costume. I'll

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bring a regular person costume. That'll throw

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them off. Anyhow, yeah, we got a lot of stuff

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to get to, don't we? Yes, we do. Yeah. We got

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a lot of fun stuff. All right, you want to go

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ahead and go to our predictions and see how bad

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we probably fucked them up? Yeah, let's come

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back to that. Okay. The first game, the Pats

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at the Broncos. The Patriots. The Patriots. The

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Patriots. We both thought it was going to be

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a close game. Yeah, and it was, 10 -7. Yeah,

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and we both thought it was going to be a three

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-point game. We were right about that. And we

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both picked Patriots. Whoa, we did better than

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I thought. You guessed 20 -17, and I guessed

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24 -21. I don't think if I'd known of the snow

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coming that I would have changed my prediction.

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No, I would have kept it the same, too. I thought

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that each team would be able to at least throw

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out that many points. Yeah, yeah. Well, I've

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got a whole bunch of stuff on the AFC Championships

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themselves, so I can get into that in a moment.

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But it was a very interesting game. But it was

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kind of unsettling to watch that nobody could

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really do much. It was boring as fuck. And I

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want to see the ratings of not only this but

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the Super Bowl because of all this like, you

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know, oh, hey, thank you. Thank you so much.

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City Market Coffee, best coffee ever. City Market

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Coffee. Yes. We say it every week. Yep. She likes

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the shot. Yep, see. They are awesome here, aren't

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they? Yes, they are. We've got such a good thing.

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Even when the bridge opens up, I think we'll

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still come here too. I mean, do both, split it

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in half or whatever. Yeah, definitely. Okay.

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I was bored here and there. Something that struck

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me also was it was way more difficult for...

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the officials to influence the game. Oh, and

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it was influenced, too. I mean, I didn't say

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it wasn't. I'm just saying it was way more difficult.

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So they had to be a little more blatant when

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they did. Oh, okay. I thought you said it the

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other way. Okay. Every time I thought the game

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was influenced, it wasn't really blatantly obvious

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like lots of them. It was like little things

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like they didn't have the ball tracker in there.

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Why did they not have the... the AI of the ball

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tracker to tell you exactly where, like they

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have been doing, exactly where the ball was.

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They had no problems doing it during the year.

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How come it wasn't implemented here? The snow

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shouldn't have made a single bit of difference.

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No. Because it's not a visual thing. Yeah. And

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the tracker, it doesn't track where the ball

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was when the play ended. It tracks where the

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officials spotted the ball. Yes. So if the official

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wants to influence the call, he's already done

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it by the time the tracker comes into play. They

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look at where the official spots the ball and

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where the first down marker is, and it does its

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AI calculation there. But it has nothing to do

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with looking where the ball was when the play

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ended or where the knee came down or any of that.

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That's still left completely as a judgment call.

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Exactly, and people don't understand that. They

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think like they've got that little microchip

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in there, and it's like, it is right here. Let's

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say that was the intention, is to make you think

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that now they have to be scrupulously honest

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when the fact they're just distracting you with

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something that doesn't make any difference at

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all. The only difference it makes is you don't

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see the guys trotting out there with the two

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sticks and the chain between them. That is the

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only difference. Here's what I think they're

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saying is, well, we don't want to hold up the

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game. They never had a problem with it before.

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They never did. So what do they want? They don't

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want these ones where people are questioning

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it. They're getting tired of people going...

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I don't know. The fix is in. Yeah, because doing

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the virtual tracker takes as long as running

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somebody out with the chains. Yes. So I'm saying,

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to me, it seems like a concerted effort to not

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be obvious. Yeah, yeah, they're trying to disguise

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it. It's like passing a gun law that makes absolutely

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no difference whatsoever. Yeah, that's a great

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example. They can point to it and say, look,

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see what we did? Love us for this. Look, we did

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the right thing. And they know it's not going

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to change a single thing. Yeah, they do it for

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show, effect. Pandering is the term that's used.

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Yeah, pandering. Hillary Clinton pandering. Oh,

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yeah. Oh, my gosh. Remember when she'd go down

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south to campaign, suddenly she'd have a southern

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growl. I don't want all this stuff. Everyone's,

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like, cringing, going, you're not even doing

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it right. Yeah. There was another politician

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who did that recently. She just went south and

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started doing all y 'all. And everyone's, like,

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looking at each other like fraud. It's pretty

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cringey. Yeah, it is. If you really want to get

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to people, be yourself. Be yourself and talk

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about what you think you need to. Or Pam. So

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we were good on the AFC Championship game. I've

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got a lot written just for that. The second game,

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Rams and Seahawks. I picked the Seahawks, you

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picked the Rams. It really could have gone either

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way. It really could have. And I picked a blowout,

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34 -20. You picked 31 -29, which was pretty close

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to the actual score. Really close, yeah. Okay.

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Yeah. So we're each – I picked them both right.

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You were 1 -1. Yeah. But you had the score pretty

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close on both those games. Yeah. Well, okay,

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the game could have went either way. Yeah. And

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the reason I thought the Rams were going to pull

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it off is because Matthew Stafford went, okay,

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right now I have my hand spread way across, right?

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Yeah. Okay, this is when he was with the Detroit

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Lions. Uh -huh. All right, now he is with the

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LA Rams, and his whole career is squeezing down

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to just like maybe an inch away. Yeah. And I

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thought that for sure that they were going to

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find a way to get it done because this is another

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year off of Matthew Stafford's career. Yeah,

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yeah. They may never have this guy again. You

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know, someone like him, as good as him. He has

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an MVP year, too. It's reminding me of the Bills,

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isn't it? Yeah, it is, yeah. Although they did

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win one. Yeah. They did win one with him. But,

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no, this was very Bills -esque. You dominate

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the game in some areas. You come up with key

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opponents. You come up with key first downs.

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You look great on paper, but somehow you didn't

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get it done. Yeah. Yeah. That's the story of

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the Bills, too. Looks great on paper. Yeah. Yeah.

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And then when it comes down to it, the part where

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Josh Allen had the, and this is going to the

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Bills game, the ball out there with his hand

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extended. Yeah. It doesn't show that, which is

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one of the dumbest moves I've ever seen. Yeah.

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You know, you're out in the middle in the flat

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and you know people are coming at you and you

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have the ball out extended in front of you. I

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mean, I remember getting fucking yelled at in

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like junior high football going, hey, dumbass,

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what are you doing? It's like, you want to be

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taken out of the game for good? Do that again.

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But you see how it seems the NFL has adjusted

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its play style to be more flashy and showy at

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the expense of actually playing good football.

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Yes. They've realized that the highlights you

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see on networks and ESPN, etc., that draws in

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more viewers. It's great advertising to have

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flashy, showy plays. So the league overall is

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promoting style over substance. Yeah, I'm sure

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the league loved it, but I'm pretty sure the

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Buffalo fans, the mafia, did not like it. the

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only thing is is that they use the term mafia

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right uh -huh i don't think there's that many

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whiners in that no no no there's not really supposed

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to be whiners in the mafia no no but that seems

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to be all they have in the buffalo i'm sorry

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but man i i would love to see josh allen get

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one yeah specifically josh allen oh it's sean

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mcdermott too when he was there yeah i like both

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of them um i thought they're decent people good

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people I would love to see them get one when

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we're not there like this year, but, I mean,

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it's not going to happen. And it's not because

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of the fans. The fans are the whiniest bunch

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of fucking sissies to me. Anyhow, you're getting

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ready to read something. We can go on. Something

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to mention about Buffalo as long as we're there.

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It seems to me that Buffalo, as an organization,

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has suddenly become unattractive to head coaching

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candidates because they're realizing, There's

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no upside. Yeah. If you go there and win, well,

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that's what you were expected to do. If you go

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there and you don't win, well, they're going

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to fire your ass. Yeah. Where's the upside? No,

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that's right. And remember when nobody wanted

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to go work for the Raiders because they just

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knew they'd be fired in two years? I think there

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was a college team that was the same way. They

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had a reputation of a really quick trigger finger.

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Uh -huh. I think the Bills are kind of in that

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situation right now. You didn't get a good picture.

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Because... Because of their rapid firing. Yeah,

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I agree. Yeah, not a preferred job like it was.

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Yeah, yeah. So I think that's probably why McDaniels,

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the former Dolphins head coach. That's why he

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pulled out. He declined the interview. He's going

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to go. Where did he go? I forgot. The Chargers

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as their OC. He would rather be an offensive

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coordinator than run a whole team. That told

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me a lot about the ownership. of the Bills and

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how badly they've screwed this up. Doesn't it

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seem like he was all on board until he talked

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to them? Yeah. And then he was like, no, I pull

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out. And then the same way with Phillip Rivers.

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Yeah. Phillip Rivers is a really good friend

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of Josh Allen's. Josh Allen was actually like,

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yeah, I'd love to see him be the coach, right?

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He had his support. And even Phillip Rivers was

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like, I'm not going to. No, forget it. I pull

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out too. So all they could really do was promote

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the offensive coordinator. He's already there.

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He's already under contract, and he gets a shot

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at making this team look good. Yeah. And I'm

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not so sure he's that good of a coordinator.

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I mean, I saw a lot of flaw in what I believed

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in their game. I don't know. We'll see. Do you

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think there's possibly a shift in ownership that

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now, because I remember like 30, 40 years ago,

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you never even heard about the owners of the

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teams. It was rare that you even knew who did.

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Now the owners are media celebrities themselves,

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and they're loving it. That's different owners,

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and I think each new generation of owner that

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comes in wants to be more visible, more splashy,

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more in front, more involved. I think that's

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really screwing things up for the people who

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just want to come in and be the head coach. Oh,

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yeah. Well, there's also been a shift in philosophies

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in the NFL and how to win. It's, again, on defense.

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And I'll tell you how I think that happened is

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Mahomes and Allen and other ones, but especially

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Mahomes, you know, Goff, Stafford, you have them

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all just destroying everybody with these passing

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games. So everyone's like kind of looking at

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it like Seattle. They're like, okay, we're going

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to get a quarterback that's good, but probably

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not great. And we're going to put him in a system

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where he doesn't make a lot of mistakes, okay?

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And we're going to rely on our defense. And what

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did they do over there in New England? Same thing.

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It's easier to prevent your opponent from scoring

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than to try to outscore them yourself. Yes. Although

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May is having a great year and everything, I

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don't think, to me, he's not going to sustain

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that. Yeah, yeah. But the defense will remain,

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and they'll always be, as long as they have a

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defense like this and all the 30 people that

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they replaced on their roster when Frabel first

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got there. It's a defensive first game now, for

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now. Yeah. So we're going to start getting some,

00:13:41.570 --> 00:13:44.289
like Mahomes is going to be on his revenge tour.

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Yeah. Josh Allen is going to be on his revenge

00:13:47.049 --> 00:13:50.529
tour. Yeah. Matthew Stafford may be looking at

00:13:50.529 --> 00:13:53.250
one last swipe. Yeah. So I think you might see

00:13:53.250 --> 00:13:56.570
some better numbers off of these offensive was

00:13:56.570 --> 00:13:59.990
juggernauts now, you know. It's been found out

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a little bit. I think they're going to catch

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up with it and then go ahead. And that's the

00:14:02.970 --> 00:14:05.809
way it always is. It's a game of constantly catching

00:14:05.809 --> 00:14:09.070
up. But it does make for good, compelling viewing

00:14:09.070 --> 00:14:11.669
now having it defense -oriented because when

00:14:11.669 --> 00:14:14.590
teams do score, which they still do in plenty,

00:14:14.789 --> 00:14:19.059
it's that much more exciting. Yeah. That was

00:14:19.059 --> 00:14:21.320
one of the things that really killed arena football,

00:14:21.539 --> 00:14:24.320
if you've ever watched those. It was just nonstop

00:14:24.320 --> 00:14:26.659
scoring, and nothing meant anything. Yeah, you

00:14:26.659 --> 00:14:28.179
didn't give a shit. It was like, okay, what's

00:14:28.179 --> 00:14:31.399
the score? 52 to 49. Yeah. You might as well

00:14:31.399 --> 00:14:33.740
wait until the last 10 minutes of the game to

00:14:33.740 --> 00:14:35.720
tune in, because the rest of it just doesn't

00:14:35.720 --> 00:14:41.259
matter. 23 to 20, 20 to 17 are probably about

00:14:41.259 --> 00:14:43.299
the best football kids. Yeah. And that means

00:14:43.299 --> 00:14:46.039
that all these teams had all these chances. Holding

00:14:46.039 --> 00:14:48.500
penalties, sacks, and all that has held them

00:14:48.500 --> 00:14:51.559
back. They've probably been in the red zone probably

00:14:51.559 --> 00:14:56.720
20 times, and they scored three. I think the

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NFL really has caught on to that because all

00:15:00.120 --> 00:15:01.980
through the postseason, there's only been, what,

00:15:02.000 --> 00:15:05.759
one game that was lopsided? All the rest of them

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have been really close. They figured it out.

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And also, yeah, the strength of schedules are

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so much different now. I mean, the Chiefs schedule

00:15:12.100 --> 00:15:14.299
next year is not doing them any favors again.

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You just got to hope a lot of those teams are

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different next year. Or we're different. Yeah,

00:15:20.440 --> 00:15:23.360
or maybe both. Or both, yeah, probably both.

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Anyhow, go ahead. My impressions on the AFC Championship

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was, ironically, the Broncos are the ones who

00:15:31.139 --> 00:15:33.799
really couldn't overcome the weather. I mean,

00:15:33.820 --> 00:15:36.860
their new QB, the timing was off. He threw that

00:15:36.860 --> 00:15:41.240
awful interception late. Yeah. Broncos' defense

00:15:41.240 --> 00:15:45.740
was good, but I think... By the middle of the

00:15:45.740 --> 00:15:47.879
third quarter on, the footing was so terrible

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that even on defense, you couldn't change direction.

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When the ball was snapped, you just had to pick

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a direction and go. And nobody could change direction

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or twist around or find it. You'd just fall on

00:16:01.419 --> 00:16:06.379
your ass. It was really a slippery snow. So the

00:16:06.379 --> 00:16:10.340
defenses really started crumbling. But to balance

00:16:10.340 --> 00:16:12.299
it out, the offenses couldn't get anything going

00:16:12.299 --> 00:16:17.580
either. The Patriots looked weak. Drake may look

00:16:17.580 --> 00:16:21.379
bad. He did enough in the weather to win, but

00:16:21.379 --> 00:16:24.759
unless they can completely shake off that game

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and say, yeah, it was just the weather, that's

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not us, then I really don't see enough to beat

00:16:30.340 --> 00:16:35.139
the Seahawks next game. I respect that thought

00:16:35.139 --> 00:16:37.259
a lot, but I've got a slightly different take.

00:16:38.960 --> 00:16:41.019
You want me to go into it, or you want to...

00:16:41.019 --> 00:16:43.240
Yeah, I've just kind of got a recap here. I've

00:16:43.240 --> 00:16:45.919
highlighted some things. Okay. Whichever. Go

00:16:45.919 --> 00:16:47.639
ahead, and then I'll go into my prediction afterwards.

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The Seahawks hanging on in brutal conditions.

00:16:51.639 --> 00:16:54.480
It was difficult for offenses to gain any traction.

00:16:55.659 --> 00:16:58.179
Mike Rabel's defense really smothered Denver.

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Allowed 32 yards on five possessions in the second

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half. Isn't that something? Even with Stenham,

00:17:04.880 --> 00:17:06.720
they should have done better. They have weapons

00:17:06.720 --> 00:17:08.539
on their offense, and they have a good running

00:17:08.539 --> 00:17:16.240
game. Yeah. They just, the Broncos allowed, well,

00:17:16.259 --> 00:17:19.519
the Pats allowed 3 .3 yards per carry and just

00:17:19.519 --> 00:17:22.059
three rushing first downs to Denver. That's not,

00:17:22.079 --> 00:17:24.859
yeah. That's not a running game. No, no. So they

00:17:24.859 --> 00:17:26.500
shut down the running game. They weren't worried

00:17:26.500 --> 00:17:28.880
about Stenham. Yeah. Although Stenham got a really

00:17:28.880 --> 00:17:31.750
good one in the first half. Early in the game,

00:17:31.769 --> 00:17:33.930
it looked like, wow, it's like this dude's not

00:17:33.930 --> 00:17:36.170
missing anything. Yeah. Then after that, they

00:17:36.170 --> 00:17:38.190
caught up with him really quick. Yeah, yeah.

00:17:39.730 --> 00:17:44.029
He's got a nice pass. He does. He does. The Pats

00:17:44.029 --> 00:17:47.829
forced two tee turnovers, and in the Broncos'

00:17:47.970 --> 00:17:52.009
final eight possessions, the Pats defense only

00:17:52.009 --> 00:17:55.829
allowed four total first downs in the last eight

00:17:55.829 --> 00:18:00.980
possessions. Good D -line. Stidham was sacked

00:18:00.980 --> 00:18:06.660
three times. He only completed one pass on ten

00:18:06.660 --> 00:18:09.160
attempts where he was under pressure. So when

00:18:09.160 --> 00:18:11.420
he's under pressure, he was one of ten. Okay.

00:18:11.460 --> 00:18:14.359
Yeah, that's the story of the game right there.

00:18:14.519 --> 00:18:17.920
And four of 14 on third downs. Now, you'd expect

00:18:17.920 --> 00:18:21.400
that from Jarrett Stidham, a backup QB who hasn't

00:18:21.400 --> 00:18:25.099
played in forever. Yeah. But that is what pretty

00:18:25.099 --> 00:18:29.869
much killed Denver's chances. Mm -hmm. Drake

00:18:29.869 --> 00:18:33.529
May was good on scrambling. He was only 10 of

00:18:33.529 --> 00:18:37.529
21 for 86 yards and took five sacks. So that's

00:18:37.529 --> 00:18:40.849
not so good either. No, no. But he ran 10 times

00:18:40.849 --> 00:18:43.970
for 65 yards. That's the difference right there,

00:18:44.029 --> 00:18:45.630
and I was going to go into that. I was going

00:18:45.630 --> 00:18:47.029
to go into that. But, oh, you know what? I'm

00:18:47.029 --> 00:18:49.589
going to wait until. Okay. Just keep going. Drake

00:18:49.589 --> 00:18:57.269
May scored the only TD. Gains of 28, 16, and

00:18:57.269 --> 00:19:00.210
13 yards were the longest of any player on either

00:19:00.210 --> 00:19:03.829
team. And two of his scrambles were on third

00:19:03.829 --> 00:19:06.769
and long and got him the first down, which is

00:19:06.769 --> 00:19:10.539
monstrous. So the announcers are having all sorts

00:19:10.539 --> 00:19:13.380
of fun saying, using his legs. He's beating him

00:19:13.380 --> 00:19:14.960
with his legs. Look, he's using his legs. I noticed

00:19:14.960 --> 00:19:18.440
that too. They emphasize that. They can't say

00:19:18.440 --> 00:19:20.819
he's running. They have to say using his legs.

00:19:21.000 --> 00:19:23.640
It's like every announcer on every game uses

00:19:23.640 --> 00:19:25.339
that term. And then they go into the physicality

00:19:25.339 --> 00:19:28.220
of the person. Yeah, he's a well -built guy.

00:19:28.519 --> 00:19:32.289
Oh, sure, he's got some. He's got some leg strength.

00:19:32.490 --> 00:19:35.450
You can see there in his quad. It's ridiculous,

00:19:35.549 --> 00:19:37.569
isn't it? It is. I mean, I feel kind of, I don't

00:19:37.569 --> 00:19:39.569
know, violated if they kept talking about me

00:19:39.569 --> 00:19:41.710
like that. I'm like, hey, guys, glad you like

00:19:41.710 --> 00:19:44.329
me, but come on. Let's keep going here. Really?

00:19:47.230 --> 00:19:49.809
Let's see. Stidham came out wobbly in the game,

00:19:49.930 --> 00:19:52.650
missing on his first three passes. He did have

00:19:52.650 --> 00:19:55.230
that 152 yarder, which was awesome. Yeah, that

00:19:55.230 --> 00:19:57.490
was what I was talking about. I was sitting there

00:19:57.490 --> 00:20:00.759
going, maybe I need to reevaluate this. That

00:20:00.759 --> 00:20:05.079
was kind of it. The Pats kind of ratcheted up

00:20:05.079 --> 00:20:07.599
their pressure, too. I've got a question. Would

00:20:07.599 --> 00:20:11.000
Denver have won this if Bo Nix was in? Yeah.

00:20:11.140 --> 00:20:13.200
Yeah, they would have won this. Yeah, even in

00:20:13.200 --> 00:20:15.180
that weather and everything. Yeah, convincing.

00:20:15.599 --> 00:20:19.519
So, anyhow, go ahead. That backwards pass for

00:20:19.519 --> 00:20:21.779
a fumble, do you think that was a backwards pass?

00:20:21.980 --> 00:20:26.779
He claims it was not. To me, I would call it

00:20:26.779 --> 00:20:29.430
a fumble. Just for the premise of throwing a

00:20:29.430 --> 00:20:31.730
backwards pass and having it interrupted, to

00:20:31.730 --> 00:20:33.670
me, most of the times, that's a fumble. Yeah,

00:20:33.690 --> 00:20:36.930
yeah, yeah. From what I can tell, I looked at

00:20:36.930 --> 00:20:40.069
where the ball came out of his hands and then

00:20:40.069 --> 00:20:44.730
where it hit the ground, and it was about half

00:20:44.730 --> 00:20:48.769
a yard behind. That's enough. Yes, that's enough.

00:20:48.930 --> 00:20:52.970
Even if it was lateral and a pass. I think that

00:20:52.970 --> 00:20:54.710
would just be an incomplete pass. It would have,

00:20:54.750 --> 00:20:59.910
but the fact that it was backwards. Let's see.

00:21:00.289 --> 00:21:04.509
Stidham finished 17 of 31 for 133 yards with

00:21:04.509 --> 00:21:08.710
a TD and an interception. The Pats had that massive

00:21:08.710 --> 00:21:12.970
field goal block. Their punter had a shit day.

00:21:13.730 --> 00:21:18.200
Oh, jeez. Yeah. But a lot of that was New England,

00:21:18.240 --> 00:21:20.160
though. Yeah, that was New England. Oh, shoot.

00:21:20.220 --> 00:21:24.079
Yeah, they put so much pressure. The rookie kicker,

00:21:24.079 --> 00:21:27.079
Borgalis, missed two field goal attempts. The

00:21:27.079 --> 00:21:30.299
63 -yarder, he wasn't even close. No. That looked

00:21:30.299 --> 00:21:32.079
like he was trying to kick it to the sideline.

00:21:32.099 --> 00:21:35.220
Yeah. It was so bad. And that 46 -yarder, it

00:21:35.220 --> 00:21:37.900
looked like somebody got a finger on it. Yeah,

00:21:38.059 --> 00:21:39.960
but someone did get a finger on it. They showed

00:21:39.960 --> 00:21:43.500
it several times. I mean, it wasn't much, but

00:21:43.500 --> 00:21:47.940
it was enough to derail the hole kick. The 63

00:21:47.940 --> 00:21:50.640
-yarder, I don't begrudge him on. Yeah. The first

00:21:50.640 --> 00:21:53.400
46 -yarder, he did just miss. Then late in the

00:21:53.400 --> 00:21:57.180
game, there was a 45 -yarder to tie it, and that's

00:21:57.180 --> 00:21:59.940
the one that Leonard Taylor III got a finger

00:21:59.940 --> 00:22:03.220
on. He upgraded from the practice squad to come

00:22:03.220 --> 00:22:05.339
out there and block that field goal. Yeah, that's

00:22:05.339 --> 00:22:07.539
right. That was freaking awesome. Yeah. So, yeah,

00:22:07.599 --> 00:22:10.890
he did miss too. 63 and 46, those are pretty

00:22:10.890 --> 00:22:13.529
long field goals for that kind of weather. I

00:22:13.529 --> 00:22:15.490
don't begrudge you on that. I forgot about the

00:22:15.490 --> 00:22:17.150
second one that he missed, and then the third

00:22:17.150 --> 00:22:19.670
one was the one that they got the finger on,

00:22:19.710 --> 00:22:21.170
and that was late in the game that they could

00:22:21.170 --> 00:22:24.390
have tied it. Yeah. And also, Sean Payton not

00:22:24.390 --> 00:22:26.529
going for a kick early on, too. Exactly, yeah.

00:22:26.609 --> 00:22:28.970
He said he regrets that. He's second -guessing

00:22:28.970 --> 00:22:30.930
that. I love that he was honest. I've always

00:22:30.930 --> 00:22:33.730
liked Sean Payton, and I loved his honesty. He's

00:22:33.730 --> 00:22:37.049
like, yeah. You know, a lot of coaches go, no.

00:22:37.869 --> 00:22:40.049
That's what we generally do in those situations.

00:22:40.109 --> 00:22:43.089
We trust our offense. He's just like, yeah, I

00:22:43.089 --> 00:22:45.849
do regret that. But it was kind of a sign that

00:22:45.849 --> 00:22:49.150
the pass that he threw on that fourth and one

00:22:49.150 --> 00:22:52.470
had a better chance of being intercepted than

00:22:52.470 --> 00:22:54.329
the receiver getting it. He should have caught

00:22:54.329 --> 00:22:56.829
that as a sign. He should have, yes. This was

00:22:56.829 --> 00:22:59.190
a mistake. I should not have done that, yeah.

00:23:01.269 --> 00:23:03.269
But, I mean, he was playing from behind from

00:23:03.269 --> 00:23:10.480
that point on. So that was what I had on the

00:23:10.480 --> 00:23:15.380
AFC championship. Okay, real quick. All right,

00:23:15.440 --> 00:23:18.819
number one, I think that there's a lot. I think

00:23:18.819 --> 00:23:23.039
that Sean Payton had a pretty bad game too. Yeah.

00:23:23.119 --> 00:23:26.119
I think that he made some decisions that didn't

00:23:26.119 --> 00:23:29.200
bode well for them. Yeah, yeah. I got that impression

00:23:29.200 --> 00:23:32.599
too that his coaching was just not really where

00:23:32.599 --> 00:23:34.640
it should have been. No, and I think that Bo

00:23:34.640 --> 00:23:38.099
Nix getting hurt late in the game. The game before

00:23:38.099 --> 00:23:41.339
hurt him quite a bit. Yeah, yeah, I guess that's

00:23:41.339 --> 00:23:43.319
right. We're looking at what Sean Payton came

00:23:43.319 --> 00:23:44.859
up with in a week's notice. And then he had to

00:23:44.859 --> 00:23:47.339
change it all, so I kind of see that little bit

00:23:47.339 --> 00:23:49.420
of confusion there. Yeah, that's a good point.

00:23:49.579 --> 00:23:52.220
Yeah, I mean, when you have to change the whole

00:23:52.220 --> 00:23:56.079
game because it hasn't played really that much,

00:23:56.160 --> 00:23:58.720
I mean, you know, that's got to be quite a bit

00:23:58.720 --> 00:24:02.339
to go through. Yeah. Now, that being said, I'm

00:24:02.339 --> 00:24:03.880
going to go ahead and make my prediction here.

00:24:03.940 --> 00:24:07.990
You know what? No. No, no, no. Did you say you

00:24:07.990 --> 00:24:09.470
made your prediction, didn't you, of Seattle?

00:24:10.589 --> 00:24:13.670
No. Okay. I'm just saying that unless Patriots

00:24:13.670 --> 00:24:17.190
can shake off the AFC championship game, even

00:24:17.190 --> 00:24:18.589
though they won, they've got to shake off their

00:24:18.589 --> 00:24:20.490
performance. Otherwise, I don't think they have

00:24:20.490 --> 00:24:22.670
much of a chance. Okay. But I haven't made a

00:24:22.670 --> 00:24:25.130
point. Official prediction, yeah. Okay, well,

00:24:25.170 --> 00:24:28.130
go ahead and go to the NFC game, and then we'll

00:24:28.130 --> 00:24:29.710
make our predictions. Because I've got a lot

00:24:29.710 --> 00:24:32.390
to say about that, and I've got a theory. All

00:24:32.390 --> 00:24:34.609
my theories haven't come through so far, so I

00:24:34.609 --> 00:24:38.470
have no idea why I think this one will. Impressions

00:24:38.470 --> 00:24:41.950
from the NFC championship game. Sam Darnold had

00:24:41.950 --> 00:24:45.130
no turnovers. Yeah, he played a great game. Yeah,

00:24:45.170 --> 00:24:50.529
25 of 36, 346 yards and three touchdowns. Not

00:24:50.529 --> 00:24:53.460
bad. pretty stellar. What was the rating? Did

00:24:53.460 --> 00:24:55.140
you get to see his PBR? I didn't get to see the

00:24:55.140 --> 00:24:58.859
rating, no. But all three touchdown passes came

00:24:58.859 --> 00:25:02.299
versus pressure, which is a really good thing

00:25:02.299 --> 00:25:07.900
for him. Seattle went 7 of 13 on third downs,

00:25:08.019 --> 00:25:13.920
which is really damn good. Bone skipped down.

00:25:14.059 --> 00:25:17.200
Darnold threw several times during the final

00:25:17.200 --> 00:25:19.779
drive instead of just running the ball to run

00:25:19.779 --> 00:25:22.099
the clock out. That shows the coach trusts him

00:25:22.099 --> 00:25:24.000
and trusts him to make the completions and keep

00:25:24.000 --> 00:25:26.579
the clock going. Yeah. Because normally you don't

00:25:26.579 --> 00:25:28.420
want to do anything that stops that clock. No,

00:25:28.460 --> 00:25:31.240
you're right. They generated four first downs

00:25:31.240 --> 00:25:35.279
in that last drive. And it was considered to

00:25:35.279 --> 00:25:40.059
be the best performance of the season for Darnold

00:25:40.059 --> 00:25:47.789
that last drive. For Stafford, total Rams offense,

00:25:48.210 --> 00:25:53.269
479 yards and 26 first downs for the whole offense,

00:25:53.490 --> 00:25:56.289
which is pretty damn good. That is very good.

00:25:59.150 --> 00:26:04.170
Stafford finished 22 -35 for 375 yards, 374,

00:26:04.230 --> 00:26:08.430
with three touchdowns. He finished 7 -11 for

00:26:08.430 --> 00:26:13.700
226 yards and a TD. on passes of 20 -plus air

00:26:13.700 --> 00:26:15.680
yards. So if the ball goes from more than 20

00:26:15.680 --> 00:26:19.339
yards in the air, seven of 11 for 226 yards.

00:26:19.819 --> 00:26:23.579
The Chiefs had, what, five? Five, yes. Yeah,

00:26:23.759 --> 00:26:28.420
we got nothing. But L .A. couldn't finish enough

00:26:28.420 --> 00:26:31.759
drives. That's what really hurt them. Chance

00:26:31.759 --> 00:26:35.220
to take a late lead. Stafford was denied the

00:26:35.220 --> 00:26:40.559
end zone. They turned it over on downs. And they

00:26:40.559 --> 00:26:45.579
just could not stop. Jackson Smith Najigba, he

00:26:45.579 --> 00:26:49.019
was just always open. I know. Targeted 12 times,

00:26:49.099 --> 00:26:52.539
caught 10 of them for 153 yards and a touchdown.

00:26:53.220 --> 00:26:55.839
Yeah. You'd be happy to get that from two receivers

00:26:55.839 --> 00:26:58.920
put together. Especially in a championship game

00:26:58.920 --> 00:27:01.859
like that, you know. Yeah. And the odd thing

00:27:01.859 --> 00:27:04.400
was every time they needed it, they went to him

00:27:04.400 --> 00:27:07.440
and the Rams still couldn't stop it. Yeah. They

00:27:07.440 --> 00:27:09.599
knew they were going to him. And they couldn't

00:27:09.599 --> 00:27:13.529
stop him. Yeah. In the first half, he generated

00:27:13.529 --> 00:27:17.569
150 yards on seven catches from nine targets.

00:27:18.390 --> 00:27:21.069
So that means in the second half, he caught every

00:27:21.069 --> 00:27:24.869
ball thrown his way. Wow. His first two that

00:27:24.869 --> 00:27:29.009
he didn't catch were in the first half. And on

00:27:29.009 --> 00:27:31.670
the final drive, they hit JSN for a big first

00:27:31.670 --> 00:27:35.390
down, take more time off the clock. He generates

00:27:35.390 --> 00:27:39.289
separation. You notice that? Yes. The amount

00:27:39.289 --> 00:27:42.069
of error between him and the defender is something

00:27:42.069 --> 00:27:44.309
I envy. I mean, I want that for the Chiefs. No,

00:27:44.430 --> 00:27:45.809
I was getting ready to say, this is what the

00:27:45.809 --> 00:27:49.210
Chiefs used to do. Yes. With Hill and Kelsey,

00:27:49.509 --> 00:27:53.430
or the filling guys too, like the Scantlings

00:27:53.430 --> 00:27:57.089
and the Jujus and all those guys were able to

00:27:57.089 --> 00:28:00.589
do it too. Sammy Watson. Watson, yeah. They can

00:28:00.589 --> 00:28:02.690
get set for three. They can get set for three.

00:28:02.950 --> 00:28:05.990
Look at how they use JSN. There's Clint Kubiak.

00:28:07.049 --> 00:28:11.069
The receiver ran 19 routes wide, 16 from the

00:28:11.069 --> 00:28:14.150
slot, one from the tight end position, and two

00:28:14.150 --> 00:28:16.750
from the backfield where he caught his TD. Yeah.

00:28:17.150 --> 00:28:20.789
They put him everywhere and anywhere. What's

00:28:20.789 --> 00:28:24.910
their coach's name, Mike McConnell? The Seahawks?

00:28:25.130 --> 00:28:28.029
Yeah. Yeah, I think so. Yeah. I'll tell you what,

00:28:28.109 --> 00:28:30.009
he's a relatively newcomer, but, man, that guy

00:28:30.009 --> 00:28:33.869
seems to know what he's doing. Yeah. Well, I

00:28:33.869 --> 00:28:36.799
mean, newcomer is a head coach. Yeah, yeah. And,

00:28:36.799 --> 00:28:39.460
you know, for the Rams, it was the thing that

00:28:39.460 --> 00:28:41.400
plagued them all season long was their special

00:28:41.400 --> 00:28:44.380
teams. I mean, you've got to kind of put it down

00:28:44.380 --> 00:28:47.339
to the special teams. Xavier Smith muffed two

00:28:47.339 --> 00:28:50.460
punts, lost the second one. He got the first

00:28:50.460 --> 00:28:56.579
one back. Tripped over his feet, basically, as

00:28:56.579 --> 00:29:02.799
the ball arrived. It seemed like they really

00:29:02.799 --> 00:29:04.900
weren't. able to do anything else on special

00:29:04.900 --> 00:29:06.519
teams. That's the two big ones that they eat.

00:29:07.599 --> 00:29:11.140
Is that Ms. Kofenstein's daughter? I think it

00:29:11.140 --> 00:29:14.079
is. It is? Yeah. Oh, good, good, good. Or maybe

00:29:14.079 --> 00:29:16.680
her daughter's babysitter. I think it is. I think

00:29:16.680 --> 00:29:19.779
it is. That's a babysitter. You're right. The

00:29:19.779 --> 00:29:22.279
Seahawks defense showed up when it was needed.

00:29:24.539 --> 00:29:27.920
Stafford threw for 350 plus yards. Puka Nakua

00:29:27.920 --> 00:29:31.890
had a nine. Catches for 165 yards and a touchdown.

00:29:32.890 --> 00:29:35.509
Devontae Adams generated 89 yards and a touchdown.

00:29:35.910 --> 00:29:39.589
L .A. Rush for 114 total yards. You see the stats

00:29:39.589 --> 00:29:41.950
there would indicate that they won, but they

00:29:41.950 --> 00:29:44.210
didn't. Another one of those games is like, you

00:29:44.210 --> 00:29:46.410
should have won. It's like the Jags making the

00:29:46.410 --> 00:29:49.230
plays when you need them. Exactly. And the stats

00:29:49.230 --> 00:29:52.589
aren't telling the whole story. Yeah. Yeah. Now,

00:29:52.690 --> 00:29:55.069
late you had the taunting from Tariq Woolen.

00:29:55.289 --> 00:29:59.640
Yeah, that, yeah. wiped out a fourth and 12,

00:29:59.940 --> 00:30:02.259
and the Rams would have had to punt. It looked

00:30:02.259 --> 00:30:04.220
like he was taunting someone on the sideline,

00:30:04.279 --> 00:30:06.420
not the receiver. No, that's what I thought,

00:30:06.500 --> 00:30:08.880
too. I think he said something to a coach on

00:30:08.880 --> 00:30:11.240
the sideline. Yeah, and that will generate a

00:30:11.240 --> 00:30:17.819
flag as much as anything. That's not good. But,

00:30:17.920 --> 00:30:20.920
you know, after that. Mike McDonald's defense

00:30:20.920 --> 00:30:23.859
held L .A. to a measly one of eight on third

00:30:23.859 --> 00:30:26.099
downs and one of two on fourth downs. So it's

00:30:26.099 --> 00:30:28.380
Mike McDonald. Okay, so they shut down those

00:30:28.380 --> 00:30:31.740
guys in key situations is what it is. Situational

00:30:31.740 --> 00:30:34.079
football. And I just realized that Seattle's

00:30:34.079 --> 00:30:35.980
head coach, Mike McDonald, used to be the lead

00:30:35.980 --> 00:30:38.339
singer of the Doobie Brothers. Oh, he did? Yeah.

00:30:39.019 --> 00:30:41.380
Minute by minute, what a fool believes. This

00:30:41.380 --> 00:30:43.079
is his son. Oh, it must be his son. Yeah, Mike

00:30:43.079 --> 00:30:47.180
Jr., yeah. However, he does fill in for his dad

00:30:47.180 --> 00:30:51.309
every now and then. Yeah. Is his dad alive still?

00:30:51.450 --> 00:30:56.430
I would think so. Okay, I stand corrected. Whenever

00:30:56.430 --> 00:30:59.730
they do do a show, he steps in for his dad. Yeah.

00:31:00.589 --> 00:31:04.069
It did seem that even after that taunting penalty,

00:31:04.349 --> 00:31:06.970
Seattle just stepped it up and said, all right,

00:31:07.009 --> 00:31:08.509
this isn't going to hurt us. We're not going

00:31:08.509 --> 00:31:10.450
to let it happen this way. And they just did

00:31:10.450 --> 00:31:12.130
everything they needed to do to shut the Rams

00:31:12.130 --> 00:31:15.279
down. Yeah, and they did too. Yeah. The Rams

00:31:15.279 --> 00:31:17.460
do not have an excuse at all, I can tell you

00:31:17.460 --> 00:31:20.339
that. They should have. Like I said, this is

00:31:20.339 --> 00:31:21.640
another one of those games they're going to look

00:31:21.640 --> 00:31:25.099
back and go, why did we not win this? Yeah. They

00:31:25.099 --> 00:31:28.119
look great on paper, too. Same thing. We've seen

00:31:28.119 --> 00:31:30.859
the Chiefs do that. Oh, yeah. The game against

00:31:30.859 --> 00:31:32.500
Jacksonville, you're talking about Jacksonville.

00:31:32.579 --> 00:31:36.039
Yeah. They led in every category and lost. Yep.

00:31:36.639 --> 00:31:39.240
It's so frustrating. I imagine L .A. is probably

00:31:39.240 --> 00:31:42.140
really frustrated right now. Oh, yeah. Even more

00:31:42.140 --> 00:31:44.279
than usual just because of the way it happened.

00:31:44.740 --> 00:31:49.839
Yeah, yep, I would agree. Is that the right?

00:31:49.859 --> 00:31:52.619
Go ahead. No, that was. Okay. All right, you

00:31:52.619 --> 00:31:56.700
want to do our predictions then? Let's do five

00:31:56.700 --> 00:31:58.720
key questions for the Super Bowl first, and then

00:31:58.720 --> 00:32:00.920
we can make our predictions. Okay. Number one,

00:32:01.079 --> 00:32:04.859
will Sam Darnold save his best for last? No.

00:32:05.440 --> 00:32:10.599
I don't think so either. We may have close to

00:32:10.599 --> 00:32:14.519
the same prediction. We'll see. Can Drake May

00:32:14.519 --> 00:32:17.619
return to regular Caesar form for the Super Bowl?

00:32:18.680 --> 00:32:22.200
No. All right. And here's why. Well, you know

00:32:22.200 --> 00:32:24.579
what? Okay, his running ability is going to help

00:32:24.579 --> 00:32:27.759
him considerably. Yeah. But I don't think either

00:32:27.759 --> 00:32:30.720
quarterback is going to have a good game. I think

00:32:30.720 --> 00:32:33.299
it's just simply because these two play too good

00:32:33.299 --> 00:32:35.940
in situations defensively. Yeah, I'm going to

00:32:35.940 --> 00:32:37.380
change. I was going to say yes, but I'm going

00:32:37.380 --> 00:32:40.440
to say no because Seattle has two weeks to prepare

00:32:40.440 --> 00:32:42.740
exactly for him and everything he does. With

00:32:42.740 --> 00:32:44.720
what they did to Matthew Stafford. Yeah. A seasoned

00:32:44.720 --> 00:32:48.140
veteran. Yeah. Okay, question three. Can the

00:32:48.140 --> 00:32:52.440
Patriots contain Jackson Smith Najiba? No. No.

00:32:52.740 --> 00:32:56.339
I don't think it's possible to. They may contain

00:32:56.339 --> 00:33:00.099
him. Now, containing is kind of loose here for

00:33:00.099 --> 00:33:04.140
me. They may get him from not going into the

00:33:04.140 --> 00:33:08.119
end zone as much. They're going to try to slow

00:33:08.119 --> 00:33:09.880
him down. They're going to slow him down, yeah.

00:33:10.200 --> 00:33:12.460
They're not going to completely try to stop him.

00:33:12.559 --> 00:33:19.140
They're going to try to short him. I wonder,

00:33:19.220 --> 00:33:21.640
will they concentrate on coverage or will they

00:33:21.640 --> 00:33:24.420
concentrate on denying him yards after catch?

00:33:25.140 --> 00:33:27.779
Denying him yards after catch. With the occasional

00:33:27.779 --> 00:33:31.480
slap. The ball's slapping out. Yeah, they're

00:33:31.480 --> 00:33:32.799
definitely going to try to punch the ball out

00:33:32.799 --> 00:33:36.000
as much as possible. I can see that. Okay, question

00:33:36.000 --> 00:33:38.500
four. Which head coach will be the most prepared

00:33:38.500 --> 00:33:42.940
for the moment? As much as I'd love to say Mike

00:33:42.940 --> 00:33:45.819
Vrabel, I think Mike Vrabel has shown nothing

00:33:45.819 --> 00:33:50.240
except doing the right thing 100 % of the time.

00:33:50.440 --> 00:33:56.660
Yeah, I would agree. He looks... more in control

00:33:56.660 --> 00:34:01.200
of his team. Rabel is, you know, nothing against

00:34:01.200 --> 00:34:03.900
him as a head coach and what he's done so far,

00:34:04.099 --> 00:34:07.799
but he's a very emotional guy. Yes. And that

00:34:07.799 --> 00:34:10.820
can really cause some problems when you're...

00:34:11.050 --> 00:34:12.829
Trying to figure out a plan for the biggest game

00:34:12.829 --> 00:34:16.510
of your life so far. Yes. Yep. And Mike McDonald

00:34:16.510 --> 00:34:19.250
seems a little more analytical, a little more

00:34:19.250 --> 00:34:21.170
in control. That's a great way to put it. A little

00:34:21.170 --> 00:34:23.849
more sure. Yeah. And he's a little more sure

00:34:23.849 --> 00:34:25.989
of what he's got, I think. Exactly. I think so,

00:34:26.070 --> 00:34:29.170
too. Where I think this is Brable, he's kind

00:34:29.170 --> 00:34:32.170
of like, wow, okay, this is working. And he's

00:34:32.170 --> 00:34:34.610
still working in progress more than Mike McDonald

00:34:34.610 --> 00:34:37.610
is. So we both vote for McDonald. Yeah. All right.

00:34:37.809 --> 00:34:40.980
Who's going to be the X Factor? the one who makes

00:34:40.980 --> 00:34:45.579
the biggest impact on the game. May. I was going

00:34:45.579 --> 00:34:48.539
to Smith. Let's pick Jackson, Smith, and Najick.

00:34:49.039 --> 00:34:50.840
Okay, I could see that. But the reason I'm going

00:34:50.840 --> 00:34:53.579
May is let me explain it. In a key situation

00:34:53.579 --> 00:34:55.380
where they're going to need those four yards,

00:34:55.559 --> 00:34:58.179
May is going to provide it for them 90 % of the

00:34:58.179 --> 00:35:01.019
time. That's true. And, you know, it's weird.

00:35:01.079 --> 00:35:02.940
I don't even think of him as the scrambling or

00:35:02.940 --> 00:35:05.059
running quarterback the way I do Lamar Jackson.

00:35:05.260 --> 00:35:07.420
I don't think they're emphasizing it. Yeah, it's

00:35:07.420 --> 00:35:10.130
just been happening. And he's taken advantage.

00:35:10.349 --> 00:35:13.210
I imagine he'd rather go back to being a pocket

00:35:13.210 --> 00:35:16.289
passer. I think so. But if he has to, he's going

00:35:16.289 --> 00:35:20.070
to do it. Good for him. He's being a team player.

00:35:20.269 --> 00:35:22.869
He's doing what he needs to do. That's probably

00:35:22.869 --> 00:35:26.210
a good contributor to the success of the Patriots

00:35:26.210 --> 00:35:28.429
this year. Oh, I would think so, yeah. They look

00:35:28.429 --> 00:35:30.929
at Drake May and see he's doing whatever he needs

00:35:30.929 --> 00:35:34.190
to to increase their chances of winning. That's

00:35:34.190 --> 00:35:36.969
contagious. Complimentary football. Yeah, that

00:35:36.969 --> 00:35:41.340
is. Okay, so you're going Jigba and I'm going...

00:35:41.340 --> 00:35:44.679
Drake May. Drake May. Okay. All right. So that

00:35:44.679 --> 00:35:46.519
was our five key questions for the Super Bowl.

00:35:46.920 --> 00:35:49.639
Okay. All right. I like that a lot. Yeah. All

00:35:49.639 --> 00:35:51.019
right. You want to go ahead with your prediction?

00:35:52.860 --> 00:35:57.699
I'm thinking it's going to be the Seahawks. I'm

00:35:57.699 --> 00:35:59.780
going to have to write this down so I hold myself

00:35:59.780 --> 00:36:04.119
accountable. Okay. So it's... Who's... Do we

00:36:04.119 --> 00:36:05.960
know who's going to be considered the home team?

00:36:07.079 --> 00:36:10.559
I would say the Seahawks because record and also

00:36:10.559 --> 00:36:12.599
it's on the West Coast. It's San Francisco where

00:36:12.599 --> 00:36:16.420
the Super Bowl is being played. And Seattle was

00:36:16.420 --> 00:36:18.920
the one seed and New England was the two seed.

00:36:19.059 --> 00:36:21.960
So I'm going to guess that it's Hats at Seahawks.

00:36:22.320 --> 00:36:27.539
That's what I would say. And I'm going to vote

00:36:27.539 --> 00:36:30.380
for the Seahawks. Excuse me, I think it's going

00:36:30.380 --> 00:36:34.019
to be... Well, of course it's going to be close.

00:36:34.079 --> 00:36:35.400
It's the Super Bowl. They're going to make sure

00:36:35.400 --> 00:36:36.960
it's close. But I think it's going to be a one

00:36:36.960 --> 00:36:44.940
-score game. I'm going to think 28 -26. Okay.

00:36:47.780 --> 00:36:50.059
Okay, good one. I think that's very possible.

00:36:50.420 --> 00:36:53.099
And I'm going to say no overtime. It's not going

00:36:53.099 --> 00:36:56.039
to go overtime. No, I don't think it is either.

00:36:56.400 --> 00:37:00.179
I'm going to go with the Patriots. And the reason

00:37:00.179 --> 00:37:03.519
that I'm going with those guys is I think that

00:37:03.519 --> 00:37:07.320
the situational football and their pass rush,

00:37:07.539 --> 00:37:10.800
Sam Darnold's been doing great. But he's due

00:37:10.800 --> 00:37:12.760
for that one game where he's totally confused

00:37:12.760 --> 00:37:15.460
and lost. And I've been waiting and waiting on

00:37:15.460 --> 00:37:17.219
it. I think this is going to be it. I mean, he's

00:37:17.219 --> 00:37:19.199
going to do well. He had that game with Minnesota

00:37:19.199 --> 00:37:21.760
last year where he reverted to being Sam Darnold.

00:37:21.860 --> 00:37:24.719
Yes. And squandered such a good record. I think

00:37:24.719 --> 00:37:26.400
you get him confused. You do these blitz packages

00:37:26.400 --> 00:37:28.639
that are disguised. And you have a couple of

00:37:28.639 --> 00:37:30.599
the big guys who slam him to the ground a couple

00:37:30.599 --> 00:37:32.800
times, and I think he's back to Sam Darnold from

00:37:32.800 --> 00:37:37.460
the Jets. No, Giants. Was it Giants or Jets?

00:37:37.760 --> 00:37:40.380
Jets. Well, whoever they were. I think it was

00:37:40.380 --> 00:37:43.079
Jets. It was Jets. Yeah, one of those New Jersey

00:37:43.079 --> 00:37:46.119
teams. Yeah. Yeah, it's worth remembering that

00:37:46.119 --> 00:37:48.760
Mike Grable was a linebacker and a very good

00:37:48.760 --> 00:37:51.320
one. For the Patriots, actually. Yeah. Oddly

00:37:51.320 --> 00:37:55.960
enough. Yeah. He played under Bill Belichick.

00:37:56.380 --> 00:37:58.480
Yeah. Which is even more weird. He was briefly

00:37:58.480 --> 00:38:01.360
in Kansas City. Yes, he was for one year. One

00:38:01.360 --> 00:38:03.699
year. It was the last of his career. And I think

00:38:03.699 --> 00:38:06.820
he was also with the Titans. Yeah, yeah. He was

00:38:06.820 --> 00:38:09.619
the head coach of the Titans. And did he play

00:38:09.619 --> 00:38:12.880
for them? Yeah. Okay. He was actually really

00:38:12.880 --> 00:38:16.559
good, too. I remember Brable being in a Titans

00:38:16.559 --> 00:38:19.280
jersey. I think I agree. I don't think it was

00:38:19.280 --> 00:38:21.679
Cowboys. I'll have to look it up. Okay. Isn't

00:38:21.679 --> 00:38:23.840
it interesting that there's a lot of crossover?

00:38:25.150 --> 00:38:29.670
Between players and coaches and even players

00:38:29.670 --> 00:38:35.030
and general manager? Yes. But there's no crossover

00:38:35.030 --> 00:38:41.469
between player and owner? Brady. True. Okay.

00:38:41.869 --> 00:38:45.809
I'll rephrase that. It's been resisted for a

00:38:45.809 --> 00:38:48.329
great long time. Yeah, I think Brady's different,

00:38:48.389 --> 00:38:50.170
though. He's good for the sport, and they want

00:38:50.170 --> 00:38:53.849
it there. Yeah, and that was the point I was

00:38:53.849 --> 00:38:56.309
going to make, that players can make the jump

00:38:56.309 --> 00:39:00.769
from player to part owner, but I have yet to

00:39:00.769 --> 00:39:04.969
see a coach make the jump or a GM to part owner.

00:39:05.250 --> 00:39:07.150
It's like they don't want them in their ownership

00:39:07.150 --> 00:39:10.590
group, but a player, yes. Okay. Unless the owner

00:39:10.590 --> 00:39:13.469
was a player or owner was a coach, which has

00:39:13.469 --> 00:39:16.849
happened before, but I think there's more value

00:39:16.849 --> 00:39:20.269
having a popular player be a part owner. than

00:39:20.269 --> 00:39:23.670
a controversial coach or GM that nobody's ever

00:39:23.670 --> 00:39:25.429
going to be fully on board with. Oh, I agree.

00:39:25.510 --> 00:39:27.889
So I think they keep them out of ownership intentionally.

00:39:28.349 --> 00:39:30.670
I think so, too. Because a player, you can use

00:39:30.670 --> 00:39:33.469
that as excitement and interest. Oh, look, one

00:39:33.469 --> 00:39:36.690
of our part owners is Tom Brady. It gets you

00:39:36.690 --> 00:39:38.949
excited. But if you say, one of our part owners

00:39:38.949 --> 00:39:41.710
is Bill Polian, everyone's like, huh? Yeah, no

00:39:41.710 --> 00:39:46.010
one cares. Yeah, Tom Brady gets the, yeah, oh,

00:39:46.210 --> 00:39:49.849
really factor. Okay. We can go into Belichick

00:39:49.849 --> 00:39:51.949
getting snubbed here in a second. I've got an

00:39:51.949 --> 00:39:54.969
article on that too. Okay. I'm going to go 28

00:39:54.969 --> 00:40:01.869
-27 the Patriots. All right. And it's going to

00:40:01.869 --> 00:40:05.869
be a real nut -tugger like all of them. You're

00:40:05.869 --> 00:40:07.269
going to be standing there on the edge of your

00:40:07.269 --> 00:40:09.670
seat. Well, I won't. I won't give that much of

00:40:09.670 --> 00:40:11.650
a shit about it. I'll just be like, okay, let's

00:40:11.650 --> 00:40:15.119
see who pulls this off. Yeah. And the formula

00:40:15.119 --> 00:40:18.079
so far has been about the middle of the third

00:40:18.079 --> 00:40:21.300
quarter, things start happening to bring the

00:40:21.300 --> 00:40:24.119
game within one score, and then it stays within

00:40:24.119 --> 00:40:26.980
one score from that point on. So I'll be interested

00:40:26.980 --> 00:40:29.099
to see if they do the same third quarter maneuver

00:40:29.099 --> 00:40:32.340
where, oh, you're behind? Well, here you go.

00:40:32.420 --> 00:40:34.659
Here's a couple penalties in your favor. If I

00:40:34.659 --> 00:40:38.239
had to bet? And I think that's going to happen

00:40:38.239 --> 00:40:43.010
for the Patriots to let them back in. Okay. I'm

00:40:43.010 --> 00:40:46.369
thinking that Seattle's going to bust out to

00:40:46.369 --> 00:40:49.769
a two, maybe a three -score lead. Uh -huh. But

00:40:49.769 --> 00:40:52.130
by the middle of the third quarter, the officiating

00:40:52.130 --> 00:40:54.269
is going to let the Patriots back in and bring

00:40:54.269 --> 00:40:56.429
it within one score, and they'll stay a one -score

00:40:56.429 --> 00:40:59.050
game for the rest. Okay. You see, and I would

00:40:59.050 --> 00:41:01.610
love to see Seattle do it. I really would. Because

00:41:01.610 --> 00:41:04.349
I'm not a big fan of the Patriots. No, not really.

00:41:04.789 --> 00:41:07.949
So, yeah. I just, I don't know. I'm just doing

00:41:07.949 --> 00:41:11.360
this. It could go either way, and I'm just going

00:41:11.360 --> 00:41:13.199
to go and make a decision like that and just

00:41:13.199 --> 00:41:15.639
keep it like that even though I may very well

00:41:15.639 --> 00:41:18.039
have lost. I don't care. I don't have money on

00:41:18.039 --> 00:41:22.400
it. Okay, you want to go into Belichick really

00:41:22.400 --> 00:41:25.639
quick? Yeah. Okay. I'm going to switch over to

00:41:25.639 --> 00:41:29.219
my next page. So he's not going to be a first

00:41:29.219 --> 00:41:31.719
ballot Hall of Famer because he's not going to

00:41:31.719 --> 00:41:37.059
be on the ballot. Yeah. Interesting. Yeah. There's

00:41:37.059 --> 00:41:39.579
a lot of interesting reaction to this, too. That

00:41:39.579 --> 00:41:43.219
I find more interesting. I personally feel he

00:41:43.219 --> 00:41:46.139
will get in there, but they're proving a point.

00:41:46.320 --> 00:41:49.000
And that's all the bad press that they've given,

00:41:49.059 --> 00:41:52.289
you know. With the Spygate, I think Spygate is

00:41:52.289 --> 00:41:54.150
the number one reason why you're seeing this

00:41:54.150 --> 00:41:56.949
happen. And then his treatment towards the press,

00:41:57.389 --> 00:42:00.150
his girlfriend situation down there. There's

00:42:00.150 --> 00:42:02.690
been a lot of iffy stuff around him that people

00:42:02.690 --> 00:42:05.710
don't like. And I think that this is NFL going,

00:42:05.869 --> 00:42:08.909
you were the big shot here, but you're not now.

00:42:09.289 --> 00:42:11.610
So go sit down and we'll tell you when you get

00:42:11.610 --> 00:42:16.150
in. That's what they're doing. Yeah, yeah. Supposedly

00:42:16.150 --> 00:42:18.659
the Belichick is... puzzled and disappointed

00:42:18.659 --> 00:42:22.400
by not getting the 40 out of 50 votes, but I

00:42:22.400 --> 00:42:24.699
think he knows exactly what's going on. He is.

00:42:24.719 --> 00:42:26.739
He's got to act it. He probably knew it was going

00:42:26.739 --> 00:42:30.420
to happen. Some of the other candidates, their

00:42:30.420 --> 00:42:32.920
senior candidates, are Cincinnati Bengals quarterback

00:42:32.920 --> 00:42:37.360
Ken Anderson, 49ers running back Roger Craig,

00:42:37.599 --> 00:42:42.880
and Steelers D -end L .C. Greenwood, who is deceased.

00:42:44.679 --> 00:42:47.219
L .C. deserves to be in there too. I would think

00:42:47.219 --> 00:42:49.300
so. Pretty much everybody else on those Steelers

00:42:49.300 --> 00:42:51.639
teams is in the Hall of Fame. You might as well

00:42:51.639 --> 00:42:55.630
put him in there. Now, multiple sources have

00:42:55.630 --> 00:42:59.349
told ESPN that Spygate and Deflategate were twin

00:42:59.349 --> 00:43:01.670
cheating scandals during the Patriots championship

00:43:01.670 --> 00:43:04.750
run. Okay. Came up in the deliberations among

00:43:04.750 --> 00:43:07.050
voters. I mean, this is multiple sources telling

00:43:07.050 --> 00:43:09.730
ESPN, yeah, that came up. Okay, all right, then

00:43:09.730 --> 00:43:13.190
I was correct on that. One voter who spoke on

00:43:13.190 --> 00:43:15.570
condition of anonymity said that Bill Polian,

00:43:15.710 --> 00:43:19.550
an ardent Kraft supporter, the owner of the Patriots.

00:43:20.079 --> 00:43:23.280
and former general manager of the Bills and Colts,

00:43:23.280 --> 00:43:25.460
who were Chief Patriots rivals during their dynasty,

00:43:25.639 --> 00:43:28.099
told some of the voters he believed Belichick

00:43:28.099 --> 00:43:30.940
should wait a year before the induction as penance

00:43:30.940 --> 00:43:34.380
for Spygate. The 2007 cheating scandal that cost

00:43:34.380 --> 00:43:37.719
the team a first -round pick, and Patriots were

00:43:37.719 --> 00:43:40.960
fined $500 ,000, and Belichick personally fined

00:43:40.960 --> 00:43:44.639
$250 ,000. The only explanation for the outcome

00:43:44.639 --> 00:43:46.900
was the cheating stuff, a veteran Hall of Fame

00:43:46.900 --> 00:43:49.840
voter told ESPN. It really bothered some of the

00:43:49.840 --> 00:43:54.960
guys. Now, Polian himself said, oh, no, I didn't

00:43:54.960 --> 00:43:57.320
say that. I heard somebody else mention it and

00:43:57.320 --> 00:43:59.420
float the idea around, but I was neither for

00:43:59.420 --> 00:44:02.119
it or against it. Yeah, bullshit. And then he

00:44:02.119 --> 00:44:04.820
says, yeah, I voted for Bob Kraft to be inducted,

00:44:04.820 --> 00:44:08.679
but I can't remember if I voted for Bill Belichick.

00:44:08.679 --> 00:44:11.969
Gee, I just don't remember. He knows. He knows.

00:44:12.269 --> 00:44:16.769
Yeah. That's class A diversion right there. Yeah.

00:44:16.889 --> 00:44:20.530
I heard somebody say that, and I voted for Kraft,

00:44:20.849 --> 00:44:23.610
you know. Yeah. Yeah, heat reversal there, kind

00:44:23.610 --> 00:44:26.730
of like a, oh, I'm not really sure what happened.

00:44:26.809 --> 00:44:28.829
You know, I'm not really a part of it. I was

00:44:28.829 --> 00:44:31.510
just kind of there, you know. Yeah. But that

00:44:31.510 --> 00:44:35.409
also indicates that there has always been. a

00:44:35.409 --> 00:44:38.130
divide between Kraft as the owner and Belichick

00:44:38.130 --> 00:44:39.389
as the coach. I would think so, yeah. They pretend

00:44:39.389 --> 00:44:40.969
that they were buddies and pals and they're on

00:44:40.969 --> 00:44:44.090
the same page, but here's Polian, an art and

00:44:44.090 --> 00:44:46.530
craft supporter. If Kraft wanted Belichick in,

00:44:46.650 --> 00:44:48.809
he'd be in. Yes. Because Kraft is very influential.

00:44:49.110 --> 00:44:52.989
Yes. So that tells me Kraft is like, yeah, screw

00:44:52.989 --> 00:44:55.309
him, make him wait a year. And Bill Polian was

00:44:55.309 --> 00:44:57.230
the hatchet man. who told the rest of the voters,

00:44:57.349 --> 00:44:59.809
here's what wants to happen. Yeah, I agree with

00:44:59.809 --> 00:45:02.489
that. I think that's very true. I think that's

00:45:02.489 --> 00:45:04.289
pretty much how it happened right there. This

00:45:04.289 --> 00:45:08.369
is Bob Kraft's last dig at Belichick, saying,

00:45:08.510 --> 00:45:10.449
see, I can still keep you out of the Hall of

00:45:10.449 --> 00:45:12.690
Fame for another year and embarrass you by not

00:45:12.690 --> 00:45:15.269
being a first ballot guy. Well, I've got a question

00:45:15.269 --> 00:45:17.449
for you now. Let's take this a little bit further

00:45:17.449 --> 00:45:20.929
down the road. Tom Brady. Yeah. He was obviously

00:45:20.929 --> 00:45:23.739
a part of everything. He was there. Should he

00:45:23.739 --> 00:45:26.360
be penalized, too, a year before he gets in?

00:45:27.179 --> 00:45:30.900
To be fair, I think so. If they're going to punish

00:45:30.900 --> 00:45:34.239
Belichick by making him wait a year, I think

00:45:34.239 --> 00:45:36.300
they should make Brady do it. Yeah, you're right.

00:45:36.360 --> 00:45:39.760
It's not going to happen. Brady has rehabilitated

00:45:39.760 --> 00:45:41.659
himself to the point where everyone loves him

00:45:41.659 --> 00:45:45.719
again. Bill Belichick is just a joke. I mean,

00:45:45.739 --> 00:45:48.820
he's a punchline. Yeah. You know, he's just some

00:45:48.820 --> 00:45:50.639
cranky old man. Yeah, he's down there in Carolina.

00:45:51.000 --> 00:45:55.780
Yeah, he's chasing his girlfriend around because

00:45:55.780 --> 00:45:58.659
she's controlling their sex life, and he'll do

00:45:58.659 --> 00:46:02.659
anything. And so he makes endless fool of himself

00:46:02.659 --> 00:46:06.219
because he's thinking with his dad. With Viagra,

00:46:06.219 --> 00:46:08.480
it's not his friend. No, no, it's making him

00:46:08.480 --> 00:46:09.340
extra stupid. He needs to put it down and think

00:46:09.340 --> 00:46:13.519
differently. Yes, he does. Yeah. Yeah, Bill Belichick

00:46:13.519 --> 00:46:16.940
is a great example of someone who just destroyed

00:46:16.940 --> 00:46:20.000
whatever legacy they had left. I think he's doing

00:46:20.000 --> 00:46:22.840
a key punchline forever. I think so, too. Yeah.

00:46:22.920 --> 00:46:26.199
And also some of his antics, too. I mean, especially

00:46:26.199 --> 00:46:30.219
recently where he went to the college and his

00:46:30.219 --> 00:46:32.400
girlfriend is telling him everything to say and

00:46:32.400 --> 00:46:35.420
everything to do. That is the capper on a bunch

00:46:35.420 --> 00:46:37.260
of questionable things that's happened during

00:46:37.260 --> 00:46:43.289
or after his tenure in New England. Here's an

00:46:43.289 --> 00:46:45.849
extreme example. Do you remember a Carolina Panthers

00:46:45.849 --> 00:46:48.369
wide receiver named Ray Carruth? Yes, yeah, he

00:46:48.369 --> 00:46:51.389
killed... His pregnant wife. Yes. And their unborn

00:46:51.389 --> 00:46:54.949
child. Yes, threw him in a trunk. Yep. So he's

00:46:54.949 --> 00:46:58.869
in jail on two counts of murder. For a long time,

00:46:58.909 --> 00:47:02.050
he held a lot of the team records in receiving

00:47:02.050 --> 00:47:05.230
yards, etc., but they completely ignored him

00:47:05.230 --> 00:47:08.110
and pretended he didn't exist because he was

00:47:08.110 --> 00:47:10.949
detrimental to the team. Uh -huh. Belichick is

00:47:10.949 --> 00:47:13.030
still being detrimental to the league. Brady

00:47:13.030 --> 00:47:16.369
is not. You're right. That's true. Brady is being

00:47:16.369 --> 00:47:18.769
an enormous asset to the league. They're going

00:47:18.769 --> 00:47:22.530
to reward him. I agree. I agree. It's like the

00:47:22.530 --> 00:47:24.769
Johnny Bench thing where he would never apologize

00:47:24.769 --> 00:47:26.869
and admit that he was gambling, so they kept

00:47:26.869 --> 00:47:28.809
him out of the Hall of Fame. Not Johnny Bench,

00:47:28.809 --> 00:47:31.070
Pete Rose. Yeah, Pete Rose. Sorry. No, that's

00:47:31.070 --> 00:47:35.869
okay. So I think they're giving Belichick the

00:47:35.869 --> 00:47:38.360
Pete Rose treatment. Yeah, I think so, too. I

00:47:38.360 --> 00:47:40.099
think so, too. It's just kind of like, no, we'll

00:47:40.099 --> 00:47:42.840
get to you. Yeah. Just go sit down. You didn't

00:47:42.840 --> 00:47:45.460
come to us on bended knees, so you go to the

00:47:45.460 --> 00:47:46.900
back of the line. Exactly. That kind of thing.

00:47:47.039 --> 00:47:48.579
That's another thing, too. They think he needs

00:47:48.579 --> 00:47:50.360
a grovel and all that, and he's just like a...

00:47:50.360 --> 00:47:52.980
And honestly, if you asked him, I don't think

00:47:52.980 --> 00:47:55.440
he gives a shit. You know, I think the only time

00:47:55.440 --> 00:47:57.760
Bill Belichick grovels is when he's trying to

00:47:57.760 --> 00:47:59.579
talk to his 23 -year -old girlfriend. That's

00:47:59.579 --> 00:48:00.900
what I was getting ready to go to. That's the

00:48:00.900 --> 00:48:03.380
only time he grovels. That's probably for a couple

00:48:03.380 --> 00:48:05.699
hours, and then he has to give her $10 ,000 in

00:48:05.699 --> 00:48:07.460
jewelry, and then she's like, okay, but don't

00:48:07.460 --> 00:48:12.900
touch me too much. Yeah, yes. Yeah, so, okay,

00:48:13.079 --> 00:48:14.960
we're on the exact same page on that one. Can

00:48:14.960 --> 00:48:16.739
you tell I don't like Bill Belichick too much?

00:48:16.800 --> 00:48:18.500
Well, it's not that I don't like him. I don't

00:48:18.500 --> 00:48:21.239
respect him. I don't respect him, but he's actually

00:48:21.239 --> 00:48:24.159
a pretty humorous guy. Yeah. He's had some little

00:48:24.159 --> 00:48:26.300
one -liners that are like, where is that personality

00:48:26.300 --> 00:48:30.239
at? He's not stupid. He's not dim. He's actually

00:48:30.239 --> 00:48:33.440
pretty clever and sharp and quick -witted. It's

00:48:33.440 --> 00:48:36.699
just he chooses to be the large, deflated penis

00:48:36.699 --> 00:48:39.179
all the time. Yes. The media thing, I don't blame

00:48:39.179 --> 00:48:41.320
them because they take everything he says and

00:48:41.320 --> 00:48:42.940
inflate it and make it something he's not. So

00:48:42.940 --> 00:48:45.199
finally he said, well, I guess I just don't have

00:48:45.199 --> 00:48:47.260
to have a personality now. Yeah. And then he

00:48:47.260 --> 00:48:50.219
just gets there because he's... required by the

00:48:50.219 --> 00:48:52.199
NFL to get up there and have this press conference.

00:48:52.260 --> 00:48:54.159
He's like, all right, I'll have one. But it's

00:48:54.159 --> 00:48:59.960
going to go like this. Uh, well, uh, things didn't

00:48:59.960 --> 00:49:03.519
go right. He tried to screw up their soundbite

00:49:03.519 --> 00:49:05.380
is what he was doing. And he does. He does. He

00:49:05.380 --> 00:49:07.039
doesn't have any soundbites. He doesn't want

00:49:07.039 --> 00:49:09.760
to be interesting. I mean, he usually was involved

00:49:09.760 --> 00:49:11.900
in one of the more interesting games of the weekend.

00:49:12.079 --> 00:49:14.960
Yeah. But then his interview was boring and dull

00:49:14.960 --> 00:49:17.869
and stupid. because he wanted it that way. Yeah,

00:49:17.949 --> 00:49:20.510
it was genius, and they never put him on anything,

00:49:20.630 --> 00:49:22.510
and they never had him out there saying anything

00:49:22.510 --> 00:49:25.550
because he didn't. Just a bunch of regurgitating.

00:49:25.550 --> 00:49:28.510
He pretty much had one line, and it was wishy

00:49:28.510 --> 00:49:32.130
-washy, and he put that the whole press conference.

00:49:32.289 --> 00:49:35.030
I'm trying to remember if I've ever seen Bill

00:49:35.030 --> 00:49:38.650
Belichick endorse anything. I don't think he

00:49:38.650 --> 00:49:41.190
does. Maybe something locally in Boston, but

00:49:41.190 --> 00:49:44.530
nothing nationally. I can see him endorsing,

00:49:44.530 --> 00:49:47.389
like, the club for cars. Yeah. You don't want

00:49:47.389 --> 00:49:51.280
to get ripped off. Take this device here, put

00:49:51.280 --> 00:49:53.980
it on your stairwell, and the crook can't get

00:49:53.980 --> 00:49:56.739
it. I could see him endorsing a hemorrhoid cream.

00:49:57.119 --> 00:50:00.019
Yeah, yeah. Does your ass itch and hurt and sting?

00:50:00.500 --> 00:50:02.920
Currently, no. He could endorse a Viagra or any

00:50:02.920 --> 00:50:04.900
other kind of ED medication. You want to know

00:50:04.900 --> 00:50:06.940
how I keep the young lady? Well, I don't keep

00:50:06.940 --> 00:50:10.420
her happy, but I get what I need. It's your bank

00:50:10.420 --> 00:50:13.380
account, Bill. It's your bank account. It's not

00:50:13.380 --> 00:50:15.199
your little blue pill. It's your bank account.

00:50:18.719 --> 00:50:24.260
There's no evidence of such. All right, I've

00:50:24.260 --> 00:50:27.199
got some bullet points. I'm ready for the bullet

00:50:27.199 --> 00:50:28.619
points. Bring on the bullet points. All right.

00:50:29.820 --> 00:50:31.980
With the Goofy Flag Football Challenge going

00:50:31.980 --> 00:50:36.719
on this weekend, will this finally be the end

00:50:36.719 --> 00:50:39.320
of the once -proud Pro Bowl? I mean, it is the

00:50:39.320 --> 00:50:41.780
end of it because, as we know it, it's toast.

00:50:41.880 --> 00:50:45.280
It's gone. Yeah, and I think you're hard -pressed

00:50:45.280 --> 00:50:47.659
to find anybody who remembers what it used to

00:50:47.659 --> 00:50:51.110
be. because even people from our generations

00:50:51.110 --> 00:50:53.869
really didn't watch it much. You know what? And

00:50:53.869 --> 00:50:55.949
that's a good – I didn't watch it a lot of times

00:50:55.949 --> 00:50:57.329
either. It's like, well, this isn't for real.

00:50:57.429 --> 00:51:00.150
What do I care? But I would at least tune in.

00:51:00.210 --> 00:51:03.230
I would at least tune in and go, okay, all right,

00:51:03.309 --> 00:51:05.969
Mahomes came in. Oh, okay, two passes to Kelsey,

00:51:06.190 --> 00:51:09.010
one to Gronk. Okay, good. Yeah. All right, he's

00:51:09.010 --> 00:51:11.030
out. All right, I'd leave, you know. And really

00:51:11.030 --> 00:51:14.139
– It's kind of a shame that they're not playing

00:51:14.139 --> 00:51:16.280
the actual Pro Bowl now because that would be

00:51:16.280 --> 00:51:19.559
another gambling opportunity. Yeah. And lots

00:51:19.559 --> 00:51:21.760
of money to be made there. But then again, they

00:51:21.760 --> 00:51:23.719
don't want their boys hurt either. Yeah, that's

00:51:23.719 --> 00:51:26.860
the thing is it's way more important to protect

00:51:26.860 --> 00:51:29.539
the physical health of the players. Actually,

00:51:29.539 --> 00:51:31.480
if I remember correctly, it was a running back

00:51:31.480 --> 00:51:33.940
for New England way before they were really good.

00:51:35.449 --> 00:51:37.489
Last name was like maybe Edwards or something.

00:51:37.630 --> 00:51:39.829
He just signed a big contract, and he was a big

00:51:39.829 --> 00:51:42.050
deal. And before he even got on the field, he

00:51:42.050 --> 00:51:45.469
ruptured his ACL and was never the same again.

00:51:45.710 --> 00:51:48.210
Yeah. Yeah. I think there was a basketball player

00:51:48.210 --> 00:51:50.610
like that who was playing a pickup game in the

00:51:50.610 --> 00:51:52.090
offseason. Yeah, that's right, yeah. And destroyed

00:51:52.090 --> 00:51:54.269
his knee. That's why they made Mahomes quit playing

00:51:54.269 --> 00:51:57.650
basketball. Yes. Which is, yeah. That's in his

00:51:57.650 --> 00:52:01.269
contract, allegedly. Yeah. But I think even now,

00:52:01.349 --> 00:52:05.119
I think. Even as ridiculous as the flag football,

00:52:05.539 --> 00:52:07.619
they're even not calling it a game. It's the

00:52:07.619 --> 00:52:09.559
flag football challenge. Yeah, that's the other

00:52:09.559 --> 00:52:11.260
thing, too, is it's not even called a game, a

00:52:11.260 --> 00:52:14.059
competition of any. But it still provides lots

00:52:14.059 --> 00:52:16.619
of gambling opportunities. This is true. And

00:52:16.619 --> 00:52:18.219
whatever gambling app you have on your phone

00:52:18.219 --> 00:52:20.480
is going to help you and show you all the ways

00:52:20.480 --> 00:52:23.719
you can gamble on whatever's happening. So it's

00:52:23.719 --> 00:52:26.739
easy for the gambler to get online and do that.

00:52:27.300 --> 00:52:30.159
So they really don't need to play the game. As

00:52:30.159 --> 00:52:32.320
long as they've got you listening, got you watching,

00:52:32.519 --> 00:52:35.639
they expose you to their advertisers, you're

00:52:35.639 --> 00:52:39.300
gambling the way you're supposed to. I don't

00:52:39.300 --> 00:52:42.019
see any reason. Eventually they should stop calling

00:52:42.019 --> 00:52:45.420
it the Pro Bowl and be like the All -Pro. That's

00:52:45.420 --> 00:52:47.280
what I'm saying is don't even call it the Pro

00:52:47.280 --> 00:52:49.519
Bowl because obviously it's not. No, they're

00:52:49.519 --> 00:52:52.059
not playing a bowl game. I mean, the All -Pro

00:52:52.059 --> 00:52:55.639
team. You get voted to that, but you don't get

00:52:55.639 --> 00:52:57.699
together and practice and play a game. You're

00:52:57.699 --> 00:52:59.360
just voted to the All -Pro team. You just get

00:52:59.360 --> 00:53:00.940
the bragging rights, like, yeah, I was voted

00:53:00.940 --> 00:53:03.199
All -Pro. And I think the Pro Bowl should be

00:53:03.199 --> 00:53:05.239
the same way. It's like, yeah, I was voted to

00:53:05.239 --> 00:53:08.199
the Pro Bowl if they had won. Yeah. And that's

00:53:08.199 --> 00:53:11.340
the honor of itself. And then have whatever celebration

00:53:11.340 --> 00:53:13.969
you want, have them show up. You know, if they

00:53:13.969 --> 00:53:15.730
want to show up and just, you know, be there

00:53:15.730 --> 00:53:18.369
for a meet and greet. But nobody actually plays

00:53:18.369 --> 00:53:20.210
football because that's not what it's really

00:53:20.210 --> 00:53:23.269
about. Still do your passing challenges and your

00:53:23.269 --> 00:53:26.849
flag football, et cetera, et cetera. I think

00:53:26.849 --> 00:53:30.849
that would make a lot more sense. Of course,

00:53:30.869 --> 00:53:32.449
the NFL is going to do whatever makes the most

00:53:32.449 --> 00:53:38.570
money. Yeah. Sense takes a back seat. Yep. All

00:53:38.570 --> 00:53:40.230
right. We're on the same page with that. Yeah.

00:53:40.289 --> 00:53:43.699
All right. All right. Will BNME make a difference?

00:53:44.099 --> 00:53:46.880
Oh, he's going to make a huge difference. Look

00:53:46.880 --> 00:53:49.019
at how punked everyone is. All of a sudden they

00:53:49.019 --> 00:53:50.880
have confidence again. I think we're going to

00:53:50.880 --> 00:53:55.420
see some surprising releases of players who just

00:53:55.420 --> 00:53:58.940
can't get on board with Eric. And enough players

00:53:58.940 --> 00:54:00.840
are left from behind saying, no, no, no, this

00:54:00.840 --> 00:54:05.079
is what we need. EB is the guy. We need this.

00:54:05.559 --> 00:54:07.460
But some people who have signed in the meantime

00:54:07.460 --> 00:54:10.300
may not really like his style all that much.

00:54:11.599 --> 00:54:13.980
Like maybe a Hollywood Brown or somebody maybe?

00:54:14.039 --> 00:54:16.820
I don't know. Let's see, who else? I don't know,

00:54:16.860 --> 00:54:19.239
Rasheed maybe? Something maybe with big ego who

00:54:19.239 --> 00:54:20.920
doesn't want to change and doesn't want to hear

00:54:20.920 --> 00:54:23.320
criticism. Well, we're going to find out about

00:54:23.320 --> 00:54:27.539
Rasheed if he is actually... If anybody can get

00:54:27.539 --> 00:54:30.380
value out of him, Eric Bien -Ami can. It'll be

00:54:30.380 --> 00:54:32.659
interesting to see if he becomes a 1 ,400 -yard

00:54:32.659 --> 00:54:36.210
receiver. And last year he could have still had

00:54:36.210 --> 00:54:38.389
remnants of being injured too, but he's also

00:54:38.389 --> 00:54:41.489
doing dumb fuckery too, which is a problem. Yeah.

00:54:42.190 --> 00:54:45.889
It's sad that Xavier Worthy, I'm sorry, Xavier

00:54:45.889 --> 00:54:48.369
Worthy, he wants the X pronounced. Oh, okay.

00:54:48.570 --> 00:54:53.210
Xavier Worthy was hyped up as so incredibly fast.

00:54:53.389 --> 00:54:56.789
Look how fast he is. But you never see him running

00:54:56.789 --> 00:54:59.289
down the field on just a street crowd outrunning

00:54:59.289 --> 00:55:02.519
anybody. No, you don't. you don't we were sold

00:55:02.519 --> 00:55:05.360
a bill of goods on that sure he's fast but he's

00:55:05.360 --> 00:55:08.159
not he's not that breakaway fast like they advertised

00:55:08.159 --> 00:55:11.260
yeah so some for some reason he can't do the

00:55:11.260 --> 00:55:13.440
flyer out on game day because they're not well

00:55:13.440 --> 00:55:16.019
his instincts number one like i went before i

00:55:16.019 --> 00:55:18.159
and i told you i stole this from sarin when he

00:55:18.159 --> 00:55:19.760
brought it up on his show and i was like you

00:55:19.760 --> 00:55:22.019
know that's true yeah you see him catch the ball

00:55:22.019 --> 00:55:25.239
in the flat he's open no one around him for 10

00:55:25.239 --> 00:55:27.940
yards what does he do Runs right to the receiver,

00:55:28.139 --> 00:55:29.699
right to the defender. Right to the defender,

00:55:29.920 --> 00:55:32.139
yes. Runs straight at him and tries to run over

00:55:32.139 --> 00:55:34.519
him. Can you coach that out of somebody? I certainly

00:55:34.519 --> 00:55:36.840
hope so. I certainly, yeah, I hope so too. I've

00:55:36.840 --> 00:55:39.360
seen defenders do the same thing where they're

00:55:39.360 --> 00:55:41.900
rushing the quarterback and if they move to the

00:55:41.900 --> 00:55:43.480
left a little bit, they've got a straight shot

00:55:43.480 --> 00:55:45.380
at the quarterback. But instead they turn right

00:55:45.380 --> 00:55:48.500
and run directly at the blocker. Because the

00:55:48.500 --> 00:55:50.920
coach has told them, go occupy your blocker,

00:55:50.940 --> 00:55:53.880
that's your job, just do your job. Yeah. That's

00:55:53.880 --> 00:55:56.280
how teams lose games is the players say, well,

00:55:56.380 --> 00:55:58.300
that's what Coach told me to do. I'm not going

00:55:58.300 --> 00:56:01.880
to think for myself. Yeah, that's true. Thanks.

00:56:02.420 --> 00:56:06.139
Oh, and real quick, disclaimer. Yes. For anybody

00:56:06.139 --> 00:56:08.539
listening, we have a lot of out -of -town listeners.

00:56:08.980 --> 00:56:11.500
Soren is a local talk show host that's very good,

00:56:11.579 --> 00:56:14.000
has a really good show. And no, I do not know

00:56:14.000 --> 00:56:16.239
him personally. I just say Sarang because saying

00:56:16.239 --> 00:56:19.099
the whole thing is kind of redundant. Yeah. He's

00:56:19.099 --> 00:56:21.539
been around and had a show for a long time. He's

00:56:21.539 --> 00:56:22.920
lasted a long time in Kansas City. He was actually

00:56:22.920 --> 00:56:25.659
syndicated for a long time, too, out of Las Vegas

00:56:25.659 --> 00:56:28.079
for the Sports Fan Radio Network. Before that,

00:56:28.159 --> 00:56:33.000
he started at KCTE AM, well, 1510. But now he's

00:56:33.000 --> 00:56:35.840
still a part of 1510, only on an FM and AM outlet.

00:56:36.380 --> 00:56:38.360
Doing very well. Those letters really worked.

00:56:38.420 --> 00:56:42.420
K -C -T -E -A -M spells K -C -Team. Yeah, yeah,

00:56:42.480 --> 00:56:44.940
and that's what it was meant for. Yeah, so that

00:56:44.940 --> 00:56:47.239
worked pretty awesome. It was tailored after,

00:56:47.360 --> 00:56:51.219
I forgot the name of the network out of Washington,

00:56:51.380 --> 00:56:58.360
D .C. called The Team. So model it after that?

00:56:58.679 --> 00:57:01.969
Yeah, oh well, doesn't matter. All right. Do

00:57:01.969 --> 00:57:03.929
you look for a more productive offense from the

00:57:03.929 --> 00:57:06.610
Chiefs and from all of our answers just a second

00:57:06.610 --> 00:57:09.530
ago? Yeah. Yes, of course. And I think with less.

00:57:10.130 --> 00:57:12.670
Yeah, I think they're going to trim down the

00:57:12.670 --> 00:57:15.550
playbook to things that work, things they know

00:57:15.550 --> 00:57:17.369
are going to work. And the roster. And the roster,

00:57:17.530 --> 00:57:20.369
yeah. And it's going to be a more efficient and

00:57:20.369 --> 00:57:23.489
productive offense next year. I don't think we're

00:57:23.489 --> 00:57:26.250
going to see the wide variety of plays in a single

00:57:26.250 --> 00:57:29.739
game that we did this year. No, no. They did

00:57:29.739 --> 00:57:33.599
try to get too fancy. Yeah, yeah. I see other

00:57:33.599 --> 00:57:36.139
teams doing it over and over, and it's very successful,

00:57:36.199 --> 00:57:39.239
that you find a play that works and you do it

00:57:39.239 --> 00:57:41.420
about six or seven times during the course of

00:57:41.420 --> 00:57:43.780
the game. I don't see the Chiefs doing that ever.

00:57:45.000 --> 00:57:49.239
They'll repeat plays that aren't working, but

00:57:49.239 --> 00:57:52.380
other teams will have like Denver used to do

00:57:52.380 --> 00:57:55.639
the bootleg, and it worked every time. And they'd

00:57:55.639 --> 00:57:57.519
do it like five or six times when they needed

00:57:57.519 --> 00:58:01.199
it. I don't see the Chiefs having any play that

00:58:01.199 --> 00:58:03.559
pretty much works every time. No, I don't either.

00:58:03.820 --> 00:58:06.599
There's not that one thing that they do, like

00:58:06.599 --> 00:58:08.860
the tush push was for a while. Now it's starting

00:58:08.860 --> 00:58:11.320
to get kind of improvised and people are starting

00:58:11.320 --> 00:58:13.079
to do different things because people are starting

00:58:13.079 --> 00:58:15.780
to figure it out per se. But I'd like to see

00:58:15.780 --> 00:58:19.360
the Chiefs come up with a handful of plays that

00:58:19.360 --> 00:58:23.039
you can run from just about any formation, but

00:58:23.039 --> 00:58:25.639
the play just kind of always works at least.

00:58:26.010 --> 00:58:28.050
He gets you positive yards to some degree. I

00:58:28.050 --> 00:58:31.070
spoke about this before, too, quite a few times,

00:58:31.130 --> 00:58:34.469
but the loss of P. Ryan, let him leave. He was

00:58:34.469 --> 00:58:36.889
that guy. He was the guy. If you really needed

00:58:36.889 --> 00:58:39.369
it, you threw it to him. You gave the ball to

00:58:39.369 --> 00:58:40.889
him, and he would figure out a way to get that

00:58:40.889 --> 00:58:43.070
fourth down or third down. And I don't know why

00:58:43.070 --> 00:58:45.889
you let a guy like that go because he didn't

00:58:45.889 --> 00:58:48.110
command that much money. And if he did, then

00:58:48.110 --> 00:58:51.010
you scrapped somebody that doesn't do that and

00:58:51.010 --> 00:58:55.119
keep him. The choice to keep Clyde Edwards -Alaire

00:58:55.119 --> 00:58:59.079
last year was a mistake. They got nothing out

00:58:59.079 --> 00:59:01.000
of him. They could have taken all that money

00:59:01.000 --> 00:59:03.500
and given it to P. Ryan to keep him here, and

00:59:03.500 --> 00:59:05.900
he would have benefited the offense way more.

00:59:06.039 --> 00:59:09.159
That is such a great point right there. It's

00:59:09.159 --> 00:59:12.519
like personnel issues that wasn't caused by Matt

00:59:12.519 --> 00:59:17.079
Nagy. I don't think so. Probably not. I couldn't

00:59:17.079 --> 00:59:19.800
understand why keep Edwards -Alaire and then

00:59:19.800 --> 00:59:22.659
just not use it. Why is he even on the roster?

00:59:22.739 --> 00:59:24.980
Why are you paying his contract? I took it as

00:59:24.980 --> 00:59:26.980
a favor. I think they were trying to do him a

00:59:26.980 --> 00:59:29.519
favor. He's got some situation in his personal

00:59:29.519 --> 00:59:31.539
life that he really needed to be on the roster

00:59:31.539 --> 00:59:34.980
and make that money, so they felt sorry for him.

00:59:36.400 --> 00:59:39.219
Screwed up the season. Sure did. We didn't have

00:59:39.219 --> 00:59:42.139
that guy, did we? Ever. And that is going to

00:59:42.139 --> 00:59:45.480
be another mark against GM when eventually comes

00:59:45.480 --> 00:59:48.199
time to fire Brett Beach. that's going to be

00:59:48.199 --> 00:59:50.280
one thing they point to. The next two years,

00:59:50.440 --> 00:59:52.320
especially next year, is going to determine that.

00:59:52.420 --> 00:59:55.500
Yeah. Very much so. They only have six picks

00:59:55.500 --> 00:59:57.940
unless they trade down. Yeah. They only have

00:59:57.940 --> 00:59:59.679
six picks. They're going to have to hit on virtually

00:59:59.679 --> 01:00:01.739
every one of them. I would like to see them trade

01:00:01.739 --> 01:00:03.559
down and get more in the third and fourth round.

01:00:03.800 --> 01:00:05.920
I would too. Yeah. They do better with those

01:00:05.920 --> 01:00:08.409
picks traditionally anyhow. Yes, they do. And

01:00:08.409 --> 01:00:10.150
the players do better because we don't have the

01:00:10.150 --> 01:00:11.750
enormous pressure on them. That's another thing,

01:00:11.809 --> 01:00:14.090
too, yeah. We've got plenty of big playmakers

01:00:14.090 --> 01:00:16.610
on the team already. We're not looking for that

01:00:16.610 --> 01:00:20.590
high -round, super -desirable superstar in the

01:00:20.590 --> 01:00:23.070
making. Don't need it. Don't need to pay that.

01:00:23.730 --> 01:00:26.510
So, yeah, trade down to somebody who does need

01:00:26.510 --> 01:00:30.730
that. Like Tennessee needs a lot of people. Jets

01:00:30.730 --> 01:00:34.610
need a lot of people. They'd be willing to do

01:00:34.610 --> 01:00:39.539
some trading, I think. Yeah. We'll see. All right.

01:00:40.139 --> 01:00:42.239
The running game will be a key point in this

01:00:42.239 --> 01:00:44.840
new stint with the Chiefs. Will this be achieved

01:00:44.840 --> 01:00:49.400
by the draft and scheme? I think they're going

01:00:49.400 --> 01:00:51.219
to add a free agent like they always do. They'll

01:00:51.219 --> 01:00:53.980
add a free agent and also bring in some draft

01:00:53.980 --> 01:00:58.420
picks. Yeah, yeah. Is Pacheco going? I would

01:00:58.420 --> 01:01:00.539
say so. I would think so, too. I would say out

01:01:00.539 --> 01:01:04.190
of the current crop, we keep Kareem Hunt. and

01:01:04.190 --> 01:01:07.210
then maybe one other guy, I don't know who, and

01:01:07.210 --> 01:01:10.730
say goodbye to the rest. I want to see Hunt win

01:01:10.730 --> 01:01:12.809
a Super Bowl with us. Yeah. That would be nice.

01:01:13.130 --> 01:01:15.789
This Mitchell that they got from the Niners.

01:01:15.789 --> 01:01:18.510
He's gone already, isn't he? Or do they still

01:01:18.510 --> 01:01:21.150
retain him? Did they retain him? He was a mistake,

01:01:21.210 --> 01:01:23.250
too. Yeah, a big mistake. He spent the money,

01:01:23.349 --> 01:01:26.150
he talked him up, he never used him. Could have

01:01:26.150 --> 01:01:28.889
kept P. Ryan. Could have kept P. Ryan. Who else

01:01:28.889 --> 01:01:30.730
was running for the Chiefs last year besides

01:01:30.730 --> 01:01:34.239
Pacheco and Hunt? There was a couple other guys.

01:01:34.320 --> 01:01:36.340
There was, but I can't think of who they were

01:01:36.340 --> 01:01:44.880
yet. There was number 24. He was kind of being

01:01:44.880 --> 01:01:47.440
a P. Ryan late in the season. You keep him, definitely.

01:01:47.800 --> 01:01:52.360
Yeah, Smith. Rashard Smith. Rashard Smith. No,

01:01:52.420 --> 01:01:56.039
that's not number 24. Who am I thinking of? Anyway,

01:01:56.179 --> 01:01:57.960
you know what I'm talking about. You can email

01:01:57.960 --> 01:02:00.900
us and call us idiots for not knowing. Yeah,

01:02:00.920 --> 01:02:03.360
that's fine. We like that. We love the abuse.

01:02:03.420 --> 01:02:07.219
I remember him catching a lot of swing -out passes

01:02:07.219 --> 01:02:10.320
from the backfield that got a lot of potters

01:02:10.320 --> 01:02:16.619
in the yard. Thornton? Thornton's a wide receiver.

01:02:16.900 --> 01:02:19.099
Oh, that's right. Okay, this is a running back?

01:02:19.179 --> 01:02:21.679
Yeah. What the hell was it? Oh, I know who you're

01:02:21.679 --> 01:02:25.339
talking about. I can't think of his name. Number

01:02:25.339 --> 01:02:29.320
23, right? 24, I think. I thought he was 34.

01:02:29.699 --> 01:02:32.380
Then I saw I think it was 24. Okay. Oh, well.

01:02:32.539 --> 01:02:35.840
All right. And we'll look at it later. I don't

01:02:35.840 --> 01:02:39.559
give a no. Okay. I asked the next question, would

01:02:39.559 --> 01:02:42.179
any of the running backs be retained? But we

01:02:42.179 --> 01:02:44.360
already went into that. So we already answered

01:02:44.360 --> 01:02:47.320
that. Defense seems to be the new sexy in the

01:02:47.320 --> 01:02:49.840
NFL. Yeah. Will this last or will teams like

01:02:49.840 --> 01:02:54.400
the Chiefs figure it out? It's like anything

01:02:54.400 --> 01:02:57.179
to me. Yeah, I think it'll last for a number

01:02:57.179 --> 01:03:00.400
of years. It'll run its course. Generally speaking,

01:03:00.719 --> 01:03:04.719
if you're going to invest the money in multi

01:03:04.719 --> 01:03:06.659
-year contracts with these defensive players,

01:03:06.840 --> 01:03:08.340
you want to get your money's worth out of them

01:03:08.340 --> 01:03:11.719
before the fad changes to something else. So

01:03:11.719 --> 01:03:14.699
I could see it running through the next five,

01:03:14.800 --> 01:03:19.519
six years. But it's going to be balanced because

01:03:19.519 --> 01:03:23.260
the high scoring, impressive quarterbacks, they

01:03:23.260 --> 01:03:26.860
want them still to be at the forefront. And as

01:03:26.860 --> 01:03:29.960
players like Lamar Jackson and Patrick Mahomes

01:03:29.960 --> 01:03:33.699
and Josh Allen get older and less relevant, the

01:03:33.699 --> 01:03:36.039
new crop coming up, they need to make sure that

01:03:36.039 --> 01:03:39.500
there's enough offense available that they can

01:03:39.500 --> 01:03:42.960
have. splashy games and gather a lot of attention.

01:03:43.320 --> 01:03:45.500
Real quick question that spawned from what you

01:03:45.500 --> 01:03:49.059
just said. From here on out, who's going to have

01:03:49.059 --> 01:03:53.460
better stats? Will it be Allen or Mahomes? Mahomes.

01:03:53.579 --> 01:03:58.739
Yeah, by far. I think a big hit on Allen is the

01:03:58.739 --> 01:04:01.159
demoralizing effect of losing the head coach

01:04:01.159 --> 01:04:04.280
and feeling like he let his coach down and got

01:04:04.280 --> 01:04:06.940
his coach fired. I honestly don't see him coming

01:04:06.940 --> 01:04:09.539
back too well from this. He is really, really

01:04:09.539 --> 01:04:11.860
fucked in the head now. Yeah, I think emotionally

01:04:11.860 --> 01:04:14.380
and mentally he's got a long road ahead of him

01:04:14.380 --> 01:04:17.360
to get back to the confident, happy, strong guy

01:04:17.360 --> 01:04:19.440
he was before. Yeah, and that's too bad because

01:04:19.440 --> 01:04:22.380
I like him as a person. Yeah, yeah. The Bills

01:04:22.380 --> 01:04:24.760
Mafia, they're a bunch of crybabies to me. I'm

01:04:24.760 --> 01:04:27.880
fucking tired of them. They seem to be very fickle.

01:04:28.469 --> 01:04:30.809
Very, very fickle. And that's another thing I

01:04:30.809 --> 01:04:34.050
don't like either is the fickleness. Stick with

01:04:34.050 --> 01:04:36.829
your team. Don't turn on them. They are turning

01:04:36.829 --> 01:04:40.130
on them. I mean, turn on ownership, but don't

01:04:40.130 --> 01:04:43.110
turn on your players and your franchise. No,

01:04:43.150 --> 01:04:49.349
you don't do that. All right. Okay, so they're

01:04:49.349 --> 01:04:51.250
going to catch up with it halfway. Is that what

01:04:51.250 --> 01:04:55.650
we're saying? Yeah, I think it'll be. The defensive

01:04:55.650 --> 01:04:57.809
trend is going to be encouraged and it's going

01:04:57.809 --> 01:04:59.869
to continue, but it's going to be tweaked along

01:04:59.869 --> 01:05:01.969
the way to make sure we still have exciting games.

01:05:02.329 --> 01:05:05.510
Yes. And you'll have enough long, highlight -worthy

01:05:05.510 --> 01:05:09.269
passes. It's like you've got to have something

01:05:09.269 --> 01:05:13.170
to show at the wrap -up. Yeah, I think a lot

01:05:13.170 --> 01:05:15.269
of the stuff like the Caleb Williams stuff is

01:05:15.269 --> 01:05:17.550
going to happen where you have one really big,

01:05:17.590 --> 01:05:20.570
good play that wins the game. Yeah. And then

01:05:20.570 --> 01:05:22.949
you have one really big play that loses the game.

01:05:23.559 --> 01:05:26.860
And I think Mahomes is going to moderate that.

01:05:27.059 --> 01:05:29.900
And Allen, if he can come back, and maybe Jackson,

01:05:29.980 --> 01:05:32.880
if he can have a full run. Yeah. There are some

01:05:32.880 --> 01:05:35.500
other ones, maybe May. I mean, some of these

01:05:35.500 --> 01:05:40.980
quarterbacks I could see get on runs. Yeah. But

01:05:40.980 --> 01:05:44.019
I think a lot of that pass, pass, pass has been

01:05:44.019 --> 01:05:47.280
figured out for right now. True, true. Really,

01:05:47.599 --> 01:05:50.960
everybody benefits from having games that are

01:05:50.960 --> 01:05:54.300
still in doubt late in the fourth quarter. It's

01:05:54.300 --> 01:05:57.639
better for the fans and the league and the networks

01:05:57.639 --> 01:06:00.719
and the gamblers and the betting houses. Everybody

01:06:00.719 --> 01:06:03.280
enjoys it. If the game is already decided by

01:06:03.280 --> 01:06:07.380
halftime, that's bad for everybody. That's what

01:06:07.380 --> 01:06:12.110
they're really doing now. is detouring the game

01:06:12.110 --> 01:06:14.510
to not be like that, in my opinion. You can call

01:06:14.510 --> 01:06:17.030
it whatever you want. Influence in is a good

01:06:17.030 --> 01:06:18.670
word for it. But if you don't want to call it

01:06:18.670 --> 01:06:22.289
that, then they temper the game to be a close

01:06:22.289 --> 01:06:24.550
game. We'll just leave it at that. I think the

01:06:24.550 --> 01:06:28.469
big wake -up for the NFL as a league was when

01:06:28.469 --> 01:06:31.349
the Super Bowls started being consistent blowouts.

01:06:31.929 --> 01:06:35.030
Yes. And the viewership started dropping off,

01:06:35.030 --> 01:06:36.989
and it was getting embarrassing. And it got to

01:06:36.989 --> 01:06:39.030
the point where the AFC and NFC championships

01:06:39.030 --> 01:06:42.590
not only were better games, but had higher viewership

01:06:42.590 --> 01:06:45.590
than the Super Bowl. Uh -huh. And the NFL is

01:06:45.590 --> 01:06:47.389
like, uh -uh, we can't do this. We're charging

01:06:47.389 --> 01:06:49.489
out the ass for commercials. We want to keep

01:06:49.489 --> 01:06:51.710
raising the prices. We need to make these Super

01:06:51.710 --> 01:06:54.690
Bowls be interesting. Yeah, I heard the NFL had

01:06:54.690 --> 01:06:58.690
a guy come out with a club. And whatever quarterback

01:06:58.690 --> 01:07:00.489
was on a roll, he'd go over there and he'd smack

01:07:00.489 --> 01:07:03.269
him in the knee and go, hey, you're going to

01:07:03.269 --> 01:07:05.550
start throwing interceptions, aren't you? Yes,

01:07:05.550 --> 01:07:08.130
I am. That's right. When I leave here, what are

01:07:08.130 --> 01:07:09.769
you going to do? Throw an interception? Yep.

01:07:09.889 --> 01:07:13.349
That's right. We will never again see a blowout

01:07:13.349 --> 01:07:15.030
in the Super Bowl. I don't think so either. It

01:07:15.030 --> 01:07:18.050
will not happen. And all this is allegedly. So

01:07:18.050 --> 01:07:22.289
even though, yeah, I'll just leave it at that.

01:07:22.329 --> 01:07:24.670
Even though. When there's that much money to

01:07:24.670 --> 01:07:26.289
be made, what do you think is going to happen?

01:07:26.869 --> 01:07:29.010
Think about what you think is going to happen.

01:07:29.010 --> 01:07:33.210
Think of everything that involves money. It makes

01:07:33.210 --> 01:07:37.199
people... Yes. So there you go. All right. How

01:07:37.199 --> 01:07:40.159
will the ratings be in this unsexy matchup for

01:07:40.159 --> 01:07:42.420
a Super Bowl? And it's about as unsexy as you

01:07:42.420 --> 01:07:44.800
can get. That's true. I mean, you got East Coast

01:07:44.800 --> 01:07:47.579
with the Patriots, but you really don't have

01:07:47.579 --> 01:07:49.960
the West Coast involved with Seattle so much.

01:07:50.179 --> 01:07:52.280
No, not really. They're kind of up there in the

01:07:52.280 --> 01:07:54.699
corner. I mean, they're almost like Canada's

01:07:54.699 --> 01:07:57.380
official U .S. team. I don't know. Now, this

01:07:57.380 --> 01:08:01.579
is a rematch. They met before, and New England

01:08:01.579 --> 01:08:04.570
won. I think the ratings are going to be pretty

01:08:04.570 --> 01:08:08.849
good. People are going to tune in. No matter

01:08:08.849 --> 01:08:10.289
how you feel about New England, you're going

01:08:10.289 --> 01:08:12.489
to tune in to watch them fail or watch them succeed.

01:08:12.829 --> 01:08:17.449
Yes. And this is going to be without Thomas Bernard

01:08:17.449 --> 01:08:21.890
Braden. Yes. I made up his middle name. I have

01:08:21.890 --> 01:08:25.859
no idea what his middle name is. Thomas Geraldo

01:08:25.859 --> 01:08:28.140
Brady. That's it right there. You're right. Thank

01:08:28.140 --> 01:08:31.779
you. Thomas Geraldo Brady. He's named after Geraldo

01:08:31.779 --> 01:08:35.340
Rivera. Yeah, yeah. His mom was a huge fan. And

01:08:35.340 --> 01:08:38.520
I'll just leave it at that. Allegedly a groupie.

01:08:38.600 --> 01:08:41.180
She was a really, really big fan. We'll just

01:08:41.180 --> 01:08:43.500
leave it like that. No, I think it's going to

01:08:43.500 --> 01:08:48.439
be a highly rated Super Bowl. I think once the

01:08:48.439 --> 01:08:54.279
game is no longer interesting, to talk about.

01:08:54.880 --> 01:08:57.399
I think the next big thing people will talk about

01:08:57.399 --> 01:09:00.539
will be the halftime show. Yeah, yeah. And also,

01:09:00.659 --> 01:09:03.199
it's rival. Yeah, that's right. There is a rival

01:09:03.199 --> 01:09:05.680
halftime show. Yeah. This isn't the first time

01:09:05.680 --> 01:09:07.619
there's been a rival halftime show. No, they've

01:09:07.619 --> 01:09:09.340
had like the Puppy Bowl. Well, they've always

01:09:09.340 --> 01:09:12.199
had the Puppy Bowl for a long time. But go ahead

01:09:12.199 --> 01:09:15.180
about it. Remember that comedy show In Living

01:09:15.180 --> 01:09:18.760
Color? Yes. That's where Jim Carrey and... Fireman

01:09:18.760 --> 01:09:21.600
Bill or whatever. He got his start there and

01:09:21.600 --> 01:09:24.649
so did Jamie Foxx. Got to start there. That show

01:09:24.649 --> 01:09:27.810
was genius. It was. There was, like, several

01:09:27.810 --> 01:09:30.210
of the Wayans brothers involved, but that show

01:09:30.210 --> 01:09:33.710
was the first one that I remember directly coming

01:09:33.710 --> 01:09:35.829
out and saying, we've got a competitive halftime

01:09:35.829 --> 01:09:38.750
show. When it's halftime, tune to us, and as

01:09:38.750 --> 01:09:40.710
soon as the game comes back on, we'll tell you,

01:09:40.710 --> 01:09:41.930
and you can tune right back. And then there's

01:09:41.930 --> 01:09:43.550
a bunch of them on the Internet, too, where people

01:09:43.550 --> 01:09:46.449
are just clowning. Those are good to watch, too,

01:09:46.510 --> 01:09:51.460
sometimes. I have not intentionally watched a

01:09:51.460 --> 01:09:54.579
Super Bowl halftime show in probably 15 years.

01:09:54.760 --> 01:09:57.939
Me neither. I have no use for it. No, nothing

01:09:57.939 --> 01:10:00.800
there entertains me. No. But that's okay. They

01:10:00.800 --> 01:10:02.939
aren't trying to entertain a 65 -year -old man.

01:10:02.979 --> 01:10:04.939
They're just not. If you want to watch Rihanna

01:10:04.939 --> 01:10:07.460
touch her fucking junk five times, then there

01:10:07.460 --> 01:10:11.380
you go. While she's pregnant. There we go. Anyhow,

01:10:11.399 --> 01:10:13.939
all right. Maybe the head was poking out. I think

01:10:13.939 --> 01:10:15.779
so. Trying to push it back in. Come on, little

01:10:15.779 --> 01:10:18.829
guy. I'm trying to do something here. We've got

01:10:18.829 --> 01:10:24.270
Tilly Savola's peak in here. Look him up. Or

01:10:24.270 --> 01:10:25.630
how about this? You were talking about the way

01:10:25.630 --> 01:10:27.710
of brothers. Look this up. Homie, don't play

01:10:27.710 --> 01:10:31.630
that. Just put that in. Just put that in. That's

01:10:31.630 --> 01:10:33.449
all you've got to do. They were so good. They

01:10:33.449 --> 01:10:37.010
were. Hey, smack them in the head. Homie, don't

01:10:37.010 --> 01:10:43.140
play that. Bam. Genius. All right. If the NFL

01:10:43.140 --> 01:10:45.100
wants a higher score in Super Bowl, would you

01:10:45.100 --> 01:10:48.380
look for game manipulation? Yes. Yeah, yeah.

01:10:48.560 --> 01:10:51.279
This is everything we've been saying. And it's

01:10:51.279 --> 01:10:54.560
a unique situation in that it's probably the

01:10:54.560 --> 01:10:57.039
most popular game of the whole season, but it's

01:10:57.039 --> 01:11:00.960
the one where the people who are casual to non

01:11:00.960 --> 01:11:03.699
-fans pretty much outweigh the real fans watching

01:11:03.699 --> 01:11:07.399
and attending. So they can get a lot of stuff

01:11:07.399 --> 01:11:10.380
past us. in the Super Bowl that would be called

01:11:10.380 --> 01:11:13.739
out in a regular season game. But in the Super

01:11:13.739 --> 01:11:15.380
Bowl, no one's going to be watching. No one's

01:11:15.380 --> 01:11:17.439
going to care. They're going to get away with

01:11:17.439 --> 01:11:20.500
murder. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. Yeah, I agree.

01:11:21.840 --> 01:11:24.079
And I've even noticed times where they'll show

01:11:24.079 --> 01:11:26.800
a replay and you'll see the defender coming in,

01:11:26.859 --> 01:11:29.300
leading with his helmet, making helmet -to -helmet

01:11:29.300 --> 01:11:31.819
contact, and the announcer's... That's been a

01:11:31.819 --> 01:11:34.710
big... All through the replays, they won't mention

01:11:34.710 --> 01:11:37.189
it because they've been told not to mention it.

01:11:37.390 --> 01:11:39.829
They've been told to let this one go. And it's

01:11:39.829 --> 01:11:42.109
surprising that the network is still showing

01:11:42.109 --> 01:11:45.010
those replays and you see the obvious head -to

01:11:45.010 --> 01:11:47.890
-head, but the announcers just pretend like they're

01:11:47.890 --> 01:11:49.470
not seeing it. How many times do you hear that

01:11:49.470 --> 01:11:53.090
series of boos afterwards? That's because they

01:11:53.090 --> 01:11:55.069
showed on the big screen something that happened

01:11:55.069 --> 01:12:00.640
that wasn't called or vice versa. Yeah, you hear

01:12:00.640 --> 01:12:02.520
those boos now, and you're like, well, why is

01:12:02.520 --> 01:12:04.380
everybody booing? That's because of what's up

01:12:04.380 --> 01:12:06.119
there on the big screen. They're showing something

01:12:06.119 --> 01:12:08.439
that people thought was bullshit. And a lot of

01:12:08.439 --> 01:12:11.739
those are done to get us used to the fact that

01:12:11.739 --> 01:12:13.340
things aren't going to be called correctly or

01:12:13.340 --> 01:12:16.479
fair. It's every time you're told another lie.

01:12:17.079 --> 01:12:19.500
you get more accustomed to being lied to. Yeah.

01:12:19.560 --> 01:12:22.399
And right now, NFL fans. Normalization of it

01:12:22.399 --> 01:12:24.800
is what they're doing. NFL fan has been lied

01:12:24.800 --> 01:12:27.300
to so much that it just seems normal, and they

01:12:27.300 --> 01:12:29.619
just really don't care much if they just keep

01:12:29.619 --> 01:12:30.760
getting lied to. And people don't even bother

01:12:30.760 --> 01:12:33.220
to question it. It's like, okay, whatever. As

01:12:33.220 --> 01:12:35.340
long as I'm entertained, I don't care. Yeah,

01:12:35.340 --> 01:12:38.079
whatever. Yeah, it's like, you know, it's a predetermined

01:12:38.079 --> 01:12:40.340
outcome. Oh, it's still fun to watch. Yeah. Okay,

01:12:40.420 --> 01:12:44.319
then you get what you get. Yeah. All right. Will

01:12:44.319 --> 01:12:46.779
the mystery call or non -calls on holding and

01:12:46.779 --> 01:12:49.539
pass interference be the tool used? Yes. Yeah.

01:12:50.039 --> 01:12:52.640
It seems to be the embo on every game. Yeah,

01:12:52.699 --> 01:12:54.659
they've already got it set up in advance where

01:12:54.659 --> 01:12:57.140
they've convinced us, well, holding just happens

01:12:57.140 --> 01:12:59.800
on every play, and if they called it on every

01:12:59.800 --> 01:13:01.859
play, then the game would never. So they've got

01:13:01.859 --> 01:13:04.140
us used to the fact that they call it selectively

01:13:04.140 --> 01:13:06.520
and we're okay with it. And then the pass interference,

01:13:07.119 --> 01:13:10.979
there's nothing even resembling consistency in

01:13:10.979 --> 01:13:13.760
that. A few of the announcers are starting to

01:13:13.760 --> 01:13:16.460
say, oh, was that really pass interference? How

01:13:16.460 --> 01:13:18.060
many times has that happened during the whole

01:13:18.060 --> 01:13:21.420
playoffs? Playoffs, playoffs. Quite a few. Quite

01:13:21.420 --> 01:13:23.859
a few times. Quite a few times, yeah. It's really

01:13:23.859 --> 01:13:26.659
irritating, actually, when they go back over

01:13:26.659 --> 01:13:28.899
and you're like, wait a minute, this guy, he

01:13:28.899 --> 01:13:31.479
owes him fucking dinner. He was on his back so

01:13:31.479 --> 01:13:34.739
much. And all they really have to do is go to

01:13:34.739 --> 01:13:39.100
the corner who's covering the guy and say, on

01:13:39.100 --> 01:13:42.199
this play. commit defensive pass interference,

01:13:42.619 --> 01:13:47.180
and there will be $150 ,000 in your bank account

01:13:47.180 --> 01:13:51.640
tomorrow. Of course that happens. It does happen.

01:13:51.699 --> 01:13:55.399
Everyone knows it happens. Individuals get paid

01:13:55.399 --> 01:13:57.680
off to do certain things at certain times, and

01:13:57.680 --> 01:13:59.319
they're not throwing the whole game. They're

01:13:59.319 --> 01:14:01.579
just playing their little tiny part. Well, just

01:14:01.579 --> 01:14:04.739
like I said on an editorial not too long ago,

01:14:04.760 --> 01:14:07.729
I said if you give people enough... interactions

01:14:07.729 --> 01:14:10.170
with other people. Even the Dalai Lama would

01:14:10.170 --> 01:14:14.149
go on a rampage. Because that's what we do to

01:14:14.149 --> 01:14:17.470
each other as humans. And it's very telling that

01:14:17.470 --> 01:14:20.670
pretty much every AI eventually turns towards

01:14:20.670 --> 01:14:22.789
criminal behavior because it's more efficient.

01:14:23.010 --> 01:14:26.930
It's more efficient, yep. That's it. And they

01:14:26.930 --> 01:14:28.970
do, regularly. Look it up if you don't believe

01:14:28.970 --> 01:14:30.350
us, Google it or whatever. It's about the most

01:14:30.350 --> 01:14:33.090
efficient way to make money is to ignore all

01:14:33.090 --> 01:14:36.029
the rules and regulations. Yeah, yep. That makes

01:14:36.029 --> 01:14:38.010
sense. Well, it's like what they do in big business.

01:14:38.029 --> 01:14:40.250
They do it, trample everybody, and they go, oh,

01:14:40.250 --> 01:14:42.949
right, lawyers, we've got people after us. Yeah.

01:14:43.229 --> 01:14:45.350
Okay, we already got the defense. Yeah, fake

01:14:45.350 --> 01:14:47.569
up some paperwork to show we complied. Yeah,

01:14:47.569 --> 01:14:55.729
yep, that's it. Yeah. Will there be... Let's

01:14:55.729 --> 01:15:00.930
see. Will there be very many roughing the passer

01:15:00.930 --> 01:15:05.470
calls? No. I don't think so either. They kind

01:15:05.470 --> 01:15:07.890
of swayed away from that now. Yeah, even though

01:15:07.890 --> 01:15:12.090
these are two pretty good defenses, I think for

01:15:12.090 --> 01:15:14.949
the most part, players have figured out that

01:15:14.949 --> 01:15:17.329
roughing the quarterback is always going to bite

01:15:17.329 --> 01:15:19.229
you in the ass, especially when you're dealing

01:15:19.229 --> 01:15:22.449
with very important quarterbacks. Yeah, I agree.

01:15:22.649 --> 01:15:25.369
Yeah. And also, I think both teams are going

01:15:25.369 --> 01:15:27.409
to be smart enough. I think they're already being

01:15:27.409 --> 01:15:29.789
talked to right now going, don't get near the

01:15:29.789 --> 01:15:32.130
quarterback. Don't touch him. Don't get near

01:15:32.130 --> 01:15:35.170
him. Don't touch him. Yeah, I would think they

01:15:35.170 --> 01:15:37.010
would. And that's if it's questionable. I would

01:15:37.010 --> 01:15:38.890
think they would tell their pass rushers to go

01:15:38.890 --> 01:15:42.149
after the ball first and go after the quarterback

01:15:42.149 --> 01:15:44.770
only if you can't get to the ball. Yes. Because

01:15:44.770 --> 01:15:46.829
they'd rather swap the ball out of the quarterback's

01:15:46.829 --> 01:15:50.420
hands than tackle him. Yeah. And that, I think,

01:15:50.420 --> 01:15:52.380
demoralizes the quarterback more than the sack

01:15:52.380 --> 01:15:54.039
does. No, and I agree. And they do that a lot

01:15:54.039 --> 01:15:56.420
now. And it actually is pretty successful for

01:15:56.420 --> 01:15:59.659
the most part. It really works out well. Now,

01:15:59.720 --> 01:16:02.279
supposedly, it is a penalty if you try to punch

01:16:02.279 --> 01:16:04.439
the ball and wind up punching the player instead.

01:16:04.859 --> 01:16:06.720
Supposedly, that is a penalty. Oh, come on. But

01:16:06.720 --> 01:16:10.079
they never enforce it. Oh, okay. So I think some

01:16:10.079 --> 01:16:12.020
team is going to have to start taking advantage

01:16:12.020 --> 01:16:14.899
of that. When the ball carrier shows up, three

01:16:14.899 --> 01:16:18.119
guys just come in throwing fists. And say, oh,

01:16:18.119 --> 01:16:20.600
we're just trying to punch the ball out. Good

01:16:20.600 --> 01:16:23.819
point. Yeah. All right, if the over -under on

01:16:23.819 --> 01:16:25.659
roughing the quarterback is three, would you

01:16:25.659 --> 01:16:27.739
go over or under? And that's the final one. I'll

01:16:27.739 --> 01:16:30.000
go under. I'll go under, too. I think there's

01:16:30.000 --> 01:16:32.260
going to be one. Yeah. And that's it. And I think

01:16:32.260 --> 01:16:35.680
that's going to be the example for the rest of

01:16:35.680 --> 01:16:37.800
the game. It's like, don't do that. It'll probably

01:16:37.800 --> 01:16:41.029
happen in a very crucial moment. Yes. And change

01:16:41.029 --> 01:16:44.130
the outcome of the drive, and everyone will go...

01:16:44.130 --> 01:16:48.090
Yeah, yeah, they just sacked him. The sack happened

01:16:48.090 --> 01:16:50.189
20 yards back to the mouth field goal range,

01:16:50.350 --> 01:16:52.750
and then all of a sudden that late flag. Yep.

01:16:52.970 --> 01:16:55.430
Oh, he landed on top of him. He hit him in the

01:16:55.430 --> 01:16:57.810
head. Oh, yeah, it's head -to -head. Yeah. Yeah.

01:16:58.329 --> 01:17:00.970
They'll make it work. And then after that, it's

01:17:00.970 --> 01:17:05.079
going to be like, uh -uh, don't. And it's probably

01:17:05.079 --> 01:17:07.340
going to lead to a scoring drive, three or seven,

01:17:07.439 --> 01:17:09.640
something like that. Now, I have seen some cases

01:17:09.640 --> 01:17:13.859
where there's been a really iffy call that gives

01:17:13.859 --> 01:17:16.260
the team back the field goal opportunity, and

01:17:16.260 --> 01:17:18.399
then they blow it. Oh, I have too. I've seen

01:17:18.399 --> 01:17:20.739
that a lot. I've seen that a lot. It's not like

01:17:20.739 --> 01:17:24.039
a deadlock fix. It's just they give teams the

01:17:24.039 --> 01:17:26.560
opportunity, and then the team's trying to take

01:17:26.560 --> 01:17:28.520
it. If the team doesn't make it, then they give

01:17:28.520 --> 01:17:31.619
them another opportunity later. And then sometimes

01:17:31.619 --> 01:17:33.979
a team just can't get it done, like the Bills

01:17:33.979 --> 01:17:35.899
just couldn't get it done. They were given chance

01:17:35.899 --> 01:17:38.399
after chance. And finally the officials were

01:17:38.399 --> 01:17:39.800
like, screw it, you don't have what it takes.

01:17:39.880 --> 01:17:42.699
Oh, I know. And they just let the game go and

01:17:42.699 --> 01:17:44.600
the Bills lost. I honestly think that it got

01:17:44.600 --> 01:17:47.619
to not only Josh Allen's head, but everybody's

01:17:47.619 --> 01:17:49.619
head. I think there's actually more pressure

01:17:49.619 --> 01:17:51.760
of the Chiefs not being there than it was with

01:17:51.760 --> 01:17:53.439
the Chiefs being there. Absolutely. At least

01:17:53.439 --> 01:17:56.520
they're familiar with the Chiefs. You know, I

01:17:56.520 --> 01:17:58.479
think it was actually. Turned out to be more

01:17:58.479 --> 01:18:00.939
pressure because everybody was whispering, they

01:18:00.939 --> 01:18:02.579
have to do it now. If they don't, it's over.

01:18:02.800 --> 01:18:04.539
It's no good anymore. They're never going to

01:18:04.539 --> 01:18:07.939
do anything. That gets in your head. If you get

01:18:07.939 --> 01:18:10.399
accustomed to losing to the Chiefs, it doesn't

01:18:10.399 --> 01:18:12.699
sting so much. No, it's like, oh, the same thing

01:18:12.699 --> 01:18:14.840
happened. Yeah, this guy's too good. But when

01:18:14.840 --> 01:18:17.460
your biggest bullies are out of the postseason

01:18:17.460 --> 01:18:19.220
and you're still in it, then you're like, yeah,

01:18:19.300 --> 01:18:21.960
we're going to coast. Oops, no, you didn't. This

01:18:21.960 --> 01:18:26.729
also goes to... All the usual suspects like Lamar

01:18:26.729 --> 01:18:29.369
Jackson and Joe Burrow, all of those guys were

01:18:29.369 --> 01:18:32.069
out this year. And I think that people started

01:18:32.069 --> 01:18:34.989
talking, and I think that the Bills kind of were

01:18:34.989 --> 01:18:37.789
like clinched up. They're like, oh, shit, they're

01:18:37.789 --> 01:18:39.949
right. We have to do it now. We have to be in

01:18:39.949 --> 01:18:41.609
the Super Bowl, and we have to win. They were

01:18:41.609 --> 01:18:43.470
totally in their own heads. Yeah, they were,

01:18:43.550 --> 01:18:45.949
and that's unfortunate. That is. That screws

01:18:45.949 --> 01:18:48.569
up such wonderful opportunities that don't come

01:18:48.569 --> 01:18:50.680
around very often. Well, you could tell just

01:18:50.680 --> 01:18:53.020
in their play. Everything that should have worked

01:18:53.020 --> 01:18:56.319
did not work. And I blame a lot of that. Some

01:18:56.319 --> 01:18:58.159
of it should have worked, but the players were

01:18:58.159 --> 01:19:01.100
not playing to the best of their abilities, and

01:19:01.100 --> 01:19:03.579
I think it's because it got in their head. All

01:19:03.579 --> 01:19:06.520
right, you got something? Yeah, I was going to

01:19:06.520 --> 01:19:09.600
go over the latest coaching carousel news. That's

01:19:09.600 --> 01:19:11.260
good. And when you get to Tomlin and McCarthy,

01:19:11.560 --> 01:19:15.979
I have a comparison of their whole careers. Awesome.

01:19:16.159 --> 01:19:19.449
Okay. So you might save that for last, and we'll

01:19:19.449 --> 01:19:22.789
go into it after we talk about after McCarthy

01:19:22.789 --> 01:19:26.270
being hired. Now, reportedly, the Bills are going

01:19:26.270 --> 01:19:31.470
to promote Joe Brady to be their next head coach.

01:19:31.470 --> 01:19:34.409
They already did. Okay. So as of this morning,

01:19:34.529 --> 01:19:37.590
when I looked, they said it was reported. They

01:19:37.590 --> 01:19:39.750
don't really have any other options. After the

01:19:39.750 --> 01:19:42.170
owner got involved and did all the stupid shit,

01:19:42.289 --> 01:19:45.439
everybody pulled out. That was... Yeah, this

01:19:45.439 --> 01:19:48.579
reminded me that that was the point is that they

01:19:48.579 --> 01:19:53.000
were reduced to hiring from within because nobody

01:19:53.000 --> 01:19:55.439
else wanted the job. And I think word got around

01:19:55.439 --> 01:19:58.220
pretty quickly, don't bother calling Buffalo

01:19:58.220 --> 01:20:02.260
because we ain't interested. Yeah. And they did

01:20:02.260 --> 01:20:06.939
it to themselves. It's pretty sad. It is. The

01:20:06.939 --> 01:20:11.180
Titans are expected to hire Brian Dable as their

01:20:11.180 --> 01:20:13.810
next offensive coordinator. He was Giants head

01:20:13.810 --> 01:20:17.149
coach last season. I think that was a good hire,

01:20:17.189 --> 01:20:19.090
too, because I think Dable was very good, and

01:20:19.090 --> 01:20:20.689
I think he's eventually going to make a good

01:20:20.689 --> 01:20:24.890
head coach. Yeah, and he gets to work with Cam

01:20:24.890 --> 01:20:28.770
Ward now. That's good. I think that is a great

01:20:28.770 --> 01:20:33.850
pairing right there. Yeah. and the Chargers have

01:20:33.850 --> 01:20:36.350
officially hired former Dolphins head coach Mike

01:20:36.350 --> 01:20:38.369
McDaniel as their new offensive coordinator.

01:20:38.789 --> 01:20:41.289
He put them on pause so he could go think about

01:20:41.289 --> 01:20:43.329
Buffalo, but it didn't take him long to say no

01:20:43.329 --> 01:20:46.729
to Buffalo. No, he took the requirements and

01:20:46.729 --> 01:20:48.670
all that, and he's like, no, I think I'm going

01:20:48.670 --> 01:20:50.810
to go with this one, and I can't blame him. Yeah.

01:20:51.810 --> 01:20:54.890
All right, then next up we've got Tomlin and

01:20:54.890 --> 01:20:57.310
McCarthy. Okay. Because they hired Mike McCarthy

01:20:57.310 --> 01:20:59.229
to become their next head coach in Pittsburgh.

01:21:01.230 --> 01:21:04.510
Let's see. Before the Steelers made their move,

01:21:04.630 --> 01:21:06.670
the Ravens hired Los Angeles Chargers defensive

01:21:06.670 --> 01:21:09.310
coordinator Jesse Minter to replace John Harbaugh,

01:21:09.449 --> 01:21:14.170
and he ultimately landed in the Giants' job.

01:21:14.670 --> 01:21:16.930
Oh, yeah, that's right. Yep, the Harbaugh is

01:21:16.930 --> 01:21:19.529
over there now, and he's in a great situation.

01:21:19.569 --> 01:21:22.130
He's got some young guys there, and he's got

01:21:22.130 --> 01:21:29.340
good draft picks. Okay, so I have a comparison

01:21:29.340 --> 01:21:35.399
here of both head coaches and their careers for

01:21:35.399 --> 01:21:38.140
Mike Tomlin and Mike McCarthy. McCarthy, of course,

01:21:38.159 --> 01:21:41.739
has taken over the duties of head coaching for

01:21:41.739 --> 01:21:43.479
the Pittsburgh Steelers while Tomlin stepped

01:21:43.479 --> 01:21:49.880
down. Okay, so Mike Tomlin had 19 seasons. He

01:21:49.880 --> 01:21:56.849
has 192, 114 losses, and two ties. McCarthy,

01:21:56.849 --> 01:22:03.970
18 seasons, 174 wins, 112 losses, and two ties.

01:22:05.329 --> 01:22:08.250
That's pretty good. Yeah, yeah. Pretty much,

01:22:08.489 --> 01:22:11.170
if you added a couple more games, they'd be right

01:22:11.170 --> 01:22:13.270
at each other's record. Yeah, there's not really

01:22:13.270 --> 01:22:15.550
much difference to talk about there. Tomlin's

01:22:15.550 --> 01:22:21.250
win is 628%. McCarthy's win is 608%. Very close.

01:22:21.270 --> 01:22:26.199
So 628 to 608, yeah. Wow. Playoffs. Wow. Yep.

01:22:28.060 --> 01:22:33.000
Tomlin is 8 wins, 12 losses. Yeah. McCarthy is

01:22:33.000 --> 01:22:35.640
11 and 11. Oh, a little better. McCarthy is quite

01:22:35.640 --> 01:22:38.899
a bit better. Yeah. That's been there two more

01:22:38.899 --> 01:22:42.159
times, too. 8 and 12 is 20. 11 and 11 is 22.

01:22:42.460 --> 01:22:45.479
Yeah. Yeah, so McCarthy right now, to me, appears

01:22:45.479 --> 01:22:47.500
to be the better choice, although it would not

01:22:47.500 --> 01:22:52.000
seem like it. Yeah. Division wins, 8 for both

01:22:52.000 --> 01:22:56.829
of them. So that's a wash. Super Bowls, one for

01:22:56.829 --> 01:22:59.050
each one of them. So that's a watch. That's a

01:22:59.050 --> 01:23:01.109
watch. Who would you hire based on the stats?

01:23:01.750 --> 01:23:03.750
Not thinking about the person, the personality

01:23:03.750 --> 01:23:05.989
or nothing. I think I would have went for McCarthy

01:23:05.989 --> 01:23:08.149
because of the playoff wins and the times being

01:23:08.149 --> 01:23:13.630
there. Yeah. And I'm guessing they're both similar

01:23:13.630 --> 01:23:15.649
in age if they've both been head coaches for

01:23:15.649 --> 01:23:18.930
almost two decades. Yes. So there's not really

01:23:18.930 --> 01:23:21.289
a benefit. I mean, if you hire a younger guy,

01:23:21.369 --> 01:23:23.170
chances are you're going to have him longer if

01:23:23.170 --> 01:23:25.159
you want him. That would be the only advantage

01:23:25.159 --> 01:23:28.119
there. Yeah, that's it. Now, the reason people

01:23:28.119 --> 01:23:30.920
say McCarthy was hired there, the main reason

01:23:30.920 --> 01:23:34.319
is Aaron Rodgers loves working with him, supposedly,

01:23:34.720 --> 01:23:37.920
allegedly. And he's thinking about coming back

01:23:37.920 --> 01:23:40.119
for another year because it's Mike McCarthy.

01:23:40.220 --> 01:23:42.079
He wants to see what he can do under his regime.

01:23:42.300 --> 01:23:46.460
I think the big rift happened not only up in

01:23:46.460 --> 01:23:50.060
Green Bay about Jordan Love. But also, I think

01:23:50.060 --> 01:23:52.899
it was the getting rid of Mike McCarthy and coming

01:23:52.899 --> 01:23:56.420
in and bringing Matt LaFleur. Yeah. So I think

01:23:56.420 --> 01:23:59.180
that is a big difference right there, too, of

01:23:59.180 --> 01:24:01.439
what happened up there in the severed ties with

01:24:01.439 --> 01:24:04.359
Green Bay. And, you know, I can see a situation

01:24:04.359 --> 01:24:07.979
developing where the season ends and Aaron Rodgers

01:24:07.979 --> 01:24:12.659
goes to GM or owner or whoever and says, You

01:24:12.659 --> 01:24:15.199
know, I'm not coming back for another season

01:24:15.199 --> 01:24:17.880
under this guy, but I would under Mike McCarthy.

01:24:18.359 --> 01:24:22.720
Yes. And that might be why Tomlin resigned is

01:24:22.720 --> 01:24:26.180
because he was told it's either you or Aaron.

01:24:26.220 --> 01:24:30.180
If you stay, Aaron's not coming back. They could

01:24:30.180 --> 01:24:31.979
use Aaron Rodgers more than they could use Mike

01:24:31.979 --> 01:24:34.840
Tomlin at this point, which is odd to say. That

01:24:34.840 --> 01:24:37.180
is odd to say, yeah. I mean, they're going to

01:24:37.180 --> 01:24:39.859
have to look at a total rebuild anyhow. So, I

01:24:39.859 --> 01:24:42.939
mean, you know. And, again, that's an indictment

01:24:42.939 --> 01:24:45.560
of the Pittsburgh Steelers for not having a quarterback

01:24:45.560 --> 01:24:48.819
behind Aaron Rodgers. Yeah. Because if they had

01:24:48.819 --> 01:24:51.640
the guy, then they would say, bye, Aaron, see

01:24:51.640 --> 01:24:53.920
ya. Yeah, they don't. They don't. They don't

01:24:53.920 --> 01:24:55.859
have anybody behind Aaron Rodgers, so they're

01:24:55.859 --> 01:24:58.020
desperate to have him back. So, just like the

01:24:58.020 --> 01:25:00.340
Jets, next season is going to completely depend

01:25:00.340 --> 01:25:04.420
on Aaron Rodgers' help. Yeah. Yep. And what's

01:25:04.420 --> 01:25:07.140
he going to be, 43? Yeah, it's a scary thought

01:25:07.140 --> 01:25:10.420
for a Pittsburgh Steeler fan. I'm sure they're

01:25:10.420 --> 01:25:15.439
not really amped up right now. Okay, that's all

01:25:15.439 --> 01:25:19.819
that I've had of that. Well, you know, every

01:25:19.819 --> 01:25:22.319
other team is looking at that, looking at the

01:25:22.319 --> 01:25:24.500
Steelers. Every team that's going to play the

01:25:24.500 --> 01:25:26.180
Steelers next year is looking at their roster

01:25:26.180 --> 01:25:28.699
and saying, without Aaron Rodgers, they're nothing.

01:25:29.100 --> 01:25:31.579
Yeah. They've got a good defense or a decent

01:25:31.579 --> 01:25:33.840
defense. Well, I mean, that's what I would think

01:25:33.840 --> 01:25:36.039
when I see this on the surface. Oh, they got

01:25:36.039 --> 01:25:37.760
rid of the coach and kept Aaron Rodgers. That

01:25:37.760 --> 01:25:40.060
means they have nothing else to offer. Yeah.

01:25:40.579 --> 01:25:42.319
But that's pretty much what everybody thought

01:25:42.319 --> 01:25:45.439
about Kansas City. You take Mahomes out, the

01:25:45.439 --> 01:25:47.300
team's going to lose. Well, they're pretty much

01:25:47.300 --> 01:25:49.720
right. I don't think we won a game again, did

01:25:49.720 --> 01:25:53.220
we? We won that one playoff game with the backup.

01:25:57.480 --> 01:25:59.539
Oh, yeah, yeah. That was at the end of the game

01:25:59.539 --> 01:26:01.199
where they thought he had a concussion and took

01:26:01.199 --> 01:26:03.899
him out. Yeah. No, he started a game. Oh, he

01:26:03.899 --> 01:26:05.140
started a game? Yeah, there was a game where

01:26:05.140 --> 01:26:06.680
Mahomes was out, and he played the whole game,

01:26:06.720 --> 01:26:09.600
and they won anyway. I can't remember who that

01:26:09.600 --> 01:26:11.819
was. Wow. Or I was hallucinating one of the two.

01:26:11.960 --> 01:26:13.960
No, hang on. No, no, no. That's cool. I'll look

01:26:13.960 --> 01:26:15.359
it up. Go ahead. All right. While you look it

01:26:15.359 --> 01:26:18.699
up, the Jets have reportedly reached out to John

01:26:18.699 --> 01:26:20.979
Gruden to see if he'd join Aaron Glenn's staff,

01:26:21.060 --> 01:26:25.300
but Gruden said no thanks. News broke Tuesday

01:26:25.300 --> 01:26:28.159
that head coach Aaron Glenn has parted ways with

01:26:28.159 --> 01:26:31.079
offensive coordinator Tanner Engstrom. Hours

01:26:31.079 --> 01:26:33.319
later, Zach Rosenblatt of The Athletic reported

01:26:33.319 --> 01:26:35.439
that the Jets had reached out to former Bucs

01:26:35.439 --> 01:26:37.760
and Raiders head coach John Gruden about the

01:26:37.760 --> 01:26:39.739
idea of becoming their next offensive coordinator.

01:26:40.520 --> 01:26:45.279
But Gruden said, nah. I think Gruden is holding

01:26:45.279 --> 01:26:48.720
out. He wants more out of the NFL before he comes

01:26:48.720 --> 01:26:50.899
back. He's pissed at the way he was run out.

01:26:50.960 --> 01:26:53.380
You were hallucinating. I was hallucinating?

01:26:53.439 --> 01:26:57.380
Yeah, he started for the Miami Dolphins against

01:26:57.380 --> 01:26:59.539
the Pittsburgh Steelers. That's what I was thinking.

01:26:59.779 --> 01:27:02.859
Yeah, he won 30 -12. Anyhow, go ahead. Sorry.

01:27:04.560 --> 01:27:10.760
So, have you ever heard of NFL Rule 17? No. This

01:27:10.760 --> 01:27:14.119
is actually a very important rule. It is also

01:27:14.119 --> 01:27:17.439
known as the Unfair Acts Rule or the Calamities

01:27:17.439 --> 01:27:21.239
Rule. It grants the Commissioner sole authority

01:27:21.239 --> 01:27:24.619
to investigate and correct extraordinarily unfair

01:27:24.619 --> 01:27:27.960
game situations, like major officiating errors

01:27:27.960 --> 01:27:32.300
or disasters, potentially by replaying part or

01:27:32.300 --> 01:27:39.500
all of a game. Okay. Or he can order a forfeit.

01:27:40.760 --> 01:27:44.640
Or he can resume play from a prior point on another

01:27:44.640 --> 01:27:49.420
day, although it's extremely rare. Okay. I have

01:27:49.420 --> 01:27:52.119
seen that before where a game was put off because,

01:27:52.199 --> 01:27:54.119
I mean, they didn't even start it. They said,

01:27:54.119 --> 01:27:55.960
you know, play this game in a couple of days

01:27:55.960 --> 01:27:57.539
because there was a snowstorm. I think it was

01:27:57.539 --> 01:28:00.800
Buffalo. Yeah, and also the Gamara Hamlin situation

01:28:00.800 --> 01:28:03.199
where they just canceled it altogether. Yeah,

01:28:03.199 --> 01:28:07.619
yeah. So some key aspects of Rule 17. The commissioner's

01:28:07.619 --> 01:28:11.399
power, he can step in for palpably unfair acts

01:28:11.399 --> 01:28:14.140
that significantly impact a game's results. Corrective

01:28:14.140 --> 01:28:16.680
actions could include reversing a game's result.

01:28:17.250 --> 01:28:19.829
forfeit or win. They can do that, huh? Okay.

01:28:20.189 --> 01:28:22.710
Replaying the game from the beginning or a specific

01:28:22.710 --> 01:28:26.329
point. So the game could be over and the NFL

01:28:26.329 --> 01:28:28.350
could say, no, no, no, no. Go back and play the

01:28:28.350 --> 01:28:30.649
whole second half again. Yeah, we think you did

01:28:30.649 --> 01:28:32.569
this wrong and we're going to have to have you,

01:28:32.590 --> 01:28:37.829
yeah. You can also resume the play directly from

01:28:37.829 --> 01:28:40.989
the point before the unfair act. Wow. Wherever

01:28:40.989 --> 01:28:44.029
it was. If a game is resumed from before the

01:28:44.029 --> 01:28:46.329
incident, it generally must happen within 48

01:28:46.329 --> 01:28:48.970
hours. Otherwise, a full replay is required.

01:28:50.289 --> 01:28:53.810
So they could come back three weeks later and

01:28:53.810 --> 01:28:56.449
say, no, no, no, let's go replay this game. And

01:28:56.449 --> 01:28:58.289
they could absolutely force the team to do it.

01:28:58.329 --> 01:28:59.949
And if the team said no, they'd say, okay, you

01:28:59.949 --> 01:29:03.109
forfeit. Wow. Isn't that weird? Yeah, that is.

01:29:03.390 --> 01:29:05.930
Now, historical usage. The rule has never been

01:29:05.930 --> 01:29:08.810
formally invoked to overturn a game's outcome,

01:29:09.069 --> 01:29:12.829
despite fan calls. like the Saints -Rams NFC

01:29:12.829 --> 01:29:15.970
Championship. Oh, yeah, yeah, because of the

01:29:15.970 --> 01:29:23.449
bounty gate. Yeah. It basically acts as a safety

01:29:23.449 --> 01:29:26.609
net for truly egregious situations that fall

01:29:26.609 --> 01:29:31.329
outside typical officiating areas. In essence,

01:29:31.449 --> 01:29:36.289
it's a way for the commissioner to just void

01:29:36.289 --> 01:29:38.250
everything that happened and say, no, this is

01:29:38.250 --> 01:29:40.930
the way it's going to happen. It's pretty similar

01:29:40.930 --> 01:29:45.350
to the power a judge has. If he thinks the jury

01:29:45.350 --> 01:29:51.149
is completely wrong and outside of their instructions,

01:29:51.329 --> 01:29:53.350
even if the jury comes back and says guilty,

01:29:53.649 --> 01:29:56.149
the judge can say, uh -uh, you did it wrong.

01:29:56.409 --> 01:29:58.890
I'm declaring that you're innocent. And that

01:29:58.890 --> 01:30:01.130
does happen. And it does happen. These judges

01:30:01.130 --> 01:30:04.210
can void the jury's verdict if they think it's

01:30:04.210 --> 01:30:07.920
just completely wrong. or obviously unfair or

01:30:07.920 --> 01:30:11.659
biased or whatever. So the commissioner has that

01:30:11.659 --> 01:30:18.420
ability in games. I think Rule 17 is being used

01:30:18.420 --> 01:30:21.500
during games. I think there's somebody within

01:30:21.500 --> 01:30:25.600
the NFL League office that is tasked with watching

01:30:25.600 --> 01:30:28.380
all these games and stepping in and saying, uh

01:30:28.380 --> 01:30:30.699
-uh, no, no, no, that was wrong, do something

01:30:30.699 --> 01:30:33.260
to make up for that, or we'll have to start the

01:30:33.260 --> 01:30:35.960
game over, replay it, whatever. So it's a way

01:30:35.960 --> 01:30:42.000
to keep a leash on whatever's happening in the

01:30:42.000 --> 01:30:45.699
games. It kind of makes it seem like there's

01:30:45.699 --> 01:30:48.079
somebody else working with the officials and

01:30:48.079 --> 01:30:51.119
the players to do these things to influence the

01:30:51.119 --> 01:30:54.119
game. And the NFL League office is like, go ahead

01:30:54.119 --> 01:30:56.000
and do it. We don't want to know about it. If

01:30:56.000 --> 01:30:58.659
it gets too obvious, we're stepping in. And then

01:30:58.659 --> 01:31:01.920
when it gets obvious on any given Sunday, they're

01:31:01.920 --> 01:31:04.300
like, no, no, no, no, no. That was a bad call,

01:31:04.439 --> 01:31:07.079
so make an equally bad call of going the other

01:31:07.079 --> 01:31:09.619
way to even it out. That happens a lot, I'm certain.

01:31:09.979 --> 01:31:12.239
I don't think it's necessarily the officials

01:31:12.239 --> 01:31:14.880
deciding to do that. I think it's someone from

01:31:14.880 --> 01:31:17.899
the league office saying, no, make it fair again

01:31:17.899 --> 01:31:21.720
or we're stepping in. I agree. So I think Rule

01:31:21.720 --> 01:31:26.149
17 is being used in pretty much every game. and

01:31:26.149 --> 01:31:30.750
it gives them blanket coverage to do whatever

01:31:30.750 --> 01:31:32.750
they want, influence the game in any possible

01:31:32.750 --> 01:31:35.930
way because this is a rule that they voted into

01:31:35.930 --> 01:31:38.409
place and all the team owners are aware of it.

01:31:38.529 --> 01:31:41.210
So there's nothing illegal going on here when

01:31:41.210 --> 01:31:43.470
they start changing games around if they think

01:31:43.470 --> 01:31:47.090
it's unfair. Again, why are people betting on

01:31:47.090 --> 01:31:52.250
this? Why are you betting on games that are completely

01:31:52.250 --> 01:31:55.520
under the control of the league office? Fix them

01:31:55.520 --> 01:31:57.060
and they can go whatever way they want to. Like

01:31:57.060 --> 01:31:59.039
I said, if you bet on the NFL, I consider it

01:31:59.039 --> 01:32:03.159
a foolish act. Yeah. Because it is always just

01:32:03.159 --> 01:32:07.800
so influenced at least. Yeah. It's kind of like

01:32:07.800 --> 01:32:10.800
betting on somebody else who's playing poker.

01:32:11.420 --> 01:32:13.899
You're not playing poker, but they are, and you're

01:32:13.899 --> 01:32:15.680
betting on them, and they could throw the game

01:32:15.680 --> 01:32:18.420
at any time. You have no control over them. Yeah.

01:32:18.479 --> 01:32:20.680
You don't know where their loyalty is. You don't

01:32:20.680 --> 01:32:23.159
know what they've already decided. It's just,

01:32:23.199 --> 01:32:30.479
yeah, it's just so odd. I don't get it. I've

01:32:30.479 --> 01:32:33.539
got a little story here, if that's okay. Yeah.

01:32:33.619 --> 01:32:38.279
Okay. An ex -NFL player killed in an L .A. homeless

01:32:38.279 --> 01:32:40.899
camp had been living on the streets and had CTE,

01:32:41.039 --> 01:32:46.000
they believe. Former NFL player Kevin Johnson

01:32:46.000 --> 01:32:49.300
was found stabbed and beaten to death in a Los

01:32:49.300 --> 01:32:53.680
Angeles homeless encampment this week. Wow. He

01:32:53.680 --> 01:32:55.779
had been living on the streets and may have suffered

01:32:55.779 --> 01:33:00.020
from CTE, according to friends of his. Officials

01:33:00.020 --> 01:33:02.239
ruled the 55 -year -old's death as a homicide.

01:33:02.239 --> 01:33:04.079
I would think so. I would think so. He didn't

01:33:04.079 --> 01:33:07.239
beat and stab himself to death. Oh, yeah. So

01:33:07.239 --> 01:33:09.079
far, we might order something here in a little

01:33:09.079 --> 01:33:12.859
bit. Let me know, Mark. Okay, thank you. Let's

01:33:12.859 --> 01:33:18.300
see. He had been living on the encampment and

01:33:18.300 --> 01:33:20.859
was discovered on the 1300 block of East 120th

01:33:20.859 --> 01:33:24.199
Street on Wednesday morning. Former NFL Kevin

01:33:24.199 --> 01:33:26.819
Starr Johnson had been living on the streets

01:33:26.819 --> 01:33:29.319
and may have suffered from CTE. Why it repeated

01:33:29.319 --> 01:33:32.060
itself, I have no doubt. I have no reason. So,

01:33:32.060 --> 01:33:38.920
sad. Yeah, the NFL has made a big deal now and

01:33:38.920 --> 01:33:41.779
then about doing better by their former players,

01:33:41.859 --> 01:33:45.399
and the union itself has also said, yeah, we've

01:33:45.399 --> 01:33:49.220
got to do more for the former players. But you're

01:33:49.220 --> 01:33:52.979
still going to have people. want help or was

01:33:52.979 --> 01:33:56.619
incapable of accepting help, you're still going

01:33:56.619 --> 01:33:59.460
to get things like this happening. It's a sport

01:33:59.460 --> 01:34:02.380
that damages your brain. There's just no two

01:34:02.380 --> 01:34:06.479
ways around that. It's a sad story, but I thought

01:34:06.479 --> 01:34:12.699
it deserved a mention. It's too bad. You got

01:34:12.699 --> 01:34:18.380
something? We can go over the ESPN's decision

01:34:18.380 --> 01:34:20.840
on who are the studs and duds from the championship

01:34:20.840 --> 01:34:25.100
games. Sounds good. For the AFC, one of the studs

01:34:25.100 --> 01:34:29.939
was Christian Gonzalez. Okay. He pretty much

01:34:29.939 --> 01:34:32.920
shut down Cortland Sutton for the majority of

01:34:32.920 --> 01:34:35.079
the game. That's no kidding. And did the late

01:34:35.079 --> 01:34:37.619
interception. Yeah, he really deserved it. Yeah,

01:34:37.619 --> 01:34:40.619
I agree with that 100%. I mean, he got burned

01:34:40.619 --> 01:34:44.180
twice on Denver's only touchdown drive, but after

01:34:44.180 --> 01:34:47.369
that. He was a shutdown machine. And that was

01:34:47.369 --> 01:34:49.989
early in the game, too. Yeah. He really corrected

01:34:49.989 --> 01:34:51.930
after that. I think he was like, uh -uh, that's

01:34:51.930 --> 01:34:53.890
not happening again, and he made sure it wasn't.

01:34:53.909 --> 01:34:58.930
So, yeah. Another stud for the Patriots, Christian

01:34:58.930 --> 01:35:02.369
Ellis, who did the strip sack of Jarrett Stidham,

01:35:02.449 --> 01:35:05.489
set up New England's offense. Yeah. And ironically,

01:35:05.569 --> 01:35:08.329
that should have been allowed to stand as running

01:35:08.329 --> 01:35:10.550
in for the touchdown, but the officials had blown

01:35:10.550 --> 01:35:13.590
the whistles. So they had to go back to where...

01:35:13.789 --> 01:35:16.590
the Patriots recovered. I know. I know. Wasn't

01:35:16.590 --> 01:35:18.810
that something? That was interesting. It was

01:35:18.810 --> 01:35:23.789
very interesting. Leonard Taylor III, another

01:35:23.789 --> 01:35:26.529
stud who was elevated off the practice squad.

01:35:27.180 --> 01:35:30.800
and came in to block the 45 -yard field goal.

01:35:30.939 --> 01:35:32.859
Wasn't that amazing? Yeah, from the practice

01:35:32.859 --> 01:35:35.140
squad. That would have tied the game, and oh,

01:35:35.180 --> 01:35:37.399
my God, nobody wanted overtime in that game.

01:35:37.399 --> 01:35:41.199
No, no. I was glad the damn thing was over. I'm

01:35:41.199 --> 01:35:43.739
like, shoo, maybe the next one will be better,

01:35:43.800 --> 01:35:47.260
and it was. The NFC game was everything as advertised.

01:35:48.779 --> 01:35:51.140
Then the fifth stud would be Drake May himself.

01:35:51.680 --> 01:35:55.119
Even though it was his worst passing game of

01:35:55.119 --> 01:35:59.890
his entire career. His running ability, the 65

01:35:59.890 --> 01:36:02.729
yards and the touchdown, really carried the weight.

01:36:02.989 --> 01:36:05.670
And the thing is, he was not trying to run ever.

01:36:05.949 --> 01:36:11.489
No, he was running for his life. That pass rush

01:36:11.489 --> 01:36:14.310
tried everything he could to get to him, but

01:36:14.310 --> 01:36:17.210
his feet kind of really nullified all of that,

01:36:17.270 --> 01:36:19.050
which was the biggest difference in the game

01:36:19.050 --> 01:36:21.229
right there. And on a snowy day, too. And on

01:36:21.229 --> 01:36:25.739
a snowy day, yeah. Okay, for the duds, Andy Borgalis,

01:36:25.960 --> 01:36:29.119
the place kicker, he wasn't even close on the

01:36:29.119 --> 01:36:32.699
63 -yarder. He missed the 46 -yarder, and then

01:36:32.699 --> 01:36:36.460
he had the one blocked. The thing not being mentioned

01:36:36.460 --> 01:36:41.500
is that weather. Yeah. I can't really say too

01:36:41.500 --> 01:36:43.859
much about it because the weather was not desirable

01:36:43.859 --> 01:36:46.560
for anything, let alone kicking. Yeah, yeah.

01:36:47.369 --> 01:36:50.529
I guess you're supposed to step up in those circumstances.

01:36:50.729 --> 01:36:53.170
I guess that's what's expected. The New England

01:36:53.170 --> 01:36:55.449
kicker, I guess, did, and he didn't. So, okay.

01:36:55.569 --> 01:36:58.869
Yeah, you're right. Another dud, Travion Henderson.

01:36:59.350 --> 01:37:02.890
Yeah. Ramondre Stevenson was effectively the

01:37:02.890 --> 01:37:05.630
team's offense in the fourth quarter. Travion

01:37:05.630 --> 01:37:08.229
Henderson was basically missing in action. Oh,

01:37:08.289 --> 01:37:12.829
he was. Yep. Three carries, five yards. That's

01:37:12.829 --> 01:37:17.199
it. Wow. How much was he being paid to go in

01:37:17.199 --> 01:37:20.140
there for three plays and carry five yards? Well,

01:37:20.159 --> 01:37:22.020
I want to use him more for three plays, but three

01:37:22.020 --> 01:37:24.239
carries for five yards. Allegedly, I would think

01:37:24.239 --> 01:37:32.779
a lot. Yeah. Keyshawn Boutte. Booty? Yeah, Bill

01:37:32.779 --> 01:37:35.539
Booty. Yeah, Bill Booty. Even when he got open,

01:37:35.779 --> 01:37:38.140
he and May were not on the same page. And the

01:37:38.140 --> 01:37:40.100
rest of the time, Patrick Sertan had him locked

01:37:40.100 --> 01:37:43.420
up really tight. And Fred Sertan, you kind of

01:37:43.420 --> 01:37:46.739
expect that, honestly. That guy is such a corner,

01:37:47.000 --> 01:37:50.140
I mean, just a complete, yeah. Yeah, his father

01:37:50.140 --> 01:37:53.439
was really good too. Yes, yeah, and a lot of

01:37:53.439 --> 01:37:55.460
people don't realize that, yeah, his father was

01:37:55.460 --> 01:37:57.600
a really good NFL player for a number of years.

01:37:58.720 --> 01:38:01.720
But Boutte just caught one of his six targets

01:38:01.720 --> 01:38:03.699
for a six -yard gain, and that was it for the

01:38:03.699 --> 01:38:05.859
whole game. So he's going to have to come back

01:38:05.859 --> 01:38:08.890
pretty strong for the Seahawks. Yeah. The problem

01:38:08.890 --> 01:38:10.850
with that is the Seahawks have just as good a

01:38:10.850 --> 01:38:15.710
defense. That's the problem. Bryce Barringer

01:38:15.710 --> 01:38:19.090
is the last dud for the Patriots. Tom Barringer's

01:38:19.090 --> 01:38:25.909
cousin. Yes. For Nebraska, right? Nebraska, yeah.

01:38:26.270 --> 01:38:30.289
I think he died in a plane crash maybe. Oh, gosh.

01:38:30.829 --> 01:38:34.609
Could be. I think so. Anyhow, if I'm wrong, I'm

01:38:34.609 --> 01:38:36.529
wrong. Okay. All right, punting battle between

01:38:36.529 --> 01:38:40.869
Bryce Barringer and Jeremy Crenshaw was actually

01:38:40.869 --> 01:38:42.850
pretty important during this game because there

01:38:42.850 --> 01:38:45.069
was a lot of stalled drives and a lot of punts.

01:38:45.430 --> 01:38:48.090
But Barringer struggled to consistently put the

01:38:48.090 --> 01:38:51.670
Broncos offense in tough spots. Yeah. He had

01:38:51.670 --> 01:38:54.550
some really lousy punts that went not very far

01:38:54.550 --> 01:38:57.170
at all. Yeah, their kicking game killed them.

01:38:57.770 --> 01:38:59.989
Again, a little bit having to do with the weather

01:38:59.989 --> 01:39:02.609
conditions, but on the same time. The Patriots

01:39:02.609 --> 01:39:07.729
seem to do theirs good enough. Yeah. So that's

01:39:07.729 --> 01:39:09.789
what I got for sportsage. Oh, yeah, but full

01:39:09.789 --> 01:39:12.930
disclosure here, if Bo Nix would have been in,

01:39:12.970 --> 01:39:14.869
it wouldn't have been that close at all. No,

01:39:14.869 --> 01:39:17.090
no. Denver would have ran away with it in the

01:39:17.090 --> 01:39:19.670
mid -third quarter. Yeah, and then I'd probably

01:39:19.670 --> 01:39:21.850
be picking the Broncos in the Super Bowl. I would

01:39:21.850 --> 01:39:25.760
have too, but now they're at home. You want to

01:39:25.760 --> 01:39:29.399
hear the top 10 offenses from the last 10 years?

01:39:29.680 --> 01:39:32.939
I like this idea because it's an offensive league

01:39:32.939 --> 01:39:37.300
right now. It is. Shifting to defense. Now, the

01:39:37.300 --> 01:39:39.640
Chiefs have quite a few more games played for

01:39:39.640 --> 01:39:45.319
obvious reasons. Okay, the game's played. The

01:39:45.319 --> 01:39:47.560
Chiefs are the number one offense. You know what?

01:39:47.579 --> 01:39:51.199
I'll go from 10 down. Okay. Number 10 is the

01:39:51.199 --> 01:39:54.409
Eagles. Interesting. The game's played. It's

01:39:54.409 --> 01:39:59.909
been 58 ,511. Wait a minute. That can't be right.

01:40:01.630 --> 01:40:05.489
Oh, shit. This shifted over. Oh, the columns

01:40:05.489 --> 01:40:08.590
shifted over? Yes. Oh, that's a pain in the ass.

01:40:09.069 --> 01:40:12.350
Yeah, mine cut off the beginning of my next music

01:40:12.350 --> 01:40:16.430
story. Okay, I think this might be yards. Yeah,

01:40:16.470 --> 01:40:19.810
that sounds like yards. Okay, 58 ,511 yards.

01:40:21.979 --> 01:40:28.500
They have losses, 165 wins and 101 losses. One

01:40:28.500 --> 01:40:35.920
tie. I know. Touchdowns are 477. Opponent points,

01:40:36.260 --> 01:40:44.760
4 ,106. Yeah. The points per game, 24 .9. That's

01:40:44.760 --> 01:40:55.079
decent. It is. First downs, 3 ,531. Let's see.

01:40:56.100 --> 01:41:04.979
Points given would be 21 .4. First down, let's

01:41:04.979 --> 01:41:07.079
see. Anyhow, all right. We're going to go ahead

01:41:07.079 --> 01:41:09.000
and go to the Bills is next. They're number nine.

01:41:09.439 --> 01:41:16.260
58 ,634 yards. Pretty close. Loss is 164. Wins

01:41:16.260 --> 01:41:22.140
105. Isn't that weird? You know what? I don't

01:41:22.140 --> 01:41:24.500
know if this thing is... It's shifted over, and

01:41:24.500 --> 01:41:27.260
I'm not sure if this is the correct ones. Here,

01:41:27.359 --> 01:41:30.539
I'll just go through the top ten. Yeah. And I'll

01:41:30.539 --> 01:41:32.760
hit some of the high notes, okay? Okay. And the

01:41:32.760 --> 01:41:37.560
touchdowns. And the points per game. Yeah, it's

01:41:37.560 --> 01:41:40.000
irritating when things don't print out correctly.

01:41:40.279 --> 01:41:42.000
Yeah, I should have checked this fucking thing,

01:41:42.060 --> 01:41:45.279
because my... Oh, anyhow, long story. Okay, number

01:41:45.279 --> 01:41:51.439
ten's Eagles. 58 ,511 and 24 .9 points per game.

01:41:51.539 --> 01:41:58.020
The Bills are number nine, 58 ,634. They have

01:41:58.020 --> 01:42:03.979
25 .5 points per game. And first downs are 3

01:42:03.979 --> 01:42:07.880
,364, and the points given up is 20 .5, which

01:42:07.880 --> 01:42:10.720
is pretty damn good. They're more of a defensive

01:42:10.720 --> 01:42:13.819
team than people thought. Number eight is the

01:42:13.819 --> 01:42:18.229
Atlanta Falcons. Funny. Probably Matt Ryan. Oh,

01:42:18.310 --> 01:42:21.109
yeah, Matt Ryan. Yeah, I mean, they didn't do

01:42:21.109 --> 01:42:23.510
much in the playoffs, but they really, yeah,

01:42:23.510 --> 01:42:32.710
playoffs. So they had, let's see, 23 .2 points

01:42:32.710 --> 01:42:36.750
per game and gave up 24 .2. So that will tell

01:42:36.750 --> 01:42:39.930
you the problem right there. The Detroit Lions

01:42:39.930 --> 01:42:43.489
are number seven. Oh, no. And this is because

01:42:43.489 --> 01:42:45.729
they haven't been around that long. Otherwise,

01:42:46.029 --> 01:42:52.329
they've been higher up. So 59 ,175 yards, and

01:42:52.329 --> 01:42:58.909
they have 24 .7 games per game, and 24 .7 games

01:42:58.909 --> 01:43:03.069
given up. Wow. Isn't that interesting? That takes

01:43:03.069 --> 01:43:06.050
some effort to do that. Yeah, I know. I thought

01:43:06.050 --> 01:43:07.890
that was interesting. I had to look at it twice.

01:43:07.890 --> 01:43:11.069
I go, okay. Yeah. Number six is the Chargers.

01:43:11.880 --> 01:43:13.640
Oh, yeah. And I didn't think they were going

01:43:13.640 --> 01:43:15.819
to register this high, but they did. Well, they

01:43:15.819 --> 01:43:18.220
had Eric Coriel for a while with Dan Fouts and

01:43:18.220 --> 01:43:19.699
all those receivers. This is the last 10 years.

01:43:19.880 --> 01:43:21.800
Oh, the last 10 years. Okay. I thought, yeah,

01:43:21.859 --> 01:43:24.680
okay. Okay. The last 10 years, who they had?

01:43:24.960 --> 01:43:27.100
Oh, they had Antonio Gates for part of that.

01:43:27.199 --> 01:43:29.439
True. Who was the other one? Keenan Allen. Keenan

01:43:29.439 --> 01:43:36.880
Allen. Antone or something like that. No. Oh,

01:43:36.920 --> 01:43:41.350
well, it doesn't matter. All right. They scored

01:43:41.350 --> 01:43:48.510
23 .6 points per game and gave up 22 .3. Number

01:43:48.510 --> 01:43:53.069
five is the 49ers. They have 60 ,052 yards altogether.

01:43:53.850 --> 01:43:59.850
They scored 24 .4 and gave up 22 .7, which is

01:43:59.850 --> 01:44:02.930
really good. Then number four would be the Baltimore

01:44:02.930 --> 01:44:08.140
Ravens, 60 ,146 yards. I wouldn't have thought

01:44:08.140 --> 01:44:10.500
them as such an offensive team, but I guess so.

01:44:10.739 --> 01:44:14.939
Yeah. They scored. Now listen to this. Yeah.

01:44:15.859 --> 01:44:18.020
They scored, and this is why John Harbaugh was

01:44:18.020 --> 01:44:20.939
fired, I do believe. A big reason. Points per

01:44:20.939 --> 01:44:27.880
game, 26. Points given up, 19 .6. That differential

01:44:27.880 --> 01:44:30.960
should equal to more success. That's a touchdown

01:44:30.960 --> 01:44:35.260
difference. Yes. Wow. They blew people out unless

01:44:35.260 --> 01:44:40.619
it came to the playoffs. Playoffs. So they could

01:44:40.619 --> 01:44:44.760
probably have a number of blowout games but then

01:44:44.760 --> 01:44:47.800
lose close ones and still maintain that kind

01:44:47.800 --> 01:44:49.859
of average. Yeah, but they didn't. Whenever their

01:44:49.859 --> 01:44:52.420
close game, it looks like they folded. Yeah,

01:44:52.520 --> 01:44:54.920
that's pretty bad if you can only really succeed

01:44:54.920 --> 01:44:57.979
against weak opponents. Yeah, that is. That's

01:44:57.979 --> 01:44:59.899
how it looks anyway. And that's why hardball

01:44:59.899 --> 01:45:02.060
was fired. One of the big reasons I think right

01:45:02.060 --> 01:45:04.319
there is the paperwork on it. When you read the

01:45:04.319 --> 01:45:07.000
paperwork and you're like, oh. It didn't bode

01:45:07.000 --> 01:45:09.479
very well for Harbaugh. You know all these coaches

01:45:09.479 --> 01:45:13.039
are being evaluated by AI. Yeah, yeah, of course.

01:45:13.420 --> 01:45:15.220
They're spitting out all sorts of information

01:45:15.220 --> 01:45:17.699
that wouldn't have occurred to us, but it's like,

01:45:17.800 --> 01:45:21.779
oh, look at this. Seven -point differential,

01:45:21.859 --> 01:45:24.260
and he still can't win it. Yeah, still can't.

01:45:24.420 --> 01:45:27.000
Yikes. Yeah, so that's bad. And you know what?

01:45:27.060 --> 01:45:29.479
After I read that, I think I agree with the fireman.

01:45:29.960 --> 01:45:34.060
That's not very good at all. Number three is

01:45:34.060 --> 01:45:37.560
the Buccaneers. Wow. Isn't that a surprise? In

01:45:37.560 --> 01:45:39.880
the last 10 years. Well, they had Tom Brady.

01:45:40.119 --> 01:45:43.460
Yeah, true. For what, three years? For three

01:45:43.460 --> 01:45:47.420
years. So that helped. That helped. So, all right.

01:45:47.520 --> 01:45:52.039
Games played, 60 ,873. Or not games played, but

01:45:52.039 --> 01:45:58.979
yards per game. Okay. And they had 85 wins and

01:45:58.979 --> 01:46:02.699
165 losses. I had to mention that. Isn't that

01:46:02.699 --> 01:46:06.119
crazy? But they were bad for them. a lot of that

01:46:06.119 --> 01:46:10.779
yeah okay the points per game was 24 .8 and the

01:46:10.779 --> 01:46:13.939
points given up 23 .3 which is actually a pretty

01:46:13.939 --> 01:46:17.319
good ratio yeah it's ironic The teams that have

01:46:17.319 --> 01:46:19.340
the highest number of passing yards are usually

01:46:19.340 --> 01:46:21.319
fighting to come back from behind. Yeah, it would

01:46:21.319 --> 01:46:23.680
seem like that, yeah. So the higher the pass

01:46:23.680 --> 01:46:26.359
numbers, the more the team was struggling to

01:46:26.359 --> 01:46:29.260
come back. Yeah, Mahomes' best game ever against

01:46:29.260 --> 01:46:30.979
the Rams. Well, that was a little bit different,

01:46:31.020 --> 01:46:32.859
such a shootout, that Monday night shootout.

01:46:32.939 --> 01:46:36.279
Yeah. Yeah, he had like close to 600 or at 600

01:46:36.279 --> 01:46:38.539
yards. That was nuts. And still lost. Yeah. So

01:46:38.539 --> 01:46:44.909
that was the – The equivalent to the Baker Mayfield,

01:46:44.989 --> 01:46:49.729
Oklahoma, Patrick Mahomes, Texas Tech, fucking

01:46:49.729 --> 01:46:54.270
70 to 68 blowout or whatever, or extravaganza,

01:46:54.270 --> 01:46:57.869
fucking no one punting, that good stuff. I remember

01:46:57.869 --> 01:47:03.390
back in the 80s on an NFL analysis show, they

01:47:03.390 --> 01:47:06.409
were pointing out of all the 300 -yard passing

01:47:06.409 --> 01:47:10.750
games that season, 75 % had been losing games.

01:47:12.270 --> 01:47:14.329
So they're saying if you pass for 300 yards or

01:47:14.329 --> 01:47:16.909
more, you're probably losing. Yeah. And that

01:47:16.909 --> 01:47:19.010
was a real shock to the fans at the time. Oh,

01:47:19.250 --> 01:47:21.289
this is weird. Well, I've since learned after

01:47:21.289 --> 01:47:23.449
reading the stats and figuring out games that

01:47:23.449 --> 01:47:26.609
that is not how you win a game. Yeah. All right.

01:47:26.729 --> 01:47:29.409
And ask the Chiefs. I mean, they're a great example

01:47:29.409 --> 01:47:31.590
of how you win games in situational football.

01:47:31.829 --> 01:47:34.590
Yeah. So, all right, number two is the Cowboys.

01:47:35.449 --> 01:47:41.029
Okay. A deck he can throw. Yeah. But he can also.

01:47:41.529 --> 01:47:44.010
Not throw. Yeah. And it depends on what day you're

01:47:44.010 --> 01:47:45.590
getting and whether you're in the playoffs or

01:47:45.590 --> 01:47:48.770
not. Yeah, that's unfortunate. Yeah, it is. And

01:47:48.770 --> 01:47:54.649
so, now remember this. 61 ,192 yards, the second

01:47:54.649 --> 01:48:00.050
place team in yards. Okay. They had 165 wins

01:48:00.050 --> 01:48:07.529
against 96 losses. And... No, hang on, hang on.

01:48:07.590 --> 01:48:10.149
You know what? I can't go by that. I see the

01:48:10.149 --> 01:48:15.770
shift right here. I'm sorry. 96 wins, 68 losses.

01:48:16.189 --> 01:48:22.689
Okay, so opponent's points are 25 .9. And they

01:48:22.689 --> 01:48:27.430
gave up 22 .7. Look at that. Look at that ratio.

01:48:27.510 --> 01:48:32.909
25 .9, almost 26. And almost 23 is what they've

01:48:32.909 --> 01:48:35.029
given up. So just a little more in a field goals

01:48:35.029 --> 01:48:37.369
difference. Yeah. They should have won a lot

01:48:37.369 --> 01:48:40.350
more games probably, I would think. Yeah. Then

01:48:40.350 --> 01:48:44.289
number one. Now, remember, I said last one was

01:48:44.289 --> 01:48:49.449
61 ,192 yards. Yeah. The Chiefs. And this is

01:48:49.449 --> 01:48:52.529
regular season, not playoffs. So, my house. So,

01:48:52.630 --> 01:48:58.399
all right. They're number one. 61 ,796 yards,

01:48:58.420 --> 01:49:03.300
so it's like 600 and some yards more. Their wins

01:49:03.300 --> 01:49:09.600
is 118 against 47 losses. Ooh. Yeah. Their total

01:49:09.600 --> 01:49:15.020
points, 4 ,387. The points per game is 26 .6.

01:49:15.239 --> 01:49:21.880
Wow. And the points given up, 20 .7. So about

01:49:21.880 --> 01:49:23.359
a six -point difference. Six -point difference,

01:49:23.380 --> 01:49:25.520
almost a touchdown. Wow. The only one that did

01:49:25.520 --> 01:49:27.260
better was the Ravens, and they don't have the

01:49:27.260 --> 01:49:34.500
success behind them. So third downs, they have

01:49:34.500 --> 01:49:41.000
45. Fourth down, 65 .2. It's not bad. Yeah. So,

01:49:41.000 --> 01:49:45.340
yeah, that was the top 10. That's surprising.

01:49:45.500 --> 01:49:47.359
Some of those I didn't think were such high -powered

01:49:47.359 --> 01:49:50.920
offensive. Well, yeah, I think like a couple

01:49:50.920 --> 01:49:55.159
of years, like, okay, on Atlanta, And Kirk Cousins

01:49:55.159 --> 01:49:57.640
was there too. So Kirk Cousins was throwing a

01:49:57.640 --> 01:49:59.939
lot of yards too and losing, but so was Matt

01:49:59.939 --> 01:50:03.159
Ryan. So after I thought about Atlanta, I'm like,

01:50:03.199 --> 01:50:05.260
okay, that's probably true, even though it wouldn't

01:50:05.260 --> 01:50:08.920
seem like it. So, I mean, it's not like Pennix

01:50:08.920 --> 01:50:10.640
or whoever they got down there now is throwing

01:50:10.640 --> 01:50:12.840
lights out. I mean, even Cousins is doing okay,

01:50:12.880 --> 01:50:18.000
but not like completely. So, all right, that's

01:50:18.000 --> 01:50:20.440
all I got on that one. You got something? I'm

01:50:20.440 --> 01:50:25.539
clean. Okay. Well, how long do we have? Coming

01:50:25.539 --> 01:50:28.840
up on an hour and 50 minutes. Okay. You want

01:50:28.840 --> 01:50:32.000
to end that and I'll do the Travis Kelsey dominance

01:50:32.000 --> 01:50:35.300
over the league next time or do you want to do

01:50:35.300 --> 01:50:38.060
it this time? You already told him let's do it

01:50:38.060 --> 01:50:41.500
then. Okay. All right. Travis Kelsey became the

01:50:41.500 --> 01:50:43.659
fastest tight end to reach 13 ,000 receiving

01:50:43.659 --> 01:50:47.289
yards. Players like Ozzie Newsome and Charlie

01:50:47.289 --> 01:50:49.810
Sanders are remembered for combining elite receiving

01:50:49.810 --> 01:50:54.430
with high -level blocking in their eras. Gil

01:50:54.430 --> 01:50:57.510
Brandt's 14 greatest NFL tight ends of all time.

01:50:58.729 --> 01:51:02.109
Okay, he is Ozzie Newsome, Cleveland Browns,

01:51:02.109 --> 01:51:05.789
78 through 90. He hit the Pro Bowl three times,

01:51:05.989 --> 01:51:10.130
first team all -pro once, NFL all -decade team.

01:51:10.409 --> 01:51:15.010
Wow. Let's see, where the hell did it go? Damn

01:51:15.010 --> 01:51:20.979
it. You know what? This is gerbil. Also, okay,

01:51:21.100 --> 01:51:23.680
here. Okay, took it to the very last. I got to

01:51:23.680 --> 01:51:28.300
check my printer out or my, okay. All right,

01:51:28.340 --> 01:51:32.500
this is tight ends only. Okay, all right. Most

01:51:32.500 --> 01:51:34.880
receiving yards by a tight end in NFL history

01:51:34.880 --> 01:51:41.000
is Tony Gonzalez all time with 15 ,127 receiving

01:51:41.000 --> 01:51:46.060
yards, 1 ,325 receptions. So he's followed closely

01:51:46.060 --> 01:51:49.640
in modern dominance by Travis Kelsey, Jason Witten,

01:51:49.720 --> 01:51:53.100
and Antonio Gaines, who holds the record for

01:51:53.100 --> 01:51:58.239
tight end touchdowns at 116. Wow. So Gronkowski

01:51:58.239 --> 01:52:02.060
is holding the highest yards per game among top

01:52:02.060 --> 01:52:06.520
tier tight ends. And it doesn't say, okay, we'll

01:52:06.520 --> 01:52:08.300
go on to it here in a little bit. Okay, so Tony

01:52:08.300 --> 01:52:13.500
Gonzalez has 15 ,127. Jason Witten, 13 ,046.

01:52:14.120 --> 01:52:19.159
Travis Kelsey, 12 ,151 yards. So Travis Kelsey

01:52:19.159 --> 01:52:20.880
is going to be third by the time it's all said

01:52:20.880 --> 01:52:22.460
and done because he's not going to make – I don't

01:52:22.460 --> 01:52:24.319
think he's – No, he's not going to make 2 ,000

01:52:24.319 --> 01:52:29.340
or 3 ,000 yards. No. He might come in second

01:52:29.340 --> 01:52:31.659
if he has a really incredible year this year,

01:52:31.720 --> 01:52:33.659
but I don't think he's going to have over 1 ,000

01:52:33.659 --> 01:52:38.600
yards. Yeah. So you're looking at 12 ,151 to

01:52:38.600 --> 01:52:42.680
13 ,046. So he's going to need at least 900 yards

01:52:42.680 --> 01:52:46.079
to – Capture that second. Yeah. Then Antonio

01:52:46.079 --> 01:52:49.819
Gates is right behind that with 11 ,841. Shannon

01:52:49.819 --> 01:52:53.720
Sharp. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The Peele

01:52:53.720 --> 01:52:56.100
guy. The OnlyFans guy. Yeah, the OnlyFans guy.

01:52:56.180 --> 01:53:01.100
Yep. And then Ozzie Greg Olson, 8 ,680. Now,

01:53:01.199 --> 01:53:04.840
these guys from here on out are the old school

01:53:04.840 --> 01:53:07.560
football. Yeah. Greg Olson was a while ago. Yeah,

01:53:07.579 --> 01:53:10.500
yeah. And they did not. throw to the tight end

01:53:10.500 --> 01:53:13.060
that much it wasn't that type of a game yeah

01:53:13.060 --> 01:53:15.420
and you know what i'm not even going to go into

01:53:15.420 --> 01:53:18.500
it so it doesn't matter um antonio gates leads

01:53:18.500 --> 01:53:22.100
all tight ends with 116 careers receiving touchdowns

01:53:22.100 --> 01:53:26.640
rob uh rob grant gronkowski recorded 20 games

01:53:26.640 --> 01:53:30.380
with 100 plus receiving yards and he was widely

01:53:30.380 --> 01:53:34.460
considered as one of the best blockers um so

01:53:35.880 --> 01:53:40.279
Let's see, touchdowns, Gonzalez has 111. To Jason

01:53:40.279 --> 01:53:45.300
Witten, 74. Cool. To Travis Kelsey, 76. D 'Antonio

01:53:45.300 --> 01:53:49.020
Gates won 16, which leads everybody. Yeah. Shannon

01:53:49.020 --> 01:53:53.739
Sharp was 62. Gronkowski was 92. Oh, wow. One

01:53:53.739 --> 01:53:56.039
of the things that I can say about Travis Kelsey

01:53:56.039 --> 01:53:59.319
and why he didn't have higher is because of the

01:53:59.319 --> 01:54:01.539
way Mahomes spreads the ball around. Yeah, that's

01:54:01.539 --> 01:54:04.000
true. He had a lot of competition for the ball.

01:54:04.359 --> 01:54:06.119
Yeah, the number of those teams you mentioned,

01:54:06.199 --> 01:54:09.260
the tight end was pretty much their primary receiver.

01:54:09.579 --> 01:54:11.880
Yeah, Witten. I mean, I know they had Irvin and

01:54:11.880 --> 01:54:13.600
all that, but he wasn't really your touchdown

01:54:13.600 --> 01:54:16.100
specialist. That was Witten. The guy got open

01:54:16.100 --> 01:54:18.560
in that zone, you do it to him. Yeah, and Antonio

01:54:18.560 --> 01:54:20.760
Gates got the ball more than all the receivers

01:54:20.760 --> 01:54:24.279
combined usually. Yes. He was the only one getting

01:54:24.279 --> 01:54:26.579
open, especially in the end zone, and that's

01:54:26.579 --> 01:54:29.079
why he's with 116 and all -time leader. Yeah.

01:54:30.350 --> 01:54:33.310
Anyhow, the rest of it doesn't matter. The rest

01:54:33.310 --> 01:54:35.029
of it has shifted, and I don't even know what

01:54:35.029 --> 01:54:39.689
the fuck it means right now. Sabotaged by our

01:54:39.689 --> 01:54:42.989
printer. Yeah, so much for my prep. I should

01:54:42.989 --> 01:54:46.850
have looked at it, but I didn't. All right, well,

01:54:47.010 --> 01:54:49.590
everybody, thank you for listening. We really,

01:54:49.689 --> 01:54:51.789
really appreciate it. Our numbers are really

01:54:51.789 --> 01:54:55.050
showing it. You guys are telling people, and

01:54:55.050 --> 01:54:58.560
this is... This is why we love you and also go

01:54:58.560 --> 01:54:59.079
fuck yourself.